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the sort for he has not without influence has already placed him in the of saint to gain some of there but feels himself in that sphere more than once runs away is t y checked on all sides and finally with such slender stock of as had pleased to offer itself returns to the street the widow as we said him the urge wilt thou never turn count to any thing with such from such low watch tower as he commands is in truth being forced to it from time to time looking abroad into the world sur e ring the conditions of mankind his own wishes and alas his wishes are manifold a most hot hunger in all kinds as above hinted but on the other hand his leading seemed only the power to eat what profession or condition then choose for it is time of all the professions that of gentleman it seemed to had under these circumstances been most suited to his feelings but then the the fee failing which he with perhaps as much sagacity as one could expect for the behold him then once more by the uncle s management a brass faced boy of thirteen beside the reverend father general of the to their neighboring of with intent to enter himself there he has the habit is to the keeping of the on whose and he looks round with wonder were it by accident that he found himself s were it by choice of his own nay was it not in either case by design of destiny intent on her work enough in this there awaited him though as yet he knew it not life guidance and determination the great want of every genius even of the scoundrel genius he himself that he here learned some or as he calls it the principles of and medicine natural enough new books of the lay here old books of the visibly went on there were and written of gold making making treasure digging rods and the besides had he s miscellaneous writings not among his fingers some first elements of so far as and such like would go were now sufficient when the hour came to set up any average much more the of it is here in this that the seeds of the grand s workings and renown were sown meanwhile as observed the looked enough with his two of hunger and of power to eat had made the best choice he could yet as it soon proved a rash and one to his astonishment he finds that even here he is in a world and if he will employ his of eating or enjoying must first in some measure work and suffer enough but now dimly arises or itself the question whether there were not a shorter road that of stealing stealing under which taken you may include the whole art of for what is lying itself but a of my belief stealing we say is properly the north west passage to enjoyment while common sail painfully along shores laboriously this or the other cape of hope your thief drawn on smooth dog is already there and back again the misfortune is that stealing requires a talent and failure in that north west voyage is more fatal than in any other we hear that was of en punished painful experiences of the fate of genius for all genius by its nature comes to disturb somebody in his ease and your thief genius more so than most readers can now fancy the sensitive skin of with by knotted his ca li tr soul afflicted by and forced no eye turned kindly on him everywhere the bent of his genius rudely however it is the first property of genius to grow in spite of contradiction and even by means thereof as the vital itself through the dull soil and lives by what strove to bury it into strength of bone and character sets his face stiffly against persecution d is not a whit on such and he can look with a certain genial disdain beyond walls with their sour stupid lies lies the world here too is he still alive thou worse off than he wished and feels that the world is his which he by or other means will one day open nay we find there is a touch of grim humor itself in the youth the sign as is said of a character naturally great witness for example how he acts on this to his ardent temperament so trying occasion while the sit at meat the impetuous that stupid records it as a thing of course is set not to eat with them not to pick up the that fall from them but to stand reading the for their the brave himself to the inevitable reads that of theirs but reads out of it not what is printed there but what his own vivid brain on the spur of the moment instead of the names of saints all heartily indifferent to him he reads out the names of the most notable unfortunate now beginning to interest him a little what a deep world irony as the call it lies here the of course him to the earth and him with t but what did it avail this only became apparent to himself and them that he had now their discipline as the does its shell and bursts iu s miscellaneous writings bids farewell to for ever and a day so now by consent or not of the ghostly of mercy as they were named our has again re turned to the maternal uncle at the uncle rally asked him what he next meant to do after and hesitating for some length of weeks makes answer try painting well and good so gets him colors fit tackle and himself for some space of time to the study of	37
overflowing population is worse and worse governed shown what to for that is the only government thus is the candle lighted at both ends and the number of social in c ou quick is alive it is said must live at all events will live a task which daily gets harder to stranger and now with general distress in such a p i there is usually the utmost decay of moral principle indeed so universal is this many men have seen it to be a and justly enough except that such have ever since a certain feeling went out of date committed one sore mistake what is called putting the cart before the count horse political benefactor of the deceive not with barren national suffering is if thou wilt understand the words verily a judgment of god has ever been preceded by national crime be it here once more maintained before the world cries in one of his that distress that misery of any kind is not the cause of but the effect thereof among individuals it is true so wide is the empire of chance poverty and wealth go all at a saint paul is making tents at while a in ivory palaces over a burning rome nevertheless here too if wealth and poverty yet well being and ill being even in the sense go commonly in respective with wisdom and with folly no man can for a length of time be wholly wretched if there is not a a folly and wickedness within himself neither can the richest and never so for he too has his and dies at last of be other than discontented perplexed unhappy if he be a fool this we apprehend is true o yet not the whole truth for there is more than days work and days wages in this world of ours which as thou is itself quite other than a and fancy is also a mystic temple and hall of doom thus we have heard of such things as good men struggling with and offering a spectacle for the very gods but with a nation continues he where the multitude of the chances covers in great measure the uncertainty of chance it may be said to hold always that general suffering is the fruit of general general consider it well had all men stood faithfully to their posts the evil when it first rose had been and not lazily and led to grow with the foul s comfort it will last my time thou foul s writings and even thief for art thou not a thief to pocket thy day s wages be they counted in or in gold thousands for this if it be for anything for watching on thy special watch tower that god s city which this his world is where his children dwell suffer no damage and all the while to watch only that thy own ease be not invaded let otherwise hard come to hard as it will and can unhappy it will last thy time thy worthless sham of an existence wherein nothing but the was real will have in the it will last thy time but will it last thy eternity or what if it should not last thy time mark that also for that also will be the fate of same such lying but take and and thee like the the sum of the matter in any is that national poverty and national go together that continually increasing social get ever the ever the now say have we not here the very making of raw material energy both in full action the raw material hunger the what will not the two realize nay observe how is the raw material not of only but also in great part of in goodness were it never so simple there is the instinct for the good the for the false and bad the very devil cannot deceive poor margaret it stands written on his front that he never loved a living soul the like too has many a human inferior painfully experienced the like lies in store for our hero but now with such abundant not only to make of but to feed and occupy them on if the energy of hunger fail not what a world shall we have the wonder is not that the century had very numerous but rather thai they were not innumerable count in that same french revolution alone which burnt up so much what of were set fire to nay as foul fire damp in that case were made to flame in a fierce sublime splendor even the count saint some twenty later had found a quite new element of sacred right of of the human species to body himself forth quite otherwise needed not now as have solemnly shot himself in the might have solemnly sacrificed himself as half heroic in the de la revolution for your genius is indeed bom but also made circumstances shape him or him born british in these new days could have fewer spirits yet had found a living and glory as spy irish book able editor withal too the reader will observe that in every time are of two sorts the declared and the who if you question him will deny both to others and to himself of which two species the proportions vary with the varying capacity of the age if s was the age of the declared therein all french we grant lay one of its main distinctions from ours which is it not yet and for a generation or two the age of the un declared alas almost a still more detestable age yet now by god s grace with in heaven s where thou if thou wilt read and know that its shall not linger be it speedy be it sure and so were our philosophical reflection on the causes decline and expected temporary	37
destruction of concluded and now the o poetic narrative can once more take its course s miscellaneous writings then like a s is out upon that watery waste of distracted life to see if there b any there one little in the wide mother of dead dogs will he not come to ha will he not be up drowned starved and washed to the devil there no fear of him for a time his eye or scientific judgment it is true as yet takes in only a small section of it but then his scent instinct of genius is prodigious several and others he has unfolded into talents the two sources of all talent cunning and impudence are his in richest me as to his immediate course of action and adventure the foolish it must be owned shows himself a fool and can give us next to no insight like enough fled to simply as to the nearest city and to get across to the but as to this certain a whom he met there and with to in and how they made into silk and realized much money and came to and studied in the tory there and then the certain died of all this what shall be said the foolish is uncertain whether the certain was a greek or a but unhappily the prior question is not settled whether he was at all superfluous it seems to put down s own account of his he gave accounts as the of the case demanded this of the certain and made into false silk is as as that other of the sage the of and the of s adieu unfortunate child of nature nay the of the ignorant world how count had been travelling to a name not given whom he murdered and took the money from with others of the like were perhaps count still more absurd we can see was out aud away the devil knew whither far painful might his be a plausible looking shadow of him shows itself hovering over and thither as to a high school of and he may likely enough have gone to of the and silk the less we say the better this only is clear that deep down into the obscure regions of like a i knight to the palace of his fairy remained unseen there and returned thence armed at all points if we fancy meanwhile that already meditated becoming grand and riding at in the carriage we mistake much of prophecy has been wisely denied to man did a man foresee his life and not merely hope it and it and so by necessity and free will make and it into a reality he were no man but some other kind of creature or no man sees far the most see no farther than their noses from the quite dim uncertain mass of the future there says a un like a mass of wool ill to spin they spin out better or worse their thread of existence and wind it up up till the is full seeing but some little half yard of it at once exclaiming as they look into the entangled of we shall see the first fact with regard to is that his figure becomes visible in the and of that he at the sign of the sun in the and pen drawings there properly they are not pen drawings but printed or to which with a pen and a little indian ink has added the degree of scratching to give them the air of such s miscellaneous writings thereby mainly does he realize a thin from which we infer that his transactions in and with and silk or whatever else had not turned to much pen drawings are no mine of wealth neither was mo anything of an on the contrary a most dusky bull faced sinister looking nevertheless on applying for the favor or the hand of a beautiful roman dwell ing near the of the the unfortunate child of nature beyond our hopes authorities differ as to the rank and of fair one account says she was the daughter of a maker but adds that it was in the matter must remain suspended certain enough she was a handsome creature both pretty and lady like it is but having no offer in a country too prone to took up with the bull of pen drawings whose suit too i was doubtless pressed with the most flowing she i gave herself in marriage to him and the parents admitted i to quarter in their house till it should appear what was next to be done two kitchen fires says the proverb bum not on one hearth here moreover might be quite special causes of discord pen drawing at best a hungry concern has now exhausted itself and must be given up but s household prospects on the other side in the charms of his he sees before him what the french call a future confused and the hint was given and with reluctance or without reluctance for the evidence both ways was taken and reduced to practice and are forth from the old s house into the wide world seeking and finding adventures the foolish with painful scientific count accuracy a catalogue of all the successive italian counts french spanish and in various quarters of the known world whom this accomplished pair took in with the sums each yielded and the methods employed to him into which descriptive catalogue why should we here so much as cast a glance the easy cushions on which and repose and have at all times existed in considerable profusion neither can the fact of a clothed animal or other having acted in that capacity to never such him to mention in history we pass over these or as we must now learn to call him the count appears at at	37
at makes scientific pilgrimage to saint german in religious commercial to saint james in to our lady in south north east west he shows himself finds everywhere and stupidity better or worse pro with cash the two elements on which he can work and live practice makes perfection too was an apt scholar by all methods he can awaken the imagination cast powder in the eyes already in rome he has cultivated whiskers and put on the uniform of a colonel dame is fair to look upon but how much fairer if by the air of distance and dignity you lend enchantment to her in other places the count appears as real count as lately from foreign parts as count this and count that count finally as count figure him shooting through the world with utmost rapidity not altogether an invention this last for bis a at was actually as well as o t s miscellaneous writings under here when the sword fishes of justice make a dart at him up yonder in new shape at the distance of a thousand miles not with of respectability above all with that best of respectability a four horse carriage beef and open purse for count has ready money and pays his way at some hotel of the sun hotel of the angel gold lion or green goose or whatever hotel it is in whatever world famous capital city his chariot wheels have rested sleep and food have refreshed his live stock chiefly the pearl and soul thereof his indispensable now no longer dame a but looking enough whereof in this vexed earth there are many ever lounging about such places and comment on the foreign coat of arms the fair foreign woman who timidly from their gaze timidly to their as in halls and passages they throw themselves in her way ere long one from amid his tackle hair without brains beneath it is heard speaking to another seen the divine creature that and so the game is begun let not the too reader meanwhile fancy that it is ah and with his the course of any more than that of true love never did run smooth seasons there may be when count has his torn from his shoulders his garment skirts close by the and is bid sternly at till his beard be grown of law his solemn his light burns languid for a space seems utterly out and dead in dead only to blaze up the brighter there is scoundrel life in cast him among the mud tread him out of sight there the do but and refresh him he rises is strong and young again count behold him for example again in seen many men and many lands and how he again escapes thence why did he return to perhaps to astonish old friends by new grandeur or for temporary shelter if the continent were getting hot for him or perhaps in the mere way of general trade he is seized there and in prison for those foolish old of the of the will the manner of his escape says one whose few words on this obscure matter are so many light points for us deserves to be described the son of one of the first princes and great landed who moreover had filled important stations at the court was a person that united with a strong body and temper all the caprice which the rich and great without cultivation think themselves entitled to exhibit had contrived to gain this man and on him the founded his security the prince openly that he was the protector of this stranger pair but what was his fury when joseph at the instance of those whom he had cheated was cast into prison he tried various means to deliver him and as these would not prosper he publicly in the president s threatened the advocate with the if the suit were not and forthwith set at liberty as the advocate declined such proposal he clutched him beat him threw him on the floor led him with his feet and could hardly be restrained from still farther when the president himself came running out at the tumult and commanded peace this latter a weak dependent man made no attempt to punish the the and their advocate grew and was let go not so much as a in the court books his dismissal who occasioned it or how it took place s b s miscellaneous writings thus sometimes a friend in the court is better than a penny in the purse quickly thereafter and performed various travels whereof my author could impart no clear information whither or how far the game chicken prince went with him is not hinted so it might at times be quite otherwise than in four that our occasionally we find him as on horseback only and her whom she is to and eat on carriage cushions the hardy count glad that he can have the shot paid nay sometimes he looks utterly and must journey one knows not how thus one but looking glimpse of him presents itself in england in the year no count is he here but mere again engaged in house painting for which he has a most peculiar talent was it true that he painted the country house of a doctor and having not painted but only it was refused pay ment and got a with expenses instead if doctor have left any representatives in this earth they are desired to speak out we add only that if young had one of the prettiest wives old had one of the daughters and so putting one thing to another matters might not be so bad for it is to be observed that the count on his own side even in his days of highest splendor is not idle faded of quality have many wants the count has not studied in the	37
or to the count saint in to no purpose with condescension he to impart somewhat of his supernatural secrets for a consideration s is valuable but what to the of count he that will undertake to smooth count ca li and make withered green into a fair s skin is he not one whom faded of quality will delight to honor ot again let the water succeed or not have not such if may be in aught believed another want this want too the will supply for a consideration for faded gentlemen of quality the count likewise has help not a charming alone but a wine of egypt not being unknown to him sold in drops more precious k than which what faded gentleman of quality would not purchase with anything short of life consider now what may be done with charms among a class of mortals idle from the mother s rejoicing to be taught the dances and meditating of love from their tender nails i thus broad shining extinct an but moon rides on its course the s star thus are count and busy in their thus do they spend the golden season of their for the greatest happiness of the greatest number happy enough had there been no or or law acts no heaven above no hell beneath no flight of time and gloomy land of and and desperation towards which by law of fate they see themselves at all moments with frightful regularity drifting the prudent man against the inevitable already count with his love his wine of egypt nay far earlier by his blue flames and as with the poor sheep of and ever since by many a significant hint thrown out where the scene suited has in the supernatural as his gives signs of withering and one luxuriant branch of industry will die and drop off others must be vol iv s miscellaneous writings pushed into whether it was in england during what he called his first visit in the year for the before first house visit was reason or none to go for nothing that he first thought of prophecy as a trade is unknown certain enough he had begun to practise it then and this indeed not without a glimpse of insight into the national character various truly are the pursuits of mankind whereon they would fain the future take destiny by surprise with us however as a nation of they may be all said to centre in this one put money in thy purse o for a pocket with its ever new gold if indeed the true prayer were not rather o for a drink of liquid gold that so the accursed throat of might for once have enough and to spare meanwhile should engage keeping ir of the to teach men the secret of making money were not he a professor sure of audience strong were the general still stronger the general need i nd count from his street lt is ha d into the mysteries of the little go by science knew the lucky number as yet was not but were also were the count has his language master his jew his ex whom he puts forth as into coffee houses to stir up the minds of men lord scott a and miss and many others were they here could tell what it cost them nay the very and lord and mr speak of hundreds and jewel boxes and quite handsome thus can the pluck and if law get the live upon their now and then however finds a too tough to pluck the attentive reader is no doubt curious to understand all the what and the how of s while count land was the scene as we too are and have been but unhappily all in vain to that english life of uncertain none as was said need in their utmost extremity repair scarcely the very lodging of can be ascertained except incidentally that it was once in street for a few in court finally for some space in the king s bench jail vain were it for any of genius to pilgrim thither seeking of a great man is clean gone on the search no token never so faint he went and left nothing behind him except perhaps a few cast clothes and other inevitable long since not indeed this nothing can be yet beaten into mud and spread as new soil over the general surface of and floated by the thames into old ocean or flitting the parts of in the universal atmosphere borne thereby to remotest comers of the earth or beyond the limits of the system so fleeting is the track and habitation of man so wondrous the stuff he of his house his very house of houses what we call his body were he the first of will in the strangest manner and vanish even whither we have said to us on our side however it is cheering to discover for one thing that found worthy of him the and living on their found not our whole island peopled with but here and there as above hinted with with of still quality than his o le k these stand forth as the of english national character by whom count as in dim outline appears was arrested bewildered and till the very jail of king s bench seemed a refuge from them s writings a wholly obscure contest as was natural wherein however to all candid eyes the and character j of our isle fully itself and the foreign of i with all his beauty waters boxes and j of egypt is seen matched and nigh by i the natural cunning of english where upon the feeling himself so and plucked takes wing and flies to foreign parts one good thing he has carried with him notwithstanding into some of free the of with his primitive bias	37
towards the supernatural must long have had his eye on which with its and drawn brothers terrible brothers venerable the whole imposing by candle light offered the element for him all men profit by union with men the as much as another nay in these two words sworn secrecy alone has he not found a very then on it was af urged that the lodge he and his got admission to for she also was made a or and had a solemnly bound on with order to sleep in it for a night was of low rank in the social scale not a few of the and species to which it could only be replied that these alone spoke french that a man and though he cooked was still a man and be this as it might the apt is rapidly promoted through the three of companion master at the cost of five guineas that of his being first raised into the air by means of a rope and fixed in the ceiling during which the heavy mass of his body must assuredly have caused him a sensation and then being forced to shoot himself though with count pistol in sign of courage and obedience all this we can esteem an on the roman otherwise prone to delusion five guineas and some foolish speeches delivered over and otherwise was the cost if you ask now in london lodge was it alas we know not and shall never know only that count is a master that once crossed the threshold his genius will not stop there behold accordingly he has bought from a certain belonging to one george a man absolutely unknown to him and to us which treat of the egyptian in other words count will blow with his new five guinea having always occasion to raise the wind with regard specially to that huge soap of an egyptian which he blew and as caught many flies with it is our painful duty to say a little not much the with deadly fear of and and black before his eyes has gone into the matter to boundless depths even a certain order book of s which be has laid hand on opens the whole mystery to him the ideas he declares to be s the composition all a s for the count had that way what then does the set forth or at lowest the say that he sets forth much much that is not to die point understand however that once by the absolutely unknown george with the notion of egyptian wherein as yet lay much magic and superstition count to free it of these and make it a kind of last or oi the universe which so needed as he s miscellaneous writings did not believe anything in matter of faith says our wooden familiar nothing could arrest him true enough how did he move along then to what length did he in his system he promises his followers to conduct them to perfection by means of a and m to enable them by the former or physical to find the matter or philosopher s stone and the which in man the forces of the most vigorous youth and renders him immortal and by the latter or moral to procure them a which shall restore man to his primitive state of innocence lost by original sin the founder that this egyptian was by and who it in different parts of the world however in time it lost much of its purity and splendor and so by degrees the of men had been reduced to pure and that of women been almost entirely destroyed having now for most part no place in common till at last the zeal of tlie grand so are the high priests of egypt named had itself by restoring the of both sexes to its lustre with regard to the great question of this invaluable which is to original sin how you have to choose a solitary mountain and call it and build a on it to be named sion with twelve sides in every side a window and three stories one of which is named and with twelve masters each at a window yourself in the middle of them go through unspeakable toils and hardly get your after all we shall say nothing as little concerning the still and process of physical or growing young again a not to be accomplished without a forty days course of medicine fainting fits starvation and desperation more perhaps than it is all worth leaving these interior and many high moral of union virtue wisdom and count doctrines of immortality and what not will the reader care to cast an indifferent glance on certain parts of this egyptian as the if we from him may enable us in all these parts the wooden you find as much superstition and as in common of the holy name on the venerable or head of the lodge aspirations of the and the garments they are to take of the of the moon of the sun of the compass square and a thousand thousand other and which are now well known in the world we above made mention of the grand by this title has been the founder or of egyptian made no difficulty in admitting to me the i that under such name he was himself meant now in this system the grand is compared to the highest the most solemn acts of worship are paid him he has authority over the angels he is on all occasions everything is done in virtue of his power which you are assured he immediately from god nay more among the various rites observed in this exercise of you are ordered to the vent the te and some of david to such an excess is impudence and audacity carried that in the david et every time the name david	37
occurs that of the grand is to be no religion is excluded from the egyptian society the jew the tlie can be admitted equally well with the catholic if so be they admit the existence of god and the immortality of the soul the men elevated to the rank of master take the names of the ancient the women those of the then the grand mistress blows on the face of the female all along from brow to chin and says i give you this breath to cause to and become alive in your heart s miscellaneous writings the truth which we possess to in you the c c guardian of the new knowledge which we prepare to make you partake of by the sacred names of in the sur les printed at paris in read that these latter words were suggested to as or sacred ones by a of hand man who said that he was assisted by a spirit and added that this spirit was the soul of a jew who by art magic had killed his pig before the christian advent they take a young lad or a girl who is in the state of innocence such they call the pupil or the the venerable to him the power he would have had before the fall of man which power consists mainly in commanding the pure spirits these spirits are to the number of seven it is said they surround the and that they govern the seven their names are michael or would the reader wish to see this in action she can act in two ways either behind a curtain behind a painted screen with table and three candles or as here before the and showing face if the miracle fail it can only be because she is not in the state of innocence an accident much to be guarded against this scene is at we find indeed that it is a pupil affair not a one but for the rest that is perfectly indifferent accordingly it is his own story still brought a little boy into the lodge son of a nobleman there he placed him on his knees before a table whereon stood a bottle of pure water and behind this some lighted candles he made an round the boy put his hand on his head and both in this attitude addressed prayers to god for the happy accomplishment of tlie work having then bid the child look into the bottle directly the child cried that he saw a garden knowing that heaven assisted him took courage and bade the child ask of count god the grace to see the angel michael at first the child said i see something white i know not what it is then he began jumping stamping like a possessed creature and cried there now i see a child like myself that seems to have something all the assembly and himself remained speechless with emotion the child being anew with the hands of the venerable on his head and the customary prayers addressed to heaven he looked into the bottle and said he saw his sister at that moment coming down stairs and embracing one of her brothers that appeared impossible the brother in question being then hundreds of miles off however felt not disconcerted said they might send to the country house where the sister was and see wonderful enough here however a fact rather suddenly which as the well must serve to all in at least call a blush into their cheeks it seems the grand the the of egyptian count himself in most part of his system the respect for the moses and yet this same affirmed before his judges that he had always felt the to moses and attributes this hatred to his constant opinion that moses was a thief for having carried the egyptian vessels which opinion in spite of all the luminous arguments that were opposed to him to show how it was he has continued to hold with an invincible obstinacy how reconcile these two aye how but to finish off this egyptian business and bring it all to a we shall now for the first and for the last time peep one moment through the of de in that sur les of his the whole de joseph d s v original pang ch ii iii ca s he ous writings matter being so much of a how can it be painted otherwise than of the following passage one thing is true that a creature of the seed of adam believed it to be true list list then o list the is led by a path into an immense hall the ceiling the walls the floor of which are covered by a black cloth sprinkled over with red flames and menacing three lamps from time to time a glimmer and the eye half in this den certain of suspended by a heap of tons forms in the centre a sort of altar on both sides of it are piled books some contain against the others the deadly narrative of the which the invisible spirit has of the infernal for a long time pronounced in vain eight hours then trailing slowly cross the hall and sink in without audible noise of or of falling you notice only that they are gone by a from them the remains four and twenty hours in this gloomy abode in the midst of a silence a fast has already weakened his thinking faculties prepared for the purpose first weary and at length wear out his senses at his feet are placed three filled with a drink of color necessity lifts them towards his lips involuntary fear them at last appear two men looked upon as the ministers of death these the pale brow of the with an in blood and full of characters mixed with figure of our lady of he receives a copper	37
of two inches length to his neck are hung a sort of wrapped in violet cloth he is of his clothes which two brethren deposit on a funeral pile erected at the other end of the hall with blood on his naked body are traced crosses in this state of and humiliation he sees approaching with large strides five armed with swords and clad in garments dropping blood their faces are veiled count they spread a on the floor kneel there pray and remain with outstretched hands crossed on their breast and face fixed on the ground in deep silence an hour passes in this painful attitude after which trial plaintive cries are heard the funeral pile takes fire yet casts only a pale light the garments are thrown on it and burnt a colossal and almost transparent figure rises from the very bosom of the pile at sight of it the five men fall into to look on the too faithful image of those foaming struggles wherein a mortal at with a sudden pain ends by sinking under it then a trembling voice the vault and the of those oaths tliat are to be sworn my pen i think myself almost guilty to them o what a taking is there no hope left thou thy brain is all gone to help seems none if not in that last mother s bosom of all the ruined brandy and water an world may laugh but ought to recollect that forty years ago these things were sad realities in the heads of many men as to the oaths this seems the main one honor and respect as a sure prompt and necessary means of the globe by the death or the of such as endeavor to the truth or snatch it from our hands and so the catastrophe ends by bathing our poor half dead first in blood then after some in water and serving him a composed of roots we grieve to say mere point figure now all this boundless devised of royal arches death s heads painted in the state of innocence with spacious halls dark or in the theatrical light s magic lantern hand writings of plaintive tones beard s miscellaneous writings of a supernatural grand emerging from the gloom and how it acts not only indirectly through the foolish senses of men but directly on their imagination connecting itself with and with immortality and adam s and so downwards to the infinite deep figure all this and in the centre of it sitting eager and alert the working the mighty chaos into a creation of ready money in such a wide ocean of sham and foam had the now happily begun to himself accordingly he goes forth and to prosper arrived in any city he has but by grip to himself with the venerable of the place and not by degrees as formerly but in a single night is introduced in grand lodge to all that is and far or near and in the a gilt hall there between the two pillars of and can the great see his whole flock of assembled in one the hand they are to by victorious the genius of amazement moreover has now shed her glory him he is radiant headed a supernatural by his very gait behold him everywhere welcomed with or in awe struck silence gilt receive him under the steel arch of crossed he to the seat of the venerable holds high discourse hours long on morality universal science divinity and things in general with a an emphasis and proceeding it appears from the special inspiration of the holy ghost then there are egyptian to be founded with a thing expense of many a nay if the place will stand it of the itself can be given count to the in life how gladly would he give them but they have to be brought from the ends of the world and cost money now too with what do all the old trades of egyptian drops beauty waters secret themselves and rise in price this is grand of the egyptian female has a touch of the in her among all thy thou ever yet like an with the called also and thou o antique faded this squire of can it appears probable command the seven angels and company at lowest has the eyes of all europe fixed on him the dog pockets money enough and can seem to despise money to us much meditating on the matter it seemed perhaps strangest of all how count received under the steel arch could hold of from one to three hours long on universal science of such we do not say as to seem inspired by the holy spirit but as not to get him out of doors after his first head of method and drowned in whole of salt and water the man could not speak only in long tending he had no thought for speaking with he had not even a language his italian and de place french with from all european was wholly intelligible to no mortal a tower of which made many think him a kind of jew but indeed with the language of or of angels what better were it the man for all has no articulate utterance that tongue of his noises enough but no speech let him begin the story his stream at the first loses itself in the earth or bursting over flies vol iv s miscellaneous writings i abroad without bank or channel into separate not a stream but a lake a wide spread indefinite marsh his whole thought is confused what thought what resemblance of thought he has cannot itself except in which make bad worse toil and trouble how thou foolish hear him once and on a dead occasion as the reports it i mean and i wish to mean that even as	37
those who honor their father and mother and respect the sovereign are blessed of god even so all that i did i did it by the order of god with the power which he vouchsafed me and to the advantage of god and of holy church and i mean to give the proofs of all that i have done and said not only physically but m ally by showing that as i have served god for god and by the power of god he has given me at last the to confound and combat hell for i know no other enemies than those that are in hell and if i am wrong the holy father will punish me if i am ht he will reward me and if the holy father could get into his hands to night these answers of mine i to all brethren and that i should be at liberty tomorrow morning being desired to give these proofs then he answered to prove that i have been chosen of god as an to defend and religion i say that as the holy church has to in face of the world that she is the true catholic faith even so having with approbation and by the counsel of of the holy church am as i said fully in regard to all my operations and these have assured me that my egyptian order was divine and deserved to be formed into an order by the holy father as i said in another how then in the name of wonder said we could such a turkey cock speak with two things here are to be taken into account first the between speaking and public speaking a differ c i nt ence altogether secondly the wonderful power of a certain audacity often named impudence was it never thy fortune good to attend any meeting for public purposes any bible society reform tavern dinner or other such meeting thou hast seen some full fed long ear by free determination or on sweet start to his legs and give voice well aware thou that there was not had not been could not be in that entire ass of his any of an idea nevertheless mark him if at first an ominous haze round and nothing not even nonsense dwell in his recollection heed it not let him bi t plunge desperately on the spell is broken common places enough are at hand labor of love rights of millions throne and altar divine of song or what else it may be the meeting by its very name has itself in a given element of common place but anon behold how his talking organs get heated and the cheers with the previous dinner and strong drink raise him to height of noblest temper and now as for your is easiest of all let him keep on the soft safe parallel course parallel to the truth or nearly so for heaven s sake not in contact with it no obstacle will meet him on the given element of commonplace he triumphantly he is as the ass whom you took and cast headlong into the water the water at st to swallow him but he finds to his astonishment that he can therein that it is and bears him along one sole condition is indispensable audacity called impudence our ass must commit himself to his watery element in free daring strike forth his four limbs from him then shall he not drown and sink but shoot forward and swim to the admiration of the ass safe landed on the other bank shakes his s miscellaneous rough hide himself at the faculty that lay ih him and waves joyfully his long ears so too the public speaker as we know him of old is not without a certain of soul as of body with vehemence lying under it has the tongue and in the audacity called impudence is without a fellow the common places of such steel arch meetings are soon at his finger ends that same and vehemence lying under it once give them an element and are the very gift of a public speaker to here too let us mention a circumstance not insignificant if true which it may readily enough be in younger years once it is recorded took some pains to procure from a country under quite false a bit of cotton in holy what could such bit of cotton in holy do for him an from any basis of conviction the could never be but solely from stupidity and bad morals might there not lie in that nature of his at the bottom of all a certain grain of real superstitious belief how wonderfully such a grain of belief will flavor and with a whole inward world of so that every fibre thereof shall smell is well known no can persuade who has himself some persuasion nay so wondrous is the act of believing deception and self deception must speaking in all and he perhaps were as the best in whom the smallest grain of the latter would sufficiently flavor the largest mass of the former but indeed as we know otherwise was there not in a certain of all that is golden and good in man of somewhat even that is best cheers count ca end illuminated and the of ing can make him his very of practice will render him louder in eloquence of theory and divine science depth of unknown worlds finer feelings of the heart and like shall draw tears from most of sensibility neither indeed is it of how few his common places how empty his head is so he but it well thus a lead drop or two put into the dry and to and fro will make noise enough and even if a kind of martial music such is the that all of believing souls if the ancient father was named or	37
mouth of gold be the modem named or mouth of in an age of bronze such metal finds on the whole too it is worth considering what element your specially works in the element of wonder the be he artist or works in the of the the in the of the unknown and then how in he grows and advances once start him your name is up says the you may lie in bed a of and the general the few reasoning mortals scattered here and there that see through him in the universal shut their lips in sorrowful disdain confident in the grand r time the meanwhile rolls on his way what boundless materials of which are two mainly first ignorance especially brute the natural of religious then exist over europe in this the most of modern ages are stirred up in his he onward as a his of paying and em s miscellaneous in long what city and province he rests oyer his thinner tail of wondering and curious stretches into remotest lands good from amid his mountains could say of him a man and a man such as few are in whom however i am not a o that he were simple of heart and humble like a child that he had feeling for the simplicity of the gospel the majesty of the lord des who were so great as he of en tells what is not true and promises what he does not perform yet do i hold his operations as deception though they are not what he calls them if good could so say of him what must others have been saying wise with loud flourish of everywhere under the steel arch spirits to such as could stand it the has traversed at has run the of a brother poor here scarcely as and wrecked him through eastern germany he and so now at length in the spring of has arrived at his is erected here his flag hoisted ma hi have long ears he is as has now become his wont food medicine for the poor a train oil prince or something like him for accounts are feels his water over a all goes merry and promises the best but in those countries the police is so arbitrary s must be by the s physician a hard is found naught the food for a dog and so the whole l du sur et p count particulars of his s conduct being put together the result is that he must leave in a given brief term of hours happy for him that it was so brief scarcely is he gone till the appears with a complaint that he has assumed the uniform at rome the spanish with a still graver complaint that he has bills at however he is safe over the let them complain their fill in and in great things await him yet not by two small the von der a bom fair saint what the call as quite young in heart and experience but broken down with grief for departed friends seeks to question the world famous spirit on the secrets of the invisible whither with fond strained eyes she is incessantly looking the of cannot impose on this pure minded simple woman she the in him and in a printed book makes known the same s experience with margaret as above foretold itself for at too though he on egyptian on medical philosophy and the ignorance of doctors and successfully with pupil and a certain count m more than doubt which ends in certainty in a written the triumphant in the city has retired with a chosen set of with whom however was this m into the country to to prepare perhaps the itself all that night before leaving our dear master had spent conversing with spirits spirits cries m not he but melting he has a melted mass of them in this which no xv von der s miscellaneous writings now by of hand he would fain substitute for thai other as you all saw with red lead carefully down set to cool from among our hands and now look at it ye found broken and hidden among these bushes neither does the or of life or whatever it was prosper better our sweet master enters into by his great god and his honor that he will finish the work and make va happy he carries his modesty so far as to propose that he shall work with chains on his feet and to lose his life by the bands of his if before the end of the passage j his word be not made good he lays his hand on the ground and kisses it holds it up to heaven and again takes to witness that he speaks true calls on him to him if he lies a vision of the bearded grand himself makes night solemn in vain the of that broken red lead which to stand here unbroken half full of silver lie before your eyes that resemblance of a sleeping child grown visible in the magic cooking of our proves to be an inserted leaf the grand cannot be gone too soon count m towards the opposite extreme even thinks him inadequate as a far from being modest says this he beyond expression in anybody s presence especially in women s of the grand faculties he possesses every word is an exaggeration or a statement you feel to be improbable the smallest contradiction puts him in fury his vanity breaks through on all sides he lets you give him a festival that sets the whole city a talking most are and endeavor to gain friends this one you might say studies to appear to make all men enemies by his rude injurious speeches by the and he among friends he quarrels with his for trifles fancies that a simple giving of the	37
lie will count p the public that they are at was far he should get some for assistant should read some books of study the tricks of philadelphia and fair good m but do not you yourself admit that he has a natural genius for deception above all things a forehead of brass front d which nothing can to such a genius and such a brow and philadelphia and all the in nature can add little give the his due these of his prove only that he is mounted on his high horse and has now the world under him such in the lot of every man are for our but as in the blaze of the sun with lustre he is as heretofore handed over from this prince p to that prince q among which high believing what is an incredulous count m his pockets are with and diamonds he is off to to to by extra post and there also will work miracles the train he commonly took with him says the to the rest he always travelled post with a considerable body servants of all sorts dressed gave an air of reality to the high birth he the very he got mad at paris cost twenty louis each apartments furnished in the height of the mode a magnificent table open to numerous guests rich dresses for himself and his wife to this luxurious way of life his feigned generosity likewise made a great noise often he the poor and even gave them t d d en paris p et t joseph s miscellaneous writings in the inside of all this splendid travelling and economy are to be seen as we know two suspicious looking or figures of a count and a on their cushions there with a haggard kind of aspect they eye one another sullenly in silence with a scarce suppressed indignation for each thinks the other does not work enough and eats too much whether dame followed her peculiar side of the business with reluctance or with free alacrity is a point among not so that with her she had a sour life of it and if we look still farther and try to penetrate the inmost self consciousness what in another man would be called the conscience of the himself the view gets most uncertain little or nothing to be seen but a thick haze which indeed was the main thing there much in the count front d remains yet hardly this his want of clear insight into anything most of all into his own inner man cunning in the supreme degree he has intellect next to none nay is not cunning couple it with an character the natural consequence of intellect it is properly the vehement exercise of a short poor vision of an intellect sunk which can attain to no free vision otherwise it would lead the man to be honest meanwhile of muddy light will occasionally visit all mortals every living creature according to milton the very devil has some more or less faint resemblance of a conscience must make inwardly certain professions of faith were it only that he does not yet quite and so proceed to hang himself what such a pore us as might specially feel and think and be were difficult in any case to say much more when contradiction and designed and count able so the matter one of th most documents preserved of him is the picture of his an once universally diffused in oil paint marble and perhaps millions of apartments of which remarkable one copy engraved in the line manner happily still lies here of worthy to be worn by the of a most face of a fat abominable face dew flat greasy full of obstinacy a forehead impudent refusing to be ashamed and then two eyes turned up as in divine contemplation and adoration a touch of too on the whole perhaps the most perfect face produced by the century there he sits and with this des les traits ont par de now u la u le est sa a probable conjecture were that this same of the poor to which our now more and more himself might serve not only as bird lime for external game but also half unconsciously as for his own spiritual am not i a charitable man could the say if i have myself have i not by removed much cause of error the lying the what are these but the method of yourself to the temper of men of getting their ear their dull long ear which honesty had no chance to catch nay at worst is not this an unjust world full of nothing but beasts of prey four footed or two footed nature has commanded saying man help ought not the man of my s miscellaneous writings genius since he sa not born a prince since in these times he has not been elected a prince to make himself one if not by open violence for which he wants military force then surely by superior science exercised in a private way heal the diseases of the poor the far deeper diseases of the ignorant in a word found and get the means of them by such can count front of brass in rare hours of self questioning compose himself for the rest such hours are rare the count is a man of action and not of self questioning usually the day brings its abundant task there is no time for of the sort be this as it may the has arrived at is working higher wonders than ever at indeed in the year occurs his what we can call the and fourth act of his life drama he was here for a number of months in full blossom and radiance the envy and admiration of the world in large hired he with open box containing extract of and even	37
with open purse the suffering poor himself to a believing few of the rich classes turns a silent lion face to were they of the richest medical miracles have in all times been common but what miracle is this of an oriental or serene excellence that regardless of expense himself not in preserving game but in sickness in ignorance behold how he at into the of the mean and on the and even dinner tions of the great turns only his front of brass the prince cardinal de of first class peer of france of the blood royal of a wish to see him he answers if the car count j is sick let him come and i will cure him if he is x well he has no need of me i none of him heaven meanwhile has sent him a few by a nice tact he knows his man to one speaks only of medicine of tyranny and the egyptian lodge to another of quite high matters beyond this sphere of visits from the angel of light visits from him of darkness passing a statue of christ he will pause with a plaintive ha as of recognition as of remembrance and when questioned sink into mysterious silence is he the wandering jew then heaven knows at in a word fortune not only smiles but laughs upon him as crowning favor he finds here the richest most open handed ever yet vouchsafed him no other than this same many louis de strong in whose favor he can laugh again at fortune let the curious reader look at him for an instant or two through the eyes of two eye witnesses the prince louis s and the professor admitted at length says our too to the of this i prince louis saw according to his own account in the man s something so dignified so imposing that he felt penetrated with a religious awe and reverence dictated his address their interview which was brief excited more keenly than ever his desire of farther acquaintance he attained it at length and the so his words and that he gained without appearing to court it the cardinal s entire confidence and the greatest over his will your soul said he one day to the prince is worthy of mine you deserve to be made of all my secrets such an cap ii i de v ii vol iv s miscellaneous writings the whole faculties and moral of a man who at all times had hunted after secrets of and from this moment their union became intimate and public went and established himself at while his eminence was there their solitary were long and frequent i remember once having learnt by a sure way that baron de his eminence s man of affairs had frequent most expensive in the palace where wine ran like water to and his pretended wife i thought it my duty to inform the cardinal his answer was i know it i have even him to commit if he judge n c came at last to have no other will than s and to such a length had it gone that this sham egyptian finding it good to quit for a time and retire into the cardinal thereof despatched his secretary as well to attend him as to obtain from him such were in to the cardinal on every point he needed to consult of before ever i arrived in hear now the as professor i knew almost to a certainty that i should not see count at least not get to speak with him from many persons i had heard that he on no account received visits from curious travellers in a state of health that such as without being sick appeared in his were sure to be treated by him in the way nevertheless i saw not this new god of near at hand and deliberately but only for a moment as he rolled on in a rapid carriage i fancy myself to be better acquainted with him many that have lived in his society for months my conviction is that count from of old has been more of a cheat than an and also that he continues a cheat to this day as to his country i have ascertained nothing some make him a others a jew or an italian or a or even an who had persuaded some prince to send his son to count travel in europe and then murdered the youth and taken sion of treasures as the self count speaks badly all the languages you hear from him and has most likely spent the greater part of his life under feigned names from home it is probable enough no sure trace of his origin may ever be discovered on his first appearance in he connected himself with the but only till he felt strong to stand by himself he soon gained the favor of the and the cardinal and through these the favor of the court to such a degree that his cannot so much as think of him with the and cardinal he is said to himself as with persons who were under boundless obligation to him to whom he was under none the of the cardinal he seems to use as freely as his own he that he can recognise or by the smell that the from such throws him into fits into which sacred disorder he like a true has the art of falling when he likes in public he no longer of rule over spirits or other arts but i know even as certainly that he still to spirits and by their help and to heal diseases as i know this other fact that he understands no more of the human system or the nature of its diseases or the use of the commonest methods than any other according to the accounts of persons have long	37
observed him he is a man to an inconceivable degree heedless and therefore it was the idea he ever in his whole life came upon this of making himself inaccessible of raising the most obstinate reserve as a round him without which precaution he must long ago have been caught at fault for his own labor he takes neither payment nor present when presents are made him of such a sort as cannot without offence be refused he forthwith returns some counter present of equal or still higher value nay he not only takes nothing from his but admits them months long to his house and his table and will not consent to the smallest with all this ss conspicuous enough as you may suppose s writings he lives in an expensive way plays deep loses almost constantly to ladies so that according to the very lowest estimate he must require at least a year the darkness which has on purpose spread over the sources of his income and even more than his and miraculous to the notion that he is divine extraordinary man who has watched nature in her deepest operations and among other secrets stolen that of gold making from her with a mixture of sorrow and indignation over our age i have to record that this man has found acceptance not only among the great who from of old have been the easiest by such but also with many of the learned and even and days only too good to continue ah glory runs its course has its and then its often decline eminence temper and small instruction perhaps of certainly of manners in whom the faculty of wonder had attained such prodigious development was indeed the very whale for to feed on unhappily however no one could long be left in solitary possession of him a she now strikes in infinitely deeper whale and he both are like to become her a french maker de la descended from ii by the tin without extract of egyptian or any verbal conference with dark angels has genius enough to get her finger in the s rich appropriate the golden proceeds and even finally break the prince cardinal louis de is off to paris under her guidance to see the long invisible queen or queen s apparition to pick up the rose in the garden of by her fair sham royal hand and then descend rapidly to the devil and drag along with him die as quoted in count the intelligent reader we have now arrived at that business of the diamond into the dark of which we need not here do more than glance r who knows but next month our historical chapter written specially on this subject may itself see the light enough for the present if we fancy vividly the poor whale cardinal so deep in the adventure that grand in will no longer him but the grand must leave all or other business happily begun in and come personally to paris with at first hand the new says poor must have read the of his victim ill for on issuing from these communications with the angel of light and of darkness he to the cardinal that this happy correspondence with the queen s would place him at the highest point of favor that his influence in the government would soon become that he would use it for the of good principles the glory of the supreme being and the happiness of the new was indeed at fault but how could he be otherwise let these high queen s and all of the wind turn as they will his reign he can well see is appointed to be temporary in the mean while flows like water of good not of evil are the method to keep it flowing thus if for de la m the egyptian is but a foolish enchanted cup to turn her cardinal into a withal she herself converse wise for the grand is one who must ever said with court hopes and stall feed him and it is expected for the knife of both parties they are useful live in peace and suspicious contemptuous so s writings stand matters through the spring and summer months of the year but fancy next that while is flowing within doors and abroad egyptian are getting founded and gold and glory from paris as from other cities coming in the latter end of august has arrived and with it to lodge the whole brotherhood from cardinal down to sham queen in separate of the there for nine long months let them howl and wail in bass or in and the of false among which that pour le de en presence des co witli its of and nature s unfortunate child all gravely printed with french types in the year may well bear the palm fancy that or diamonds will nowhere themselves that the palace sits struck with and speechless that paris that all europe is ringing with the wonder that count front of brass confronted at the judgment bar with a shrill de la has need of all his eloquence that nevertheless the front of brass and exasperated throws a at him finally that on the st of may the assembled parliament of paris at nine in the evening after a sitting of eighteen hours has solemnly pronounced judgment and now that cardinal louis is gone to his estates de la is shaven on the head ith red hot iron v on both shoulders and confined for life to the count wandering uncertain with diamonds for sale over the british empire the de for handling a queen s pen banished for ever the too gay d with her infant put out of court and grand indeed but and ordered to take himself away his their windows but what does that avail governor cannot recollect the least particular of those	37
effects those gold repeating watches of his he must even retire to that very night and two days afterwards sees nothing for it but and england thus does the miserable tragedy of the diamond wind itself up and wind once more to shores arrived here and lodged tolerably in street by the aid of mr broken wine merchant to whom he carries he can drive a small trade ia egyptian sold in paris at thirty shillings the in to egyptian in giving public as at if so be any one will bite at all events he can by the aid of compose and publish his au setting forth his unheard of unheard of suffered in a world not worthy of him at the hands of english lawyers french counts and others his singing to the same tune too what many inspired had already that the would be destroyed and a king would come who should govern by states general but alas the shafts of criticism are busy with him so many hostile eyes k towards him the world in short is getting too hot for him mark nevertheless how the brow of brass not nay a touch of his old poetic humor ven m this sad crisis unexpectedly itself one editor of a de v europe published here at that period has for some time made it his distinction to be the foremost of s enemies enduring much in silence happens once in some public audience to mention a practice he had witnessed in s miscellaneous writings the stony the people there it seems are in the habit of a few pigs on mixed with whereby the whole pig by and by becomes so to the pigs are then let loose into the woods eaten by lions and other ferocious creatures which latter naturally all die in consequence and so the woods are cleared of them this practice the thought a proper subject for and accordingly in his and two following numbers made merry enough with it whereupon count front whose patience has limits writes as advertisement still to be read in old of the public under date september a french letter not without and aristocratic disdain the witty to breakfast with him for the th of november next in the face of the world on an actual pig by but cooked carved and selected from by the under bet of five thousand sterling that next morning thereafter he the shall be dead and count be alive the poor not cry done and backed out of the transaction making faces thus does a kind of red splendor our s decline thus with brow of brass grim smiling does he meet his destiny but suppose we should now ix m these foreign scenes turn for a moment into the native alley in with its its mud or dust the old black house the very beds and chairs all are still standing there and has altered so strangely has wandered so far away let us look for happily we have the fairest opportunity in april contained a traveller of a sand no other than the great from at his table d he heard much of at length count also of a certain lawyer who had been engaged by the french government to draw up an and of him this lawyer and even the rude draught of his he with little difficulty gets to see next whether it were not possible to see the actual family whereof it appears the mother and a sister still survive for this matter however the lawyer can do nothing only refer him to his clerk who again starts difficulties to get at those documents he has been obliged to invent some story of a government being in the wind for those poor and now that the whole matter is finished and the paper sent off to france has nothing so much at heart as to keep out of their way so said the clerk however as could not abandon my purpose we some study that i should g ive myself out for an englishman and bring the family news of who had lately got out of the and gone to london at the appointed hour it might be three in the we set forth the house lay in the corner of an alley not far from the main street named we ascended a miserable stair and came straight into the kitchen a woman of middle stature broad and stout yet not stood busy washing the kitchen dishes she was decently dressed and on our entrance turned up the one end of her apron to hide the soiled side from us she joyfully recognised my conductor and said do you bring us good news have you made out anything he answered in our affair nothing yet but here is a stranger that brings a salutation from your brother and can tell you how he is at present the salutation i was to bring stood not in our agreement meanwhile one way or other the introduction was accomplished you know my brother inquired she all europe knows him answered i and i fancied it would gratify you to hear that he is now in safety and well as of late no doubt you have been anxious about step in said she i will follow you directly and with the clerk i entered the room s miscellaneous writings it was large and high and might with us have passed fm a saloon it seemed indeed to be almost the sole lodging of the family a single window lighted the large walls which had once had color and on which were black pictures of saints in gilt frames hanging round two large beds without curtains stood at one wall a brown press in the form of a writing desk at the other old rush chairs the backs of which had once been gilt stood by and	37
the of the floor were in many places worn deep into hollows for the rest all was and we approached the family which sat assembled at the ne window in the other end of the apartment whilst my guide was explaining to the old widow the purpose of our visit and by reason of her must repeat his words several times aloud i had time to observe the chamber and the other persons in it a girl of about sixteen well formed whose features had become uncertain by small stood at the window beside her a young man whose disagreeable look by the same disease also struck me in an right before tlie window sat or rather lay a sick much person who appeared to labor under a sort of my guide having made himself understood we were invited to take seats the old woman put some questions to me which however i had to get interpreted before i could answer them the dialect not being quite at my command meanwhile i looked at the aged widow with satisfaction she was of middle stature but well shaped over her regular features which age had not lay that sort of peace usual with people that have lost their hearing the tone of her voice was soil and agreeable i answered her questions and my answers also had again to be interpreted for her the of our conversation gave me leisure to measure my words i told her that her son had been in france and was at present in england where he met with good reception her joy which she at these tidings was mixed with expressions of a piety and as she now spoke a louder and slower i could the better understand her in the mean time the daughter had entered and taken her count beat my conductor who repeated to her faithfully what i had been she had put on a clean apron had set her hair in order under the net cap the more i looked at her and compared her with her mother the more striking became the difference of the two figures a healthy sm beamed forth from the who e structure of the daughter she might be a woman of about forty with brisk blue eyes she looked sharply round yet in her look i could trace no suspicion when she sat her figure promised more height than it showed when she rose her posture was she sat with her body leaned forwards the hands resting on the knees for the rest her more of the than the sharp sort reminded me of her brother s portrait familiar to us in she asked me several things about my journey my purpose to see and was convinced i would come back and the feast of saint with them as the grandmother meanwhile had again put some questions to me and i was busy answering her the daughter kept speaking to my companion half aloud yet so tiiat i could take occasion to ask what it was he answered was telling him that her brother owed her fourteen gold on his sudden departure from she had several things for him that were in but never since that day had either heard from him or got money or any other help though it was said he had great riches and made a now would not i perhaps undertake on my return to remind him in a handsome way of the debt and i t cure some assistance for her nay would i not carry a letter with me or at all events get it carried i offered to do so she asked where i lodged whither she must send the letter to me i avoided my abode and offered to call next day towards night and receive the letter myself she thereupon described to me her situation how she was a widow with three children of whom the one girl was getting educated in a the other was here present and her son just gone out to his lesson how beside these three children she had her mother to maintain and moreover out of christian love had taken the unhappy sick person there to her house whereby the burden was heavier how all her industry s miscellaneous writings would scarcely ce to get necessaries for herself and hers she knew indeed that god did not leave good works yet must sigh very sore under the load she had long borne the young people mixed in the dialogue and our conversation grew while speaking with the others i could hear the good old widow ask her daughter if i belonged then to their holy religion i remarked also that the daughter strove in a prudent way to avoid an answer to her mother so far as i could take it up that the stranger seemed to have a kind feeling towards them and tliat it was not well bred to question any one straightway on that point as they heard that i was soon to leave they became more pressing and me to come back especially the days of the festival the like of which was not to be seen and tasted in all the world my attendant who had long been anxious to get off at last put an end to the interview by his gestures and i promised to return on the morrow evening and take the letter my attendant expressed his joy that all had gone off so well and we parted content you may fancy the impression this poor and pious well family had made on me my curiosity was satisfied but their natural and worthy bearing had raised an interest in me which reflection did but increase forthwith however there arose from me anxieties about the following day it was natural that this appearance of mine which at the first moment had taken them by surprise should after my departure awaken many	37
reflections by the i knew that several others of the family were in life it was natural that they should call their friends together and in the presence of all get these things repeated which tlie day before they had heard from me with admiration my object was attained there remained nothing more than in good fashion to end the adventure i accordingly repaired next day directly after dinner alone to their house they expressed surprise as i entered the letter was not ready yet tliey said and some of their relations wished to make my acquaintance who towards night would be there i answered that having to set off to morrow morning and visits count still to pay and packing to had thought it better to come early than not meanwhile the son entered whom yesterday i had not seen he resembled his sister in size and figure he brought the letter they were to give me he had as is common in those parts got it written out of doors by one of their that sit publicly to do such things the young man had a still melancholy and modest aspect inquired after his uncle asked about his riches and and added sorrowfully why had he so forgotten his kindred it were our greatest fortune continued he should he once return hither and take notice of us but continued he how came he to let you know that he had relatives in it is said he everywhere us and gives himself out for a man of great birth i answered this question which had now arisen by the of my guide at our first entrance in such sort as to make it seem that the uncle though he might have reasons for concealing his birth from the public did yet towards his friends and acquaintance keep it no secret the sister who had come up during this dialogue and by the presence of her brother perhaps also by the absence of her yesterday s friend had got more courage began also to speak with much grace and they begged me earnestly to recommend them to their uncle if i wrote to him and not less earnestly when once i should have made this journey through tho island to come back and pass the festival with them the mother spoke in accordance with her children sir said she though it is not as i have a grown daughter to see stranger gentlemen in my house and one has cause to guard against both danger and evil speaking yet shall you ever be come to us when you return to this o yes answered the young ones we will lead the gentleman all round the festival we will show him everything get a place on the th grand si ts seen best what will he say to the great chariot and more than all to the glorious illumination meanwhile the grandmother read the letter and again read it hearing that i w about to take leave she arose and gave me the folded sheet tell my son began she with a noble vol iv s miscellaneous writings vivacity nay with a sort of inspiration tell my son how happy the news have made me which you brought from him tell him that i clasp him to my heart here she stretched out her aims asunder and pressed them again together on her breast that i daily and our holy virgin for him in prayer tha t x give him and his wife my blessing and that i wish before my end to see him again with these eyes which have shed so many tears for him the peculiar grace of the italian tongue the choice and noble of these words which moreover were accompanied with lively gestures wherewith that nation can add such a charm to spoken words i took my leave not without emotion they me their hands the children showed me out and as i went down stairs they jumped to the balcony of the kitchen window which projected over the street called after me threw me that i must in no wise forget to come back i saw them still on the balcony when i ned the comer poor old and must thy pious prayers thy blessings and so many tears shed by those old eyes be all in vain to in any case they were blessed as for the with her three children we can believe at least that the fourteen gold were paid by a sure hand and so her heavy burden for some space lightened a little count all this while is rapidly proceeding with his fifth act the red splendor more and more into final gloom some boiling heads of a sort there still are in england riot lord george for instance will walk with him to count s or d s and in bad french and worse abuse the queen of france but what does it profit lord george must one day after noise enough re s j count for it and in the hard words o s begins to get wearisome french look in egyptian are slack of sale the old attorney host anew is itself anew count in the may of must once more leave england but whither ah whither at at over the game is up at in there are but no in them at his majesty of meets you with an order t on the instant a like fate from the emperor joseph at before the ms de could extend to many pages count front of brass begins himself to priest yet at a new screen touching last of a light that once burnt so high he diamond hither and knows not what to do for destiny has her round him they are strait ling too soon he will be driven out from what shall he make of the new screen what	37
of himself the way worn grand has to family secrets she l to be m rome by her s hearth by her mother s in any nook where so much as the shadow of refuge waits her to the desperate count front of brass all places are nearly alike urged by female he will go to rome then why not on a may day of the year when such glorious work had just begun in france to him all forbidden he enters the eternal city it his doom summons that called him thither on the th of next december the holy long watchful enough him some feeble ghost of an egyptian lodge him off as the military say and locks him hard and fast in the castle of st etc s miscellaneous writings count did not lose all hope nevertheless a few words will now suffice for him in vain with his mouth of and his front of brass does he heap on demand religious books which are freely given him y demand clean linen and an interview with his wife which are refused him assert now that the egyptian is a divine system to and men which the holy father when he knows it will anon that there sure some four millions of spread over europe all sworn to priest and king wherever met with in vain they will not him as misunderstood will not him in pope s pay as spy he can t get out invisible to hi n in a neighboring cell begins at length to confess i whereupon he too in torrents will and her these the pocket and sill whence this life of but will not let him out in fine after some eighteen months of the worrying and standing at bay his gives sentence the manuscript of egyptian is to be burnt by hand of the common and all that with such are accursed justly of life for being a shall nevertheless in mercy be forgiven instructed in the duties of and even kept safe and till death in ward of holy church ill must it so end with thee this was in april he addressed how vainly an appeal to the french assembly as was said in heaven in earth or in hell there was no assembly that could well take his part for four years more spent one knows not how most probably in the of with insufficient and the stupor of the curtain lazily falls count there and way the of a tough heart one summer morning of the year the body of is still found in the prison at st but s self has escaped whither no man yet knows the brow of brass behold how it has got all these lips can lie no more s work is ended and now only his account to present as the of said nature s unfortunate child adieu such according to our comprehension thereof is the rise grandeur and of the of does the reader ask what good was in it why occupy his time and hours with the biography of such a we answer it was stated on the very threshold of this mat ter in the loi est terms by that the lives of all eminent persons or ought to be written thus has not the very devil his life written not by daniel only but by quite other hands than daniel s for the rest the thing represented on e pages is no sham but a reality thou hast it o reader as we have it nature was pleased to produce even such a man even so not otherwise and the editor of this is here mainly to record in an adequate manner what she of her m richness and greatness produces but the moral lesson where is the moral lesson foolish reader in every reality nay in every genuine shadow of a reality what we call poem there lie a hundred such or a million such according as thou hast the eye to read them of which hundred or million lying here in the present reality not thou for example be advised to take this one to thee worth all the rest behold i too have attained that mysterious glory of being alive to me also a has been s writings shall i strive to work it out into and doing or into and of doing or why not rather like and following the respectable countless multitude into both the decision is of quite infinite moment see thou make it aright but in fine look at this matter of as at all matters with thy heart with thy whole mind no longer merely at it with the poor side glance of thy faculty look at it not only but thou shalt in sober truth see it as asserted to be a verse of most inspired writing in its kind in that same grand bible of universal history and even connected with the heroic portions that stand there even as the all showing light is with the darkness wherein nothing can be seen as the hideous roots are with the fair and their leaves and flowers and fruit both of which and not one of which make the tree think also whether thou hast known no public on far higher scale than this whom a castle of st never could get hold of and how as having found machinery they could run their career and make whole whole into one huge egyptian lodge and squeeze supplies of money or blood from it at discretion also whether thou even now not private innumerable as the sands toiling of whom is as the ideal type specimen such is the world understand it despise it love it cheerfully hold on thy way through it with thy eye on higher load stars of death of the rev edward s edward s warfare has closed if not in victory	37
yet in and faithful endurance to the end the spirit of the time which could not him as its soldier must needs in all ways fight against him as its enemy it has done its part and he has done his one of the noblest natures a man of antique heroic nature in questionable modem which he could not wear around him a distracted society vacant heat and darkness and what these two may breed mad extremes of flattery followed by by indifference and neglect these were the conflicting elements this is the result they have made out among them the voice of our son of thunder with its deep tone of wisdom that belonged to all articulate ages never amid wildest that belonged to this inarticulate age which and which cannot speak but only and has gone silent so soon closed are those lips the large heart with its large where wretchedness found and they that were wandering in darkness the light as of a home has paused the strong man can no more beaten on from without from within he must sink as at nightfall when it was yet but the mid season of day was forty two years and some months old scotland sent him forth a man our mad wore him and wasted him with all her engines and it took her twelve years he with his fathers in that loved land s miscellaneous writings with its on but to him henceforth for ever reader thou hast seen and heard the man as who has not with wise or unwise wonder thou not see or hear him again the work be what it might is done dark curtains sink over it it ever deeper into the past think if thou be one of a thousand and worthy to do it that here once more was a genuine man seat into this our of a world which would go to ruin without such that here once more under thy own eyes in this last was the old tragedy and has had its now of the messenger ef in the age of and what thou have to that whether any beyond question thou art here either a or awake and one day cease to dream this man was appointed a christian priest and strove with die whole force that was in him to e it to be it in a time of catholic bent and the revolution of three days he might have been so many things not a speaker only but a the leader of hosts of men for his head when the fog had not yet obscured it was of strong far searching insight his very enthusiasm was sanguine not he was so loving full of hope so simple hearted and made all that approached him his a giant force of activity was in the man speculation was accident not nature chivalry adventurous field life of the old border and a far nobler sort ran in his blood there was in him a courage not hardly fierce by no possibility ferocious as of the generous war horse gentle in its strength yet that laughs at the of the spear but above all be what he might to be a reality was in death of the edward for him in his simple circle the high est form of manhood or known was that of christian the highest christian was the teacher of such s lot was cast for the were all into earth there castle had become a town hall and had sent tidings thither prophetic and alas also and as the natural consequence in such mixed element had the young soul to grow grow nevertheless he did with that strong vitality of his grow and what the was they that have only seen the london celebrated and distorted one can never know bodily and perhaps there was not in that november a man more full of genial energetic life in all these islands by a fatal chance fashion cast her eye on him as on some of novel some wild product of nature from the wild mountains fashion crowded round him with her lights and dances breathed her foul incense on him one may say it was his own that forwarded such ruin the excess of his and sympathy of his value for the and sympathies of men songs as of a new moral sons pf and high sons of and to become sons of god and the of s to be made living roses in a new sound in the inexperienced ear and heart most most fashion went her idle to gaze on egyptian hunters or what else there might be forgot this man who unhappily could not in his turn forget the poison had been swallowed no force of natural health could cast it out unconsciously for most part in deep there was now the impossibility to live neglected to s miscellaneous writings f walk on the quiet paths where alone it is well with us must henceforth succeed o draught thou poison of popular applause madness is in thee and death thy end is and the grave for the last seven years forsaken by the world strove either to recall it or to it shut himself up in a lesser world of ideas and persons and lived isolated there neither in this was there health for this man such was not fit such ideas such persons one light still shone on him alas through a medium more and more the light from heaven his bible was there wherein must lie healing for all sorrows to the bible he more and more addressed himself if it is the written word of god shell it not be the acted word too is it mere sound then black s ink on white rag paper a half man could have passed on without 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man must answer hence of gifts of tongues herself into decent wonder and waves her to his belief as to his soul followed it whither through earth or air it might lead him toiling as never man toiled to spread it to gain the world s ear for it in vain ever the confusion without and within the noble minded had now nothing left to do but die he died the death of the true and brave his last words they say were in life and in deaths i am the lord s amen amen i one who knew him well and may with good cause love him has said but for i liad never known what the communion of man with man means his was the human soul mine ever came in contact with i call him on the whole the best man i have ever after trial enough found in this world or now hope to find the first time i saw was six and twenty years ago death of the rev edward in his native town he was fresh from with college high character and promise he had come to see our who had also been his we heard of professors of high matters classical a whole of knowledge nothing but joy health without end looked out from the blooming young man the last time i saw him was three months ago in london friendliness still beamed in his eyes but now from amid fire his face was wasted as with extreme age he was trembling over the brink of the grave adieu thou first friend adieu while this confused twilight of existence lasts might we meet where twilight has become day s miscellaneous writings the diamond s magazine chapter i age of romance the age of has not ceased it never ceases it does not if we will think of it so much as very sensibly decline the passions are repressed by social forms great passions no longer show themselves why there are passions still great enough to for it never wants tenants to men from bed posts from improved drops at the west end of a passion that asunder the life it took rise in ought to be regarded as considerable more no passion in the highest of romance yet did the passions by race of the and also of the infernal powers for both have a hand in it can never fail us and then as to social forms be it granted that they are of the most quality and bind men up into the common place existence you ask where is the romance in the scotch way one where is it not that very spectacle of an immortal nature with faculties and destiny extending through eternity and up by nurses and the tongues of innumerable old women named force of public opinion by prejudice custom want of knowledge want of money want of strength into say the meagre pattern figure that in these days meets you in all a god created man all but the character of man forced to exist wise the scarcely in rare moments audible or visible from amid his and as gentleman or and so selling his of eternity for the three daily meals poor at best which time is not this spectacle itself highly romantic if we had eyes to look at it the high bom highest born for he came out of heaven lies drowning in the the gift of life which he can have but once for he waited a whole eternity to be bom and now has a whole eternity waiting to see what he will do when born this gift we see slowly out of him by innumerable and there remains of the glorious possibility which we fondly named man nothing but an mass of foul loss and disappointment which we wrap in and bury surely with tears to the here lies tragedy enough the and of all tragedy whatsoever but so few are aye reader so few think there is the rub not one in the thousand has the smallest turn for thinking only for passive dreaming and and active by of the eyes that men do glare withal so few can see thus is the world become such a fearful confused and each man s task has got entangled in his neighbor s and it and the spirit of blindness falsehood and distraction justly named the devil continually himself among us and even hopes were it not for the opposition which by s grace will also maintain itself to become supreme thus too among other things has the romance of wholly out of sight and all history into empty lists of pitched battles and changes of i always considered him a respectable man what do yon mean by respectable he kept a trials vol iv s miscellaneous writings or worse into constitutional history or philosophy of history or philosophy teaching by is become dead as the of other years to which species of composition indeed it bears ik several points of view no of all blinds that shut up men s vision says one the worst is self how true how doubly true if self assuming her yet disguise come on us in never ceasing all from the innumerable selves of others not as pride not even as real hunger but only as vanity and the shadow of an imaginary hunger for applause under the name of what we call respectability alas now for our historian to his other spiritual which however so long as he physically breathes cannot be complete this sad new magic influence is added henceforth his histories must all be up into the dignity of history instead of looking at the thing and first of all and beyond all to ee it and fashion a living picture of it not a wretched abstraction of it	37
he has now quite other matters to look to the thing lies invisible in and foreign air images what did the say of it what did the the priests the above all what will my own listening circle say of me for what i say of it and then his respectability in general as a literary gentleman his not talent for philosophy thus is our poor historian s faculty directed mainly on two objects the writing and the writer both of which are quite and the thing written of as we see can it be wonderful that histories wherein open lying is not permitted are nay our very how hollow they stand there respectable and what more dumb with a skin of the diamond t painted wax work and inwardly empty or full of rags and in our england especially which in days is become the chosen land of respectability life writing has to the condition it requires a man to be n a thus too strangely enough the only worth reading are those of players and poorest of the sons of adam who nevertheless sons of his and brothers of ours and by the nature of the case had already respectability good day such in this as in infinitely deeper matters does respectability shower on us sad are thy doings o than those of s car that with huge wheel suddenly asunder the bodies of men thou in thy light long acre springs gradually away their souls depend upon it for one thing good reader no age ever seemed the age of romance to itself let the poets talk as they will had his own in the world what with selling of his poultry and what with wanton daughters carrying through the snow and for instance that hanging of the over the bridge thirty thousand of them they say at one bout it seems to me that the great charles had his temper ruffled at times of too we see well in thinking of it found rainy weather as well as sunny knew what it was to have need got tough beef to or even went was saddle sick as his madness too clearly and felt i doubt not that this was a very devil s world and he himself one of the there only in long subsequent days when the tough beef the and the had clean vanished did it all begin to seem romantic and your le s miscellaneous writings and found music in it so i say is it and the more as your true hero your true is ever that he is a hero this is a condition of all greatness in our own poor nineteenth century the writer of these lines has heen fortunate enough to see not a few glimpses of romance he this nineteenth is hardly a whit less romantic than that ninth or any other since centuries began apart from napoleon and the and whose fire words of public speaking and fire of cannon and which for a season darkened the air are perhaps at bottom but superficial phenomena he has witnessed in remotest places much that could be called romantic even miraculous he has witnessed overhead the infinite deep with greater and lesser lights bright rolling silent beaming hurled forth by the hand of god around him and under his feet the earth with her winter snow storms and her summer airs and of all himself standing there he stood in the lapse of time he saw eternity behind him and before him the all mysterious tide of force for from force of thought to force of what an interval on bore him too along with it he too was part of it from its bosom rose and vanished in perpetual change the real which was being and ever anew rose and vanished and ever that scene was full another yet the same oak trees fell young sprang men too new sent from the unknown he met of size who into stature into strength of passionate fire and light in other men the light was growing dim the all feeble they sank motionless into ashes into returned hack to the unknown him their mute farewell he the diamond still by the parting spot cannot hear them the r are far how far it was a sight for angels and for indeed himself had made it wholly one many glancing thread in the web of universal history spirit woven it there as with the howl of mighty winds through that wild roaring loom of time generation hundreds of them or thousands of them from the unknown beginning so loud so busy rushed torrent wise thundering down down and fell all silent only some feeble re echo which grew ever struggling up and oblivion swallowed them all thousands more to the unknown ending will follow and thou here of this present one as a drop still on the giddy edge one moment while the darkness has dot yet thee o brother is that what thou of small interest of small interest and for thee awake poor troubled shake off thy nightmare dream look see behold it the high as heaven terrors deep as hell this is god s creation this is man s life such things has the writer of these lines witnessed in this poor nineteenth century of ours and what are all such to the things he y t hopes to witness hopes with truest assurance i have painted so much said the good paul in his old days and i have never seen the ocean the ocean of eternity i shall not fail to see such being the quality of this time and of all time whatsoever might not the poet who chanced to walk through it find objects enough to paint what object he fixed on were it the meanest of the mean let him but it in its actual truth as it there	37
in such world old yet new and never ending an portion of the miraculous ah his picture of it were a poem how much more if the object fixed on were s miscellaneous writings i not mean but one already wonderful the mystic actual truth of which if it lay not on the surface yet shone through the surface and invited even to search for it the present writer who unhappily belongs to that class has nevertheless a firmer and firmer persuasion of two things first as was seen that romance exists secondly that now and formerly and it exists strictly speaking in reality alone the thing that is what can be wonderful what especially to us that are can have significance study reality he is ever and anon saying to himself search out deeper and deeper its quite endless mystery see it know it then whether thou learn from it and again teach or weep over it or r it or love it or despise it or in any way relate to it thou hast the enduring basis that page is one thou read on for ever find new meaning in for ever finally and in a word do not the critics teach us in whatsoever thing thou hast felt interest in that or in nothing hope to inspire others with interest in partial obedience to all which and to many other principles shall the following small romance of the diamond begin to come together a small romance let the reader again and again assure himself which is no brain web of mine or of any other foolish man s but a of that mystic spirit woven web from the loom of time spoken of above it is an actual transaction that happened in this earth of ours wherewith our whole business as already urged is to paint it truly for the rest an earnest inspection faithful endeavor has not been wanting on our part nor singular as it may seem the regard to geography or rather in this case evidence and the i what else true historical would yield were there hut on the reader s part a kindred a kindred spirit of endeavor strongly on both sides by such united philosophy this poor of the diamond became quite between us lifted up into the serene of universal history and might hang there like a smallest diamond visible without so long as it could chapter ii the is made or as he is now called to all appearance wanted not that last infirmity of noble and minds a love of fame he was destined also to be famous more than enough his into the world were rather of a smiling character he has long since exchanged his speech as far as possible for a one his rustic saxon for a polished city of paris and there united in with worthy a sound practical man skilled in the of all precious stones in the management of workmen in the judgment of their work he already sees himself among the highest of his nay rather the very highest for he has secured by purchase and hard money paid the title of king s and can enter the court itself leaving all other and even innumerable gentlemen and small nobility to in the with the ornaments in his pocket or borne after him by the happy sees high drawing rooms and sacred fly open as with and the brightest eyes of the whole s miscellaneous writings world grow brighter to him alone of men the herself id mysterious taking and ing counsel do not on all days and nights his works praise him on the gorgeous robes of state oa court dresses and lords stars on the of better still on the swan neck of beauty and her from bearing to on that blinding play of colors is s doing he is de la could the man but have been content with it i he could not like he must mount too high have his melted and descend prostrate amid a cloud of vain goose one day a fatal day of some year probably among the of last century it struck why should not i who as most christian king s am properly first of the universe make a jewel which the universe has not matched nothing can prevent thee if thou have the skill to do it skill or no skill answers he i have the ambition my jewel if not the shall be the dearest thus was the determined on did worthy give a willing or a reluctant consent in any case he and co plans are held models made by money or credit the diamonds come in cunning cut them set them proud sees the work go on proud man i behold him on a morning after breakfast he has stepped down to the before out stands there with his three except that madame ii says the was intended for du one cannot discover within many years the date of its manufacture du went into on the th of may the day when her king died the diamond hat cane under arm drawing on his gloves with nod with word he gives judicious confirmation judicious censure and approval a still joy is dawning over that bland face of his he can think while in many a sacred he visits the that an of which the world not is at length comes a when care has terminated and joy cannot only dawn but shine the that shall be famous and world famous is made made we call it in with common speech but property it was not made only with more or less spirit of method arranged and what spirit of method lay in it might be made nothing more but to tell the various histories of those various diamonds from the first making of them or even	37
all the rest from the first digging of them in the far indian mines how they lay for ages and under the uproar and of such and with steam enough and silently in the rock nevertheless when their hour came emerged from it and first beheld the glorious smile on them and with their many colored glances smiled back on him how they served next let us say as eyes of heathen and received worship how they had then by fortune of war or been knocked out and exchanged among camp for a little liquor and bought by jews and worn as on the fingers of or white and again been lost with the fingers too and perhaps life as by charles the rash among the mud of in old forgotten glorious and so through innumerable varieties of fortune had come at last to the cutting wheel of to be united in strange fellowship with comrades also blown together from all ends of the earth each with a history of s miscellaneous writings its own these aged stones the youngest of them ix thousand years of age and upwards but have spoken there were an experience for philosophy to teach by but now as was said by little caps of gold which gold also has a history and rings of the same they are all being so to speak under s flag made to take rank and file in new order no jewel asking his neighbor whence he came and parade there for a season for a season only and then lo and anew ad in such inexplicable wise are jewels and men also and indeed all earthly things together and asunder and and to and fro in our inexplicable chaos of a world this was what called making his so in fact do other men speak and with even less reason how many men for example hast thou heard talk of making money of making say a million and a half of money f of which million and a half how much if one were to look into it had they made the accurate value of their industry not a sixpence more their making then was but like s a clutching and together by to be followed also by a made thou too vain individual were these were these fair with their and yellow and the sunshine that lights them from above and the granite rocks and fire that support them below made by thee i think by another the very shilling that thou hast was dug by man s force in and sufficiently and stamped as would seem not without the advice of our late of the faith his majesty george the fourth thou hast it and it but whether or in what sense thou hast made any of it not say if the courteous reader ask what things then are made by man the i will answer him very few indeed a heroism a wisdom a god given that has realized itself is made now and then for example some five or six books since the creation have been made strange that there are not more for surely every encouragement is held out could i or thou happy reader but make one the world would let us keep it for fourteen whole years and take what we could get for it but in a word has made his what he calls made it happy is he from a drawing as large as reality kindly furnished by of the d and again in late years m i l m m i ml m m of the du paris s editor has copied it this du j paris is not properly a book but a bound collection of such law papers es c as were printed and by the various parties in that trial these law papers bound into two volumes with portraits such as the print shops yielded them at the time likewise with patches of ms y containing notes songs and the like of the most unspeakable character occasionally constitute this du which the paris in old books can still procure there it is one of the largest of that exists in print and unfortunately still all the and history there has been on the subject forms our chief means of getting at the truth of that transaction the first volume contains some twenty one pour not of course historical statements of truth but and lawyers statements of what they wished to be believed each party lying according to his ability to lie to reach the truth or even any honest guess at the truth the of rubbish must be contrasted rejected what grain of historical evidence may lie at the bottom is then thus as this transaction of the diamond has been called the largest lie of the century so it comes to us borne not on a whole dim chaos of lies nay the second volume entitled de v du is still stranger it relates to the and trial of one s miscellaneous by the in the second volume of his curious readers can still fancy to themselves what a ornament it was a row of seventeen glorious diamonds as large almost as not too tightly the neck a first lime gracefully fastened thrice to these a three and enough simple star shaped or it it a second time of all softly flowing round from behind in rush down two broad rows seem to knot themselves round a very queen of diamonds on the bosom then rush on again separated as if there were length in plenty the veiy of them were a fortune for some men and now lastly two other rows also with their	37
unite themselves when the is on and at rest into a doubly row stream down together or asunder over the hind neck we may like or fire all these on a neck of snow slight tinged with rose bloom d who represents himself as a poor lad that had been introduced to beautiful ladies and engaged to get husbands for them as setting out on this task and gradually getting quite and bewildered most going on to and other people on all hands of him the whole in consequence of this trial and the noise it was making very curious the lawyers did verily busy themselves with this affair of bet e s there are portraits given that stood in the and no man can know whether the ever so much as existed it is like the dream of a dream the human mind stands the wish that such of falsehood would close itself before general delirium and the speech of man become mere incredible mean like that of and even from however by one a of truth here and there the diamond and within it royal life amidst the blaze of in movements and with every movement a flash of star rainbow colors bright almost as the movements of the fair young soul it a glorious ornament fit only for the of the world indeed only by such for it is valued at say in round numbers and sterling money between eighty and ninety thousand pounds chapter iii the cannot he sold the of the earth shall never wear that of thine no neck either royal or shall ever be the for it in the present distressed state of our with the american war raging round us where thou are eighty thousand pounds to be raised for such a thing in this hungry world thou fool these hundred and odd diamonds good only for looking at are worth less to us than a string of as many dry irish potatoes on which a might fill his belly little thou laughing great in thy pride of place in thy pride of what the world has in store for thee thou there by and by thou wilt laugh on the wrong side of thy face mainly while the lay in and the stones of it were still in commerce du s was the neck it was meant for unhappily as all dogs male and female have but their day her day is done and now so busy has death been she sits retired on mere half pay i vol iv s miscellaneous writings without prospects at saint a generous france will buy no more neck ornaments for her o heaven the axe is already north in by and fire south too by taxes and that will sheer her neck in twain but indeed what of du a foul worm by royal heat on foul into a butterfly now d is winged and again a worm are there not king s daughters and kings is not the first wish of a female heart often also if the heart is empty the last the is here and his is no longer minister there is an in by heaven s blessing to wed singular the though without fear pf praises but will not purchase or why not our own loveliest once only now every inch a queen what neck in the whole earth would it better it is fit only for her alas king louis has an eye for diamonds but he too is without of money his high queen herself answers queen like we have more need of seventy than of et not without a feeling we apply next to the queen and king of the two in vain o in crowned heads there is no hope for thee not a crowned head of them can spare the eighty thousand pounds the age of chivalry is gone and that of is come a dull deep movement rocks all is beating down the gate and no can longer her out she will enter and the fire of is at her back well may kings a second time sit still with awful eye and think of far other things than i see de ii the diamond thus for poor are the days and nights appointed and this high promising year as we laboriously guess and gather stands than all others in his in vain shall he on his sleepless pillow more and more desperately the problem it is a problem of the sort a true case of the diamond will not sell chapter iv the two fixed ideas nevertheless a man s little work lies not isolated a whole busy world a whole native element of mysterious never resting force it will catch it up v ill carry it forward or else backward always either as living growth or at worst as well the thing done will come to use often accordingly for a man that had finished any little work this were the most interesting question in such a boundless whirl of a world what hook will it be and what hooks that shall catch up this little work of mine and whirl it also through such a dance a question we need not say which in the simplest of cases would bring the whole royal society to a good while thou thy little napoleon and he answers thy smile with those deep eyes of his a world famous french revolution with of the de and september and customers en is getting ready many a and as yet all and weeping and cursing bitter as he pounds are preparing the for him s miscellaneous writings thus too while poor is busy with those diamonds of his picking them out of commerce and hi are grinding and setting them a certain and grand and	37
and cardinal is in hunting and giving for whom mainly it is that and his so employ themselves strange enough once more the foolish at paris making foolish the foolish at making and these two all wide asunder as the poles are for each other the hook and eye that will hook them together one day in o artificial for the astonishment of mankind prince louis de is one of those select mortals born to honors as the sparks fly upwards and alas also as all men are to troubles ho less of his and descent much might be said by the curious in such matters yet perhaps if we weigh it well little he can by diligence and faith be traced back some hand breadth or two some century or two but after that in the mere blood royal of long long on this side of the northern he is not so much as to be sought for and leaves the whole space from that into the bosom of eternity a blank marked only by one point the fall of man however and what alone concerns us his kindred in these quite recent times have been much about the most christian majesty could there pick up what was going in particular they have had a turn of some continuance for and safest trades these of the calm do nothing sort in the do something line in or such like witness poor cousin at they might fare not so well in here is the they made against him on occasion of the diamond any case the actual prince louis at while his uncle the cardinal has not yet deceased and left him his but only fallen sick already takes his place on one occasion he receives the fair young trembling on her first entrance into france and can there as with fit bearing and semblance being a tall man of six and thirty do the needful of his other performances up to this date a refined history had rather say nothing in fact if the mind will it with any sympathy what could poor perform performing needs light needs strength and a firm clear footing all of which had been denied him nourished from birth with the physical spoon meat indeed yet also with no better spiritual doctrine and of life than a french court of louis the well beloved could yield moreover and this too was but a new perplexity for him with enough to see through much with vigor enough to despise much unhappily not with vigor enough to it from him and be for ever of it he at man s stature with man s wild desires in a world of the merest lies and delirium himself a nameless mass of covered over at most in that tempered by which was then said to be la k la main j ai beau est mon arm e f ik me ta t on ou je e je mon me est la la ah est ce done je me c est t ii s and held in a uttle by and a cloak of are not say the industry of this our universe nay is not tb itself at bottom properly an a most christian majesty in the he thou is the god of this lower world our war banner ia uie fight of life and celestial en is a s these are thy gods o france what in such singular circumstances could poor s creed and world theory be that he should perform thereby r alas no not even only and the faith that is hot in the mouth get ever new and better therefore it ever the more diligently t is all thou hast to look to and that only a day enough poor louis de too much of whatsoever of it for the five senses money or money s worth or can buy nay for the sixth sense too the far of thy fellow creatures at least by infinitely finer than theirs of of grand of france commander of the order of the holy ghost cardinal of st d one of the here below all these shall be for to all these shall his nursing mother our through fair court weather and through foul bear him and wrap him with them fat as he is by the way a most ever b this and wholly s he has dim flying far out in the great deep of the world s business has spider threads that over net the whole world himself sits in the centre ready to run in vain shall king and queen combine against i was at m de the diamond pillow before six my sleek and the sleek head under it managed it all for him here too on occasion of re n ard we could not but reflect what a singular species of creature your must have been outwardly you would say a man the smooth semblance of a man inwardly to the centre filled with stone yet in all breathing things even ki stone are inscrutable sympathies how else does a so lo rally give himself soul and body to a how else does the poor to the n of its own eggs and interests nurse up a and think its pains all paid if the stupidity merely grow bigger and bigger enough by or other means prince louis de shall be and baked into of st and much else and truly such a as hardly since king first of the founded that establishment has played his part there such however have nature and art combined together to make prince louis a figure ice clothed with honors with and and of all kinds but in itself little other than an of and violence foul passions and foul habits it is by his and mainly	37
as above hinted tliat such a figure sticks together what we call in any measure were it not for these he would flow out on all sides ck him with a kind of radical vigor and fire for he can see clearly at times and speak fiercely yet in this way to and and lie with such floods of fat material have we not a true image of the mud and amid continual except as was hinted in i with occasional absurd mud s miscellaneous writings this it and fringe it never so handsomely is alas the character of prince louis a spectacle such however as the world has many times as it were to be wished but is not yet to be hoped the world might behold no more nay are not all possible outward and inward up for poor in this one that ae prince louis de is named priest cardinal of the church a merely mortal lying there quite helpless dis as we well say whom to see church cardinal that is or main corner of the invisible holy in this world an of might split with laughing if he did not rather with pity and horror prince louis as at might have hoped to make some way with the fair young but seems not to have made any perhaps in those great days so trying for a fifteen years bride and the fair was too perhaps in the very face and looks of cardinal prince louis her fair young soul read all unconsciously an mud from which she by instinct rather however as above hinted he is now gone in these years on to with four and pages if our remembrance of serve of noble birth all in scarlet breeches and such a and parade as even his fat in debt above all things his familiar is with him for so everywhere they must manage eminence is the cloak the man or within it indeed sees a or rather with his traitor on the sees it for the diamond him but what can he do he his four scarlet pages who to quite rides through a catholic procession cardinal as he is because it is too long and keeps him from an appointment gives wise the finest ever seen in as we fancy it was writes a despatch in his name every fortnight in one of these that maria stands indeed with the handkerchief in one hand weeping for the woes of but with the sword in the other hand ready to cut in sections and take her share joke which proved to prince louis the root of unspeakable for minister d much against his duty the letter to king louis louis to du to season her and laughs it the thing becomes a court joke the pious hears it and wi u m go moreover that of the to her mother this probably is but and false the devout maria disliked him and even despised him and vigorously labored for his thus in rosy deep and or awake only to the full wine cup of the scarlet woman his mother m de ii who has given in the place referred to a long solemn narrative of the business passes for the grand authority on it but neither will he strictly taken up abide scrutiny he is vague as may writing in what is called the pig fashion yet sometimes you do catch him and hold him there are hardly above three dates in his whole narrative he mistakes several times perhaps once or twice a little the main incident of the business is by him almost a it is to be remembered that the poor wrote in exile and with cause enough for and s miscellaneous writings and again sleep and does the cardinal and com pass bis days unhappy man this is not a world that was made in sleep that it is safe to sleep and in in that loud roaring loom of time where above nine hundred millions of hungry men for one item and work so many threads fly humming from their eternal and invisible far darting to the ends of the world complex enough at this hour a miserable in paris whom thou not of is spinning of diamonds and gold a paltry that will go nigh to the life out of thee meanwhile louis the well beloved has left for ever his and amid the scarce suppressed of the world taken up his last lodging at st feeling that it was the has the victory and du is off he as the records made the honorable to god these are his reverence s own words had a true repentance of three days standing and so continues the fell asleep in the lord asleep in the lord i if such a mass of and lust fell asleep in the lord who thou is it that falls asleep elsewhere enough that he did fall asleep that in the blanket of the night under what keeping we ask not he never through endless time can for his own or our sins insult the face of the sun any more and so now we go onward if not to less degrees of yet at least and worst to cheering varieties of it louis therefore and under the makes locks his fair has become a queen eminence is home from to and congratulate he bears a letter from maria hopes the diamond the queen will not forget old and friends of the heaven and earth the queen will not see him orders the letter to be sent her the king himself briefly that he will be asked for when wanted alas at court our motion is the we go spinning as it were on by the edge of rest is fall so is one false whirl a moment ago eminence seemed with the best	37
there for thee to spread thy broad faculty upon or if thou have no faculty no sense hast thou not as already suggested senses to the number of five what thou command with what wine thee be filled already thou art a false priest with of say a quarter of a million sterling and no mind to mend eat foolish eminence eat with leaving the shot till afterwards in all this the eyes of can neither help thee nor hinder and yet what is the cardinal mud though he be more foolish than all sons of adam give the wisest of us once a fixed idea which though a temporary madness who has not had and see where his wisdom is the hunter serves his doomed tbe ne ill e en years ia the mines returns to the of the and next goes forth to hunt again behold king of with a ballad to his mistress he blows out wise his foolish existence because he will not have it to keep not that there are some five millions of other in this noble planet most likely much such as she o foolish men they sell their inheritance as their mother did hers though it is paradise for a will they not in every age dare not only shot and gallows ropes but hell fire itself for to their my friend i beware of fixed ideas here accordingly is poor with in his head too he has been his case of that of these three long years through all palaces and hotels over the old nine or more of them that there now are searching earth sea and air for a customer to take his in pieces and so losing only his manual labor and expected glory his fixed idea and fixed diamonds into current ones this were simply casting out the devil from himself a miracle and perhaps more for he too has a devil or devils one mad object that he at that he too will attain or go to hound him on from without hopes lost la bear bait him from within to these his keeps him chained in six and thirty weary of the moon was it wonderful the man s brain had got dried a little behold one day being court he too bursts almost as had done into the queen s retirement or apartment himself as again has recorded at her majesty s feet and there with clasped uplifted hands s miscellaneous writings ia passionate with streaming loud sobs her to do one of two things either to buy his or else graciously to him her royal permission to drown himself in the river her majesty pitying the distracted bewildered state of the man calmly points out the plain third course take your in pieces adding withal in a tone of rebuke that if he would drown himself he at all times could without her ah had he drowned himself with the in his pocket and cardinal at his skirts kings above all beautiful queens as far radiant on the of the world are so exposed to should these two fixed ideas that beset this queen and almost burst through her palace walls one day unite and this not to jump into the river what re suit may be looked for chapter v the artist if the reader has hitherto in our too language seen only the hook and the eye which and far apart were for each other he shall now see the cunning an actual by whom these two individuals with their two implements are brought in contact and together into artificial after which the whole and solution will naturally combine and itself de st by courtesy or otherwise also of and even of france has now in this the diamond year of grace known the world for some seven and had in her lot she herself descended by what is called generation from the blood royal of france second before that fatal lance entered his right eye and ended him appears to have had or simultaneously four women and so in vice of the third of these came a certain de st into this world and as high and lord ate his and spent his days on an allotted domain of near bar sur in champagne of high and lords at this six other generations followed and thus ultimately in a space of some two centuries succeeded in this brisk little de st here in question but ah what a falling off the royal family of france has forgotten its hand the last high and lord much by his falling into drink and by a scandalous world to drink his had to by degrees his whole worldly possessions down almost to the indispensable or and die at last in the paris hotel glad that it was not on the street so that he has indeed given a sort of life royal to little and her little brother but not the smallest earthly to keep it in the mother in her extremity forms the and little and her little brother go out into the to beg a charitable struck with the little bright eyed from the carriage window her up has her clothed and her in her miscellaneous way to be about the age of twenty a of court de de by herself vol i s miscellaneous beggar fine lady and of sad combination of trades the court after infinite puts one off with a hungry of little more than thirty a year nay the audacious count dares with what purposes he knows best to offer some suspicious presents whereupon his good especially as thinks it could not but be fit to go down to bar sur and there see whether no of that property held perhaps on may by terror or cunning be burning her paper patterns her more	37
come out thither in her twenty third year nourished in this singular way between saloon and kitchen table with the of pretensions meanest of possessions our poor high and has realized for herself a face not beautiful yet with a certain dark blue eyes and a character which the present writer a determined student of human nature declares to be let the try it de saint de de france actually lived and worked and was she has even published at various times three considerable volumes of with loose leaves in courts of justice of unknown number f wherein he that runs may read but not under he was of hebrew descent of the renowned jew whom louis xv and even louis xiv used to walk with in the garden when they wanted him to lend them money du due de m de c t four pour by her in this du like lawyers tongues turned inside out afterwards one volume de la de c london with of documents so called this has also been translated into of then two as quoted above the diamond stand strange volumes more like the of distracted night birds suddenly disturbed by the torch of police than the articulate utterance of a rational cheerfully admitting these statements to be all lies we ask how any mortal could or should lie the however commit one sore mistake that of searching in every character named human for something like a conscience being mere for most part and feeling that morality is the heart of life they judge that with all the world it is so nevertheless as men are aware life can go on in excellent vigor without of that kind what is the essence of life go deeper down you find a much more universal root and characteristic while lasts life cannot in language be said to be extinct and will give rise to enough at any rate to desires and attempts which may pass for such he who looks neither nor after any further than the and which is properly the finest of the will need no world theory creed as it is called or scheme of duties lightly leaving the world to wag as it likes with any theory or none his grand object is a theory and practice of ways de de c printed in l by w y of money from paris this latter lying of was bought up by french persons in authority it was the burning of this in the on the th of may which raised such a smoke th t the assembly took alarm and had an investigation about it and considerable of c till the truth came out copies of the book were speedily after the tenth of august it is in english too and except in the part is not so entirely distracted as the former s miscellaneous w and means not goodness or is the type of him only or and now of this let the consider it under a bolder view consider the brisk de saint de saint as a spark of vehement life not developed into will of any kind yet fully into desires of all kinds cast into such a life element as we have seen vanity and hunger a princess of the blood yet whose father had sold his tain whether of a fond with hopes sky high or with not enough of man making in a word one of the pitiable of man she is of that light class of that light sex et and then her fine though a one capricious and with all the finer of the heart now in the now in the vivid in contradictory laughing weeping without reason though these acts are said to be signs of reason consider too how she has had to work her way all along by flattery and dropping how she needs wages and knows na other productive trades thought can hardly be said to exist in her only perception and device with an understanding eyed for the surface of things but which beyond the surface of nothing every individual thing for she has never seized the heart of it turns up a new face to her every new day and seems a thing changed a thing thus sits or rather vehemently and her vehement mind in the middle of a boundless many dancing of gilt and to which the revolving chaos of my uncle s smoke jack was and regularity reader thou for thy sins must have met with such fair the diamond fascinating with their lively eyes with their quick fancies distinguished in the higher circles in fashion even in literature they hum and there on graceful wings searching nevertheless with the skill for honey as flies skill for honey we say and pray mark that as regards this de saint her genius is prodigious her appetite fierce in any speculation of the private kind she as you call her will be worth a hundred and so of such flies the is now down in the bar sur diligence to inspect the honey of and see and smell whether there be any in them alas at we can with sensibility behold we were nursed under farmers courteously offer cooked milk and other country but no soul will part with his landed property for which though cheap he declares hard money was paid the honey are all close then however a certain de a tall home on from is now at bar pays us attentions becomes quite particular in his attentions for we have a face with a certain the tongue the manner not yet hardened into cat hood with thirty pounds a year and prospects m de indeed is as yet only a private but then a private in the and did not his father die fighting at the head of his company at why not in virtue of our	37
own ship him too count by left hand get him advanced finished before the is done the of flies has again off in with m de if not to get honey yet to escape and so lies in garrison at amid s writings and in enough at the end of four long years too long m de or call him now count de sees good to lay down his fighting gear unhappily still only the and be come what is by certain called a not a civil law doctor merely a citizen one who does not live by being killed alas cold has all along hung over the household it is writes in the most feeling manner but then the royal are so without personal pressing on the spot no court were his the can hope to better it at the sun indeed shines and there is a kind of life but only an half or quarter life the very grow and no devised fable ready alone will them d with madame that a journey to paris were the project whither also he himself is just going his plan is seen through he dares to presume to make love to a of or to hint that he could dare to presume to do it whereupon indignant count de as we said throws up his commission and down his fire arms without further delay the king loses a tall private the world has a new and and madame de take places in the diligence for good however is no longer at she is forward at the palace in on a visit there to his eminence cardinal grand prince louis de ro he is the same d who was to relieve and raise the siege of in autumn but could not do it the diamond ban thus then has destiny at last brought it about thus long wanderings on paths so far separate has the time come in this late year when of all the nine hundred millions of the earth s these two behold each other the foolish cardinal since no means not even of the will serve has taken to the he is here with his fixed idea and darkening under s management into thicker and thicker of the black art itself to the glance of hungry genius cardinal and could not but have meaning a flush of astonishment a sigh over boundless wealth for the mountains of debt lie invisible in the hands of boundless stupidity some vague of indefinite hope all this one can well fancy but alas what to a high cardinal is a now of though with a face of some the good s visit in any case can last but three days then amid old with of the nobler and tears of pity at least for de and husband must off with her to paris and new possibilities at court only when the sky again can this vague from look out by fits as a cheering weather sign chapter vi will the two fixed ideas unite however the sky according to custom is not long in darkening again the king s we repeat are in so distracted a state no d no de s miscellaneous writings wearied with the already dry will increase that scandalous thirty pounds of a of by a single himself who has a willing ear and encouraging word for all mortals whatsoever only with difficulty and by aid of madame of france raises it to some still miserable sixty five worst of all the good in few months suddenly dies the wretched sitting there with his white handkerchief to receive with closed shutters and burning which however the instant the are gone he blows out to save oil has the audacity again amid tears to drop nay more he wretched man in all senses the table will virtue both in the positive and negative way the wintry as the world looks cannot too soon as to the husband he for shelter against much down to the shades of can hope to live if not by the grace of god yet by the of the devil for a time the wife also makes her and waving the count save all a farewell to the image in there within wind of court in apartments on poor water board to await what can so much in few months of this year has come and gone poor de saint de ex of what eye looking into those bare apartments and water of the image but must in spite of itself grow dim with almost a t de de c i thb diamond kind of tear for thee there art with thy quick lively glances face of a certain thy character all managing tongue thy whole and so sharply spark of life cast down alive into this world without vote of thine for the have not got that length and so fain live there paying lot providing or fresh silk court dresses always keeping a thou must hawk and to and fro from to become a kind of terror to all men in place and women that influence such dance not light measures but attendance merely have almost eloquence perhaps out thy thin by some in the small way and so most poverty stricken cold yet with young keen blood struggling against it spin forward unequal feeble thread which the will surely now if ever were that vague from welcome as a weather sign how doubly welcome is his eminence s personal arrival for with the earliest spring he has come in person as he does driven by his genius of the mechanical practical kind what is it but a bringing together of two forces that fit each other that will give birth to a third ever from s time iron lay ready water also was boiling and bursting nevertheless for want of a genius there was as	37
two hundred others which are graciously answered by verbal messages nay at by royal oh gilt paper the whole delivered by our t the comes and goes and carrying with the gravity of a roman those extra chicken end draws them things are in fair train the took london f see see s in her of documents to that certain of these i are given s miscellaneous writings some offence at but the queen has nigh forgotten it no inexorable queen ah no so good so free light hearted only sore beset with malicious and others at times also short of money as the reader well knows has been much blamed for want of etiquette even now when the other against her have sunk down to oblivion and the father of lies this of wanting etiquette her in the castle of ham at this hour m de and company may be wringing their hands not without an glance at her for bringing them thither she indeed discarded etiquette once when her carriage broke down she even entered a coach she would walk too at in mere straw hat and perhaps muslin gown hence the knot of etiquette being the frame of society broke up and those astonishing horrors of the french revolution on what hairs must the judgment sword hang over this distracted earth thus however it was that brought an of the atlantic on us and so sands thus too might it be that because father took the liberty of say out his wine his ark was floated off and a world drowned beautiful that hurled low for if thy being came to thee out of old came it not also like my own out of heaven ei tan oh is there a man s heart that thinks without pity of those long months and years of slow wasting of thy birth soft in imperial the winds of heaven not to visit thy face too roughly thy foot to light on softness thy eye on splendor and then of thy ll i i i i i i i i a p the diamond death or hundred deaths to which the and s judgment was but the merciful end look there o man bom of woman the bloom of that fair face is wasted the hair is gray with care the brightness of those eyes is their hang drooping the face is stony pale as of one living in death mean weeds which her own hand has mended the queen of the the death where thou pale motionless which only curses must stop a people drunk with vengeance will drink it again in full draught far as the eye reaches a sea of heads the air deaf with their triumph yell the living dead must shudder with yet one other pang her startled blood yet again with the hue of agony that pale face which she hides with her hands there is then no heart to say god pity thee o think not of these think of him whom thou the who also treading the wine press sorrow still deeper and over it and made it holy and built of it a of sorrow for thee and all the wretched i thy path of thorns is nigh ended one long last look at the where thy step was once so light where thy children shall not dwell the head is on the block the axe rushes dumb lies the world that wild yelling world and all its madness is behind thee beautiful that so hurled low rest yet in thy innocent gracefully heedless on by me while rude hands have not yet it be the curtains that in if for the last time on this earth a royal life still to me thy in the french revolution was that thou the symbol of the london iii not a b s mi sin aad misery of saint and and the of waa filled full and into all to no napoleon to do thou wedded such sit not in the rank of are on high by the shaking and of all the as poor how happy worthy had ye two been i but by evil destiny ye were made a king and queen of and so both once more are become an astonishment and a by chapter the t will de then had into the confidence of the queen those gilt paper were written by the queen forget not to repress that too scientific curiosity of thine i what i know is that a certain de r with military whiskers of comrade there of le is in hands certain it is also that madame la has to le s nay as c herself must admit she has met at a man s in with worthy queen s or there is no in it with th e or the like of these she in the back parlor of the itself if late enough may pick a merry thought the foam from a glass of champagne no further seek her honors to disclose for the present or as we said those extraordinary from which she and she alone can read of fate and also realize them the diamond thou his eminence waiting there in the moonlight hovering to and fro on the back terrace till she come out the interview he is close muffled walks observant shy also and the shade she comes up closer with thy o eminence down with thy for she has an escort t is but the good queen v and now he is sent back again as no longer needful mark him nevertheless thou wilt see him yet another time marks little his heart is in the interview in the gilt alone queen he has much the stature of of impossible how our managed with gone from is as yet far distant	37
his way through dim space will not be here for months only his in are here here or there however to can be useful at a glance the eye of genius has him to be a of vanity and thick eyed stupidity of material but of fit for the plant she is him who has deceived all europe she can undertake to deceive his egyptian what is all this to the light y practical it runs off from her as all speculation good bad and indifferent has always done water from one in wax cloth dress with the lips meanwhile she can honor it oil of flattery the best patent known all whatsoever on again on his side a certain uneasy feeling might for moments intrude itself the loves not ii iii ii t i se s s but what can he do nay she playing game can he not her fall cup yet at the right reason and pack her out of doors st in joyous this light fascinating who has it design on his heart seems to him hut one other of those light who have fluttered round him in all whom with grim mu he has the thousand thus what i ith light fascinating what with of poor d lies safe his placidly ia thick egyptian ha e withdrawn fi om all the world moving figures as of men he sees takes not the trouble to look at court cousins rally him and answered in silence or if it go too far in e ns court and al are unreal shadows merely queen s l only nevertheless the world i a i an existence lies not idle these days it has got its treaty signed long months ago and the all home again for of thanks paris london and other great cities and small are working dying being born there in the for instance the once noisy has fallen silent here also in bolt court old samuel johnson like an over giant must lie down and slumber without dream the rattling of carriages and and all the world s din and business rolling by as ever from of old however has not yet drowned himself in the only walks haggard wasted to do it news by the merest accident m the world reach of madame s new favor with her majesty men will do much before they drown s neck t s hi oh table his in her lie will n ny a pound and penny of the i t l h he will a thousand louis a to the k u of that shall her majesty the s grow quite our in her way ly pi how she bee bored to among on down cushions far with soft and luxurious with a d a innumerable that shut out the prose world and its discord thus lies in enchanted dream can he even in sleep forget his and h r ice the presents he her most nay once or twice gilt fi m a queen with whom he is evidently rising to unknown heights in favor have done the honor to make him her majesty s grand when the was we say has had the h to m e charitable cash on her majesty s behalf to this of the other distressed deserving object say only to the length of a few thousand pounds advanced from his own funds her majesty being at the moment so poor and charity a thing that will not wait always madame good foolish creature takes charge of delivering the money madame can descend from her in the image and feel the smiles of nature and fortune a little so has the queen s majesty been to the power of money over highest female hearts had never been presents have many worked wonders but then o heavens what i s four li four s s ent scarcely were the cloud himself all into new louis d or worthy to alight in such a lap charitable however as we see are these by defect of payment may become presents in the of his eminence s day dreams slowly round this of and his from time to time turns up is the queen s majesty at heart desirous of it but again at the moment too poor our answers vaguely mysteriously at last under oath of secrecy her own private suspicion that the queen wants this same of all things but dare not for a husband buy it she the de will look further into the matter and if aught serviceable to his eminence can be suggested in a good way suggest it in the quarter walk de for now with breath thou the moment of moments and powers and with all their and the very crack of doom hangs over thee if thou trip forward with nerve of iron on shoes of felt like a treasure in silence looking neither to the right nor where deep as the pool and all eager to thee into rags chapter ix park of or will the reader incline rather taking the other am sunny side of the matter to enter that theatrical establishment of de and see there how under the best of the diamond with sweeping pall past him while the enchanted diamond fruit is gradually to fall by a shake the th of july of this same momentous has come and with it the most tumult into the heart of up his whole soul with the much that lies therein from its lowest foundations borne on wild to islands yet as is fit through horror dim hovering round he to the to the park this night the queen will meet thee the queen herself so far has our brought it what can avail against the favor nay heaven and earth perhaps the tenderness of a queen she from amid	37
is doing for example cannot de and of like and take a midnight walk of contemplation with footsteps of madame and madame d since all footsteps are much the same without offence to any one a queen s can believe that a queen v self for s sake is looking at her through the a cardinal can kiss with devotion a celestial queen s or queen s s and no one but a black the wiser all these shall follow each his course for their inward is known and fit wires hook themselves on this to two only is a clear belief vouchsafed to founded on stupidity to the great sitting at the heart t the whole mystery founded on insight great how like by union of the possible with the necessarily existing she brings out the eighty thousand pounds i don with his triple sealed and justly that he cut down the in one day but here see see d s miscellaneous without salary or king s favor or any help her own black labors a greater than he how she advances stealthily with eye and ever ready brain with nerve of iron on shoes of felt o worthy to have for for pope s to have been pope in those old days and as of sat in the centre of that spider web that reaching from to and from heaven to hell the thoughts and souls of men of which spider web stray in favorable mornings even yet become visible the d she is a of three and twenty tall and beautiful from unjust and an evil world she has had somewhat to suffer in this month of june says the herself in her i occupied a small apartment in the du st i was not far from the garden of the royal i had made it my usual for indeed the real god s truth is i was a unfortunate female with moderate custom and one must go where his market lies i frequently passed i was then presented to two ladies one of whom was remarkable for the richness of her shape she had blue eyes and chestnut hair d s second pour in the de v du this is she whom and s intended the world to take for gay d the other is of middle size dark eyes chestnut hair white complexion the sound of her voice is agreeable she speaks perfectly well and with no less facility than vivacity this one is meant for s real name was the a of waa given her by along with the title of m note du the diamond three or four hours of the there with some women of my acquaintance and a little child of four years old whom i was fond of whom his parents willingly trusted with me i even went thither alone except for him when other company failed afternoon in the month of july following i was at the royal my whole company at the moment was the child i speak of a tall young man walking alone passes several times before me he was a man i had never seen he looks at me he looks at me i observe even that always as he comes near he his pace as if to survey me more at leisure a chair stood vacant two or three feet from mine he seats himself there till this instant the sight of the young man his walks his approaches his repeated had made no impression on me but now when he was sitting so close by i could not avoid noticing him his eyes ceased not to wander over all my person his air becomes earnest grave an curiosity appears to him he seems to measure my figure to seize by all parts of my he finds me but whispers not a syllable of it tolerably like both in person and for even the says i was a it is time to name this young he was the de himself de who doubts it he praises my feeble charms expresses a wish to pay his addresses to me i being a lone know not what to say think it best in the meanwhile to retire vain precaution i see him all on a sudden appear in my apartment on his ninth visit for he was always civility itself he talks of introducing a great court lady by whose means i may even do her majesty some little secret service the s miscellaneous writings reward of which will be unspeakable in the dusk of the evening mysteriously rustle enter the dame de and so the too scientific reader has now for his punishment got on the wrong side of that loveliest finds nothing but pots and of the gay d may once more sit or stand in the royal with such custom as will come in due time she shall again but with breath of terror be blown upon and blown out of france to chapter xi the is sold autumn with its gray moaning winds and of red strewn leaves to enjoy the charms of nature and all business of moment stands still de while everything is so and even though with sure hope has locked up his for the season can drive with her count and his down to native bar sur and there in virtue of a queen s the envious a of re and make them looking on it a chariot with the arms of duly painted in bend sinister a house gallantly furnished bodies gallantly attired secure them the reception from all manner of men the very due de s father in law our with that characteristic of his high station and the old school worth indeed makes the man or woman but leather of and of first makes it go the diamond the great has thus let down her drop	37
scene and only with a letter or two to or even a visit thither for it is but a day s drive from bar keeps up a due of music she needs some pause in good to collect herself a little for the last act and grand catastrophe is at hand two fixed ideas cardinal s and s a negative and a positive have felt each other stimulated now by new hope are rapidly revolving round each other and like two flames are stretching out long fire tongues to join and be one on his side is ready with the as indeed he has been these four long years the it is true will have neither part nor lot in that foolish of his or in the whole foolish business this she has in plain words and even not without due to a bore of such magnitude given him to know from her nevertheless by cunning and the merest accident in the world the sly has thus much that de is the man enough enough madame shall be no more troubled rest there in hope thou of the devil but o be thy return speedy i alas the man lives not that would be than if he but as yet no gilt him him the few gilt are all of court for ever nay if it be not for some or other such or necessity who knows but he may never be recalled so is but forgotten and left to rot here like his rose into pot our too is in this matter than we ever saw her nevertheless by intense skilful cross questioning he has somewhat s miscellaneous writings sees partly how it stands the queen s majesty will have her for when in such case had not woman her way and can even pay for it by but then the husband once for all she will not be seen in the business now therefore were it or were it not to mortal to it secretly in her stead that is the question if to mortal then to our has even ventured to hint afar off at kind in the proper quarter but his discretion is doubted in regard to money matters discretion and i on the de la rose not o eminence trust will spring of trial thy hour is coming the meanwhile have left their farewell card with all the respectable classes of bar sur our stands again behind the scenes at paris how is it o that she is still so shy with thee in this matter of the that she leaves the love shepherd to here in lone like in naked winter on his of the rose with vague commonplace that his hour is coming by heaven and earth at last in late january it is come behold it this new gilt to paris on a small business of delicacy which our will explain which i already know to paris horses beef and so his eminence all in in the frost says un beau de over clear rolls rapidly borne on the bosom of dreams o dame de has the enchanted diamond fruit then hast thou given it the little shake big with unutterable fate i can the dame justly retort who saw me in it p the reader therefore has still three the diamond to look at by our great then the fourth and last by another author to us reflecting how the true moving force in human things works hidden it seems small marvel that this month of january wherein our ck so little courts the eye of the vulgar historian should nevertheless have been the of all for her especially the latter half thereof wisely matters of business which she could never in her life understand our will personally take no charge of that bargain making leaves it all to her majesty and the gilt nevertheless is in frequent close conference with the paris de shut to the rest of men sees the with eager aspect come and go the grand difficulty is must we say it her majesty s wilful with business she positively will not write a gilt his eminence to make the bargain but writes rather in a manner that the thing is of no consequence and can be given up thus must the poor dash to and fro like a s between paris and wear her horses and nerves to pieces nay sometimes in the haste wait many hours within call of the palace considering what can be done with none but to bear her company till the queen s whim pass at length after furious driving and enough on the th of january a middle course is hit on cautious shall write out on finest paper his terms which are really rather fair sixteen hundred thousand to be paid in five equal the first this day six months the other four from three months to three months this is what court and on the one s miscellaneous part and prince cardinal louis de on the other part will stand to witness their hands which written sheet of finest paper our poor must again take charge of again dash off with to and after trouble unspeakable shared in only by the faithful of return with it bearing this most precious note bon de in the hand happy cardinal i this thou shalt keep in the of all thy meanwhile secret as death shall tell no man that he has sold his or if much pressed for an actual sight of the same confess that it is sold to the favorite of the grand for the time being thus then do the smoking horses at length get rubbed down and feel the taste of after midnight the can also gradually sink into needful slumber perhaps not unbroken by dreams on the morrow the	37
bargain shall be concluded next day the be delivered on s receipt will the reader therefore be pleased to glance at the following two life pictures real or whatever we may call them they are the two first of those three real poetic brought about by our short but essential ones the diamond ter xii the it is the first day of february that grand day of delivery the is in the court of the de his io mysterious official but though radiant with enthusiasm the has missed though lean he will again and through n w singular were we not used to it the name as it passes upwards all of in perpendicular rows the historical him bowing low with smiles in the saloon of audience will it please j to do the ne v of the honor of looking at it a piece of art which the universe cannot parallel shall be parted with necessity court at that low sum they the court shall have much to weather it but their work at least will find a fit and go down to posterity will merely have the condescension to sign this receipt of delivery all the rest her the of the sublime has settled it here the court with his joyous though now much face on a faint knowing smile to which in the lofty serene of s some twinkle of permission could not but respond this is the first of those three real poetic brought about by our with perfect success it was said long afterwards that should have known that should have known her the s note that of right vol iv s miscellaneous writings of france to be a and mockery the of france was fatal to it easy talking easy but how are two enchanted men to know two men with a fixed idea each a negative and positive rushing together to each other in rapture enough has the of conquered by man s and woman s wit and rolls off with it in mysterious speed to triumphant as a with his golden the second grand exhibition by our occurs in her own apartment at so early as the following night it is a with and the has a glass door enters with a bearing a mysterious carefully it and then respectfully withdrawing it is the itself in all its glory our and and we can at leisure admire the congratulate ourselves that the painful conquest of it is achieved but a knock mild but decisive as from one knocking with authority and we retire to our there from behind our glass screen observe what passes who comes the door flung open de par la behold him he enters with grave respectful yet official air worthy queen s the same who escorted our that moonlight night from the back apartments of said we not thou see him once more again spite of his queen s uniform he has much the features of of or for to the blind all colors are the same he has with his grave respectful yet official air received the and its price c the diamond less contents with fit with fit engagements and low thus softly silently like a very dream away our solid through the horn gate of dreams chapter scene third ly dame de now too in these same days as he can afterwards prove by of arrives count himself from no longer by in but by his living voice often in communion with the unseen world with and four candles by his greasy prophetic face said to be the most perfect face of the century can we assure ourselves that all is well that all will turn to the glory of to the good of france and of mankind and egyptian flows like water our charming with her of face is than ever with the brightest with the all those of the gods o nights o too good to last nay now also occurs another and third exhibition fitted by its radiance to from s soul the last trace of care why the queen does not even yet openly receive me at court patience thou little those too intricate and how she still but works at them silently with royal suppressed fury like a royal only delivering herself from the hunter s toils meanwhile is not thy work done the she over it c s miscellaneous writings many times in secret her neck back the for it as our can testify come to morrow to the de there see with eyes in high noon as already in deep midnight thou hast whether in her royal heart there were delay let us stand then with in that de b in the palace gallery for all well dressed persons are admitted there the loveliest in pomp of will walk to mass the world is all in and winter cheerful clear with noses tending to blue a lively many hum plays fitful hither and thither of parties and court parties frosty state of the weather of m de majesty s looks yesterday such hum as always in these sacred court spaces since louis le grand made and consecrated them has with more or less agitated our common atmosphere ah through that long high gallery t figures have passed i and vanished with the great king flashing fire glances on the fugitive in his red right hand a pair of which pious hardly holds back l where art thou ye de ye women of past generations here also was it that and rushed the sound absolutely like thunder of hosts in that dark hour when the signal light in louis the s chamber window was blown out and his ghastly corpse lay lone on its tumbled death in the hands of some poor women and the hosts rushed from the deep fallen to	37
hail the new risen i these too rushed and passed and their sound absolutely like thunder became silence figures men they are fast fleeting shadows fast chasing each the diamond other it is not a palace but a with thy too much cease here thou art this blessed february day the will she turn lightly that high head of hers and glance aside into the de in passing please heaven she will to our at least she promised it though alas so is of opening doors she issues like the moon in silver brightness down the eastern la i what a figure i with the aid of glasses discern her o fairest i let the hum of minor hush itself wholly and only one successive rolling peal of la reins like the radiance of a train of fire works her path ye she does she turns her head this way does she not says de the de and all men and things are drowned in a sea of light and that high head are alone with each other in the universe o eminence what a vision enjoy it as the gods and re enjoy it with full soul it is the last provided for thee too soon in the course of these six months shall thy vision like s vision gradually melt away and only oxen and sheep be in its place and thou as a doomed be with them does she not said the de that it is a habit of hers that hardly a day passes her doing it this the de did not say ii see s miscellaneous writings chapter xiv the cannot he paid here then the specially labors of de may be said to the rest of lier life is merely or and critical as indeed what had all the former part of it been but a a more or less correct playing of parts o mrs facing as old said what a talent thou no ever took so many shapes no so often changed color one thing thou to another thing to and of third thing to the world in printed a fourth thing to all things to all men t let her however we say but manage now to act her own parts with proper illusion and by critical give her past the fit aspect to and others this henceforth and not new her whole task dramatic scenes in plenty will follow of themselves especially that fourth and final scene spoken of above as by another author by destiny itself for in the theatre so different from our common one the play goes on even when the has left it strange enough those air images which from her magic lantern she hung out on the empty bosom of have clutched hold of this solid seeming world which some call the material world as if that made it more a real one and will tumble hither and thither the mass there yes reader so goes it here below what thou a brain web or mere nothing is it not a of the brain of the which thb diamond brain and which in this world rather as i think to he named the spiritual one very naturally moves and hither and thither all things it meets with in heaven or in earth so too the though we saw it vanish through the horn gate of dreams and in my opinion man shall never more behold it yet its activity ceases not nor will for no act of a man no thing how much less the man himself is extinguished when it through considerable times there are instances of three thousand years it visibly works it works through endless times such a is this our poor old real world which some take upon them to pronounce friend it is that art all withered up into prose dead as ashes know this i advise thee and seek passionately with a passion little short of desperation to have it meanwhile what will the feeling heart think to learn that de as we again experiences the of a court that notwithstanding visions at noon and midnight the queen s majesty with the light ingratitude of her sex flies off at a and far from his detested and rival minister and openly to honor will hardly him a few gilt and those few of the most capricious suspicious soul tenor what absurd which scarcely with and four candles can still how many deep weighed humble explanations with eloquence with all delivered by our in vain i o cardinal with what a huge iron like of s thou in two which close again take shape again and only the air one comfort however is that the queen s majesty has s miscellaneous writings committed herself the rose of and what may lies it not here that right of france too and the th of july first day coming she shall he brought to terms good eminence order horses and beef for acre ceasing all written or communication her into it is the bright may month his eminence again the de la rose t but now with grim dry eyes and from time to time stamping but who is this that i see mounted on horse and horse gear at though he can speak no english word and only some o some from bar sur his french into the dialect of the sister island few da rs ago i observed him walking in fleet street thoughtfully temple bar in deep treaty with with grey f for the sale of diamonds such a lot as one may boast of a tall handsome man with whiskers with a look of troubled and you think it is the self count de nay the man himself it i the diamonds were a present to his from the still queen too has he	37
completed his at him i shall by and by behold not at but drinking wine and ardent spirits in the of ill gotten wealth not has no see t grey lived in no new bond street in s pour see also count de s narrative in the says bought more than lo worth the diamond de for what a set of hast thou labored art thou still laboring still laboring we may say for as the fatal th of july approaches what is to be looked for but universal earthquake mud explosion that will blot out the face of nature stood i in thy dame de i would cut and run run she with a toss of indignant astonishment innocence run for it is singular how in some that are mere of gilt there is no deliberate lying whatever and nothing is either believed or but only with some transient suitable tion spoken and heard had dame de a certain greatness of character then at least a strength of audacity to the heroic great great is her and talent but as for the rest one must answer with reluctance no mrs facing both ways is a spark of vehement life but the in the world from a brave woman she did not in any case show the bravery of a woman did in many cases show the mere screaming pf one her grand quality is rather to be reckoned negative the as of a fly the wax cloth dress from which so much ran down like water as i learn have been trained to fire cannon but would make poor officers in a thou dost not call that cork a strong which nevertheless shoots without hurt the falls of the itself to sink it for more than a moment without intellect imagination power of attention or any spiritual faculty how brave were one with fit motive for it such as hunger how much might one dare by the simplest of methods by not thinking of it not knowing it besides is not ca foolish s miscellaneous still here no had ever hack the cardinal too has he not money queen s majesty even in shall not be insulted the de and high and cousins must the matter up innocence in the most universal of will find some to through as she has so done but all this while how it with his eminence left the de la rose and at stamping alas ill and ever worse the starving method singular as it may seem brings no brings only after a month s waiting our with a gilt indeed and all in silk threads sealed where they cross but which we read with curses we must k again to paris there pen new which our will take charge of but alas can get no answer to however is not the th of july coming behold on the th of that month the shortest most careless of with some fifteen hundred pounds of real money in it to pay the interest of the first the principal of some thirty thousand not being at the moment perfectly convenient hungry makes large eyes at this proposal will accept the money but only as part of payment the man is positive a court of justice if no other means shall get him the remainder what now is to be done farmer general saint james s and wet with will cheerfully advance the sum needed for her majesty s sake thinks however with all his it were good to speak with her majesty first i ee th diamond observe meanwhile the distracted hungry driven hither and thither not by his fixed idea alas no but by the far more frightful ghost thereof since no payment is he stands one day speaking with a queen s waiting woman madam herself in a which neither of them notice so are they what weather symptoms for his eminence i the tb of july has come but no money the th is gone but no money o eminence what a grim farewell of july is this of the last july went out with airs from heaven and s these august days are they not worse than dog s days worthy to be blotted out from all and thou still see but only return from them swearing t nay what new misery is this our enters distraction in her eyes x she has just been at the queen s majesty with a levity of caprice which we dare not trust ourselves to declares plainly that she will deny ever having got the ever having had with his eminence any transaction whatsoever mud explosion without parallel in annals the de appears to be beset with the for the count too is here are packing up for bar sur the has he fallen insane or into communication with and so and to the sound of all in nature opens that fourth final exhibition composed by destiny t t s miscellaneous xv scene fourth hy de it is assumption day the th of august don thy grand crush down these hideous out of sight in any case smooth thy countenance into some sort of serene thou hast a thing they call god to the first actor the grand has done it he is in de gallery where male and and all noble france in various glorious as the rainbow waits only the signal to begin on the serene of his countenance there can nothing be read f by heaven he is sent for to the royal apartment he returns with the old lofty look serene has his turn for favor actually come then those fifteen long years of are to be rewarded by a birth le baron de issues great in his pride of place in this the crowning moment of his life with one radiant glance summons the	37
us so decided is our majority applause f the scarlet woman yes without offence of the scarlet woman that sits on seven hills and her black out from pole to pole i speak not for the story is too nay the itself as i see begins to be and for a second treachery to herself nor yet of the for a like reason said an english lie abroad for their masters their masters we answer lie at home for themselves not of all this nor of courtship with its so universal lovers vows nor nor attorney nor public and selling by do i speak i simply ask the which is the particular trade profession mystery calling or pursuit of the sons of adam that they successfully manage in the other way he cannot answer no philosophy itself both practical and even has at length after groping stumbled on the plain conclusion that sham is indispensable to as lying to living that without lying the whole business of the world from swaying of to selling of must into and so a speedy conclusion but the grand problem fellow as you well know is the marrying of truth and sham so that they become one flesh man and wife and these three profit and respectability that always keeps her indeed do truth and delusion play into one another reality rests on dream truth is but the skin of the and ever from time to time the it is clear again and the true itself becomes a fable thus do all hostile things back into our empire and of its increase there is no end o brothers to think of the speech without meaning which is mostly ours and of the speech with contrary meaning which is wholly ours by the organs of mankind in one day or call it a day of when public dinners are given and dinner are delivered or say a neighboring island in time of general election o ye immortal gods i the mind is lost can s mi ell s admire a with a of sacred wonder for tell me what is the chief of man to said the old christian now happily extinct to eat and find by the method answers sound philosophy if the method than this of attraction is discovered point it out brethren i said the old christian was happily extinct as indeed in rome itself there goes the wonder fullest prophecy of that christ coming back and being a second time there which truly i see not in the least how he fail to be never that old christian whim of an actual living and ruling and some sacred binding all men in him with much other mystic stuff does under new or old shape linger with a few from these few keep yourselves for ever far they must even be to their whim which is not like to prove but neither are we my fellow without our on our worship which like the and all true is one of fear the christians have their cross the their but have not we too our gallows yes infinitely terrible is the gallows with its fork the pit of terror no are we our god is one great j exceeding great i say is the gallows of old even from the beginning in this world knowing neither nor for ever for ever over the wreck of ages and all and meal the gallows with front serenely terrible towers aloft fellow fear the gallows and have no other fear i this is the law and the fear every of the it the d s and what is every with the fist or even the tongue of having authority but some such and what is force of opinion but the of such rushing combined on you like a mighty storm wind fear the gallows i say o when with its long black arm it has clutched a man what him all things these pass away with horrid nameless in his ears and the ill scoundrel between heaven and earth a thing rejected of ho profound sensation such so wide in compass high high in dignity is the scoundrel empire and for depth it is deeper than the foundations of the for what was creation itself wholly according to the best philosophers but a by the time spirit or devil so called a or breaking asunder of the old of eternity it was that fell and made this world arise deep it is the very up it baffled is not is that ihey call vice of lying the adam or rude element old as chaos mother s of death and hell whereon their thin of virtue truth and the like poorly for a day all virtue what is it even by their own showing but vice transformed that is rendered artificial man s vices are the roots from which his virtues grow out and see the light says one yes add i and steal their nourishment were it not for the hundred ninety and nine perhaps and how were their single just person with a on him i so much as possible oh it is high high these things are too great for me intellect imagination flags her tired wings the soul lost baffled here dame de audibly and muttered s miscellaneous writings d which into the tongue the arch whose eyes were turned as in contemplation started at the and his eyes wi dilated pupil his nostrils opened wide his very hair seemed to stir in its long twisted his fashion of curl and as indignation is said to make poetry it here made prophecy or what sounded as such with terrible working features and not recommended in any book of gesture the arch in voice like lions worrying of began not dame de tremble thou foul ra thy day of	37
desolation is at hand i behold y the of judges with their of written loud rustling as they all her and and she stands there naked and mean do ye secrets ye have no pity of her extreme need she none of yours is thy light heart at last heavy hark ye shrieks of one cast out whom they brand on both shoulders with iron stamp the red hot v thou hath it entered thy soul de wail there in bed and thy teeth nay do in thy door mat thou hast found thy mates thou art in the weep daughter of the high and of is about thee but not to help thee no to eat before thy time what shall a king s court do with thee thou thing while thou yet escape i flee to utmost countries hide there if thou thy mark of in the of ha is that my london see i print yea print abundantly the of your two hearts breath of can the steel mirror but only for a a d there aye there at the last f thou from the leads poverty stricken o daughter of the high and escaping thou in dead night from window in the third story hurled forth by to whom thy shrill tongue had e yea through the smoke of that new thou long one long scream of screams makes night hideous thou there shattered like egg nigh to the pie of o has thy ended th n thy many characters were all acted here at last thou not but art what thou a of confusion and which men with no burial stone thou here the prophet turned up his nose the of the century and opened wide his nostrils with such a greatness of disgust that all the audience herself him o dame de dame de now when the circle of existence lies complete and my eye glances over these two score and three years that were lent thee to do evil as thou i and i behold thee a bright eyed little begging and gathering sticks in the de and also at length a here on london with the and the and hysterical that came between what shall i say was the meaning of thee at au the english of life she fell from the leads of her house nigh the temple of f ra to escape for debt and was taken up so much hurt that she died in consequence another report runs that she was flung out of window as in the text one way or other she did die on the d of august xxx where the temple of was or is one knows not s writings de have the by sham of battle in thy tavern from the sacred republican soil it is thou that the hired of hand writings thou wilt confess it depart yet accursed ha the dread symbol of our faith on the castle of st a mass which i think i discern to be the body of there let him end the sweet morsel of our nay weep not thou not thy bright blue eyes daughter of the shady thee all the not harm this of nature thee as of unfortunate females thou shalt have choice of husbands not without capital and accept one f know this for the vision of it is true but the majesty whom ye l ow spirit of egyptian blow aside the thick curtains of see and s t in the du is this ms note gay d a common girl of the royal who was chosen to play a part in this business got married some years to one an ex noble formerly attached to the d household in he was captain of the national company of temple he then retired to and managed ta be named of that he finally employed himself in drawing up lists of in the prison when he played the part of see des de paris these details are correct in the sur les new title of the book just referred to ii we find this the second was an ex noble known under the old government for his to give an idea of him it is enough to say that he married the d c as in the ms note already given finally is added he was the main spy of who however said that he made use of him but that did not like him and would have him in good time the i space lo you her eyes are red with their first tears of pure bitterness not with their last is choosing from the of the the best among the hundred of de a queen shall consider if the of women ever by any accident darkened daylight or candle light for the highest the portrait answers never sensation in the audience r ha what is this angels and the other five f of power that destroyed original sin earth heaven and thou outer which men i me hell does the empire of burst there in light rays from out its dark foundations as it rocks not in but in death yea light rays piercing clear that salute the heavens lo they it their clearness becomes as red is burnt up one red sea of fire wild en the world with its fire tongue at the stars are hurled into it and and that drop and ha what see i all the of creation all all wo is me i never since s in the red sea of water was there wreck of wheel like this in the sea of fire desolate as ashes as shall they wander in the wind higher higher yet flames the fire sea with new timber hissing with leather and the metal images are the marble images become mortar the stone mountains respectability	37
with all her collected for funeral wailing leaves the earth to return under new how it burns through generations see s sou bow it is up for a lime the is ashes which when will they grow green the na all run into brass all dwell of men destroyed the very and the black and dead it is an empty work wo to them that shall be born then a king a queen ah me were in did rustle once flew a like paper s husband was d in thou grim i e with thy gi m whole and five of mu destroying men for it is the end of the k is darkness and and the burning up fire of au the are in the earth i here the prophet fe h ing a deep sigh and the cardinal uttered a of faint tremulous hem i mourn not o spite of thy end many for thee was not unto death o for thou a touch of goodness who would not weep over thee if he also behold the not too judicious historian that long years hence amid remotest writes thy life and names thee mud ev i he shall reflect that it was thy life this same thy only chance through whole which thou poor hast expended so and even over his hard heart a breath of pity for thee shall blow o thou not all thy mud was but strength fire was elected of the assembly and even got a compliment or two in it as court victim from here and there a man of weak judgment he was one of the against civil constitution of the clergy c took himself across the the diamond thou through the world no or stone of the wise could toe two for want of funds discover a undertook to thee and thou to fill thy belly with the east wind and burst by the of no behold has not thy familiar his dim flying over the deep of human things cleared art thou of crime save that of fixed idea a exile in the mountains of neither shall the fire sea itself thee only thy and instead of o rich exchange restore thy safe beyond the stream thou peaceful days many from the fire and their ting burns sleep finally in thy mother s bosom in a good old age the cardinal gave a sort of murmur or which ended in a long o horrors as ye shall be called again burst forth the why have ye missed the de why not of him too made gallows will spear or sword stick thrust at him or supposed to be thrust through window of coach in of the of fog where he not let out the imprisoned animal existence is he poisoned too poison will not kill the nor steel nor t let him see m t r his wife s death had returned to paris and been arrested not for building churches the sentence of the old against him in regard to the business he gets by the new courts but is nevertheless retained in confinement v newspaper th august he was still in prison at the time the september broke out from de la we the following grim passage is in la force prison at one in the morning of monday september writes the grate that led to our quarter was again opened four men in uniform holding each a naked and blazing torch mounted it s miscellaneous writings drag his utterly superfluous life to a second and a generation and even admit the not too judicious to see his face before he die but ha cried he and stood wide staring as if some fist had knocked the wind out of o horror of horrors is it not myself i see long months of cruel life of s body still lying in st his fled whither by wag their heads say the brow of brass behold how it has got all un these lips can lie no more and he burst into of tears and sobbing out the broken howl sank down in to be put to bed by de and others thus spoke or thus might have spoken and the arch and truly much better he ever else did for not a or of it save only to our corridor a showing the way and entered a room close on ours to investigate a box which they broke open this done they halted in the gallery and began one to know where was who they said under pretext of finding a treasure which they should share in had one of them out of having asked him to dinner for that purpose the wretched whom they had in their power and who lost his life that night answered all trembling that he remembered the fact well but could not say what had become of the prisoner resolute to find this and him with they ascended into other rooms aiid made further there but apparently without effect for i heard them say to one another come search among the then for j om de we must know what is become of him ma par de la in the xviii lay in the prison but had got out precisely in the nick of time and beyond the diamond promised interview with de which looks than ever for we have not heard of him dead or living since but turned out to be literally true ab indeed in all this history one or of we could render true is perhaps not as the reader may have here then o ir little labor ends the was and is no more the stones of it again in commerce some of them perhaps in s at this hour may give rise to what other histories we know not the of it every one	37
that in it have they not all had their due which was death this little business like a little cloud itself forth in skies clear to the but with such hues of deep tinted and general delirium as td the observant it electric and wise men a for example has not tho e a come s miscellaneous writings of london and westminster review a proverb says the house that is a building looks not as the house that is built with rubbish and mortar heaps with poles dust clouds some only of the thing that is to be can to the most observant disclose themselves through the mean tumult of the thing that hitherto is how true is this same with re to all works and facts whatsoever in our world emphatically true in regard to the highest and work which our world witnesses the life of what we call an original man such a man is one not made altogether by the common pattern one whose phases and forth be of even though indeed by their very and strangeness they most of all provoke prophecy a man of this kind while he lives on earth is himself out of nothing into something surely under very complex conditions he is drawing continually towards him in continual succession and the materials of his structure nay his very plan of it from the whole realm of accident you may say and from the whole realm of free wiu he is building his life together in this manner a guess and a problem as yet not to others only but to himself hence such criticism by the et de par par son son et son literary and political of written by himself by his father his uncle and his adopted son vo paris of loud no knowledge loud it is like the opening of the s in the tale this beginning and growing up of a life vague smoke wavering hither and thither some features of a of the ultimate shape of which no or man can judge and yet as we say men do judge and pass sentence being forced to it you can with what accuracy look at the audience in a the says one the life of a man is there compressed within five hours duration is on an open stage with lighted lamps and what the words and art of genius can do to make the spirit of it clear yet listen when the curtain falls what a public will say of that and now if the drama extended over three score and ten years and were not with a view to clearness but rather indeed with a view to concealment often in the deepest of obscurity and your public occupied otherwise cast its eye on the business now here for a moment and then there for a moment woe to him answer we who has no court of appeal against the world s judgment he is a doomed man doomed by conviction to hard nay too probably by a still harder penalty that of being a self and partial or total which is the hardest penalty of all but su farther that the man as we said was an original man that his life drama would not and could not be measured by the three alone but partly by a rule of its own too still farther that the transactions he had mingled in were great and world dividing that of all his judges there were not one who had not something to love him for to hate him for alas is it not precisely in this case he whole world is to judge that the whole world is to be wrong s miscellaneous writings natural being so doubly and darkened by accidental difficulty and the had some show of reason who said to judge of an original contemporary man you must in general the world s judgment about him the world is not only wrong on that matter but cannot on any such matter be right one comfort is that the world is ever itself and on such matters that a continual and of the world s first judgment on them is inevitably going for all the world loves its original men and can in no wise forget them not till a long while sometimes not till thousands of years forgetting them what indeed should it remember the world s wealth is its original men by these and their works it is a world and not a waste the memory and record of what men it bore this is the sum of its strength its sacred property for ever whereby it itself and better or worse through the yet deep of time all knowledge all art all beautiful or precious possession of existence is in the long run this or connected with this science itself is it not under one of its most interesting aspects biography is it not the record of the work which an original man still named by us or not now named was blessed by the heavens to do that sphere and under is the monument and history of the man not to be forgotten probably till the world itself vanish of poets and what they have done and how the world loves them let us in these days very singular in respect of that art say nothing or next to nothing the greatest modern of the poetic has already said nay if thou wilt have it who but the poet first formed gods for ua brought them down to raised us up to them another remark on a lower scale not unworthy of notice of is by paul that as in rt so in conduct or what we call morals before there can be an with his there must be a many their heroic performances in words the original man is the true creator or call	37
him of morals too it is from his example that enough are derived and written down in books and systems he properly is the thing all that follows is but talk about the thing better or worse interpretation of it more or less wearisome and ineffectual discourse of logic on it a remark this of paul s which well meditated may seem one of the most lately written on these matters if any man had the ambition of building a new s of morals not a promising enterprise at this time of day there is no remark known to us which might better serve him as a chief corner stone whereon to found and to build high enough nothing doubting high for instance as the christian gospel itself and to whatever other heights man s destiny may yet him consider whether it was not from the by example or say rather by human and such imitation or aversion and as these gave rise to that man s duties were made to him also if it is not yet in these last days by very much the same means example force of public opinion and other and that the like result is brought about and from the own to the from s to chalk farm and the west end of the of life is forced and induced to whirl with some attempt at regularity the two tables were of simple limited stone no logic to them we in our days are privileged with logic systems of morals professors of moral philosophy theories of moral sentiment sympathies moral senses not a few useful for those that feel comfort s miscellaneous writings in them but to the observant eye is it not still plain that the rule of man s life rests not very steadily on logic rather carries logic resting on it as an excuse an or ornamental to and others that ever as of old the thing a man will do is the thing he feels commanded to do of which command again the origin and remains as good as by logic and indeed lies mainly in this that it has been otherwise and better by experiment namely that an what we name original man has already done it and we have seen it to be good and reasonable and now know it to be so once and for enough of this he were a sanguine individual surely that should turn to the french revolution for new rules of conduct and or of morality except indeed of the in sort a greater work it is said was never done in the world s history by men so small twenty five millions say these severe critics are hurled forth out of all their old arrangements and into the new quite void and career of there to show what originality is in them and vehemence heroic desperation they do show in abundance but of what one can call originality invention natural stuff or character little their heroic desperation such as it was we will honor and even as a new document call it rather a renewal of that document and of the manhood of man but for the rest there were there were of the statue of nature pouring water from her two and the august all drinking of it from the same iron and measures were at of tempted to be changed the months of the year became till napoleon de ce one must get this sent about its business also mrs and others rode prosperous as gk of reason and then these being mostly did with in hand and in new in front of the pronounce the of prophetic on the supreme and set fire to much all this and an of such the twenty five millions did devise and but apart from their heroic desperation which was no miracle either beside that of the old dutch for instance this and the like of this was almost all their of was the most original opened to man for above a thousand years and they at bottom were unexpectedly common place in it common place run distracted and a kind of universal frenzy of john is the figure they exhibit the brave sinking slowly of broken in the midst of that chaos of the reign of terror and clinging still to the cause which though now bloody and terrible he believed to be the highest and for which he had sacrificed country kindred fortune and life the revolution indeed to an explosion and new creation of the world but the actors in it that went about him to a handful of flies and yet one may add this same explosion of a world was their work the work of these flies the truth is neither nor any man can see a french revolution it is like seeing the ocean poor charles lamb complained that he could not see the ocean at all but only some insignificant of it from the deck b und s miscellaneous writings of the it must be owned however urge these severe critics that examples of abound in the french revolution to a lamentable extent consider for the greater part of two years what one may call of france a poor sea green of a man without head without heart or any grace gift or even vice beyond common if it were not vanity which some count strength as of a really a most poor sea green individual in spectacles meant by nature for a parson of the sort to doom men who de parted from the written confession to chop fruitless shrill logic io contend and suspect and and and on the whole to love or to know or to be properly speaking nothing this was he who the sport of winds saw himself whirled aloft to command la nation de a d all men shouting long life	37
to him one of the most lamentable tragic sea green objects ever whirled aloft in that manner in any country to his own swift and the world s long wonder so argue these severe critics of the french revolution with whom we argue not here but remark rather what is more to the purpose that the french revolution did disclose original men among the twenty five millions at least one or two some reckon in the present stage of the business as many as three napoleon whether more will come to light or of what sort when the is quite one cannot say meanwhile let the world be thankful for these three as indeed the world is loving original men without limit were they never so questionable well knowing how rare they are to us accordingly it is rather interesting to observe how on these three also questionable as they surely are the old process is repeating itself how these also are getting of in true likeness a second generation relieved in some measure from the hysterical and natural panic delirium of the first one is gradually coming to discern and measure what its could only and shriek over for as our proverb said the dust is sinking the rubbish heaps disappear the built house such as it is and was appointed to be stands visible better or worse of napoleon what with so many and such self from and battle thunder loud enough to ring through the brain in the remotest nook of this earth and now in consequence with so many histories and historical arguments for and against it may be said that he can now shift for himself that his true figure is in a fair way of being ascertained doubtless it will be found one day what significance vas in him how we quote from a new england book the man was a divine missionary though unconscious of it and preached through the cannon s throat that great doctrine la the tools to him that can handle them which is our ultimate political wherein alone can liberty lie madly enough he preached it is true as and first are wont with imperfect utterance amid much yet as perhaps as the case admitted or call him if you will an american who had to fell forests and battle with innumerable wolves and did not entirely forbear strong liquor and even whom nevertheless the peaceful will follow and as he cuts the boundless harvest bless from tbe which the word once was to this quiet version there is a considerable progress still more interesting is it not without a touch almost of pathos to see how the rugged begins s miscellaneous writings likewise to from amid the blood tinted and shadows of horrid cruelty into calm light and seems now not an but partly a man on the whole the earth feels it to be something to have a son of any reality rather than a and with a man that went honestly to work with himself and and acted in any sense with the whole mind of him there is always something to be done satan himself according to was a object compared with those angels so over numerous in times like ours who were neither faithful nor rebellious but were for little selves only plausible persons who in the hell are found doomed to this frightful penalty that they have not the hope to die non han di but sunk in death life in mud and the plague of flies they are to and for ever hateful to god and to the enemies of god non di lor ma e if were the armed soldier of invincible while he continued true to that then let us call this the and and of which could not yet have soldiers or discipline but was by the nature of it lawless an we say yet honestly born of earth in the of at and elsewhere one sees these fire eyes beam with earnest insight fill with the water of tears the huge rude features speak withal of wild human sympathies that bosom also held a heart it is not the alarm cannon that you hear cries he to the terror struck when the were already at it is the pas de charge against our enemies de et de et de to dare and again to dare and without limit to dare there is nothing left but that poor of of the what a mission and it could not be but done and it was done but indeed may there not be if well considered more virtue in this feeling itself once bursting earnest from the wild heart than in whole lives of and with their eye ever set on character and the letter of the law mon let my name be then let the be glorious and have victory by and by as we the friend of humanity since so many knife have no story to tell him will find some sort of story in this a rough giant of a man not entirely whose figures of speech and also of action are all gigantic whose voice from the and across the in a wrecked condition always his total freedom from cant is one thing even in his and sins as to money there is a frankness a kind of broad greatness sincerity a great rude sincerity of insight and of purpose dwelt in the man which quality is the root of all a man who could see through many things and would stop at very few things who marched march was k st certainly to fall and now bears the penalty in a name yet as we say visibly clearing itself once cleared why should not this name too have significance for men the wild history is a tragedy as all human histories are still to the present hour the as simple	37
finally well done the present to a mere article purposes nevertheless to and extract somewhat he has bored so to speak and run mine shafts through the book in various directions and knows pretty well what is in it though indeed not so well where to find the same having unfortunately as are wont our paper of wherefore if the best be not presented let not m suffer by one means and another some sketch of s history what him in this world and what steps he took in and how he and it working together made the thing we call s life may be brought out extremely imperfect yet truer one can hope than the and ordinary voice of give it whether and if so where and how the current estimate of is to be fortified or in any important point and will come to light almost of itself as we proceed indeed it is very singular considering the emphatic judgments daily uttered in print and speech about this man what egyptian obscurity rests over the mere facts of his external history the right knowledge of which one would fancy must be the preliminary of any judgment however faint but thus as we always urge are such judgments generally passed vague of the common people made up of loud empty and loud empty which of are without meaning and have only sound and so much to the work however one of the most valuable elements in these eight of m is the knowledge he of s father of his kindred and family contemporary and the father we in general knew was victor de called and calling himself the friend of men a title for the rest which him no good in these days of ours accordingly one heard it added with little surprise that this friend of men was the enemy of almost every man he had to do with beginning at his own hearth ending at the utmost circle of his acquaintance and only beyond that feeling himself free to love men the old cry many not we alas it is so much easier to love men while they exist only on paper or quite and in your imagination than to love jack and who stand there in the body hungry you you with elbows with and a stupid will of their own there is no doubt but old found it extremely to get on with his brethren of mankind and proved a old gentleman many a sad time nevertheless there is much to be set right in that matter and m if one can carefully follow him has managed to do it had m but seen good to print these private letters family documents and more of them for he could make thirty volumes in a separate state in mere order with some small of and to leave all the rest alone as it i one must search and happily the old himself in periods of leisure or forced leisure whereof he had many drew up certain s miscellaneous of his father and out of which young also in forced leisure still more io the castle of if i one of a very sort by the light of this latter so far as it will last we walk with convenience the were by which is a slight corruption of the italian they came from cast out of it in some quarrel such as were common there and then in the year stormy times then as now the can remark that was a little boy of some four years that morning the had to go and men had to say they are gone these they are gone these the little boy listening with interest let the boy become a man and he too shall have to go and prove come and what a world this is and have his poet nature not killed for it would not kill but darkened into old hebrew and sent to and eternity for a home to itself as dame quickly said in the dream those were rare times pretty much like our own answered he in this manner did the doubtless in grim ire scale the and become french and produce among other the present article in this review it was hinted above that these were a notable kindred as indeed there is great if we knew it rightly the kindred and fathers of most notable men the fountain that out as a river may well have run some space under ground in that character before it found vent nay perhaps it is not always or the greatest of a family line that becomes the noted one but only the best favored of fortune so rich here as elsewhere is nature the mighty mother and from of a single oak tree as for pigs what would plant the whole planet into an oak forest for truly if there were not a mute force in her where were she with the speaking and exhibiting one if under that of and high sounding personages that and fret and preach in ail times there lay not some of silently heroic men working as men with man s energy enduring and invincible who whisper not even to themselves how energetic they are the family was in some measure defined already by to that british one as a family totally from but a little liable to produce it took root in and bore strong southern fruit there a restless stormy line of men with the wild blood running in them and as if there had been a doom hung over them like the line of used to say which really there was the wild blood itself being doom enough how long they had in and elsewhere these history knows not but for the space of those five centuries in they were never without a man to stand like	37
the silver stock now to keep it straight he said yes and had i left my fighting and come up to court and some scarlet woman i might have had my promotion and fewer wounds to day the grand king every inch a king spoke of something else but the reader should have first seen that same killing how twenty seven of those wounds were come by in one fell lot the battle of has grown very obscure to most of us and indeed prince and themselves grow and as men and battles must but curiously enough this small of it has brightened up again to a point of history for the time being my grandfather had foreseen that it is the count not the that reports prince has carried a certain bridge which the grandfather had charge of but he did not as has since happened at and commit the blunder of attacking right in the teeth a column of such weight as that he lets them advance hurried on by their own and by the pressure of their and now seeing them pretty well engaged he raised his troop it was lying flat on the ground and rushing on himself at the head of them takes the enemy in flank cuts them in two them back them over the bridge again which they had to in great disorder and haste things brought to their old state he his post on tlie crown of the bridge his troop as before which having performed all this service under the sure deadly fire of the enemy s double lines from over tlie stream had suffered a good deal m de coming up full gallop to the attack finds it already finished the whole line flat on tlie earth only the tall figure of the colonel standing erect he orders him to do like the rest not to have himself shot till the time came his servant cries to him never would i expose s miscellaneous myself without need i am bound to be here but yon are bound not i answer to you for the post but take your self out of it or i give it up the prince then orders him in the king s name to x ome down go to the king and you i am at my work go you and do yours the good generous prince yielded the post was entirely a little afterwards my grandfather had his right arm shattered he formed a sort of for it of his pocket handkerchief and kept his place for there was a new attack getting ready the right moment once come he an axe in his left hand the as before again the enemy again drives him back over the bridge but it was here that ill fortune lay in wait for him at the very moment while he was recalling and his troop a bullet struck him in the throat cut asunder the the vein he sank on the bridge the troop broke and fled m de knight of his relative was wounded beside him he tore up his own shirt and those of several others to the blood but fainted himself by his own hurt an old named begged the of the regiment one a to help and carry him off the bridge refused saying he dead the good could only cast a camp kettle over his head and then run the enemy trampled over him in torrents to profit by the disorder the cavalry at full speed close in the rear of the foot m de seeing his line broken the enemy forming on this side the stream and consequently the bridge lost exclaimed ah ia dead then a for ever dear and memorable to us how nearly at this moment it was all over with the how but for the cast of an insignificant there had not only been no article in this review but no french revolution or a very different one all europe had found itself in far other at this hour any one who has a turn for such things may easily reflect nay without great difficulty he may reflect farther that not only the french revolution and this article but all articles and achievements whatsoever the great of est and the which this world ever beheld have not once but often in their course of depended on the trifles of camp of except only that we do not see that course of theirs so inscrutable is history the theory of and all of man s thou o reader who art an achievement of importance over what bridges of accident through yawning perils and the man devouring gulf of centuries hast thou got safe hither from adam all the way be this as it can col d came alive again by miracle of and holding his head up by means of a silver walked this earth many long days with respectability with fiery and did many notable things among others produced in dignified the friend of men who again produced the of from which latter and the wondrous blazing funeral he made for himself there forth a light whereby those old and many a strange old hidden thing become noticeable but perhaps in the whole kindred there is not a stranger figure than this very friend of men at whom in the order of time we have now arrived that who chained the mountains together and hung up the star with five rays to sway and bob there was but a type of him strong tough as the oak root and as and un no fibre of him running straight with the other a block for to beat on for the world to gaze at with wonder really a most notable questionable old how little amid such of literature and the of innumerable baron with their s miscellaneous and self could fancy that france held in it such	37
a nature product as the friend of men why there is substance enough in this one to fit out whole armies of were it properly so many poor and have a poor in rose pink manner become possessed of heads and lean de fly abroad on the wings o and this brave old has been hid under a he was a writer too and had talents for it certain of the talents such as few have had the days of it skilled not he being has remained in the others up so readily are the ware you find on all much say as light so called by the such is the s way and yet complain not this rich old have we not him too at last and can keep him all the longer than the the great used to say always that his father had the greater gifts of the two which surely is saying something not that you ban to it in the full sense but that in a very wide sense you can so far as mere head goes is probably right looking at the old as a and of his thought and with w rich of originality he gives it forth you pronounce to be superior or even say supreme in his time for the genius of him almost rises to the poetic do our readers know the german paul and his style of thought singular to say the old has a quality in him resembling afar off that of paul and actually works it out in his french manner far as the french manner can nevertheless intellect is not of the head only the great end of intellect surely is that of it make one see something for which latter result the whole man must in the old there dwells withal a stiff cross humor a latent fury and very which stiff with its pride obstinacy affectation what else is it at l but want of strength the real quantity of our insight how justly and thoroughly we shall comprehend the nature of a thing especially of a human thing depends on our patience our what strength we have intellect comes from the whole man as it is the light that the whole man in this true sense the younger with that great flashing of his that broad fearless freedom of nature he had was very clearly the superior man at bottom perhaps the main definition could give of old is that he was of the species stiff as brass in all senses of an endless pride which but does an endless vanity and need of shining stately the thought the morality the whole being of the man a solemn high man with such a fund of indignation in him or of latent indignation of who long experiment accordingly looks forth on man kind and this world of theirs with some dull word of forgiveness of contemptuous or with clenched lips nostrils slightly dilated in expressive silence here is but then under most interesting new circumstances and withal carried to such a pitch as becomes sublime one might almost say consider indeed whether could be a as your common and are his is not a closet with greek but the wide world and friendship to humanity does not s miscellaneous writings blood of all the in his honorable veins he too would do somewhat to raise higher that high house and yet alas it is plain to him that the house is sinking that much is sinking the and above all others this are fallen on evil times it has not escaped the old how nobility is now decayed nearly based no longer on heroic of conduct and effort but on formality on ments tailor s and coach leather on which latter basis unless his whole insight into heaven s ways with earth have him no institution in this god governed world can pretend to continue alas and the priest has now no tongue but for plate and the tax and the sits at its ease in high ct under and cloth of gold till now at last what with one fiction what with another nature all manner of and refusing to pay realities for them it has come so far that the twenty five millions long scarce of knowledge of virtue happiness cash are now fallen scarce of food to eat and do not with that natural ferocity of theirs which nature has still them feel the disposition to die starved j and all things are nodding towards chaos and no man it to heart one man exists who might perhaps stay or the catastrophe were he called to the the his high ancient blood his heroic love of truth his strength of heart his loyalty and profound insight for you cannot hear him speak without the man of genius this with the appalling things have come to might give claims from time to time at long intervals such a thought does through the brain of the but ah ia these scandalous days how shall the of the fall prostrate before a can the friend of men of au with good hope as his standard the of an woman no not hanging by the of such a one will this rise to the hut summoned by france in her day of need in her day of vision or else not at all france does not summon the else goes its road tried literature too as we said and with no talent nay with first rate talents in some sort but neither did this prosper his in such era of and all darkening ruin was political economy and a certain man whom he called the master that is dr round this master whom tiie succeeded as master himself he and some other did gather to publish books and tracts literature by word and deed if so were the world s dull	37
ear might be opened to salvation the world s dull ear continued shut in vain preached this and that other simultaneously or in in literature and stationary in vain preached the friend of men des y number after number through long volumes though really in a most eloquent manner had the ideas but then his style in very truth it is the strangest of though one of the richest a style full of originality sunny vigor but all and over in and distracted into starting out into turns and hidden satire which the french head had no ear for strong meat too tough for the friend of men found warm widely scattered over this earth and had him from nay from kings and over seas and chains of mountains whereby the pride and latent indignation of the man were only s miscellaneous writings but at home with the million all each after its suitable pipe he could see himself make no way if it were not way towards being a and thing men wanted to see not the right thing neither through the press then is there progress towards the the staggering state of french must even whither it is bound a light public itself into tempest about and his comedy of les about music the call of ruin and hard must come to hard thou o friend of men thy lips together and wait silent as the old rocks our friend of men did so or better not wanting to himself the lion hearted old for his latent indignation has a certain in it is a kind of holy indignation the though he knows the has not forgotten the higher sacred books or that there is a god in this world very different from the french supreme he even or tries to profess a kind of in his own way and thus turn an eye towards heaven very singular in his attitude here too thus it would appear this world is a mad which no friend of men can set right it shall go wrong then in god s name and the staggering state of all things whither it can to deep fearful depths not to ones but in the family circle there surely a man and friend of men is supreme and ruling with wise may make something of it alas in the family circle it went not better but worse the had once a talent for choosing wives had it deserted them in this instance then when most needed we say not so we say only that madame la had human in her too that all the young were likely to have human in great plenty that within doors as without the devil is busy most unsuccessful is the as ruler of of i family kingdom for the most part little otherwise than in a state of a as of will sway and that household into perfection of and cannot do it the royal goes forth in its calm justice i meets hesitation open or concealed is followed by remonstrance harsh coming thunder growl answering growl with astonished eye the appeals to destiny and heaven since he needs must then in red lightning of paternal authority how it went or who by might be to blame one knows not for the hemmed in by still relations is extremely on these points a certain dame de from very beautiful and very artful half seen through the household the s as we said being but of the kind there are confidential servants there are pride anger sublime and the devil always busy such a figure as of herself good to no one enough there are de on ail hands et long drawn out before gaping between man and wife to the scandal of an world ho much more of a righteous minded once to be an example to it de to the number as some count of fifty four first and last for the use of a single at times the whole fire side is seen empty except and each individual sitting in his separate strong house there to himself stiff are ye young not than mine the old one s what pangs it has cost the fond paternal heart to go through all this duty the knows and heaven in a less degree what pangs it may cost the filial heart to go under or undergo the same the former s s miscellaneous writings set of pangs he down into his soul aided heaven as a man and the latter set are they not self sought pangs that will cease of their own accord the filial pleases to cease for the rest looking at such a world and such a family at these prison s mountains of divorce papers and the staggering state of french a friend of men may pretty naturally ask himself am not i a strong old then whom all this has not driven into not into even the heavens are and make the back equal to the burden out of all which circumstances and of such struggle against them there has come forth this de shaped it was the shape he could arrive at into one of the most singular sublime that ever stepped the soil of france solemn moral as of some antique ruling heavy breadth dull heat and pride as of an old of then a courtesy the ways suitable to your french i how the two divine for both seem to him divine of and man of or world themselves and ruling all in such strength have met to give the world assurance of a man there never entered the brain of or of rare old ben such a piece of humor high meeting with low and laughter with tears as in this brave old nature has presented us ready made f or withal there is such genius in him rich depth of character cheerfulness	37
and health breaking ou in spite of these divorce papers ever and anon like strong sunlight in weather we have heard of the strife of fate with producing greek but never h till now produce astonishing french blessed old or else accursed he is there with his broad bull brow with the huge cheek bones those deep eyes glazed as in weariness the lower into a which would pass itself off for a kind of smile what to do with him welcome tough old with thy better and thy worse there is stuff in thee very different from and and stuff is stuff were it never so besides the old de there is a brother the de a man who serving as knight of governing in fighting and doing hard sea duty has sown his wild long since and settled down here in the old castle of on its sheer rock for the usually lives at another estate within reach of paris into one of the quiet and it is very beautiful this mild strength mild s and justice of the brave in contrast with his brother s whom he comforts even and on the whole both as head and as world beyond all living men the frank true love of these two brothers is the fairest feature in indeed the only feature which is always fair letters pass continually in letter and extract we here from time to time witness in these volumes the various personages speak their dialogue their farce tragedy the fits admits mankind into this strange household though and all in darkness save for his own capricious dark lantern seen or half seen it is a stage as the whole world is what with personages what with no stranger was on the earth at that time under such which were not yet into vol iv s miscellaneous writings events and but yet were inevitably towards did at the mansion of between and on the th day of first see the light he was the fifth child the second male yet born heir the first having died in the cradle a enormous fellow as the had to admit almost with terror the head especially great two in it already shot i rough truly yet with bulk with limbs vigor bidding fair to do honor to the line the paternal to whom they said pas don t be frightened gazed joyful we can fancy and not fearful on this product of his the stiff features into a veritable smile smile o paternal the future indeed sorrow and joy one knows not in what proportion but here is a new whom the gods send with the in him thou guess of a very fit for twelve labors which surely are themselves the best joys look at the how he no stranger ever under our sun it is as if in this thy man child destiny had swept together all the and of the and flung him forth as her in that kind not without a he is the last of the and shall do work long memorable among mortals truly looking now into the matter we might say in spite of the that on this whole planet in those years there was hardly born such a man child as this same in the mansion house of not far from paris whom they named nowhere we say came there a or into this earth whither they come marching by the and the out of eternity and night except indeed what is notable enough one other that arrived some few months later at the town of on the and got of then again in some ten years more there came another still in his ways it was into a mean hut that this one came an hut which the wind blew down at the time in the of in scotland him they named robert burns these in that epoch were the well born of the world by whom the world s history was to be carried on ah could the well born of the world be always rightly bred rightly entreated there what a world were it but it is not so it is the reverse of so and then few like that one can the world with its black and shine above it in serene help to it like a sun the most can but it or be by it hence instead of light and strongest of things we have but lightning red fire and which are very be that as it might determined to give his son and heir of all the such an education as no had yet been privileged with being a and indeed a as we here find more ways than one this was not strange in him but tlie results were very lamentable considering the matter dow at this impartial distance you are lost in wonder at the good know not whether to laugh at him or weep over him and on the whole are bound to do both a more sufficient product of nature than this enormous as we said need not have been wished for beating his nurse but then loving her and loving the whole world of large desire truly but desire towards all things the highest and the lowest in other words a large mass of life in him a large man waiting there does he not the rough now i by the effect of small in all places seeking something to know down to the i ard of for papers to read does he not s miscellaneous writings give his hat to a peasant boy whose head gear was he writes the most sagacious things in his h year at table setting forth what mr me is bound to do a rough strong genuine soul of the open temper full of loving fire and strength looking out so brisk with his clear eyes with his brisk	37
good of all and sundry in this house of discipline who came in contact with him school fellows teachers the himself for said the paternal he has the tongue of the old serpent in fact it is very notable how poor de king or whatever else they might call him let him come under what he might into any circle of men was sure to make them his ere long to the last no man could look into him with his own eyes and continue to hate him he could talk men over then yes q reader and he could act men over for at bottom that was it the large open soul of the man deliberately no paltry or thing towards any creature was to be withal a s soul by black very many but yet shining out warm in its great that a man be loved the better by men the nearer they come to him is not this the fact of all facts to know what extent of good indifferent and even bad a man has ask public or at s miscellaneous writings the persons he with to know what of real worth is in him ask infinitely deeper and farther ask first of all those who have tried by experiment who were they the people can answer here if anywhere those at a distance esteem of me a little worse than i those near at hand a little better than i so said the good sir thomas so will all men say who have mu h to say on that the military boarding school having if not fulfilled its function yet ceased to be a house of penance and failed of its function determined to try the army nay it would seem the wicked mother has been sending liim money which he the traitor has accepted i to the army therefore and so has a on his big head the shaggy d looks from under horse hair and clear metal he dresses rank with tight bridle hand and drawn in the town of as a bold his age was but eighteen as yet and some months the people of grew to like him would even have lent him money to any extent his colonel one de proved to be a of sharp sour temper the shaggy of radiant through its with several things had not altogether the happiness to content him there was an at who had a daughter she foolish liked the even than the colonel s for one can fancy what a was in this great cause with the tongue of the old serpent it was his first plainly triumphant the beginning of a quite unheard of career in that kind the colonel through the mess rooms this bold was not the man to give him worse than he brought matters fell into a very unsatisfactory state be of them to crown the whole went one evening contrary to wont now and always to the table and lost four gambling s daughter thunder from his flies to paris there now was confidential spy to correspondence de as between a colonel and a both in high wrath to pay the i confidential spy takes evidence the whole comes to light what wilt thou do o with this devil s child of thine send him to let the tropical and rains tame the hot liver him i paternal justice and dame bu t thoughts prevailed de and the isle of shall be tried first thither poor not with s daughters but with amid the dull rustle and brown of the falling leaves of his nineteenth autumn it is his second labor the boarding house was the first by the loud atlantic he shall sit there in winter season under ward of a d governor of the place and said to be a very at the old game is played in few weeks the is s out of all his throats in s behalf what is this that the rebellious has in him o which no governor of strong places can resist nothing short of the hot of will hold him quiet then happily there is fighting in fighting on his last legs there and baron de wants fresh troops against him though he likes not the cause will go thither gladly and fight his very best how happy if by any fighting he can conquer back his name and some gleam of paternal after much s miscellaneous ing his prayer is to with the rank now of sub of foot in the of gets the country to in the month of april and enters on the plain which itself without plough for ocean god grant he may not have to row there one day in red cap as slave such is the paternal and prayer which was realized nay it would seem before indeed hardly yet two hours out of the fortress of had fallen into a new his first a certain discharged for having claimed with him on the streets which claim saw to refuse and even to resist when demanded at the sword s point the that he is the did as usual a giant s or two giants work in fighting writing loving eight hours a day of study and gained golden opinions from all manner of men and women it was his own notion that nature had meant him for a soldier he felt so and at home in that the wreck of death tumult and roar of cannon serving as a fine marching music for him doubtless nature meant him for a man of action as she means all great souls that have a strong body to dwell in but nature will herself to much in the course of twelve months in may gets back to with much manuscript in his pocket his head full of military and all other lore like a library turned his	37
character much risen as we said with every one the brave though almost against principle cannot refuse to see a chief nephew as he passes so near the old on the the good uncle is charmed with him finds under features terribly and altered from what they were bodily of and mentally all that is royal and strong nay an expression of something refined something gracious declares him after several days of incessant talk to he best fellow on earth if well dealt with who will shape into pope what thou to desire or shall we give poor s in mess room dialect in its native and with old oa which alas have become for us almost old prayers now the figures whom they through having all vanished so long since c est un c est bon on qui a de p cent et un moved by all manner of and entreaties from uncle and family the rigid not without difficulty to see this peter of his and then af er solemn deliberation even to un peter him and give him back his name it was in september that they met at in the near the lands of soft comes stealing through the heart of faint hope even which however must veil itself in and the writes i him very much observe my man how he his nose and looks a sign that he is reflecting or away his head hiding a tear serious now mild now severe we give it him alternately it is thus i manage the mouth of this fiery animal had he but read the the the des the most labored book i have done though i wrote it in such health had he but got in my political economy which however he does not take to with any heart on the contrary he unhappily finds it hollow a barren of even as the east wind words s miscellaneous writings which or the like of them any has but to report to the master and yet after all is it not a brave this rough built young and has finished handsomely his second labor the head of the fellow is a wind mill and fire mill of ideas the makes him captain and he is passionate for following but then your alexander needs such tools a whole world for where are the armies and of men to come from does he think i have money the old to get him up battles like and the fool he shall settle down into first however though it is a risk see a little of paris at paris through winter the brave carries all before him shines in in the de with your duke of young not yet become with him with your and mere and is invited to hunt even the old women are charmed with him and rustle in their such a light has not risen in the for some while grant o that there are worse sad dogs than this the partially and yet and yet few things are than these successive by the old his young count i am on my guard remembering how vivacity of head may deceive you as to a character of t but all one must give him store of exercise what the evil else to do with such intellectual and i know no woman but the of russia with whom this man were good to marry yet hard to find a dog that had more talent and action in the head of him than tliis he would reduce the devil to terms thy nephew me yesterday the who is a sort of privileged said pleasantly confess m le a man s body is of veiy unhappy to carry a head like that the terrible gift of familiarity as pope called it he turns the great people here round his finger or again though all this is some years afterwards they have never done telling me that he is easy to set a that you cannot speak to him reproachfully but his eyes his lips his color testify that all is giving way on the other hand the smallest word of tenderness will make him burst into tears and he would fling himself into the fire for you i pass my life in him a le with principles with all that i know for this man ever the same as to his properties has done nothing by these long and solid studies but the rubbish heap in his head which is a library turned and then his talent for dazzling by for he has swallowed all and cannot anything a basket that lets all through disorder born as a nurse a liar kind of white liar by exaggeration without need and merely to tell histories a confidence that you on cleverness and talent without limit for the rest the vices have infinitely less root in him than the virtues all is facility not for want of fire but of plan wrong spun ds in character a mind that in the vague and of soap bells spite of the bitter the step the breathless blown up and the look or to say better the of this man when he and something told me that it was all but a of old cloth this ferocious outward of his that at bottom here was perhaps the man in all france least capable of deliberate wickedness pie and by instinct wholly and tie d de y drawn to the right by his heart to the by his head hich he four paces from him may become the of the time a born with him which makes him take the for firm earth in the name of all the gods what is this i have web footed broad which vol ly s miscellaneous writings will run and drown itself if mercy and the parent fowl prevent not	37
how true meanwhile is this that the old says he has swallowed all il a les and made away with them indeed if we think of it and had been and were to be at death from first to last what of this established world had been a kind one to his soul could find no shelter in them they were his body no they were unfair if there were not and substance beyond and in spite of them then woe to him to this man would yield no existence or habitation if it were not in the isle of and such places but threatened to choke the life out of him either or he must go the wall and so after a tough fight they as it proves will go so is destiny and is quietly her tools for the work they are to do while she seems but and breaking them for consider o whether france herself will not by and by have to swallow a or two this sight thou on from the of mount d or does it not something of that kind a summer day in the year o madame the i would give you if i had not a score of letters to answer on dull sad business i would paint to you the feast of this town which took place on the th the savages descending in torrents from the mountains our people ordered not to stir out the with and stole public justice in in hand guarding the place before the were permitted to begin the dance interrupted a quarter of an hour after by battle the cries and fierce of the children of tlie and other it it on as the mob does when dogs fight frightful men or rather wild creatures of the forest in coarse and broad of leather studded witli of copper nails of gigantic stature heightened by the high still higher on tip toe to look at the battle beating time to it rubbing their sides with their elbows their face haggard covered with their long greasy hair top of the pale bottom of it twisting itself into the of a cruel laugh a impatience and these people pay the and you want to take from them their salt too f and you know not what you strip bare or as you call it govern what with the heedless cowardly of your pen you will think you can continue with for ever till the catastrophe come such sights deep thoughts to one poor i said to myself they that sent thee and thy system to copy music among such a people as these same have thy system but ill but on the other hand these thoughts were for a man who has all his life preached the necessity of the poor of universal instruction who has tried to show what such instruction and such ought to be if it would form a barrier the sole possible barrier between oppression and revolt the sole but treaty of peace the high and the low ah madame this government by blind man s stumbling along too far will end by the general prophetic might other nations listen to thee better than france did for it concerns them all but now is it not curious to think how the whole world might have gone so differently but for this very prophet had the young had a father as other men have or even no father at all consider him in that case rising by natural by the rank the opportunity the irrepressible faculties he had step after step to official place to the chief official place as in a time when and men of ability were grown indispensable he was sure to have done by natural he her most of all with her quick instincts her quick sense for whatever was great and noble her quick hatred for whatever was but and pretending to be great king louis is a s miscellaneous writings happily then reduced to be one there would then have been at the summit of france the one french man who could have with that great question who yielding and refusing managing guiding and in short seeing and daring what was to be done had perhaps saved france her revolution her by methods but to the supreme powers it seemed not so once after a thousand years all nations were to see the great and self of a nation and learn from it if they could and now for a of was there a better on earth than this very friend of men a better education conceivable than this which had trust in heaven good reader for the fate of nations for the call of a has himself so well in paris turning the great people round his thumb with that fond basis of with that terrible don de la with those ways he has neither in the quite opposite man of business department when summer comes and with it is he found wanting in the summer of the year the old friend of men him to the to his own estate of or his wife s own estate under the law balance about this time to see whether anything can be done for men there much is to be done there the short of all things even of here as everywhere wear a settled pain stricken look as if they reckoned that the of men was an inevitable of heaven to be put up with like the wind and the hail here in the solitude of the is still he rides he writes and runs eats out of the poor people s pots speaks to them them a court of good men and true once more carries all l m of him confess o we say again that there are worse sad dogs than this he is the th	37
demon of the impossible le demon de la chose impossible most true this also impossible is a word not in his dictionary thus the same long afterwards as will witness orders his secretary to do some miracle or other miraculous within the time the secretary answers it is impossible impossible answers ive me ce de never name to me that of a word really one would say a good fellow were he well dealt with though still broad and with latent take the water the following otherwise insignificant letter addressed to the seems to us worth is not his young if still in the state and style of mockery very handsome in it standing there in the snow it is of date december and far on the road towards castle here dear uncle is a beginning in good latin which means that i am broken with fatigue not having this whole week slept more than do and sounding at the same time with the wheels of my vehicle most of the and that lie between paris and deep and numerous moreover my broke between roman and the centre of four wine districts what a point if i had had the wit to be a i the mischief happened towards five in the evening my had gone on before there fell nothing at the time but melted snow happily it afterwards took some the neighborhood of made me hope to find genius in the natives of the country i had need of good counsel the devil me at first to swear but that whim passed and i fell by preference into the temptation pf laughing for a holy priest came up to the chin against the blessed of whom the as beating which made him cut so s l singular a face that i think this was the thing drove me from swearing tlie holy man inquired seeing my chaise on its and one of the wheels whether anything had befallen me i answered there was nothing falling here but snow ah said he it is your chaise then that is broken i admired the sagacity of the man and begged him to double his pace with his horse s permission who was also making a pleasant expression of countenance as the snow beat on his nose and to be so good as give notice at that i was there he assured me be would tell it to the post mistress herself she being his cousin that she was a very amiable woman married three years ago to one of the men of the place nephew to the king s at in fine after giving me all the and ins of himself the of his cousin his cousin s husband and i know not whom more he was pleased to give the spurs to his horse which thereupon gave a and went on i forgot to tell you that i had sent the off to which he knew the road to for he went thither daily he said to have a glass a thing i could well believe or even two glasses the man was but when he went happily when he returned which was very late he w s drunk i walked several men pa ed all of whom asked me if an had befallen i answered one of them that it was an experiment that i had been sent from paris to see whether a chaise would run with one wheel mine had come so far but i was going to write that two wheels were at this moment my worthy friend struck his against the other wheel clapped his hand on the hurt place swore as t had near done and then said smiling ah there is the wheel the devil there is said i as if astonished another after examining long with a very capable air informed me it is your meaning or that is broken fi errand to in this winter season was several fold to look after the estates to himself among his people and in that region perhaps to choose a wife lately as we saw the old could think of none suitable i it were not the of but has since that under this sunshine of paternal favor the first gleam of such weather he has ever had short of the it were very well to marry the now thinks provided your bride had money a bride not with money yet with expectations id found and by stormy eloquence is carried wo worth the hour her portrait by the himself is not very de only daughter of the de in her year then she had a very ordinary face even a vulgar one at the first glance brown nay almost fine eyes fine hair teeth not good but a continual smile figure small but agreeable though leaning a little to one side showed great of mind delicate lively one of the most essentially pretty characters this brown almost little woman much of a fool too gets to wife on the d of june with her and with a of from his law and one of from his own father say z in all and rich he shall sit down in the bottom of by his own hired hearth in the town of and bless heaven will admit that this young alexander just beginning his twenty fourth year might a little seeing only one such world to conquer however he had m his books he had his hopes health faculty a universe whereof even the town of formed part all rich with fruit and forbidden fruit round him the unspeakable of time wherein to sow he said to himself go to i will be wise and yet human nature is frail one can judge too whether the old now coming into decided with his wife was of a humor to forgive the terrible hoarsely calm way s miscellaneous writings	37
io which he expresses himself on this matter of the law suit to his brother and silence from all mortals but him might affect weak nerves wherefore contrary to purpose we omit it o just i in fact the household at this time can do little for frail human nature except perhaps make it fall faster the household is getting scattered not always led asunder but driven and hurled asunder the times for it have begun one daughter is madame du still living a judicious sister another is madame de not so judicious for indeed her husband has owing to proceeding from him she gets insulted on the public of by a certain baron de whom some had touched upon all the parties in the business being fools nay poor woman she by and by we find takes up with persons with a certain in described candidly by the as a who is not fit to be described a young heir apparent of all the is required to make some figure especially in marrying himself the present young heir apparent has nothing to make a figure with but bare z a year and very considerable debts old is hard as the rock and no proves miraculous on him for and house he does simply not yield one the heir must himself yield them he does so and handsomely but alas the a year and very considerable debts quit and dinner giving retire to the old in the of two valleys i and done but now a young wife used to the of life ought she not to have some of rooms done up for her hammer and with effect not without bills the very few debts op poor sees nothing for it but to run to the law with tears in his eyes and him to make those rich expectations in some measure forty thousand to such length will the father in law moved by these tears by this fire eloquence table ready money provided old who has some interest in the thing will grant old written to in the most im manner answers by a letter of the sort they call sealed letter de ordering the impassioned under his majesty s hand and seal to bundle into as we should say into as the sealed letter says farewell old with thy rooms on thy sheer rock by the angry flowing welcome miserable little of since hither fate drives us in too a man can live and read can write an sur le and have it printed in full of fire and rough vigor and still worth reading the essay on with so little of the and in it could find but a hard critic in the old out something one fancies about and getting swallowed rash treating matters that require age and gravity however let it pass unhappily there came other a certain named de accustomed to visit in the house at sees good to commence a kind of with the little brown wife which she sees good to return meets glance follows glance till the husband opens his lips like with a proposal to kick de out of doors de goes but not without some explosion or e l t th e is like to be a only that know s miscellaneous writings ing what a sword this wears will not fight and his father has to plead and generous count kill not my poor son alas already this most lamentable explosion itself has broken off the finest marriage settlement and now the family will not hear of him the generous count so pleaded with not only the to the winds but off forgetful of the de half desperate to plead with the marriage family to preach with them and pray till they have taken poor into favor again prosperous in this for what can resist such pleading he may now ride home more leisurely with the consciousness of a right action for once as we said this ride of his lies beyond the limits fixed in the royal sealed letter but no one surely will mind it no one will report it a beautiful summer evening o poor it is the last prosperous ride thou shall have for long perhaps almost ever in the world for lo who is this that comes through the level yellow sun light like one of respectability keeping his by day and night it is that base baron de who insulted sister in the of human nature without time for reflection is liable to the swift rolling is already in contact with one the horse against your horse and you almost without knowing satisfaction which gentlemen expect no do i hear rightly no in that case and this wild the respectable and him there not only but practically on the king s highway seen of some here is a message for to blow abroad blows to paris as for answer on the th of june there arrives a fresh sealed letter of more emphasis there arrive with it grim of and their chaise the of snatched away from wife child then dying and last shadow of a even in exile is towards towards the castle of if which out among the waters in the there i with the blue within iron cut off from pen paper and friends and men except the of the place who is charged to be very sharp with him there shall he sit such virtue is in a sealed letter so has the grim old ordered it our gleam of sunshine then is darkening miserably down down o thou poor to thick midnight surely are all too cruel on thee thou art getting really into war with of wars and thou by god s help and the devil s wilt make away with them in the manner from this hour we say thick and thicker darkness	37
settles round poor his life path growing ever alas growing ever more beset by and lights not of heaven such labors have seldom been allotted to any man check thy hot frenzy thy hot tears poor as it may be for there is no help autumn becomes loud winter into gentle spring the waves beat round this castle of if at the mouth of harbor in the man no not the poor has such a fond basis of joy and there is a deep fiery life in him which no blackness f destiny can the of if m as all do with him gives paper gives sympathy and counsel nay letters have already been introduced in some scoundrel s the old says on sister du s kind letter there fall tears nevertheless you do not always weep you do better write a brave col d s quoted from above occupy yourself with projects s miscellaneous writings and sometimes alas you do worse though in the other direction where have pretty wives a mere this of the frail fair according to the of which too much was made at the time nor are wanting sisters and brothers bidding you be of hope our readers have heard count as the elder of my lads what if we now exhibited the younger for one the de a rough son of the sea in those days he also is a sad dog but has the advantage of not being the elder he has started from from a sick bed and got hither to in the dead of winter the link of nature drawing him shaggy sea monster as he is it was a rough wind none of the would leave tlie with me i induced two of them more by than by money for thou i have no money and am well furnished thank god with the gift of speaking or i reach the castle of if gates closed and the lieutenant as m was not there tells me quite sweetly that i must return as i came not if you please till i have seen it is not allowed i will write to hun not that either then i will wait for m just so but for four and twenty hours not more whereupon i take my resolution go to la keeper s pretty wife we agree that so soon as the is beat i shall see this poor devil i get to him in fact not like a but like a or a gallant which thou wilt and we ourselves they had been afraid that he would heat my head to the temperature of his own sister they do him little justice i can assure thee that while he was telling me his story and when my rage broke out in these words though still weakly i have two arms strong enough to break m s or his cowardly brother s at least he said to me mon ami thou wilt ruin us both and i confess this consideration alone perhaps the execution of a project which could not have which nothing but the of a head such as mine could excuse vol il p of reader this young is the de or younger whom all men heard of in the revolution time by the more familiar name of or barrel from his bulk and the quantity of drink he usually held it is the same barrel who in the states general broke his sword because the gave in and chivalry was now ended for in politics he was directly the opposite of his elder brother and spoke considerably as a public man making men laugh for he was a wild surly fellow with much wit in him and much liquor then went indignantly across the and but as be sat one morning in his tent sour of stomach doubtless and of heart meditating in humor on the turn things took a certain captain or demands on business is refused again demands and then again till the colonel barrel blazing up into a mere burning brandy barrel his sword and out on this of an intruder alas on the of an intruder s sword s point who drew with swift dexterity and dies and it is all done with him that was the fifth act of barrel s life tragedy unlike and yet like thia first act in the castle of if and so the curtain fell the newspapers calling it and alarming accident brother and sisters the little brown wife the of if all for a penitent unfortunate sinner the old s ear is deaf as that of destiny solely by way of not of especially as the if too has been he has this sinner removed in may next after some nine months space to the castle of an old owl s nest with a few among the mountains instead of melancholy main let him now try the melancholy still c with snow at vol iv s miscellaneous writings season with their mists and and on the whole himself as if for or continuance there on a of pounds a year since he could not do with five hundred poor and poor s wife reader the foolish little brown woman of her child being buried her husband buried alive and her little brown self being still above ground and under twenty she takes to ceases begins successful forgetting the marriage cut asunder that day the chaise drew up at will never come together again in spite of efforts but flow in two separate streams to lose itself in the sand deserts husband and wife never more saw each other with eyes not far from the melancholy castle of lies the little melancholy of whither our prisoner has leave on his to walk when he chooses a melancholy little yet in it is a certain household whereby hangs	37
and will hang a tale of old m respectable legal president now in his year we shall say less than of his wife once de from sprung from legal who is still but short way out of her he has been married or seemed to be married four years one of the loveliest sad heroic women of this or any district of country what accursed of fate brought january and may together here once again alas it is a custom there good reader thus the old who at the age of sixty three what is called the st summer of and new which visits some men went the country for a young wife had very nearly got this identical but did get another known as madame de well known to of philip having turned out ill de loved wise men but not at that extremely advanced period of life however the question for her is does she love a better her mother and father are rigidly devout and rigidly vain and poor the poor girl sad heroic is probably a kind of and now old president quarrelling with his daughter and then coming over to with gold bags marriage and the prospect of dying soon it is that same miserable tale sung against often spoken against very miserable indeed but fancy what an effect the fiery eloquence of a produced in this sombre household one s young girl dreams most unexpectedly in this wild glowing mass of manhood though rather ugly old himself gleaming up into a kind of vitality to hear him or fancy whether a sad heroic face glancing on you with a like to become glad heroic were not felt by known symptoms that the sweetest was stealing over him which could lead only to the devil for all parties interested he wrote to his wife in the name of heaven that she would come to him thereby might the sight of his duties him he meanwhile would at least forbear the wife answered by a few icy lines indicating in a covert way that she thought me not in my wits he sweeter is it than the owl s nest he returns thither with sweeter and ever sweeter welcome and so old saw nothing or winked hard not so our old foolish of the castle of he though kind to his prisoner formerly had been making some pretensions to himself he was but forty or five years older than i my was not greater than his and i had the advantage of being an honest man green eyed jealousy in the shape of this old ugly com s miscellaneous by letter also on some thin pretext m henceforth to the four walls of back such in an indignant to this green eyed indignantly steps over into which is but a few miles off returns however in a day or two it is dark january to there is an explosion what they call sharply dealt with her love for her right to love him her purpose to continue doing it she is sent home to follows her thither what a continued series of through winter spring summer there are tears exercises to commit suicide there are stolen perils proud and lowly he on bis part voluntarily himself prisoner and does other haughty vehement things some and some not one old o the of ready his in the i have been lucky enough to obtain st in says the old i think that prison good because there is first the castle itself then a ring work all round the mountain and that a pretty long passage among the sands where you need guides to avoid being drowned in the yes it rises there that mountain of st and tain of misery towering sheer up like a bleak with only into desolation sand salt water and despair fly thou poor honor thou poor return to for walls too are cruel i flies and indeed there fly with him sister and her who are already see m de madame de iii of in flight for their own into deep and covered ways wide over the south west of france thinking with a fond sorrow of st and its chooses the two best the police of paris has and another and them cries hunt we have done all that the human mind v can imagine and this when the are so excessive and we are worn out with fatigue and our legs no all that the human mind can imagine is ineffectual on the twenty third night of august de in man s clothes is tlie at is crossing the wrapped in a cloak of darkness borne on the wings of love and despair wrapped in the like cloak borne on the like vehicle is gone with her to holland a broken man crime for ever lamentable the of which the world has so spoken and must for ever speak there are indeed many things easy to be spoken of it and also some things not easy to be spoken why for example thou virtuous was that of the keeper s wife at if such a and this of the legal president s wife such a crime lamentable to that late date of for ever the present fancies them to be same crime again might not the first grand criminal and sinner in this business be legal president the distracted stricken moon stricken old man liable to trial with non or difficult at the great bar of nature herself and then the second sinner in it and the third and the fourth he that is without mi among you one thing therefore the present will speak in the words of old samuel johnson my dear my dear brethren of mankind en s miscellaneous to clear your mind of 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women and children in these days who would have their souls live were it even feebly and not die of the as in the more horrible for breathing of the more clean it looks that the of on fat et vol and robbery that tbey condemned him in absence and went the length of a paper of him was perhaps extremely suitable but not to be dwelt on here neither do we curiously into the garret life in holland and being for room the wild man and his beautiful sad heroic woman lived out their romance of reality as well as was to be expected hot go not always softly together neither did the course of true love either in or in ever run smooth yet it did run in this instance copious if not smooth with quarrel and tears and heart sharp tropical and also the gorgeous and of general tropical weather it was like a little in the middle of blackness the very danger and despair that it made the even as in virtue of death life to the becomes tolerable becomes sweet death being so nigh at any hour might not king s or other dread knock at our garret establishment here in the at the tailor s and it toils for dutch bearing their heavy load s philip second doing endless earning however his gold louis a day and beside him with her sod fingers not it in hard toils in trembling joys with terrors with one terror that of being parted their days roll swiftly on of a tr for eight tropical months ah at the end of some eight months th may enter the he is in the shape of our old hound of the south west the swelling of his legs is fallen now this time the human mind has been able to manage it he carries king s orders high sealed shall be carried this way that like to be a mother shall behold him no more desperation even in the female character can go no farther she will kill herself that hour as even the hound believes had not the very hound in mercy undertaken that they should have some means of correspondence that hope should not utterly be cut away with and that cannot be uttered they tear themselves asunder stony paris now nigh towards his prison of to some parlor there to await what fate very at this time will see good to bring conceive the giant locked fast then in doubting castle of his hot soul up wildly breaking itself against cold the voice of his despair on him by dead stone walls fallen in tbe eyes of the world the ambitious haughty man his fair life hopes from without all spoiled and become foul ashes and from within what he has done what he has parted with and undone deaf as destiny is a father inaccessible even to the attempt at pleading heavy doors have to their growling to thee great paris sends eastward its daily hum in the evening sun thou its glitter its old grim towers and life breath all gilded and thou neither evening nor morning nor change of day nor season brings forgotten of earth not too remembered of heaven no passionate s miscellaneous writings can move an old deaf he as destiny thou must sit there for forty two months by the great the heir of the sinful and yet more against has worn out his wardrobe that his clothes get and insufficient against the weather his is failing the family disorder him the doctors declare horse exercise essential to preserve life within the walls then answers the old count de rides in the garden of forty paces with quick turns overlooked by and high stone and yet fancy not spent his time in mere wailing and raging far from that to put finger i the eye and sob because he had ne er another tub was in no case s method more than s other such wild glowing mass of life which you might beat with and alas not beat the out of was not in europe at that time call him not the strongest man then living for light as we said and not fire is the strong thing yet call him strong too very strong and for and a fond call him of all passions ill governed reckless tumult from within merciless oppression from without ten men might have died of what this did not yet die of police captain allowed him in mercy and according to engagement to correspond with the condition was that the letters should be seen by and be returned into his keeping in fire and tears not like but like then he had to write to get presented and enforced for which end all manner of friends must be urged of correspondence enough besides he could read though very he could even compose or e i not in the manner of the bee from the very bible and a which can be recommended to no woman or man the pious drops a veil over his face at this scandal and says that there is nothing to be said as for the correspondence with it lay in s desk forgotten but was found there by of the in when so many flew open and by him given to the world a book which fair sensibility rather in a private way loves to weep over not this to any considerable extent not at all here in his present strait for room love letters of their kind notwithstanding but if anything can swell farther the tears of fair sensibility over s correspondence of it must be this the issue it ended in a space of years these two lovers asunder in holland and allowed to correspond that they might not poison themselves met again it was under cloud	37
of night in s apartment in the country disguised as a porter had come thither from a considerable distance and they flew into each other s arms to weep their child dead their long unspeakable woes not at all they stood arms stretched calling one another to account for causes of jealousy grew always louder arms set a and parted quite loud never to meet more on earth in september had risen to be a world s wonder and far from him had sunk out of the world s sight respected only in the little town of on the th night of september might be thundering in the des to be reported of all journals on the morrow and twice disappointed of new marriage the sad heroic temper darkened now into perfect black was self s miscellaneous writings tied to her sofa with a pan of burning near to die as the unhappy die said we not the course of true love never did run smooth however after two and forty months and and more than in catholic countries will free a soul out of is once more delivered from the strong place not into his own home home wife and the whole past are far parted from him not into his father s home but forth hurled forth to seek his fortune in the wide hunting field of the world consider him o reader thou wilt find him very notable a disgraced man not a broken one ruined outwardly not ruined inwardly not yet for there is no of him on that side such a of radical fire and fond he has with his dignity and vanity levity with his virtues and his vices what a front he shows you would say he not a in these sad circumstances of what he claimed from fortune but rather it his proud soul so by and bondage away its prison gear bounds forth to the fight again is if victory after all were certain post horses to and the that that sentence by be and the paper have its head stuck on again the wild giant said to be absent by sits voluntarily in the jail in which make and all france listen and the head itself to the paper with apologies and the de know who is the most impudent man alive the world with astonishment who is one of the even the old approval though with tough old man he has lost his own world famous and other with expenses has seen his fortune and projects fail and even de turn out not always satisfactory or of wherefore he summons his children about him and really in a very serene way declares himself fit only for the chimney nook now to sit his old mind together again d sa a se pi ce d piece advice and countenance they the deserving part of them shall always enjoy but de or other the like benefit and guidance not any more eight so best of old there he rests then like the still evening of a day no more but rays forth many a curiously tinted light beam and remark on life serene to the last among s small catalogue of virtues very small of and conventional virtues let it not be forgotten that he loved this old father warmly to the end and forgave his or forgot them in kind interpretation of them for the paper therefore it is well and yet a man lives not comfortably without money ah were one s marriage not for the old father in law will soon die those rich expectations were then the not the most shame faced man in france is off next spring to stirring and heaven and earth there to have his wife back how he worked with what and courage according to the giant s work the sound of him is spread over france and over the world english travellers high foreign turning aside to and multitudes gathered even on the roofs to hear him the court house being crammed to bursting i fire and pathos penitent husband calling for forgiveness and ce un ef un rays forth the old from the nook a chatter teeth and madman the world and thought not that knew not what to think if not that this was the able man they had ever heard and alas still that his cause was s miscellaneous ble no wife then and no money from this second attack on fortune returns and worse than before for now the old too again eyes him he must hunt like as we said whatsoever of wit or strength he has within himself will stand true to him on that he can count unfortunately on almost nothing but that s life for the next five years which cr obscure through several of these eight volumes will probably in the one right volume which they hold imprisoned be briefly it is the long drawn practical improvement of the sermon already preached in in if in in holland in and elsewhere a giant man in the flower of his years in the winter of his prospects has to see how he will reconcile these two with giant es and talents with giant virtues even he burning to himself has got put into his hands for implements and means to do it with disgrace character elevated only as was purse full only of debt household home and possessions as it were sown with salt ruin s too deeply himself and all that was his under these and not under other conditions shall this man now live and struggle well might he weep long afterwards though not given to the melting mood thinking over with how his life had been by himself by others and was now so and thunder no glory could make it whole again truly as we of en say a weaker and yet very strong	37
saw all things in and m sees all things in there are of s worth whole write a volume on the man as many volumes have been written and try to say more it is the best likeness yet drawn of him by a flourish and two of such advantage is it that a man have an ye instead of a pair of spectacles merely that seeing through the of things and even making away with many a he see into the thing and so know it and be master of it as the years roll on and that of the or era of hope draws towards completion and it becomes ever more evident to that great things are in the wind we find his wanderings as it were suddenly emerging out of night and he down on the paris world time after time flashes into it with that of his that the time is not yet come and then back again occasionally his provoke a and order of arrest he must the faster nay your is good enough to signify it beforehand on such and such a day i shall order you to be arrested pray make speed therefore when the meet in the spring of his on paris and of t seems to him he ought to be secretary of those no friend de gets it the time is not yet come it is still but the time of d and other such animal persons nevertheless the reverend judicious liberal noble friends not a few are sure that the time will come abide thy time hark on the th of december here finally is the long expected announcing itself royal the states general for may next need we ask whether himself now whether or not he is off to to the assembly of there with all hi faculties to the sticking place one strong dead pull thou and perhaps thou it how and strove under these speaking and all day writing all night also suffering much gathering his wild soul together motionless under reproaches under drawn swords even lest his enemies throw him off his guard how he and and is a very demon of the impossible let all readers fancy with a body of more ignorant more insolent than any i have ever seen the of was like to have rough work we must give his celebrated flinging up of the handful of dust when they drove him out by overwhelming majority what have i done that was so criminal i have wished that my order were wise enough to give to day what will be from it to morrow that it should receive the merit and glory of the assemblage of the three orders which all loudly demands this is the crime of your enemy of peace or rather i have ventured to believe that the people might be in the right ah doubtless a soiled with such a thought deserves vengeance but i am still than you s miscellaneous writings think for it is my belief that the people which ia al ways in the right that its patience invariably waits the of oppression before it can determine on resisting that it never long enough to obtain complete and does not sufficiently know that to strike its enemies into terror and submission it has only to stand still that the most as the most invincible of all powers is the power of refusing to do i believe after this manner punish the of peace but you ministers c a rod of peace who are ordained to bless and not to and yet have launched your on me without even the attempt at me at reasoning with me and you friends of peace who to the people with all vehemence of hatred the one it has yet found out of its own ranks who to bring about are filling capital and province with calculated to arm the rural districts against the towns if your deeds did not your writings who to prepare ways of protest against the royal for the states it the people as many as both the other and against all that the coming national assembly shall do unless its laws secure the triumph of your pretensions the eternity of your privileges disinterested friends of peace i have appealed to your honor and summon you to state what expressions of mine have offended against either the respect we owe to the royal authority or to the nation right of europe is attentive weigh well your answer men of god beware hears you and if you do not ig but keep silence shutting yourselves up in the vague you have hurled at me then allow me to add one word in all countries in all have per the people s friends and if by some singular combination of fortune there chanced to arise such a one in their own circle it was he above all whom they struck at eager to inspire wider terror by the elevation of their victim thus perished the of the by the hands of the but being struck with the mortal he flung dust towards heaven and of called on the and from this dust sprang ma not so for the as for in rome the tyranny of the i there goes some foolish story of having now opened a cloth shop in to himself with the third estate we have often laughed the image of measuring out to mankind and at measures has something pleasant for the mind so that though there ia not a shadow of truth in this story the very lie may justly sustain itself for a while in the character of lie far otherwise the reality there voluntary guard of a hundred men crowding by the ten thousand round his of rejoicing heaven people paying two louis for a place at the window i hunger itself very	37
considerable in those days he can by speech violent meal at and at by fire and he down by the word of his mouth the governor him though it is as a roman triumph and more he is chosen for two places has to decline and honor let his enemies look and wonder and sigh forgotten by him for thb too the career at last opens at last does not the benevolent reader though never so a little with this poor brother mortal in such a case victory is always joyful but to think of such a man in the hour when twelve labors he does finally triumph so long he fought with the many headed of and panting and with it for life or death forty long stem years and now he has it under his heel the mountain tops are are where the man climbed on sharp slippery in s miscellaneous writings darkness seen by no kind eye amid the brood of and the heart many times was like to fail within him in his loneliness in his extreme need yet he climbed and climbed his footsteps in his blood and now behold like he has it and on the summit shakes his glittering of war i what a scene and new kingdom for him all bathed in radiance of hope far solemn joyful what wild s music from the depths of nature comes through the soul raised suddenly out of death into victory and life the very we think might weep with this tears of joy which alas will become tears of sorrow for know o son of adam and son of with that accursed ambition of thine that they are all a delusion and piece of these same ments and s tones the thing thou as mortal is what is called t or peace which god knows thou wilt never get so happy they that find it without such searching but in some months more of blazing splendor and tion this will be ashes and lie in the of great men or say french of considerable or even of considered and small noisy men at rest nowhere save on the lap of his mother earth there are to whom the gods in their give glory but far it is given in wrath as a curse and a poison disturbing the whole inner health and industry of the man leading onward through dizzy rings and towards no saint s shrine truly if death did not or still more happily if life and the public were not a and sudden unreasonable oblivion were not to follow that sudden unreasonable glory and i most damp it down one of sees not where many a poor glorious man still more many a poor glorious woman for it falls harder on the distinguished female could far short of on the th day of may madame de looking from a window in the main street of amid an assembled world as the walked in procession from the church of dame to that of saint louis to hear high mass and be constituted states general saw this among these who had been to the third estate above all others the de the opinion men had of his genius was singularly by the fear entertained of his and yet it was this very which the influence his faculties were to secure him you could not but look long at this man when once you had noticed him his immense black head of hair distinguished him among them ail you would have said his force depended on it like that of his face borrowed new expression from its very his whole person gave you the idea of an irregular power but a power such as you would figure in a of the people s history through the first months of the revolution falls not to be written here yet it is well worth writing somewhere the assembly when his name was first read out received it with murmurs not knowing what they murmured at this honorable member they were murmuring over was the member of all members the august without mm were no at all very notable truly is his in this section of world history by far the single element there none like to him or second to him once he is seen visibly to have saved as with his own force the existence of the assembly to have turned the whole tide of things in one of those mo s miscellaneous writings ments which are cardinal decisive for centuries the royal declaration of the twenty third of june is there is military force enough there is then the king s express order to to meet as separate third estate on the morrow and may be the penalty of his voice to encourage others all pallid panic stricken to supreme de enters with the king s renewed order to depart said de you heard the king s order the of out these words that have become memorable yes we heard what the king was advised to say and you who cannot be of his meaning to the states general you who have neither vote nor seat nor right of speech here you are not the man to remind us of it go tell those who sent you that we are here by will of the nation and that nothing but the force of can drive us hence and poor de back foremost the says but this cardinal moment though it be is perhaps among his smaller in general we would say once more with emphasis he has les he goes through the revolution like a substance and a force not like a of one while innumerable barren and constitution are building with such and their august paper constitution which endured eleven months this man looks not at and social but at things and men what is to	37
and smoke with the clear air far under the stars anti hear its uproar as part of the sick noise of life loud indeed yet too as all noise is in the infinite of silence it is an event which can be looked on which may still be still be celebrated and but which it were better now to begin understanding really there are innumerable reasons why we ought to know this same french revolution as it was of which reasons apart altogether from that of philosophy teaching by experience and so forth is there not the best summary in this one reason that we so wish to know it considering the qualities of the matter one may perhaps reasonably feel that since the time of the or earlier there is no chapter of history so well worth studying stated or not we say this persuasion is admitted and acted upon in these days everywhere you find it one of the most pressing duties for the writing to produce history on history of the french revolution in france it would almost seem as if the young author felt thai he must make this his proof shot and evidence of accordingly they do fire off of to say nothing of historical novels g il in rapid succession with or without effect at all events it is curious to look upon curious to contrast the of the same fact by the men of this generation and position with the of it by the men of the last from and to and there is a distance each individual takes up the phenomenon according to his own point of vision to the structure of his organs s miscellaneous writings gives some poor picture of several things unconsciously some picture of himself at least and the phenomenon for its there all the while waiting to be pictured as of en as you like its entire meaning not to be compressed into any picture drawn by man s history in ten volumes contains if we remember rightly one reference and that to a book not to the page or chapter of a book it has for these last seven or eight years a wide or even high reputation which latter it is as far as possible from a superficial air of order of clearness calm is spread over the work but inwardly it is waste no human head that honestly tries can conceive the french so a critic of our acquaintance undertook by way of bet to find four errors per hour in he won amply on the first trial or two and yet readers we must add taking all this along with them may with comfort in certain circumstances nay even with profit for he is a brisk man of his sort and does tell you much if you knew nothing s again is a much more honestly written book yet also an eminently unsatisfactory one his two volumes contain far more meditation and investigation in them than s ten their degree of therefore is very high for it has been said call a book and you call it in all senses bad the writer could not find the right consented with eagerness vol i p whereas properly did not consent at all parliament recalled on the th of september for the th and then took place on the th of the same month th of quite a different month not the same nor next to the same j d a young of forty and odd a young man turned of sixty c history of the revolution word to say and so said many more or less wrong ones did not hit the nail on the head only smote and about it and about it s book has a a as if with iron rods this also is an image of what it has if not of a living earth born tree yet of a firm well without life without color or that is to say s genius is heartily you are too happy that he is not a as well it is very also to study his philosophical reflections how he and a quantity of mere and dead logical and calls it thinking and till he judges there may be enough then begins again as thus the constitution of was made on such principles as had resulted from the ideas and the situation of france it was the work of the middle class which chanced to be the strongest then for as is well known whatever force has the lead will fashion the institutions according to its own aims now tliis force when it belongs to one is when to several it is privilege when to all it is right which latter state is the of society as it was its beginning france had finally arrived thither after passing through which is the aristocratic institution and then through which is the one the work of the assembly perished not so much by its own defects as by the of standing be the aristocracy and the multitude it was attacked by the former and and won by the latter the multitude would never have become supreme had not civil war and the of foreign states rendered its and help indispensable to defend tlie country the multitude required to have the governing of it thereupon aim s it made us revolution as tlie middle class had made its the multitude too had its of which was the tenth of august its which was the its government which was the committee of but as we shall see c chap vol i p s miscellaneous writings or thus for there is the like at the end of every chapter but had fallen on the tenth of august that day was the of the multitude against the middle class and constitutional throne as the of july had heen the of the middle	37
similar collection perhaps still larger and more curious lies buried in the british museum here inaccessible for want of a proper catalogue some eighteen months ago the respectable sub seemed to be working at such a thing by respectful application to him you could gain access to his room and have the satisfaction of mounting on and reading the outside titles of his books which was a great help otherwise you could not in many weeks ascertain so much as the table of contents of this and after days of weary waiting dusty and sickness of hope deferred gave up the enterprise a a game not worth the candle s miscellaneous writings night we have the first twenty two volumes before us which bring down the narrative to january there must be several other volumes out which we have not yet seen conceive a judicious with such resources in summary or where the occasion it given at large this is by no means the most interesting part of the matter we have notices hints of all imaginable sorts of newspapers of of and records of the club of journals nay of and no emblem of the time in its actual movement and tumult could be presented the connect these ments by such as are needful so that a reader coming unprepared to the work can still know what he is their as we can testify are handsomely done but altogether apart from these the themselves are the valuable thing the in such a case are independent of the pen one of the st interesting english we have is that long thin on x published some and twenty years ago where the editor has merely out from the contemporary newspapers whatsoever article paragraph or sentence be found to contain the name of old and printed them in the order of their dates it is surprising that the like has not been attempted in other cases had seven of the eight of and seventy times seven of the four hundred four score and ten imaginative authors but thrown down the writing instrument and turned to the old news paper with the cutting one we can testify after not a little examination that the of the are men of fidelity of diligence that their accuracy in regard to facts dates and so forth is far beyond the average of course they have their own opinions even but these are v of the french revolution honest which they do not hide which one can estimate the force of allow for the result of wilful did the possibility of it lie in their character is otherwise out of the question but indeed our are men of earnestness of strict principle of a faith were it only in the republican their faith truly is palpable thorough going as it has a right to be in these days since it likes the thing you have to praise however is that it is a quiet faith never an hysterical one never expresses itself otherwise than with a becoming calmness especially with a becoming the hoarse deep of the brilliant sharp cutting of the dull of the of all is welcomed with a cold gravity and all is if not of one thing then of another not are the forgotten acts of the king s friend nor of the cock these indeed are more administered but at the right time as is promised we shall have in a word it may be said of this men that the wide promise held out in its title page is really in some respectable measure fulfilled with a fit index to wind it up which index ought to be not good only but excellent so much depends on it here this work bids fair to be one of the most important yet published on the history of the revolution no library that to have a collection in this sort can dispense with it a is precisely the house or say rather the city of which the single brick can form a specimen in so rich a variety the only difficulty is where to choose we have scenes of tragedy of comedy of farce of farce tragedy of all there is eloquence gravity there is and absurdity scenes tender scenes barbarous spirit stirring and then s miscellaneous some a thing waste wild to look upon but great with the greatness of reality for the thing exhibited is no vision but a fact let us as the first give this tragedy of old which all the world has heard of perhaps not very accurately s life drama with its hasty cruel sayings and mean doings with its and the people eating grass if they like v ends in this miserable manner it is the themselves who speak from various sources towards five in the morning paris d july m was brought in he had been arrested at near by the of the place doubtless this man thought himself very guilty towards the people say very for he had spread abroad a report of his death and had even buried one of his servants who happened to die then und his own name he had afterwards hidden himself in an estate of m de where he was detected and seized m was taken to the hotel de where they him wait towards nine o clock the assembled committee had decided that he should be sent to the prison m de was sent for that he might execute this order he was abroad over the districts he could not be found during this time a crowd collected in the square and required to see it was noon m came down the people listened to him but still persisted in the end they penetrated into the great of the hotel de would see whom say they you are wanting to off fi om justice was presented to them then began this remarkable dialogue m de	37
mode the followed their and our royal resemble one another vol ii p then a few days further on the celebrated military dinner at with the white black and o richard i o mon having been paris october the king s wife had been so gratified with it that this of thursday must needs be repeated it was so on the saturday and with our patience was worn out you may suppose whatever there were at hastened to paris with the news or at s miscellaneous least sent off them that same day saturday evening all paris set itself it was a lady first who seeing that her husband was not listened to at his district came to the bar of the de foi to the anti national m flies to returns like lightning makes a noise like the four of doom cr to us awake ye dead on his side sounds the alarm in the on sunday this immortal district posts its and that very day they would have gone to had not m their stood in the way people seek out their arms however sally out to the streets in chase of anti national the law of is in force these are torn off trampled under foot with menace of the in case of a military gentleman picking up his is for it on again a hundred start into the air saying the whole sunday passes in hunting down the white and the black in holding council at the royal over the saint at the end of bridges on the at the doors of the coffee houses there arise free between the upper house of the coats that are within and the lower house of and wool caps assembled extra it is agreed upon that the audacity of the rapidly that madame and the queen s women are enormous white to all comers in the de that m having refused to take one from their hands has all but been it is agreed upon that we have not a moment to lose that the boat which used to bring us flour from morning and evening now comes only once in two days do they plan to make their attack at the moment when they have kept us for eight and forty hours in a state it is agreed upon c vol iii p we hasten to the catastrophe which arrives on the morrow it i related elsewhere in another leading article at break of day the women rush towards the hotel de all the way they fresh hands among their own sex to march with them as sailors are at london there is an active press of women the de la is covered with of the french revolution female the robust kitchen maid tlie slim all must go to swell the the ancient to mass in the dawn sees herself for the first time carried off and shrieks i whilst more than one of the younger sort secretly is not so sorry at going without mother or mistress to to pay her respects to the august assembly at the same time for the accuracy of this narrative i must remark that women at least the of them which that night in the assembly hall and had marched under the flag of m had among themselves a and staff and that every woman on being borrowed from her mother or husband was presented to the or of her de camp who engaged to watch over her morality and her honor for this day once arrived on the place de these women begin letting down the as in great you let down the shrine of saint next they are for mounting into the hotel de the had been of this movement he knew that all have begun by women whose maternal bosom the of the of respects four thousand soldiers presented a front witli kept them back from the step but behind these women there rose and grew every moment a of men armed with bills blood is about to flow on the place the presence of these women it the national guard which is not purely a machine as the minister of war would have the soldier be makes use of its reason it that these women now for are going to the root of the mischief the four thousand guards already getting saluted with stones think it to open a passage and like waters through a broken the floods of the multitude the hotel de it is a picture interesting to paint and one of the greatest in the revolution this same army of ten thousand setting forth to cut off the head of forcing the hotel de themselves with whatever they can lay hands on some tying ropes to the cannon trains carts them with with powder and balls for the na s miscellaneous writings guard which is left without others driving on the horses or seated on cannon holding the match seeking for their not with but of the vol iii p so far on and the of women in the end of we with a scene of a very complexion l some three years farther on that is to say in her i for in his a really more than most thus after a good deal of i was going to ray post about half past two sunday the d of september all ringing and just at hand i was passing along the suddenly i hear i look i observe four coming in a train escorted by the f d r s of the each of these contained four persons they were individuals priests arrested in the preceding visits substitute of the had just been them at the hotel de and now they were proceeding towards the to be detained there a crowd is gathering the cries and one of the prisoners doubtless out of his	37
senses takes fire at these murmurs puts his arm over the coach door gives one of the f d r s a stroke over the head with his cane the f d r in a rage draws his springs on the carriage steps and it thrice over into the of his i saw the blood come out in great kill every one of them they are cry the people the f d r s all draw their and instantly kill the three companions of the one who had just perished i saw at this moment a young man in a white stretch himself out of that same carriage his countenance expressive but pale and worn indicated that he was very sick he had gathered his staggering strength and though already wounded was crying still grace grace pardon but in vain a mortal stroke united him to the lot of the others history of the french revolution this coach which was the now held nothing hut it had not stopped during the which lasted about the space of two minutes the crowd the the are at the the are hurled into the court the twelve living prisoners to enter the committee room two are sacrificed on ten succeed in entering the committee had not had time to put the slightest question when a multitude armed with swords and in the accused and them one prisoner already much wounded k hanging by the skirts of a committee member and still struggled against death three yet remained one of whom was the teacher of the deaf and dumb the were already over his head when the flung himself before them crying kill me rather and not this man who is useful to our country these words uttered with the fire and of a generous soul suspended death by this moment of calm and the other two were got conveyed into the back part of the room as is well known survived and the narrative which he also published exists sufficient to prove among other things that had but two eyes and his own share of sagacity and heart that he has seen and or not a little as one poor man in these circumstances might continues we only his arrangement somewhat twelve presided by with whom they had probably combined this project beforehand find themselves by chance among the crowd and now being well known one to another they unite themselves in the name of the sovereign people whether it were of their own private audacity or that they had secretly received superior orders they lay hold of the prison and turn them over the fall a trembling the s wife and the faint the prison s miscellaneous writings is surrounded by men there is shouting the door is like to be forced when one of the committee members presents himself at the outer gate and audience his signs obtain a moment of silence the doors open he advances gets a chair on it and speaks comrades friends said he you are good your resentment is just open war to the enemies of the common good neither nor mercy it is a war to the death i feel like you that they must all perish and yet if you are good citizens you must love justice there is not one of you but would shudder at the notion of shedding innocent blood yes reply the people well then i ask of you if without inquiry or investigation you fling yourselves like mad on your fellow men here the speaker is interrupted by one of the crowd who with a bloody in bis hand his eyes glancing with rage the press and him in these terms tell us le explain to us then would the of and if they were at paris investigate for the guilty would they not cut to the right and left as the on the tenth of august did well i am no speaker i can stuff the ears of no one but i tell you i have a wife and five children whom i leave with my section here while i go and fight the enemy but it is not my bargain that the in this prison whom other outside will open the door to shall go and kill my wife and children in the meanwhile i have three boys who i hope will be to their country one day than these you want to save any way you have but to send them out we will give them arms and fight them number for number die here or die on the i am sure enough to be killed by these but i mean to sell them my life and be it i be it others the prison shall be of these he is right the general cry and so the frightful proceeds at five in the afternoon arrives he had on his and the small coat and black wig we are used to see on him walking over he makes a short to the people and ends thus people thou art sacrificing thy enemies thou art in thy duty this history of the french revolution speech them new animation the blaze up cry louder than ever for new victims how to this new thirst of blood a voice speaks from beside it was s voice there is nothing more to do here let us to the they run thither in five minutes more i saw them trailing by the heels a i cannot say a man in very coarse clothes had as it would seem been specially to the for apprehensive lest the prey might be missed he takes water it on the their blood faces turns them over and seems at last to ascertain that the is among them vol p this is the september the last scene we can give as a specimen thus in these curious records	37
of the as in some vision become real does scene af er scene disclose itself now in rose light now in black and grow ever more fitful till the scene come and napoleon blow forth his shot and be no more touching the political and speculations of our two we shall say little they are of the sort we lamented in and generally in of this day a of as that prayer perhaps the strangest looking particular doctrine we have noticed is this that the french revolution was at bottom an attempt to realize christianity and fairly put it in action in our world for eighteen centuries it is not denied men had been doing more or less that way but they set their shoulder rightly to the wheel and gave a dead lift for the first time then good m and yet the good does mean something by this and even something true but a has written on our copy for the love of heaven make away with your take your spectacles open your eyes a little and look there s miscellaneous writings indeed here and there considerable of the which and concerning progress of the species doctrine du le the and what not written in a vein of deep even of intense seriousness but profitable one would think to no man or woman in this style m for it is he we understand painfully a preface to each volume and has even given a whole history of france we read some seven or eight of his first hoping always to get some nourishment but seldom or never cut him open now fighting in that way behind cover he is comparatively harmless merely wasting you so many pence per number happily the space he takes is small whoever wants to form for himself an image of the actual state of french meditation and under what surprising a french thinking man of these days finds himself and and reduced to the verge of may open m s and see it as in an expressive summary we wish our two french friends all speed in their business and do again honestly recommend this to any and all of our english friends who take interest iu that subject of the life of scott of the life of scott london and westminster review american in one of his books that there is an instinctive tendency in men to look at any man who has become distinguished true surely as all observation and survey of mankind from china to from to old will testify why do men crowd towards the improved drop at eager to catch a sight the man about to be hanged is in a distinguished situation men crowd to such extent that s is not the only life choked out there again ask of these neat flies with blue men and women in them that all whither so fast to see dear mrs the distinguished female great mr the distinguished male or consider that crowning phenomenon and summary of modern civilization a of lions glittering are the rooms well lighted thronged bright flows their flood of gowns and dress coats a soft smile dwelling on all faces for behold there also flow the lions hovering distinguished of the age or one sort or another really pleasant to see whom it is worth while to see look at them but inquire not of them depart rather and be thankful for your lion admits not of speech there lies the of it a meeting together of human creatures and yet so high has of the life of sir walter scott vol i vi s miscellaneous writings civilization gone the aim of human meeting that soul might in some articulate utterance itself to soul can be with in it utterance there is not nay there is a certain grinning play of tongue fence and of utterance considerably worse than none for which reason it has been suggested with an eye to sincerity and silence in such mon might not each lion be for example as wine are let him carry round him in such ornamental manner as seemed good his silver with name engraved you lift his and read it with what farther survey you find useful and speech is not needed at all o it is most true there is an instinctive tendency in men to look at any man that has become distinguished and moreover an instinctive desire in men to become distinguished and be looked at for the rest we will call it a most valuable tendency this indispensable to mankind without it where were star and and significance of rank where were all ambition money respectability of or no and in a word the main by which society moves the main force by which it hangs together a tendency we say of manifold results of manifold origin not ridiculous only but sublime which some incline to from the mere nature of man him to run as dim eyed animals do towards any glittering object were it but a and mistake it for a or even sheep like to run and crowd because many have already run it is indeed curious to consider how men do make the gods that themselves worship for the most man round whom all the world and as if his like were not is the same man whom all the world was wont to into the not a changed man but in every fibre of of the life of scott him the same man foolish world what went ye out to see a bright and do there not lie of the self same whole of though by worse fortune all still in the dim state and yet at bottom it is not merely our quality but something better and indeed best what has been called the perpetual fact of hero worship sincere love of great men not the	37
gilt for its own sake do even fools but the gold guinea which they mists e it for veneration of great men is in the nature of man this in all times especially in these is one of the facts of him in all times even in these seemingly so times it remains a blessed fact so has nature ordered it that whatsoever man ought to obey he cannot hut obey show the show the that a soul higher than himself is actually here were his knees into brass he must down and worship so it has been written and may be and repeated till known to all understand it well this of hero worship was the creed and has been the secondary and and will be the ultimate and final creed of mankind changing in shape but in essence whereon and all highest human interests have been and can be built as on a rock that will endure while man such is so much lies in that our sincere love of great men in favor of which unspeakable benefits of the reality what can we do but cheerfully pardon the of the semblance cheerfully wish even with for their lions or without that improvement all manner of prosperity let hero flourish say we and the more and more chase af er gilt while guineas are not yet vol iv s miscellaneous writings at lowest is proof that guineas exist that they are to exist and valued find great men if you can if you cannot still quit not the search in defect of great men let there be noted men men in such number to such degree of intensity as the public appetite can whether sir walter scott was a great man is still a question with some but there can be no question with any one that he was a most noted and even notable man in this generation there was no literary man with such a popularity in any country there have only been a few with such taking in all generations and all countries nay it is farther to be admitted that sir walter scott s popularity was of a select sort rather not a popularity of the his admirers were at one time almost all the intelligent of civilized countries and to the last included and do still include a great portion of that sort such fortune he had and has continued to maintain for a space of some twenty or thirty years so long the observed of all a great man or only a considerable here surely if ever is a singularly is a distinguished man in regard to whom therefore the instinctive tendency on other men s part cannot be wanting let men look where the world has already so long looked and now while the new earnestly expected life by his son in law and literary again summons the whole world s attention round him probably for the last time it will ever be so summoned and men are in some sort taking leave of a and about to go their way and commit him to his fortune on the flood of things why should not this publication likewise publish its thought about him readers of miscellaneous aspect of unknown quantity and quality are waiting to hear it done with small inward but cheer of the life of scott fully to destiny and necessity the present will follow a multitude to do evil or to do no evil will depend not on the multitude but on himself one thing he did decidedly wish at least to wait till the work were finished for the six promised volumes as the world knows have flowed over into a seventh which will hot for some weeks yet see the light but the powers wearied with waiting have become and declare that finished or not finished they will have their hands washed of it at this opening of the year perhaps it is best the of scott will not be much altered for us by the seventh volume the prior six have altered it but little as indeed a man who has written some two hundred volumes of his own and lived for thirty years amid the universal speech of friends must have already left some likeness of himself be it as the powers require first therefore a word on the life itself mr s known powers justify strict in his case our v in general would be that he has accomplished the work he for himself in a creditable manner it is true his notion of what the work was does not seem to have been very elevated to picture forth the life of scott according to any rules of art or composition so that a reader on examining it might say to there is scott there is the and meaning of scott s appearance and on this earth such was he by nature so did the world act on him so he on the world with such result and significance for himself and us this was by no manner of means mr s plan a plan which it is said should over every biography it might have been fulfilled with all de ot perfection from that of the down to thomas or lower for there is no heroic poem s miscellaneous writings in the world but is at bottom a biography the life of a man also it may be said there is no life of a man faithfully recorded but is a heroic poem of its sort or it is a plan one would did it otherwise suit which it does not in these days seven volumes sell so much dearer than one are so much easier to write than one the for instance what were the value of the sold per sheet one paper of or say the oi one this in commercial were the equal	37
to divided by an unknown there is a great discovery still to be made in literature that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write nay in sober truth is not this actually the rule in all writing and moreover in all conduct and acting not what stands above ground but what lies unseen under it as the root and element it sprang from and forth value under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better silence is deep as eternity speech is shallow as time does it seem wo for the age wo for the man ridden blown about like barren to whom this world old truth were altogether strange such we say is the rule acted on or not recognised or not and he who from it what can he do but spread himself into breadth and length into and and except as become comparatively useless one thinks had but the of thin wash which in a week ready for the been been concentrated our dear whom we started with might in that way have given us one one melodious of man and nature in the west for it lay in him to do it almost of the life of scott as a saint did for the islands of the east and the hundred hastily together by order of col burn and company had in as all ought if possible to do verily this same genius of writing of acting is a and souls pass through the fire to him more than enough surely if ever discovery was valuable and needful it were that above indicated of paying by the work not visibly done which needful discovery we will give the whole projecting knowledge march of intellect and and societies in the old and new world any required length of centuries to make once made such discovery once made we too will fling cap into the air and shout lo the devil is conquered and in the meanwhile study to think it nothing miraculous that seven volumes are given where one had been and that several other things happen very much as they from of old were known to do and are like to continue doing mr s aim we take it was not that of producing any such work of art as we hint at or indeed to do much r than to print bound together by order of time and by some requisite all such letters documents and notices about scott as he found lying suitable and as it likely the world would undertake to read his work accordingly is not so much a composition as what we may call a well done neither is this a task of no difficulty this too is a task that may be performed with extremely various degrees of talent from the life and correspondence of for instance up to this life of scott there is a wide range indeed let us take the seven volumes and be thankful that they are genuine in their kind nay as to that of their being seven and not one it is right to say that the public so s s miscellaneous writings required it to have done other would have shown little policy in an author had mr laboriously compressed himself and instead of well done brought out the well done composition in one volume instead of seven which not many men in england are better qualified to do there can be no doubt that his readers for the time had been fewer if the praise of be denied him that of prudence must be which perhaps he more the truth is the work done in this manner too was good to have scott s biography if lies printed and here in the state and can at any time be composed if necessary by has call to that as it is as it was meant to be we repeat the work is vigorously done sagacity diligence good manners good sense these qualities are throughout the dates calculations statements we suppose to be all accurate much laborious inquiry some of it impossible for another man has been gone into the results of which are imparted with due scott s letters not interesting generally yet never absolutely without interest are given but with selection the answers to them still more select narrative and at length personal reminiscences occasionally of much merits of a certain rough force sincerity and picturesque ness duly the scattered members of scott s life do lie here and could be in a word this is the work of a clear seeing man and has been executed with the faculty and combination of faculties the public had a right to expect the name attached to it one thing we hear greatly in mr that be has been too and has recorded much that ought to have lain suppressed persons are of the life of scott mentioned and circumstances not always of an ornamental sort it would appear there is far less than was looked for various persons name and have received pain nay the very hero of the biography is rendered facts of him and of those he had to do with being set forth in plain english hence personality or worse of private life c c how delicate decent is english biography bless its mouth a sword of hangs for ever over the poor english life writer as it does over poor english life in general and him to the verge of thus it has been said there are no english lives worth reading except those of players who by the nature of the case have respectability good day the english has long felt that if in writing his man s biography he wrote down that by possibility offend any man he had written wrong the plain consequence was that properly speaking no biography whatever could be produced	37
an treacherous manner to him such is actually current he that has ears may hear it now and then on which astonishing if a word must be said it can only be an apology for silence that there are things at which one stands struck silent as at first sight of the infinite for if mr is fairly with any radical defect if on any side his insight entirely fails him it seems even to be in this that scott is altogether lovely to him that scott s greatness out for him on all hands beyond reach of eye that his very faults become beautiful his vulgar are solid and of his worth there is no measure does not the patient dwell on his and hasty theatrical scene paintings them as if they were pictures of the life of scott time the novel with its a year is sacred ta him as creation of a genius carries the noble victor up to heaven scott is to the of the time an object spreading out before him like a sea without shore of that astonishing let expressive silence be the only answer and so in sum with regard to s life of scott readers that believe in us shall read it with the feeling that a man of talent decision and insight wrote it wrote it in seven volumes not in one because the public would pay for it better in that state but wrote it with courage with frankness sincerity on the whole in a very manner as things go needs it can purchase it or the loan of it with assurance more than usual that he has ware fo r his money and now enough of the written life we will glance a little at the man and his acted life into the question whether scott was a great man or not we do not propose to enter deeply it is as too usual a question about words there can be no doubt but many men have been and printed great who were vastly smaller than he ag little doubt moreover that of th specially good a very large portion according to any genuine standard of man s worth were worthless in comparison to him he for whom scott is great may most innocently name him so may with advantage admire his great qualities and ought with sincere heart to them at the same time it is good that there be a certain degree of precision in our it is good to understand for one thing that no popularity and open mouthed wonder of all the world continued even for a long series of can make a man great such popularity is a remarkable for s miscellaneous writings tune a great of the man to his element of circumstances but may or may not indicate anything great in the man to our imagination as above hinted there is a certain in it but in the reality no at all popularity is bis a blaze of illumination or alas of kindled round a man showing what is in him not putting the smallest item more into him often much from him the poor man himself into ashes and and then by the nature of it such popularity is transient your series of years quite unexpectedly sometimes almost all on a sudden for the stupidity of men especially of men in masses round any object is extreme what and have kindled themselves as if new heavenly had risen which proved only to be and locks of straw profane cried out one god one and now have they and danced in literature too there have been seen greater even than scott s and nothing in the interior of them de whom all the world swore by and made a proverb of who could make an acceptable five act tragedy in almost as many hours the greatest of all past or present and perhaps one of the greatest men that ever among himself so radiant far shining has not proved to be a sun or star of the but is as good as lost and gone out or plays at best in the eyes of some few as a vague and brilliant the great man of spain sat obscure at the time all dark and poor a soldier writing his don in prison and s fate withal was sad his popularity perhaps a curse to him for in this man there was something ethereal too a divine in few other popular men and such far shining of himself though all the of ot by it do for the true life of him even while he lived he had to creep into a into a s and learn with infinite sorrow that his ness had lain elsewhere that when a man s life feels itself to be sick and an error no of by can make it well and a truth again or coming down to our own times was not august popular not so many years since saw himself if and hand clapping could be the greatest man going saw visibly his thoughts dressed out in and and civilized europe the most iron weeping with him in all theatre from to his own astonishing genius meanwhile producing two or so per month he on the whole blazed high enough he too has gone out into night and and already is not we will omit this of popularity altogether and account it as making simply nothing towards scott s greatness or non greatness as an accident not a of this and reduced to his own natural dimensions there remains the reality walter scott and what we can find in him to be accounted great or not great according to the of men friends to pre of epithet will probably deny his title to the name great it seems to us there goes other stuff to 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be detected here one knows not what idea worthy of the name of great what purpose instinct or tendency that could be called great scott ever was inspired with his was worldly his were worldly there is nothing spiritual in him all is economical material of the earth a love of picturesque of beautiful vigorous and graceful things a genuine love yet not more genuine than has dwelt in hundreds of men named minor poets this is the highest quality to be vol iv s miscellaneous discerned in him his power of representing these things too his poetic power like his moral power was a genius in as we may say not in in action in speculation broad as he was he rose nowhere high productive without measure as to quantity in quality he for the most part but a little way the region of commonplace it has been said no man has written as many volumes with so few sentences that can be quoted winged words were not his nothing urged him that way the great mystery of existence was not great to him did not drive him into rocky to with it for an answer to be answered or to perish he had nothing of the martyr into no dark region to monsters for us did he either led or driven venture down his were for his own mainly over common market labor and in good coin of the realm the thing he had faith in except power power of what sort and even of the sort would be to point out one sees not that he believed in anything nay he did not even but quietly and made himself at home in a world of the false the semi false and the true were alike true in this that they were there and had power in their hands more or less it was well to feel so and yet not well w find it written wo to them that are at ease in but surely it is a double wo to them that are at ease in in on the other hand he wrote many volumes amusing many thousands of men shall we call this great it seems to us there dwells and struggles another sort of spirit in the inward parts of great men brother the missionary inquired of ram a man god who had set up for lately what he meant to do then with the sins of mankind to which ram at once answered he had fir enough in op the life of scott his to burn up all the sins in the world ram was right so far and had a of sense in him for surely it is the test of every divine man this same and without it he is not divine or great that he have fire in him to burn up somewhat of the sins of the world of the miseries and errors of the world why else is he there far be it from us to say that a great man must needs with benevolence become a friend of humanity nay that such professional self conscious friends of humanity are not the kind of persons to be met with in our day all greatness is unconscious or it is and naught and yet a great man without such fire in him burning dim or developed as a divine in his heart of hearts never resting till it be fulfilled were a in nature a great man is ever as the speak possessed with an idea napoleon himself not the of great men and sufficiently with and had nevertheless as is clear enough an idea to start with the idea that was the cause of man the right and infinite cause accordingly he made himself the armed soldier of and did it in a rather great manner nay to the very last he had a kind of idea that namely of e the tools to him that can handle them really one of the best ideas yet on that matter or rather the one true central idea towards which all the others if they tend must tend unhappily it was in the military province only that napoleon could realize this idea of his being forced to fight for himself the while before he got it tried to any extent in the civil province of things his head by much victory grew light no head can stand more than its quantity and he lost head as they say and became a selfish and and was hurled out leaving his idea to be realized in the civil province of things by s miscellaneous others thus was napoleon thus are all great men children of the idea or in ram s furnished with fire to hum up the miseries of men conscious or unconscious latent or unfolded there is small of any such fire being in the inner man of scott yet on the other hand the critic must allow that scott was a genuine man which itself is a great matter no affectation or dwelt in him no shadow of cant nay withal was he not a right brave and strong man according to his kind what a load of toil what a measure of felicity he quietly bore along with him with what quiet strength he both worked on this earth and enjoyed in it invincible to evil fortune and to good a most composed invincible man in difficulty and distress knowing no like carrying off on his strong shoulders the gates that would him in danger and menace laughing at the whisper of fear and then with such a sunny current of true humor and humanity a free joyful sympathy with so many things what of fire he had all lying so beautifully latent as radical latent heat as fruitful internal warmth of life a robust healthy man the truth is our best definition of were 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this that he was if no great man then something much pleasanter to be a robust thoroughly healthy and withal very prosperous and victorious man an eminently well man healthy in body healthy in we will call him one of the of men neither is this a small matter health is a great matter both to th possessor of it and to others on the whole that in the moral essay was not so far out who determined on health only and so instead of himself to the to the rich and well dressed insisted on hat to the healthy carriages with pale ii in them passed by as failures miserable and of the life of scott ble with ruddy strength dragging at them were greeted as successful and venerable for does not health mean harmony the of all that is true justly ordered good is it not in some sense the net total as shown by experiment of whatever worth is in us the healthy man is a most product of nature so far as he goes a healthy body is good but a soul in right health it is the thing beyond all others to be prayed for the thing earth receives of heaven without of philosophy or tight of always very questionable the healthy soul what is good and to it and it what is bad and casts it off an instinct from nature herself like that which guides the wild animals of the forest to their food shows him what he shall do what he shall from the false and foreign will not to him cant and all fantastic are impossible as the original in such eminence of health was he for his part could not by much from soap and water attain to a dirty face this thing thou work with and profit by this thing is substantial and worthy that other thing thou not work with it is trivial and so speaks the inward of the man s whole nature no need of logic to prove the most absurdity absurd as says of himself all this ran down from me like water from a man in wax cloth dress blessed is the healthy nature it is the sweetly not self self destructive one in the harmonious and play of all the faculties the just balance of gives a just feeling towards all men and all things glad light from within and and now all this can be of walter scott and of no british literary man that we remember in these days to any s s extent if it be not perhaps of one the most opposite imaginable to scott but bis equal in this quality and what holds of it william nay there are other widely different as they two look nor be the comparison to scott for also as the pattern john bull of his century strong as the and with singular and shining through his thick skin is a most brave phenomenon so was nature to us in the of recorded ages when british literature lay all and in and other tearful or fruit of internal nature was kind enough to send us two healthy men of whom she might still say not pride these also were made in england such limbs do i still make there it is one of the cheerful lest sights let the question of its greatness be settled as you will a healthy nature may or may not be great but there is no great nature that is not healthy or on the whole might we not say scott in the new of the nineteenth century was very much the old fighting of prior centuries the kind of man nature did of old q in that of his in the saddle with the spear he would have himself as he did at the desk with is pen one fancies how in stout of s time he could have played s part and been the s he in this late time could only delight to draw the same stout self help was in him the same oak and triple brass round his heart he too could have fought at wire crowns with the if that had been the task could have cattle in injury with compound interest a right sufficient captain of men a man without or a hard headed sound hearted man of joyous robust temper looking to the main chance and fighting of life of scott direct i how much in that case had in him and passed away without sign but indeed who knows how much in many men perhaps our greatest poets are the mute the are those whom by happy accident we lay hold of one here one there as it chances and make it is even a question whether had not want discomfort and distress been at on himself had not lived killing or wool had the boarding school turned out well we had never heard of samuel johnson samuel johnson had been a fat and and never known that he was more nature is rich those two eggs thou art eating carelessly to breakfast could they not have been into a pair of fowls and have covered the whole work with poultry but it was not of cattle in or of crowns at that this stout border chief was appointed to perform far other work to be the and pleasant tale to britain and europe in the beginning of the artificial nineteenth century here and not there lay his business of would have found it very amazing how he shapes himself to this new element how he helps himself along in it makes it too do for him sound and victorious in it and leads over the such a spoil as all the cattle the ever took were poor in comparison to this is the history of the life and achievements of our sir	37
waiter scott we are now to glance for a little i it is a thing remarkable a thing substantial of joyful sort not unworthy to be glanced at withal however a ance here and there will suffice our limits are narrow the thing were it never so victorious is not of the sublime nor extremely there is nothing in it to s miscellaneous writings sure vehemently nor love vehemently there is more to wonder at than admire and the whole secret is not an one till towards the age of thirty scott s life has nothing in it pointing towards literature or indeed towards distinction of any kind he is wedded settled and has gone through all his preliminary steps without symptom of renown as yet it is the life of every other youth of his station and time fortunate we must name it in many ways parents in easy or wealthy circumstances yet with the cares and of aristocracy eminent in place in faculty or culture yet nothing deficient all around is prudence prosperity kind an element of warmth and light of affection industry and comfort heightened into elegance in which the j heart can grow a vigorous health seems to have been given by nature yet as if nature had said withal let it be a health to express itself by mind not by body a is added in childhood the brave little boy instead of and must learn to think or at lowest what is a great matter to sit still no and ling for this young walter but history books and a world of which his mother and those near him are able to furnish disease which is but superficial and issues in outward does not cloud the young existence rather forwards it towards the it is fitted for the miserable disease had been one of the internal nobler parts the general organization under which no walter scott could have been forwarded or with all his other could have been or possible nature gives healthy children much how much wise education is a wise of this often it itself better of its own accord or the life of scott add one other circumstance the place where namely scotland the influences of this are felt incessantly they stream in at every pore there is a country accent says la not in speech only but in thought conduct character and manner of existing which never a man scott we believe was all his days an in scotland but that makes little to the matter nobody who knows scotland and scott can doubt but too had a vast share in the forming of him a country where the entire people is or even once has been laid hold of filled to the heart with an infinite religious idea has made a step from which it cannot conscience the sense that man is of a universe creature of an eternity has penetrated to the remotest cottage to the simplest heart beautiful and awful the feeling of a heavenly of duty god commanded all life there is an tion in such a people one may say in a more special sense the inspiration of the almighty them understanding honor to all the brave and true everlasting honor to brave old one of the truest of the true i that in the moment while he and his cause amid civil in and confusion were still but struggling for life he ent the forth to all corners and said let the people be taught this is but one and indeed an inevitable and comparatively item in his great message to men his message in its true compass was let men know that they are men created by god responsible to god who work in any meanest moment of time what will last through eternity it is verily a great message not and machines not patent never so ornamental to the produce of these no in no wise born slaves neither of their fellow men nor of their own but men this great message s miscellaneous writings did deliver with a man s voice and strength and found a people to believe him of such an achievement we say were it to be made once only the results are immense thought in such a country may change its form but cannot go out the country has attained thought and a certain spiritual manhood ready for all work that man can do there it may take many forms the form of hard industry as in the vulgar in the vulgar new but as compact developed force and of faculty it is still there it may utter itself one day as the colossal of a beneficent this too though painful like through doubt and inquiry towards new belief and again some better day it may utter itself as the inspired melody of a burns in a word it is and continues in the voice and the work of a nation of hardy considering men with whatever that may bear in it or from it the scotch national character in many circumstances first of all in the saxon stuff was to work on but next and beyond all else except that in the gospel of john it seems a good national character and on some sides not so good let scott thank john for he owed him much little as he dreamed of debt in that quarter no of his time was more entirely scotch than walter scott the good and the not so good which all inherit ran through every fibre of him scott s childhood school days college days are pleasant to read of though they differ not from those of others in his place and time the memory of him may probably enough last till this record of them become far more curious than it now is so lived an writer to the s son in the end of the century may	37
some future of the life of scott scotch say to himself in the end of the the following little fragment of infancy is all we can extract it is from an which he had begun which one cannot but regret he did not finish scott s best qualities never shone out more freely than when he went upon anecdote and such a master of narrative and of himself could have done personal narrative well here if any where his knowledge was complete and all his humor and good humor had free scope an odd incident is worth it seems my mother had sent a maid to take charge of me at this farm of sandy that i might be no inconvenience to the family but the sent on that important mission had her heart behind her in the keeping of some wild fellow it is likely who had done and said more to her than he was like to make good she became extremely desirous to return to and as my mother made a point of her remaining where she was she contracted a sort of hatred at poor me as the cause of her being detained at sandy this rose i suppose to a sort of affection for she confessed to old the housekeeper that she had carried me up to the under a strong temptation of evil to cut my throat with her and bury me in the moss instantly took possession of my person and took care that her should not be subject to any further temptation at least so far as t was concerned she was dismissed of course and i have heard became a lunatic it is here at sandy in the residence of my paternal grandfather already mentioned that i have the first consciousness of existence and i recollect distinctly that my situation and appearance were a little among the odd to to aid my some one had recommended that so often as a sheep was killed for tlie use of the family i should be stripped and up in the skin warm as it was from the of the animal in this like i well remember lying upon the floor of the little parlor in the while my grandfather a venerable old man with white hair s miscellaneous writings used every excitement to make me try to crawl i also remember the late sir george m of father of the present sir henry hay m joining in the attempt he was god knows how a relation of and i still recollect him in his old fashioned military habit he had been colonel of the with a small cocked hat deeply an embroidered scarlet waistcoat and a light colored coat witli milk white locks tied in a military fashion kneeling on the ground before me and dragging his watch along the carpet to induce me to follow it the benevolent old soldier and the infant wrapped in his would have afforded an odd group to spectators this must have happened about my third year for sir george m and my grandfather both died shortly after that period vol i we will glance next into the scott has grown up to be a brisk hearted jovial young man and advocate in he makes excursions to the to the border and rides free and far on his stout through and over the dim land over and other fields and places where though he yet knew it not his work lay no land however dim and but either has had or will have its poet and so become not unknown in song which was once as as most having now attained illustration let us glance thither ward too is on this ancient earth of ours under this eternal sky and gives and takes in the most manner with the universe at large scott s experiences there are rather of the rustic sort the element of not wanting we should that here and there a feature has perhaps been for effect s sake during seven successive years writes mr for the has long since left us scott made a as he called it into with mr substitute of of the life of scott for his guide exploring every to its source and every ruined from foundation to at this time no wheeled carriage had ever been seen in the district the first indeed was a driven by scott himself for a part of his way when on the last of these seven excursions there was no inn nor public house of any kind in the whole valley the travellers passed from the shepherd s hut to the minister s and again from the cheerful hospitality of the to the rough and jolly welcome of the gathering wherever they went songs and tunes and occasionally more relics of antiquity even such a of as burns to captain to these scott owed much of the materials of his of the border and not less of that intimate acquaintance with the living manners of these regions which the chief charm of one of the most charming of his prose works but how soon he had any definite object before him in his seems very he was a the time said mn but he ken maybe what he was about till years had passed at first he thought o little i dare say but the and the fun in those days says the before me were not so plenty at least about and the worthy substitute goes on to describe the sort of bustle not with alarm produced at the first farm house they visited s at when the honest man was informed of the quality of one of his guests when they dismounted accordingly he received mr scott with great ceremony and insisted upon himself leading his horse to the stable accompanied however and the latter after taking a deliberate peep at scott out by the	37
himself never knows it much less do others give him room give him impulse he reaches down to the infinite with that so imprisoned soul of his and can do miracles if need be it is one of the truths that great men abound though in the unknown state nay as above hinted our greatest being also by nature our are perhaps those that remain unknown philosopher took comfort in this belief when from all and and and stationary he could hear nothing but the infinite chattering and of the life of scott of commonplace become ambitious and in the infinite stir of motion and of din which should have been silence all seemed into one and the stern almost desired taxes on knowledge to it a little he comforted himself we say by the belief that thought did still exist in germany that thinking men each in his own corner were verily doing their work though in a silent latent manner walter scott as a latent walter had never amused all men for a score of years in the course of centuries and or gained and lost say a hundred thousand pounds sterling by literature but he might have been a happy and by no means a useless nay who knows at bottom whether not a still walter however that was not his fortune the genius of rather a singular age an age at once destitute of faith and terrified at with little know ledge of its with many sorrows to bear or front and on the whole with a life to lead in these new circumstances had said to himself what man shall be the temporary or were it but the spiritual of thia my poor singular age to solace its dead and manifold sorrows a little so had the genius said looking over all the world what man and found him walking the dusty outer parliament house of with his advocate gown on his back and exclaimed tha is he the of the border proved to be a well from which flowed one of the rivers which in due time pass into prose the old life of men for us it is a mighty word not as dead tradition but as a palpable presence the past stood before us there they were the rugged old fighting des s men in their simplicity and strength with their heart their their stout self help in their iron leather jack boots in their of manner and costume there as they looked and lived it was like a new discovered continent in literature for the new century a bright el or else some fat land of and paradise of to the opening nineteenth century in its languor and nothing could have been most unexpected most refreshing and behold our new el our fat where one can enjoy and do nothing it was the time for such a new literature and tliis walter scott was the man for it the lays the the and of lake and followed in quick succession with ever profit and praise how many thousands of guineas were paid down for each new lay how many thousands of copies fifty and more sometimes were printed off then and subsequently what renown and there was all is recorded in these seven volumes which will be valuable in literary it is a history brilliant remarkable the outlines of which are known to all the reader shall recall it or conceive it no blaze in his fancy is likely to mount higher than the reality did at this middle period of his life therefore scott enriched with with new official and rich in money rich in presents himself as a man in the full career of success health wealth and wit to guide them as his proverb says all these three are his the field is open for him and victory there his own faculty his own self itself the highest that can befall a man wide circle of friends personal loving admirers warmth of domestic joys vouchsafed to all that can true of the life of scott down among them light of radiance and renown given only to a few who would not call scott happy but the happiest circumstance of all is as we said above that scott had in himself a right healthy soul rendering him little dependent on outward circumstances things showed themselves to him not in or borrowed light or gloom but as they were endeavor lay in him and endurance in due measure and clear vision of what was to be endeavored after were one to preach a sermon on health as really were worth doing scott ought to be the text theories are true in the way of logic and then in the way of practice they prove true or else not true but here is the grand experiment do they turn out well what boots it that a man s creed is the wisest that his system of principles is the if when set to work the life of him does nothing but jar and fret itself into holes they are in that were it in nothing else these principles of his openly convicted of only shall we say to be rejected as and to the dogs we say not that but we do say that ill health of body or of mind is defeat is battle in a good or in a bad cause with bad success that health alone is victory let all men if they can manage it contrive to be healthy he who in what cause sinks into pain and disease let him take thought of it let him know well that it is not good he has arrived at yet but surely evil may or may not be on the way towards good scott s showed itself in all things and nowhere more than in this the way	37
in which he took his fame the estimate he from the first formed of fame money will buy money s worth but the thing men call fame what is it a gaudy not good for much except indeed as it too may turn to money to scott it was a profitable pleasing no necessary s miscellaneous writings of life not necessary now or ever seemingly without much effort but taught by nature and the instinct which the sound heart what is good for it and what is not he felt that he could always do without this same of reputation that he ought to put no trust in it but be ready at any time to see it pass away from him and to hold on his way as before it is as we conjecture what evil he escaped in this manner what mean agonies without a name he lived wholly apart from knew nothing of happily before fame arrived he had reached the mature age at which all this was easier to him what a strange in the of men in thy mouth it shall be sweet as honey in thy belly it shall be bitter as i some weakly organized individual we say at the age of five and twenty whose main or whole talent rests on some and nothing under it but and is clutched hold of by the general imagination is whirled aloft to the giddy height and taught to believe the divine seeming message that he is a great man such individual seems the of men and is he not the riot the o weakly organized individual it is fell poison it will dry up the fountains of thy whole existence and all will grow withered and thou shalt be wretched under the sun is there for example a book than that life of by to omit mere that rest on look at poor who really had much substance in him sitting there in his with a proud heart striving to persuade itself that it the entire created universe and far off in let any draw pen on him your proud in torture as if the pitiful were a or his pen a wire struck into the s lamentable one of the life of scott had rather be a and cry o son of adam great or little according as thou art those thou with will love thee those thou not with is it of moment that they have the letters of thy name engraved on their memory with some likeness of thee as like as i to to them it is not of moment in sober truth not of any moment at all and yet behold there is no soul now whom thou love freely from one soul only art thou always sure of reverence enough in presence of no soul is it rightly well with thee how is thy world become desert and thou for the sake of a little of tongues art poor not in purse but in heart and mind the golden calf of self love says paul has grown into a burning bull to its owner and ambition the desire of shining and was the beginning of sin in this world the man of letters who upon his fame does he not thereby alone declare himself a of named satan the enemy and member of the school it was in this poetic period that scott formed his with the and embarked though under cover largely in trade to those who regard him in the heroic light and will have to signify prophet as well as poet this portion of his biography seems somewhat viewed as it stood in the reality as he was and as it was the enterprise since it proved so unfortunate may be called lamentable but cannot be called unnatural the practical scott looking towards practical issues in all things could not but find hard cash one of the most practical if by any means cash could be honestly produced were it by writing poems were it by them why not great things might be done ultimately great difficulties were at once got rid of manifold of and i s miscellaneous writings of fell away a and speculation was not so alien for a maker of books who indeed got no made much money by the war in his time we believe by the branch of it saint george himself they say was a dealer in bacon in a man will help himself towards his object by such steps as lead to it station in society solid power over the good things of this world was scott s object towards which the of is that of put money in thy purse here indeed it is to be remarked that perhaps no literary man of any generation has less value than scott for the part of his mission in any sense not only for the called fame with the fantastic miseries attendant but also for the spiritual purport of his work whether it tended or or had any tendency whatever and indeed for all and results of his working except such we may say as offered themselves to the eye and could in one sense or the other be handled looked at and into the breeches pocket somewhat too little of a this of ours but so it was in this nineteenth century our highest literary man who beyond all others commanded the world s ear had as it were no message whatever to deliver to the world wished not the world to itself to itself to do this or to do that except simply pay him for the books he kept writing very remarkable perhaps for an age fallen languid destitute of faith and terrified at or perhaps for quite another sort of age an age all in triumphant motion but indeed since s time there has been no greater speaker so	37
unconscious of an aim in speaking equally unconscious these two equally the sincere complete pro of the life of scott of the minds they came from and now if they were equally deep or if the one was living fire and the other was futile and mere it will depend on the relative worth of the minds for both were equally spontaneous both equally expressed themselves by un aim beyond drawing to the globe theatre contemplated no result in those plays of his yet they have had results utter with free heart what thy own gives thee if fire from heaven it shall be well if fire work it shall be as well as it could be or better than otherwise the candid judge will in general require that a speaker in so extremely serious a universe as this of ours have something to speak about in the heart of the speaker there ought to be some kind of gospel burning till it be uttered otherwise it were better for him that he altogether held his peace a gospel somewhat more decisive than this of scott s except to an age altogether languid without either or faith i these things the candid judge will demand of literary men yet withal will recognise the great worth there is in scott s honesty if in nothing more in his being the thing he was with such entire good faith here is a something not a nothing if no messenger heaven looking through his eyes then neither is it a with his systems and last infirmity of noble minds full of misery and ill will but a substantial man far as the earth is under the heaven does scott stand below the former sort of character but high as the cheerful earth is above waste does he stand above the latter let him live in his own fashion and do honor to him in that it were late in the day to write on those at the same time the great popularity they s miscellaneous had seems natural enough in the first place there was the impress of worth of genuine human force in them this which lies in some degree or is thought to lie at the bottom of all popularity did to an unusual degree disclose itself in these of scott s pictures were actually painted and presented human emotions conceived and with considering what wretched and other up of old worn out was the article then it may be granted that scott s excellence was superior and supreme when a hay was the main singer a scott might well be hailed with warm welcome consider whether the loves of the plants and even the loves of the could be worth the loves and hates of men and women scott was as to what he as the substance is to repeated shadow of a substance but in the second place we may say that the kind of worth which scott manifested was fitted especially for the then temper of men we have called it an ago fallen into spiritual languor destitute of belief yet terrified at reduced to live a half life under strange new circumstances now vigorous this was what of all things these offered the reader was carried back to rough strong wherein those of ours had not yet arisen all in and iron their hearts too in oak and triple brass their huge war horses shook their death doing and went forth in the most determined manner doubting the reader sighed yet not without a o that i too had lived in those times had never known these logic this doubt this and been and felt myself alive among men alive add lastly that in this new found poetic world there was no call for effort on the reader s part what excellence they had exhibited itself at a glance it was for of the life of scott the reader not the only but a of a and paradise of i the reader what the vast majority of readers so long to do was allowed to lie down at his ease and be to what the bath keeper is said to aim at with his and and more or less effectually that the patient in total idleness may have the delights of activity was here to a considerable extent realized the languid imagination fell back into its rest an artist was there who could supply it with high painted scenes with of stirring action and whisper to it be at ease and let thy element be comfortable to thee the rude man says a critic requires only to see something going on the man of more refinement must be made to feel the man of complete refinement must be made to reflect we named the of the der the fountain from which flowed this great river of but according to some they can be traced to a still higher spring to s von with the iron hand of which as we have seen scott in his earlier days executed a translation dated a good many years the following words in a criticism on are found written which probably are still new to most readers of this review the works just mentioned g and though noble specimens of youthful talent are still not so much distinguished by their merits as by their splendid fortune it would be difficult to name two which have exercised a deeper influence on the subsequent literature of europe than these two performances of a young author his first fruits the produce of his twenty fourth year t appeared to seize the hearts of men in all quarters of the world and to utter for them the which they had long been waiting to hear as usually happens too this same word once uttered was soon abundantly repeated vol iv s miscellaneous writings spoken in all and all notes of	37
the till the sound of it had grown a weariness rather than a pleasure view hunting love friendship suicide and desperation became the of literary ware and though the after a long course of years subsided in germany it reappeared with various in other countries and abundant traces of its good and bad effects are still to be discerned the fortune of with the hand though less sudden was by no means less exalted in his own country though he now stands solitary and became the parent of an innumerable of chivalry plays and performances which though long ago deceased made noise enough in their day and generation and with ourselves his influence has been perhaps still more remarkable sir walter scott s first literary enterprise was a translation of von and if genius could be communicated like instruction we might call this work of s the prime cause of and the lady of the lake with all that has followed from the same hand truly a grain of seed that has lighted in the right soil for if not firmer and fairer it has grown to be taller and broader than any other tree y and all the nations of the earth are still yearly gathering of its fruit how far von actually scott s literary destination and whether without it the and then the prose of the author of would not have followed as they did must remain a very obscure question obscure and not important of the fact however there is no doubt but these two tendencies which may be named and of the former of which scott was representative with us have made and are still in some quarters making the tour of all europe in germany too there was this half looking back into the past germany had its watch tower period in literature and had even got done with it before scott began then as to had of the life of scott not we english our and hia no form of in any other country had half the as our scott carried chivalry literature to the ends of the world so did our france busy with its revolution and napoleon had little leisure at the moment for or but it has had them both since in a shape of its own witness the whole literature of desperation in our own days the form of yet seen probably its final form witness also at the other extremity of the scale a noble and both in one curious how all europe is but like a set of of the same county of the self same influences ever since the and earlier and these glorious wars of ours are but like parish which begin in mutual ignorance and speech which end in broken windows damage waste and bloody noses and which one hopes the general good sense is now in the way towards putting down in some measure but however leaving this to be u it can what it concerned us here to remark was that british in the shape of those poems so potent and produced on the languid appetite of men a mighty effect this too was a class of feelings deeply important to modem minds feelings which arise from passion incapable of being converted into action which belong to an age as indolent cultivated and as our own the languid age without either faith or turned towards with an interest altogether peculiar here if no cure for its miserable and languor was at least an indignant statement of the misery an indignant curse read over it which all men felt to be something half into the past gave place in many q of the present scott was s writings among the first to perceive that the day of was declining he had held the for some half score of years a comparatively long lease of it and now the time seemed come for for an unpleasant business which however he held himself ready as a brave man will to with composure and in silence after all poetry was not his staff of life poetry had already yielded him much money this at least it would not take back from him busy always with with with official commercial business and solid interests he beheld the coming change with unmoved eye resignation he was prepared to exhibit in this matter and now behold there proved to be no need of resignation let the romance become a prose one shake off its rhyme and try a wider sweep in the spring of appeared an event memorable in the annals of british literature in the annals of british thrice and four times memorable but scott and when the song had sung itself out through all variations to the don one scott was still found and carrying the whole world along with him all popularity of chivalry lays was swallowed up in a far greater what series followed out of and how and with what result is known to all men was witnessed and watched with a kind of astonishment by all hardly any literary reputation ever rose so high in our island no reputation at all ever spread so wide walter scott became sir walter scott of on whom fortune seemed to pour her whole of wealth honor and worldly good the favorite of princes and of and all men his series swift following one on the other ap without end was the looked of the life of scott like an annual harvest by all ranks in all european countries a curious circumstance itself that the author though known was unknown from the first most people suspected and soon after the first few intelligent persons much doubted that the author of was walter scott yet a certain mystery was still kept up rather to the public doubtless very pleasant to the author who saw it all who probably had not to listen	37
as other individuals often had to this or the other clear proof at last that the author was not walter scott but a certain astonishing mr so and so one of the standing miseries of human life in that time but for the privileged author it was like a king travelling all men know that he is a high king or joseph but he in their meetings without of etiquette or ceremony as du or count of he has none of the weariness of and yet all the praise and the satisfaction of hearing it with his own ears in a word the novels and reigned triumphant to the general imagination the author of was like some living personage and among the chief wonders of the world how a man lived and himself in such circumstances is worth seeing we would gladly quote from scott s correspondence of this period but that does much illustrate the matter his letters as above stated are never without interest yet also seldom or never very interesting they are full of cheerfulness of wit and ingenuity but they do not treat of aught intimate without their sincerity what is called sincerity one may say they do not in any case whatever proceed from the parts of the mind conventional forms due considerations of your own and your correspondent s s miscellaneous and are at no moment left out of view the stream runs on free glad flowing but always as it were to the real substance of the matter never with it one feels it under foot letters they are of a most humane man of the world even in that kind but with the man of the world always visible in them as indeed it was little in scott s way to speak perhaps even with himself in any other fashion we select rather some glimpses of him from mr s record the first is of dining with or prince itself an almost official matter on hearing from mr then secretary to the that scott was to be in town by the middle of march the prince said let me know when he comes and fu get up a snug little dinner that will suit him and he had been presented and graciously received at the he was invited to dinner accordingly through bis excellent friend mr adam now lord chief of the jury court in scotland who at that time held a confidential office in the royal household the had consulted with mr adam also as to the composition of the party let us have said he just a few friends of his own and the more scotch the better and both the and mr assure me that the party was the most interesting and agreeable one in their recollection it i believe the duke of york the duke of then of the of then lord the earl of and scott s early friend lord the prince and scott says mr were the two most brilliant story in their several ways that i have ever happened to meet they were both aware of their and both exerted themselves that evening with delightful on going home i really could not decide which of them had shone the most the was enchanted with as with him and on all his subsequent visits to london he was a frequent guest at the royal table the lord chief remembers that the prince was particularly delighted the poet s anecdotes he old scotch judges ai of the of scott lawyers which his royal sometimes by ludicrous traits of certain of his own acquaintance scott told among others a story which he was fond of telling of his old the lord justice clerk and the of his royal on hearing it amused scott who mentioned it afterwards the anecdote is this whenever he went on a particular circuit was in the habit of visiting a gentleman of good fortune in the hood of one of the towns and staying at least one night which being both of them ardent players they usually concluded with their favorite game one spring circuit the battle was not decided at daybreak so the justice clerk said i must e en come back this gate and let the game lie for the present and back he came in october but not to his old friend s hospitable house for that gentleman had in the been apprehended on a capital charge of and his name stood on the p n or list of those who were about to be tried under his guest s the was and tried accordingly and the jury returned a verdict of forthwith put on his cocked hat which answers to the black cap in england and pronounced the sentence of the law in the usual terms to be hanged by the neck until you be dead and may the lord have mercy upon your unhappy soul having concluded this awful in his most his formidable gave a familiar nod to his unfortunate acquaintance and said to him in a sort of whisper and now my man i think you for ance the laughed heartily at this specimen of s brutal humor and walter said he this old big wig seems to have taken things as coolly as my self don t you remember tom s description of me at breakfast the table spread with tea and toast death and the morning post towards midnight the prince called for a with all the honors to the author of and looked significantly as he was charging his own glass to scott scott seemed some s miscellaneous what puzzled for a moment but instantly recovering himself and filling his glass to the brim said your royal looks as if you thought i had some claim to the honors of this toast i have no such pretensions but shall take good care that	37
the real pure hears of the high compliment that has now been paid him he then off his and joined with a voice in the cheering which the prince himself timed but before the company could resume their seats his royal another of the same if you please to the author of and now walter my man i have you for ance the second was followed by cheers still more prolonged and scott then rose and returned thanks in a short address which struck the lord chief as alike grave and this story has been in a very shape i before he left town he again dined at house when the party was a still smaller one than b ore and the merriment if possible still more free that nothing might be wanting the prince sang several capital songs vol iii or take at a very great interval in many senses this glimpse of another dinner altogether and much better described it is james the and s dinner in saint john street on the of a novel the feast was to use one of james s own favorite g an display of and with the suitable of punch potent ale and generous when the cloth was drawn the arose with all he could muster of the port of john and with a voice the of i to the general joy of the whole table this was followed by the king god bless him and second came gentlemen there is another toast which never has been nor shall be omitted in this house of mine i give you the health of mr walter scott with three times three all honor having been done to this health and scott having briefly thanked the of the life of scott company with some expressions of warm to their host mrs retired the bottles passed twice or thrice in the usual way and then rose once more every vein on his brow his eyes solemnly fixed on to propose not as before in his key but breath in the sort of whisper by which a stage the gallery a to the immortal of the uproar of cheering in which scott made a fashion of joining was succeeded by deep silence and then in his lord look serene and serious a something of imposing and mysterious to lament the obscurity in which his illustrious but too modest correspondent still chose to conceal himself from the of the world f to thank the company for the manner in which the had been received and to assure them that the author of would when informed of the circumstance feel highly delighted the hour of his life c c the cool fun of scott s features during all this was perfect and s attempt at a gay was still more however bursting as he was knew too well to allow the new novel to be made the subject of discussion its name was announced and success to it crowned another cup but after that no more of to cut the thread he rolled out some one of his many theatrical songs in a style that would have done no to almost any the maid of or perhaps the bay of oh i or the sweet little that sits up aloft other followed with from other old george the friend of was ready for one with the or a o ma u and so it went on until scott and with any or very staid personage that had chanced to be admitted saw fit to withdraw then the scene was changed the and made way for bones and a n bowl of punch and when a few glasses of the hot had restored his powers james opened ore on tlie merits of the romance one chapter one chapter only was s miscellaneous writings the after ab nay and a few more the proof sheets were at length produced and james with many a hem read aloud what he considered as the most striking dialogue they contained the first i heard so read was the interview between the duke of and queen in park and notwithstanding some of the tricks to which he was i must say he did the scene great justice at all events the effect it produced was deep and memorable and no wonder that the s one more to preceded his parting which was uniformly last words of executed certainly with no contemptible of vol iv p a over at things wear a still more prosperous aspect scott is building there by the pleasant banks of the he has bought and is buying land there fast as the new gold comes in for a new novel or even faster it changes itself into acres into stone and or planted wood about the middle of february says mr it having been ere that time arranged that i should marry his eldest daughter in the course of the spring i accompanied him and part of his family on one of those flying visits to with which he often indulged himself on a saturday during term upon such occasions appeared at the usual hour in court but wearing instead of the official suit of black his country green jacket and so forth under the clerk s gown at noon when the court broke up peter was sure to be in attendance in the parliament close and five minutes after the gown had been tossed off and scott rubbing his hands for glee was under weigh for as we proceeded c next morning there appeared at breakfast john who had at this time a shooting or hunting box a few miles o in the of the leader and with him mr his guest and it being a fine clear day as soon as scott had read the church service and one of s	37
sermons we all out of the life of scott before noon on a of liis tbe hound and the of the t ur march at starting w were joined by the constant tom and i may save myself the trouble of any attempt to describe his appearance for hid mai ter h given us an true one in introducing a personage of his he was perhaps sixty years old yet his brow was not much and his jet black hair was only not by the advance of age ah his motions spoke strength and though rather under sized he had very broad shoulders was square made thin and apparently combined in his frame strength and activity the last somewhat perhaps by years but the first remaining in full vigor a hard and harsh countenance eyes far sunk under projecting eyebrows which were like his hair a wide mouth furnished from ear to ear with a range of teeth of uncommon whiteness and a size and breadth which might have become the jaws of an completed this delightful portrait this figure in scott s cast off green jacket white hat and trousers and imagine that of kind treatment comfort and the honest consequence of a confidential grieve had softened away much of the hardness and originally impressed on the by anxious and the sinister habits of a and the tom of stands before us we were all delighted to see how completely scott had recovered his bodily vigor and none more so than who as he puffed and panted after him up one and down another often stopped to wipe his forehead and remarked that it was not every author who should lead him such a dance but s face shone with rapture as he observed how severely the s activity was scott exclaimed though perhaps for the tenth time this will be a glorious spring for our tom you may say that tom and then lingering a moment for my he added scratching his head and i think it will be a grand season for our but indeed tom always talked german o s miscellaneous writings of our as if they had been as of the soil as our and our having first the and then the s we arrived at burn where the hospitality of the kind as scott called the miss our exhausted and gave them courage to extend their walk a little further down the same famous brook here there was a small cottage in a very situation named by making some little additions to which scott thought it might be converted into a suitable summer residence for his daughter and son in law as we walked homeward being a little fatigued laid his left hand on tom s shoulder and leaned heavily for support to his sunday pony as he called the affectionate fellow just as freely as with the rest of the party and tom put in hm word and and grinned and whenever the joke chanced to be within his apprehension it was easy to see that his heart swelled within him from the moment the got his collar in his pe vol iv p that became to a great degree with wonder hunters and all that fatal species of people may be supposed solitary saw itself all paths were beaten with the feet and hoofs of an endless of as many as sixteen parties have arrived at in one day male and female whatsoever was distinguished whatsoever had love of distinction in it mr thinks there was no literary shrine ever so except in s time who however was not half so accessible a fatal species i these are what the flesh flies of who never fail where any taint of human glory or other is in the wind so has nature scott s bodily and mental his massive of character nowhere showed itself more than in his manner of this of his fate that his of the life of scott were blue and of the usual tone and quality may be judged hear captain hall in a very compressed state we arrived in good time and found several other guests at dinner the public rooms are lighted with oil gas in a style of extraordinary splendor the had i a hundred pens each of which at the same time should separately write down an anecdote i could not hope to record one half of those which our host to use s expression out us all the way with an endless string of anecdotes came like a stream of poetry from his lips muddy and scarcely yet i do not remember ever to have seen any place so interesting as the skill of this mighty had rendered this narrow impossible to touch on any theme but straightway he has an anecdote to fit it thus we strolled along borne as it were on the stream of song and story in the evening we had a great feast indeed sir walter asked us if we had ever read with these various were some hundreds of stories some quaint some at breakfast to day we had as usual some stories god knows how they came in in any man so gifted so to take the line at the head of the literature the taste the imagination of the whole world for instance he never sits at any particular place at table but takes c c vol v p among such arriving in sixteen parties a day an ordinary man might have grown have felt the god begun to nod and seemed to shake the a slightly man possessed of scott s sense would have swept his premises clear of them let no approach here to disturb a man in his work under pain of 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quiet brave man did neither he let the matter take its course enjoyed what was in it endured what could not well be helped persisted meanwhile in writing his daily portion of romance c in preserving his composure of heart in a word iv s miscellaneous writings himself to this loud and made it serve him as he would have done perhaps with more ease to a silent poor and solitary one no doubt it affected him too and in the way his internal life though he kept it well down but it affected him less than it would have done almost any other man for his guests were not all of the sort far from that mr shall furnish us with the brightest aspect a british ever yielded or is like to yield and we will quit and the dominant and period of scott s life it was a clear bright september morning with a in the air that doubled the influence of the sunshine and all was in readiness for a grand match on hill the only guest who had out other sport for himself was the of mr rose but he too was there on his armed with his salmon rod and landing net and attended by his and a of tom in those days the most celebrated of the district tliis little group of bound for lord s preserve remained lounging about to witness the start of the main sir walter mounted on was the order of procession with a huge whip and among a dozen youths and maidens who seemed disposed to laugh at all discipline appeared each on ck each as eager as the youngest in the troop sir dr and the of h the man of feeling however was persuaded with some difficulty to resign his for the present to his faithful negro and to join lady scott in the until we should reach the ground of our on a long grey which carried him and stoutly although his feet almost touched the ground as he sat was the but the most picturesque figure waa the illustrious of the safety lamp he had come for his favorite sport of and had been it successfully ith of the life of scott rose his travelling companion two or three days preceding this but he had not prepared for fields or had left s troop for sir walter s on a sudden thought and his s costume a brown hat with brim surrounded with line upon line of and innumerable fly hooks worthy of a dutch and a with the blood of salmon made a fine contrast with the smart white cord breeches and well polished boots of the less distinguished about him dr was in black and with his noble serene dignity of countenance might have passed for a sporting mr at this time in the th year of his age with a white hat turned up with green green spectacles green jacket and long brown upon his wore a dog round his neck and had all over the air of as resolute a as the gay captain of bum tom and his had preceded us by a few hours with all the that could be collected at and but the giant had remained as his master s orderly and now about grey barking for mere joy like a the order of march had been all settled and the was just getting under weigh when ihe lady anne broke from the line screaming with laughter and exclaimed papa papa i knew you could never think of going without your pet scott looked round and i rather think there was a blush as well as a smile upon his face when he perceived a little black pig about his pony and evidently a self elected addition to the party of the day he tried to look stern and cracked his whip at the creature but was in a moment obliged to join in the general cheers poor soon found a round its neck and was dragged into the background scott watching the retreat repeated with mock pathos the first verse of an old pastoral song what will i do gin my die my joy my pride my my only beast i had na and but i was the cheers were and the moved on s miscellaneous writings this pig had taken could tell how a most attachment to scott and was constantly urging its pretensions to be admitted a regular member of his along with the and but indeed i remember him another summer under the same sort of on the part of an affectionate hen i leave the explanation for philosophers but such were the facts i have too much respect for the donkey to name him in the same of with the pig and the hen but a year or two after this time my wife used to drive a couple of these animals in a little and whenever her father appeared at the door of our cottage we were sure to see more and lady as anne scott had them trotting from their pasture to lay their noses over the and as washington says of the old white haired with the snuff box to have a pleasant crack wi the vol v p on this subject let us report an anecdote furnished by a correspondent of our own whose accuracy we can depend on myself was acquainted with a little one of the smallest and wisest of or dogs which though sir walter knew it not was very singular in its behavior towards him so this remarkable was extremely shy of strangers on prince s street which in fine weather used to be crowded in those days he seemed to live in perpetual fear of being stolen if any one but looked at him he would draw back with angry 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towards his own lady mistress one day a tall irregular busy looking man came halting by the little dog ran towards him began at his feet it was sir walter scott had been the most extensive reader of he could not have done better every time he saw sir walter afterwards which was some three or four times in the course of visiting he repeated his ran leaping the author of s feet the good sir walter endured it with looked down at the little wise face at the coat of snow white and chestnut brown smiled and avoided him as they went on till a new division of streets or some other obstacles put an end to the interview in fact he was a strange little of the life of scott there at my wife and i spent this summer and autumn of the first of several seasons which will ever dwell on ray memory as the happiest of my life we were near enough to partake as often as we liked of its brilliant and constantly varying society yet could do so without being exposed to the worry and exhaustion of spirit which the daily reception of new comers upon all the family except sir walter himself but in truth even he was not always proof st the connected with such a style of open housekeeping even his temper sank sometimes under the solemn of learned the of painted and the with which foreigners urged their questions and the of fellow this he has been known to sit for hours looking out at the summer moon with the expression of countenance altogether like a poet he would have been a poet i dare say if he could have found a but his moral tact was the most amazing without reason shown without word spoken or act done he took his and really almost his chief aversion i should say was to the above all to the these though never so clear bland smiling and beneficent he absolutely would have no trade with their very sugar cake was he said with emphasis as clearly as barking could say it would to heaven many a prime minister and high person in authority had such an invaluable talent on the whole there is more in this universe than our philosophy has of a dog s instinct is a voice of nature too and farther it has never itself away in idle and but always to the practical and grown in silence by continual communion with fact we do the animals injustice their body our body says with its four limbs with its main organs in the head and so forth but have they not a kind of soul equally the rude draught and imperfect imitation of ours it is a strange an almost solemn and pathetic thing to see an intelligence imprisoned in that dumb rude form struggling to express itself out of that even as we do out of our imprisonment and succeed very imperfectly s miscellaneous writings when sore beset at home m this way he would every now and then discover that he had some very particular business to attend to on an part of his estate and craving the indulgence of his guests over night appear at the cabin in the before its inhabitants were in the morning the clatter of grey s hoofs the of and and his own joyous of under our windows were the signal that he had burst his toils and meant for that day to take his ease in his inn on descending he was to be found seated with all his dogs and ours about him under a spreading ash that half the bank between the cottage and the brook pointing the edge of his s axe and listening to tom s lecture touching the plantation that most needed after breakfast he would take possession of a dressing room up stairs and write a chapter of the and then having made up and despatched his packet for mr away to join wherever the were at and sometimes to labor among them as as john until it was time either to his own party at or the quiet circle of the cottage when his guests were few and friendly he made them come over and meet him at in a body towards evening and surely he never appeared to more amiable advantage than when helping his young people with their little arrangements upon such occasions he was ready with all sorts of devices to supply the wants of a narrow establishment he used to delight particularly in sinking the wine in a well under ere he went out and up the basket just before dinner was announced this primitive device being he said what he had always practised when a young housekeeper and in his opinion far superior in its results to any application of ice and in the same spirit whenever the weather was sufficiently genial he for dining out of doors altogether which at once got rid of the inconvenience of very small rooms and made it natural and easy for the gentlemen to help the ladies so that the of servants went for nothing vol v surely all this is very beautiful like a picture of of the life of scott the ideal of a country life in our time why could it not last income was not wanting scott s official permanent income was amply adequate to meet the expense of all that was valuable in it nay of all that was not senseless and scott had some without writing books at all why should he manufacture and not create to make more money and rear mass on mass for a dwelling to himself till the pile sank crashing and buried him in its ruins when he had a safe pleasant dwelling ready of its	37
own accord alas scott with all his health was sick of the malady that of ambition to such length had the king s the world s favor and sixteen parties a day brought it with him so the must be kept up and rise ever higher so labor and there is endless altogether deplorable correspondence about marble for tables of rooms curtains with the of curtains orange colored or colored walter scott one of the gifted of the world whom his admirers called the most gifted must kill himself that he may be a country gentleman the founder of a race of it is one of the strangest most histories ever under this sun so poor a passion can lead so strong a man into such mad extremes surely were not man a fool always one might say there was something eminently distracted in this end as it would of a walter scott writing daily with the of a steam engine that he might make a year and buy with it to cover the walls of a stone house in with ancient and what can we name it but a being bit with delirium of a kind that tract after tract of in the of should be joined together on and by ring fence and named after one s name why it is a shabby small type s miscellaneous writings edition of your vulgar and conquering heroes not counted venerable by any teacher of men the whole word was not half so wide to alexander when he cried because he had but one to subdue as was a narrow paltry tub to who ne er was said for aught that ever i could read to put finger i the eye and sob because he had ne er another tub not he and if looked at from the moon which itself is far from on s were as small as mine what by any chance of possibility could landed property ever have become as the say there is a black speck were it no bigger than a eye in every soul which once set it a working will the whole man into darkness and madness and hurry him into night with respect to the literary character of these novels so extraordinary in their commercial character there remains after so much good and bad little that it were profitable at present to say the great fact about them is that they were faster written and better paid for than any other books in the world it must be granted moreover that they have a worth far surpassing what is usual in such cases nay that if literature had no task but that of amusing indolent languid men here was the very perfection of literature that a man here more emphatically than ever elsewhere might himself back exclaiming be mine to lie on this sofa and read everlasting novels of walter scott the composition slight as it is usually hangs together in some measure and is a composition there is a free flow of narrative of incident of the life of scott and sentiment an easy master like throughout as if it were the free dash of a master s hand round as the o of it is the perfection of writing surely he was a blind critic who did not recognise here a certain genial freshness and paintings both of scenery and figures very graceful brilliant occasionally full of grace and glowing brightness blended in the composure in fact a deep sincere love of the beautiful in nature and man and the faculty of expressing this by imagination and by word no paintings of nature can be found than scott s hardly anywhere a wider sympathy with man from up to richard de lion from to die and queen elizabeth it is the utterance of a man of open soul of a brave large man who has a true brotherhood with all men in joyous and fellow feeling freedom of eye and heart or to say it in a word in general of mind these novels prove scott to have been amongst the foremost writers neither in the higher and highest excellence of drawing character is he at any time altogether deficient though at no time can we call him in the best sense successful his r m a il papa e in di un di per a era un ed in con un di il al per fame e la un si di e di fu a gi al il il papa e d ne il in a di tu v o di i s miscellaneous writings for their name is do look and talk like what they give themselves out for they are if not created and made alive yet as a good player might do them what more is wanted then for the reader lying on a sofa nothing more yet for another sort of reader much it were a long chapter to the difference in drawing a character between a scott a and a yet it is a difference literally immense they are of different species the value of the one is not to be counted in the coin of the other we might say in a short word which means a long matter that your fashions his characters from the heart your scott fashions them from the skin never getting near the heart of them the one set became living men and women the other amount to little more than mechanical cases painted compare with s which it was once said scott had done the honor to borrow he has borrowed what he could of the small stature the climbing talent the the mechanical case as we say he has borrowed but the soul of is behind is an specimen for scott but it in the state what is in all the characters he drew to the same purport 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are to say that these books are altogether addressed to the mind that for any other mind there is next to no nourishment in them opinions emotions principles doubts beyond what the intelligent country gentleman can carry along with him are not to be found it is orderly customary it is prudent decent nothing more one would say it lay not in scott to give much more getting out of the ordinary range and attempting the heroic which is but seldom the case he falls almost at once into the rose pink sentimental the of the life of scott press from afar and hastily that course for none better tha he knew it to lead on the whole which was carefully written with most of its followers which were written one may regret the method something very perfect in its kind might have come from scott nor was it a low kind nay who knows how high with self he might have gone what wealth nature had in him which his circumstances most unkind while seeming to be kindest had never impelled him to but after all in the and of popularity it is ever to be held in mind as a truth remaining true for ever that literature other aims than that of amusing indolent languid men or if literature have them not then literature is a very poor affair and something else must have them and must accomplish them with thanks or without thanks the thankful or world were not long a world otherwise under this head there is little to be sought or found in the novels not profitable for doctrine for reproof for for building up or in any shape the sick heart will find no healing here the darkly struggling heart no guidance the heroic that is in all men no divine awakening voice we say therefore that they do not found themselves on deep interests but on comparatively trivial ones not on the perhaps not even on the lasting in fact much of the interest of these novels results from what may be called of costume the fashion of arms of dress and life belonging to one age is brought suddenly with singular before the eyes of another a great effect this yet by the very nature of it an altogether temporary consider brethren shall not we too one day be arid grow to have as quaint a costume as the rest the stuffed only s miscellaneous writings give him time will become one of the wonderful lest in only two centuries hence the hat will hang on the next to find company s patent deciding which is and the swallow tail one may hope will seem as incredible as any garment that ever made ridiculous the respectable back of man not by breeches or speech can romance heroes continue to interest us but simply and solely in the long run by being men and all manner of and are man alone is he that has gone deeper into this than other men will be remembered longer than they he that has not not tried under this scott with his clear practical insight joyous temper and other sound faculties is not to be accounted little among the ordinary library heroes he might well pass for a not little yet neither is he great there were greater more than one or two in his own age among the great of all ages one sees no of a place for him what then is the result of these are they to amuse one generation only one or more as many generations as they can but not all generations ah no when our swallow tail has become fantastic as they will cease to amuse meanwhile as we can discern their results have been several fold first of all and certainly not least of all have they not perhaps had this result that a considerable portion of mankind has been with mere amusement and set on seeking something better amusement in the way of reading can go no farther can do nothing better by the power of man and men ask is this what it can do scott we reckon carried several things to their and crisis so that change became inevitable a great service though an of the of scott t secondly however we may say these historical novels have taught all men this truth which looks like a and yet was as good as unknown to writers of history and others till so taught that the by gone ages of the world were actually filled by living men not by state papers and of men not were they not and but men in or other coats and breeches with color in their cheeks with passions in their stomach and the features and of very men it is a little word this of great meaning t history will henceforth have to take thought of it her faint of teaching by experience will have to exchange themselves everywhere for direct inspection and this and this only will be counted experience and till once experience have got in philosophy will reconcile herself to wait at the door it is a great service fertile in consequences this that scott has done a great truth laid open by him correspondent indeed to the substantial nature of the man to his and even of imagination which with all his lively was the characteristic of him a word here as to the style of writing which is getting much celebrated in these days scott seems to have been a high in it his rapidity was extreme and the matter produced was excellent considering that the circumstances under which some of his novels when he could not himself write were dictated are justly considered wonderful it is a valuable faculty this of ready writing nay farther scott s purpose it was clearly the only good mode by much labor he	37
could not have added one guinea to his copy right nor could the reader on the sofa have lain a whit more at ease it was in all ways necessary that these works i be produced rapidly ol iv s miscellaneous writings and round or not be thrown off like s o but indeed in all things writing or other which a man in there is the beauty in knowing to get done a man himself to no purpose he has not the of the trade he is not a but an and if he know not when to have done perfection is no carpenter ever made a accurate right angle in the world yet all know when it is right enough and do not it and lose their wages by making it too right too much speaks disease in one s mind as w ll as top little the sound minded man will endeavor to spend on each business what of pains it deserves and with a conscience void of remorse will dismiss it then all this in favor of easy writing shall be granted and if need were enforced and and yet on the other hand it shall not less but more be that in the way of writing no great thing was ever or will ever be done with ease but with difficulty let ready writers with any faculty in them lay this to heart is it with ease or not with ease that a man shall do his in any shape above all in this shape justly of soul s working in the deep places of thought the true out of the obscure and possible on all sides with the false not so or at any time the experience of all men it the nature of things it and were they ready writers the whole of are not equal in extent to this of a review article we may fancy wrote with rapidity but not till he had thought with ty long and sore had this man thought as the seeing eye may discern well and had dwelt and amid dark pains and though his great soul is silent about all that it was for him to write rapidly at fit intervals being of thb life of scott ready to do it and truly lies the secret of the nm ter of mere writing due energy of preparation is doubtless the right method the hot furnace long worked and let the pure gold flow out at one it was s plan nd easy he or he had never been a neither was milton one of the mob of gentlemen that write with ease he did not attain s faculty one of even fast after long preparation but struggled while he wrote also tells us he had nothing sent him in his no page of his but he knew well how it came there it is to be the best prose accordingly that has been written by any modern as an unfortunate and man never could get done the noble genius of him struggled not wisely but too well and wore his life itself out or did write easily sees himself growing gray over his divine comedy in stem solitary death with it to prevail over it and do it if his faculty may hence too it is done and prevailed over and the fiery life of it for among men no creation one would think cannot be easy your jove has severe pains and fire flames in the head out of which an armed is struggling as for manufacture that is a different matter and may become easy or not easy according aa it is taken up yet of manufacture too the general truth is that given the it will be worthy in direct proportion to the pains bestowed upon it and worthless always or nearly so with no pains cease therefore o ready writer to openly of thy rapidity and facility to thee if thou be in the line it is a benefit an increase of wages but to me it is sheer loss of my why wilt thou of it to me write easily by steam if thou contrive it and s writings sell it but hide it like virtue easy writing said is sometimes d d hard reading sometimes and always it is sure to be rather useless reading which indeed to a creature of few years and much work may be reckoned the hardest of all scott s productive facility amazed everybody and set captain hall for one upon a very strange method of for it without miracle for which see his journal above quoted from the captain on counting line for line found that he himself had written in that journal of his almost as much as scott at odd hours in a given of days and as for the invention says he it is known that this costs scott nothing but comes to him of its own accord convenient indeed but for us too scott s rapidity is great is a proof and consequence of the solid health of the man bodily and spiritual great but not greater than that of many others besides captain hall admire it yet with measure for observe always there are two conditions in work let me fix the quality and you shall fix the quantity any man may get through work rapidly who easily himself about it print the talk of any man there will be a thick volume daily make his writing three times as good as his talk there will be the third part of a volume daily which still is good work to write with never such rapidity in a manner is not of a man s genius but of his habits it will prove his of nervous system his of mind and in fine that he has the of his trade in the most flattering	37
it is not ray it is not the of my youth the mother of my children that will be laid among the ruins of which we have so often visited in and no no may well i am not apt to shrink from that which is my duty merely because it is painful but i wish this funeral of the life of scott day over a kind of cloud of stupidity hangs about me as if all were unreal that men to be doing and talking were an enemy coming upon my house would i not do my best to fight although oppressed in spirits and shall a similar despondency prevent me from mental exertion it shall not by heaven may returned to town last night with charles this morning resume habits of rising early working in the morning and attending the court i finished the proofs for the it is but a article but then the circumstances were most this has been a melancholy day most melancholy i am afraid poor charles found me weeping i do not know what other folks feel but with me the hysterical passion that tears is a terrible violence a sort of sensation then succeeded by a state of dreaming stupidity in which i ask if my poor can actually be dead vol vi m this is beautiful as well as other scenes in that seventh volume must come which will have no beauty but be only it is better that we are to end here and so the curtain falls and the strong walter scott is with us no more a possession from him does remain widely scattered yet not it can be said of him when he departed he took a man s life along with him no piece of british manhood was put together in that century of time alas his fine scotch face with its shaggy honesty sagacity and goodness when we saw it on the streets was all worn with care the joy all fled from it deep with labor and sorrow we shall never forget it we shall never see it again adieu sir walter pride of all take our proud and sad farewell b miscellaneous writings von s london and ter the lady or in her maiden days who died some five years ago as madam von seems to be still memorable and notable or to have become more than ever so among our german friends the long known in and germany for an intelligent and man has here published as author or as editor and so many volumes nine in all about her about himself and the things that occupied and them nine volumes properly of german of letters of and which we have read not without zeal and diligence and in part with great pleasure it seems to us that such of our readers as take interest in things german ought to be of this publication and withal that there are in it enough of things european and universal to furnish out a few pages for readers not specially of that class one may hope germany is no longer to any person that buck des f r a book of memorial for her friends von und gallery of portraits from circle of society and correspondence by k a von und and writings by k a von ton s vacant land of gray and which it was to most englishmen not many years ago one may hope that as readers of german have increased a some partial intelligence of g some interest in things german may have increased in a higher at all events of men german or other will find listeners among men sure enough city on the sandy banks of the is a living city even is on the muddy banks of thames daily with every rising of the blessed heavenly light sends up the smoke of a hundred thousand kindled the fret and stir of five hundred thousand new awakened human souls marking or with such smoke cloud material or spiritual the serene of our common all embracing heaven one heaven the same for all embraces that smoke cloud too it it like the rest are there not dinner parties scandal changes of police cases literary the of tongues the sound of mount up in that corner of the planet too for certain centuries of time has its and its cultivated heads male and female and itself to be the intellectual capital of germany nine volumes of out of will surely contain something for us samuel johnson or perhaps another used to say there was no man on the streets whose biography he would not like to be acquainted with no mortal walking there who has not seen and known something which could he tell it the would hear willingly from him nay after all that can be said and celebrated about eloquence and the higher forms of composition and utterance is not the use of speech itself this same to utter that is memorable experiences to our vol iv s miscellaneous writings low creature a fact is a fact man is for ever the brother of man that thou o my brother impart to me truly how it stands with thee in that inner man of thine what lively images of things past thy memory has painted there what hopes what thoughts affections do now dwell there for this and for no other object that i can see was the of speech and of hearing bestowed on us two i say not how thou thy and thousand and one nights as what are they also at bottom but this things that are in thee though only images of things but to me with indeed to ray out error and darkness which means otherwise failure and sorrow to go about worse our poor world s confusion and as a son of	37
especially from his college years we could extract many a lively little sketch of figures partially known to the reader of la and other the like of sharp with his logic his his sly malicious ways of wolf with his biting wit with his grim earnestness and laugh the great s miscellaneous hearted man or of la the sentimental over rose colored moral sublime what fair eye has not wept found him in a house near the gate of with an ugly good tempered wife with a pretty niece which latter he would not allow to read a word of his romance stuff but kept it locked from her like poison a man jovial as swollen out on profit church and fat things to the size of a for the rest writing with such he did some hundred and fifty weeping volumes in his time that he was obliged to hold in and write only two days in the week this was la the sentimental but all these let us pick out a family picture of one far better worth looking at paul in his little home at little city of my habitation which i belong to on this side the grave i it is sunday the d of october according to s note book the ingenious youth of four and twenty as a rambling student passes the day of rest there and luckily for us has kept to paid this i went to paul s friend was out of humor and would not go say what i would i too for that matter am but a poor nameless student but what of a pleasant kindly inquisitive woman who had opened the door to me i at once recognised for paul s wife by her likeness to her sister a child was sent to call its father he came directly he had been of my visit by letters from and and received me with great kindness as he seated himself beside me on the sofa i had almost laughed in his face for in bending down somewhat he had the very look our in his und has given him and his speaking and what he spoke confirmed that impression paul is of stout figure has a full well face the eyes small gleaming out on you with fire then von s again veiled in soft the mouth friendly and with some slight motion in it even when silent his speech is rapid almost hasty even somewhat here and there not without a certain degree of dialect difficult to but which probably is some mixture of and saxon and of course is altogether kept down within the rules of cultivated language first of all i had to tell him what i was charged with in the shape of messages then whatsoever i could tell in any way about his friends he willingly remembered the time he had lived in as s neighbor in s house where i i even years before had first seen him in the garden by the with papers in his hand which it was privately whispered were leaves of this talk about persons and then still more about literature growing out of that set him fairly and soon he had more to impart than to inquire his conversation was throughout amiable and good natured always full of meaning but in quite simple tone and expression though i knew beforehand that his wit and humor belonged only to his pen that he could hardly write the shortest note without these introducing themselves while on the contrary his utterance seldom showed the like yet it struck me much that in this continual movement and vivacity of mood to which he yielded i observed no trace of these qualities his otherwise was like his speaking nothing forced nothing studied nothing that went beyond the tone his courtesy was the free expression of a kind heart his way and bearing were considerate of the stranger yet for himself too altogether neither in the animation to which some word or topic excite him was this temper ever altered nowhere did severity appear nowhere any exhibiting of himself any watching or of his everywhere free movement of his somewhat loose flowing nature open course for him with a hundred from one course to the other or it seemed good to him to go at first he praised everything that was named of our new appearances in literature and then when we came a little closer to the matter there was blame enough and to spare so of adam s lectures of of and others s miscellaneous writings he said writers ought to hold by the people not by the ai er classes among whom all was already dead and gone and yet he had just been adam miller that he had the gift of speaking a deep word to cultivated people of the world he is convinced that om the opening of the old indian world nothing is to be got for us except the adding of one other mode of to the many modes we have already but no increase of ideas and yet he had just been s labors with the as if a new salvation were to issue out of that he was free to confess that a right christian in these days if not a one was inconceivable to him that changing from to seemed a monstrous and with this opinion great hope had been expressed a few minutes before that the catholic spirit in combined with the i would produce much good of he spoke with respect signified however that he did not relish his l greatly that in s in s soaring flight of soul he traced far more of those divine old than in the learned of a which i could not let pass without protest of whose addresses to the german nation held in under the sound of french drums i had much	37
to say was not a favorite of his the of tiiat energy gave him uneasiness he said he could only read as an exercise and that with the purport of his philosophy he had now nothing more to do paul was called out and i staid awhile alone with his wife i had now to answer many new questions about her interest in persons and things of her native town was by no means with what she had already heard the lady pleased me exceedingly soil refined acute she united with the loveliest expression of household goodness an air of higher breeding and management than paul seemed to yet in this respect too she willingly held herself inferior and looked up to her gifted husband it was apparent every way that their life together was a right happy one their three children a boy and two girls are healthy well creatures i had a hearty pleasure in them they recalled other children to my thoughts whom i had lately been beside von s with continual and in the best humor paul we were now at table on all manner of objects among the rest i had been charged with a salutation from to him and the modest question whether he remembered her still his face beamed with joyful satisfaction how could one forget such a person cried he that is a woman alone of her kind i liked her heartily well and more now than ever as i gain in sense an apprehension to o it she is the only woman in whom i have found genuine humor the one woman of this world who had humor he called me a lucky fellow to have such a friend and asked as if proving me and measuring my value how i had deserved that monday f ith october being invited i went a second time to dine paul had just returned from a walk his wife with one of the children was still out we came upon his writings that questionable string with most which the one will not have you touch which another will have you keep continually he was here what i expected him to be free good natured and sincere with his whole heart his dream of a madman just published by was what had led us upon this he said he could write such things at any time the mood for it when he was in health lay in his own power he did but seat himself at the and for a while on it in the wildest way deliver himself over to the feeling of the moment and then write his according to a certain course indeed which however he would alter as he went on in this kind he had once undertaken to write a hell such as mortal never heard of and a great deal of it is actually done but not fit for print speaking of descriptive he also started as in fright when i ventured to say that was less complete in this province he reminded me of two passages in which are indeed among the finest descriptions he said that to describe any scene well the poet must make the bosom of a man his and look at it through this then would he see it the conversation turned on public on the condition of germany and the oppressive rule of the french to me of that sort are usually but it s miscellaneous was delightful to hear paul express on such occasion his noble patriotic sentiments and for the sake this i willingly swam through the empty tide of uncertain news and wavering which it what he said was deep considerate hearty german to the of the bone i had to tell him much of napoleon whom he knew by portraits of von of whom he now as a admired cordially of the de la and his whom i had seen in paul said he at no moment doubted but the like the would one day rise and would its disgrace and free the country he hoped his son would live to see it and did not deny that he was bringing him up for a soldier october th i staid to supper contrary to my purpose having set out next morning early the lady was so kind and paul himself so and i could not withstand their entreaties at the neat and well furnished table reminding you that south germany was now near the best humor reigned among other things we had a good laugh at this that paul offered me an introduction to one of what he called his dearest in and then was obliged to give it up having forgotten his name of a more serious sort again was our conversation about and and others of the romantic school he seemed in ill humor with at the moment of he said is a consecrated head he has a place of his own high above us all we spoke of afterwards for some time paul with more and more admiration nay with a sort of fear and awe struck reverence some fruit was brought in for on a sudden paul started up gave me his hand and said forgive me i must go to bed t stay you here in god s name for it is still early and chat with my wife there is much to say you which my talking has kept back i am a of the club of odd fellows and my hour is come for sleep he took a candle and said good night we parted with great cordiality and the wish expressed on both sides that i might stay at another time von s these phenomena loose flowing his careless judgments of men and things the basis o the free and easy in domestic life with the poetic and even that grew from it as its	37
public all this had to rhyme and reconcile for himself as he best could the loose flowing talk and judgments the fact that went along looking only right before him as with on seemed to a nay aa amiable peculiarity the mark of a spontaneous nature connected with whatever was best in paul he found him on the whole what we at a distance have always done a genuine and noble man no deception or exists in his life he is altogether as he writes hearty robust and brave a man i do believe did the cause summon i fancy he would be with his sword too than the most and so we quit our loved paul and his simple little home the lights are blown out there the fruit away a dozen years ago and all is dark now swallowed in the long night thanks to that he has though imperfectly rescued any glimpse of it one scene of it still visible to eyes by the magic of pen and ink the next picture that strikes us is not a family piece but a battle piece in the hot weather of whither with a great change of place and plan has proposing now to be a soldier and rise by fighting the french it is a fine picture with the author s best talent in it village is filled with soldiers of every uniform and grade in all manner of movements and is heard ing for an hour on the piano before his serious duties begin the has its camp the is one at camp of many nations s miscellaneous writings advanced walk steady bustle drums beat gallop in blue gray coat and red breeches simplicity with faint on our south western horizon appears the st s of south over the are seen endless french hosts towards us with dust and glitter along the hill roads one may hope though with there will be work soon meanwhile in every regiment there is but one tent a chapel used also for shelter to the chief officers you a have to lie on the ground in your own dug to which if you can contrive it some of branches and rushes may be added it is burning sun and dust occasionally it is thunder storm and water a if it were not for the hope of speedy battle has a poor of it your soldiers speak little except unintelligible your brother know nothing of paul of patriotism or the higher hope only to be soon back at where are and things suitable the following days were heavy and void the great summer heat had withered grass and grove the of the were long since in part on the endless plain fell nowhere a shadow only dim dust clouds driven up by sudden veiled for a moment the glaring sky and sprinkled all things with a hot rain of sand we gave up as impossible and crept into our earth holes it is feared too there will be no battle has thoughts of making off to the fighting duke of or some other that will fight however it would seem the worst trial was already over after a hot wasting day which promised nothing but a morrow like it there arose on the evening of the th of june from beyond the yon s a sound of cannon thunder a refreshment to the languid soul a party of french as we soon learned had got across from the by boats to a little island named divided only by a small arm from our side of the river they had then thrown a bridge over this too with our at were for the enemy s passing there and his nearest about the made answer on the fourth day after john got orders to advance again as far as that in the event of a battle on the morrow he might act on the enemy s right flank with us too a resolute engagement was arranged on the th of july in the evening we were ordered if there was in the night to remain quiet till daybreak but at daybreak to be under arms accordingly so soon as it was dark there began before us on the a violent fire of the sky glowed ever and anon with the cannon flashes with the courses of and for nearly two hours this thunder game lasted on both sides for the french had begun their attack almost at the same time with ours and while we were striving to ruin their works on the they strove to bum town and ruin ours the cannon could do against the strong works on the on the other hand the enemy s attack began to tell in his object was a wider scope more decisive energy his guns were more numerous more in a short time burst out in flames and our struggled without against their superiority of force the region round had been illuminated for some time with the of that little town when the sky grew black with heavy thunder the rain poured down the flames the fired and at length fell silent altogether a frightful thunder storm such as no one thought he had ever seen now raged over the broad which shook with the crashing of the thunder and in the pour of rain floods and howl of winds was in such a roar that even the could not have been heard in it on the morrow morning in spite of and the war iv s miscellaneous of elements napoleon with his endless hosts and six hundred pieces of in of them is across advancing like a and soon the whole far and wide is in a ever stronger advanced ever larger masses of troops came into action the whole line blazed with fire and moved forward and forward we from our higher position had hitherto looked at the and	37
before us as at a show but now the battle had got the air over us sang with cannon balls which were hurled at us and soon our began to in answer the got orders to lie flat on the ground and the enemy s balls at first did little execution however as he kept incessantly advancing the ere long stood to their arms the with his came galloping along drew bridle in of us he gave his commands looked down into the plain where the french still kept advancing you saw by his face that he not danger or death that he lived altogether in his work his whole bearing had got a more impressive aspect a determination full of joyous courage which he seemed to round him the soldiers looked at him with pride and trust many voices saluted him he had ridden a little on towards when an came galloping back and cried forward in an instant almost the whole company of captain out as we fancied it was to storm the enemy s nearest battery which was advancing through the corn fields in front and so cheering with loud shout we hastened down the when a second came in with the order that we were but to occupy the defend the passage of it and not to fire till the enemy were quite close scattering ourselves into order behind willow trunks and high com we waited with ready covered against cannon balls but hit by shots and which the enemy sent in great numbers to our quarter about an hour we waited here in the incessant roar of the which shot both ways over our heads with regret we soon remarked that the enemy s were superior at least in number and delivered twice as many shots as s ours which however was far better served i the more did we admire the active zeal and endurance by which the unequal was nevertheless maintained the napoleon meanwhile saw with the day passing on without a decisive result he had calculated on striking the blow at once and his great accumulated force was not to have directed itself all in vain rapidly he arranged his troops for got orders to press forward over towards and by taking this place break the middle of the line two deep columns were at the same time to advance on the right and from over the to scale the heights of the position and sweep away the troops there french had in the mean while got up close to where we stood we were called back from the and again went into the general line along the whole extent of which a dreadful fire of now began this monstrous noise of the universal never ceasing crack of shots and still more that of the infinite of iron in handling of more than twenty thousand all crowded together he was the only new and entirely strange impression that i in these my first experiences in war could say i had got all the rest was in part to my notion in part even below it but everything the thunder of never so numerous every noise i had heard or figured was trifling in comparison with this continuous storm tumult of the small arms as we call them that weapon by which indeed our modem battles do chiefly become deadly what boots it and are beaten have to retreat in the best possible order the sun of sets as that of had done the war has to end in submission and marriage and as the great atlantic tide stream rushes into every creek and the current there so for our too a new chapter opens the one in paris first of all s experiences at the court of as one of his sections is headed are extremely s miscellaneous writings entertaining they are of mixed r dramatic and vividly given we have a grand festival and the emperor himself and all high persons present in grand with music light and crowned in a wooden with and a rag of the wrong way some wax light itself up in quick fire the other the and woods and all into swift choking ruin a beautiful princess lost in the mad tumult is found on the morrow as ashes amid the ashes then also there are of imperial the gentlemen walking about in varied talk wherein you detect a certain the ladies all solemnly ranged in their chairs rather silent for ladies is a man of composure not without higher in spite of his kind speeches produces an ill effect on one and in his with court and lace looks like a cardinal in red stockings he that was once pet son of the scarlet woman whispers in your ear in passing de id but the thing that will best of all suit us here is the to napoleon himself on sunday the d of july was to be the emperor s first after that fatal occurrence of the fire and we were told it would be uncommonly fine and grand in i had often accidentally seen napoleon and afterwards at and but always too far off for a right impression of him at prince s festival the look of the man in that whirl of horrible had itself again i assume therefore that i saw him for the first time now when i saw him near at hand with convenience and a sufficient length of time the frequent opportunities i afterwards had in the and at st cloud in the latter place especially at tiie brilliant theatre open only to the emperor and his guests where von s and la figured did but confirm and as it were complete that first impression we had driven to the and arrived through a great press of guards and people at a chamber of which i had already heard under the name of	37
des the way in which here in this narrow m pen so many high personages stood together had something ludicrous and insulting in it and was indeed the material of many a paris jest the richest and court dresses were with difficulty and anxiety struggling and with imperial of men handing who always by the near peril suspended every motion of those about them the talk was and on all sides people seeking acquaintances seeking more room seeking better light seriousness of mood and dignified of seemed foreign to all and what a man could not bring with him there was here to produce the whole matter had a offensive air you found yourself ill off and waited out of humor my look however dwelt with especial pleasure on the members of our whose bearing and did not the dignity of the old imperial house prince in particular had a stately aspect ease without gravity without assumption and over all an honest goodness of expression beautifully contrasted with the saloon activity the up and of many here at last the time came for going up to audience on the first announcement of it all rushed without order towards the door you squeezed along you pushed and your neighbor without ceremony pages and guards filled the passages and chamber restless struck you here too the soldiers seemed the only figures that knew how to behave in their business and this truly they had learned not at court but from their we had formed ourselves into a half circle in the audience hall and got placed in several crowded ranks when the cry of l announced the appearance of napoleon who entered from the lower side of the apartment in simple blue uniform s little hat under his be walked heavily us w bearing seemed to me to express the between a wiu that would attain something and a contempt for those by whom it was to be attained an imposing appearance he would undoubtedly h me liked to have and yet it seemed to him not worth the trouble of acquiring acquiring i may say for by nature he c had it not thus there in his manner a and a which c themselves only and he turned first to the em which occupied one extremity of the half circle the consequences of the unlucky festival gave occasion tp various questions and remarks the sought to appear sympathetic he even used words of emotion but thi tone by no means succeeded with him and accordingly he soon let it drop to the russian who stood next his manner had already changed into a and in his farther progress some face or some thought must have stung him for he got into a broke out on some one or other not of the most important there whose name has now escaped me could be with no answer but demanded always new and threatened and held the poor man for a good space in those who stood nearer and were looking at this scene not without anxieties of their own declared afterwards that there was no cause at all for such fury that the emperor had merely been seeking an opportunity to vent his ill humor had done so even on this poor that all rest t be thrown into due terror and every opposition before hand beaten down as he walked on he again endeavored to speak more mildly but his humor still sounded his words were short hasty aa if shot from him and on the most indifferent had a passionate rapidity nay when he wished to be it still sounded as if he were in anger such a voice as that of his i have hardly heard his eyes were dark fixed on the ground before him and only glanced in side looks now and then s if and sharp the persons there when he smiled it was th tb and a part of the cheeks that smiled brow and yon s eyes gloomily if be constrained these also as i have subsequently seen him do his countenance took a still more distorted expression this union of g and smile had something repulsive in it i know not what to think ef the people who have called this countenance gracious and its attractive were not his features beautiful in the sense yet hard and lake marble foreign to all of any what he said whenever i heard him speaking was always trivial both in purport and without spirit without wit without nay at times quite poor and ridiculous in his notices sur de la france has spoken expressly of his those questions which napoleon was wont to prepare before for certain persons and occasions to gain credit thereby for and special knowledge this is literally true of a visit he had made a short while before to the great library all the way on the stairs he kept calling out about that passage in wh e is made mention of and seemed to have no task here but that of showing off this bit of learning it had altogether the air of a question got by heart his gift lay in saying things or at least unpleasant nay he wanted to speak in another sort he often made no more of it than thus it once as i myself witnessed iu cloud he went through a whole row of ladies and repeated twenty times merely these three words at this time there a song on his second marriage a piece composed in the lowest popular tone but which doubtless had originated in the higher classes napoleon saw his power and splendor stained by a ballad and breathed revenge but the police could no more detect the author than they could the to me among others a copy written in a bad hand and without name had been sent by the city post i had privately	37
with amused myself over the and knew it by heart altogether at the wrong time exactly as the emperor gloomy and sour of humor was now passing me the words and tune of that song came into my head and the more i strove to drive the more decidedly they forced themselves so that my imagination ei by the very r s writings ness of the thing was getting giddy and seemed on the point of breaking forth into the offence when happily the audience came to an end and deep repeated bows accompanied the exit of napoleon who to me had addressed none of his words but did as he passed turn on me one searching glance of the eye with the departure of which it seemed as if a real danger had vanished the emperor gone all breathed free as if from a heavy burden by degrees the company again grew loud and then went over altogether into the noisy disorder and haste which had ruled at the commencement the french especially took pains to redeem their late and terrified bearing by a free now and even in descending the stairs there arose laughter and at the the solemnity of which had ended here such was von to napoleon in the palace of the what saw remains a possession for him and for us the he formed on what he saw will depend upon circumstances for the eye of the intellect sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing napoleon is a man of the sort which elsewhere calls a man whose meaning or magnitude is not very by men who with his of impulse and insight with his mystery and strength in a word with his originality if we will understand that reaches down into the region of the and of the inarticulate and unspeakable concerning whom innumerable things may be said and the right thing not said for a long while or at all we will leave him st on his own basis at present the obscure there declaring to all the world the logical fact h as we see has many things to write about but the thing which beyond all others he to write about yon s and would gladly sacrifice all the rest to is the memory of his deceased wife mysterious indications have of late years flitted round us concerning a certain a kind of spiritual queen in who seems to have lived in familiar relation to most of the distinguished persons of that country in her time travellers to germany now a numerous with us ask you as they return from and circles do you know in the de paris treating of this book of letters says by experience she was a woman as extraordinary as madame de for her faculties of mind for her abundance of ideas her light of soul and her goodness of heart she had moreover what the author of did not pretend to a disdain for she did not write the silence of minds like hers is a force too with more vanity a person so superior would have sought to make a public for herself but desired only friends she spoke to communicate the life that was in her never did she speak to be admired that she is a right woman with the strongest feelings i have ever seen and the mastery of them addresses her by the title winged one such a might be worth knowing we find on practical inquiry that was of by birth a in easy not circumstances who lived mostly there from to that her youth passed in studies struggles disappointed passions and other and to which one of her was liable that she was deep in many spiritual provinces in poetry in art in philosophy the first for instance or one of the first to recognise the significance of and teach the to do it that she wrote nothing but thought did and spoke many things which attracted notice admiration spreading wider and s miscellaneous writings wider that in she became the wife of the loved wife though her age was forty three exceeding his by some twelve years or more and she could never boast of beauty that without beauty without wealth foreign or any artificial whatsoever she had grown in her silently way to be the most distinguished woman in admired partly worshipped by all manner of high persons from prince louis of downwards making her mother s and then her husband s house the centre of an altogether brilliant circle there this is the social phenomenon of what farther could be readily done to understand such a social phenomenon we have endeavored to do with what success the reader shall first of all we have looked at the portrait of given in these volumes it is a face full of thought of and energy with no pretensions to beauty yet and attractive in a singular degree the strong high brow and still eyes are full of contemplation the long upper lip sign of genius some say itself to fashion a curved mouth in yet beautifully expressive of laughter and affection of strong endurance of noble silent scorn the whole countenance looking as with cheerful clearness through a world of great pain and disappointment one of those faces which the lady meant when she said but are not all beautiful faces ugly then to begin with in the next place we have read whatsoever we could anywhere find written about and have to remark here that the things written about her unlike some things written by her are generally easy to read s account of their intercourse of his first young feelings towards her his long waiting and final meeting of her in snowy weather under the in company with a lady whom he knew his tremulous speaking to her there von s the rapid progress of	37
their intimacy and so to love to marriage all this is touching and a romance and yet a reality withal finally we have read in these three thick volumes of letters till in the second thick volume the reading faculty unhappily broke down and had to largely only here and there at a venture with considerable intervals such is the melancholy fact it must be urged in defence that these volumes are of the reading calculated as we said for germany rather than for england or us to be written with such marks of ability nay of genius of depth and sincerity they are the heaviest business we perhaps ever met with the truth is they do not suit us at all they are letters what the call not live the grand material of them is endless of moods sensations miseries joys and conditions of the writer no definite picture drawn or rarely any of persons transactions or events which the writer stood amidst a wrong material as it seems to us to what end to what end we always ask not by looking at itself but by looking at things out of itself and and ruling these shall the mind become known one thing above all other says once i have never thought about think ing what a of thinking faculty there almost of itself equal to a fortune in these days but how much still it is to feeling i one is wearied of that the healthy soul that thou shalt look outward not inward gazing inward on one s own self why this can drive one mad like the of if at last too long writing this sort does seem at all events to the present no reading is so nay we ask might not the world be entirely s miscellaneous by it unless every mortal is a to himself a or universe large as nature nature would barely hold he could say about himself not a tailor on any of this city but could furnish all england the year through with reading about himself about his emotions and internal mysteries of woe and sensibility if england would read him it is a course which leads a course which should be avoided add to all this that such self utterance on the part of in these letters is in the highest degree vague her very mode of writing is complex nay is careless with and with notes of admiration of nay both together sometimes with and so that even the meaning is altogether to seize and then when seized alas it is as we say of due likeness to the a thing crude not into but flowing out as in bursts of and exclamation no wonder the reading faculty breaks down and yet we do gather gold of precious thought here and there though out of large of sand and in fine it becomes clear beyond doubting both that this was a woman of rare gifts and worth a woman of true genius and also that her genius has passed away and left no impress of itself there for us these printed volumes produce the effect not of speech but of confused wind music it seems to require the aid of to tell us what it means but after all we can understand how talk of that kind in an expressive mouth with bright deep eyes and the vivacity of social movement of question and response may have been and moreover that for those to whom they vividly recall such talk these letters may still be delightful hear de a little farther ton s tou could not speak with her a quarter of an hour without drawing from that fountain of light a shower of the comic was at her command equally with the highest degree of the sublime the proof that she was natural is that she understood laughter as she did grief she took it as a means of showing truth all had its in her and her manner of receiving the impressions which wished to communicate to her modified them in yourself you loved her at first because she had admirable and then what prevailed over because she was entertaining she was nothing for you or she was all and she could be all to several at a time without exciting jealousy so much did her noble nature in the source of all life of all clearness when one has lost in youth such a friend c c it seems to me you might define her in one word she had the head of a sage and the heart of an and in spite of that she was a child and a woman as much as any one can be her mind penetrated into the depths of nature she was a of as much and more clearness than our saint martin whom she comprehended and admired and she felt like an artist her were always double she attained the truths by two faculties which are in ordinary men by feeling and by reflection her friends asked of themselves whence came these flashes of genius which she threw from her in conversation was it the of long studies was it the effect of sudden it was the granted as by heaven to souls that are true these martyr souls for the truth which they have a of they for the god whom they love and their whole life is the school of eternity this enthusiastic testimony of the clever sentimental is not at all incredible to us in its way yet from these letters we have nothing whatever to produce that were adequate to make it good as was said already it is not to be made good by and written documents its proof de paris vol iv s miscellaneous rests in tlie memory of living witnesses meanwhile from these same of sand and even of dangerous to linger in we	37
away to try thy fortune o heaven and to me not even trying is permitted am not in luck the garden in the where we used to be with and was it not beautiful i will call it rose now with and will i go often and none shall know of it dost thou recollect that night when i was to set out with pink the time before last how thou to sleep up stairs and then to stay with me o my sister i might be as ill again though not for that cause and thou too what may not lie before thee but no thy name is rose thou hast blue eyes and a far other life than i with my stars and black ones salute mamma a million times tell her i congratulate her ft om the heart the more so as can never give her such a pleasure god willed it not but i in her place would have great pity for a child so yet let her not lament for me i know all her goodness and thank her with my soul tell her i have the fate of nations and of the greatest men before my eyes here they too go tumbling even so on the great sea of existence mounting sinking swallowed up yon s m from of m all men have seemed to me like spring blossoms which the wind blows off and none knows where they and the come to fruit poor the frenchman said above she was cm artist and yet had not ceased to be a child and woman but we must stop short one other little scene a scene from her death bed by must end the tragedy she said to me one morning after a dreadful night with the penetrating tone of that lovely voice of hers o i am i ana god s creature still he knows of me i shall come to see how it was good and needful for me to suffer of a i had something to learn by it and am i not already happy in this trust and in all the love that i feel and meet with in this manner she spoke one day among other things with joyful of a dream which always from childhood she had remembered and taken comfort from in my seventh year said she i that i saw god quite near me he stood expanded above me and his mantle was the whole sky on a corner of this mantle i had leave to rest and lay there in felicity till i awoke ever since through my whole life this dream has returned on me and in the worst times was present also in my waking moments and a heavenly comfort to me i had leave to throw myself at god s feet on a comer of his mantle and he me from all sorrow there he permitted it the following words which i felt called to write down exactly as she spoke them on the d of march are also remarkable what a history cried she with deep emotion a fugitive from egypt and am i here and find help love and kind care you to thee dear august was i sent by this guiding of god and thou to me from afar from the old times of jacob and the with a sacred joy i think of this my of all this wide web of pre arrangement how the oldest of mankind we united with the reality ox things and the most distant times and places are brought together what for so long a period of my life i considered as the worst s the ud that i was a thia i would not put with now for an price will it not be so with these pains of shall i one da joyfully on them too that i could not want them fir u price o august this is just this ia true we will bj to go on thus thereupon she said with many dear mj is re to its i have thought of and wept over his i have felt for the time felt that he is mj brother and what must not she have suffered she saw her beloved son in agony and did not sink she at the that i could not have done i am not strong enough that forgive me god i confess how i am at ni t u on the of march felt herself easier for long before and expressed an desire to be new dressed as she could not be persuaded from it this was though with the greatest precaution she herself was busily in it and signified great that she had it accomplished she felt well she expected to sleep she me good night and bade ne also go and even the don was to go and sleep however she did not it might be about midnight and i was still awake when called me i was to come she was much instead of deep had found only suffering one distress added to and now all had combined into decided of the breast i found her in a state little short of that she had passed six days ago the left for such an occurrence regarded as possible not probable were tried but this time with little the frightful struggle continued and the beloved in s arms cried several times this against her breast was not to be borne was pushing her heart out the breathing too was painfully difficult she complained that it was getting into her head now that she felt like cloud there she leaned back with that a hope of gleamed on as for a moment and then went out r r ver the eye were the mouth distorted the limbs in d found her their were wi	37
need of it that the law does at least protect all persons in selling the production of their labor at what they can get for it in all market places to all of time much more than this the law does to many but so much it does to all and less than this to none that your cannot discover himself to have done in this his said labor of writing books or to have become criminal or have the law s protection thereby your believes firmly that he is innocent in said labor that if he be found in the long run to have written a genuine enduring book his merit therein and desert towards england and english and other men will be considerable not easily in money that on the other hand if his book prove false and he and it will be and forgotten and no harm done that in this manner your plays no unfair game against the world his stake being life itself so to speak for the penalty is death by starvation and the world s stake nothing till once it see the thrown so that in any case the world cannot lose that in the happy and long doubtful event of the going in his favor your that the small thereof do belong to him or his and that no other mortal has justly either part or lot in them at all now henceforth or for ever may it therefore please your honorable house to protect him in said happy and long doubtful event and by passing your copy right bill forbid all thomas and other s miscellaneous writings persons entirely in this adventure of his to steal from him his small for a space of sixty years at the shortest after sixty years unless your honorable house provide otherwise they may begin to steal and your will ever pray thomas vol iv the following articles omitted in their proper are inserted here with their respective dates from s magazine the spacious courts of the prince s castle were still veiled in thick mists of an morning through which veil meanwhile as it melted into clearness you could more or less discern the whole hunter company on horseback and on foot all busily the hasty occupations of the nearest were there was of there was handing of and shot there was putting of to rights while th hounds impatient in their threatened to drag their off with them here and there too a horse showed spirit more than enough driven on by its fiery nature or excited by the spur of its rider who even now in the half dusk could not repress a certain self complacent wish to exhibit himself all waited however on the prince who taking leave of his was now too long united a short while ago they already felt the happiness of dispositions both were of active vivid character each willingly in the tastes and of the other the prince s father had already in his time and improved the season when it became evident that all members of the should pass their days in equal industry should all in equal working and producing each in his kind first earn and then enjoy s miscellaneous writings how well this had was visible in these very days when the head market was a holding which you might well enough have named a fair the prince even had led his princess on horseback through the tumult of the heaped up wares and pointed out to her how on this spot the mountain region met the plain country in profitable he could here with the objects before him awaken her attention to the various industry of his land if the prince at this time occupied himself and his servants almost exclusively with these pressing concerns and in particular worked incessantly with his minister yet would the too have his right on whose pleading the temptation could not be resisted to undertake in this choice autumn weather a hunt that had already been postponed and so for the household itself and for the many stranger prepare a peculiar and singular the princess staid behind with reluctance but it was proposed to push far into the mountains and stir up the inhabitants of the forests there with an unexpected invasion at parting her lord failed not to propose a ride for her with the prince uncle as escort i will leave thee said he our too as and page who will manage all in of which words he in descending gave to a handsome young man the needful and soon thereafter disappeared with guests and train the princess who had waved her handkerchief to her husband while still down in the court now retired to the back apartments which commanded a free prospect towards the mountains and so much the as the castle itself stood on a sort of elevation and thus behind as well as before afforded manifold magnificent views she found the fine still in tlie position where they had left it even when amusing themselves over bush and hill and forest summit with the lofty ruins of the or family tower which in the clearness of evening stood out as at that hour with its great shade masses the best aspect of so venerable a memorial of old time was to be had this morning too with the glasses might be beautifully seen the tinge of the trees many in kind and number which had struggled up through the and undisturbed during long years the fair dame however directed somewhat lower to a waste stony flat over which the hunting train was to pass she waited the moment with patience and was not disappointed for with the clearness and power of the instrument her glancing eyes plainly distinguished the prince and the head nay she not again to wave her handkerchief as some momentary and looking back was fancied perhaps	37
on the occasion this main point comes to be considered that one receive more than one give out which to manage is in the long run the sum of all political economy as of the smallest private housekeeping pardon me however my best i never like to ride through at every step you are and kept back and then games in my imagination the monstrous misery which as it w f burnt itself into my eyes wh a i one such world of wares go off in fire i had scarcely got to e s miscellaneous writings let us not lose the bright hours interrupted the princess for the worthy man had already more once afflicted her with the minute description of that how he being cm a long journey resting in the best inn on the market place which was just then with a fair bad gone to bed exceedingly fatigued and in the night time been by shrieks and flames rolling up against his lodging awakened the princess hastened to mount her horse t and led not through the upwards but through the downwards her reluctant willing attendant for who but would gladly have ridden by her side who but would gladly have followed after her and so had without regret staid back from the otherwise so wished for hunt to be at her service as was to be anticipated they could only ride through the market step by step but the lovely one every by some remark i repeat my lesson of said she since necessity is our patience and in truth the whole mass of men so crowded about the that their progress was slow the people gazed with joy at the young dame and on so many smiling countenances might be read the pleasure they felt to see that the first woman in the land was also the fairest and mingled stood who had built still dwellings amid rocks and from hills meadows and of the little towns and what else had all assembled there after a quiet the princess remarked to her attendant how all these they came had taken more stuff than necessary for their clothes more cloth and linen more for it is as if the women could not be enough the men not enough to please themselves we will leave them that answered tlie uncle spend his on what he will a man is happy in it t when he decks and himself the fair dame nodded assent so had they by degrees got upon a clear which led out to the when at the end of many small and stands a edifice of boards showed itself which was scarcely glanced at till an ear sounded forth from it the feeding hour of the wild beasts there seemed to have come the lion let his f and desert voice be heard in all vigor the horses shuddered and all must remark how in the peaceful ways and workings of the cultivated world the king of the wilderness so fearfully announced himself coming nearer the you could not overlook the colossal pictures representing with violent colors and strong those foreign beasts to a sight of which the peaceful was to be irresistibly the grim monstrous tiger was on a on the point of tearing him in a lion stood earnest and as if he saw no worthy of him other wondrous party colored creatures beside these mighty ones deserved less attention as we come back said the princess we will alight and take a nearer view of these gentry it is strange observed the prince that man always seeks excitement by terror inside there the tiger lies quite quiet in his cage and here must he dart upon a black that the people may fancy the like is to be seen within of murder and sudden death of burning and destruction there is not enough but ballad singers must at every comer keep repeating it good man will have himself frightened a little to feel the better in secret how beautiful and it is to draw breath in freedom whatever of a from such images have remained was soon all and wholly as issuing through the gate our party entered on the of scenes the road led first up the river as yet but a small current and bearing only light boats but which by and by as renowned would carry f its name and waters and distant lands they proceeded next through well cultivated fruit gardens and pleasure grounds ascending and by degrees you could look about you in the now disclosed much peopled region till first a thicket then a little wood admitted our and the refreshed and limited their view a meadow leading shortly before for the second time to look upon watered by a brook rushing out lively copious at once firom the above received them as with welcome and s s a n now de ei ver of tr es old the their pilgrimage in the oa of the and ba ck w to d y again for never did one hither accidental of t high trees the s on the left lightened hy the on the well higher of the town light and bo mi the town the in several with its meadows and mills on the an region having satisfied themselves with prospect at rather as when we look from so high a station eager for a wider less limited view they rode on over a stony where the ty rain stood them as a green a old far down about foot they along and so arrived there just at the most rocks out from of old insensible of every change firm well founded stood clenched to there and so it upwards what had at intervals lay in huge and heaped and seemed to forbid the any attempt but the steep the is inviting to youth to	37
undertake it to storm and conquer it is for young limbs an enjoyment the princess for an attempt was at her the prince uncle if easier to satisfy it cheerfully and would k w that he too had strength the horses were to wait below among the trees our make for a point where a huge projecting rock a standing room and a prospect which indeed is already passing over into the bird s eye kind yet fi ds itself together there enough the sun almost at its lent the light the princess castle with its main wings and towers lay clear and stately the upper town in its extent into the lower also you could look nay by the distinguish the in the et so an instrument would never leave behind they looked at the river upwards and downwards on this the on that the in le el aad fi i it to of them were be seen over ihe is at noon when as the went to say pan and nature her to awaken it is not the said the that i high spot have how all looks so and and you the as if were h in the w and yet when yon back into ae habitation of he it h w wide or narrow is ever somewhat to contend with to bat e to put to rights who mean n was king the at the town see see there is fire in tiie market they looked and could observe some smoke the flames were smothered in the daylight the i he still looking through the glass the mischief indeed now became noticeable to the good eyes of the princess firom time to time you observed a red burst of th smoke mounted aloft and said let us return that is not good i always d i should see that mis a second time they descended f back to horses ride said the princess to the uncle st but not without a groom leave me h we will follow without delay the uncle felt the nay necessity of this and started off down the waste stony slope at the pace the ground allowed the princess mounted said please your to ride slow in the town as in the castle the fire is in perfect order the people in this unexpected accident will not lose presence of mind here moreover we have bad ground little stones and short grass quick riding is in any case re we arrive the fire will be got und the did not think so she observed the smoke i i e fancied that she saw a flash up that she heard an explosion and now in her all the terrific things which tiie worthy uncle s repeated narrative of his in that market had too deeply there s miscellaneous writings doubtless had that business been and impressive enough to leave behind it painfully through life long a and image of its when in the night season on the great covered market space a sudden fire had seized after before the in these light huts could be shaken out of deep dreams i the prince himself as a stranger arriving only for rest started from his sleep sprang to the window saw all illuminated flame after flame from the right from the left darting through each other rolls quivering towards him the houses of the market place in the shine seemed already glowing threatened every moment to and burst forth in fire below the element raged without let cracked cracked the flew abroad and its dusky fire whirled themselves round and aloft as if bad spirits in their own element with perpetual change of shape were in capricious dance devouring one another and and yonder would dart up out from their fire and then with wild each saved what was at hand servants and labored to drag forth already seized by the flames to snatch away yet somewhat from the burning shelves and pack it into the which too they must at last leave a prey to the hastening flame how many a one could have prayed but for a pause to the loud advancing fire as he looked round for the possibility of some device and was with all his possession already seized on the one side burnt and glowed already what on the other still stood in dark night obstinate characters will strong men grimly the grim foe and saved much with loss of their eyebrows and hair alas all this waste confusion now rose anew before the fair spirit of the princess the gay morning prospect was all and her eyes darkened wood and meadow had put on a look of of danger entering the peaceful little its refreshing coolness they were but u few steps down from the copious fountain of the which flowed by when the princess quite down in the something singular which she soon recognised for the tiger springing on as she a short while ago had seen him painted he came towards her and this image added to the frightful ones she was already busy with made the strangest your grace cried fly i she turned her horse towards the steep hill they had just descended the young man rushing on towards the monster drew his pistol and fired when he thought himself near enough hut alas the tiger sprang to a side the horse faltered the provoked wild beast followed his course upwards straight after the princess she galloped what her horse could up the steep stony space scarcely aj that so delicate a creature unused to such exertion could not hold out it itself driven on by the princess it stumbled on the loose gravel of the steep and again stumbled and at last fell after violent powerless to the ground the fair dame resolute and failed not instantly to get upon her feet the horse too rose but the tiger	37
they stopped and stared at sight of the unexpected group which in that empty expanse stood out so after the first recognition there was silence some pause of breathing time and then what the view itself did not impart was with brief words explained so stood the prince contemplating the strange unheard of incident a circle round him of and followers that had run on foot what to do was still the prince intent on ordering when a man pressed forward into the circle large of stature party colored s miscellaneous writings like wife and child and now the family in union their sorrow and astonishment the man however soon restrained himself bowed in distance before the prince and said it is not the time for alas my lord and mighty hunter the lion too is loose hither towards the mountains is he gone but spare him have mercy that he perish not like this good beast the lion said the prince hast thou the trace of him yes lord a peasant down there who had taken shelter on a tree directed me farther up this way to the left but i saw the crowd of men and horses here anxious for tidings of assistance i hastened hither so then the prince draw to the left you will load your pieces go softly to work if you drive him into the deep woods it is no matter but in the end good man we shall be obliged to kill your animal why were you enough to let him loose the fire broke out replied he we kept quiet and attentive it spread fast but at a distance from us we had water enough for our defence but a heap of powder blew up and threw the on to us and over our heads we were too hasty and are now ruined people the prince was still busy directing but for a moment all seemed to pause as a man was observed hastily springing down from the heights of the old castle whom the troop soon recognised for the that had been stationed there to the painter s apartments while he lodged there and took charge of the workmen he came running out of breath yet in few soon made known that the lion had laid himself down within the high ring wall in the sunshine at the foot of a large and was quite quietly with an air of vexation however the man concluded why did i take my rifle to town to have it cleaned he had never risen again the skin had been mine and i might all my life have had the credit of the thing the prince whom his military experiences here also stood in stead for he had before now been in situations where from various sides inevitable evil seemed to threaten said what do you give me that if we spare your lion he will not work destruction among us among my people this woman and this child answered the father hastily engage to tame him to keep him till i bring up the cage and then we can carry him back and without any one the boy put his to his lips an instrument of the kind once named soft or sweet short like pipes he who understood the art could bring out of it the tones meanwhile the prince had inquired of the how the lion came up by the hollow way answered he which is walled in on both sides and was formerly the only entrance and is to be the only one still two which led in elsewhere we have so blocked up and destroyed that no human being except by that first narrow passage can reach the magic castle which prince s talent and taste is making of it after a little thought during which the prince looked round at the boy who still continued as if softly he turned to and said thou hast done much to day complete thy task secure that narrow path keep your in readiness but do not shoot till the creature can no otherwise be driven back in any case a fire which will frighten him if he make downwards the man and woman take charge of the rest rapidly himself to execute these orders the child continued his tune which was no tune a series of m tes without law and s even on that account so heart touching the by seemed as if enchanted by the of a song like melody when the father with dignified enthusiasm began to speak in this sort god has given the prince wisdom and also knowledge to discern that all god s works are wise each its kind behold the rock how he stands fast and not the weather and the sunshine trees adorn his head and so crowned he looks abroad neither if a mass rush away will this continue what it was but falls broken into many pieces and covers the side of the descent but there too they will not they leap down the brook receives them to the river he bears not resisting not contradictory no smooth and rounded they travel now quicker on their way arrive from river to s miscellaneous writings finally at the ocean whither march the giants in hosts and in the depths whereof are busy but who shall the glory of the lord whom die stars praise from eternity to eternity why look ye far into the distance consider here the bee late at the end of harvest she still busily her a house ti t of comer straight of wall herself the and behold the ant she knows her way and loses it not she piles her a dwelling of grass earth and needles of the fir she piles it aloft and arches it in but she has labored in vain for the horse and it all in pieces	37
he has trodden down her beams and scattered her impatiently he and cannot rest for the lord has made the horse comrade of the wind and companion of the storm to carry man whither he wills and woman whither she desires but in the wood of palms arose he the lion with earnest step traversed the there rules he over all creatures his might who shall withstand yet man can tame him and the of living things has reverence for the image of god in which too the angels are made who serve the lord and his servants for in the den of lions daniel was not afraid he remained fast and faithful and the wild interrupted not his song of praise this speech delivered with expression of a natural enthusiasm the child accompanied here and there with graceful tones but now the father having ended he with clear melodious voice and skilful struck up his whereupon the father took the and gave note in while the child sang from the i in a deeper prophet s song of praise can hear angel host he hath for keeper needs the good man there to fear lion pressing round him came yea that humble holy it hath made them tame the father continue accompanying this with his the mother here and there in as second voice af f impressive however in a quite peculiar degree it was when the child now began to the lines of the into other arrangement and thereby if not bring out a new sense yet the feeling by leading it into self excitement host around doth us in heavenly tones to cheer in the our head doth cover needs the poor child there to fear for that humble holy will permit no evil nigh angels keeping gazing who so safe as i with emphasis and elevation began all three for th eternal rules above us lands and rules his will lions even as shall love us and the waves be still sword to faith and hope victorious see strong who loving and believing o lord to thee all were silent hearing and only when the tones ceased could you remark and distinguish the impression they had made all was as if appeased each affected in his way the prince as if he now first saw the misery that a little ago had threatened him looked down on his who leaning on him not to draw out the little embroidered handkerchief covered her eyes it was for her to feel her young bosom relieved from the pressure with which the preceding minutes had loaded it a perfect silence reigned over the crowd seemed to have forgotten the dangers the below and above the rising up of a lion by a sign to bring the horses the prince first restored the group to motion he turned to the woman and said you think then that once find the lion you could by your singing by the singing of this child with help of these him an s writings carry him back to his prison and no one they answered yes assuring and the was given them as guide and now the prince started off in all speed with a few the princess followed slower with the rest of the train mother and son on their side under conduct of the who had got himself a mounted up the part of the height before the entrance of the hollow way which opened their access to the castle they found the hunters busy up dry to have in any case a large fire ready for there is no need said the woman it will all go weu and without that farther on sitting on a wall his double barrel resting in his lap appeared at his post as if ready for every occurrence however he seemed hardly to notice our party he sat as if sunk in deep thoughts he looked round like one whose mind was not there the woman addressed him with a prayer not to let the fire be lit he appeared not to heed her words she spoke on with vivacity and cried handsome young man thou hast killed my tiger i do not curse thee spare my lion good young man i will bless thee was looking straight out before him to where the sun on his course began to sink thou to the west cried the woman thou dost well there is much to do there hasten delay not thou wilt conquer but first conquer at this he appeared to give a smile the woman on could not however but look back once more at him a ruddy sun was his face she thought she had never seen a youth if your child said the now with his and singing can as you are persuaded and the lion we shall soon get mastery of him after for the creature has lain down quite close to the through which as the main passage was blocked up with ruins we had to bore ourselves an entrance into the castle court if the child him into this latter i can close the opening with little difficulty then the boy if he like can glide out by one of the little stairs he will find in the comer we must conceal ourselves but i shall so take my place that a rifle ball can at any moment help the poor child in case of extremity all these precautions are god and skill piety and a blessing must do the work may be replied the however i know my duties first i must lead you by a difficult path to the top of the wall right opposite the and opening i have mentioned the child may then go down as into the of the show and lead away the animal if it will follow him this was done and mother looked down in concealment as the child descending	37
the screw stairs showed himself in the open space of the court and disappeared opposite them in the gloomy opening but forthwith gave his voice which by and by grew weaker and at last sank dumb the pause was enough the old hunter familiar with danger felt heart sick at the singular the mother however with cheerful face bending over to listen showed not the smallest at last the was again heard the child forth from the with glittering satisfied eyes the lion after him but slowly and as it seemed with difficulty he showed h e and there desire to lie down yet the boy led him in a half circle through the few many tinted trees till at length in the last rays of the sun which poured in through a hole in the ruins he set him down as if in the bright red light and again his the repetition of which we also cannot forbear from the i in a deeper prophet s song of praise can hear angel host he hath for keeper needs the good man there to fear lion mildly pressing round him came yea that humble holy it hath made them tame meanwhile the lion had laid itself down quite close to the child and lifted its heavy right fore into his bosom the boy as he sung gracefully it but was not long in observing that a thorn had stuck itself between the balls he carefully s miscellaneous writings pulled it out with a took the party colored silk handkerchief from hi neck and bound up the frightful of the monster so that his mother for joy bent herself back with outstretched arms and perhaps according to custom would have shouted and clapped applause had not a hard hand of the reminded her that the danger was not yet over triumphantly the child sang on having with a few tones for th eternal rules above us lands and rules his will lions even as shall love us and the waves be still sword to faith and hope victorious see strong who loving and believing o lord to thee were it possible to fancy that in the countenance of so grim a creature the tyrant of the woods the of the animal kingdom an expression of friendliness of thankful contentment could be traced then here was such and truly the child in his illustrated look had the air as of a mighty triumphant victor the other figure indeed not that of one for his strength lay concealed in him but yet of one tamed of one given up to his own peaceful will the child and sang on changing the lines according to his way and adding new and so to good children blessed angel help in need o er the cruel worthy art with wings doth speed so have tamed and firmly iron d to a poor child s feeble knee him the forest s tyrant song and piety the tale by a magazine that many years wrote a piece named the tale which the admiring critics of germany contrived to by a stroke of the pen declaring that it was indeed tht tale and worthy to be called the tale of tales may appear certain to most english readers for they have repeatedly seem as much in print to some english readers it n ay appear certain that they personally know tliis tale of tales and can even pronounce it to deserve no such epithet and the admiring critics of germany to be little other than en readers the first certainty is altogether the second certainty is not worth a rush that same you may see with your own eyes at this hour in the v of s and seeing is believing on the other hand that english tale of tales put forth some years ago as the translation thereof by an individual connected with the press of london his vehicle if we remember broke down soon after and was and still runs under the name of court journal was a translation miserable enough of a quite different thing a thing not a tale at all but an or common narrative having no manner of relation to the real piece beyond standing in the same volume not so much as milton s of divorce has ta his and in this way do individuals connected with the press of london play their part and thee o public of english readers and can serve thee with a mass of grass and name it and will continue to s miscellaneous t do till thou open thy eyes and from a blind monster become a seeing one this mistake we did not publicly note at the time of its occurrence for two good reasons first that while mistakes are increasing like population at the rate of twelve hundred a day the benefit of seizing one and it would be perfectly second that we were not then in existence the highly astonishing which here as o y addresses mankind for a season still his elements scattered over and working under other shapes in the of nothing on us a little o reader if thou wilt consider who and what we are what powers of cash intelligence stupidity and mystery created us and what work we do and will do there shall be no end to thy amazement this mistake however we do now note induced by occasion by the fact namely that a genuine english translation of tliat has been handed in to us for judgment and now such judgment having proved merciful comes out from us in the way of publication of the translation we cannot say much by the color of the paper it may be some seven years old and have perhaps in smoky it is not a good translation yet also not wholly bad faithful to the original as we can after strict trial the real meaning though	37
with an effort here and there our pen has to help it but could not do much the poor who signs himself d t and affects to carry matters with a high hand though as we have ground to he is probably in straits for the necessaries of life has at a more recent date numerous notes wherein he will convince himself that more meaning lies in his in all the literature of our century some of these we have retained now and then with an or word of our own the most we have cut away as superfluous and even absurd superfluous and even absurd we say d t can take this of us as he likes we know him and what is in him and what is not in him believe that he will prove reasonable can do either way at all events let one of the performances produced for the lost thousand years be now through his organs no other in this elapsed half have offered themselves set before an public we too will our conviction that this presents a with deepest significance though that d t has so accurately the same listen notwithstanding to a remark or two extracted from his dull men of this country says he who pretend to admire smiled on me when i first asked the meaning of this tale meaning answered they it is a wild without mean ing or purpose at all except to dash together enough confused hues of imagination and see what will come of them such is still the persuasion of several heads which nevertheless would perhaps grudge to be considered not impossible the first sin in our universe was s that of but hear again what is more to the point the difficulties of interpretation are exceedingly by ne circumstance not unusual in other such writings of s namely that this is no which as in the n you have only once for all to find the key of and so go on it is a rather wherein things the most are with of figure forth which would require not one key to it but at different stages of the business a dozen successive keys here you have of time forth there qualities of tiie human soul now it is institutions historical events now doctrines philosophic truths thus are all manner of and and ghosts of bodies set you have the whole four together and spirits enough themselves and peering through in the confused wild working mass so much however i will stake ray whole money capital and character upon that here is a wonderful emblem of set forth more especially a wonderful of this our wonderful and age of transition what have been and done what they are to be and do is in this tale of tales in such a style of grandeur and celestial brilliancy and life as the western vol it s miscellaneous nation has not elsewhere reached as only the oriental tion and in the ages was wont to attempt here surely is good wine witli a big bush study the tale of tales o reader even in the bald version of d t there will be meaning found he continues in this triumphant style can mortal head not a doubt that the giant of this poem means superstition that the has something to do with the his hut with the church again might it not be presumed that the river and that it as time does between two worlds call the or country on this side where the fair lily dwells the world of the country on that side the working week day world where we all dwell and toil or whatsoever itself and appears in the firm earth of human business or as we well say corner into existence must proceed rom lily s supernatural country whatsoever of a material sort and might be expected to go let the reader consider this and note what comes of it to get a free solid communication established over this same wondrous river of t ine so that the natural and supernatural may stand in neighborhood and union forms tlie grand action of this poem is not let me ask thee the grand action and summary of universal history the one problem of human culture the thing which mankind once the three daily meals of were secured has ever after and must ever strive after alas we observe very soon matters stand on a most footing in this of natural and supernatural there are three across and all bad all temporary uncertain the worst of the three one would think and the worst conceivable were the giant s shadow at sunrise and sunset the best that snake bridge at noon yet still only a bad best consider again our rotten age of transition and see whether this too does not fit it if you ask next who these other strange characters are the snake the will o the man with the lamp i will answer in general and a r o that light must signify human in flight cultivation in one sort or other as for the snake i know not well what name to call it by nay perhaps in our scanty there is no name for it though that does not hinder its a thing genuine enough meditation intellectual understanding in the most general thought all these come near it none actually it were i bound under legal to give the creature a name i should say thought rather than another but what if our snake and so much else that works here beside it were neither a nor a nor a nor an in any kind none of these things purely and alone but something and of them all in which case to it in vulgar speech were a still more frantic attempt it is in speech and remains only the figure known in	37
a age of brazen faced stupidity and the whole bill and nothing but the bill it is not even so must not poor man s activity like this poor prince wander from natural to supernatural and back again enough unable to do anything except merely its hands and and inquire a shall i do b t courage courage the temple is built though the bridge shall arch itself the divided two shall clasp each other as flames do rushing into one and all that ends wi shall be well mark only how in this poem worthy an crown or prize of the literary society it is represented as so far d t a who at least does not want confidence in himself whom we shall only caution not to be too confident to remember always that as he once says is not that much exists under our very noses which has no name and can get none that the river of time and so forth may be one thing or more than one or none that in short there is risk of the too d t s himself in this matter being led from to pool and so left standing at last like a foolish nose of wax wondering where the he is to the sort of readers we shall also extend an advice or be it rather prefer a petition it is to fancy themselves for the time being delivered altogether from d t s company and to read this as if it were there only for its own sake and those rag notes of his were so much blank paper let the sort of readers say now they like it if unhappily on looking back some of the malady of thought begin them let such notes be then inquired o but not till then and then also with distrust pin thy faith to no man s sleeve hast thou not two eyes of thy own the himself cannot it is to be hoped imagine that he has exhausted the matter to and represent the of this production and what was the author s state of mind in producing it to me with dim common what the great with inspired poetic eyes then saw and int to the thick coming shapes and many colored of his s at that hour this were what we could call complete criticism and what d t is far from having done and ought to fall on his face and confess that he can never do we shall conclude with remarking two things first that d t does not appear to have set eye on any of those german on this tale of tales or even to have heard that exist an in a professed which he himself may answer for secondly that with all his boundless he has forgotten to the author s own the passage namely by which this is specially ushered in and the key note of it struck by the himself and the tone of the whole prescribed this latter altogether glaring we now supply and then let d t and his illustrious original and the readers of this magazine take it them turn to the latter part of the page volume xv of the last edition of a it is written there as we render it the imagination said is a fine faculty yet i like not when she works on what has actually happened the forms she are welcome as things of their own kind but with truth she produces nothing but monsters and seems to me in such cases to fly into direct with reason and common sense she ought you might say to hang upon no object to force no object on us she must if she is to produce works of art play like a sort of music upon us move us within ourselves and this in such a way that we forget there is anything without us producing the movement proceed no farther said the old man with your to enjoy a product of imagination this also is a condition that we enjoy it for herself cannot condition and bargain she must wait what shall be given her she forms no plans for herself no path but is borne and guided by her own and hovering hither and thither marks out the strangest courses which in their direction s miscellaneous writings let me but on my evening walk call up again to life within me some wondrous figures i was wont to play with in earlier years this night i promise you a tale which shall re mind you of nothing and of ail and now for it o y the tale in his little hut by the great river which a heavy rain had to overflowing lay the ancient asleep wearied by the toil of the day in the middle of the night loud voices awoke him he heard that it was travellers wishing to be carried over stepping out he saw two large will o hovering to and fro on his boat which lay they said they were in violent haste and should have been already on the other side the old made no pushed off and with his usual skill through the stream while the two strangers and together in an unknown veiy rapid tongue and every now and then broke out in loud laughter about at one time on the and the seats at another on the bottom of the boat the boat is cried the old man if yon don t be quiet it will be seated gentlemen of the at this advice they burst into a fit of laughter the old man and were more than ever he bore mischief with patience and soon reached the farther shore in the middle of the night truly in the middle of the dark ages when what with what with christian of discoveries of america the time river was indeed	37
to overflowing and the of elegant culture of literature must needs feel in to get over into existence being much wanted and apply to the respectable old roused out of sleep thereby willingly introduced them mischievous ungrateful as were d t here is for your labor cried the travellers and as they shook themselves a heap of glittering gold pieces down into the wet boat for heaven s sake what are you about cried the old man you will ruin me for ever had a single piece of gold got into the water the stream which cannot suffer gold would have risen in horrid waves and swallowed both my and me and who knows how it might have with you in that case here take back your gold we can take nothing back which we have once shaken from us said the lights you give me the trouble said tlie old man stooping down and gathering the pieces into his cap of them together and carrying them ashore and burying them the lights had leaped from the boat but the old man cried stay where is my fare if you take no gold you may work for nothing cried the will o you must know that i am only to be paid with fruits of the earth fruits of the earth we despise and have never tasted them and yet i cannot let you go till you have promised that you will deliver me three three and three large the lights were making off with but they felt themselves in some inexplicable manner fastened to the ground it was the feeling they had ever had they engaged to pay him his demand as soon as possible he let them go and pushed away he was gone a good distance when they called to him old man old man the main point is forgotten he was off however and did not hear them he had fallen quietly down that side of the river where in a rocky spot which the water never reached he meant to bury the gold here between two high he found a monstrous chasm shook the metal into it and back to his cottage now in this chasm lay the fair green snake who was roused from her sleep by the gold coming down f no sooner ay hat could this be to ask whither their next road lay it was useless to ask there the respectable old did not hear them d t t thought understanding roused from her sleep by the s miscellaneous writings did she fix her eye on the glittering than she ate them all up with the greatest relish on the spot and picked out pieces as were scattered in the of the rock scarcely had she swallowed them when with extreme delight she began to feel the metal melting in her and spreading all over her body and soon to her lively joy she observed that she was grown transparent and luminous long ago she had been told that this was possible but now being doubtful whether such a light could last her curiosity and the desire to be secure against the future drove her from her cell that she might see who it was that had shaken in this precious metal she found no one the more delightful was it to admire her own appearance and her graceful brightness as she crawled along through roots and bushes and spread out her light among the grass every leaf seemed of every flower was with new glory it was in vain that she crossed the solitary but her hopes rose high when on reaching the open country she perceived from afar a brilliancy resembling her own shall i find my like at last cried she and hastened to the spot the toil of crawling through and gave her little thought for though she liked best to live in grassy spots of the mountains among the of rocks and for most part fed on and her thirst with mild dew and fresh spring water yet for the sake of tliis dear gold and in the hope of this glorious light e would have undertaken anything you could propose to her at last with much fatigue she reached a wet spot in tlie swamp where our two will o were to and fro she herself along to them saluted them was happy to meet such pleasant gentlemen related to her family the lights glided towards her up over her and laughed in their fashion lady cousin said they you are of the line yet what of that it is true we are related only by the look for observe you here both the flames their whole breadth made themselves as high and as possible how prettily this length us gentlemen of the line take it first produce of modern i which she eagerly p t not of u good lady what family can boast of such a thing since there ever was a jack o in the world no one of them has either sat or lain the snake felt exceedingly uncomfortable in the company of these relations for let her hold her head as high as possible she found that she must bend it to the earth again would she stir from the spot and if in the dark thicket she had been extremely satisfied with her appearance her splendor in the presence of these cousins seemed to lessen every moment nay she was afraid that at last it would go out entirely in this embarrassment she hastily asked if the gentlemen could not inform her whence the glittering gold came that had fallen a short while ago into the of the rock her own opinion was that it had been a golden shower and had down direct from the sky the will o laughed and shook themselves and a multitude of gold pieces came down about them	37
the snake pushed forwards to eat the coin much good may it do you mistress said the gentlemen we can help you to a little more they shook themselves again several times with great quickness so that the snake could scarcely the precious fast enough her splendor visibly began increasing she was really shining beautifully while the had in the meantime grown rather lean and short of stature without however in the smallest losing their good humor i am obliged to you for ever said the snake having got her wind again after the ask of me what you will all that i can i will do very good cried e lights then tell us where the fair lily dwells lead us to the fair lily s palace and garden and do not lose a moment we are dying of impatience to fall down at her feet this service said the snake with a deep sigh i cannot now true enough thought cannot fly and dance as your of may she proceeds in the up method y and must ever bend her head to the earth again in the way of experiment or she will not stir firom the spot d t s miscellaneous writings do for you the fair lily dwells alas on the other side of the water other side of the water and we have come across it this stormy night how cruel is the river to divide us would it not he possible to call the old man back it would be useless said the snake for if you found him ready on the bank he would not take you in he can carry any one to this side none to yonder here is a pretty kettle of fish cried the lights are there no other means of getting through the water there are other means but not at this moment i myself could take you over gentlemen but not till noon that is an hour we do not like to travel in then you may go across in the evening on the great giant s shadow how is that the great giant lives not far from this with his body he has no power his hands cannot lift a straw his shoulders could not bear a of twigs but with his shadow he has power over much nay all at sunrise and sunset therefore he is strongest so at evening you merely put yourself upon the back of his shadow the giant walks to the bank and the shadow carries you across the water but if you please about the hour of noon to be in waiting t that comer of the wood where the bushes the bank i myself will take you over and present you to the fair lily or on the other hand if you dislike the you have just to go at nightfall to that bend of the rocks and pay a visit to the giant he will certainly receive you like a gentleman with a slight bow the flames went off and the snake at bottom was not discontented to get rid of them partly that she might enjoy the brightness of her own light partly satisfy a curiosity with which for a long time she had been agitated in a singular way in the chasm where she often hither and thither she had made a strange for although in creeping up and down this abyss she had never had a ray of light she could well enough the objects in it by her sense of touch generally she met with nothing but irregular productions of nature is not superstition strongest when the sun is low with body powerless with shadow d t at one time she would wind between the teeth of large at another she would feel the and of native silver and now and then carry out with her to the light some straggling jewels but to her no small wonder in a rock which was closed on every side she had come on certain objects which betrayed the hand of man smooth walls on she could not climb sharp regular comers weu formed pillars and what seemed strangest of all human figures which she had more than once and which appeared to her to be of brass or of tiie finest polished marble all these experiences she now wished to combine by the sense of sight thereby to confirm what as yet she only guessed she believed she could the whole oi that vault by her own light and hoped to get acquainted with these curious things at once she hastened back and soon found by the usual way the by which she used to the on reaching the place she gazed around with eager curiosity and though her shining could not every object in the yet those nearest her were plain enough with astonishment and reverence she looked up into a glancing where the image of an august king stood formed of pure gold in size the figure was beyond the stature of man but by its shape it seemed the likeness of a little rather than a tall person his handsome body was encircled with an mantle and a of oak bound his hair together no sooner had the snake beheld this reverend figure than the king began to speak and asked whence thou from the where the gold dwells said the snake what is than gold inquired the king light replied the snake what is more refreshing than light he speech answered she during this conversation she had to a side and in the primitive and of thought in this dark den whither it is sent to dwell for many long ages it nothing but irregular productions of nature having indeed to pick material bed and board out of nature and her irregular productions d t vol iv s 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