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as ugly as she was rich without any fear of losing me i d her name as often as she liked i m afraid you are tom repeated tom who is not ask my sister have you so proved it to be a failing of mine tom said showing no other sense of his discontent and ill nature you know whether the fits you loo returned her brother if it does you can wear it tom is to day as all bored people are now and then said mr don t believe him mrs he knows much better i shall disclose some of his opinions of you privately expressed to me unless he a little at all events mn said tom in his admiration of his patron but shaking his head sullenly too you can t tell her that i ever praised her for being i may have praised her for being the contrary and i should do it again if i had as good reason however never mind this now it s not very interesting to you and i am sick of the subject they walked on to the house where quitted her visitor s arm and went in he stood looking after her as she ascended the steps and passed into the shadow of the door then put his hand upon her brother s shoulder again and invited him a confidential nod to a walk in the garden tom my fine fellow i want to have a word with you they had stopped among a disorder of roses � it was part of mr s humility to keep s roses on a reduced scale � and tom sat down on a terrace and picking them to pieces while his powerful stood over him with a foot upon the and his figure easily resting on the arm supported by that knee they were just visible firom her window perhaps she saw them tom what s the hard times oh mr said tom with a groan i am hard up and out of my life my good fellow so am i you returned tom you are the picture of independence mr i am in a horrible mess you have no idea what a state i have got myself what a state my sister might have got me out of if she would only have done it he took to biting the rose now and tearing them away from his teeth with a hand that trembled like an old man s after one exceedingly observant look at him his companion into his air tom you are you expect too much of your sister you have had money of her you dog you know you have well mr i know i have how else was i to get it here s old always that at my age he lived upon two pence a month or something of that sort here s my father drawing what he calls a line and tying me down to it from a baby neck and heels here s my mother who never has any thing of her own except her complaints what is a fellow to do for money and where am i to look for it if not to my sister he was almost crying and scattered the about by mr took him by the coat but my dear tom if your sister has not got it � not got it mr i don t say she has got it i may have wanted more than she was likely to have got but then she ought to get it she could get it it s of no use pretending to make a secret of matters now after what i have told you already you know she didn t marry old for her own sake or for his sake but for my sake then why doesn t she get what i want out of him for my sake she is not obliged to say what she is going to do with it she is sharp enough ould to it out of him if she chose then why doesn t she choose when i tell her of what consequence it is but no there she fits in his company like a stone instead of making herself agreeable and getting it easily i don t know what you may call this but call it unnatural conduct there was a piece of ornamental water below the on the other side into which mr james had a v strong to pitch di s as hard times the men of threatened to pitch their property into the atlantic but he preserved his easy attitude and nothing more solid went over the stone than the accumulated rose now floating about a little surface island my dear tom said let me try to be your banker for god s sake replied tom suddenly don t talk about i and white he looked in contrast with the roses very white mr as a thoroughly well bred man accustomed to the best society was not to be surprised � he could as soon have been affected � but he raised his eyelids a little more as if they were by a feeble touch of wonder it was as much against the of his school to wonder as it was against the doctrines of the college what is the present need tom three figures out with them say what they are mr returned tom now actually crying and his tears were better than his injuries however pitiful a figure he made it s too late the money is of no use to me at present i should have had it before to be of use to me but i am very much obliged to you you re a true friend a true friend i i thought mr lazily what an ass you are i and i take your as a great kindness said tom grasping his hand | 8 |
else education and she owed to him miss sir thomas s thoughts an he stood and having in spite of all his wrongs towards her a general prevailing desire of herself to him took an opportunity of stepping aside to something of her praise was warm and he received it as could wish joining in it as far as discretion and and of speech would allow and certainly appearing to greater advantage on the subject than his lady did soon afterwards mary perceiving her on a sofa very near turned round before she began to dance to compliment her on mi as price s looks yes she does look very well was lady s placid reply helped her i sent to her not but that she waa really pleased to have admired but waa so much more struck with her own kindness in sending to her that she could not get it out of her head knew too well to all night and with nothing to say bnt with you there may he peace you will not want to he talked to let us have the luxury of silence would hardly even speak her agreement a weariness arising in great measure from the same feelings which he had acknowledged in the morning was peculiarly to he respected and they went down their two dances together with such tranquillity as might satisfy any on that sir thomas had been bringing up no wife for his younger son the evening had afforded little pleasure miss had been in gay spirits when they first danced together but it was not her that could do him good it rather sank than raised his comfort and afterwards � for he found himself still impelled to seek her again � she had absolutely pained him by her manner of speaks ing of the profession to which he was now on the point of belonging they had talked and they had been silent he had reasoned she had and they had parted at last with mutual vexation not able to refrain entirely from observing them had seen enough to be satisfied it was barbarous to be happy when was suffering yet some happiness must and would arise from the very conviction that he did suffer when her two dances with him were over her inclination and strength for more were pretty well at an end and sir thomas having seen her rather walk than dance down the set breathless and with her hand at her side gave his orders park or her sitting down entirely from that time mr sat down likewise poor cried william coming for a moment to visit her and working away partner s fan as if for life � how soon she is knocked up why the sport is but just begun i hope we shall keep it up these two hours how you be tired so soon so soon my good friend said sir thomas producing his watch with all it is three o clock and your is not used to these sort of hours well then you shall not get up tomorrow before i go sleep as long as you can and never mind me oh william what did she think of being up before you set off oh yes sir cried rising eagerly from her seat to be nearer her uncle i must get up and with him it will be the time you know the morning you had better not he is to hare and be gone hy half past nine � mr i think you for him at half past nine was too urgent however and had too many tears in her eyes for denial and it ended iu a gracious well well was permission yes half past said to william as the latter was leaving and i shall be punctual for there will be no kind sister to get up fur and in a lower tone to i shall have only a desolate house to hurry from ld brother will find my ideas of time and his own very different to morrow after a short consideration sir thomas asked to join the early breakfast party in that house instead of eating alone he should himself be of it and the readiness with which his invitation was accepted convinced him that the suspicions whence he must confess to himself this very ball had in great measure sprung were well founded mr was in love with he had a pleasing anticipation of what would be his meanwhile did not thank him for what he had just done she had hoped to have william all to herself the last morning it would have been an unspeakable indulgence but though her wishes were there was no spirit of murmuring within her on the contrary she was so totally unused to have her pleasure consulted or to have anything take place at all in the way she could desire that she was more disposed to wonder and rejoice in having carried her point so far than to at the which followed shortly afterwards sir thomas was again interfering a little with her inclination by her to go immediately to bed advise was his word but it was the advice of absolute power and she had only to rise and with mr s very � pass quietly away stopping at the entrance door like the lady of hall one moment and no more to view the happy scene and take a last look at the five or six determined couple who were still hard at work and then creeping slowly up the principal staircase park pursued by the ceaseless country dance feverish with hopes and fears soup and sore footed and fatigued restless and agitated yet feeling in spite of everything that a ball was indeed delightful in thus sending her away sir thomas perhaps might not be thinking merely of her health it might occur to him that mr had been sitting | 26 |
of the of paris and lead them out of egypt become the her husband s friend leader of a heroic cause earn yourself a name among the gods throw down this insignificant emperor from his ill acquired throne to the ground the marble columns and the brazen images that the real enemies of mankind and rear others in their places to the fellows who invented spring beds and cows the corn is ripe for the harvest oh put in your and gather the golden grain even this ridicule failed to arouse from the vein into which he had fallen fully the nature of his companion s expressions he seemed to find in them nevertheless only food for serious thought the hour cannot be far away he said and when it comes the man will be found as he has always been in the past i am not equal to the would to heaven i were but i will fight as best i can in the ranks when the time for action is upon us looked alarmed he could not doubt the perfect sincerity of his friend and he thought it time to try a more serious vein he said sharply what do you mean are you so far gone in this insanity that you would actually yourself with the paris if they attempted an outbreak do you contemplate the pleasure of standing behind with a lot of crazy to be down by the emperor s cannon or taken when the is over to the thank god napoleon is too shrewd to allow you the chance but if the should ever catch him asleep long enough to attempt a rising would you cast i your lot with them is that what you mean man it is time somebody talked sense to you quite raised his thoughtful eyes to the face of his companion you will see he said simply he could not had he used a thousand words have made a more convincing reply responded with a look of disgust and into silence for several minutes when he spoke next it was only to direct the to leave the by the and resume his way back toward the interior of the city it is he broke out some time later as the carriage entered the es to hear a fellow of your natural common sense talk as you do you are gifted with brains enough to an important industry by a wonderful improvement and yet you must needs wish to throw a governed empire into chaos what gang of would ever have laid out a beautiful like this one walled the down here and it with bridges filled a with statues and paintings or carried to a successful close an like that held here three years ago if the day of your ever comes the people may thank their lucky stars that a preceded it you have only to look down this avenue to see the place de la then called the place de la where your direct of the last century set up a knife and kept it for months with the blood of young and old men and women innocent and guilty alike is it not a pleasant picture to recall wouldn t you like to bring it back again a look of deep pain crossed s face i husband s think of the provocation those men had h replied remember the centuries during which they had been treated worse than beasts by their dainty aristocracy read once more the tale of two cities you call the poor of paris but you must not expect to starve beat and even dogs forever without counting on one would think that the ruling classes might have learned something by that flood but it appears otherwise had also grown serious and the answer he made was very unlike that which his ordinary good nature would have promoted oh yes they have learned something he said between his teeth these long straight avenues and show that they learned something though i admit the lesson was acquired slowly it is no longer the easy thing it once was to the streets of paris guns would down would be like before flame planted in a spot like that of l would clear the streets for miles they call the emperor in derision napoleon the little history will substitute for that the of the wise for eighteen years france has most of that time she has been at peace with other nations and she has won only glory in the which make an exception to the rule her present is due to the far seeing of the man you affect to despise f you claim to hate war and to favor progress how can you without desire the overthrow of a ruler who has done so much for his people if you must have a row why not go to russia where there is at least a pretext for your interference why do you wish to in th flags l ss spoil this lovely city just after it has been put in perfect order by good baron it was impossible for to maintain for any great length of time a thoroughly serious mien and toward the end of his remarks he dropped again into his natural you have asked a good many questions replied and i will answer the last one first we purpose trying revolution on the french at this time because they are much more nearly ripe for a change than the they are natural they discuss things they read the newspapers they are acquainted with their own history they know they have dictated terms and that they can do it again at the right yes and this napoleon lets them talk on and print their articles and hold their meetings instead of the whole lot to some french as he ought to do interposed to be sure he occasionally a journal that gets | 1 |
n j moved that the true northern boundary of be ascertained and settled by an suit before the supreme court rejected mr of virginia moved that the proposed to settle the boundary of be in case the true legal boundary be found to agree on and fix a convenient compromise boundary lost by a tie mr moved that no pecuniary consideration be given for any change from the boundary of rejected july th � mr of miss moved that this bill do lie on the table lost mr of now moved the following additional section and be it further that such time as the boundary line between the state of and the territory of the united states be agreed to by the of the state of and the government of the united states the government by this act shall not go into operation east of the nor shall any state be established for new embracing any territory east of the this prevailed by the following vote � to � and gave the death blow to the bill messrs bell clay miss hunter jones king downs na � against s messrs miller bright chase mass smith of wise wales hale mr s thus prevailed by a similar vote it provided for the appointment of to determine in connection with to be chosen by the northern boundary of that state st � mr of n h moved to strike from the bill the words nor establishing nor african slavery which words deny to the the power to establish or slavery carried all southern but of and of ind � clay etc in the affirmative mr of md now moved to strike from the bill so much thereof as a government for new and for settling the boundary between her and carried including all the of a compromise whether from the north or the south and all those averse to paying ten millions of dollars for her pretensions to new with some who would not vote in this for the portions of the of � for breaking up the messrs hunter miller butler chase mass miss smith the compromise of hale wales na � against breaking up the messrs bright clay jones king of downs mr moved a substitute for the sections so stricken out mr hale moved that the bill be postponed mr moved an to mr s substitute providing that the government thereby provided for new shall not go into operation until the boundary of be adjusted lost mr of moved that the bill be postponed lost mr of moved to strike out so much of mr s substitute as postponed the organization of a government in new to the th of march lost mr moved to strike out so much of said substitute as provided for the appointment of to settle the boundary between and new and with it the section just struck at by mr carried mr chase now moved that the bill be postponed lost the now refused to adopt mr s substitute as mr of miss moved a new boundary line for which was rejected mr moved to strike out all that remained of the bill except so much as for the admission of lost mr of moved the indefinite of the bill lost mr of mo moved to strike out so much of the bill as relates to lost by a tie mr of mass moved a of this vote carried mr of moved that the bill be postponed to the next lost mr s motion to strike out of the bill now prevailed the bill being now reduced so as to provide merely for the organization of the of mr proposed to so as to make its southern boundary the parallel of � instead of � north latitude lost all southern but of n y and of all northern but ana wales of � mr clay not present after some further attempts to etc the bill providing only for the organization of the territory of was passed to its third reading all northern but bell of st � said bill passed its third reading without a division mr now called up the original bill providing for the admission of which was again made a special order nd � mr of miss again moved that the line of � be the southern boundary of said state lost all southern th � mr moved that the line of � commonly known as the compromise line be and the same is extended to the pacific ocean he proposed to admit with one representative on her assent by to this boundary rejected x all southern including and wales from slave states the rest northern various motions to etc were now made and down finally the was by the of members left without a and � the game of moving to etc consumed all this day also meantime august th mr of md had introduced a bill to settle the northern and western boundaries of a part of the old which was also sent to the committee of the whole th � president sent a message announcing that bell of had the government of his to extend the authority and of over all new east of the the president considers himself bound to resist this � if necessary by not believe anything would be effected by to the boundary as the facts in the struggle foe slavery he justified in my opinion in i but fair liberal and of the united would i or i a just pint of he not to without settling this boundary question and says i no event would be with more by the people of the united states than the of questions of difficulty which have now for a long time agitated the country and to the of other subject the time and attention of the boundary bill being now put ahead of the bill admitting mr moved th that be required to her public | 19 |
and laid his brow on the table at tbe door she looked on with her thick with tears she had le when rose gently down opposite robert and watched him intently with a countenance in which the most opposite feelings might be seen fur the mastery chapter ti robert lifted his head and saw mrs he spoke to her sullenly so you turn away our not i replied mrs sharply it is not we that send away do you believe that girl before me v you her what had she done to you i i only just asked her how long she meant to stay here or something by clouds and that hang if i � what i said to they are a bad breed all these girls and you can t say a word but they snap your head off mrs b d no more for at moment came into the room with hei and who appeared u be matters so said she in answer to some on of the old man s nobody you away yon leave ns good friend and yon are going to a cup of ale with ns before you go a tray was then brought in and a ale and lu his m ig m ale slowly but put hers to her lips and set it down again then robert went and sat on the window seat aud there he saw them bringing i hie to away and her grandfather his heart turned dead he looked round for help and looking round he saw mrs bending on him a look in which he seemed read some compassion blended with a good deal of in his despair be appealed t� lier there tliey are really going is it to send away like that that te behaved so well and were minded to go of only mother asked them to stay see how that makes us look and you that were always so kind hearted mrs dear rose mrs did not answer whose appeal was made to her in an but she said to mrs jane the house is yours keep them if it you i am sore it is no business of thank you rose cried robert but his were cut short by the voice of the elder who bad just come in from the yard they are going said he i make no against them there is no ill will on either side bnt i say they ought to go and go they they the old with a look the spoke with a and severity and even with a tain and all felt he was not in a mood to he with robert answered humbly are master here � no one yon you ai e a just man if you were to be cruel the poor and honest you would be sorry for it all your days before the farmer could answer rose put in hastily there bid them stay � you see holds to the girl and you will have to marry them one day or other and so best � that will put an end to all the nonsense talk about the boy and me i say robert is fool enough to think i wanted him for i mrs never what makes you fancy that and cried mrs as if a sudden light broke in upon her what are we all doing here wa can t help folks hearts her are we to robert an innocent lad that never offended one of us and has been a good son to you and a good and brother to me ever since we could walk i ink the devil must have got into heart i shall turn bim out he or no i say he shall have the girl old man and more thou that i have a thousand pounds loose in bank they shall have it to stock a farm it s little enough to give robert � i owe him more than that for let alone years of love good will there now he is going to i suppose bob don t cry for heaven s sake i can t abide lo you are crying rose mrs if i am i don t feel it replied mrs by clouds trembled she in her low firm voice we are going away of our own accord and we thank yon kindly foe and all � we are going ton don t love then no mrs said with the air of one or i don t love mr robert and she lowered her eyes with their long lashes and awaited tell to the men replied yoa can t draw the wool over a sister s eye lady the woman is the only one among you that has a of sense old roughly why don t yoa let her alone � would thank you it can you read a woman s words yon old ass was he i am not an ass woman gravely and sternly and i am in my own house which you seem to forget � rose tip to the eyes � and i am the master of it so long as it is your i should he here john cried mrs with a air and i am that man s father and it is his duty to listen to me and mine not to let make a fool of himself don t pretend to be so particular as robert is � used to be i mean � and t was telling him only yesterday that suppose you have kicked over the traces a bit aa you never broken your ta our knowledge it did not much matter thank jou much obliged to you i am sure but there s reason in of eggs this one been off ihe course altogether and therefore i say again she shows sense by going home and you show no sense by trying ta her here father | 9 |
of the preacher those sermons are often the best which come heart and are in strict accordance with the word of god plain and simple addresses such as any however plain and simple may comprehend when mr wishes to lay particular stress on any truth or expression he usually his for example � it is the rev our joy my brethren that christ has death � that he has death in repeating the closing sentence of the lord s prayer he lays the emphasis ah the article the for thine is the the power and the glory for ever and ever amen his knowledge of the is extensive and minute and the accuracy and facility with which he such passages as tend to illustrate his positions prove that the of his memory any more the powers of his mind has not been affected by the vast of years which have passed over his head the venerable gentleman s manner in th pulpit will i am sure be in some measure anticipated thing like could not be expected in one of his add bodily he on the cushion of the pulpit when he begins his discourse and in that position till he has brought it to a close he raises his right hand six or seven inches firom the cushion but his elbow all the while rests on it o the rev he usually the pocket bible he uses in the pulpit in both hands he scarcely ever lays it down entirely he his eye on a part of the area of the church a few yards fix in the pulpit and never not even for a moment it until he has finished his sermon his head and body remain all the while as motionless as if he did not possess the power of moving either mr s so r as i am aware is limited to the occasional publication of a detached discourse and even on this small scale nothing has issued fi om the press under his own for many years past sermons by the reverend gentleman taken down in short hand when in the course of delivery have appeared of late in those devoted to reports of pulpit mr s congregation is exceedingly respectable the are almost exclusively occupied by persons in circumstances several aristocratic families fix m the west end are to be seen in his church every tuesday morning the rev the reverend gentleman has preached from the same pulpit for the long period of sixty two years i question if there be another such instance on record what repeated changes in the aspect of the congregation must he not have witnessed in the course of that long period i how affecting the thought that all those � the supposition is at least exceedingly probable � who heard the first sermon he preached there are now in the eternal world of his personal appearance little remains to be said his face has more than the usual breadth in it while its the form he is much about the average height made with high round shoulders as mr is only in st mary s i should suppose his income from that source does not exceed three hundred pounds per if indeed it be as much chapter v the � of the � the her dr t ie h h the of christ s chapel st john s wood has acquired considerate distinction as a preacher within the last few years when one of the ministers c baker street chapel which he quitted two or three years ago he was greatly run after especially by the female sex whenever he preached the chapel was in eveiy part his in the new sphere of his are still attended by a numerous and respectable audience though his present chapel being in a less neighbourhood his congregation is not so large as that which he was in the habit of addressing in baker street chapel whether it be that i have heard the reverend gentleman rev under i cannot say but i must confess that i am unable to discover any thing either in his matter or manner as a preacher which would lead me to him the high rank in this respect which is claimed for him by his more ardent admirers but let me on the other hand guard any one running away with the impression that i think poorly of mr talents as a minister of the gospel so far from this i look upon him as above though not reaching that degree of excellence which some others � and in justice to the reverend gentleman let me add pious and intelligent persons � to him his views of divine truth are highly and his of those views are always clear if not on all forcible i know of few ministers in the metropolis whether in or out of the establishment whose preaching i would deem more calculated to instruct the mind in the truth as it is in what has struck me as chiefly wanting in his pulpit is that sort of preaching which is most likely to arouse the the and detect and expose the r e fu in which the or merely christian is in the habit of if one his to an undue and as to assume that a assemblage of persons such as mr is in the habit of addressing from sabbath to sabbath were all christians in deed as well as in name � then i should say that they could hardly have a more suitable minister but knowing as every one who has ever bestowed a thought on human nature as constituted since the i must know that a very large proportion of every congregation are in nature s bondage and nature s blindness knowing this i hold it to be an essential part lam not sure whether it be not the essential part of every christian minister s duty to | 24 |
am not ready yet wait a little keep very still all you three if you move i strike and if you do not move i strike oh foolish people who killed my s eyes were fixed on his father and all his father could do was to whisper sit still you mustn t move keep still then came up and cried turn round turn and fight all in good time said she without moving her eyes i will settle my account with you presently look at your friends they are still and white they are afraid they dare not move and if you come a step nearer i strike look at your eggs said in the bed near the wall go and look the big snake turned half round and saw the egg on the ah h give it to me she said put his one on each side of the � and his eyes were blood red what price for a snake s egg for a young for a young king for the last � the very last of the brood the are eating all the others down by the bed z the book spun clear round forgetting everything for the sake of the one egg and saw s father shoot out a big hand catch by the shoulder and drag him across the little table with the tea cups safe and out of reach of i chuckled the boy is safe and it was i � i � i that caught by the hood last night in the bath room then he began to jump up and down all four feet together his head close to the floor he threw me to and fro but he could not shake me off he was dead before the big man blew him in two i did it come then come and fight with me you shall not be a widow long saw that she had lost her chance of killing and the egg lay between s give me the egg give me the last of my eggs and i will go away and never come back she said lowering her hood yes you will go away and you will never come back for you will go to the with fight widow the big man has gone for his gun fight was bounding all round keeping just out of reach of her stroke his little eyes like hot coals gathered herself together and flung out at him jumped up and backwards again and again and again she struck and each time her head came with a on the of the and she gathered herself together like a watch spring then danced in a circle to get behind her and spun round to keep her head to his head so that the rustle of her tail on the sounded like dry leaves blown along by the wind he had f r the egg it still on the and came and nearer to it till at last while k li was grass breath she caught it in her mouth turned to the steps and flew like arrow down the path behind her when the runs for her life she goes like a whip lash across a horse s neck ra knew that he must catch her or behind all would begin again she headed straight for the long by the thorn bush and as he was running � heard still singing his foolish song of triumph but s wife was the book wiser she flew off her nest as came along and her wings about s head if had helped they might have turned her but only lowered her hood and went on still the instant s delay brought up to her and as she plunged into the rat hole where she and used to live his little white teeth were clenched on her tail and he went down with her � and very few however wise and old they may be care to follow a into its hole it was dark in the hole and never knew when it might open out and give room to turn and strike at him he held on savagely and stuck out his feet to act as on the dark slope of the hot moist earth then the grass by the mouth of the hole stopped waving and said it is all over with we must sing his is dead for will surely kill him so he sang a very mournful song that he made up on the spur of the minute and just as he got to the most touching part the grass quivered again and covered with dirt dragged himself out of the hole leg by leg his whiskers stopped with a little shout shook some of the dust out of his fur and it is all over he said the widow will never come out again and the red that live between the grass stems heard him and began to troop down one after another to see if he had spoken the truth curled himself up in the grass and slept where he was � slept and slept till it was late in the afternoon for he had done a hard day s work now he said when he awoke i will go back to the house tell the and he will tell the garden that is dead the is a bird who makes a noise exactly like the beating of a little hammer on a copper pot and the reason he is always making it is because he is the town to every indian garden and tells all the news to everybody who cares to listen as went up the path he heard his attention notes like a tiny dinner and then the steady i is dead � is dead i that iso the book set all the birds in the garden singing and the for and used to eat as well | 39 |
tiny voice said be careful i am death it was the dusty brown that lies for choice on the dusty earth and his bite is as dangerous as the s but he is so small that nobody thinks of him and so he does the more harm to people s eyes grew red again and he i the book danced up to with the peculiar rocking swaying motion that he had inherited from his family it looks very funny but it is so perfectly balanced a gait that you can fly off from it at any angle you please and in dealing with this is an advantage if had only known he was doing a much more dangerous thing than fighting for is so small and can turn so quickly that unless bit him close to the back of the head he would get the return stroke in his eye or lip but did not know his eyes were all red and he rocked back and forth looking for a good place to hold struck out jumped sideways and tried to run in but the wicked little dusty gray head lashed within a of his shoulder and he had to jump over the body and the head followed his heels close shouted to the house oh look here our is killing a snake and heard a scream from s mother his father ran out with a stick but by the time he came up had out once too far and had sprung jumped on the snake s back dropped his head far between his fore legs bitten as high up the back as he could � get hold and rolled away that bite and was just going to eat him up from the tail after the custom of his family at dinner when he remembered that a full meal makes a slow and if he wanted all his strength and quickness ready he must keep himself thin he went away for a dust bath under the oil bushes while s father beat the dead what is the use of that thought i have settled it all and then s mother picked him up from the dust and him crying that he had saved from death and s father said that he was a providence and looked on with big scared eyes was rather amused at all the fuss which of course he did not understand s mother might just as well have for playing in the dust was thoroughly enjoying himself that night at dinner walking to and fro among the wine glasses on the table he could have stuffed himself three times over with nice things but he remembered and and though it was very pleasant to be patted and by s mother and to sit on the book s shoulder his eyes would get red from time to time and he would go off into his long war cry of t carried him off to bed and insisted on sleeping under his chin f v in the dark he ran up against the was too well bred to bite or scratch but as soon as was asleep he went off for his nightly walk round the house and in the dark he ran up against the creeping round by the wall is a little beast he and all the night trying to make up his mind to run into the middle of the room but he never gets there don t kill me said almost weeping don t kill me do you think a snake said scornfully those who kill get killed by said more sorrowfully than ever and how am i to be sure that won t mistake me for you some dark night there s not the least danger said but is in the garden and i know you don t go there my cousin the rat told me � said and then he stopped told you what h sh is everywhere you should have talked to in the garden i did n t � so you must tell me quick or i bite you sat down and cried till the tears rolled off his whiskers i am a very poor man he sobbed i never had spirit enough to run out into the middle of the room h sh i must n t tell you anything can t you the book listened the house was as still as still but he thought he could just catch the faintest scratch scratch in the world � a noise as faint as that of a walking on a window pane � the dry scratch of a snake s scales on that s or he said to himself and he is crawling into the bath room you re right i should have talked to he stole off to s bath room but there was nothing there and then to s mother s bath room at the bottom of the smooth plaster wall there was a brick pulled out to make a for the bath water and as stole in by the where the bath is put he heard and whispering together outside in the moonlight when the house is emptied of people said to her husband he will have to go away and then the garden will be our own again go in quietly and remember that the big man who killed is the first one to bite then come out and tell me and we will hunt for together but are you sure that there is anything to be gained by killing the people said everything when there were no people in � the did we have any in the garden so long as the is empty we are king and queen of the garden and remember that as soon as our eggs in the bed as they may to morrow our children will need room and quiet i had not thought of that said i will go | 39 |
a short time the late col thomas of was one of our and � so that major s household embraced not less than twenty white persons to these there was a constant addition by to the young people of the it was in fact an active merry noisy family always in motion and often in commotion to me it was painfully contrasted with the small quiet affectionate vol i � early acquaintances � establishment of mrs love there i had been the child and supreme object of attention here i was lost in the multitude unnoticed of and left to make my way and take care of myself as well as i could my hair which under the discipline of mrs love s daughters was as clean and soft as silk now lost its beauty i had been spoiled by indulgence and was really unfit to take care of myself i did not know how to go about it yet there was no one to take care of me or who showed any interest in me except harry the miller s son young as i was i had reflection enough to compare the two scenes in which i had lived to feel my present desolation and to sigh over the past the tune of castle never to my memory without filling my eyes with tears there was another circumstance which my residence at mr s one of my companions was ill tempered and i do not know by what i became the peculiar object of his tyranny there was that in my situation which would have a generous temper i was a small feebly grown delicate boy an orphan and a poor one too but these circumstances seemed rather to invite than to the hostility of this fierce young man during the two years that it was my misfortune to be a in the house and his i suffered a wanton that so degraded and my spirit that i wonder i have ever recovered from it in this large family he was however my only the rest were content to let me alone and i became at length well content to be so i can recall here the first experience i had of the refuge and comfort of solitude often have i gone to bed long before i was sleepy and long before any other member of the household that i might enjoy in silence and to myself the hopes which my imagination never failed to set before me these rest on my memory with the distinctness of yesterday i looked forward to tho time when i should be a young man and should have my own office of two rooms my own servant and the means of receiving and entertaining my friends with elegant liberality my horse and fine a rich wardrobe and these all recommended by such manners and accomplishments as should again restore me to such favour and a� intercourse as i had known at mrs s i never chap l music of any other revenge on my than to him and reduce him to sue to me for friendship except these waking dreams which live so in my remembrance there are out few pleasant incidents to connect my recollections with those two years there are a few one was the gratification i took in the visits of company to the house sometimes the young folks played cards and i was not forbidden to sit in the room and see what was going on one of these is a gentleman i believe now living � charles jones although a very small boy i recollect distinctly the for which he is even yet so much distinguished and with which he used then to set the tables in a roar our latin � and the only popular i have ever known � was another of the and a great with me there were two other whom i saw only once each at the major s but whose visits led to one of my small accomplishments doctor charles of brought up his and the ladies one evening in the garden with his music a mr a or a teacher of music in also came up on one occasion when there was a great effort to get a musical instrument for him to play on the house afforded nothing better than a wretched fiddle � on which major m used to play for his children the only tune he knew with these words � � three or four wrong sides cut them down cut them down cut them down and tan them there waa besides a cracked from which no one of the had ever been able to draw a note mr the fiddle but with the aid of a little bees wax to stop the crack and a little water to wash and wet the bore he made the discourse most eloquent music � what a strange thing is memory i can see the man at this moment and hear him strike up the white � for this was the first tune he played and he threw it off with a spirit and animation of which dr had given me no idea thereafter whenever the room was empty i used to steal to the in which that old was kept and whispering in the a fox hunt � � for i could not blow and dared not if i could � try to finger tones as i knew in this way i learned to play several tunes of which yankee was the chief before i could fill the with a single note on one occasion dr smith of � the of the very respectable family of that name now at that place came up to major m s with two or three other gentlemen bringing with him a large pack of hounds in preparation for a fox chase this was a new incident to me and full of the interest | 29 |
a very few shirts there are and what a many fronts you u penetrate the mystery of his packing but martin was too weary and to take heed of anything so had no interest in this discovery mr nothing dashed by his indifference conducted him to the top of the house and into the bed chamber prepared for his reception which was a very little narrow room with half a window in it a like a chest without a two chairs a piece of carpet such as shoes are commonly tried upon at a ready made establishment in england a little looking nailed against the wall and a washing table with a and that might have been mistaken for a milk pot and basin i suppose ihey polish themselves with a dry cloth in this country said mark they ve certainly got a touch of the sir i wish you would pull off my boots for me said martin dropping into one of the chairs i am quite knocked up � dead beat mark you won t say that to morrow morning sir returned mr nor even to night sir when you ve made a trial of this with which he produced a very large piled up to the brim with little blocks of clear transparent ice through which one or two thin of and a golden liquid of delicious appearance appealed from the still depths below to the loving eye of the spectator what do you call this said martin but mr made no answer merely plunging a reed into the mixture � which caused a pleasant commotion among the pieces of ice � and by an expressive gesture that it was to be up through that agency by the martin took the glass with an astonished look applied ms lips to the reed and cast up his eyes in ecstasy he paused no more until the was drained to the last drop there sir said mark taking it from him with a triumphant face if ever you should happen to be dead beat again when i ain t in the way all you ve got to do is to ask the nearest man to go and fetch a to go and fetch a repeated martin this wonderful invention sir said mark tenderly patting the empty glass is called a when you name it long when you name it short now you re equal to your boots took o� f and are in every particular worth mentioning another man having delivered himself of this solemn preface he brought the mind i am not going to mark said martin but good heaven if we should be left in some wild part of this country without goods or money well sir replied the from what we ve seen already i don t know whether under those circumstances we shouldn t do better in the wild parts than in the tame ones oh tom pinch tom pinch said martin in a thoughtful tone what would i give to be again beside you and able to hear your voice though it were even in the old bed room at s oh echoed mark cheerfully if there t any water between you and me and nothing hearted like in going back i don t know that i t say the same but here am i in new york america and there are you in europe and there s a fortune to make and a beautiful young lady to make it for and whenever you go to see the monument you mustn t give in on the door steps or you u never get up to the top wisely said mark cried martin we must look forward in all the story books as ever i read sir the people as looked backward was turned into stones replied mark and my opinion always was that they brought it on themselves and it served em right i wish you good night sir and pleasant dreams of they must be of home then said martin as he down in bed so i say too whispered mark when he was out of hearing and in his own room for if there don t a time afore we re well out of this when there u be a little more credit in keeping up one s i m a united leaving them to and mingle in their sleep the shadows of objects afar off as they take shapes upon the in the dim light of thought without control be it the part of this slight chronicle � a dream within a dream � as rapidly to change the scene and cross the ocean to the english shore n chapter xviii business with the house of and son which one of the unexpectedly � change change nothing so fast if a man to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures out of which he seldom travels step beyond it though for never so brief a space his departure the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant ion as if in the gap he had left the of change were driven to the head what was a solid mass to fragments things and held together by the of years burst asunder in as many weeks the mine which time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant and what was rock before becomes but sand and dust most men at one time or other have proved this in some degree the extent to which the natural laws of change asserted their in that limited sphere of action which martin had deserted shall be faithfully set down in these pages what a cold spring it is old drawing near the evening fire it was a warmer season sure when i was young you needn t go your clothes into holes whether it was or not observed the amiable | 8 |
i dot t know all know is there are in it � no raw ii � the deer park � i never heard of that lifting up his hands � they don t know their own fields the deer park is a fields not far from house which yon may behold now give me your the young man then showed them the of the several tenants and pointed out the that to each and the very character of the soil of each field they at him in half wonder and at tlie i and precision of his knowledge on a subject where they not only ignorant hut had not even deemed to ladies and gentlemen he concluded t white by them that he lad carefully and valued every held on tbe estate that the farms were let full forty per cent below their value now your mother has a upon the estate for her but you arc tlie true are we oh i gracious tliey did not even know who their estate belonged to well give me an on this paper to act as your agent or we shall never get our forty per cent neither you hot your mother are any match for sheep faced � who have been your blood fifty � crying that have been moaning and because tliey could not your bones as well my friend said i would do with pleasure but mamma would be so hurt it is impossible � � you saw how your mother received my proposals for her good and yours consider i am strong enough to defeat your enemies � provided i have none but enemies to battle but if i am to fight the and her prejudices as well as and the tenants then e is certain and i wash my hands of it but consider impetuous boy we cannot defy our mother whom we love so defy her no i but you need not go and tell her every thing you do not you know doctor we kept from her s threat till the danger seemed passed and we did well cried think if she had known what was hanging over her all that time what do you say doctor asked i don t know my dear it is a hard alternative as a general rule i don t like deception i do not propose deception said the young man blushing only a wise and without this this reserve even my plan for improving her diet must fail in case i the m of en i ihe t oi t of honour cried and t t l m � be wrong � � all i know b said the doctor that the more roast meat she ha and the s worry the my poor nd wiu u e ob give me the paper we will both � and thank you letting us yes yes and we will do cr he cried is you � i u about it aod oh i e ud jo se what a comfort it is to have � one who energy and decision above all takes the the t d y into the kitchen find adopted into the conspiracy t her how to le it into the and liar the from all her for u while he told her why of tenants she cried thia then has he en game au the e year i good � wait till the next of you comes here a long face j i u tell yon my mind � no no any thing but that t they would say it is u from the and they would write to her or try a do en to her ear yon are right my lion i was stupid no it shall he diamond diamond tu meet them a face as smooth m own and say to them � what shall i say to tlie f say the in her failing state ee no one on iq also that s he has made over th trot of to her daughters and their agent � add that � ihe is dying i � i that is th of all to but stay no � it lies not h in that case she will die and i shall have li � don t die to make other people s be too stupid cut me forty of it not for me to deny you i you to me iv but forty t order from the the young man drawing out a paper it ran thus � do whatever bids u well to be sure i say you have not lost much time my young at least tell me what you want forty of grapes for before he could answer came a clatter and a figure in with a why a sight of you is good for sore eyes who would have thought you could have got so far as tliis i am going farther than this i am going down to the town to sell your grapes and such like belly vengeance and bring back oh that is the game is it my lads cried that and no other replied � if the comes to hear of it won t you catch it that is all but she never will hear of it unless you tell her oh i shan t tell her i t she would away here is a down come selling our fruit ah well a day what is coming to will you go and cut them cried stamping with impatience well i am going snapped lies fi got a little cart � � and r if you will bring the out of my i into garden i will h cut tlie it m all i am i fit for at the present i am no longer a man behold tiie a robin j op a ut i we may as well be killed for a as a lamb | 9 |
of the campaign with accuracy saving that he took the credit of fighting the whole battle himself and especially of the stout which he considered himself as clearly entitled to seeing that it was effected by his own stone the throughout the town gave holiday to their little who followed in after the drums with paper caps on their heads and sticks in their breeches thus taking the first lesson in the art of war as to the sturdy they thronged at the heels of peter wherever he went waving their greasy hats in the air and shouting hard for ever it was indeed a day of roaring and a huge dinner was prepared at the in honour of the where were assembled in one glorious the great and the little of new there were this castle though very much altered and is still in and stands at the corner of pearl street facing s slip the and � the with their s at their the officers at the elbow of the � and so on to the lowest on of police every having his rag at his side to his pipe drink off his heel and laugh his flights of immortal in short � for a city feast i a city feast all the world over and b� n a feast ever since the e dinner went off much the as do and fourth of ban of � flesh and fowl were of liquor drank thousands of pipes s many a dull joke with j sided laughter � i must m t to n tl ia ti blamed victory m of his many o y d v e honest with his a ven o that they him with name of pie er tiiat is to say pe er great or as it was translated by the people of j � which he maintained even unto the day of his death i j m book containing the third part of the reign of peter the his troubles with the british nation and the and fall of the dutch chapter h peter relieved the sovereign people from the of taking care of the nation ith sundry particulars � of his in time of peace the history of the reign of peter a melancholy picture of the incessant cares and inseparable from government and may serve as a solemn warning to all who are ambitious of the seat of power though crowned with victory enriched by conquest and returning in triumph to his metropolis his exultation was checked by beholding the sad that had taken place during the short interval f his a the for their own had n a deep draught of the cup of power during the reign of william the and upon the accession of peter they felt with a certain instinctive perception which as well as cattle popular di c possess that the reins of government had passed into stronger hands yet could they not help and and upon the bit in silence it seems by some strange and inscrutable to be the destiny of most countries and more especially of your enlightened always to be governed by the most man in the nation so that you will scarcely find an individual throughout the whole community who cannot point out innumerable errors in administration and convince you in the end that had he been at the head of matters would have gone on a thousand times more strange that government which seems to be so generally understood should invariably be so administered � strange that the talent of so bestowed should be denied to the only man in the nation to whose station it is requisite thus it was in the present instance not a man of all the herd of in new but was an on topics of state and could have directed public affairs better than peter but so severe was the old governor in his disposition that he would never suffer one of the multitude of able by whom he was surrounded to intrude his advice and save the country from destruction scarcely therefore had he departed on his expedition against the than the old of william s reign began to thrust their heads above water and to gather together in political meetings to discuss the state of the nation at these the busy and their made a very considerable figure these worthy were no longer the fat well fed tranquil that presided in the peaceful days of van � on the contrary being elected by the people they formed in a manner a sturdy between the mob and the administration they were great for popularity and for the rights of the resembling in disinterested zeal the wide mouthed of ancient rome or those virtuous of modern days emphatically the friends of the people under the of these profound it is astonishing how suddenly enlightened the multitude became in matters above their and s all at once felt themselves inspired like those religious in the glorious times of illumination and without any previous study or experience became instantly capable of directing all the movements of government nor must i neglect to mention a number of wrong headed old who had come over when boys in the crew of the and were held up as by the enlightened mob to suppose that a man who had helped to f f peter s reproof discover a country did not know how it ought to be governed was preposterous in the extreme it would have been deemed as much a as at the present day to question the political talents and universal of our old heroes of � and to doubt that he who had fought for a government however stupid he might naturally be was not competent to fill any station under it but as peter had a singular inclination to govern his province without the assistance of his subjects he felt highly on his return to | 48 |
thus we parted but ah i little did we guess how and where the three of us would meet again we were weary and soon fell fast asleep beside our camp fire for knowing that the whole army guarded us we had no fear i remember watching the bright stars which shone in the immense vault above me until they in the pure light of the risen moon now somewhat past her full and hearing from beneath his fur rug that was quite right and that it was pleasant to be in the open air again as he was tired i til after that i knew no more until i was awakened by the challenge of a in the distance then a a second challenge from the officer of our own rd another pause and a priest stood bowing before the light from the fire playing upon his head and face which i seemed to recognize � and he gave a name that was familiar to me but which i forget � am sent my lords by who commands me to say that the would speak with you both and at once now sat up yawning and asked what was the matter i told him whereon he said he wished that aye sha could have waited till daylight then added � well there is no help for it come on he rose to follow the messenger the priest bowed again and said � the commands of the are that my lords should their weapons and their guard what grumbled to protect us for a walk of a yards through the heart of an army the explained the man has left her tent le is in the yonder studying the line of advance how do you know that i asked i do not know it he replied told me so that is all and therefore the bade my lords bring guard for she is alone is she mad ejaculated to wander about in such a place at midnight well it is like her i too thought it was like her who did nothing that hers would have done and j et i hesitated then i that had said she might send for us also i was sure that if any trick had been intended we should not have been warned to bring an escort so we called tile guard � there were twelve of them � took our and swords and started we were by both the first and second lines and i noticed that as we gave them the pass a the prophecy of word the last who of course recognized us looked astonished still if they had doubts they did not dare to express them so we went on now we began to descend the sides of the by a very steep path with which the priest our guide seemed to be curiously familiar for he went down it as though it were the of his own house a strange place to take us to at night said doubtfully when we were near the bottom and the chief of the that great red bearded hunter who had been mixed up in the matter of the snow also muttered some words of remonstrance whilst i was trying to catch what he said of a sudden something white walked into the patch of moonlight at the foot of the and we saw that it was the veiled figure of herself the chief saw her also and said � look at her grumbled strolling about in that haunted hole as though it were park and on he went at a run the figure turned and beckoned to us to follow her as she glided forward picking her way through the which were scattered about upon the bed of the thus she went on into the shadow of the opposing cliff that the moonlight did not reach here in wet season a stream down a path which had cut through the rock in the course of centuries the that it had brought with it was spread about floor of the so that many of the bones w almost completely buried in the sand these i noticed as we stepped into the shadow more numerous than usual just here for on all sides i saw the white crowns of or the projecting ends of ribs and bones doubtless i thought to that made a road to the plain above past battle the fighting around it was very fit and the slaughter great los i r here aye ta had halted and was engaged in the of this strewn path as though si making um of it tliat day now we i and the priest who guided us fell back wit leaving us to go forward alone since the i not approach the l was in advance of me seven or eight yards perhaps an i ard him say � t why dost venture into such places at n i unless indeed it is not possible for any harm li me to thee f she made no answer only turned and opened her ana let them fall to her side again whilst � what this signal of hers might mean � ac shadows about us came a strange rustling i looked and lo everywhere the were from their sandy beds i saw their white gleaming arm and leg bones their hollow ribs the army had come to life again and in hands were the ghosts of of course i knew at once that this was but another of s magic powers which some of hers had drawn us from our beds to witness i confess that i felt frightened even the of men however free from superstition might be excused should their nerve fail them if when standing in a churchyard at midnight suddenly on every side they saw the dead arising from their graves also our surroundings were and more than those of any | 18 |
spoke you have quite made up your mind said i to mr as to the future good friend i need scarcely ask you quite r he returned and told em ly s mighty countries fur from our future life over the sea david they will together aunt said i yes said mr with a hopeful smile no one can t reproach my darling in we will begin a new life over i asked him if he yet proposed to himself any time for going away i was down at the early this morning sir he returned to get information concerning of them ships in about six weeks or two months from now there ll be one sailing � i see her this morning � went aboard � and we shall take our passage in her quite alone i asked aye r he returned my sister you see she s that fond of you and and that accustomed to think on y of her own country that it wouldn t be hardly fair to let her go besides which s one she has in charge r as t ought to be forgot poor ham said i my good sister takes care of his house you see ma am and he takes kindly to her mr explained for my aunt s better information he ll set and talk to her with a calm spirit it b like he couldn t bring himself to open his lips to another poor fellow said mr shaking his head s not so much left him that he could spare the little as he has � and mrs said i well i ve had a of con i do tell you returned mr with a perplexed look which gradually cleared as he went on concerning of you see falls a thinking of the old un she an t what you may call good company you and me r � and you ma am � mrs takes to � our old county word for crying � she s liable to be considered to be by them as didn t know the old un like now i did know the old un said mr and i know d his merits so i her but tan t entirely so you see with others � rally t be my aunt and i both said mr my sister might � i t say the would but might � find give her a david trouble now and again tan t my intentions to long with them but to find a fur her she can fur herself a in that dialect a home and to is to provide fur which purpose said mr i means to make her a afore i go as leave her comfort ble she s the oi tan t to be expected of course at her time of life and being lone and as the good old is to be knocked about and in the woods and of a new and fur away country so that s what i m a going to do with her he forgot nobody he thought of everybody s claims and but his own em ly he continued will keep along with me � poor child she s sore in need of peace and rest � until such time as we goes upon our voyage she ll work at them clothes as must be made and i hope her troubles will begin to seem longer ago than they was she finds herself once more by her rough but loving uncle my aunt nodded confirmation of this hope and imparted great satisfaction to mr s one thing r said he putting his hand in his breast pocket and gravely taking ont the little paper bundle i had seen before which he on the table s these here bank notes � fifty pound and ten to them i wish to add the money as she come away with i ve asked her about that but not saying why and have added of it up i au t a scholar would you be so kind as see how tis v he handed me for his a piece of paper and me while looked it over it was quite right sir he said taking it back this money if you t see objections r i shall ut up jest afore i go in a cover d to him and put that up in another d to his mother i shall tell her in no more than i speak to you what it s the price on and that i m gone and past receiving of it back i told him that i thought it would be right to do so � that i was thoroughly convinced it would be since he felt it to be right david i said that was on j one thing he proceeded with a grave smile when he had made up his little bundle again and put it in his pocket but was two i warn t sure in my mind i come out this morning as i could go and break to ham of my own self what had so happened so i writ a letter while i was out and put it in the post office of em how all was as tis and that i should come down to morrow to my mind of what little needs a doing of down and most like take my farewell leave of and do you wish me to go with you said i seeing that he left something if you could do me that kind favor r he replied i know the sight on you would cheer em up a bit my little being in good spirits and very desirous that i should go � as i found on talking it over with her � i readily pledged myself to accompany him in accordance with his wish next morning consequently we were on the | 8 |
blowing on his face and the water coming up among the wheels of his bed he wanted nothing more he said one day where s india where that boy s friends live oh it s a long long distance off said raising her eyes from her work weeks off asked paul yes dear many weeks journey night and day if you were in india said paul after being and silent for ft minute i should r what is that did i forget loved me answered no no don t i love you now what is it r died if you were in india i should die she hurriedly put her work aside and laid her head down on his pillow caressing him and so would she she said if he were there he would be better soon oh i am a great deal better now i he answered i don t mean that i mean that i should die of being so sorry and so lonely another time in the same place he fell asleep aad slept quietly for a long time suddenly he listened started up and sat listening asked him what he thought he heard i want to know what it says he answered looking steadily in her face the sea what is it that it keeps on saying she told him that it was only the noise of the rolling waves yes yes he said but i know that they are always saying something always the same thing what place is over there he rose up looking eagerly at the horizon she told him that there was another country opposite but he said he didn t mean that he meant farther away farther away very often afterwards in the midst of their talk he would break off to try to understand what it was that the waves were always saying and would rise up in his couch to look towards that invisible region far away ain son chapter ix that of romance and love of the of which there was a pretty strong in the nature of young gay and which the of his undo old solomon had not very much weakened by the waters of stem practical experience was the of his an uncommon and delightful interest to the adventure of with good mrs brown he and cherished it in his memory especially that part of it with which he had been associated until it became the s child of his fancy and look its own way and did what it liked with it the recollection of those incidents and his own in them may have been made the more perhaps by the weekly of old and captain on sundays hardly a sunday passed without mysterious being made hy one or other of those worthy to richard and the latter gentleman had even gone so far as to purchase a ballad of considerable antiquity that had among many others chiefly expressive of n on a dead wall in the commercial road which poetical performance set forth the courtship and of a promising young coal with a certain the accomplished daughter of the master and and son part owner of a in this stirring legend captain a profound hearing on the case of walter and and it excited him so much that on very occasions as and a few other non holidays he would roar through the whole song in the little back parlor making an amazing shake on the word pe � e� with which every verse concluded in compliment to the heroine of the piece but a frank free spirited open hearted boy is not much given to the nature of his own feelings however strong their hold upon him and walter would have found it difficult to decide this point he had a great affection for the wharf where he had encountered and for the streets not in themselves by which they had come home the shoes that had so often tumbled off by the way he preserved in his own room and sitting in the little of an evening he had drawn a whole gallery of fancy portraits of good mrs brown it may be that he became a little in his dress after that memorable occasion and he certainly liked in his leisure time to walk towards that quarter of the town where mr s house was situated on the vague chance of passing little in the street but the sentiment of all this was as boyish and innocent as could be was very pretty and it is pleasant to admire a pretty face was and weak and it was a proud thought that he had been able to render her any protection and assistance was the most grateful little creature in the world and it was delightful to see her bright gratitude beaming in her face was neglected and coldly looked upon and his son breast was full of youthful interest for the child in ber dull stately home thus it came about that perhaps some half b dozen in the course of the year walter pulled off hia hat to in he street and would stop to shake hands mrs who with a characteristic of bis name invariably spoke of him as young was so well used to this knowing the story of their acquaintance that she took no heed of it at all miss on the other hand rather looked out for these occasions her sensitive young heart being secretly by walter s good looks and to tbe belief that its sentiments were responded to in this way walter so far from forgetting or losing of bis with only remembered it better and as to its adventurous beginning and all those little circumstances which gave it a character and relish he took them into ac more as a pleasant story very agreeable to his imagination and not to be dismissed from it than as a part of any matter | 8 |
he saw me he seemed to feel both mortification and embarrassment at my presence but there was an air of modesty and in this young man which prevented him from exhibiting impatience for what a man more with society might have been disposed to consider an intrusion on the privacy of sorrow i believe sir i said this book which i have just found under the trees is yours i followed you with the intention of presenting it but seeing you under the influence of strong feeling i to do so until i thought you were calm not to be startled by the interruption you are very obliging sir he said to take such trouble the book is mine and i thank you not less for kindness than for your delicacy he then bowing wished me a good evening and in a hurried manner walked from the church yard by a path from that which led him to it when he was gone i went to the monument over which he had poured his sorrows for i felt i must confess an curiosity to know who it wa s that he had so ly i read on the the following simple inscription y this tomb the remains of who died on the of may aged years also of her mother elizabeth who followed her on the th of august � aged alas i thought i as i ran my eye over the inscription here be perhaps all that life contained for him of that the sweetest and most delightful of the heart cut off as he is by the conditions of his office from the cultivation and exercise of the affections deprived o all that fills the parent s eye with joy and his soul with gratitude � shut out by the force of an from the sweetest sympathies of life � from the pure emotions and privileged of humanity � from the paradise of domestic life v hich the sacred characters of father mother wife and child are permitted to enter � is it any wonder that he concentrated as his affections must be by the nature of his situation over the grave of a mother and a sister and weep with the violence of a strong man s grief how clearly can i fancy that sister perhaps his only one � the beloved companion of his childhood and his youth equal of bis joys and sorrows away day by day and hour by hour until the s of her foot the her smile or the melody of her voice is heard or seen no more when the final pang is over and she lies stretched out in the stillness of picture of departed beauty never again to turn the eye of tenderness upon a brother or a parent � never to wipe away with her own feeble hand the hope s less tears from her parents cheeks � never again affect the mirth of innocence in the languor of � father if ease that she might calm the of those who feared to lose her for oh never again to soothe them with the strong which rich in faith she could and did give of meetings beyond the grave where there is neither sorrow nor separation � never again to give them the full assurance that she for herself those promises of the gospel that are yea and amen in christ nor by the serene influence of her word and example to brighter worlds and lead the way when i contemplate her still warm with the traces of departed life silent to the wild cry of her mother s upon her name � that brother perhaps an only one raises to his lips the tender hand that was so dear to him and sees it foil down in utter by her when i fancy the father s approach to make his morning inquiry after her who in the emphasis of affection was always called aw � when i see him bring the black to have the long gray locks which descended his shoulders tied as usual by her hands and when he hears that his flower is cut down collecting all the christian within him and kneeling before the eternal throne praying to be supported � when i see him struggle his grief his lip quiver his voice become indistinct and his whole frame shake until at length remembering that she was his only and his dearest the tide of grief bursts forth with a violence which nothing can oh when i bring this before me do i not know that the sword of his soul then when i measure the short period that between may and august i can fancy the mother s disease to that of a broken she would not be comforted her complaint was that of � she gave way to and weeping because her child was after having over such melancholy images for some time i turned towards home as it was now near twilight but in order to the pleasure of the walk and the landscape i took a more path on my return i had not however advanced far until i perceived him again a little before me for he walked very slowly he was in conversation with a peasant but on noticing my approach he left him and walked on more quickly the peasant proved to be one of my own � a very good humoured man named tom whom noticed once or twice for the neat and clean manner in which he kept himself clothed a fine night your honour said tom touching his hat � a fine night tom you re on your way home i suppose � on way your honour a hard day s work sir � well tom u work for your bread and earn it honestly � and it s always the sweetest bread that s most honestly earned � why it is sir | 50 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carts in its progress which was by any hand for the milk himself was pursuing on foot his natural in affairs a l enabled mr to infer that the which could cut such a record when with a chariot would exhibit even greater speed if in and that it might even not carry off first prize in the race so as the milk ran up with anxiety to learn the result of his horse s mr stopped him to inquire what he would take for such an animal the rather foolishly taking it for granted that horse and cart were gone concerns thought he was making the good stroke of business in offering the lot for a twenty pound note i have done with you cried mr sharply handing over the purchase money a from which he very fortunately chanced to have about him and galloping off to inspect his bargain which was like buying a pig after once it in the ribs in what condition he found it i must leave you to learn my dear readers in an chapter chapter ix the dark horse a from full many a mare with coat of is in dark coal mines full many a s born to blush unseen and waste her swiftness on a cab lines to order by a young english friend who they are original but i regard as an unconscious from poet young s of a country h b f it is a gain a precious let me gain let me gain oh oh the shower of thine secret shoe dust oh oh dr ram of we left mr in full pursuit of the horse and milk chariot which he had so purchased while still en route after running a mile or two he was rejoiced to find that the a from had come to a and was still in prime condition � with the exception of the which had made its escape from the however was not disposed to weep for long over milk and had the excessive to restore the chariot and to the merchant who was beside himself with gratitude then mr with a heart having detached his purchase from the shafts conducted it in triumph to his it turned out to be a mare white as snow and of marvellous and partly because of her origin and partly from her complexion he her by the of way although a complete the dark horse i in the art of a horse to win any contest mr s told him that the first step was to his rather too pupil with com and similar seeds and after a prolonged course of he had the gratification to behold his mare filling out as plump as a as he desired her to remain the dark horse as long as possible he concealed her in a small at the end of the garden to her wants with his own hands and conducting her for daily several times round the central grass patch for some time he refrained from mounting � fain would he climb but that he feared to fall as poet once scratched with a diamond on queen anne � a from window but at length reflecting that if nothing nothing is certain to win he purchased a saddle with and surmounted way who far from regarding him as an appeared gratified by his arrival and did her utmost to make him feel thoroughly at home the next step was of course to obtain permission from the who rule the roast of the club that way might be allowed to in the approaching now this was a more delicately matter than might be supposed owing to the circumstance that the said are such warm men and so well endowed with this world s riches that they are practically the dark horse i fortunately mr as a in english composition was a in drawing a petition and sitting down he constructed the following � to those most in control of club personages this petition humbly i that your is a native indian cambridge b a a and a most loyal and devoted subject of her majesty the queen that it is of excessive importance to him for private reasons that he should win a race a from that such a famous victory would be eminently popular with all classes of indian natives and increase their affection for british rule that for some time past your has been diligently training a which he fondly hopes may gain a victory that said is a member of the fair sex that she is a female horse of very disposition but being only recently extracted from shafts of chariot is a total in racing that your may direct that she is to be kindly permitted to try the dark horse her luck in this world famous competition that it would greatly encourage her to exhibit speed if she could be allowed to start running a few minutes previously to older that if this is unfortunately contrary to then the judge should receive secret instructions to look with a favourable eye upon the said female horse whose name is way and her first prize even if by any chance she may not prove quite so fast a as more professional and your will ever pray on knees that so truly magnificent an institution as the a from course may never be suppressed on grounds of encouraging national vice of gambling and so forth signed c the of the above proved mr s profound acquaintance with the human heart for it attained the desired end the returned a very kind answer readily to receive way as a candidate for honours but that it was to her a few minutes start and that she must start with a scratch in company with all the other horses was not in the least degree cast down or depressed by this refusal of a start since he had | 44 |
and the greater or less degree of communicated to the arm which in this exercise acts as a of the body the motion being exactly the reverse of that of the corresponding leg it draws the more into the inferior than superior members it gives but little strength to the latter walking may be performed in three times � slow moderate or quick � which somewhat its action the slow walk or march in the march the weight of the body is advanced � rom the heel to the and the toes are turned out this being done one foot the left for instance is advanced with the knee straight and the toe inclined to the ground which without being drawn back it touches before the heel in such a manner however that the sole at the con the moderate and the q ti k page of tlie step is nearly parallel with tlie ground it next touches its outer edge the right foot is then immediately raised from the inner edge of the toe and advanced inclined and brought to the ground and so in plate and thus in the march the toe first touches and last leaves the ground and so marked is this tendency that in the stage step which is meant to be especially dignified � as the foot an awkward when the weight has been thrown on the � in order to correct this the former is for an instant extended its toe even turned backwards and and its tip alone rested on the ground previous to its being in its turn advanced thus the toe s first touching and last leaving the ground is peculiarly marked in this form of the this pace should be practised until it can be firmly and gracefully performed the moderate and the quick pace these will be best understood by a reference to the pace which we have just described the principal difference between them being as to the advance of the weight of the body the turning out of the toes and the part of the foot which first touches and last leaves the ground we shall find that the times of these two paces require a further advance of the weight and suffer less and less of turning out the toes and of this extended touching with the toe and covering the ground with the foot the moderate pace here the weight of the body is advanced from the heel to the ball of the foot the toes are less turned out and the quick pace it is no longer the toe but ihe ball of the foot which first touches and last leaves the ground its outer edge or the ball of the little toe first breaking the descent of the foot and its inner edge or the ball of the great toe last the weight � plate and thus in this step less of the foot may be said to cover the ground and this of nearer and stronger points of support and action is essential to the increased quickness and exertion of the pace the of this pace has not been sufficiently attended to people pass from the march to the quick pace they know not how and hence all the awkwardness and embarrassment of their walk when their pace becomes moderate and the misery they endure when this pace has to be performed by them up the middle of a long and well lighted room where the eyes of a brilliant assembly are exclusively directed to them let those who have felt this but attend to what we have here said the motion of the arms and of every other part depends on it the quick pace here the weight of the body is advanced from the heel to the toes the toes are least turned out and still nearer and stronger points of support and action are chosen the outer edge of the heel first touches the ground and the sole of the foot projects the weight these are essential to the increased quickness of this pace � plate and and it is important to remark as to all these paces that tiie weight is more thrown forward and the toes are less turned out in the form of the march the toes as we have seen are in the foot though but for a moment even thrown backwards in the moderate pace they have an direction and in the quick pace slow they are thrown more directly forward as in the six of plate viii it is this direction of the toes and still more the nearer and stronger points of support and action namely the heel and sole of the foot which are essential to the quick pace so practised but which together with the great inclination of the body being transferred to the moderate pace make unfortunate people look so awkward as we shall now explain the time of the moderate pace is as it were filled up by the more complicated process of the step � by the gradual and easy breaking of the descent of the foot on its outer edge or the ball of the little toe by the deliberate of the foot by its equally gradual and easy from its inner edge or the ball of the great toe the quick pace if its time be lengthened has no such filling up the man at once down on his heel and could rise instantly from his sole but finds that to fill up his time he must pause an instant he feels he should do something and does not know what his hands suffer the same momentary as his feet he gradually becomes confused and embarrassed deeply sensible of this he at last it a smile or a arises though people do not well know at what but in short the man has walked like a because the of his step has not filled | 50 |
the bank his trick was obvious he had entered the fo to of the steamer and while the steamer had driven on into the fog in the chance of catching him he had come about and out of his shelter and was now down to to su in this the old of the needle in the would he indeed compared with his brother s chance of him the sea he did not long the fore and main sails and setting the again we headed back into the a� we entered i could have sworn i saw a va tie emerging to looked quickly at wolf l already we were ourselves buried in the but he nodded his head he too had seen it � the his and failing by a moment in it there was no doubt that we had escaped he can t keep this up wolf said he ll have to go back for the rest of his boats a man to the wheel mr van j ee for the present and you might as well set the for we won t do any tin to ht i d give five hundred dollars though he added just to be aboard the for five minutes listening to my brother curse and now mr van he said to me when he had been relieved from the wheel we must make these serve out plenty of to the hunters and see that a few bottles slip for ard i ll er every man jack of them is over the side to morrow hunting for wolf as as ever they hunted for death but won t they escape as did i asked he laughed not as long as our old hunters have anything to say about it i m dividing amongst ni i dollar a skin for all the skins shot by our new hunters at least half of their enthusiasm to day was due tn that oh no there won t be any escaping if they have anything to say about it and now you d better get for ard to your hospital duties there must be a f ward waiting for you chapter xxvi wolf took the distribution of the my hands and the bottles began to make their while i worked over the fresh of wounded men in the i had seen drunk such as and by the men of the clubs but never as these men drank it from and and from the bottles � great drinks each one of which was in itself a but they did not stop at one or two they drank and drank and ever the bottles slipped forward and they drank more everybody drank j the wounded drank who helped me drank only louis refrained no more than cautiously his lips with the liquor though he joined in the with an abandon equal to that of most of them it was a in loud voices they shouted over the day s fighting about details or affectionate and made friends with the men whom they had fought prisoners and on one another s shoulders and swore mighty oaths of respect and esteem they wept over the miseries of the past and over the miseries yet to come under the iron rule of wolf and all cursed him and told terrible tales of his it was a strange and frightful spectacle the small lined space the floor and walls leaping and the dim ht the swaying shadows and sly the thick air heavy with smoke the sea wolf and the smell of bodies and and the di the men � hall i should call them i noted holding the end of a and looking the scene his and luminous eyes glistening in the light like a deer s eyes and yet i knew the devil that in his breast and all the softness and tenderness almost womanly of his face and form and i noticed the boyish face of � a good face once but now a demon s � with passion as he told the of the hell hip they were in and shrieked curses upon the head of wolf wolf it was always wolf and of men a and these his swine suffering brutes t before him and only in and in secrecy and one of his swine i thought and no i ground my teeth in my anger and determination till the man i was attending under my hand and looked at me with curiosity i felt endowed with a sudden strength what of my new found love i was a giant i feared nothing i would work my will through it all in spite of wolf and of my own thirty five years all would be well i would make it well and so exalted by a sense of power i turned my back on the howling and climbed to the deck where the fog drifted ghostly through the night and the air was sweet and pure and quiet the where were two wounded hunters was a repetition of the except that wolf w is not being cursed and it was with a great relief that i again emerged on deck and went aft to the cabin supper was ready and wolf and were waiting for sea wolf while all his ship was getting drunk as fast as it could he remained sober not a drop of liquor passed his lips he did not dare it under the circumstances for he had only louis and me to depend upon and louis was even now at the wheel we were sailing on through the fog without a and without lights that wolf had turned the liquor loose among his men surprised me but he evidently knew their and the best method of in cordiality what had begun in his victory over death seemed to have had a remarkable effect upon him the previous evening he had reasoned himself into the and | 21 |
i have hia a lady s life in xv ideas of right are the possible he says that he believes in god but what he knows or believes of god s law i know not to resent insult with your revolver to revenge yourself on those who have injured you to be true to a comrade and share your last crust with him to be to good women to be generous and hospitable and at the last to die game � these are the articles of his creed and i suppose they are received by men of his stamp he hates with a bitter hatred and returns it having undergone much provocation from jim in his moods of and violence and being not a little envious of the fascination which his manners and conversation have for the strangers who come up here on returning down the the view was than i have ever seen it the in dark shadow the park below lying in intense sunlight with all the majestic which sweep down upon it in depths of infinite blue gloom and above the peaks dazzling in purity and glorious in form the blue of the sky how shall i ever leave this land which is very far off how can i ever leave it is the real question we are going on the principle let us eat and drink for to morrow we die and the stores are melting away the two meals are not an economical plan for we are so much more hungry that we eat more than when we had the rocky mountains we had a good deal of sacred music to day to make it as like sunday as possible the faint melancholy of this winter loneliness is very fascinating how glorious the fires of the winter are and how to night the crimson clouds descended just to the mountain tops and were reflected on the pure surface of the snow the door of this room looks due north and as i write the pole star and a cold moon hangs over the of long s peak november we have lost count of time and can only agree on the fact that the date is somewhere near the end of november our life has settled down into serenity and our singular and enforced is very pleasant we might be three men living together but for the courtesy and consideration which they show to me our work goes on like the only which ever arises is that the men do not like me to do anything that they think hard or such as a horse or bringing in water the days go very fast it was to day before i knew that it was it is a calm life without the men are so easy to live with they never fuss or or sigh or make a trouble of anything it would amuse you to come into our wretched little kitchen before our late breakfast and a lady s ufe in xv find mr busy at the stove myself washing the supper dishes and mr drying them or both the men busy at the stove while i sweep the floor our food is a great object of interest to us and we are hungry now that we have only two meals a day about each goes forth to his � mr k to chop wood mr b to haul water i to wash the milk and water the horses on saturday the men shot a deer and on going for it to day they found nothing but the hind legs and following a track which they expected would lead them to a beast s hole they came quite carelessly upon a large mountain which however took itself out of their reach before they were sufficiently recovered from their surprise to fire at it these lions which are really a species of are as well as cowardly lately one got into a in the of the st and killed thirty sheep the blood from their throats november this has been a day of minor events as weu as a busy one i was so busy that i never sat down from till i had washed my one change of and though i never iron my clothes i like to them till they are as white as snow and they were on the line when some furious came down from long s peak against the mountains which i could not stand and when i did get out all my clothes were blown into from an inch to four inches in width literally destroyed one how very little is necessary either for comfort or happiness i made a four pound cake baked some bread mended my riding dress cleaned up generally wrote some letters with the hope that some day they might be posted and took a magnificent walk reaching the cabin again in the melancholy glory which now immediately the darkness we were all busy getting our supper ready when the dogs began to bark furiously and we heard the noise of horses at last we exclaimed but we were wrong mr went out and returned saying that it was a young man who had come up with s and team and that the had gone over into a seven miles from mr looked very grave it s another mouth to feed he said they asked no questions and brought the lad in a assured fellow of twenty who having fallen into delicate health at a college had been sent up here by to work for his board the men were too courteous to ask him what he was doing up here but i boldly asked him where he lived and to our dismay he replied i ve come to live here so we had to settle what to do with him we discussed the food question gravely as it presented a real difficulty we put g a | 20 |
wholly and keep him at a high level throughout an entire poem however short he greatly sometimes in single lines or he now and then surprises us with expressions like the weeping magic of my verse or so a line as and keep strayed honour in the true way or a delicious commencement of a poem which falls off as it proceeds such as where the north wind when the south life in the spring and into the scattered or a strange and impressive thought like that comparison of virtue which lost to the world by his friend s death only lives still in some solitary s cell � so mid the ice of the far northern sea a star about the circle may than ours yield clearer light yet that j ut shall serve at the frozen pilot s funeral it is quite consistent with this that the which a poem are with him sometimes vigorous and happy in more than one case this final line or the entire value of the poem take this for instance � and thus there will be left no bird to sing farewell to the waters welcome to the spring or this � ah her vows religious be and her love she vows to me vol ii m t the english poets or this � but virtuous love is one sweet endless fire or this � the bad man s death is horror but the just keeps something of his glory in his dust but his inadequate sense of poetic form does not allow him often to attain to a perfect whole he is too fond of awkward and to force more into a line than it will fairly hold his one or two of which rank among the best efforts are formally speaking not at all but strings of seven he does not sufficiently know he has not sufficiently at the business of his art on en dire la po est un art qui s qui a m son point et son l inspiration un par ne is one of the many english poets whose imperfect of this aspect of the truth has left their achievement inferior to their talent w t william to roses in the bosom of ye blushing happy are in the of her breasts for he d profane so a fair who e er should call them s nests thus how bright ye grow how rich a perfume do ye yield in some close garden so are sweeter than i th open field in those white live secure from the rude of wanton breath each hour more innocent and pure till you shall into death then that which living gave you room your glorious shall be there wants no marble for a tomb whose breast has marble been to me to upon a in s cheek boy in thy warm flight what cold tyrant thy sight had st thou eyes to see my fair thou would st sigh to air fearing to create this one nature had herself undone but if you when this you hear fall down murdered through your ear beg of jove that you may have in her cheek a grave lily rose and violet shall the beset while a sheet of lawn o er the wanton corpse is drawn and all lovers use this breath here lies in death m l the english poets the description of like the violet which alone in some happy shade my lives unknown to no eye betrayed for she s to her self who delights i th public view such is her beauty as no arts have enriched with borrowed grace her high birth no pride for she in her place folly a glorious blood she is noblest being good cautious she knew never yet what a wanton courtship meant nor speaks loud to boast her wit in her silence eloquent of her self survey she takes but men no difference makes she with speedy will her grave parents wise commands and so innocent that ill she nor acts nor understands women s feet run still astray if once to ill they know the way she sails by that rock the court where oft honour her mast and thinks the port where her fame may anchor cast virtue safely cannot sit where vice is for wit william she holds that day s pleasure best where sin waits not on delight without mask or ball or feast sweetly a winter s night o er that darkness whence is thrust prayer and sleep oft lust � she her throne makes reason climb while wild passions captive lie and each article of time her pure thoughts to heaven fly all her vows religious be and her love she vows to me to in a trance me not so soon stay and as i break the prison of my clay fill the canvas with my breath and sail with thee o er the vast main of death some thus as we pass shall play go happy of love � the courteous sea shall smooth her wrinkled brow the winds shall sleep or only whisper music to the deep every rock shall melt away the sing to please not to betray the indulgent sky shall smile each contend which shall afford the brighter fire while love the pilot his course so even ne er to cast anchor till we reach at heaven to upon the death of a lady weep not tho her tomb appear sometime thy grief to answer with a tear the marble will but wanton with thy woe death is the sea and we like rivers flow to lose ourselves in the main whence rivers may she ne er return again the english poets nor grieve this crystal stream so soon did fall into the ocean since she d all the banks she past so that each neighbour field did sweet flowers cherished by her watering yield which now adorn | 45 |
our losses in dead or that had fallen during the past year it was a very wet night and i remember that we sang with our feet in the cup and our heads among the stars and swore that we were all dear the phantom friends then some of us went away and and some tried to open up the and were opened up by in that cruel outside and some found stars and and some were married which was bad and some did other things which were worse and the others of us stayed in our chains and strove to make money on insufficient experiences began the night with and drank champagne steadily up to then raw with all the strength of took with his coffee four or five and to improve his pool strokes beer and bones at half past two winding up with old brandy consequently when he came out at half past three in the morning into fourteen degrees of fi he was very angry with his horse for and tried to into the saddle the horse broke away and went to his stables so and i formed a guard of to take home our road lay through the close to a little temple of the monkey god who is a leading divinity worthy of respect all gods have good points just as have all priests personally i attach much importance to and am kind to his people � the great gray of the hills one never knows when one may want a friend the mark of the beast there was a light in the temple and as we passed we could hear voices of men hymns in a native temple the priests rise at all hours of the night to do honour to their god before we could stop him dashed up the steps patted two priests on the back and was gravely grinding the ashes of his cigar butt into the forehead of the red stone image of tried to drag him out but he sat down and said solemnly that mark of the b made it t it fine in half a minute the temple was alive and noisy and who knew what came of gods said that things might occur he by virtue of his official position long residence in the country and weakness for going among the natives was known to the priests and he felt unhappy sat on the ground and refused to move he said that good old made a very soft pillow then without any warning a silver man came out of a recess behind the image of the god he was perfectly naked in that bitter bitter cold and his body shone like silver for he was what the bible calls a as white as snow also he had no face because he was a er of some years standing and his disease was heavy upon him we two stooped to haul up and the phantom the temple was and filling with folk who seemed to spring from the earth when the silver man ran in under our arms making a noise exactly like the of an caught round the body and dropped his head on s breast before we could him away then he retired to a comer and at while the crowd blocked all the doors the priests were very angry until the silver man touched that seemed to sober them at the end of a few minutes silence one of the priests came to and said in perfect english take your friend away he has done with but has not done with him the crowd gave room and we carried into the road was very angry he said that we might all three have been and that should thank his stars that he had escaped without injury thanked no one he said that he wanted to go to bed he was drunk we moved on silent and until was taken with violent shivering fits and he said that the smells of the were overpowering and he wondered were permitted so near english can t you smell the blood said � the mark of the beast we put him to bed at last just as the dawn was breaking and invited me to have another and while we were drinking he talked of the trouble in the temple and admitted that it baffled him completely hates being by natives because his business in life is to them with their own weapons he has not yet succeeded in doing this but in fifteen or twenty years he will have made some small progress they should have us he said instead of at us i wonder what they meant i don t like it one little bit i said that the managing committee of the temple would in all probability bring a criminal action against us for insulting their religion there was a section of the indian code which exactly met s offence said he only hoped and prayed that they would do this before i left i looked into s room and saw him lying on his right side scratching his left breast then i went to bed cold depressed and unhappy at seven o clock in the morning at one o clock i rode over to s house to inquire after s head i imagined that it would be a sore one was and seemed his temper was gone for he was the cook for not supplying him with an chop a man who can eat raw meat the phantom after a wet is a curiosity i tc d this and he laughed you breed queer in these be said i ve been bitten to pieces but only in one place let s have a look at the bite said it may have gone down since this morning while the were being cooked opened his shirt and showed us just over his left breast a | 39 |
last a mysterious answer was sent to the effect that the deeds were in existence and should be given up but only on certain conditions and to the heir himself the young man in consequence went up to london and according to directions to an old house in where he was by a man awaiting him that he must submit to e and his guidance he was taken through several long passages before lie left the house at the termination of one of these he was put into a chair and carried about for an hour or more he always reported that there were many and that he imagined lie was set down finally not ve t far from his when his eyes were lie was in a decent sitting room with tokens of family occupation lying about k middle aged gentleman entered and told him that until a certain time had elapsed which should be indicated to him in a particular way but of which the length was not then named he must swear to secrecy as to the means by which he obtained possession of the deeds this oath was taken and then the gentleman not without some emotion acknowledged himself to be the missing father of the heir it seems that lie had fallen in love with a a of the person with whom he lodged to this young woman he had represented himself as unmarried she listened willingly to his and her father who was a in the city was not averse to the match as the squire had a goodly presence and many similar qualities which the thought might be acceptable to his customers the bargain was struck the of a race married the only daughter of the city and became a junior partner in the business he told his son that he had never repented the step lie had taken that his lowly born wife was sweet and affectionate that his family by her wo large and that he and they were and happy he inquired after his first or rather i should say his true wife with friendly affection approved of what she had done with regard to his estate and the education of his children but said that he considered he was dead to her as she was to him when he really died he promised that a particular message the nature of which he should be sent to his son at g until then they would not hear more of each other for it was of no use attempting to trace him under his even if the oath did not render such an attempt forbidden i dare say the youth had no great desire to trace out the father who had been one in name only he returned to took possession of the property at and many yea elapsed before he received the mysterious intimation of his father s real death after that he named the connected with the recovery of the title deeds to mr s and one or two intimate friends when the family became extinct or removed from it became no longer any very closely kept secret and i was told the tale of the disappearance by miss s the a ed daughter of the family agent once more let me say i am thankful i live in the days of the police if i am murdered or commit at any rate my friends will have the comfort of knowing all about it life in the mines of south the following letter has been confided to us for publication by a gentleman in london to whom it is addressed it shows what a young fellow to with the power and the will to work can do out of hand it also shows as this journal has endeavoured to do on previous occasions that those qualities are indispensable and that lazy upon the face of the earth have even less business in than in any other place if indeed they can be said to be less desirable in any one place than in another where they are all over the world so th a th it is now eight weeks since my in this colony i have deferred writing thus long so as to be enabled to state something decisive regarding both my intentions and the prospects by the country i have adopted i will give you a detail of my movements since i landed feeling assured from the ever kind interest you have evinced on my behalf it will not be we our passage here in fourteen weeks nothing worthy of comment during it after a parting with my i bade adieu to the good ship on the th of october having been with two letters for e from his father my next care was their safe delivery and to catch a glimpse of the young fellow whom i found on inquiry was with mr w at fifty miles south of i walked there in two days handed him his letters and much surprised him by my appearance he has grown a fine fellow well cut out for work and i must do him the justice to say well inclined for it i spent a day and night there and took the bone stage back again for the town of so as to make words by they had on their and the next day morning being the fourth day we found one of our boat mates lying dead iu the boat and after we said a few prayers over him we committed his body to the deep with a sorrowful heart for we were all very weak by this time and that same day about o clock another of our boat mates was taken mad and after ill using himself a good deal he jumped overboard and the soon finished him and now there were only four of us left and we suffered a good deal 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the past year and a half so there was no undue on the part of the owner and of the edifice such a residence could not be built in a day any more than the city of rome it was no common affair to young miss be run up in a single season on the finest avenue in the first city of the land it was destined to all of its neighbors and leave a liberal distance between itself and any likely to come after that meant a of half the world for materials a securing of the best workmen in every and above all no sign of haste anywhere it required ten months to bring the building to the height of the first floor to the amazement of the neighborhood which was not prepared for the extended to those parts of the work that were soon to be hidden from sight then the rose slowly that the fine cut stone might have an opportunity to settle the of an inch that it needed instead of taking that liberty when it could drag with it the wood and plaster of the interior and when the edifice was to the inexperienced eye of the nearly done there were eighteen months still to wait before the could be allowed to enter and garb this naked creature it was not finished yet by any means it was only approaching completion charles came to see it often the very grandeur of this building which had pleased the s son greatly as he looked over the plans with his father distressed him as it came into collision with the new ideas that filled his mind had any single family a right to to themselves all that treasure of stone and wood and metal i should not such an edifice be devoted to the general welfare instead of the selfish interests of three matter upon him and one day he was in the new house with his father and million sister he courage to say what he had kept to himself so long well charles have you any suggestions or to make asked the as he took his son by the arm and walked to the street end of the unfinished drawing room not about the beauty of the design or the excellence of the work father responded charles with a great effort but it seems to me sometimes that all this magnificence should be devoted to a wider use than that of one little group of people the laughed there is no reason why it should not serve for three groups he answered you and may will get married one of these days and then with your wife and may s husband and the babies that will follow and their nurses the place will come nearer i trust to your conception of what it is fit for the son did not join in the humor nor did his face its earnest expression it isn t that he answered respectfully it would be even then a monument to our individual selfishness oh father he burst out in a despairing tone there is so much that i want to say to you and the subject is so deep that i feel unequal to it there is a book which if you would only read the name is looking backward interrupted the quietly charles stared at his father with the utmost astonishment you have not read it he gasped yes i have smiled the i read everything that the attention of i miss will admit also that i consider it one of the of the theory and add that i differ from the author in but one important particular charles looked the inquiry he did not put into words and the father continued after a slight pause that of for a few seconds the waited in the apparent expectation that his son would have a reply ready but charles did not speak he thought that perhaps this very wise man might after all be able to overthrow the doctrines which had impressed him so deeply this wave that and flows like those of the tide continued the other has given great apprehension to many people of comfortable fortunes but it gives none to me whenever the people spoken of in the wish a decided change in the conditions of government they have the means within their grasp to bring it about up to date they have shown only movements in this direction and even these have been confined to a very small of the persons most deeply interested this man is the least objectionable to me of the whole let he at least to give us a shelter after taking the ground from under our feet and the roof from over our heads charles felt more than ever how little fitted he was to cope with the experience and wisdom of his father but he did not expect to do much more than get an opening at this time for a future discussion and he was pleased to find that the kindness of manner and which ht had never dollars known to vary continued in the presence of a subject he had feared would be distasteful i am glad to hear you speak so kindly father he replied you have always given me such full liberty that i dread doing anything to offend you i want you to know however that i am much impressed by mr s theories and by the gentleman himself for i have been to boston on purpose to meet him and have returned more convinced than before that he is in the right the laughed again this time with more than before it is rather late my boy said he for you and me to discuss the question you seem determined in your supreme to raise i have but one rule for you and your sister that rule is into the brief sentence | 1 |
ve it ill always and seemed to think t wanted to yon out of your place i know nothing o your offering aid the squire whose memory consisted in certain strong impressions by detail but i know one while vou seemed to bo thinking o and i didn t any obstacles in as some fathers would i d as you married s daughter as anybody i suppose if i d said you nay jou ha kept on with it but for want o contradiction jou ve changed mind you re a fellow vou take your poor mother she never had a will of her own a woman has no call for one if she s got a proper man for her husband but � our wife had need have one for yon your own mind enough lo make both your legs walk one way the has n t said downright she won t have you has she no said feeling very hot and uncomfortable but i don t think will think why haven t you the courage to ask her do you stick lo it you want to have her � that s the thing there s no other woman i want to marry said well then let mo make the offer for you s all if j ou have n t pluck ro do it yourself is n t likely to be tor his daughter to marry into my family i should think and as for the pretty loss she would n t have her cousin � and there s nobody else sec could ha stood in your way i d rather let it be please sir at present said in alarm i think she s a little with f st now and i should like lo for myself a man must things for himself well speak then and manage it and see if you can t turn over a new leaf that s what a man must do he thinks o marrying i don t see how i can of it and d to live in tliis house with my ic b a different sort of she s been used not come to live in this house don t tell me you ask her s all said the squire with a short scornful i d rather let the thing be present sir said i hope you won t try to hurry it on by ing anything i shall what i choose said the squire and i shall let you know i m muster else you may torn out and find an estate hi into somewhere else go out and tell not to to s hut and tell t and get that back o sold and hand me the money you he keep no more a my expense and if you when he a � i dare say you do � you may e him to spare himself the journey o coming back home let turn and keep himself he n t hang on mc any more i don t know where he la sir and if i did it is n t my place tell him keep away said towards the door confound it sir don t stay arguing go and order my horse said the squire up a pipe the room hardly knowing whether he were more relieved by the sense that the ended without having made � in his position or more he had entangled himself still in and deceit what passed about his proposing to raised n new alarm lest by some after dinner words of his s to mr he he into the embarrassment of obliged absolutely to de line her when she seemed to h� within hia ho fled to his refuge that of hoping for some turn of fortune some favorable chance which would save him from unpleasant consequences � even justify his by its prudence and in this point at to some throw of fortune s can hardly be called specially old toned favorable chance i fancy is the god of all men who follow their own devices instead of obeying a law ihey believe in let even a polished man of these days get into a position he is ashamed and his mind will be bent on all the possible that may deliver him from the results of that position let him live outside his income or the resolute honest work thai brings wages and he will presently find himself a possible who may be into using his interest a possible state of mind in some possible person not yet let him neglect the of his office and he will inevitably anchor himself on the chance that the thing undone nay out of the supposed importance im betray his friend s confidence and he will that same called chance which � him the hope that his friend never know let him a decent craft that he may pursue the of a profession to which nature never called him and his religion will be the worship of blessed chance which he wilt bein as the mighty creator of as the evil principle that religion is the by which the seed bring forth a crop after its kind chapter x was naturally regarded in and as a of mind seeing that draw much wider evidence than could be expected of liis neighbors were not on the commission of the peace such h man was not to tlie of the and an inquiry was set on foot concerning a unknown with curly lack hair and n foreign complexion carrying a hon of and wearing large rings lu his ears but either inquiry v too slow to overtake him because the applied to many inquiry did i know to choose among weeks passed away and there was no other result concerning the robbery than a gradual of the excitement it had caused in s absence was hardly a of remark he once before had | 14 |
what on earth is the use of giving a man coals who has nothing to cook or giving him blankets when he hasn t a bed or giving him soup when he requires substantial food � like sending them when wanting a shirt why not give em a trifle of money as i do when i think they deserve it and let them purchase what they think best t why � because your wouldn t see their names flourishing in print on the church door � that s the reason really mr i hope you don t mean to that i wish to see my name in print on the interrupted miss � i hope said mr putting in another word and getting another glance certainly not replied i dare say you wouldn t mind seeing it in writing though in the church register � eh i register i what register inquired the lady gravely why the register of marriages to be sure replied at the sally and glancing at mr thought he should have fainted for shame and it is quite impossible to imagine what effect the joke would have had upon the lady if dinner had not been at that moment announced mr with an effort of gallantry offered the tip of his little finger miss accepted it with maiden modesty and they proceeded in due state to the dinner table where they were d� a � sketches by the room was very e dinner very good and uie little party in spirits the conversation pretty general and when mr had extracted one or two cold observations from his neighbour and had taken wine with her he to acquire confidence rapidly the was removed mrs drank four glasses of port on ihe ea of being a nurse just then and miss took about the same number of on the plea not wanting any at all at the ladies retired to the great gratification of mr el who had been and frowning at his wife for half an hour previously � mrs never to observe until she had been pressed to take her ordinary which to avoid giving trouble she generally did at once what do you of tier s inquired mr mr in an under tone i on her with enthusiasm already replied mr pray let us drink be ladies � aid the reverend mr the ladies r id mr his glass in ike fulness of his confidence felt as if he could make love to a ladies off hand ah i said mr i remember when i was a young man � fill your glass i have this emptied it � � then again i will said ihe action to the word i remember resumed mr when i was a man with what a strange compound of feelings i used to drink toast and how i used to eveiy was an was that were married mildly d mr l so and a precious i must have been ever to have thought so at sl but you know i under the and most circumstances possible what were they if one may inquired asked who had heard tiie on an average twice a week for the last six months mr listened attentively in tbe hope of picking up some suggestion that might be to him in liis new undertaking i spent my wedding eight in a back kitchen by way of a beginning in a kitchen chimney ejaculated how dreadful yes it wasn t very pleasant replied the host the et is s � and mother liked me well enough as an individual bat liad a to my a husband � ou see hadn any money in lose days and they had and bo they wanted to pick up else however we managed to discover the state of s affections somehow i used to meet at some mutual friends parties at we danced together and talked and and all that sort of i used to like nothing so well as sitting by her we didn t talk so much then but i remember i used to have a great notion oi looking at out of extreme of my eye � i got very and and began to write verses and use oil at last t bear it any longer and after had walked up aud down the sunny side of oxford street in tight boots for a w� k � and a hot it was too � in ae hope � f meeting her i down and wrote a letter and tm to manage to me i wanted to hear lier man her own mouth i said i liad to my perfect that i t without that if she didn t have me i had n ii my mind to take a or mis ng or bo as to ff in some way or other wed a pound and d to give her the note � t tn tiie reply in who had tlie is to get a general one very miserable � possibility of an � early that from the duty � he � implored me to ad find ont somebody and au that sort said he could en no of me ma and t ed me be in a part gardens ai eleven not to i t go of said lie � i did there the ne in order at we � � f miserable and ty engaged we � thai is to say change about four letters we used to say in em i and i used to an the or the place went em in this way and we got of day at as our d to such a and as been raised too on n secret arranged to at the previous night we early in the were to to her pathetic she to d gentleman s and ts with her tears and i le old lady and her and use my handkerchief as much | 8 |
i you didn t sit on the eggs yourself but sure i ll say you did to morrow an then they ll bring three above but i m a happy life you an your bad luck be d by dark doings at rise but a tu the be sure your df an s a common can either of us go to oi market the neighbors doesn t be ax n mi a grin how is s goose it would be acting rather the of a historian were we to dwell too on the bitter which followed the of every goose until the of the clutch was of the truth is that in spite of all ills and and conscious wisdom to was able to lay a finger upon a single penny of the proceed nor he with all his of scent � smell out the purpose to which applied it no we are wrong in this he did find it out and as we have said strongly suspect it too but he was hitherto able in no instance to detect bo as perfectly to satisfy himself and bring the proof home against her a circumstance however now occurred which brought the whole dark of this proceeding to light one day searching ill some corner for a which lie wanted d by a goose ob npon a round vessel with a handle on one a pipe on the other and a dose fitting lid on the top ov would have enjoyed ihe grin of malignant which played upon his features as with one hand stretched under the bed he lay curiously feeling and examining the vessel in question very fortunately for him was cutting some in the garden for their dinner and consequently totally ignorant of the the opportunity was too good to be lost and who although he knew not the use to which the vessel was applied having never seen one before yet suspecting that it was part and parcel of the wicked system which prevailed resolved now that the coast was clear to carry it to those who could determine its use and application he immediately it out took a glance and hiding it under big coat stole off by to consult the two here however was no chance of the mystery the never having any more than himself seen to their knowledge any vessel of the kind before long and serious their d by dark doings at the steps necessary to be upon this important occasion one one thing another at length it occurred to them that their best plan would be to consult an old woman who was considered an authority accordingly once more putting this under his coat set off to s house with something like a prophetic assurance of success in this again he was doomed to be disappointed in truth was the very last person from whom had lie known as much as his wife he would or ought to hare expected information she it was her who had chiefly the good wives of the village both by and example and on her head of did the original sin of the whole neighborhood lie found her at home and took it for granted that the difficulty must now be solved further trouble god save you god save you kindly how is and the all as tight as what s the news any or marriages abroad v d by s goose or ay is there as many as ever an will be god to the end o the man why i believe you re right the sun shines an the wind blows the world will still be but jou an me is it that there s a o bad work goin on among ourselves you men never good don t lift me i fall i mane among the women i m there s hardly one of them what she ought to be why the grace o god that s for where s the man or woman that is as they ought to be glory bo to to tell the i m my own wife s not than the rest faith if she s as good man you have no right to complain isn t she good for anyhow is it a lady yon want cock yon up indeed there s eleven they re gone now and not a ever i touched of the price of any one o them only two i got to help to buy leather for a pair of well d by dark doings at but i bay it s not well now where did it go to � answer me that i tell you she s as bad as the an of the three worse i can t keep them and the lies they tell as is belief an not only that but when tliey get together we re their sport and an you know that very well no nor you don t don t i i you i them at what eh anyway i as good as them an here s a piece o their he added producing the mystery from under his coat now i ll give you share of half a pint if yoa tell me the right name of this why replied did jou never see one o these before an is it possible you don t know the name of it no but i suspect an so you came here to know the name of it an what it s for a thing else brought me an you e me to turn against d by s goose or the woman to satisfy your get oat you mane spirited how dare you come to me on a it s a salt jou to have tied to your tail an be out before a drag hunt you out o this and grieved he returned home almost despairing of ever the purpose for the mysterious and vessel was | 50 |
that he was home a of enemies and false witnesses to his character and his conduct but he bad no alternative to as much as possible their he sent by the same car die loyal and upright to � � with de to attend to his affairs at court and furnished with the written processes which had been taken relative to the conduct of and his he wrote at the same time to the sovereigns them to inquire into the truth of the late transactions and to act as they thought best he stated his opinion that the which he had signed with the were and void for reasons that they had been from him by violence and at sea where he did not exercise the o e of that there had been two processes relative to the and the having been condemned as it was not in the power of the admiral to them from their that the treated of matters touching the royal over which he had no control without the of the proper officers and that his companions on leaving spain had taken an oath to be to the sovereigns and to the admiral in their name for these and similar reasons some just others rather he urged their not to consider themselves bound to the terms which he had to these men but to inquire into their and treat them accordingly k d l c he repeated the request made in a former letter that a learned man might be sent out as judge to the laws in the island since he himself had been charged with although conscious of having always observed a guarded he requested also that discreet persons should be sent out to form a council and others for however that care should be taken in all these that their powers should be so limited and defined as not to interfere with his � ii dignity and privileges he strongly on this point for he felt that his had on former occasions been invaded he observed that he might be but it appeared to him that princes ought to show much countenance to their for without the royal favour to give them strength and consequence every thing went to ruin under their command a sound forced firom the admiral by his recent experience in which much of his own and the triumph of the had been caused by the distrust of the crown and its to his complaints finding age and infirmity creeping upon him and his health being much by his last voyage began p think of his son as an active to share with him in the toils and cares of his station and who being destined as his successor might gain under his eye for the future discharge of his high duties was still serving as a page at court but was grown to man s estate and capable of entering into the important concerns of life prayed therefore that he might be sent out to him as he felt himself much broken and d l c � v xi life and voyages of � � � i chapter vi a rival of with a at the western part of the island � sent to meet him among the which induced to post his departure for spain has been mon the arrival of four ships at the western part of the these had on the th of september in a r a little below apparently with the design of cutting woods which abound in that neighbourhood and of carrying off the natives for slaves further reports informed him that these ships were commanded by de the same hot headed and bold hearted who had distinguished himself on various occasions in the previous voyages of discovery and particularly in the capture of the knowing the daring and ad r spirit of this man felt much disturbed at his visiting the island in this manner on what appeared to be little better than a expedition to call him to account and to oppose his however required an agent of spirit and address no one seemed better fitted for the purpose than he was as daring as and of a more character an expedition of the kind would occupy the attention of himself and his and divert them from schemes of � � t � � � � chief the large recently made to would be trusted secure present fidelity it more profitable them to be loyal than rebellious gladly he had nothing further to gain by and he was anxious to secure his ill gotten possessions and by public services should for his past he was a vain as well im a bustling man and took a pride in himself well in an which called for both courage and departing firom st with two he arrived th of september within two of the the ships were here he i five and twenty resolute followers well armed and to range the forests he sent five to they brought him word that was on shore several distant firom his ships with only fifteen men who were employed in making bread in an indian village threw himself between and his ships thinking to take him by surprise however was of his approach by the indians with whom the very name of inspired terror from his late in danger he supposed had been sent in pursuit of him and he found himself cut off from any retreat to his ships with his usual he immediately presented himself before attended merely by half a dozen followers the latter began by conversing on general topics he then into his motives for landing on the island particularly on that remote and lonely part without first himself to the admiral replied that he had been on a voyage of discovery and had put in there in distress to repair his ships and procure provisions then demand � � life and | 48 |
my old song the fair having nearly recovered from the effects of her disaster it begins to be thought high time to a day for the wedding as every domestic event in a venerable and aristocratic family like this is a matter of moment the fixing upon this important day has of course given rise to much conference and debate some slight difficulties and have lately sprung up in the peculiar that are at the hall thus i have overheard a very solemn consultation lovers troubles between lady the parson and master as to whether the marriage ought not to be postponed until the coming month with all the charms of the month of may there is i find an ancient prejudice against it as a marrying month an old proverb says to wed in may is to wed poverty now as lady is very much given to believe in lucky and unlucky times and seasons and indeed is very superstitious on all points relating to the tender passion this old proverb seems to have taken great hold upon her mind she two or three instances in her own knowledge of matches that took place in this month and proved very unfortunate indeed an own cousin of hers who married on a may day lost her husband by a fall from his horse after they had lived happily together for twenty years the parson appeared to give great weight to her s objections and acknowledged the existence of a prejudice of the kind not merely confined to modern times but pre s troubles talent likewise among the in con js of this he quoted a passage from which had a great effect on lady being given in a language which she did not understand even master was staggered by it for he listened with a puzzled air and then shaking his head observed that was certainly a very wise man from this sage conference i likewise gathered other important pieces of information relative to such as that if two were in the same church on the same day the first would be happy the second unfortunate if on going to church the party should meet the funeral of a female it was an omen that the bride would die first if of a male the bridegroom if the newly married couple were to dance together on their wedding day the wife would rule the roast with many other curious and facts of the same nature all which made me more than ever upon the lovers troubled perils which this happy stated and the ignorance of mortals as to the risks they run in upon it i ah tain however from upon this topic no inclination to promote the increase of notwithstanding the due weight which the squire gives to and ancient opinions yet i am happy to find that he makes a firm stand for the credit of this loving months and brings to his aid a whole of poetical authorities all which i presume have been with the young couple as i understand they are perfectly willing to marry in may and abide the consequences in a few days therefore the wedding is to take place and the hall is in a of anticipation the housekeeper is bustling about from morning till night with a look full of business and im having a thousand arrangements to make the squire intending to keep open house on the occasion and as to the house maids lovers troubles you cannot look one of them in the face but the rogue begins to colour up and while however this leading love affair is going on with a tranquillity quite inconsistent with the rules of romance i cannot say that the under plots are equally the opening bud of love between the general and lady seems to have experienced some in the course of this genial season i do not think the general has ever been able to the ground he lost when he fell asleep during the captain s story indeed master thinks his case is completely desperate her having determined that he is quite destitute of sentiment the season has been equally to the love i fear the reader will be impatient at having this humble so often alluded to but i confess i am apt to take a great interest in the love troubles of simple girls of this class few people have an idea of the world of care and troubles that these poor have in managing the affairs of the heart we talk and write about the tender passion we give it all the of sentiment and romance and lay the scene of its influence in high life but after all i doubt whether its sway is not more absolute among females of a sphere how often could we but look into the heart should we find the sentiment throbbing in all its violence in the bosom of the poor lady s maid rather than in that of the brilliant beauty she is out for conquest whose brain is probably bewildered with ball rooms and wax light with these humble beings love is an honest concern they have no ideas of and pin money the heart � the heart is all in all with them poor things there is seldom one of them but has her love cares and love secrets her doubts and hopes and fears equal to those of any heroine of romance and ten times as lovers troubles sincere and then too there is her secret love documents � the broken sixpence the gilded the lock of hair the unintelligible love all up in her box of sunday finery for private how many crosses and trials is she exposed from some eyed dame or staid old of a mistress who keeps a watch over her virtue and the lover from the door but then how sweet are the little love scenes snatched at distant intervals of | 48 |
loved the law and admired the force and longed to stop and play with them he his car a block from s saloon worrying well rats if anybody did see me they d think i was here on business he entered a place curiously like the of days with a long greasy bar with in front and mirror behind a pine table at which a dirty old man dreamed over a glass of something which resembled and with two men at the bar drinking something which resembled beer and giving that impression of forming a large crowd which two men always give in a saloon the a tall pale with a diamond in his stared at as he stalked up to the bar and whispered i d � friend of s sent me here like to get some gin the gazed down on him in the manner of an outraged bishop i guess you got the wrong place my friend we sell nothing but soft drinks here he cleaned the bar with a rag which would itself have done with a little cleaning and glared across his mechanically moving elbow the old at the table the say listen did not listen i aw say listen will say lis sen the decayed and drowsy voice of the the agreeable of beer threw a spell of over the moved grimly toward the crowd of two men followed him as delicately as a cat and say i want to speak to mr see him for i just want to talk to him here s my card it was a beautiful card an engraved card a card in the black and the red announcing that mr george f was estates rents the held it as though it weighed ten pounds and read it as though it were a hundred words long he did not bend from his dignity but he growled i ll see if he s around from the back room he brought an immensely old young man a quiet sharp eyed man in tan silk shirt checked hanging open and brown trousers � mr mr said only but his and contemptuous eyes s soul and he seemed not at all impressed by the new dark gray suit for which as he had admitted to every acquaintance at the club had paid a hundred and twenty five dollars glad meet you mr say � i m george of the company i m a great friend of s well what of it say i m going to have a party and told me you d be able to fix me up with a little gin in alarm in as s eyes grew more bored you to about me if you want to answered by his head to indicate the entrance to the back room and strolled away crept into an apartment containing four round io tables eleven chairs a and a smell he waited thrice he saw through humming hands in pockets him by this time had modified his morning vow i won t pay one cent over seven dollars a to i might pay ten on s next weary entrance he could you fix that up and just a minute � s sake � just a in growing went on waiting till casually reappeared with a of gin � what is known as a � in his long white hands twelve he snapped say but say cap n thought you d be able to me up for eight or nine a bottle twelve this is the real stuff from canada this is none o your spirits with a drop of extract the honest merchant said twelve bones � if you want it course y understand i m just doing this anyway as a friend of s sure sure i understand gratefully held out twelve dollars he felt honored by contact with greatness as yawned stuffed the bills into his radiant and away he had a number of out of concealing the under his coat and out of hiding it in his desk all afternoon he and chuckled and over his ability to give the boys a real shot in the arm to night he was in fact so that he was within a block of his house before he remembered that there was a certain matter mentioned by his wife of ice cream from s he explained well it � and drove back was not a he was the of most coming out parties were held in the white and gold of the at all nice the guests recognized the five kinds of and the seven kinds of cakes and all really smart dinners ended as on a in ice cream in one of the three � the the round like a cake and the long brick s shop had pale blue of plaster roses attendants m and glass shelves of kisses with all the refinement that in of eggs heavy and thick amid this professional and as he waited for the ice cream he decided with hot at the back of his neck that a girl customer was at him he went home in a temper the first thing he heard was his wife s agitated george did you remember to go to s and get the ice cream say look here do i ever forget to do things yes often well now it s dam seldom i do and it certainly makes me tired after going into a pink tea joint like s and having to stand around looking at a lot of half naked young girls all up like they were sixty and eating a lot of stuff that simply ruins their � oh it s too bad about you i ve noticed how you hate to look at pretty girls with a jar realized that his wife as too busy to be impressed by that moral indignation with which rule the world and he went humbly up stairs to | 42 |
in the cottage would wish to shoot birds and besides caesar had told him that this was the closed season and people didn t hunt at this time of the year but of course this is nothing to me added the dog the farm hand went over to a little mud where there was a thick growth of there he stepped from the boat and lay down behind a pile of leaves while was left free to walk and swim around with the over his wings and to the boat with a long string suddenly caught sight of some of his old friends with whom he had formerly back and forth over the lake they were a long way off but he called to them as loudly as he could they heard and came toward him as they drew nearer he began to tell them of his rescue and of the kindness of human beings then to his great surprise two shots sounded behind him three birds sank down in the lifeless and caesar bounded out and captured them understood it all now the human beings had been kind to him only that they might use him as a duck three ducks had died on his account and he was overwhelmed with shame he thought that even caesar looked at him with contempt and when they came home to the cottage he didn t care to lie down and sleep beside the dog the next morning he was again taken to the lake several ducks saw him but when they flew toward him he called to them away away don t come near there s a hunter hiding in the i m only a bird and to his great joy they did not come within shooting distance that day the farm hand had to go home without firing off a single shot caesar looked less displeased than on the previous day and when evening came he took in his mouth carried him to the chimney comer and let him sleep between his for several days was made to perform his sixth reader service and he became known all over he was unhappy his heart suffered at the thought that human beings had never loved him one morning as he was in shallow water at the end of his he suddenly saw something swimming towards him thinking it was a duck or some other water bird he shouted have a care don t come this way fm only a duck then he saw that it was no bird but only an old nest from the year before there was nothing strange about this for nests are built in such a way that they float upon the water and sometimes it happens that the wind drives them out into the lake still gazed at the nest for it came straight towards him and looked as though some one was it over the water then as it drew nearer saw that a little brown somebody was sitting in the nest and guiding it it might be a human being but if so it was the man he had ever seen the little fellow called to him gently and said don t be afraid be ready to fly you shall soon be free the nest drifted into the shallow water stood immovable afraid lest his should be discovered the next moment a flock of wild came along and shouted to them to keep away in spite of his warning however they came so close that the farm hand was tempted to fire a couple of shots at them hardly were these shots fired before the little fellow in the nest leaped forward and slipped s from his neck now fly he cried fly before the man has time to load again the hunter had had his gaze fixed upon the and he did not see s but caesar saw fly he said you are certainly too good to be a duck but it will be very lonely in the cottage without you obeyed instantly he spread his wings and before the farm hand saw what had happened was high in the air and out of danger expression read carefully the description of lake notice that the general appearance large is first spoken of and then the details as water and shores that is the usual order in good descriptions try to find other good descriptions and read them in class talk with your teacher about the author of this story read the note regarding her at the end of this book word study notice whether long or short words in this selection try to find a reason for this make a list of the proper names and learn to each one correctly study comrade a little history i how daniel went to when george washington was only three years old a little lad was bom in who was destined to become the most famous of american the name of this child was daniel his parents were poor and he grew up without much knowledge of schools or books when the lad was about thirteen years of age his father and mother took him to a new home in north � a lonely but lovely spot on the bank of the river there he grew up with but few companions save the birds and the beasts the flowing river and the trees of the great forest he grew to be tall and strong and handsome very gentle and very brave he was a true child of the woods he knew the habits and haunts of every timid creature he could call the deer from its hiding place his whistle was answered by the and the and he could even imitate the cry of the and them from their hiding places in the great woods his eyes were always open and his ears alert to learn the secrets which nature only to those who love her | 23 |
she wished him to go on playing a little later her father and mother had come through the trees she had held up her hand bidding them be silent could see by the way they listened that they were so he was invited to the villa which stood in the centre of the park and till the end of his holiday he went there every day the girl � was her beautiful name � was an exquisite they had played in the room hung with faded or by the sunshine they had walked in the park when asked him what they said he answered simply we said that we loved each other but when he returned to three months later all was changed when he spoke of their marriage she laughed the question away and he perceived that his visits were not desired on returning to england all his letters were returned to by him soon after she married a clergyman and last year she had had a he sat absorbed in the memory of this passion and and the garden were perceived in glimpses between scenes of youthful and romantic he remembered how he had threatened to throw himself from her window for no other reason except the desire of romantic action and while he sat absorbed in the past watched him nervous and irritated striving to read in his face how much of the burden had fallen from him and how free his heart might be to accept another love story as he sat in the garden imder the calm tree he dreamed of a reconciliation with he even on the effect that the score of his opera would have upon her if he were to send it � all that music composed in her honour but which opera not and the fairy maiden for a great deal of it was crude thin absurd no he could not send it but he might send yes he would send when he had finished it to arrive suddenly from england to cast himself at her feet � that might move her then with a sigh these are things we dream of he thought but never do only in dreams do men set forth in quest of the ideal he looked up s eyes were fixed on him and he felt like returning home after his voyage to the wondrous they saw the footman coming across the green he had come to tell her that mr was waiting for her she was taking him to st joseph s but there was not room in the victoria for three and would have to go back to london by train but you will come and see me soon you promised to go through the music with me will you come to morrow her clear delightful eyes were fixed upon him he felt for the first time the thrill of her personality their light caused him to hesitate and then to accept her invitation eagerly he heard her remind her father that he had promised to come to night to hear her sing elizabeth he would be there too he would see her to night as well by and he stood watching the beautiful horses bearing father and daughter swiftly away the shady street under a bright sky and the bloom of the trees was shedding its ie dust he thought of and and a delicious little breeze sent a shower of bloom about his feet as if to remind him of the pathos of the passing illusion of which we are a part he stood watching the carriage and the happiness and the sorrow of things choked him when he turned away she was happy with her father and she felt that he loved her better than any lover the unique experience of taking him to st joseph s in her carriage and the event of singing to him that night at garden absorbed her and she in her happiness like a beautiful rose never had she been so happy she was happier than she the thought passed like a little shadow and a moment after all was brightness again her father was the real love of her life the rest was mere excitement and she wondered why she sought it it only made her unhappy was right � but she did not wish to think of him on the steps of st joseph s she bade her father and remained looking back till she could see him no more then she settled herself comfortably imder her intent on the enjoyment of their reconciliation the two days she had spent with him looked back upon her like a dream from which she had only just awakened as in a dream there were outlines and places where the line seemed to have so faded that she could no longer trace it the most distinct picture was when she stood her hand affectionately laid on his shoulder singing s music she had forgotten the music and himself but her father how near she was to him in all her sympathies and instincts i another moment equally distinct was when she had looked up and seen him in the choir conducting with calm skill he was coming to night to hear her sing elizabeth that was the great event for without his approval all the newspapers in the world were as nothing at least to her she a little to herself to see if she were in voice to convince him that she sang as well as mother was out of the question but she might be able to convince him by that she could do something that mother could not have done it was strange that she always thought of mother in connection with her voice the other singers did not seem to matter they might sing better or worse but the 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choice sixteen little has two thomas has eleven robert has seventeen and is elected what exclaimed aghast at the result of the palace and cottage robert seventeen shouted that s what s the matter i protest against this election said fiercely no you don t roared brown the didn t you say just now that the fellows must stand by the vote but is not even a knight of the golden replied he isn t one of our fellows no matter for that growled brown three cheers for captain brown and three or four others gave the cheers i will not submit to this election it is an insult to me if the fellows don t like me let them say so continued who was actually beginning to realize in his vanity that the way of the is hard they have said so replied the can t you understand the vote the fellows like you well enough interposed little but they prefer to have for captain they mean to elect you first officer i decline to serve as first officer and i decline to have him serve as first officer said stepping forward and shaking his head like a defeated bully the fellows promised to choose captain and me first lieutenant i haven t anything more to say fellows you can run the vessel to suit yourselves added walking away utterly disgusted with the proceedings captain has been fairly elected persisted little lifting his body upon the companion way in an attitude which threatened a speech stick young america in france and to the vote fellows the majority must rule if won t be first officer let him go into the and do his duty before the mast i will not do duty any way if i am to be insulted in this manner said walking up to the speaker just now you talked the other side of your mouth you believed in good order and doing things up believe in it now so do added who had for and if a fellow won t do his duty i go for making him do it bully for you shouted brown where is asked little in the cabin shall go below and inform him of his election if you agree say so continued little briskly ay ay replied those who had for went down into the cabin was lying in his berth reading a good book and of the honor which had been conferred upon him bob called what is wanted inquired the reader i have the honor to inform you that you have been elected captain of the and that the ship s company wish to see you on deck what do you mean by that demanded the astonished explained and exhibited the paper on which the vote was recorded do you regard me as belonging to your party asked quietly palace and cottage or we have not so regarded you but we hope you will join us now come on deck and speak for yourself the unfortunate of the greatness thrust upon him consented to go on deck where he was formally introduced to the ship s company as tain i will accept on one condition said the captain elect what is it demanded half a dozen of the that the come about and return to where i will do my best to induce mr to forgive you for what you have done no no shouted a score at once i believe mr would think of my request if i inform him of the circumstances added no no shouted the we are in for a good time and we are going to have it will you join the knights of the golden or not demanded one of the party i do not know what you mean answered i will explain it volunteered little taking the commander elect aside for the purpose � as briefly as possible the little scoundrel related the history of the order and its object the organization was the of the chain league which had invented and he felt that his past sins were rising up in judgment against him as he listened to the story but his former only made him the more to be now young america in france and i will not join it replied the student don t be in a hurry to decide now think of it pleaded little all the fellows wanted you and that is the reason i got you to come you deceived me little you told me the party was going up the in the that was a of course laughed little all i wanted was to make you come where is the bag of gold i have it all safe all i wanted was to know what had become of it and explained his own position so that even the little rogue could not him � i will have nothing to do with this scrape the fellows will ship you in one of the boats if you don t let them do so i will not join o come be a good fellow you are ruined already on board of the ship and you might as well have a good time no told the plainly that he would take no part with them that s enough snapped little we may as well vote again this time i shall go in for i decline said the captain fro sullenly for he was still under the insult bring in your fellows called little regardless of the words of this time the vote was unanimous and palace and cottage or after some yielded and was restored to his position and his temper at the same time after two was elected first officer after a great deal of and many fruitless the remaining were filled by of one or two and little and were elected second third and fourth officers there was a great deal of grumbling at 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judged or to be known bj such that no private correspondence could bear the eye of others before she could recover calmness enough to return the letter which she had been meditating over and say � thank you this is full proof undoubtedly proof of everything you were saying why be acquainted with us now i can explain this too cried mrs smith smiling i have shown you mr as he was a dozen years ago and i will show him as he is now i cannot produce written proof again but i can give as testimony as you can desire of what he is now wanting and what he is now doing he is no now he truly wants to marry you his present attentions to your family are very sincere quite from the heart i will give you my authority his mend colonel colonel are you acquainted with him no it does not come to me in quite so direct a line as that it takes a bend or two but nothing of consequence the stream is as good as at first the little rubbish it in the is easily moved away mr talks to colonel of his views on you which said colonel i imagine to be in himself a sensible careful sort of character but colonel has a very pretty silly wife to whom he tells things which he had better not and he it all to her she in the overflowing spirits of her recovery it all to her nurse and the nurse very naturally brings it all to me on monday evening my good friend mrs let me thus much into the secrets of buildings when i talked of a whole history therefore you see i was not so much as you supposed my dear mrs smith your authority is deficient this will not do mr s having any views on me will not in r and p� r im w persuasion the least account for the efforts he made towards a with my father that was all prior to my coming to bath i found them on the most friendly terms when i arrived i know you did i know it all perfectly but � indeed mrs smith we must not expect to get real information in such a line facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many to be by folly in one and ignorance in another can hardly have much truth left only give me a hearing you will soon be able to judge of the general credit due by listening to some particulars which you can yourself immediately contradict or confirm nobody that you were his first he had seen you indeed before he came to bath and admired you but without knowing it to be you so says my historian at least is this true did he see you last summer or autumn somewhere down in the west to use her own words without knowing it to be you he certainly did i happened to be at well continued mrs smith triumphantly grant my friend the credit due to the establishment of the first point asserted he saw you then at and liked you so well as to be exceedingly pleased to meet with you again in place as miss anne and from that moment i have no doubt had a double motive in his visits there but there was another and an earlier which i will now explain if there is anything in my story which you know to be either false or improbable stop me my account states that your sister s mend the lady now staying with you whom i have heard you mention came to bath with miss and sir walter as long ago as september in short when they first came themselves and has been staying there ever since that she is a clever handsome woman poor and plausible and altogether such as to give a general idea among sir walter s acquaintance of her meaning to he lady and as general a surprise that miss should be apparently blind to the danger here mrs smith paused a moment but had not a word to and she continued � it appeared in this light to those who knew the family long before you returned to it and colonel had his eye upon your father often enough to be sensible of it though he did not then visit in place but his regard for mr gave him an interest in watching all that was going on there and when mr came to for a day or two as he happened to do a little before christmas colonel made him acquainted with the appearance of things and the reports beginning to prevail now you are to understand that time had worked a very material change in mr s opinions as to the value of a upon all points of blood and he is a completely altered man having long had as much money as he could spend nothing to wish for on the side of or indulgence he has been gradually learning to pin his happiness upon the consequence he is heir to i thought it coming on before our acquaintance ceased but it is now a confirmed feeling he cannot bear the idea of not being sir william you may guess therefore that the news he heard om his could not be very agreeable and you may guess what it produced the resolution of coming back to as soon as possible and of fixing himself here for a time with the view of his former acquaintance and recovering such a footing in the family as might give him the means of the degree of his danger and of the lady it he found it material this was agreed upon between the two as the only thing to be done and colonel was to assist in every way that 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do � they wouldn t hear of it i went on my knees to them ay to every one of them the herself but twas all no use it s to b� no match the or and why father did you go on your knees to any of them v said i m sorry you did aa i did it on your account an i d do it on your account poor boy � well well it can t be helped but tell me a inquired honor was any of the fault your own what did you offer to do for let me alone said he i won t be about it my heart s broke among you all what did offer to do for r the match is knocked up i tell you and it must be knocked up s young and be time enough for him to marry this seven years to come as he said this the fire of blazed in his eyes and he looked angrily at honor then at the son but while contemplating the latter his countenance changed from anger to sorrow and from sorrow to a mild and se expression of affection said he sure you ll not blame ma in this business sure you won t blame your poor heart broken father let say what they will sure you won t don t fret on my account father said the son why should i blame you god knows you re to do what you would wish for me no honor i knew a� wouldn t he shouted rising up he wouldn t make a o me save me save me he shrieked throwing his arms about his neck save me my heart s s me different ways inside i can cry you see i can cry but i m still as hard as a stone it s terrible this i m � terrible all out for a weak old man like me oh what ill i do honor a what become o me t i it whatever it is don t pity me don t ye don t ye honor oh don t pity me the of li pity you said the wife bursting into tears what will become of you pray to god pray to him no one alive can change your heart but god i to the priest to day to get two masses said to turn your heart from that cursed money i didn t to tell you but i do it s your duty to pray now above all times an to hack the priest as well as you can it s the best advice father you could get said the son as he helped the trembling old man to his seat an who bid you thin to go to lavish money that way said he turning to honor and again into the spirit of o heaven but you ll kill me woman afore you have done me how can i stand it to have my hard earned � an for what to turn my heart from money i don t want to be turned from it i don t wish it money i have no money an if there s not for me i u be starved yet an is it any to be me the way you re his wife clasped her hands and looked up toward heaven in silence and shaking his head passed out to seek with whom he had not spoken that day briefly and with a heavy heart he communicated to him the unsuccessful issue of his father s interference and asked his opinion as to how he should conduct himself under circumstances so disastrous to his happiness and prospects advised him to seek another interview with and for that purpose as before to ascertain in the course of that evening at what time and place i he would see him this suggestion in itself so natural adopted and as felt with peculiar the pain of the situation in which he was placed he manifested little tendency to conversation and die evening consequently passed heavily and in silence ths or dusk however arrived and prepared himself to execute the somewhat difficult commission he had so undertaken he appeared however to have caught a portion of s despondency for when about to set out he said that he felt his spirits sunk and melancholy just he added as if some misfortune was afore or both of us for my part stake my life that things will go one way or other an that you ll never call o wife replied the other i only want you to do my message an not to be ill bad news comes too soon without your us of it god knows dear i m distressed enough as it is and want my spirits to be kept up rather than put down no but you want to your mind off of this business altogether for a while an upon my it ud be a charity for some friend to give you a fresh piece of fun to think of so keep up your heart how do you know but i may do that much for you myself but i want you to lend me the loan of a pair of shoes a of these will be together soon i get them mended in time you can t that any how me them on your own business nonsense man to be sure i will stop an bring them out to you in half a shake he accordingly produced a pair of shoes nearly new and told that if he had no objection to accept of them as a present he might consider them as his own this conversation took place in s bam always slept and kept his small deal trunk � astray the � ts t p he i a moment when this good natured offer was made | 50 |
a man s but better than i did when i shed those few drops from my arm not worth the thou shed for them thou tis not so very long dear letter co without a his faith and a from most and ti j this strain and or doubt as to that she was free but they were not them might turn the scale and frighten him away from her with fear of being and of this letter she made soft the bearer so she was not an angel after all mingled with the passengers of two boats and ot hear nothing of nor did this surprise him he was more surprised when at the third attempt a black said to him somewhat severely and what would you with him you call why father if he is alive i have got a letter for him i said i am sorry for it however the flesh is weak well my son he you seek will be here by the next boat or the next boat after and if he chooses to answer to that after all i am not the keeper of his conscience good father one plain word for heaven s sake this of � is he i why he that went by that name is alive well then that is settled said but the next moment he found it necessary to run out of sight and oh why did the lord make any women said he to himself i was content with the world till i fell in love here his little finger is more to her than my whole body and he is not dead and here i have got to g ve him this he looked at the letter and dash it on the ground but he picked it up again with a snatch and went to the landlord with tears in his eyes and begged for work the landlord declined said he had his own people oh i seek not your money said i only want some work to keep me breaking my heart about another man s good lad i good lad exploded the landlord and found him lots of barrels to mend � on these terms and he with fury in the interval of the boats coming down the � chapter i an earnest letter seldom leaves tl mind in margaret in hers her energy and her faith in her dying father s vision or illusion and when this was done and gone she wondered at her and her conscience pricked her about and came and her and she paid the price of hopes and elevation of spirits by into deeper despondency she was found in this state by a friend she had lately made this good woman came in radiant with an idea margaret i know the cure for thine ill the of a wondrous holy man why he can tell what is coming when he is in the mood ay i have heard of him said margaret hop with some difficulty persuaded her to walk out as far as and consult the they took some butter and eggs in a basket and went to his what had made the pair such fast friends weeks ago fell ill of a disease it raging pain and when this weak awkward symptom either liquid or solid would h a minute the doctor said went o succeed stay in he must die if this goes on many hours there s the and the fore now a chicken with a golden angel i were none the better for being far fetched yoa in the water and let him sap that i alas i gilt and him when the g and shared the fate of the came up than thej went down so its or then the cure says i tou may go down on your four bones to the thumb of st in beef same re but indeed he is at bottom suit then ran weeping to to you are all his thought and all his chat but he row some linen to make his let me see sees s folk coming around ye and good him said she came in and felt his friends and he said only last night � pulse said she i doubt they have gone to the root open the window i art he made me vow not to tell ye him now change all his linen tell me woman what for why foul well he said an tell what little i know linen for a dying man f objected the it won t bring him back and it will set them by the ears i wish i had more head piece said he i am sore perplexed but least said is mended ton is his favourite word he comes back to it from a mile oft margaret shook her head ay we are in deep waters my poor babe and me it was saturday night and no poor v said margaret it was very good of him to go on such an errand � he is one out of a hundred replied warmly mother do you think he would be kind to little i am sure he would so do you be kind to him when he comes will ye now wife do as thou art bid said margaret and left the room somehow found herself as she was bid margaret returned with her apron full of a she made a and took it to the bedside and before giving it to the patient took a herself and her lips that is fair said he with a feeble attempt at humour why tis sweet and now tis bitter she engaged him in conversation as soon as he had taken it this stayed by seeing which she on it as cards are built mixed a very little in the third and a little beaten of egg in the seventh and so with | 9 |
fog a panic in a crowd which of a tan at community of interest is not so terrible as a panic � la one is by and such a panic i now was i drifting tbe red faced man had said that through the golden gate was i then win carried out to sea and the life in which i was it not liable to go to pieces at any moment such things being made of paper and hollow became and lost all � and i could not swim a stroke and i was alone apparently in the midst of a gray s i confess that a madness seized me that i as the women had shrieked and beat the with my hands how long this lasted i have no conception for a of which i remember no more than one of troubled and painful sleep when i d k � as after centuries of time and i saw almost above me and emerging from the fog the bow of a vessel sails each the other and with wind where the bow cut the water there wa � pot foaming and and i seemed directly in its tried to cry out but was too exhausted the bow lo the sea wolf plunged down just missing me and sending a d water clear over my head then the long black side o the vessel began slipping past so near that i could have touched it with my hands i tried to reach it in a mad resolve to into the wood with my nails but my arms were heavy and lifeless again i strove to call out but made no sound the stern of the vessel shot by dropping as it did so into a hollow between the waves and i caught a glimpse of a man standing at the wheel and of another man who seemed to be doing little else than smoke a r i saw the smoke issuing from his lips as he slowly turned head and glanced out over the water in my direction it was a careless glance one of those things men do when they have no immediate call to do anything in particular but act because they are alive and must do something but life and death were in that glance i could see th vessel being swallowed up in the fog i saw the back ol the man at the wheel and the head of the other man turning slowly turning as his gaze struck the water and ally lifted along it toward mc his face wore an absent expression as of deep thought and i became afraid that if his eyes did light upon mc he would nevertheless not see me his eyes did light upon me and looked into mine and ho did sec me for he sprang to the wheel thrusting the other man aside and whirled it round and round hand over hand at the same time shouting orders of some sort the vessel seemed to go off at a to its former course and almost instantly from view into the fog i felt myself slipping into and tried with all the power of my will to fight above the the sea wolf ii and that was rising around me a i heard the stroke of oars growing nearer and aad the calls of a man when he was very near i vi in vexed fashion why in hell don t i ling out this meant i thought and then rose over me u chapter ii i seemed swinging in a mighty through or sparkling points of light and st past me they were stars i knew and come that peopled my flight among the as i reached t limit of my swing and prepared to rush back on the swing a great struck and thundered for an i period in the rippling of placid a i enjoyed and pondered my tremendous flight but a change came over the face of the dream foi dream i told myself it must be my grew and shorter i was jerked from swing to counter with haste i could scarcely catch my so fiercely was i impelled through the heavens the go thundered more frequently and more furiously i grew await it with a nameless dread then it seemed as i were being dragged over sands white and hot the sun this gave place to a sense of intolerable my skin was in the torment of fire the and the sparkling points of light flash past me in an interminable stream as though the wh system were dropping into the void i caught my breath painfully and opened my eyes t men were kneeling beside me working over me mighty was the lift and forward plunge of a st on the sea the terrific was a pan on the wall that rattled and with each leap the sea wolf i ik up tbe sands were a man s hard mj naked chest i under the or it and half lifted my head my chest was raw ud red and i could see tiny blood starting h the torn and that ll do one of the men said t m� you ve weu rubbed ail the s skin t the address ed a a man of the heavy type ceased me and arose to feet the man who had spoken to him was a with the clean lines and weakly pretty face of the man who has absorbed the of bow bells with his mother s milk a � cap on his head and a dirty sack about his proclaimed him cook of the decidedly dirty ih i i in which i found myself an ow now sir he asked with the � which comes only of generations of ancestors for reply i twisted weakly into a sitting posture and � ai helped by to my feet the rattle and bang if the | 21 |
a narrow canal with trees up which my boat moved silently as far as a lock by which we mounted into a broad leading direct into it on three sides and connected with other by picturesque stone bridges and giving easy access to most parts of the interior of the city that which i have called a lock properly i or is an ingenious contrivance by which the difficulty of different in the same boat is adjusted the illustration shows the principle and the mode of applying it in but various methods are adopted the essential parts of the contrivance as shown here are a smooth stone slide from the higher to the lower level the middle of which is thickly with moist mud two stout and tall two rude wooden and stout ropes with strong iron hooks in ascending the boat is wound up to the higher level by a number of men at the and in going down she is drawn to the verge and tipped over descending with great by her own the rope at her stern scarcely the violence of the plunge with which she r british i takes a into the water below when everything not securely fastened breaks adrift and a of foaming water round the surprised passenger s feet a few cash are charged for the transfer i thought the canal entrance to grand although below the high blank walls of large private the grassy slopes are the resort of active pigs searching and not vainly for the or police with their striped blue and white and brilliant and the lofty bridges are pleasing to the eye at one of tiie latter dr main for eighteen years a c m s missionary doctor in met me and i was carried through a and dirty quarter through a door in a high wall and under a from which hundreds of clusters were hanging into a large partly and partly rose borders with an english house on one side and on the other two the fine two buildings of two of the crack of the east with their of for men and women a home for children and an refuge it was a bewildering change from the crowds dirt and sordid bustle of the lower parts of a chinese city to broad smooth shaven english trees and flowers english buildings with their taste and completeness and the refined quiet of an english home this most ancient city situated on the left bank of the shallow ch t river of which a magnificent description is given by under the name of though it has not fully recovered from the destruction wrought by the troops is still handsome and dignified and to my thinking with its lovely is the most attractive of the big chinese cities it is certainly one of the most important as the capital of the rich and province of the centre of a great silk producing district and of the manufacture of the best the sole source of the silk supplied to the imperial household the southern of the grand canal and a great centre of chinese culture and literature it possesses the ting library the finest private library in china in buildings adjoining the palace of the ting family the arrangements for the and of books are admirable and a very gentlemanly and intelligent son of the enlightened possessor is the enthusiastic and capable the treasures of this library are open freely to anyone who himself by a card from an official the collection of and books illustrated in the best style of chinese wood is in itself a noble possession every part of a plant is figured and the illustrations are almost accurate leading one to hope that the accompanying them has equal scientific merit is also important as a city the chosen home of many retired merchants and the homes frequently palaces of men of leisure and local patriotism adorn its streets but their stately proportions and are concealed from vulgar view by high walls in which heavily barred and massive gates give access to the the mansion of the ting family in which i took afternoon tea with its lofty reception rooms and courts must cover two acres of ground it is stately but not comfortable and the richly carved chairs with of clouded grey marble for backs and seats and table of the same seem only fitted for the noon of a s day besides the of silk the dwellings of the class there are those of high officials and wealthy tea and silk merchants many of them extremely magnificent the cost of one built by a wealthy banker being estimated at i wrote of dirt and sordid bustle this is chiefly by the and is not surprising in a city of three quarters of a million of inhabitants the west end streets are however broad light well and clean for china one with a general sense of well being i did not see one beggar the people are well clothed and fed and i understood that except during there is no abject poverty it is the grand centre for the trade of a hundred cities and much of the tea and silk sold in and passes through it everything in the city and neighbourhood suggests silk in all the adjacent country the tree is planted in every possible place along the on the separating the fields in acres in extent and near villages in each containing several thousand shoots in expectation of a greatly increased demand for this product there are for the weaving of silk in about people and of these under the inspection of an imperial work exclusively for the imperial household some of the silk shops rival that of at in them are rich self coloured in deep rich and the most delicate shades washing in various shades of and delicate and french which become more every time they are washed heavy and very | 20 |
cheeks the light of scorn and ire had fled from her eyes perhaps if he had left her to herself she would have done all he asked of her but the � that fatal weakness of the pulpit � compelled the to add something more � yoa will do me the justice to say that i have from all threat or menace i have put the matter on the ground of good feeling solely but of course there are material issues the immediate of your declining to give richard up would be that your mother and her husband would have to leave au possible channels of communication between this lad and you would have at once to be guarded against yon would therefore be the cause � and your own conscience will tell you whether the innocent cause � of the breaking up of your home and the ruin of your family for if mr should turn off your step father who would employ him the girl made a scornful gesture with her hand i think i could him the he receives as a game keeper mr if that were all the s last mine had failed and it was plain had done damage to the cause of the engineer but it is not all it is a very small consideration compared wit i others i know it said she but it is at all events disposed of what does dick say dick you have no right to call him dick exclaimed the with and what does it matter what dick says he is a boy � a child whereas you if not his senior in years are a woman grown i am afraid i must needs alter my opinion of you if you persist in using your influence to his hurt the law itself as i have said him � i mean his marriage without parental consent for the next four years do you intend throughout that time to his poor father and the boy himself at a period when it is essential that his mind should be given to study i intend to take no advantage of any one mr answered the girl steadily i wish to be fair and honest but also true to richard i will not him as you call it by going to but you will perhaps go to where yoa have met him already and caused a public scandal observed the severely you will be surprised to hear perhaps that mr pole has declined to keep him as his guest at because of your late interview what had that to do with him inquired the girl sharply well simply this it only shows how ignorant yon are of bow the world regards such matters the ladies of the family as i understand resented your meeting with richard at the of course you meant no harm but you see harm has been done i know it was not your fault yet a grievous has been committed rose from her seat and drawing herself up to her full height regarded her companion with a look of fixed and fiery scorn i care nothing for mr pole or his ladies nor for you nor for mr she said but i do care for richard if he wishes to give me back my � for it s true that we are engaged to one another � let him do so i will make no appeal against it but i must hear it from his own lips or read it in his own hand let mr pole and his ladies be ashamed of me if they will th� k l j s less black than we re painted one moment you arc permitting passion to get the better of yoa listen to reason it is absolutely certain that a marriage bet richard and yourself can never take place it is the mere dream of two children but since he regards yon with affection and you it in honesty and honor we acknowledge the bond if you were dead for example yon would be dear to us because richard loved you and you are dead believe me so far as any possibility of your becoming his wife is concerned i don t know what you mean sir said coldly i only know that i am at present alive the knew what he meant quite well only felt a natural embarrassment in expressing it still it had to be expressed for it was the last arrow in his quiver i mean he said supposing you to act generously and in this matter that mr will consider himself under a heavy obligation to you and whatever assistance you may for the of any calling you may have in view or for any other purpose will be given you now and always without then you have come here to bribe me sir cried the girl with concentrated passion he held his hand up in remonstrance but she it away with scorn that is what it comes to say what you will you are a clergyman but mr has sent you to me as a lawyer you may tell him that you have failed in your errand i have no more to say either to him or you gk od sir and with that she withdrew into the room from which she had come out and and locked the door behind her if s exit from the s presence had been a little � especially as respects the of the door � it had been undoubtedly effective she had put a summary end to the conference for though mr would have stooped to a good deal in hopes of recovering his lost ground he could not stoop to urge a new stream of argument through a he felt himself and in such few moves that it resembled mate whatever respect however he might have entertained for his late s int had been gained | 25 |
photographs and such as adorn the rooms of many other showing lovely woman in her most dress and and the walls of the apartment that they occupied in common was now half covered with these of the and the s tool used to laugh at the enthusiasm with which he would each new beauty declaring it superior to any of its falling into over an arm a shoulder or a bust but he regarded it as a mere on s part and something that might as well be allowed to run its course had very correct ideas on most matters and would have talked seriously to his friend had he discovered anything which he supposed had a really bad tendency but these pictures were too silly to treat as if they were things of importance i have bought the most beautiful photograph this afternoon would say as soon as he entered the door you cannot imagine how lovely it is then as he proceeded to take off the would respond coolly on the contrary i can tell you all about it it is mile chose of the varieties she is dressed low in the neck and her the is high on the side i have seen its a hundred times and they are all as near alike as two peas in a you have never seen this one would answer his face look was there ever such beauty is it not superb i did not think such arms could grow on a mortal creature what perfection of outline what grace of pose you must be stone not to admire that magnificent figure i believe you are pretending a lack of interest just to me i don t see anything to get interested in would be the response i call it the picture of a bold woman who might have been a a month before some one her in that finery there are just as good arms i would be willing to among the who do up the college linen your perfection of outline is all in your vivid imagination you don t mean seriously to think of placing that thing on the walls of our room why it would give me the nightmare toss it into the rubbish like a good fellow then would assume an air of injury and placing the photograph in a good light would sit down before it and rail upon the heart that could address such remarks to its beautiful face forgive me mile chose if that is your divine name for bringing you into the presence of this fix your clear and sparkling eyes upon your admirer who would give all he possesses for one glance of love from them lift those arms and them but for one instant about the neck of him who will ever afterward be your slave open those cherry lips and the girl with the ankles own that you have for me a little of that devotion that i bring to you you do not speak at the sound of my voice you turn your lovely away your arms worthy of a or a lie motionless at your side is it on account of this wretch that you treat me with such cruel disdain say but a word and i will cast him hence that we may live devoted to each other forever as often as this was repeated varying only in form with each new picture that took the attention of the young man could never help laughing at the of it tell her while you are about it he would say that you were quite as enthusiastic over the charms of mile and mile whose still adorn your walls that you pledged to each of them representing not less than three or four hundred individuals the same everlasting love and that you now offer to her tell her that to morrow at precisely this hour you will bring home the likeness of some other peasant girl who has exchanged a doubtful quality of virtue for a place on the stage and over it with equal oh i am getting ashamed of you then would laugh with him but would protest for all that that the picture was a beauty and that if he were not as blind as a bat and as as a block of marble he would know it three days later he would bring home another declaring that this was more lovely than any that had preceded it and the farce would be re with little is there anything in this shop that you do a j mire he asked once as they stood together in the art store of the college town yes replied there are several things these views of the this one of the this of the oh broke in i mean of things feminine what are those horrid old ruins good for a man of sense should be above that sort of thing what i want is for you to tell me candidly whether there is one of these photographs or designed to female beauty that you would think worth turned to the and looked them ever for several minutes yes he said finally which ones these he indicated two female figures one a complete and the other stripped to the waist impossible cried you are too much of a why don t you answer me honestly i mean just what i said i would hang either of these in my room and i would much prefer them to any oi the french you have covered the walls with but said with an air of bewilderment they are not clothed not with garments it is replied slowly but with purity and grace beyond doubt something that cannot be said of most of yours which i have clothes do not of necessity give an air of purity to woman here is a and a half and yet the artists have so | 1 |
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