one fine day the to get np a grand age g upon reference to the that it would be then extremely all the old books were antique and laboriously and traditions but the duke could not be happy he had found out the lady s function also somebody upon consulting the authorities discovered that it was ordained in eminent deference to the female character that she should at the certainly our little lady must have become rather for she the pleasure the with amazement stood for a while in a and then with a smile that partook of the turned her over to his yellow mother to learn what was and lawful and the mother smelt blood with a cat like instinct as her cheek quick all its she receives such a as only an old yellow mother with whiskers can give and the duke revenge weu on the very of the hunt a troop of come up to the castle with their annual gifts their guardian angel seems to be the oldest then above ground and ugly in proportion altogether a weird and presence a thought strikes the duke as soon as he eyes upon her he will give his anti wife a d t by way cf punishment so he over his horse s neck and whispers the whole history of her into the s ears who instantly it contrary to intent while she promises to do his and forth the duke to his old witch was a personage no sooner has he turned his back than she drops the and becomes the the dress its arrangement the head sits erect the eyes light up with meaning our friend her tiie way to his lady and takes measures to watch her shortly from a balcony he witnesses the strange scene of the lady passive and radiant at the feet of the drinking in grateful influence from those mystic eyes hands and the woman sings from i this chant in which the beneficent wins the harassed lady to escape with her to land and feel there how love is only good in the world we must quote the following nor will we promise that it shall be the last from a poem each line of which witli vitality either a laugh a grace or a tear � we are beside thee in all thy ways with our blame with our praise our shame to feel our pride to show glad sorry � but no whether it is thy lot to go for the good of us all where the meet in the crowded city s horrible street or thou step alone through the where sound yet was save the dry quick of die s bill for the air is still and the water still when the blue breast of the dipping under and all again is mute so at the last shall come old age as that stage how else thou retire apart with the memories of thy heart and gather all to the very least of the fragments of life s earlier feast let fall through eagerness to find the crowning yet behind on the entire past laid together thus at last when the twilight helps to the first fresh with the faded hues and the outline of the whole as round eve s shades their roll fronts for once thy soul and then as mid the dark a gleam of yet another morning breaks and like the hand which ends a dream death with the might of his touches the and the soul then then indeed but no matter about with such poetry as this now � such an of summer silence such a picture of the pure of age such trumpet words the in death match those lines m english if you can reader we challenge you that you s june have not them but read them till you have become into their spirit our friend the is coarse as he ought to be born in the he airs his just enough to be characteristic without our respect for his tenderness and loyalty to the nobody objects to s or to s license the latter perils virtue as little as the former does intelligence the is an admirable specimen of a noble nature far above his condition the soul of true delicacy and honor the little of hair that the gave him and that last look which placed a crown on him yet with his speech now and then of the coat and and a phrase or two caught up in the of the stables we like him all the better for his we know that it is not a in livery for this night only he hates that mother in law too cordially not to have known her how refreshing it is to hear the whole disgust with which he describes the of the ferocious old � until she grew from to l just the object to make you shudder alter a word and you the after all he was cautious how he more than needs on the otherwise we can easily imagine how he might have favored us with sundry touches and when he has told his story and made a clean breast of it why my heart s blood that went but anon in such muddy is up brisk now the main and me about the here are all the marks of that a could desire he had evidently the and in his day but here is the true heart of the man with which we conclude notice the delicate freedom of his touched was his wife as he parts from the � then do you know her face looked down on me with a look that placed a crown on me and she felt in her bosom � mark her bosom � and as a flower tree drops its blossom dropped me � ah had it been a purse of silver my 