stone to stone we managed to clear it but the tide was coming in we saw and i heard somebody say in a hollow voice that something would come of our been thirteen at dinner bound the next we had to knee deep and carry the ladies pick we ran on over the intervening sand at speed for we knew our case was getting very and found at the third point the water was up to our there was but one more and that once rounded we knew that wo should be in safety we that passage for as we were well aware we were cut oflf by the waves from all retreat � even to that strip of beach where we had dined and where indeed the surrounding rocks were just as as elsewhere we found the tide at the last point six feet in at least and quite a look of unutterable horror stole over every face the philosopher dropped his of with a tremendous crash upon the it s no use my myself with any further at all events no statement however not even this all comes of our having been thirteen at dinner which here again forth could have had a more awful effect upon us than this for we knew that he had had his second cigar and that his judgment was there was a little rock some twelve feet in the sea which would not be covered over for an hour perhaps and thither with mournful hearts we to our lives out by that scanty space i too had a good mind to let that heavy young person whom i had hitherto supported on my shoulders get there as she was only going to be kept dry for so short a time it was very lucky that my good nature prevailed for behind the rock lay our good old in his concealed and laughing to ah i thought you d get your feet wet round the point so i just waited here in case you might want me the heavy young person threw her arms about him there and then and kissed him and for my part i shall not forget him either nor that spring tide autumn although the mark of the stone has as i have said by this time away common sense have a good deal of talent about them but they have no common sense is the verdict universally passed upon our family and it is a just one everybody says so and what everybody says � it stands to common sense � must be true the virtue expired with a certain of ours a sort of of who under the houses of and was never out of favour with the powers and who at last like a jolly fat as he was went off in his he could seek the lord with on perform the lighted candle and business or vex the soul of the in of the period with all equally well he was a man of the strongest common sense and died worth and where would you be without him is a remark i have frequently made to members of my family when they have been inclined to question his principles it is quite certain that none of his descendants would have ever made that money his second son was put into a and ended there because he was always with fire and water and persisted in asserting that carriages could be moved common sense without horses another member of his race proposed to keep oflf by means of the of a cow and a third spent a good deal of his time in building a room to sit in under water there was a good deal of a certain sort of talent in all these persons but what is so much to be regretted is that what they did was contrary to common sense the world never forgave them for it to their dying day my father who might have stepped into a family living of a year as soon as he left college chose instead to join a marching regiment and live in that upon � per besides his pay because he had religious scruples now in the first place all scruples are foolish and religious scruples are worse than foolish � they re wicked and in the next place the living actually went out of the family what harm would my governor have done to it he was not an � he was not a � he was not a person he would have hunted i suppose and shot and � occupations which he delighted in very naturally more than in anything else in the world and as for visiting the poor people which it seems he considered himself for why he might have got a to do all that paying him very handsomely and still receiving � out of the living he could have bought most excellent sermons � and it stands to common sense that these must be much better than what one makes for himself he could but in fine he lost everything and did nothing au through having scruples or which is the same thing from the want of a little common sense with au my regard for the governor it positively makes me mad to think of what he threw away not only the actual advantages but the chances why with our connection � ive got two common sense first cousins in the house of and our arms are the same as the � he might have been made a bishop or even an � who knows � the spiritual shepherd of the church of england with six and twenty thousand pounds a year but then he never could have said for he had not the common sense for it then my mother she was my father s cousin and a regular at twenty one years of age and 