all the of grace � and and and the solemnity with which polite people was for this once exchanged for gravity and little of merriment the great steamer was for england it was a brilliant moonlight there was a move to the which had four windows old convey lo her lecture ton are a very clever young lady was veiy ingenious i am in yon r friendly consideration of it madam said car tlie ny gave my friends miss it will make i believe it was as good as a play miss and i shall never your again madam with this conclusion miss became a rod and marched the next moment a servant brought a letter she opened it a smile with which she was listening to s admiration became a stone smile as eyes fixed themselves on the paper she gave a cry like one wounded and stretching out her hands with a tender helplessness at once gave the lie to her dress bank insensible into mr � was taking past her window to england chapter v sa i months after this event a young gentleman was seated in a study book in hand but by no could he give his mind to the book he sighed turned the leaves and gave it up in despair � this was whose offended dignity and delicacy had borne him up for five months but could support him no longer he had now had leisure l� remember the many high of her whose one fault he had thought ho had flung away a jewel for a single flaw jewels are rare he began to he had been a fool and to know he was wretched what was to be done he had been silent so long that now be was ashamed to write and when he bad with a great struggle determined ik make the first a letter from his sister had given him a mysterious hint that it now be too late to attempt an was not one of those who and cure themselves in ten days by all their he was silent distracted reserved his own family who guessed tlie cause of his low spirits respected him much to approach the subject or let strangers the secret they permitted him to he miserable in peace he thanked them in his and himself to the full of their he took possession of a room looked on nay court by in that room in the of tlie immortal dead � il s one of these painful i interrupted by a visitor an old e in black and a m it was the james of an old and true friend of both houses and s for many mr had not seen depression without interest he wa acquainted with the the had few secrets from him certain features in every story according to the side we hear it from and mr on his escape from woman he called q to keep his pupil s mind fixed on the subject but to divert bim from it after noticing with regret man s depression he asked to be his i see said he what it is you want some fixed intellectual pursuit will you allow me to recommend you as many as you like dear sir said ri for i am wearied of my life i have nothing to do added he thinking be was throwing dust in his s eyes mr took his cue and then aud there proposed to hia late pupil s attention an pursuit � suited to that part of the country � it is a science said he which lifts you out of ignorant present and yon into various stages of this earth s existence you learn on its what a in this world s great is the the you find that the earth was for millions of years and liquid like a whale � in stone look for no signs of v and still fewer of life then for millions of years the upper l een and water which has into stone and in stone you find things tliat lived or gi very late in the world s in fact within a few million years of w io preceded man by a few thousand years only at least i think so since the flesh of has been found in ice in the old gentleman then hinted a of the eye that this science has also its prose that by breaking stones with iron in them men have repaired their fortunes j that coal silver iron and the e work mr had not what we have that in without a single hard word to their backs find all me gold and all the coal that is found and finds the study at the same be hinted it was amusing to be to plants not by properties but and to call everything by its long name that belongs to twenty other things as well of knowing each by a peculiar title as the vulgar do my reader he knows the boy is in love and and ii is not one folly best cured by another but is this sort of folly especially in a youth born to experience is our safe guide in things � and experience proves that and are roads to other � by b te d by n perched find irregular features � you who love with or ill the two of that books but tho can jump on of his at any turn of tjie road find that which his soul desires the meanest a boy throws at a robin is millions of years older than the and has a history and a sermon tc man i paid for breaking them ho wretched b� t if he bring his mind to do it he is at tiie with these men life is a dream � they are not to low spirits t ey smile away their human day 