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t been over and above grateful dan well you was shook up and silly said dan anyway there was only an me aboard to see it the cook he don t count i might have thought about losing the bills c captains courageous that way said half to himself instead of calling everybody in sight a thief where s your father in the cabin what d you want o him again you ll see said and he stepped rather for his head was still singing to the cabin steps where the little ship s clock hung in plain sight of the wheel troop in the and yellow painted cabin was busy with a note book and an enormous black pencil which he sucked hard from time to time i haven t acted quite right said surprised at his own � � what s wrong said the � walked into dan ye no it s about you � i m here to listen � well i � i m here to take things back said very quickly � when a man s saved from drowning � he � ey you ll make a man yet cf you go on this way he t begin by calling people names jest an right � right an jest said troop with the ghost of a dry smile so i m here to say i m sorry another troop heaved himself slowly oflf the he was sitting on and held out an eleven inch hand captains courageous � � i do you sights o good an this shows i weren t in my a smothered chuckle on deck caught his ear i am very seldom in my the eleven inch hand closed on s it to the elbow we ll put a little more to that fore we ve done with you young an i don t think any worse of ye fer s gone by you wasn t responsible go right your business an you won t take no hurt you re white said dan as regained the deck flushed to the tips of his cars i don t feel it said he i didn t mean that way i heard what said when allows he don t think the worse of any man s give himself away he hates to be in his too ho ho j has a he d sooner dip his colours to the british than change it i m glad it s settled right up s right when he says he can t take you back it s all the we make here � the men ll be back like after a dead whale in ha af an hour what for said supper o course don t your tell you you ve a heap to learn � guess i have said looking at the of ropes and blocks overhead captains courageous she s a said dan misunderstanding the look wait till our s bent an she walks home with all her salt wet there s some work first though he pointed down into the darkness of the open between the two what s that for it s all empty said you an me an a few more got to fill it said dan that s where the fish goes � alive said well no they re so s to be dead � an flat � an salt there s a hundred o salt in the an we t more n covered our to now where are the fish though in the sea they say in the boats we pray said dan quoting a s proverb you come in last night with forty of em he pointed to a sort of wooden pen just in fi ont of the quarter deck you an me we ll that out when they re through send we ll full pens to night i ve seen her down ha af a foot with fish to clean an we stood to the tables till we was ourselves o them we was so sleepy yes they re in dan looked over the low at half a dozen towards them over the shining sea captains courageous i � i ve never seen the sea from so low down said it s fine the low sun made the water all purple and with golden lights on the barrels of the long and blue and green shades in the hollows each in sight seemed to be pulling her towards her by invisible strings and the little black figures in the tiny boats pulled like toys they ve struck on good said dan between his half shut eyes t room fer another fish low a lily in still water ain t he which is i don t see how you can tell em way oflf as you do last boat to the south ard he fund you last night said dan pointing rows ye can t mistake him east o him � b s a heap n he rows � is loaded with by the looks of him e t o him � sec how pretty they string out all along � with the shoulders is long jack he s a man south boston where they all live mostly an mostly them men are good in a boat north away yonder � you ll hear him tune up in a minute � is tom man o war s man he was on the old � first of our navy he says to go the horn he never talks of much else when he sings but captains courageous he has fair luck there what did i tell you a melodious stole across the water from the northern heard something about somebody s hands and feet being cold and then bring forth the the see where them meet the clouds are thick around their heads the mists around their feet � � full boat said dan with a chuckle if he gives

hopeless frail disappointed man i thought i could serve him i see i and beau s eyes were bent on him with a very friendly look you re a first rate fellow � but you shouldn t fly off so readily on the rapid wings of impulse now i suppose you want to shoot � that can t be done � not in england at any rate it can t be done at all anywhere said gravely he s dead beau started back in amazement dead you don t say so why he was dining last night at the � i saw him there briefly they related the sudden accident that had occurred and described its fatal result he died horribly said philip in a low voice i haven t got over it yet that evil tortured face of his haunts me was only slightly shocked he had known s life too well and had despised it too thoroughly to feel much regret now it was thus abruptly ended rather an unpleasant exit for such a fellow he remarked not at all and so you were going to him look and philip showed him the i ve been carrying this thing about all day � i wish i could drop it in the streets but if i did some one would be sure to pick it up and return it to me if it were a purse containing bank notes you could drop it with the positive certainty of never seeing it again laughed beau here hand it over and he possessed himself of it i ll keep it till you come back you leave for to night then yes if i can but it s the winter season � and there ll be all manner of difficulties i m afraid it s no easy matter to reach the at this time of year why not use your and be independent of obstacles suggested she s under worse luck sighed philip she won t be in sailing condition for another month no � i must take my chance � that s all it s possible i may overtake at � that s my great hope well don t be down in the mouth about it my boy said beau it ll all come right depend upon it your wife s a sweet gentle noble creature � and when once she knows all about the miserable mistake that has arisen i don t know which will be greatest her happiness or her for having misunderstood the position now let s have some coffee he ordered this refreshment from a passing waiter and as he did so a gentleman with hands clasped behind his back and a smile on his countenance bowed to him with marked and peculiar courtesy as he sauntered on his way through the room beau returned the salute with equal politeness that s he explained with a smile when the gentleman was out of the best and most generous of men he s a critic � all critics are large minded and generous we know � but he happens to be remarkably so he did me the kindest turn i ever had in my life when my first book came out he fell n it tooth and it tore it to ribbons speaking � and waved the fragments in the eyes of the public from that day my name was made � my writings sold off with delightful rapidity and words can never tell how i blessed and how i still bless he always into me � that s what s so good of him we re awfully polite to each other as you observe � and what is so perfectly charming is that he s quite unconscious how much he s helping me along he s really a first rate fellow but i haven t yet attained the summit of my ambition � and here broke off with a sparkle of fun in his clear steel gray eyes a y what else do you want asked laughing i want returned beau solemnly i want to be at by punch i want punch to make mouths at me and give me the benefit of his and no author s fame is the land of mockery quite secure till dear old punch has abused him abuse is the thing nowadays you know heaven forbid that i should be praised by punch that would be unfortunate here the coffee arrived and it to his friends talking gaily the while in an effort to from his gloomy thoughts � i ve just been informed on respectable authority that is the new he said i felt rather stunned at the moment but ive got over it now oh this mad london what a gigantic it is for the folk of the world to air their follies in that any reasonable englishmen with such names as shakespeare and to keep the glory of their country warm should for one moment consider poet ye gods where are your he s an american isn t he asked he is my dear boy an american whom the sensible portion of america we therefore � out of opposition � take him up his chief recommendation is that he writes concerning � regardless of music or here s a bit of him concerning the of oxen he says the lives in a � placid pastoral region there they bring him the three year and the four year to break them � some are such beautiful animals so looking � some are coloured some one has a white line running along his back some are some have wide horns a good sign look you the bright hides see the two with stars on their � see the round bodies and broad backs how straight and square they stand on their � w stop stop r cried putting his hands to his ears this is a practical joke beau i

unusually silent and i being sufficiently engaged in wondering within myself when i should see the old places again and what new changes might happen to me or them in the meanwhile at length becoming gay and in a moment as he could become anything he at any moment pulled me by the arm find a voice david what about the letter you were speaking of at breakfast oh said i taking it out of my pocket it s from my aunt and what does she say requiring consideration why she reminds me said i that i came out on this expedition to look about me and to think a little which of course you have done indeed i can t say i have particularly to tell you the truth i am afraid i had forgotten it well look about you now and make up for your said look to the right and you see a flat country with a good deal of marsh in it look to the left and you see the same look to the front and you find no difference look to the rear and there it is still the personal history and experience i laughed and replied that i saw no suitable profession in the whole prospect which was perhaps to be attributed to its what says our aunt on the subject inquired glancing at the letter in my hand does she suggest anything why yes said i she asks me here if i think i should like to be a what do you think of it well i don t know replied coolly tou may as well do that as anything else i suppose i could not help laughing again at his all and professions so equally and i told him so what is a said i why he is a sort of attorney replied he is to some faded courts held in doctors � a lazy old nook near st paul s churchyard � what are to the courts of law and he is a whose existence in the natural course of things would have terminated about two hundred years ago i can tell you best what he is by telling you what doctors is it s a little out of place where they administer what is called law and play all kinds of tricks with old monsters of acts of parliament which three of the world know nothing about and the other fourth to have been dug up in a state in the days of the it s a place that has an ancient in suits about people s wills and people s marriages and among ships and boats nonsense i exclaimed you don t mean to say that there is any between matters and matters i don t indeed my dear boy he returned but i mean to say that they are managed and decided by the same set of people down in that same doctors you shall go there one day and find them through half the terms in young s dictionary of the having run down the jane or mr and the having put off in a gale of wind with an anchor and cable to the in distress and you shall go there another day and find them deep in the evidence pro and con respecting a clergyman who has himself and you shall find the judge in the case the advocate in the clergyman case or they are like actors now a man s a judge and now he is not a judge now he s one thing now he s another now he s something else change and change about but it s always a very pleasant profitable little affair of private presented to an uncommonly select audience but and are not one and the same said i a little puzzled are they no returned the are � men who have taken a doctor s degree at college � which is the first reason of my knowing anything about it the employ the both get very comfortable and altogether they make a mighty snug little party on the whole i would recommend you to take to doctors kindly david they themselves on their there i can tell you if that s any satisfaction i made allowance for s way of treating the subject and considering it with reference to the staid air of gravity and antiquity which i associated with that lazy old nook near st paul s churchyard of david did not feel towards my s suggestion which she left to my free decision making no of telling me that it had occurred to her on her lately visiting her own in doctors for the purpose of settling her will in my favor that s a proceeding on the part of our aunt at all events said steer forth when i mentioned it and one deserving of all encouragement my advice is that you take kindly to doctors i quite made up my mind to do so i then told that my aunt was in town awaiting me as i found from her letter and that she had taken lodgings for a week at a kind of private hotel in s inn fields where there was a stone staircase and a convenient door in the roof my aunt being firmly persuaded that every house in london was going to be burnt down every night we achieved the rest of our journey pleasantly sometimes to doctors and the distant days when i should be a there which pictured in a variety of humorous and lights that made us both merry when we came to our journey s end he went home engaging to call upon me next day but one and i drove to s inn fields where i found my aunt up and waiting supper if i had been round the world since we parted we could hardly have been better pleased to meet again

called the a second volume of this annual appeared in but the expenses of the illustrations and of the getting up generally were found too great to justify the publication of a third volume in he brought out at volume of sermons on and practical subjects this volume was followed next year by the publication of five preached before the university of cambridge m m sa f t i the rev thomas these mr delivered before that university sometime previously the young s guide proceeded from his pen in and in the following year a collection of his poetical works was brought out in the course of the same year he published his for the christian practically considered this was a small volume in the form of four last of all came in a memorial of pastoral also in the form of sermons of mr s published sermons i need express no opinion after what i have said in speaking of him as a preacher his poetry is of a very superior cast in his widow of and indeed in all his poems there are passages of great power while his smaller pieces every now and then sparkle with beauties and are deeply throughout with the finer feelings of human nature where is the father who has lost a beloved child in whose bosom there will not be th� rev thomas found a cordial response to the truth and tender ness of the following lines entitled a father s grief to trace the bright rose fading fast from a fair daughter s cheek to read her pensive brow the fears she will not speak to mark that deep and sudden flush so beautiful and brief which tells the progress of decay � this is a father s grief when languor from her couch hath scared sweet sleep away and that comes with night not with the day to mark the fond smile that seeks with false relief awhile to calm his bursting heart � this is a father s grief to listen where her gentle voice its welcome music shed and find within his lonely halls the silence of the dead to look unconsciously for her the chosen and the chief of earthly joys � and look in vain � this is a father s grief f m m mm the rev thomas to stand beside the sufferer s couch while life is fast to mark that once d eye with death s dull to watch the struggles of the frame where earth has no relief and hopes of heaven are breath d in this is a father s grief and not when that dread hour is past and life is pain no more � not when the dreary tomb has d o er her so d before not then does kind come to lend his woes relief but with him to the he bears a father s rooted grief for oh to dry a mother s tears another babe may bloom but what remains on earth for him whose last is in the tomb f to think his child is above � to hope their parting brief these these may soothe � but death alone can heal a father s grief some of my readers may be desirous of seeing a specimen of mr s projected new of the i therefore the following only that i do not single it out because i deem it the most to the rev thomas his talents as a of the of david but because the the eighth is one of the shortest � o lord i our lord to thy dread name through earth s wide what praise is given how hast thou set thy above the highest arch of heaven from infant lips at thy command glad hymns of praise triumphant flow ordained to the adverse band and still and shame the foe when on the bright broad heavens i gaze d by s hand divine the silver moon � the rays � and own the living glories thine oh what is man vain man that he should thus thy kind remembrance share or what his race that such should be the object of s care if not in angel robes of light thy hand the son array d another name a crown more bright his transient repaid thy love to him unbounded sway o er all thy subject works has given bowed at his all obey or tribes of earth or hosts of heaven mr s personal appearance is not imposing he is under the middle stature but the rev thomas rather firmly made in his gait he had a slight stoop when walking in the streets his eyes look towards the pavement ad if he were lost in contemplation i believe his mind is often occupied with some train of thought when proceeding along the streets or lanes of london his complexion is of a dark pale if there be not a contradiction in the expression his face is somewhat thin his brow is narrow and slightly contracted his eye brows are prominent and projecting his features are not otherwise marked his hair is and stands as the phrase is erect especially that portion of it which the forehead his light grey eye has a comparatively heavy dull appearance when out of the pulpit in the pulpit especially when he has fairly entered into the heart of his subject it is clear quick and penetrating the usual expression of his countenance is that of a on melancholy but when he the pulpit it appears much more lively and animated his age i should take to be forty seven or forty eight thb rev john the of st ann s is a well known clergyman among the the celebrated mr was many years of st aim s a was erected to his memory soon after his death at the farther end of the church the contains the following inscription �

and all had smashed down it groups attacked the groups and also at needed mo ments and destroyed property so as to afford the the pretext of calling out the ck the iron heel had been a bloody strike the police had broken countless heads with their riot clubs and the death list had been by the turning loose of a machine gun on the from the of the special delivery company in consequence the men were sullen and they wanted bloody and revenge beaten on their chosen field they were ripe to seek revenge by means of political action they still maintained their labor organization and this gave them strength in the struggle that was on s chance for election grew stronger and stronger day by day and more their support to the until even laughed when the and the chicken fell into labor became while it packed the meetings with mad enthusiasm it was to the of the old party the old party were usually greeted with empty halls though occasionally they encountered full halls where they were so roughly handled that more than once it was necessary to call out the police history was making fast the air was with things happening and impending the country was on the verge of hard times caused by a series of under the these periods of hard times were as inevitable as they were absurd prosperity always brought calamity this of course was due to the excess of profits that was piled up the years wherein the difficulty of abroad of the had become difficult were working short time many great were standing idle against the time when the should be gone and wages were being cut right and left also the great strike had been broken two thousand along with their five thousand in the metal working trades had been defeated in as bloody a strike as had ever the united states pitched battles had been fought with the small armies of armed put in the field by the associations the black hundreds appearing in scores of wide scattered places had destroyed property and in consequence a hundred thousand regular soldiers of the united states had been called out to put a frightful end to the whole affair a of the labor strike � these were in purpose and practice and everything except name the private soldiers of the they were thoroughly organized and well armed and they were held in readiness to be hurled in special trains to any part of the country where labor went out on strike or was locked out by the only those curious times could have given rise to the amazing spectacle of one a notorious commander of strike who in swept across the united states in special trains from new york to san with an army of twenty five hundred men fully armed and equipped to break a strike of the san street car men such an act was in direct of the laws of the land the fact that this act and thousands of similar acts went goes to show how completely the was the creature of the the iron heel leaders had been executed many others had been to prison while thousands of the rank and file of the had been into bull pens and treated by the soldiers the years of prosperity were now to be paid for all were all were falling and amidst the general of prices the price of labor of all the land was with labor was striking here there and and where it was not striking it was being turned out by the the papers were filled with tales of violence and blood and through it all the black hundreds played their part riot and wanton destruction of property was their function and well they performed it the whole regular army was in the field called there by the actions of the black all cities and pen � in a strike in in the latter part of the nineteenth century it happened that many of the were confined in a bull pen by the troops the practice and the name continued in the twentieth century the name only and not the idea was imported from russia the black hundreds were a development out of the secret agents of the and their use arose in the labor struggles of the nineteenth century there is no of this no less an authority of the times than d united states of labor is responsible for the statement from his book entitled the battles of labor is quoted the declaration that in some of the great historic strikes the themselves have acts of violence that have deliberately provoked strikes in order to get rid of stock and that freight cars have been by agents during railroad strikes in order to increase the towns were like armed and were shot down like dogs out of the vast army of the the strike were and when the strike were by the labor the troops always appeared and crushed the then there was the as yet it was not necessary to have recourse to the secret law only the regularly organized was out and it was out everywhere and in this time of terror the regular army was increased an additional hundred thousand by the government never had labor received such an all around the great captains of industry the had for the first time thrown their full weight into the breach the struggling had made these associations were practically middle affairs and now compelled by hard times and crashing and aided by the great captains of industry they gave organized labor an awful and decisive defeat it was an all powerful but it was an of the lion and the lamb as the middle class was soon to learn labor was bloody and sullen but crushed yet its defeat did not put an end to the hard times the banks

with his ugly smile so fixed upon his that he looked as though he were smoking with his drooping of a nose rather than his mouth like a fancy in a weird picture when he had lighted a second at the still burning end of the be said to one must pass the time in the madman s absence one must talk on can t drink strong wine all day long or i would have another bottle she s handsome sir though not exactly to my by the thunder and the lightning i handsome i you on your admiration neither know nor ask said of whom you speak gk sir as they say in italy of the the of whose husband you were the � i think sir you are insolent the friend bo you sell all your friends took his from his mouth and eyed him with a momentary revelation of surprise but he put it between his lips again as he answered with coolness i sell anything that commands a price how do your lawyers live your your your men of the exchange how do you live how do you come here have ou sold no friend lady of mine i rather think yes turned away from him towards the window and sat looking out at the wall sir said society itself and me and i sell society i perceive you have acquaintance with another lady also handsome a strong spirit let us see how do they he received no answer but could easily discern that he had hit the mark yes he went on that handsome lady and strong spirit addresses me in the street and i am not insensible i respond that handsome lady and strong me the favor to remark in confidence i have my curiosity and i have my yon are not more than ordinarily honorable perhaps i announce myself madam and a gi man to di w more hum h a weak upon the is pleased lo compliment the n� � between ul the rest u tou say � o her with w and t o from my i then a n u proposition is in that fain ob it appears to her tliat am fur the the rat of the of the that mid the to be with their movements to know of their life how the in how tl p fur so on she is not rich but and � little and of � m h nd i � to do is a part of my i lo accept them goes the world it i� th though s back was while he forth t� the of the interview be kept t tt at his were too near together upon him and � � is veiy of the head as he with his to of what he said that he which did not already know he lighting a tb d with a sound an if hi breath could blow ber away but for it waa not well of the la of ra from old lover in her os t mountain that her husband might not � ee them no no hall not well i the was earnestly cried arthur that long gone for this man s th� room aye but he ll flourish here and on look and of hia lie a � will stretching bis body out on the only that on which sat be on ua personage of song � wh i t m r � � � bj till an t aj v� � j i ng the pig tou sing it in ji it or by e saint who ti death i ll and and u m p who an not d � d have been with � of s im the flown do u or bu the king a iii partly in his old habit not might injure his i partly he would as mm � � us tier took up the this t and ml to with his ni i other of an hour � f step was upon tho stairs but the interval seemed to j long his step was attended by another step and when opened the door he admitted mr and mr the latter was no sooner than rushed at him and embraced him how do you find yourself sir said mr as soon as he himself which he struggled to do with very ceremony thank you no i don t want any more this waa in reference to another menace of affection from his recovered well arthur you remember what i said to you about sleeping dogs and missing ones it s come true you sec � was as as ever to all appearance and nodded his in a way as he looked round the room and this is the prison for debt said mr � you have brought your pigs to a very indifferent market arthur � if arthur had patience had not he took his little with fierce by the two of his coat and to the devil with the market to the devil with the pigs and to the devil with the pig driver now give me the answer to my letter if you can make it convenient to let go a moment sir returned i ll first hand mr arthur a little note that i have him he did so it was in his mother s writing on a slip of paper and contained only these words i hope it is enough that you have ruined yourself best contented without more ruin is my messenger and representative your affectionate m c read this twice in silence and then tore it to pieces in the meanwhile stepped into a chair and sat himself on the bade with his feet upon the seat now beau he said when he had closely watched the note to its destruction the answer to my letter mrs did not write it mr her hands

is so good of him because the awkwardness of my situation has really come about by my fault in getting wish me joy remember i say you are to and you mustn t refuse � your affectionate cousin mary staggered under the news could eat no breaks fast and kept on drinking tea because his mouth was so dry then presently he went back to his work and laughed the usual bitter laugh of a man so confronted everything seemed turning to satire and yet what could the poor girl do he asked himself and felt worse than shedding tears the obscure oh mary he said as he worked you don t know what marriage means could it be possible that his announcement of his own marriage had pricked her on to this just as his visit to her when in liquor may have pricked her on to her engagement to be sure there seemed to exist these other and sufficient reasons practical social for her decision but sue was not a very practical or calculating person and he was compelled to think that a at having his secret sprung upon her had moved her to give way to s probable representations that the best course to prove how were the suspicions of the school authorities would be to marry him off hand as in fulfilment of an ordinary engagement sue had in fact been placed in an awkward corner poor sue he determined to play the to make the best of it and support her but he could not write the requested good wishes for a day or two meanwhile there came another note from his impatient little dear will you give me away i have nobody else who could do it so conveniently as you being the only married relation i have here on the spot even if my father were friendly enough to be willing which he isn t i hope you won t think it a trouble i have been looking at the marriage service in the prayer book and it seems to me very humiliating that a away should be required at all according to the ceremony as there printed my bridegroom chooses me of his own will and pleasure but i don t choose him somebody gives me to him like a she ass or or any other domestic animal bless your exalted views of woman o but i forget i am no longer privileged to you � ever mary himself up to heroic key and replied my dear sue � of course i wish you joy and also of course i will give you away what i suggest is that as you have j at no house of your own you do not marry from your school friend s but from mine it would be more proper i think since i am as you say the person nearest related to you in this part of the world i don t see why you sign your letter in such a new and terribly formal way surely you care a bit about me still � ever your affectionate what had on him even more than the signature was a little sting he had been silent on � the phrase married relation what an idiot it made him seem as her lover if sue had written that in satire he could hardly forgive her if in suffering � ah that was another thing his offer of his lodging must have commended itself to at any rate for the school master sent him a line of warm thanks accepting the convenience sue also thanked him immediately moved into more quarters as much to escape the of the suspicious landlady who had been one cause of sue s unpleasant experience as for the sake of room then sue wrote to tell him the day fixed for the wedding and decided after inquiry that she should come into residence on the following saturday which would allow of a ten days stay in the city prior to the ceremony sufficiently representing a residence of fifteen she arrived by the ten o clock train on the day not going to meet her at the station by her special request that he should not lose a morning s work and pay she said if this were her true reason but so well by this time did he know sue that the remembrance of their mutual at might he thought have weighed with her in this when he came home to dinner she had taken possession of her apartment she lived in the same house with him but on a different floor and they saw each other little an occasional the obscure supper being the only meal they took together when sue s manner was something like that of a scared child what she felt he did not know their conversation was mechanical though she did not look pale or ill came frequently but mostly when was absent on the morning of the wedding when had given himself a holiday sue and her cousin had breakfast together for the first and last time during this curious interval in his room � the parlor � which he had hired for the period of sue s residence seeing as women do how helpless he was in making the place comfortable she about what s the matter she said suddenly he was leaning with his elbows on the table and his chin in his hands looking into a which seemed to be out on the table cloth nothing you are father you know that s what they call the man who gives you away could have said s age him to be called that but he would not annoy her by such a cheap retort she talked incessantly as if she dreaded his indulgence in reflection and before the meal was over both he and she wished they had not put such confidence in their new

course the man did not have to run the risk of the penalty he could have remained on the bank in a sweet and placid of summer air sunshine and only he was not made that way in that swift mid air moment he lived as he could never have lived on the bank as for myself td rather be that man than the fellows who sat on the bank and watched him that is why i am building the i am so made i like that is all the trip around the world means big the of the moments of living bear with me a and look at it here am i a little animal called a man � a bit of matter one hundred and sixty five pounds of meat and blood nerve bones and brain � all of it soft and tender susceptible to hurt and frail i strike a light back handed blow on the nose of an horse and a bone in my hand is broken i put my head under the water for five minutes and i am drowned i fall twenty feet through the air and i am smashed i am a creature of temperature a few degrees one way and my fingers and ears and toes and drop off a few degrees the other way and my skin and away from the raw quivering flesh a few additional degrees either way and the life and the light in me go out a drop of poison into my body from a snake and i cease to move � forever i cease to move a of lead from a rifle enters my head and i am wrapped around in the eternal blackness and frail a bit of like life � it is all i am about me are the great natural forces � colossal of destruction monsters that have less concern for me than i have for the grain of sand i crush under my foot they have no concern at all for me they do not know me they are unconscious and they are the and lightning flashes and cloud bursts tide and waves and great and and and that thunder on rock and seas that leap aboard the largest that float crushing to or them off into the sea and to death � and these monsters do not know that tiny sensitive creature all nerves and weaknesses whom men call jack london and who himself thinks he is all right and quite a superior being in the and chaos of the conflict of these vast and it is for me to thread my precarious way the bit of life that is i will over them the bit of life that is i in so far as it in them or in them to its service will imagine that it is it is good to ride the tempest and feel i dare to assert that for a speck of to feel is a far more glorious feeling than for a god to feel here is the sea the wind and the wave here are the seas the winds and the waves of all the world here is ferocious and here is difficult the achievement of which is delight to the small quivering vanity that is i i like i am so made it is my own particular form of vanity that is all there is also another side to the voyage of the being alive i want to see and all the world is a bigger thing to see than one small town or valley we have done little of the voyage only one thing is definite and that is that our first port of call will be beyond a few general ideas we have no thought of our next port after we shall make up our minds as we get nearer in a general way we know that we shall wander through the south seas take in new new guinea and and go on up through the to then will come china india the red sea and the the of the after that the voyage becomes too vague to describe though we know a number of things we shall surely do and we expect to spend from one to several months in every country in europe the is to be sailed there will be a engine on board but it will be used only in case of emergency such as in bad water among and where a sudden calm in a swift current leaves a sailing boat helpless the of the is to be what is called the the is a compromise between the and the of late years the has proved the best for the the virtues of the and in addition to embrace a few of the sailing virtues of the the foregoing must be taken with a pinch of salt it is all theory in my head i ve never sailed a nor even seen one the theory itself to me wait till i get out on the ocean then i ll be able to tell more about the and sailing qualities of the as originally planned the was to be forty feet long on the water line but we discovered there was no space for a bath room and for that reason we have increased her length to forty five feet her greatest beam is fifteen feet she has no house and no hold there is six feet of and the deck is unbroken save for two and a for ard the fact that there is no house to break the strength of the deck will make us feel safer in case great seas thunder their tons of water down on board a large and sunk beneath the deck with high rail and self will make our days and nights more comfortable lo the of the there will be no crew or rather and i are the crew

as well as others why bless thee child the said his hand her curls caressing tis left for little ones like thee to find that war s not all a blessing and bless thee once again he cried then cleared his throat and looked indignant and marched away with wrinkled brow to stop the struggling tear and still the ringing shouts went up from doorway and fields of the pall behind the standard seen by one alone of all the village iii the burial op sir john to he not a drum was heard � not a funeral note as his corpse to the we hurried not a soldier discharged his farewell shot o er the grave where our hero we buried we buried him darkly at dead of night the with our turning by the struggling s misty light and the lantern dimly burning no useless coffin enclosed his breast nor in sheet nor in we wound him but he lay like a warrior taking his rest with his martial cloak around him few and short were the prayers we said and we spoke not a word of sorrow � by charles an irish poet but we gazed on the face of the dead and we bitterly thought of the morrow i we thought as we his narrow bed and smoothed down his lonely pillow that the foe and the stranger would tread o er his head and we far away on the lightly they ll talk of the spirit that s gone and o er his cold ashes him but little he ll if they let him sleep on in the grave where a has laid him but half of our heavy task was done when the bell the hour for retiring and we heard the distant and gun that the foe was sullenly firing slowly and sadly we laid him down from the field of his fame fresh and we carved not a line and we raised not a stone but we left him alone with his glory which of these three poems do you enjoy the most which is the most musical which one s feelings most note sir john was in command of the british army in spain during the war with the in on the th of january a battle was fought at the french were defeated but sir john was struck by a ball and killed in the moment of victory the game of a play a little now and then is by the best o men persons in the play frank ned jo scene � a parlor the characters seated so as to present a pleasing appearance � near jo and near well wliat shall we do next the school stage by w h jo have games while we rest i brought my game of authors but i dare say miss knows something and go and ask her aside she s good company and you ought to stay with her more yes she is interesting but she doesn t know everything still i ll ask her miss can you help us to a new play i shall be most happy if i can how would you like to play never played it don t know what it s like tell us about it jo yes tell us how it s played it s very easy one person begins to tell a story � any nonsense you know he keeps talking till he gets to some exciting point and then he looks at some other person who is obliged to take up the story and go on with the telling in the same way sometimes it is very funny let s try it jo yes let s have a game of all the others yes let s try it well then we ll begin mr since you are the oldest you may start it let me think a moment once upon a time there was a brave knight he went out into the world to seek his fortune for he had nothing but his shield and his sword he through many strange countries and had a hard time of it at length he came to the palace of a good old king who had offered a reward to any one who would tame and train a fine which had been presented to him well our knight agreed to try and he had very good success the soon learned to love his new master although he was and wild every day the knight rode him through the city and as he rode he looked everywhere for a certain beautiful face which he had dreamed of but never seen one day as he went down a quiet street he saw the lovely face looking out of the window of a old castle he was delighted he inquired who lived in the castle and was told that several captive were kept there by a magic spell which had been laid upon them by an old witch they did nothing but spin all day to earn money to buy their liberty the knight wished very much to free them but he was poor and could do nothing but ride past the window and look up at the beautiful face at last he made up his mind to get into the castle whether or no so he went up to the gate very boldly and knocked upon it with the of his sword there was a great and and the big gate flew wide open and the knight beheld � looking at a beautiful lady with golden hair she raised her blue eyes and cried with rapture at last at last and our noble knight with joy in his countenance fell at her feet exclaiming tis she tis she the lady held out her lily white hand and said oh rise i pray you rise never never till you tell me how i may rescue you cried the

he made mr returned miss coldly the count feeling as i do that count is merely a count with instincts brought here like myself for literary purposes of which i cannot approve i a rebellious heroine must reply to your question that you may not have that pleasure with which remark miss swept proudly from the room ordered her carriage and went home thereby utterly the second story of her life that i had undertaken to write but i shall make one more effort an experiment and thus fu her mad and humor he that knows better to tame a now let him speak tis charity to show � of the what would have happened if she had behaved i asked after i had read the pages he had so kindly placed at my disposal oh nothing in particular to which she could reasonably object returned the incidents of a truly novel are rarely objectionable except to people of a nature i a rebellious heroine intended to have dance attendance upon miss for the balance of the season that s all hoping thereby to present a good picture of life at in july and part of august about the middle of august i was going to transport the whole cast to bar harbor for variety s sake that would have been another opportunity to get a good deal of the american summer atmosphere into the book i wish i could afford the kind of summer i contemplated giving her you didn t intend that she should fall in love with i asked not to any serious extent said even if she had a little she d have come out of it all right as soon as the hero turned up and she had a chance to see the difference an experiment between a manly man of her own country and a little fortune hunter from the land of wasn t to be a bad fellow at all he was merely an italian which he couldn t help being bom so and therefore as she said of an nature there is no in that however � that is no he was after a rich marriage because he was fond of a life of ease she d have found him amusing at any rate but he was i suggested not at all said impatiently that s what me more than anything else she made a very bad mistake there as a count was quite as real as his financial necessities it was a awkward situation a rebellious heroine that scene said l especially for the count might have him what became of the count when it was over i don t know said i left him to get out of his as best he could possibly he did challenge i haven t taken the trouble to find out if as i think how ever he s a living person he ll himself from his difficulty all right if he s not and i have allowed myself to him up in my fancy there s no great harm done if he s nothing more than a let him fall on the floor and stay there until i find some imaginative writer who will take him off my hands � you for instance you can have for a christmas present with my an experiment ments vm through with him but as for miss she has been so that she has aroused my deepest interest and i couldn t give her up if i wanted to i never encountered a heroine like her in all my life before and the one object of my future career will be to catch her finally in the of a romance romance will come into her life some time she is not at all of an nature � only � new perhaps but none the less and will have a shot at her when she least expects it and when it does come i ll be on hand to report the attempted for the of the public i should think you would try a little persuasion just for i suggested a rebellious heroine you forget i am a he replied as he went out now i sincerely admired and i wished to the bottom of my heart to help him if i could it seemed to me that however admirable miss had shown herself to be generally as a woman she had been an altogether unsatisfactory person in the r e of a heroine i respected her scruples about marrying men she did not care for and as i have already said no one could deny her the right to her own convictions but it seemed to me that in the incident she might and truly ought to have acted differently when the time came for the there is no doubt in my mind that her little speech to in which she stated that the count was a an experiment loi fraud and might t be presented was a deliberately therefore not in st b could have avoided it by telling before leaving home that she did not care to meet the count to make a scene at mrs s was not a thing which a sober minded self contained woman would have done it was bad form to behave so rudely to one of mrs s and was so in considerate of and unreasonable in other ways that i blamed her she deserves to be punished i thought to myself as went out of the room and there is no kind of punishment for a woman like that so to her soul as to find herself in the hands of a des iq a rebellious heroine pot w p forces way and that to his i d like to play i for five minutes she d soon find out that i m not a bound by a creed to which i must whatever i choose to do i

down his chin the watchful attendants were particularly careful to these and return them to their proper port of entry as the captain in order to admire this curious exhibition of the great chief his hands to hit sides and his visitor with the following question � � well sir i what da they say of me in england � l whim and opinions within it like those complicated pieces of where there is a � wheel within a wheel but in nothing is the nature of this more evident than in its grand national or where the laws are framed � this is a windy assembly where every thing is carried by noise tumult and debate for thou must know that the members of this assembly do not meet together to find wisdom in the multitude of but to call each other hard names and hear themselves talk when the opens the first sends them a long message t e a huge mass of words � et all meaning nothing because it only tells them what they perfectly know already then the whole assembly are thrown into a and have a long talk about the quantity of words that are to be returned in answer to this message and here arise many about the and alteration of � if so be s � and � s v a month perhaps is spent in thus the precise number of words the i of esq answer shall contain and then another most probably in concluding whether it shall be carried to the on foot on horseback or in having settled this matter they next fall to work upon the message itself and hold as much chattering over it as so many over an egg this done they divide the message into small portions and deliver them into the hands of little of called these have each a world of talking about their respective and return die results to the grand which forthwith to and re talks the matter over more earnestly than ever now after all it is an even chance that the subject of this prodigious arguing quarrelling and talking is an affair of no importance and ends entirely in smoke may it not then be said the whole nation have been talking to no purpose the people in seem to be somewhat conscious of this to talk by which they are and have a favourite proverb on the subject � all talk and no � this is particularly applied when their or vol i l o whim and opinions assembly of all the sage of the ua lion have through a whole in a of great peril and event and have done length c their tongues and the unhappy nation thus torn to pieces by in talks never i fear will it be to tranquillity and silence words are bu breath but air and air put into mo tion is nothing but wind this vast empire therefore may be compared to nothing nor less than a mighty and the and the and the ers are the breezes that put it in motion however they are apt to blow ways and their each other the mill is perplexed the wheel stand still the is and the and his family starved every thing of the windy of the government in case of any grievance or an insult from a foreign foe th people are all in a � town meetings ar immediately held where the of th of esq city repair each with the cares of the whole nation upon hi shoulders each resolutely ent upon saving his country and each swelling and like a turkey cock puffed up � with words and wind and wisdom � after bustling and and for some and after each man shown himself to be the greatest personage in the meeting they pass a string of resolutions z e words which were previously prepared for the purpose these resolutions are � the sense of the meet v and are sent off for the instruction of the i who receives them graciously puts them into his red breeches pocket forgets to read them � and so the matter ends as to his the present who is at the very top of the never was a better qualified for his station he is a man of and to nothing but a huge of wind he talks of all opposition by the force of reason and philosophy throws his at all the nations of the earth and and opinions them to meet him � on the field of argument � is the national dignity insulted a case in which his of would immediately call forth his forces � the of america � a speech does a foreign the commerce in the very mouth of the � au insult which would induce his of to order out his � his of america � a speech are the free citizens of america dragged from on board the vessels of their country and forcibly detained in the war ships of another power � his � a speech is a citizen killed by the of a foreign power on the very shores of his country � his � a speech does an alarming break out in a distant part of the empire � his � a speech � nay more for here he shows his � energies � � he most a on horseback and orders him to ride one hundred and twenty miles with a most formidable army of i c a collection of words packed up of esq i j i in his saddle bags he is instructed to show no nor affection but to charge the ranks of the enemy and to and by words the conspiracy and the out of existence heavens my friend what a deal of is hero it reminds me of a cock in a farm yard who having accidentally in his found a worm

the of about it our thoughts were deep and solemn and we spoke to each other scarcely above whispers you might remove the he said that night as we stood in consultation over him it s dead safe i m a now the next thing to watch out for is bed he smiled his twisted smile and her eyes wide with horror was compelled to turn away her head do you know that your smile is crooked i asked him for i knew that she must attend him and i wished to save her as much as possible then i shall smile no more he said calmly i thought something was wrong my right check has been all day yes and i ve had of this for the the sea wolf last three days by my right side seemed going to sleep sometimes arm or hand sometimes leg or foot so my smile is crooked he a short while after well henceforth that i smile with my soul if you please my soul consider now and for the space of several minutes he lay there quiet indulging his grotesque fancy the man of him was not changed it wa s the old wolf imprisoned somewhere � within that flesh had once b een so in v a splendid now it him with his soul in darkness and silence it from the world which to him had been a riot of action no more would he the to do in every mood and tense to be was all that remained to him � to be as he had defined death without movement to will but not to execute to think and reason and in the spirit of him to be as alive as ever but in the flesh to be dead quite dead and yet though i even removed the we could not ourselves to his condition our minds to us he was full of we knew not what to expect of him next what thing rising above the flesh he might break out and do our experience this state of mind and we went about our work with anxiety always upon us i had solved the problem which had arisen through the of the by means of the watch tackle i had made a new one i heaved the butt of the across the rail and then lowered it to the deck next by means of the i hoisted the main boom on board its forty feet of length would supply the height necessary properly to swing the mast by means of a secondary tackle i had attached to the i swung the boom to a nearly perpendicular position then lowered the butt to the deck where to prevent slipping i great around it the single block of my original tackle i had attached to the end of the boom thus by carrying this to the i could raise and lower the end of the boom at will the butt always remaining stationary and by means of i could swing the boom from side to side to the end of the boom i had likewise a tackle and when the whole arrangement was completed i could not but be startled by the power and latitude it gave me of course two days work was required for the accomplishment of this part of my task and it was not till the morning of the third day that i swung the from the deck and proceeded to square its butt to fit the step here i was especially awkward i and and the wood till it had the appearance of having been by some gigantic mouse but it fitted it will work i know it will work i cried do you know dr s final test of truth asked i shook my head and paused in the act of the which had drifted down my neck can we make it work can we trust our lives to it is the test he is a favorite of yours i said when i my old and cast out napoleon and caesar and their fellows i straightway erected a new she answered gravely and the first i was dr a modern hero the sea wolf and a greater because modern she added i shook my head we were too much alike in things for argument our points of view and outlook oi life at least were very like for a pair of critics we agree i laughed and as and able assistant she back but there was little time for laughter in those days of our heavy work and of the of wolf a living death he had received another stroke he had lost his voices he was losing it he had only use of it as he it the wires were like the stock market now now down occasionally the wires were up and he as well as ever though slowly and heavily then would suddenly desert him in the middle of a sentence perhaps and for hours sometimes we would wait for the connection to be he complained of great pain in his head and it was during this period that he arranged a system of communication against the time when speech should leave him altogether � one pressure of the hand for yes two for no it was well that it was arranged for by evening his voice had gone from him by hand after that he answered our questions and when he wished to speak he his thoughts with his left band quite on a sheet of paper the fierce winter had now descended upon us gale followed gale with snow and and rain the t d started on their great southern and the was practically deserted i worked the sea � me i was on deck from daylight till dark and making substantial progress i by my lesson learned through raising tie and then climbing them to attach the to

who even herself to forget much of her own native tongue and who herself to what he would have said was uncertain as at that moment he was nearly thrown down by a something that slipped between his legs each fat calf as it passed � a something that looked like a ball but proved to be a human creature � no other than the crazy who after his uncouth successfully stood up shaking back his streaming fair locks and laughing wildly ha ha he exclaimed that was good that was clever if i had upset you now you would have said your prayers backward what are you here for this is no place for you they are all gone out of it s has gone � all the world is empty there is nothing anywhere but air air air � no birds no flowers no trees no sunshine all gone with her on the sparkling singing water and he swung his arms round violently and snapped his fingers in the minister s face what an ugly man you are he exclaimed with refreshing i think you are than i am you are straight � but you are like a load of � heavy and barren and fit to bum now i � i am the crooked bough of a tree but i have bright leaves where a bird hides and sings all day you � you have no song no foliage only ugly and barren and fit to burn he laughed heartily and catching sight of where she stood in the doorway entirely at his eccentric behaviour he went up to her and took hold of the corner of her apron take me in dear � pretty he said is hungry sweet little � come and talk to me and sing good bye fat man he added suddenly turning round once more on you will never overtake the big ship that has gone away with over the water will come back � yes but one day she will go never to come back he dropped his voice to a mysterious whisper last night saw a little spirit come out of a rose � he carried a tiny golden hammer and nail and a ball of cord like a up he flew away so quickly i could not follow him but i know where he went he fastened the nail in the heart of deeply so that the little drops of blood flowed � but she felt no pain and then he tied the gold cord to the nail and left her carrying the other end of the string with him � to whom some other heart must be pierced whose heart looked infinitely cunning as well as melancholy and sighed deeply the reverend mr was impatient and disgusted it is a pity he said with an air of solemn patience that this creature accursed of god and man is not placed in some proper abode suitable to the treatment of his affliction you the land of the midnight sun as the favoured servant of a � a � well let us say of a peculiar mistress should persuade her to send this � this � person away lest his become glanced very kindly at who still held her apron with the air of a child he s no more than you are she said promptly in answer to the minister s remark he s a good fellow and if he talks strangely he can make himself useful � which is more than can be said of certain people he can saw and chop the wood make hay feed the cattle pull a strong oar and sweep and keep the garden � can t you she laid her hand on s shoulder and he nodded his head emphatically as she his different talents and as for climbing � he can guide you anywhere over the hills or up the streams to the big � no one better and if you mean by peculiar � that my mistress is different to other people why i know she is and am glad of it � at any rate she s a great deal too kind hearted to shut this poor boy up in a house for he d die if he couldn t have the fresh air she paused out of breath with her rapid utterance and mr held up his hands in dignified astonishment you talk too young woman he said it is necessary that i should instruct you without loss of time as to how you should be of your words in the presence of your and bang the door was closed with a decision that sent a sharp echo through the silent heated air and mr was left to contemplate it at his leisure full of wrath he was about to knock and insist that it should be re opened but on second thoughts he decided that it was beneath his dignity to argue with a servant much less with a declared lunatic like � so he made the best of his way back to his boat thinking gloomily of the hard labour awaiting him in the long pull back to other thoughts too tortured and harassed his brain and as he again took the oars and plied them wearily through the water he was in an exceedingly humour though a he was no fool he knew the ways of men and women and he thoroughly realized the present position of affairs he was quite aware of s exceptional beauty � and he felt pretty certain that no man could look upon her without tion but up to this time she had been as it were secluded from all eyes � a few and were the only persons of the male sex who had ever been within the of s dwelling with the exception of himself � who being armed with a letter of introduction from the actual minister

my father is here with has spoken already also is without her to night shouted the man with the drinking bottle flinging his staff to the ground while the island rang to the of give her the justice of the gk d ye were still when they my waters the great ye made no sign when my river was between the walls i had no help save my own strength and that the strength of mother before their guard towers what could i do i have done everything finish now heavenly ones i brought the death i rode the spotted sickness from hut to hut of their workmen and yet they would not cease a nose hide worn ass lame legged and forward i cast at them out of my nostrils but they would not cease would have moved but the lay heavy upon him he said here is herself the small has the a handkerchief to put over his face little help they fed me the for a month and i them out on my sand bars but their work went forward they are and sons of and ye left mother alone for their fire carriage to make a mock of the justice of the gk ds on the bridge the bridge the bull turned the in his mouth and slowly if the justice of the gods caught all who made a mock of holy things there would be many dark in the land mother but this goes beyond a mock said the darting forward a thou and ye too heavenly ones ye know that they have surely they must come to the let judge the buck made no movement as he answered how long has this evil been three years as men count years said the dose pressed to the earth does mother die then in a year that she is so anxious to see vengeance now the deep sea was where she runs but yesterday and to morrow the sea shall cover her again as the that which men call time can any say that this their bridge till to morrow said the buck there was a long hush and in the clearing of the storm the full moon stood up above the dripping trees judge ye then said the river sullenly i have spoken my shame the flood falls still i can do no more for my own part � it was the voice of the great seated within the it pleases me well to watch these men remembering that i also no small bridge in the world s youth they say too the tiger that these men came of the wreck of thy armies and therefore thou hast the bridge they toil my toiled in and they believe that their toil is too high but thou how the land is with their yea i know said the bull their gk ds instructed them in the matter a laugh ran round the circle their what should their gods know they were bom yesterday and those that made them are scarcely yet cold said the to morrow their gk ds will die ho i said mother talks good talk i told that to the who preached on the and he asked the to put me in irons for a great surely they make these things to please their gods said the bull a ain not altogether the elephant rolled forth it is for the profit of my my fat money that worship me at each new year when they draw my image at the head of the books i looking over their shoulders by see that the names in the books are those of men in far for all the towns are drawn together by the fire carriage and the money comes and goes swiftly and the account books grow as fat myself and i who am of luck i bless my they have changed the face of the which is my land they have killed and made new towns on my banks said the it is but the shifting of a little dirt let the dirt the bridge dig in the dirt if it pleases the dirt answered the elephant but afterwards said the tiger afterwards they will see that mother can no insult and they fall away from her first and later from us all one hy one in the end we are left with the drunken man staggered to his feet and vehemently lies my sister lies also this my stick is the of and he keeps of my when the time comes to worship and it is always the fire carriages move one by one and each bears a thousand they do not come any more but rolling upon wheels and my honour is increased i have seen thy bed at black with the said the leaning forward and but for the fire carriage they would have come slowly and in fewer numbers remember they come to me always went on thickly by day and night they pray to me all the common people in the fields and the roads who is like to day what talk is this of changing is my staff of for nothing he keeps the and he says that never were so many as to day and the fire carriage serves them well am i � of the common people and the of the heavenly ones to day also my staff peace thou i the bull the worship of the schools is mine and they talk very wisely asking the bridge whether i be one or many is the delight of my people and ye know what i am my wife thou also yea i know said the with lowered head greater am i than also for ye know who moved the minds of men that they should count holy among the rivers who die in that ye know how men come to us without punishment and knows

cheeks and as she walked along a favourite grove said with a gentle sigh a few months more and he perhaps may be walking here chapter iv he was not mr the former of ford however suspicious appearances may be but a captain his brother who being made com in consequence of the action off st and not employed had come into in the of and having no parent living found a persuasion for half a year at he was at that time a remark fine young man with a great deal of intelligence spirit and brilliancy and anne an extremely pretty girl with gentleness modesty taste and feeling half the sum of attraction on either side might have been enough for he had nothing to do and she had hardly anybody to love but the encounter of such lavish could not fail they were gradually acquainted and when acquainted rapidly and deeply in love it would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other or which had been the happiest she in receiving his and proposals or he in having them accepted a short period of exquisite felicity followed and but a short one troubles soon arose sir walter on being applied to without actually his consent or saying it should never be gave it all the negative of great astonishment great coldness great silence and a professed resolution of doing nothing for his daughter he thought it a very degrading alliance and lady though with more tempered and pride received it as a most unfortunate one anne with all her claims of birth beauty and mind to throw herself away at nineteen involve herself at nineteen in an engagement with a young man who had nothing but himself to recommend him and no hopes of but in the chances of a most uncertain profession and no connections to secure even his farther rise in that profession would be indeed a throwing away which she grieved to think of anne so young known to so few to be snatched off by a stranger without alliance or o rather sunk by him into a state of most wearing youth killing dependence it must not be if by any fa interference of friendship any representations from one had almost a mother s love and mother s rights it would prevented captain had no fortune he had been lu in his profession but spending freely what had come persuasion had nothing but he was confident that he should soon be rich full of life and he knew that he should soon have a ship and soon be on a station that would lead to everything he wanted he had always been lucky he knew he should be so still such confidence powerful in its own warmth and in the wit which often expressed it most have been enough for anne but lady saw it veiy his sanguine temper and of mind very differently on her she saw in it but an of the evil it only added a dangerous character to himself he was brilliant he was lady had little taste for wit and of anything approaching to a horror she the connection in every light such opposition as these feelings produced was more than anne could combat young and gentle as she was it might yet have been possible to withstand her father s ill will though by one kind word or look on the part of her sister but lady whom she had always loved and relied on could not with such of opinion and such tenderness of manner be continually her in vain she was persuaded to believe the engagement a wrong thing improper hardly capable of success and not deserving it but it was not a merely selfish caution under which she acted in putting an end to it had she not imagined herself consulting his good even more than her own she could hardly have given him up the belief of being prudent and self denying principally for his advantage was her chief consolation under the misery of a parting a final parting and every consolation was required for she had to encounter all the additional pain of opinions on his side totally and and of his feeling himself ill used by so forced a he had left the country in consequence a few months had seen the beginning and the end of their acquaintance but not with a few months ended anne s share of from it her attachment and regrets had for a and persuasion persuasion long time clouded every enjoyment of youth and an early of bloom and spirits had been their lasting effect more than seven years were gone since this little history of sorrowful interest had reached its close and time had softened down much perhaps nearly all of peculiar attachment to him but she had been too dependent on time alone no aid had been given in change of place except in one visit to bath soon after the or in any novelty or of society no one had ever come within the circle who could bear a comparison with as he stood in her memory no second attachment the only thoroughly natural happy and sufficient cure at her time of life had been possible to the nice tone of her mind the of her taste in the small limits of the society around them she had been when about two to change her name by the young man who not long afterwards found a more willing mind in her younger sister and lady had lamented her refusal for charles was the eldest son of a man whose landed property and general importance were second in that country only to sir walter s and of good character and appearance and however lady might have asked yet for something more while anne was nineteen she would have rejoiced to see her at twenty two so removed from the

a score of people in a month if all zealous had been publicly urged to join an association for the purpose of singing a hymn or two occasionally and hearing some indifferent speeches made and ultimately of parliament not to pass an act for the laws against catholic priests the penalty of perpetual imprisonment against those who educated children in that persuasion and the of all members of the church to inherit real property in the united kingdom by right of purchase or descent � matters so far removed from the business and of the mass might perhaps have called together a hundred people but when vague got abroad that in this association a secret power was against the for and mighty purposes when the air was filled with whispers of a among the powers to and england establish an in london and turn the pens of market into and when terrors and which no man were perpetually both in and out of parliament by one who did not understand himself and which had lain quietly in their graves for centuries were raised again to haunt the ignorant and when all this was done as it were in the dark and secret invitations to join the great association in defence of religion life and liberty were dropped in the public ways thrust under the house doors tossed in at windows and pressed into the hands of those who trod the streets by night when they glared from every wall and shone on every post and pillar so that stocks and stones appeared with the common fear urging all men to join together in resistance of they knew not what they knew not why � then the spread indeed and the body still increasing every day grew forty thousand strong so said at least in this month of march lord george the association s president whether it was the fact or otherwise few men knew or cared to ascertain it had never made any public demonstration had scarcely ever been heard of save through him had never been seen and was supposed by many to be the mere creature of his disordered brain he was accustomed to talk largely about numbers of men � as it was inferred by certain arising out of the same subject which had occurred in scotland in the previous year was looked upon as a cracked member of the lower house who attacked all parties and sided with none and was very regarded it was known that there was discontent abroad � there always is he had been accustomed to address the people by speech and upon other questions nothing had come in england of his past exertions and nothing was apprehended from his present just as he has come upon the reader he had come from time to time upon the public and been forgotten in a day as suddenly as he appears in these pages after a blank of five long years did and his proceedings begin to force themselves about this period upon the notice of thousands of people who had mingled in active life during the interval and who without being deaf or blind to passing events had scarcely ever thought of him before my lord said in his ear as he drew the curtains of his bed my lord who s that what is it the clock has struck nine returned the secretary with meekly folded hands you have slept well i hope you have slept well if my prayers are heard you are re indeed to say the truth i have slept so soundly said lord george rubbing his eyes and looking round the room that i don t remember quite � what place is this my lord cried with a smile oh returned his superior yes you re not a jew then a jew exclaimed the pious secretary i dreamed that we were jews you and i � both of us � jews with long heaven forbid my lord we might as well be i suppose we might returned the other very quickly eh you really think so surely i do the secretary cried with looks of great surprise he muttered yes that seems reasonable i hope my lord � the secretary began hope he echoed interrupting him why do you say you hope there s no harm in thinking of such things not in dreams returned the secretary in dreams no nor waking either � called and chosen and faithful said taking up lord george s watch which lay upon a chair and seeming to read the inscription on the seal it was the slightest action possible not on his notice and the result of a moment s absence of mind not worth remark but as the words were uttered lord george who had been going on stopped short and was silent quite unconscious of this change iu his the secretary stepped a apart under pretence of pulling up the window blind and returning when the other had had time tp recover said t the holy cause goes bravely on my lord i was not idle even last night i dropped two of the before i went to bed and both are gone this morning nobody in the house has mentioned the circumstance of finding them though i have been down stairs full half an hour one or two will be their first fruit i and who say how many more with heaven s blessing on your inspired exertions it was a famous device in the beginning replied lord george an excellent device and did good service in scotland it was quite worthy of you you remind me not to be a when the is with destruction and may be trodden down by feet let the horses be in half an hour we must be up and doing he said this with a heightened colour and in a tone of such enthusiasm that the secretary deemed au needless

further off on that other stone with the spring between us what would the sisters say if thee were to sit so close to me but we are of the world s people now answered thb the girl persisted in her nor did the youth in fact seem altogether free from a similar sort of shyness so they sat apart from each other gazing up the hill where the moonlight discovered the tops of a group of buildings while their attention was thus occupied a party of travellers who had come wearily up the long ascent made a halt to refresh themselves at the spring there were three men a woman and a little girl and boy their attire was mean covered with the dust of the summer s day and damp with the night dew they all looked woe as if the cares and sorrows of the world had made their steps heavier as they climbed the hill even the two little children appeared older in evil days than the young man and maiden who had first approached the spring good evening to you young folks was the salutation of the travellers and good evening friends replied the youth and is that white building the meeting house asked one of the strangers and are those the red roofs of the village friend it is the village answered after some hesitation the travellers who from the first had looked suspiciously at the garb of these young people now them with an intention which all the circumstances indeed rendered too obvious to be mistaken it is true friends replied the young man up his courage and i have a gift to love each other and we are going among the world s people to live after their fashion and ye know that we do not thb the law of the land and neither ye nor the elders themselves have a right to hinder us yet you think it expedient to depart without remarked one of the travellers yea ye a said reluctantly because job is a very awful man to speak with and being aged himself he has but little charity for what he calls the of the flesh well said the stranger we will neither use force to bring you back to the village nor will we betray you to the elders but sit you here a while and when you have heard v at we shall tell you of the world which we have left and into which you are going perhaps you will turn back with us of your own accord what say you added he turning to his companions we have travelled thus far without becoming known to each other shall we tell our stories here by this pleasant spring for our own and the benefit of these young lovers in accordance with this proposal the whole party stationed themselves round the stone the two children being very weary fell asleep upon the damp earth and the pretty girl whose feelings were those of a or a lady crept as close as possible to the female traveller and as far as she well could from the unknown men the same person who had hitherto been the chief now stood up waving his hat in his hand and suffered the moonlight to fall full upon his front in me said he with a certain majesty of utterance in me you behold a poet though a print of this gentleman is the it may be well to notice that he was now nearly forty a thin and stooping figure in a black coat out at elbows notwithstanding the ill condition of his attire there were about him several tokens of a peculiar sort of unworthy of a mature man particularly in the arrangement of his ir which was so disposed as to give all possible and breadth to his forehead however he had an intelligent eye and on the whole a marked countenance a poet repeated the young a little puzzled how to such a seldom heard in the community where he had spent his life o ay he means a maker thee must know this remark upon the susceptible nerves of the poet nor could he help wondering what strange had put into this young man s mouth an epithet which ill natured people had affirmed to be more proper to his merit than the one assumed by himself true i am a verse maker he resumed but my verse is no more than the material body into which i breathe the celestial soul of thought alas how many a pang has it cost me this same to the ethereal essence of poetry with which you have here tortured me again at the moment when i am to my profession forever o fate why hast thou with nature turning all her higher and more perfect gifts to the ruin of me their possessor what is the voice of song when the world the ear of taste how can i rejoice in my strength and delicacy of feeling when they have but made great sorrows out of little ones have i dreaded scorn like death thb and for fame as others for vital air only to find myself in a middle state between obscurity and but i have my revenge i could have given to a thousand bright i crush them into my heart and there let them i shake off the dust of my feet against my countrymen but posterity tracing my footsteps up this weary hill will cry shame upon the unworthy age that drove one of the fathers of american song to end his days in a village during this the speaker with great energy and as poetry is the natural language of passion there appeared reason to apprehend his final explosion into an the reader must understand that for all these bitter words he was a kind gentle harmless poor fellow enough whom nature tossing

in a had sent on the latter to the coast in case that s poor wife should by that time have been from the waves and had brought back with him to the house s presence was not needed here and he felt it to be his next duty to set off at once and find that no other than himself might break the news to him he was quite sure that no chance had been lost for mrs by his leaving the shore by the time that mrs had been laid in the carriage a much larger group had assembled to lend assistance in finding her friend rendering his own help superfluous but the duty of breaking the news was made doubly painful by the circumstance that the catastrophe which had befallen mrs was solely the result of her own and her husband s loving kindness towards himself he found in his office when the comprehended the intelligence he turned pale stood up and remained for a moment perfectly still as if of his faculties then his shoulders heaved he pulled out his handkerchief and began to cry like a child his sobs might have been heard in the next room he seemed to have no idea of going to the shore or of doing anything but when took him gently by the hand and proposed to start at once he quietly neither uttering any further word nor making any effort to repress his tears accompanied him to the shore where finding that no trace had as yet been seen of mrs and that his stay would be of no avail he left with his friends and the young doctor and once more hastened back to his own house a fellow at the door he met well said � i have just come down said the doctor we have done everything but without result i with you in your did not much appreciate s sympathy which sounded to his ears as something of a mockery from the lips of a man who knew what knew about their domestic relations indeed there seemed an odd spark in s full black eye as he said the words but that might have been imaginary and mr resumed that little matter between us � i hope to settle it finally in three weeks at least never mind that now said abruptly lie directed the surgeon to go to the harbour in case his services might even now be necessary there and himself entered the house the servants were coming from his wife s chamber looking helplessly at each other and at him he passed them by and entered the room where he stood regarding the bed for a few minutes after which he walked into his own dressing room adjoining and there paced up and down in a minute or two he noticed what a strange and total silence had come over the upper part of the house his own movements muffled as they were by the carpet seemed noisy and his thoughts to disturb the air like articulate his eye glanced through the window far down the road to the harbour a roof detained his gaze out of it rose a red chimney and out of the red chimney a curl of smoke as from a fire newly kindled he had often seen such a sight before in that house lived and the smoke was from the fire which was regularly lighted at this time to make her tea after that he went back to the bedroom and stood there some time regarding his wife s silent form she was a woman some years older than himself but had tales not by any means the maturity of good looks and vigour her passionate features well defined firm and in life were doubly so now her mouth and brow beneath her black hair showed only too clearly that the of character which had made a garden of his house had been no temporary phase of her existence while he reflected he suddenly said to himself i wonder if all has been done the thought was led up to by his having fancied that his wife s features lacked in its complete form the expression which he had been accustomed to associate with the faces of those whose spirits have fled for ever the of life was not so marked but that entering he might have supposed her sleeping her complexion was that seen in the numerous faded portraits by sir it was pallid in comparison with life but there was visible on a close inspection the remnant of what had once been a flush the keeping between the cheeks and the hollows of the face being thus preserved although positive colour was gone long orange rays of evening sun stole in through in the blind striking on the large mirror and being thence reflected upon the crimson and of the heavy so that the general tone of light was remarkably warm and it was probable that something might be due to this circumstance still the fact impressed him as strange had been gone more than a quarter of an hour could it be possible that he had left too soon and that his attempts to restore her had so as only now to have made themselves felt laid his hand upon her chest and that ever and anon a faint flutter of gentle as that of a butterfly s wing disturbed the stillness there � ceasing for a time then struggling to go on then breaking down in weakness and ceasing again fellow s mother had been an active of the healing art among her poorer neighbours and her had all been derived from an volume of domestic medicine which at this moment was lying as it had lain for many years on a shelf in s dressing room he hastily fetched it and there read under the head drowning � exertions for

saturday and though they were at one time left by for half an hour he most to his book and would not even look at her on sunday after morning service the separation so agreeable to almost all took place miss bin y s civility to elizabeth increased at last very rapidly as well as affection for jane and when they parted after assuring the latter of the pleasure it would always give her to see her either at or and embracing hei most tenderly she even shook hands with the former elizabeth took leave of the whole party in the spirits they were not welcomed home very cordially by mother mrs wondered at their coming and thought them very wrong to give so much trouble and was sure jane would have caught cold again but their father though very in his expressions of pleasure was really glad to see them he had felt their importance in the family circle the evening conversation when they were all assembled had lost much of its animation and almost all its sense by the absence of jane and they found mary as usual deep in the study of thorough bass and human nature and had some new to admire and some new observations of thread bare mo to listen to and had information for them of a different sort much had been done and much had been said in the regiment since the preceding a j several of the officers had dined lately with their uncle a private had been and it had actually fe that a o i a � m d pride and prejudice chapter xiii i hope my dear said mr to his wife as they were at breakfast the next morning that you have ordered a good dinner to day because i have reason to expect an addition to our family party who do you mean my dear i know of nobody that is coming i am sure unless should happen to call in and i hope my dinners are good enough for her i do not believe she often sees such at home the person of whom i speak is a gentleman and a stranger mrs eyes sparkled a gentleman and a stranger it is mr i am sure why jane � you never dropped a word of this � you sly thing i well i am sure i shall be extremely glad to see mr but � good lord how unlucky there is not a bit of fish to be got to day my love ring the bell i must speak to hill this moment it is not mr said her husband it is a person whom i never saw in the whole course of my life this roused a general astonishment and he had the pleasure of being eagerly questioned by his wife and five daughters at once after amusing himself some time with their curiosity he thus explained � about a month ago i received this letter and about a fortnight ago i answered it for thought it a case of some delicacy and requiring early attention it is from my cousin mr who when i am dead may turn you all out of this house as soon as he pleases oh my dear cried his wife i cannot bear to hear that mentioned pray do not talk of that odious man i do think it is the hardest thing in the world that your estate should be away from your own children and i am sure if i had been you i should have u w j o to do something or other about it jane and attempted to ex am lo e pride and prejudice nature of an they had often attempted it before but it was a subject on mrs was beyond the reach of reason and continued to rail bitterly against the cruelty of settling an estate away from a family of five daughters in favour of a man whom nobody cared any thing about it certainly is a most affair said mr and nothing can clear mr from the guilt of but if you will listen to his letter you may perhaps be a little softened by his manner of expressing himself no that i am sure i shall not and i think it was very impertinent of him to write to you at all and very i hate such false friends why could no he keep on quarrelling with you as his father did before him why indeed he does seem to have had some filial scruples on that head as you will hear near th october dear sir the between yourself and my late honoured father always gave me much uneasiness and since i have had the misfortune to lose him i have frequently wished to heal the breach but for some time i was kept back by my own doubts fearing lest it might seem to his memory for me to be on good terms with any one whom it had always pleased him to be at � there mrs � my mind however is now made up on the subject for having received at i have been so fortunate as to be distinguished by the patronage of the right able lady de widow of sir de whose and has preferred me to the valuable of this parish where it shall be my earnest endeavour to myself with grateful respect towards her and he ever ready to perform those rites and ceremonies which are by the church of england as clergyman e to promote and establish the blessing oi e ic � j i� pride and prejudice within the reach of my influence and on these grounds i flatter myself that my present of good wi l are highly and that the circumstance of my next in the of estate will he kindly overlooked on your side and not lead you to reject the offered olive i

cannot have been than this private garden of it three hundred acres and by the artful of he paths and the and the interposed of trees is made to appear the of a whole country are compressed into this space as fields of roses go to the of an f precious the world within that garden fence is not he same weary and dusty world with which we outside mortals re it is a finer more harmonious nature old home and the great mother herself kindly to the gardener s will knowing that he will make evident the half traits of her and ideal and allow her to take all the credit and praise to herself i doubt whether there is ever any winter within that � any clouds except the ones of summer the sunshine that i saw there rests upon my recollection of it as if it were eternal the and are like the memory of places where one has wandered when first in love what a good and happy life might be spent in a paradise like this and yet at that very moment the duke ah i have let out a secret which i meant to keep to myself but the ten shillings must pay for all was in that very garden for the guide told us so and our young people not to be and if in a condition for was thinking of nothing nobler than how many ten shilling tickets had that day been sold as i am i should still love to think that lead noble lives and that all this stately and beautiful may serve to them a little way above the rest of us fail to do so the disgrace falls equally upon the whole race of mortals as on themselves because it proves that no more favourable conditions of existence would our vices and weaknesses how sad if this be so i even a herd of swine eating the under those magnificent oaks of would be and of better habits than ordinary swine well all that i have written is meagre as a description of and i hate to leave it without some more adequate expression of the noble edifice with its rich domain all as i saw them in that beautiful sunshine for if a day had been chosen out of a hundred years it could not have been a finer one but i must give up the attempt only further remarking that the finest trees here were of which i saw one � and there may have been many such � immense in and not less than three centuries old i likewise saw a vast heap of laurel two hundred feet in all growing from one root and the gardener near oxford show ns another growth of twice that size if le great duke himself had heen in that spot his heroic could not have heen the seed of a more plentiful crop of we now went hack to the black bear and sat down to a old of which we ate and drank in the ood old english fashion a due proportion of various delightful a stranger in england in his to various of the country may learn little in regard to for the ordinary english taste is simple though sound in hat particular hut he makes acquaintance with more varieties f hop and liquor than he previously supposed to exist a sort of foaming stuff called hop champagne hich is very and appears to he a between lie and another excellent for warm is by mixing brown stout or bitter ale with beer the foam of which up the heavier liquor from ts depths forming a compound of singular vivacity and body but of all things ever from unless t be the ale of cambridge which i drank long and which has celebrated in immortal commend me to the as the oxford scholars it in honour of the jovial who first taught these how to their favourite john has given his very heart to this admirable liquor t is a superior kind of ale the prince of with a richer and a spirit than you can find elsewhere in his weary world much have we been strengthened and encouraged by the potent blood of the a few days after our excursion to the same party jet forth in two flies on a tour to some other places of interest n the neighbourhood of oxford it was again a lay and in truth every day of late had been so pleasant hat it seemed as if each must be the very last of such perfect and yet the long succession had given us confidence n as many more to come the climate of england has been its and are not old home nearly so offensive as englishmen tell as their climate the only attribute of their country which they and the really good summer weather is the very kindest sweetest that the world knows we first drove to the village of about six miles from oxford and alighted at the entrance of the here while waiting for the keys we looked at an old wall of the churchyard piled up of loose gray stones which are said to have once formed a portion of hall celebrated in s ballad and scott s romance the hall must have been in very close vicinity to the church � not more than twenty yards off and i through the long grass of the churchyard and tried to peep over the wall in hopes to discover some and remains of the edifice but the wall was just too high to be overlooked and difficult p to over without tumbling down some of the stones so i took the word of one of our party who had been here before that there is nothing interesting on the other side the churchyard is in rather a neglected state and seems not to have

is none that in one i can smile at half so much and think of half so tenderly chapter xxx y my aunt me i wrote to as soon as and i were engaged i wrote her a long letter in which i tried to make her comprehend how i was and what a darling was i entreated not to regard this as a thoughtless passion which could ever yield to any other or had the least resemblance to the boyish fancies that we used to joke about i assured her that its was quite and expressed my belief that nothing like it had ever been known somehow as i wrote to on a fine evening by my open window and the remembrance of her clear calm eyes and gentle face came stealing over me it shed such a peaceful influence upon the hurry and agitation in which i had been living lately and of which my very happiness partook in some degree that it soothed me into tears i remember that i sat resting my head upon my hand when the letter was half done a general fancy as if were one of the elements of my natural home as if in the retirement of the house made almost sacred to me by her presence and i must be happier than anywhere as if in love joy sorrow hope or disappointment in all emotions my heart turned naturally there and found its refuge and best friend of i said nothing i only told her there had been sad grief at on account of s flight and that on me it made a op david double wound by reason of the circumstances attending it i knew how quick she always was to divine the truth and that she would never be the first to breathe his name to this letter i received an answer by return of post as i read it i seemed to hear speaking to me it was like her cordial voice in my ears what can i say more while i had been away from home lately had called twice or thrice finding within and being informed by who always volunteered that information to would receive it that she was my old nurse he had established a good humoured acquaintance with her and had stayed to have a little chat with her about me so said but i am afraid the chat was all on her own side and of length as she was very difficult indeed to stop god bless her when she had me for her theme this reminds me not only that i expected on a certain afternoon of his own which was now come but that mrs had resigned everything to her office the salary until should cease to present herself mrs after holding divers conversations respecting in a very high pitched voice on the staircase � with some invisible familiar it would appear for speaking she was quite alone at those times � addressed a letter to me developing her views beginning it with that statement of universal application which fitted every occurrence of her life namely that she was a mother herself she went on to inform me that she had once seen very different days but that at all periods of her existence she had had a constitutional objection to and she named no names she said let them the cap fitted wear it but and especially in weeds this was she had ever accustomed herself to look down upon if a gentleman was the victim of and but still no names that was his own pleasure he had a right to please himself so let him do all that she mrs for was that she should not be brought in contract with such persons therefore she begged to be excused from any further attendance on the top set until things was as they formerly was and as they could be wished to be and further mentioned that her little book would be found upon the breakfast table every saturday morning when she requested an immediate settlement of the same with the benevolent view of saving trouble and an ill to all parties after this mrs confined herself to making on the stairs principally with and endeavouring to into breaking her legs i found it rather to live in this state of siege but was too much afraid of mrs to see any way out of it my dear cried appearing at my door in spite of all these obstacles how do you do my dear said i i am delighted to see you at last and very sorry i have not been at home before but i have been so much engaged yes yes i know said of course your s lives in london i think the personal history and experience what did you say she � excuse me � miss d you know said colouring in his great delicacy lives in london i believe oh yes near london mine perhaps you recollect said with a serious look lives down in � one of ten consequently i am not so much engaged as you � in that sense i wonder you can bear i returned to see her so seldom said thoughtfully it does seem a wonder i suppose it is because there s no help for it i suppose so i replied with a smile and not without a blush and because you have so much constancy and patience dear me said considering about it do i strike you in that way really i didn t know that i had but she is such an dear girl herself that it s possible she may have imparted something of those virtues to me now you mention it i shouldn t wonder at all i assure you she is always forgetting herself and taking care of the other nine is she the eldest i inquired oh dear no said

we must neglect something now to i ought to mean to seize the idea to a variety of details and sufficiently expressing it to neglect what is mere repetition accident or the true ideal of landscape therefore is the expression of the specific � not the individual but i the specific � characters of every object in their i any thing unworthy of being represented therefore must be some i thing which does not in nature express any idea now it may be doubted we think whether my thing in nature as distinct from man was felt by the old painters to be of itself tiie expression of an idea certain forms and of color and tone they admired and they admired the landscape just so far as it could be made to to their notions we are inclined to think with our author that the of the landscape by the celebrated painters of fi times was too often a mere fanciful of nature to suit the whim of the artist these views are supported by the feeling now common to all lovers of nature that the beauty of the landscape is a quality common to all infinitely various indeed in degree yet independent of any special characters the and notices charm of oar woods and fields is totally not only with all human interest but also with any striking details it is not felt only nor most in presence of wide or enriched of majestic mountains and � but of some familiar in which all the features are commonplace but exalted by some happy effect of light the scanty range of a lonely in an afternoon � the echoing stillness of a grove in winter � a few and or the details of a rock in the h of spring � are sufficient for the highest enjoyment that can be derived from nature this enjoyment is distinct in kind from the admiration of remarkable m und objects and their representation by the old painters it is a veneration and love for the total spirit of nature and not for selected features our limits would not permit any satisfactory illustration or discussion of this novel and subject we must refer those interested in the matter to our author s pages we may remark however that this of feeling towards nature between ancient and modem times is not confined to art but is seen also in science and religion the did not believe that the gods created the world but only that they governed it their power was a power over nature as something apart and originally independent of them and even after the christian era there was nothing like a science of nature natural in the time of da was either the art of managing the forces of nature or the art of with them nature being looked upon as mere dead matter or as tbe creation and kingdom of the devil i know not says our author that of the expressions of tion towards external nature to be found among heathen writers there are of which the balance and leading thought not towards the parts of her her they sought and her power they her teaching through both � ey understood never the pleasant influences of soft winds and ringing and shady of the violet couch and shade they received perhaps in a more noble way than we but they found not thing except fear upon the bare mountain or in the the they loved more for its sweet than its purple hues but the christian spirit finds the object of its love everywhere in what is harsh and as well as what is kind nay even in all that seems coarse and seizing that which is good and more sometimes at its table spread in strange places and in the presence of its enemies and its honey coming out of the rock than if all were into a less wondrous pleasure if then there now exists a sense for nature than foi it will follow that the aim of painters of landscape of the present day ought to be and very naturally may be hi than short and notices that of their and this as already remarked is the important point our author however goes further than this and to show in a detailed of the in nature and in existing pictures which the principal part of his first volume the actual superiority of the whatever be thought of this opinion this part of the book will probably be the most popular from the keen observation and appreciation of nature which it should we undertake to quote here it would be difficult to know when to stop and we can only recommend every lover of the country to buy it and read for himself the second volume contains of general principles of which though resting rather upon instinctive feeling than knowledge are yet in the highest degree interesting and valuable in this volume also are many keen of particular works of art the american is very neatly executed and with tolerable � but we hope the do not intend to put us off with half the work instead of the whole we are sorry to see no indications on the cover or title page that this is only the first volume � de et des par du en la de paris paris vo and this is the third work of the author on the same or a similar subject in he published a work on labor and the laboring classes in the first two chapters he treats of slavery he says liberty for all men and in all of life is the hope of the age the two great problems of france are � to found a new order of things in and in the west indies to restore the slaves to the condition of entire civil and social freedom he will not undertake to prove the of

began a little spot of anger burned in s cheek i am the he said it was what i might have guessed replied the farmer bowing with an aged dignity you have made an old man very happy and i may say indeed that i have entertained an angel unawares sir the great people of this world � and by that i mean those who are in great station � if they had only hearts like yours how they would make th fires bum and the poor sing i i would not judge them hardly sir said � we all have our truly sir said mr with and by what name sir am i to address my generous landlord the double recollection of an english traveller prince whom he had received the week before at court and of an old english rogue called whom he had known in youth came to the prince s help he answered is my name i am an english traveller it is today tuesday on thursday before noon the money shall be ready let us meet if you please in at the morning star i am in all things lawful your to command replied the farmer an englishman you are a great race of travellers and has your lord ship some experience of land i have had some interest of the kind before returned the prince not in indeed but fortune as you say turns the wheel and i desire to be beforehand with her very right sir i am sure said mr they had been strolling with deliberation but they were now drawing near to the mounting by the pathway to the level of the meadow a little before them the of voices had been while audible and now grew louder and more distinct with every p of their advance presently when they emerged upon the top of the bank they beheld and some way o� e he very black and his hoarse speech with the of his fist against his palm she standing a little way in distress dear me i said mr and made as if he would turn aside a romance � but went straight towards the lovers in whose he believed himself to have a share and indeed as soon as he had seen the prince had stood tragic as if awaiting and his approach o here you are i he cried soon as they were near enough for easy speech you are a man at least and must reply what were you after why were you two in the bush god he broke out turning again upon to think that i should waste my heart on you i i beg your pardon cut in you were addressing me in virtue of what circumstance am i to render you an account of this young lady s conduct are you her father her brother her husband sir you know as well as i returned the peasant we keep company she and i i love her and she is by way of loving me but all shall be above board i would have her to know i have a good pride of my own why i perceive i must explain to you what love is said its measure is kindness it is very possible that you are proud but she too may have some self esteem i do not speak for myself and perhaps if your own doings were so curiously examined you might find it inconvenient to reply these are all set said the young man you know very well that a man is a man and a woman only a woman that holds good all over prince up and down i ask you a question i ask it again and here i stand he drew a mark and it when you have studied liberal doctrines somewhat deeper said the prince you will perhaps change your note tou are a man of false and measures my young friend you have one scale for women another for men one tor and one for farmer folk on the prince who his wife you can be most severe but what of the lover who his mistress you use the name of love i should think this lady might very fairly ask to be delivered from love of such a nature for if i a stranger had been one tenth part so gross and so you would most have broke my head it would have been in your part as lover to protect her from such insolence protect her first then from yourself ay mr who had been looking on with his hands behind his tall old back ay that s scripture truth was staggered not only by the prince s of manner but by a glimmering consciousness that he himself was in the wrong the appeal to liberal doctrines had besides him well said he if i was rude own to it i meant no ill and did nothing out of my just rights but i am above all these old vulgar notions too and if i spoke sharp i ll ask her pardon freely granted said but all this doesn t answer me cried a romance i ask what you two spoke about she says she promised not to tell well then i mean to know civility is civility but i ll be no man s i have a right to common justice il do keep company if you will ask mr replied you will find i have not spent my hours in idleness i have since i arose this morning agreed to buy the farm so far i will go to satisfy a curiosity which i condemn well if there was business that s another matter returned though it beats me why you could not tell but of course if the gentleman is to buy the farm i suppose there would naturally be an end to be sure said mr with a

their their fantastic and the with which they spring out of the ice rendering them peculiarly wild and striking these the mountains of are the beyond them you behold a sublime wilderness of mountains their snowy towering together in crowded abundance peak beyond peak swelling higher higher as they sweep on southward until the point of the range is reached on mount near the head of the at an elevation of nearly feet above the level of the sea westward the general flank of the range is seen flowing away from the p in smooth a sea of huge gray granite waves dotted with lakes and meadows and with that grow steadily deeper as they in the distance below this gray region lies the dark forest broken here and there by and and yet beyond lies a yellow belt marking the broad plain of the san bounded on its farther side by the blue mountains of the coast turning now to the northward there in the immediate is the glorious crown with cathedral peak a temple of architecture a few degrees to the left of it the gi ay massive form of mountain to the right while tower peak castle peak silver mountain and a host of noble companions as yet nameless make a sublime show along the of the range eastward the whole region seems a land of desolation covered with beautiful light the basin of with its one bare lake fourteen miles long s valley and the broad table land at its head dotted with and the mountains op the massive range even the in height these are spread map like beneath you with countless beyond passing and one another and fading on the glowing horizon at a distance of less than feet below the summit of mount you may find of the san and s rivers sting forth from the ice and snow of the that load its while a little to the north of here are found the highest of the and thus the fountains of four of the principal rivers of are within a of four or five miles lakes are seen gleaming in all sorts of places � round or oval or square like very others narrow and drawn close around the peaks like silver the highest reflecting only rocks snow and the sky but neither these nor the nor the bits of brown meadow and that occur here and there are large enough to make any marked impression upon the mighty wilderness of mountains the eye rejoicing in its freedom about the vast expanse yet returns again and again to the fountain peaks perhaps some one of the multitude special attention some gigantic castle with and or some cathedral more abundantly than s but generally when looking for the first time from an all embracing like this the inexperienced observer is oppressed by the incomprehensible grandeur variety and abundance of the mountains rising shoulder to shoulder a view of the high beyond the reach of vision and it is only after they have been studied one by one long and lovingly that their far reaching become manifest then penetrate the wilderness where you may the main telling es to which all the is subordinate are quickly perceived and the most complicated clusters of peaks stand revealed and fashioned like works of art � eloquent monuments of the ancient ice rivers that brought them into relief from the general mass of the range the too some of them a mile deep wildly through the mighty host of mountains however lawless and at first sight they appear are at length recognized as the necessary effects of causes which followed each other in harmonious � nature s poems carved on tables of stone � the simplest and most emphatic of her could we have been here to observe during the period we should have overlooked a wrinkled ocean of ice as continuous as that now covering the of filling every valley and with only the tops of the fountain peaks rising darkly above the rock ice waves like in a stormy sea � those the only hints of the glorious now smiling in the sun standing here in the deep brooding silence all the wilderness seems motionless as if the work of creation were done but in the midst of this outer we know there is incessant motion and change ever and anon are falling from yonder peaks these cliff bound the mountains of seemingly and immovable are flowing like water and grinding the rocks beneath them the lakes are their granite shores and wearing them away and every one of these and young rivers is the air into music and the mountains to the plains here are the roots of all the life of the valleys and here more simply than elsewhere is the eternal of nature manifested ice changing to water lakes to meadows and mountains to plains and while we thus contemplate nature s methods of landscape creation and reading the records she has carved on the rocks however imperfectly the of the past we also learn that as these we now behold have succeeded those of the age so they in tm n are withering and vanishing to be succeeded by others yet but in the midst of these fine lessons and i had to remember that the sun was far to the west while a new way down the mountain had to be discovered to some point on the timber line where i could have a fire for i had not even myself with a coat i first the western spurs hoping some way might appear through which i might reach the northern and cross its or pass around the lake into which it flows and thus strike my morning track this route was soon sufficiently unfolded to show that if practicable at all it would require so much time that reaching camp that night would be out of the question

his demanded his wonder in alarm something has come about surely what is it man tell me my lord the man was not one whose brain worked his grace of quickly twas plain he lost his wits being distressed for some reason beyond measure he stepped to the door of the library and threw it open my � my lord your � your � grace and then in an uncertain and low voice he announced him in the following strange manner his � � his grace � has returned my lord he said and suddenly turning cold and pale himself and seized upon by a horror of he knew not what saw as in a dream my lord advancing towards him his face with woe tears on his cheeks his shaking hands outstretched as if in awful pity my poor he broke forth one hand grasping his one laid on his shoulder my poor lad � god help me � that i am no more fit to break to you this awful news for god s sake cried and sank into the chair my lord drew him to where he sat himself down beside him the tears rolling down his lined cheeks both � both your parents i he cried god give me words both � both at where they had stopped � a malignant fever your mother first � and within twelve hours your father praise heaven they were not parted my boy his grace of my lord leaned forward his elbow sank on his knee his forehead fell heavily upon his palm and rested there he felt as if a blow had been struck upon his head which he moved slowly seeing nothing before him both both he murmured the happiest woman in england have you been happy i would hear you say it again � before i leave you ay shaking his head that was why the poor fool said your grace chapter far au youth is no other woman like ber they were brought back in state from italy and borne to their beloved to sleep in peace there side by side and the bells in the church tower long and mournfully and in the five villages in different there was not a heart which did not ache � nor one which having faith did not know that somewhere their happy love lived again and was more full of joy than it had been before and my lord was my lord duke but for many months none beheld him but lord who came to with many great people to attend the funeral but when all the rest went away he stayed and through the first strange black weeks the two were nearly always together and often through hours walked in company from one end of the long gallery to the other over such periods of sorrow and it is well to pass gently since they must come to all and have so come through all the ages past to every human being who has lived to maturity and yet at the same time there is none can speak truly for another than himself of what the suffer i o his grace of ing has been or how it has been borne none but the one who bears it can know what hours of anguish the endurance cost and how twas reached my lord duke looked pale in his mourning garments and for many months his countenance seemed cut his eyes looking deeper set and larger having faint shadows round them but even lord knew but few of his inmost thoughts and to others he never spoke of his the taking possession of a great estate and the first assuming of the attached to it are no small events and bring upon the man left sole heir new duties therefore the new duke had many occupations to attend to � much with his legal many with and of his lands visits to one estate after another and converse with the reverend gentlemen who were the spiritual of his people such duties gave him less time for brooding than he would have had upon his hands had he been a man more thoughtless of what his implied and consequently more willing to permit them to upon those in his employ a man should himself know all things to his the new duke said to lord and all those who serve him should be aware that he knows and that he his grace of will no more allow his to cheat or slight him than he himself will stoop to carelessness or in his dealings with themselves to govern well a man must be ruler as well as friend and this he was to every man in his five villages and those who had worshipped him as their master heir loved and him as their master the great wrote a friendly letter expressing his sympathy for him in the calamity by which he had been overtaken and also his regret at the loss of his services and companionship he having at once resigned his commission in the army on the occurrence of his not only feeling desirous of remaining in england but finding it necessary to do so he spent part of the year upon his various estates in the country but quarrels of and changes in the cabinet and the bitter feeling against the march into germany and the struggles which promised to result gave him work to do in london and opportunities for the development of those abilities his grace of had marked in him the air on all sides was heavy with storm � at court the enemies of and they were many whether they confessed themselves or not were her fall from her high post of ruler of the i his grace of queen of england and her lord from his pin of fame there were high and who did not fear to speak of

he eats or drinks but he will not be kept waiting half a bottle of a red or a k la satisfy every need but it is unwise to put or cream upon the table because he is as likely as not to eat it before the fowl ah that is a curious sight is it not i had halted with an exclamation of astonishment a groom was a very beautiful horse down one of the lanes between the tents as it passed a who was standing with a small pig under his arm hurled it down under the feet of the horse the pig vigorously and away but the horse on without changing its step what does that mean i asked that is the head groom breaking in a for the emperor s use they are first trained by having a cannon fired in their ears then they are struck suddenly by heavy objects and fin the secretary ally they have the test of the pig being thrown under their feet the emperor has not a very firm seat and he very often loses himself in a reverie when he is riding so it might not be very safe if the horse were not well trained do you see that young man asleep at the door of a tent yes i see him you would not think that he is at the present moment serving the emperor it seems a very easy service i wish all our services were as easy de that is joseph whose foot is the exact size of the emperor s he wears his new boots and shoes for three days before they are given to his master you can see by the gold that he has a pair on at the present moment ah de will you not join us at dinner in my tent a tall handsome man very dressed came across and greeted us it is rare to find you at rest de i have no very task as head of the household but i think i have more leisure than you have we time for dinner before the emperor returns yes yes here is the tent and everything ready we can see when the emperor returns and be in the room before he can reach it this is camp � e de but no doubt you will excuse it for my own part i had an excellent appetite for the and the but what i above uncle all was to hear the talk of my companions for i was full of curiosity as to everything which concerned this singular man whose genius had elevated him so rapidly to the highest position in the world the head of his household discussed him with an extraordinary frankness what do they say of him in england de he asked nothing very good so i have gathered from their papers they drive the emperor frantic and yet he will insist upon reading them i am willing to lay a that the very first thing which he does when he enters london will be to send cavalry to the various newspaper offices and to endeavour to seize the and the next the next said he laughing will be to issue a long to prove that we have conquered england entirely for the good of the english and very much against our own inclinations and then perhaps the emperor will allow the english to understand that if they absolutely demand a for a ruler it is possible that there are a few little points in which he from holy church too bad too bad i cried de looking amused and yet rather frightened at his companion s audacity no doubt for state reasons the emperor had to a little with m and i dare say he would attend this church of st paul s as readily as he did the at the secretary but it would not do for a ruler to be a after all the emperor has to think for all he thinks too much said gravely he thinks so much that other people in france are getting out of the way of at all you know what i mean de for you have seen it as much as i have yes yes answered the secretary he certainly does not encourage originality among those who surround him i have heard him say many a time that he desired nothing but which was a poor compliment it must be confessed to us who have the honour of serving him a clever man at his court shows his cleverness best by pretending to be dull said with some bitterness and yet there are many characters there i remarked if so it is only by concealing their characters that they remain there his ministers are clerks his are superior de camp they are all agents you have this wonderful man in the middle and all around you have so many which reflect sides of him in one you see him as a and you call him in another you have a and you name it or � in yet another he figures as a and is called you see different figures but it is really the same man there is a de for example who the household but he cannot dismiss a uncle servant without permission it is still always the emperor and he plays upon us we must confess de that he plays upon us in nothing else do i see so clearly his he will not let us be too friendly lest we combine he has set his against each other until there are hardly two of them on speaking terms look how hates or and or and mass na it is all they can do to keep their in their when they meet aiid then he knows our weak points s thirst for money r s vanity s s foolishness s s for speculation th

sending the englishman sent a letter to lone in what he remembered of the of the creed he wrote i also in the days of what you held to be my have obtained and with has come power then he grew so deeply mysterious that the of the letter could make neither head nor tail of it and was impressed for he fancied that his friend had become a fifth when a man is a he can do more than and combined lone read the letter in five different fashions and was beginning a sixth interpretation when his bearer dashed in with the news that there was a cat on the bed now if there was one thing that lone hated more than another it was a cat he the bearer for not turning it out of the house the bearer said that he was afraid all the doors of the bedroom had been shut throughout the morning and no real cat the sending of da could possibly have entered the room he would prefer not to with the creature lone ed the room and there on the pillow of his bed and a white not a little beast but a like with its eyes barely opened and its lacking strength or direction � a that ought to have been in a basket with its mamma lone caught it by the of its neck handed it over to the to be drowned and the bearer four that evening as he was reading in his room he fancied that he saw something moving about on the hearth rug outside the circle of light from his when the thing began to he that it was a � a white nearly blind and very miserable he was seriously angry and spoke bitterly to his bearer who said that there was no in the room when he brought in the lamp and real of tender age generally had in attendance if the presence will go out into the and listen said the bearer he will hear no cats how therefore can the on the bed and the on the hearth rug be real lone went out to listen and the bearer followed him but there was no sound of any one for her children he returned to his room having hurled the down the and wrote out the incidents of the day for the benefit of his co those people were so absolutely fi ee from superstition that they ascribed anything a little out of the common to as it was their business to know all about the they were on terms of almost the sending of da familiarity with of every kind their letters dropped from the ceiling � � and spirits used to up and down their all night but they had never come into contact with lone wrote out the facts noting the hour and the minute as every observer is bound to do and the englishman s letter because it was the most mysterious document and might have had a bearing upon anything in this world or the next an would have translated all the thus look out you laughed at me once and now i am going to make you sit up lone s co found that meaning in it but their translation was refined and full of four syllable words they held a and were filled with tremulous joy for in spite of their familiarity with all the other worlds and they had a very human awe of things sent from ghost land they met in lone s room in and gloom and their was broken up by a among the frames on the a white nearly blind was and itself between the clock and the that stopped all or here was the in the flesh it was so far as could be seen devoid of purpose but it was a of they a round robin to the englishman the of old days him in the interests of the creed to explain whether there was any connection between the of some egyptian god or other i have forgotten the name and his communication they called the ra or or turn or some the sending of da thing and when lone confessed that the first one had at his most instance been drowned by the they said that in his next life he would be a and not even a of the lowest grade these words may not be quite correct but they accurately express the sense of the house when the englishman received the round robin � it came by post � he was startled and bewildered he sent into the for da who read the letter and laughed that is my sending said he i told you i would work well now give me another ten but what in the world is this about egyptian gods asked the englishman cats said da with a for he had discovered the englishman s bottle cats and cats and cats never was such a sending a hundred of cats now give me ten more and write as i dictate da s letter was a curiosity it bore the englishman s signature and hinted at cats � at a sending of cats the mere words on paper were and to behold what have you done though said the englishman i am as much in the dark as ever do you mean to say that you can actually send this absurd sending you talk about judge for yourself said da what does that letter mean in a little time they will all be at my feet and yours and i � o glory � will be or drunk all day long da knew his people the sending of da when a man who hates cats wakes up in the morning and finds a little on his breast or puts his hand into his pocket and finds a little half dead where his

cotton s arrival there was a strong to secure but cotton was timid in action and he was nothing if not orderly and was an elder entitled as such to be proceeded with in a church way first as leader and of the clergy cotton expressed his charitable conviction that s violent chap ii dealt with forces in colony planting book ni note id the governor s verse s new england biography course did rather spring from scruple of conscience than from a principle the clergy proposed to try to convert him by argument not so perhaps from hope of success as from a conviction that this was the orderly and rule impatient to snuff out at once replied that they were deceived in him if they thought he would condescend to learn of any of them but the elders now proceeded in the way prescribed by cotton s system from scripture the individual church must deal with its own member the sister churches might with a church cotton and for example could appeal to the boston church to appeal to the church to appeal to and in this order much of the correspondence went on it was perhaps when his desire to act promptly against the was thus by cotton s prudent and intricate in that relieved his emotions by what is happily the only example of his verse that has survived let men of god in courts and churches watch o er such as do a lest that ill t g bring forth a to poison all with and vice if men be left and otherwise combine my s i die no the of religious freedom xii the most substantial grievance of the rulers against was his opposition to the oath in order to make sure of the loyalty of the in this time of danger a new oath of fidelity to be taken by had been practical men are wont to put aside minor scruples in time of danger david eats the sacred when he is but would rather starve than a of it he did not believe in enforced oaths they obliged the wicked man to a religious act and thus invaded the soul s freedom cotton says that s scruples excited such an opposition to the oath that the were not able to enforce it he thus throws a strong light on the weakness of the age and the conduct of as well as that of the rulers the age was in love with and on this side was the product of his time in such an age a scruple maker of ability and originality like might be a source of danger during the year following was several times before the court he was charged with having broken his promise not to speak about the patent with opposing the oath with maintaining certain scruples in opposition to the customs of the times as that a man should not return thanks after a meal or call on an child to give thanks for his chap ii note ii scruples small and great forces in colony planting book iii savage s s journal i mass i food these were not more trivial certainly than half a hundred scruples then but they chanced to be � a fault in a scruple the sense of proportion was feeble in of that day and neither nor his understood the comparative magnitude of his greater and the of those petty scruples about which like the whole world he was very busy religious freedom and the obligation of grace after meat could then be put into the same as years went by although the mind pf was never from he came to see clearly what was the real battle of his life no better fortune can befall a great spirit than such a of vision the extended works of s later life are written mainly to overthrow the bloody of persecution it was this of soul liberty as the matter of the law that lifted him above all others who paid of their little garden was certainly richard brown the ruling elder of the church at seems to have submitted to the remonstrance of the against his too charitable judgment of the roman churches of afterward the indian advanced peculiar opinions also but he was and convinced who had denied that the of a were was brought to book about this time and he the prophet of religious freedom itself was forced to bend its neck at last the town had been refused its land on marble neck because of its of and having under s protested in a letter to the churches against the injustice of spiritual by financial robbery the of were now turned out of the court with characteristic violence protested further against the double injustice to he was promptly put under arrest and this severity brought swift conviction to his mind so that he humbly and submitted the same day the only bond of unity between the rash leader and was a common tendency to go to extremes in spirit the heroic long who rested in what he called the strength of his opinions in spite of and was far removed from a leader who bent before the first blast and who became in later life the in the xiii remained the one resolute stubborn and and even s fellow elder and the whole church at might be argued into by the sharp of the clergy or out of their convictions by the logic of the but could not be in his very nature his chap ii mass i s journal i trial forces in colony planting note banished note self spirit was able to face or the great was set to dispute with him s refined arguments were drawn out by linked to he proved to the satisfaction of everybody but the that it was not lawful for with his opinions to set food before his child

sure she never should love him that such a change was quite impossible that the subject was most painful to her that she must entreat him never to mention it again to allow her to leave him at once and let it be considered as concluded forever and when further pressed had added that in her opinion their dispositions were so totally as to make mutual affection and that they were for each other by nature education and habit all this she had said and with the earnestness of sincerity yet this was not enough for he immediately denied there being anything in their characters or anything in their situations and positively declared that he would still love and still hope knew her own meaning but was no judge of her own manner her manner was gentle and she was not aware how much it concealed the of her purpose her gratitude and softness made every expression of indifference seem almost an effort of self denial � seem at least to be giving nearly as much pain to herself as to him mr was no longer the mr who as the treacherous admirer of maria had been her whom she had hated to see or to speak to in whom she could believe no good quality to exist and whose power even of being agreeable she had barely acknowledged he was now the mr who was addressing herself with ardent disinterested love whose feelings were apparently all that was honorable and upright whose views of h were all fixed on a marriage of attachment who was pouring out his sense of her merits describing and describing again his affection proving as far as words could prove it and in the language tone and spirit of a man of talent too that he sought her for her gentleness and her goodness and to complete the he was now the mr who had procured william s promotion here was a change and here were claims which could not but operate i she might have him in all the dignity of angry virtue in the grounds of or the theatre at park but he approached her now with rights that demanded treatment she must be courteous and she must be compassionate she must have a sensation ot being honored and whether thinking of herself or her brother she must have a strong feeling of gratitude the effect of the whole was a manner so pitying and agitated and words with her refusal so expressive of obligation and concern that to a temper of vanity and hope like s the truth or at least the strength of her might well be questionable and he was not so as considered him in the professions of and not attachment which closed the interview it was with reluctance that he suffered her to go but there was no look of despair in parting to his words or give her hopes of his being less unreasonable than he professed himself she was angry some resentment did arise at a perseverance so selfish and here was again a want of delicacy and regard for others which had formerly so struck and disgusted her here was again a something of the same mr whom she had so before how evidently was there a gross want of feeling and humanity where his own pleasure was concerned and alas how always known no principle to supply as a duty what the heart was deficient in had her own affections heen as free as perhaps they ought to have been � he never could have engaged them so thought in good truth and sober as she sat musing over that too great indulgence and luxury of a fire upstairs � wondering at the past and present wondering at what was yet to come and in a nervous agitation which made nothing clear to her but the persuasion of her being never under any circumstances able to love mr and the felicity of having a fire to sit over and think of it sir thomas was obliged or obliged himself to wait till the morrow for a knowledge of what had passed between the young people he then saw mr and received his account the first feeling was disappointment he had hoped better things he had thought that an hour s entreaty from a young man like could not have worked so little change on a gentle tempered girl like but there was speedy comfort in the determined views and sanguine perseverance of the lover and when seeing such confidence of success in the principal sir thomas was soon able to depend on himself nothing was omitted on his side of civility compliment or kindness that might assist the plan mr s was honored and was praised and the connection was still the most desirable in the world at park park mr would always be welcome he had only to consult his own judgment and feelings as to the of his visits at present or in future in all the niece s family and friends there could be but one opinion one wish on the subject the influence of all who loved her must incline one way everything was said that could encourage every encouragement received with grateful joy and the gentlemen parted the best of friends satisfied that the cause was now on a footing the most proper and hopeful sir thomas resolved to from all further with his niece and to show no open interference upon her disposition he believed kindness might be the best way of working entreaty should be from one quarter only the forbearance of her family on a point respecting which she could be in no doubt of their wishes might be their means of it accordingly on this principle sir thomas took the first opportunity of saying to her with a mild gravity intended to be well i have seen mr again and learn from him exactly

weaker should be reduced to the dominion of the stronger the of human condition among which mr hunter puts slavery he says are inevitable establish what laws will you cannot prevent it you cannot prevent the inferior from being either as a class or as individuals he very that it is because an of providence what a god must hunter have and what parents must there be in virginia who are not disgraced by treating their children as the slaves are generally treated mr hunter as might naturally enough be supposed has a gloomy and uncomfortable view of the race to which he belongs instead of entertaining the belief that men are bom to assist each other to make each other more happy that strength is given to the strong to aid the weak he says the whole progress of ordinary life seems to consist in a series of achieved by the stronger over the weaker that as amongst herds of animals the stronger tiie larger share of the food designed for all and it at the expense of the weaker so of the races of man the superior or the inferior and the equal and general reward of society is but a universal struggle man and man � not for the perfection of their nature but for the that are to be obtained with regard to s speech we shall little to say it is not very long as speeches on the wrong side or on the questionable side usually are nor has it the clearness and of mr s speeches i hich we hardly ever read without a stronger wish than in tne case no ix on slavery of any other slave holding member of that he was on the right side of the slavery question for on it he appears as as ever don was on the subject of knight but as indistinct and unsatisfactory as mr often is we get from him some matters worthy of consideration it has been the opinion � universal we think amongst impartial men � that in a state or territory where slavery was not established or in some form recognized by law it could not exist at least nowadays but it seems that this opinion was altogether a mistake for the tells us that the precise converse was decided in the supreme court of � and that the learned judge who pronounced that decision stated it as a legal that in all in which the are not absolutely opposed to slavery persons reduced to that state may be held in it to such a degree of corruption has slavery brought our state courts to examine such an opinion and formally show its would be to prove ourselves as great as we would take our readers or the court delivering the opinion to be the following statement is contained in the last paragraph of mr s speech slaves are recognized as property by your laws you provide for their from the port of any state to any port or place within the limits of tlie united states a citizen of holding a slave the issue of one purchased by hi in from your officer under a sale for direct taxes for which he has paid the price which you hold goes before the of that port and having complied with the of that law from him a permit to transport that slave to a port or place within the limits of the united there to be sold as a slave or to be held to service or labor and having your title to this slave and you having his money he has also your permit to carry him there as a slave tell me what au as mr has neither the name of the case nor that of the who delivered the opinion may he not have it with one given hy the supreme court of in which this notion is found � it is not necessary lo show any general custom in a country of holding in slavery to prove its if it he found to exist in fact even to a limited extent and no positive law it he shown it will be we a and witli us it is a pretty strong one that there has l the suppose d for we have no small respect for the good sense of the of the supreme court of and the quoted it entirely in to it speeches m slavery is there id territory of the union which can and that of the supreme government on which it depends and from which it whatever power it possesses this is a fearful statement and shows how impossible it is to have any thing to do with slavery without being by it do matter how cautious we may be it is an important fact also to show that the general government if it have the power to slavery ought to it as soon as possible if not or no power to with it at all it ought to pass no law concerning it mr was the ther of the bill in the to or in and new � commonly and known as the compromise bill the slavery question as to these had been apparently in the for several weeks when mr made the motion to raise a committee composed of equal numbers from both sections of the union as well as of both political parties he was of course of it and although from a slave holding state he is not a free labor being more profitable where he than slave labor but he is as utterly heartless as to man s rights � as warm an advocate of the pretensions of the as if he had scores of his fellow creatures in bondage or was the owner of a large sugar or cotton plantation the other from states were mr mr and mr those from the free states were messrs and

too of most alarming an universal whisper ran through the assembly the old ladies all felt shocked in the extreme the young ladies blushed and felt excessively for the poor thing and even the governor himself was observed to be a little troubled in mind to complete the astonishment of the good folks she undertook in the course of a to describe some astonishing figures in which she had learned from a dancing master at � whether she was too animated in flourishing her feet or whether some vagabond took the liberty of his services certain it is that in the course peter s modesty shocked of a grand which would not have disgraced a modern ball room she made a most unexpected display � the whole assembly was thrown into great admiration several grave country members were not a little moved and the good peter himself who was a man of modesty felt himself the of the female dresses which had in fashion ever since the days of had long offended his eye and though averse to with the f the ladies yet he immediately recommended hat every one should be furnished with a to the bottom he likewise ordered that the ladies and indeed the gentlemen should use no ther step in dancing than and turn and trouble and forbade under pain of his displeasure any young lady to what was termed exhibiting the graces these were the only he ever imposed upon the sex and these were considered by them as and resisted with that becoming spirit always manifested by the gentle sex whenever their privileges are invaded � in fact peter plainly perceived that if he attempted to push the matter any further there was danger of their leaving off altogether so like a wise man experienced in the ways of women he held his peace and suffered them ever after to wear their o ts and cut their as high as they pleased reflections how peter much hy the moss the and the giants � and a dark and horrid conspiracy was carried on in the british cabinet the prosperity of the we are now approaching towards the crisis of our work and if i be not mistaken in my fore we shall have a world of business to despatch in the chapters it is with some as it is with certain individuals they have a wonderful facility at getting into and i have always remarked that are most liable to get in who have the least talent at getting out again this is doubtless owing to the excessive of those states for i have likewise noticed that this and quality is always most where most confined which accounts for its so in little states little men and ugly little women especially thus when one that the province of the though of prodigious importance in the eyes of its inhabitants and its historian was really of no very great consequence in the eyes of the rest of the world that it had but little wealth or other spoils to reward the trouble of it and that it had nothing to expect from into war save an exceeding good beating � on pondering these things i say one would utterly despair of finding in its history battles or or any other of those which give importance to a nation and entertainment to the reader but on the we find so is this province that it already drawn upon itself a host of enemies had as many as would gratify the of the most warlike nation and is in sadness a very forlorn distressed and little province � all which was no doubt ordered by providence to give interest and to this pathetic history but i forbear to enter into a detail of the pitiful and that for a long while the victory on the continued to the dignity and disturb the repose of the suffice it in to say that he hostility of the people of the east had so been prevented from out as my readers must remember by he sudden of and the in the council of now again itself in a thousand grievous and bitter upon the borders scarcely a month passed but what the dutch on the were alarmed by the appearance of an army from this would advance resolutely from through the country like a of the deserts the women and children mounted in carts loaded with pots and as though they meant to boil the honest alive and them like so many at the tail of these carts would stalk a crew of long sided with ou their shoulders and on their backs resolutely bent upon ig the country in despite of its these settling themselves would in a short time completely the unfortunate them out of those rich and fertile valleys in which our dutch are so famous for themselves � for it is notorious that wherever these shrewd men of the east get a footing the honest do gradually disappear retiring slowly like the indians before the being totally by the talking disposition of their new neighbours all these audacious on the of their high were accompanied as has before been hinted by a world of and which would doubtless have the peter to immediate had he not at the very same time been perplexed by distressing accounts from who commanded the at south river the restless who had so graciously been suffered to remain about the al s roaring boys ready began to show signs of and but what was worse a claim was laid to the whole territory as the property of lord by a who ruled over the colony of or as it was called because that the inhabitants not having the fear of the lord before their eyes were prone to get and make merry with and apple nay so hostile was this bully that he threatened unless his claim were instantly complied with

water with the stick she did so and found that whenever she touched it the water would jump up as termed it to the stick and rise in a little ridge all around it but this ridge was very small indeed what makes it do so mother said i don t know said she don t you know mother said he with surprise was always somewhat to find any limits to his mother s no said she i don t know what water makes it i knew that it would do and i knew several other facts to it i knew what name the philosophers gave to them all but do not know of any cause for them said musing and looking a little at a loss yes that is similar in their nature for instance said she look here � all around the edge of the water in the bowl looked and saw that there was a ridge of water raised against the side of the bowl exactly like that around the stick he asked his mother what the reason was of such a strange appearance she answered that she could not tell what the reason of it was she could only tell what it was called she said it was called attraction what is attraction mother said attraction is together whenever two things tend to come together each drawing the other it is called attraction the the little needle which you hold up towards it that is they tend to come together but if you roll two balls water toward one another upon the carpet though they come together they are not attracted because neither of them has any influence on the other they do not make each other move at all you together listened to all this very attentively and then looked upon the bowl again he did not exactly understand how his mother s explanation applied to the case of the water his mother saw that looked perplexed don t you understand said she not about the water s jumping up he replied why water any thing that is brought very near it � very near indeed so when you bring the stick down close to the water it rises up a little all around the stick which you call jumping up well what makes it attract said i don t know said his mother you must ask your father to night at tea and perhaps he can tell you he knows a great deal more about it than i do carried his bowl down stairs carefully and poured back the water into the sea when he had done so he looked into the bowl and found as he might expected that it was wet still some of the water remained on the inside of the bowl running around in drops as he turned the bowl in his hands he stopped to look at it it seemed to him strange though he had never thought of it before that the water did not all go out and leave the bowl dry just then came out of the kitchen to the pump with her in her hand to pump some water she saw standing still and looking into his bowl with an appearance of great attention and said well what have you got now did not answer he was watching the little currents of water running round the inside of the bowl as he turned it over and over what are you looking at she inquired again o i am looking at this bowl see said he i turn it down and yet all the water does not run out why yes it does said she no said there is some left about the inside of the bowl see he pointing � how wet it is it is only wet au the water has why does the water drop off � page out only the bowl is wet a inside she replied away into her but is not water said yes said i suppose it is then all the water does not fall out of the bowl when i turn it down persisted why you silly child that s nothing i tell you it always does so but why doesn t it all drop out said as she took oflf her from the nose of the pump and walked towards the house see he continued following her with the bowl in his hands i hold it bottom upwards why doesn t the water drop off � all of it r answer me that answer me that but paid no attention to his question she went into the house and shut the door the truth was she would have found it somewhat difficult to answer him that and she seemed to think it most prudent not to attempt it soon got tired of alone and went to sailing ships again determined to ask liis father that night at supper at length the sun went down the day drew near to its close and found him self seated in the ready for tea � � the setting sun shining beautifully m at tho windows his came in and they al took their seats at table but had for some time no opportunity to bring forward the subject which interested him so much for his father and mother were very busy talking about something else would not interrupt them but kept looking from time to time towards his father his father at length observed him and said have you got any thing to say to me yes sir said i want to show you an experiment and have you explain it to me then said he wanted to go out and get a bowl of water and bring in to show his father what he meant but his father after hearing him describe it said he thought he could show the experiment just as well with his cup of tea

i must say m w li � � pretty eh square � i � � � � i � i � � � i � � � � � � y � � � � � � i i � � � m � c go on � that gentleman s a west professional hook to line of o you re ere are you well me and my must take our little some bother that s all to and so youve actually been out of employment since last january monstrous the government ought to work what say nor let em work and til do it fast enough don t want ter be idle i ain t on y my one trade to earn my bread by � but i ll work at that if i m let exactly my poor fellow and what is your trade why i m a i am puts on parties for em � and ere i am � not ad a job for months to quiet observer quiet at present t r too many o them about to my mind � i d like to the lot � they re the ruin of our quiet ah you re right t i to police now don t you interfere � that s all ask speak to them � i have them thoroughly in hand just now but if you offer them the least opposition i � with much solemnity well i won t be responsible for what happens he is allowed to address the multitude friends you are met here in this peaceful but imposing manner in the teeth of a brutal and to show the who are now trembling behind their that we mean to be taken seriously yes in our and our rags throws open fro k coat and thick gold watch chain mob pitch us over yer red take that ere coat complacently it is true that i myself am not in absolute but what of that my friends can not feel here a strikes him in the eye of down with him duck him i spy traitor i mob him down and attempts to take him to pieces faintly here hi help why the devil don t you use your a rescued and assisted home by police a rough to policeman keep moving ah move him on the knee cap policeman draws and back crowd indignantly coward a man � down with him they beat brutal to a the to quiet are you game for a merry lark quiet you try that s all t r then as them of ave as much on their as they kin do with now s the time for a bit of a pass the word to them mates o � pall and no tyranny quiet i ve done it � they re only waiting for you t r suddenly producing red handkerchief there � now boys remember and no brutal me quiet him no you ll follow us please � you won t do no good kicking all right mates we ve got him t r oh please i didn t know you was a policeman sir or i shouldn t ha spoke strike me dead i was on y in fun and i ve a good mother at ome sir the person in search of sensation what another arrest and simply for showing a red handkerchief i shall write and describe these how these police are � actually defending themselves the a policeman accidentally lifts his arm whereupon about fifty youths like in the rush the person in search of sensation is and slightly trampled on he becomes annoyed and out right and left � eventually striking a in his excitement has been without sleep for the last two days and has just had his laid open by a stone ere you come along with me you re one of the you are the person but i assure you just came to see what there was to be seen square well you come along with me and you ll see a presently the person struggles arrival of exit party in s marching order conveying him to fresh sensations the lover of liberty emerging from crush my hat ruined my coat split down the back and my watch gone i told the crowd i was with them heart and soul � and they hit me in the stomach what do we keep our police r i want to know professional emerging in opposite direction three red two and a white i ain t done so dusty for the right o free genuine well i as i see what good all this ere is a goin to do i g at a e in the horses being led round in circle receiving final directions owner to now � you know where youve to go down the hill over the with the white flags nod of intelligence from red flags owner i mean red flags then keep along by the flying course and take the bank between the red flags white and r d � first time owner red and white flags � through the gap when you turn not through the gap till the second round owner oh isn t it well over the hedge then white flags not white flags for the course sir owner and the will tell you the rest i j goes off to saddle mount there � if that fellow makes any mistake now he sha n t ride for me again an owner with a grievance to anybody who will listen to him it s a o they passed and gone and my mare for being over height see for yourself stands higher by a inch look at the teu together i ask any fair minded man they re all of her as often as he sees a member of the committee he his mare up to and bitterly en

men we shall not now discuss their general merits nor attempt to decide whether they are � who the interests of a party or that principles in a nation s life these four tower above the vulgar mass that drive a trade in politics are most conspicuous men � beheld far off at sea they have been long in public life and all four may be deemed for the of the president what has been conduct mr spoke nobly against and � for it also for the war mr � so often superior to party ties � is the author of and for the war these two belong to the party in power and men might have looked for their the two others are hostile to the administration have they been hostile to the war mr clay is a private man � and therefore has not been called on to take any official stand in relation to this matter but in december at the of a memorable event in the of america he was at table and made a reply which was thus reported in the ers of the time although leading a life of retirement am not wholly of the proceedings relating to the condition welfare and prospects of our and when i saw around me to night and old friends i felt in which i might serve to the done to my i have thought that i might yet be able to ire or the war lai a i shall not be able to do so however this year bat hope that will still crown our gallant arms and the war in an honorable peace to add yet more to the shame of america this speech was delivered at the dinner of the sons of new on the d of december met to the landing of the forefathers of new england on rock poor men in that blood of was there no tinge from the heart of the could they not on that day amid the the wine and the amid the and the and the great applause could they not for a moment think of those the world who came in the name of justice to found a state oh no how could they think of that there stood one of the foremost men of america hoping to capture or a the son of some woman that never injured him � who might go down heart broken and refusing to be comforted in sorrow to her grave alas � could he have known it � vain man how soon is he doomed to weep at the inscrutable providence by which his own son tne dear one lies slain in battle � not by a great but by some vulgar bullet of a nameless soldier who fought for his country her and her homes while the american fell and disgraced a willing murderer in that war so treacherous and so cruel the er who had hoped to a shall find but sad consolation kissing the cold lips of his only son is providence so inscrutable he who would deal death upon the sons of men � shall he not feel it in his own home but the great champion of the north that man of giant intellect which his three to himself among living men in magnificence of � he has stood on rock and his words which found a footing have gone as to be fore of mighty deeds � at least in men how broke the of that eloquence which so oft before had shaken every heart did he thunder in the and all over the land till wondering nations saw it from let us look at this he had condemned it struck a blow at the influence of our institutions � thank god i did not slumber over t at danger he had condemned the war it was unjust a war of a war the president s action was an the were no i the ted she has had nothing that to be called a and america strong and united in making war the had an important of die constitution yet mr could say at philadelphia d nevertheless war is npon ns are in the field are the sea we that the government in an and manner j to bring the to a if possible but while the war this and war while soldiers are on the land and on the sea i holding the of country and i feel and every american that they be and thej have done honor to the country to which thej belong where can we look for such calmness bravery and modesty as in these the most distinguished incident in the history of our of the good of the � of new raised amongst the people is perhaps that of the battle of banker hill i mi j t go further and say that al the newly and themselves behind some temporary but at the assailed a fortified nor was that all bat the day before addressing a body of young men who had never the justice of me war nor asked they were to fi t for or freedom � he could cheer and encourage them to fi t in a war which he declared and threatened to the president for be could bid them go and the stars of their country s banner such was the conduct of that man on whom nature has so her gifts � a intellect a heart of noble make la me what did he to end the war � to the president nothing so as to the war is concerned � no mouse in the wall could have lam or more snug all winter he sat in his seat busy � but with other the of the invasion passed by and said � ee is the friend of the war had he not a son invested in that enterprise such is

xxiv when a man hath taken a wife and married her and it come to pass that she find no favor in his eyes then let him write her a bill of and give it in her hand and send her out of his house now i would respectfully ask of mr r d how is it that in these words out of the bible he has left out and altogether omitted the words because he hath found some in her which form an part of the first verse in the twenty fourth chapter of after the sentence find no favor in his eyes and before the sentence then let him write c these words omitted by mr r d form the of the whole law on divorce for the hebrew word which the english version here renders is throughout sacred scripture invariably used to express intercourse xviii where the word occurs several times and is rendered into the argument on divorce it ia not my intention to enter and as it is not to motives i must not say that mr r the text he leaving out words which fully prove that this word of god through moses his servant so not to say treated by mr r d is identical with the law of our state which he praises as derived from the new testament but i should like to know and i ask you mr editor what degree of confidence and consideration can be due to the and opinions of a who to quote from a book so well known as the bible somehow to omit the and of a law against which he his assault a semi barbarous reply by mr to a � sir i omitted the words in the text from to which in to day s you refer if they were at all essential to the true understanding of the text you are right in taking me severely to task for their a man who would a quotation from any book to suit his purpose ought to all claim to confidence i omitted them from what you may term a weakness or may pronounce to be mere my studies never having gone beyond greek the old testament in its original tongue is a sealed book to me the expression because he hath found some in her conveyed to my mind no idea except as a phrase in terms less veiled than modem usage is wont to employ to mean disgust produced by some personal habit or k in thia i was not mistaken the words are clearly non essential and i might innocently consult my feelings by them in the columns of a daily paper but if as you assert the hebrew word rendered means the was a grave one even if not committed does it mean if without presumption one who has never cultivated those roots of which that impudent who declared that they flourish most on barren ground may venture to ai ue the point with a i ask leave to take issue as to this interpretation the subject indeed is a disagreeable one but in self defence i cannot now choose but follow whither you lead namely to the chapter by you xviii where as you inform us the same word rendered in occurs several times and is translated the first verse in which this happens reads thus the � from the of march and divorce of thy father and the of thy mother shalt not if as you the word here translated is throughout sacred scripture invariably used to express intercourse or as in a wife s case it would be and if in the above text we substitute the one word for the other as if you are right we may properly do we shall have a text which you may comprehend but which to my becomes wholly unintelligible i in what r learning may set down as my simplicity have always interpreted the text in question as referring to that offence which and avoided and for which ix was cursed the word does indeed in another text numbers v but to give it that meaning other words are expressly added the priest in that text thus addresses the woman suspected of if no man have lain with thee and if thou hast not gone aside to with of thy be thou ee c even in this text however if we were to attempt to substitute for we should not only have but a phrase that would seem to favor the idea that a wife might commit with her husband as well as with other men a thing i must confess i never before heard of but of au this the veiy words of the text seem to your reading those words are if it come to pass that she the wife find no favor in his eyes because of some e now a wife may be said to find no favor in a husband s eyes if her person or her character become disagreeable to him but who would ever select such a phrase for a graver occasion what would you think of saying mrs smith found no favor in mr smith s eyes because of some acts of finally a difficulty remains which in my eyes as in the of au christians it must be is though a semi perhaps may get over it did not interpret the text as you do your assertion is that moses law is identical with the law of your state new york that is to say that it allowed divorce for no other cause except if that was so why i pray you did say moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives and why did he add but in the beginning it was not so and i say unto you shall put away his wife except it be for and shall many

so but was not the of the sure and contented himself with them as they flashed by they acknowledged the warning promptly and on the next turn of the path as promptly forgot it which is also a custom of boys in bright colored shooting out through the entrance to golden gate park they turned into san and took the long sweep of the descending hills at a rate that caused to turn and watch them anxiously through the city streets the bright flew turning and twisting to escape climbing the hills and when the steep hills were doing to see which would first gain the top the boy who more often hit up the pace led the and the was called joe by his companions it was follow the leader and he led the and in the bunch but as they into the western addition among the large and brother and sister table his laughter became less loud and frequent and he unconsciously in the rear at and streets his companions turned off to the right so long he called as he turned his wheel to the left so long see you to night they called back � i can t come he answered aw come on they begged i ve got to dig � so long as he went on alone his face grew grave and a vague worry came into his eyes he began resolutely to whistle but this away till it was a thin and very subdued little sound which ceased altogether as he rode up the to a large two house oh joe he hesitated before the door to the library was there he knew working up her lessons she must be nearly through with them too � i the of the for she was always done before dinner and dinner could not be many minutes away as for his lessons they were as yet untouched the thought made him angry it was bad enough to have one s sister � and two years younger at that � in the same grade but to have her continually head and shoulders above him in was a most intolerable thing not that he was dull no one knew better than himself that he was not dull but somehow � he did not quite know how � his mind was on other things and he was usually unprepared joe � please come here there w as the slightest possible plaintive note in her voice this time well he said thrusting aside the with an impetuous movement he said it but he was half sorry for it the next instant when he saw a slender little girl regarding him with wistful eyes across the big reading table heaped with books she was curled up brother and sister with pencil and in an easy chair of such generous dimensions that it made her seem more delicate and fragile than she really was what is it he asked more gently crossing over to her side she took his hand in hers and pressed it against her cheek and as he stood beside her came closer to him with a movement what is the matter joe dear she asked softly won t you tell me he remained silent it struck him as ridiculous to confess his troubles to a little sister even if her reports were higher than his and the little sister struck him as ridiculous to demand his troubles of him what a soft cheek she has he thought as she pressed her face gently against his hand if he could but tear himself away � it was all so foolish only he might hurt her feelings and in his experience girls feelings ere very easily hurt the of the she opened his fingers and kissed the of his hand it was like a rose leaf falling it was also her way of asking her question over again nothing s the matter he said and then quite he out father his worry was now in her eyes but father is so good and kind joe she began why don t you try to please him he does n t ask much of you and it s all for your own good it s not as though you were a fool like some boys if you would only study a little bit � that s it he exploded tearing his hand roughly away even you are beginning to lecture me now i suppose the cook and the stable boy will be at it next he his hands into his pockets and looked forward into a melancholy and desolate future filled with interminable lectures and innumerable was that what you wanted me for he demanded turning to go brother and sister she caught at his hand again no it was n t only you looked so worried that i thought � i � her voice broke and she began again what i wanted to tell you was that we re planning a trip across the bay to next saturday for a tramp in the hills who s going what that little he interrupted i don t think she is a answered with spirit she s one of the sweetest girls i know which is n t saying much considering the girls you know but go on who are the others pearl and her sister and and french and that s all the girls joe who are the fellows then and dick lay ton and � the of the that s enough milk and water all of them i � i wanted to ask you and and she said in a voice that s what you in for � to ask you to come and what are you going to do he asked walk gather wild flowers � the are all out now � eat luncheon at some nice place and � and � come home he finished for her nodded her head

convenient for history when we come to the highest criticism we are to see that which man was tending to do in a given period and was or if you will modified in doing by the interfering of of of the organ whereby man at the moment wrought still more striking is the expression of this fact in the of all nations which are always the literature of reason or the statements of an absolute truth without like the sacred books of each nation are the of the that which the world chained to appearances will not allow the to say in his own words it will suffer him to say in without contradiction and this law of laws the pulpit the and the college deny is preached in all and by flights of whose teaching is as true and as as that of birds and flies in all things are double one against another � for an for an eye a tooth for a tooth blood for blood measure for measure love for love � give and it shall be given you � he shall be watered himself � what will you have god pay for it and take it � nothing venture nothing have � thou shall be paid exactly for what thou hast done no more no less � who doth not work shall not eat � harm watch harm catch � curses always on the head of him who them � if you put a chain around the neck of a slave the other end itself around your own � bad counsel the adviser � the devil is an ass it is thus written because it is thus in life our action is and above our will by the law of nature we aim at a petty end quite aside from the public good but act itself by irresistible in a line with the poles of the world a man cannot speak but he judges himself with his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his companions by every word every opinion on him who it it b a thrown at a mark but the other end remains in the s bag or rather it is a hurled at the whale as it flies a of cord in the boat and if tlie is not good or not wed thrown it will go nigh to cut the in twain or to sink the boat you cannot do wrong without suffering wrong no man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him said the exclusive m fashionable life does not see that he himself from enjoyment in the attempt to appropriate it the in religion does not see that he the door of heaven on himself in striving to shut out others treat men as and and you shall suffer as well as they if you leave out their heart you shall lose your own the senses would make things of all persons of women of children of the poor the vulgar proverb i will get it from his purse or get it from his skin is sound philosophy all of love and in our social relations are speedily punished they are punished by fear i stand in simple to my fellow man i have no displeasure in meeting him we meet as water meets water or as two currents of air mix with perfect and of nature but as soon as there is any departure from simplicity and attempt at or good for me that is not good for him my neighbour feels tbe wrong he from me as far as i have shrunk from him his eyes no longer seek there is war between us there is hate in him and fear in me b at in all the old in society universal and par all unjust of property and power are in the same manner fear is an of great sagacity and the herald of all one thing he teaches that there is where he appears he is a crow and though you see not well what he for there is death somewhere our property is timid our laws are timid our cultivated classes are timid fear for ages has and and over government and property that bird is not there for nothing he great which must be of the like nature is that expectation of change which instantly follows the of our voluntary activity the terror of noon the of the awe of prosperity the which leads every generous soul to impose on itself tasks of a noble and virtue are the of the balance of justice through the heart and mind of man experienced men of the world know very wed that it is best to pay and lot as they go along and that a man often pays dear for a small the runs in his own debt has a man gained any thing who has received a hundred and rendered none has he by through or cunning his neighbour s wares c m or horses or money there arises on the deed the instant acknowledgment of on the one part and of debt on the other that is of superiority and inferiority the transaction remains in the memory of himself and his neighbour and every new transaction according to its nature their relation to each other he may soon come to see that he had better have broken his own bones than to have ridden in his neighbour s coach and that the highest price he can pay for a is to ask for it a wise man will extend this lesson to all parts of life and know that it is the part x f prudence to face every and pay every just demand on your time your talents or your heart always pay for first or last you must pay your entire debt persons and events may stand

to town i should have gone on ant being a cruel wretch to the end i wanted dis bob if ever a girl did and i ve got it poor little girl said bob sadly but now i like you better than any one ii the whole world save and lady and one other person and you are th greatest help and comfort to me i have got and we will always be friends now bob fo ever and ever and ever as he kissed her little hand the tears into her blue eyes � she had made him so much and she knew how gladly he have borne all her pain for her if he though his own was no light burden oh bob she said wistfully then away but he knew what she meant and tha there was not never could be any and that almost stuck in his thoughts b night and day ill the lovely chapter and to the day before was expected back at came a letter written in mrs s laborious hand which had never kept pace with her brain which ran as follows � house park lane october honoured miss my lady is very ill � though she keeps it from mr and cries in her sleep and the curse lies on her mind as she called down upon you and she is well aware now she done you wrong and if i may make so bold as to say so honoured miss a sight of you and a kind word would save her a bad illness i write this quite but though my lady s too proud to say it or ever own she was in the wrong flowers in may i the lovely wouldn t be as welcome as you d be to her now she seems to see as how the here mistake was partly rubbed out engagement ain t for mr s happiness � and i hope honoured miss yours as we have all heard on may be just as happy as can be honoured miss will you please accept me and mr s humble respects your obedient servant read this letter carefully over not once but many times before she took it tc her father was there any plot among the old servant to bring her face to face with they dislike or was in lad s bad books as once she her self had been she said when he had read thi letter what does it mean it means that jane is fool and her folly has come back to h said angrily for he had never forgiven tha cruel letter about his girl and never she did not think you good enough for he precious son and now she doesn the lovely think another woman good enough � and that s all about it he added with a man s masculine up of details yes said remembering aunt jane s stolen visit to kiss in his sleep that early morning and of the look on her face but it s a hard thing to bring up your child to make some one else happy � and that s just how she feels you see he is quite old � at least thirty two � and the others have all married and he hasn t so she gets a fit of the said lord well he added of course if you mean to run away again i can t stop you no said quite gravely no one on earth would stop her once she had made up her mind but if she died and i hadn t forgiven her it would worry me to the end of my days oh cried lord impatiently you are all in the same boat here is a letter from the lawyers saying i must go up if only for a few hours to swear my evidence and he quoted a case shortly coming on in which just then he was involved and of the deepest interest to masters of the y very well said we can go up together by the early train and i shall do some after going to aunt jane for an hour we can catch the five o clock back and shall still get home in time for dinner at nine with lord an egg with a that suggested some one s head probably and for once displayed such real signs of temper that hastily beat a retreat to bob whom she saw at some distance crossing the park from court so it would always be he thought as with joy he saw her coming to meet him dear young maid changing gradually into dear old maid and he growing into a comfortable old bachelor and coming over most days to shoot or hunt but always to talk to her what is it he said when she had tucked into her waist belt the knot of autumn wild flowers � all yellow of course for man may mix his colours in as he pleases nature never � he had gathered on his way how do you know she said swiftly don t i know every shade of your face and ther are at least a thousand you are alive to day dear not a mere doll whose wires the lovely are in admirable working order but still a doll yes she was almost dancing as she stood opposite him under the tree all the of youth restored in her ay and its beauty u i am going to town to morrow to aunt x who is very ill her face a little not much and f he was keen to note the hard of the attempt and you will see � him l most unlikely and what if i do she could not keep the intense longing out of her j voice he is s not mine j poor said bob with real bitter � ness probably

hungry yet he was the book not afraid look he has pushed one of my to one side already and that lame butcher would have killed him and would have run off to the while the villagers here hunted through all our in revenge keep him assuredly i will keep him lie still little o thou � for the i will call thee � the time will come when thou wilt hunt as he has hunted thee but what will our pack say said father wolf the law of the lays down very clearly that any wolf may when he withdraw from the pack he belongs to but as soon as his are old enough to stand on their feet he must bring them to the pack council which is generally held once a month at full moon in order that the other wolves may identify them after that inspection the are free to run where they please and until they have killed their first buck no excuse is accepted if a grown wolf of the pack one of them the punishment is death where the murderer can be found and if you think for a minute you will see that this must be so father wolf waited till his could run a little and then on the night of the pack meeting brothers took them and and mother wolf to the council rock � a covered with stones and where a hundred wolves could hide the great gray lone wolf who led all the pack by strength and cunning lay out at full length on his rock and below him sat forty or � wolves of every size and color from who could handle a buck alone p to young black three year who thought they could the lone wolf had led them for a year now he had fallen twice into a wolf trap in his youth and once he had been beaten and left for dead so he knew the manners and customs of men there was very little talking at the rock the tumbled over one another in the of the circle where their mothers and fathers sat and now and again a senior wolf would go quietly up to a look at him carefully and return to his place on noiseless feet sometimes a mother would push her far out into the moonlight to be sure that he had not been overlooked from his rock would cry ye know the law � ye know the law look well o wolves and the anxious mothers would take up the call look � look well o wolves at last � and mother wolf s neck lifted as the time came � father wolf pushed i the book the as they called him into the where he sat laughing and playing j some pebbles that in the never raised his head from his but went on with the monotonous cry well a muffled roar came up from behind the rocks � the voice of crying ti is mine give him to me what have free people to do with a man s never even his ears all said was look well o wolves what have the free people to do with the orders of save the free people look well there was a chorus of deep and a young wolf in his fourth year flung back s question to what have the people to do with a man s now the law of the lays down that if there is any dispute as to the right of a to be accepted by the pack he must be spoken for by at least two members of the pack who are not his father and mother who speaks for this said among the free people who speaks there was no answer and mother wolf got ready for what she knew would be her last fight if things came to fighting brothers then the only other creature who is allowed at the pack council � the sleepy brown bear who teaches the wolf the law of the old who can come and go where he pleases because he eats only nuts and roots and honey � rose up on his hind quarters and the man s � the man s he said speak for the man s there is no harm in a man s i have no gift of words but i speak the truth let him run with the pack and be entered with the others i myself will teach him we need yet another said has spoken and he is our teacher for the young who speaks besides a black shadow dropped down into the circle it was the black black all over but with the showing up in certain lights like the pattern of watered silk everybody knew and nobody cared to cross his path for he was as cunning as as bold as the wild and as reckless as the wounded elephant but he had a voice as soft as wild honey dripping from a tree and a skin softer than down o and ye the free people he i have no right in your assembly but the book the law of the says that if there is a doubt which is not a killing matter in regard to a new the life of that may be bought at a price and the law does not say who may or may not pay that price am i right good good said the young wolves who are always hungry listen to the can be bought for a price it is the law knowing that i have no right to speak here i ask your leave speak then cried twenty voices to kill a naked is shame besides he may make better sport for you when he is grown has spoken in his behalf now to s word i will add one bull and a fat one newly

more common to make her she lo k the first opportunity of her in on the occasion talking to her so her brother great expectations of mrs s resolution ft both her sons should marry well and of the danger any young woman who attempted to him in could neither pretend to be un conscious t endeavor to be calm she gave her an answer her contempt and instantly left the room u whatever might be the inconvenience or expense of so a removal her beloved should not be exposed week to in this state of her si a letter was delivered to nd the which contained a proposal particularly well it was the offer of a small house on very easy longing to a relation of her own a gentleman of mi and properly in the wm this and in friendly not n hit understood tliat was in r of a dwelling and the he now her merely a cottage he assured her thai should done lo it she might think if h� r he earnestly pressed her after giving of the house and garden to come with to park the of his own whence she might judge herself c� for the houses were in the sa lt parish could hy � alteration be made comfortable to her he seemed anxious to them and the whole of hia l� u was written in so friendly a style as could not fail of pleasure to his cousin more especially nt a moment wh she was suffering under the cold and ber nearer connections she needed no lime for or inquiry her resolution wn formed as she read tl of in a county so far distant from which but a few hours before would hare i a sufficient objection to eve i belonging to the place was now its first to quit the neighbourhood of was no longer m � it was an object of desire it was a blessing in of the misery of continuing her in law s � remove or ever from that beloved would bo it than to or visit it while such a woman j mistress she instantly wrote john b acknowledgment of his kindness and her acceptance of li and then hastened to show both to h that she be secure of their approbation b fore her answer were sent had always thought it would be more prudent t to settle at distance from amongst their acquaintance on that ben therefore it was not for her to oppose her mother s of into the house loo as by sir john was on so simple a scale and the rent so moderate na lo leave her no right of objection either point and though it a removal fi the of beyond her she to til her sending a til er v ko sooner was her mi herself in i h� ot in to ber sou io law wife thai wax provided n and no till everything for her it they heard her with mrs john dash wood said but ber � i would not be si far from li d great in that was going into hastily ber on and in a voice of and concern re l no explanation to her repented i are going there so far from hence and to what part if it r she explained the it was within four h northward it is but a she but i hope to many of my friends in it a or two easily be and if my friends find no in travelling so far to hm me i am sure i will iti with a kind invitation to mr and mn i to visit her at and to she ith still greater affection though with h� r daughter in law had made her on at no longer than was it had the effect on ber in that point to tended to separate and was from being ber object as ever and she wished to show john by this pointed invitation to ber how totally disregarded her of r john told his mother again and again how io y he was that she had taken a at such from � � lo prevent bis being of any e id her ho felt a on the for the i ery exertion he hail the performance of his to was by this rendered ture was all bent around by water it household plate i and books with a of a mrs john dash wood depart with a sigh she could not help that as mrs s income would be so comparison with their own she should h� ve any article of furniture mrs took the house for a furnished and she might have no difficulty arose on either in the a waited only for the disposal of her at determine her future household before she set off for t and this as was exceedingly in the ance of everything that her was soon horses were left her by her husband h id after his death and an opportunity now t of her carriage � he agreed lo sell that m the earnest advice of her eldest daughter for the c of her children had she only her own j would have it but the of wisdom too limited the number of their three two maids and a man whom they were provided from amongst those who had formed their ei ment at the man and one of the maids were sent off i into to prepare the house for their arrival for as lady entirely unknown to she preferred going directly to the being a visitor at park and relied m on sir john s description of the house as to feel curiosity to examine it herself till she entered il her eagerness to be gone from waa preserved � � � of her daughter oval a satisfaction which � under a cold re now the

into a heap of cotton refuse at his feet might better ha been came from another hand and a deep that s so of ran through the knot of workers felt a touch on his arm and met mrs s eyes what has hap do they mean she asked in a startled voice there was an here two days ago a man got caught in the card l him and his right hand was badly shed mr inter l his note of how serious is the how did it he the fruit op the tree through the man s own � oak the manager the interposed before could answer a deep of ran through the crowd but without noticing the s r iy said to mr he s at the hope hospital he will lose hand and probably the whole arm he had not meant to add this last phrase however strongly his were aroused it was against his rule at such a time to say anything which might the quick passions of the workers he had meant to light of the accident and dismiss the with a sharp word of re but mrs s face was close to his he saw the pity in her eyes and feared if be checked its expression that he might never again have the chance of calling it forth his right arm how terrible but then he never be able to work again she exclaimed in all the horror of a first with the inexorable fate of the poor her eyes turned from and rested on the faces pressing about her there were many women s faces among them � the faces of middle age and of sallow for the first time mrs seemed to feel the bond of blood between herself and these dim creatures of the as watched her the miracle was the fruit of the tree her gave way to a quick rush of colour her eyes like a frightened child s and two tears rose and rolled slowly down her face oh why wasn t i told is he married has he children what does it matter whose fault it was she cried her questions pouring out on a wave of anger and compassion it t his fault the cards are too dose � happen again he s got three at home broke from the and suddenly a voice exclaimed here s his wife now and the crowd divided to make way for mrs who passing through the farther end of the room had been and dragged toward the group she hung back shrinking from the machine which she beheld for tlie first time since her husband s accident then she saw guessed the identity of the lady at his side and flushed up to her haggard forehead mrs had been in her earlier youth and sufficient lingered in her face to show how much more had been sacrificed to sickness and toil oh ma am ma am it t jim s fault � there ain t a man living the cards is too crowded she sobbed out some of the other women began to cry a wave of the fruit of the tree sympathy ran through the circle and mrs moved forward with an answering exclamation you poor creature you poor creature she opened her arm s to mrs and the s sobs were buried on her employer s breast i will go to the hospital � i will come and see you � i will see that everything is done but why are you here how is it that you have had to leave your she freed herself to turn a glance on you don t mean to tell me that at such a tune you keep the poor woman at mrs has not been here the manager took her back today at her own request that she might earn something while her husband was in hospital mrs s eyes shone indignantly earn something but surely she met a look from mr who had stepped between mrs and herself my dear child no one doubts � none of these good people doubt � that you will look into the case and do all you can to it but let me suggest that this is hardly the she turned from him with an glance at i think the latter said as eyes met that the fruit of the tree you had better let me dismiss the hands they have only an hour at midday she signed her assent and he turned to the and said quietly you have heard mrs s promise now take yourselves off and give her a dear way to the stairs they dropped back and mr drew s arm through his but as he began to move away she turned and laid her hand on mrs s shoulder you must not stay here � you must go back to the children i ill make it right with mr she said in a whisper then through her tears she smiled a farewell at the lingering knot of and followed her companions to the door in silence they descended the many stairs and crossed the shabby grass plot between the mills and the manager s office it was not till they reached the carriage that mrs spoke but maria is waiting for us � we must call for her she said rousing herself and as opened the carriage door she added you will show us the way you will drive with us during the e remained silent as if in the distress of the scene she had just witnessed and found himself v mr s questions while his o i n mind the fruit op the tree had no room for anything but the sense of her tremulous lips and of her eyes enlarged by tears he had been too much engrossed in the momentous issues of her visit to the mills to remember that she

the whole of it itself with its own bricks and mortar or and it makes room for us by thrusting itself in the way it what is necessary to live but does not make it at all clear that it is necessary to live unless life contain higher objects than economy of it is saving and in the matter of food but if one chance to hunger and thirst after knowledge beauty it has no time for such a thought and lets him starve in its art of making a little go a great way it only draws out the metal of life into a meagre length it does not increase its weight it adds no value to its substance it is afraid of anything which of day no u april can be called living it an hour of pleasure which it would waste in fruitless of duty it cannot afford books schools of many kinds but it can afford food enough bustle and more than enough and whole winter evenings fall of thus in many people s system of life economy and education as well as economy and true enjoyment are set against each other as natural all this for want of an end in life of an idea of some perfection of living to which every experience should be made to contribute our list of is greatly changed by a new and better idea of the object of life and the old blind economy of custom then many and much sad waste again such economy against itself so cheerless is its aspect that some reject it altogether and grow often too it forgets itself and loses the run of its own operations in the of mind which it or one or the other sometimes both are the inmates and in a family inspired by no idea of personal improvement but this is the least part these effects are only negative this is only to live well indifference whether seen in the regular machine work of economy or in the of the want thereof is only but still we are by nature active beings and the activity of the hands and the stupor of idleness cannot suppress the of deeper wants the on nobler occupation the pent up restlessness of the denied its exercise in our common place narrow forms of life will still out as it were in innumerable petty and an ever running sore ot discontent much of your admirable economy for instance costs a great deal of scolding and domestic order seems to be at the expense of domestic peace and love and to drive out many a sunny smile consider too when there is no spirit of improvement in domestic life how the passions riot the mind with intellectual resources is poorly armed against little daily disappointments escaped from the r restraint of custom and economy which only tame but do not the rush to excess if home of every day life no be not a sphere for moral self improvement if it be not a school a temple as well as a retreat and shelter it will be made miserable by all the evil spirits of ignorance and it needs all the wealth of mind and heart and imagination all the energies of the will all the of taste all the arts and all the all the wisdom of all the visions of faith above all the spirit of and the offering up of a life to the invisible perfect one to make a happy home it needs these more than it needs fortune if it be not a kingdom of heaven it will be a kingdom of hell home is home only when it is the home of blessed spirits like the home of mary and of where the riches of the spirit made good the want of other riches where a sentiment of the heart was more deeply than rules of household and where it was counted good economy to pour out costly upon the s feet ii not much better will his home be who not contented with merely getting along thinks chiefly of getting up with him the ruling idea is prosperity success comfort and his is utility or strive and very well as far as it goes but the elements of sure and lasting happiness are not found in this system it needs a better spirit to make home a heaven here is indeed some spirit of improvement which is better than acquiescence to mere necessity or custom here is the will to better one s condition to increase one s resources to make home a more comfortable place but it the first of happiness in all this care upon the outward estate such a man the capital mistake of seeking only to improve the condition of his family when he should seek their own improvement of increasing their outward resources when he should think more of the inward resources of the mind and heart of securing comfort in the house when perhaps character is much more wanting he for blessings and not for he becomes absorbed in the love of gain the toils and calculations of business occupy almost the whole of him so that his own mind suffers and his heart too and his whole inward man for want of profitable leisure and opportunities of free exercise of all his higher powers his intellect gets in only of bay life no april one very partial way conversing only with one narrow range of subjects his feelings or by the anxieties the the questionable of a selfish system of trade into which he has let himself be hurried blinding his eyes and his heart and he goes daily to his home for the task of his children by his conversation with no inspiration which he can impart to them feeling that he has no time to attend to their minds and morals and accustomed by his own pursuits

that he should never have been able to indulge so amiable a feeling before passed suspiciously through s brain but still if it were a falsehood it was a pleasant one and pleasantly handled his ner had no air of study or exaggeration he did really look and speak as if in a state of no common enjoyment their subjects in general were such as belong to an opening acquaintance on his side were the inquiries � was she a � pleasant rides � pleasant walks � had they a large neighborhood � perhaps afforded society enough � there were several very pretty houses in and about it � balls � had they balls � was it a musical society but when satisfied on all these points and their acquaintance advanced he contrived to find an opportunity while their two fathers were engaged with each other of introducing his law and speaking of her with so much handsome praise so much warm admiration so much gratitude for the happiness she secured to his father and her very kind reception of himself as was an additional proof of his knowing how to please � and of his certainly thinking it worth while to try to please her he did not advance a word of praise beyond what she knew to be thoroughly deserved by mrs but undoubtedly he could know very little of the matter he understood what would be welcome he could be sure of little else his father s marriage he said had been the wisest measure every friend must rejoice in it and the family from whom he had received such a blessing must be ever considered as having conferred the highest obligation on him he got as near as he could to thanking her for miss s merits without seeming quite to for get that in the common course of things it was to be rather supposed that miss had formed miss s character than miss miss s and at last as if resolved to his opinion completely for travelling round to its object he wound it all up with astonishment at the youth and beauty of her person elegant agreeable manners i was prepared for said he but i confess that considering everything i had not expected more than a very tolerably well looking woman of a certain age i did not know that i was to find a pretty young woman in mrs you cannot see too much perfection in mrs for my feelings said were you to guess her to be eighteen i should listen with pleasure but she would be ready to quarrel with you for using such words don t let her imagine that you have spoken of her as a pretty young woman i hope i should know better he replied no depend upon it with a gallant bow that in addressing mrs i shall understand whom i might praise without any danger of being thought extravagant in my terms wondered whether the same suspicion of what might be expected from their knowing each other which had taken strong possession of her mind had ever crossed his and whether his compliments were to be considered as marks of acquiescence or proofs of defiance she must see more of him to understand his ways at present she only felt they were agreeable she had no doubt of what mr was often thinking about his quick eye she detected again and again glancing towards them with a happy expression and even when he might have determined not to look she was confident that he was often listening her own father s perfect from any thought of the kind the entire deficiency in him of all such sort o penetration or suspicion was a most comfortable circumstance happily he was not farther from matrimony than from it though always to every marriage that was arranged he never suffered beforehand from the apprehension of any it seemed as if he could not think so ill of any two persons understanding as to suppose they meant to marry till it were proved against them she blessed the blindness he could now without the of a single unpleasant without a glance forward at any possible treachery in his guest give way to all his natural kind hearted civility in inquiries after mr frank s accommodation on his journey through the sad evils of sleeping two nights on the road and express very genuine anxiety to know that he had certainly escaped catching cold � which however he could not allow him to feel quite assured of himself till after another night a reasonable visit paid mr began to move he must be going he had business at the crown about his hay and a great many errands for mrs at ford s but he need not hurry anybody else his son too well bred to hear the hint rose immediately also saying � as you are going farther on business sir i will take the opportunity of paying a visit which must be paid some day or other and therefore may as well be paid now i have the honor of being acquainted with a neighbor of yours turning to a lady in or near a family of the name of i shall have no difficulty i suppose in finding the house though i believe is not the proper name � i should rather say or do you know any family of that name to be sure we do cried his father mrs � we passed her house � i saw miss at the window true true you are acquainted with miss i remember you knew her at and a fine girl she is call upon her by all means there is no necessity for my calling this morning said the young man another day would do as well but there was that degree of acquaintance at which � oh go to day go to day do

i think my memory has got as short as my breath said mr looking at me and shaking his head for i don t remember you don t you remember your coming to the coach to meet mc and my having breakfast here and our riding out to together you and i and mrs and mr too � who wasn t her husband then of david � hy lord bless my soul mr after being by bis surprise into a fit of you don t say so i my dear you recollect dear me yes � the party was a lady i think my mother i rejoined to � be � sure said mr touching my waistcoat with his forefinger and there was a little child too there was two parties the little party was laid along with the other party over at it was of course dear me and how have you been since very well i thanked him as i hoped he had been too oh nothing to at you know said mr i find my breath gets short but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older i take it as it comes and make the most of it that s the best way ain t it mr again in consequence of laughing and was assisted out of his fit by his daughter who now stood close beside us dancing her smallest child on the counter dear me said mr yes to be two parties why in that very ride if you believe me the day was named for my to marry do name it sir says yes do father says and now he s come into the business and look here the youngest laughed and her hair upon her temples as her father put one of his fat fingers into the hand of the child she was dancing on the counter two parties of course said mr nodding his head ex so and s at work at this minute on a grey one with silver nails not this � the of the dancing child upon the counter � by a good two inches � will you take something i thanked him but declined let me see said mr s the s wife � s the s sister � she had something to do with your family she was in service there sure my answering in the affirmative gave him great satisfaction i believe my breath will get long next my memory s getting so much so said mr well sir we ve got a young relation of hers here under articles to us that has as elegant a taste in the business � i assure you i don t believe there s a in england can touch her � not little em ly said i involuntarily em ly s her name said mr and she s little too but if you believe me she has a face of her own that half the women in this town are mad against her nonsense father cried my dear said mr i don t say it s the case with you at me but i say that half the women in � ah and in five mile round � are mad against that girl then she should have kept to her own station in life father said and not have given them any hold to talk about her and then they couldn t have done it couldn t have done it my dear retorted mr couldn t the personal and experience have done it is that your knowledge of life is there that any woman couldn t do that she shouldn t do � especially on the subject of another woman s good looks i really thought it was all over with mr after he had uttered this he to that extent and his breath all his attempts to recover it with that obstinacy that i fully expected to see his head go down behind the counter and his little black breeches with the rusty little of ribbons at the knees come quivering up in a last ineffectual struggle at length however he got better though he still panted hard and was so exhausted that he was obliged to sit on the stool of the shop desk you see he said wiping his head and breathing with difficulty she hasn t taken much to any companions here she hasn t taken kindly to any particular acquaintances and friends not to mention in consequence an ill natured story got about that em ly wanted to be a lady now my opinion is that it came into circulation principally on account of her sometimes saying at the school that if she was a lady she would like to do so and so for her uncle � don t you see � and buy him such and such fine things i assure you mr she has said so to me i returned eagerly when we were both children mr nodded his head and rubbed his chin just so then out of a very little she could dress herself you see better than most others could out of a deal and that made things unpleasant moreover she rather what might be called � i u go so far as to say what i should call myself said mr � didn t know her own mind quite � a little spoiled � and couldn t at first exactly bind herself down no more than that was ever said against her no father said mrs that s the worst i believe so when she got a situation said mr to keep a old lady company they didn t very well agree and she didn t stop at last she came here for three years nearly two of em are over and she has been as good a as ever was worth any six is she worth any six now yes father replied never say

hopes of the human race may all be traced back to one or two ideas which have strongly acted on the mind of the author which he clearly and to which he is never false he with the recognition of the moral principle as the highest element in human nature the purpose of religion is to and mature this principle to give it a practical over the soul and to preserve it from degradation by the of the world this principle man with his maker makes him conscious of a divinity within him to him the enjoyment of immortality the obligation of duty and calls him to a sublime destiny religion accordingly is not the reception of a creed but the cultivation of life not the of forms but inward it cannot and the mind but its true influence is joyous and it god to his children in the brightest and most attractive forms and commands them to be like him but if the moral principle is the highest attribute of man and the medium of his with god all other distinctions become trivial and unimportant the possession of a moral nature makes man the equal of man everywhere hence all assumption of authority over the conscience all on freedom of mind all claims to property in man all to on account of outward record the months privileges are to the divine law they do injustice both to the nature of man and the purposes of god now these principles give us a test of social arrangements they must be applied as the measure of civilization every institution of man must be brought into judgment before their the society which does not to every individual the means of and his highest which any to pine in hopeless want which external prosperity more than moral perfection which makes the pursuit of wealth the object and the culture of the soul is not in accordance with the principles of religion or the laws of human nature such are the conclusions at which dr arrives and which he on the world with the fearless earnestness of a martyr he commenced with here his purpose was not so much to attack as to explain to redeem the moral element of christianity from the speculations which concealed it and the spirit of as a spirit of freedom of charity of of universal truth his position now is that of a social in his mind the religion of love cannot be he has faith in man in christ and in god and accordingly he looks forward to a better future than the past his writings which will be most honored by the coming generations relate to this object they cannot fail to appreciate aright the with which he refuses to yield to popular prejudices the calm wisdom with which he looks into prevailing the courage and firmness with which he the current of that a divine charity for the welfare of man always at first calls forth and the hopeful serenity with which he watches the struggle between light and darkness that the speedy dawning of a better day the preface to this edition contains the following words which may be regarded as his own confession of faith and which the creed of the youth of this country who are beginning not so much to protest against the past as to live in the present and for the future these volumes will show that the author feels strongly the need of deep social changes of a spiritual revolution in of a new bond between man and man of a new sense of the relation between and his creator at the same time they will show his firm belief that our present low civilization the central idea of which is wealth cannot last forever that the mass of men are not doomed hopelessly and irresistibly to the degradation of mind and heart in which they are now sunk that a now comprehension of the end and dignity of a human being is to social institutions and manners that in christianity and in the powers and principles of human nature we have the promise of something and happier than now exists it is a privilege to live in this faith and a privilege to communicate it to others record of the sermons on the kind treatment and on the tion of slaves preached at on sunday the a� and sunday the of may a statement b f boston william and co these sermons form a signal exception to the manner in which the instructions of the pulpit are usually they were pronounced before an audience scarce one of which could be presumed to with the views that were urged they were intended not to set aside a error nor to enforce an abstract moral but to rebuke a sin that was deeply fixed in the habits of the people and so far from being adapted to win for the preacher the golden opinions of his hearers he uttered them at the risk of his popularity his reputation nay of his personal safety he might have had good reason to believe that when he that pulpit in which he stood to discharge a painful but imperative duty he would never be suffered to lift up his voice in it again if indeed he should not fall a prey to the wild wrath of those whose social he had to the quick the position which mr occupied was one of no common privilege calling for the exercise of a lofty him to accomplish an act of wise and noble self sacrifice presenting one of those solemn moments in which a soul of true vitality lives more than in many years of and worldly indulgence here was a young man fresh from the cold of the schools in the atmosphere of a dainty literature connected with a religious which a cautious prudence among the cardinal virtues and tempted by the counsels

s silver for mark of office all day the drums beat in the city and all day of tearful gentlemen the with assurances that they would be murdered ere next dawning by the which said the in confidence to the head of police pretty fair indication that the are going to make unpleasant i think we can arrange a little surprise for them i have given the heads of both fair warning if they choose to disregard it so much the worse for them there was a large gathering in s house that night but of men that i had never seen before if i except the fat gentleman in black with the gold lay in the window seat more bitterly scornful of his faith and its that i had ever known him s maid was very busy cutting up and mixing tobacco for the guests we could hear the thunder of the drums as the accompanying each marched to the central in the plain outside the city preparatory to their triumphant re entry and circuit within the walls all the streets seemed with and only fort was black and silent when the noise of the drums ceased no one in the white room spoke for a time the first has moved off said looking to the plain that is very early said the man with the it is only half past eight the company rose and departed some of them were men from i said when the last bad gone they brought me brick te such � s the on the city wall sell and a tea urn from show me now how the english make tea the brick tea was abominable when it was finished suggested a descent into the streets i am nearly sure that there will be trouble to night he said all the city thinks so and is as the say now i tell you that at the corner of the gate you will find my horse all this night if you want to go about and to see things it is a most disgraceful exhibition where is the pleasure of saying twenty thousand times in a night all the � there were two and twenty of them � were now well within the city walls the drums were beating afresh the crowd were howling i and beating their breasts the brass bands were playing their and at every comer where space allowed were telling the lamentable story of the death of the it was impossible to move except with the crowd for the streets were not more than twenty feet wide in the quarters the shutters of all the shops were up and cross barred as the first a gorgeous ten feet high was borne aloft on the shoulders of a score of stout men into that semi darkness of the of the a through its and sides into thy hands o lord i murmured as a yell went up from behind and a native officer of police his horse through the crowd another followed and the staggered and swayed where it had stopped go on in the name of the go forward shouted the policeman but there was an ugly and of shutters and the crowd halted with oaths and before the house whence the had been thrown then without any warning broke the storm � not only in o on the city wall the of the but in a half a dozen other place the rocked like ships at sea the long pole dipped and rose round them while the men shouted � the are the i strike strike into their temples for the faith the six or eight with each drew their and struck as long as they could in the hope of forcing the mob forward but they were overpowered and as of poured into the streets the fight became general half a mile away where the were yet untouched the drums and the shrieks of continued but not for long the priests at the corners of the streets knocked the legs from the that supported their and smote for the faith while stones fell from the silent houses upon friend and foe and the packed streets � din din din a caught fire and was dropped for a flaming barrier between and at the corner of the then the crowd forward and wall drew me close to the stone pillar of a well it wa intended from the beginning he shouted in my ear with more heat than blank should be guilty of the bricks were carried up to the houses beforehand these swine of we shall be in their temples to night after some burning others torn to pieces hurried past us and the mob howling shrieking and striking at the house doors in their flight at last we saw the reason of the rush the assistant district of police a boy of twenty had got together thirty and was forcing the crowd through the streets his old gray police horse showed no sign of uneasiness as it was breast on into the crowd and the long dog whip with which he had armed himself was never still they know we haven t enough police to hold em he cried as he passed me a cut on his face they on the city wall know we haven t aren t any of the men from the club coming down to help get on you sons of burnt fathers the dog whip cracked across the backs and the smote afresh with and gun butt with these passed the lights and the shouting and began to swear under his breath from fort shot up a single then two side by side it was the signal for troops the covered with dust and sweat but calm and gently smiling up the street in rear of the main body of the no one killed yet he shouted i ll keep em on

the scene was one of the most desolate i ever beheld but the darkest of the mountains are with bright passages of love the mountains op that never fail to make themselves felt when one is alone i made my bed in a nook of the pine thicket where the branches were pressed and overhead like a roof and bent down around the sides these are the best the high mountains afford � snug as nests well full of and with plenty of wind played needles to sing one asleep i little expected company but creeping in through a low side door i found five or six birds among the the night wind began to blow soon after dark at first only a gentle breathing but increasing toward midnight to a rough gale that fell upon my leafy roof in ragged like a bearing wild sounds from the overhead the sang in chorus filling the old ice fountain with its solemn roar and seeming to increase in power as the night advanced � fit voice for such a landscape i had to creep out many times to the fire during the night for it was biting cold and i had no blankets gladly i welcomed the morning star the dawn in the dry wavering air of the desert was glorious everything encouraged my undertaking and success there was no cloud in the sky no storm tone in the wind breakfast of bread and tea was soon made i fastened a hard crust to my belt by way of provision in case i should be compelled to pass a night on the mountain top then securing the remainder of my little stock against wolves and wood rats i set forth free and hopeful how glorious a greeting the sun gives the a near view of the high to behold this alone is worth the pains of any excursion a thousand times over the highest peaks burned like islands in a sea of liquid shade then the lower peaks and caught the glow and long of light streaming through many a and pass fell thick on the frozen meadows the majestic form of was full in sight and i pushed rapidly on over rounded rock and my iron shod shoes making a sound suddenly hushed now and then in of and lake soft as moss here too in this so called land of desolation i met growing in among the battered rocks her blossoms had faded long ago but they were still clinging with happy memories to the and still so beautiful as to thrill every of one s being winter and summer you may hear her voice the low sweet melody of her purple bells no among all the mountain plants speaks nature s love more plainly than where she dwells the of the solitude is complete the very rocks and seem to feel her presence and become with her own fountain sweetness all things were warming and awakening frozen began to flow the came out of their nests in piles and climbed sunny rocks to and the headed were flitting about seeking their the lakes seen from every ridge top were brilliantly and like the of the low dwarf pines the rocks too seemed to the vital heat � rock and snow thrill the mountains of ing alike i strode on as if never more to feel fatigue limbs moving of themselves every sense like the flowers to take part in the new day harmony all along my course thus far excepting when down in the the were mostly open to me and at least on one side on the left were the purple plains of and warm on the right the near peaks springing keenly into the thin sky with more and more impressive but these larger views were at length lost rugged spurs and and huge projecting began to shut me in every feature became more rigidly without however producing any effect for going to the mountains is like going home we always find that the strangest objects in these fountain re in some degree familiar and we look upon them with a vague sense of having seen them before on the southern shore of a frozen lake i encountered an extensive field pf hard snow up which i in fine tone intending to follow it to its head and cross the rocky spur against which it hoping thus to come direct upon the base of the main bitter peak the surface was with oval hollows made by stones and drifted pine needles that had melted themselves into the mass by the of absorbed sun heat these afforded good but the surface curved more and more at the head and the became and less abundant until i found myself in danger of being a view of the high shed off like snow i persisted however creeping on all and shuffling up the places on my back as i had often done on granite until after slipping several times i was compelled to my course to the bottom and make my way around the west end of the lake and thence up to the summit of the divide between the head waters of rush greek and the of the san arriving on the summit of this dividing crest one of the most exciting pieces of pure wilderness was disclosed that i ever discovered in all my there immediately in front loomed the majestic mass of mount bitter with a down its face nearly to my f then westward and pouring its frozen flood into a dark blue lake whose shores wore bound with of snow while a deep chasm drawn between the divide and the separated the massive picture from everything else i could see only the one sublime mountain the one the one lake the whole veiled with one blue shadow � rock ice and water close together without a single leaf or sign of life after gazing

he by muslin love no one and she strove to recall his face she could remember nothing but the cold merciless eyes that were like the blue but how ungrateful i am thought the girl and she checked the bitter flow of reproaches that rose in her mind two old ladies sat on the sofa under the window their white hair and white caps coming out very white upon the grey irish day and around the the young ladies and one of the miss and the girl in red yawned over novels longing that a man might come in � not with hope that he would interest them but because they were accustomed to think of all time as wasted that was not spent in talking to a man nor were they awakened from their languid hopes until olive came rushing into the room with a large envelope in her hand oh i see she said you have got a letter from what does she say i got one this morning from and bending her head olive whispered in s ear she says that is talking in of when i shall be a is that the letter p asked innocently no you silly this is a castle invitation the and the girl in red looked up ah is it for to night or to morrow said the utter for to morrow now i wonder if there will be one for me is it to dinner or to the dance to dinner by muslin ah really yes very lucky her eyes fell and her look was expressive of her deep disappointment a dance � yes but a dinner and a dance then she continued ah the castle treats us all very badly i am glad sometimes when i hear the land league it we come up here and spend all our money on dresses and we get nothing for it except two state balls and it is no compliment to ask us to them � they are obliged to but what do you think of my little coat it is this that keeps me warm and miss o held out her for the company to feel the texture for the last three weeks she had not failed on all occasions to call attention to this garment � had said it was lovely here she sighed � had left the hotel and i have a new dress coming home � it is all red � a cardinal silk � you know nothing but red suits me is the hall porter the invitations asked did he give you yours no ours was of course directed to mamma i found it in her room then perhaps did not finish the sentence and both sisters rolled up their work preparatory to going upstairs in during six weeks of the year the arrival of these large official is watched with eagerness these are the of and the land league and the of are and lost for a moment in an exquisite thrill of triumph or despair an j nt ri ah f n castle much the official who takes you down to dinner may by muslin bore you and at the dance you may find yourself without a partner but the delight of asking your friends if you may expect to meet them on such a night of telling them afterwards of your are the joys of and armed with their invitation the heavily over the and the who were only asked to the dance and what will the dinner be like mamma asked olive it will be very grand lord does things in very good style indeed and our names will be given in the papers but i don t think it will amuse you dear all the officials have to be asked � judges police officers etc you will probably go down with some old fellow of sixty but that can t be helped at the dance after we ll see the i told you mamma didn t i that wrote that everybody in said he was in love with me and had proposed v you did dear and it does no harm for the report to have got about for if a thing gets very much spoken of it forces a man to come to the point you will wear your red i don t know that you look better in anything else whatever mrs s faults may have been she did her duty as she conceived it by her daughter and during the long dinner through the leaves of the plants she watched her olive anxiously a hundred and twenty people were present mothers and eligible daughters judges lords police officers poor law in by t muslin and castle officials around the great white painted gold walls the table in the form of a was spread in the soothing light of the shaded lamps the white glitter of the piled up silver danced over the talking faces and descended in silvery waves into the of the women salmon and purple coloured passed quickly and in the fragrance of soup and the of in the pleasing of the waits tunes that band poured from a top gallery the goodly company of time and others forgot their fears of the land league and the doom that was now to fulness to the girls the dinner seemed interminable but at the private dance afterwards those who were known in official circles or were fortunate enough to meet their friends amused themselves it took place in the throne room as the guests arrived they each other narrowly people who had known each other from childhood upwards as they met on the landing affected a look of surprise oh so you are here i wonder how you got your invitation well i suppose you are better than i took you to be p acquaintances saluted each other more cordially than was their wont he or she who

signify and he desires me to say that your being at when he is will be quite necessary you cannot think it more indispensable than he does he is very much obliged to you for your attention to everything have you any idea of returning with him to street and finishing your visit then tell me your sweet little innocent ideas everything of love and kindness proper and improper must now yours very affectionately j letters of jane park my dearest � now i will prepare for mr and as it will be wisest also to prepare for his not coming or my not getting a frank i shall write very close from the first and even leave room for the seal in the proper place when i have followed up my last with this i shall feel somewhat less unworthy of you than the state of our correspondence now requires i left o� e in a great hurry to prepare for our morning visits of course was ready a good deal the first and need not have hurried so much wore her new gown and cap i was surprised to find so pretty the ladies were at home i was in luck and saw lady and all her five daughters with an old mrs from and mrs and miss from into the gain i never saw so plain a family � five sisters so very plain they are as plain as the or the or the or the miss sally has a pretty figure and that all the good looks of the family it was did her part very well but there was a lack of talk altogether and the � of jane a st n three friends in the house only sat by and looked at us miss s name is and she had a double to her gown yoa really must get not some of your large stock ot white morning t in a happy state � or a � too short nobody at home at either house in cl edward bridges and his friend did not forget to arrive the nd is a mr one of the three aiid t y children of a great rich sir robert an old acquaintance of the but very recently known to edward b the of l is coming here is intending to go from to b persuaded him to take on his way which gave him the ie ce of mr w s and the comfort of not being alone there but probably thinking a few days of would be the and of his friend and himself offered a visit and here they stay till to morrow mr w is about five or six and twenty not and not agreeable he is certainly no addition a sort of cool manner but very silent they say his name is a proof how the gifts of fortune are bestowed i have seen many a john and thomas much more agreeable we have got rid of mr b however i is letters of did not like him either he talks too much and is conceited besides having a shaped mouth he slept here ou tuesday so that yesterday and i sat to with six gentlemen to admire us we did not go to the ball it was left to her to decide and at last she determined against it she knew that it would be a sacrifice on the part of her father and brothers if they went and i hope it will prove that she has not sacrificed much it is not likely that there should have been anybody there whom she would care for i was very glad to be spared the trouble of dressing and going and being weary before it was half over so gown and my cap are still it will appear at last perhaps that i might have done without either i produced my brown yesterday and it was very much admired indeed and i like it better than ever you have given many particulars of the state of house but still we want more edward wants to be expressly told that all the round tower etc is entirely down and the door from the best room stopped up he does not know enough of the appearance of things in that quarter he heard from bath yesterday lady b continues very well and dr s opinion is that while the water with her she ought to remain there which throws their coming away at a letters of jane s greater uncertainty than we had supposed it will end perhaps in a � t of the which may prevent her coming away thinks her mother s being so well may be quite as much owing to her being so much out of doors as to the water lady b is going to try the hot pump the cross bath being about to be painted is particularly well herself and thinks the water has been of use to her she mentioned our inquiries etc to mr and mrs and had their best compliments and thanks to give in return dr does not expect mr e to last much longer only think of mrs s being dead poor woman she has done the only thing in the world she could possibly do to make one cease to abuse her if you please must have it in his power to do more by his uncle lucky for the little girl an anne can hardly be so unfit for the care of a child as a mrs a letter from yesterday offering an early visit here and mr and mrs and one child are to come on monday for ten days i hope charles and may not fix the same time but if they come at all in october they must what is the use of hoping the two parties of children is the chief evil to be sure here we

passed the of his gaze over the tall heavy shouldered man with i z the seed of the haggard face who had joined the captain i am as much a pilot as anybody was s answer we are all here captain and i know every inch of these waters but the captain was impatient what i want is some of the authorities i want to talk with them and blame quick then hi do just as well again that suggestion of peace and his ship a raging furnace beneath his feet the captain s eyebrows lifted impatiently and nervously and his fist clenched as if he were about to strike a blow with it who in hell are you he demanded i am the chief magistrate was the reply in a voice that was still the and imaginable the tall heavy shouldered man broke out in a harsh laugh that was partly amusement but mostly hysterical both he and the captain regarded with incredulity and amazement that this beach the seed of should possess such high sounding dignity was inconceivable his cotton shirt exposed a chest and the fact that there was no beneath a worn straw hat failed to hide the ragged gray hair down his chest descended an beard in any shop two shillings would have him complete as he stood before them any relation to the of the the captain asked he was my great grandfather oh the captain said then himself my name is and this is my first mate mr they shook hands and now to business the captain spoke quickly the of a great haste pressing his speech we ve been on fire for over two weeks she s ready to break all hell loose any moment that s why i held for i want to beach her or her and save the the seed of then you made a mistake captain said you should have away for there s a beautiful beach there in a where the water is like a mill pond but we re here ain t we the first mate demanded that s the point we re here and we ve got to do something shook his head kindly you can do nothing here there is no beach there isn t even said the mate he repeated loudly as the captain him to be more soft spoken you can t tell me that sort of stuff where d ye keep your own boats hey � your or or whatever you have hey answer me that smiled as gently as he spoke his smile was a caress an embrace that surrounded the tired mate and sought to draw him into the and rest of s tranquil soul the seed of we have no or he replied and we carry our to the top of the cliff you ve got to show me the mate how d ye get around to the other islands tell me that we don t get around as governor of i sometimes go when i was younger i was away a great deal � sometimes on the trading but mostly on the missionary but she s gone now and we depend on passing vessels sometimes we have had as high as six calls in one year at other times a year and even longer has gone by without one passing ship yours is the first in seven months and you mean to tell me � the mate began but captain interfered enough of this we re losing time what is to be done mr the old man turned his brown eyes sweet as a woman s and both it the seed of captain and mate followed his gaze around from the lonely rock of to the crew forward and waiting anxiously for the announcement of a decision did not hurry he thought smoothly and slowly step by step with the of a mind that was never vexed or outraged by life the wind is light now he said finally there is a heavy current setting to the westward that s what made us fetch to the captain interrupted desiring to his yes that is what fetched you to went on well you can t work up against this current to day and if you did there is no beach your ship will be a total loss he paused and captain and mate looked despair at each other but i will tell you what you can do the breeze will to night around midnight � see those tails of clouds and the seed of that thickness to beyond the point there that s where she ll come from out of the hard it is three hundred miles to square away for it there is a beautiful bed for your ship there the mate shook his head come in to the cabin and we ll look at the said the captain found a stifling poisonous atmosphere in the pent cabin stray of invisible bit his eyes and made them sting the deck was almost hot to his bare feet the sweat poured out of his body he looked almost with apprehension about him this malignant internal heat was it was a marvel that the cabin did not burst into flames he had a feeling as if of being in a huge oven where the heat might at any moment increase and him up like a blade of grass as he lifted one foot and rubbed the the seed of hot sole against the leg of his trousers the mate laughed in a savage fashion the of hell he said hell herself is right down there under your feet it s hot cried involuntarily his face with a handkerchief here s the captain said bending over the table and pointing to a black speck in the midst of the white of the and here in between is another island why not run for that did not look at the that

suffered escaped sir charles he said to her at last my own this unhappy boy is killing you dear as he is to me you are dearer i must send him away again he saved our darling said she faintly but she could say no more he had exhausted excuse sir charles made inquiries everywhere and at last his attention was drawn to the following advertisement in the times � u backward or other boys carefully trained and m by a married comforts moderate terms address dr he wrote to this gentleman and the correspondence was g these said the artist in are like trees abominable till you them and then they bear the best the letters were passing came a climax reckless could keep no his inward definition of a boundary was a thing you should go a good way out of your way rather than not accordingly he was often on farm at night and even in garden the boundary wall tempted him so one light but windy night when everybody that could put his head under cover and keep it there did reckless was out enjoying the fresh breezes he mounted the boundary wall of like a cat to see what amusement might offer thus perched he speedily discovered a bright light in dining room he dropped from the wall directly and softly over the grass and peered in at the window he saw a table with a lamp on it on that table and gleaming in that light were several silver vessels of rare size and and mr with his coat off and a green apron on was cleaning one of these with brush and leather he had already cleaned the others for they glittered s black eye and glittered at this unexpected display of in so dazzling a form but this was nothing to the revelation in store when mr had done with that piece of plate he went to the wall and opened a door so nicely adapted o the that a stranger would hardly have discovered it yet it was an door and being opened revealed a still larger closet lined with green velvet and fitted with shelves from fi x r to ceiling here shone in all their the old of two good families t� at is to say the old plate of the and all the old plate of the from whom came to richard through his mother so named after her grandmother so named after her aunt so named after her so named after her father prince lier glass the wall seemed with and for many of the chased plates and dishes were silver gilt none of your plate but gold laid on thick by e old process in days when they that wrought in precious were honest � for want of knowing how to cheat to the pane on this of gold and silver and trembling with excitement reckless heard not a stealthy step upon the grass behind him i had trusted to a fact in forgetting the doctrine of shadows the servant saw from a the shadow of a cap projected on the grass with a face and part of a body she stepped out and got upon the grass finding it was only a boy she was brave as well as cunning and owing to the wind and his stole on him unheard and pinned him with her strong hands by both his shoulders young hopeful uttered a of dismay and administered a back kick that made limp for two days and scream very for the present mr at this dialogue of yell dropped a coffee pot with a crash and a and ran out directly and secured young who thereupon began to and i was only taking a look said he � where s the harm of that you were sir said richard � what is the harm of that governor you can come all over our place for what i care thank you i prefer to keep to my own place well i don t i say old chap don t bit me t was i put em all on the scent of your kid you know so i have heard well then this makes us � l on t it you ain t such a bad sort after all only mind mr if i you here again that will be a fresh and i open it with a a terrible temptation he then gave liim a little and the boy fled like the wind when he was gone became rather uneasy he had hitherto concealed even from his own family the great wealth his humble home contained his secret was now public repaid had no end of low companions if got scent of this it might be very awkward at last he hit upon a defence he got one of those hooks ending in a screw which are used for pictures ana it into the inside of the cupboard door near the top to this he fastened a long piece of and carried it through the floor his bed was just above the cupboard door and he attached the to a bell by his bedside by this means nobody could open that without ringing in his ears told tom tom told maria and and maria told everybody somebody told sir charles he was deeply you young idiot said he would nothing less this serve your turn must you go and lower me and yourself by giving just offence to my one enemy � the man i hate and despise and who is always on the watch to injure or me on who would be a rather there pack up your things you will go to school next morning at t o clock mr d packed accordingly but that did not occupy so he forth and taking for granted that it was richard who had been so mean as to tell he purchased some paint

its memories and made it so joyful a subject for the imagination of those who lived to hear these fresh echoes of its glory now in whilst these emotions still swayed the breast of the sons of those who had won the independence of the nation the same enemy was about to them the day that many had dreamed of was about to arrive and many a secret was breathed for a field to realize its hopes to this sentiment we may attribute in part that quick rising of the people in which but for the settlement of the difficulty would in a few months have converted the whole country into a camp foremost amongst the of this day was william we shall find him very soon absorbed in a scheme to raise a he was to be at the head of four of state troops with a chosen corps of officers and men whom he did not doubt were destined to become conspicuous in annals to posterity for the present we shall find him his in a song the fourth of july was to be celebrated in the neighbourhood of such an occasion of course no one could expect to pass without a full freight of those sentiments which were peculiarly inspired by the great topic now first in the universal mind judge was a poet as well as a kindred spirit he had witnessed the revolution at an age capable of observation and was deeply with all its passion i find this letter vol i � n fourth of july w to judge july mt dear sir how is your muse if in mounting mood how would you gratify me and enable me to gratify others on saturday by a song on the day embracing the late gallant of the come i know you can easily dash off such a piece it would be no more one of the ordinary of your spirit and rhyme says is merely a mechanical business to which when a man has served an there is no more labour of invention about it than mr exercises in making a pair of our excursion to morrow morning to the point of the which the market valley would fill you with the tion all the rest is mere could learn the song on saturday morning if you come into this idea as i suppose the is a mere matter of to you i would propose that in which the death of and the battle of are written lest you should not recollect these i will give you the only verse of the latter that i remember here it is our object was the band that d to fair freedom s land and quarter in that place great washington he led us on with streaming with renown which ne er had known disgrace by the bye it is the of the s daughter which i am sure you know let me hear whether you will do this thing � yea or nay will you let me have a copy of your song in honour of washington i heard it but once i think it goes to the tune of the death of it describes liberty as taking her flight from thi shores of and lighting here you will know by this which i mean very sincerely your friend and t servant wm the answer is given by the judge in the following in his own handwriting upon the outer page of this letter july i called on mr this morning and found this letter upon his table he said there is a letter for you i had in my pocket the lines written for the fourth of this month which i intended for him without any previous communication between ob and gave them to him xv preparation for war the lines furnished on this occasion breathe that spirit of bitter r of the war to which i have alluded heightened into still warmer by the audacity of the recent upon the happily these are now forgotten in the tranquillity by that sentiment of mutual respect and appreciation of national and individual worth which we will long distinguish the intercourse between the two countries at the date of the events above referred to the joy of the nation in the triumph of the war of independence had lost nothing of its whilst on the other side the sting of wounded pride had not yet been by time � not to open an old wound but to preserve a memorial of the times and of the spirit of defiance which was universally returned from this country to its and most powerful enemy i present my reader a copy of judge s verses which were sung at the alluded to in the text by a voice noted for its melody tyrant again we hear thy hostile voice again upon our thy cannon s roar again for peace thou us no choice again we defiance from our shore hast thou forgot the day when whilst around were sacrificed hast thou forgot thy captive led thy by a foe despised or think st thou forgot our brothers slain our aged fathers in their our mothers on their knees in vain their daughters fate our friends in prison ships and chained to summer s and winter s frost exposed insulted starved amidst disease detained till death the fatal scene of horrors closed our towns in ashes laid our fields on fire our wives and children flying from the foe i ourselves in battle ready to yet struggling still to strike another blow know then this day to us the whole and hear our solemn and determined voice in vain proud tyrant shall thy roll since once more death or victory s our choice preparation for war a short note to the progress of the war fever mr was at this time of the state the note to proceedings in his council july

to war with another if it has nothing to gain thereby and therefore needs no treaty to restrain it from violence and if it have any thing to gain x much question from what i have witnessed of the righteous conduct of whether any treaty could be made so that it could not thrust the sword through nay i would hold ten to one the treaty itself would be the very source to which resort would be had to find a for thus therefore i conclude that though it is the best of all for a nation to keep up a constant tion with its neighbours yet it is the summit of folly for it ever to be b into a treaty for then comes on the non and then remonstrance then then then and finally war in a ia like courtship a time of sweet words gallant speeches and caresses but the marriage is the signal for s history of chapter iv mat greatly hy a e n md his if my pains taking reader be dot in the of the m of my lie will al one glance perceive that the great in concluding a with his eastern of a lamentable error and m to this agreement may justly be world of which afterwards took between the and the evil council of an au these did not a little disturb the serenity of the good of but in they were so very in nature and grave historian who the time q ent in any thing less than the of and the of worlds would think them unworthy to be inscribed on his sacred page the reader is to take it granted though i scorn to waste in the detail that time which my brow and trembling hand inform me is that � i the while the great peter was occupied in those tremendous and bloody that i shall shortly there was a continued series of little dirty and made m the eastern by the moss of but like that mirror of chivalry the sage and don i leave these petty for some of a historian while i reserve my and my pen for achievements of higher dignity now did the great peter that his had new york come to a in the east and that he had nothing to do but apply himself to the internal prosperity of his beloved though a man of gi at modesty he could not help he had at length shut the temple of w and that ere all rulers like a certain who should be nameless it would be opened again but the exultation of the worthy governor was put to a speedy or scarce was the treaty and hardly was tbe dried on the paper before the and council of the league sought a new pretence for the flames of discord it s to be the nature of and like powers that want the true masculine character to indulge exceedingly in feminine and suspicions like some good lady of delicate and virtue who is in constant dread of having her purity or and who if a man do but take her by the hand or look her in the ce is ready to cry out i and ruin � so these are perpetually on the alarm for the virtue of the country � every manly measure is a of the � every or other masculine government around them is laying for their and they ai fer ever detection infernal plots by which they were to b betrayed and brought upon the town � � � if any proof were wanting of the truth of these i instance the conduct of a certain republic of our day who good dame has already so many plots and against her virtue and has so often come near being made no better than she should be i her f poor old england who by her own account has been ii trying to j i never could believe the honest ad gentleman meant her any whereas on i have several times sl history of caught her hands and indulging in certain with that sad fi low who all the world knows to be a great of national to have all the in his neighbourhood to have every republic that ui hia way but so it is these seem always to gain singular with the ladies but i pardon of my reader for thus and mil endeavour in some measure to apply the ing remarks for in the year we are told die great of the east accused the pe ter the soul of honour and heart of steel that by gifts and promises he had been secretly to the or and indians to and the yankee for as the council ob served the indians round about for divers hundred to have deep of an or from the against the � n have sought their good both in bodily and spiritual history does not make mention how the great of the came by this precious plot it were honestly bought at a fair market price or discovered by sheer good fortune it is certain however that examined divers indians who au swore to the ct as as though th had been so many christian and to be more sure of their the sage council previously made every mother s son of them devoutly drunk remembering an old and proverb which it is not necessary for me to repeat though descended from a which mud ii from the lose of those times my great grandfather having had a yoke of oxen and his best stolen and having received a pair of black eyes and a bloody nose one of these border wars my ne w york � a very little boy tending pigs having been aiid severely by a long sided school yet i should have passed over all these wrongs with fo i and oblivion � i

have seen him and be seeing him perhaps daily his direct holidays might with justice be instantly given to the sister who had been his best correspondent through a period of seven years and the uncle who had done most for his support and advancement and accordingly the reply to her reply fixing a very early day for his arrival came as soon as possible and scarcely ten days had passed since had been in the agitation of her first dinner visit when she found herself in an agitation of a higher nature � watching in the hall in the on the stairs for the first sound of the carriage which was to bring her a brother it came happily while she was thus waiting and there being neither ceremony nor to delay the moment of meeting she was with him park as lie entered the house and the first minutes of exquisite feeling had no interruption and no witnesses unless the servants chiefly intent upon opening the proper doors could be called such this was exactly what sir thomas and had been separately at as each proved to the other by the sympathetic alacrity with which they both advised mrs s continuing where she was instead of rushing out into the hall as soon as the noises of the arrival reached them william and soon showed themselves and sir thomas had the pleasure of receiving in his certainly a very different person from the one he had equipped seven years ago but a young man of an open pleasant countenance and frank but feeling and respectful manners and such as confirmed him his friend it was long before could recover from the happiness of such an hour as was formed by the last thirty minutes of expectation and the first of it was some time even before her happiness could be said to make her happy before the disappointment inseparable from the alteration of person had vanished and she could see in him the same william as before and talk to him as her heart had been yearning to do through many a past year that time however did gradually come forwarded by an affection on his side as warm as her own and much less by refinement or self distrust she was the first object of his love but it was a love which his stronger spirits and bolder temper made it as park natural for him to express as to feel on the morrow they were walking together with true enjoyment and every succeeding morrow renewed a a which sir thomas could not hut with complacency even before had pointed it out to him excepting the moments of peculiar delight which any marked or for instance of s consideration of her in the last few months had excited had known so much felicity in her life as in this equal fearless intercourse with the brother and friend who was opening all his heart to her telling her all his hopes and fears plans and respecting that long thought of dearly earned and justly valued blessing of promotion � who could give her direct and minute information of the father and mother brothers and sisters of whom she very seldom heard � who was interested in all the comforts and all the little hardships of her home at ready to think of every member of that home as she directed or only by a less scrupulous opinion and more noisy abuse of their aunt � and with whom perhaps the dearest indulgence of the whole all the evil and good of their earliest years could be gone over again and every former united pain and pleasure with the recollection an advantage this a of love in which even the tie is beneath the children of the same family the same blood with the same first associations and habits have some means of enjoyment in their power which no subsequent connections can supply and it must be by a long and unnatural by a divorce which no subsequent connection can justify if such precious remains of the earliest are ever entirely too often alas it is so love sometimes almost everything is at others worse than nothing but with william and price it was still a sentiment in all its prime and freshness wounded by no opposition of interest cooled by no separate attachment and feeling the influence of time and absence only in its increase an affection so amiable was advancing each in the opinion of all who had hearts to value anything good henry was as much struck with it as any he honored the warm hearted blunt fondness of the young sailor which led him to say with his hand stretched towards s head do you know i begin to like that queer fashion already though when i first heard of such things being done in england i could not believe it and when mrs brown and the other women at the s at appeared in the same trim i thought they were mad but can reconcile me to anything � and saw with lively admiration the glow of s cheek the brightness of her eye the deep interest the absorbed attention while her brother was describing any of the imminent or terrific scenes which such a period at sea must supply it was a picture which henry had moral taste enough to value s attractions increased � increased for the sensibility vol i � park which her complexion and her countenance was an attraction in itself he was no longer in doubt of the of her heart she had feelings genuine feeling it would be something to be loved by such a girl to excite the first of her young mind she interested him more than he had foreseen a fortnight was not enough his stay became indefinite william was often called on by his uncle to be the his were amusing in themselves to

a celestial spirit breathed them into his soul stillness and peace stole over him he was amazed at his own tranquillity it may be he thought that my mother is permitted to minister to me he might have been agitated by the admission of the least ray of hope but hope was utterly and it was only when he thought of his father that his courage failed him but we must leave him to his solitude and silence only interrupted by the distant of the owl and the heavy tread of the chief who spent the night in slowly pacing before the door of the hut and her companions were conducted to a standing on that part of the plain on which they had first entered it was completely enclosed on three sides by dwarf oaks in front there was a little plantation of the luxuries of the savages on entering the hut they perceived it had but one a sick old woman who was stretched on her mat covered with skins she raised her head as the strangers entered and at the sight of faith uttered a faint exclamation the fair creature a messenger from the hope it land but being who they were and whence they came she made every and expression of courtesy to them that her feeble strength permitted heir hut contained all that was essential to savage hospitality a few were burning on a in the middle of the apartment the smoke that found passed out by a hole in the centre of the roof over which a mat was adjusted and to the side by a cord that hung within the old woman in her long pilgrimage had accumulated stores of indian riches piles of sleeping lay in one corner nicely dressed the walls baskets of all shapes and sizes decorated with rude images of birds and flowers contained dried fruits indian com nuts and game a covered made of folds of bark was filled with a kind of beer � a of various roots and shrubs neatly turned wooden and and of clay supplied all the demands of the of savage life the travellers directed by their old hostess prepared their evening � a short and simple process to an indian and having satisfied the of hunger they were all with the exception of and one of the in a very short time stretched on their and fast asleep seated herself at the feet of the old woman and had neither spoken nor moved since she entered the hut she watched anxiously and hope the movements of the indian whose appointed duty it appeared to be to guard her he placed a wooden bench against the mat which served for a door and his pipe with tobacco from a over his shoulder and then filling a with the liquor in the and placing it beside him he quietly sat himself down to his night watch the old woman became restless and her loud and repeated groans at last withdrew from her own miserable thoughts she inquired if she could do aught to her pain the sufferer pointed to a jar that stood on the embers ia which a preparation was she ta to give her a of the liquor she did so and as she took it it is made she said of all the plants on which the spirit of sleep has breathed and so it seemed to be for she had scarcely swallowed it when she fell asleep once or twice she and murmured something and once heard her say hark to the is he is perched on the old oak by the sacrifice rock and his cry is neither musical nor merry a bad sign in a bird but all signs and were alike to every sound rung a death peal to her ear and the hissing silence had in it the mystery and of death the night wore slowly and painfully away as if as in the fairy tale the moments were counted by drops of heart s blood but the most wearisome nights will end the morning approach hon ed the familiar notes of the birds of earliest were heard and the twilight peeped through the of the hut when a new sound fell on s startled ear it was the slow measured tread of many feet the poor girl now broke and vehemently entreated the to let her pass the door or at least to raise the mat he shook his head with a look of as if it were the demand of a child when the old woman awakened by the noise cried out that she was dying that she must have light and air i and the started up to raise the mat it was held between two poles that formed the door posts and while he was it as if inspired and quick as thought poured the from the jar on the fire into the hollow of hand and dashed it into the which the mo hawk had just the was boiling hot but she did not she did not even feel it and she could scarcely repress a cry of joy when the savage turned round and swallowed at one draught the contents of the cup looked eagerly through the but though the sound of the footsteps had approached nearer she saw no one she saw nothing but a gentle that to the plain a few yards from the hut and was covered with a grove of trees beyond and peering above them were the hill and the sacrifice rock the star its rays not yet in the light of day shed a soft trembling beam on its summit this beautiful star alone in the heavens when all other lights were spoke to the superstitious or rather the imaginative spirit of star of promise she thought thou dost still linger with us when day is vanished and now thou art there alone to

swift changes in our system are causing equally swift changes in our religious political and social an unseen and fearful revolution is taking place in the fibre and structure of society one can only feel these things but they are in the air now to day one can feel the loom of them � things vast vague and terrible my mind from contemplation of what they may into you heard talk the other night behind what he said were the same nameless things that i feel he spoke out of a apprehension of them you � father began then paused i mean that there is a shadow of something colossal and menacing that even now is be to the land call it the shadow of an if you will it is the nearest i dare it what its nature may be i refuse to imagine but what i wanted to say was you are in a perilous position � a peril that my own fear because i am not able even to measure it� take my advice and accept the but it would be cowardly was the protest not at all you are i old man you have done your work in the world and a great work leave the present battle to youth and strength we young fellows have our work yet to do will stand by my side in what is to come she will be your in the battle front but they can t hurt me father objected thank god i am independent oh i assure you i know the frightful persecution they can on a professor who is dependent on his university but i like they did not dream of the nature of it there were men even before his time who caught glimpses of the shadow john c said a power has risen up in the govern ment greater than the people themselves consisting of many and various and � interests combined into one m ass and held together hy the power of the vast in the banks and that great said just before his see in the near future a crisis approaching that me and causes m e to tremble for the safety of my country hav been an era of corruption in high places follow and the of the country wiu endeavor to its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is in a few end the republic is destroyed the iron am independent i have not been a professor for the sake of my salary i can get along very comfortably on my own income and the salary is all they can take away from me but you do not realize answered if all that i fear be so your private income your principal itself can be taken from you just as easily as your salary father was silent for a few minutes he was thinking deeply and i could see the lines of decision forming in his face at last he spoke i shall not take the he paused again i shall go on with my book you may be wrong but whether you are wrong or right i shall stand by my guns all right said you are travelling the same path that bishop is and toward a similar up you ll both be before you re done with it the conversation turned upon the bishop and we got to explain what he had been doing with him � this book and education was published in that year copies of it are two at and one at it dealt in elaborate with one in the of the established namely the bias of the and common schools it was a logical and crushing of the whole system of education that developed in the minds of the students only such ideas as were favorable to the to the of all ideas that were and the book created a and was promptly suppressed by the he is soul sick from the journey through hell i have given him i took him through the homes of a few of our factory workers i showed him the human cast aside by the machine and he listened to their life stories i took him through the of san and in and he learned a deeper cause than innate he is very sick and worse than that he has got out of hand he is too he has been too severely touched and as usual he is he is up in the air with all kinds of and plans for mission work among the he feels it is his duty to the ancient spirit of the church and to deliver its message to the masters he is sooner or later he is going to break out and then there s going to be a up what form it will take i can t even guess he is a pure exalted soul but he is so he s beyond me i can t keep his feet on the earth and through the air he is rushing on to his and after this his such high souls are made for and you i asked and beneath my smile was the seriousness of the anxiety of love not i he laughed back i may be executed or but i shall never be i am planted too and upon the earth but why should you bring about the of the el the bishop i asked you not deny that you are the cause of it why should i leave one comfortable soul in comfort when there are millions in and misery he demanded back then why did you advise father to accept the because i am not a pure exalted soul was the answer because i am solid and stolid and selfish because i love you and like of old thy people are my people as for the bishop he has no daughter besides no matter

makes nothing it is always acceptable to see you sing was there ever so unexpected an assertion of superiority � at least before the late colored deeply but with her usual presence of mind did not show an resentment by moving away immediately and miss who had been near enough to and also to observe that s mode of looking at was more admiring than was quite consistent with good taste now with the utmost tact and kindness came close to her and said imagine what i have to go through with this professor i he can hardly any thing we english do in music we can only put up with his severity and make use of it to find out the worst that can be said of us it is a little comfort to know that and one can bear it when every one else is admiring i should be very much obliged to him for telling me the worst said recovering herself i dare say i have vol l� been extremely ill in addition to no only liking for music this was very well expressed that it had never entered her mind before it is true you have not been well taught said quietly woman was dear to him but music was dearer you are not quite without gifts you sing in and you have a pretty fair organ but you produce your notes badly and tliat music which you sing is beneath you it is a form of melody which expresses a state of culture � a kind of stuff � the passion and thought of people without any breadth of horizon there is a sort of self satisfied folly about every phrase of such melody no cries of deep mysterious passion � no conflict � no sense of the universal it makes men small as they listen to it sing dow something and i shall see oh not now by and by said with a sinking of heart at the sudden width of horizon opened round her small performance for a young lady desiring to lead this first encounter in her campaign was startling but she was bent on not foolishly and miss help ed her by saying yes by and by i always require half an hour to get up my courage after being by we will ask him to play to us now he is bound to show us what is good music to be quite safe on this point played a composition of his own a called � an extensive on some ideas not too evident and he certainly fetched as much variety and depth of passion out of the piano as that instrument itself to having an imperious magic in his fingers that seemed to send a nerve thrill through ivory key and wooden hammer and compel the strings to make a quivering lingering speech for him in spite of her wounded had of nature enough to feel the power of this playing and it gradually turned her inward sob of mortification into an excitement which lifted her for the moment into a desperate indifference about her own doings or at least a determination to get a superiority over them by laugh � � � book l� ing at them as if they belonged to somebody else her eyes had become brighter cheeks slightly flushed and her tongue ready for any mischievous remarks i wish you would sing to us again miss said young the s son who had been so fortunate as to take her to dinner and came up to renew conversation as soon as s performance was ended that is the style of music for me i never can make any thing of this playing it is like a jar of where you can never tell either or i could listen to your singing all day yes we should be glad of something popular now another song from you would be a said mrs arrow point who had also come near with polite intentions that must be because you are in a state of culture and have no breadth of horizon i have just learned that i have been taught how bad my taste is and am feeling growing pains they are never pleasant said not taking any notice of mrs and looking up with a bright smile at young mrs was not insensible to this but merely said well we will not press any thing and as there was a perceptible of imprisoned conversation just then and a movement of guests seeking each other she remained seated where she was and looked round her with the relief of the hostess at finding she is not needed i am glad you like this neighborhood said young well pleased with his station in front of exceedingly there seems to be a little of every thing and not much of any thing that is rather not with me i like a little of every thing a little absurdity for example is very amusing i am thankful for a few queer people but much of them is a bore mrs who was hearing this dialogue perceived quite a new tone in s speech and felt a revival of doubt as to her interest in s madness i think there should be more for one thing said young i am usually away but if i were more here i i should go in for a club yoa are one of tbe en i think bat depend upon it is the game of tho future it wants writing up though one of our best men has written a poem on it in four as good as pope i want him to publish it you never read any thing better i shall study to morrow i shall take to it instead of no no not that but do take to i will send s poem if you like i have a manuscript copy is he

ever seen � in the stern of the vessel with a little window where the used to go through a little looking glass the right height for me nailed against the wall and framed with shells a little bed which there was just room enough to get into and a of in a blue on the table the walls were as white as milk and the made my eyes quite ache with its brightness one thing i particularly noticed in this delightful house was the smell of fish which was so searching that when i took out my pocket handkerchief to wipe my nose i found it smelt exactly as if it had wrapped up a on my this discovery in confidence to she informed me that her brother dealt in and and i afterwards found that a heap of these creatures in a state of wonderful with one another and never leaving off whatever they laid hold of were usually to be found in a little wooden where the pots and were kept we were welcomed by a very civil woman in a white apron whom i had seen at the door when i was on ham s back about a quarter of a mile off likewise by a most beautiful little girl or i thought her so with a of blue beads on who wouldn t let me kiss her when i offered to but ran away and hid herself by and by when we had dined in a manner off boiled melted butter and potatoes with a chop for me a hairy man with a very good natured face came home as he called and gave her a hearty on the cheek i had no doubt from the general propriety of her conduct that he was her brother and so he turned out � being presently introduced to me as mr the master of the house glad to see you sir said mr you ll find us rough sir but you ll find us ready i thanked him and replied that i was sure i should be happy in such a delightful place how s your ma sir said mr did you leave her pretty jolly the personal history and experience i gave mr to understand that she was as jolly as i could wish and that she desired her compliments � which was a polite fiction on my part i m much to her i m sure said mr well sir if you can make out here fur a long wi her nodding at his sister and ham and little em ly we shall be proud of your company having done the honors of his house in this hospitable manner mr went out to wash himself in a of hot water remarking that cold would never get ms off he soon returned greatly improved in appearance but so that i couldn t help thinking his face had this in common with the and � that it went into the hot water very black and came out very red after tea when the door was shut and all was made snug the nights being cold and misty now it seemed to me the most delicious retreat that the imagination of man could conceive to hear the wind getting up out at sea to know that the fog was creeping over the desolate flat outside and to look at the fire and think that there was no house near but this one and this one a boat was like enchantment little em ly had overcome her shyness and was sitting by my side upon the lowest and least of the which was just large enough for us two and just fitted into the chimney corner mrs with the white apron was knitting on the opposite side of the fire at her needle work was as much at home with saint paul s and the bit of wax candle as if they had never known any other roof ham who had been giving me my first lesson in all was trying to recollect a scheme of telling fortunes with the dirty cards and was off impressions of his thumb on all the cards he turned mr was smoking his pipe i felt it was a time for conversation and confidence mr says i sir says he did you give your son the name of ham because you lived in a sort of ark mr seemed to think it a deep idea but answered no sir i never him no name who gave him that name then said i putting question number two of the to mr why sir his father it him said mr i thought you were his father my brother joe was ms father said mr dead mi i hinted after a respectful pause said mr i was very much surprised that mr was not ham s father and began to wonder whether i was mistaken about his relationship to anybody else there i was so curious to know that i made up my mind to have it out with mr little em ly i said glancing at her she is your daughter isn t she mr no sir my brother in law tom was her father of david i couldn t help it � dead mr i hinted after another respectful silence said mr i felt the difficulty of the subject but had not got to the bottom of it yet and must get to the bottom somehow so i t you any children mr no master he answered with a short laugh i ma a bachelor i said astonished why who s that mr pointing to the person in the apron who was knitting that s said mr mr but at this point � i mean my own peculiar � made such impressive motions to me not to ask any more questions that i could only sit and look at all the silent company until

his care was to send a body of armed men to the relief of fort with destruction by the of the grand river who had the in his town having relieved the fortress the troops the territory of killing many of his warriors and carrying others off captive the himself made his escape he was l c vol ii t life and voyages of to the sovereign of the as this indian prince reigned over a great and extent of country his friendship was highly important to the prosperity of the colony while there was imminent risk of his hostility from the of the who had been in different parts of his sent for him therefore and explained to him that these had been in of his orders and contrary to his good intentions towards the natives whom it was his wish in every way to please and benefit he explained likewise that the expedition against was an act of mere individual punishment not of hostility the of the was of a quiet and disposition and whatever anger he might have felt was easily soothed to link him in some degree to the spanish interest prevailed on him to give his daughter in marriage to an indian native of the islands who had been to and had been in with the name of he took a still stronger precaution to guard any hostility on the part of the and to tranquillity in the important region of the he ordered a fortress to be erected in the midst of his which he named fort conception the easy agreed without hesitation to a measure with ruin to himself and future slavery to his subjects p martyr l n b r in his of has been led into ao by the name of this indian and that had a brother named of whom he to be ashamed and whom he married to the daughter of an indian chief v ll he most formidable enemy remained to be disposed of the warlike spirit of the island the active and ing enemy of white men and who from superior notions of policy was capable of forming dangerous and his lay in the central parts of the island rendered difficult of access by rugged rocks entangled forests and frequent rivers to make war upon this subtle and in the depths of his wild territory and among the of his mountains where at every step there would be danger of falling into some sudden would be a work of time peril and in the mean while die would never be secure from his secret and daring and the working of the mines would be subject to frequent interruption while perplexed on this subject was relieved by a bold proposition on the part of de who offered to take the by and deliver him alive into his hands the project was wild and romantic characteristic of the fearless and adventurous spirit of who was fond of himself by extravagant exploits as has been shown in his singular feat on the of choosing ten bold and hardy followers well armed and well mounted and the protection of his the virgin whose image as usual he bore with him as a plunged into the forest and made his way above sixty at the head of his followers into the wild of where he found the in one of his most towns approached with great deference and respect treating him as a sovereign prince he informed him that he had come on a friendly from the admiral who was or chief of die and who had sent him an invaluable present � life voyages of had tried in battle he had witnessed his fiery and had conceived a warrior s admiration of him he received him with a degree of courtesy if � a phrase may apply to the savage state and rude hospitality of a wild warrior of the forests the free fearless the great personal strength and the surprising and of in all manly exercises and in the use of all kinds of weapons were calculated to delight a savage and he soon became a great favourite with now used all his influence to prevail upon the to repair to for the purpose of making a treaty with and becoming the ally and friend of the it is said that he offered him as a the bell of tlie chapel of this bell was the wonder of the island when the indians heard its melody sounding through the forests as it rung for mass and beheld the hastening towards the chapel they imagined that it talked and that the white men obeyed it with that feeling of superstition with which they regarded all things connected with the they looked upon this bell as something supernatural and in their usual phrase said it had come from or the skies had heard this wonderful instrument at a distance in the course of his about the settlement and had longed to see it but when it was proffered to him as a present of peace he found it impossible to resist the temptation the agreed therefore to set out for but when the time came to depart beheld with surprise a powerful force of warriors assembled and ready to march he asked the meaning of taking such an army on a mere friendly visit to which the proudly replied that it was not a great prince like him to go forth v i k attended felt little satisfied with this reply he knew the warlike character of and his deep which is the soul of indian warfare he ed some sinister design and that the might some surprise of the fortress of or some attempt upon the person of the admiral he knew also that it was the wish of either to make peace with the or to get possession of his person without the alternative of open warfare he had recourse

in her own village she must seek them abroad invited her to go with them mr and mrs were all compliance and all happiness chapter if addition to what has been already said of s personal and mental when about to be launched into all the difficulties and dangers of a six weeks residence in bath it may be stated for the reader s more certain information lest the following pages should otherwise fail of giving any idea of what her character is meant to be that her heart was affectionate her disposition cheerful and open without conceit or affectation of any kind her manners just removed from the awkwardness and shyness of a girl her person pleasing and when in good looks pretty and her mind about as ignorant and as the female mind at seventeen usually is when the hour of departure drew near the maternal anxiety of mrs will be naturally supposed to be most severe � a thousand alarming of evil to her beloved from this terrific separation must op press her heart with sadness and drown her in tears for the last day or two of their being together and advice of the most important and nature must of course flow from her wise lips in their parting conference in her closet against the violence of such and as delight in forcing young ladies away to some remote farm house must at such a moment the fulness of her heart who w ul not think so but mrs abbey knew little of lords and that she entertained no notion of their general and was wholly of danger to her daughter from their her were confined to the following points i beg you will always wrap yourself up very warm about the throat when you come from the rooms at night and i wish you would try to keep some account of the money you spend i will give you this little book on purpose sally or rather for what young lady of common will reach the age of sixteen without her name as far as she can must from situation be at this time the intimate friend and of her sister it is remarkable however that she neither insisted on s writing by every post nor her promise of the character of every new acquaintance nor a detail of every interesting conversation that bath might produce everything indeed relative to this important journey was done on the part of the with a degree of moderation and composure which seemed rather consistent with the common feelings of common life than with refined � the tender emotions which the separation of a heroine from her family ought always to excite her father instead of giving her an unlimited order on his banker or even putting a hundred pounds bank bill into her hands gave her only ten guineas and promised her more when she wanted it under these the parting took place and the journey began it was performed with suitable and safety neither robbers nor them nor one lucky to introduce them to the hero nothing more alarming occurred than a fear on mrs s side of having once left her behind her at an inn and that fortunately proved to be they arrived at bath was all eager delight her eyes were here there everywhere as they i its fine and striking and afterwards drove through those streets which conducted them to the hotel she was come to be happy and she felt happy already they were soon settled in comfortable lodgings in street it is now expedient to give some description of mrs that the reader may be able to judge in what manner her actions will hereafter tend to promote the general distress of the work and how she will probably contribute to reduce poor to all the desperate wretchedness of which a last is capable � whether by her vulgarity or jealousy � whether by her letters her character or turning her out of doors mrs was one of that numerous class of females whose society can raise no other emotion than surprise at there being any men in the world who could like them well enough to marry them she had neither beauty genius accomplishment nor manner the air of a a great deal of quiet good temper and a trifling turn of mind were all that could account for her being the choice of a sensible intelligent man like mr alien in one respect she was admirably fitted to introduce a young lady into public being as fond of going everywhere and seeing everything herself as any young lady could be dress was her passion she had a most harmless delight in being fine and our heroine s into life could not take place till after three or four days had been spent in learning what was mostly worn and her was provided with a dress of the fashion too made some purchases herself and when all these matters were arranged the important evening came which was to her into the upper her hair was cut and dressed by the best hand her clothes put on with care and mrs and her maid declared she looked quite as she should do with such encouragement hoped at least to pass through the crowd as for admiration it was always very welcome when it came but she did not depend on it abbey mrs was so long in dressing that they did not enter the ball room till late the season was full the room crowded and the two ladies squeezed in as well as they could as for mr he repaired directly to the card room and left them to enjoy a mob by themselves with more care for he safety of her new gown than for the comfort of her mrs made her way through the throng of men by the door as swiftly as the necessary caution would allow

and he resumed his seat what hurt can it do � none none but i cannot bear it � it s my belief you hate the sight of the very river � i� i do not like it father as if it wasn t your living as if it wasn t meat and drink to you i at these latter words the girl again and for a moment paused in her to turn faint it escaped his attention for he was glancing over the stem at something the boat had in tow how can you be so to your best friend the very fire that warmed you when you were a was picked out of the river alongside the coal the very basket that you slept in the tide washed ashore the very that i put it upon to make a cradle of it i cut out of a piece of wood drifted from some ship or another took her right hand from the it held and touched her lips with it and for a moment held it out lovingly towards him then without speaking she resumed her as another boat of similar appearance though in rather better came out from a dark place and dropped alongside in luck again said a man with a who her and who was alone i know d you was in luck again by your wake as you come down ah replied the other so you re out are you yes there was now a tender yellow moonlight on the river and the new comer keeping half his boat s length of the other boat looked hard at its track i says to myself he went on directly you in view tender s and in luck again by george if he ain t i it is don t fi t yourself � i didn t touch him this was in answer to a quick impatient movement on the part of the speaker at the same time his on that side and laying his hand on the of s boat and holding to it he s had touches enough not to want no more as well as i make tn m out been a knocking about with a pretty many tides ain t he such is my out of luck ways you see he must have passed me when he went up last time for i was on the below bridge here i a most think you re like the and scent em out he spoke in a dropped voice and with more than one glance at who had pulled on her hood again both men then looked with a weird interest at the e of s boat does it us shall i take him aboard no said the other in so surly a tone that the man after a blank stare acknowledged it with the retort b mutual � am t been eating nothing as has with yon have yon why yes i have said i have been too of that word i am no er of yours since when was yon no of mine since yon was accused of a accused of a live man said with great indignation and what if i had been accused of a dead man you couldn t do it � couldn t you no has a dead man any use for money is it possible for a dead man to have money what world does a dead man belong to world what world does money belong to this world how can money be a corpse s can a corpse own it want it spend it claim it miss it don t try to go the rights and wrongs of things in that way it s worthy of the spirit that a live man i ll tell you what it is no you won t tell you what it is you ve got off with a short time of it for putting your hand in the pocket of a sailor a live sailor make the most of it and think yourself lucky but don t think after that to come over me with your we h ve worked together in time past but we work together no more in time present nor yet future go cast off i if you to get rid of me this way if i don t get rid of you this way i ll try another and chop you over the fingers with the or take a pick at your head with the boat hook cast off full you pull home since you won t let your pull shot ahead and the other boat fell s father himself into the easy attitude of one who had asserted the high and taken an position slowly lighted a pipe and smoked and took a survey of what he had in tow what he had in tow itself at him sometimes in an awful manner when the boat was checked and sometimes seemed to try to itself away though for the most part it followed a might have fancied that the passing over it were dreadfully l e faint changes of expression on a but was no and had no fancies chapter n the han mr and mrs were new people in a new house in a new quarter of london t about ihe was and span new all their furniture was new all their friends were new all their servants were new their plate was new their carriage was new their harness was new their horses our mutual were new their pictures were new they themselves were new they were as newly married as was with their having a new baby and if they had set up a great grandfather he would have come home in from the without a scratch upon him french polished to the of his head for in the from the hall chairs with the new coat of arms to the

right oar the boat around the two remaining oars were quickly the men tried to row with the had them shot out of their up a bottom board and began but dropped it with a cry of pain as its drove into his bands then they gave up letting the boat drift till a second boat sent from the shore by wolf them in tow and brought them aboard late that afternoon wc up anchor and got nothing was before us but the three or four months hunting on th se grounds the outlook was black indeed and i went about my work with a heavy heart an almost to have descended upon the s v i i h d to his with on � f his strange stood at the wheel half supporting himself by it as though wearied by the weight of his flesh the rest of the men were and silent i came upon crouching to the ice at the his head on his knees his arms about hit head in an attitude of unutterable despondency t lying full length on the head at the troubled of the and i remembered with horror the suggestion wolf had made it seemed likely to bear fruit i tried to break in on the man s morbid thoughts by calling him away but he smiled sadly at me and refused to obey approached me as i returned aft i want to ask a favor mr van he if it s luck to ever make once more will you u p he s my old man he lives on the hill back of the baker a s shop that everybody knows and you ll have no trouble tell him i to be sorry for the trouble i brought him the sea wolf the things i done and � and just tell him god bless him for me i nodded my head but said we ll all win back to san and you ll be with me when i go to see rd like to believe you he answered shaking my hand but i can t wolf ll do for me i know it and all i can hope is he ll do it quick and as he left me i was aware of the same desire at my heart since it was to be done let it be done with despatch the general gloom had gathered me into its folds the worst appeared inevitable and as i paced the deck hour after hour i found myself afflicted with wolf s repulsive ideas what was it all about where was the grandeur of life that it should permit such wanton destruction of human souls it was a cheap and sordid thing after all this life and the sooner over the better over and done with i too leaned upon the rail and gazed into the sea with the certainty that sooner or later i should be sinking down down through the cool green depths of its oblivion chapter xvii to say in spite of the general nothing o moment happened on the ghost we ran on to the north and west tiu wc raised coast of k and picked up seal herd coming from no man knew where in the pacific it travelling north on its annual to the of sea and north we travelled with it and destroying th naked s to sailing down the skins so that they might later adorn the fair shoulders of the women of the cities it was wanton slaughter and all for woman s sake no man ate of the seal meat or the oil after a good day killing i have seen our decks covered with hides and bodies slippery with fat and blood the running red ropes and rails with the color and the men like their trade naked and red of arm and hand hard at work with and knives removing the from the pretty sea creatures they had killed it was my task to the as they came aboard from the boats to the and afterward of the decks and bringing things again it was not pleasant work my soul my stomach at it and yet in a way this and directing of many men was good for me it what little ability i possessed and i was aware of a or which i was the sea wolf going and which could not be anything but wholesome for van one thing i was beginning to feel and that was that i could never again be quite the same man i had i een while my hope and faith in human life still survived wolf s s destructive criticism he had nevertheless been a cause of change in minor matters he had opened up for me the world of the real of which i had known practically nothing and from which i had always shrunk i had learned to look more closely at life as it was lived to recognize that there were such things as facts in the world to from the realm of mind and idea and to place certain on the and phases of existence i saw more of wolf than ever when we had gained the grounds for when the weather was fair and we were in the midst of the herd all hands were away in the boats and left on board were only he and i and thomas who did not count but there was no play about it the six boats spreading out fan wise from the until the first weather boat and the last lee boat were anywhere from ten to twenty miles apart along a straight course over the sea till nightfall or bad weather drove them in it was our duty to sail the ghost well to of the last lee boat so that all the boats should have fair wind to run for us in case of or threatening weather it

arrived that could sing ii not arms and the man tools and the man that were now our what indeed are tools from the hammer and of to this pen we now write with but arms wherewith to do battle against without or within and in pieces not miserable fellow men but the arch enemy that makes us all miserable henceforth the only legitimate battle which as we granted is here altogether imperfectly sung scarcely a few notes thereof brought freely out nevertheless with indication with that it will be sung such is the purport and merit of the village it struggles towards a noble utterance which however it can find old is from the first speechless heard of rather than heard or seen at best mute motionless like a stone pillar of his own carving indeed to find fit utterance for such meaning as lies struggling here i a problem to which the highest poetic minds may long be content to accomplish only meanwhile our honest with no guide but the instinct of a clear natural talent has created and adjusted somewhat s miscellaneous writings not without vitality of union has avoided somewhat the road to which lay open enough his village for example though of an strain is not wholly not without touches of rugged � is like life itself with tears and toil with laughter and rude play such as sees it � in which sense that wondrous courtship of the sharp tempered oft green may pass questionable yet with a air of stained and so has not a picture indeed yet a sort of genial study or come together for him and may endure there after some which we have seen framed with and hung up in proud galleries have become rags and rubbish to one class of readers especially such books as these ought to be interesting � to the highest that is to say the richest class among our aristocracy there are men we trust there are many men who feel that they also are workmen born to toil ever in their great s eye faithfully with heart and head for those that with heart and hand do under the same great toil for them � who have even this noblest and hardest work set before them � to deliver out of that egyptian bondage to wretchedness and ignorance and sin the millions of whom this earnest witness and writer is here representative to such men his writing will be as a document which they will lovingly interpret what is dark and exasperated and in their humble brother they for themselves will and taking what is the real purport of his message and laying it earnestly to heart might an instructive relation and between high and low at length ground itself and more and more perfect itself to the unspeakable profit of all parties for if all parties are to love and help one another the first step towards this is that all thoroughly understand corn law one another to such rich men an message from the hearts of poor men from the heart of one poor man will be welcome to another class of our aristocracy again who unhappily feel rather that they are not workmen and profess not so much to bear any burden as to be themselves with utmost and if possible borne � such a phenomenon as this of the corn law with a and much else pointing the same way will be quite unwelcome indeed to the clearer sighted astonishing and alarming it that they find themselves as napoleon was wont to say in a new position � a position wonderful enough of extreme to which in the whole course of history there is perhaps but one case in some measure parallel the case alluded to stands recorded in the book of hers the case of the son of truly if we consider it there are few passages more notable and in their way than this of the truth speaker or as we should now say counsel and is forth as he has from of old quite done in the way of his not so much to curse the people of the lord as to earn for himself a comfortable penny by such means as are possible and expedient something it is hoped between cursing and blessing which shall not except in case of necessity be either a curse or a blessing or any thing so much as a nothing that will look like a something and bring wages in for the man is not far from it still less is he honest but above all things he is has been arid will be respectable did ever dare to fasten itself on the fair fame of in his whole walk and conversation has he not shown enough ever doing and speaking the thing that was decent with s miscellaneous writings proper spirit maintaining his so that friend and op must often compliment him and defy the world to say art thou a and now as he along in official comfort with brave official his heart filled with good things his head with schemes for the of vice and the cause of civil and religious liberty all over the world � consider what a and life clutching ice pang must have shot through the brain and of when his ass not only on the sudden stood stock still spur and but � began to talk and that in a reasonable manner did not his face and tremor occupy his joints for the thin crust of respectability has cracked asunder and a under him instead farewell a long farewell to all my greatness the spirit stirring vote ear piercing hear the big speech that makes ambition virtue soft palm first of and cheers that sphere music s occupation s gone � as for our stout corn law what can we say by way of but this � well done come again

occupation had much truth in it you have enough to do looking after your life risks an estimate of the value of goods from by this route at f while coming up the and passing through the imperial customs amounted to f i� in the freight on cotton goods from to is estimated at f r per ton a scarcely increase in cost on every yard after a of miles chapter xiv the and fu on february th we entered the solemn twenty miles long a grand chasm from to yards in width and walled in by perpendicular cliffs feet in height with lofty mountain and then touched with snow above them the witch s mountain great is and the black gloom of a winter day clouds round the higher and the long with which the the river god for a wind with many vows and promises to pay did not it nor does the name iron coffin g ge given to a reach above where iron chains are bolted into the cliffs fifty feet above the winter level of the river for the use of the bound west cheer the situation we were two days in this den and tied up for a third on sunday near the last inhabited village in mu garden situated on both sides of a deep apparently closed by a high mountain a covered bridge connecting the two it is a romantic place quite worth the ascent of steep stone steps which form the street the houses are surrounded by orange and their dark shining foliage with a background of snow the people of this province are said to be poor hardy and industrious a respectable merchant asked if we had heard when peace was going to be made such ignorance was on this great highway of commerce some asked ours what we were doing tied up there when there was such a good wind and the reply was that they had foreign devils as passengers who though they did no work and were always eating must sleep one day in seven above this the walls of the approach again they are still of with above at great the wind box heights worn in places into colossal and singularly by means of deep the outer of which have given way two narrow on each side of the river are the boundary between and but it was not till some hours later that we passed the first village of the empire province back to the rock a long straggling street on an imposing ledge and possessing a fine temple there is a small but nasty rapid below it which took two hours to ascend while along the shore i picked up a piece of pink granite which at once raised a the people saying that a foreigner with blue or grey eyes not only sees three feet into the ground but can look inside the stones and that i had seen a jewel in this one i threw it down and they broke it open and then not finding anything said that i had spirited it out of the stone by foreign magic the current at the upper end of the witch s produced so much tedious delay that i was glad when we reached the first city in to which for a considerable distance we were along by hooks attached to the s poles opposite is a small which brings down salt from wells near ta ling a district city in boats which mr little regards as exact copies of is grey and picturesque its walls following the of the hills on which it is built fields and beautiful trees a fine temple to the god of literature in a grove of on a steep mountain feet in height and a lofty on the same peak are striking objects but the town though fairly clean has no look of prosperity and so far was toiling up the and get down from horse we reached the or or wind box the last and one of the of the great where the great river is in places to yards by walls of rock from to feet in height there are both and dangerous the presence of red as usual risk my boat was dragged up inch by inch against a tremendous current up in places where there was no for and so terrible was the straining of these poor fellows on the rough and jagged rocks that i welcomed the and fu the opening out of the chasm and our entrance upon a beautiful country through which the rolls through a valley covered even in february with all manner of crops in their green just at the mouth creating two channels � one loo feet and the other feet in width � lies a black polished square mass of rock known as the goose tail rock it was fully forty feet above the water when i went up but when i came down in june it was only just visible when it is quite covered the authorities at the city five miles above do not allow any to descend till it a remarkable rock ladder connected with early chinese military history a grand white peak which curves over the a fine temple on a cliff with gardens and � and then the almost painful on the capacity for admiring and wondering which the previous eleven days had made came to an end the scenery above the wind box though less grand is very varied the valley and the valleys for ever and the distant mountains forest covered or the spurs crowned with grand temples below which picturesque villages cluster and black beamed several many orange and every slope and level is cultivated to perfection the bright yellow of the seed blossom adding a charm to which was never monotonous after ascending some troublesome but minor much all the time by a big cargo boat with seventy

in me and not my own i the conflict that ensued now was bitter savage deadly the moment was knocked down flew to their fire arms handed one to and kept the other himself the men who used them were fierce and powerful and cruel in a moment a furious contest took place the four men immediately each one attempting to the gun from his whose passions were now roused so as to resemble the fury of madness itself at one time howled like a beast of prey and shouted and screamed and laughed with that was enough to make any heart his eyes blazed his figure dilated his muscles stood out his mouth was white with and his eye brows were knit into a deep and deadly altogether his appearance was frightful and appalling was still better matched and the struggle with his foe was for some time doubtful enough the m latter being one of the strongest and most resolute men in the whole parish a powerful for the gun � place each pulling in opposite directions with all his might at struck who all at once let the gun go when the other having no longer any resisting power to sustain him fell back upon the floor and in an instant s knee was on his chest and the gun in his possession the man ground his teeth and looking up into his face with a black of hatred exclaimed � it is your turn now but i will have mine you have had yours too long villain replied the other but in the mean time i will teach you to respect the bed of death and the of a widow saying which he vigorously applied the but of the gun to his ribs until he had rendered him any thing but disposed for further conflict both were achieved much about the same time s opponent being far the more severely punished of the two what however was their surprise after each had his man from the cabin to find down his gun lying on one side o s wife fastened on his throat and himself panting and almost black in the face here now she exclaimed the battle of the the irish agent widow was well fought and god gave us strength put this man out with the rest this was accordingly done but as in the case of his companions the gun for the present was retained see now she proceeded still in irish what the hand of a weak woman can do when her heart is strengthened by god against cruelty and oppression what made that strong man weak in my grasp because he knew that the weakness of the widow was his shame � the touch of her hand took away his strength and what had he within or about him to depend on could he look in upon his wicked heart and be strong could he look upon the darkness of a bad conscience and be strong could he look on me � upon my dead husband and his bed of death and be strong no � and above all could he look up to the almighty god in heaven and be strong � no � no � no � but from all these gained strength � for surely surely had it not in myself she uttered these sentiments with wonderful energy and indeed from the fire in her eye and the flush of her cheek it was evident she was highly excited father who had been engaged and indeed had enough to do in keeping the poor child quiet and aloof from the m especially from his mother � now entreated that she would endeavour to compose herself as she had reason to thank god he said that neither she herself or her resolute had sustained any personal injury she did not seem to have heard him � for on looking on the body of her husband she almost bounded over to the bed and kneeling down and in a spirit of enthusiastic triumph kissed his lips now my husband said she we have fought and the victory no insult did you get no on your lowly bed where you re your last sleep do you know how the wife of your heart fought for you your own poor weak sorrowful heart broken but loving wife that was as feeble as an infant this i but who gave her the strength to put down a strong and wicked man the god � the good god � and to him be the glory � in whose bosom you are now happy ay we conquered � ha � ha � ha � we conquered � we conquered � ha � ha � ha i the dead body of in the mean time had been removed by his companions who it was evident felt as much if not more bitterness at their own defeat than they did by the fatal accident which deprived him of life the irish agent scarcely had the wild triumph of s wife time to when it soon became evident that the incidents of this bitter and melancholy morning were not yet completed the child alluded to by in his first brief with father had been for some time past in a much more dangerous state than his parents suspected or at least than liis unhappy mother did whose principal care was engrossed by the situation of her husband the poor boy at all times affectionate and felt to his little wants and sufferings upon her attention knowing as he did that owing to the nursing of his father she was scarcely permitted three hours sleep out of the twenty four if he could have been afforded even the ordinary comforts of a sick bed it is possible he might have recovered the only drink he could call for was the black water as it is termed by the people

duty � nothing except church and school and parish affairs there were many trifling matters to attend to � how trifling only the incumbent of a country living knows the ludicrous local quarrels � the mean and petty injuries � the malicious attempts of one christian neighbour to annoy another � all these things come more or less under the notice of the set in authority over a rural community and if he be not a man as small minded as the majority of the rustic folk around him which he too frequently is he must needs often be moved to a wondering and well nigh despairing pity for the infinitely little of poor human kind for though large cities show precisely the same low and they are not brought so imder the eye as in the circle of a village mrs may give herself as many airs as she likes in london and london sees her not � but mrs on her high horse in the country is quite a different and much more odious person the smaller the place the more narrow the life and so richard was to find it he the various letters and papers on his table with a settled precision which indicated that he was forcing his attention to dwell on matters distasteful to his immediate humour and among them he came upon a respectfully intimation from the village carpenter who was also the under i the tragedy of a quiet life to the effect that mrs having died it was proposed according to the wishes of mr the to have the funeral next day if he the would name a convenient hour he answered this at once fixing the ceremony for three o clock in the afternoon and sent the letter to its destination straight away by one of his servants as a personal messenger there should be no delay he thought somewhat in burying all that was mortal of mrs � poor long suffering who had been killed by sheer the of blows � or the of words � ah no no i could never be brutal � she was thoughtless but not unkind � she had done no harm � she had not the smallest share of blame in the woman s death � it was to suggest it� to say it he shuddered at his own thoughts which like bees round the whole miserable incident � an incident b more or less and deepening into something of a tragedy and as usual he laid all the blame on his own shoulders his endeavour to save mrs from further assault by her drunken husband had surely so he declared to himself led to the present disastrous result and all suddenly he asked � is it just of the almighty to allow a kindness to be brought back in the shape of a curse he from his own as this demand leaped up in his brain like a flash of fire yet it repeated itself i ask � said the vexed soul within him � if it is right that an honest effort to follow the teaching of the christian creed should be rewarded by a frightful and accusation against the innocent woman i love and then he paused as though awaiting an answer strangely solemnly and as with an inward voice the answer came in the form of another is it right that i the should have given my life on earth for men who doubt me and me even now and in the sudden sense of awe and which fell upon him he covered his face with his hands and prayed silently � lead me not into temptation but deliver me from evil o lord command me as thou wilt y holy orders me thy holy orders and even if they lead me to my death i ordained to serve thee will obey i and on this his mind appeared to pause � till it seemed to him that his vow had been accepted then in a moment or two he was calm again and went on with his usual work how much he missed he would not allow himself to think ever since he had brought her home to the as his bride it had been the joy of his life to know that at any moment her fair head might peep into his study or her voice call to him in the accents of sweetness to which he had grown so fondly accustomed but now the house was empty � of light music laughter and love he was alone with his own thinking self and god � god that mighty unknown power to whom for millions of ages creation has cried and prayed and wept � god that majestic silence which is never disturbed for all the of men � which and at a breath and no reason given � which is light and darkness gladness and sorrow love and hate in one � and which we instinctively worship in all not so much because we will but because we must but it is natural to weak man to prefer the warm tenderness of a woman s arms about him to the awful coldness of a no matter how of exquisite promise and glorious suggestion that may be � and it was therefore to be expected that richard who for au his anxiety to live a purely spiritual life had a tender sensitive heart of his own would for the time being feel a melancholy sense of solitude in the absence of his pretty wife with a corresponding depression of spirits there was one thought which now and then pushed itself resolutely into the of his brain to be as resolutely pushed out again by the strong of his will � the thought of miller he hated with an intensity of hatred that surprised himself the memory of that girl s exquisite face by its large star like

passed down the corridor i saw the princess who was in her sitting room and on the look out for me i was afraid to stay in the room with my daughter she said drawing me to the window because every extra person who is breathing the air to her that is why i slipped away when i had taken you in tell me what you think of her i think she looks terribly ill madame i replied yes yes more than ill i shall not have my child with me long am quite prepared for it i have expected tr the strange story of my life it feared it dreaded it for months past but it has been very near during these past few days it comes nearer with every moment she was pleased to see you she continued with a great effort at cheerfulness she seemed to be so she begged me to go and see her again you will send for me at any time that i can be of the smallest pleasure or distraction to her you are remaining in she said i am remaining for the present because i dread leaving and the doctor fears for my taking a journey while my health is so bad as it is just now i don t think that i shall get the fever i don t feel like it ah one never knows it would be better to get away i cannot go of course i could not move my daughter in her present condition that is out of the question but your tie here is broken you have yourself and your husband to think of my dear friend she went on laying her slim hand upon my shoulder with a gesture of affection such as only the shadow of grief ever in those who have but just learned to know each other for his sake you ought to get away not for a few days i said drawing a deep breath i am not fit to take a journey and is not fit to do so either i have to think of her a little some indians do think of the natives you know though the majority do not some treat the natives as if they were dirt under their feet and as if their lives were worth nothing but this poor soul clung to my little child with a devotion which has any devotion i have ever seen and i cannot drag her off on a journey until she has somewhat recovered from her exhaustion and grief i shall remain here for the present i ended people who have been used to living in india do not run away like scared from the mere chance of so i remained on and every day sometimes twice nurse would come round and fetch me to pay a visit to the young princess sometimes i would stay news from � half an hour beside her not talking much but just sitting there at others she would be tired in ten minutes and one day she said to me mrs do you sing as a matter of fact i did sing not very much not to pride myself upon it � for i had never had the advantage or chance of receiving really good training � but i had a pleasant little pipe and i sang or i had been used to sing to please myself and those who loved me having found out so much she insisted on my singing to her she was passionately fond of music and the landlord of the hotel des who would i think have given his head to make the ladies happy or comfortable brought in a little piano from his wife s sitting room and put it in the large and airy apartment into which princess s bed was moved every morning through the folding doors from her sleeping chamber after the coming of the piano i used to spend hours there during the course of the day going over all the songs that i had ever known not attempting to sing but just over the airs which were her and mine and sometimes the princess herself would come and sit listening and once or twice she came into the corridor with me and told me with tear laden eyes that never never should she be able to make me any adequate return for what i had been able to do for her but i cannot help being anxious and uneasy about you she ended you ought to be away from this place it is not right of you to stay here the risk is too great i shall not go away just at present i replied quietly the doctor thinks that i am better where i am and i have written to my physician in london sir who his opinion i am taking great care of myself i carry a perfect of and here touching the bosom of my dress and i am taking and all sorts of and i don t think you need worry about me the strange story of my life princess i don t indeed and while i can make such a difference to princess i would rather stay where i am than go out into the world among strangers again you forget i went on i am not like who has a home to go to my home is thousands and thousands of miles away if i went back to it i should be alone j the same i could not go to join my husband no woman could get to the district where he is and if she could get there she would not be permitted to do so as affairs are at present so that i am better here than i should be anywhere else don t trouble yourself about me i am happier here and therefore i think that i am safer

succeeded in removing her and her large income to his own but he could not succeed in the views of permanently his family which were attributed to him she had been too wary to put anything out of her own power and when on sir harry s death she returned again to her own house at she was said to have made this boast that though she had got nothing but her title from the family yet she had given nothing for it for the title it was to be supposed that she married lady was indeed a great lady beyond the common wants of society for she had many thousands a year to and three distinct sets of people to be by � her own a of jane tions who might very reasonably wish for her original thirty thousand pounds among them the legal of mr who might hope to be more indebted to her sense of justice than he had allowed them to be to his and those members of the family for whom her second husband had hoped to make a good bargain by all or by branches of them she had no doubt been long and still continued to be well attacked and of these three divisions mr did not hesitate to say that mr s kindred were the least in favor and sir harry s the most the former he believed had done themselves harm by expressions of very unwise resentment at the time of mr s death the latter to the advantage of being the remnant of a con which she certainly valued joined those of having been known to her from their childhood and of being always at hand to pursue their in by attentions but another was now to be taken into account a young female relation whom lady had been induced to receive into her family after having always protested against any such addition and often enjoyed the repeated defeat she had given to every attempt of her own relations to introduce this young lady or that young lady as a com at house she had brought back with her from london last a miss who bid fair to in favor with sir edward and to secure for herself and her family that share of the accumulated property which they had certainly the best right to inherit a of lady s character comes out in a con which takes place at mr s the turned entirely upon its present number of and the chances of a good season it was evident that had more anxiety more fears of loss than her she wanted to have the place fill faster and seemed to have apprehensions of the lodgings being in some instances to a report that a large boarding school was expected she replies ah well no harm in that they will stay their six weeks and out of such a number who knows but some may be and want milk and i have two at this very time but perhaps the little may hurt the furniture i hope they will have a good sharp to look after them but she wholly of mr s wish to secure the residence of a medical man amongst them why what should we do with a doctor here it would only be encouraging our servants and the poor to fancy themselves ill if there was a doctor at hand oh pray let us have none of that tribe at we go on very well as we are there is the sea and the downs and my and i have told mrs that if anybody for a chamber horse they may be supplied at a fair rate poor mr s chamber horse as good as new and what can people want more i have lived seventy good years in the world and never took except twice and never saw the face of a doctor in all my a of jane life on my own account and i really if my poor dear sir harry had never seen one neither he would have been alive now ten one after another did the men take who sent him out of the world i you mr no doctors here this lady s character comes out more strongly in a conversation with mr s g est miss sir edward with his sister and have just left them accepted an invitation from lady to remain with her on the terrace when the others to the library lady like a true great lady talked and talked only of her own concerns and listened taking hold of s arm with the ease of one who felt that any notice from her was a favor and from the same sense of importance or from a natural love of talking she immediately said in a tone of great satisfaction and with a look of arch sagacity � miss wants me to invite her and her brother to spend a week with me at house as i did last summer but i sha n t she has been trying to get round me every way with her praise of this and her praise of that but i saw what she was about i saw through it all i am not very easily taken in my dear could think of nothing more harmless to be said than the simple inquiry of sir edward and miss yes my dear my young folks as i call a of sometimes for i take them very much by the band and had them with me last summer about this time for a week � from monday to monday � and very delighted and thankful they were for they are very good young people my dear i would not have you think that i only notice them for poor dear sir harry s sake no no they are very deserving themselves or trust me they would not be so much in my

their lives to perfect a and though it is urged that these were made under very imperfect and circumstances it is equally true that they were the most favorable that could l e and better than can now be obtained we stand then in the presence of this state of facts � into those windows would secure the desired result for are persons of all kinds as well as of ability seeking work � that is seeking opportunity to coin their own exertions into the bread and clothes and shelter they so need say there is no work for them and their own and rags give you the lie they themselves afford tliat very market for their labor for want of which they shiver and but the carpenter cannot live on timber even if he had it he cannot even build himself dwelling for want of which his in some damp and thus the tailor grows more ragged and the sees own come more and more fully in contact with the frosty pavement while the out of to her bare garret and god that star rather than may end her long battle now so nearly t for the and bread i there must be some way out of this social for god is good and has not created men and women to star e for want of work the six days thou labor and work for all where ia and edged impulse of either party the the employer parts with his money only to increase it and so it would seem is entitled to prompt payment or faithful service � not specially to gratitude he who pays a of fair wheat for a day s work at for next year s harvest has simply exchanged a of his property for other property to him of greater value and so has no sort of claim to an from the other party to the bargain but so long as there shall be ten who would gladly borrow to one disposed and able to lend and many more anxious to be hired than others able and willing to employ them there always will be a natural eagerness of competition for advances employment and a deference of to employed to employer he who may hire or not as to him shall seem profitable is independent while he who must be hired or starve exists at others mercy not till society shall be so adjusted so organized that whoever is willing to work shall assuredly have work and fair for doing it as readily as he who has gold may exchange it for more notes wiu the be placed on a footing of justice and independence he who is able and to give work for bread is not essentially a he does not desire to abstract without from tlie of the world s goods and he is not a beggar wishing only to convert his own muscular energy into bread it is not merely his but every man s interest that the opportunity should be afforded him � nay it is the clear of society to render such exchange at all times and convenient a community or little world wherein all freely serve and all are amply served � wherein each works according to his tastes or needs and is paid for all he does or brings to pass � wherein education is free and common as air and sunshine � wherein and cannot abide the social but are by a quiet wholesome � wherein and necessarily find their level and but actual service tested by the can secure approbation and none but sterling qualities win esteem � such is the ideal world of the grant that it is but a dream � and such as yet it for the most part has been � it by no means follows that it has no practical value on the contrary an ideal an illusion if a noble one has often been the of grand and beneficent efforts moses was fated never to enter the land of promise he so viewed from afar and never found � who can now wish that he had � that westward to india that he sought so wisely and so yet stiu the world moves on and by mysterious and ways the great brave soul is permitted to the purposes of god contemplating the elevation and blessing of man and so i cannot doubt the unselfish efforts in our day for the of social though their methods may be rejected as mistaken or will yet to their contemplated ends fail not then humble for the good time coming to lend your feeble sigh to swell the sails of whatever bark is with earnest efforts for the of human woes nor doubt that the divine breath shall it at last to its prayed for haven time will not suffice to speak fully of the efforts but yesterday so and active now so languid and for the of the legal penalty of death perhaps this has already succeeded so far as it was best it succeed at present � that is so far that some states in the west as others in the east have absolutely and others the death penalty if we could now forget the whole subject for ten years we might at the close of tliat period compare carefully and the of capital crime in the states which have and those which have retained the gallows and strike an instructive balance between them for the present let it suffice that no one appears now to be seriously contend r and ing that life is less safe or crime more in the states which destroy no human lives than in others and when society shall for a generation have set a consistent example of the of this life regarding it as a sacred gift from god which he only may take away � we may hope that the example will not

me it is a stake for which a man might well play a desperate game and one more question dr supposing that anything happened to our young friend here � you will forgive the unpleasant � who would inherit the estate since sir charles s younger brother died unmarried the estate would descend to the who are distant cousins james is an elderly clergyman in thank you these details are all of great interest have you met mr james yes he once came down to visit sir charles he is a man of venerable appearance and of life i remember that he refused to accept any settlement from sir charles though he pressed it upon him and this man of simple tastes would be the heir to sir charles s thousands the hound of the he would be the heir to the estate because that is he would also be the heir to the money unless it were willed otherwise by the present owner who can of course do what he likes with it and have you made your sir no mr have not i ve had u time for it was only yesterday that i learned how stood but in any case i feel that the money should go with the title and estate that was my poor uncle s idea how is the owner going to restore the glories of the if he not money enough to keep up the property house land and dollars must go together quite so well sir henry i am of one mind with you as to the of your going down to without delay there is only one provision which i must make you certainly must not go alone dr returns with mc but dr has his practice to attend to and his house is miles away from yours with all the good will in the world he may be unable to help you no sir henry you must take with you a man who will be always by your side is it possible that you could come yourself mr if matters came to a crisis i should endeavour to be present in person but you can understand � � � three t h r e a i s that with my extensive consulting practice and with the constant appeals which reach me from many quarters it is impossible for me to be absent from london for an indefinite time at the present instant one of the most names in england is being by a and only i can stop a disastrous scandal you will see how impossible it is for me to go to whom would recommend then laid his hand upon my arm if my friend would undertake it there is no man who is better worth having at your side when you are in a tight place no one can say so more confidently than i the proposition took me completely by surprise but before i had time to answer seized me by the hand and wrung it heartily well now that is real kind of you dr said he you see how it is with me and you know just as much about the matter as i do if you will come down to hall and see me through i ll never forget it the promise of adventure had always a fascination for me and i was by the words of and by the eagerness with which the hailed me as a companion i will come with pleasure said i i do not know how i could employ my time better and you will report very carefully to me said when a crisis comes as it will do i the hound of the ba will direct how you shall act i suppose that t saturday all might be ready would that suit dr perfectly then on saturday unless you hear to the con we shall meet at the train from we had risen to depart when gave a cry of triumph and into one of the corners of the room he drew a brown boot from under a cabinet my missing boot he cried may all our difficulties vanish as easily sail but it is a very singular thing dr remarked i searched this room carefully before lunch and so did i said every inch of it there was certainly no boot in it then in that case the waiter must have placed it there while we were the german was sent for but professed to know nothing of the matter nor could any inquiry clear it up another item had been added to that constant and apparently series of small mysteries which had succeeded each other so rapidly setting aside the whole grim story of sir charles s death we had a line of inexplicable incidents all within the limits of two days which included the i i i three broken threads receipt of the printed letter the black bearded spy in the the loss of the new brown boot the loss of the old black boot and now the return of the new brown boot sat in silence in the cab as we drove back to baker street and i knew from his drawn brows and keen face that his mind like my own was busy in endeavouring to frame some scheme into which all these strange and apparently could be fitted all afternoon and late into the evening he sat lost in tobacco and thought just before dinner two were handed in tl first ran � have just heard that is at the hall � the second � visited twenty three hotels as directed but sorry to report unable to trace cut sheet of times � there go two of my threads there is nothing more than a case where everything goes against you we must cast round for another scent we have still the who drove the spy exactly i have to get his

the number of in great britain as near as may be the number of their churches or is three hundred of this number twenty belong to london proper and eight more within a circle of twelve miles this makes the entire number in what they call the district twenty eight i have been in six of their places of worship one of those best attended where mr usually the services when in london is the at the farthest end of where probably the average attendance is in round numbers but the number that belong to william street place of meeting leading out of the north end x f the road is larger than that at the i should think it could not be less than mr miller who is the minister � no one else taking a prominent part in the conduct of the public worship � can only be looked on as a modified he acts almost entirely on the independent principle � that is ho is in a sense in the administration of church affairs a law unto himself still if he is to be placed in either of the of the brethren he would decidedly prefer to be with the of this a proof was furnished a few years ago by tho fact of mr of preaching in his chapel for no � and mr may be regarded as a sort of lieutenant of mr s � dare venture to minister in any place of worship not in fellowship with the section of the brethren indeed were he to do so the penalty he would have to pay would be his immediate from the body a third of the principal of the section takes place in north row near the marble arch park mr when he is in london � lately i am told he was visiting the brethren in is the chief party in that gathering the average attendance there judging from what i have seen i should set down at from to then there is the road chapel i should suppose that the usual attendance in it is about dr a venerable looking and gentlemanly man almost exclusively ministers in that assembly or did until lately the others taking the average of the remaining twenty eight meeting places in and around london do not i feel assured exceed fifty for each this would give an of in round numbers brethren of the section in the district as out by them taking the entire number of the class of brethren in great britain i should say it to about i ground my calculation on the fact already stated the accuracy of which is not i believe disputed that their amount as near as may be to now judging from what i have seen in the provinces and from what i have been told by others who are of the state of things regarding their numbers i feel satisfied that to allow fifty on an average to each of their provincial churches is to give them more than they are entitled to for instance i have been at their meeting in while their late minister mr w � one of the very and best in every respect of their body � was alive the and of and the number the gathering on that not to count it was under thirty an average therefore of fifty in places in the country would give an provincial of if to the numbers then of the section of the brethren in die provinces we add those in the district we shall have an number of somewhat exceeding if leaving our own country we proceed to other lands we shall find that in foreign parts there is a goodly number of them scattered about there are many of them in the south of france in in italy and in other continental countries in canada too they are somewhat numerous � more so from all i can learn than perhaps in any other country abroad mr seems to take a special interest in the brethren in canada for he pays them frequent visits and remains with them a longer time than he does when he visits his brethren in other lands in the united states mr has also a number of but fewer i believe in proportion to the extent of the religious there than in any other country where the english language is spoken the are spreading in while indeed this is passing through the press two leading men of the faith have returned from new where they have been on a visit to the brethren at the in the west indies the of mr are rather numerous considering all the circumstances and i am assured are increasing but probably they are more numerous in the channel islands than in any other part of our possessions beyond the of britain compared with those of the population entertaining sentiments they are very numerous in both and especially in the latter which may be accounted for from the fact that the william an author of eminence and a man of great teaching otherwise preaching talents though very and austere when dealing with those who differ from him � has been long settled in that island but curiously enough there is no part of the queen s in which the brethren in fellowship with mr are so numerous in proportion to the population as in the small the island of though the number of its inhabitants be under i have the fact on the testimony of one who lately left after a residence of several years in the island � and my belongs to the established church � that their number somewhat from the information i have thus furnished respecting the condition of the section of the brethren the reader will have a clear understanding of that aspect of the brethren question the question will naturally be asked what as a body is their social

he may be arrested and made to confess his wickedness is the one who can tell most about him and i think will for since got the money he had not behaved very well while they were thus talking a knock came to the door the servant entered with a card which she presented on a to her mistress who was thoroughly worn out took it languidly then suddenly became excited he is here she said mark is here chapter mark when announced the name of her visitor the princess rose to leave the room she explained that she did not think it was in keeping with the dignity of her position to meet every shady person who called and added that her daughter was not in a way worthy of her name and family when she departed looked at ware he swiftly interpreted her look i shall stop he said promptly i am only too anxious to help you came forward and took his hand and you forgive me she asked there is nothing to forgive he answered shaking it heartily let us seek for anne together i will be able to tell us where she is i leave you to manage him the girl nodded and touched the bell shortly the maid showed in a slim young fellow of a somewhat type he was clean shaven and wonderfully pale with large dark eyes and curly black hair worn rather long he was dressed in a grey suit and wore a red tied loosely in a bow there was something a coin of edward vii foreign in his looks and dress at the first sight one would have taken him for an italian but when he spoke it was apparent that he was an englishman he said when he entered then catching sight of in the background he stopped short with a scared look this is a friend of mine mark said coming forward he knows all that there is to be known oh and you promised not to say a word said reproachfully she shook her head i promised to save you from being arrested and i shall fulfil my promise why have you come here in his pocket your letter he said handing it to her took it glanced at it and finally passed it to ware i did not write that letter she said quietly steel the sent it so as to bring you here he wishes to resume the conversation you left at it s a trap cried violently and swung round to the door but there was no chance of escape in that direction he opened it to find steel standing without the stepped into the room and locked the door now he said we can have some conversation princess i for having used your name but it was the only way to bring this young man into my net into a net said letting fall his soft hat you intend to have me arrested his hand went round to the back of his waist in a moment steel had flung himself forward and after a short struggle him the knife that the had secured was an weapon mark you are more italian than the he said slipping the knife into his pocket but you are not a gentleman to frighten the lady i am not frightened said promptly but i am very tired i shall retire and leave you two gentlemen to deal with mark sprang forward and caught her dress he looked terrified do not leave me he entreated you know that i love you and that for your sake i have betrayed a man who has done much for me you promised to help me i shall do so she answered returning to her seat i shall see that you are not arrested and pardon me princess it may be necessary to mr steel this man shall not be arrested she said stamping her foot if i am cried resolutely i shall say nothing only to save myself will i speak ware addressed a few hurried words to the who nodded reluctantly it was who spoke i promise that you shall not be put in he said but you must tell the truth if i do so i am in danger of my life then it is not gratitude that keeps you silent gratitude said flinging back his head what have i to be grateful for mr you mean interposed quickly echoed steel that is the father of the l ei no said anne s father is dead this man pretended to play the part and she has only lately been also mr steel you must know that there is no walter the man at the a coin of edward vii is the scoundrel you know as the head of the scarlet cross society and the murderer of miss not that last interposed while steel dropped into a seat with astonishment did not kill her he does not know who did he told me so he would tell you anything to save himself no replied he tells me all his secrets at one time i should have died before i revealed them but has treated me cruelly i owe him no gratitude for years i for him i did all that a man could do for his sake what reward have i got he has beaten me like a dog he has left me to starve he has delivered me up to those members of our society who hate me since he came in for this money put in as you say sir � but since he became george and a wealthy man he told me plainly that he washed his hands of me he gave me a small sum and sent me to america promising an it was not paid i wrote � i threatened he laughed at me so i have come back from america to punish him he

and an mr so i � i am given to understand of immense ability by ic the brass bottle i m afraid i can t claim to be that said but i may call myself fairly competent competent why of course you re competent do you suppose sir that i a practical business man should come to any one who was not competent he said with exactly the air of a man trying to convince against his own judgment � that he was acting with the utmost prudence am i to understand that some one has been good enough to recommend me to you inquired certainly not sir certainly not i need no recommendation but my own judgment i� ah � have a tolerable acquaintance with all that is going on in the art world and i have come to the conclusion mr � eh � ah � i repeat the deliberate and conclusion that you are the one man living who can do what i want delighted to hear it said gratified when did you see any of my designs never mind sir i don t decide without very good grounds it doesn t take me long to make up my mind and when my mind is made up i act sir i act and to come to the point i have a small commission � unworthy i am quite aware of your � ah � distinguished talent � which i should like to put in your hands is he going to ask me to attend a sale for him thought i m hanged if i do by ic i m rather busy at present he said as you may see i m not sure whether i ll put the matter in a sir � in a my name is samuel � tolerably well known if i may say so in city circles of course concealed the fact that his visitor s name and fame were to him i ve lately bought a few acres on the border near the house i m living in just now and i ve been thinking � as i was saying to a friend only just now as we were crossing westminster bridge � i ve been thinking of building myself a little place there just a humble home where i could run down for the and entertain a friend or two in a quiet way and perhaps live some part of the year hitherto i ve places as i wanted em � old family seats and and so forth very nice in their way but i want to feel under a roof of my own i want to surround myself with the simple comforts ah � elegance of an english country home and you re the man � i feel more convinced of it with every word you say � you re the man to do the job in style � ah � to execute the work as it should be done here was the long wished for at last and it was satisfactory to feel that he had arrived in the most ordinary and commonplace course for no one could look at mr samuel and believe for a moment that he was capable of floating through an by ic the brass bottle upper window he was not in the least that kind of person i shall be happy to do my best said with a calmness that surprised himself could you give me some idea of the amount you are prepared to spend well i m no though i won t say i m a and as i remarked before i prefer comfort to splendour i don t think i should be justified in going beyond � well say sixty thousand sixty thousand exclaimed who had expected about a tenth of that sum oh not more than sixty thousand i see i mean on the house itself explained mr there will bo cottages and so forth and then some of the rooms i should want specially decorated altogether before we are finished it may work out at about a hundred thousand i take it that with such a margin you could � ah � run me up something that in a modest way would take the shine out of � i mean to say anything in the adjoining i certainly think said that for such a sum as that i can undertake that you shall have a home which will satisfy you and he proceeded to put the usual questions as to site soil available building materials the accommodation that would be required and so on you re young sir said mr at the by ic end of the interview but i perceive you are up to all the tricks of the � i should say in the of your profession you would like to run down and look at the ground eh well that s only reasonable and my wife and daughters will want to have their say in the matter � no getting on without pleasing the ladies hey now let me see to morrow s sunday why not come down by the a m to ill have a trap or a and pair or something waiting for you � take you over the ground myself bring you back to lunch with us at court and talk the whole thing thoroughly over then we ll send you up to town in the evening and you can start work the first thing on monday that suit you very well then we ll expect you to morrow with this mr departed leaving as may be imagined absolutely overwhelmed by the suddenness and completeness of his good fortune he was no longer one of the he had work to do and better still work that would interest him give him all the scope and opportunity he could wish for with a who seemed and to whom money was clearly no object he

the world and life by saying my age in years is twenty two then there were the simple straight out homely and letters of young boys lacking in the of expression it is true but desiring greatly to make the voyage these were the hardest of all to decline and each time i declined one it seemed as if i had struck youth a slap in the face they were so earnest these boys they wanted so much to go am sixteen but large age said one and another seventeen but large and healthy i am as strong adventure at least as the average boy of my size said an evident not afraid of any kind of work was what many said while one in particular to me no doubt by wrote i can pay my way to the pacific coast so that part would probably be acceptable to you going around the world is the one thing i want to do said one and it seemed to be the one thing that a few hundred wanted to do i have no one who cares whether i go or not was the pathetic note sounded by another one had sent his photograph and speaking of it said i m a sort of a chap but looks don t always count and i am confident that the lad who wrote the following would have turned out all right my age is years but i am rather small and consequently won t take up much room but i m tough as the devil and there was one thirteen year old that and i fell in love with and it nearly broke our hearts to refuse him but it must not be imagined that most of my were boys on the contrary boys constituted a very small proportion there were men and women from every walk in life and offered in large numbers to come along and like all the professional men offered to come without pay to serve in any capacity and to pay even for the privilege of so serving there was no end of and who wanted to come to say nothing of experienced and civil were keen on the voyage lady companions up for while i was with the of would be private many high the of the and university students for the voyage and every trade in the working class developed a few the and being especially strong on the trip j was surprised at the number who in law offices heard the call of adventure and i was more than surprised by the number of elderly retired sea captains who were still � the sea several v fellows with millions coming to later on were wild for the adventure as were also several county of schools fathers and sons wanted to come and many men with their wives to say nothing on a level sea f the young woman who wrote write immediately if you need i shall bring my on the first train but the best of all is the following � observe the delicate way in which he worked in his wife i thought i would drop you a line of inquiry as to the possibility of making the trip with you am years of age mar if ij h hi h h adventure and broke and a trip of that kind would be just what we are looking for come to think of it for the average man it must be fairly difficult to write an honest letter of self recommendation one of my was so that he began his letter with the words this is a hard task and after vainly trying to describe his good points he wound up with it is a hard job writing about one s self nevertheless there was one who gave himself a most glowing and character and in conclusion stated that he had greatly enjoyed writing it but suppose this your cabin boy could run your engine could repair it when out of order suppose he could take his turn at the wheel could do any carpenter or work suppose he is strong healthy and willing to work would you not rather have him than a kid that gets and can t do anything but wash dishes it was letters of this sort that i hated to decline the writer of it self taught in english had been only two years in the united states and as he said i am not wishing to go with you to earn my living but i wi h to learn and see at the time of writing to me he was a for one of the big companies he had been to sea quite a bit and had been used all his life to the handling of small boats i have a good position but it matters not so with me as i prefer travelling wrote another as to salary look at me and if i am worth a dollar or two all right and if i am not nothing said as to my honesty and character i shall be pleased to show you my never drink no tobacco but to be honest i the of the myself after a little more experience want to do a little writing i can assure you that i am eminently respectable but find other respectable people tiresome the man who wrote the foregoing certainly had me and i am still wondering whether or not he d have found me tiresome or what the deuce he did mean i have seen better days than what i am passing through to day wrote an old salt but i have seen them a great deal worse also but the to sacrifice on the part of the man who wrote the following was so touching that i could not accept i have a father a mother brothers and sisters dear friends and a position and yet

country a wet summer is a very nasty business meanwhile mrs frank notwithstanding elizabeth s held stoutly to the plan of spending the summer in frank protested on the score of expense and of the difficulty of taking two small children such a long journey but his wife having made up her mind he as usual ended by giving way so by the middle of august the frank found themselves established in one of those charming little towns that fringe the ch xii a sketch in black and white northern shores of the lake of with their rows of white houses had joined the party � he would really have been at a loss to state exactly why his feelings towards mrs frank were certainly not of an affectionate nature but he liked her husband too he felt deep down in his heart a sort of satisfaction in being with elizabeth s relations and in picking up stray bits of information about her from time to time a change had come over in the last few months he was more silent and s cheery and and he looked a good deal older he had been drawing hard lately and intelligent critics thought they perceived a new quality in his work it was less delicately pretty but stronger and with more meaning and of intention about it one or two people were good enough to concerning him that he would still make his mark when some acquaintance asked him one day how he had come suddenly to make such a distinct advance and improvement he shrugged his shoulders and answered with a laugh � oh you know this child too has been in hell the frank were very prosperous people things as a rule went easily and pleasantly with them but just at this period they seemed to get a run of bad luck the weather was almost as wet in the beautiful pays de as at home in england a daily thunder storm came to be reckoned as regularly included in the bill of fare the children were poorly mrs part ii and and as a very crown of trouble frank managed while doing a little to slip on some loose rock and his ankle it caused him acute pain at the time and obliged him to spend the best part of a month on the sofa swearing mildly at foreign countries in general and at countries in particular and declaring that he for his part should spend his next holiday at dine at one o clock and have every evening for tea let say what she liked on a certain monday afternoon while the daily thunder storm was backwards and forwards among the hills the were trying to amuse themselves as well as they could in their little it was a not very luxurious apartment � possessed of solid furniture and a of faded red velvet � on the second floor of the hotel but it had the charm of possessing also two great french windows opening on to a balcony which commanded a splendid view � when anything was to be seen frank was lying on the sofa grumbling gently to come abroad at considerable expense and then be laid up in this way was enough to turn even his amiable nature a little sour mrs frank was struggling to take a vital interest in a novel � concerning which she had a horrid suspicion that the third volume was lost � and alternately listening to hear if the baby sounded happy with his nurse in the next room and who bored and irritable at being kept so much ch xii a sketch in black and white indoors seemed to be meditating unspeakable upon the now no longer new with the pink hat stood lazily at the open window with his hands in his pockets and his back to the company watching the progress of the storm he had developed rather a habit of standing doing nothing but stare out of the window just lately the prospect was not a cheering one across the lake the mountains of and of the were behind heavy streaming masses of white mist down towards there was a lurid light in the sky and the swiftly moving clouds were twisted and into a thousand weird fantastic shapes the broad lake itself was a blue with long of livid gray where the sudden of wind swept across the angry surface of the water in the could see the waves dashing themselves against the stone wall on the other side of the while great drops of rain and on the broad leaves of the plane trees in the garden just below it was not an encouraging outlook certainly but perhaps was none the less in sympathy with it on that account there was a knock at the door of the cried mrs frank over her shoulder then turning to the little girl on the floor by her side she said � my dear child do have some sort of compassion on that unfortunate doll you ll break its mrs part ii head right off you know if you bang it down on the floor in that way looked up with a very little face at her mother and the doll s head down again on the bare floor i hate this she said she s so old i want to go out into the garden and play turned round as the door opened it was only a hurried and slightly distracted garden with a packet of english letters none for you said frank as he examined them slowly before proceeding to open them turned back to the window again good gracious cried frank all of a sudden why what s the matter asked his wife almost any event would have been a relief to her this afternoon she felt so bored elizabeth s ill down at said frank slowly running his eyes over the

tell you it was his impression that she was somewhere in europe it was at her request that we ve been so quiet about it poor girl she has a lot of pride � good by jack but who is she i asked certainly from the way you talk about her she must be somebody did you ever hear of he asked i repeated haunted by some familiar association i shook my head it seems to me i ve heard the name but ive forgotten it never heard of the i beg your pardon of course you are a and could not be expected to know well was the best beloved of � of all for matter you say was i interrupted and i mean it she is finished he shrugged his shoulders � u good by jack ii a dozen � i beg your pardon white men � have lost their hearts to her at one time or another and i m not counting in the the dozen i refer to were of position and she could have married the son of the chief justice if she d wanted to you think she s beautiful eh but you should hear her sing finest native woman singer in her throat is pure silver and melted sunshine we adored her she america first with the royal band after that she made two more on her own � concert work oh i cried i remember now i heard her two years ago at the boston so that is she i recognize her now ii good by jack i was oppressed by a heavy sadness life was a futile thing at best a short two years and this magnificent creature at the summit of her magnificent success was one of the awaiting to s lines came into my mind � the poor old tramp explains his poor old life is i think a blunder and a shame i from my own future if this awful fate fell to what might not my lot be � or anybody s lot i was thoroughly aware that in life we are in the midst of death � but to be in the midst of living death to die and not be dead to be one of that of creatures that once were men aye and women like the of all charms an artist as well and well beloved of men � i good by jack am afraid i must have betrayed my for doctor hastened to assure me that they were very happy down in the settlement it was all too monstrous i could not bear to look at her a short distance away behind a stretched rope guarded by a policeman were the relatives and friends they were not allowed to come near there were no last embraces no kisses of farewell they called back and forth to one another � last messages last words of love last instructions and those behind the rope looked with terrible intensity it was the last time they would behold the faces of their loved ones for they were the living dead being away in the funeral ship to the of ii good by jack doctor gave the command and the unhappy wretches dragged themselves to their feet and under their burdens of luggage began to across the lighter and aboard the steamer it was the funeral procession at once the wailing started from those behind the rope it was blood it was heart i never heard such woe and i hope never to again and were still at the other end of the wharf talking earnestly � politics of course for both were head in that particular game when passed me i stole a look at her she was beautiful she was beautiful by our standards as well � one of those rare blossoms that occur but once in generations and she of all women was doomed to she good by jack walked like a queen across the lighter straight on board and aft on the open deck where the huddled by the rail wailing now to their dear ones on shore the lines were cast off and the began to move away from the wharf the wailing increased such grief and despair i was just that never again would i be a witness to the sailing of the when and returned the latter s eyes were sparkling and his lips could not quite hide the smile of delight that was his evidently the politics they had talked had been satisfactory the rope had been flung aside and the relatives now crowded the piece on either side of us that s her mother doctor i good by jack whispered indicating an old woman next to me who was rocking back and forth and gazing at the steamer rail out of tear blinded eyes i noticed that was also wailing she stopped abruptly and gazed at then she stretched forth her arms in that way that has of embracing an audience and with arms she cried good by jack good by he heard the cry and looked never was a man overtaken by more crushing fear he on the piece his face went white to the roots of his hair and he seemed to shrink and away inside his clothes he threw up his hands and groaned my god my god then he controlled himself by a great effort � i good by jack good by good by he called and he stood there on the wharf waving his hands to her till the was clear away and the faces her were vague and indistinct i thought you knew said who had been regarding him curiously you of all men should have known i thought that was why you were here i know now answered with immense gravity where s the carriage he walked rapidly � half ran � to it i had to half run myself to keep

noiselessly withdrew and closed the door when he was gone i was conscious of a feeling of intense relief and also of intense a feeling i had never had for but one man before � a feeling which x never got rid of one evening a little later i missed he usually came home even when he strayed off which was not often unless as happened he went with for whom he had conceived a great fondness and who loved and him in return it had come to be a great bond between the girl and me and i think the whole family liked me the better for the dog s love of the daughter but this be did not appear i knew he was not with for i remembered he had been in my office during the afternoon and in consequence i spent an unhappy night all sorts of visions floated before my mind from the prize ring to the table i rather inclined to the former for i knew his powerful chest and and his shoulders would commend him to the fancy i thought i remembered that he had gone out of my just before i left and had gone down the steps which led to the alley i have by re enter mentioned this he sometimes did i recalled that i was thinking of miss and had not seen or thought of him between the office and my home i was so disturbed about him by that i went out to hunt for him and returned to my office by the same street i had walked through in the afternoon when i reached the building in which my office was i turned into the alley i have mentioned and went up the back it was now after midnight and it was as black as pitch when i reached my office thinking that i might by a bare possibility have locked him in i opened the door and walked in closing it behind me the window looked out on the well left for light and air and was open and as i opened the door a light was reflected through the window on my wall i stepped up to close the window and accidentally looking across the narrow well to see where the light came from discovered that it was in the back office of in which were seated mr and the sour looking man i had seen on the train with the silk hat and the diamond and of all persons in the world the name caught my ear and i involuntarily stopped without being aware that i was listening as i looked the door opened and a man i recognized as the of the building entered and with him a negro waiter bearing two of champagne and three glasses for a moment i felt as though i had been dreaming for the negro was i saw the recognition between him and by john marvel assistant and s white teeth shone as talked about him i heard him say no i don know t all about him got to look out for myself yes got a good place an i m to keep he had opened the bottles and poured out the wine and gave him a note big enough to make him bow very low and thank him when he had withdrawn said you ve got to look out for that rascal he s an awfully smart scoundrel oh i ll own body and soul said i wouldn t have him around me don t � he won t fool me if he does � he opened and closed his fist with the gesture i had seen him use the first day he paid me a visit well let s to business he said when they had drained their glasses he looked at the other men what do you say you pay me the money and til bring the strike all right said the labor leader and i ll deliver the too in ten days there be a wheel turning on his road i ll order every man out that wears a west line cap or handle a west line tool the west line this was what the street car line was called which ran out into the poor section of the city where i lived which mr controlled that s all right til keep my part d n i want to break him i ll show him who runs this town with his d d airs by re enter that s it said leaning forward it s your road or his that s the way i figure it he rubbed his hands with satisfaction i am with you my friends you can count on the interest you you ll keep the police off said the labor leader will i watch em i poured out another glass and offered the bottle to who declined it then it s all right well you d better make a cash payment down at the start said the labor leader swore do you think i have a bank in my or am a dealer that i can put up a pile like that at midnight besides i ve always heard there re two bad � the one that don t pay at all and the one t pays in advance you deliver the goods oh i come oflf said the other if you am t a dealer you own a bank � and you ve a s got it downstairs if you ain t so put up or you ll want money sure enough i know what that strike s worth to you rose and at that moment i became aware of the of what i was doing for i had been absolutely absorbed watching and i moved back as i did so knocking over a chair at the sound the light was instantly extinguished and i left my office

than those of artificial folly the islands are but tv hours sail from this port � little of land set in tl sea where the coral dwell they are beautiful their natural of foliage and flower � i g there to read � to dream � to think of life as a purer thing than what you call society would make for me you cannot blame me for this the king was silent if it is your wish � went on the prince � that should stay in the palace more i will obey you if yo desire me to be seen oftener in the capital i will et to fulfil your command though the streets me but for god s sake do not make me a o show before my time � or marry me to a woman i hate merely for the sake of to a wretched throne the king rose from his chair and walking toward the garden threw the rest of his cigar out among tiie age where the burning morsel shone like a stray glow worm in the green then he turned towards his son his face was grave almost stem you can go he said � i have no to say to you at present you talk wildly and at as if you were by some means or other voluntarily upon yourself for the position you are to occupy you will do well i think to remain evidence at court you will also do well to be i if i loved you some of the different great social functions of the day but i shall not you only � consider well what i have said � and if you have a secret � he paused and then repeated with emphasis � i say if you have a secret of any kind be advised and confide in me before it is too late otherwise you may find yourself betrayed unawares good night he walked away without throwing so much as a backward glance at the prince who stood amazed at the suddenness and decision with which he had brought the conversation to a close and it was not till his tall figure had disappeared that the young man began to realize the doubtful awkwardness of the attitude he had assumed towards one who both as parent and king had the most urgent claim in the world upon his respect and obedience impatient and angry with himself he crossed the and went out into the garden beyond a young moon slender as a bent willow gleamed in the clear heavens among hosts of stars more brilliantly visible than itself and the soft air laden with the perfume of thousands of flowers cooled his brain and his nerves the musical low murmur of the sea against the shore below the palace walls suggested a whole train of pleasing and poetical fancies and he strolled along the grass paths under of scented shrubs and boughs of pine giving himself up to such dreams of life and life s fairest possibilities as only youthful and imaginative souls can indulge in he was troubled and vexed by his father s warning but not to pay serious heed to it his secret was safe so far � and all he had to do so he considered was to exercise a little extra precaution there is only von � he thought and he would never betray me besides it is a mere question of another year � and then i can make all the truth known the lovely long drawn of a broke the stillness around him with a divine of passion he listened standing motionless his eyes lifted towards the dark boughs above him from whence the golden notes dropped and his heart beat quickly as he thought of a voice sweeter than that of any gifted bird a face fairer than that of the god i o power who on such a night as this descended from her silver moon car to � and he murmured half aloud who would not risk a kingdom � ay i a thousand � for such happiness as i possess it is a foolish blind world nowadays that forgets the glory of its youth � the glow the breath the tenderness of love � all for gold and power i will not be of such a world nor with it � i will not be like my father the slave of pomp and circumstance � i will live an life � yes � even if i have to resign the throne for the sake of freedom still i will be free he strolled on absorbed in romantic reverie and the s song followed him through the winding woods down to the shore where the waves made other music of their own which with the dreamy fancies of his mind meanwhile the king had sought his her own apartments walking down the great corridor which led to these the most beautiful rooms in the palace he became aware of the silvery sound of instruments mingling with harmonious voices � though he scarcely the soft rush of melody which came thus to his ears he was full of thoughts and schemes � his son s refusal to confide in him had not troubled him because he knew he should with patience find out in good time all that the young prince had declined to explain � and his immediate interest was in his own immediate plans on reaching the room leading to the queen s presence chamber he was informed that her majesty was listening to a concert in the thither he went � and passing through a long of splendid rooms each one more adorned than the last he presently stepped out on the velvet of one of the most perfect rose gardens in the world a walled entirely round with tall hedges of the flowers which gave it its name and which were up

city and the community at large growing out of the strike expressed in figures which had been carefully and closed with the emphatic declaration that the working people did not know what they wanted one other thing he made plain that in a strike the working people suffered most which was a proposition that few persons in the hall were prepared to deny then came the rev dr ca who was the chief speaker for the occasion hb manner was graceful and self assured his voice and well and his tone was sympathetic if somewhat too his first sentences were to with attention he expressed his deep sympathy somewhat as the mayor had done but in better english and more tones with all classes especially with the working people a slight cough appeared to have attacked one portion of the audience but it stopped immediately and silence once more fell on the assemblage as he proceeded and now he said as he advanced a step nearer to the edge of the platform and having delivered himself of his preliminary expressions of threw up his head and assumed his best pulpit manner under a full sense of my responsibility to my people and my by john marvel assistant country i wish to counsel you as your friend as the friend of the poor � the slight cough i have mentioned became audible again � as the friend of the whose interests i have so deeply at heart at this moment a young man who had taken a seat well to the front on the main aisle rose in hia seat and politely asked if the doctor would allow him to ask him a question j the answer to which he believed would enable the audience to understand his position better the pleasant tone of the young man led the doctor to give permission and also the young man s appearance for it was certainly my dear sir he said suddenly held up in his hand a newspaper i wish he said to ask you where you dined last friday night with whom the question provoked a sudden of and cheers and cries of derision and in a moment had broken loose the doctor attempted to speak again and again but about all that could be heard was his that he was their friend whose question had caused the commotion was now mounted on a chair and waving his arms wildly about him and presently moved by curiosity the tumult subsided and the audience sat with their faces turned toward the man on tlie chair he turned and with a sweep of his arm toward the stage he cried we don t want to hear you what have you done that you should give us advice what do you know of us when have you ever to the cry of the by the peace maker destitute when have you ever visited the and the in affliction unless they were rich when have you ever done anything but on and flatter whom are you here to help and set free to day these people high priest of wealth and power and we know you and your friends � the you ask to free is not the but the robber of vice and patron of sin i his long arm pointed at the platform where sat his face black with impotent rage if we are to have a priest to address us let us have one that we can trust give us a man like john marvel we know him and he knows us he turned and pointed to marvel the effect was shouts of marvel mr marvel i marvel marvel john marvel rang from their throats and suddenly as with one impulse the men turned to our comer where john marvel had sunk in his seat to escape observation and in an instant he was seized drawn forth and lifted bodily on the shoulders of men and borne to the platform as if on the crest of a wave and dr were both shouting to the audience but they might as well have addressed a tropical the cries of marvel marvel drowned every other sound and presently those on the stage gathered about both and the and after a moment one of them stepped forward and asked john marvel to speak by john marvel assistant john marvel stepped forward to the edge of the platform and reached out one long arm over the audience with an awkward but telling gesture that i had often seen him use keeping it extended until after one great outburst of applause the tumult had died down my friends he began another tumult that it yea we are your friends still the arm outstretched silence he b an to speak quietly and slowly and his voice suddenly struck me as singularly sympathetic and clear as it must have struck the entire assembly for suddenly the tumult ceased and the hall became perfectly quiet he spoke only a few minutes declaring that he had not come to speak to them but to be with them and pray that god might give them he said us peace and show some way out of the blackness which had settled do n upon them he bade them not despair however dark the cloud might be which had them they might be sure that god was beyond it and that he would give light in his own time he was leading them now as always � the presence of that assembly with so many of the leading men of the city asking a conference was in itself a proof of the great advance their cause had made that cause was not as some thought so much money a day but was the claim to justice and consideration and kindness he himself was not a business man he knew nothing of such matters his duty was to preach � to preach peace � to

of bees that have lost their queen and become anxious to repair the damage limbs that have grown outward for centuries at right angles to the trunk begin to turn upward to the assist in making a new crown each speedily the special form of true even in the case of mere burned half through some mere ornamental will try to go aloft and do its best as a leader in forming a new head groups of two or three of these grand trees are often found standing close together the seeds from which they sprang having probably grown on ground cleared for their reception by the fall of a large tree of a former generation these patches of fresh mellow soil beside the roots of the fallen giant may be from forty to sixty feet wide and they are speedily occupied by out of these perhaps two or three may become trees forming those close groups called three graces loving couples etc for even supposing that the trees should stand twenty or thirty feet apart while young by the time they are their trunks will touch and crowd against each other and even appear as one in some cases it is generally believed that this grand was once far more widely distributed over the but after long and careful study i have come to the conclusion that it never was at least since the close of the period because a search along the of the groves and in the between fails to reveal a single trace of its previous existence beyond its present bounds notwithstanding i feel confident that if every in the range were to die to day numerous monuments of their existence would remain of so a nature as to be available for the student more than ten thousand years hence the mountains of in the first place we might notice that no species of tree in the range keeps its individuals so well together as a mile is perhaps the greatest distance of any from the main body and all of those that have come under my observation are young instead of old trees relics of a more extended growth again trunks frequently endure for centuries after they fall i have a specimen block cut from a fallen trunk which is hardly from specimens cut from living trees although the old trunk fragment from which it was derived has lain in the damp forest more than years probably thrice as long the time measure in the case is simply this when the ponderous trunk to which the old belonged fell it sunk itself into the ground thus making a long straight ditch and in the middle of this ditch a silver fir is growing that is now four feet in and years old as determined by cutting it half through and counting the rings thus that the remnant of the trunk that made the ditch has lain on the ground more than years for it is evident that to find the whole time we must add to the years the time that the vanished portion of the trunk lay in the ditch before being burned out of the way the time that passed before the seed from which the fir sprang fell into the prepared soil and took root now because trunks are never wholly consumed in one forest fire and those fires only at considerable intervals and because after being cleared are often left for centuries it becomes the forests evident that the trunk remnant in question may probably have lain a thousand years or more and this instance is by no means a rare one but admitting that upon those supposed to have been once covered with every tree may have fallen and every trunk may have been burned or buried leaving not a remnant many of the made by the fall of the ponderous trunks and the made by their roots would remain patent for thousands of years after the last of the trunks that made them had vanished much of this ditch writing would no doubt be quickly by the flood action of overflowing streams and rain washing but no portion would remain engraved on ridge tops beyond such destructive action for where all the conditions are favorable it is almost now these historic and root occur in all the present groves and forests hut as far as i have observed not the faintest of one presents itself outside of them we therefore conclude that the area covered by has not been diminished during the last eight or ten thousand years and probably not at all in post times is the species to f what are its relations to climate soil and associated trees f all the phenomena bearing on these questions also throw light as we shall endeavor to show upon the peculiar distribution of the species and sustain the conclusion already arrived at on the question of extension in the northern groups as we have seen there the mountains of are few young trees or growing up around the failing old ones to the race and in as much as those aged so nearly are the only ones commonly known the species to most seems doomed to speedy as being nothing more than an remnant in the so called struggle for life by pines and that have driven it into its last in moist where climate is favorable but the language of the majestic continuous forests of the south a very different impression no tree of all the forest is more established in with climate and soil it grows heartily everywhere � on rocky along and in the deep moist of meadows with a multitude of and crowding up around the aged seemingly abundantly able to maintain the forest in prime vigor for every old tree there is one or more in all the glory of prime and for each of these many young trees and crowds of so that

this was one of these narrow minded new fellows who were so wearisome to men of intellect and refinement true he was himself of that community for circumstances had driven him into the herd but oh he found them a dreary set their bald doctrines of individual effort of personal striving to win a personal did not appeal to him moreover they generally ended at the stake now about the pomp and circumstance of the mother church there was something attractive of course as a matter of prudence he attended its from time to time and found them comfortable and satisfying comfortable also were the of forgiveness to be obtained by an act of confession and the sense of a great supporting force whose whole weight was at the disposal of the in short there was nothing picturesque about the excellent departed nothing that could justify the young woman in herself up in grief for him to the entire of a person who wm picturesque and ready at the first opportunity to wrap himself up in her after long brooding assisted by a close study of the the master of the period convinced himself that in all this there was something unnatural that the girl must be a species of spell which in her own interest ought to be broken through but how that was the question try as he would he could do nothing therefore like others in a difficulty he determined to seek the assistance of an expert namely black who among her other occupations for a certain fee in advance was ready to give advice as a in affairs of the heart to black accordingly he went disguised secretly and by night for he loved mystery and in truth it was hardly safe that he should visit her by the light of day seated in a chamber he poured out his tale to the of course concealing names lie might have spared himself this trouble as he was an old of s a fact that no disguise could keep from her before he opened his lips she knew perfectly what was the name of his and indeed all the circumstances connected with the pair of them the wise woman listened in patience and when he had done shook her head saying that the case was too hard for her she proposed however to consult a master more learned than herself who by great good fortune was at that moment in her house in fact and begged that would return at the same hour on the morrow now as it chanced oddly enough black had been by the said master to bring about a meeting between himself and this very young man returned accordingly and was informed that the master after consulting the stars and other sources of had become so deeply interested in the affair that for pure love of the thing and not for any purpose of gain he was in attendance to advise in person was and prayed that he might be introduced presently a noble looking form entered the room wrapped in a long cloak bowed and the form after contemplating him earnestly � very earnestly if he had known the truth � acknowledged the salute with dignity cleared his throat and began to speak whereon the sage stopped him explanations are needless young man he said in a measured and melodious voice for my studies of the matter have already informed me of more than you can tell let me see your name is van � no called van the lady you desire to win is the daughter of a and well known who was recently executed at the she i a girl of much beauty but one insensible to the influence of love and who does not at present recognise your worth there are also unless i am mistaken other important circumstances connected with the case this lady is a great but her fortune is at present missing it is i have reason to believe hidden in the she is surrounded with influences that are to you all of which however can be overcome if you will place yourself in my hands for young man i accept no half confidences nor do i ask for any fee when the fortune is recovered and the maiden is your happy wife then we will talk of payment for services rendered and not before wonderful wonderful gasped most learned every word you say is true yes friend and i have not told you all the truth for instance � but no this is not the time to speak the question is do you accept my terms what terms the old terms without which no wonder can be worked � faith absolute faith the master hesitated a little absolute faith seemed a large present to give a complete stranger at a first interview i read your thought and i respect it went on the sage who to tell truth was afraid he had ventured a little too far there is no hurry these affairs cannot be concluded in a day admitted that they could not but intimated that he would be glad of a little practical and immediate assistance the sage buried his face in hid hands and thought the first thing to do he said presently is to induce a favourable disposition of the maiden s mind towards yourself and this i think can best be brought about � though the method is one which i do not often use � by means of a love carefully to suit the circumstances of the case if you will come here to morrow at dusk the lady of this house � a worthy woman though rough of speech and no true � will hand it to you it isn t poisonous suggested doubtfully fool do i deal in it will poison the girl s heart in your favour that is all and how is it to be

once i can approve the s voice and make the course he my choice we meet at last in one sincere desire his wish and mine both prompt me retire tis done � he steps into the welcome chaise at his ease behind four handsome that whirl away from business and debate the of the state ask not the boy who when the breeze of mom first shakes the glittering drops from every thorn his flock then under bank or bush sits cherry stones or rush how fair is freedom � he was always free to his rustic name upon a tree to the or with ill fashioned hook to draw the from the brook are life s prime pleasures in his simple view his flock the chief concern he ever knew she shines but little in his heedless eyes the good we never miss we rarely prize but ask the noble in state affairs � william escaped from office and its constant cares what charms he sees in freedom s smile expressed in freedom lost so long now the tongue whose strains were as commands at home and felt in foreign lands shall own itself a in that cause or plead its silence as its best applause he knows indeed that whether dressed or rude wild without art or subdued nature in every form delight but never marked her with so just a sight her hedge row shrubs a store with and wild roses o er green and lands the stream that its o er the downs that almost escape the inquiring eye that melt and fade into the distant sky beauties he lately as he passed seem all created since he travelled last master of all the he designed no rough annoyance in his mind what early philosophic hours he keeps how regular his meals how sound he sleeps not he that on the head while morning with a windy red begins a long look out for distant land nor till evening watch his giddy stand then swift descending with a seaman s haste slips to his and forgets the blast he chooses company but not the squire s whose wit is whose good breeding nor yet the parson s who would gladly come when abroad though proud at home nor can he much affect the neighbouring peer whose toe of too near but wisely seeks a more convenient friend with whom forms he a man whom marks of grace teach while they flatter him his proper place a the english poets who comes when called and at a word speaks with reserve and with applause some plain who without pretence to birth or wit nor gives nor takes offence on whom he rests well pleased his weary powers and talks and laughs away his vacant hours the tide of life swift always in its course may run in cities with a force but nowhere with a current so serene or half so clear as in the rural scene yet how is all earthly bliss what obvious truths the wisest heads may miss some pleasures live a month and some a year but short the date of all we gather here no happiness is felt except the true that does not charm the more for being new this observation as it chanced not made or if the thought occurred not duly weighed he sighs � for after all by slow degrees the spot he loved has lost the power to please to cross his pony day by day seems at the best but dreaming life away the prospect such as might despair he views it not or sees no beauty there with aching heart and discontented looks returns at noon to or to books but feels while grasping at his faded joys a secret thirst of his he the of every post to be told of battles won or lost his own though late tis criminal to leave a sinking state flies to the and received with grace kisses hands and shines again in place william what to read from the same a mind or to bear the weight of subjects of her care whatever hopes a change of scene must change her nature or in vain an is a watch that wants both hands as useless if it goes as when it stands books therefore not the scandal of the shelves in which print out themselves nor those in which the stage gives vice a blow with what success let modem manners show nor his who for the of thousands born built god a church and laughed his word to scorn skilful alike to seem devout and just and religion with a sly side thrust nor those of learned who chase a panting syllable through time and space start it at home and hunt it in the dark to to greece and into s ark but such as learning without false pretence the friend of truth the associate of sound sense and such as in the zeal of good design strong judgment in the scripture mine all such as manly and great souls produce worthy to live and of eternal use behold in these what leisure hours demand amusement and true knowledge hand in hand luxury gives the mind a childish cast and while she the taste habits of close attention thinking heads become more rare as till authors hear at length one general cry and entertain us or we die english poets the loud demand from year to year the same beggars invention and makes fancy lame till farce itself most mournfully i � calls for the kind assistance of a tune and novels witness every month s review their name and offer nothing new the mind into needful sport should turn to writers of an sort whose wit well managed and whose classic style give truth a lustre and make wisdom smile a comparison addressed to a young lady sweet stream that winds through yonder

then the sight of her baby seemed to her and she bade me go but she gave me a strict charge that no one should come with you for she said she wished her memory buried with her in the grave when i left her to go to you i hoped you might speak some words of comfort to her that would be better than medicine for her and heal the body as well as the mind but when i came back there was a dreadful change � the poor little one had gone into a fit and she would take it from my wife into her arms and there it died more than an hour ago � and she sits up in the bed holding it yet � and she has not spoken a word nor turned her eyes from it � her cheeks look as if there was a living fire her oh miss jane it is awful to look upon such a fallen star now you are prepared � come in � may be the sight of you will rouse her jane followed john into his little habitation the old couple had kindly resigned their only bed to the sufferer she was sitting as john had described her fixed ad a statue her beautiful black glossy curls which had been so often admired and envied were and clustered in rich masses over her temples and neck a tear that had started from the fountain of feeling now sealed for ever hung on the dark rich eye lash that fringed her downcast eye jane wondered that any thing so wretched could look so lovely crazy bet was kneeling at the foot of the bed and apparently absorbed in prayer for her eyes were closed and her lips moved though they no sound the old woman sat in the corner of the fire place smoking a broken pipe to soothe the agitation she felt jane advanced towards the bed speak to her said john jane stooped and laid her hand gently on mary s a new england tale she raised her eyes for the first time and turned them on jane with a look of earnest inquiry and then shaking her head she said in a low mournful voice � no no we cannot be parted you mean to take her to heaven and you say i am guilty and must not go they told me you were coming � you need not hide your wings � i know you � there is none but an angel would look upon me with pity oh exclaimed jane can nothing be done for her at least let us take away thb dead child it is growing cold in her arms she attempted to take the child and mary relaxed her hold but as she did so she uttered a faint scream the of death her face and she fell back on the pillow ah she is gone exclaimed john crazy bet sprang on her feet and raised her hand � hush said she i heard a voice saying her sins are forgiven � she is one come out of great there were a few moments of as perfect stillness as if they had all been made dumb and motionless by the stroke of death jane was the first to break silence � did she she inquired of the old man express any � any hope john shook his head them things did not seem to lay on her mind and i did not think it worth while to disturb her about them ah miss the great thing is how we live not how we die jane felt the anxiety so natural to obtain some religious expression that should indicate preparation in the mind of the departed surely said she it is never too late to repent � to beg forgiveness no miss replied john who seemed to have religious notions of his own � especially when there has been such a m a new england tale short account as this poor child had but the work must be all between the creature and the creator and for m j part i don t place much dependence on what people say on a i have lived a long life miss jane and many a one have i seen and heard too when sickness and distress were heavy upon them and death staring them in the face and they could not sin any more � they would seem to repent and talk as beautiful as any saint but if the lord took his hand from them and they got well again they went right back into the old track no miss jane it is the life � it is the life we must look to this child he added going to the bed and laying his brown and hand upon her fair young brow now chill and this child was but sixteen she told me so the lord only knows what temptations she has had he it is miss jane that has put that in our hearts that makes us feel sorry for her now and can you think that he is less pitiful than we are i think she will be beaten with few but he continued solemnly covering his face with his hands � we are poor ignorant creatures it is all a mystery after this world we know nothing about it yes said jane we do know john that all will be right true he replied and it is that should make us lay our fingers on our mouths and be still jane had been so much absorbed in the mournful scene that the necessity of her return before the breaking of day had not occurred to her mind and would not perhaps if john had not after a few moments pause reminded her of it by saying i am sorry miss jane you have had such a walk for

hen was a of sixteen a good sailor and all round my the � rs was by the fish commission and i became for the time being a after a deal of work among the greek of the upper bay and rivers where knives flashed at the beginning of trouble and men permitted themselves to be made prisoners only after a revolver was thrust in their faces we hailed with delight an expedition to the lower bay against the chinese there were six of us in two boats and to avoid suspicion we ran down after dark and dropped anchor under a projecting bluff of land known as point as white and yellow the east with the first light of dawn we got under way again and hauled close on the land breeze as we across the bay toward point the morning mists curled and clung to the water so that we could see nothing but we busied ourselves driving the chill from our bodies with hot coffee also we had to devote ourselves to the miserable taste of for in some incomprehensible way the had sprung a generous half the night had been spent in the and exploring the but the labor had been without avail the water still poured in and we doubled up in the and tossed it out again after coffee three of the men withdrew to the other boat a river salmon boat leaving three of us in the then the two craft proceeded in company white and yellow till the sun showed over tht eastern its rays the clinging and there before our eyes like a picture lay the fleet spread out in a great half moon the tips of the fully three miles apart and each fast to the of a but there was no stir no sign of life the situation dawned upon us while waiting for slack water in which to lift their heavy from the bed of the bay the chinese had all gone to sleep below we were elated and our plan of battle was swiftly formed throw each of your two men on to a whispered le grant to me from the salmon boat and you make fast to a third yourself we ll do the same and there s no reason in the world why we shouldn t capture six at the least white and yellow then we separated i put the deer about on the other tack ran up under the lee of a shivered the into the wind and lost and past the stem of the so slowly and so near that one of the stepped lightly aboard then i kept off filled the and bore away for a second up to this time there had been no noise but from the first bv the salmon an uproar now broke forth there was shrill oriental yelling a pistol shot and more yelling it s all up they re warning others said george the remaining as he stood beside me in the by this time we were in the thick of the fleet and the alarm was spreading with incredible swiftness the decks were beginning to swarm with half awakened white and yellow and half naked chinese cries and of warning and anger were over the quiet water and somewhere a shell was being blown with great success to the right of us i saw the captain of a chop away his line with an axe and spring to help his crew at the of the huge sail but to the left the first were up from below on another and i rounded up the alongside long enough for to spring aboard the whole fleet was now under way in addition to the sails they had gotten out long sweeps and the bay was being in every direction by the i was now alone in the seeking to capture a third prize the first i took after was a clean mi s for it trimmed its sheets and shot i white and yellow away into the wind by fully half a point it the and i began to respect for the clumsy craft the of the pursuit i filled away threw out the main sheet and drove down before the wind upon the to where i had them at a disadvantage the one i had selected wavered before me and as swung wide to make the boarding gentle filled suddenly and darted away the shouting a wild as they bent to the sweeps but i had been ready for this i suddenly putting the hard down and holding it down with my body i brought the main sheet in hand over hand on the run so as to retain all possible striking force the two sweeps of the were up white and yellow and then the two boats came together with a crash the s hke a monstrous hand reached over and out the s mast and towering sail this was met by a yell of rage a big remarkably evil looking with his head in a yellow silk handkerchief and face badly marked planted a pole on the s bow and began to the entangled boats apart pausing long enough to jet go the and just as the cleared and began to drift i leaped aboard the with a and made fast he of the yellow handkerchief and face came toward me but i put my hand into my hip and he hesitated i was but the chinese have learned to be white and yellow careful of american hip pockets and it was upon this that i depended to keep him and his savage crew at a distance i ordered him to drop the anchor at the s bow to which he replied no the crew responded in uke fashion and though i made my meaning plain by signs they refused to understand the of discussing the matter i went forward myself the line and

only be an idle name if i when i was bom was bom to die why seek i to these days the fairest rose in shortest time thou window once which served for a sphere to that dear planet of my heart whose light made often blush the glorious queen of night while she in thee more did appear what mourning weeds alas now dost thou wear how to mine eyes is thy sad sight how poorly look st thou with what heavy cheer since that sun set which made thee shine so bright unhappy now thee close for as of late to ring eyes thou a paradise of her who made thee fortunate a gulf thou art whence clouds of sighs arise but unto none so as to me who see my murder d joys in thee � the poets here she stay d among these pines sweet she did alone repair here did she spread the treasure of her hair more rich than that brought from the mines she her by these the happy place the print seems yet to bear her voice did here thy sugar d lines to which winds trees beasts birds did lend their ear me here she first perceived and here a mom of bright did o her face here did she sigh here first my hopes were bom and i first got a pledge of d grace but ah what d it to be happy so passed pleasures double but new woe the heaven doth not contain so many stars so many leaves not prostrate lie in woods when autumn s old and sounds his wars so many waves have not the ocean floods as my rent mind hath all the night and heart sighs when brings the light why should i been a partner of the light who in birth by bad aspects of stars have never since had happy day nor night why was not i a liver in the woods or citizen of crystal floods than made a man for love and fortune s wars i look each day when death should end the wars wars sense and reason s light my pains i count to mountains and floods and of my sorrow partners make the stars all desolate i haunt the woods when i should give myself to rest at night of with watchful eyes i ne er behold the night mother of peace but ah to me of wars and queen like shining through the woods when straight those lamps come in my thought whose light my judgment dazzled passing brightest stars and then mine eyes en isle themselves with floods turn to their springs again first shall the floods clear shall the sun the sad and gloomy night to dance about the pole cease shall the stars the elements renew their ancient wars shall first and be d of place and light ere i find rest in city fields or woods end these my days of the woods take this my life ye deep and raging floods sun never rise to clear me with thy light horror and darkness keep a lasting night me care with thy wars and stay your influence o er me bright stars in vain the stars of the woods care horror wars i call and raging floods for all have sworn no night shall dim my sight song arise and paint the skies with white and red rouse s mother from her s bed that she thy may with roses spread the thy coming each where sing make an eternal spring give life to this dark world which dead spread forth thy golden hair in larger locks than thou wont before printed in the copy elsewhere or the english poets and emperor like with of pearl thy temples fair chase hence the ugly night which serves but to make dear thy glorious light this is that happy mom that day long wished day of all my life so dark if cruel stars have not my ruin sworn � and not hope betray which only white deserves a diamond for ever should it mark this is the mom should bring unto this grove my love to hear and my love fair king who all preserves but show thy blushing beams and thou two sweeter eyes shalt see than those which by streams did once thy heart surprise nay which shine as clear as thou when two thou did to rome appear now deck in fairest guise if that ye winds would hear a voice surpassing far s your stormy stay let only breathe and with her play kissing sometimes these purple ports of death the winds all silent are and in his chair sea and air makes vanish every star night like a beyond the hills to his flaming wheels the fields with flowers are in every hue the clouds with bright gold their here is the pleasant place and every thing save her who all should grace of to from and see how the clouds in the lists and how with each hill his giant forehead jove in the air the air grown great with rain now seems to bring s days again i see thee come let us home repair come hide thee in mine arms if not for love yet to greater to sir w al the love did to bear shall witnessed be to all the woods and plains as singular renown d by neighbouring that to our relics time may rear those we sung amidst our flocks with guarded from s beams on near s streams are by in the rocks of foreign bent to try the states though i world s guest a vagabond do stray thou that store which i esteem survey as best acquainted with my soul s whatever fate heavens have for me designed i trust thee with the treasure of my mind vol il the poets from flowers o sion look how

cannon and placed there by louis on the of the fence the students saw many wreaths of placed there by the old soldiers of napoleon passing through the de la the party glanced at the grand h and the magnificent opera house then in process of and next visited the which stands on part of the old of the where louis xvi and were hurried without ceremony into tl ir graves the remains of the king and queen were and removed to st the burial place of the kings of france and this chapel was erected as an memorial of their unhappy fate the next object of interest was the a large and magnificent church built in imitation of a greek temple it was commenced in but suspended during the revolution napoleon in the midst of his splendid that it should be altered into a temple of glory but in its object was again changed though it was not com young america in france and till it is surrounded with columns and on the is an immense bass relief of the last judgment the central figure of which is the with christ the interior is very decorated the stands at the head of the royal a broad street leading to the place de la from which its classic front may be seen passing through the square and over the bridge called the de la the company reached the du corps it is a handsome old building built by the whose name it once bore various bodies have held their here from to the present time from this structure the party proceeded to the h des an immense establishment for old soldiers the of the front building is over six hundred feet long the are on the left in which provisions for six thousand men can be cooked every day though the occupants of the institution are less than half that number both ofl and are at the but the rank of the former is carefully respected for they eat and sleep by themselves while those above the rank of captain dine in their own rooms the chambers each contain fifty single beds the principal articles of food are soup beef and with a a pint and three quarters of wine a day the students gazed with interest at the number and size of the soup and at the quantities of meat and vegetables they contained they regarded with wonder the old soldiers who had followed palace and cottage or the great french captain in his mighty they all wear a long blue frock coat and cocked hat and when on guard around the building they carry a in the chapel hundreds of them were telling their beads and saying their prayers this apartment over two hundred feet long is decorated with flags taken in battle on sundays the old soldiers attend a military mass at noon after which there is a grand parade in the square which contains a great number of captured cannon that are fired on national occasions the main building is surmounted by an immense dome the summit of which is three hundred and twenty four feet high the entrance to the church of the or st louis is at the south end of the building all the treasures of art have been upon the interior construction the floor in the middle of the church has a circular opening surrounded by a marble in the middle of which in the below is the of napoleon i two marble wind down to the vault on each side of which are monuments to the emperor s faithful friends and over the entrance is an extract from napoleon s will i desire that my remains may repose on the banks of the in the midst of the french people whom i have loved so much the urn of the emperor is of polished red in one block weighing thirteen tons and was brought from lake in is also buried in this church the boys were not a little moved by the solemn young america in france and grandeur of the place which seemed to render real all they had read of the great captain a hasty glance at the s palace and the vast military school which fronts the de completed their observations in that vicinity and they returned to the hotel ready for dinner and cottage or chapter xvi v the of the after the choice of officers on board of the a consultation was held to determine what course should be pursued it was dark when the election was finished and the vessel was still headed towards the broad atlantic west by compass during the the rough shores of the channel islands had been seen in the distance and before the darkness settled down the were out of sight of land now fellows we must decide what to do and where to go said after supper had been disposed of i thought it was decided already that we were to go up the green way who had been an for the office of fourth lieutenant as indeed seven of those who now found themselves common had been that was the idea before we started but i am satisfied that will send a l t of out after us added by the suggestion of they can t catch us now said we have been out twenty hours with a fresh breeze and young america in france and jl not many of those french make more knots an hour than we do � we can easily keep out of the way of the if we stick her right out to sea continued i don t believe in that protested the it will be nothing but hard work and no fun that s so in who as one of the foremost of the knights was bitterly out of joint because he had failed to receive the of a majority of his

he certainly did look rather like how the virtuous sen ant was his friend and partner and was worthy to be how the watchful eyes of those and false had rested on the prisoner as a a tale of two tim because some family in france he being of french did require his making those the � though what those were for others who were near and dear to bim forbade him even for bis life to how the evidence that had been and from the young lady whose anguish in giving it they bad witnessed to nothing the mere little innocent and likely to pass between any young gentleman and young lady so thrown together � with exception of that reference to george washington was altogether too extravagant and impossible to be regarded in any other light than as a monstrous joke how it would be a weakness in the to break in this attempt to practise for popularity on he lowest national and fears and therefore mr attorney general had made the most of it how nevertheless it rested upon nothing save that vile and infamous of evidence too often such cases and of which the state trials of this country were full bo there my lord interposed with as grave a face as if it had not been true saying that he could not upon bench and suffer those allusions mr then called his few witnesses and mr had next to attend while mr attorney general turned the whole suit of clothes mr had on the jury inside out showing how and were even a hundred times better than he bad thought them and the prisoner a hundred times worse lastly came my lord himself turning the suit of clothes now inside out now in but on the whole decidedly and them into grave clothes for tha prisoner a tale of two cities and now the turned to consider and great flies again mr who had so long sat looking at the ceiling of court changed neither place nor his attitude even in this excitement his learned mr his papers before him whispered with who sat near and from time to lime glanced anxiously at the jury while all the spectators moved more or less and themselves anew while even my himself arose from his seat and slowly paced up � nd down bis platform not by a suspicion in of the audience that his state was feverish ine man sat leaning back with torn gown half c his wig put on just as it bad happened to light on his head after its removal his hands in hia pockets and his eyes on the ceiling as they had been all day something especially reckless in his not only gave him a di look but so diminished the strong resemblance be undoubtedly bore to the prisoner which his momentary earnestness when they were compared together had strengthened that many of the look on taking note of him now said to one another they would hardly have thought the two were so alike mr made the observation to his next neighbor and added i d hold half a guinea that he don t get no law work to do don t look like the sort of one to get any do be yet this mr took in more of the details of the scene than he appeared to take in for now when s bead dropped upon her father s breast he is the first to see it and to say audibly officer k that young lady help the gentleman to take her out jn t you see she will fall a tale of two cities there was much for her as she was removed and much with her father it liad a great distress to him to have the of his recalled tie had strong when be was and that or brooding look which made him old had been him like a heavy cloud ever since as he passed out the jury who had turned back and paused a ma spoke through their they were not agreed and wished to retire my perhaps with george washington on his mind some surprise that they were not agreed but pleasure that they should retire under and ward and retired himself the trial had lasted all day and the lamps in the court were now being lighted it began to be that the jury would be out a long while the spectators dropped off lo get and the prisoner withdrew to the back of the and sat down mr who had gone oat when the young my and her went out now reappeared and � ed to who in the could easily get near him if you wish to take something to eat you can but keep in the way you will be sure to hear when the jury come in don t be a moment behind them for i want j ou to lake the verdict back to the bank you are the messenger i know and will get to temple bar long before i can had just enough forehead to and he it in acknowledgment of this and a shilling mr came up at the moment touched mr on the arm a tale of two cities how is tlie young lady ia greatly distressed but her father is comforting and she feels the better for being out of court i ll tell the prisoner so it won t do for a respectable bank like you to be speaking to him you know mr as if he were conscious of having the point in bis mind and mr made hia way to the outside of he bar the way out of court lay in that and followed him all eyes � and mr i the prisoner came forward directly you naturally be anxious to hear of the witness she will do very well tou have seen e worst of

the instant he was on the other side of it clutched with both hands and said in a choking whisper as if he were mr he must be followed he must be watched he mustn t be lost sight of for a moment why mustn t he asked also comrade you might have noticed i was a little in spirits when you come in to night i ve found something what have you found asked clutching him with both hands so that stood like a couple of preposterous there s no time to tell you now i think he must have gone to look for it we must have an eye upon him instantly each other they crept to the door opened it softly and peeped out it was a night and the shadow of the made the dark yard darker if not a double whispered why a dark lantern we could have se i what he was about if he had carried a light one softly this way cautiously along the path that was bordered by fragments of set in ashes the two stole after him they could hear him at peculiar trot crushing the loose as he went he our knows ihe place by and don t need to turn his lantern on him bnt he did torn it on in that game instant and flashed its light npon the first of the is that the spot t asked in a whisper he s warm said in the same tone he s precious warm he s dose i think he must be going to look far it what s that he s got in his hand a answered and he knows how to use it remember fifty times as well as either of us if he looks for it and it partner suggested what shall we first of all wait till he does said discreet advice too for he darkened his lantern again and the mound turned black after a few seconds he turned the light on once more and was seen standing at the foot of the second mound slowly the lantern little by little until he held it up at arm s length as if ne were examining the condition of the whole sur ce that can t be the spot said no said he s getting cold it strikes me whispered that he wants to find out whether any one has been groping about there returned ne s getting colder and colder � he s this exclamation was by his having turned the lantern off i ain and on again and being visible at the foot of the third mound why he s going up it said and all said at a trot as if tne over his shoulder stimulated him by old associations mr ascended the walk up the mound which he had described to on the occasion of their beginning to decline and fall on striking into it he turned his lantern off the two followed stooping low so that their figures might make no mark in relief against the sky when he should turn his lantern on again mr took the lead mr in order that his leg might be promptly from any it should dig for itself they could just make out that the golden stopped to breathe of course they stopped too instantly this is his own mound whispered as he recovered his wind this one why all three are his own returned so he thinks but he s used to call this his because it s the one first left to him the one that was his when it was all he took under the will when he shows his light said keeping watch upon his dusky figure all the time drop lower and keep closer he went on again and they followed again gaining the top of the mound he turned on his light � but only partially � and stood it on the ground a bare pole was planted in the ashes there and had been there many a year hard by this pole stood a feet of part of it and a little of the around and off a little dear trail ci light into the air he can never be going to dig the pole v as low and kept perhaps it s and fall of he was going to dig with whatsoever object for he ed up his and on hia hands and then went at it like an old as he was he had no des upon the that he a s from it beginning nor was it has purpose to dig deep some dozen or so of expert strokes then ho stopped looked down into the bent o ver it� and took est what appeared to be an ordinary case bottle one of those short the is said to keep his in as soon as he had done this he turned off his lantern and they hear that he was filling up the hole in the dark the ashes being easily moved by a hand the took this as a hint to make off in good time mr slipped past mr and him down but mr s descent was not without personal inconvenience for his self willed leg sticking into the about half way down and time pressing mr took the liberty of him from his by the collar which him to make the rest of the journey on his with his head enveloped in the skirts of his coat and his wooden coming last like a drag so was mr w g by this mode of travelling that when he was set on the with his intellectual uppermost he was quite of his bearings and had not least idea where his of was to be � until mr him into it even he staggered round and round weakly staring about him until mr witli a hard brush brushed his senses into

as nay my dear i m sure i don t pretend to say that there ain t i m sure there s a vast many smart in but you know how could i tell what smart there might be about and i was only afraid the might find it dull at if they had not so many as they used to have but perhaps you young ladies may not care about the and had as be without them as with them for my part i think they are vastly agreeable provided they dress smart and behave civil i can t bear to see them dirty and nasty now there s mr rose at a prodigious smart young man quite a beau clerk to mr you know and yet if you do but meet of a morning he is not fit to be seen i suppose your brother was quite a beau miss before he married as he was so rich upon my word replied i cannot tell you for i do not perfectly comprehend the meaning of the word but this i can say that if he ever was a beau before he married he is one still for there is not the smallest alteration in him en e and en oh dear one never thinks of married men s being � they have something else to do lord anne cried her sister you can talk of nothing but you will make miss believe you think of nothing else and then to turn the discourse she began admiring the house and the furniture this specimen of the was enough the vulgar freedom and folly of the eldest left her no recommendation and as was not blinded by the beauty or the shrewd look of the youngest to her want of real elegance and she left the house without any wish of knowing them better not so the they came from well provided with admiration for the use of sir john his family and all his relations and no proportion was now dealt out to his fair cousins whom they declared to be the most beautiful elegant accomplished and agreeable girls they had ever beheld and with whom they were particularly anxious to be better acquainted and to be better acquainted therefore soon found was their inevitable lot for as sir jack was entirely on the side of the their party would be too strong for opposition and that kind of intimacy must be submitted to which consists of sitting an hour or two together in the same room almost every day sir john could do no more but he did not know that any more was required to be together was in his opinion to be intimate and while his continual schemes for their meeting were effectual he had not a doubt of their being established friends to do him justice he did every thing in his power to promote their by making the acquainted with whatever he knew or supposed of cousins situations in the most delicate particulars and had not seen them more than twice before the eldest of them wished her joy on her sister s having been so lucky as to make a conquest of a very beau since she came to be a fine thing to have her married so young to be sure said she and i hear he is quite a beau and handsome and i hope you may have as good luck yourself soon but perhaps you may have a friend in the comer already and could not suppose that sir john would be more nice in his suspicions of her regard for edward than bo had been with respect to indeed it was his favourite joke of the two as being somewhat and more and since edward s visit they had never dined together without his drinking to her best affections with so much and so many and as to excite general attention the letter f had been likewise invariably brought forward and found productive of such countless jokes that its character as the letter in the had been long established with the as she expected had now all the benefit of these jokes and in the eldest of them they raised a curiosity to know the name of the gentleman alluded to which though often expressed was perfectly of a piece with her general into the concerns of their family but sir john did not sport long with the curiosity which he delighted to raise for he had at least as much pleasure in telling the name as miss had in hearing it his name is said he in a very audible whisper but pray do not tell it for it s a great secret repeated miss mr is the happy man is he what your sister in law s brother miss od a very agreeable young man to be sure i know him very well how can you say so anne cried who generally made an to all her sister s though we have seen him once or twice at my uncle s it is rather too much to pretend to know him very well heard all this with attention and surprise and who was this uncle where did he live how came they acquainted she wished very much to have the subject continued though she did not choose to join in it hei self but nothing more of it was said and for the first time in her life she thought mrs deficient either in curiosity after petty information or in a disposition to communicate it the manner in which miss had spoken of edward increased her curiosity for it struck her as being rather ill natured and suggested the suspicion of that lady s knowing or herself to know something to his disadvantage but her curiosity was for no farther notice was and taken of mr s name by miss when alluded to or even openly mentioned

assured state than when i left it my hopes are much weaker � you are probably aware of this � so very fond of you as miss is it is most natural that she should tell you enough of her own feelings to furnish a tolerable guess at mine � i will not be prevented however from making my own our confidences in you need not dash � i ask no questions � there is something soothing in die idea that we have die same friend and that whatever unhappy of opinion may exist between us we are united in our love of you � it will be a comfort to me to tell you how things now are and what are my present plans if plans i can be said to have � i have be i returned once i was three weeks in london and saw her very often i had every attention from the � era that could be reasonably expected i dare say i was not reasonable in carrying with me hopes of an course at all like that of it was her manner rather than any of meeting had the been mt when i did see her i should have b b pause no complaint but from the very first she was altered mj first reception was so unlike what i had hoped that i had almost resolved on leaving london again � i need not you know the side of her and may imagine the sentiments and expressions were me she was in high spirits and by those who were giving all the support of their own bad sense to her too lively mind i do not like mrs she is a hearted vain woman who � married entirely from convenience and though evident � ly unhappy in her marriage places her disappointment not to faults of judgment or temper or of i hut to her being after all less than many of her acquaintance especially than her sister lady and is the determined of every thing and ambitious provided it be only and enough i look up m her intimacy with those two as the greatest misfortune of her life and mine they have leading her astray for years could she be detached them � and sometimes i do not despair of it for affection appears to me principally on their side they are fond of her but i am sure she does not love them as she loves you when i think of her great attachment to you indeed and the whole of her judicious upright conduct as a sister she appears a very different creature capable of � every thing noble and i am ready to blame myself for a too construction of a play manner i cannot give her up she is the only woman in the world whom i could ever think of as a wife if i did not believe that she some regard for me of course i should not this hut i do believe it i am convinced that she is not with out a decided i have no jealousy of any individual it is the influence of the fashionable world altogether that i am jealous of it is the habits of that i fear her ideas are not higher than ho own for tune may warrant but they are beyond what our united could there is comfort here i could better bear to lose her because not rich enough than because of my profession that would her not equal to sacrifices which in i park am scarcely justified iu asking and if i am refused that think will be the honest motive her prejudices i are not so strong as they you have my thoughts exactly as they arise my dear perhaps they are sometimes contradictory but it will not be a less faithful picture of my mind having once begun it is a pleasure to me to tell you all i feel i cannot give her up connected as we already are and i hope are to be to give up mary would be to give up die society of some of those most dear to me � to banish myself from the very houses and friends whom under any other distress i should turn to for consolation the loss of mary i must consider as the loss of and of were it a decided thing an actual refusal i hope i should know how to bear it and how to endeavour to her hold on my heart � and in the course of a few years � but i am writing nonsense � were i refused must bear it and till i am i can never cease to try for her this is the truth the only question is what may be the means i have sometimes thought of going to london again after and sometimes resolved on doing nothing till she returns to even � she speaks with pleasure of being in in june but june is at a great distance and i believe i shall write to her i have nearly determined on explaining myself by letter to be at an early certainty is a material object my present state is miserably irksome considering every thing i think a letter will be decidedly the best method of explanation i be able to much that i could not say and shall be giving her time for reflection before she on her answer and i am less afraid of the result of reflection than of an immediate hasty impulse i think i am my greatest danger would lie in her consulting mrs and i at a distance unable to help my own cause a letter to all the evil of consultation and where the mind is any thing short of perfect decision an adviser may in an unlucky moment lead it to do what it may afterwards regret i must think this matter

in her chair with drooping eye and a face so that he had feared at first that her journey had weighed heavily upon her and that the strength was out of her of a sudden however there came a change for a dash of bright color up on to either cheek and her were slowly raised again upon eyes which sparkled with such a lustre as had never seen in human eyes before while their gaze was fixed intently not upon the company but on the dark which draped the wall so transformed and so ethereal was her expression that in his dream of or of had never pictured so sweet so womanly and yet so wise a face glancing at du saw that he was also watching his wife closely and from the of his features and the beads upon his brick colored brow it was easy to see that he was deeply agitated by the change which he marked in her how is it with you lady he asked at last in a tremulous voice her eyes remained fixed intently upon the wall and there was a long pause ere she answered him her voice too which had been so clear and ringing was now low and as th t of who speaks from a distance an k wed with m ae � the hour of has to me l ld we it i ne it he his his with the perplexed and i know in what words to make it dear to yon and to fair wife and to sir and to these other stranger knights my is a one and to word of than to op a matter as this of which i can myself little thi i know that my wife is of a tory race whom god hath in his wisdom endowed with powers so that was known ere i first saw her at yet these powers are need for good and they are the gift of and not of the which is the difference white magic and black perchance it would be as well that we should send for father said sir it would be best that he should come cried the and bring with him a of holy water added the knight of not so gentlemen answered sir it is not needful that this priest should be called and it is in my mind that in asking for this ye cast some slight shadow or upon the good name of my wife as though it were doubtful whether her power came to her from or below if ye have indeed such a doubt i pray that you will say so that may discuss the matter in a fitting way for myself said sir i have heard such words fall from the lips of this lady that i am of opinion that there is no woman save only one who can be in any way compared to her in beauty and in goodness should any gentleman think otherwise i should deem it great honor to run a small course with him or debate the matter in whatever way might be most pleasing to him it would ill become me to cast a upon a lady who is both my guest and the wife of my comrade in arms � aid the of i have perceived also that on her mantle there is marked a silver cross which is surely sign enough that there is naught of evil in these strange powers which you say that she possesses this argument of the s appealed so powerfully to the and to the that they at once intimated that their objections had been entirely overcome while even the lady who had sat shivering and crossing herself ceased to glances at the door and allowed her fears to turn to curiosity among the gifts which have been ed to my wife said du is the wondrous one of seeing into the future but it very seldom upon her and goes as quickly for none can command it the blessed hour of sight as she hath named it has come but thrice since i have known her and i can for it that all that she hath told me was true for on the evening of the battle of she said that the morrow would be an ill day for me and for charles of ere the sun had sunk again he was dead and i the prisoner of sir john yet it is not every question that she can answer but only those i cried the lady in the same muttering far away voice the blessed hour passes use it while you may i will my sweet tell me then what fortune comes upon me danger � deadly pressing danger � which upon you and you know it not the french soldier burst into a laugh and his green eyes with amusement at what time during these twenty years would not that have been a true word he cried danger is the air that i breathe but is this so very close here � now � close upon you the words came out in broken speech while the lady s fair face was d and drawn like that of one who looks upon a horror which strikes the words from her lips da gazed round the room at the the the the the with its silver and the half circle of friendly wondering faces there was an utter stillness save for the sharp breathing of the lady and for the gentle of the wind outside to their ears the distant call upon a s horn the danger may bide said he his broad shoulders and now tell us what will come of this war in spain i can see little she answered straining her eyes and her brow as one who would fain clear her sight there are mountains and dry plains and flash of arms and

but the white ram yonder is still full of service a better i ve never known the white ram is stronger than the black though the black will turn from him and seek a ram of her own colour i ve known a white ram so ardent for a black that he fought the black ram till their cracked master it is well to listen to thee jacob interrupted the brook for none knows sheep like thee but as none will ever give me charge of a flock again thy teaching is wasted upon me look to the teeth jacob and to their see that the are sound master never before thou mock at me who am for my misfortunes the of all these fields in what have i done wrong that my are a bit tired is all thou hast to blame me for to day jacob not mocking at thee but looking forward a little for time is on thy side and will soon put thee in charge of a flock again time is on my side jacob repeated if i understand thee rightly master thy meaning is that the hills are beginning to weary thee look into my beard jacob and see how much grey hair is in it and my gait is slower than it used to be a has come upon me that will not wear out and my eyes are not as keen as they were and when i see in thee a wise shepherd between the spring and autumn it may be that our president at my advice will my flock to thy charge chapter xxx so thou that the autumn rains will make an end of him and maybe of thee too returned a hard life ours is even for the young ones hard bread by day and at night a bed of stones a hard life from the beginning one that doesn t grow softer and to end in a lion s at fifty is the best we can hope for for us perhaps answered but will go up to the among the rocks and die amongst the brethren reading the if the autumn rains don t make an end of him as if he did not like his of death to be called into question as i was saying a shepherd s life is a hard one and when the autumn rains make an end of him the brethren will be on the look out for another shepherd and there s not one amongst them that would bring half the flock to him into the fold at the end of the year the best of us lose sheep what with the flock will go to jacob the lad he s been training to follow him ever since his friend was killed remarked timidly and raised their eyes and looked at in surprise for a sensible remark from was an event and to their wonder they found themselves in agreement with the flock would go to jacob without doubt of course cried excited by the success of his last remark he be more than fifty thou put five years more to the fifty and not be far wrong interposed was minded to speak again but his elders looks made him feel that they the brook had heard him sufficiently now how many years dost thou make it since joseph of was killed how many years repeated i can t tell thee how many years but many years stay i can mark the date down for thee it was about ten years before wasn t that his name led the multitude over these hills a great riot that was surely � fires lighted at the side of the woods for the of our and many s the fine wood that was turned to blackened stems and sad ashes in those days it comes back to me now was the name i d forgotten it for the moment he led the multitude to and while he was bidding the waters divide to let him across the had his head off it was nigh ten years after that that s partner was killed in i believe thee to be right replied and they talked of the different and that were still the country stirring them up against the but cried suddenly the story comes back to me not getting any news of his friend left his flock with jacob and came down to the pass between the hills where the road to the lake to inquire from the beggars if they had seen s partner on his way to or and seeing the and beggars gathering about i came down to hear what was being said but before i got as far i saw turn away and walk into the hills it was from the beggars and that i heard that joseph had been killed in the streets of thou how long beggars take to tell a story was far away before they got to the end of it simple though it was i d have gone after him if they d been quicker more of the story i don t know it was just as thou mate answered and thou lt bear me out that it was some months after maybe six or seven that was seen again leading the flock i the brook remember the day i saw him for wasn t i near to rubbing my eyes lest they might be deceiving me � i remember continued it comes back to me as it does to thee for within two years he had gathered another handsome flock about him a fine shepherd said none better to be found on the hills thou well answered him and for thee to speak well twice in the same day is well nigh a miracle thou it awake one morning to find the is waiting for so great is thy advancement of late in good

a twilight scene folded arms leaned against the lost in that involuntary musing which the sober grandeur of nature commands in the of her children the vast bosom of the was like an mirror reflecting the golden splendour of the heavens excepting that now and then a bark would steal across its surface filled with painted savages whose gay feathers glared brightly as perchance a lingering of the setting sun gleamed upon them from the western but when the hour of twilight spread its magic mists around then did the face of nature assume a thousand fugitive charms which to the worthy heart that seeks enjoyment in the glorious works of its maker are the mellow light that prevailed just served to tinge with colours the softened features of the scenery the deceived but delighted eye sought vainly to discern in the broad masses of shade the separating line between the land and water or to distinguish the fading objects that seemed sinking into chaos now did the busy fancy supply the of vision producing with industrious craft a fairy creation of her own under her the barren rocks frowned awful upon the watery waste in the semblance of lofty towers and high castles � trees assumed the forms of mighty giants and the inaccessible of the mountains seemed peopled with a thousand shadowy beings now broke forth from the shores the notes of an innumerable variety of insects which filled the air with a strange but not concert � while ever and anon was heard the melancholy of the whip poor will who perched on some lone tree wearied the ear of night with his incessant the mind soothed into a melancholy listened with pensive stillness to catch and distinguish each sound that vaguely echoed from the shore � now and then startled perchance by the of some straggling savage or the dreary howl of a wolf stealing forth upon his nightly thus happily did they pursue their course until they entered upon those awful the it would that the gigantic had their war with heaven up cliffs on cliffs and vast masses of rock in wild confusion but in very different is the history of these cloud mountains � these in ancient days ancient s before the poured waters from the lakes formed one within rocky bosom the the rebellious spirits who at his here bound in or m pines or crushed by ponderous rocks tliey groaned for many an age � at length the in his irresistible career the ocean burst open their prison house his tide triumphantly through its ruins still however do many of them about their old and these it is according to venerable legends that cause the echoes which throughout these awful are nothing but their angry when any noise the of their repose � for when the elements are agitated by tempest when the winds are up and the thunder then horrible is the yelling and howling of these troubled spirits making the mountains to with their hideous uproar for at such times it is said that they think the great is returning once more to plunge them in gloomy and renew their intolerable of but ab and glorious scenes were lost tke gallant naught occupied s mind of iron war proud of hardy deeds of arms neither i his honest crew trouble their vacant heads th any romantic of the kind the ot the smoked his pipe x either past present or to come � of his comrades who were not bit g under the were with ten mouths to van who seated i the was relating to them the history of those of fire flies that like gems and upon the dusky be of night these according to tradition re originally a race of who peopled these parts long e memory of man being of that ce emphatically called and who for innumerable sins against the children of en and to furnish an awful warning to the sex were doomed to the earth the shape of these threatening and terrible tie enduring the internal of � e which they formerly carried in their van a and breathed forth in words but now to bear about for ever � m their tails and now am i going to tell a fact which i doubt much my readers will hesitate to but if they do they are welcome not to believe a word in this whole history � for nothing which it contains is more true it must be known then that the nose of the was of a very size boldly from his countenance like a mountain of being with and other precious stones � the true of a king of good fellows which jolly to all who it heartily at the now thus it happened that bright and early in the morning the good having washed his was leaning the quarter railing of the contemplating it in the wave below just at this moment the illustrious sun breaking in all his splendour from behind one of the high of the did dart one of his most potent beams full upon the nose of the of brass � the reflection of which shot straightway down hissing hot into the water and killed a mighty that was sporting beside the by the reflection of his nose vessel this huge monster being with infinite labour hoisted on board furnished a luxurious to all the crew being accounted of excellent excepting about the wound where it a little of � and this on my was the first time that ever was eaten in these parts by christian people when this astonishing miracle came to be made known to peter and that he tasted of the unknown fish he as may well be supposed exceedingly and as a monument thereof he gave the name of s nose to a stout in the neighbourhood � and it has continued to be called s nose ever since

lay did slowly slowly move the tender strain s heart each sigh each smiling tear she flies to love could not part but follows to her mistress dear lo heaven taught her eyes m and mid the blue skies her soul forever worlds revolving in their to their why not rush lawless through the space of heaven and fly in mystic race � attraction doth that fury and each in its respective circle runs all glorious works of heaven the d maid exclaim d and long farewell she bade the hung the the heavenly sound has d the muse no more has sung a art vl history progress and existing of the agricultural society in with practical directions for societies forming in north on the model hy first president of said society c vo an address delivered before the philadelphia society for at its meetings january by william l l d chief justice of the state of and one of the vice of the society the first of the two the names of which art at the head of this article is the production if we are rightly informed of a gentleman who himself to the promotion of agricultural knowledge and agricultural taste it is a most amiable sort of enthusiasm which a man to labour for the improvement of his fellow men and a kind of patriotism though and of extended fame or political honours yet most because of its and admirable for its that is iu the m societies dignity and rustic in the � ye of the american people that our as a science is capable of vast improvements there can be no doubt nor can it reasonably be questioned that the prodigious success of our commercial for a series of years previous to the in europe had die very ancient and honourable occupation of the earth lower in the scale of dignity and general estimation than its usefulness with and virtue deserved every sincere and well directed effort to render an honoured and a favourite pursuit should therefore be received with kindness and mr it seems was mainly in establishing the society from which great benefits have been derived by that part of the country and afterwards assisted in the organization of those in and new york he attributes great effects to the public distribution of and giving to agricultural by means of music and even all that sort of which usually political and he relates some striking examples within his own experience of the happy effects flowing from the presence and encouragement of the fairer and part of the community at the in honour of and domestic is still much behind many of her sister states in efforts to encourage and promote agricultural kill a bill now before her and which will probably have becomes law before this number of our journal is published is calculated to do much towards calling the attention of the people to the of great improvements and towards exciting a most spirit of but die has no society at present established that exercises � ny veiy active in of societies ha this assertion is made without any disposition or intention to from the highly respectable association before whom the address mentioned at the head of this article was delivered but respectable as that society unquestionably is in the individual worth of its members proofs are yet wanting of any at benefits heretofore derived by the from its exertions the introduction of sum as a into general use for which we are indebted mainly to the example and of the very gentleman that over that institution is indeed a most valuable improvement and our lasting obligations for it are due to that public spirited the volumes too of transactions it is granted contain k collection of tracts presenting the results of numerous experiments and descriptions of various newly invented instruments of but a publication after two or three years have elapsed of a ponderous made up of the papers collected during all that period theories that meanwhile have become describing machinery grown out of use or no longer novel to any one and announcing new inventions that at the time of publication have seen two or more pass is a very plan of the knowledge that the society labours to collect the book is necessarily too expensive for general circulation and the information too stale to be very valuable no are bestowed or as as we know offered to exertion or do honour to successful experiment there is however an agricultural published under the direction of the so which is calculated to be very useful because it contains a good deal of practical information in a small compass and form we know not whether the societies in other states adopt a plan certainly it is much to be commended and may be with good effect nothing is so sure to be read as an every master of a family possesses one and has frequent occasion vol i s v to consult it any information therefore to the mere is certain to find its way to his understanding as very able learned and judicious of an the philadelphia society are to unlimited praise but much more is expected of them and little of it performed in thus expressing with perfect frankness the sentiments we have adopted from the collection of many opinions in relation to an association that a large share the respectability and distinction of individual character in this city it is obvious that we tread but any error or when pointed out shall be as frankly acknowledged and if the sins of that we charge upon the society were ten fold more extensive we should be quite willing to forgive them while we are by listening to such an as that above referred to and from a personage so dis as chief justice art viii � miscellaneous articles a work robe of kings and ma either totally disappeared or from

when the festival is over however added mr bird the two cottages � belonging to the on the site of which the library is to be built will certainly come down the remaining cottage � that next to the garden � is the property of the of the and will be spared for a while but will ultimately be pulled down also to increase the size of the garden curiously enough mr flower a prominent is of the of the trust while his son mr flower is the of the library committee it was the latter gentleman who first and practically approached mr on the subject of the library and he suggested as a site a little of land between the school and a larger cottage which the three which are now doomed exception was taken to this as the larger cottage is really an old structure from the year before shakespeare was born hence the other cottages were selected why people wish to save them said the mayor yesterday i cannot understand they are very ugly and there is nothing about them for they have not been standing more than a hundred years at the outside we only se to erect in their stead a very modest building see and one which will be far more in keeping with the atmosphere of the street to this view however there is very strong opposition even in � daily mail by the above extract it will be again made plainly evident that the intention of all parties concerned was to entirely the old houses m street after the public luncheon on april i wished to speak mr mr before he returned to london but he told me he feared he � would have no time to give me i thought this rather extraordinary as i had been the first to warn him respecting the intended in and had received from him the following letter dated march � thk plain truth of the intended his first letters mr deserts his former dear madam � many thanks for the information contained in your letter of the th i hope that by calling a little more attention to the flower scheme we may get it modified to the extent of having no new buildings put up in street � yours very faithfully the letter which mr wrote to the times on march and which has already been set before the reader followed this letter to myself in another letter to me he wrote � the only body in the country really fit to have charge of such a site is the national trust not a body such as the actual but such as they are we must try and prevail with them but after spending nearly the whole day of april with mr d flower mr on his return to london from me the following letter � copy british museum london w c april dear miss � i was very sorry to be prevented coming to tea with you yesterday but my time was taken up first making a thorough examination of the premises in street and next waiting to try and find my friend who was due at the red horse at six but for whom i waited in vain until six twenty when it was time to catch my train for london and now first let me congratulate you again on a speech delivered with a very remarkable beauty of voice and utterance for which i own i was not prepared � it was admirable and next i have to confess what will not please you that having carefully examined the houses and gone into all the points of the matter on the spot i am no longer on your side as i was and regret that i should have taken part in the public discussion as i was for long unwilling to do without first hand study of the facts and conditions i find these to be much more complicated than i supposed the maintenance of the actual which i should prefer much more difficult and the mischief of the proposed scheme much less than it has been represented so please do not count on me in future as an active ally in this matter � yours very truly signed it will be noticed that in this letter mr does not say one word about the associations and tradition of street moreover he says he was making a thorough examination of the premises � that he carefully examined the houses and went into all the his points of the matter on the spot what is mainly in this episode is that he failed to ascertain the history of the old houses altogether a very few days after he had written this letter to me full proofs of the antiquity of the houses in question mistake at on and their connection with the shakespeare family were established the day after the public luncheon i received a letter from mr dr william edward a martin brother of dr william martin hon sec of the london shakespeare league with whom i had had some little correspondence relative to my becoming a member of the league dr william martin was much interested in the effort i was making to save the old houses and would have assisted the work more but for representations made to him that members of the flower family belonged to the league i have never been able to understand why undue consideration for a person or persons should enter into a matter which is purely national especially into such a matter as affects historical literary or connection with shakespeare and times dr martin was however seriously in his own intention to the strict preservation of street and did the best thing he could do under the peculiar circumstances of the case by referring it on to his brother he wrote me a letter containing the passage � it is indeed time

hi m more comfortable ah i i think i ought to it poor man i think i will he touched the first button with a very cautious hand and a step backward but the remaining in profound he touched the other buttons with a more assured hand and perhaps the more lightly on that account softly and slowly he opened tho coat and drew it back the ends of a bright red were then disclosed and he had even been at the of dipping parts of it in some liquid to give it the of having become stained v ith a much perplexed face looked from it to the and from the to it and finally crept back to his chair and there with his hand to his chin sat long in a brown study looking at both n the golden a mr and mrs had to break st they were not absolutely but had selves with so much on the golden couple of the honor and pleasure of their company would have m difficult if desired were in a charming state oi ve mr and mrs and almost as fond of mr and s of one another my dear said mrs it to me to see my alfred in confident l communication the two were formed to intimate so combined with so much f character such sagacity united to such and these characteristics of both this being said aloud gave mr an as came with mr from the window to the break st table taking up his dear and honored wife my said that gentleman your too partial of your poor husband s character no not too partial alfred ui ed the lady tenderly mc never say that � my child your favourable opinion then of your don t object to that phrase darling how can i alfred r � your favourable opinion then my precious does to mr and more than justice to me to the first charge alfred i plead but to the oh no no less than justice to mr said mr i soaring into a tone of moral grandeur because it as on my lower level more than justice to me because it represents me as on mr s higher level mr bears and far more than i could far more than you could for yourself alfred t my love that is not the question not the question lawyer said mrs no dear from my lower level i repaid mr too generous as possessed of too much as being to to persons who are unworthy of him and ungrateful to him to noble qualities i can lay no on the contrary n n� indignation when i see them in alfred they rouse my indignation my dear against the � persons and give me a desire to stand between mr ij and au such persons why because in my n r more worldly and less delicate not being so ous i feel injuries than he does himself and feel more capable of his in it struck mrs that it appeared rather difficult this morning to bring mr and mrs into agreeable here had been several thrown out and neither of them had uttered a word were she mrs and her husband at once and but alone assuming that the dear old creatures were bj what they heard still one would like to be sure of it the more so as at least one of the dear old creatures was somewhat referred to if the dear old creatures were too or too dull to assume their required places in the discussion why then it would seem desirable that the dear old creatures should be taken by their heads and shoulders and brought into it but is not my husband saying in effect asked mrs therefore with an innocent air of mr and mrs that he becomes of hie own temporary misfortunes in his admiration of another whom he is burning to serve and is not that making an admission that his nature is a generous one i am wretched in argument but surely this is so dear mr and mrs still neither mr nor mrs said a word he sat with his eyes on his plate eating his and ham and she sat looking at the mrs s innocent appeal was merely thrown into the air to mingle with the steam of the urn glancing towards mr and mrs she very slightly raised her eyebrows as though inquiring of her husband do notice anything wrong here mr who had found his chest effective on a variety of occasions his shirt front into the largest demonstration possible and then smiling retorted on his wife thus darling mr and mrs wiu remind you of the old that self praise is no recommendation self praise alfred do you mean because we are one and the same no my dear child i mean that you cannot to remember if you reflect for a single moment that what you are pleased to compliment me upon feeding in the case of mr you have yourself confided to me as own feeling in the case of mrs i shall be beaten by this lawyer mrs gaily whispered to mrs am afraid must admit it if he presses me for it s true several white b an to come and go about mr s nose as ho observed that mrs merely looked up from the a moment with an embarrassed smile which was no smile and then looked down again do you admit the charge inquired alfred in a tone i think said mrs stiu gaily i must throw myself on the protection of the court am i bound to answer that question my lord to mr you needn t if you don t like ma am was his answer it s not of the least consequence manner was grave bnt not derived certain repressed dislike of the t me of the again mrs her

felt the smallest fatigue from her journey and even then even in moments of or restraint a sense of general happiness and she could think of her in bath without one wish of being with them the night was stormy the wind had been rising at intervals the whole afternoon and by the time the party broke up it blew and rained violently as she crossed the hall listened to the tempest with sensations of awe and when she heard it rage round a comer of the ancient building and close with sudden fury a distant door felt for the first time that she was really in an abbey yes these were characteristic sounds they brought to her recollection a countless variety of dreadful situations and horrid scenes which such buildings had witnessed and such storms ushered in and most heartily did she rejoice in the happier circumstances attending her entrance within walls so solemn she had nothing to dread from midnight or drunken henry had certainly been only in jest in what he had told her that morning in a house so and so guarded she could have nothing to explore or to suffer and might go to her bed room as securely as if it had been her own chamber at thus wisely her mind as she proceeded up stairs she was enabled especially on perceiving that miss slept only two doors from her to enter her room with a tolerably stout heart and her spirits were immediately assisted by the cheerful blaze of a wood fire how much better is this said she as she walked to the much better to find a fire ready lit than to have to wait shivering in the cold till all the family are in bed as so many poor have been obliged to do and then to have a old servant one by coming in with a how glad i am that is what it is if it had been like some other places i do not know that in such a night as this i could have answered for my courage bat now to be sure there is nothing to alarm one she looked round the room the window curtains seemed in motion it could be nothing but the violence of the wind penetrating through the divisions of the shutters and she boldly forward carelessly humming a tune to assure herself of its being so peeped behind each curtain saw on either low window seat to scare her and on placing a hand against the felt the strongest conviction of the wind s force a glance at the old chest as she turned away from this examination was not without its use she scorned the fears of an idle fancy and began with a most happy indifference to prepare herself for bed she should take her time she should not hurry herself she did not care if she were the last person up in the house but she would not make up her fire that would seem cowardly as if she wished for the protection of light after she were in bed the fire therefore died away and having spent the best part of an hour in her arrangements was beginning to think of stepping into bed when on giving a parting glance round the room she was struck by the appearance of a high old fashioned black cabinet which though in a situation conspicuous enough had never caught her notice before henry s words his description of the r abbey cabinet which was to escape her at first rushed across her and though there could be nothing really in it there was something it was certainly a very remarkable coincidence she took her candle and looked closely at the cabinet it was not absolutely and gold but it was black and yellow of the kind and as she held her candle the yellow had very much the effect of gold the key was in the door and she had a strange fancy to look into it not however with the smallest expectation of finding anything but it was so very odd after what henry had said in short she could not sleep till she had examined it so placing the candle with great caution on a chair she seized the key with a very tremulous hand and tried to torn it but it resisted her utmost strength alarmed but not discouraged she tried it another way a bolt flew and she believed herself successful but how strangely mysterious the door was still she paused a moment in breathless wonder the wind roared down the chimney the rain beat in torrents against the windows and everything seemed to speak the at of her situation to retire to bed however on such a point would be vain since sleep must be impossible with the consciousness of a cabinet so mysteriously closed in her immediate vicinity again therefore she applied herself to the key and after moving it in every possible way for some with the determined of hope s last effort the door suddenly yielded to her hand her heart leaped with exultation at such a victory and having thrown open each folding door the second being secured only by of less wonderful construction than the lock though in that her eye could not discern anything unusual a double range of small drawers appeared in view with some larger drawers above and below them and in the centre a small door closed also with lock and key secured in all probability a of importance s heart beat quick but her courage did not fail her with a cheek flushed by hope and an eye straining north abbey with her fingers grasped the handle of a drawer and drew it forth it was entirely empty with less alarm and greater eagerness she seized a second a third a was equally empty not one was left and id not one was anything

not ignorant of that � lie thick with our ill haste is most needful but without and caution all is naught which then of this company will take me this letter bear it to my lord of and bring me the answer back one man instantly arose i will an t like you said he i will even risk my nay not so returned the knight it likes me not y are sly indeed but not speedy ye were a ever an t be so sir daniel am i cried another the saints f said the knight y are speedy but not sly ye would blunder me into john camp i thank you both for your good courage but in it may not be then offered himself and he also was refused i want you here good y are my right hand indeed returned the knight and then several d the black coming forward in a group sir daniel at length selected one and g ve him the letter now he said upon your good speed and better discretion we do all depend bring me a good answer back and before three weeks i will have my forest of these that brave us to our faces but mark it well the matter is not easy ye must steal forth under night and go like a fox and how ye are to cross till i know not neither by the bridge nor i can swim returned i will come soundly fear not well friend get ye to the replied sir daniel ye shall swim first of all in nut brown ale and with that he turned back into the hall sir daniel hath a wise tongue said aside to dick see now where many a lesser man had the matter over he it out plainly to his company here is a danger a and here and in the very nay by saint he is a bom captain i not a man but he is some deal up see how they fall again to work this praise of sir daniel put a thought in the lad s head he said how came my father by his end ask me not that replied i had no hand nor knowledge in it i will even dick asks questions be silent master dick for look you in a man s own business there he may speak but of matters and of common talk not so ask me sir � ay or if ye will not me and set off to make the rounds leaving dick in a muse wherefore would he not tell me thought the lad and wherefore named he � nay then had a hand in it he entered the house and passing some little way along a and passage came to the door of the cell where the hurt man lay groaning at his entrance started eagerly have ye brought the priest he cried not yet awhile returned dick y ave a word to tell me first how came my father harry by his death the man s face altered instantly i know not he replied nay ye know well returned dick seek not to put me by i tell you i know not repeated then said dick ye shall die here am i and here shall stay there shall no priest come near you rest assured for of what avail is an ye have no mind to right those wrongs ye had a hand in and without confession is but mockery ye say what ye mean not master dick said u the black a� it is ill threatening the dying and you to speak truth little and for as little as it you it shall serve you less stay an ye please ye will condemn my soul � ye shall learn nothing there is my last word to you and the wounded man turned upon the other side now dick to say truth had spoken hastily and was ashamed of his threat but he made one more effort he said mistake me not i know ye were but an instrument in the hands of others a must obey his lord i would not bear heavily on such an one but i begin to learn upon many sides that this great duty on my youth and ignorance to my father then good set aside the memory of my and in pure good will and honest give me a word of help the wounded man lay silent nor say what dick pleased could he extract another word from him well said dick i will go call the priest to you as ye desired for ye be in fault to me or mine i would not be willingly in fault to any least of all to one upon the last change again the old soldier heard him without speech or motion even his groans he had suppressed and as dick turned and left the room he was filled with admiration for that rugged fortitude and yet he thought of what use is courage dick asks questions without wit had his hands been clean he would have spoken his silence did confess the secret louder than words nay upon all sides proof on me sir daniel he or his men hath done this thing dick paused in the stone passage with a heavy heart at that hour in the ebb of sir daniel s fortune when he was by the of the black arrow and by the victorious was dick also to turn upon the man who had nourished and taught him who had severely punished indeed but yet protected his youth the necessity if it should prove to be one was cruel pray heaven he be innocent he said and then steps sounded on the and sir came gravely towards the lad one you earnestly said dick i am upon the way good richard said the priest it is this poor he is beyond

as if that wasn t enough in another character em au off in a hundred goes i as if that t enough us and well named too eats six millions worth english money in seven months takes it easy but upon my soul to a old bird like myself these are and even now that is i don t see a way to our ourselves mr added as he turned his pensive steps towards the bower and shook his head i didn t think this morning there was half so many in print but i m in for it now i vl cut thk jolly already as a of a a liad long settled down into a state of hale in its whole constitution it had not a floor and hardly a straight line but it had and would yet y a better trimmed building many a public house it was a narrow of windows heaped one upon another as you might heap as many with a crazy wooden impending over tne water indeed the whole house of the complaining flag staff on the over the water but seemed to have got into the condition of a hearted who has paused so long on the brink that he will never go in at all this description applies to the river of the six the back of the though the chief entrance was there so contracted that it merely represented in its with the front the handle of a flat iron set upright on its end this handle stood at the bottom of a wilderness of court and alley which pressed so hard and close upon the six fellowship as to leave the not an inch of ground beyond its door for this reason in combination with the ct that the house was all but afloat at high water when the had a wash the linen subjected to that operation might usually be seen drying on lines stretched across the reception rooms and bed chambers the wood forming the chimney pieces beams floors and doors of the six jolly seemed in its old age with confused memories of its in many places it had become and according to the manner of old trees knots started out of it and here and l ere it seemed to twist into some likeness of boughs in this state of second childhood it had an air of being in its own way about its early life not without reason was it often asserted by the regular of the that when the light shone fall upon the grain of certain and particularly upon an old comer cupboard of wood in the bar you might trace little forests there and tiny trees like the parent tree in leaf the bar of the six fellowship was a bar to soften the human breast the available space in it was not much larger than a coach but no one could have wished the bar bigger that space was so in by little and bv radiant with grapes in and by in and by in baskets and by the polite beer that made low bows when customers were served with beer and by the cheese in a snug comer and by the landlady s own small table in a near the fire with the doth laid this haven was divided from the rough world by a glass and a half door with a leaden sill upon it for the convenience of resting liquor but over this door the bar s so forth that drank there standing in a dark and passage where they were shouldered by other passing in and out they always appeared to drink under an delusion that they were in the bar itself for the rest both the tap and parlor of the six jolly gave upon the river and had red curtains the noses of the regular customers and were provided with comfortable fireside tin like of sugar loaf hats made in that shape that they might with their pointed ends seek out for glowing in the depths of the red coals when th your ale or for you drinks and dog s nose the first of these humming was a of the which through an inscription on its door posts gently appealed to your feelings as the early house for it would seem that must always be taken early though whether for any more distinctly reason than that as the early bird catches tlie worm so the early catches the customer cannot here be resolved it only remains to add that in the handle of the flat iron and opposite the bar was a very little room like a three hat which no direct ray of sun moon or star ever penetrated but which was r as a with comfort and retirement and on the door oi which was therefore painted its name miss sole proprietor and manager of the reigned supreme on her throne the bar and a man must have drunk himself mad drunk indeed if he thought he could contest a point with her being known on her own authority as miss abbey some water side heads which the water were none of the dearest notions that because of her and firmness she was named after or in some sort related to the abbey at westminster but abbey was only short for hy which name miss had been at some sixty and odd years before now you mind you said miss abbey with emphatic forefinger over the half the don t want you at all and would rather by r have your room than your company but if you were as here as you are not you t even then have another drop of drink here this night after this present pint of beer so make uie most of it but you know miss this was su very meekly though if i behave you can t help serving me miss cant i

the majority of us though it is difficult to believe that the shadow on the dial proves the passing of the trial proves the presence of the it may i think be said that after the tempest comes only calm but sunshine that there is some sort of compensation for most of us even in n ox congratulations elizabeth dart was not one given to her woes she recognised even in her misery that many a woman was not only worse off than herself as the phrase goes but had far deeper cause for tears was not mrs for example � of whom in her ignorance she had been sometimes to think hard things � one far more to be pitied nor was she so as to attempt to misfortune by it to herself as having come to the length of its the very letter now in her hand might bring tidings of illness from aunt jane in the and morbid condition of her nerves it seemed only too probable and still more of bitterness into her cup still that cup was well nigh full to be a and an for life was the best prospect that life afforded her she took the letter from s hands with a sigh half of apprehension half of despondency it was not from aunt jane but from mr she tore it open less in expectation than in fear to encourage expectation which should leave her more hopeless than before and out leaped a for twenty pounds the blood rushed to her face as though it had received a blow charity � compensation for disappointment � was her tion of the phenomenon she took up the with her fingers as though they had been a pair of and placed it on the table before her the letter that accompanied it was a long one as letters must needs be which for a kindness that may well be mistaken for an insult she had heard of such generosity before in similar cases and the writer s heart must have been touched by her forlorn condition which he must have guessed at however by the magic of sympathy since it was certain she had never hinted at it while his judgment had condemned her contribution � my dear madam � you have i fear been thinking me sadly but a severe and sudden illness an attack of low fever must be my excuse for not having written to you long ago my last act and deed in health was to send your admirable article to the i have never seen it since until i read it in the to day � a circumstance which if you knew my habits which never permit a proof to be in the reading would have all the force of a medical strange to say it has scarcely ever been out of my thoughts a hundred times as i tossed on lo restless pillow have i been a � � i s the heir of the ages pier and in the quaint little town i have seen the clothed or at their exercises and at their trial on the windy downs i have fought against tiie and with them for delirium has no patriotism on battle hill i have seen the towns that lie the sea in your enchanted neighbourhood and peopled them with inhabitants who have suffered no sea change what all this meant as regards your contribution was of course clear enough to me and needed no from without still it will interest you to learn that one of her majesty s judges � almost the only one in these days who has any claim to be considered a judge in literary matters � has just been calling on me under the transparent pretence of inquiring after my health but in reality to learn who is john are you aware my dear sir he was so good as to say that in the net of your this month i will not say owing to your absence from your duties but in spite of it there shines and one of those very rare fish called a genius i am well aware of it my was my reply i dare say however you will be careful not to encourage unreasonable expectations by letting the gentleman know your opinion of him was his dry a sarcasm which i hope you will do me the justice to say was it reminded me however of what but for my illness would assuredly not have been forgotten � namely to express to you the very great admiration i feel f or a bit of old england and its author it is easy to invest with interest an uncommon subject but to make a one even acceptable is a feat beyond most pens your little paper will delight every eye that reads it and possesses the faculty of appreciation as a mere piece of description it is perfect � as good as s sketches of north scenery the stores of knowledge which it has laid under contribution for its illustration must strike every one as unusually ample but to one who hke myself is acquainted with your age and sex they are indeed amazing the chief and much more uncommon merit of the paper lies however in its in the ordinary reader it must needs thought and reflection which will be sure to leave him a wiser man than they found him but for the more exceptional one from his the judge down to the humble editor who now addresses congratulations you it possesses also a as respects the writer and her with far greater powers even than she has exhibited this is promise rather than performance is a professional phrase which find convenient for the of youthful but in your case it must be varied there is plenty of performance in your work but also a promise far beyond it and of which to speak