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century but as in europe now as a red indian s war shook where he lay slept like a top it all swept by and troop and died away the stout soldier drew a long breath whistled m a whisper closed his eyes and slept like top in the morning he sat up and put out hi and to wake it lighted on the young man s forehead and found it quite wet then in his quality of nurse to wake him � it is to check sleep or sweat in a sick man said he i know that far though i ne er nor gallows bird after waiting a good hour he felt desperately hungry so he turned and in self defence went to sleep again poor fellow in his hard life he had been often driven to this at high noon he waa the and the hearth t hy and found him sitting ap with the straw smoking round him like a animal heat moisture called him a lazy he quietly grinned they out and the first thing did was to give his etc and mount a high on the road coast clear to the next village � aid he and on they went on drawing near the village halted and suddenly inquired of how he felt what i can you not see i feel as if rome was no further than yon hamlet but thy body lad thy skin neither hot nor cold and yesterday twas hot one while and cold another but what i cannot get rid of is this tiresome leg le grand many of my comrades have found no such difficulty ah there it goes again unhappy youth said solemnly the sum of thy troubles is this thy fever is gone and thy wound is � healing so it is added he i shall tell thee a little piece of news i had otherwise withheld what is t asked sparkling with curiosity the hue and cry is out after us and on fleet horses � � � chapter was staggered by this sudden communication and his colour came and went then he clenched his teeth with ire for men of any spirit at all are like the wild he will run from a superior force owing perhaps to his not being an ass but if you stick to his heels too long and too close and in short bore him he will whirl and come tearing at a multitude of hunters and perhaps bore you then set his teeth and looked battle but the next moment his countenance fell and he said and my axe is in they consulted together prudence bade them avoid that village hunger said buy food hunger spoke prudence most they settled to strike across the fields as they went the very eyes of the pair betrayed the difference in their minds so quick and outward were those of so and inward s halt at this said the latter now tell me by what clue are these following us they us not why by description sure they have got our habit and arms and faces to the letter and writ out by the town clerk i warrant ye i guessed as much well then i ll confound their description and them too give me thy keep thou my purse tis large and noticeable now take thou my long hair and twist it under my bonnet said i twist it off now move not for thy life he ran off and passed two mortal hours of utter wretchedness he wanted to be doing and in stead of that he was passive he was o it of his part became in some respects his own opposite so narrow are our strongest qualities he had aa many and feeble fears for absent and left to his own resources as any old for her boy pet when out of sight only it broke out in violence instead of wailing oh if they touch but a hair of his head i ll bum village to the ground and shoot them down like by the light of their own ruin may satan twist my neck and my soul but i ll cut every male throat young or old that has the but to look on and see my dear comrade and so after the first hour he went on mixing rage with tenderness and good with ill and above all language to hear which one might really wonder heaven did not strike him dead nor while i sacrifice perfect truth of to decency by those with which his talk was or rather do i aim to conceal from my readers the broad fact that this soldier was on the surface what we humble call a bit of rd at last just as he had determined spite of orders to go into the village and rescue his comrade or share his fate upon him from behind the hedge having made a complete circuit embrace me i cried ah dr e v angrily tenderly ton have made me pass an ill quarter of an hour te as i live a as big as one s leg a loaf and a hotel t ay lad but what is in my divine nay i know not a dead cat i monster i no fire then pull it forth ere it thee tis a marvellous in a man s shirt tail is your fire nay this is tame fire and here is his cage and produced a and item matches item two short but thick candles with rush the only ones then known and eyed them all like a parent over their meal he told his story on leaving you first i cut a staff for i said in their description will be no staff and every little confusion then what did i oh then i thought i still leave that to the last remarked with his mouth brim full it

then and indeed all the rest began to lose hope for plainly they could row no farther alas said the heroes half angrily and each seeking to throw the blame upon another is this to be the end of our quest shall we remain here and perish in this savage wood or shall we float back to the sea from whence we came and try to find some other passage homeward then all went ashore and while some built a under the trees and sat around it telling old stories of the golden age others wandered far into the woods to see what new thing they might discover among these last was with his bow in his hand and watching eagerly for any sign of game he pushed his way alone through the tangled suddenly he heard a rustling of leaves and branches near him and he drew his arrow ready for a shot then to his great surprise he saw a maiden walking beneath the trees her limbs were clad the golden in polished and upon her feet she wore strong bound about with of leather from her shoulders fell a cloak of cloth full rich and soft and embroidered beautifully with gold on her head she wore a and in her hands she carried a mighty bow her face was very fair and her eyes with laughter as she spoke to what luck have you had to day she asked seeming not surprised to meet a stranger in that solitary place then in every limb answered neither bird nor beast have i fair lady nor do i think that this wood affords much game for the then why do you wander in a place so bare of that which heroic men like you asked the maiden it is not of my free choice answered but some ill fate has brought me and my comrades to this spot hoping that we might find a passage to the western sea lo yonder in the shallow stream is our ship which no strength of oar can drive farther no western sea have we found but only this desolate forest forsaken even by the beasts i might show you the way to that western sea the voyage up the said the maiden smiling but you still must voyage many before you find it indeed you must wander long and face many and dire perils before you see the shores of greece again for is angry with you because of the death of young and scarcely will he permit you to carry home the golden but come with me she turned and followed her through the tangled woods very soon she paused in an open space where the ground downward and no trees were seen beyond but only the clear blue sky come hither she said and see what lies beyond and then remember that it was the messenger of queen that led you to this spot while she spoke a great change came over her and now she seemed no longer a warrior maiden in but a dainty fairy floating in the summer air her arms were bare her yellow hair like streamed behind from her shoulders rose two wings that bore her swiftly upward toward the sky and her long trailing in the air with all the colors of the rainbow for only a moment did see her thus and then she vanished he looked toward the spot the golden where she had last stood and there to his surprise he saw not trees nor green grass but a broad deep river flowing silently to some distant unknown sea oh if only the were launched upon that noble stream he cried and he hastened back to tell his comrades of all that he had seen adventure the island of for many days the heroes toiled with a will clearing a from the spot where the lay to the banks of the new found river when this was done they built a broad platform of well framed together and underneath it they placed huge wheels from the trunk of an ancient oak with infinite labor and by main strength alone they lifted the mighty inch by inch and slid her now forward cried yo heave ho and every hero strained his utmost to move the ponderous car now yo heave ho the wheels began to and very slowly the great platform with its water soaked burden to move then playing his walked on before and the hearts of the heroes grew light as they put their shoulders to the work faster and faster the wheels went round and like the golden a living thing glided onward between the trees nevertheless the road was rough and many a caused therefore ten days elapsed before the ship laden wagon stood upon the bank of the broad river which hoped would bear them soon once more the was floating like a bird upon the water and all the heroes shouted for joy they broke up the and beams and wheels of the now useless car and with them built an altar to mighty then they laid and cakes and and many costly things pleasing to the father of the gods at length when all things were in readiness they poured wine upon the and set fire to the huge pile the flames shot upward the heroes with a shout bent to their oars and joyfully glided away on her voyage down the unknown river onward with the stream the heroes sailed and their hearts were light within them for they felt that surely they would soon behold the welcome shores of greece but when they came to the mouth of the river and to the open sea the whole world was strange and no man could tell which way to steer the course so they sailed onward at trusting to discover some well known the island of i or other by which to find their

his look said more than his words and her face grew paler than before she turned from him to the child at lier side � are you very tired no was the reply given brightly and with an upward glance of the dark eyes that is right my friend this is � the child we told you of the other night the only daughter of she will dance for us presently will you not my little one yes indeed and the young face lighted up swiftly at the suggestion while taking the seat indicated to him at the supper table experienced a tumult of extraordinary sensations � the chief one of which was that lie felt himself to have been very quietly but effectually by a woman who had succeeded though he knew not how in suddenly awakening in him a violent fever of excitement to which he was at present unable to give a name himself however he glanced up and down the board lifting his glass to salute who responded from his place at the bottom of the table � and very soon he regained usual for he had enormous strength of will and kept an almost tyranny over his feelings his companions and were separated from him and from each other at different � sides of the table and paul the poet was almost immediately opposite to him he was glad to see that he was next but one to � the man between them being a looking fellow with a fierce moustache and exceedingly gentle eyes � who as he afterwards power was one of the greatest in the world � the favourite of kings and courts � and yet for all that a prominent member of the committee the supper which was of a simple almost character was soon served and the landlord in setting the first plate before laid beside it a knot of deep crimson roses as an offering of homage and obedience from himself she thanked him with a smile and glance and taking up the flowers fastened them at her breast conversation now became animated and general and one of the men present a delicate looking young fellow with a head resembling somewhat that of started a discussion by saying suddenly � has sold out all his shares in that new mine that was started the other day it looks as if he did not think after all his newspaper that the thing was going to work if has sold will said his neighbour the two are concerned together in the floating of the whole business and yet another piece of news put in paul suddenly for if we talk of stocks and shares we talk of money what think you my friends i paul have been offered payment for my poems this very afternoon imagine will not the fall a poet to be paid for his poems is as though one should offer the creator a pecuniary consideration for creating the flowers his face was flushed and his eyes bright listen my he said wonders never cease in this world but this is the most wonderful of all wonders out of the merest mischief and malice the other day i sent my latest book of poems to the king shame shame interrupted a dozen voices against the rules paul you have broken the bond paul laughed loudly how you yell my he cried how you about the rules of your wait till you hear you surely do not suppose i sent the book out of any humility or loyalty or desire for notice do you i sent it out of pure hate and scorn to show as a fool the scorn of kings majesty that there was something he could not do � something that should last when he was forgotten � a few burning lines that should like eat into his throne and it i sent it some days ago and got an acknowledgment from the who writes majesty s letters but this afternoon i received a much more important � a letter from secretary to our very honourable and he me in set terms that his majesty the king has been pleased to appreciate my work as a poet to the extent of offering me a hundred golden pieces a year for the term of my natural life i ha ha a hundred golden pieces a year and thus they would fasten this wild bird of song to a royal cage for a bit of sugar a hundred golden pieces a year it means food and lodging � warm blankets to sleep in � but it means something else � loss of independence then you will not accept it said looking at him with interest over the rim the glass from which he was just his wine accept it i have already refused it by swift return of post shouts of echoed around him on all sides men sprang up and shook hands with him and patted him on the back and even over the dark face of there passed a bright smile with all thy faults thou art a brave man said the young man with the like head who was in reality confidential clerk to one of the largest in the metropolis a thousand times better to starve than to accept royal to your health said leaning forward glass in hand your refusal of the king s offered is a greater tragedy than any you have ever tried to write hear her cried she knows exactly how to put it for look you there are the true elements of tragedy in a worn coat and scant food while the thoughts that help nations to live or die are burning in one s brain then comes a king with a handful of gold � and gold would be useful � it always is but � by heaven to pay a poet for his poems is as i

insight into the disposition of the niece who had been brought up under her eye the plan of the young couple was to proceed after a few days to and take a house there for some weeks every public place was new to maria and is almost as gay in winter as in summer when the novelty of amusement there was over it would be time for the wider range of london was to go with them to since between the sisters had ceased they had been gradually recovering much of their former good understanding and were at least sufficiently friends to make each of them exceedingly glad to be with the other at such a time some other companion than mr was of the first consequence to his lady and was quite as eager for novelty and pleasure as maria though she park might not have struggle through so much to obtain them and could better bear a subordinate situation their departure made another material change at a chasm which required some time to up the family circle became greatly contracted and though the miss had added little to its they could not but be missed even their mother missed them and how much more their tender hearted cousin who wandered about the house and thought of them and felt for them with a degree of regret which they had never done much to deserve chapter s consequence increased on the departure of her cousins becoming as she then did the only young woman in the drawing room the only of that interesting division of a family in which she had hitherto held so a third it was impossible for her not to be more looked at more thought of and attended to than she had ever been before and where is became no uncommon question even without her being wanted for any one s convenience not only at home did her value increase but at the too in that house which she had hardly entered twice a year since mr s death she became a welcome an invited guest and in the gloom and dirt of a november day most acceptable to mary her visits there beginning by chance were continued by mrs grant really eager to get any change for her sister could by the easiest self deceit persuade herself that she was doing the kindest thing by and giving her the most important opportunities of improvement in pressing her frequent calls having been sent into the village on some errand by her aunt was overtaken by a heavy shower close to the j and being man park from one of tlie windows to find shelter under the branches and lingering leaves of an oak beyond their premises was though not without modest reluctance on her part to come in a civil servant she had but when dr g himself went out with an umbrella there was nothing to be done but to be very much ashamed and to get into the house as fast as possible and to poor miss who had just been contemplating the dismal rain in a very state of mind sighing over the ruin of all her plan of exercise for that morning and of every chance of seeing a single creature beyond themselves for the next the sound of a little bustle at the front door and the sight of miss price dripping with wet in the was delightful the value of an event on a wet day in the country was most forcibly brought before her she was all alive again directly and among the most active in being useful to in her to be than she would at first allow and providing her with dry clothes and after being obliged to submit to all this attention and to being assisted waited on by and maids being also obliged on returning downstairs to be fixed in their drawing room for an while the rain continued the blessing of something fresh to see and think of was thus extended tt miss and might carry on her spirits to the period of dressing and dinner the two sisters were so kind to her and so pleasant that might enjoyed her visit park could she have believed herself not in the way and could she have foreseen that the would certainly clear at the end of the hour and save her from the shame of having dr grant s carriage and horses out to take her home with which she was threatened as to anxiety for any alarm that her absence in such weather might occasion at home she had nothing to suffer on that score for as her being out was known only to her two she was perfectly aware that none would be felt and that in whatever cottage aunt might choose to establish her during the rain her being in such cottage would be to aunt it was beginning to look brighter when observing a harp in the room asked some questions about it which soon led to an acknowledgment of her wishing very much to hear it and a confession which could hardly be believed of her having never yet heard it since its being in to herself it appeared a very simple and natural circumstance she had scarcely ever been at the since the instrument s arrival there had been no reason that she should but miss calling to mind an early expressed wish on the subject was concerned at her own neglect and shall i play to you now and what will you have were questions immediately following with the good humor she played accordingly happy to have a new listener and a listener who seemed so much obliged so full of wonder at the and who showed herself not wanting in taste she played till s eyes ti tlie on tlie weather s being evidently fair what she felt be done another quarter of an hour

for a certain time and the great stars of those mild skies beheld her playing in the comer among islands where are never found all that while she smelt and the smell though was not one evening calamity descended upon her from the island of and she fled while her crew at a fat black and brown puffing far behind they knew to the last revolution the capacity of every boat on those seas that they were anxious to avoid a british ship with a good conscience does not a a rule flee from the man of war of a foreign power and it is also considered a breach of etiquette to stop and search british ships at sea these things the of the did not pause to prove but held on at an eleven knots an hour till nightfall one thing only he overlooked the power that kept an expensive steam moving up and down those waters they had the two regular ships of the station with an ease that bred contempt had newly brought up a third and a f boat with a clean bottom to help the work and that was why the driving hard from the east to the west found herself at daylight in such a position that she could not help seeing an arrangement of four the devil and the deep sea flags a and a half behind which read heave to or take the consequences she had her choice and she took it the end came when on her lighter draught she tried to draw away northward over a friendly the shell that arrived by way of the chief engineer s cabin was some five inches in with a practice not a bursting charge it had been intended to cross her bows and that was why it knocked the framed portrait of the chief engineer s and she was a very pretty on to the floor his wash hand stand crossed the into the engine room and striking on a grating dropped directly in front of the forward engine where it burst neatly both the that held the connecting rod to the forward what follows is worth consideration the forward engine had no more work to do its released rod therefore drove up fiercely with nothing to check it and started most of the nuts of the cover it came down again the full weight of the steam behind it and the foot of the connecting rod useless as the leg of a man with a ankle flung out to the right and struck the or right hand cast iron supporting of the forward engine it clean through about six inches above the base and the upper portion three inches towards the ship s side there the connecting rod meantime the after engine being as yet went on with its work and in so doing brought at its next revolution the devil and the deep sea the of the forward engine which smote the already connecting rod bending it and the rod cross the big cross piece thai up and down so smoothly the cross head sideways in the guides and in addition to putting further pressure on the already broken supporting cracked the port or left hand supporting in two or three places there being nothing more that could be made to move the engines brought up all with a that seemed to lift the a foot out of the water and the engine room staff opening every steam outlet that they could find in the confusion arrived on deck somewhat but calm there was a below of things a rushing rattling noise that did not last for more than a minute it was the machinery itself on the spur of the moment to a hundred altered conditions mr one foot on the upper grating inclined his ear sideways and groaned you cannot stop engines working at twelve knots an hour in three seconds without them the slid forward in a cloud of steam shrieking like a horse there was nothing more to do the five inch shell with a reduced charge had settled the situation and when you are full all three holds of strictly preserved pearls when you have cleaned out the bank the sea horse bank and four other banks from one end to the other of the when you have out the very heart of a rich government so that five years will not repair your wrong you the devil and the deep sea must smile and take what is in store but the reflected as a put out from the man of war that he had been on the high seas with the british several of disposed above him and tried to comfort from the thought where said the stolid naval lieutenant himself aboard where are those dam pearls they were there beyond no could do away with the fearful smell of decayed the dresses and the shell they were there to the value of seventy thousand more or less and every the man of war was annoyed for she had used up many tons of coal she had strained her and worse than all her officers and crew had been hurried every one on the was arrested and several times as each officer came aboard then they were told by what they esteemed to be the equivalent of a that they were to consider themselves prisoners and finally were put imder arrest it s not the least good said the you d much better send us a be you are arrest was the reply where the devil do you expect we are going to et cape to we re helpless you ve got to tow us into somewhere and explain why you fired on us mr we re helpless are n t we ruined from end to end said the man of machinery if she rolls the forward will come down and go through her bottom

forbidden to the people remember forbidden said but i still think should have warned thee against them i � i how was i to guess he would play with such dirt the monkey people a fresh shower came down on their heads and the two trotted away taking with them what had said about the was perfectly true they belonged to the tree tops and as beasts very seldom look up there was no occasion for the and the people to cross each other s path but whenever they found a sick wolf or a wounded tiger or bear the would torment him and would throw sticks and nuts at any beast for fun and in the hope of being noticed then they would howl and shriek senseless songs and invite s hunting the people to climb up their trees and fight them or would start furious battles over nothing among themselves and leave the dead where the people could see they were always just going to have a leader and laws and customs of their own but they never did because their memories would not hold over from day to day and so they things by making up a saying what the log think now the will think later and that comforted them a great deal none of the beasts could reach them but on the other hand none of the beasts would notice them and that was why they were so pleased when came to play with them and they heard how angry was they never meant to do any more � the log never mean anything at all but one of them invented what seemed to him a brilliant idea and he told all the others that would be a useful person to keep in the tribe because he could sticks together for protection from the wind so if they caught him they could make him teach them of course as a s child inherited all sorts of instincts and used to make little huts of fallen branches without thinking how he came to do it and the monkey people watching in the trees considered his play most wonderful this time they said they were really going to have a leader and become the wisest people in the � so wise that every one else would notice and envy them therefore they followed and and through the very quietly till it was time for the mid day nap and who was very much the book ashamed of himself slept between the and the bear to have no more to do with the monkey people next thing he remembered was feeling hands on his legs and arms � hard strong little hands � and then a of branches in his face and then he was staring down through the swaying boughs as woke the with his deep cries and bounded up the trunk with every tooth the log howled with triumph and away to the upper branches where dared not follow shouting he has noticed us has noticed us all the people admire us for our skill and our cunning then they began their flight and the flight of the monkey people through tree land is one of the things nobody can describe they have their regular roads and cross roads up hills and down hills all laid out from fifty to seventy or a hundred feet above ground and by these they can travel even at night if necessary two of the strongest caught under the arms and swung off with him through the tree tops twenty feet at a bound had they been alone they could have gone twice as fast but the boy s weight held them back sick and giddy as was he could not help enjoying the wild rush though the glimpses of earth far down below frightened him and the terrible check and jerk at the end of the swing over nothing but empty air brought his heart between his teeth his escort would rush him up a tree till he felt the branches and bend under them and then with a cough and a would fling themselves into the air and downwards and � s hunting bring up hanging by their hands or their feet to the lower limbs of the next tree sometimes he could see for miles and miles across the still green as a man on the top of a mast can see for miles across he sea and then the branches and leaves would lash him across the face and he and his two guards would be almost down to earth again so bounding and crashing and and yelling the whole tribe of log swept along the tree roads with their prisoner for a time he was afraid of being dropped then he grew angry but knew better than to struggle and then he began to think the first thing was to send back word to and for at the pace the were going he knew his friends would be left far behind it was useless to look down for he could only see the top sides of the branches so he stared upwards and saw far away in the blue the and as he kept watch over the waiting for things to die saw that the were carrying something and dropped a few hundred yards to find out whether their load was good to eat he whistled with surprise when he saw being dragged up to a tree top and heard him give the call for � we be of one blood thou and i the waves of the branches closed over the boy but balanced away to the next tree in time to see the little brown face come up again mark my trail shouted tell of the pack and of the council rock in whose name brother had never seen before though of course he had heard of him the book the man they

i told the young lady of before you were not suspected of holding any communication with any body on the subject which has brought us here to night i hope asked the old gentleman no replied the girl shaking her head it s not easy for me to leave him unless he knows why i couldn t have seen the lady when i did but that i gave him a drink of before i came away did he awake before you returned rejoined the gentleman no and neither he nor any of them suspect me good said the gentleman now listen to me i am ready replied the girl as he paused for a moment this young lady the gentleman began has communicated to me and some other friends who can be safely trusted what you told her nearly a fortnight since i confess to you that i had doubts at first whether you were to be relied upon but now i firmly believe you are i am said the girl earnestly i repeat that believe it to prove to you that i am disposed to trust you i tell you without reserve that we purpose to the secret whatever it may be from the fears of this man bu if � said the gentleman he i s � � t and secured he cannot be acted upon as we wish you most deliver up the jew cried the girl that man must be delivered up by you said the gentleman i will not do it � i will never do it replied the girl devil that he is and worse than devil as he has been to me j will never do that you will not said the gentleman who seemed fully prepared for this answer never returned the girl tell me why for one reason rejoined the girl firmly for one reason that the lady knows and will stand by me in � i know she will for i have her promise and for this other reason besides that bad life as he has led i have led a bad life too there are many of us who have kept the same courses together and i ll not turn upon them who might any of them have turned upon me but didn t bad as they are then said the gentleman quickly as if this had been the point he had been to attain put into my hands and leave me to deal with him what if he turns against the others � i promise you in that case if the truth is forced from him there the matter will rest there must be in i bu t it would be � the jew painful to drag before the public eye and if the truth is once they will go free and if it is suggested the girl then pursued the gentleman this jew shall not be brought to justice without your consent in such a case i could show you reasons i think which would induce you to yield it have i the lady s promise for that asked the eagerly you have replied my true and faithful pledge � would never learn how you knew what you do said the girl after a short pause never replied the gentleman the intelligence should be so brought to bear upon him that he could never even guess i have been a liar and among from a little child said the girl another interval of silence but i will take your words after receiving an assurance from both that she might safely do so she proceeded in a voice so low that it was often difficult for the listener to discover even the purport of what she said to describe by name and situation the public house where they must watch for from the manner in which she occasionally paused it appeared as if the gentleman were making some hasty notes of the information she communicated when she and had thoroughly explained the of the the best position from which to watch it observation and the night and hour on which was most in the habit of it she seemed to consider a few moments for the purpose of recalling his features and appearance more forcibly to her recollection he is tall said the girl and a strongly made man but not stout he has a lurking walk and as he walks constantly looks over his shoulder first on one side and then on the other don t forget that for his eyes are sunk in his head so much deeper than any other man s that you might almost tell him by this alone his ce is dark like his hair and eyes but although he can t be more than six or eight and twenty withered and haggard his lips are often and with the marks of teeth for he has desperate fits and sometimes even his hands and covers them with wounds � why did you start v said the girl stopping suddenly the gentleman replied in a hurried manner that he was not conscious of having done so and be ed her to proceed part of this said the girl i ve drawn out from other people at the house i tell you of for i have only seen him twice and both times he was covered up in a large i think that s all i can give you to know � by st y though she added upon his throat so the jew high that you can see a part of it below his when he turns his oe there is a broad red mark like a bum or cried the gentleman how s this cried the girl you know him the young lady uttered a cry of extreme surprise and for a few moments they were so still that the listener could distinctly hear them breathe i think i do said the

no throb that would respond to the higher and nobler sentiments of a wife had i not proved you one of those creatures who their own offspring i would have respected your position and given due consideration to your sex but when one with a murderer he finds no place for delicate methods i shall treat you like any criminal found with the proofs of him out of mrs laughed again long and where under what law do you learn that woman must sacrifice health for a child she does not want she demanded it is well enough for a man to talk if he had the risk to run he would sing another tune i have a right to say whether i will or will not bear children not now he replied the hour for that consideration has passed i am your partner in the life that has begun and my interests are sacred you know that for five years i have worn my heart out praying for another of my home i have done injustice to heaven complaining that my chief desire was refused i would never have contracted marriage but for the belief that children would bless it when you stood with me before the clergyman at you took upon yourself obligations that you cannot throw aside at will your infant is as much mine as if he lay in your arms discussion is useless i am not to be moved the wife resumed her seat and rocked backward and forward in her chair tapping the floor nervously with one of her feet the excitement under which she labored was her she had begun also to feel a little afraid of this man who had shown a side of his nature that she had never believed existed you think you can compel me she said presently you will find your mistake i shall you i am afraid you don t understand me yet was his cool reply i have evidence of your condition if you succeed in me what can you do as you call it you will commit an offence recognized by the laws of the state but i assure you i shall not rely upon that the words you have already spoken convince me that you require the measures i am prepared to apply them the like returned to the woman s lips i could utter one scream and arouse the neighborhood she said what could you do then see that you did not repeat it he replied would put a in your mouth and keep it there she at him the hate she could not put into verbal expression then with a bound like that of a wild beast she sprang toward the door of the room in an instant he caught her there was a quick collision physical strength against physical strength she got one of her arms free and drew blood his face with her nails it was all he could do to escape the teeth that him seeing that he must her exerted all his strength and bore his wife heavily to the carpet the that followed was too genuine to allow of the least doubt ringing a bell the husband summoned a strong looking woman and together they carried the still form upstairs and laid it on a bed this is unfortunate said the attendant it will not do to let it happen again you must not be here when she her senses send my sister up for if she begins to it may take two of us to hold her obeyed the suggestion and when his errand was accomplished went back to the library and threw himself all perspiration and trembling upon a sofa out of god forgive me he moaned for laying rough hands on her he took out a handkerchief and wiped the blood from his face i don t mind these he said raising himself on his elbow to look into a mirror she might have the blood in my heart and welcome but she shall not destroy that little innocent life no no she shall not miss s chapter ix the birth of it is not my purpose to dwell at unnecessary length upon the scenes which filled the next few weeks some of them were little short of tragic mrs s had to be constantly on the alert to prevent her herself she developed a twice she narrowly escaped with sharp instruments which she snatched up had she been able to get out of the house she would have thrown herself into the river each attempt of her husband to com into her presence made her almost at last dr was called in and his examination the birth of proved that she was in a condition that fully justified the restraint the authority of the physician was now for the proceedings that had been begun in such a high handed fashion the nurses as they were called were to use the greatest care nerve and were given as directed for a long time there was little change in the patient s condition but not once did in his determination she should the duty on which she had embarked if she lived later her course might be decided by herself he would never care for her again even in the remotest manner the glimpse he had had of her true nature would make him her for the rest of her days time many things and at last after six or seven weeks mrs grew calmer but her excitement was succeeded by a confirmed melancholy she firmly believed that she was drifting with absolute certainty to death like a prisoner under sentence she began to prepare for the inevitable hour with something like resignation she begged the physician to see that her body was laid by her parents graves and on no account in the lot owned by her husband nonsense replied dr with a smile

s got enough in it for a i told him only yesterday and says he i don t you know it s better to have some to spare than some to want i can see him laugh now there s plenty will need it if he don t said mrs who was a dismal grasping soul and � at farthest from the fire mrs gathered herself up scornfully � she � lid not like her neighbor you were a ht as going to the men s meeting said she s fortune yes said he said he d got to get some papers and i offered to fetch em but he never wanted to be waited on and he went up stairs � i s pose to that old o drawers overhead i heard a noise like something heavy a falling and my first thought was he d tipped the o drawers over for i know the lower drawers where the sheets and pillow cases is kept sticks sometimes and then something started me and come across me quick as a flash that there was something wrong and i got upstairs as quick as ever i could and found bim laying on the floor i s pose he did n t know asked mrs bless you no i tried to get him up and i found i could n t i thought he was dead but i see jim pierce a goin by � he was some use for once in his life � and i sent him for help mis x me right over bein so near and jim met the or up the road and we got him into bed and there lie lays it give me a dreadful start i ain t myself yet s here i s pose said mrs as if � he thought it of very little consequence yes said he d walked over to tha mill right after breakfast to carry word about country by way borne boards his uncle wanted but he got back just as the doctor was he s been real faithful he ain t left the old gentleman a minute he s all broke down he feels so i never saw him so distressed he ain t one that shows his s much of any i think likely he be married right away now said mr martin told me in the summer that he d left him about everything he ain t no such a man as his uncle but i don t know no harm of a silence fell between the guests and the fire snapped once in a while and made such a light that the one little oil lamp might have blown out for all the good it did nobody would ha j missed it i told our folks last night there was going to be a death over this way said mrs i was a looking out o the window over this way last night just before i went to bed and i see a great bright light come down and i says there s a great blaze fallen over s way and my father always said it was a sure sign of a death he laughed and says my eyes was dazzled from setting before the fire i d like to know what he say when he hears o this � triumphantly he went up to the wood � ot before day fortune i did hear a death in the wall after i went to bed two or three nights ago said and then there was another pause u i s pose i might go up easy and look in bein a connection ventured mrs meekly and luckily nobody opposed her in fact they had all bad that satisfaction you might ask if he could n t rise his uncle s head by and by so i could give him a little o the he ain t eat the value o no thin since morning and he s a hearty man when he a about suggested you ought to help all you can said martin and armed with this sufficient excuse mrs went up stairs softly sat by the bedside looking as dismal as possible � a thin dark young man with a pleasant sort of face yet you always felt at once that you could get on just as well without him perhaps we had better wait now until the doctor comes answered he when he heard the message from do sit down mrs i have been wishing somebody would come up � it s since it got dark has n t sent any word has she i sent jim pierce over right after dinner bat i suppose he stopped in at every house � country by ways not as i ve heard of said mrs i ve only just got here i was over to ann s to spend a day or so and i never got word about y r uncle till past two o clock how does he seem to be i don t know said the young man he s lost that red look but he seems to have failed all away and they both went close to the bed to look at the face on the pillow which showed at once that death had come very near the old man s eyes were shut and he looked pinched and sunken and as if he were ten years older than in the morning one hand that lay outside the bed moved a little and the fingers picked at the blanket he has n t stirred all day except his arm and that hand once in a while as you see it now mrs knew better than he what it meant and she gave a long look and turned away with a heavy sigh he s death struck she whispered but he may hold out for a good spell yet he

and this man had fought by frank s side he had known and loved her mother had come to job when he was dying � and clearly at some trouble to himself � so that surely he was no stranger the girl thought as she sat and watched him then said to herself that he might have been fair once before time darkened his hair and his skin became by tropical for he had blue eyes and his brown beard was here and there with gold and his hands were as white as the narrow line between his brows and closely hair perchance in his sleep some of his lost youth and beauty came back to him as he lay with one arm thrown behind his head and the other stretched relaxed on the turf but somehow never thought of as middle aged again in some curious way he had taken the place of frank who in even middle age must needs be beautiful presently he opened his eyes and met that lovely intent gaze springing to his feet like a soldier whom sleep has surprised while on guard his startled eyes came back to and the food spread out on the grass beside her what an ungrateful brute you must think me he said kneeling down on the grass beside her and you have gone all that way in this blazing heat for me while have been sound asleep � doing nothing you have rested yourself she said nodding and that is the best of all and now for the and she cut a and laid it on the plate for which she had for i s e gotten to ask and here s the bread and � oh you must sit down you can t eat on your knees no he said without stirring but i can t eat � and don t ask me why he added looking wretched as her bright face fell for i can t tell you is it because it is father s bread and wine that you won t touch it said her busy hands falling to her sides and looking like a child ready to cry for dis appointment at losing a feast besides you drank the cordial you poured it down my throat he said � but what has father done to you that you should hate him she said standing up and looking indignantly at him as he too rose he who never wronged anyone in his life � my dear darling old good god ejaculated the stranger not as one who spoke but as if the words were wrung out of him by a thought of horror and why should i not she said looking with wonder at his averted face and stamping her little foot with anger is he not the best kindest noblest father a child ever had you cannot know him very well or you must be a stranger to since every soul in it knows something of the goodness of mr he drew a deep breath then said is he kind to the boy used to be fond of frank how could father be anything else she said the anger of her glance faltering as it fell on the face to which the former worn and weary look had come back and of course remembers lord � who ever forgot him so young so beautiful so brave s i i never thought anything of his looks said th stranger as one suddenly out of patience at her praises i wish to heaven he could come to life for five minute just to show you what a really commonplace fellow h was and as to his duty why other men did theirs every whit as well as he did his you are jealous of him said vexed at this in the man before her all men were envious of him she said but now that he is dead you might forgive him i hate all that rubbish about heroes he said still cross now if this man had lived he would probably be a grave middle aged man devoted to his estate possibly grown stout and a little bald he couldn t i said indignantly oh i had no idea men were so mean about one another and if he were middle aged why you are nearly that are you not and father is more � yet neither of you are stout and stupid she paused to consider him and caught a faint smile beneath his moustache that was a real of sunshine on the contrary you are both just right and do i seem so old to you he said with a curious note of pain in his voice that startled her and almost made her forget how keenly he had just disappointed her oh no she said shaking her bright head i prefer grown up people to young ones only the other day i told i wished he were not so young who is is lord he is a good fellow said the stranger eagerly you like him very much � s oh yes v she said i love him � next to and father and he loves you yes more than he does and father i think she sighed and that makes him jealous but he ll be better when he s grown up she added he passed his hand before his lips to hide a smile but you are only a uttle yourself he said gravely i never went to school she said rather proudly father taught me everything � all that i know the stranger shivered as though suddenly a cold and being a keen observer she thought of the and stooped for the basket with which she had originally started i am going to job now she said then coloured a little as one who suddenly grows shy for to an entire stranger was one thing but to take

houses and could see a little farther upon either hand they were aware of another torch drawing near from another direction hey said dick i smell treason meanwhile sir daniel had come to a full halt the were stuck into the band and the men lay down as if to await the arrival of the other party this drew near at a good rate it consisted of four men only � a pair of a with a link and a gentleman walking in their midst is it yon my lord cried sir daniel it is i indeed and if ever true knight gave proof i am that man replied the leader of the second troop for who would not rather face giants or than this cold my lord returned sir daniel beauty will be the more it not but shall we forth for the sooner ye have seen my the sooner shall we both get home but why keep ye her here good knight inquired the other an she be so young and so fair and so wealthy why do ye not bring her forth among her mates would soon make her a good marriage the house by the h and no need to your fingers and risk arrow by going abroad at such seasons in the dark told you my lord replied sir daniel the reason thereof me only neither do i purpose to explain it farther suffice it that if ye be weary of your old gossip daniel publish it abroad that y are to wed and i give you my word ye will be quit o� him right soon ye will find him with an arrow in hia ba k meantime the two gentlemen were walking briskly forward over the down the three going before them stooping against the wind and scattering clouds of smoke and of flame and the rear brought up by the six close upon the heels of these dick followed he had of course heard no word of this conversation but he had recognised in the second of the old lord himself a man of an in reputation whom even sir daniel affected in public to condemn presently they came close down upon the beach the air smelt salt the noise of the surf increased and here in a large walled garden there stood a house of two with stables and other offices the foremost torch bearer unlocked a door in the wall and after the whole party had passed into the garden again closed and locked it on the other side dick and his men were thus excluded from any farther following unless they should scale the wall and thus put their necks in a d o i it ur buck arrow they sat down in a of and waited the red glow of the moved up and down and to and � ro within the as if the link steadily the garden twenty minutes passed and then the whole party issued forth again upon the down and sir daniel and the baron after an elaborate salutation separated and turned homeward each with his own following of men and lights as soon as the sound of their steps had been swallowed by the wind dick got to his feet as briskly as he was able for he was stiff and aching with the cold ye will give me a back up he said they advanced all three to the wall stooped and dick getting upon his shoulders on to the cope now whispered dick follow me up here lie flat upon your face that ye may be the less seen and he ever ready to give me a hand if i fall on the other side and so saying he dropped into the garden it was all pitch dark there was no light in the house the wind whistled shrill among the poor shrubs and the surf beat upon the beach there no other sound cautiously dick footed it forth stumbling among bushes and groping with his hands and presently the crisp noise of gravel told him that be had struck upon an alley here he paused and taking his cross bow from where tub bt he kept it concealed his long he prepared it for action and went forward once more with greater resolution and assurance the path led him straight to the group o� build all seemed to be sorely the windows of the house were secured by crazy the stables were open and empty there was no hay in the hay no com in the corn box any one would have supposed the place to be deserted but dick had good reason to think otherwise he continued his inspection visiting the offices trying all the windows at length he came round to the sea side of the house and there sure enough there burned a pale light in one of the upper windows he stepped back a little way till he thought he could see the movement of a shadow on tho wall of the apartment then he remembered that in the stable his groping hand had rested for a moment on a ladder and he returned with all despatch to bring it the ladder was very short but yet by standing on the round he could bring his hands as high as the iron of the window and seizing these he raised his body by main force until his eyes commanded the interior of the room two persons were within the first he readily knew to be dame the second a tall and beautiful and grave young lady in a long embroidered dress � that be his old wood companion jack whom bo had thought to punish with a belt j the he dropped back again to the top round of the ladder in a kind of amazement he had never thought of hie sweetheart as of so superior a being and he was instantly taken with a

done something wrong if you always do your best and try to be good you needn t fear any at least that s my opinion there is the everlasting burning began solemnly oh nonsense exclaimed quite impatiently i don t believe it started back in wonder and dismay you don t believe it she said in awed accents are you also a heathen � x don t know what you mean by a heathen replied almost gaily but i can t believe that god who is so good is going to burn anybody he you know it would hurt him so much to see poor creatures about in flames for ever � we would not be able to bear it and i m quite sure it would make him miserable even in heaven because he is all love � he says so � he couldn t be cruel this frank statement of s views presented such a new form of doctrine to s heavy mind that she was almost appalled by it god couldn t burn anybody for ever � he was too good what a daring idea and yet so � so wonderful in the infinite prospect of hope it offered that she smiled � even while she trembled to contemplate it poor soul talked oi � being herself the worst type of heathen � namely a christian heathen this sounds � yet it may be taken for granted that those who profess to follow christianity and yet make of god a being malicious and of more evil attributes than they possess themselves � are as barbarous as as hopelessly sunken in ignorance as the lowest savage who his of mud and stone was quite unconscious of having said anything out of the common � she was addressing herself to where is the buried she asked in a low tone he looked at her with a strange mysterious smile buried do you suppose his body could mix itself with common earth no � he sailed away � away � yonder and he pointed out through the window to the now invisible in the deep darkness stared at him with opened frightened her face sailed away you must be dreaming sailed away i how could he � if he was dead grew suddenly excited i tell you he sailed away he repeated in a loud hoarse whisper where is his ship the try if you can find it anywhere � on sea or land it has gone and he has gone with it � like a king and warrior � to glory joy and victory glory � joy � victory � those were his last words retreated and caught by the arm is he mad she asked fearfully the land of the long shadow heard her and rose from his chair a pained smile on his face i am not mad he said gently do not be afraid if grief for my master could have turned my brain i had been mad ere this � but i have all my wits about me and i have told you the truth he paused � then added in a more ordinary tone you will need fresh logs of pine � i will go and bring them in and he went out gazed after him in speechless wonder what does he mean she asked what he says returned you like others must have known that s creed was a strange one � his burial has been strange � that is all and she turned the conversation and began to talk of her sorrows and sufferings was most impatient to see her beloved and quite sir philip the long time he remained alone with his wife he might call me if only for a moment thought i do so want to look at her dear face again but men are all alike � as long as got what they want they never think of anybody else dear me i wonder how long i shall have to wait so she and fretted and sat by the kitchen fire drinking hot tea and talking to � all the while straining her ears for the least sound or movement from the adjoining room but none came � there was the most perfect silence at last she could endure it no longer � and regardless of s she stole on tip toe to the closed door that barred her from the sight of her heart s idol and turning the handle softly opened it and looked in sir philip saw her and made a little warning sign though he smiled he was sitting by the bedside and in his arms against his shoulder rested she was fast asleep the lines of pain had disappeared from her sweet face � a smile was on her lips � her breath came and went with peaceful regularity � and the delicate hue of a pale rose flushed her cheeks stood gazing on this fair sight till her affectionate little heart and the ready tears dropped like diamonds from her curly lashes oh my dear � my dear she whispered in a sort of there was a gentle movement � and two star like eyes opened like blue flowers to the sun i is that you asked a tender wondering voice � and with a smothered cry of ecstasy sprang to seize the outstretched hand of her beloved and cover it with kisses and while laughed with pleasure to see her and her hair sir philip described their long drive through the snow and so warmly praised s patience endurance and constant cheerfulness that his voice trembled with its own earnestness while grew red in her deep shyness and embarrassment vehemently protesting that she had done nothing � nothing at all to deserve so much then after much glad converse was called and sir philip seizing her hand shook it with such force and that she was quite overcome i don t

be obedient it is naturally a satisfaction to me that the prospect of a marriage for advantageous in the highest degree � has presented itself so early i do not know exactly what has passed between you and mr but i presume there can � daniel be little doubt from the way in which he has you that he desires to make you his wife did not speak immediately and her uncle said with more emphasis � have you any doubt of that yourself my dear i suppose that is what he has been thinking of but he may have changed his mind to morrow said why to morrow has he made advances which you have discouraged i think he meant � he began to make advances � but i did not encourage them i turned the conversation will you confide in me so far as to tell me your reasons i am not sure that i had any reasons uncle laughed rather you are quite capable of reflecting you are aware that this is not a trivial occasion and it concerns your establishment fat life under circumstances which may not occur again you have a duty here both to yourself and your family i wish to understand whether you have any ground for hesitating as to your acceptance of mr book � meeting streams i suppose i hesitate without grounds spoke rather and her uncle grew suspicious is he disagreeable to you personally no have you heard anything of him which has affected you the thought it impossible that could have heard the gossip he had heard but in any case he must endeavour to put all things in the right light for her i have heard nothing about him except that he is a great match said with some and that affects me very agreeably then my dear i have nothing further to say than this you hold your fortune in your own hands � a fortune such as rarely happens to a girl in your circumstances � a fortune in fact which almost takes the question out of the range of mere personal feeling and makes your acceptance of it a duty if providence offers you power and especially when by any conditions that are to you � your course is one of responsibility into which caprice must not enter a man does not like to have his attachment with he may not be at once � these are matters of individual daniel disposition but the trifling may be carried too far and i must point out to you that in case mr were without your having refused him � without your having intended ultimately to refuse him your situation would be a humiliating and painful one i for my part should regard you with severe as the victim of nothing else than your own and folly became pallid as she listened to this speech the ideas it raised bad the force of sensations her courage would not help her here because her uncle was not urging her against her own resolve he was pressing upon her the motives of dread which she already felt he was making her more conscious of the risks that lay within herself she was silent and the observed that he had produced some strong effect i mean this in kindness my dear his tone had softened i am aware of that uncle said rising and shaking her head back as if to rouse herself out of painful i am not foolish i know that i must be married some time � before it is too late and i don t see how i could do better than marry mr i book n � meeting streams mean to accept him if possible she felt as if she were herself by speaking with this to her uncle but the was a little startled by so bare a version of his own meaning from those lips he wished that in her mind his advice should be taken in an of sentiments proper to a girl and such as are in the advice of a clergyman although he may not consider them always appropriate to be put forward he wished his niece carriages a everything that would make this world a pleasant abode but he wished her not to be cynical � to be on the contrary dutiful and have warm domestic affections my dear he said rising also and speaking with gravity i trust that you will find in marriage a new fountain of duty and affection marriage is the only true and satisfactory sphere of a woman and if your marriage with mr should be happily decided upon you will have probably an increasing power both of rank and wealth which maybe used for the benefit of others these considerations are something higher than romance you are fitted by natural gifts for a position which considering your birth and early prospects could vol i b daniel hardly be looked forward to as in tlie ordinary of things and i trust that you will grace it not only by those personal gifts but by a good and consistent life i hope mamma will be the happier said in a more cheerful way lifting her hands backward to her neck and moving towards the door she wanted to those higher considerations mr felt that he had come to a satisfactory understanding with his niece and had her happy settlement in life by her engagement to meanwhile there was another person to whom the contemplation of that issue had been a motive for some activity and who believed that he too on this particular day had done something towards bringing about a favourable decision in ma sense � which happened to be the reverse of the s mr s absence from during s visit had been due not to any fear on his part of meeting that young lady or of being abashed by her frank

a sky black as pitch � i could scarcely see my own hand if i stretched it out before me the night was so dark all at once i heard the quick gallop of a horse s hoofs some way oflf � then the sound seemed to die away � but presently i heard the hoofs coming at a slow steady pace down our muddy old by road � no one can gallop that in any weather and almost before i how it came there the horse was standing at the gate with a man in the saddle carrying a bundle in front of him he was the fellow i ever saw and when he dismounted and towards me and took off his cap in the pouring rain and smiled at me i was fairly taken with his looks i thou t he must be something of a king or other great personage by his very manner wiu you do me a kindness he said as gently as you please this is a i believe i want to leave my little child here in safe keeping for a night she is such a baby � i cannot carry her any further through storm and he put aside the of the bundle he carried and showed me a small pale infant asleep she s he added and i m taking her to my relatives but i have to ride some from here on very m business and if you will look after her for to night i ll call for her to morrow poor little innocent she s hungry and i haven t anything to give her and the storm looks like continuing will you let her stay with you certainly said i thinking a bit further about it leave her here by all means we ll see she gets all she wants he gave me the child at once and said in a very soft voice you are most generous � verily i have not found so great a faith no not in you re sure you don t mind not at all i answered him � ll come back for her to morrow of course he smiled and said � oh yes of course to morrow i m really very much obliged to you then he seemed to think for a moment and put his hand in his pocket but i stopped him � no sir i said excuse me but i don t want any pay for giving a babe a night s shelter he looked at me very straight with his big clear eyes and then shook hands with me you re an honest he said � and he stooped and kissed the child he had put into my arms i m extremely sorry to trouble you but the storm is too much for helpless little creature you yourself are wet through i interrupted that doesn t matter he answered � for me nothing matters thank you a thousand times good ni t the rain was coming down faster than ever and i stepped back into ihe shed covering the child up so that the drifting wet should not beat upon it he came after me and kissed it again saying good night poor little innocent good night three or four times then he went off quickly and sprang into his saddle and in the of rain i saw horse and man turn away he waved his hand once and his handsome her fancy and his fact pale face gleamed upon me like that of a ghost in the storm till to morrow he called and was gone i took the child into the house and called she was always a rough one as you know even in her younger days and she at once laid her tongue to with a will and as far as she dared called me a fool for my pains and so i was for when i came to think of it the man was a stranger to me and i had never asked him bis name it was just his handsome face and the way he had with him that had thrown me off my guard as it were so i stood and looked silly enough i suppose while about with the baby for it had and was crying well � and heaved a short sigh � that s about all we never saw the man again and the child was never claimed but every six months i received a couple of bank notes in an envelope bearing a different each time with the words tor innocent written in � she uttered a quick almost terrified exclamation and drew her hand away from his every six months for a steady twelve years on end he went on � then the money suddenly stopped now you understand don t you you were the babe that was left with me that stormy night and you ve been with me ever since but you re not my child i don t know whose child you are he stopped looking at her she had risen from her seat beside him and was standing up she was trembling violently and her face seemed changed from the round and softness of youth to the worn and of age her eyes were luminous with a hard and feverish brilliancy you � you don t know whose child i ami she innocent repeated � i am not yours � and you don t know � you don t know who i belong to oh it hurts me i � it hurts me i can t it i thought you were my own dear father � and i loved you � oh how much i loved you � yet you have deceived me all along i haven t deceived you he answered impatiently i ve done all for the best � i meant to tell you when you married robin

old fashioned gardens you and i but it s all over the mistress of the is coming home � and i m positively certain � yes old boy � positively certain that we shall both her in hen england s great queen victoria the good was still enjoying her first happy years of wedded life and society under her gentle sway was less and much more sincere in its code of than it is nowadays the village of st together with the adjacent post town of enjoyed considerable importance in county very great county personages were daily to be seen themselves quite simply among their own and the hunt ball gathered together a veritable of fair women and brave men who loved their homes better than all the and movement of town and who possessed for the most part that sweet content which gives strength to the body and to the mind there was then a natural gaiety and spontaneous cheerfulness in english country life that made such a life good for human happiness and the jolly who with their kept open house and celebrated harvest home and christmas festival with all the and vigour of a sane and manhood by any sickly taint of morbid and indifferent were the beneficent rulers of a rural population than has ever been seen since their day squire the elder grandfather of the present of s had been a splendid specimen of the fine old english gentleman all of the time and his wife one of the as well as one of tl ie kindest hearted women that ever lived had been justly proud of her husband devoted to her children and a true friend and to the neighbourhood her four sons two of whom were all great lads built on their vigorous father s model were considered the best looking young men in the county and by their fond mother were judged as the best hearted but as it often happens nature was in their regard and turned them all out wild of a breed than might have been expected from their the eldest took to hard drinking and was killed at chasing the second god s good man was drowned while bathing one of the named the younger by a few minutes after nearly falling into depths of degradation by gambling with certain noble and exalted personages of renown saved himself as it were by the skin of his teeth through marriage with a rich american girl whose father was blessed with unlimited oil mines he was thereby enabled to in wealth with an and shattered nervous power while capricious fate played him her usual trick in her usual way by denying him any to his married millions his brother wedded for love and chose as his mate a beautiful girl without a penny whose grace and charm had dazzled the london world of fashion for about two seasons and she had died at the age of twenty in giving birth to her first child the girl whom her father had named all these chances and changes of life however to the leading family of the neighbourhood had left very little mark on st which under the light shadow of the eastern hills by its clear flowing river very much as it had always in the old days and very much as it would always do even if london and paris were consumed by the memory of the first old squire � who died peacefully in his bed all alone his wife having passed away two years before him and his two living twin sons being absent � was frequently mixed with stories of the other old squire robert the elder twin who was killed in the hunting field � and indeed it often happened that some of the more ancient and villagers were not at all sure as to which was which the had been shut up for ten years � the family had not been heard of during all that period and the s recollection of their late landlord as well as of his one daughter was more vague and confused than the place had been managed and the cottage rents collected by the detested agent a fact which did not such remembrance of the as still existed in the minds of the people however nothing in the general aspect and mental attitude of the village had altered very much since the early except the church that from a mere ruin had under john s become a of architecture so unique and perfect as to be the wonder and admiration of all who beheld it and whereas in the early reign a few people stopped at because it was a county town and because there was an inn there where they could put up their god s good man so a few people now went to st best because there was a there worth looking at they came by train to where the railway line stopped and then took carriage or the seven miles between that town and st rest to see the church and having seen it promptly went back again for one of the great charms of the little village hidden under the hills was that no could stay a night in it unless he or she took one spare room � there was only one � at the small public house which away up round a comer of the street under an of ivy and pushed its old through the dark leaves with a half air as though somewhat ashamed of its own existence with the exception of this one room in this one public house there was no accommodation for visitors never will the rash who ventured once to appeal to the s wife for rooms in her cottage forget e of his reception rooms and mrs frost setting her arms well surveyed the scornfully through an open doorway rendered doubly inviting by the wealth

jump into the carriage again i ve no time to lose i must go to at the factory will you go when was gone s handsome face gathered blackness he hardly ever wore his worst expression in the presence of others and but seldom when he alone for he was not given to believe that any game would ultimately go against him his luck had been good new conditions might always turn up to give him new chances and if affairs threatened to come to an extremity between and himself he trusted to find some sure resource he means to see to the bottom of every thing if he can that s quite plain said to himself i believe he has been getting another opinion he has some new light about those on the estate that are held in johnson s name he has inherited a faculty for business � there s no denying that but i shall beg leave to tell him that i ve propped up the family i don t know where they been without me and if it comes to i know into which scale the gratitude ought to go not that he s likely to feel any � but he can feel something else and if he makes signs of setting the dogs on i shall him feel it the people named owe me a good deal more than i owe them in this way mr inwardly appealed against an unjust construction which he foresaw that his old ac k the law might put on certain in his history i have known persons who have suspected of gratitude and it from the list of virtues but on closer observation it has b� n seen that if they have never felt grateful it has been for want of an opportunity and that far from gratitude they regard it as the virtue most of all incumbent � on others toward them chapter the nameless acts of kindness and of love y f did not forget to pay his visit to the minister in yard that evening the mingled irritation dread and defiance which he was feeling toward in the middle of the day depended on too many and far stretching causes to be dissipated by eight o clock but when he left mr s house he was in a state of triumph in the belief that he and he alone now in possession of facts which once together made a secret that gave him new power over mr in his need for help from one who had that j of the serpent which he argued is not forbidden but is only of hard to innocence had been gradually led to pour out to the attorney all the reasons which made him desire to know the truth about the man who called himself christian he had shown all the precious relics the the letters and the marriage and had comforted him by confidently promising to ascertain without scandal or premature whether this man were really s husband christian the radical was not ra h in making this promise since he had excellent reasons for believing that he had already come to a true on the subject but he wished both to know a little more of this man himself and to keep mr in ignorance � not a difficult precaution � in an affair which it cost the minister so much pain to speak of an easy opportunity of getting an interview with christian was sure to offer itself before long � might even offer itself to morrow had seen him more than once though hitherto without any reason for observing him with interest he had heard that philip s was often busy in the town and it seemed especially likely that he would be seen there when the market was to be agitated by politics and the new candidate was to show his paces the world of which was the centre was naturally curious to see the young who had come from the east was as rich as a jew and called himself a radical all equally vague in the minds of various excellent rate who drove to market in their carts or in their hereditary places at convenient windows had been secured beforehand for a few best but in general a radical candidate excited no ardent feminine even among the in if they were of the prosperous and class some chapel going ladies were fond of remembering that their families had been church others objected to politics altogether as having spoiled old and friends who had kindred views as to wine and cleaning others of the melancholy sort said it would be well if people would think less of parliament and more of pleasing god like mrs whose youth had been passed in a short and tight skirt had never been animated by the struggle for liberty and had a timid suspicion that religion was by being applied to the things of this world since mr had been in yard there had been far too much mixing up of politics with religion but at any rate these ladies had never yet been to hear in the market place and they were not going to begin that practice however had heard some of her feminine acquaintances say that they intended to sit at the s upper window and she was inclined to ask her father if he could think of a suitable place where she also might see and hear two inconsistent motives urged her she knew that p cared earnestly for all public questions and she supposed that he held it one of her not to care about them well she would try to learn the secret of this which was so strong in him that it animated what she thought the form of life she was not too stupid to find it out but this self motive was presently by a motive of a different

were explained to you yet unable to prepare you for it in the least it was told me � it was in a manner forced on me by the very person herself whose prior engagement all my prospects and told me as i thought with triumph this person s suspicious fore have had to oppose by to to h sense and sensibility � indifferent i have moat deeply � interested and it has not been only once i have i bad her hopes and exultation to listen to again and i have known myself to be divided � edward forever without hearing one circumstance � that could make me less the connection i nothing has proved him unworthy nor has anything declared him indifferent to me i have had to contend the of and the insolence of his mother and have suffered the punishment of aa attachment without enjoying its advantages and all this has heen going on at a time when aa you too well know it has not been k my only if you can think me of ever feeling surely you may suppose that have suffered now the composure of mind with i have brought myself at present to consider matter the consolation that i have been willing to admit have heen the effect of constant and painful exertion tliey did not spring up of themselves they did not occur to relieve my spirits at first no if i had not been bound to perhaps nothing could have kept me entirely not even what i owed to my dearest friends � from openly showing that i was very unhappy was quite subdued oh she cried you have made me a myself forever how barbarous have i been � you who have been my only comfort sense and who have borne with me in all my who have seemed to he only suffering for me is thia my gratitude is thia the only return i can make you because your merit cries out upon myself i have been trying to do it away the tenderest caresses followed this confession in such a frame of mind as she was now in had no difficulty in obtaining from her whatever promise she required and at her request engaged never to speak of the affair to any one with the least appearance of to meet without betraying the smallest increase of dislike to her and even to see edward himself if chance should bring them together without any of her usual cordiality these were i great but where felt that � she bad injured no could be too much for her to make she performed her promise of being discreet to admiration she attended to all that mrs had to say upon the subject with an complexion from her in nothing and was heard three times to yes ma i she listened to her praise of with only ing from one chair to another and when mrs talked of edward s affection it cost hei only a in her throat such advances to wards heroism in her sister made feel equal to anything herself sense and sensibility the next morning brought a further trial of it in a visit from their brother who came with a most serious aspect to talk over the dreadful affair and bring them news of his wife you have heard i suppose said he with great solemnity as soon as he was seated of the very shocking discovery that took place under our roof yesterday they all looked their assent it seemed too awful a moment for speech your sister he continued has suffered dreadfully mrs too � in short it has been a scene of such complicated distress � but i will hope that the storm may be without our being any of us quite overcome poor she was in all yesterday but i would not alarm you too much says there is nothing materially to be apprehended her constitution is a good one and her resolution equal to anything she has borne it all with the fortitude of an angel she says she never shall think well of anybody again and one cannot wonder at it after being so deceived � meeting with such ingratitude where so much kindness had been shown so much confidence had been placed it was quite out of the benevolence of her heart that she had asked these young women to her house � merely because she thought they deserved some attention were harmless an i sense and and would be pleasant companions for we both wished very much to have invited you and to be with while your kind friend there was attending her daughter and now to be bo rewarded i i wish with all my heart says poor in her affectionate way that we had your sisters instead of them here he stopped to be thanked which being done he went on what poor mrs suffered when first broke it to her is not to be described while she with the truest affection had been planning a most eligible connection for him was it to be supposed that he could be all the time secretly engaged to another person � such a suspicion could never have entered her if she suspected elsewhere it could not be in that quarter there to be sure said she i might have thought myself safe she was quite in an agony we consulted together however as to what should be done and at last she determined to send for edward he came cut i am sorry to relate what ensued all that mrs say to make him an end to the engagement assisted too as you may well suppose by my and s entreaties was of no avail duty affection everything was disregarded i never thought edward so so before hia mother explained to him sense and sensibility � i she be i that if he i a view of

the country and had heard ing of the new order going into the first house he came to he demanded of the tenant in what manner he had again obtained possession on being informed of the condition of affairs he became much enraged learning that was in one of the � the one occupied by � he ascended the stairs and stepped without ceremony into the room he stalked up to the occupants in a threatening manner i was right it seems he said between his teeth you have come out openly on the side of the i shall telegraph to every to night and you will be removed as soon as they can be got together was weakened by the sleepless nights and days of the past week but he forgot everything before the of that man s presence in s room and sprang up to him do not forget he thundered that i am still agent of the clothed with full powers you can neither insult me nor my friends on these premises if you do not leave at once i will throw you down the stairs a light out took the advice given but continued to use his tongue as long as he was within hearing you have but two more to betray us he shouted we will have j ou out by that time as for this woman � was about to throw himself upon the retreating form when he felt a touch of magic power and paused those who would be my followers must learn to bear and forbear said cheerfully let him go it is beneath you to lay a finger on him he accepted the hand she held out to him and pressed it reverently to his lips as they stood there he suddenly took her by the shoulders and drew her toward him he could not have anticipated the entire absence of resistance that brought her lips close to his frightened at his own he released her and hastily left the house chapter xviii a strong light goes out when reached the agency that evening he found awaiting him a him to new york with all possible haste he had just time to catch the late train and it was nearly midnight when he reached the city at that unusual hour he proceeded directly to his office where he found his head clerk with whom he had a hasty conference when he came out the heard the clerk say he may live till morning but the doctors say that will be the longest possible limit � speaking of stood on the steps of the building for minutes after that talking in a low tone with his assistant then he returned to the carriage said fifth avenue hotel to the driver and was driven off at the fifth avenue he dismissed the carriage and going directly to the asked to be taken to a certain room which he by its number a moment later he knocked at the door and was admitted dr perhaps the most famous surgeon in the metropolis at that time came forward to greet his visitor speaking in that hushed voice that severe illness in the immediate vicinity colonel is anxiously awaiting you but before you go into the room where he lies let me fully explain the situation this morning while hunting on long island he received an accidental wound from the weapon that he carried though the greater part of his left arm was torn away the injury might not have been fatal had assistance been near at hand but before aid could be obtained except such as his companions could render he had lost so much blood that recovery was hopeless when the first physician who arrived told him his condition � in answer to his direct question � he insisted on brought without delay to this hotel i reached here but a few minutes after his arrival and upon making an examination was forced to agree with my professional brother how long can you keep life in me he asked with the utmost coolness possibly twenty hours probably not over fifteen i answered then he asked to have a messenger to your office when the answer came that you were at he sent for your chief assistant and after consultation with him the was to you i t u you candidly that he cannot survive a light g e out till daylight his mind is clear however and he is at present perfectly competent to any business that he desires in the room to which was conducted a strikingly handsome man of about forty five years lay in a bed propped up by pillows the extraordinary caused by excessive loss of the vital only made more striking a face that would have attracted attention anywhere the eyes were very dark and fiery the hair and long moustache were with premature gray which carried no impression of age the wounded man grasped s hand in a manner which seemed quite at with the physician s it was incredible that within five hours this soul would be asleep colonel i am truly grieved to see you thus it was the ordinary form of expression but it brought a smile into the face of the dying man i have a little business which i wish you would help me he said and with your permission we will attend to that first then if there be time left � which the surgeon thinks is doubtful � i will cheerfully listen to your to an attendant i think we can spare you for a few minutes when the man had left the room colonel continued i rely my dear on the judgment of dr who me at least three hours of consciousness and i may be a trifle tiresome but if you have ever died or come as near to it as i am you may agree that can well

upon round the red lamp the leaning upon their and shrieking their morning greetings across the road one and than the rest had gathered a small knot of around her and was talking with little shrill from her audience to her remarks old enough to know better she cried in answer to an exclamation from one of the listeners if he t no sense now i he won t learn much on this side o why ow old is he at all blessed if i could ever make out well it ain t so hard to reckon said a pale faced woman with watery blue eyes he s been at the battle o and has the and to prove it that were a ter ble long time remarked a third it were afore i were born it were fifteen year after the of the century cried a younger woman who had stood leaning against the wall with a smile of superior knowledge upon her face my bill was a saying so last sabbath when i spoke to him o old here and suppose he spoke truth ow long do that make it it s eighty one now said the original speaker checking off the years upon her coarse a op fingers and that were fifteen ten and ten and ten and ten and ten � why it s only mix year so he ain t so old after all but he weren t a babe at the battle silly r cried the young woman with a chuckle s pose he were only twenty then he couldn t be less than six and eighty now at the lowest aye he s every day of it cried several i ve had bout enough of it remarked the large woman gloomily unless his young niece or or whatever she is come to day i m off and he can find some one else to do his work your own ome first says i ain t he quiet then asked the youngest of the group listen to him now she answered with her hand half raised and her head turned towards the open door the upper floor there came a shuffling sliding sound with a sharp tapping of a stick there he go back and doing what he call his go the night through he s at that game the silly old at six o clock this very there he was with a stick at my door turn out guard he cried and a lot more that i could make nothing of then what with his and and there ain t no a wink o sleep hark to him now round the red lamp cried a cracked and voice from above that s him she cried nodding her head with an air of triumph he do go on scandalous yes mr sir i want my morning it s just ready mr sir blessed if he ain t like a baby cry in for its said the young woman i feel as if i could shake his old bones up sometimes cried mrs but who s for a of the whole company were about to oflf to the public house when a young girl stepped across the road and touched the housekeeper timidly upon the arm i think that is no view she said can you tell me if mr lives here the housekeeper looked at the she was a girl of about twenty and comely with a up nose and large honest grey eyes her print dress her straw hat with its bunch of glaring and the bundle she carried had all a of the country you re i s pose said mrs her up and down with no friendly gaze yes i ve come to look after my a op and a good job too cried the housekeeper with a toss of her head it s about time that some of his own folk took a turn at it for i ve had enough of it there you are young woman in you go and make yourself at home there s tea in the and bacon on the and the old man will be about you if you don t fetch him his breakfast i ll send for my things in the with a nod she strolled oflf with her attendant in the direction of the public house thus left to her own devices the country girl walked into the front room and took oflf her hat and jacket it was a low apartment with fire upon which a small brass kettle was singing cheerily a stained cloth lay over half the table with an empty brown a loaf of bread and some coarse looked rapidly about her and in an instant took over her new duties ere five minutes had passed the tea was made two of bacon were on the pan the table was the straightened over the sombre brown furniture and the whole room had taken a new air of comfort and neatness this done she looked round curiously at the prints upon the walls over the fireplace in a small square case s brown caught her eye hanging from a strip of purple ribbon beneath was a slip of round the red lamp paper she stood on her with her fingers on the edge of the and her neck up to see it glancing down from time to time at the bacon which and beneath her the cutting was yellow with age and ran in this way on tuesday an interesting ceremony was performed at the of the third regiment of guards when in the presence of the prince lord hill lord and an assemblage which beauty as well as a special was presented to of captain s flank company in recognition of his gallantry in the recent great battle in the it appears that on the ever memorable th of june four companies of the third guards and

name aloud over the clay that contained her struck with a fresh burst of sorrow npon bis heart alley be exclaimed in irish alley your father that loved more nor he loved any other human brings a message to from the mother of your heart i she bid me call to see the spot where yoa re my buried flower an to tell you that we re not now thanks be to god as we you lived us we are well to do now age an not in hunger an sickness an misery as we you suffered them all ton will love to hear this pulse of our hearts an to know that through all we an we did suffer since you departed � we never let you out of our memory no we thought of you an cried our poor dead flower many an many e the time an she bid me tell you of my heart that we feel now so d by or much as that you are not us to share our comfort an our happiness oh what wouldn t the mother give to have you back her but it can t be an what wouldn t i to have you before my eyes in health au in life � but it can t be the mother sent this message to you alley take it from her she bid me tell you that we are well an happy our name is pure and like yourself spot or stain won t you pray for us before god an get him an his mother to look on us favor an compassion farewell alley may you sleep in peace an rest on the breast of your great father in heaven until we ail meet in together it s your father that s to you our lost flower an the hand that often smoothed your head is now upon your grave he wiped his eyes as he concluded and after lifting a of the clay from her grave he tied it carefully up and put it into his pocket having left the grave yard he his steps towards frank s house the had now risen and as ascended the larger of the two hills which we have mentioned he d by the red well stood again to the scene that beneath about an hour before all was still the whole lay s as if the land had been the land of the dead the in the distance were with the thin mist s of morning the and richer parts of the had appealed in that d m grey which to distant such a clear outline with the except on of the s song everything seemed as if there not a breeze both and nature as if in a trance the very trees asleep and their leaves motion less as if had been of marble but now the scene i is changed the son had its upon the mountain tops which the mists were tumbling in broken fragments to the between them a thousand bit da poured their songs upon the ear the breeze was up and the of smoke from t ie farm houses and played as if in in the air white haze was beginning to from the meadows early were and going abroad to their employment d by hi or the lakes in the distance shone like and the clear springs on the mountain sides glittered in the son like gems on which the eye could scarcely rest life and light and motion appear to be inseparable the dew of morning lay upon nature like a brilliant veil the image of as applied to woman tu by and by the songs of the early workmen were heard nature had awoke and whose heart was strongly though unconsciously to the influence of natural religion in the elevation of the hour and with spirits the house of his as he entered this hospitable roof the early industry of his friend s wife presented with a well swept hearth and a pleasant fire before which had been placed the identical chair tliat they had appropriated to his own use frank was enjoying a blast o the pipe after having risen to which luxury the return of gave additional zest and in fact s d by the l presence communicated a holiday spirit to the family a spirit too which declined not for a moment during the of his visit frank said to tell tlie i m not half you this i think you didn t me as i ought to expect to be th m how is that why yon said about widow a head stone over our child you me in the dark there frank an a start never got as i did this in the upon my it wasn t my fan t nm of our t i for to tell you the we had so much fo and di of last n ht it ne er good or it was that it first in mv head you out an thin it too late at poor woman the n was ever m her the heavens be her k it any one of her family v as to me till the dogs wouldn t my blood i d only give them back good for evil that oh frank that goes to my heart to put a head d by u os stone over my h for the sake of the i well � may none belonging to her ever know poverty or but if they do an that i have it how an no god bless wait till hears iti an the beat of it was that never expected to see one of your faces but yoa think too about that child let us talk of something else you ve seen more i did an i love it still in spite of tlie state ah its different from what it

the lantern how much more difficult when at the old man s bidding she drew her hand through his � tom pinch s � arm and so mr pinch said martin on the way you are comfortably situated here are you tom answered with even more than his usual enthusiasm that he was under obligations to mr which the devotion of a lifetime would but imperfectly repay how long have you known my nephew asked martin your nephew sir tom mr said mary oh dear yes cried tom greatly relieved for his mind was running upon martin certainly i never spoke to him before to night sir perhaps half a lifetime will suffice for the acknowledgment of his kindness observed the old man tom felt that this was a for him and could not but understand it as a left handed hit at his employer so he was silent mary felt that mr pinch was not remarkable for presence of mind and that he could not say too little under existing circumstances so she was silent the old man ted by what in his suspicious nature he considered a and puff of mr which was a part of tom s hired service and in which he was determined to set him down at once for a miserable so he was silent and though they were martin all sufficiently uncomfortable it is fair to say that martin perhaps the most so for he had felt kindly towards tom at first and had been interested by his seeming simplicity you re like the rest he thought glancing at the face of the unconscious tom you had nearly imposed upon me but yon have lost your labour you re too zealous a and betray yourself mr pinch during the whole remainder of the walk not another word was spoken first among the meetings to which tom had long looked forward with a beating heart it was memorable for nothing but embarrassment and confusion they parted at the door and sighing as he extinguished the candle in the lantern tom turned back again over the gloomy fields as he approached the first which was in a lonely part made very dark by a plantation of young a man slipped p� u t him and went on before coming to the he stopped and took his seat upon it tom was rather startled and for a moment stood still but he stepped forward again immediately and went dose up to him it was swinging his legs to and fro the head of a stick and looking with a sneer at tom good gracious me cried tom who would have thought of its being you you followed us then what s that said go to the devil you are not very civil i think remarked tom civil enough for you retorted who are you one who has as good a right to common consideration as another said tom mildly you re a liar said you haven t a right to any consideration you haven t a right to anything you re a pretty sort of fellow to talk about your rights upon my soul ha ha � rights too if you proceed in this way returned tom you wiu oblige me to talk about my wrongs but i hope your joke is over it s the way with you said mr that when you know a man s in real earnest you pretend to think he s joking so that you may turn it off but that won t do with me it s too stale no r just attend to me for a bit mr pitch or witch or or whatever your name is my name is pinch observed tom have the goodness to call me by it life and op � what you mustn t even be called out of your name mustn t you cried are looking up i we manage em a little better in the never mind what you do in the city said tom what have you got to say to me just this pinch retorted his � so dose to tom s that tom was obliged to retreat a step i advise to ke your own counsel and to avoid and not to cut in where you re not wanted i ve heard something of you my and your meek ways and i recommend you to foi t em till i m married to one of s and not to among my but to leave the course dear you know when won t leave the course dear they re whipped off so this is kind advice do you understand eh who are you cried with increased contempt that you should walk home with them unless it was behind em like any other servant out of � come cried tom i see that you had better get off the and let me pursue my way home make room for me if you please don t think it said spreading out his legs not tm i choose and i don t choose now what you re afraid of my making you split upon some of just now are you i am not afraid of many things i hope said tom and not of anything that you will do i am not a tale bearer and i despise all meanness you quite mistake me ah cried tom indignantly is this manly from one in your position to one in mine please to make room for me to pass the less i say the better the less you say retorted dangling his legs the more and taking no heed of this request you say very little don t you i should like to know what goes on between you and a vagabond member of my family there s very little in that too i i know no vagabond member of your family cried tom stoutly you do i said i don t said

humour him to some extent fortunately he did not seem at all dangerous though eccentric looking his hair fell in profusion from under his high about his cheeks which were of a pale tint his grey beard streamed out in three thin and his long narrow eyes in hue and set rather wide apart and at a slight angle had a curious expression part and part simplicity dost thou doubt that i speak truth i tell thee that i have been confined in that accursed vessel for countless centuries � how long i know not for it is beyond calculation i should hardly have thought from your appearance sir that you had been so many years in bottle as all that said politely but it s certainly time you had a change may i if it isn t by ic at large ask how you came into such a very uncomfortable position but probably you have forgotten by this time forgotten said the other with a sombre red glow in his eyes wisely was it written let him that desire th oblivion confer but the memory of an injury for ever i forget neither benefits nor injuries an old gentleman with a grievance thought and mad into the bargain nice person to have staying in the same house with one know best of mankind continued the stranger that he who now addresses thee is el one of the green and i dwelt in the palace of the mountain of the clouds above the city of in the garden of which thou doubtless by i fancy i have heard of it said as if it were an address in the court delightful neighbourhood i had a el who possessed beauty and manifold accomplishments and seeing that though a she was of the believing i despatched messengers to the great the son of offering him her hand in marriage but a certain the son of the son of may he be for ever accursed � looked with favour upon the maiden and going unto by ic the brass bottle persuaded him that i was preparing a for the king s and of course you never thought of such a thing said by a tongue the fairest motives may be rendered foul was the somewhat reply thus it came to pass that on whom be peace � listened unto the voice of and refused to receive the maiden moreover he commanded that i should be seized and imprisoned in a bottle of brass and cast into the sea of el there to abide the day of doom too bad � really too bad murmured in a tone that he could only hope was sufficiently sympathetic but now by thy means thou of noble ancestors and gentle disposition my hath been accomplished and if i were to serve thee for a thousand years regarding nothing else even thus could i not thee and my so doing would be a small thing according to thy deserts pray don t mention it said only too pleased if i ve been of any use to you in the sky it is written upon the pages of the air he who doth kind actions shall experience the like am i not an of the demand therefore and thou shalt receive poor old chap thought he s very by ic at large cracked indeed he ll be wanting to give me a present of some sort soon � and of course i can t have that my dear mr he said aloud i ve done nothing � nothing at and if i had i couldn t possibly accept any reward for it what are thy names and what calling dost thou follow i ought to have introduced myself let me give you my card and gave him one which the other took and placed in his that s my business address i m an if you know what that a man who houses and churches � you know � in fact anything when he can get it to build a useful calling and one to be rewarded with fine gold in my case confessed the reward has been too fine to be perceived in other words i ve never been rewarded because i ve never yet had the luck to get a and what is this of whom thou oh well some well to do merchant who wants a house built for him and doesn t care how much he on it there must be lots of them about � but they never seem to come in my direction grant me a period of delay and if it be possible i will procure thee such a could not help thinking that any by ic the brass bottle from such a quarter would hardly weight but as the poor old man evidently imagined himself under an obligation which he was anxious to discharge it would have been unkind to throw cold water on his good intentions my dear sir he said lightly if you should come across that particular type of and can contrive to impress him with the belief that i m just the he s looking out for � which between ourselves i am though nobody s discovered it yet � if you can get him to come to me you will do me the very greatest service i could ever hope for but don t give yourself any trouble over it it will be one of the easiest things that can be said his visitor that is and here a shade of rather pathetic doubt crossed his face provided that anything of my former power yet remains unto me well never mind sir said if you can t i shall take the will for the deed first of all it will be prudent to learn where is that i may humble myself before him and make my peace yes said gently i would i should make a

my advised me to refuse the admission and by doing so i found that i had again put myself in the wrong the ceiling was put up at my expense after a long interval during which i dined in the drawing room my s correspondence with the company did not procure me any special terms the merely repeated an offer they had previously made which was to buy up the end of my lease for j loo a very inadequate compensation it seemed to me for the annoyance i had endured but as i felt that my could not cope with the company i came gradually to the conclusion that i had better accept the � it pay for the removal of all my furniture and pictures to leaving something over for the house which i would have to hire and at once for the offer of the company was subject to my giving up possession at the end of the month i ordered my trunk to be packed that evening and next morning was at the house agent s office in street and while the clerk made out a long list of houses for me i told him my the houses in square were too hail and farewell large for a single man of limited income i had lived with my mother in one when brought me back from france the houses in s green are as fine but even if one could have been gotten at a reasonable s green did not tempt me my imagination turning rather to a quiet old fashioned house with a garden situated in some half forgotten street in which old ladies live � pious women who would pass my window every sunday morning along the pavement on their way to church the house � did not think he had exactly the house street and the inhabitants i described upon his books but there was a house he thought would suit me in upper mount street i remembered the street dimly a chilly street with an uninteresting church at the end of it a relation had taken a house in upper mount street in the and had given parties with a view to himself of two uninteresting sisters in law but the experiment had failed so i knew what the houses in upper mount street were like � ugly common expensive why trouble to visit them all the same i visited two or three and from the of one i caught sight of mount street bending prettily about a church � about a church but there were no bills in any window and the was asked why he didn t take me to lower mount street because he said all the houses there are lodging houses and he turned his horse s head and drove me into a delightful end of the town i remembered on the i j evening sky for i had never failed to admire street when i visited there is always something strangely attractive in a declining neighbourhood and thinking of the powdered that must have stood on steps that now a poor i began to dream the house that i had been directed to was no doubt a fine one but its is for it lives in my memory not by marble nor but by the bite of the most ferocious that i ever met caught from the no doubt at the last moment for i was on the car before he me in the middle of the back exactly i said where i can t scratch and from there he jumped down upon my l � ns and me again and again until i arrived at the where i had to strip naked to discover him if the creator of had not endowed them with a passion for whiteness humanity would perish i muttered descending the stairs are you after catching him sir y the asked yes and for he was drunk with my blood as you might be upon john on saturday night and we drove away to square the houses there are large and clean but the rents were higher than i wished to pay and it did not seem to me that i should occupy an important enough position in the square something a little more personal i said to myself and drove away to street a repetition of street houses that had once sheltered an aristocracy now falling into the hands of and it was abandoned for � hail and farewell f street the as they pass up that street and despite the attraction of some magnificent and lamp posts with old i decided that i would not life in street and returned to the agent who had already begun to think of me as a difficult he produced another list and next day i visited road and admired the great flights of granite steps that lead to the down which a man might break his leg if nothing else the of the century were sober men i said the houses seemed to a wife and family so emphatically that i drove to road it seemed too and for me a society of and does any other trade prosper in ireland i asked myself as the car stopped somewhere in the road a long monotonous road but with some pretty houses and gardens connecting road with upper street but it seemed to me with my mission to ireland and again we drove away and visited some shabby genteel in avenue after that we turned up road and into where there were some pleasant houses but none to let after that it seemed to me that i discovered myself in a desolate region which the told me was and we followed a lonely road that seemed to lead me away from all human habitation right into the heart of the country but you see i said to the driver i m looking for a

drama without familiarity with the stage so as to know what can be expressed what must be merely indicated but in s situation there was not this reaction so that he clung more to the details of his work than great do who live in more immediate contact with the outward world such an one will indeed always answer like to an ignorant criticism there are just as many notes as there should be but a habit of intercourse with the minds of men gives an instinctive tact as to meeting them and about to build st peter s takes into consideration not only his own idea of a cathedral but means time space and prospects but the misfortune which the outward energies deepened the thought of he travelled inward downward till downward was shown to be the same as upward for the centre was passed like all princes he made many and his powerful lion nature was that most capable of suffering from the amazement of witnessing but the love the vol n � no ii i hm th great pride ith which survive pangs are those which our stair to heaven was not only a poet but a poet for having drunk to its the cup ci bitterness the of inward remained he could love deceived in other men he yet knew himself too well to despise human nature dying from ingratitude he could still be grateful thinks his genius would have been far more productive if he had had a tolerably happy home if instead of the cold discomfort that surrounded him he had been blessed like with a gentle wife who would have made him a in her love it is indeed affecting to find the vehement nature even in his thirty first year writing thus at my age one for an equality a harmony of outward existence an to know that he never attained it but the lofty of the happiness which his life could not attain shone forth not the less powerfully from his genius the love of his choice was not firm as the fortress of heaven but his heart remain ed the gate to that fortress during all his later years he complained nor did ever hear him to past sorrows or the lost objects of affection perhaps we are best contented that earth should not have offered him a home where is the woman who would have with what we wish from his love where is the lot in which he could have with all that grandeur of aspect in which he now appears to us where the there may be a home for thee we will not shrink from the dark clouds which became to overflowing light of and y we will not even by a wish seek to the through which a divine thought so clearly were there no oe there would be no under no other circumstances could have to his fellows in the way he himself the unhappy man let him be comforted by finding one of hia race who in defiance of all of nature has done all possible to him to be received in the rank of artists and men in three respects these artists true artists resemble one another clear decision the faculty speaks light and shade clear in those devoted to the worship of beauty they are not subject to mental conflict they ask not counsel of experience they take what they want as simply as the bird goes in search of its proper food so soon as its wings are grown like nature they love the work for its own sake the philosopher is ever seeking the thought through the i but the artist is happy at the of the thought in his work he does not reason about religion or thorough bass his answer is si i thought it best so from each achievement grows up a still higher ideal and when his is finished it is nothing to the artist who has made of it the step by which he ascended but while he was engaged in it it was all to him and filled his soul with a parental joy they do not but affirm they have no need to deny aught much less one another all excellence to them was genial only left room for new power to display itself an everlasting yes breathes firom the life from the work of the artist nature echoes it and leaves to society the work of saying no if it will but it will not except for the moment it itself for the moment and turns away from genius but soon stumbling groping and lonely cries aloud for its nurse the age cries now and what an answer is by such stars as these at which we have been gazing we will their names on the and wear them as a of hope r u ht and flashes on the waves bat there is none in my soul i have only a part and oh i long for the whole give give ye mighty gods � why do ye thus hold back why torture thus my soul on the world s rack i did not seek for life � why did ye place me here � so mean so small a thin e en to myself i appear there lies the wide infinite but it is to me and i must and seek through all eternity and i and i i still must cry and i oh how scorn this i f calm they are calm the gods above � but i am ever seeking that which ever still doth fly s friendship od friendship friend and let such pure hate still our love that we may be each other a conscience and have our sympathy mainly from thence well one another treat like and all the faith we have in virtue and in bestow on either and suspicion leave to

afraid if i tell you you will laugh at me laugh at oh dear no never did such a thing in my life much too serious a subject bid you dream about him well i have about him but that didn t make me think so but i have brought you a map and a which will show you that by means of i have traced my husband s whole career from the moment he left until he reached the spot where he is now chapter promise of harvest h m � ah ah � very interesting said sir john just look at this � just look at this this is very interesting are you a mrs i am not a myself i have some slight power of second sight but i have not rested on that i have had two both trying to trace my husband at different times they hardly know each other and are certainly not in he s there sir john i said he s there � there is no doubt about it now you are powerful if you choose you can send out a ship to� to find him send out a ship h m � very expensive business i d do it myself you know � oh i d send out the biggest that we ve got but unfortunately our powers are very limited � very limited indeed we used to be able � at least our used to be able to do a the magic wheel great deal they had more of their own way now if i were to order a ship to go out to look for your husband fm afraid they would clap me into a lunatic asylum you mean that i ought to be clapped into a lunatic asylum well i don t say so my dear young lady because i have more sympathy for you and there may be something in what you say but i couldn t convince the sea lords i am afraid that i was justified in spending the government s money or the country s money � the money on any such wild goose scheme as they would call it do you see it s quite hopeless i felt the tears into my eyes my heart went down to my boots and i had a struggle with myself to keep myself from bursting out crying in my intense disappointment i know so well what you think my dear young lady i know so well sir john went on you think i m a selfish old brute that s sitting comfortably here in a chair and doesn t i care a damn whether your husband is alive or dead now that s not so but i should be you up with all sorts of false hopes and promise of harvest i should be acting in an extremely unkind manner to you if i didn t tell you the truth at once � that i have not the power to order this commission for a minute or so i did not could not speak can t you help me in any way i asked at last well now i have been thinking � yes he looked up at the ceiling in the comer of the room and smoothed down one side of his chin and then the other � yes did you ever meet never ah that s a pity how can this lady get at i m sure i don t know sir he s a very difficult man to tackle perhaps mrs knows people in the world who would have an influence on my dear young lady sir john went on is first lord of the he does practically an he likes he mostly doesn t like that s the fault we have to find with him eh � he mostly doesn t like � yes now if you the magic wheel know somebody with a title that s worth calling a title you might get at that way i doubt if you could in any other i know the duke of oxford i said oh do you ah that s a different thing well now i tell you what you ll you set the duke of oxford to tackle i never saw under the influence of a duke but for a he s game to do practically you set your duke at him that s the best move you can make you set your duke at and unless i m very much mistaken he ll search every and rocky island in the length and breadth of the pacific only you must make your duke clearly understand that he must make it worth s while i got up i felt that i had never come across such a dear old man in the whole course of my existence oh you are good i said you t know the state of absolute terror mortal terror that i have been in this morning but why you are not fright ed of us surely promise of harvest yes i was horribly and oh i do thank you so much sir john so much so much and you too i said turning round to captain i turned all in a flutter of hope and excitement to go out of the room this way said captain yes down the stairs he bowed and turned back into the room and immediately the voice of the old admiral came down the passage poor girl poor girl poor girl oh most sorry made me feel quite queer quite queer of course won t lift a finger i stood rooted to the spot i could not hear what captain said in reply but a moment later the admiral s voice out again � oh quite mad poor thing poor thing a mere wild but it wouldn t do to waste the country s money on such a wild cat scheme as that poor

tended i am not going to buy you one she said gently he looked as if he would faint certainly not i do not wish it i x not have accepted it faltered the young man but i am going to buy one for myself i lack a and i shall choose i shall fix my on the column brightened up and i shall let you have the use of it whenever you choose in brief st shall be lady s royal and she � and she � shall be his queen the words came not much the worse for being uttered only in the tone of one anxious to complete a sentence well that s what i have decided to do resumed lady i will write to these at once there seemed to be no more for him to do than to thank her for the privilege whenever it should be available which he promptly did and then made as if to go but lady detained him with have you ever seen my library no never you don t say you would like to see it but i should it is the third door on the right you can find your way in and you can stay there as long as you like then left the morning room for the apartment and amused himself in that soul of the house as defined it till he heard the sounding from the when he came down from the library steps and thought it time to go home but at that moment a servant entered to inquire whether he � two on a tower would or would not prefer to have his lunch brought in to him there upon his replying in the affirmative a large tray arrived on the stomach of a footman and was greatly surprised to see a whole placed at his disposal having at eight that morning and having been much in the open air afterwards the s appetite assumed grand proportions how much of that he might eat without his dear lady s feelings when he could readily eat it all was a problem in which the of a larger and larger quantity argued itself as a smaller and smaller quantity remained when at length he had finally decided on a point in the body of the bird the door was gently opened oh you have not finished came to him over his shoulder in a considerate voice yes thank you lady g he said jumping up why did you prefer to lunch in this awkward dusty place i thought � it would be better said simply there is fruit in the other room if you like to come but perhaps you would rather not o yes i should much like to said walking over his and following her as she led the way to the adjoining apartment here while she asked him what he had been reading he modestly ventured on an apple in whose he recognized the familiar taste of old friends robbed from her husband s in his childhood long before lady s advent on the scene she supposed he had confined his search to his own sublime subject suddenly became older to the eye as his s two on a tower thoughts to the topic thus yes he informed her i seldom read any other subject in these days the secret of productive study is to avoid well did you find any good none the theories in your books are almost as as the system only fancy that magnificent leather bound and stamped and gilt t and wide and bearing the of your house in magnificent colours says that the twinkling of the stars is probably caused by heavenly bodies passing in front of them in their and is it not so that was what i learned when i was a girl the modern now rose above the embarrassing horizon of lady s great house magnificent furniture and awe inspiring footman he became quite natural all his self consciousness fled and his eye spoke into hers no less than his lips to her ears as he said how such a theory can have lingered on to this day beats conjecture as long as forty or fifty years ago established the ct that is the simplest thing in the world � merely a matter of atmosphere but i won t speak of this to you now the comparative absence of in warm countries was noticed by then again the vary no star his wings like when he lies low he flashes out and flames and colours in a manner quite marvellous to behold and this is only one star so too do and and lesser but i tire you with this subject n the contrary you speak so beautifully that i could listen all day the threw a searching glance upon her for a moment but there was no satire in the two on a tower soft eyes which met his own with a luxurious interest say some more of it to me she continued in a voice not far removed from after some hesitation the subject returned again to his lips and he said some more � indeed much more lady often throwing in an remark or question often regarding him in of ideas not exactly based on his words and letting him go on as he would before he left the house the new project was set in train the top of the column was to be in to form a proper and on the ground that he knew better than any one else how this was to be carried out she requested him to give precise directions on the point and to the whole a wooden cabin was to be erected at the foot of the tower to provide better accommodation for casual visitors to the than the staircase and lead flat afforded as this cabin would be completely buried in

from the g ate from which all glow had long since faded after a time � for we cannot weep forever � the lo the price of a wife gasping grew more controlled and the pitiful sobs ceased and then nurse lay quietly in the darkness thinking deeply she had made a mistake in coming into this house she had cast the happiness of her life upon one die and it had turned up � blank well it was hard hard yes and something more than hard but she had done it all for the best and she must abide by the consequences of her own act and deed be they what they might but it was hard � very hard as she lay there her mind went back over the past ten years as somehow the human mind is apt to do in times of great and dire trouble how well she remembered her last summer at home the dear old home far away in the heart of the blessed country which she had since heard sneered at as provincial by those who knew not its joys and delights she was barely seventeen then fresh from her simple german school where the wildest excitement that ever came in the way of the pupils was some little mark of favor from the just then most sub to that particular form of homage which the call what innocent fun that night of grief ii had been hers during that long lovely summer when as the daughter of the principal doctor in the neighborhood she had joined in all the pleasures that such a life affords parties musical evenings up the river sewing meetings at the all had been and pleasure to her who always took more than half her pleasure with her so for more than three years longer then death had stepped in and all was changed she recalled it so well � more vividly during that night of grief than during all the years that had come between yes death had stepped in and after an illness so short that they had scarcely realized the presence of danger the handsome kindly genial old doctor who was called old not by reason of his years but because everybody loved him was taken away and his place knew him no more it is one of the most common of english life that those occupying positions of honor and of distinction do not like their neighbors across the channel trouble themselves as to provision for the morrow i have always thought that there is too much trust in the price of a wife about the english character too much of the lilies of the field not in that we neither toil nor spin but in that we take no thought for the morrow that will come for some of us if not for all in this dr had been no exception to the rule he had made a large income and he had spent it � had in fact let it slip away with the good natured ease of a man who finds it hard to say no and when all was over and widow and children had to look hard facts fair and square in the face they realized that the old pleasant days were gone by forever that in the future things would be very different with them and that there was no longer the good genial hard working doctor to stand between them and starvation starvation did i say oh well we do not actually starve we english people who live on our and take no thought for the morrow we do not even go to the at least not very many of us yet if only a few of us drift thus far there are hundreds nay i should rather say thousands and thousands of delicately proud women who have that night of grief to do as best as they can when they suddenly find themselves thrown upon the world having nothing upon which they can depend beyond their own poor exertions so it was with the family nurse recalled it all as she lay there thinking in the darkness � how her mother had looked helplessly from the face of one daughter to the other and what a pitiful cry had risen to her lips � what are we to do how shall we live what will become of us well it was no uncommon story the widow suddenly cast from a home of plenty even of luxury to existence on a of some sixty pounds a year soon sank under the burden of poverty and followed the husband whom she had lost of the five girls of whom was the third all went different ways in life the eldest of them entered herself at a london hospital immediately after her father s death and when her term of training was over went off to where she felt convinced she might best turn her experience to account the second girl went abroad as the price of a wife to a russian family of distinction i have said that was the third of the five daughters of the two who were her went in for music and did fairly well as a singer and the youngest of all who had remained with her mother to the end married very young and so has no more to do with this story i have spoken of as she was called in the world but at home she had always been called felicity she had been named felicity after a who might reasonably have been expected to do great things for her and somehow the quaint name had always stuck to her in preference to the more sober one of i cannot see said mrs when the girl first set out from home to begin her training as a nurse i cannot see why because you are going to earn your

you colonel b as a gentleman of honour and humanity will investigate the conduct of your agent and see justice done to an honest man who must have been oppressed in your name and under colour of your authority ii my agent has dared to be unjust to fc fc the poor scholar tenant said the colonel in order to provide for his by my sacred honour he shall cease to be an agent of mine i admit certainly that from some circumstances which a few years ago i have reason to suspect his integrity that to be sure was only so far as he and i were concerned but on the other hand during one or two visits i made to the estate which he i heard the tenants thank and praise him with much gratitude and all that sort of thing there was thank your honour � long may you reign over us sir � and oh colonel youve a mighty good man to your agent and so forth i do not think mr o that he has acted so harshly or that he would dare to do it upon my honour i heard those warm expressions of gratitude from the lips of the tenants themselves if you knew the people in general colonel so well as i do replied the you would admit that such expressions are often either or the result of fear you will always find sir that the independent portion of the people have least of this forced among them a and agent has in his own hands the power of and the under him the class most hateful to the people are those low wretches who spring up from nothing into wealth accumulated by and they are proud and jealous even to of the least want of respect it is to such that the poorer classes are most civil but it is also such persons whom they most hate and they them to their faces tis true even to but they seldom spare them in their absence of this very class i believe is your agent yellow sam so that any favourable expressions you may heard from your towards him were most probably the result of and fear besides sir here is a from m s parish priest in which his the poor scholar is spoken of as an honest moral and man if what you say mr o be correct observed he colonel you know the irish much than do decidedly i have always thought hem in conversation exceedingly candid and sincere respect to from priests to n behalf of their tenants upon my honour i am sick f them i actually received about four years ago an excellent character of two tenants as induced ne to suppose them worthy of encouragement but was the fact why sir they were two of the greatest on my estate and put both me and ny agent to great trouble and expense no sir i wouldn t give a curse for a priest s upon an occasion these fellows were subsequently convicted of on the evidence and well sir i grant that you may have been n that instance however from what i ve observed he two great faults of irish are these � in he first place they suffer themselves to remain ignorant of their so much so indeed that they deny them access and when the x or people are anxious to them with their for it is usual with to refer hem to those very agents against whose cruelty and they are appealing this is a a the agent to upon them if he pleases in ihe next place irish too frequently employ ignorant and men to manage their estates men who have no character no property or standing in society beyond the reputation of being keen shrewd and active these persons sir make fortunes and what means can they have of wealth except by either the landlord or his tenants or both a history of their conduct would be a black catalogue of oppression and treachery respectable men resident on or near the state possessing both character and the poor scholar always be selected for this important above all things the curse of a agent he and drives and o without consideration either of market or pr order that his may be ample and income large why o you appear to be better ac with all this sort of thing than i who am i proprietor by the by sir without meaning you respect it is the of ireland who about the great mass of its inhabitants and also add about its history its literature the of the people their customs and their pr the know this and too often their ignorance there is a landlord s sadly wanted in ireland colonel ah very good o very good we certainly inquire into this case and if i fi yellow sam has been playing tne goes i am now able to manage him which not readily do before for by the by he on my property i would take it colonel as a personal ii you would investigate the transaction i ha undoubtedly i shall and that very about this outrage committed against the boy we had better take his and fellow certainly i think that is the best way conduct to the poor youth has been detestable we must put him out of this country call the lad in in this case i shall myself although that assisted by the entered th and the humane colonel desired him as he a ill to sit down the poor scholar at is your name t asked the colonel les m he replied i m the son sir in who was once a tenant of yours and pray how did he cease to be a tenant of y sir your agent sam put him out of n when my poor mother was on her

this game thought in a brown study for the last two or three weeks i never saw my father take so much notice of him as he has in that time what you re hunting are you eh but was as little conscious of the thought as of the bodily advance of mr s clenched fist hovered fondly about his ear when he had at to his heart s content took the candle from the table and walking into the glass office produced a bunch of keys from his pocket with one of these he opened a secret drawer in the desk peeping stealthily out as he did so to be certain that the two old men were still before the fire all as right as ever said the lid of the desk open with his forehead and a paper here s the will thirty pound a year jar your old boy and all the rest to his only son you needn t trouble to be too affectionate you won t get anything by it what s that it was startling certainly a face on the other side of the glass looking curiously in and not at him but at the pa per in his hand for the eyes were attentively cast down upon the writing and were raised when he cried out then they met his own and were as the eyes of mr suffering the lid of the desk to fall with a loud noise but not forgetting even then to lock it pale and breathless gazed upon this phantom it moved opened the door and walked in what s the matter cried falling back who is it where do you come from what do you want matter cried the voice of mr as in the flesh smiled upon him the matter mr what are you and peering about here for said angrily what do you mean by coming up to town in this way and taking one unawares it s precious odd a man can t read the � the newspaper � in his own office without being startled out of his wits by people coming in without notice why didn t you knock at the door so i did mr answered but no one heard me i was curious he added in his gentle way as he laid his hand upon the young man s shoulder to find out what part of the newspaper interested you so much but the glass was too dim and dirty glanced iq haste at the well it wasn t dean so he spoke the truth was it poetry now said mr the forefinger of his right hand with an air of cheerful or was it politics or was it the price of stocks the main chance mr the main chance i suspect you ain t far from the truth answered recovering himself and the candle but how the deuce do you come to be in london again it s enough to make a man stare to see a fellow looking at him all of a sudden who he thought was sixty or seventy mile away so it is said mr no doubt of it my dear mr for while the human is constituted as it is � oh bother the human mind interrupted with impatience what have you come up for a little matter of business said mr which has arisen quite unexpectedly oh cried is that all weu here s father in the next room father here s he gets more every day he lives i do believe muttered shaking his honour parent don t i tell you s here stupid head the combined effects of the shaking and this loving remonstrance soon awoke the old man who gave mr a welcome which was iq part to his being glad to see that gentleman and in part to his delight in the recollection of having called him a and of as mr had not yet taken tea indeed he had but an hour before arrived in london the remains of the late with a of bacon were served up for his entertainment and as mr had a business appointment in the next street he stepped out to keep it promising to return before mr could finish his and now my good sir said mr to now that we are alone pray tell me what i can do for you i say alone because i believe that our dear mend mr is speaking a � shall i say a asked with his sweetest smile and his head very much on one side he neither hears us replied nor sees us why then said mr i will be bold to say with the utmost sympathy for his and the greatest admiration of those excellent qualities which do equal honour to his head and to his heart that he is what is termed a you were going to observe my dear sir � i� i was not going to make any observation that i know of replied the old man i was said mr mildly oh you were what was it that i never said mr previously rising to see that the door was shut and arranging his chair when he came back so that it could not be opened in the least without his immediately becoming aware of the circumstance that i never in my life was so astonished as by the receipt of your letter yesterday that you should do me the honour to wish to take with me on any matter amazed me but that you should desire to do so to the even of mr showed an amount of confidence in one to whom you had done a verbal injury � merely a verbal injury you were anxious to repair � which which moved which overcame me he was always a speaker but he delivered this short address veiy been at some pains to compose it outside the

no it was a sight worse than that sir it was as sends a cold chill to my whenever i thinks about it and yet it began so cheerful just i first began to be a i was in the bead by a couple of two middle aged comfortable ladies small s � as i should set em down as and they asked me how much it was to half a crown says i worry good young man says the of em then drive away and just stop at the first public house will ye well i pulled up willing enough at the first public and they gave me a shilling and had some gin and beer and never mind the change young man says the but drive along sharp and stop at the next public house well between and i should think they stopped at a matter of four and twenty public houses the lady with the was nothing to them moreover unlike her they never failed to get what they wanted at each until they had took a great deal more than was good for them and i must os they had made me a little � re s e � er the rank time it was you may keep the change yoimg man that i had at last more than five and twenty shillings of it mostly in this is all worry nice thought i as long as it lasts but sooner or later these here parties will be a off and me to see em home which may be will be the station for they had not told me their address yet but only they must ha been ver much accustomed to strong for unless it was and a bit which the one as was not the did continual they showed no s of bein overcome what a middle aged female of the respectable class can take and yet sit in a is only known to us drivers but these two they beat all as ever i see well at they gave their address at last it was a queer little street but very respectable looking and i em up to their house which i noticed had all the blinds down they got out without much help and the one as was not the she speaks to me for the first time and says young man says she you have us well and safe and over and above your fare you shall see my dear daughter well thought i here is a queer start this party has taken such a fancy to dick which was me that she wants him to become her law and i aloud don t said she quite solemn like and pointing to the drawn down blinds but come in well i went in not into the parlour as i expected but up stairs the two ladies leading the way at the first floor i stopped i did not like it � the house was so dark and still but then thinks i lor i m only the rank a poor and it s their own money i ve got in my pocket after all why should they want to rob me so i went on into the floor front which was a room here the old lady as was not the began to moan and cry and pointing to the on which lay covered with a sheet she says there is my poor daughter and the other one she turned the sheet back a little and there was the face of a dead young lady very white and quiet but looking to me as had never any one dead before most awful coming as it did so sudden and unexpected and just after i had been down below it gave me i do assure you an uncommon turn indeed i can quite believe it mr said i if the thing happened as you state but did it really happen as true as i sit here sir why who would ever have invented such a story p then what is your explanation of the two women s conduct that ain t my business sir my business was only to drive em and you may be sure i did not stop a more in that ere house to ask any questions it is however my opinion that the old lady as was not the was really the poor girl s mother and that sorrow had made her take to drink for comfort and as for the other she was glad enough to with her friend so far as drinking the liquor went but at the time it seemed to me a most terrible start i do assure you it s the worst thing as has ever happened to me yet since i ha been on the s the wouldn t have it happen again for twice twenty five shillings � here s the station sir and see you ve got fifteen to spare all along of my good horse which i hope you will take into account in the fare according on her majesty s service special when i was first appointed one of her majesty s of machinery i thought myself a considerable personage i was but a young man but it seemed to me that i was set for ever above the troubles and certainly the of life that there was no need to to any man and that by no possible combination of circumstances could i ever be put in a it was fated however that within a very few months of my appointment i was to endure a greater fright than i had suffered in my lifetime before greater than when i was a told to stay at which was the delicate introduction to the and greater than when i went in for my civil service examination choked with dates to the as in the latter case it was

courage and the he said u do not know the of time i should him in hie earlier as a model of prudence his power does consist in any or force in any enthusiasm like ma s or singular power of persuasion bat in the exercise of common sense on each emergency instead of abiding by and customs the lesson he teaches is that which vigour always teaches that there is room for it to what heaps of cowardly doubts is not man s life an answer he appeared it waa the belief of all military men that there be new in war as iti is the belief of men today that nothing new can be undertaken in or church or in letters on in trade or in or in our social and customs and as it is all times the belief oi society that the world is need up but knew better than society and moreover knew that he knew better think all men know better than they do know that the institutions we so commend are go carts and bat they not trust their relied on his own sense and did not care a for other people s the world treated his ve men just as it treats everybody s � made infinite objection all the but he snapped his finger at their objections what great difficulty he remarks in the profession of the land commander is the necessity of feeding so many men and animals if he allows himself to be guided by the he will never stir and all his will fail an example of his common sense is what he says of the passage of the in winter which all writers one repeating after the other had described as the winter says napoleon is not the most season for the passage of lofty mountains the snow is then firm the weather settled and there is nothing to fear from the real only danger to be apprehended in the on those high mountains there are often very fine days in december of a dry cold with extreme calmness in the air bead his account too of the way in which battles are gained in all battles a moment occurs when the troops after having made the greatest efforts feel inclined to run that terror proceeds from a want of confidence in their own courage and it only requires a slight opportunity a pretence to restore confidence to them the art is to give rise to the opportunity and to invent the pretence at i won the battle with twenty five i seized that moment of and giving to every man a trumpet gained the day with this handful you see that two armies are two bodies which meet and endeavour to frighten each other a moment of panic occurs and that moment must be turned to advantage when a man has been present in many actions he that moment without difficulty it is as easy as casting up an addition this of the nineteenth century added to napoleon his gifts a capacity for speculation on general topics he delighted in running through the range of practical of literary and of abstract questions his opinion is always original and to the purpose on the voyage to egypt he liked after dinner to fix on three or four persons to support a proposition and as many to oppose it he gave a subject and the turned on questions of religion the different kinds of government and the art of war one day he asked whether the were inhabited on another what was the age of the world then he proposed to consider the probability of the destruction of the globe either by water or by fire at another time the truth or of and the interpretation of dreams he was very fond of talking of religion in he conversed with bishop of on matters of there were two points on which they could not agree namely that of hell and that of salvation out of the pale of the church the emperor told that he disputed like a devil on these two points on which the bishop was inexorable to the philosophers he readily yielded all that was proved against religion as the work of men and time but he would not hear of one fine night on deck amid a clatter of pointed to the stars and said you may talk as long as you please gentlemen but who made all that he delighted in the conversation of men of science particularly of and but the men of letters he they were of phrases of medicine too he was fond of talking and with those of its whom he most esteemed with at paris and with at st believe me he said to the last we had better leave off all these life is a fortress which neither you nor i know anything about why men throw obstacles in the way of its defence its own means are superior to all the apparatus of your candidly agreed me that all year filthy are good for nothing medicine is a collection of uncertain the of which taken are than useful to mankind water air and cleanliness are the chief articles in my his dictated to count and general at st hare great value after all the that it seems is to be made from them on account of his known he has the good nature of strength and superiority i admire his simple dear narrative of his battles � good as caesar s his good natured � and sufficiently respectful account of sad his other and his own equality as a writer to his varying subject the most agreeable portion is the campaign in egypt he had hours of thought and wisdom in intervals of leisure either in the camp or the palace napoleon appears as a man of directing on abstract questions the native appetite for truth

than ever it did in the fairest period of its prosperity the vast empire of china with population and and wealth of nations has through a succession of drowsy ages were it not for internal revolution and the of its ancient by the i v te � i � � i of nothing but an detail of dull monotonous prosperity and he might have passed into oblivion with a herd of their if they had not been fortunately overwhelmed by a the renowned city of has acquired only from its ten years distress and final � paris rises in importance by the plots and which have ended in the exaltation of the illustrious napoleon � and even the mighty london itself has through the records of time celebrated for nothing of moment excepting the plague the great fire an s plot � cities and seem to creep along in silent obscurity under the pen of the historian until at length they burst forth in some tremendous calamity � and snatch as it were immortality from the explosion the above principle being admitted my reader will plainly perceive tliat the city of new and its dependent province are on the high road to greatness dangers and threaten from every side and it is really a matter of astonishment to me how bo small a state has been able in so short a time to itself in so many difficulties ever since the province was first taken by the nose at the fort of good ik h il days of s romantic resolution van has it been gradually increasing in historic importance and never could it have had a more appropriate to conduct it to the of grandeur than peter in the fiery heart of this iron headed old warrior sat all those five kinds of courage described by and had the philosopher mentioned five hundred more to the back of them i verily believe he would have been found master of them all � the only misfortune was that he was deficient in the better part of called discretion a cold blooded virtue which could not exist in the tropical of his mighty soul hence it was he was continually into those unheard of that give an air of romance to all his history and hence it was that he now conceived a project worthy of the hero of la himself this was no other than to repair in person to the great council of the bearing the sword in one hand and the olive branch in the other � to require immediate for the innumerable of th t treaty which in an evil hour he had formed to put a stop to those repeated on the eastern borders � or else to throw his and appeal to arms for satisfaction on declaring this resolution in his council the venerable members astonishment op his council vast astonishment for once in their lives they ventured to setting forth the of exposing his sacred person in the midst of a strange and barbarous people with sundry other � all which had about as much influence upon the of the peter as you were to endeavour to turn a rusty with a therefore to his presence his van he commanded him to hold himself in readiness to accompany him the following morning on this his enterprise now the was a little stricken in years yet by dint of keeping up a good heart and having never known care or sorrow having never been married he was still a hearty wag and of great capacity in the this last was ascribed to his living a jolly life on those at the hook which peter had granted to him for his gallantry at fort be this as it may there was nothing that more delighted than this command of the great peter for he could have followed the hearted old governor to the world s end with love and loyalty � and he moreover still red the and dancing and handling he and other of the east and entertained dainty recollection of numerous kind and he longed exceedingly again to encounter thus then did this mirror of set forth with no other attendant but his upon one of the most perilous ever recorded in the annals of knight � for a single warrior to venture openly among a whole nations of foes but above all for a plain downright to think of with the whole council of new england � never was there known a more desperate undertaking � ever since i have entered upon the of this but hitherto has he kept me in a state of incessant action and anxiety with the toils and dangers he is constantly � oh for a chapter of the tranquil reign of van that i might repose on it as on a feather bed is it not enough peter that i have once already rescued thee from the of these terrible by bringing the whole powers of to thine aid � is it not enough that i have followed thee like a guardian spirit into the midst of the horrid battle of fort � that i have been put to my to keep thee f and � now oflf with my sin peter s pen the shower of blows that fell upon thy rear � now narrowly thee from a deadly thrust by a mere tobacco thy with when even thy stubborn ram failed to resist the sword of the stout � and now not merely bringing thee off alive but triumphant from the of the gigantic by the desperate means of a paltry stone � is not all this enough but must thou still be plunging into new difficulties and in headlong thy and thy historian and now the ruddy faced like a chamber maid draws aside the curtains of the night and out from his bed the jolly red haired startled at being caught so late

to finish the basket after supper you are very good i hope it won t hurt your eyes � will you ring the bell for some working candles my poor girl would be sadly disappointed i know if the basket was not finished to morrow for though i told her it certainly would not i am sure she depends upon having it done drew her work table near her and herself with an alacrity and cheerfulness which seemed to infer that she could taste no greater delight than in making a basket for a spoilt child lady proposed a rubber of to the others no one made any objection but who with her usual to the forms of general civility exclaimed your will have the goodness to excuse me � you know i cards i shall go to the i have not touched it since it was and without ceremony she turned away and walked to the instrument lady looked as if she thanked heaven that she had never made so rude a speech can never keep long from that instrument you know ma am said endeavouring to smooth away the offence and i do not much wonder at it for it is the very best toned i ever heard the remaining five were now to draw their cards perhaps continued if i should happen sense and sensibility to cut out i may be of some use to miss in rolling her papers for her and is so much still to be done to the basket that it must be impossible i thinks for her labour singly to finish it this i should like the work exceedingly if she would a share in it indeed i shall be very much obliged to you for your help cried for i find there is more to be done to it than i thought there was and it would be a shocking thing to disappoint dear after all oh that would be terrible indeed said miss dear little soul how i do we her you are very kind said lady to and as you really like the work perhaps you will be as well pleased not to cut in till another of will you take your chance now joyfully by the first of these proposals and thus by a little of that address which could never condescend to practise gained her own end and pleased lady at the same time made room for her with ready attention and the two fair rivals were thus seated side by side at the same table and with the utmost harmony engaged in die same work the at which up in ho own music and her own thoughts had � by this time forgotten that anybody was in the room besides herself was luckily so near them that miss dash wood now judged she might safely under the shelter of its noise introduce the interesting subject without any risk of being heard at the card table � i sense and i n a firm though thus began i be of the you have honoured me with if i felt no desire for its continuance or no farther curiosity on its subjects i will not therefore for bringing it forward again thank you cried warmly for breaking the ice you have set my heart at ease by it for i waa somehow or other afraid i had you by what l you that monday offended me how could you suppose so believe me and spoke it with the truest sincerity nothing could be farther from my intention than to give you such an idea could you have a for uie trust that was not honourable and flattering to me and yet i do assure you replied her little eyes full of meaning there seemed to me to be a coldness and displeasure in your manner that made me quite uncomfortable i felt sure that you was angry with me and have been quarrelling with myself ever since for having took such a liberty as to trouble you with my af but i am very glad to find it was only own fancy and that you do not really blame me if you knew what a it was to me to relieve my heart by speaking to you of what i am always think ing of every moment of my life your compassion would make you overlook everything else i am sure indeed i can easily believe that it was a very great relief to you to acknowledge your situation to me and be assured that you shall never have reason to repent it your case is a very unfortunate one you seem to me to be surrounded with difficulties and you will have sense and sensibility need of all your mutual affection to support you under them mr i believe is entirely dependent on his mother he has only two thousand pounds of his own it would be madness to marry upon that though for my own part i could give up every prospect of more without a sigh i have been always used to a very small income and could struggle with any poverty for him but i love him too well to be the means of him perhaps of all that his mother might give him if he married to please her we must wait it may be for many years with almost every other man in the world it would be an alarming prospect but edward s affection and constancy nothing can deprive me of i know that conviction must be to you and he is undoubtedly supported by the same trust in yours if the strength of your attachment had failed as between many people and under many circumstances it naturally would during a four years engagement your would have been pitiable indeed here looked up but was careful in guarding her from every expression that could give her words a suspicious tendency edward

dust sure to try it i hesitate to say what would happen if he were a perhaps said mr with a trifle more impatience than was with his calling � perhaps you will hesitate long enough for me to state what i have been trying to state ever since this of yours began � that in any event whether this person be a or a or a walking gentleman or a riding gentleman in a i object to his being admitted to this circle and i deem it well to say right the york public library and foundations r l here that as he comes in at the front door i go out at the back as a clergyman i do not approve of the stage that ought to settle it said the idiot � mr is too good a friend to us all here for us to compel him to go out of that back door into the rather limited market garden mrs keeps in the yard my plea for the admission of mr was based entirely upon my desire to see this circle completed or nearer completion than it is at present we have all the professions represented here but the stage and why it that no one objects the men whose lives are given over to the amusement of mankind and who are willing to place themselves in the most outrageous situations night after night in order that we may for the time being seem to be lifted out of the unpleasant situations into which we have got ourselves are in my opinion doing a noble work the theatre us to forgetfulness of self successfully for a few brief hours and i have seen the time when an hour or two of relief from actual cares has resulted in great good nevertheless the gentleman is not elected and if mrs m will kindly my cup i will ask you to join me in a toast to the health of the of this flock whose conscience as it may seem is the most frequently worn and yet the least of the represented at this table this easy settlement of her difficulty was so pleasing to mrs that the idiot s request was graciously to and mr s health was drank in after which the idiot requested the genial gentleman who occasionally to join him privately in eating cakes to the health of mr i haven t any doubt that he is worthy of the attention he said and if you will lend me the money to buy the tickets i ll take you around to the to night where he is playing i don t know whether he plays hamlet or a hole in the roof but at any rate we can have a good time between the acts iv i see the men are at work on the this morning said the school master gazing out through the window at a number of at work in the street yes said the idiot calmly and i think mrs ought to sue the department of public works for if she hasn t a case no person ever had what are you saying sir the landlady innocently i say returned the idiot pointing out into the street that you ought to sue the department of public w for they ve u ot their sign right up against your house no fare is what it says that s isn t it mr brief it is certainly a fatal criticism of a boarding house observed mr brief with a twinkle in his eye but mrs could secure on that score i don t know about that returned the idiot as i understand it it is an old of the law that the greater the truth the greater the mrs ought to receive a million � by the way what have we this morning we have and potatoes sir replied mrs and i desire to add that one who the table as much as you do would do well to get his meals outside that mrs is not the point the difficulty i find here lies in getting my meals inside said the idiot mary you may bring in the observed mrs her lips as she always did when she wished to show that she was offended yes mary put in the school master let us have the as quickly as possible � and may it not be quite such as the remarks we have just been favored with by our friend the idiot you me with your compliments mr replied the idiot cheerfully a like you should live in a flat has your friend his article on t tb new york i library or n old jokes yet the with a smile and some apparent yes and no said the idiot he has completed his labors on it by giving it up he is a very thorough sort of a fellow and he intended to make the le comprehensive but he found he couldn t because judging from comments of men like you for instance he was forced to conclude that there never was a new joke but as i was saying the other morning � do you really remember what you say sneered mr you must have a great memory for trifles sir i shall never forget you said the idiot but to to what i was saying the other morning i d like to begin life all over again so that i could prepare myself for the profession of architecture it s the greatest profession in the world and one which is to bring immortality to its successful a man may write a splendid book and become a great man for a while and within certain limits but the chances are that some other man will come along later and him then the book s sale will out after a time and w th this will come a of its

he that in literature is not simple and obvious fidelity to tlie specific fact or event he to appreciate that the truth of art like the of lies in its accuracy in representing truth in the abstract he to appreciate the of the nursery question which asked only for the literal fact and he begins to comprehend something of the au excellent illustration for practical use is a poem like how they brought the good news j from to any live wholesome boy is sure to with the swing and of the verse the sense of the open air the excitement the doubt the hope the climax it is easy to lead the class on to consider how such an experience would be and to go on from this to point out that the poem does not describe a literal actual occurrence but that it is a expression of the zest and of a superb all but ride with the added excitement of being responsible for the freedom or even the lives of the folk of a whole city the first feeling of the class on learning that a ride was not taken is sure to be one of disappoint ment it is better to meet this frankly and to for it by interest in the em talks on teaching literature of feeling one great source of the lack of interest in literature at the present time is that the material practical character of the age makes it difficult for the general reader to respect anything but the fact literature is apt to present itself to the hard headed young fellow of the public school as a lot of make stuff and � at best a matter of rather frivolous ent the way of this common attitude of mind is to the appreciation of wliat fact in art really means to cultivate a clear perception of how a poem or a tale may be the truest thing in the world although with imaginary personages and with incidents never happened ah an of the sense in which literature is a sort of of human feeling somewhat more remote from the ordinary life of a child may be taken another poem of s the lost leader my experience is that most youth of the school age start out by being able to little or nothing of this by a little however � beginning perhaps as simply as with the way in which a lad feels when a school fellow he had faith in has failed in a crisis has for some personal ge gone over to the other party in a school election or of how the class would feel if some teacher who had been with the students in some effort to obtain an extension of privilege to which the scholars felt themselves to be honestly entitled had for see ms purposes swung over to the opposite side the whole thing may be home the may be led on to imagine what are the feelings of a youth eager for the cause of freedom and the of man when one whom he looked to as a leader one in whom he has had absolute faith deserts the rank for honors or for money once the young minds are on the right track it is by no means impossible to bring them to see pretty clearly that in the poem is not the question o� a particular man or a particular cause but that is dealing with a universal expression of the pain that would come to any man to any one of them in believing that the leader who had been most trusted and had in reality been unworthy and had betrayed the cause his followers believed he would gladly die to defend these two examples from i have taken almost at and not because they are unusual in this respect for this quality is the universal property of all real literature and indeed is one of the t ts by which real literature is to be identified any selection which it is worth while to give v at all must have this relation which i have called but of which the true name imaginative and it is certainly one of the import ant parts of anything which in a high sense is properly to be called teaching literature to make the scholars realize and appreciate this the next step is more difficult because far more and i confess frankly that it is all but i talks on teaching literature impossible to propose formal instruction may deal with ia the aim o� � ture is largely the attempt to produce a mood the prime aim of the is to induce in the reader a of feeling which will lead inevitably to the reception of whatever he offers in the same mood in which be offers it in the simplest cases no is needed for even with school boys a ringing to take a simple and obvious example has somewhat the same effect as the dashing swing of martial music whoever comes under its influence falls into the frame of mind in which the ideas of the verse should be received the thoughts are accepted in the spirit in which they were written and the effects of the are as great or greater than the influence of the meaning it is a commonplace to call attention to the part which the melody of poetry or the of prose plays in the effect hut how to aid pupils to a to this language of form is not the least of the problems of the teacher � the means by which an author or his mood do not always appeal to lie young indeed beyond a certain limited extent they appeal to most only after careful cultivation in the understanding of art language it is as idle to suppose that literature appeals to everybody and without education aa it is to suppose that or

ers have left so much to the imagination and imagination is so rare a gift here then the writer of fiction may be of use to the s an there is a chronicle written in tolerable latin and in it a chapter where every sentence holds a ct here is told with harsh the strange history of a pair who lived and died four hundred years ago and lie now as in that stem page as in a rock thus living or dead fate is still unjust to them for if i can but show you what lies below that dry s words you will correct the indifference of centuries and give those two sore tried souls a place in your he rt � for a day it was past the middle of the century louis xi was sovereign of france edward iv was king of england and philip the � k od having by force and cunning his and broken her heart reigned this many years in holland where our tale begins and us wife lived in the little town of he and in cloth silk brown holland and above all in leather a material highly valued by the people because it would stand twenty years wear and turn an ordinary knife no small virtue in a of that century in which folk were so of their steel even at dinner a man would leave his meat awhile and you his neighbour on a very moderate difference q the couple were well to do and would have be n free from all earthly care but for nine when these were coming into the id one per each was hailed with and the saints were thanked not with and when parents and children were all young together the latter were looked upon as lovely little invented by heaven for the amusement joy and evening solace of people in business but as the olive branches shot up and the parents grew older and saw with their own eyes the fate of large families and care mingled with their love they belonged to a singularly wise and people in holland reckless parents were as rare as children so now when the huge loaf came in on a gigantic looking like a fortress in its moat and the tour of the table once made seemed to have melted away and would look at one another and say who is to find bread for them all when we are gone at this observation the younger ones needed all their filial respect to keep their dutch countenances for in their opinion dinner and supper came by nature like sunrise and sunset and so long as that should travel round the earth so long must the vn loaf go round their family circle and set in their only to rise again in family oven but the remark awakened the natural of the elder boys and being often repeated set several of the family thinking some of them good thoughts some ill thoughts according to the nature of the the children grow so this table will be too small we cannot afford it replied answering not his words but his thought after the manner of women their anxiety for the future took at times a less dismal but more turn the free had their pride as well as the and these two could not bear that any of their blood should go down in the after their so by prudence and self they managed to clothe all the little bodies and feed all the great mouths and yet put by a small to meet the future and as it grew and grew they felt a pleasure the for himself knows not one day the eldest boy but one aged nineteen came to his mother and with that outward composure which has so some persons as to the real nature of this people begged her to with his father to send hun to and m the and the hearth place him with a merchant it is the way of life that likes me merchants are wealthy i am g ood at numbers good mother take my part in this and i shall ever be as i am now your threw up her hands with dismay and incredulity what leave i what is one street to me more than another if i can leave the folk of i can surely leave the stones what i quit your poor ther now he is no longer young mother if i can leave you i can leave him what leave your poor brothers and that love you so dear there are enough in the house without me what mean you who is more thought of than you stay have i spoken sharp to you have i been unkind to you never that i know of and if you had you should never hear of it from me mother said gravely but the tear was in his eye it all lies in a word and nothing can change my mind there will be one mouth less for you to feed there now see what my tongue has done said and the next moment she began to cry for she saw her first young bird on the edge of the nest trying his wings to fly into the world had a calm strong will and she knew he never wasted a word it ended as nature has willed all such discourse shall end with a face so long and as it had never been seen before and a heart like granite that afternoon at supper there was one mouth less looked at s chair and wept bitterly on this shouted roughly and to the children it wider can t ye sit wider and turned his head away over the back of his seat awhile and was silent was launched and never cost them another penny but to fit him out and place him in

afford the mourning she added with sudden warmth � you have not lost my � no yoa had better give it me back then my mind will be at ko me i it is my only way of getting a word with you why you have never used it but i may want to any day as she went home with her empty basket her black brows and recalled the scene and argued the matter pro and con i don t know why he should face it out like that with me if it was he ah but he would have been jealous and a deal more inquisitive if it was not he well any way i have put him off his guard and won t i watch him i if it is he teach him to try and draw the wool over s eyes and she his � the monster fortune co with these malignant views this very evening declared himself � that is after proposing by and probable for the last seven years he made a direct offer of his hand and organs now this gave great pleasure she could have kissed the little fellow on the spot so she said in an off hand way � well if i were to take anyone it should be yoa but i have pretty well made up my mind not to at all st ah events till my mistress can spare me lies shouted that is what thej all say what says must be true said not unless they stick to it objected and that is a song they all drop at the church door when they do get a chance i am not in such a hurry as to snap at such a small chance retorted with a toss of her head so then the polite had to her well said she one good turn deserves another if i am to marry you what will you do for me gave a glowing description of what he would do for her as soon as she was his wife she let him know that was not the point what would he do for her he would do everything we do know when the blood burns how prodigal the heart the vows � this brought the parties to an understanding first under a vow of she told him young was in love with and she was his then she told him how the youth had insulted her by attempting to deceive her about the purse and finally must watch his movements by night and day that between them they might catch him out made a ce � in � free � i� anything means nothing when he vowed to do anything everything what not and such small phrases he never intended to do anything in particular but he was in for it and and spy were added to his little odd for the latter office his apparent qualified him and so did his petty but real moreover he was daily by � a good soul but no meantime st as the secret benefactor white lies bade them all observe that since that day the had fer been to the the whoever he was little knew the pain was on d hut proud or the hard that en between s and their the tan gold pieces were a perpetual a conflict the words that the an excuse and their poverty enforced il their pride and dignity it but these bright bits of gold co t them many a sharp pang the figures laid before purely im a mere of the hundred would have enabled the poor to keep up with the outside world and yet to mourn their father openly and it went through and through those tender simple to think that they must be even in so small a thing as s that while their mother ed in her weed they must seem no longer to share her e the knew their feeling and lis piety and yet must not say � take of these of and let us all look what we art � one yet in as in everything else they to he all of one mind they resisted they struggled and with a they conquered day hy day at last by general consent they locked up the and looked at it no more but the httle bit of paper met a kinder fate made a little frame for it and it was in a drawer in the and often looked at and blessed mother had of human and with on her lips she bad found paper the sacred word friend written on it it fell all ill a moment on their aching hearts they id not tell whence it � this blessed word but who can tell whence the dew science is in two about thai white then let me go with the poets who it comes from heaven we shall not go far wrong any good thing to that and even so that sweet word friend dropped like the dew heaven on these afflicted ones so thej locked the potent gold away from themselves and took the kind slip of paper to their hearts va the fortnight elapsed and was no � ri er she had to beg a it with an austere brow smiling inwardly meantime s little odd spy gardener lover and all that himself with rustic cunning into the s confidence treachery m its the made him bis � i e yet another set of little odd fell on him he had always been struck by their natural variety bat now what with s and what with s they seemed infinite at one hour he would be holding a long chain while measured the lands of at another he would be set to pump a then it would be hack this meant he was to stand in a while wrote a long calculation or made

not altogether for years and years the colony of has been employed in the construction of a railway with a very narrow which is now open as far as or to within a hundred miles of the border is very poor and in common with the rest of south africa and indeed of the world has lately been passing through a period of great commercial depression the home government has refused to help it to its if it had done so how many hundreds of thousand pounds have been saved to the british during the and wars and has equally refused to allow it to borrow sufficient money to get them constructed with the result that a large amount of the interior trade has already been into other and now a fresh and very real danger not only to bat to i the all imperial in africa has into that is in this country for in africa it has been foreseen for many years above is situated which reaches to the southern shore of one of the finest in the world bay this great in which half a dozen could ride at anchor the only really good haven on the of south africa is fifty five miles in width and twenty in depth that is from east to west it is separated from the of which it is the natural port by about ninety miles of wild and inhabited country the of this splendid port was for many years in dispute between this country and the � whose of it is connected by a strip of coast and who have a fort upon it this dispute was finally referred by lord in to the decision of and on this occasion as on every other in which this country has been weak enough to go to that decision was given against us into the merits of the case it is not necessary to enter further than to say as has already been recently pointed ont by a very able and well informed of the morning post that it is by no means clear by what right the matter was referred to at all the are in possession of the southern shore of the bay including i believe the and island and they are the an independent people the also on it and they are independent what had we to refer their rights to the of the evidence of the exercise of any over these countries is so shadowy that it may be said never to have existed certainly it does not exist now this is a point but it is nothing more we must take things as we find them and we find that the have been formally declared and admitted by us to be the owners of bay now so long as we held the it did not so much matter who had the of the bay since a railway constructed from there could only run to british territory but we gave up the which is now a hostile state and the which has been so long foreseen in south africa and so blindly overlooked at home has come to pass � the railway is in course of rapid completion what does this mean to us at the best it means that we lose the greater part of the trade of south eastern africa at the worst that we lose it all in other words it means putting aside the question of our imperial needs and in africa a great many millions a year in hard cash out of the national pocket let us suppose that the worst happens and that the get a footing in the or bay obviously they will stop our trade in favour of their own or let ui the that the takes advantage of one of our of imperial such as us during the of lord and the provision in the which them to put a heavier tax upon our goods than upon those of any other nation in either event our case would be a bad one for our road from the eastern coast to the vast interior is blocked but it is of little use crying over milk or evils which it is our duty to try to and which in all probability still could be averted by a sound and consistent policy to begin with both and can be to the empire it is true that the independence of the first of these countries is by article xii of the of london of here is the exact � the independence of the within the boundary line of as indicated in the first article of this will be fully recognised but england has for years exercised a kind of right over � a right as i have already shown acknowledged and frequently appealed to by the themselves and for the rest what is the obvious meaning of this provision it means that the independence of is against its object was to protect the from at the hands of the further the have again and again broken this article of the the an in their repeated attempts to get a in it has now become to our interests that the should come under our rule as indeed they are most anxious to do and a way should be found by which this end can be accomplished then as to or as it is sometimes called only a month or two ago an from the queen of that country waited on the office praying for british protection it is not known what answer they received let us trust that it was a favourable one the protection that should be accorded to the both in their interests and our own is to the british empire upon such terms as might be satisfactory to them the management of their country might be left to them subject to the advice of a and the of the ordinary laws

with in the midst of vice and misery unspeakable under sentence of death in the condemned cell with the ordinary for their pot companion a common punishment of women convicted of what say you of the times when london streets were absolutely a tale of the good old times dangerous and the passenger ran the risk of being and robbed even in the day time when not only and heath but the public road with robbers and a was as frequently as a hen when indeed the road was esteemed the legitimate resource of a gentleman in difficulties and a was commonly called captain if not respected accordingly when cock fighting bear and bull were popular nay fashionable amusements when the bulk of the landed gentry could barely read and write and divided their time between fox hunting and when a was a hero and it was an honor to have killed your man when a gentleman could hardly open his mouth without uttering a profane or filthy oath when the country was continually in peril of civil war through a disputed succession and two followed by more actually took place this era of and personal and political fishing wliat say you of it mr do you regard tliis wig and period as the good old times respected there was queen anne s golden reign sir suggested mr a golden reign i exclaimed the statue a reign of and court at home and war abroad the time of s and s and s the reign of of and mrs a golden i imagine you must go back yet for your good old times mr well answered the i suppose i must sir after what you say take william the third s rule pursued the statue war war again nothing but war i don t think you particularly call these the good old times then what will you say to those of james the second were they the good old times when judge sat on the bench when s rebellion was followed by the bloody a tale of the good old times when the king tried to set above the law and lost liis crown in consequence does your worship fancy that these were the good old times mr admitted that he could not very well imagine that they were were charles the second s the good old times demanded the statue with a court full of riot and � a palace much less decent than any modem � whilst scotch were having their legs crushed in the boots under the and personal of his the duke of york the time of gates and and their sham plots with the drawings and on evidence that followed them when and were murdered the time of the great plague and fire of the public money wasted by and while sailors lay starving in the streets for want of their just gay the dutch about the same time fishing burning our in tlie my friend i think you will hardly call the scandalous of the merry monarch the good old times i feel the difficulty which you suggest sir owned mr now that a man of your loyalty pursued the statue should identify the good old times with s is of course out of the question decidedly sir i exclaimed mr he shall not have a statue though you enjoy that honor bowing and yet said the statue with all its this era was perhaps no worse than any we have discussed yet never mind it was tf dreary cant ridden one and if you don t think those england s days neither do i there s the previous reign then during the first part of it there was the king to assert arbitrary power during the latter the parliament were fighting against him in the open field what op the good old times became of hm i need not say at what stage of king charles the first s career did the good old times exist mr i need barely mention the star chamber and poor and i merely allude to the fate of and of on consideration should you fix the good old times anywhere i am afraid not indeed sir mr responded tapping his forehead what is your opinion of james the first s reign are you of the good old times of the plot or when sir walter was or when hundreds of poor miserable old women were burnt alive for and the royal on the throne wrote as wise a book in defence of the superstition through which they suffered mr confessed himself obliged to give up the times of james the first now then continued the statue we to elizabeth there i ve got you i interrupted mr ma i beg your pardon sir lie added with a sense of the freedom he had taken but everybody talks of the tunes of good queen you know i ha laughed the statue not at all like or don or a s but really with unaffected everybody sometimes says very foolish things suppose everybody s lot had been cast under elizabeth how would everybody have being subject to the of the commission with its power of imprisonment rack and torture how would everybody have liked to see his catholic and fellow subjects and imprisoned for their opinions and charitable ladies too for giving them shelter in the sweet compassion of their hearts what would everybody have thought of the murder of mary queen of would everybody would anybody would wish to have lived in these days whose are ears stocks thumb a tale of the good old times axe block and s daughter will you take your stand upon this stage of history for the good old times mr i should rather prefer firmer and safer ground to be sure upon the whole answered the of antiquity well now said the statue tis getting late and as i am to

every step you take is counted trained follow you like your shadow they report to me every three quarters of an hour no expense is spared s face took on a hue of dirty gray well i don t care i have the less reserve to keep he cried that man my bill it s a and i want the money back of something to his advantage do you think i would lie to you asked michael i don t know said his cousin i want my money it was i alone who touched the body began michael you michael cried starting back then why haven t you declared the death what the devil do you mean asked michael am i mad or are you cried i think it must be said michael the three men stared at each other wild eyed this is dreadful said dreadful i do not understand one word that is addressed to me i give you my word of honor no more do i said michael and in god s name why whiskers cried pointing in a ghastly manner at his cousin does my brain how whiskers oh that s a matter of detail said michael there was another silence during which appeared to himself to be shot in a as high as st paul s and as low as baker street station let us said michael unless it s really a dream in which case i wish would call me for breakfast my friend here received a barrel which it now appears was meant for you the barrel contained the body of a man how or why you killed him i never laid a hand on him protested this thb wrong box is what i have dreaded all along but think michael fm not that kind of man with all mj faults i wouldn t touch a hair of anybody s head and it was all dead loss to me he got killed in that vile accident suddenly michael was seized by mirth so prolonged and that his companions supposed beyond a doubt his reason had deserted him again and again he struggled to compose himself and again and again laughter overwhelmed him like a tide in all this interview there had been no more feature than this of michael s merriment and and drawn together by the common fear exchanged glances of anxiety gasped the lawyer when he was at last able to hold on i see it all now i can make it all clear in one word here s the key never guessed it uncle joseph this moment this remark produced an instant of the for for it the ray of hope and daylight uncle joseph whom he had left an hour ago in street newspaper � it � the dead body � then who was he and was this station or to be sure i cried it was badly smashed i know how stupid not to think of thai why then all s clear and my dear michael tell you what � we re saved both saved you get the � i don t grudge it you the and i get the leather business which is hears of something to his advantage really beginning to look up declare at once don t mind me in tbe smallest don t consider me declare tbe and we re all ab but i can t declare it said not cried i can t produce tbe i ve lost it said tbe lawyer stop a bit ejaculated tbe how is it s not possible i lost it well i ve lost it too my son said witb extreme serenity not it you see and suspecting irregular in its origin i got rid of � we say � got rid of tbe proceeds at once you got rid of tbe body made you do but you can get it again you know it is i i did and you may believe me for it would be a small sum in my pocket but tbe fact is i don t said good lord said addressing and good lord i ve lost tbe business was once more witb do you you fool cried bis cousin you lose more i you ve it worse even i did if you bad a spark of feeling you would be in your boots witb vexation but i ll tell you one � tbat pound � have tbat and go to swan river � tbat s mine anyway and your friend must the box have to cash it give me the eight hundred here upon this platform or i go straight to scotland yard and turn the whole story inside said michael laying his hand upon his shoulder hear reason it wasn t us it was the other man we never even searched the body the other man repeated yes the other man we uncle joseph off upon another man said michael you what you him off that s surely a singular expression said yes him off for a piano said michael with perfect simplicity full rich tone he added carried his hand to his brow and looked at it it was wet with sweat fever said he no it was a grand said michael here will tell you if it was genuine or not eh oh i oh yes i believe it was a genuine i have played upon it several times myself said the three letter e was broken don t say anything more about said with a strong shudder i m not the man i used to be i this � this other man � let s come to him if i can only manage to follow who is he where can i get hold of him ah that s the rub said michael he s been in possession of the desired article let me see � since hears of something to his advantage day about four o clock

you find it out child to look at you especially abroad one would suppose that the true of things never struck you � that you were a butterfly bent solely on enjoying your little day but indeed it does said gravely that is why i am so fond of she doesn t try to throw off herself in excitement in in an insane love of dress in those women are such fools to think n the lovely they ve themselves let them go in and out of the as they will their souls will be waiting for them at the only had moved away at s unwelcome name but now he returned and with something shining down the coldness of his grey eyes yet without passion without looked at the girl i m glad you feel like that he said it will be all the better for � bob have you a photograph of him he added abruptly no and yet you must have liked him he said keenly aware of the inconvenience of the moment for such a discussion yet hurried on by some force of which he was not master to actually be � be engaged to him oh said it is one of the most rooted the most respectable instincts of the average woman be she peasant or princess that she must have a man to walk out with � if not her own then some other woman s � but still a man once you that instinct your last of power over us is gone s the coach and in less than ten i they had started on their way to j the lovely in the came across count in deep with and as they both turned to look with covert insolence at her something like a little chill wind seemed to pass over the girl though answering glance of quick concern she said � it is nothing � only some one stepping over my grave and some people will get a jolly good kicking if they don t alter their manners muttered looking back at the couple of who were smiling as their eyes followed s back but she had thrown off her by now and was taking the interest in the smart crowd and all those exciting details that go to make up the atmosphere of a race meeting and seem peculiar to the neighbourhood of a horse and even if had not loved horses the stir the hum the brisk bustle in the air would have her but as it she enjoyed herself with more than she had at any time done since she arrived in town perhaps the knowledge that her grey coat with its white silk and big mother o � n the lovely pearl buttons was the finest tailor s inspiration there considerably to her sense of well being but who also had a as she followed with could not help asking herself what possible chance any woman could have against her regular ain t she asked as if he guessed s thoughts pity she boxes men s ears though � s an ugly customer to tackle and another � they ll move heaven and earth to be even with her yet t� men are divided into two classes said who was looking delicious herself in her cool transparent green nice and nasty when they re nasty they rouse something in miss akin to what you men feel when you see a brute ill treating a child � and of course all the nasty people her � the nice we her you re great friends i know he said slowly much as if he were a riddle without any idea of what was the answer he felt sure it was who had procured for him a few kind looks from the quarter where he was used to receiving only averted the lovely ones and he knew as all their set did know that it was � the indifferent � who without an effort barred all the other fellows chances with and could not any blind bat see how things were between the lovely and her cousin wherefore did he find s love for a riddle hard to read i think a racing colours are to him what a ball gown is to a woman said as having regained the coach they watched the horses take their leisurely way to the starting place and how well looks in his jacket she added looking at him through s field glasses the white feathers in her hat his nose he ll look better in the saddle said and with an intense longing to kiss the little grey glove lifted to so very near his lips as it held his glasses of course this is mere child s play to � and doesn t mean any serious riding at all � but to see him pull off a really big thing against all the is just i should say his wife � if he ever � will have her heart in her mouth pretty often concluded the lovely he has had bad falls said intently watching the who was not having a rosy time � when he does the will have arrived i should say said he had broken about every bone in his body that can be broken � except his neck they re off he added abruptly and leaned forward as in the scarcely broken line of mingled colours on the backs the five horses swept forward immediately to spread out over the field neither s nor strained gaze left the striped and white cap and jacket but could appreciate as the other could not the perfection of that mastery of his horse which had made what he was � the first gentleman rider probably in the whole world as he passed the winning post a shout of admiration broke from the crowd and thrilled for this was real and she could

to � so you re not in the army my boy he asked abruptly i m a foreigner the young man answered the captain seemed only half pleased with this reason he winked and smiled was pleasanter company than cannon then seeing him smile added � i m a foreigner but i can put a bullet into an apple at five hundred � see my gun s there behind you by la it may be of use to you the captain replied simply had come up trembling a little and without the people there took both the hands she held out to him and pressed them in his as if to take her under his protection the captain smiled again il added not a word he remained sitting his sword between his leg his eyes looking at as if in a dream it was already two o clock it was growing very hot there was a dead silence in the court yard the sheds the soldiers had fallen to eating their soup not a sound came from the village in which the people had their houses doors and windows a dog left alone in the road was howling from the neighboring woods and meadows motionless in the heat came a far off voice long sustained made up of every separate breath of air a was singing then the silence spread itself over the country also and in this air a shot suddenly burst forth the captain sprang up quickly the soldiers dropped their plates of soup still half full in a few seconds every man was at his post for the fight the mill was occupied from top to bottom yet the captain who had gone out upon the road could make out nothing to the right and left the road stretched out empty and all white a second shot was heard and still nothing not a shadow but on turning round he over towards between two trees a light of smoke away like the wood was still profoundly quiet the have taken to the forest he muttered they know we are here then the firing kept up harder and harder between the french soldiers stationed round the mill and the hidden behind the trees the bullets whistled across the without any loss on one side or the other the shots were irregular coming from every bush and all you saw was still the little clouds of smoke gently away by the wind this lasted for nearly two hours the officer a tune as if indifferent and who had stayed in the court yard raised themselves up on and looked over the wall they were particularly interested in watching a little soldier stationed on the brink of the behind the of an old boat he was flat on his belly watched his chance fired by � his shot then let himself slide down into a ditch a little behind him to his rifle and his movements were so droll so cunning so that it made one smile to see him he must have the head of some for he got up quickly and brought his piece to his shoulder but before he fired he gave a cry turned over upon himself and rolled into the ditch where his legs out with the momentary jerk of those of a chicken with its neck wrung the little soldier had received a bullet full in the breast he was the first man killed instinctively seized hold of s hand and squeezed it with a nervous grip don t stay there said the captain the bullets reach here as he spoke a little sharp stroke was heard in the old elm and a branch fell in through the air but the young people did not stir there by anxiety at the sight on the outskirts of the wood a came out suddenly from behind a tree as from a side scene beating the air with his arms and tumbling over backwards and then nothing stirred the two dead men seemed to sleep in the dazzling sunshine you saw no one in the landscape even the crack of the shots stopped only the kept up its silver toned whispering old looked at the captain in surprise as if to ask if it were over here it comes the latter muttered look out don t stay there he had not finished speaking when there came a terrific it was as if the great elm were down a cloud of leaves whirled about them luckily the had fired too high dragged almost carried away while old followed them crying out � go down to the little cellar the walls are solid but they did not mind him they went into the great hall where ten soldiers or so were waiting in silence with shutters closed peeping through the cracks the captain had stayed alone in the court yard crouched down behind the little wall while the furious continued the soldiers he had stationed outside yielded ground only foot by foot yet they came in one by one crawling on their faces when the enemy had them from their hiding places their orders were to by � mile gain time not to show themselves so that the might not know what numbers they had before them another hour went by and as a came up saying that there were only two or three men left outside the officer looked at his watch muttering � half after two come we must hold out four hours he had the gate of the court yard shut and all preparations were made for an energetic resistance as the were on the other side of the an immediate assault was not to be feared to be sure there was a bridge a little over a mile off but they doubtless did not know of its existence and it was hardly probable that they would try to ford the river so the officer merely

say you got to hand it to little this time better talk careful you are now addressing the vice president of the oh � v pretty nice is the new president but when he s away little takes the and em and the � no matter if they re the governor himself � and � listen � it puts him in solid with big men like and � george paul ii i� yes sure paul and let turn know about it ti t away listen paul s to jail he shot his wife he shot this noon she may not live i z l� � chapter xxii he drove to the city not blindly but with unusual care at corners the of an old woman plants it kept bim from facing the of fate the attendant said you can t see any of the prisoners till three thirty � hour it was three for half an hour sat looking at a and a clock on a wall the chair was hard and mean and people went through the office and he thought stared at him he felt a it d ance which broke into a of thb machine which was grinding paul � paul � exactly at half past three he sent in his name the attendant returned with says he don t want to see you you re you didn t give him my tell him it s george wants to see him george i told him all ri t all he said he want to see you then take me in anyway nothing doing if you ain t his lawyer if he don t want to see you that s all there is to it but my god � say let me see the he s busy come on now you � reared over him the attendant hastily to a you can come back and try to morrow probably the poor is off his nut drove not at all carefully or sliding past the s curses to the city hall he stopped with a grind of wheels against the and ran up the marble steps to the office of the hon mr the mayor he the mayor s with a dollar he was instantly inside demanding you remember me mr � vice president of the � for you say have you heard about poor well i want an order on the or whatever you call um of the city prison to take me back and see him good thanks in fifteen minutes he was down the prison corridor to a cage paul sat on a cot twisted like an old beggar legs crossed arms in a knot biting at his clenched fist paul looked up as the keeper the cell admitted and left them he spoke slowly go be on the couch beside him i m not going to be i don t care what happened i just want to do anything i can i m glad got what was coming to her paul said now don t go jumping on i ve been thinking maybe she hasn t had any too easy a time just after i shot her � i didn t hardly mean to but she got to me so i went crazy just for a second and pulled out that old revolver you and i used to shoot with and took a crack at her didn t hardly mean to� after that when i was trying to stop the blood � it was terrible what it did to her shoulder and she had beautiful skin � maybe she won t die i hope it won t leave her skin all but just afterward when i was through the for some cotton to stop the blood i ran a httle yellow duck we hung on the tree one christmas and i remembered she and i d been awfully happy then � hell i can t hardly believe it s me here as s arm ti about bis shoulder paul sighed i m glad you came but i thought maybe you d lecture me and when you ve com a murder and been brought here and � there was a big crowd outside the e house all staring and the took me through it � oh i m not going to talk about it any more but he went on in a monotonous t ri ed insane to t him said why you got a on your yes that s where the hit me i get a lot of fun out of too he was a big fellow and they wouldn t let me help down to the paul quit it listen she won t die and when it s all o ver you and i ll go off to again and maybe we can get that may to go along ill go up to and ask her good woman by and afterwards see that you get started in business out west somewhere maybe � they say that s a lovely city paul was half smiling it was who now he could not tell whether paul was but he on till the coming of paul s lawyer p j a thin busy man who nodded at and hinted if and i could be alone for a moment � wrung paul s hands and waited in the office till came out look old man what can i do he begged nothing not a thing not just now said sorry got to hurry and don t try to see him i ve bad the doctor give him a shot of so he ll sleep it seemed somehow wicked to return to the office felt as though he had just come from a funeral he drifted out to the city hospital to inquire about she was not likely to die he learned the bullet from paul s huge old army revolver had smashed her shoulder and torn upward and

and i have no doubt that if knew the old man whom she bv i must have seen so often watching her and his wife who ornaments her sex with as much sweetness although with less splendor than herself she would also acknowledge that the of roses was as fine and fit upon their table as her own is for herself i have so much faith in the perception of that lovely lady it is my habit � i hope i may say my nature � to believe the best of people rather than the worst if i thought that all this sparkling setting of beauty � this fine fashion � these blazing jewels and and airy with and wrought in a thousand exquisite so that i cannot see one of those lovely girls pass me by without thanking god for the vision � if i thought that this was all and that underneath her lace and diamond was a sullen selfish woman then i should turn sadly homeward for i should see that her jewels were flashing scorn upon the object they adorned that her were of a more exquisite loveliness than the woman whom they merely touched with a superficial grace it would be like a gaily decorated � bright to see but silent and dark within great my dear i sometimes myself to say lie concealed in the depths bv spectacles of character like pearls at the bottom of the sea under the laughing glancing surface how little they are suspected perhaps love is nothing else than the sight of them by one person hence every man s mistress is apt to be an to everybody else i have no doubt that when is engaged people will say she is a most admirable certainly but they cannot understand why any man should be in love with her as if it were at all necessary that they should and her lover like a boy who finds a pearl in the public street and wonders as much that others did not see it as that he did will tremble until he knows his passion is returned feeling of course that the whole world must be in love with this who cannot possibly smile upon anything so unworthy as he i hope therefore my dear mrs i continue and my wife looks up with pleased pride from her work as if i were such an irresistible hu you will allow me to believe that the depth may be calm although the surface is dancing if you tell me that is but a giddy girl i shall believe that you think so but i shall know all the while what profound dignity and sweetness and peace lie at the foundation of character bv i i i say such things to during ihe season at the office and i have known him sometimes to reply with a kind of dry sad humor not aa if he enjoyed the joke but as if the joke must be made that he saw no reason why i should be dull because the season was so and what do i know of or a ny other girl he says to me with that abstracted air i whose were of another century and another then he falls into a silence which it seems quite profane to but as we sit upon our high at the desk opposite each other i leaning upon my elbows and looking at him he with face glancing out of the window as if it commanded a boundless landscape instead of a dim dingy court i cannot refrain from saying well � he turns slowly and i go on � a little too perhaps about those girls but i know that regards such an excess as for his sadness is so sweet that you could believe it the reflection of a smile from long long years ago one day after i had been talking for a long time and we had put up our books and were bv s spectacles to leave he stood for some time by the window gazing with a drooping as really saw something move than the dark court and said slowly perhaps you would have different impressions of things if you saw them through my spectacles there was no change in his expression he still looked from the window and i said i did not know that you used glasses i have never seen you wearing spectacles no i don t often wear them i am not very fond of looking through them but sometimes an irresistible necessity me to put them on and i cannot help seeing sighed is it so grievous a fate to see inquired i yes through my spectacles he said turning slowly and looking at me with wan solemnity it grew dark as we stood in the office talking and taking our hats we went out together the narrow street of business was deserted the heavy iron shutters were gloomily closed over the windows from one or two struggled the dim gleam of an early candle by whose light some perplexed sat and hunting for his error a careless clerk passed whistling but the great tide of life had we heard its roar far bv and i away and the sound stole into that silent street like the murmur of the ocean into an inland you will come and dine with us he assented by continuing to walk with me and i think we were both glad when we reached the house and came to meet us saying do you know i hoped you would bring mr to dine smiled gently and answered he might have brought his spectacles with him and have been a happier man lor it looked a little puzzled my dear i said you must know that our friend mr is the possessor of a pair of wonderful spectacles i have never seen them indeed and from what he

exhausted to our little the behind us and we had been compelled to row in a dead calm practically ever inch of the way another day of heart breaking and dangerous toil saw us in camp with the two to the good the day following i was desperate and i together the the fore and main and the fore and main the wind was favorable and i had thought to tow them back under sail but the wind baffled then died away and our progress with the oars was a s pace and it was such effort to throw one s whole strength and weight on the oars and to feel the boat checked in iti forward by the heavy drag behind was not exactly ht an to fall and to make matters worse the wind s ran up ahead not only did all forward cease but wc be an to drift back and out to sea i at the oars till i was played out poor whom i could never prevent from working to the limit of her strength lay weakly back in the stern sheets i could row no more my bruised and swollen hands could no longer t� b sea i lose on the oar my wrists and arms ached and though i had eaten heartily of a twelve clock lunch i bad worked so bard that i was faint from linger i pulled in the oars and bent forward to the which the tow but s band leaped out i mine what are you going to do she asked in a voice cast it off i answered slipping a turn of the but her fingers closed on mine please don t she begged it is useless i answered here is night and the ind blowing us off the land but think if wc cannot sail away on the � we may remain for years on the island � for life if it has never been discovered all these years it lay never be discovered you forget the boat we found on the beach i her it was a seal hunting boat she replied and you now perfectly well that if the men had escaped they ould have been back to make their fortunes from the you know they never escaped remained silent besides she added it s your idea and i int to sec you succeed now i could my heart as soon as she put it n a flattering personal basis generosity compelled me to her better years on the island than to die to night or to or the next day in the open boat we are not to brave the sea wc have no food no water the sea wolf no blankets nothing why you d not survive the night without blankets i know how strong you are you are shivering now it is only she answered i am you will cast off the in spite of me oh please please don t i she burst out a moment later and so it ended with the se she knew had all power over me we shivered miserably throughout the night now and again i slept but the pain of the always aroused me how could stand it was beyond me i was too tired to my arms about and myself but i found strength time and again to her hands and feet to restore the circulation and still she i pleaded with me not to cast off the about three in the morning she was caught by a cold and after had rubbed her out of that she became quite i was frightened i got out the oars and made her row thou she was so weak i thought she would faint at every stroke broke and we looked long in the growing light for our island at last it showed small and ck on tbe horizon fully fifteen miles away i the sea my glasses far away in the i could see a dark line on the water which grew even as i looked at it fair wind i cried in a voice i did not as my own tried to reply but could not speak her were blue with cold and she was hollow eyed � but ok how bravely her brown eyes looked at met how brave a ain i fell to her hands and to moving arms up ai l down and about until he could ll then i compelled her to stand up and the sea tbe would have fallen i not supported her i forced her to walk back and forth the several steps between the and the and to spring up and down oh j ou brave brave woman i said when i � aw the coming back into her face did you know thai you were brave i never used to be she i was er till i knew you it is you who have made me brave nor i until i knew you i answered she gave mc a quick look and n i caught that dancing tremulous light and something more in ber eyes but it was only for the moment then she smiled it must have been the conditions she said but i knew she was wrong and i wondered if she likewise knew d fair and fresh and the boat was soon laboring through a heavy sea toward the island at past three in the afternoon we passed the not only were we hungry but we were now from thirst our lips were dry and cracked nor could we longer them with our tongues then the wind slowly died down by night it was dead calm and i was toiling once more at the oars � but most weakly at two in the morning the boat s bow touched the beach of our own inner and staggered out to make the painter fast could rot stand nor had i strength to

since has bowed reverently and learned something and at the end of the sixteenth century the raised the sea banks and rescued their country from the and immediately art like the suddenly and everywhere and in a country no larger than greece thirty great painters were born within the little span of some thirty or forty years and since then there has been no further painting in holland and in the countries of and no preface xiii one is now found who can draw a nose with even tolerable decorum then whither in her flight from england will art herself eastward there are the russian and the german and behind them the chinese all europe has been visited and art never returns to where she has once been even italy cannot be in of this for in italy in roman times art was a greek and all the roman statues were the work of greek artists so whither will art go in what country will art suddenly appear in the or in the or will art rest for a space in this forlorn atlantic island re knitting herself to the tradition which existed before england was in gold ornaments and and in many tales of chivalry will there be a re of the ancient language or shall we save some accent of s tongue which has declined elsewhere into and that art has left england there can be no doubt art has left france and germany and russia it is still in and when xiv preface it leaves it must find another small nation one which has not yet achieved its destiny � a nation such as greece was before such as england was before the and again before n the western ireland is the only place which seems to fulfil these conditions but ireland maybe is still too poor to an art for although art wealth art needs some ease of life but ireland is just beginning to find her way into easy for the first time for centuries starvation and oppression seem fading from her face the language is serious poetry is beginning again and plays written without desire of gain for love of art are offered to the irish rather than to the english public it is impossible to write plays in england except for money and all that is done for money is it was with the that money came into art the did not build the for money nor did the french build cathedral for money the in either case was the joy of art and as money preface xv entered into art the work of the artist slipped out of his control into that of the mob it took four centuries to accomplish this change we had to wait four hundred years for a world fashioned according to the image and likeness of the mob and now in all save the individual arts such as poetry and pictures the face of the mob is plainly stamped the arts architecture and painting furniture painted and metal work have so declined that no one them as they are made now the most ordinary people have come to understand that they must buy century furniture and old silver and china and that a thousand pounds will not buy a design for a clock that is not an old one or a copy of an old one nor a design for a chair or a sofa or a pair of the mob has become rich and it its tastes and those who are not of the mob retire more and more into the past as life becomes numerous and rich it becomes and vulgar but though the modern appeal to ten times as large a custom as did the beautiful work of the xvi preface century still their custom is small compared to that from which the dramatic writer suffers so it is to dramatic writing we must look to discover the depths to which an art can sink when it is written and produced at the mutual of the gallery boy who for a shilling demands oblivion of his day s work and the who for los d demands such amusement as will enable him to safely his dinner all who write for the english stage must write practically at the of these two the same audience goes everywhere and the same fare is consequently served everywhere at the same prices and to the theatre from the of money is the truly great adventure which the rich man but the rich man does not choose a theatre for his charity a hospital a college or a picture gallery is chosen in preference the wisdom of leaving money to a hospital may not be questioned but it may be asked if a fine performance of shakespeare or or does not rouse the listener out of the of real life as preface xvii as a course of lectures on shakespeare or or or in which some learned professor superficial opinions regarding these writers let us ask ourselves if the gift of pictures and the gift of a gallery intellectual enterprise as much as the gift of a theatre if painting is not the most of all the arts if there are not a hundred men who can distinguish between good literature for one who can distinguish between the national gallery and the royal academy does not the ordinary man prefer a show or the work of the scene painter with and dresses to either it has been said that villagers would prefer a to a parish council this may be true but how much more true it is that ninety per cent of those who visit the or the national gallery prefer the old gallery to either and the old gallery not only pleased the public more than any other but it provided the public with more intellectual than any other the public is moved by and hardly at

a moment o time i draw from nature the lesson of an intimate divinity our health and reason as men needs our respect to this fact against the and against the contradiction of society the of man needs the of this force his nobility needs the assurance of this inexhaustible reserved power how great have been its they are a drop to the sea whence they flow if you say the acceptance of the vision is also die act of god � i shall not seek to penetrate the mystery i admit the force of what you say if you ask how can any rules be given for the of gifts so sublime � i shall only remark that the of this spirit as long as there is life are never tenderly tenderly they and court us from every object in nature from every fact in ufe from every thought in the mind the one condition coupled with the gift of truth is its use that man shall be learned who his learning to practice affirmed that it was opened to him that the spirits who knew truth in this but did it not at death shall lose their if knowledge said the unto practice well if not it away the only way into nature is to our best insight instantly we are higher poets and can speak a deeper law do what you know and perception is converted into character as islands and were built by invisible or as these forest leaves light and and the oak to live a thousand years is the arrest and of the most and currents the doctrine of this supreme presence is a cry of joy and exultation who shall dare think he has come late into nature or has missed anything excellent in the past who the admirable stars of possibility and the yet untouched continent of hope glittering with all its mountains in the vast west i praise with wonder this great reality which seems to drown all things in the of its what man seeing this can lose it from his thoughts or entertain a subject the entrance of this into his mind seems to be the birth of man we cannot describe the natural history of the soul but we know that it is divine i cannot tell if these wonderful qualities which house to day in this mortal frame shall ever re in equal activity in a similar frame or whether they have before had a natural history like that of this body you see before you but this one thing i know that these did not now begin to exist cannot be sick with my nor buried in any grave but that they through the universe before the world was they were nothing can bar them out or shut them in but they penetrate the ocean and land space and time form and essence and hold the key to nature i draw from this faith courage and hope all things are known to the soul it is not to be surprised by any communication nothing can be greater than it let those fear and those who will the soul is in her native and it is wider than space older than time wide as hope rich as love and fear she refuses with a beautiful scorn they are not for her who on her robes and goes out through love to universal power discourse on th� transient and permanent cl ti ti d at the of mr charles c in the place church in boston may by minister of the second church boston printed for the author boston printed by and b washington street preface this discourse is now printed in consequence of some and printed statements respecting its contents i have made a few verbal alterations changed the order of a few sentences omitted here and there a few words which were only of former sentences and added a few which though written in the manuscript were necessarily omitted in consequence of the length of the discourse but i ave changed nothing in the substance or doctrine and have made the alterations only to set the doctrine in a clearer and stronger light the and somewhat style though less well adapted to reading than hearing i could not change without exciting a suspicion of with the above exceptions the discourse is printed just as it was delivered it is not necessary i should remark upon the article relating to this discourse signed by several and so by the religious journals the thing speaks for itself others likewise i find have lifted up their heel against this discourse or the of it i was not so vain as to expect my humble attempts to make a distinction between religion and or to deliver christianity from heathen and notions � would be either acceptable or understood by all nor yet am i so young as to be surprised at the cry of and which has been raised against nearly all of the religion of from to worth west june discourse xxi beaten and shall pass away but ht shall not pass in this sentence we have a very clear indication that of believed the religion he taught would be eternal that the substance of it would last forever yet there are some who are by the faintest rustle which a makes among the dry leaves of they tremble lest christianity itself should perish without hope ever and anon the cry is raised the be upon us and christianity is in danger the least doubt respecting the popular or the existing machinery of the church the least sign of distrust in the religion of the pulpit or the religion of the street is by some good men supposed to be at enmity with faith in christ and le of shaking christianity itself on the other hand a few bad men and a few pious men it is said on

out to sea with no guidance but his genius there is much to say on both sides the open question between the present order of competition and the friends of attractive and associated labor the generous minds embrace the proposition of labor shared by all it is the only honesty nothing else is safe it is from the poor man s hut alone that strength and virtue come and yet on the other side it is alleged that labor the form and breaks the spirit of man and the cry we have no thoughts culture how indispensable i cannot ve you the want of accomplishments and yet will destroy that beauty of excellent is culture for a savage but once let bim read in the book and he it no longer able not to think of in true fortitude of in not letting what we know be embarrassed by wliat we do not know we ought to secure those advantages which we can command and not risk them by clutching after the airy and come no let us go abroad let us mix iu affairs let us learn and get and have and climb are a sort of moving plants and like trees receive a great part of their nourishment from the air if they keep too much at home they pine let us have a robust manly life let us know what we know for certain what we have let it be solid and sea and our own a world in the hand is worth two in the bush let us have to do with real men and women and not with ghosts this then is the right ground of the this of consideration of self containing not at all of un belief not at all of universal denying nor of universal doubting doubting even that he doubts least of all of and at all that is stable and good these are no more his moods than are those of religion and philosophy he is the the prudent taking in sail counting stock his means believing that a man has too many enemies than that he can afford to be his own that we cannot give ourselves too many advantages in this unequal conflict with powers so vast and ranged on one side and this little conceited that a man is up and down into every danger on the other it is a men tion taken up for better defence as of more safety and one tliat can be maintained and it is one of more opportunity and range as when we a the is to set it not too nor too low the wind but out of the dirt the philosophy we want is one of and the and schemes are too and stiff for our occasion a theory of saint john and of non resistance seems on the other hand too thin and we want some coat woven of elastic steel stout as the first and as the second we want a ship in these we an house would be rent to and in this storm of many elements no it must be tight and fit to the form of man to live at all as a shell is the architecture of a house founded on the sea the soul of man must be the type of our just as the body of man is the after which a house is built is the peculiarity of human nature we are golden or errors houses founded on the sea the wise wishes to have a near view of the best game and the chief players what is best in the planet � art and nature places and events but mainly men ever that is excellent in mankind a form of grace an arm of iron lips of a brain of resources every one skilful to play and to win he will see and judge the terms of admission to this spectacle are that he have a certain solid and intelligible way of living of his own some method of answering the inevitable needs of human life proof that he has evinced the temper and the range of qualities whidi among his and him to fellowship and for the secrets of are not shown except to and men do not confide themselves to boys or or but to their some wise as the modem phrase is some condition between the extremes and having itself a quality some and sufficient man who is not salt or sugar but sufficiently related to the world to do justice to paris and london and at the same time a vigorous and original whom cities cannot but who uses them � is the fit person to occupy ground of speculation these qualities meet in the character of and yet since the personal regard which i entertain for may be great i will under the shield of this prince of offer as an apology for him as the of a word or two to explain how my love began and grew for this admirable gossip a single odd volume of cotton s translation of the essays remained to me from my father s when a boy it lay long neglected until after many years when i was newly escaped from college i read the book and procured the remaining volumes i remember the delight and wonder in which i lived with it it seemed to me as if i had myself written the book in some former life so sincerely it spoke to my thought and experience it happened when in paris in that in the of le chaise men i came to a tomb of died in aged years and said the monument lived to do right and had formed himself to virtue on the essays of some years later i became acquainted with an accomplished english poet john sterling and in my correspondence i found that from a love of be bad made

play of benevolent feelings have given even a sacred beauty to her homely features the dwarf has disappeared and there remains instead a grave but venerable matron � honored like a queen ix t � i t hit a t i nonsense there is no such thing life is not a game of chance any more than is if yon lose yon have no one but yourself to blame this was said by a young lieutenant in the navy to a middle aged his elder brother do you mean to say that luck had nothing to do with fine gentleman passing for lieutenant and my being turned back was the though a is a good seaman and � and the speaker looked another way and hesitated i am not you would if you had fishing age but i say i am and a better seaman than practically perhaps for you are ten years older in the service but it was in the part of which is equally important � that you broke down before the continued the younger officer in tones of earnest but sorrowful reproach you never would study i u teu you what it is master said the elder not without a show of displeasure i don t think this is the correct sort of conversation to be going on between two brothers after a five years separation the young lieutenant laid his hand soothingly on his brother s arm and entreated him to take what he said in good part well well rejoined the with a laugh half forced take care what you are about or by jove i inform against you what for why for preaching without a license besides you were once as bad as you pretend i am the ghost of james i own it with sorrow but i was warned in time by the wretched end of poor james of whom asked the elder brother starting back as he pushed his glass along the table you don t mean jovial as we used to call him once my in the yes i do what i dead yes why it was one of our great delights when in harbor and on shore to go the rounds � as he called it � with jovial he understood life from stem to stem � from to he knew everybody from the first lord downwards i have seen him recognized by the duke one minute and the next pick up with a strolling player and familiarly treat him at a tavern he once took me to a party at the of s where he seemed to know and be known to everybody present and then to the where he was equally intimate with all sorts of queer characters though a favorite among the aristocracy he was equally welcome in less exclusive societies he was brother past master noble grand or president of all sorts of and uncommonly knowing was in all sorts of club and fashionable gossip he knew who gave the best dinners and was always invited to the best balls he was a capital judge of champagne and when he upon a horse race everybody backed him he could hum all the fashionable songs and was the fourth man who could dance the when it was first imported then he was as profound in stout ale and of bishop as he was in punch french and italian singers afloat he was the soul of fun � he got up all our private told all the best stories and sung comic songs that made even the laugh an extent and variety of knowledge and accomplishments said lieutenant which the ghost op james had the precise effect of his prospects in life he was as you remember at last dismissed the service for and when did you see him last what alive f inquired ing countenance of course i surely you do not mean to that you have seen his ghost i the lieutenant was silent and the took a deep draught of his favorite mixture � equal portions of rum and water � and hinted to his younger brother the lieutenant the of immediately confiding the story to the for he declined to credit it he then ventured another recommendation which was that should throw the impotent he was then over the side of the ship � which meant the tavern of that name in at the open bow window of which they were then sitting � and clear his by something stronger i can afford to be laughed at said the younger fishing because i have gained by tbe delusion if it be one but if ever there was a ghost i have seen the ghost of james i like yourself and he was nearly ruined by love of amusement and when or whatever else it might have came to my aid let us i see i am in for a ghost story well it was eighteen forty one when i came home in the arrow with from the coast of africa you were lying in the in the ours you know was rather a thirsty station a man inclined for it comes home from the with a determination to make up his lee way i did mine with a vengeance as usual i looked up jovial twas easy to find him if you knew where to go i did know and went he had by that time got tired of his more aristocratic friends respectability was too slow for him so i foimd him over the at the the ghost of james union jack he received me with open arms and took me aa you say tlie rounds i can t recall that week s without a shudder we rushed about from ball to tavern from theatre to supper room from club to gin palace as if our lives depended on losing not a moment we had not time to walk so we galloped

take me about with him to one or more of the most description in the of the section which same he had discovered and with the of which he was on the best of terms they were really hang for and thieves and characters generally was the beginning of the chinese in america bat not so to wood he had the happy faculty of himself that then waa something vastly mysterious and superior about the entire chinese race and after introducing me to many of hia new friends he proceeded to assure me of the of some huge chinese organization known as the six companies which so far as i could make out from hearing him talk was slowly bnt surely and secretly of getting control of the entire it had complete control of great financial and here there and everywhere and on order thousands of chinese to any one who desired them anywhere and this oi ruled them with a rod of iron cutting their throats and them head down in a of rice when they failed to perform their duties and m a book about their quietly to in made in china and t here for that the chinese who had worked for the of the union pacific had been supplied by this company so he said again there were the chinese free a society so ad and bo powerful and so that one might speak of it only in whispers for fear of getting into trouble this indeed was the great organization of the world in china and every where else songs and knew of it and before its power if it wished it sweep the chinese emperor and all european off their tomorrow there were rites mysteries within in this great organization he was as yet a mere bnt by degrees slowly and surely as i was given to understand was its secrets out of these chinese and its deepest mysteries whereby he hoped to profit in this wi he was going to study chinese then go to china there he would get into this organization through the influence of some of his chinese friends here then he was going to get next to some of e officials of the chinese government and being thus highly recommended and thought of would come back here eventually as an official chinese attached perhaps to the chinese at washington how he was to profit bo vastly by this i could not see but he seemed to think that he would again there was his literary world which he was always dreaming about and over his art into which i was now by d permitted to look he was ahead in that realm and since i doing fairly well as a daily it might be that i would be to perceive a little of all he was hoping to do his great dream or scheme was to study the life of st louis at first hand those horrible and lowest and south of market and east of eighth where listening to the of thieves and and and and and he was to extract from them aside from their stories a book about myself some of and scene that stand him in good stead in e composition of hia tales now bo he told me he content with making notes down scraps of conversation heard at bars in cheap dance and i know not what with a little more time and a little more of that slowly arriving which to most of as i am inclined to think that he might have made something out of all this he was ao much in earnest so patient only as i saw it he was filled with an almost impossible and romance which threw nearly thing ont of he naturally inclined to the and the grotesque bnt in no balanced way his dreams were too wild his mood at nearly all times too utterly romantic his far beyond what a sane contemplation of facts and relative to this period i could other tales he and peter long before i had arrived on the scene had surrounded themselves with a company of their own down and out english army and younger sons of good families a frenchman or two one of was a poet several struggling artists who on them and a few weird and characters so degraded and that i never make out just what their charm was at least two of these had suitable rooms where in addition to dick s and mine we were accustomed to meet there were parties sunday and evening walks or dinners poems on occasion were read original dick s stories as peter invariably insisted were inflicted the or duck a tin bucket of good size was rushed for beer and cheese and and hot sold by old on the after midnight were bought and consumed with captain captain � these are names of figures that are now so dim as to be mere ranged a smoky dimly lighted room in some house both dick and peter had reached that state where they were the of attraction aa as and to these others and a book about myself between them got ap weird acts which they took down to some wretched and each doing a torn the glee over the of these things as they now them to wood wag so thin physically and so vigorous mentally that he fascinating to look at he had an idea that this and his story work of the importance and so they were if they bad been bat a to something more or if his dreams could only have been reduced to paper and print there was that i in his eye a ray there was an to his spirit which was delicious as i get him now he was a rather foe or de or and assuredly a of the was certainly there for at times the moods he

bid her be still for the night i cannot pray but i have been serving in the s boats and when men did not obey my orders i� a flourish of the wire rope the sentence and the priest breaking free from his fled to the village fat pig said after all that we have done for him when the flood is down i will see to it that we get a new it for night now and since yesterday nothing has been eaten be wise no man can endure watching and great thinking on an empty belly lie down the river will do what the river will do the bridge � the bridge is mine i cannot leave it thou hold it up with thy hands then said laughing i was troubled for my boats and the flood came now we are in the hands r of the the will not eat and lie down take these then they are meat and good together and they kill all weariness besides the fever that follows the rain i have eaten nothing else to day at all he took a small tin tobacco box from his and thrust it into s hand saying do not be afraid it is no more than i shook two or three of the dark brown into his hand and hardly knowing what he did swallowed them the stuff was at least a good guard against the fever that was creeping upon him out of the wet and he had seen what could do in the mists of autumn on the strength of a dose from the tin box nodded with bright eyes in a in a little the will find that he thinks well again i too he into his treasure box the rain coat over his head and down to watch the boats it was too dark now to see beyond the first pier and the night seemed to have given the river new strength stood with his chin on his chest thinking there was one point about one of the the that he had not fully settled in his mind the figures would not shape themselves to the eye except one by one and at enormous intervals of time the bridge there was a sound rich and mellow in his ears like the deepest note of a double an sound upon which he pondered for several hours as it seemed then was at his elbow shouting that a wire had snapped and the stone boats were loose saw the fleet open and swing out to a long drawn shriek of wire straining across a tree hit them they will all go cried the main has parted what does the do an immensely complex plan had suddenly flashed into s mind he saw the ropes running from boat to boat in straight lines and each rope a line of white but there was one rope which was the master rope he could see that rope if he could pull it once it was absolutely and certain that the disordered fleet would itself in the behind the guard tower but why he wondered was clinging so desperately to his waist as he hastened down the bank it was necessary to put the aside gently and slowly because it was necessary to save the boats and further to the extreme ease of the problem that looked so difficult and but it was of no conceivable a through his hand burning it the high bank disappeared and with it all the slowly of the problem he was sitting in the rainy sitting in a boat that spun like a top and was standing over him i had forgotten said the slowly that to those and unused the is worse than any wine those who die in go to the gods still i the bridge have no desire to present myself before such great ones can the swim what need fly as swiftly as the wind was the thick answer he is mad muttered imder his breath and he threw me aside like a bundle of cakes well he will not know his death the boat cannot live an hour here even if she strike nothing it is not good to look at death with a clear eye he refreshed himself again from the tin box down in the bows of the and craft staring through the mist at the nothing that was there a warm crept over the chief whose duty was with his bridge the heavy struck him with a thousand little and the weight of all time since time was made hung heavy on his eyelids he thought and perceived that he was perfectly secure for the water was so solid that a man could surely step out upon it and standing still with his legs apart to keep his this was the most important would be borne with great and easy speed to the shore but yet a better plan came to him it needed only an exertion of will for the soul to the body ashore as wind drives paper to it fashion to the thereafter � the boat suppose the high wind got under the freed body would it tower up like a and pitch headlong on the far away sands or would it duck about beyond control through all eternity the to anchor himself for it seemed that he was on the edge of taking the flight be the bridge fore he had settled all his plans has more effect on the white man than the black was only comfortably indifferent to accidents she cannot live he her open already if she were even a with � u s we could have ridden it out but a box with holes is no good she fills i am going away come thou also in his mind had already escaped from the boat and was high in air to find a rest for

of the german navy this is not the last time that i shall have to salute the merits of that service the defeat and death of and the burning of had thus passed off battle of i without the least advantage to but he still held the significant position of and was to make it good the whole was surrounded with a across the it was six feet high and strengthened with a ditch and the beach was against landing s land claim � the same that now over the village in the form of a � then appeared in a more military guise the german flag was hoisted and german sailors the at the � to protect german property and its trifling the king of much vigilance reigned and in the island fashion much wild firing and in spite of all desertion was for a long time daily the detained high chiefs would go to the beach on the pretext of a natural occasion plunge in the sea and swimming across a broad shallow bay of the join the on the side whole bodies of warriors sometimes hundreds strong departed with their arms and on the th of september for instance the day after s letter too and left with eight years of trouble in their and the whole people returned home in a body to hold a parliament ten days later it is true a part of them returned to their duty but another part off by the way and carried their services and s dear bought guns to on the th there was a of a different kind but yet sensible the high chief had been still detained in under anxious observation his people murmured at his absence threatened to take away his name and had already attempted a rescue the adventure was now taken in hand by his wife a woman of much sense and spirit and a strong and by her contrivance gave his the slip and rejoined his at this process of was of course by another of but the of european and military rule had made detested and with many and the force on is thought to have done little more than hold its own set it down at about two or three thousand i have no estimate from the other battle of side but admits they were not strong enough to keep the field in the open the political significance of was great but in a military sense the position had defects if it was difficult to carry it was easy to and to be hemmed in on that narrow finger of land were an posture for the monarch of the besides was scant of food and destitute of water pressed by these considerations extended his lines till he had occupied the whole of bay and the opposite point his men were thus drawn out along some three miles of irregular beach everywhere with their backs to the sea and without means of communication or mutual support except by water the extension led to fresh sorrows the men themselves in the houses of the absent men of the arose with english and americans interposed in a loud voice of menace it was said the firm by the confusion to up imperfect land claims i am sure the other would not be far behind the firm properties were eight years of trouble in in fences and houses were torn down ensued the german example at was followed with wherever an englishman or an american conceived himself to have a claim he set up the emblem of his country and the beach with the flags of nations all this it will be observed was going forward in that territory by treaty against the presence of armed the themselves looked on in wonder on the th trembling to against the great powers they had written for a of the sa and in conversation with the british replied that he recognised none so long as held the ground this was expedient but suppose it might prove awkward for the stores mills and offices of a great german firm thus of shelter by the act of their own on the morning of the th september just ten days after the death of under the name of to oa was crowned king at on battle of the he wrote to the british and american gentlemen i write this letter to you two very humbly and on account of this difficulty that has come before me i desire to know from you two gentlemen the truth where the boundaries of the territory are you will observe that i am now at a step nearer the enemy and i have stopped here until i knew what you say regarding the territory i wish to know where i can go and where the forbidden ground is for i do not wish to go on any territory or on any foreigner s property i do not want to offend any of the great powers another thing i would like would it be possible for you three to make remove from german property for i am in awe of going on german land he must have received a reply s of the principle at once for he broke camp the same day and marched eastward through the bush behind expecting attack sought to improve his position he refused his centre by the simple expedient of it eight years of trouble in was the two and were still held and fortified as i have said to the on a line from the to the little river the centre was represented by the of a boat across the bay from one flank to another and was held we may say by the german war ship decided am assured to make a on induce to in support and then fall upon and carry that and there is no doubt in my mind that such a plan

was yesterday than i could wish but it s my duty to bear i have committed follies gentlemen said looking round with a meek smile and i ought to bear the consequences without a murmur partly of gratification at twenty seven s celestial state of mind and partly of indignation against the who had given him any cause of complaint a note of which was immediately made by mr having subsided twenty seven stood in the midst of us as if he felt himself the principal object of merit in a highly museum that we the might have an excess of light shining upon us all at once orders were given to let out twenty eight i had been so much astonished already that i only felt a kind of resigned wonder when mr walked forth reading a good book the personal history and experience twenty eight said a gentleman in spectacles who had not yet spoken you complained last week my good fellow of the how has it been since i thank you sir said mr it has been better made if i might take the liberty of saying so sir i don t think the milk which is boiled with it is quite genuine but i am aware sir that there is great of milk in london and that the article in a pure state is difficult to be obtained it appeared to me that the gentleman in spectacles backed his twenty eight against mr s twenty seven for each of them took his own man in hand what is your state of mind twenty eight said the in spectacles i thank you sir returned mr i see my follies now sir i am a good deal troubled when i think of the sins of my former companions sir but i trust they may find forgiveness you are quite happy yourself said the nodding encouragement i am much obliged to you sir returned mr perfectly so is there anything at all on your mind now said the if so mention it twenty eight sir said mr without looking up if my eyes have not deceived me there is a gentleman present who was acquainted with me in my former life it may be profitable to that gentleman to know sir that i attribute my past follies entirely to having lived a thoughtless life in the service of young men and to having allowed myself to be led by them into weaknesses which i had not the strength to resist i hope that gentleman will take warning sir and will not be offended at my freedom it is for his good i am conscious of my own past follies i hope he may repent of all the wickedness and sin to which he has been a party i observed that several gentlemen were their eyes each with one hand as if they had just come into church this does you credit twenty eight the i should have expected it of you is there anything else sir returned mr slightly lifting up his eyebrows but not his eyes there was a young woman who fell into courses that i endeavoured to save sir but could not rescue i beg that gentleman if he has it in his power to inform that young woman from me that i forgive her her bad conduct towards myself and that i call her to repentance � if he will be so good i have no doubt twenty eight returned the that the gentleman you refer to feels very strongly � as we all must � what you have so properly said we will not detain you i thank you sir said mr gentlemen i wish you a good day and hoping you and your families will also see your wickedness and with this number twenty eight retired after a glance between him and as if they were not altogether unknown to each other through of david some medium of communication and a murmur went round the group as his door shut upon him that he was a most respectable man and a beautiful case now twenty seven said mr entering on a clear stage with ms man is there anything that any one can do for you if so mention it i would ask sir returned with a jerk of his head for leave to write again to mother it shall certainly be granted said mr thank you sir i am anxious about mother i am afraid she ain t safe somebody asked what from but there was a whisper of hush safe sir returned in the direction of the voice i should wish mother to be got into my state i never should have been got into my present state if i hadn t come here i wish mother had come here it would be better for everybody if they got took up and was brought here this sentiment gave unbounded satisfaction � greater satisfaction i think than anything that had passed yet � before i come here said stealing a look at us as if he would have the outer world to which we belonged if he could i was given to follies but now i am sensible of my follies there s a deal of sin outside there s a deal of sin in mother there s nothing but sin everywhere � except here you are quite changed said mr oh dear yes sir cried this hopeful penitent you wouldn t if you were going out asked somebody else oh de ar no sir well said mr this is very gratifying you have addressed mr twenty seven do you wish to say anything further to him you knew me a long time before i came here and was changed mr said looking at me and a more look i never saw even on his you knew me when in spite of my follies i was among them that was proud and

you a word or two on t it is about his they say that he lives upon human flesh and has o baby every morning for breakfast � for all the world like the giant in old ancient times second old man ye can t believe all ye hear private i only believe half and i only own � such in my character � that perhaps he do eat pagan when he s in the desert but not christian ones at home oh no � tis too much woman whether or no i sometimes � god me � laugh wi horror at the o t till i am that weak i can go round house he should have the washing of em a few times i warrant a wouldn t want to eat babies any more a silence during which they gaze around at the dark dome of sky v the second old man there ll be a change in the weather soon by the look o t i can hear the cows in valley as if i were close to em and the lantern at is shining quite plain first old man well come in and taste a drop o got here that will warm the of your heart as ye we eighty here last night for them that shan t be named � landed at the night afore though they had a narrow with the riding officers this run they make towards the hut when a light on the west horizon becomes visible and quickly second old man he s come first old man come he is though you do say it this then is the beginning of what england s for second old man just what you was thanking god for private the act n private my meaning was � � woman oh that i hadn t married a fiery to make me bring children into the world all through his dreadful calling why didn t a man of no content me i feel as if i were smote hip and in first old man his we can t heed your innocent any longer good neighbours being in the king s service and a hot invasion on fall in fall in mate straight to the box quick march i the old men hasten to the hut and are heard striking a flint and steel returning with a lit lantern they a of and with this set the first of fuel in a blaze the private of the and his wife hastily retreat by the light of the flaming under which the purple of the heath show like bronze and the like the eye of a skull spirit sinister this is and blood to the chorus of the years assume that it means to let us carry out this invasion with pleasing slaughter y so as not to disappoint my hope scene v the i of the years music we carry out nay but should we what is to be ii the that all rules what may or may not befall i i ere were and lit the of the race were writ ii and wasting by land and sea like all else i spirit sinister well be it so my argument is that war makes rattling good history but peace is poor reading so i back for the reason that he will give pleasure to posterity spirit of the gross chorus of the years we comprehend him not the act u the day breaks over the on which the is still burning the morning the white surface of a highway which coming from the royal watering place beyond the hills stretches towards the outskirts of the heath and passes away eastward dumb show moving figures and dot the surface of the road all in one direction away from the coast in the the shapes appear as those of mostly on foot but many in and s carts and on horseback when they reach an hill some pause and look back others enter on the next decline without turning their heads from the opposite horizon numerous companies of in the local uniform of red with green are moving in companies as are also irregular bodies of without uniform while on the upper slopes of the downs towards the shore of the line are visible with cavalry and all passing over to the coast at a signal from the chief two of rumour enter on the highway in the garb of country men first phantom to whither so fast good neighbours and before breakfast too empty be bad to on these historic which i believe won for the local old th regiment the of green have been changed for no apparent reason scene v the first laden with a pack and speaking he s landed westward out by s beach and if you have property you ll save it and yourselves as we are doing second all yesterday the firing at was like the seven heard in heaven when the fierce angel spoke so did he draw men s eyes that way the while his thousand boats full flat for the shore dropped down to west and crossed our here seen from above they the as will a flight of towards dim eve descending on a smooth and stream to seek some s second phantom we are sent to you and ease your souls even now a to the port to check the scare the act � first to second these be inland men who i warrant ee don t know a from a lighter let s take no heed of such comrade and hurry on first phantom will you not hear that what was seen behind the midnight mist their oar blades tossing to the moon was but a fleet of fishing by reason of the of their haul first hey and d ye know it � now i look back to the top o the folk do

after assault be driven back again and again but always rally and charge anew all in a blaze of eagerness and delight till at last the est of rained so thick that old d who was wounded the retreat for the king had charged him on his head to let no harm come to and away everybody rushed after him � as he supposed but when he turned and looked there were we of the staff still away wherefore he rode back mark twain and her to come saying she was mad to stay there with only a dozen men her eye danced merrily and she upon him crying out a dozen men name of god i h ve fifty thousand and will never till this place is taken sound the charge which he did and over the walls we went and the fortress was ours old d thought her mind was wandering but all she meant was that she felt the might of fifty thousand men in her heart it was a fanciful expression but to my thinking truer word was never said then there was the affair near where we charged the through the open field four times the last time the best prize of it d the and pitiless of the region about now and then other such affairs and at last away toward the end of may we were in the neighborhood of and resolved to go to the help of that place which was being by the duke of i had been lately and was not able to ride without help but the good dwarf took me on behind him and i held on to him and was safe enough we started at midnight in a sullen of warm rain and went slowly and softly and in dead silence for we had to slip through the enemy s lines we were only we made no answer but held our breath and crept steadily and stealthily along and got through recollections of op arc out any accident about three or half past we reached just as the gray dawn was breaking in the east set to work at once and a plan with de captain of the city � a plan for a toward evening against the enemy who was posted in three bodies on the other side of the in the level plain from our side one of the city gates communicated with a bridge the end of this bridge was defended on the other side of the river by one of those called a and this also commanded a raised road which stretched from its front across the plain to the village of a force of occupied another was at a couple of miles above the raised road and a body of english was holding a mile and a half it a kind of bow and arrow arrangement you see the the arrow the at the of it at the at one end of the bow at the other s plan was to go straight per against carry it by assault then turn swiftly upon up to the right and capture that camp in the same way then face to the rear and be ready for heavy work for the duke of lay behind with a reserve s lieutenant with and the of the was to keep the english troops from coming up from below and seizing the and cutting off s retreat in case she should have to make one also a fleet of covered boats was to be stationed near the mark twain as an additional help in case a retreat should become necessary it was the th of may at four in the afternoon moved out at the head of six hundred cavalry � on her last march in this life it breaks my heart i had got myself helped up the walls and from there i saw much that happened the rest was told me long afterward by our two knights and other eye witnesses crossed the bridge and soon left the behind her and went away over the raised road with her at her heels she had on a brilliant silver gilt cape over her and i could see it and and rise and fall like a little patch of white flame it was a bright day and one could see far and wide over that plain soon we saw the english force advancing swiftly and in handsome order the sunlight flashing from its arms into the at and was then she saw the other moving down from rallied her men and charged again and was again rolled back two occupy a good deal of time � and time was precious here the english were approaching the road now from but the opened fire on them and they were checked her men with inspiring words and led them to the charge again in great style this time she carried with a then she turned at once to the right and plunged into the plain and struck the force was just arriving then there recollections op of arc was heavy work and plenty of it the two each other backward turn about and about and victory first to the one then to the other now all of a sudden there was a panic on our side some say one thing caused it some another some say the made our front ranks think retreat was being cut off by the english some say the rear ranks got the idea that was killed anyway our men broke and went flying in a wild for the tried to rally them and face them crying to them that victory was sure but it did no good they divided and swept by her like a wave old d begged her to retreat while there was yet a chance for safety but she refused so he seized her horse s bridle and bore her along with

had mentioned his name i am to address the here in the market place to morrow and i should have been sorry to do so without st paying my respects privately to my chief friends as there may be points on which they particularly wish me to explain myself you speak sir and reasonably said mr with a vague short sighted gaze in which a candidate s appearance evidently went for nothing pray be seated gentlemen it is my habit to stand he placed himself at a right angle with his visitors his worn look of intellectual eagerness slight frame and rusty attire making an odd contrast with their flourishing persons costume and comfortable freedom from excitement the group was fairly typical of the indifference between the men who are animated by ideas and the men who are expected to apply them then he drew forth his spectacles and began to rub them with the thin end of his coat tail he was inwardly great self mastery � the thought of his personal needs which s presence tended to in order that he might be equal to the larger duties of this occasion i am aware � mr has told me said what good service you have done me already mr the fact is a of intellect like you was especially needed in my case the race i am running is really against only who calls himself a liberal though he cares for nothing and understands nothing except the interests of the wealthy and you have been able to explain the difference between liberal and liberal which as you and i know is something like the difference between fish and fish your comparison is not sir said mr still holding his spectacles in his hand at this epoch when the mind of the nation has been strained on the passing of one measure where a great weight has to be moved we require not so much selected instruments as abundant horse power but it is an evil of these massive achievements that they encourage a coarse of more nicely wrought results and an exaggerated expectation inconsistent with the of our fallen and struggling condition i say not that compromise is unnecessary but it is an evil at tend ant on our and i would pray every one to mark that where compromise intellect and conscience are thrust into room wherefore it has been my object to show our people that there are many who have helped to draw the car of reform whose ends are but partial and who not the principle of selfish but would only substitute for egypt � thinking chiefly of their own share in gold and ivory just so said who was quick at new languages and still quicker at other men s into his own special and immediate purposes men who will be satisfied if they can only bring in a buy up the land and stick the old on their new now the practical point to secure against these false at present is that our should not divide their as it appears that many who vote for are likely to split their in favor of i the radical it is of the first consequence that my should give if they divide their they can t keep out and they may help to keep out me i feel some confidence in asking you to use your influence in this direction mr we have to praise ourselves more than is graceful but you are aware that while i be � long by my birth to the classes that have their roots in tradition and all the old my experience has lain chiefly among those who make their own career and depend on the new rather than the old i have had the advantage of considering national welfare under varied lights i have wider views than those of a ni re cotton lord on questions connected with religious liberty i would stop short at no measure that was not thorough i hope not sir � i hope not said mr gravely finally putting on his spectacles and examining the face of the candidate whom he was preparing to turn into a for the good conscious of his political importance as an organ of persuasion felt it his duty to a little and also to do his part toward a probable with a sense of his responsibility but the latter branch of duty somewhat the for his mind w as so urged by considerations which he held in danger of being overlooked that the questions and answers bore a very slender proportion to his it was impossible to leave the question of church without noting the grounds of their injustice and without a brief of reasons why mr for his own part would not present that passive resistance to a legal which had been adopted by the friends whose heroism in this regard was nevertheless worthy of all honor comprehensive are apt to be tiresome when we are not for information but to he quite fair we must admit that superior is a good deal due to the lack of matter speech is often barren but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest your still fowl at you without k may all the while be sitting on one nest egg and when it takes to will have nothing to announce but that delusion was not at all a patient man but in matters of business he was quite awake to his cue and in this case it was perhaps easier to listen than to answer questions but who had plenty of work on his hands took an opportunity of rising and saying as he looked at his watch i must really be at the office in five minutes you will find me there mr ti you have probably still many things to say to mr i you sir said the minister changing color and by

looking brick house with a brick before it and a space of grass on one side never did place seem more charming i stared at it as one might at a shrine here at last was the temporary home of my beloved and she was within i knocked and an attractive slip of a girl her niece as i learned answered i was shown into a long darkened parlor after giving me time to weigh the taste and of her relatives according to my standards she arrived the beloved the beautiful in view of many later things it seems that here at least i might attempt to do her full justice she seemed exquisite to me then a trim agreeable of a girl with a lovely oval face red hair and after the fashion of a greek head a book about myself a clear pink long narrow eyes delicate hands a perfect figure small feet there was something of the wood or water about her a seeking in her eyes a breath of wild winds in her hair a glory to her mouth and yet she was so obviously a simple and inexperienced country girl caught firm and fast in american religious and traditions and with no hint in her mind of all the wild mad ways of the world sometimes i have grieved that she ever met me or that i so little understood myself as to have sought her out i first saw her after this long time framed in a white doorway and she made a fascinating picture here as in she seemed shy innocent questioning as one who might fly at the first sound i gazed in admiration despite a certain something in her letters which had indirectly assured me of her affection or her desire for mine still she held aloof extending a cool hand and asking me to sit down smiling tenderly and graciously i felt odd out of place and yet wonderfully drawn to her passionately interested what followed by way of conversation i cannot remember now � talk of the fair i suppose some of those we had known her summer mine she took my roses and pinned some of them on placing the rest in a jar there was a piano here and after a time she consented to play in a moment it seemed it was twelve thirty and i had to go i walked on air it seemed to me that i had never seen any one more beautiful � and i doubt now that i had there was no reason to be applied to the thing it was plain a burning desire for her if i had lost her then and there or any time within a year thereafter i should have deemed it the most amazing affair of my life i returned to the office and took some which i cut short at three thirty in order to get back to the opera house to sit beside her the play was an irish love drama with the singing in the title r e with her beside me i thought it perfect love i ah when the performance was ended i was ready a book about myself to weep over the beauty of life outside we the crowds the carriages the sense of and show in the air a ice cream and store was crowded to young girls of the better families like bees because of my poverty and station i felt depressed at the same time pretending to a station which i felt to be most unreal the mixture of ambition and uncertainty pride a gay in the air added to the need to return to conventional toil � how tortured me nothing surprises me now more than my driving emotions all through this period i was as one possessed we parted at a street car � when i wanted a carriage we met at her aunt s home at eight thirty because i saw an opportunity of deliberately an in this simple parlor i dreamed the wildest the most fantastic dreams she was the be all and the end all of my existence now i must work for her wait for her succeed for her her piano seemed perfect her voice ideal never was such beauty such color st louis took on a which it had never before possessed if only this love affair could have gone on to a swift it would have been perfect blinding but all the traditions of a conventional and region were in tiie way love as it is in most places and despite its blaze was a slow process there must be many such visits i knew before i could even place an arm about her i was to be permitted to take her to church to the a occasionally but nothing more the next morning i went to with her the next afternoon work kept me from her but that night i and stayed with her until eleven the next morning since she had to catch an early train for i slept late but during the next two weeks she could not come oftener having to spend one sunday with her folks as she referred to them i poured forth ray amazement and delight on of thin paper i wonder now where th are once there was a trunk f a book about perhaps the most effect of this sudden fierce passion was the heightened color it lent to everything never before had i realized so clearly the charm of life as e its wondrous singing its intense appeal i remember witnessing a hanging about this time standing beside the murderer when the trap was sprang and being to death yet when i returned to the and there was a letter from her � the world was perfect once more no evil or pain in it i followed up the horrors of a political catastrophe in which a city

behind his back as a relief to his own feelings but he never abused him to his face because he said is such a frail beast that half of his conceit is due to pains in the chest late one april went very sick indeed the doctor him and him and told him he would be better before long then the doctor went to and said � do you know how sick your is no said � the worse the better confound him he s a nuisance when he s well i ll let you take away the bank safe if you can him silent for this hot weather but the doctor did not laugh � man i m not joking he said i ll give him another three months in his bed and a week or so more to die in on my honor and reputation that s all the l tales from the hills he has in this world consumption has hold of him to the s face changed at once into the face of mr and he answered � what can i do nothing said the doctor for all practical purposes the man is dead already keep him quiet and cheerful and tell him he s going to recover that s all i ll look after him to the end of course the doctor went away and sat down to open the evening mail his first letter was one from the for his information that mr was to resign under a month s notice by the terms of his agreement telling their letter to would follow and of the coming of a new a man whom knew and liked lit a and before he had finished smoking he had the outline of a fraud he put away � � the letter and went in to talk to who was as as usual and himself over the way the bank would run during his illness he never thought of the extra work on s shoulders but solely of the damage to his own prospects of advancement then assured him that everything would be well and that he would confer with daily on the management of the bank was a little soothed but he hinted in as many words that he did not think much of s business capacity was humble and he had let a bank fraud in his desk from the that a or a might have been proud of the days passed in tlie big darkened house and the letter of dismissal to came and was put away by every evening brought the books to s room and showed him what had been going forward while did his best to make statements pleasing to but the was sure that the bank was going to rack and ruin without him in june as the lying in bed told on his spirit he asked w� his absence had been noted by the and said that they had written most sympathetic letters hoping that he would be able to resume his valuable services before long he showed the letters and said that the ought to have written to him direct a few days later opened s mail in the half light of the room and gave him the sheet � not the envelope � of a letter to from the said he would thank not to interfere with his private papers specially as knew he was too weak to open his own letters then s mood changed and he on his evil ways his horses and his bad friends of course lying here on my back mr i can t keep you straight but when i m well i do hope you ll pay some heed to my words who had dropped and dinners and and all to attend to said that he was penitent and settled s head on the pillow and heard him fret and j tales from the bills in hard dry whispers without a sign of impatience this the end of a heavy day s office work doing double duty in the latter half of june when the new came told him the facts of the case and announced to that he had a guest staying with him said that he might have had more consideration than to entertain his doubtful friends at such a time made the new sleep at the club in consequence s took some of the heavy work off his shoulders and he had time to attend to s � to explain soothe invent and settle and the poor wretch in bed and to complimentary letters from at the end of the first month wished to send some money home to his mother sent the at the end of the second month s salary came in just the same paid it out of ms own pocket and with it wrote a beautiful letter from the was very ill indeed but the flame of his life burnt now and then he would be cheerful and confident about the future plans for going home and seeing his mother listened patiently when the office work was over and encouraged him at other times insisted on s reading the bible and grim tracts to him out of these tracts he pointed morals directed at his manager but he always found time to worry about the working of the bank and to show him where the weak points lay a bank fraud l in door sick room life and constant strains wore down a good deal and shook his nerves and lowered his play by forty points but the business of the bank and the business of the sick room had to go on though the glass was ii � in the shade at the end of the third month was sinking fast and had begun to realize that he was very sick but the conceit that made him worry kept him from believing the worst

work of his friend john marvel as a proof of his theory while at first the broad shouldered yoimg clergyman fled from her presence with a which was it was not long before he appeared to have himself sufficiently against her shafts of to be able to her presence and before a great while had passed her friends began to her on the fact that wherever she went mr marvel was pretty sure to appear one of her old cousins half and half her against going too far with the young man saying mr marvel my dear is too good a man for you to amuse yourself with and then fling away what is sim by john marvel assistant the diversion of an hour for you may become a matter of real gravity with him he is already deeply interested in you and you are interested in him why i am interested in him declared the girl why he tells me of all the old sick w � and cats in the parish and i have an engagement to go around with him and see some old women to morrow you ought to see some that we went to visit the other i know my dear but you must not make fun of his work he is happy in it and is a great deal of good and if you should get him dissatisfied oh no indeed i gave him some money last week for a poor family to get some clothes so that they could come to church they were named they live near the mines the whole family were to be next sunday and what do you suppose they did as soon as they got the clothes they went last sunday to a big and were all i i was him about that when you heard me laughing at him the wretches exclaimed her cousin to think of their deceiving him i know said the girl but i think he minded the deception much more than the other though i charged him with being disappointed at not getting them into his fold really i don t think he minded it a bit at least he said he would much rather they had gone where they would be happy now mr marvel s friend mr is a different matter he appears quite able to take care of himself by quite said miss but my dear said her cousin lowering her voice they say he is a jew he is said you know it yes he told me so himself told you himself i why i how did he come to tell you why i don t know we were talking and i said something foolish about the jews � about some one being as rich and as a jew and he smiled and said are all jews rich � and and i said if they have a chance and he said not always i am a jew and i am not rich well i thought he was just me � so i went on and do you know he is not only a jew but mr marvel says he is rich only he does not claim his money because he is a mr marvel says he could go home to morrow and his father would take him and lavish money on him but he works � works all the time among the poor well i must say i always liked him said her cousin but he isn t such good fun to as mr marvel � he is too intense mr marvel does get so red and unhappy looking when he is well you have no right to him he is a clergyman and should be treated with respect you wouldn t dare to your in town � the great dr � what is his name wouldn t i dr why he is one of the greatest in town he s always by john marvel ant running to see some girl � them with his big blue eyes exclaimed her cousin why he d many any one of the who would have him or or don t be profane the old lady looked so hat the girl ran over and kissed her with a laugh why i ve told him so told him tl yes i have i told him so when he tried to marry me then he tried you are you really are but do tell me about it did he really court you why he s old enough to be your grandfather interrupted the girl that s what i told him served him right too but he must be a fine preacher from what my old friend once wrote me did you ever meet she and her sister live in your city they went there years ago to press a claim they had to a large fortune left them by their father colonel who used to be a very rich man but left his affairs somewhat complicated i gather from what writes me or did write for she does not write very often now i wish you d go and see them when you go back i will said where do they live at a mrs s � she keeps a boarding house � i don t know the exact and s by letter a year or more ago but you will have no difficulty in finding it it must be in the fashionable quarter and i should think any one could tell you where she lives i will find her said laughing y by john marvel when a little later a of broke out in a little camp not far from the home of miss s relatives and she learned that john marvel spent all his time nursing the sick and their necessities as far as possible she awakened to a of the truth of what her cousin had said that under his awkward exterior

was a very natural conclusion very i exclaimed considering that i have not one feeling one thought in common with the man who to use his own words to claim me as his bride is it really so are these indeed your true sentiments said in a tone of grave anxiety � the thought of this marriage makes me utterly wretched nay you must long have known this during lord s absence in italy the danger seemed less imminent but his sudden return and arrival here quite me bead the cool manner in which he i must forthwith hold myself prepared to receive him as my future lord and master opened the which thrust into her hands and it without comment oh you must be prejudiced surely judging from this letter you cannot accuse him of presumption it appears to me perfectly respectful both towards yourself and lord cried folding the letter towards papa � yes papa there never was such a bom into the world as philip exclaimed though a bright tear the lustre of her eye but say my darling grave continued she throwing her arm lightly round s graceful neck where is this marvellous respect to myself when lord has not to by a single word or line his approaching arrival at the to me who certainly am most concerned in it unjust i exclaimed kissing the glowing cheek of her friend and taking the letter from the table she read in conclusion dear lord you will be good enough to present my most respectful regards and homage to miss and express my deep regret that she has not considered my two last letters from worthy of the honor of a reply nay stop i exclaimed now fairly melting into tears it is this calm superiority of manner which cuts me to the quick what right has lord to administer this covert rebuke in a letter to papa he evidently and considers me a child and treats me accordingly no dearest though i have never seen lord i am sure he must and does render homage to a mind and character such as yours but why did you suffer this foolish misunderstanding to arise by not answering his s letters � because i will not submit to be unhappily i chanced to mention my long ride alone with colonel to the ruins at this meeting as you know was purely accidental and as the colonel was riding the same way as myself i certainly could not with any regard to politeness dismiss him from my side well the his chose to write on the of miss making herself so notorious and that such conduct would be perfectly wh n she attained the sublime dignity of lady was perhaps there was a great deal more besides which i forget but i did not choose to submit to such but will you not remonstrance from the man with whom you are to spend future life and submit to be treated like a reasonable being lord is a great deal too good for me i these of propriety give me instead poor human nature with all its i would that lady whose virtue he is always quoting had been elected for the exalted honor of wearing his and over the surpassing glories of park i cried passionately � lady i lord s ward is she not asked yes she is an and lives at court somewhere near her father lord died about a year and a half ago and mad the son of his old friend the late lord his daughter s guardian i wonder what kind of personage this lady is do not trouble yourself you will not long bo in the dark after his s arrival the earl brought lady over from italy and established her at court and indeed i should be ungrateful not to acknowledge my full obligations to whose sudden summons i verily believe prevented the of our marriage six months ago hush hush it is positively wrong to in this strain it is a very long time since you saw lord so dearest you may have formed an estimate of his character how long is it two years � nay then it is quite possible you may be mistaken at our age two years make a vast change in opinions and sentiments shook her head � you know i was quite a child when first to philip and had no more choice or interest in the matter than yourself save perhaps a childish feeling of on being told i was wife elect to the very handsome young man whom i heard every one around mo and who i gazed upon myself with sentiments somewhat akin to awe his then went abroad for some years during the which we duly and returned to england about two years ago with lord and his daughter and when he visited the whether he found the contrast too glaring between the virtues of the lady and the faults of his certain it is never were couple more like than ourselves we did not actually quarrel but move speak laugh as i would always that calm dark eye rested upon me often i know my conduct must have appeared giddy and but i was very young and he ought to have made allowance besides i never was born to perform the of a stiff dame in and decorum i well the of the whole matter was that lord after remaining our guest for two months was suddenly called away to the continent on business which he took care to state required a very brief term to nevertheless from the of the at he wrote to papa his permission to delay our marriage for another year � and we will see but if it were all along your serious intention to fulfil the engagement contracted for you how very strange not to employ this period and the advantage you possessed of

to make him popular that he was sometimes a little by this apparent for a meditative interest in learning how human miseries are wrought � as in him as another sort of genius in the poet who writes a queen at nineteen � was so with that it easily passed for enough in many of our neighbors lives there is much not only of error and lapse but of a certain exquisite goodness which can never be written or even spoken � only divined by each of us according to the inward of our own privacy the impression he made at cambridge to his position at every one interested in him agreed that he might have taken a high place if his motives had been of a more pushing sort and if he had not instead of regarding studies as instruments of success himself with the notion that they were to feed motive and opinion � a notion which set him methods and arguing against his freight and harness when he should have been using all his might to pull in the beginning his work at the university had a new zest for him indifferent to the of the classical he applied himself vigorously to for which he had shown an early under mr and he had the delight of feeling his in a comparative book il � streams if fresh exercise of tliat delight and the favorable opinion of his determined him to try for a in the of his second year ho wished to gratify sir by some achievement and the of the higher the growing fascination inherent in all thinking which demands intensity was making him a more exclusive than he had been before but here came the old check which had been growing with his growth lie found the inward bent toward comprehension and more and more from the track marked out by the standards of examination he felt a discontent with the wearing and strain of a demand for excessive and dexterity without any insight into the principles which form the vital connections of knowledge under occurred fifteen years ago when the perfection of our university methods was not yet in hours when his dissatisfaction was strong upon him ho reproached himself for having been attracted by the conventional advantage of belonging to an english university and was tempted toward the project of asking sir to let him quit cambridge and pursue a more independent line of study abroad the of tliis had been already stirring in his boyish love of universal history which made him want to be at home in foreign countries and follow in imagination the students of the middle ages he longed now to have the sort of to life which would not shape him too definitely and rob him of tlie choice that might come from a free one sees that s were likely to be on the side of hesitation and this tendency was encouraged by his position there was no need for him to get an immediate income or to fit himself in haste for a profession and his sensibility to the half known facts of his made him an excuse for lingering longer than others in a state of social other men he inwardly said had a more definite place and duties but the project which flattered his inclination might not have gone beyond the stage of brooding if tain circumstances had not quickened it into action the circumstances arose out of an enthusiastic friendship d which extended into his after life of the same with and occupying small rooms close to his was a who had come as an from christ s hospital and had enough for a charles lamb only to look at his pinched features and hair hanging over his collar reminded one of pale quaint heads by early painters and when this faint was lighted up by a joke there came sudden about the mouth and eyes which might have been by the soul of an aged his father an of some distinction had been dead eleven years and his mother had three girls to and maintain on a meagre � he had been after � felt himself the pillar or rather the knotted and twisted trunk round which these feeble climbing plants must cling there was no want of ability or of honest well meaning affection to make the tn the ease and quickness with which he studied might serve him to win at cambridge as he had done among the blue coats in spite of the only danger was that the tendencies in him might be timed and that his good in might be by some act which was not due to habit but to capricious scattered impulses ho could not be to have any one bad habit yet at longer or shorter intervals he had fits of and did things that would have made the worst habits in his right mind however was a creature and in he had happened to find a friend who was likely to stand by him with the more constancy from compassion for these brief that might bring a long repentance indeed shared s rooms nearly as much as ho used his own to he poured himself out on his studies his affairs his hopes the poverty of his home and his love for the creatures there the of his fingers to draw and his determination to fight it away for the sake of getting some sort of that he might divide with his mother and the girls he wanted no confidence in return but seemed to take as an who needed nothing � an in friendship which is common enough with natures was content and gave all the inter book xl � est ho claimed getting i t last a looking after him in his moments and by delicate devices not only to make up for his friend lack of pence but to save

of the of the section is until great seal of the state of ia agreed upon and na for in the of the article of this the governor hia private seal as the ob sec at the for the of this and the election for state a in the of the united and of the as � of state an residence in the of immediately preceding bald election be aa a for the i and an actual of ninety for the provided and s all the other by the of this sec the provide by law fur of the provisions of tho of the bill of on or before tho th day of july s oa to all in the territory before the of this and aa to all the of operate from and after the of constitution by the people w h b w hat j h ne w k k q w h n o t o w o a a robinson june � mr reported to the on several bills bv messrs and others for the of the troubles us decidedly got s proposition to admit aa a free slate under her constitution mr being the ot the made a brief and counter report mr gave notice that he oak for a on the day after the next � bill by of hale of n h pa of aod of d � debate continued through the day and following night the majority resisting all to messrs bell hale and nearly half the aa moved by mr of mi the day before out so much of the bill aa the of in the proposed of to alien who shall have declared their to become citizens and all to foreign was adopted as follows and brown of and of and rf n c john belt of of c c clay and of and pool of and j b of of of end of va of a and of � a of k i of pa and of s c right of � of of of ii of of n y of la of of of of n j � the morning of july rd the following reduced to by mr of � was added to the th section of the bill � only brown of of and of va against it it that no law be made or in which require any lion or oath to any act of any civil office public or any employ bj the exercise of the right of or which shall h y s or the free e an proposed by mr to the same effect aa tho above but rather more comprehensive in terms was by the of the foregoing by a party vote free stale men mr of i moved the thb h b� of aud not lu dot tu it but to the tf y free their le to the of m on lo the of the and hut the acts upon the the of a in of the has no right or lo lake the of aod there hold him aa a hut taken to the of by b� owner for of it be fee there act of a duly of territory under which ha may be the aod being ordered the was down � m foot hale and df ui j if mr then proposed the follow and tea it to ling act into an to it but to be people thereof perfectly free to and only to the wa intended to the territory of full e b from territory or ui i i and it therein this too was down b alien bell of new foot foster hale and ii bright clay e e mr then the following be it that all ths and of all and every body of heretofore in territory of � ai and to bu a thereof with authority to laws for the of are declared to be and void and no shall hold any office or any or territory or by virtue bell of new fool foster hole and il alien of bright can clay jones of and e� mr foster of moved the following tion to the and so ea said a the f in one bi the volume to the the of tbe united aa containing the ab and are declared lo be utterly mill or that bare not the right to in this or l d or r oa bell of new foot foster hale and brown hunter johnson of ki of w and mr of proposed the id state and be admitted in visions of u be neither nor involuntary in said territory ia of whereof have been duly convicted o that any person into the same whom labor or service is claimed many state fugitive may bo and to tbe person his or her or labor on down as follows bell of new foot hale and of bright brown hunter johnson of bold of and thb slavery re n mr of moved that the whole bill bo stricken out and another in all the l� wa of rejected bell of n h foster and mr moved to strike ont the whole bill and instead one admitting as a free state under the as follows foot foster hide and of bright clay � of glided of and bo the bill waa now reports as and made in committee of the whole in the bill was then i m ordered to be and read a third time and on the question of its final pass the vote � an follows messrs of bright brown clay i johnson jones of of � belt of foot foster hale and the bill was then sent to the house in the following shape an act la thi of the territory ta to their the � on w tbe � � k that for tl making an or the l to vote under the a

to do i don t know said mrs mother dear do you know that that poor child has been shut up in that dreadful place for just two years i know it that none of us have been allowed to write to her that she has never been home for her holidays what did she do when all s said and done well if i tell you said mrs you will remember that is not to hear one word about it shall not hear a word about it from us eh certainly not said who had a tremendous idea of keeping fifteen year old in her place then mrs told them all about the terrible letter which madame had discovered and about which had definitely and positively refused to give any information whatever was it an englishman s letter yes certainly it was did it strike you as the letter of a gentleman yes i must say it did then my dear mother how very silly you were not to the man s name out of was so obstinate so defiant murmured mrs why of course she was is a girl of spirit not to be got over by a thing like madame le a silly romantic old thing who is a perfect disgrace to her sex why mother i ve seen madame take up a glass that old the ts � drawing master had drunk a out of i ve seen that silly old woman kiss the rim of the glass where his lips had touched it � a old thing that you wouldn t pick up for nothing if you saw him lying in the street cried mrs oh yes you may say but it s perfectly true she didn t know i saw her but i did you must have been mistaken me mistaken mother dear i know madame a great deal better than you do you only see the society and strictly proper side of madame it isn t girls like with wills and minds and opinions of their own who get on at no avenue not a bit of it it s a girl who ll look i at madame and say darling how sweet you look to day or dearest madame how that dress becomes you i ve never seen you look so charming in anything before that s the kind of girl who gets on in that establishment and i used to do it a good bit � didn t we � simply because it was advantageous and we got a no most better time and the silly old thing didn t see that it was all put on didn t she tell you what sweet and girls we were yes she did admitted mrs well all i can say is said with a laugh that it s a thousand madame hasn t got charge of us now for a few days we should very soon her all this is a revelation to me cried mrs in a tragic voice well you see dear you didn t take us into your confidence when you came back and we naturally felt a certain delicacy in asking what had done and besides you us and sat upon us and we didn t want to seem to be over any trouble that poor was in but we think a great deal more of than madame and we would take s word before madame s any day oh of course she wouldn t tell after madame had been at her s not the girl to do that � s a girl of spirit of course dear mother we don t like to ill find fault with you because never were girls who had such a mother as you ve been to us but at the same time we do think you ve treated poor very harshly and after all she s only eighteen now and it s very hard she should go on being shut up over a letter that somebody else wrote to her isn t it shall i send for home again asked mrs in a voice of despair i should if i were you said give the poor child a good time and don t say anything about the old cat at all treat her as if she d come home from an ordinary school and buy her some pretty clothes mother and make a lot of her you don t know what a dear child is mother she s worth all the rest of us put together i don t know so much about that said the mother smiling at them but i ll take your advice children and she shall come back well let her come back with a clean slate if she does said sensibly don t ever throw the past at her yes we shall do that perhaps i have been too harsh but with sudden apprehension supposing that that man finds her out again well dear mother he can t eat her did father want to eat you when he ran away with you besides probably all the conditions of his life are changed and he is two years older and so is she i wouldn t worry so about it if i were you only make up your mind that is coming home and that we are not going to have any of any kind why the very fact of her being with us who are clear headed and sensible girls ought to be quite enough to keep as clear headed as you can possibly desire i i chapter � the resolute will of a strong man means and nobly with his foe to achieve great deeds in accordance with her promise to her daughters mrs sent instructions to the mother superior of the of the sacred heart of that the and unfortunate should return home at the term and she told the mother superior that she would

the of in his turn his mind with pain from the greek to give them his best attention which under the circumstances was very good and coming upon the vice s s with the g s of no two he at once concluded that jones must needs be the man for the s while his own inability to understand him he set down to the same cause which rendered himself incapable of with anything else � the his g was accordingly inscribed opposite to the others making an array of approbation strong for the fortunate jones that and how jones got the english verse young man therefore obtained the and in the house to a brilliant audience of wondering but attired ladies his upon the northern lights and brown was nowhere when however the three met at some social entertainment shortly afterwards and the bonds of official reserve had got relaxed the following conversation arose � why said the vice to no three did you and your brother professor there put a g opposite to that insane of mr jones s v no three who was as usual among the had to himself before he could reply so no two anticipated him why you put a g yourself mr vice you know you did a sir sir responded that in a contemptuous tone i thought it sheer madness i put a q sir � a q for meaning that i could not for the life of me understand what the young man meant and that was how jones got the english verse places double tt h is it that stands to the streets of london who is it that in so many cases in answer to the solemn question name this street i suppose it is some assemblage whose heads being laid together are said to constitute a board a board of works is it good then all i have to say with respect to that august body is this that it is not a board of works of the imagination its total want of originality in is most remarkable victoria but above au form its round of ideas not less signal is its perfect indifference to the of the second word or � street and place are with it terms a short cross street gets the name of road equally with a great outlet from town most of its are double rowed streets running up hill after all i am not sure if i should not the charge of want of imagination for in some of these there is a comic character which if designed would considerable powers in that special line the great mystery however is as to the of double we have everything and everywhere why must there be in every province of london a full suit of � street place terrace road � when a of or even would be so refreshing now who is this who is thus permitted to confer street immortality is his own name is he a native of or eager to honour the place of his birth or does the repetition of the word spring from some special devotion of his for a member of the royal if the first may her gracious majesty the queen be pleased to listen to the prayer of a thousand and grant him permission to assume by letters patent the names and arms all the public houses are called arms of or anything else if the second let do her duty and fetch her devoted son from london creating him town mayor or what she will he has made himself ridiculous enough i am sure to have the very highest honours that any town can bestow if the third let him temper his loyalty with discretion for he loves not wisely but too well the duke of while he lived was a most innocent prince why being dead should he be made thus the writer of this brief but paper is one of his many victims i live in one of his double and suffer accordingly tired and exhausted i leave the house of lords or after a prolonged debate or the city after a financial meeting of partners or the law courts after a wearisome case or messrs and s after eleven hours work as manager � for what matters my social since there is no position in life double in one or other of the � and crawling into a cab i my direction and fall asleep i am awakened by the of the in a totally unknown region the princess of china could scarcely have been more shocked and astonished upon finding herself in the apartment of prince now then sir what s your number asks the impatient i lift the little trap door and enter into my good man what is this place i want to go to veiy distinctly well and ain t this here one on it is the of the over again i am right but so also the nothing therefore remains but to another on em by keeping my eyes about me and my finger on the trap door i may now possibly arrive as it were by telegraph at my right destination but should i once into security i get into another region of double and all the work has to be done over again the therefore to whom i do not wish to apply any epithet me of a part of twenty pounds a year of unnecessary cab hire he does not actually get the money it is true but it is so much tribute paid to his i have not a very high opinion of his sagacity and even think it quite probable that he may be returned to every afternoon as soon as the business of the board is finished but i do not believe he is so as to live in anything himself one s own messages and visitors and and are

wrought by the rod of the prophet � we must ourselves to the compass and the rule and set forth our description as and exactly as if we were making out an fi r a in obedience to this necessity we offer the detailed description hope of economy of a pi grim mansion not on any authority but quoted from an record of the times in the principal houses was a great hall with pictures a great lantern velvet cushions in the window seat to look into the garden on either side a great parlour a little parlour or study furnished with great looking glasses turkey carpets window curtains and picture and a map a brass clock red leather back chairs a great pair of brass the chambers well furnished with feather beds warming and every other elegance and comfort the well filled with substantial fare and wine silver and wine cups not uncommon if any are incredulous as to the of the above extract we assure them that its truth is confirmed by t e of the pilgrim still standing in boston and occupied by their descendants these were not nor ruined mr himself had an estate in worth seven hundred pounds per some of his associates came from halls and many of them brought wealth as well as virtue to the colony the of the climate and the incident to their condition often reduced the in their earliest period to the wants of extreme poverty but their sufferings had the dignity and merit of being voluntary and are now as the hope lie garments of the saints are to the sacred in the eyes of their posterity our humble history has little to do with the public life of governor which is so well known to have been illustrated by the rare virtue of disinterested patriotism and by such even and paternal goodness that a contemporary witty could not find it in his heart to give him a name than sir john his figure if we may trust to the fidelity of his painter was tall and spare his eye dark blue and mild in its expression he had the brow which is said to be of a religious disposition his hair and his beard which he long were black on the whole we must confess the external man presents the solemn and forbidding aspect of the times in which he flourished though we know him to have been a model of private virtue gracious and gentle in his manners and exact in the of all gentlemanly courtesy his was admirably qualified for the station occupied she recognised and continually taught to matron and maiden the duty of obedience from the wife to the husband her ap pointed lord and master a duty that it was left to modern to dispute and which our pious fathers or even mothers were so far from that the only divine right to govern which they acknowledged was that in the husband over the wife madam s matrimonial virtue never into the of fear or the hope of if and approved by principle it vas prompted by feeling and if we may be allowed a coarse comparison like a horse easy on the bit she was guided by the slight est intimation from him who held the rein indeed to pursue our illustration still farther it sometimes appeared as if the were dropped and the inferior animal were left to the guidance of her own sagacity without ever the limits of feminine propriety madam enjoyed the dignity of her official station and felt that if the governor were the greater she was the lesser light there was a slight tinge of official importance in her manner of her and her counsel but she seemed rather to intend to the value of the gift than the merit of the possessed the of a numerous of but as they were in no way associated with the personages of our story we have not thought fit to it with any details concerning them we return firom our long to the party we left in governor s parlour the tables were arranged for dinner tables we say for a side table was spread but in a manner so inferior to the principal board which was with silver and rich china as to indicate that it was destined for inferior guests this indication was soon for on a servant sent to announce dinner to hope who was understood to be occupied with some of the natives on state business that gentleman appeared attended by four indians the young and noble chief of the two of his and an hope turned to to remark on the graceful gestures by which they expressed their to the company heavens she exclaimed what you for she saw that he was as pale as death nothing nothing said wishing to avoid observation and turning towards the window be then added in explanation to hope who followed him these are the first indians i have seen since my return and they brought too vividly to mind my dear mother s death governor to his indian guests to take their seats at the side table and the rest of the company including the elder and surrounded the dinner table and serving men and all reverently folded their arms and bowed their heads while the grace or prayer was after all the rest had taken their seats the indians remained standing and although the governor politely signified to the that their delay wronged the smoking they remained motionless the chief drawn aside from the rest his eye cast down his brow lowering and his whole aspect of id displeasure the governor rose and demanded of the interpret er the meaning of their too evident hope my bids me say replied the savage that be expects such treatment from the english more as the english receive in the of be chief he says that when the

mountains of i once drove one ahead of me from rapid to rapid disturbing him four times in quick succession where he could not very well fly past me on account of the of the channel most birds under similar circumstances fancy themselves and become suspiciously uneasy but instead of growing nervous about it he made his usual and sang one of his most tranquil strains when observed within a few yards their eyes are seen to express remarkable gentleness and intelligence but they seldom allow so near a view one wears clothing of about the same color as the rocks and trees and knows how to sit on one occasion while rambling along the shore of a mountain lake where the birds at least those born that season had never seen a man i sat down to rest on a large stone close to the water s edge upon which it seemed the and were in the habit of when they came to feed on that part of the shore and some of the other birds also when they came down to wash or drink in a few minutes along came a and alighted on the stone beside me within reach of my hand then suddenly observing me he stooped nervously as if about to fly on the instant but as i remained as motionless as the stone he gained confidence and looked me steadily in the face for about a minute then flew quietly to the outlet and began to sing next came a and gazed at me with much the same expression of eye as the lastly down with a came a s out of a fir tree probably with the intention of his noisy the water throat but instead of sitting as my other visitors had done he rushed at once nearly tumbling heels over head into the lake in his suspicious confusion and with loud screams roused the neighborhood love for song birds with their sweet human voices appears to be more common and than love for flowers every one loves flowers to some extent at least in life s fresh morning attracted by them as instinctively as humming birds and bees even the young indians have sufficient love for the brightest of those found growing on the mountains to gather them and them as for the hair and i was glad to discover through the few indians that could be induced to talk on the subject that they have names for the wild rose and the lily and other conspicuous flowers whether available as food or otherwise most men however whether savage or civilized become toward all plants that have no other apparent use than the use of beauty but fortunately one s first instinctive love of is never wholly no matter what the influences upon our lives may be i have often been delighted to see a pure spiritual glow come into the countenances of hard business men and old when a song bird chanced to alight near them nevertheless the little of meat that out the breasts of some song birds is too often the cause of their death and in particular are brought to market in hundreds but fortunately the has no enemy so eager to eat his little body as to follow him into the the mountains of tain i never knew him to be chased even by an acquaintance of mine a sort of foot hill had a pet cat a great overgrown creature about as broad shouldered as a during the winter while the snow lay deep the sat in his lonely cabin among the pines smoking his pipe and wearing the dull time away tom was his sole companion sharing his bed and sitting beside him on a stool with much the same drowsy expression of eye as his master the good natured bachelor was content with his hard fare of bread and bacon but tom the only creature in the world acknowledging dependence on him must needs be provided with fresh meat accordingly he himself to contrive traps and the snowy woods with his gun making sad among the few winter birds neither robin nor tiny and the pleasure of seeing tom eat and grow fat was his great reward one cold afternoon while hunting along the river bank he noticed a plain little bird about in the and immediately raised his gun but just then the confiding began to sing and after to his melody the charmed hunter turned away saying bless your little heart i can t shoot you not even for tom even so far north as icy i have found my glad singer when i was exploring the between mount and the river one cold day in november after trying snow at thb foot of the mountains of in vain to force a way through the innumerable of sum bay to the great at the head of it i was weary and baffled and sat resting in my convinced at last that i would have to leave this part of my work for another year then i began to plan my escape to open water before the young ice which was beginning to form should shut me in while i thus lingered drifting with the in the midst of these gloomy and all the terrible desolation grandeur i suddenly heard the of an s wings and looking up saw my little coming straight across the ice from the shore in a second or two he was with me flying three times round my head with a happy salute as if saying cheer up old friend you see i m here and all s well then he flew back to the shore alighted on the of a and began to nod and bow as though he were on one of his favorite in the midst of a sunny the species is distributed all along the of the pacific coast from to and east

they wanted but like the unanimous resolution of a public meeting which will declare that this or that grievance is not to be borne a moment longer which is nevertheless borne for a century or two afterwards without any they only reached in this the conclusion that they were all of one mind for it was one thing to want mr and another thing to get at him and to do that without alarming him or without alarming or without being by the difficulty of striking in an instrument so out of tune and so unused the note they sought was an end as far from their reach as ever the question then became who of those about the old clerk had had most influence with him that night tom said his young mistress clearly but tom and all of them shrank from the thought of her and making her the innocent means of bringing on her cruel husband was there nobody else why yes in a very different way tom said he was influenced by mrs the nurse who had once had the control of him as he understood for some time they caught at this immediately here was a new way out developed in a quarter until then overlooked john knew mrs he had given her employment he was acquainted with her place of residence for that good lady had furnished him at parting with a pack of her professional cards for general distribution it was decided that mrs should be approached with caution but approached without delay and that the depths of that discreet matron s knowledge of mr and means of bringing them or one of them into communication with him should be carefully sounded on this service martin and john determined to proceed that night waiting on mrs first at her lodgings and taking their chance of finding her in the repose of private life or of having to seek her out elsewhere in the exercise of her professional duties tom returned home that he might lose no opportunity of having an interview with by being absent in the event of his and mr remained by his own particular desire for the time being in inn to look after who might safely have been left to himself however for any thought he seemed to entertain of giving them the slip before they parted on their several errands they caused him to read aloud in the presence of them all the paper which he had about him and the declaration he had attached to it which was to the effect that he had written it voluntarily in the fear of death and in the torture of his mind and when he had done so they all signed it and taking it from him of his free will locked it in a place of safety martin also wrote by john s advice a letter to the of the famous grammar school boldly claiming the successful design as his and charging mr with the fraud he had committed in this proceeding also john was hotly interested observing with his usual that mr life and had been a successful rascal all his life through and that it would be a lasting source of happiness to him john if he could help to do him justice in the smallest particular a busy day but martin had no lodgings yet so when these matters were disposed of he excused himself from dining with john and was fain to wander out alone and look for some he succeeded after great trouble in engaging two for himself and mark situated in a court in the strand not far from temple bar their luggage which was waiting for them at a coach office he conveyed to this new place of refuge and it was with a glow of satisfaction which as a selfish man he never could have known and never had that thinking how much pains and trouble he had saved mark and how pleased and astonished mark would be he afterwards walked up and down in the temple eating a meat pie for his dinner t chapter in which mrs assisted by a is the cause of a division between friends s apartment in street high wore speaking a robe of state it was swept and for the reception of a visitor that visitor was mrs of s or as some said s or as some said s for by all these and familiar had the hospital of saint become a household word among the which adorned mrs s apartment was not a spacious one but to a contented mind a closet is a palace and the first floor front at mr s may have been in the imagination of mrs a stately pile if it were not exactly that to restless it at least as much accommodation as any person not sanguine to insanity could have looked for in a room of its dimensions for only keep the always in your mind and you were safe that was the grand secret remembering the you might even stoop to look under the little round table for anything you had dropped without yourself much against the chest of drawers or as a patient of saint by falling into the fire visitors were much assisted in their cautious efforts to preserve an recollection of this piece of furniture by its size which was great it was not a turn up nor yet a french nor yet a four post but what is called a tent the whereof was low and that mrs s box would not go under it but stopped way in a manner which while it did violence to the reason likewise the legs of a stranger the frame too which would have supported the and if there had been any was ornamented life and adventures of with divers carved in timber which on the slightest provocation and frequently on none at

the other side of the swamp through the water as if he were on dry land she could not have made him hear if she had wished it for on a sudden a great rushing wind swept through the pines bending them down like grass and blowing the water in the bottom into white waves and the thunder which had been in the distance suddenly broke with a great peal just overhead in a few minutes the rain came but the girl did not mind it she stood looking across the bottom until it came in sheets her to the skin and shutting out everything a few yards away the thunder storm passed but all that night the rain came down and all the next day and when it held up a little in the evening the bottom was a sea the rain had not prevented from going out � he was used to it and he spent most of the day away from home when he returned he brought his mother a few provisions as much meal perhaps as a child might carry and little spent the rest of the evening sitting before the fire silent and motionless a flame burning back deep in his eyes and a cloud fixed on his brow he was in his uniform which he had put on again the night before as soon as he got home and the steam rose from it as he sat the other clothes were in a bundle on the floor where he had tossed them the evening before he never moved except when his mother now and then spoke and then sat down again as before presently he rose and said he must be going but as he rose to his feet a pain shot through him like a knife everything turned black before him and he staggered and fell full length on the floor he was still on the floor next morning for his mother had not been able to get him to the bed or to leave to get any help but she had made him a and he was as comfortable as a man might be with a raging fever feeble as she was the sudden demand on her had awakened the old woman s faculties and she was stronger than might have seemed possible one thing puzzled her in his constantly referred to a and a she knew that he had a of course but it puzzled her to hear him constantly repeating the words so the day little passed and then s delirium still continuing she made out to get to a neighbor s to ask help the neighbor had to go to mrs s as the only place where there was a chance of getting any medicine and it happened that on the way back she fell in with a couple of soldiers on horseback who asked her a few questions they were members of a home and guard just formed and when she left them they had learned her errand fortunately s illness took a better turn next day and by sunset he was free from delirium things had not well over at mills s during these days any more than at mrs s was in a state of mind which made her mother wonder if she were not going crazy she set it down to the storm she had been out in that evening for had not mentioned s name she kept his to herself thinking that � thinking so many things that she could not speak or eat her heart was like lead within her but she could not rid herself of the thought of she could have torn it out for hate of herself and to all her mother s questioning glances she turned the face of a for two days she little neither ate nor spoke she watched the opposite hill through the rain which still kept up � something was going on over there but what it was she could not tell at last on the evening of the third day she could stand it no longer and she set out from home to learn something she could not have gone to mrs s even if she had wished to do so for the bottom was still a sea extending from side to side and it was over her head in the current she set off therefore up the stream on her own side thinking to learn something up that way she met the woman who had taken the medicine to that evening and she told her all she knew mentioning among other things the men of the guard she had seen s heart gave a sudden bound up into her throat as she was so near she went on up to the cross roads but just as she stepped out into the road before she reached there she came on a small of riding slowly along she stood aside to let them pass but they drew in and began to question her as to the roads about them they were in long and and she thought they were the guard especially as there was a negro with them who seemed to know the roads and to be showing them the way her little one thought was of he would be arrested and shot when they questioned her therefore she told them of the roads leading to the big river around the fork and quite away from the district whilst they were still talking more came around the curve and the next instant was in the midst of a column of cavalry and she knew that they were the she had one moment of terror for herself as the horses trampled around her and the calls and noises of a body of cavalry moving in her ears but the next moment when the others gave way and a man whom she knew to be the

the arc found in the second division from david to and his son as well as in the of it is said v � at wa know from iii that was not ihe son but the of the son of and that three kings occur between and after whom corner i or aa he is called i iii and xiv secondly our says v j ma be at and we find i that son un l of jo was called ji whom came � on and or over arc n ed to whereas the old none however had brothers so that the mention of the brethren of in to ha e originated in an of these two persons � a third relates to lie is called v a son of s in iii he is descended not through but through liis brother in t s and l however is as here the son of � in the last place who is here called the son of is not to bo found amongst the children of lit � was only a derived fi m a son of one of those there men t the and third of may have crept in evil and any great degree of careless w for the � ion of may from the similar sound of the fc t t l � which accounts also for the of the brothers of il the to the old is partly favourable the we liave namely the sion of three known not so ca ity to be set aside it has indeed been held that the of names may here mi o led the author to to instead of to the similar sounding in ihe is but this falls in so with the author s design of the fourteen admitting the double of tiiat wo cannot avoid with that the ht was made on purpose with a view to ii l rom tim expedient of iii l ta r � l oc ti i � t im lo i t t rt in f i id till of to david where the first division presented itself having fourteen members he seems to have wished that those of the following divisions should correspond in number in the whole remaining series the exile offered itself as the natural of separation but as the second division from david to the exile gave him four members therefore he omitted four of the names for what reason these four were chosen would be difficult o at least for the three last mentioned the cause of the s laying so much stress on the fold equal numbers may have been simply that by this of the oriental custom of division into equal sections the might be more easily committed to memory but with this motive a idea was probably combined the question arises whether thia is to be sought in the number which is thrice repeated or whether it in the repetition fourteen is the double of the sacred number seven but it is improbable that it was selected for this because otherwise the seven would scarcely have been so completely lost sight of in the fourteen still more improbable is the conjecture of that the number fourteen was specially chosen as being the value of the name of david for of tliis kind appropriate to the are to be found in no other part of the it is more likely that tlie object of the consisted merely in the repetition of an equal number by retaining the fourteen whidi had first accidentally presented itself since it was a notion of the jews that signal divine of prosperity or at regular thus as fourteen generations between the founder of the holy i e and david the king after god s own heart so fourteen generations must between the re establishment of the kingdom and coming of the son of david the � the most ancient in exhibit the very same as according to the i cap v from adam the first to the second father of men were ten generations so from or rather from liis son the tenth is the of the l this a of hia subject this bed upon which the author of our now stretches now it almost like a philosopher a system � can excite no in his favour it is in vain to appeal to the custom in p f s p g � ia n t s r and tbe from b j also b� compared the by h t from p n ab ad xv in a xv tl rt q de has called to the between these old gen u and of the vith regard to the equality of s c� s op and of lo m similar or � n author as with a declaring ail tht generations daring a space of were where � accident or many arc hu an and want of critical which shake our confidence in the certainly of his of considered separately does not present m defects as that of it has oo of the of in the to act ax a cheek upon neither can it he tested to much extent by a comparison with tjie old testament for from id to line traced by has no with any old testament excepting in two of its members and even with respect lo two la a contradiction between the statement of and that of iii f for the a son of whilst according to the utter he was the son of also one ite as the son of j a d x � not appear amongst the children of in in a u not to be found in the hebrew text jew x xi ff but who was or already in by the in ct tlie original text has this name in first series aa the third adam and thence a to have liim to the in aa the third from

distance always caused much agitation and yelling the invariably drawing off on the first margin they could find and greeting us with and good wishes as we passed them i envied them the and freedom to which they would return from the of china now and then the road is or steps are cut in the rock or it passes under an arch of rock or a bridge carries it across a chasm down which a crystal torrent after turning two three or four rude mills placed in dizzy positions one above another it is so severe that we only did thirteen miles in nine hours and i saw plainly what i had suspected from the first that one of the scratch team of was not up to his work the whole of the first fortnight s journey was along the deep wild of the greater or lesser it widely from ordinary chinese travelling and has a strong resemblance to the wild of the the mountains rise from the river to a height of over feet ghastly snow look over them their slopes always steep often break up into cliffs or feet high the river has often not a yard of margin and along crashing and a thing of power and fury which has never been tamed of mankind its sea green colouring a thing of beauty and its and stretches of foam white as the which give it birth these mountain sides as far as are completely covered with dwarf ashes oaks and big enough for use by the coarse yellow roses a very pretty yellow yellow and in abundance all dwarf with the to sin in blossom covered the stony broken three species of warm scented and brown of of were in the of the rocks and the rocks themselves were often tinged rose pink with the early leaves and delicate clasping fingers of s it was a clear escape from the crowds of china the traffic on the road was mostly there is little room for crops an occasional patch among the rocks near the river and small fields then growing and later starved great heights where the mountain slope is less steep than usual small as the population is it does not grow enough for its wants so many of the men hunt the deer and wild on the mountains and sell the in in the winter and others trap the fur bearing animals which appear to be an inferior and there are a few on the road which chiefly by supplying the needs of travellers but the was usually hidden away and made no display on the street rice is scarce and not always and wherever we halted instead of the of ready cooked which tempt rope bridges the appetite there was rarely even a fire and it was always an hour before anything was cooked the though much better than any i had been accustomed to and often built of new boards do not provide any fire in the mornings unless by special arrangement and till this was understood i started without tea their stock of food was soon exhausted even at the larger villages where we halted for the night and the descent upon them of twelve hungry persons was unwelcome some of the are built at great heights and are accessible by rugged paths and steps cut in the rock the people are hardy rough and fairly friendly the chinese are to my thinking men of plains and rivers and paths � a rice eating people with the water here they are abruptly into hardy hunters and fed even the women though still binding the feet are independent in their air and movements and perform in crossing rivers the country is a cross between china and however there are no temples and few or other signs of religion fully one third of the population is on the west side of the cut off from the high road with its business and by a furious torrent and in most cases too poor to bridges their strong nerves enable them to get over the difficulty i know of no sight in china which fascinated me so much as their rope bridges which we met with on the second day and which occur sometimes at frequent intervals as far as from which point i saw no more of them the stretch a cable at a great height across the it as well as they can and secure each end round a round stone or a convenient rock sometimes a shed is built over the and a shrine close by every himself with two semi of hard wood often about a foot long with perfect sang he places these on the cable and them together with a rope as if it were the most natural thing in the world he proceeds to himself from the by ropes passed under his knees his waist and the back of his neck some with the last b to sin he is then hanging under the rope and it fast by the he gives the d earth a and casts off no matter how tightly a long rope is strained it must still considerably in the middle and down the passenger rushes at tremendous speed head foremost down hill across the chasm with an which sends him a little way up the other slope then letting go the he puts his hands on the rope above his head and himself up hand over hand slowly and laboriously when he reaches land he the it and the rope bridge rope into his basket shoulders his burden � and both men and women continually carry small or bundles of wood across � bows at the shrine and goes his way i saw a woman cross carrying a load on each side it took her ten minutes to ascend from the middle of the rope which must have been ninety feet above the

for a week we have all missed you my dear but the change has set you up again i never saw you look better now you arc well we must try and keep you well we must leave the reader to imagine the mixed feelings with which mrs walter laid her head upon the pillow that night and we undertake to say that the female readers at all events will supply this blank in our narrative much better than we could though we were to fill a chapter with that subject alone passion is a terrible enemy to mere affection walter loved his father dearly yet for twenty four hours he had almost forgotten him but the moment he turned his horse s head toward hall uneasiness and something very like remorse began to seize him suppose his father had asked for him and wondered where he was and felt himself deserted and abandoned in his dying moments he his horse to a gallop and soon reached hall as he was afraid to go straight to his father s room he went at once to old baker and said in an agitated voice one word is he alive yes sir he is said john gravely and rather sternly has he asked for me more than once or twice sir walter sank into a chair and covered his face with his hands this softened the old servant whose manner till then had been sullen and grim you need not fret mr walter said he it s all right in course i know where you have been walter looked up alarmed i mean in a general way said the old man you have been a of an angel i know her sir and i hope to be her servant some day and if you was to marry any but her i d leave service altogether and so would milton but mr walter sir there s a time for everything i hope you ll forgive me for saying so however you are here now and i was and i have made it all right sir that s impossible said walter how could you make it ri ht with my poor dear father if in his last moments he felt himself neglected but he didn t feel himself neglected i don t understand you said walter well sir said old baker i m an old servant and i have done my duty to father and son according to my lights i told him a lie a lie john said walter a thundering lie said john rather i don t know as i ever told a greater lie in all my life i told him you was gone up to london to fetch a doctor walter grasped john baker s hand god bless you old man said he for taking that on your conscience i well you sha n t have yourself to reproach for my fault i know a doctor in london he has cured it more than once i ll wire him down this minute you ll the message and i ll go to my father the message was sent and when by a perilous secret the colonel awoke from an uneasy slumber he saw his son at the foot of the bed gazing at him my dear boy said he faintly and held out a wasted hand walter was pricked to the heart at this greeting not a word of remonstrance at his absence i fear you missed me father said he sadly that i have said the old man but i dare say you didn t forget me though you weren t by my side the high minded old soldier said no more and put no questions but confided in his son s affection and awaited the result of it from that hour walter nursed his father day and night dr arrived next day he examined the patient and put a great many questions as to the history and progress of the disorder up to that date and inquired in particular what was the length of time the fits generally endured here he found them all rather ah said he are seldom able to assist medical adviser with precise information on this point yet it s very important well can you tell me how long this attack has lasted they told him that within a day or two then now said he the most important question of all what day did the pain leave his the patient and john baker had to compare notes to answer this question and they made it out to be about twenty days then he ought to be as dead as a whispered the doctor after this he began to walk the room and with his hands behind him open those top windows said he now draw the screen and give his lungs a chance no draughts must blow upon him you know then he drew walter aside do you want to know the truth well then his life hangs on a thread the is creeping upward and will inevitably kill him if we can t get it down nothing but heroic will do that and it s three to five against them what do you say i dare not � i dare not pray put the question to i i will said the doctor and accordingly he did put it to him with a good deal of feeling and gentleness and the answer rather surprised him weak as he was colonel s dull eye flashed and he half raised himself on his elbow what a question to put to a soldier said he why let us fight to be sure i thought it was twenty to one � five to three i have often won the rubber with five to three against me ah said dr these are the that give the doctor a chance then he turned to baker have you any good champagne

answer to that we were bom let os die farmers t only permit me to die the forgive me my mother said kneeling i was ht for me to obey you � not to dictate i speak no and at her mother and be away the moment tliey have a lover he their hearts from their poor old she is not to me now what my is mamma she h my superior i see it more and more every day she h proud she is just she looks at both sides your poor is too apt to only those loves and that is the daughter for me cried the opening her arms wide to her to her and soothed her all day and kept her heaven was oa their and she never have to leave let me thought and keep her happy that is the first consideration the next morning when they were at breakfast in came to say the officer was in the dining room and wanted to speak with the young lady he talked to yesterday rose and went to him well said he gaily the old woman was right here i have just got my to march to leave france in a month a pretty business it would have been if i had turned your mother out so you see there is nothing to hinder you from living here in your house why not are you too proud forgive us it is a fault that should not survive our fortunes well yesterday i have reflected i was unjust if such an offer was made to my mother instead of yours i should not be too proud to take it but it seems you belong to the nobility now i rose from the ranks so i have no right to be proud said this and in good faith but the quicker read it and she coloured up us t� f i offended it was as i om my wh w us from your mt there wn a pause oh i your delicacy does not me neither i c it i am sure you can � tt roared why did i go and ay die house i didn t want ic t other would have bought it some one more severe d you i beg you to it b a g to us not to be removed with an fo beloved a e there another silence was puzzled he as seated by a bad map hung on die wall hint in i as be to and au this time she bad been saying what she she ought to id hopes that the would do his part and t b her and carry out his for her good in spite of tee � her tongue rather for u decline the thing we f and go not only get it but it ed upon us the i of having it the credit of i f using it k u is it not and well worth all i it not now wa a man � a creature not accustomed lo disguise it wi be and therefore apt to such as do above all he was an honest man a word from him waa a thing the e act thing he meant so he took for granted waa saying exactly what she meant and she him when she saw her she wished she had declined and the interview wai to f it he would have done just the � � it was not in her to do any other s brown study resulted in a fresh idea white lies i have it said he this must be settled by a party a mutual friend one more than i and who can arrange this trifle so as not to shock your delicacy i am no interrupted himself by opening a window and shouting � i come here � you are wanted almost screamed � what are you doing that is our enemy our bitterest enemy he only sold you the estate to spite us not for the love of yon i bad � he had � we bis vanity it waa not our fault � be is a ob i sir pray be on your guard hia counsels these spoken with great fire and earnestness carried conviction and when the came in the contrast between the invitation that brought him and the reception that met him twenty seconds after was droll started at sight of and hardly knew what to say to him whilst he hesitated the little suspecting what had occurred began � so you have taken possession these military men are prompt are they not do not speak to me said quietly why not we ought to entertain our guests is at home said sternly address her with or she will perhaps order you out she is very capable said the but luckily she has no one to order don t be too sure of that said the looked round uneasily expecting to see young he turned the conversation said he in a mere tone of business it is ray duty as m s agent to inform you that whatever you have removed are yours those that we find in the house upon entering are ours and he grinned and as we are not going to enter for a week or two if at white lies w fe jou will have plenty of time to and ic j� mon i md ihe � really i do not ud you have i done to merit have you so ill you withdraw your confidence from le no but you exceed your powers my lad i � you obey so be it what are your orders and wliat on earth b the meaning of all the meaning thia i want and her stay here while i go to egypt with the first con makes difficulties � it ber delicacy lier mothers life depends on her

believe or than it was now proved to be sh e feared that under this persuasion she had been unjust nay almost unkind to her that s affliction because more acknowledged more immediately before her had too much engrossed her tenderness and led her away to forget that in she might have a daughter suffering almost as much certainly with less self provocation and greater chapter now found the difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event however certain the mind may be told to consider it and certainty itself she now found that in spite of herself she had always admitted a hope while edward remained single that something would occur to prevent his marrying that some resolution of his own some of friends or some more eligible opportunity of establishment for the lady would arise to assist the happiness of ail but he was now married and she condemned her heart for the lurking flattery which so much heightened the pain of the intelligence that he should be married so soon before as she and ed he be in orders and consequently before he be in possession of the living surprised her a little at first but she soon saw how likely it was that in her self care in her haste to secure him should overlook every thing but the risk of delay they were married � married in town � and now hastening down to her uncle s what had edward felt on being within four miles from � on seeing her mother s servant � on hearing s message they would soon she supposed be settled at � � that place in which so much to give her an interest which she wished to be acquainted with and yet desired to avoid she saw them in an instant in their house saw in the active manager at once a desire of smart appearance with the utmost and ashamed to be suspected of half her economical pursuing her own interest in every thought the favour of colonel of mrs and of every wealthy friend in edward she knew not what she saw what she wished to see happy or unhappy nothing pleased her she turned away her head from every sketch of him flattered herself that some one of their connections in london would write to them to announce the event and give farther particulars but day after day passed off and brought no letter no tidings though uncertain that any one were to blame she found fault with every absent friend they were all thoughtless or indolent when do you write to colonel ma am was an which sprung from the impatience of her mind to have something going on i wrote to him my love week and rather expect to see than to hear from him again i earnestly pressed his coming to us and should not be surprised to see him walk in to day or to morrow or any day this was gaining something � something to look forward to colonel must have some information to give scarcely had she so determined it when the figure of a man on horseback drew her eyes to the window he stopped at their gate it was a gentleman � it was colonel himself now she could hear more and she trembled in of it but it was not colonel neither and his air nor his height were it possible she must say it must be edward she looked again he had just dismounted she could not be mistaken � it was edward she moved away and sat down he comes from mr s purposely to see us i will be calm � i will be mistress of myself in a moment she perceived that the others were likewise aware of the mistake she saw her mother and change colour � saw them look at herself and whisper a few sentences to each other she would have given the world to be able to speak and to make them understand that she hoped no coolness no t would appear in their behaviour to him but she had no utterance and was obliged to leave all to their own discretion not a syllable passed aloud they all waited in silence for the appearance of their visitor his footsteps were heard along the gravel path in a moment he was in the passage and in another he was before them his countenance as he entered the room was not too happy even for his complexion was white with agitation and he looked as if fearful of his reception and conscious that he no kind one mrs however as she trusted to the wishes of that daughter by whom she then meant in the warmth of her heart to be guided in every thing met him with a look of forced complacency gave him her hand and wished him joy he coloured and stammered out an unintelligible reply s lips had moved with her mother s and when the moment of action was over she wished that she had shaken hands with him too but it was then too late and with a countenance meaning to be open she sat down again and talked of the weather had retreated as much as possible out of sight to conceal her distress and margaret understanding some part but not the whole of the case thought it incumbent on her to be dignified and therefore took a seat as far from him as she could and maintained a strict silence when had ceased to rejoice in the of the season a very awful pause took place it was put an end to by mrs who felt obliged to hope that he had left mrs very well in a hurried manner he replied m the and another pause to exert herself though fearing the sound of her own voice now said is mrs at at r he replied with an air of

very often in these days that would account for everything or she may have taken the wrong train an express that did not stop this side of and hesitated to telegraph for fear of alarming you don t cry till you re hurt is an old proverb why neither of you act much better than as if her dead body had been brought home they heard him but neither replied they waited it seemed an hour for an answer to the message and it came simply this nothing has been heard as yet of miss the thoroughly distressed and father shrank before the gaze of the lover when this news was by mr what is this were the bitter words he heard have you decided on another husband for your daughter and come to break the news to me in this fashion mr interfered to protect the old man whose suffering was evidently already too acute hush he exclaimed can t you see that you are killing him be careful waved him back with a of his arm your advice has not been asked he replied i can see some things if i am blind that girl has gone to the man she loves the man he indicating the father wanted her to marry he is rich and i am poor and he has won it is plain enough and he pretended day by day to ray face that he had given her up for my sake a black and she put her arms around me and me into confidence in order to strike me the harder at the end well let him have her i wouldn t take her from him but there s an account between us that he may not like to settle when you see your friend tell him that mr heard terrible sentences like a man in a dream it could not be was uttering them the man to whom his young daughter had given the full affection of her innocent heart h was mad to talk that way mad mad you will repent these rash statements said the old gentleman rising faintly from his seat you will repent them sir in i wish with my heart that mr was here for he would at least try to help me find my child mr suggested that mr would be at soon as he had an invitation to the wedding no replied mr i received word from him to day that he could not attend he is out of the city gave vent to an expression of are you yourself deceived he exclaimed he will not attend my wedding certainly not j he is attending his own if indeed he does not compass his ends without that preliminary weak and old as mr was he have struck the speaker had not the third person in the room interfered do you dare to speak in that manner of my daughter he cried must you attack the where was not only of my best friend but of my child as well i thank god at this moment whatever be her fate that she did not join her life to yours with a majestic step he strode from the presence of his late son in law with a feeling that some one should accompany him followed but first he turned to speak in a low key to the do not go out to night unless you hear from me he said this may not be as bad as you think after all i will go to and return with what news i can get don t act until you are certain of your premises the young man was removing his wedding suit already i shall not go out he responded you might write a few pages on your novel suggested the critic as he stood in the there will never be a better a vigorous movement the door in his face before he could complete his sentence hastening after mr accompanied him home where the first thing he heard was that there was still no news of the missing one f a black chapter an awful night it was an awful night for the presence in the house of mr and mr aided him but little to bear the weight that pressed upon his heart it was better than being entirely alone but not a great deal together tliey listened whenever their ears caught an unusual sound twenty times they went together to the street door and opened it to find nothing before them morning came and still no tidings the earliest trains from the city were visited by servants for the master of the house was too exhausted to make the journey and at nine o clock the gentlemen who had passed the night at took the railway back to new york with no solution of the great problem mr had not been in his office an hour before the door opened and in walked the critic started from his chair at the unexpected sight and remarked that he had not expected to sec his visitor so early i presume you heard the news and came home at once he added mr was pale and wore the look of one whose rest has been disturbed i don t know what you mean he replied m i w called away on business that i could not ah awful night i and came back as soon as i could i fear the thought it rather rough of me to stay away from th wedding but i could not very well help it you were there of course everything went off well trust the speaker had the air of a man who tries to ap at ease when he is not his voice trembled slightly and his hands from one portion of his apparel to another then you have heard nothing repeated gravely prepare yourself for a shock there was no

acquainted with political and social matters that are commonly but little studied by persons of her age and sex she took an interest in them indeed which was almost and the usual might have been well described as of the world although not in it however was not easy to her for she was far too natural to be self conscious and she found that in writing of herself to mr � which she felt it due to him to do � she had undertaken a difficult task she withheld from him in ignorance much that it was important to him to know but only ii one thing did she him � i am afraid she wrote that i have no imagination � a statement which had its consequences she made it in all simplicity but as a matter of fact she had often amused herself � having no other means of � by imagining an elizabeth dart in quite other circumstances than her real ones and surrounded by beings of her own creation as different from her acquaintances in the flesh as fancy could form them of this practice she had anything but a high opinion and in fact was ashamed of it it came imder the of and was to be discouraged in conclusion miss dart made no apology for these details upon her correspondent � for had he not requested them of her � but though giving her london address she begged him to spare himself the trouble of a reply you given me at least as m ic i i as is good for me wrote and there is no ie t � as as a new will not produce a harvest though whether it be worth the it will be for you to judge by that morning s post the copy of the containing miss dart s paper arrived at the look out and in spite of her protest was read aloud by to the rest i had no idea what an interesting place we lived in was mrs s remark on it my picture does not strike you then as very like the original observed miss dart not on the whole perhaps a very happy but she was with a sense of embarrassment from which no young author whose work is the subject of discussion in her own presence can be wholly free nay i think it is more like than the original was the reply you have made me recognise beauties in its dear old face which had hitherto escaped me and i seem to love it in consequence more than ever let us have no more criticism after that said triumphantly mrs h� gone to the root of the matter it was hardly possible to go wrong with such materials observed miss dart modestly even a who is bo fortunate as to find the best ready to his practised hand must turn out something to be admired there is always the marble and i am sure but for you mr one half of my sketch at least would not have been written you have touched nothing my dear young lady that you have not adorned answered the not gallantly but in tones of quiet conviction what do you think i am thinking if the writer of that delightful paper is a sighed what am i considering the quarter from which it comes � a gentleman who writes himself as says remarked clapping his hands i think that ought to content you miss dart can no further go it may be thought that the approval of private friends upon a literary effort does not count for much but at all events it is a rare kind of praise if a prophet is held in small honour among his own an author is commonly held in no honour at au tho i y ra f � n or bis immediate t j � ki the heir of the ages merit it is only when it has received public recognition that they swell the note of praise it seems curious even to themselves that though they lived next door they never knew this man before a good many first works it is true have been if their author is to be believed at the request of friends but that is at least as often the offspring of imagination as the productions themselves in the present case these critics on the hearth though they were but three were unusually representative the the poet and mrs each belonged to a very different class from the others and their common opinion was therefore all the more indeed had she remained at there would have been reason to fear for miss dart at the very outset of her career the unhappy fate which only too often the of letters � under the of an admiring to become ashes in which his fires do not live the dangerous ordeal was however in her case very brief and the flattery of the little circle was soon forgotten in its kindness the of parting with her friends was far greater than it had seemed the day before when she had been going on a shorter journey and to dwell with those who had a near connection with themselves she might now be bidding them good bye for ever the farewell interview between and herself was affectionate and even tender but their talk was not of one another he spoke of his love for mary and of its in a manner that her heart yet she could not but rejoice that he had so spoken to her � it was the highest compliment she felt that friendship could pay mrs embraced her with tears and kisses if good wishes were a burden she would have sunk under the load who was she and what had she done she asked of herself to be treated with such confidence and affection at the railway station

resolutely lays under a heavy contribution truly it is to behold these heroes as they march along cast side glances at the upper windows to collect the smiles the and the which the fair ones lavish on the of their country the rags having conducted their to their respective then comes the turn of the colonel a with no tails for all eyes are now directed to him and the rags and the and the having had their hour of are confounded and lost in the military crowd the colonel sets his regiment in motion whim and and mounted on a and and and in front to the great entertainment of the multitude and the great hazard of himself and his neighbours having displayed himself his his horse and his he at length arrives at the place of general blessed with the universal admiration of his i should perhaps mention a of hardy most of whom have seen a deal of service during the nineteen or twenty years of their existence and who most equipped in tight green and leather breeches trot and and gallop and like little devils through every street and nook and corner of the city to the great dread of all old people and sage with young children this is truly sublime this is what i call making a mountain out of a hill oh my friend on what a great scale is every thing in this country it is in the style of the wandering of the desert el is a village to be attacked or a hamlet to be the whole desert for weeks beforehand is in a of esq � such marching and counter marching they can their ragged forces and the consequence is that before they can bring their troops into action the whole enterprise is blown the army being all happily collected on the battery though perhaps two hours after the time appointed it is now the turn of the with two tails to distinguish himself ambition my friend is alike in heart it each bosom from the to the drum major the fired with that thirst for glory inseparable from the noble mind is anxious to reap a full share of the of the day and bear off his portion of female plunder the drums beat the whistle the standards wave proudly in the air the signal is given thunder the cannon away goes the and away go the tails the review finished and military are generally with for three excellent reasons � first because the army knows very little about them second because as the country has to remain always at peace there is il whim and opinions no necessity for them to know any thing them and third as it is growing late th must or it will be too for him to get his of the plunder h of course orders the w hole army to march and now my friend now comes the o war now is the city completely fly the battery gates � forth the with his two tails surrounded by a body guard of boys and then forth his potent as the of th desert the customary of the try commence � those tokens of joy and ad which so much annoyed me on landing the air is darkened with old hats shoes and dead cats the soldiers no way march gallantly under shade on they push splash dash mud o no mud down one lane up another � thi martial music through every street the fair ones throng to their windows � th soldiers look every way but straight forward � carry arms � cries the � � r� ra � the trumpet � � roar the drum � � � shout the of esq il the smiles with exultation � y rag feels a hero � � none but the brave deserve the fair � head of the immortal on what a great scale is every thing in this country � ay but you ll say is not this unfair that the officers should share all the sports while the undergo all the fatigue truly my friend i indulged the same idea and pitied from my heart the poor fellows who had to through the mud and the mire toiling ponderous cocked hats which seemed as and as the shell vi hich the along on bis back i soon found out however that they have their of as soon as the army is dismissed the city with little parties who fire off their guns at every corner to the great delight of all the women and children in their vicinity and woe unto any dog or pig or that falls in the way of these warriors they are shown no quarter every gentle to pass the evening at the feet of his to play � the soldier tired of war s � and whim and opinions to her with the glare of his excepting some heroes who to the theatre flame away in the front boxes and every old apple woman in the such my friend is the gigantic genius of this nation and its faculty of swelling up into importance our of ill review his s of some thousands by an early hour in the morning here a review of six hundred men is made the mighty work of a day with us a of two tails is never appointed to a command of less than ten thousand men but here we behold every rank from the down to the in a force of less than one tenth of the number by the beard of but every thing here is indeed on a great scale by i was not a little surprised the other at a request from will that i would accompany him that evening to mrs s f i of esq i the request was simple enough in itself it w� i only singular as coming from will

a profound veneration for the learning he had never been able to acquire this veneration mr dick extended to the doctor whom he thought the most subtle and accomplished philosopher of any age it was long before mr dick ever spoke to him otherwise than bare headed and even when he and the doctor had struck up quite a friendship and would walk together by the hour on that side of the which was known among us as the doctor s walk mr dick would pull off his hat at intervals to show his respect for wisdom and knowledge how it ever came about that the doctor began to read out scraps of the famous dictionary in these walks i never knew perhaps he felt it all the same at first as reading to himself however it passed into a custom too and mr dick listening with a face shining with pride and pleasure in his heart of hearts believed the dictionary to be the most delightful book in the world as i think of them going up and down before those school room windows � the doctor reading with his complacent smile an occasional n the personal history a s d experience flourish of the manuscript or grave motion of his head and mr dick listening by interest with his poor wits calmly wandering god knows where upon the wings of hard words � i think of it as one of the things in a quiet way that i have ever seen i feel as if they might go walking to and fro for ever and the world might somehow be the better for it � as if a thousand things it makes a noise about were not one half so good for it or me was one of mr dick s friends very soon and in often coming to the house he made acquaintance with the friendship between himself and me increased continually and it was maintained on this odd footing that while mr dick came to look after me as my guardian he always consulted me in any little matter of doubt that arose and invariably guided himself by my advice not only having a high respect for my native sagacity but considering that i inherited a good deal from my aunt one thursday when i was about to walk with mr dick from the hotel to the coach office before going back to school for we had an s school before breakfast in the street who of the promise i had made to take tea with himself and his mother adding with a t expect you to keep it master we re so very i really had not yet been able to make up my mind whether i liked or detested him and i was very doubtful about it still as i stood looking him in the face in the street but i felt it quite an to be supposed proud and said i only wanted to be asked oh if that s all master said and it really isn t our that prevents you will you come this evening but if it is our i hope you won t mind to it master for we are well aware of our condition i said i would mention it to mr and if he approved as i had no doubt he would i would come with pleasure so at six o clock that evening which was one of the early office evenings i announced myself as ready to mother will be proud indeed he said as we walked away together or she would be proud if it wasn t sinful master yet you didn t mind supposing was proud this morning i returned oh dear no master returned oh believe me no such a thought never came into my head i shouldn t have deemed it at all proud if you had thought us too for you because we are so very have you been studying much law lately to change the subject oh master he said with an air of self denial my reading is hardly to be called study i have passed an hour or two in the evening sometimes with mr hard i suppose said i he is hard to me sometimes returned but i don t know what he might be to a gifted person after beating a little tune on his chin as we walked on with the two fore fingers of his skeleton right hand he added there are expressions you see master � latin words and terms � in mr that are trying to a reader of my would you like to be taught latin i said briskly i will teach it you with pleasure as i learn it of oh thank you master he answered shaking his head i am sure it s very kind of you to make the offer but i am much too to accept it what nonsense oh indeed you must excuse me master i am greatly obliged and i should like it of all things i assure you but i am far too there are people enough to tread upon me in my lowly state without my doing outrage to their feelings by possessing learning learning ain t for me a person like myself had better not if he is to get on in life he must get on master i never saw his mouth so wide or the in his cheeks so deep as when he delivered himself of these sentiments shaking his head au the time and modestly i think you are wrong i said i dare say there are several things that i could teach you if you would like to learn them oh i don t doubt that master he answered not in the least but not being yourself you don t judge well perhaps for them that are i won t provoke my with knowledge thank you i m

in the full stroke of day from the window she started and heathen remembered that it was their first meeting under the rays she was so overcome that she turned and left the room as if she had forgotten something when she re entered she was visibly pale she recovered herself and she had been sitting up the night before the last she said and was not quite so well as usual there may have been some truth in this but could not get over that first scared look of hers it was enough to give to his night views of a possible tragedy lurking in this wedding project he determined a sketch of a temperament that at any cost to his heart there should be no about him from this moment miss he said as they sat down since it is well you should know all the truth before we go any further that there may be no awkward discoveries afterwards i am going to tell you something about myself � if you are not too distressed to hear it no � let me hear it i was once the lover of your mother and wanted to marry her only she wouldn t or rather couldn t marry me o how strange said the girl looking from him to the breakfast things and from the breakfast things to him mother has never told me that yet of course you might have been i mean you are old enough he took the remark as a satire she had not intended o yes � quite old enough he said grimly almost too old too old for mother how s that because i belonged to your grandmother no that be i was her lover likewise i should have married her if i had gone straight on instead of round the comer s the well beloved but you couldn t have been mr you are not old enough why how old are you � you have never told mc i am very old my mother s and my grandmother s said she looking at him no longer as at a possible husband but as a strange in human form saw it but meaning to give up the game he did not care to spare himself your mother s and your grandmother s young man he repeated and were you my great grandmother s too she asked with an expectant interest in his case as a drama that overcame her personal considerations for a moment no � not your great grandmother s your imagination beats even my but i am very old as you see i did not know it said she in an appalled murmur you do not look so and i thought that what you looked you were and you � you are very young he continued a stillness followed during which she sat in a troubled regarding him now and then with something in her open eyes and large pupils a sketch of a temperament that might have been sympathy or ate scarce any breakfast and rising abruptly from the table said he would take a walk on the as the morning was fine he did so proceeding along the north east heights for nearly a mile he had given up but not formally his intention had been to go back to the house in half an hour and pay a morning visit to the invalid but by not returning the plans of the previous evening might be allowed to lapse silently as that had come to nothing in the face of s want of love for him accordingly went straight along and in the course of an hour was at his lodgings nothing occurred till the evening to inform him how his absence had been taken then a note arrived from mrs it was written in pencil evidently as she lay i am alarmed she said at your going so suddenly seems to think she has offended you she did not mean to do that i am sure it makes me dreadfully anxious will you send a line surely you will not desert us now � my heart is so set on my child s welfare a s the well beloved desert you i won t said it is too much like the original case but i must let her desert me on his return with no other object than that of wishing mrs good bye he found her painfully agitated she clasped his hand and it tears o don t be offended with her she cried she s young we are one people � don t marry a it will break my heart if you her now the girl came my manner was hasty and thoughtless this morning she said in a tow voice please pardon me i wish to abide by my promise her mother still tearful again joined their hands and the engagement stood as before went back to but dimly seeing how curiously through his being a rich ideas of and were retaining him in the course arranged by her mother and urged by his own desire in the face of his understanding a sketch of a temperament on the verge of possession iii v in anticipation of his marriage had taken a new red house of the approved pattern with a new at the back as large as a bam hither in with the elder � whose health had mended somewhat � he invited mother and daughter to spend a week or two with him thinking thereby to exercise on the latter s imagination an influence which was not practicable while he was a guest at their house and by interesting his in the fitting and furnishing of this residence to create in her an ambition to be its it was a pleasant time to be in town there was nobody to interrupt them in their proceedings and it being out of the season the

could on his clothes was repeated in an angry and impetuous manner about twenty five times when he began to tiie chain the legs and a voice began open the door will yer cried the voice which belonged to the legs which had kicked at the door i wiu directly sir replied the chain and turning the key i suppose yer the new boy a n t yer said the voice through the key hole yes sir replied how old are yer inquired the voice ten sir replied then i ll yer when i get in said the voice you just see if i don t that s au my work us and made this obliging promise the voice began to whistle had been too often subjected to the process to which ae very expressive just recorded bears reference to entertain the smallest doubt that the owner of the voice whoever he might be would redeem his pledge most he drew back the with a trembling hand and the door for a second or two glanced up the street and down the street and over the way impressed with the belief that the unknown who had addressed him through the key hole had walked a few paces off to warm himself for nobody did he see but a big charity boy sitting on a post in front of the house eating a of bread and butter which he cut into the size of his mouth with a clasp knife and then with great dexterity i beg your pardon sir said at length seeing that no other visitor made his appearance did you knock i kicked replied the charity boy did you want a coffin sir inquired innocently at this the charity boy looked monstrous fierce and said that would want one before long if he cut jokes with his in that way yer don t know who i am i suppose oa l � twist the charity boy in descending � rom the top of the post meanwhile with gravity no sir rejoined i m said the charity boy and you re under me take down the shutters yer idle young with this mr administered a kick to and entered the shop with a dignified air which did him great credit it is difficult for a large headed youth of make and heavy countenance to look dignified under any circumstances but it is more especially so when to these personal attractions are a red nose and yellow having taken down the shutters and broken a pane of glass in his to away beneath the weight of the first one to a small court at the side of the house in which they were kept during the day was graciously assisted by who having consoled him with the assurance that he d catch it condescended to help him mr came down soon after shortly afterwards mrs appeared and having caught it in of s followed that young gentleman down stairs to breakfast come near the fire said i saved a nice bit of bacon for you from master s breakfast shut that door at s back and take them bits that i ve put out on the cover of the bread pan there s your tea take it away to that box and drink it there and make haste for they want you to mind the shop d ye hear d ye hear work us said lor said what a rum creature you are why don t you let the boy alone let him alone said why everybody lets him alone enough for the matter of that neither his father nor his mother wiu ever interfere with him all his relations let him have his own way well eh he he he oh you queer soul said bursting into hearty laugh in which she was joined by after they both looked scornfully at poor twist as he sat shivering on the box in the comer of the the stale pieces which had be a specially reserved twist was a charity boy but not a orphan no chance child was he for he could trace his au the way back to his parents who lived hard by his mother being a and his father a drunken soldier discharged with a wooden leg and a of and an the shop boys in the neighbourhood had long been in the habit of in the public streets with the of charity and like and had borne them without reply but now that fortune had cast in his way a nameless orphan at whom even the meanest could point the finger of scorn he retorted on him with interest this affords charming food for contemplation it shows us a beautiful thing human nature may be made to be and how the same amiable qualities are developed in the finest lord and the boy had been at the s some three weeks or a month mr and mrs � the shop being shut up � were taking their supper in the little when mr alter several glances at his wife said my dear � he was going to say more but mrs looking up with � peculiarly aspect i be stopped short weu said mrs sharply nothing my dear nothing said mr you brute said mrs not at all my dear said mr humbly i you didn t want to hear my dear i was only going f to say oh don t tell me what you were going to say interposed mrs i am nobody don t consult me pray don t want to intrude upon your secrets as mrs said this she gave an hysterical laugh which threatened consequences but my dear said i want to ask your advice no no don t ask mine replied mrs in an manner ask somebody else s here there was � hysterical laugh which frightened mr n this is a very common and much approved course of treatment

and poetical reading with her skill in fancy work and the neatly bound copies of s more s sacred s on self knowledge and on the sublime and beautiful which were the chief ornaments of the were au inscribed with her name and had been bought with her pocket money when she was in her it must have been at least fifteen years since the latest of those purchases but miss s skill in work appeared to have gone through more numerous phases than her literary taste for the boxes the and wax baskets the fan the transferred on the and the recent of wax flowers showed a in freshness which made them to widely different periods fingers and robust patience but there are still many points of mind and person which they leave vague and so i must tell you that miss had dark a sallow complexion and an e disposition as to her features there was not much to in them for she had little nose less lip and no and as to her intellect her friend mis often said she did n t know a more sensible person to talk to than mary there waa no one she liked better to come and take a quiet cup of tea with her and read a little of s mary had often told her a great deal of her mind when they were sitting she said there were many things to bear in every condition of life and nothing should induce her to marry without a prospect of happiness once when airs admired her wax flowers she said ah mrs think of the beauties of nature she always spoke very prettily did very different indeed from miss indeed was not a general favorite while most people it a pity that a sensible woman like had not found a good husband � and even her fe male friends said nothing more of her than that her face was like a piece of with two scotch pebbles stuck in it � waa always spoken of and it was a customary kind of with young ladies to recommend her as a wife to any gentleman they happened to be with � her fat her finery and her thick ankles to give to the joke notwithstanding the absence of novelty miss however possessed the of music and her singing of o no we never mention her and the soldier s tear was so an accession to the repentance of a tea party that no one cared to offend her as had a high spirit of her own and in spite of her rounded had a particularly sharp tongue her reading had been more extensive than her s embracing most of the fiction in mr s library and nothing but an acquaintance with the course of her studies afford a to the r in her dress which were suggested by the style of beauty whether sentimental or severe possessed by the heroine of the three actually in perusal a piece of lace which drooped round the edge of her white bonnet one week had been rejected by the next and her which on loomed through a haze of were on sunday seen in distinct red outline on her bust like the sun on a ft bank the black velvet meeting with a crystal clasp which one evening encircled her head had on another descended to her neck and n a third to her wrist suggesting to an active imagination either a of the ornament or a fearful of in miss s person with this constant application of art to dress she could have had little time for fancy work even if she had not been destitute of her sister s taste for that delightful and truly feminine occupation and here at least you perceive the justice of the opinion as to the relative of the two miss for matrimony when a man is happy enough to win the affections of a sweet who can soothe his cares with and respond to all his most cherished ideas with and chair covers in german wool he has at least a of domestic comfort whatever trials may await him out of doors what a resource it is under fatigue and irritation to have drawing room well supplied small which would always be ready if you ever wanted to set on them and what a bleeding heart can equal copious squares of which are useful for slipping down the moment you touch them how our fathers managed without is the wonder but i believe some small and feeble substitute existed in their time under the name of however had neglected as well as other forms of fancy work at school to be sure she had spent a great deal of time in acquiring flower painting according to the ingenious then ol applying the shapes of leaves and flowers cut out in and a brush over the surface thus conveniently marked out but even the cases and hand which were her last half year s performances in that way were not considered eminently and had long been consigned to the retirement of the best bedroom thus there was a good deal of family between and her sister and i am afraid there was also a little family dislike but mary s had usually been kept imprisoned behind her thin lips for was not only of a disposition but was her mother s pet the old lady being herself stout and preferring a more style of cap than she could prevail on ner daughter mary to make up for her but i have been describing miss as she was in former days only for her appearance this evening as she sits on the green tickets is in sinking contrast with what it was three or four months ago her plain gray dress and plain white collar could never have belonged to her wardrobe before that date and though she is

what a head you ha got tom but i can t take it up so seems to me this dust is like the grain that is shed from a ripe crop before it comes to the now if we could trace � how can you trace up to the lump when the lump is turned to george held his peace � shut up hut not convinced you two lucky ones cried a voice distant about thirty yards will you buy our hole it is breaking our heart here robinson went up and found a large hole to a great depth it was yielding literally nothing and this determined that personage to buy it if it was cheap what there is must be somewhere all in a lump he offered ten pounds for it which was eagerly snapped at well done said one of the band we would have taken ten shillings for it explained he to robinson paid the money and let himself down into the hole with his he drove his into the clay and the bottom of it just reached the rock he looked up i would have gone just one foot deeper before i gave in said he he called george come george we can know our fate in ten minutes they the clay away down to about one inch above the rock and there in the white clay they found a little bit of gold as big as a pin s head we have done it this time cried robinson a little more off not too deep and save the clay this time a score of little came to view sticking in the clay no need for washing picked them out with their knives the news soon spread and a multitude round the hole and looked down on the men picking out peas and beans of pure gold with their knives presently a voice cried shame give the men back their hole cried others they paid for a chance and it turned out well a bargain is a bargain and his mates looked sorrowfully down robinson saw their faces and came out of the hole a moment he took aside and whispered jump into our hole like lightning it is worth four pound a day god bless you said he ran and jumped into the hole just as another man was going to take possession by s law no party is allowed to occupy two holes all that afternoon there was a mob looking down at george and robinson picking out peas and beans of gold and envy s fire burned many a heart these two were picking up at least a hundred pounds an hour now it happened late in the afternoon that a man of shabby figure evidently not a observing that there was always more or less crowd in one place up and looked down with the rest as he looked down george happened to look up the new comer drew back hastily after that his proceedings were singular he remained in the crowd more than two hours not stationary but winding in and out he listened to everything that was said especially it is too late to mend if it was and not spoken oat and he peered into every face and peering into every face it that at last his eye li on one that seemed to him it belonged to a fellow with a great neck and hair and beard flowing all into one � a man more like the black lion of north africa than anything else bat it was not his appearance that fascinated the one it was the look he cast down upon those two lucky a of tremendous hatred � hatred unto death instinct told the serpent there must be more in this than envy he waited and watched and when the black one moved away he followed him about everywhere till at last he got him alone then he up and in a said � what luck some men have don t the man answered by a fierce the serpent was half afraid of him but he went on there will be a good lump of gold in their tent to night the other seemed struck with these words they have been lucky a long time explained the other and now this added � well what about it nothing i only i wish somebody else had it instead why that is a secret for the present i only tell you because i think somehow they are no friends of yours either perhaps not then then we might perhaps do business together it will strike you singular but i have a friend who would give money to any one that would take a little from those two that again would give money to any one that would take it from those two and you won t ask for any share of the me x have nothing to do with it well your will he not a and what will he give suppose i have s friend that wiu da the trick according to the risk the man gave a whistle a fellow with forehead low came from behind some tents what is it wiu asked the new comer a plant this one in it yes this is too public come to s store chapter i want you to go to what to buy some things what things first of all a revolver there were fellows about our tent last night creeping and i never heard them no more you would an earthquake � but i heard them and got up and pointed my revolver at them so then they cat � all the better for them we must mind oar eye george a good many tents are robbed every week and we are known to have a good well i must start this if i am to be back and take a pound of dust and

parcel o nonsense all about a fool of a country as couldn t do nothing but make butter and yet she married a lord an was took to court with di an � such a o lies was printed in that there book as was enough to bring the judgment of the almighty on the as wrote it i went to my niece and i to her i � my you re a decent strong well favoured sort o taken just as god made ye and if you behave yourself you may likely marry an honest farmer lad in time � but if get such notions o lords and ladies as are in this silly book an go o your hair like crazy jane there s not a man in as won t despise ye an ye ll go to the bad my as sure as a die she was a decent an she knew i meant well by her so she just dropped the book down our old dry well in the back yard seventy feet deep and took to the cream she s married well now and lives over at very comfortably off she s got a good husband a poultry farm and three babies an she s no time for novel now thanks to the lord this narrative delivered with much gesture and scarcely any pauses left miss well nigh out of breath and as she and her visitors were now in the one best parlour of the cottage she ceased talking and about to get them their breakfast leaned out of the open window where the sight o hung in fragrant and the delicious perfume with a deep breath of delight it s a place this � he said half to himself and half to � but it s not so as scotland had sat down in the window nook with rather a weary air the volume still clasped in his hands are you going to scotland soon he asked yes i shall go straight home there for a few days and see my mother here the young man turned and surveyed his small pupil with involuntary tenderness i wish i could take you with me he added softly � my mother would love you i know was mute he was thinking to himself how strange it would seem to be loved by mr s mother as he was not loved by his own at that moment cleverly brought in the breakfast in her usual smart bustling way � excellent tea new milk eggs honey cream jam home made bread and smoking hot were all set forth in tempting profusion and to crown the feast an antique china basket filled with the apples and was placed in the centre of the table william b a and his little friend sat down to their good cheer each with very different feelings � with a hearty and appetite � the boy with only a faint sense of hunger which was over by mental fatigue and consequent physical indifference however he tried to eat well to please the kindly companion from whom he was so soon to be parted � and it was not till he had quite finished that pushing aside his cup and plate addressed the following remarks to his late pupil � look here he said i don t want you to forget me if ever you should take it into your head to run away � here a deep blush s face for was he not going to run away that very day � or � or anything of that sort just write and tell me all about it first a letter will always find me at my mother s house the nest i don t of course wish to persuade you to run away � he looked as if he did though because that would be a very desperate thing to do � still if you feel you can t hold up under your lessons or that professor is too much for you why rather than break down altogether you d better show a clean pair of heels i expect fm giving you advice which a good many people would think very wrong on my part � all the same boys do run away at times � it has been done here his merry blue eyes and if you have any more of that you complained of the other day � or if you go off in a dead faint as you did last week � you really mustn t these sensations any longer � you must tell your father and let him take you to see a doctor listened with an air of rather wearied patience what s the good of it he sighed � i m not ill you know besides i ve had the doctor before and he said there was nothing the matter with me doctors don t seem to be very clever � my mother was ill two years ago and they couldn t cure her when they gave her up and left her alone she got well things always appear to go that way � the more you do the worse you get was quite accustomed to such a hopeless tone of reasoning from the boy � yet somehow on this bright summer morning when he in the full enjoyment of health and liberty was going home to those who loved him the absolute loneliness of this child s life and his pathetic resignation to it smote him with a sense of pain than usual and as for running away � continued flushing as he spoke � i might do that perhaps for a few hours but if i tried to run away for good and go for a sailor which is what i should like i should only be brought back � you know i should and if i wrote to you about it i should get

william are you going to leave your own son where s my own son replied the old man where why there that s no son of mine said philip with resentment o such wretch as that has any claim on me my children are pleasant to look at and they wait upon me and get my meat and drink ready and are useful to me i ve a right to it i m eighty seven you re old enough to be no older muttered william looking at him with his hands in his pockets i don t know what good you are we could have a deal more pleasure without you my son mr said the old man my son too the boy talking to me of my son why what has he ever done to give me any pleasure i should like to know i don t know what you have ever done to give me any pleasure said william let me think said the old man for how many the haunted han christmas times have i sat in my warm place and never had to come out in the cold night air and have made good cheer being disturbed by any such uncomfortable wretched sight him there is it twenty william forty it seems he muttered why when i look at my father sir and come to think of it dressing with an impatience and irritation that were quite new i m whipped if i can see anything in him but a of ever so many years of eating and drinking and making himself comfortable over and oyer again i � i m said the old man rambling on and weakly and i don t know as i ever was much put out by anything i m not a going to begin now because of what he calls my son he s not my son i ye had a power of pleasant times i recollect once � no i don t � no it s broken o� el it was something about a game of and a mend of mine but it s somehow broken off i wonder who he was � i suppose i liked him and i wonder what became of him � i suppose he died but i don t know and i don t care neither i don t care a bit in his drowsy and the shaking of his the hat head he mb hands into his waistcoat pockets jn one of them he found a hit of left there probably last night he now took oat and looked at eh said the old man ah it s a pity they re not good to eat i recollect when i was a little chap about as high as that and out a walking with � let me see � who was i out a walking with � no i remember how that was i don t remember as i walked with any one particular or cared for any one or any one for me eh there s good cheer when there s well i ought to have my share of it and to be waited on and kept warm and comfortable for i m eighty seven and a poor old man i m ty seven ty seven the pitiable manner in which as he repeated this he at the leaves and the out the cold eye with which his youngest son so changed regarded him the determined with which his eldest son lay hardened in his sin impressed themselves no more on s observation � for he broke his way from the spot to which his feet to have been fixed and ran out of the house his guide came crawling forth from his place of refuge and was ready for him before he reached the arches the haunted han back to the woman s he inquired back quickly answered stop nowhere on the for a short distance the boy went on before but their return was more like a flight than a walk and it was as much as his bare feet could do to keep pace with the s rapid strides shrinking om au who passed in his cloak and keeping it drawn closely about him as though there were mortal in any fluttering touch of his garments he made no pause until they reached the door by which they had come out he unlocked it with his key went in accompanied by the boy and hastened through the dark passages to his own chamber the boy watched him as he made the door fast and withdrew behind the table when he looked round come he said don t you touch me you ve not brought me here to take my money away threw some more upon the ground he flung his body on it immediately as if to hide it him lest the sight of it should tempt him to it and not until he saw him seated by his lamp with his face hidden in his hands began to pick it up when he had done so he crept near the fire and the haunted sitting down in a great chair before it took his breast some broken scraps of food and fell to and to staring at the blaze and now and then to glancing at his shillings which he kept clenched up in a bunch in one hand and this said gazing on him with in and fear is the only one companion i hare left on earth how long it was before he was aroused from his contemplation of this creature whom he dreaded so � whether half an hour or the night � he knew not but the stillness of the room was broken by the boy whom he had seen listening starting up and running towards the door here s the woman coming he exclaimed the stopped him on his way at the moment

shoot an no flower � like a great many people i knows on � ah � an not so far from this village neither i i d clear it all out if i was you � i would now i laughed don t open the old argument i he said we have talked of this before i like a bit of wild nature sometimes wild i echoed seems to me wants a bit of a wash an brush up fore she sits down to her master s table � an who s er master man i she s jest like a child out of a play in the woods an er s all blown an er nails is all dirty that s i trim er up an curl er air an she s worth looking at lor if ye likes wild ye ain t got no call to keep a ner but if ye pays me an keeps me ye must me to do my duty wherefore i why not ave this ere place a for an green � ah i an i shouldn t wonder if fly got amongst em too i � why not i say have it cleaned out i like it as it is responded with cheerful and a smile at the thick set obstinate looking figure of his head man about the place as loved to be called have you planted out my planted em out every one was e reply the an i ve put enough sweet peas in to supply garden market in mind as ow you you couldn t have enough on em sir s came along while i was a of it an e over the edge an e e com are yer no ye i ever seen com at all in a bin mixed wi an then he used a bit of is master s or language which as ye knows is � evil c good manners even in a as no more to do than wash an comb a man like a an pocket fifty a year for of is master clean lor � what a it is i � what a i god s good man he had by this time tied up the crimson in orderly fashion and the john his to hide a smile proceeded to issue various orders according to his usual daily custom don t forget to plant some in the west border not the giant kind � the of the large is rough and coarse compared with that of the smaller variety put plenty of the common stuff in � such as our grew in their gardens before you latin loving wise acres began to try for size rather than sweetness drew himself up with a quaint assumption of dignity and by lifting his head a little more showed his countenance fully � a countenance which though weather worn and deeply was a distinctly intelligent one shrewd and thoughtful with sundry little curves of humour lighting up its native expression of i suppose y are to the f k h s he said they all loves latin as cats loves milk they knows ow to pronounce it myself not bein a r e h nor likely to be i m bound to confess i in it a bit � though there s a chap i gets cheap shrubs of his latin s worse nor mine an e s got all the three letters after is name ow did e get em by reason of competition in the show lor fool can grow ye a as big as a if that s yer fancy � that ain t scientific i an as for the i reckon to agree wi ye � the size ain t the sweetness when i married i married a small for i little to carry less to keep i an that s true enough though she s gained in breadth lor love er � she never ad in as i was a the chap i gets shrubs of off is latin like of mud off a garden but e don t understand it while e it for show bless ye i it all goes down wi sir though for e e my are the prize vegetable grown by mr of r r h e s got it in is i i i a bit o latin do go down wi some folks in the line � it do now i talking of sir said his gardener s it seems he has visitors up at the hall e as so returned an god s good man o if one may go by out ard appearance not a single firm well put down leg among em mostly lords and bein so lately for a at out of tlie proceeds o bone into buttons sir couldn t a course be expected to put up wi a plain food wi im well well � whoever they are tbey want to see the church seems to me a sight o folks wants to see the church since ye spent so much money on it said somewhat there be a charge made for entry smiled thoughtfully but there was a small line of vexation on his brow they want to see the church he repeated or rather sir wants them to inspect the church � and then his smile expanded and became a soft mellow laugh what a old fellow it is one would almost think he had restored the church himself and not only restored it but built it altogether and endowed it i he turned to go then suddenly himself of other matters � that bare comer near the house must be filled with the plants are just ready to bed out and look to the in the front border by the way do you see that straight line along the wall there � where i am pointing yes sir rejoined his eyes from

and gave him making fifteen states in all that went for him giving him general had only in and lo va just carrying the two list named he was veiy close by in virginia and but can them by as there was no in new and were all the states that went strongly for him making fifteen states in all casting general received the vote recollections of a busy life of every state north and west of the and � general had a of the popular vote in the free and a small majority of that cast in the slave states seven of the and eight of the latter in the entire union the popular vote stood van south choosing her by the no return of her popular vote can be given in the event i think the of those who had and those who opposed general s as the candidate for president were both realized he proved an honest wise fearless public servant � true to his convictions but yielding all proper and deference to those whose liad placed him in the white house none more keenly regretted his sudden death � which occurred on tlie th of july after he been sixteen months president � than those who had most resisted his yet the fact remains that the party was by that and lost ground thereby in the confidence of the masses we had our great struggle of on well defined important principles of national policy whereon we were at odds witli our we had them to meet us and had met them in face discussion of our respective views and had shown the people how and why their personal prosperity and well being would be promoted by the triumph of our ideas our measures beaten in the declared result the party never stood so strong in the popular conviction that its aims were just and its policy beneficent as at the close of tlie of � as was evinced in our carrying the next house of representatives on the other hand our success in was the triumph of general not of our principles it showed that a majority ed general to general for president tliat was all we had fought the contest not on our principles but on our hence many who accepted our were ent or averse to our i principles and the very house elected with or under chose a speaker and was organized to oppose his administration the could not say with another such victory and i am ruined this one to and destroy their organization they were at once triumphant and undone i think i never saw general save for a moment at the ball on the after his accession to the i was never introduced and never wrote to him and while i ultimately supported and for him i did not hurry myself to secure his election in fact that of was my easiest and least anxious since when a resolve opposing the was laid on the table at the that him i felt that my zeal my enthusiasm for the cause was also laid there yet i have little faith in third party movements � which are generally impelled by an purpose to help one of the leading parties by drawing off from the other general at length himself a but not an and i believe tliat was about literal truth zealous apprehended tliat he might if elected shrink from the appointed by and but after giving liim a trial they were constrained to admit that he turned out better than had been expected ho was a man of little education or literary culture but of signal good sense coolness and freedom from prejudice few trained and polished have proved of civil power this rough old soldier whose life had been largely passed in camp and on the rude of civilization or in savage w far beyond it general died too soon for his country s good but not till he had proved himself a wise and good ruler if not even a great one xxvi � mile age in our state election for david s had been chosen to represent the upper district of our city in the by a small majority over colonel james tliat majority was obtained by bringing oyer from s island and in the ward the male in the � not merely those who had resided in our district before they honored our city by to live at her expense but those who had been gathered in from other districts colonel objected to this as a joke too far and on his the return of mr the house sustained the objection and without him by the people were required to vote again by tliis time it was � the year of general s election colonel confidently expected to be tlie candidate not merely for the but for the the however were fixed for mr james editor of the express who was duly for the while colonel was the for the remaining ninety days at per day of the he declined indignantly whereupon that end of a was to me i at first resolved to decline also � not seeing how to leave my business so for a three months at washington but the was so kindly pressed upon me with such apparently reasons that i accepted it j � i g s t v w� t � � � there was never any doubt of the result a soon called on me to be from mr to inquire as to what should be done to secure our election tell mr i responded that we have only to keep so still that no particular attention will be called to us and general will carry us both in there are not enough in the district who care about either of us one way or the other to swamp the majority that the cannot fail to receive the returns

mrs and where by throwing out a bow window or carrying up the roof another story or making some little alteration of that sort they might the personal history and experience live comfortably and for a few years whatever was reserved for liim he expressly said or wherever his abode might be we might rely on this � there would always be a room for and a knife and fork for me we acknowledged his kindness and he begged us to forgive his having launched into these practical and business like details and to excuse it as natural in one who was making entirely new arrangements in life mrs tapping at the wall again to know if tea were ready broke up tliis particular phase of our friendly conversation she made tea for us in a most agreeable and whenever i went near her in handing about the tea cups and bread and butter asked me in a whisper whether d was fan or dark or whether she was short or tall or something of that kind which i think i liked after tea we discussed a variety of topics before the fire and mrs was good enough to sing us in a small thin flat voice which i remember to have considered when i first knew her the very table beer of the favorite of the dashing white and little for both of these songs mrs had been famous when she lived at home with her papa and mr told us that when he heard her sing the first one on the first occasion of his seeing her beneath the parental roof she had attracted his attention in an extraordinary degree but that when it came to little he had resolved to win that woman or perish in the attempt it was between ten and eleven o clock when mrs rose to replace her cap in the brown paper parcel and to put on her bonnet mr took the opportunity of putting on his great coat to slip a letter into my hand with a whispered request that i would read it at my leisure i also took the opportunity of my holding a candle over the to light them down when mr was going first leading mrs and was following with the cap to detain for a moment on the top of the stairs said i mr don t mean any harm poor fellow but if i were you i wouldn t lend him anything my dear ned smiling i haven t got anything to lend you have got a name you know said i oh you call that something to lend returned with a thoughtful look certainly oh said yes to be sure i am very much obliged to you but � i am afraid i have lent him that already for the bill that is to be a certain i ed no said not for that one this is the first i have heard of that one i have been thinking that lie will most likely propose that one on the way home mine s another i hope there will be nothing wrong about it said l i hope not said i should think not though because he told me only the other day that it was provided for that was mr s expression provided mr looking up at this juncture to where we were standing i of david had only time to repeat my caution thanked me and descended but i was much afraid when i observed the good natured manner in which he went down with the cap in his hand and gave mrs his arm that he would be carried into the money market neck and heels i returned to my fireside and was musing half gravely and half laughing on the character of mr and the old relations between us when i heard a quick step ascending the stairs at first i thought it was coming back for something mrs had left behind but as the step approached i knew it and felt my heart beat high and the blood rush to my face for it was s i was never of and she never left that in my thoughts � if i may call it so � where i had placed her from the first but when he entered and stood before me with his hand out the darkness that had fallen on him changed to light and i felt confounded and ashamed of having doubted one i loved so heartily i loved her none the less i thought of her as the same gentle angel in my life i reproached myself not her with having done him an injury and i would have made him any if i had known what to make and how to make it why old boy dumb laughed shaking my hand heartily and throwing it gaily away have i detected you in another feast you these doctors fellows are the men in town i believe and beat us sober oxford people all to nothing his bright glance went merrily round the room as he took the seat on the sofa opposite to me which mrs had recently and stirred the fire into a blaze i was so surprised at first said i giving him welcome with all the cordiality i felt that i had hardly breath to greet you with well the sight of me is good for sore eyes as the scotch say replied and so is the sight of you in full bloom how are you my i am very well said i and not at all to night though i confess to another party of three all of whom i met in the street talking loud in your praise returned who s our friend in the i gave him the best idea i could in a few words of mr he laughed heartily at my feeble portrait of that gentleman and said

fish of this kind and after running her head against the same resisting medium for thirteen years would go at it again to day with alacrity this observation of hers tended directly to convince mr that it would not be at all awkward for him to raise five hundred pounds and when mrs became rather pressing to know how he would raise it without the mill and the house which he had said he never would since nowadays people were none so ready to lend money without security mr getting warm declared that mrs might do as she liked about calling in her money � he should pay it in whether or not he was not going to be beholding to his wife s sisters when a man had married into a where there was a whole litter of women he might have plenty to put up with if he chose but mr did not choose mrs cried a little in a quiet way as she put on her but presently sank into a comfortable sleep by the thought that she would talk every thing over with her sister to morrow when she was to take the children to to tea not that she looked forward to any distinct issue from that talk but it seemed impossible that past events should be so obstinate as to remain when they were complained against her husband lay awake rather longer for he too was thinking of a visit he would pay on the morrow and his ideas on the subject were not of so vague and soothing a kind as those of his amiable partner mr when under the influence of a strong had a in action that may seem with that painful sense of the complicated nature of human under which his more were conducted but it is really not improbable that there was a direct relation between these apparently contradictory phenomena since i have observed that for getting a strong impression that a is tangled there is nothing hke hastily at a single thread it was owing to this that mr was on horseback soon after dinner the next day he was not on his way to to see his sister moss and her husband for having made up his mind that he would pay mrs her loan of five hundred pounds the mill on the it naturally occurred to him that he had a note for three hundred pounds lent to his brother in law moss and if said brother in law could manage to pay in the money within a given time it would go far to lessen the air of which mr s spirited step might have worn in the eyes of weak people who require to know precisely a thing is to be done before they are strongly confident that it will be easy for mr was in a position neither new nor striking but like other every day things sure to have a that will be felt in the long run he was held to be a much more substantial man than he really was and as we are all apt to what the world believes about us it was his habit to think of failure and ruin with the same sort of remote pity with which a spare long man hears that his short neighbor is stricken with he had been always used to hear pleasant jokes about his advantages as a man who worked his own mill and owned a pretty bit of land and these jokes naturally kept up his sense that he was a man of considerable substance they gave a pleasant flavor to his glass on a market day and if it had not been for the of half yearly mr would really have forgotten that there was a of two thousand pounds on his very desirable that was not altogether his own fault since one of the thousand pounds was his sister s fortune which he had had to pay on her marriage and a man who has neighbors that will go to law with him is not likely to pay off his especially if he the good opinion of acquaintances who want to borrow a pounds on security too lofty to be represented by our friend mr had a good natured fibre in him and did not like to give harsh even to a sister who had not only come into the world in that superfluous way characteristic of sisters creating a necessity for but had quite thrown herself away in marriage and had crowned her mistakes by having an eighth baby on this point mr was conscious of being a httle weak but he to himself by saying that poor had been a good looking before she married moss � he would sometimes say this even with a slight in his voice but this morning he was in a mood more becoming a man of business and in the course of his ride along the lanes with their deep � lying so far away from a market town that the labor of drawing produce and was enough to take away the best part of the profits on such poor land as that parish was made he got up a due amount of irritation against moss ths hill on the as a man capital who if and were abroad was sure to have his share of them and who the more you tried to help him out of the mud would sink the further in it would do him good rather than harm now if he were obliged to raise this three hundred pounds it would make him look about him better and not act so foolishly about his wool this year as he did the last in � act mr had been too easy with his brother in law and because he had let the in � run on for two years moss was likely enough to

wearied nature sank under the long and sleep drew around her the curtain of it was but for a few brief days and nights that could be permitted to sit and gaze upon her last earthly treasure and oh how solemn was the dawn of each succeeding morning ds it rose upon the living and the dead how silently the still evening closed around yet in that sweet hour when the returns from the field of labour when the cattle are driven down firom the hills and the sheep are gathered into the fold when the weary bird flies back to the woods and covers her with her brooding wings when the mother the pillow of her child and presses on its rosy cheek her farewell kiss when all the softening influences of domestic peace and home are drawn around the heart � even in that sweet hour uttered no and the tears that chased each other down her cheeks were not tears of for she had not been one of those who leave the commencement of the great and important work until the time when there is urgent need for its full and entire completion who enter the to feast upon the grapes having never the vines who go forth into the harvest field to reap having never sown the precious seed in the spring time of her life in the morning of her days she had diligently sought the true fountain and now when every other draught was turned to bitterness she foimd and felt the of the waters of everlasting life a second time bland too a deep the s widow and solitary by the side of the closing grave over her pale features was spread the calmness of resignation and none of the surrounding throng of on knew or cared to know with what feelings she turned away when the last solemn rites were over from that little churchyard � not the noisy space of ground allotted to the burial of the dead which her son had so spoken of with disgust and horror but a quiet resting place one they had fixed upon together during their last walk into the country here she had stood beside the grave not only the chief but the sole and here she left with her buried treasure all the hopes and the which bound her to this troubled life from this now sacred spot of earth returned to her � home what is home surely there must be something more than a hired to constitute a home but had in this wide world nothing more happy is it for those who feel that their home is an habitation not made with hands eternal in the heavens the christian character is almost universally described as one which is and be at with what is commonly the world the christian church is called the church and the christian himself is often spoken of as one who is compelled to fight the good fight all the good lessons which we learn from our infancy our observations upon the world in general the experience of every day and the of the holy combine to teach us that the utmost stretch of faith and perseverance and and zeal are necessary to protect us against the mastery of evil passions within and the temptations of the world without it is however graciously permitted to us in almost every situation in life to enjoy the consolation of human help to have some star or stars in our own low sphere to light us on our way some kind voice to cheer us on our pilgrimage some home of welcome in the hearts we love where the wounded may fly for healing and the weary for repose how thankful then ought we to be for this mingling of earthly affections with heavenly this of the task of duty this of the cup of self denial and how deep how sincere should be our pity for those unto whom this merciful is not extended unto whom it is by the wisdom that not that they shall journey through the wilderness alone unto whom the sentence h s gone forth behold i will take away the desire of thine eyes as with a stroke in this situation the christian is severely tried for here no earthly encouragement is held out and whatever is done must be done purely for the love of god for the pleasure of obeying his law and walking in his ways in order more fully to illustrate the nature of true resignation and more clearly to what ought to be the state of the human mind under this trial it will be necessary to trace the progress of the humble individual whose character has been here described one step farther on her path of patience and fortitude for this purpose let us look in upon the widow in her solitude let us imagine her on the day following that of the funeral solitary but not for busied herself with examining each article of the personal property which her son had left and though her eyes were sometimes so with tears that she could hardly read the different he had placed upon all his school and his of affection and early companionship she still went on leaving out whatever she thought might be more valuable to others than to herself though it was a hard thing to part even with his wardrobe now that she was so desolate and forlorn this duty moreover was gone through and sat down to spend the evening alone � alone and without employment for when she laid down her bible and would have taken up her work the thought that pictures op private life she had now no longer any one to work for seemed to her fingers and throw a chain of icy coldness upon every rouse herself for active exertion it was not long however that permitted her

than to destroy existing society and to take possession of the whole world if the law of the land they fight for this end revolution at the box if the law of the land does not permit and if they have force out to them they resort to force themselves they meet violence with violence their hands are strong and they are in russia for instance there is no the government the the kill the officers of the government the meet legal der with now here arises a particularly significant phase which would be well for the rulers to consider let me make it i am a yet i am a fairly sane and normal individual i speak and i of these in russia as my comrades so do all the comrades in america and all the comrades in the world of what worth an organized movement if our comrades are not backed up the world over worth is shown by the fact that we do back up the by our comrades in russia they are not of nor are we we are our comrades in russia have formed what th call the fighting organization this fighting revolution organization accused found guilty and condemned to death one minister of interior on april he was shot and killed in the palace two years later the fighting organization condemned to death and executed another minister of interior von having done so it issued a document dated july setting forth the counts of its of von and its responsibility for the now and to the point this document was sent out to the of the world and by them was published everywhere in the magazines and newspapers the point is not that the of the world were to do it not that they dared to do it but that they did it as a matter of routine giving publication to what may be called an official document of the movement these are high lights upon the revolution � granted but they are also facts and they are given to the rulers and the ruling classes not in not to frighten them but for them to consider more deeply the spirit and nature of this world revolution the time has come for the revolution to demand consideration it has fastened upon eveiy civilized revolution country in the world as fast as a becomes civilized the revolution upon it with the introduction of the machine into was introduced marched into the shoulder to shoulder with the american soldiers the echoes of the last gun had scarcely died away when were forming in and vastly more significant is the fact that of all the countries the revolution has fastened upon on not one has it relaxed its grip on the contrary on every its grip year by year as an active movement it began over a generation ago in its strength in the world was by its vote had increased to not till did it pass the half million point by it had passed the million point it had then gained in the vote of the world was in in in in � in and in the year of our lord it passed the seven million mark nor has this flame of revolution left the united states untouched in there were only in there were revolution and in were cast what this flame not hard times the first four years of the twentieth were considered prosperous years yet in that time more than men added themselves to the ranks of the flinging their defiance in the teeth of society and taking their stand under the blood red banner in the state of the writer one man in twelve is an and one thing must be clearly understood this is no spontaneous and vague of a large mass of discontented and miserable people � a blind and instinctive from hurt on the contrary the is intellectual the movement is based upon necessity and is in line with social while the miserable people have not yet the is no starved and slave in the at the bottom of the social pit but is in the main a hearty well fed who sees the waiting for him and his children and from the the very miserable people are too helpless to help themselves but they are being helped and the day is not far i revolution distant when their numbers will go to swell the ranks of the another thing must be clearly understood in spite of the fact that middle class men and professional men are interested in the movement it is nevertheless a distinctly working class revolt the world over it is a working class rev j the workers of the world as a class are fighting the of the world as a class the so called great middle class is a growing in the social struggle it is a class to the contrary and its historic mission of between the and working classes has just about been fulfilled little remains for it but to wail as it passes into oblivion as it has already begun to wail in accents and the i fight is on the revolution is here now and it is the world s workers that are in revolt naturally the question arises why is this so no mere whim of the spirit can give rise to a world revolution whim does not to there must be a deep seated cause to make men of the one mind to make them cast off to the gods and lose faith in so fine a thing revolution as patriotism there are many counts of the which the bring against the class but for present use only one need be stated and it is a count to which capital has never replied and can never reply the class has managed society and its management has failed and not only has it failed in its management but it

t your sake my awoke a wonder in her that as if it would have been touched with die could have rendered me at all own mind i am going she said again in a to be married to him the preparations for my h � are making and i shall be married soon do you ly introduce the i ty it is my own act your own act to fling yourself away np � on whom fi i ag es s a smile t sing if away man who would the feel if people do oh things that i took nothing to bim ii is done i shall do well enough and m will my as to leading mo into what call this step ha would have had mn wait ud not marry yet but i am tired of the life i have ud which very few charms for me and i am willing enough to change it say no more we understand each other such a mean such a stupid brute i urged b despair don t be afraid of my being a blessing to him said i shall not be that come here is ay hand do we part on this you visionary � o i answered as my bitter tears fell on her hand do what i would to restrain them ei if i remained in england and could hold my up with the rest how could i see you s � she returned nonsense this will in no time never you will get me out of your thoughts in a week ont of my thoughts you are part of my part of myself tou have been in every line i have � read since i first came here tlie rough common � poor heart yon wounded even then you we been in every prospect i have ever seen since � the river on the sails of the ships on tlie tlie in the light in the da tt � fe in in great have been the of every graceful my mind has ever become acquainted with the of which the strongest london are ma not more real or more impossible to be your hands than your presence and influence to me there and everywhere and will be to the last hour of my life you cl part of my character part of the little i part of the evil but in this separation i you only with the good and i will hold you to that always for you must have far more good than harm let me now what distress i may god bless you god forgave in what ecstasy of i got i words out of myself i don t know the i up within me like blood from an inward won and out i held her hand to my lips b lingering and so i left her but ever bi i wards i remembered � and soon afterwards i stronger reason � that while looked at merely with incredulous wonder the of miss her hand still covering her hi all resolved into a ghastly stare of pity remorse all done all much was done and g that when i went out at the gate the light of the tl seemed of a darker colour than when i went in i hid myself among some lanes and by p� md then struck off to walk all the way to for i had by that time come to myself so bi consider that i not inn and i there thai co � ao i v� ms be spoken to that could do nothing r myself aa tire oat � past midnight i bridge k narrow of tbe which at westward near the shore of my to the temple was cl to morrow but i bad my keys and if h b gone to bed could get to bed myself seldom happened that i i gate after the temple was closed and muddy and weary did not take it night porter examined me with much attention j the gate a little way open for me to pass in memory i mentioned my name � not quite sure sir but i thought ao here s the messenger that brought it said would good as read it by my lantern by the request i took the note it to philip and on the top of h at e of i i t iu opened it i read inside m t home the words please read the holding up i in a writing great expectations xvii from the temple gate as soon as i read the i made the best of my j to street and there got a chariot and to the m garden in those always to he got there at any hour ofl night and the letting me in at his lighted the candle next in order on his and showed me straight into the bedroom next in his list it was a sort of vault on the ground a at the back with a monster of a four p in it over the whole place one of his arbitrary legs into the fireplace and into the doorway and the wretched washing stand in quite a righteous as i had asked for a night the had brought me in before he left me the good j constitutional of those virtuous days � i object like the ghost of a walking cane which broke its back if it were touched which nothing ca ever be lighted at and which was placed in confinement at the bottom of a high tin tower with round holes that made a awake pattern on the walls when i had got ii bed and lay there weary and wretched found that i could no more close my own eyes could close the eyes of this foolish and in the gloom and death of the night we at t i n ow

a tremulous whisper � i must save my son and save you from yourself no matter what it costs me you little know on the brink of what a crime you he laughed a bitter laugh for was he not already in crime she thought liim pitiless and malignant when he was only hopeless and condemned do you remember richard and that happened there can you not guess why i was made to what waa it � a month a week a � it seemed but the next after lost you tou have had twenty bred in the bone years of misery for my sake but have i for yours did my love me think jou did lie love my child he had good cause i had only to us both can you he looked at her with eager hope � a trembling joy pervaded him but hope and joy had been strangers to him so long that he could s recognize them for what they is also richard � richard burst into tears was s body still to love him in the hie own and blood � somebody to live lor the thought him with delight a vision of ness floated before him for an then wa swallowed up in as a single star by the gloom of his own flesh and blood ay perhaps the same nature as his it was only l� o likely from what he had seen of the lad and he had himself done his best to develop the evil in him and to crush the good don t weep dear richard kiss me he shrank from her proffered lips with a cold shudder nay i can not kiss jou do not ask me why harry never ask me but i never she looked at him with wonder for she saw that his wrath had vanished his tone was tender though and his h as he put her was as gentle as a child s as jou please richard she and with a deep blush i only wished for it as a token of your forgiveness it is not necessary those tears have told me we are reconciled but yon will he must never know answered richard gloomily i had forgotten simply you can guess by that the of my heart toward vou richard i forgot that to reveal it would be to tell mj darting of his mother s shame but you will be kind and good to him jou will undo what you have done of harm you will lead him back to and then ho will be safe yes muttered richard mechanically i will so far as i can what i hate done of harm i wiu do my best as i have done my he rose hastily and rang the bell harry ed him like some attached creature that with but can not comprehend its master hie waiter entered i shall not go by the train said richard let a carriage and pair be brought round without a moment s delay the waiter hurried out to execute the order but jou will surely return home richard after what has happened said harry thinking of his mother s funeral the dead can wait returned he solemnly go back to town in three days time if you do not hear from me come down to with and but i dare not unless my husband send for he send for you said richard solemnly or others will in his behalf without one word or sign of farewell he suddenly rushed by her and was gone a carriage stood at the front door of the hotel which had just returned from taking a bride and bridegroom chapter had many subjects for thought lo his lonely wa to but one was and absorbed the rest though he strove to dismiss it all he could he endeavored to think of his dead mother his heart was full of her patient love and life but her portrait faded from his mind like a view and in its place stood that of solomon haggard hideous still less could he think of and her sod between whom and himself this of the unhappy man rose up at once summoned by the thought of them as b j a spell it did not occur to richard even now that he had had no right to kill him hut he shuddered to think if he had really done so how this late opening flower of love which he had just discovered would blossom fear and in that case his heart would have been softened only to be pierced his mother s death the knowledge of harry s fidelity and of the existence of his to whom his affection had been already drawn and in spite of himself had dissolved his cruel purpose he was to spare his mother s memory the shame of the foul crime he had contemplated and passionately anxious that in the veins of liis new found son there should at least run no murderer s faster faster was still his cry though the horses galloped whenever it was practicable and the wheels cast the winter s c into his eager this haste was made as he well knew upon the road lo his own to find solomon alive was to be accused of having his death there was no hope in the of such a foe but yesterday richard had cared little or nothing for his own safety and was only upon the of his scheme against his foe now life had become dear him and he was about risk it in saving the man he had most earth from the doom to which he had himself him he had calculated the � s which were in his own favor and they had resolved themselves into this single chance � that solomon might be induced by the ter of and its golden o forego his revenge his

expectation that my next absence would be a long one i divided with him my and with in my pocket and very little extra clothing in my i set my face toward new york it was now � dry and hot i had but one friend on my rather long route and i resolved to pay him a visit he lived at nearly forty miles westward of and i traversed on foot the dusty ridge road eastward from the day before i reached him that day was quite hot and the water i was incessantly compelled to drink seemed very hard by nightfall i fancied that it had covered my mouth and throat with a scale like that often found a long used tea kettle the region was gently rolling and very fertile but i should have more enjoyed a over new england hills and rocks by draughts from new england and springs it was saturday night when i reached my friend and i remained with him tiu afternoon when we down to the canal and waited long for a boat none came till after nightfall when i dismissed my friend confident that a boat must soon appear after waiting in vain till near midnight i started down the tow path and walked through the darkness to some fifteen miles repeatedly the head light of a boat moving westward came in sight when i was obliged to plunge down the often rugged off bank of the tow path to avoid being caught by the tow line and hauled into the not quite transparent and inviting drink though the made that night short it seemed to me quite long and i very gladly hailed and at a boat eastward my sleepy tendencies amused my fellow passengers thence to to whom sunday night afforded a ready and natural explanation xl my in new york reaching from by line boat � my sixth and last on the raging canal � i about p m and took the for i think a railroad between the two cities first and last named was completed soon afterward but i believe not a mile of iron track was then in the state if in fact anywhere in america save the little affair constructed to freight granite from the at mass to boston night fell when i was about half way over so i sought rest in one of the many indifferent that then lined the in question and was directed to sleep in an room through which people were passing i declined and gathering up my handful of walked on half a mile farther i found another tavern not quite so and managed to stay in it tiu morning when i rose and walked on to having never been in that city before i missed the nearest way to the day boat and when i reached the landing it was two or three on its way to new york having left at a m i had no choice but to wait for another which started at a m a on either side and reached in twenty hours the where i after a good view of the city as we passed it down the river landed near at a m new york was then about one third of her present size but her business was not one fourth so great as now and her real size � counting her and considering the of thousands who find employment in and earn here recollections of a busy life though sleeping outside of her limits � was not one fifth that of no single railroad pointed her no line of ocean brought passengers to her hotels nor goods to her from any foreign port in the world her relative rank was higher but her absolute importance was scarcely greater than that of or san is to day still to my eyes which had never till yesterday gazed on a city of even inhabitants nor seen a sea going vessel her miles square of mainly brick or stone houses and her of and yards afforded ample to a wonder and admiration akin to awe it was if i recollect aright the th of august i was twenty years old the preceding february tall slender pale and with ten dollars in my pocket summer clothing worth perhaps aa much more nearly all on my back and a decent knowledge of so much of the art of as a boy will usually learn in the ofi ce of a country newspaper but i knew no human being within two hundred and my rustic manner and address did not favor that immediate command of employment which was my most urgent need however the world was all before me my personal estate tied up in a pocket handkerchief did not at all me and i stepped lightly off the boat and away from the detested hiss of escaping steam walking into and up broad street in quest of a boarding house i found and entered one at or near the comer of wall but the price of board given me was s per week so i did not need the s candidly kind suggestion that i would probably prefer one where the charge was more moderate wandering thence i cannot say how to the north river side i halted next at west street where the sign of boarding on a edifice fixed my attention i entered and was shelter and at per week which seemed more rational and i closed the bargain my host was mr edward his place quite as much shop as boarding house but it was quietly decently my first experiences in new york kept while i stayed in it and he and hia family were kind and friendly i regret to add that liquor proved his ruin not many years afterward my first day in new york was a friday and the family being catholic no meat was eaten or provided which

had since i was a much as wine was to be desired on such an occasion and particularly for the stale fish there was no wine to be got until six o clock during this melancholy entertainment observed that he hoped we were all right about for he was advertised to preach at so many different places that one could never be quite sure was speechless with indignation but and i gave the young man so much of our minds as to induce him to confess he was only joking immediately after cheese we drove away in two to the music hall an hour s paying and for would smoke ensued before we reached lights and shadows our which seemed to e a long blank wall in a perfectly empty street an official person with his back against it informed us that only preached there in the mornings and that in the evenings he preached at his own chapel a mile or two off in who had quarrelled with coming along immediately began to walk back again without any remark and as we afterwards discovered had the misfortune to be near to the south western railway station we three drove on to the chapel the street in front of which was filled with masses of people not knowing that had previously paid the discharged the entire account over again from which circumstance much dispute arose between the two friends but there was no time to lose in inquiries if we were to hear that evening though we formed ourselves into a solid square of three we had much to keep our position in the crowd and could not advance one step the great iron gates in front of london life of the chapel were closed but two strong currents of people were flowing in by ticket at the a thoroughly notion as observed whose when disgusted is sarcasm presently the police let three great waves of outside folk through the main entrance and then the inexorable iron closed for good we were in the fourth wave next the bars a � one of those of whom is reported to have said resist the devil and he will fly from you but resist a and he will fly at you � here addressed us and implored us to go away mr himself has said that his chapel holds but twelve hundred to hear and two thousand to the two thousand are now in three streets off there is good doctrine a most respectable minister � chapel first turn on the left hand this announcement w s greeted by a general groan the sentiment of which was and not till the opening hymn � it sounded like a song of triumph � was raised by the fortunate inmates of the wished for vol ii p lights and shadows place did we in the street begin to melt away in and in those unknown ill paved regions i claim credit for myself and that we did not do for who appeased us however in some slight measure by standing for we had had no dinner in any high sense of the term � at the club on the sunday called upon me at breakfast time with two tickets admission for lord s day mornings to the temple of i glared at him for a moment or two and then consented to go it was a beautifully clear day the gardens in which the music hall was built were crisp with frost and their ornamental waters sparkled in the sun the scene was more like one in paris than in london and the vast of ticket among the statues and the and in front of the great model of the russian seemed pleasure rather than church the music hall itself with its hundred windows and long gilded galleries with its printed of cloak of london life refreshment rooms this way to the and so on which were suffered to remain in all their native contrasted strangely with the usual of religion amongst us two private boxes on either side the alone reminding one by a sort of of the grand old british upon the seats and the vast assemblage own particular flock were and where the conductor s box was wont to be was reared an enormous pen by way of pulpit how the folk kept in � for the most part well dressed � there were scarcely any poor among them � and quite as many as females the majority like ourselves with curious half smiling faces but a large too with very ones in whose chiefly feminine hands were a bible and a ticket neatly wrapped up in a pocket handkerchief these tickets by the by cost but twelve for a course of four sermons and it is fair to state go a very little way towards paying the hire of so vast a place which is expected to be by p lights and shadows the voluntary of the congregation at the doors the body of the hall and also the best seats in the galleries were filled before the gates were opened to the general public and the religious world rolled in upon us like a flood in ten minutes when the gates were closed again there was not an empty seat to be seen the whisper that this great crowd dropped in an instant and every man s head was is if by magic for we had come together some of us at least to worship and lo there was the preacher a middle sized person not above twenty five years old ji most heavy rather flat faced straight haired � but with what a voice without effort without perceptible lift even it filled that mighty temple with a volume of sound a short opening prayer somewhat remarkable for was followed by a hymn which a man with a fork gave out from the seats and the select few began

had been packed up the sitting room struck him as looking a little bare as he entered it is mr out he asked the who brought up his yes sir he was called out by a message he left a note for you on the desk went to the desk and found it it contained only a few lines everything is prepared for you the audience will be the best you have had at any time i have been sent for by the man he is ill of and wishes to deliver some letters to me i will be with you before you go on the platform since he had left washington had heard from but once and then but briefly he had felt that his dark mood was upon him and this reference to letters recalled the fact is the little man with the cattle claim he commented to himself he comes from the neighbourhood of the cross roads what letters could he have to hand over and he began to dress wondering had spent a sleepless night he could not sleep because his last interview with had driven him hard even though he had been able to promise him the required five hundred dollars he also could not sleep because the air of the city had been full of talk about the in connection with the de claim promising outlook of the de claim over the reports he had heard he had raged almost with tears the is he had said they re an it gives em a pull even if they was an a pore man works hard an ain t but a honest farmer an a sound union man ain t got no show ef i d been a i could got pulled wires fur me but i t but my loyal union principles i ain t no an i never aimed to be none the bitterness of his nervous envy would have kept him awake if he had had no other reason for being disturbed but most of all he was sleepless because he was desperately ill and in danger he knew nothing of cold and weeks of semi starvation anxiety excitement and garments had done the little man to death and he lay raging with fever and with pain at each breath tossing and gasping and burning but thinking only of and the herds and the scraps of paper which were to bring him five hundred dollars he was physically wretched but even while he was with fits of and with pain it did not occur to him to think that he was in danger he was too wholly absorbed in other thoughts the only danger he recognised was the danger that there might be some failure in his plans � that might give him up � that the parson might back out of his bargain that after all letters save by a man s christian name were not substantial evidence perhaps he would not come at all perhaps he would leave the city perhaps if he came he would refuse to give more than half or quarter the sum asked then would throw him over � he knew in connection with the de claim would throw him over he uttered a small cry like a tortured cat i know he ll do it he said i seen it in his eye yesterday when he let out on me an said he was a sick of the business i shed kept my mouth shut i d said too much an it made him mad he ll throw me over monday ef i don t take him the money on sunday he ate nothing all through the day but lay waiting for the passing of the hours he had calculated as to which post would bring the letter from he had written to tell her of the hiding place in which he had kept the bits of paper safe and dry through all the years she was to them in a stout envelope and send them to him through the long dragging day he lay alone burning gasping fighting for his breath in the attacks of which seemed to tear his lungs asunder there was a clock in a room below whose striking he could hear each hour each time it struck he felt as if weeks elapsed sometimes it was months he had begun to be and to think queer things once or twice he heard a man talking in a wail and after a few minutes that it was himself and that he did not know what he had said though he knew he had been arguing with who was proving to him that his claim was too rotten to have a ghost of a chance by the time the afternoon post arrived he was semi and did not know how it happened that he at last found himself holding s letter in his hand he laughed when he opened it it was all right there were the two sheets of paper � small sheets written close and in a peculiar hand he had often studied the handwriting and believed if he had seen it again he should know it it was in connection with the de claim small but strong and characteristic though that was not what he had called it ef more time an could worked it out more � an got him to write down � i could more of a hold he said but wouldn t give me no time the post arrived earlier than he had expected it and this gave him time to lie and fret and listen again for the striking of the clock in the room downstairs the waiting became too long and as his fever increased he became impatient and could not restrain himself to lie and listen for his visitor s footsteps upon the stairs � to lie until seven o clock �

it proper there is a party which is just as to you as ever the party was and which we believe you wish most fervently wish to it is the republican party at the head of which is the present administration it will be in vain for you to deny this it is not in your protest only that we look for the evidence of it it is in your conduct on the floor of from an occasional difference with the measures of the administration we should not have drawn this conclusion because such a result might have been expected from the different and habits of different minds but when we find you organized into a corps against the administration and pursuing your opposition with as much system and i will add as you manifested towards the we can have no doubt that you wish their as devoutly as ever you wished that of the yes it is not mr only it is the administration which you it is their united which produces all this agitation and screaming among the birds of night they long for the day fall which better suits the of their sight for the season of darkness when the peculiar of their organs may give them an advantage and their fierce and spirit may have full scope for and after some arguments in favour of the principle the author proceeds that conference is a medium of communication between the states it shows to one state the opinions of another and to the united states the result of the whole those who on the comparison find themselves in the if they he the genuine friends of of harmony and of the union will sacrifice their private to those great public objects and thus by between the states will be prevented will be avoided and these will continue to fall where the constitution intended them to fall on the people by their such will always be the result while the people continue united virtuous and patriotic � or say that a country is cursed with a who instead of thus sacrificing to the public good would sacrifice every earthly and every heavenly consideration to the views of their own ambition then there is the more occasion for concert and good understanding among the virtuous and pacific majority so that whether in times chap xvi the of internal peace or trouble the conference is constitutional harmless and when was it ever more so than on the present occasion when to say the least of them a parcel of hot young men to resemble s character of the earl of to be the up and down of themselves together to and ruin one of the most virtuous and able public servants that ever blessed a free nation and did you suppose that it would be in the power of such men as you are to shake the gratitude and attachment of the people to such a man as mr what could you have thought of us what could you have thought of yourselves of mr we had supposed it might have been truly said as dr johnson is reported to have said of sir that he is one of those men with whom if a person were to quarrel he would be the most at a loss how to abuse but in this sentiment dr johnson went upon the supposition that the abuse should proceed upon facts or at least have some small degree of resemblance to them the power of invention and of which you have displayed were together beyond his calculation the objection of want of energy is then taken up the protest had against mr in this language we ask for energy and we are told of his moderation we ask for talents and the reply is his merit we ask what were his services in the cause of public liberty and we are directed to the pages of the written in with alexander and john in which the most extravagant of their doctrines are maintained and we ask for as a republican standing forth to stem the torrent of oppression which threatened to the liberties of the country we ask for that high and honourable sense of duty which would at all times turn with and from any compromise with fraud and speculation we ask in vain the reply to this is spirited and personal presenting a strong example of the author s power of sarcasm this is just such pretty little sing song composition as with senses half awake dream over for their first and too are you that hold this language concerning mr as to the most prominent among you we ask for your energy and we are told of your we ask for your talents and me reply ia vol i � one of the people your and your we ask what are your services in the cause of public liberty and we are directed to your co operation with the british cabinet and the british author of war in to justify the plunder of our commerce we ask for your as and we are told of what you were and what you are � of your former attachment to the pure principles of the administration and your present and frantic against them we ask for that high and honourable sense of duty which with disdain on all selfish considerations of private and personal looks only to the public good we ask for the mind which that great object with calmness and discretion which instead of and itself upon a partial view of a measure takes the time to look patiently and calmly to all its consequences in all its bearings to allow to every consideration its due weight and then instead of rushing to its decision in a state of feverish passion takes its ground with that dignity which results from a conscious mastery of the subject � from mingled and firmness

how make up his mind i can write very nice letter all in english learn that at or if you rather write in at this sally dick grinned for it pleased his wounded soul to see getting the worst of it for once in her life and burst out laughing the general effect was to induce to change her mind rapidly yes i shall stop she went on as though she had never suggested anything else because i suppose it is my duty to give him every chance glad you stop said my humble people much honoured give you nice house high up there on the mountain since in this month you catch great fever down here and perhaps stop too long and turning she issued a sharp and sudden order men sprang up bowed and ran to do her bidding what s that asked dick nervously nothing said only tell them make ready house on the mountain and take your things there and set guard about it so you no be hurt now i go good night whereon she rose bowed to her people bowed to her guests and then ct tbe making a deep to lifted his hand and with it her brow after this she descended from the platform and at its foot was instantly surrounded by an armed guard in the midst of which preceded by old marched down the passage between the central columns of the great hall while to right and left as was their custom on these of ceremony her people themselves as she passed shouting said she is charming no wonder do love her like all her folks look how they bow where is my photograph thing i wish to take them quick mustn t take photograph here answered gloomily they think that bad magic great big evil e no photograph please but had already forgotten her intention and was advancing towards my dear she said as climbing the platform she dropped into the throne like chair by and then bending forward solemnly kissed him upon the brow my dear oh i am glad to see you i cannot say how glad am glad to see you also he answered though i wish we could have met under more pleasant circumstances you are in a deep hole she said down at the bottom of a well but there is light above and who knows you may come out again i don t see how he answered sadly no but god sees perhaps he will pull you out i am sorry for you dear i have no patience with and that dick i hate him now and always tell me a little about things he said we may not have another chance so she told him all she knew dick and had vanished back through the side door the audience for the � and most part had melted away only a few of them remaining at the far end of the hall as she spoke rapidly mixing german and english words together although his intelligence followed her s mind wandered as was its ancient fashion he recalled for instance how and he had once sat together upon another in a very different hall far away in england you remember he said suddenly that new year s eve at the night i got engaged and what you told me then she nodded you said she would breed trouble he went on you said she was very dangerous well it is so and now � what am i to do nothing at all just wait she answered you have a month and during that time you need only see her in public in a month many things may happen indeed i do think that things will happen and once again that look crept over the strong solid face and into the quiet eyes the same look that he had noted years ago when she sat with him on the in the hall at god he does not desert men like you who have suffered so cruelly and behaved so well she murmured gently pressing his hand look dick has come back and is calling me when shall we meet again to morrow he said i cannot see her to night i will not see her privately at all till the month is up you must make her understand oh she understands well enough and so does dick and so do i but are they safe here safer than in london only they must not speak ill of the lady good night good night dear she said and went away leaving him seated there alone upon the platform m was ot tbe spirit that night and slept in the house which had assigned to them it was situated upon a over two miles from the town of which it formed part of the was cool and commanded a beautiful view to dick was given a similar but somewhat smaller house belonging to the same chain of but about five hundred yards away both of these houses were and both of them guarded day and night that no harm might come to the guests of the tribe so angry was that for a long while she would scarcely speak to who their meal finished sat upon a kind of or outlook place a shut bible upon her knees looking at the desert upon the one hand and the misty on the other at this game of silence her patient mind was far stronger than that of at length the latter could bear it no longer the deep peace of the place which should have soothed only exasperated her raw temper she broke out into a of words she abused for bringing her here and exposing her to such she named by ill names she declared that she would go away at once ah asked at last and will you take dick with you no she answered i

t money for old to show off with they supposed did they what business was it of old s more than anybody else s it wasn t his why couldn t he leave the boys property alone and murmuring other expressions of their dissatisfaction which seemed to find a greater relief in calling him old than in any other available vent not a word had been said to the young gentlemen nor a hint dropped of anything like a contemplated marriage between mr b a and the fair doctor especially seemed to take pains to look as if nothing would surprise him more but it was perfectly well known to all the young gentlemen nevertheless and when they departed for the society of their relations and friends they took leave of mr with awe and son mr s most romantic visions were fulfilled the doctor had determined to paint the house outside and put it in thorough repair and to give up the business and to give up the and began upon the very day of the young gentlemen s departure and now behold the wedding morning was and in a new pair of spectacles was waiting to be led to the altar the doctor with his learned legs and mrs in a bonnet and mr b a with his long and his head of hair and mr s brother the reverend alfred m a who was to perform the ceremony were all assembled in the drawing room and with her and had just come down and looked as of old a little squeezed in appearance but very charming when the door opened and the weak eyed young man in a loud voice made the following mr and mrs upon which there entered mr grown extremely stout and on his arm a lady very handsomely and dressed with very bright black eyes mrs said mr allow me to present my wife mrs was delighted to receive her mrs was a little but extremely kind and as you v e known me for a long time you know said mr let me assure you that she is one of the most remarkable women that ever lived my dear remonstrated mrs upon my word and honor she is said mr i � i assure you mrs she s a most extraordinary woman mrs laughed merrily and mrs led her to mr having paid his respects in that direction and having saluted his old who said in allusion to his state well well so you are one of us are you � retired with mr b a into a window mr b a being in great spirits made a at mr and tapped him with the back of his hand on the breast bone and son well old buck said mr with a laugh � well here we are taken in and done for eh v returned mr i give you joy if you re as � as � as perfectly in a matrimonial life as i am myself you ll have nothing to desire i don t forget my old friends you see said mr i ask em to my wedding replied mr gravely the fact is that there were several circumstances which prevented me from with you until after my marriage had been in the first place i had made a perfect brute of myself to you on the subject of miss and i felt that if you were asked to any wedding of mine you would naturally expect that it was with miss which involved explanations that upon my word and honor at that crisis would have knocked me completely over in the second place our wedding was strictly private there being nobody present but one friend of myself and mrs s who is a captain in � i don t exactly know in what said mr but it s of no consequence i hope that in writing a statement of what had occurred before mrs and myself went abroad upon our foreign tour i fully discharged the offices of friendship my boy said mr shaking hands i joking and now said mr i should be glad to know what you think of my union capital returned mr you think it s capital do you said mr solemnly then how capital must it be to me for you can never know what an extraordinary woman that is mr was willing to take it for granted but mr shook his head and wouldn t hear of that being possible you see said mr what wanted in a wife was � in short was sense money i had sense i � i had not mr murmured oh yes you had but mr said no i had not why should i disguise it i had and son not i knew that sense was there said mr stretching out his hand towards his wife in perfect heaps i had no relation to object or be offended on the score of station for i had no relation i have never had anybody belonging to me but my guardian and him i have always considered as a and a therefore you know it was not likely said mr that i should take his opinion no said mr accordingly resumed mr i acted on my own bright was the day on which i did so nobody but myself can tell what the capacity of that woman s mind b if ever the rights of women and all that kind of thing are properly attended to it will be through her powerful intellect � my dear said mr looking abruptly out of the window curtains pray do not exert yourself my dear said mrs i was only talking but my love said mr pray do not exert yourself you really must be careful do not my dear exert yourself she s so easily excited said mr apart to mrs and then she forgets the medical man altogether mrs

creator and therefore to talk of the creator a in this point of view between himself and the creature an essential or absolute would bo to use words without understanding t is essential or absolute cannot be effected or all actual for the simple reason that it is itself the basis of all effects or the divine end in creation then no such as this but wholly a formal or a to the creature s consciousness but how shall take place while the creature is without a consciousness or for absolutely of the creature is a or is not � god being the only absolute how then shall the in question take place the first condition is that the creature possess if not an absolute yet a or apparent a self consciousness which shall the requisite basis of but here again a difficulty occurs for how shall this or apparent become pronounce become possible how shall this self consciousness become developed for god is essentially and his creature therefore cannot be a mere ion he must bo a real and actual if all bo then it results of absolute necessity that this of the creature become pronounced only by the descent of the divine to natural conditions by his in the principles of natural order it results iu other words that the absolute or reveal himself in the and that the creator manifest in the creature creation then considered � as a divine achievement or finished work � is the of the in the laws of natural order but creation considered considered as the ac a a revelation of the creator in the creature or in s language as the divine involve of a plane of a plane to that of absolute life and absolute death or absolute good and absolute evil for absolute life or good of course cannot be imparted and absolute death or evil is equally of course an experience since its experience bo to a of tiie subject s hence we repeat that creation regarded as a process as the procession of the subject towards the created subject as the from absolute to existence a experience an experience which shall be that neither of absolute life nor of death but the indifference or of the two and the subject of this experience is exclusively the man the man who is both good and evil or in s both and ii the reason why the fulfilment of the divine end in creation which is the of the creator with the creature the moral man or tiie moral experience is for inasmuch as the creator in af is absolute and hence life and the creature in is the absolute of life so there can be no actual of the two save in some middle life shall bo common to both accordingly the or spiritual sphere of creation altogether under this mixed aspect or as wholly made up of this moral no trace of absolute life appeared in it but the deity varied according to the endless varieties of the individual and this reflected every phase between an almost total in deity and an almost total denial of him or between the experience of him as a and overpowering splendor and a destructive and the true divine man in whom the deity dwelt as in himself or what is the same thing with whom he was sensibly was nowhere visible for to the senses of the morally good or man the deity shone as a beneficent sun at an infinite remove above his head and to the senses of the evil or infernal man he appeared as that sun at an infinite remove below his feet in the one subject the creator was seen the creature in the other the creature was seen the creator vo m a� a june in neither subject were the two presented in perfect accord or combination for in neither do we see the creator dwelling as in himself nor the creature forth all divine as of the heavenly man m proportion to his relative superiority acknowledged only the the infernal man m proportion to his relative inferiority acknowledged only the created now to our apprehension what renders of infinite and moment to the or is the with which he the and perfect of this si ere of creation to the grand ultimate or sphere which was to reveal the true divine humanity or the man with whom the deity should be sensibly this man is exclusively the artist or the man who in s phrase loves use or art for its own sake and not for its to his or social necessities art is the only positive or divine good on earth its may exhibit every variety of comparative excellence but there is none of them however humble be its sphere which is positively evil � which is not when in itself positively good and does not therefore the of god and man when accordingly the true divine man appears perfectly self love and universal love in the supreme love of art or use then the of heaven and hell or moral good and evil will be seen to import only the difference of internal and external or soul and body and both alike will the divine goodness we have now ven according to our apprehension of it a faithful statement of the doctrine of the or the humanity a doctrine which gives to s pages all their interest the essential divine humanity consists in cr love the divine natural humanity consists in every varied form of art or productive use and is upon a perfect society this latter theme is the mystic burden of all sacred scripture since the world began and we are now according to this gifted on the very verge of its accomplishment the great according to which this doctrine meets among christians lies in their or material they cultivate no faculty of thought hence they conceive of the

part company to day hoped they would and expected that such would be the result of the excursion down the bay he was satisfied that mr had used the information he had given him and it was hardly possible that the authorities would permit a vessel with important military supplies to leave the harbor by the yankee or went on deck polite and easy as his bearing was he was sorely tried by the difficulties of his situation he was amazed and confounded at the information in possession of his prisoner and he felt very much as though he stood on a in process of there s the steamer said as stepped on deck and if tm not greatly mistaken she s after us what makes you think so asked uneasily in the first place there are not less than twenty men on her deck and it appears to me that about one half of them have spy glasses in their hands and are watching this vessel i think you are right replied more nervously where did you our cargo under the do you think they will find the nothing to prevent their finding them if they look far enough you have your and other papers all right all right and straight captain i fixed everything just as you told me by this time the was ofi the which is the strait connecting new york and the steamer that caused and his companion treason so much anxiety was half a mile distant the wind which was tolerably fresh was from the south by the adventures of a naval officer ward and the old was close hauled lying as near the wind as she could which however was not within eight points of her course the steamer was headed due south knowing that the must presently tack and stand out into the middle of the bay again the steamer will us in fifteen minutes more said as he glanced up the we can t expect to run away from a steamer in this old craft replied there are only two things that we can do not more than that answered with a grim smile we can take our chance in being examined or run up the and take to the boat which shall we do there isn t much chance any way said but i think we had better run up the do so then what are you going to do with that young in the cabin i have a mind to throw him overboard he knows too much for his own comfort and mine he will blow on us the moment the officers come on board we must get rid of him before any of them come added as the fell off and stood up the strait we shall know now whether the steamer is looking for us or not by the or ay there goes her over to port and she is headed this way said i am afraid it is all up with us replied as he went down into the cabin well mr how goes the battle demanded with abundant good nature you see i am taking it very coolly everything works right but my young friend as i have now shown you my and exhibited my to you i think it is about time for you to join your ship said with an effort to assume his former easy air thank you for your considerate regard for my welfare then you have concluded not to put me on board of the i am sorry that i shall be obliged to disappoint our friend mr i will trouble you now to go on deck where i shall take the liberty to transfer you to a shore boat don t give yourself any further trouble on my account i prefer to remain where i am do you you shall be gratified but i shall have to ask you to resume your place in the i shall be just as comfortable where i am replied you will be too comfortable said producing by ic the of a naval officer his pistol this is the only argument i can offer ft r your consideration at the present time o well if you are in earnest i will enter the and not doubting that he should be released in a few moments obeyed the polite order the little room had been thoroughly and was now quite comfortable � he sat down to abide the issue fully satisfied that before noon he should grasp the hand of lieutenant on board the went on deck again he was nervous and uneasy and occasionally glanced at the pursuing steamer as a condemned criminal looks at the gallows on which he is to be hung captain if you are going to stand an examination i reckon we have made a blunder in coming into this channel said it s no use to run away in a place like this put your down and come to anchor under the weather shore of the creek replied down with your i said to the man at the let go the anchor added he when the had been hauled down here are captain when they come on board just say that we found the wind ahead and concluded to anchor in this place till we could get a little i understand answered the intelligent by the yankee or � the came up to her anchor with her patched fore and main sails flapping in the wind sat down on the rail lighted his pipe and looked as as though he had been a loyal to a loyal port went aft and busied himself in gazing up the creek apparently unconscious that any great event was about to take place the steamer ran her bows alongside the while the crowd including the man with the thin face carefully the old craft there shouted suddenly springing up as though he had

rest iu a mechanical way by some gate or post and n the baggage another upon her full round went steadily on again it was a sunday morning in late october about four i after a arrival at and few weeks subsequent to the night ride in the chase i time not long past daybreak and tiie yellow i ty upon the horizon behind her back lighted the ridge which her face was set � the barrier of the she had of late been a stranger � which she would to climb over to reach her the ascent as gradual tm this side and the soil and scenery from those even the � ter and accent of the two had shades of difference i � effects of a railway � that though less than twenty miles fi the place of r at ti her native village had seemed a ray spot the field folk shut in there north westward travelled and married north t northward and westward i the i those i d hide directed energies and to the east aud south the incline was the same down which d driven with her so wildly on that day in w uie of ith length without stopping and reaching the edge ot the gazed over the gi een world beyond now half veiled in mist it ways beautiful from hei e it was terribly beautiful to to day for since her eyes last fell upon it she had that the serpent sweet birds sing and news of life liad been totally changed for her by the h verily another girl than the simple one she had been home was she who bowed by the thought stood still h aud turned to look behind her she could not bear to look into the ascending by the long white road that toss li � ii had just labored up she saw a two wheeled vehicle which walked a man who held up his hand to attract bt i she obeyed the signal to wait for with un i t repose and in a few minutes man and horse stopped u her did you slip away by like this i d with on a sun day morning too when people were all in bed i only discovered it by accident and i have been like th deuce to overtake you just look at the more p off like this you know that nobody wished to hind r your going and how unnecessary it has boon for yon i toil along on foot and yourself with this hear load have followed like a madman to e i the rest of the distance if you won t come back shan t come back said she i thought you wouldn t � i said so well then put your baskets and let me help yon oi he placed her basket and bundle � � i maiden no � dog cart and stepped up and they sat side by side had no fear of him now and in the cause of her confidence her lay d mechanically lit a cigar and the journey was continued with broken conversation on the commonplace objects by the he had quite forgotten his struggle to kiss her when in the early summer they had driven in the opposite direction along the same road but she had not and she sat now like a replying to his remarks in after a space they came in view of the of trees beyond which the village of stood it was only then that her face still showed the least emotion a tear or two beginning to down what are you crying for he coldly asked i was only thinking that i was born over there murmured well � we must au be bom somewhere i wish i had never been bom � there or anywhere else well if you didn t wish to come to why did you come she did not reply you didn t come for love of me that i ll swear tis quite true k i had gone for love o you if i had ever sincerely loved ee if i loved you stiu i should not so and hate myself for my weakness as i do now my eyes were dazed by you for a little and that was all he shrugged his shoulders she resumed i didn t understand your meaning till it was too late that s what every woman says how can you dare to use such words she cried upon him her eyes flashing as the latent of which he was to see more some day awoke in my god i could knock you out of the did op tiie d it never strike your mind that what every s me women may feel t very well he said laughing i am sorry to you i did wrong � i admit it he dropped into s little bitterness as he continued only you needn t b flinging it in my face am ready to pay t the you know you need not work ii the fields or the again you know may yourself with the best instead of in the bald way y have ly affected as if you couldn t get a than you earn her lip lifted slightly though there was little as a rule in her lai ge and impulsive i have said i will not take more from yon and i will not � i cannot i should be your to gi on doing that and i won t one would think you were a princess fi in addition to a true aud original � ha ha well dear can say no more i am a bad fellow � a damn bad fellow i was bom bad and i lived bad and i die bud in all probability bat upon my lost soul i won t be bad towards you again and