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# A Tale of Rosamund Gray and Old Blind Margaret/Chapter 12

CHAPTER XII.
Allan told me, that for some years past, feeling himself disengaged from every personal tye, but not alienated from human sympathies, it had been his taste, his humour he called it, to spend a great portion of his time in hospitals and lazar houses.
​He had found a wayward pleasure, he refused to name it a virtue, in tending a description of people, who had long ceased to expect kindness or friendliness from mankind, but were content to accept the reluctant services, which the oftentimes unfeeling instruments and servants of these well meant institutions deal out to the poor sick people under their care.
It is not medicine,—it is not broths and coarse meats, served up at a stated hour with all the hard formalities of a prison,—it is not the scanty dole of a bed to die on—which dying man requires from his species.
​Looks, attentions, consolations,—in a word, sympathies, are what a man most needs in this awful close of mortal sufferings. A kind look, a smile, a drop of cold water to the parched lip—for these things a man shall bless you in death.
And these better things than cordials did Allan love to administer—to stay by a bedside the whole day, when something disgusting in a patient's distemper has kept the very nurses at a distance—to sit by, while the poor wretch got a little sleep—and be there to smile upon him when he awoke—to slip a guinea, now and then, into the hands of a nurse or attendant—these things have been to Allan as privileges, for which he ​was content to live, choice marks, and circumstances, of his Maker's goodness to him.
And I do not know whether occupations of this kind be not a spring of purer and nobler delight (certainly instances of a more disinterested virtue) than ariseth from what are called Friendships of Sentiment.
Between two persons of liberal education, like opinions, and common feelings, oftentimes subsists a Vanity of Sentiment, which disposes each to look upon the other as the only being in the universe worthy of friendship, or capable of understanding it,—themselves they consider as the solitary receptacles of all that is ​delicate in feeling, or stable in attachment:—when the odds are, that under every green hill, and in every crowded street, people of equal worth are to be found, who do more good in their generation, and make less noise in the doing of it.
It was in consequence of these benevolent propensities, I have been describing, that Allan oftentimes discovered considerable inclinations in favor of my way of life, which I have before mentioned as being that of a Surgeon. He would frequently attend me on my visits to Patients; and I began to think, that he had serious intentions of making my profession his study.
​He was present with me at a scene—a death-bed scene—I shudder, when I do but think of it.
# A Tale of Rosamund Gray and Old Blind Margaret/Chapter 3

CHAPTER III.
Rosamund Gray was the most beautiful young creature that eyes ever beheld. Her face had the sweetest expression in it—a gentleness—a modesty—a timidity—a certain charm—a grace without a name.
​There was a fort of melancholy mingled in her smile. It was not the thoughtless levity of a girl—it was not the restrained simper of premature womanhood—it was something which the Poet Young might have remembered, when he composed that perfect line,
"Soft, modest, melancholy, female, fair."
She was a mild-eyed maid, and every body loved her. Young Allan Clare, when but a boy, sighed for her.
Her yellow hair fell in bright and curling clusters, like
​Her voice was trembling and musical. A graceful diffidence pleaded for her whenever she spake—and, if she said but little, that little found its way to the heart.
Young, and artless, and innocent, meaning no harm, and thinking none; affectionate, as a smiling infant—playful, yet inobtrusive, as a weaned lamb—every body loved her. Young Allan Clare, when but a boy, sighed for her.
The moon is shining in so brightly at my window, where I write, that I feel it a crime not to suspend my employment awhile to gaze at her.
​See how she glideth, in maiden honour, through the clouds, who divide on either side to do her homage.
Beautiful vision!—as I contemplate thee, an internal harmony is communicated to my mind, a moral brightness, a tacit analogy of mental purity; a calm like that we ascribe in fancy to the favoured inhabitants of thy fairy regions, "argent fields."
I marvel not, O Moon, that heathen people, in the "olden times," did worship thy deity—Cynthia, Diana, Hecate. Christian Europe invokes thee not by these names now—her idolatry is of a blacker stain: ​Belial is her God—she worships Mammon.
False things are told concerning thee, fair Planet—for I will ne'er believe, that thou canst take a perverse pleasure in distorting the brains of us poor mortals. Lunatics! moonstruck! Calumny invented, and Folly took up, these names. I would hope better things from thy mild aspect and benign influences.
Lady of Heaven, thou lendest thy pure lamp to light the way to the Virgin Mourner, when he goes to seek the tomb where her Warrior Lover lies.
​Friend of the distressed, thou speakest only peace to the lovely sufferer, who walks forth in the placid evening, beneath thy gentle light, to chide at fortune, or to complain of changed friends, or unhappy loves.
Do I dream, or doth not even now a heavenly calm descend from thee into my bosom, as I meditate on the chaste loves of Rosamund and her Clare?
# A Tale From the Rainbow Land/Foreword

The Menehunes are a mythical race of little brown people supposed to have inhabited the Hawaiian Islands in olden times. They were very tiny folk, measuring their stature by inches instead of by feet, and their mission seems to have been that of being helpful to men; but they could work only at night, and had to drop whatever they were doing when the elepaio bird called at dawn, and the task, no matter how far from completion, could never be taken up again by them.
They are used in this little tale merely as a fanciful vehicle to carry the words of the Loving People; and the local color, merely as a setting for a world-wide phase of human life. K. M. Y.
Waikiki, Honolulu,
Nineteen-Fourteen.
# A Tale of Rosamund Gray and Old Blind Margaret/Chapter 10

CHAPTER X.
I was but a boy, when these events took place. All the village remember the story, and tell of Rosamund Gray, and old blind Margaret.
I parted from Allan Clare on that disastrous night, and set out for Edinburgh the next morning, before the facts were commonly known—I heard not of them—and it was four months before I received a letter from Allan.
"His heart" he told me "was gone from him—for his sister had ​died of a phrensy fever!"—not a word of Rosamund in the letter—I was left to collect her story from sources which may one day be explained.
I soon after quitted Scotland, on the death of my Father, and returned to my native village. Allan had left the place, and I could gain no information, whether he were dead or living.
I passed the cottage. I did not dare to look that way, or to enquire who lived there.—A little dog, that had been Rosamund's, was yelping in my path. I laughed aloud like one mad, whose mind had suddenly gone from him—I stared vacantly ​around me, like one alienated from common perceptions.
But I was young at that time, and the impression became gradually weakened, as I mingled in the business of life. It is now ten years since these events took place, and I sometimes think of them as unreal. Allan Clare was a dear friend to me—but there are times, when Allan and his Sister, Margaret and her Grandaughter, appear like personages of a dream—an idle dream.
# A Tale of Rosamund Gray and Old Blind Margaret/Chapter 13

CHAPTER XIII.
I was sent for the other morning to the assistance of a Gentleman, who had been wounded in duel,—and his wounds by unskilful treatment had been brought to a dangerous crisis.
The uncommonness of the name, which was Matravis, suggested to me, that this might possibly be no other than Allan's old enemy. Un​der this apprehension, I did what I could to dissuade Allan from accompanying me—but he seemed bent upon going, and even pleased himself with the notion, that it might lie within his ability to do the unhappy man some service. So he went with me.
When we came to the house, which was in Soho Square, we discovered that it was indeed the man—the identical Matravis, who had done all that mischief in times past—but not in a condition to excite any other sensation than pity in a heart more hard than Allan's.
Intense pain had brought on a delirium—we perceived this on first entering the room—for the wretched ​man was raving to himself—talking idly in mad unconnected sentences,—that yet seemed, at times, to have a reference to past facts.
One while he told us his dream. "He had lost his way on a great heath, to which there seemed no end—it was cold, cold, cold—and dark, very dark—an old woman in leading-strings, blind, was groping about for a guide"—and then he frightened me,—for he seemed disposed to be jocular, and sung a song about an "old woman clothed in gray," and said "he did not believe in a devil."
Presently he bid us "not tell Allan Clare"—Allan was hanging over him at that very moment, sob​bing.—I could not resist the impulse, but cried out, "this is Allan Clare—Allan Clare is come to see you, my dear Sir."—The wretched man did not hear me, I believe, for he turned his head away, and began talking of charnel houses, and dead men, and "whether they knew any thing, that passed, in their coffins."
Matravis died that night.
THE END.
# A Tale of Rosamund Gray and Old Blind Margaret

This is the first solo work of Charles Lamb in book form. He had previously contributed to periodicals and to books of poetry by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Charles Lloyd. The transcription is of the first edition, which was initially issued under a Birmingham imprint, but changed to London early in the print run. [Based on Bibliography of the writings of Charles and Mary Lamb; a literary history (1908), by Joseph Charles Thomson, pp. 11-13.]
A TALE
OF
ROSAMUND GRAY
AND
OLD BLIND MARGARET.
BY
CHARLES LAMB.
Birmingham,
PRINTED BY THOMAS PEARSON.
1798.
THIS TALE
IS
INSCRIBED IN FRIENDSHIP
ΤΟ
MARMADUKE THOMPSON,
OF
PEMBROKE HALL,
* Chapter I.
* Chapter II.
* Chapter III.
* Chapter IV.
* Chapter V.
* Chapter VI.
* Chapter VII.
* Chapter VIII.
* Chapter IX.
* Chapter X.
* Chapter XI.
* Chapter XII.
* Chapter XIII.
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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# Address to the Toothache

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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Pearce, Edward Stokes

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​PEARCE. (Commander, 1842. f-p., 22; h-p., 12.)
Edward Stokes Pearce entered the Navy, 29 Oct. 1813, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Sultan 74, Capt. John West. In March, 1815, after having served on the coast of France and in the West Indies, he joined the Ajax 74, Capt. Geo. Mundy, on the Mediterranean station; where, and at Halifax and in the North Sea, he continued employed as Midshipman and Master’s Mate in the same ship and in the Dee 24, Wye 28, and Alert 18, Capts. Sam. Chambers, John Harper, and Chas. Farwell, until Jan. 1821. In the following month (he had passed his examination 11 April, 1820) he returned to the Mediterranean in the Dispatch 18, Capts. Wm. Clarke Jervoise and Edw. Hinton Scott; he was next, from Nov. 1824 until May, 1831, borne on the books of the Hyperion 42, Coast Blockade ship, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye; and he was then for a few weeks employed in the Samarang 28, Capt. Chas. Henry Paget. During six years of the period he belonged to the Hyperion he commanded her tender the Highflyer. His sole appointments as Lieutenant, a rank he attained 25 June, 1831, were – 2 March, 1837, to the Princess Charlotte 104, bearing the flag in the Mediterranean of Hon. Sir Robt. Stopford, under whom he assisted at the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre – and 8 Feb. 1842, after six months of half-pay, to the command of the Lightning steamer. Since his promotion to his present rank, 7 May, 1842, he has been on half-pay.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Peace, Richard

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​PEACE. (Lieut., 1811. f-p., 18; h-p., 25.)
Richard Peace was born 25 Sept. 1790. This officer entered the Navy, 6 Feb. 1804, as Midshipman, on board the Dolphin 44, Capt. John Shortland, with whom he continued employed in the Trompeuse 18 and Squirrel 24, on the Irish, African, and Halifax stations, until Nov. 1808. Joining next, in Jan. 1809, the Success 32, Capt. John Ayscough, he commanded a boat belonging to that ship at the reduction of Ischia and Procida, and co-operated in the defence of Sicily against the threatened invasion of Murat. On 30 July, 1809, we find him serving in the boats, as Master’s Mate, at the capture, off Cerigo, of two French privateers, one carrying 9 guns, 4 swivels, and 78 men, the other 1 gun and 20 men. He shortly afterwards commanded a boat, one of two under the orders of Lieut. Geo. Rose Sartorius, at the taking of a ship of 6 guns and 30 men. On 4 April, 1810, he was reported in the highest terms for his conduct at the destruction (by the boats of the Success and Espoir sloop, commanded by the same officer) of several vessels well protected on the beach abreast of Castiglione; and on 25 of the same month he had charge of a boat at the capture of an armed ship and three barks under the castle of Terracina. In the following Oct. he assisted, on the coast of Naples, in destroying 2 gun-boats and 34 sail of troop-ships. He was confirmed a Lieutenant of the Trident 64, Capt. Rich. Budd Vincent, after having acted tor a short time as Mate, 22 April, 1811; and was next, between Dec. of the same year and Oct. 1815, employed, on the Mediterranean, Home, and Barbadoes stations, in the Éclair sloop, Capt. John Bellamy, Trident again, Capt. R. B. Vincent, Minorca 18, Capt. Ralph Randolph Wormeley, Apollo troop-ship, Capt. Anthony Blagrave Valpy, and, as Senior Lieutenant, in the Raven 16, Capt. Edw. Lloyd. His last appointments were, in the capacity last mentioned – 19 Aug. 1818, to the Redwing 18, Capt. Fred. Hunn, stationed, until her return to England in the autumn of 1821, off St. Helena for the purpose of watching Napoleon Buonaparte – and, 18 May, 1827, to the Tweed 28, Capt. Lord Henry John Spencer Churchill, fitting for the Cape of Good Hope, whence he came home in Feb. 1831. Agents – Goode and Lawrence.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Peake, Henry Frederick

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​PEAKE. (Commander, 1838. f-p., 19; h-p., 17.)
Henry Frederick Peakeis brother of Capt. Thos. Ladd Peake, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 8 Feb. 1811, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Defiance 74, Capt. Rich. Raggett. In the course of the following month he was placed at the Royal Naval College at Portsmouth, where he remained until 17 June, 1813. He then again embarked, on board the Rivoli 74, Capts. Graham Eden Hamond and Edw. Stirling Dickson; under the latter of whom we find him, 30 April, 1815, assisting as Midshipman at the capture, on the Mediterranean station, after a brave defence of 15 minutes, of the French frigate La Melpomène. Joining next, in 1816, the Madagascar and Maeander frigates, both commanded by Sir Jas. Alex. Gordon, he was present in the latter ship when nearly lost, in Dec. of the same year, off Orfordness. In Feb. 1817 he became Admiralty-Midshipman of the Rosario 10, commanded by his brother, Capt. Thos. Ladd Peake, at Portsmouth; where (with the exception of the following summer, which he passed in the Mediterranean on board the Ganymede 26, Capt. Hon. Robt. Cavendish Spencer, and of a subsequent unemployed interval of a few months) he continued to serve until Aug. 1820, in a similar capacity, in the Camelion 10, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye, and Active 46, Capt. Sir J. A. Gordon. He then sailed for the West Indies in the Sybille 44; of which ship, bearing the flag of Sir Chas. Rowley, he was created a Lieutenant 5 Feb. 1821. He returned home in the following June, and was afterwards appointed – 26 Nov. 1823 and 5 March, 1825, as a Supernumerary-Lieutenant, to the Ramillies and Hyperion Coast-Blockade ships, Capts. Wm. M‘Culloch and Hugh Pigot – and, 2 Dec. 1828, as Senior, to the Comet 18, Capt. Alex. Albert Sandilands, fitting for the East Indies, whence he returned at the close of 1832. He has since been on half-pay. His promotion to the rank of Commander took place 28 June, 1838.
With the permission of the Admiralty, Commander Peake was for some time employed under the Spanish and Portuguese Governments.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Pears, Charles Wethered

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Charles Wethered Pears entered the Royal Naval College 3 Feb. 1820; and embarked 20 Feb. 1822, as a Volunteer, on board the Ranger 28, Capt. Peter Fisher; under whom, in 1824, he served at the blockade of Algiers. Joining, in Nov. of that year, the Boadicea frigate, Commodore Sir Jas. Brisbane, he united, in Sept. 1825, in the hostilities in progress against the Burmese, and until the end of the war was employed in command of a gunboat on the river Irawady. On leaving the Boadicea he was received, in Aug. 1826, on board the Warspite 76; in which ship, in the summer of the following year, he returned to England. After having further served, as Mate, in the Éclair 18, Capt. Spencer Lambert Hunter Vassall, Victory 104, Capt. Hon. Geo. Elliot, Asia 84, Capt. Edw. Curzon, and Raleigh 18, Capts. John Burnet Dundas, Geo. Haye, and Sir Wm. Dickson, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 27 June, 1829, and appointed to the Alacrity 10, Capt. Joseph Nias, on the Mediterranean station. He afterwards joined – 30 April, 1830, the Talbot 28, Capt. Rich. ​Dickinson, fitting for the Cape of Good Hope, whence he returned at the close of 1831 – 1 May, 1832, the Vernon 50, Capt. Sir Francis Augustus Collier, employed, until the close of the same year, on particular service – 28 Oct. 1833, a second time, the Vernon, bearing then the flag of Sir George Cockburn in North America and the West Indies – 29 April, 1834, as First-Lieutenant, the Arachne 16, Capts. Jas. Burney and John Sam. Foreman, on the same station, where he remained until 1835 – 1 Feb. 1838, the Hastings 72, Capts. Francis Erskine Loch and John Lawrence, under the former of whom he escorted the Earl of Durham to Quebec, and the Queen Dowager to the Mediterranean and back – and, 17 Sept. 1845, after five years of half-pay, to the command, which he still retains, of a station in the Coast Guard. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Paynter, John Meyrick

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​PAYNTER. (Lieut., 1814. f-p., 21; h-p., 20.)
John Meyrick Paynter entered the Navy, 25 June, 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Superb 74, Captain (afterwards Rear-Admiral Sir) Rich. Goodwin Keats; and while in that ship, commanded for some time by Capts. Donald M‘Leod and Sam. Jackson, was present, as Midshipman, at the bombardment of Copenhagen, the embarkation from Nyeborg of the Spanish General the Marquis de la Romans and his patriot troops, and the capture of Flushing. After a servitude of eight months at Spithead and Plymouth in the Puissant 74, Capts. Robt. Hall and John Irwin, and Menelaus 38, Capt. Sir Peter Parker, he joined, in July, 1810, the Milford 74, bearing the flag, at the defence of Cadiz, of his old Captain, Sir R. G. Keats, whom, in Aug. 1811, he followed into the Hibernia 110. Being again, in Aug. 1812, placed under the orders of Sir Peter Parker on board the Menelaus, he sailed in that ship for the coast of North America; where, on being nominated, 27 July, 1814, Acting-Lieutenant of the Weser troop-ship, Capts. Thos. Ball Sulivan, Bartholomew Kent, and Dan. Lawrence, he witnessed the destruction of Commodore Barney’s flotilla up the Patuxent, and took part in the unsuccessful attack made upon Baltimore. His appointment to the Weser being confirmed by commission dated 11 Oct. 1814, he continued in that vessel until Nov. 1815, and was in consequence present in the expedition against New Orleans. Since 20 March, 1835, he has been in command of a station in the Coast Guard.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Peacocke, Richard

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Richard Peacocke died 24 April, 1846, at Aix-la-Chapelle, of disease of the heart.
This officer entered the Navy, 9 March, 1781, as Captain’s Servant, on board the Europa 50, Capt. John Thos. Duckworth, stationed in the Channel, where, in 1782, he followed the same Captain into the Salisbury 50. From 1783 to 1786 he served in the West Indies, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate, in the Camilla 20, Capt. Hutt; he next, in 1793, joined the Suffolk 74, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Peter Rainier in the East Indies; and on 22 Jan. 1796 he was confirmed a Lieutenant, after having acted for six months as such, in the Resistance 44, Capt. Edw. Pakenham. In that ship he co-operated in the reduction, in Aug. 1 795, of Malacca; and, as Senior-Lieutenant, in the capture, in March, 1796, of Amboyna and Banda. Invaliding home in the following Nov., he was appointed, 13 Oct. 1797, to the Leviathan 74, commanded by his old Captain, Duckworth; under whom, when in company with the Argo 44, he assisted, again as First-Lieutenant, at the capture, 6 Feb. 1799, of the Spanish frigate Santa Teresa, of 42 guns. Previously to that event he had been serving, for a few months in 1798, on board the Prince 98, flag-ship of Sir Roger Curtis off Cadiz. On leaving the Leviathan in 1799 he was appointed, for a short time, Acting-Captain of the Powerful 74. On 28 Jan. 1801, four months previously to which period he had rejoined the Leviathan, he was promoted to the command of the Gaiété sloop in the West Indies; where he was made Post, 4 June, 1801, into the Arab. He subsequently, in 1802-3, served in the Castor frigate, on the same station, and in 1806-7 in the Foudroyant 80 in the Channel. He became a Rear-Admiral on the Retired List 22 July, 1830; on the Active 17 Aug. 1840; and a Vice-Admiral 23 Nov. 1841.
He married, 27 Feb. 1821, Martha Louisa, fourth daughter of the late Geo. Dacre, Esq., of Marwell House, Hants. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.