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about the country with his draughts and â not honest that a body might make out o wholesome but stuff that a man of his breath in the very of it by ix a discovery and the makers too â marry that now be another trade â the searching of stars and the of dry or wet weather weather what know they of the weather the town bred that lie and cheat to get at the poor money god a mercy a whip to their shoulders would teach them more o the weather than ever they are like to get out of the stars and yet the poor fools o countrymen â that scarce know a b from a â will sit o nights their brains o er the signs o the heavens and no matter what any man with eyes can see for himself â ay and fifty times as i take it â they will you a dry month or a wet month because the so and they will swear to you that â that is a lion â and scales have come together therefore there must be a on the trees heard you ever the like â that a man in knowing as much about and farm work as a cat knows about is to tell me the weather down here in god help us they be poor weak creatures that think so td by ic shakespeare chap look at the cover of a penny ballad if i wanted to know when there was to be frost o nights at this juncture the old man grinned as if some secret joke were his fancy why said he looking up from the would you believe this â they be such fools that a rogue will sell them a barren cow for a cow if he but put a strange calf to her tis done tis done i assure ye in truth a trick s father said he was idly drawing figures on the ground with a bit of stick he had got hold of perhaps he was not listening attentively but at all events he encouraged to talk but surely with years comes wisdom the most foolish are not caught twice with such a trick what of that answered there be plenty of other fools in the land to make the trade of tis true that a man may learn by his own experience but what if he hath a son that be growing up a bigger fool than himself and by ix a discovery that s where tis nowadays there be no waiting and prudence but every boy must match on to his maid and marry her ere they have a roof to put over their heads tis a fine beginning surely no waiting no prudence â as the rich are and careless so are the poor heedless of the morrow and the boy and the they must have their cottage at the lane end run up of elder poles and forthwith begin the of beggars to swarm over the land a rare beginning â body o me do they think they can live on and grass like and so the old man continued to rail and and sometimes with a grin of satisfaction at his own wit coming over his face and s father did not seek to he listened and drew figures on the ground and merely put in a word now and again it was a pleasant morning â fresh and clear and sunny and this town of was a quiet place at that hour with the children all at school sometimes s father laughed but he did not argue and hav by shakespeare chap ing it all his own way was more than ever convinced not only that he was the one wise man among a generation of fools but also that he was the only representative and of the virtues that had his forefathers it is true that on more than one occasion he had been found somewhat overcome with ale but this when he had recovered from his temporary confusion he declared was entirely due to the rascal of those and especially of â who put all manner of into their cap so that an honest stomach might easily be caught and take no shame and meanwhile what had been happening in another part of the garden as it chanced had been sent by her mother to carry to the summer house a cup of wine and some thin and in doing so she of course saw that both her father and were at the farther end of the garden and apparently settled there for the time being the opportunity was too good to be lost she swiftly went back to the by ix a discovery house secured the portion of the play that was there and as quickly coming out again exchanged it for an equal number of new sheets it was all the work of a couple of minutes and in another second she was in her own room ready to put the precious prize into her little cupboard of boxes and yet she could not forbear turning over the sheets and examining them curiously and she was saying to herself you cruel writing to have such secrets and refuse to give them up if it were pictures now i could make out something with a guess but all these little marks so much alike what can one make of them â all alike â with here and there a curling as if my father had been amusing himself â and all so plain and even too with never a blot marry i marvel he should make the other copy unless with intent to alter as he writes and those words with the big letters at the beginning these be the people s names â and sweet and the duke and the ill beast that would harm them all

48Thomas Nelson Page

head as if to the delusion i until be sank down in his former seat quite breathless and i exhausted there said picking up his hat that mo good now i m better and i u tell you all about it i it took little time to la who i had been almost frightened out of her senses hj this remark i able demonstration but that done faithfully related i all that had passed in the interview between and ber i uncle his narrative with a statement of his i suspicions on the subject and his reasons for forming fl l and concluding with a communication of the step he bad t i in writing to h l though little miss la s indignation tu i displayed ac s it was inferior in violence and intensity indeed if liad happened to make his appearance in tlie room at tliat doubt he not have found miss la a more dangerous opponent than even ni himself god forgive me for saying so said miss la m wind up to her expressions of anger but i really feel if i could stick this into him with pleasure it was not a very awful weapon that miss la held it being in fact nothing more nor less than a black lead pencil but discovering her mistake the little portrait painter of pearl fruit wherewith in of her desperate thoughts she made a spoke which would have scarcely disturbed tlie of a loaf she won t where she is after to said a a comfort stop cried miss la she should have left lore weeks ago â if we had known of this rejoined â e didn t nobody could properly interfere but her mother or brother the mother s â poor thing â weak dear young man will bo here to night heart alive cried miss la ho will do thing desperate mr if you tell him all at o left off rubbing his hands and assumed a thought j m look depend upon it said miss la if yon i are not very careful in breaking out the truth to him he will â do violence upon his uncle or one of these men that will i some upon his own head and grief and â to us all i never thought of that rejoined his counter falling more and more i to ask you to j bis sister in case he brought her here but but this is a matter of much greater importance inter j miss la that you might have been o you came hut the end of this nobody t you are very guarded and careful â what can i do cried scratching his great vexation and perplexity if he wo i i life and adventures of talk of i i em all i be obliged to say certainly â serve em right la could not suppress a small shriek on hearing this and set a solemn pledge firom that he would use hia utmost to the wrath of which after was they then consulted together on the and mode of communicating lo him the which had rendered his presence necessary he must have time to cool before he can possibly do any thing said miss la that is of the greatest he must not be told until late at night but he u bo in town between six and seven this replied can t keep it om him when he asks me then you must go out mr said miss la you can have been kept away by business and must not return till nearly midnight then he come straight here retorted so i suppose observed miss la but he won t find me at home for i ii go straight to the city the instant you leave mate up matters with mrs and take her away to the so that he may not even know where his lives upon further discussion this appeared the safest and most mode of proceeding that could possibly be adopted therefore it was determined that ra should be bo arranged and after listening to and entreaties took his leave of miss la and back to golden square as he went upon a vast number of possibilities and which crowded upon his brain and arose out of the conversation just terminated ion at last tried back his it and from a long nap le as though we should n and yet you came along at a tidy pace too coachman looking over bis at with no expression of countenance ay i know that waa the reply but i have been v to be at my journey s end and that makes the well remarked the coachman if the way seemed long â with such cattle as you ve sat behind you have been uncommon anxious and so saying he let out lash and touched up a little boy on the of his l hy way of emphasis they rattled on through the noisy bustling crowded o london now displaying long double rows of brightly bum ing lamps dotted here and there with the glaring lights and illuminated besides with the brilliant flood that streamed from the windows of the where sparkling and of the richest colours the most and most articles of succeeded each other in rich and glittering profit bon streams of people apparently without end poured on rod on each other in the crowd and hurrying forward scarcely seeming to notice the riches that surrounded them on side while of all shapes and makes mingled up together in one moving mass like running r lent their ceaseless roar to swell the noise and tumult as hey dashed by the quickly changing and it was to observe in what a passed before the eye of splendid i b life and op the brought from every quarter of the world tempting stores of everything to and the appetite and give new relish to

7James Baldwin

great men of or with his theme and laying aside all of a party however he was most earnest and most eloquent not when he stood up the champion of a neglected truth not when he dwelt on great men now venerable to us all but when he gathered his strength to attack a foe his sarcasm was terrific colossal vanity to be a at the touch of that spear shrank to the dimensions of tom thumb his is his of skill it is sad to say this and to remember that the greatest works of ancient or of modem from the thundering of down to the sarcastic and crazy rattle of lord are all of the same character are efforts a personal foe men find hitherto the acts and speech in the same cause â not positive and but critical and â in war john if mr had died in he would have been remembered for a while as a learned man as an able who had served his country faithfully at home and abroad as a president and but not as a im personage in american history his mark would ave been faint and soon e from the sands of time but the last period of his life was the noblest he had worn all the official honors which the nation could bestow he sought the greater honor of serving that nation who had now no added boon to give all that he had done as abroad as secretary and president is little compared with what he did in the house of representatives and while he stood there with nothing to hope with nothing to fear the hand of justice wrote his name high up on the walls of his country it was surprising to see at his first attendance there men who while he was president had been the to call out bargain corruption come forward and express the involuntary confidence they felt in his wisdom and integrity and their fear actual though that his from the on would the very union itself great questions soon came up â was speedily disposed of the bank and the got ended or but slavery lay in the consciousness of the nation like the one dear but an in a man s heart some wished to be rid of it â northern men and southern men it would come up to justify that or excuse it the american sentiment and idea must be denied and rejected utterly the south who had long known the charms of was ready for her sake to make way with himself to remove that monstrous evil gradually but totally and restore unity to the nation would require a greater change than the of the constitution to keep slavery out of sight yet in existence of a contradiction m the national consciousness a political and sin â the sin against the holy spirit of american liberty known but not confessed the public secret of the people â that would lead to e in and out of to the pulpit the press and the people under circumstances mr went to an old man well known on sides the water the remarks of mr john june on his brow independent and fearless expecting no reward from men for services however great in respect to the subject of he had no ideas in advance of the nation he was far behind the foremost men he all discussion of slavery or its in the house and gave no countenance to for the of slavery in the district of or the however he acquired new ideas as he went on and became the leader in the great movement of the american mind towards universal freedom here he stood as the champion of human rights here he fought and with all his might in by the celebrated resolution debate on the subject of slavery the south drove the north to the wall it there into shameful silence a northern man with southern principles before entering the president s chair declared that if should pass a law to slavery in the district of he would exercise his to prevent the law mr stood up sometimes almost alone and for freedom of speech did obstinate men of the north send relative to slavery asking for its in the district or elsewhere â mr was ready to present the did women petition â it made no difference with him did slaves petition â he stood up there to defend their right to be heard the south had overcome many an obstacle but that one fearless soul would not bend and could not be broken spite of rules of order he contrived to bring the matter perpetually before and sometimes to read the most parts of the when was made a state he endeavored to slavery in its domain he sought to establish relations with and to secure the right of for the colored citizens of the district of the laws which forbid to vote in the northern states he held in utter he saw from afar the plots of southern plots for extending the area of slavery for the area of freedom and exposed those plots tou all remember die tumult it excited when he rose m his place a petition from â that the american was thrown into long and disgraceful confusion you cannot have forgotten the uproar which his presenting a petition to the john union i know few speeches more noble and manly than on the right of petition â occasioned bj that celebrated attempt to debate â and on the of some proposed to him some him some cried out bum the and him with them screamed yet others some threatened to have him by the grand jury of the district or be made to another hoping to see an brought to punishment my life on it said a southern if he presents that petition from slaves we shall yet see

36Jacob Abbott

thus i have been led to speak of them by way one night i had into the and was walking slowly on in my usual way musing upon a great many things when i was arrested by an the purport of which did not reach me but which seemed to be addressed to myself and was preferred in a soft sweet voice that struck me very pleasantly i turned hastily and foimd at my elbow a girl who begged to be directed to a certain street â s thb old i shop at a considerable distance and indeed in quite another quarter of the town it is a very long way from here i my child i know that sir she replied timidly i am afraid it is a very long way for i came from there to night a one said i in some surprise oh yes i don t mind that but i am a little frightened now for i have lost my road and what made you ask it of me suppose i should tell you wrong i am sure you will not do that said the little creature you are such a very old gentleman and walk so slow yourself i cannot describe how much i was impressed by this appeal and the with which it was made which brought a tear into the child s dear eye and made her slight figure tremble as she looked up into my face come said i i u take you there she put her hand in mine as as if she had known me from her cradle and we away together the little creature her pace to mine and rather seeming to lead and take care of me than i to be protecting her i observed that every now and then she stole a curious look at my face as if to make quite sure that i was not deceiving her and that these glances very sharp and keen they were too seemed to increase her confidence at every repetition for my part my curiosity and interest were at least equal to the child s for child she certainly was although i thought it probable from what i could make out that her very small and delicate frame imparted a peculiar to her appearance though more attired than she might have been she was dressed with perfect neatness and betrayed no marks of poverty or neglect who has sent you so far by said i somebody who is very kind to me sir and what have you been doing that i must not tell said the child there was something in the manner of this reply which caused me to look at the little creature with an expression of surprise for i wondered what kind of errand it be that occasioned her to be prepared for questioning i v the old curiosity shop her quick to read my thoughts as it met mine added there was no harm in what she had been doing but it a secret â a secret which she did not even know herself this said with no appearance of cunning or deceit but with an frankness that bore the impress of truth walked on as before growing more familiar with me as wo pro and talking cheerfully by the way but she said no more about her home beyond that we were going quite a new road and asking if it were a short one while we were thus engaged i in my mind a hundred different explanations of the riddle and rejected them every one i really felt ashamed to take advantage of the or grateful feeling of the child r the purpose of gratifying my curiosity i love these little people and it is not a slight thing when they who are so fresh from god love us as i had felt pleased at first by her confidence i determined to deserve it and to do credit to the nature which prompted her to repose it in me there was no reason however why i should refrain from seeing the person who had sent her to so great a distance by night and alone and as it was not improbable tliat if she found herself near home she might take farewell of me and deprive me of the opportunity i avoided the most frequented ways and took the most intricate thus it was not until we arrived in the street itself that she knew where we were clapping her hands with pleasure and running on before me for a short distance my little acquaintance stopped at a door and remaining on the step till i came up knocked at it when i joined her a part of this door was of glass by any which i did not observe at first for all was very dark and silent within and i was anxious as indeed the child was also for an answer to our summons when she had knocked twice or thrice there was a noise as if some person were moving inside and at length a faint light appeared through the glass which as it approached very slowly â the bearer having to make his way through a great many scattered articles â enabled me to see both what kind of person it was who advanced and what kind of place it was through which he came he was a little man with long grey hair whose face re as he held the light above his head and looked i i mon m lis ic wi iti one i fi ii a if ti h f jl i vent se â if ir â j â e u w ar â t ma i in i aspect of tm w lu and deserted i lo sm in t â na keeping bi m ck ve lie as he tamed die k er in the ti lâ e d iâ some

7James Baldwin

are usually very and in several of this family the females have wings but no instance is known of the being incapable of flight for in this case the species could hardly have been in the silk both sexes have imperfect wings and are incapable of flight but still there is a trace of the characteristic difference in the two sexes for though on comparing a number of and females i could detect no difference in the development of their wings yet i was assured by mrs that the of the bred by her used their wings more than the females and could flutter downwards though never upwards she also states that when the females first from the their wings are less expanded than those of the male the degree of however in the wings much in different races and under different circumstances m says that he has seen a number of with their wings reduced to a third fourth or tenth part of their normal dimensions and even to mere short straight il me il y a la un veritable de on the other hand he describes the female of the breed as having et un et des as and of all kinds reared from wild under confinement often have crippled wings the same cause whatever it may be has probably acted on silk ent ut p illustrations vol ii p see also ent p sur les du ver v a silk chap viii but the of their wings during so many generations has it may be suspected likewise come into play the of many fail to their eggs to the surface on which they are laid but this proceeds according to merely from the of the being weakened as with other long animals the instincts of the silk have suffered the when placed on a tree often commit the strange mistake of devouring the base of the leaf on which they are feeding and consequently fall down but they are capable according to m of again crawling up the trunk even this capacity sometimes fails for m placed some on a tree and those which fell were not able to and perished of hunger they were even incapable of passing from leaf to leaf some of the which the silk has undergone stand in with each other thus the eggs of the which produce white and of those which produce yellow differ slightly in tint the feet also of the which yield white are always white whilst those which give yellow are invariably yellow we have seen that the with dark tiger like produce which are more darkly shaded than other it seems well established that in france the of the races which produce white silk and certain black have resisted better than other races the disease which has recently the silk districts lastly the races differ for some do not succeed so well under a temperate climate as others and a damp soil equally injure all the races from these various facts we learn that silk like the higher animals vary greatly under long continued we learn also the more important fact that variations may occur at various periods of life and be inherited at corresponding periods and finally we see that insects are to the great principle of selection c p â ent ut p de l c p de l p c c p p chap ix cultivated plants ix cultivated plants and plants preliminary remarks on the number and of cultivated plants â first steps in cultivation â distribution of cultivated plants â doubts on the number of species wheat varieties of â individual â â changed habits â â â selection â ancient history of the varieties great of â direct action of climate on plants â varieties of in foliage and stems but not in other parts â of â other species of peas amount of difference in the several kinds chiefly in the and seed â some varieties constant some highly â do not beans potatoes numerous varieties of â little except in the â characters inherited i shall not enter into so much detail on the of cultivated plants as in the case of animals the subject is involved in much difficulty have generally neglected cultivated varieties as beneath their notice in several cases the wild is unknown or doubtfully known and in other cases it is hardly possible to distinguish between escaped and truly wild plants so that there is no safe standard of comparison by which to judge of any supposed amount of change not a few believe that several of our cultivated plants have become so profoundly modified that it is not possible now to recognise their parent forms equally are the doubts whether some of them are descended from one species or from several by crossing and variations often pass into and cannot be distinguished from and are of little significance for our purpose many varieties are solely by c and frequently it is not known how far their peculiarities can be by generation nevertheless some facts of value can be and other facts will hereafter be incident i x preliminary remarks chap ix ally given one chief object in the two following chapters is to show how generally almost every character in our cultivated plants has become before entering on details a few general remarks on the origin of cultivated plants may be introduced m de in an admirable discussion on this subject in he a wonderful amount of knowledge gives a list of of the most useful cultivated plants of these he believes that are almost certainly known in their wild state but on this head other competent judges entertain great doubts of of them the origin is admitted by m de to be doubtful either from a certain amount of which they present when compared with their nearest in a wild state or from the probability of the latter not being truly wild

6Jack London

this abrupt and tremendous extension of space his eyes were themselves to the brightness themselves to meet the increased distance of objects at first the wall had leaped beyond his vision he now saw it again but it had taken upon itself a remarkable also its appearance had changed it was now a wall composed of the trees that fringed white the stream the opposing mountain that above the trees and the sky that out the mountain a great fear came upon him this was more of the terrible unknown he crouched down on the lip of the cave and gazed out on the world he was very much afraid because it was unknown it was hostile to him therefore the hair stood up on end along his back and his lips wrinkled weakly in an attempt at a ferocious and out of his and fright he and the whole wide world nothing happened he continued to gaze and in his interest he forgot to also he forgot to be afraid for the time fear had been by growth while growth had assumed the guise of curiosity he began to notice near objects â an open portion of the stream that flashed in the sun the pine tree that stood at the base of the slope and the slope itself that ran right up to him and ceased two feet beneath the lip of the cave on which he crouched now the gray had lived all his days on a level floor he had never experienced the hurt of a fall he did not know what a fall was so he stepped boldly out upon the air his hind legs still rested on the cave lip so he fell forward head downward the earth struck him a harsh blow on the nose that made the wall of the world him then he began da s over and over he was in a panic of terror the unknown had caught him at last it had savagely hold of him and was about to upon him some terrific hurt growth was now by fear and he ki d like any frightened the unknown bore him on he knew not to what frightful hurt and he and ki d this was a different proposition from crouching in frozen fear while the unknown just alongside now the unknown had caught tight hold of him silence would do no good besides it was not fear but terror that him but the slope grew more gradual and its base was grass covered here the lost when at last he came to a stop he gave one last and then a long wail also and quite as a matter of course as though in his life he had already made a thousand he proceeded to away the dry clay that soiled him after that he sat up and gazed about him as might the first man of the earth who landed upon the had broken through the wall of the world the unknown had let go its hold of him and here he was without hurt but the first man on would have experienced less than did he without any knowledge without any white warning whatever that such existed he found himself an in a totally new world now that the terrible unknown had let go of him he forgot that the unknown had any terrors he was aware only of curiosity in all the things about him he the grass beneath him the plant just beyond and the dead trunk of the pine that stood on the edge of an open space among the trees a running around the base of the trunk came full upon him and gave him a great fright he down and but the was as badly scared it ran up the tree and from a point of safety back savagely this helped the s courage and though the he next encountered gave him a start he proceeded confidently on his way such was his confidence that when a bird up to him he reached out at it with a playful the result was a sharp on the end of his nose that made him down and ki the noise he made was too for the bird who sought safety in flight but the was learning his misty little mind had already made an unconscious there were live things and things not alive also he must watch out for the live things the things not alive remained always in one place but the live things moved about and there was no telling what the wall of the world they might do the thing to expect of them was the unexpected and for this he must be prepared he travelled very he ran into sticks and things a that he thought a long way oflf would the next instant hit him on the nose or along his ribs there were of surface sometimes he and his nose quite as often he and his feet then there were the pebbles and stones that turned under him when he trod upon them and from them he came to know that the things not alive were not all in the same state of stable as was his cave also that small things not alive were more liable than large things to fall down or turn over but with every he was learning the longer he walked the better he walked he was himself he was learning to calculate his own muscular movements to know his physical to measure distances between objects and between objects and himself his was the luck of the born to be a hunter of meat though he did not know it he upon meat just outside his own cave door on his first into the world it was by sheer that he chanced upon the hidden nest he fell into it he had to walk along the trunk of a fallen pine

20Washington Irving

the blows of the strongly prompted however by this little hope of his sufferings he made a second attempt and again fell after several unsuccessful efforts he finally regained possession of his feet and staggering slowly through the forest he at length reached the spot where the lay the indian who had marked him for his prey took a aim than his fellow and killed him outright found him lifeless and with some difficulty he laid his own head upon the body of his companion and as he had hoped found considerable relief from this position while he was enjoying this little comfort he met with trouble from a new quarter a small dog which belonged to him and had accompanied him in his hunting but to which he had been hitherto now came up to him in apparent agony and leaping around him in a variety of involuntary mo tions and cried in an unusual manner to the no small of his master was not in a situation to bear the disturbance even of affection he tried in every way which he could think of to force the dog from him but he tried in vain at length wearied by his cries and and not knowing how to put an end to them he addressed the animal as if he had been a rational being if you wish so much to help me go and call some one to ray relief at these words the creature instantly left him and ran through the full speed to the great comfort of his master who now hoped to die quietly the dog made his way directly to three men belonging to the garrison who were fishing at the dis border warfare of new york ok of a mile from the scene of this tragedy as soon as he came up to them he began to cry in the same manner and advancing near them turned and went slowly back toward the point where his master lay keeping his eye continually on the men all this he repeated several times at length one of the men observed to his companions that there was something very extraordinary in the actions of the dog and that in his opinion they ought to find out the cause his companions were of the same mind and they immediately set out with an intention to follow the animal he should lead them they had pursued him some distance and found nothing they became discouraged the sun had set and the forest was dangerous they therefore determined to return the moment the dog saw them l about he began to cry with increased violence and coming up to the men took hold of the skirts of their coats with his teeth and attempted to pull them toward the point to which he had before directed their course when they stopped again he leaned his back against the back part of their legs as if to push them onward to his master astonished at this conduct of the dog they agreed after a little deliberation to follow him until he should stop the animal directed them directly to his master they found him still living and after burying the as well as they could they carried to the fort here his wounds were dressed with the utmost care and assistance was rendered to him as proved the means of restoring him to perfect health this story says the doctor t received from captain annals of county edward who received the account from a few days before in the spring of was stationed at in march he went up to from which place he wrote to col a letter dated march th this letter was enclosed in a letter from col of the same date of which the following is an extract enclosed you have a letter from major gen de relative to col nephew to gen who has for some time been in this part of the country as a spy the general he has taken his route by the way of and you ll send out such parties as you may judge necessary for him the following is the letter of sir as the taking of col is of the greatest importance i wish you would try every means in your power to have him apprehended i have desired col who knows him to let you have any intelligence he can give and to join to them those i have got by a tory about the dress and figure of you may send as many parties as you please and every where you ll think proper and do every convenient thing for discovering him i dare say he knows that we are after him and has nothing in view but to escape which i beg you to prevent by all you may promise in my name fifty guineas hard money besides all money c they can find about to any party of soldiers or border warfare of new york or indians who will bring him alive as every one knows now what we send for there is no inconvenience to scatter them in the country which reward is promised in order to the indians i have the honor to be sir your most obedient servant the de col it is believed was not apprehended the indians and found employment in the destruction of and cherry valley and the valley of the with the exception of an into the german was during the summer of the following letter was written by major robert then commanding at fort to col dated fort th dear colonel since my last the and warriors of the and nations with col arrived at this fort with a formal speech from both nations they informed me of their great uneasiness in regard to the matter of which had so lately happened about this fort and were sorry any suspicions should be entertained that they had

46Sarah Stickney Ellis

they are won at all â your sister that is married and dead she held in hand for years and what is the why he wears the willow for her to this day and her husband married again before her grave was green nay i have done all an honest man can to you so take me now or let me go at this began to secretly and ask herself whether it would not be better to yield since he was so resolute but the unlucky fellow did not leave well alone he went on to say â once out of sight of this place i may cure myself of my fancy here i never could oh said directly if you are so bent on being cured it would not become me to say nay gaunt bit his lip and hung his head and made no reply the patience with which he received her hard speech was more apparent than real but it told receiving no fresh positive provocation again of her own accord and after a considerable silence whispered softly â think how we should all miss you here was an to reconciliation but unfortunately it brought out what had long been in s mind and was in fact the real cause of the misunderstanding oh said he those i care for will soon find another to take my place i soon they have not waited till i was gone for that ah indeed said with some surprise then like the girl she was so this is what all the is about she then with a charming smile begged him to inform her who was his destined successor in her esteem colored purple at her cool for such he considered it and replied almost fiercely â who but that young black a george that you have been with this month past â and danced all night with him at lady s ball you did blushed and said â you were not there or to be sure i had not danced with aâ â and he you by name wherever he goes can i help that wait till i toast him before you make yourself ridiculous and me very angry â about nothing j sticking to his one idea replied â mistress lied with her true lover for years till richard came that was not fit to tie his shoes and then cut him short â ont me if nothing less will serve but spare my sister in her grave she began the sentence angrily but concluded it in a broken voice was half but only half he answered sullenly â she did not die till she had an honest gentleman and broken his heart and married a to her cost and you are of her breed when all is done and now that young gaunt or jealousy livid passion of jealousy in every of a human face that terrible passion had its victim in a moment the ruddy genial kindly with his soft brown eye was gone and in his place lowered a older and and and almost women wiser perhaps in this than men take their strongest impressions by the eye not ear i say looked at him she had hitherto thought she knew â looked and feared him and even while she looked and shuddered his mare sharply and then drew her head across the gray s path it was an instinctive impulse to bar the lady he loved from taking another step towards the place where his rival awaited her i cannot bear it he gasped choose you now once for all between that there and me and he pointed with his riding whip at his rival and waited with his teeth clenched for her decision the movement was rapid the gesture large and commanding and the words manly for what says the fighting poet â he either fears his fate too much or his deserts are small who fears to put it to the touch to win or lose it all chapter miss drew herself up and back by one motion like a queen at bay but still she eyed him with a certain respect and was careful now not to provoke nor pain him i prefer â â though you speak harshly to me sir said she with gentle dignity then give me your hand with that man in sight and end my promise to marry me this very week ah have pity on your poor faithful servant who has loved you so long i do i do said she sweetly but i shall never marry now only set your mind at rest about mr there he has never asked me for one thing he soon wiu then no no i declare i will be very cool to him after what you have said to me but i cannot marry you neither i dare not listen to me and do pray govern your temper as i am doing mine i have often read of men with a passion for jealousy â i mean men whose jealousy upon air and reason i know you now for such a man marriage would not cure this madness for wives do not escape admiration any more than maids something tells me you would be jealous of every fool that paid me some stale compliment jealous of my female friends and jealous of my relations and perhaps jealous of your own children and of that holy persecuted church which must still have a large share of my heart no no your face and your words have shown me a precipice i tremble and draw back and now i never will marry at all from this day i give myself to the church did not believe one word of all this that is your answer to me said he bitterly when the right man puts the question and he is not far off you will tell another tale you take

8Jane Austen

the long roll of years wherein we have stood opposed but if one single fact could counsel me scene iii the to entertain a doubt of those great gifts and faith in his capacity that fact would be the vast shown in like his on such an act as he has offered us â so false in principle so poor in fruit sir the achievements and effects thereof have furnished not one fragile argument which all the partiality of friendship can to consider as the mark of a clear vigorous freedom mind he sits down amid cheers from the opposition my summary shall be brief and to the point â the said right honourable prime minister has thought it proper to declare my speech the of an â words from a person who has never read the act he claims him urgent to such and as he them he as gathered from long stored up with cruel care to be discharged with sudden blaze of art on the devoted gentle shrinking head of the right honourable gentleman laughter but were my humble solemn sad laughter indeed such rattle as he it the act i is it not strange and passing precedent that the illustrious chief of government should have with such speed and replied he sir knows well that vast and luminous talents like to his could not have been demanded to choke off a marked by nothing more of weight than ignorant inter sit â and so and so â is a well worn whose close fit none will perceive more clearly in this than its deity opposite laughter his answer thus him moreover to top all the while replying he still thought best to leave the reasons on which my blame was founded thus then stands my motion clearly of dire that capacity we formerly admired â cries of oh oh this minister whose never whose fail to this at secret known to all this darling of the aristocracy â laughter â â oh oh cheers and cries of divide has brought the millions to the verge of ruin scene hi the by them to continental quarrels of which we see no end cheers the members rise to divide spirit of the me that they thus should tea and nay as though a power lay in their if each decision work unconsciously and would be though were a single lip spirit of rumour there may on things some influence from these and even on that whose we all are spirit of the years i â more boots it to remind the younger here of our ethereal band and of that this parliament whose moods we watch â so un ideal â may figure forth in sharp and lines to eyes of after days y the foregoing is an attempt to give the substance of the memorable debate which took place on the evening represented but reports differ in some particulars the act i and print its legend large on history for one cause â if i read the signs aright â to night s appearance of its minister in the assembly of his long time sway is near his last and to night will take a from that memory when men recall the scene and circumstance that hung about his â but no more the of each party is not one vote or prejudice the ministers their retain and ins as and as remain spirit of the meanwhile what of the s vast array that wakes these tones spirit of the years abide the event y young shade soon stars will shut and show a spring eyed dawn and fountain for thy that will arouse those forming bands to full activity an honourable member reports that he strangers a token that we here i we now cast off these mortal y and speed us the four vanish from the gallery the members file out to the the house and westminster into the of and the point of observation rapidly across the channel scene iv the scene iv the harbour of a morning radiant with early sunlight the french army of invasion is disclosed on the hills on either side of the town and behind appear large military formed of timber huts lower down are other of more or less permanent kind the whole affording accommodation for one hundred and fifty thousand men south of the town is an extensive basin surrounded by the heaps of fresh soil around showing it to be a recent from the banks of the the basin is crowded with the consisting of hundreds of vessels of sundry kinds flat with guns and two boats of one mast carrying each an two guns and a two horse box with three low and long narrow arranged for many oars timber saw mills and new cut spread in profusion around and many of the town are seen to be adapted for and dumb show moving in this scene are countless companies of engaged in a practice of and and of horses into the vessels and landing them again bearing provisions of many sorts load and before the temporary further off on the open land bodies of troops are at field other bodies of soldiers half stripped and with mud are as in the an english of about twenty sail the act i a ship or two of the line and the busy spectacle from the sea the show presently and anon a curtain of cloud over it scene v london the house of a lady of quality a fashionable crowd is present at an evening party which the of and lords and with their ladies also lady anne mrs lady lamb and many other a gentleman offering his snuff box so then the treaty anxiously between ourselves and frosty is duly signed a cabinet minister was signed a few days back and is in force and we do firmly hope the loud pretensions and the from

44Oliver Optic

in twenty c a the be king â h the my go t tr t do also go and bring us good luck will go even shouted the priest â i will depart mt winged and be at in a day ho h he to his servant drive out the let me first mount my own he leaped on the back of his beast as it knelt and turning round to me cried â come thou also a little along the road and i will sell thee a charm â an that shall make thee king of then the light broke upon me and i followed the two out of the till we reached open road and the priest halted what d you think o that said he in english can t talk their so made him my servant he makes a handsome servant t for nothing that i ve been knocking about the country for fourteen years didn t i do that talk neat we ll on to a at till we get to and then we ll see if we can get for our and strike into for the o lor put your hand under the bags and tell me what you feel i felt the butt of a and another and another twenty of em said placidly twenty of em and to correspond under the and the mud heaven help you if you are caught with those things i said a is worth her weight in silver among the fifteen hundred of capital â every we could borrow or steal â are invested on these two said lot we won t get caught going through the bar with a regular who d touch a poor mad the man who would be have you got everything you want i asked overcome with astonishment not yet but we shall soon give us a of your kindness brother you did me a service yesterday and that time in half my kingdom shall you have as the saying is i slipped a small charm compass from my watch chain and handed it up to the priest good by said giving me hand cautiously it s the last time we ll shake hands with an englishman these many days shake hands with him he cried as the second passed me leaned down and shook hands then the passed away along the dusty road and i was left alone to wonder my eye could detect no failure in the the scene in the that they were complete to the native mind there was just the chance therefore that and would be able to wander through without detection but beyond they would find death certain and awful death ten days later a native friend of mine giving me the news of the day from wound up his letter with â there has been much laughter here on account of a certain mad priest who is going in his estimation to sell petty and insignificant which he as great charms to h h the of he passed through and associated himself to the second summer that goes to the merchants are pleased because through superstition they imagine that such mad fellows bring good fortune the two then were beyond the border i would have prayed for them but that night a real king died in europe and demanded an notice â â the wheel of the world through the same phases again and again summer passed and winter thereafter and came and passed again the daily paper continued and i the would be king with it and upon the third summer there fell a hot night a night issue and a strained waiting for something to be from the other side of the world exactly as had happened before a few great men had died in the past two years the machines worked with more clatter and some of the trees in the office garden were a few feet taller but that was all the difference i passed over to the press room and went through just such a scene as i have already described the nervous was stronger than it had been two years before and i felt the heat more at three o clock i cried print off and turned to go when there crept to my chair what was left of a man he was bent into a circle his head was sunk between his shoulders and he moved his feet one over the other like a bear i could hardly see whether he walked or crawled â this rag wrapped who addressed me by name crying that he was come back can you give me a drink he for the lord s sake give me a drink went back to the office the man following with groans of pain and i turned up the lamp don t you know me he gasped dropping into a chair and he turned his drawn face surmounted by a shock of gray hair to the light i looked at him intently once before had i seen eyebrows that met over the nose in an inch broad black band but for the life of me i could not tell where i don t know you i said handing him the what can i do for you he took a of the spirit raw and shivered in spite of the heat i ve come back he repeated and i was the king of â me and â crowned kings we was i in this office we settled itâ you setting there and giving us the books i am â and you ve been setting here ever since â o lord the man who would be king i was more than a little astonished and expressed my feelings accordingly it s true said with a dry nursing his feet which were wrapped in rags true as gospel kings we were with crowns upon our heads â me and

38James Payn

dance but seeing that was not interested i took the first opportunity to talk of something else she was more interested in the life of the quarter in le in my stories of and students and i noticed that she considered every student as he passed his slim body tightly in a long frock coat with hair flowing over his shoulders from under his hat just as she had considered each man on board the boat a week ago as we crossed from in the gardens to we had met on the boat i noticed her the moment i got on board her quiet neat clothes were french though not the french clothes so often buy and wear so badly the stays she had on i thought must be one of those little ribbon stays with very few bones and as she walked up and down she kept pressing her leather still more neatly into its place looking first over one shoulder and then over the other she reminded me of a bird so quick were her movements and so alert she was not exactly pretty for her lips were thin her mouth too tightly closed the under lip almost disappearing her eyes up very much at the comers and her eyebrows were black and they nearly met the next time i saw her she was beside me at dinner â we had come by chance to the same hotel a small hotel in the her mother was with her an elderly to whom the girl talked very affectionately yes dearest no dearest mamma she had a gay voice though she never seemed to laugh or joke but her face had a sad expression and she sighed continually after dinner her mother went to the piano and played with a great deal of accent and noise the cake walk we used to dance that at nice oh dear mamma do you remember that lovely two step her mother nodded and smiled and began playing a but she had not played many bars before her daughter said â op my dead life now mother don t play any more come and talk to u i asked her if she did not like she shrugged her shoulders an expression of irritation came into her face she either did not want to talk of then or she was incapable of forming any opinion about him and judging from her inter est in the cake walk i said the cake walk is isn t it the sarcasm seemed lost upon her she sat looking at me with a vague in her eyes and i found it impossible to say whether it was indifference or stupidity plays beautifully my daughter loves music she plays the better than anybody you ever heard in your life well she must play very well indeed for i ve heard and if would only practise and she pressed her daughter to play something for me i haven t got my keys â they re upstairs no mother leave me alone i m thinking of other things her mother went back to the piano and continued the looked at me shrugged her shoulders and then turned over the illustrated papers saying they were stupid we began to talk about foreign travel and i learned that he and her mother spent only a small part of every year in england she liked the continent much better clothes were detestable english pictures she did not know anything about but suspected they in the gardens must be pretty bad or else why had i come to france to paint she admitted however she had met some nice englishmen but â oh there was one at do you know no nor italy are nice are they not there was one at don t think i m not interested in hearing about pictures because i am but i must look at your ring it s so like mine this one was given to me by an who said the curse of would be upon me if i gave it away but who is i never heard of her you mustn t ask me i m not a bit an intelligent woman people always get sick of me if they see me two days running i doubt very much if that is true if it were you wouldn t say it why not i shouldn t have thought of saying it if it weren t true next evening at dinner i noticed that she was dressed more carefully than usual she wore a gown with a and a bow at the side of her neck i noticed too that she talked less she seemed and after dinner she seemed anxious i could not help thinking that she wished her mamma away and was searching for an excuse to send her to bed mamma dear won t you play us â the but tear you know quite well that i can t play it â of my dead life mamma was nevertheless persuaded to play not only the bat her entire she was not allowed to leave the piano and had begun to play smith when the door opened and a man s face appeared for a second her interest in men i said did you see that man what a nice young man she put her finger on her lip and wrote on a piece of paper not a word he s my and mother doesn t know he s here she does not approve he hasn t a thank you mother thank you you played that very nicely won t you play my dear no mother dear i m feeling rather tired we ve had a long day and the two bade me good night leaving me alone in the sitting room to finish a letter but i had not quite got down to the signature when she came in looking very agitated even a little

14Robert Louis Stevenson

seem to but a part do truly mar the happiness of all hence no reform can be perfect which is not universal and no happiness until all evil is the good should labor and strive for nothing less than the and elevation of the race all needful labor may be rendered attractive by this he means not merely that all labor may by proper be procured without or degrading but that under proper arrangements men will love labor for itself will prize it as an good and as to health vigor enjoyment and true dignity to this law admits in practice some exceptions consisting of labors now requisite which are repulsive and disgusting for which he increased rewards and the highest social honors all other labor he may and will be performed as freely and willingly as hints toward hunting fishing and other functions are in our existing society the right to labor and to the fair reward of labors in all men and can not be withheld from any grievous wrong and injury the man who has no resource but in the strength of his the skill of his fingers has a positive claim on the of land and of property for opportunity to earn and receive a on these principles here most imperfectly stated is based s system of society let me endeavor to set before you some rude idea of a community constituted according to his suggestions but in order that you may understand the change he let us first briefly consider the society he would a new england rural answering to the french and in some respects to the english parish is we will say a tract some six square inhabited in the average by about two thousand persons divided into four hundred families of these families one half obtain their by farming a fourth by the various mechanical or arts half a dozen by three or four by religious teaching two or three by law as many by a few are so wealthy as to be above the necessity of labor some are supported by the town while perhaps a dozen live as they may by out to labor when they must and picking up whatever they can at all times such are the by which the is it would be a liberal estimate to say that three hundred good days work are performed daily on the average in all branches of productive labor among these thousand people while perhaps as much more labor is performed by women children and servants in the less profitable but still essential duties of the household out of the of this labor often rudely applied and directed the whole community must â a as it and his ideas s system ould make of these four hundred families one community or association one vast edifice instead of four hundred scattered dwellings of all from comfortable to miserable with half a dozen and perfectly constructed instead of three hundred ill adapted the safe of countless destructive these buildings he would conveniently to the lands of the association and near its water power if such were among its possessions instead of some twenty thousand acres of the area of the the association would require less than half so much but of this the portion would be brought to and kept in the highest state of and cultivation the property would be represented by as in a railroad or bank each member whether resident or not holding shares and receiving according to the amount of his the whole of the produce is to be sold or valued a paid to the capital and the to all the members according to the amount and of the labor and skill of each meantime education is in the association the persons being chosen for teachers in the various who are to all the children not merely into the of learning as now taught in schools but into he principles of the knowledge of but above all into the love and practice of industry from earliest infancy they are to be with the various processes of and the arts they are to see labor however rude or repulsive the main source of honor and distinction as well as wealth and they are to be thus taught to seek the knowledge and skill which shall fit them for eminence in the domain of industry and to arrest the earliest opportunity of winning her cherished rewards a very outline of the means by which labor is to be hints toward x among the material advantages reckoned by as inevitably from association as contrasted with the present modes of life and industry are these a saving of at least nine of the fuel now required of the land set apart to produce and the labor needed to prepare it a saving of nineteen of the fences now required covering and the land and requiring endless materials and attention a saving of the time now consumed in the endless of between the various classes of and in petty trade a saving of the labor now and wasted by reason of the want of skill or science in the workman or rendered by the want of the best machinery the small farmer can not afford to purchase for his few acres all the costly implements of the most modern a saving of three of the labor now required for the preparation of food and in the various of the household it is evident that these would require far less labor in one house than in five hundred and that the food of two thousand persons may be prepared in three or four spacious apartments amply supplied with every convenience with infinitely less labor than in four hundred petty with scarcely any at all whether the members shall partake of their food at common tables in small groups or in families is to depend on the free choice of each the actual cost

18Thomas Hardy

the over to me in the you ve got a good stool there he ll make you his report to morrow now was a figure of a guard who hailed from county he was a simple minded good natured and not above earning an honest dollar by in tobacco for the on that night returning from a trip to san he brought in with him fifteen pounds of prime to the star he had done this before and delivered the stuff to so on that particular night he all turned the stuff over to in the it was a big solid paper wrapped bundle of innocent tobacco the stool baker from concealment saw the delivered to and so reported to the captain of the yard next morning but in the meantime the poet s too lively imagination ran away with him he was guilty of a slip that gave me five years of solitary confinement and that placed me in this condemned cell in which i now write and all the time i knew nothing about it i did not even know of the break he had the forty into planning i knew nothing absolutely nothing and the rest knew little the era did not know he was giving them the cross the captain of the yard did not know that the cross was being worked on him ace was the most innocent of all at the his conscience could have accused him only of in some harmless and now to the stupid silly slip of next morning when he encountered the captain of the yard he was triumphant his imagination took the bit in its teeth well the stuff came in all right as you said the captain of the yard remarked and enough of it to blow half the prison sky high enough of what the captain demanded and the fool rattled on thirty five pounds of it your stool saw ace pass it over to me and right there the captain of the yard must have nearly died i can actually with him â five pounds of loose in the prison the star they say that captain â that was his â sat down and held his head in his hands where is it now he cried i want it take me to it at once and right there saw his mistake i planted it he lied â for he was compelled to lie because being merely tobacco in small it was long since distributed the along the customary channels very well said captain getting himself in hand lead me to it at once but there was no plant of high to lead him to the thing did not exist had never existed save in the imagination of the wretched in a large prison like san there are always hiding places for things and as led captain he must have done some rapid thinking as captain before the board of and as also on the way to the hiding place said that he and i had planted the powder together â and i just released from five days in the and eighty hours in the jacket i whom even the stupid guards could see was too weak to work in the loom room i who had been given the day off to â from too terrible punishment â i was named as the one who had helped hide the non thirty five pounds of high led captain to the alleged hiding place of course they found no in it my god lied standing has given me the cross he s lifted the plant and it somewhere else the captain of the yard said more emphatic things star than my god also on the spur of the moment but cold he took into his own private office locked tiie doors and beat him up â all of which came out before the board of but that was afterward in the meantime even while he took his beating swore by the truth of what he had told what was captain to do he was convinced that thirty five pounds of were loose in the prison and that forty desperate were ready for a break oh he had in on the carpet and although insisted the contained tobacco swore it was and was believed at this stage i enter or rather i depart for they took me away out of the sunshine and the light of day to the and in the and in the solitary out of the sunshine and the light of day i for five years i was puzzled i had only just been released from the and was lying pain in my customary cell when they took me back to the now said to captain though we don t know where it is the is safe standing is the only man who does know and he can t pass the word out from the the men are ready to make the break we can catch them red handed it is up to me to set the time i ll tell them two o clock to night and tell them that with the guards i ll their and give them their if at two o clock tonight you don t catch the forty i shall name with their clothes on and wide awake then captain you can give me solitary for the rest of my sentence and with standing and the forty tight in the we ll have all the time in the world to the the star if we have to tear the prison down stone by stone captain added that was six years ago in all the intervening time they have never found that non and they have turned the prison down a thousand times in searching for it to his last day in office believed in the existence of that captain who is still captain of the yard believes to this day that the

20Washington Irving

and ten thousand men were at the gates but four hundred held it in the morning and two hundred held it in the evening and no french foot was ever set within its threshold but how they fought those i their lives were no more to them than the mud under their feet there was one â i can see him now â a ruddy man on a he up alone in a lull of the firing to the side gate of and he beat upon it screaming to his men to come after him for five minutes he stood there strolling about in front of the gun barrels which spared but at last a in the orchard out his brains with a rifle shot and he was only one of many for all day when they did not come in masses they came in and with as brave a ice as if the whole army were at their heels so we lay all morning looking down at the fight at but soon the duke saw that there was nothing to fear upon his right and so he â â â â â â the shadow on the began to use us in way the french had pushed their past the and th lay among the in of us peeping at the so that three pieces out of six on our left were with their red in the mud all round them but the duke had his eyes everywhere and up he at that moment a thin dark man with veiy bright eyes a nose and a big oa his cap there were a dozen officers at his heels all as merry as if it were a fox hunt but of the dozen there was not one left in the evening warm work said he as he rode up very warm your grace said our general but we can them at it i think tut i tut we cannot let silence a battery just drive those fellows out of that then first i knew what a devil s thrill runs through a man when he is given a bit of fighting to do up to now we had just lain and been killed which is the kind of work now it was our turn and my word we were ready for it up we jumped the whole in a four deep line and rushed at the corn field as hard as we could tear the snapped at us as we came and then away they bolted like corn their heads down their backs rounded and their at the trail half of them got away but we caught up the others the officer first for he was a very fat man who could not run â it gave me quite a turn when i saw rob on my right stick the great shadow his into the man s broad back and heard him howl uke a damned soul there was no quarter in that field and it was butt or point for all of them the men s blood was and little wonder for those had been au morning without our being able so much as to see them and now as we broke through the farther edge of the corn field we got in fi ont of the smoke and there was the whole french army in position before us with only two meadows and a narrow lane between us we set up a yell as we saw them and away we should have gone slap at them if we had been left to ourselves for silly young soldiers never think that harm can come to them until it is there in their midst but the duke had his horse beside us as we advanced and now he roared something to the general and the officers all rode in front of our line holding out their arms for us to stop there was a blowing of a pushing and a with the cursing and digging us with their and in less time than it takes me to write it there was the in three neat little squares all with and in as they call it so that each could fire across the face of the other it was the saving of us as even so young a soldier as i was could very easily see and we had none too much time either there was a low rolling hill on our right flank and fit m behind this there came a sound like nothing on this earth so much as the shadow on the land the beat of the waves on coast when the wind blows from the east the earth was all shaking with that dull roaring sound and the ah was full of it steady seventy first for s sake steady shrieked the voice of our colonel behind us but in front was nothing but the green gentle slope of the all with and and then suddenly over the curve we saw eight hundred brass rise up all in a moment each with a long of flying from its crest and then eight hundred fierce brown faces all pushed forward and glaring out m between the ears of as many horses there was an instant of gleaming breast plates waving swords tossing fierce red nostrils opening and and hoofs the air before us and then down came the line of and our bullets up against their like the clatter of a upon a window i fired with the rest and then down another charge as fast as i could staring out through the smoke in front of me where i could see some long thin thing which slowly backwards and forwards a sounded for us to cease firing and a of wind came to clear the curtain from in fit nt of us and then we could see what had happened i had expected to find half that

3Edith Wharton

we must this clear somehow and he sighed to for he believed in his did the colonel we into the room under the full lights and there we saw how beautiful the woman was she stood up in the middle of us all sometimes choking with his wedded wife crying then hard and proud and then holding out her arms to the senior it was like the fourth act of a tragedy she told us how the senior had married her when he was home on leave eighteen months before and she seemed to know all that we knew and more too of his people and his past life he was white and gray trying now and again to break into the torrent of her words and we noting how lovely she was and what a criminal he looked esteemed him a beast ot the worst kind we felt sorry for him though i shall never forget the of the senior by his wife nor will he it was so sudden rushing out of the dark into our dull lives the captains wives stood back but their eyes w ere alight and you could see that they had already convicted and the senior the colonel seemed five years older one major was his eyes with his hand and watching the woman from underneath it another was his moustache and smiling quietly as if he were witnessing a play full in the open space in the centre by the tables the senior s was hunting for i remember all this as clearly as though a photograph were in my hand i remember the look of horror on the senior s face it was rather like seeing a man hanged but much more interesting finally the woman wound up by saying that the senior carried a double f m in on his left shoulder we all knew that and to our innocent minds it seemed to the matter but one of the bachelor said very politely â i presume that your would be more to the purpose that roused the woman she stood up and sneered at the senior for a cur and abused the id his wedded wife and the colonel and all the rest then she wept and then she pulled a paper from her breast â take that and let my husband â my wedded husband â read it aloud â if he dare there was a hush and the men looked into each other s eyes as the senior came forward in a dazed and dizzy way and took the paper we were wondering as we stared whether there was anything against any one of us that might turn up later on the senior s throat was dry but as he ran his eye over the paper he broke out into a hoarse of relief and said to the woman â you young i but the woman had fled through a door and on the paper was written â this is to that i the worm have paid in full my debts to the senior and further that the senior is my by agreement on the rd of february as by the mess to the extent of one month s captain s pay in the lawful of the india empire then a set off for the worm s quarters and found him and between his stays with the hat wig dress c on the bed he came over as he was and the shouted till the mess sent over to know if they might have a share of the fun i think we were all except the colonel and the senior a little disappointed that the scandal had come to nothing but that is human nature there could be no two words about the worm s acting it leaned as near to a nasty tragedy as anything this side of a joke can when most of the sat upon him with sofa cushions to find out why he had not said that acting was his strong point he answered very quietly â i don t think you ever asked me i used to act at home with my his wedded wife m sisters but no acting with girls could account for the worm s display that night personally i think it was in bad taste besides being dangerous there is no sort of use in playing with fire even for fun the made him president of the dramatic club and when the senior paid up his debt which he did at once the worm sank the money in scenery and dresses he was a good worm and the are proud of him the only is that he has been mrs senior and as there are now two mrs senior in the station this is sometimes to strangers later on i will tell you of a case something like this but with all the jest left out and nothing in it but real trouble the broken the broken link the holds or the â long neck while the big beam or the last rings while horses are horses to train and to race then women and wine take a second place for me â for me â while a short â â ten three has a field to or fence to â song of the g r there are more ways of running a horse to suit your book than pulling his head off in the straight some men forget this understand clearly that all racing is rotten â as everything connected with losing money must be out here in addition to its inherent it has the merit of being two thirds sham looking pretty on paper only knows else far too well for business purposes how on earth can you rack and harry and post a man for his when you are fond of his wife and live in the same station with him he says on the

38James Payn

d himself to them priests in the temple of virtue and holy duty opposing as they can the earthly force to the moral government belong generally men of the most the genuine that is such as are ready in every moment to sacrifice all for and so die for the liberty of their nation as christ did for humanity these may be divided into three kinds â men of the most genuine reality men of the most genuine men of the most genuine men of the most genuine reality are the descendants of families that are celebrated and deserve well of their the of estates and all good given to industry and commerce men of the most genuine are excellent writers these draw out of themselves new ideas lifting up the nation they awake her own feelings advance her on the road of light progress and spiritual victory over her enemies they explain to her the past the present and the future they point out to her the high mission which she has received from god they work out the national tendency the star of a new existence they are the active spirit of and the pure thought of their moral power is greater than any political one every genial word is a breaking down the hardest rocks itself as a lightning and thundering through the length of ages our know this power the sentence of the second who said great writers are the most essential and of the world they to the utmost those who have taken up a patriotic pen men of the most genuine are political or all those national and blessed saints who groan in or in exile who die under the of their enemies and become an example of holy such moral government is as it is divine in its foundation to the question whether can rise from her political grave answers â she can do it he says if she upon her ancient mission but it inwardly and enters again on the road pointed out to her by god himself for the struggle of the european and the american principles with the lasts until our days or rather is carried on with a harder than at any former time if on the european and the american principles and becomes an of freedom light and progress if she throws away from her bosom the doctrines of rome and the if she her own christian church as a branch of christian she will be s messenger working for the progress of the world she will then be necessary to europe and all europe will be with her what the were centuries to europe the armies of the russian the j are at present composed of these same but better exercised in military and to battle was two and forty years under the yoke has been penetrated with and has appropriated its spirit and organization she the principle which has grown stronger by and now europe the russian has power a hundred times more extensive than the arbitrary of because he in himself and that is the political and powers he commands his subjects to believe that all the earth is his property that nations against him are to their he is king of kings more than the chinese a lieutenant of god and a visible his order is a law before and behind him goes the ancient the old cruelty and where he walks there are the weeping and anguish of many years the russian europe for he possesses the greater part of it and what is yet worse he is the powerful pope of that christian confession which not only in russia but in the countries of the ancient eastern empire millions of blind his european possessions and christianity lead the russian to various relations with europe and open to him an extensive field for his artful doings he is active and does not neglect his business he has already swallowed and now opens his mouth for turkey as many european countries fall under his yoke in many so much space does asia gain in europe the russian by his alliance with â which delights in the arbitrary will and the principles â has strengthened his influence in that country and shakes germany by the neck his hand reaches already to the and the threatening liberty light and the progress of europe and europe experiences this shame in consequence of permitting the robbery and the of by the unsuccessful polish and asia gained a splendid victory over europe and the russian strengthened and obviously extended his influence over the civilized world the the friends of freedom light and progress to groan everywhere in the was established over all literary and patriotic pens free lips were sealed by the institution of the secret police and the of this new â holy in our days abominable st is what shameful rome was once the murderer of the body and the spirit the russian surrounded by and his many to the eastern and southern about the blessings of blind obedience mouths represent the russian as their from the yoke of the and the and call on men to i the under the standard of thej however can show nothing but the physical power of russia instead of intellectual and moral power they breathe in the spirit of the emperor and his military government the poles are singing h of liberty light and progress among the they send to them the words of freedom they them with the sound moral food of their rich literature old and new and are certain of their victory upon this field of battle until there comes a general war of europe against asia justly europe against the danger which it uie people almost a tenth part of the whole population on the globe because they pay homage to the principle will be able to all the rest of europe but if they love

36Jacob Abbott

to earth from the clouds you not the first people that have worshipped such a stone now we know better also this plain before you is full iron and iron draws the lightning that is why it ne strikes your town below the iron it more than earth and huts of straw again while the pole was in little danger for the lightning strikes the high thing but after the pole was shattered and went away then i was in some danger only no flashes f i am not a king but i know some things that y do not know and i trust in one whom i shall lead you trust in also we will talk of this more hereafter said the hurriedly for one day i have heard and seen also i do not believe your words for i have noted ever y those who are the greatest of all say continually th they have no magic power you have been in your day but it seems that henceforth you who have j must follow the battle is not yet fought king answered â to day i met the without my ance was a little storm when i am prepared with my and the tempest is great then i will challenge this wh man to face me yonder and then in that hour my god sh show his strength and god shall not be able to s i him that we shall see when the time comes answered o with a smile hi â il i l l i l i t that night as sat in his hut working at the translation of st john the door was opened and entered white man said the you are too strong for though whence you have your power i know not let s make a bargain show me your magic and i will show you mine and we will rule the land between us you and are much akin â we are great we have the spirit sight e know that there are things beyond the things we see and car and feel whereas for the rest they are fools following he flesh alone i have spoken very gladly will i show you my magic answered cheerfully since to speak truth though know you to be wicked and guess that you would be glad o l e rid of me by fair means or foul yet i have taken a â ing for you seeing in you one who from a sinner may into a saint this then is my magic to love god and serve man wealth and power to seek after ss poverty and humility to deny your flesh and to make small in the sight of men that so perchance you y grow great in the sight of heaven and save your soul â â i have no stomach for that lesson said yet you shall live to hunger for it answered i d the went away but wondering chapter ix the crisis now day by day for something over a month preached the gospel before the king his and hundreds of the head men of the nation they listened to him attentively the new doctrine point by point for although they might be savages these people were very keen and subtle very patiently did sow and at length to his infinite joy he also gathered in his first fruit one night as he sat in his hut as usual at the work of translation wherein he was assisted by john whom he had taught to read and write the prince entered and greeted him f or a while he sat silent watching the white man at his task then he said â messenger i have a boon to ask of you can you teach me to understand those signs which you set upon the paper and to make them also as does john your servant certainly answered if you will come to me at noon to morrow we will begin the prince thanked him but he did not go away indeed from his manner guessed that he had something more upon his mind at length it came out messenger he said you have told us of whereby we are admitted into the army of your king say have you the power of this i have and is your servant here â â he is ill i i i y i then if he who is a common man can be why t ay not i who am a prince in answered there is no distinction between the highest and the lowest but if you believe then he door is open and through it you can join the company of heaven messenger i do believe answered the prince humbly then was very joyful and that same night with j for a witness he the prince giving him the w name of after the first christian emperor on the following day in the presence of ho on this point would suffer no concealment announced the king that he had become a christian heard nd for a while sat silent then he said in a troubled voice â truly messenger in the words of that book from which you read to us i fear that you have come hither to bring hot peace but a sword now when the witch doctors and he priests of fire learn this that he whom i have chosen to succeed me has become the servant of another faith they ill stir up the soldiers and there will be civil war i pray you therefore keep the matter secret at for a while seeing that the lives of many are at stake in this my father answered the prince i must do as the messenger bids me but if you desire it take from me the right of succession and call back my brother from the northern mountains â that by poison or

17Theodore Dreiser

have given it back but she would still have me keep it you shall be my tor jack said she laughing is this our carriage how funny it looks and where am i to sit on the said i and how am i to get there put your foot on the said i help you i sprang up and took her two little hands in my own as she came over the side her breath blew in my sweet and warm and all that and seemed in a moment to have been away from my soul i felt as if that instant had taken me out from myself and made me one of the race it took but the time of the of the horse s tail and yet something had happened a barrier had gone down somewhere and i was leading a wider and a wiser life i felt it all in a but shy and backward as i was i could do nothing but out the for her her eyes were after the coach which was rattling away to and suddenly she shook her handkerchief in the air he took off his hat said she i think he must have been an he was very cousin of looking perhaps you noticed him â a gen on the outside very handsome with a brown overcoat i shook my head with all my flush of joy changed to foolish resentment ah well i shall never see him again here are all the green and the brown winding road just the same as ever and you jack â i don t see any great change in you either i hope your manners are better than they used to be you won t try to put any down my back will you i crept all over when i thought of such a thing we ll do all we can to make you happy at west inch said i playing with the whip i m sure it s very kind of you to take a poor lonely girl in said she it s very kind of you to come cousin i stammered find it very dull i fear i suppose it is a little quiet jack not many men about as i remember it there is major up at he comes down of an evening a real brave old soldier who had a ball in his knee under ah when i speak of men jack i don t mean old folk with balls in their knees i meant people of our own age that we could make friends of by the way that old doctor had a son had he not oh yes that s jim my best friend is he at home the great shadow no hell be home soon he s still at studying ah then well keep each other company he comes jack and i m very tired and i wish i was at west inch i made old cover the ground as he had never done before or since and in an hour she was seated at the supper table where my mother had laid out not only butter but a glass dish of jam which sparkled and looked fine in the candle light i could see that my parents were as overcome as i was at the difference in her though not in the same way my mother was so set back by the feather thing that she had round her neck that she called her miss instead of until my cousin in her pretty way would lift her forefinger to her whenever she did it after supper when she had gone to her bed they could talk of nothing but her looks and her breeding by the way though sa my father it does not look as if she were heart broke about my brother s death and then for the first time i remembered that she had never said a word about the matter since i had met her u chapter m the shadow on the waters it was not very long before cousin was queen of west inch and we all her devoted subjects from my down she had money and to spare though none of us knew how much when my mother said that four shillings the week would cover all that she would cost she fixed on seven shillings and sixpence of her own fi e will the south room which was the and had the round the window was for her and it was a marvel to see the things that she brought from to put into it twice a week she would drive over and the cart would not do for her for she hired a from whose farm lay over the hill and it was seldom she went without bringing something back for one or other of us it was a wooden pipe for my or a for my mother or a book for me or a brass collar for rob the there was never a woman more handed but the best thing that she gave us was just her own presence to me it changed the whole country side and the sun was brighter and the and the air sweeter fix m the day she came our lives were common no longer now that we spent them with such a one as she and the old the great shadow dull grey house was another place in my eyes she had set her foot across the door mat it was not her though that was enough nor her form though i never saw the at could match her but it was her spirit her queer mocking ways her fresh new fashion of talk her proud of the dress and toss of the head which made one feel like the ground beneath her feet and then the quick challenge in her eye and the kindly word that brought one up to

3Edith Wharton

galleries the cathedral the imperial opera house and what not at the other end it is only about a mile long into the famous formerly a part of the imperial on the whole the avenue was a disappointment for suggestions of character individuality innate charm or the reverse â as these things strike one â growth prosperity promise and the like cannot be in europe quite readily i can see how it might and the less of less hopeful and determined the german when he is oppressed is terribly depressed when he is in the saddle nothing can equal his of i it becomes so like and that the world may only gaze in astonishment or retreat in an dismay or amusement the do take themselves so seriously and from many points of view with good reason too i don t know where in europe outside of paris if even there you will see a better kept city it is so clean and and fresh that it is a joy to walk there â anywhere mile after mile of straight imposing streets greet your gaze needs a great an avenue such as den lined with official palaces not shops and unquestionably a magnificent museum of art â i mean a better building its present public and imperial are most they suggest the american european architecture of the public monuments of and particularly their are for the most part a crime against humanity i remember standing and looking one evening at that noble german known as the memorial statue of william i in the unquestionably the and most imposing of all the military this statue speaks loudly for all and for all germany and for just what the disposition would like to be â namely terrible colossal world and the like it almost shouts ho see what i am but the sad part of it is that it does it badly not with that reserve that somehow invariably tremendous power so much better than mere does what the seem not to have learned in their art at least is that easy it their art is anything but easy it is almost invariably but to continue the whole neighborhood in which this statue occurs and the other neighborhood at the other end of den where stands the and the like all in the of as it were is conceived designed and executed in my judgment in the same mistaken spirit truly when you look about you at the cathedral save the mark or the royal palace in the or at the winged victory before the or at the itself and the statue of in the the two great imperial you sigh for the artistic spirit of italy but no words can do justice to the folly of spending three million dollars to erect such a thing as this or cathedral it is so bad that it hurts and i am told that the himself some of the designs and it was only completed between and shades of and but if i seem disgusted with this section of â its evidence of empire as it were â there was much more that truly charmed me wherever i wandered i could perceive through all the life of this busy a at forty city the german temperament â its moody poverty its middle class prosperity its commercial financial and above all its official and imperial life is shot through with the constant suggestion of and the german policeman with his shining brass and brass belt the in his long military gray overcoat his over his shoulder his high cap his eyes his black and white striped box behind him stationed apparently at every really important comer and before every official palace the german military and imperial their independent ways all traffic cleared away before them the small flag of or fluttering from the foot rails as they flash at express speed past you â these things suggest an individuality which no other european city that i saw quite it represented what i would call determination self pride is new green vigorous â a city that for speed of growth puts entirely into the shade that for appearance cleanliness order for military precision and has no anywhere it suggests to you all the time something very much greater to come which is the most interesting thing that can be said about any city anywhere one i should like to write on concerns not so much its social organization as a city though that is interesting enough but its traffic and travel arrangements to be sure it is not yet such a city as either new york london or paris but it has over three million people a crowded business heart and a heavy daily to and fro swinging tide of traffic there are a number of railway stations in the great german capital the the the and so on and coming from each in the early hours of the morning or pouring toward them at evening are the same eager streams of people that one meets in new york at similar hours the are like the americans sometimes i think that we get the better portion of our characteristics from them only the i am convinced are so much more thorough they go us one better in economy energy endurance and the american already is beginning to want to play too much the have not reached that stage the railway stations i found were excellent with great yards and enormous sheds arched with glass and steel where the trains waited in i admired the train service as much as i did that of london if not more that in paris was here the trains offered a choice of first second and third class with the vast majority using the second and third i saw little difference in the crowds occupying either class the second class were in a brown the third class seats were of plain

42Lucas Malet

sudden said ow did you come to know is funny little ways that soon many inventions said with emphasis i had conquered the beggar my son ho said between doubt and derision his s child an wan or two other came up not bein afraid anything an some got an i washed the top his poor sore head i had done him to a turn an some picked the pieces carts out his hide an we scraped him an handled him all over an we put a big leaves the same that ye stick on a pony s on his head an it looked like a cap an we put a pile young sugar cane f him an he began to pick at ut now i down on his fore foot we ll have a an let be i sent a child for a an the s wife she me out four fingers an the liquor came i see by the in ould s eye that he was no more a stranger to ut than me â worse luck than me so he his like a christian an thin i put his on chained him fore an aft to the an gave him my an back to and after i said in the pause ye can guess said there was confusion an the colonel gave me ten an the gave me five an my ny captain gave my the elephant me five an the men carried me round the did you go to said i heard a word more about the s if that s what you mane but ril the was off sudden to the holy christians hotel that night small blame to â they had twenty in i to lie down an sleep ut off for i was as done an double done as him there in the lines tis no small thing to go ride me an the venerable father sin became mighty friendly i go down to the lines i was in an spend an him he wan stick sugar cane an me another as thick as thieves he d take all i had out my pockets an put ut back again an now an thin i d bring him beer for his an i d give him advice about bein well behaved an off the books that he the way the army an that s bein as soon as you ve made a good friend so you never saw him again i demanded do you believe the first half the affair said i ll wait till comes i said except when he was carefully by the other two and the immediate money benefit explained the did not tell lies and i knew had a imagination there s another part still said was in that then i ll believe it all i answered not from any special belief in s word but from desire to learn the rest he stole a from me once when our acquaintance was new and with the little beast stifling under his overcoat denied not only the but that he ever was interested in dogs that was at the the business said years the men that had seen me do the was dead or gone home i came not to speak ut at the last â i do not care to knock the face man that calls me a liar at the very the i sick like a fool i had a boot but i was all for up the and such like foolishness so i up a hole in my heel that you ha a tent into faith how often have i preached that to since for a to to look their feet i our who knew our business as well as his own he to me in the middle the pass ut was that s sheer damned carelessness he how often have i you that a man is no stronger than his feet â his feet â his feet he now to hospital you go he for three weeks an expense to your an a my the elephant to your next time he perhaps you ll put some the you pour down your throat an some the you put into your hair into your he faith he was a just man so soon as we come to the head the i to hospital on wan disappointment twas a field hospital all flies an native an in a way close by the head the the hospital was mad us sick for there an we was mad at bein kept an through the day an night an night an day the an horse an guns an an tents an followers the was like a coffee mill the came through scores an scores an they d turn up the hill to hospital their sick an i lay in bed my heel an the men bein out i wan night the time i was fever a man came through the tents an is there any room to die here he there s none the columns an at that he dropped dead a cot an thin the man in ut began to complain against all alone in the dust dead men thin i must ha turned mad the fever an for a week i was the saints to stop the noise the columns through the gun wheels ut was that wore my head thin ye know how tis fever many inventions we nodded there was no need to explain gun wheels an feet an people shouting but mostly gun wheels twas neither night nor day to me for a week in the they d up the tent flies and we sick look at the pass an what was next horse or guns they d be sure to wan or two sick us an we d get news wan the fever off me i was the an twas just like the picture on the the

38James Payn

resentment to the maker perhaps the latter the public in the weekly papers the arbitrary measures of the brazen sovereigns showed their dangerous influence over the trades of the town and the easy manner in which our own towns j might be good arises out of evil this fiery match quickly kindled another furnace in public meetings were advertised a committee appointed and shares of â each was deemed a sufficient capital each a share was to purchase one of brass w were immediately erected upon the banks of the canal for the advantage of water carriage and the whole was conducted with the true spirit of freedom the old companies which we may justly consider the of a south sea in miniature sunk the price from fi to â two arise from this measure that their profits were once very high or were now very low and that like some former in the abuse of power thej repented one day too late nails â the art of nail making is one of the most ancient in it is not however so much a trade in as of that town for there are but few nail makers left in it the are so scattered round the country that we cannot travel in any direction out of the sound of the hammer when i first approached this town says mr from in i was surprised at the prodigious number of blacksmith s shops upon the road and could not conceive how a country though could support so many people in the same occupation in some of these shops i observed one or more females of their upper garment and not with their lower the hammer with all the grace of her sex the beauties of their face were rather by the of the fire struck with the novelty i whether the ladies in this country shod horses p but was informed with a smile they are a fire without heat a of a fair complexion or one who the j are equally rare among them his whole system of faith may be in one article that the slender then used in the public houses u de above all things and desperately wicked while the master of plenty the workman to the scanty of a thin habit an early old and a figure bending to the earth plenty comes not near his dwelling except of children and rags his small hammer is worn into deep hollows fitting the fingers of a dark hand hard as the timber it wears or the it strikes his e like the moon is seen through a cloud but not of so watery an element â man first catches the profession the profession there are now extensive nail made by american in thâ town of which the may be thk social history of britain afterwards the man in whatever profession we engage we assume its character become a part of it its honour its eminence its antiquity its renown or feel a wound through its sides though there had wont to be formerly or may be now no more pride in a minister of state who opens a than in a who carries one yet they equally contend for the honour of the trade the maker the honour of his art by observing he alone makes that instrument which produces the winds his soft breeze like that of the south the chill of winter by his efforts like those of the sun the world receives light he when he pleases and gives breath when he in his dark the winds sleep at pleasure and by his orders they set europe in flames he farther that the antiquity of his occupation will appear from the plenty of elm once in that neighbourhood but long cut up for his use that the leather market of his town for many ages furnished him with sides and though the manufacture of iron is allowed to be extremely ancient yet the smith could not produce his heat without a blast nor could that blast be raised without one will arise from these remarks that making is one of the oldest trades in thread â we who reside in the interior parts of the kingdom may observe the first traces of a river when it issues from its fountain the current is so extremely small that if a bottle of liquor through the vessels were discharged into its course it would the water and the the bottle having added spirits to the man would seem to add spirits to the river if we pursue this river winding through all its through miles we shall observe it strength force and volume and as it runs its banks and borders into consequence multitudes of people carries wealth on its bosom and exactly thread making in this town if we represent to our ideas a man able to employ three or four people himself in an apron one of the number but who unable to write his name shows his attachment to the christian religion by the the symbol of his faith to his whose method of like that of the who taught each other this ancient system of accounts is a door and a lump of chalk which paid is readily li and therefore will he wipe his doorway clean and keep oo tell tâ le to his ea ports or producing a book of dirty curled leaves which no one can interpret who having forty weight of thread of as many colours as was joseph s coat and it into a pair of bags something larger than his own pair of boots which we might deem the arms of his trade them on a horse and placed himself on the animal s back by way of a crest visits an adjacent market to starve with his goods on a stall or them to a nor returns without the money we shall see a thread

46Sarah Stickney Ellis

at least whom hereditary introduced to his notice felt in that presence as a child might have felt in pan for the poet himself these lingering years were full of grave of humble self judgment of hopeful looking to the end worldly minded i am not he wrote to an intimate friend near his life s close â on the contrary my wish to benefit those within my humble sphere seemingly in exact proportion to my inability to realize those wishes what i lament most is that the of my nature does not and rise the nearer i approach the grave as yours does and as it with my beloved partner the aged poet might feel the loss of some of emotion but his thoughts dwelt more and more constantly on the beloved ones who had gone before him and on the true and unseen world one of the images which to his friends is that of the old man as he would stand against the window of the dining room at mount and read the and lessons for the day of the tall bowed figure and the silvery hair of the deep voice which always faltered when among the prayers he came to the words which give thanks for those who have departed this life in thy faith and fear â retirement then might look upon a soothing scene age steal to his allotted nook contented and serene by l oo william with heart as calm as lakes that sleep in frosty moonlight glistening or mountain torrents where they creep along a channel smooth and deep to their own far off murmurs listening â among all s of the blessed it is the who are the truest friends of man we need not be ashamed to linger on them fondly to imagine between the impression which one or another poet makes on us with the sights or sounds the or of the great open world shakespeare one may say is like daylight and like the furnace glow is like storm and like the thunder and like the moving sea is like wine and like water â which said was best often that drink seems flat enough but let the wounded soldier crawl to the well spring and he knows that water is best indeed it is the very life of men i note â william was bom of old north country stock on the th of april at in the neither at school nor at college was he distinguished as a scholar filled with enthusiasm for the french revolution he spent a year in paris whence he was driven by the reign of terror from until his death he lived almost in the lake country the record of his secluded and happy life being found in his poems he died at mount on the d of april lines composed a few miles above abbey on the banks of the during a tour five years have passed five with the length of long and again i hear these waters rolling from their mountain springs with a soft inland murmur once again do i behold these steep and lofty cliffs that on a wild secluded scene impress by william thoughts of more deep seclusion and connect the landscape with the quiet of the sky the day is come when i again repose here under this dark and view these plots of cottage ground these orchard which at this season with their fruits are clad in one green hue and lose themselves mid groves and once again i see these hedge rows â hardly hedge rows â little lines of wood run wild these pastoral farms green to the very door and wreaths of smoke sent up in silence from among the trees with some uncertain notice as might seem of in the woods or of some s cave where by his fire the sits alone these forms through a long absence have not been to me as is a landscape to a blind man s eye but oft in lonely rooms and mid the din of towns and cities i have owed to them in hours of weariness sensations sweet felt in the blood and felt along the heart and passing even into my purer mind with tranquil restoration feelings too of pleasure such perhaps as have no slight or trivial influence on that best portion of a good man s life â his little nameless acts of kindness and of love nor less i trust to them i may have owed another gift of aspect more sublime that blessed mood in which the of the mystery in which the heavy and the weary weight of all this unintelligible world is lightened that serene and blessed mood in which the affections gently lead us on until the breath of this frame and even the motion of our human blood almost suspended we are laid asleep in body and become a living soul while with an eye made quiet by the power of harmony and the deep power of joy we see into the life of things by l william if this be but a vain belief yet oh how oft â in darkness and amid the many shapes of daylight when the stir and the fever of the world have hung upon the of my heart â how oft in spirit have i turned to thee thou wanderer through the woods how often has my spirit turned to thee and now with of half extinguished thought with many dim and faint and somewhat of a sad perplexity the picture of the mind again while here i stand not only with the sense of present pleasure but with pleasing thoughts that in this moment there is life and food for future years and so i dare to hope though changed no doubt from what i was when first came among these hills when like a i bounded o er the mountains by

3Edith Wharton

together with population in ru states in and together with population in western states in and together with population index continued r a r r in pacific states in i and together with population rapid increase of in l in new england middle western southern and pacific states in and together with number of inhabitants of in different sections united states to each in i and l in united states to each i and i i culture of cotton amount of united states in and i table of amount raised in different states and go amount of from united states in xxvi bow string operation of cotton history of see implements agricultural xxvi domestic animals see live stock fix of flour grain see flour and grain from united states to foreign countries for the year ending june table of from united states to foreign countries from to table of from new york to foreign countries from boston to foreign countries from philadelphia to foreign countries from to foreign countries from to foreign countries from for three years cl from new to foreign ports from san to foreign countries of grain flour and meal from russia to table of ni of compared to total domestic farms under actual cultivation in united states value of produced in states and and grown in new england states compared with amount grown in states compared with amount grown in western states compared with amount grown in southern states compared with amount grown in pacific states compared with in different sections in proportion to population in and i small crop of owing to of labor climate of northern states adapted to growth of of cotton increasing culture of improvement in machinery for dressing fibre of produced in united states in produced in states and in and growth of stimulated by high price of oil oil cake demand in england for al o food for cattle and sheep and grain c received at for twenty eight years in received at for sixteen years l xl received at for five years received at for three years received at for eighteen years received at st louis for fourteen years c l i received at new for thirty one years from for nineteen years from for twenty six years from l ike eastward for years index and continued r r r movement of from west to east for eight years ci i of america to foreign countries forest trees preservation of as a protection against disease ct xx neglect of beautiful native grain trade of the united states v in in to great britain and ireland alone in its infancy as compared with russia internal compared with production united states of the st river ci ii with europe direct means to foster of the of the upper treaty and the between the lakes and europe first of grain from western shore of lake vn first of grain from canal new era in chief commerce of before the revolution resources of lake basin developed by opening of and railroad to fox river in all kinds of grain total of at tide water by new york wheat and flour total of at tide water by new york of grain from xi h gi varieties of see production of united states i proportion of to produced in united states in horses number and increase of in last twenty years including and v employed in number of employed in the five great states of the west number of diminished in number and importance by implements machinery c agricultural implements united states table of of x i apparatus for separating grain from straw xxi agricultural tools of america superior to those in common use in europe xxv cotton manufacture of xx vi forks and american in england xxv grain cutting first american patent for x x grain of by machinery xi v hay revolving history of i hay fork machine produced in england and united states xxi improvement in first american patent for xxv implements exhibited at the london exhibition xi v instruments manufacture of labor saving machinery production of xv labor saving machinery total product in new england x v labor saving machinery total product in middle states x v labor waving machinery total product in western states i labor saving machinery total product in southern states xvi index r j c continued machinery for and cleaning and history of x x and earliest description of x x history of x vi in england and southern europe x i in scotland x vi improvements in granted for in united states x i x hy steam i x by x i v machines progress of of xxi machines made number of and trial of xxi and axe manufacture introduction of x xiii improvement in and forks manufacture of xxiv straw improvement in xiv and cleaning machines london exhibition of industry influence of xiv new york crystal palace exhibition xiv gin used in india gin improvement in xx s saw gin of wheat corn and flour into great britain and ireland during past three years table of iu agricultural into united states from canada and into canada from united states value of indian corn see corn land in farms acres of improved and cash value united states table of vm area fertile and waste in acres lakes on during the past six years live stock and states and and i and new england states as compared with and middle states i as compared with and western states i as compared with and southern states as compared with and pacific states as compared with horses in states and in and ax horses in new england states as compared with ax horses in middle states as compared with ex horses in western states as compared with ex horses in southern states as compared with horses in pacific states as compared with horses number of to each in different sections in united states in and cows and other cattle

46Sarah Stickney Ellis

â o total states and o i i o a i t i i i i i i o i ss i s jl i o ds a â s c o a i o s s sm ca is ill â cm s he â a h â i i â s j i ll t i i i f h s ib us j â â aa mi mo u hj b â l ot i l a h m iâ i e a s â ss j mi im w â a m na m w s i w i l â â n in iâ an â o do â d z mi i p ll â â j a u m m a k â vâ s ib i s s â m b s â sa mi m b â xi â i ae i s b m i â b so b bo ia g i no â m â â l om m t la s t m ml a i sa w us mb id i tâ l b j aw â b ib im sm si om l sm il i mo i i ao w â u â t i no s i e iâ t m is i l a s aâ i i m t aa en m â â j r â â u â ⠞ u â â a lie â m g t hi i h sm h h aw b a a na i so si si s states new new york new â virginia north an of new total states and acres of land a r b f i m ai c j j ol ll i f g c i a â g i a â j m l ll ft im j ik t f â i i â e i t i o f â a i s s i s c li s c h f hâ i â m â l â sm a nm a â l i i jâ si s i mâ m n c jt t h e s s j j f e i i h i i f s jo s i b i sm a o â mo j â sh b s im b h â â w b â w m â du i ia m sâ ii i d a â â e b iâ i ei a st oâ s ie fi it b oa e so â i an is an â sa sm d â j a u m aw e s m lâ s loi b s ti t a as si mi s a i bi as i i wa ex est a w s â t s s b sc â i ia â om â â â â iâ e â i bi ba s b â g â a w ai lâ b hâ ue su m au ai w ess a ms s s b eâ so states new new york new virginia north south total states acres op land district of new total states and s i i i a â a s i s a â o i i live stock i o i g i i e a i l i m o i â cf so e â â s o ss so b hâ b q c â b n i i i ia â j m m j i ia â j i i ji â l n r l s i too i ti â li t sâ produced i t ri nâ j a m t â m ji i e s ml ee s oh s â s ss t b a iâ f u â g â produced g lo sâ a o g o i o â i i s â i â â o i o o si il j o r i a i i i t a â j o t â a a s â the estimated number of horses and neat cattle sheep and as returned hy mar the being returned an the of states ki ui nâ virginia total states of new washington total i â m i a i il â â m m b j r â i s i c mm ti l j â w la r l n ix k additional to the on page three acres and more co t s acres i si a i â i s s i i i al s ee s go to to sa m s sâ a am c ss s i d los sc ess s b u dâ it t ei s we as sa â â â â â t i s â e s l total ia a m â si â j i s i g e a s i â t s i i i â a a an s as â d â go e s s ax ia iso h m es i s aa am ace ass sm to s mi i â pâ iâ i s bt hâ â i z c s b s ⠞ m containing three acres and â b su t w â containing and more â b â acres si s s i s m b â g s â â co x acre aj s i a i s j â el j i a i i s t so ss m â â is a b d j s ih ci â i col a is i el â eâ mi â nâ in ib so â n am so â m s j j â â â it g ir lâ n in wo w â containing three acres and i m i il w l â

46Sarah Stickney Ellis

nothing about it he perhaps don t need it but i may as well be honest first as last and it s no use my pretending i ve held my tongue for the sake of the family for i ve done nothing of the kind i don t say miss now that i ve seen you that i shouldn t do it just for you alone â but that s a different thing altogether of course i know that you and mr would have been dreadfully put out if i d gone and married tom i m older than he is and i m not a lady like you but all the same i was real fond of him and if we d been married i d have done my best to make him a good wife â that i would but it wasn t to be captain found out what was going on poor follow and he convinced me that it wouldn t do â that i hadn t a chance of making a swell young fellow like tom happy so i made up my mind to give him up and i m one of that sort when i make up my mind to do a thing i do it and i don t argue about it so i gave him up in spite of everything he could say against it though of b e mt no thought of his going straight off and doing anything like â well like he did â no no of course not with increasing respect for this girl and by the delicate way in which she round the mention of s shameful act still for all that went on i haven t forgot the past he wag fair and honest with me he wanted to marry me and make a lady of me and i m not going to forget it i wouldn t marry him now not if he went on his knees every day for a year to it i couldn t i should never know a minute s peace night or day again hot at the same time i was fond of him once and i mean to stand by him so far if only for that you are a good woman cried oh t you are good i don t know how to thank you enough some day perhaps when you have got over it all and feel inclined to settle down with â with â a â a â better man i may be able to help you in many ways and you will let me do that won t you she ended well miss returned i won t say no it s not that i want to my silence but i ve been brought up to fight my own way and a s life isn t the easiest one in the world i can tell you so i won t say if there was a chance of your being able to do me a good turn that refuse iu i will make the chance said pressing u the other girl s hand â and for to day i have got ready a little present i want you to accept from me as a token of my gratitude and thanks â â she rose as she spoke and fetched from a side table a little plain but very handsome hand bag such as ladies in town carry with them it was of russia leather with a plain silver clasp and had a small in silver on one side â r m opened it you see it has s purse and everything that we women use â and as you probably know it is very unlucky to give away an empty purse i have put enough in it to break the spell you on t be will you miss said earnestly i don t think could offend me if you tried and i m sure â i never shall try ended laughing though her eyes were tearful never my dear never i owe you far too much so the two women so widely different in training and worldly standing separated the won over to for ever full of a vain regret that the circumstances of this world w re such that it was for ever to marry this woman for whose sake he had bo deeply she is shrewd sensible honest and true she said and if she had been lady rose she would have been that wretched boy s salvation so the bright summer days slipped over and thâ ty father and daughter began to think about making a move to their country place hope and scarcely were they settled there before beautiful jim came â came without a word of warning â came only for a few hours â that he might take a passionate of her whom he loved best in all the world and three short words were enough of explanation â active service â xxx the was off to the east so suddenly that but little leave even of a few hours length could be granted to its officers for the purpose of making beautiful jim had been especially favoured by the colonel and had been granted permission to leave only from five o clock in the afternoon until officers call the following morning naturally enough all the officers wished to have the same privilege but young was not amongst those who pressed for it so as he was anything but a favourite with his commanding officer he was not one of those who were out to receive it in truth the lad was anything but anxious to go to hope i if his ther and sister had been in town it is probable that he would have begged hard for leave and have made his farewell to them and beautiful jim f other at the same time bat being at hope and alone

29Fergus Hume

perhaps i thought so from that time until now trot you have ever been a credit to me and a pride and pleasure i have no other claim upon my means at least â here to my surprise she hesitated and was confused â no i have no other claim upon my means â and you are my adopted child only be a loving child to me in my age and bear with my and fancies and you will do more for an old woman whose prime of life was not so happy or as it might have been than ever that old woman did for you it was the first time i had heard my aunt refer to her past history there was a in her quiet way of doing so and of it which would have exalted her in my respect and affection if any thing could all is agreed and stood between us now trot said my aunt and we need talk of this no more give me a kiss and we ll go to the after breakfast to morrow we had a long chat by the e before we went to bed i slept in a room on the same floor with my aunt s and was a little disturbed in the course of the night by her knocking at my door as often as she was agitated by a distant sound of or and inquiring if i heard the engines but towards morning she slept better and me to do so too at about mid day we set out for the offices of messrs and in doctors my aunt who had this other general o in reference to london that every man she saw was a gave me her purse to carry for her which had ten guineas in it and some silver we made a pause at the toy shop in fleet street to see the giants of saint s strike upon the bells â we had timed our going as to catch them at it at twelve o and then went on towards hill and st paul s churchyard we were crossing to the former place when i found that my aunt greatly david her speed and looked frightened i observed at the same time that a lowering ill dressed man who had stopped and stared at us in passing a little before was coming so close after us as to brush against her â trot my dear trot cried my aunt in a terrified whisper and pressing my arm i don t know what i am to do don t be alarmed said i there s nothing to be afraid of step into a shop and i ll soon get rid of this fellow no no child she returned don t speak to him for the world i entreat i order you good heaven aunt said i he is nothing but a sturdy beggar you don t know what he is replied my aunt you don t know who he is you don t know what you say we had stopped in an empty doorway while this was passing and he had stopped too don t look at him said my aunt as i turned my head indignantly but get me a coach my dear and wait for me in st paul s churchyard wait for you i repeated yes rejoined my aunt i must go alone i must go with him with him aunt this man i am in my senses she replied and i tell you i must get me a coach however much astonished i might be i was sensible that i had no right to refuse with such a command i hurried away a few paces and called a chariot which was passing empty almost before i could let down the steps ray aunt sprang in i don t know how and the man followed she waved her hand to me to go away so earnestly that all confounded as i was i turned from them at once in doing so i heard her say to the coachman drive anywhere drive straight on and presently the chariot passed me going up the hill what mr dick had told me md what i had supposed to be a delusion of his now came into my mind i could not doubt that this person was the person of whom he had made such mysterious david mention though what the nature of his hold upon my aunt could possibly be i was quite unable to imagine after half an hour s in the churchyard i saw the chariot coming back the driver stopped beside me and my aunt was sitting in it alone she had not yet sufficiently recovered from her agitation to be quite prepared for the visit we had to make she desired me to get into the chariot and tell the coachman to drive slowly up and down a little while she said no more except my dear child never ask me what it was and don t refer to it until she had perfectly regained her composure when she told me she was quite hei self now and we might get out on her giving me her purse to pay the driver i found that all the guineas were gone and only the loose silver remained doctors was approached by a little low before we had taken many paces down the street beyond it the noise of the city seemed to melt as if by magic into a softened distance a few dull ts and row ways brought us to the sky lighted offices of and in the of which temple accessible to without the ceremony of knocking three or four clerks were at work as one of these a uttle dry man sitting by himself who wore a stiff brown wig that looked as if it were made of rose to receive my aunt and show

7James Baldwin

to an purpose and thus did the first warlike fate of the tion come to a end â a fate which i am informed has befallen but too many of its it was a long time before could be persuaded by the united efforts of all his that his war measure had failed in producing any effect â on the contrary he flew in a passion whenever any one dared to question its and swore though it was slow in yet when once it began to work it would soon the land of these time however that test of all experiments both in philosophy and politics at length the great that his was and that notwithstanding he had waited nearly four years in a state of constant irritation yet he was still off than ever from the object of his wishes his in the east became more and more troublesome in their and founded the colony of close upon the skirts of fort they moreover commenced the fair settlement of otherwise called the red hills within the of their â while the patches of were a continual to the garrison of van vol t t l a second one issued upon beholding therefore the of his measure the sage like many a worthy of laid the blame not to the medicine but to the quantity and resolutely resolved to double the dose in the year therefore that being the fourth year of his reign he against them a second of heavier metal than the former written in thundering long sentences not one word of which was under five this in fact was a kind of non intercourse bill forbidding and all commerce and between any and every of the said yankee and the said fortified post of fort and ordering commanding and all his loyal and weu beloved subjects to furnish them with no supplies of gin or sour to buy none of their pacing horses pork apple brandy yankee rum water apple or wooden but to starve and them from the face of the land another pause of a ensued during which the last received the same attention and experienced the same fate as the first â at the end of which term the gallant of his messengers van despatched his annual messenger with his customary of complaints and entreaties whether the regular interval of a intervening between the arrival of van was occasioned by the of his movements or by the at which he was stationed of is a matter of uncertainty have ascribed it to the of his messengers who as i have before noticed were the shortest and of his garrison as least likely to be worn out on the road and who being short little men generally fifteen miles a day and then laid by a whole to rest all these however are matters of conjecture and i rather it be ascribed to the of this worthy and which has ever all its public t not to do things in a hurry the gallant van in his respectfully represented that several years had now elapsed since his application to his late t during wm interval his had been reduced nearly one eighth by the death of two of his most and nt soldiers who had t van s complaints themselves on some â at salmon caught in the river he further stated that the enemy persisted in their taking no notice of the fort or its inhabitants but themselves down and forming all around it so that in a uttle while he should find himself enclosed and by the enemy and totally at their mercy but among the most of his i find the following still on record which may serve to show the bloody minded of these savage in the mean time they of have not and taken in the lands of although and against the of nations but have our nation in purchased broken up lands but have also them with in the night which the had broken up and intended to and have beaten the servants of the high and mighty the honored which were on master s lands firom lands with sticks and in hostile manner and amongst the rest struck ever a hole in his head with a stick â is no doubt mis in some old of a h s rights that the blood ran very strongly upon his body but what is still more those of sold a that belonged to the honored under pretence that it had eaten of grass when they had not any foot of inheritance they proffered the for s if the would have given â for damage which the denied because man s as men used to say can upon his ma ter s the receipt of this melancholy in the whole community â there was in it that spoke to the dull comprehension and touched the feelings even of the vulgar who generally require a kick in the rear to awaken their dignity i have known my profound fellows citizens bear without murmur ia thousand essential of their rights merely because they were not immediately obvious to their senses but the moment the unlucky was shot upon our the whole the time we find the name of who is r the unfortunate hero above alluded to col s at papers ms of the body was in a so the enlightened though they had treated the of their eastern neighbours with but little regard and left their governor to bear the whole of war with his single pen yet now every individual felt his head broken in the broken head of â and the unhappy fate of their fellow citizen the being impressed carried and sold into awakened a of sympathy from every bosom the governor and council by the of the multitude now set themselves earnestly to upon what was to be done â had at length fallen into temporary some were

47Thomas Anstey Guthrie

the the giant pines and and hold their arms open to the sunlight rising above one another on the mountain benches in glorious array giving forth the utmost expression of grandeur and beauty with inexhaustible variety and harmony the inviting of the woods is one of their most characteristics the trees of all the species stand more or less apart in groves or in small irregular groups one to find a way nearly everywhere along sunny and through that have a smooth the mountains of park like surface strewn with brown needles and now you cross a wild garden now a meadow now a stream and ever and anon you from all the groves and flowers upon some granite pavement or high bare ridge commanding superb views above the waving sea of far and near one would experience but little difficulty in riding on horseback through the successive all the way up to the storm beaten of the icy peaks the deep however that extend from the of the range cut the more or less completely into sections and prevent the mounted from tracing them this simple arrangement in and sections brings the f t as a whole within the comprehension of every observer the different species are ever found occupying the same relative positions to one another as controlled by soil climate and the comparative vigor of each species in taking and holding the ground and so are these relations one need never be at a loss in within a few hundred feet the elevation above sea level by the trees alone for notwithstanding some of the species range upward for several thousand feet and all pass one another more or less yet even those possessing the greatest range are available in this connection in as much as they take on new forms corresponding with the variations in crossing the plains of the and san from the west and reaching the foot hills you enter the lower fringe of the the forests forest composed of small oaks and pines growing so far apart that not one twentieth of the surface of the ground is in shade at clear after advancing fifteen or twenty miles and making an ascent of from two to three thousand feet yon reach edge of the the lower margin of the main pine belt composed of the gigantic sugar pine yellow pine incense and next you come to the magnificent silver fir belt and lastly to the upper pine belt which sweeps up the rocky of the summit peaks in a wavering fringe to a height of from ten to twelve thousand feet the mountains of this general order of distribution with reference to climate dependent on elevation is perceived at once but there are other as far reaching in this connection that become manifest only after patient observation and study perhaps the most interesting of these is the arrangement of the forests in long bands together into patterns and in charming variety the key to this beautiful harmony is the ancient where they flowed the trees followed tracing their wavering courses along over and over high rolling the of says are growing upon one of the of an ancient all the forests of the are growing upon but vanish like the that make them every storm that falls upon them them cutting and carrying away their material into new until at length they are no longer by any save students who trace their forms down from the fresh still in process of formation through those that are more and more ancient and more and more obscured by vegetation and all kinds of post had the ice sheet that once covered all the range been melted from the foot hills to the the would of course have been left almost bare of soil and these noble forests would be wanting many groves and would undoubtedly have grown up on lake and beds and many a fair flower and would have found food and a dwelling place in the and but the as a whole would have been a bare rocky desert it appears therefore that the forests in general indicate the extent and positions of the ancient as well as they do lines of climate for forests properly speaking cannot exist without soil and since the have been deposited upon the solid rock and only upon elected places the mountains of leaving a considerable portion of the old surface bare we find luxuriant forests of pine and fir abruptly terminated by and polished on which not even a moss is growing though soil alone is required to fit them for the growth of trees feet in height the nut pine the nut pine the first met in ascending the range from the west grows only on the seeming to delight in the most ardent like a palm springing up here and there singly or in scattered groups of five or six among white oaks and of and its extreme upper limit being about feet above the sea its lower about from to feet this tree is remarkable for its airy tropical appearance which suggests a region of palms rather than cool pine woods no one would take it at first sight to be a of any kind it is so loose in habit and so widely and its foliage is so thin and gray full grown specimens are from forty to fifty feet in height and from two to three feet in the trunk usually into three or four main branches about fifteen and twenty feet from the ground which after bearing away from one another shoot straight up and form separate while the crooked subordinate branches and and in ornamental the slender the forests green needles are from eight to twelve inches long loosely and inclined to in handsome curves with the stiff dark hut pine p colored tr and branches in a very striking manner no other tree of my acquaintance so substantial

27Charles Reade

rest of his in a manner more becoming his dignity than he had been and that he should be set free on the payment of a heavy this the english people willingly raised when queen took it over to germany it was at first and refused but she appealed to the honor of all the princes of the german empire in behalf the m n and appealed so that it was accepted and the king released thereupon the king of wrote to prince take care of the devil is prince john had reason to fear his brother for fee had been a traitor to him in his he had secretly joined the french king had vowed to the english and people that his brother was dead and had vainly tried to seize the crown he was now in france at a place called being the meanest and of men he contrived a mean and base expedient for making himself acceptable to his brother he invited the french officers of the garrison in tha t town to dinner murdered them all and then took the fortress with this recommendation to the of a lion hearted monarch he hastened to king richard fell on his knees before him and obtained the of queen i forgive him said the king and i hope i may forget the injury he has done me as easily as i know he will forget my pardon while king was in there had been trouble in his at home one of the whom he had left in charge thereof the other and making in his pride ambition as great a show as if he were king himself but the king hearing of it at and a new this for that was his name had fled to france in a a child s of woman s dress and had there been encouraged and supported by the french king with all these causes of offence against philip in his mind king richard had no sooner been welcomed home by his enthusiastic subjects with great display and splendor and had no sooner been crowned afresh at than he resolved to show the french king that the devil was indeed and made war against him with great fury there was fresh trouble at home about this time arising out of the of the poor people who complained that they were far more heavily than the rich and who found a spirited champion in william called he became the leader of a secret society fifty thousand men he was seized by surprise he the citizen who first laid hands upon him and retreated bravely fighting to a church which he maintained four days until he was by fire and run through the body as he came out he was not killed though for he was dragged half dead at the tail of a horse at and there hanged death was long a favorite remedy for the people s but as we go on with this history i fancy we shall find them to make an end of for all that the french war delayed occasionally by a was still in progress when a certain lord richard the first named of chanced to find in his ground a treasure of ancient as the king s he sent the king half of it but the king claimed the whole the lord to yield the whole the king the lord in his castle swore that he would take the castle by storm and hang every man of its on the there was a strange old song in that part of the country to the effect that in an arrow would be made by which king richard would die it may be that de a young man who was one of the of the castle had often sung it or heard it sung of a winter night and remembered it when he saw from his post upon the the king attended only by his chief officer riding below the walls surveying the place he drew an arrow to the head took steady aim said between his teeth now i pray god speed thee well arrow discharged it and struck the king in the left shoulder although the wound was not at first considered dangerous it was severe enough to cause the king to retire to his tent and direct the assault to be made without him the castle was taken and every man of its was hanged as the king had sworn all should be except de who was reserved until the royal pleasure respecting him should be known by that time treatment had made the a child s history of wound mortal and the king w he directed to be brought into his te t the young man wag brought there chained king richard looked at him steadily he looked as steadily at the king said king richard what have i done to thee that thou take my life what hast thou done to me replied the young man with thine own hands thou hast killed my father and my two brothers myself thou have hanged let me die now by any torture that thou wilt my comfort is that no torture can save thee thou too must die and through me the world is quit of thee again the king looked at the young steadily again the young man looked steadily at him perhaps some remembrance of his generous enemy who was not a christian came into the mind of the dying king youth i he said i forgive thee go then turning to the chief officer who had been riding in his company when he received the wound king richard said take off his chains give him a hundred shillings and let him depart he sunk down on his couch and a dark mist seemed in his weakened eyes to fill the tent where in he had so often rested and he died his

7James Baldwin

of accents â it s strange we should meet like this after so many years i vi recognition at these words and at sight of the speaker started back as if he had been shot he exclaimed â not possible d no you must be his son the stranger laughed my good always the miracles arc many but there is one which is beyond all performance a man cannot be his own offspring i am that very who saw you last in oxford come come â you ought to know me he stepped more fully into the light whidi was shed from the open door of the deck saloon and showed himself to be a man of distinguished appearance apparently about forty years of age he was well built with the back and broad shoulders of an â his face was finely and radiant with the glow of health and strength and as he smiled and laid one hand on mr s shoulder he looked the very of active powerful manhood stared at him in amazement and something of terror el he repeated â you are his living image â but you cannot be himself â you are too young a gleam of amusement sparkled in the stranger s eyes don t let us talk of age or youth for the moment â he said here i am â you eccentric college recognition ance whom you and several other fellows fought shy of years ago i assure you i am quite harmless will you present me to the ladies there was a brief embarrassed pause then mr turned to us where we had withdrawn ourselves a little apart and addressed his daughter â he said â this gentleman tells me he knew me at oxford and if he is t i also knew him i spoke of him only the other night at dinner â you remember â but i did not tell you his name it is el if indeed he is â though my should be a much older man i extremely regret said our visitor then advancing and bowing courteously to and myself â that i do not fulfil the required conditions of age will you try to forgive me he smiled â and we were a little confused hardly knowing what to say involuntarily i raised my eyes to his and with one glance saw in those clear blue that so met mine a v of memories â memories tender wistful and pathetic entangled as in tears i nd fire all the inward instincts of my spirit told me that i knew him well as well as one knows the gold of the sunshine or the colour of the sky â yet where had i seen him often and often before while my thoughts puzzled over this question he averted his gaze from mine and went on speaking to i understand he said â that you are interested in the lighting of my it is most beautiful and wonderful â answered in her tone of conventional politeness and so unusual his eyebrows went up with a slightly the life everlasting yes i suppose it is he said â i am forgetting that what is not quite common seems strange but really the arrangement is very simple the is called the dream â and she as her name a dream fulfilled her sails are her only motive power they are charged with and that is why shine at night in a way that must seem to like a special illumination if you will honour me with a visit to morrow i will show you how it is managed here captain who had been standing dose by was unable to resist the impulse of his curiosity excuse me sir â he said suddenly â but may i ask how it is you sail without wind certainly â you may ask and be answered replied as i have just said our sails are our only motive power but we do not need the wind to fill them by a very simple scientific method or rather let me say by a scientific application of natural means we a form of electric force from the air and water as we move this force fills the sails and the vessel with amazing swiftness wherever she is neither calm nor storm affects her progress when there is a good gale blowing our way we naturally lessen the on our own supplies â but we can make excellent speed even in the teeth of a contrary wind we escape all the of steam and smoke and dirt and noise â and i in about a couple of hundred years or so my method of sailing the seas will be applied to all ships large and small with much wonder that it was not thought of long ago why not apply it yourself asked dr now joining in the conversation for the first time and putting the question with an air of incredulous amusement â with recognition each a discovery â if it is yours â you should make your f i glanced him over with polite it is possible i do not need to make it â he answered then turning again to captain he said kindly i hope the matter seems clearer to you we sail without wind it is true but not without the power that wind the captain shook his head well sir i can t quite take it in â he confessed â i d like to know more so you shall f will you all come over to the to morrow there may be some excursion we could do together â and you might remain and dine with me afterwards mr s face was a study doubt and fear struggled for the mastery in his expression and he did not at once answer then he seemed to conquer his hesitation and to recover himself give me a moment with

32George William Curtis

not unlike their old at this juncture died the sudden blow for a few days seemed to rough and ready both hastened to the with and offers of aid and assistance but the old man received them sternly a change had come over the weak and yielding those who expected to find him helpless shrank from the cold hard eyes and voice that bade them and leave him with his dead even his own friends failed to make him respond to their sympathy arid were fain to content themselves with his cold intimation that both the wishes of his dead wife and his own instincts were against any display or the reception of any favor from the camp that might tend to keep up the divisions they had innocently created the refusal of to accept any service offered was so unlike him as to have but one dreadful meaning the sudden shock had turned his brain yet so impressed were they with his resolution that they permitted him to perform the last sad offices himself and only a select few of his nearer neighbors assisted him in carrying the plain deal from his lonely cabin in the woods to ihe st on the hill top when two saints of the foot hills the shallow grave was filled he dismissed even these shut himself up in his cabin and for days remained unseen it was evident that he was no longer in his right mind his harmless was accepted and treated with a degree of intelligent delicacy hardly to be believed of so rough a community during his wife s sudden and severe illness the safe containing the funds to his care by the various benevolent associations was broken into and robbed and although the act was clearly to his carelessness and all allusion to the fact was withheld from him in his severe affliction when he appeared again before the camp and the circumstances were considerably explained to him with the remark that the boys had made it all right the vacant hopeless eye that he turned upon the speaker showed too plainly that he had forgotten all about it don t trouble the old man said dick with a burst of honest poetry don t ye see his memory s dead and lying there in the coffin with perhaps the speaker was nearer right than he imagined failing in religious consolation they took various means of his mind with worldly amusements and one was a visit to a variety then performing in the town the result of the visit was briefly told v drift from two shores dick well sir we went in and i the old man down in a front seat and kinder propped him up with some other of the round him and there he as silent and awful the grave and then that fancy miss grace comes in and my skin ef the old man did n t get to trembling and all over as she cut them wings i tell ye what boys men is men way down to their boots â whether they re crazy or not well he took on so that i m blamed if at last that herself did n t notice him and she suddenly and blows him a kiss â so with her fingers whether this were exaggerated or not it is certain that the old man every succeeding night of the performance was a spectator that he may have to more than that was suggested a day or two later in the following incident a number of the boys were sitting around the stove in the saloon listening to the of a winter storm against the windows when dick tremulous excited and with rain drops and information broke in upon them well boys i ve got just the biggest thing out ef i had n t seed it myself i would n t believed it it ain t ghost ag in growled robinson from the depths of his arm chair ghost s about played two saints of the foot ghost asked a new comer why s ghost that every about yer sees when he s half full and out late o nights where where why where should a ghost be round her grave on the hill in course it s bigger nor said dick confidently no ghost kin down the pot ag in the i ve got here this ain t no bluff well go on said a dozen excited voices dick paused a moment with the hesitation of an artistic well he said with affected deliberation let s see it s nigh an hour ago i was down at the variety show when the curtain was down the ax i looks round fer no i goes out and asks some o the boys was there a ago they say must gone home bein kinder responsible for the old man i hangs around and goes out in the hall and sees a passage behind the scenes now the queer thing about this boys that in my bones tells me the old man is i in and sure as a gun i hears his voice kinder pathetic kinder st â drift from two shores love broke in the impatient robinson you ve hit it â you ve rung the bell every time but she says i wants money down or i â and here i could n t get to hear the rest and then he kinder and she says but all the time â woman like ye know eve and the â and she says i see to morrow and he says you won t blow on me and i gets excited and in and may i be ef i didn t see â what the why on his knees to that there fancy grace now if s ghost is round why et s about time she left the and put in an appearance in s hall

4George Eliot

placed his departed great ones in groves while during this trance he hears the of nature he seems to become her and she him it is truly the mother in the child and the look out with eyes of tender twilight approbation from their beloved and loving trees such an hour lives for us again in this picture mr has been very fortunate in catching the and glimmer of the woods and his and to their peculiar light this is spoken of as s but i should think can scarcely have been suggested by the divine comedy the painter merely having in mind how the great loved a certain lady called embodied here his own ideal of a poet s love the of was no doubt as pure as gentle as high bred but also possessed of much higher attributes than this fair being how fair indeed and not for a poet s love but there lies in her no of the celestial destiny of s saint what she is wliat she can be it needs no to dis she is not a beauty neither is she a high and poetic one she is not a concentrated nor a flower nor a star yet somewhat has she of every creature s best she has the mean without any touch of the she can the higher and compassionate the lower and do to all honour due with most grateful courtesy and nice tact she is healed papers on literature art m m all things yet if need m d the tears yet are her f mother and than a e er i would for her g due lustre e t h h are good g but having the and shades well marked they show a in and the ia particularly good and the tear whose head shoulder knee and foot seem to unite to spell the word paul is next the sisters â a picture quite unlike those i have named â does not please me much though i should suppose the execution remarkably good it is not in repose nor in harmony nor is it rich in suggestion like the others it aims to speak but says little and is not beautiful enough to fill the heart with its present ment to me it makes a break in the chain of thought the other pictures had woven scene from bias â also unlike the other in being perfectly and telling all its thought at once it is a fine painting mother and child a lovely picture but there is to my taste an air of got up and delicacy in it it seems healed washington selected arranged by an il it did not flow into the s mind like the others but of better taste than i hke it than i do â full of is too dignified and sad gold the soul ot the man that owned at these i look with such ed delight that i been at moments tempted to wish that the artist had his on this department of art in so high a does he exhibit the of tho a power of sympathy gives each landscape a perfectly individual here the painter is in his theme and these pictures affect us as of nature so are we in them so difficult is it tt remember them as pictures how tho clouds float how the trees live and breathe out their souls in the peculiar attitude of leaf dear companions of my hfe whom yea ly i know better yet into whose can no more penetrate than see while yon live and grow i feel wh it you have laid to tliis painter i can in some degree the he ha in i the gentle the soul of the is in these but not his character is not the highest art nature and the soul combined the former from oi the latter its merely human aspect these lie too works of art their language b too direct too perfect to be translated into this of words without doing them an injury to those who confound praise with and who cannot understand the mind of one whose highest expression of admiration is a close scrutiny perhaps the following lines will convey a truer impression than the foregoing remarks of the feelings of the writer they were suggested by a picture painted by me for a gentleman of boston which has healed papers on literature and art never yet been publicly exhibited it is of the same class with his and evening es which were not in the above record because they inspired no thought except of their beauty which draws the heart into these two may be interesting as showing how similar trains of thought were opened in the minds of two to day i have been to see mr s new picture of the bride and am more convinced than ever of the depth and value of his genius and of how much food for thought his works contain the face disappointed me at first by want of beauty then i observed the peculiar expression of the eyes and that of the which tell such a tale as well as the strange complexion all heightened by the colour of the background till the impression became very strong it is the story of the lamp of love lighted even burning with full force in a being that cannot yet comprehend it the character is domestic far more so than that of the ideal and suffering of which it reminds you to w on his bride weary and and with heavy toil the fainting traveller his way o er sands the long long day where at each step up the dusty soil and when he finds a green and isle and flowing water in that plain of care and in the midst a fair to tell that others suffered loo and then appeased their thirst and made this

18Thomas Hardy

at such a time as this dear father would you not like to see aunt no was the unexpected reply followed by a painful pause and then the words not yet chapter to the young and thoughtless sickness in the house is a strange almost a weird experience it seems contrary to nature and an of her laws that rooms should be hidden from the sun and voices hushed and that every one wear a grave face and tread softly the that one to the other has he well what does the doctor say this morning seem like from a drama rather than the conversation of ordinary life the very air seems heavy with the of woe and within doors cannot be breathed with freedom we are speaking of course of the sun of sickness unto death or which may be unto death as was the case with those of francis he was better mr allowed was slowly recovering speech and even movement but these were not made with the cheerfulness with which that gentleman would certainly have made them if he could mr was a smooth man every way and was prone to smooth things he always wore a smile upon his mild saxon face but sometimes it was a pained smile i would give yon hope if i could my friend it then seemed to say to his but as a matter of fact there is no hope his voice was so gentle that it seemed to have been made for a sick room and it was never necessary for him to use that sound of all others a sick man hates to a whisper it may be therefore concluded that mr was not the parish doctor he had a large and county practice and was always â he county by gentle hints that he was about to retire from the practice of his profession he had met the great doctor from london in consultation on mr s case upon equal terms and sir james had acknowledged the equality no course of treatment than that already pursued could have been more judicious had been his statement to mr and in answer to pressing inquiry had said for self and it would be idle to conceal that we think it a most serious case mr may rally but â and he shook a head which had hinted death to kings and princes you think then he may have stroke which would be fated it would certainly be fatal said sir james this verdict the as in duty bound had communicated with all tenderness to richard it is what we must all come to my dear lad and when it is our turn i pray heaven that we may be found as well prepared to meet it as your dear father do you think he knows asked richard in awe struck tones yes i do this has been coming on for years though he would never let me tell you for anything that may have seemed to you amiss in him richard â i mean any lack in of affection â there was a physical cause richard moved his hand impatiently he was always kinder to me than i deserved he said but his heart smote him because he had not always thought so and had made no allowance for such i am not sure mr he presently added that you are right about my father s knowledge of his critical state and then he told him of his mention of aunt the previous night and how the sick man had first answered no and then not yet the was silent the fact being that he had already turned over this particular matter in his own mind he had felt a moral responsibility which had however been in part removed by his wife s arguments you do more harm than good she said by o c x even less black than we re painted if he wishes to see her their meeting will he to him and the had answered perhaps i have made up my mind what to do said richard i shall telegraph at once to street and explain how matters stand then your will be here to night i know it but my father need not be told only if he wishes to see her when â i mean at any time â she will be on the spot you will act as you please richard answered the with feigned indifference for at the same time he was saying to himself this lad with all his has a good heart mr was decidedly better there were indications of sensibility in his and rigid limbs and his speech was less thick and slow he did not however speak much but lay with his hand in that of his son waiting as it seemed to richard for more strength that wistful look had again come into his eyes which had already attracted the young man s attention and with every hour it grew more presently late in the afternoon when richard had returned to him after half an hour s absence he began to speak with tolerable distinctness though at first in and very distressing to the ear on which they fell i want to be alone with you richard there was no one in the room but quiet mr and he was sitting with a book in his hand in a bay window far away out of sight and hearing nevertheless richard crossed over to the doctor and told him what his father had said mr looked up with mild surprise but closed his book and with one glance at his patient left the room as noiselessly as a shadow that is a clever fellow said the squire but he will never set me on my legs again then are they all gone richard are we quite alone asked we are quite alone father then lock the door

24Arlo Bates

my fast bound the half frozen that the poor trembled to walk on oft to his frozen i the bear while from my path the hare fled like a shadow oft through the forest dark followed the s bark until the soaring lark sang from the meadow but when i older grew joining a s crew o er the dark sea i flew with the wild was the life we led many the souls that sped many the hearts that by our stem orders many a bout wore the long winter out often our midnight shout set the as we the s tale measured in cups of ale the filled to o once as i told in glee tales of the stormy sea soft eyes did gaze on me burning yet tender and as the white stars shine on the dark pine on that dark heart of mine fell their soft splendor i the blue eyed maid yielding yet half afraid and in the forest s shade our vows were under its loosened fluttered her little breast like birds within their nest by the hawk bright in her father s hall gleamed upon the wall loud sang the all his glory when of old i asked his daughter s hand mute did the stand to hear my story while the brown ale he loud then the champion laughed and as the wind the sea foam brightly so the loud laugh of scorn out of those lips from the deep drinking horn blew the foam lightly she was a prince s child i but a wild and though she blushed and smiled i was discarded should not the dove so white follow the sea s flight why did they leave that night her nest scarce had i put to sea bearing the maid with me â fairest of all was she among the sixth reader â when on the white sea strand waving his hand saw we old with twenty then launched they to the blast bent like a reed each mast yet we were gaining fast when the wind failed us and with a sudden flaw came round the so that our foe we saw laugh as he hailed us and as to catch the gale round the flapping sail death was the s hail death without quarter with iron struck we her ribs of steel down her black did through the black water as with his wings sails the fierce seeking some rocky haunt with his prey laden â so toward the open main beating to sea again through the wild bore i the maiden three weeks we westward bore and when the storm was o er we saw the shore stretching to there for my lady s bower built i the lofty tower which to this very horn stands looking n there lived we many years time dried the maiden s tears she had forgot her fears she was a mother death closed her mild blue eyes under that tower she lies ne er shall the sun arise on such another still grew my bosom then still as a hateful to me were men the sunlight hateful â in the vast forest here clad in my warlike gear fell i upon my spear oh death was grateful thus with many bursting these prison bars up to its native stars my soul ascended there from the flowing bowl deep drinks the warrior s soul to the thus the tale ended study the poem until you understand every line of it then think of yourself as a or sea and read the story with spirit and feeling a sea or from the north of europe a large bird of the regions ly fierce horrible ber one of a class of warriors who went into battle naked and with strong drink an expression of good wishes hail y the poet probably means here any savage wolf properly speaking however a was a human being transformed temporarily into the shape of a wolf as related in many folk tales of the north a here the ship of a m a drinking bout a three interesting birds look intently enough at anything said a poet to me one day and you will see something that would otherwise escape you i thought of the remark as i sat on a stump in the opening of the woods spring day i saw a small hawk approaching he flew to a tall tree and alighted on a large limb near the top he eyed me and i eyed him then the bird disclosed a trait that was new to me he along the limb to a small near the trunk when he thrust in his head and pulled out some small object and fell to eating it after he had of it some minutes he put the remainder back in his and flew away i had seen something like feathers slowly down as the hawk ate and on approaching the spot found the feathers of a here and there clinging to the bushes beneath the tree the hawk then â commonly called the chicken hawk â is as as a mouse or a and lays by a store against a time of need but i should not have discovered the fact had i not held my eye to him an observer of the birds is attracted by any unusual sound or commotion among them in may or june from and wild honey by john when other birds are most the is a silent bird he goes about the and the groves as silent as a he is birds nests and he is very anxious that nothing should be said about it but in the fall none is so quick and loud to cry thief thief as he one december morning a troop of them discovered a little owl in the hollow trunk pf an old apple tree near my house how they found the owl out

22Albert Ross

shot him then but i spared him though i saw his wicked little eyes fixed on ray face as though to remember every feature we got away with the gold became wealthy men and made our way over to england without being suspected there i parted from my the old and determined to settle down to a respectable life i bought this estate which chanced â b in the market and i set myself to do a little good with m to make up for the way in which i had earned it t too and though my wife died young she left me my dear even when she was just a baby her hand to lead me down the right path as nothing else had ever in a word i turned over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past all was going well when laid his â grip upon me i had gone up to town about an and i met him in street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his foot here we are jack says he touching me on the arm we ll be as good as a family to you there s two of us me and my son and you can have the keeping of us if y l don t â it s a fine law abiding country is england ana there s always a policeman within hail well down they came to the west country th was no shaking them off and there they have lived rent free on my best land ever since there was no rest for me no peace no forgetfulness turn where i would there was his cunning grinning face at my elbow it grew worse as grew up for he soon saw i was more afraid of her my past than of the police whatever he wanted he must have and whatever it was i gave him without question land money houses until at last he asked a thing which i not he asked for his son you see had grown up and so had my girl and as i was known to be in weak health it seemed a fine stroke to him that his lad should step into the whole property but there i was firm i would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine not that i had any dislike to the lad but his blood was in him and that was enough i stood firm threatened i him to do his worst we were to meet at the pool between our houses to talk it over of when t down there i found talking with t son so l a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should he alone but as i listened to his talk all that was bitter in me seemed to come uppermost he was ji s son to marry my daughter with as little regard for he might think as if she were a from off the streets t drove me mad to think that i and all that i held most dear j p ould be in the power of such a man as this could i not â snap the bond i was already a dying and a desperate man though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb i knew that my own fate was sealed but my memory and my girl both could be saved if i could but silence that foul tongue i did it mr i would do it again deeply as i have i have led a life of to for it but that my girl should be entangled in the same which held me was more than i could suffer i struck him down with no more than if he had been some foul and beast his cry brought back his son but i had gained the cover of the wood though i was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which i had dropped in my flight that is the true story gentlemen of all that occurred well it is not for me to judge you said as the old man signed the statement which had been drawn out i pray that we may never be exposed to such a temptation i pray not sir and what do you intend to do in view of your health nothing you are yourself aware that you will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the i will keep your confession and if is condemned i shall be forced to use it if not it shall never be seen by mortal eye and your secret whether you be alive or dead shall be safe with us farewell then said the old man solemnly your own death beds when they come will be the easier for the thought of the peace which you have given to mine tottering and shaking in all his giant frame he stumbled slowly from the thb valley mystery god help us said after a long silence why does fate play such tricks with poor helpless worms i never hear of such a case as this that i do not think of s words and say there but for the grace of god goes james was at the on the strength of a number of objections which had been drawn out by and submitted to the defending counsel old lived for seven months after our interview but he is now dead and there is every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their past v the five orange i glance over ray notes and records of the cases between the years and go i am faced by so many which present strange i and interesting features that it is no easy matter to know which to choose

3Edith Wharton

and whatever other ill effects there might be of the and church discipline did like brave men and true christians take their stand for liberty of conscience and freedom of inquiry that therefore their preaching was necessarily occupied with tearing down rather than with building up any new system that now kind of preaching has done its work and ceases to be interesting there must of course be a temporary stiu stand in appearance at least while this having done its work as a is becoming a one and that in a fitting time even now at hand they will put forth and the positive part of their faith and be recognised in as a communion whose position and views are well defined and generally known and respected this solution of the phenomenon is plausible and as true and philosophical perhaps as any popular one that can be given but there are some among us who desire something more than a popular solution for such it is that we write and with what degree of success we humbly submit it to their judgment to decide we however agree with this popular solution in the main so far as it goes it describes only the surface we would look into the nature of the tion and of the church from which the we would also look into the nature of the change they would bring us the freedom for inquiring minds and the liberty for the conscience for which they so and successfully â are jewels beyond all price â are the condition of all progress â are the very atmosphere in which souls do grow and while they labored for an end which was felt by every living soul to be indispensable to its life they had a strong hold on the heart of the community and might calculate upon almost any degree of success but these indispensable as they are are but the means to an end they are the air we breathe and therefore necessary but they are not the food that we can live upon nor the work to occupy our hearts and hands when the have secured these preparatory conditions they must furnish the bread of life or the souls that in new a have stood by them in their contest will off while then we acknowledge what they have done and look to them for a revival of christianity and a more full development of the christian idea than can be effected by any other existing which does not come upon the platform of freedom for every inquiring mind and liberty to conscience to decide for itself in all cases upon truth and duty principles and measures let us also be faithful to them and point out their the obstacles that oppose their progress and the rocks and that their course every system of grows out of and is shaped by the philosophical system of those by whom it is first and taught for our present pose we shall divide all systems of philosophy into two classes those that recognise innate ideas and those that do not and shall endeavor to show in the course of our article that there are but three distinct systems of founded upon the idea of one god namely and the first two growing out of the philosophy that innate ideas and the last out of that which does not leaving for the present out of view the great question upon which the other two systems split the point upon which individuals and turn in deciding upon the views they will adopt is native and therefore we will in this article for convenience sake call all those systems that hold to by the general name and those that do not hold to and the generally and connected with it on the side of the there is greater logical and completeness of system than there is on the other the only thing that essentially the systems and a good ground for a is the view they take of the freedom of the will â or the answer they would give to the question whether man in his state is able of himself to will or desire to be born of the spirit and become holy and for instance answer the question in the negative the and we believe answer it in the affirmative the doctrine of infant and a few others that might be named we do not consider as either included in or excluded by the theory the movement we would remark here that by in this article we mean exclusively the without any reference to the form of church government with which it may happen to be connected or the degree of liberty which the churches may allow their members or the charity they may have for those who do not belong to them hence we include and roman so too by we mean the exclusively for we can see no necessary or logical between this and that liberty of conscience that freedom of inquiry and that liberality of the construction put upon christianity which have the in our age and which have done more in our estimation than the peculiarities of their to give them that degree of success with which their efforts have been attended we must request the reader to bear especially in mind that we speak of the systems in the abstract rather than as they have appeared in any of their particular we by no means intend that the of our new england in this nineteenth century shall pocket all the good things that we shall say of much less would we have the suppose that we think that all the hard things we are compelled in truth to say of their system are to them they are better than their system and therefore we have a hope of them while the are worse than theirs and this if anything would lead us to

36Jacob Abbott

his wife was the half breed daughter of a fur married to him in the greek mission of a thousand miles or so down the thus being of much higher caste than the common or native wife it was a mere which none but the adventurer may understand i reckon you kin take it that way was his the next instant had stretched him on the floor the circle was broken up and half a dozen men had stepped between came to his feet wiping the blood from his mouth it t new this and of blows and don t you never think but that this will be an in me life did i take the lie from mortal man was the retort courteous an it s an day i ll not be to hand an to help ye lift yer debts no manner of way still got that the men of forty mile nodded but you d better a more likely mine ll holes through you the size of fear it s me own smell their way with soft noses an they ll spread like against the coming out and an when have the pleasure of on ye the water hole s a t ain t bad jest be there in an hour and you won t set long on my coming both men and left the post their ears closed to the of their comrades it was such a little thing yet with such men little things nourished by quick and stubborn natures soon into big things besides the art of burning to bed rock still lay in the of the future and the men of forty mile shut in by the long winter grew with over eating and enforced idleness and became as irritable as do the bees in the fall of the year when the are with honey there was no law in the land the mounted police was also a thing of the future each man measured an and the son of the wolf out the punishment inasmuch as it affected himself barely had combined action been necessary and never in all the dreary history of the camp had the eighth article of the been big jim called an meeting was placed as temporary and a messenger to father s good offices their position was and they knew it by the right of might could they interfere to prevent the yet such action while in direct line with their wishes went counter to their opinions while their rough recognized the individual of wiping out blow with blow they could not bear to think of two good comrades such as and meeting in deadly battle the man who would not fight on provocation a when brought to the test it seemed wrong that he should fight but a of and loud cries rounded off with a pistol shot interrupted the then the storm doors opened and kid entered a smoking s in his hand and a merry light in his eye i the men of forty mile i got him he replaced the empty shell and added your dog yellow asked no the one the devil nothing the matter with him come out and take a look that s all right after all guess he s got em too yellow came back this morning and took a out of him and came near to making a of me made a rush for but she her skirts in his face and escaped with the loss of the same and a good roll in the snow then he took to the woods again hope he don t come back lost any yourself one â the best one of the pack â started this morning but didn t get very far foul of s team and they scattered him all over the street and now two of them are loose and raging mad so you see he got his work in the dog will be small in the spring if we don t do something and the man too how s that whose in trouble now oh and had an e the son of the wolf argument and they ll be down by the water hole in a few minutes to settle it the incident was repeated for his benefit and kid accustomed to an obedience which his fellow men never failed to render took charge of the affair his quickly plan was explained and they promised to follow his lead so you see he concluded we do not actually their privilege of fighting and yet i don t believe they ll fight when they see the beauty of the scheme life s a game and men the they ll stake their whole pile on the one chance in a thousand take away that one chance and â they won t play he turned to the man in charge of the post weigh out three of your best half inch we ll establish a precedent which will last the men of forty mile to the end of time he then he the rope about his arm and led his followers out of doors just in time to meet the what right d he to fetch my wife in thundered to the soothing of a friend n t called v the men of forty mile for he concluded n t called for he again and again pacing up and down and waiting for and â his face was hot and tongue rapid as he in the face of the church then father he cried it s with an heart i ll roll in me blankets the broad of me back on a bed of coals shall it be said took a lie the teeth without a hand an i ll not ask a the years have been wild but it s the heart was in the right place but it s not the heart interposed father it s pride that

20Washington Irving

the then new and frontier country lying upon the river many families of note in the low country had possessed themselves of estates at the foot of the blue ridge in this neighborhood and were already making there mr attracted by the romantic character of the scenery the freshness of the soil and the of the climate following the example of others had laid off the grounds of his new estate with great taste and had soon built upon a beautiful site a neat and comfortable rustic dwelling with such accommodation as might render it a convenient and pleasant retreat during the hot months of the summer the occupation which this new establishment afforded his family the scope which its improvement gave to their taste and the charms that belonged to it by degrees communicated to his household an absorbing interest in its his wife cherished this enterprise with a peculiar the plans of improvement were hers garden the the groves the walks â all the little which an taste might invent or a comfort seeking fancy might imagine necessary were taken under her charge and one beauty quickly following upon another from day to day evinced the dominion which a refined art may exercise with advantage over nature it was a quiet calm and happy spot where many were together and where for a portion of every succeeding year this little horse shoe robinson family as it were in the enjoyment of ease from this idea and especially as it was allied with some of the tenderest associations connected with the infancy of it was called by the fanciful and kindly name of the dove the education of and henry became a delightful household care were supplied and the parents gave themselves up to the task of with a fond industry they now removed earlier to the dove with every returning spring and remained there later in the autumn the neighborhood furnished an intelligent and hospitable society and the great western wilderness smiled with the contentment of a refined and polished civilization which no after day in the history of this empire has yet surpassed â perhaps not equalled it is not to be wondered at that a mind so framed as s and a family so devoted should find an exquisite enjoyment in such a spot whilst this epoch of happiness was in the political heaven began to be darkened with clouds the troubles came on with harsh war in the distance and at length broke out in thunder had in the meantime grown up to the verge of womanhood â a fair ruddy light haired beauty of exceeding graceful proportions and full of the most interesting impulses henry trod closely upon her heels and was now shooting through the rapid stages of boyhood both had themselves around their parents affections like that conveyed to them their chief nourishment and the children were linked to each other even if that were possible by a stronger band the war threw into a perilous his estates were large and his principles exposed him to the which was rigidly enforced against the party to avoid this blow or at least to its severity he conveyed the estate of the dove to as his reason for doing so that as it was purchased with belonging to his wife he consulted and executed her wish in the absolute of it to his daughter the rest of his property was converted into money and invested in funds in great britain as soon as this arrangement was made about the second year of the war the dove became the permanent residence of the family preferring to remain here rather than to retire to england hoping to escape the keen h r b shoe robin n notice of the dominant party and to find in this classic and privacy an oblivion of the rude cares that beset the pillow of every man who mingled in the strife of the day he was destined to a grievous disappointment his wife to whom he was attached was snatched from him by death just at this interesting period this blow for a time almost his reason the natural calm of such a mind as s is not apt to show in grief its sorrow was too still and deep for show the flight of years however brought healing on their wings and and henry gradually their father s countenance with flashes of cheerful thought that daily grew broader and more abiding till at last sense and duty completed their triumph and once more gave to his family of his grief or if not conversing with it only in the secret hours of self communion his hopes of ease and retirement were disappointed in another way the of the dove was not sufficient to shut out the noise nor the of the war his reputation as a man of education of wealth of good sense and especially as a man of aristocratic pretensions irresistibly drew him into the agitated of politics his house was open to the visits of the tory leaders no less than to those of the other side and although this intercourse could not be openly maintained without risk yet were not wanting occasionally to bring the officers and gentlemen in the british interest to the dove they came stealthily and in disguise and they did not fail to involve him in the schemes and base by which a wary foe generally to the way of invasion the temporary importance which these connections conferred and the appeal which it was the policy of the enemy to make to his loyalty wrought upon the vanity of the scholar and brought him by degrees from the mere of an intercourse that he at first sincerely sought to avoid into a of the plans of those who his fellowship still however this was given â as much from the of his character as from a secret consciousness at bottom that

28Edward Eggleston

many of the principal removed property to an immense amount in the de vol i i voyage which contained a greater population than the town has been destroyed and the value of what remains reduced to a mere trifle it is in fact nothing but a garrison with a few starved inhabitants who are vexed and bar by the military i am told that notwithstanding misery there is a theatre here and that the evenings are spent in balls and dances perhaps for want of other the outward actions are not always the certain index of the heart when we consider the of business the of property and the deficiency of supplies we may easily conjecture what must be the condition of people p l we forth at one of the gates to take a view of the country outside of the walls and within the lines which extend around about three miles it would not be considered safe to go beyond them lest we should fall in with the the name by which the people of are and who might take a fancy to our clothes general observed that with respect to himself he would hav h nothing to fear as he was known to them but he was that he could protection to those who were with i do not suppose they are quite as ferocious as they are represented to be but i presume they arc very little better than the indians we soon found ourselves in the midst of ruins whose aspect was much more than those of the city itself nearly the whole which i have mentioned was once covered with dwellings and gardens in the highest tion ii is now a scene of desolation the ground scared traces of the spots where they stood or of the gardens excepting here and there fragments of the hedges of the with which they had formerly been enclosed the fruit trees and those planted for ornament had been cut wn for or perhaps through over the surface of extensive and fertile plain which a tf south america â contained as great a population as the city itself there are at present not more than a dozen families upon whom soldiers arc and a few buildings this is the result of the unhappy which have reduced the population of this city and from upwards of thirty thousand lo little more than seven ib p on arriving at the high ground near the lines the prospect was truly delightful the city and harbor the shipping the with her glorious flag at a greater distance than that of any other nation the mount the expanse of this vast river at this place at least seventy miles wide spread out below me from this point the ground sloping to the interior presented an landscape the surface of the country waving like the or with here and there some rising grounds and some blue hills at a great distance along a beautiful winding stream which flowed through a valley before us there were more trees and than i had expected to have seen but this paradise was silent and waste â man had not fixed here his cheerful abode ib p we were told that the interior of the country for hundreds of miles possessed the same beauty of surface and of soil and although generally well supplied with fine streams a small proportion of it can be said to be or and that in general there is an abundance of wood along the water courses on examining the map of it will appear to be abundantly supplied with fine it is bounded in its whole extent eight or nine hundred miles on the east by the river which may bear a comparison even with the or of europe this river has also a number of important the principal of which are the and the negro together with several other rivers which themselves either into the atlantic or the la f p in the after i of struck up one of their songs which sung with as much enthusiasm as we our i joined them in my heart incapable of taking part in the concert with my the air was somewhat slow yet bold and the words of die and chorus were as follows nd el old el de en s la noble se en la de la de t a un c de j o hie is a literal translation hear o the sacred shouts of liberty liberty liberty hear the of broken chains behold behold in the face of day arising a new and glorious nation her are with laurel a â lion at her feet chorus be eternal the we have dared to win crowned with glory let ns or with glory swear to die i shall endeavour to give the reader a rude sketch of the city as it appeared to us a task much easier than to convey to south america l i n impressions left on the mind it stretches along u about two miles its and ai masses of building give it an imposing but my aspect immense piles of dingy brown coloured brick vith little variety heavy and dull showed that it di j c its rise under the patronage of liberty compared to philadelphia or new york it is a vast mass of bricks ed up without taste elegance or variety the houses in some places appear to ascend in stages one story rising from the bottom of the bank the second story leaving part of it as a terrace and in like manner where the building rose three stories a second terrace was left besides the roof of j the house which is invariably flat the whole has the appearance of a vast the streets at regular inter j open at right angles with the river and their ascent i j between the bank and the water s edge there is i

47Thomas Anstey Guthrie

on the part of the latter they are never so seasons are obvious enough the popular man stands on our own level or a hair s breadth higher h shows us a truth which we can see without shifting our vol iâ s miscellaneous present intellectual po iti this is a highly arrangement the original man again stands us he wishes to us from our old and us to a higher and clearer level hut to quit our old especially if we have sat in them with moderate comfort for some score or two of years is no such easy business accordingly we we resist we even give battle we still suspect that he is above us but try to persuade ourselves and vanity earnestly that he is below for is it not the very essence of such a man that he be new and who will warrant us that at the same time he shall only be an and of the old which in general is what we long and look for no one can warrant us and him to be a man of real genius real depth and that speaks not till after earnest meditation what sort of a philosophy were his could we estimate the length breadth and thickness of it at a single glance and when did criticism give two glances criticism therefore opens on such a man its greater and its lesser on every side he has no security but to go on it and in the end says criticism itself comes to relish that method but now let a speaker of the other class come forward one of those men that have more than any one the opinion which all men have i no sooner does he speak than all and sundry of us feel as if we had been wishing to speak that very thing if we ourselves might have spoken it and forthwith from the united universe a of that surprising feat what clearness brilliancy penetration who can doubt that this man is right when so many thousand are ready to back him doubtless he is right doubtless he is a clever man and his praise will long be in all the magazines clever men are good but ihey are not the best instruction they can give us is like baked bread and satisfying for a single day but unhappily flour cannot be sown and seed corn ought not to be ground we proceed with our critic in his contrast of with as poets continues he the two live not in the same sphere not in the same world of s poetry it were blindness to deny the polished vigor the logical the flashes that from time to time give it the color if not the warmth oi fire but it is in a far other sense than this that is a poet in a sense of which the french literature has never any example we may venture to say of him that his province is high and peculiar higher than any poet but himself for several generations has so far succeeded in perhaps even has attempted in reading s poetry it perpetually strikes us that we are reading the poetry of our own day and no demands are made on our the light the science the of our age is not hid from us he does not deal in or ring changes on poetic forms there are no no infernal influences for is an apparent rather than a real exception but there is the barren prose of the nineteenth century the vulgar life which we are all leading and it starts into strange beauty in his hands and we pause in delighted wonder to behold the of blooming in that and rugged soil this is the end of his and of his and poetry as he views it exists not in time or place but in the spirit of man and art with nature is now to perform for the poet what nature alone performed oâ old the and the and are vanished from the world never again to be recalled but the imagination which created these still lives and will for ever live in man s soul and can again pour its light over the universe and summon forth as lovely or impressive and which its sister faculties will not contradict to say that has accomplished all this would be to say that his genius is greater than was ever given to any man for if it was a high and glorious mind or rather series s miscellaneous writings of minds that peopled the first ages with their peculiar forms of poetry it must be a series of minds much higher and more glorious that shall so people the present the angels and that can lay prostrate our hearts in the nineteenth century must be of another and more cunning fashion than those that subdued us in the ninth to have attempted to have begun this enterprise may be accounted the greatest praise that gk ever meditated it in the form here set forth we have no direct evidence but indeed such is the end and aim of high poetry at all times and seasons for the fiction of the poet is not falsehood but the purest truth and if he would lead captive our whole not rest satisfied with a part of it he must address us on interests that ore not that ours and in a dialect which finds a response and not a contradiction within our here however we must our or and bring these straggling to a close in the we have given in the remarks made on them and on the subject of them we are aware that we have held the attitude of admirers and neither is it unknown to us that the critic is in virtue of his office a judge and not an advocate sits there not to do favor but to

36Jacob Abbott

yes and why we ate face to face for the last time wretch we meet to night and part to night for not one moment after i have ceased to speak will i stay here he turned upon her with his look and the table with his hand but neither rose nor otherwise answered or threatened her i am a woman she said him who from her very childhood has been and i have been offered and rejected put up and until my very soul has i have not had an accomplishment or grace that might have been a resource to me but it has been and to my value as if the common had called it through the streets my poor proud friends have looked on and approved and every tie between us has been in my breast there is not one of them for whom i care as i could care for a pet dog i stand alone in the world remembering well what a hollow world it has been to me and what a hollow part of it i have been myself you know this and you know that my fame with it is worthless to me yes i imagined that he said and calculated on it she rejoined and so pursued me grown too indifferent for any opposition but indifference to the daily working of the hands that had me to this and knowing that my marriage would at least prevent their of me up and down i suffered myself to be sold as as and son any woman with a round her neck is sold in any market place yon know that yes he said showing all his teeth i know that and calculated on it she rejoined once more and so me from my marriage day i found myself exposed to such new shame â to such and pursuit expressed as clearly as if it had been written in the words and thrust my hand at every turn from one mean villain that i felt as if i had never known humiliation till that time this shame my fixed upon me hemmed me round with himself me in with his own hands and of his own act repeated hundreds of times and thus â forced by the two from every point of rest i had forced by the two to yield up the last retreat of love and gentleness within me or to be a new misfortune on its innocent object â driven from each to each and beset by one when i escaped the other â my anger rose almost to distraction against both i do not know against which it rose higher â the master or the man he watched her closely as she stood before him in the very triumph of her indignant beauty she was resolute he saw with no more fear of him than of a worm what should i say of honor or of to you she went on what meaning would it have to you what meaning would it have from me but if i tell you that the touch of your hand makes my blood cold with that from the hour when i first saw and hated you to now when my instinctive is by every minute s knowledge of you i have since had you have been a creature to me which has not its like on earth how then son he answered with a faint laugh ay how then my queen on that night when by the scene you had assisted at you dared come to my room and speak to me she said what passed he shrugged his shoulders and laughed again what passed she said your memory is so distinct he returned that i have no doubt you can recall it i c in she said hear it i proposing then this flight â not this flight but the flight you thought it â you told me that in the having given you that meeting and leaving you to be discovered there if you so thought fit and in the having suffered you to be alone with me many times before â and having made the opportunities you said â and in the having openly to you that i had no feeling for my husband but aversion and no care for myself â i was lost i had given you the power to my name and i lived in virtuous reputation at the pleasure of your breath all in love â he interrupted smiling â the old â on that night said and then the struggle that i long had had with something that was not respect for my good fame â that was i know not what â perhaps the clinging to that last retreat â was ended on that night and then i turned from everything but passion and resentment i struck a blow that laid your lofty master in the dust and set you there before me looking at me now and knowing what i mean he sprung up from his chair with a great oath she put her hand into her bosom and not a finger trembled and son not a hair upon her head was stirred he stood still she too the table and chair between them i forget that this man put his lips to mine that night and held me in his arms as he has done again to night said pointing at him when i forget the taint of his kiss upon my cheek â the cheek that would have laid her face against â when i forget my meeting with her while that taint was hot upon me and in what a flood the knowledge rushed upon me when i saw her that in her from the persecution i had caused her by my love i brought a shame and degradation on her name through mine and in all time to come should

7James Baldwin

it for hours in there â yet she made a faint sound she wanted to say no â robert s speech was to be the last â but she could not bring herself to pronounce s name and at the moment no other way of her companion s statement occurred to her the young man leaned back reassured by her silence you see it s my last chance â and i want to make the most of it your last chance how stupid of her to repeat his words on that note of it was just such a lead as the girl might have given him to be with you â like this i haven t had so many and there s less than a week left she attempted to laugh perhaps it will sound longer if you call it five days the pretext the of that again and she knew there were people who called her intelligent fortunately he did not seem to notice it but her laugh continued to sound in her own ears â the of middle age she decided that if he spoke again â if he said ant thing â she would make no farther at she would take it directly seriously frankly â she would not be doubly besides he continued throwing his arm along the back of the bench and turning toward her so that his face was like a dusky relief with a silver rim â besides there s something i ve been wanting to tell you the of the river seemed to cease altogether the whole world became silent margaret had trusted her inspiration farther than it appeared likely to carry her again she could think of nothing happier than to repeat on the same note of to tell me you only the the difficulty seemed to be on his side now she divined it by the renewed shifting of his attitude â he was capable usually of such fine intervals of â and by a confusion in his utterance that set her own voice throbbing in her throat you ve been so perfect to me he began again it s not my fault if you ve made me feel that you would understand everything â make for everything â see just how a man may have held out and fought against a the pretext thing â as long as he had the strength this may be my only chance and i can t go away without telling you he had turned from her now and was staring at the river so that his was projected against the moonlight in all its beautiful young there was a slight pause as though he waited for her to speak then she leaned forward and laid her hand on his k i have really been â if i have done for you even the least part of what you say what you imagine will you do for me now just one thing in return he sat motionless as if fearing to frighten away the shy touch on his hand and she left it there conscious of her gesture only as part of the high of their farewell what do you want me to do he asked in a low tone iv rf to tell me she breathed on a deep note of entreaty tell anything â anything â just to leave our our friendship as it has been â as â as a painter if a friend asked him might leave a picture â not quite finished perhaps but all the more exquisite she felt the hand under hers slip away recover itself and seek her own which had flashed out of reach in the same instant â felt the start that swept him round on her as if he had been caught and turned about by the shoulders you â you â he stammered in a strange voice full of fear and tenderness but she held fast so in the pretext her inexorable resolve that she was hardly conscious of the effect her words might be producing don t you see she hurried on don t you feel how much safer it is â yes i m willing to put it so â how much safer to leave everything undisturbed just as as it has grown of itself without trying to say it s this or that it s what we each choose to call it to ourselves after all isn t it don t let us try to find a name that that we should both agree upon we probably shouldn t succeed she laughed abruptly and ghosts vanish when one names them she ended with a break in her voice when she ceased her heart was beating so violently that there was a rush in her ears like the noise of the river after rain and she did not immediately make out what he was answering but as she recovered her she said to herself that whatever he was saying she must not hear it and she began to speak again half j half with an eloquence of entreaty an ingenuity in argument of which she had never dreamed herself capable and then suddenly hands seemed to reach up from her heart to her throat and she had to stop her companion remained motionless he had not tried to regain her hand and his eyes were away from her on the river but his had become something formidable and exquisite â something she had never before the pretext imagined a flush of guilt swept over her â vague reminiscences of french novels and of opera plots this was what such women felt then this was shame phrases of the newspaper and the pulpit danced before her she dared not speak and his silence began to frighten her had ever a heart beat so wildly before in he turned at last and taking her two hands quite simply kissed them one after

9John Muir

we were completely blown but the space between us grew ever wider finally we stopped and sat panting two rocks while we watched him disappearing the distance and it was at this moment that there occurred a most strange and unexpected thing we had risen from our rocks and were turning to go home having abandoned the hopeless chase the moon was low upon the right and the jagged of a the light if p o n tbe r stood i t the lower t s of t granite t silver there as black as an statue on that shining back ground i saw the of a man upon the tor do not think that it was a delusion i assure you that i have never in my seen anything clearly as far as i could judge the figure was that of a tall thin man he stood with his legs a little separated arms folded his head bowed as if he were over that enormous wilderness of and i granite which lay before him he might have been the very spirit of that terrible it was not the this man was far horn the place where the latter had disappeared besides he was a much taller man with a cry of surprise i pointed him out to the but in the instant during which i had turned to grasp his arm the man was gone there was the sharp of granite still cutting the lower edge of the moon but its peak bore no trace of that silent and motionless figure i wished to go in that direction and to search the tor but it was some distance away the s nerves were still quivering from that cry which recalled the dark story of his family and he was not in the mood for fresh adventures he had not seen this lonely man upon the tor and could not feel the thrill which his strange presence and his commanding attitude had given to me a no doubt said he the has been thick with them since this fellow escaped well perhaps hit i e the hound of the explanation may be the right one but i should li to have some further proof of it to day we mean to communicate to the people where they should look for their missing man but it is hard lines that we have not actually had the triumph of bringing him back as our own prisoner such are the adventures of last night and you must acknowledge my dear that i have done you very well in the matter of a report much of what i tell you is no doubt quite but still i feel that it is best that i should let you have all the facts and leave you to select for yourself those which will be of most service to you in helping you to your conclusions we are certainly making some progress so far as the go we have found the motive of their actions and that has cleared up the situation very much but the with its mysteries and its strange inhabitants as inscrutable as ever perhaps in my next may be able to throw some light upon this also best of all would it be if you could come down to us in any case you will hear from me again hi the course of the next few days x r from the of dr so far i have been able to quote from the reports which i have forwarded during these early days to now however i have arrived at a point in my narrative where i am compelled to abandon this method and to trust once more to my recollections aided by the which i kept at the time a few from the latter will carry me on to those scenes which are fixed in every detail upon my memory i proceed then from the morning which followed our chase of the and our other strange experiences upon the october i th â a dull and day with a of rain the house is in with rolling clouds which rise now and then to show the dreary curves of the with thin silver veins upon the sides of the hills and the distant gleaming where the light strikes upon their wet faces it is melancholy outside and in the is in a black reaction after the of the night i am conscious myself of a weight at my heart and a feeling of impending danger â ever present danger which is the more terrible because i am unable to it the hound op the b ask e r v l l e l and have i not cause for such a feeling the long of incidents which have ah pointed to some sinister influence which is at work around us there is the death of the last of the hall so exactly the conditions of the family legend and there are the repeated reports from of the appearance of a strange creature upon the twice i have with my own ears heard the sound which resembled the distant of a hound it is incredible impossible that it should really be outside the ordinary laws of nature a hound which leaves material and fills the air with its howling is surely not to be thought of may fall in with such a superstition and also but if i have one quality upon earth it is common sense and nothing will persuade me to believe in such a thing to do so would be to descend to the level of these poor who are not content with a mere dog but must needs describe him with hell fire shooting from his mouth and eyes would not listen to such fancies and i am his agent but facts are facts and i have twice heard this crying upon the suppose that there were really some huge

3Edith Wharton

could produce any what chiefly surprised was that s sister the friend and companion who had been so much to her should not be more visibly regretted he wondered that spoke so seldom of and had so little voluntarily to say of her concern at this separation alas it was this sister this friend and companion now the chief of s comfort if she could have believed mary s future fate as with as she was determined the brother s should be if she could have hoped her return thither to be as distant as she was much inclined to think his she would have been light of heart indeed but the more she recollected and observed the more deeply was she convinced that every thing was now in a fairer train for miss s marrying than it had ever been before on his side the inclination was stronger on hers less his objections the scruples of his integrity seemed all done away â nobody could tell how and the doubts and of her ambition were equally got over â and equally without apparent reason it could only be to increasing attachment his good and her bad feelings yielded to love and such love must unite them he was to go to town as soon as some business relative to was completed â perhaps within a fortnight â he talked of going he loved to talk of it and when once with her again could not doubt the rest her acceptance must be as certain as his offer and yet there were bad feelings still remaining which made the prospect of it most sorrowful to her she believed of self in their ver last conversation miss in spite of some amiable sensations and much personal kindness had been miss still shown a mind led astray and bewildered and without any suspicion of being so darkened yet itself light she might love but she did not deserve by any other sentiment believed there was scarcely a second feeling in park common between them and she may be forgiven by older for looking on the chance of miss s future improvement as nearly desperate for thinking that if s influence in this season of love had done so little in clearing her judgment and her notions his worth would be finally wasted on her even in years of matrimony experience might have hoped more for any young people so and would not have denied to miss s nature that of the general nature of women which would lead her to adopt the opinions of the man she loved and respected as her own but as such were s she suffered very much from them and could never speak of miss without pain sir thomas meanwhile went on with his own hopes and his own observations still feeling a right by all his knowledge of human nature to expect to see the effect of the loss of power and consequence on his niece s spirits and the past attentions of the lover producing a craving for their return and he was soon afterwards able to account for his not yet completely and seeing all this by the prospect of another visitor whose approach he could allow to be quite enough to support the spirits he was watching william had obtained a ten days leave of absence to be given to and was coming the happiest of because the latest made to show his happiness and describe his uniform he came and he would have been delighted to show his uniform too had not cruel custom its appearance except on duty so the uniform remained at and that before had any chance of seeing it all its own freshness and au the freshness of its s feelings must be worn away it would be sunk into a of disgrace for what can be more or more worthless than the uniform of a lieutenant who has been a lieutenant a year or two and sees others made before him so reasoned till his father made him the of a scheme which placed s chance of seeing the park d lieutenant of h m s in all his in light this scheme was that she should accompany her brother back to and spend a little time with her own family it had occurred to sir thomas in one of his dignified as a right and desirable measure but before lie absolutely made up his mind he consulted his son considered it every way and saw nothing but what was right the thing was good in itself and could not be done at a better time and he had no doubt of it being highly agreeable to this was enough to determine sir thomas and a decisive then so it shall be closed that stage of the business sir thomas retiring from it with some feelings of satisfaction and views of good over and above what he had to his son for his prime motive in sending her away had very little to do with the propriety of her seeing her parents again and nothing at all with any idea of making her happy he certainly wished her to go willingly but he as certainly wished her to be heartily sick of home before her visit ended and that a little from the and luxuries of park would bring her mind into a sober state and incline her to a estimate of the value of that home of greater and equal comfort of which she had the offer it was a project upon his niece s understanding which he must consider as at present a residence of eight or nine years in the abode of wealth and plenty had a little disordered her powers of comparing and judging her father s house would in all probability teach her the value of a good income and he trusted that she would be the wiser and happier woman all

25Bret Harte

are by most perfect in us at least appear since the sleeping which heaven from the beginning â only our labor and industry can them with learning and with morals that they may return all bearing back â to heaven when by use of our free will wo put to those ills which heaven has nor will thus through us is the glory of god and our glory too shall the heavens and what ar the due rewards of virtue finally must render the father more happy than his wont whence still more ample grace shall be upon us each and all yielding to our prayer for if be dear it is permitted to through the loveliest regions obvious to innumerable heavens and gather as we pass the delights of each healed the two it ed be chosen in the mind ah the of the high shall be open to us and the joy will be to know tlie methods of god â then it be to act upon to have a care of the of men and to bestow just laws if we are delighted with love we are dissolved into flames which glide about and excite one another mutual embraced in sacred spring upwards together in in parts and mingling by turns and the of the in them still new it will make us happy to praise while he commands us the choir ringing together with sweet sounds through heaven oar joys and spectacles are put by hour and as it were the whole fabric of heaven becomes a till tile divine energy the whole sweep of the world and oat fl om it new forms adorned with new faculties of larger powers our too may be renewed â assume new forms and senses till joys again rise up if trusting thus i shall have put off this mortal weed why may not then greater things be disclosed george h â who during his brother s reading has listened with head bowed down leaned on his arm looks up after a few moments silence â pardon my lord if i have not fit words lo answer you the flood of your thought has swept over me like music and like that for the time at least it fills and i am conscious of many feelings which are not touched upon there â of the depths of love and sorrow made known to men through one whom you as yet know not but of these i will not speak now except to ask borne on this strong have you never faltered till you felt the need of a friend strong in this clear vision have you never sighed for a more assurance to your faith steady in your demand of what the soul re papers on literature and art have you never known fear lest you want purity to receive the boon if granted lord h â do not count those weak moments george they are not my true life george h â it that you know them for in time doubt that every conviction which a human needs to be reconciled to the parent of all will be granted to a nature ample so open and bo let me answer in a strain which my heart as truly if not as nobly as yours answers to your great mind â my joy my life my crown my heart was all the day somewhat it lain would say and it muttering up and down with only this â my my life my not these few words if truly they may take part among the best in art the wliich a hymn or is when the soul unto tlie lines he who all the mind and all the soul and strength and time if the words only rhyme justly that somewhat is behind to make his verse or a hymn in kind whereas if the heart be although the be somewhat god doth supply the want â as when the heart says sighing to be approve l oh could i love and god th lord h â i cannot say to you truly that my mind replies lo this although i discern a beauty in it you will say i lack humility to yours healed the two george h â i will say nothing but leave you to time and the care of a greater than i we have exchanged our let us now change our subject too and walk homeward for i trust you this night intend to make my roof happy in your presence and the is sinking lord h â yes you know i am there to be introduced to my new sister whom i hope fo and win from her a regard in turn george h â you none can fail to regard and her even as you love me you must her for we are one lord h â smiling â indeed two years wed and say that george h â will your doubt it from your muse i took my first lesson with s look it seem d denied ail earthly but hers yet so ab if lo her he did owe this borrow d life he thus and shall our love so far beyond that low and dying appetite and which so unite not hold in an bond those virtuous acquire as being with the soul entire ami yet were heaven s laws when o an everlasting they gave a effect lord h â sighing â you recall a happy si thoughts were as delicate of hue and of as he as the of may healed papers on literature and art george h â have those no fruit lord h â m of and men had made me that thej not bloom m vain but that the fruit would be in some future of our existence what mj owe was jou â a family arrangement for me in mj obligations as such a

18Thomas Hardy

do not y have no cold love which runs into disease only tha er io other plays daily here the it is the natural rf idleness with these l jealousy is almost bore to spring op witb it it is par excellence the passion of life in italy was a il young woman hired by a l â artist to for him this b one of most of the of home her husband her going to the painter s she ie â ed t he did no for her and she must earn what as could yesterday he her to fl and to see the of his wife the artist readily admitted him whereupon he plunged a knife into his wife s she fled and be her a second time to y she died public opinion is in the husband s favour and it ia said be will only pay the penalty of a few days im but what morals can be expected of a people who have the worst examples of bad om who should be thâ r models as well as v ii â q â ie e â told me a of some bi had become formidable oa the road here and i some as the of the holy approached the felt an to walk the seven e which means i take it and io these holy an veiy dear to all good their chief en into a treaty with the pope for to and go and the holy to ao pious a wish granted it their r in rome was known and the sent his to persuade them to th trade the conference was proceeding the pope s turned into d and the betrayed were seized and bound ah for shame i exclaimed at the oi the story this is as bad as our treatment of the indians and ours the east indians k â n all great nations hare their t when will nations bold themselves bound by the strict rule that an upright individual wh they are in deed as well as in name christian â and not till then in r f â â for the of st peter and sl that tbe jâ u were â at â ef the are among the most interesting about rome they time and level all national and individual differences by to you of ties that are universal and of common to all here where parents and children have wept you feel the strain of a common humanity and the only between you and those who have and suffered ages before you is that wherein you are most blessed they were most wretched the angel of life did not keep watch over the burial places of their dead if perchance a ray of hope penetrated the clouds and that wrapped the tomb it came from own natures and was wavering and most unlike that and light which shines in upon the christian s soul and this i take it was in part the reason why the built th such as the tomb of and that of and those on the way which even in ruin appear like the of and palaces the fast to them â and love sought to per p the memorial of an ended existence memory where hope had not yet come we have been to the tomb of the it is not than years the tomb of the was opened and now an exact copy of its most beautiful a in our â new world above the entrance to a ard ii thai to at in the de the door was opened to us by s provided vith wax t conducted ua down a of steps and into of the vault by a winding way through the â of one of the most families of borne and where we were treading they came in sad non to lay their dead we saw on the walls of these the names and exact tf the original which have been carried off to the the where the and other ornaments were placed are ty of these we have seen in the we have been to the which the of the of they are called from the resemblance of the small where the were placed to holes we knocked as all aâ must do at rome whether they are in quest of a palace or a tomb a bath or a at a huge strong wood gate an immense bam door and were admitted into a where we were at once in the midst of sacred broken antique are inserted in the some made in vanity no doubt some in love i noticed one of a father fragments of columns bits of ba and were strewn die ground we descended a dozen steps into the co a small apartment with a ing delicately painted in the bones resolved fire to fragments and ashes are in with covers more like our garden pots than like these are placed in the pigeon holes reduced men and women may be packed away in a small compass said to have been bestowed here there are some small with s tomb is and here is an inscription on hei maid and another on her in silver but one of the most that i have seen is that of some honest b close to the walls of rome a very noble arch with pillars has lately been uncovered there when with his had of the they pulled down the walls who was lying at as retired and hastily the wall made use of whatever would help to his â i this way the tomb of came to make a part of the wall and thus this superb arch and the baker s tomb just in its shadow were up the tomb is of marble aod in the sides of the walls are to represent the is representing the baker s art weighing

5Horace Greeley

while her parted lips also seemed to whisper some tale of hope sure and immortal at length she rose and came into my chamber thou me fallen and dost grieve for me she said in a gentle voice knowing my lest some such fate should overtake my lord ay i grieve for thee as for myself spare then thy pity since although the human part of me would have kept him on the earth now my spirit doth rejoice that for a while he has burst his mortal bonds for many an age although i knew it not in my proud of the universal law i have against his true and mine thrice have i and angel strength with strength and thrice has he conquered me yet as he bore away his prize this night he whispered wisdom in my ear this was his message that in death is love s home in death its strength that from the house of life this love springs again and pure to reign a conqueror for therefore i wipe away my tears and once more a of peace i to join him whom we hare lost there where be us as it is granted to me that i do but am selfish and forgot thou friend i bid thee sleep id i slept wondering as ray eyes closed whence strange confidence and comfort i know hut it was there real and not assumed i can only therefore that some illumination bad fallen on her soul and that as she stated the love and end of in a way unknown did suffice to satisfy her court of sins at the least those sins and all the load of death that lay at her door never seemed to trouble her at all she appeared to look upon them merely as events which were destined to occur as inevitable fruits of a seed long ago by the hand of fate for whose workings she was not responsible the fears and considerations which weigh with mortals did not or her in this as in other matters was a unto herself v i awoke it was day and through the saw the rain that the people of had so long desired falling in one straight sheet i saw also that seated by the form of was giving orders to her priests and captains and to some â survived the slaughter of as to the new of the land then i slept again it was evening and stood at my bedside all is prepared she said awake and ride with so we went escorted by a thousand cavalry for the rest stayed to occupy or perchance to plunder the land of in front the body of was borne by of priests and behind it rode the veiled i at her side the passing of strange was the contrast between this departure our arrival then the rushing the elements that tlie perpetual of seen through the swinging curtains of the hail the voices of despair from an army rolled in blood beneath the chariot wheels of thunder now the white draped corpse the slow pacing horses the with their reversed and oo side seen in that melancholy moonlight the women of ing their innumerable dead and herself yesterday a with tlie star of flame to day but a woman following her husband to the tomb yet how they feared her some widow standing the grave mould she had dug pointed as we passed to the body of uttering bitter words which i could not catch her companions flung themselves upon her and her with fist and themselves upon the ground throwing dust on their hair in token of their submission to the of death saw them and said to me with something of her ancient fire and pride â i tread the plain of no more j et as a parting gift have i read this high people a lesson that they needed long not for many a generation o will they dare to lift spear against the college of and its subject tribes again it was night and where once lay that of the the man whom he had killed by the burning pillars the of stood in the inmost before the statue of the mother whose gentle eyes seemed to search his quiet face on her throne sat the veiled giving commands to her priests and i am weary she said and it may be that i j you for a while to rest â be the mountains a or a years â i cannot say if so let as her and husband and their seed hold my place till i return a n priests ant of the college of over new have i held my hand take them as an from me and rule them well and gently henceforth let the of the mountain be also tlie of in priests and of our ancient faith learn to look through its rites and tokens outward and visible to the in forming spirit if the goddess never ruled on earth still pitying nature rules if the name of never rang through the courts of heaven still in heaven with all love fulfilled nursing her human children on her breast dwells the mighty where of this statue is the symbol tliat which bore us and faithful will receive us at the end â for of the bread of bitterness we shall not always eat of the water of tears we shall not always drink beyond the night the royal ride on ever the rainbow shines around the rain though they slip from our clutching hands like melted snow the lives we lose shall yet be found immortal and from the burnt out fires of our human hopes will spring a heavenly star she paused and waved her hand as though to dismiss them then added by an after thought pointing to this man is my beloved friend and guest let

17Theodore Dreiser

e the fire one even the lawyer s office ing in november was at the same time sitting upon his reading a new book by the fire light i think it would be a good plan to send him to school this winter said the lawyer he is a good faithful boy and fond of study he ll make a good scholar yes said mr holiday but i hardly know where to send him there is no good school near here at least none suitable for him let him study at home then he does not need much instruction true he might study at home only he will be interrupted a good deal here and then besides i have not got any good place for him to put his desk in in cold weather very well let him come and study in my office said the lawyer in your office said mr holiday yes that s a capital place for him and besides i should like to have him there my self very much after some further talk it was agreed that that arrangement should be made the lawyer said it would be a great convenience to him to have a boy in his office to bring in his wood and keep the fire going the lawyer s office the lawyer had a desk in one corner of the office which he said he did not use and that might have that to keep his books in and to write upon was very much pleased with the plan when they came to propose it to him he knew that knowledge would be of great value to him in his future life whatever his business might be besides that he took a pleasure in acquiring knowledge on its own account of any advantage which he expected to derive from it it was pleasant to him to find out what he did not know before just as it is pleasant for a traveller to see new countries so was very frequently engaged in study in the winter evenings when his work was done and he was very glad of the opportunity now offered to him of several hours every day to study during the whole winter did not need a teacher much there are two reasons why most boys need an in order to enable them to make any considerable progress in study one is that they will not study diligently unless there is somebody to watch them they get idle and and waste their time in play hence it becomes necessary to put them into the lawyers office schools where the master can see them and enforce a proper attention to study but did not need any of this kind he felt such an interest in making progress in knowledge that when he had any time for study he was always very desirous of improving it and mr holiday knew very well that even if he was entirely alone in the lawyer s office for hours at a time he would be as still and as if there was a and two in the room looking directly at him the other reason why most boys need a teacher is to help them over the difficulties they are frequently meeting with and to explain the directions which the books they study contain but the way that boys generally get into these difficulties is by carelessness and and especially by not having studied thoroughly what has come before but was in the habit of going forward with great deliberation and care when he began a book he studied every successive paragraph or section in the most faithful and thorough manner and so he met with very few difficulties and he had thus learned the art of following printed directions of a book the lawyer s office so that he could get along with comparatively little assistance from any other person on the saturday afternoon before the monday when was going tor commence his study he went over to the lawyer s office to look at the place it was a small but building by the side of the road it was in a sort of village â at least there were one or two stores and some pleasant looking houses near by the side of the office there was a shed where the lawyer s could tie their horses when they came to attend to their business there the lawyer took into the office and showed him the desk which he was going to let him have and the corner of the fire where he might sit the lawyer himself had a desk upon the other side of the fire â quite a large and handsome one besides this there was a table in the middle of the room with books and papers upon it and there were several book cases around the room full of books these books had a strange appearance looking as afterwards told as if the leather that they were bound in had all been put on wrong side out the lawyer then took out through a the lawyer s office door in the farther corner of the office into a little back room where there was a great pile of bark and a table with hammer and nails upon it and one or two great coats and hanging against the wall beyond this a door led into a shed partly filled with wood piles some and split and some in large logs there was a saw horse there and a saw and an axe â and the lawyer told that when he got tired of studying he might come out and saw wood if you saw enough to keep our fire a going this winter said he i shall not charge you any rent well sir i ll try said went in to examine his desk it stood back in a corner and was somewhat old and there

21William Carleton

all sorts of schemes used to present themselves to me to my pocket one was to go out as a on the streets clean bricks or do anything i was not lazy i would have walked around the world for a case i do not think i was ashamed of it for i knew it was respectable but i was afraid some one i knew might pass by i was afraid that or mrs might see me and â yes that that young girl from the house might recognize me i had often thought of her since i had dropped them into my pocket book and now when this idea came to me i took them out and looked at them they still retained a faint fragrance what would be the result if she should pass by and see me cleaning bricks â me a and â the thoughts came together â should see me i would win on my own line if it took me all my life the idea of suggested another plan why not gambling was gentlemanly â at least gentlemen but did they play for a living i had a little myself in the past played and like most men myself on my game though i generally lost in the long run and when i was making good resolutions after my failure i had made up my by john marvel assistant mind never to play again anywhere and i had always held to the opinion that as soon as a man played for his living he crossed the line and ceased to be a gentleman now however it began to appear to me as if this were the only plan by which could make anything and as if i should have a good excuse for breaking my resolution i resisted the temptation for some time but one night when i had nearly everything and had only three or four dollars left i went out and after a long but half hearted battle gave up as such are always lost and turned into a street across an alley from my office where i knew there was a gambling place over a saloon kept by one i went boldly up the stairs even as i mounted them i felt a sort of i stopped at the door and my old resolution not to play again stirred and struggled a little i caught it however with a sort of grip almost physical and gave it a shake till it was quiet i knew i should win the blaze of light within cheered me and without hesitating an instant i walked across the room to where a crowd stood watching the play of some one seated at a table it was a large and richly decorated room with a few rather daring pictures on the walls and much about the ceiling the hot air heavy with tobacco smoke and of one kind and another met me in a blast as i entered and involuntarily i thought of a sweat shop i had once seen in my earlier days but the sensation passed and left me warm and as i passed along a man looked at me and half nodded i knew he was the proprietor i made my way in and by the gulf caught the dealer s eye and taking out a note as carelessly as if my pockets were stuffed with them i glanced over the board to select my bet at one end of the table sat the large heavy man i had run into one night on the leading from the alley to the building where i had my office he was somewhat and evidently in bad luck for he was heated and was wildly near by sat a big sour looking fellow dressed whom i recognized as having been one of my fellow travellers on the side train the one who had talked to the of their wrongs he still wore his diamonds his silk hat and patent leather shoes but i took little notice of these casually as i dropped my note my eye fell on the player at the middle of the table he was surrounded by of as i looked he in a new pile at least a hundred dollars and he never changed a he was calmer than the dealer before him he was in evening dress and success had given him quite an air i caught up my note without knowing it and fell back behind a group of young men who had just come up curious things happen sometimes i found my note doubled up in my hand when i had got out of doors a quarter of an hour later all i remember is my at seeing that sitting there in money so calmly with my money for his stake in his pocket and i turned out for him an adventurer who said all american women were at his bidding it recalled to me the girl i had seen on the train and had handed later by john marvel assistant into her and the good resolutions i had formed and it strung me up like wine i felt that i was a coward to have come there and as bad as just as i to leave the place a party of young fellows entered the room they had come from a dinner at mr s as i understood from their talk j and were on to a dance unless the luck should run to suit them they were in high spirits mr s champagne having done its work and they were evidently of the place and good j i judged from the respect paid them by the attendants the leader of them was a large rather good looking young fellow but with marks of on a face without a line of refinement in it the others all seemed to be his followers they greeted familiarly and by name

45Sarah Orne Jewett

i moments of the he lo lai i wondered how money he in the bat they had known that would wondered about it and might hare the amount with u tht of i tu tr it u ut least aa to stay a moral o aâ ft one that such a will with tlie and the plague that the when it has once made wiu h are no pursuit or condition but will lay hold on t m in tf health and ome developed in the most cot tions is o us firmly established aa that an a s i ii would be upon mankind if the d in whom â or these are bred could be mixed and placed in close confinement to say â hâ w the poison is â v aâ â vast will fill the air to a great with â fc the mighty had d c more and more with the of j on every lip and carried into every ear never b had been there never should be such a a ur nobody os knew what he had done but h him to the that had appeared down in heart yard when there nut one va us lively an won in men as on the exchange now end of the yard at the top of the steps with her little old father and â acting as habitually held forth about him over the counter in conversation with her customers mr who had a small i are in a small s business in the neighbourhood said in hand on the tops of and on the of houses that people did tell him as mr was the one mind you to put us all to rights in respects of that which all on us looked to and to bring us safe home as much we needed mind you for toe be brought mr sole of mr and mrs was in whispers to lay by the which were the result of his and moderate life for in one of mr s certain the female bleeding hearts when they came for of tea and of talk gave mrs to understand that how ma am they had heard from their cousin mary anne which worked in the line that his lady s dresses would fill three that how she was as handsome a lady ma am as lived no matter and a like marble itself that how according to what they was told ma am it was her son by a former husband as was took into the government and a general he had been and armies he had marched again and victory crowned if all you heard was to be believed that how it was reported that mr s words had been that if they could have made it worth his while to take the whole government he would have took it without a profit but that take it he could not and stand a loss that how it was not to be expected ma am that he should lose by it his ways being as you might say and utter no falsehood paved with gold but that how it was much to be regretted that something handsome hadn t been got up to make it worth his while for it was such and only such that the to which the bread and meat had rose and it was such and only such that both could and would bring that down so and potent was the fever in bleeding heart yard that mr s rent days caused no interval in the the disease took the singular form on those occasions of causing the to find an excuse and consolation in allusions to the magic name now then mr would say to a pay up come on i haven t got it mr would reply i tell you the truth sir when i say i haven t got so much as a single sixpence of it to bless myself with this won t do you know mr would retort you don t expect it will do do you would admit with a low spirited no sir having no such expectation my proprietor isn t going to stand this you know mr proceed he don t send mo here for this pay up come the would make answer ah mr if i was the rich gentleman whose name is in everybody s vl t ji rd soon pay up and be glad to do t on the at the h tho in the of they s u of k low murmur of as if it convincing however blank and before np a s making it if i was mr t lo t then ko believe me the i shake of the head i d up so quick mr that j shouldn t have to ask me the response would be heard again here it to say fairer and that this was the next paying the money mr would he now reduced to saying as he o t well you ll the in and be turned out that s what s happen to you it s no to mc about mr us not mr any than i am no sir the would reply i only i the would take tliis up replying with great only wish you i him you d be easier with mi if you were mr m would p on with and it would be for all parties r for our and for your wouldn t have to worry no one then sir you wouldn t hate to us and you wouldn t have to f you d be ea er tl own mind sir and you d leave ton you if â tt mr mr in whom these sheep a charge ba only bite his nails and puff away to the next di the bleeding hearts would then gather the w had just and the most among

7James Baldwin

have heard without its respect he had in the house some time a o woman knows before his departure and if this disposition had been in him surely it would have come to the surface in that time why should his brother hate him so when he was such a favorite with all others who knew him you can go on if you have not finished she said looking into the dark eyes of her i will do so said he raising his voice frank is not a man with whom any good girl should ever be alone he that he shall not marry and yet he allows women to plant his image in their hearts until it is so deep rooted that to tear it out is almost to take life itself when he finds that his power has grown sufficient to make the effort an easy one he will gather in the prey he has breaking her heart without the girl s face grew hard as he proceeded do you know of a single instance where he has ever done this she asked such should not be founded on a mere say so he flushed faintly at the that he was not to be on his word alone how much proof do you want he inquired of the first half you are a living witness yes for knowing as you have been told that he will never marry you love him as no girl should love a man who is not to be her husband of the latter half i mean to keep you from knowing if i can astonished at his audacity could not immediately reply how did he know the deep love she had for his brother undoubtedly mark had told him of frank s statements regarding marriage and very likely of his conversations an l with her upon that matter but admitting all this he had no right to suppose that she would prove the easy victim he imagined it was one thing to love to worship frank and quite another to submit to conduct at his suggestion she believed herself fully capable of meeting such a situation should it arise with credit to herself and honor to her good name the more she thought of the character of s remarks the more indignant she became but she had decided that she had better endure them alone than to have her aunt hear them is that all you feel it necessary to say to me sir she asked that is all he said drawing a full breath except that i would like to leave my address with you in case i can be of service and i assure you miss bright you will never call on me in vain you may leave it it was better to accept the address than to talk about it he wrote it for her on one of his visiting cards then he rose and took up his hat you do not believe what i have told you he said as he stood in the attitude of departure she looked up quickly come my child he said kindly the truth do you no she faltered but you must he said it will be better for you to believe it now than by and by when it is too late all the dislike she had conceived for this man faded suddenly away she doubted his statements she had no faith in his but she felt that no woman knows herself his motive inconceivable as it seemed was a good one if your brother were all you think she said which i am sure he is not it would make no difference with me i may not know him but i certainly know myself the eternal error he mused the cardinal mistake of women ever since satan our common mother no woman knows herself no man knows himself a word a touch a look and the angel becomes a demon on the sunny slopes of the great italian are the houses and gardens and of who lie down to sleep every night in the same fancied security as you then there comes the sudden stream of fire and and they are destroyed people will learn something from their fate we say but as soon as the earth forms again other seek the same mountain sides to court the same end little girl little girl do not wait till the is heard for then you cannot escape with a courteous bow he left her and went out into the avenue he had forgotten his intended visit to the for a long time she stayed there in the parlor pondering on what he had said frank a heartless it could not be would he have been so cold to her if he had had these base intentions it was not his fault if she had learned to love him surely a man had a right to prefer a single life if he chose and a little hope fluttered in s brain and would not be that the time might come when this resolution would be put aside and the intention of youth give way to the judgment of later years an original sinner mentioned s visit to when she returned saying he had called to see her father something whispered to the colonel s daughter that he would return in the evening and when her father put on his hat and coat to go to his club she made no objection it had happened more than once that had called very soon after col fuller left the house and he had not always waited till his return this night he came again was shown up by the servant and was welcomed by i am so sorry you have missed father she said straining her conscience for the falsehood he has only been gone a few minutes are you he replied well to tell the

0Arthur Conan Doyle

since it is certainly inferior to her other work and was generally believed by her family to be a youthful composition moreover it is in the form of letters like the first of sense and sensibility her first of serious composition began early and was of brief duration pride and and sensibility and abbey were all written at between the ages of twenty one and twenty to jane letters to dead authors h jane three during the eight years she spent at bath and she produced nothing but the fragment of the with which she was evidently dissatisfied and which she never attempted to finish when she had settled in she the three former novels for the press and also wrote and persuasion between the ages of six and one it is generally admitted that she produced one during each of the two periods at the time of her death she was engaged upon a novel of which a few have been published but we have not sufficient material to judge even of its promise we are told that she wrote always on little slips of r in the family sitting room and never resented her friends indeed not being generally aware of what she was doing as mr smith has suggested she was probably enabled to work thus only after a good deal of thought and much may have been in her mind before the business of began although she wrote entirely about the class in which she mixed her characters were never exact portraits she considered the drawing from individuals to be an invasion of social and added that she was too proud of her gentlemen to admit that they were only mr a and colonel b she did not her inspiration in books though the and finish of her style must have en partly due to her reading we do not hear that she had any wide acquaintance with literature but she was familiar with the works of and miss while she loved dr johnson and especially the latter and declared that if ever she married at all she could fancy being mrs it is fortunate however that she did not attempt to imitate any of them in her writings jane xix a curious correspondence has been published and often commented upon between jane and the prince s worthy mr the prince is said to have admired her novels and on hearing that she was visiting town mr to show her his library and give her leave to a future novel to his royal she was shown every attention and the we presume on his own authority afterwards proposed to her two subjects on which she might employ her genius â the life of a model and cultivated clergyman and the history of the house of miss of course declined the offer with all the propriety of which she was mistress it was this incident in part no doubt that suggested the spirited plan of a novel to hints from various quarters in which she touches off the conventional british hero of frank and noble and the heroine of the sweet ivy type in the midst of a world of with singular self insight jane spoke once of the little bit of ivory two inches wide on which she worked with a brush so fine as to pi little effect after much labour she gives us a further glimpse of her methods in the following comments on a young relative s attempts in the art of novel writing â you are now collecting your people delightfully getting them exactly into such a spot as is the delight of my life three or four families in a country village is the very thing to work on and i hope you will do a great deal more and make full use or them while they are so arranged on the two inch bit of ivory of a y village she drew her finished and took every advantage of the favourable arrangement moreover there is a sense in which she produced little effect after much labour her novels are practically without plot or passion and treat xx jane only of a limited class during a particular period the country life of the upper middle class at the beginning of the century is her theme and she makes no effort to vary it it is moreover in the course of their daily life that her characters betray themselves on those trivial occasions when humanity does not take the trouble to act a part with the supreme moments of misery or exaltation she has seldom concerned herself the well known entry in sir walter scott s journal under march i contains an allusion to the same characteristics read again and for the third time at least miss s very finely written novel pride and prejudice that young lady had a talent for describing the and feelings and characters of ordinary life which is to me the most wonderful i ever met with the big bow strain i can do myself like any now going but the exquisite touch which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting from the truth of the description and the sentiment is denied to me what a pity such a gifted creature died so early this is a genial appreciation more judicious perhaps than his article in the for not even the authority of sir walter scott can convince us that elizabeth was induced to accept by the sight of his fine estate or that mr and miss are too often brought forward and too long dwelt upon his conclusion is interesting however upon the whole die tone of this author s novels bears the same relation to that of the sentimental and cast that and cottages and meadows bear to the highly adorned grounds of a show mansion or the rugged of a landscape it is neither so as the one nor so grand as tlie other

25Bret Harte

back an struck out for me for life an how as i went down de last time he me an on to me tell we wash down to de bank curve an de current so rapid hit him off back but he on to de reins tell de horse so he hit him he fo foot an he collar bone an den he had to let him go an on to me an den we wash up de bank an in a tree an de got quick as could an when us george on to me an had he arm a limb an we lodged in de an as dead as a nail an de she got out but he his foot in de rein an de saddle he side an ain know george ain dead too cause he not only but he arm broke up nigh de shoulder an say miss she de thing anybody know bout it when some de servants bust in de hall an an say george an me done washed way an an she down dead on de an when bring her to she low to miss she de on he death an say when de him in de house an de not to meek no an a little piece o blue silk out he breast somebody picked up an gin miss miss right in virginia down an some on em say she did for him an now when he upstairs dead hit too late for him ever to know it well i couldn it in george and dead an den somebody say george done to an gi me so much i went to sleep an next i got up an went to george room an see him in de bed he face so white an he eyes so tired an he ain know me no mo n ef he see me an i couldn it i down on de an bust out i couldn help it cause an george he gone an he came goin cause he had a strain an been so long in de water he heart done got an he got an all de time he thought he to cross de river to see miss an hit so high he hit pitiful to see him an not he tell it all mr an me could do to keep him in de bed an de doctors say he out much longer an all dis time miss she bout de house her face right white an say she don do all day long in her room but cry an say her rs for george s by count o not she love him an i tell how he all de time to see her an how he constant her name well so tell he done out an lay his face white as de pillow an he pitiful eyes bout so restless like he still for her he all de time her name an cross river to see an one bout sunset he to be he weaker n he been at all he ain able to no mo an so quiet an he say mighty wistful â i m goin to night ef i don cross dis time i ll gin t up mr nigh de head o de bed an he say well by he shall see her â so an he went out de room an to miss do an call her an tell her she got to come ef she don t he ll die night an thing i know miss bring miss in her face right white but as tender as a angel s an she come an by de side de bed an lean down over him an call he name george â so an george he ain answer he look at her study for a minute an den he forehead got smooth ai he he eyes to me an say i m cross lady a story of the war tt n go when he a v v on de een o dis the speaker was standing in the bushes just below me for i was on the where the little foot path through the straggling pines and ran over it he was holding in his hand a newly fishing pole while a number more lay in the path at the foot of the old i watched for a moment in silence and then said uncle what are you doing poles for de boys he answered promptly and definitely we s em soon then he added won have none from else done ma tell how used to poles right on dis ridge an fling a line nay sort o poles at all he mo like n he like he pa sometimes i think he done come back â he s he ve y spit an image who are the boys i asked taking a seat on the moss covered hi we all s boys â lady s de fish run lady a story of tlie war good now an ll be up in new york now but me an got a letter from em you keep em long after de fish to run no you i bout his pole right now and a short laugh of delight followed the reflection how many are there fo on em de little an she like lady at her age to keep up her an do ev do lord hit me back so sometimes i de ain been no war nor yes tu ns de house down when comes like an lady um â m making that peculiar sound so suggestive used to de to pieces you see after die an two she used to gi em head an all over de plantation lady de little white in her little white apron her curls all down in her eyes used to look white ns as a o blossoms de i don what do it

45Sarah Orne Jewett

would make for this in sum â that mr fox lord and their friends be straightway asked to join with gone with and with too io the act iv the of affairs has been of late somewhat as you sir know with stop gap functions thrust on offices which can be but a while so for the reasons i have urged i do repeat my most respectful hope to win your majesty s assent to what i have proposed king but nothing sure has been more plain to all dear mr than that your own proved energy and scope is ample without aid to carry on our just against this these helps we need not pray you think upon t and speak to me again â we ve had within these few weeks past as you may know that had landed close such come as regularly as harvest king and now he has left with all his host was it his object to at all or was his vast assemblage here a blind scene i the undoubtedly he meant invasion sir had fortune favoured he may try it yet and as i said could we but close with fox king but but â i ask what is his object now lord s captain â hardy â whose old home stands in a peaceful hard by us here â who came two weeks ago to see his friends i talked to in this room a while he says our navy still is in the dark as to the aims by sea of now the attempt has out and what he schemes afloat with spain combined the victory lay that fortnight at and since has gone aboard and sailed yes sailed again the royal sovereign follows and others her was hailed and cheered to while leaving shore gentle and simple wildly round ay sir young women hung upon his arm and old ones blessed and him with their hands io the king ah â you have heard of course god speed him amen amen king i read it as a thing of signal and one which heaven s confidence in me and in my line that i should rule as king in such an age well well â so this new march of s was unexpected forced perchance on him it may be so your majesty it may last noon the whom i consulted ere i posted down assured me that his latest papers state that general and eighty thousand men have made good speed across to wait the french and give them check at that fortress frontier town and walled a place long chosen as a point whereon to encounter them as they from the blind shades and green of the black forest worn with scene i the here will his foe to meet the in and him if not thus now sir opens out this great alliance of russia england i have lent my earnest efforts through long months and the realm gives her money ships and men â it a round this cock s steel spurs and leaves me sanguine on his overthrow but then â this of resources demands a strong and active cabinet to aid your majesty s hand and thus i urge again the said additions â these brilliant of the other side who stand by fox with us they king what what again â in face of my sound reasons believe me you yourself you do not need such aid the splendid feat of europe in a righteous cause that you have achieved so soon to put to shame this wicked of that rule by right divine goes straight to prove no the we had best continue as we have begun and call no partners to our management to fear up ahead is not your wont nay nay now mr i must be firm and if you love your king you ll him not so to embrace this fox and and its friends rather than fox why give me civil war hey what but what besides i say besides sir nothing a silence king the s here and many friends of mine lady lord and lady lady general and mr the â not the least important to me he is a worthy and a skilful man my eyes he says are as improved in as i know them to be in power i have arranged to go to morrow with the and the of and cambridge who are also here for a ride on the and through the camp on the downs you ll accompany us there scene i the iii i am honoured by your majesty s commands looks out of the window what curious structure do i see outside sir king it s but a stage a type of all the world the have arranged it in my honour at six o clock this evening there are to be at single stick to amuse the folk four guineas the prize for the man who breaks most heads afterwards there is to be a grinning match through horse â a very humorous sport which i must stay here and witness for i am interested in whatever my subjects not one in all the land but knows it sir king now mr you must require repose consult your own convenience then i beg on when you leave i thank your majesty he as one whose purpose has failed and the scene the scene ii before the city of a prospect of the city from the east showing in the a low lying country bounded in mid distance by the banks of the which bordered by and flows across the picture h om the left to the bridge near the right of the scene and is backed by irregular heights and of vines between these and the river stands the city crowded with old houses and surrounded by walls and a ditch all the being by

44Oliver Optic

ve done my best i m going to fall no no you ll break your limbs if you do hold up just a little and maybe they ll stop lean back and hold your saddle behind said the colonel there you ll find that will ease the strain he took the from his hat and tying the ends together he it over her front put your foot in the said he it will steady you like a the relief was instant so did the same for but presently one of the weary came down with a crash its â the tragedy of the out as if it had split asunder and the had to come down to its old sober gait is this another belt of drift sand asked the colonel presently no it s white said here what is that in front of us but the shook his head i don t know what it is sir i never saw the same thing before right across the desert from north to south there was drawn a white line as straight and clear as if it had been with chalk across a brown table it was very thin but it extended without a break from horizon to horizon said something to the it s the great route said what makes it white then the bones it seemed incredible and yet it was true for as they drew nearer they saw that it was indeed a beaten track across the desert out by long usage and so covered with bones that they gave the impression of a continuous white ribbon long heads were scattered everywhere and the lines of ribs were so continuous that it looked in places like the of a monstrous serpent the endless road gleamed in the sun as if it were paved with ivory for thousands of years this had been the highway over the desert and during all that time no animal of all those countless had died there without being preserved by the dry air no wonder then that it was hardly possible to walk down it now without treading upon their this must be the route i of said the tragedy of the i remember marking it upon the map i made for you miss says that it has been on account of the of all trade which followed the rise of the but that it used to be the main road by which the skins and of found their way down to lower egypt they looked at it with a curiosity for there was enough to them at present in their own the struck to the south along the old desert track and this of a road seemed to be a fitting avenue for that which awaited them at the end of it weary and weary dragged on together toward their miserable goal and now as the critical moment approached which was to decide their fate colonel weighed down by his fears lest something terrible should befall the women put his pride aside to the extent of asking the advice of the the fellow was a villain and a coward but at least he was an oriental and he understood the point of view his change of religion had brought him into closer contact with the and he had overheard their intimate talk s stiff aristocratic nature fought hard before he could bring himself to ask advice from such a man and when he at last did so it was in the and most voice you know the and you have the same way of looking at things said he our object is to keep things going for another twenty four hours after that it does not much matter what us for we shall be out of the reach of rescue but how can we them off for another day the tragedy of the you know my advice the answered i have already answered it to you if you will all become as i have you will certainly be carried to alive if you do not you will never leave our next place alive the colonel s well curved nose took a higher and an angry flush his thin cheeks he rode in silence for a uttle for his indian service had left him with a temper which had had an extra touch of added to it by his recent experiences it was some minutes before he could trust himself to reply we ll set that aside said he at last some things are possible and some are not this is not you need only pretend that s enough said the colonel abruptly shrugged his shoulders what is the use of asking me if you become angry when i answer if you do not wish to do what i say then try your own attempt at least you cannot say that i have not done all i could to save you i m not angry the colonel answered after a pause in a more voice but this is down rather farther than we care to go now what i thought is this you might if you chose give this priest or who is coming to us a hint that we really are softening a bit upon the point i don t think considering the hole that we are in that there can be very much objection to that then when he comes we might play up and take an interest and ask for more instruction and in that way hold the matter over for a day or two don t you think that would be the best game the tragedy of the you will do as you like said have told you once for ever what i think if you wish that i speak to the i will do so it is the fat man with the grey beard upon the brown in front there i may tell you that he has a

3Edith Wharton

blood on every wall â till of all the evil things of earth i thee growth a thing apart from thee my heart and a dream my thought and when thou would st repress my love as truly told to thee thou taught st me how to thee to do as thou did st unto me when with the spy behind the screen thou me deceit it was i apt i that made the bird fly by hard its feet and not its fear of the scratching familiar to its ear as the warning word in the sound i heard when i drew near and when king beside my bed thou in the night it was i that shook the child till it woke and cried out in â a child that never before nor since within thy daughter s bed has the charms of another s arms asleep in another s stead m and when king the gaunt she wolf tore the from the earth it was i that made the mock parade te conceal my baby s birth for why my lord the jealous bird flew at the baby s eyes and repeated the word of heard and the baby s cries and when a servant killed the bird for its tell tale tongue and spite i wept indeed as the old man said and buried the bird in the night â cutting here the sod to deceive the slaves that in my path as and laying it where the wolf might tear it out before thine eyes and now king lest thou might st the in my sight it did me in my love to summon all my might hear then king and mark each word these three things have i done to guide thy hand and give command and secure the crown for my son first i have bound thy body guard with their trust in a mother s love more firmly to me than their fear of thee at their mercy can remove and in their midst i have placed my child that whatsoever hap to him beneath the dagger of death their future king may escape next i have found a slave for the of his head to risk his life beneath the knife in my baby s father s stead â who in the guise of thine old slave that sweeps with a new at thine elbow stands with a sword in his hands to determine if need be thy doom while third my lord i have closed the door behind thy back that thou may est give what i will receive or otherwise will take â thy crown in trust for the s son the issue of my in exchange for what revealed thy plot the reward of thy slave this the king in a mood and hurled to the ground his crown then stamping his he seized the and sank into a the princess tore from the his mask while the loud did ring and placed upon his head the crown and pronounced him her husband and king and hark what word is that that cuts like a knife through the startled air a word of command to stay a hand and the s life to spare and that faint cry afar in the throng that rises above the din the run and fetch the son that has made his mother the queen with the prince upon her bosom laid before the crowd the queen to all appeared and to them aloud so be it ever with woman and man when they all risks will run their faithful love in each other to and save or daughter or son so be it ever that plot will meet its in turn that the strong from the weak and the harsh from the meek the rule of right may learn so be it ever as it has been unto the slave and king the trumpet and the drum and let the ring yes it is a word of spanish origin and a an of or if you will a but what of that does not our word court the palace of a king and all its persons plate politeness and power â does not our own word court signify a or cattle pen in lie f we have a positive which has lost almost beyond recovery its once very popular comparative degrees and is itself fast growing it has been so completely set aside that few are aware of its close relationship with the saxon our love and its connection with the old english once and the dear one and as such continually used of both sexes â de don had a collection of or flint stones cut in the shape of arrow heads which he thought and don was no fool were the instruments employed by the of they were sufficiently hard to scratch into the stone perhaps by men accustomed to the use of them the whole of these deep relief ornaments might have been scratched but the stones themselves looked as if they had been cut by metal â central america i the high priest had in his hand a large broad and sharp knife made of flint another priest carried a wooden collar wrought like a snake the persons to be sacrificed were conducted one by one up the steps naked and as soon as laid on the stone had the collar put their necks and the four priests took hold of the hands and feet then the high priest with wonderful dexterity up the breast tore out the heart with his hands and showed it to the sun offering him the heart and stream that it then he turned to the idol and threw it in his face which done he kicked the body down the steps and it never stopped till it came to the bottom because they were very upright â by travels in i as

46Sarah Stickney Ellis

conversation was thoroughly distasteful to him he felt a little irritated with his charming wife and yet in he had to admit that there might be a good deal of truth in what she said added a few to her pattern on the table cloth she wanted her last remarks to have time to sink well down into her husband s mind do you want to marry her then asked frank rather sharply at last he did not look somehow as if he the idea at all mrs pa t n oh i don t know she answered with a delicate shrug of her shoulders it wouldn t be much use wanting mr to marry anybody you know he likes to drift he hates taking steps proposing to elizabeth would be taking a great step i fancy but still his being there so much is it leads to all sorts of it really is rather for elizabeth you know said the last few words with a delightful little air of sorrowful conviction this was very unpleasant frank thought if it really was true had been a great deal at elizabeth s lately he knew therefore he was afraid it might be true frank disliked unpleasant things immensely he always tried to avoid any lengthened discussion of them he got up hastily knocking the long ash of his oft on to the carpet this caused an instant of acute misery but she her domestic sensations with heroic fortitude the carpet must be sacrificed she felt to the situation if it s really some one ought to tell him so frank said do you mean that really frank asked his wife getting up too and letting the handle of her knife fall with a gentle upon the oh i don t know he answered for goodness sake let the subject alone and we ll go upstairs was absolutely delightful during the rest of the evening her husband imagined she ch iii a sketch in black and white was prettily for having introduced disagreeable subjects of conversation after dinner and thought it very nice that she should have such a tender conscience where his comfort was concerned one really has a great respect for the serpent sometimes he must have been wonderfully subtle to have eve or else the first woman must have been curiously less acute than her daughters of the last few centuries frank was beautifully innocent of his wife s intentions and was radiant for she saw a clear path before her fortune is said to favour the brave fortune certainly in this case favoured mrs frank in the usual course of events she did not often find herself alone with mr but it so happened that within a week after the above conversation she had an excellent opportunity for just that little to the forward movement of events that she had so earnestly she called one afternoon at her sister in law s wishing to make some arrangement regarding the entertaining of one or two friends in answer to her inquiries announced that elizabeth was not at home she would not be in for half an hour or so but added mr who was also anxious to see her mistress was awaiting her return upstairs here then was s opportunity all the circumstances perfectly arranged the path smoothed for her and â supposing elizabeth did not return sooner than she was expected toâ the most admirable occasion for mrs part il her to express her fears to of course was glad and yet she could not disguise from herself that she felt a little nervous however after a moment s she concluded that she could never respect herself again if she gave way to vague and retired from the performance of this her obvious duty she too would wait for elizabeth s return i know my way you need not trouble to come up with me she said graciously to then she walked quietly upstairs and went into the drawing room was the time during which he waited for his fair hostess by playing the piano had been placed in the back and was in a position which even had he been less absorbed in his present occupation would have prevented his seeing mrs frank as she came into the room she on her part wanted a few minutes for quiet reflection she wanted to arrange the manner of her attack she felt that some people might think her just a trifle mean for taking advantage of s musical enthusiasm in this way but the end surely might very well justify the means she settled herself in a comfortable corner and waited patiently for the music to cease before she should speak the between the two rooms was partly drawn aside and by leaning a little forward mrs frank could just see as he sat at the piano as we have already noted s nature always seemed to grow deeper and more earnest ch iii a sketch in black and white when he was playing on this occasion owing perhaps to certain new feelings which were beginning to stir within him perhaps only to the fact that he believed himself to be alone and unobserved he seemed to be speaking the very depths of his being out in the music fortunately s nature was not easily influenced by of feeling otherwise she might easily have forgotten her purpose while listening to s stormy playing and have lost herself on an ocean of fancy and of wild desire for some fair and unknown good had a small head but she contrived never to lose it consequently she just sat still and her little plans with a fine indifference to her surroundings suddenly left off abruptly in the middle of a passage and after playing a few softly fell to humming the melancholy song that had so elizabeth the first time she heard it he sang the words of the last

31George Moore

know myself then i suppose you won t care to lose sight of me altogether and you want me to help you in your work yes but remember dick nothing will ever come of it that s why i feel so selfish let things stay as they are i do want your help you shall have it but let s consider i must see your first and your sketches and find out about your tendencies you should see what the papers say about my tendencies then i ll give you good advice and you shall paint according isn t that it again there was triumph in dick s eye it s too good of you â much too good because you are yourself with what will never happen and i know that and yet i wish to keep you don t blame me later please i m going into the matter with my eyes open moreover the queen can do no wrong it isn t v the light that failed your selfishness that me it s your audacity in proposing to make use of me you re only dick â and a print shop very good that s all i am but you believe don t you that i love you i don t want you to have any false notions about brothers and sisters looked up for a moment and dropped her eyes it s absurd but â i believe i wish i could send you away before you get angry with me but â but the girl that lives with me is red haired and an and all our notions clash so do ours i think never mind three months from to day we shall be laughing at this together shook her head mournfully i knew you wouldn t understand and it will only hurt you more when you find out look at my face dick and tell me what you see they stood up and faced each other for a moment the fog was gathering and it stifled the roar of the traffic of london beyond the dick brought au his acquired knowledge of faces to bear on the eyes mouth and chin underneath the black velvet it s the same and it s the same me he thb light that failed chap said we ve both nice little wills of our own and one or other of ns has to be broken now about the future i must come and see your pictures some day â i suppose when the red haired girl is on the premises sundays are my best times you must come on sundays there are such heaps of things i want to talk about and ask your advice about now i must get back to work try to find out before next sunday what i am said dick don t take my word for anything i ve told you good bye darling and bless you stole away like a little gray mouse dick watched her till she was out of sight but he did not hear her say to herself very i m a wretch â a horrid selfish wretch but it s did and dick will understand no one has yet explained what actually happens when an irresistible force meets the immovable post though many have thought deeply even as dick thought he tried to assure himself that would be led in a few weeks by his mere presence and discourse to a better way of thinking then he remembered much too distinctly her face and all that was written on it if i know anything of heads he said there s everything in that face but love i shall have to t the light that failed put that in myself and that chin and mouth won t be won for nothing but she s right she knows what she wants and she s going to get it what insolence me of all the people in the wide world to use me but then she s there s no getting over that fact and it s good to see her again this business must have been at the back of my head for years she ll use me as i used at port said she s quite right it will hurt a little i shall have to see her every sunday â like a young man a she s sure to come round and yet â that mouth isn t a yielding mouth i shall be wanting to kiss her all the time and i shall have to look at her pictures â i don t even know what sort of work she does yet â and i shall have to talk about art â woman s art therefore particularly and perpetually damn all varieties of art it did me a good turn once and now it s in my way i ll go home and do some art half way to the dick was smitten with a terrible thought the figure of a solitary woman in the fog suggested it she s all alone in london with a red haired girl who probably has the of an most red haired people have s a little body they ll eat like lone women v the that failed â meals at all hours and tea with all meals i remember how the students in paris used to pig along she may fall ill at any minute and i shan t be able to help i this is ten times worse than a wife came into the at dusk and looked at dick with his eyes fall of the austere love that springs up between men who have at the same oar together and are by custom and use and the of toil this is a good love and since it allows and even strife and the most brutal sincerity does not die but and is proof against any absence and evil conduct

38James Payn

and is no doubt connected with its peculiar upright manner of walking in a large duck on the other hand the was the only bone of the leg which to the other bones was slightly lengthened on the effects of the increased and use of the limbs â in all the the bones of the wing measured separately after having been cleaned to those of the leg have become slightly in comparison with the same bones in the wild duck as may be seen in the following table â name of breed length of length of and and together together or as wild dutch call inches length of same bones length of all the bones of wing wild duck another specimen common domestic duck inches chap viii effects of use and in the foregoing table we see that in comparison with the wild duck the in the length of the bones of the wing to those of the legs though slight is universal the is least in the call duck which has the power and the habit of frequently flying in weight there is a greater relative difference between the bones of the leg and wing as may be seen in the following table â name of breed weight of and weight of and or as dutch call trains weight of all the bones of the leg and foot weight of all the bones of the wing wild another specimen common domestic duck in these birds the considerably lessened weight of the bones of the wing i e on an average twenty five per cent of their proper weight as well as their slightly lessened length to the leg bones might follow not from any actual in the wing bones but from the increased weight and length of the bones of the legs the first of the two tables on the next page shows that the to the weight of the entire skeleton have really increased in weight but the second table shows that according to the same standard the wing bones have also really in weight so that the relative shown in the foregoing tables between the wing and leg bones in comparison with those of the wild duck is partly due to the increase in weight and length of the leg bones and partly to the in weight and length of the wing bones with respect to the two following tables i may first state that i tested them by taking another skeleton of a wild duck and of a common domestic duck and by comparing the weight of all the bones of the leg with all those of the wings and the result was the same in the first of these tables we see that the leg bones in each case have increased in actual weight it might have been expected that with the increased or weight of the entire skeleton the leg bones would have become heavier or lighter but their greater weight in all the to the other bones can be accounted for only by these domestic birds â having used their legs in walking and standing much more than the wild for they never fly and the more artificial rarely swim in the second domestic ducks chap name of breed wild dutch call from mr fox weight of entire skeleton n b one and foot was removed from each skeleton as it had been accidentally lost in two cases weight of and or as wild dutch calf from mr baker call from mr fox weight of skeleton as above weight of and and â j i i table we see with the exception of one case a plain in the weight of the bones of the wing and this no doubt has resulted from their lessened use the one exceptional case namely in one of the call ducks is in truth no exception for this bird was constantly in the habit of flying about and i have seen it day after day rise from my grounds and fly for a long time in circles of more than a mile in in this call duck there is not only no but an actual increase in the weight of the to those of the wild duck and this probably is consequent on the remarkable lightness and of all the bones of the skeleton lastly i weighed the and of a wild duck and of a common domestic duck and i found that their weight to that of the whole skeleton was as one hundred in the former to in the latter this shows that these bones in the domestic duck have been reduced eleven per cent of their due weight the of the crest of the to its length is also much reduced in all the domestic these changes have evidently been caused by the lessened use of the wings it is well known that several birds belonging to different orders and islands have their wings greatly reduced in size and are incapable of flight i suggested in my tf origin of species that as these birds are not persecuted by any enemies the of their wings has probably been caused by gradual hence during the earlier stages of the chap viii domestic goose process of such birds might be expected to resemble in the state of their organs of flight our ducks this is the case with the water hen of d which can flutter a little but obviously uses its legs and not its wings as a mode of escape now mr finds in this bird that the wings and are all reduced in length and the crest of the in depth in comparison with the same bones in the european water hen r on the other hand the bones and are increased in length the former by four lines to the same bones in the common water hen hence in the skeleton of this natural species nearly the same changes have occurred only

6Jack London

make up my mind about it one i a man up out of a sound sleep looking at him and it set me to thinking first there wasn t any noise and then ag in there was n t any touch so he could feel it and i says to myself why could n t i ha done it the width of two rooms as well as one and why could n t i ha done it with my back turned it could n t have been the looking so much as the thinking and then i car d it further and i says why ain t a mile as good as a yard and it s the thinking that does it says i and we ve got some faculty or other that we don t know much about we ve got some way of sending our thought like a bullet goes out of a gun and it we don t know nothing except what we see and some folks is scared and some more thinks it is all nonsense and but there s something we have n t got the hang of it makes me think o them little black that turns into in the fresh water in the ma sh there s a time before their tails drop off arid their legs have out when they don t get any use o their legs and i dare say they re in their way consider ble but after they get to be they find out what they re for without no kind of trouble i guess we shall turn these to account some time or seems to me though that we might depend on em now more than we do the captain was under full sail on what we had heard was his pet subject and it was a great satisfaction to listen to what he had to say it loses a great deal in being written for the old sailor s voice and gestures and thorough earnestness all carried no little persuasion and it was impossible not to be sure that he knew more than people usually do about these mysteries in which he delighted now how can you account for this said he i remember not more than ten years ago my son s wife was stopping at our house and she had left her child at home while she come away for a rest and after she had been there two or three days one morning she was sitting in the kitchen long o the folks and all of a sudden she jumped out of her chair and ran into the bedroom and next minute she come out laughing and looking kind of scared i could ha taken my oath says she that i heard out mother says she just as if she was hurt i heard it so plain that before i stopped to think it seemed as if she were right in the next room i m thing has happened but the folks laughed and said she must ha heard one of the no it was n t says she it was and sure enough just after dinner a young man who lived neighbor to her come riding into the yard post haste to get her to go home for the baby had pulled some hot water over on to herself and was nigh to death and for her mother every minute now who s going to explain that it was n t any common hearing that heard that child s fifteen miles and i can tell you another thing that happened among my own folks there was an own cousin of mine married to a man by the name of john he was trading up to and business run down so he wound up there and thought he d make a new start he moved down to and while he was getting under way he left his family up to the old place and at the time i speak of was going to move em down in about a fortnight one morning his wife was round and finally she came down stairs with her bonnet and shawl on and said somebody must put the horse right into the wagon and take her down to why what for mother they says don t stop to talk says she your father is sick and by deep haven wants me it s been a worrying me since before day and i can t stand it no longer and the short of the story is that she kept em faster and faster and then she got hold of the reins herself and when they got within five miles of the place the horse fell dead and she was nigh about crazy and they took another horse at a farm house on the road it was the spring of the year and the going was dreadful and when they got to the house john had just died and he had been calling his wife up to most the last breath he drew he had been taken sick sudden the day before but the folks knew it was bad travelling and that she was a feeble woman to come near thirty miles and they had no he was so bad i m telling you the living truth said captain sands with an emphatic shake of his head there s more folks than me can tell about it and if you were goin to haul me next minute and hang me to the yard arm afterward i couldn t say it i was up to to the funeral it was just after i quit following the sea i never saw a woman so broke down she was john was a nice man and pleasant spoken and and kind to his folks he belonged to the odd f and they all marched to the funeral was a good deal of respect

39John Kendrick Bangs

the window she felt this could not last â this motionless vacant misery she mast determine on something she must take some step and yet everything was so difficult it was one o clock and mrs rose from her seat saying i must go and see about dinner e movement and the sound startled from her it seemed as if an opportunity were escaping her and she said hastily is mr in the town to day do you think no i should think not being saturday you know said mrs her face lighting up with pleasure but he would come if he was sent for i can send s boy with a note to him any time should you like to see him yes i think i should then i send for him this instant â chapter when awoke in the morning he was at no loss to account to himself for the fact that was not by his side his hours of were not cut off from his other hours by any blank wall of oblivion he remembered what had done to offend him the evening before he remembered what he had done to her at midnight just as he would have remembered if he had been consulted about a right of road the remembrance gave him a definite ground for the extra ill humor wliich had attended his waking every morning this week but he would not admit to himself that it cost him any anxiety he said inwardly she would go straight to her r s she s as timid as a hare and she ll never let anybody know about it she be back again before night but it would be as well for the servants not anything of the affair so he collected the clothes she had taken off the night before and threw them into a fire proof closet of which he always kept the key in his pocket when he went down stairs ne said to the mrs is gone to her mother s bring in the breakfast the servants accustomed to hear domestic and to see their mistress put on her bonnet hastily and go to her mother s thought it only something a little worse than usual that she should have gone thither in consequence of a violent quarrel either at midnight or in the morning before they were up the told the cook what she supposed had happened the cook shook her head and said eh dear dear but they both expected to see their mistress back again in an hour or two on his return home the evening before had ordered his man who lived away from the house to bring up his horse and from the stables at ten after breakfast he said to the no one need sit up for me to night i shall not be at home till to morrow evening and then ho walked to the office to give some orders expecting as he returned to see the man waiting with his but though the church clock had struck ten no was there in s mood this was more than enough to him he went in to take his accustomed glass of brandy before setting out promising himself the of presently thundering at for a few minutes behind his time an outbreak of temper towards his man was not common with him for like most people had that kind of which enabled him to control his temper where it suited his own convenience to do so and feeling the value of a steady punctual fellow he not only gave him high wages but usually treated him with exceptional civility this morning however ill humor got the better of s scenes of life and was determined to rate him soundly a for which gave him much better ground than he expected five minutes ten minutes a quarter of an hour had passed and was setting off to the stables in a back street to see what was the cause of the when appeared with the what the devil do you keep me for thundered kicking my heels like a tailor waiting for a s cart i ordered you to be here at ten we might have driven to by this time why one o the traces was i two an i had to take it to s to be mended an he did n t get it done i time then why did n t yon take it to him last night because of your damned i suppose do yon think i give you wages for you to choose your own hours and come up a quarter of an hour after my time come give me good words will yer said i m not lazy nor no man shall call me lazy i know well what you gi me wa s for it s for what yer won t find many men as do what you impudent scoundrel said getting into the you think you re necessary to me do you as if a bucket carrying idiot like you was n t to be got any day look out for a new master then who pay you for not doing as you re bid s blood was now fairly up i ll look out for a master as has got a better nor a an i should n t hey to go fur furious snatched the whip from the and gave a cut which he meant to fall across his shoulders saying take that sir and go to hell with you was in the act of turning with the reins in his hand when the lash the put went across his face with white lips he said have the law on yer for that lawyer as y are and threw the reins on the horse s back leaned forward the reins and drove off why there s your friend driving out his man again said

13Ralph Emerson

gold came out of the darkness you are most kind to bring my old friend he said he is a of he should not be in a big city when there is religious excitement but i have a carriage here you are quite truly kind will you help me to put him into the carriage it is very late we the old man into a hired victoria that stood close to the gate and i turned back to the house on the city wall the troops were driving the people to and fro while the police shouted to your houses get to your houses and the of the assistant district cracked terror stricken clung to the of the cavalry crying that their houses had been robbed which was a lie and the patted them on the shoulder and bade them return to those houses lest a worse thing should happen parties of five or six british soldiers joining arms swept down the side their on their backs stamping with shouting and song upon the toes of and on the city wall never was religious enthusiasm more and never were poor of the peace more utterly weary and they were out of holes and corners from behind well pillars and and to go to their houses if they had no houses to go to so much the worse for their toes on returning to s door i stumbled over a man at the threshold he was sobbing and his arms like the wings of a goose it was and and at the mouth the flesh on his chest bruised and bleeding from the vehemence with which he had smitten himself a broken torch handle lay by his side and his quivering lips murmured r as i stooped over him i pushed him a few steps up the staircase threw a at s city window and hurried home most of the streets were very still and the cold wind that comes before the dawn whistled down them in the centre of the square of the a man was bending over a corpse the skull had been smashed in by gun butt or it is expedient that one man should die for the people said grimly raising the head these brutes were beginning to show their teeth too much and from afar we could hear the soldiers singing two lovely black eyes as they drove the remnant of the within doors of course you can guess what happened i was on the city wall not so clever when the news went abroad that had escaped from the fort i did not since i was then living this story not writing it connect myself or or the fat gentleman of the gold with his disappearance nor did it strike me that wall was the man who should have him across the city or that s arms round my neck were put there to hide the money that gave to and that had used me and my white face as even a better than who proved himself so all that i knew at the time was that when fort was taken up with the by the confusion to get away and that his two guards also escaped but later on i received full and so did he fled to those who knew him in the old days but many of them were dead and more were changed and all knew something of the wrath of the government he went to the young men but the of his name had passed away and they were entering native or government offices and could give them neither nor influence â nothing but a glorious death with their back to the mouth of a gun he wrote letters and made promises and the letters fell into bad hands and a wholly insignificant subordinate officer of police them down and gained promotion thereby moreover was old and seed brandy was scarce and he had left his silver cooking pots in fort with his nice warm and the gentleman with the gold was told by those who had em z on the city wall him that as a popular leader was not worth the money paid great is the mercy of these fools of english said when the situation was put before him i will go back to fort of my own free will and gain honour give me good clothes to return in so at his own time knocked at the gate of the fort and walked to the captain and the who were nearly gray headed on account of correspondence that daily arrived from marked private i have come back captain said put no more guards over me it is no good out yonder a week later i saw him for the first time to my knowledge and he made as though there were an understanding between us it was well done said he and greatly i admired your in thus boldly facing the troops when i whom they would have doubtless torn to pieces was with you now there is a man in fort whom a bold man could with ease help to escape this is the position of the fort as i draw it on the sand but i was thinking how i had become s after all the end printed by r r limited en of by john in paper covers y u cloth is d by henry james by professor f r s johnson by by lamb charles by by by thomas by j c milton by mark pope by scott by r h by j a by mrs by w t bacon by dean church by professor r c by j a by john burns by principal by professor by professor by professor a w ward by h d by smith by w de by professor by professor a w ward by professor by by j a by william black ray by by john

38James Payn

that he wanted to do it again at my expense i hesitated may i come in said he i inclined my head with as much presence of mind as i could command and he followed me into my chambers there i saw that the lower part of his face was tied up in what is commonly called a handkerchief he slowly removed this and exposed to view a long dark beard curling over his upper lip twisting about the comers of his mouth and hanging down upon his breast what is this i exclaimed involuntarily and what have you become i am the ghost of art said he the effect of these words slowly uttered in the thunder storm at midnight was appalling in the last degree more dead than alive i surveyed him in silence the ghost of art the german taste came up said he and threw me out of bread i am ready for ihe taste now he made his beard a little jagged with his hands folded his arms and said â severity i shuddered it was so severe he made his beard flowing on his breast and leaning both hands on the staff of a carpet which mrs had left among my books said benevolence i stood the change of sentiment was entirely in the beard the man might have left his face alone or had no face the beard did everything he lay down on his back on my table and with that action of his head threw up his beard at the chin â that s death said he he got off my table and looking up at the ceiling cocked his beard a little at the same time making it stick out before him adoration or a vow of vengeance he observed he turned his to me making his upper lip very with the upper part of his beard romantic character said he he looked sideways out of his beard as if it were an ivy bush jealousy said he he gave it an ingenious twist in the air and informed me that he was he made it shaggy with his fingers â and it was despair â and it was tossed it all kinds of ways â and it was rage the beard did everything â i am the ghost of art said he two bob a day now and more when it s longer hair s the true expression there is no other i said i d grow it and i ve grown it and it shall haunt you i the ghost of art he may have tumbled down stairs in the dark but he never walked down nor ran down i looked over ike and i was alone with the thunder need i add more of my terrific fate it has haunted me ever since it upon me from the walls of the royal academy except when it to his genius it fills my soul with terror at the british institution it young artists on to their destruction where i will the ghost of art working the passions in hair and expressing everything by beard me the is accomplished and the victim has no rest out of town sitting on a bright september morning among my books and papers at my open window on the cliff overhanging the sea beach i have the sky and ocean framed before me like a beautiful picture a beautiful picture but with such movement in it such changes of light upon the sails of ships and wake of such dazzling of silver far out at sea such fresh touches on the crisp wave tops as they break and roll towards me â a picture with such music in the rush upon the the blowing of the morning wind through the corn where the farmers are busy the singing of the and the distant voices of children at play â such charms of sight and sound as all the galleries on earth can but poorly suggest so dreamy is the murmur of the sea below my window that i may have been here for anything i know one hundred years not that i have grown old for daily on the neighboring downs and grassy hill sides i find that i can still in reason walk any distance jump over anything and climb up anywhere but that the sound of the ocean seems to have become so customary to my and other realities seem so to have gone a board ship and floated away over the horizon that for aught i will undertake to the contrary i am the enchanted son out of town of the king my father shut up in a tower on the for protection against an old she who insisted on being my and who foresaw at the â wonderful creature â that i should get into a scrape before i was twenty one i remember to have been in a city my royal parent s i suppose and apparently not long ago either that was in the condition the principal inhabitants had all been changed into old newspapers and in that form were preserving their window blinds from dust and all their smaller household gods in curl papers i walked through gloomy streets where every house was shut up and and where my solitary footsteps echoed on the deserted in the public rides there were no carriages no horses no animated existence but a few sleepy and a few adventurous boys taking advantage of the to swarm up the in the westward streets there was no traffic in the westward shops no business the water patterns which the had out on the early in the morning remained by human feet at the comers of china fowls stalked gaunt and savage nobody being left in the deserted city as it appeared to me to feed them public houses where splendid swinging their legs over gorgeous hammer beside were wont to were

7James Baldwin

the valleys dark were the rocks and fearful were the but the day was fair and the sky was clear and the t of the warriors glittered in the sunlight like flashes of fire au at once a le the of thorns sound as of a thousand trumpets blowing was heard in the valley below them the french knights comrades said that we are followed by the and may god us battle and victory said earnestly well is it that we are here to defend the king for one should never murmur that he distress for his friends for them he should lose if need be both blood and flesh and even life itself then climbed a hi pine tree and looked down into the grassy behind them there he beheld such troops of pagan folk as he had never seen before comrades cried he we shall have such a battle as no man has known the passes are full of armed their and glittering fill the lower valleys great is in store for us but may we stand to the field like ment shame be to him that i said the warriors who heard him bewildered and amazed at sight of so terrible an array of descended from the tree brother said he i pray thee blow thy horn the king will hear it and he will turn him about and come to our to do so would be to act as a answered never shall it be said that i feared a foe i will strike strong strokes with ill shall it fare with the pagan comrade again said now blow thy horn will hear it and he will make his host return le the story of never answered nd shall my me or be blamed by me but i will strike with the brand which the king gave me when he me that shall be our then prayed the third time comrade sound now thine ivory horn who is passing the gates will hear us and to our aid no man shall ever say answered that i have blown my horn for my shall not bear that reproach but when the great battle is joined then you shall see die lightning flashes of in the of the fight a thousand and seven hundred times shall the blade be in the blood of the better would it be to perish than suffer shame but was not yet satisfied i have seen the host said be the mountains and the plains the valleys and the groves are full of them never have we t against such great odds friend and brother answered say not another word the king has left us here with a of twenty thousand men and he every one of us a hero do thou strike with thy lance and thy good blade as for me shall serve me well and if i die men shall say this sword belonged to a noble knight then the good rode down the ranks holding a sword in one hand and a in the other comrades cried he the king has left us here he in us and for him we shall die cry now your sins to heaven pray god s mercy and ask his blessing in a moment every knight among those twenty thousand le the of thorns had dismounted humbly and reverently every knee was bent and every head was bowed and the good blessed the company in god s name if ye die said he ye shall have places in then the warriors arose light hearted and hopeful they rode into the place which is called the of thorns and there they put themselves in battle array and waited the of their foes sat of his good war and proudly faced the host in bis hand he held the blade pointing toward heaven never was seen a more comely knight courteously he spoke to the warriors about him then putting spurs to his he cried â comrades ride onward i the day shall be ours i forget not the war cry of said at these words the rocks and valleys rang with the cry and every warrior dashed forward to meet the foe long and fierce was the fight and terrible was the ter with heart and strength the french knights struck the were slain by hundreds and by thousands for a time victory seemed to be with the french many and were the deeds achieved by and and the and the that were with them but at length came down upon them with a fresh troop of seven thousand they hemmed the french heroes in on every side ro land saw his ts falling one by one around him ail were slain save sixty men my fair dear comrade said he behold how many brave have fallen i the battle goes hard with us t t le the story of now we only knew how to send news to he would return and us it is too late answered better would we die suffer shame then said i will sound my ivory horn who is passing the gates of spain will hear it and return do no such thing answered great shame would would be upon you and your forever you would not blow your horn when i advised it and now you shall not do so because the day is lost then the rode up and said the day is indeed lost nd to blow the bom would now no more avail us but should the king hear it he will come back the passes he will find us dead his men will lift us in and carry us home to be buried in and we shall not be left as food for wolves and dogs thou well said and he placed the horn to his lips high were the hills deep and dark were the narrow were the ways among the mountains

22Albert Ross

it is probably a result of the formation of the establishment at mount itself something more and better than the mere love of novelty or the ordinary admiration of what is admirable is certainly at its foundation it itself in works that speak louder than any language our has become within the few years of its existence a model for all similar institutions in the united states and more of these have been founded within the last half dozen years than during the whole two centuries that preceded them at this moment associations in several of our principal cities and towns are engaged in such it is well known that are continually made from these parties for relating to mount the multitudes of foreigners and other strangers who frequent the northern during the travelling season experience the same want for them there is no resort of using that word in its just philosophical sense in boston or its vicinity equally with this pleasant though mournful spot nothing more perhaps is needed to complete their enjoyment of it than a better knowledge than can at present be easily obtained of the causes and sources to which they are indebted for the pleasure it gives them of the principles upon which tbe establishment is conducted and of the means by which its yet may be in every section of the land in drawing up this account which we propose to render as practically useful as may be we have sought to our by to original and official documents for the introduction of which we are confident the reader will require of us no apology beyond what is implied in this explanation the subject is not of a character to excite the meditative mind for the moment to a mood of matter of ct but it is certain on the other hand that a sentimental history â if such a thing might be â is not what is wanted the considerations of a general nature which first led to the of measures for the foundation of the establishment at mount are such as are already we must presume to such of our readers as have reflected on the subject at all in the address delivered at its by mr justice story they are expressed with equal force and beauty as also in the reports of of the society published in and written by some of our most distinguished citizens these papers be in this history or added to it in due course meanwhile it is proper to remark that not only sentiments and reflections similar to those which these express had long been entertained by many members of this community but certain steps towards the putting of such designs in execution had been taken some years at least prior to the actual result now well known to the public the earliest meeting on the subject of the so as we have been able to ascertain was held in november at the house and by the instance of history of our respected fellow citizen dr jacob on which occasion were present with himself messrs john george bond william thomas w ward samuel p john and hale the design of a somewhere in the vicinity of the city met with unanimous approval and messrs bond and were appointed a committee to make and report a suitable piece of ground for the purpose the committee were unsuccessful in their and never reported nor was the subject ever revived in any way by these immediate parties the next movement was in when dr having obtained from w esq the offer of sweet for a public at the price of six thousand dollars communicated the fact to the officers of the society and engaged their co operation as private individuals in a great effort to accomplish the object in view a meeting of members of that society was held on the of november by invitation of messrs and john c gray to discuss the plan of a to be connected with an garden of the society a committee of the society was now appointed consisting of messrs h a s jacob edward g bond j c gray and george w these gentlemen called a more general meeting on the eighth of june to consider the details of a plan now about to be carried into execution c on this occasion the attendance was large mr justice story took the chair and the hon e acted as mount great interest and entire were expressed in regard to the design of the meeting it was now â to purchase sweet provided one hundred could be obtained at sixty dollars each also to a of twenty to report on a general plan of proceedings proper to be adopted towards the objects of the meeting and the following gentlemen were chosen â messrs joseph story daniel h a s charles samuel jacob edward george w george bond a h james t joseph p charles charles p cook john l m and george w an elaborate report on the general objects of the meeting was on this occasion offered by the previously appointed committee another meeting was held on the th of june at which the committee of twenty reported â that it is expedient to purchase for a and a tract of land commonly known by the name of sweet near the road leading from cambridge to containing about acres for the sum of six thousand dollars provided this sum can be raised in the manner proposed in the second article of this report that a be opened for lots of ground in the said tract containing not less than two hundred square feet each at the price of sixty dollars for each see to this history no i hi t rt of lot the not to be binding until one hundred lots are for that when a hundred or more lots are taken the right of choice shall be disposed of

34Henry Rider Haggard

all at least nothing above s will be paid by muslin do they speak much of at castle oh they never cease and â and â i don t know whether i ought to say but it went matter with you i suppose â mind you must not breathe a word of this at the fact is my sisters school â you know they hare a school and go in for trying to convert the people â well this has got papa into a great deal of trouble the bishop has sent down another priest â i think they call it a mission â and we are going to be preached against and papa received a threatening letter this morning he is going i believe to apply for police and is this on account of the oh i no not entirely j he has refused to give his tenants s but it makes one very to be by the priest i assure you papa is very angry he told and jane this morning at breakfast that he d have mo more of it that they had no right to go into the poor people s houses and pull the children from under the beds and ask why they were not at school that he didn t care of what religion they were as long as they paid the rent and that he wasn t going to have his life for such nonsense there was an awful row at home this morning for my own part i must say i with papa besides the school has you know a shop where she bacon sugar and tea at cost price and it is well known that those who send their children to the school will never be asked to pay their bills she wanted me to come and help to weigh out the meal jane being confined to her room with by muslin a sick headache bat i got out of it i would not if i could convert those poor people you know i often fancy â i mean i often too much with your c re ed it waa only at service last sunday i was thinking of it j seems so cold so cheerless compared to yours you remember the church at st s â the incense the die white veiled congregation â oh how beautiful ft was we shall never be so happy again f yet indeed and how cross we used to think those dear you remember sister mary how she used to lecture violet for getting up to look out of the windows what used she to say u do you want miss to be taken for a or staring at people in that way as they pass yes yes that s exactly how she used to speak exclaimed laughing and as the girls advanced through the they helped each other through the and over the trunks of fallen trees talking the while of their past life i which now seemed to them but one long sweet joy a reference to how may used to gallop the pony round and round the field at the back of the was interrupted by the sound of a cock getting up from some under their ray feet and amid the of in couples and half modest allusion was made to the girls who had been in absorbed in the sweetness of the past the girls mused until they emerged from the shade of the woods into the glare and dust of the then came a view of rocky country with working in tiny fields and then the great background of the by muslin mountains was suddenly unfolded a line and a bunch of trees indicated the domain the gate lodge was in ruins and the weed grown avenue was covered with cow which of the girls do you like best said who wished to cease thinking of the poverty in the lived i think she doesn t say much but she is more sensible than the other two v me with her absurd is enough but what names yes has certainly the best of the names replied laughing are the miss at home said when the hall door yes miss â i mean your will you walk in you ll see they ll keep us waiting a good while they put on their best said as she sat down in a faded arm chair in the middle of the room a piano was rolled close against the wall the two were placed on either side of the further window from brass rods the thick green curtains hung in stiff folds and since the hanging of some water colours done by before leaving school no alterations except the removal of the linen covers from the furniture when visitors were expected had been made in the arrangement of the room the family consisted of three girls and thirty three thirty one and thirty were their respective ages their father and mother dead some ten or a years had by muslin left them joint of a small property that gossip had to three thousand they were known as the of noses and blue eyes betrayed their blood and every year they went to spend a month at the hotel in returning home with quite a little and always dressed alike from the bow round the neck to the bow on the little shoe that they so withdrew when in the presence of gentlemen for receiving visitors never varied oh how do you it is really too kind of you to give yourself all this trouble to come and see us immediately after put out her hand her manner was more how d ye do we are i am sure delighted to see you will you have a cup of tea i know you will being considered too shy and silent did not often come down to receive company on her the entire

14Robert Louis Stevenson

en by an anxious desire to write with the greatest and and that i have most earnestly endeavoured to guard against anything which could by possibility be into an evidence of the book or any part of it being written in a bad spirit i trust there is not a sentence in it of which any one can have just cause to complain i should be preface v sorry if there were my object has been to dwell upon and to touch but lightly on defects i have i may also state sought to my mind of all prejudices and regarding particular topics and to write in so a spirit as shall render it impossible for those before with my views on religious subjects to ascertain from the work now presented to the public what these are i am sure that no one can infer from the book either what minister i sit under or to what of christians i belong if i have in some cases been minute in my descriptions it is because i know how anxious the public are to be able to form in their own minds as accurate an idea as possible of the personal appearance and peculiarities of manner of distinguished men i have throughout from any reference to matters of a strictly private kind i have vi preface spoken of those whose names i have introduced into the work only in the capacity of ministers in order that i might avoid the task of the ministers of the various according to my views of their respective merits i have taken them beginning with each at the west end and proceeding to the east there are many ministers of great and deserved distinction whose names i was anxious to include in the present work but the limits to which i was rendered the gratification of my wishes impossible should however the book meet with a favourable reception i will follow it up by another volume which shall embrace all the ministers of distinction now omitted london april contents of the first volume chapter l miscellaneous observations causes why the preaching of the gospel is not more generally attended with results â errors in the conduct of ministers to as bearing on the success of their pulpit labours â importance of in the time of sickness or affliction â mode of preaching the gospel â remarks on defects in the matter of sermons and the way in which pulpit should be delivered page chapter n lately deceased ministers the rev dr the rev the rev william â the rev the rev edward page contents chapter iii the c clergy â ministers of churches the rev thomas the rev j t robinson â the thomas â the rev john â the rev dr page chapter iv the clergy â or the rev j f â the rev m â the rev page chapter v the clergy â ministers of the rev â the rev dr â the rev h h page r the pulpit chapter i miscellaneous observations causes why the preaching of the gospel is not more generally attended with results â errors in the conduct of ministers to as bearing on the success of their pulpit labours â importance of in the time of sickness or affliction â mode of preaching the remarks on defects in the matter of sermons and the way in which pulpit should be delivered in presenting the public with a series of sketches of the most distinguished in the metropolis it may be useful to devote an chapter to a reference to some of the causes why the gospel is not more attended with results these causes may be under two heads they either arise from something that vol j b miscellaneous observations is wrong in the conduct of the preacher or from some defect in his matter or in his mode of addressing his hearers in to errors in the conduct of ministers of the gospel i have in my eye those minor which are in too many cases perceptible in the of those of whose piety we cannot entertain a moment s doubt hie preacher whose conduct is stained by gross is a person on whom it were useless to waste a word of or remonstrance ministers it is to be feared are not always sufficiently alive to the influence which matters that may appear trifling to them have in the of their pastoral labours they may sometimes do a thing by way of which may be productive of very unhappy results permit me here to relate aa anecdote of my meaning there is a popular preacher in the country who possesses such m powers of as to be able speak at a moment s notice a subject connected with some time ago he o invited a minister at some distance to preach a sermon for a charitable institution on the evening of a particular lay he having engaged to deliver a discourse on behalf of the same object in the morning the other agreed and not being an speaker had written great care and at full length a sermon for the occasion the two ministers tc ther and he in whose chapel the sermons were to be asked the other text he meant to preach from the man at answered the question that s a very text and a very ap â subject indeed remarked the minister of the chapel and what are to be your heads to divide die subject into heads answered the other mentioning each of the heads you have made a more natural division of the subject under the first head i you ll use such and such particulars the other named the various particulars und the c t head a d in to b miscellaneous observations tions put the different particulars under each of the remaining three heads your sermon cannot fail to make an impression of course you ll wind

23Anne Manning

felt he was not quite following out the humane instinct which had induced him to let her go there they stood five altogether the parson the clerk the couple and and the holy was forthwith in the of the edifice were two or three villagers and when the clergyman came to the words what god hath joined a woman s voice from among these was heard to utter audibly god hath indeed it was like a re by the ghosts of their former selves of the similar scene which had taken place at years before when the books were signed the congratulated the husband and wife on having performed a noble and righteous and act all s well that ends well he said smiling may you long be happy together after thus having been saved as by fire they came down the nearly empty building and crossed to the school house wanted to get home that night and left early he too congratulated the couple now he said in parting from who walked out a little way i shall be able to tell the people at again in your native place a good round tale and they ll all say well done depend on it when the school master got back sue was making a pretence of doing some as if she lived there but she seemed timid at his approach of course my dear i sha n t expect to intrude upon your personal privacy any more than i did before he said gravely it is for our good to do this and that s its justification if it was not my reason sue brightened a little vi the place was the door of s lodging in the outskirts of â far from the of st s where he had formerly lived which him to sickness the rain was coming down a woman in shabby black stood on the door step talking to who held the door in his hand â i am lonely destitute and that s what i am father has turned me out of doors after every penny i d got to put it into his business and then me of when i was only waiting for a situation i am at the mercy of the world if you can t take me and help me i must go to the or to something worse only just now two winked at me as i came along tis hard for a woman to keep virtuous where there s so many young men the woman in the rain who spoke thus was the evening being that of the day after sue s with i am sorry for you but i am only in lodgings said coldly then you turn me away i ll give you enough to get food and lodging for a few days oh but can t you have the kindness to take me in i cannot endure going to a public house to lodge and i am so lonely please for old times sake no no said hastily i don t want to be reminded of those things and if you talk about them i shall not help you at again then i suppose i must go said she bent her head against the door post and began sobbing the house is full said and i have only a little extra room â not much more than a closet â where i keep my tools and and the few books i have left r that would be a palace for me there is no in it a bit of a bed could be made on the floor it would be good enough for me unable to be harsh with her and not knowing what to do called the man who let the lodgings and said this was an acquaintance of his in great distress for want of temporary shelter you may remember me as at the lamb and flag formerly spoke up my father has insulted me this afternoon and i ve left him though without a penny the said he could not recall her features but still if you are a friend of mr s we ll do what we can for a day or two â if he ll make himself yes yes said she has really taken me quite unawares but i should wish to help her out of her difficulty and an arrangement was ultimately come to under which a bed was to be thrown down in s lumber room to make it comfortable for till she could get out of the strait she was in â not by her own fault as she declared â and return to her father s again while they were waiting for this to be done said you know the news i suppose i guess what you mean but i know nothing i had a letter from at to day she had just heard that the wedding was to be yesterday but she didn t know if it had come off i don t wish to talk of it the obscure â no no of course you don t only it shows what kind of woman â don t speak of her i say she s a fool â and she s an angel too poor dear if it s done he ll have a chance of getting back to his old position by everybody s account so says all his well will be pleased including the bishop himself do spare me was duly in the little and at first she did not come near at all she went to and fro about her own business which when they met for a moment on the stairs or in the passage she informed him was that of obtaining another place in the occupation she understood best when suggested london as affording the most likely opening in the liquor trade she shook her head the temptations are

44Oliver Optic

to beer and by way of the woes we have had from our shooting and after previous supplies of that article the intellect of a man who believes in the possibility of improvement by such a method is to me a finished off and shut up intellect with which i would not argue mere waste of wind between us to exchange words on that class of topics it is not thought this which my brother to me with such emphasis and eloquence it is mere and repetition of what he has always heard others imagining to think and repeating as and the gospel of our salvation in this world does not all nature groan everywhere and lie in bondage till you give it a parliament is one a man at all unless one have a to parliament these are admitted by all english creatures for the last two hundred years if you have the misfortune not to believe in them at au but to the contrary for a long time past the and drawn from them and the and of mankind will seem to you not a little marvellous â meanwhile the good that lies in this new reform measure â as there lies something of good in almost everything â is perhaps not it what i have long looked upon as inevitable â us at once into the irresistibly ever increasing we shall now arrive who knows how soon for a generation past it has been growing more and more evident that there was only this issue but now the issue itself has become imminent the distance of it to be guessed by years grasping at even from the have brought it on â one cannot but consider them and for shooting and after one s own poor share would rather have been shot than been concerned in it and yet after all my silent indignation and disgust i cannot pretend to be clearly sorry that such a is i say to myself well perhaps the sooner such a mass of and brutal and ends â if not in some improvement then in death and â may it not be the better the sum of our sins increasing steadily day by day will at least be less the sooner the settlement is nay have not i a kind of secret satisfaction of the malicious or even of the kind mischief joy the call it but really it is justice withal that he they call dizzy is to do it that other of an unconscious and deeper type having sold their poor mother s body for a mess of official this clever conscious steps in soft you my honourable friends i will weigh out the corpse of your mother mother of mine she never was but only and milk cow â and you sha n t have the not yours you observe but mine this really is a pleasing trait of its sort other traits there are abundantly ludicrous but they are too to be even pleasant a hebrew spell binding all the great lords great parties great interests of england to his hand in this manner and leading them by the nose like helpless cattle to such issue â did the world ever see a of such magnitude before and of destiny and the three alike busy in it this too i suppose we had deserved the end of our poor old england such an england as we had at last made of it to be not a tearful tragedy but an farce as well â shooting and after perhaps the may be now nearer than is thought it seems to me sometimes as if everybody had privately now given up serious notion of resisting it and his pull down the of her majesty s park when her majesty refuses home secretary representing england s majesty to a colonel talking of c does not order him to be conducted and if necessary to be kicked down stairs with never to n in case of worse and when says i will see that the queen s peace is kept queen by her answers will you then god bless you and bursts into tears those tears are certainly an epoch in england nothing seen or of them in the history of poor england tiu now in the same direction we have also our remarkable committee and a lord chief justice speaking six hours with such eloquence such c c as takes with the general ear penny and to prove that there is no such thing nor ever was as martial law â and that any governor commanded soldier or official person putting down the mob black or white shall do it with the rope round his neck by way of encouragement to him nobody answers this remarkable lord chief justice if you were to speak for six hundred years instead of six hours you would only prove the more to us that if you will but real and to all written laws and first making written laws possible there must have been and is and will be with human society from its first to its ultimate end an actual martial law of more than any other law what shooting am aj ever if there is no written law that three and three shall be six do you wonder at the book for that you may shut those eloquent lips and go home to dinner may your shadow never be less greater it perhaps has httle chance of being truly one knows not whether less to ate the majesty s ministers who instead of their governor throw him out of window to a small loud group small as now appears and nothing but a group or knot of barking furiously in the and threatening one s bill with loss of certain friends and which could not save it either the dear object â or that other majesty s which on s generous

46Sarah Stickney Ellis

a friend mrs was a widow and not a very rich one she was a good humoured well meaning woman and a very mother her eldest daughter had great personal beauty and the younger ones by pretending to be as handsome as their sister her air and dressing in the same style did veiy well this brief account of the is intended to the necessity of a long and minute detail firom mrs herself of her past adventures and which might otherwise be expected to occupy the three or four following chapters â in which the of lords and might be set forth and conversations which had passed twenty years before be repeated chapter v was not so much engaged at the theatre that evening in returning the and smiles of miss though they certainly claimed much of her leisure as to to look with an eye for mr in every box which her eye could but she looked in vain mr was no of the play than the pump room she hoped to be more fortunate the next day and when her wishes for fine weather were answered by seeing a morning she hardly felt a doubt of it for a fine sunday in bath every house of its inhabitants and all the world appears on such an occasion to walk about and tell their acquaintance what a charming day it is as soon as divine service was over the and eagerly joined each other and after staying long c a to a enough in the pump room to discover that the crowd was and that there was not a genteel â u e to be seen which every body every sunday throughout the season they hastened away to the to breathe the fresh air of better company here and arm in arm again tasted the sweets of friendship in an conversation â they talked much and with enjoyment but again was disappointed in her hope of re seeing her partner he was nowhere to be met with every search for him was equally unsuccessful in morning or evening neither at the upper nor lower rooms at dressed or balls was he nor among the the or the drivers of the morning his name was not in the pump room book and curiosity could do no he must be gone from bath yet he had not mentioned that his stay would be so short this sort of which is always so becoming in a hero threw a fresh grace in s imagination around his person and manners and increased her anxiety to know more of him from the she could learn nothing for they had been only two x in bath before they met with mrs it was a subject however in whidi she often indulged with her fair friend from whom she received every possible to continue to think of him and his impression on her fancy was not suffered therefore to was very sure that he must be a charming young man and was sure that he must have been delighted with her dear and would therefore shortly return she liked him the better for being a clergyman for she must confess herself very partial to the profession and something like a sigh escaped her as she said it perhaps was wrong in not demanding the cause of that gentle emotion â but she was not experienced enough in the of love or the duties of friendship to know when delicate was properly called for or when a confidence should be forced mrs was now quite happy â quite satisfied with bath she had found some acquaintance had been so too as to find in them the of a most worthy a old friend and as the completion of good fortune had these friends by no means so dressed as her daily expressions were no longer i wish we had some acquaintance in bath they were changed into how glad i am we have met with mrs and she was as eager in the intercourse of the two as her young charge and themselves could be never satisfied with the day unless she spent the chief of it by the side of mrs in what they called but in which there was scarcely ever any exchange of opinion and not often any resemblance of for mrs talked chiefly of her children and mrs of her gowns the progress of the friendship between and was quick as its beginning had been warm and they passed so rapidly through every of increasing tenderness that was shortly no fresh proof of it to be given to their friends or themselves they called each other by their christian name were always arm in arm when they walked pinned up each other s train for the dance and were not to be divided in the set and if a rainy morning deprived them of other they were still resolute in meeting in defiance of wet and dirt and shut themselves up to read novels together yes novels for i will not adopt that and custom so common with novel writers of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances to the number of which they are themselves adding joining with their greatest enemies in tiie on such works and scarcely ever permitting them to be read by their own heroine who if e accidentally take up a novel is sure to turn over its pages with disgust alas if the heroine of one novel be not by the heroine of another from whom can she expect protection and regard i cannot approve of it let us leave it to the to abuse such of fancy at their leisure and over every new novel to talk in strains of the with which the press now groans let us not desert one another â we are an injured body although our productions have afforded more extensive and pleasure than those of any other literary

25Bret Harte

for three months â all to give you the pleasure of my society for a few hours and the return is that i am crushed at every turn you are likely to be crushed he said laughing why i only wanted them to sing some more songs to please you i know the songs every one of them by heart why should i oh she threw down her knife and fork and clasped her hands together in delight don t you know what that is one of the young fellows lying stretched at full length on the grass had been tapping time with his stick on an empty bottle to an violet imaginary tune then he had taken to whistling which he suddenly abandoned in order to out in a strong careless deep bass voice was von der was von der and then the full chorus burst in upon him not very for some of the young men tried to keep their pipes in their mouths â was von der sa sa was von der oh you nice young men cried violet north oh you nice young men don t stop but they did stop the chorus had less novelty for them than for her and in fact this young fellow had out a line or two of it out of pure idleness and some talking ensued with here and there a faintly heard burst of laughter suddenly the deep young man called out â es den da a summer day s ride and there was another scramble for the chorus â da knows that s story of the three students is among the most pathetic of but what pathos was there possible to those young fellows with their throats their tobacco and beer and wine and yet the distance softened the sound â the beautiful air had its own message of sentiment with it â in the still sunshine and by the side of the cool river the various voices seemed harmonious enough oh said violet if they would only themselves and sing properly i am sure they belong to some society why don t they sit up and throw their nasty pipes into the river not they they lay and laughed and sang of chorus â idle as the summer day around them of course they sang of the though there was here no gloomy and impending rock for the mystic maiden to sit on violet in the evening light while the soft tones of her harp the to his fate they sang a song the having all the air to himself the others merely a and deep accompaniment as is the fashion of the workmen when they are walking home in the evening they devoted themselves to a couple of drinking songs and then they got back to the region of sentiment with the lover s s violet had been getting more and more impatient she had finished her luncheon â or rather had neglected it for the singing and the sunlight and the green foliage without she had not been a companion can t we go out now she said i suppose you want to get nearer to those german fellows said he yes she answered i cannot hear them very well at such a distance just as you like then said he with no great warmth of assent of course we shall have to come back here she went to get her shawl and then the a summer day s ride two of them passed down the stairs together alas i what was that she heard as she got into the hall she could only hear the air but she knew the words they were singing â den why just as she was coming out to see and hear something more of them indeed when she went out to the front steps the tall youths had all got to their feet and a waiter was bringing back empty glasses and bottles they are going she said with some disappointment yes said he did you think they were going to perform the part of the whole day what shall we do now she asked her gone she was indifferent let us go in and see the gardens and the fountains and the fish then there is the you know i have heard of that she said with some grandeur that is the place that maid violet servants like to lose themselves in when they go out for a holiday thank you we will do without the they went round and into the palace and behold before them were the german youths about the courts and apparently having continual trouble with their double eye glasses they were in the main straight good looking young fellows though they wore very light trousers which were too short for them and brilliant which a s girl would have and had had their heads to all appearance shaved on some recent occasion but miss north seemed to take but little interest now in the young men she scarcely noticed them among the few visitors however who were walking in the gardens behind the palace there were two whom she did particularly notice and that in a very curious and wistful fashion these were an old blind man with long snow white hair and a small girl probably his grand child who was leading him about a summer day s ride and chattering to him about all the things she saw violet north and her companion were sitting on a seat which was in the cool shadow of a black tree and from this darkened place they could well see the blazing gardens all around them and the bright figures that walked about in the sunshine wherever the old man and the child went thither the eyes of miss north followed them how quiet the place was â the only sound that of the of the fountains â the repose of the

48Thomas Nelson Page

bridge ready to repair to the boats when the gave the signal dr and were at the hotel on the called the society s house which is said to be the most northern one in the world students were arriving in the which many of them had employed for the sake of a ride and when they came to pay their fare there were many amusing scenes for neither party understood a word of the language of the other most of the students too had changed money into russian in and were with for they supposed that russian money was current in the drivers would not take the and and some very cheerful rows ensued but the principal with professor bv o northern lands or â who spoke â at his elbow interfered and paid tlie the students embarked the line of boats was formed and the moved down the river with half of on the gazing in solemn silence at the departure of the strange visitors for as such they certainly regarded them in less than an hour the boats were alongside the vessels to which they belonged and were soon hoisted up to the the signal for sailing was shown on board of the young america and a lively scene followed were short sails shaken out and the were at their stations as the breeze was fresh and fair the principal desired to take advantage of it and after a stay of only five hours at the was under way again its course through the channels among the numerous islands in the watch on deck and that below the business of was continued witli the utmost vigor scott and his friends were busy everywhere and even tlie stale expedient of a secret society among the anti de was proposed and adopted scott and jones were with the task of furnishing a constitution and the necessary dark lantern machinery for the organization boys have a decided taste for secret associations though as the experience of the present lime shows not more than male and female the number of these orders among full grown men is on the increase and the in all parts of the united states have manifested a strong desire to keep up with the times and follow the example of their elders secret bv young america in russia and societies had several times been formed on board of the young america but generally for purposes of mischief such as running away or one of the vessels the present association appeared to be for political purposes â to influence the election of officers scott was in the main a very sensible fellow and liis only idea of a secret society was to make some fun out of it though he was quite willing to have it used for his purpose in its turn was little more than a gigantic joke so far as he was the wind which had been fresh all day diminished in force after the sailed and at half past eight while the sun was still above the there was a dead calm and the vessels were obliged to anchor for the night for the declined to run ing the darkness in the intricate of these seas the near a rocky island the top of which was covered with trees the same eternal silence seemed to the region as among the islands when was made snug a portion of the students asked permission to go on shore was readily granted to all who desired to do so this number was found to include the entire crew of the ship the will meet at the farther side of the island whispered scott pass it along the what asked the don t you belong to the night i don t understand you replied you don t well your head is thicker than a bv of didn t you fellows ask me to get up a secret society yes well i have done it but you don t seem to know your own chickens the new institution is to be called the of whom you are which now don t tell any one who isn t a anything at all about it i see i think you might if ears were only half as long as a donkey s the students tumbled into the boats and as most of the officers were busy preparing for the election on the following day none of them went on shore the boats being in charge of the several ordinarily the would not have been permitted to visit the shore without at least one officer in each boat but as it did not seem possible that any mischief could be done on this island the rule was the students landed and in a fe w moments several boats from the and brought a majority of the of these vessels scott and several of his most intimate friends went to the highest part of the island every man may join our society no one else said scott after he had told them the name all right and we will give them the first degree at once what s that the first degree js next to nothing only to get the fellows together to said scott as he leaped upon a rock come up here jones i ll give you the first degree bv russia and si jones joined the on tlie rock do you agree to vote for to say nothing to nobody and never to eat soup with a needle asked scott in a tone of course i do laughed jones in these words â to all these jones repeated the words in due form all right i you r p f fro r p f what does that mean i can t tell yon till you have taken your second degree only remember the letters now bring the fellows to me one at a time was the next one who

35Isabella Lucy Bird

old he believed that i should bring his death upon him it was the custom of warriors in the opposing armies to send to single combat one to another and many such were fought in the sight of all safe conduct being given to the and their seconds upon a day despairing of meeting him face to face in battle i sent a challenge to de by a herald under his false name of in an hour the herald returned with this message written on paper in spanish christian men do not fight with heathen dogs white of devils and of human flesh there is but one weapon which such cannot a rope and it waits for you thomas i tore the writing to pieces and stamped upon it in my rage for now to all his other crimes against me de had added the insult but wrath availed me nothing for i could never come near him though once with ten of my i charged into the heart of the spanish after him i s daughter from that rush i alone escaped alive the ten to my hate how shall i paint the horrors that day by day were heaped upon the doomed city soon all the food was gone and men ay and worse still tender women and children must eat such meat as swine would have turned from striving to keep life in them for a little longer grass the bark of trees and insects washed down with water from the lake these were their best food these and the flesh of offered in sacrifice now they began to die by hundreds and by thousands they died so fast that none could bury them where they perished there they lay till at length their bodies bred a plague a black and e fever that swept off thousands more who in turn became the root of for one who was killed by the and their two were swept off by hunger and plague think then what was the number of dead when not less than seventy thousand perished beneath the sword and by fire alone it is said that forty thousand died in this manner in a single day the day before the last of the siege one night i came back to the lodging where dwelt with her royal sister the wife of for now all the palaces had been burnt down i was starving for i had scarcely tasted food for forty hours but all that my wife could set before me were three little meal cakes or mixed with bark she kissed me and bade me eat them but i discovered that she herself had touched no food that day so i would not till she shared them then i noted that she could scarcely swallow the bitter and also that she strove to hide tears which ran down her face what is it wife i asked then broke out into a great and bitter crying and said this my beloved for two days the milk has been dry in my breast â hunger has dried it â and our babe is dead look he lies dead and she drew aside a cloth and showed me the tiny body hush i said he is spared much can we then desire that a child should live to see such days as we have seen and after all to die at last he was our son our she cried again oh why must we suffer thus we must suffer because we are bom to it the fall of just so much happiness is given to us as shall save us from madness and no more ask me not why for i cannot answer you there is no answer in my faith or in any other and then looking on that dead babe i wept also every hour in those terrible months it was my lot to see a thousand sights more awful and yet this sight of a dead infant moved me the most of all of them the child was mine my its mother wept beside me and its stiff and tiny fingers seemed to drag at my heart strings seek not the cause for the almighty who gave the heart its infinite power of pain alone can answer and to our ears he is dumb then i took a and dug a hole outside the house till i came to water which in is found at a depth of two feet or so and having muttered a prayer over him there in the water i laid the body of our child burying it out of sight at the least he was not left for the as the call the hke the rest of them after that we wept ourselves to sleep in each other s arms murmuring from time to time oh my husband i would that we were asleep and forgotten we and the babe together best now i answered for death is very near to us the morrow came and with it a than any that had gone before and after it more and more deaths but still we lived on for gave us of his food then sent his demanding our surrender and now three of the city was a ruin and three of its were dead the dead were heaped in the houses like bees stifled in a hive and in the streets they lay so thick that we walked upon them the council was fierce men haggard with hunger and with war and they considered the offer of what is your word said their at last am i that you ask me i swore to defend this city to the last he answered hoarsely and for my part i will defend it better that we should all die than that we should fall into the hands of the so say we they and the war went on at length there

17Theodore Dreiser

buried jewels more rare than those s earl ne er owned a pearl to compare with the of brotherhood nor in any mine doth a diamond shine like the soul that for another s good no glittering or soft can rival the beams of a friendly eye the and the shades in the flashing light of a purpose high on a new made plain i observe again the flocks with their dress and a shepherd near from the fairy sphere signs which my heart is swift to guess our age is the heir to the jewels fair that good will buried in evil days and we shall see in our own land free the on his forehead blaze let us sing old songs and bury old wrongs and draw from the past not gloom but cheer the angry moods of our fathers should be given no place in our here let our children boast when our they toast at the boards of the years to come that their fathers choice was for friendship s voice and in favor of striking dumb mr is a poet of excellent fancy and power his as a rule a true sympathy with nature and there is a tenderness and melody besides a quaint simplicity displayed in all of them many of them also contain pleasing and thoughtful ideas expressed in the of language take for instance his poem entitled the fountain of youth sweet songs of old they thrill to day with gladness our hearts beneath their heads of gray and under brows of sadness again they bring the bounding joy we knew among the when sunny girl and ardent boy we and sang together poets in america what de sought in vain youth s sparkling never failing fountain we find in every strain of deeds by and mountain oh youth behind the mask of years oh subtle singing rare when e er thy voice the spirit hears she age and transition away the latter flee and hither troop to take their places the eyes the glee of days and gathered graces in every note a glory lives in every cord pure love vows tremble at every call the singing gives a thousand happy thoughts to age we give the of age but when the breeze is blowing affection leaves the wrinkled cage and eagle like her showing the dusk the gray of grief the changing winds of seasons rolling to in the high relief of beyond the world s thrice bless d be the songs of old and blessed be the tongues that sing them and blessed be the hearts that fold their sweetness when the bring them in mr published a volume of his poems the principal poem in the collection is the one entitled tom this was written for and read by the author at the by the st s society of of the ninety ninth of the poet s birth according to the argument the poem proceeds to disclose a council held in by before the birth of at which heaven having signified a to grant their country whatever single gift they should agree upon it was resolved to ask for a poet who should win the admiration of the world and the isle in the course of the debate the qualities and purposes of his song are determined by various it is also shown that the of this life so cease in the light of the upper world that old enemies find themselves one in sympathy taken altogether the poem is certainly a very able and spirited one it is of course too long for quotation here and it has to be read through to thoroughly appreciate its many beautiful passages and among the smaller poems in the volume a glimpse of april sun is particularly fine hail gleam of april sun thou glance from nature s kindly eye bright pledge of wâ a her done fair fragrant prophecy thy radiance to the shows the gentleness he loves to sing when winds that wanton with the rose the rose to fan his wing the various creatures of the woods are by thy early grace as i am glad when angry moods pass like from an old friend s face mr is one of the best of men he is possessed of a warm confiding and generous nature and he has won the esteem and friendship of all parties with whom he has come in contact while he is the author of nearly one hundred poems not one of which he may be ashamed to own still he is extremely modest in his own estimation of his poetical abilities and it is seldom that his poems when printed for the first time have the proper signature attached to them daniel here too dwells simple truth plain innocence beauty sound unbroken youth patient of labor with a little pleased health ever blooming toil calm contemplation and poetic ease the west of scotland has been the of many eminent poets and among these mr daniel the subject of our present sketch is destined to occupy a prominent place at no distant date he was born at on the tenth of july but in his family removed to locks a short distance from the city and a place where there was little or no society the situation however had its charms for our youthful poet he was compelled to walk to and from the city each day first for and later on in life for social and literary advantages and he attributes to this largely the fact that the thoughts of a naturally mind began to shape themselves in rhyme as with nearly all modern poets burns became his earliest model and many of his boyhood s were inspired by reading and studying certain poems of the master bard as soon as his education was finished he was sent to learn the business but he soon left this occupation and after filling one

46Sarah Stickney Ellis

is a very strange request do you understand what it all means apparently mrs did she was silently crying as for her husband he said â it was not necessary for the old gentleman to have left us money to do that we could have done that without any money i think well you rob no one by taking it continued the stranger will you give me a call in a day or two this is my name and address since then the have faithfully attended to the first portion of the old s prayer as regards the second one may be sure that the the of the city honest will not forget on tlie afternoon of the coming new tear s day to go up and drink a glass to you ben na and to you and to you ben and to the memory of her that knew yon and if his wife had only some little knowledge of the she would doubtless burst into laughter over his of the names but perhaps she will not be thinking of laughing at all just then the strange of the strange horse of the following ia a copy of a letter addressed to a lady living in park gardens london by each of in the island of â the th of june honoured madam and dear mistress to command you to the that i would tell you the whole story of the black horse i at and i am not good at the whatever but i will tell you the story and i will tell you from the of it the whole story it john the he will go about a foolish tale about me and it many a time i will think of going and breaking his pipes over his head that he will tell such foolish s go the strange horse op al lies there is no man in the island will drink more john the himself not one and so you will not belief his foolish lies if yon will be of them miss now the of it this that that lives by and his father my wife s father s first cousin ay and a rich man for he had more forty pounds or thirty five pounds in tho bank at he will be going away to to marry a young there and and me would be for going with him too and i to be the best man and you will not mind john the s lies miss for it only one of good we took aboard the steamer when we going away to â as sure as death it only the one that and me we for taking to the young s father â but it on board the boat and cold whatever and what harm is there in a glass of the to me he there is plenty of in and what for should we keep the and both me and the two of us both together said he a sensible man and not a foolish man like john the and it only the one in the we had on board the steamer the strange horse of i will tell you now honoured madam that the wonderful big ship took us quick to which is a great distance away but we did not go to bed that night for there two or three waiting for us and we had a glass and a dance or two and the next morning we went away to the farm where the young and that among the hills and there never in the world such rain as there is in ay in the we have the bad weather and the weather but knows there is no such falling anywhere there is in but we had a glass and a dance for the two with us and in the evening of that day there a grand supper at the young s father s house and it was not ten of we took in the cart and knows i will john the answer for that some day but only six and there a many people there for a dance and a song and there no one wished to go to bed that night either for there many people in the house and a good and a every one and the way the two played the pipes that night would made a dead man jump in his if he had been dead for two hundred years ay or one hundred years and you will mind miss that the story about the ten of is only the lies of that the strange horse op â foolish man john the who is trunk oftener any man on the island of the next day the day of the and who is there will not a glass at the of a young girl and after the we went away to this house and to that house and the two playing in the front of us fine and many a dance we had ay and the old people too when they had got a and in the evening there another supper and no less six and twenty and and chickens and all boiled together in the for boiling the and the big barn with more twelve or sixteen or more that of candles and it a sight and if the father of the young will send to for so many or so many of what is that to any one and to one that not there but will only lies about it i will not interfere with any man s no and i would not go and tell foolish lies about it there one or two of the old people they will go to bed in the cart that night and there good hay on the ground and the cart down to keep away the rain but the most of us we for no that night

48Thomas Nelson Page

least without long and sometimes tearful explanations of the advantages of obedience and the reasons for the request mrs lived in fear of breaking his spirit which perhaps was the reason that she herself walked on the edge of nervous he could not see why he should be expected to hurry for any man s pleasure and said so your can come down here if he s so anxious to talk to me i want him to take me to new york right away it ll pay him dan opened his eyes as the size and beauty of this joke dawned on him say he shouted up the fo c he says you kin slip down an see him ef you re anxious that way hear the answer came back in the deepest voice had ever heard from a human chest quit dan and send him to me dan and threw his shoes there was something in the tones on the deck that made the boy his extreme rage and console himself with the thought of gradually the tale of his own and his father s wealth on the voyage home this rescue would certainly make him a hero among his friends for life he hoisted himself on deck up captains courageous a perpendicular ladder and stumbled aft over a score of to where a small thick set clean shaven man with grey eyebrows sat on a step that led up to the quarter deck the swell had passed in the night leaving a long sea dotted round the horizon with the sails of a dozen fishing boats between them lay little black showing where the were out fishing the with a riding sail on the played easily at anchor and except for the man by the â house they call it â she was deserted â â good afternoon i should say you ve nigh the clock around young was the greeting said he did not like being called young and as one rescued from drowning expected sympathy his mother suffered agonies whenever he got his feet wet but this did not seem excited let s hear all it it s quite first an last fer all concerned what might be your name where from we it s york an where we it s europe gave his name the name of the steamer and a short history of the accident winding up with a demand to be taken back immediately to captains courageous new york where his father would pay anything any one chose to name h ni said the shaven man quite unmoved by the end of s speech i can t say we think special of any man or boy even that falls overboard from that kind o packet in a flat ca am least of all when his excuse is he s â excuse cried d you suppose i d â overboard into your dirty little boat for fun not what your notions o fun may be i can t rightly say young but if i was you i wouldn t call the boat which under providence was the means o ye names in the first place it s blame in the second it s to my s â an i m troop o the re here o which you don t seem rightly to know i don t know and i don t care said i m grateful enough for being saved and all that of course but i want you to understand that the sooner you take me back to new york the better it ll pay you â troop raised one shaggy over a suspiciously mild blue eye dollars and cents said delighted to think he was making an impression cold dollars and cents he thrust a hand into a pocket and threw out his stomach a little which i captains courageous was his way of being grand you ve done the best day s work you ever did in your life when you pulled me in i m all the son has he s bin favoured said and if you don t know who is you don t know much â that s all now turn her around and let s hurry had a notion that the greater part of america was filled with people discussing and his father s dollars i do an i don t take a in your young it s full o my heard a chuckle from dan who was pretending to be busy by the stump and the blood rushed to his face we ll pay for that too he said when do you suppose we shall get to new york i don t use york any ner boston we may see eastern point september an your pa â i m real sorry i t tell of him â may give me ten dollars all your talk then o course he t ten dollars i why see here i â into his pocket for the of bills all he brought up was a packet of not lawful an bad for the lungs heave em overboard young and try ag in captains courageous â â if s been stolen cried hotly you ll to wait till you see your pa to reward me then a hundred and thirty four dollars â all stolen said hunting wildly through his pockets â â give them back a curious change flitted across old troop s hard what might you have been at your time o life with one hundred an thirty four dollars young it was part of my pocket money â for a month this thought would be a blow and it was â indirectly oh one hundred and thirty four dollars is only part of his pocket money â for one month only you don t remember anything when you fell over do you crack ag in a le s say old man o the east wind â troop

38James Payn

only by noting the actual current passing at any moment through a in action or by noting the actual effect or otherwise of produced can one judge the quantity of x rays and calculate their probable effect none of our present methods of measuring the quantity of or its effect are wholly satisfactory by watching the register of a inserted in the circuit the production of rays can for ordinary purposes be best measured and the time of exposure for any desired effect judged if this record to vary during the operation a time average may be taken or by of the current supplied to the the amount passing through the may be kept constant since from a soft a greater quantity of rays is produced it is of importance to observe any softening of the during exposure this is of special importance in work since action seems to depend for its intensity directly on the quantity of in the exposure this change corresponding to a fall of electric resistance in the will be indicated by a rise in the reading of the and of the will be indicated by a fall in the reading where a effect is desired at one exposure as for in treatment of it is pre eminently important that the degree of exposure should be carefully measured for the margin of safety between and a serious is narrow for this purpose s are very serviceable though by no means deserving to be considered as a final standard these are exposed to the rays during the actual exposure and by change directly measure the quantity of and indicate the probable effect con the x ray ii of of thickly on small of paper the on exposure to x rays alter in colour from a yellow to a brown the change is to the effect of the exposure thus by comparison with a standard tint the can determine from the when the desired degree of exposure has been reached the conditions to be observed in using these will be found described in the section dealing with p at the meeting of the british medical association at a was described which the of the current passing in the circuit the effect is of course so that the amount of gas and measured in a will bear a direct to the current which has effected its this is a very ingenious device and well merits attention but for we feel that we should like to understand more fully the of x ray before we depend on any other than that directly made of the effect of the in question changes in x ray by use h by repeated use an x ray becomes harder this is due to a currents and b escape or of from the interior of the a the formation and of currents are i discussed later when fall to be considered meanwhile we note that currents may in the secondary winding of the and pass through the as discharge in a reversed direction in their passage these currents tear from the fine which or from the contents of the and thus increase the degree of presence of such currents may be noted in the action of the since they produce a flickering of the specially noticeable in the dark practical x ray work due to this action the of a subjected to such adverse influence becomes blackened by deposit of finely in contrast with the violet tint due to change acquired by a guarded from currents to during correct operation of a the is generally made of which is found to resist such action more than any other metal tried h escape of may occur by piercing the glass of a impulse from within being so much greater than any pressure from without the degree of in the is thereby directly raised ii each operation there to be a a softening or under exceptional circumstances there may be a a a softening is noted when a is so that the becomes by the continual of the rays this has the effect of otherwise held bound by the metal and by the of these into the space of the the degree of is lowered if the be over driven this effect may become so marked as to reduce the equivalent spark gap to in a its condition should be observed by approaching the points of the or noting the reading of the if softening of the be indicated by a marked of the alternative spark gap or rise in the reading of the care must be observed that the does not receive injury or the patient be exposed to risk of over effect in such event it will be well to the amount of current employed or to give the time to cool in use the should never be allowed to get than indicated by a cherry red colour unless softening of the is desired for special effects as will be described later the x ray if the rays were to an point on the the metal would readily become by the heat therefore in practice the made of is placed a little to one side of the point and the x rays from a small circular area measuring between c d inch in to permit of a nearer approach to the true combined with prolonged use it has been suggested to make the of or on account of their greater hardness and but the expense and trouble in working of those are with the advantage to be gained by their use this point is further discussed later p the area on the is usually indicated by a slight of the metal the test running by the maker being sufficient to produce this effect and it should be looked to in selecting a if larger than inch in there will be lack of definition in shadows cast by the b ht of the may occur or

27Charles Reade

personage other remarkable men who have played a part in the scenes of the drama of which a vast empire has recently been the theatre he has therefore composed a truly historical painting in an account of the events in the life of an eminent man to that of the principal political of france during nearly half a century he has certainly not wanted opportunities of entering on of the highest public interest and he has on all occasions examined these questions with noble and rare honesty we need scarcely add that the reflections which he has advanced on these important subjects are all favourable to philosophy justice and liberty mr d gives us die following portrait of mr de one of those of whose acquaintance and esteem he is he was says mr d acquainted with many branches of human learning and had a knowledge of almost all of them we behold m him an eloquent orator a writer of distinction a man of polite literature with information and taste a profound states man an able a magistrate foil of sagacity and firmness in private life he preserved a uniform course of goodness simplicity and modesty we saw him the greatest moderation and the utmost in manners mild and easily accessible by all he was truly a good natured man not in the style of h silly eccentric and but by a charm which was found in him alone we follow mr d an to his of mn de in public life in his different situations as president of the court of of the and minister of we always find him the man the of every kind of liberty the of the oppressed from la we are struck with astonishment and admiration when we read the different writings which he has composed on subjects most deserving the attention and regard of mankind what and what elevation do we perceive united in his what what superiority of reason we can scarcely believe that at the court of louis xv this was the language of a magistrate bom in one of the highest ranks of society living in the midst of a class of men for the most part to the yoke of habits and almost all of them occupied in miserable how many words of liberty of country of rights of the people so natural in the mouth of that respectable magistrate must have appeared to them strange if they did not find them ridiculous but such is the irresistible power of progress of knowledge kings themselves do not fear at the present day to render it homage more enlightened than their friends the chiefs of nations know that a just and candid application of the ideas attached to that word is in our days the pledge of the strength and tht of on the question of the liberty of the press mn de established since the middle of die last century in favour of that liberty the which since have been developed with so much lustre by the most illustrious we may judge of this â some extracted from his on that important part of our political rights the liberty of the press says he is necessary to make appear is a list where every one has a right to enter each philosopher each man of polite literature ought to be considered as an advocate whom we must always the nation at large is the judge in time it always right let us not consider the people in our age in same light as they were regarded in past ages an of the states without the liberty of the press ever bo more than a representation r f c of mr de mr de in demanding that the press should be free did not doubtless understand that should be secured to authors who should abuse it but he wished that from that epoch the which the press might cause to be committed should be and that they should he judged and punished by a specific and by an independent and impartial mr d in examining this question could scarcely fail to the principles which he has himself in an eloquent manner defended at the national he shows evidently that the establishment of a jury to determine on from the liberty of the press is indispensable as a of that liberty but it was the right of personal liberty which was so cruelly trampled on in the reign of louis xv which excited the generous obstinacy of mr de it is remarkable as his historian that no one before him had dared to oppose the arbitrary acts which that essential right he had the honour of being the first who dared to inform kings of the unjust use which their servants made of their power and who ventured to tell them that the time had arrived when it was necessary to place that power under the control of the sacred and severe rules of justice it is well known that the court of of which mr de was president was originally to direct the and the application of the taxes n the course of time through the destruction of the liberties of the nation that court retained none of its original powers except the right of deciding on which might arise in the collection of the taxes but our worthy magistrate evinced that there is no employment in which a virtuous man cannot do much good we may be permitted to bring forward an instance for the instruction of those who ignorant of what they are pleased to call the ancient constitution d om la s of france are silly enough to regret the loss of its advantages a certain an obscure citizen was arrested as a although there existed no proof against the farmers of the public did not hesitate on that account to have him thrown into one of the of the where he remained twenty months he

47Thomas Anstey Guthrie

into tlie cloud were the lights within the water and there was a glow of unbroken all about tlie cup as of the dawn in those islands beyond the ocean of shadows where the sun rises never above the east and there is neither night nor da but hesitating et once more before he drank he again the creatures ol the universe asking o ye and beings ye wisest among wise men ye creatures also of air and of earth say if there be absent from this assembly even one representative of all over whom i hold dominion and they replied master only is not here â the wild dove most loving of all living creatures then solomon sent to seek the wild dove â the bird of gold created by the of queen of the of and the golden bird brought back with him the wild dove most loving of all living creatures then it was tliat solomon repeated the words of the song which he had written o m dove that in the of the rock in the secret hiding places of the the dove stairs let mc see thy face let mc hear th voice is it meet tliat thy lord solomon shall drink of the waters of youth and know the bliss of earthly immortality tlie wild dove speaking in the tongue of birds known to solomon only among mortals asked the prophet king saying how shall a creature of air answer the source of wisdom how may so feeble a mind advise tin intelligence yet if i must counsel let mc ask thee o solomon whether the water of life brought hither by this spirit be for thee alone or for all with whom thy heart might incline thee to share it but solomon answered it hath been sent to only me nor is there enough within the cup for an other o prophet of god answered in the tongue of birds how thou desire to be living alone when each of thy friends and of and of thy children and of th servants and of all who loved thee were counted with the dead for all of these must surely drink the bitter waters of death though thou drink the water of life wherefore desire everlasting youth when the face of the world itself shall be wrinkled age and the the dove e es of the stars shall be closed by the black fingers of when the love thou hast sung of shall have passed like a smoke of when the dust of the heart that beat thine own shall have been scattered by the four winds of heaven when the eyes that looked for thy coming shall have become a memory when the voices grateful to thine ear shall have been when thy life shall be one in a universal waste of death and thine eternal existence but a recognition of eternal absence â wilt thou indeed care to live though the wild dove perish when its mate not and solomon without reply silently put out his arm and gave back the cup so that the white hand came forth and took it and withdrew into the cloud and the cloud dissolved and passed away forever but upon the s rich beard with powder of gold there appeared another glitter as of clear dew â the diamond dew of the heart which is tears the son of a the son of a robber a bud from the rose garden of the planted in the six hundred and fifty sixth year of the by the speech the of and arranged after eight divisions corresponding with the eight gates of paradise in the reign of the king of kings ben sad the most magnificent of solomon shadow of the most high god upon earth in the name of god the most merciful in those s there were robbers who dwelt in the mountain regions of the land having above the eagle s nests so that no arm might successfully them their name weighed as a terror upon the land and they closed up the ways of the and wasted the valley s and overcame even the king s troops by their strength and their â all being mountain born and of devouring fire the of the mountain provinces held council together and devised cunning plans by which to the robbers from their inaccessible mountain dwelling so as to destroy them therefore it came to pass that while the robbers were after a the the son of a troops of the king concealed themselves in the of the mountain and there in silence awaited the return of the band with man rich spoils and of price for and when the returned at night hard pressed by that greatest enemy of the wary whose name is sleep the soldiers set upon them and smote them and bound their arms behind backs and them as a herd of wild sheep into the so the were brought into the presence of the king and the king commended the wisdom of the of the provinces saying had e not thus prevailed against them by craft the strength of the robbers might have with each day of until it would have been beyond our power to them the spring ma be closed at its mouth with a small covering but when it shall have been swollen to a river by long flowing a man may not cross its current even upon the back of an elephant let and all of these prisoners be forthwith put to death as robbers are put to death under our law but among these robbers there was a youth slender and sha as a young palm and the fruit of his was yet the ver the son of a t of the rose garden of his cheeks had scarce begun to bud and by reason of the of the boy a kindly bowed his white beard

46Sarah Stickney Ellis

the ultimate benefit of all he had persuaded mr to accompany him by warm mysterious promises of a happy and now having that as far as his door he was heard and now sir yon shall see one who waits to t grief â all in your arms behold and here he the door open yon flatter me i a d who had had time lo recover his somewhat shaken at first by mr s arrival how it is to be observed that mr had not long ago seen his wife lying on her bed lo all appearance incapable of motion im before could recover his surprise inquired of why he had sent for him and what added he is the suspicion i am according to mr to foi t in your mr added this last sentence in rather a manner why the fact is â began sir charles without the remotest idea of what the fact was going to be that sir â interrupted mr gentlemen gentlemen how cat do both remonstrated enough sir i cried it ie lady i s the i t plain said sir charles keenly nay sir be the pleasing duty bnt now i think of it resumed why not tell the simple truth it is not a play she i brought yon here to see was not sir charles bnt â i forbid yon to complete the name i cried i command yon to complete the name i cried guardian of that lady s honor she has chosen a strange guardian of her honor i said gentlemen cried poor trip let who did not at all like the turn things were taking i give yon my word she does not even know of sir charles s presence here i who cried furiously man alive who are you of mrs my wife cried trembling with anger and jealousy she here and this man t no cried with me not with him of irritated drew om his pocket the ladies joint which had fallen at his feet from mrs s hand he presented this to mr who took it very uneasily a mist swam before his eyes as he read the words alone and â he had no sooner read these words than he found he loved his wife when he his treasure he did not calculate on another seeking it this was s hour of triumph he proceeded coolly explain to mr that mrs having deserted him for mr and mr bis wife for mrs the parties had according to custom agreed to console each this soothing little speech was interrupted bv mr s sword flashing out of its while that gentleman white with rage and jealousy him instantly take to bis or he run through the body by charles his and in spite of s weak ence half a passes were rapidly when suddenly the door of the inner room opened and in a hood in a was an imitation of mrs s tlie word false the lowered their points you hear sir i cried ton see sir said i â cried mr in agony this is not o say that letter is a â say at least it was by some yon were lo this den of the silently beckoned to person inside ton know i loved you â know how bitterly i repent the that me lo the of another lady replied not sod appeared to hang upon her an bnt she threw the door open then threw off her hi charles s nation revealed the features of that ingenious person who seemed born b heard that fervent declaration madam said she to mrs i present to you madam a gentleman who regrets tliat ha the real direction of his feelings and to you sir continued she with great i present a lady who will never mistake either her or her duty i dear cried mrs blushing as if she the and she came forward all love tenderness her husband at her feet of course no he said rather sternly how came you here mo mrs said the fancied you had that your heart in c garden fit companion for her own and had appropriated it she came to me to inquire after it but this letter signed by you said addressing was written by me on a which accidentally contained mi s s name the is mr â i can hardly look you in the face â i had a with charles here his diamond ring â which yon may see has become my diamond ring â a horrible face from sir charles â my left glove tliat i a country gentleman s and make him me an angel unfortunately the owner of his heart appeared and like poor mr took our play for earnest it became to her and lo open eyes have i done so have said at each word she said but at last by a mighty effort he mastered himself and coming to mrs with a quivering lip he held out his suddenly m a very manly way i liave been the of my own vanity s ud he and i thank vou for this lesson poor mrs s fo had left her at this â he cried is this any punishment for my folly any for repentance can it is all forgiven but you are mistaken she glided to mrs what do we not ve you sister t she nothing that word pays all os the i she then slipped her into mrs hand and to all the company hastily left the room sir followed it he was not enough she t a start and purposely avoided m and for three days neither the nor private saw this poor woman s face â ml prepared to go by also but mrs would thank good mr and mrs lor their to her the was and delighted but ij turning somewhat he said mr madam made of on

8Jane Austen

manner too to be disregarded or to the quiet perusal of a newspaper laid down his paper wheeled in his distraction a few times round the parlour like an decided pigeon made an rush at one or two flying little figures in bed gowns that past him and then bearing suddenly down upon the only member of the family the ears of little s nurse you bad boy said mr you any feeling for your poor father after the and ties of a hard winter s day since five o clock in the morning but must you his rest and his latest intelligence with your vicious tricks isn t it enough sir that your brother is toiling and in the fog and cold and you rolling in the lap of luxury with a â with a baby â nd you can wish for said mr this up as a great climax of but must you make a wilderness of home and of your parents must you hey at each mr made a of his ears again but l better of it and held his hand oh father when i wasn t doing anything i m sure but taking such of sally and getting her to sleep oh father i wish my little woman would come home i said mr and i only wish my little woman would come home i ain t fit to deal with em they make my head go round and get the better of me oh isn t it enough that your dear mother has provided you with that sweet sister indicating isn t it enough that you were seven boys before without a ray of and that your dear mother went through what she did go through on purpose that you might all of you have a little sister but must you so behave yourself as to make my head swim softening more and more as his own tender feelings and those of his injured son were worked on mr concluded by embracing him and immediately breaking away to catch one of the real a reasonably good start he succeeded after a short but smart run and some rather severe cross country han work under and oyer the and in and out among the of the in this infant whom he punished and bore to bed this example had a powerful and apparently influence on him of the boots who instantly fell into a deep sleep though he had been but a moment before broad awake and in the highest possible feather in or was it lost upon the two young who retired to bed in an adjoining closet with great privacy and speed the comrade of the one also shrinking into his nest with similar discretion mr when he paused for breath found himself unexpectedly in a scene of peace my little woman herself said mr wiping his flushed face could hardly have done it better i only wish my little woman had had it to do i do indeed mr sought upon his screen for a passage appropriate to be impressed upon his children s minds on the occasion and read the following it is an hot that all remarkable men hare had remarkable mothers and have respected them in after life as their best friends think of your own remarkable mother mj boys said mr and know her value while she is still among you he sat down again in his chair by the fire and composed himself cross legged over his newspaper let anybody i don t care who it is get out of bed again said as a general delivered in a very manner and astonishment will be the portion of that respected â which expression mr selected from his screen my child take care of your only sister sally for she s the brightest that ever sparkled on your early brow sat down on a little stool and crushed himself beneath the weight of ah what a gift that baby is to you said his father and how thankful you ought to be it is not generally known he was now referring to the screen again but it is a ct ascertained by accurate calculations that the following immense of babies never attain to two years old that is to say â oh don t ther please cried i can t bear it when i think of sally mr with a the sense of his wiped his eyes and hushed his sister your brother said his father the fire is late to night and will come home like a lump of ice what s got your precious mother here s mother and too father exclaimed i think you re right i returned his listening yes that s the footstep of my little woman the process of by which mr had come to the conclusion that his wife was a little woman was his own secret she would have made two of himself very easily considered as an individual she was rather remarkable for being robust and but considered with reference to her husband her dimensions became magnificent did they assume a less imposing proportion when studied with reference to the size of her seven sons who were but in the case of sally however mrs had asserted herself at last as nobody knew better than the victim who weighed and measured that idol every hour in the day mrs who had been and carried a basket threw back her bonnet and shawl and sitting thâ haunted down fatigued commanded to bring his sweet charge to her straightway for a kiss complied and gone bad to his stool and again himself master who had by this time his out of a apparently interminable requested the same your having again and again gone back to his stool and again himself mr struck by a sudden thought preferred the same claim on his own parental part the satisfaction of this third desire

7James Baldwin

are the past is always pleasant to look upon you think so the priests walked to the end of the garden and leaning on the father said we ve had queer weather dull heavy weather see how low the are flying when i came up the drive the gravel space in front of the house was covered with them the old birds feeding the young ones and you were noticing these things and believing that providence had sent you here to bid me good by isn t it when the nerves are on a stretch that we notice little things that don t concern us at all yes you are right i ve never known you as wise as you are this evening appeared in the kitchen door she had come to tell them their supper was ready during the meat the conversation turned on the of the abbey and the price of timber and when the had been removed the conversation swayed between the price of building materials and the s fears lest he should meet a violent death as it had been if he allowed a roof to be put upon d the lake you know i don t altogether blame him and i don t think anyone does at the bottom of his heart for what has been foretold generally comes to pass sooner or later the is a good catholic who believes in everything the church teaches â in the divinity of our lord the conception and the pope s and why should he be in that which has been for generations about the of don t you believe in these things does anyone know exactly what he believes does the really believe every day of the year and every hour of every day that the of will be slain on the when a de is again father was thinking of the slip of the tongue he had been guilty of before supper when he said that the looks upon woman as the real danger because she is the life of the world he shouldn t have made that remark for it might be remembered against him and he fell to thinking of something to say that would explain it away well we ve had a pleasant evening we ve talked a good deal and you ve said many pleasant things and many wise ones we ve never had a talk that i enjoyed more and i shall not forget it easily how is that didn t you say that it isn t drink that a man s faith but woman and you said rightly for is life d the lake i was just about to ask you what you meant when came in and interrupted us love of woman means from the church because you have to protect her and her children yes that is so that s how it works out now you won t be thinking me a fool for having come to see you this evening one never knows when one s impulses are true and when they re false if i hadn t come the night when the drink craving was upon mc i shouldn t have been here now you did quite right to come we ve talked of a great many things i ve never talked so plainly to anyone before i wonder what made me talk as i ve been talking we never talked like this before did we and i wouldn t have talked to another as i ve talked to you i shall never forget what i owe to you you said you were going to leave the parish i don t think i thought of anything except to burn myself up with drink i wanted to forget and i saw myself walking ahead day after day drinking at every public house and just because i saved you you thought yon would come to save me there was something of that in it it s very queer there s no saying where things will begin and end pass me the tobacco will you father began to fill his pipe and when he had finished filling it he said d the lake now i must be going and don t be trying to keep me i ve stopped long enough if i were sent for a purpose but you don t believe seriously that you were sent for a purpose didn t answer and his silence irritated father and determined to his s conscience he said aren t you satisfied now that it was only an idea of your own you thought to find me gone and here i am sitting before you after waiting for some time for to speak he said you haven t answered me what should i be answering do you still think you were sent for a purpose well i do you do the priests stood looking at each other for a while can t you give a reason no i can give no reason it s a feeling i know i haven t reason on my side there you are before me it s very queer he would have liked to have called back it seemed a pity to let him go without having this matter to the bottom he hadn t asked him if he had any idea in his mind about the future as to what was going to happen but it was too late now why did he come here disturbing me with his he cried out my will for he had already begun to fear that s visit might come between him and his project the wind sighed a little louder and father d the lake said i wouldn t be his coming here to warn me though he did say that it wasn t of his own will that he came but something from the outside that kept pushing him along the road â i wouldn

14Robert Louis Stevenson

came back nor was there any movement upon the hills it was almost brutal this furious violence to so gentle and a country side in no place could the keenest eye detect a sign of guns or men and yet death in every hollow and crouched by every rock it is so difficult to make a modern battle intelligible when fought as this was over a front of seven or eight miles that it is best perhaps to take the doings of each column in turn beginning with the left flank where s irish had advanced to the assault of bridle drift under an and therefore an fire from the heavy guns the irish moved forward upon the points which they had been ordered to attack the led then the the and the scotch incredible as it may appear after the recent experiences of and of the men in the two rear appear to have been advanced in quarter and not to have until after the enemy s fire had opened had struck this close formation as it was within an ace of doing the loss of life must have been as severe as it was unnecessary on approaching the drift â the position or even the existence of which does not seem to have been very clearly defined â it was found that the troops had to advance into battle of a formed by the river so that they were exposed to a very heavy cross fire upon their right flank while they were rained on by from in front no sign of the enemy could be seen though the men were dropping fast it is a weird and soul shaking experience to advance over a and apparently a lonely with no slightest movement upon its broad face while the path which you take is marked behind you by sobbing gasping men who can only guess by the position of their wounds whence the shots came which struck them down all round like the hissing of fat in the pan is the monotonous and rattle of the but the air is full of it and no one can define exactly whence it comes far away on some hill upon the there hangs the least veil of thin smoke to indicate whence the six men who have just all fallen together as if it were some grim met their death and somewhere else up yonder among the there rises a horrible a dreadful monotonous laugh which comes from the worst gun of all the malignant one the hateful into such a hell storm as this it was that our soldiers have again and again advanced in the course of this war but it may be questioned whether they will not prove to be among the last of mortals to be asked to endure such an ordeal other methods of attack must be found or attacks must be abandoned for powder quick firing guns and modem make it all odds on the defence the gallant pushed on flushed with battle and careless for their losses the four into one with all military organization rapidly disappearing and nothing left but their gallant spirit and their furious desire to come to hand with the enemy rolling on in a broad wave of shouting angry men they never from the fire until they had swept up to the bank of the river northern and southern man of orange and green and catholic and saxon their only now was who could shed his blood most freely for the common cause the great war how hateful seem those provincial politics and narrow which can hold such men apart the bank of the river had been gained but where was the ford the water swept broad and in front of them with no indication of a few dashing fellows sprang in but their and dragged them to the bottom one or two may even have struggled through to the farther side but on this there is a conflict of evidence it may be though it seems incredible that the river had been partly to the drift or as is more probable that in the rapid advance and attack the position of the drift was lost however this may be the troops could and no ford and they lay down as had been done in so many previous actions unwilling to retreat and unable to advance with the same merciless from front and flank the naval guns had silenced the but who could silence the unseen in every fold and behind every ant hill the lay thick and waited for better times there are many instances of their cheery and humor colonel brook of the fell at the head of his men private helped to carry him into safety and then his task done he confessed to having a bit of a rap and sank fainting with a bullet through his throat another sat with a bullet through both legs bring me a tin whistle and i ll blow ye any tune ye like he cried of the another with his arm hanging by a puffed at his short black pipe every now and then in face of the impossible the fiery furiously up fix men and let us make a name for ourselves cried a color and he never spoke again for five hours under the tropical sun the men held on to the ground they had occupied british shells pitched short and fell among them a regiment in support fired at them not knowing that any of the line was so far advanced shot at from the front the flank and the rear the fifth held grimly on battle of but fortunately their orders to retire were at hand and it is certain that had they not reached them the would have been destroyed where they lay it seems to have been himself who showed extraordinary and personal energy during the day who ordered them to

3Edith Wharton

turn will have had the best chance of succeeding in the struggle for existence to the theory of natural selection as applied to instincts â and insects it has been objected to the foregoing view of the origin of instincts that the variations of structure and of instinct must have been and accurately adjusted to each other as a in the one without an immediate corresponding change in the other would have been fatal the force of this objection rests entirely on the assumption that the changes in the instincts and structure are abrupt to take as an illustration the case of the larger major alluded to in a previous chapter q objections to the theory chap this bird often holds the seeds of the between its feet on a branch and with its till it gets at the now what special would there be in natural selection preserving all the slight individual variations in the shape of the which were better and better adapted to break open the seeds until a wc formed as well constructed for this purpose as that of the at the same time that habit or or spontaneous variations of taste led the bird to become more and more of a seed r in this case the is supposed to be by natural selection subsequently to but in accordance with slowly changing habits or taste but let the feet of the vary and grow larger from with the or from any other unknown cause and it is not improbable that such larger feet would lead the bird to climb more and more until it acquired the remarkable climbing instinct and power of the in this case a gradual change of structure is supposed to lead to changed instinctive habits to take one more case few instincts are more remarkable than that which leads the swift of the eastern islands to make its nest wholly of some birds build their nests of mud believed to be with and one of the of north america makes its nest as i have seen of sticks with and even with of this substance is it then very improbable that the natural selection of individual which more and more should at last produce a species with instincts leading it to neglect other materials and to make its nest exclusively of and so in other cases it must however be admitted that in many instances we cannot conjecture whether it was instinct or structure which first varied no doubt many instincts of very difficult explanation could be opposed to the theory of natural selection â cases in which we cannot see how an instinct could have originated cases in which no are known to exist cases of instinct of such trifling importance that they could hardly have been acted od by natural selection cases of instincts almost the same in animals so remote in the scale of nature that we cannot account for their by inheritance from a common and must believe that they were acquired through natural selection i will not here enter on these several cases but will confine myself to one special difficulty which at first appeared to me and actually fatal to the whole theory i allude to the or females in insect â these often er widely in instinct and in structure chap vm of natural selection from both the and fertile females and yet from being they cannot their kind the subject well deserves to be discussed at great length but i will here take only a single case that of working or how the workers have been rendered is a difficulty but not much greater than that of any other striking of structure for it can be shown that some insects and other articulate animals in a of nature occasionally become and if such insects had been social and it had been profitable to the that a number should have been bom capable of work but incapable of i can see no especial difficulty in this having been effected through natural selection but i must pass over this preliminary difficulty the great difficulty lies in the working widely from both the and the fertile females in structure as in the shape of the and in being of wings and sometimes of eyes and in instinct as far as instinct alone is concerned the difference in this respect between the workers and the perfect females would have been better by the bee if a working ant or other insect had been an ordinary animal i should have assumed that all its characters had been slowly acquired through natural selection namely by individuals having been bom with slight profitable which were inherited by the offspring and that these again varied and again were selected and so but with the working ant we have an insect greatly from its parents yet absolutely so that it could never have acquired of structure or instinct to its it may well be asked how is it possible to reconcile this case with the theory of natural selection â first let it be remembered that we have innumerable instances both in our domestic productions and in those in a state of nature of all sorts of differences of inherited which are with certain ages and with either sex we have not only with one sex but with that short period when the system is active as in the of many birds and in the jaws of the male salmon we have even slight differences in the horns of different of cattle in relation to an imperfect state of the male sex for oxen of certain have longer horns than the oxen of other to the length of the horns in both the and cows of these same hence i can see no great difficulty in any character becoming with the condition of certain objections to theory chap members of insect the difficulty lies in understanding how such of structure could have

6Jack London

her sense of mystery no said how look tom is it or s heart sank a little because tom always said it was no good playing with her at those games â she played so badly no i ve all my with the little fellows and are no fun you silly only when the nuts are green but see here he drew something half out of his right hand pocket what is it said in a whisper i can see nothing but a bit of yellow why it s â a â new â guess oh i can t guess tom said impatiently don t be a else i won t tell you said tom thrusting his hand back into his pocket and looking determined no tom said laying hold of the arm that was held stiffly in the pocket i m not cross tom it was only because i can t bear please be good to me tom s arm slowly relaxed and he said well then it s a new fish line â two new ones â one for you all to yourself i wouldn t go in the and on purpose to save the money and and fought with me because i wouldn t and here s hooks see here â i say won t we go and fish to morrow down by the round pool and you shall catch your own fish and put the worms on and everything â won t it be fun s answer was to throw her arms around tom s neck and him and hold her cheek against his without speaking while he slowly some of the line saying after a pause â wasn t i a good brother now to buy you a line all to yourself you know i needn t have bought it if i hadn t liked yes very very good â i do love you tom tom had put the line back in his pocket and was looking at the hooks one by one before he spoke again and the fellows fought me because j wouldn t give in about the oh dear i wish they wouldn t fight at your school tom didn t it hurt you hurt me no said tom putting up the hooks again taking out a large and slowly opening the largest blade which he looked at as he rubbed his finger along it then he added â i gave a black eye i know â that s what he got by wanting to leather me i wasn t going to go because anybody me oh how brave you are tom i think you re like if there came a lion roaring at me i think you d fight him â wouldn t you tom how can a lion come roaring at you you silly thing there s no lions only in the shows no but if we were in the lion countries â i mean in africa where it s very hot â the lions eat people there i can show it to you in the book where i read it well i should get a gun and shoot him but if you hadn t got a gun â we might have gone out you know not thinking â just as we go fishing and then a great lion might run toward us roaring and we couldn t get away from him what should you do tom tom paused and at last turned away contemptuously saying but the lion isn t coming what s the use of talking but i like to fancy how it would be said following him just think what you would do tom oh don t bother you re such a silly â i shall go and see my u ii the falling out s heart began to flutter with fear she dared not tell the sad truth at once but she walked after tom in trembling silence as he went out thinking how she could tell him the news so as to soften at once his sorrow and his anger for dreaded tom s anger of all things â it was quite a different anger from her own tom she said timidly when they were out of doors how much money did you give for your two half crowns and a sixpence said tom i think got a great deal more than that in my steel purse upstairs fu ask mother to give it to you what for said tom i don t want your money you silly thing i ve got a great deal more money than you because i m a boy i always have half sovereigns and sovereigns for my christmas boxes because i shall be a man and you only have five shilling pieces you re only a girl well but tom â if mother would let me give you two half crowns and a sixpence out of my purse to put into your pocket and spend you know and buy some more with it more i don t want any more oh but tom they re all dead tom stopped immediately in his walk and turned round toward you forgot to feed em then and harry forgot he said his color for a moment but soon i ll pitch into harry â i ll have him turned away and i don t love you you shan t go fishing with me to morrow i told you to go and see the every day he walked on again yes but i forgot â and i couldn t help it indeed tom fm so very sorry said while the tears rushed fast you re a naughty girl said tom severely and i m sorry i bought you the fish line i don t love you oh tom it s very cruel sobbed i d forgive you if you forgot anything â i wouldn t mind what you did â i d forgive

22Albert Ross

continually watched in s every look and action had in the course of their yesterday s party received the delightful confession of an equal love her heart and faith were alike engaged to james never had listened to anything so full of interest wonder and joy her brother and her friend engaged new to such circumstances the importance of it appeared great and she contemplated it as one of those grand events of which the ordinary course of life can hardly afford a return the strength of her feelings she could not express the nature of them however contented her friend the happiness of having such a sister was their ti ti abbey ill and the fair ladies mingled in embraces and tears of joy however as sincerely did in the prospect of the it must be acknowledged that far surpassed her in tender you will be so infinitely dearer to me my than either anne or maria i feel that i shall be so much more attached to my dear s family than to my own this was a pitch of friendship beyond you are so like your dear brother continued that i quite on you the first moment i saw you but so it always is with me the first moment settles everything the very first day that came to us last christmas the very first moment i beheld him my heart was gone i remember i wore my yellow gown with my hair done up in and when i came into the drawing room and john introduced him i thought i never saw anybody so handsome before here secretly acknowledged the power of love for though exceedingly fond of her brother and partial to all his she had never in her life thought him handsome i remember too miss drank tea with us that evening and wore her coloured and she looked so heavenly that i thought your brother must certainly fall in love with her i could not sleep a wink all night for thinking of it oh i the many sleepless nights i have had on your brother s account i would not have you suffer half what i liave done i am grown thin i know but i will not pain you by describing my anxiety you have seen enough of it i feel that i have betrayed myself perpetually so in speaking of my partiality for the church i but my secret i was always sure would be safe you abbey felt that nothing could have been but ashamed of an ignorance little expected she dared no longer contest point nor refuse to have been as full ot arch penetration and affectionate sympathy as chose to consider her her brother she found was preparing to set off with all speed to to make known his situation and ask consent and here was a source of some real agitation to the mind of endeavoured to persuade her as she was herself persuaded that her father and mother would never oppose their son s wishes it is impossible said she for parents to be more kind or more desirous of their children s happiness i have no doubt of immediately says exactly the same replied and yet i dare not expect it my fortune will be so â they never can consent to it your brother who marry anybody here again discerned the force of love â indeed you are too humble the difference of fortune can be nothing to signify â oh my sweet in your generous heart i know it would signify nothing but we must not expect in many as for myself i am i only wish our situations were reversed had i the command of millions were i mistress of the whole wm i your brother would be my only choice charming sentiment recommended as much by as novelty gave a most pleasing of of her acquaintance and she l her friend never looked more lovely than in ji s the grand idea i am sure they will consent i declaration i am they will be xi with you s m own part said my wishes are that the smallest income in nature would abbey ii be enough for me where people are really attached poverty itself is wealth grandeur i i would not settle in london for the universe a cottage in some retired village would be there are some charming little about cried you must settle near you must be near us i am sure i shall be miserable if we do not if i can but be near you i shall be satisfied but this is idle talking i will not allow myself to think of such things till we have your father s answer says that by sending it to night to we may have it to morrow to morrow i know i shall never have courage to open the letter i know it will be the death of me a reverie succeeded this conviction and when spoke again it was to resolve on the quality of her wedding gown their conference was put an end to by the anxious young lover himself who came to breathe his parting sigh before he set off for wished to congratulate him but knew not what to say and her eloquence was only in her eyes from them however the eight parts of speech shone out most and james could combine them with ease impatient for the of all that he hoped at home his were not long and they would have been yet shorter had he not been frequently detained by the urgent entreaties of his fair one that he would go twice was he called almost from the door by her eagerness to have him gone indeed i must drive you away consider how far you have to ride i cannot bear to see you linger so for heaven s sake waste no more time there go go

25Bret Harte

seen such another its head is tall gaunt lean and ragged and has lost one eye on an english road one would think him a starving or a dangerous beggar he is slightly intelligent very and wishes to be thought well informed which he is not he belongs to the of singers but anything of and which may them and in truly merciless fashion over the of the mr of philadelphia for with which sing hymns his great boast is that his ancestors were he considers himself a profound and by the pine logs at night to me on the mysteries of the eternal counsels and the divine with its progress and its future is also a constant theme he hates england with a bitter personal hatred and regards any allusions which i make to the progress of victoria as a personal insult he to live to see the of the british mon a lady s life in t and the of the empire he is very fond of talking and asks me a great deal about my travels but if i speak of the climate or resources of any other country he regards it as a on they have one hundred and sixty acres of land a s claim and an invaluable water power he is a and has a saw mill of a very primitive kind i notice that every day something goes wrong with it and this is the case throughout if he wants to haul timber down one or other of the oxen cannot be found or if the timber is actually under way a wheel or a part of the harness gives way and the whole affair is at a for days the cabin is hardly a shelter but is allowed to remain in ruins because the foundation of a frame house was once dug a horse is always sure to be lame for want of a shoe nail or a saddle to be useless from a broken and the and harness are a marvel of temporary and with of rope nothing is ever ready or whole when it is wanted yet is a sober hard working man and he his eldest son and a hired man rise early going forth to their work and labour till the evening and if they do not â late take rest they truly eat the bread of it is hardly surprising that nine years of should have resulted in letter v the rocky mountains nothing but the ability to procure the bare necessaries of life of mrs c i can say less she looks like one of the english poor women of our childhood â lean clean tor and speaks like some of them in a discontented voice which seems to convey a personal reproach all her waking hours are spent in a large sun bonnet she is never idle for one minute is severe and hard and everything but work i think she suffers from her husband s she always speaks of me as this or that woman the family consists of a grown up son a melancholy looking youth who possibly pines for a wider life a girl of sixteen a sour looking creature with as much manners as a pig and three hard younger children by the whole family all courtesy and gentleness of act or speech seem regarded as works of the flesh if not of the devil they knock over all one s things without or picking them up and when i thank them for anything they look grimly amazed i feel that they think it sinful that i do not work as hard as they do i wish i could show them a more excellent way this hard and the exclusive pursuit of gain with the indifference to all which does not aid it s are up family love and life tke tf est i this reluctantly and after a e e bt a lady s life in years in the united states they seem to have no sunday clothes and few of any kind the sewing machine like most other things is out of order one comb serves the whole family mrs c is in her person and dress and the food though poor is clean work work work is their day and their life they are thoroughly and have that air of suspicion in speaking of every one which is not unusual in the land of their ancestors thomas is the man s hero in spite of his own severe their live stock consists of two wretched horses a fairly good mare a mule four badly bred cows four gaunt and looking oxen some swine of singularly active habits and plenty of poultry the old are tied on with one side of the bridle is a worn out and the other a rope they wear boots but never two of one pair and never of course but no stockings they think it quite to sleep under a roof except during the months of the year there is a married daughter across the river just the same hard moral hard working being as her mother each morning soon after seven when i have swept the â â â r the family come in for worship â wâ p â ui fe of the word wail to â â â â â â â â â â â â m of tunes they read a chapter â â m an if ms prayer has something letter v the rocky mountains of the tone of the he has high authority in his favour and if there be a tinge of the it is hardly surprising that he is grateful that he is not as other men are when he the general of the region sunday was a dreadful day the family kept the literally and did no work worship was conducted twice and was rather longer than usual does not allow of any

19Walt Whitman

than usual says he there a damned crazy comes about here i can well move in the matter myself which brings me you be so good as to see to it the men must hi a strict to drive the away sir said i trembling a little you can do y own dirty errands for yourself he said not a word to that and left the room presently came mr henry here is news cr he it seems all is not enough and you must a to my wretchedness it seems you have insulted under your kind favour mr henry said i was he that insulted me and as i think i may have been careless of your position spoke and if you think so when you know all dear patron you have but to say the word for i would obey in any point whatever even to god pardon me and thereupon i told him w had passed mr henry smiled to himself a never witnessed you did exactly well said he shall drink his to the and th the master outside he opened the window s ill dying to him by the name of mr asked him to step up and have a word james said he when our had come in and closed the door behind him looking at me with a smile as if he thought i was to be you brought me a against mr into which have inquired i need not tell you i would always take his word against yours for we are alone and i am going to use something of your own freedom mr is a gentleman i value and you must contrive so long as you are under this roof to bring yourself into no more with one whom i will support at any possible cost to me or mine as for the errand upon which you came to him you must deliver yourself from the consequences of your own cruelty and none of my servants shall be at all employed in such a case my father s servants i says the master go to him with this tale said mr henry the master grew very white he pointed at me with his finger i want that man discharged he said he shall not be said mr henry you shall pay pretty dear for this says the master i have paid so dear already for a wicked brother said mr henry that i am even of fears you have no place left where you can strike me i will show you about that says the master and went softly away what will he do next cries mr the master of let me go away said i my dear patron let me go away i am but the beginning of fresh would you leave me quite alone said he we were not long in suspense as to the nature of the new assault up to that hour the master had played a very close game with mrs henry avoiding to be alone with her which i took at the time for an effect of decency but now think to be a most art meeting her you may say at meal time only and when he did so hke an affectionate brother up to that hour you may say he had scarce directly interfered between mr henry and liis wife except in so far as he had the one quite forth from the good graces of the other now all that was to be changed but whether really in revenge or because he was of and looked about for some diversion who but the devil shall decide from that hour at least began the siege of mrs henry a thing so carried on that i scarce know if she was aware of it herself and that her husband must look on in silence the first parallel was opened as was made to appear by accident the talk fell as it did often on the in france so it glided to the matter of their songs there is one says the master if you are curious in these matters that has always seemed to me very moving the poetry is harsh and yet perhaps because of my situation it has always found the way to my heart it is supposed to be sung i should tell you by an exile s sweetheart and represents perhaps not so much the truth of what she is thinking as the truth of what he hopes of her poor soul in these far lands and here the master sighed i protest it is a pathetic sight when a score of rough irish all common get to this song and you may see by their falling tears how it strikes home to them it goes thus says he very taking my lord for his listener and if i cannot get to the end of it you must think it is a common case with us and thereupon he struck up the same air as i had heard the colonel whistle but now to words rustic indeed yet most setting forth a poor girl s aspirations for an lover of which one verse indeed or something like it still sticks by me â o i win my red with my dear boy beg my bread though all my should wish me dead for among the rushes he sang it well even as a song but he did better yet as a i have heard famous actors when there was not a dry eye in the theatre a great wonder to behold but no more wonderful than how the master played upon that httle ballad and on those who heard him like an instrument and seemed now upon the point of failing and now to conquer his distress so that words and music seemed to pour out of his own heart and his own past and to be aimed directly

37James Grant

here in my room having just eat a hearty dinner with my who has this month entered on her th year but to my eyes looks young and handsome yet it is a dark and cloudy day and the rain is just now pouring down in torrents it is a great disappointment to many as s funeral was to come oil to day and all the military and here and hundreds of societies orders schools etc had prepared to turn out â and most of them did david the celebrated b id july d n h turn out this only to get soaked with rain and covered with mud â i saw one crack and handsome with white and silver gray coats and everything so bright and trim when they marched down â and an hour and afterwards they looked like that had been on â we have had weeks and weeks of the very finest weather up to early this morning and now it is the worst kind to be out in still we want rain so very much one don t feel to complain i received your last letter the th â it was a good long lively letter and welcome â you write about the signal j corps â deserves credit for and j studying â and i hope he will do and think he will too â for he is sober and tries to get ahead â any how he is a young man i uke â is a very manly fellow etc â he has one fault j and a bad one â that is he will drink and it â j which spoils all â true it is none of my business but â â feel that it would be perhaps the making of would give it up and find his pleasure in some other â should you see again give him my the same for also did you mean for me to what i think of your joining the signal corps j but are you enough in studies â i heartily advise you to away at the â do something at it every day â is the foundation of all such j things just as a good stone wall is the foundation for a l house â become a good of all â and letters of you surely will if you keep away a every day â bow much leisure you have after all that might be used for study â i don t mean all your leisure but say one hour out of every three â then keep looking over the geography â when i come back i will bring a httle pocket dictionary â with minutes writing every day and by the dictionary i would warrant you becoming a correct and real handsome writer in a year or less â and when one is a fair and and writes finely so many things are open to him as things stand at present i ex to be back by or before next sunday behold this face these gray eyes this beard the white wool upon my neck my brown hands and the silent manner of me without charm yet comes one a and ever at parting kisses me lightly on the lip with robust love and i on the crossing of the street or on the ship s deck give a kiss in return we observe that salute of american comrades land and sea we are those two natural and persons leaves of grass â d a z p letters of rs i r â â â si dear i arrived home last night between and all safe and sound â found mother up waiting for me â it was dark and stormy as rain had set in about â had quite a pleasant journey â took a chair in the reserved seat car cents extra â plenty of room and a very easy riding car â thought while i was sitting up here now in my room waiting for dinner i would write a line to boy the weather is very fine now here â plenty enough â i went over to new york yesterday and evening â took a ride up and down â am now laying off and taking it easy in my room â find it very pleasant here â fall just as natural into habits of doing nothing â lie on the sofa and read the papers â come up to my meals â sleep a great deal â and take everything very quietly friday p te i will finish this letter and send it off so you will get it for sunday â i am feeling well and enjoying myself doing nothing spending a great deal of time with my mother and going out a few hours every day on the river or over to new york â i hope you are feeling all right and that everything is lovely â i believe that is all this must h time â love to you dear son and you good heart through all the t not only of but life generally i find that foster the car is an old driver and conductor that i knew quite well â he was a very good man very respectable only a fool when drunk â it is the case know he has three fine children â the public is down upon him savage â and i suppose no hope for him j i july dear well here i still pretty much the same thing doing nothing and taking things easy by your letter i see that you too are along about the same on your car with an occasional let up often in my around the city or on the bay i wish you were with me as you would enjoy it much i have seen mr formerly of the chronicle â he is about the same in appearance

46Sarah Stickney Ellis

be given either to the against or the that there was positively nothing more to be done save to wait the event ah is it not a pity after all we have grown so wise in these latter days that we regard religion merely as a subject of interesting speculation that we have ceased to have faith in the who were agreeably accessible comfortably near to us and have retained only a barren because only a belief in the great god who sits behind the for the no doubt he represents the final rest the final but for the rank and file of us he is far away too great to be of much immediate use in poor little human extremity i would so have said a prayer for my unworthy and futile self for my poor dear friend even for that most daughter of a rat and excellent in this her hour of self knowledge conscious and but how could i in reason do so who was i that i should be heard the what my that they should obtain to change the course of history what would be would be my pitiful wishes weighed as a feather against the push of fate no doubt such meditations are for the soul rich with wholesome discipline but ye powers they are quite unpleasant all the same and so the of myself and my i declined upon i went to bed still worse i being most tired went to sleep i suppose i slept heavily yet i remember the and howling of a dog mingling with my dreams now taking on an almost human sound of appeal and now passing into a cry of mere animal distress i was roused at last by a very real and definite under my window by a shower of little pebbles against the shutters the dawn had just warmed into sunrise the were with dew the whole of lake and mountain was softened by a veil of silver mist and immediately below on the terrace stood the red headed arrayed in the most surprising suit of pink and yellow checked a roll of under his arm and his honest face for all its and by emotion the mr he stammered i m awfully sorry to disturb you but i can t very well help it something awful s happened and people ought to know but i did not want to raise an alarm and frighten the ladies and you and he were friends i thought i d best let you know first quite right i said and what has happened the boy looked very sick he also looked young why â mr he stammered again i was going down to you see â and i came upon him suddenly he pointed over his shoulder just against the pier in the dead his eyes filled with tears it s awfully foolish but i never saw anyone dead before and i felt as if i didn t want it to be him he was such a good sort by the time i reached the little harbour the sun had cleared the top of the covered hills behind the hotel long shafts of delicate light pierced the silvery mist the pale shadow of the great building lay across the garden the pale shadow of the trees along the shore lay across the surface of the water of the harbour with raised wings and ruffled the two sailed in in fashion round the the head of the grey pier while along the top of the wide stone wall of it dark against the vast gleaming steel coloured of the lake the wretched little dog its tail between its legs and a of dirty rope still dangling from its neck the boy went on ahead the and the whom in passing we had called from the cottage in the comer under the plane trees followed me about a third of the distance along the pier the boy stopped come here mr he said in an voice look you can see him and there beneath some eight feet of clear water lay flat on his back green water weed rising around him swayed by the force of some otherwise current the outline of his body he was still in evening dress and his shirt front showed a wide heart shaped patch of white across which at the top of the water swam a of very small fishes all their heads one way â green â as the fatal glow worms or the eyes of the non yet truly dog which had combined to cause the of the man dead there among the weed below â when they moved away towards the farther shore and â when they turned altogether rapidly making the a tiny ripple on the surface of the water and swam back towards the little pier the matter was to raise the body at once before the hotel was awake and either curiosity or alarm were aroused some sailors off one of the sailed lake boats helped us it was a rather hideous business such as i sincerely hope it may never fall to my lot to take part in again i spare you the details suffice it to say that we carried that which had been up through the sunny garden the had neglected to clear away the remains of mr s supper and a flight of and rose and off the table from among the wet and of as we passed by the spare young russian woman very much en her magnificent hair all over her shoulders hung out of a fourth floor window one of those infinitely pathetic folk songs which seem so full of the sadness of long snow bound and the hopeless monotony of the otherwise we happily met no one saw no one â save the yawning lift boy â till we reached s room and laid him on his bed some of

31George Moore

as he will the cook has done his duty like a man though and a rich breakfast is set forth mr and mrs have joined the party among others mrs that should be by nature such a perfect and is and confidential to mrs whose mind is relieved of a great load and who takes her share of the champagne the very tall young man who suffered from excitement early is better but a vague sentiment of repentance has seized upon him and he hates the other very tall young man and dishes from him by violence and takes a grim delight in the company the company are cool and calm and do not outrage the black of pictures looking down upon them by any excess of mirth cousin and the major are the there but mr has a smile for the whole table he has an especial smile for the bride who very very seldom meets it cousin rises when the company have and the servants have left the room and wonderfully young he looks with his white almost hi and son otherwise rather bony and the bloom of the champagne in cheeks upon my honor says cousin although it s an unusual sort of thing in a private gentleman s house i must beg leave to call upon you to drink what is usually called a â in fact a toast the major very hoarsely his approval mr bending his head forward over the table in the direction of cousin smiles and a great many times a â in fact it s not a â cousin beginning again thus comes to a dead stop hear hear says the major in a tone of conviction mr softly his hands and bending forward over the table again smiles and a great many more times than before as if he were particularly struck by this last observation and desired personally to express his sense of the good it has done him it is says cousin an occasion in fact when the general of life may be a little departed from without and although i never was an orator in my life and when i was in the house of and had the honor of the address was â in fact was laid up for a fortnight with the consciousness of failure â the major and mr are so much delighted by this fragment of personal history that cousin laughs and addressing them goes on to say and in point of fact when i was devilish ill â still you know i feel that a duty upon me and when a duty upon an englishman he is bound to get out of it in my opinion in the best way he can well our family has had the gratification to day of connecting itself in the person of my lovely and accomplished relative whom i now see â in point of fact present â here there is general applause present cousin feeling that it is a neat point which will bear repetition â with one that is to say with a man at whom the finger of scorn can never â in fact and son m with my honorable friend if he will allow me to call him cousin bows to mr mr solemnly returns the bow everybody is more or less gratified and affected by this extraordinary and perhaps appeal to the feelings i have not says cousin enjoyed those opportunities which i could have desired of the acquaintance of my friend and studying those qualities which do equal honor to his head and in point of fact to his heart for it has been my misfortune to be as we used to say in my time in the house of when it was not the custom to allude to the lords and when the order of proceedings was perhaps better observed than it is now â to be in â in point of fact says cousin his joke with great and finally bringing it out with a jerk in another place the major falls into and is recovered with difficulty but i know sufficient of my friend cousin in a graver tone as if he had suddenly become a and a wiser man to know that he is in point of fact what may be emphatically called a â a merchant â a british merchant â and a â and a man and although i have been resident abroad for some years il would give me great pleasure to receive my friend and everybody here at and to have an opportunity of making em known to the grand duke still i know enough i flatter myself of my lovely and accomplished relative to know that she possesses every requisite to make a man happy and that her marriage with my friend is one of inclination and on both sides many smiles and from mr therefore says cousin i congratulate the family of which i am a member on the acquisition of my friend i congratulate my friend on his union with my lovely and accomplished relative who possesses every requisite to make a man happy and i take the liberty of calling on you all in point of fact to congratulate both my friend and my lovely and accomplished relative on the present w i and son the speech of cousin is received with great and mr returns thanks on behalf of himself and mrs j b shortly afterwards mrs the breakfast when that is done the are and rises to assume her travelling dress all the servants in the meantime have been below champagne has grown too common among them to be mentioned and roast fowls raised and have become mere the very tall young man has recovered his spirits and again to the his comrade s eye begins to his own and he too at objects without taking thereof there is a general in the faces of the

7James Baldwin

â and a capital meanwhile vexed with herself for not been as motionless as she was speechless and grieved to the heart to see s arrangements was by every thing in the power of her modest gentle nature to mr and avoid both his looks and and he was in both what did that shake of the head mean said he what was it meant to express i but of what what had i been saying to yoa did you think me speaking lightly on the subject only tell me if i was only tell me if i was wrong i want to be set right nay nay i entreat you for one moment put down your work what did that shake of the head mean in vain was her pray sir don t â pray mr ford â repeated twice over and in vain did she try to move away in the same low eager voice and the same close neighbourhood he went on re urging the same questions as before she grew more agitated and displeased how can you sir you quite astonish me â i wonder how you can do i astonish you said he do you wonder ii there any thing in my present entreaty that you do not understand i will explain to you instantly all that makes me urge you in this manner all that gives me an interest in what you look and do and my present curiosity i will not leave you to wonder long in spite of herself she could not help half a smile but she said nothing you shook your head at my acknowledging that i should not like to engage in the duties of a clergyman always for a constancy yes that was the word constancy i am not afraid of the word i would spell it read it park s write it with any body i see nothing alarming in the word did you think i ought perhaps sir said wearied at last into speaking â perhaps sir i thought it was a pity you did not always know yourself as well as you seemed to do at that moment delighted to get her to speak at any rate was determined to keep it up and poor who had hoped to silence him by such an extremity of reproof found herself sadly mistaken and that it was only a change from one object of curiosity and one set of words to another he had always something to the of the opportunity was too fair none such had since his seeing her in her uncle s room none such might occur again before his leaving lady s being just on the other side of the table was a trifle for she might always be considered as only awake and s were still of the first utility well said after a course of rapid questions and reluctant answers â i am happier than i was because i now understand more clearly your opinion of you think me unsteady â easily swayed by the whim of the moment â easily tempted â easily put aside such an opinion no wonder that â â but we shall see it is not by that i shall endeavour to convince you i am wronged it is not by telling you that my affections are steady my conduct shall speak me â absence distance time shall speak for me they shall prove that as far as you can be deserved by any body i do deserve you you are infinitely my superior in merit all that know you have qualities which i had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature you have some touches of the angel in you beyond what â not merely beyond what one sees because one never sees any thing like it but beyond what one fancies might be but still i am not frightened it is not by equality of merit that you can be won that is out of the question it is he who sees and your merit the strongest who loves you most that has the best right to a re x turn there i build my confidence by ri t i do and will deserve you and when once convinced that my attachment is what i it i know you too well not to entertain the warmest hopes â dearest sweetest â nay â seeing draw hack displeased forgive me perhaps i have as yet no right â but by what other name can i call you do you suppose you are ever present to my imagination under any other no it is that i think of all day and dream of all night you have given the name such of sweetness that nothing else can now be descriptive of you could hardly have kept her seat any longer or have refrained from at least trying to get away in spite of all the too public she foresaw to it had k not been for the sound of approaching relief the very sound which she had been long watching for and long strangely delayed the solemn procession headed by of urn and cake made its appearance and delivered her from a grievous imprisonment of body and mind mr was to move she was at liberty she was busy she was protected â was not sorry to be admitted again among the number of those who might speak and hear but though the conference had seemed full long to him and though on looking at he saw rather a of vexation he inclined to hope that so much could not have been said and l to without some to the speaker chapter iv had determined that it belonged entirely to to choose whether her situation with regard to should be mentioned between them or not and that if she did not lead the way it should ne er be touched

25Bret Harte

thereupon he promised her and kissed her tenderly and bade her be of good heart and so rode away with dogged resolution as soon as he was gone mercy s tears flowed without restraint her father set himself to console her good man he said is but gone back to the high road for a night or two to follow his trade of stand and deliver fear naught child his pistols are well i saw to that myself and his horse is the in the county you have him back in three days and money in both pockets i warrant you his is a better trade than mine and he is a fool to change it was two days upon the road and all that time lie was turning over and discussing in his mind how he should conduct the disagreeable but necessary business he had undertaken he determined at last to make the visit one of business only no heat no reproaches that lovely hateful woman might continue to his name for he had himself abandoned it he would not to receive any money that was hers but his own two thousand pounds he would have and two or three hundred on the spot by way of and with these hard views he drew near to but the nearer he got the slower he went for what at a distance had seemed tolerably easy began to get more and more difficult and repulsive moreover his heart which he thought he had began now to flutter a little and somehow tâ shudder at the approaching interview chapter xxx went to the gate of the grove and stayed there two hours but of course no came she returned the next night and the next and then she gave it up and awaited an explanation none came and she was bitterly disappointed and indignant she began to hate and to conceive a certain respect and even a friendship for the other woman he had insulted another to this change of feeling is to be found in a word she let drop in talking to another servant my mistress said she bears it like a man in fact mrs gaunt s conduct at this period was truly noble she suffered months of torture months of grief but the high spirited creature hid it from the world and maintained a sad but high composure she wore her black for she said how do i know he is alive she her establishment reduced her expenses two thirds and busied herself in works of charity and religion her desolate condition attracted a gentleman who had once loved her and now esteemed and pitied her profoundly â sir george he was still unmarried and she was the cause so far at least as this she had put him out of conceit with the other ladies at that period when he had serious thoughts of marriage and the inclination to marry at al had not since returned if the had settled at sir george would have been their near neighbor but s court was nine miles from castle and when they met which was not very often mrs gaunt was on her guard to give no shadow of uneasiness gaunt or j she was therefore rather more dignified and distant with sir george than her own inclination and his would have prompted for he was a superior and very agreeable man when it became quite certain that her husband had left her sir george rode up to castle and called upon her she begged to be excused from seeing him now sir george was universally and this rather him however he soon learned that she received nobody except a few religious friends of her own sex sir george then wrote her a letter that did him credit it was full of worthy sentiment and good sense for instance he said he desired to intrude his friendly offices and his sympathy upon her but nothing more time had cured him of those warmer feelings which had once ruffled his peace but time could not his tender esteem for the lady he had loved in his youth nor his profound respect for her character mrs gaunt wept over his gentle letter and was on the verge of asking herself why she had chosen instead of this she sent him a sweet yet prudent reply she did not encourage him to visit her but said that if ever she should bring herself to receive visits from the gentlemen of the county during her husband s absence he should be the first to know it she signed herself his unhappy but deeply grateful servant and friend one day as she came out of a poor woman s cottage with a little basket on her arm which she had emptied in the cottage she met sir george full he took his hat off and made her a profound bow he was then about to ride on but altered his mind and dismounted to speak to her the interview was constrained at first but he venture tâ y tell her she really ought to con lt with some old friend and practical man like himself he would undertake to the country and find her husband if he was above ground me go a hunting the man cried she turning red not if he was my king as well as my husband he where to find and that is enough well but madam would you not like to learn where he is and what he is doing why yes my good kind friend i like to know that and having pronounced these words with apparent calmness she burst out crying and almost ran away firom him sir george looked sadly after her and formed a worthy resolution he saw there was but one road to her regard he resolved to hunt her husband for her without on her or giving her a voice in the

8Jane Austen

in the end there were several times when could have paid half his had he been willing to do so but the chance of a little deeper and sweeping it all off at once was too much for his judgment and the opportunity slipped away then there came a sort of miniature black friday to him when he would not have been able to pay dollar for dollar on all he owed had he been called upon for immediate settlement the alarm he felt was so great that it actually landed him in bed sick from fear that the very worst was about to fall on him mrs with the kind interest she always showed attended him doing everything she could for his comfort this was on sunday when nothing new could be learned and he passed the day as he had the night between the sheets tossing about and getting very little sleep is there anything more i can do asked the widow when she had bathed his forehead and taken away the remains of the food he had hardly tasted yes he said you can let come up here mrs started but the young man was certainly quite ill he was like a real member of the family it would do no harm that she could conceive of and she replied with a few guarded expressions young s that she would let the girl come up for a little while but that he ought to try and get a nap before long she went down and had a talk with her daughter and twenty minutes later the young couple were together the door being left a little for the sake of mrs i am worried to death said taking s hand in his and i think all the time about you too if the market sinks again to morrow there will be little chance of my being able to provide a home for you in a long time she patted the hand gently and told him he must hope for better news in the morning and even if your worst fears are realized she added with a blush you will need me all the more it is not when one is successful that he most wants friends i have confidence in your ability and feel that you will come out of this difficulty a better business man than ever a grateful sensation stole through his veins as he felt the gentle pressure of that hand and heard those low words of cheer i wish ever so much he replied that i could afford to get married now as you say one needs true friends in more than when the best luck is with him i wanted you to come up just now more than i wanted anything else and i was half afraid your mother would not think it proper if we were married you would help me over such rough places as this in a way you cannot do now the thought of marriage always had a soothing influence on the girl she leaned over the bed and touched her cheek for one moment to his it cannot cost very much to be married she young fa wc s stammered looking at the pictures on the i know mamma s expenses are light and we have everything we need as for me i never want much i have clothes enough now to last almost a year it took the girl much longer to utter those sentences than it does you to read them every sentence hurt but she was ready for almost anything now except an j indefinite of her hopes was j the only man she had ever cared for and his faults did not seem as glaring to her as if this had not been the case if she could say anything to arouse the thought in his brain that he could marry without his bank balance provided there should be any when the next evening s papers arrived she wanted to do it and in this she was successful all the pleasures of being a husband the delight of calling that pretty girl his wife stole in upon the mind of the sick man w th a dream of future happiness he fell asleep her hand still in his and when he awoke an hour later he was much refreshed i must have slept a long time he exclaimed rousing himself and you did not move for fear of waking me what a good girl you are do you know i thought in my sleep that we were really married and it seemed as natural as could be he put one arm outside the and drew her toward him let me get out of this trouble with the market and i will not wait much longer dearest she let him steal one kiss from her cheek and then gently herself said she must go for awhile if he wanted anything he could ring the little bell that her mother had placed on the stand at the head of the bed young fa s l but i want something be smiled significantly i want you another kiss would have followed had she permitted it but she rose with a laugh telling him he was improving altogether too fast when the market had turned she said they would talk again she left the room a salute to him with her with which he was fain to be content for the present and having nothing to disturb him he went to sleep again in the morning he was down to breakfast at the usual hour the morning paper placed beside his plate told him there had been a reaction to some extent on saturday evening and that the tendency of prices was in his favor his depressed spirits began to rise and he went to his office with a good deal of courage by the use of

0Arthur Conan Doyle

one morning it is true â during a pretty stiff gale in the devil s hole or â they were remarkably at breakfast but not one of them now that we were getting near the banks they they declared that crossing the atlantic was mere child s play compared to crossing the channel bell grew learned about square sails and try sails and had picked up all the of the sailors give a man time to roll a man is not at all a proper sentiment for a young lady but a great deal is at sea then we had a day of rain and there were more huddled groups than ever in the smoking room playing and more groups than ever at the top of the ii t i mm m mid way looking out on the leaden sky and the leaden sea moreover as the day fog came on and that evening as we sat in the saloon there was ominous conversation abroad we heard the dull of the fog horn as we sped through the night was not our course somewhat too what about towards morning should we not be near cape race â not for ourselves but for the and on the great bank any one of which would be down by this huge vessel with only perhaps one shriek of agony to tell what had happened it was a gloomy evening but then the next morning where was the fog a dome of clear blue sky a sea of dark blue with the crisp white of the running waves a fresh breeze and now surely we were getting out of the region of unknown and monotonous waters into something definite human for it was with a great interest and gladness that the early found all around them the and it was with even a greater interest green pastures that we drew near and passed a boat full of men whose faces were shining red in the sun these axe the poor fellows i told you about said our admiral and commander in chief to her friend think of the danger they must be in on a night think of their wives and children at home i should not wonder if their wives were glad to see them when they got back to shore it is dreadful â dreadful said lady and perhaps it was the new excitement of seeing these strange faces that made her eyes moist we had to pass still another long beautiful day witli nothing around us visible but the blue sea and the blue sky but if the honest truth must be told we were not at all impatient to find before us the far low line of the land indeed we looked forward to leaving this life on board ship with not a little regret we were going further perhaps to fare worse we had become a sort of happy family by this time and had made a whole host of friends whom we seemed to have known all our lives and one of us was rather proud of her skill at rope and an mid atlantic other was mad on the subject of sea air and another â his were von â was deeply interested in the and of the smoking room what would the next day s run be what would the number of the pilot be would that ancient have a moustache or not there was a frightful of gambling going on the next morning our admiral insisted that there was a strong of in the air and seemed proud of the fact madame said our german friend seriously it is a happy omen i do not think you could prevent a much the men say there is no such place as they will not be they will return to spain the crew of the are in revolt they do not care any more for the presence of those birds â not at all if we do not see land soon they will kill you and go home but the confidence which we placed in our admiral was soon to be justified far away on the southern horizon we at length a pilot boat flying the flag of proffered assistance pastures we hailed with joy the appearance of this small vessel which the savage inhabitants of the nearest coast had doubtless sent out to welcome the of and we regarded with awe and reverence the sublime features of madame now with triumph as for the wretched creatures who had been it is not for this hand to chronicle the sudden change in their manner they implored toys a great historian to pardon their ignorance incredulity and which had created unnecessary and had so often the of her well plan and passing in the warmth of their from one extreme to another i they her whom they had so lately and threatened to be a person inspired by heaven with sagacity and fortitude more than human in order to accomplish a design so far beyond the ideas and of all former ages stranger still the native whom we took on board this friendly boat was found to be clothed and he spoke a language which although not english was intelligible we regarded him with great curiosity but there was nothing savage or mid atlantic uncouth in manners he had rings in his ears and he smoked a short clay pipe of course our excitement all that day was great and there was a wild scene in the in the evening â a mock trial by jury having produced a good many bottles of in the way of the songs were hearty and hoarse we a rug on the following morning there was something to make one rub one s eyes it was a long faint pale blue thing stretching along the western horizon and having the appearance of a huge whale lying in the mist of the early

48Thomas Nelson Page

is put by it explains the inevitable exaltation of the author in his solitude among the stars the system by the same author the structure of the earth also by the same author we wonder that some of our do not these remarkable works it is most desirable that they should also be illustrated like the and could not these same illustrations be imported for the american poetry romance and being the articles under these heads contained in the seventh edition the two first of these are by george the professor of in university and the of s magazine and the last was written by william esq record of the t the history of english poetry by thomas three volumes london this is a new edition from dr price s edition of and enriched by new notes and matter a letter to the human race by a brother london religion and crime or the distress of the people and the third edition by john m london religion and education in america with notices of the state and prospects of american and african by john d london or annals of the christian church from its foundation to the present time to which are added lists of and of and of by the rev j c riddle m a london and co vo the poetical works of thomas esq collected and by himself with new notes to be completed in ten monthly volumes london vo human part the third the generation growth decay and varieties of mankind with an on last part by john m d london the natural history of society in the barbarous and civilized state an essay towards discovering the origin and course of human improvement by w esq ll d m r a s london two volumes vo lectures on natural philosophy by the rev james william professor of natural philosophy to the national board of education london in its to and by dr f r s professor of in the university of from the manuscript of the author by play fair d vo london and this work is written with a rare degree of sagacity and is full of immediate practical of importance from its appearance we may date a new era in and the imagination cannot conceive the amount of improvement which may be expected from the application of the principles here developed â dr w british elements of including the recent discoveries and doctrine of the science by the late edward m d seventh edition by m d and william m d of king s college vo by professor by g d and professor m d forming the record of the third aod part of the sixth edition of s part third the of esq with additions and by w d d vo london the life and times of saint by the rev george m a london die den der in von vo s von des der und in von s und von und th w system der moral the reputation of unlike that of most german appears to be increasing since his death he was a scholar of almost universal accomplishments a deep and subtle especially on subjects connected with the philosophy of religion and a singularly just and candid on problems of science but his style is so shaded with the obscurity which few of s followers have escaped that his works can hardly command a general interest even in his own country they form a curious study however and one not altogether without attractions to the die und der von dr g b und this is a complete and very satisfactory biography of the celebrated historian its interest is much by the addition of a copious selection from his correspondence s und von dr is worthy to be mentioned in company with and as one of the most distinguished classical scholars of whom german literature can boast his labors in greek give him a conspicuous place in the history of his personal character presents great attractions for the contemplation of the literary man and we rejoice that he has found a to do justice to his memory with so much and â beauty as the present work j j the dial vol april no iv the movement in new england the movement in new england has a deeper for the philosopher and historian than is brought out in the works of those engaged in it it is quite likely too that there is a deeper one than those in the midst of the dust and smoke and tumult of the contest whether friends or foes can discover for themselves or even see when it is pointed out by others it will be well for us therefore to retire if we can for a while from the scene of and turmoil to some eminence from which we may view the field by personal feelings and interests not only to see how goes the day but also to see more clearly what the nature and object of the contest really are this we now propose to do we call the movement in the church the movement because it is now known by that name and because a better does not readily occur to us rather than because we like it as probable that the results to which we shall arrive will not be satisfactory to the in every particular we wish to their good will by showing that we fully appreciate their labors and motives and the necessity there was that something should have been done we are not however satisfied with the solution of the movement that is now common namely that certain noble and manly souls feeling the oppression and tyranny of the form of church government and discipline and gifted with a insight and a more sensitive con vol i no iv t e movement april science than their seeing absurdity in their doctrines in their faith and in their worship

36Jacob Abbott

john never told me he was handsome â she mused but he is i wonder why she didn t mention it so odd of her â because really there are very few good looking men anywhere and one in the shape of a parson is a positive and ought to go on exhibition i he s clever too â and â obstinate yes i should say he was obstinate but he has kind eyes and he isn t married what a comfort that is are uninteresting enough in themselves as a rule but their wives are the last possibility in the way of oh that and she sprang over the grass to the comer of a hedge where a long trail of the exquisitely scented flower hung as it seemed within reach but when she approached it she found it just too high above her to be plucked from the bough where its looking up at it she softly o fortune tu es tu ton qui un here a sudden rustle in the leaves on the other side of the hedge startled her and a curious looking human head adorned with somewhat disordered locks of red hair up jumped back with an exclamation saint moses what is it it is me i merely me and sir s guest mr rose to his full height god s good man and turned his face of more or less comic melancholy upon her â pray do not be alarmed i i have been under the trees â and i was or so i imagine in a brief slumber when some as of a awoke me â here stooping to the ground for his hat he secured it and waved it â and i have i fear created some dismay in the mind of the interesting young person who if i mistake not is a friend of miss surveyed him with considerable amusement never mind who i am i she said coolly â tell me who you are my faith â you are as rough all over as a bear what have you been doing to yourself your clothes are covered with leaves even as a babe in the wood responded yes â it is so and he began to pick delicately the various and scraps of forest which had collected and clung to his suit during his open air â to speak truly i am a in these â they are the woods i know â forbidden and possibly guarded by spring guns but i not the board which speaks of i came to gather â innocent â merely that and no to adorn my humble cot â i have a cot not far from here and as for my identity my name is â â a poor of â a service he waved his hat with a grand flourish again and smiled oh i know said â has spoken of you â you ve taken a cottage here for the summer pick that bit of for me will you â that long trail just hanging over you with pleasure and he gathered the spray and handed it to her thanks and she smiled as she took it how did you get into that wood did you jump the hedge i did replied could you jump it again most assuredly then do it whereupon clapped his hat on his head and resting a hand firmly on one of the rough posts which supported the close green barrier between them lightly over it and stood beside her not badly done â said him â god s good man for a poor of as you call yourself most men who moon about and write verse are too drunken and vicious to even see a hedge â much less jump over it oh say not so exclaimed â you are too young to pass judgment on the gods the gods i exclaimed â whatever are you talking about the gods of greece they were an awful lot â perfectly awful they wouldn t have been admitted even into modem society and that s bad enough i don t think the worst woman that ever dined at a paris with an english cabinet minister would have spoken to par i m sure she wouldn t she d have drawn the line there gracious heavens and stared in at his companion first up then down â at her wild hair now loosened from its form of and scarcely restrained by the big sun hat which was tied on anyhow â at her great dark eyes â at her thin figure and long legs â legs which were still somewhat too visible though since her arrival at s had some thoughtful alterations in the dress of her musical which had considerably improved her appearance â is it possible to hear such things why of course it is as you ve got ears and have heard them said with a laugh â don t ask is it possible to do a thing when you ve done it that s not logical â and men do pride themselves on their logic though i could never find out why do you like and she thrust the great bunch she ha gathered up against his nose â there s a poem for you the fresh fine of the field blossoms he still looked at her in amazement she meeting his gaze the least touch of embarrassment you can walk home with me if you like â she observed â i won t promise to ask you into the because perhaps won t want you and i she won t approve of my picking up a young man in the woods but it s rather fun to talk to a poet â i ve never met one before they don t come out in paris they live in holes and comers to keep off hunger alas that is so and began to keep pace

32George William Curtis

or either has not been awakened at night by the and of those jaws under the window or in the direction of the vegetable patch i have had the cows after they had eaten up my garden break into the stable where my own was tied and her our rural divinity and her meal yes life presents but one absorbing problem to the street cow and that is how to get into your garden she catches glimpses of it over the fence or through the and her imagination or is when the spot is surrounded by a high board fence i think i have seen her peeping at the through a knot hole at last she to open the gate it is a great triumph of wit she does it with her horn or her nose or may be with her ever ready tongue i doubt if she has ever yet penetrated the mystery of the patent but the old fashioned thumb latch she can see through give her time enough a large or cow used to annoy me in this way when i was a in a certain pastoral city i more than half suspected she was turned in by some one so one day i watched presently i heard the gate latch rattle the gate swung open and in walked the old on seeing me she turned and ran like a horse i then fastened the gate on the and watched again after long waiting the old cow came quickly round the corner and approached the gate she lifted the latch with her nose then as the gate did not move she lifted it again and again then she gently it then the gate not taking the hint she it gently then harder and still harder till it rattled again at juncture i emerged from my hiding place when the old villain off with great our rural divinity she knew she was and she had learned that there were usually some swift attached to this i have owned but three cows and loved but one that was the first one a bright red golden cow that an ocean steamer landed for me upon the banks of the one bright may day many ago she came from the north from the pastoral regions of the to upon the broad of the national capital i was then the fortunate and happy of an old place with an acre of ground attached almost within the shadow of the dome of the behind a high but aged and board fence i indulged my rural and tastes i could look up from my homely tasks and cast a almost in the midst of that of marble steps that out of the north wing of the patriotic pile ah when that creaking and back gate closed behind me in the evening i was happy and w hen it opened for my thence in the morning i was not happy inside that gate was a miniature farm oi homely primitive life a tumble down house and stables and implements of and of chickens and growing and a thousand to the weariness of an artificial life outside of it were the marble and iron palaces the paved and streets and the high vacant mahogany desk of a government clerk in that ancient i took an earth bath twice a day i our rural divinity planted myself as deep in the soil as i could to restore the normal tone and freshness of my system by the above mentioned government mahogany i have found there is nothing like the earth to draw the various social out of one the blue devils take flight at once if they see you mean to bury them and make of them that the scholar had better not try to have two gardens but i could never spend an hour up dock and red root and grass without in some way getting rid of many weeds and that a petty in doors life was forever in my own moral and intellectual nature but the finishing touch was not given till came she was the jewel for which this homely setting waited my had some object then the old gate never opened with such alacrity as when she paused before it how we waited for her coming should i send the colored for her no the master of the house himself should receive at the capital one for you said the clerk referring to the steamer bill of then i hope it s a of milk i said i expected a cow one it says here well let s see it i warrant it has horns and is tied by a rope which proved to be the case for there stood the only object that bore my name its on the forward deck how she liked the our rural divinity voyage i could not find out but she seemed to relish much the feeling of solid ground beneath her feet once more that she led me a lively step all the way home she cut in front of the white house and tried twice to wind me up in the rope as we passed the treasury she kicked up her heels on the broad avenue and became very as she came under the walls of the but that night the long vacant stall in the old stable was filled and the next morning the coffee had met with a change of heart i had to go out twice with the lantern and survey my treasure before i went to bed did she not come from the mountains and did i not have a sort of filial regard for her as toward my foster mother this was during the age at the capital before the easy going southern ways had gone out and the new northern ways had come in and when the domestic animals were treated with distinguished consideration and granted the freedom

46Sarah Stickney Ellis

devil take you cried furiously what makes you stand about like that you gave me quite a turn i didn t mean for to do it i ve only just been answering of the door why surely you ve come in before now and found me in the hall without making much account of it ah answered my nerves have had a shake of late i ve felt queer all day look how my hand shakes well i m blessed said the girl with a turning up the gas i never thought to see you of anything why you looks as white as a sheet there that s enough he answered roughly where are the others jane is out cook and william and the boy are downstairs come into the library here they will think that you are up in the bed rooms i want to have a quiet word or two with you turn up that reading lamp well are they gone yes they are gone she answered standing by the side of the couch on which he had thrown himself your father came about three with a cab and took her away she didn t make a fuss make a fuss no why should she there s fuss enough made about her in all conscience oh before she got between us you was kind to me at times i could stand harsh words from you six days a week if there was a chance of a kind one on the seventh but now â now what notice do you take of me she began to and to wipe her eyes with a little pocket handkerchief drop it woman drop it cried her companion i want information not she seemed reconciled to go yes she went quiet enough the girl said with a fur live sob the firm of just give me a drop of brandy out of that bottle there the one with the cork half out ive not got my start yet did you hear my father say anything as to where they were going i heard him tell the to to station nothing more no well if he won t tell you i will they have gone down to my is the name of the place and it is a pleasant little comer near the sea i want you to go down there as well to morrow want me to go yes they need some one who is smart and handy to keep house for them there is some old woman already i believe but she is old and useless i warrant you wouldn t take long getting things my father to stay down there some little time with miss and how about you the girl asked with a quick flash of suspicion in her dark eyes don t trouble about me i shall stay behind and mind the business some one must be on the spot i think cook and jane and william ought to be able to look after me among them and i won t see you at all the girl cried with a quiver in her voice oh yes you shall i ll be down from saturday to monday every week and perhaps oftener if business goes well i may come down and stay for some time whether i do or not may depend upon you started and uttered an exclamation of surprise how can it depend upon me she asked eagerly well said in a hesitating way it may depend whether you are a good girl and do what you are told or not i am sure that you would do anything at all to serve me would you not you know very well that i would when you want anything done you remember it but if you have no use for me then there is never a kind look on your face or a kind word from your lips if i was a dog you could not use me worse i could stand your i could the firm of stand the blow you gave me and forgive you for it from my heart but oh it cut me to the very soul to be standing by and waiting while you were making up to another woman it was more than i can bear never mind my girl said in a soothing voice that s all over and done with see what ive brought you he in his pocket and produced a little parcel of paper which he handed to her it was only a small silver anchor with scotch pebbles in it the woman s eyes however flashed as she looked at it and she raised it to her lips and kissed it passionately god bless it and you too she said i ve heard tell as the anchor s the emblem of hope and so it shall be with me oh you may travel far and meet them as can play and can sing and do many a thing as i can t do but you ll never get one who will love you as dearly and well i know it my i know it said down her dark hair for she had dropped upon her knees beside the couch i ve never met your equal yet that s why i want you down at i must have some one there that i can trust what am i to do down at she asked i want you to be miss s companion she ll be lonely and will need some other woman in the house to look after her curse her cried springing to her feet with flashing eyes you are still thinking of her then she must have this she must have that everything else is as dirt before her i ll not serve her â so there you can knock me down if you like said slowly do you hate from the bottom of my soul she

3Edith Wharton

beautiful and well kept can you make these broken things beautiful said then indeed you shall you may come here to mend them when you will they are very fine though so old and ill cared for said anne looking up at them and i shall be only too happy sitting here thinking of all you are doing while i am at my work thinking of all i am doing laughed mistress that would give you such wondrous things to dream of anne that you would have no time for your needle and my would stay as they are i can think and dam also said mistress anne â so i will come chapter thus the face the moan upon from that time into the young woman s dull life there came a little change it did not seem a little change to her but a great one though to others it would have seemed slight indeed she was an affectionate creature who would have made the best of wives and mothers if it had been so ordained by fort and something of her natural instincts found outlet in the service she paid her sister who became the of her soul she and patched the tattered with a wonderful neatness and the hours she spent at work in the chamber were to her almost as sacred as hours spent at religious duty or as those and give to altar there was a brightness in the room that seemed in no other in the house and the lingering in the air of it were as incense to her in secrecy she even busied herself with keeping things in better order than mistress s woman had ever had time to do before she also contrived to get in her own hands some duties a lady of quality that were s own she could mend lace cleverly and arrange knots with taste and even change the fashion of a gown the hard worked tire woman was but too glad to be relieved and kept her secret well being praised many times for the set or fashion of a thing into which she had not so much as set a needle being a shrewd baggage she was wise enough always to relate to anne the story of her mistress s pleasure having the wit to read in her delight that she would be encouraged to fresh effort at times it so that when anne went into the she found the beauty there who if she chanced to be in the humor would detain her in her presence for a space and her over again in it seemed that she took a pleasure in showing her female how full of all she could be at such times anne s plain face would almost bloom with excitement and her shot s eyes would glow as if beholding a goddess she neither saw nor heard more of the ture on the it used to make her tremble at times to fancy that by some strange chance it might still be under the bed and that the handsome face smiled and the blue eyes gazed in the very apartment where she herself sat and her sister was and in all her beauty she used all her modest skill in fitting to her a lady of quality own shape and the cast off bits of finery bestowed upon her it was all set to rights long before recalled to mind that she had promised that anne should some time see her chance visitors take their dish of tea with her but one day for some cause she did ber and sent for her anne ran to her and her gown with shaking hands she laughed a little as she did it seeing her plain face in the glass she tried to dress her head in a fashion new to her and knew she did it ill and but had no time to change it if she had had some red she would have put it on but no such were in her chamber or s so she rubbed her cheeks hard and even pinched them so that in the end they looked as if they were badly it seemed to her that her nose grew red too and indeed twas no wonder for her hands and feet were like ice she must be ashamed of me the humble creature said to herself and if she is ashamed she will be and send me away and be friends no more she did not deceive herself poor thing and a ne she had the chance of being regarded with any great if she appeared ill a lady of quality mistress begged that you would come quickly said knocking at the door so she caught her handkerchief which was scented as all her garments were with dried rose leaves from the garden which she had herself and went down to the parlor trembling it was a great room with white and to the furniture there were a number of ladies and gentlemen standing talking and laughing loudly together the men the women and most of them stood in a circle about mistress who sat upright in a great chair smiling with her mocking stately air as if she defied them to dare to speak what they felt anne came in like a mouse nobody saw hen she did not indeed know what to do she dared not remain standing all alone so she crept to the place where her sister s chair was and stood a little behind its high back her heart beat within her breast till it was like to choke her they were only country gentlemen who made the circle but to her they seemed dashing that of them had red noses as well as cheeks and that their voices were big and their boisterous was no to their manly charms because she had seen no a lady of

12Nathaniel Hawthorne