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so many in almost every yard and blind place near there was a church the confusion of bells when and mr themselves towards it on the sunday morning was there were twenty churches close together for people to come in the two stray sheep in question were by a in a and being early sat for some time counting the congregation listening to the disappointed bell high up in the tower or looking at a shabby little old man in the porch the screen who was ringing the same like the bull in cock robin with his foot in a mr after a lengthened survey of the large books on the reading desk whispered miss and son s that he wondered where the were kept but that young lady merely shook her head and frowned for the time all approaches of a nature mr however appearing unable to keep his thoughts from the was evidently looking out for them during the whole preliminary portion of the service as the time for reading them approached the poor young gentleman manifested great anxiety and which was not diminished by the unexpected apparition of the captain in the front row of the gallery when the clerk handed up a list to the clergyman mr being then seated held on by the seat of the but when the names of walter gay and were read aloud as being in the third and last stage of that association he was so entirely conquered by hb feelings as to rush from the church without his hat followed by the and and two gentlemen of the medical profession who happened to be present of whom the first named presently returned for that article informing miss in a whisper that she was not to make herself uneasy about the gentleman as the gentleman said his was of no consequence miss feeling that the eyes of that portion of europe which lost itself weekly among the high were upon her would have been sufficiently embarrassed by this incident though it had terminated here the more so as the captain in the front row of the gallery was in a state of consciousness which could hardly fail to express to the congregation that he had some mysterious with it but the extreme restlessness of mr painfully increased and protracted the delicacy of her situation that young gentleman incapable in his state of mind of remaining alone in the churchyard a prey to solitary meditation and also desirous no doubt of his respect for the offices he had in some measure interrupted suddenly returned â not coming back to the but himself on a free seat in the aisle between two elderly females who were in the habit of their portion of a weekly of bread then set forth on a shelf in the porch in this mr remained greatly the congregation who felt it impossible to avoid looking at and son him until his feelings overcame him again when he departed silently and suddenly not venturing to trust himself in the church any more and yet wishing to have some social in what was going on there mr was this seen from time to time looking in with a aspect at one or other of the windows and as there were â several windows accessible to him from without and as his restlessness was very great it not only became difficult to conceive at which window he would appear next but likewise became necessary as it were for the whole congregation to upon the chances of the windows during the comparative leisure afforded them by the sermon mr s movements in the churchyard were ao eccentric that he seemed generally to defeat all calculation and to appear like the s figure where he was least expected i and the effect of these mysterious was much increased by its being difficult to him to see in and easy to everybody else to see out which occasioned his remaining every time longer than might have been expected with his face close to the glass until he all at once became aware that all eyes were upon him and vanished these proceedings on the part of mr and the strong individual consciousness of them that was exhibited by the captain rendered miss s position so responsible a one that she was relieved by the conclusion of the service and was hardly so to mr as usual when he informed her and the captain on the way back that now he was sure he had no hope you know he felt more comfortable â at least not exactly more comfortable but more comfortably and completely miserable swiftly now indeed the time flew by until it was the evening before the day appointed for the marriage they were all assembled in the upper room at the s and had no fear of interruption for there were no in the house now and the had it all to himself they were grave and quiet in the prospect of to morrow but cheerful too with walter close beside her was finishing a little piece of work intended as a parting gift to the captain the captain was playing with mr mr waa t i â k ⠞ â â â â â â â â â v â f r i â to t â it â â â t r â i â â i i s i t oi â u s and son taking counsel as to his hand of miss was giving it with all due and was listening and occasionally breaking out into a half smothered fragment of a bark of which he afterwards seemed half ashamed as if he doubted having any reason for it steady steady said the captain to what s amiss with you you don t seem easy in your mind to night my boy his tail but pricked up his ears immediately afterwards and gave utterance

7James Baldwin

nothing more said the girl quietly yea and daily bread for some other little mouths if god send them observed the simple lad did not reply but looked down into the spring where she encountered the image of her own pretty blushing within the little bonnet the third pilgrim now took up the conversation he was a of tall frame and bony strength on whose rude and manly face there appeared a darker more sullen and obstinate despondency than on those of either the poet or the merchant well now he began these folks have had their say so i take my turn my story will cut bat a poor figure by the side of theirs for i never supposed that i could have a right to meat and drink and great praise besides only for together as it seems this man does nor ever tried to get the substance of hundreds into my own hands like the there when i was about of your years i married me a wife â just such a neat and pretty young woman as if that s her name â and all i asked of providence was an ordinary blessing on the sweat of my brow so that we might be decent and comfortable and have daily bread for ourselves and for some other little mouths that we soon had to feed we had no very great prospects before us but i never wanted to be idle and i thought it a matter of course that the lord would help me because i was willing to help myself and did n t he help thee friend with some eagerness â no said the sullenly for then you would not have seen me here i have labored hard for years and my means have been growing and my living poorer and my heart colder and heavier all the time till at last i could bear it no longer i set myself down to calculate whether i had best go on the expedition or come here to the village but i had not hope enough left in me to begin the world over again and to make my story short here i am and now take my advice and turn back or else some few years hence you have to climb this hill with as heavy a heart as mine this simple story had a strong effect on the young the misfortunes of the poet and merchant had won little sympathy from their plain good sense and feelings qualities which made them such and judges that few men would have chosen to take the opinion of this youth and maiden as to the wisdom or folly of their pursuits but here was one whose simple wishes had resembled their own and who after efforts which almost gave him a right to claim success from fate had failed in them but thy wife friend exclaimed the young man what became of the pretty girl like o i am afraid she is dead yea poor man she must be dead â she and the children too sobbed the the female pilgrim had been leaning over the spring wherein a tear or two might have been seen to and form its little circle on the surface of the water she now looked up features still comely but which had acquired an expression of in the same long course of evil fortune that had thrown a sullen gloom over the temper of the i am his wife said she a shade of just perceptible in the sadness of her tone these poor little things asleep on the ground are two of our children we had more but god has provided better for them than we could by taking them to himself and what would thee advise and me to do asked this being the first question which she had put to either of the strangers t is a thing almost against nature for a woman to try to part true lovers answered the s wife after a pause but i speak as truly to you as if these were my dying words though my husband told you some of our troubles he did n t mention the greatest and that which makes all the rest so hard to bear if you and your sweetheart marry you be kind and pleasant to each other for a year or two and while that s the case you never will repent but by and by he u grow gloomy rough and hard to please and you be and full of hale angry fits apt to be complaining by the fireside when he comes to rest himself from his troubles out of doors so your love will wear away by little and little and leave you miserable at last it has the been so with us and yet my husband and i were true lovers once if ever two young folks were as she ceased the and his wife exchanged a glance in which there was more and warmer affection than they had supposed to have escaped the frost of a wintry te in either of their breasts at that moment when they stood on the utmost verge of married life one word spoken or perhaps one peculiar look had they had mutual confidence enough to it might have renewed all their old feelings and sent them back resolved to sustain each other amid the struggles of the world but the crisis passed and never came again just then also the children roused by their mother s voice looked up and added their wailing accents to the testimony borne by all the against the world from which they fled we are tired and hungry cried they is it far to the village the youth and maiden looked mournfully into each other s eyes they had but stepped across the threshold of their homes when lo the dark array of cares and sorrows that

34Henry Rider Haggard

i suppose you to forget ned m u is it s son v the a other an how are you man alive why you see ned i ve been so long out of the an i m now so short a time back that upon my i forget a great many of my ould acquaintances especially them that only slips when i across j faith i m well ned i thank you bad luck to that you not but that you got off well on the whole by all accounts they say only that swore like a man you d a got a touch of the shoe to the it all now ned let us have no more about it i don t for my own part like to think of it have you any notion of what we re called upon for to night v the but i believe that s not the white headed boy you no nor some more of us him a double villain faith they never good that had the white liver an he has it to the back bone my brother that s now dead god rest him often me about the way he him and when they green horns about these were words of m and are taken from the arrangement of the seven ages of the christian church as adopted by the writers of t in other words when he was transported x gallows h i the or sixteen or seventeen he got them to join him in for their christmas dinner he said so they an three stole it an the and cut it up my poor of a brother home to hide the skin in the in our barn and poor only the head an to hide them in his father s cow house very good in a day or two the neighbours all called upon to clear themselves upon the holy the first two that he an to do it was my brother an of he the t himself that he was innocent but it was all over some one that lost the sheep to the very spot where they hid the an didn t wish to say much about it so he them if they d fairly acknowledge it an pay him them for the sheep he d it my father an did so an there it ended but the of the mutton ever they tasted in the mane time as for he managed the thing so well that at the time they never suspected him although a other could betray them for he was the only one knew it an he had the o the mutton too the faith ned i know him well now think o that an him only a boy at the time has to get a back o the boys an how he has an tis that an he s a good hand to be for my on that made me join him i what could make him refuse to let join him v is it my cousin from an did he a lie in it it s as as you re there but do you know what s suspected m no â a soft silly fellow t to the i to swear and it if generally the off why that he has an eye on s daughter me that for a long time o was transported the father and son of him of something they hard from himself hard it from his sister an it appears that the s daughter her family that he used to stare her out of countenance at mass an several times to put the on her in hopes to get acquainted he would do it an my hand to you if he it he ll not fail i ll tell you another thing if he suspected that i knew anything about the he â ut on my poor brother the a toe he d let me join him but you see i was only a mere at the time at all let us keep an eye on him an in regard to o s business let him not be too sure that that s over him yet at any rate by my father has slipped out a name upon him an us that will do him no good the other boys now call us the that bein the place where his father lived an the you see rises out of his to poor o did he ever give any hint himself about away the s daughter is it him oh ho catch him at it he s a dam sight too close to do any thing after some farther conversation upon that and other topics arrived at the place of appointment which was a hedge school house one of those where the master generally an unmarried man merely his during school hours leaving it open and for the rest of the twenty four the appearance of those who were here assembled was indeed singularly striking a large fire of the brought by the scholars on that morning an over civil and plausible manner of addressing a person k the or was kindled in the middle of the floor â its usual site around upon stones and seats of various descriptions sat the boys some smoking and others drinking for upon nights of this kind a house keeper uniformly a member of such societies generally for the sale of his liquor if he cannot succeed in prevailing on them to hold their meetings in his own house a circumstance which for many reasons may not be in every case advisable as they had hot all yet assembled nor the business of the night commenced they were of course divided into several groups and engaged in various amusements in the lower end of the house was a knot busy at the game of spoil their ludicrous table being the

49William Black

said that i was going to his wedding in two days so as we couldn t think of anyone else the matter was left over till to morrow afternoon when would he have to start asked dick at once the thing is urgent on friday by the mail about seven o clock in the evening and you see he is to be married that afternoon it s a thousand as it would have been a great chance for him and for us too a dick thought a moment and light came to him my cousin is a curious fellow he said and i am not by any means certain that he would let his marriage stand in the way of duty if it were put to him like that how long would this mission take oh he could be back here in three months er â you know r â it would not be entirely devoid of risk that s why we must have whose nerve can be really relied on likes risks as you say it would suit him down to the ground look here lord why don t you give him the chance it would be kind of you it s a shame to take away a fellow s opportunities because he the crime of getting married and matrimonial bliss will generally keep three months send for him and ask him at any rate he will appreciate the compliment don t think i should if i had only been married an hour or two said lord however the public service must be considered so i will hear what my chief says where will a wire find him dick gave the address and as an added that of lord in square where it occurred to him that would very likely be on the following afternoon suggesting that it would be wise to send any in very well said the under secretary as he made a note of the addresses i will settle it one way or another to morrow afternoon shan t get the chance before and he turned to go one word broke in dick i shall take it as a favour if you don t mention my in connection with this matter of course i want to do him a good turn but there is no knowing how the lady will take it and i might get afterwards all right answered lord with a laugh remember of tbe spirit i don t think that would see spending her amongst the savages of the reflected dick to himself with a crooked little smile as he made his way into the house not devoid of risk yes s friend went on a special mission to the and did not come back on the following afternoon about four o clock as was leaving his mother s house to see in square where she had taken up her abode a messenger put a into his hand which read come to the war office at once must speak with you upon very important business will wait here till five wondering what he was wanted for told his to drive to pall and within half an hour of the receipt of the sent in his card presently he was shown not to the under secretary s room but into another where he found the secretary of state and with him lord prompt very prompt i see colonel said the former an excellent quality in an officer now sit down and i will just go over the main points of this business if you undertake it lord will explain the details afterwards you know the district and the and their don t you and you can speak well can t you also you have had experience haven t you yes sir to all four questions answered very good these have been giving a lot of trouble and people about and so forth according to our reports which you can see afterwards a they have been stirred up by a rascal call the of the sweet wells do you know him yes sir replied with a little smile he threatened to murder me the other day i can quite believe it now see here we are advised that of these chiefs including the one who has the most influence are getting tired of the and his little ways and are in short open to treat if only they can be got at by whom they know and have their palms well now for various reasons the egyptian government does not wish to send an to them or any who is at present on the spot you see the would hear of it at once and might come down on them what is wanted is an travelling apparently on his own business or if it is disguised as an who will slip through to them quietly and arrange a treaty i need not say that whoever did this satisfactorily would earn the gratitude of the egyptian government and would not be overlooked at the proper time now colonel it has occurred to us that you are the very man for this a ir especially as you would take our complete confidence with you i am much honoured said flushing at the compliment i should like the mission above all things especially as i understand these men one or two of whom are rather friends of mine indeed the most influential of them accompanied me on a shooting expedition and if anyone can move him i think i can there would be risks put in lord for under the circumstances his kind heart him i don t mind risks or at least i am accustomed to them my lord said quietly there is another point went on lord supposing that you were to fail â and failure must be contemplated â it might be needful as no forward policy has been announced of tbe spirit at present

17Theodore Dreiser

springing up drew his terrible sword closed with the giant and cut off his right arm the monster roared with pain but continued to fight though yelling at intervals as loudly as ever till near sunset when the patient knight who had l to wait years liberty and bestowed on to preserve the life of its wear or water the thai up with the greatest care the i in his adventure and after an the capital of r from testify head of a second giant in ac muttered a few words of death he still hoped to compass to upon a thin requested a of twelve we his strength and having by obtained this permission bell to whom ne had much to that he had done and of all t parted was terminated by protest his part which re echoed i his successful performance of th anticipated his easy achievement had promised to reward by the gi themselves as already united to e and began to think almost so that usual in that age of the world tl the order of the ceremonies the twelve weeks of were soon passed and towards rome for the purpose which had long the fore took leave of his mi â of sir had perished in his conflict with the began to flatter himself that his former projects respecting the of the fair might yet be realized when he heard with equal and indignation that she was happily delivered of a most beautiful boy then the earl made his vow daughter unto the sea shalt thou in a ship by thee one thy son shall be thy it none here her maidens wept each one her mother in did fall right so did her all but was fruitless and the lovely was with her in nt son abandoned to the winds and waves in a vessel without sail oars or the vessel however seems to have performed a voyage of no contemptible h with considerable expedition in the first instance indeed it brought her to a country without any human inhabitants where she landed and where a bird which is still known to and which is called a carried off her infant son who was enveloped in a scarlet mantle and had round his waist a golden the mother again embarked and after a second voyage during which as the great book of rome says she was five days without food arrived on the shores of â was discovered and conveyed to the king and the said king fortunately turning out to be her was most kindly and entertained during a period of about fifteen years in the mean time her son was carried by the into was found by the king of that country who happened to be hunting was educated with great care at his court under the name of because he from the of a and became in process of time a most and accomplished knight we must now return to sir who being whole and sound took leave of the emperor of rome and of his fair daughter and travelling as as he could arrived in with his s head and learnt the whole extent of his misfortune went into the hall before the and all and thou of take he said the s alone â â this passage does not refer to the as bat merely to the great book of the original of the tale it mast be left to the sagacity of reader to find out the language in which the word has this all mine that here is what thou in my great it was to hear when he called his what art thou drowned in the sea that died on on thy have mercy and on that child bo free the earl was so of that he was in to take uie tower that woe him be to him in this would have occasioned a loss of much time and was anxious to leave a country now grown hateful to him he therefore ordered all the property of his to be seized divided it amongst those whom he to be most and rewarded other friends by on them the order of and ordered masses to be sung in all the churches for the soul of his departed for the holy land where during fifteen years he distinguished himself both in battle and in by of arms against the at this time the king of who had acquired for the affection of a father became anxious to procure a wife for the man whom he destined to the possession of his throne and hearing that there was at the court of the king of â a lady of beauty set sail for that together with his adopted son whom he had lately invested the order of chivalry the king of egypt received the reverend monarch of with suitable respect suffered his niece to be exhibited to her young and declared his to consent to the match after trying the address of young d whom he invited to break a spear with him in the lists on the following day the young knight readily accepted the offer his royal opponent and was solemnly married to own mother but the bride having cast her eyes on the shield of who bore a holding in its an wrapped m a scarlet mantle burst into tears and relating ner whole story was on the same day ed from her unnatural engagement the king of however seemed to think that was too beautiful to remain any longer single and offered her the choice of all his knights but her son insisted that those who to the honour of her hand should previously overthrow him as he had the king of egypt and that for the of settling at once the pretensions of a number of a should be immediately proclaimed throughout all the adjoining country in this the two kings and

46Sarah Stickney Ellis

of the lone child he dropped the and hastily brushing away the tears that blinded him with the sleeve of his coat why does not some one he said take away the child it beats all i â her heart s broke i there was a general bustle in the crowd and two young ladies more considerate or perhaps more tender hearted than the rest kindly passed their arms around her and led her to her home the clergyman of was one of those who are more for sound doctrine than benevolent practice he had p chosen on that occasion for his text the wages of sin is â new tale death and had preached a long sermon in the vain endeavour of the doctrine of original sin who i lose such opportunities of their people in the i of providence and the claims of humanity ought not i to wonder if they grow languid and selfish and careless of i their most obvious duties had this gentleman improved this occasion of the duty of sympathy by dwelling on the tenderness of our blessed lord when he wept with the sisters at the grave of had he the essence of those and diffused their gracious ence into his sermon bear ye one another s weep with those who weep inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of these ye have done it unto me had this preaching usually been in to the teaching of our could the scene have followed which as a part of jane s story must be told we fear there are many who think there is merit in believing certain who the true import of that text bj grace are ye saved quiet themselves with having once in their lives passed through what they deemed v conviction and and from thence believe their salvation is secure the house furniture and other property of mr had lain under an attachment for some time previous to mrs el ton s death but the sale had been delayed in consideration of her approaching dissolution it was now appointed for the next week and it therefore became necessary that some arrangement should be made for the destitute orphan the day after the funeral jane was sitting in her mother s room which in her eyes was consecrated by her sickness and death the three met at mr s house she heard the ladies approaching through the adjoining apartment and i a new england tale hastily taking up her bible which she had been trying to read she drew her little bench behind the curtain of her mother s bed there is an instinct in childhood that affection wherever it exists and from the coldness of calculating selfishness in all their neither jane nor her mother had ever been cheered by a glimmering of kindness from these relatives mrs had founded no expectations on them for her child but with her usual she had shrunk from preparing jane s mind for the that awaited her the three sisters were led in by a young woman who had offered to stay with jane till some arrangement was made for her in reply to their asking where she was the girl pointed to the bed there she said taking on a body would think added she that she had lost her and as well as her father and mother and she might as well she continued in a tone low enough not to be heard for any good they will do her the eldest sister began the conference by saying that she trusted it was not expected she should take jane upon her hands â that she was not so well off as either of her sisters â that to be sure she had no children but then mr and herself calculated to do a great deal for the foreign missionary society that no longer ago than that morning mr d and she had agreed to pay the expense of one of the young at the school at that there was a great work going on in the world and as long as they had the heart given them to help it they could not feel it their duty to withdraw any aid for a mere worldly purpose mrs the second sister said that she had not any religion and she did not mean to pretend to any that she had enough o spend her money without sending it to â a new england tale or the foreign school that she and her husband had worked hard and saved all for their children and now they meant thej should make as good a figure as anybody s children in the country it took a great deal of money she said to pay the dancing master and the drawing master and the music master it was quite impossible for her sisters to think how much it took to dress a family of girls it was not now as it used to be when we were girls now girls must have and their winter hats and summer hats and shoes and silk stockings â it was quite impossible to be decent without them besides she added as she did not live in the same place with jane it was not natural she should feel for her it was her decided â opinion that jane had better be put out at once at place where she could do light work till she was a little used to it and she would advise too to her changing her name the child was so young she could not care about a name and she should be much to have it known in the town of that her daughters had a cousin that was a hired girl there was something in this harsh counsel which touched mrs s the younger sister s pride though it failed to awaken a sentiment of humanity she said she desired to be

5Horace Greeley

which they are accustomed to is not as if the bird had itself into the water or the wild animal into the haunts of man is not the immediate result people may do no more than their eyebrows in astonishment laugh lift up their hands in protest and yet so well defined is the sphere of social activity that he who from it is doomed bom and bred in this en the individual is practically for any i other state he is like a bird accustomed to a certain of atmosphere and which live com j at either higher or lower level sat down in his easy chair by the window after his brother had gone and gazed out over the flourishing city yonder was spread out before him life with its phases of energy hope prosperity and pleasure and here he was suddenly struck by a wind of misfortune and blown aside for the time being â his prospects and purposes dissipated he continue as cheerily in the paths he had hitherto pursued not his relations with be necessarily affected by this sudden tide of opposition was not his own home now a thing of the past so far as his old relationship was concerned all the atmosphere of affection would be gone out of it now that hearty look of approval which used to dwell in his father s eye â would it be there any longer robert his relations with the everything that was a part of his old life had been affected by this sudden intrusion of it s unfortunate was all that he thought to himself and turned from what he considered senseless brooding to the consideration of what if anything was to be done i m thinking i d take a run up to mt tomorrow or thursday anyhow if i feel strong enough he said to after he had returned i m not feeling as well as i might a few days will do me good he wanted to get off by himself and think packed his bag for him at the given time and he departed but he was in a meditative mood during the week that followed he had ample time to think it all over the of his being that there was no need of making a decisive move at present a few weeks more one way or the other could not make â any practical difference neither robert nor any member of the was at all likely to seek another conference with him his business relations would necessarily go on as usual since they were coupled with the welfare of the certainly no attempt to him would be attempted but the s that he was at ho w lis upon him bad business he meditated â bad business but he did not change for the period of a whole year this unsatisfactory state of affairs continued did not go home for six months then an important business conference demanding his presence he appeared and carried it off quite as though nothing important had happened his mother kissed him affectionately if a little sadly his father gave him his customary greeting a hearty robert though without any verbal understanding agreed to the one real issue but the feeling of was there and it persisted hereafter his visits to were as few and far between as he could possibly make them chapter in the meantime had been going through a moral crisis of her own for the first time in her life aside from the family attitude which had afflicted her greatly she realized what the world thought of her she was bad â she knew that she had yielded on two occasions to the force of circumstances which might have been fought out differently if only she had had more courage if she did not always have this haunting sense of fear if she could only make up her mind to do the right thing would never marry her why should he she loved him but she could leave him and it would be better for him probably her father would live with her if she went back to he honor her for at last taking a decent stand yet the thought of leaving was a terrible one to her â he had been so good as for her father she was not sure whether he would receive her or not after the tragic visit of she began to think of saving a little money laying it aside as best she from her allowance was generous and she had been able to send home regularly fifteen dollars a week to maintain the family â as much as they had lived on before without any help from the outside she spent twenty dollars to maintain the table for required the best of everything â fruits and what not the rent was fifty five dollars with clothes and a varying sum gave her fifty dollars a week but somehow it had all gone she thought how she might but this seemed wrong w better go without taking anything if she were going was the thought that came to her it was the only decent thing to do she thought over this week after week after the advent of trying to nerve herself to the point where she could speak or act was generous and kind but she felt at times that he himself might wish it he was thoughtful abstracted since the scene with it seemed to her that he had been a little different if she could only say to him that she was not satisfied with the way she was living and then leave but he himself had plainly indicated after his discovery of that her feelings on that score could not matter so very much to him since he thought the presence of the child would definitely interfere with his ever marrying her it was her presence he wanted

42Lucas Malet

indian cursing and swearing for all the world like a dog barking i never saw such a posture â and o the language i i swam out but was caught in a trap between the two sets of piles the water was about two feet over her head so that now and then she disappeared and then striking the bottom she up again plunging and rolling and making waves like a her trunk she kept like the of a bell and o the noises that came up from the bottom of the sea through that flesh pipe for about four hours she went up and down the of o lord what shall i do more than a thousand times i think we brought ropes to her aid and boats and men and tried ail we knew to move her but in vain and when we had exhausted our sagacity she di upon a better bank â her own talk of brutes not being able to reason â could reason like solomon for each fresh difficulty she found a fresh resource on this occasion she did what i never saw her do before or since she took her enormous skull and used it as a against the piles two of them resisted â no wonder â they were about eight inches in the third snapped like glass and she plunged and on jack of all trades shore i met her with a of brandy and hot â stiff ladies who are said to this in your while your husbands are smoking at the clubs but i don t believe it of you learn how this lady disposed of her wooden full she thrust her into it â s â s â s â p now it is all in her trunk â s â â â â sh now it is all in her one breath drawn and sent it from the bucket home this done her eye and she to the tune of all is well that ends well i should weary the reader were i to relate at th all the small incidents that us in the united states the general result was failure loss of money our not paid up and fearful staring us in the we scraped through without the elephant but wo were often on the verge of it all this did not choke my ambition warned by the past i never ventured near her unless was there for twelve months after our landing but i was always watching and her to find the secret of his influence a annoyance to the leaders of the speculation was the of old tom and these two encouraged one another and defied us and of course they were our masters because no one but could move the elephant from place to place or work ner on the stage one night was so drunk that he fell down senseless at the door of her shed on his way to repose i was not near but mr it seems was and he told us she put out her drew him tenderly in laid im on the straw and flung some straw over him or partly over him mr is alive and a public character yon can ask him whether this is i tell this one thing on not long after this in one of the american towns i forget which passing by s shed i heard a tremendous row i was about to call thinking it was the old story somebody getting but i don t know how it was something stopped me and i looked cautiously in and saw tom waking into her with a she trembling like a school boy with her head in a comer and the blood streaming from her sides as soon as he caught sight of me he left off and muttered i said nothing i thought the more chapter vm we had to go by water to a place called city point and thence to i made a mistake as to the hour the boat started and and co went on board without me well you will say i could follow by the next boat but how the tin to pay the passage my pocket was dry and the gone on but i had a good set of so sold them and followed on with the proceeds â got to city point elephant gone on to that i expected twenty miles or so i had to tramp on empty stomach and now does n t the devil send me a fellow who shows me a short cut through a wood to into the wood i go i thought it was to be like an english wood â out of the sun into a pleasant shade and by then you are cool into the world a n instead of that the deeper the deeper you are in it as the song of the bottle says the farther you were from getting out of it presently two roads instead of one and then i knew i was done i took one road it twisted like a serpent i had not been half an hour on it before lost all the points of the compass says i i don t know whether i ever shall see daylight again but if i do city point will be the thing i r jack of all trades shall see yon mark my words said i so here was i lost in what they call a wood out there bnt we should call a forest at home and now being in the heart of it i got among the noises and nothing to be seen to account for them little feet suddenly and along the ground wings flapping out of trees but what struck most awe into a chap from the seven was the rattle â the everlasting rattle and nothing to show often i have puzzled myself what this rattle

8Jane Austen

wait for him at the he was compelled to think this thought or else there would not be any use to strive and he would have lain down and died and as the dim ball of the sun sank slowly into the he covered every inch â and many times â of his and bill s flight south before the winter and he the of the and the of the bay company post over and over again he had not eaten for two days for a far longer time he had not had all he wanted to eat often he stooped and picked pale put them into his mouth and and lo love of life swallowed them a is a bit of seed enclosed in a bit of water in the mouth the water away and the seed sharp and bitter the man knew there was no nourishment in the but he them patiently with a hope greater than knowledge and experience at nine o clock he his toe on a rocky ledge and from sheer weariness and weakness staggered and fell he lay for some time without movement on his side then he slipped out of the pack and dragged himself into a sitting posture it was not yet dark and in the lingering twilight he about among the rocks for of dry moss when he had gathered a heap he built a fire â a fire â and put a tin pot of water on to boil he his pack and the first thing he did was to count his matches there were he counted them three times to make sure he divided them into several portions them in oil paper of one bunch in his empty tobacco of another bunch in the inside band of his battered hat of a third bunch under his shirt on the chest this accomplished m love of life ii a panic came upon him and he them all and counted them again there were still seven he dried his wet foot gear by the fire the were in the blanket were worn through in places and his feet were raw ij and bleeding his ankle was throbbing and he ess gave it an examination it had swollen to the size lit of his knee he tore a long strip from one of his le two blankets and bound the ankle tightly he tore a other and bound them about his feet to serve e for both and then he drank the pot of water steaming hot wound his watch and crawled between his blankets he slept like a dead man the brief darkness around midnight came and went the sun arose in the â at least the day dawned in that quarter for the sun was hidden by gray clouds at six o clock he awoke quietly lying on his back he gazed straight up into the gray sky and knew that he was hungry as he rolled over on his elbow he was startled by a loud and saw a bull regarding him with alert curiosity animal was not more than fifty feet away and love of life instantly into the man s mind leaped the vision and the of a and over a fire mechanically he reached for the empty gun drew a bead and pulled the the bull and leaped away his hoofs rattling and as he fled across the the man cursed and flung the empty gun from him he groaned aloud as he started to drag himself to his feet it was a slow and task his joints were like rusty hinges they worked harshly in their with much and each bending or was accomplished only through a sheer exertion of will when he finally gained his feet another minute or so was consumed in up so that he could stand erect as a man should stand he crawled up a small and surveyed the prospect there were no trees no bushes nothing but a gray sea of moss scarcely by gray rocks gray and gray the sky was gray there was no sun nor hint of sun he had no idea of north and he had forgotten the way he had come to this spot the night before but he was not lost he knew that love of life soon he would come to the land of the little sticks he felt that it lay off to the left somewhere not far â possibly just over the next low hill he went back to put his pack into shape for travelling he assured himself of the existence of his three separate of matches though he did not stop to count them but he did linger over a hide sack it was not large he could hide it under his two hands he knew that it weighed fifteen pounds â as much as all the rest of the pack â and it worried him he finally set it to one side and proceeded to roll the pack he paused to gaze at the sack he picked it up hastily with a defiant glance about as though the desolation were trying to rob him of it and when he rose to his feet to on into the day it was included in the pack on his back he bore away to the left stopping now and again to eat his ankle had his limp was more pronounced but the pain of it was as nothing compared with the pain of his stomach the hunger pangs were sharp they and until he could not keep his mind steady on love of life the course he must pursue to gain the land of little sticks the did not this while they made his tongue and the roof of his mouth sore with their bite he came upon a valley where rock rose on wings from the and â â the cry they made he threw stones at but could

20Washington Irving

her side and that when the coach was gone i turned my face to the pondering on the old days when i used to about its arches and on the happy changes which had brought me to the surface of david my first it was a wonderfully fine thing to have that lofty castle to myself and to feel when i shut my outer door like when he had got into his and pulled his ladder up after him it was a wonderfully fine thing to walk about town with the key of my house in my pocket and to know that i could ask any fellow to come home and make quite sure of its being inconvenient to nobody if it were not so to me it was a fine thing to let myself in and out and to come and go without a word to any one and to ring mrs up gasping from the depths of the earth when i wanted her â and when she was disposed to come all this i say was wonderfully fine but i must say too that there were times when it was very dreary it was fine in the morning particularly in the fine mornings it a very fresh free life by daylight still and more free by but as the day declined the life seemed to go down too i don t know how it was it seldom looked well by candle light i wanted somebody to talk to then i missed i found a tremendous blank in the place of that smiling of my confidence mrs appeared to be a long way off i thought about my who had died of drink and smoke and i could have wished he had been so good as to live and not bother me with his after two days and nights i felt as if i had lived there for a year and yet i was not an hour older but was quite as much tormented by my own as ever not yet appearing which induced me to apprehend that he must be ill i left the early on the third day and walked out to mrs was very glad to see me and said that he had gone away with one of his oxford friends to see another who lived near st but that she expected him to return to morrow i was so fond of him that i felt quite jealous of his oxford friends as she pressed me to stay to dinner i remained and i believe we talked about nothing but him all day i told her how much the people liked him at and what a delightful companion he had been miss was full of hints and mysterious questions but took a great interest in au our proceedings there and said was it really though and so forth so often that she got everything out of me she wanted to know her appearance was exactly what i have described it when i first saw her but the society of the two ladies was so agreeable and came so natural to me that i felt myself falling a little in love with her i could not help thinking several times in the course of the evening and particularly when i walked home at night what delightful company she would be in street i was taking my coffee and roll in the morning before going to the â and i may observe in this place that it is surprising how much coffee mrs used and how weak it was considering â when himself walked in to my unbounded joy the personal history and experience my dear cried i i began to think i should never see you again i was carried off by force of arms said the yery next morning after i got home why what a rare old bachelor you are here i showed him over the establishment not the with no little pride and he commended it highly i tell you what old boy he added i shall make quite a town house of this place unless you give me notice to quit this was a delightful hearing i told him if he waited for that he would have to wait till but you shall have some breakfast said i with my hand on the bell rope and mrs shall make you some fresh coffee and i toast you some bacon in a bachelor s dutch oven that i have got here no no said don t ring i can t i am going to l with one of these fellows who is at the hotel in garden but you come back to dinner said i i can t upon my life there s nothing i should like better but i mud remain with these two fellows we are all three off together to morrow morning then bring them here to dinner i returned do you think they would come oh they would come fast enough said but we should inconvenience you you had better come and dine with us somewhere i would not by any means consent to this for it occurred to me that i ought to have a and that there never could be a better opportunity i had a dew pride in my rooms after his approval of them and burned with a desire to develop their utmost resources i therefore made him promise positively in the names of his two friends and we appointed six o clock as the dinner hour when he was gone i rang for mrs and acquainted her with my desperate design said in the first place of course it was well known she couldn t be expected to wait but she knew a handy young man who she thought could be prevailed upon to do it and whose terms would be five shillings and what i pleased i said certainly we would have him next

7James Baldwin

purpose it is important to have the most perfect design so as to render imitation impossible we are struck with the delicacy of the lines in the itself and the beautifully fading shades of the designs which make this production quite an artistic work with regard to the process of these designs in the paper suffice it to say that it is done in the sheet itself and cannot be done afterward without leaving many signs of the this with the difficulty for a of preparing his own and the sheet which requires special practical ability we consider the peculiar perfection of the water mark it is quite clear that where it is used becomes almost impossible any one the exhibition can convince himself of this by the mere inspection of beautiful water marks the virgin the queen victoria the in washington all banks should avail themselves of the security which is offered by the of this paper which the bank of england has lately adopted in going toward the french department we the collection of the messrs of near who a large quantity of specimens of every description of paper they are the only who have properly understood that in a world s fair not the finest articles alone but rather those for the use of the million ought to be exhibited here are some very good colored papers and some good writing paper rather tender perhaps especially when compared with our own or with the english article though of a good quality but what most struck us was some good paper at eighty per one hundred which to something like seven and a half cents a pound we have remarked above that or from france might with the best american and english we regret that they have specimens in a glass case instead of arranging them so that they could be shown to every one to the best advantage their thin bank post and and colored boards for drawing are especially worthy of notice as as their paper for gun and cannon this is made entirely from skins but the great feature of this exhibition especially for us is a plain looking collection of writing paper entirely from straw by and of france who have also their process in this country for a long time we have believed in the possibility of making paper from crude vegetable as the contained in them may evidently be made available the purpose but we had not been aware until heading the t cf mr the of this paper of the difficulty of these into a convenient state tl them nt j tor manufacture paper and its it appears that some one hundred and fifty different processes of doing this been as well in england as in france but that of them have utterly failed either in respect of the quality and color of the paper or the cost of production the first attempt was made in germany in where the of rags was felt even then although the production of paper has since increased about twenty five per cent a upon the subject waa printed in on the main giving a plan for all vegetables into and the same some twenty years afterward a new way was found in france and we have seen a small volume printed in upon white looking paper made from the bark of the tree at the end of which were some twenty specimens of paper made from as many different kinds of vegetables but the poor quality of these papers and the cost of producing them seem to have discouraged the all the subsequent attempts made from to equally resulted in complete failure leaving only as a token the manufacture of the yellow paper generally used for but the possibility of getting from these was nevertheless established and although there has been a constant prejudice against their employment in consequence of these failures there has however remained among all practical men in the paper trade a strong feeling that by some means or other a convenient process would be found to make them really useful the great and had to overcome was to submit the straw to the agents which they employ in such a manner as to produce on it the necessary effect at the same time not to wear it out that is to say to retain the strength of the and finally to obtain the for at a cost not exceeding and if possible less than the cost of the made from rags before discovering the very ingenious combination of means which answers completely they had to go through all the previous processes science with their practical as paper and at a great expense of time and the great exhibition how far they have succeeded aa fo the quality of the paper we can judge by the specimens which exhibit which are strong consistent and of good color as to the cost by the fact of which we have information that their process has been successfully applied during the last two years in france great britain and and is about to be applied in we learn also that one of the is now m america and is building his apparatus for a paper mill in which in the course of two months will furnish the market with straw paper we do not know that we can anticipate an immediate in the price of paper from the of this process but at ail events we can depend upon its the constant increase of price which must otherwise follow the consumption of paper while the sources which supply rags remain the same but if the is correct in his opinion we may expect that before long at the same time that he will receive an adequate reward for his ingenuity the profits made by the will be increased while the price of paper will be diminished then while the public at large will be

18Thomas Hardy

only annoy me i shall seem to yon stupid and hie reputation i have false quite above beyond the will of you or me is this secret or laid all my good is and i not by lessons but by going about my business he said culture he said nature he did not fail to there is also the divine there is no thought in ny mind but it quickly to convert itself into a power and a huge of means i lover of limits loved the saw the and nobility which came from truth itself and good itself and attempted as if on the part of the human intellect once for all to do it adequate homage representative men homage it for the immense soul te receive and yet homage becoming the intellect to render he â ud then our faculties run out into and return to us thence we can define but a little way bat here is a fact which will net be and which to shut our eyes upon is suicide all things are in a scale and begin where we will ascend and ascend all things are and what we call results are a key to the method and completeness of is â his twice line after he has illustrated the relation between the absolute good and true and the forms of the intelligible world he says let there be a line cut in two unequal parts cut again each of these two parts one representing the visible the other the intelligible world and these two new sections representing the bright part and the dark part of these worlds you will have for one of the sections of the visible world â images that is both shadows and reflections for the other section the objects of these images that is plants animals and the works of art and nature then divide the intelligible world in like manner the one section will be of opinions and and the other section of truths to these four sections the four operations of the soul correspond â conjecture faith understanding reason as every pool the image of the sun so every thought and thing us an image and creature of the supreme good the universe is by a channels for his activity all things mount and mount all his thought has this in teaching that beauty is the most lovely of all things exciting and shedding desire and confidence through the universe wherever it enters and it enters in some degree into all things but that there is another which is as much more beautiful than beauty as beauty is than chaos namely wisdom which our wonderful organ of sight cannot reach unto but which could it be seen would us with its perfect reality he has the same regard to it as the source of excellence in works of art when an in the of any work looks to that which always according to the tame and a model of this kind expresses its idea and power in his work it follows that his production must be beautiful but when he that which is born and dies it will be r from beautiful thus ever the banquet is a teaching in the same spirit familiar now to all the poetry and to all the sermons of the world that the love of the sexes is and at a distance the passion of the soul for that immense lake of beauty it exists to seek this faith in the divinity is never out of mind and the of all his body cannot teach wisdom god only in the same mind he constantly that virtue cannot be taught that it is not a science but an inspiration that the greatest goods are produced to us through and are assigned to us by a divine gift this leads me to that central figure which he has established in his academy as the organ through which every considered opinion shall be announced and whose biography he has likewise so that the historic facts are lost in the light of s mind and are the double star which the most powerful instruments will not entirely separate again in his traits and genius is the best example of that which s extraordinary power a man of humble stem but honest enough of the commonest history of a personal so remarkable as to be a cause of wit in others the rather that his broad good nature and exquisite taste for a joke invited the sally which was sure to be paid the players him on the stage the copied his ugly face on their stone he was a cool fellow adding to his humour a perfect temper and a knowledge of his man be he who representative men lie might whom he talked with which laid the companion open to certain defeat in any debate â and in debate he delighted the young men are fond of liim and invite him to their whither he goes for conversation he can drink too has the strongest head in and after leaving the whole party the table goes away as if nothing had happened to begin new somebody that is sober in short he was what our country people call am one he affected a good many citizen like tastes was fond of hated trees never willingly went beyond the walls knew the old characters valued the and thought everything in a better than anything in any other place he was plain as a in habit and speech low phrases and illustrations from and soup and and and offices especially if he talked with any person he had a like wisdom thus he showed one who was afraid to go on foot to that it was no more than his daily walk within doors if extended would easily reach plain old uncle as he was with his great ears and immense the rumour ran that on

36Jacob Abbott

a good deal like the dog at a fair what had she to do with all this light and warmth and merriment with these wide bright crowded rooms and their shifting show of wealth and beauty mrs jack welcomed her enough but there had been a lurking criticism and kindly amusement in her bold comely face as she did so like most women of a robust and healthy habit of mind entertained a kind of secret contempt for the less successful members of her own sex this too was the hour of s triumph she in sight of her great stately house full of guests her heart swelled with pride as she stood there to greet one well known face after another â knowing that half the county and half the county s men servants as well were eating and drinking and themselves freely at her expense this prodigal open handed instinct of hospitality is rather a savage virtue perhaps but i venture to think it a very real one all the same and mrs jack s exultation on the present occasion was the more in that she had served her to narrow means and hard work pretty thoroughly during those years spent in the old at cold when the monthly nurse was a visitor when the children grew so fast out of the best that it was so to replace when a rise of a penny in the pound in poor s rate all her philosophy and when jack went out farming or shooting every day in the week to find himself late on saturday night with hardly a word written of to morrow s sermon now was agreeably sensible of having escaped out of the slavery of egypt and taken up her quarters in land flowing with milk and honey strong in the enjoyment of her own success she was a little disposed to look down on women less happily situated than herself prosperity too often has a influence even on the really good hearted and so poor as usual represented the death s head at the feast â or to speak accurately would have represented it if anybody had been at leisure to observe her mr looked after her it is true in his kind way at intervals but mr was in a small turmoil of self importance he had by the fulfilment of prophecy himself de camp to mrs jack ed and rushed about wildly â finding partners for pretty girls securing seats and for elderly ladies dancing himself vigorously between and space generally till it seemed probable that only a direct of providence would prevent his falling into an fit with that red face and short neck as mrs remarked severely to her excellent it is really very dangerous for a middle aged man to be so active mrs then sat against the wall and watched the movement and gaiety and with all her goodness she could not banish a sense of injury from her mind it seemed hard to be no longer young and attractive to be passed over and generally out of it young people laugh lightly at us old male and female but we the said unfortunately retain our even when hairs are grey and and of figure is in fat or reduced to curious of outline in our best moments we laugh with them it is a ridiculous thing to grow old of course nevertheless the laughter leaves a sting behind it which a good deal at times decidedly did not relish her part of death s head at the feast and it was with a distinct of the heart that toward the middle of the evening she perceived the high skull and odd of dr as that gentleman â the wall to avoid collision with the dancers â made his way slowly round to the spot where she was stationed ah my dear mrs at last i have spent the last half hour in searching for you mrs told me when i first entered the ball room that you had driven over with her and her daughters i was sincerely glad to learn you were here this species of scene continued the doctor waving his hand with a certain magnificence toward the dancers â this species of scene should have an value even in the eyes of us who are merely spectators it represents an important and i would add a necessity of our strangely complex constitution â the necessity for personally i am a strong advocate of i regard it as a against a thousand moral and physical temptations i would say to every one â cultivate a capacity for innocent amusement the bow at times give the mind and spirit a holiday by ic colonel wife the doctor settled himself comfortably on the beside he was sensible of a condition of serene well being at the present time which disposed him to be he did not disguise from himself the sources of that sense of he was perfectly aware that examined it resolved itself into a matter of so much warmth light and sympathetic excitement by an excellent supper and a certain quantity of was neither of the age nor of the way of thinking that is suspicious of all sensations that do not clearly take their rise in the higher faculties of our being if in themselves the sensations were agreeable he did not think it incumbent upon him to reject them because they did not hail from a finely intellectual region the excellent man had arrived at a temper wherein he was glad to pick a modest of pleasure anywhere by the having quite ceased to expect that fortune would ever turn him loose in fairy gardens and bid him fill his hands with he felt comfortable and he wanted to at his ease and mrs he knew was a model listener yes he said leaning back and letting his keen observant eyes wander slowly over

31George Moore

the sight of his prey quite forgot that with a good glass could recognize them all three it was the red cross the dark horse that was steaming leisurely southward and doing her best to battle with the strong seas that her newly painted sides thus who had never expected such became aware that his foes were at his heels he saw the and on the bridge but he did not see being in too much of a hurry after his first glimpse of the danger to take further interest in those on board the the result of s decision was that those on the pursuing saw clouds of smoke pouring out of the and knew that the were being crammed to there was a shout of joy the s crew for now the fun was beginning we ll see if she ll beat my boat said on the bridge it was very stormy and black clouds were racing across a pallid sky a furious wind had blown the mists into of and was white from the tops of the waves the vessel in flight like a swallow and slid down into mile long valleys but the having more powerful engines tore straight through the walls of water that threatened to block her way she trembled with the of her and in the stormy heaving of the water there was great danger lest her should snap however the a catastrophe stood with his hand on the and stopped the spinning of the when they emerged much the same were being pursued on board the dark horse save that in addition the safety was tied down the engines worked at furious speed and the boat leaped like a hunted but the hound on its heels came closer and closer and those on the dark horse could hear the roar of the delighted crew ground his teeth and fed his again anne came on deck go below he said and swore at her shall not she retorted and got away from him he was not able to pursue not being in position to leave his post beside the captain besides he thought it mattered very little whether she was seen or not ware knew that she was on board and moreover if the dark horse were he would suffer most himself by the capture it would do him no good to throw anne overboard although he felt much inclined to do so if only for revenge could well be proud of his boat she responded gallantly to the strain put upon her and tore like a mad thing through the waste of waters she swung of the dark horse with flashing eyes and his long hair streaming in the wind there was less than a quarter of a mile separating the boats to the right followed a pretty bit of on the part of both vessels took place the winds and waves took command then the boats out of hand swung together almost touching could see anne she cried out and stretched her hands suddenly turned the in a circle shouted to know with several what he was up to he would have stopped the engines which were a coin of edward vii working furiously but that it was dangerous at the moment the swung round and then with the rush of a wounded bull came straight at the dark horse hell cried he s going to ram her there was no time to stop the engines or to reverse them those on the dark horse gave a yell of fear as the larger vessel bore down on their craft fairly mad shouted out abuse to another moment and the pursuing struck the other cutting her almost to the all on board both ships were thrown down the back lifted his head to see anne falling overboard as tlie dark horse in the roaring waters with a cry of terror he tore a from its and threw himself after her after that he could only recollect that he was swimming for dear life and for her amongst those furious waves lifted on the crest of one he saw her some distance away â a white figure against the black water then he went sliding down into the liquid valley how he reached her he did not know but after a terrific struggle he found her in his arms he managed to slip the over her head and kept her up with one arm while he kept afloat with the other she was insensible but retained all his wits he caught a glimpse of the ragged injured bows of the high above him and saw that was a boat in a few moments it came plunging towards him and he was hauled on board with anne steel was in the boat pale is our boat safe gasped yes but the dark horse is going down has gone overboard suddenly steel shrieked and turned to where he pointed in the of the sea the dark horse was a catastrophe plunging like a rolling like a drunken man saw near him with a savage look on his face with terror in his eyes tried to get away but reached him flung his arms round him and with a wild shout both men went down into the furiously witch never to rise again the strain of the whole terrible business was too much for ware for the first and last time in his life he fainted the last recollection he had was of seeing the doomed vessel plunging downwards and a cloud of white steam rising with a terrible roar from her after that darkness and chapter xxvi the end of the trouble es returned to within a week to find that great changes had taken place in the place even in that little while after the of the dark horse the other had returned to england forthwith she had not been very badly by s

11Mark Twain

and scorn however strong his consciousness of right he found it no r against such weapons as glances and words than against stones clubs his s conscience was in repose bat his sensibility was once more only did the pass up orchard street followed by a train of friends once more only was there a crowd to witness his entrance through the church gates but that second time no voice was heard above a whisper and the whispers were words of sorrow and blessing that second time was not looking on in scorn and merriment her eyes were worn with and watching and she was following her beloved friend and to the grate chapter x hi we know is apt to repeat herself and to very old incidents upon us with only a slight change of costume from the time of downwards we have seen the at the of their and conquering the enemy with the greatest ease in after dinner speeches but events are apt to be in disgusting with the of the most ingenious the difficulties of the expedition are at with able calculations the enemy has the impudence not to fall into confusion as had been reasonably expected of him the mind of the gallant general to be distracted by news of against him at home and notwithstanding the handsome compliments he paid to providence as his patron before out there seems every probability that the te will be all on the other side so it fell out with mr in his memorable campaign against the anti after all the premature triumph of the return from the battle of the evening lecture had been lost the enemy was in possession of the field and the utmost hope remaining was that by a warfare he might be driven to the country for some time this sort of warfare was kept up with considerable spirit the shafts of ridicule were made more formidable by being poisoned with and very ugly stories with were soon in circulation concerning mr and his hearers from which stories it was plainly that led by a necessary q to indulgence in vice some old were broken asunder and there were near relations who felt that religious differences by any prospect of a were a sufficient ground for exhibiting their mr his workmen aud threatened them with dismissal if they or their families were known to attend the evening lecture and mr on discovering that his was a rank to a great extent and would have that valuable on the spot if such a had not been inconvenient on the whole however at the end of a few months the balance of substantial loss was on the side of the anti mr indeed had lost a patient or two besides mr s family but as it was evident that had not dried up the stream of his anecdote or in the least altered his view of any s constitution it is probable that a change accompanied by so few outward and visible signs was rather the pretext than the ground of his dismissal in those additional cases mr was threatened with the loss of several good customers mrs and mrs having set the example of ordering him to send in his bill and the began to look forward to his next stock taking with an anxiety which was but slightly by the parallel his wife of life suggested his own case and that of and who were thrust into a burning fiery furnace for as he to her the next morning with that which belongs to the period of their consisted in the fact that their linen and goods were not consumed his own in pi the opposite result â ut convenience that admirable branch system from the main line of self interest makes us all fellow in spite of adverse resolutions it is probable that no or hatred would be ultimately strong enough to resist the power of convenience that a baker whose bread was free from would command the custom of any that an with the would prefer a skilful to a against the doctrines of election and final perseverance who would be likely to break the tooth in his head and that a brother who had a well furnished shop in a favorable would occasionally have the pleasure of furnishing sugar or to families that found themselves unexpectedly out of those indispensable in this power of convenience lay mr s ultimate security from his was the best in mil by the comfortable use and wont of satisfactory articles at a moment s notice proved too strong for anti zeal and the could soon look forward to his next stock taking without the support of a parallel on the other hand mr bad lost his excellent mr â a loss which him out of proportion to the mere it represented the attorney loved money but he loved power still better he had always b proud of having early won the confidence of a and of being able to turn the of round his thumb like most other men too he had a certain kindness towards those who had employed him when he was only starting in life and just as we do not like to part with an old weather glass from our or a two feet ruler that we have earned in our pocket ever since we began business so mr did not like having to his old s name from the accustomed drawer in the our habitual life is like a wall hung with pictures which has been shone on by the of many years take one of the pictures away and it leaves a definite blank space to which our eyes can never turn without a sensation of discomfort nay the involuntary loss of familiar object almost always brings a chill as an evil omen it seems to be the first finger shadow of ad death from all these causes

13Ralph Emerson

sick bed my father sir out of some money â part ent it was that he didn t give him a receipt my father went to him afterwards for the sam abused him and called him a and that sir was what no man ever called either before or since my father sir led to tell you about it and you came to the soon after but sam got very great father at that time and sent him to sell â r him about fifty miles off but when he came rain you had left the country thin sir sam said nothing till the next half year s rent due he came down on my father for all s he hadn t got the receipt for and the ale â and without any warning in the world i out my father offered to pay all but he was a rogue and that you him off te in less than a week after this he put a it married a daughter of his own into and place that s god s truth sir and nd it so if you into it it s a common his to keep back and make the pay double red o can this be possible t ir best way colonel is to inquire into it not your father able to you at home r sir we soon got into poverty after we r farm and another thing sir there was no in our neighbourhood s a fact the individual here alluded to frequently kept back hen receiving rents under pretence of â â t â râ â x u the tenants to pay the same gale v r the poor scholar for what purpose did you become a poor scholar f why sir i hoped one day or other to be able to raise my father and mother out of the distress that sam brought on us what a noble aim and a noble sentiment and what has this d â d fellow of a done to you r why sir yesterday when i went back to the school he abused me and said he supposed most of my relations were hanged spoke ill of my father and said that my mother â here the tears started to his eyes â he sobbed aloud go on and be cool said the colonel what did he say of your mother v he said sir that she was never married to my father i know i was wrong sir but if it was the king on his throne that said it of my mother i d call him a liar i called him a liar and a coward and a villain ay sir and if i had been able i would have trampled him under my feet the colonel looked steadily at him but the open clear eye which the boy turned upon was full of truth and independence and you will find said the soldier that this spirited defence of your mother will be the most fortunate action of your life well he struck you then did he he knocked me down sir with his fist â then kicked me in the back and sides i think some of my ribs are broke ay â no doubt no doubt said the colonel and you were only after recovering from this fever which is so v i wasn t a week out of it sir well my boy we shall punish him for you sir would you hear me for a word or two if it would be pleasing to you v speak on said the colonel i would rather change his punishment toâ i would â that is â if it would be agreeable to you â it s the scholar this sir â i wouldn t you now against the master if you d be pleased to my father and punish sam oh sir for god s sake put my broken father into his farm again if you would sir i could shed my blood or lay down my life for you or for any belonging to you i m but a poor boy sir low and humble out they say there s a greater being than the greatest in this world that to the just prayers of the poor and i was never happy sir since we left itâ neither was any of us and when we d sit and hungry about our hearth we used to be talking of the pleasant days we spent in it till the tears would be smothered in curses against him that put us out of it oh sir if you could know all that a poor and honest family suffers when they are thrown into distress by want of feeling in their or by the of agents you would consider my father s case i m his favourite son sir and good right have i to speak for him if you could know the sorrow the misery the drooping down of the spirits that lies upon the countenances and the hearts of such people you wouldn t as a man and a christian think it below you to spread happiness and contentment among them again in the morning they rise to a day of hardship no matter how bright and cheerful it may be to others â nor is there any hope of a brighter day for them and at night they go to their hard beds to strive to sleep away their hunger in spite of and want if you could see how the father of a family after striving to bear up sinks down at last if you could see the look he gives at the that he would lay down his blood for when they sit naked and hungry about him and the mother too with her kind word and sorrowful smile proud of them in all their but her heart breaking silently all the

49William Black

the hard features of a man of sixty or much weather beaten and worn by time and the naturally harsh expression of which was not improved by a dark handkerchief which was bound tightly round his head and while it served the purpose of a wig shaded his forehead and almost hid his eyebrows k it were intended to conceal or divert attention from a deep now healed into an ugly which when it was first inflicted must have laid bare his cheek bone the object was but indifferently attained for it could scarcely fail to be noted at a glance his complexion was of a hue and he had a jagged beard of some three weeks date such was the figure very and poorly clad that now rose from the seat and across the room sat down in a comer of the chimney which the politeness or fears of the little clerk very readily assigned to him a tom to the do you suppose don t dress than that replied it s a better business than you think for tom and don t need or use to be shabby take my word for it meanwhile the subject of their speculations had done due honour to tne house by calling for some drink which was promptly supplied by the landlord s son joe a broad shouldered young fellow of twenty whom it pleased his father stiu to consider a little boy and to treat stretching out his hands to warm them by the blazing fire the man turned his head towards the company and after running his eye sharply over them said in a voice well suited to his appearance what house is that which stands a mile or so from here public house said the landlord with his usual deliberation public house father exclaimed joe where s the public house within a mile or so of the he means the great house â the â naturally and of course the old red brick house sir that stands in its own grounds â ay said the stranger and that fifteen or twenty years ago stood in a park five as broad which with other and richer property has bit by bit changed hands and away â more s the pity pursued the young man maybe was the reply but my question related to the owner what it has been i don t care to know and what it is i can see for myself the heir apparent to the pressed his finger on his lips and glancing at the young gentleman already noticed who had changed his attitude when the house was first mentioned replied in a lower tone the owner s name is mr and â again he glanced in the same direction as before â and a worthy gentleman too â hem paying as regard to this cough as to the significant gesture that had preceded it the pursued his questioning i turned out of my way coming here and took the that crosses the who was the yoimg lady that i saw entering a carriage his daughter why how should i know honest man replied joe in the course of some arrangements about the hearth to advance close to his and pluck him by the sleeve i didn t see the young lady you know there s the wind again â and rain â well it m a night rough weather indeed observed the strange man you re used to it said joe catching at anything which seemed to promise a diversion of the subject pretty well returned the other about the young lady â has mr a daughter no no said the young fellow he s a single gentleman â he s â be quiet can t you man don t you see this talk is not yonder regardless of this whispered remonstrance and affecting not to hear it his continued single men have had daughters before now perhaps she may be his daughter though he is not married what do you mean said joe adding in an under tone as he approached him again you u come in for it presently i know you will i mean no harm â returned the traveller boldly and have said none that i know of i ask a few as any stranger may and not â about the inmates of a remarkable house in a neighbourhood which is new to me and you are as aghast and disturbed as if i were talking treason against king george perhaps you can tell me why sir for as i say i am a stranger and this is to me the latter observation was addressed to the obvious cause of joe s who had risen and was his riding preparatory to abroad briefly replying that he could give him no information the young man beckoned to joe and handing him a piece of money in payment of his reckoning hurried out attended by young himself who taking up a candle to light him to the house door while joe was on this errand the elder and his three companions continued to smoke with profound and ih a deep silence each having his eyes fixed on a huge copper that was suspended over the fire after some time john slowly shook his head and thereupon his friends slowly shook theirs but no man withdrew hia eyes from the or altered the solemn expression of his countenance in the slightest degree at length joe returned â very and as though with a strong that he was going to be found fault with such a thing as love is he said drawing a chair near the fire and looking round for sympathy he has set off to walk to â all the way to london his gone lame in riding out here this blessed afternoon and comfortably down in our stable at this minute and he giving up a good hot supper and our

7James Baldwin

send to your wife if you have no objection i have not the least objection in the world said mr it please my wife very much to have it so mr proceeded to take the and when it was taken ke said i am very much obliged to you mr it will not be necessary for me to detain you any longer it will require some little time for me to finish it but when it is ready i wiu send it home mr finished the and put it into one of his prettiest cases and the next day mrs taking with her who by this time had got perfectly well went out to mrs s house to carry the by mrs the she valued it mrs was very surprised to see it and she was extremely pleased it was a very handsome for mr was quite a handsome man and he was very neatly dressed at the time when it was taken as indeed he always was when he went to the village besides the case was very pretty it was made of and was beautifully gilded this was the way in which mrs happened to have a of her husband she the little miniature very much indeed even during her husband s lifetime and after his death it became perfectly invaluable to her or rather she considered it invaluable though in fact as it proved instead of being the means of her affliction it had the effect of greatly increasing it whether it is of any advantage to us to have such a memorial of a departed friend or not depends upon the state of our minds and upon the use which we make of the memorial itself â that is whether we console and comfort ourselves with it or only use it to increase and our grief now mrs did not comfort herself with the at all the sight of it had no effect but to make her more and more unhappy by ic about a mrs b great the it many times in the day she would leave her work and take the out of the drawer and go and sit down by the window and open the case and after gazing at the of her husband would burst into tears and remain for a long time completely overwhelmed with grief sometimes in such cases little solomon who was greatly distressed to see his mother so afflicted would come to her side and endeavor to pull her hands away from her and tell her that she must not cry but it was all in vain it seemed as if she could not be comforted this state of things continued for several weeks after mr s death and poor solomon had a very melancholy time his mother did not neglect him nor allow him to suffer from any want or on the contrary she loved him very dearly and took very good care of him and often said that he was the only hope and comfort now left to her in the world still it made him very sad to see her so unhappy and when he saw how much effect the possession of the produced in continually her grief he began to think it would be better if his mother had no at all by hand ie solomon makes plan mode of asking leave o chapter vi ne afternoon in june about four weeks after mr s death solomon s mother was at work in the back room and in as melancholy a state of mind as ever when solomon who had been playing out in the yard came to the door and said mother i am going over to see i want to get him to do something for me so saying solomon stood waiting at the door to hear his mother s response very well said mrs so solomon turned about and went away in ten or fifteen minutes this he appeared at the door again and said is here mother and i am going away with him he is going to draw me in the little cart solomon paused as usual to hear his mother s reply turning his head a little to one side and looking very intent as if he was not quite certain what answer he should receive by ic of the house the very well said his mother and perhaps we shall be gone a good while mother he added i m going to take a good long ride very well said mrs as long as is with you i shall not be concerned solomon s immediately assumed a look of great satisfaction on hearing this and he turned and went into the front room there were only two rooms in the house as has already been said the front room and the back room the front room was used as bedroom parlor sitting room and kitchen there was a bed in one comer of it and between the windows on the front side was a with a looking glass over it it was in the upper drawer of this in the right hand corner that mrs kept her husband s solomon knew the place very well he went to the opened the drawer took out the and put it in his pocket he then went out at the front door and there found waiting for him with the cart now said solomon i ll get in and you may draw me a little way i am god by hand ik and oâ t to ing to the village but tm not going to make you draw me all the way for i am beginning to get pretty big and heavy so after i have rode a little way i am going to get out and walk liked nothing better than to o to the village and he said that he could draw solomon all the way just as

21William Carleton

in states and in and i ex v cows in new england states in as compared with ex v cows in middle states i as compared with cows in western states as compared with ex vi cows iu southern states as compared with cows in pacific states as compared with s number of to each persons in different sections and united states cows amount of butter and cheese from each in different sections iu as compared with and in states and working oxen in states and in and i working oxen in new england states in as compared with working oxen in m states in as compared with r index pa ok working oxen in western states in as compared with working oxen in southern states in as compared with working oxen in pacific states in as compared with working oxen number of to each persons in states and and in united states sheep number of in united states in and i sheep in new england states in as compared with in middle states in as compared with sheep in western states in as compared with sheep in southern states in as compared with sheep in pacific states in i as compared with sheep number of to each one hundred persons in different sections and united states and sheep amount of wool from each in united states and in and swine number of in states and in and swine in new england states in i as compared with swine in middle states in as compared with swine in western states in as compared with swine in southern states in as compared with swine in pacific states in as compared with swine number of to each one hundred persons in united states and in and i value of in new england states iu as compared with value of in middle states in as compared with value of in western states in i as compared with value of in southern states in as compared with value of in pacific states in as compared with value of in united states in c showing the value of from different food table of xxx vi experiments by in of to power of to arrest plaster ashes and of applied to crop a means of the soil feeding sheep on to soil xl exhausted soil no phrase more common than ix exhaustion of in what consists is cane cane and produced in the united states in produced in the new england es in and produced in the middle states in and produced in the united states in table of culture of peas and beans in the new england states in as compared with in the middle states in as compared with in the western states in as compared with l in the southern states in as compared with vi in the pacific states in as compared in the united states in proportion to population produced in states and in v produced in states and in and pork v irish raised in the new england states in i as compared with i raised in the middle states in as compared with l index potatoes irish continued p raised hi the western states in i as compared with raised in the southern states in as compared with i raised in the pacific states in as compared with raised in different sections of the united states in proportion to population raised in states and in go vm potatoes sweet produced in the united states in raised in states and in and great bulk of crop raised in southern states amount of raised in southern states in compared with rice cultivation of confined to few states produced in the united states in by steam power xiv advance of prices secured to by agricultural productions of interior states increased by of foreign articles by vm influence of on value of farming lands f positive advantages derived from miles of built in six western states between and produced table of of in li x raised in new england states in as compared with li x raised in southern states in as compared with i x raised in pacific states in as compared with raised in new england states in and produced in middle states in and i produced in western states in and i produced in southern states in and produced in southern states to each in and table of united states and i compared with population culture of in united states corn and wheat produced in new england states in and corn and wheat produced in united states and cultivation of stimulated by high prices of sugar c sugar ca no and produced in united states in and cane produced in united states in u produced in united states in i c i root ci of from of of throughout the world table of process of making c cost of manufacture of tobacco produced in united states in produced in new england states in as compared with produced in middle states in as compared with produced in western states in as compared with produced in southern states in s us compared with produced in pacific states in i as compared with and wine making in united states cultivation of see grapes and wine making index wheat par t produced in united states table of x m x states in order of production of and x i x production of in proportion to population in new england states in middle states in western states iu southern states in non and states raised in united states in s to great britain in in shall we continue to can the west supply increased demand for culture of in quality of and influences on fly in xl growing of in the west essential to avoid the in xl the war gave to prices of high on gold affects prices of harvest in great britain and france in english system of crops of loss of by

46Sarah Stickney Ellis

lis readers as a part of tradition f but as this tradition was the source of the of the it must itself have early begun to exhibit variations and to the fact first in one way then in another consequently on this view also there was a call on tlie author of the fourth gospel to these wavering accounts of late an entirely new supposition has been adopted namely that john the events in lest by the mention of the angel he should give any to tlie that the higher nature in an angel which united itself with him at and now as it might be inferred again departed from him before the hour of suffering but â not to urge tliat we have already found any of this nature inadequate to explain the in the gospel of john â if this wished to avoid any indication of a close i between and angels he must also have excluded other passages from his gospel above all as â the declaration concerning the ascending and descending of angels upon him i and also the idea given indeed only aa the conjecture of some that an to him xii if however he on any ground whatever found special matter of hesitation in the appearance of the angel in the garden this would only be a reason for the of the angel with and mark and not for the whole scene which was easily from this single particular if the mere absence of the incident from the narrative of john is not to be explained the difficulty when we consider what this to us instead of the scene in the garden concerning the mental condition of during the last hours previous to his arrest in the same place which the s f s s f â s f to the op to the agony in garden john it is true has nothing for he makes he capture ot at once on his arrival in the garden but immediately before at and after the last meal he has inspired by a state of mind could hardly have as a scenes like those wliich according to occurred in tlie garden in the farewell in john namely xiv â xvii precisely in the tone of one who has already inwardly over approaching from a point of view in which is in the beams of the glory which is to come after with a divine which is cheerful in the certainty of its is it possible that immediately after this k ace should give place to the most violent mental emotion this tranquillity to a trouble even unto death and that from victory achieved he should sink into doubtful contest in wliich he needed by an angel in those he appears as one who from the of hid inward serenity and comforts his trembling friends and yet he now seeks spiritual aid from the drowsy for he to watch with him there he is so certain of the of his approaching death as to assure his followers that it is well for them tliat he should go away else the would not come to them here he again doubts whether his death be really the will of the father there he a under the necessity of death inasmuch as it that necessity freedom so that his will to die is one with divine will that he should die here these two a ills arc so at tliat the indeed but bows to the absolute and these two opposite states of mind are not even separated by any intervening incident of an character but only by the short â ace of time which elapsed during the walk from to the mount of across the just as if in that brook as in another lost all remembrance of the foregoing it is true that we arc here referred to the of mental states which naturally becomes more id in proportion as the decisive moment approaches to the tact tliat not seldom in the life of there occurs a sudden of the higher of the soul an of them by god which renders the victory nevertheless achieved truly great and t but this opinion at once its origin from a purely imaginative species of thought to which the soul can appear a lake or according as the of the conducting are or closed by the in which it is on all sides involved the of christ over the fear of death is said only to in its true magnitude when we consider that while a could only conquer because he remained in the full i ion of liis i ff f â r the life op energies st was able to triumph over all the powers of darkness even when by and the of spirit by his merely soul x â â but is not this the he most contradiction of the doctrine of the church as of sound which alike maintain that without god man can do no good thing that only by his can man the shafts of the wicked one to escape from tlie results of sober reflection the imaginative is driven to contradict by supposing that in the angel which incidentally contrary to the verbal significance of the text is reduced to a merely internal vision of there was imparted to when in tiie extremity of his an of spiritual strength so that he thus would not as it was at first have conquered without but only with divine aid if in accordance with the angel be to have appeared prior to the last most violent part of the conflict in order to strengthen for this ultimate trial but rather than fall into o evident a self contradiction prefers to contradict the text and hence the order of the incidents assuming without farther preliminary that came after the third prayer consequently after the victory had been already gained whence he is driven to the extreme of

13Ralph Emerson

of this great poet s influence on the style of his may be few or unimportant it by no means follows that the impression left by his personality has been small on the contrary it has i believe been deeply felt by most of those who since his day have had any share of poetic sensibility as at once an explanation and a justification of the points in which they feel themselves different from the mass of mankind his character and his story â more and romantic than s purer and s â are such as to call forth in men of ardent and poetic temper the at once of sympathetic pity and sympathetic triumph the english poets for such men are apt to feel that they have a with the world their virtue â because it is original rather than reflected â because it rests on impulse rather than on tradition seems too often to be counted for nothing at all by those whose highest achievement is to walk mechanically along the ancient ways their eagerness to face the reality of things without some touch of which religion is but a dream is as or their enthusiasm for ideal beauty without some touch of which love is but a selfish instinct is referred to the of a less dignified passion the very name of their master is into an easy sneer and nevertheless the wisest among them perceive that all this must be and is better thus the world must be arranged to suit the ordinary man for though the man of genius is more capable of being the ordinary man is more likely to be really injured by surroundings for his development in society as in nature the which any exceptional has to encounter should be prompt and severe it is better that poets should be into by wrong and learn in suffering what they teach in song than that a door should be opened to those who are the shadow of that of which the poet is the reality â who are only sentimental only only it is better that the world should a than that it should endure a st just but in whatever mood the man of poetic temper may contemplate his own relation to society he will be tempted to dwell upon even to the character and achievements of perhaps he is dreaming as many men have innocently who had not strength enough to make their dream come true of the delight of what the world calls restless by some apparition of for power of revealing the central force of self control which has guided those eager impulses along an ordered way as the sun rules even with a tyrant s gaze the republic of the of struggling fierce toward heaven s free wilderness â of giving in short to motives and character the noble of some work whose sincerity and virtue it in the heart of a great people in such a mood he will turn proudly to as to one who knew to the the poet s sorrow and has received the poet s reward one who assailed by and accursed replied by strains which have become a part of the highest moments of all after generations an element i i may be allowed the expression in the religion of mankind or if the mood in which the lover of poetry turns to be one in which that true world in which he fain would dwell seems in danger of fading into a remote amid the gross and pressing cares of every day he will still be tempted to cling to and the poet of because he offers so a testimony to the of the poetic vision because he carries as it were the message of a among unspeakable things we need not therefore wonder if among poets and imaginative critics we find the worship of carried to an extraordinary height i quote as a specimen some words of a living poet himself closely akin to in the character of his genius all poets on record but some two or three throughout all time his depths and heights of inner and outer music are as divine as nature s and not sooner he was alone the perfect singing god his thoughts words deeds all sang together â the master singer of our modem race and age the poet beloved above all other poets being beyond all other poets â in one word and the only proper word â divine the tone of this that there will be many readers to agree and to enjoy and in fact the representatives of this school of criticism are now so strong and their utterance so confident that the easiest course in treating of would be simply to accept their general view and to that opposite opinion which if not less widely held finds at any rate less eloquent but it is surely not satisfactory that literary judgments should thus become merely the of the imaginative to the imaginative of the to the that poetry and criticism in pope s words should be by no means the universal concern of the world but only the affair of idle men who write in their and of idle men who read there we should surely desire that poetry should become the universal concern of the world at least thus far that those who delight in its deeper mysteries should also be ready to meet plain men on the common ground of plain good sense should see what they see a the english poets listen to what they say and explain their own superior insight in terms intelligible to all if clear headed but readers are practically told that the realm of poetry is a fairy land which they cannot enter they will by calling it a cloud town built in the air the sight of our will only them to use the t poetry as the not of

44Oliver Optic

head swung back so that he could see nothing the heaving sky after dragging at the he fell on the bank with and then there was another great crash and then a splash and all was done mutual too had avoided the noise and tlie ment of people in the street and to the water until her tears â be and she â herself as to escape remark npon her looking ill or a going home the serenity of the hour and place b reproaches or evil intentions within her breast to sank into its depths she had meditated and taken she too was when she heard a it startled her for it was like a of blows and listened it her for blows fell heavily and the of the night as she listened all was as she yet listened she heard a â groan and a fall into the li her old bold life and habit instantly inspired her without waste of breath in crying for help where there were to bee she ran towards the spot from which the had it between her and the bridge but it was more removed from her she had thought the night being so very and sound with the of water at length she reached a part of the green bank much and i trodden where there lay some broken of some torn fragments of stooping saw that the bloody following the drops a l e saw that margin of the bank was bloody following the current th f eyes she saw a bloody oe turned up towards the and away now merciful be thanked for that old time and blessed lord that through thy ul workings it good at last to tne drifting face belongs be ii or woman s help my humble hands lord god to raise it from and restore it to some one to whom it must be dear it was thought fervently thought but not for a moment did l prayer check her she was away before it up in her e away swift and true yet steady above all â for without it could never be done â to the landing place under the where she also had seen the boat lying among the a sure touch of her old practised hand a sure step of f practised foot a sure light balance of her body and she boat a quick glance of her practised eye showed her even thi the deep dark the in a rack against the garden wall another moment and she had ff taking with her and the boat had shot out into the moonlight a was down the stream as never woman ro water intently over her shoulder without speed ahead for the driving face she passed the scene of the l yonder it was on her left well over the boat s she i her right the end of the village street a street that v dipped into the river its sounds were growing â again a d looking as the boat drove eveiy the floating ce i she merely kept the boat before the stream now and mutual her oars knowing well that if the face were not soon visible it had g down and she would it an sight never have seen by the moonlight what she saw at the length of a few strokes she saw the drowning rise to the ce slightly le and as if by instinct turn over on its back to float just first dimly seen the face which she now dimly saw firm of look and firm of purpose she intently watched its coming m until it was very near then with a touch her and crept aft in the boat between kneeling and crouching once she let the body her not being of her grasp twice and she had seized it by its bloody hair it was insensible if not dead it was and the water all about it with dark red streaks as it could not help itself it was impossible for her to get it on board she bent over the stem to secure it with the line and then the river and its shores rang to the terrible cry she uttered but as if possessed by supernatural spirit and strength she lashed it safe resumed her seat and rowed in desperately for the nearest shallow water where she might run the boat desperately but not wildly for she knew that if she lost distinctness of intention all was lost and she tan the boat ashore went into the water released him from the line and by main strength lifted him in her arms and laid him in the bottom of the boat he had fearful wounds upon him and she bound them up with her dress torn into else supposing him to be still alive she foresaw that he must to death he could be landed at his inn which was the nearest place for this done very rapidly she kissed his forehead looked up in anguish to the stars and blessed him and forgave him if she had anything to forgive it was only in that instant that she thought of herself and then she thought of herself only for him now heaven be thanked for that old time me a wasted moment to have got the boat afloat again an to row back against the stream and grant o blessed lord god that through poor me he may be raised from death and preserved to some one else to whom he may be dear one day though never dearer than to me i she rowed hard â but never wildly â and seldom removed her eyes from him in the bottom of the boat she had so laid him as that she might see his it was much that his mother might have covered it but it was above and beyond in her eyes the boat

7James Baldwin

no purpose that i â none upon earth mrs hum and what is to become of â tis all settled mrs and how is it determined i ll tell you whispers mrs hum and is he to â tell you all i know of the matter mrs and well now i know everything about it i u go away i and so will l a of jane l til â ne curtain rises and sir in an elegant attitude on a sofa fast asleep enter col col e my daughter is not here i see there lies sir edward shall i tell him the no he ll it but he s asleep and won t me â ru e en venture up to sir edward whispers him and exit end of the act her own opinion of the of inch an early habit of composition is given in the following words of a niece â as i grew older my aunt would talk to me more seriously of my reading and my amusements i had taken early to writing verses and stories and i am sorry to think how i troubled her with reading them she was very kind about it and always had some praise to bestow but at last she warned me against spending too much time upon she said â how well i recollect it â that she knew writing stories was a great amusement and she thought a harmless one though many people she was aware thought otherwise but that at my age it would be bad for me to be much taken up with my own later still â it was after she had gone to â she sent me a message to this effect that if i would take ter advice i should cease writing till was sixteen that she had herself often wished she had more and written less in the corresponding a of jane years of her own life ab thia niece was only twelve years old at the time of her aunt s death these words seem to imply that the tales to which i have referred had some of them at least been written in her childhood but between these childish and composition of her living works there another stage of her progress during which she produced some stories not without merit hut which she never considered worthy of publication during this preparatory period her mind seems to have working in a very different direction from that into which it ultimately settled instead of presenting faithful copies of nature tales were generally the im probable events and exaggerated which she had met with in sundry silly some thing of this fancy is to be found iu abbey bat she soon left it far behind in her course it would seem as if she were first taking note of all the faults to be avoided and considering how she ought not to write before she attempted to put forth her strength in thâ right direction the family have rightly i think declined to let these early works be published mr observed very of walter scott s early on the borders he wm a the time but he ken may be what he was about till years had passed first he thought of little i dare say but thâ and the fun and so in a way jane was of future fame but caring only for j a of jane and the fun and it would be as unfair to expose this preliminary process to the world as it would be to display all that goes on behind the curtain o the theatre before it is drawn up it was however at that the real foundations of her fame were laid there some of her most successful writing was composed at such an early age as to make it surprising that so young a woman could have acquired the insight into character and the nice observation of manners which they display pride and prejudice which some consider the most brilliant of her novels was the first finished if not the first begun she began it in october before she was twenty one years old and completed it in about ten months in august the title then in tended for it was first impressions sense and sensibility was begun in its present form immediately after the completion of the former in november but something similar in story and character had been written earlier under the title of and and if as is probable a good deal of this earlier production was retained it must form the earliest specimen of her writing that has been given to the world abbey though not prepared for the press till was certainly first composed in amongst the most valuable neighbors of the were mr and mrs and their family he was of the adjoining parish of she was sister to sir to whom we are indebted for the earliest notice of jane that exists in his a of jane speaking of his visits at he writes thus â the nearest neighbors of the were the of i remember jane the as a little child she was very intimate with mrs and much encouraged by her her mother was a miss whose paternal grandmother was sister to the first duke of mr was of a family of which several branches have been settled in the of and some are still remaining there when i knew jane i never suspected that she was an but my eyes told me that she was fair and handsome slight and elegant but with cheeks a little too full one may wish that sir had dwelt rather longer on the subject of these instead of being drawn away by his extreme love for to her great grandmother and ancestors that great grandmother however lives in the family records as mary a daughter of lord married in westminster abbey to of in when a

25Bret Harte

good woman tell your husband to come and see me â there s my number went out and the men at the door whispered that must be the rich man as give him all the money he took the last car and he who had been two hours before in that brilliant company at the was now one of ten people riding in a street car of his fellow passengers six were drunken men and two were low women of the town one of them had no bonnet and lacked a penny of enough to pay her fare but the conductor let her ride remarking to who stood on the platform that the poor devil has a hard life any a how said i not a minute ago that the live not around the world but around the street corner ride in the same street car as the car was passing street a passenger half drunk came out turned his haggard face a moment toward the face of and then with an exclamation of startled recognition leaped from the car and hurried away in the darkness it was not till the car had gone three blocks farther that guessed from the golden hair that this was the brilliant baron of the early days of the club when got back to his luxurious apartment he was possessed with a superstitious feeling he took up the paper weight that henry had held in his hand the very last night he was in this parlor and he thought the whole conversation over as he smoked his cigar fearing to put out his light confound the man that invented ghost stories for a christmas amusement he said as he remembered old and tiny tim well i m not old anyhow if i m not as good as poor henry i do not know whether it was the reaction from the punch he had drunk or the sudden shock of s death or the troubled conscience or from all three but when he got into bed he found himself shaking with the christmas club he had been asleep an hour perhaps when he heard a genuine irish voice say and is yer name he started up â looked around the room he had made so much concession to his nervous feeling that he had not turned the gas quite out as was his custom the dim made him shudder he expected to see the street irish woman looking at him but he shook off his terror a little uttered another on the man that invented christmas ghost stories concluded that his illusion must have come from his lying on his left side turned over and reflected that by so doing he would relieve his heart and stomach from the weight of his liver repeated this reflection in a soothing way two or three times dropped off into a quiet and almost immediately found himself sitting bolt upright in bed shaking with a chill terror sure that the irish voice had again asked the question and is yer name he had a feeling though his back was toward the table that some one sat at the table was no coward but it took him a minute or two to shake off his terror and regain enough self control to look around for a moment he saw or thought he saw a form sitting at the table then it disappeared and then after a good while got himself composed to sleep again this time with his head well to reduce the circulation in the brain as he reflected he did not get to sleep however for before he became unconscious the irish voice from just above the carved spoke out so clear now that there could be no mistake and is yer name it was then that he rose in bed and uttered the exclamation which i set down in the first line of this story could not tell whether he meant charles or nick perhaps you can indeed it doesn t seem to matter much after all iii a narrative of this sort like a french sermon itself into three parts i have now got through the preliminary of the history of the of the christmas club and i hope to be able to tell the remainder of the story with as few as possible for at a body doesn t want his stories to stretch out to eternity even if they are ghostly said the and though his meaning was indefinite he really meant whatever it might be he looked up at the ornamental figure carved on the rich of his bed as if he suspected that the of english had spoken in irish he looked at the head the christmas club board intently a long time partly because the irish voice had come from that direction and partly because he was afraid to look round toward the table he just as well before he looked around as he did afterward what he should see he saw it before he looked round by some other vision than that of his eyes and that was what made him shiver so he knew that the persistent gray eyes were upon him that they would never move until he looked round he could feel the look he saw it at last he turned slowly sure enough in that very chair by the table sat the presence the ghost â the â it was henry or was it there in the dim light was the nose like an eagle s there were the steady gray eyes with that same earnest wistful look fastened on the features were tail s but the face was and fearfully as with the all this saw while seeing through the ghost and beyond â the carving on the dressing case was quite as visible through the apparition as before was not ordinarily superstitious and he quickly reasoned that his excited imagination had confounded the

10Joseph Conrad

of any familiar object almost always brings a chill as from an evil omen it seems to be the first finger shadow of advancing death from all these causes combined mr could never think of his without strong irritation and the very sight of mr passing in the street was to him one day when the old gentleman was coming up orchard street on his mare shaking the bridle and her with the whip as usual though there was a perfect mutual understanding that she was not to her pace happened to be on her t wn door step and he could not resist the temptation of stopping to speak to that nice little woman as he called her though she was taller than all the test of his feminine acquaintances in spite of her disposition to take her husband s part in all public matters could bear no malice against her old friend bo they shook hands well mrs i m to my heart not to see you sometimes that i am said mr in a plaintive tone but if you ve got any poor people wants help and you know s send em to me send em to me just the same thank you mr that i will good by scenes op life made interview as short as she could but it was not short enough to escape the observation of her husband who as she feared was on his mid day return from his office at the other end of the and this offence of hers in speaking to mr was the frequently theme of mr s domestic eloquence the loss of his old with mr s influence began to know more distinctly why he hated the but a passionate hate as well as a passionate love demands some leisure and mental freedom persecution and revenge like courtship and will not prosper without a con expenditure of time and ingenuity and these are not to spare with a man whose law business and liver are both beginning to show unpleasant symptoms such was the disagreeable turn affairs were taking with mr and like the general distracted by home he was too much harassed himself to lay ingenious plans for the enemy meanwhile the evening lecture drew larger and larger not perhaps many from that select aristocratic circle in which the and were but winning the larger proportion of mr s morning and afternoon hearers and mr s evening at was making its way in and gradually its subtle into s repentance that were bolted and barred against it tbe movement like all other religious had a mixed effect ideas have the fate of which once set afloat in he world are taken up by all sorts of instruments some of them coarse feeble or out of tune until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable it may be that some of mr s hearers had gained a religious rather than religious experience that here and there a s wife who a few months before had been simply a silly was converted into that more complex nuisance a silly and that the old adam with die of middle age continued to tell behind the counter notwithstanding the new adam s to bible reading and family prayer that the children in the sunday school had their memories crammed with phrases about the blood of and justification by faith alone which an experience lying principally in hop scotch parental and after pop served rather to than to illustrate and that at in those distant days as in all other times and places where the mental atmosphere is changing and men are the of new ideas folly often itself for wisdom ignorance gave itself airs of knowledge and selfishness turning its eyes upward called itself religion scenes op nevertheless had palpable existence and operation in society thai idea of duty that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self which is to the moral life what the addition of a great central is to animal life no man can begin to mould himself on a faith or an idea without rising to a order of experience a principle of of self mastery has been introduced into his nature he is no longer a mere bundle of impressions desires and impulses whatever might be the weaknesses of the ladies who the of their lace and ribbons cut out garments for the poor distributed tracts quoted scripture and defined the true they had learned this â that there was a divine work to be done in life a rule of goodness higher than the opinion of their neighbours and if the notion of a heaven in reserve for themselves was a little too prominent yet the theory of fitness for that heaven consisted in purity of heart in christ like compassion in the of selfish desires they might give the name of piety to much that was only they might call many things sin that were not sin but they had at least the feeling that sin was to be avoided and resisted and colour blindness which may for scarlet is better than total blindness which sees no distinction of colour at all miss in quiet attire with a somewhat excessive so s repentance of countenance teaching at the sunday school â the poor and striving after a standard of purity and goodness had surely more moral loveliness in those days when she had no other model than the of the in the miss listening in attention to mr s evening lecture no doubt found channels for vanity and but she was clearly in moral advance of miss i under her feathers at old mr s of and even elderly fathers and mothers with minds like mrs s too tough to much doctrine were the better for having their hearts inclined towards the new preacher as a messenger from god they became

13Ralph Emerson

word it was his final hope washington s last i don t nobody nobody at all i ain but a de box down you me to s all an i ll off you coat an dis ef you ll le me up off de suddenly appeared george lay out on the ground as flat as a field lark but at s appearance he sprang behind in amazement was inquiring the meaning of all the noise he had heard when appeared on the scene the major explained briefly it was that champion as our failed to appear on time he being an of the code suggested that we were bound to take the places of those we represented nor i don nobody interrupted george washington but at a look from the major he again behind the major with his eye on said well gentlemen let s to business we have but a few minutes of daylight left i presume you are ready both gentlemen bowed and the major proceeded to explain that he had loaded both george washington s last ill pistols himself with precisely similar charges and that they were identical in sight drift and weight and had been tested on a number of occasions when they had proved to be â excellent weapons and remarkably accurate in their fire the young men bowed silently but when he turned suddenly and called george washington that individual nearly jumped out of his coat the major ordered him to measure ten paces which after first giving notice that he didn t nobody he proceeded to do taking a dozen or more gigantic strides and hastily retired again behind the safe of back as he stood there in his condition he about as much resembled the and of a half hour previous as a wet and turkey does the cock of the flock the major with an at him for stepping as if he had on seven league boots stepped off the distance himself explaining to that ten paces was about the best distance as it was sufficiently distant to avoid the of letting a gentleman feel that he was within touching distance and yet near enough to avoid useless b taking out a coin he announced that he would toss up for the choice of or rather would make a disinterested person do so and holding out his hand ht called george washington to toss it up there was no response until the major shouted george washington where are you â you rascal me said george washington in a voice rising from the ground where he had thrown himself to avoid any stray bullets and slowly forward with a pitiful please don p int thing dis away the major gave him the coin with an order to toss it up in a tone so sharp that it made him jump and he began to turn it over ner in his hand which was raised a little above his shoulder in his it slipped out of hia hand and disappeared george washington in a dazed way looked in his hand and then on the ground hi what hit he muttered getting down on his knees and searching in the grass dis place is evil the major called to him to hurry up but he was too intent on the problem of the mysterious disappearance of the quarter george washington s last i ain like dis bein right he murmured don you have no mo to do dis thing the major s patience was giving out george washington you rascal he shouted do you think i can wait all night for you to pull up all the grass in the garden take the quarter out of your pocket sir tain in my pocket washington feeling there instinctively uie coin down his sleeve into his hand again this was too much for him hi de king he exclaimed how it in my pocket oh de devil is bout you fling it up i ain but a po sinful oh and handing over the quarter george washington flung flat on the ground and as a sort of religious began to chant in a wild tone the funeral hymn hark i from the a sound the major tossed up and posted the and with much solemnity handed them the pistols which both the two young men george washington s last received quietly they were pale but perfectly steady the major then asked them gentlemen are you ready whilst at the sound george washington s voice in tremulous struck in ye ee â off view the ee ere you ou m â ly lie they announced themselves ready just as george washington looking up from the ground where he like the so off was lying discovered that he was not more than thirty yards out of the line of aim and with a muttered began to crawl away there was a confused murmur from the direction of the path which led to the house and the major shouted fire â one â two â three both young men facing each other and looking steadily in each other s eyes with action fired their pistols into the air at the report a series of shrieks rang out from the towards the house whilst george washington gave a wild yell and began to kick like a wounded bull that he was killed â george washington s last the major had just walked up to the and them of their weapons had with a comprehensive wave of the hand congratulated them on their courage and urged them to shake hands which they were in the act of doing when the parted and margaret followed closely by rose and by miss panting behind rushed in upon them crying at the tops of their voices stop stop the two young ladies addressed themselves to and and both were all their eloquence when miss appeared her eye caught the prostrate form of george washington

45Sarah Orne Jewett

only ascertain what fortune she might eventually count on possessing â but was so dreadfully close about everything to do with money the was a fat one worth from ten to fifteen thousand a year that she knew from the odious impudent questions asked about it by some horrible member in the house of just after her father s death surely must have saved a considerable amount out of so an income f she had always kept down expenses at the palace the servants left so often because they declared they had not enough to eat then through the open window of the villa in roses there amid the palms and pines â and in a falling too how shall ever one like me win thee back again but needed no winning being very effectually won already so it was superfluous thus to ask the question the midday sun striking through her black and white made her feel dizzy and faint â if only she could learn the amount of her fortune she could let mrs learn the amount of it too â just casually in the course of conversation and then said mrs was doing her best to place her cousin by marriage to secure him a wife chapter x which it is to be feared smells somewhat powerfully of water warm wind hot sun the confused sound and movement of a great southern port all the traffic and trade of it man and beast in the splendid glare rattle of scream of grind of wheels and the of a big steamer working her way cautiously through the packed shipping of the basin to the blue freedom of the open sea â such was the scene which the and white steward leaning their folded arms on the and smoking lazily watched the forest queen rode high at the having discharged much and taken on but a moderate amount of cargo for her homeward voyage this was already she had and was bound to clear by dawn now she rested in idleness most of her crew taking their pleasure ashore a sabbath calm her amid the going forward on every hand the ship s dog a curly haired black lay on the clean deck in the sunshine stretched on his side all four legs limp save when beyond endurance he into a sitting position to snap at the all too numerous flies the â a heavily built east born within sight of boston stump five and forty years ago his face and by almost to the of expression and altogether to that of eyebrows and of beard â deliberately and into the refuse stained water against the ship s side over twenty feet below and resumed a conversation which for the moment had fallen dead so that s the reason of his giving us hell s delight the world beyond the forest like he has all day cleaning up â got a lady coming aboard to tea has he if she s too fine to take us as we are a deal better let er stay ashore in my opinion stuff a nonsense all this set out dressing up and dressing down vanity at the bottom of it â and who s it to take in â for a tramp s a tramp and a s a and all the water in god s ocean and all the rubbing and on man s earth won t convert the one into the other bless you he pointed away with his to the mouth of one of the narrow lanes opening between the shops wine shops and cheap eating houses â their gaudy striped and straining in the breeze â which lined the further side of the crowded as well try to wash some bred french off the streets in behind there into a white heavenly angel he grumbled on all this of the old s so much labour lost gets the men s monkey up too putting all this work on em he leaned down again folding his arms along the top of the and angel or i find no use for her nor any other style of woman either on board this ere rusty iron coffin he said the a eyed little â amateur of the and noted of popular music hall â took him up in tones of amiable argument your stomach s so turned on the subject of females you can t do em justice gone sour regularly sour it is and i don t hold with you there never shall and never do i m one as can always find a corner in me manly bosom for the â blame me if i can t the pore little after all s said and done made em just as much as e made you that e did and called you in to lend m â a â x fe hard job didn t ef all i can say is you d both have been better employed putting in your time and talents somewhere else after which sally the two smoked in silence while the ship s dog alternately stretched himself on the hot boards and started up with a to snap at the cloud of flies again the steward merely his time however and presently with a nice air of never been married ave i ve often known that put a fellow sadly off the sex never the other replied though i came precious near it once when i was a and â even than you with your little and your manly bosom william which is allowing a lot but my wife as was to ave been â met her down way gone blind silly on er i was â got took with the the week before the ceremony was pulled off and give me all she had to spare of the disease with her dying breath soft chap as i was then i held it as a

31George Moore

had been her agitation and its significance and said well then give it back if you are afraid of it but she as suddenly declined to return it and it took her place by his side silently they moved from the hollow tree together during their walk she did not attempt to his nevertheless she was as keenly alive and watchful of his every movement and gesture as if she had hung enchanted on his lips the way with which he pursued a path through those woods his quick of certain trees or his mute inspection of some almost of bird or beast his critical examination of certain plants which he plucked and deposited in his were not lost on the quick woman as they gradually changed the dear of the central woods for a more tangled felt that subtle admiration which in imitation and perfectly the step tread and easy swing of her followed so accurately his lead that she won a gratified exclamation from him when their goal was reached â a broken blackened shaft by long forgotten lightning in the centre of a tangled carpet of in the woods i don t wonder you the he said cheerfully throwing down his burden if you can take the hunting path like that in a few days if you stay here i can venture to trust you alone for a little when you are tired of the tree looked pleased but busied herself with arrangements for the breakfast while he gathered the fuel for the roaring fire which soon blazed beside the shattered tree s breakfast was a success it was a revelation to the young whose habits and simple tastes were usually content with the most primitive forms of frontier it was at least a surprise to him to know that without extra trouble flour water and need not be essentially heavy that coffee need not be boiled with sugar to the of that even that delicacy small of covered with ashes and upon the end of a boldly thrust into the flames would be better and even more cooked upon burning coals moved in his practical nature he was surprised to find this curious creature of nerves and useless impulses informed with an intelligence that did not the welfare of or the existence of a soul he respected her for some minutes until in the midst of a triumph a big tear dropped and in the but he forgave the by taking no notice of it and by doing full justice to that particular dish nevertheless he asked several questions based upon these recently discovered qualities it appeared that in the old days of her wanderings with the she had often been forced to undertake this housekeeping but she despised it had never done it since and always had refused to do it for him â the in the woods personal referring as low understood to her lover not caring to revive memories further low briefly concluded â i don t know what you were or what you may be but from what i see of you you ve got all the of a s wife she stopped and looked at him and then with an impulse of impudence that only half concealed a more serious vanity asked do you think i might have made a good i don t know he replied quietly i never saw enough of them to know confident from his clear eyes that he spoke the truth but having nothing ready to follow this calm disposal of her curiosity into silence the meal finished washed their scant table in a little spring near the camp fire where catching sight of her disordered dress and collar she rapidly threw her shawl after the national fashion over her shoulder and pinned it quickly low the remaining provisions and the few cooking under the dead embers and ashes all superficial indication of their camp fire as and as he had before there isn t the ghost of a chance he said in explanation that anybody but you or i will set foot here before we come back to supper but it s well to be on guard take you back to the cabin now though i bet you could find your way there as well as i can on their way back ran ahead of her companion and a few tiny leaves from a hidden in the bark strewn trail brought them to him that s the kind you re looking for isn t it she said half timidly it is responded low in gratified surprise but how did you know it you re not a are you in the woods i reckon not said but you picked some when we came and i noticed what they were here was indeed another revelation low stopped and gazed at her with such frank open utterly curiosity that her black eyes fell before him and do you think he asked with logical deliberation that you could find any plant from another i should give you yes or from a drawing of it yes perhaps even if you described it to me a half confidential half silence followed i tell you what i ve got a book â i know it interrupted full of these things yes do you think you could â of course i could broke in again but you don t know what i mean said the low certainly i do why find em and preserve all the different ones for you to write under â that s it isn t it low nodded his head gratified but not entirely convinced that she had fully estimated the magnitude of the endeavor i suppose said in the feminine voice which it would seem entered even the philosophical calm of the they were treading â i suppose that places great value on them t low had indeed heard science before nor was it at all impossible that

4George Eliot

perhaps after his having resolutely avoided all the old places for so long but one thing and another had made him think a great deal of lately and if she didn t mind he would like to go back there why should they care if they were known it was over sensitive of them to mind so much they could go on selling cakes there for that matter if he couldn t work he had no sense of shame at mere poverty and perhaps he would be as strong as ever soon and able to set up stone cutting for himself there why should you care so much for she said cares nothing for you poor dear u well i do i can t help it i love the place â although i know how it hates all men like me â the so called self how it scorn s our labored when it be the first to respect them how it at our false quantities and when it should say i see you want help my poor friend nevertheless it is the centre of the universe to me because of my early dream and nothing can alter it perhaps it will soon wake up and be generous i pray so i should like to go back to live perhaps to die there in two or three weeks i might i think it will then be june and i should like to be there by a particular day his hope that he was recovering proved so far well that in three weeks they had arrived in the city of many memories were actually treading its receiving the reflection of the sunshine from its wasting walls i part vi at again and she her body greatly and all the places of her joy she filled with her torn hair â there are two who decline a woman and and enjoy our death in the darkness here â r on their arrival the station was lively with straw young men young girls who bore a remarkable family likeness to their and who were dressed up in the brightest and of the place seems gay said sue why â it is remembrance day â â how sly of you â you came to day on purpose yes said quietly as he took charge of the small child and told s boy to keep close to them sue attending to their own eldest i thought we might as well come to day as on any other but i am afraid it will you she said looking anxiously at him up and down oh i mustn t let it interfere with our business and we have a good deal to do before we shall be settled here the first thing is lodgings having left their luggage and his tools at the station they proceeded on foot up the familiar street the holiday people all drifting in the same direction reaching the they were about to turn off to where accommodation was likely to be found when looking at the clock and the hurrying crowd said let us go and see the procession and never mind the lodgings just now we can get them afterwards t we to get a house over our heads first she asked but his soul seemed full of the and together they went down chief street their smallest child in s arms sue leading her little girl and the obscure la s boy walking thoughtfully and silently beside them crowds of pretty sisters in airy and meekly ignorant parents who had known no college in their youth were under in the same direction by brothers and sons bearing the opinion written large on them that no properly qualified human beings had lived on earth till they came to grace it here and now my failure is reflected on me by every one of those young fellows said a lesson on presumption is awaiting me to day â humiliation day for me if you my dear darling hadn t come to my rescue i should have gone to the dogs with despair she saw from his face that he was getting into one of his self moods it would have been better if we had gone at once about our own affairs dear she answered i am sure this sight will awaken old sorrows in you and do no good well â we are near we will see it now said he they turned in on the left by the church with the italian porch whose columns were heavily draped with and pursued the lane till there arose on s sight the circular theatre with that well known lantern above it which stood in his mind as the sad symbol of his abandoned hopes for it was from that outlook that he had finally surveyed the city of on the afternoon of his great meditation which convinced him at last of the of his attempt to be a son of the university to day in the open space stretching between this building and the nearest college stood a crowd of expectant people a passage was kept clear through their midst by two of timber extending from the door of the college to the door of the large building between it and the theatre here is the place â they are just going to pass cried in sudden excitement and pushing his way to the front he took up a position close to the barrier still at again the youngest child in his arms while sue and the others kept immediately behind him the crowd filled in at their back and fell to talking joking and laughing as carriage after carriage drew up at the lower door of the college and solemn stately figures in blood red robes began to alight the sky had grown and livid and thunder now and then father time shuddered it do seem like the judgment day he

44Oliver Optic

order hence it added considerably to tom s recovered self complacency to find a smart two wheel awaiting him drawn by a remarkably well shaped and well black horse the coachman was to match middle aged clean shaven his face set as a mask his livery of salt mixture he touched his hat when our young gentleman appeared and mounted beside him the horse meanwhile shivering a little and showing the red of its nostrils as the train with drew out of the station bound westward to and later the horse broke up the abiding of high street by dancing as it passed the engine of a slowly machine and only settled fairly into its stride when the three arched twelfth century stone bridge over the was passed and the road â leaving the last scattered houses of the little town â turned south and the shining expanse of the haven and the semi of cross and chapter in the doubtfully harmonious parts of a whole along low and rather narrow room supported across the centre â where passage walls had been cut away â by an avenue of wooden pillars four on either side leading to a glass door opening on to the garden a man s room rather than a woman s and judging by appearances a bachelor s at that â century furniture not in line but heavy wide seated designed for the comfort of figures arrayed in long and full skirted coats curtains and originally now by sea damp and by sun glare to a uniform tone in which colour and pattern were alike handsome of and of rome and portraits in oval frames the rest of the brown wall space hidden by these surmounted by softly shining pearl grey chinese monsters philosophers and saints the shelves below packed with neatly ranged books a dusky room in spite of its rounded two on either side the glass door the air of it holding in permanent solution an of leather bound volumes a place in short which though not imposed itself its qualities and traditions to an extent impossible for any save the most thick and wholly to or resist young tom having no convenient of stupidity suffered its influence intimately as â looking about him with quick glances â he followed the man servant across it between the pillars he felt self conscious and as by a smile of silent amusement upon some watchful elderly face so impressed in hard deed was he that on reaching the door he paused letting the man pass on alone to announce him he wanted time in which to get over this queer sensation of shyness before presenting himself to the company assembled there in the garden outside yet he was well aware that the prospect out of doors â its of mellow sunlight and of space its fair calm in which no leaf stirred â was far more attractive than the room in the doorway of which he thus elected to linger for the glass door gave directly on to an extensive lawn set out immediately before the house front with scarlet and crimson in square and beds away on the right a couple of grey trees â the largest in height and tom had ever cast finely and shadow upon the smooth turf beneath them garden chairs were stationed and a tea table spread at which four ladies sat â one the elder dressed in crude purple the other three though of widely ages and aspect in light coloured summer gowns to the left of the lawn a high wall â by bay and at the far end by masses of airy pink â shut off the eastward view but straight before him all lay open clean away to the curve of the world as he told himself not without a pull of emotion remembering his impending voyage for about sixty yards distant the lawn ended abruptly in a hard straight line â the land cut off sheer as it seemed at the outer edge of a terrace upon which two small cannon were mounted their rusty trained over blue green tide river and high sand bar out to sea between these engines of destruction little black cannon balls had been piled into a near to which three men stood engaged in conversation one of them tom observed as taller more commanding and distinguished in bearing than his companions even from here the whole length of the lawn the house of the intervening his presence once noted became of importance attention as the central interest the one thing which mattered in this gracious scene â â his figure against those long lines of river sand bar and far away delicate of t ted sea with tinted sky whereupon tom became convicted of the agreeable certainty that no disappointment awaited him his expectations were about to receive generous fulfilment this visit would prove well worth while so absorbed indeed was he in watching the man whom he supposed â and rightly â to be his host that he failed to notice one of the ladies rise from the tea table and advance across the lawn until her youthful white clad form was close upon him its way between the glowing beds then â you are my cousin thomas t the girl with a grave air of ceremony m yes â and you â you are my cousin he answered as he felt being taken unaware in more respects than one and for all his ready being unable to keep a note of surprise out of his voice and glance he had known of the existence of this little cousin having on occasion â vaguely irritated family mention of her birth at a time when the flame of the still burned fiercely in the and in to be born under such very circumstances could in the of every normal hardly fail to argue a certain and absence of good taste

31George Moore

examination that she could be his dismal which was accepted and returned he bore his good fortune with the utmost moderation instead of being triumphant he shed more tears than he had ever been known to shed before and sobbing said oh what a day this has been i can t go back to the office this afternoon oh what a trying day this has been good gracious and of chapter further proceedings in and a proceeding out of it martin makes of some importance from mr to is an easy and natural transition mr living in the atmosphere of miss s love dwelt if he had but known it in a paradise the city of was also a paradise upon the showing of its the beautiful miss might have been described as a something too good for man in his fallen and degraded state that was exactly the character of the city of as heightened by general choke and other part and parcel of the of that great american eagle which is always itself in purest and never no never never down with wings into the mud when mark leaving martin in the and surveying offices had effectually strengthened and encouraged his own spirits by the contemplation of their joint misfortunes he proceeded with new cheerfulness in search of help himself as he went along on the position to which he had at last attained i used to think sometimes said mr as a desolate island would suit me but i should only have had myself to provide for there and being a easy man to manage there wouldn t have been much credit in that now here i ve got my partner to take care on and he s something like the sort of man for the purpose i want a man as is always a sliding off his legs when he ought to be on em i want a man as is so low down in the school of life that he s always a making figures of one in his copy book and can t get no further i want a man as is his own great coat and cloak and is always a himself up in martin himself and i have got him too said mr after a moment s silence what a happiness he paused to look round uncertain to which of the he should repair i don t know which to take he observed that s the truth they re equally outside and equally no doubt within being fitted up with every convenience that a in a state of could possibly require let me see the citizen as turned out last night lives under water in the right hand dog at the corner i don t want to trouble him if i can help it poor man for he is a melancholy object a lar in every respect there s a house with a but i m afraid of their being proud i don t know whether a door ain t too aristocratic but here goes for the first one he went up to the nearest cabin and knocked with his hand being desired to enter he complied neighbour said mark for i am a neighbour though you don t know me i ve come a begging â lo am i a bed and dreaming he made this exclamation on hearing his own name pronounced and finding himself clasped about the skirts by two little boys whose faces he had often washed and whose he had often cooked on board of that noble and line of packet ship the screw my eyes is wrong said mark i don t believe em that ain t my fellow passenger yonder a nursing her little girl who i am sorry to see is so delicate and that ain t her husband as come to new york to fetch her nor these he added looking down upon the boys ain t them two young as was so familiar to me though they are uncommon like em that i must confess the woman shed tears in very joy to see him the man shook both his hands and would not let them go the two boys his legs the sick child in the mother s arms stretched out her burning little fingers and muttered in her hoarse dry throat his well remembered name it was the same family sure enough altered by the air of but the same this is a new sort of a morning call said mark drawing a long breath it strikes one all of a heap wait a little bit i m a coming round fast that do these life nd of men ain t my are they on the list of the house the inquiry referred to certain gaunt pigs who had walked in after him and were much interested in the heels of the family as they did not belong to the mansion they were by hie two little boys i ain t superstitious about said mark looking round the room but if you could prevail upon the two or three i see in company to step out at the same time my young friends i think they d find the open air refreshing not that i at all object to em a very handsome animal is a n said mr sitting down upon a stool very spotted very like a style of old gentleman about the throat very bright eyed very cool and very but one sees em to the best advantage out of doors perhaps while pretending with such talk as this to be perfectly at his ease and to be the most indifferent and careless of men mark had an eye on all around him the wan and meagre aspect of the family the changed looks of the poor mother the child she held in her lap the air of great despondency and little hope on everything were plain

7James Baldwin

though she never rode out or personally as at former times one friday evening in august she walked a little way along the road and entered the village for the first time since the sombre event of the preceding christmas none of the old colour had as yet come to her cheek and its absolute was heightened by the jet black of her gown till it appeared when she reached a little shop at the other end of the place which stood nearly opposite to the churchyard heard singing inside the church and she knew that the singers were she crossed the road opened the gate and entered the the high far from the crowd of the church windows her from the eyes of those gathered within her stealthy walk was to the nook wherein had worked at planting flowers upon robin s grave and she came to the marble a motion of satisfaction her face as she read the complete inscription first came the words ot himself â erected by francis in beloved memory of robin who died october â aged years underneath this was now inscribed in new letters â in the same grave lie the remains of the francis who died december th â aged z years whilst she stood and read and meditated the tones of the organ began again in the church and she went with the same light step round to the porch and listened the door was closed and the choir was learning a new hymn was stirred by emotions which she had assumed to be dead within her the little voices of the children brought to her ear in distinct utterance the words they sang without thought or comprehension â the s feeling was always to some extent dependent upon her whim as is the case with many other women something big came into her throat and an to her eyes â and she thought that she would beauty in loneliness allow the imminent tears to flow if they wished they did flow and and one fell upon the stone bench beside her once that she had begun to cry for she hardly knew what she could not leave off for crowding thoughts she knew too well she would have given anything in the world to be as those children were at the meaning of their words because too innocent to feel the necessity for any such expression all the impassioned scenes of her brief experience seemed to revive with added emotion at that moment and those scenes which had been without emotion during had emotion then yet grief came to her rather as a luxury than as the of former times owing to s face being buried in her hands she did not notice a form which came quietly into the porch and on seeing her first moved as if to retreat then paused and regarded her did not raise her head for some time and when she looked round her face was wet and her eyes drowned and dim mr oak exclaimed she disconcerted how long have you been here a few minutes ma am said oak respectfully are you going in said and there came from within the church as from a â i loved the day and spite of fears pride ruled my will remember not past years i was said i am one of the bass singers you know i have sung bass for several months indeed wasn t aware of that i ll leave you then which i have loved long since and lost awhile sang the children don t let me drive you away mistress i think i won t go in to night oh no â you don t drive me away far from the crowd then they stood in a state of some trying to wipe her dreadfully face without his noticing her at length oak said i ve not seen i spoken to you â since ever so long have i but he feared to bring ing memories back and interrupted himself with were you going into church no she said i came to see the privately â to see if ihey had cut the inscription as i wished mr oak you needn t mind speaking to me if you wish to on the matter which is in both our minds at this moment and have they it as you wished said oak yes come and see it if you have not already so together they went and read the tomb eight months ago murmured when he saw the date it seems like yesterday to me and to me as if it were years ago â long years and i had been dead between and now am going home mr oak oak walked after her i wanted to name a small matter to you as soon as i could he said with hesitation merely about business and i think i may just mention il now if you ll allow me oh yes certainly â it is that i may soon have to give up the management of your farm mrs the fact is i am thinking of leaving england â not yet you know â next spring leaving england i she said in surprise and genuine disappointment why what are you going to do that for well i ve thought it best oak stammered out is the spot i ve had in my mind to try but it is understood everywhere that you are going to lake poor mr s farm on your own account i ve had the refusal o it tis true bu t i beauty in loneliness settled yet and i have reasons for up i shall finish out my year there as manager for the but no more and what shall i do without you oh i don t think you ought to go away you ve been with me so long â through bright times and dark

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but she fancied he would rise to an artificial fly of very common make so the lady did not worry herself about refined arts and ingenious of purpose she colonel at all available comers in the hotel she planted her camp stool in front of him at all chance meetings out of doors she praised her daughter she mourned over her she that tendency towards on the part of the she alluded to the past she even went so far as to hint at a conscience and at a desire for the man must be a fool or a flint if he doesn t give way mrs said to herself more than once and the man being neither fool nor flint did give way in a degree he was filled with a sincere for mrs founded on an immense disgust for her mother the colonel rarely permitted himself to say hard things especially of a woman but when one morning in the privacy of his own room he found himself referring to mrs as an abominable painted old his conscience did not accuse lover and mistress i un of having committed a grave in point of fact e repeated the epithet more than once and found himself sensibly the better for so doing stiu mrs could not flatter herself that her success in proportion either to her wishes or her efforts she saw so little of colonel after all he was always up at the villa one day she reached the point of she decided to follow him up to the red villa and fairly carry the war into the enemy s country the day in question was hot to the point of in the vain hope of getting a little air from the sea the whole party sat out on the under a great red and striped stretched from the house wall above the window of the drawing and forming a pretty effective shelter from the rays of the afternoon sun the land and sea and danced in the heat mist perhaps it was the heat perhaps there was an sense of crossing intentions and desires among the little group of people i on the certainly the conversation had an to run on dangerous topics was a trifle too vivid tie a trifle too cynical even limp d harassed mrs distinctly under a fine assumption of the colonel somewhat over stiff and dignified who at times appeared to possess a of hardly human of coming storms whether spiritual or physical p about she had been arranging several great w of flowers standing on a table within the open window of the o wing room her charming figure had shown to great as she stretched up to set the graceful boughs in their p e and moved back a step or two to judge the general effect of her philip had sat and watched her he found it a remarkably interesting occupation now she rested just opposite to him on the arm of one of the chairs on the idly twisting the of leaf and blossom that remained over into a dainty little wreath philip still watched her her small white hands with their rounded rosy finger tips were wonderfully pretty a she and arranged the flowers my dear mrs was saying with an air which strove to be absolutely disengaged you are an authority upon hotels and everything domestic i want you to give darling and me the benefit of your experience i have never looked on hotels as exactly domestic institutions returned mr in his soft rich voice but my experience is at everybody s service it is briefly comprehended in colonel s wife one phrase â all hotels are more or less and all are more or less does that help you much dear aunt mrs indulged in a sharp edged smile you advise an apartment then she said colonel a little forward towards the girl who are you making that for he asked her she raised her eyes to his face with her usual bright gaze who oh nobody anybody â you if you like i was really making it to please myself i like to touch fresh leaves and flowers they feel so nice there see and she laid the half finished in his hand i never advise anything said with rather an unnecessary he stretched himself out lazily in his long cane chair and repressed a i always recommend people to do exactly what they want to do advice is a ninety nine times out of a hundred people don t take it the they do take it with a then of course it turns out badly and they think you an idiot and forgive you mr looked at mrs pierce as he spoke she bent over a large piece of canvas on which she was working a pattern in that piece of canvas had become an institution it had reappeared at intervals for some years much to s irritation possessed but a limited capacity for small her had a curious habit of being crossed alternate ways and at all conceivable angles to whose quick mind seized immediately on the right way of doing a thing and whose fingers seemed incapable of an awkwardness this over on the part of her step mother was an incomprehensible stupidity as mr spoke glanced up at him her forehead was contracted into a frown but whether from a struggle to the mysteries of cross or from some deeper anxiety one could hardly pronounce i don t think you re quite well she said suddenly have you got again mrs looked sharply from one of the to the other she had walked up from the and it had been exceedingly warm in proportion as elderly ladies and rice powder they should physical exertion mrs s small eyes above her cheeks lover and mistress when i was a girl she remarked young men of your age never complained of

31George Moore

far more than myself i am sure he seemed to be with an inward rebellion against the fact that he was poor not included in the exclusive pleasures of the rich at the same time he was glowing with a desire to make other people imagine that he was or soon would be of them what airs i what shades of manner i he like myself was forever dreaming of some gorgeous maiden rich beautiful elect who was to solve all his troubles for him but there was this difference between us or so i imagined at the time dick being an artist rather remote and in manner and handsome as well as poetic and a book about myself better than myself as i fancied was certain to achieve this gilded and crystal state whereas i not being so handsome nor an artist nor poetic hardly to so gorgeous an end i might perchance arrive at some such goal if i sought it eagerly enough but the were that i should not unless i waited a long while and besides my dreams and plans varied so swiftly from day to day that i couldn t be sure what i wanted to do whereas wood being so stable in this that and the other all the things i was not was certain to arrive quickly sometimes around dinner time when i would see him leaving the office arrayed in the latest mode as i assumed â dark blue suit patent leather boots dark round soft felt hat loose tie blowing idly about his neck neat thin cane in his hand â i was fairly convinced that this much anticipated fortune had already arrived or was about to arrive this veiy evening i and that i should never see him more never even be permitted to speak to him somewhere out in the west end of course was the girl wondrous rich beautiful with whom he was to and be forgiven by her wealthy parents even now he was on his way to her while i poor that i was was here over some task would my ship never come in my great day arrive t and wood was just the type of person who would take infinite delight in creating such an impression ten years later when and i were in the east together and wood was still in st louis we were never weary of discussing this characteristic of his laughing with and at him later he married â but i shall not anticipate mentally at this time he was living a dream and in so far as possible acting it playing the part of some noble charles de heir to or to some maid with an immense fortune which was to make them both happy and allow him to travel pose as he chose a dream verily but i â i confess that i was bitter with envy what never to shine never to be an never to have beauty a book about myself in my for me there were other in connection with him â sharp as teeth dick had a watch the envy of my youthful days oh wondrous watch also a pin made of some strange stone brought from the and with a sign or word on it enough in itself to any â and that of i he was never without them and along with all this that sad wan dying smile and that something of manner which seemed to say my boy my boy the things you will never know and yet after a time dick condescended to receive me into his confidence and into his a very picturesque affair situated in the heart of the district also he condescended to bestow upon me some of his dreams as well as his friendly presence a thing which exalted me being so new to this art world i was permitted note the word to gather dimly as from priest the faintest outlines of these wondrous dreams of his and to share with him the hope that they might be realized i was so set up by this great favor that i felt certain great things must flow from it assuredly we three could do great things if only we would stick together but was i worthy there were already of books plays stories poems to come from a certain mighty pen â as a matter of fact it was already hard upon the task of writing them â which were to set the world by certain in new york were already receiving and sending back alas certain preliminary along with carefully suggestions in regard to slight but necessary changes which would perfect them and so the new era certain writers certain poets certain were already better than any that had ever been â the best ever in short dick knew of course and i was allowed to share this knowledge to be thrilled by it chapter xxii once the ice was broken in this intimacy with these twain came fast enough although i never became quite as intimate with dick as i did with peter largely because i could not think him as important wood had some feminine characteristics he could be very jealous of anybody s interest in peter as well as peter s interest in anybody else he was big enough at times to see the of this and try to rise above it but at other times it would show tears later confided to me in the most amused way how when i first appeared on the scene dick at once began to me and to resent my obvious desire to break in as he it these two according to dick having established some secret union but the union was not exclusive in so far as peter was concerned shortly after my arrival young had begun running into the art room so peter told me with amazing tales of the new man

42Lucas Malet

scene besides the description of the sorrow and the prayer which were essential to it there presented itself first the image of a cup used by as a of his sufferings xx f and secondly old testament passages in of where in the the v soul e sorrowful occurs and in addition to this the expression unto death the more naturally suggested itself since the life op was here really about to encounter death this tion must have been of ly origin because in the to the v there is an allusion to this scene â thus said too little when he pronounced the appearance a garb of the fact that in the deepest sorrow of that night suddenly felt an accession of mental strength since rather the entire scene in because it rests on destitute of proof must be the above stated falls to the ground since we must pronounce not only one of the two but both representations of the last hours of before his arrest the only degree of distinction between the historical value of the account and tliat of john is that the former is a d product of the first era of formation the latter of the second â or more correctly tlie one is a product of the second order the other of the third tlie representation common to the and to john that his sufferings even to the day and hour of their is the first which the pious legend gave to the real history of the statement of the that he even had an experience of his sufferings is the second step of the while that although he them and also in one instance had a of them john xii he liad yet long beforehand completely over them and when they stood immediately before him looked them in the with serenity â this representation of the fourth gospel is the third and highest grade of but â arrest of in strict accordance with the declaration of that even now the is at hand while he is yet speaking approaches with an armed force xxvi john xviii this band which according to the came from the chief priests and elders was according to led by the captains of the temple and hence was probably a ment of the soldiers of the temple to whom judging from the word x f and from being mentioned among the weapons was apparently joined a crowd according to the representation of john who together with the servants or officers of the chief priests and â v v speaks of a band and a captain a â aâ of without mention ing any force it appears as if the had procured as a support a of roman according to the three first steps forth and kisses in order by this sign to indicate him to the band as the individual whom they were to seize in l j j of according to the fourth gospel on the contrary advances out of the garden to meet them and presents himself as the person whom they seek in order to reconcile this some have conceived the thus to prevent his from being taken first went towards the multitude and made himself known stepped forth and indicated him by the kiss but liad already made himself known might have spared the kiss for that the people did not believe the assertion of that he was the man whom they sought and still waited for its confirmation by the kiss of the is a supposition with the statement of the fourth gospel that the words i am he made so strong an impression on them that they went backward and fell to the ground hence others have the order of the scene imagining that first stepped forward and distinguished by the kiss and that then before the crowd could press into the garden himself advanced and made himself known t but if had already indicated him by the kiss and he had so well understood the object of the kiss as is implied in his answer to it v there was no need for him still to make himself known seeing that he was already made known to do so for the protection of the was equally superfluous since he must have inferred from the traitor s kiss that it was intended to single him out and carry him away from his followers if he did so merely to show his courage this was almost theatrical while in general the idea that between the kiss of and the entrance of the crowd which was certainly immediate advanced towards the latter with questions and answers throws into his a degree of hurry and so ill suited to his circumstances that the can scarcely have meant such an to be drawn it should therefore be acknowledged that neither of the two representations is designed as a to the other since each has a different conception of the manner in which was made known and in which was active in the affair that was guide to them that took acts i all the agree but while according to the account the task of not only the pointing out of the place but also the of the by the kiss john makes the agency of end with the indication of the place and represents him after the arrival on the spot as standing among the crowd k â v why john does not to the task of personally indicating it is b c f s ut sup â how can explain the of the kiss of in the gospel of john from its having been too notorious a fact and how can he as an the of the transaction between the and the by john for this as something passing behind the scenes might very weu be left out but by no means an incident which like that kiss happened so in the and centre of

13Ralph Emerson

crop when i had finished my the had done his very best to describe his feelings after a seven pound lump of lake ice off an american ice ship in the days before made her ice by machinery but as he did not know what ice was and as the and the knew rather less the tale missed fire anything said the shutting his left eye again â anything is possible that comes out of a boat thrice the size of my village is pot a small one the second book there was a whistle overheard on the bridge and the mail slid across all the carriages gleaming with light and the shadows faithfully following along the river it away into the dark again but the and the were so well used to it that they never turned their heads is that anything less wonderful than a boat thrice the size of said the bird looking up i saw that built child stone by stone i saw the bridge rise and when the men fell off they were wondrous sure footed for the most part â but when they fell i was ready after the first pier was made they never thought to look down the stream for the body to burn there again i saved much trouble there was nothing strange in the building of the bridge said the but that which goes across pulling the carts that is strange the repeated it is past any doubt a new breed of some day it will not be able to keep its up yonder and will fall as the men did the old will then be ready the looked at the and the looked at the if there was one thing they were more certain of than another it was that the engine was everything in the wide world except a the had watched it time and the again from the hedges at the side of the line and the had seen engines since the first engine ran in india but the had only looked up at the thing from below where the brass dome seemed rather like a s m â yes a new kind of the repeated to make himself quite sure in his own mind and certainly it is a said the and again it might be began the certainly â most certainly said the without waiting for the other to finish what said the angrily for he could feel that the others knew more than he did what might it be never finished my words you said it was a it is anything the protector of the poor pleases i am his servant â not the servant of the thing that crosses the river whatever it is it is white face work said the and for my own part i would not lie out upon a place so near to it as this bar you do not know the english as i do said the there was a white face here when the bridge was built and he would take a boat in the evenings and with his feet on the and whisper is he here is he there the second book bring me my gun i could hear him before i could see him â each sound that he made â creaking and puffing and rattling his gun up and down the river as surely as i had picked up one of his workmen and thus saved great charges in wood for the burning so surely would he come down to the and shout in a loud voice that he would hunt me and rid the river of me â the of me children i have under the bottom of his boat for hour after hour and heard him fire his gun at logs and when i was well sure he was wearied i have risen by his side and snapped my jaws in his face when the bridge was finished he went away all the english hunt in that fashion except when they are hunted who the white faces the excitedly no one now but i have hunted them in my time i remember a little of that hunting i was young then said the his significantly i was well established here my village was being built for the third time as i remember when my cousin the brought me word of rich waters above at first i would not go for my cousin who is a fish does not always know the good from the bad but i heard my people the i j ing in the evenings and what they said made me certain and what did they say the asked they said enough to make me the of leave water and take to my feet i went by night using the streams as they served me but it was the beginning of the hot weather and all streams were low i crossed dusty roads i went through tall grass i climbed hills in the moonlight even rocks did i climb children â consider this well i crossed the tail of the before i could find the set of the little rivers that flow i was a month s journey from my own people and the banks that i knew that was very marvellous what food on the way said the who kept his soul in his little stomach and was not a bit impressed by the s land travels that which i could find â cousin said the slowly dragging each word now you do not call a man a cousin in india unless you think you can establish some kind of blood relationship and as it is only in old fairy tales that the ever a the knew for what reason he had been suddenly lifted into the s family circle if they had been alone he would not have cared but the s eyes with mirth at the ugly

38James Payn

a worm i scarcely believe my eyes or my senses my hair rose on end my hands i ran forward off my coat and threw it over him to the spots of bnt it was of no â my coat began to bom with my bare hands i tore grass and from the ditch and piled them npon the sufferer for the moment i was beside myself with terror and misery and grief tears came to my and i choked with the sense of helpless misery when i saw my own coat burning i snatched it away and stamped the fire out the man was burned beyond recovery the oil had evidently fallen in a mass npon the back of his head and and back and legs it had burnt his clothes and hair and cooked the akin his hands were black as well as his neck and ears and face finally he ceased to le and lay still groaning heavily bnt unconscious he was alive but that was all oppressed by the horror of it i looked about for help but seeing others in the same plight i realized the of further labor here i could do nothing more i bad stopped a book tiie flames in part the man s rolling in tlie ditch had done the rest but to what end i hope of life was i could bee that plainly i turned like a soldier in battle and looked after the rest of the people to this i can see it all â some over the fields in the distance away from the now entirely exploded others approaching the fallen victims a a little beyond the wreck was a small village not a thousand feet away was in spots bits of oil having fallen upon the roofs people were hither and thither like bending over and prostrate forms first idea of coarse when i recovered my senses was that i most get in with my newspaper and get it to send an wood if â nd then get the news these people here would do as much for the in as i why waste newspaper s time on i ran to a little road telegraph station a few hundred feet farther on where i asked the agent what was being done i ve sent for a wreck train he replied excitedly i ve the hospital there oo t to be a train and doctor here soon any now he looked at his watch what more can i dot have yon any idea how many are i don t know ton can see for yourself can t io e send for an artist i can t be with anything like that now he replied roughly i felt that an instant and caution enveloped him he hurried away how am i to do t ran studying and with the victims where aid seemed of the test use w how i should ever be able to report all thia and awaiting the arrival of the hospital and train it was not long before the train arrived a thing of flat cars box cars and of an old pattern hospital made ready en and a of doctors and who scrambled ont the air and authority of those used to scenes of this kind meanwhile i had been wondering how long it would be before the wreck train would arrive and had set about getting my information before the doctors and were m the scene when it might not be so easy i knew that names of the injured and their condition were most important and i ran from one to another of the groups that had formed here and there over one dying or dead th em who it w as where lived what bis occupation was curiously there were no women and how he came to be at the scene of the wreck some i found were passengers some of the village of or who had hurried over to see the wreck most of the ers had gone on a train provided for them i had a hard enough time getting information even from those who were able to talk citizens from the town and those who had not been injured were too much frightened by the catastrophe or were a hand to do what they they were not interested in a or his needs a group carrying the injured to the platform resented my intrusion and others searching the meadows for those who had ran far away until they fell were too busy to bother with me stiu i pressed on i went from one to another who they were receiving in some cases replies in others merely groans with those laid ont on the platform awaiting the arrival of the wreck train i did not have so much trouble they were helpless and there were none to attend them oh can t you let me exclaimed one man a book about myself was a block can t you see i m there one who want to i asked it me all at once tliat this was a duty these people owed to their families and friends yon re t said the man with cracked lips after a long silence and he gave his name and an account of hia i went to others and to each who was able to i pat the same question it won me the of those who were watching me all except the station agent seemed to see that i was entitled to do this and he have been soothed with a bribe if i had thought of it as i have said however once the wreck train rolled in and nurses leaped down and men brought to carry away the in a moment the scene changed the of the road tamed a frowning face upon and i was only too glad that i had thought to make my early however i

42Lucas Malet

there and him to say not another word of the past he was not ill inclined to obey this request for though his heart was greatly relieved by such it was not just at that moment in his power to say anything to the purpose returning in silence to his seat therefore he remained for some minutes most answering all mrs s common re â j abbey marks about the weather and roads meanwhile the anxious agitated happy feverish said not a word but her glowing cheek and brightened eye made her mother trust that this good natured visit would at least set her heart at ease for a time and gladly therefore did she lay aside the first volume of the mirror for a future hour desirous of mr s assistance as well in giving encouragement as in finding conversation for her guest whose embarrassment on his father s account she earnestly pitied mrs had very early despatched one of the children to summon him but mr was from home and being thus without any support at the end of a quarter of an hour she had nothing to say after a couple of unbroken silence henry turning to for the first time since her mother s entrance asked her with sudden alacrity if mr and mrs were now at and on developing from amidst all her perplexity of words in reply the meaning which one short syllable would have given immediately expressed his intention of paying his respects to them and with a rising colour asked her if she would have the goodness to him the way you may see the house from this window sir was information on s side which produced only a bow of acknowledgment from the gentleman and a nod from her mother for mrs thinking it probable as a secondary consideration in his wish of waiting on their worthy neighbours that he might have some explanation to give of his father s behaviour which it must be more pleasant for him to communicate only to would not on any account prevent her accompanying him they began their walk and mrs was not entirely mistaken in his object in wishing it some explanation on his father s account he had to give but his first purpose was to explain himself and before reached abbey mr s grounds he had done it so well that did not think it could ever be repeated too often she was assured of his affection and that heart in return was which perhaps they pretty equally knew was already entirely his own for though henry was now sincerely attached to her â though he felt and delighted in all the of her character and truly loved her society â i must confess that his affection originated in nothing better than gratitude or in other words that a persuasion of her partiality for him had been the only cause of giving her a serious thought it is a new circumstance in romance i acknowledge and dreadfully of an heroine s dignity but if it be as new in common life the credit of a wild imagination will at least be all my own a very short visit to mrs in which henry talked at random without sense or connection and in the contemplation of her own unutterable happiness scarcely opened her lips dismissed them to the of another t te a t te and before it was suffered to close she was enabled to judge how far he was by parental authority in his present application on his return from two days before he had been met near the abbey by his impatient father hastily informed in angry terms of miss s departure and ordered to think of her no more such was the permission upon which he had now offered her his hand the amidst all the terrors of expectation as she listened to this account could not but rejoice in the kind caution with which henry had saved her from the necessity of a conscientious by engaging her faith before he mentioned the subject and as he proceeded to give the particulars and explain the motives of his father s conduct her feelings soon hardened into even a triumphant delight the general had had nothing to accuse her of nothing to abbey lay to her charge but her being the involuntary unconscious object of a deception which his pride could not pardon and which a better pride would have been ashamed to own she was guilty only of being less rich than he had supposed her to be under a mistaken persuasion of her possessions and claims he had her acquaintance in bath her company at and designed her for his daughter in law on discovering his error to turn her from the house seemed the best though to his feelings an inadequate proof of his resentment towards herself and his contempt of her family john had first him the general perceiving his son one night at the theatre to be paying considerable attention to miss had accidentally inquired of if he knew more of her than her name most happy to be on speaking terms with a man of general s importance had been joyfully and proudly and being at that time not only in daily expectation of s engaging but likewise pretty well resolved upon marrying himself his vanity induced him to represent the family as yet more wealthy than his vanity and had made him believe them with he was or was likely to be connected his own consequence always required that theirs should be great and as his intimacy with any acquaintance grew so regularly grew their fortune the expectations of his therefore from the first over had ever since his introduction to been gradually increasing and by merely adding twice as much for the grandeur of the moment by what he chose to the amount of mr s his private fortune a rich

25Bret Harte

the of desperation and this accounted for his scratched body and his torn clothing he lay hidden there all day his tongue to the roof of his mouth with all the intensity of thirst by heat and fear three times different bands of men invaded the place with shouts and looking for father but towards the evening still lying on his face in the bushes he thought he would die from the fear of silence he was not very dear as to what had induced him to leave the place but evidently he had got out and successfully out of town along the deserted back lanes he wandered in the darkness near the railway so by apprehension that he dared not even approach the fires of the of italian workmen guarding the line he had a vague idea evidently of finding refuge in the railway yards but the dogs rushed upon him barking men began to shout a shot was fired at random he fled away from the gates by the merest accident as it happened he took the direction of the o s n company s twice he stumbled upon the bodies of men killed during the day but everything living frightened him much more he crouched crept crawled made guided by a sort of animal instinct keeping away from every light and from every of voices his idea was to throw himself at the feet of captain and beg for shelter in the company s it was all dark there as he approached on his hands and knees but suddenly on guard loudly there were more dead men lying about and he himself down at once by the side of a cold corpse he heard a voice saying here is one of those wounded crawling about shall i go and finish him and another voice objected that it was not safe to go out without a lantern upon such an errand perhaps it was only some negro liberal looking for a chance to stick a knife into the stomach of an honest man didn t stay to hear any more but crawling away to the end of the wharf hid himself amongst a lot of empty after a while some people came along talking and with glowing he did not stop to ask himself whether they would be likely to do him any harm but bolted along the saw a lighter lying at the end the and threw himself into it in his desire to find cover he crept right forward under the half deck and he had remained there more dead than alive suffering agonies of hunger and thirst and almost fainting with terror when he heard numerous footsteps and the voices of the who came in a body the of treasure pushed along the rails by a of he perfectly what was being done from the talk but did not disclose his presence from the fear that he would not be allowed to remain his only idea at the time overpowering and was to get away from this terrible and now he regretted it very much he had heard talk to and wished himself back on shore he did not desire to be involved in any desperate affair â in a situation where one could not run away the involuntary groans of his spirit had betrayed him to the sharp ears of the they had propped him up in a sitting posture against the side of the lighter and he went on with the moaning account of his adventures till his voice broke his head fell forward water he whispered with held one of the to his lips he revived after an short time and scrambled up to his feet wildly in an angry and threatening voice ordered him forward was one of those men whom fear lashes like a whip and he must have had an appalling idea of the s ferocity he displayed an extraordinary in disappearing forward into the darkness they heard him getting over the then there was the sound of a heavy fall followed by a weary sigh afterwards all was still in the fore part of the lighter as though he had killed himself in his headlong tumble shouted in a menacing voice â lie still there do not move a limb if i hear as much as a loud breath from you i shall come over there and put a bullet through your head the mere presence of a coward however passive brings an element of treachery into a dangerous situation s nervous impatience passed into gloomy in an as if speaking to himself remarked that after all this event made no great difference he could not conceive what harm the man could do at most he would be in the way like an and useless object â like a block of wood for instance i would think twice before getting rid of a piece of wood said calmly something may happen unexpectedly where you could make use of it but in an affair like ours a man like this ought to be thrown overboard even if he were as brave as a lion we would not want him here we are not running away for our lives there is no harm in a brave man trying to save himself with ingenuity and courage but you have heard his tale don martin his being here is a miracle of fear paused there is no room for fear in this lighter he added through his teeth had no answer to make it was not a position for argument for a display of scruples or feelings there were a thousand ways in which a panic stricken man could make himself dangerous it was evident that could not be spoken to reasoned with or persuaded into a rational line of conduct the story of his own escape that clearly enough thought that it was a thousand the wretch had not died of

30Frances Hodgson Burnett

you ve no notion how these little fellows can oh yes i have she whispered because the world was asleep only i feed them with a spoon or a rag yours are than mine and you ve been doing this day after day the voice was almost lost yes it was absurd now you try he said giving place to the girl look a goat s not a cow the goat protested against the and there was a in which scott snatched up the baby then it was all to do over again and william laughed softly and merrily she managed however to feed two babies and a third don t the little beggars take it well said scott i trained em they were very busy and interested when lo i it was broad daylight and before they knew the camp was awake and they among the surprised by the day both flushed to the temples yet all the world rolling up out of the darkness might have heard and seen all that had passed between them oh said william up the tea and toast i had this made for you it s stone cold now i thought you might n t have anything ready so early better not drink it it sâ it s stone cold william the conqueror that b awfully kind of you it s just right it b awfully good of you really i leave my and with you and mrs jim and of course any one in camp can show you about the of course said william and she grew and and and more stately as she strode back to her tent herself with the there were shrill through the camp when the elder children saw their nurse move off without them so far as to jest with the and scott turned purple with shame because already in the saddle roared a child escaped from the care of mrs jim and running like a rabbit clung to scott s boot william pursuing with long easy strides i will not i will not go shrieked the child his feet scott s ankle they will kill me here i do not know these people i say said scott in broken i say she will do you no harm gk with her and be well fed ck said william panting with a glance at scott who stood helpless and as it were go back said scott quickly to william â i u send the little chap over in a minute the tone of authority had its effect but in a way scott did not exactly intend the boy loosened his grasp and said with gravity i did not know the woman was thine i will go then he cried to his a mob of three four and five year waiting on the success of his ere they william the conqueror back and eat it is our man s woman she will obey his orders jim where he sat and the two grinned and scott s orders to the flew like hail that is the custom of the when truth is told in their presence said the time comes that i must seek new service wives especially such as speak language and have knowledge of the ways of the police make great trouble for honest in the matter of weekly accounts what william thought of it all she did not say but when her brother ten days later came to camp for orders and heard of scott s performances he said laughing â well that settles it he be scott to the end of his days in the northern means a goat what a lark i i d have given a month s pay to have seen him nursing famine babies i fed some with rice water but that was all right it s perfectly disgusting said his sister with blazing eyes a man does something like that â and all you other men think of is to give him an absurd and then you laugh and think it s funny ah said mrs jim well you can t talk william you little miss the button last cold weather you know you did india s the land of that s different william replied she was only a girl and she had n t done anything except walk like william the conqueror a and she does but it is n t fair to make fun of a man scott won t care said you can t get a rise out of old i ve been trying for eight years and you ve only known him for three how does he look he looks very well said william and went away with a flushed cheek scott indeed i then she laughed to herself for she knew her country but it will be all the same and she repeated it imder her breath several times slowly whispering it into favour when he returned to his duties on the railway spread the name far and wide among his associates so that scott met it as he led his carts to war the natives believed it to be some english title of honour and the cart drivers used it in all simplicity till who did not approve of foreign broke their heads there was very little time for now except at the big where jim had extended scott s idea and was feeding large flocks on the useless northern sufficient had come now into the eight districts to hold the people safe if it were only distributed quickly and for that purpose no one was better than the big officer who never lost his temper never gave an order and never questioned an order given scott pressed on saving his cattle washing their necks daily so that no time should be lost on the road reported himself with his rice at the minor famine sheds and went back light by forced night march to

38James Payn

the disorder continued for some minutes after which adieu we have made all sacrifices for the grand old mr the firom vii party whose mission it has been to who in this movement have come to the con the constitution and to care for the republic for which i have announced after long mature and than sixty years until it now seems as if yon were anxious deliberation and after in their judgment hav to substitute a man in the place of to ing exhausted all honorable to this order i desire to be respectful i desire to say that hit in addition to the facts which appear upon your action of the majority of the late â a record i desire the attention of this body long enough created by the operation of a rule only to state that it is ascertained that the upon the contrary to to which you sir under the order of this and usage â states have been and d h fa have just directed tickets to be some of them at deprived of their rights until in our opinion it is no longer least and all of them whom we regard as the with our honor or our rights or tiie rights of of the of their will decline to our to remain here and join here in the of this body for the rest warmly the remembrance of the many gallant the reasons which us to take this important step have done for us in times past hoping that hereafter no will be rendered to those to whom only we are occasion may ever occur to this feeling i now on ble the of the old dominion to you sir behalf of the representatives of land tell yon and to the body over which you i have o y to in all time and in all our lot h say in addition that we bid you a respectful adieu with the people of ttie south their shall be our the portion of the from virginia which re and their country our country applause tired then left their seats and proceeded out of the hall n m of virginia shaking hands with members of various as mr virginia any they passed along in the proceedings of the ck mr of made a speech in â â the of cot of his course and that of his m who remained in the m of ul withdraw of north mr of north â mr president an as the duty is it is nevertheless my duty to announce mr of said while i cannot say here as a representative of the from north with the from mr jones that mâ that a very large majority of them are compelled to dates back to that time of i have no ro e permanently from this on account of the collection yet i can say that it iii the unjust action as we conceive that has day been per of is here upon some of our sovereign states and fellow call is here with a citizens f south we of the south have heretofore weeping over the and tiie of da v and hm oa of tim p t f tâ d bj now upon floor of â r ir â order â pâ urn oat and great mr did not to the off die but for a moment tbe from his had done all in their to promote tbe harmony and unity of this and it was their purpose to to do so i am however by the to that th desire to be on any or unless dr should alter determination it is our desire to be left free to act or not desire being to the question open for the consideration of their after their return home mr of north briefly the stating that be for tbe present at least after and debate the motion shall tbe be now of for president and was carried and in s d mr of ia of the m that state said the in whidi we the are placed are exceedingly embarrassing and we not therefore been enabled to come to an entirely conclusion the result is that nine of of remain in the n there are ten who withdraw tbe character of it hi a with names which i die to read before i sit down there are who desire for to su end their witb the action of i will add here that there may be no that i myself am one of those â od wa have si a short paper whidi i also tbe secretary to read to the i am requested by those who withdraw tbe and by those who their action for tbe with the to say that it is wish ia this net he or by any others aid that no one shall the t to cast their the right of those remaining in me to cast their individual vote is not hy us la any degree bat we enter oar protest one ca ng ear will the to read the papers i have and also one which a gentleman of our me which he to be read i ask that the papers be road tbe paper signed james g the writer of in terms action of the in the matter of the and t of states the was r te the and on motion of mr oi it was returned to the writer the ar y then read tlie other two the as ai j im mo of for the state of in tbe city of on the th day of january among adopted the resolution that we pledge of to an and of the of thia and tbe of not then net we have to preserve the and unity of con but and prevailed to an extent that we fed that our cannot end without intending to oar or to

18Thomas Hardy

a general rule that the less any part of the is concerned with special habits the more it becomes for as an instance in speaking of the says the organs being those which are most related to the habits and food of an animal i have always regarded as affording very clear indications of its true we are least likely in the of these organs to mistake a merely for an essential character so with plants how remarkable it is that the organs of vegetation on which their whole life depends are of little excepting in the first main divisions whereas me organs of with their product the seed are of we must not therefore in trust to in parts of the however important they may be for the welfare of the being in relation to the outer world perhaps from this cause it has partly arisen that almost all lay the greatest stress on in organs of high vital or importance no doubt this view of the importance of organs which are important is generally but by no means always true but their importance for i believe depends on their greater constancy throughout groups of species and this constancy depends on organs having generally been subjected to less change in the of the species to their conditions of life that the mere importance of an organ does not determine its value is almost shown by the one fact that in allied groups in which the same organ as we have every reason to suppose has nearly me same value its value is widely no can have worked at any group without being struck with this fact and it has been most folly acknowledged in the writings of almost every author it wiu suffice to quote the highest authority brown who in speaking of certain organs in me says their importance l e that of all their parts not only m this but as i apprehend in by chap every family is yery and in some seems to be entirely lost in another work he says the of the differ in having one or more in the existence or absence of in the or any one of these characters is frequently of more than importance thou here even when all taken together they appear insufficient to separate from to give an example amongst insects in one great division of the the as has remarked are most constant in structure in another division they differ much and the differences are of quite subordinate value in yet no one probably will say that the in these two divisions of the same order are of unequal importance any number of instances could be given of tne varying importance for of the same important organ within the same group of beings again no one will say that or organs are of high or vital importance organs in condition are often of nigh value in ko one will dispute that the teeth in the upper jaws of young and certain bones of the leg are highly serviceable in exhibiting the close between and robert brown has insisted on the fact that the are of the highest importance in the of the numerous instances could be given of characters derived from parts which must be considered of very trifling importance but which are universally as highly serviceable in the definition of whole for instance whether or not there is an open passage from the nostrils to the mouth the character according to which absolutely fishes and â the of the angle of the jaws in â the manner in which the wings of insects are folded â mere colour in certain â mere on the parts of the flower in â the nature of the covering as hair or feathers in the by ok p if the had been covered with feathers instead of hair this external and trifling character would i think have been considered by as important an aid in the degree of of this strange creature to birds and as an approach in structure in y one internal and important organ the importance for of trifling characters mainly depends on their being with several other characters of more or less importance the value indeed of an of characters is very evident in natural history as has often been remarked a species may depart from its in several characters both of high importance and of almost universal and yet leave us in no doubt where it should be hence also it has been found that a founded on any single character however important that may be has always failed for no part of the is universally constant the importance of an of characters even when none are important alone explains i think that saying of that the characters do not give the but the gives the characters for saying seems founded on an appreciation of many trifling points of resemblance too to be defined certain plants belonging to the bear perfect and degraded flowers in the latter as a de has remarked the greater number of the characters proper to the species to the to the family to the class disappear and thus laugh at our but when produced in france during several years only degraded departing so wonderfully in a number of the most important of structure from the proper type of the order yet m richard saw as that this should still be retained amongst the this case seems to to illustrate the spirit with our are sometimes necessarily founded practically when are at work they do not trouble themselves about the value of the characters which they use in a group or in any pa species if they find a character by nearly and common to a great of forms and not common to others they use it as one of high value if common to some lesser number they use it as of subordinate value this principle has been confessed

6Jack London

and will not leave her i am glad of it many a night has sat by your patiently watching over but added the mother for the first time a child of eight years watching the of her brothers drawing how happens it you are up yet oh mother we hare had such a funny g houses i planning houses what do you mean v an explanation followed by which it appeared that mr contemplated a of houses to rent to those who could to pay only a low rent the houses were to every and comfort with a reasonable per on the money invested had set his to n ths rich for these not so much to test their skill in as their knowledge of the wants of the poor and their zeal for their accommodation amused herself with relating the ous failures and of the boys â how one had left out the chimneys and the other the windows â to all which listened with eager interest the pressing nature of his business not so much time had passed as has been occupied in relating this scene when mr with and after speaking to turned to his wife my dear is my friend of whom you have often heard me speak mrs s countenance lighted up with that expression so common when a person is first introduced to a stranger whom favourable impressions are entertained modest man that he was was gratified with this involuntary tribute how many opportunities of the bonds of human brotherhood by a friendly look or a kind word are passed by and lost for ever lo is not a word better than a gift but both are with a gracious man communicated his business to mr and without any delay they were on their way to the police office where told as much of s story to mr justice h as he deemed necessary for the purposes of justice and the said justice being more moved was his wont by s in s behalf and by the of so substantial a j as of e great firm of b b and co in his on s testimony and moreover having al s ready appeased the demands of justice by the detection and apprehension of the gang associated with smith vouchsafed to assure that provided the trunk was in the morning no proceedings be against good night mr be said as he parted from his friend at the comer of the i am obliged to you oh no no â i am th person obliged i for i go to bed the for having done yon this was a reflecting man â and as he walked hurriedly home eager to relieve of a part of her burden he made many reflections upon the different scenes he had witnessed thai evening â at his own n s at s â and at mr s he was confirmed in his previous conclusion thai riches consist not in the ij of possessions nor poverty in their that the mind li the treasure house and that though poor indeed was not much poorer than and his wife thb chapter a thb ths next day after bad finished his de this good man never upon the and trials of the day without first committing himself and his to him who those that on him â was red to rise from her knees and rest her head on the back of the chair so as to screen her face while her bosom heaved and her tears fell on the floor the children to see and to gathered round her one said do you feel sick v â another what is the matter tâ and little who was fresh from a moral lesson she had from her aunt the amount of which that sin in all its was the thing to be cried for in this world asked haye you been naughty t still did not reply till mrs drew her towards her and setting her on her lap said â tell me what troubles you â oh ma am she answered i know by mr s prayer that my mother as i call her is going to die and then i shall have to go away from you and i shall be all alone in the world the children cast an imploring glance at their as plain as could express â ths â tell her that our home shall be her our friends her friends the der children knew it belonged to their parents and not to them to give such an assurance i j iu the younger ones thought only of t way to solace the poor child and putting her cheek to mother will be your mother and if you want an aunt you shall a part of aunt â little the of the flock and grand s pet echoed s meaning shouting â and if you want a shall have a piece of my how certain it is that children will the qualities of the moral in which they parents remembering this should trust more to their examples and expect less from their tears fell from mrs s tears from the fountain of those feelings that have less of earth in them than heaven â my good little children she said we will try not to disappoint you â wipe away your tears â think of another thing mr said in his god is the father of the be sure therefore you cannot be alone in the world come here said mr and turned to him with a brightened face the wise man s sa ring that as the dew the heat so is a word â you and i continued the good man have been led into the same fold and please god we will not separate will you live with me and be my little housekeeper â or room keeper i have he added turning as

5Horace Greeley

i walked away thoughtfully i wondered whether his difference his strangeness were not penetrating d a l z d vith that dull nature th had begun by i wondered the doctor came to the window and looked out at the splendour of the sea immense in the haze as if all the earth with all the hearts lost among the passions of love and fear now he said turning away abruptly it was possible it was possible he remained silent then went on â at all events the next lime i saw him he was ill â trouble he was tough but i he was not as well as i had supposed it was a bad winter and of these do get fits of home sickness and a state of depression would make him he was lying half dressed on a couch downstairs a table covered with a dark took up all the middle of the little room there was a cradle on the floor a kettle steam on the and some child s linen lay drying on the the room was warm but the door opens right into the garden aa you noticed perhaps he was very feverish and kept on muttering to himself she sat on a and looked at him across the table with her brown eyes why don t you have him upstairs i asked with a start and a confused she said oh ah i couldn t sit with him upstairs sir i gave her certain directions mid going outside i said again that he ought to be in bed upstairs she wrung her hands couldn t i couldn t he keeps on saying something â i don t know what with the memory of all the talk against the man that had into her ears i looked at her narrowly i looked into her short sighted eyes at her dumb eyes that once foster in her life had seen an shape but seemed staring at me to see nothing at all now but i saw she was uneasy what s the matter with him she asked in a sort of vacant he doesn t look very ill x never did see anybody look like this before do you think i asked indignantly he is sham can t help it sir she said and suddenly she clapped her hands and looked right and left and there s uie baby i am so frightened he wanted me just now to give him the baby i can t understand what he says to it can t you ask a neighbour to come in to night i asked please sir nobody seems to care to come muttered resigned all at once i impressed upon her the necessity of the greatest care and then had to go there was a good deal of sickness that winter oh i hope he won t talk she exclaimed softly just as i was going away i don t know how it is i did not but i didn t and yet turning m my trap i saw her lingering before the door very still and as if meditating a flight up the road towards the night his fever increased he tossed moaned and now and then muttered a complaint and she sat with the table between her and the couch watching every movement and every sound with the terror the unreasonable terror of that man she could not creeping over her she had drawn the cradle close to her feet there was nothing in her now but the maternal instinct and that unaccountable fear suddenly coming to himself he demanded d a l z d a drink of water she did not move she had not understood though he may have thought he was speak ing m he waited looking at her burning with amazed at her silence and and then he shouted impatiently water give me water she jumped to her feet snatched up the child and stood still he spoke to her and his passionate only increased her fear of that strange man i believe he to her for a long time wondering pleading ordering i suppose she says she bore it as t as she could and then a gust of rage came over him he sat up and called out terribly one word â some word then he got up as though he hadn t been ill at all she says and as in dismay indignation and wonder he tried to get to her round the table she simply opened the door and ran out with the child in her arms she heard him call twice after her down the road in a terrible voice â and ah but you should have seen stirring behind the dull glance of those eyes the of the fear which had hunted her on that night three miles and a half to the door of foster s cottage i did the next day and it was i who found him lying face down and his body in a just outside the uttle gate â i had been called out that night to an urgent case in the village and on my way home at daybreak passed by the cottage the door stood open my man helped me to carry hi m in we laid him on the couch the lamp smoked the fire was out the chill of the stormy night from the cheerless yellow paper on the wall i called aloud and my voice seemed to lose itself in the of this tiny house as if i bad cried in a desert he opened his eyes he d a l z d foster distinctly had only asked for water â only for a water he was muddy i him up and stood waiting in silence catching a painfully gasped word now and then they were no longer in his own language the fever had left him taking with it the heat

30Frances Hodgson Burnett

visit that hospital in paris where the drowned are laid out to be owned despite the and which were said to have been occasioned by some previous but the stranger kept his own counsel he returned home and it was never claimed or cared for the young brother or the single gentleman for that is more familiar would have drawn the poor from his lone retreat and made him his companion and friend but the humble village teacher was timid of venturing into the noisy world and had become fond of his dwelling in the old churchyard calmly happy in his school and in the spot and in the attachment of her little he pursued his quiet course in peace and was through the righteous gratitude of his friend â let this brief mention suffice for that â a or no more that friend â single gentleman or younger brother you wiu â had at his heart a heavy sorrow but it bred in him no or gloom he went forth into the old curiosity shop world a lover of his kind for a long long time it was his chief delight to travel in the steps of the old man and the child so far as he could trace them from her last narrative to halt where they had halted where they had suffered and rejoice where they had been made glad those who had been kind to them â did not escape his search the sisters at the school â they who were her friends because themselves so â mrs of the wax work short â he found them all and trust me the man who fed the furnace fire was not forgotten s story having got abroad raised him up a host of friends and many offers of provision for his life he had no idea at first of ever mr s service but after serious remonstrance and advice from that gentleman began to contemplate the possibility of such a change being brought about in time a good post was procured for him with a rapidity which took away his breath by some of the gentlemen who had believed him guilty of the offence laid to his charge and who had acted upon that belief through the same kind agency his mother was secured from want and made quite happy thus as often said his great misfortune turned out to be the source of all his subsequent prosperity did live a single man all his days or did he marry of course he married and who should be his wife but and the best of it was he married so soon that httle jacob was an uncle before the of his legs already mentioned in this history had ever been in â though that was not quite the best either for of necessity the baby was an uncle too the delight of s mother and of s mother upon the great occasion is all finding they agreed so weu on that and on all other subjects they took up their abode together and were a most harmonious pair of friends from that time forth and hadn t s cause to bless itself for their au going together once a quarter â to the pit â and didn t s mother always say when they painted the outside that s last treat had helped to that and wonder what the manager would feel if he but knew it as they passed his house when had children six and seven years old there was a among them and a pretty she was nor was there wanting an exact and copy of little jacob thb old curiosity shop as he appeared in those remote times when they taught him what meant of course there was an own to the mr of that name and there was a dick whom mr did especially favour the little group would often gather round him of a night and beg him to tell that story of good miss who died this would do and when they cried to hear it wishing it longer too he would teach them how she had gone to heaven as all good people did and how if they were good like her they might hope to be there too one day and to see and know her as he had done when he was quite a boy then he would relate to them how he used to be and how she had taught him what he was otherwise too poor to learn and how the old man had been used to say she always laughs at at which they would brush away their tears and laugh themselves to think that she had done so and be again quite merry he sometimes took them to the street where she had lived but new improvements had altered it so much it was not like the same the old house had been long ago pulled down and a fine broad road was in its place at first he would draw with his stick a square upon the to show them where it used to stand but he soon became uncertain of the spot and only say it was he thought and that these alterations were such are the changes which a few years bring about and so do things pass away hke a tale that is told pieces pieces the long voyage when the wind is blowing and the or rain is driving against the dark windows i love to sit by the â fire thinking of what i have read in books of voyage and travel such books have had a strong fascination for my mind from my earliest childhood and i wonder it should have come to pass that i never have been round the world never have been ice or eaten sitting on my ruddy hearth in the twilight of new year s eve i find incidents of travel

7James Baldwin

view is often desired at angles in work however as applied by us to this table it is necessary to have the screen move in all directions precisely with the lamp this purpose a special upright fig with two arms is added one of which arms is for the rod g and the other connected the screen the screen lies meanwhile inside the frame i j and is free to move between parallel guides by this added connection while it moves with the frame the use of this and another small for the purpose of making a record of the shadow will be further referred to when the subject f is considered see chapter ix p the part above the table consists of a frame i j which ay be moved on the connecting h or by k at any desired height this may for a screen being to fit he ordinary size of screen when placed on rests in its open art it may further serve as a or of a x though we find this practice seldom called for on of the bars i of this frame a scale is marked en either side of the centre of the table s width so that by noting the number opposite any point of a patient s body the may be placed exactly under that point by setting the arm g to the same number on the scale it carries across the top of the may be placed a bar l carrying a or m in which a may be placed when it is desired to take a with the plate under or at either side of the patient as he lies practical x ray work on his back or face this last item is seldom called for as nearly all can be better taken with the below in the rare cases in which exposure with the above is desired a separate stand will usually be at hand but the of this part makes the table complete for all purposes and in no wise the other parts the reasons and uses for those various devices will be evident when we come to consider practical working and from this description the reader should recognise the points to be looked for in a serviceable x ray table ms are interposed in the of from an x ray so as to cut off from a sensitive plate under exposure unnecessary rays which would otherwise serve to the record and the outline of the picture obtained in discussing x ray it was pointed out that were from a small area of the from that they proceed in straight lines which form a as in fig thus the projected shadow of any object interposed across their path will be a and distorted image of that object according to its position relative to the and sensitive plane receiving the impression this is discussed more fully in the sections on interpretation p p and p and hardly requires demonstration but the point will be made clear by reference to the figure fig there m n is supposed to be a sensitive plane â screen or sensitive plate â receiving the rays from an x ray below the rays pass through points on the plane a k which however lies at an angle to the plane m n this being the more common condition of objects exposed in practical the of a k at m n is readily evident and the is represented by the of the distances between the projected points a b c etc on the larger scale of actual working conditions this effect is more marked though the inclination of a k is here made somewhat extreme for the purpose of clearness apparatus the is greater in the exposed to the more rays and is only for a small area on each side of the central ray x y thus in a of a large area while the central parts will be represented with some degree of accuracy in proportion and relation the image of the parts will be so and distorted as to be of little or no real value further from the walls of the x ray and from other metal parts than the irregular rays sometimes called secondary x rays these are due to our inability to confine the origin of rays strictly to the or to bring to a all the rays formed there as at its edges those irregular rays on their on the walls of the or other parts in their path give rise to x rays which from their irregular origin and distribution serve to the of the regular these secondary x rays are doubtless responsible for much of the general of and for the lack of practical x ray work in outline and of definition in detail so frequently noted on screen or if a to the of lead or be interposed between the and the object exposed as at f in fig the referred to â will be to some extent by the view to more central parts and definition of outline and detail will be improved by cutting off much of the secondary described above apparatus fig an suitable for attachment to a box fig a more simple but quite efficient arrangement fixed to the top of a box as described for working with the x ray under the table which we consider the most convenient and efficient method in both figures the is of the pattern similar to those employed in most ordinary this by means of a projecting handle may have its circular adjusted to any fig desired size and situated below the patient can be so adjusted while the effect is noted on a screen above unfortunately those cannot cut off all the secondary rays but they will cut off those of greatest which otherwise would naturally cause most confusion of result recently another form of has been introduced and commended in

27Charles Reade

and then ride to join me with the conqueror cry not on cowardice it is but wisdom dick for this poor realm so with rebellion and the king s name and hands that no man may be certain of the morrow toss pot and wit run in but my lord good counsel sits o one side waiting with that sir daniel turning his back to dick and quite at the farther end of the long table began to write his letter with his mouth on one side for this business of the black arrow stuck sorely in his throat meanwhile was going on heartily enough with his breakfast when he felt a touch upon his arm and a very soft voice whispering in his ear make not a sign i do you said the voice but of your charity teach me the straight way to tub you now good boy comfort a poor soul in peril and distress and set me so far forth upon the way to my repose take the path by the answered dick in the same tone it will bring you to till there inquire in and without turning his head he fell again to eating but with the tail of his eye he caught a glimpse of the young lad called master john y creeping from the room why thought dick he is as young as i good boy doth he call me an i had known i should have seen the hanged ere i had told him well if he goes through the i may come up with him mid pull his ears half an hour later sir daniel gave dick the letter and bade him speed to the moat house and again some half an hour after dick s departure a messenger came in hot haste from my lord of sir daniel the messenger said ye lose great honour by my the fight began again this morning ere the dawn and we have beaten their van and scattered their right wing only the main battle fast an we had your fresh men we should you them all into the river what sir knight i will ye be the last it stands not with your good credit nay cried the knight i was but now upon the march sound me the sir i am with at op tax im ii yoa on the instant it is not two hours the more part of mj command came in sir messenger what would ye have is good meat hut yet it killed the boys i by this time the was sounding cheerily in the morning and from all sides sir daniel s men poured into the main street and formed before the inn they had slept their arms with ers and in ten minutes five score men at arms and equipped and stood and ready the chief part were in sir daniel s livery and blue which gave the greater show to their array the best armed rode and away out of sight at the tail of the column came the sorry of the night before sir daniel looked with pride along the line here be the lads to serve you in a pinch he said they are pretty men indeed replied the messenger it but my sorrow that ye had not marched the earlier well said the knight what would ye v the of a feast and the end of a sir messenger and he mounted into his saddle why how now he cried john i nay by tjie sacred i where is she host where is that girl girl sir daniel cried the landlord nay sir i saw no girl t tee black arrow boy then cried the knight could ye not see it was a she in the coloured she that broke her fast with water a â where is she nay the bless us i master john ye called him said the host well i thought none evil he is gone i saw him â her â i saw her in the stable a good hour ne a was a grey horse now by the cried sir daniel the was worth five hundred pound to me and more sir knight observed the messenger with bitterness while that ye are here roaring for five hundred pounds the of england is elsewhere being lost and won it is well said replied sir daniel fall me out with six cross hunt me her down i care not what it cost but at my returning let me find her at the moat house be it upon your head and now sir messenger we march and the troop broke into a good trot and and his six men were left behind upon the street of with the staring villagers d g l ic chapter ii in thb pen it was near six in the may morning when dick b an to ride down into the upon his homeward way the sky was all blue the jolly wind blew loud and steady the sails were spinning and the over all the rippling and like of com he had been all night in the saddle but his heart was good and bis body sound and he rode right merrily the path went down and down into the marsh till be lost sight of all the neighbouring but on the behind him and the extreme top of forest far before on either hand there were great fields of blowing and pools of water shaking in the wind and treacherous as green as to tempt and to betray the traveller the path lay almost straight through the it was already very ancient its foundation had been laid by roman in the lapse of ages much of it had sunk and every here and there for a few hundred yards it lay below the waters of the about a mile from dick came to one such in tbe plain line of where

37James Grant

as though the reins of government had been transferred into his hands he interfered in public affairs ordered various persons to be arrested called to account the officers employed by the and paid no respect to don who remained in command during the absence of his brother the astonished at this presumption demanded a sight of the ill sion under which he acted but treated him with great replying that he would show it only to the admiral on second thoughts however lest there should be doubts in the public mind of his right to interfere in the affairs of the colony he ordered his letter of from the sovereigns to be proclaimed by sound of trumpet it was brief but comprehensive to the following purport and other persons who by our orders are in the we send to you our groom of the chambers who will speak to you on our part we command you to give him faith and credit the report now that the of and his family was at hand and that an had arrived to hear and the of the public this was originated by himself who threw out of rigid and signal it was a time of for every started up into an every one who by or crime had incurred the wholesome of the laws was loud in his against the oppression of there were ills enough in the colony some incident to its situation others produced by the of die all were ascribed to the of the admiral he was made responsible alike for the evils produced by others and for his own stern ah the old complaints were against him and his brothers and the usual and cause given for their that they were foreigners who sought merely their own interest and at the expense of the and the of destitute of to perceive what was true and what false in these complaints and a only to condemn r life and op saw in every thing testimony of the of he intimate and perhaps thought that the admiral was keeping at a distance from through fear of his in the fulness of his presumption he even set out with a body of horse to go in quest of him a vain and weak man in power is prone to have of his own description the empty and followers of wherever they went spread among the natives of the might and importance of their chief and of the punishment he intended to inflict upon in a little while the report through the island that a new admiral had arrived to administer the government and that the former one was to be put to death the news of the arrival and of the conduct of had in the interior of the island he to to give him a meeting of his approach also returned there as every one knew the lofty spirit and temper of his high sense of his services and his jealous maintenance of â is official dignity a violent explosion was anticipated at the impending interview also expected something of the kind but secure in his royal letter of he came fortified with the swelling of a little mind the result showed how difficult it is for petty spirits to the conduct of a man like in any striking situation his natural heat and had been subdued by a life of trials he had learned to bring his passions into to his judgment he had too true an estimate of his own dignity to enter into a contest with a shallow like above all he had a profound reverence for the authority of his sovereigns for in his spirit prone to deep feelings of reverence his loyalty was inferior only to hi f religion he received therefore with the most grave and courtesy he repeated his own ordering that the letter of should be again proclaimed by sound of in presence of the he listened to it with solemn deference and assured of his readiness to in whatever might be the pleasure of his sovereigns this unexpected moderation while it astonished the and disappointed he had come prepared for a scene of and had hoped that co in the heat and impatience of the moment would have said or done something that might have been into a for the authority of the sovereigns he endeavoured in fact some months afterwards to procure from the public present a prejudiced statement of the interview but the deference of the the royal letter of had been too marked to be and all the were highly in his favour continued to in public a and the respect and forbearance with which he was uniformly by and the of the latter in all his measures to the of the colony were regarded as proofs of the of his spirit he was looked upon as a declining man and hailed as the lord of the every spirit who had any lurking ill will any real or imaginary cause of complaint now hastened to give it utterance perceiving that in gratifying his malice he was his interest and that in the admiral he was gaining the friendship of â ind l c vol it life voyages of a the poor too by the of the white men rejoiced in tlie prospect of a of rulers vainly that it might a of their many of the who had promised to the admiral after their defeat in the now assembled at the house of the brother of near the river where they joined in a formal complaint against whom they considered the cause of all the evils which had sprung from the and the vices of his followers now considered the great object of bis mission fulfilled he had collected information sufficient as he thought to the ruin of the admiral and his brothers and prepared to return to spain resolved to do the same he felt that it

47Thomas Anstey Guthrie

the hill accompanied by mrs and anne as usual the trumpet major i it was a clear day with little wind stirring and the view from the downs one of the most extensive in the county was the eye of any observer who cared for such things swept over and s bay beyond and lying on the sea to the left of these like a great crouching animal to the on the extreme east of the marine horizon st s head closed the scene the sea to the of that point glaring like a mirror under the sun inland could be seen rings where a had been recently erected and farther to the left where another stood not far from this came to the west dog hill and black on near to the where there was yet another built of with straw and standing on the spot where the monument now raises its head at nine o clock the troops marched upon the ground â some from the in the vicinity and some from quarters in the different towns round about the approaches to the down were blocked with carriages of all descriptions ages and colours and with of every class at ten the royal personages were said to be drawing near and soon after the king accompanied by the of cambridge and and a of the trumpet major appeared on horseback wearing a round hat turned up at the side with a and military feather sensation among the crowd then the queen and three of the entered the field in a great coach drawn by six beautiful cream coloured horses another coach with four horses of the same sort brought the two remaining confused there s king that s queen princess and c from the surrounding spectators anne and her party were fortunate enough to secure a position on the top of one of the which rose here and there on the down and the miller having gallantly constructed a little of he placed the two women by which means they were enabled to see over the heads horses and of the multitudes below and around at the march past the miller s eye which had been wandering about for the purpose discovered his son in his place by the who had moved forwards in two ranks and were sound ing the march that s john he cried to the widow his trumpet is of two colours d ye see aad the others be plain mrs too saw him now and enthusiastic the trumpet major j ally admired him from her hands upwards and anne silently did the same but before the young woman s eyes had quite left the trumpet major they fell upon the figure of riding with his troop and keeping his face at a medium between and mere bravery he certainly looked as as any of his own corps and felt more than half a dozen as anybody could see by observing him anne got behind the miller in case should discover her and regardless of his monarch rush upon her in a rage with why the devil did you run away from me that night â hey madam but she resolved to think no more of him just now and to stick to who was her mother s friend in this she was helped by the stirring tones which burst from the latter gentleman and his from time to time well said the miller complacently there s few of more consequence in a regiment than a he s the chap that tells em what to do after all hey mrs so he is miller said she they could no more do without jack and his men than they could without indeed they could not said mrs again in a tone of pleasant agreement with any one in great britain or ireland n the trumpet major it was said that the line that day was miles long reaching from the high ground on the right of where the people stood to the road on the left after the review came a sham fight during which action the crowd dispersed more widely over the downs widow to get still clearer glimpses of the king and his handsome and the head of the queen and the elbows and shoulders of the in the carriages and parts of general and the duke of which sights gave her great gratification she at her daughter at every opportunity exclaiming now you can see his feather there s her hat there s her s india muslin shawl in a minor form of ecstasy that made the miller think her more girlish and animated than her daughter anne in those military the miller followed the fortunes of one man anne of two the spectators who unlike our party had no personal interest in the saw only troops and in the straight lines of red straight lines of blue white lines formed of innumerable knee breeches black lines formed of many coming and going in change who thought of every point in the line as an isolated man each dwelling all to himself in the trumpet major of his own mind one person did a young man far removed from the where the and miller stood the natural expression of his face was somewhat obscured by the effects of rough weather but the lines of his mouth showed that affectionate impulses were strong within him â perhaps stronger than judgment well could he wore a blue jacket with little brass buttons and was plainly a man meanwhile in the part of the plain where rose the on which the miller had established himself a broad was his way along he saw mr from the base of the and beckoned to attract his attention went half way down and the other came up as near as he could miller said the man a letter has been lying at the post office for you for

44Oliver Optic

to speak thus i do not know but i do know that her words filled me with fear and now i understand why i was so much afraid swallow he laughed aloud very scornfully then he said you may banish your fears for this i swear to you before the almighty that whoever may be my true kin were a kingdom to be offered to me among them unless you could share it it would be refused this i swear before the almighty and may he reject me if i forget the oath you are very young to make such promises she answered doubtfully nor do i hold them binding on you at nineteen so i am told a lad will swear anything to the girl who takes his fancy i am young in years but i grew old while i was yet a child for sorrow aged me you have heard my oath let it be put to the test and you shall learn whether or no i speak the truth do i look like one who does not know his mind she glanced up at the steady grey eyes and the stern set mouth and answered you look like one who knows his mind and i believe you pray god i may not be deceived for though we are but lad and girl if it prove so i tell you that i shall live my life out with a broken heart do not fear and now i have heard what you had to say and i claim your promise if it be your will i will kiss you but not in farewell nay she answered kiss me rather in greeting of the full and beautiful life that stretches before our feet whether the path be short or long it will be good for us and ever better but i think that the end will be best of all so he took her in his arms and they kissed each other upon the lips and as they told me afterwards in that embrace they found some joy why should they not indeed a love scene and a quarrel for if anywhere upon the earth if it be given and received in youth before the heart has been and with bitterness and surely in such a pledge as theirs true joy can be found yes and they did more than this for kneeling there upon that rock where once the starving child had knelt in years they prayed to him who had brought them together to him who had given them hearts to love with and bodies to be loved and the immortality of heaven wherein to this seed of love thus sown upon the earth that he would guide them bless them and protect them through all trials terrors sorrows and as shall be seen this indeed he did then they rose and having not without difficulty lifted the buck ram upon s horse and made it fast there as our hunters know how to do they started walking the most part of the way for the load was heavy and they were in no haste so that they only reached the farm about noon now i watching them as we sat at our mid day meal grew sure that something out of the common had passed between them was very silent and from time to time glanced at whereon feeling her eyes he would grow red as the sunset and seeing his trouble she would colour also as though with the knowledge of some secret that made her both happy and ashamed you were long this morning in finding a buck i said yes mother he answered there were none on the for the grass is burnt off and had not beaten out a dry pan for me where the were still green i think that we should have found nothing as it was i shot badly the ram in the flank so that we were obliged to follow it a long way before i came up with it swallow and where did you find it at last i asked in a strange place mother yes in that very spot where many years ago came upon me starving after the there in the and by the flat stone on which i had lain down to die was the buck quite dead we knew the again though neither of us had visited it from that hour to this and rested there awhile before we turned home i made no answer but sat thinking and a silence fell on all of us by this time the girls had cleared away the meat and brought in coffee which we drank while the men filled their pipes and lit them i looked at and saw that he was making up his mind to say something for his honest face was troubled and now he took up his pipe and now he put it down moving his hands till at length he upset the coffee over the table doubtless i thought to myself he means to tell the tale of the englishmen who have come to seek for well i think that he may safely tell it now then i looked at and saw that he also was very ill at ease struggling with words which he did not know how to utter i noted moreover that touched his hand with hers beneath the shelter of the table as though to comfort and encourage him now watching these two men at last i broke out laughing and said addressing them you are like two fires of green weeds in a patch and i am wondering which of you will be the first to break into flame or whether you will both be choked by the of your own thoughts my harmless though it was stung them into speech and both at once for i have noticed however stupid they may be that men

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must have your day kneel down both and take an old woman s blessing â it may do ye good under good conduct â it can do ye no harm this ceremony over the boys who had heard they were to the wedding and who thought not of the parting nor any thing beyond it were in their expressions of joy their father sent them with some to the men who at his bidding had conducted their horses to a little in the rear of his cottage where they were refreshing them from his stores of the day was passing happily away never had appeared so lovely in s eyes as in the atmosphere ot home where every look and action was tinged by a holy light that from the heart time passed as he always does when he only on flowers and the declining sun them to prepare for their departure but first said let us taste together our dear patron s that boys and you dear serve us as you were wont her little home apron of white muslin tied with bows and spreading a cloth on the ground under the tree she and the boys arranged the wine fruit and various from the basket it s all said touching his tongue to the tip of a bird s wing and this is sugar too replied in the same mode a bunch of the ihe token french already all others in every department of the art and to our little their work seemed miraculous hark ye i said his brother i st francis dropped these from his pocket as he flew over come cried his father while you are gazing we would be eating ah that is right is it the last time my pretty to and who were leading the old woman from her chair to the settle come sit by me my child now we are all seated we will fill the cup and drink many happy years to de as if to mark the of the wish the progress of the cup to the lip was interrupted by an ominous sound and forth from the thick barrier of that the northern side of the cottage came twelve men armed and de god help us shrieked seize her instantly and off with her as i bade ye cried a voice that recognised as the count de s touch her at your peril villain cried drawing his sword and shouting for his attendants and the latter armed only with a club kept their at bay till his men appeared and they inspired by their master s example and fought but one and then another of their number fell and the were two to one against s the they had formed around her was courage my boys courage i cried as he shot a glance at his children crouching round his old mother motionless as panic the white struck birds courage god and the saints are on our side beat them back mj men shouted de will reward ye retorted de his bones are on the rack ah i m wounded â tis but a scratch â seize her lo i â press on my men i â the prize is ours but they seeing their leader fall back for an instant faltered a thought as if from heaven inspired de to avoid giving warning of his approach had left his horses on the outer side of the wood s attendants had just before the of de s party their master s horse and led him to the gate of the court there he was now standing and the passage from to him once on him and started thought she may escape mount my horse he cried fear nothing â we will keep them back â heaven guard you shot from the circle like an arrow from the bow the horse and sprang upon him he had been and stamping excited by the din of arms and impatient of his position and as she leaped into the saddle he sprang forward swift as an arrow from the s bow heard the yell of the mingling with the victorious shouts of her once her eye caught the flash of their arms but whether they were retreating or still stationary she knew not she had no distinct perception no consciousness but an intense desire to get on faster than even her flying conveyed her there were few persons on the road though passing through the immediate vicinity of a great city many of those who cultivated the of paris had their dwellings for greater security the token within the walls and their working day being over they had already retired within them from a where a party of were there were opposing shouts of stop and god speed ye and of the straggling returning from market some crossed this figure with face and golden hair streaming to the breeze was some demon in form and others knelt and murmured a prayer believing it was indeed an angel she had just made a turn in the road which brought her within sight of dame and the gates of paris when she heard the of horses coming rapidly on behind her her horse too heard the sound and as if conscious of his sacred trust and duty his speed the sounds approached nearer and nearer and now were lost in the shouts of her s head became giddy a sickening despair quivered through her frame we have her now i cried the foremost and stretched his hand to grasp her rein the action gave a fresh impulse to her horse he was within a few yards of the he sprang forward and in an instant was within the gates we are cried the leader of the pursuit in his horse and pouring out a of oaths he ordered his men to retreat saying it was more than the 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have left the key with his elder servant whom he had believed he could trust especially as the cellar was not well ah then it was so she s been very queer this last week or two oh yes sending messages down the which were like madness itself and ordering us this and that till we would take no notice at all i see them both go out last night and possibly they went for a holiday not expecting ye or maybe for good if ye d written i d ha got the place ready ye being out of a man too though it s not me duty at all when got to his floor again he found that the cellar door was open some bottles were standing empty that had been full and many abstracted altogether all other articles in the house however appeared to be his letter to his housekeeper lay in the box as the had left it by this time the luggage had been sent up in the lift and like so much more luggage stood at the door the hall porter behind offering his assistance come here said the the well beloved what shall we do now here s a pretty state of could suggest nothing till she was struck with the bright thought that she should light a fire light a fire ah yes i wonder if we could manage this is an odd coincidence â and awkward he murmured very well light a fire is this the kitchen sir all mixed up with the yes then i think i can do all that s wanted here for a bit at any rate till you can get help sir at least i could if i could find the fuel house tis no such big place as i thought that s right â take courage said he with a tender smile now i ll dine out this evening and leave the place for you to arrange as best you can with the help of the porter s wife down stairs this accordingly did and so their common residence began feeling more and more strongly that some danger awaited her in her native island he determined not to send her back till the lover or lovers who seemed a young man of forty to trouble her should have cooled off he was quite willing to take the risk of his action thus far in his regard for her it was a solitude indeed for though and were the only two people in the flat they did not keep each other company the former being as fearful of going near her now that he had the opportunity as he had been prompt to seek her when he had none they lived in silence his messages to her being frequently written on scraps of paper deposited where she could see them it was not without a pang that he noted her of their isolated position â a position to which had she experienced any of sentiment she would readily have been alive considering that though not profound she was hardly a matter of fact girl as that phrase is commonly understood she was in the matter of fact quality of her to the friendly remarks which would escape him in spite of himself as well as in her general conduct whenever he formed some excuse for walking across the few yards of hall which separated his room n the well beloved from the kitchen and spoke through the doorway to her she answered yes sir or no sir without turning her eyes from the particular work that she was engaged in in the usual course he would have obtained a couple of properly qualified servants immediately but he lived on with the one or rather the less than one that this cottage girl afforded it had been his almost invariable custom to dine at one of his clubs now he sat at home over the miserable chop or to which he limited himself in dread lest she should complain of there being too much work for one person and demand to be sent home a came every two or three days an extraordinary consumption of food and yet it was not for this that dreaded her presence but lest in conversing with she should open the girl s eyes to the of her situation could see for herself that there must have been two or three servants in the flat during his former residence there but his reasons for doing without them seemed never to strike her his intention had been to keep her occupied exclusively at the but accident had modified this however he sent her round a young man of forty one morning and entering himself shortly after found her engaged in wiping the of dust from the casts and models the color of the dust never ceased to her it is like the hold of a she said and the beautiful faces of these clay people are quite spoiled by it i suppose you ll marry some day remarked as he regarded her thoughtfully some do and some don t she said with a reserved smile still attending to the casts you are very said he she weighed that remark without further speech it was conduct in the face of his instinct to cherish her especially when he regarded the charm of her bending the well though softly lined nose the round chin with as it were a second leap in its curve to the throat and the sweep of the over the rosy cheek during the lowered glance how he had labored to express the character of that face in clay and while catching it in substance had yet lost something that was essential that evening at dusk in the stress of writing the well beloved letters he sent her out for she had been absent some quarter of an hour when suddenly drawing

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can you bear such a thing of the house near you judge for yourself your your man has come to this the poor lady stood beside him motionless save for the restlessness of her eyes all her natural sentiments of affection and pity were driven clean out of her by a sort of panic she had just the same sense of dismay and f that she would have had in the presence of an apparition she could fancy this to be her chosen one â the man she had loved he was to a specimen of another species i do not you she said with trembling but i am so â so overcome let me recover myself will you sup now and while you do so may i go to my room to â regain my old feeling for you i will try if i may leave you a while yes i will try r without waiting for an answer from him and keeping her gaze carefully averted the frightened woman crept to the door and out of the room she heard him sit down to the table as if to begin supper though heaven knows his appetite was slight enough after a reception which had a of noble confirmed his worst when had ascended the stairs and arrived in her chamber she sank down and buried her face in the of the bed thus she remained for some time the was over the dining room and presently as she knelt heard thrust back his chair and rise to go into the hall in five minutes that figure would probably come up the stairs and her again â it this new and terrible form that was not her husband s in the loneliness of this night with neither maid nor friend beside her she lost all self control and at the first sound of his footstep on the stairs without so much as flinging a cloak round her she flew from the room ran along the gallery to the back staircase which she descended and the back door let herself out she scarcely was aware what she had done till she found herself in the crouching on a flower stand here she remained her great timid eyes strained through the glass upon the garden without and her skirts gathered up in fear of the which sometimes came there every moment she dreaded to hear footsteps which she ought by law to have longed for and a voice that should have been as music to her soul but came not that way the nights were getting short at this season and soon the dawn appeared and the first rays of the sun of the of by daylight she had less fear than in the dark she thought she could meet him and herself to the spectacle so the much tried young woman the door of the hot house and went back by the way she had emerged a few hours ago her poor husband was probably in bed and asleep his journey having been long and she made as little noise as possible in her entry the house was just as she had left it and she looked about in the hall for his cloak and hat but she could not see them nor did she perceive the small trunk which had been all that he brought with him his heavier baggage having been left at for the road wagon she summoned courage to mount the stairs the bedroom door was open as she had left it she fearfully peeped round the bed had not been pressed perhaps he had laid down on the dining room sofa she descended and entered he was not there on the table beside his plate lay a note hastily written on the leaf of a pocket book it was something like this my beloved wife â the effect that my forbidding appearance has produced upon you was one which i foresaw as quite possible i hoped against it but foolishly so i was aware that no human love could survive such a catastrophe i confess i thought yours divine but after so long an absence there could not be left a group of sufficient warmth to overcome the too natural first aversion it was an experiment and it has failed i do not blame you perhaps even it is better so good bye i leave england for one year you will see me again at the of that time if i live then i will ascertain your true feeling and if it be against me go away forever e w on recovering from her surprise s remorse was such that she felt herself absolutely she should have regarded him as an afflicted being and not have been this slave to mere like a child to follow him and entreat him to return was her first thought but on making inquiries she found that nobody had seen him he had silently disappeared more than this to undo the scene of last night was impossible her terror had been too plain and he was a man unlikely to be back by her efforts to do her duty she went and confessed to her parents all that had occurred which indeed soon became known to more sons than those of her own family the year passed and he did not return and it was doubted if he were alive s for her was now such that she longed to build a church aisle or erect a monument and devote herself to deeds of charity for the remainder of her days to that end she made inquiry of the excellent parson un of the house of der whom she sat on sundays at a distance of twenty feet but he could only his wig and tap his for such was the state of religion in those days that not an aisle porch east window ten board lion and or

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of horses in the year a coach proprietor in london named had thirteen hundred horses at work five principal coach yards and two hotels if my opinion may be considered worth anything i should say the american system of coach building is the b t i do opinion about the or having had no experience but in this part of the union where wood is p and iron dear they use more iron in england where wood is dear and iron cheap they use more wood consequently the american carriages have a lighter appearance as the roads in england are for the most than here the american system would seem for that country and the english for this home travelling the made the river from the city of to the sea in h o had a canal dug from on the river to in ireland john a engineer made the river ble with locks and from to the sea the was made from to the thames by sir richard the and canal began in the river from bath to was opened but the canal was begun at the ok expense of the duke of bridge water was his engineer who is justly called the father of inland the great canal which makes a continued line of inland communication from east to west across scotland through three lakes was suggested in but not commenced till about there are now in great britain iso their whole extent is miles they pass through forty eight under ground whose joint length is thirty two miles the grand cost was thirty million the english are not wider than forty feet and from ix to ten deep the boats average about fourteen and by only one horse and travel from four to five miles per hour the â team engine ii the master piece of skill and the valuable present that was ever made by philosophy to the arts â dr black the first were in the northern coal districts about the were drawn by one horse taking as many as lie could move slowly â weight perhaps forty a few years after they began to use iron wheels but it was about years from the before they began to plate the rails with iron such is the infancy of who died was the father of in there was me act of parliament for a northern railroad in hat no more till from which period we may begin to date railroad travelling the liverpool and railroad carried at the rate of q persons per day without one and only of ae u o tâ ii the social of great britain bees have been noticed not only to keep up with a steam engine train at the rate of twenty five miles per hour but to fly round and about it a was observed to have a difficulty in keeping up this pace â s journal in the year mr in his rural rides the following information i got a little out of my road in or near a place called i rode up to the door of a cottage and asked the woman who had two children and who i to be about thirty years old which was the way to which i knew could not be more than four miles off she said she did not know a very neat smart and pretty woman but she did not know the way to this rotten well my dear good woman said i â but you have been at p no nor at v six miles another way no nor at nine miles another way no pray were you born in this house v yes and how far have you ever been from this house v oh i have been np in the parish and over to that is to say the utmost extent of her voyages had been about two and a half miles let no one laugh at her and above all others let not me who am convinced that the which now exist of moving human bodies from place to place are among the curses of the country the of of morals and of course of happiness it is a great error to suppose that people are rendered stupid by remaining always in the same place this was a very acute woman and as well behaved as need be such were the remarks of that close observer and excellent writer in what he would say now when there are so many may be readily guessed on the english in were for passengers ie for goods bridges and the catholic religion has covered the world with its monuments the oldest stone bridge in england was at bow near london built in the time of henry i to from funds furnished by his pious wife it had three arches and a chapel at one end was only j feet wide was to feet within these two years it has all been taken down and a s one of one built in its place in king john s reign the toll keeper received for every cart load of corn one penny for every load of two this there was cloth out for home travelling dead pence there was only one all england in times where the jews were permitted to be buried and that was outside the walls of the city of london the most stone bridge is the one for foot passengers in the shape of a where two little streams join at it leads into three this was built by the of near to which it is situated and is now a master piece of ingenuity time not known but the abbey was built during the reign of the there was only one bridge across the thames at london the longest bridge of stone in england until lately was built by the of upon in the twelfth century it has thirty four arches and is

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i will be plain putting myself quite on one side i don t think he will choose either of you i have never expected it â thought of it moaned i wish i was dead x by the rally the poor child torn by a feeling which she hardly understood turned to the other two girls who came upstairs just then we be friends with her again she said to them she thinks no more of his choosing her than we do so the reserve went off and they were confiding and warm i don t seem to care what i do now said whose mood was to its lowest bass i was going to marry a at who s asked me twice but â my soul â i would put an end to myself rather n be his wife now why don t ye speak to confess then murmured i sure to day that he was going to kiss me as he held me and i lay still against his breast hoping and hoping and never moved at all but he did not i don t like here at any longer i shall go the air of the sleeping chamber seemed to with the hopeless passion of the girls they under the of an thrust on them by cruel nature s law â an emotion which they had neither expected nor desired the incident of the day had tbe flame that was burning the inside of their hearts out and the torture was almost more than they could the differences which distinguished them as individuals were abstracted by this passion and each was but portion of one called sex there was so much frankness and so little jealousy because there was no hope each one was a girl of fair common sense and she did not herself with any vain or deny her love or give herself airs in the idea of the others the full recognition of the of their from a point of view its beginning its self bounded outlook its lack of everything to justify its existence in the eye of civilization while lacking nothing in the eye of by op the d nature the one fact that it did exist them to a killing joy all this imparted to them a resignation a dignity which a practical and sordid expectation of winning him as a husband would have destroyed they tossed and turned on their little beds and the cheese downstairs b you e whispered one half later it was s voice replied in the affirmative whereupon also and suddenly the off them and sighed â so be i wonder what she is like â the lady they say his family have looked out for him i wonder said some lady looked out for him gasped starting i have never heard o that yes â tis whispered a young lady of his own rank chosen by his family a doctor of divinity s daughter near his father s parish of he don t much care for her they say but he is sure to marry her they had heard so very little of this yet it was enough to build up dreams upon there in the shade of the night they pictured all the details of his being won to consent of the wedding preparations of the bride s happiness of her dress and veil of her home with him when oblivion would have fallen upon themselves as far as he and their love were concerned thus they talked and ached and wept till sleep charmed their sorrow away after this disclosure nourished no foolish thought that there any grave and deliberate import in s attentions to her it was a passing summer love of her face for love s own temporary sake â nothing more and the l by the rally crown of this sad conception was that she whom he really did prefer in a way to the rest she who knew herself to be more impassioned in nature more beautiful than they was in the eyes of propriety far less worthy of him than the ones whom he ignored by amid the and warm of the a season when the rush of could be heard below the hiss of it was impossible that the most fanciful love should not grow passionate the ready existing there were by their july passed over their heads and the weather which came in its wake seemed an effort on the part of nature to match the state of hearts at the air of the place so fresh in the spring and early was and now its heavy weighed upon them and at mid day the landscape seemed l ring in a the upper slopes of the pastures but there was still bright green here where the and as was oppressed by the outward so was he inwardly by of passion for the soft and silent the rains having passed the were dry the wheels of the s spring cart as he sped home from market licked up the surface of the highway and were followed by white of dust as if they had set a thin powder train on fire the cows jumped wildly over the five barred by the fly kept his shirt sleeves permanently rolled up from monday to saturday open windows had no effect in without open doors and in the garden the and crept about under the bt es rather in the manner of than by the rally of winged creatures the flies in the kitchen were lazy and familiar crawling about in unwonted places on the floor into drawers and over the backs of the hands conversations were concerning while butter making and still more butter keeping was a despair they entirely in the for coolness and convenience without driving in the cows during the day the animals followed the shadow of the smallest tree as it moved the 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in his valley watched like a bear that hears the cry go sweeping by yet not from his for on his daring spirit a wrath lay like a spell â the wrath of one rewarded ill for a great work wrought right well neighbor and friend and brother to his side in vain â what can it be that they long for me to ruin their cause again surely the northern lights are bright surely the south lies still would they have more â lo i left my sword on the crest of hill but at last from his own new an urgent summons came that stirred his heart like the voice of god from s walls of flame he bowed his head and he rose aloft again he grasped the brand â for the cause of man and my native state not for an land through the mist veil faintly struggling the rays of the setting sun the leafy village of white walled then out of the dismal weather came many a sound of war â the straggling shots and the and the cries now near now far for forms half seen were chasing the phantom forms that fled and ghostly figures and fought and till the mist on a sudden settled and they saw before them fair over a hill to the westward an island in the air there were tree trunks and waving branches and and flowers below it rose in a dome of from the mist waves watery flow a flag from its summit floated and a grew as the arms of the soldiers at their toil unwonted flew cried the yankee leader so the has turned at bay with his claws of steel and his breath of fire behind that wall of clay our steel is in muscle and but i know â and his voice rang free â right well i know we shall strike a blow that the world will leap to see o ton i stood by a blazing city till the fires had died away save a flickering light in the ruins and a fitful gleam on the bay but a by the water blue from point to base with the breath of bursting through the crust of their prison place and another beside it a thousand rags of red like the plague king s dancing on a mound of the swollen dead twin brothers of flame and evil in their quivering living light they ruled with a frightful beauty the desolate waste of night thus did the battle mountain with flashes dire the crest responded in a of fire the tough old pieces in tumult rang louder the roaring the hour after hour the turmoil gathered and swelled till the hill seemed a bursting in every place then the lights grew faint and meagre though the hideous noise rolled on and out of a bath of glory the noble sun it brightened the tossing banner it the leafy crest it smote on the weapons on and scarlet breast it drove on the mist below them where and his foremost stood flashing for into the stubborn wood a thousand figures sprang from the gulf profound a thousand guns uplifted went whirling round and round like some on a lofty roman hold like the upward rush of on gods of old with the of the torrents as they dash on a castle wall with the flame seas at the mountain demon s call heedless of friend and brother stricken to earth below the sons of new england bounded on the of the foe each form on the swaying his battered gun seemed a giant against the rising sun the pond clubs swept crashing through the round their feet as a s axe edge through branches in head and shoulder arm and the red coats like from an angry sky faster each minute and faster the swarm over the wall and grows the circle and thicker the fall till with his swift to the rescue flies the frown of the on their brows and the war light in their eyes back the men of the gave back but and his flung full across their track the stern mother well might she eye the dread of her war red as they the earth and sky ton like rival the east and west with straining and staring eyes they swayed and strove for the royal prize a continent s virgin breast till at last as a strong man s a the arms of the shattered the elder race and his lay on the trampled sod and s strong cry rose clear and high yield in the name of god then the sullen yielded by an iron ring and down from the summit fluttered the flag of the british king vainly the may strive that height to gain more work for the war clubs more room for the slain the giant s arm is severed the giant s blood flows free and he in the pathway that leads to the distant sea the and with the men of the join and the gathering flood rolls over the host of the bold for a was closed and rounded a continent lost and won when and his men went over the at room for the song i sing or rather the tale i tell for i count it an idle thing and i never could well a pitiful thing and vain to call with our poet train the vision one s soul has caught the lesson its toil has taught its memories wrought a lay or a song or a strain the cant of a time that was true in an older land but is silly and false i say for who would dare to stand and chant in the face of day ay or the twilight gray his most melodious verse â the thing that he calls a lay though tis something better or worse but never

46Sarah Stickney Ellis

sacred which you for your insolence have been deceived i the man took a step forward miss i am not afraid of you now she declared in a clear voice although you did your best to frighten me and i do not allow anyone to call me save those i love you may be my cousin for all i know but i don t like you and i shall have nothing to do with you my engagement with mr is at an end she concluded slipping off a ring and passing it to ned who put it in his pocket and you i understand have the property since the will in my favour has been destroyed there is no more to be said there is this to be said shouted the veins on his forehead swelling that this house is mine and you shall leave it faced him coolly mr looks after my interests she declared quite composed as soon as he tells me to leave i shall do so but until then i am mistress here and i order you to go would have as he was furious at the failure of his two he had hoped to by stating that he was her cousin and he had hoped to separate her from by telling of the latter s for mrs having failed he looked like a fool and would have tried to recover his ground by upon remaining but that rose to his feet and took a step forward was no coward for the drop of white blood in him came from a brave old stock but the odds were too great moreover he really and truly loved his cousin and his soul was torn within him at the thought of losing her with a sudden of feeling the tears sprang to his dark eyes although he was by no means a tearful in the sacred putting out his hands blindly he his way to the door s generous heart smote her when she saw the man brought thus low and she sprang forward to lay her hand on his arm do not go in anger she pleaded using his christian name as sir had often done if you are my cousin â and i believe that you have spoken the truth â let us part in peace shake hands dashed the tears from his eyes and her hand from his arm her appeal brought back the original devil to his semi heart than ever will you be my wife he demanded savagely no i cannot do you love anyone else drew herself up quivering you have no right to ask that perhaps not raged the captain with contempt because you love a man who is in love with a married woman and ran forward his face white and his eyes bright silence he exclaimed and took by the shoulders i shall not be silent shrieked the half caste becoming feminine and in his towering passion you and your mrs who what else he would have said neither nor knew for the becoming suddenly silent after the manner of the white man ran swiftly out of the room the semi kicked and shrieked and swore and even tried to bite but with set teeth and grim eyes forced him along the hall and out of the front door the next moment was lying on his back some distance away with the door oâ the house he claimed the sacred you devil the half caste and he leaped up to slip his hand behind him the flung himself down while three shots rang out from the captain s then sprang to his feet on hearing no more apparently only three chambers had been loaded for filled with wrath at this treachery dared the worst and ran blindly down the steps flung away the still smoking weapon with an oath and sped down the avenue as though the himself was after him for some little distance followed until he lost him on the wide downs and then returned to the to meet coming down the avenue at top speed are you hurt ned shouted his friend one of the bullets my arm but it s nothing to speak of was s reply where s she ran upstairs to see mrs i ll send up and let her know that you are all right i say ned you have made a dangerous enemy oh damn the danger growled who was furious â the low mean hound he insulted me before on account of and that was why we fought he hadn t a revolver then and i gave him a black eye the brute and are you really in love with asked doubtfully yes said ned and not seemingly inclined to talk about the matter just then i ll tell you all about it some day m let us and get my arm bathed it s only a scratch but one moment ned said holding him back from entering the house you are not actually engaged to â i mean miss the sacred no i only agreed so as to save her from s insolence and sir s persecution then miss is heart whole entirely so far as i know replied and then to face his friend why do you ask these questions i ll tell you all about it some day said echoing the former speech of the here s â that is miss herself it was indeed who appeared at the top of the steps with mrs and two behind her she looked pale and hurried forward are you hurt ned she asked anxiously i heard the shots it s only a bite said ned quickly don t bother about it i ll go to my room and it let me do that sir said mrs and nodding a faint assent for he had lost some blood went into the house and up the wide stairs lingered behind with

11Mark Twain

nest me took a cigar pocket and bit the end off but showed no sign stirring choking and boiling aa i was i felt that could not go a word further without introducing s name which i could not endure to hear mm and therefore i looked at the wall as if there were no one present and forced a self to silence how long we might have remained this ridiculous position it is impossible to say bat the of three â â the waiter i think â â w w â their great coats and hands before whom as they charged at the fire we witb to give way i saw the window seizing his se s and mounting in hia ring brutal manner and and away i thought he was gone when he came back calling for a light for the cigar in mouth which he had forgotten a man in a dress appeared with what was wanted â i could not have said from where whether from the inn or the street or where not â and as down from the saddle and lighted his cigar and with a jerk of his head towards the windows the shoulders and ragged â ii of this man whose back was towards me re me of too heavily out of sorts to care much at the time it were he or no or after all to touch the l ri i washed the weather and the journey from ly and and went out to the memorable id that it would have been bo much the better f me never to have entered never to have seen chapter xvi in the room where the sing table stood and the was candles burnt on the wall i found miss and miss seated on a â near the fire and on a cushion at her feet was knitting and was looking on they both raised their eyes a a na wi alteration in me ba â they and what wind said yon here though she looked steadily at me i saw m was rather pausing for a in her knitting with her eyes u mc and then g a on i fancied that i read in the action of her as plainly aa if â he had told me in the dumb i that she perceived i had discovered my real i miss said i i went to yesterday to speak to and finding that t wind had li r here i followed miss to mo for the â fourth time to sit down i took the chair by the i table which i had often seen her occupy with i that at my feet and about me it seemed a place for me that day what i had to say to miss will before you presently â in a few i it will not surprise you it will not ji i am as unhappy as yoa can ever have meant me to miss continued to look steadily at i i could see in the action of s fingers aa th i worked that she attended to what i said but s not look up i have found out who my patron is it ii i fortunate discovery and is not likely ever to i in reputation station fortune anything there i reasons why i must bay no more of that it is secret but another s as silent for a while looking at â â how to go ab fi si na iâ â ai get your secret i i w a ia j les on you first caused me to be brought here when i belonged to lie village over that i wish i had never left i suppose i did come here as any other might have â as a kind oi servant to gratify a want or a and to he paid for it ah replied steadily nodding head you did and that mr â mr said miss taking me up n a firm tone had nothing to do with it and knew of it his being my lawyer and his being be lawyer of your patron is a coincidence he holds be same relation towards numbers of people and it easily arise be that aa it may it did arise was not brought about by any one any one might have seen in her haggard face that was no or so far but when i fell into the mistake i have so long in at least yon led me on said i yes she returned again nodding steadily i it you go on was that kind who am i cried miss striking her upon the floor and flashing into wrath so suddenly mt glanced up at her in surprise who am i god s sake that i should be kind it was a weak complaint to have made and i had nt meant to make it i told her so as she sat after this st well well well she said what r was paid for my old â tâ to soothe ber in being ko r m have asked only for my own tion follows has another and i more i purpose id my mistake you â on â will supply whatever term your without offence â your self seeking i did why they would have it so would you what has been my history he at the pains of either them you not to have it you made your own never made them â â waiting until she was quiet again â for this i flashed out of her in a wild and sudden way â went on i have heen thrown among one family of your miss and have been among them i went to london know b ve been as under my delusion aa i and i should be false and if i did not tell whether it is acceptable to you or no

7James Baldwin

the shelf inadequate made up his mind to let go in a hurry and fell heavily on the couch head to the eastward he said struggling to sit up that s more than four points off her course yes sir fifty degrees would just bring her head far enough round to meet this captain was now sitting up he had not dropped the book and he had not lost his place to the eastward he repeated with dawning astonishment to the where do you think we are bound to you want me to haul a full four points off her course to make the comfortable now i ve heard more than enough of mad things done in the world â but this if i did n t know you i would think you were in liquor steer four points off and what afterwards steer four points over the other way i suppose to make the course good what o f put it into j our head that i would start to tack a steamer as if she were a sailing ship jolly good thing she isn t threw in with bitter readiness she would have rolled every blessed stick out of her this afternoon aye and you just would have had to stand and see them go said captain showing a certain animation i it s a dead calm is n t it it is sir but there s something out of the common coming for sure maybe i suppose you have a notion i should be getting out of the way of that dirt said captain speaking with the utmost simplicity of manner and tone and fixing the on the floor with a heavy stare thus he noticed neither s discomfiture nor the mix ture of vexation and astonished respect on his face now here s this book he continued with deliberation his with i the closed volume ive been reading the chapter on the winds there this was true he had been reading the chapter on the winds when he had entered the room it was with no intention c taking the book down some influence in the air â the same influence probably that caused the steward to bring without orders the captain s sea boots and coat up to the room â had as it were guided his hand to the shelf and without to sit down he had with a conscious effort into the of the subject he lost himself amongst advancing left and right hand the curves of the tracks the probable bearing of the centre the of winds and the of he tried to bring all these things into a definite relation to himself and ended by becoming contemptuously angry with such a lot of words and with so much advice that to â u hâ and supposition without a glimmer of it s the thing he said if a fellow was to believe all that s in there he would be running most of his time all over the sea trying to get behind the weather again he his leg with the book and opened his mouth but said nothing running to get behind the weather do you understand that mr it s the thing v ejaculated captain with pauses gazing at the floor profoundly you would think an old woman had been writing this it passes me if that thing means anything useful then it means that i should at once alter the course away â away to the devil somewhere and come down on fu from the northward at the tail of this dirty weather that s supposed to be knocking about in our way from the po you understand mr three hundred extra miles to the distance and a pretty coal bill to show i could n t bring myself to do that if every word in there was gospel truth mr don t you expect me and silent at this display of feeling and but the truth is that you don t know if the fellow is right anyhow how can you tell what a gale is made of till you get it he is n t aboard here is he very well here he says that the centre of them things bears eight points off the wind but we have n t got any wind for all the falling where s his centre now we shall get the wind presently let it come then said captain with dignified indignation it s only to let you see mr that you don t find everything in books all these rules for breezes and ing the winds of heaven seem to me the thing when you come to look at it sensibly he looked up saw gazing at him and tried to illustrate his meaning about as queer as your extraordinary notion of the ship head to sea for i don t know how long to make the comfortable while all we ve got to do is to take them to fu being expected to get there before noon on friday if the weather me â very well there s your log book to talk straight about the weather but suppose i went swinging off three hundred miles out of my course and came in two days late and they asked me where have you been all that time captain what could i say to that went around to the bad weather i would say it must ve been dam bad they would say don t know i would have to say i ve clear of it see that i liave been thinking it all out this afternoon he looked up again in his way no one had ever heard him say so much at one time with his arms open in the doorway was like a man invited to a miracle unbounded wonder was the intellectual meaning of his eye while hard incredulity was seated in his whole countenance

30Frances Hodgson Burnett

this talk about duty is a blind and a fiction tell her she isn t wicked why god in heaven if we were none of us more wicked than she is this poor old world would be so clean a place that the holy angels might walk along the pavement there outside without to soil so much as the hem of their garments make her understand that the only sin for her is to do violence to her nature by marrying a man she s afraid of and for whom she does not care i don t want to play a low game on sir richard and steal that which belongs to him but she doesn t belong to him â she is mine just my own i knew that from the first day i came to and looked her in the face and she knows it too only she s been with all this devil s talk of duty so far the words had poured forth as in a torrent now the speaker s voice dropped and they came slowly yet without hesitation and so i asked her to go away with me now to night and marry me to morrow i can make her happy oh no fear about that i and she would have consented and gone we d have been away by now â if you and this lady had not come just when you did the gentleman addressed whistled very softly would you though he said adding â k a slip cup and lip by george now who d have thought of going the pace like that oh never tell promise me you will never tell them the poor child cried again i know it was wicked but â â no no you are mistaken there put in holding her still closer you were tempted to take a rather desperate way out of your difficulties it would have been unwise but there was nothing wicked in it the wrong thing is â as mr tells you â to marry without love and so make all your life a lie by pretending to give richard that which you do not and cannot give him then the young soldier broke in resolutely again i tell you i asked her to go away and i ask her again now â the deuce you do lord exclaimed his sense of amusement getting the better alike of astonishment and of personal regrets only now i ask you to sanction her going and i ask you â he turned to miss st â to come with her i am not even sure of your name but i know by all that youve said and done in the last half hour i can be very sure of you and i perceive that if you come nobody will dare to say anything unpleasant â there ll be nothing indeed to be said smiled the magnificent of mankind in love struck her as distinctly yet she had a very kindly feeling towards this black haired bright eyed energetic young lover he was in deadly earnest â to the removing even of mountains and he had need to be so for that mountains immediately blocked the road to his desires was evident even to her enthusiastic mind she looked across at lord let him speak first she needed time at this juncture in which to arrange her ideas and to think my dear good fellow that gentleman began patting on the shoulder i m all on your side i give you my word i am and i ve reason to believe my father will be so but you see an â specially in our sort of highly respectable hum drum family â is rather a strong order upon my honour it is you know and even though kindly by miss st and by me it would make a precious able lot of talk it really is a rather irregular fashion of conducting the business you see and then â advice i always give others and only wish i could sir richard always remember to take myself â it s very much best to be off with the old love before you re on with the new yes yes miss st put in with quick decision lord has laid his finger on the heart of the matter it is just that â lady s engagement to richard must be before her engagement to you mr is announced for her to go away with you would be to invite criticism and put herself hopelessly in the wrong she must not put herself in the wrong let me think there must be some way by which we can avoid that an exultation hitherto by her inspired st her attitude was slightly she sat on the stone with long lazy grace holding the girl s hand forgetful of herself forgetful in a degree of appearances concerned only with the problem of rescue presented to her the young man s honest devotion the young girl s struggle after duty and her piteous despair nay the close contact of that soft body that she had so lately held against her in closer more intimate embrace than she had ever held anything human before aroused a new class of sentiment a new order of emotion within her she for the first time the the penetrating and poetic splendour of human love to witness the spectacle of it to be thus in touch with it excited her almost as sailing a boat in a heavy sea or riding to hounds in a stiff country excited her and it followed that now while she perched aloft on the her delicate beauty took on a strange a something spiritual mysterious and yet dazzling as the moonlight which bathed her charming figure seeing which it must be owned that lord s attitude towards her ceased to be strictly while the attractions of ladies more fair and

31George Moore

believe can be taught tom could one for instance take lessons in it for what purpose do you propose it my lord i don t know â for two or three purposes i believe will your state them why tom i should wish to do the old peer and touching the s daughter who is said to be very conscientious â pose means the same as i should wish to to do her too added laughing yes i believe so but i forget don t the pas ns teach it yes my lord by most of them ao not so many by example but it s the theory only i want you don t suppose i intend to practise religion tom i hope no my lord i have a opinion of your could you hire me a pas n tom to give lessons in it â say two a week â i shall require to know something of it for my dear tom you are not to b told that twelve thousand a year and a beautiful girl are worth making an effort for it is true she â miss i mean â ia not to be spoken of in comparison with the man s daughter but then twelve thousand a year tom of â and the good old peer is threatening to my allowance or stay tom would do as well as religion p bit my lord so as the goes indeed in point of ct it requires a very keen eye to discover the difference between them for one that religion there are five thousand who practise could i get lessons in p are there men set apart to teach it p â ce there for instance professors of as there axe of music and dancing p not my lord but many of the professors of religion very nearly to the same point how is that tom p it like a good fellow why a great number of them deal in both â that is to they teach the one by their doctrine and the other by their example in different words they to others and practise p ji i see â that is clear then tom as they â the pas ns i mean â are the best of the matter of course must be more than religion or th â and such an immense majority as you say â would not it more useful it unquestionably is my lord well in that case tom try and find me out a good a sound who properly understands the subject and i will take lessons fi om him my terms will be liberal say unfortunately for your there are no professors to be had but as i said it comes to the same thing engage a professor of religion and whilst you pretend to study his doctrine make a point also to study his life and ten to one but you will close your studies admirably qualified to take a degree in if there were such an and that you wish to imitate your teacher either that my lord or it may t d to you of a leaning towards as long as you live weu i wish i could make some progress in either one or the other it matters not which provided it be easier to learn and more we must think about it tom you will remind me of course was sir george here day no my lord but he at to inquire nor lord p he drove to the door but didn t come in the other members of our set have been tolerably regular in their inquiries especially they were as to the danger m your wound by the way that was a d d cool fellow that me he did the thing in quite a self possessed and gentlemanly way too however it was my own i forced him into it you must know i had reason to suppose that he was to injure me in a certain quarter in short that he had made some progress in the affections of i saw the attentions he paid to her at paris when i was sent to the right about in short â but hang it â there â that will let us talk no more about itâ i escaped narrowly â and i must w you my lord for i assure you i have thb â â things to attend to those ss are unreasonable and must be put ow with soft words and hard promises for some time longer that irish wine merchant of yours is a model to every one of his tribe ah that is because he knows the old peer do you know tom after all i don t think it so a thing to be termed a respectable old nobleman but still it want of individual character now tom i think i have a character i mean an original character don t every one almost say â i allude of course to every one of sense and s a quite an original â an a â a â an inscription that cannot be â an don t they tom not a doubt of it my lord even i who ought to know you so well can make nothing of you well but aft er tom my other s name a great number of my is wild they say but then he is the son of a most respectable old nobleman and so many of them shrug and pity when would otherwise and blame and i hope to live long enough to see you a most respectable old character yet my dear i must go as your representative to these d d but mark me self in your s and sister s presence as a young man somewhat meditating upon the of his life so that a favorable impression may be made here and a favorable report reach

49William Black

said that he looked i am sorry began the doctor it was cruel and unfair i own but holding up one hand as though to all farther talk about the door with the other and presently getting it open felt his way along the passage like a blind man and so into the street and took his way toward home i am a beast exclaimed mr self reproachfully standing in his little porch and watching his departing patient move slowly and painfully away and the beast which i am is an ass i have done him more harm than good in every way matters could scarcely have been worse had i told him the truth at once although he did say it would have given him a turn and yet how could i have known that the mention of his father would have put him into such a state it was a mercy he did not drop down dead at my very door such a gallant honest fellow tool he will be a loss to the world although may be the world as he says will be no loss to him but as for you robert f s and late of this parish when your turn comes to be over yon will be a loss to nobody being an ass â i chapter v coming home the short yet straggling street of the village of was always veiy quiet there was but little traffic through it and still less in it for it contained but one shop full indeed of the most various from bath note paper to lamp black from dutch cheese to but not much frequented by customers most people stopped at the window and turned away again after dropping their letters into the beneath it for it was also ihe post office and there were not many folks even to post letters at the houses on the north side of the street which was built on a hill made the most show standing back from the road and at a considerable elevation above it with neat little gardens spread apron wise before them from the windows of these dwellings flew s year over the beads of by on the south side the houses all looked oat to over unseen gardens of their own and turned their backs to the road so that it was quite possible providing only that he escaped the notice of the eyed post mistress for a however remarkable in his personal appearance to pass through street without being observed during the of the at p m a in full or the lord chief justice of the queen s bench in wig and gown might have very possibly made a progress through it from end to end if only they maintained a dignified silence without any being the wiser it was about p m that john took his way through and that he was not spoken with by any one after what had recently occurred was a pretty convincing proof that he was not seen the village inn indeed had more than its usual fringe of about it eagerly discussing the very occurrence in which he had so distinguished himself but it stood apart from the road on a little of its own and was avoided altogether by those who took the turning to the right which led to church mr took this way the church tower being very highly placed could be seen far out at sea and was even used as a for ships the church yard itself stood much above the village and indeed was the highest point save whereon the house occupied by the was situated and after which it was named within some miles of it was therefore free from all something tempted him as he passed by to push open the and enter that great green resting chamber where no â uneasily on his pillow or longed with impatience for the morning very many generations lay beneath those grassy or in the of the old church which was almost with the abbey the ruins of which could be seen from where he stood another phase of christianity had succeeded to the ancient faith but little change had been in two stone images in covered stood on either side the porch but time or the sea winds had deprived them of all features they might be meant to represent saints or the for holy water still had its place in the wall within lay many a cross legged knights praying in dumb or on d in black rails the dead representatives of a dead form of creed lying enough beside lords of the and other modem of degree in the superior of the under what looked like a four post of marble hung with and with the long line of ancestors of charles earl whose anxiety for the preservation of game had been so recently with from that eaten pulpit all silent and all damned quoted thoughtfully as he gazed through the iron gate which suffered the cool evening air to this while it kept more substantial out there is nobody at least to contradict it what thousands of years of death have these good folks to tell of yet not an hour s experience will the greatest gossip among them reveal he turned from the dark porch where a certain flavor of seemed to make itself apparent and set his face to the sea breeze fresh as on the day when it first blew from the gates of the sun the west was one great field of gold with just a ripple upon it like com at that smiles to find the sovereign wind its a few white sails its glittering surface and a faint black line of smoke above one the red sky from the village beneath thin blue smoke ascended for a little way till it mixed with the air and was lost and far off

24Arlo Bates

so much i i never knew of any man that was loved much by so many people in one little place as you are john and to be loved by all the children is a great thing â i think â of course i cannot be quite sure â but i think it is an exceptional thing â for a clergyman â â â â â â â â â with rose crowned june the rose window in the church of st best was filled in and completed had foimd all the remaining ancient stained glass that had been needed to give the finishing touch to its beauty and the loveliest deep like hues shone through the like rare jewels in a perfect setting the rays of light through them were wonderful and â such as might fall from the pausing wings of some great angel â and under the blaze of splendid colour the white with its unknown saint asleep lay in soft folds of crimson and gold and while even the hollow in the word seemed filled with delicate tints like those painted by old world on and presently one morning came â warm with the breath of summer sunny and beautiful â when the window was solemnly re consecrated by bishop at ten o clock â a followed by the loud and joyous ringing of the bells and a further sacred ceremony â the of matrimony between john and all the village out like a hive of bees from their honey to see their married hundreds of honest and affectionate eyes looked love on the bride as clad in the simplest of simple white gowns with a plain white veil her from head to foot she came walking to the church across the warm scented fields like any village maid straight from the escorted only by her one at the churchyard gate she was met by all the youngest girls of the school arrayed in white who carrying rush baskets full of wild flowers scattered them before her as she moved â and when she arrived at the church porch she was followed by the little child whose round fair face reflected one broad smile of delight and who carried between her two tiny hands a basket full to overflowing of old french roses red as the wine glow of a summer sun bet the church was crowded â not only by villagers but by god s good man county folks â for from near or far that could be present at what they judged to be a strange wedding â namely a wedding for love and love alone â had in force for the occasion one or two had stayed away from a certain sense of in themselves to which it is needless to refer sir was among these he felt â but what he felt is quite and so far as his daughter was concerned she as expressed it had gone a the of park in all the glory of their were present as were the while to was ven the honour of being s best man he as the music of the wedding voluntary poured from the organ through the flower scented air wondered doubtfully whether poetic inspiration ever assist him in such wise as to enable him to express in language the exquisite sweetness of s face as standing beside the man whose tender and loyal love she was of than any other possession in this world she repeated in soft accents the vow to have and to hold from this day forward for better for worse for richer for poorer in and in health to love cherish and to obey till death do us part and when bishop placed her little hand in that of his old college friend and pressed them tenderly together he felt looking at the heavenly light that beamed from her sweet eyes that not even death itself could part her fond soul from that of the man whom she loved and who loved her so purely and faithfully in god s sight thus when the words â those whom god hath joined together let no man put asunder he was deeply conscious that for once at least in the and uncertain ways of the modem world the holy bond of was approved of in such wise as to be final and eternal away in london on this same marriage day lady formerly mrs sat at luncheon in her furnished house in park lane and looked across the table at he husband while he lazily a glass of wine that ridiculous girl has married her parson by this time i suppose â she said â of course it s perfectly scandalous lady was quite disgusted when she heard of it â such an alliance for a and mr and mrs tell me that the man is quite an objectionable person â positively it s dreadful god s good man but who could ever have imagined she would recover from that hunting f said she was crippled for life he told me so himself well he was wrong evidently â said english are very clever but they are not always this time an italian has beaten them perhaps she was not so seriously injured as the local man at st rest made her out to be â pursued her said nothing she studied his face with amused scrutiny perhaps it was another little to get rid of you and your â she went on â dear me i what an extraordinary contempt always had for you to be sure i he moved and she smiled â a hard little smile i guess you re after her still i she hinted your remarks are in rather bad taste â he rejoined coldly helping himself to another glass of wine she rose from her chair and came round the table to where he sat laying a heavily hand on his shoulder

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history what told her of former times dwelt more on her mind than the pages of and she paid her sister the compliment of preferring her style to that of any printed author the early habit of reading was wanting their conversations however were not always on subjects so high as history or morals others had their hour and of lesser matters none returned so often or remained so long between them as park a description of the people the manners the amusements the ways of park who had an innate taste for the genteel and weu was eager to hear and could not but park indulge herself in dwelling on so beloved a theme she hoped it was not wrong though after a time s very great admiration of every thing said or done in her uncle s house and earnest longing to go into seemed almost to blame her for exciting feelings which could be gratified poor was very little better fitted for home than her elder sister and as grew thoroughly to understand this she began to feel that when her own release from came her happiness would have a material in leaving behind that a girl so capable of being made every thing good should be left in such hands distressed her more and more were she likely to have a home to invite her to what a blessing it would be â and had it been possible for her to return mr s regard the probability of his being very far from to such a measure would have been the greatest increase of all her own comforts she thought he was really good tempered and could fancy his entering into a plan of that sort most pleasantly chapter xiii seven weeks of the two months were very nearly gone when the one letter the letter firom so long expected was put into s hands as she opened and saw its length she prepared herself for a minute detail of happiness and a profusion of love and praise towards the fortunate creature who was now mistress of his fate these were the contents â park my dear excuse me that i have not written before told me that you were wishing to hear from me but i found it impossible to write from london and persuaded myself that you would understand my silence â could i have sent a few happy lines they should not have been wanting but nothing of that nature was ever in my power â i am returned to in a less assured state than when i left park it my hopes are much weaker you are probably aware of this â so very fond of you as miss is it is most natural that she should tell you enough of her own feelings to furnish a tolerable guess at mine â i will not be prevented however from making my own communication our confidences in you need not clash â i ask no questions â there is something soothing in the idea that we have the same and that whatever differences of opinion may exist between us we are in our love of you â it will be a comfort to me to tell you how things now are and what are my present plans if plans i can be said to have â i have been returned since saturday i was three weeks in london and saw her for london very often i had every attention from the that could be reasonably expected i dare say i was not reasonable in carrying with me hopes of an intercourse at all like that of it was her manner however rather than any of meeting had she been different when i did see her i should have made no complaint but from the very first she was altered my first reception was so what i had hoped that i had almost resolved on leaving london again directly â i need not you know the weak side of her character and may imagine the sentiments and expressions which were me she was in high spirits and surrounded by those who were giving all the support of their own bad sense to her too lively mind i do not like mrs she is a cold hearted vain woman who has married entirely from convenience and though evidently unhappy in her marriage places her disappointment not to faults of judgment or temper or of age but to her being after all less than many of her acquaintance especially than her sister lady and is the determined of every thing and ambitious provided it be and ambitious enough i look upon her intimacy with those two sisters as the greatest of her life and mine they have been leading her astray for years could she be detached from them â and sometimes i do not despair of it for the affection appears to be principally on their side they are very fond of her but i am sure she park does not love them as she loves you when i think of her great attachment to you indeed and the whole of her judicious upright conduct as a sister she appears a very different creature capable of every thing noble and i am ready to blame myself for a too harsh construction of a playful manner i cannot give her up she is the only woman in the world whom i could ever think of as a wife if i did not believe that she had some regard for me of course i should not say this but i do believe it i am convinced that she is not without a decided preference i have no jealousy of any individual it is the influence of the fashionable world altogether that i am jealous of it is the habits of wealth that i fear her ideas are not higher than her own fortune may warrant but they

25Bret Harte

the power to lessen the specific gravity of the body of a faith is certainly said to have such a power in the discourse of just referred to according to which the is able to remove mountains and trees into the sea â and why not also himself to walk on the sea the moral that as soon as faith power ceases could not be so presented by either of the two former figures as by the latter m the following form as long as a man has faith he is able to walk on the sea but no sooner does he give way to doubt than he sinks unless christ extend to him a helping hand the thought then of s narrative is that peter was too confident in the firmness of his faith that by its sudden failure he incurred great danger but was rescued by a thought which is actually expressed in xxii f where says to satan hath desired to have you that he may you as wheat but i have prayed for thee that thy faith not these words of have reference to peter s coming denial this was the occasion when liis faith on the strength of which he had just before offered to go with to prison and to death would liave wavered had not the lord by his procured him new strength k we add to tliis the above mentioned habit of the early christians to represent the world under the image of a turbulent sea we cannot fail with one of the latest critics to perceive in the description of peter to walk on the sea soon however sinking from but home up by an and representation of that trial of faith which this who imagined himself so strong met so weakly and which higher assistance alone enabled him to but the account of the fourth gospel also is not wanting in peculiar features which betray an character it has ever been a cross to that while according to and mark the ship was only in the middle of the sea when reached it according to john it immediately after at the opposite shore that according to the former actually entered into the ship and the storm thereupon subsided according to john on the contrary the did indeed wish to take him into the but their actually doing so was rendered by their immediate arrival at the place of it is true that here also abundant methods of reconciliation have been found first the word they wished added to to receive is said to be a mere of expression then to signify simply the of the reception as if it had been said then to describe the first impression which the recognition of made on the his reception into the ship which really followed not being mentioned but the sole reason for such an inter den u f si g fi die i t and the of lies in the comparison with the accounts in the narrative of john taken separately there is no ground for it nay it is excluded for the succeeding sentence â v iu g tb immediately t ie was at the land whither ihey went though it is united not by c but by can nevertheless only be taken in that the reception of into the ship notwithstanding the readiness of the did not really take place because they were already at the shore in consideration of this difference held that there were two occasions on which walked on the sea he says that on the second occasion which john did not enter into the in order that the miracle might be greater t fm ov this view we may transfer to the and say if l has the miracle by that intended to walk past the across the entire sea so john goes yet farther for he makes him actually accomplish this design and without being taken into the ship arrive at the opposite not only however does the fourth seek to the miracle before us but also to establish and it more securely according to the the sole witnesses were the who saw â come towards them walking on the sea john adds to these few immediate witnesses a multitude of ones namely the people who were assembled when performed the miracle of the and fishes these when on the following they no longer find on same spot make the calculation that cannot have crossed tlie sea by ship for he did not get into the same boat with the and no other boat was there v while that he did not go ly land is involved in the circumstance that the people when they have forthwith crossed the sea find him on the opposite v whither he could hardly have by land in the interval thus in the narrative of the fourth gospel as all natural means of passage are cut off from remains for him only a supernatural one and this consequence is in fact inferred by the multitude in the astonished question which they put to when they find him on the opposite shore when thou as tliis chain of evidence for the miraculous passage of depends on the rapid of the multitude the to procure other boats for their service v now the multitude who take v ff are d as the same whom had fed and these amounted according to v to about if only a fifth nay a of these passed over there needed for this as the author of in f in de s that the opinion or an exaggeration of tiie miracle in john is by the addition that they were immediately at the ex i i there appears to me only a misunderstanding but his that in john the manner in which goes over the sea is not represented s is to mc thoroughly miracles â anecdotes relating to the sea the has justly observed

13Ralph Emerson

and a century or more later in the of the he de france and the towns surrounding these churches on the crest or flank of one of the springing from the plain â the towns themselves with their narrow perpendicular streets and tall black houses are so darkly individual so plainly akin by i a flight through france to the fierce castles on the neighbouring hills that one is arrested at every turn by the desire to follow up the obscure threads of history connecting them with this little known portion of the rich french past but to the traveller by time the other side of the picture â its background rather of tormented blue peaks and wide spread forest â which must assert itself at all seasons quite as as the historic and character of the towns is likely in may to carry off the victory we had come at any rate with the modest purpose of taking a mere bird s eye view of the region such a flight across the scene as draws one back later to brood and and our sight of the landscape from the balcony confirmed us in the resolve to throw as sweeping a glance as possible and the study of details to our next â our already projected â visit the following morning therefore we set out early for the heart of the our road carried us southward along a series of above the wide and then up and l down over wild hills now b l by in wooded now bare we were on the road to and la chaise two of the most notable old towns of southern but in pursuit of scenery we reluctantly turned off at the village of at the mouth of a valley and struck up toward the western r passes which lead to the de some miles up this valley which follows the capricious of the lie the of saint le planted in a narrow beneath the church which the higher lying original village lifts up on a steep of rock the landscape beyond saint grows more rugged and in character the pastures have a look and the shaggy mountain sides are clothed with a northern growth of and pine presently at a turn of the road we came on the little lake of its vivid set in the of meadows and by the dark cliff which carries on its summit the fortified castle of the situation of lifted on its shaft of rock above that lonely valley is in itself impressive enough to bring out the full value of such by a flight through france romantic suggestions as it has to offer and the monument is worthy of its site it is in fact a very noble ruin raising its central keep above two outer of battered the and later of which shows the classical and large of what must have been one of the specimens of the last stage of french architecture though the record a mention of as early as the century the castle now standing is all of later date and the great exterior is an interesting example of the period when italian palace architecture began to be on the rugged stock of french military construction just beyond the lake of the road begins to mount the long curves of the col de the pass which leads over into the valley of as we rose through bleak meadows and patches of scant the mountains of themselves to the east in one of those lonely tossing of summit and ridge and chasm that suggest the mysterious of some planet though the col de is not a high by i in pass it gives from its yoke a strangely memorable impression of distance and mystery partly perhaps because in that desert region there is neither village nor house to break the of peaks but chiefly because of the outlines into which they have been tossed by fires a cold wind swept the top of the pass and snow still lay under the rocks by the roadside so that it was cheering to the spirits as well as to the eye when we presently began our descent through dark pine forests into the of the the of lie directly beneath the pass at the mouth of a valley out of the side fe the hi peak in in spite of air and bright spring foliage we were still distinctly in high places and itself not yet for the entertainment of its i had the poverty stricken look which everywhere marks the real mountain village later no doubt when its hotels are open and its scanty gardens in bloom it takes on a thin of but it must always be an village with its ill kept stone by a flight through france streets and gaunt stone houses against a background of pastures we were not sorry therefore that its few presented barred shutters to our mid day hunger and that we were obliged to follow the first footsteps of the infant down the valley to j tiie lower lying of the is a child of growth and at its very leap from the cradle under the de it rolls a fine brown torrent beneath wooded banks its course led us rapidly down the mountain to the amiable but somewhat little watering place of la set in a depression of the hills with a background of slopes which in summer might offer fairly pleasant walks between one s and here at a fresh white hotel with an landlady we on that must have straight from the into the after luncheon we once more took our way along the lively curves of the river to part with them at last reluctantly a few miles down the valley and strike out across a dull to the mountain town of â a gaunt wind by i o tr i o o tr o by by in beaten place with

9John Muir

do not venture to speak of her religious principles that is a subject on which she herself was more inclined to think and act than to talk and i shall imitate her reserve satisfied to have shown how much of christian love and humility in her heart without to lay bare the roots whence those graces grew some little insight however into these deeper recesses of the heart must be given when we come to speak of her death a of jane chapter vi seclusion thb world â notice the â with mr â suggestions to alter her of writing â jane lived in entire seclusion from the literary world neither hy correspondence nor by personal intercourse was she known to any contemporary authors it is probable that she never was in company with any person whose talents or whose equalled her own so that her powers never could have been sharpened by collision with superior nor her imagination aided by their casual suggestions whatever she produced was a genuine home made article even during the last two or three years of her life when her works were rising in the estimation of the public they did not the circle of her acquaintance few of her readers knew even her name and none knew more of her than her name i doubt whether it would be possible to mention any other author of note whose personal obscurity was so complete i can think of none like her but of many to contrast with her in that respect afterwards madame d was at an early age by dr johnson and introduced to the wits and scholars of the day at the tables of mrs and sir in her a of au self constituted shrine at would have been miserable had she not trusted that the eyes of all lovers of poetry were devoutly fixed on her and maria were indeed far from they loved the privacy of their own families one with her brother and sister in their villa the other in her more distant retreat in ireland but fame pursued them and they were the favorite of sir walter scott who was usually buried in a country parish yet sometimes visited london and dined at holland house and was received as a fellow poet by and and on one memorable occasion he was scott s guest at and gazed with wondering eyes on the with which ly was entertained in that city even those great writers who hid themselves amongst lakes and mountains associated with each other and though little seen by the world were so much in its thoughts that a new was to them the chief part of s life was spent in a wild solitude compared with which and might be considered to be in the gay world and yet she attained to personal distinction which never fell to jane s lot when she visited her kind in london literary men and women were invited purposely to meet her bestowed upon her the honor of his notice and once in s she had to walk shy and trembling through an avenue of lords and ladies drawn see mm s life of miss vol il p a of jane up for the purpose of gazing at the author of miss too lived quietly in our village her time and talents to the benefit of a father scarcely worthy of her but she did not live there unknown her gave her a name in london she numbered and amongst her and her works were a to the society of many who would not otherwise have sought her hundreds admired miss on account of her writings for one who ever connected the idea of miss with the press a few years ago a gentle man visiting cathedral desired to be shown miss s grave the as he pointed it out asked sir can you tell me whether there was anything particular about that lady so many people want to know where she was buried p during her life the ignorance of the was shared by most people few knew that there was anything particular about that lady it was not till towards the close of her life when the last of the works that she saw published was in the press that she received the only mark of distinction ever bestowed upon her and that was remarkable for the high quarter whence it rather than for any actual increase of fame that it conferred it happened thus in the autumn of she nursed her brother henry through a dangerous fever and slow at his house in place he was attended by one of the prince s all attempts to keep her name secret had at this time ceased and though it had never appeared on a title a of jane page all who cared to know might easily learn it and the friendly physician was aware that his patient s nurse was the author of pride and prejudice accordingly he informed her one day that the prince was a great admirer of her novels that he read them often and kept a set in every one of his that he himself therefore had thought it right to inform his that miss was staying in london and that the prince had desired mr the of house to wait upon her the next day mr made his appearance and invited her to house saying that he had the prince s instructions to show her the library and other apartments and to pay her every possible attention the invitation was of course accepted and during the visit to house mr declared himself to say that if miss had any other novel she was at liberty to it to the prince accordingly such a was immediately to which was at that time in the press mr was the brother of dr the traveller and whose life has been written by bishop jane found in

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the fat blacksmith and the other too wanted to drink their evening beer in peace on another occasion he tried to show them how to dance the dust rose in clouds from the floor he leaped straight up amongst the deal tables struck his heels together on one heel in front of old shooting out the other leg uttered wild and cries jumped up to on one foot snapping his fingers above his head â and a strange who was having a drink in there began to swear and cleared out with his half pint in his hand into the bar but when suddenly he sprang upon a table and continued to dance among the glasses the landlord interfered he didn t want any tricks in the they laid their hands on him having had a glass or two mr s foreigner tried to was forcibly got a black eye i believe he felt the hostility of his human surroundings but he was tough â tough in spirit too foster i well as in body only the memory of the frightened him with that vague terror that b left by a bad dream his home was far away and he did not want now to go to america i had often explained to him that there is no place on earth where true gold can be found lying ready and to be got for the trouble of the picking up how then he asked could he ever return home with empty hands when there had been sold a cow two and a bit of land to pay for his going p his eyes would fill with tears and them from the immense of the sea he would throw himself face down on the grass but sometimes his hat with a little conquering air he would defy my wisdom he had found his bit of true gold that was foster s heart which was a golden heart and soft to people s misery he would say in the accents of overwhelming conviction he was called he had explained that this meant little john but as he would also repeat very often that he was a some word sounding in the dialect of his country like he got it for his and this is the only j foster trace of him that the succeeding ages may find in the marriage register of the parish there it stands â â in the s handwriting the crooked cross made by the a cross whose tracing no doubt seemed to him the most solemn part of the whole ceremony is all that remains now to the memory of his name his courtship had lasted some time â ever since he got his precarious footing in the community it began by his buying for foster a green satin ribbon in this was what you did in his country you bought a ribbon at a jew s stall on a fair day i don t suppose the girl knew what to do with it but he seemed to think that his honourable intentions could not be mistaken it was only when he declared his purpose to get married that i fully understood how for a hundred futile and reasons how â shall i say odious â he was to all the every old woman in the village was up in arms smith coming upon him near the farm promised to break his head for him if he found him about again but he twisted his little black moustache with such a air and rolled such big black â fierce eyes at smith that this promise came to nothing smith however told the girl that she must be mad to take up with a man who was surely wrong in his head all the same when she heard him in the whistle from beyond the orchard a couple of bars of a weird and mournful tune she would drop whatever she had in her hand â she would leave mrs smith in the middle of a sentence â and she would run out to his mrs smith called her a she answered nothing she said nothing at all to anybody and went on her way as if she had been deaf she and i alone all in the land i fancy could see his very real beauty he was very good looking and most graceful in his bearing with that something wild as of a creature in his aspect her moaned over her whenever the girl came to see her on her day out the father was surly but pretended not to know and mrs once told her plainly that this man ray dear will do you some harm some day yet and so it went on they could be seen on the roads she in her finery â grey dress black feather stout boots prominent white cotton gloves that caught j foster your eye a hundred yards away and he his coat over one shoulder pacing by her side gallant of bearing and casting tender glances upon the girl with the golden heart i wonder whether he saw how plain she was perhaps among types so different from what he had ever seen he had not the power to judge or perhaps he was by the divine quality of her pity was in great trouble meantime in his country you get an old man for an in marriage affairs he did not know how to proceed however one day in the midst of sheep in a field he was now s under shepherd with foster he took off his hat to the father and declared himself humbly i she s fool enough to marry you was all foster said and then he used to relate he puts his hat on his head looks black at me as if he wanted to cut my throat the dog and off he goes leaving me to do the work the

30Frances Hodgson Burnett

sort of vagabond could only get near enough to his creaking shoes to attract his attention to one sentence of a tale of distress that vagabond was made for the next two days it was so notorious in the house that the masters and head boys took pains to cut these off at angles and to get out of windows and turn them out of the court yard before they could make the doctor aware of their presence which was sometimes happily effected within a few yards of him without his knowing anything of the matter as he to and fro outside his own domain and he was a very sheep for the he would have taken his off his legs to give away in the personal history fact there was a story current among ns i have no idea and never had on what authority but i have believed it for so many years that i feel quite certain it is true that on a frosty day one winter time he actually did bestow his on a beggar woman who occasioned some scandal in the neighbourhood by exhibiting a fine infant from door to door wrapped in those garments which were universally recognised being as well known in the vicinity as the cathedral the legend added that the only person who did not identify them was the doctor himself who when they were shortly afterwards displayed at the door of a little second hand shop of no very good where such things were taken in exchange for gin was more than once observed to handle them as if admiring some curious novelty in the pattern and considering them an improvement on his own it was very pleasant to see the doctor with his pretty young wife he had a way of showing his fondness for her which seemed in itself to express a good man i often saw them walking in the garden where the were and i sometimes had a nearer observation of them in the study or the parlor she appeared to me to take great care of the doctor and to like him very much though i never thought her interested in the dictionary some fi of which work the doctor always carried in his pockets and in the of his hat and generally seemed to be to her as they walked about i saw a good deal of mrs strong both because she had taken a liking for me on the morning of my introduction to the doctor and was always afterwards kind to me and interested in me and because she was very fond of and was often backwards and forwards at our house there was a curious between her and mr i thought of whom she seemed to be afraid that never wore off when she came there of an she always shrunk from accepting his escort home and ran away with me instead and sometimes as we were gaily across the cathedral yard together expecting to meet nobody we would meet mr jack who was always surprised to see us mrs strong s was a lady i took great delight in her name was mrs but our boys used to call her the old soldier on account of her and the skill with which she great forces of relations against the doctor she was a little sharp eyed woman who used to wear when she was dressed one cap ornamented with some artificial flowers and two artificial supposed to be hovering above the flowers there was a superstition among us that this cap had come from and could only in the of that ingenious nation but all i certainly know about it is that it always made its appearance of an evening mrs mai made her appearance that it was carried about to friendly meetings in a basket that the had the gift of trembling constantly and that they improved the shining hours at doctor strong s expense like busy bees i observed the old soldier â not to adopt the name â to pretty good advantage on a night which is made memorable to me by something else i shall relate it was the night of a little party at the doctor s which was given on the occasion of mr jack mai don s departure for india whither he was going as a or of that kind mr of david having at length arranged the business it happened to be the doctor s birthday too we had had a holiday had made presents to him in the morning had made a speech to him through the head boy and had cheered him until we were hoarse and until he had shed tears and now in the evening mr and i went to have tea with him in his private capacity ml jack was there before us mrs strong dressed in white with cherry colored ribbons was playing the piano when we went in and he was leaning over her to turn the leaves the clear red and white of her complexion was not so blooming and flower like as usual i thought when she turned round but she looked very pretty wonderfully pretty i have forgotten doctor said mrs strong s when we were seated to pay you the compliments of the day â though they are as you may suppose very far from being mere compliments in my case allow me to wish you many happy returns i thank you ma am replied the doctor many many many happy returns said the old soldier not only for your own sake but for s and john s and many other it seems but yesterday to me john when you were a little creature a head shorter than master making baby love to behind the bushes in the back garden my dear said mrs strong never mind that now don t be absurd returned her mother if you are to blush

7James Baldwin

two of his brothers were married and had children he promised to send money home from america by post twice a year his father sold an old cow a pair of mountain of his own raising and a cleared plot of fair pasture land on the sunny slope of a pine clad pass to a jew inn keeper in order to pay the people of the ship that too men to america to get rich in a short time he must have been a real adventurer at heart for how many of the greatest in the conquest of the earth had for their beginning just such a away of the paternal cow for the or true gold far away i have been telling you more or less in my own words what i learned in tlie course of two or three year during which i seldom missed an opportunity of a foster friendly chat with him he told me this story of his adventure with many flashes of white teeth and lively glances of black eyes at first in a sort of anxious baby talk then as he acquired the language with great but always with that singing soft and at the same time that a strangely penetrating power into the sound of the most familiar english words as if they had been the words of an language and he always would come to an end wit i many emphatic shakes of his head upon that awful sensation of his heart melting within him directly he set foot on board that ship afterwards there to come for him a period of blank ignorance at any rate as to facts no doubt he must have been sea sick and unhappy â this soft and passionate adventurer taken thus out of his knowledge and feeling bitterly as he lay in his his utter loneliness for his was a highly sensitive nature the next thing we know of him for certain is that he had been hiding in s pig pound by the side of the road to six miles as the crow flies from the sea of these experiences he was unwilling to speak foster ihey seemed to have into his soul a sombre sort of wonder and indignation through the of the country side which lasted for a good many days after his arrival we know that the of west had been disturbed and startled by heavy against the walls of cottages and by a voice crying strange words in the night of them turned out even but no doubt he had fled in sudden alarm at their rough angry tones each other in the darkness a sort of frenzy must have helped him up the steep hill it was he no doubt who early the following morning had been seen lying in a i should say on the roadside grass by the who actually got down to have a nearer look but drew back by the perfect and by something queer in the aspect of that tramp sleeping so still under the showers as the day advanced some children came dashing into school at in such a fright that the went out and spoke indignantly to a horrid looking man on the road he edged away hanging his head for a few steps and then suddenly ran off with ex foster the driver of mr s milk cart made no secret of it that he had lashed with his whip at a hairy sort of who jumping up at a turn of the road by the made a snatch at the pony s bridle and he caught him a good one too right over the face he said that made him drop down in the mud a jolly sight quicker than he had jumped up but it was a good half a mile before he could stop the pony maybe that in his desperate to get help and in his need to get in touch with some one the poor devil had tried to stop the cart also three boys confessed afterwards to throwing stones at a funny tramp knocking about all wet and muddy and it seemed very drunk in the narrow deep lane by the all this was tiie talk of three villages for days but we have mrs s the wife of smith s testimony that she saw him get over the low wall of s pig pound and straight at her aloud in a voice that was enough to make one die of fright having the baby with her in a mrs called out to him to go away and as he persisted in coming nearer she hit him with her umbrella over the head and without once looking back ran like the wind with the as far as the first house in the village she stopped then out of breath and spoke to old there at a heap of stones and the old chap taking off his immense black wire got up on his legs to look where she pointed together they followed with their eyes the figure of the man running over a field they saw him fall down pick himself up and run on again staggering and waving his long arms above his head in the direction of the new farm from that moment be is plainly in the toils of his obscure and touching destiny there is no doubt after this of what happened to him all is certain now mrs smith s intense terror foster s stolid conviction held against the other s nervous attack that the man meant no harm smith s on his return from market at finding the dog barking himself into a fit tlie hack door locked his wife in and all for an unfortunate dirty tramp supposed to be even then lurking in his was he he would teach him to frighten women j foster smith is hot tempered but the sight of some and creature

30Frances Hodgson Burnett

assembled all listened and without doubt there was nothing heard but crushing and heaving and pushing and groaning and panting as if a thousand little men were engaged in pulling down the roof come said a voice which spoke in a tone of command work hard you know we must have s house down before midnight this was an unwelcome piece of intelligence to who finding that his enemies were such as he could not cope witli walked out and addressed them as follows â gentlemen humbly ax yer pardon for on place to you but if you ll have the to let me alone this begin to pull down and remove the house to morrow morning this was followed by a noise like the clapping of a thousand tiny little hands and a shout of build half way l the two above the and after another hearty little shout of exultation there was a brisk rushing noise and they were heard no more the story however does not end here for digging the foundation of his new house found the full of a â of gold so that in leaving to the their he became a richer man than ever he otherwise would have been had he never come in contact with them at all there is another instance of their interference mentioned in which it is difficult to say whether their simplicity or benevolence is the most amusing in the north of ireland there are spinning meetings of unmarried females frequently held at the houses of farmers called every young woman who has got the reputation of being a quick and expert where the is to be held at an hour usually before a metal in the dip and on these occasions she ia accompanied her sweetheart or some male relation who carries her wheel and her safely across the fields or the road as the case may be a is indeed an animated and joyous sc and one besides which is calculated to promote industry and decent pride scarcely anything can be more cheering and agreeable than to hear at a distance breaking the silence of morning the light hearted voices of many girls either in mirth or song the humming sound of the busy wheels upon a little it is true by the noise and of the and the voices of the ers as they call the together with the name f the girl and the quantity she has spun up to that period for the contest is generally commenced two or three hours before day break t m ful spirit is also sustained by the prospect of a with which by the way eveiy and when the fair victor is declared she is to be looked upon aa the queen of the meeting and treated with the necessary respect but to our tale every one knew m to be the best conducted boy and the industrious too in the whole parish of a hard was it to find a young fellow who could handle a or hook in better style or who could go through his day s work in a more creditable or manner in addition to this he was a fine well built handsome young man as you could meet in and so sign was on it maybe the pretty girls weren t likely to pull each s caps about him however was as prudent as he was good and although he wanted a wife yet the sorrow one of him but preferred taking a well handed smart girl who was known to be well behaved and industrious like himself here however was the puzzle lay on him for instead of one oi that kind there were in the neighbourhood no less than a dozen of them â all equally fit and willing to become hia wife tub rival and all good looking there were t to whom he thought above the rest but so nicely balanced were and sally that for the life of him he could not make up hia mind to decide between them each of them had won her and it said by them who ought to know that neither of them could over match the other no two girls in the parish were better mr to be so and the consequence was they had every one s good word and good wish now it so happened that had been pulling a cord with each and as he knew not how to decide between he thought he would allow them to do that themselves if they could he accordingly gave out to the neighbours that he would hold a on that day week and he told and especially that he had made up his mind to marry whichever of them won the for he knew right well as did all the parish that one of them must the agreed to this very good telling sally that sally would surely win it and sally not to be in civility telling the same to her well the week was nearly past there but two days till that of the when about three o clock there walks into the house of old a little woman dressed in high shoes and a short red there was no one in the house but at the time who rose up and placed a chair near the fire and asked the little red woman to sit down and rest herself she accordingly did so and in a short time a lively chat commenced between them so said the strange woman there s to be a great in m s â indeed there is that good woman replied smiling a little and blushing to the back of that again because die knew her own fate depended on it and continued the little woman whoever the wins a husband irish k â ay it f well whoever gets will be a for the moral of a good boy

49William Black

we resolved to feed and breakfast for once before starting we did so and moved on at a m reaching camp at the mouth of the in less than half an hour let me halt here a moment to illustrate the military and public land systems of the united states it last year entered the head of some genius connected with the war department that the public interest or safety required the establishment of a military post at this point and one was accordingly planted and maintained there throughout last winter of course buildings were required to shelter the officers soldiers and animals in that severe climate and they were accordingly erected some of the timber being transported from â a distance of fully eighty miles in the main however they are built of pine logs from the adjacent mountains the being with mud in the spring the troops were very properly withdrawn leaving half a dozen good serviceable houses and a superior horse shed and lazy have on the premises intending to start a city there and to hold and sell the government under a claim of i need hardly say that in the absence of any united states survey with the indian title still this claim is most impudent but that will not prevent their asserting it and i fear with success the private from to interest on one side will be strong with none on the other they can threaten to exert a political influence or as the case may be to those whom they find in power it they are only enough impudent enough they will probably carry their point yet they might as fairly tho white house at washington should they ever chance to find it vacant we drove on across a badly region wherein are the heads of horse creek â the first stream on our route that runs to the north â and struck the just where it emerged from the mountains about eleven a m thence we followed down this creek more than forty miles crossing it four times and finally leaving it on our left to cross the river eight or ten miles above this place the is a rapid muddy mill stream running in a deep narrow channel and constantly into one bank or the other except the and some other small shrubs oppose the resistance of their roots to the force of the current the rocky hills sometimes crowd the stream closely compelling the road to make a circuit over the high adjacent to avoid the through which the stream and on its way the red are numerous and conspicuous on the upper course of this creek â the earth or rock which gives them their peculiar color being accounted a rich iron ore on the lower of this stream wc found far better grass than elsewhere on this journey but the day was hot and our suffered u to so much from and that they ate and where we halted for dinner and again where we stopped for the night we were unable to stop where the grass was best because we could not there get our animals down the steep creek bank to water we made our last camp at a point thirty miles from this post having made one hundred and sixty miles in three lays steady travel by the necessity of finding grass and water for our beasts with grain i think they would easily have made sixty five miles per day we stopped beside a stone and of very rude construction where a frenchman had this spring made a small dam across the so as to and fence by a ditch a small piece of on which he had attempted to grow some and vegetables with rather poor promise of success he was absent and no person or domestic animal to be seen about his place the night was uncommonly warm for this the a good deal more attentive than obliging we rose early again came on ten miles for breakfast passing almost continually between two rows of magnificent often looking in the distance like more or less ruined castles one of them reminded me strongly of the roman two miles after breakfast we crossed the for the last time and left it running north to the while we struck a more course for this place two miles further on we came to a most excellent the first i had seen since i emerged from the mountains by clear creek two weeks before i had been poisoned by from to brook often warm and muddy â so long that i could hardly get enough of this we now passed over twelve or fifteen miles of high rolling barren and halted for dinner by a little brook â the only one that crosses our trail between the and â after which we drove down opposite this place in an hour but were to go two miles below and pay g bridge toll to get across the now very high and looking decidedly larger at their than the north itself i have been minute in my record of this cross march to reach the high road to because some kind friends have remonstrated with me against the fancied perils of my journey as if i were running into danger i believe this portion of my route is at least as perilous as any other being the only part not traversed by a mail stage or any public conveyance and lying wholly through a region in which there are not a dozen white all told while it is a usual battle ground between hostile tribes of indians but we were never in any shadow of danger and though i was compelled to steps in order to complete the healing of my lame leg i have rarely had a more pleasant journey let any one who wishes an independent and comfortable ride just run up to and ask

18Thomas Hardy

these on me the way the and run to me for candles for the shrine of the saint that their devotion at that particular moment is very trying and it is hard not to tell them that they have merely exchanged their for saints so i in this fashion there are trivial minded women i say mn as there are in the world and the pray as they play in trivial fashion to the fashionable woman the gown she is going to wear is the centre of things and the whole of her life is spent seeking to escape from herself in little only â p sister a year ago the important to me was whether i could sing a scene as easily as another singer the truth is the external life is and always must be trivial in another letter to she said â one of my greatest is to watch the evening as the sun sets in the violet distances of i think it was dean who first taught me to see the country in the fairy like way in which i see it now or perhaps it is and i think it is that the country is a great consolation to who has passed their first youth the country you see has always been there never was a time it did not exist the country is nearly as immortal as the sky and it is nearer to us i don t think i could live in town again when i leave here i shall live in the country the last time i returned to i looked round and i felt suddenly that i could not go on living in a i felt i could not endure the daily routine that i should have to do something else then i the selfishness of it â getting up in the morning to discuss with my servant what we should eat that is always the first thing one does in a flat and then one thinks how one can spend the day most pleasantly to one thinks of the visits one may pay in the afternoon and of the and the theatres one may go to in the evening to lead such a life year after year knowing well that thousands have not sufficient food nor a room to sit in has become impossible to me then i need occupation i am no longer interested in the things that used to interest me and since i have been in this i have gone much further on the road on which i started when i first went to confess to you so when i leave here whether i live in england or in italy i shall live in the country for my own sake and for the sake of others for i have a little plan i have thought that if i save two thirds of my income i shall have enough money in three years to buy a cottage and a large garden once you get away from london land is not dear and in italy it is cheaper still no sister i used to do when a girl and the has brought me back to it again for here has to sweep and to and to brush so i have thought that with another woman to help me a sort of lady help or a nurse one who has been trained as a hospital nurse we might be able to attend on ourselves and the six little boys whom i would take to live with me the little boys could work in the garden and we could sell the vegetables and the eggs and the chickens for of course we shall keep a poultry farm too and i hear there is a good deal of money to be made by poultry we could keep a f and light cart and one of the little boys the one that was the least crippled could look after the pony there would not be much work to do in the cottage for things do not get dirty in the country as they do in town and there would not be much furniture â some plain tables and plain and plain shelves the shelves will be painted green and some nice green and yellow will stand upon them i must do something when i leave here and i can think of nothing better than that i am indeed very full of it i think of it all day and only fear that something will happen to prevent the of my little plans for things never come quite right in this world the threads seem to slip out of our hands as we are going to tie the knot there will be no wall round our garden but a hedge will make a good background for flowers lilies especially the wall is one of the things that spoil the for me but round my cottage as i have said there will be no wall only a hedge and all round for miles that sort of rich swelling country which i love â shady and a little distance oft a stream twisting through flat meadows by a sleepy town such a stream as brought the swan to of you see one cannot quite forget one s past i long for the country and for my little home for crippled children i once saw a hare beating a in street and the beating of the by this creature seemed to make an infinitely pathetic picture and one which is strangely of many human lives i long as the poor hare must have longed for wide sister in and landing on the highest point in the garden i lose myself in the blue distances i cannot tell you how i long for the return of the spring â i want to see the garden returning to life saint francis used to sit talking to the fire and

14Robert Louis Stevenson

probability this is identical with the from port s hereafter to be referred to lastly and in a cliff of the red b there was a double piece about three feet long and two wide of the bony of a large with the two sides pressed nearly close together as the cliff is now rapidly washing away this probably was lately much more perfect from between its doubled up sides i extracted the middle and united together of one of the feet and likewise a separate hence one or more of the limbs must have been attached to the case when it was besides these several remains in a condition there were very many single bones the greater number were in a space yards square the of the is remarkable as is in contrast with the beds of the absence of most of the bones are now in a soft and condition and like the shells do not when burnt an animal the decayed state of the bones may be partly owing to their late exposure to the air and waves and are attached to many of the bones but i neglected to observe whether these might not have grown on them since being exposed to the present action but i believe that some of the must have grown on the sc soon after being deposited and before being wholly covered up by the gravel besides the remains in the condition here described i found one single fragment of bone very much rolled and as black as jet so as perfectly to resemble some of the remains from very many of the bones had been broken and rolled before being others even some of those included in the parts of the now hard still retain all their perfectly preserved so that i conclude that they probably were protected by skin flesh or whilst being covered up in the case of the it is quite certain that the whole skeleton was held together by its when deposited in the gravel in which i found it some and a of corresponding size lay so close to after having packed up my specimens at this point to me and i noted it but forgot it on my return until the remains had been defined and my attention was afterwards recalled to the subject by some remarks by m d l i fr or tf from in e he finds in tl decidedly marine forms and s of which one is probably marine and of fresh water or origin eight bodies is common but five of them are those from the mud on tl the presence of any fresh considering the of the here remarkable the most probable ex to be that these out of the adjoining great f its and afterwards we will now see what conclusions from the facts above detailed it is gravel beds and red mud within the period when existing held to each other nearly the same â der chap xi as they do on the present coast these beds from the number of species must have been accumulated in shallow water but not judging from the of the gravel and the of on a beach from the manner in which the red clay fills up in the gravel and is in some parts itself by the gravel in other parts it either passes into or with this upper gravel we may infer several local changes in the currents perhaps caused by slight changes up or down in the level of the land by the elevation of these beds to which period the mantle with land and sea shells belongs the plain of from twenty to thirty feet in height was formed in this neighbourhood there are other and higher plains and lines of cliffs in the worn by the action of the waves at different hence we can easily understand the presence of rounded masses of rock in this lowest plain and likewise as the cliffs at with their remains stand at a higher level the presence of the one much rolled fragment of bone which was as black as jet possibly some few of the other much rolled bones may have been derived though i saw only the one fragment in the same condition with those from m d has suggested that all these remains may have been washed out of the formation and afterwards together with the recent shells undoubtedly it is a marvellous fact that these numerous gigantic belonging with the exception of the to seven extinct and one namely the not falling into any existing family should have co existed voyage part p formation with all of which are still living species but facts have been observed in n america ami in europe in the first place it should not be that most of the co shells have a more ancient and altered appearance than the bones in the second place is it probable that numerous bones not hardened by or any other could have retained their delicate and perfect if they had been washed out of one deposit and in another â this later deposit being formed of large hard pebbles an by the action of currents or in shallow water into curved and inclined the bones which are now in so perfect a state of preservation must i conceive have heen fresh and sound when and probably were protected by skin flesh or the skeleton of the was deposited entire shall we say that when held together by its it was washed out of an old gravel bed totally unlike in character to the formation and re in another gravel bed composed i speak after careful comparison of exactly the same kind of pebbles in the same kind of i will lay no stress on the two cases of several ribs and bones of the having apparently been in their proper relative position but will anyone be so bold as to affirm

6Jack London

thing for the world the soul of the nation at the present time and during the present time s singularly loose notions of manners morals and dignity of behaviour it was perhaps to be expected that some one or other of the daily newspapers would in sagacious appreciation of free copy start a discussion on the religious faith of this christian empire it was perhaps as equally probable that considering the remarkable of certain and ordained ministers of the gospel generally a press question should be put to the house of tom dick and harry â do we believe the premises it was hardly to be wondered at that tom dick and harry should straightway arise in their strength and reply to the question â and not only tom dick and harry of the but tom dick and harry of the clergy likewise great was the discussion â fast and furious the war of words and the penny daily which provoked the combat was thus conveniently supplied with material for which the â most of them sons of â had nothing to pay and now the arguments being heard and ended nobody is a whit the wiser though some few may be several the for to speak honestly nothing more has ever the the soul of the nation career of an english journal than the fact that it should have lent itself to the questioning of the nation s religious faith it was an open of in the face of the civilized world to talk of the of india china or while a leading british newspaper openly the hunting section of the british to air their opinions of the christian faith in its columns just as if the faith itself were on public trial in a christian country is only one example of the many forms of utter in which we are nowadays so unfortunately prone to indulge our sometimes called heathen ally has lately taught us many lessons which perhaps we knew once and have forgotten and which perhaps we need to learn again â such as without conceit strength without and endurance without complaint â but one of the greatest lessons of all she has given us is that of her people s pious reverence for the unseen and and their belief in the ever present spirits of the dead whom they honour and will not shame what a deplorable contrast we make in our to the lowest tastes of the mob when without a word of protest we permit our spirits of the dead â the spirits of our gallant forefathers who fought for the pure faith of england and sealed it with their blood â to be degraded and insulted by a cheap newspaper discussion on the most private and sacred emotions of the soul as though such a discussion were of a character suited to take its place among police cases and medical true we are constantly being made aware that the british press is no longer the clean free opinions sane strong and institution it once was when were deemed vulgar and lies â and therefore we perhaps ought not to feel very greatly surprised when the name and possible attributes of the almighty creator himself are dragged through the of date â but surely there is something very deplorable and disgraceful in the fact that any one to be a of the christian faith should have replied to what can only be termed considering the quarter from whence it came an demand do we believe the best and wisest answer would have been complete silence on the part of the no more effectual to the non christian could have been given but unfortunately there are a certain class of persons whose prime passion is to see themselves in print and to this end they will commit any folly and write any letter to the newspapers even if it be only to state that were seen somewhat early in bloom in their back yards and such chiefly were the kind of men and women who poured themselves into the channels of the do we believe discussion like water running down the streets into and â never seeming to realize that to the thinking and intellectual world their foolish letters addressed to such a quarter merely proved their utter loss of respect for themselves not only as christians and subjects of a christian empire but as men and women no real of a faith â any faith â would be so lost to every sense of decency as to discuss it in a daily newspaper as for the clergy who took part in the the soul of the nation one can only marvel at them and ask why they did not the whole thing at once a paper is not the hall of as ministers of christ they might have protested a modem vulgar mock trial of their master it was in their power to do so and such a protest would have to their honour at any rate they might themselves have from joining in the and for it was and it is no useful cause has been served thereby and no advantage gained the sons of have asked a question â and some of the unwise among christians being caught in the trap have answered it the manner in which both question was put and answer given was unworthy of a country where the christian faith is the guiding light of the realm matters of religion are of course open to discussion in the or book intended for quiet library reading or even in the better class magazines but to hawk sacred subjects of personal sentiment and national creed about in the daily wear of newspaper columns which equally include stocks and shares and the general cast ofi as and in the waves of mankind s ever mischief against itself was to the last degree and and this if only for the possible

32George William Curtis

not long in a holy land we shall meet our household band in the fairer above they await the friends they love oh what joy with them to dwell never more to say the old sugar camp whoever has attended a off in the woods will enjoy the reading of this poem â the description is so life like and it is a home scene come let us away to the old sugar camp the sky is serene though the ground may be damp â and the little bright streams as they and run turn a look full of thanks to the ice melting sun while the warm southern winds wherever they go leave patches of brown mid the glittering snow the oxen are ready and and tray are watching us ready to be on the way while a group of gay children with and spoon and faces as bright as the roses of june o er fences and spring light hearted and careless as birds on the wing where s oh here he comes his gun look out for the â hush there is one poor victim a bang and a flutter â tis o er â wild flowers and those fair wings shall it was shot for onr invalid sister at home yet we sigh as beneath the tall branches we our cheeks all with the long morning tramp we soon come in sight of the old sugar camp the already is placed in the pan and we gather around it as many as can â we try it on snow when we find it is done we fill up a for a dear absent one oh and best of all parties are these that meet in the camp the old trees the love and the friendship of years â they are scenes to be thought of with smiles and with tears when age shall have each beautiful cheek and left in dark a silvery streak here brothers and sisters and lovers have met and cousins and friends we can never forget the the ocean divide us from some yet oft as the seasons for come the cup of bright to friendship we ll drain and gather them home to our bosom again dear that a so rare so useful in spring and in summer so fair â of autumn acknowledged the glory and queen attendant on every scene in our homes it is meet thou be of our country the emblem beautiful tree scenes to a rabbit go to the green wood go i oft shall sigh for thee â and yet rejoice to know that thou art sporting free go to the meadows green where summer holds her reign when winter spoils the scene wilt thou return again a shelter thou find from every howling storm the heart thou st behind would still be true and warm why dost thou struggle thus does every breeze that softly us tell of the waving trees do yonder happy birds that sing for thee and me for chorus have the words so precious â i am free go then as free as they as light and happy with thy companions gay safe in thy forest home there â thou art gone farewell my heart leaps up with thine and i rejoice to tell thou art no mine wild flowers i could not breathe the air where dwell my freedom thou wilt share with joy then fare thee well the old the old man s cheek was wet with tears and his wrinkled brow was pale as after a lapse of many years he stood in ms native the sang in the leafy bough and the earth was in green but the old man s heart beat sadly now while he gazed on the lovely scene the stream ran clear to the distant sea the same as he saw it last and sitting beneath an old elm tree he thought of days in the past he thought how he climbed the or through the forest wild or traced to its source the rippling a gay and careless child and as he thought of the happy throng that around him used to crowd with the ringing laugh and the joyous song the old man wept aloud for well he knew they would meet no more on the dreary shores of time â but he looked away to a brighter shore he looked to a scenes that moment a young and merry group came bounding across the with rosy cheek with ball and with they came to the old elm tree they paused awhile in their noisy play to gaze on the aged man while he wiped his falling tears away and in trembling tones began i would not cloud for the world your joy or have you less happy for me â for i have been like yourselves a boy though i m now the wreck you see but let the words of wisdom and truth in your memories be â and in the days of your sunny youth be hind to the poor and old the children wept as they heard him speak and forgetful of their play they wiped the tears from his cheek aiid they smoothed his locks of gray he laid his hand with a tender air by turns on each youthful head then lifting his faded eyes in prayer god bless you the old man said and the boys â for the angels flung around them their of gold so ever they do when the gay and young are kind to the poor and old wild flowers the fading and the once more the beautiful spring returned and from my window i can behold the delightful places where i have so often in childhood and happy but the lovely spring brings no longer the same emotions as of oh no for a change has come over the spirit of my dream earth has lost its charms

27Charles Reade

gigantic force and like the pathos of a child s and desire he wanted that girl and the utmost that can be said for him was that he wanted that particular girl alone i think i saw then the obscure beginning the seed in the soil of an unconscious need the first shoot of that tree bearing now for a mature mankind the flower and the fruit the infinite in shades and in of our love he was a child he was as frank as a child too he was hungry for the girl terribly hungry as he had been terribly hungry for food don t be shocked if i declare that in mj belief it was the same need the same pain the same torture we are in his case allowed to contemplate the foundation of all the emotions â that one joy which is to live and the one sadness at the root of the innumerable it was made plain by the way he talked he had never suffered so it was it was fire it was there like this and after pointing below his he made a hard wringing motion with his hands and i assure you that seen as i saw it with my bodily eyes it was anything but and again as he was presently to tell me alluding to an early of the disastrous voyage when some meat had been flung overboard he that a time soon came when his heart ached that was the expression ho used and he was ready to tear his hair out at the thought of all that rotten beef thrown away i had heard all this i witnessed his physical struggles seeing the working of the rack and hearing the true voice of pain i witnessed it all patiently because the moment i came into the he had called upon me to stand by him and this it seems i had promised his agitation was impressive and alarming in the little cabin uke the of a great whale driven into a shallow in a coast he stood up he flung himself down headlong he tried to tear the cushion with his teeth and again it fiercely to his face he let himself fall on the couch the whole ship seemed to feel the shock of his despair and i contemplated with wonder the l f the noble touch of time on the uncovered temples the unchanged hungry character of the face â so strangely and incapable of emotion what should he do he had lived by being near her he had sat â in the evening â i knew â all his life she her head was bent â so her like this â and her arms ah had i seen like this he dropped on a stool bowed his powerful neck whose was red and with his hands the air ludicrous and and now he couldn t have her no that was too much after thinking too that what had he done what was my advice take her by force no mustn t he who was there then to kill him for the first time i saw one of his features move a fighting teeth curl of the lip not perhaps he lost himself in thought as though he had fallen out of the world i may note that the idea of suicide apparently did not enter his head for a single moment it occurred to me to ask where was it that this of yours took place down south he said vaguely with a start s you are not down south now i said violence won t do they would take her away from you in no time and what was the name of the ship he said it was no he seemed to be waking up by degrees from that trance and waking up not a what was it break down he answered looking more like himself every moment by this only i learned that it was a steamer i liad till then supposed they had been starving in boats or on a â or perhaps on a barren rock she did not sink then i asked in surprise he nodded wc sighted the southern ice he pronounced and you alone survived he sat down yes it was a terrible misfortune for me everything went wrong all the men went wrong i survived remembering the things one reads of it was difficult to the true meaning of his answers i ought to have seen at once â but i did not so is it for our minds remembering so much instructed so much informed of so much to get in with tlie real at our elbow and with my head full of notions as to how a case of and suffering at sea should be managed i said â you were then so lucky in the drawing of lots drawing of lots he said what lots do you think i would have allowed my life to go for the drawing of lots not if he could help it i perceived no matter what other life went it was a great misfortune terrible awful he said many heads went wrong but the best men would live the you mean i said he considered the word perhaps it was strange to him though his english was so good yes he asserted at last the best it was everybody for himself at last and the ship open to au thus from question to question i got the whole story i fancy it was the only way i could that night have stood by him outwardly at least he was himself again the first sign of it was the return of that trick he had of drawing both his hands down his and it had its meaning now with that shudder of the frame and the passionate anguish of these hands a hungry immovable face the wide pupils of

30Frances Hodgson Burnett

in you if you can t permit my to sacrifice herself by your son i can t permit her to sacrifice her love and him by not him so i reckon this yer interview is over i am afraid we are both old fools mr but â we will talk this over with lady come â there was evidently a slight struggle near the chair over some object but the next moment the s voice rose really i must insist upon you of your bag and umbrella well if you ll let me telegraph yes to i don t care if yer do when the room was quiet again lady and james silently slipped from the curtain and without a word separated at the door there was a merry christmas at and at nice but whether s loving sacrifice was accepted by a of the or not or whether she ever reigned as lady or lived an widow i cannot say but as still exists in all its pride and power it is presumed that the peril that threatened its fortunes was averted and that if another heroine was not found worthy of a frame in its picture gallery at least it had been sustained as of old by devotion and by a drift from camp by by a drift from camp they had all known him as a worthless creature from the time he first entered camp carrying his entire effects in a red handkerchief on the end of a long handled until he l drifted out of it on a plank in the terrible of they never expected anything better of him in a community of strong men with sullen virtues and fascinating vices he was as possessing neither â not even rising by any dominant human weakness or ludicrous quality to the importance of a butt in the of camp he was a simple â who had only passive speechless in those fierce that were sometimes beneath its green pines nameless and he was overlooked by the and ignored by the tax while in a hotly election for when even the head boards of the scant were consulted to fill the lists it was discovered that neither candidate had thought fit by a drift from camp to avail himself of his actual vote he was the rude of a of achievement and in a camp made up of bills profane and snap shot harry was known vaguely as him or that it was remembered long after with a feeling of superstition that he had never even met with the dignity of an accident nor received the fleeting honor of a chance shot meant for somebody else in any of the liberal and comprehensive which distinguished the camp and the that finally carried him out of it was partly anticipated by his passive for while the others escaped â or were drowned in escaping â he calmly floated off on his plank without an opposing effort for all that martin â which was his real name â was far from being or that he was cowardly selfish and lazy was undoubtedly the fact perhaps it was his peculiar misfortune that just then courage frankness generosity and activity were the dominant in the life of camp his gentleness his modesty his half refinement and his amiable exterior consequently availed him nothing against the fact that he was missed during a of the indians and lied to account for it or that he lost his right to a gold discovery by failing to make it good against a bully and kept this discovery from the knowledge of the camp yet this weakness awakened by a drift from camp l no in his companions and it is probable that the indifference of the camp to his fate in this final catastrophe came purely from a simple forgetfulness of one who at that supreme moment was weakly incapable such was the reputation and such the of the man who on the th of march found himself adrift in a swollen of the a spring of unusual volume had the adjacent river until bursting its bounds it escaped through the narrow shaped valley that held camp for a day and a night the river poured half its waters through the straggling camp at the end of that time every of the little settlement was swept away all that was left was scattered far and wide in the country caught in the hanging branches of water side and in pools dragged over meadows and one fragment â bearing up martin â pursuing the courses of an unknown fifty miles away had he been a rash impatient man he would have been speedily drowned in some earlier desperate attempt to reach the shore had he been an ordinarily bold man he would have succeeded in himself to the branches of some tree but he was neither and he clung to his broken like berth with an endurance that was half the of terror and half the patience of habitual misfortune by a drift from camp eventually he was caught in a side current swept to the bank and cast ashore on an wilderness his first consciousness was one of hunger that any sentiment of gratitude for his escape from drowning as soon as his cramped limbs permitted he crawled out of the bushes in search of food he did not know where he was there was no sign of habitation â or even occupation â anywhere he had been too terrified to notice the direction in which he had drifted â even if he had possessed the ordinary knowledge of a which he did not he was helpless in his bewildered state seeing a a nut on the branch of a hollow tree near him he made a half dart at the frightened animal which ran away but the same association of ideas in his and confused brain impelled him to search for the s

4George Eliot

dashed to the front as as horse could carry him the condition of the was not hopeful but grant went to work with his accustomed zeal and energy messages were sent to and to hasten forward their troops wagon loads of were ordered up to the front and panic stricken of men were and every effort made to save the day some six or eight thousand men were by the of the conflict but in spite of fact the line remained unbroken indeed only once during the day was it penetrated life of s grant as it was by the of a fourth part of the troops it still permitted no opening for the enemy the contest had become a hand to hand fight in which personal and were to win the day it was only a question of pluck and endurance grant was everywhere encouraging the faithful and the anxiously did the hard pressed line wait the coming of the expected but neither nor appeared in season to render any efficient service step by step inch by inch the national line was forced back until darkness suspended the conflict had fallen was in command and again and again did he his forces against the union line still it remained firm to tlie last and still it held the field in spite of the ground it had lost my friend almost curses for not striking the final blow in this sharp battle but doubtless that distinguished rebel knew what he was about better than any could teach him he was fond enough of display and sensation to finish up the battle if it had been possible he had found after fighting the national forces from early dawn what it was made of and with the remotest hope of driving the army of grant into the river he would not have given the order to withdraw beyond the enemy s fire though a portion of the army of the before the enemy it was not nor as an army according to it had gained the victory it had certainly the attack it had not been into the our standard bearer or river and there was no thought of surrender no were sent for no attempt to bridge the river was made in order to retreat and escape the fiery zeal the mad enthusiasm of the had carried them through one of the fights of the war the advantage but not the victory was with them it was a drawn battle as the conflict was suspended grant gave orders for his army to attack on the following morning before main army was heard from even before s division had crossed the river he had to renew the at an early hour the next day making the attack himself it was wicked for my friend to reproach his friend for not such a man for not giving the blow to an army which was at that moment making its calculations to attack with the next daylight after dark in the midst of a storm almost worn out by the heavy burdens of that day and still suffering from the injuries he had received by the fell of his horse grant went to the of each general of division assigned to him his position and gave him particular orders for the of the battle at daylight at midnight he had completed his rounds and returned to the landing where he lay down upon the soaked ground with his head on a stump for a pillow and slept soundly till morning he was completely with the rain but he was confident of the victory on the morrow and no discomfort was too great for him to endure in the holy cause in which he had embarked while he slept the two in the river kept life of general s grant up their fire over his head throwing shells into the rebel lines it is a popular idea that these saved the union army from total destruction that without them the heroes of that hard fought battle would have been obliged to surrender or be driven into the river the men saved and protected themselves by their strong right hands though doubtless the rendered considerable assistance even who generally has a proper respect for these terrible engines of war says their fire was terrific in sound but did no damage a mile from the camp the wounded of the army lay in the agony of their nothing could be done for them for they were within the enemy s line the exhausted troops slept on their arms by the fierce tempest of the elements at night as they had been by the bullets of a savage foe through all the long day they were safe or they could not have most of them had performed miracles of in strong contrast with the who had fled had been wounded several times and had three horses shot under him he had fought his own division and that of an inexperienced general near him his personal influence backed up by his personal heroism had kept the line firm and united under the fierce of the enemy grant commended him on the battle field for his noble exertions and there can be no doubt that in the morning had saved the day at half past four in the afternoon after the conflict had been raging almost incessantly vo j our standard bearer or it reached the point of its grant sat on his horse calm unmoved and grand in his thoughtful silence the cannon roared fearfully on the left and seemed to be approaching nearer as though the were successful in their attempt to flank the entire position so as to cut off the retreat of the doesn t the prospect begin to look gloomy said an officer at his side just as another was killed within a few feet of him not at all replied grant quietly they can

35Isabella Lucy Bird

things calculated to destroy the peace of her majesty the queen she returned to her master and laid information would take steps at once and the end of his labours was trouble and fine and imprisonment for other people the natives believed that tie was a spirit and treated her with the great reverence that is bom of hate and fear one room in the was set apart for her special use she owned a a blanket and a and if any one came into s room at night her custom was to knock down the and give tongue till came with a light owed his life to her when be was on the frontier in search of a local murderer who came in the gray dawn to send much than the islands caught the man as he was crawling into s tent with a dagger between teeth and after his record of was established in the return of the eyes of the law he was hanged from that date wore a collar of rough silver and employed a on her night blanket and the blanket was of double woven cloth for she was a delicate dog under no circumstances would she be separated from and once when he was ill with fever made great trouble for the doctors because she did not know how to help her master and would not allow another creature to attempt aid of the indian medical service beat her over her head with a gun butt before she could understand that she must give room for those who could give a short time after had taken s my business took me through that station and naturally the club quarters being full i myself upon it was a desirable eight and heavily against any chance of firom rain under the pitch of the roof ran a ceiling cloth which looked just as neat as a white washed ceiling the landlord had it when took the unless you knew how indian were built you would never have suspected that above the cloth lay the dark three of the roof where the beams and the of the all manner of rats and foul things the phantom met mc in the with a bay like the boom of the bell of st paul s putting her on my shoulder to show she was glad to see me had contrived to together a sort of meal which he called lunch and immediately after it was finished went out about his business i was left alone with and my own affairs the heat of the summer had broken up and turned to the warm damp of the rains there was no motion in the heated air but the rain fell like on the earth and flung up a blue mist when it back the and the apples the and the trees in the garden stood still while the warm water lashed through them and the began to sing among the hedges a before the light and when the rain was at its worst i sat in the back and heard the water roar from the and scratched myself because i was covered with the thing called heat came out with me and put her head in my lap and was very sorrowful so i gave her when tea was ready and i took tea in the back on account of the little coolness found there the rooms of the house were dark behind me i could smell s and the oil on his guns and i had no desire to sit among these things my own servant came to me in the twilight the muslin of the return of his clothes clinging tightly to his body and told me that a gentleman had called and wished to see some one very much against my will but only because of the darkness of the rooms i went into the naked drawing room telling my man to bring the lights there might or might not have been a waiting â it seemed to me that i saw a figure by one of the windows â but when the lights came there was nothing save the of the rain without and the smell of the drinking earth in my nostrils i explained to my servant that he was no wiser than he ought to be and went back to the to talk to she had gone out into the wet and i could hardly her back to me even with with sugar tops came home dripping just before dinner and the first thing he said was has any one called i explained with apologies that my servant had summoned me into the drawing room on a false alarm or that some had tried to call on and thinking better of it had fled after giving his name ordered dinner without comment and since it was a real dinner with a white attached we sat down at nine o clock wanted to go to bed and i was tired too who had been lying the table rose up and swung into the least exposed as soon as her master moved the phantom to his own room which was next to the stately chamber set apart for if a mere wife had wished to sleep out of doors in that rain it would not have mattered but was a dog and therefore the better animal i looked at expecting to see him her with a whip he smiled as a man would smile after telling some unpleasant domestic tragedy she has done this ever since i moved in here said he let her go the dog was s dog so i said nothing but i felt all that felt in being thus made light of outside my bedroom window and storm after storm came up thundered on the and died away the lightning the sky as a thrown egg a barn door but the light

38James Payn

the ancient and family of the or now extinct in the male line whose name according to the local was interpreted to mean though certain members of the family were averse to the latter and a was fought by one of them on the lady that account as is well known with this however we are not now concerned in the early part of the reign of the first king james there was visiting near this place of the a lady of noble family and extraordinary beauty she was of the purest descent ah there s seldom such blood nowadays as hers she possessed no great wealth it was said but was sufficiently endowed her beauty was so perfect and her manner so that seemed to spring out of the ground wherever she went a sufficient cause of anxiety to the her mother her only living parent of these there were three in particular whom neither her mother s complaints of nor the ready of the maiden herself could effectually put off the said were a certain sir john gale a sir william and the well known sir george one of the family before mentioned they had curiously enough all been equally honored with the distinction of and their schemes for seeing her were manifold each fearing that one of the others would steal a march over himself not content with calling on every imaginable excuse at the house of the relative with whom she they her in rides and in walks and if any one of them chanced to surprise another in the act of paying her marked attentions the encounter often ended in an of great violence so heated and impassioned in a of noble deed would they become that the lady hardly felt herself safe in their company at such times notwithstanding that she was a brave and not easily put out and with a daring spirit of humor in her composition if not of at one of these which had taken place in her relative s grounds and was unusually bitter threatening to result in a she found it necessary to assert herself turning upon the pair of she declared that whichever should be the first to break the peace between them no matter what the provocation that man should never be admitted to her presence again and thus would she effectually the by making the promotion of a quarrel a distinct bar to its object while the two knights were wearing rather a appearance at her the third never far off came upon the scene and she repeated her to him also seeing then how great was the concern of all at her mood the lady s manner softened as she said with a smile have patience have patience you foolish men only bide your time quietly and in faith i will marry you all in turn they laughed heartily this sally all three together as though they were the best of friends at which she blushed and showed some embarrassment not having realized that her arch jest would have sounded so strange when uttered the lady the meeting which resulted thus however had its good effect in checking the bitterness of their and they repeated her speech to their relatives and acquaintance with a and that the lady little divined or she might have blushed and felt more embarrassment still in the course of time the position resolved itself and the lady as she was called made up her mind her choice being the eldest of the three knights sir george owner of the mansion which thereupon became her home and her husband being a pleasant man and his family though not so noble of as good as her own all things seemed to show that she had reckoned wisely in him with her preference but what may lie behind the still and silent veil of the future none can in the course of a few months the husband of her choice died of his as if indeed to bear out his name and the lady was left alone as mistress of his house by this time she had apparently quite forgotten her careless declaration to her lovers but the lovers themselves had not forgotten it and as she would now be free to take a second one of them sir john gale appeared at her door as early in the as it was proper and to do so she gave him little encouragement for of the two remaining her best beloved was sir william a of of whom if the truth must be told she had often thought during her short married life but ho had not yet reappeared her heart began to be so much with him now that she contrived to convey to him by hints through his friends that she would not be displeased by a renewal of his former attentions sir william however her gentle and from excellent though mistaken motives of delicacy delayed to intrude himself upon her for a long time meanwhile sir john now created a was and she began to grow somewhat at the of him she secretly desired to be forward never mind her friends said to her knowing of her humorous remark as everybody did that she would marry them all three if they would have patience â never mind why hesitate upon the order of them take em as they come this vexed her still more and deeply as she had often done that such a careless speech should ever have passed her lips she fairly broke down under sir john s and accepted his hand they were married on a fine spring morning about the very time at which the unfortunate sir william discovered her preference for him and was beginning to hasten home from a foreign court to declare his devotion to her on his arrival in england he learned the sad truth the lady if sir william suffered at

44Oliver Optic

when they form an file bending and winding its course through au the turns and passages of the streets they call this great sport but why should it be made in honor of saint this is a mystery which i am unable to divine any more than the many other in which the and to which the people are so much attached that if any one were to their however slightly it would be looked upon as a high which is sometimes punished by the destruction of the property and harvest of the of pr po try a provincial council of held in the year had not yet done with these remains of which as we have seen had been condemned since the year â that is to say more than nine centuries before it anew the practice of dancing and every other sort of play or representation in the churches or that which at the of with all the pi facts and all the reflections which are suggested by them there is no doubt but that the clergy of the south had made every effort to obtain the exclusive management of the ceremonies connected with the burial of the dead â in other words of one of the offices of social life over which religion naturally the greatest amount of influence nevertheless it is certain that at the of the middle age â now under consideration the were celebrated with the most of christian and pagan rites it was still customary for example to engage for funeral bands of hired who by their gestures their words and their screams gave all the of the grief death was celebrated with songs which were not those of the christian but which were composed expressly for the occasion they were a sort of and always executed with a certain formal preparation often by two alternate of maidens and with noisy of an music as profane as the songs themselves with which it was and all this in the church and in the presence of the priests who were obliged to in these acts of or at any rate to submit to them i this latter mode of funeral seems to have been rather greek than roman moreover the country in which it was generally and popular during the middle age was one in which the greek population had for centuries before it was the proper the custom was still in at the beginning of the century and in au probability much later had already attempted to these wholly pagan modes of burying the dead he had that all those who attended a funeral procession and did not know some by heart should sing tâ e aloud his object was to substitute something religious something christian in place of the profane songs in use on such occasions these different traits which i could easily have multiplied reveal several characteristic of the inhabitants of the south of france we perceive that what they had retained with the greatest of the of the the south of france under the ba and was its its most and its most picturesque side in short whatever was adapted to the eyes or ear in the shape of an amusement or a spectacle it was perhaps in consequence of the same tendencies that these people had preserved certain provisions of the civil or code of the which were with the purity of the christian spirit thus for example in several of the southern cities and particularly it would seem in those which were nearest to the sea coast the punishment for was a greater scandal than the crime itself the party if a woman was placed in a state of nature upon an ass and thus through the whole city we have every reason to regard this custom as one of origin and introduced into by the at any rate it is an established fact that on the northern of the same crime was punished in exactly the same manner the thus punished was there called that is to say the rider upon an ass besides these ancient which they had kept up from the pagan times the people of the south had amusements of another kind and much more frequent for which they were likewise indebted to antiquity one of the commonest of these were the of dexterity of strength or of which were performed in the open air either in the streets or on the public places among these amusements the various kinds of rope dancing figured with distinction â tlie invention and the improvement of these sorts of exercise are almost exclusively due to the who had become the more passionately to them in proportion as the nobler and more serious arts which depended on the varied exercise of thought and sentiment fell into gradual among them the same motives which had prompted them to invent and to relish them in greece had led to their in all the roman provinces the who made a profession of these arts if frivolous of a civilization like these deserve the honor of the name were by various according to the different exercises to which they more especially applied themselves but they were all under one common which was equivalent to th at of makers toward the latter time of the empire they were in latin by the equally name of these men introduced themselves at an early date into the south of where they were called rs or and where they were destined to become at a future day the of l try of tie and of the poetic cl of society amusement as popular as the preceding and which was likewise and still more intimately connected with the of antiquity consisted in the dramatic or and plays the only and scarcely remnant of the theatrical representations such of these representations as a certain degree of literary culture in the and required a certain and the convenience of

46Sarah Stickney Ellis

and very little of her state could be known till mrs grant was able at the end of the first rubber to go to her and pay her compliments i hope your is pleased with the game oh dear yes very entertaining indeed a very odd game i do not know what it is all about i am never to see my cards and mr does all the rest said some time afterwards taking the opportunity of a little languor in the game i have never told you what happened to me yesterday in my ride home they had been hunting together and were in the midst of a good run and at some distance from when his horse being found to have flung a shoe henry had been obliged to give up and make the best of his way i told you i lost my way after passing that old farm house with the trees because i can never bear to ask but i have not told you that with my usual luck â for i never do wrong without gaining by it â i found myself in due time in the very place which i had a curiosity to see i was r park upon turning the corner of a field in the midst f a retired little village between gently rising bills a small stream before me to be a church stand ing on a sort of to my right â which church was y large and handsome for the place and not a or half a gentleman s house to be seen excepting one â to be presumed ie â within a stone s throw of the said and church i found myself in short in it sounds like it said but which way did you turn after passing s farm i answer no such and questions though were i to answer all that you could put in the course of an hour you would never be able to prove that it was not â for such it certainly was you then no i never but i told a man mending a hedge that it was and he agreed to it you have a good memory i had forgotten having ever told you half so much of the place was the name of his impending living as miss well knew and her interest in a for william price s increased well continued and how did you like what you saw very much indeed you are a lucky fellow there will be work for five at least before the place is live able no no not so bad as that the yard must be moved i grant you but i am not aware of anything else the house is by no means bad and when the yard is removed there may be a very tolerable approach to it the yard must be cleared away entirely and planted up to shut out the blacksmith s shop the house must be turned to front the east instead of the north â the entrance and principal rooms i mean must be on that side where the view is really very pretty i am sure it may be done and there must be your approach â through what is at present the garden you must make a new garden at what la now the back of the house which will be giving it man park the best aspect in the world â sloping to the east the ground seems precisely formed for it i rode fifty yards up the lane between the church and the house in order tc look about me and saw how it might all be nothing can be easier the meadows beyond what will be the garden as well as what now is sweeping round from the lane i stood in to the north east that is to the principal road through the village must be all laid together of course very pretty meadows they are finely sprinkled with timber they belong to the living i suppose if not you must purchase them then the stream â something must be done with the stream but i could not quite determine what i had two or three ideas and i have two or three ideas also said and one of is that very little of your plan for will ever be put in practice i must be satisfied with rather less ornament and beauty i think the house and premises may be made comfortable and given the air of a gentleman s residence without any very heavy expense and that must suffice me and i hope may suffice all who care about me miss a little suspicious and of a certain tone of voice and a certain half look attending the last expression of his hope made a hasty finish of her dealings with william price and securing his at an rate exclaimed there i will stake my last like a woman of spirit no cold prudence for me i am not bom to sit still and do nothing if i lose the game it shall not be from not striving for it the game was hers and only did not pay her for what she had given to secure it another deal proceeded and began again about my plan may not be the best possible i had not many minutes to form it in but you must do a good deal the place deserves it and you will find yourself not satisfied with much less than it is capable of excuse me your must not see your cards there let them lie just before you the place deserves it you talk of giving it the air of a gentleman s residence that will be done by the removal of the farm yard for independent of that terrible nuisance i never saw a house of the kind which had in itself sa park much the air of a

25Bret Harte

and does not contemplate any more positive offence as possible for it â who thought that his own self respect was a higher than any external opinion the same i assure you only under different conditions our deeds determine us as as we determine our deeds and until know what has been or will be the peculiar combination of outward with inward which a man s critical actions it will be better not to think ourselves wise about his character there is a terrible in our deeds which first turn the honest man into a and then reconcile to the change for this reason â that the second wrong presents itself to him in the guise of the only practicable right the action which before commission has been seen with that blended common sense and fresh feeling which is the healthy eye of the soul is looked at afterwards with the of ingenuity through which all things that men call and are seen to be made up of very much alike europe itself to a and so does an character â until the placid is disturbed by a no man can escape this effect of an offence against his own sentiment of right and the effect was the stronger in arthur because of that very need of self respect which while his conscience was still at ease was one of his best self accusation was too painful to him â he could not face it he must persuade himself that he had not been very much to blame he began even to pity himself for the necessity he was under of deceiving adam it was a course so opposed to the honesty of his own nature but then it was the only right thing to do well whatever had been amiss in him he was miserable enough in consequence miserable about miserable about this letter that he had promised to write and that seemed at one moment to be a gross at another perhaps the greatest kindness he could do to her and across all this reflection would dart every now and then a sudden impulse of passionate defiance towards all consequences he would carry away and all other considerations might go to in this state of the four walls of his room made an intolerable prison to him they seemed to hem in and press down upon him all the crowd of contradictory thoughts adam and conflicting feelings of which fly away in the open air he had only an hour or two to mind in and he must get clear and once on m s back in the fresh air of that fine morning he should be more of the situation t e pretty creature arched her bay i in the and the gravel and trembled with pleasure when her master her nose and patted her and talked to her even in a more caressing tone than usual he loved her the better because she knew nothing of his secrets but was quite as well acquainted with her master s mental state as many others of her sex with the mental condition of the nice young gentleman towards whom their are in a state of fluttering expectation arthur miles beyond the chase till he was at the foot of a hill where there were no hedges or trees to hem in the road then he threw the bridle on s neck and prepared to make up his mind knew that their meeting yesterday must be the last before arthur went away there was no possibility of their another without exciting suspicion and she was like a frightened child unable to think of anything only able to cry at the mention of parting and then put her face up to have the tears kissed away he could do nothing but comfort her and lull her into dreaming on a letter would be a dreadfully abrupt way of awakening her yet there was truth in what adam said â that it would save her from a lengthened delusion which might be worse than a sharp immediate pain and it was the only way of satisfying adam who must be satisfied for more reasons than one if he could have seen her again but that was impossible there was such a hedge of between them and an would be and yet if he could see her again what good would it do i only cause him to more from the sight of her distress and the remembrance of it away from him she was surrounded by all the motives to self control a sudden dread here fell like a shadow across his imagination â the dread lest she should do something violent in her grief and close upon that dread came er which deepened the shadow but he shook them off with the force of youth and hope what was the ground for painting the future in that dark way it was just as likely to be the adam se arthur told himself he did not deserve that things should turn out so badly â he had never meant beforehand to do anything his conscience â he had been led on by circumstances there was a sort of confidence in him that he was really such a good fellow at bottom providence would not treat him harshly at all events he couldn t help what would come now all he could do was to take what seemed to be the best course at the present moment and he persuaded himself that that course was to make the way open between adam and her heart might really turn to adam as he said after a while and in that case there would have been no great harm done since it was still adam s ardent wish to make her his wife to be sure adam was deceived deceived in a way that arthur would have as a deep wrong if it had

13Ralph Emerson

fat et son mary oe â ed history of po try it is to that we are indebted for the publication of the fragments which i have quoted from the chronicle of e they constitute a part of his extensive collection of original authorities on the history of italy which appeared during the course of the last century the scholars of italy at first paid no attention to these fragments but immediately after the publication of the text of the poem on walter they began to occupy themselves with the investigation of the subject and as they then found the documents and traditions relative to this personage in italy at the foot of mount they readily persuaded themselves that he must have been an and that the poem of which he was the had been composed in italy in y count of a of some note published in a large work on illustrious a notice of the chronicle of se and of its author in which notice he naturally had occasion to speak of the poem of walter f he does not to attribute this poem to the chronicle of if the year as the probable date of its composition and represents it as the first and as it were the of the romance thus italy the honor of this poetic invention these few contain so many critical and logical errors that it would occupy too much of our time to examine them all fortunately however there can be nothing less essential for some of the facts which i have already announced as certain are more than sufficient to show the of these and i shall therefore not dwell on them any longer after having treated the history of the poem of walter at so treat perhaps too great a length i shall scarcely be able to nd time to say anything concerning the poem itself luckily the subject is a simple a one and a few rapid observations will suffice to give us some idea of it we must not expect to find in walter the grandeur the variety the terrible play of passion the wild originality which distinguish the action of the but in its modest proportions and in its simplicity the action of this poem is destitute neither of interest nor of character there is something picturesque and touching in the situation of this young couple as they are barbarous countries in their flight travelling only by night never halting except in deserted places and reduced to vol iii col this with all the fragments relative to has since been with admirable care by in vol ix p â t cf his d vol ii p â â d il di id p â origin of walter the necessity of like a deadly peril the encounter of a face the interest of the story does not at all increase until the moment when of walter s sets out in pursuit of with me design of mm of his treasure and his bride the quarrel between the king and could not be more true to nature nor better to motive the part acted by the latter who by refusing to join in the combat the for a while gives walter new opportunities for the exhibition of his heroism the dramatic part of the poem from the moment when the and the are each other is upon the whole very beautiful the description of the combat is done with great care and varied with a great deal of ingenuity in to character walter is a hero who has nothing in common with those of the he is a civilized and christian hero who to the strength and of the warrior adds of heart and the prayer which he while kneeling over the of those whom he had slain in self defence is truly a sublime trait the lay of the likewise contains characters of a noble and humane description but these characters are in contradiction with the rest and in accordance with the manners of the century they are in short such as then existed or were imagined to exist in germany it is not so with walter whatever he says or does that we admire as generous is nothing more than the natural and simple expression of a heroic soul developed by the ideas the conventional manners of chivalry are here made of no account the entire poem does not contain a single allusion to the of chivalry the same observation might be applied to the love df and everything about it is simple natural the two lovers prove that their affection is a genuine one they barely announce it in few words without any enthusiasm without any effort to add passion to their language walter has already me air of the master who one day is expected to command and that of the whose duty it will be to obey in all this there is nothing that could be said to have the remotest resemblance to the gallantry of chivalry from the whole of this discussion the reader will i hope conclude with myself that this little poem of walter was really worth for the literature of the south of to history of poetry â which it belongs i have conducted this to the best of my ability and without any hesitation the literature of the and that of the which have likewise claimed it for themselves are too rich in their own productions to refuse the politeness of this â the author has here expended considerable in an attempt to a origin for the primitive poetical elements from which the latin jn question was into the form in which it has come down to us although he did not fail to notice the fact that a origin was asserted by the of the other side of the yet he has failed to direct and upon which his neighbors based their claim the author of the â

46Sarah Stickney Ellis

to church twice every sunday and preach such very good sermons in so good a manner as he does without being the better for it himself it must make him think and i have no doubt that he oftener to restrain himself than he would if he bad been anything but a clergyman we cannot prove the contrary to be sure â but i wish you a better miss price than to be the wife of a man depends upon his own sermons for though he may preach himself into a good humour every sunday it will be bad enough to have him quarrelling about green from monday morning till saturday night i think tiie man who could often quarrel with said must be beyond the reach of any sermons turned farther into the window and miss had only time to say in a pleasant manner i fancy miss price has been more used to deserve praise than to bear it when being earnestly invited by the miss to join in a glee she tripped oflf to the instrument leaving looking after her in an of admiration of all her many virtues from her obliging manners down to her light and graceful tread there goes good humour i am sure said he presently there goes a temper which would never give pain i how h park well she walks and how readily she falls in with the inclination of others joining them the moment she is asked what a pity he added after an instant s reflection that she should have been in such hands agreed to it and had the pleasure of seeing him continue at the window with her in spite of the expected glee and of having his eyes soon turned like hers towards the scene without where all that was solemn and soothing and lovely appeared in the brilliancy of an night and the contrast of the deep shade of the woods spoke her feelings here s harmony said she here s repose here s what may leave all painting and all music behind and what poetry only can attempt to describe here s what may every care and lift the heart to rapture when i look out on such a night as this i feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world and there certainly would be less of both if the of nature were more attended to and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene i like to hear your enthusiasm it is a lovely night and they are much to be pitied who have not been taught to feel in some degree as you do â who have not at least been given a taste for nature in early life they lose a great deal you taught me to think and feel on the subject cousin i had a very apt scholar there s looking very bright yes and the bear i wish i could see we must go out on the lawn for that should you be afraid r not in the least it is a great while since we have had any star gazing yes i do not know how it has happened the glee began we will stay till this is finished said he turning his back on the window and as it advanced she had the mortification of seeing him advance too moving forward by gentle degrees towards the instrument and when it ceased he was close by the singers among the most in to hear the glee again park sighed alone at the window till away by mrs s threats of catching cold chapter xii sir thomas was to return in november and his eldest son had duties to call him earlier home the approach of september brought tidings of mr first in a letter to the and then in a letter to and by the end of august he arrived himself to be gay agreeable and gallant again as occasion served or miss demanded to tell of races and and parties and friends to which she might have six weeks before with some interest and altogether to give her the fullest conviction by the power of actual comparison of her preferring his younger brother it was very and she was heartily sorry for it but so it was and so far from now meaning to marry the elder she did not even want to attract him beyond what the simplest claims of conscious beauty required his lengthened absence from without anything but pleasure in view and his own will to consult made it perfectly clear that he did not care about her and his indifference was so much more than equalled by her own that were he now to step forth the owner of park the sir thomas complete which he was to be in time she did not believe she could accept him the season and duties which brought mr back to took mr into could not do without him in the beginning of september he went for a fortnight â a fortnight of such to the miss as ought to have put them both on their guard and made even admit in her jealousy of her sister the absolute necessity of his attentions and wishing him not to return and a fortnight of sufficient leisure in the intervals of shooting and sleeping to have convinced the gentleman that he ought to keep longer away had he been more in the habit of examining his own motives h loo park and of reflecting to what the indulgence of his idle vanity was tending but thoughtless and selfish from prosperity and bad example he would not look beyond the present moment the sisters handsome clever and encouraging were an amusement to his mind and finding nothing in to equal the social pleasures of he gladly returned to it at the time appointed and was welcomed thither quite

25Bret Harte

of the original he must come to keep within the bounds of seeming probability was confronted with a subject which could not be handled frankly and nobody would believe the tone of the woman or her remarks to be anything but a foolish exaggeration if she had had the genuine instinct the power of analysis the recognition of human peculiarities mrs must have seen in his evident the indication that he was how far toward the truth it would in fiction be possible to go it is very kind of you he murmured vaguely oh don t mention it responded she more graciously than ever you are really one of us now as i said and i always feel strongly the ties of the literary the owes you a great deal observed mrs waved her hand in return for this compliment incidentally with a waving of various of her which gave her the appearance in little of an army with i did n t come just for compliments she observed with much sweetness i am a business woman and i know how to come to the point my love in a cloud father left me to manage my own property and so i ve had a good deal of experience when i see how women wander round a thing without being able to get at it it makes me ashamed of them all i don t wonder that men make fun of them you are hard on your sex oh no harder than they deserve why in there are a lot of women that do business in one way or another and i never could abide em i never could get on with it was so hard to pin them down i readily understand how it must have been observed with entire gravity did you say that you had business with me yes she answered i suppose that i might have written but there are some things that are so much better arranged by word of mouth don t you think so oh there s no doubt of it besides she went on i wanted to tell you how much i like your work and it is n t easy to express those things on paper it would be interesting to know whether to at that moment occurred the almost inevitable reflection that for mrs it was hard if her were the test to express anything on paper you are entirely right he said politely it is easy enough to put facts into but when it comes to feelings such as you express it is different of course he confided to jack later that he won the business of a muse if this were not too bold a but mrs received it as graciously as possible there is so complete a difference she observed with an rather startling between the mental atmosphere in boston and that i was accustomed to in here there is a sort of â i don t know that i can express it exactly it s part of an older civilization i suppose but i don t think it pays so well as what we in pays so well he repeated i don t think i understand it doesn t sell so well in a book she explained i thought that it would be better business to write stories of the east for the west to buy but i ve about made up my mind that it be money in my pocket to write of the west for the eastern market smiled under his big playing with a paper knife pardon my mentioning it he said but i thought you wrote for fame and not for money oh i don t write for money i assure you but i was brought up to be a business woman and if i m going to write books somebody ought to pay for them now i wanted to ask you what you will sell me your part in love in a cloud for whether this sudden introduction of her business or the nature oi when were the more startling it might have been hard to determine certain it ii that started and stared at his visitor as if he doubted his ears love in a cloud my part of it he exclaimed why i wrote it yes she returned easily but so many persons have supposed it to be mine that it is extremely awkward to deny it and you have become my of course by writing on the other novels i had n t realized that dick returned with a smile you ve put so much of your style into my other books she pursued that it s made people attribute love in a cloud to me and i think you are bound now not to go back on me i don t know as you see it as i do but it seems to me that since you took the liberty of changing so much in my other stories you ought to be willing to bear the consequences of it especially as i m willing to pay you well but as long as you didn t write the book dick observed i should think you d feel rather queer to have it said you did i ve thought of that mrs said nodding with a flutter of silken but i reason that the ideas are so much my own and the book is so exactly what i would have written if social duties hadn t prevented that that ought not to count the fact that so many folks think i wrote it shows that i might have written it but after all you did n t write it objected that seems to make it awkward why of course it would have been better if i had given you a sketch of it mrs the business of a muse returned apparently entirely unmoved but then of course you

2Charles Dickens

nature these views dr considers equally natural science he says â seems to possess in observation and the discoveries made thereby a field entirely apart from and untouched by philosophy but â observation is necessarily thoughtful observation and as such only has it any scientific value as such only can it discover universal truth â the forces the laws of nature and thus accomplish the task which it sets before itself nature may be spread before man in all the fulness of her manifold forms but it is thought alone that opens his eyes and his attention to particular phenomena â that experiments and puts questions to nature herself â that what is discovered and holds it as worthy of notice and as an essential phenomenon thus the unity of and speculation remains unbroken throughout the whole development of natural science these two forms of knowledge from one stage to another over more and more their one sided limited nature and approaching the complete truth these two elements are more widely separated in proportion as we go back towards the earlier period of modem philosophy this history dr into two general divisions â the mechanical view of nature from bacon and to and the view beginning with the two parts of his work which have been received by us extend only through the immediate school these two divisions are further as follows i first stage of the mechanical view a bacon b c a b c second stage of the mechanical view a b c a b wolf short and notices iii third stage of the view a s b s i the view and bacon though so much opposed yet both start from the same point namely the immediate perception of truth by the mind the perception of truth a coincidence of the subject and the object of which the truth is known they must be separate else there is no reality in knowledge and they must come together else there is no truth hence arises an apparent contradiction and a difficulty arises which can only be solved by a thorough understanding of the relation of being and thought and which meanwhile must lead to this difficulty is not felt however by bacon nor by and thus they do not advance to its solution thus bacon although he demands a thoughtful consideration as well as observation of nature yet does not himself to the thought that the forms in nature are of absolute necessity and implied in the very conception of nature but contents himself with pointing them out as existing and general and he does not perceive that thought does not proceed gradually and by of facts though the way for thought may be thus prepared but always per â and moreover that certainty could never be attained by any such since we can never have all the facts and a new fact might at any time destroy the best founded theory thus the system not only fails to explain the nature or possibility of knowledge but also is at direct with the fact of knowledge and with itself in demanding what it renders impossible carries out bacon s principles and thus their results knowledge being the of observations thought is merely addition or and nothing which cannot be added to or from can be known any thing simple and is therefore thus of god for instance we can know nothing but only believe and this belief not resting by any possibility upon facts is again a matter of belief all first principles therefore are a without proof what we know is not the essence but depends upon something which we do not and cannot know somewhat similar is who brought up again the philosophy of god in the place of chance yet god is here also chance nevertheless really belongs to modem philosophy and his theory to the system his are of reflection without and june weight and approaching to an principle makes knowledge the idea of sod the absolute having this by faith we know god will not deceive us and thus we can trust to clear and definite notions as being true god is the only substance and the of matter are secondary being by him of secondary all those are distinct which can be clearly conceived as distinct mind and matter therefore distinct mind purely active matter purely passive â mere being here therefore as in bacon the nature of matter is and no means or possibility pointed out for any comprehension natural science is therefore necessarily and as matter is purely passive a force belonging to matter is inconceivable there is no such thing therefore s in the philosophy but only all force manifested in matter as motion must be given by impulse from without and as matter does not change or vary in substance but only in motion natural science is destroyed the interest begins just where the possibility of knowledge ends g carried out to its results this separation of mind and matter it is impossible that spirit should influence body the reason of their connection or rather coincidence lies in an incomprehensible harmony established by god who must create perception of the outward world for this could not become visible of itself particularly on the of god in our knowledge general notions cannot be obtained through the limited faculties of the human mind but only through god they are not however immediately impressed on our minds â for this would be a deception â but through the medium of the outward world with the dependence of on the infinite substance is not since they remain of different natures they are dependent only as respects existence not in essence makes this dependence essential mind and matter thought and extension are indeed distinct but only as different attributes of the one substance thus the the manifold variety of things is only superficial the only reality is substance and thus the only reality

36Jacob Abbott

â how do you know miss t â i tried both ways g â do you ride much then i ve never seen you on the miss t â aside i haven t him more than fifty times aloud nearly every day poor dear mamma g â by jove i didn t know that ha at his and is silent for forty seconds miss t â and wondering what will happen next it looks beautiful i shouldn t touch it if i were you aside it s all mamma s fault for not coming before i will be rude g â under the tan and bringing down his hand very quickly eh at oh yes ha ha laughs uneasily aside well of all dashed cheek i never had a woman say that to me yet she must be a cool hand or else ah that nursery tea voice from the unknown â g â good gracious what s that miss t â the dog i think aside has been listening and i ll never forgive her g â aside they don t keep dogs here aloud didn t sound like a dog did it miss t â then it must have been the cat let s go into the what a lovely evening it is steps into and looks out across the hills into sunset the captain follows g â aside superb eyes i wonder that i never noticed them before aloud there s going to be a dance at lodge on wednesday can you spare me one miss t â shortly no i don t want any of your you only ask me because mamma told you to i hop and i you know i do g â aside that s true but little girls shouldn t understand these things aloud no on my word i don t you dance beautifully miss t â then why do you always stand out after half a dozen turns i thought officers in the army didn t tell g â it wasn t a believe me i really do want the pleasure of a dance with you poor dear miss t â why won t mamma dance with you any more g â more earnestly than the necessity demands i wasn t thinking of your mother aside you little miss t â still looking out of the window eh oh i beg your pardon i was thinking of something else g â aside well i wonder what she ll say next i ve never known a woman treat me like this before i might be â dash it i might be an aloud oh don t trouble i m not worth thinking about isn t your mother ready yet miss t â i should think so but promise me captain you won t take poor dear mamma twice round any more it her so g she says that no exercise her miss t â yes but she suffers afterwards you don t know what is and you t to keep her out so late when it gets chill in the evenings g â aside i thought she came off her horse rather in a bunch one lives and aloud i m sorry to hear that she hasn t mentioned it to me miss t of course not poor dear mamma never would and you mustn t say that i told you either promise me that you won t oh captain promise me you won t g â i am dumb or â i shall be as soon as you ve given me that dance and another if you can trouble yourself to think about me for a minute miss t â but you won t like it one little bit you ll be awfully sorry afterwards g â i shall like it above all things and i shall only be sorry that i didn t get more aside now what in the world am i saying miss t â very well you will have only yourself to thank if your toes are trodden on shall we say seven poor dear mamma g â and eleven aside she can t be more than eight stone but even then it s an small foot looks at his own riding boots miss t â they re beautifully shiny i can almost see my face in them g â i was thinking whether i should have to go on for the rest of my life if you trod on my toes miss t â very likely why not change eleven for a square g â no please i i want them both won t you write them down miss t â don t get so many dances that i shall them you will be the g â wait and see aside she doesn t dance perfectly perhaps but miss t â your tea must have got cold by this time won t you have another cup g â no thanks don t you think it s pleasanter out in the aside i never saw hair take that color in the sunshine before it s like one of s pictures miss t yes it s a wonderful sunset isn t it but what do you know about s pictures g â i go home occasionally and i used to know the galleries nervously you mustn t think me only a with a miss t â don t please don t i m so sorry for what i said then i was horribly rude it slipped out before i thought don t you know the temptation to say frightful and shocking things just for the mere sake of saying them i m afraid i gave way to it g â watching the girl as she i think i know the feeling it would be terrible if we all yielded to it wouldn t it for instance i might say poor dear mamma â entering and poor dear mamma

38James Payn

painful di ease we continue to live because it is such n natural thing to live and in like manner it is a natural thing for a woman to yield to a man and to love him despite his faults she knows them but knowledge does not help us to shape our lives wisely they are for us and she fell to thinking of the progress had made during the year and the success he had been in paris he was thought highly of by the professors for they had to him saying that his natural genius was of the t order aad the essential now was for him to try the quality of his painting the ii of his had improved â her own eyes told her that the in the woods was the best thing he liad done he thought su and she liked to think that her influence had counted for in the development of his talent it waa she who had discovered the lake high up on the top of rocky hill and seeing in it a subject for a picture she had brought him to it it was her point of v he had painted a man usually owed a good deal of his inspiration to his the revealed to the beauty ol and s artistic debt to his wives iâ admitted by everybody it was a pity she was not ten years older if she were forty five she would adopt but the part of a mother would be a cold portion and overcome by a sudden remembrance she cried out within herself only one relation is possible of what are you thinking thinking he replied i was just what you were thinking of how many minutes li it since we have spoken a minute two minutes she answered it isn t necessary to be always speaking is it think one is nearer in silence than in speech am yoa of what were you thinking i was thinking that we might walk across thi park through the great trees to the sing there and afterwards we might to and dine at the inn and c s m and some women tiie forest at bt do you the the other night there seemed to be as many in the as there were in the sky i never i that midnight how the birds called to each other and each other each striving for master pure flames of do remember wc called to the o mt p k that wc might listen to the birds of course i remember she it was as you said â everywhere in the and a sky full of star we scarcely spoke during the rest of the drive why u it can you me â why are moments the most the two hours we in other s arms arc not as clearly remembered as the moment we listened to the we remember intellectual emotions better than bodily i suppose that is it the flesh forgets its pleasures and it pains one as easily as the other and yet the conversation fell and did not dare to ask if he had thought of her before he dropped asleep nor did she dare to tell him that when he left her room she had slipped out of bed and stood in her looking at his sketches and that she remained looking at them she feared she was getting cold and ran back to bed â xxi j one evening they heard that had a poet or lo speak more ins n village some three and a half miles distant and as the of occupation was upon it occurred to to inquire far the poet s work as they walked through the but the to whom she addressed her not her with any verses by the poet being averse from collecting his poems preferring to leave this task to po rather than to undertake it himself he contributed tu but as far as the knew he had only once published a poem â some three or four hundred lines â a which of course he would be glad to procure for them a few days afterwards a parcel came to hotel which on opening was found to contain m s poem â a of on the paper and adorned with three illustrations by the illustrations arc rubbish i said the man has never learned to draw die golden strings and and their imagination was stirred by the title d lift they applied themselves to the c m perceiving with joy that it was written in e one of which had seen before ai all the same they were never sure e poet s meaning â at one moment tliey held it ai moment after it was gone and they la d m and some â a mist of till at last hy the t meaning they m the l v v i â i tn if he could â cr puzzled them especially of and eyes to to â â handed the chat they had better take difficulties tu the poet he was a of the english la one of the state in paris and was very for ha courtesy to visitors and of all co english the would take you to he said and from by gentle descent through the of the you will reach the and after ing the bridge turn to the left you fail to find his there are only about do houses in the tim by will you with these directions ia minds they went forth but they missed the way many times from to the river and had to turn back and follow a different path but all the paths were with pleasant branches so it did not matter and after from one of these they came upon the suddenly and stood looking up and down the deep tranquil river enchanted by the aspects and amused by

14Robert Louis Stevenson

william i should haye that other old thing so long bat he sets by her on account of her a bob tail i don t deem it to maintain cats just on of their bob tails they re like all other good for them that wants to see em twice this catches for both an keeps me respectable as i ain t been for a year she s a real little help this is i picked her from among miss had oyer to burnt island said the old woman along with the dose at her skirts she says to me why mis you ye took the an says i i ye got the i m satisfied i d trust nobody sooner n you to pick out a mother said the daughter handsomely and we went on in peace and harmony the house was just before us now on a green that looked as if a huge hand had it out of the long green field we had been ascending a little way s the dark woods began to tiie top of the hill and the slopes of the island there was just room for the small and the forest we looked down at the fish house and its rough sheds and the stretching far out into the water as we looked upward the f came sharp against the there was a great stretch of rough pasture land round the of the island to the eastward and here were all the thick scattered rocks that kept their places and the gray backs of many sheep that f wandered and fed on the thin sweet that fringed the and made soft hollows and of green turf like growing i could see the rich green of bushes here and there where die rocks made room the air was yery sweet one could not help wishing to be a citizen of such a complete and tiny continent and home of the house was broad and dean with a roof that looked on its low walls it was one of the houses that seem footed in the ground as if they were two below the sur oe like the front â door stood open in oâ of the pointed and an orderly grew at each bide bnt our path led to the kitchen door at the house end and there grew a mass of gay flowers and as if they had been swept together by some garden into a tangled heap there were all along under tiie lower step and straggling off into the grass and that crept as near as they dared like poor relations i saw the bright eyes and little heads of two half grown chickens who were down among the as if they had been chased away from the door more once and expected to be again it seems kind o formal in this way said mrs as we passed the flowers and came to the front but she was of the and walked before us into the best room on the left why mother if you have n t gone an turned the carpet she exclaimed with something in her voice that spoke of awe and admiration when d you get to it i s mis come over an helped you from white island landing no she did n t answered the m wo green island man standing proudly erect and making the most of a great moment i done it all myself with william s help he had a spare day an took right with me an t was all well beat on the grass an turned an put down again afore we went to bed i an over two o them long i ain t had a good night s sleep for two years there what do yon think o a mother as that for eighty six year old said mrs standing before ns like a large figure of victory as for the mother she took on a sudden look of youth you felt as if she promised a great future and was b not ending her and their happy toils my my i mrs l could n t ha it myself i ye got to own it i was much pleased to have it off my mind said mrs humbly more so because along at the first of the next week i was n t very well i suppose it may haye been the change of weather mrs could not resist a significant glance at me but with charming sympathy she to point die lesson or to country of the pointed this illness with its apparent cause she loomed than ever in the little best room with its few of good and pictures of national interest the paper curtains were stamped with conventional of a foreign order â castles on inaccessible and lovely lakes with steep wooded shores under f the carpet was covered thick with home made there were empty glass lamps and of grass fine shells on the narrow i was married in this room said mrs unexpectedly and i heard her give a sigh after she had spoken as if she could not help the touch of r that would forever come with all her thoughts of happiness we stood right there between die windows she added and the minister stood here william would n t come in he was always odd about folks just s he is now i run to meet em from a child an william he d take an run away i ve been the said the old mother cheerfully william has been son an daughter since yon was married off island the island he s been most too satisfied to stop at home long o his old mother but i always tell em i m the we were all moving toward the kitchen as if by common instinct the best room was too suggestive of serious occasions and the

39John Kendrick Bangs

black and white the naked good tempered timid lazy do you know what life at a mission means try to imagine a loneliness exceeding that of the smallest station to which government has ever sent you â that upon the waking eyelids and drives you headlong into the labors of the day there is no post there is no one of your own color to speak to there are no roads there is indeed food to keep you alive but it is not pleasant to eat and whatever of good or beauty or interest there is in your life must come from yourself and the grace that may be planted in you in the morning with a of soft feet the the doubtful and the open â troop up to the you must be infinitely kind and patient and above all clear sighted for you deal with the simplicity of childhood the experience of man and the of the savage your congregation have a hundred material wants to be considered and it is for you the judgment of as you believe in your personal responsibility to your maker to pick out of the crowd any grain of that may lie therein if to the cure of souls you add that of bodies your task will be all the more difficult for the sick and the will profess any and every creed for the sake of healing and will laugh at you because you are simple enough to believe them as the day wears and the of the morning dies away there will come upon you an overwhelming sense of the of your toil this must be against and the only spur in your side will be the belief that you are playing against the devil for the living soul it is a great a joyous belief but he who can hold it for four and twenty hours must be blessed with an abundantly strong and nerve ask the gray heads of the medical what manner of life their lead speak to the gospel agency those lean americans whose boast in black and white is that they go where no englishman dare follow get a of the mission to talk of his experiences â if you can you will be referred to the printed reports but these contain no mention of the men who have lost youth and health all that a man may lose except faith in the of english maidens who have gone forth and died in the fever stricken of the hills knowing from the first that death was almost a certainty few will tell you of these things any more than they will speak of that young david of st bees who set apart for the lord s work broke down in the utter desolation and returned half to the head mission crying â there is no god but i have walked with the devil the reports are silent here because heroism failure doubt despair and self on the part of a mere white man are things of no weight as compared to the saving of one half human soul from a fantastic faith in wood spirits of the rock and river the judgment of and the assistant of the country side cared for none of these things he had been long in the district and the loved him and brought him of fish from the dim moist heart of the forests and as much game as he could eat in return he gave them and with the high priest controlled their simple when you have been some years in the country said at the table you grow to find one creed as good as another til give you all the assistance in my power of course but don t hurt my they are a good people and they trust me i will them the word of the lord teach said his round face beaming with enthusiasm and i will assuredly to their prejudices no wrong hastily without thinking make but o my friend this in the mind of creed is very bad in black and white ho said i have their bodies and the district to see to but you can try what you can do for their souls only don t behave as your did or tm afraid that i can t your life and that said handing him a cup of tea he went up to the temple of â to be sure he was new to the country â and began old over the head with an umbrella so the turned out and him rather savagely i was in the district and he sent a to me with a note saying â persecuted for the lord s sake send wing of regiment the nearest troops were about two hundred miles off but i guessed what he had been doing i rode to and talked to old like a father telling him that a man of his wisdom ought to have known that the had and was mad you never saw a people more sorry in your life sent wood and milk and fowls and all the judgment of i sorts of things and i gave five to the shrine and told that he had been he said that i had bowed down in the house of but if he had only just gone over the brow of the hill and insulted the idol of the he would have been on a long before i could have done anything and then i should have had to have hanged some of the poor brutes be gentle with them but i don t think you ll do much not i said but my master we will with the little children begin many of them will be sick â that is so after the children the mothers and then the men but i would greatly that you were in internal sympathies with us prefer departed to risk

38James Payn

prefers them to the of ny the other cavalry with the green are also but i tell from here what regiment they are their colonel handles them admirably they are moving to a flank in open column of half and then into line to charge we could not do it better ourselves and now de here we are at the gates of the camp of and it is my duty to take you straight to the emperor s quarters chapter x the room the camp of contained at that time one hundred and fifty thousand with fifty thousand so that its population was second only to paris among the cities of france it was divided into four sections the right camp the left camp the camp of and the camp of the whole being about a mile in depth and extending along the sea shore for a length of about seven miles on the land side it was open but on the sea side it was fringed by powerful containing and cannon of a size never seen before these were placed along the edges of the high cliffs and their lofty position increased their range and enabled them to drop their upon the decks of the english ships it was a pretty sight to ride through the camp for the men had been there for more than a year and had done all that was possible to and ornament their tents most of them had little gardens in front or around them and the fellows might be seen as we passed kneeling in their shirt sleeves with their and their watering in the midst of their flower beds others sat in the sunshine at the of the tents tying up their pipe their uncle and their arms hardly a glance upon us as we passed for of cavalry were coming and going in every direction the endless lines were formed into streets with their names printed up upon boards thus we had passed through the d the de ber the d and the d before we found ourselves in the great central square in which the of the army were situated the emperor at this time used to sleep at a village called de some four miles inland but his days were spent at the camp and his continual of war were held there here also were his ministers and the of the army corps which were scattered up and down the coast came thither to make their reports and to receive their orders for these a plain wooden house had been constructed containing one very large room and three small ones the which we had observed from the downs served as an chamber to the house in which those who sought audience with the emperor might it was at the door of this where a strong guard of announced napoleon s presence that my guardian sprang down from his horse and signed to me to follow his example an officer of the guard took our names and returned to us accompanied by general a thin dry man of forty with a formal manner and a eye lis the room is this louis de he asked with a stiff smile i bowed the emperor is very anxious to see you you are no longer needed lieutenant i am personally responsible for bringing him safely very good you may come in if you prefer it and he passed us into the huge tent which was save for a row of wooden benches round the sides a number of men in naval and military were seated upon these and numerous groups were standing about in subdued tones at the far end was a door which led into the imperial council chamber now and then i saw some man in official dress walk up to this door scratch gently upon it with his nail and then as it instantly opened slip through closing it softly behind him over the whole assembly there hung an air of the court rather than of the camp an atmosphere of awe and of reverence which was the more impressive when it affected these bluff soldiers and sailors the emperor had seemed to me to be formidable in the distance but i found him even more overwhelming now that he was close at hand you need have no fears de said my companion you are going to have a good reception how do you know that from general s manner in these uncle courts it upon down to that m die red â coat yonder bat if die emperor why yoa have to look at die of the man who die in plates and yoa will see the frown reflected upon it and the of it is that if yoa are a man yoa may never find oat what earned yoa either the frown or the smile that is why i had rather wear the shoulder of a and be at the side of my with a good horse between my knees and my against my iron than hare grand in the saint and hundred thousand of income i was wondering whether the could be right and if the smile with which had greeted me could mean that the s int i tions towards me were friendly when a very tall and handsome young man in a brilliant came towards me in s of the change in his dress i recognised him at once as the who had commanded the expedition of the night before well de said he shaking hands with me very pleasantly you have heard no doubt that this fellow has escaped us he was really the only one whom we were anxious to seize for the other is evidently a mere and but we shall have him yet and between ourselves we shall keep a very strict guard upon u the room the emperor s person until we do for master is not a

3Edith Wharton

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 backs 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 employed 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 explained i will go back to fort of my own free will and gain honor give me good clothes to return in so upon a day 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 on the city wall l have come back captain said put no more guards over it is no good out yonder a week i saw him for the first time to my knowledge and be 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 now there is a man in fort whom a bold man could with ease help to escape this is the position of die fort as i draw it on the sand but i was thinking how i had become s after the phantom the phantom may no ill dreams disturb my rest nor powers of darkness me evening hymn one of the few advantages that india has over england is a great after five years service a man is directly or indirectly acquainted with the two or three hundred in his province all the of ten or twelve and and some fifteen hundred other people of the non official caste in ten years his knowledge should be doubled and at the end of twenty he knows or knows something about every englishman in the empire and may travel anywhere and everywhere without paying hotel bills globe who expect entertainment as a right have even within my memory this open but none the less to day if you belong to the inner circle and are neither a bear nor a black sheep all houses are open to you and our small world is very very kind and of stayed with of some fifteen years ago he meant to stay two nights but was knocked down by fever and for six weeks s establishment stopped s work and nearly died in s bedroom as though he had been placed under eternal obligation by and yearly sends the little a box of presents and toys it is the same everywhere the men who do not take the trouble to conceal from you their opinion that you are an ass and the women who your character and mis the phantom understand your wife s will to the bone in your behalf if you fall sick or into serious trouble the doctor kept in addition to his regular practice k hospital on his private account â an of loose boxes for his friend called it â but it really a sort of fitting up shed for craft that had been by stress of weather the weather in india is often and since the tale of bricks is always a fixed quantity and the only liberty allowed is permission to work and get no thanks men occasionally break down and become as mixed as the in this sentence is the dearest doctor that ever was and his in to all his is lie low go slow and keep cool he says that more men are killed by than the importance of this world he that who died under his hands about three years ago he has of course the right to speak and he laughs at my theory that there was a crack in s head and a little bit of the dark world came through and pressed him to death went oft the handle sa s after the of long leave at home he may or he may not have behaved like a to mrs my notion is that the work of the settlement ran him off his legs and that he took to brooding and making much of an ordinary p o he certainly was engaged to miss and she certainly broke off the engagement then he took a feverish chill and all that nonsense about ghosts developed started his illness kept it alight and killed him poor devil write him off to the s stem â one man to take the work of two and a half men i do not believe this i used to sit up with sometimes when was called out to and i happened to be within claim the man would make me most unhappy by describing in a low even voice the procession that the phantom was always passing at the bottom of his bed he had a sick man s command of language when he recovered i suggest ed that he should write out the whole affair from beginning to end knowing that ink might

38James Payn

prospects of the crop and the yield and price of butter but though she has learned to make excellent butter and bread it is all against the grain the children are delightful the little boys are refined courteous childish gentlemen with love and tenderness to their parents in all their words and actions never a rough or harsh word is heard within the house but the atmosphere of struggles and vl thb rocky mountains difficulties has already told on these they consider their mother in all things going without butter when they think the stock is low bringing in wood and water too heavy for them to carry anxiously on the winter prospect and the crops yet withal the most and innocent of children one of the most painful things in the western states and is the of childhood i have never seen any children only of men and women by and selfishness and asserting and gaining complete independence of their parents at ten years old the atmosphere in which they are brought up is one of and frequently of consequently these sweet things seem like flowers in a desert except for love which here as everywhere raises life into the ideal this is a wretched existence the poor crops have been destroyed by over and over again and that talent here under the name of has taken advantage of dr h in all leaving him with little except food for his children experience has been dearly bought in all ways and this instance of failure might be a useful warning to professional men without agricultural experience not to come and try to make a living by farming in my time here has passed very delightfully in spite of my regret and anxiety for this interesting family a lady s life m vl i should like to stay longer were it not that they have given up to me their straw bed and mrs h and her baby a child sleep on the floor in my room and dr h on the floor downstairs and the nights are frosty and chill work is the order of their day and of mine and at night when the children are in bed we three ladies patch the clothes and make shirts and dr h reads s poems or we speak tenderly of that world of culture and noble deeds which seems here the land veiy far off or mrs h lays aside her work for a few minutes and reads some favourite passage of prose or poetry as i have seldom heard either read before with a voice of large compass and exquisite tone quick to interpret every shade of the author s meaning and soft speaking eyes moist with feeling and sympathy these are our hours when we forget the needs of the morrow and that men still buy sell cheat and strive for gold and that we are in the mountains and that it is near midnight but morning comes hot and tiresome and the never ending work is oppressive and dr h comes in from the field two or three times in the day dizzy and faint and they with each other and i feel that the needs to be made of stuff and to possess more to day has been a very pleasant day for me though i have only once sat down since a m and vi the mountains it is now p k i that the devoted should go to the nearest settlement with two of the children for the day in a neighbour s and that dr and mrs h should get an afternoon of rest and sleep upstairs while i undertook to do the work and make something of a cleaning i had a large wash of my own having been last week by my bad arm but a clothes which on to the side of the tub is a great assistance and by folding the clothes before passing them through it i make it serve instead of and iron after the bread and thoroughly cleaning the and i began upon the and the cleaning of which had fallen into and was hard at work very greasy and when a man came in to know where to ford the river with his ox team and as i was showing him he looked at me saying be you the new hired girl bless me you re awful small yesterday we saved three of for winter use and about two tons of and for the cattle two of the former weighing i pulled nearly a quarter of an acre of but it was a scanty crop and the were poorly filled i much prefer field work to the of greasy and to the wash tub and both to either sewing or this is not which con a lady s life in ti in over your neighbour in every fashion which is not is the quality which is held in the greatest and is the divinity from a generation brought up to worship the one and admire the other little can be hoped in districts distant as this is from church there are three ways in which sunday is spent one to make it a day for visiting hunting and fishing another to spend it in sleeping and from work and the third to continue all the usual occupations consequently and and timber are to be seen in progress last sunday a man came here and put up a door and said he didn t believe in the bible or in a god and he wasn t going to sacrifice his children s bread to prejudices there is a manifest indifference to the higher obligations of the law judgment mercy and faith but in the main the are steady there are few of morals industry is the rule life and property are far safer than in england or scotland and the law of universal respect to women

19Walt Whitman

it up in the faces of us people fo you cannot be in their company a moment without being made to feel by hint or open that you are not the of this preference but perhaps the the of his writings is that of homely and which every one receives with the homage due to an but which he gravely proceeds to as though they were dangerous enough is as good as a is a proverb but lamb it was made in revenge by who was of a it is a vile cold a lie upon the which charles lamb i knows better things and yet under this agreeable irony there is a hint that old had their turn and might as well be and thus he of is that does with a wonderfully fanciful of a certain ugly mrs arriving at the that if one be plain it is better to be plain all over than a tolerable of feature to hang out one that be the in mrs it is not as if had picked out here a lip and there a chin out of the of greece it is a whole we are convinced that true no than true beauty is the of harmony the part of the entertainment is that in lamb we read s now that we have his life and his letters we find that everything he and did fits with what he wrote the of his writings would leave a fatal gap in his he was as natural when he held his pen in his hand as when he held his pipe and gathered his friends together at which were fo long remembered this is indeed the charm of reading for we are never by the bitter doubts which mr occurred to him when re the humour and of that is how much of the point and is for the fair of the and how much of the and is put on for the vanity of the s life we know to have been as as two english his writings and in lamb s there was no no and no as a pretty of this happy between his life and writings a daughter of to tell how as a very little girl had been taken out by charles lamb for a day s holiday to fee all the and how on meeting a punch s they fat down together on a door and the entertainment through â not only one but a whole which for him as well as for his little companion to have an charm is of that rich quality of book which is as as a fruitful mind every reading turns up new thought or new beauty it is a book for the pocket like the pocket â a book to be where trunk room is precious and where a hundred invite with claims it has the of a library there are few books both good and rare where the individual is the contents have a proportion to their bulk i not care he in his half way to be caught in the avenues of cathedral alone and reading for the reader may yet with all his and current of thought the mere of lamb is wonderful in this apparent no art there is everywhere an abundant little which he fo are with the harmony both for eye and ear somehow it has always to me that he a new force out of which he very charles lamb he has charming little forms of his own which fit him and him only they are truly if we may ufe the word thus what a noble of language beyond â nay the very beyond he gives a double force to by a peculiarly his own as for in the avenues of cathedral the elder of thy wife too that part french woman better part woman you are glad to put up with an inferior of â cards i love to get a or a i am to an inferior here are true new in turn very turn is part of the of the humour can i forget thy yet crew with their yet to the of anything like contempt to the raw etc of their to our sunday that unfortunate failure of a holiday such one might have for a tall in truth a volume would not do to this engaging writer the difficulty has been what portion of him to dwell on it is all charming the tendency is to glide into a on the whole hunt in the old london journal had a delightful way of what he called giving a reading for his public that is taking a poem like eve of st and going through it to make remarks and point out beauties such a one would be tempted to take with lamb his admiration for the two english is very comic i at the hard pronounced upon the quiet that kept his talent and â their beyond the more and to my of their â i felt a that amounted to a for f again too in another paper i remember their by the fame token in the old prayer book there hung peter in his â holy in the aft of after the famous by i honoured them all and could have mourned the of â fo much did we love to keep holy memories only â i a little at the of the better with â as it were their together to make up one poor gaudy day between them as an economy unworthy of the the too of little are fo odd fo original in choice and treatment that there was need for him to announce that out of the way and opinions â heads with in them â me as an of variety in treatment of one idea the of a scotch mind is marvellous he adds after returns to the charge

7James Baldwin

were ill of the want of the provisions which had been distributed among them from the supplies brought out a few months before by had been consumed the partly from sickness and partly from to labour had neglected to cultivate the surrounding country and the indians on whom ihey had chiefly depended outraged by their had abandoned the vicinity and fled to the mountains preferring to on roots and in their rugged rather than remain in the luxuriant plains subject to the wrongs and of the white men the history of this island presents continual pictures of the miseries the actual want and poverty produced by the grasping of gold it had rendered the heedless of all the less obvious but more certain and sources of wealth all labour seemed lost that was to produce profit by any process instead of the vol ii life and voyages of â soil around them and real treasures from its surface they thought only of mines and golden streams and were starving in the midst of no sooner were the provisions exhausted which had been brought out by than the began to break forth in their accustomed murmurs they represented themselves as neglected by who amidst the and delights of a court thought little of their sufferings they considered themselves equally forgotten by government while having no vessel in the harbour they were destitute of all means of sending home intelligence of their disastrous situation and of imploring relief to remove this last cause of discontent and to furnish some object for their hopes and thoughts to rally round the ordered that two should be built at for the use of the island to relieve the settlement also from all useless and individuals during this time of he distributed such as were too ill to labour or to bear arms into the interior where they would have the benefit of a better climate and more abundant supply of indian provisions he established at the same time a chain of military posts between and the new port of st they consisted of five fortified houses each surrounded by its dependent hamlet the first of these was about nine from and was called la six beyond was four and a half further was and five further fort conception which was fortified with great care being at the foot of the golden mountains of in the vast and and within half a league of the residence of its having thus relieved p martyr d l of all its useless population and left none but such as were too ill to be removed or were required for the service and protection of the place and the construction of the the returned with a large body of the most effective men to the fortress of st the military posts thus established succeeded for a time in the natives but fresh soon began to be manifested excited by a different cause from the preceding among the who had accompanied father boil to the island were two of far greater zeal than their superior when he returned to spain they behind earnestly bent upon the fulfilment of their mission one was called roman pane a poor as he himself of the order of st the other was a they resided for some time among the indians of the endeavouring to make they had succeeded with one family consisting of sixteen persons the chief of which on being had taken the name of the of the however was the great object of their pious labours the extent and importance of his possessions made his of great consequence to the interests of the colony and the zealous fathers considered it a means of bringing his numerous subjects under the dominion of the church for some time the lent a willing ear he learnt the the ave maria and the creed and made his whole family repeat them daily the other of the and of the province of however reproached him and at him for to the laws and of the strangers who were of his possessions and of his nation the complained that in consequence of these and voyages of â i evil communications their fancied convert suddenly into his but another and more grievous cause is for his his favourite wife was or treated with outrage by one of the of some authority and the indignant all faith in a religion which as he supposed admitted of such losing all hope of the of the removed to the of another taking with them their indian convert before their departure they erected a small chapel and furnished it with an altar and images for the use of the family of the had scarcely departed when several indians entered the chapel broke the images in pieces trampled them under foot and buried them in a neighbouring field this it was said was done by order of in contempt of the holy religion from which he had a complaint of this was carried to the who ordered a process to be immediately and those who were found to be punished according to the law it was a period of great in law especially among the spanish in spain all in religion all from the faith and all acts of either by or jew were punished with fire and such was the fate of the poor ignorant indians convicted of this outrage on the church it is questionable whether had any hand in this offence and it is probable that the whole affair was exaggerated a proof of the credit due to the evidence brought forward may be judged by one of the facts recorded by roman pane the poor the field in which the holy images were buried was planted he says with certain roots shaped like a or several of which coming up in the of the images were found to have grown most in the form of a cross the cruel punishment

47Thomas Anstey Guthrie

to send one hundred dollars to mr continued for i am afraid to have so much money with me i advise you to send your money to your employer catch me doing that i am bound to have a good time any how at least send the money you owe him i ll bet i won t well do as you please i have said all i have to say you are a fool bob exclaimed tom who had evidently used as much as he wished and no longer cared to speak soft words to him the adventures of bright perhaps i am but i know better than to spend my money upon fast horses if you will go i can t help it i am sorry you are going astray what do you mean by that you young monkey said tom angrily this was tom the bully it sounded like him and with a feeling of sorrow resigned the hopes he had cherished of making a good boy of him we had better part now added our hero sadly i m willing shall leave this afternoon for the towns up the river i hope no harm will befall you good by tom go it i have heard your preaching about long enough and i am more glad to get rid of you than you are to get rid of me walked away towards the house where he had left the trunk containing his books while tom made his way towards a livery stable the boys had been in the place for several days and had made some acquaintances so tom had no difficulty in a companion for his proposed ride ob ok our hero wrote a letter that afternoon to mr in which he all the particulars of his journey his relations with tom and the success that had attended his labors at the bank he procured a hundred dollar note for his small bills and enclosed it in the letter he felt sad about tom the had done so well had been so industrious and shown such a spirit that he had been very much encouraged about him but if he meant to be wild again â for it was plain that the ride was only the beginning of sorrows â it was well that they should part by the afternoon stage our hero proceeded to passing through several smaller towns which did not promise a very abundant harvest his usual success attended him for wherever he went people seemed to be pleased with him as squire lee had declared they would be his pleasant honest face was a capital recommendation and his eloquence seldom failed to achieve the result which eloquence has ever achieved from down to the present day our limits do not permit us to follow him in all his from town to town and from house to the adventures op house so we pass over the next fortnight at the end of which time we find him at he had sold all his books but twenty and had that day eighty dollars more to mr it was wednesday and he hoped to sell out so as to be able to take the next steamer for boston which was advertised to sail on the following day he had heard nothing from tom since their parting and had given up all expectation of meeting him again but that bad penny proved true once more for as he was walking through one of the streets of he had the misfortune to meet him â and this time it was indeed a misfortune shouted the as familiarly as though nothing had happened to disturb the harmony of their relations ah tom i didn t expect to see you again replied not very much rejoiced to meet his late companion i suppose not but here i am as good as new have you sold out no not quite how many have you left ob never ok about twenty but i thought tom you would have returned to boston before this time no and tom did not seem to be in very good spirits where are you going now i don t know i ought to have taken your advice this was a concession and our hero began to feel some sympathy for his companion â as who does not when the their faults i am sorry you did not i got in with some pretty hard fellows down there to continued tom rather and spent all your money added who could readily understand the reason why tom had put on his humility again â not all how much have you left not much replied he i don t know what i shall do i am in a strange place and have no friends s sympathies were aroused and without the of reflection he promised to be a friend in his extremity i will stick by you this time bob come what will i will do just as you say now our merchant was a little flattered by this display of confidence he did not give weight enough to the fact that it was alone which made tom so humble he was in trouble and gave him all the he could ask for his future good behavior he could not desert him now he was in difficulty you shall help me sell my books and then we will return to boston together have you money enough left to pay your employer tom hesitated something evidently hung heavily upon his mind i don t know how it will be after i have paid my expenses to boston he replied his face was perplexed by this answer but as tom seemed so reluctant to go into details he reserved his inquiries for a more convenient season now tom you take the houses on that side of the street and i will take those upon this side you shall have the profits on

35Isabella Lucy Bird

the i brought them on a trading trip and the indian women even made themselves garments out of boughs and leaves like mother eve that they might trade their of skin to the white people for the cheap glass beads and tiny bells such as the people of old time hung about the necks of the with which they hunted birds were greatly by savages jew s were also much liked by them and were sometimes used in paying them for land the indian who could possess himself of a copper kettle was a rich man in his tribe it was the irresistible temptation of a copper kettle that persuaded to betray to the virginia the cheap iron of the drove out the stone and knives were eagerly bought but guns were more sought after than anything else and though there were many laws against selling fire arms to the indians there were always men who were glad to themselves by this trade the passion of the savage for tt history of the united states purchase of land drinks was so great that evil men among the were often able to strip them of all their goods by selling them strong the white generally bought the land they occupied from the indians as land was not worth much the price paid was trifling island on which new york now stands was sold to the dutch by the india ns for about twenty four dollars in trading wares the land made trouble for the lines were not well defined and were often matters of dispute the indians did not understand business and they sometimes had to be paid over and over again for a tract of land chapter xiv early indian wars and the shell axe there were between the two races occasions enough for white men were sure to cheat the ignorant indians and the violent the indians were as sure to revenge themselves if an indian suffered wrong from one white man he thought he had a right to take vengeance on any man woman or child of the white race when he found opportunity it was an indian saying that one pays for another when evil disposed white men killed and robbed an indian on the island where new york now stands the nephew of the slain indian though but a little boy laid it up in his mind to kill some white man in revenge and when he had grown to manhood he entered the shop of early indian wars an in a place killed the poor fellow and felt sure that he had at last done justice to his uncle by somebody who had never done anybody harm then too indians were trained to think that war was the only worthy occupation of a threat man if an indian had never killed an enemy he was nobody even the girls him th young men in a tribe therefore always in favor of war many of the white people sincerely desired to do the indians good schools for the education of indian children were set up in virginia and in new england catholic labored among the john of preached to thousands of indians and translated the whole bible into their language he is called the to the indians but even in trying to do the indians good the white men offended them the chiefs and medicine men of the indians did not like to see their ancient customs treated with contempt and their own influence destroyed by the new religion o history of the united states we have seen how suddenly the indians the in this led to a long war with many and cruel surprises on both sides as the that the indians did not keep faith with them but used the cloak of peace to get the advantage of a sudden surprise they on their part thought it to act in bad faith the more that they could never come at the indians who would take their own time to strike and flee pretending to make peace the sent out simultaneously parties to fall on every indian village within their reach it is said they even t went so far as to use poison at a treaty meeting in order to kill certain chiefs after some years the neighboring indians were subdued or driven off but in the old chief who had led in the first planned a second he was so old that he could not walk without assistance and could not see except when his eyelids were held open he was carried to the scene of the indians had by this time secured guns by a sudden surprise they killed about five hundred white people in a single day but they paid dearly for their victory for the colony had grown strong enough to defeat and punish them they were driven away from their villages was taken prisoner and while a captive was suddenly killed by an soldier the war in grew out of the differences between the dutch and the english the english brought back the indians whom the tribe had just driven away the began the war by killing some english the attempts of the english to conquer this tribe were at first of early indian wars no avail the indians were light of foot and got away from men clad in heavy they continued to seize and torture to death such english as they could catch in john a trained soldier at the head of a company of men with some from marched into the country at mystic just before daybreak the men surrounded the village of the dreaded chief in the first set the village on fire a horrible slaughter followed indian men women and children to the number of five or six hundred were shot down or burned in the village or killed in trying to escape in the war which followed this attack the whole tribe was

10Joseph Conrad

all the of her intellectual nature for something better than her narrow life by all her joy in the conversation of d the only man her equal in culture she had ever known she felt drawn to be the wife of the yet if there were roses there were thorns in such a path the village girl knew that madame la must lead a life very different from any she had known she must bear with a husband whose mind was ever in a state of and and she must meet the great world in truth there were two there was the that her neighbors knew the that went to church the that taught school no there was the other that read and shakespeare and de with this new had nothing to do and it was the of her nature that caused her then her conscience came in because there might be worldly attractions on one side she leaned to the other to reject a poor and accept a rich and one had something of treason in it at the end of a week she sent for them both henry s had been ready to start for new for two days and company were expecting the who was in some sort a ward of theirs henry and the d walked side by side in an awkward silence to the little vine covered cottage of that interview i do not know enough to write fully but i know that said such words as these this is an awful responsibility i suppose a judge when he must pass sentence of death but i must make a decision that the happiness of both my friends and myself i can not do it now will you wait until you both return in the spring i have a reason that i can not explain for wishing this matter postponed it will be decided for me perhaps i do not know that she said just these words and i know she did not say them all at once but so they parted and miss more who ribbons and scandal and whose only effort at mental improvement had been the out of the hairs to her forehead that she might look intellectual â miss more from her at the window the two friends walking away from mrs s cottage and remarked as she had often remarked before that it was absolutely for a young woman who was a professor to have two at once and such good friends too gifted girls like usually have a background in some friend intelligent quiet a dark thoughtful girl was sometimes spoken of as s double â but she was rather s opposite her traits were to those of her friend the two were all but inseparable and so when found herself the next evening on the bank of the river she naturally found with her slowly the of which henry was owner and master drifted by while the three or four men at each long oar strode back and forward on the deck as they urged the boat on henry was standing on the elevated bench made for the pilot holding the long oar and guiding the craft as his manly form in the western sunlight attracted their attention both the girls were with admiration both waved their handkerchiefs and henry returned the adieu by swinging his hat so intent was he on watching them that he forgot his duty and one of the men was obliged to call out swing her round captain or the mail boat d sink us hardly was the boat swung out of the way when the tall mail boat swept by see the cried and again were waved and the stepped to the guard and called out to henry i ll see you in new and the swift steamer immediately bore him out of speaking distance and henry watched him disappear with a choking feeling that thus the nobleman was to him in life see said you are a lucky girl tou have your choice you can go through life on the or on the of course you ll go by steam there are on sometimes said then turning she noticed a singular expression on s face her insight was quick and she said confess that you would choose the and turned away two strings to her bow or two to her string i should say and she did say it for this was miss more s comment on the fact wliich she had just learned that miss had received letters from the lower country the handwriting of the directions of which indicated that she had from both her friends but poor miss more with never a string to her bow and never a beau to her string might be forgiven for shooting that did no harm there was a time when had letters from only one henry was very ill and d wrote of his condition to and to his family in one of these it was announced that he was beyond recovery and and mingled their tears together then there came a letter saying that he was better then he was worse again and then better in those days the mail was brought wholly by and it took many days for intelligence to come but the next letter that had was from henry himself it was filled from first to last with praises of the that he had taken henry out of his boarding place and put him into his own large room in the st charles that he had nursed him with more than a friend s tenderness scarcely sleeping at all that he had sold his cargo relieved his mind of care employed the most prominent and anticipated his every want â all this and more the letter told and the very next from the lower try the great heavy duke of with a green half moon of work in

10Joseph Conrad