Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1839-02-08
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1889.

renders III our Efforts uncertain, sad, and,
frui'ess. Believe tha, here. on this earth,
Is our true heaven. and we can make it so.
Thus. too, only can we escape all the in
ward Struggle and convulson between The
inevitable Actual and Possible never TO
be attained
mo doubt yon would then cut The knot
but is there not still thread which unites
us to the hope, vague and coourless as it
ia, Of nobler being in more appropriate
scene ?
BE it So, said Walsngham, with his
tranquil smile. For my part only hope
at present hat you will not send me away
from you to look tor any happier ideal posi-
ton. am contented where am
Maria. too smiI"h family, but said moth
ing, Aftera pause Walslngham. who had
looked down as if in thought, went on
In fact, we loose by our careless indo-
ence the advantages we might enjoy, and
at the same time dream of those winch are
impossible. We w,ll not walk because It
Ia less trouble to dream Of flying. No
wonder we make little of out lives compared
with their capacities, when so few ever
think ofwhat they are capable. The world
we live in is to most of us 50 mean, dim,
aud narrow, that it would seem as It our
sight would serve us for no better purpose
than the blind mans string AMI dog. name.
j., to keep US ont of ponds and dtclics.'
This was more than is usually said at a
breath in society. but walsingham spoke so
gracefully, and his fame stood so high,
that all were pleased to hear him. The
Only person who seemed much surprised
was Miss Harcourt, who looked up, and
exclaimed
Dear me! what strange ideas! am
sure they never would have struck me-"
Hastings had been listening for some
| minutes to The conversation, which he now
took up ,hus:-
For my part, am of Miss Lasceile's
mind. confess think one always feels
the want OF a change after a few weeks
residence in one place; and | suppose,
when | have seen all the isIunds in the
Pacific by the way, | mean to 60 there
next week--I shall want to embark for one
of the planets, or take fl ght to HE moon.
i hope said one o: the younger mer, I'll
you initiate Astolpho in that, you will not
at least, bring back any of the foolish
brain. tina, are KEEP. there. We have en-
ough here
'Pcrbops,' said Sir Charles, you would
at least be tired there, and wish yoursel
once more in England, Now, am con-
tent TO begin by staying here
Hastings en5"crCd--
81 know no country | tire of so soon a
eng land, All the bold fresh character o
men is worn away by conventional refine
ment, and life is smo'hered under n henI
of comforts. One learns something b,
lying in wait among the rocks, with riff
in one hand, aud an Indian chief as con,
pan'on, when herd Of thousand bison
rush over the plain to the banks Of som
great river. and beast after beast, squadron
after squadron, plunge with crash. an
swim to fresh pastures; or when one finds
in he vide SO lItude, the hut of some India
girl, perhaps the survivor of her tribe, VIII
has escaped from the massacre, and live
for year alone on the animals she ha
trapped. singing. while she sews lhei
skins into clothes, some melancholy son;
OF the old days; or when one falls in a
some haunt of Asia'ic horsemen with a
old hermit. who has lived dGvotee pcrhap
! for sixty or seventy years, and thinks tn
, first European he sees must be some spin
whom he has met with before ina preylou
state of existence when perhaps, too, tn
next hour you have to fight your wa
! among troop Of Kurds, through an am
bush of robbers, and must ride for twenly
four hours without stopping. and with you
, hand on your pistol, if you would escap
alive"
Walsingham said, quietly
, "You mentioned that one learns some
. thing in this way. Pray, what does on
, learn'"
"Oh, no school learning. perhaps, b,
one gets new notions and images into one
t head. You know the world better, an
mankind, and what you can yourself endur
G and do.
e "Perbaps all this may be learned MOI
accurately and deeply in the midst Of OF
# ordinary life, if we will only keep our eye
g open, and be always striving and shapln!
t And as TO endurance, life Of action anon
men will always bring with 1t suflicIe
e trial-most perhaps, to the mind where lea
u to the muscles"
" 'Ah, SO be it for those who like it.
T. am never SO cheerful and so much at ca
as when there is danger in the way, al
If enterprise aud novelty 10 lead me on.
II does not seem worth while to take all Il
10 pains you speak of about so commonpIa'
~ an existence as ours is here.
NJ Surely no existence is common place
N him who lives to uncommon aims. ~
= meunest work carried on with insight n
Of hope, with feeling of The Beautiful, a
with reference to The whole. of winch ,
and it are parts. becomes &c and impC
a. lant. Sophoces writing his tragedy, q
L. The flame, by the light of which he saw
write, each was working It's vocation. B
III if the lamp would flare about and set Fl
u the tragedy on fire, and then the house,
u had better been exlinguished a, first,
" that is essential in romance lies dlffus
10 throughout ordinary life, which, Tor tho
,IA lima h, ~