New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-03-30

preierring even the loss OF ground 10 such uBcer
taiEty.
The word soon brought carr.ge. horses. driver.
all in heap together. acros. the road
The devil " cried The driver. looking over his
shoulder. - 'ee natter
." Hark II
" Whist
" That noise"
An Heaven be qiiet cursed hrigsndl" 81
horse who shook his bells What noise
Behind Is il not another carriage at gallop :
There whats that
| Miscresnt with pigs head. stand still" 20
another horse. who bit another who frightened the
other two. VITO plunged aud backed There is
nothing coming
Nothing
No. nothing bat the day yonder7
You ere right, think. hear nothing now, in
deed. Go on
The entangled equipage. half hidden in the reek.
ing cloud from the horses, goes on slowly at first
FOR the driver, checked unnecessarily ia bis pro
gress sulkily takes out n pocket knife, and puts
new lash to his whip. Then halo whoopl Hal
10, hi Away once more, savagely.
And now the stars faded, and the day glimmer
ed. and standing in the carriage, looking back he
could discern. the track by which he had come
and see that there was Traveller within view. on
all the heavy expanse. And soon II was broad
day, and the son began N shine on corn fields and
vineyards and solitary lsborers. risen from little
temporary huts by heaps Of stones upon the road.
were, here and there az work repairing the high
way, or eating bread. BY and by. there were
peasants going to their daily labor. to market
oungng at the doors Of poor cottages, gazing idly
| at him as he passed. And then there was a post.
yard. ankle deep in mud with steaming dunghils
and vast OUthO1ses half ruined and looking this
/ dainty prospect. immense. old, shadeess, glar-
ing. stone chateau, with hat its windows blinded,
and green damp crawling szily over it, from the
balustrsded terrace to the taper tips OF the extin
guishers upon the turrets.
AZ n n in n ri he RI
and only intent on going iast-e1cept when he
stood up, for mile together. and looked back
] which he would do whenever there was piece OF
open Countrywide went on, still postponing thought
Indefinitely, and still always tormented with think
ING TO no purpose.
shame. disappontment and discontinue enaw-
/ ed at his heart constant apprehension OF being
/ overtaken, or meteor he was grOundessly afraid
even OF travellers. who came toward him by the
/ way he was going-oppressed him heavily. The
| same ntolerabe awe and dread that had come
/ upon him in the night, returned unweakened In the
day. The mOnOtOnOus ringing Of the bells and
/ trsmpng of horses the mOnotony OF his anxiety,
/ and useless rage the mOnotonous wheel OF fear
/ regret aud passion, he kept turning round and
round made the journey like vision, In which
/ nothing was quite real bat bis own torment.
/ 1t was vision OF long roads that stetched away
/ to an horizon always recedng and never gained;
of l.paved towns, mp hill and down where faces
came 20 dark doors aud Ill glazed windows. and
where rows Of mud ties battered cows and oxen
were tied up for sale in the long narrow streets,
butting and lowing and receiving blows on their
blunt heads from blOdgsons that might have beaten
them in of bridges crosses, churches Postcards
new horses being put in against their wills, and
the horses OF the last stage reekng, painting and
laying their dropping heads together doletully at
stable doors OF little cemeteries with black crosses
settled sideways in the graves. and withered |
wreaths upon them doping away again OF long.
long roads dragging themselves out up hill and
down, TO the treachercus horizon.
OF morning. noon, and sunset; night, and the
rising of an early moon OF long roads temporau-
ly left behind, and rough pavement reached; oil
battering and Gathering over It, and looking up
among house roofs at great church tower; Of get
ting out and eating hastily, and drinking draughts
Of wine that had no cheering lntlence; OF coming
forth aioot, among host OF beggars-blind men
with quiverng ey elds, led by old women holding
candles TO their faces idiot girls the lame, the
epeptc, and the pslsied-of passing through the
camor and looking from his seat at the upturned
countenances and outstretched hands, with bur
ried dread of recognising some pursuer pressing
forwarded galloping away again, upon the long,
long road gathered up dull and stunned, In bis cor
ncr or rising to see where the moon shone family
on a patch of the same endless road mules away, or
looking back 10 see who followed.
OF never sleeping, but sometimes doing with
Enclosed eyes, and springing up with start and
reply aloud TO imaginary voice. OF oursiug him
self for being there for having He'd for having let
her 60 for not having confronted and dehed him
OF having deadly quarrel with the whole world,
but chiefly with himself OF blighting everything
with his black mood as he was carried on and away !
twas levered vision Of things pas. and present
all cOnfounded together OF his life and journey
blended into one. OF being madly hurried some |
where whittier he must go. Ofold scenes starting !
up among the novelties through which he travelled
or musing and brooding ove- what was past and
distant and seeming 70 take no notice OF The actual
l. "A A.Tsr tIya0 p ma
hsasting consciousness of being bewildered by |
them, and having their images all crowded IN his
hot brain after they were gone
A vision OF change upon change aud still the |
same monOtony Of bells and wheels, and horses |
feet and no rest OF town and country, post yards
horses drivers bill and valley light and darkness
road and pavement hight and hollow. wet weather |
and dry and still the same monotony OF bells ana |
wheels and horse feet and no rest. vision oil tend
ing on at last towards the distant capital by buster
roads. and sweeping round by old cathedrals ana
dsshing through small towns and villages. less /
thnly scattered on the road than formerly and SIT |
ting shrouded in his corner. with his cloak up to his
ace as people passing by looked AT him
OF rolling on ana on, always postponing thought !
and always racked with thinking Of being unable /
10 reckon up the hours he had been upon the road |
or - comprehend the pOats OF time aud place In \
his Journey. Of being psrched and giddy, ana |
half mad OF pressing on. in spite OF all. as If he |
could not stop. aud coming into Paris, where the 4
turbid river held its swift course undisturoed' be
tween two brawling streams OF life aud motion
A troubled vision. then, OF bridges, quays' inter
minable streets; of wine-shops, water carriers |
great crowds of people, soldiers. coaches, military |
drums. arcades. OF the mOnotony OF bells and |
wheels aud horses feet being at length lost In the
universal din and uprosr. or the gradual sub |
sidence OF tbs, noise as he passed out In another
carriage. by different barrier from that by which
ne had entered. OF the restoration, as he travel |
led ON toward the sea coast OF the monotony OF
bells and wheels aud horses feet, and no rest.
or sunset once again, and nightiaL Oh long |
roads again and dead OF night, and feeble lights |
10 windows by the road side and still the Old |
monotony OF bells. and wheels. and horses feet |
and no rest OF dawn. and daybreak, and the |
rising of the sun. OF toiling slowly up HILL and
feeling on ts top the fresh sea breeze; and seeing
the morning light upon the edges Of the distant |
waves OF comingd own into harbor when the
tide was at it's full and seeing fishing boats host
in and glad women and children waiting for them |
OF nets and seamens clothes spread out 10 dry |
upon the shore Of busy sailors and their voices
high among ships mAss and rigging OF tho buoy |
ancy and brightness Of tho water AMI tho unit |
yersal sparkling.
OF rcccding from tn. coast. and looking baos |
upon 4, from the deck whom u was haze upon The |
water with hero and there n lt,ls opening ct |