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reality, u was the monent u spiiicll
llie sister felt that the ihauence--the sort
Of afectionate authority her three years
seniority had hitherto given her--was
over. The chain of habit was broken
she could now only lure TO right by soft
persuasion or bright example. Yet one
had overheard their discourse, and had
read both their hearts, by that intuitive
knowledge Of human nature which ge-
|nius gives. For genius lived and had its
being in at least one noble heart behind
that counter; genius OF that high order
which makes its possessor the pioneer 10
promised land, even when meeting, as
more or less such minds 80 often do, with
scorn and ingratitude forming as it were
the living angle of wedge, that makes
the opening, to die perchance in achiev'
ing it.
tFTf we can get out by half-past ten
tonight, will you take stroll with me ?"
said William Howard to Herbert Mark
ham, an hour or 50 after the conversa-
ton of the latter with his sister, to which
| have just alluded.
Why, | don't know am sure"
replied Herbert in hesitatlng manner;
81 half promised TO go with some OF
them to a shilling concert, and to supper
afterwards"
q You had better change your mind"
returned the other; a walk in the fresh
air--say across one of the bridges-will
do you much more good, besides costing
| you nothing"
i "Oh don't mind few shillings."
Il "I know that; but wish you would
come with me instead; really want to
speak TO you"
n seemed that William Howard could
ALWAYS have his viii, when he innK he
trouble oftrving far it. And yet none of
them could account for bis influence,
although many felt it. In person he was
slight and fair, with a high forehead,
shaded by soft brown hair, which, though
he could not have numbered more than
eight and twenty years, was already
/ streaked with white his eyes were OF
that changing color which so frequently
! belongs to genius, aud which might be
called chameleon grey; while, alas the
hectic cheek and frequent cough told a
Iiale of suffering to those who could read
such signs.
! Herbert scarcely knew how it was he
had been so easily persuaded TO give up
the concert yet certain 1t is, that towards
midnight he found himself inhaling the
pure air from the river, instead of the vi
tiated atmosphere of crowded room.
Moreover, he was enjoying the conver-
sation of his companion extremely; per-
haps, too, his vanity was little gratifed
that Howard-whom he soon discovered
to be no ordinary person-should think
i if worth while to converse with a youth
like himself so seriously for they had, in
fact, become quite confidential, and they
smoke of their mutual hardships with the
freedom of friendship. They stood on
Waterloo bridge, the slanting shadow OF
whose arches was thrown distinctly on
the ripping waters by the bright moon
F above, as it seemed to rend asunder every
now and then the fleecy floating clouds.
There was a hush, repose about the
: scene, affecting even to the most care
less, after the fatigue, and noise, and
f feverish hurry Of the day; while north
and south, and east and west, arose the
darkening masses of domes and dwell
lings. and above them the lurid glare
which, once observed, is always recog-
nized as The reflection of London's myr-
lad gas lights.
elbow wealth and poverty neighbor
one another!" " said William Howard,
after a pause; I" and yet they are un-
known TO each other, and have worlds
more widely different than thousands
who dwell in different hemispheres.
This is the mischief,-the intense selfish
ness which, having no faith in a govern
ing Providence, will plan and purpose
for its little self, according 10 its little
knowledge, getting entangled in an inex-
tricable manner in its vain efforts TO work
out truth from falsity, right out oi
{ wrong.' 1t is this fearful selfshness,
! this want of human sympathy, that is the
canker stretching through the social
chain, even TO the suferings of you and
J me-
: "Perhaps," replied Herbert, but hall
understanding his companion, and yei
: ldeeply Interested in their discourse; "bu
S how is it to be cured Z have heard
politicians say it is easy TO discover Z
: fault, but often very difficult to remove
it.n U.l
3; q By working a different problem,
\ returned Howard, without attending II
i the last observation, -" by working from
fright, whithersoever it may lead, insteaC
9 Of struggling after happiness by the eros
/, roads which have no connection with it
It is by moral ihfluence--no other force
y that the suffering must have theis wrong