Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1852-07-12
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BY CHARLES DICKENS.
BY CHARLE DICKENS.
PART FOURTH.
CHI A TER XIII.
EsTHER's NARRATIVE.
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EsTHER's NARRATIVE.
Continued.
told her, laughing, why, | had known that,
too, just as well as | had known the other! And
we sat before the fire, and | had all the talking
to myself for little while (tbough there was not
much OF ~; and Ada was soon quiet and happy
DO you think my cousin John knows Dame
Durden?' she asked.
'Unless my cousin John is blind my pet' said
], 4 should think my cousin John knows pretty
well as much as we know
| we want to speak to him before Richard goes,'
SAID Ada, tinidly, 'and we want you to advise US,
and to tell him so. Perhaps YOU wouldn't mind
Richards coming in, Dame Durden?'
| -! Richard is outside, is he, my dear?' said I.
| i am not quite certain returned Ada, with
bashful simplicity that would have won my heart,
If she had not it long before shut think he's
waiting at the door,
There he was, of course. They brought chair
on either side Of me, and put me between them.
and really seemed to have fallen in love with me.
instead of one another; they were SO conIiding,
and so ruslful, and so fond Of me- They went
on IN their own wild way for a little while-I
never stopped them; enjoyed it too much myself
and then we gradually fell to considering how
young they were, and how there must be lapse
OF several years before this early love could ONE
TO any thing, and how it could come to happiness
only If 1t were real and lasting, and inspiring them
with steady resolution to do their duty to each
Plher' with constancy, fortitude, and persever-
ance, each always for the others sake Well!
Richard said that he would work his fingers TO
the bone for Ada, and Ada said that she would
work her fingers TO the bone for Richard, and thew
called me all sorts Of endearing ard sensible
names and we sat there, advising and talking,
nan the night Finally, before we parted, gave
Them my promise TO speak to their cousin John to-
morrow.
80, when Tomorrow came i went TO my Guard
Ian after breakfast, in the room that was our town
substitute for the growlery, and told him that
had It IN trust to tell him something.
Wen, little woman said he shutting up his
book, IT you have accepted the trust, there can
be no harm it it,
4 hope not, Guardian, said |. i can guarau-
lee that there is no secrecy in it. For it only hap
pened yesterday
,A y ,sus And ID What What * it ia sther2'
he had given me then. Uuless | am much mis-
taken, saw that did So
Because, said /, with little hesitation.
( 'Yes, my dear!' said he. Don't hurry
Because, said |. Ada and Richard have fall
en- IN love And have told each other So
sAlready.' cried my Guardian quite astonlshed.
4 sYes!' s id |, sand to tell the truth, Guardian
rather expected it,
s'rhe deuce you did, said he.
He sat considering for minute or two; with
his smile, at once so handsome and so kind, upon
his changing face; and then requested me to let
them know that he wished to see them. When
they came, he encircled Ada with one arm, in his
fatherly way, and addressed himself TO Richard
with cheerful gravity.
Rick said Mr.. Jarndvce, & am lad to have
won your confidence. hope TO preserve it,
When contemplated these relations between US
four which have so frightened my life, and so ln-
vested it with new interests and pleasures, GER
tainIv did contemplate, afar off, the possibility of
you and your pretty cousin here (don't be shy,
Ada, don't be shy, my dearly being in mind to
go through life together. saw, and do see, many
reasons to make il desirable But that was afar
off, Rick afar Off
sWe look afar, off, sir, returned Richard.
sWell!' said Mr. Jarndyce. That's rational.
Now hear me, my dears! might tell you that you
don't know your own minds yet; that thousand
things may happen to divert you from one aDoth-
er that it is we'll this chain Of flowers you have
taken up is very easily broken, or it might become
a chain flead But | will not do that. Such
wisdom will come soon enough, dare say, if it
is TO come at all. will assume that, few years
hence, you will be in your hearts to one another,
what you are to-day. All say before speaking
to you according TO that assumption is, II you do
cDdnSe-H you W COul6 ~ Huu llldt you uiC t1OiC
commonplace cousins to each other as man and
woman, than you were as boy and girl (your
manhood will excuse me, Rick!)-don't be as
hamed still 10 con6de in me, for there will be no.
thing monstrous or uncommon in it. | am only
your friend and distant kinsman. | have no
power over you whatever. But wish and hope
to retain your confidence if do nothing to forfeit
it,
4 am very sure, SIR returned Richard, 'thatI
speak for Ada, too, when say you have the
strongest power over us both--rooted In respect,
gratitude, and misunderstanding every day.
sDear cousin John, said Ada, on his shoulder,
my fathers place can never be empty again--
All the love and duty | could ever have rendered
to him, is transferred 10 YOU
Gomez said Mr.. Jarndyce. Now, for our as
sumption. Now we lift our eyes up, and look
hopefully at the distance. Rick, the world is be-
fore you and it is most probable that as you en-
ter ii, SO it will receive you. Trust in nothing
but Providence and your own efforts. Never
separate the two, ike the heather wagonsr. Con-
stancy in love is good thing but il means moth
ing, and is nothing, without constancy in every
kind of effort If you had the abilities of all the
/ great men, past and present, you could do MOTH
| ing well, without sincerely meaning it, and sett-
ing about it. If you entertain the supposilion
that any real success, IN great things or in small,
ever was or could be, ever will or can be, wrest-
ed from Fortune by fits and starts, leave that
wrong idea here. or leave your cousin Ada here.s
i will leave it here, SIR replied Richard ,snil-
ing, 'f brought it here just now (but | hope /
did not, and will work my way on to my cousin
Ada in the hopeful distance m
3 Right, said Mr.. Jarndyce; 'if you are no, to
make her happy. why should you pursue her y
Il 4 would mt make her unhappy-no, not ever
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