The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-01-13
NO 3I5.

my college expenses for the other until md
myself in some lawyers shop, in arrears with
my landlady, in debt to my washerwoman-de-
testing TO walk up the street, because should
pass the tsilors store-abhorring to walk down
! It because should be sure to see the shoemaker
standing in his door With no more comfort
or convenience in my life than can be enjoyed
between my little 5ack-cbamber, up four pair
of stairs in u cheap boarding house, and the
straightbacked chair and high-topped desk OF
| the law shop. And no more love, or hope. or
poetry, in my life, than may be found bound up
between the covers of Coke upon Lytteton Or
perhaps | shall turn private tutor, and adyer-
tise, "A highly respectable young gentleman,
! graduate of Yale College wishes to obtain
&c; and you who will be by this time the
grave head of family with several little do
nestle liabilities, will probably answer the ad
vertsement; and shall find myself teaching
the names of the keys of knowledge to young
Mark and his brothers Oh'-
Ha! ha ha hal ha ha ha! % laughed
| Sutherland
ooh, you'll patronize me rather! You'll 10
kind to me- for you'll say to yourself and
friends, He was college friend of mine, poor
fellow fancy hear and see you saying it
now, with that careless, cordial, Jolly conde-
scenson of yours"
"Ha! ha! ha! ha! ha ha! ha! My dear
Lincoln! My dear fellow, why should that
be- Why should you be pettifogger or peda-
gogue unless you have a vocation for it Why
should anybody do what they don't want to
doi Life is rich-full Of wealth, and love, and
joy, and glory. Enter and take possession"
Enter and take possession! Yes that is
what you can do. Life is full of wealth, and
love, and JOY, and glory, for you, indeed and
you can afford to mock me with those words
IND 40 Lau
heard tho wise say that happiness is not so
equally distributed after all And |, for one,
don't believe this cake of comfort is going to be
30 very unjustly divided between us, or that you
will have all the white sugar on the. top, and l
all the burnt paper at the bottom"
"See here my friend, remember that we
goodfor-nothng Mississippans are not nitia-
ted into the mysteries of the kitchen, and there
fore don't understand your culinary figure Of
speech at all"
"Oh go on 90 on You're young bear!'
"A young bear Comrades! Oh, they arc
all gone A young bear? Oh, suppose he al
ludes to my black whiskers and hair, and my
shag overcoatl0
| "Imean youy trouble is all before you!"
Trouble Oh, my dear boy, that is word
without meaningl Trouble What is trouble
What idea is the word designed to represent?
Trouble? Oh, my dear fellow, it is all mis-
take, a mere notion, superstition, prejudice;
a saying of old folks who, being near the verge
of departure from this bright, glad, joyous, ju-
bllant world, vainly try to console themselves
by slandering it a world of trouble, and talk
of a better one to which they are progressing
IL this world in itself is not good, as the Gre
ator pronounced it to be in the beginning, by
all the rules of comparison, how can any other
world be said to be better?"
"Well, believe in the better world as much
as they do; but look you the pleasantest no
ton have of Heaven i'd its beng-being -
"Oh, don't let it 60 any further-as good as
this world and only better as far as it endures
longer THIS world is full of all that is great
and glorious for enjoyment! And Lincoln,
my fine fellow, enter and take possession En-
ter, say and take possession! Don't teach or
study law Don't plod, it is ungen,emanly
; Somebody, | suppose must teach and study
law, and do such things-but don't you Do
you leave it to those a-those persons a.
those in fact who have tho plebean instinct of
labor, you apprehend! They really enjoy work
now! Just think of it | suppose that gra-
cious nature, intending them to carry on the
work Of the world endowed them with taste
for 1t! Ha ha ha! ha ba! ha! ha But
Pve no vocation for it, Neither have you, my
dear boy. Don't force your nature in an OPP
Enter life, and take possession
"Humph thank You That is to say, fol
low my attractions and if they attract me
to lead an Idle life, and live upon other people,
why, SO much the better-they are my attrac-
tions; and if they attract me to pick my
hosts pocket or run away with his daughter,
it is the same thing by the same law"
"Ha ha ha Oh, certainly remember
ing that your host might experience an attrac-
ton to blow your brains out"
| Pleasant points to be drawn to | guess |
shall not follow my attractions I'll stick to
the little law shop and relieve WEAKNESS by
grumbing. Some distinguished men have
emerged from those little law -dens and by the
WY, seriously, my dear Mark, |, that |, that
you, even you, possess those very qualities out
of which really distinguished men arc formed
and that if destiny had not thrust n sort Of
moneyed and landed greatness upon you, that
even you would achieve some judicial, poti-
! cal, diplomatic, or intellectual greatness of
some sort"
| ala ha ha! even II Well, that is sketch
Of some possibility, indeed Even I humpb
Mas d nos mouton viii you come home with
me! Do come and be my guest sterniif-or
until you win some rich Mississippi beauty.
Woo beauty, not Blackstone, for u fortune.
You have 80 much more genius for the first
than for the last, my fine fellow"
"Oh then you would have me turn fortune
hunter, and, under cover of your friendship and
introduction, aim Mt some heiress and bring
her down. and 80 secure wealth."
| Set fire to you no. Whom DO you take
me for DO you think that would present
an adyenturer to Southern creoles No, arI
But | do want you to fail in love with
Southern beauty and fortune would follow, Of
course"
III do not see it at all There are several
links wanting in that chain of reasoning But
apropos of beauty, love, and marriage. Tell
me something more Of Miss Sutherland, votre
belle Jfanese"
india listen, you" And he took Lauder
dale's arm, and turned TO walk up and down
the room for n confidential chat. Listen,
you! named her just now over the wine.
regret to have done 80. Would it were undonc!
But 80 il il in some moment Of excitement a
word passes our lips aud il is unrocallable for
ever She is 30 sacred to my heart, ~ divine
To my soul | often wonder If Helen Of Argos
were half AZ beautiful as she-my lndia!p
"What a strange, charming namo that is
for IL woman !"
as it noti But rich, luxurious, and COR
geous in its associations, too-and that is why
It was given to her. 1t suits her. She is India
Her mother was like her-a beautiful, passion
ate Havanienne rich in genius, poetry, song
luxuriating in the beautiful creations Of others,
yet far too indolcnt to create. More than all
she lost herself amid the oriental elysiums OF
Moore and thence she named her only daugh-
tor Kinda And as the maiden budded and
bloomed into womauhood-well, yes, believe,
after ALL it was who soitened down her name
to India Il has the same derivation, II u the
same name, in fact. Oh! and it suits her"