New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-12-15

For no very strong reason must ssy. but ~
we come from the East, and as the East 10 the
country of the plague"
The plsgue!" repeated the other. -" lba,s
my grievance. / have had the plsgce c9n'insahy,
ever since / have been here ! am Ike sane
man shut up in ma1house can't stand the sus-
piciOn Of the thing | came here as wen - ever
! was in my life; but to suspect me of the pi'gne
is to give NE the plague. And have hsd i'-and
have got it,"
"You bear it very we'll, Mr.. Meseles, SAL the
second speaker, smiling
mo HyOu knew the real stA'e o, VIC
that's the last observation you wouid tnlnh Vi
making have been waking up, night aiser 5Ign,
and saying noe l have got it, son IL nas Ie'ef
oped itself notc | am in for il, Hon theGe fellows
are making out their CAGE for their precautions
Why, I'd as soon have spit pat through me, ono
be stuck upon card in collection OF oeetes az
| lead the life have been leading here
well, Mr.. Meagles, say no more about H. no"
it's over" urged cheerful feminine voice
Over repeated Mr.. Meagles, who appeared
Though without any i'll nsture) to be IN that pc
cusr tta'e of mind in which the last word SPOKEN
BY any body else is new injury. lover! ana why
should s1y no more sboutit because 1t over
1t was Mrs. Mesgles who had spoken 70 MI
MeaQles: and Mrs Meaees was, like MI Mea-
| ges cOmely and healthy, with pleasant Ehgnsn
face which had been looking At hOmely shipes 'or
FIVE ard fifty years or more, and snone VIII
bright reflection of them.
There Never mind, Father, never mlnd
said Mrs Neagles. "DO for goodness sake con
tent Yourself with Pet"
with Petl" repeated Mr.. Meagles in his IN
iured vein Pet, however, beng cOse behind him,
touched him on the shoulder, and Mr.. Meagles lm
media,ely forgave Narcotics from the bottom OF
| his be art.
Pet was about twenty fair girl with rich
brown hair hanging free in natural rnglets a
lovely GIRL with h frank face and wonderful eyes
so large, so soft 80 bright set to such perfection
in her kind good head. She was round and fresh
and din pied and spoil. and there was In Pet an
air Of timidity and dependence which was the best
weakness in the world, and gave her the only
GROWING charm girl SO pretty and pleasant could
have been without
"Now l ask you," said Mr. Meagles in the
bandest confidence, falling back step himself,
and banding bis daughter step forward TO lllus
trste bis question: d ask you simply as between
man and man you know, DID you ever bear of such
damned nonsense as putting Pet in quarantine .
1T has had the result of making even qu8ran-
tine enjoyable"
Come !" said Mr.. Measles that's something,
to be sure. j am obliged to you for that remark
Now Pet, my darling, you had better 60 along with
Mother and get ready for the boat The officer OF
health, and variety OF humbugs IN cooked hats,
are coming off to let us out of this at last and all
we jail birds are to breakfast together In some
thing approaching to Christian style again, be-
fore we take wing for our different destinations.
Tstty coIam, stick you close to your YONG mis-
tress"
He spoke to hspdsome girl with lustrous dark
hair and eyes, and very neatly dressed, who replied
with half cOurtsy, as she passed of in the train
of Mrs Meagles and Pet They crossed the bare
scoyched terrace, all three together, and disap
ptaIed through staring white arcbway. Mr..
Mesgles's companion, grave dark man of forty,
still stood looking toward this archway after they
were gone until Mr. Meages tapped him on the
arm.
al beg your pardon" said he, starting.
Not at ALL" said Mr. Mesgles.
They took one silent turn backward and for.
ward in the shade of the wall getting at the hight on
which the quarantine barracks are placed what
cool refreshment Of sea breeze there was, at
in the morning Mr.. Meagess companion resumed
the conversation.
May ask you" he said, " what is the name
Of
"Tattyc oram ?" MI Mesgles struck in. 81
have not the least idea
81 thought" said the other, " that
"TattycOrsm :" suggested Mr.. Meagles again
"Tbank you-tbat Iattycoram was a name
and have several times wondered at the oddity
OF it,
why, the fact u.s." fad Mr.. Meages, Mrs.
Meaeles and II yseli are you see, practical people.
That you have frequently mentioned in the
course of the agreeable and interesting cOnyersa-
tons we have had tOgtthe walking up and down
on these stones" said the other with half smile
breskiDg through the gravity OF his dark face.
Practical people. So ore day, five or six years
ago now when we took Pet to church at the Found
l,pg-you have heard of the Founding Hospital in
London Similar TO the Institution for the Found
Children in Paris y
Il have seen it,"
"Wen! One day WI en- we took Pet to church
there to hear the music-because, as practical
people, il is the business of our lives TO show her
everything that we think can please her-Motber
(my usual name for Mrs. Meagles) began to cry
SO, that it was necessary to take her out. What's
the matter, Mother said l, when we had
brought her little round, you are frightening
Pet, my dear Yes, / know that, Father
says Mother, but I think its through my loving
her so much, that it ever came into my head
That ever what came into your head, Mother p
% dear, dear . cried Mother, breaking on. again
when saw all tbose children ranged tier abOvs
tier, AID appealing from the father none of them
has ever kDuwn on earth to the great Father of
us all in Heaven, thought, does any wretched
mother ever come here, and Look among those
young faces, wondering which is the poor child she
brought into this forl0rn world, never through all
its life to know her love, her hiss, her face her
voice, even her Dame! Now that was practical
in Mother, and l told her so. l said Mother,
that's what call practical in you, my dear
The other, not unmoved, assented.
$50 said next day now, Mother, have
proposition to make that think you'll approve Of
Let US take one of those same children 70 be
little maid to Pet. We are practical people s.
if we should find her temper little defective, or
any of her ways little wide of ours, We shall
know what we have to take into account We
shall know what an immense deduction must be
made from all the influences and experiences that
have formed us-no parents, no child-brosher or