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

AZ the sea, had resumed their walk, 'byOur only
child, / know, Mr. Mesgles. May ask you--in
no impairment curiosity, but because have hsd
20 much pleasure in your society may never ~
this labyrinth OF aworld exchange que. "o,u
" III YOU again, and wish TO preserve so accurate
remembrance e you and yours-msy ask you
if have not gathered from your good wife that
YOU have had other children J"
No. No said Mr. Meages Not exactly
other children. One other child
L AIN afraid have inadvertently touches upon
q tender theme
Never mind" said Mr Mesgles. 4" II am
grave about IT, sm not Il all sOrrOwful. ltqulets
me for moment, but does not make me unhappy
Pet had twin sister Who DIED when we eould Just
see her eyes-exactly Ike Pets-soove the table,
40 che stood On iiptoe holding oy IT,
"Ah indeed indeed :"
Yes. and being practical people sresult bas
gradually sprung up in the minds OF MIS- Mesges
and myself which perhaps you may or perhaps
YOU msy not-uLdertand. Pet and her oaoy as
tel were so exactly alike, and so completely one N"
in our thoughts We have never been able to sep.
arate them since II would be a no use 70 tell
US that our dead child was mere infant. We
have etapped that child according to the changes
IN the child spared to us, and always with ia, AS
Pet has grown, tina. child has grown IS Pet has
become more sensible and wOnably, her sister has
become more sensible and wonany, by just the
same degrees. 1t would as lard 10 convince me
that if was to pass into ihe other world To-
morrow, should not, through the mercy OF God,
be received there By daughter just like Pet IS
10 persuade me IL It Pet herself is not reii.y at
my side
al understand you, sad the other, gently.
"ksto her," pursued Ter father, - the sudden
loss Of her little picture and playiellow, and her
early association With tdat myste:y IN which we
all have our equal share, but which ls not often go
forcibly presented to child, has necessarily had
some iuhueBce on Der character. Then, her
mother and were net young when we married,
and Pet has always had sort OF grown-up life with
us though we have tried 10 sdspt ourselves 70
her. We have beea advised more than once when
she has been little aiDg, 10 change climate and
air for her as often as We cOud-especlally at
about this time Of her life-and to keep her
amused. So az have no need 10 stlcA az BANK
desk now Though have been poor enough 10 my
time, assure gu, or j should have married Mrs
Mesales Ion, before, we 60 tr0ttiBg about the
world This is how you found US staring az the
Nile, ard the Pyramids, and the sphinxes, and the
Desert. and all the rest of it; and this is how
TattycOrsm will be greater traveller in course OF
time than Captain Cook
Il thank you" said the other, very heartily for
your confidence
Don't mention it, returned Mr. Meagles, "
en- sure you are quite welcome. And nov, MI.
Clennsm, perhaps l may ask you whether !ou
have vet come 70 q decision where 10 60 next
Indeed. no I am such a @af and stray e.
erywLeIe, that am liable to be dritted where any
current may set"
ats extraordinary to me-if you'll excuse my
freedom in saying so-thAt you don't 90 straight
to London" sad Mr.. Meages in the tone OF
confidential adviser.
Perhaps shall
AYE But mean with will
=. 20 - ha Soln a1
little, "next to noDe that can put n action
now Trained by main force; broken, not bent
heavily ironed with an object on which was
never consulted and which was never nine
shipped ava 10 the other end of the world before
was of age, and exed there until my fathers
death there, year ago always grinding IN mil
/ always hated what is to be expected from nc
in middle lie , Will, purpose, hope All those
lights were extiDgui she'd before could sound the
words"
Light em up again :" said Mr. MeAes.
"Ah, Easily said. ] am the son, Mr.. Mea-
giles, of hard father and mother. l gin the only
child Of parents who weighed. measured, and
priced every thing for whom what could not be
weighed, measured and priced, had no existence.
Strict people, as the phrase H. professors of
stern religion, their very religion was a gloomy
sacrifice of tastes and syDpathies that were never
their own, offered up DE part of bargain for
the security Of their possessions. Austere faces,
lutAOIdUIt pcudDCC NNiiu
terror in the next-nothiDg graceful or gentle
anywhere, and the void in my cOwed heart every
wbere-ths YVES my childhood, If | may so mis-
use the word az to apply it to such beginning OF
life
Really though said Mr.. Mesges, made very
uncomfortable by the picture offered 70 bis iDag-
nation. That was tough commencement. But
come You must nov study and profit by al that
les beyond II, like practical man
If the people who sre usually called practical
were practical in your direction
"Wby, so they sre said Nr. Meseles
"BIe they indeed '"
"Well, | suppose So returned Mr. Mesges,
thinking about it. "Eh One can but be pract-
cal, and Mrs Meagles and myself are nothing else'
My unknown course il easier and more hope
full than had expected TO find il then, said Glen
nam, shaking his head with his grave smile
Enough Of ne. Here is he boat
The boat wss filled with the cooked hats to
which MIR. Meages entertained national objec
ton and the wearers of those cooked hats landed
ard came up the steps, and all the imp9unded
travellers coDeregated together. There was then
a mighty production of papers on The par; OF the
cooked hats, and calling over OF names, and great
work Of signing sealing, stamping, hiking, and
sanding with exceedingly blurred gritty, and IN
decipherable results Finally, everything was
done according TO rule, and the travellers were at
liberty to depart whitlersoever they would.
They made little account of ,tare and glare, in
the new pleasure of recovering their freedom, but
fitted across the hsI Dor IN gay boats, and resssem
bled at great hotel, whence the Sun vas excluded
by closed lattices, and where bare paved floors,
lofty ceilings and resonndipg corridors, tempered
the intense heat There, great table il great
room, was soon proflsely covered with superb
repast; and the quarantine quarters became bare
indeed remembered among dainty dishes, southern
fruits, cooled wines, flowers from Geuos, snow
from the mountain tops, and all the colo,s Of the
rainbow flashing in the mirrors.