The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-09-23

~ 6tt6cnlDg 70 MIN live mO0ernS, than
. : sishing them we'll and letting them
, ~ could have had no friends; and then
<er of eggs and turnips might have
lFsthis time, or until the hen GOODS and
gers shops were exhausted, for auph,
. : rs. Wardle, Wrinkle, and Company,
E I've cared. Anybody who hked-s
F.. tSy always do like On these occasions
ise pelted him. Who would have pro.
e. 1t is half my own fault or folly.
how came you to be 80 wise 2"
Going nothing, my dear boy-an inval-
sactice; it gives one 80 much time for
e."
/ u have been studying human nature
&C of it at least-while have been DOR
my books. Your knowledge is more
ri than most of mine, and fresher; but
Ss lessons so gloomy as this which you
sn explaining to me?"
! "a gloom. if there is any, is in your own
: 20. Mine are lighter. Life is to me a
satire, illustrated with very amusing
res or, at the worst, it is only black
sund, againft which q parti. colored and
,.agether sooty character-like mine,
nyself-sppears to advantage, radiant
rast. l should look gloomy myself,
: the light in which you walk, star.tramp.
<eormer. The world is dark, you may
t.eclipses the sun almost half of the time.
it does :? / avail myself of a lucifer,
) my gas, dress for ball or the theatre,
S4nd enjoy the night. The night is a
sod thing, after all. 1t serves me to
ssnd you to learn, in. If had to choose
- the two, all of one, or all of the other,
4 prefer the earth to the sun, believe.
t want too much light"
are in the clouds now. Come down
: can understand you"
4-ierstand, then, with regard to yourself,
Inspect you are merely beginning to see
aid as it is, instead of as it ought to be /;
arises at first an unpleasant surprise in
1suthful mind, at not finding it heaven.
~ their bodily eyes open earlier tasn kit
/. but it takes the cleverest of Us more
Spur twenty one years to do the came by
. ntal optics, and to learn to see things for
es with them exactly as they are. Fur
ere, think you made a great mistake in
'f to the West just when you did. Run
sSgeese, and, of course, they will pursue
b Kisses because they are geese"
- did not run away for fear of the
never dreamed of such thing"
know that, of course; but how are
20 know it2 But let by.gores be by
: You have come back again, at any
Go out now, whenever and wherever
ssinvited /; and let people see that you're
: afraid of them nor ashamed of yourself.
I'm cry for about the space of two hours,
t or years. Great are Mammon, Daniel,
rs 'Tayriff' gods of the Bostonians |
< get hoarse after while, and then stop.
: only q nine days wonder. They'll soon
: le pillory FIR somebody else. Remem.
lswever, that / am arguing upon your
fstion, and not by any means on my own
Jon of your personal unpopularity. /
:, it exists chiefly, if not wholly, in your
>etical fancy"
was the last as we'll az the frst CONVEX.
l@shich the young men held together upon
!. oject; for Edwards conscience pricking
s little at the close, he presently, with
ieat and abruptness, announced an in
=, on his part, to kick, "no matter
in Beacon street, or on Change, OF any
.salse, anybody, no matter who" whom he
=" giving himself any such airs :" and,
e.rnan thought that his little French boots
be much better employed, he said moth
.sther.
Jard was indeed triply perturbed. He
% far as he would open his eyes to see,
here was much reason for his brothers
ysoring to rouse the country to take the
he aimed at, against, not the South, but
eof the SOutherners. He was, with all his
7ty, no wilful perverter of youth in gen.
, and as to Herman in particular, in his
heart he admired and revered him to
5. degree, that he not only was confident
! would be in vain to try4to bring him
from his elevation, but would have felt
III as sacrilegious in doing go, if be could,
!, horror. struck sportsman, who, when the
winged, round eyed owl tumbled out of
ZEE before him in the twilight, averred that
I'd "shot q cherubim." Yet he was too
rean TO place himself at his young broth
ide, in the battle. No wonder, therefore,
felt somewhat cross he certainly had
gh to make him.
nat advice he had given was good; and
ian resolutely followed it, so far at least
go ont and show himself wherever he was
ID. His manner became more formed,
=, and imposing and thus, though not
,niGed before, gained in dignity more than
, lost in vivacitY. His honest innate but
rto latent pride, (if we must call an un.
tened virtue by the name of q VICE. de-
'e, not offensive, being called forth to re-
the insolence of others, ennobled his noble
enance more and more, and heightened
Coriolanus look" which Edward admired
yhly-so highly, that he insisted on hav.
be picture, description of which serves
sort OF frontispiece to this chapter, taken
10 by certain justly .celebrated artist, in
lan's twenty-third year. DR.. Arden was
lone in his admiration. The young bellies
appreciated the young orators personal
ntages, and, caring much more about part
taan politics, would have elected him one
9 rSgning beaux of the time, if he had
ed. Their charms, however, served only
aiind him of others far mere charming,
9 make his constant heart grieve the more
s Constance. In spite of Clara's remon-
ces, therefore, he was too often to be seen
ing alone before statues, pictures, or
RS, Or ia corners, looking very handsome,
rescue, abstracted, and, as she declared,
'onie," and remembered his social duties
aow and then, when he beheld some plain
eL br penniless widow, in distress, and,
ituting himself volunteer member of the
ane Society, pressed forward to her relief,
ID 9 quadrilIe with her, fed her, or found
zach for her, according to her need. How
.ry, stale, fat, and Improbable" did the
s Of gayety, so called, appear to his sad.
eyes, bedimmed with cataracts of tears
I'd. He stood among them alone in spirit,
wondering sadly by himself what others
there to make them all 30 merry.
en and often, while people at his side we're
g one another, in apparent cstasy, How
ntful! it all was, he could have found it
heart to groan, Lover and friend thou
aiken from mel"
these times, it was hardest for him to forget
one short year before Indifferent a. he
n general to what is generally termed So
AN invitation to any entagtainment where
ance might be, had been to him rs ticket
mission to Paradise how he had thought
entertainment by day and dreamed of it
ght, with more and more rapture, hour by
as the appointed time for it drew nearer;
,e had hurried to it, and arrived at it, in
of all his resolutions, the earliest Of all the
9; how the whole house had seemed