New-York daily tribune., 1861-08-25

mere words In the excited and exalted state Of my
brain could not think Of place without seeing IT.
or Of psrson: without seeing them, IL Is impossible
was 90 INTENT all the time upon him himsen-whc
would not be intent on the tiger crouching "a
spring that knew Of tie slightest action OF hi'
fingers.
the bench on which be and pushed the table aside
Then he took up the candle and sAading 1t with his
murderous hand 20 az to throw it's light on me. stood
before me, looking ut me aud enjoying tho sight.
"Wok. Ill tell you something more. AZ was @ Vtd
0rlick as you tumblsd over on yoar stairs thai
night"
I saw the staircare with Ns extingsished lamps.
saw the shadows of the heavy tar-raik, thrown by
the wstchman's lantern on the wall saw the rooms
thar was never to again here, door half OPEN
there. door closed all she articles OF furniture
around.
"And why was Old OrEck there' III tell yon
hunted out of this country, so far as getting au
easy living in it goes, and I've took up with COM
panions. Some OF em writes my letters when
wants 'em wrote-do you mind 9--writes my letters,
wolf They writes fifty hands they're nos like
sneakina you. as writes but one. I've had q firm
mind and firm will to have your life since you was
down here at your sisters burying ban't seen
way to get you safe. and I've looked arter you to
himself, Somehow or another I'll have him
Provis, eh q
Mill Pond Bank, and Chinkss Basin, and the Old
Green Copper Rope-Wslk, all so clear aud plain
Provis in his rooms, and the signal whose use was
over, pretty Clara, the good m0tlerly woman, old
Bill Barley on bis back, all drifting BY tie swfs
stream Of my life fast running out TO sea
" Hon with a uncle. too Why, knowd you at
Gargerys when you was small wolf that could
have took your weazen betwixt this finger and thumb
and chucked you away desd las Id thoughts O. doing
odd tunes, when you lettering among the pollnris
"A SunA W and hptn fnun mo laa thou
No, not you. Bot when Old Orick ceme for TO hear
that your uncle Pioyis had mort Ike wore the Leg
iron what Old OriIck had picked ut filed ssunder on
these mcshss ever so many year ago. ano Not ne kep
by him till he dropped your sister with il hsc bull
lock- as he means 90 drop yeu-hey when he come
for to hear that-hey 7"
In his savage talu,ug be fsred the candle close
at ne that turned my taes aide to save IRON The
fame.
"Abp he cried, laughing, after doing ID again,
" the burnt child breads the fire Old Orhck knowed
you was burnt, Old Orhck knowed you was SNUG
cling your uncle Proyis away, Old Orlicks q match
for you, and knowed you'd come tonight Now IL
tell you something more, wolf, and this snds u.
There's them that az good a match for your uncle
Proyis as Old Orlick bas been fOr you. Let him
ware them, when he's lo,t his neyyy Let him ware
them, when no man can't ind rag OF bis dear rela-
tion's clothes, nor yet bone of bis body Theres
them that can't and Won't have Magwitch--yes,
know the name ,-sliye in the same Iand win themr
and that had such sure information Of hta when he
was hliye in anotber land, ~ that he couldn't and
shouldn't leave il unbeknown, aud put them IN danger
P'rsrs s them that writes Gity bands and that's not
like sneaking you as writes bat one. ware Compey,
Msgwitch aud the gallOTs !
lie nared the candle at me again, smoking my face
and hsr and for an instant blinding me, aud turned
bic powerful back Ee replaced the light tho table,
had thought prayer and had been with Jee and
Bddy aud Herbert, before he turned toward rae
ygai0
There vas clear space Of few feet between the
table and the opposite wall. Within thE space ho now
NeNR nth
seemed 20 s stronger upon him than ever before, he
did this with his hands hanging loose and heavy at his
sdes and with bis oyes seowlg at NEIL had 10 grain
OF hope left. lid my inward hurry was, and Voc
eru tbe force ol the pictures that tushsd by i-
stead Of thoughts could cleaSly understsnd that un-
iess he bad resolved that was witan few moments
Of surely peri,hing out OF al human knowledge he
would never have tod ne what he had told.
Of sudden he stopped, took the cork out OF his bot
tie and tossed it away. Light as II Sas, heard il
isll like plammet. lie swallowed sloHly, tlting up
tho lottlo by little scd Little, aud now ha looked VI
no more Tie last few drops 81 liquor I've poured into
tho palm Of his let band and Kicked up. Then with
sudden hurry Of violence aud swearing horribly. 10
threw the bottle from him, and stooIod and tssw IN
bis hand q stone hammer with long heavy handle.
The resolution had mace did rot desert me, for
without utteripg ore vain word OF appeal to him.
shouted with nll 10y might ana struggled with nll
my might. Itwas only my head and ny l.gs that eould
nove but 10 that extent Struggled With ali ny fo.ce,
until then unknown, that was within me. In the
s,ant heard responsive shouts saw figures and
CLEAN Of light dash IN ., the door, heard voices and
tunult and raw Orlek emerge from struggle vi mon
II tunLlDs resss clear tha table al leap,
and iy out into the night.
Aitcr blank found that was lying unbousd on
the iOor, In tho same place, with my head on some
ones knee. Ny eyes were fixed tIe bidder against
the wall Wien came 70 yseli---nad opened on them
long before u mius SAW it-and thur, as recovered
consciousness, ksw that was in the place whese /
had l0st IL.
We purposely ab,tain from furnishing cur
readers with any iBklng OF tts methods by which
the denoumert Of thu plot 10 reached, but thcy
may obtain from eur rapid sketches general
idea Of the prompt aud Ingenious aftlfce Of its
management Tie story is markedly the hatred
OF prstense and afectaton--the sympathy with
young, aud obscure, and even criminal liie--ths
quick perception of tho comic phans of character
and society-and the occasional touches OF tragic
pathcs, which so happily distingui.h the prOduc-
tOns Of Mr. DICKENS from the wsarhome crowd
of medein noyelists. In humor the present work
is less admirably successful than most III bis pop
ular ma,.erpieces. Ii abourds in grOtesque and
mdicrous comparisons, but shey more frequently
take the character Of broad farce than q com.
mon oven with the roliching saiiss Of the author.
Thus, after the boy Pip had been dc,ed by the
b.neiicent Mrs. Joe with q nauSeous cup OF tar
water, no remarks that at the beat of times so
much of this elixir was administered to hun as
choice restorative, that he was conscious OF
going about smelling Ike q new fence" The
morning on which little Pip tock the breakfast
TO the convict on the marshes was So misty and
moist Us TO elicit the descriptive remark by Pip
that he had seen tho damp lying outside cj Ais
eindon IS Il some gotiir had Lsen crying htre al
Il "A.