Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1864-10-12

''But who pays for her residence here p
| inquired HAS she any property of her
own?'
''Not shilling. His lordship and two
of her elder pupils, who are now out in the
world with good Government appoint
ments, each subscribe something for her
maintenance. and | have no doubt thev
will continue to do so as long as she lives
We missed Nine Reumont from the
dinner table for two or three DAYS; and at
| first, when she again made her appear
ance, she seemed uneasy and confused.
| However, the feeling appeared gradually
| to leave her; and before tie termination
| of the meal, she had completely recovered
| herself and was as conversational and
amica bic as ever | much wished to rea-
son with her afterwards on her absurd
| delusion, but refrained, from fear of an
moving her Indeed, it would have been
most uncharitable on my part to have
caused her any pain or uneasiness, for a
more amiab'e woman than she was 1t
would be difficult indeed to meet.
An amusing character in the book is
''the Cynic," who gossips after this man
ner:
| ''The longer | live, my dear fellow, the
more fully | am convinced that the world
] is one monstrous sham. i have often stood
and looked at the audience collected round
/ punch theatre, near St Martin Church,
/ and envied the fellow that worked the
puppets Ii was an immense amusement
| to me to watch the crowd of blockheads
| there assembled staring at what was in
! Significant and thinking it attractive; lis
| tening to that which was utterly without
wit or reason, and yet thinking it was en-
tertaining; laughing immoderately at that
which was without the slightest humor-
not only doing all this at the fellows bid
ding, but positively at last paying him for
making fools of them. When leave here
! | hardly know how | shall employ myself;
sometimes | think | will make that fe low
an offer for his theatre and apparatus
complete, and start with it afresh on my
own account"
| inquired whether he considered him
self sufficiently safe from a return of his
unfortunate habit Of laughing at serious
subjects, and which principally necessita
| ted his sojourn among US? He replied
that, with one exception, he believed per
fectly So The point on which he still haC
his doubts was that of laughing in church
"On that subject alone" he said, Il an
fearful. | once heard a clergyman deplor
inc, the total ignorance a preacher wa:
kept in during his sermon, as to the efec
it was producing on the minds of his con
gregation. An actor, said he, receives
applause or Kisses, member of parlia
ment his cheers, his cries Of hear hear
or possibly disapprobation. The jGste,
knows the effect of his jest by the laugl
that follows it; but the preacher has be
fore him uninterestedi passionless counte
nances To alter this, | admit, would b,
difficult. have often wished that all III,
congregation had tails, and then, if they
were pleased, they could wag them, with
out disturbing the silence of the place o.
the solemnity Of the scene
at would be difficult" continued Mr.
Robinson, ito make you understand th'
effect the remark made on me. | wa
hardly ever in church, when, during ser
mon time, il did not present itself to m,
mind If a pet parson entered the pulpit
Immediately saw all the feminine tai
wagging If he spoke of the duties 0
children to their parents, all the senil'
male tails wagged; if the duties of servant
to their superiors, all the matronly tail
were in agitation. And after a long dul
sermon, when all bent forward to offer W
their last prayer, there appeared a stimuli
taneOus wagging Of all the tails of the con
gregation. The return of this feeling
alone fear"
Whether the feeling ever did return, o
whether he purchased Punch's theatre,
am unable to say. He left US, or, in tn
words of John Bunyan, ''be went on hi
, Uay and | saw him no more +"