, 1870-06-26

pened; ios The 1Ay ia long from Frankfort,
and the poor boy. feet must be sore With bis
lonE. lons Journey
ts.n rtt,r arteis face became vczJ pale, Hhcthcr
ringing OF The s:op-bel1. Is the doos swung
open md shut The next instant Earl WAS in
tbs middle Of the room. Hia pack and stat
fen 1t his feet, and Frau Hirtel sal the Frau
lein Anna sErang into hts azms- It was not
tsetn that made the evening glad, but Ghi. one
psture which dwells most in my mauaory.
The JOY That ahone on the czrexorn and dust
etaincd fsce Of tho returned wanderer, reflect
Cd in these Of bis mother and sister Is they
stood IN that long enh1s>c. his no parallel
e1i1ed kings
With my twenty-five dollan, 1 li.ed cheaper
than eveE, and for some mouths longer con-
Gnued my studies It the university. But one
morning received letter from The Bame
Sene1ous american newspaper, enclosing
dIa1t a.t .os ~. MY dollars, togethef With vary
mora from mo on any account whatever. This
good fortune VAS too much for my mentA
equilibrium Heidelberg VIA too small Tor
me. ! .ta5ted the next day for snsu trip
down ne Rhine, deck passage. At Rotterdam
c1s, and ose.asosa1iy I to IL ths ss Sundis
and stan. Thus r went through Hol-
land and Belgium, walking le1sufely one
day oref the historic dead Of Wa
te1loo; Arriving finally At Pals, resolved
theso to axe up my 1caidence. By nneans Of
cheap lodging in the old Latin Quarter, and
Of cheaper restaurant on the boulevard
months.
It WIS here in ra1is that first met my
good friend, George Alfred Townsend. the
va aitereard indebtedp p for q short t. romantic @
sletch Of my life, in which ha says, I believe,
among other complimentary things, tlst The
faculty Of Heidelberg gave me mJ tut
lion for nothing, but that I would not
stay With them and hsudy, because
Ar. Townsend real debt or gratitude, for it
WIS he who suggested that should Wfite IN
account OF certain OF my experiences for une
Of the London magazines. After the question
able succezs Of my nnlt3atious attempts with
menty Of tho idea- Yet my money wa be-
coming daily, and By no means beautifully,
le=A. Neither 3Ir. Townsend nor anybody else
but uyeeH was AWARE that, It tho time ct his
s11ssesaoD, ,.o,5 ny as e.sh capital consisted
and even this snm hsd duindled con,
eiderabfy before I could muster couz-
age 10 make the attempt. At last, in fit OF
desperation. sat down one morning, with the
! equivalent Ct about e in mr pocket, and CON-
raenced ny szicle. In three days moro it was
hitish stamps, enough 10 pay for the Iatsar
| which should tell me whether It VIA accepted
or rejected I.hall not dwell long on the pain
ful suspense OF the succeeding five or six dxys :;
though do not rememb Der nov my grounds
for expecting an answer in 50 abort a period.
not happier person in the gay capital Of
| Franco thkn had been; Tor it is one
Of The peculiar charms Of Paris that it
oaaFus abundant amusement for him
who spends forty francs month, a.
I did. or forty thousand month, 1s some
\ you can believe IN, ny happiness thea. /
| know only that the beautiful city was delight
fu], 1nd that l was delighted. The palaces,
the galleries, tha gardens, the parks, the
music, &c TIC wonderful dorama Of the even
| ing gou1evards were tree-as free 10 uer the
est Prince !; and had tho sddilional, though
not necessarily comfortable, ASSURANCE that I
always carried away from them = better anne
ute fos tho next meal than did even his
tneerutsbla majesty, the Emperor him
sell. Eut now That had tho growing
dHclt more and more upon the waning diaks
Of my franc pieces, ~ they swelled for time
llusively into SOUS, aud then tapered into CEN
tnnce and disappeared from, nv gaze forever.
At this Per1od found myself occasionally
strolh1g % dosn TO the Seine, and looking oysr
with The late rains, and Listening to the strange
sound it made in tie wake Of the old Stone
arches, AZ it Iushed on toward the Mog9ue,-
the famous deAd-house, where hundreds Of
suicides are displayed every year. Have
you .7er heard the List "bnbbling
yon have, you Will understand the feeling With
which, afier listening long and steadily to the
low rumble Of the eddying water, / have re-
ceivtd the impression moro than once on thst
old bridge, that had heard the same fatal
GutgEnE houcd in The river beneath; aud you
VII understand the feeling, also, l think, with
which, It such times, cast hasty glance at
the Morgua, not far -diatant, and hurried On
70 the more cheerful neighborhood Of the gar-
den OF Tue Tuileriea, would rot have you
believe hat tho idea OF suicide ever crossed
ny mini, 1mersly went and looked into the
which iapels miserable people, tho world over,
to haunt whnves and bridges, and to
gaze Gsaeaaiy into waser. have sometimes
thought, when saw servant gisls and othsrs
out of employ looking, for instance,
into ths 1inoa~ Of an intelligence ofics,-I
have sometimes thought, say, that il dogs do
| 60 mad frotn gazing into water, Is think wss
once believed, they are very much disgusted
with the world before they do it Ono day
the fourth Of my suspense, il remember
when ! vas moro despondent and hungry than
usual, won't andlooked in through The Rratinc
| Of the Morgue itself. II had ever had tbe
least thought OF throwing nyseK into
tbs Seine, this horrible sight would have
cured me "A thoroughly Of ii Is II did Of my
apIette Tor the sest Of that day. I feel some
abandoned, ~ you shall see, before put }nto
I further e1ecutiGn-which auggested itself to
| my mind during that hungry week, namely, to
v!sit tho NoEguc once . day for purposes ol
economy but, luckily, discovered about this
eae,n t@s that s. she smoking Of cgsitsa ads Q.
the came service of taking away the
aPpe6te, And I adopted The latter more
Agreeable meana to that and. The
filth and aixth days after sending nv
article I did scarcely anything but wait about
the Office for my letter. Finally, motto n.
riTsa from Psternoster Row, With Just one line
met my eyes and the painful suspense wa,
only lnt-nsi6ed. This writer evidently said
something about my article, but what de-
SPARED Of making out I took tho note to my
friends, AID they weso divided about It /; some
sld that the article WIS rejected, md some
favored the latter opinion, to which, At las.
myself was brought. and 1 was happy,
Not long afteEward rccoirod !
draft from the publisher for a suu
most fabulous, for the amount Of work done.
| After hes1ty meL. and as soon ~ I had time
10 think, considered my fortune msde. |
WAS now arrived at the appalling dignity Of
| mAgazinist. t.-eontrbutor to the widest circu-
lated Perio dieal in the language. packed my
tn nj Immediately, md started for Italy.
| stayed IT Florence all winter, living on The
| cheapest Of food, indeed. bnt With tEs vesy
beet Of company. haunted the galleries md
studios so much that the artists took ne for a
aevotce OF htt, and never asked me how I
lived. At dusk it was nv custom to
f1eA ;ne ucSasl sSaS tSnssI 9nsso my anner' pa.,.
about to throw tho stone across the famous
came to the market There, in ! little cook
shop, amid the filth and noise Of the very
taggedest ot Florence, partook Of my mac.
esfopi, or. WAS fastidious,. Of my boiled
beans and olive oll, for seven centesitai, i,-one
cent and two~1fths Of cent; my bread made
OF chestnute for two cepteeini, dfths OK
\ cent: and nv halt glass OF wine for seven
centesimi,--my dinner, with scrap OF meat,
averaging hye cents, and rarely exceeding ten
Ny glass Of vine may BE- considered A a1-
tzsvaganee. II was not. could stand the
hustle. the unclaAn1iness, ind even the star
ing 1t \ paesAbly well-d1essed person IN
such N unAccustomed place but could not
| stand the positive Amaxernent expressed by
young men and old women, old men and
| young women, beggsls and organ arti.ts, The
daE when I omitted wine. II VAS TOO much fot
enau1a1ce. Public opinion vza against me, ]
1 pretended to have forgotten to order my wine,
and turned od the whole affair With = laugh.
Many and many 4 time have seen poor old
creature, whc was often my next door neigh
bor u table, pay MO centenimt for bresd and
| seven centessn1i for vine. and thAt Was her
| whole mezl- This experience has Always helped
me- 10 beliers the account Of that strange
1 incident in the history Of the Floren-
tines, given, think, by MachiAvelli, in which
| it is related that during the republican days Of
Florence, when there u.a hostile army max
1 lpE n tnroad on their terIitoziea the do1ghty