The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-02-25
alisrsIIaul Gus Selections.
TIE .iyCUMBfNT OF BAi,SaOT.

The Danger Of Trusting to Appear
ances.
i had Just arrived from Oxford, snd was
standing at the book stall of the Padding
ton Terminus. inqairing for cheap edlticc
of one of Levers early novels, when a mid
adle-aged man, clergyman, came up to the
same STALL, and asked the bustling
newspaper man, who was busy folding a
bundle Gf newspapers still wet from the
press, fer a secondhand copy Of Warbur-
tors Crescent and the Cross" l hardly
knew why, but the face of my fellow pur-
chaser struck me as a remarkable one; and
being q little of an artist, and about as
much of a physiognomist, gave him a
long and studioGs look. He was a tall
strongly-made clergyman, In high church
costume eollarless coat, cassOck, waist
coat. and Roman collar; and there was a
deep Dand of Grape round his hat: Ahigh,
wide brow, rather deeply furrowed by CON
temptation; keen. cold, gray eyes; close
pre- ssed mouth, and q full, bod chin, indi-
eating an inhexible will-were the chief
points observed, combining to produce
the face of a man OF strong sense and de-
termintion. f 'r missionary bishop, or
Havelock-alIyihg the soldier and a man ct
religion-such a face seemed to promise
overy quaffcatien.Ss His manner, quiet
self-possessed, impertulbahle, was just
acountenance. As head of IIy college,
as my colonel, Rs the head of my firm, as
my doctor in the hour Of danger, as my
priest, as my bishop, l could have believed
and confded In such a man. A magnetic
sense of power, physical and mental. SEEM
ed to pass from him and jnstantlY overcome
my weaker will --s
''How mucI?o said; two shillings2"
STwo shillings."
Itoek out nay purse, but found, to my
utter modification, I had no more silver,
and only the two $40 notes my father had
sent me for the trip to Cornwall.
81 am so sorry, l said to the book-stall
keeper; 81 have no silver, and only two
e20 notes. / >uppose 1 could not take the
book and pay Cor it when return from
Cornwall?" -lEzst Ets
''Not exactly" said the man innocently,
as he slapped the damp papers together;
t.1've done that once too often. No, not
for JosephT s-=---
''You need not be insolent, said, rath-
er ruffied.
'.we don't give credit, sir. at this es-
tablishment."
''Pray sllowme to have the pleasure of
paying for the book in question" said my
fellow-purcheser, stepping toward me. Il
think heard you say you were going west
Ito Cornwall Scam I. We are perhps,
going to the same hotel"
thanked him, accepted his offer, and
explained that / had some notes IN my
purse, but no silver. I was going to the
Great Western Hotel.
So was he. My luggage and his, he be-
Geved, had just gone on by the same truck
We walked together to the hotel He
proved most agreeable; thorough travel
ed man of the world, full of anecdote and
humorous allusion. Kew. Henry Atkins,
vicarage, Bagshot, that was the name and
address he gave, as We stood IN the hotel
office taking our bedrooms. We were
both, we found, going to Exeter by the 7:15
train the next day. 1 changed one of my
notes, paid back the small sum borrowed,
thanked him, and we parted.
81 hope we shall meet again, be said, on
parting.
He followed the porter who carried his
trunk and bag up stairs / watched him
as he went out of sight, and said to myself.
'that man wss born for statesman or a
general; what 3 pity such mind should
be restricted to the petty cares of small
parish! Well. thought l, 'ifevery one was
IN the right place, the world would be very
different"
Iwent to the theatre that night to see
the last bUIlesque, as eager for London
uSementS as an OAiOTd man VINO naQ
been reading hand for his degree might be
pardoned for being. rdid not stay for the
last piece, and got back to the hotel about
half-past eleven. To vile away half an
hour, strolled into billiard-room near
the hotel There was a rafish sort of pse.
udo- military man there playing with a
little Jew. They played reasonably well,
and once or twice the captain (as he vas
calledl made winning, hazard that rather
astonished me, had it not been obviously
he effect OF luck more than of skill. At