Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-09-14

the ever faithful Shakespeare and Tom
Moore lend.a nameless charm to the long
goodbv.
The vagrant, ill-conditioned stamp of
actor has faded out long ago, and in his
ime-honored place has appeared the we'll
dressed and gracious stickter for all the
amenities of the most genial and COM
Portable life o ye smooth-faced crew,
how keenly we scent the shekels, and how
ye wing your way hither on the first faint
breaths of the season!
Nobody grudges them. Talents for
talents is fair exchange, and when you
turn your backs upon us to seek again the
shades of the Grand Opera, the Princess,
and the Haymarket, it is pleasant to know
that you carry broad pieces of gold where
with to tighten your ways through the
world
You never lack palms to clasp, or
words to cheer, or faces to regard you
with pleasure, and, even nomads as you
are, the mysterious sorrow of parting is
no more likely to lose its flavor than is
the humor of your Falstaffs Let us re-
turn to our adieus.
Observe the old traveller; watch how
he will chok3 off all useless words and
acts from the performances proper A
wife and two children accompany him
He has trained them not to weep. He
looks cheerful. He smiles. He by no
means considers it joke to be gone two
or three months ON business, but he also
is determined not to make it "a curse He
has a handbag and an umbrella. He
stops his little cavalcade at the gangway
and administers a kiss to each of the
youngsters, and chen purchases oranges
for them, to rebut the desire of whimper.
Then the wife Two kisses here. fai-.:,
almost undefinab!e lingering of his arms
about her, but no oranges. Then he
squarely turns his back, marches up the
gang plank, coughing slightly 10 himself.
He reaches the top, turns again, raises his
hat from his gray head, and blows com
prehensive Kiss to the little group below.
They ali respond with a shout, and pater.
familias disappears from their sight for a
hundred days.
Now this IS approaching the ideal.
will not say positively that theJe are not
few secret tears shed in the deep OBJ
scurity Of stateroom or in the silence OF
chamber at home We cannot expect tc
regulate such occurrences, but, SO far as
the public is concerned, this good-by is
very nearly the proper thing.
Not one single other person on tht
whole dock, and there are two hundred
even approaches this adieu in the manner
of treatment Almost all cry profusel!
with quick-recurring spasms of violen
grief. Some sit and gaze stonily at va
cancv, content with the simple contact .
hands o. arms. a few mutlie their head
in each others shoulders, and shiYer con
vulsivcly until the non-voyagers are Or
dered ashore
Arabcllas restless and lnquisitorial ey
becomes fixed upon one group, and the
go down to posterity in her diary. Her
comes very tall and very old man leal
, ing upon the arm ola beautiful girl. The
, climb laboriously to the quarterback an
look about, curiously on her part, an
aimlessly on his He is muffled to th
throat, and has a cloth cap pulled dow
close over his ears, and the lappels al
: drawn and tied under his withered CHI
His cheeks are hollow, his eyes large, an
his gloved right hand shakes with pals.
Altogether he is a sad spectacle of Will
} cred man.
e She looks abroad i'll quick glances, bg
!, is studiously attentive to him.
/ GLOW curious they all are, pa. Ho
e many, many wretches there are anon
:, them. How many are flying from til
a punishment of crimes; how many frol
5 scenes which are awful to them; no
many leave hates, heart burnings, an
t sorrows, behindl How glad we shoul
a be that those who know us love us, al
5 that we shall have such awelcome in sue
: little while, very little while!'
/ His face brightenes, and he involuntai
d ly straightens up.
It "And here we shall sit on these lo1
d seats in the sun, watching the pretty Sc
birds which follow us, and the smoot
= shining, plunging fish, and see She viii
ri sails go past in the distance. Then sh;
o sing to you; you shall sleep, and then o
rs bright day they will cry out that we ha
b. come to England, and we shall watch
J. grow in the distance-home, dear, dc
)? home!"
Her blooming face glows, and he tt
t, derby draws her to him. He forgets
n miserable palsy, his weakness, his shaki
III heart, and looking down, wonders to hi
ld self if she is an angel; or, if not, wher
Ks one can be, in any manner, better than !
or is.
er Arabella also gets much moral m
IL from the tempestuous arrival of Mr.. Alg
non Heavyhead, the last man to col
Eight friends and valet accompany hi
is They dismount from two CARRIAGES,
nd drunk, with the exception Of the b
Us menial They lean affectionately on G;
'ss other, all singing.
m- Mr. Heavyhead is prepared for sea
So being enyeloped, as far as possible, in s
'es skin. He parts tearfully from them
Oh every step; but they close round him ;
}" stagger forward.
nd The gold capped officers hurry them
for time is getting short.
'es They descend to the deck with C
IT, sammate awkwardness. After this, t
hug, wag their heads, and drink ims
of nary toasts. Mr.. Heavyhead opens
of arms, and cries, jocularly:
The Conner
ess Each time he closes them he catche
are new man, whom he pats on the head ;
Jon sighs over. Then they join hands
zen around, and give ''The Lay of the Bov
les Boy;" then, three times three, will
the tiger, which, from their inability to CO
e a ten, is kept up for minutes after.
ent Evidences of the imminency of dep
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