, 1872-11-03

| helress, whose sleep was noL ds sounu OF as pure
as it had been until then. Quito often GER
tain actions of human life seem, speaking
literally, unlikely, though they are true. But il
i. not because We almost always omit to throw
m mr. spoutaneouH revolutions sort of psyche.
logic light, By failing to explain the mysterious
" conceived reasons which ncccssitated them
Perhaps the profound passion Of Eugenie ought
to be analysed. to it's most delicate fbres; fol
it became, some Knockers would say,
an ailment and influenced her entire
suits to measuring the strength Of the ties, the
bonds. the links, which secretly connect one
fact with another in the moral order of things.
Here, then, Eugcnie's past will serve, for OBJ
servers Of human nature, as pledge for the
simplicity Of her thought1essnoss, and tho sud-
quieter her life had been, the more warmly did
feminine pity-the most ingenious OF all feel
ings-develope itself in her mind. Thus, dis
turbed by the events Of the day, she repeatedly
heard the sighs which, since the afternoon, had
rung in her heart. Sometimes she saw him
dying with grief; sometimes she dreamed he
was expiring With hunger. Toward morning, she
was certain she heard q terrible cry. She
dressed herself at once, and went lightly,
at the break Of day. to her couAin, who had left
| his door open. The candle had burnt down to
the socket. Charles, conquered by nature,
slept, dressed, seated in an armchair head
falling back on the bod; he dreamed as people
could weep. at her ease; she could admire that
| young and beautiful face, made pallid by grief,
those eyes, swollen from crying, and which,
though closed, still seemed to shed tears.
Charles sympathetically felt the presence Of
/ Eugcnie; ho opeued his eyes, and saw her, thus
| Affected.
| II beg your pardon, my cousin, said he, evi-
IDENTIFY knowing neither the time nor the place
| where he was.
."Therc arc hearts which hear you, cousin, and
1,Jia IaTfc t.c11+
lie down; you tire yourself by staying as you
ure."
':That is true"
swell, good-byo!"
She retired ashamed and happy that ehe had
| COME. Innocence alone dares such ventures.
When taught, virtue calculates as we'll as vice.
Eugenie, Who had not trombled when with her
couain, could hardly stand when she
was in her room. Her Ignorant life
and and reproached % herself q thousand times.
''What will he think Of me? He will believe
love him." That Was what she chiefly desired to
see him believe. Frank love has foresight, and
knows that lore e1cites love. What an event for
this solitary young girl to have thus secretly en-
tered 3 young mans room! Are there not
thoughts and actions which, for certain minds,
are equivalent to holy betrothal2 An
hour later, she went to her mothers room, and
dressed her as usual. Then they sat down in
their places before the window, and awaited
Grandet with that anxiety which freezes or
WARNS the heart, oppresses or dilates it, ac-
cording to ones character, when q scene or q
punishment is fearedi feeling SO natural that
tame animals are SO far controlled by it as to
cry out at the slight pain Of 3 punishment,
while they keep quiet when they accidentally
wound themselves. The good man came down,
but he spoke to his wife in An absent-minded
way, kissed Eugenie, and took his place at the
table, without seeming to think OF bis threats
OF the preceding evening.
''What has become OF my nephew The child
makes no trouble"
He is aelecp, SIR" replied Nanon.
so much the better he does not need q Wax
light" said Grandet, in bantering tone.
That unusual clemency, that bitter galety,
struck Madame Grandet, who looked at her hns-
band very attentirely. The goodman - this
is, perhaps, tho proper place to call attention to
the fact that in Touraine, Anjou, Potion, and
Baittany, the word ''goodman, already ire
quently used to designate Grandet, is given to
the most cruel as well as the most gentle men,
30 soon as they have reached 8 certain age.
This title means nothing as to individual kind
ness. So the goodman took his hat and gloves,
and said:
II am going to loiter sbout on the square, to
meet our Cruchots." .....
.'Eugenie, your father certainly is after some
thing"
In fact, little given to sleeping, Grandet spent
half his nights in the preliminary calculations
which gave his ideas bis observations, and his
plans their astonishing accuracy, and assured
of % Sarn,,r INN marvel maryelled. All human power Is q
comnonnd ~ n of nstience and time. Powerful
neon,a w;11 and watch. The life Of the miser
r constant e1ercise Of indiyidualisa. It rests
nn ~ two ] fee1;nea alone: eelf-loye and interest:
~ ~ s"o ;nteras3 ha;ng tn eonn e1tent solid
and and sensib1e' s - sself-loye tho lasting
proof @ OF 3 real superiority, - self,
love and interest are but two parts Of q common
,rause mnu cTTioatv which misers excite Wien aki1-
% fnIlv b1onrht On the stace. Everybody is CON
nenfed y bv thread m T with ihese characters which
defv i1ef a11 bnnao feelines and vet include them
ali. Where n is the man without desire and what
social dasi1a can he satisfied without MONEY
Gran1et GRAM % was really after something. as his wife
EXPRESSED it. There was in him. as Il in ali misers,
tha constant need Of playing a game with other
men and of Legally wlnning their money. Does
1ot 3fha decaiyiHr If anotRer ehow evidence Of
,7otrer and i've anes sell the perpetual reht to
fosn;se 9onSt th6se who too weak allow Themselves
~ ha devonred here beloW? oh! who
has fnl1v understood the lamb living gracefully
at The feet Of God.-the most touching emblem
Of ali earthly victims, and of their future,-in
word. gloriiied suffering and weakness. The