Evening journal., 1892-09-10

existence and marches down from past |
ares with an ancient and honorable |
fame, was composed Of no morcenary |
materials. Itsranlls were filed with gen |
tlemen who felt the STRINGS of martial !
impulse and sought to establish a kind |
Of college Of arms, where, as in an asso-
citation Of Knights Templar, they might
learn the science, and. SO far as peaceful
exercise would teach them, the practices
Of war
The high estimation then placed upon
the military character might be seen in
the lofty port of each individual mem
Der of the company. Some of them, in
deed, by their services in the low coun-
tries and on other fields of European
warfare, had fairly won their title to
assume the name and pomp Of soldier
hip. The entire array, moreover. clad
in FURNISHED steel and with plumage
nodding over their bright morions, had
brilliancy Of effect which no modern
display can aspire to equal.
And yet the men of civil eminence,
who came Immediately behind the mill
tary escort, We're better worth a thought
ful Observers eye. Even in outward de-
meanor they showed q stamp Of majesty
that made the warriors naughty stride
look vulgar, if not absurd.
SO far Us a demeanor Of natural au-
thority was concerned, the mother coun-
try need not have been ashamed to see
these foremost men Of an actual democ-
racy adopted into the house of peers or
made the privy council Of the sovereign
Next in order to the magistrates came
the young and eminently distinguished
divine, from whose lips the religious dis
course Of the anniversary was expected.
His was the profession at that era in
which intellectual ability displayed it
self far more than in political life; for
| leaving higher motive out of the ques-
ton, it offered inducements powerful
/ enough in tho almost worshiping re-
spect OF the community TO win the most
aspiring ambition into its service. Even
political power, as in the case of In
crease Mather, was within the grasp Of
a successful priest.
It was tho observation Of those who
behold him now that never, since Mr..
Dimmesdale first set his foot on the Now
England shore, had he exhibited such
energy as was seen in the gait and aiI
with which he kept his pace in the pro
cession. There was no feebleness OF
step as at other times; his frame was not
bent, nor did his hand rest oninously
upon his heart
Hester Prynne, gazing steadfastly a
the clergyman, felt a dreary influence
como over her, but wherefore or whence
she knew not. unless that he seemed So
remote from her own sphere and utterly
beyond her reach. One glance Of recog
milton, she had imagined, must need
pass between them She Thought of tn
dim forest, with its little dell of solitude
and love and anguish, and the moss,
tree trunk, where, sitting hand in hand
they had mingled their sad and passion
ate talk with the melancholy murmu
Of tho brook. How deeply had the.
known each other theul And was thi
the man? She hardly knew him now
&c, moving proudly past, enveloped, a
it We're, in the rich music, with the pre-
cession of majestic and venerable ia
theirs; he, so unattainable in his world
position, and still more so in that fa
vista of his unsympathizing thoughts
through which she now beheld hint
Her spirit sank with the idea that al
must have been a delusion, and thai
wildly as she had dreamed it, ther
could be no real bond betwixt the clel
gyman and herself. And thus much c
woman was there in Hester that sh
could scarcely forgive him-least Of a
now, when the heavy footstep Of thei
approaching fate might be hearJ
nearer, nearer, nearer-for being able S
> completely to withdraw himself froi
their mutual world, while she grope
darkly and stretched forth her col
! hands and found him not.
Pearl either saw and responded to be
mothers feelings, or herself felt the r
moteness and intangibility that had fal
en- around tho minister. While the pr
2 cession passed the child was uneasy, hu
4 tering up and down like a bird on Il
s point Of taking flight. When the who
: had gone by she looked up into Hester
face.
Mother, said she, twas that thesan
minister that kissed Inc by the brooke
Hold thy peace dear little Pearl
, whispered her mother, I'VE must II
Il always talk in the market place of VIII
y happens TO us in the forest"
q 81 could not be sure that it was he;
/ strange he looked, continued the chill
p ELSE / would have.run TO him and b
u him kiss me now. before al the peopl
D. oven as he did yonder among the da
D old trees. What would the minist
o- have said motherg Would he ha
v clappcd his hand over his heart al
ar scowled ON mo and bid me DO gone"
what should he say PearlE' a
ID swered Hester, save that it was
H. time to kiss, and that kisses are not
" be given in the market place? Well
nc thee, foolish child, that thou didst L
OF speak to himm
IT. BY this time the preliminary pray
no had been offered in the meeting hou
at and the accents of tho Reverend n
IN Dimmesdalo were heard conunenci
IL his discourse. An irresistible feeli
nd kept Hester near the spot. AS the
at cred edifice was too much thronged
admit another auditor, she took mp