The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-22
AN UNFINISHED NOVEL
 BY .-.......e.e LORD BEACONSFIELD
copyrlght, 1sOS, by rHE NEW YoRK TIMES.

fuller and larger degree of Christian lforbearance, some intimated, might be desirable. As it was, at. the head of one of the most considerable East In- dia houses, he succeeded, on the death of his father, to a large realized for tune, and was so wealthy that he need not have been appalled, by the large family of both sexes which the pretty and enthusiastic partner of his life had presented to him.
 It was not the S0,000 pounds with which he endowed each of his daugh- ters when they married that was the sole, or even principal, cause of their soon quitting the paternal roof. It was really the custom of the country, and as they were all pretty, like their mother, and full of enthusiasm, they quickly captivated young gentlemen of the neighborhood, who were generally about the same age, and yielded to the blended spell of religious devotion, fe- male charms and the most comfortable and piously luxurious domestic estab- lishment in the whole neighborhood. The sons, though stalwart youths, had not inherited the fair mien of their mother They resembled. and strongly, their other parent, who, it was the custom to aver, was descended from Huguenot family. In truth, his father was the son of Genevese watchmaker, and he had himself been a clerk to an eminent English firm, where his tall ents and knowledge of foreign tongues were appreciated. The revocation of the Edict of Nantes with the rich mid de class of this country occupies the same position as the conquest of Eng land by the Normans does with our pa- tricians It throws a halo of imagina- ton over many humble or obscure origin.
 The countenance of Mir. wilberforce Falconet was austere, and its expres- sion would have been saturnine had it not been in a state of constant mitiga- ton from his thrilling sense of domes- tic happiness. worldly prosperity, and religious satisfaction. In the manage ment of his family MT. Wilberforce Falconet was a despot. but he was an
 affectionate one. He often required sacrifices. but he occasionally made them, and in aeither case he was -satis- fled he was acting in manner becom- ing the patriarchs.
 His two elder sons were in his counting house. and were soon to be his partners, when they both were en- gagged to marry young ladies who were the bosom friends of their sisters and were members of the same committees and distributors of the same tracts. Another son was a sailor. Permission to enter the naval profession had been long contested, but with the prospect that his services would be confined to the South African squadron had at length been obtained. Another son. who seemed inclined to be a sailor. was turned by the panic stricken fam fly into a clergyman without delay, and there only remained the youngest son for whom a career was to be pro- vided.
 Joseph Toplady Falconet had been a child of singular precocity. His pow CT of acquisition was remarkable. and. as he advanced in youth, his talents were evidently not merely those which ripen before their time. He was a grave boy, and scarcely ever known to smile. and thls not so much from a want of sympathy for those among whom he was born and bred, for he seemed far from being incapable of do- mestic affection, but rather from a complete deficiency m the sense of hp- nor. of which he seemed quite deS barred. His memory was vigorous. ready, and retentive; but his chief