Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-07-21


whose work consists Of
"Peddling in the DEVILS hardware.
Gossip and innuendo"
And, alas. how little he had as yet
gained. How far from satisfied could
he as gel feel about Anita. For a
mere hope he had lost everything;
the love of poor old Uncle Guido the
inheritance that was his by right, the
home sc2 country which he loved, the
wife who SHOULD have been his, and
now either deliberate malice or mere
careless and baleful talk had robbed
him of the last thing left to hinl-his
fair and stainless reputation.
He was very young, and when the
first hot Indignation had died away
he could only wonder, with sort Of
blank establishment, how that Darticu-
lar charge could possibly have been
brought up against him. People
might justly have reproache1 lin
with his hasty temper, his Impotence,
his love Of ease and pleasure, with a
/ hundred other faults of which he was
perfectly conscious; but to fasten
upon him that particular accusation. to
| charge him with the very sin from
which he was trying at all costs to
| hard measure; it wounded him as
nothing else could have wounded him.
Those no know life well. and have
| bought their experience, and have
gained that long-sighted vision which
belongs to the full-grown, can, even
in the first pain of a personal attack,
rejoice and be exceeding glad" and
! realize thai the devil thinks their
work worth molesting But the young
have always a feeling that the devil
| is MOI so black as he is painted, and
| that the world is, after all, kindly dis
posed, and so their first experience of
injustice comes like a crushing blow;
| it amazes them, and they learn with
/ a shudder that the world will always
| impute low motives, and that they
must learn to expect this and bear it
with composure.
The news in the letter which would
have most painfully affected many
| the account of the lost inheritance
was the last point which occurred to
Carlo. Still he did not regard money
with absolute Indifference, or con
slider that there was any particular
merit in poverty, and it was not in
nature that a man of four-and-twenty
should lose a fortune and feel no
pang OF regret Money was a power,
there was no denying that, and he
was living now from hand to mouth
a process less pleasant in practice
| than in theory. In the reaction from
inordinate love of riches there is now
adays a good deal of cant about
holy poverty" and contemplate
wealth." but Carlo, being a very
practical and supplemented man, did
not affect to look on the loss of his
inheritance from any superior height
of er-worldiness. 1t chafed him
sorely to owe money TO Herr Ritter,
and to see no immediate prospect Of
paying back the principal; it had
cost him much to ask his doctor
whether he would allow him to pay by
installments for the constant at
tendance through the weeks at Merle
bank it had panied him to have to
calculate the cost of his journey 10
Brighton, and to find that his dona-
| tons to the servants who had been so
good to him must be of the smallest.
For money in itself he cared not at
ALL but being in the true sense of the
word a gentleman, he had horror of
being in debt, and found the constant
care necessary to make both ends of
his scanty income meet a most irk-
some duty.
Such matters cannot be looked at in
vague, impersonal way; and though
the ideal hero of sentimental ro-
nance is always above such contempt
ible considerations, yet a straightfor-
ward, honorable man is bound to care
for the possession of such money as
will enable him to pay his way hon
estly in the world Carlo thought
with sigh of the thousands of
! pounds which he had been led to ex-
pect as his inheritance, and then OF
| he constant struggle TO live on his
small salary. Generic had received
six guineas a week, but he as a novice
had consented to take only half that
amount, and Piale, thinking that he
would never continue in a travelling
company after the first year had been
| fairly we'll satisfied with the arrange
ment, and indeed, would have con.
scented TO anything so long as his visa
of inducing his pupil to go on the
stage had been gratified. Carlo had
no intention, however, of accepting
better offers at the end of the first
wear, SO he saw before him an in.
letinite time of hard work and small
pay; for he could no, afford to bargain
with Merlino or quarrel with him. as
any other novice might have done.
AS Carlyle remarks, mo beautl.
fullest poet Is bird of paradise. liy-
ing on perfumes. sleeping in the ether
with out-sretched wings The heroic
| independent of bed ana board, is
found in Drury Lane ThCater only"
Ont OF his three guineas a week he