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with ton are wanted if you please sir by a person in the front hall mr william seemed by no means relieved by that indefinite summons on the contrary his lips grew white and his jaw fell so that he could not utter a word and it was ready mr who put the question for him i what sort of a person is it john and what is his business well sir he said he wouldn t give his name but that mr william knew all about him i think he s some sort of a yes yes said william with a which the sharp eyes of the ex m p at once perceived was assumed to conceal a sense of relief i know the fellow i have been expecting him this long time it is a disagreeable business � i am afraid i must see him alone � john if there is no one in the drawing room show him in there and in a few minutes the young squire was face to face in that gorgeous saloon with a man who had known him in his least prosperous days and who knew his secret but to whom as we have seen he had made up his mind not to give a sixpence of hush money and to carry matters with a high hand still mr william s manner was far from that of one who wishes to pick a quarrel or even to maintain a as he rose and shook hands with uncle dean this gentleman whom circumstances had associated with horse flesh and whose tight fitting and sporting pin had doubtless led the footman to that just conclusion had certainly not been intended by nature for the saddle he was upward of six feet high and of great weight if there is any truth in the it is bone that weigh but whether from the constant habit of physical � that leaning forward to with the reins � or from that moral which requires an vision and a close inspection of one s fellow creatures his back was bent into a bow which assisted by the quick searching glance that he bestowed his nephew by marriage made him look one huge note of he had placed a deep band of round his hat in token of his sorrow for the loss of their common relative but his long waistcoat was bright yellow his green his a brilliant blue perhaps the poetry of his nature forbidden an outlet through the usual channel exhibited and expanded itself in color but certainly he was very highly tinted nor was it his own fault but time s that the hair which had been red was now quite gray how are you dean it was kind of you to come and look me up i am only sorry that the house is full so that i can not ask you to take don t mention it mr don t mention it i had no idea of on you to that extent i do assure you but being in the neighborhood and wishing to hear about poor � that s a d story dean broke in the other hastily and i don t wish to talk about it take some wine � take some gin here what s your name bring this gentleman some gin and hot water that used to be your did it not why yes and yours too in the old days said mr dean but there i suppose with the run of the of a place like this you never touch any thing worse than champagne and brandy j ear dear what a change it seems and i were talking over it only the other evening is an infernal scoundrel observed mr william well he does run a little near the wind at times no doubt but so we all do for the matter of that or have done eh mr as he was saying only think of your being here a squire and a magistrate i suppose and all the rest of it sending poor folks to prison lor what a game it is yes mr dean and it s a game that i have taken care shall not be spoiled by any man said the other slowly i felt of course that i need never fear any from you but knowing what sort of a man was and how like him it would be to hold over my head as it were for the purpose of money that trouble i got into at i made up my mind upon assuming my position here to make a clear breast of it at once you don t mean to tell me that all these fine folks about here know that you were in that horse job and got � mr dean looked cautiously round the room and the shining faces of the and gilded seemed to make him more cautious for his voice sank to a whisper � got put into yes i do said mr william boldly � i don t say that the and village people have been told but every body with the knowledge of such a circumstance could do me harm was put into possession of it at once of course it did do me harm but the worst is past and the ground on which i stand at least is firm a beggar on horseback if you still me for the other wore a very incredulous look a mr whom i suppose you know and who is staying here at present as uncle dean sat rubbing his chin with his large hand you might have thought that his face was made of and that he was pulling it out inches at a time so obviously did it at these words it was evident to him that the moral which he had brought with him to work upon his nephew by marriage would have no

the hundred pounds worth of which was required to take as part of the would not have them sufficiently ib fishing way the money would go they foresaw renewed and a long perspective of lord might be a nobleman but he was lord and the honorable george was his son and if the latter did not succeed to the title and family estates which was by no means improbable there was lady s settlement for division amongst the younger children so they advanced the money that is to say they produced a hundred and eighty pounds in cash twenty they took for the accommodation half of which found its way into the pocket never mind we won t say anything about captain cushion s private affairs and the value of the remaining hundred was made up with a series of pins and rings of the most magnificence this was the honorable s first t but the ice once broken the second and third soon followed he found it the way in the world of raising money and m a short time his took a turn so decide modern officer s commercial tliat lie applied tlie system to all his transactions he paid his after this fashion satisfied messrs and his with paper and did of stiff with the horse dealer to a figure he even became not to say inspired by this great discovery for amongst his papers when they were afterwards by the official � or some such � a song in manuscript was found supposed to have been written about this period the refrain of which ran as follows � when and cash fails the till there is nothing so easy as giving a it needs no ghost to rise from the grave to the to this mode of raising the wind it is recorded twenty times a month in the daily papers � now in the court now in that for the belief of s career lasted about eighteen months at the end of which period � not having fishing by the means of gaining to the extent he he found himself under the necessity of out and retiring to a continental residence leaving behind him debts which were eventually paid to the tune of seven thousand two hundred and fourteen pounds seventeen shillings and three the vulgar having their origin in the hair occasioned by of interest he chose for his abode the pleasant town of sur where he cultivated his acquired a of french and an insight into the mystery of pigeon shooting for one or other of these � we cannot exactly say which � he was subsequently appointed to a foreign and at the present moment we believe is considered one of those promising young men whose skill will probably declare itself one of these days by some stroke of which shall set all europe by the ears with respect to colonel s crack regiment it went as the saying is to the devil modern officer s progress the exposure caused by the affair of � the of which shortly followed � the between lieutenant and captain cushion the result of which was a ball neither spot nor plain but a bullet through the head of the last named gentleman and a few other trifles of a similar description at length attracted the serious notice of his grace the commander in chief it was significantly hinted to colonel that it would be for the benefit of the service in general and that of the in particular if he exchanged to half pay as the regiment required re a smart lieutenant colonel who had learnt something not only of but of discipline under the hero of young egypt in which country he had shared that general s was sent down from the horse guards to a considerable extent took place the and the were replaced by more men and to sum up all the duke s circular came out laying down a principle of practical military fishing while on service if acted up to � and there seems every reason to hope it will now be � bids fair to make good officers of those who heretofore were merely it will also the opportunities for gambling drinking and bill and substitute for the written words on the queen s commission the real character of a soldier and a gentleman vii ne evening in the of march � that dark time in ireland s annals whose overlooking all minor subsequent is still preserved among ns as the year of the rebellion � a lady and gentleman were seated near a blazing fire in the old fashioned of a large lonely mansion they had just dined wine and fruit were on the table both untouched while mr and his wife sat silently gazing at the fire watching its flickering light becoming gradually more vivid as the short spring twilight faded into darkness at length the husband poured out a glass of wine drank it ofl and then broke silence by well well these are awful times there were ten men taken np to day for burning s house at and tom says that every magistrate in the country is a marked man mrs cast a frightened glance towards the windows which opened nearly to the ground and gave a view of the wide tree lawn through whose centre a long straight avenue led to the high road there was also a at either side of the house off through dose of trees and reaching the road by a route listen james i she said after a pause what noise is that nothing but the sighing of the wind among the trees come wife you must not give way to imaginary fears but really i heard something like footsteps on the gravel round the end � i wish � a knock at the parlor door interrupted her come in the door opened and tim mr s father

how sometimes life is risk d and always ease the english poets think and if still the things thy envy call say would st thou be the man to whom they fall to sigh for if thou art so silly mark how they grace lord or sir is yellow dirt the passion of thy life look but on or on wife if parts thee think how bacon d the wisest brightest meanest of mankind or d with the whistling of a name see damn d to everlasting fame i if all united thy ambition call from ancient story learn to scorn them all there in the rich the honoured d and great see the false scale of happiness complete in hearts of kings or arms of who lay how happy those to ruin these betray mark by what wretched steps their glory grows from dirt and sea weed as proud rose in each how guilt and greatness equal ran and all that d the hero sunk the man now europe s on their brows behold but stain d with blood or ill exchanged for gold then see them broke with toils or sunk in ease or infamous for plunder d provinces oh wealth ill fated which no act of fame e er taught to shine or from shame what greater bliss their close of life some greedy or imperious wife the arches halls and haunt their in the shade alas not dazzled with their ray the mom and evening to the day the whole amount of that enormous fame a tale that their glory with their shame know then this truth enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below the only point where human bliss stands still and tastes the good without the fall to ill alexander pope where only merit constant pay receives is in what it takes and what it gives the joy if its end it gain and if it lose attended with no pain without though e er so bless d and but more relish d as the more distress d the mirth folly wears less pleasing far than virtue s very tears good from each object from each place acquired for ever d yet never d never elated while one man s oppressed never dejected while another s bless d and where no wants no wishes can remain since but to wish more virtue is to gain from moral essays i yes you despise the man to books d who from his study rails at human kind tho what he he speaks and may advance some gen or be right by chance the bird so and grave that from his cage cries and tho many a passenger he rightly call you hold him no philosopher at all and yet the fate of all extremes is such men may be read as well as books too much to observations which ourselves we make we grow more partial for th observer s sake to written wisdom as another s less are drawn from notions those from guess there s some peculiar in each leaf and grain some d fibre or some varying vein shall only man be taken in the gross grant but as many sorts of mind as moss vou iii h the english poets that each from other first confess next that he from himself no less add nature s custom reason s passion s strife and all opinion s colours cast on life our depths who or our finds quick and shifting of our minds on human actions reason tho you can it may be reason but it is not man his principle of action once explore that instant tis his principle no more like following life through creatures you you lose it in the moment you detect yet more the is as great between the seeing as the objects seen all manners take a from our own or come d through our passions shown or fancy s beam and gives ten thousand dies nor will life s stream for observation stay it all too fast to mark their way in vain reflections we would make when half our knowledge we must snatch not take oft in the passions wide our spring of action to ourselves is lost d not d to the last we yield and what comes then is master of the field as the last image of that troubled heap when sense and fancy sports in sleep tho past the recollection of the thought becomes the stuff of which our dream is wrought something as dim to our internal view is thus perhaps the cause of most we do true some are open and to all men known others so very close they re hid from none so darkness strikes the sense no less than light thus gracious is d at sight and ev ry child hates tho his soul still sits at and not from its hole alexander pope at mankind when gen manly all know tis virtue for he thinks them when universal homage pays all see tis vice and of vulgar praise when ry all hate it in a queen while one there is who charms us with his but these plain characters we rarely find tho strong the bent yet quick the turns of mind or confound the whole or quite reverse the soul the dull flat falsehood serves for policy and in the cunning truth itself s a lie of cheat us in the wise the hid in see the sam e man in vigour in the alone in company in place or out early at business and at hazard late mad at a fox chase wise at a debate drunk at a civil at a ball friendly at at is ever moral ever grave thinks who a is next a save just at dinner � then prefers no doubt a rogue with ven son to a saint without who would not praise s

acts like a business man i could see that just by at his place before i seen him he took about fifteen seconds to size me up can you says he sure thing i told m know horses i was in a box stall says i an just then � you remember that four horse load of machinery that come in after me � just then it drove up how about four horses he asks casual like eight to home i can drive m to a a machine or a merry go round jump up an take them lines then he says quick an sharp not seconds see that shed go round the barn to the right an back in for an right here i tell you it was some he was i could see by the tracks the d all ben goin around the bam to the left what he was was too close work for comfort � a double turn like an s between a comer of a an around the corner of the barn to the last swing an to eat into the little room there was there was piles of just thrown the barn an not hauled away yet but i wasn t on the driver gave me the lines an i could see he was sure i d make a mess of it i bet he couldn t a done it himself i never let on an away we went me not even the horses � but say if you d seen me throw them leaders clean to the top of the till the nigh horse was the side of the bam to make it an the off hind was the by ic the valley of the moon comer post of the to miss by six inches it was the only way an them horses was sure the leaders back an dam near sat down on their when i threw the back into the an on the an stopped on the very precise spot do says that was good work aw says indifferent as hell something real hard he smiles an understands you done that well he says an i m particular about who handles my horses the road ain t no place for you you must be a good man gone wrong just the same you can with my horses in to morrow which shows how wise he wasn t i hadn t showed i could when saxon had served the beans and the coffee she stood still a moment and surveyed the spread meal on the blankets � the of sugar the milk tin the beef the and the of fresh french bread and the steaming plates of beans and of coffee what a difference from last night saxon exclaimed clapping her hands it s like an adventure out of a book oh that boy i went fishing with think of that beautiful table and that beautiful house last night and then look at this why we could have lived a thousand years on end in and never met a woman like mrs nor dreamed a house like hers existed and just to think we ve only just started worked for three days and while that he was doing very well he freely admitted that there was more in than he had thought saxon experienced quiet satisfaction when she learned he was enjoying it i never thought i d like � much he observed but it s fine it s good for the leg muscles too they by ic the valley of the moon don t get exercise enough in if ever i trained for another fight you bet i d take a at an you know the ground has a regular good smell to it a over an over it s good enough to eat that smell an it just goes on up an over fresh an thick an good all day long an the horses are joe they know their business as well as a man that s one thing ain t got a horse on the place the last day worked the sky clouded over the air grew damp a strong wind began to blow from the and all the signs were present of the first winter rain came back in the evening with a small roll of old canvas he had borrowed which he proceeded to arrange over their bed on a so as to shed rain several times he complained about the little finger of his left hand it had been him all day he told saxon for several days slightly in fact and it was as tender as a boil � most likely a but he had been unable to it he went ahead with storm preparations the b d on old boards which he from a bam falling to decay on the opposite bank of the creek upon the boards he heaped dry leaves for a he concluded by the canvas with additional of odd pieces of rope and wire when the first of rain arrived saxon was delighted betrayed little interest his finger was too much he said neither he nor saxon could make anything of it and both at the idea of a it might be a run around saxon what s that i don t know i remember mrs had one once but i was too small it was the little finger too she it i think and i remember she dressed it with some kind of it got awful bad and finished by her losing the nail after that it got well quick and a ed by the valley of the moon new nail grew out suppose make a hot bread for yours declined being of the opinion that it would be better in the morning saxon was troubled and as she she knew that he was lying wide awake a few minutes afterward roused by a heavy blast of wind and

he thinks it best to give me a chance this time as i shall probably have to go often hereafter and i might as well satisfy my curiosity first as last isn t it delightful it was not till he had finished these exclamations that saw the deep shadow on his father s their marriage bond then it struck him all at once that he had been very selfish and he proceeded without delay to my dear father he began i ought to have thought i am very sorry no don t say that interposed mr it will it is true be hard for me to part with you for so long and perhaps in my state of health forgive me i will not go cried on the contrary you must was the dignified reply it is not for the old to set up their against the best interests of the young i have lived my life and what there is left is of but little value the son tried to protest but was not allowed to speak i want to see two things arranged before i go and they both concern you one of them looks fair it is that of your business connections the other as you will undoubtedly guess is your marriage who had been growing pale turned red at the concluding words but he only bowed politely your partners tell me that you are a business man by instinct pursued mr after a momentary pause they prove their high opinion of you by the commission of which you have just told me to go through this life a man needs a suitable income and a good wife i am certain that you will have both bowed again his father s solicitude his perfect self impressed him deeply when are you to sail asked mr in about five weeks the father looked thoughtful it should be announced before you go he said their marriage to what do you refer asked the son slightly startled your engagement to miss there was great uneasiness in s manner which he strove in vain to conceal you know at least you understand father he murmured that no word has ever passed between and myself on the subject the elder man raised himself in his chair quite proper he commented with evident satisfaction there was no need of when both of you knew what was to come i have expressed my intentions to you a hundred times and mrs has done the same to you are sensible young folks who know what is good for yourselves all it wants now is a few sentences from you to her a dozen words in reply and then a paragraph in the society papers you can go over to call on her to day mention that you are going abroad for how long do you think four or five months four or five months repeated mr and suggest that this seems a proper time to announce your intentions to the world bit his lips nervously isn t that hurrying things a little he asked a man has to get up to that point rather gradually i should suppose i ve got to ask her if she ll marry me haven t i before i suggest announcing our engagement mr moved about impatiently in his chair gracious he exclaimed with signs of coming temper have i at my age got to instruct a boy how to approach a girl in a matter of this kind nothing is more simple just step in and have a little talk tell her their marriage bond you are going away say you want her for your wife and when she answers that she you explain why it is best to make the public statement at once to keep others from her during your absence it isn t an affair of more than ten minutes the whole thing though not at all sure that he could arrange these momentous details in such a short space of time was not ready to enter into an argument with hia parent which would be he foresaw to no purpose so he merely answered very well i ll be hanged if you seem enthusiastic over it said mr speaking now with a smile that s a pretty fine bundle of goods for a fellow to get if you did but know it always reminds me of a dish of and cream by boy you ought to thank me for saving it up for you some other chap might have got his hands on it by this time except for my vigilance the young man tried to laugh if for nothing else to please the father he loved so much but the of and cream struck him vividly that was it and cream sweet fresh ripe and cold an hour later thinking it best to have the experience over he was walking across the fields to his neighbor s house his father s land stretched for a goodly distance over the country and that of the covered as great a space immediately beyond it when the city should grow out in this direction as the owners had often said there would be a fortune in this real estate not for them they would be numbered with the silent majority but for their children who were to be united with the land as he approached the residence saw a fair face at one of the windows and the waving of a handkerchief in welcome then its possessor their marriage bond with an indication that she would meet him at the door there was nothing surprising in this freedom as babies they had dug up the walks and pulled each other in little carts as boy and girl they had gone together to the same school there had never been the least between them why should there be any now i wonder if you can guess what i

servants and mrs always wanted to lay down the law perhaps on the whole it would be better to start the society quietly among themselves and then gradually to increase it the first meeting should be next wednesday at mrs s house and mrs hunt would bring her b k a complete two volume with her mrs thought that one volume would be enough just at but said that it was better to have a wide choice went home and told in the evening he was pleased but rather you must begin with the things first said he i should recommend and gold hair but put on the charming air of displeasure which became her so well we are serious students sir said she we want the very hardest poem in the book i assure you that one of your little faults is that you always a woman s intelligence hunt says that though wo may be less original than men we are more � more that s what i say � now you always talk as if � oh yea you do no you mustn t how absurd you are i whenever i try to speak seriously to you you always do that and spoil everything how would you like to discuss if at the end of every sentence somebody came and kissed you you wouldn t mind i no i dare say not but you would feel that you were not being taken i the society seriously wait till the next time you are in earnest about anything � you u see i the meeting was to be at three o clock and at ten minutes to the hour mrs hunt arrived with two large brown volumes under her arm she had come early she said because there was to be a of the amateur at the at a quarter past four mrs did not appear until five minutes after the hour her cook had quarrelled with the and given notice with five people coming to dinner on saturday it had upset the lady very much and she explained that she would not have come if she had not promised it was so difficult to follow poetry when you were thinking about the all the time why the asked mrs hunt looking up from the book which she held open in front of her my dear said mrs who had the art of saying the most simple things as if they were profoundly confidential secrets � my dear my is really an excellent cook and i shall rely upon her if really goes but she is limited very limited and and are the two things ia which i cannot a entirely trust her i must therefore find some which ia well within her capacity mrs hunt herself upon her housekeeping so the problem interested her also began to the meeting less dull than she had expected of course there arc many things to be considered said mrs hunt with the air of a q o giving an opinion or vol au are out of season said i was about to say mrs hunt continued with admirable presence of mind that these of are because they are out of season now my husband them well well what do you say to ah you want are salt bacon fat no no cried mrs anne would never remember all that k la said mrs hunt i am sure that they are simple enough butter fowls my dear my dear remember that she ia only a it is unreasonable the society of fowl chicken of with a little we ve got back to after all cried dear me said mrs it is all my fault and i am so sorry now mrs hunt do please read us a little of that delightful poetry you can always get small sent down from the stores cried as a happy thought you dear good girl how sweet of you to think of it of course one can that is really an admirable idea there now we may consider the as being removed so we proceed to the piece de resistance said mrs hunt solemnly glancing down the index of the first volume i confess that my acquaintance with the poet has up to now been rather superficial our ambition must be to so master him that he becomes from this time forward part and parcel of ourselves i fancy that the in understanding him have been very much exaggerated and that with and perseverance we shall manage to overcome them it was a relief to mrs and to a to that mrs hunt knew no more about the matter than themselves they both ventured upon a air now that it was clear that it might be done in safety frowned thoughtfully and mrs east up her pretty brown eyes at the as if she were running over in her memory tlie whole long catalogue of the poet s works i will tell you what we should do said she we must make a vow that we shall never pass a line until we understand it we will go over it again and again until we grasp its meaning what an excellent idea cried with one of her little bursts of enthusiasm now that is really splendid mrs my friends always call me said the little how nice of you to say so i should love to call you so if you don t mind it is such a pretty name too only you must call me you look like a said mrs i always picture a as bright and pretty and isn t it strange how names associate themselves with characters mary ia always domestic and rose is a and is dutiful and is dashing and is and is i te j the society and is impatient said mrs hunt laughing has reason to be seated here with an index in front of her while

do on nights when she went out with my sisters at the li cottage however my mother never went out in the c evenings i was awake when the girls came home mother was sitting writing letters at the open window they came in all of a rush oh mother has great news for you said i hope you will be pleased mother said in a little meek voice now my sister was not meek she was no beauty � she was rather clever and she was very dominant in truth she was haughty but that evening she was as mild as new milk i was not supposed to be awake but i could see from where i lay that my mother looked up what has happened dear she asked george has asked me to marry him she said what did you say asked mother sharply i said yes � subject of course to your approval dear she replied oh my dear i think george charming and he is the eldest son and they are so rich until now this moment i had always thought that my mother was friends with the because a self made she liked them then the knowledge came to me that she was really friends with them because they were so rich it puzzled me very much he is coming to see you to morrow dear said softly at about eleven in the morning and i think i will say good night now and kissing mother she went away closing the door behind her sat down on the other side of mother s little writing table and rested her chin on the palms of her two hands you are pleased aren t you mother she said mother gave a sigh oh my dear i am more than pleased is so � so � h m � well so very clever said with a laugh hush hush you will wake the child said my mother gave a careless look round at my little bed oh she s sound asleep she said it will be a great relief to you to get her settled before i am really out yes my dear but her will cost a good deal i suppose she won t be satisfied unless she has all her of silk like your cousin � and had twelve of everything said well she must have her things � all her proper things said my mother � and as we are still in mourning for your poor father we can have a fairly quiet but she must have her things did mrs know do you think she went on a self made well i don t know if she knew but she guessed it is a lucky thing you know said that mrs thinks such an awful lot of i only hope will keep it up oh well dear she is going to be very rich � very rich said mother after all there is nothing like if your poor dear father had made instead of nations i should have been a rich woman now we can t all make dear said no darling said my mother that is quite true and so some of us went on must be content to be mere makers of nations � and there is a certain about it that you don t find in mother honey i wouldn t say so to said my mother oh no no and besides george is altogether charming in himself � not much to look at you know though i think i should like a little more in the way of manly beauty myself but the great thing is that fancies him and he fancies so they can sort themselves out afterwards and since mrs is so devoted to her they can buy this house for them � i the doctor will be very pleased to sell it that is as may be said my mother i shall leave them to themselves i must provide with her after that i shall not interfere or have any opinions or give any advice my hands are full enough a self made laughed softly yes that s quite true � you will have to get rid of me next my dear don t say such things my mother still you know what i mean � you don t want daughters hanging around like of hung up to dry tm sure it s most considerate of to get herself out of the way before i make a start i really think mother you will have a better chance with me i am not a bit prettier than but i am more for one thing and i know better what i want i am than she is too � and then you will have plenty of time before you want to float little red head little red head meant me if you please i gave a kick under the � i did so hate to hear my unfortunate red head discussed and talked about no said my mother you don t see many such heads as s no you don t replied promptly and perhaps it s a good thing you don t because they pretty well take the shine out of every other kind of head that comes near them do you know i never told you mother the very last time i was in the park i was walking along behind and and we passed the painter who was leaning against the talking to another man good god i heard him say do you see that kid s head i never saw such a head in my life i wonder who she is and if i could get her to sit for me � i never saw such hair then he saw me as i passed a self made and bowed to me i was laughing outright but i don t think he guessed that she

parted in dreadful henry in an agitation of mind which many solitary hours were required to compose had returned almost instantly to and on the of the following day had begun his journey to chapter mb and mrs s surprise on being applied to by mr for their consent to his marrying their daughter was for a few minutes considerable it having never entered into their heads to suspect an attachment on either side but as nothing after all could be more natural than s being beloved they soon learnt to consider it with only the happy agitation of gratified pride and as far as they alone were concerned had not a single objection to start his pleasing manners and good sense were self evident and having never heard evil of him it was not their way to suppose any evil could be told gk od will supplying the place of experience his character needed no would make a sad heedless young housekeeper to be sure was her mother s te abbey mark but quick was the of being like practice there was but one obstacle in short to be mentioned but till that one was removed it must be impossible for them to sanction the engagement their were mild their principles were steady and while his parent so expressly forbade the they could not allow to encourage it that the should come forward to the alliance or that he should very heartily approve it they were not refined enough to make any but the decent appearance of consent must be and that once obtained and their own hearts made them trust that it could not be very long denied their willing approbation was instantly to follow his consent was all that they wished for they were no more inclined than entitled to demand his money of a very considerable fortune his son was by marriage eventually secure his present income was an income of independence and comfort and under every pecuniary view it was a match beyond the claims of their daughter the young people could not be surprised at a decision like this they felt and they but they could not resent it and they parted endeavouring to hope that such a change in the general as each believed almost impossible might speedily take place to them again in the of privileged affection henry returned to what was now his only home to watch over his young and extend his improvements for her sake to whose share in them he looked anxiously forward and remained at to cry whether the of absence were softened by a correspondence let us not inquire mr and mrs never did they had been too kind to exact any promise and whenever received a letter as at that time happened pretty often they always looked another way the anxiety which in this state of their attachment must be the portion of henry and and of all who loved abbey either as to its final event can hardly extend i fear to the bosom of my readers who will in the tell tale of the pages before them that we are all hastening together to perfect felicity the means by which their early marriage was can be the only doubt what probable could work upon a temper the general s the circumstance which chiefly was the marriage of his daughter with a man of fortune and consequence which took place in the course of the summer an accession of dignity that threw him into a fit of good humour from which he did not recover till after � had obtained his forgiveness of henry and his permission for him to be a fool if he liked it the marriage of � her removal from all the evils of such a home as had been made by henry s to the home of her choice and the man of her choice is an event which i expect to give general satisfaction among all her acquaintance my own joy on the occasion is very sincere i know no one more entitled by merit or better prepared by habitual suffering to receive and enjoy felicity her partiality for this gentleman was not of recent origin and h had been long withheld only by inferiority of situation from addressing her his unexpected accession to title and fortune had removed all his difficulties and never had the general loved his daughter so well in all her hours of companionship utility and patient endurance as when he first hailed her your her husband was really deserving of her independent of his his wealth and his attachment being to a precision the most charming young man in the world any farther definition of his merits must be unnecessary the most charming young man in the world is instantly before the imagination of us all concerning the one in question therefore i have only to add aware that the rules of composition forbid the introduction of a character not connected with my fable that this was the very gentleman whose servant left behind him that collection of washing bills from a long visit at by which my heroine was in one of her the influence of the and in their brother s behalf was assisted bj that right of mr s which as soon as the g allow himself to be informed they were qualified to give it taught him that he had b en scarcely more by s first boast of the wealth than by his malicious overthrow of it that in no sense of the word were they or poor and that would have three thousand pounds this was so material an of his late expectations that it greatly contributed to smooth the descent of his pride and by no means without its effect was the private intelligence which he was at some pains to procure that the estate being entirely at the disposal of its present proprietor was consequently

twas often said that i resembled much my face was and my hair was red � the kind of looking boy that men call � i � kind deeds however were my constant in everything i did the best i could i said my prayers thrice daily and i sought in all my ways to do the right and good on i d do my monday s sums while jim would spend the day in search of fun he d away and steal the neighbor s and strange to say to earth was never run whilst i when study time was through would seek my brother in the neighbor s orchard would find the neighbor there with anger blue and a� the would be tortured tlie sums i d done he d steal this lad forsaken then change my work so that a paltry four would be my mark whilst he had overtaken the and all the bore the new york library as on i no and till to � a t in later years we loved the self same maid we sent her little presents sweets for which alas twas i that always paid and jim the maid now honors and we entered politics � in and for a minor office each did run twas i was left � left badly at the because of things that jim had done it when jim went into business and failed i signed his notes and freed him from the strife which and ruin hath on them that lead a queer financial life then i learned that jim had set aside before his failure � hard to tell � a half a million dollars on his pet � his mrs jim � the former lovely � that wearied me of jim it may be right for one to bear another s cross but i quite fail to see it in its proper light if that s the rule man should be guided by and since a fate perverse has had the wit to mix us up so that the one s deserts upon the shoulders of the other sit no matter how the other one it hurts i am resolved to take some mortal s life just when or where or how i do not so long as law will end horrid strife and twist my dear twin brother s sinful neck there said the idiot putting down the manuscript how s that i don t like it said mr it is and you should accept the hardships of life no matter how unjust the conclusion of your poem me sir i � have you tried your hand at dialect poetry asked the doctor yes once said the idiot i sent it to the great western weekly oh yes here it is sent back with thanks it s an written in cigar box dialect in wh a at asked the poet box dialect here it is o especial h clay invincible el victoria � o grand � o you drive all my sorrows away r e new yo k library t x and r l ingenious but vicious said the school master who does not smoke again thanks how is this for a said the idiot when to the of sweet silent thought i summon up remembrance of things past i sigh the lack of many a thing i sought and with old woes new wail my dear time s waste then can i drown an eye unused to flow for precious friends hid in death s night and weep afresh love s long since d woe and moan the expense of many a vanish d sight then can i grieve at and heavily from woe to woe tell o er the sad account of fore moan which i now pay as if not paid before but if the while i think of thee dear friend all losses are restored and sorrows end it is said the school master the poet smiled quietly perfect repeated the school master and only shows how in weak hands so beautiful a thing as the can be made ridiculous what s wrong with it asked the idiot it doesn t contain any thought � or if it does no one can tell what the thought is your are your is ridiculous the whole thing is bad you ll never get anybody to print it i do not intend to try said the idiot meekly you are wise said the school master to take my advice for once it is not your advice that me said the idiot it is the fact that this has been printed in the name of where cried the school master in tlie collected works of william shakespeare the idiot quietly the poet laughed mrs s eyes filled with tears and the school master for once had absolutely nothing to say xi do you believe mr said the idiot taking his place at the table and holding his plate up to the light apparently to see whether or not it was the landlady � do you believe that the love of money is the root of all evil i have always been of that impression returned mr pleasantly in fact i am sure of it he added there is no evil thing in this world sir that cannot be traced back to a point where is found to be its main spring and the source of its strength then how do you reconcile this with the story of the forbidden fruit do you think the apples referred to were figures of speech the true import of which was that adam and eve had their on the original well of course there you begin to � ah � you seem to me to be going back to the � er � the � ah � original root of all evil prompted the idiot calmly precisely returned mr with a sigh of relief mrs

seemed to them all gradually a faint brightness appeared in the east and the air which had been very warm all through the night felt cool and chilly though there waa no daylight yet the darkness was diminished and the stars looked pale the prison which had been a mere black mass with little shape or form put on its usual aspect and ever and anon a solitary be seen upon its roof stopping to look down upon the preparations in the street this man firom forming as it were a part of the jail and knowing or being supposed to know all that was within became an object of as much interest and was as eagerly looked for and as pointed out as if he had been a spirit by and bye the feeble light grew stronger and the houses with their sign boards and stood plainly out in the dull grey morning heavy stage crawled firom the inn yard opposite and travellers peeped out and as they rolled away cast many a backward look towards the jail and now e sun s first beams came glancing into the street and the night s work which in its various stages and in the varied fancies of the on had taken a hundred shapes wore its own proper form � a and a as the warmth of cheerful day began to shed itself upon the scanty crowd the murmur of tongues was heard shutters were thrown open and blinds drawn up and those who had slept in rooms over against the prison where places to see the execution were let at high prices rose hastily fix m their beds in some of the houses people were busy taking out the window for the better accommodation of spectators in others the spectators were already seated and the time with cards or drink or jokes among themselves some had purchased seats upon the house tops and were already crawling to their stations fix m and garret window some were yet for good places and stood in them in a state of gazing at the slowly swelling crowd and at the workmen as they rested against the � affecting to listen with indifference to the proprietor s of the commanding view his house afforded and the surpassing of his terms a fairer morning never shone from the roofs and upper stories of these buildings the of churches and the great cathedral dome were visible rising up beyond the prison into the blue sky and in the colour of light summer clouds and showing in the dear atmosphere their every scrap of and fret work and every and all was brightness and promise excepting in the street below into which for it yet lay in shadow the eye looked down as into a dark where in the midst of so much life and hope and renewal of existence stood the terrible instrument of death it seemed as if ttie very sun to look upon it but it was grim and sombre in the shade than when the day being more advanced it stood confessed in the glare and glory of the sun with its black paint and its dangling in the light like it was better in the solitude and gloom of midnight with a few forms about it than in the freshness and the stir of morning the centre of an eager crowd it was better haunting the street like a when men were in their beds and perchance the s dreams than the broad day and thrusting its presence upon their waking senses five o clock had struck � six � seven � and eight along the two main streets at either end of the cross way a living stream had now set in rolling towards the of gain and business and forced a passage through the of the throng and onward in the same direction some of these which were public and had come from a short distance in the country stepped and the driver pointed to the with his whip though he might have spared himself the pains for the heads of all the passengers were turned that way without his help and the coach windows were stuck full of staring eyes in some of the and women be seen glancing at the same thing and even little children were held up above the people s heads to see what kind of toy a was and learn how men were hanged two were to die before the prison who had been concerned in the attack upon it and one directly afterwards in square at nine o clock a strong body of military marched into the street and formed and lined a narrow passage into which had been indifferently kept all night by through this another cart was brought the one already mentioned had been employed in the construction of the and wheeled up to � the prison gate these preparations made the soldiers stood at ease the officers to and fro in the alley they had made or talked together at the s foot and the which had been rapidly for some hours and still received additions every minute waited with an impatience which increased with every of st s dock for twelve at noon up to this time they had been very quiet comparatively silent save when the arrival of some new party at a window hitherto gave them something new to look at or to talk of but as the hour approached a and hum arose which deepening every moment soon swelled into a roar and seemed to fill the air no words or even voices could be distinguished in this nor did they speak much to each other though such as were better informed upon the topic than the rest would tell their neighbours perhaps that they might know the when he came out by his being the shorter one and that the man who was to

the bush into the garden it i pat and cause says won t die but always get mo e and mon ah child said always read to talk when he had his pipe his band apparently enjoying the pauses more than the it n t do fa leave out the and there s nothing ray thinking when it s flowers but it s just come head what we re to do for a � can help us thought but a fence we must else ihe and things i and everything down a hard to be got at by what i can mate out o i ii tell you said ei pie clasping her hands sudden after a s thought lots o loose stones about some of ei not big and we might lay em of one another and make a wall you and me could carry the smallest and ud carry the rest � i know he would eh my precious un said � there is n t enough stones to go all round and as for yon carrying why wi little arms you could n t carry a no bigger than a you re made my dear he added with a tender � that a what mrs says o i m stronger than you think said and if there was n t stones enough lo go all why they go part o the way and ii li be easier to get sticks and things for the rest see here the big pit what a many she forward to the pit meaning to lift one of the and exhibit her strength but she started back in surprise o father just come and look here she exclaimed � come and see how the water s gone down since yesterday why the pit well to be sure said coming to her why that s the ihey ve begun on since harvest i mr s i reckon the said to me the other day when passed by cm master he said should n t wonder if we lay your bit o waste as dry as a bone it was mr he said gone the he d been taking these fields o mr how odd it to have the a large stone see i can carry thia quite well she said going along with much energy for a few step but presently letting it fall ah you re fine and strong t you said while shook her aching arms and come come let ns go and sit down on the bank against the there and have no more you might yourself child ton d need have somebody to work for you � and my arm isn t over strong uttered the last sentence slowly as if it implied more than met the ear and when they sat down on the bank to his side and hold of the arm that was not over strong held it on her lap while d again at the pipe which occupied his other arm an ash in he made a fretted screen from the sun and threw happy playful shadows all about them father said very gently r they had been sitting in silence a little while if i was to be married ought i to he married with my mother s ring gave an almost though the question ml in with though the question the of thought in his own mind and then said in a sa tone why have you been a thinking on it this last week father said talked to me about it and did be said still in the same subdued way as if he were anxious lest he should fall into the slightest that was not for s good he said he should like to be married because he was a f in and had got a deal of work now mr s given np and he goes twice a week regular to mr s and once to mr s and they re going to take him on at the and w me to be said with laughter kissing her father s as if be d want to many anybody else and you mean to have him do jou said yes some time said i don t know when everybody s but you never be lone again father said that wai what said � i could never think o taking yon away from master and i said it ud be no use if you did and he wants us all to live together bo as you need n t work a bit father only what s for own pleasure and be d be as good as n son to you � that was what he said and should vou like that said looking at her i should n t mind il father said quite simply and i should like things to be so ai you need n t work much but if it wasn t li f that i d sooner things did n t i m very happy like to b fond of me and come and see ua often an l bi pretty to you � he always does behave pretty to does n t he father child nobody could behave better said emphatically he s mother s lad but i don t want any change said i should like to go on a long long while just as we are only does want a change and he made me cry a bit � only a bit � because be said did n t care for him for if i cared for him i should want us to be married as he did eh my blessed child laying down his pipe as if it useless to to smoke any you married we ll ask mrs � we ll ask s mother what she thinks if there a right thing to do she ll come at it but there s this

hear the angels as they leaned forward out of their clouds my priests are v doing splendidly the fat of this beast is delicious in our nostrils were the attributed to michael r and he said would reply it is indeed as thou o v r joseph that priests could speak like this and t tried to forget the vile things they said but they were j he in his heart for he could i not do else and when he did speak it was at first cautiously though there was little need for caution for he found to his surprise that everybody knew that the did not v k believe in a future life and very little in the that the v jews were the chosen by god he was their god and had the race but for all practical purposes it was better to put their faith henceforth in the who would defend against all it was necessary to observe the sabbath and to preach its and to punish those who it for on the sabbath rested the entire of the temple itself x the brook and all belief might if the sabbath was not maintained and in the houses of the joseph heard these very words and their crude his tender soul he was drawn back to his own th lor however narrow minded and they might be he could not deny to them the virtue of sincerity it was with a delightful sense of community of spirit that he returned to them and in the conviction that it would be well to let pass without protest the which himself long ago in began to look upon with amusement a sudden recollection of the discussion that had arisen in the yard behind the counting house whether an egg could be eaten if it had been laid the day after the sabbath brought a smile to his face but a different smile from of for he understood now better than he had understood then that this in itself a ridiculous question was no more serious than a that might for a moment the garment of a of little account was the delay if the feet were on the right road now the scruple of conscience that the question had awakened might be considered as a desire to live according to a law which observed for generations had become part of the national sense and spirit on this he fell to thinking that it is only by laws and traditions that we may know ourselves � whence we have come and whither we are going he attributed to these laws and traditions the love of the race for their god and their desire to love god and to form their lives in obedience to what they believed to be god s will without these rites and their love of god would not have survived it was not by exaggeration of these laws but by the of j the that the temple was if the priests degraded religion and made a vile thing of it there were others that the temple by their piety and as these thoughts passed through joseph s mind his eyes went to the simple folk who never asked themselves v the brook whether they were or but were content to pray around the temple that the lord would not take them away till they witnessed the triumph of never asking if the promised would be obtained in this world � if not in each individual case by the race itself � or whether they would all be lifted by angels out of their graves and carried away by them into a happy immortality the simple folk on whom joseph s eyes rested prayed by difficult questions they were v nt god and captured by their simple faith which he felt to be the only spiritual value he was glad away from both sa and mix with them sometimes and to his great regret he brought about involuntarily the very religious that it was his object to quit for ever when he withdrew himself from the society of the a chance word was enough to set some of them by the ears asking each other whether the soul may or can descend again into the body and it was one day when this question was being disputed that a v pressing forward announced his belief that the soul being alone immortal does not attempt to regain the temple of the body a doctrine which astonished joseph so simple did it seem and so reasonable and as he stood wondering why he had not thought of it himself his eyes telling his perplexity he was awakened from his dream and his awakening was caused by the word he asked for a meaning to be put upon it to the great astonishment of the people who were not aware that the fame of this third of t he jews was not yet spread into were many willing to instruct him and almost the first thing he learnt about them was that they were not viewed with favour in for they did not send animals to the temple for sacrifice blood letting a m e a still more this was its denial of private v n x n m the brook property all they had belonged to one brother as much as � o another and they lived in various places avoiding cities and setting up villages of their own accord one on the eastern bank of the from whence sometimes came forth for the marriage and relied on for the maintenance of the order the rule of the however did not marriage because they believed the end of the world was drawing nigh but because they wished to all pleasure from life to do this to conceive the duty of man to be a cheerful of all pleasure seemed to joseph wonderful an exaltation of the spirit that

an observer noted it as being composed of high peaks but influences have reduced it to the appearance of a single wasting similar to those which the northern slopes of i ea there are a number of shore on the island and six groups of but m the of the and the great depth of the soil in many places s v v i � � ill � � � letter xviii lions op and the purple which we grow in pots for dinner table ornament is as common as a weed besides this hotel and the handsome but exaggerated and government buildings not yet finished there are few imposing here the but temporary english cathedral the church diminished once to suit a population but already too large again the prison a clean building empty in the because the are sent out to labour on roads and public works the queen s hospital for for which queen and her husband became in the court house a staring building and the palace almost the of this last little can be said except that it is appropriate and to a kingdom of souls which is more than can be said of the income of the king the of the ministers and some other things it stands in of about an acre in extent with a fine avenue running through them and is approached by a flight of steps which leads to a tolerably spacious hall decorated in the european style of louis and his queen presented by themselves and of the late admiral thomas adorn the walls the have a profound respect for this officer s memory as it was through him that the of the islands was promptly restored to the native rulers after the infamous affair of its to england as represented by lord george there are also some ornamental and miniature copies of some of s works xviii the takes up the left wing of the palace this unfortunately a rather dreary in london or new york and no features except a decorated chair which is the throne there is an crown also neither grand nor costly hut this i hare not seen at present the palace is only used for state and for the king is living at his private residence of not far off miss w kindly introduced me to queen or the queen of iv whom you will remember as having visited england a few years when she received great attention she has one fourth of english blood in her veins but her complexion is fully as dark as if she were of descent and her features though refined by education and circumstances are also hut she is a very pretty as well as a very graceful woman she was brought up by dr an here and though educated at the american school for the en of chiefs is very in her and sympathies an attached member of the english church and an ardent of the mission is very popular and her exceeding kindness and benevolence with her strongly national feeling as an make her much beloved by the natives the winter palace as her house is called is a large shady abode like an old fashioned new england house but with two deep and the letter xviii � n s entrance is on the upper one the lower floor seemed given up to attendants and offices and a native woman was clothes under a tree upstairs the house is like a english country house with a pleasant english look as if its furniture and ornaments had been gradually during a series of years and possessed individual histories and reminiscences rather than as if they had been ordered together as from stores indeed it is the most english looking house i have seen since i left home except at if there were a bell i did not see it and we did not ring for the queen received us at the door of the drawing room which was open i had seen her before in dress driving a pair of black horses in a english but on this occasion she was not receiving visitors formally and was indulging in wearing the native and her black hair was left to its own devices she is rather below the middle height very young looking for her age which is thirty seven and very graceful in her movements her manner is indeed ver fascinating from a combination of unconscious dignity with simplicity her expression is sweet and gentle with the same look of sadness about her eyes that the king has but she has a brightness and of expression which give a great charm to her appearance she has much first for the death at the age of of her only child the prince of who when dying was into the english ch by the name of edward queen victoria and the prince of wales being his and c xviii secondly for the premature death of her husband to whom she was much attached she speaks english beautifully only hesitating now and then for the most correct form of expression she spoke a good deal and with great pleasure of england and described and the emotions it excited in her so admirably that i should like to have heard her describe all europe a few days afterwards i went to a garden party at her house it was a very pretty sight and the everybody of was there to the number of i must describe it for the benefit of who in thinking that ed must necessarily be grotesque people arrived shortly before sunset and were received by queen who sat on the lawn with her attendants about her very simply dressed in black silk the king at whose entrance the band played the national stood on another lawn where were made by the and those who were already acquainted with him had an opportunity for a few minutes

a pursuit and though almost totally separated from her family was sensible of the truest io hearing of onr kindness towards them or of anything at all promising in th or conduct once and once only in the course of many years had she the happiness of l with william of the t � he saw nothing nobody seemed to think of her going amongst them again even for a visit bt home � to want her but william soon after her to be s e lor was invited to spend a week his sister in before he went to sea their eager affection in i meeting exquisite delight in being together their hours of i happy mirth and may lie imagined bs well as the views and of the boy even to the last and the misery of the girl when he her luckily the visit happened in the christmas when she could directly look comfort to her cousin and he her such charming of what william was to do and be hereafter in of his profession as made her gradually admit that the have some use s friendship never her hia leaving for oxford made no change in his kind i and only a more frequent opportunities of proving them without any display of doing more than the rest or any fear of doing too tie was always true to her interests and of her trying to her good qualities and to conquer the wliich prevented their being more i giving her advice consolation and encouragement kept back as she was every else hia single support could not her forward but his were otherwise of the i highest importance in assisting the improvement of her mind and j its pleasures he knew her to be clever to have a i apprehension as well as good sense and a fondness read i ing which properly directed must be an education ui itself ht her and heard her read the daily of but be aj � ae encouraged taste and co je ter at i p reading useful by talking to ct os na its attraction by vm in ot � � � m e him better than any aj m e � mt her heart wm divided t ie of ia family w mr when was about fifteen and introduced and on the first to the park and to a of sir a in the village and for of her by that could do weu mm and for her d income by tbe evident of economy hie living hereafter and had bis uncle died a years sooner it would been duly given to some friend lo till lie wore old for orders but tom s previous tu that event io great as to render a di rent u ril cf next and l i to pay for tbe pleasures of tbe elder there actually for but made tbe arrangement easier to i he could not but it lo be an act of tried to bis eldest son with the i ii in the hope of its producing a affect than lie bad yet been able ta lay or do fur you tom said he in most dignified manner for the expedient which i am driven on and trust i may pity your as a on the occasion you have for ten twenty thirty years perhaps for life of than half the income ought to be hie it may be in my power or in yours i hope it will to procure l r but it must not be forgotten that no benefit of li ive been beyond bis natural claims on ra and ii in fact be an fur certain h now obliged to forego through tbe of ith some and some sorrow but escaping i could soon with reflect not been half so much in debt as of his it that bis had made a most pi ml the incumbent in all probability die very soon death the tight of a i consequently to reside at and on of forty five seemed likely to s calculations but no be was a ul fellow and plied well with good fifteen years his junior but no � ki s w a i � agreeable � ok d � the improvement in b age seeming not merely to do away former objection to their living together but even to give it the moat decided and own rendered less fair than heretofore by recent on his india estate in addition to his eldest son s it became not to himself to be from the expanse of ber and the obligation of her future in the of bis that each a thing he he mentioned its probability to wife and the first time of tha to her again happening to be when wa she calmly observed to ber so are going to ave and live with my how you like loo much sm to do more than repeat bet aunt s going to leave you yes my dear why be tou have been m with us my always meant to take yon mr died but you must come up and tack on my su same the news wan as disagreeable to oa it had been d had aunt ud not hive her i be sorry to go away witli a faltering tea y you will natural i little to vex you into this oi any in the world i h� i am not aunt said modestly ho my i hope not i have always you a and ami never to here again never my dear bnt you are sure of n comfortable home it make very little to yon whether yon arc in one or the other left the room with a very sorrowful she feel the l so could not think of hei aunt like as aa she told him her she something ia going to happen i da not like it

� what have you there sam called at the post office just now and found this here letter as has laid there for two days replied mr if s sealed vith a and directed in hand don t know this hand said mr opening the letter mercy on us i what s this it must be a jest it � it � can t be true what s the matter was the general inquiry nobody dead is there said alarmed at the horror in mr s countenance mr made no reply but pushing the letter across the table and desiring mr to read it aloud fell back in his chair with a look of vacant astonishment quite alarming to behold papers of mr with a trembling voice read the letter of which the following is a copy � s august against sir saving been instructed hy mrs to commence an action against you for a breach of promise of marriage for which the her at fifteen hundred pounds we beg to inform you that a has been issued against you in this suit in the of common and request to know by return of the name of your attorney in london who wiu ac service thereof we are sir tour obedient servants and mr samuel there was something so impressive in the mute astonishment with which each man regarded his neighbor and every man regarded mr that all seemed a aid to speak the silence was at length broken by mr and he repeated mechanically and said mr musing peace of mind and happiness of confiding females murmured mr with an air of abstraction it s a conspiracy said mr at length recovering the power of speech a base conspiracy between these two grasping and mrs would never do it � she hasn t the heart the club to do it � she hasn t the case to do it ridiculous � ridiculous of her heart said with a smile you should certainly be the best judge i don t wish to you but i should certainly say that of her case and are far better judges than any of us can be it s a vile attempt to money said mr i hope it is said with a short dry cough who ever heard me address her in any way but that in which a would address his landlady continued mr with great vehemence who ever saw me with her not even my here except on one occasion said mr mr changed color � ah said � well important there was nothing suspicious then i suppose mr glanced timidly at his leader why he said there was nothing suspicious but � i don t know how it happened mind � she certainly was in his arms gracious powers ejaculated mr as the recollection of the scene in question struck forcibly upon him what a dreadful instance of the force of circumstances so she was � so she was and our friend was soothing her anguish said mr rather so i was said mr i won t deny it so i was said for a case in which there s nothing suspicious this looks rather queer � eh pick papers of ah sly dog � sly dog and he laughed till the glasses on the rang again what a of appearances exclaimed mr resting his chin upon his hands � i beg your pardon for the observations i made just now we are all the victims of circumstances and i the greatest with this apology mr buried his head in his hands and while measured out a regular circle of and addressed to the other members of the company ru have it explained though said mr raising his head and the table see this and go to london to morrow not to morrow said you re too lame well then next day next day is the first of september and you re pledged to ride out with us as far as sir s grounds at all events and to meet us at lunch if you don t take the field well then the day after said mr thursday � sam � sir mr take two places outside to london on thursday morning for yourself and me well sir mr left the room and departed slowly on his errand with his hands in his pockets and his eyes fi ed on the ground rum the said mr as he walked slowly up the street think o his up to that ere mrs � vith a little boy too i al the club ways the vith these here old ever as is such steady to look at i didn t think he d ha done it though � i didn t think he d ha done it and in this ain mr samuel bent his steps towards the office papers of chapter xix a pleasant day with an unpleasant termination the birds who happily for their own peace of mind and personal comfort were in ignorance of the preparations which had been making to astonish them on the first of september hailed it no doubt as one of the mornings they had seen that season many a young who complacently among the with all the of youth and many an older one who watched his levity out of his little round eye with the contemptuous air of a bird of wisdom and experience alike unconscious of their approaching doom in the fresh morning air with lively and feelings and a few hours afterwards were kid low upon the earth but we grow affecting let us proceed in plain commonplace matter of fact then it was a fine morning � so fine that you would scarcely have believed that the few months of an english summer had yet flown by hedges fields and trees hill and presented to the eye their ever varying shades of deep rich green scarce a leaf had fallen

you said she are a c a rap boats ami money yon are in debt she lays by money every week it is not prudent on her to take up witli yon � the better your bargain my lad under the head of common sense which she maintained was all on the same side of the question calmly inquired � how could an old woman of sixty be competent to judge how far human happiness depends on love when she has no of that passion and the reminiscences of her youth liave become dim and j ton might as well sat a judge in court has foi the law � common sense said she the old is and yon are twenty � what can she da for yon the forty years yon may reckon to her who ih to keep yoa those weary years but the of your own choice not your mother s you english does na read the bible or ye d ken that a lad is to leave his father and mother and until his added she then with great contempt she repeated common sense indeed i ye re wi common sense ye the name it t pat � but there s o in your was astonished what i was e i common sense on the side of and when told him to join her party at inch or never look her in the face again seemed to from and a heart tbat turned in a moment from lead to a he vowed he would be at inch ho then on no to tell the struggle he had been subjected to since his were now entirely conquered at once and said indeed she would be very sorry to give the that pain she hinted moreover that her s spirit was so high she was quite capable of breaking witli him at once upon such an intimation and she was maker in the energy of his he kissed dark beauty to see in her a sister and she made no resistance to way of showing gratitude but muttered between teeth he s just a and so she went about her business on her retreat bis returned to him and with a sad air hoped nothing that that rude girl had said had weakened his filial duty so mother said be she then without explaining how she with s arguments proceeded to one by one if your mother is old and experienced said she benefit by her age � she has not love nor the ills t leads to when not hy prudence scripture a man shall to his wife he has left parents but in making that the most important step of life where do you read that he is to break the fifth but i do you wrong charles yon never could have listened to that vulgar girl when she told you your mother was best friend � no mother of course not then will not go to tliat place break my heart and undo all you by you will break my if jou will feel end she not treat tlie other will to her and if she is ha good a girl as you say � she ia an angel i how can a an angel then she will not set a son to hia mother i don t think she would but is all tlie goodness lo be on her side no charles you do part deny yourself be obedient and your mother s blessing and the blessing of heaven will rest npon in short lie was i he stayed at home his mother set him to work he made a poor hand of it he was so wretched she at last took compassion on him and in the evening when it was now too for a sail to inch she herself recommended a walk to him the poor boy s feet took him towards not he meant to go to bis love but he not forbear looking at the place which held her he was about to return when a blue jacket h led him somewhere inside this jacket was master b who had returned in the leaving his sister on the instantly poured ant a flood the boy had seen her perched on a rock like a their which had been slow the with so sudden a passion had made a series of for his part bo was glad the gracious the was a that had given some twenty a sore heart and liim many a sore and he with whom be identified himself rather than with his sister would the male sex upon in short he went upon this tack he drove poor nearly mad but on what cause of complaint had he he had neglected her he might have been her partner � he had left her to find one where she could fool suppose that so a creature would ever be neglected � except by him it was more he could bear he determined to see her lo ask her forgiveness to tell hei to beg her to decide and for his part he would abide by her decision as we hare already related declined his arm sprang like a deer npon the pier and walked towards her home a of a mile distant followed her hardly knowing what to do at last observing that she drew near enough to the wall to allow room for another on the he had enough ta creep alongside and pull her sleeve somewhat and that her own lad stayed away she had condescended to make a conquest of tlie himself he had come in quite at the end of one of her stories but it hai been sufficient to do hia � he had danced with her had whistled whilst she sung i was and when the sailed he i w what can to say till m o i am very unhappy and

of butter a pinch of salt and all this black it s up together and taken hot and it s a nice thing for the i should think � � � � to bank by in and green with in e beam � that i would set the i ii b mm i nt her sod all ft k i i was looking mt bar suddenly ac growl swelled m a frightful noise was beard above as if a with a wooden leg were trying te sore it to come at us upon can and jo ou ar what suppose me i don t know said l something to drink that s it cried as if i and bade i of ei i he keeps his mixed in a little on the table wait a moment and you ll bear lift up to take one there be goes another roar with a prolonged shake at the end now as it was succeeded bj silence u he s drinking now said as the growl in the beam once more c be s down again on bit back returning soon afterward accompanied me up stairs to see our charge as we passed mr s door he was heard hoarsely m g within in a great expectations strain that rose and fell like wind the following refrain in which i substitute good wishes for something quite the reverse � bless your eyes here s old bill here s old bill bless your eyes here s old bill on the flat of his back by the lord lying on the flat of his back like a drifting old dead here s your old bill bless your eyes bless you in this strain of consolation informed me the invisible would with himself by the day and night together often while it was light having at the same time one eye at a which was fitted on his bed for the convenience of sweeping the river in his two cabin rooms at the top of the house which were fresh and airy and in which mr was less audible than below i found comfortably settled he expressed no alarm and seemed to feel none that was worth mentioning but it struck me that he was softened � for i could not have said how and could never afterward recall how when i tried but certainly the opportunity that the day s rest had given me for reflection had resulted in my fully to say nothing to him respecting for anything i knew his toward the man might otherwise lead to his seeking him out and rushing on his own destruction therefore when and i sat down with him by his fire i asked him first of all whether he relied on s judgment and sources of information u ay ay dear boy n he answered with a grave nod s knows great expectations then i have talked with said i u and have come to tell you what caution he gave me and what advice this i did accurately with the just mentioned and i told him how had heard in prison whether from officers or prisoners i could not say that he was under some suspicion and that my chambers had been watched how had recommended his keeping close for a time and my keeping away from him and what had said about getting him abroad i added that of course when the time came i should go with him or should follow close upon him as might be safest in s judgment what was to follow that i did not touch upon neither indeed was i at all clear or comfortable about it in my own mind now that i saw him in that softer condition and in declared peril for my sake as to my way of living by my expenses i put it to him whether in our present unsettled and difficult circumstances it would not be simply ridiculous if it were no worse he could not deny this and indeed was very reasonable throughout his coming back was a venture he said and he had always known it to be a venture he would do nothing to make it a desperate venture and he had very little fear of his safety with such good help who had been looking at the fire and pondering here said that something had come into his thoughts arising out of s suggestion which it might be worth while to pursue we are both good and could take him down the river ourselves when the right time comes no boat would great expectations then be hired for the purpose and no that would save at least a chance of suspicion and any chance is worth saving never mind the season don t you think it might be a good thing if you began at once to keep a boat at the temple stairs and were in the habit of up and down the river you fall into that habit and then who notices or minds do it twenty times or fifty times and there is nothing special in your doing it the twenty first or fifty first i liked this scheme and was quite elated by it we agreed that it should be carried into execution and that should never recognize us if we came below bridge and rowed past mill pond bank but we further agreed that he should pull down the blind in that part of his window which gave upon the east whenever he saw us and all was right our conference being now ended and every thing arranged i rose to go remarking to that he and i had better not go home together and that i would take half an hour s start of him i don t like to leave you here i said to u though i cannot doubt your being safer here than near me good by dear

a were proffered by one or the other the bottom of this was poorly with and fir with some service choke cherry mountain and other bushes the whole ascent is four miles not very steep except for the last half mile but the trail is so bad that it is a good two hours work to reach the summit but that summit gained we stand in a broad open � level space on the top of the range with the and bear mountains on either hand forming a perfect chaos of wild barren peaks some of them snowy from k to salt lake between which we have a glance at a part of the salt lake valley some thirty miles though the city much nearer is hidden by intervening heights and the lake is likewise concealed further to the right the descent toward the valley is and shorter than the ascent from the side of bear river � the first so fearfully steep that i judge few passengers ever rode down it though carriage wheels are uniformly chained here but though the southern face of these mountains is covered by a far more luxuriant than the northern among which oaks and soon make their appearance for the first time in many a weary hundred miles none of these seem ev r to grow into trees in fact i saw none over six feet high some from ten to twenty five feet high the largest hardly more than six inches through cover patches of these mountain sides down which and over the low intervening mountain they are dragged fifteen or twenty miles to serve as fuel in this city where even such poor for fifteen to twenty dollars per cord the and wretchedness of the timber � i have not seen the raw material for a decent ax growing in all my last thousand mile of travel � are the great and with regard to all this region the sandy clay or sand of the plains disappeared many miles back there has been rich black soil at least in the valleys ever since we crossed river but the timber is still scarce small and poor in the while ninety nine of the surface of the mountains is utterly bare of it in the absence of � t to salt lake coal how can a region so ever be thickly settled and cultivated the descent of the mountain on this side is but two miles in length with the mail company s station at the bottom here thirteen miles from the city from bear river we had expected to stop for the night but our new conductor seeing that there were still two or three hours of good daylight resolved to come on so with fresh we soon crossed the little mountain � steep but hardly a mile in ascent and but half a mile in immediate and ran rapidly down some ten miles through the narrow known as where the road though much traversed by as well as and merchant trains is utterly abominable and over but two or three miles of intervening plain in this city just as twilight was deepening into night salt lake wears a pleasant aspect to the or weary dusty and with a thousand miles of through the and naked american desert it is mainly on the bench of hard gravel that slopes southward from the foot of the mountains toward the lake valley the houses � generally small and of one all built of sun hardened brick and have a neat and quiet look while the uniform breadth of the streets eight rods and the magnificent distances usually preserved by the buildings each block containing ten acres divided into eight lots giving a quarter of an for buildings and an acre for garden fruit etc to r r i l u f i to salt r each sell older make up an ue seldom then the of bright sparkling leaping water which diverted from the stream issuing from several adjacent mountain flow through each street and are conducted at will into every garden an air of freshness and coolness which none can fail to enjoy but which only a in summer across the plains can fully appreciate on a single business street the principal stores etc are set pretty near each other though not so close as in other cities everywhere else i believe the original plan of the has been wisely and happily preserved southward from the city tne soil is softer and richer and there are farms of i judge ten to forty or sixty acres but i am told that the lowest portion of the valley nearly on a level with the lake is so with salt etc as to yield b it a return for the s labor i believe however that even this region is available as a stock range � thousands on thousands of cattle mainly owned in the being here in winter as well as summer and said to do well in all seasons for though snow is never absent from the which shut in this valley it seldom lies long in the valley itself the pass over the is if i mistake not eight thousand three hundred feet above the sea level this valley about four thousand nine hundred the atmosphere is so pure that the mountains across the valley to the south seem but ten or fifteen miles off they are really from twenty to thirty the lake is some twenty miles westward but we see only the rugged mountain � � e to salt lake known as island which rises in its and seems to bound the valley in that direction both the lake and valley wind away to the north west for a distance of some ninety the lake receiving the waters of and bear rivers behind the mountains in that direction and then there are other valleys like this among the mountains south

evils that poor mortal man and sought to remove them but it often happens that a form is held up after its spirit has departed and a name while the re which bore this name is gone forever just as they keep at the crown and sword of a giant king though for some centuries no head has been found large enough to wear the crown no hand of strength to the sword and their present owner is both and so it was in this case the subsequent races of cherished the form after the spirit had left it clinging all the closer because they knew there was nothing in it and feared if they relaxed their hold it would through its or blow away and be lost leaving them to the justice of god and the vengeance of men they had at and insulted in christ s time the professed to reverence the law of moses but contrived to escape its excellent spirit he loved the letter but he the law he could pay of his july and which the law of moses did not ask for and omit mercy justice and truth which both that and the law of god demanded he could not a fire nor pluck an ear of corn on the sabbath though so cold and hungry that he thought of nothing but his pains and looked for the day to end he could not eat bread without going through the ceremony of he pray long and loud where he was sure to be heard at the corners of the streets and give in the public places to gain the name of devout charitable or while he devoured widow s houses or the inheritance of in private and his inward part was full of and wickedness there are two things which pass for religion in two places the first is the love of what is right good and lovely the love of man the love of god this is the religion of the new testament of christ it leads to a divine life and passes for religion before the pure eyes of that father of all who made us and the stars over our heads the other is a mere belief in certain doctrines which may be true or false a compliance certain forms either beautiful or ludicrous it does not demand a love of what is right good and lovely a love of man or god still less does it ask for a life in with such sentiments this passes for religion in the world in king s courts and in of the church from the council at nice to the at the first is a vital religion a religion of life the other is a religion a religion of death or rather it is no religion at all all of religion but religion itself it often gets into the place of religion just as the may get into the place of the lion when he is out and no doubt sets up to be lion for the time and attempts a roar the one is the religion of men and the best men that have ever lived in all ages and countries the other is the religion of and the worst men in all ages and in all countries race of men it has been said is not yet exhausted they are as numerous as in john the s time and quite as troublesome now as then they prefer the praise of men to the praise of god which means they would rather seem good at small cost than take the pains to be l the good they oppose all as they opposed the they the best of men especially such as are true to conscience and live out their thought they men sent on god s high errand of mercy and love which of the have they not they build the of deceased whom they would and destroy were they now and at work they can wear a cross of gold on their bosom which jews might kiss and but had they lived in the days of they would have nailed the son of god to a cross of wood and now him afresh and put him to an open shame these may be found in all ranks of life in the front and the rear among the and the the rich and the poor though the are the same in nature only they may yet be conveniently divided into several classes following some prominent features the of the fireside he is the man who at home to do all for the comfort and convenience of his family his wife his children his friends yet at the same time does all for his own and convenience he hired his servants only to keep them from the he works them hard lest they have too much spare time and grow indolent he for them lest they contract extravagant habits whatever gratification he gives himself he does entirely for others does he go to a neighboring place to do some important errands for himself and a trifle for his friend the journey was undertaken solely on his friend s account is he a husband he is always talking of the sacrifice he makes for his wife who yet never knows when it is made and if he had love there would be no sacrifice is he a father he tells his children of his self denial for their sake while they find the self denial is all on their side and if he loved them self denial would be a pleasure he speaks of his great for them which if he felt it would show itself and never need be spoken of he tells of the heavy burdens borne for their sake while if they were thus borne they would not be accounted burdens nor felt as heavy but this kind of though more

and all who were to come of them and all the world for their jealous passionate capricious children for their father s sins tempting men or at least them to be tempted into blindness and folly and then destroying them arthur arthur this is not a being to whom i could teach poor man to look up to out of his sufferings in love and hope what that with no motive but his own will he chose out for no merit of their own as an eastern chooses his one small section of mankind leaving � the world besides to devil worship and lies that the pure truth loving of the mountains who morning and night poured out his simple prayer to the universal father for the good of all his children that the noble of and the austere and stately that then these were devil and that one strange people of so cruel that even women and children fell in before their swords that these alone were the true god s servants that god bid them do these things and in their successful as a of his honor compelled the out of their courses to stand still and assist the for myself the most delightful trait in the entire long history is that golden thread of humanity which winds along below the cruelty of the exclusive theory and here and there appears in protest in touches of deeper sympathy for its victims than are ever found for the more highly favored who are those who most call out our tears is it not the outcast mother setting down her child that she may not see it die the injured the fallen s daughter watching by her murdered children or that unhappy husband who followed his wife weeping all along the road as david s were dragging her to his and then there is another thing arthur which seems to be taught not in the old testament but in the new which i should have to say i l a doctrine this not a history and a doctrine so horrible that it could only have taken root in mankind when they were struggling in the of and believed that the devil held a divided empire with god i mean that the lai portion of mankind are to be tortured for ever and ever in unspeakable agonies he cannot preach such doctrines no if i am to be a minister of religion i must teach the poor people that father in heaven not a tyrant one who loves them all beyond short and notices june power of heart to conceive who is sorry when they do wrong not whom they are to love and dread not with coward fear but with deepest awe and reverence as the all pure all good all holy i could never fear a god who kept a hell prison house no not though he flung me there because i refused there is a power stronger than such a one and it is possible to walk even in the furnace what am i to tell these poor millions of who struggle on their wretched lives of want and misery starved into sin passion by the of hunger and in ignorance because they were never taught and with but h of knowledge to feel the deep injustice under which they are am i to tell them i say that there is no hope for them here and less than none hereafter that the grave is but a precipice off which all all of them save here one and one will fall down into another life to which the worst of earth is heaven � why they may lift up their torn hands and cry in bitter anger why almighty one were we ever bom at all if it was but for this again he more some of the difficulties that he feels but why do they believe it at all they must say because it is in the bible yes here it is other books we may sit in judgment upon but not upon the bible that is the exception the one book which is wholly and entirely and we are to believe is there no matter how monstrous on the an of god he has told us and that is enough but how do they know he has told us the church says so why does the say so because the jews said so and how do we know the jews could not be mistaken t because they they were s people and god guided them one w have thought if this were so he would have them in the their too and we ought to be all jews now but in the name of heaven what is the history of those books which we the old no one knows who the authors were of the greater part of them or even at what date they were written they make no to be inspired themselves at least only the make such claim before the there was no collection at all they had only the book of the law as it is called of which they took such bad care that what that was none of us now know the now has not the slightest pretensions to be what moses read in the ears of all the people and wrote upon twelve stones the say their was written by god the say the were we say the bible was and we are but interested witnesses in deciding absolutely and exclusively for ourselves if it be the highest of the three it it because it is not the most divine but the most human it does not differ from them in kind and it seems to me that in it to god we are doing a double to ourselves for want of faith m our soul s strength to god in making him responsible for our weakness there is

the land this shows how poor the population is every well informed knows also the national russia notwithstanding her valuable natural resources we have much more accounts of the expenses of the state than of its income for less secrecy is in the former than in the latter case we may safely say of the general condition of the that since the great from and turkey ceased there has been a great and continual increase of the national debt we should say of a private man under such circumstances that he stood on the verge of the annual expenses of russia amount to for the land forces for the of the interior for miscellaneous expenses attending the collection of the c for the of for the fleet for the private chest of the emperor for the expenses of the imperial for the mines and finally for the so called of public education which here is a subject of merriment these facts explain the continual increase of the national debt from the financial condition of the people it is plain that russia must borrow money not at home but abroad but as the condition ru ia die foreign money in the most recent times would not accommodate russia as before so in there would have been a sad financial crisis in the state if the price of grain had not been so high in and russia had not accidentally been able to send abroad large quantities of the millions which lent to louis in the last part of his reign and with which he hoped to prevent the tion he feared but which came at length from the necessity of the case � these millions only gave france more time to pay for the com she had received russia lent france money that she might buy bread of russia the money came back to russia in payment for the com and the emperor knew how in the and most brutal way to draw the gold and silver money from the hands of his subjects and put it into his own again in several provinces the government bought np paper money in great quantities so that there was an to in the stocks every man who had coin on hand sought to exchange it for paper money partly to escape the loss occasioned by the fall of the price of gold partly to gain by the increased value of paper money by and by it was not necessary for the crown to buy up paper money for the public had fallen into the trap and soon the millions which had come from abroad in hard money to pay for the corn were brought back to the of the state in this manner a forced circulation was given to the paper money which had been issued without and it was saved from all except what arose from while russia plainly showed how foolishly the people act when they � even in their internal traffic � use as if they were money for the knew how to save them from the loss occasioned by such a use and from the manifold of such a when attempts were made in europe to put down the efforts for freedom the russian emperor concealed the weakness of his very simply but by a process if possible yet more he forced for the magazines fixed the price of articles taken according to his own discretion paid a part of that in paper money gave a bond for another part and set off the balance to the account of future taxes not yet this action was in accordance with the private of � l c est he did not see that in spite of its convenience it must soon lead to the ruin of the ac or for deeds of this character have been done so long he th of los from history only what be wishes to learn and pride and whisper to the in the ear not � this man and the other did so and so and came to a bad end but � if they had bad our cunning and our power even in their case the end had been other and better spite of the example of america men in power will not believe that the people any where will at last enjoy freedom and sa they think they can put down the efforts and continually made for this end because they have succeeded hitherto as if the of the soldier � which is ih only reason why he himself as the blind tool of the � would never fall from his eyes these men their ears to all demands of liberty for the people knowing that every recognition of a right must be followed by the of individual man in short the best of them have faith in what they wish but he understanding of those men can never attain the wisdom which is higher than their faith but trust only to cunning certainly there are some men in power whose eyes have been quickened by the fear which an evil conscience has awakened but for the most part they are frivolous or selfish to to the saying � the ships will hold to as long as we are at the and after us let the flood come coming generations may see how wise they were the of russia cannot improve without the blessings of freedom the nation may go on in this rude violent way till the one pressure causes the counter pressure which throws every thing into and produces a national or a change of or some other change it seemed almost probable that the attempts to support against the would bring about this crisis in the war the demand of mankind for freedom became very plain it showed that though the hour for a general rising of the people of europe and for putting an end to all had not

life the other an man with a broken arm both were taken with arms in their hands and after suffering various were placed against a blank wall to be shot the man pleaded earnestly with his not for his own life but for hers he urged her sex ner even the doubtful condition of her mind and offered to give an order for a large sum of money but in vain he soon saw that nothing could move the heart of the lieutenant who had had two brothers murdered by the time was pressing the lives ot the prisoners were limited to seconds they granted him leave at last to go to the woman s side and speak to her he said we are to die her husband s yes she replied with a and humanity you you are not afraid p no the tears came into his eyes i have long had but one wish he said will you not let it be gratified a priest is just below us let him say the words as she comprehended his meaning she shook her head priests have had their day she replied it is not for them to unite souls only great love or a great purpose can do that he took one of her hands in his a great love is more than i can ask of you he said speaking rapidly but a great purpose we surely have in common see the soldiers are raising their they only wait the word of command let us go out of the world husband and wife she had a momentary struggle and then she said we will and as his lips touched her forehead the spectators who numbered thousands heard the frightful crash of three hundred guns fired simultaneously the who buried the victims found two with their hands still clasped together and hey laid them side by side peace at last chapter at last through those long weeks when she could hear nothing from her friends shut up in paris suffered all the of suspense and fear her dearly beloved daughter was there her lover whom she had come to regard with the tenderest feelings and her late husband toward whom she could not bring herself to feel anything like now that he was in each day she the newspapers for accounts of the situation found little to comfort her the funds which had left for grew low and another experience with want seemed about to stare her in the face even might have in her hatred had she seen her rival in those unhappy days when her affairs were at the lowest ebb a letter came bearing the post mark of she was not familiar with the writing and she sat for a long time holding it in her hand hardly daring to break the seal what a flood of memories the word brought the scenes of her childhood her youth her marriage all came back to her in her children were born in she first saw harry across the hedge of her she had heard her husband express doubt that she had been true to him and there the love that had survived all his neglect died out of her breast forever who in could writ to her her husband friend the was a brief one but its contents were momentous the signature was that of lawyer he wrote to say that her aunt was dead and that her uncle wanted her to come and live with him miss had been in feeble health said the lawyer for some time and her was not by the neighbors he advised to accept her uncle s invitation and hoped she would come with the least possible delay her first impression was that she had best not with the suggestion but on reflection she decided to go it would be hard to face the people of who had always thought so highly of her and who were now without doubt prejudiced by the tongue of they had known her when she was a happy wife and mother they knew her now as a woman and is the fault a taint hangs to the person in the minds of the good back country folk of new england probably they had also talked over her relations with and drawn their own none too conclusions but her uncle was alone and wanted her and it was her duty to go met her at the a little more bent a little more dried up than of and escorted her to his lonely home she thought she would have known even if nobody had told her that her aunt had died for there was an atmosphere in the deserted rooms that only death can bring had a woman to do the one of those noiseless footed women that add to the stillness of the places where they walk little was impressed by everything that she saw peace at last and did not at all like the idea of taking off fc r things and considering herself at home tt she nor her mother ate much of the supper that w as prepared for them and both retired early the next morning told in slow language the story of his sister s death after she come back from he said she didn t seem to care any more for anything she used to sit all day in the there with hardly a word and her appetite fell away astonishing i wanted to call the doctor but she wouldn t hear to it some of the neighbors come in and offered to do anything they could for her but she said there wasn t nothing to be done and that she would be out in a few days you know that your aunt always had her own way and i couldn t do anything right against her will the morning she died and i hadn t the least

that you sent him but ho represent a its that that the sent him the i yes through having met with an accident hu is only just now it u a man sir i have been to let him into hospital r said and again blew off that i have been shown bo too said coldly mr being by that time quite ready for a got um in a moment and any or i dawn the and working into bleeding heart yard before he to be well out of the ting house throughout the remainder of the day heart u consternation as the grim in it the on their in respect of payment breathing notices to si a swell of terror on him and leaving it in bis wake of people impelled by a fatal attraction house in ho was known to be listening for of h to the inmates and when ho was tu bo down tho stairs often could not so quickly but that bo bo in among them demanding their own i them to the the remainder the d� v mr s what were they up o and what did they bj iti all over the yard mr wouldn t bear of wouldn t of wouldn t hear of wouldn t li of but money down and and ting about in ei and moment he lashed uie tide of the into � mo agitated and state it had not sl don ti into calm again full two hours he had been seen turning away at the op of the steps there were st c ll small of the hearts at popular of ting in the that night it wi agreed mr u hard man to to d with and that it was much to be no it wits that a like mr should put bis rents in his hands and never know hia in g a s s ma am there would be none of thia and wearing and things would be different at which identical hour and minute the � who had floated through the yard in the before the hanging began with the express design of getting up this in bis shining and silken locks � at which identical hour and minute that first rate of a thousand guns was heavily in the little dock of his exhausted at home and was saying as he turned his a very bad day s work very bad day s work it seems to me sir and i must insist on making the observation forcibly in justice to myself that you ought to have got much more money much more chapter xxiv telling received a call that same evening from mr having intimated that he wished to speak to her privately in a � of so very noticeable as to favor the idea that her father ns regarded her occupation was an illustration of the hat there arc no such stone blind men as those who will not see obtained an audience with her on the common staircase the there s been a lady at our place to day miss n w ed and another one along with her as is a old if ever t met with such the way she snapped a person s head ofi dear me the mild was at first quite unable to get hia mind away mr for said he to excuse himself she is do � you the party at length by a great he detached himself from the subject � to observe but she s neither here nor there just at present the other lady s mr s daughter and if mr an t well off none it an t through any fault of as to he he really does he does indeed mr after his manner was a little obscure but con emphatic and what she come to our place for he pursued was to leave that if miss step up to that card � which it s mr s house that is and he has a office at the back where he ally does belief � she would be glad for to engage her she a old and a dear friend she said particular of mr and for to pro ve herself a useful friend to his friend them was er words to know whether miss could come l to morrow morning i said i would sec you miss and inquire and look round there to night to say yes or if you was engaged tomorrow when � i can go to morrow thank you said little is kind of you hut you arc always kind mr with a modest of his merits opened the door for her re admission and followed her in with such in exceedingly pretence of not having heen out at all that her might have it without being very suspicious in his however he took no heed after a little conversation in which he blended his former duty as a with his present privilege as a humble outside friend qualified again by his low estate as a took his leave making the tour of the before ho left and looking on at a game of with the mixed feelings of an old who had his private reasons for believing that it might be his destiny to come back again early in the morning little leaving in high domestic trust set off for the tent she went by the iron bridge though it cost her a penny and walked more slowly in that part of her journey than in any other at five minutes before eight her hand was on the which was quite as high as she could reach she gave mrs s card to the young woman who opened the door and the young woman told her that miss � having on her return to the parental roof re invested herself with the title under which she had lived there � was

the misery of this life and feel that my impressions are exaggerated that i am too close to the picture and lack perspective at such moments find it well to turn to the testimony of other men to prove to myself that i am not becoming and has always struck me as being a well controlled man and he says � to me at least it would be enough to condemn modern society as hardly an advance on slavery or if permanent condition of industry were to be that which we behold that ninety per cent of the actual of wealth have no home that they can call their own beyond the end of the week have no bit of soil or so much as a room that belongs to them have nothing of value of any kind except as much old furniture as will go into a cart have the precarious chance of weekly wages which barely suffice to keep them in health are for the most part in places that no man thinks fit for his horse are separated by so narrow a margin from that a month of bad trade sickness or unexpected loss brings them face to face with hunger and but below this normal state of the average workman in town and country there is found the great band of destitute � the camp followers of the army of industry � at least one tenth of the whole population whose the normal condition is one of sickening wretchedness if this is to be the permanent arrangement of modern society civilization must be held to bring a curse on the great majority of mankind ninety per cent the figures are appalling yet the rev after drawing a frightful in london picture finds himself compelled to it by half a million here it is � i often used to meet when i was at families drifting into london along the road one day there came along a and his wife his son and two daughters their family had lived for a long time on an estate in the country and managed with the help of the common land and their labor to get on i the people of the abyss but the time came when the common was upon and their labor was not needed on the estate and they were quietly turned out of their cottage where should they go of course to where work was thought to be plentiful they had a little and they thought they could get two decent rooms to live in but the inexorable land question met them in london � j ib r j v ii fc view in they tried the decent courts for lodgings and found that two rooms would cost ten shillings a week food was dear and bad water was bad and in a short time their health suffered work was hard to get and its was so low that they were soon in debt they became more ill and more despairing with the poisonous surroundings the darkness and the long hours of work and they were driven forth to seek a cheaper lodging they found it in a court i knew well � a of crime and nameless the horrors in this they got a single room at a cruel rent and work was more difficult for them to get now as they came from a place of such bad and they fell into the hands of those who sweat the last drop out of man and woman and child or wages which are the food only of despair and the darkness and the dirt the bad food and the sickness and the want of water was worse than before and the crowd and the companionship of the court robbed them of tht last of self respect the drink demon seized upon them of course there was a public house at both ends of the court there they fled one and all for shelter and warmth and society and and they came out in deeper debt with senses and burning brains and an craving for drink they would do anything to and in a few months the father was in prison the wife dying the son a criminal and the daughters on the street this by a and you will be beneath the truth no more dreary spectacle can be found on this earth than the whole of the awful east with its green and to the east india the color of life is gray and everything is helpless hopeless and dirty bath are a thing totally unknown as as the of the gods the people themselves are dirty while any attempt at cleanliness becomes howling farce when it is not pitiful and tragic strange come drifting along the greasy wind and the rain when it falls is more like than water the people of the abyss from heaven the very are with in brief a vast and complacent which could be done away with by nothing short of a oi mount here lives a population as dull and as its long gray miles of dingy brick religion has passed it by and a gross and stupid the fatal alike to the things of the spirit and the finer instincts of life it used to be the proud boast that ever englishman s home was his castle but to day it is an j the folk have no homes j they do not know the significance and the sacred ness of home life even the dwellings where live the better class workers are the they have no home life the very language proves it the father returning from work asks his child in the street where her mother is and back the answer comes in the buildings a new race has sprung up a street people they pass their lives at work and in the streets they have and into which to crawl 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the afternoon of time a family from its hands the sand of granite and beholding far along the sounding coast its and tall catch the dying sun smiled well content and to this childish task around the fire addressed its evening hours ft book ii � in table of common sounds open a as in rare aw as in law ea open e as in mere but this with exceptions as ee ei open e as in mere ie j oa open o as in more ou doubled o as in poor ow ow as in bower u doubled o as in poor ui or u before r say roughly open a as in rare ui or u before any other say roughly close i as in grin y open i as in i pretty nearly what you please much as in english heaven guide the reader through that i but in it usually from the short i as in grin to the open e as in mere find and blind i may remark are pronounced to rhyme with the of grin the maker to posterity far the years to be when a we think an a we see an a we s been by time s an what was and for me lies ther it s possible � it s hardly � that some after � some professor or young heir if still there s either � may find an read me an be perplexed what tongue does your speak t hell an i his to no fit to write in greek i wrote in dear to my heart as the as fe v it than my lie d their lane their sense that was arc plain tint a like upon a the but think not you the to you the bitter for a your for your lucky things are than for you my the maker to posterity the hale concern an books writers stars arc upon legs wears the tack d mankind near the law your that in some new tongue ye wrote or pr preached or sung will still be just a an young in fame arc years the hale are about your ears an you to a or some star to ken ye are france or � like a railway car in ii breeze an o seas in your trees a bit the s knees secure ye sit an their an a a day your and an here an there your the green i a an paths an a an roses a ring o wa s the hale sheep or men an there the an a by her lane the his weary back a day in the track or stops awhile to crack wi jane the cook or at some worm eaten black to a look the high hills the ca s the sheep gang by the wa s or a o the wild bees seek the wi g or in the an gray the sweet throat tunes her lay the herd comes the an by degrees the way the trees here aft i wi sober heart for meditation sat when loves or art perplexed my mind here a for smart o here aft by my lane wi or perhaps the hours come an my held � i gi en a for a i d read but the city street by street an winter fu o an awhile shut in my feet an is the sweet an kettle an the winter winds complain lies the in lane on an lads in the the winter rain an the castle rock an beaten drums wi shock at o clock my frame i mind me on the cock the i mind me on yon an fancy far to sc that yield o sun an to up a fancy s the f iii when has fairly come an birds may in winter s an s for a and some o state love wi her drum than the gate the heart plays wi main an the een are d their dresses are an the � winter virtue at the heels an aye as love land to land the drum wi hand a men collect at her command bred or land art an follow in a band her an i sang o rain an an weary winter me in a jacket an my place i the ram raw wi face iv a mile an a a mile an a a mile or the burn the law an an an a an the was clearly went wi the an then the went wi the men an return him the service again an the was clearly the were in house an ha an an an the s face was to the wa an the was clearly a wind got up the sea it blew the stars as dear s could be it blew in the een of a o the three an the was clearly was first to get sleep in his head the best o s he said i m an here i m to my bed an the was clearly o them an their lane the gray an plain an the birds they on stick an an the was clearly o years o years my lads ye ll mind er � my lads ye ll mind on the o the law when the was clearly v a sabbath the o sabbath bells to the in shady sounds far an near an through the tells its tale o cheer an to that melodious play a the quiet sway � a ken their solemn holiday human the on the the man he than a the lave o men his week joys to ken half dressed he out an in wi leisure an his limbs he ll again wi the the but a bit cries them ben their to upon them or in their to pit wi s on them the clean tap to are

western leaders was held in our four tiny rooms in street here was first considered the stand the were to take it was not the first time we had put our foot down upon war but it was the first time we had done so in the united states after our secret meeting we got in touch with the national organization and n our code were passing it was at the very beginning of the twentieth century a d that the organization of the finally their long policy on war their doctrine was why should the of one country fight with the of another country the benefit of their masters t on may a d when war threatened between and italy the of italy and held a conference at and threatened a general strike of the of both countries in case war was declared this was repeated the following year when the affair threatened to involve france germany and england the iron heel and forth across the atlantic between us and the the german were ready to act with us there were over five million of them many of them in the standing army and in addition they were on friendly terms with the labor in both countries the came out in bold declaration against the war and threatened the general strike and in the meantime they made preparation for the general strike the parties in all countries gave public utterance to the principle of peace that must be preserved at all even to the extent of revolt and revolution at home the general strike was the one great victory we american won on the th of december the american minister was withdrawn from the german capital that night a german fleet made a dash on sinking three american and a and the city next day both germany and the united states declared war and within an hour the called the general strike in both countries for the first time the german war lord faced the men of his empire who made his empire go without them he could not run his empire the novelty of the situation lay in that their revolt was passive they did not fight they did nothing and by doing the general strike nothing they tied their war lord s hands he would have asked for nothing better than an opportunity to loose his war dogs on his rebellious but this was denied him he could not loose his neither could he his army to go forth to war nor could he punish his subjects not a wheel moved in his empire not a train ran not a message went over the wires for the and railroad men had ceased work along with the rest of the population and as it was in germany so it was in the united states at last organized labor had learned its lesson beaten on its own chosen field it had abandoned that field and come over to the political field of the for the general strike was a political strike besides organized labor had been so badly beaten that it did not care it joined in the general strike out of sheer desperation the workers threw down their tools and left their tasks by the ns especially notable were the their heads were bloody their organization had apparently been destroyed yet out they came along with their in the metal working trades even the common and all labor ceased work the strike had tied everything up so that nobody could work besides the women proved to be the strongest of the strike they set their faces against the war they did not want the iron heel men to go forth to die then also the idea of the general strike caught the mood of the people it struck their sense of humor the idea was the children struck in all the schools and such teachers as came went home again from deserted class rooms the general strike took the form of a great national and the idea of the of labor so appealed to the imagination of all and finally there was no danger to be incurred by the colossal when everybody was guilty how was anybody to be punished the united states was no one knew what was happening there were no newspapers no letters no every community was as completely isolated as though ten thousand miles of wilderness stretched between it and the rest of the world for that matter the world had ceased to exist and for a week this state of was maintained in san we did not know what was happening � ven across the bay in or the effect on one s was weird it seemed as though some great thing lay dead the pulse of the land had ceased to beat of a truth the nation had died there were no on the streets no factory no hum of in the air no passing of street cars no cries of � nothing but persons who at rare intervals the general strike went by like ghosts themselves oppressed and made unreal by the silence and during that of silence the waa taught its lesson and well it learned the lesson the general strike was a warning it should never occur again the would see to that at the end of the week as had been the of germany and the united states returned to their posts through them the leaders of both countries presented their to the rulers the war should be called off or the general strike would continue it did not take long to come to an understanding the war was declared off and the of both countries returned to their tasks it was this renewal of peace that brought about the alliance between germany and the united states in reality this was an alliance between the emperor and the for the purpose of meeting their common foe the of

the human race an evil so with such dire to us as individuals and to our nation and threatening in its progress to the civil and religious institutions of the country with the liberties of the nation ought at once to be met and to be controlled if its power its influence and its impending dangers have already arrived at such a point that it is not safe to discuss it on this floor and it cannot now pass under consideration as a proper subject for general what will be the result when it is spread through your widely extended domain its present threatening aspect and the violence of its so far from me to yield to its progress prompt me to resist its march now is the time it must now be met and the extension of the evil must now be prevented or the occasion is lost and the evil can never be controlled sir extend your view across the over your newly acquired territory � a territory so far surpassing in extent the limits of your present country that that country which gave birth to your nation � which achieved your revolution � your union � formed your constitution and has subsequently acquired so much glory hangs but as an to the extended empire over which your republican government is now called to bear sway look own the long vista of see your empire in extent in advantageous situation without a parallel and occupying all the valuable part of one continent behold this extended empire inhabited by the hardy sons of american knowing their rights and the will to protect them � owners of the soil on which they live and interested in the institutions which they labor to defend with two your shores and to your purposes bearing on their the commerce of our people compared to yours the of europe into and the whole world is without a parallel but sir reverse this scene people this fair domain with the slaves of your extend slavery this the first struggle is of man this of heaven over your extended empire and you prepare its dissolution you turn its accumulated strength into positive weakness you cherish a in your you put poison in your bosom you place a on your heart � nay you ihe dagger and place it in the hands of a portion of your population stimulated to use it by every tie human and divine the envious contrast between your happiness and their misery between your liberty and their slavery must constantly prompt them to accomplish your destruction your enemies will learn the source and the cause of your weakness as often as external dangers shall threaten or internal await you you will then realize that by own you have placed amidst your families and in the bosom of your country a population producing at once the greatest cause of individual danger and of national weakness with this defect your government must to pieces and your people become the of the world sir we have been told with apparent confidence that wo have no right to conditions to a state on its admission into the union and it has been urged that the proposed the further introduction of slavery is this position asserted with so much confidence remains by any argument or by any authority derived from the constitution itself the constitution strongly an opposite conclusion and seems to contemplate a difference between the old and the new states the practice of the government has this difference in many respects the third section of the fourth article of the constitution says new states may be admitted by the into this union and it is silent as to the terms and conditions upon which the new states may be so admitted the fair from this is that the which might admit should the time and the terms of such admission the tenth section of the first article of the constitution says the or of such persons as any of the states now existing shall think proper to admit not be by the prior to the year the words now existing clearly show the distinction for which we contend the word slave is nowhere mentioned in the constitution but this section has always been considered as to them and unquestionably reserved the right to prevent their into any new state before the year therefore have power over the subject probably as a matter of but more certainly as a right to the time and the condition upon which any new state may be admitted into the family of the union sir the bill now before us proves the of my argument it is filled with conditions and the territory is required to take a and is to be admitted only on condition that it have inhabitants i have already submitted preventing the state from the of the united states and declaring that all waters shall remain open to the other states and be from any or duties and my friend mr has also submitted the state from soldiers lands for the period of five years and to all these we have heard no objection � have passed but now when an the further introduction of slavery is proposed the house is put in agitation and we are confidently told it is to conditions to the admission of a new state into the union the � � all this is that all and conditions are proper which suit a certain class of gentlemen but whatever is proposed which does not with their interests or their views is and a of this sacred of our rights in order to be consistent gentlemen must go back and strike out the various to which they have already agreed the constitution applies equally to all or to none sir we have been told that this is a new principle for which we contend never before adopted or thought of so far

messages she might have carried it her that tom s sisters could be satisfied with remaining in london at such a time through an illness which had now under different degrees of danger lasted several weeks they might return to when they chosen travelling could be no difficulty to them and she could not how both could still keep away if i could imagine any interfering obligations certainly able to quit london whenever she chose it appeared from one of her aunt s letters that had offered to return if wanted but this was all it was evident that she would rather remain she was was disposed to think the influence of london very much at war with all respectable she saw the proof of it in miss as well as in her cousins her attachment to had been respectable the moat respectable part of her character her friend had at least been where was e now it was bo long since had had her that she had some to think lightly ship which had been so dwelt on it was weeks since she had heard anything of miss or of her other in town except through and she was be to suppose that she might never know whether mr had gone into again or not and might never hear from his sister any more this spring when the following letter was received to revive old and create some new sensations � forgive me my dear as soon as you can for my long silence and behave as if you could forgive me directly this is my modest request and expectation for yon are so good that i depend upon being treated better than i deserve and i write now to beg an immediate answer i want to know the state of things at park and you no doubt are per able to give it one should be a brute not to feel for the distress they are in and from what i hear poor mr has a bad chance of ultimate recovery i thought little of his illness at first i looked upon him as the sort of person to be made a with and to make a fuss himself in any trifling disorder and was chiefly concerned for those who had to nurse him but now it is asserted that he is really in a decline that the symptoms are most alarming and that part of the family at least are aware of it if it be so i am sure you must be included in that part that part and therefore entreat you to let me know how far i have been rightly informed i need not say how rejoiced i shall be to hear there has been any mistake but the report is so that i confess i cannot help trembling to have such a fine young man cut off in the flower of his days is most melancholy poor sir thomas will feel it i really am quite agitated on the subject i see you smile and look cunning but upon my honour i never a physician in my life poor young man if he is to die there will be two poor young men less in the world and with a fearless face and bold voice would i say to any one that wealth and consequence could fall into no hands more deserving of them it was a foolish last christmas but the evil of a few days may be blotted out in part and hide many it will be but the loss of the after his name with real affection like mine more might be overlooked write to me by of post judge of my and do not trifle with it tell me the real truth as you have it from the fountain head and now do not trouble yourself to be ashamed of either my feelings or your own believe me are not only natural they are and virtuous i put it to your conscience whether sir would not do more good with all the property than other possible sir had the been at home i would not have troubled you but you are now the only one i can apply to for the truth his sisters not being within my reach mrs r has been spending the with the as to be sore know and la not yet d and a tbe who near but i forget their n mn and could i immediately however i prefer you it ma that have all ion been ao unwilling to have own cut up aa to eyes to the truth r s � holidays will not last longer no are holidays to her the ay era are people and husband away she can slave nothing bat i give credit for hia going down to bath to fetch hia mother bnt how she and the dow in one house henry not at hand so have nothing to say from him do not you think would have ii in town again long hut for this your ever i had actually begun folding letter when henry walked in but he no intelligence to prevent my sending it mrs r knows a decline la he saw her this morning she returns to street to day the old lady la come now do not make yourself uneasy with any queer fancies ho has been a few days at he it every spring be he cares for nobody but yon at very moment be is to you and occupied only in the means for doing so and for making bis pleasure to la proof he and more eagerly what be li at about oar conveying you and i join him in it with all my dear directly and toll ua to come it will do us all good he and i c� o go to tbe you know and be no to our friends at park it would really

his running as the gods appointed of � two the nights of his sleeping alone in the place of the drunken slumber of frenzy twice he drank to the on the sacred stones of the high place under the sacred trees with a lamp at his head he lay in the place of the feast and the sacred leaves of the around the priest last when the stated even fell upon terrace and tree and the shade of the lofty island lay away to sea he knew the songs of races the names of ancient date and the beard upon his bosom would have bought the chief s estate he dwelt in a high built lodge hard by the roaring shore raised on a noble terrace and with at the door within it was full of riches for he served his nation well and full of the sound of like the hollow of a shell for weeks he let them perish gave never a helping sign but sat on his platform to with the divine but sat on his high terrace with the by his side and stared on the blue ocean like a eyed dawn as yellow as leaped on the mountain height out on the round of the sea the gems of the morning light up from the round of the sea the of the sun � but down in the depths of the valley the day was not begun in the blue of the twilight burned red the and the women and men of the went forth to in the dusk a word that began to go round a word a whisper a start hope that leaped in the bosom fear that knocked on the heart see the priest is not risen � look for his door is fast he is going to name the victims he is going to help us at last thrice rose the sun to noon and ever like one of the dead the priest lay still in his house with the roar of the sea in his head there was never a foot on the floor there was never a whisper of speech only the stared on the blinding beach again were the mountains fired again the morning broke and all the houses lay still but the house of the priest awoke close in their covering roofs lay and trembled the but the ag d red eyed priest ran forth like a lunatic man and the village panted to see him in the jewels of death again in the silver of the old and the hair of women slain frenzy shook in his limbs frenzy shone in his eyes and still and again as he ran the valley rang with his cries all day long in the land by cliff and thicket and den he ran his lunatic rounds and howled for the flesh of men all day long he ate not nor ever drank of the brook and all day long in their houses the people listened and shook � all day long in their houses they listened with breath and never a soul went forth for the sight of the priest was death three were the days of his running as the gods appointed of � two the nights of his sleeping alone in the place of the drunken slumber of frenzy twice he drank to the on the sacred stones of the high place under the sacred trees with a lamp at his head he lay in the place of the feast and the sacred leaves of the around the priest last when the stated even fell upon terrace and tree and the shade of the lofty island lay away to sea he knew the songs of races the names of ancient date and the beard upon his bosom would have bought the chief s estate he dwelt in a high built lodge hard by the roaring shore raised on a noble terrace and with at the door within it was full of riches for he served his nation well and full of the sound of like the hollow of a shell for weeks he let them perish gave never a helping sign but sat on his platform to with the divine but sat on his high terrace with the by his side and stared on the blue ocean like a eyed dawn as yellow as leaped on the mountain height out on the round of the sea the gems of the morning light up from the round of the sea the of the sun � but down in the depths of the valley the day was not begun in the blue of the twilight burned red the and the women and men of the went forth to in the dusk a word that began to go round a word a whisper a start hope that leaped in the bosom fear that knocked on the heart see the priest is not risen � look for his door is fast he is going to name the victims he is going to help us at last thrice rose the sun to noon and ever like one of the dead the priest lay still in his house with the roar of the sea in his head there was never a foot on the floor there was never a whisper of speech only the stared on the blinding beach again were the mountains fired again the morning broke and all the houses lay still but the house of the priest awoke close in their covering roofs lay and trembled the but the ag d red eyed priest ran forth like a lunatic man and the village panted to see him in the jewels of death again in the silver of the old and the hair of women slain frenzy shook in his limbs frenzy shone in his eyes and still and again as he ran the valley rang with his cries all day

gloves should be or opens his trunk and finds a vile among his dress shirts or goes for a long ride with his on his saddle bow and shakes a little from its folds when he opens it or goes out to dinner and finds a little blind under his chair or stays at home and finds a under the or among his boots or hanging head downwards in his tobacco jar or being by his in the � when such a man finds one neither more nor less once a day in a place where no rightly could or should be he is naturally upset when he dare not murder his daily because he believes it to be a an an and half a dozen other things all out of the regular course of nature he is more than upset he is actually distressed some of lone s co thought that he was a highly favoured individual but many said that if he had treated the first with proper respect � as suited a ra � all this trouble would have been averted they compared him to the ancient but none the less they were proud of him and proud of the englishman who had sent the they did not call it a sending because magic was not in their programme after sixteen that is to say after one fortnight for there were three on the first day to impress the fact of the sending the whole camp was uplifted by a letter � it came flying through a window the sending of da � from the old man of the mountains � the head of all the creed � explaining the in the most beautiful language and up all the credit of it for himself the englishman said the letter was not there at all he was a without power or who couldn t even raise a table by force of much less project an army of through space the entire arrangement said the letter was strictly worked and by the highest authorities within the pale of the creed there was great joy at this for some of the weaker brethren seeing that an who had been working on independent lines could create whereas their own rulers had never gone beyond � and broken at best � were showing a desire to break line on their own trail in fact there was the promise of a a second round robin was to the englishman beginning o and ending with a selection of curses from the rites of and and the of who was a fifth upon whose name an third once a is a c compared to the of the englishman had been proved under the hand and seal of the old man of the mountains to have appropriated virtue and pretended to have power which in reality belonged only to the supreme head naturally the round robin did not spare him he handed the letter to da to into decent english the on da was curious at first he was furiously angry and then he laughed for five minutes i had thought he said that they would have come the sending of da to me in another week i would have shown that i sent the sending and they would have the old man of the mountains who has sent this sending of mine do you do nothing the time has come for me to act write as i dictate and i will put them to shame but give me ten more at da s the englishman wrote nothing less than a formal challenge to the old man of the mountains it wound up and if this be from your hand then let it go forward but if it be from my hand i will that the sending shall cease in two days time on that day there shall be twelve and none at all the people shall judge between us this was signed by da who added and and a and half a dozen and a triple to his name just to show that he was all he laid claim to be the challenge was read out to the gentlemen and ladies and they remembered then that da had laughed at them some years ago it was announced that the old man of the mountains would treat the matter with contempt da being an independent without a single round at the back of him but this did not soothe his people they wanted to see a fight they were very human for all their lone who was really being worn out with submitted meekly to his fate he felt that he was being to prove the power of da as the poet says when the stated day dawned the shower of began some were white and some were and all were about the same age three were on his hearth rug three in his bath room and the other six the sending of da turned up at intervals among the visitors who came to see the prophecy break down never was a more satisfactory sending on the next day there were no and the next day and all the other days were and quiet the people murmured and looked to the old man of the mountains for an explanation a letter written on a palm leaf dropped from the ceiling but every one except lone felt that letters were not what the occasion demanded there should have been cats there should have been cats � ones the letter proved that there had been a in the current which with a identity had interfered with the activity all along the main line the were still going on but owing to some failure in the developing they were not the air was thick with letters for a few days afterwards unseen hands played and on finger and clock shades but all men felt that life was a mockery

it to you as a palace with light the most of this class that i ever had thej luxury of m was the late george m� de esq was the walter scott of the table in i never knew a mm who could ue with such grace ease and dignity he too never told a lie to ii mortal george could ve you a romance in the style of in which he himself always bore a leading part or relate a novel of the new street school with surpassing effect ry of bis hunting and an of the he won at play are the best things of kind if he won a thousand pounds for it wa certain to be a thousand pounds thirteen and five pence three thus always introducing the broken money in order to preserve the keeping and to show you that the circumstances must have happened how else could he have remembered them so the man however who wished to hear george in all his glory should have been present when he began to give his account of the irish rebellion of which he was well acquainted with from personal knowledge never have i heard anything in the way of historical narrative either on or off paper at all to be compared to it in brilliancy and power one too might have been clearly and justly drawn from it by the audience which was that the government must have treated him badly and with base ingratitude because in point of fact had it not been for george the whole fortune of the campaign in that sad business would have gone against the then george s second sight and apparition manner of relating his adventures was always equal if not superior to the matter there he sat bis thread bare ce and lively dark eyes beaming with something between an expression of complacency and a positive smile both probably produced by the novelty of his and which though described as having come within his personal knowledge had on the contrary all been created at the moment no fiction ever flowed on more freely or there was no putting him out of story or out of countenance indeed so much had his the air and of truth that i have known men who themselves very much on their penetration to have often been taken m by them not the thing about george was his readiness to charge several of his friends with invention one in he lying but upon perfectly fair grounds tis true was what a is to a wit when compared with george himself he was at a short lie could invent a single feet at one flight but his wing soon tired and down became he gathered himself again and another incident in which no being except the could feel any concern if you met for instance he would tell you that he had just with my lord n and was asked to dine with him to morrow this was a lie george was notwithstanding his happiness at fiction an honest man who in the intercourse of but especially in the practical transactions of business was strictly bound by to be sure he had one but that was more than by his talent at lying � he gave bad of this i am myself a living proof and never wiu the man who gives bad receive at my hands � but what was worse a good glass of punch i never drank at his t ble tis true i might overlook the indifferent supper bad never on of both these subjects often remonstrated with him in a so earnest that it must haye him the deep interest i took in his george s standing supper was of which he was enough to serve up five i now i ask who could stand that f i grant are very good in their place but on george s table no such as a decent ever made its appearance the ct was that the children and servants always out the below stairs and when you sat down it soon became evident that you were digging in vain among a magnificent pile of empty shells this was monstrous and deserved exposure to a man like me who am no and love a good supper it was altogether a bitter disappointment george when about forty five joined a society that had been got up by a set of young fellows who were anxious to improve themselves in he was of course admitted by having been well known to most of them the first night on he spoke i was present by his express tion they him into the chair after which he arose and said � in rising up to express without fear favour or affection having proceeded thus far he was greeted with a hear hear by some one in the comer of the room george turned hastily about and shouted with something of alarm where where in a moment all present were in and ii his speech still addressing mr as if he himself had not presided it was however a vile effort � that is the truth indeed he felt it to be such for pursuing his own meaning through a of empty words as if he had been hunting a stray through a dish of shells he exclaimed � gentlemen eloquence is � but no matter � sit down and give you the he accordingly took his seat and firom the moment he got on his until he the his audience were bound as if by the second sight and apparition of an poor george he died after a of eaten in town whilst his were out at his country residence lodge he made lying his in a little church yard beside the lodge he now lies buried and what is not considering his character an old sun dial stands beside his grave which to tell

joyfully if mr had been alive my dear miss said mr he would have had great interest in this occasion it might have suggested to him mr alfred that your life is not too easy perhaps that taken altogether it will bear any little we can give it but mr was a man who could endure to be sir he was always open to conviction if he were open to conviction now i � this is weakness mrs my dear � at his summons that lady appeared from behind the door you are among old mrs having delivered her congratulations took her husband aside one moment mr said that lady it is not in my nature to up the ashes of the departed ko my dear returned her husband mr is � yes my dear he is deceased said mr but i ask you if you recollect pursued his wife that evening of the ball i only ask you that if you the battle of life do and if your memory has not entirely failed you mr and if you are not absolutely in your i ask you to connect this time with that � to remember how i begged and prayed you on my knees � your knees my dear said mr yes said mrs confidently and you know it � to beware that man � to observe his eye � and now to tell me whether i was right and whether at that moment ho knew secrets which he didn t choose to tell mrs returned her husband in her ear madam did you ever observe anything in my eye no said mrs sharply don t flatter yourself because ma am that night he continued her by the sleeve it happens that we both knew secrets which we didn t choose to tell and both knew just the same and so the less you say about such things the better mrs and take this as a warning to have wiser and more charitable eyes another time miss i brought a mend of yours along with me here mistress poor with her apron to her eyes came slowly in escorted by her husband the latter the battle of the that if she abandoned to grief the was done for now mistress said the lawyer checking as she ran towards her and himself between them what s the matter with you the matter cried poor when looking up in wonder and in indignant remonstrance and in the added emotion of a great roar om mr britain and seeing that sweet face so well re close before her she stared sobbed laughed cried screamed embraced her held her fast released her fell on mr and embraced him much to mrs s indignation fell on the doctor and embraced him fell on mr britain and embraced him and concluded by embracing herself throwing her apron oyer her head and going into behind it a stranger had come into the orchard after mr and had remained apart near the gate without being by any of the group for they had little spare attention to bestow and that had been by the of he did not appear to wish to be observed but stood alone with downcast eyes and there was an air of about him though the battle ov he was a gentleman of a gallant appearance which the general happiness rendered more remarkable but the quick eyes of aunt however remarked him at all but almost as soon as she him she was in with him going to where stood with grace and her little she whispered something in s ear at which she started and appeared surprised but soon recovering from her confusion she timidly approached the stranger in aunt s company and engaged in conversation with him too mr britain said the lawyer putting his hand in his pocket and bringing out a legal looking document while this was going on i congratulate you you are now the whole and sole proprietor of that at present occupied and held by yourself as a tavern or house of public entertainment and commonly called or known by the sign of the l your wife lost one house through my mr michael and now gains another i have the pleasure of you for the county of these fine mornings would it make any difference in the vote if the sign was altered sir asked britain the battle of life not in the least replied the lawyer then said mr britain handing him back the conveyance just clap in the words and will you be so good and i u haye the two painted up in the parlour instead of my wife s portrait and let me said a voice behind them it was the stranger s � michael s let me claim the benefit of those mr and dr i might have deeply wronged you both that i did not is no virtue of my own i will not say that i am six years wiser than i was or better but i have known at any rate that term of self reproach i can urge no reason why you should deal gently with me i abused the hospitality of this house and learnt my own with a shame i never have forgotten yet with some profit too i would fain hope from one he glanced at to whom i made my humble for forgiveness when i knew her merit and my deep in a few days i shall quit this place for ever i entreat your pardon do as you would be done by forget and forgive time � from whom i had the latter portion of this story and with whom i have the pleasure of a personal the battle of life and the haunted the battle of life acquaintance of some five and thirty years duration � informed me leaning easily npon his that michael never went away again and

imagine her life to have been altogether very happy because she was all the time with her own people occupied i mm letters of jane os lu health was evidently in the latter part of the year and in may of the following year tlie two went to from jane was never to return tliey took lodgings in corner house of college street of which jane writes that are very comfortable we a neat little with a bow window overlooking dr s during the next two months nursed her beloved sister with and she was assisted from time to time by her sister in law mrs james tlie mary of the letters and her brothers james and henry were able to be frequently with her s letters tell all that is to be told of jane s last days on earth and tell it in language at once simple and on july th she died and on the th she was buried in cathedral near the centre of the north aisle almost opposite to the beautiful tomb of william of the place of burial being marked by a large of black marble in tlie pavement bearing the following inscription � in memory of jane youngest daughter of the late george formerly � i iii and of in tliis county oh july a patience q ic of a of of cr and of the i c of who knew love of grief ie in proportion to their know their loss to be but in their they are consoled by a firm though that her charity devotion faith and purity have rendered her acceptable in the sight of mr the writer of inserted a brass in the north wall near the grave with an inscription that b letters of jane on ni been created by her own hand it is something to be able to say of any author or that their works may be read without fear of harm it is more to be able to say as we can truly say in this case that whilst in jane s books instruction and amusement are happily blended the innate purity of her soul shines throughout each story and upon every page and the mind of the reader is led to a love of all that is moral and virtuous and a for anything that is the reverse jane did not live to enjoy the full knowledge of the popularity which was destined to be hers but of it and of her it may be permitted to ber relatives to be proud and proud they are to believe that wherever the english language is read and spoken her works stand and will remain an everlasting memorial of genius turned to good account and talents exercised for the benefit and improvement of mankind � � � i iv the i was going to devote nest chapter entirely to jane s novels when i recollected that such a chapter could by no means be made complete without referring to other novels and at tlie same time such a chapter may be at once discarded by who do not care for the subject or are satisfied to read and enjoy novels without being troubled with letters of jane ob tlie other would be satisfactory if with of a more substantial character i think it b immensely interesting to read side by side and compare the different of the novels which have charmed successive generations and in discussing jane s works to contrast of other writers who wrote practically for the same generation several passages in our letters show us that jane was well acquainted with some at least of s novels of the general popularity of these works at the time of their publication i imagine there can be no doubt and indeed this need cause one no surprise if one the british to have accepted as an accurate estimate of them all that which their author gives of in his preface to the edition of which is so modest that i cannot forbear to it � if to divert and entertain and at ihe same time to instruct and improve the minds of the youth of both sexes if to and morality in so easy and agreeable a manner as shall render them equally delightful and profitable � � � i � � � oh it the novels if to set forth iu the most lights the parental the filial and tlie social duties if to paint vice in its proper colours to make it odious and to set virtue in its own amiable and to make it look lovely if to draw with and to support them distinctly and after a few more of the same sort � if to effect all these good ends in so probable so natural so lively a manner as shall engage the passions of every sensible and attach regard to the story if these be or the editor of the following letters to assert that these ends are obtained here letters of jane oh it nevertheless whatever attractions english society once found in and sir i fancy that in the present day there are few people who would not find them dull and still fewer who would not raise more serious objections both to the matters of which they treat and to the manner of their treatment certainly there is in these books a great deal of plain speaking a is called a and there is much from which that which we now call good taste and delicacy would one must make allowance i suppose for the advance of time and improvement of manners and as sir charles the last of the three was published some fifty years before jane wrote these works must be considered as belonging altogether to another generation moreover if we allow that their general tendency at least was to vice and virtue i am afraid that this is more than we can

more and more approaching nigh unto young eternity in that island where things are sincere here and lustre there � there no monstrous fancies shall out of hell an horror call to create or cause at all t there in calm and sleep we our eyes shall never steep but eternal watch shall keep attending pleasures such as shall pursue me and you and fresh joys as never too have ending music charm me asleep and melt me so with thy delicious numbers that being d hence i go away in easy ease my sick head and make my bed thou power that from me this ill � and quickly still though thou not kill my fever thou sweetly convert the same from a fire into a gentle flame and make it thus then make me weep my pains asleep and give me such that i poor i may think thereby i live and die roses fall on me like a silent dew or like those maiden showers which by the peep of day do a o er the flowers the english poets melt melt my pains with thy soft strains that having ease me given with full delight i leave this light and take my flight for heaven s feast to thee the fairy state i with discretion because thou things that are curious and take first the feast these dishes gone well see the fairy court anon a little table spread after short prayers they set on bread a moon d grain of purest wheat with some small ring to eat his choice bits with then in a they make a feast less great than nice but all this while his eye is served we must not think his ear was but that there was in place to stir his the the merry fly the for and now we must imagine first the present to his thirst a pure seed pearl of infant dew brought and d in a blue and violet which done his eyes begin to run quite through the table where he the horns of of which he eats and tastes a little of that we call the s robert i a little ball stands by yet not by his hands that was too coarse but then forthwith he boldly on the of sugar d rush and eats the and well bees sweet bag his with some store of s eggs what would he more but of a s d a and a fly with the red worm that s shut within the of a nut brown as his tooth a little late d in a piece of cloth with d ears eyes to these the slain s tears the dew of a the broke heart of a o in music with a wine ne er d from the flattering vine but gently from the soft side of the most sweet and dainty bride brought in a dainty which he fully up to his blood to height this done commended grace by his priest the feast is ended to live live with me and thou shalt see the pleasures i ll prepare for thee what sweets the country can afford shall bless thy bed and bless thy board the soft sweet moss shall be thy bed with crawling over spread by which the silver shedding streams shall gently melt thee into dreams thy clothing next shall be a gown made of the purest down the english poets the tongues of shall be thy meat their milk thy drink and thou shalt eat the of for thy bread with cream of thy table shall be hills with spread and where thou shalt sit and red breast by for meat shall give thee melody give thee chains and of and a bag and bottle thou shalt have that richly wrought and this as brave so that as either shall express the s no mean at times and yearly wakes when his makes there thou shalt be and be the wit nay more the feast and grace of it on when meet to dance the with feet thou shalt come forth and then appear the queen of roses for that year and having danced all the best carry the from the rest in baskets maids shall bring to thee my dearest the blushing apple and shame faced all ring there walk in the groves and thou shalt find the name of in the of every straight and smooth skin tree where kissing that twice kiss thee to thee a sheep hook i will send be d with to this end this this hook might be less for to catch a sheep than me thou shalt have fine not made of ale but wine to make thy maids and self free t all sitting near the ring hearth thou shalt have roses rings gloves stockings shoes and strings of winning colours that shall move others to lust but me to love � these nay and more thine own shall b if thou wilt love and live with me william william was born at hall near in and died his alone preserves his name from oblivion but he also wrote a comedy entitled the of acted in and completed a history edward iv which had been set in hand by his father the first edition of was published in second in and the third enlarged and in the form in which we now possess the poems in the poems have been by in in mr in the centre alike of s life and of his poetry is the lady whom he has sung under the fanciful name of she was daughter of william lord rather above her lover in rank and wealth as his own verses plainly show but as is not less obvious at no time indifferent to his courtship what obstacles were interposed by her parents and relatives yielded to their mutual constancy and was allowed to carry

i am in bath mr repeated anne looking lip surprised a moment s showed her the mistake had been under she caught it and recovering courage with the feeling of safety soon added more are you acquainted with mr i have been a good deal acquainted with replied mrs smith gravely but it seems worn out it is a great while since we met i was not at all aware of this you never mentioned it before had i known it i would have had pleasure of talking to him about you to confess the truth said her usual air of cheerfulness that is exactly the pleasure i want you to have i want you to talk about me to mr i want your interest with him he can be of essential service to me and if you would have the goodness my dear miss to make it an object to yourself of course it is done i should be extremely happy � i you cannot doubt ray to be of even the slightest use to you replied anne but i suspect that y u are considering me as having a higher claim on mr a greater right to influence him than is really the case i am sure have somehow or such a notion you must consider m� only as mr relation if in that light if there is any thing which suppose his cousin might fairly ask of him i beg you would not hesitate to employ me mrs smith gave her a penetrating glance and then smiling said � i have been a little premature i perceive i beg your pardon i ought to have waited for official information but now my dear miss as an old friend do give me a hint as to when i may speak week to be sure by next week i may be allowed to think it all settled and build my own selfish schemes on mr s good fortune no replied anne nor next week next nor next i assure you that nothing of the sort you are thinking of will be settled any week i am not going to marry mr i like to know why you imagine i am mrs smith looked at her again looked earnestly � shook her head and � now how i do wish i understood you how i do wish i knew what you were at i have a great idea that you do not design to be cruel when the right moment comes till it does come you know we women never mean to have any body it is a thing of course among us that every man is refused � till he offers but why should you be cruel f let me plead for my � present friend i cannot call him � but for my former friend where can you look for a more suitable match where could you expect a more agreeable man let me recommend mr i am sure you hear nothing but good of him from colonel and who can know him better than colonel my dear mrs smith mr s wife has not been dead much above half a year he ought not to be supposed to be paying his addresses to any one oh if these are your only objections cried mrs smith mr is safe and i shall give myself no more trouble about him do not forget me when you are married that s all let him know me to be a friend of yours and then he will think little of the trouble required which it is very natural for him now with so many affairs and engagements of his own to avoid and get rid of as he can � very natural perhaps ninety nine out of a hundred would do the same of course he cannot be aware of the importance to me well my dear miss i hope and trust you will be very happy mr has sense to understand the value of such a woman your peace will not be as mine has been you are safe in all worldly matters and safe in his character he will n t be led astray � he will not be by others to his ruin no said anne i can readily believe all that of my cousin he seems to have a calm decided temper not oi k all n to dangerous impressions i consider him with great re i have no reason from any thing that has fallen within my observation to do otherwise but i have not known him long and he is not a man i think to be known intimately soon will not this manner of speaking of him mrs smith convince you that he is nothing to me surely this must be calm enough and upon my word he is nothing to me should he ever propose to me which i have very little reason to imagine he has any thought of doing i shall not accept him i assure you i shall not i assure you mr had not the share which you have been supposing in whatever pleasure the concert of last night might aft not mr � it is not mr that she stopped with a deep blush that she had implied so much but less would hardly have been sufficient smith would hardly have believed so soon in mr s failure but from the perception of there being a somebody else as it was she instantly submitted and with all the semblance of seeing nothing beyond and anne eager to escape further notice was impatient to know why mrs smith should have fancied she was to marry mr where she could have received the idea or from whom she could have heard it do tell me how it first came into your head it first came into my head replied mrs smith upon finding how much you were together and feeling

he dropped and having a few dried shell fish about five or six from time to time put one in his mouth which only to his pains from which however soon little supply failed he was released by death for im and another man i mentioned a little before to have expired under the like circumstances when we returned from unsuccessful enterprise we made a grave in the sands � it would have greatly to the tenderness and of captain cheap if at this time he had of that attention he to self preservation is hardly but where the consequence of re others must be immediately and fatal to our selves but i would venture to affirm that in these last as well as some others a perhaps i ite to the emergency might have been admitted jl k i with a due regard to his own necessities the captain had better opportunities of his stock than any of ns for his rank was considered by the indian as a reason for supplying him when he would not find a bit for us upon the evening of the day in which these happened the captain producing a large piece of boiled seal suffered no one to partake with him but the surgeon who was the only man m favour at this time ye did not indeed any relief from him in our present condition for we had a few small to eat but the men could pot help expressing the greatest indignation f t his neglect of the deceased d by or ths t be deserved to be deserted by the rest r behaviour ii tiu l e to pass up ver was for i� iii had so with a most tempt by we were harassed to a de thai to be fatal to more of us bat oar guide va to condition oar had aa t for as to go that way im had gone before in light bat for a was we conceived a t l that this was some short cut which was to voyage bat we had reason to tiiat the greater probability was the which was the wages of his undertaking i ei to his settlement by this rather than another his motive for preferring it to the way we took d where there was a carrying place of m which it have been impossible to have carried country wears the most uncouth desolate aod ragged aspect imaginable it is so aa to d courage the most sanguine from attempts to ih tie it were it for no reason than the constant ef rains or rather which pour down here and j and surf the prevailing winds this coast it must be rendered all entrance to the woods is not only extremely difficult but � not only from any you are likely to meet from beasts for even these could hardly find convenient here but from the deep which is the soil of country and in which the woods may be said rather to float than grow so that except upon a range of l� en s which form the sea coast the traveller find sound footing with scene l us we were now setting out in search of food whidi but the most pressing instances of i d io d by b � john n� hm � um e us to do we had indeed a young indian servant to our for our conductor who was left by him to show i w s re fee i fish was most plenty the gone with the rest of his family in the with a view of get some seal upon a trip which would detain him from ns i net ir four days g the coast some time with very little success � began to think of returning to the but six of ttie men wit the indian having advanced some few paces before the got into the boat first which they had no sooner they put off and left us to return no more ai now all tiie difficulties we had hitherto endured seemed light in com of what we expected to from this treachery of men who with the boat had taken away everything that b be the means of preserving our lives hie little clothes fe had saved from the wreck our and were gone except a little powder which must be preserved for fires and one gun which i had and was now useless for want of and all these wants were now come upon us at a time n we could not be worse for supplying them yet under these dismal and for appearances was our delivery now preparing and from hopeless circumstances we to draw hereafter an scarce to be of the ways of it was at that time little suspected by us that ih in which we founded all our hopes of escaping firom this savage coast would certainly have proved the fatal cause of us till we were consumed by the labour ships requisite to row her round the and great head lands for it was impossible to carry her by land as we did fee boats of the indians at present no condition could be worse than we ours to be there ran at this time a v high sea which breaking with great fury upon this coast made it very improbable that in any proportion to our wants could be found upon it yet as this d by � of � prospect was and though little could be from this quarter i could not help as i from the rest casting my eyes towards the sea thus to look oat i thought i saw bow am upon the top of a sea that looked black upon c still more intently i imagined at last to be a � � fleeting afterwards how it for like venture out in so a sea and at such a

smile i can listen now to his coarse tongue through me he has lost title and lands she nodded with great satisfaction and was rewarded with a black from who began to think that after all there might be truth in her speeches by this time who out of sheer bewilderment hitherto had the dwarf s chamber kept silent recovered his tongue and advanced towards what is the meaning of all this my lord he demanded anxiously is it a jest to amuse madam it is the truth replied addressing the young man for the first time by his name you are indeed my � the offspring of my son but that son died stammered looking at i saw his grave that is true enough answered lifting his head you saw his grave but that grave was empty who resembled that little creature was not buried there but was taken away by and given to he and not the father of miss was the heir to the estates you as his son inherit his rights and will succeed to my lord the grave was made and the erected to unnecessary questions it s a lie cried bringing his fist down on the table it is the truth retorted in as a tone if you doubt me ask your cousin he pointed to lord and would have immediately questioned him as to the rights of s assertion when madam unused to neglect forward and claimed the attention of the company lift me up on that chair she said to in a tone and look over my shoulder i will now explain to you the riddle and show you how to make out of burning with curiosity lifted her into the seat and looked at the paper which she spread out on the table also came closer in order to see if there was truth in these unpleasant which robbed him of his expected only her grandfather and dr held aloof they knew well the reading of the riddle and did not require to assist at the explanation with the the dwarf s chamber two young men looking down at that fatal piece of paper madam delighted at the prominent position she now occupied the riddle which had perplexed for so long you wonder perhaps why i guessed this the moment you gave it to me said the dwarf with an upward glance at but i would not have done it so quickly had i not invented the riddle myself you invented it madam yes you know i am fond of such things replied the little lady enjoying his wonder i invented � or rather selected this name which by the letters contains our family title but how do you know which letters to asked curiously i take the figures of the date of birth and place the letters in that order said madam complacently it is true that your father was born on the twenty fourth of december so to make the letters rightly i was forced to add ten years to that date and bring it up to then my father was forty three when he died cried noting the figures you surely did not go by this paper and think he was thirty three did you said the dwarf contemptuously in that case according to your age you were born when your father was only eleven years of age instead of which at the date of your birth he was twenty one that in itself is quite sufficient to show the of the whole thing said savagely nothing of the sort mr retorted promptly i did not know my father s age neither did he foolishly enough he believed this paper to be true but as he was a dwarf and scarcely so keen as other folk you can hardly blame him i saw the flaw of which � tn speaks long ago and it was that which made the dwarf s chamber me doubt whether the truth was to be found on this paper i am not so foolish added indignantly as not to know that this is and that if my father had been born in i could not possibly be his son well you see the explanation said madam quickly your father was born in and you when he was twenty one years of age i see that but how do you the letters madam placed before him a piece of paper on which was written the name and the date december bead that as she said the twelfth month for december now run all the figures together without division and they read now mr how many numbers are there eight good and how many letters are there in the name eight good and in the name going by the old way of it eight quite right said madam delighted at the way in which he followed her explanation now i apply the figures to the letters the first number is two what is the second letter of the name i l yes the second figure is four what is the fourth letter of the name there you are mr le now the first letter a the second again the first once more a the eighth n the fifth r and the seventh o now wliat does the whole spell the dwarf s chamber of course which is the old of our name cried madam clapping her hands i invented the name out of it by adding ten years to the birth as you see found the paper in my chamber and i have no doubt he gave it to your father quite ignorant of the hidden meaning could not sufficiently admire the ingenuity of the dwarf and her highly at which she was much gratified then it was true that his name was and that he was the of his patron with a flush of joy his face he advanced towards his grandfather and held

his eyes � it would be easy quite easy to tell him no � yes � i was a little troubled she said feeling the warmth of his touch flow her hands dear what about she drew a deep breath the he looked puzzled what letter downstairs when we came in it was not an ordinary begging letter no what then he asked his face she noticed the change and it frightened her was he angry was he going to be angry but how absurd he was only distressed at her distress what then he repeated more gently she looked up into his eyes for an instant it was a horrible letter she whispered as she pressed her clasped hands against him his grasp on her wrists and again the stern look crossed his face horrible what do you mean she had never seen him angry � but she felt suddenly that to the guilty creature his anger would be terrible he would crush � she must be careful how she spoke i didn t mean that � only painful where is the letter let me see it oh she exclaimed shrinking away what has happened what you on a blind impulse she had backed toward the her arms against the mantel piece the fruit of the tree while she stole a secret glance at the embers nothing remained of it � no nothing but suppose it was against herself that his anger turned the idea was preposterous yet she trembled at it it was clear that she must say something at once � must somehow account for her agitation but the sense that she was � no longer in control of her face her voice � made her feel that she would tell her story badly if she told it now had she not the right to gain a to choose her own hour weakness � weakness again every delay would only increase the phantom terror now now � with her head on his breast she turned toward him and began to speak i can t show you the letter because it s not � not my secret ah he murmured relieved it s from � unlucky � whom i ve known about and whose troubles have been troubling you but can t we help she shone on him through gleaming lashes poor and ill � who needs money i mean she tried to laugh away her tears and i haven t any that s my trouble foolish child and to beg you are ashamed and so you re letting your tears cool mr s soup he had her in his arms now his kisses drying her cheek and she turned her head so that their lips met in a long pressure the fruit of the tree will a hundred dollars do he asked with a smile as he released her a hundred dollars no � she was almost sure they not but she tried to shape a murmur of thank you � thank you i hated to ask i ll write the at once no � no she protested there s no hurry but he went back to his room and she turned again the toilet table her face was painful to look at still but a light was breaking through its fear she felt le touch of in her veins how calm and the room was � and how delicious to think that er life would go on in it safely and peacefully in the id familiar way as she swept up her hair passing the comb through and flinging it over her lifted wrist she card cross the floor behind her and pause to ly something on her writing table thank you she murmured again lowering her as he passed when the door had closed on him she thrust the pin into her hair dashed some drops of on er face and went over to the writing table as she up the she saw it was for three hundred t y u ss the fruit of the tree once or twice in the days that followed found herself thinking that she had never known happiness before the old state of secure well being seemed now like a sleep but this new bliss on its sharp with fire � this thrilling conscious joy daily and snatched from fear � this was living not sleeping acknowledged her gift with almost thanks she had sent it without a word � saying to herself that pity for his situation made it possible to his and the days went on as before she was not conscious of any change save in the heightened almost artificial quality of her happiness till one day in march when mr announced that he was going for two or three weeks to a friend s shooting box in the south the of s death was approaching and knew that at that time he always himself supposing you and were to carry off till i come back perhaps you could persuade him to break away from work for once � or if that s impossible you could take her with you to she looks a little pale and the change would be good for her this was a great concession on mr s part the fruit of the tree l l and saw the pleasure in her husband s face it was the first time that his father in law had suggested s going to i m afraid i can t break away just now sir said but it will be delightful for if you ll give us while you re away take her by all means my dear fellow i always sleep on both ears when she s with your wife it was nearly three months since had left � and now she was to return there alone with her husband there would be hours of course when the child s presence was between them �

was not worn merely as an ornament of the person the individual described in this summary was familiar to report throughout the province as the his true name was supposed to be robert � but this was almost lost in the popular of rob of the bowl or rob � an which he had borne ever since hia arrival in the province now some fifteen years gone by of his history but little was known and that little was duly in the public by the common tendency in the vulgar mind to make the most of any circumstance of suspicion the story went that he had been on a winter voyage upon this coast and after suffering incredible hardships had saved hia life only at the expense of the loss of both legs by frost in this condition he had reached the shore of the province and some time afterwards built the hut in which he now dwelt by ic rob of the bowl the mouth of st s here he had passed years without other notice than such as the charity of the world affords when it is exercised upon tiie te or fortunes of an obscure this observation began to find a broader scope as soon as it became obvious that the was not altogether an object for and the little world of this part of the province discovering in process of lime that he was not absolutely were fain to take offence at the mystery of his means of earning his before many years some few of the and country people round had found out that bob was occasionally possessed of good much in request by the inhabitants of the port and dark whispers were sometimes touching the manner in which he came by them these were not made topics of public discussion for two reasons � first because it was not inconvenient or to the in the secret to deal with rob � and secondly rob was not a man to allow this indulgence of idle speculation he was of an temper free to strike when crossed and what was still more to be feared had friends who were not unwilling to take up his quarrel the loss of his legs was supplied by a wooden bowl or of an shape to which his were attached by a and this rude contrivance was swayed forward when the owner chose by the aid of two short which enabled him to lift himself from the ground and assume a motion it was to the exercise which this mode of imposed upon his upper limbs that the breadth and of his figure about the shoulders as well as the visible of strength of arm for which he was remarkable were in part perhaps to be attributed use had made him expert in the management of his bowl and he could ke p pace pretty fairly with an ordinary the was a man x f by ic rob of the bowl habits and life although there were times in which his severe temper relaxed into an approach to enjoyment and then his intercourse with the few who had access to him was marked by a sarcastic humor and keen ridicule of action which showed some grudge against the world and at the same time with mankind and by no means a deficiency of education but in general his vein was and apt to vent itself in or stem reproof a small painting of st at his by the hand of himself hung over a dressing table in the back room of the hut in which the bed of the was and this exquisite of art which the possessor seemed duly to appreciate was surmounted by a indicating the religious faith in which he worshipped this might be gathered from a curious antique of heavy gilded metal a ponderous with silver a few old volumes of the lives of the saints and other furniture of the like nature all of which that the of a religious formed an element in his singular compound of character the superiority of his mind and over those of the mass of the inhabitants of the province had contributed to render the an object of some interest as well as of distrust amongst them and this sentiment was heightened into one approaching to vulgar awe by the reputation of the person who had always been somewhat in his confidence and now attended him as his and only domestic this person was the and repulsive whom i have already noticed as in the household concerns of the hut she was a woman who had long a most fame as the woman of in the small hamlet of that name on the of from whence she had been recently to perform the by ic rob of the bowl domestic in which we have found her her habitation was a rude some few hundred paces distant from the hut of the on the margin of st s creek and within of the rear of the black chapel to this after her daily work was done she retired to pass the night leaving her master or patron to that solitude which he seemed to prefer to any society the surly we have noticed alternately kept guard at the hut of the master and domestic � between the two in nightly with a and fidelity � no go between to so strange a pair it will not be wondered at that in a superstitious age such an association as � this of the and the in the vicinity of such a spot as the s lodge had been by the acting of a horrible tragedy should excite far and wide amongst the pie a of terror sufficiently potent to turn the steps of the as the shades of evening fell around him from the path that led to st s the at the time when i have chosen to present him

our own good where after all would be the use of bis the past lo and away ins happiness � hers for he felt that she him aa for the child he would see it was cared for he would never he would do everything but own it perhaps it would be as happy in life without being owned by its seeing that could tell how things would out and that is there any other reason wanted well then that the father would ha chapter was a s that week in and up yard at it was known that the dark haired woman with ihe fair who had lately come lo lodge there was gone away again that was all the express note taken that had disappeared the eyes of men but ihe death which lo ihe general lot seemed as trivial as the summer shed leaf was d with the of destiny to certain human lives that we know of and sorrows even to the end s determination lo keep the tramp s child was matter of hardly less surprise and talk in the village than the robbery of his that softening of feeling towards him which dated m his misfortune that of suspicion and dislike in a pity for him as lone and was now accompanied with a more active sympathy especially amongst the women notable mothers who knew what it waa to keep children whole and sweet lazy mothers who knew what it was to be in folding their arms and � a ng their elbows hy the mischievous of children just firm on their i were equally manage with a two year old child on his hands and were equally ready with their suggestions the chiefly telling him what he had better do and the lazy ones being emphatic in telling him what he would never be able to do among the notable mothers was the one whose for ihey rendered without any show of bustling instruction had shown her the half guinea given to him by and had asked her what he do about getting some clothes for the child eh master said there s no call to buy no more nor a pair o shoes for i ve got the little as wore five years ago and it s ill spending the money on baby lor the child grow like grass i may bless it � that it will and the same day brought her bundle and displayed to one by one the tiny garments in their du order of succession most of them patched and but clean and neat as fresh sprung this was the introduction to a great ceremony with soap and water from which baby came out in new beauty and sat on s knee handling her toes and and patting her palms together with an air of made several discoveries about herself which she communicated by sound of and the was not a cry e need or uneasiness baby had be q used to it without expecting either sound or touch to anybody nd think the in heaven could n t be prettier said rubbing the golden curls and � kissing them and to think of its being covered wi them dirty rags � nd the poor mother � to death but there s them as took care of it and brought it to your door master the door was r the si tile robin did n t jou say the yes said yea � the door was open the s gone i don t know where and this is come from i don t know he had not mentioned lo any one bis of the child entrance shrinking from � which might lead to the fact he himself suspected � namely that he had been in one ot his ah said with soothing gravity it s hke the night and morning and the sleeping and the waking and the rain and the harvest � one goes and the other comes and we know nothing how nor where we may strive and and but it s little we can do all � the big things come and go wi no striving o onr n � they do that tliey do and i think you re in the right on it to p the little un master seeing as it sent to there s folks as thinks nt you happen bo a bit with it while it s so little bat i ll come and and see to it for you i ve a bit o time to spare most for when one up i tne morning the clock seems to still low rt ten afore it a lo go the so as say i come and see to the child for vou and welcome you kindly said hesitating a little i be jou ll tell me things but he added uneasily forward a look at with some jealousy as she was resting her head against s arm and him from a distance � bat i want to do things for it else it may get fond o somebody else and not fond o me i ve been used to for myself in the house � i can learn i can eh to be said gently i ve seen men as are wonderful handy wi children the men ard and mostly god help em � but when the drink s out of cm they are n t though they re bad for and � bo tier and you see goes next the skin proceeded taking up the little shirt and putting it on yes said bringing his eyes very close that they might be in the mysteries whereupon b seized his head with both her small arms and put her lips against his with see there said with a woman s tender tact she s n you she wants to go o your lap i ll be go then take her

his sleeve was pleasant his low tones soothed the ache in her bosom severe enough god knows when her father came from the city he smiled brightly to see them together and after hearing that was away came to the dinner table with the air he had worn for months another week passed during which mr went nearly every day to and communicated to on each return the result of his labors them with the hues of hope though there was little that could be drawn from the words or actions of miss the critic for had also been given more than an of the state of affairs and had with delight the chapters last written on the famous romance he saw that the next experience needed by the author was a severe attack of and as there was no one else to play the part of he himself undertook the r le is pretty popular with the family isn t he was the way he began when he called on i met the old gentleman the other day and he seemed absolutely gone on him as the saying is they tell me he s out at every day got his eye on the younger daughter too they intimate it takes but little to a mind already driven to the verge of distraction the next time that saw the latter received him with a coolness that could not be ignored when he pressed for a reason the young man broke out into don t pretend he cried you ve heard of the case of john what s been worked once may go again i m not entirely blind mr with pained eyes begged his friend to explain tell me this shouted do you love that girl yourself unprepared for the quest on shrank as from a flash of lightning and could not reply i know you do came the next sentence sharply and i know that it is owing to the you have made not only with her but with her father that i have been pushed out well go ahead i ve no objection only don t come here every day with your cock and bull stories of pleading my cause for i ve had enough of them the green eyed monster tht turned aside and mr too hurt to say a word arose and silently left the room his brain whirled so that he was actually giddy not knowing where else to turn he went to see mr to whom he the result of his call don t be too serious about it said soothingly it s a good thing for the lad to get his blood stirred a little in a day or two he ll be all right that novel of his is coming on was in no mood to talk about novels and finding that he could get no consolation of the kind he he soon left the office the critic laughed silently to himself at the idea of the having at last been bitten and then took his way to s rooms no answer being returned to his knock he opened the door and entered at first he thought the place was vacant but presently he a still form on the bed the was stretched out in an attitude which at first suggested death rather than sleep and alarmed the visitor not a little investigation however showed that he was simply in a tired sleep worn out with worry and restless nights what a beauty whispered a very dramatic scene could be worked up if that sweetheart of his were brought here and made to stand beside the couch when he yes it would be grand but it would need his own pen to trace the words the hardly dry pages of the great manuscript that lay on an adjacent desk caught the eyes of the critic a black i and he sat down to them closer as he turned leaves he grew so delighted as to become almost he s a genius nothing less he said and then softly from the chamber chapter xvi h i ve had such luck one day mr came home in a state of great excitement he had not acted naturally for a long time and who met him at the door wondered what could be the cause of his strange manner he caught his daughter in his arms and kissed her like a lover tears came to his eyes but they were tears of joy he laughed as he wiped them away and told her not to mind him for he was the happiest man in new york i ve had such luck he exclaimed when she stared at him oh i ve had such grand luck she led him to a seat on a sofa and waited for him to tell her more you can t imagine the relief i feel he continued when he had caught sufficient breath i ve had an awful time in business for years but to day everything is all cleared up the house over our heads was the notes i owed were al i ve had such most due i had given out paper that i could sec no way of meeting and now it is all provided for i am out of financial danger and i have enough to quit business and live in ease and comfort with my family the rest of my days could only look her surprise she could not understand such a but she loved her father dearly and seeing that he was happy made her happy too though she had had her own sorrows of late tell me about it father she said putting an arm around his neck you couldn t understand no matter how much i tried to make it clear he answered excitedly there was a combination that meant ruin or success depending on the cast of a die as one

myself up in next winter letters oe jane i took the liberty a few days ago of asking your black velvet bonnet to lend me its which it very readily did and by which i have been enabled to give a considerable improvement of dignity to cap which was before too to please me i shall wear it on thursday but i hope you will not be o ended with me for following your advice as to its ornaments only in part i still venture to retain the narrow silver round it put twice round without any bow and instead of the black shall put in the one as being and besides is to be all the fashion this winter after the ball i shall probably make it entirely black i am sorry that our dear charles begins to feel the dignity of ill usage my father will write to admiral he must have already received so much satisfaction from his acquaintance and patronage of frank that he will be delighted dare say to have another of the family introduced to him i think it would be very right in charles to address sir thomas on the occasion though i cannot approve of your scheme of writing to him which you communicated to me a fe nights ago to request him to come home and convey you to to do you justice however you had some doubts of the propriety of a measure yourself i am very much obliged to my dear little george letters of jane for his message � for his love at least his duty i suppose was only in consequence of some hint of my intentions towards him from his father or mother i am sincerely rejoiced however that i ever was bom since it has been the means of him a dish of tea give my best love to him wednesday � i have changed my mind and changed the of my cap this morning they are now such as you suggested i felt as if i should not prosper if i strayed from your tions and i think it makes me look more like lady now than it did before which is all that one lives for now i believe i shall make my new gown like my robe but the back of the latter is all in a piece with the tail and will seven yards enable me to copy it in that respect i have just heard from and frank his letter was written on november all well and nothing particular j a park x monday night december mt dear � i have got some pleasant news for you which i am eager to communicate and therefore begin my letter sooner though i shall not send it sooner than usual letters of jane admiral in reply to my father s application writes as follows as it is usual to keep young officers in small vessels it being most proper on account of their and it being also a situation where they are more in the way of learning their duty your son has been continued in the but i have mentioned to the board of his wish to be in a and when a proper opportunity offers and it is judged that he has taken his turn in a small ship i hope he will be removed with regard to your son now in the london i am glad i can give you the assurance that his promotion is likely to take place very soon as lord has been so good as to say he would include him in an arrangement that he making in a short time relative to some in that quarter there i may now finish my letter and go and hang myself for i am sure i can neither write nor do anything which will not appear to you after this now i really think he will soon be made and only wish we could communicate our of the event to him whom it principally concerns my father has written to to desire that he will inform us if he can when the commission is sent your chief wish is now ready to be accomplished and could lord give happiness to at the same time what a joy ful heart he would make of yours letters of jane i have sent the same extract of the sweets of to charles who poor fellow though he sinks into nothing but an humble attendant on the hero of the piece will i hope be contented with the prospect held out to him by what the admiral says it appears as if he had been kept in the but i will not torment myself with conjectures and facts shall satisfy me frank had not heard from any of ns for ten weeks when he wrote to me on november in consequence of lord st being removed to when his commission is sent however it will not be so long on its road as our letters because all the government are forwarded by land to his from with great regularity i returned from many down this morning and found my mother certainly in no respect worse than when i left her she does not like the cold weather but that we cannot help i spent my time very quietly and very pleasantly with miss is agreeable i do not want people to be very agreeable as it me the trouble of liking them a great deal i found only and her when i got to on thursday we dined together and went together to to seek the protection of mrs with whom were lady her eldest son and mr and mrs i of jane oar ball was very thin but by no means unpleasant there were one people and only eleven ladies ont of the number and but five single women in the room of the gentlemen present you may hare some

of this indeed he had i now remembered said very little at all about the people he had exhausted his eloquence on the fish i recalled his words when i asked him about she is a daughter of the poor thing that was all had he been up to a practical joke if so it seemed rather a sorry one to me just then but anyhow i could not draw back now i could never face him again if i did not go on and what was more serious i could never face myself el i was weak enough to have a thought that after all the mysterious might not come but the recollection of the fish of which my friend had spoken as if they had been the golden fish of the nights banished that i asked about the streams around l yes there was good fishing but they were all too anxious to tell me about the danger of going over the mountain to give much thought to the fishing no one without blood could cross the devil s ledge two men had disappeared three years ago a man had disappeared there last year he had gone and had never been heard of afterward the devil s ledge was a bad pass why don t they look into the matter i asked the reply was as near a shrug of the shoulders as a can accomplish it was not easy to get the proof the mountain was very dangerous the very slippery there were no witnesses etc of the mountain was not a man to trouble he hates englishmen said one significantly el i am not an englishman i am an american i explained this had a sensible effect several began to talk at once one had a brother in another had cousins in and so on the group had by this time been by the addition of almost the entire population of the settlement one or two rosy women having babies in their arms standing in the rain utterly regardless of the steady it was a time can i get a place to stay here i inquired of the group generally yes � oh yes there was a consultation in which the name of was heard frequently and then a man stepped forward and taking up my bag and rod case walked off i following escorted by a number of my new friends i had been in s little house about an hour and we had just finished supper when there was a murmur outside and then the door opened and a young man stepping in said something so rapidly that i understood only that it concerned of the mountain and in some way myself of the mountain is here and wants to speak to you said my host will you go yes i said why does he not come in he will not come in said my host he never does come in he is at the church yard said the messenger he always stops there they both spoke broken english i arose and went out taking the direction indicated a number of my friends stood in the road or street as i passed along and touched their caps to me looking very queer in the dim twilight they gazed at me curiously as i walked by i turned the corner of a house which stood half in the road and just in front of me in its little yard was the little white church with its square heavy short spire at the gate stood a tall figure perfectly motionless leaning on a long staff as i approached i saw that he was an elderly man he wore a long beard once yellow but now gray and he looked very straight and large there was something grand about him as he stood there in the dusk i came quite up to him he did not move sl good evening i said good evening are you mr i asked drawing out my letter i am of the mountain he said slowly as if his name embraced the whole title i handed him the letter you are i am taking my cue from his own manner the friend of her friend his great friend can you climb i can are you steady yes it is well are you ready i had not counted on this and involuntarily i asked in some surprise to night to night you cannot go in the day i thought of the speech i had heard no one goes over the mountain except at night and the ominous conclusion who goes over the mountain comes no more my strange host however diverted my thoughts a stranger cannot go except at night he said gravely and then added i must get back to watch over i shall be ready in a minute i said turning in ten minutes i bad bade good by to my simple hosts and leaving them with a evidence of my consideration to secure their lasting good will i was on my way down the street again with my light luggage on my back this time the entire population of the little village was in the road and as i passed along i knew by their murmuring conversation that they regarded my action with profound i felt as i returned their touch of the cap and bade them good by a little like the of old who about to die saluted at the gate my strange guide who had not moved from the spot where i first found him insisted on taking my luggage and his around it and flinging it over his back he me his stick and without a word strode off straight toward the black mountain whose vast wall above us to the clouds i shall never forget that climb we were hardly out of the road before vo began to ascend and i had shortly to stop

unnatural at hi time of life with a very slender stock of money and a still more scanty stock of friends what could he do � said tu try that register office again he smiled at himself as he walked away with a quick step for an instant before he had been his own he did not laugh himself out of the intention however for on he went to himself as he approached the place all kinds of splendid possibilities and too for that matter and thinking himself perhaps with good reason very fortunate to be endowed with so and sanguine a temperament the office looked just the same as when he had left it last and indeed with one or two exceptions there seemed to be the very same in the window that he had seen before there were the same masters and in want of virtuous servants and the same virtuous servants in want of masters and and the same magnificent estates for the of capital and the same enormous quantities of capital to be invested in estates and in short the same opportunities of all sorts for people who wanted to make their fortunes and a most proof it was of the national prosperity that people had not been found to avail themselves of such advantages long ago as stopped to look in at the window an old gentleman happened to stop too and carrying his eye along the window panes from left to right in search of some capital text which should be to his own case caught sight of this old gentleman s figure and instinctively withdrew his eyes from the window to observe the same more closely he was a sturdy old fellow in a broad skirted blue coat made pretty large to fit easily and with no particular waist his legs clothed in breeches and high and his head protected by a low crowned broad white hat such as a wealthy might wear he wore his coat and his double chin rested in the folds of a white � not one of your stiff but a good easy old fashioned white neck cloth that a man might go to bed in and be none the worse for but what principally attracted the attention of was the old gentleman s eye � never was such a clear twinkling honest merry happy eye as that and there he stood looking a little upward with on hand thrust into the breast of his coat and the other playing with his old fashioned gold watch chain his head thrown a little on one side and his hat a little more on one side than his head but that was evidently accident not his ordinary way of wearing it with such a pleasant smile playing about his mouth and such a expression of mingled simplicity kind and lighting up his jolly old face that would lave been content to have stood there and looked at him until evening and to have forgotten meanwhile that there life and adventures of was such a thing as a mind or a countenance to be met with in the whole wide world but even a very remote approach to this gratification was not to be made for although he seemed quite unconscious of having been the subject of observation he looked casually at and the latter fearful of giving offence resumed his scrutiny of the window instantly still the old gentleman stood there glancing from to and could not forbear raising his eyes to his face again upon the and of his appearance was something so engaging and so much worth and there were so many little lights hovering about the corners of his mouth and eyes that it was not a mere amusement but a positive pleasure and delight to look at him this being the case it is no wonder that the old caught in the fact more than once at such times colored and looked embarrassed for the truth is that he had begun to wonder whether the stranger could by any possibility be looking for a clerk or secretary � and thinking this he felt as if the old gentleman must know it long as all this takes to tell it was not more than a couple of minutes in passing as the stranger was moving away caught his eye again and in the awkwardness of the moment stammered out an apology no offence � oh no offence said the old man this was said in such a hearty tone and the voice was so exactly what it should have been from such a speaker and there was such a cordiality in the manner that was to speak again a great many opportunities here sir he said half smiling as he towards the window a great people willing and anxious to be employed have seriously thought so very often i dare say replied the old man poor fellows poor fellows he moved away as he said this but seeing that was about to speak good his pace as if he were unwilling to cut him short after a little of that hesitation which may be sometimes observed between two people in the street who have exchanged a nod and are both uncertain whether they shall turn back and speak or not found himself at the old man s side you were about to speak young gentleman what were you going to say merely that i almost hoped � i mean to say thought � you had some object in consulting those said aye aye what object now � what object returned the old man looking at did you think i wanted a situation now � eh did you think i did shook his head ha ha laughed the old gentleman rubbing his hands and wrists as if he were washing them a very natural thought at all events after seeing me gazing at those bills i thought the

enough to provide me with memories for my declining days and it s a droll thing too he added with a laugh the further south you go the more and merry are the people the further north the more virtuous and miserable there s a wrong balance somewhere � but where tis not easy to find out well said i can give you a direct contradiction to your theory scotland lies to the north and there s not a harvest of sinful souls anywhere between this and the day of judgment i m a and i m just proud of my country � i d back its men against all the human race � but i wouldn t say much for the of its women i would just take to my heels and run if i saw a real red big scotch making up to me there s no in they sort and no safety i will go to scotland said i feel that what do you call them f � will charm me scotland i never saw said from all i have heard it seems to me be too much like after one s eyes have rested long on these dark mountains and one likes now and then to see a fertile stretch of country such as france or the plains of of course there may be exceptions but i tell you influences have a great deal to do with the state of mind and morals now take the example of that miserable old she is the victim of � and religious together with superstition of the most foolish kind is common in it happens often during the long the people have not sufficient to occupy their minds no clergyman � not even � can satisfy the height of their they preach and pray and shriek and groan in their huts some swear that they have the spirit of prophecy � others that they are possessed of devils � others imagine like � and altogether there is such a the land of the midnight sun howling on the name of christ that i am glad to be out of it � for tis a sight to awaken the laughter and contempt of a pagan such as i am listened with a slight shadow of pain on her features � father is not a pagan she declared turning to how can one be pagan if one believes that there is good in everything � and that nothing happens except for the best it sounds to me more christian than pagan with a smile but it s no use appealing to me on such matters miss i am an advocate of the law of nothing i remember a worthy philosopher who � when he was in his cups � earnestly assured me it was all right � everything was nothing and nothing was everything you are sure that is so i would say to him my dear young friend � � i am positive i have � � worked out the problem with � v� care and he would shake me by the hand warmly with a mild and moist smile and would retire to bed walking sideways in the most amiable manner i m certain his ideas were correct as well as luminous they laughed and then looking up saw that they were passing a portion of the coast of which was more than usually picturesque facing them was a great in the rocks tinted with a curious violet hue with bronze � and in the strong sunlight these colours flashed with the brilliancy of jewels reflecting themselves in the pale slate coloured sea by s orders the speed and glided along with an almost noiseless motion � and they were silent listening to the dash and of water that fell from the that frowned above while the breathless heat and stillness of the air added to the weird solemnity of the scene they all rose from their chairs and leaned on the deck rails looking but uttering no word in one of these islands said at last very softly � it was either or � they once found the tomb of a great chief there was an inscription outside that warned all men to respect it but they laughed at the warning and opened the tomb and they saw seated in a stone chair a skeleton with a gold crown on its head and a great carved seal in its hand and at its feet there was a stone the was broken open and it was full of gold and jewels well they took all the gold and i jewels and the skeleton � and now � do you know what happens at midnight a number of strange persons are seen searching on the shore and among the rocks for the lost treasure and it is said they often utter cries of anger and despair and those who robbed the tomb all died suddenly served them right said and now they are dead i suppose the wronged ghosts don t appear any more oh yes they do said very seriously if any sailor passes at midnight and sees them or hears their cries he is doomed � but does he see or hear them asked with a smile � well i don t know returned with a grave shake of his head i m not superstitious myself but i should be sorry to say anything against the you see they may exist and it s no use offending them and what do you mean by the folk inquired they are supposed to be the souls of persons who died said and they are doomed to wander on the hills till the day of judgment it is a sort of shook his fingers emphatically in the air ah he said what droll things remain still in the world yes in spite of liberty equality you do not believe in foolish

and lady and as it proved had been left at home during their parents temporary absence in the of nurse and lord was fond of the children rather indifferent towards his wife since she had begun to show an inclination not to please him by giving him a boy all children instinctively ran after looking upon her more as an unusually nice large specimen of their own tribe than as a grown up elder it had now become an established rule that whenever she met them � indoors or out of doors or sundays � they were to be pressed against her face and bosom for the space of a quarter of a minute and otherwise made much of on the delightful system of a pair of blue eyes epithet and caress to which girls will occasionally abandon themselves a look of by the towards the door by which they had entered directed attention to a maid servant appearing from the same quarter to put an end to this sweet freedom of the poor mary and wish you lived here miss one like a melancholy so do i the other like a rather more melancholy mamma can t play with us so nicely as you do i don t think she ever learnt playing when she was little when shall we come to see you as soon as you like and sleep at your house all night that s what i mean by coming to see you i don t care to see people with hats and on and all standing up and walking about as soon as we can get mamma s permission you shall come and stay as long as ever you like the prisoners were then led off again turning her attention to her guest whom she had left standing at the remote end of the gallery on looking around for him he was nowhere to be seen stepped down to the library thinking he might have rejoined her father there but mr now cheerfully illuminated by a pair of candles was still alone of letters and papers and tying them up again as did not stand on a sufficiently intimate footing with the object k her interest to justify her as a proper young lady to commence the active search for him that youthful prompted and as nevertheless for a reason connected with those cut lips of his she did not like him to be absent a pair of blue eyes from her side she wandered back to the oak staircase and casting her eyes about in hope of his boyish figure though daylight still prevailed in the rooms the were in a depth of shadow � chill sad and silent and it was only by looking along them towards light spaces beyond that anything or anybody could be discerned therein one of these light spots she found to be caused by a side door with glass in the upper part opened it and found herself a secondary or inner lawn separated from the principal lawn front by a and now she saw a sight at right angles to the face of the wing she had emerged from and within a few feet of the door out another wing of the mansion lower and with less character immediately opposite to her in the wall of this wing was a large broad window having its blind drawn down and illuminated by a light in the room it on the blind was a shadow from somebody close inside it � a person in the was that of it was just possible to see that his arms were uplifted and that his hands held an article of some kind then another shadow appeared � also in � and came close to him this was the shadow of a woman she turned her back towards he lifted and held out what now proved to be a shawl or mantle � placed it carefully � so carefully � round the lady disappeared reappeared in her front � fastened the mantle did he then kiss her surely not yet the motion might have been a kiss then both shadows swelled to colossal dimensions � grew distorted � vanished two minutes elapsed ah miss i am so glad to find a pair of blue eyes you i was looking for you said a voice at her elbow � s voice she stepped into the passage do you know any of the members of this establishment said she not a single one how should i he replied vi fare thee awhile i simultaneously with the conclusion of s remark the sound of the closing of an external door in their immediate neighbourhood reached s ears it came from the further side of the wing containing the illuminated room she then discerned by the aid of the dusky departing light a figure whose sex was walking down the path by the towards the river the figure grew fainter and vanished under the trees mr s voice was heard calling out their names from a distant corridor in the body of the building they their steps and found him with his coat up and his hat on awaiting their advent in a mood of self satisfaction at having brought his search to a successful close the carriage was brought round and without further delay the drove away from the mansion under the echoing arch and along by the as the stars began to their trembling lights behind the of branches and twigs no words were spoken either by youth or maiden a pair of blue eyes her mind was completely occupied in its recent acquisition the young man who had inspired her with such novelty of feeling who had come directly from london on business to her father having been brought by chance to house had by some means or other acquired the privilege of approaching some lady he had found therein and of her by

idea and very hard up for a change as ready to go in for as for any thing else so he went in he himself up with a blue book or two and his brother put it about among the hard fact fellows and said if you want to bring in for any place a handsome dog who can make you a devilish good speech look after my brother for he s your after a few in the public meeting way mr and a council of political approved of and it was resolved to send him down to to become known there and in the neighborhood hence the letter had last night shown to mrs which mr now held in his hand banker specially to introduce james thomas within an hour of the receipt of this and mr james s card mr put on his hat and went down to the hotel there he found mr james looking out of window in a state of mind so that he was already half disposed to go in for something else my name sir said his visitor is of mr james was very happy indeed though he looked so to have a pleasure he had long expected sir said taking a chair is not the kind of place you have been accustomed to therefore if you ll allow me � or whether you will or not for i am a plain man � i ll tell you something about it before we go any further mr would be charmed don t be too sure of that said i don t promise it first of all you see our smoke that s meat and drink to us it s the thing in the world in all respects and particularly for the lungs if you are one of those who want us to it i differ j om you we are not going to wear the hard times of our out any faster than we wear now for all the sentiment in great britain and by way of going in to the fullest mr rejoined mr i assure you entirely and completely of your way of thinking on i am glad to hear it id now you have heard a lot of talk the work in our mills no doubt you have very good i ll state the fact of it to you it s the work there is and it s the work there is and it ib the best paid work there is more than that we couldn t improve the mills themselves unless we laid down turkey carpets on the floors which we re not a going to do mr perfectly right lastly said as to our hands there s not a hand in this town sir man woman or child but has one mate object in life that object is to be fed on soup and with a gold spoon now they re not a going � none of em � ever to be fed on soup and with a gold spoon and now you know the place mr professed himself in the highest degree instructed and refreshed by this of the whole question why you see replied mr it suits my disposition to have a full understanding with a man particularly with a man when i make his acquaintance i have only one thing more to say to you mr before assuring you of the pleasure with which i shall respond to the utmost of my poor ability to my friend tom s letter of introduction you are a man of family don t you deceive yourself by supposing for a moment that am a man of family i am a bit of dirty and a genuine scrap of rag and if any thing could have exalted s interest in mr it would have been this very circumstance or so he told him so now said we may shake hands on equal terms i say equal terms because although i know what i am and the exact depth of the i have myself out of better than any man does i am as proud as you are i am just as proud as you are having now asserted my independence in proper hard times i to how do find and i hope you re the better mr him i� as ther shook hands for the air el mr received the answer perhaps know said he yoa t know i married tom s tf to do than to walk tip town with me i be g ad to introduce to tom s daughter mr said yon anticipate n dearest wishes they went oat and mr the new who go strongly contrasted with him to the red brick dwelling with the black outside shutters the green inside blinds and the street door up the two white steps in the drawing room of which mansion there presently entered to them the most remarkable girl mr james had ever seen she was so constrained and yet so careless so reserved and yet so watchful so cold and proud and yet so ashamed of her husband s humility � from which she shrunk as if every example of it were a cut or a blow that it was quite a new sensation to observe her in face she was no less remarkable than in manner her features were handsome but their natural play was so suppressed and locked up that it seemed impossible to guess at their genuine expression utterly perfectly self never at a loss and yet never at her ease with her figure in company with them there and her mind apparently quite alone � it was of no use going in yet awhile to comprehend this girl for she all penetration from the mistress of the house the visitor glanced to the house itself there was no mute sign of a woman in the room no graceful little no fanciful little

i d em and go to better families who do want you ah yes but could never put up with the of being welcomed among such people as you mean while i could get indifference among such people as t what crazy twist o thinking wool come to l s bis mother and come to that she s not a a xx oo v a pair of blue eyes for you or you too low for her see how careful i be to keep myself up i m sure i never stop for more than a minute together to talk to any s people and i never invite anybody to our party o who in business for themselves and i talk to several carriage people that come to my lord s without saying or sir to em and they take it as quiet as you to the mother and i wish you hadn t but it was before he called me by my christian name or he would have got very little from me said mrs smith and sparkling with vexation you go on at me as if i were your worst enemy what else could i do wi the man to get rid of him it into me and your father by side and by about what happened when he was a young fellow at college and i don t know what all the tongue o en round his mouth like a rag round a that a did didn the john that s about the size o t replied her husband every woman now a days resumed mrs smith if she marry at all must expect a father in law of a rank lower than her father the men have gone up so and the women have stood still every man you meet is more the than his father and you are just level wi her that s what she thinks herself it only shows her sense i knew she was after ye after me good gracious what next and i really must say again that you ought not to be in such a hurry and wai for a few years you might go higher still then the fact is mother said impatiently you don t know anything about it i shall never go higher because i don t want to nor should i if i lived to be a hundred as to you saying that she s after me i don t like such a remark about her for it a woman and a man worth for both of which are not only but oi iv s case isn t it so father a pair of blue eyes i i m i don t understand the matter well enough to my opinion said his father in the tone of the fox who had a cold and could not smell she couldn t have been very backward anyhow considering the short time you have known her said his mother well i think that five years hence be plenty young enough to think of such things and really she can very well afford to wait and will too take my word living down in an out step place like this i am sure she ought to be very thankful that you took notice of her she d most likely have died an old maid if you hadn t turned lip all nonsense said but not aloud a nice little thing she is mrs smith went on in a more tone now that had been talked down there s not a word to say against her i ll own i see her sometimes out like a horse going to fair i admire her for t a perfect little lady but people can t help their thoughts and if she d learnt to make figures instead of letters when she was at school have been better for her pocket for as i said there never were worse times for such as she than now now now mother said with smiling but t will said his mother with i don t read the papers for nothing and i know men all move up a stage by marriage men of her class that is marry daughters marry lords daughters lords marry daughters marry queens daughters all stages of gentlemen mate a stage higher and the lowest stage of are left single or marry out of their class but you said just now dear mamma � retorted unable to resist the temptation of showing his mother her then he paused well what did i say and mrs smith prepared her for a new campaign that he had begun since a vol � might be the consequence was obliged to o you said i wasn t out of her class a r yes there there i that s you � j xv a pair of blue eyes and blood til warrant that you ll pick holes in everything your mother says if you can you are just like your father for that take anybody s part but mine while i am speaking and talking and trying and away for your good you are waiting to catch me out in that way so you are in her class but tis what her people would call marrying out of her class don t be so preserved a discreet silence in which he was by his father and for several minutes nothing was heard but the of the green faced case clock against the wall i m sure added mrs smith in a more philosophic tone and as a speech if there d been so much trouble to get a husband in my time as there is in these days � when you must make a god a mighty of a man to get en to ye � i d have eat dirt wi a before i d ever have lowered my dignity to marry or there s no

affection the story had suggested that he should try to to them one which he had used to hear in his youth and which afforded an instance of the latter and better kind of feeling his heroine being also a lady who had married beneath her though he feared his narrative would be of a much kind than the surgeon s the club begged him to proceed and the parson began dame the third of by the rural dean i would have you know then that a great many years ago there lived in a classical mansion with which i used to be familiar standing not a hundred miles from the city of a lady whose personal were so rare and that she was flattered and spoilt by almost all the young and gentlemen in that part of for a time these attentions pleased her well but as in the words of good robert south whose sermons might be read much more than they are the most passionate lover of sport if tied to follow his and hounds every day of his life would find the pursuit the greatest torment and calamity and would fly to the mines and for his so did this lofty and beautiful lady after a while become with the constant of what she had in its novelty enjoyed and by an almost natural turned her regards absolutely a of speaking she and passionately her affection on quite a plain looking young man of humble birth and no position at all though it is true that he was gentle and delicate in nature of good address and heart in short he was the parish clerk s son acting as assistant to the land steward of her father the earl of with the hope of becoming some day a land steward himself it should be said that perhaps the lady as she was called was a little stimulated in this passion by the discovery that a young girl of the village already loved the young man fondly and that he had paid some attentions to her though merely of a casual and good natured kind since his occupation brought him frequently to the house and its lady could make ample opportunities of seeing and speaking to him she had in s phrase all the craft of fine loving at her fingers ends and the young man being of a readily heart was quick to notice the tenderness in her eyes and voice he could not at first believe in his good fortune having no understanding of her weariness of more artificial men but a time comes when the sees in an eye the glance of his other half � and it came to him who was quite the reverse of dull as he gained confidence accidental led to by design till at length when they were alone together there was no reserve on the matter they the op whispered tender words as other lovers do and were as devoted a pair as ever was seen but not a ray or symptom of this attachment was allowed to show itself to the outer world now as she became less and less scrupulous towards him under the influence of her affection and he became more and more under the influence of his and they looked the situation in the face together their condition seemed intolerable in its that she could ever ask to be allowed to marry him or could hold her tongue and quietly him was equally beyond conception they resolved upon a third course possessing neither of the of these two � to wed secretly and live on in outward appearance the same as before in this they differed from the lovers of my friend s story not a soul in the parental mansion guessed when lady came coolly into the hall one day after a visit to her aunt that during that visit her lover and herself had found an opportunity of themselves till death should part them yet such was the fact the young woman who rode fine horses and drove in pony and was saluted by every one and the young man who about and directed the tree and the laying out of fish in the park were husband and wife as they had planned so they acted to the letter for the space of a month and more meeting when and where they best could a op noble do so both being happy and content to be sure towards the latter part of that month when the first wild warmth of her love had gone off the lady sometimes wondered within herself how she who might have chosen a peer of the realm knight � or if serious minded a bishop or judge of the more gallant sort who prefer young wives � could have brought herself to do a thing so rash as to make this marriage particularly when in their private meetings she perceived that though her young husband was full of ideas and fairly well read they had not a single social experience in common it was his custom to visit her after nightfall in her own house when he could find no opportunity for an interview elsewhere and to further this course she would contrive to leave a window on the ground floor overlooking the lawn by entering which a back staircase was accessible so that he could climb up to her apartments and gain audience of his lady when the house was still one dark midnight when he had not been able to see her during the day he made use of this secret method as he had done many times before and when they had remained in company about an hour he declared that it was time for him to descend he would have stayed longer but that the interview had been a somewhat painful one what she had said to him that night had much excited

of the language and of chivalry even the word lord is the style that is used in any language to a the superior education and manners recommend them to the country the got what he could and held it for his eldest son the noble who was the nor � did likewise there was this advantage of western over oriental nobility that this was from below english history is aristocracy with the doors open who has courage and faculty let him come in of course the terms of admission to this are hard and high the selfishness comes in aid of the interest of the nation to require signal merit and war gave place to trade politics and letters the war lord to the law lord the law lord to the merchant and the mill owner but the privilege was kept whilst the means of obtaining it were changed the foundations of these families lie deep in exploits by sea and saxon on land ail nobility in its was somebody s natural superiority the things these english have done were not done without peril of life nor without wisdom and conduct and the first hands it may be presumed were often to show their right to their honours or yield them to better men he that will be a head let him be a bridge said the chief when he carried all his men over the river on his back he shall have the book said the mother of alfred who can read it and alfred won it by that title and i make no doubt that was no but baron knight and tenant had their memories refreshed in regard to the service by which they held their lands de and were not to contemplation the middle age adorned itself with proofs of manhood and devotion of earl of the emperor told henry v that no christian king had such another knight for wisdom ture and manhood and caused him to be named father of our success in france says the historian lived and died with him the war lord earned his honours and no of land was large as long as it brought the duty of protecting it hour by hour against a terrible enemy in france and in england the were down to a late day born and bred to war and the which in peace still held them to the risks of war diminished the envy that in trading and nations would else have into their title they were looked on as men who played high for a great stake great estates are not if they are to be kept great a economy is the fuel of magnificence in the same line of the successor next but one to was the stout earl of henry vi and edward iv few esteemed themselves in the mode whose heads were not adorned with the black ragged staff his at his house in london six oxen were daily eaten at a breakfast and every tavern was full of his meat and who had any acquaintance in his family should have as much boiled and roast as he could carry on a long dagger the new age brings new qualities into request the virtues of gave way to those of merchants and scholars social talent and fine manners no doubt have had their part also i have met somewhere with a which whether more or less true in its particulars carries a general truth how came the duke of by his great landed estates his having travelled on the continent a lively pleasant man became the companion of a foreign prince wrecked on the coast where mr lived the prince recommended him to henry viii who liking his company gave him a large share of the church lands the pretence is that the noble is of unbroken descent from the and has never worked for eight hundred � fuller s ii p years but the fact is otherwise where is where is de the lawyer the farmer the silk lies under the and to the to say nothing especially skilful lawyers s sons who did some piece of work at a nice moment for government and were rewarded with the national tastes of the english do not lead them to the life of the but to secure the comfort and independence of their homes the aristocracy are marked by their for country life they are called the county families they have often no residence in london and only go thither a short time during the season to see the opera but they the love and labour of many on the building planting and of their some of them are too old and too proud to wear titles or as said of disdain to hide their head in a and some curious examples are to show the of english families their proverb is that fifty miles from london a family will last a hundred years at a hundred miles t vo hundred years and so on but i doubt that steam the enemy of time as well as of space will disturb these ancient rules sir henry says of the first of he was bom at in where his ancestors had chiefly continued about the space of four hundred years rather without obscurity than with any great lustre says that in lord afterwards of told him that when the year should arrive he meant to give a grand festival to all the descendants of the body of of to mark the day when the should have remained three hundred years in their house since its creation by iii tells us in writing of an earl oxford in that the honour had now remained in that name and blood six hundred years this long descent of families and this through ages to the same spot of ground the � p tion it has too a with tho names of the towns and districts

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trace ihe fortunes of the great river and how much more comes to mind as the national park we overlook this wonderful wilderness i fountains of the and lie before with those of the and and fine it would be to go with them to the pacific but the sun is already in the west and soon our day will be done yonder is mountain and other mountains hardly less rich in old forests which now seem to spring up again in their glory and you see the storms that buried them � the ashes and torrents laden with and mud the centuries of sunshine and the dark lurid nights you see again the vast floods of red hot and white out from the of lakes and streams absorbing or driving away their hissing screaming waters flowing around hills and every subordinate feature then you see the snow and taking possession of the land making new how admirable it is that after passing through so many of frost and fire and flood the and even the complexion of the landscape should still be so fine i thus the past we see nature working with enthusiasm like a man blowing her a blacksmith blowing his fires over the our national and like a farmer and gardener doing rough work and fine work planting and pines and working in gems filling every crack and hollow with them fine painting plants and shells clouds mountains all the earth and heavens like an artist � ever working toward higher and higher where may the mind find more a thousand wonders are calling look up and down and round about you and a multitude of still small voices may be heard directing you to look through all this transient shifting show of things called substantial into the truly substantial spiritual world whose forms flesh and wood rock and water and sunshine only veil and conceal and to learn that here is heaven and the dwelling place of the angels the sun is setting long violet shadows are growing out over the woods from the mountains along the western rim of the park the range is in the divine i of the and its rocks and trees are next to the light of the dawn on high mountain tops the is the most impressive of all the of god now comes the the is fading into gloom but do not let your town habits draw you away to the hotel the national park stay on this good fire mountain and spend the night among the stars watch their glorious bloom until the dawn and get one more of light then with fresh heart go down to your work and whatever your fate under whatever ignorance or knowledge you may afterward chance to suffer you will remember these fine wild views and look back with joy to your wanderings in the blessed old chapter m thb of all the mountain i have i like the the best though extremely rugged with its main features on the scale in height and depth it is nevertheless easy of access and hospitable and its beauty displayed in and forms w � e wanderer on and on higher and higher charmed and enchanted benevolent solemn pervaded with divine every landscape like a countenance in eternal repose and every one of its living creatures clad in flesh and leaves and every crystal of its rocks whether deep in what we call darkness is throbbing and with the of god au the world lies warm in one heart yet the seems to get more light than other mountains the weather is mostly sunshine with magnificent storms and nearly everything shines from base to summit � the rocks streams lakes falls and the forests of silver fir � the national park and silver pine and how bright is the shining after summer showers and nights and after frosty nights in spring and autumn when the morning are pouring through the on the bushes and grass and in winter through the snow laden trees i the average for the whole year is perhaps less than ten scarcely a day of all the summer is dark though there is no lack of magnificent thundering they rise in the warm midday hours mostly over the middle region in june a d like new higher the grandeur of the scenery while giving rain to the forests and gardens and bringing forth their fragrance the wonderful weather and beauty inspire everybody to be up and doing every summer day is a to be confidently counted on the short of rain forming not but rests the big blessed storm days of winter when the whole range stands white are not a whit less inspiring and kind well may the be called the range of light not the snowy range for only in winter is it white while the year it is bright of this glorious range the national park is a central section thirty six miles in length and forty eight miles in breadth the valley lies in the heart of it and it the head waters of the our national and rivers two of the most streams in the world innumerable lakes and and smooth the noblest forests the granite the deepest ice the brightest and snowy mountains soaring into the twelve and thirteen thousand feet arrayed in open ranks and groups partially separated by tremendous and gardens on their sunny brows thundering down their long white slopes roaring gray and foaming in the crooked rugged and in their shadowy recesses working in silence slowly their new bom lakes at their feet blue and green free or with drifting like miniature as stars nowhere will you see the majestic operations of nature more clearly revealed beside the most gentle and peaceful things nearly all the park is a profound solitude it is full of charming company fuu of god s thoughts a place of peace and safety amid the

i went back to the inn if such a wind could rise i think it was rising the howl and roar the rattling of the doors and windows the in the chimneys the apparent rocking of the very house that sheltered me and the prodigious tumult of the sea were more fearful than in the morning but there was now a great darkness besides and that invested the storm with new terrors real and fanciful i could not eat i could not sit still i could not continue to anything something within me faintly answering to the storm without tossed up the depths of my memory and made a tumult in them yet in all the hurry of my thoughts wild running with the thundering sea � the storm and my uneasiness regarding ham were always in the fore ground my dinner went away almost and i tried to refresh myself with a glass or two of wine in vain i fell into a dull slumber before the e without losing my consciousness either of the uproar out of doors or of the place in which i was both became by a new and horror and when i awoke � or rather when i shook off the that bound me in my chair � my whole frame thrilled with and unintelligible fear i walked to and fro tried to read an old listened to the awful noises looked at faces scenes and figures in the fire at length v i i q of david the steady of the undisturbed clock on tlie wall tormented me to that degree that i resolved to go to bed it was re assuring on such a night to be told that some of the had agreed together to sit up until morning i went to bed exceedingly weary and heavy but on my lying down all such sensations vanished as if by magic and i was broad awake with every sense refined for hours i lay there listening to the wind and water now that i heard shrieks out at sea now that i distinctly heard the firing of signal guns and now the fall of houses in the town i got up several times and looked out but could see nothing except the reflection in the window panes of the faint candle i had left burning and of my own haggard face looking in at me from the black void at length my restlessness attained to such a pitch that i hurried on my clothes and went down stairs in the large kitchen where i dimly saw bacon and ropes of hanging from the beams the were clustered together in various attitudes about a table purposely moved away from the great chimney and brought near the door a pretty girl who had her ears stopped with her apron and her eyes upon the door screamed when i appeared supposing me to be a spirit but the others had more presence of mind and were glad of an addition to their company one man referring to the topic they had been discussing asked me whether i thought the souls of the who had gone down were out in the storm i remained there i dare say two hours once i opened the and looked into the empty street the sand the sea weed and the of foam were driving by and i was obliged to call for assistance before i could shut the gate again and make it fast against the wind there was a dark gloom in my solitary chamber when i at length returned to it but i was tired now and getting into bed again fell � off a tower and down a precipice � into the depths of sleep i have an impression that for a long time though i dreamed of being elsewhere and in a variety of scenes it was always blowing in my dream at length i lost that feeble hold upon reality and was engaged with two dear friends but who they were i don t know at the siege of some town in a roar of the thunder of the cannon was so loud and incessant that i could not hear something i much desired to hear until i made a great exertion and aw it was broad day � eight or nine o clock the storm raging in of the and some one knocking and calling at my door what is the matter i cried a wreck close by i sprung out of bed and asked what wreck a from spain or laden with fruit and wine make haste sir if you want to see her it s thought down on the beach she go to pieces every moment the excited voice went along the staircase and i in my clothes as quickly as i could and ran into the street numbers of people were there before me all running in one direction o o the personal and experience to the i ran the same way a good many and soon came facing the wild sea the wind might by this time have a little though not more sensibly than if the i had dreamed of had been diminished by the of half a dozen guns out of hundreds but the sea having upon it the additional agitation of the whole night was infinitely more terrific than when i had seen it last every appearance it had then presented bore the expression of being swelled and the height to which the rose and looking over one another bore one another down and rolled in in interminable hosts was most appalling in the difficulty of hearing anything but wind and waves and in the crowd and the unspeakable confusion and my first breathless efforts to stand against the weather i was so confused that i looked out to sea for the wreck and saw nothing but the foaming heads of the great waves a half

to with a will and before nightfall had half the battery and ready for service to keep the dry we stuffed of loose into the and fitted wooden to the at recess the next noon the met in a comer of the school yard to talk over the proposed lark the original though they would have liked to keep the thing secret were obliged to make a club matter of it inasmuch as were required for there had been no recent drain on the treasury and the society could well afford to spend a few dollars in so notable an undertaking it was agreed that the plan should be carried out in the manner and a to that end was taken on the spot several of the hadn t a cent excepting the one strung around their necks others however were richer i chanced to have a dollar and it went into the cap quicker than lightning when the club in view of my to name the guns s battery i was than i have ever been since over anything the money thus raised added to that already in the treasury to nine dollars � sl fortune in those days but not more than we had men and things use for this sum was divided into twelve parts for it would not do for one boy to buy all the powder nor even for us all to make our purchases at the same place that would excite suspicion at any time particularly at a period so remote from the fourth of july there were only three stores in town to sell powder that gave each store four customers not to run the slightest risk of remark one boy bought his powder on monday the next boy on tuesday and so on until the requisite quantity was in our possession this we put into a and carefully hid in a dry spot on the wharf our next step was to finish cleaning the guns which occupied two for several of the old were in a very state indeed having completed the task we came upon a difficulty to set off the battery by daylight was out of the question it must be done at night it must be done with for no doubt the neighbors would turn out after the first two or three shots and it would not pay to be caught in the vicinity who knew anything about who could arrange it so the guns would go off one after the other with an interval of a minute or so between we knew that a minute lasted a minute double the quantity two minutes but practically we were at a stand still there was but one person who could help us in best funny stories this extremity � sailor ben to me was assigned the duty of obtaining what information i could from the ex it being left to my discretion whether or not to him with secret so one evening i dropped into the cabin and turned the conversation to in general and then to particular but without getting much out of the old boy who was busy making a finally i was forced to the whole plot the admiral had a sailor s love for a joke and entered at once and heartily into our scheme he volunteered to prepare the himself and i left the labor in his hands having bound him by several extraordinary oaths � such as hope i may die and shiver my � not to betray us come what would this was monday evening on wednesday the were ready that night we were to s battery mr saw that something was wrong somewhere for we were restless and absent minded in the classes and the best of us came to grief before the morning was over when mr announced as the subject of our next composition you might have knocked down the mystic twelve with a feather the coincidence was certainly curious but when a man has committed or is about to commit an offence a hundred trifles which would pass unnoticed at another time seem to point at men and things him with fingers no doubt himself received many a start after he had got his wicked of neatly piled up under the house of lords wednesday as i have mentioned was a and the assembled in my bam to decide on the final arrangements these were as simple as could be as the were connected it needed but one person to fire the train arose a discussion as to who was the proper person some argued that i ought to apply the match the battery being after me and the main idea moreover being mine others the claim of as the oldest boy at last we drew lots for the post of honor twelve slips of folded paper upon one of which was written thou art the man were placed in a measure and thoroughly shaken then each member stepped up and lifted out his destiny at a given signal we opened thou art the man said the slip of paper trembling in my fingers the sweets and anxieties of a leader were mine the rest of the afternoon directly after twilight set in stole down to the wharf and fixed the to the guns laying a train of powder from the principal to the fence through a of which i was to drop the match at midnight at ten o clock goes to bed at eleven o clock is as quiet as a i best funny stories try church yard at twelve o clock there is nothing left with which to compare the stillness that over the little in the midst of this stillness i arose and glided out of the house like a phantom bent on an evil errand like a phantom i flitted through the silent street hardly drawing breath until i knelt down beside the fence

nt r i the cook s i had into wolf s state room to put tt to rights and � the bed against the wall near the head of the was a ra ck filled with books i glanced over thorn with astonishment such names as shakes l i re and de there were works too among which were represented men such i and and the sea wolf were represented and i remarked s age of fable s history of english and american literature and johnson s natural history in two large volumes then there were a number of such as s and reed and s and i smiled as i saw a copy of the dean s english i could not reconcile these books with the man from what i had seen of him and i wondered if he could possibly read them but when i came to make the bed i found between the blankets dropped apparently as he had sunk off to sleep a complete the cambridge edition it was open at in a balcony and i noticed here and there passages in pencil further letting drop the volume during a of the ship a sheet of paper fell out it was over with and calculations of some sort it was patent that this terrible man was no ignorant such as one would inevitably suppose him to be from his of at once he became an one side or the other of his nature was perfectly but both sides together were bewildering i bad already remarked that his language was excellent with an occasional slight of course in common speech with the sailors and hunters it sometimes fairly with errors which was due to the itself but in the few words he had held with me it had boon clear and correct this glimpse i had caught of his other side must have me for i resolved to speak to him about the money i had lost i have been robbed i said to him a little later when i found him pacing up and down the alone sir he corrected not harshly but sternly it the sea wolf ire been robbed sir i � r did it he asked i told him whole circumstance how ni m left to dry in the and how later i was by the cook when i mentioned the matter at recital he concluded f � picking s and don t you think your miserable th the price besides consider it a lesson you u i time how to take care of your money for yourself � c up to now your lawyer has done it for you or agent id feel the quiet sneer through his words but d� i how can get it back again it s your vou t any lawyer or ent now so you ll have to depend on yourself get a dollar hang on to it a man who leaves icy lying around the way you did deserves to lose you have you have no right to put ion in the way of your fellow creatures you and he fell you have placed his by the way do you believe in the il soul lifted lazily as he asked the question and it that the were opening to me and that i was into his soul but it was an illusion far as it lave seemed no man has ever seen very far into s soul or seen it at all � of this i am con it was a very lonely soul i was to learn that though at rare moments it played at � ad immortality in your i answered dropping � an experiment for i thought the intimacy of it the sea wolf he took no notice by that i take it you see thing that is alive but that necessarily does not have to live forever i read more than that i continued boldly then you read consciousness you read the consciousness of life that it is alive but still no further away no of life how clearly he thought and how well he expressed what he thought from regarding me curiously he turned his head and glanced out over the leaden sea to a came into his eyes and the lines of his mouth grew severe and harsh he was evidently in a mood then to what end he demanded abruptly turning back to mc hi am immortal � why i halted how could i explain my to this man how could i put into speech a something felt a something like the strains of music heard in sleep a something that convinced yet utterance what do you believe then i i believe that life is a mess he answered promptly it is like a a thing that moves and may move for a minute an hour a year or a hundred years but that in the end will cease to move the big eat the little that they may continue to move the strong cat the weak that they may retain their strength the lucky eat the most and move the longest that is all what do you make of those s he swept his arm in an impatient gesture toward a number of the sailors who were working on some kind of rope stuff they move so the move they move in order to eat in order that they may keep moving p tlie si c yon have it they live for their belly s sake and u for their sake it s a circle you get no � neither do they in the end they come to a they move no more they are dead y have dreams i interrupted radiant flashing � � � of he concluded � and of more � of a larger appetite and more in il hb sounded harsh there was no levity is it � � for look you they dream

for it if you say so i dare say it s correct sir said mr without exhibiting the least confusion and if i did buy it off mr he s a respectable party and ain t likely to have come by it by ic a game of bluff i never said he did what will you take for the thing well just look at the work in it they don t turn out the like o that nowadays dutch that is what they used for to put their milk and such like in damn it said completely losing his temper i know what it was used for will you tell me what you want for it i couldn t let a curiosity like that go a penny under thirty shillings said mr affectionately it would be myself i ll give you a sovereign for it � there said you know best what profit that represents that s my last word my last word to that sir is good said the worthy man good evening then said and walked out of the shop rather to bring mr to terms than because he really meant to abandon the bottle for he dared not go back without it and he had nothing about him just then on which he could raise the extra ten shillings supposing the dealer refused to trust him for the balance � and the time was growing short fortunately the well worn succeeded for mr ran out after him and laid an upon his coat sleeve don t go he said i like to do business if i can though my word by ic the brass bottle and honour a sovereign for a work o art like that well just for luck and bein my birthday we ll call it a deal handed over the coin which left him with a few pence there ought to be a lid or of some sort he said suddenly what have you done with that no sir there you re you are indeed i do assure you you never see a pot of this pattern with a lid to it never oh don t you though said i know better never mind he said as he recollected that the seal was in s possession i ll take it as it is don t trouble to wrap it up i m in rather a hurry it was almost dark when he got back to his rooms where he found the shaking with mingled rage and apprehension no welcome to thee he cried dog that thou art thou delayed another minute i would have called down some calamity upon thee well you need not trouble yourself to do that now returned here s your bottle and you can creep into it as soon as you please but the seal shrieked the what hast thou done with the seal which was upon the bottle why you ve got it yourself of course said in one of your pockets by ic a game of bluff thou of base howled shaking out his flowing how should i have the seal this is but a fresh device of thine to undo me don t talk rubbish retorted you made the professor give it up to you yesterday you must have lost it somewhere or other never mind i ll get a large cork or which will do just as well and i ve lots of wax i will have no seal but the seal of declared the for with no other will there be security verily i believe that that accursed sage thy friend hath contrived by some cunning to get the seal once more into his hands i will go at once to his abode and compel him to restore it i wouldn t said feeling extremely uneasy for it was evidently a much thing to let a out of a bottle than to get him in again he s quite incapable of taking it and if you go out now you ll only make a fuss and attract the attention of the press which i thought you rather wanted to avoid i shall attire myself in the garments of a mortal � even those i assumed on a former occasion said and as he spoke his outer robes into a frock coat thus shall i escape attention wait one moment said what is that in your breast pocket by ic the brass bottle of a truth said the looking relieved but not a little foolish as he extracted the object it is indeed the seal you re in such a hurry to think the worst of everybody you see said now do try to carry away with you into your seclusion a better opinion of human nature to all the people of this age cried re assuming his green robe and for i now put no faith in human beings and would them all were not the lord mayor on whom be peace than i therefore while it is yet time take thou the and swear that after i am in this bottle thou wilt seal it as before and cast it into deep waters where no eye will look upon it more with all the pleasure in the world said only you must keep your part of the bargain first you will kindly all recollection of yourself and the brass bottle from the minds of every human being who has had anything to do with you or it not so objected the for thus thou forget thy compact oh very well leave me out then said not that anything could make me forget you swept his right hand round in a half circle it is accomplished he said all recollection of myself and yonder bottle is now from the memories of every one but by ic a game of bluff but how about my said i can t afford to lose him you know he

mentally consigned this to regions more than tropical and seeming for the time to have lost his power of assuming an interest in the woes of mr fell to his wooden leg as a preparation for departure its performances of that evening having severely tried its constitution after had left the shop hat box in hand and had left mr to lower himself to oblivion point with the requisite weight of tea it greatly on his mind that he had taken this artist into at all he bitterly felt that he had himself in the beginning by grasping at mr s mere of hints now shown to be worthless for his purpose casting about for ways and means of the without loss of money himself for been betrayed into an of his secret and himself beyond measure on his purely accidental good luck he the distance between and the mansion of the golden for felt it to be quite out of the question that he could mutual friend lay his head upon his pillow in peace without first hovering over mr s house in the superior character of its evil power unless it he the power of intellect or virtue has ever the greatest attraction for the lowest natures and the mere defiance of the unconscious house front with his power to strip the roof off the family like the roof of a house of cards was a treat which had a charm for as he hovered on the opposite side of the street the carriage drove up there ll shortly be an end of yo said threatening it with the hat box u tour is fading mrs descended and went in m look out for a fall my lady said lightly descended and ran in after her how brisk we are said you won t run so gaily to your old shabby home my girl have to go there though a little while and the secretary came out i was passed over for you said but you had better provide yourself with another situation young man mr shadow passed upon the blinds of three large windows as he trotted down the room and passed again as he went back cried m you re there are you where s the bottle you would give for my box having now composed his mind for slumber he turned homeward such was the of the fellow that his mind had shot beyond two three and gone straight to of the whole though that wouldn t quite do he considered growing cooler as he got away that s what would happen to him if he didn t buy us up we should set nothing by that we so judge others by ourselves that it had never come into his head before that he might not buy us up and might prove honest and prefer to be poor it caused him a slight tremor as it passed but a very slight one for the idle thought was gone directly m he s grown too fond of money for that said he s grown too fond of money the burden fell into a strain or tune as he along the all the way home he it out of the rattling streets piano with his own foot and with his wooden leg he s too fond of honey for that he s grown too fond of even next day soothed himself with this melodious strain when he was called out of bed at daybreak to set open the yard gate and admit the train of carts and horses that came to carry off the little mound and all day long as he kept watch on the slow process which promised to itself through many days and weeks whenever to save himself from being choked with dust he a little beat he established for the purpose without taking his eyes from the he still to the tune he s grown too fond of money for that he s grown too fond of i t v v i the evil genius of the house of the new york t o and i l mutual friend chapter the end of a long the train of carts and horses came and went all day from dawn to nightfall making little or no daily impression on the heap of ashes though as the days passed on the was seen to be slowly melting my lords and gentlemen and honorable boards when you in the course of your dust and have piled up a mountain of failure you must off with your honorable coats for the removal of it and fall to the work with the power of all the queen s horses and all the queen s men or it will come rushing down and bury us alive yes verily my lords and gentlemen and honorable boards your to the occasion and by god s help so you must for when we have got things to the pass that with an enormous treasure at disposal to relieve the poor the best of the poor cur hide their heads from us and shame us by starving to death in the midst of us it is a pass impossible of prosperity impossible of continuance it may not be so written in the gospel according to you may not find these words for the text of a sermon in the of the board of trade but they have been the truth since the foundations of the universe were laid and they will be the truth until the foundations of the universe are shaken by the this of ours which fails in its terrors for the professional the sturdy of windows and the of clothes strikes with a cruel and a wicked at the stricken sufferer and is a horror to the deserving and unfortunate we must mend it lords and gentlemen and honorable boards or in its own evil hour it will mar every one

wanted so much to see before he went away that went to visit him and fainted when she found herself inside the iron bars in short i had no peace of my life until he was and made as i afterwards heard a shepherd of up the country somewhere i have no idea were all this led me into some serious reflections and presented our mistakes in a new aspect as i could not help communicating to one evening in of my tenderness for her david my love said i it is very painful to me to think that our want of system and management not only ourselves which we have got used to but other people you have been silent for a long time and now you are going te be cross said no my dear indeed let me explain to you what i mean i think i don t want to know said but i want you to know my love put down put his nose to mine and said to drive my seriousness away but not succeeding ordered him into his and sat looking at me with her hands folded and a most resigned little expression of countenance the fact is my dear i began there is in us we about us i might have gone on in this manner if s face had not me that she was wondering with all her might whether i was going to propose any new kind of or other medical remedy for this state of ours therefore i checked myself and made my meaning it is not merely my pet said i that we lose money and comfort and even temper sometimes by not learning to be more careful but that we the serious responsibility of who comes into our service or any dealings with us i begin to be afraid that the fault is not entirely on one side but that these people all turn out ill because we don t turn out well ourselves oh what an accusation exclaimed her wide to say that you ever saw me take gold watches oh my dearest i remonstrated don t talk i nonsense who has made the least allusion to gold watches you did returned you know you did you i hadn t turned out well and compared me to him to whom i asked to the page sobbed oh you cruel fellow to compare your affectionate wife to a transported page why didn t you tell me your opinion of me before we were married why didn t you say you hard hearted thing that you were convinced i was worse david than a transported page oh what a dreadful opinion to have of me oh my goodness now my love i returned gently trying to remove the handkerchief she pressed to her eyes this is not only very ridiculous of you but very wrong in the first place it s not true you always said he was a story sobbed and now you say the same of me oh what shall i do what shall i do my darling girl i retorted i really must entreat you to be reasonable and listen to what i did say and do say my dear unless we learn to do our duty to those whom we employ they will never learn to do their duty to us i am afraid we present opportunities to people to do wrong that never ought to be presented even if we were as as we are in all our arrangements by choice � which we are not � even if we it and found it agreeable to be so � which we don t � i am persuaded we should have no right to go on in this way we are positively people we are bound to think of that i can t help thinking of it it is a reflection i am unable to dismiss and it sometimes makes me very uneasy there dear that s all come now don t be foolish would not allow me for a long time to remove the handkerchief she sat sobbing and murmuring behind it that if i was uneasy why had i ever been married why hadn t i said even the day before we went to church that i knew i should be uneasy and i would rather not if i couldn t bear her why didn t i send her away to her aunt s at or to mills in india would be glad to see her and would not call her a transported page had never called her anything of the sort in short was so afflicted and so afflicted me by being in that condition that i felt it was of no use repeating this kind of though never so mildly and i must take some other course what other course was left to take to form her mind this � was a common phrase of words which had a fair and promising sound and i resolved to form s mind i began immediately when was very childish and i would infinitely have preferred to humour her i tried to l e g david and disconcerted her and myself too t talked to her on the subjects which occupied my thoughts and i read to her � and fatigued her to the last degree i accustomed myself to giving her as it were quite casually little scraps of useful information or sound opinion � and she started from them when i let them off as if they had been no matter how incidentally or naturally i endeavoured to form my little wife s mind i could not help seeing that she always had an instinctive perception of what i was about and became a prey to the keenest apprehensions in particular it was clear to me that she thought a terrible fellow the formation went on very slowly i pressed into the

been here it has come into my mind � where the heroine says something like that said ah you know it but i do not believe that my mother would wish me not to my best friends she would bo grateful to them here had turned to mrs and with a sudden lighting up of her whole countenance said oh if we ever do meet and know each other as we are now so that i could tell what would comfort her i should be full of my soul would know no want but to love bless you t said mrs the words escaping involuntarily from heart but to relieve the strain of feeling she looked at and said it is curious that who remembers her so well it is as if she saw her can not recall her brother the least except the feeling of having been carried by him when she was tired and of his being near her when she was in her mother s lap it must be that he was rarely at home he was already grown up it is a pity her brother should be quite a stranger to her he is good i fed sure is good said eagerly he loved my mother � he would take care of her i remember more of him than that i remember my mother s voice once calling v and then his answering from the distance mother f � had changed her voice a little in each of these words and had given them a loving � and then he came close to us i feel sure he is good i have always taken comfort from that it was impossible to answer this either with agreement or doubt mrs and exchanged a quick glance about this brother she felt as as he did but went on absorbed in her memories is it not wonderful how i remember the voices better than any thing else i think they must go deeper into us than other things i have often fancied heaven might be made of voices like your singing � yes said who had hitherto kept a modest silence and now spoke as was her wont in tbe presence of prince ma do ask to sing mr has not heard her would it be disagreeable to you to sing now t said with a more gentleness than he had ever been conscious of before shall like it my voice has come back a little with rest perhaps her ease of manner was due to something more than tlie simplicity of her nature the circumstances of her life bad made her think of every thing she did as work demanded � i nd wit to tho worn tbat to got tha of fa under the firm of her m where he her while end the took eveiy ee ee if had hen to it b good to a in whom bodily ae om with the ae the bodily of of e that we find b the her with her from her but yet there which had y their way bad the of it hanging to the of the in each ae renew theme ee aft their after bathed into like that of then tee the perfect her eat in a shell by some happy there a darkness for the eye and delicate nostrils defined enough to be ready for sensitive movements the finished ear the curves of uie and neck entering into the expression of a refinement which was not she sung s per non with a subdued but searching which had that of perfect the making one of art or manner and only possessing one with the song it was the of voice that gives the impression of being like a bird a for an audience near and beloved began by looking at her but felt himself presently covering his eyes with his hand wanting to the melody in darkness then he refrained from what might seem and was ready to meet the look of mute which she turned toward him at the end i think i never enjoyed a song more than that he add gratefully you like my singing i am so glad she add with a smile of delight it has been a great pain to me it failed in what it was wanted for but now we think i can use it to get my bread i have really been taught and now i have two pupils that miss found for me they pay me nearly two crowns for their two lessons i think i know some ladies who would find you many pupils after christmas said you would not mind singing before any one who wished to hear you f oh no i want to do something to get money i could reading and speaking mrs thinks but if no one would learn of me that is difficult smiled with a touch of merriment he had not seen in her before i dare say i should find her poor � i mean my mother i should want to get money for her and i can not always on charity though � here she turned so as to take all three of her companions in one glance � it is the sweetest charity in all the world i should think you can get rich said smiling ladies will perhaps like you to teach their daughters we shall see � but now do sing again to us she went on willingly singing with ready memory various things by and then when she had left the said oh if you would not mind singing the little hymn it is too childish said it is like what is the hymn f said it is the hebrew she remembers her mother singing over her when she lay in her cot said mrs i should like veiy much to hear it said if you think i am worthy

the day was long the night was short the bed was hard and cold still weary are the little ones still weary are the old out of the depths ft we are weary in our from our mother s toil we are bom to weariness as some to gold we will not rise we will not work i nothing the day can give is half so sweet as an hour of sleep better to sleep than live what power can stir these heavy limbs what hope these dull hearts swell what fear more cold what pain more sharp than the life we know so well � � � the slow step that never goes astray � the rustle in the � the shadow in the way � the straining flight � the long pursuit � the steady gain behind � death wearied man and brute and the struggle wild and blind there s a hot breath at the and a tearing as of teeth well do i know the eyes and the dripping jaws beneath there s a at the threshold � there s a scratching at the floor � to work to work in heaven s name the wolf is at the door os the cry for justice by robert old english poet to mortal man great loads allotted be but of all no pack like poverty by charles one of the early french writers author of a theory of social co operation which is still known by his name the present social order is a ridiculous in which portions of the whole are in conflict and acting against the whole we see each class in society desire from interest the misfortune of the other classes placing in every way individual interest in opposition to public good the lawyer wishes and suits particularly among the rich the physician desires sickness the latter would be ruined if everybody died without disease as would the former if all quarrels were settled by the soldier wants a war which will carry off half his comrades and him promotion the wants and want famine to double or the price of grain the the carpenter the want that will bum down a houses to give activity to their branches of business o by english and poet ur our upper class our middle class our lower class out of the depths s by a in which the russian has the spiritual agonies of his race in this scene a poor school teacher voices his despair tl drank his tea at one draught thrust the � � glass on the placed his feet on the edge of the chair and clasping his knees in his hands rested his chin upon them in this pose small sized and as rubber he began the student my former teacher who is now a doctor of medicine a player and a mean fellow all used to tell me whenever i knew my lesson well you re a fine fellow you are an able boy we plain and poor people coming from the of life we must study and study in order to come to the front ahead of everybody russia is in need of wise and honest people try to be such and you will be master of your fate and a useful member of society on us rest the best hopes of the country we are destined to bring into it light truth and so on i believed him the brute and since then about twenty years have elapsed we have grown up but have neither appropriated any wisdom nor brought light into life as before russia is suffering from its disease � a of while we the take pleasure in filling their dense s face wrinkled into a bitter and he began to laugh noiselessly with his lips only i and many others with me we have robbed ourselves for the s the cry for justice sake of saving up something for life desiring to make myself a valuable man i have my individuality in every way possible in order to study and not die of starvation i have for six years in succession taught how to read and write and had to bear a mass of at the hands of various and who me without any earning my bread and tea i could not i had not the time to earn my shoes and i had to turn to charitable institutions with humble for on the strength of my poverty if the could only reckon up how much of the spirit they kill in man while the life of his body if they only knew that each they give for bread contains ninety nine worth of poison for the soul if they could only burst from excess of their kindness and pride which they draw from their holy activity there is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive tl n he who gives even as there is no one so miserable as he who them lit of from the farther adventures of robinson by daniel english and many times imprisoned for upon the authorities t saw the world round me one part laboring for � � � bread and the other part in vile excess pr empty pleasures equally miserable because the end they proposed still fled from them for the man of out of the depths g every day of his vice and heaped up work for sorrow and repentance and the man of labor spent his strength in daily struggling for bread to maintain the vital strength he labored with so living in a daily circulation of sorrow living but to work and working but to live as if daily bread were the only end of a wearisome life and a wearisome life the only occasion of daily bread from a man s world by pen name of arthur american and after all what good were these settlement workers again and again this question

mad i have read of the authorities having imported a london policeman to teach paris police the art of traffic but if so the instruction has been wasted this night was a of and people a paris guide one of the tribe that the morbid stranger through scenes that are evil and that i know from observation to be utterly vain approached us in the des with the suggestion that he be allowed to conduct us through a realm of filthy sights some of which he i could give a list of them if i thought any human organization would ever print them or that any individual would ever care to read them � which i don t i have indicated before that is essentially clean minded he is really interested in the art of the and the spectacle which their a at forty and to a certain extent artistic lives present but no one in this world ever saw more clearly through the shallow make believe of this realm than he does he contents himself with admiring the art and the tragedy and the pathos of it this world of women interests him as a phase of the struggle for existence and for the artistic which it sometimes to him the vast majority of these women in paris were artistic � whatever one might say for their morals their honesty their and the other qualities which they possess or lack and whatever they were life made them so � conditions over which their and wills had little or no control he is an man � one of the most i have ever known and kindly in his manner and intention nevertheless he has an innate horror of the purely physical when it to there is much of that in paris and these guides it but it is especially arranged for the stranger i fancy the average knows nothing about it and if he does he has a profound contempt for it so has the well stranger but there is always an audience for this sort of thing so when this guide approached us with the proposition to show us a selected line of vice took him in hand stop a moment now he said with his high hat on the back of his head his fur coat open and his eye fixing the intruder with an inquiring gaze tell me one thing � have you a mother the small jew who was the industrious for this particular type of ware looked his astonishment they are used to all sorts of set backs � these particular guides � for they encounter all sorts of people if � three guides severely moral and the reverse and i fancy on occasion they would be soundly if it were not for the police who stand in with them and receive a for their protection they certainly learn to understand something of the type of man who will listen to their proposition for i have never seen them more than ignored and i have frequently seen them talked to in an off hand way though i was pleased to note that their customers were few this particular little jew had a up expression on his face and did not care to answer the question at first but resumed his announcement of his various delights and the price it would all cost wait wait wait insisted answer my question have you a mother what has that got to do with it asked the guide of course i have a mother where is she demanded she s at home replied the guide with an air of mingled astonishment irritation and a desire not to lose a customer does she know that you are out here on the streets of paris doing what you are doing to night he continued with a very noble air the man swore imder his breath answer me persisted still fixing him solemnly through his does she why no of course she doesn t replied the jew would you want her to know this in tones no i don t think so have you a sister yes a at forty would you want her to know i don t know replied the guide she might know anyhow tell me truly if she did not know would you want her to know the poor looked as if he had got into some silly inexplicable mess from which he would be glad to free himself but he did not to have sense enough to walk briskly away and leave us perhaps he did not care to admit defeat so easily no i suppose not replied the vainly there you have it exclaimed triumphantly you have a mother � you would not want her to know you have a sister � you would not want her to know and yet you me here on the street to see things which i do not want to see or know think of your poor gray headed mother he exclaimed and with a mock air of shame and sorrow once no doubt you prayed at her knee an boy yourself the man looked at him in dull suspicion no doubt if she saw you here to night selling your manhood for a small sum of money to the lowest and most vicious elements in life she would weep bitter tears and your sister � don t you think now you had better give up this evil life don t you think you had better accept any sort of position and earn an honest living rather than do what you are doing well i don t know said the man this living is as good as any other living i ve worked hard to get my knowledge good god do you call this knowledge inquired solemnly yes i do replied the man i ve worked hard to get it three guides my poor friend replied i pity you from

horrible a confusion of guilt too gross n of evil for human nature not in a state of utter to be capable of i yet her judgment told her it bo ha unsettled affections wavering with his vanity t attachment and no sufficient principle on side gave it s ity miss s letter stamped it a fact wliat would be the consequence whom it not views might it not ct whose peace would it not cut miss herself but it was dangerous perhaps to tread such ground she confined or tried to herself to the simple family misery all if it were indeed a matter of guilt and public exposure the mother s the father s there � h they f were the two on whom it� the most sir thomas solicitude b sense of honour and decorum s upright � u temper an genuine strength of it scarcely possible air them to support life and a ra disgrace and it appeared to her that as far as was concerned the greatest blessing to one of mrs ha or tho next to brought no c or to explain away the from though to hear � la � mother not e� w x w� a over o d bring e and s letter vas again pat her bands it tht i and ra � bum on tin jo � hb m � � ton of oi stale then ft na end let upon lu you will tee me early b never liad more a cordial never ihe m i u this letter to w leave month td woe she felt she was ia the of while as many were the evil brought such good to lest to be insensible of it to be going ao soon sent so sent for aa a and with leave to take wai a of a ber ui a w and for a time to every make ber of the di a even of die she thought of moat s could comparatively but little she was amazed and bnt it could net ber could rot dwelt ou her she obliged to call to of it and it to ik terrible and grievous or it was escaping her ia tbe of the joyful cares this summons to there is nothing like employment for borrow employment even may and her occupations were hopeful had ao much to do that not even the story ot mrs now fixed to tbe point of certainty could ber as it bad done liad not time to be miserable within twenty was hoping to be gone ber and be spoken to i everything got ready � followed the day waa hardly long enough t waa too very little rf the black communication which must briefly it � the consent of her father and mother to s the with which the of and the of herself w � � of tbe little felt io j ice of poor b n th to hold s spoiled them � � now in the wish ol r of those or of those who were � if she could help ix to sad it w much ui ought to be ff l at fourteen aa noticing wm left for the of mrs price o good of everything was and and the girls w� e for tbe mil to prepare them tor their the who was could agitated � one all tho other by eight in the morning was in the tlie ha above and went down the idea of him the knowledge of what he must ik brought back all her ami lie lo near lier and in misery site was ready to sink as tbe entered tin he was alone and met h� r instantly and pressed to bis heart with only my my only my od y comfort now nor for minutes he away to recover and he spoke his voice still faltered his showed the wish of and the of avoiding farther ba e you when shall you ho ready go were following each other rapidly great al was to be off as soon as when time was precious and the state of his own mind him find only in it was settled that be order the carriage to the door in on hour fill their having ood being quite in ee already eaten and declined staying for a he would walk round tlie and join them ho was gone again glad to get away even he very ill evidently saving under violent e he was determined to she knew it it terrible ta her b come and he entered the house ag the si moment in time to spend a few minutes with tbe family and be a witness � but that be saw nothing � of tbe manner in the daughters were with and just in time to prevent their sitting down to the breakfast table which by dint ot much unusual activity quite and completely ready a the drove from the door s last meal in her father s wm in with her she was d v f i as she had been heart swelled with joy and gratitude as she pi and how s wore its be easily sitting forwards bon her those em was y to be � oa � a had a � i� � n h h n of mm into and attempts � could never be long watched him never and i catching his eye revived an which her but the first s journey without her hi � word from on the that were next morning a little mare just before tiie out firom oxford while stationed at a wind jt observation of the departure of a large from ti the other two were � and � h the io s looks and from bis of the daily of her i house an undue of tbe change is to the event took and said in a low

me he seemed hurt and walked away in silence to the foot of the stairs where he paused you do not understand me said he i am not a j and i guard myself that is all it may weary you or not mr i do not care a rush i f speak for my own satisfaction and not for your amuse j ment you had better go upstairs and court the girl f for my part i stay here j and i stay with you i returned do you think j i would steal a march even with your permission frank he said smiling it s a pity you are an the pa vi li on on the links ass for you have the of a man i think i must he to day you cannot me even when you try do you know he continued softly i think we are the two most miserable men in england you and i we have got on to thirty without wife or child or so much as a shop to look after � poor pitiful lost devils both and now we clash about a girl as if there were not several millions in the united kingdom ah frank frank the one who loses his throw be it you or me he has my pity it were better for him � how does the bible say � that a were hanged about his neck and he were cast into the depth of the sea let us take a drink he concluded suddenly but without any levity of tone i was touched by his words and consented he sat down on the table in the dining room and held up the glass of to his eye if you beat me frank he said i shall take to drink what will you do if it goes the other way god knows i returned well said he here is a toast in the meantime the remainder of the day was passed in the same dreadful and suspense i laid the table for dinner while north and prepared the meal together in the kitchen i could hear their talk as i went to and fro and was surprised to find it ran all the time upon myself again us together and rallied on a choice of husbands but he continued to speak of me with some feeling and uttered nothing to my prejudice unless he included himself in the condemnation this awakened a sense of gratitude in my heart which combined with the of our peril to fill my eyes with tears after all i thought � and perhaps the thought was vain � we were here three very noble human beings to perish in of a banker before we sat down to table i looked forth from an upstairs window the day was beginning to decline nights the links were utterly deserted the despatch box still lay untouched where we had left it hours before mr in a long yellow dressing gown took one end of the table the other while and i faced each other from the sides the lamp was brightly trimmed the wine was good the although mostly cold excellent of their sort we seemed to have agreed all reference to the impending catastrophe was carefully avoided and considering our tragic circumstances we made a party than could have been expected from time to time it is true or i would rise from the table and make a round of the and on each of these occasions mr was recalled to a sense of his tragic glanced up with ghastly eyes and bore for an instant on his countenance the stamp of terror but he hastened to empty his glass wiped his forehead with his handkerchief and joined again in the conversation i was astonished at the wit and information he displayed mr s was certainly no ordinary character he had read and observed for himself his gifts were sound and though i could never have learned to love the man i began to understand his success in business and the great respect in which he had been held before his failure he had above all the talent of society and though i never heard him speak but on this one and most occasion i set him down among the most brilliant i ever met he was relating with great and seemingly no feeling of shame the of a commission merchant whom he had known and studied in his youth and we were all listening with an odd mixture of mirth and embarrassment when our little party was brought abruptly to an end in the most startling manner a noise like that of a wet finger on the window pane interrupted mr s tale and in an instant the pa on the links we were all four as white as paper and sat tongue tied and motionless round the table a i said at last for i had heard that these animals make a noise somewhat similar in character be d� d said hush the same sound was repeated twice at regular intervals and then a formidable voice shouted through the shutters the italian word t mr threw his head in the air his eyelids quivered next moment he fell insensible below the table and i had each run to the and seized a gun was on her feet with her hand at her throat so we stood waiting for we thought the hour of attack was certainly come but second passed after second and all but the surf remained silent in the neighborhood of the quick said upstairs with him before they come chapter viii tells the last of the tall man somehow or other by hook and and between the three of us we got upstairs and laid upon the bed in my uncle s room during the whole process which was rough enough he gave no sign of consciousness

be over dramatic and stiu less that it should be what is known as but it does mean that it shall be agreeable intelligent and sympathetic the teacher must both understand and feel the work and must be trained to convey both comprehension and emotion through the voice the pupils will from a first reading get chiefly the plot but they may also be unconsciously prepared for the more important knowledge of character which is naturally the next step in the process of studying the drama as preparation for the first reading of little is needed in the way of general e the discussion of the supernatural element of the responsibility of the characters and of the central thought of the play may safely be left for later study young people will respond to tb direct story and it is not unwise to let the plot produce its full effect as simple narrative it is well to state beforehand how it comes that the does not necessarily go by immediate descent and so to make it evident how secured the throne it may be well also to comment briefly on the state of society in which crime was more possible than now beyond this the play may he left to tell its own tale in this first reading the teacher will do well to indicate such points of stage setting as are not talks on teaching literature and such stage as is to tlie understanding of the scene it is as well however not to give too much stress to this to follow the play of emotions is with children instinctive and this they will do without dwelling on the details of the scene too closely in a material sense at least a very little aid will be sufficient at this stage in a subsequent reading these matters may be more fully brought out although i am that even then it is easy to the upon to what may be done and should not be omitted is the in passing of comments so brief that they do not interrupt yet which throw light upon which might otherwise be likely to pass unnoticed nothing should be touched upon in this way which is so complicated as to require more than a word or two to make it plain what i mean is illustrated by these examples i calls � i the voice in reading the idea that the speak to familiar spirits in the air but it is well to state that fact what can the devil � hi thinks instantly of the word of the and of etc � hi in these lines and in it is of so much importance that the distinction between the the study of and the direct speech be appreciated that it may be well to call to the changes a word i pray yon � iii draws the others aside probably to tell them of the by the of the news they have brought and this gives a moment by himself to think of the strangeness of it think upon what chanced � iii this ia said of course to we will establish our estate upon oar eldest son iv here the conditions of succession already spoken of may be alluded to and the fact noted that if bad entertained any hopes of succeeding these were now and when goes � v the sinister suggestion of this may well be by calling attention to it bj your leave hostess � vi with these words who taken the hand of lady turns to lead her in vi once the play been read as a whole the way has been for more careful attention to details for each the parts should be assigned beforehand for reading three or four pupils being assigned to each part so that in a long scene opportunity is given for bringing a number talks on teaching literature of the to feet it is well to prepare for this second reading by selecting the cent motive of the play and having the cl ass dis it in the case of it is easy to select am as the main d in some plays a single passion or emotion is not so easily detached but it is generally needful to remember that if children are to be impressed and are to see things clearly they must be dealt with simply so that even at the expense of for the time being some of the it is well to keep to the principle of one and holding to it with until the work is tolerably familiar the children should be made to say � not to write for of ideas is of the greatest importance here � what they understand how far they have noticed it in others and perhaps how far felt it themselves a wise teacher should have little difficulty in making such a talk personal enough to enforce the idea without letting it become too intimate it can be brought out that the test of ambition is the extent of the sacrifices one is willing to make to gratify it the ambition already spoken of to in class to be at the head of the school nine or team i to be with friends and so on for the common ambitious of life may seem trifling but it belongs to the language of the child s life here and there the teacher finds pupils who might seize the would have a except oil feet tee study of conception of ambition without starting so near the but most need it i am unable to see how any can be hurt by it it is much more difficult to get a conception vividly into the minds of twenty pupils together than it ia to impress the same thing upon a hundred separately and i should never feel that i could afford to neglect the means which might be serviceable the talk moreover does

many were driven in once fed the poor brutes were willing enough to follow the carts and a few days good food such as beings died for lack of � set them in milk again but i am no said it is against my my honour when we cross the bias river again we will talk of scott replied till that day thou and the shall be to the camp if i give the order thus then it is done if the will have it so and he showed how a goat should be while scott stood over him now we will feed them said scott twice a day we will feed them and he bowed his back to the and took a horrible when you have to keep connection unbroken between a restless mother of and a baby who is at the point of death you suffer in all your system but the babies were fed each morning and evening scott would solemnly lift them out one by one from their nest of bags under the cart there were always many who could do no more than breathe and william the conqueror the milk was dropped into their mouths drop by drop with due i when they choked each morning too the were fed and since they would without a leader and since the natives were scott was forced to give up riding and pace slowly at the head of his flocks his step to their weaknesses all this was sufficiently absurd and he felt the absurdity keenly but at least he was saving life and when the women saw that their children did not die they made shift to eat a little of the strange and crawled after the carts blessing the master of the give the women something to live for said scott to himself as he in the dust of a hundred little feet and they hang on somehow this beats william s milk trick all to pieces i shall never live it down though he reached his destination very slowly found that a rice ship had come in from and that stores of were available found also an englishman in charge of the shed and the carts set back to cover the ground he had already passed he left some of the children and half his at the famine shed for this he was not thanked by the who had already more stray babies than he knew what to do with scott s back was to stooping now and he went on with his in addition to the more babies and more were added unto him but now some of the babies wore rags and beads round their wrists or necks a said the william the conqueror as though scott did not know that their mothers hope in to resume them the sooner the better said scott but at the same time he marked with the pride of how this or that little was putting on flesh like a as the carts were emptied he headed for s camp by the railway his arrival to fit in with the dinner hour for it was long since he had eaten at a cloth he had no to make any dramatic entry but an accident of the sunset ordered it that when he had taken off his to get the evening breeze the low light should fall across his forehead and he could not see what was before him while one waiting at the tent door beheld with new eyes a young man beautiful as paris a god in a of golden dust walking slowly at the head of his flocks while at his knee ran small naked but she william in a slate coloured laughed till scott putting the best face he could upon the matter halted his armies and bade her admire the it was an sight but the had been left ages ago with the tea party at station fifteen hundred miles to the north they are coming on nicely said william we ve only and twenty here now the women are beginning to take them away again are you in charge of the babies then mrs jim and i we did n t think of though we ve been trying milk and water william the conqueror any losses more than i care to think of said william with a shudder and you scott said nothing there had been many along his one cannot bum a dead baby � many mothers who had wept when they did not find again the children they had trusted to the care of the government then came out carrying a at which scott looked for he had a beard that he did not love and when they sat down to dinner in the tent he told his tale in few words as it might have been an official report mrs jim from time to time and jim bowed his head but william s grey eyes were on the clean shaven face and it was to her that scott seemed to appeal good for the said william her chin on her hand as she leaned forward among the her cheeks had fallen in and the on her forehead was more prominent than ever but the neck rose as a column from the of the which was the accepted evening dress in camp it was awfully absurd at times said scott you see i did n t know much about or babies they my head off if the tale goes up north let em said william we ve all done work since we came i know jack has this was to s address and the big man smiled your brother s a highly efficient officer william william the conqueror said he and i ve done him the honour of treating him as he deserves i write the confidential reports then you must say that william s worth her weight in

while her parted lips also seemed to whisper some tale of hope sure and immortal at length she rose and came into my chamber thou me fallen and dost grieve for me she said in a gentle voice knowing my lest some such fate should overtake my lord ay i grieve for thee as for myself spare then thy pity since although the human part of me would have kept him on the earth now my spirit doth rejoice that for a while he has burst his mortal bonds for many an age although i knew it not in my proud of the universal law i have against his true and mine thrice have i and angel strength with strength and thrice has he conquered me yet as he bore away his prize this night he whispered wisdom in my ear this was his message that in death is love s home in death its strength that from the house of life this love springs again and pure to reign a conqueror for therefore i wipe away my tears and once more a of peace i to join him whom we hare lost there where be us as it is granted to me that i do but am selfish and forgot thou friend i bid thee sleep id i slept wondering as ray eyes closed whence strange confidence and comfort i know hut it was there real and not assumed i can only therefore that some illumination bad fallen on her soul and that as she stated the love and end of in a way unknown did suffice to satisfy her court of sins at the least those sins and all the load of death that lay at her door never seemed to trouble her at all she appeared to look upon them merely as events which were destined to occur as inevitable fruits of a seed long ago by the hand of fate for whose workings she was not responsible the fears and considerations which weigh with mortals did not or her in this as in other matters was a unto herself v i awoke it was day and through the saw the rain that the people of had so long desired falling in one straight sheet i saw also that seated by the form of was giving orders to her priests and captains and to some � survived the slaughter of as to the new of the land then i slept again it was evening and stood at my bedside all is prepared she said awake and ride with so we went escorted by a thousand cavalry for the rest stayed to occupy or perchance to plunder the land of in front the body of was borne by of priests and behind it rode the veiled i at her side the passing of strange was the contrast between this departure our arrival then the rushing the elements that tlie perpetual of seen through the swinging curtains of the hail the voices of despair from an army rolled in blood beneath the chariot wheels of thunder now the white draped corpse the slow pacing horses the with their reversed and oo side seen in that melancholy moonlight the women of ing their innumerable dead and herself yesterday a with tlie star of flame to day but a woman following her husband to the tomb yet how they feared her some widow standing the grave mould she had dug pointed as we passed to the body of uttering bitter words which i could not catch her companions flung themselves upon her and her with fist and themselves upon the ground throwing dust on their hair in token of their submission to the of death saw them and said to me with something of her ancient fire and pride � i tread the plain of no more j et as a parting gift have i read this high people a lesson that they needed long not for many a generation o will they dare to lift spear against the college of and its subject tribes again it was night and where once lay that of the the man whom he had killed by the burning pillars the of stood in the inmost before the statue of the mother whose gentle eyes seemed to search his quiet face on her throne sat the veiled giving commands to her priests and i am weary she said and it may be that i j you for a while to rest � be the mountains a or a years � i cannot say if so let as her and husband and their seed hold my place till i return a n priests ant of the college of over new have i held my hand take them as an from me and rule them well and gently henceforth let the of the mountain be also tlie of in priests and of our ancient faith learn to look through its rites and tokens outward and visible to the in forming spirit if the goddess never ruled on earth still pitying nature rules if the name of never rang through the courts of heaven still in heaven with all love fulfilled nursing her human children on her breast dwells the mighty where of this statue is the symbol tliat which bore us and faithful will receive us at the end � for of the bread of bitterness we shall not always eat of the water of tears we shall not always drink beyond the night the royal ride on ever the rainbow shines around the rain though they slip from our clutching hands like melted snow the lives we lose shall yet be found immortal and from the burnt out fires of our human hopes will spring a heavenly star she paused and waved her hand as though to dismiss them then added by an after thought pointing to this man is my beloved friend and guest let

a south sea common consent we assembled in the deck house which had windows looking in all directions and sat there for five hours very few words were spoken and very little fear was felt we understood by that if our crazy engines failed at any moment to keep the ship s head to the sea her destruction would not occupy an hour it was all palpable there was nothing which the most experienced seaman could explain to the merest we hoped for the best and there was no use in speaking about the worst nor indeed was speech possible unless a human voice could have the in this deck house the and were hardly audible or rather were overpowered by a sound which in thirteen months experience of the sea in all i have never heard and hope never to hear again unless in a ship one loud awful shriek mingled with a prolonged hiss no gathering strength no languid fainting into momentary but one protracted gigantic scream and this was not the whistle of wind through but the actual sound of air travelling with tremendous with it minute of water nor was the sea running mountains high for the kept it down indeed during those fierce hours no sea was visible for the whole surface was caught up and carried furiously into the air like snow drift on the there was profound quiet on deck the little life wliich existed being concentrated near tlie bow where the captain was either lashed to the or in shelter in the pilot house never a soul appeared on deck the force letter i of the being such that for four hours any man would have been carried off his feet through the swift strange evening our hopes rested on the engine and amidst the uproar and din and drifting spray and of pitiless seas there was a sublime repose in the spectacle of the huge walking beams alternately rising and falling slowly calmly regularly as if the were on a holiday trip within the golden gate at eight in the evening we could hear each other speak and a little later through the great masses of hissing drift we discerned black water at nine captain appeared smoking a cigar with and told us that the had nearly the compass and had been the most severe he had known for seventeen years this grand old man nearly the oldest captain in the pacific won our respect and confidence from the first and his quiet and handling of this old ship is beyond all praise when the strain of apprehension was we became aware that we had not had anything to eat since breakfast a clean sweep having been made not only of the lunch but of all the glass in the above it but all to the were insufficient to procure even and at eleven we retired to bed amidst a confusion of awful sounds and were deprived of lights as well as food when we asked for food or light and made weak appeals on the ground of the one steward who seemed to about for the sole purpose of making himself disagreeable always replied you can t get anything the are on duty the we were not accustomed to recognize that had any other duty than that of feeding the passengers but under the circumstances we meekly we were allowed to know that a part of the had been carried way and that iron four inches had been and twisted like sticks and e constant falling of the saloon of the main t showed something wrong there a heavy beard at intervals by day and night aroused some suspicions as to more serious damage and these were afterwards confirmed as the wind fell the sea rose and for some hours realized every description i have read of the and magnitude of the of the south i the day after the something went wi with q engines and we were stationary for an hour we all thankful that this which would have or sacrificed sixty lives was then only a on a summer sea ive days out fi om we entered the a temperature of � in the water and � in the but as the light head airs blew the intense heat of om smoke aft we often endured a e of ho there were quiet heavy tropical showers and a g misty and the islands with their rainbow tinted coral forests their fi of p and groves of and trees those s of the bright south seas resolved themselves into dark through a mist but the showers and the were confined to that letter i region and for the last fortnight an tropical sun has blazed upon our crawling ship the are giving way at the rate of from ten to twenty daily the in the shaft is extending and so partially the old ship her feet of length along the captain is continually in the engine room and we know when things are looking more than usual by his coming up puffing his cigar with unusual strength of determination it has been so far a very pleasant voyage the moral mental and social qualities f my fellow passengers are of a high order and since the we have been rather like a family circle than a miscellaneous accidental group for some time om days went by in reading aloud working draughts and conversation with two hours at in the afternoon for exercise but four days ago the only son of mrs who is the only lady on board besides myself a blood vessel on the lungs and lies in a most critical state in the deck house from which he has not been moved requiring most careful nursing incessant and the attention of two persons by day and night mrs d had previously won the regard of and i had learned to look on her as a friend

sister and that however a general resemblance of disposition between the parties might forward the affection of mr an equally striking opposition of character was no to the regard of colonel she saw it with concern for what could a silent man of five and thirty hope when opposed by a very lively one of five and twenty and as she could not even wish him successful she heartily wished him indifferent she liked him � in spite of his gravity and reserve she beheld in him an object of interest his manners though serious were mild and his reserve appeared rather the result of some oppression of spirits than of any natural of temper sir john had dropped hints of past injuries and disappointments which justified her belief of his being an unfortunate man and she regarded him with respect and compassion perhaps she pitied and esteemed him the more because he was by and who prejudiced against him for being neither lively nor young seemed resolved to his merits is just the kind of man said one day when they were talking of him together whom everybody speaks well of and nobody cares i d sense and sensibility about whom all are delighted to see and nobody remembers to talk to that is what i think of him do not boast of it however said for it is injustice in both of you he is highly esteemed by all the family at the park and i never see him myself without taking pains to converse with him that he is by you replied is certainly in his favour but as for the esteem of the others it is a reproach in itself who would submit to the of being approved by such women as lady and mrs that could command the indifference of anybody else but perhaps the abuse of such people as yourself and will make amends for the regard of lady and her mother if their praise is censure your censure may be praise for they are not more than you arc prejudiced and unjust in defence of your you can even be my as you call him is a sensible man and sense will always have attractions for me yes even in a man between thirty and forty he has seen a great deal of the world has been abroad has read and has a thinking mind i have found him capable of giving me much information on various subjects and he has always answered my inquiries with the readiness of good breeding and that is to say cried contemptuously he has told you that in the east indies the climate is hot and the are troublesome he would have told me so i doubt not had i made any such inquiries but they happened to be points on which i had been previously informed sense and sensibility perhaps said his observations may have extended to the existence of gold and i may venture to say that his observations have stretched much than your but why should you dislike him i do not dislike him i consider him on the contrary as a very respectable man who has everybody s good word and nobody s notice who has more money than he can spend more time than he knows how to employ and two new coats every year add to which cried that he has neither genius taste nor that his understanding has no brilliancy his feelings no and his voice no expression you decide on his so much in the mass replied and so much on the strength of your own imagination that the am able to give of him is comparatively cold and i can only pronounce him to be a sensible man well bred well informed of gentle address and i believe possessing an amiable heart miss cried you arc now using me you are endeavouring to me by reason and to convince me against my will but it will not do you shall find me as stubborn as you can be artful i have three reasons for colonel he has threatened me with rain when i wanted it to be fine he has found fault with the hanging of my and i cannot persuade him to buy my brown mare if it will be any satisfaction to you however to be told that i believe his character to be in other respects i am ready to confess it and in return for an acknowledgment which must give me some pain you cannot deny me the privilege of him as much as ever s� and sensibility little had mrs dash wood or her daughters imagined when they came first into that so many engagements would arise to occupy their time as presented themselves or that they should have such frequent invitations and such constant visitors as to leave them little leisure for serious employment yet such was the case when was recovered the schemes of amusements at home and abroad which sir john had been previously forming were put in execution the private balls at the park then began and parties on the water were made and accomplished as often as a october would allow in every meeting of the kind was included and the ease and familiarity which naturally attended these were calculated to give increasing intimacy to his acquaintance with the to afford him opportunity of witnessing the of of marking his animated admiration of her and of receiving in her behaviour to himself the most pointed assurance of her affection could not be surprised at their attachment she only wished that it were less openly shown and once or twice did venture to suggest the propriety of some self command to but all concealment where no real disgrace could attend and to aim at the restraint of sentiments which were not in themselves appeared to her not merely an unnecessary effort but a disgraceful of reason to common place

once observed a darkly threatening action of the younger woman s hand obviously having reference to some one of whom they spoke and a feeble imitation of it on the part of mrs brown that made him earnestly hope he might not be the subject of their discourse with the present consolation that they were gone and with the comfort that mrs brown could not live for ever and was not likely to live long to trouble him the not s and son otherwise his than as they were attended with such disagreeable consequences composed his ruffled features to a more serene expression by thinking of the admirable manner in which he had disposed of captain a reflection that seldom failed to put him in a flow of spirits and went to the counting house to receive his master s orders there his master so subtle and of eye that rob before him more than half expecting to be with mrs brown gave him the usual morning s box of papers for mr and a note for mrs merely nodding his head as an to be careful and to use � a mysterious in the s imagination with dismal and threats and more powerful with him than any words alone again in his own room mr applied himself to work and worked all day he saw many visitors overlooked a number of documents went in and out to and from sundry places of resort and indulged in no more abstraction until the day s business was done but when the usual of papers from his table was made at last he fell into his thoughtful mood once more he was standing in his accustomed place and attitude with his eyes intently fixed upon the ground when his brother entered to bring back some letters that had been taken out in the course of the day he put them quietly on the table and was going immediately when mr the manager whose eyes had rested on him on his as if they had all this time had him for the subject of their contemplation instead of the said well john and what brings you here his brother pointed to the letters and was again withdrawing i wonder said the manager that you can come and go without inquiring how our master is we had word this morning in the counting house that mr was doing well replied his brother you are such a meek fellow said the manager with a smile � but you have grown so in the course of years � that and son ft if any come to him you d be miserable i dare swear now i should be truly sorry james returned the other he would be sorry said the manager pointing at him as if there were some other person present to whom he was appealing he would be truly sorry this brother of mine this junior of the place this piece of lumber pushed aside with his face to the wall like a rotten picture and left so for heaven knows how many years ae s all gratitude and respect and devotion too he would have me believe i would have you believe nothing james returned the other be as just to me as you would to any other man below you you ask a question and i answer it and have you nothing said the manager with unusual to complain of in him no proud treatment to resent no insolence no of state no of any sort what the devil are you man or mouse it would be strange if any two persons could be together for so many years especially as superior and inferior without each having something to complain of in the other � as he thought at all events replied john but apart from my history his history here exclaimed the manager why there it is the very fact that makes him an extreme case puts him out of the whole chapter well apart from that which as you hint gives me a reason to be thankful that i alone happily for all the rest possess surely there is no one in the house who would not say and feel at least as much you do not think that anybody here would be indifferent to a or misfortune happening to the head of the house or anything than truly sorry for it you have good reason to be bound to him too said the manager contemptuously why don t you believe that you are kept here as a cheap example and a famous instance of the of and son to the credit of the illustrious house no replied his brother mildly � i have long believed that i am kept here for more kind and disinterested reasons � and son but you were going said the manager with the of a tiger cat to some christian i observed nay james returned the other though the tie of brother hood between us has been long broken and thrown away who broke it good sir said the manager i by my i do not charge it upon you if the manager replied with that mute action of his mouth oh you don t charge it upon me and bade him go on i say though there is not that tie between us do not i entreat me with or what i say or would say i was only going to suggest to you that it would be a mistake to suppose that it is only you who have been selected here above all others for advancement confidence and distinction selected in the beginning i know for your great ability and and who communicate more freely with mr than any one and stand it may be said on equal terms with him and have been favored and enriched by him � that it would be a mistake to suppose that it is only

eyes immediately after the of the national assembly in formed a under the open and protection of great britain with the exception of himself this did not contain a single member suitable to the place he occupied who ik j the condition and prospects of greece was named minister of foreign affairs though a man of the most private character had been unfortunately involved in political differences with sir which had prevented holding any intercourse during the meeting of the the british minister having publicly proclaimed as a from the cause of the constitution one consequence of the bad composition of this was the immediate of a numerous body of from the english party the administration of only four months � from the th of april to the of august � and in that short space of time the english ty contrived to away the last relics of their political the favorable state of public opinion when commenced his cabinet is stated by sir in a despatch to the earl of in tho following words thus my lord the great political change commenced on the loth of september has been con almost without for the who lost his life fell by accident and entirely without interruption of commerce or communication by sea or land not a vessel or a has been stopped the taxes have been collected and paid into the treasury and the have their ordinary se such was the state of greece in the month of april before the month of august the country was involved in civil war � was in arms against and the capital was on the eve of this is to be attributed to the manner in which and his selected their officials and to his open to foreign influence the very soon drove both the country and tho court into the po and himself became an object of suspicion to the people and of aversion to the king the of a man who had served in the t armies as governor of and of � a bold but captain who had been both a rebel and a of a district admits neither of nor apology f at the general officer � document will he found in the � to tht in s p t sir the officer of � b to tm loan s p mn the condition and of greece tho garrison of the capital was put forward as the candidate for the house of representatives in direct of an article of the constitution just completed and at the imminent risk of producing a bloody collision between a and an at the minister of justice endeavoured to force the inhabitants to elect him as their by means of tho a letter of his ordering the to make use of military violence to secure liis election fell into the hands of the opposition and was md before the king and communicated to the press the peal of indignation it created the of s from the moment of its formation this cabinet had been an object of aversion to king on of its intimate connection with sir it was from a knowledge of tliis aversion as well as from an opinion of its utter that refused to take office such in vain m the french ed his influence to support and e the appearance of between the french and english parties the attempt was and the moment perceived that the english party had its reputation he stepped forward as its opponent at the head of a large majority of the supported by the court by the strangers dismissed from office by and by the or citizens by birth it is not o� ir intention to the administration of it belongs to the domain of party politics not to history and the truth is concealed in the most contradictory statements that his has l een on the whole in greece cannot be reasonably doubted but in our opinion it has on the too much on the and principles of count to receive from us any testimony in its favor the british press however tliat greece entirely by force and corruption common sense that the thing is impossible the whole population of greece is armed universal and tho vote by exist now must be a man if witli an of five thousand men he can tho dispersed and population of the greek kingdom and if with a net of little more than ten millions of he can bribe a majority of the population if can really witli their no i g j the condition and prospects of greece own troops ami bribe own money lie is evidently the very man the protecting powers want to save them trouble and t ought to make much of liim tlie fact ia administration derived some popularity from tlie made in the amount of by tlie late house of representatives though really without any merit on his part for like most he have prevented tlie had it been in his power the long duration of s has given a victory to french which excited the of lord to such a degree that he has commenced hostile operations against the greek state for to a state of things so anti taking advantage of the separate given by each of the for a third of the loan imposed on greece by the treaty the the british foreign secretary has greece to pay the interest due to great britain on the third by her in vain have france and russia declined a step of such severity and pointed out that if the should be adopted simultaneously by all the three protecting powers it would cause the dissolution of the and them to enter into ne s for the settlement of greece the english turning a deaf to arguments has adopted the resolution of acting and greece has already commenced pacing to great britain tlie interest of a sum of money of which the

and he loves to make out he s a little lamb but he s stubborn as a mule oh if you had to live with him � you d find out how sweet he is he just to be so he can have his own way and me i get the credit for being a terrible old but if i didn t blow up once in a while and get something started we d die of dry rot he never wants to go any place and � why last evening just because the car was out of order � and that was his fault too because he ought to have taken it to the service station and had the battery looked at � and he didn t want to go down to the on the but we went and then there was one of those impudent and paul wouldn t do a thing i was standing on the platform waiting for the people to let me into the car and this beast this conductor at me come on you move why i ve never had anybody speak to me that way in all my life i was so astonished i just turned to him and i thought there must be some mistake and so i said to him perfectly pleasant were you speaking to me and he went on and at me yes i was you re keeping the whole car from starting he said and then i saw he was one of these dirty ill bred that kindness is wasted on and so i stopped and looked right at him and i said i � beg � your � pardon i am not doing anything of the kind i said it s the people ahead of me who won t move up i said and let me tell you young man tbat you te a low foul i said and you re no gentleman i certainly intend to report you and well see i said whether a lady is to be insulted by drunken bum that chooses to put on a ragged uniform and thank you i said to keep your filthy abuse to yourself and then i waited for paul to show he was half a man and come to my and he just stood there and pretended he hadn t heard a word and so i said to him well i said � oh cut it cut it i paul groaned we all know i m a and re a tender bud and let s let it go at that let it go s face was wrinkled like the her voice was a dagger of brass she was full of the joy of and bad temper she was a and like every she in the opportunity to be vicious in the name of virtue let it go if people knew how many things i ve let go � oh quit being such a bully yes a fine figure you d cut if i didn t bully you you d lie till noon and play your fiddle till midnight you re bom lazy and you re born and you re bom cowardly paul � oh now don t say that you don t mean a word of it protested mrs i will say that and i mean every single last word of oh now the idea mrs was maternal and she was no older than but she seemed so � at first she was placid and and mature where at forty five was so and tight that you knew only that she was older than she looked the idea of talking to poor paul like that poor paul is right we d both be poor we d be in the if i didn t him up why now and i were just saying how hard been working all year and we were thinking it would be if the boys could run off by i ve been george to go iq to ahead of the rest of us and get the tired out of his system before we come and i it would be lovely if paul could manage to get away and join him at this exposure of his plot to escape paid was startled out of he his fingers hb hands you re you can let george go and not have to watch him fat old never at another woman hasn t got the i the hell i haven t i was fervently defending his when paul interrupted him � and paid looked dangerous he rose quickly he said gently to i suppose you in ly i have a lot of yes idol well then my dear since you ask for it � there h isn t a time in the last ten years when i haven t found some nice little girl to comfort me and as long as you continue your i shall probably continue to deceive you it hard you re so stupid she howled words could not be distinguished in her of abuse then the bland george f was transformed if paul was dangerous if was a snake locked fury if the neat emotions suitable to the arms had been into raw it was who was the most formidable he leaped up he seemed very large he seized s shoulder the of the were from his face and his voice was cruel i ve had enough of all this damn nonsense i i ve known you for twenty five years and i never knew you to miss a chance to take your disappointments out on paul you re not wicked you re worse you re a fool and let me tell you that is the finest boy god ever made every decent person is sick and tired of your taking advantage of being a woman and springing every mean you can think of who the hell are you that a person like paul

the very last say the day before the other day when i showed you our papers in the prison yard or say that very day nobody but ourselves would have been cruelly disappointed or a penny the worse who had been almost incessantly shaking hands with him throughout the narrative was reminded by this to say in an amazement which even the preparation he had had for the main disclosure scarcely smoothed down my dear mr this must have cost you a great sum of money pretty well sir said the triumphant no trifle though we did it as cheap as it could be done and the was a difficulty let me tell you a difficulty repeated but the difficulties you have so wonderfully conquered in the whole business shaking his hand again i ll tell you how i did it said the delighted putting his hair into a condition as elevated as himself first i spent all i had of my own that wasn t much i am sorry for it said not that it matters now though then what did you do then answered i borrowed a sum of my proprietor of mr said he s a fine old fellow noble old boy an the said mr entering on a series of the of generous old buck confiding old boy old buck benevolent old boy twenty per cent i engaged to pay him sir but we never do business for less at our shop arthur felt an awkward consciousness of having in his condition been a little premature i said to that � boiling over old christian mr pursued little appearing greatly to relish this descriptive epithet that i had got a little project on hand a hopeful one i told him a hopeful one which wanted a certain small capital i proposed to him to lend me the money on my note which he did at twenty sticking the twenty on in a business like way and putting it into the note to look like a part of the principal if i had broken down after that i should have been his for the next seven years at half wages and double grind but he s a perfect and it would do a man good to serve him on such terms � on any terms arthur for his life could not have said with confidence whether really thought so or not when that was gone sir resumed and it did go though i it out like so much blood i had taken mr into the secret i proposed to borrow of mr or of miss it s the same thing she made a little money by a speculation in the common once he lent it at ten and thought that pretty high but mr s a red haired man sir and gets his hair cut and as to the crown of his hat it s high and as to the brim of his hat it s narrow and there s no more benevolence out of him than out of a your own for all this mr said ought to be a large one i don t getting it sir said i have made no bargain i owed you one on that score now i have paid it money out of pocket made good time fairly allowed for and mr s bill settled a thousand pounds would be a fortune to me that matter i place in your hands i you now to break all this to the family in any way you think best miss will be with mrs this morning the sooner done the better can t be done too soon this conversation took place in s bedroom while he was yet in bed for mr had knocked up the house and made his way in very early in the morning and without once sitting down or standing still had delivered himself of the whole of his details illustrated with a variety of documents at the bedside he now said he would go and look up mr from whom his excited state of mind appeared to require another back and up his papers and exchanging one more hearty shake of the hand with he went at full speed down stairs and off of course resolved to go direct to mr s he dressed and got out so quickly that he found himself at the corner of the street nearly an hour before her time but he was not sorry to have the opportunity of himself with a leisurely walk when he returned to the street and had knocked at the bright brass he was informed that she had come and was shown up stairs to s breakfast room little was not there herself but was and the greatest amazement at seeing him good gracious arthur � and cried that lady who would have ever thought of seeing such a sight as this and little pray excuse a for upon my word i really never and a faded check too which is worse but our little friend is making me a not that i need mind mentioning it to you for you must know that there are such things a skirt and having arranged that a trying on should take place after breakfast is the reason though i wish not so badly i ought to make an apology said arthur for so early and abrupt a visit but you will excuse it when i tell you the cause in times for ever fled arthur returned mrs pray excuse me and infinitely more correct and though unquestionably distant still tis distance enchantment to the view at least i don t mean that and if i did i suppose it would depend considerably on the nature of the view but i m running on again and you put it all out of my head she glanced at him tenderly and resumed in times for ever fled i was going

what did he see come with me to the of the before � see a sunny haired young fellow on his men see him struck by a cannon ball from his saddle while his followers him beneath their feet as they rush onward to victory see how amid a storm of shot and shell a man rushes forward and lifting that yet warm body up bears it away to a place of safety where he tears aside the scarlet coat only to find that the heart beneath is still � the heart that holds the lost clue to s death silent with closed unconscious of bravery so young that his mother in heaven could not have forgotten his likeness yet the soldier lay � beaten in the fight but with a gleam of victory shining his wide opened blue eyes and shattered features that to one who loved him might have seemed more nobly beautiful than the glance that had been his in life yet as enemy rather than friend mr that lifeless body and gently laid it down he and the man before him had been comrades sworn to one cause and it had been no part of mr s scheme that either should die before it was won no pity for that gallant fate stirred him � no memory of how he had loved his friend and stolen his from him softened his heart only a bleak and a bitter rage filled his soul that after three long years of pursuit in which he had wasted the whole forces of his brain and body he had at last come up with the pursued to find him � dead he should have been shot through the heart as a not buried as a hero mr thought as he folded his cloak across frank and left him alone in the rude hut while he himself went to search for those proofs of the young fellow s identity that he must take with him to when he bore the body home for burial he carried his life in his hand that night but as if he had been s self no harm touched him and day was breaking when he found frank s colonel � dying � but able to recognise mr as an old friend and to answer his questions about frank lord level had joined quite recently and seemed to court death he had confided to him a few days previously a packet of papers that he desired might be sent to mr if he fell these papers were on the dying man s body at that moment and as mr drew them from above his heart a fierce throb of hope animated him for here perhaps frank though dead spoke to him the truth as he tore them open the dying man suddenly cried out has anyone seen take care there s no mistake � their own mothers couldn t tell � then died with the unfinished sentence on his lips a withered bunch of flowers a faded ribbon � � � a pale photograph of a girl s face made out of sunshine half a dozen letters written in childish characters and signed your little sweetheart one or two notes of which the ink was and tone with the name of added to that of � these and no more not a word to his friend � not a syllable to call back the awful burden he had laid upon him and as later mr stood looking down upon that clay he could have it with his foot in when the rude coffin had been made ready mr and his dead set out for home his mind a sullen blank that last stage of the impotent rebellion against god that had for three years consumed him i b as he landed with his burden on a bleak night there occurred to him a strange illusion pure and sweet like the far off singing of a bird in a solemn aisle suddenly rang in his ears the hues of an old ballad which had often sung but to which he had never when will you be back lord said when will you be back said she in a year or or three at the most ay it was her voice and she reproached him with frank s death which indeed lay at his door for had not frank meant to return and was not his own pursuit of him the cause of that reckless throwing of himself into the jaws of death ay verily his friend s death lay at his account as did those other ones whose he bore always about his path and ways a weight to sink him to the remotest depths of hell jt yet when the sound ceased mr was himself again and busied with a scheme that he at once proceeded to put into effect in frank s name he to news of his own death that would immediately communicate the news to so that he would probably find the two women together on his arrival no matter i h t hidden clue frank had held in his soul mr knew to be guilty and it was with the determination to her yet that he had approached his house that night expecting to find her within it and on his very threshold he had been met by this sordid of the tragedy a mere clue to which had made him a wanderer on the face of the earth for three e a u l long years a clue that had made him put even aside as one to be dealt with later and now if or were guilty � if � but what waste of time to when by that hour of the following day the man would be in the hands of justice and his confession or his evidence taken down frank himself for a yet mr s stubborn soul rose

job to job because of his weakness his skill if not by that of younger men it was said that he could drink more and stand it better than any other man in why he can t begin to work unless he s had three or four drinks to him up harry once said to me he has to have six or seven more to get through till evening he did not say how many were required to carry him on until midnight but i fancy he must have consumed at least a half dozen more he was in a constant state of semi which was often concealed during my second month on the was made city editor in place of who had gone to a better paper later he was made managing editor i learned from that he was well known in newspaper circles for his wit his pen and that once he had been considered the most brilliant newspaper editor in st louis he had a small spare intellectual wife very homely and very who still adored him and had suffered ood knows what to be permitted to live with him the first afternoon i saw him sitting in the city chair i was very much afraid of him and of my future he looked and uncouth and had told me that new usually brought in new men as it turned out however much to my astonishment he took an almost im a book about myself fancy to me which into a kind of affection and even if yon will permit me humbly to state a fact a kind of adoration indeed he swelled my head by the genial and hearty manner in which almost at once he took me his guidance and my career as rapidly as he could the while he borrowed as much of my small salary as he could please do not think that i this then or that i do now i owe him more than a dozen such borrowed over a period of years could ever repay my one grief is that i had so little to give him in return for the very great deal he did for me the incident from which this burst of friendship seemed to take its rise was this one day shortly after he arrived he gave me a small concerning a girl on the south side who had run away or had been from one of the homes it has ever been my lot to see the girl was a hardy irish creature of about sixteen a neighborhood street boy had taken her to some wretched in south street and her her mother an old irish catholic woman whom i found bending over a when i called was greatly exercised as to what had become of her daughter of whom she had heard nothing since her the police had been and from picked up by a i learned the facts first mentioned the mother wept into her wash as she told me of the death of her husband a few years before of a boy who had been injured in such a way that he could not work and now this girl her last hope from a newspaper point of view there was nothing much to the story but i decided to follow it to the end i found the house to which the boy had taken the girl but they had just left i found the parents of the youth simple plain working people who knew nothing of his whereabouts something about the wretched little homes of both families the the poverty and which would ill become a pretty girl impelled me to write it out as i saw and felt it i hurried back to the office that afternoon and out a kind of romance which a book about myself in the course of the night seemed to take the office by storm who read it at first then said it was interesting and then fine he at one point as he read you re letting your youthful romantic mood get the best of you i see this will never do bead my boy read the city editor picked it up when he returned intending i presume to see if there was any sign of interest in the general introduction finding something in it to hold him he read on carefully to the end as i could see for i was not a dozen feet away and could see what he was reading when he finished he looked over at me and then called me to come to him i want to say to you he said that you have just done a fine piece of writing i don t go much on this kind of story don t believe in it as a rule for a daily paper but the way you have handled this is fine you re young yet and if you just keep yourself well in hand you have a future thereafter he became very friendly asked me out one lunch time to have a drink borrowed a dollar and told me of some of the charms and wonders of work in st louis and elsewhere he thought the was too small a paper for me that i ought to get on a larger one in another city and suggested how valuable would be a period of work on the st louis of which he had once been city editor you haven t any idea how much you need all this he said you re young and inexperienced and a great paper like the or the new york sun starts a boy off right i would like to see you go first to st louis and then to new york don t settle down anywhere yet don t drink and don t get married whatever you do a wife will be a big to you you have a future

sleep with which our little life is rounded may have such dreams this letter not only filled its with sad thoughts on mary s account but on that of the writer she was moved to go down to and comfort � so far as it lay in her power to do that unhappy pair it also increased in her the yearning she had long entertained to that dear old town by the sea where she had first looked real happiness in the face perhaps in the summer if matters went as well with her as they promised to do this would be possible how delightful it would be to exchange the heat and dust and noise of the town for the fresh breezes of quiet how charmed aunt jane would be with it dreadful as mary s loss must for the present appear to her she would have a far happier hfe with mrs than she had ever had at home if only was spared to them � a momentous if indeed for as to any complete hope of recovery that seemed farther off from the poor lad than ever sat down and wrote a long letter of to mary full of genuine love and sympathy but not with the complete she would have wished she respected mrs s character and intensely pitied her but her heart had never been attracted to her as it had been towards her daughter she had been one of those women who live and suffer for their own only the of whose sympathy cling to what is immediately near them b k is i beyond it nevertheless mis i wc � � t s the heir of the ages because of her she felt very for society and much regretted that mrs and herself had promised to accompany mr and his sister to the opera that evening but a box had been placed at his disposal a circumstance which did not often occur and she knew that her absence would greatly disappoint him how often it happens that we attend scenes of gaiety from reasons altogether with their attractions though our presence is always taken as a sign of there is a certain eloquent divine of the english church against whom it is cast up to this day that he used to play cards at college on a sunday the statement is true but so far as it an accusation false grave even in his he all games and from them but one of his friends fell ill and to ease his pain would often play at on week days he had plenty of companions to play with him but on sundays he found it to find one whereupon the divine volunteered to be his an act of self sacrifice that has cost him more than he was aware of at the time or that being a man of sense he had thought possible but which nevertheless he has never regretted if the eye of observation the rows of a crowded theatre it is not difficult to discover those who have come to be amused from that large who have no such object in view but who find themselves there from force of circumstances there are as grave faces to be found in boxes as in unmoved by what is going on upon the stage they are in some drama of real life which is being within them and only when with silence as the curtain falls do they become conscious of their surroundings it was in this frame of mind that found herself seated by mr that evening at the opera he addressed her more than once but it was with difficulty that she compelled her attention to what he said her rarely sought the stage but wandered over the house the comparative monotony of which allowed her thoughts more freedom the loud notes of the singers reached her ears but penetrated no further the of her brain were closed to them her thoughts were now in the chamber of death at hall now upon the windy downs it looked upon and now on the summit of battle hill with the far marsh and endless sea i i� t s b j only a change a small portion of her life had been spent yet its chief events had lain there her greatest happiness had come to her there and also her greatest misery the shock of it she knew had changed the whole course of her existence and the remembrance of it still filled her with pain and shame she was now on the of alone the wild waste of water cold and grey around her a few were in the evening sky and uttering at intervals a wild and cry when suddenly the scene vanished with the of a view and she became aware of two black spots � an opera glass was being at her from the opposite box she gazed mechanically at its inmates one was a thin man still young but with all the premature signs of age so terrible was the alteration his mode of life had wrought in him since she had seen him last that she would perhaps have failed to recognise him as mr but for his companion who held the glass and was pointing it at her still with insolent it was impossible to mistake for any other man chapter critics the vision which miss dart had seen in the would not under ordinary circumstances perhaps have much disturbed her it was not as if she still nourished a single sentimental regret in connection with he had power only to disgust not to wound her but as it happened the meeting had taken place when she was nervous and and though she contrived to conceal its occurrence from her friends it seriously affected her the knowledge that this man was in london and might possibly be again brought face to face with her

the influence of his early reading but rather that he has attained success and whatever of true nobility there is in him in spite of such influence this was not always so the experience of a few well known scholars will illustrate from my infancy says i was passionately fond of reading and all the money that came into my hands was laid out in the of books i was very fond of voyages my first acquisition was s works in separate little volumes i afterwards sold them to enable me to buy r s historical they were small s books and cheap forty volumes in all my father s little library consisted chiefly of books in divinity most of which i read i have often regretted that at a time when i books for children to read had such a thirst for knowledge more proper books had not fallen in my way since it was resolved i should not be bred to divinity there was among them s lives which i read abundantly and i still think the time spent to great advantage there was also a book of s called an essay on projects and another of dr s called an essay to do good which perhaps gave me a turn of thinking that had an influence on some of the principal future events of my life this inclination at length determined my father to make me a i stood out some time but at last was persuaded and signed the when i was yet but twelve years old i now had access to better books an ce with the of enabled me sometimes to borrow a small one which i was careful to return soon and clean often i sat up in my chamber the greatest part of the when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned in the mornings lest it should be the book lover found missing about this time i met with an odd volume of the spectator i had never before seen any of i bought it read it over and over and was much delighted with it i thought the writing excellent and wished if possible to imitate it with that view i took some of the papers and making short hints of the sentiments in each sentence laid them by a few days and then without looking at the book tried to complete the papers again by expressing each hinted sentiment at and as fully as it had been expressed before in any suitable words that should occur to me then i compared my spectator with the original discovered some of my faults and corrected them now it was that being on some occasions made ashamed of my ignorance in figures which i had twice failed learning when at school i took s book on and went through the whole by myself with the greatest ease i also read s and s book on which made me books for children to read acquainted with the little it contains but i never proceeded r in that science i read about this time on the human understanding and the art of thinking by messrs de port royal while i was intent on improving my language i met with an english grammar i think it was s having at the end of it two little sketches on the arts of and logic the latter finishing with a dispute in the method and soon after i procured s memorable things of wherein there are many examples of the same method i was charmed with it adopted it dropped my abrupt contradiction and positive and put on the humble miller that most admirable and self made man relates a similar experience during my sixth year i my way through the shorter the and the new testament and then � by sparks the book lover entered upon the highest form in the dame s school as a member of the bible class but all the while the process of learning had been a dark one which i slowly mastered in humble confidence in the awful wisdom of the not knowing whither it tended when at once my mind awoke to the meaning of the most delightful of all � the story of joseph was there ever such a discovery made before i actually found out myself that the art of reading is the art of finding stories in books and from that moment reading became one of the most delightful of my amusements i began by getting into a comer on the dismissal of the school and there over to myself the new found story of joseph nor did one perusal serve � the other scripture stories followed � in especial the story of and the of david and of the and and after these came the new testament stories and assisted by my too i began to collect a library in a box of books for children to read bark about nine inches square which i found quite large enough to contain a great many immortal works jack the giant and jack and the and the yellow dwarf and blue beard and the sailor and beauty and the beast and and the wonderful lamp with several others of resembling character those intolerable the useful knowledge books had not yet arisen like stars on the horizon to the worlds and shed their influence on the opening intellect of the and so from my books � books that made themselves truly such by their thorough with the mind � i passed on without being conscious of break or line of division to books on which the learned are content to write and but which i found to be quite as nice children s books as any of the others old wrote admirably for little folk especially in the a copy of which in the book lover the only true translation � for judging from

very stiffly for as i looked at her pretty face i seemed to see behind it that other face which had looked up to the morning sky on the battle field fancy that she cried what are you then a general a captain no i am a private what not one of the common people who carry guns yes i carry a gun oh that is not nearly so interesting said she and she went back to the sofa from which she had risen it was a wonderful room all silk and velvet and shiny things and i felt inclined to go back to give my boots another rub as sat down again i saw that the end of it i i she was all in black and so i knew that she had heard of de s death i am glad to see that you know all said i for i am a clumsy hand at breaking things he said that you were to keep whatever was in the boxes and that had the keys thank you thank you said she it was like your kindness to bring the message i heard of it nearly a week ago i was mad for the time � quite mad i shall wear mourning all my days although you can see what a fright it makes me look ah i shall never get over it i shall take the veil and die in a if you please madame said a maid looking in the count de wishes to see you my dear said jumping up this is very important i am so sorry to cut our chat short but i am sure that you will come to see me again will you not when i am less desolate and would you mind going out by the side door instead of the main one thank you you dear old you were always such a good boy and did exactly what you were told and that was the last that i was ever to see of cousin she stood in the sunlight with the old challenge in her eyes and flash of her teeth and so i shall always remember her shining and hke a drop of as i joined my comrade in the street below i saw a grand carriage and pair at the door and i knew that she had asked me to slip out so that her grand new friends might never know what common people she had been associated with in her the great childhood she had never asked for jim nor for my father and mother who had been so kind to her well it was just her way and she could no more help it than a rabbit can help its and yet it made me heavy hearted to think of it two months later i heard that she had married this same count de and she died in child bed a year or two later and as for us our work was done for the great shadow had been cleared away from europe and should no longer be thrown across the breadth of the lands over peaceful farms and little villages darkening the lives which should have been so happy i came back to after i had bought my discharge and there when my father died i took over the sheep farm and married dean of and have brought up seven children who are all taller than their father and take mighty good care that he shall not forget it but in the quiet peaceful days that pass now each as like the other as so many scotch i can hardly get the young folks to believe that even here we have had our romance when jim and i went a and the man with the cat s whiskers came up from the sea the end beyond the city chapter i the new comers if you please said the voice of a domestic from somewhere round the angle of the door number three is moving in two little old ladies who were sitting at either side of a table sprang to their feet with of interest and rushed to the window of the sitting room take care dear said one herself in the lace curtain don t let them see us no no we must not give them reason to say that their neighbours are inquisitive but i think that we are safe if we stand like this the open window looked out upon a sloping lawn well trimmed and pleasant with rose bushes and a star shaped bed of sweet william it was bounded by a low wooden fence which it off from a broad modem new road at the other side of this road were three large detached deep with and small wooden each standing beyond the city in its own little square of grass and of flowers all three were equally new but numbers one and two were and with a human look to them while number three with yawning door and garden had apparently only just received its furniture and made itself ready for its occupants a four had driven up to the gate and it was at this that the old ladies peeping out bird like from behind their curtains directed an eager and questioning gaze the had descended and the passengers within were handing out the articles which they desired him to carry up to the house he stood red faced and with his crooked arms outstretched while a male hand from the window kept up upon him a series of articles the sight of which filled the curious old ladies with bewilderment my goodness me cried the smaller the and the more of the pair what do you call that it looks to me like four those are what young men box each other vith said with a conscious air of superior worldly knowledge and those two great bottle shaped

broke down again to bless her that done my em ly good he resumed after such emotion as i could not behold without sharing in and as to my aunt she wept with all her heart that done em ly good and she begun to mend but the language of that country was quite gone from her and she was forced to make signs so she went on getting better from day to day slow but sure and trying to learn the names of common things � names as she seemed never to have in all her life � till one evening come when she was a setting at her window looking at a little girl at play upon the beach and of a sudden this child held out her hand and said would be in english s daughter here s a shell i � for you are to that they used at first to call her pretty lady as the general way in that country is and that she had taught em to call her s daughter instead the child says of a sudden s daughter here s a shell i then her and the personal and experience she answers bursting out a crying and it all comes back when em ly got strong again said mr another short interval of silence she cast about to leave that good young and get to her own country the husband was come home then and the two together put her aboard a small bound to and from that to france she had a little money but it was less than little as they would take for all they done fm a most glad on it though they was poor what they done is laid up neither nor doth corrupt and thieves do not break through nor steal r it ll all the treasure in the em ly got to france and took service to wait on travelling ladies at a inn in the port come one day that snake � let him never come nigh me i t know what hurt i might do him � soon as she see him without him her all her fear and returned upon her and she fed afore the very breath he draw d she come to england and was set ashore at i t know said mr for sure when her art begun to fail her but all the way to england she had to come to her dear home soon as she got to england she turned her face it but fear of not being fear of being at fear of some of us being dead along of her fear of many things turned her from it by force upon the road uncle uncle she says to me the fear of not being worthy to do what my torn and bleeding breast so longed to do was the most fright fear of all i i turned back when my art was full of prayers that i of david crawl to the old in the night kiss it lay wicked face upon it and be found dead in the morning she come said mr dropping his voice to an awe stricken whisper to london she � as had never seen it in her life � alone � without a penny � young � so pretty � come to london a most the mo as she lighted all so desolate she found as she believed a friend a decent woman as spoke to her about the needle work as she had been brought up to do about finding plenty of it fur her about a lodging for the night and making secret concerning of me and all at home to morrow when my child he said aloud and with an energy of gratitude that shook him from head to foot stood upon the brink of more than i can say or think on � to her promise saved her i could not repress a cry of joy r he said my hand in that strong hand of his it was you as first made mention of her to me i sir she was she had know d of her bitter knowledge to watch and what to do she had done it and the lord was above all she come white and hurried upon em ly in her sleep she says to her rise up from worse than death and come with me them belonging to the house would have stopped her but they might as soon have stopped the sea stand away from me she says i am a ghost that calls her from beside her open grave she told em ly she had seen me and know d i loved her and her she wrapped her hasty in her clothes she took her faint and trembling on her arm she no more what they said than if she vol iv the personal and experience had had no ears she walked among em with my child only her and brought her safe out in the dead of the night from that black pit of ruin she attended on em said mr who had released my hand and put his own hand on his heaving chest she attended to my em ly lying wearied out and wandering till late next day then she went in search of me then in search of you didn t tell em ly what she come out fur lest her art should fail and she should think of hiding of herself how the cruel lady know d of her being i can t say whether him as i have spoke so much of chanced to see em going or whether which is most like to my thinking he had it from the woman i t greatly ask myself my niece is found all night long said mr we have been together em ly and me tis little considering the time

recover her old self her placid household activity how could she the objects among which her mind had moved complacently were all gone � all the little hopes and schemes and speculations all the pleasant little cares about her treasures which had made this world quite to her for a quarter of a century since she had made her first purchase of the sugar had been suddenly snatched away from her and she remained bewildered in this empty life why that should have happened to her had not happened to other women remained an question by which she expressed her perpetual comparison of the past with the present it was piteous to see the comely stout woman getting thinner and more worn under a bodily as well as mental restlessness which made her often wander about the empty house after her work was done until becoming alarmed about her would seek her and bring her down by telling her how it vexed tom that she was her health by never sitting down and resting herself x et amid this helpless there was a touching trait of humble self which made feel tenderly toward her poor mother amid all the little wearing caused by her mental she would let do none of the work that was heaviest and most to the hands and was quite when attempted to relieve her from her grate brushing and let it alone my dear your hands get as hard as hard she would say it s your mother s place to do that i can t do the sewing � my eyes fail me and she would still brush and carefully tend s hair which she had become reconciled to in spite of its refusal to curl now it was so long and was not her pet child and in would have been ths mill on the better if she had been quite different yet the womanly heart so bruised in its small personal desires found a future to rest on in the life of this young thing and the mother pleased herself with wearing out her own hands to save the hands that had so much more life in them but the constant presence of her mother s bewilderment was less to than that of her father s sullen depression as long as the was upon him and it seemed as if he might always be in a condition of dependence � as long as he was still only half awakened to his trouble had felt the strong tide of pitying love almost as an inspiration a new power that would make the most life easy for his sake but now instead of dependence there had come a hard of purpose in strange contrast with his old vehement and high spirit and this lasted from day to day and from week to week the dull eye never brightening any eagerness or any joy it is something cruelly incomprehensible to youthful natures this sombre ness in middle aged and elderly people whose life has in disappointment and discontent to whose faces a smile be comes so strange that the sad lines all about the lips and brow seem to take no notice of it and it away again for want of a welcome why will they not up and be glad sometimes thinks young it would be so easy if they only liked to do it and these leaden clouds that never part are apt to create impatience even in the filial affection that streams forth in nothing but tenderness and pity in the time of more obvious affliction mr lingered nowhere away from home he hurried away from market he refused all invitations to stay and chat as in old times in the houses where he called on business he could not be reconciled with his lot there was no attitude in which his pride did not feel its and in all behavior toward him whether kind or cold he detected an allusion to the change in his circumstances even the days in which came to ride round the land and inquire into the business were not so black to him as those market days on which he had met several who had accepted a composition from him to save something toward the of those was the object toward which he was now bending all his thoughts and efforts and under the influence of this all compelling demand of his nature the somewhat promise man who hated to be or to any one else in his own house was gradually into the of mrs could not ths kill on the enough to satisfy him in their food and firing and he eat nothing himself but what was of the quality tom though depressed and strongly by his father s and the of home entered thoroughly into his father s feelings about paying the and the poor lad brought his first quarters money with a delicious sense of achievement and gave it to his father to put into the tin box which held the the little store of sovereigns in the tin box seemed to be the only sight that brought a faint beam of pleasure into the miller s eyes � faint and transient for it was soon by the thought that the time would be long � perhaps longer than life � before the narrow could remove the hateful of debt a of more than five hundred pounds with the interest seemed a deep pit to fill with the thirty shillings a week even when tom s probable were to be added on this point there was entire community of feeling in the four widely beings who sat round the dying fire of sticks which made a cheap warmth for them on the verge of mrs carried the proud integrity of the in her blood and had been brought up to think that to wrong people of their money which was another phrase

and the violence of this debate and expressions of so much and of an aspect so threatening have been used that continued silence on my part would ill become me who had submitted to this house the original proposition while this subject was under debate before the committee of the whole i did not take the floor and i avail myself ox this occasion to acknowledge my obligations to the struggle for slavery my friends mr and mr for the manner in which they supported my at a time when i was unable to partake in the debate i had only on that day returned from a journey long in its extent and painful in its occasion and from an affection of my breast i could not then speak i cannot yet to do justice to the subject but i do hope to say enough to assure my friends that i have not left them in the and to convince the of the measure that their violence has not driven me from the debate sir the hon gentleman from mr scott who has just resumed his seat has told us of he of march and has us to beware of the fate of caesar and of rome another gentleman mr from in addition to other expressions of great warmth has said that if we persist the union will be dissolved and with a look fixed on me has told us we have kindled a fire which all the waters of the ocean cannot put out which seas of blood can only language of this sort has no effect on me my purpose is fixed it is with my existence its is limited with my life it is a great and glorious cause setting bounds to a slavery the most cruel and the world has ever witnessed it is the freedom of man it is the cause of and human beings if a dissolution of the union must take place let it be so if civil war which gentlemen so much threaten must come i can only say let it come my hold on life is probably as frail as that of any man who now hears me but while that hold lasts it shall be devoted to the service of my country � to the freedom of man if blood is necessary to any fire which i have assisted to i can assure gentlemen while i regret the necessity i shall not forbear to contribute my sir the violence to which gentlemen have resorted on this subject will not move my purpose nor drive me from my place i have the fortune and the honor to stand here as the representative of who possess intelligence to know their rights who have the spirit to maintain them whatever might be my own private sentiments on this subject standing here as the representative of no choice is left me i know the will of my and regardless of consequences i will it � as their representative i will proclaim their hatred to slavery in every as their representative here will i hold my stand till this floor with the constitution of my country which it shall sink beneath if i am doomed to fall i shall at least have the painful consolation to believe that i fall as a fragment in the ruins of my country sir the gentleman from virginia mr has accused my honorable friend from new mr of speaking to the galleries and by his language to excite a war and has ended by saying he is no better than and and deserves no better fate when i hear such language uttered upon this floor and within this house am constrained to consider it as hasty and language from the vehemence of debate and not really intending the personal the expressions would seem to indicate mr asked to explain and said he had not distinctly understood mr t mr called on mr c to state the expressions he had used mr c then said he had no explanation to give mr t said he had none to ask � he continued to say he would not believe any gentleman on this floor would commit � o great an against any member or against the dignity of this house as to use expressions really intending the meaning which the words seem to import and which had been uttered against the gentleman from new mr of virginia in the chair called to order and said no personal remarks would be allowed mr t said he rejoiced the chair was at length to a sense of its duties the debate had for several days with violence and all was in order but now when at length this violence on one side is to be resisted the chair discovered it is out of order i rejoice said mr t at the discovery i approve of the while i am proud to say it has no to me it is my boast that i have never uttered an personal remark on this floor but i wish it distinctly understood that the laws of self will justify going to great and that in the future progress of this debate the rights of would be regarded sir has it already come to this that in the of the united states � that in the of republican america the subject of slavery has become a subject of so much of such of such danger that it cannot safely be discussed are members who venture to express their sentiments on this subject to be accused of talking to the galleries with intention to excite a war and of the fate of and are we to be told of the dissolution of the union of civil war and of seas of blood and yet with such awful before us do gentlemen in the same breath insist upon the encouragement of this evil upon the extension of this monstrous of

had not given them a thought these many years he might never think of her again therefore he wondered what could have put thoughts of this dead woman into his mind was it the sight of the ugly cottages about the market place without cleanliness and without light she had done nothing to the lives of these poor folk and it might mill the lake have been those cottages that had put thoughts of her into his mind or the cause might have been that lie was going to offer rose to his sister as music mistress but what connection between rose and this dead woman well he was going to propose rose to and the best line of argument would be that rose would cost less than anyone as highly qualified as she were always anxious to get things cheap but he must not let them get rose too cheap but the question of price wouldn t arise between him and would see the wrong he had done to rose was on his conscience and that he d never be happy until he had made � that was the light in which she would view the matter so it would be better to let things take their natural course and to avoid making plans the more he thought of what he should say to the less likely was he to speak and feeling that he had better rely on the inspiration of the moment he sought distraction from his errand by noting the beauty of the he had always liked the way the road dipped and then ascended to the principal street in the town there were some pretty houses in the dip � houses with narrow and long windows built no doubt in the beginning of the nineteenth century � and his ambition had once been to live in one of these houses the bridge was an century bridge with a foaming on the left and on the right there was a sentimental walk under trees and the ruined is showing against the sunset there were generally the lake some boys seated on the and their fishing rods were picturesque in the lingering light never had the gray mills seemed more melancholy more and he would have stopped the car so remote did they seem � so like things of long ago that time had from the stress and struggle of life at the corner of the main street was the house in which he had been born the business had passed into other hands but the old name � s stores � remained across the way were the butcher and the and a little higher up the inn at which the commercial lodged he remembered how their numerous leather trunks used to interest him and for a moment he stood a child again seeing them drive away on post cars there were a few more shops � very few � and then the town very quickly roofs gave way to cottages and of the same miserable kind that used to provoke his when he was a boy this sinful dislike of poverty he had overcome in early manhood a high religious enthusiasm had enabled him to overcome it but his instinctive dislike of the lowly life � intellectual as well as physical � gathered within these cottages seemed to have returned again and he asked himself if he were wanting in natural compassion if all that he had of goodness in him were a debt he owed to the church maybe it was in patience rather than in compassion that he was lacking and pursuing this idea he remembered the hopes he en the lake when he off a strip of ground in front of s house they were that his example might inspire others was perhaps more patient and he began to wonder if she had any definite aim in view and if the spectacle of the with its show of walking under the trees in the afternoon would eventually awaken some desire of refinement in the people if the money their farms now yielded would produce some sort of improvement in their cottages the removal of those dreadfully heavy smells and a longing for color that would find expression in the planting of flowers they gave their money willingly enough for the of their chapel for stained glass incense candles and for music and were it not for the services of the church he didn t know into what the people t have fallen the tones of the organ clear voices of singing a mass by must sooner or later inspire belief in the friendliness of pure air and the beauty of flowers flowers after ail are the only beautiful things within the reach of these poor people roses are happily within the reach of all there is nothing more entirely natural or charming in the life of man than his love of flowers it preceded his love of music no doubt an appreciation of something better in the way of art than a played on the pipes would follow close on the of the home rose was herself beautiful her personality was winning and charming her playing � above all her singing � might have inspired the people but she was the lake going to the the had got her it was a pity � and he remembered how angry mrs o s news had made him � that had said she could give rose more than she was earning in to come to the to teach music he didn t believe had ever said such a thing it mattered very little anyhow he the rose was going to get her and all he could do would be to make the best terms he could but he could not his thoughts to the present moment they would go back to the afternoon when he ran across the fields to ask rose if what mrs

his eye fell on his thank the lord he exclaimed mr has poured one shot into the he alone knew where the gun was bless the boy � bless him he has a strong arm and a stout soul � bless him they have taken him off we ll after him bring my hunting look to your faith les e all gone be con his first amazement and thought after thought flashing the truth on his mind i remember last oh mr how the girl deceived you she knew it all ah so i thought said she knows everything evil that happens in e u th sea or air � die and that mother witch i always told mrs she was warming a in her bosom poor dear lady but i suppose it was for wise she was left to her blindness are you ready asked ready yes i am ready but what is the use what are we two against a host and be � des you know not how long they have been gone not very long said shuddering and pointing to blood that was drop by drop from the edge of the to the step how long the faithful fellow might have urged we know not for cowardice hath ever ready and abundant arguments and was not a man to be persuaded into danger but the arrival of mr and his men put an end to the debate mr was the faithful paternal guardian of his little colony he saw in this of violent death not only the present overwhelming misery of the family at but the fearful fate to which all were exposed who had their lives in the wilderness but he give but brief space to bitter reflections and the of nature instant care and service were necessary for the dead vol i � i b hot e n the living the bodies of the mother and children were removed to one of the apartments and decently disposed and then after a fervent prayer � a duty never omitted in any emergency by the whose faith in the minute sup of was practical � he directed the necessary arrangements for the pursuit of the enemy little could be gathered from she was mainly occupied with her own remarkable preservation not doubting that had specially interposed to save the only life utterly insignificant in any eyes but her own she recollected to have heard exclaim my father at the first of the savages the necessary conclusion was that the party had been led by th chief it was obviously probable that he would return with his children and to the where it was well known he had found refuge of course the to take a direction was of opinion that the party was not numerous and ei they must be with their prisoners the one a child whom it would be necessary in a rapid flight to carry mr had sanguine expectations that they might be overtaken the obliged to avoid the cleared meadows had as mr believed take an path through the forest to the which in of their probable route they would of course cross as soon as they could with safety he selected five of his men whom he deemed for the expedition and it to them to be hope guided by the counsel of whose impatient zeal was apparent he directed them to take a direct course to the river he was to return to the village and despatch a boat to them with which they were to up the river in the hope of the passage of the indians the men departed led by to whose spirit every moment s delay had appeared unnecessary and fatal and mr was mounting his horse when he saw mr who had avoided the road through the village from the forest and come in full view of his dwelling mr called to yonder is your master he not come hither while this precious blood is on the old i shall take him to my house and assistance shall be sent to you in the mean time watch those bodies faithfully oh i can t stay here alone running after mr i would not stay for all the promised land back woman cried mr in a voice of thunder and retreated the danger of advancing appearing for the moment the greater of the two mr was attended by two indians who followed him bearing on a litter his favourite hope when they came within sight of they shouted the chorus of a native song hope inquired its meaning they told her and raising herself and tossing back the bright curls that shaded her eyes she clapped her hands and accompanied the english words the home the home the s home and mj home too is it not she said mr was touched with the joy with which this bright little creature who had left a palace in england hailed his rustic dwelling in the wilderness he turned on her a smile of delight � he could not speak the sight of his home had opened the of his heart oh now she continued with animation i shall meet my but why does she not come to meet us where is your and the girls there is no one looking out for us the stillness of the place and the absence of all living objects struck mr with fearful apprehensions heightened by the sight of his friend who was coming at full gallop towards him to an accurate observer the effects of joy and sorrow on the human figure are easily misery and the body as it does the spirit remain here for a few moments said mr to his attendants and he put spurs to his horse and galloped forward put down the litter said hope to her i cannot stand stock still here in sight of the house where my sister is the indians knew

voice ly rough load aad upon them it wai sandy who came in from shouting � fifty pounds for i ia na better than staying aside the women i cried we are in heavy sorrow c and his son lie deed at bottom o the help us said sandy an o sandy the wife ken and it s g co her and hear her we get her tell t yo re the mon y ye u tell her no sandy ye c facing sea the sea and the wind he contemptuously they be i m used wi them but to look a woman i the face an tell her tier mon and her son are drowned since i na tor that all further debate was cut short b the entrance of one who came expressly to the sad duty had found go difficult it was the of the place he waved them back i know i know said he where is the wife she came out of her at this moment as it happened lo purchase something at s shop which was opposite said the clergyman i have sorrowful tell me them sir said she unmoved la it a added she quietly it is i � death sudden and terrible in your own house i u � and may god show mo now it to he entered her house said the woman to the others it be some far cousin or the like for x an me screamed she to hei servant who was one of the your pat is no on yet ye think the men will no be hungry when come in the they will never hunger mail said solemnly as the entered her own door there ensued a and fearful silence every moment some sign of bitter sorrow was d to break forth from the house but none came and amidst the expectation and silence the waves dashed louder and louder as it seemed against the of wliat they had done at last in a moment a cry of agony arose so terrible that all who heard it trembled and than one woman shrieked in and from the door at which tlie next moment the alone collected but pale and beckoned several women advanced was admitted and after while returned she is come to ed she i am no and she passed into her own house then i crept to the door to o spy on her cried o yes many him nor hear him he will he he has won her to kneel � he i an gi aside her i see my b blinded he a a mon said by what v life had been leaning sorrowfully against the of the next ho now broke out an at the i i an wo never the again in yon dirty that s him i an forget it a mode for the spirit shop like a bat era ho reach the door a was laid un mm like a vice had sprung on him she hated this � had often him and now it bo awful a moment for a sin that she forgot the wild i savage nature of the had st y hurt her bnt a month she nothing hut tlie vice and its victim and she seized him by the collar with a grasp from which he in vain attempted to himself no ye ii no gang there at he at the noise ran in i et the go cried she in dismay put your yes iii put my hand on ills mane ere i ll let bim a beast o sandy if ye her i ll find twenty lads that will lay je deed at her feet hand your said very sharply he s no to be sandy black and white with rage ground his together and said lifting his hand ye let me go or i my hand tm they glared on one � ha fiercely and she and proudly said afterwards her ye are doing what mon i the ye are a un it a you me was the instant reply saw ye face the mad sea to save a ship the rocks an will i a s hand i can save rising io double her height my s the pair mon s enemy the enemy o mankind the cursed drink sandy could ye to put an in your to steal your brains this s no chat ye words o power a deed mon i i would na wonder y are no she s tn en a the o my body i think then suddenly ng t o a lone of abject what s your s r she instantly withdrew the and leaning she melted it rich tones it fl no a time foe sin ye sit by my fire an get your dinner a ha a for yoa an an we this ill ms o o my dear that side by side � o the ye killed way � an a o the lives ye saved at sea by your an an sandy will na that ho better as sit aa poor your throat an the sense an feeling o a mon a heed and an ill name i se gang my lamb said the rough man quite subdued i say will no pass my teeth the by and went towards the after taking it here a with a in her who followed pulled by the coats said pulling herself said f smiled proudly was silent hut did not the comparison the little unable to attract and i ll let ye see my be s a by a string fastened to his tail and set him in the midst for friendly tion i likely � screamed put it away � it me this she her eye starting from her head with unaffected terror at the distance of about eight yards whither she had in bounds that would have done no

the divine being of a far greater amount of spiritual good than can be looked for firom the labours of one whose manner is harsh or haughty the rev dr having at some length in my chapter to this point i will not dwell upon it anew but i may be permitted to refer to a case which i have reason to believe is not unknown to dr himself of the unhappy effects which are produced on the minds of hearers by anything harsh or on the part of ministers for some years a gentleman had been a regular attendant on the of a popular preacher and not only heard him with delight � it is to be hoped with advantage also � but felt the greatest attachment to him personally circumstances occurred to render it impossible for the gentleman in question to be in the chapel at the commencement of the service for several in succession the minister being popular and there being no doubt of the seat letting as soon as it was known to be vacant the reverend gentleman one morning wrote to the party referred to in the following terms � sir � i beg to inform you that you have your right to your seat in consequence of coming to the chapel at so late an hour the dr your seat has been let to another party your obedient servant the gentleman called on the minister next morning for the purpose of explaining � and the explanation must have proved perfectly to any candid mind � the circumstances which had led to his being late in his attendance at chapel for several but imagine his surprise regret and mortification at the minister refusing to see him from that ment the party in question felt that he could not profit hj the of the reverend gentleman even were he to preach like an angel firom heaven a similar effect i may add was produced on the minds of others who were made acquainted with the circumstance dr s attribute whatever of there may be in his manner to the trials he has had to endure though not married he has had much to try him in the case of relatives but i will not draw aside the veil he lives in a great measure out of the world his residence is a very humble one or rather forming a part of his chapel in street the rev dr his whole soul is said by those who know him to be absorbed in the performance of his duties the schools connected with his chapel have always been the object of his deepest solicitude and perhaps they are the best regulated schools connected with any church or chapel in the metropolis the scholars are examined before the whole congregation either or half yearly i am not sure which and in the great majority of cases almost indeed in every case display an acquaintance with divine truth which ought to put many christians of a larger physical growth to the blush dr lives very plainly and and i am assured by those who ought to be acquainted with the fact though the majority of his congregation may not be aware of it a very large portion of his annual income to the for the support of those schools dr s hearers are exceedingly partial to his preaching they are unwilling to admit that any other minister in the metropolis is equal to him of them follow him about p the rev he if m town i know one family who live in the neighbourhood of the city road who regularly in all walk to to hear him in the morning and afternoon in street chapel and then follow him to in the evening � thus to be absent from their home the whole of the sabbath day and making a or two answer the purposes of dinner and tea the reverend doctor s personal appearance is imposing he is slightly above the middle height and well formed he has a lofty forehead highly of intellectual his features are handsome and would appear still more so but for a certain which there is about the general expression of his countenance his face is of the oval form notwithstanding his and labours his complexion is tinged with a rosy hue while his general appearance is that of one who excellent health his hair slightly to a colour and stands erect on his brow and at either side of th� rev h h s his head his age judging from his appearance must be about forty three or forty four i ought not to close my sketch of dr without mentioning that his chapel in was built by for the excellent but unfortunate dr the funds were raised and the chapel erected under the special par of the then queen after whose name it was called who could enter chapel without feeling his mind with painful regret to the melancholy te of poor dr the rev h h of street square a highly respectable station among the of the metropolis his own congregation are very partial to him they think that he is not to be surpassed by any contemporary minister upon a first or second hearing he is not in the majority of cases thought so highly of as he is afterwards this may be accounted for in a great measure from the rapidity of his delivery he speaks at a railway speed i am r the rev h h � convinced that sermons which take him only three quarters of an hour to deliver contain as much matter as those which in the case of a preacher who speaks at the ordinary rate of utterance would occupy a full hour i to the reverend gentleman s rapid delivery the circumstance of strangers sometimes coming away with a very imperfect recollection of what they have heard his own people being accustomed

find and all eyes were directed towards the stood on the rail leaning against the of the main but he did not seem to be as much interested in the race as his companions he was thinking of something besides the graceful and when the signal for the start was given he quietly slipped down from his position to the deck while all eyes were strained to take in the movements of the several after a glance at the faculty and the officers to satisfy himself that he was not observed he moved over to the and went below every soul on board was on the deck eagerly watching the race and no one was thinking of him he could hear the cheers of the multitudes which crowded every boat and vessel near the ship hastening to his berth which was close by the ladder he removed the and thrust his arm into the berth sack which proved to be the hiding place of the key it was drawn from its resting place and after a glance up the to satisfy himself that he was still unobserved he entered the main cabin and stood before the closet which contained the iron safe � here an unexpected difficulty occurred the closet door was locked but he had gone too far to retire without an effort to his purpose he went into tlie principal s state room where he found several keys on a nail with them he returned to the closet and young in ireland and scotland i i after trying several of them he found one which fitted the lock as he opened it a rousing cheer from the ship s company above assured him that everybody was absorbed in the progress of the race the large brass key in tlie key hole of the safe he opened the door in a couple of small drawers in the safe he found the money one of them containing the gold and the other the silver each done up in small rolls had tried to persuade himself while contemplating this act that he was an honest boy that he only intended to take what was his own but now that the deed was to be he had not time to count the money and take just the amount which belonged to him and to the friends he represented he meant to take enough and he did he slipped three of the rolls of gold into his pockets without knowing how much they contained closing the drawers and the safe and the closet he returned the key of the latter to the nail in mr s state room his heart beat violently and his hands trembled as he closed the door of the main cabin and hastened to his berth again in spite of his philosophy he was not satisfied with what he had done he was fearful of and he could not help thinking how dismal it would be to spend a week in the instead of going to london on his own hook but the deed was done he had the money and he had the safe key either of which being found upon him would expose his guilt he had no further use for the key and he decided to get rid of that at once his quarters were on the side while the and or ship s company were all on the port side the bull s eye in the passage was open and reaching his arm through the he dropped the key into the deep waters of the bay that was gone and it could not rise up to condemn him he was almost tempted by the oppression of his guilt and the fear of detection to drop the three rolls of gold overboard but another cheer from the convinced him that all hands were still intent upon the race and he began to reproach himself for being then as he thought of travelling with genial companions to london and paris his evil purpose was confirmed what to do with the rolls of gold was a troublesome question to settle but it was saturday afternoon and tlie would not be again for four days if th y were each student conveyed his own on deck and he could remove the gold for the occasion as he had the key the three rolls of gold were taken from his pocket they were very heavy for their size and he could not resist the temptation to open one of them and ascertain its contents h was appalled to find that it contained twenty sovereigns the whole amount abstracted from the safe was therefore sixty pounds it was clear to him that even by his own theory he had stolen at least fifteen pounds for neither he nor his companions for whom he acted had over twelve or fifteen pounds on deposit this reflection was not a pleasant one but comforted himself by not to spend any more than belonged to him whether his act was stealing or not it was too late to restore the money or any young america in and scotland i part of it to the safe for he had thrown the key overboard rolling up the he had opened he placed the three little bundles in the hair of the and with his needle and thread took a few hasty in the rent he had made to admit the key he did not think it would be safe to go on deck again and he took a position behind the main ladder ready to join the students when they came of course he could only think of the deed he had just done and consider the probability of being discovered it was not likely that mr would immediately ascertain that the gold had been taken from the safe which might not be opened again before the ship arrived at but he did not feel secure and

for granted the of the man s over thai of his english brother the latter is often made the subject of noisy � his critics say you lack in brief you are the charge of � � the argument clay is thoroughly familiar with american business men as well as with ihe faults and qualities of our own and in the s daughter the position that when the spirit of i or the by play of other human passions � which are not seldom a potent in commercial success or failure though have rarely dealt with the vital relationship which may exist between two of life which are to many people as the englishman he can hold his own not only in affairs of the heart but in obtained the business up by his father the struggle is exciting with many situations vividly presented and an interest is imparted by the romance ol the and devoted girl whose happiness crowns s success a company nm � f new fiction the by to s mr is one of america s greatest and in the he has produced a powerful story of the american civil war which as it does with the vitality of issues the ecstasy of the love wh ch loses itself beyond the borders of human and the vigour of a sublime devotion to duty and high is instinct with the qualities of real literature this book should appeal more to even than to americans whose fabric of traditions and associations for them the great hero of this book who as the author says in every situation was a great a dominant figure the character of lee has been somewhat lost sight of in the study of his career but it fairly with all that is high and noble and true the of the south the characteristics of the christian gentleman to the full he is a personality to be studied to be followed to be loved in his greatness and in his simplicity he is an enduring inspiration to true manhood for all the world love and war are the very fibre of mr s story and he touches the former with an irresistible charm while there is a zest in his descriptions of the fighting which sets the blood in one s veins new edition of a popular story the little squire by mrs henry de la pasture author of a toy tragedy of s peter s mother etc with illustrations s d thb increasing popularity of mrs de la pasture as an author and the success which has attended the publication of her recent books induced the to issue last spring an entirely new edition of a toy tragedy which met with a cordial reception this autumn they are issuing a new edition of another successful story by this gifted author in the same the queen says of this book this is a really charming story the little squire his silly sweet natured mother the heartless adventurer who over her gentle the indignant old servants the two little girls who are his companions are all admirably drawn and very the heroine of the story the pretty sensitive child of the warm hearted village beauty is also charming and her devoted friendship to the little squire is delightful ft company paris new mrs de la pasture new fiction farm b j s a � � t floor with illustrations s m fi s new the c� � b� h is laid for the part on a with his id all thing to bis own with the of a proud old of tbe old fashioned class the are of the better sort � full of fc somewhat and in attitude towards others and i little and in their manner and the of story richard a l f who i and becomes famous is one of mr serious at the c tbe characters of his � are all drawn with a sure knowledge then is a of i all the story in with s and their love affairs and those of in of the family who al the of book is wi and at the end has become a successful and lady are told in a quiet fashion there is humour as well as pathos in the story and the description of country li p sketches of character and the of early influence on temperament are rendered with mr i well known to in effect i is a story of i incidentally of life s green by mrs henry thi thi of with s n a charming old world village with its life m the early years of the nineteenth century is the setting of a br mis henry it is a love story so told that its never flags with touches of humour keen edged and dialogue green from ihe page to ihe last in this quiet are reflections of the great events that happened in the world of the day they do not interfere with the clear s of own life � all is sustained in that woven in with the story of the village and forming its leading feature is ihe tragedy of two � the characters of ihe book the growth of their passion is described in s manner thai is completely it is an analysis of without any suggestion of we are shown the working of their and fears after right and their approaches lo and never once do tbey lose our sympathy a company limited new fiction the hidden house by john with illustrations by alfred s few books by new writers display such extraordinary power as is exhibited in mr s book which is one calculated to place the author at a bound in the front rank of fiction writers all the of a really good novel will be found in this book and the various startling incidents which follow each other closely are related in a manner which show the master

looking forward to it and to your first impressions every evening he wanted to take my hastily notes and read them and after doing so was anxious to have me do them all just that way that is day by day as i experienced them i found that quite impossible however once he wanted to know if i had any special preference in or and i knew very well why he asked another time he overheard me make the statement that i had always longed to eat rich cheese from germany done he exclaimed we shall have it for christmas but papa up we don t all have to have it at the same time do we no my dear replied solemnly with that and parental air which always me a sort of gay always lurking behind it a christmas call only mr need have it he is german and likes it i assumed as german a look as i might � profound and i believe you like mr jones s he observed on another occasion referring to an american which he had heard me say in new york that i liked we shall have some of those are american like english inquired young charles now heaven only knows i replied i have never eaten english ask your father merely smiled i think not he replied christmas is certainly looking up i said to him if i come out of here alive � in condition for paris and the � i shall be grateful he beamed on me well finally to make a long story short the day came or at least the day before we were all assembled for a joyous christmas eve � t sir the dearest aunt and the charming cousin extremely intelligent and artistic women both the four children s very clever and appealing secretary and myself there was a delightful dinner spread at when we all assembled to discuss the prospects of the morrow it was on the as i discovered that i should arise and accompany his aunt his cousin and the children to a abbey church a lovely affair i was told on the bank of the thames hard by the old english town called while who positively refused to have anything to do with religion of any kind quality or description was to go and a certain neighboring household of which more anon and to take young james he of the for a fine and long anticipated ride on his mo a at forty tor lord and t were to remain behind to discuss art perhaps or literature being late if there was to be any which the children doubted owing to s rather grave to the contrary there having been a number of reasons why a severely righteous might see fit to remain away he was not to make his appearance until rather late in the afternoon meanwhile we had all to the general living room where a heavy coal fire blazed on the hearth for once and candles were lighted in profusion the children sang songs of the north accompanied by their i can see their quaint faces now gathered about the piano lord and myself indulged in various artistic and mrs the aunt told me the brilliant story of her husband s life � a great philosopher and � and finally after coffee nuts and much music and songs � some comic ones by � we retired for the night it is necessary to prepare the reader properly for the morrow to go back a few days or weeks possibly and tell of a sentimental encounter that me one day as i was going for a walk in that green world which level it was a most delightful spectacle along the road before me with its border of green grass and green though trees there was approaching a most interesting figure of a woman a dashing bit of � at once the presumption owing to various accompanying details was mine wife mother � as charming a bit of womanhood and english family sweetness as i had yet seen in england english women by and large let me state here are not smart at least those that i encountered but here was one dressed after the french fashion in close fitting blue her form perfectly a little a christmas call r cap of snowy whiteness set over her ear her smooth black hair parted over her forehead a white warming her hands and white the trim leather of her foot gear her eyes were dark brown her cheeks rosy her gait smart and tense i could scarcely believe she was the mother of the three year old in white and red wool a little girl who was sitting a white donkey which in turn was led by a trim maid or nurse or in brown � but it was quite plain that she was there was such a wise sober look about all this such a that i was enchanted it was such a delightful picture to encounter of a clear december morning that in the fashion of the english i exclaimed my word i this is something i went back to the house that afternoon determined to make inquiries perhaps she was a neighbor � a friend of the family of all the individuals who have an appropriate and superior taste for the smart efforts of the fair sex commend me to his interest and enthusiasm neither flags nor fails being a of discretion he knows exactly what is smart for a woman as well as a man and all you have to do to make him up his ears attentively is to mention beauty as existing in some form somewhere � not too distant for his what s this i see his eye lighting beauty a lovely woman when where this day finding in the garden some bushes i had said do you know any family that keeps

but said his arms were all right i lay in the shade brushing the flies off and directing operations while his hospital gang be blessed if he didn t make those poor heave at every rope on the pin rails before he found the one of them let go the rope in the midst of the and slipped down to the deck dead but the others the inevitable white man and made them stick by the job when the fore and main were up i told him to knock the out of the anchor chain and let her go i had had myself helped aft to the wheel where i was going to make a shift at i can t guess how he did it but instead of knocking the out down went the second anchor and there we were doubly in the end he managed to knock both out and raise the and and the filled away for the entrance our decks were a spectacle dead and dying were everywhere they were away some of them in the most inconceivable places the cabin was full of them where they had crawled off the deck and in i put and his gang to work heaving them and over they went the living and the dead the had fat that day of course our four murdered sailors went the same way their heads however we put in a sack with so that by no chance the inevitable white man should they drift on the beach and fall into the hands of the our five prisoners i decided to use as crew but they decided otherwise they watched their opportunity and went over the side got two in mid air with his revolver and would have shot the other three in the water if i hadn t stopped him i was sick of the slaughter you see and besides they d helped work the out but it was mercy thrown away for the got the three of them i had brain fever or something after we got clear of the land anyway the lay to for three weeks when i pulled myself together and we on with her to anyway those of learned the everlasting lesson that it is not good to monkey with a white man in their was certainly inevitable a long whistle and said well i should say so but whatever became of the inevitable white man he drifted into seal hunting and became a for six years he was high line of both the victoria and san the seventh year his was seized in sea by a russian and all hands so the talk went were into the salt mines at least i ve never heard of him since farming the world muttered farming the world well here s to them somebody s got to do it � farm the world i mean captain rubbed the on his bald head done my share of it he said forty years now this will be my last trip then fm going home to stay i ll the wine you don t you ll die in the harness not at home captain promptly accepted the bet but personally i think has the best of it the seed of the her iron sides pressed low in the water by her cargo of wheat rolled and made it easy for the man who was climbing aboard from out a tiny as his eyes came level with the rail so that he could see it seemed to him that he saw a dim almost haze it was more like an illusion like a that had spread abruptly over his eyes he felt an inclination to brush it away and the same instant he thought that he was growing old and that it was time to send to san for a pair of spectacles as he came over the rail he cast a glance aloft at the tall and next at the they were not working there seemed nothing the matter with the big ship and he wondered why she had hoisted o the seed of the signal of distress he thought of his happy and hoped it was not disease perhaps the ship was short of water or provisions he shook hands with the captain whose gaunt face and care worn eyes made no secret of the trouble whatever it was at the same moment the new comer was aware of a faint smell it seemed like that of burnt bread but different he glanced curiously about him twenty feet away a weary faced sailor was the deck as his eye lingered on the man he saw suddenly arise from under his hands a faint of haze that curled and twisted and was gone by now he had reached the deck his bare feet were pervaded by a dull warmth that quickly penetrated the thick he knew now the nature of the ship s distress his eyes swiftly forward where the full crew of weary faced sailors regarded him eagerly the glance from his liquid brown eyes swept over them like a soothing them the seed of them about as in the mantle of a great peace how long has she been captain he asked in a voice so gentle and that it was as the of a dove at first the captain felt the peace and content of it stealing in upon him then the consciousness of all that he had gone through and was going through smote him and he was by what right did this ragged beach in trousers and a cotton shirt suggest such a thing as peace and content to him and his exhausted soul the captain did not reason this it was the unconscious process of emotion that caused his resentment fifteen days he answered shortly who are you my name is came the answer in tones that breathed tenderness and compassion i mean are you the pilot

gone away for a time gone away when was you then the day you said yes tuesday mother and now tis on y saturday and he gone away yes he s gone what s the meaning o that nation seize such as you seem to get say it mother went across to laid her face upon the matron s bosom and burst into i don t know how to tell ee mother you said to me and wrote to me that i was not to tell mm but i did tell him � i couldn t help it � and he went away o you little fool � you little fool burst out mrs and herself in her agitation my good god that ever i should ha to say it but i say it again you little fool was with weeping the of so many days having relaxed at last i it � i know � i know she gasped through her sobs but o my mother i could not help it he was so good � and i felt the wickedness of trying to blind him as to what had happened if � it were to be done again � i should do the i could not � i dared not � so sin � against him but you enough to marry him first yes yes that s where my do lie but i thought he could get rid o me by law if he were not to overlook it and o if you knew � a you could only half know how i loved him � how anxious i was to have him � and how i was between caring so much for him and my to be fair to him was so shaken that she could get no further and sank a helpless thing into a chair well what s done can t be undone i m sure i don t know why children o my bringing forth by of the d should all be bigger than other people s � not to know better than to such a thing as that when he couldn t ha found it out till too late here mrs began shedding tears on her own account as a mother to be pitied what your father will say i don t know she continued for talking about the wedding up at s and the pure drop every day since and about his family getting back to their position through you � poor y man � and now you ve made this mess of it a lord as if to bring matters to a s father was heard approaching at that moment he did not however enter immediately and mrs said that she would break the bad news to him herself keeping out of sight for the present after her first burst of disappointment began to take the as she had taken s trouble as she would have taken a wet holiday or failure in the crop as a thing which had come upon them of desert or folly a chance external to be borne with not a lesson retreated upstairs and beheld casually that the beds had been shifted and new arrangements made her old bed had been adapted for two younger children there was no place here for her now the room below being j she could hear most of what went on there presently her father entered apparently a live hen he was a foot now having been obliged to sell his second horse and he travelled with h basket on his arm the hen had been carried about this morning as it was often carried to show people that he was in his work though it had lain with its legs tied under the table at s for more than an hour we ve just had up a story began and thereupon related in detail to his wife a discussion which had arisen at the inn about the clergy originated by the fact of his daughter having by the woman pays married into a family they was formerly sir like my own he said though nowadays their true style strictly speaking is clerk only as had wished that no great should be given to the event he had mentioned no particulars he hoped she would remove that soon he proposed that the couple should take s own name d as it was better than her husband s he asked if any letter had come from her that day then mrs informed him that no letter had come but had come herself when at length the was explained to him a sullen mortification not usual with overpowered the influence of the cheering glass yet the quality of the event moved his less than its effect upon the minds of others to think now that this was to be the end o t said sir john and i with a family vault imder that there church of as big as squire s ale cellar and my folk lying there in and as genuine county bones and as any recorded in history and now to be e what they at s and the pure drop will say to me how they ll and e and say this is yer mighty match is it this is yer getting back to the true level of yer forefathers in s time i feel this is too much i shall put an end to myself title and all � i can bear it no longer but she can make him keep her if he s married her why yes but she won t think o doing that d ye think he really have married her � or is it like the first poor who had heard as far as this could not bear to hear more the perception that her word could be doubted even here in her own parental house set her mind against the

her resisted her and at last separated from her after a long and hearty quarrel the effects of that quarrel still survive and centuries of peace will hardly remove the jealousy and hatred felt by the most ignorant men of nations as well as by their political leaders if two countries are united by a war as and russia the spirit of intense and national hatred remains yet longer and is still more violent it is a great wrong for a powerful and civilized people to attack a nation that is barbarous and feeble the of honest is justly aroused against france for her conduct towards she had her but between the weak and the strong every body knows where the provocation commonly be ns the old fable of the wolf and the lamb is not likely to be forgotten the conduct of england towards the various nations in india towards china towards ireland � fills the world with indignation the history of her achievements in asia is the history of her shame honest men in england know it as well as we is powerful and is weak the emperor is of the ages while the new pope is a son of the nineteenth century the war and of course a he loves his church loves his p loves mankind institutions which the cannot relish or even which the peculiar institutions of that monarch l e middle ages and the nineteenth century are hostile institutions which ought to be separated by hundreds of years quarrel at first touch if should therefore the states of the church attempting to re the march of to his possessions in ix � the advance from to would raise a cry of shame in every europe and find a manly echo even in america justice es sides with the party most in the right humanity against the strong the present war against is to a serious examination the are few poor weak half civilized they lack the elements which give a people strength they have no national unity of action the example of the united states they separated firom the mother country and tried the experiment of a liberal constitution they have been in a quarrel among themselves ever since and have perhaps shown themselves unfit for a republican government the people cannot go alone they are weak distracted but possessed of a wide and rich territory valuable and attractive the americans are numerous patriotic united and of course powerful � the most energetic and nation ever developed on the earth besides this they have established a form of government which individual freedom national unity of action a government which of all others is the best fitted to develop energy and enterprise one most of all to direct and a conquering army we know this is not the common opinion but the military man who is also a and familiar with the history of states � if such a military man can be found amongst us � will see the truth of this judgment the strong nation is at war with the weak america has the example of france and england to sustain her and other examples not quite so but which shall be no doubt the english nation � we mean the portion thereof who trade in politics on the one extreme and on the other the brute portion of the people � would justify the american invasion of would think more highly of the war us for the undertaking and the success of it it is plainly following the example of england herself � a copy of her treatment of the and the east indian here too the men who trade in politics and the brute portion of the people like the war it matters not which party they belong to they call it patriotic they go for the country however bounded and the country right or wrong before such men we lay our finger on our and say nothing let lime teach them but there is another body of men in all lands and powerful in this � philosophers who are not satisfied with a war merely because they are engaged in it who think it no better because against a miserable opponent or because it is fought by their own country who that successful wrong is no better than when defeated to such men it is necessary to offer a reason for disturbing the peace of the continent the president of the united states in his message at the opening of the second of the last has undertaken to justify the war in his statement there is a certain of purpose quite apparent he makes a special plea with a compound issue thus � the began the war and we acted only on the but then there were a great many reasons why we might ourselves have the war without waiting for the to take the thus is he doubly armed if the major weapon of argument � and it is shown that the did not commence the war � then he holds ai by the minor that we had a just reason for beginning it ourselves but let us examine this matter more nicely we extract from mr s message of th the are our own such has been oar scrupulous to the of justice in all our foreign intercourse that we have given no just cause of complaint to any nation and have enjoyed the blessings of peace for more than thirty from a policy so sacred to humanity we should never be voluntarily to depart but commenced and forced the war upon i� � p but even if it were not so long before the advance of our army to the left bank of the we had ample cause of war against but some he adds have represented the war as unjust and unnecessary and as one of on our part upon a weak and injured enemy such

for at this season of the year there was hardly a sufficient depth of water to float a boat of her size if she stuck the party would get into the small boat and thus lightened the might be floated into the other arm of the lake a pleasant day indeed for a sail and in imagination he followed the down the lake past its different castles castle and castle and church island the island on which � the famous poet � had lived it seemed to him strange that he had never thought of visiting the ruined church when he lived close by at the northern end of the lake his time used to be entirely taken up with attending to the wants of his poor people and the first year he spent in he had thought only of the possibility of the government to build a bridge across the strait that bridge was badly wanted all the western side of the lake was cut off from railway communication was the but to get to one had to go round the the lake � lake either by the northern or the southern end and was always a question which was the longer abbey or by the bridge of many people said the southern road was shorter but the difference wasn t more than a mile if that and father preferred the northern road for it took him by his s house and he could always stop there and give his horse a feed and a rest and he liked to the abbey in which he had said mass for so long and in which mass had always been said for a thousand years even since had it the sheltered by an arch the congregation kneeling under the open sky whether it rained or the of the abbey and the of the strait were the two things that the parish was really interested in he had tried when he was in to obtain the s consent and was trying now he did not know that he was succeeding any better and father reflected a while on the peculiar temperament of their and getting down from the rock on which he had been sitting he wandered along the sunny shore thinking of the many letters he had addressed to the board of works on the subject of the bridge the board believed or pretended to believe that the parish could not afford the bridge as well might it be urged that a could not afford without doubt a public meeting should be held and some little indignation father began to think th public opinion should be roused and organized it w for him to do this he was the people s natural leader the lake for many months he had done nothing in the matter why he didn t know himself perhaps he needed a holiday perhaps he no longer believed the government susceptible to public opinion perhaps he had lost faith in the people themselves the people were the same always the people never change only individuals change and at the end of the sandy spit where some pines liad grown and he stood looking across the � very lake wondering if his had begun to the change that had come over him since rose left the parish as her name came into his mind his thoughts were interrupted by the sound of voices and turning from the lake he saw two wood coming down a little path through the bushes he often hid himself in the woods when he saw somebody coming but he couldn t do so now without betraying his intention and he stayed where he was the women passed on bent under their loads whether they saw him or not he couldn t tell they passed near enough for him to recognize them and he remembered that they were in church the day he had alluded to rose in his sermon a hundred yards farther on the women put down their loads and sat down to rest and father began to think what their conversation might be his habit of wandering away by himself had no doubt been noticed and once it was noticed it would become a topic of conversation and what they are saying now is ah sure he never has been the same man since he preached against the and what should he be doing by the lake if fear that she has the lake made away with herself weren t on his mind perhaps they are right he said to himself and he up the shore hoping that as soon as he was out of sight the women would cease to speak of him and rose all the morning he had been trying to avoid of her but now as he he could not put back the memory of the day he had met her for the first time was in the summer as nearly as possible two years a to day was the of may it was certainly later in the year it must have been in june for the day x very hot and he had been riding fast not wishing to keep s dinner waiting as he pushed his through the gate he saw the great cheery r father peter with a face like an apple walking up down under the reading his and t this moment he could hear his loud rough voice and feel the grasp of his great hand but he was earlier than he expected and father peter said that sign to them when her dinner was ready and they walked in the pleasant shade of the trees it must have been in june for the were in th field opposite in the field known as the priest s field though father peter had never it there had never been such weather in ireland before the sky was like boiled and he remembered how eagerly

after wringing my getting it on was far from pleasant my eyes are better and i feel no bad effect from my icy bath the last trace of my three months cough is gone no could survive such experiences i have had a fine telling day examining the ruins of the old forest of that no great time ago grew in a shallow mud filled basin near the corner of the the trees were protected by a spur of the mountain that puts out here and when the advanced they were simply with fine sand and by the hundred three to fifteen feet high rooted in a stream of fine blue mud on still have their bark on a of bark leaves and old j my trip on the trunks is still in place some of the are on rocky of soil about one hundred and twenty five feet above the sea the valley has been washed out by the stream now occupying it one of the s streams a mile long or more and an eighth of a mile wide i got supper early and was just going to bed when i was startled by seeing a man coming across the professor who had seen me from the main camp and who came with mr and the cook in their boat to me over i had not intended making for them until to morrow but was glad to go i had been seen also by mr case and one of his companions who were on the western mountain side above the forest shooting i had a good rest and sleep and leisure to find out how rich i was in new facts and pictures and how tired and hungry i was chapter xix a few days later i set out with professor s party to visit some of the other large that flow into the bay to observe what changes have taken place in them since october when i first visited and them we found the upper half of the bay closely choked with through which it was exceedingly difficult to force a way after slowly struggling a few miles up the east side we dragged the whale boat and over rough rocks into a fine garden and comfortably for the night the next day was spent in cautiously picking a way across to the west side of the bay and as the strangely scanty stock of provisions was already about done and the ice jam to the northward seemed impenetrable the party decided to return to the main camp by a comparatively open way to the southward while with the and a handful of i pushed on northward after a hard anxious struggle i reached the mouth of the miller about and tried to find a camp spot on its steep bound shore but no where it seemed possible to drag the above high tide mark was discovered after examining a mile or more of this dreary forbidding barrier and as night was closing down i decided to try to my way across the mouth of the in the j to an open sandy spot on which i had in october a distance of about three or four miles with the utmost caution i picked my way through the sparkling and after an hour or two of this nerve trying work when i was perhaps less than across and the loss of the frail which would include the loss of myself i came to a pack of very large which loomed offering no visible and pushing to right and left i at last discovered a opening about four feet wide and perhaps two hundred feet long formed apparently by the of a huge i hesitated to enter this passage fearing that the slightest change in the tide current might close it but ventured nevertheless judging that the dangers ahead might not be greater than those i had already passed when i had got about a third of the way in i suddenly discovered that the smooth walled ice lane was growing and with desperate haste backed out just as the bow of the cleared the sheer walls they came together with a growling terror stricken i turned back and in an anxious hour or two gladly reached the rock bound shore that had at first me determined to stay on guard all night in the or find some place where with the strength that comes in a fight for life i could drag it up the wall beyond ice danger this at last was happily done about midnight and with no thought of sleep i went to bed rejoicing i i travels in my bed was two and as i lay and bent on their up sides the hard cold time in gazing into the sky and across the sparkling bay magnificent upright bars of light in bright colors suddenly appeared marching swiftly in close succession along the northern horizon from west to east as if in haste an display very different from any i had ever before beheld once long ago in i saw the heavens draped in rich purple clouds fringed and folded in most magnificent forms but in this glory of light so pure so bright so enthusiastic in motion there was nothing in the least cloud like the short apparently about two degrees in height though seemed to be as well defined as those of the how long these glad eager soldiers of light held on their way i cannot tell for sense of time was charmed out of mind and the blessed night away in rejoicing enthusiasm in the early morning after so inspiring a night i launched my feeling able for anything crossed the mouth of the miller and forced a way three or four miles along the shore of the bay hoping to reach the grand pacific in front of mt but the farther i went the ice pack instead of

wept too but now the ten minutes drew to an end the axe from under a of packing straw the candle was set upon the nearest table to light them to the attack and they drew near with breath to where that patient foot was still going up and down up and down in the quiet of the night cried with a loud voice i demand to see you he paused a moment but there came no reply i give you fair warning our suspicions are and i must and shall see you he resumed if not by fair means then by foul � if not of your consent then by brute force said the voice for god s sake have mercy ah that s not s voice � it s s cried down with the door the last night swung the axe over his shoulder the blow shook the building and the red door leaped against the lock and hinges a dismal as of mere animal terror rang from the cabinet up went the axe again and again the and the frame bounded four times the blow fell but the wood was tough and the were of excellent and it was not until the fifth that the lock burst in and the wreck of the door fell on the carpet the appalled by their own riot and the stillness that had succeeded stood back a little and peered in there lay the cabinet before their eyes in the quiet a good fire glowing and chattering on the hearth the kettle singing its thin strain a drawer or two open papers neatly set forth on the business table and nearer the fire the things laid out for tea the room you would have said and but for the glazed presses full of the most commonplace that night in london in the midst there lay the body of a man sorely and still dr and mr they drew near on turned it on its back and beheld the face of edward he was dressed in clothes far too large for him clothes of the doctor s the of his face still moved with a semblance of life but life was quite gone and by the crushed in the hand and the strong smell of that hung upon the air knew that he was looking on the body of a we have come too late he said sternly whether to save or punish is gone to his account and it only remains for us to find the body of your master the far greater proportion of the building was occupied by the theatre which filled almost the whole ground story and was lighted from above and by the cabinet which formed an upper story at one end and looked upon the court a corridor joined the theatre to the door on the and with this the cabinet communicated separately by a second flight of stairs there were besides a few dark and a spacious cellar all these they now thoroughly ex the last night each closet needed but a glance for all were empty and all by the dust that fell from their doors had stood long the cellar indeed was filled with crazy lumber mostly from the times of the surgeon who was s but even as they opened the door they were advertised of the of further search by the fall of a perfect mat of which had for years sealed up the entrance nowhere was there any trace of henry dead or alive stamped on the of the corridor he must be buried here he said to the sound or he may have fled said and he turned to examine the door in the it was locked and lying near by on the flags they found the key already stained with this does not look like use observed the lawyer use echoed do you not see sir it is broken much as if a man had stamped on it ay continued and the da and too are rusty the two men looked at each other with a scare this is beyond me said the lawyer let us go back to the cabinet they mounted the stair in silence and still with an occasional glance at the dead body proceeded more thoroughly to examine the contents of the cabinet at one table there were traces of work various measured heaps of some white salt being laid on glass as though for an experiment in which the unhappy man had been prevented that is the same that i was always bringing him said and even as he spoke the kettle with a startling noise boiled over this brought them to the fireside where the easy chair was drawn up and the tea things stood ready to the s elbow the very sugar in the cup there were several books on a shelf one lay beside the tea things open and was amazed to find it a copy of a pious work for which had several times expressed a great esteem the last night in his own hand with startling next in the course of their review of the chamber the came to the glass into whose depths they looked with an horror but it was so turned as to show them nothing but the rosy glow playing on the roof the fire sparkling in a hundred along the glazed front of the presses and their own pale and fearful countenances stooping to look in this glass have seen some strange things sir whispered and surely none stranger than itself echoed the lawyer in the same tones for what did � he caught himself up at the word with � k start and then conquering the weakness what could want with it he said tou may say that i said next they turned to the business table on the desk among the neat array of papers a large envelope was uppermost and

in the world the was t forward again her were more fully explained and in reply to lady ber s calm of where shall the child come to sister to you or to us thomas heard with some surprise that it would be totally out of mrs a power to take any share in the personal charge of her he had been considering her as a particularly welcome tion at the as a companion to an aunt who had no children of her own but he found himself il was s to say that die r � � t th mi at least as things then was � at of the on poor mr s indifferent state of h al made it an he could no th a child than he could fly if indeed he should get well of his complaints it would be a e then he glad to take her and of the inconvenience but just mr took up every moment of her and the very mention of such a thing she was sure would � him then she had come to us said lady with the utmost composure after a short pause sir th added with dignity ye let her home be in this house we endeavour to do our duty by her and she will at least have die advantage of of her own age and of a r lar very true cried mrs are both very and it will be just like same to miss lee whether she has three girls to teach or only two there can be no i only i could be more but you see i do all in my power i am not one of that their own trouble and shall her however it may put me to ce to have chief away for three days i suppose you will put ihe child in the little white near the old it will be much the best for her so near miss lee and not far from the girls and close by the who could either of help to dress her you know and take of her clothes for i suppose you would not think it fair to expect to wait on her as well as the others indeed i do not see that you her any e else lady made no opposition hope she will prove a well disposed continued mrs and be s of her uncommon good tone in having her disposition be really bad said sir tho we must not for ou r own s sake � her tiie hut is no to c � o b ft park all evil we shall probably see much to wish altered in and must prepare ourselves for gross ignorance some meanness of opinions and very distressing vulgarity of manner but are not faults nor i trust can they be dangerous for her associates had my daughter been younger than herself i should have considered the introduction of such a companion as a matter of very serious moment but as it is i hope there can be to fear for them and every thing to hope for her from the association that is exactly what i think cried mrs and what i was saying to my husband this morning it will be an education for the child said i only being with her cousins if miss lee taught her she ould learn to be good and clever from them i hope she will not my poor lady i have but just got to leave it alone there will be some difficulty in our way mrs observed sir thomas as to e distinction proper to be made between the girls as they grow up how to preserve in the minds of my daughters the consciousness of what they are without them think too lowly of their cousin and how without her spirits too far to make her that is not a miss i should wish to see them very good friends and would on no account in my girls the smallest degree of towards their relation but still they cannot be equals their rank fortune rights and expectations will always be different it is a point of great delicacy and you must assist us in our to exactly the right line of conduct mrs was quite at his service and though she perfectly agreed with him as to its being a most t thing encouraged him to hope that between them it would be easily managed it will be readily believed that did not write to her sister in vain mrs price seemed rather that a girl should be fixed on when she had so many fine boys but accepted the offer most assuring them of her daughter s b ng a very well han park good humoured girl and trusting they would never cause to throw her off she spoke of her farther as somewhat and hut was sanguine in the hope of her materially better for change of air poor woman she probably change of air might agree with many of her children chapter il the little girl performed her long journey in safety and at was met by mrs who thus re in the credit of being foremost to welcome her and in the importance of leading her in to the others and h r to their kindness price was at this time just ten years old and though there might not be much in her first appearance to there was at least nothing to disgust her relations she was small of her age with no glow of complexion nor any other striking beauty exceedingly timid and shy and shrinking from notice but her air though awkward was not vulgar her voice was sweet and when the spoke her countenance was pretty sir thomas and lady received her very kindly and sir thomas seeing how much she needed encouragement tried to be all that was but he had

she touched it with her lips a sight that may have surprised the spirit of she said don t say anything of this to night except to your mother if you wish you understand dick s temper is so very unpleasant though she added with emphasis i hope you understand also that have no to make to you about him or anybody else i can t help it if he has always � pursued me he had better give up his pursuit now grumbled or there will be trouble quite so well i have no doubt he will when he comes to know only to tell the truth i would rather he didn t know while you are here i don t want a scene well if you like dearest said although i hate it i can go away to morrow morning and meet you in a few days in london and he told her of his shooting engagement that will suit very well indeed she said with relief although as you say it is horrid under our new circumstances especially as to catch that train at liverpool street you will have to leave by eight to morrow well you will be back on saturday so we must make the best of it good gracious look at the clock the dinner bell will ring in two minutes and you are not dressed go at once dear or � it will be noticed there that is enough go darling my lover who will be my husband go and went it was not so bad as it might have been thought to herself as rubbing her face with her lace handkerchief the while she watched the door close behind him and really he is very nice oh why can t i care for him more if i could we should be happy whereas now i don t know fancy his telling me that story what a curious man it must have been i have heard something of the sort dick suggested as much but i thought it was only one of his that s why cousin george hates him so � for he does hate him although he upon my marrying him yes i see it all now and i can remember that she was a very beautiful and a very foolish woman poor innocent came down to dinner ten minutes late to find that everybody had gone in arriving under cover of the fish he took the chair which was left for him by lady who always liked him to sit upon her right hand he noted with sorrow was some way off between two of the shooting guests and three places removed from dick who occupied the end of the table my dear said lady you are terribly late and i could wait no longer it spoils the cook now you shall have no soup as a punishment what did you go to sleep over that big book of yours up in the library g mai of tbe spirit he made some excuse and the matter passed off while he ate or pretended to eat his fish in silence indeed to him in his excited state of mind this splendid and rather new year s feast proved the strangest ot there was a curious air of about it could he after the wonderful and glorious thing that had happened to him utterly changing the vista of his life making it grand and noble as the columns of beneath the moon be the same who had gone out shooting that morning could the handsome german lady who sat by him on the cooking be the same passion torn doom haunted woman who told him how she had crawled upon her knees after her mocking husband for the prize of her infant s soul nay was it she who sat there at all was it not another whom he well remembered in that seat the lovely with her splendid unhappy eyes full of the of death and destruction those eyes that he felt still watched him he knew not whence him warning him he knew not of what was the gay and beautiful lady yonder who laughed and with her companions the same to whom he had vowed himself not an hour gone yes it must be so for there upon her finger gleamed his golden ring and what was more dick had seen it for he was watching her hand with a frown upon his handsome face why too wondered did another vision thrust itself upon him at this moment that of the temple of bathed in the evening lights which turned the waters of the red as though with blood and of the smiling and colossal statues of the fi monarch of long ago whose ring was set upon s hand in token of their of the dark white haired figure of old also who had not crossed his mind for many a day standing there among the rocks and calling to him that they would meet again calling to dick and also something that he could not understand and then turning to speak to a shadow behind her � � � � � � � � the meal ended at last and as was the custom in this house men and women left the table together to go into the great hall hung with and with where there would be music and perhaps dancing to follow and all might smoke who wished here were some other guests the village clergyman s daughters and two families from the neighbourhood making a party of twenty or thirty in all and here also was mrs who had dined in her own room and come down to see the old year out went to sit by his mother for a kind of shyness kept him away from she laid her hand on his and with a smile that made her grey and face

agreeable person bright and a certain easy charm which when by � through the medium also of the many opportunities in which he would have made himself useful or pleasant to you � you would have thought him a good fellow highly acceptable as a guest a or a brother in law whether all mothers would have liked him as a son is another question it is a fact perhaps kept a little too much in the back ground that mothers have a self larger than their and that when their sons have become taller than themselves and are gone from them to college or into the are wide spaces of their time which are filled with praying for their boys reading old letters and yet blessing those who are attending to their shirt buttons mrs ome was certainly not one of those bland and gently tearful women after sharing the common dream that when a beautiful was born to her her cup of happiness would be full she had through long years apart from that child to find herself at last in the presence of a son of whom she was afraid who was utterly by her and to whose sentiments in any given case she possessed no key was a kind son he kissed his mother s brow her his arm let her choose what she liked for the house and l n asked her whether she would have of for her new carriage and was bent on seeing her as good a figure in the neighborhood as any other woman of her rank she trembled this kindness it was not enough to satisfy her still if it should ever cease and give place to something else � she was too about s feelings to imagine clearly what that something would be the finest threads such as no eye sees if bound about the sensitive flesh so that the to break them would bring torture may make a worse bondage than any f rs felt the fatal threads about her and the bitterness of this helpless bondage mingled itself with the new of the dining drawing rooms and all the household changes which had ordered to be brought with quickness nothing was as she had once expected it would be if had shown the least care to have her stay in the room with him � if he had really cared for her opinion he had been what she had dreamed he would be in the eyes of those people who had made her world f all the past could be dissolved and leave no solid trace of mighty that were all impossible � she would have tasted some joy but now she began to look back with regret to the days when she sat in loneliness among the old and still longed for something that might happen save in a bitter little speech or in deep sigh heard by no one besides she kept all these things hidden in her heart and went out d in the autumn sunshine to overlook the alterations in the pleasure grounds very much as a happy woman might have done day however when she was occupied in this way an occasion came on which she chose to express indirectly a part of her inward care she was standing on the broad gravel in the afternoon the long shadows lay on the grass the light seemed the more glorious because of the and golden trees the were busy at their pleasant work the soil gave out an agreeable f and little harry was playing with round old mr who sat placidly on a low garden chair the scene would have made charming picture of english domestic life an the handsome majestic gray haired woman ob would have been especially admired but the artist would have f lt it requisite to turn her face toward her husband and little and to have given her an elderly of expression which would have divided remark with his exquisite rendering of her indian shawl i s face was turned the other way and for this reason she only heard an approaching step and did not see whose it was yet it startled her it was not quick enough to be her son s step and besides was away at it was mr s � � chapter ix a woman naturally bom to � john � some sorrow in is toward me and my with nothing � approached mrs taking off his hat and smiling she did not but said you knew was not at home yes i came to see you to know if you had any wishes that i could further since i hate not had an opportunity of consulting you since he came home let us walk toward the then they turned together mr still keeping his hat off and holding it behind him the air was so soft and agreeable mrs herself had nothing but a large veil over her head they walked for a little while in silence till they were out of sight under tall trees and treading noiselessly on fallen leaves what was really most anxious about was to learn from mrs whether anything had that was significant of s disposition toward him which he suspected to be from friendly was not naturally hearted at five and twenty he had written verses and had got himself wet through order not to disappoint a dark eyed woman whom he was proud to believe in love with him but a family man with grown up sons and daughters a man with a professional the radical position and complicated affairs that make it hard to ascertain the exact relation between property and necessarily thinks of himself and what may be impending is remarkably acute and clever he began at last since mrs did not speak if he gets into parliament i have no he will distinguish himself he has a quick eye for

eye glasses slipped off his poor nose he begged in sudden tones of old friendship why you can t be thinking of leaving us why we expect to make a big man of you i was joking about firing you you ought to know that after the talk we had at s the other night you can t be m thinking of leaving there s no end of here said the dogged soldier of dreams why that hurt and astonished victim of ingratitude mr i ll leave the middle of june that s plenty of j notice mr at five that evening mr dashed up to the i brass man at his station before the crying you come from ireland don t you now what would you oh no i m a from no honest straight tell me i ve got a chance to travel what d think of that ain t it and i m going right away what i wanted to ask you was what s the best place in ireland to see o course i was born there from his pocket a pencil and a worn envelope mr added the new point of interest to a list from bay to he up town looking at the stars he shouted as he saw the of a big up at the end of street he stopped to chuckle over a of the at the window of a greek j s stand stars � steamer � temples all these were his he owned them now he was free lee sat waiting for him in the till ten thirty while he was with at the grand central then she went to bed and though he knew it not that prince of wealthy j mr had entirely lost the heart and hand of f v he stood before the manager s god like desk on june � sadly good by mr leaving to day i wish i e walks with miss i wish i could tell you you know � about how much appreciate the manager moved a wire basket of copies of letters from the left side of his desk to the right staring at them thoughtfully his in a pile before his ink well glanced at the point of an pencil with a manner of startled examination tapped his desk with his then raised his eyes he studied mr smiled put on the look he used when inviting him out for a drink mr was essentially an honest fellow by the job a well satisfied victim with the imagination clean gone out of him so that he took follow up letters and the of office boys as the only serious things in the world he was strong alive not at all a bad chap merely efficient well i suppose there s no use of rubbing it in course you know what i think about the whole thing it strikes me you re a fool to leave a good job but after all that s your business not ours we like you and when you get tired of being just a bum why come back we ll always try to have a job open for you meanwhile i hope you ll have a mighty good time old man where you going when d start out why first i m going to just kind of wander round generally lots of things i d like to do i think i ll get away real soon now � thank you awfully mr for keeping a place open for me course i ly won t need it but i sure do appreciate it say i don t believe you re so crazy about leaving us after all now that the cards are all out straight now are yes sir it does make me feel a blue � been here so long but it be awful good to get out at sea i know i d like to go myself � i suppose you fellows think i wouldn t care to go around like you do and never have to worry about how the firm s going to break even but well i i these k h aft our mr v good by old man and don t forget us drop me a line now and then and let me know how you re getting along oh say if you happen to see any that look good let us hear about them but drop me a line anyway we ll always be glad to hear from you well good by and good luck sure and drop me a line in the corner which had been his home for eight years mr could not devise any new and yet more improved arrangement of the wire baskets and and desk so he cleaned a pen blew some gray dust from under his iron ink well standard and decided that his desk was in order reflecting he d been there a long time now he could never come back to it no matter how much he wanted to how good the manager had been to him he hadn t appreciated how he started down the corridor on a round of to the boys too bad he hadn t never got better acquainted with them but it was too late now anyway they were such fine jolly sports they d never miss a stupid like him just then he met them in the corridor all of them except by the and carpenter who was bearing a box of handkerchiefs with a large green and c rim son pa per nor upon this suspicious occasion we have the pleasure of showing by this small token of our esteem our of your in the investigation of r of the trust and say old man joking aside we re mighty sorry you re going and � � well we d like to give you something to show we re � � mighty sorry

her intending to do it if the elders objected but confided in her having good reasons i don t know i can t tell what i shall do till i get are often wrong they foresee what is likely i am not fond of what is likely it is always dull i do what is unlikely ah there you tell me a secret when once i knew what people in general would be likely to do i should know you would do the opposite so you would have come round to a of your own sort i shall be able to calculate on you you couldn t surprise me yes i could i should turn round and do what was likely for people in general said with a musical laugh daniel d� you see you can t escape some sort of and makes the strongest of all you must give up a plan no i shall not my plan is to do what pleases me here should any young lady incline to imitate let her consider the set of her head and neck if the angle there had been different the chin and the a trifle more curved in their position ten to one s words have had a jar in them for the sweet natured but everything odd in her speech was humour and pretty which he was only anxious to turn towards one point can you manage to feel only what pleases you said he of course not that comes from what other people do but if the world were pleasanter one would only feel what was pleasant girls lives are so stupid they never do what they like i thought that was more the case of the men they are forced to do hard things and are often dreadfully bored and knocked to pieces too and then if we love a girl very dearly we want to do as she likes so after all you have your own way i don t believe it i never saw a married woman who had her own way book l � the spoiled child what should you like to do said quite and in real anxiety oh i don t know � go to the north pole or ride or go to be a queen in the east like lady said her words were bom on her lips but she would have been at a loss to give an answer of deeper origin you don t mean you would never be married no i didn t say that only when i married i should not do as other women do you might do just as you liked if you married a man who loved you more dearly than anything else in the world said who poor youth was moving in outside the in which he had promised to win distinction i know one who does don t talk of mr for heaven s sake said hastily a quick blush spreading over her face and neck that is s chant hear the hounds let us go on she put her chestnut to a and had no choice but to her still he felt encouraged was perfectly aware that her cousin was in love with her but she had no idea that the matter was of any consequence having never had the slightest of pain daniel d� ful love herself she wished the small romance of s devotion to fill up the time of his stay at and to avoid explanations which would bring it to an end besides she objected with a sort of physical to being directly made love to with all her imaginative delight in being adored there was a certain of in her but all other thoughts were soon lost for her in the excitement of the scene at the three several gentlemen of the hunt knew her and she exchanged pleasant greetings could not get another word with her the colour the stir of the field had taken possession of with a strength which was not due to habitual association for she had never yet ridden after the hounds � only said she should like to do it and so drawn forth a her mamma the danger and her uncle declaring that for his part he held that kind of violent exercise in a woman and that whatever might be done in other parts of the country no lady of good position followed the hunt no one but mrs the captain s wife who had been a kitchen maid and still spoke like one this last argument had some on and had kept her halting between her desire to assert her book i � the spoiled child freedom and her horror of being with mrs some of the most women in the neighbourhood occasionally went to see the hounds throw oflf but it happened that none of them were present this morning to from following while mrs with her doubtful and otherwise was not visible to make following seem thus felt no check on the animal that came from the stir and tongue of the hounds the of the horses the varying voices of men the movement hither and thither of vivid colour on the background of green and grey stillness � that utmost excitement of the coming chase which consists in feeling something like a combination of dog and horse with the thrill of social and consciousness of power which belong to human kind would have felt more of the same enjoyment if he could have kept nearer to and not seen her constantly occupied with acquaintances or looked at by would be acquaintances all on lively horses which about and swept the surrounding space as effectually as a revolving glad to see you here this fine morning miss daniel said lord a middle aged peer of aristocratic in stained pink with easy going manners which would have made the threatened seem of no consequence we

while she was making a distinction where there was li difference herself in she i j in accord she had made to break an accepted ik law but no law known to the en in which i fancied herself such an it was a in the n attacked by the warm were di t into isolated within hollows and where they waited till they should be an to not the sun on account of the mist a maiden no personal look demanding the masculine for its adequate expression his present aspect coupled with the lack of all human forms in the scene explained the in a moment one could feel that a religion had never prevailed imder the sky the was a golden haired beaming faced mild eyed creature gazing down in the vigor and of youth upon an earth that was with interest for him his light a little later broke through of cottage shutters throwing like red hot upon of drawers and other furniture within and awakening who were not already but of all ruddy things that morning the brightest were two broad arms of painted wood which rose from the margin of a corn field hard by village they with two others below formed the revolving cross of the machine which had been brought to the field on the previous to be ready for operations this day the paint with which they were in hue by tlie sunlight imparted to them a look of having bee i dipped in liquid fire the field had already been opened that is to say a lane a few feet wide had been hand cut through the wheat along the whole of the field for the first passage of the horses and machine two groups one of men and lads the other of women had come down the lane just at the hour when the shadows of the eastern hedge top struck the west hedge so that the heads of the groups were enjoying sunrise while their feet were still in the dawn they disappeared from the lane between the two stone posts which the nearest field gate presently there arose from within a like the love of the the machine had begun and � moving was visible over the gate a driver i of the d n one of tbe and cm the seat of the along side of the the whole went the arms of the me re revolving slowly till it passed down the hill quite oi sight in a minute it came up on the other side of the at the same pace the glistening star in of the fore horse catching the eye as it rose view over the then the bright arms and then whole machine the narrow lane of the field wider with each circuit and the standing com was to smaller area as the morning wore on makes retreated inward as into a aware of the nature of their refuge doom that awaited them later in the day when their shrinking to a more and more horrible the were huddled together friends and foes till the last few of upright wheat fell also the teeth of the and they were every one put to death by and stones of the the machine left the fallen com behind it in little heaps h heap being of tbe quantity for a af npon these tlie active in the rear laid their � mainly women but some of them men in print � � trousers supported around their by r rendering useless the two buttons behind and with at every movement of b as if they were a pair of eyes in the small of ui back but those of the other sex were the most company of by reason of tbe charm by woman when she becomes part and nature and is not merely an set down thi as at ordinary times a man is a a woman is a portion of the field she has no i re b lost her own the of her surrounding and herself with it the women � or rather girls for they were mostly young � drawn cotton i ith great flapping to p off tht and gloves to prevent their hands by the there was one wearing a jacket another in a cream tight another in a as red a the arms of the machine and others older in the brown rough � cr or over all � th� old established and most appropriate dress of tho the young one s morning the eye returns u the girl in tho pink cotton jacket she being the most and finely drawn figure of them all but her bonnet is pulled so far over her brow that none of her face is disclosed she though her complexion may be guessed from a stray or two of dark brown hair which the curtain of her bonnet per j h one reason why she casual attention is that � he never courts it though the other women often gaze around her binding proceeds with clock like monotony the last finished she draws a handful of ears patting � h ir tips with her left palm to bring them even then � low she moves ard gathering the com with i � against her knees and pushing her left i under the bundle to meet the right on tho other side ij the com in an embrace like that of a lover � rings tlie ends of the bond together and on the ij af while she ties it beating back her skirts now and when lifted by the breeze a bit of her naked arm is between the leather of the and the eve of her gown and as the day we rs on its feminine becomes by the and at intervals she stands up to rest and to re tie her of tub d or to her bonnet straight then

a much bolder spirit than mine and as each man either put in or pretended to put something in one a cent another a button or a she responded thank you and god bless you i was ashamed to make an appeal to them there for the poor girl so i walked with her a little further on and waited until the blue clad came along and their retired to warm themselves without and within in the saloon in front of which they had been standing i the woman who had taken up the collection and asked her if she could take care of a poor girl who needed help badly and i was struck by the kindness with which she turned and after a moment s glance held out her hand to the girl come with us she said and we will take you where you will find friends even then the young woman appeared too frightened to accept her invitation she clung to me and seemed to by john marvel assistant rely upon me asking me to go with her but partly from shame and partly from what may possibly have been a better motive i told her my way led elsewhere and after persuasion she went with the and i walked home happier than i had been in some time i even took some steps to call public attention to the horrible story the poor had told me of her frightful experience and actually wrote it up but when i took it to a paper � the one that had published my first article � i was given to understand that the account was quite incredible the editor a fox faced man of middle age with whom my paper secured me the honor of an interview informed me that the story was an old one and that they had it thoroughly and found it without the slightest foundation if i wanted further proof of this he said he would refer me to mr g one of the leading lawyers in the city who had conducted the investigation y by the i believe mis would have let me stay on free almost for she was a kind hearted soul imposed on by her but i had been playing the gentleman there and i could not bring myself to come down in her esteem i really did not know whether i should be able to to pay her so when my time was up i moved again to my landlady s great surprise and she thought me stuck up and ungrateful and was a little hurt over it when in fact i only did not want to cheat her and was moving out to the poorest part of the city to a little house on which i had observed one afternoon during one of my the notice of a room for rent at a dollar a week i think a rose bush carefully trained over the door decided me to take it it gave me a bit of home feeling the violet of course is in color and delicacy the emblem of the tenderest sentiment of the heart the all withered when my father died sighed poor and next to a rose bush growing in the sun and dew has ever stood to me for the purest sentiment that the heart can hold i heard shortly afterward of the engagement of miss to the man she used to laugh at but after a single wave of mortification that should have won where i had lost i did not mind it i went out to look by john marvel assistant at the sunny house with the trees and the rose about it and wonder how i could meet miss the room i took when i left s was only a cupboard some nine feet by six in the little house i have mentioned but it was clean like the stout blue eyed woman who with skirt tucked up came to the door when i applied for lodging as the price was nearer my figure than any other i had seen i closed with mrs and the afternoon i left mrs s sent my trunk over in advance it held the entire of my life there was something about the place and the woman that attracted me as poor as the house it was beyond the quarter and well out in the edge of the city with a bit of grass before it and there were not only plants in the windows well cared for but there was even a rose bush beside the door making a feeble attempt to over it with the aid of strings and carefully adjusted the only question my landlady asked me was whether i was a and when i told her no but that i was veiy fond of music she appeared satisfied her husband she said was a i asked if i might bring my dog and she assented even to this fond of animals she said when i bade good by to mrs and my friends at the board ing i was pleased at the real regret they showed at my leaving miss and miss came down to the drawing room in their best by the to say good by miss with her scratch quite straight and miss said if they ever went back home she hoped very much i would honor them by coming to see them while miss with a more practical turn hoped i would come and see them there � and you may even bring your dog with you she added with what i knew was a proof of real friendship i promised faithfully to come for i was touched by the kindness of the two old ladies who like myself had slipped from the sphere in which they had belonged and i was rather grim at the reflection that they had been brought there by others while i