holy virginl exclaimed the old woman when instantly the object of her terror bounded forward exclaiming sure its only me nelly dont be frightened i weary on you charlie connellanl is it ou that have come here to scare us out of our swits yes nelly i knew you would be lato coming home and i thought id just watch that nothing came across you so wandered about hoping you would not notice me in the dark and thinking i would still be near without your being the wiser for kathleens grown so proud shell scarce speak to me now that she is going from the glen


but come kathleen he continued seizing her not unwilling hand and pressing it within his well have this one more walk together


then graspipg nellys arm with the other hand he guided them cautiously and safely over bog and heather till they gained the high road crossed it and reached a lane leading to their dwelling


they were met here by dermid husband of nelly


you are very late lihe said and i was going in search of you but charlio told me he would watch to see you get sale home so i stayed to boil the potatoes for supper


come in charlie youll not refuse to take a morsel with us when it may be the last time


they entered the house which had a most comfortless appearance being nearly devoid of furniture yet there was a fire a thearth the steam from the potatoesaroso in front of it and some milk stood on a piece of wood raised at either end to serve for a table


the cottage inhabited by dermid and nelly stood at the extremity of a wooded glen such as is to be seen frequently on the banks of a mountain rivulet in the north of ireland


it was a highly picturesque spot


near it stood a flax mill the property of dermid all that he possessedin addition being a piece of ground denomineated a garden for potatoes and a field for pasture


here however hi had lived in comparative happiness


lhis wants were few and he had few cares


for many years when not labouring on his ground he had found con stant employment at the mill but of late it had gone out of repair and dermvid was grow ing old and unable for hard work


the late proprietor of the estate on whlich hie lived had died some years before leaving hiis son an ab eentee in possesslon of the property whlich lie placed under the management of an agedit a stranger totho place who cared olily for col lecting the rents and was regardless of the cir cumstances or wants of the tenantry


dermid had been long in arrear his only child a youth of promisiag appearance and character and to whom ho hod looked forward as the stay of his declining years had suddenly conceivced theoitesire of enlisting in the army


it was said that he was moved to this by grief becauso a canont of his church destroyed all his hopes of marstigo with his fair cousin


ilis father and mother did everything in their power to dissundohlim from his purpose but he was inexorable


all his earnings he said should be theirs and iekept his promise as far as was in his power and by means of his savings transmitted regularly to them he en ibled them to live free fronm any difficulties in the payment of their rent until in an evil hour his regiment was ordered to the west indies


no letter or remittance came from hinm for the space of a long year and then tidings came that he had died a victim to the climate


the pride and hope of his parents thus taken from them they were inconsolable pressed for their rent they had not wherewithlal to pay it


dermid would have parted with his mill and the field adjoining it and a neighbour would gladlyhavo given hint an equivalent for them which would have enabled him to pay his lnsid lord and to retain possession of the cottage and garden but he was told that permission to di vide his property could not be granted


re port said that the agent wanted to build a shootinglodge near the spot and that lhe did notrchoose it to look out upon the hovels of the pdasuantry


whatever truth might be in the latterstattment certain it was that an offer had heieifnade to


dermid of ihavig ihis passage jiidiowell nshlot of his family to ameriea provitid they chose to accept of it rather than be driven to destitution or to the necessity of spending the remainder of their days in one of the workhouses just then about to be erected throughout the country


it was a sad alternative but what could they do


their chief support for sonme time past had been derived from the exertions of kath leon who had laboured hard at hier needle yet could not gain a sufliciency for theirlivcelihood independent of asny of tihe comlforts which ad vanced years or a time of sickness might re quire


kifathleen was justly esteemed a beauty and the pride of gleotrd


lier mother who died in giving her birth had eutrusted her child to the care of her sister nelly by whom shie hlad been nurtured with all a mothers tenderness ald when the father of katlaeeo was also ta kess from iher before shoe ihad arrived at woman iood she found a welcome in the homne of der mid and was by hint and nelly instructed in the little stock of usefill practical knowledge befitting her station


sire returned the kind ness bestowed upon her with tie warm anffec tion of a daughter although differing from her guardians on one essential point


her father who was a protestant had early instructed her in the doctrines of his church


she could read and write well and sheo ind learned to derive solid advantage front what she read by regular attendance at a sundayschool in thie neigh bouring village and when her father at his death consigned her to the care of her mater netal relatives lie made it his parting request and the condition of her stay with them that she should be suffered to relmain undisturbed in the profession of iher faith


throlghl the kindness of the rectors family site had been placed at a workiog school where in addition to plain needlewortk she had learned embroi dery on muslin or flowerieg as it is poetically termed by tihe peasant girls


by means of the latter accomplishment hier earnings lhad been considerable so long as tihe reetors daughter could supply her with work or could procure it for her fromn ladies of her acqaaiutnnce but when this failed and shoe was obliged to dopend on a supply from a distant warehouse the pay there was


small aud


she had little profit from her unceasing daily labours


dermid had a brother living in new york who in his letters gave a favourable account of ale emigrants to that city


lie had often wish ed dermid to follow hint there and iad pro mised to befriend him as much as lay in his power should he everthink of making the now world his adopted country


katlseens work heo said would readily procure for her a hand some livelihood and his brother and nelly should have a homno at his house until they could procure someno occupation suited to their declining years


never could i leave my own country said dermid as long as i had a house over my head


and so it would be still if the old landlord had lived for i had his word for it and he was ayo good to the tenants but its worse than useless fighting with power when you have only poverty on your side


an sure its better to die of want in a strange land than among your own people not to say how your life may be taken fromt you in one of them poorihouses where i am told we are all to hbe shut up


if i could get work i am strong and hale vet though lm not young


they say theres employment for us all in america and i could keep you out of want there nelly and ifasthlcon would be a help and comfort to us both


bitter was the grief of nelly when she found her husbands decision was made


was it not trouble enough she said to have their bit of a shelter takeu from them and to be turned out of the glenthat beloved spot where they had passed so many years


but they mnst be driven in their old days to a foreign laud there to live andl there to die amongst strangersif they lived to cross the sea


and if dermid would but yet wait awhile till the young lord her own fosterson was come lome ie would surely befriend them and give hem their rights


but there had been do tidings of the young noblemans returr and years might pass away before he should revisit his paternal property


tihe estate of lord glenard suffered from the twofold miseries of ast absentee landlord and a nonresident agent


the visits of the latter who sojourned in a distant town were made once in six mlonths and then ihe came merely to receive tile rents not to inquire into the wants or prosperity of tihe tenants


during thesevisits he staid at the village inn aud all who cahne to wait on him were received with a bland countenance and affable manner but lhe seldom went abroad amongst the people and those who could not or would not bring their money on the appointed day were alikeo left to the mercy of his bniliff oreilly by name a person exccedingly unpopular not only on ac count ofthe ofrice which he held but more es pecially from his having on one occasion sub jected himself to the odium which is attached throughout irelanl to tie name of an informer


sonme years back when the trade ia illicit distillation was carried oil to so grout an ex tent that the government fosnd it necessary to ilave recourse to the most determnined measures for its suppression a noted distiller rwho had iis residence in a wild mountainous district cominge under tse denominiation of glenard ilad long pursued hiis illegal practices andl had eo often evaded the searchl of the oflicers of justice that ie ihad become asmarked man and at lengthl a reward wasofltered for hiis discovery andcapoture


the task of making known hiis haunts and of dlelivering up hiis person to the reveouo oflicer of the district was undertaken by olieilly for tile sakeof tie proffered reward


lie prsuecd his plan of action with so muchl secrecy that a party of soldiers had entered the gles snobservedtwcro guided warily along a slefiloe where was no human habitation nsd aided by the dim twilight of a november morning that serrved to mark out their way whilst too fint to make a disclosure of their mirchl to any but the nearest obscrror they ihald conmened surrounding a hiill inuethi which lay the object of their search befier he had the slighltest intimation of thleir approach


jtst then a faithful dog gave notice to his master by a low growling noise of the impened ing danger


ie listeted eagerlycaught the sound of coming footstepswas soon aware tlhat many were sdvantciug then climlbing steaclthily an adjoining heighit from which heo could catch a glimpse of the military array was convinced that he had no refuge but ia flight and darting forward he ran with all speed in the direction of the mountain aban doning his still his cabin and their contents to ithe mercy of the enemy


unnoticed by the latter he was far ia


advance ere they discovered by a diligent search througoug t the iut that its owner hand fled


oreilly now traced some footsteps on the grass and still guided by hinm the soldiers do


ternmtued to pursuno the delinquent and bring him if possible tojustico


blt youngtt active aindl fleet of foot ihe bad alrieady preceded tihem same distance on the same course whetn all at once reaching tie inountain stream itoe doubled on his pursuers passed thoin by under cover of its banks and whero it became ddeper swain unperceived to the opposite side gained the platilng itn the glen and slackened not hli speed until hlt found himself under shelter of the first roof that presented itself to his view


it was the mill of jcrmid and hero beneath a hoap of flax he lay hid for the remainder of the day unseen by tile inmntes of the cottage as well as by all others and when night canto he left his hidtngplace and not long after it was ascertained that he had foand refugeo in a foreign country


the soldiers returned disappointed of tleir captive and the informant lost his reward


ilumontrs were nfloat of the figitiver having been concealed in the mill and it was cirrone ously reported that its owner had connived at his escape but dermid proved himself to be guiltless of thlis clharge


oreilly alone was obstinate in the belief that through tie agency of the miller het had been foiled in his hope of obtaining a large stun of mtoney and revenge rankled in his heart towards one beloved and respectoa throughout theil district whilst he himself was hated and shunned


the time at length ename when he might witlout fear of consequcncef gratify his vin dictive spirit


by mearitns of his adroitness in thie management of a particular business lie had gained the favour of the agent who after wrards employed himt not only in his ofllice of bailiff but also ascounsellor with regard to each tenant on tile estate


ieriids farm was soon brought under the agents consideration and his nonpayment of rent was urged as a deci ded reason for his dismissal


to this was ad od the likelihood that ie and his fitmily might at no distant period become inmates of the workhouse and thus be a burden on the pro perty


a notice was therefore sent to him signtifying that ihe must leavro te te house on or before tlie ist of may and to make the matter more sure mr telzifair himself came tip one morning to the glenan event of rare occur rence and made dcrmid the offer of a free passago to the united states


ctltirttr to


to stay was well nigh impossible and when the lirst struggle was over and their determi nation mnade the fainilyat the cottage betook themselves to making preparations for their do parture


their slender store of household goods had been sold by auction on the morning of that day when they were first introduced to the reader with the exception of a few neces sary articles which bheyr meant to carry with them


in all his exertions dermid found a ready help in kathleen who did everything in hlir power to assist liher uncle and to assuage the grief of her aunt and yet she ilcrself per haps was not the least sorrowful of the party


she had long been loved by charlio connellan nod his love had been returned wilth a fervour tinknown even to herself until the time came for them to part


best formed and handsomest of the youths in and around glceard charles had received from nature in addition to these outward ad vantages the ftr better gifts of a finle disposi tion anda warmt alleetionato heart


his mo ral character was irreproachable and his relli glous principles were well grounded


educa ted in the protestant faith ihe was a sincera and steady member of the church of england


lle had for some time held the situation of under gardener at tie ark and was thus enabled to support himlself and an aged mlotber ani also to furnish his house with such things as hf can sidered necessary before declaring openly his attachment to kathleltcri or asking the consent of her uncle and aunt to their marriage


but of late a scottish gardener had been brought over who had undertaken the work with tihe assistanco only of a little boy and tile old man who formerly held the situation together with chairlie wore thrown out of employment


our ihero had now nothing on which to depend but the precarious occupation of a daylabourer


it was a sad blow to his prospects bcsides being the loss of a comfortable subsistence hi therto aflfaded him by means of constant work and regular payment


but he thought kiathleen will help me to bear ithe hardship and liher work joined to mine will surely keep us from want


improvidence and lack of forethought are said with truth to be thile charateristics of tihe irish peasantry but they are as frequently the consequence as tlhe cause of their extreme po verty


accustomed to depend on their daily labour for their daily support they seldocm think beyond the present


the past is gone the future must provide for itself and thus they form alliances caiculated to increase the pleasure and happiness of today while to morrow may bring its double weight of care and suffering


charles was again doomed to meet with an unforseen drawback to his happiness


dermid was about to leave ioe glen and to repair with his fiamily to america atd kathlecn would be torn from him for ever


he tried all his eloquence to prevail on her to remain behind but rice was inexorabll in adhering to her duty


gladly would be have forsaken home and country to follow her across the sea but he could not forsake an aged and blind mother who was too infirim to accompany him


tihe supper of lwhichi the party in the cottage partook on the evening before described was a melancholy meal and it passed over nearly in silence


ianthllcu bad washed the few rcmain ing kitchen utensils cnd swept the hearth when clarles seating himself oai a chest con taiting the stores for their voyage and drawing hlier towards him encircled lier waist with one arm and said karltleen i ever thought you would be true to nme since the day you told me that no other man should be your wedded husband and i could not have believed the time would come for you to desert me thus


i hare toiled long and hard for your sake and thought it all too little to win your love


and what have i now ill return but sorrow and bitterness of heart


once more listen to me ronmmber your promise and give up your cruel purpose


you say you could not desert your parents but they will find nieces ayo and nephelws too wllere they are goingand i shall never find onoi to make up to me for the loss of n athlacnll


ibesides all this i lavo


dermidt full and free consent to your stiy iprovided i gain your own andl am con vinced


lthat nelly will not withhold here if you will but say you wish itif you will but be truet to hin who has always been true to you


mly child saidl the old man i knew not tntil this day that yaou antd charles had plight ed your troth to one anothler and surely if it be your wish to stay with him i will not be tihe one to gainsay you knowing well as i do that a hioma in iis house would be better for you than a htard service where you are going


mo not unwilling tlhent to speak your minld for though it awould be grief unspcakable to part with you i am not so selfish as to bid you go


ad nelly resumed charles will you not speak for ue


nelly clasped her lalonds together and raised her eves wkhil an air of deep emotion


sho then said you were yoe good and kind to me and since your childliooad yoti have been my espo cial charge


have tended you with a mio thers care and it would libe sore grief to me to part withli you fo i tlhoughlt soaulohotv you would not wish to beo tihe bride of another when you could inot be his thats awaylim


that loived you better than all beside


but sine its your notion to marry theres not one in all tha glenside that i anould soonerbes tow oit onthatn charlio connellan


hes not one of our own sort and thatsthe worst i edii say of him anod its no drawback to yowlhy shoold it


hut hes a good boy and honest and suber and i know heol be kind to you when i am far away stay with hil theu my daughter stay wvitt hims und think it not yoiur duty to give him up for the old couple


ithoy have short thno to live in this world and when the time comes for them to he alled away they will gladly receive the summons thiet is to end their mortal sorrows


some minutes had elapsed before kathleen was able to reply so many conllieting emotions rose withli her breast as she listened to the words of each


lher hend sank ou thl slhoul der of her lover and tears fell fiss from her eyes


at length making a powerful cffort to restrain her feelings she witldrew herself gently but firmly from his hold and stood erect on the cabin floor while with a glowing check and an oye that losing its habitual soft ness kindled as she spoke charlio connellan sioo said whatevera promises i may haveo made to you they weore nover made to interfere with the sacred dnties of a child nor if they did so would you think


too worthy of your love


when i owned that i loved you above all others dlid i say that i should hlie yours unconditionally


dd


i tnot tell you i should do nooght unbefitting the res poet and roverenco which i owe to these my parents


i have never boon yours charles


i shoild inot in tearing myself from you it present he breaking any hand htl t lthat of af fection


but i have been long theirs they have watched over and nourished mowhen


i was unable to take care of myself aifditiivold ill beseemr me to desert them at a tileh rihcn they most need any return iean nmo sik theind of care or kindness


think of


tlino


httfo iut long voyage think of them wlhoten udtd ion ti foreign shore with not one whomn thsknow


at least not one whom they have seen tor yearsto eheer and comfort theinm and to lbe thus left desolate by mel no i cannot stay


though seas roll between its we may still be constalst to one another and we maytyet live to meet again


but for mo


to stay now would be to break the commandment of god who has said ilonour thy father and thy mo ther


a fatlher and a mother they have


been to me and were i not to honour tlhe and ho true to them you might well imagine charlie that i could not be true to yon


she could say no more


lier voice faltered her cheek grew pale and she sank for sup port on the bosom of her aunt


charles did not attempt to reply


lle saw that herporpose was not to he shaken and lie felt that she was neting rightly and smiting his foreheadnwitlh his clenched hand hle rushed from the house


the next mornilngit was the last of her staykathleen stole away at an early hour aild wandered through the glen to take a last farewell of the scenes sihe so dearly


loved


crossing the river by the steplpigstones she ascended the fiarther side where barren rocks and heath contrasted well with the wooded bank on the side opposite


reaching thie upper eid sihe stood many minuites on the bridge which crossed tle stream looking lown its coarse as far as the eye could reach then gain ing tihe poithway through the wood she descend ed on the side next tlhe cottage


hero site often paused to gaze on each well remembered spot


not a tree was there not a rock not a hond of the stream but recalled to her mind childhoods happy ihours when light hearted as tile bird on tile thorn she had bounded swiftly along the rivers side or climbed its hanks in search of berries and wild flowers


amid these loved haunts her


young days had passed in ignorance of the


world save that little circle which formsed her own im tmediate neighbourhood


lbero she had spent the happiest periods of her life they were fled and all beyolnd seemed sad and sorrowful


she had gained a steelp precipitous path


which lcd to tihe summit of the bhank she clambered to the top and looked around on the whole extent of country that lay beneath


on every side sthe could discern the dwelling of some kind friend or young companion with whom it was grief to part


to the westward lay a wild extent of country coinnonly called the glen


it was inhabited by an uncultivated race of people yet there were anmongst theon many kind hearts


many thero were oivho loved kathleon for her truly estimable quali ties antd some too who envied her for the simple graces of her person because they won for her the adnmiration which theyl themselves had failed to obtain


nearer lay the rectors abodo and the view of its white walls neat hedges and clumps of evergreens awakenod the liveliest feelings of gratitude towards its inu mates gratitude for the truest and best blessingthat of instruction i her ditties as a christian dosnwardl


still thse distalt villige smoko remitded her of her kind schoolmistress of her


favorite young cotompaiotns with whom slhe had spent ihours that flow fast away whilst engaged in useful employment there also stood the church to which on the sun days site had repaired to join in sworship and to learn the lessons of piety drawn from holy writ


last of all about half way between the village and who sithe stood her eye rested on the cottage of old ilannah conlnellan the mother of charlie


her heart sickened as she gazed at an abode round which an air of peculiar neatness bespoke the taste of its in mate


she turned away her head and breathling a prayer for all the friends from whom at that hour she seemed to havo parted for over sheo again descended theobank to the pathway


near her stood a mosscovered stone on which she leaned to rest and to recover from her varying emotions


she had plucked a few primroses from the bank


tl wonder she said if there are flowers as sweet skies as blue fields as green ar our oiwn in the land to whlich i am going


they may be so to others but not to me for here i leave behind me all that i have loved best on eartht


just then the bushtes were parted in front of lwhere she sat and charles conuellan wasby her side


i was looking for you at the cottage kath leen and they told me you were not far off so i thought you would be in the glen


youll not be aongry with measthorc for going to see you on board the ship and out of the louogh if can get a passage so filr


surely not charlie


ill ie glad of your company and so will wiv all if you can lenav yourmother and can take teio time from your work


my work is little worth nowadays and the neighbours have promised to take rare of my motlher till my returnl os well be together as long as we cal


kathleen ftsnay hbe its the last time we may meet in this world


and have you forgiven tiechailie for all i said last night


and have you not thought me unkind or ungrateful


forgiven you


aye and thought more fondly of you sinsce for all you say andti all you do is good and right and i inever yet ltonew you to do wroog stop charlieit is not for mortal to liston to such praises when i know ihowr frail and sinful we all are and hlow many times i myself have erred fom the righlt way


but in very trutll i k vow well tshat had i deserted my parents at this time it would have gone near to break their hearts especially my not nellys ncar as it was being broken beforc wlon maurice wrcnt abroad


and no wronder for mlihirice was good and kied andl thogghtfil


connellan trned qluickly aside his eyes flaslhedl and hiis cheek glowed


then again looking fixedly in her face he said


they say you and maurico were fond ot one ano titer and if there could have been a dispenst tiun got hie would have had you away with hint


and is it for you charlie connellan to be jealous of the dead


no surely thoughhe lilked me well i never had a thiounghti of him beyond what a sister would feel for an only brother


besides did i not tell you that i would never marry oio of his persuasion


i love my uncle anid ant as thoutgh they iere imy father and mother and i rsopect thom for thleir adherenceto the faithl whicltthey esteem thelbest


i but they hlave not intrferer d witht


my religious spinionso and i ihave neer


sweirved fromt theo rincipiles taughlt me by my own ft


theriand imprinted on my miild byh all tdmt i hnvosince discovered of their truth


maurice knew this and lie knew that i felt convinced there could be no true happiness in manrriage when there was a dilference of opinion on n suliectofaonch vast importance


lbut my duty to his father and mother is second only to that which i owe to my heavenly father and with thlni must my lot he cast until i flind that they no longer need my exertions


then mdy i come back to dear irolndlthen may i revisit these peaceful happy scenes and purhaps find charlie connellno true and constant as when i left himitn trioshd constant le will be to you dearest kiathleon while the sun shines above his head or the lifeblood wtarms his heart


hii took from her hand the nosegay of prim roses which she had gathered nod itlecod in it the following lines to rotlind her ti said of hinr and the gloia wheli


she should be far away on theo sea to kiatileen thee lines though rudely taced shall be monlrihtls of imy love to tlo


h when ocane wave betwit usrior arid thou hrt left ty rte ihore ro t ioomld nel foreign clloesi to rom lnt r e ditant from thy moulloin o lolo


t tll ole owhre inany l n wild lower rhoe g so lle violet like tohio eye ofblue


weet ans iy broelth the hathball there e while nollta long deojuitg shndow inerlrr thy reaoet hoie tprofuse nld dar and t i tilt sweet nnd soft an tiuol oullto to ay wndond


hi trl


ofn ni


tho inext day tlim poor exiles bid nod


nd long adieu to their bhloved glen ho grifof ierlnid long muppresoed brolke forth with ro oistless violence tls ie looked for the liut rtintl on the cottage and the piece of ground ti likei olleidliis own


hle had no longer a homoeto could noh look uipon himself only as a lions lesswanderer


nhelly otn the contratry lieonq nimo r ncam i h otgi f her iinsbanda ulmivotod buhors of feelling


hnthlee entloavoulred to sustaoin nhd coim fort both anid was horself supmported by con nellau who iceoitlmanied them on their roaio to londonderry and avlong obtained a poas nago on hoard the vessel sailed with them dowtn the river and to the entrance of loaghi oelo


iiere they were dectaiied some days waiting for the tid to carry them oat to sea toid hero e still lingered unnble to part from his friends until the ship had weighed anchor nuod tihe signl its given that all except tie passntgers for america


must he disninssed


ito took a sorrowful leve of ierciid ntid hollythen folded isnares around kathleen s slhe citng to himn it a last embrace and im pritiing oil


iher lips a fond fiarwell tli sprang into tite boat and wes soon watchling frolmn tile heights near tihe hikeo the witto snils tnow rece ding from his viewr


itheo hip had left louglh foyloentered thi ooonnnonod thle wavnea of them atlantic rolled betweeon churlio connellan mod lmathlleen of tihe glenl i to le coolded in nr o


bairnaby rudge


o


cuapter li


promising as these outrages were to gashfords view and much like business as they looked they extended that night no farther


the soldiers were again called out again they took halfadozen prisoners and again the crowd dispersed after a short and bloodless scuffle


hot and drunken though they were they had not yet broken all bounds and set all law and government at defiance


something of their habitual deference to the au thority erected by society for its own preservation yet remained among them and had its majesty been vindicated in time the secretary would have had to digest a bitter disappointment


by midnight the streets were clear and quiet and save that there stood in two parts of the town a heap of nodding walls and piles of rubbish where there had been at sunset a rich and handsome build ing everything wore itsusual aspect


even the catholic gentry and tradesmen of whom there were many resident in different parts of the city and its suburbs had no fear for their lives or property and but little indignation for the wrong they had already sustained in the plunder and destruction of their temples of worship


an honest confidence in the government under whose protection they had lived for many years and a wellfounded reliance on the good feeling and right thinking of the great mass of the community with whom notwithstanding their religiots differences they were every day in habits of confidential affectionate and friendly intercourse reassured them even under the excesses that had been committed and convinced tliem that they who were protestants in anything but the name were no more to be considered as abettors of these dis graceful occurrences than they themselves were chargeable with the uses of the block the rack the gibbetand the stake in cruel marys reign


the clock was on the stroke of one when gabriel varden with his lady and miss miggs sat waiting in his little parlour


this fact the toppling wicks of the dull wasted candles the silence that pre vailed and above all the nightcaps of both maid and matron were sufficient evidence that they had been prepared for bed some time ago and had some strong rearon for sitting up so far beyond their tusual hour


if any other corroborative testimony had been required it would have been abundantly furnished in the actions of miss m iggs who having arrived at


that restless state and sensitive condition of the nervous system which are the result of long watch ing did by a constant rnbbing and tweaking of her nose a perpetual change of position arising from the sudden growth of imaginary knots and knobs in her chair a frequent friction of her eyebrows the incessant recurrence of a small cough a small groan a gasp a sigh a sniff a spasmodic start and by other demonstrations of that nature so file down and rasp as it were the patience of the locksmith that after looking at her in silence for some time he at last broke out into this apostrope miggs my good girl go to beddo go to bed


youre really worse than the dripping of a hundred waterbutts outside the window or the scratching of as many mice behind the wainstoot


i cant hboar it


do go to bed miggs


to oblige me do


you havent got nothing to untiesir returned miss miiggs and therefore your requests does not surprise me


but missis has and while you set up mim she added turning to the locksmiths wife i couldnt no not if


twenty times the quantity of cold water was aperiently running down my back at this moment go to bed with a quiet spirit


having spoken these words miss mhiggs made divers efforts to rub her shoulders in an impossible place and shivered from head to foot thereby giving the beholders to understand that the imaginary cascade was still in full flow but that a sense of duty upheld her under that and all other sufferings and herved her to endurance


mrs varden being too sleepy to speak and miss mliggs having as the phrase is said her say the locksmith had nothing for it but to sigh and be as quiet as he could


but to be quiet with such a basilisk before him was impossible


if he looked another way it was worse to feel that she was rubbing her cheek or twitching her ear or winking her eye or making all kinds of extraordinary shapes with her nose as to see her do it


if sithe was for a moment free from any of these complaints it was only because of her foot being asleep or of her arm having got the fidgets or f her leg being doubled up with the cramp or of some other horrible disorder which racked her whole frame


if she did enjoy a mo


ments ease then with her eyes shut and her mouth wide open she would be seen to sit very stiff and upright in her chair then to nod a little way for ward and stop with a jerk then to nod a little further forward and stop with another jerk then to recover herself then to come forward againlower lowerlowerlowerby very small degrees until just as it seemed impossible she could pre serve her balance for another instant and the lock


smith was about to call out in an agony to save her fiom dashling down upon her forehead and fracturing her skull then all of a sudden and without the smallest notice she would come upright and rigid again with her eyes open and in her counteoancee an expression of defiance sleepy but yet moas obstinate which plainly said ive never once closed em since i looked at you last and ill take my oath of it i at length


after the clock had struck two there was a sound at the street door as if somebody had fallen against the knocker by accident


miss miggs immediately jumping up and clapping her hands cried with a drowsy mingling of the sacred and profane


ally looyer miml i theres simmunsa knock i whos there l said gabriel


me l cried the well known voice of mr tappertit


gabriel opened the door and gave him admission


he did not cut a very insinuating figure for a man of hisa stature suffers in a crowd and having been nactive in yesterday mornings work his dress was lite


rally crushed from head to foot his hat being beaten out of all shape and his shoes trodden down at heel like slippers


lia coat fluttered in strips about him the buckles were torn away both from his knees and feet half his neckerchief was gone and the bosom of his shirt was rent to tatters


yet notwith standing all these personal disadvantages despite iis being very weak from heat and fatigue and so begrimed with mud and dust that he might have been in a case for anything of the real testule elther of his skin or apparel that the eye could discern he stalked haughtily into the parlour and throwing himself into a chair and endeavouring to thrust his hands into the pockets of his smallclothes which were turned inside out and displayed upon hiis legs like tassels surveyed the household with a gloomy dignity


simon said the locksmith gravely how comes it that you return home at this time of night and in this condition gilve me an assurance thoat vyou have not been among the rioters and am satisfied


sir replied mr tappertit with a contemptuous a look i wonder at your assurance in making such demands


a you hawv been drinking said the locksmith


as a general principle and in the most offensive sense of the words sir returned his journeyman with great selfposession i consider you a liar


in that last observation you have unintentionally unintentionally sirstruck upon the truth


martha said the locksmith turning to his wife and shaking his head sorrowfully while a smile at the absurd figure before him still played upon his open face i trust it may turn out that this poor lad is not the victim of the knaves and fools we have so often had words about and who a have done so much harm this day


if he has been e at warwickstreet or dukestreet tonight he hasbeen at neither sir cried mr tap


e pertit in a loud voice which he suddenly dropped e into a whisper as he repeated with eyes fixed upon the locksmith he has been at neither


i am glad of it with all my heart said the locksmith in a serious tone for if he had been and it could be proved against him martha your a great association would have been to him the cart d that draws men to the gallows and leaves them e hanging in the air


it would as sure as were f alive r mrs varden was too much scared by simons altered manner and appearance and by the accounts of the rioters which had reached her ears that night to offer any retort or to have recourse to her usual matrimonial policy


bliss miggs wrung her hands a nd wept


he was not at dukestreet or at warwickstreet g varden said simon sternly but he was at westminster


perhaps sir he kicked a county member perhaps sir he tapped a lordyou may i stare sir i repeat itblood flowed from noses and perhaps he tapped a lord


who knows


this he added putting his hand into his waistcoatpocket and taking out a large tooth at sight of which both miggs and mrs varden screamed this was a bishops


beware g varden i now i would rather said the locksmith r hastily have paid five hundred pounds than had this come to pass


you idiot do you know what n peril you stand in


d i know it sir replied his journeyman and it t is my glory


i was there everybody saw me there


e i was conspicuous and prominent


i will abide the i consequences


r the locksmith really disturbed and agitated s paced to and fro in silence glancing at his former n prentice every now and then and at length stopping e before him said get to bed and sleep for a couple of hours d that you may wake penitent and with some of your n senses about you


be sorry for what you have s done and we will try to save you


if i call him by e five oclock said varden turning hurriedly to his wife and he washes himself clean and changes


his dress he may get to the tower stairs and away d by the gravesend tideboat before any search is g made for him


from there he can easily get on to t canterbury where your cousin will give him work till this storm has blown over


i am not sure that i do right in screening him from the punishment he d deserves but he has lived in this house man and it boy for a dozen years and i should be sorry if for it this one days work he made a miserable end


lock a the front door miggs and show no light towards e the street when you go upstairs


quick simon i n get to bed i t


and do you suppose air retorted mr tappertit with a thickness and slowness of speech le which contrasted forcibly with the rapidity and e earnestness of his kind hearted master and do y you suppose sir that i am base anid mean enough y to accept your servile proposition


miscreant i if whatever you please sim but get to bed r every minute is of consequence


the light here mliggs i yes yes oh do i go to bed directly cried e the two women together


s mr tappertit stood upon his feet and pushing his chair away to show that he needed no assistance answered swaying himself to and fro and managing s his head as if it had no connexion whatever with r his body you spoke of miggs sirmiggs may be smothered i oh simmun i ejaculated that young lady in a r faint voice


oh mimnl oh sir


i


oh goodness gracious what a turn he has give me i this family may all be smothered sir returned r mr tappertit after glancing at her with a smile of ineffable disdain excepting mrs v i have come here sir for her sake this night


mrs varden take i this piece of paper


its a protection maam


you may need it


with these words he held out at arms length a dirty crumpled scrap of writing


the locksmith took it from hiim opened it and read as follows all good friends to our cause i hope will be particular and do no injury to thle property of any true protestant


i am well assured that the pro rprietor of this house is a staunch and worthy friend sto the cause


geornne gonnon


whats this said the locksmithl with an i altered face


something thatll do you good service young feller replied his journeyman as youll find


skeep that safe and where you can lay your hand supon it in an instant


and chalk no popery on your door tomorrow night and for a week to come sthats all


this is a genuine documentsaid the locksmith i know for i have seen the hand before


what threat does it implyl what devil is abroad


a fiery devil retorted sim a flaming furious devil


dont you put yourself in its way or youre done for my buck


be warned in time g varden


farewell l


but here the two women threw themselves in his wayespecially miss mliggs who fell upon him with such fervour that she pinned hiim against the walland conjured him in moving words not to go forth till he was sober to listen to reason to think of it to take some rest and then determine


i tell you said mr tappertitt that my mind is made up


my bleeding country calls me and i go


miggs if you dont get out of the way ill pinch you


miss miggs still clinging to the rebel screamed once vociferously but whether in the distraction of her mind or because of his having executed his threat is uncertain


release me said simonstruggling to free himself from hier chaste but spiderlike embrace


slet me go


i i have made arrangements for you in an altered state of society and mean to provide for you comfortably in lifetherel will that sa tisfy you oh simmunl cried miss miggs


oh my blessed slmmunl


i oh mlm what are my feelings at this conflicting moment


of a rather turbulent description it would seem for her nightcap had been knocked off in the scuffle nd she was on her knees upon the floor making a strange revelation of blue and yellow curl papers straggling locks of hair tags of staylaces and strings of its impossible to say what panting for breath clasping her hands turning her eyes upwards shed ding abundance of tears and exhibiting various other symptoms of the acutest mental suffering


i leave said simon turning to his master with an utter disregard of eliggss maidenly afflic tion a box of things up stairs


do what you like with em


i dont want em


im never coming back here any more


provide yourself sir with a journeyman im my countrys journeyman hence forward thats my line of business


be what you like in two hours time but now go up to bed returned the locksmith planting him self in the doorway


do you hear me


go to bed


i hear you and defy you varden rejoined simon tappertit


this night sir i have been in the country planning an expedition which shall fill your bellhanging soul with wonder and dismay


the plot demands my utmost energy


let tme pass


ill knock you down if you come near the door replied the locksmith


you had better go to bed


simon made no answer but gathering himself up as straight as he could plunged head foremost at his old master and the two went driving out into the workshop together plying their hands and feet so briskly that they looked like half a dozen while hliggs and mrs varden screamed for twelve


it would have been easy for varden to knock his old prentice down and bind him hand and foot but as he was loath to hurt him in his then defence less state ihe contented himself with parrying his blows when he could taking them in perfect good part when ihe could not and keeping between him and the door until a favourable opportunity should present itself for forcing him to retreat up stairs and shutting hint up in his own room


but in the good


ness of his heart he calculated too much upon his adversarys weakness and forgot that drunken men who have lost the power of walking steadily can often run


watching his time simon tappertit made a cunning show of falling back staggered unexpectedly forward brushed past him opened the door he knew the trick of that lock well and darted down tke street like a mad dog


the lock


smith paused for a moment in the excess of his astonishment and then gave chace


it was an excellent season for a run fgr at that silent hour the streets were deserted the air was cool and the flying figure before him distinctly visible at a great distance as it sped away with a long gaunt shadow following at its heels


but the shortwinded locksmith had no chance against a man of sims youth and spare figure though the day had been when ihe could have run him down in no time


the space between them rapidly increased and as the rays of the rising sun streamed upon simon in the act of turning a distant corner gabriel varden was fain to give up and sit down on a door step to fetch his breath


simon meanwhile without once stopping fled at the same degree of swiftness to the boot where as ihe well knew some of his company were lying and at which respectable hostelryfor he had already acquired the distinction of being in great peril of the lawa friendly watch had been expecting him all night and was even now on the lookout for his coming


go thy ways sim go thy ways said the lock


smith as soon as he could speak


i have done my best for thee poor lad and would have saved thee but the rope is round thy neck i fear


so saying and shaking hiis head in a very sorrow


ful and disconsolate manner he turned back and soon reentered his own house where mrs varden and the faithful miggs had been anxiously expecting his return


now mrs varden and by consequence miss miiggs likewise was impressed with a secret misgiving that she had done wrong that sihe had to the utmost of her small means aided and abetted the growth of disturbances the end of which it was impossible to foresee that she had led remotely to the scene which had just passed and that the locksmiths time for triumph and reproach had now arrived indeed


and so strongly did mrs varden feel this and so crest


fallen was she in consequencethat while her husband was pursuing their lost journeyman she secreted under her chair the little red brick dwellinghouse with the yellow roof lest it should furnish new occasion for reference to the painful theme and now hid the same still farther with the skirts of her dress


but it happened that the locksmith had been thinking of this very article on his way home and that coming into the room and not seeing it he at once demanded where it was


mrs varden had no resource but to produce it which she did with many tears and broken protestations that if she could have known yes yea said varden of coursei know that


i dont mean to reproach you my dear but recollect from this time that all good things perverted to evil purposes are worse than those which are na turally bad


a thoroughly wicked woman is wicked indeed


when religion goes wrong she is very wrong for the same reason


let us say no more about it my dear so he dropped the redbrick dwellinghlouse on the floor and setting his heel upon it crushed it into pieces


the halfpence and sixpences and other voluntary contributions rolled about in all directions but nobody offered to touch them or to take them up


that said the locksmith is easily disposed of and i would to heaven that everything growing out of the same society could be settled as easily


it happens very fortunately varden said his wife with her handkerchief to her eyes that in case any more disturbances should happen which i hope not i sincerely hope not i hope so too miy dear


that in case any should occur we have the piece of paper which that poor misguided young man brought


ay to be sure said the locksmith turning quickly round


where is that piece of paper


mrs varden stood aghast as he took it from her outstretched hand tore it into fragments and threw them under the grate


not use it


i she said


use it l cried the locksmith


no i let them come and pull the roof about our ears let ilthem burn us out of house and home id neither have the protectio of thteir leader nor chalk their howl upon my door though for not doing it thley shot me on my own threshold


use it i let them come and do their worst


the first man who crosses my doorstep on such an errand as theirs had better be a hundred miles away


let him look to it


the others may have their will


i wouldnt beg to buy them off if instead of evey pound of iron in the place there was a hiundred weight of gold


get you to bed mortha


i shall take down the shutters and go to work


so early said isis wife


ay replied the lockasmith cheerily so early


come when they may thley shall not find us skulknlog and hiding as if we feared to take our portion of the light of day and left it all to them


so pleasant dreams to you my dear and clheerful sleep


i with that he gave hls wife a hearty kiss and bade hler delay no longer or it would he time to rise before she lay down to rest


mrs varden quite amiably and meekly walked up stairs followed by miggs who although a good deal subdued could not refrain from sundry stimulative coughs and sniffs by the way or from holding up her hands in astonishment at the daring conduct of master to be continued


barnaby budge


chaptert xlvii


in the exhaustless catalogue of heavens mercies to mankind the power we have of finding


some germs of comfort in


the hardest trials must ever occupy the foremost place not only because it supi ports and upholds us when we most require to be i sustained but because in this source of consolation there is something we have reason to believe of the i divine spirit something of that goodness whiclh detects amidst our own evil doings a redeeming


i quality something whicheven in our fallen nature


we possess in common with the angels which had its being in


the old time when they trod the earth and lingers on it yet in pity


how often ontheir journey did the widow re memberwitha grateful heart that out of his deprivation barnabys cheerfulnes and affection


sprung i how often did she call to mind that but for that he might have been sullen morose and uns kind far removed fromher vicious perhaps and cruel i how often had she cause for comfort inh his stiength and hope and in his simrple nature i those feeble powers of mind


lhich rendered biml t so soon forgetful f the past save in brief gleams and flashes even they were a comfort now


l the


world to him was full of happiness in every tree and plant and flower in every bird and beast and tiny insect whom a breath of summer wind laid low upon the groundhe had delight


his delight was a hers and where many a wise son would have made her sorrowful this poor lighthearted idioi filled i eri breastwith thankfulness and love


their stock of money was low but from the hoard she had told into the blind mans hand the widow had withheld one guinea


this with the few pence she possessed besides was to two per seons of their frugal habits a goodly sumn in bank


moreover they had grip inh company and


when they


must otherwise have changed the guinea it was but to make him exhibit outside an alehouse door or in a village street or in the grounds or gardens of a mansion of


the better sort and scores who would have given nothing in charity were rready to bargain for more amusement froin the talk log bird


one dayfor they had moved slowly and al though thely had many rids in carts and waggonsn were on the road a week barnaby with grip upon


shis shoulder aid his motherfollo ing


begged per


missionat a trim lodge to go up to the great house at the other end of the avenue and show his raven the man within was inclined to give them admit


tance and was indeed about to do so vwhenia stout gentleman with a long whip in his hand and


a flushed face which seemed to indicate that he had had iis mornings draught rode up to the gale and called in a loud voice and with more oaths than the occasion seemed to warrant to have it opened who hast thou got here said the gentleman angrily as he tirew the gate wide open and pulled off hisl hat who are these


eh


at a beggar woman the widow answered with a curtsey thata they were poor travellers


vagrants said the gentleman vagrants and vagabonds


thee wish to be made acquainted with the cage doet


theethe cage the stocks and the whippingpost


where dost comefrom


she told him in a timid mannerfor he was very


loud hoarse iand redfacedand besought him not to be angry for they meant no harm and would go upon their way that moment


r sdont be too sure of that replied the gentle man we dont allow vagrants to roam about this place


i know what thou wantststray linen drying on hedges and stray poultry eh


what hast got in thatbasket lazy hounod grip grip grip grip the clever gri the wicked grip the i knowing grip grip grip cried the raven whom barnaby had shut up on the approach of this stern personage


im a devil lm a devil im a devil


never say die hurrah bow


wow


wow polly put the kettle on well all have tea


take the virmin out scoundrel said the gen tdeman and let me see him


barnaby thus condescendingly addressed pro duced his bird but not without much fear and trembling and set him down upon the ground which he had no sooner


done than gripldrew


fity corks at least and then began to dance at the same time eyeing the gentleman with surprising insolence of manner and screwing his head so much on one sidethat he appeared desirous of screwing it off upon the spot


the corkdrawing seemed to imake a greater im pression upon the gentlemans mind than the ravens powero ipeech and was indeed particularly adapted tohis kwn habits and capacity


he de lired to have that done again but despite his being peremptory and nfotwithstanding that barnaby coxed to the utmost grip turned a deaf ear to the request and preserved a dead silence r b ring him alongsaid the gentleman pointing to the house


but


gritp vho had watched the saction anticipated his master by hipping on before them constantly flapping his wings and screaming cook i


meanwhile as a hint perhaps that there was company coming and a small collation would be acceptable


barnaby and his mother walked on on either side of the gentleman on horsebackwho surveyed each of them from time to time in a proudand coarse manner and occasionally thundered out some ques tion thle tone of which alarmed barnaby so much that he could find no answer and as a matter of course could make him no reply


on one of these occasions when the gentleman appeared disposed to exercise his horsewhip thewidow ventured to inform him in a low voice and with tears in her eyes that her son was of weak mind


an idiot ehil said the gentleman looking at barnaby as hie spoke and how long hast thou been an idiot r she knows was barnabys timidanswer pointing to his motherialways i believe


from hiis birth said the widow


i dont believe it cried tire gentleman


not a bit of it


its an excuse not to work theres nothing like flogging to cure that disorder


id make a difference in him in ten minutei ill be bound


heaven has made none in more than twice te years sir said the widow mildly


then why dont you shut him up


we pay enough for county institutions damn em


but thoud rather drag him about to excite charity off course


ay i know thee


r now this gentleman


had various endearing ep pellations among his intimate friends by somehe was called a country gentlemna of the true school by some a fine old couptry gentleman by


some a sporting gentleman by some a thoroughi bred englishman by some a genuine ohn bull but they all agreedian one respect andithai


was that it was apity there were not more lkeilnli and that because there were inot the country wass going to rack and ruin every day h t iithe


commismsioni of the peace aid could writoehis niane almost legibly but his greatest qslifications were that he was more severewith poachers was a better shot a harder rider had better horses kept beater dogs could eat more solid food drink more strong wine go tobed every night more drunk and


getiupi every morning more sober than any


man indthe county in knowledge of horseflesh b e was almost equal to a farrier in stable learning he surpassed is own head groom aind in gluttony not a pig on his estate was a match for himn ho had no seat in parliament himself but he was extremely patriotic and usualy drove bisa voters up to the poll wit


hiiss own hands


hi was warmly attached to the church and inever apiolnted to the living in his gift any but a threebottle man and a first rate fox hunter he mistrusted the honesty of all poor people who could read and write and had a secret jealousy of his own vife a young lady whoim he had married for wh altso l


his friends called the good old englishareason


thatl hler fathers property adjoinedhis own for pos sessing those accomplishments n greaterdegree than himself


in short bairnaby being anb idiot s d grip a creature of mere brute instinct it would bev t very hard to say what thls geniteiin wasi


he rode up to the door of a liansome house approached iby a great flight ofsteps where an o was waitiag to lake hishorse and led the way ianto a large hall which spaelousr as it was wasi tainted


with the fumes of last nights staldebacll


great goats riding whips bridlesa topboots spura and such


gear were strewn about on all sides l and formed with some huge stags antlers anda few portraits of dogs and horses its principal embellish monts


throwing himself into a great chair in which the bye he often snored away the nighilwhenho had been according so his admirersa finer country gentleman than usuall he bade the mantell hi mistress to come down and presently there appleaed a little flurried as sit seemed by the unwonted snm mons a lady mccb younger than himself who hiad the appearance of being in delicate health and not too happy


here thouset no delight in following the hounds as an englishwoman should have daid theii gentlemlan


see to this here thaill please theei the lady smiled sat down at a littledistanice from him and glanced aiarnaby with a look of pity hes anidiot the woman sayobserved the gentleman shaklig his head


i dont believe it


are you his mother asked the lady


she answered yes w hats theuse u of asking her


said the gei tleian thrusting his hands into his breeches pockets


shelltell thee so of cours


most likel he hired at so imuch a day


thereget ion make him do something grip


having by this time recovered his urbiaoit condescended at barsnabya solicitation to repeat his various phrases of speech and to go through the whole of hiss performances with the utmost successo


the corks and the never say die afforded the gentle


man somuch delight that lie demanded the repetition of this part of the entertainment until grip got into hisbasketand ositively refused to say another word good or bad


the lady too was much amusedi with him and the closing point of his obstinacy ao delighted her husband that he


burst into aioar of laughter and demanded hlis price


barnaby looked as though he didnt understaed his meaning


probably he did not


his price said the gentleman rattliithe money in his pockets what dent want for hinim


how much sler notu to be sold repliedbarnnaby shutting up the basket in a great hurry and thlrowingitheij strap over


his shoulder


m


other come away


thou seesio how mcuh of an idiot iie is bookre learner said the gentleman looking scornfully at his wife hecan make a ibargain


whit do


wanit or him old woman


he is my sons constant companiton


sid the widiw she is not to be sold sir indeed


not to be sold i cried the gentlemani growing ten times redder hoariser and louder thanbli ore


not to be sold


ildeed no she answored


we have never thought of parting wiith him sir i doesureoi she was evidently aboit io make a very pnssiam ate reiort when a few miumed words fromlii wife happ ei ig to eatch lil ear he turned s vrl roundand said eh p


what il


weeiu hardly eipect theim to sell thiniri against their own desire abe faltered


if they prefer to keep him prefer to keep hlm


i e echoed tse people who go tramping about thiecountrya pp fering and vagabondising on all handsiprefr to jieep a bird when a landed proprietolr and a juitice asks his price i that old womaua beiato schooll i knowshe ltes


dont tellmo no he roaredto


the widow i say yes barnabys mother pleaded guilty to thei accusatoni and hoped there was no harm in it


no harm i said the gentleman


no


ne harm


no harm ye old rebel not a bit of harm if my clerk was here pid set ye in the stocks i would or lay ye in jail for prowling up and down


on the lookout for petty larcelius ye limb of a gipsy


here simon put these pilferers oui hove em into tbohe road out withll em i ye dont want to sell the bird ye tlhat come here to bog dont ye if they ant out in doublequick soet the dogs upon em


i they waited for no further dismissal but fled precipitately leaving the gentleman to storm away by himaself for thie poor lady had alraidy retreateo d sd making a great many vain attempts to silence drip who excited by the noise drew corks enough for a city feast as they hurtled down the avenue and appeared to congratulate himself beyond measure on having been the cause of the disturbance


when they had reached the lodge another servant emer ging from the shrubbery feigned to be very active in ordering them off but this man put a crown into the widows liand and whispering that his lady sent it thrust them gently from the gate


this incident only suggested to tle widows mind when they halted at an alehous some miles further on and heard the justices character as given by his friends thlatperhaps something more than capacity


of stomach and tastes for the kennel and stable werereequired to form either a perfect country gen tleiitmqa thoroughbred englishman or a genuine jsl bull i and that possibly the terms were some times misappropriated not to say disgraced


she little thought then that a circumstance so slight would ever influence their future fortunes but time and experience enlightened her in this respect


i mother said barnaby as they were sitting next day in a waggon which was to take them to within ten miles of the capital were going to london first you said


shall we see the blind man there


shel was about to answer heaven forbidli but checked herseilf and told hlim no she thought not why did he ask


ies a wide mansaid barnaby with a thought


fuhtcountenance


i wish that we may meet with hini agali


what is that he said of crowds


that gold was to befound where people crowded and not among the trees and in such quiet places he spoke iasif he loved it london is a crowded place i think vwe shall meet him there


srutwhlydo you desire too see him love she asked


because said barnaby looking wistfully at here


he talked to me about gold which is a rare thing and say what you will a thing that you would like to have i know


and because he came and went away so strangely just as whiteheaded old mten come sometimes to miy beds foot in the night and say what i cant remember when the bright day returns ile told me hed come back


i wonder why lie broke his word i but you never thought of being rich orgay befoie dear barnaby


you have always been con


tented


lie laughed and bade her say that againtheti cried ay ayoh yes and laughed once more


then something passed that caught his fancy and the topic wandered from


his mind and was succ ceedted by anotler just as fleeting


but it was plain from what he had said and from ia returningt tihe point more than once that day and lnes the next that the blind mans visit and indeed his words had taken strong possession of his iniitd


whether the idea of wealth had occurred to him for the first time on looking atthe golden clouds that eveningand images were often presented to is tlhoughts by outward objects quite as remote and dtlistant or whether their poor and humble way of


life hiad suggested it by contrast long ago or whe


thier the accideni as he would deem it of the blind mans pursuing the current of his own remarks liad done so at themoment or he had heenintpressed by tie mere circumnstance of the man being blind and therefore unlike any one with whlom he had talked before it was impossible to tell


she tried evdry means to discover


but in vaii and the pro liability is that barinaby hiinself was equally in the tlark


it filled her with uneasiness to find him harping on this string but all that she could do was to lead him quickly to some other subject and to dismiss it from his brain


to caution him against their visitor to show any fear or suspicion in reference to


ihim would only be she feared to increase that interest with which uarnaby regarded him and to strengthen his desire to meet him once again


she hoped by plunging into the crowd to rid herself of her terrible pursuer and then by journeying to a distance and observing increased caution if that were possible to live again unknown in secrecy and peace


tihey reached in course of time theirhaltingplace withint tebh tilesof london and lay there for the night after bargaining to be carrid on for a trifle next day in a light van which was returning empty and was tostart at five oclock in the morning


the driver was punctual the road goodsave for


tti dijs tha weather being veiy hot and dry and at seven in the forenoon of friday the secondof june one thousand seven hundred and eighty they alightted at the toot of westminster bridge bade their coiductor farewell and stood alone together on the scorching pavement


for tile freshness swhichl night sheds upon such busy thoroughfares had already departed and the sun was shining with uncommon lustre


to be continued


american notes for general circulation


by charles dickens


chapter x concluding remarks


there are many passages in this book where i have been at some pains to resist the temptation of troubling my readers with my own deductions and conclusions preferring that they should judge for them selves from such premises as i have laid before them


my only object in the out set was to carry them with me faithfully wheresoever i went and that task i have discharged


but i may be pardoned if on such a theme as the general character of the american people and the general character of their social system as presented to a strangers eye i desire to express my own opinions in a few words before i bring these volumes to a close


they are by nature frank brave cor dial hospitable and affectionate


culti vation and refinement seem but to enhance their warmth of heart and ardent enthu siasm and it is the possession of these latter qualities in a most remarkable de gree which renders an educated american one of the most endearing and most gene rous of friends


i never was so won upon as by this class never yielded up my full confidence and esteem so readily and plea surably as to them never can make again in half a year so many friends for whom i seem to entertain the regard of half a life


these qualities are natural i implicitly believe to the whole people


that they are however sadly sapped and blighted in their growth among the mass and that there are influences at work which endanger them still more and give but little present promise of their healthy restoration is a truth that ought to be told


it is an essential part of every national character to pique itself mightily upon its limits and to deduce tokens of its virtue or its wisdom from their very exagge ration


one great blemish in the popular mind of america and the prolific parent of as innumerable brood of evils is uni versal distrust


yet the american citi zen plumes himself upon this spirit even when he is sufficiently dispassionate to perceive the ruin it works and will often adduce it in spite of his own reason as an instance of the great sagacity and acuteness of the people and their su perior shrewdness and independence


you carry says the stranger this jealousy and distrust into every transac tion of public life


by repelling worthy men from your legislative assemblies it has bred up a class of candidates for the suffrage who in their very act disgrace your institutions and your peoples choice


it has rendered you so fickle and so given to change that your inconstancy has passed into a proverb for you no sooner set up an idol firmly than you are sure to pull it down and dash it into fragments and this because directly you reward a bene factor or a public servant you distrust him merely because he is rewarded and im mediately apply yourselves to find out either that you have been too bountiful in your acknowledgments or he remiss in his deserts


any man who attains a high place among you from the president downwards may date his downfall from that mo ment for any printed lie that any noto rious villain pens although it militate directly against the character and conduct of a life appeals at once to your distrust and is believed


you will strain at a gnat in the way of trustfulness and confidence however fairly won and well deserved but you will swallow a whole caravan of camels if they be laden with unworthy doubts and mean suspicions


is this well think you or likely to elevate the character of the governors or the governed among you


the answer is invariably the same theres freedom of opinion here you know


every man thinks for himself and we are not to be easily overreached


thats how our people come to be suspi cious


another prominent feature is the love of smart dealing which gilds over many a swindle and gross breach of trust many a defalcation public and private and enables many a knave to hold his head up with the best who well deserves a halterthough it has not been without its retributive operation for this smartness has done more in a few years to impair the public credit and to cripple the public re sources than dull honesty however rash could have effected in a century


the merits of a broken speculation or a bank ruptcy or of a successful scoundrel are not gauged by its or his observance of the golden rule do as you would be done by but are considered with reference to their smartness


i recollect on both occasions of our passing that illfated cairo on the mississippi remarking on the bad effects such gross deceits must have when they exploded in generating a want of confidence abroad and dis couraging foreign investment but i was given to understand that this was a very smart scheme by which a deal of money had been made and that its smartest feature was that they forgot these things abroad in a very short time and speculated again as freely as ever


the following dialogue i have heard a hundred times is it not a very dis graceful circumstance that such a man as so and so should be acquiring a large pro perty by the most infamous and odious means and notwithstanding all the crimes of which he has been guilty should be tolerated and abetted by your citizens


he is a public nuisance is he not


yes sir


a convicted liar


he has been kicked and cuffed and caned


and he is utterly dishonourable debased and pro fligate


in the name of wonder then what is his merit


well sir he is a smart man


in like manner all kinds of deficient and impolitic usages are referred to the national love of trade though oddly enough it would be a weighty charge against a foreigner that he regarded the americans as a trading people


the love of trade is assigned as a reason for that comfortless custom so very prevalent in country towns of married persons living in hotels having no fireside of their own and seldom meet ing from early morning until late at night but at the hasty public meals


the love of trade is a reason why the literature of america is to remain for ever unprotected for we are a trading people and dont care for poetry though we do by the way profess to be very proud of our poets while healthful amusements cheerful means of recreation and wholesome fancies must fade before the stern utilitarian joys of trade


these three characteristics are strongly presented at every turn full in the strangers view


but the foul growth of america has more tangled root than this and it strikes its fibres deep in its licen tious press


schools may be erected east west north and south pupils be taught and masters reared by scores upon scores of thousands colleges may thrive churches may be crammed temperance may be dif fused and advancing knowledge in all other forms walk through the land with giant strides but while the newspaper press of america is in or near its present abject state high moral improvement in that country is hopelessyear by year it must and will go back year by year the tone of public feeling must sink lower down year by year the congress and the senate must become of less account before all de cent men and year by year the memory of the great fathers of the revolution must be outraged more and more in the bad life of their degenerate child


among the herd of journals which are published in the states there are some the reader scarcely need be told of cha racter and credit


from personal inter course with accomplished gentlemen con nected with publications of this class i have derived both pleasure and profit


but the name of these is few and of the others legion and the influence of the good is powerless to counteract the mortal poison of the bad


among the gentry of america among the well informed and moderate in the learned professions at the bar and on the bench there is as there can be but one opinion in reference to the vicious character of these infamous journals


it is sometimes contendedi will not say strangely for it is natural to seek excuses for such a disgracethat their influence is not so great as a visitor would suppose


i must be pardoned for saying that there is no warrant for this plea and that every fact and circumstance tends directly to the opposite conclusion


when any man of any grade of desert in intellect or character can climb to any public distinction no matter what in america without first grovelling down upon the earth and bending the knee before this monster of depravity when any pri vate excellence is safe from its attacks when any social confidence is left un broken by it or any tie of social decency and honour is held in the least regard when any man in that free country has freedom of opinion and presumes to think for himself and speak for himself without humble reference to a censorship which for its rampant ignorance and base dishonesty he utterly loathes and despises in his heart when those who most acutely feel its infamy and the reproach it casts upon the nation and who most denounce it to each other dare to set their heels upon and crush it openly in the sight of all men then i will believe that its in fluence is lessening and men are returning to their manly senses


but while that press has its evil eye in every house and its black hand in every appointment in the state from a president to a postman while with ribald slander for its only stock in trade it is the standard literature of an enormous class who must find their read ing in a newspaper or they will not read at all so long must its odium be upon the countrys head and so long must the evil it works be plainly visible in the republic


to those who ave accustomed to the leading english journals or to the respec table journals of the continent of europe to those who are accustomed to anything else in print and paperit would be im possible without an amount of extract for which i have neither space nor inclination to convey an adequate idea of this fright ful engine in america


but if any man desire confirmation of my statement on this head let him repair to any place in this city of london where scattered num bers of these publications are to be found and there let him form his own opinion it would be well there can be no doubt for the american people as a whole if they love the real less and the ideal some what more


it would be well if there were greater encouragement to lightness of heart and gaiety and a wider cultivation of what is beautiful without being emi nently and directly useful


but here i think the general remonstrance we are a new country which is so often ad vanced as an excuse for defects which are quite unjustifiable as being of right only the slow growth of an old one may be very reasonably urged and i yet hope to hear of there being some other national amusement in the united states besides newspaper politics


they certainly are not a humorous people and their temperament always un impressed me as being of a dull and gloomy character


in shrewdness of re mark and a certain castiron quaintness the yankees or people of new england unquestionably take the lead as they do in most other evidences of intelligence


but in travelling about out of the large cities as i have remarked in former parts of these volumes i was quite oppressed by the prevailing seriousness and melan choly air of business which was so general and unvarying that at every new town i came to i seemed to meet the very same people whom i had left behind me at the last


such defects as are perceptible in the national manners seem to me to be referable in a great degree to this cause which has generated a dull sullen per sistance in coarse usages and rejected the graces of life as undeserving of attention


there is no doubt that washington who was always most scrupulous and exact on points of ceremony perceived the tendency towards this mistake even in his time and did his utmost to correct it


i cannot hold with other writers on these subjects that the prevalence of va rious forms of dissent in america is in any way attributable to the nonexistence there of an established church indeed i think the temper of the people if it ad mitted of such an institution being founded amongst them would lead them to desert it as a matter of course merely because it was established


but supposing it to exist i doubt its probable efficacy in sum moning the wandering sheep to one great fold simply because of the immense amount of dissent which prevails at home and because i do not find in america any one form of religion with which we in europe or even in england are unac quainted


dissenters resort thither in great numbers as other people do simply because it is a land of resort and great settlements of them are founded because ground can be purchased and towns and villages reared where there were none of the human creation before


but even the shakers emigrated from eng land our country is not unknown to mr joseph smith the apostle of mormonism or to his benighted disciples i have be held religious scenes myself in some of our populous towns which can hardly be surpassed by an american camp meeting and i am not aware that any instance of superstitious imposture on the one hand


or let him refer to an able and perfectly truthful article in the foreign quarterly re view published in the present month of octo ber to which my attention has been attracted since these sheets have been pasting through the press


he will find some specimens there by no means remarkable to any man who has been in america but sufficiently striking to one who has not


and superstitious credulity on the other has had its origin in the united states which we cannot more than parallel by the precedents of mrs southcote mary tofts the rabbit breeder or even mr thom of canterbury which latter case arose sometime after the dark ages had passed away


the republic an institutions of america undoubtedly lead the people to assert their selfrespect and their equality but a travel ler is bound to bear those institutions in his mind and not hastily to resent the near approach of a class of strangers who at home would keep aloof


this charac teristic when it was tinctured with no foolish pride and stopped short of no honest service never offended me and i very seldom if ever experienced its rude or unbecoming display


once or twice it was comically developed as in the fol lowing case but this was an amusing incident and not the rule or near it


i wanted a pair of boots at a certain town for i had none to travel in but those with the memorable cork soles which were much too hot for the fiery decks of a steam boat


i therefore sent a message to an artist in boots importing with my com pliments that i should be happy to see him if he would do me the polite favour to call


he very kindly returned for answer that he would look round at six oclock that evening


i was lying on the sofa with a book and a wine glass at about that time when the door opened and a gentleman in a stiff cravat within a year or two on either side of thirty entered in his hat and gloves walked up to the looking glass arranged his hair took off his gloves slowly produced a measure from the utter most depths of his coat pocket and re quested me in a languid tone to unfix my straps


i complied but looked with some curiosity at his hat which was still upon his head


it might have been that or it might have been the heatbut he took it off


then he sat himself down on a chair opposite to me rested an arm on each knee and leaning forward very much took from the ground by a great effort the specimen of metropolitan work manship which i had just pulled off whistling pleasantly as he did so


he turned it over and over surveyed it with a contempt no language can express and inquired if i wished him to fix me a boot like that


i courteously replied that provided the boots were large enough i would leave the rest to him that if convenient and practicable i should not object to their bearing some re semblance to the model then before him but that i would be entirely guided by and would beg to leave the whole sub ject to his judgment and discretion


you ant particklar about this scoop in the heel i suppose then says he we dont foller that here


i repeated my last observation


he looked at himself in the glass again went closer to it to dash a grain or two of dust out of the corner of his eye and settled his cravat


all this time my leg and foot were in the air


nearly ready sir


i enquired


well pretty nigh he said keep steady


i kept as steady as i could both in foot and face and having by this time got the dust out and found his pencil case he measured me and made the necessary notes


when he had finished he fell into his old attitude and taking up the boot again mused for some time


and this he said at last is an english boot is it


this is a london boot eh that sir i replied is a london boot


he mused over it again after the manner of hamlet with yoricks skull nodded his head as who would say i pity the insti tutions that led to the production of this boot


rose put up his pencil notes and paperglancing at himself in the glass all the timeput on his hat drew on his gloves very slowly and finally walked out


when he had been gone about a minute the door reopened and his hat and his head reappeared


he looked round the room and at the boot again which was still lying on the floor appeared thought ful for a minute and then said


well good arternoon


good afternoon sir said i and that was the end of the in terview


there is but one other head on which i wish to offer a remark and that has re ference to the public health


in so vast a country where there are thousands of millions of acres of land yet unsettled and uncleared and on every rood of which vegetable decomposition is annually taking place where there are so many great rivers and such opposite varieties of cli mate there cannot fail to be a great amount of sickness at certain seasons


but i may venture to say after conversing with many members of the medical profession in america that i am not singular in the opinion that much of the disease which does prevail might be avoided if a few common precautions were observed


greater means of personal cleanliness are indispensible to this end the custom of hastily swallowing large quantities of animal food three times a day and rush ing back to sedentary pursuits after each meal must be changed the gentler sex must go more wisely clad and take more healthful exercise and in the latter clause the males must be included also


above all in public institutions and throughout the whole of every town and city the system of ventilation and drain age and removal of impurities requires to be thoroughly revised


there is no local legislature in america which may not study mr chadwicks excellent report upon the sanitary condition of our la bouring classes with immense advan tage


i have now arrived at the close of this book


i have little reason to believe from certain warnings i have had since i re turned to england that it will be tenderly or favourably received by the american people and as i have written the truth in relation to the mass of those who form their judgments and express their opinions it will be seen that i have no desire to court by any adventitious means the popular applause


it is enough for me to know that what i have set down in these pages cannot cost me a single friend on the other side of the atlantic who is in anything deserving of the name


for the rest i put my trust implicitly in the spirit in which they have been conceived and penned and i can bide my time


i have made no reference to my recep tion nor have i suffered it to influence me in what i have written for in either case i should have offered but a sorry ac


knowledgment compared with that i bear within my breast towards those partial readers of my former books across the water who met me with an open hand and not with one that closed upon an iron muzzle


the end


a voyage from sydney to south australia and back again with mems social political agricultural moral and mining


by a sick man cruising for copper


chapter


i shall not disgust the refined and fastidious reader by a disclosure of my preternatural per formances at breakfast the beef steak pickles corn beef and coffee consumed by one in vain endeavouring to subdue the first phrenzy of a marine appetite


suffice it that the breakfast was a solid and resisting one that i was capable and carnivorous to the last and stopped in course of time from shame and not from repletion


breakfast over we again ascended to the deck


the clearance officer mr bignall has arrived and i witness what i never saw before the calling over the names and the mustering of the passengers according to the police list of clearances


we are all collected aft in a crowd at one side of the ship and when john smiths name is called over he answers here like a boy at school and then passes over to the other side


all the others do the same until at length one melan choly looking man is left who has not been returned as cleared


mr bignall eyeing him with official intensity as if he doubted whe


ther he could be a human reality at all not being in the list asks him to account for the extraordinary circumstance


the melancholy looking man states that he came from ade laide last trip with goods by the emma and is now returning home and that when he went to the police office he was told that no clearance was necessary for him


captain fox corroborates this story as to the uncleared having come from adelaide and mr bignall who had previously stiffened from the man into the officer now gradually subsides into ordi nary humanity as he loses his suspicion of the man being a bolter


no man could do his business with more earnestness than bignall


you could see that he was making mental affidavits of mens features and persons and although i have often heard the expression of looking a man through and through i never saw it really done until now


the melancholy passenger however stood it like a statue or a zoological rarity accustomed to be stared at by the public at a shilling a head


this was only one of se veral visits we had from mr bignall for whenever a boat came off to the vessel he was down upon us in a twinkling lest any pri soner or other improper person should get away from the colony


here was the first decided impression i had ever got that so far as our british liberty was concerned this fine colony was after all no more than one large gaol beautiful effect of beautiful transporta tion


notwithstanding however all this visiting backwards and forwards of the clearance officer the emma was not destined to go out for many days afterwards


an obstinate south wind kept her in watsons bay and the owner of the emma mr thomas woolley having whilst she was lying there bought that most delightful of all possible brigs the phan tom he kindly gave me my option to go in the latter if i preferred her


i accepted the offer and in a few days afterwards was rattling away to the south with a fair and tenknot breeze our captain being the amiable fox aforesaid transferred from the emma and our fellow passengersa young lady about eighteen years old in very bad healththe owner of the phantom and a cannie goodhumoured scotchcolonial merchant going down to south australia in pur suit ofi suppose i must not not say what or i shall perhaps be breaking mercantile secrets


i fancy all voyages are alike they may be more or less blowy wet and rough and there fore more or less trying to landsmen but not withstanding these variations there is a strong general likeness among them


landsmen at sea where there are no ladies or where as in our case they never come out of their cabins lounge and eat and drink and sleep and tor pidly decline into slovenliness and let their beards grow and change their habits if not their natures materially


the only real objects of interest with them are the wind and their meals


no pity is felt for the sick


selfishness pervades every ship


we never however felt any surprise at this for we could easily ac count for it


how can one expect the mere conventional forms of life to be preserved in a situation where you can place no manner of dependence on your own legs where tumbling down stairs seems quite as natural a mode of getting into the cabin as walking down them where even in bed you are sometimes rolled about at the risk of catching your nose under one of your armswhere a mun talks poli tics to you one moment and the next without any sort of notice staggers off to the side of the ship and begins performing as a sort of animated cascadewhere men at breakfast pour cups of coffee into their friends bosoms and say no more about it than if the hot mix ture had been made for that purposewhere legs of mutton escape from their dishes as if inspired and caper down the middle of the table and up again refusing to be quiet until they are eaten and not always then


in such a state of things no mans faculties are more than sufficient for selfpreservation and this accounts in our opinion for the more than usual philosophy with which men at sea almost in variably bear the miseries of others


the fair breeze enabled us to make a regular gallop of it from sydney heads to twofold bay overhauling and passing everything great and small sailing in the same direction


at this part the wind shifted to the south and we had to make boards as it is called to get any further


the sea became short and chopping and we became conscious of an internal change which to be understood must be felt


having taken our breukfust we some how or other concluded in our stomach rather than in our mind that the only possible chance of continuing in possession of it was to he full length upon our backs on the deck amongst a parcel of ropes and other ship gear we did not examine what


of course the sailors were perpetually wanting something just under our back and begging our pardon for turning us over every five minutes like a bale of goods


we had no energy no passions no sense of dignity no personal pride


when we endeavoured to reflect and to consider why we were created it seemed as if we had nothing in our head but flannel or something quite as remote from brains


if any one had taken ad vantage of our temporaiy imbecility and kicked us we could not have resented it at the time nor even have made a memorandum of the cir cumstance to be avenged on a future occasion


the crisis approached we crawled to the side of the vessel and hanging over as limp as an empty suit of clothes we


ah


this is cruel indeed


what have we done to deserve this


wretched ass that we were what business had we coming to sea


this seemed the only proposition we could submit to ourselves but we were utterly unable to an swer it


every thing about us was misty and phantasmagoric and dreamy we seemed to have lost our very soul heart and stomach and nothing but waistcoat and limbs and vague disgust with ourselves and the universe were left behind


in the midst of this semitrance however we were nevertheless conscious of one peculiar evil impending over us it was that the steward would certainly come soon and tell us that dinner was ready and yet such was the spell at the time upon our powers and our will that much as we wished it we could not even when we thought we saw him near us request him to be so good as not to mention it


after every storm however whether on the inside or the outside of a man comes a calm


whilst sick we were silent and misanthropic


it was torture to us to be talked to to be invited to talk or even to listen to some talk we were obliged to make an effort and request a passenger to talk about that soup a little further off


when we get well we have as much difficulty in holding our tongue


our spirits rise rapidly and our mind becomes clear and disposed to regard everything on the merry and laughter yielding side


we have become much wiser too with our sickness for we understand our own nature much more intimately than we ever did before


we have discovered that philan thropy good humour wit energy patriotism and all the virtues included in the circle of moral philosophy must depend after all upon the state of the stomach


it is perhaps humi liating to proud man to be obliged to confess it but it is so


there is no doubt that julius csar was a poor creature when he was sea sick and if an affidavit by himself to the con trary could be found amongst his works i would not believe it


beyond this dreadful affection however and the slightly nervous feeling induced in me at first by the peculiar habits of the young lady passenger nothing occurred of any moment to disturb the even tenor of our eating drinking sailing sleeping and whist playing


the young lady slept in the next berth to me with her head as i should think only separated from mine by the width of the partition boards ing


i have said she was in very bad health and to all appearance the poor thing was in a confirmed consumption


she was going down to adelaide to her mother and from the first hour of her coming on board she took to her cabin and there remained


we are ashamed to say we had almost forgotten that she was on board when at about eleven oclock at night after we had turned in and were sitting up in bed dispersing the cock roaches which came out at first very strong in the phantom with an odd number of dowling and lowndes we all at once heard or thought we heard a voice very close to our ear


a minute or two was quite sufficient to satisfy me that this poor young girl was light headed for although quite alone in her cabin she was holding imaginary conversations with some doctor about her complaint and protest ing strongly against her brother who was not on board even if she had one for striking her and then hiding himself among the sailors


there is something awful at all times in the wreck of the human mind exposed by the piti able wanderings of insanity and the discovery i made was quite sufficient to cause a stay of proceedings against the roaches and in deed effectually prevented me from sleeping until my poor neighbours longer silence than usual satisfied me that she had at last fallen asleep herself


as this occurred every night and i had never had any practice as a keeper nor ever before attempted to sleep with a small lunatic asylum going on just at the very head of my bed the reader may na turally conclude that for the first night or two it materially interfered with my natural rest


it is extraordinary however as shakespeare says how use doth breed a habit in a man for by the fourth or fifth night i could fall asleep in the midst of a consultation between this poor girl and her imaginary medical at tendant being no more disturbed thereat than at any other noise in the ship


but we must get on


behold this wonderful little phantom on the four night of our being out dashing along by moonlight at knots an hour past the devils tower and curtiss island in basss straits


how solemn these huge masses of dusky looking rock look in the moonlight which sets off their sharp outline


how gravely they seem to frown down upon our gay and lively looking brig as like a great white bird she streams before the breeze the only thing disturbing their sublime silence as they lie there in repose all alone with the night


but i grow senti mental


three days and four nights more of this kind of thing brings us to holdfast bay about six oclock in the morning and this brings us very near to adelaide and quite to the end of chapter the second


charles bmiallety


tthb irish drgoon g


no chapter vii


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mrom out tnaiot a si ir was bly one of those sudden and inexpliedble at reveulsions which occasionally restore to sense and hi intellect the maniac of years standing that i was no sooner leftatone in in mychamber than i became perfectly sober


the fumes of


the to wineand i had drunk deeplywere dissipated at once my head which but a moment before was balf wild with excitement was now cool re scalm and collected and stranger than all


i lb who had onl an hour since enttered the dining room with all the anuspecting freshness of boyhood became by a mighty bound a matsa di manin all


my feelings of responsibility a man do who repelling an insult by an outrage bad resolved to stake his life upon the chance