the captain who had on his dry nightcap and was particularly good natured at dinner asked the first mate who had been on the island if he had any objections to go ashore and bring off a bushel or two of potatoes and said if there were any of us willing to to go with the boat we had his permission


none of the passengers appeared disposed to accept of his offer


the surgeon so anxious to land at madeira was silent doubtless con cluding that there was no likelihood of much profit being made by the proposed excursion i myself was the only volunteer


tristan dacunha is one of the most inte resting islands in the southern atlantic


it is the largest of a group of three small islands and is about fifteen miles in circumference


it rises between eight any nine thousand feet above the level of the sea and as it is ap proached presents a very sublime appearance its lofty summits bathed in clouds and its almost perpendicular sides exhibiting rugged grandeur and here and there quiet pleasant patches of green pasture


the island is well watered and the soil is capable of producing all the ordinary fruits of europe besides others common to the tropics


the following statement by the mate had aroused my curiosity when the eagle of france was caged in st helena a small gar rison was maintained here


on the death of napoleon this was thought no longer need ful and when the troops were about to be withdrawn a sergeant glass a scotchman with a few of his brother soldiers requested that they might be allowed to settle on the island


this was granted and glass was dignified with the title of governor


the original party were supplied with hotentot sic wives and the colony when i last visited it numbered about one hundred and twenty persons


they live in patriarchal simplicity and governor glass who must be now near his eightieth year presides over them like a father


the mate four seamen and myself left the ship at four oclock in the afternoon the captain declaring that the distance we had to pull was only three miles but the miles proved to be at least twice as long us those in the highlands of scotland where in the absence of mile stones the people are prover bial for giving good measure


we were at all events by my watch two hours and a half in nearing the island and having neared it we had no small difficulty in effecting a landing


close in shore was so covered with sunken rocks that we had to leave the host in charge of one of the sailors and make our way upwards of a hundred yards to the land sometimes breast deep in water


the mate told us when we reached the shore wet and disheartened that he had never landed on that part of the island before and that he believed we were some miles from the settlement


we proceeded along a well defined footpath for about two miles when we met with five of the natives one of whom was a son of the governor glass a young active handsome man


though dark in complexion they were european in feature and in dress


they said they had plenty of potatoes but that they were in the ground at a distance of some miles yet if particularly wanted they could have them on board the ship by seven in the morning


this however would not suit


after spending a short time in agree able conversation which was kept up by the natives in good english we prepared to re turn to the ship


we saw no women and the only cattle seen by us were a few oxen and goats


the oxen were in good condition and the pasture was plentiful and inviting


it began to rain heavily when we pushed off for the ship and became so dark that we lost sight of her


in this cheerless condition to add to our distress we broke two of our oars


we rowed about for hours nearly at random chill and spiritless when at last we discovered a light


the old lady was making signals and had was we were afterwards assured been exhibiting lanterns and torches for two or three hours before they were of any avail to us


when we got on board about midnight there was a general rejoicing the greater part of the passengers late as was the hour being on deck


captain hunks himself was really glad to see us but declared that he would swallow his soapbrush before a boat of his should ever go again on any such foolish errand


we were at length drawing near the end of our voyage


we had experience of calm and storm


we had spoken several ships


we had seen flyingfish whales and dolphins albatrosses cape pigeons and petals


we were not without variety of incident interest ing to ourselves


on the whole we were a happy society and no death occurred on board


about four oclock one pleasant morning i was roused by the kindly steward and invited on deck to behold the coast of the land of promise


the ship floating on australian waters


the stoliy of the campaign


continued


written in a tent from the crimea


from blaekwootfs magnate


part


chapter


attack of the malakoff and lledan


supposing for tbe sake of argument that to prosecute the siege actively was the right strategetic policy and that the malakoff and redan were the best points toasault yet the execution of the mea sure was such as to invite failure


i have already mentioned hnw feeble were tbe attacks in themselves and how much it was to be regretted that the original plan by which the artillery was to fire for some hours before the infantry advanced should have been changed


but though the im i mediate cause of failure is to be found less in the plan of assault than in its very defec tive execution yet it seems extiaordinary that with the vastly superior force which tbe allies could command attacks were not made on points so numerous as to be wilder and divide the garrison especially on tbe bastions before the town from whence if tbe enemy bad been induced to place there a largo proportion of troops they could not have been easily trans fctred across the cretk


but so far from making any demonstration which might induce tbe enemy to believe that point menaced the french batteries in that quarter did not open in the first days cannonade till afternoon and on tbe day of tbe asmult scarcely lired t all


the small number of russians who opposed eyres brigade and the circumstance of tbc riflemen in front of the barrack bat tery leaving their post to meet our people in tiie ravine seem to warrant the con clusion that the great mass of the garrison was placed in support of those works which alone were threatened


faultly as the assault would seem the general plan of which it formed part or rather which was absorbed into it is no less open to criticism


whatever reason may haredieafedour mode of operations it is not easy to deny that in assembling so


large a force on tbe extremity of the peninsula in allowing a great portion nf tbe army to remain idle while the rc maindir pressed he siege on ihe old plan and in concentrating our efforts on the strongett of the russian outworks where numbers were neutralised to a great ex tent by tbe defences we were doing what the russians themselves would not wish us to do


notwithstanding our altered circumstances our plans were unchanged and were of the most simple and unsci entific character


with an army of two hundred thousand men we persisted in staging succets on the attack of two works which ten thousand men might defend and by the failure in which attack these hosts were for a time paralysed


if w q gained sebastopol we gained nothing move for tbe russian army could then retreat upon its communications


we bad far more troops than were neces sary to conduit the siege and to defend the plaateau yet the superfluous force attempted no enterprise of imp rtance while tbe heats of summer were at hand and tbe more anxious and farseeing began already to anticipate another dreary winter here as inevitable


meanwhile the rub sia army was invisible and its move ments and state unknown but it seemb as il the vnvtc vis inertia of a force like ours must press the enemy back and that any foiuiinl movement however blind must curse us to iluntler into victory


ahout liiii time death was busy among the chiefs


admiral boxit whose great energy and activity had established order in the crowdtd harbour of balaklava and created commodious wharves there bad been dead of pholera some weeks


general alexander la marmora brother of the commander of the sardinian forces had fallen a victim to the same disease and a few days alter the attempt on tbe redan our adjutantgeneral estcourt a man of remarkably kind and courteous disposition died after a short illness


at tbe time of his funeral it was known that lord raglan was indisposed and next day he kept bis room but although the symp toms caused bis medical attendants to be apprehensive he did not appear in imme diate danger till the afternoon of the th june when he rapidly sank became in sensible and expired at halfpast eight in the evening tranquilly and without pain


on tho afternoon of the rd july bis body was conveyed to kazatch bay for embarkation


tho funeral was a very strange and splendid spectacle


the gen erals staffs and numbers of officers of the four armies french english turk ish and sardinian assembled at tho appointed hour in the large courtyard of the house which had been tbe headquar ters of the deceased marshal


before the porch waited with its team of bay horses a horseartillery gun destined to be the appropriate hearse of the old soldier


the courtyard was crowded with the uniforms of the different nations the gaudy colours and laced louisquntorze hats of the french staff the green plumes and dresses of the sardinians the skullcaps of the turks unadorned except oiner pashas in the front of whore fez biased a large ornament of diamonds and our own cos tumes in all the diversity of cavalry in fantry and artillery


the guards fur nished tho guard of honour drawn up fronting the house to salute the body of their general which had been enclosed in coffins of lead and iron with a plain wooden one outside


it was brought out placed on the gun covered with a flag and the procession moved on through the gar den and vineyard surrounding the head quarters


as it appeared round the cor ner of the bouse a battery on tho opposite elope tmluled with niueteen guns which were echoed by the desultory fire of the batteries iu the trenches and the guna of tho enemy


the road from tbe house to knzatch bay was lined throughout it extent on each bide with infantry french and english tbe men standing a few feet apart


first the procession passed between our own men who bad been last night fighting in tbe trenches till it reached the french headquarters when a french bat tery saluted and our own troops were succeeded by those of our allies first the zouaves wearing today green tur bans then tbe imperial guard with tbeir tall bearskins and long blue frocks and then regiments of tho line each corps marked by its colours inscribed in gold letters with the victories of the consulate and the empire


a body of cavalry and artillery escorted the coffin the white pall of which with its crosb of t


george was conspicuous at the head of the long procession which covered miles of the road


crossing the ridge of a slope beyond the french headquarters the sea appeared and upon the right the now futuiiiar puffs of smoke and sound of the guns marked where the siege still dragged on its weary length to the cares the honours and the disappointments of which so allabsorbing to us he whom we escorted was now in sensible


slowly we journeyed along the skins the dust rising in clouds from the ry soil till at sunset we reached kazatch


the water of the harbour was almost hid den by tho number of boats thronged with seamen iu tbeir white frocks whose up lifted oars looked like a grove


at the end of one of the wooden piera a crane had been erected under which the gun carriage was drawn bareheaded sailors slung the coffin to the craue boisted it and lowered it into the boat destined to take it to the caradoc the steamer in which lord raglan had come from eng land and which was now to carry home his remains


a parting salute was fired as the boat left the pier and we had seen the last of our kind and gallant old chief


to most of us he appeared as the relic of an age now historical and bis name asso ciated with tho peninsular victories caught a large share of the lustre reflected on nil tho companions of the great duke


during tbe long period in which he transacted business at the horse guards his reputation for suavity and kindness spread widely through the army and watt amply supported by bis demeanour as com manderinchief in tbe present compaign


his rank his dignified manners and ap pearance his former services and his long experience combined to gain for him ill respect and willing cooperation of our allies and the regret felt throughout the allied armies for his loss proved how sin cere was the regard he had inspired in his associates and followers


on the day of lord raglans death sir george brown the next in seniority bad embarked for england at the recom mendation of a medical board and on the st of july a telegraphic message from england confirmed general simpson late chief of the staff in tbe command of the army which had devolved on him by sen iority


during tbe early part of june the suc cesses of the kertsch expedition continued without any check


at taganrog and bcrdiansk on the north shore of the sea of azoff the public buildings stores enigiaiu were destroyed swwell asbt genitsch at the upper ex tremity of the isthmus of arabat


the fort nf arabat was fired upon by our gun boats and a magazine was blown up but not landing was attempted there and in timidated by the presence of theforce which lius ravaged the coast without hindrance the gurridons of soujoiikkiile and anapa blowing up their magazines and destroyingiho fortifications abandoned their posts


on looking at the nap the leaaqrmll perceive that the peninsula of kertsch narrows to a neck of land between kaffn on tbe black sea and arabat on tbe s of azoff tbe distance across being about twelve miles


when kertsch and yanikale bad been so easily captured the garrisons of those places iu number about marched unmolested towards tbe interior of the crimea


it is evident tbat had kaffa been attacked immediately after we had secured an entrance into the sea of azoff on capturing it a force might have marched on arabat with which our gun boats could have cnoperated from the sea


the experience we had gained during the enterprise warranted the belief tbat those places would have fallen at once and the neck of the peninsula thus occupied by


sufficient force of tbe allies tbe enemy troops remaining in it must bave laid down tbeir arms and whatever resources tbe country from thence to kertsch afforded must have been lost to the russians


as it was the expedition terminated with the conquests already enumerated


turks one english and one french regi ment remained to garrison yanikale to st pauls tbe points commanding respectively the td entrances to the straits lines were constructed for the defence of those places against an attack by land and guns were brought from constantinople to arm the latteries as tbe turkish gunners were not sufficiently familiar with the construction of the russian ordnance to work the cap tured pieces with confidence


kertsch itself which stands retired within the bay was occupied merely by a guard for the protection of its inhabitants and the pre sence of a few cossacks hovering nightly outside tbe town showed tbat the enemy bad not entirely withdrawn from the penin sula


the town of kertsch which bad been a flourishing and pleasant place con taining people presented a melan choly spectacle the houses bad been broken open ransacked and in part burnt and the inhabitants were not secure from ill treatment


to be continued


marieantoinette j ob the chevalier of the red house


continued from colonial timesiuyustb chaptee xiii


maurice lindey one of the principal char acters in this historical novel who took such an active part in the development of the varied events of the preceding chapter who suffered as much if not more than any of the others and who consequently merits the especial sym pathy of our readers cannot be allowed any longer to remain in oblivion


the sun was i shining full upon the street de la monnaie and i the neighbours wer leaning over their respeo i live doorways and looking as joyous as if during the lust ten months no sanauinary scenes had been enncted in puris when maurlee returned with the cabriolet which he had promised


he threw the reins into the hinds of a shoe black who plied his trade opposite the porch of the chuich st eustache and with a joyful heart ran up the stairs leading to his lodgings


love is a vivifying sentiment it reanimates hearts long dend to every other feeling


it makes the desert ejoice it constantly excites in the imagination the image of the object be loved it breathes into the soul of the lover and exhibits the entire creation illuminated with hope and happiness and whilst it is ex pansive in its action it io egotistical in fact for it makes the lover blind to everything save her whom he adores


maurice therefore did not observe the curious neighbours nor could he hear their commentaries


he only remembered that genevive was making preparations for a journey which would terminate in their re doubled happiness


he heard only genevieves familiar song huzzin


in his ears and could have sworn that he heard the refrain mingling with the snapping of locks


maurice paused on the landing


he per ceived the door half open usually it was con stantly closed and this oircumstance greatly surprised him


he glanced around to discover whether genevive was in the corridor


gene vive was not there


he then entet ed passed through the antechamber the diningroom the saloon and finally visited the bedroom


all these apartments wei e solitary


he called but no one replied


his servant had gone out as the reader knows maurice therefore imagined that genevive finding in his absence that she requii ed something to bind the trunks or some piomsion for tho journey had gone out to pur chase them


this imprudence seemed to him excessive hut although he experienced great uneasiness he suspected nothing


he patiently waited walking up and down the room and gazed occasionally out of the indow against which a thin rain was heating


bhortlyaftewards maurice imagined he heard a fool jtep on the stairs he listenedit was not genevieves yet he nevertheless hastened to the landing and leaning over the rail recog nised his servant ascending with that stolid in difference peculiar to domestics


scevola i exclaimed he


the servant looked up


ah is it you citizen


yes it is rae but what has become of madam


the citizeness asked scevola with sur prise still ascending


undoubtedly


have you seen her beneath


no


then go down and inquire of the porter as well as the neighbours


i will do so instantly and scovola de scended


quickerquickercried maurice do you not perceive that i am standing on redhot iron


maurice waited on the stairs several minutes but not discovering scevola returning he entered his apartment and again leaned out of the window


he then perceived scevola pas sing from shop to shop making fruitless in quiries


he impatiently shouted to him scevola looked up as his master made a sign for him to ascend


she cannot possibly have gone out said maurice and he shouted airain genevive genevive all was silent and the chamber did not even seem to possess a singlo echo


scevola renppeired


well t asked maurice


well


the porter ia the only person who saw her


has the porter seen her


yes but the neighbours never even heard her name mentioned


still you say the porter bas seen herhow is that


he saw her go out


then she has gone out


so it would seem


alone can it be possible she has gone out alone


slip was not alone citizen she had a man with her


whati a man


according at least to what the porter said go and bring him here


i must find out isho this man is


scevola made two paces twards the door then returned saying m a reflective mood stop a moment


what do you mean


speak out if you would not have me die


it was perhaps with the man who evertook nie in the street


with the man who overtook you


yes


for what purpose


to request the key for your own use


what key wretch speak speak will you


the key of the apartment


what have you givemthe key of my apart ment to n stranger


exclaimed maurice seizing his servant by the collar


he was not a stranger sir ho was one of your own friends


ah vei y good lorin no doubt that is it she has gone out with him and maurice smiled and wiped his perspiring hrow


nonono sir it was not himpar


dieu


i i ought to know him well


then who was it


you know hira well enough citizen


it was that finelooking man who came here one day i tn what day


on that day on which you appeared so very snd when you went out with him and then returned in a very joyful humour


i


scevola was a great observer


maurice looked at him with an alarmed countenance and he shook in every limb then after a con siderable puse he exclaimed dimmer v


on my faith i believe citizen you are right


maurice staggered and fell backwards into a chair closing his eyes and muttering


oh i my godoh my god p


then open ing them again he perceived the bouquet of violets either forgotton or left behind gene vive


he rushed to them seized and kissed them then noticing where they had been laid he said


no doubt no doubtthe violets the violetsare her last adieu


then maurice on turning round perceived for the first time tile halffilled trunk a portion of the linen lying on the floor and the remainder in the halfopened press


the linen which lay on the floor had evidently fallen from genevieves hands on the appear ance of dixmer


everything seemed to ex plain itself


the terrible scene rolled passed maurices imagination in all its reality


he was at first crushed in spirit and subdued but the reaction of his passion was frightful


he started up closed the halfopened window took from his writingdesks a couple of pistols ready charged for the journey examined the ants and put both the weapons into his pocket


he then put innto his purse two rouleaux of louis which notwithstanding his patriotism he considered it prudent to preserve in a secret drawer


he then seized his sabre saying scevola you are i believe attached to me


you have served my father and myself now


fifteen years


i


yes citizensaid the servant alarmed at thej i deathlike countenance and nervous ngitotion of his mastersymptoms which he had never observed before because ho was verjr justly esteemed the most intrepid the most vigorous of men


yes what are your commands


hear me


should


the lady who lived here he paused and his voice trembled so much that he could not proceed


if she re turns he continued after a few moments


receive her shut the door behid her


take that carbine and mount guard on the staircase on your life and soul allow no one to pass


if anj one should attempt to force the doors op puse itstrike strikekillslay and fear nothing i will be responsible for all


th vehement accent and supreme confi dence of the young man greatly astonished scevola


not only said he


will i kill any one who attempts to ehter but i will risk my own life for madame genevive


thanks thanks now hear me


this apartment is hateful to me


i will not return here until i have discovered her


if she should escape and return thither put outside the window the large japan vase containing the queen margarets which she admired so much


that will do for the daytime


at night hang up a lantern


every time i pass the end of the street i will examine the window and if i neither perceive vase nor lantern i shall con tinue my search


oh sir said scevola


be prudent be prudent


maurice made no reply


he rushed down the stairs as if he possessed wings and hastened to his friend loiins lodgings


it would be impossible to express the sur prise stupefuction and rage of the worthy poet when he learned the information


so you do not know what has hecome of her


continued he to repeat unceasingly


she is lost


she has disappeared for ever groaned maurice in a paroxysm of despair


he must have killed her lorin he must hove killed her


killed no nomy dear friend no my dear maurice he has not killed her no after so many days of reflection he will not kill such a woman as genevive no if he had intended to kill her he would have slain her on the spot and in evidence of his vengennce he would have left her body lying on the floor


no no he has fled with her do you not see


re rejoiced at finding his lost treasure


you do not know the man lorin you do not know him said maurice


that man had something forbidden in his very look


no no said lorin you are deceived


in i my sight he always seemed a good sort of a man


if he had taken her away to sacrifice her he would have caused himself to be ar rested in her company they would then have been executed together


ah there lies the danger


these remarks only tended to redouble maurices delirium


i will discover heri will discover her j exclaimed he


as for that it is quite certain that we will said lorin only bo calm


come come my dear maurice believe me that those who do not reflect only plunge themselves into mis chief and one must reflect badly in such a state of mind as yours


adieu lorin adieu


what do you mean to do


i am going to leave you


leave me


why so


that concerns me peisonally bcause i alone ought to risk my life to save genevieves


do you want to die


i will brave everything


i will seek the president of the observation committee i will speak to hebert danton and robespierre i will confess everything if they will only restore her to me


very good said lorin and without saying a word ho ai ose buckled his belt put on his reeimental cap and as maurice had done armed himself w ith a brace of pistols which he also put in his pocket


come along said lorin innocently


wellwhat then


whener the final scene is nigh good friends should be in company


where then said maurice


shall we begin our search


in the old quarter of course


you know itthe old street stjaques


then let us endeavour to spy out the chevalier for wherever he is there no doubt will dixmer he


we can then examine the house in la vieillecorderie because there is a rumour about transferring antoinette tb the temple again


depend upon it such men as these will not until the very last moment cease to entertain the hope of saving her


yes repeated maurice


in fact you are right but do you believe the chavalier is in paris


dixmer evidently is


true true and no doubt they are in com pany said maurice on whoye mind certain passing suggestions restored him a little more toreason


come on then


is from that moment the two friends searched and searched again in vain


paris is a large city and its shades are deep


no gulph however dark or deep ever buried more securely in oblivion the secret crimes and miseries which were confided to its keeping


maurice and lorin passed and repassed the square de grve at least a hundred times


they even brushed past the small house in which genevive was confined and guarded by the sleepless vigilence of dixmer like an ancient victim doomed by the watchful priests for sacrifice


genevive on her part seeing that she was destined to be sacrificed like all noble spirits wished to die without a murmur


she was besides dubiousnot on dixmers account but on that of the queens interestof the pnblic vengeance which maurice was sure to take


she maintained however as profound a silence as if death had already closed her mouth


in the mean time maurice without men tioning it to lorin had appealed to the mem bers of the committee of public safety


lorin without speaking to maurice did the very same thing


the same doy a red cross was drawn hy fouquier tinville before each of their names and the word suspected united them together like a bloodred bracket


to be continued


marie antoinette on the chevalier of the red house


continued from colonial times august j chapter xi


tho morning at length dawned preceded as i was by a sleepless night and without any ex aggeration it may be said that that morning ominously assumtd a bloodred hue


indeed it was remarkable at that period and during that year that the brightest sun seemed often obscured with durdred spots


the queen did not sleep or if she dosed it was a species of rest without refreshment


during this state of partial sleep sho saw in imagination blood purposely spilled and heard the groans and cries of the victims


she held the file in her hand whilst she par tially slept


one portion of the morning was passed by her at prayer


her guards perceiving her engaged so frequently at her devotions did not experience the least alarm at this increased exercise of religious duty


from time to time she drew from her bosom the file which ono of her friends had transmitted to her and compared the slendor instrument with the powerful bars required to bo cut through


fortunately thee bars wero only soldered to the windowsill


a transverse received the extremity i of each of those bars so that should the lowor portion bo sawn through it was only necessary to push the bar upwards and remove it


the queen did not hesitate as to the phjsical difficul ties to be encountered she knew that escape was possible but that very possibility involved the shedding of human blood


she know that her friends must kill her guards before they could attain the hopedforend and she had not yet agreed to their death on any account because these men were the only republican officers who had for any lengthened poriod exhibited pity towards her misfortunes


on the other hand independent of the bars which were to hu sawn through there wero the bodies of her guards who would be slain in pre venting her rescue


she saw before her liberty life and even vengeance threo things which seemed so sweet to her a a woman that she asked pardon of god for having so ardently de tired them


she loo believed as the result of her observa tions that neither of her guards entertained the slightest suspicion of the snare prepared for their prisoner supposing the conspiracy was really a snaro


these simple men would have betrnyed them selves verysoon to a woman who was so much accustomed to judge of men and manners as she was through tho force of her long suffering and experience


the queen therefore renounced that portion of her ideas which on examination ol her double means of escape suggested as being merely snares thrown in her way but in proportion as the disgrace of being taken in a snare left her mind she was immediately seized with a greater apprehension which was that of having blood uied in her behalf


strange destiny mutterod she sublim spectacle


i two conspiracies aro now being con cocted to save a poor queen or rather a poor woman who is a prisoner lind who has never done anything to secure the attachment or en courage the devotion of the conspirators


yet both conspiracies will have a denouement at the same instant


who knows perhaps the two only form ono plot perhaps it is a double mine destined to explode at one point


if then de sire it i might be saved i may escape my enemies


but some poor woman is to bo sacrificed in my place


and two men must be killed before even she can reach me


god will not pardon mo for this hereafter


it ia impossibleimpossible i then there passed and repassed before her imagination those brilliant specimens of devotion on the part of servants towards their masters as well as a recollection of those fearful traditions which gave the master a perfect right over the lives of their servantsvague phantoms these were of an extinguished royalty anuo of aus tria would havo accepted this on any conditions said she anne of austria would havo placed upnor to all other earthly considerations the safety of the royal person


anne of austria had the samo blood in her veins ae myself and almost occupied the same position


what folly it was to have come to france to continuo the reign of anne of austria


and yet i came for thefol lowing reason two kings said it is very im portant that two royal children vho have never seon each other who do not love and who may perhaps never ovo each other should be united at the same altar only to perish on the same scaffold


besides will not my death lead to that of my poor child who is still in tho eyes of my few friends king of france


when my son is dead as my husband now is will not their sepa rate shades smile upon mo with pity on perceiving mo morely to spare a few drops of plebeian blood staining with my own the wreck of the throne of saint louis


in the midst of increasing agony in tho fever of doubt whose severity was being constantly redoubled nnd surrounded by accumulated fears the queen at length witnessod the approach of night


she several times glanced keenly at her guards but sho lind nover observed them appear more calm und collected


on no other occasion either had the trilling attentions of those rude but goodhearted men struck her more forcibly


when darkness gloomed in her cell when the tramp of thc patrol had ceased when the clatter of ai ros and the howling of dogs had woko the echoes of the dismal vaults and when the whole prison ominously darkened over her hopes alarie antionotto


subdued by that inherent feebleness of womans nature arose in great trepidation


oh said she i shall fly


yes yes i shall fly


when my friends como when they enter into conversation i will saw the holt asunder


i will escapo and await whatover god or my liberators may command


it is duo to my children


they will not kill thom and if they do and i am at liberty


oh i then at least i shall


she did not conclude her thought but closed her eyes and compressed her lips


a frightful dream flashed through the mind ot this poor queen who was bolted and barred within her cell


her dream howover changed and bolts and bars wore removed


she imagined herself surrounded by gloomy and pitiless troops she thought she gave tho command for their artillery to play and for their swords to leap from the scabbard in short she imagined she was revenging herself upon a people who after all were not her own


during this time gilbert and duchosno chat ted quietly together and prepared their evening meal


during this time also duiner and genevive entered the conciergerie and as usual installed themselves in the legistor office


in about an hour after their arrival the registering clerk according to custom finished his business and left them alone


the moment tho door closed on his colleague dixmer rushed towards the empty basket left at the door ot the queens prison room in return for the full one ot the preceding night


ho seized the morsel of bread broke it and recovered his silver case


the queens note was inserted within it


he read it growing palo as he proceeded


as genevive was watching him ho tore the note into a hundred pieces and threw the frag ments into the burning muuth of the stove


good said ho it is all arranged


then turning towards genevive he said come hither madam


what me


yes i wish to whisper something to you


genevive remained as motionless and as cool as a mat ble statue and contenting herself with making a gestute of resignation she approached her husband


hear


what i have got to say madam ob served dixmer the hour has come


very good sir


you prefer do you not a death which will be useful to our causea death which will excite the pity of all and call down the blessings of one half ol the peopleto one which is ignominious and the meru result of vengeance


yes sir i might have killed you on the spot when i found you in your lovers house j but a man like mc who conseciates his life to an honourable and holy workought to know how to convert his own peculiar misfortunes into a benefit for the cause in which he has embaked


i his is what i havo done or at least what i intend doing


i havo declined as you perceived doing mself justice


i have likewise spared your lovers life


something liko a fugitive buta ter rible smile passed over genevioves bloodless lips


but ns to your lover you who know me ought to be aware that i spared him only to do better still


sir said genevive i am ready to obey


why then this preamble


aro you ready


yes you may kill me


you are right how ever and i patiently await your orders


dixmer looked at genevive and involuntarily shuddered


she looked at the moment sublime


a halo encircled her head which was the most brilliant of all for it belonged to the flame of love


to resume said dimer


i havo warned the queen she is icady although in al proba bility she may raiso several objections but you must force her to comply


good sir


give mo your orders and i will execute them to the letter


in a short time i shall knock at the door


gilbett will open it and with this poniard div iner hero opened his coat and exhibited a double edged weapon which he pm tly withdrew from its sheath with this poniard i will kill him


genevive shuddered whilst dixmer made a motion with his hand to enjoin silence the moment i knock at the door you will rush into the second compartment of the chamber inhabited by the queen


you are aware there is no door there is only a screen


you must change your dresses whilst i am killing the second soldier


after that i will take the queens arm and pass through the gate with her


very good said genevive coolly


you know continued dimmer that you aro seen every night with that black taffeta cloak which can conceal your featuies


give it to her majesty and envelope her as you usually do yourself


i shall do as you say sir


it only remains then for mo to pardon and thank you madam said dixmer


genevive bowed with asad smile on hercoun tcnantc


sir said she i do not require your pardon nor seek your thanks


what i am about to do will wash away even a crime and i have merely been guilty of a weakness and if jou will recall your own conduct sir you will remember that you have almost compelled mo to commit it


when i sought to avoid him you forced mo into his arms


you are in a measure the instigator tho judge and the avenger


it belongsj to me then to forgive you my death and i pardon you


it is also my duty to thank you sir for depriving mo of life sinvo existence would bo insupportable to me when separated from the man i alone love especially sinco the moment that your ferocious vengeance broke asunder every tio which bound me to him dixmer plunged his nail into his breast


he wished to speak but his speech failed him


he walked up and down the office r time passes said he at length and every second is of importance como madam aro you ready


i have already said so answered genevive with the coolness of a martyr


i am ready


dixmer gathered up his papers examined all the doors to see whether any one could penetrate to the office and finally wished to repeat his in structions


it is useless sir said genevive i know perfectly well what havetodo


l in that case adieu ll r dixmer held out bis hand as if to say that at such a moment all recrimination ought to sink beforethe grandeur of


the oause and sublimity of the sacrifico


gcncvievo shuddered as she touched her hus bandb hand


stand close beside me said dixmer and the moment i have struck down gilbert rush past me


i am quite ready sir


dixmer then grasped his poniard firmly in his right hand and with his left ho knocked at the door


to be continued j


catholic story literature


the devils dice


from the german chapter iii


the third and last throw


the power of the dice thus acquired by diabo lical arts was soon tested by the miserable man who had dearly purchased them with the price of his immortal soul


to save himself from the fleeting pangs of hunger he had exposed himself the neverending pangs of hell to protect himself from the chance of condemnation to ieath as a murderer he did that which was sure to entail upon him a condemnation from which there could be no appeal


henry schroll fled from the courtyard to the gambling table


he played for high stakes and whenever he threw with his new devils dice all in gold that was staked upon every throw was won by him


he who had been but a few hours before without the means of saving himself from the most dire misery returned to his home richer than many a prince in germany


he returned to his home but it was to see before him the odious and wicked hag the daughter of his host to claim from him his promise that he


would make her his wife


loathing her as the most unsightly and the most detestable of wretches still henry was compelled to become her husband for had he not done so he would have been instantly denounced to


the police


and an ig nominious death inflicted upon him


as the fitting punisnment for the cruel murder of which he had been guilty


the extravagance of his second wife was boundless and it soon exhausted all that splendid portion which he had acquired previous to his wedding


he dice thereto re were constantly made use of even though he was now sick at heart every time he handled them


he wished to separate from the vile woman he had espoused but the threats of his fatherinlaw still chained him to her side


the murder of his first wife bound him fast to his second


but then he had a child a boy every feature in whose face was than of its hapless mother and though the constant everliving memorial of his fathers guilt still the fathers heart was centred in him


the innocent prattle


of his child was the only pure pleasure now left to the wretched and guilty man


henry reflected that the child if it continued in his society and that of its stepmother must soon have its mind poisoned by the vices in which they lived


he therefore arranged for the instruction of his boy at some distance from the place where ire himself resided


the parting of the boy afforded a pretext to the stepmother for displaying the magnificence and luxury in which she lived and therefore the clay before henrys son was to quit home a splendid company of visitors filled the house


there was as a matter of course in the man sion in which henry presided as u host gambling introduced at an early hour


considerable sums were won and lost but in the course of the game one of the players he who had been the largest loser at the table in his rage flung down one of the dice in such a manner that it rolled off the board on to the floor


the servants were called to seek for it


the boy hearing the commotion also ran to aid in the search and in doing so he slipped on the die his foot turned he lost his balance came with his head smashing against the bar of the iron stove and his brains strewed the floor


the father saw the lifeless body raised from the floor and he fell into strong convulsions


aided by skilful pin sicians he was soon restored to consciousness and despair


he thought of his miserable life since he had first touched the ac cursed dice and he saw that all his guilt and


a


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it


il


j sorrow were oe iraceci tnem


rie ours from those who sought to hokl him and dashed like a madman through the streets into the fields and never stopped in his furious career until he had reached a bridge which crossed a deep and rapid river


here he stopped and gazed on the waves as they rippled onward in their fleet career


they seemed to bid him welcome and to invite him to seek repose amongst them


his despair was at its height and he exclaimed iis then be the end of all as he sprang over the battlements of the bridge


instead however of plunging into the waves he felt himself caught as he was falling in the arms of a nian whose jeering laugh and light ning glances at once proved him to be his evil adviser


the man carried him in safety to the bank and as he deposited him there he said no no honest comrade it is not yet your time


he who has once entered into a compact with me will find me aid him even against his will


the next day schroll armed himself with a pistol and slunk out into the fields


the morn ing was full of beauty the sun shone cheerily the fields looked gaily bright with their deep green and their thousand wild sweetscented flowers and the birds chirped and hopped merrily as the man in whose lace were the traces of des pair appeared amongst them


nature was as bright and joyous as he was sad and gloomy


he encountered as he walked a troop of merry gardeners proceeding to the town with their pro duce and as they beheld his face in which hell itself seemed to have branded its characters of guilt they stood aghast


one compassionate man amongst them approached schroll and in a pity ing tone inquired if he stood in need of any thing or if he could assist him whilst others said so loudly as to be heard by him


there goes a desperate villain heaven save us from meeting one like to him upon a dark night and in a lonely wood


as he heard this his looks were as curses upon those who uttered the words and turning himself free from the grasp of the good natured man who had sought to assuage his sor row he plunged into the thickest part of an ad joining wood


at length henry reached a place so lonely and so retired that he conceived it suited for his deadly purpose


he drew forth the pistol cocked it pulled the trigger and fell senseless to the earth


his stupefaction was not however of long duration


consciousness returned to him he rose from the earth looked around him and beheld weltering in blood the lifeless body of the goodnatured countryman who but


a short time before had sought to console him


whilst his eyes were fixed on this sad spectacle he felt u heavy hand laid on his shoulder


he was thrilled with terror for bethought it was the hand of one about to conduct him to the scaffold


but when he turned tound he knew not whether he should feel joy or grief when he perceived the mysterious being with whom he was now allied standing as a gravedigger before him


well done again comrade but why worry yourself with these childish pranks your life is not in your own hands it is now in mine i am sure of you when i want you another shall cause your death and when you die you are mine mark me well brave comrade nay dear bro ther you are mine and for ever


who has been the murderer of this mi serable wanderer asked the heartbroken wretch


who


who else than yourself


was it not you that fired off the pistol that now lies beside the useless carcase


yes but i discharged it at my own life not at his


ho ho


ho shouted out the evilbeing in a laugh so thrilling and so scornful chat henry felt his very bones shake with terror


a very pretty story to tell a judge and to narrate to a hangman


but now observe comrade honest comrade you can no longer do what you like but what i want you to do


meanwhile get you gone whilst i do another kindly office for you by covering with the green earth the body of this meddling goodnatured fool


and as he said this the demon commenced digging a grave whilst schroll ran from the spot being no longer able to bear the firelike glances that fell from the eyes of the dreadful being he had been speaking with


schroll thought of repentance but he knew lie never could pursue a life of virtue as long as he was bound to live with his second wife


he in duced then her and her father to consent to a separation on condition that he should give to them a million of golden crowns


they assented and then to procure that sum it was necessary to use again the charmed dice


to secure the separation he desired his resolution was to em ploy them and once he had accomplished that never again to touch them though he should beg his bread from door to door


he hoped by the speedy accumulation of his winnings speedily to purchase a release from these accursed instruments of all his misfortunes


he played and played and played again and alwaysv with his wonted success


at length he was within a few hundred dollars of that sum which would prove his release and at length he was even looking out for some secret and retired spot where he might bury the devils dice and so conceal them that they never again could reach the hands of mortal men


he would confide them to the earth not to the waters for he re membered how powerful was the enemy of his soul over the running stream


these were his feelings and these his inten tions on the very evening that he hoped to see completed the task which his wife and her father had assigned to him


he stood as usual at the gamingtable and then saw distinctly for the first time the face of a man that he had casually re marked for a few evenings before and that he was aware was the loser of considerable sums of mo ney to him


this man who called himself stutz was like though the bloom


of youth was on his cheek to the unhappy soldier that had been shot in place of himself


the likeness between the one and the other was too remarkable to escape the attention of any one who had seen the brave soldier alive and now looked upon the youthful gambler


henry shuddered with fear as he gazed upon it


he felt terrified and he knew not why when another circumstance occurred that added to his anxieties


it was the appearance of a man who seemed an utter stranger to all pre sent and who approached the table around which the players were circled to interrupt their game with the narration of a circumstance which ho said had recently occurred in that part of the country from whence he had just arrived


a certain person said the stranger liad entered into dealings with that strange being that is vulgarly called the devil and through the de vils aid he had immense success in gambling this certain person however got tired of z good luck and wished to get free from the devils clutches as soon as he could lay by a certain sun of money


beelzebub however is not so easily duped he knew what his disciple was struaalino


for and be laid his claw upon him justas his poor dupe had clutched the last dollar which he thought would secure his freedom for ever


the company who heard this incredible tale burst into a loud fit of merry laughter at its con clusion


shouts upon shouts of ridicule seemed to burst forth from every corner of the room to be again succeeded by loud bursts of laughter there were however two present whodid not join in the universal merriment


these were stutz and henry


the first had lost nearly every thaler he possessed and the latter was so dreadfully terrified by the story that had been just told that he felt compelled to turn with fear towards the strange narrator


his fright in creased when he observed that the countenance of the new comer assumed a different form and put on new features


the only thing that was unchanged in them was the cold withering sneer the pitiless scorn that wrinkled them as his eye i fastened upon the face of henry


the trembling schroll could endure this no


longer and as stutz had at the moment lost his last stake he observed that it was growing late that the person he had been playing against was evidently in illluck and that therefore lie declined playing any more against him until the next day


and as he said this he put the dice back in his pocket


why not speak out plainly said the new comer that you want o fund your winning and never to play again


schroll started back sick with horror for now the demon voice was sounding in his ears and the lightning flash that seemed to burst from the fires of hell were glancing from the eyes of his old enemy and former comrade


back sir with the dice cried the stranger and henrys palsied hand restored them to the table here let us look at them i am sure they iire loaded dice


the awful being as he spoke thus struck one of them with a hammer and it burst in two see said he turning to stutz whilst he showed that one side of the die had been filled with lead


stop traitor assassin villain cheat ex claimed the young man as henry sought to es cape from the chamber and in doing so was struck in the eye by the whole die which was hung in a rage


at him by stutz


the die pene trated the eyeball and henry felt as if there swas a lighted furnace in his brain


he screamed with anguish and rolled to the earth calling loudly for assistance


the doors were burst open by the officers of justice and all present were placed under arrest for the wound inflicted was pronounced by the j physician who examined it to be mortal


j


the next day henry was lying in a burning


fever the pain in his eye seemed momentarily to spread like an eating cancerous iire over every part of ills framo and yet in the midst of his agony he inquired for


the young man who had inflicted this dreadful injury upon him


he was told his assailant had been examined before a magistrate that ho had himself admitted that he was travelling with a false passport that his real name


was wilfred that he was the son of a soldier who had teen shot for mutiny when he was a child and that his fathers death had caused the premature demise of his mother and left him us his only resource the life of a vaga bond a thief and a gambler


despair as well as the pain of death seemed to prostrate henry as he received this intelli gence


he desired a clergyman to be called to him in all haste and hardly were the words ex pressed when a person in the garb of a priest was seen to enter the room


the dying man was told that a clergyman was there to administer consolation to him


henry raised himself with difficulty from his pillow and then gazed on the stranger his eyes were seen to open with terror his hair bristled on w head his teeth gnashed with agony and ms scalding tongue seemed dry and withered as it touched his parched lips when he exclaimed oh


horrid you at last to receive my sow


and saying this the burning body shrank back convulsed and distorted on in bed


those who beheld this awful scene ran to aid the unhappy man


they beheld a charred an shrivelled corpse before them and when toe raised their eyes the stranger had vanished houoways ointment and pills the best reme dies for the cure of female com plamts extraordinary effect these pills have upw complaints peculiarly incidental to females appear incredible if it were not oonfiimed by the wonderful cures they f any it is an unquestionable fact that there is w remedy to equal them throughout the wo exterminating suffeing from the softer se these admirable pills partici


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the story of the old wolf


translated from the german


chapter iii


sir isegrim felt more than ever the injurious effects of a questionable reputation


he could no longer live by his teeth as a wolf his coat would not permit him to pass for a dog


all his elo quence could not win the confidence of the shep herd or the afflecion of the flock


my skin he exclaimed is against me but the third attempt generally creates or dissipates the charm


may it be so in this instance


no thing will prove my reformation but bringing the head of a wolf in token of my eternal hostility to violence and my admiration of persecuted inno cence


the blood of the pack cannot taste so sweet as what i well remember but will not whisper


but i must go warily to work there is some danger to be dared yet hunger is supe rior to fear and will enable me to dare anything


as the shadows of evening closed the wolf re turned with slow and marshalled steps to the door of a neighbouring shepherd


you see ex claimed sir isegrim a sense of justice has proved stronger than the claims of nature


you may talk mr shepherd of your brutuses but who would have expected a wolf to avenge on his own kindred the violence done to a helpless sheep


i caught this individual of our species in the very set of worrying one of the flock and i said within my self on the one side i have fraternal tenderness and on the other old prejudices to hinder an act of justice tis hard to injure a brother one who has shared the same repast and followed on the same trail but virtue triumphed and i took his life as a warning to others


hencefortlh wolves will learn that i am determined either to reclaim them by my example or to destroy them utterly


ah


sir isegrim said the shepherd you are a most extraordinary wolf


extraordinary indeed you shall find me said isegrim if you will hire me as the guardian of your sheep


you see i cannot return to any old habits


i am now committed


if my brethern catch me alone i shall be worried to death


besides in your em ployment my experience will be serviceable to me and to you too shepherd for i have seen a good deal before today


and so yout think master isegrim said the shepherd that i suppose wolves quarrel only about points of honour and humanity


because you have killed one of your pack you think i shall be duped by assuming that you will hence forth do no murder


rogues and robbers not only shed blood in acquiring but often in dividing the spoil


as you have done justice to your worthy congener crown the novelty by doing the snme justice to yourself


i cant trust you ise grim


cant you growled the wolf then you must watch me


the story of the campaign


written in a tent from the crimea


from blackwoods magazine part chapter xvi the hospitals on the bosphorus continued from our last


going on shore the change from poetry to prose was sudden as ever


constanti nople is like the wellpainted dropscene of a theatre


beautiful and imposing at the right distance a closer view reveals the coarse texture of the canvass and the rudeness of the daubing which has pro duced


so excellent an effect


the sun struggling forth at noonday sent the dis solving snow in floods from the spouts of the houses which mingling with that al ready blackened by the trend of tho pass ing throng poured darn tho steeper streets and settled in poos along the level ones and every projectile atone that of fered a friendly means of transit was dis puted by elbowing turks greeks arme nians jews and english uid french sol diers and sailors


these latter had be come somewhat noisy and roublebome in their visits ashore and sodb frays had en sued in which lives van lost between them and the inhabitants


saw a drunken english merchant eeaman persist in an at tempt to fight a french officer because the latter had declined tojoiuium in sing ing cheer boys cheer


thi french man shewed much dignified goodnature and the rascal was dragged away tv his cemradeb the same day saw a french soldier very drunk holding in his left band a drawn sword which he flourished in the faces of the passengers proclaiming vociferously his devoted friendship for the english and his disapprobation of tho hus sions


this respectable ally also was dis armed and quieted by his comrades


the hotels were filled for the most part with military men some cope down sick from the crimea some arriving from england and france on their way to the war some amateurs of the english or angloindian army desirous of seeing the aature of the service which afforded a theme of interest for all europe


the conversation at the table dhote consisted entirely of criticisms on the conduct of the war anecdotes from the camp and debates od the chances of peace and occasion ally some of us had the advantage of hearing portions of the actions we had been engaged in or tho manoeuvres we had witnessed placed in nn entirely novel light by critics who bad been distant some thousand miles from the scene of action


the golden horn contained almost a fleet of french and english menofwnr undergoing repair and was thronged with transports lying off the arsenal or be tween the bridges which connect pera with stamboul whenever a ship moved out a portion of the bridge was swung back to leave the passage open and the tide of passengers pressing across suddenly found a yawning gulf between them and their goal


the operation of opening and re closing the bridge being conducted with nil the deliberation which characterises turkish proceedings the throng of pas sengers on foot on horseback and in car riages sometimes increased till it filled the bridge and threatened to overflow in to the space between where caiques were hovering to convey across the more impa tient


the bridge itself flooded in the level portion with some inches of water nod having holes broken through at the sides in many places through which the unwary might well slip reminded me of that which mirza saw in iub vision in ad disons tale


the first day i tried to cross the strait to scutari it blew bo hard that the caique was obliged to put back but ou the fol lowing doy the water was comparatively calm


the barrack occupied by the eng lish in the spring a large quadrangular white building with a tower at each cor ner standing on the edge of the bank was now the principal english hobpital


a boat was alongside the wooden pier with bick aud wounded men just landing from a ship the shooting star which had been detained by some accident from rough weather in the black sea for a great many days


these men laid on stretchers each borne by four turks were carried up the steep hill to the hospital moaning us they went and received within the portal where rest and comfort awaited them


there are several stories in this huge building and on the inside looking into the square a corridor opening from the room paved with stone and four or five yards wide goes quite rouud the whole extent


ad the corridors as well as the rooms were filled with patients and the visitor walked between a double row of bedd


at the points whero the stairs connected the different flights wooden partitions were erected to repel the cut ting draughts and stoves kept the tempe rature pleasant and thus the conidors were as habitable as the wards


there was one room in which i look peculiar interest for having my leg broken in june by the kick ot a horse i lay there fixed to one particular spot lor six long weeks before i rejoined the army at varna and this was tho first i visited


zt was occupied by three ocert all strangers to me and i therefore took bat a hasty glance but that included each wellremembered crack and crevice in the wall and nail in the wood work and the large cupboarddoor which laid on two armchebts to raise me to the level of the window had with a mattress on it served me as a bed


ou the level of that win dow just opposite at a hundred yards distance rose a tall n bite minaret with a low


arch opening into its balcony from which i had seen tho muezzin emerge at regular intervals each day to call aloud to the faithful till i was intimately acquaint fid with his appearance and the inflections of his voice in the sweet sad tones of which he used after nightfall to chaunt a monotonous prayer


while i had loin i here the army was in llgaria prepar ing as wbb supposed fohn active cam paign on the danube aniacb friend who bid me goodby expressed looks if not by words that he thougl mo shut out from nil chance of parlicipjidg in the ad veiirurou


future opening f him


some of those who went forth simoyautly are now laid for over beneath u boil of tho crimea in spots where lo hopes of others as well as their on are buried


many buch recollections arfe during that hasty glance rouud the wejknown cham ber


thebe revisitings off marked spot sometimes round off and illudo a phase of existence


had seen mch of stirring life since i quitted that rod on crutches


entering any of the cantors or wards the same scene presented ittf


the oc cupauts of some of the bed sat strongly up eating heartily their soul and meat others emaciated to skeletfe more like corpses than liviug beings fcept for tho large hollow anxious eyeslay back on their pillows or tried witmhuculty to swallow the spoonfuls of awroot or sago offered to them by thewteudunts there seemed no doubtful dm all were broadly marked either for lift or death


the patients appeared comfotable had good beds and plenty of bedtithes and the temperature of the chambers was as before said regulated to a very pleasant warmth


at somo beds a woman tub wife of tho patient eat chatting with him beside others stood thy somewhat ghostly appearance of a catholic sister of charitv upright rigid veiled and draped iu black the veil projecting far beyond her face throw it isffell as the white linen folded across her osom into deep shadow


tho thinness ofsome of the forms propped up against tlnir pillows their chests exposed by the opsn shirts was absolutely fright ful the bony bands wandered vaguely about tie hair and sunken temples and the eyes were fixed ou vacancy


some lay afredy iu the shadow of death their eyes rrvorted showing only the whites beneatl the drooping lids and others had passed this last stage and wailed only for the gnve


at he end of a corridor iu a tower are quarters once held by general sir george brow but now occupied by gentler ten ante


there dwelt the sisterhood that had cime from england to tend the sick the rebeccas to the ivaahoes of the crimm


that quarter of the building threv a softening and romantic tinge over thenst in its neighbourhood pain and mtseiy seemed less forlorn


the corridor oponid ou a kitcheu where some good sis ters veie preparing soup sago aud wine and o her comforting compounds


door ways opening from tbe kitchen were screened by long folds of black cloth or tapestry behind which dwelt the lady sis ters and high up the wall of the kitchen were windows across which flitted nun jilfe forms beard presently to descend the stair to our level


it was while one of two or three who accompanied me a man of sedate and respectable aspect such as might without presumption engage the ntteittiuu of a muter of charity extracted from a motherly benevolent lady some sta tistical details of tho sistcrjiood that the chief of them herself mis nightingale lifting the piece of tapes ry before her dour tor u parting visitor itood for a mo ment revealed


during t at short inter val the statistics of the mo beriy lady were unheeded we steadily rq irded the chief as she bid her visitor fldie then the ta pestry fell and she vanished


there were eight protest int ladies and a rather larger number of c tthoiic sisters in all with their atteudanlt who officiated as nurses there were aboit forty in the sisterhood


in iho great kitchen close by their quarter ricepudding mai ufactured on a grand scale was transferro smoking by an enormous ladle to tho destined plat ters beeftea and mutto broth were being cooked in huge caul rons bucii ns the witches danced around and flocks of poultry were simmering in j boiled fowls or chicken broth


then nre three english hospital be


sidoa this one at a tlo distance a large redbrick building ras originally built and used for the lrpose by the turks it is the most corafo table and best suited to its object of all another in known ab tho


kiosk or pa ice hospital and the third is at coolali a place some miles up the uosphorus oi the scutari side where there is a large barrack which was occupied by the englijh cavalry and artillery before the nrmy left for varna all these buildings were clean cheerful airy and comfortable


they contained in all at the time of ray first visit sick increased to at the end of ja nuary and from first to last men had passed through some back to the crimea where in many case they had relapsed into sickness and died some to england and some to tbeir final resting place


on the edge of the bank of the sea of mavmora a few hundred yards


to tbe left of tbe mouth of the rospuorus is a level space of greensward used by the english from the time of their arrival in turkey as a buryingground


tho placid sea the distant isles the cape of broussa on the left and seraglio point on the light make up a lovely view from the melancholy spot at tbe southern extremity of the ground are single graves neatly defined and turfed where those who died virile the army baited here in the spring are laid


but the prss of mortality no longer admitted of euch decent burial


to those accus tomed to see tho departed treated with reverence and attended solemnly to tbeir last habitation there was something hor ribly repulsive in a wholesale interment where the dead far outnumbered those who stood round tbe grave a pit about ten feet deep and fourteen square received etcry afternoon hole who tad died during the last twentyfour hoars


a rickety arena or country cart drawn by two oxen was tbe hearse which conveyed them from the neighbouring hospital to the place of sepulture


in the yard of tho hospital is a small dismal house without windows for its tenants no longer need tho light


thither those who have died in ibis and the neighbouring hospitals arc brought on stretchers snd packed like sacks in n grauary ill the araba comes for them


sewed each in a blanket with sufficient tightness to ieave a caricature mummy like resemblance of humanity a score of bodies arc laid on the vehicle aud travel slowly dangling and jostling as they go to the mouth of ihe yawning pit where the urty who dug it await the coming of tho cart


there is no lime for ceremony each poor corpse is hastily lifted off and doubiedup limply in cases of recent death or stiff and stakelike where it lias been longer cold is handed down nameless un known and void of alt the diguity of


iliuh to its appointed station in the crowd


one row being laid tho next covers it and the feetoftbosewho deposit them necessarily trample on the forms be low ipaving muddy footprints on the blanketshrouds


sixtyone about the daily average number at the time were buried together on the day i visited the spot


noticing one corpso in which the lower part of the outline seemed unusually thin i remarked to tho corporal in charge that tho deceased mubt have been long ill to be so wasted but he pointed out to me that one limb had been amputated


a clergyman waited till all were deposited lo read ihe funeral service close by another pit was being dug for the requirements of next dty and we had seen iu the hoenittl many of thost unmistakably destined to fill it


altogether the scene reminded oie of defoee account of the burials about london in the time of the great plague


i bve mentioned elsewhere tie trencto dug on a battlefield lo contain rows of dead


but there hey lie like soldics with an awe and glory on heir blood stained uniforms and upturned faces which no pall nor coffin could bestow


in the pits of scutari death is deprived of iis sanctity majesty and mystery and eta ns only those elements which constitute he grotesque


officers are buried singly in graves coso to tho edge of the bank where crossherded slips of wood like those which marl the plants in a greenhouse and not uuch larger are labelled sometimes with the name of tho occuoant below sometimes less specifically as a woman a russian officer


wishing to sse the french hospital in pera i applied u m levy the insjector genersl who verj kindly gae men nole to m morgue the principal medical j officer in which he prayed him to receive sane other englishmen and myself avee lacourtoisie quo meritent ti bicu noe digues aliifs


the building standing on a high point of ground above tbe new palace of thesul tin and conspicuous from the bospborus was originally intended as a school ol medi cine


it is very large newer and fresher and the wants and apartments lofiier tliaa tliose of our hospitals


a t the door wm a covered cart with a cross in front filled with coffins and drawn by oxen in flie first room we entered besides some ireich officers there were a russian captain end two subalterns wounded at inkermajn playing at some game like draughts


in the next room a very spacious one will a painted ceiling and windows opening ko the floor looking on the bosphorus wye five or six vonch officers apparently vry comfortable


the corridors like those tot our hospitals were filled with patients till the wards the beds on each side wire raised on a platform abovo tho floor tliirc was a very thick paillasse under each mdn across the rail at the head of the bed wip a shelf with his medicinebottles and on a card at the foot was a description of iis cose


the surgeon who accompanied us round jointed out a remarkable case t mt of n man who had received a bullet in i he head which entering on one side had m ne out near the opposite ear passing close to the lobe of the brain he wab sensible ap parently suffering but little pain aid would the surgeon thought live


oppo site him was another with his skull frin tured by a sabrecut from a russfm officer the surgeon removing the dressing with tweezers tapped them audibly widi out paining tbe man on the bare skull bone which was cleft for about an inoli and surrounded by a gaping wound in the scalp


the poor fellow whined dolefully as tlie instrument was unfolded but he surgeon reassured him saying ho was only goidg to move the dressing he told jus afterwards he thought it would be necessary to trepan him


sisters of charily with the freshest of complexions and tho snowiest of capp moved to aud fro among the beds one of them was an irishwoman from mcath who had left ireland as she told us five years before to join the sister hood


one corridor was filled with conva lescent russians in their uniforms of grey or blue surmounted in miiny instances by a french cap they stood up respectfully and grinned approval when the good doctor patronised them by a tap on the back or a pull of the car


the chief distinction be tween this hospital


and ours seemed to be that here the patients were classified ac cording to the nature of their ailments one ward was filled with cases of frost bites another of wounds another of fever apian tried at first in our hospitals but broken in upon by the throng of sick ai riving


it is probable that tbe worst caes are kept apart in the french hospitals a


none of the men wo saw seemed o be in extremity and it is certain that nor dignes allies like to exhibit on all occa sions the


bestsido of their management


the doctor sal tho deaths averaged seven or eight a day out of fourteen hundred about half tho proportion of those in our hospitals a variation somewhat puzzling since hero seems toothing in ihe difference of accommodation care nourishment or trontment sufficient to account for it


our hobpitaib with their staff and or derlies are


under the commandant of scu tari brigadier general lord w poulet


the duties of the staff are extremely almost hopelessly perplexing from the con fusion of the accounts of pay necessaries i stoppages c of sucb a number of men of different regiments


to tho commandant all officers hailing on their way to and from the crimea report themselves and he ap plies for a passage for them and also for the patients rejoining tho army or inva


lided to england to the admiral who has j control over all the transports and menof j war


these two form with tho chief com missary a trio supposed to work in unity as mrs malaprop says like cerberus three gentlemen in one


jt is most necessary they should set in concert for many services to be performed here demand a combined exertion of the authority of tho i three as absolutely as a biii requires the consent of the three estates to become law


the dealings of the commissariat arc very various and extensive comprising contracts for all ihe supplies of provisions clothing and forage for the army besides what comes from england


the con stantlyvarying rate of exchange must greatly increase the complication of their duties


several large steamers nre appro priated exclusively to the commissariat as cattleships which at certain points of the coast embark bullocks already collected by their agents in the


surrounding district and convey them straight to brjaklava


a tale of two cities


in three bk


by charles dickent


book tub second


tiib golden tifitead


continued from the age of october ih


chatter lit


contiitued


a singular circumstance then arose ia tbe caee


the object ia hnud being to show that tha pri soner went down with somo followplotter ua tracked ia tho dover mail oa that friday uight ia november ave yearn ago and trnt out of the mail in the nicht


aa blind at a place where ho did not remain but from which be travelled back some dozen miles or more to a garrison and dockyard and th re col lected ioformition a witness wag culled lo iden tify him as baviug been at the precise time required in the coffeeroom of an hotel in that garriaonanddockyard town waiting for another person


the prisoners counsel was crossexamin ing this witness with no rebult except that he had never seen the prioner on any other occasion wheu th wiggc gentleman who had all ibis time been looking it ihe ceiling of the court wrote a word or two on a little pieco of paper screwed it up and topped it to him


opening this piece of paper in the next piuso the counsel looked with great attention and curiosity at tbe prisoner


you say agiiu you are quits euro that it was the prisoner v the vitnes was quite sure


did you over see anybody very liko the pri soner


not so like the witness said as that ho could he mistakeu


look well upon that gentleman my learned friend there pjiuting to him who had tossed tbe paper over and then look well upon the prisoner


how say you


are they very like eaah other p allowing for my learned friends appearance being caralss and slovenly if not debaucherl t hey were tufficusntly like each other to surprise not only tbe witness but everybody present when ibey were thus brought into comparison


my lord being prayed to bid my learned friend ly aside his wig and giving no very graoious cousant


ihe likeness became much more remarkable


my lord inquired of mr stryver the prisoners coun sel whether they were next lo iry


mr carton name of my learned friend for treason


but


mr stryver replied to my lord no but he would ask


thv witness to tell him whether what happened once might happen twice whether ho would have been so conflduat if ho hid seen this illusi ration of bis rashness sooner whether ho would bo so con fident having seen it and more


the upshot nf which was to smash this witness like a crockery vessel and shiver his part of the case to useless lumber


mr crunsher had by this time taken quite a luiieh of ruhfc off his fingers in hi following of the evidence


he had now to attend while mr stryver fitted the prisoners cae on tho jury like a com pact suit if clothes showing them how the patriit baread was a hired spy and traitor an unblushing trafficker in blood and one of the greatest scouu drets upon eitrth since accursed judas whih ho certanly did look rather like


how the virtuous servant cly was his friend ad partner and waa worthy lo be how the watchful eyes of those for gers unit false swearers had rested on tbe prisoner as a victim bejause some family affairs ia france he biiu of french extractio n did require ii is making those passages across the ohmuel though what those affairs were a consideration for others who were near and dear to him forbid him even for his life to dlcoso


how the evidence that had been warped and wrested from tho young lady whose anguish in giving it they had wilnessed came to nothing involving tbe mere little inno cent gallantries and politeaossca likely to pass between any young gentleman and young lady an tirn


vt fnrnthnr


nnlli n ovnonlinn nl iuu


u wgwiuti


miu mu caucpiim ui that reference to george washington which was altogether too extravagant and impossible to be regirded in any other light than as a monstrous joke


how it would be a weakness in the government to break down in this attempt to practice for popularity on tbe lowest national antipathies and fear and thereforo mr attorneygeneral had mlo


ihe most of it how nevertheless it rested upon nothing save that vile and infamous character of evidence too often disfiguring suoh cases and of which the state trials of this country were full


but there my lord interposed with as grave a lace as if it had not been true saying that he could not sit upon that bench and suffer those allusions


mr stryver then callcd his few witnesses and mr cruncher had next to attend while mr attoruoy geueral turned the whole suit of clothes mr stryver bad fitted on the jury inside out allowing how brsad and cly were even a hundred times better than be had thought them and the prisoner a hun dred times worse


lastly came my lord himself turning the euit of clothes no it insido out now outside in but on tho whole decidedly trimming and shaping them into grave clothes for the pri soner


and now tho j ary turned to consider and the mr carton who had so ljng eat looking at the ceiliog ol the oourt changed neither his place nor his attitude oven in this exoitoment


while bis learned friend mr stryver massing his papers be fore him whispored with those who sat near and from time to time glanced anxiously at the jury while all tho spectators moved more or lesj and grouped themselves anew while even my lord himself arose from his seat and slowly paoed up and down his platform rot unattended by n sas pbioa in the minds of the


audience that his state was feverish this onemaa sat leaning back with his torn gowu half eff him his uutidy wig put on just aa


it happened to light on his head after its removal his hands in his pookets and bis eyes on the ceiling as they had been all day


something especially reckless iu his demeanour not only gave hiin a disreputable look but so diminished the strong resemblance he undoubtedly bore to thi prisoner wbioh his momentary earnestness who i tviv ware compared together hid


ftretigiheael that mauy of the lookers on taking


note of him now said to one another they would harlly have thoigbt the two were sa aliki


mr cruncher made th


ob cr yation to hib nex neighbor and addei id lo half a guinei


i bit he dont get no lawwork to do


dont look like the art of one to got any to he


yel


this mr cm ton took in more of the details of the scene than he appiard to take in j for now


when misi maneltes he id dropped upon hr fathers brcas


h j was the first to see i and to say audibly oitlcr


look to ihat young lady


help the gentleman lo take her out


dont you see ihe will fall


there was much commiseration for her as fbc was removed onl much sympathy with her father


it hid tv deuty bien a great distreb to him to have the days of uls imprisonment recalled


ho had shewn strong internal agilatiou when ho was qietionrd end


that pondoring or brooling look which made him old had been upon him like a heavy cloud ever lince


as he passed out the jury who hbd turned back and paused a moment spoke through their iorem in they were not agreed and wished to retire


my lord perhaps with george washington on his mind showed some surprise that they were not agreed but signified bis pleasure that they should retire under watch an ward and retired himbelf


the trial had laste l all day and the lamps in the court were now beiug lighted


it began to be ru mored lhat the jury would be out a long while


the spectators diopped off to get refreshment and the prisoner withdrew to the ak of the dock and sat down


mr litry who had gono out when the youug lady and her falher ueut out now reappeared and beckoned to jerry who in the slackened interest could easily get near him


jerry if you wish to take something to eat you can


but keep in the way


you will bo sure lo hear when the jiry come in


dont be a moment behind them for i want you to take the verdict back to the bank


yo t are the quickest messen ger i know and uiilget to temple bar long be foro i can


jerry had just enough forehead to knuokle and he knuckled it in acknowledgment of this commu nication and a shilling


mr carton came up at the moment and touched mr lorry on the arm


how is the young lady


she is greatly disressed buthorfuthar iscom fortius her and she feels the better for being out of court


ill tell the prironer so


it wont do for a re spectable bank peutlinnn like you to be seen speaking to him publicly yru know


mr lorry ruddened as ii ho were conscious nf having debated the point m his mind and mr car ton nndc his wiy to the outside of the bar


the wa out of court lay in that direction and jerry followed hiin all eyes ears and spikes


mr darnay i i


the prisoner came forward directly


you will naturally be anxious to hear


of the witiiesi miss mineue


she will do very well


you have seen the worst of her agitation


i am deeply sorry to have been the oause of it


could you tell her so for me with my fervent acknowledgments


yes i could i will if you ask it


j mr cartons manner was so careless asi to be almost insolent


he slood half turned from the prisoner lounring with hia elbow against the bar


i do nek it


accept my cordial thanks


what said carton still only half turaed towards him do you expect mrdarnay


the worst lis the wisest thing to expoot and the like liest


but i think thoir withdrawing is iu your favor loitering ou the way out of court not being allowed jerry heard no moro but left them so like each other in fealure so ualike each other in manner standing side by side ooth reflected in the glass above them


a t t


untr in ka au


nour uuu mm iiiupou uwvujr iu uc thiefandrasoulorowded passages below even though assisted off with mutton pies and ale


the bourse messenger uncomfortably seated on a form after taking that refeotion bad dropped into a doze when a loud murmur and a rapid tide of piople setting up the etairs that led to the court carried him along with them


jerry jerry


mr lorry was already calling at the door when he got there


here sir


its alight to get back again


here i am sir i mr lorry hmded hini a paper through the throng


quick


have you got it


j


yes sir hastily written on the paper was thelword acquitted


j if you had sent the message ilecalled to life again muttered jerry a he turned


i should have known what you meant this time he hid no opportunity of saying or so much as thinking anything els until he was clear of the old bailey f r tho crowd came pouring out with a vehemence that nearly took him off his legs and a loud buzz swept iuo the street as if the baffled blue flic wore dipersing in esaroh of pther carrion


cuaptkb iv


j congratulatory


from tbe dimlyightcd paswgss of the court the ast fpdim nt of the human sew fkuj had baen boiliag there all day was straining off whon doctor manette lucie manette his daughter mr lorry the solicitor for the defence and its coun sel mr stryver rood gathered around mr chavlea darnay just released congratulating him on his escape from death


it would have been difiisilt by a far briphcer light to recognise in doctor manette intellectual of face and upriabt of bearing ths shoemaker ol the garret in puiis yet no one could have looked at him twice without looking again even though the opportunity of observation had not extended to the mournful cadence of his loiv grave voice and to the abstraction that overclouded him finally without any apparent reason while one oxtbrnal cause and that a reference to his loag lingering agony would always as on the trial evoke this couditiou frnn the depths of his soul it was also in ils nature to arise of itself and to draw a gloom over him as incomprehensible to those unac quainted with his story as if they had seeh tho shadow of the nctual baetilo thrown upon him by a summer buh when the substance was three hundred miles away


only his daughter had the power of charming this biack brooding from hie mind


she wan the gilden thread i hit uuited him to a past bsyond his misery and to a preseat beyond his misery and the sound of her voice the light of her face the touch of her hand bad a strong bene ficial influence with him almost always


not absolutely always fir she could re tal some occasions on which her power bad failed but they were few and slight and aho believed them over


mr darnay had kissed her hand fervently and gratefully and had turned to mr stryver


whom he warmly thanked


mr stryver a man of little more than thirty but looking twenty yearb older than he was stout loud red bluff and free


from any drawback of delicacy hid a pushing way of shouldering himself morally and physically into ompanies and conversations that argued well for his shouldering his way up in lifo


i he bitl had bis wig and gown on and he said eannrinir lumsplf at


iiin late oliant to that douree tht he squeezd the innocent mr lorry clean out of tho group i am glad to have brought you off with honor mr darnay


it was an infamous pro seoutiou grossly infumous but not tho less likely to succee t on that account


i


you lnve laid me under an obligation t you for life in two senses said his lato clicat taking his band


i have done my boat for you mr darnay and my best is as good as anothir mans i bolievp


it ciearly being inoumbnt on somebody to say much bettor mr lorry said it perhapb not quite


disinterestedly but with the intereteil ob eot of squeezing himself back again t


you think so said mr stryver


jwell you have been present all day and you ought to kuow


yon are a rain of business too


and as such quoth mr lorry whom the oounsel learned in the law had now bbouldijred back into tbe group just as he hud previously ehouldered hitn out of it as such i willap peal to doctor manette to break up this con ference and order us all to our homes


miss lucie look


ill mr dirnay has had a terrible day wo are worn out


speak for yourself mr lorry said stryvor j i have a nights work to do yet


speak for yourself


i spek for myself answered mr lorry and for jtlr darnay and for mis lucie and


ttiiss lucio do you not thiuk i may fpak for us all


ho aske her tho queotlon point edly and with a glance at her father


his face had become frozen na itr were in a very curious look at darnay an intone look deepening into a frown of dislike and


distrust notevon ui mixod with fear


with this trarig expression on him hia though hail wandered away


my father said lucie softly laying her hand on his


lie slowly shook the shadow off andlurned to her shall we go hotna my father


wto a long breath be answered yes tho triends of he acquitt


d prisoner bid dis persed unler the itrprete on which he mtnself had originated lint he woud not be relcised that night


the llkhts wee nearly a extiunilcd in


hi passages the irm jate


h were beiug closed with ajar and a rattle and the dieua pae wa de perted until uvm rrow mornings lntriot ol yl lows pillory whppin


post nnd branding iron should repeople it


walking between her fa her nnd mr darnay lice manette passed into tlieopeu air


a hackney coach was callcd at d tbj father and daughter departed in it


mr stryver hud left tbetn in tbe pnssages


to shoulder his way back lo ths robingroom


auoiher person who had not j lined tho group or inter changed a word with any one of tfapin but who had been leaning against the wall whejre its shadow was darkest had silmjly strolled out alter tho rest and hid looked on unil the coach drove away


he nov stepped up to where mr ltrry aud


mr darnay slood upou iiid pavement


so mr lony


men of business may speak to mr darnay now


nobody had made any acknowledgment of mr carlonfl part in the days proceedings nobody had known ot it


he was uirobed and was noaj the better for it in appearance


if you knew what a conflict gc on in tho business mindwhen the business mind i divided between goodnatured impulse and business ap pcat ances you would be amused mr darnay


mr lorry reddened and said warmly you have mentioned that bofore sir


we men of busi ness who serve a home are not our own master


we have to thiuk of tho house more than our selves


i know i know rejoinnd mr carton care lessly


dont bo nettled mr lorry


ytu are as good s another i bavo no doubt better i dare say


and indeed sir pursued mr lorry cot mind ing him i really dont know what you have to do with the matter


if youll excuse me as very much your elder for saying eo i really doat kuow that it is your business


buiinegi


blcfs you have no businefs said mr cnrton


it is a pity you have not sir


i think so too


if you had pursued mr lorry perhaps you woud attend tohn


lord love you no


i shouldnt said mr carton


well sir


crid mr lorry thoroughly boated by his indifference business is a very gocd thing and a verv respectable thing


and


sir


if business imposes its restraints and its silenccs nnd impediments mr darnay as a young gentleman of generosity known how lo make allowance f r thm circumstance


mr darnay good night god bless you sir i i hopo you have been this day prererveil for a prosperous ami happy life


chair there


perhap a little angry with himself as well as with the barrister mr lorry bustled into a chair and was carried off to tellsenc carton who smelt of port wine and did not appear to be quite sober laughed then aud turned to darnay


this is a strange obanoe that throws ymi nnd me together


this mast be a strange night to you standing along hero with your counerpart on these street stoneb


i hardly seem yot replied charles darnay to belong to this world again


i dont wonder at it ir ib not so long since you were pretty far advanced on your way to an other


yon apenlrfainhy


i begiu to think i am faint


then why the duvil doat you diae


dined mysalf while those numskuls were do liberating which world you ehould belong to this or some other


lot me show you tho nearest tavern to dine well at


drawing his arm through fcis own ho look him down ludgato bid to f eet stroit nod so up a covered way into a tavern


here they wero shown into a little room where charles darnay was soon recruiting bis sttongth with a gold plain dinner and good ino


while ca ton eat oppoiito to him at the same table with his separate bottle of port bolore him aud his fully half insolent man ner upon hin


do you feel yet lhat you belong to thi terres trial scheme asiaiu mr d unay


iam frightfully confused regarding time and place but i am so fir mended as to feel that


it must be an immense satisfaction i hesaid it bitterly and filled up his glass agan which was a large one


asitdme the gioatcat desire i have is to forget that i b long


vo it


it has no good in it for me except wine like this nor i for it


so wo are not much alike in that particular


indeed i begin to think we are not much alike in any parti cular yciu nnd i confiicd by the emotion of the day and feoling his being i hero with this double of coiirse deport ment to be like a dream charles darnay was at a ios how to answer fisally answered not at all


now yotir ilinnor is dore carton presently said why dont you call a health mr darnay why dont you give your toast


svhat heal t iv


what toast


why its on the tip of jour todgue


it ought to be it must be


ill wearus there


taisg manette tbeu miss manette hen looking mb compmion fitll in ihe face while ho drauk the toist carton flung his glass ovjr his ehoul


er


agaiust iho wall wherolt shivered to pieccs then rang the bail and ordered in another


thats a laic young lady to hand to a ooach in the dark mr darnay


ha said filling his new goblet


a blight frown and a laconic yes wore tho answer


thats a fair young lady to be pitied by and wept f by i uosv does it foel


is it worth being tried for ones life to be the object of such sym pathy and compassion mr daruay


again darnay answered not a word


she was mightily pleased to have your message when i gave it her


not that she showed biic wa pleasod but suppose she was


this allusion served as a timely reminder to dar nay that this diaigreeablo compauion had of his own free fill assisted liim in tbo btrait of the day


tie turned tho dialogue to that poiut and thanked him lor it


i neither want any thanks nor merit any was the caroless rejoinder


it was nothing to do in tho first placo and i dont kuow why i did it in the second


mr darney let me aak you a ques tion


willingly and a small roturn for your good offices


do you think i particularly liko you


really mr carton roturned the other oddly disconcerted i have not asked my sol f the ques tion


but ask yourself the question now


you have acted as if you do but i dout think you do


i dont think i


d i said carton


i begn to havo a very good opinion of your understanding


nevertheless pursued darnay rising to ring the bell there is nothing in that i hope to pre vent my oalling tho reckoning and our parting without illwood on cither side


carton rejoining nothing in life


darnay rang


doyoychll the whole rockonma said carton


on


his answering in the affirmative then bring mo another pint of this same wiuo drawer and come and wake me at i en tho bill being paid charles


darnay rose and wished hinv good night


without returuing tho wish cirtoaroso too with something of a threat or defhnco in his manner and said a last wonj mr darnay you think i um drunk i think you have been drinking


mr carton


think


yoii


know i have been drinking


since i must say so i kuowit


ii phntrnn nlinll lilnkmap


bnmir wlir


t flm ft disappointed drudge sir


icare for no man on oarih and no min ou oarth caresifor ino


much to be regretted you might have used your taliiits better


may bo eo mr darnay maybe not dout let your sober faoo elate you however you dout know what it may oomcto


good night


wheuhewaa li ft ulone this stiauge being took lip a candle went to a glass that hung agjinit tha wall and surveyed himelf minutely in it do you particularly iiko the man v ho mut tered ut his own itnge why ehould you p irii culatlj like a mau whs roemblesyou


thero is nothing inyou to like you know lhat


ah con found you


what a change you have made in yourself


a gocd reason for taking to a man that ho shows you what you havo fallen away from and what you might have been


change placoj with him and would you have been looked at by ihc blue eyes us he was and eointuife altd by tuat agitcted fa e as he was


cotro on and have it out iii plain w icvis


v ou hate the ftsilow


lie resorted to hi pint of wine tor consolation drank i


ul in h foe minnle and foil asleop on his arms with his hair strangling over i bo cable aud a loitg windingsheet in the candle dripp ng down upon him


tales and sketches


florence obrien


an irish tale


at the request of joyce she opened the side windows of the chaise


the cavalcade was halted for consultation where the banks rose higher on both sides of the narrow winding way when all at once an avalanche of stones was hurled down upon the military now hemmed in by the nature of the ground the tumultuous vjarty of diggers in the rear who came roundlv on shouting and yelling and the funeral train who came even more rapidly down the steep declivity at the bottom of which a strong party rudely equipped but eifectirely armed took post by the narrow bridge which the travellers bad to pass