fearful of taking shelter beneath a tree or hedge the old man and the child hurried along the high road hoping to find some house in which they could seek a refuge from the storm which had now burst forth in earnest and every moment increased in vio lence


drenched with the pelting rain confused by the deafening thunder and bewildered by the glare of the forked lightning they would have passed a solitary house without being aware of its vicinity had not a man who was standing at the door called lustily to them to enter


your ears ought to be better than other folks at any rate if you make so little of the chance of being struck blind he said retreating from the door and shading his eyes with his hands as the jag ged lightning came again


what were you going past for elh


le added as he closed the door and led the way along a passage to a room behind


we didnt see the house sir till we heard you calling nell replied


no wonder said the man with this light


ning in ones eyes bytheby


you had better statnd by the fire here and dry yourselves a bit


you can call for what you like if you want anything


if you dont want anything youre not obliged to give an order dont be afraid of that


this is a public house thats all


the valiant soldier is pretty well known hereabouts


is this house called the valiant soldier sir asked nell


i thought everybody knew that replied the landlord


where have you come from if you dont know the valiant soldier as well as the church catechism


this is the valiant soldier by james grovesjem groveshonest jem groves as is a man of unblemished moral character and has a good dry skittle ground


if any man has got any thing to say again jem groves let him say it to jem groves and jem groves can accommodate him with a customer on any terms from four pound a side to forty


with these words the speaker tapped himself on the waiscoat to intimate that he was the jem groves so highly eulogized sparred scientifically at a coun terfeit jem groves who was sparring at society in general from a black frame over the chimney piece and applying a half emptied glass of spirits and water to his lips drank jem grovess health


the night being warm there was a large screen drawn across the room for a barrier against the heat of the fire


it seemed as if somebody on the othri


side of this screen had been insinuating doubts i


mr grovess prowess and had thereby given rise t these egotistical expressions for amr


groves wound up his defiance by giving a loud knock upon it with his knuckles and pausing for a reply from the other side


there ant many men said mlr


groves no answer being returned who would ventur to cross jem groves under his own roof


theres only one man i know that has nerve enough for that and that mans not a hundred mile from here neither


but hes worth a dozen men and i let him say of me whatever he likes in consequencehe knows that


in return for this complimentary address a very gruff hoarse voice bade mr groves bold his noise and light a candle


and the same voice remarked that the same gentleman neednt waste his breath in brag for most people knew pretty well what sort of stuff he was made of


nell theyretheyre playing cards whis


pered the old man suddenly interested


dont you hear them look sharp with that candle said the voice its as much as i can do to see the pips on the cards as it is and get this shutter closed as quick as you can will you


your beer will be the worse for tonights thunder i expectgame


seven and sixpence to me old isaac


hand over


do you hear nell do you hear them whis pered the old man


do you hear that nell the child saw with astonishment and alarm that his whole appearance had undergone a complete change


his face was flushed and eager his eyes were strained his teeth set his breath came short and thick and the hand he laid upon her arm trem bled so violently that she shook beneath its grasp


bear witness he muttered looking upward sthat i always said it that i knew it dreamed of it felt it was the truth and that it must be sol i what money have we nell


come i saw you with money yesterday


what money have we


give it me


no no let me keep it grandfather said the frightenedchild


let us go away from here


do not mind the rain


pray let us go


give it to me i say returned the old man fiercely


hush hush dont cry nell


if i spoke sharply dear i didnt mean it


its for thy good


i have wronged thee nelu but i will right thee yet i will indeed


where is the money do not take it said the child


pray do not take it dear


for both our sakes let me keep it or let me throw it awaybetter let me throw it away than you take it now


let us go do let us go


give me the money returned the old man i must have it


theretherethats my dear nell


ill right thee one day child ill right thee


never fear


she took from her pocket a little purse


heseized it with the same rapid impatience which had cha


racterized iis speech and hastily made his way to the other side of the screen


it was impossible to restrain him and the trembling child followed close behind


the landlord had placed a light upon the table and was engaged in drawing the curtain of the win dow


the speakers whom they had heard were two men who had a pack of cards and some silver money between them while upon the screen itself the games they had played were scored in chalk


the man with the rough voice was a burly fellow of middle age with large black whiskers broad cheeks a coarse wide mouth and bull neck which was pretty freely displayed as his shirt collar was only confined by a loose red neckerchief


he wore his lhat which was of a brownish white and had beside him a thick knotted stick


the other man whom his compation had called isaac was of a more slender figurestooping and high in the shoulders with


a very illfavoured face and a moat sinister and villanous squint


now old gentleman said isaac looking round


do you know either of us


this side of the screen is private sir


no offence i hope returned the old man


butby g sir there is offence said the other interrupting him when you intrude your


self upon a couple of gentlemen who are particularly engaged


had no intention to offend said the old man looking anxiously at the cards i tlhoughtbthat but you had no right to think sirreiorted the other


what the devil has a man at your time of life to do with thinking now bully boy said the stout mant raising his eyes from his cards for the first time cantyou let him speak


the landlord who had apparently remained neu


tral until le knew which side of the qudstion the stout man would espouse chimed in at this place witll


all to be sure cant you let him speak isaac list


cant i let him speak sneered isaac in reply mimicking as nearly as he could in his shrill voice the tones of the landlord


yes i can let him speak jemmy groves


well then do it will you said the landlord


mr lists squint assumed a portentous charac ter which seemed to threaten a prolongation of this controversy when his companion who had been looking sharply at the old man put a timely stop to it


who knows said be with a cunning look but the gentleman may have civilly meant to ask if he might have the honor to take a hand with us


i did mean it cried the old man


that is what i mean


that is what i want now i i thought so returned the man


then who knows but the gentleman anticipating our objection to play for love civilly desired to play for money the old man replied by shaking the little purse in his eager hand and then throwing it down on the table and gathering up the cards as a miser would clutch at gold


olh


that indeedsaid isaac if thats what the gentleman meant i beg the gentlemans pardon


is this the gentlemans little purse a very pretty little purse


rather a light purse added isaac throwing it into the air and catching it dextrously but enough to amuse a gentleman for halt an hour or so


well make a fourhanded game of it and take in groves said the stout man


come jemmy


the landlord who conducted himself like one who was well used to such little parties approached the table and took iris seat


the child in a perfect state of agony drew her grandfather aside and implored him even then to come away


come and we may be so happy said the child


we will be happyreplied the old man hastily


let me go nell


the means of happiness are on the cards and in the dice


we must rise from little winnings to great


theres little to be won here but great will come in time


i shall but win back my own and its all for thee my darling


god help us cried the child


oh


what ard


fortune brought us here i fhush


rejoined the old man laying his hand upon her mouth fortune will not bear chiding


we must not reproach her or she shuons us i have round that out


now mister said the stout man


if youre sot coming yourself give us the cards will you


i am coming cried the old man


sit thee down nell sit thee down and look on


be of good heart its all for theeallevery penny


i dont tell them no no or else they wouldnt play dreading the chance that such a cause must give me


look at them


see what they are and what thou art


who doubts that we must win


the gentleman has thought better of it and isnt coming said isaac making as though lihe would rise from the table


im sorry the gentle mans dauntednothing venture nothing havebut the gentleman knows best


why i am ready


you have all been slow but me said the old man


i wonder whos more anxious to begin than i as he spoke lie drew a chair to the table and the other three closed round the game commenced


the child sat by and watched its progress with a troubled mind


regardless of the run of luck and mindful only of the desperate passion which had its hold upon her grandfather losses and gains were to her alike


exulting in some brief triumph or cast down by a defeat there lie sat so wild and restless so feverishly and intensely anxious so terribly eager so ravenous for the paltry stakes that she could have almost better borne to see him dead


and yet she was the innocent cause of all this torture and he gambling with such a savage thirst for gain as the most insatiable gambler never fell had not one selfish thought


i


on the contrary the other threeknaves and gamesters by their tradewhile intent upon their game were yet as cool and quiet as if every virtue had been centered in their breasts


sometimes one would look up to smile to another or to snuff the feeble candle or to glance at the lightning as it shot through the open window and fluttering cur tain or to listen to some louder peal of thunder than the rest with a kind of momentary impatience


as if it put him out but there they sat with a calm indifference to everything but their cards perfect philosophers in appearance and with no greater show of passion or excitement than if they had been made of stone


the storm had raged for full three hours the lightning had grown fainter and less frequent the thunder from seeming to roll and break above their heads had gradually died away into a deep hioarse distance and still the game went on and still the anxious child was quite forgotten


to be continusi


a protestant dean and his cartnora pansrasorsnsslt is always gratifying to record instances of the good feelings of the irish peasantry especially when manifested towards those of a different creed and in cases where the pro testant clergyman of a parish ias gained the esteem and affection of his roman catholic neighbours and good feelings are mutually manifested it speaks well for both parties


a very gratifying instance of the existence of such feelings occurred in a remote part of the country in the course of the present week


the dean of achonby having left home for dublin last monday hiis roman catholic parish ioners in hiis absence assembled for the purpose of drawing homo a large quantity of the deans turf whlichl was still on the bog


at nine oclock on tuesday morning the family of the ldeanery were surprised by a visit of upwards of men some with cars and horses some wilth donkeys and some withl creels on their backs all carrying turf to the yard where it was built up in a stack by willing hands


at five oclock in the evening the last load arrived accompanied by forty men who hiad been during the day emnployed at tihe bog filling carts and cribs and with a fiddler seated on tihe top of tee load merrily engaged in the exercise of his profes sional powers


from five to seven oclock parties of twentyfive at a time in succession partook of a hearty dinner in the servants hall and all being teetotallers milk constituted their beverage in which they drank health long life and every happiness to the worthy dean and hiis lady and their children


on the following day the fragments were distributed amongst the poorldublin evening post


a statue is about to be creoolted to theo memory of thle late duke of gordon in aberdeen of a colossal size being about feet high and it will be the more remarkable as it is to be cut out of a single block of granite


this enormous stone is now safely hqused at the works of messrs leslie and mdonald of aberdeen by whom it is to be cut after a model designed by imr


tlhomas camp


bell tlhe sculptor


the block weighs above tons and required men and horses to remove it from the quay to the shed where it is to be carved


o personal adventures of masteir humphrey


tile old curtosrty siiopcuaptbr xxxv


nothing further passed up to mr swivellers dinnertime which was at three oclock and seemed about three weeks coming


at the first stroke of the hour the new clerk disappeared


at the last stroke of five he reappeared and the office as if by niagic became fragrant with the smell of gin and water and lemonpeel


mr richard said brass this mans riot up yet


nothing will wake him sir whats to he done


i should let him have his sleep out returned dick


sleep out


cried brass why be has been asleep now six and twenty hours


we have been moving chests of drawers over his head we have knocked double knocks at the street door we have made the servant girl fall down stairs several times shes a light weight and it dont hurt her much but nothing wakes him


perhaps a ladder suggested dick and getting in at the firstfloor window


but then theres a door between besides the neighbourhood would be up in arms said brass


what do you say to getting on the roof of the house through the trapdoor and dropping down the chimney suggested dick


that wbuld be an excellent plan said brass if anybody would be and here lie looked very hard at swiveller would be kind and friendly and generous enough to undertake it


i dare say it would not be anything like so disagreeable as one supposes


dick had made the suggestion thinking that the duty might possibly fall within miss sallys depart


menat


as he said nothing further and declined taking the hint mr brass was fain to propose that they should go up stairs together and make a last effort to awaken the sleeper by some less violent means which if they failed on this last trial must positively be succeeded by stronger measures


mr swiveller assenting armed himself with his stool and the large ruler and repaired with his employer to the scene of action where miss brass was already ringing a handbell with all her might and yet without producing the smallest effect on their mys terious lodger


there are his boots mr richard


v ery obstinatelooking articles they are too quoth richard swiveller


and truly they were as sturdy and bluff a pair of boots as one would wish to see as firmly planted on the ground as if their owners leg ihad been in them and seeming with their broad soles and blunt toes to hold possession of their place by main force


i cant see anything but the curtain of the bed said brass applying his eye to the keyhole of the door


is he a strong man mr richard very answered dick


it would be an extremely unpleasant circum stance if he was tpbounce out suddenly said brass


keep the stairs clear


i should be more than a match for him of course but im the master of the house and the laws of hospitality must be respected


ilallo there i hallo hallo


while mr brass with his eye curiously twisted into the keyhole uttered these sounds as a means of attracting the lodgers attention and while miss brass plied the handbell mr swiveller put his stool close against the wall by the side of the door and mounting on the tpp and standing bolt upright so that if the lodger did make a rush he would most probably pass him in its onward fury began a violent battery with the ruler upon the upper panels of the door


captivated with his own ingenuity and confident in the strength of his position which he had taken up after the method of those hardy indi viduais who open the pit and gallery doors of theatres on crowded nights mr swiveller rained down such a shower of blows that the noise of the bell was drowned and the small servant who lingered on the stairs below ready to fly


at a moments notice was obliged to hold her ears lest she should be rendered deaf for life


suddenly the door was unlocked on the inside and fring violently open


the small servant fled to the coal cellar miss sally dived into her own bedroom m r brass who was not remarkable for personal courage ran into the next street and finding that nobody frllowed him armed with a poker or other offensive weapon put his hands in his pockets walked very slowly all at once and whistled


meanwhile mr swiveller on the top of the stool drew himself into as flat a shape as possible against the wall and looked not unconcernedly down upon the single gentleman who appeared at the door growling and cursing in a very awful manner and with his boots yin his hand seemed to have an inten tion of hurling them down stairs on speculation


this idea however he abandoned and he was turning into his room again still growling vengefully when his eyesmet those of the watchful richard


have yetu been making that horrible noise said the single gentleman


i have been helping sir returned dick keeping his eye upon him and waving tlie ruler gently in his right hand as an indication of what tlh single gentlemau had to expect if he attempted any violence


lov dare you then said the lodger eh


sto this dick made no other reply than by inquir ingwhether the lodger heldit to


be consistentwitll the conduct and character of a gentleman to go to sleep for six and twenty hours at a stretch and whether the peace of an amiable andvirtuous family was to weigh as nothing in the balance


is my peace nothingl said the single gentle man


is their peace othing sir returned dick


i dont wish to hold out any threats sirindeed the law does not allow of threats for to threaten is an indictable offencebut if everyou do that again take care tilatyeure not satupon by the cdtroer and buried in a cross road before you wake


we have beendistracted with fears that you were dead sir said diek gentlyslidinag to the ground and


the short and the long of it is that we cannot allow single gqilemen to come into this establishlment and sleep like double gentlemen without paying extra for it


indeed cried the lodger


yes sir jndeed returned dick yielding to hisdestiny and saying whatever came uppermost aon equal quantity of slumber was diever got out of one bed and bedstead and if youre gning to sleep in that way you must pay for a doudlcbedded room


instead of being throwninto a greater passion by these remarks the lodger lapsed into a broad grin


arid looked at mr sivivellcr with tvwinkling eyes


he wasa brownfaced sunburnt man and appeared browner and more sunbiirnt from haviing a white nightcap on


as it wasclear thiat be ivas a choleric fellow in some respects mr swiveller was relieved to findhin in such good htimor and to enourage him in it smiled hhirself


the lodger in the testiness of being so rudely ratlsed haidpurshed hiris nightcap verymuch on one side of his bald head


thli gave him a rakish ec centria airwhihlolv iinohat he had leisure to observe it cliharmed mi iviveller iixeedingly threrefore bj way of ipropiltatibh he e preused his ihopi that the gentloman was going to gt up and furtler tha sie wtidld lieve doa so any more


coisnih liere io ihypuidetik rascal was the lodgersanswer as liereoentered his room


smir


swiveller followed him in leaving the stool outside but reserving the ruler in case of a surprise


heiratlidr congratulated himself upon his prudence then ie singlo gentleman without notice or expla nation of any kind doublelocked the door


cth you drink nytlingl wais his ext


inqiry


mr swiveller replied that hie had very rerently beec assrtaging tlie pangs of thirst but thai he was still open to a modest quethler if the materials were al hand


without ihother wortd labken on dltlhreisde the ledger tsok fri hisi greattruhk a


lind of temple shinilng as of polished silver and placed it casefully on the table


greatly interested in his proceedings mlr


swivel ler observed him closely


into one little chamber of this temple lie dropped an egg into another some coffee into a third at compact piece of raw steak from a neat tin case into a fourth he poured some water


then with the aid of a phosphorus box and some matches he procured a light and applied it to a spirit lamp which had a place of its own below the temple then lie shut down the lids of all the chambers then lie opened them and then by some wonderful and unseen agency the steak was done the egg was boiled the coffee was accurately prepared and his breakfast was ready


ihot water said the lodger handing it to alr


swiveller with as much coolness as if he had a kitchen fire before him extraordinary rumsugar and a travelling glass


blix for yourself


and make haste


dick complied his eyes wandering all the time from the temple on the table that seemed to do everything to the great trunk that seemed to hold everything


the lodger took his breakfast like a man who was used to work these miracles and thought nothing of thenm


the man of the house is a lawyer is he not said the lodger


dick nodded


the rum was amazing


the woman of tile housewhats she t a dragon said dick


the single gentleman perhaps because lie had met with such things in his travels or perhaps because he was a single gentleman evinced no surprise but merely inquired wife or sister sister said dick


so much the better said the single gentle man lie can get rid of her when lie likes


want to do as i like young man lie added after a short silence to go to bed when i like get up when i like come in when i like go out when i like to be asked no questions and be sur rounded by no spies


in this last respect servants are the devil


theres only one here


and a very little one said dick


and a very little one repeated the lodger


well the place will suit me will it yes said dick


sharks i suppose said the lodger


dick nodded assent and drained his glass


let them know my humour said the single gentleman rising


if they disturb me they lose a good tenant


if they know meto be that they know enough


if they try to know more its a notice to quit


its better to understand these things at once


good day


i beg your pardon said dick halting in his passage to the door which the lodger prepared to open


when he who adores thee has left but the name what do you mean


but the name said dick has left but the namein case of letters or parcels i never have any returned the lodger


or in case anybody should call


nobody ever calls on me


if any mistake should arise from not having the name dont say it was my fault sir added dick still lingering


oh blame not the bard ill blame nobody said the lodger with such irascibility that in a moment dick found himself upon the staircase and the locked door between them


to be continued


m


jpeppercrn


home t chapter i a grave call from a court of


law summoned isaac peppercorn esq from tho romantic wilds of lincoln shire to the peopled desert of london


it was with a pang aud a foreboding of future mishap thai isaac having thrice road the mandate at his attorney resigned hitnselr to his fate


but there was no help for it he must for a timp quit the rural doilies to


attend to his interest


ho sighed to loavo his homo a circumstance to bo mar velled at by those who looked upon it


to be sure ovory hovel has its household gods though we incline to think that providence hall such was tho namo of pep percorns mansion lucked them in winter


in the last frost a cat had boon found frozen to death at tho fire side a loss of little matter to the dwellers inasmuch as no mouse had ever been seen or heard within the teno ment


tho hall was a huge shapeless pile pierced with hero and there a window indeed it was a whitewashed barn with casements


time and tempest had done their work and tho very penetralia of the building were now open to sun and rain


isaac seated at his hearthstone sat calmly as a cornelius agrippa with tho elements playing about him


wo may likon providence hall in its dilapidations to a hugo eolian harp and in winter nights tcrriblo was tho music of the tempest


and yet isaac peppercorn and old biddy bis no less tranquil housekeeper would sleep as sweetly through the hurru cano as did the lost babes in the wood albeit wo hasten to observe not in tho same proximity


biddy however had a clear conscience though poor soul she was miraculously deuf


jsacp too had a conscience but custom made him slumber


indeed so essential was a storm to his peace that the nights the hall ceased to rock fortunately they were few his rest was sure ta bo broken


several of the casements hnd bnen blown in but isaac had never reproached tho elements by having


them replaced


not a chimney lifted its arrogant head above the roof having been levelled thereto by the tempest


that the hall hold together through a high wind that roof and sidos did not coinp down like a house of cards was a wonderful illustration of what is com monly called a lupky escape


however palmyra had its dato and the spring in which isaac was summoned from tho hall it was remarked that tho swallows had deserted the eaves the feathery grass waved at the door step pieces of green moss like patches on the face of an ancient beauty grow on tho walls making ruin more visible and all things gave token of speedy dissolution


it was seven oclock on a march morning as the dooc of the hall preaked on its one hinge and isaac pepper corn followed by biddy the housekeeper and cupid the terrier came forth iito tho light


isaua was equipped for travel


he carried wo cannot say wore a coat of forgotten black made for him in the duys of his belly ho having many years


sinco subdued that deformity


tho coat met in ono wide wrinkle down tho back poclcof yearned to pocket and the largo cufla hung lileo horse collars on tho wrists of the bearer who had ventured himself into brooches coeval with tho coat and had armed bis legs with boots evidently made but found too


big for some ginnt ns hard as horn


a broadbrimmed hat tied over his cars witli a red handkerchief secured tho boavor from tho sudden praneings and caricoliugs of the horso should tho animal indulgo therein


alas


much was tbo gravity of that ancient quadruped bcan dalisod by the precaution


little of isaacs face was to bo scon but that little looked like a withered apple


he


carriod a whip with a handle a y urdandabalf long aud athogtg thereto fortunately the liorso was minil enough to appal the heart of a bucephulus


isaac suid a few words in a voibo between a cough and a whistle to biddy who crossed her thin arms over her apron widened her mouth into a smile and said nothing


the horse hcltl


by a boy was at the gate it was of a dirty white and looked rather the spectre of a horse than a living steed


what hair it had was as rough us a rug but its tail and in the ignorant vanity of its heart the horso continually twitched it to catch the eye of the spectator was baro as a carrot


the animal continued to champ the bit with a satisfaction that at last it had got something in its mouth


isaac with inhuman placidity mounted the horse touched the rein rattled his legs in his boots plied his whip and in a minute or two the horse gathered itself up and shambled off much to tlio apparent nnnoynnco of a party left at the hall we mean cupid the terrier


now the dog was as lean nay even leaner than the horse but there was a something in its spirit it roust have been hope that as it sometimes looked at the white hone on the common made it cheerful nay evon gamesome


this morning howover it was but too plain that all was not right with cupid


as the horso stood saddled waiting for the rider cupid as on tiptoe walked round it now looking in its face and now at its ribs and now gazing mournfully at its master


when however peppercorn was fairly mounted and the steed after due consideration stumbled into a trot cupid tried to bark but its voice failed and it only wheezed at the departing horseflesh and yet as plainly as legacy hunter ever mourned his disappointment did cupid exclaim there go my long nourished hopes of many many dinners the neigh bours had long marked the attention of the dog to the horse had often dwelt upon the friendship of cupid friendship


in this world how hard it is to discover tho motives of even a dog


nothing calls upon us to pause on the road from pro vidonce ball to london


isuac peppercorn though slowly was safely borne to the metropolis by his faithful stood his master in his simplicity he thought as much dismounting for the night at a immblo economical inn in the northern suburbs


it was nine in the morning and isaac sat in tho travellers room lixed like the lady in comus in his chair glanoing at a strip of evidently significant paper


at length ho exclaimed in a voioo which btartlod the tripping waiter into a dead halt


it cant bo no no it cant be


whats the matter sir


asked the anxious servant taking breath


bed bed a shilling j cried pepporcorn as though jio was proclaiming tho whole sum of huinau iniquity


tho waiter tucked his nnpkin undor his arm rubbed his hands and obscrvod one shilling


and slept soundly all night


exclaimed pepper corn in almost an agony of selfreproach


glad to hear it sir said tlio waiter with a bland smilo


peppercorn cast a cannibal look at tho speaker then fixed bis eye on the bill anil repented a shilling


i believe sir suid the waiter perfectly aware of tho fact i boliove sir you took no supper


peppercorn swung round in his scat put his bands upon his knees and with a grim grin at his tormentor asked do you think im iron the diamond mines or tho gold count


supper


and bod a shilling


again ho ventured to glanua at tho bill und agnin ho screamed until his voioo broke brcakfustj what


breakfast ninopence


ninopenoo calmly corroborated tbo waiter


peppcruorn spoko in a tone of touching appeal


a cup of milk and a chip of toast


you call it breakfast sir remarked the immoveablo servant so do we


you might have had coffee and eggs for the same money


oh cried tho guest with the air of a man who bit his adversary at a dead thrust u


oh


then it seems jroq charge according to the clock and if man was to kin only eggs at dinner time i suppose hed have to pay fer fullgrown turkeys t


the waiter could not escape from this reasoning im therefore bowed rubbed his hand nd observed w rulo sir at every rcspeotable inn


do you call this place an ion t asked peppercorn with his eyes fixed on the bill


a meltingpot bt muttered


yes a crucible


was a man ever known to take a whole guinea out ofit oh yet no doubt the landlords


eh


whats this


oats


oats echoed tbo waiter


vo came m iwwfc back


m thank you for tho news sir


ive comb a sww miles on horseback but i bless my stars this is only a third time i have incurred a charge for eats


fourpencci


and after such a harvest


previdmo said peppercorn solemnly is lost upon these peopb believe bir ventured the waiter you wouuut have your boots they wers sheathed in mudr joo wouldnt havo your boots cleaned


i never was a fop in my young days said pfff corn proudly looking down on his dirty leather odl hope i am too old for such vanities now


humph


two shillings and a penny laid the traveller pronwaf the sum total


and then


sir insinuated the waiter ibtnm myself sir and sukey chambermaid sir ami


if i have given you any trouble replied pesperoorifc with grave politeness i am sorry for it


as for u chambermaid i always prefer making my bed myiyhj im an old traveller though i may not nave trarelho muoh for some years and it was always my mailmtt consider tho chambermaid included in the bed jtej two shillings and a penny repeated the imperturbtfw peppercorn as tho ostler with serious meaning m ml eyes presented himself before the traveller


that horso of yours sir said the ostler mjrim riously must havo been fond on you to brtag yw m ho way to london


to bo sure he is but why why ray roan do


think so asked popporcorn why sir because by rights ho ought to have uw three days ago


poor thing


but its no use to gw


sir


and the ostler looked tho picture of resignation its no use to grieve sir dogs must be fed dogs


anything happened to my horse


dead sir briefly replied the ostlor


the camel that carries the koran to mecca u


forth exempt from future labour tho horse that b peppercorn to london was freed from further toil i journey done it died


dead


well ho was weak observed peppercarni mastering his griof he was weak but what could


on life and death sir replied the man of the stables its always hard to give a judgment but its my onuiion


sir that lie died of the smoll of tho hay


ha johnr and the follow throw a significant glance at the waiter you should have seen him shy at the rack


did you fcivo jira fecd


aked pnieroolfn


anxiously


ji


i triad i tried answored the benevolent otfwr but la


sir ho didnt seem to know what oatt were m


then ho did nt oat v continued peppercorn with growing concern


ifrii t eat said the ostlor with cmot on


he looted t tho corn for all tho world as a christian looks at a mo s agom popporcorn cast his eye upon the bill


j


fourpence


take four from twoandnpenny and bw will remain oneaudninepenoe


there there and pep percorn forced the amount into the hand of the waiter there my friend u your lawful demand without the chambermaid the ostler the waiter or the oats


i see yon are about to be moved


i see you aro


mow under stand me i give you unbounded permission to call mo whatever you like to think me whatever you please but and peppercorn buttoned his pocket in a manner that shut out all hope h


i do not give one penny more


and with this determination our traveller quitted the inn enduring like a martyr the fiery glances of the servants


peppercorn wo must add was touched by the death of hs horse for impressed on his long ride with the grow ing unfitness of the animal for the saddle he had resolved to put it in the way of harness


he wished to leave the creature in london promoted to a hackney coach when alas


he saw it on a tumbril


however the reader may be assured that the remains of the quadruped were not left neglected in the stable by their late master no all that could be done for them isaac peppercorn most scrupulously performed


it was yet the morning when isaac entered clements inn on his way to the chambers of mr sheepskin his legal adviser his pilot among the quicksands reefs and shoals of our inestimable laws


sheepskin was an unerring guide a person of most curious knowledge


under his tuition a man might trade securely all his lifo near the gallows when if left to his own discretion he had surely mounted the ladder


sheepskin could take a client near enough to smell the odour of the hemp and yet secure his neck from the halter


yes jonathan heepskin was a learned a great man


mr peppercorn he exclaimed in a cordial voice as isaac walked into the office mr peppercorn i delighted delighted to see


you


have done nothing bat expect to see you these three days


no mishap on the road i hope


a lame horse


master sheepskin


but hes cured


now now cried peppercorn querulously


why am i hauled up to london to this land of profligaoy and waste


do you think me croesus or mtdai or the fellow with the wonderful purse


must i die in a poop house


his frequent question when incurring or tempted to any expense


sheepskin bore the complaint with more than pro fessional meekness and smiling said very softly my dear sir


you must watch your interests


the chord was


struck and peppercorns face relaxed


interests


well well what of my affairs sheepskin


the lawyer drew himself up and said i am proud to


say hcy flourish


ha


mr peppercorn theres a blessing upon your money sir it increases like fish


your


wealth


pah


wealth peppercorn could not endure to bo reminded of bis riches which ho always declared to bo nought wealth what is wealth if i had it against fate


i shall die i know it


i shall die poor as a worm


i am wire of it a pauper a but all goes well you


say


the attorney smiled assent to every question as his client ran through the long catalogue or his ventures


and ami the hyacinth estate what of that


sheepskin was suddenly grave at the question and


raising nis eyebrows and taking his right knee between his clasped handb ho remarked why the


hyacinth estate


there wp hnyo not boon luoky


nono no cried peppercorn in a tono of some thing like remorse who could hopo it


what had i to do with it


my sisters houses and you made mo take them


well bow many have tenants sheepskin


shook bis hpad


what


exclaimed the land lord and none looked the attorney


peppercorn groaned


so grass at every threshold grass at every threshold and tbp boy


but doubtless tyburn has ended him


if so we had surely heard of the accident rev marked sheepskin with his usual acuteness not so replied peppercorn generously championing the spirit of his nephew not so mr sheepskin for with all his faults i think the rogue has familypride enough to be banged under a false name


and then his thoughts recurring to his empty houses not a tenant


not one


and i am put to charge for travel ruin


ruin


your stay in london for the business we have to do may not exceed a month said tho lawyer


a month shouted peppercorn


and how am to live


whore am i to hide my head


a month and in london


and a vision of the coming poorhquse floated before the eyes of tho miser


that well consider said sheepskin who hospitably added you shall be my gueat to day


and whore to sleep v and pepporcorn unconsciously muttered bed a shilling


myclork shall find you a lodging


here thomas


hiuh cried isaac


i cant creep into a rabbits burrow or porch upon a bough and all other lodging is chargeable


where shall why what a wasteful wretch am i


horo have i paid for lodging and i havo twenty


houses with net a soul in oho of em


yes yos and


peppercorn smiled from ear to ear as there is no body on the hyacinth estate ill yes while i stay in london ill bo tenant there myself


what


at this season mr peppercorn


my dear sir consider tho cold said sheepskin


i am not rich enough mr sheepskin to know what cold is said peppercorn


but every house has been ompty so long urged tho lawyer


its time a tenant should bo found at last argued ho landlord confirmed in his design


who knows


i may servo as a decoy duck and bring others


dont speak sheepskin i am fixed it must bo for no wealth can stand tho costs ive suffered


not aword in one of my empty bouses i sleep tonight


you can supply me with furniture sheepskin j


why really mr peppercorn


r


with all tho furnituro necessary for civilized man


listen let me have a mattross stuffed with anything i two blankets shoots are effeminate one stool and a tinderbox no man really needs more all beyond is


wasteful superfluity said peppercorn


but my dear sir youd never sleep alone in a house


i hare the sweetest bedfellow said peppercorn


to the uttor astonishment of his lawyer conscience shcopskin conscience


ha


its a charming thing to feel her at our heart to boar evensong and morning song and yes more than all it is charming to feel that wo pan enjoy the sweets of bed while at the tamo time we save our shilling


peppercorn was resolute in his purpose tho landlord became his own tenant


he took up his abode in one of his sisters deserted houses


what befel him there wo shall endeavour to narrato in the following chapters


we have hitherto endeavoured to indicate tho character of our hero by many minute touches believing that h is destined to act a very important part in tho events that are crowding upon us


sir james broioke the white ra jah


ciihaiter i youtiieuropean trayelsresolves to visit tile indian islescruize in tue mediterranean


gold and precious stones bdoiferbus gums spices ed ble birdsnests coffee cotton costy woods and many valuable metalsthese are the riches of iheeindian archipelago wi h other products so many and so varied that the list of them would exceed our limits


such is the wealth ofthat delicious region of sun shine and beauty which sir james brooke has opened to the more extended enterprise of mankind


many impres sionis appear to prevail respecting tle nature of tile means he has employed tile motiveswhich have guided his career and the qualities of that vigorous min t which has noursued so rest ani obiect in the face of such alarming difficulties


the best way to paint a mans character


is to draw a panorama of his life


and though ours must be an outline roughly sketched it may afford an idea of the rajah brookes caeer


james brooke


then was boin at coombe grove near bath onthe th of april


from his earliest youth he gave promise of brilliant talents


his mother saw this and conceived hopes of him more dazzling than of her other children


from her he derived many of those warm and generous sentiments which inspire him now


she tended his youth with jealous care and when he ws launched on the swild billowis of for tune watched his course with anxious eye untilhe was exalted to the rajahate of sarawak with a heart beating with pride the mother yearned forher sons return but ere he again trod englih soil she was sleeping thelast sleep


educated for the profession of arms james brooke procured a commission in the companys service and spent much of


his youth in bengal


the burmese war broke out


his regiment marched into assam and during the assault on a fornmidable blockade he wasshot through the lungs


life and death struggled as as it were over him but the grim king was vanquished and brooke returned to england for the renovation of his health


the study of


languages


occupied


this pet iod of tranquility


he made the tour of france switzerland and italy arid then embarking in a vessel bound for india prepared to relinquish the quiet delights of a literary life for the rude ex citement of the camp


wrecked off the isle of wight he was comrpelled to look for another ship and chose the castle huntly


on board were many gentle men or talents and education who con trivedito enliven the tedium of the v syage by the publicatio of a manuscript pe riodical in verse called the nautilus of whichmr brooke was editor


he wrote under the signature of cholera lor bus and ahny of his poetical pieces are remarkable fjr their elegance and beauty


the nautilus is nowbefore me


it is written in in album and its perusal withthe racy aiiswers to correspond ents of the editor is a never failing source of entertainment


reaching india he found that owing to the delay caused by tlheshipwreck his leave of absence had expired and that a tedious correspondence lutist be gone through before lie could recover his com mission


ihe therefore threw up the service proceeded to china passed through the indian archipelago and for the first timeteasted his eyes on the ma gical variety of those splendid islands


ihe at once saw that their riches werenot yet half developed that sbme unusual energy was required for the task and he resolved to dedicate hislife to the per


formance


to england therefore he again benthsis way and formed a scheme in company with another gentleman


from some cause however this plan of partnership was abandoned and he resolved to undertake the project alone


his fathers death placed him in possession of a hanlsome fortune of which he determined to hazard the entire loss is the cause of commerce and civili zation


he purchased the royalist a large and handsome yacht formerly belonging to the royal squadron and by way of test ing her sating qualities made a voyage along the shores of the mediterranean landing at many harbours to delight himself with the sight of those places that are hallowed by the memories of faded glory


the alhambra with its old traditions of power and magnificence malta that tight little spot in the ocean turkey with its turbaned armies rhodes with its famous harbour lona and the adja cent islands the shores of simoeis and


scamnander the scene of the liliad where the warriors of achaia fought their battles under the walls of troy these were the scenes that the adventurous englishman visited


then returning once more to england prepared his gal lant yacht for her long and perilous voyage to the indian islands


to be continued


wye paris nation read in a belgian paper that m thiers after seventeen years marriage is about to become a father and that he and his lady are to visit italy for the purpoe of having the child baptised by his holiness


depths of thll open seaswith regard to the depths of ihe open seas they a e still but little known wve have however a few in the atlantic ocean


captain c h davis usn sunk the lead feet in the neighbourhood of the coasts of she united states and about miles south of nantucker


it s the greatest that hasever been reached in the middle latitudes of the atlantic captains scoresby and parry have found beds of the polar reas very deep but variable


scoresby did not touch the botsom at degees north latitude with a sounding line feet in length


captain ross has exceed d feet in baflns bay


but the most astonishing depths that have been ascertained are found in thesouth atlantic


captain james ross


found feet west of the cape of good lo e and he has sounded with the plummet feet witeout touching


bottomn west of st helena


the first of these ieasu


es is equal to the height of mount blanc the second to that of dhawalagiri


thus the greatest known sea depths added to the elevation ofthe highest mountain of the globe gives aboutt


feet for the thickness of the layer of our globe upon which our inveb tigations have given some information


dr youngrelying upon thedeductions drawn chiefly from


the theory of the tides thought himself justified in assign ing about to


the atlantic apd about feet to the pacific daubuisson believes them not to exceed from to feetguyots eth and man


a cunious fact for tiie history o newspaper literature in tie rei or queen victroaathe gaantity of paper printed and published for the illustrated london news of lay th ai sufficient to cover acres or a


wac miles a yard wide placed sheet upon sheet it would fo in a pile feet high


cut into slips of a quarter of an inch wide it would ex end c miles or once round the earth


the weight of paper printed was tons the columns of the letterpress would reach miles and woull occupy men during one year to make a fair copyof the whole


the duty


received by the gocernment for the paper alone was and the stamp duty s sd


the ink c nsumed in printing exceeded six hundred pounds in


weight fourteen grains being the average quantity used in printing a single copy of the palser


the following may interest our advertisers ln an ordinary publication of the illustrated lodo


news the paper alone on which any advertisement is printed is worth con


siderably more than the sum charged for that adveitisement but on the above date if a spuare inch of paper occupied by an advertisement and charged about s were cut out of every printed copy thile whole would weigh fifteen pounds rorth a out s


to this must be added the cost ofcompositioniprinting publicatio advertisement duty stamp duty and delivery all over the w rldillustirate london news


deise of a cumimyan honeeslt footmalna anxious to extllore the wonders of the britisll miuseum obtaned a special holiday a short timu since accordingly taking with lilmc a couple of lady friends he presented himself at the door for admittance


no admittance to day sir said he keeper


no admission


but i illist come in ive a holiday on purpose


no mattr this in a close day and the miusceun is shult what said john aint this public prtolpetv


yes certainly it is well t cen i iliro in go a curator


wholoverheard the dialogue guessin his customers calibre stepped forward osavin politolyiamn very sorry sir but theres funeral today


one of the mumnmies died twoc lays ago and were going to bury hilm


ahb ah ver well in tlhat case we certainly vont intrudei said john retiring with all possi ble decorum


m a m e u


chapter iv


jack


romnson was now without a friend


it was not enough that he had forfeited the intended legacy of aunt priscilla but ho lost with tho ten thousand pounds tho little credit ho had with his relations whilst peter creeply from the moment the tenor of the maidens will was known rose in the estimation of all the world


there never was such a graceless goodfornothing as jack robinson


there could not be a finer gentleman or a better man than petor creeply


poor robinson the victim of early impressions capable of doing twenty things better than seventenths of his fellows did nothing for that very renson


he sank in reputation health and spirits and at forty behold jack


robinson in a garret when with the fair uro of his talents and moderate fortuno to back them the snrae jack robinson might have been tho lord of a rich manor tbo useful member for the borough


mr robinson mr robinson cried his landlady stealing unheard by him into his wretched attic where jack sat with his head in his hand staring at an empty grate


oh


whats tho matter mrs carey asked hobinv son


do you know the very thing has happened that will suit you


you said last friday you should liko to get a school


now this morning the parish schoolmaster died


a comfortable place sir or them as likes the business house coals candles and i dont know what salnry salil the landlady


ill see about it immodjatoly mrs carey saiil robinson starting up and taking his hat


stay mr robinson i toll you what has come into my head


there s mr quick the whipmaker a kind soul my boy will show you where ho lives go to him hes overseer vestryman and a great person in iho parish get his interest and im bound for it you havo tho placo


here jemmy and mrs carey desired her


boy to see mr robinson to mr quicks tho whipmaker


jn a few minutes the child pointed out tho door of ilia vestryman and returned home


robinson paused a ino inont and was about to go into the shop when a gentle man passed him and was about to enter their eyes met and for a moment they stared at each other


i surely said tho gentleman your name isris


robinson


and surely said jack i see my old schoolfellow brown


how odd that we should moot after so many years said brown


but come in i lodge with mr quick


thats strange


i had something to ask of him said robinson


out of town and wont return until tomorrow


come in stay jack we shall be more comfortable at a coffeehouse come along and the schoolfellows took their way to a neighbouring house where brown played the host


and how have you been jack


though not rich yourself you had an army of riuh friends i hope theyve not left you poor eh


and brown unconsciously glanced at the whitened edges of robinsons coat


no no i ought to be rich


but i blame no one said robinson


however to my business you can serve me brown


i shall be delightel to do it robinson and brown pledged his schoolfellow


como drink you shall have as much wine as you can swim in


ha


talking of swimming havo you over met with jones


do you recollect the flogging our master wonder if he s dead yet gave us three


poor smith


hed havo made a bright man


pretty boy he was you recollect


i soo him now just as ho was picked out of the water poor smith


but you say icon serve you speak my boy


have you any interest with mr quick asked robinson


do anything in tho world for mo answered brown


i understand ho has great influence in tho vestry the appointment of the new schoolmaster rests with that body


i i robinson felt his checks creep with blushes


i think you can answer for my capability


will you ask mr quiok to stir himself in my behalf


it is of con sequence to mo brown said robinson stammoringly


brown looked confused thoughtful


ho drew himself up to his schoolmate and luid his hand on robinsons kneo


my good fellow for old times i should bo most happy to serve you i should indeed john but tho truth is i never in all my life asked a favour of quick and ns i never did ask i you see i and brown with dropped jaw stared at robinson


say no more i bog your pardon said robinson and ho roso and incapable of selfcontrol rushod into the street leaving brown who couldnt swim


bo wildorod and ashamed


tho next day robinson called nt quicks house and learned that he had not yet arrived from tho borough of whero he had a vote which ho had journeyed to give to squiro jones of uomepickle hall


tho election nowovor was ovor and the next day mr quick would be at homo


jones squire jones of homepicklo hall mused uobinson and as the member was confined by a political nt of tho gaut to london robinson was resolved to wait upon him for lie recognised his old schoolfellow in tho newmado senator


its hard indeed if i dont find him a nttlo warmer than that nincompoop brown thought uobinson ns he knocked at tho door and prayed an uidionco of the squire


wo pass tho mooting of the schoolfellows tho pro


testatious of service on the part of jones


he would immediately soo his friendly constituent quiok and so cure tle office of podagoguo for jack robinson jack might rely upon it


before the election camo on robinson waited upon air


quick and communicated to him his hopes and pre lonsions


mr jones tho member for you know mrjonos asked robinson


u ymi roplio mr quick very intimately


i ho promisod to soo you on tho business he has doubtless


not nt allnever soo him nover hoard from him very sorry indeed interrupted mr quiok


c morninff sir good morning orted


robinson j misorablo lodging whore ho wroto a letter to the parlia mentary member upbraiding him in scorching words with his broken promise


tho nxt morning mr joness footman brought back a missive from the senator in which ho assured mr robinson that he mr j had not forgotton him on tho contrary ho mr j had personally culled at mr quicks


house and not finding him at home had left his mr js business with tho little boy which mr jones considered to be going quite far enough


a week afterwards the election took place


robinson


in utter hopelessness addressed the board soliciting tho appointment


the day after the election mrs carey with unusual smiles iniormed her lodger that an old man


from vestry had a letter for him


an old man asked robinson listlessly


from the workhouse poor man


hes something of a scholar and has seen better days


a scholar


tho workhouse


and that will bo my fate muttered robinson


here he comes sir said mrs carey as sho hoard


tho old man shambling up tho stairs


tho man crawled into the garret


his back was bent as with a hundred years and ho spoke in hissing whist ling tones


ive brought u letter hem


hem


a letter from the vostry iiimii


theres good luck in it i know youre elected schoolmaster


tho old man spoke truly


for ouco a vestry had been won by literature the intelligent stylo of robinson had secured his election


robinson was to appear before tho board tho next day to receive his appointment


i i was a schoolmastor once myself said tho old man


you sighed robinson as he gazed upon tho human wretchedness before him


yes


i i hope as i vo brought you good news youll give mo something to drink mine eat bibendumhoia


i hem


i kept


houso


nt


good god


exclaimed robinson you are


ho said no morn but holding one hand beforo his eyes ho with tho other motioned to mrs carey to lead away tho old man who was no other than jones brown and robinsons flogging schoolmaster


tho original cause of his fall was never mide fully known but it was whis ecrod that tho pedagogue luid been convicted of cm


czzling the pocketmoney of his scholars


robinson had compassed his wish


he could next day insuro himself a decent competence


at tho hour tho vestry met to confer tho appointment their chosen schoolmastor lay daydreaming in his garrotbed


his few remaining years wero tho years of a vagabond


such is the li to of brown who couldnt swim o jones who could swim a little and of tho capablo


robinson who could swim any whero


ho who was flogged for leurning lived and died a dunao ho who know little loarnod no inoro and he who knew all things had this precept scourged in his blood to mnko use of nono


tub diiioii is father to the man


chapter ii


indent sister since i met thee last oer thy brow a change hath past


in the softness of thine eyes deep and still a shadow lies from thy voice there thrills a tone never to thy childhood known through thy soul a storm hath moved gentle sister thou hast loved


mrs hemans


minnie and cora walked with arm twined in arm in the little garden be hind their dwelling


if possible there was more depth in minnies eye if pos sible more light in coras


well my sister minnie said with faltering tones i wait to hear your joy ous tale


and you shall little one said the stately cora but first what is this


and she caught as it fell from minnies bowed face a pearly tear


what is this


oh nothing mihnie said as she dashed up her head and made a very tre mulous effort to laugh nothing only i feel so sad today as if something dread ful were going to happen


how silly


just interpret this trouble some feeling like a dream will you sister minnie by the rule of contraries


at least i can promise you a wedding and all its accessaries for iamgoing tobemarried


those singledropped words quite failed in their intended effect of producing curiosity and astonishment for there was not the least shade of either on minnies pale face as she said indeed and to whom


to mr cora commenced but then as if a sudden thought had struck her she added drawing her arm closer round her sister my dear little minnie cannot bear that grave hopeless look of yours


my gentle sister thou hast loved


i can see that much but why you should be so sad i cannot see


just tell me who it is like a little darling and perhaps we can make you look a little less like a statue before long


come minnie


no one will ever love me asserted minnie hopelessly


nonsense and why i am so plain so little such a nobody in appearance she added with a vague thought of how different it might be


nonsense again and if that is all we will soon get over it


so tell me the name like a good little sister


but while it was trembling on minnies lips the giddy girl exclaimed no no let me tell you my tale while that smile is on your lips


i like you to smile while i tell you


and she ran on to tell of how she had met the gentleman at this party and the other concert


how last night he had come to their box in the theatre and afterwards had walked home with her and how there he had spoken words words which we will not repeat and how in a month she was to be his for ever his


and the name the name


it was that that had quivered on minnies utterance that of the hero of the street scene


there was a slight shade more pallor on her cheek a quick gasp and a more tightly compressed lip as minnie heard it and she stooped to pull a red rose from a bush and perhaps to hide the falling of another tear


this was all


cora ended her tale and laughing said now minnie the name


minnie drew her slight figure up to its full height and glancing straight into her sisters face said with low distinct expression neither now nor hereafter will i tell you that name sister never shall it pass my own lips again and as i now dash down that flower so do i dash all thought of him from my soul for ever


she cast down the hapless flower but one petal fell from it and rested on her bosom


she clasped her hands wildly over it yes one thought only one i must keep


ah do let me


and she looked appealingly to her sister


cora was puzzled for she did not even guess the true state of the case


that any one else could love her beloved was not even to be imagined


she threw her arms round minnie and drawing her closer she asked my poor little one what is this what is this


before there was a certain dignity in minnies manner and voice but now she fell languidly back and there was a piteous wail in her voice as she mur mured he never loved me minnie he never loved me


an hour later minnie knelt alone in a secret chamber and prayed lord thou knowest how drear will be my life on earth


i will bear it in patience but put thou a spirit into the labour i take up to make life bearable and let it be pure and holy in thy sight


marie antoinette or


i the chevalier of the red house continued from colonial times feb la


j chapter xi


i the day after the scenes which we have here recounted had occurred that is to say on the i fiist of june at ten oclock in the morning genevivewas seated in her accustomed place near the window


she asked herself why during three yi eks


the days daw ned


so nilly upon her why they passed nwaj so slowly anil finally whj instead of awaiting the evening with ardour she now saw it approach with affright her pights above all were sail those nights formerly so pleasant nights which pas sed likea dream from evening to diwn at this moment she cast her eyes on a box of mag nificent spotted and red carnations which i since the winter time had been removed flora the tilashouse to her


ow n chamber


maurice had taught her how to cultivate them in the mahogany case in which they were planted


she hnd watered them pruned f them and propped them up so as to show maurice when


he called during the evening the progress they had made under their joint attention


since mnuneu hail censed couiinir the pour carnations had bei n neglected and through want of proper care their heads hung i over the balustrade drooping mid halt faded


genevive comprehended hy this single view the reason of her sadness


she said there were flowers like certain friendship which one i nourishes and cultivntt s with passion and w hieb make the ttffecituns blow awain


then some i morning a caprice or some misfortunecuts up miiemlship hythe roots and the hi art which such friendship revived sinks down languishing und withered


the joung woman then experienced the frightful agony of her heart the sent mm t i which she had wished to beat down and which she expected to suhdue was btruguling at the bottom of her thoughts crving louder than ever that it would only piriih with her hean she experienced a moment of despair for she felt tint the struggle bet ame more ard more im possible


she gently bent down her head kissed one of the faded beads of the flowers and wept


her husband entered at the moment she had diied her eyes


but dixiner was so much pre occupied by his own thoughts that he did not perceive the dolorous crisis which hie wife had experienced nor pay uny attention to the tell tale redness of her eyes


it is true that genevive on perceiving her husband arose quickly mid ran towards him so as to turn her back to the window


well said she


well


nothing new


impossible to approach bur impossible to forward anything to her impossible even to see her


whatj notwithstanding all the noise and uproar prevailing in paris


ah i it is this uproar which has excited the distrust of her keepers


they feared that under cover of the general confusion some attempt might be made on the temple and the very moment her inajsty wa about to ascend to the platform santerre gave orders not to allow the queen to go out nor madame elizabeth nor i al adame royal


poor chevalier i he must have been drem fully annoyed


he was in despair when he perceived this chance to escape us


he turned so pale that had to lead him away lest he should betray himself then said genevive timidly there wa no municipal of your acquaint mee at ibu lern pie there ought to have been one but he did not come


whom the citizen maurice lmdey said dixmer in a tone he endeavoured to render indifferent and why did he not come asked genevive making the same effoit


he was sick


he sick


yes and seriously so for patriot as you know him to he he was compelled to cede his placo to another


it is very annoying


my good geneieve you know that had he been there it would have been all the same quarrelling as we have done he would mott likely have avoided me


i elie ve my friend you exaggerate the gravity of our position


maurice might onac count of some caprn e decline com nig here or because of sonic futile reason refuse to see you hut be is not an enemy on that account cold


ness does not exclude politeness and on seeing you appro ich htm i am certain he would have met you half way genevive


for me to wait on maurice requites more than politeness our friendship is broken j there is no longer any hope m that quarter dixmer uttered a profound sigh whilst his brow ordinarily so calm grew paie and melan choly


ifsaid genevive timidly you believe maurice so necessary to your project that is to say answered dixmer that despair of all success without him


well why do you not make another at tempt with citizen lindey


it occurred to her that hy c tiling the young man by ins family ti une the intonation of her voice would be leas tender than when uttering his baptismal one


no answered dixmer bowing his head


i have done all i can do another attempt might appear singu ar and would arouse sus picion besides genevive i sie fui liier timo you in this aft iir


here is u sew et wuund in maurices hem t a wound


askid genevive much moved


ah i my god what do you mean my friend


bpeuk i i mian to say and you are convinced of it as well as me genevive that theie is more than a capuce in our rupture with maurice o wtiat then do you atiubute this rup tute


io pride perhaps said dixmer quickly


pride


yes he no doubt thought in his opinion at least that he did honor to a good citizen of parispieserving his susceptibility uf class mulei ins putt lousm and looking io his influence nihis section club and municipalityby accord ing to us his trieiiiibhip perh ips we have made too little progress


pu hups we are for gotten


but resumed genevive if we have made too few advances or if we are foi gotten it seems to me that the movement you adopted repurchases all that yes supposing the evi carne from myself but it it pi


ung fi um you iiioin mel how my friend


can you sup pose that have done wrong to mauuce


said genevive astonished


who know swith such a character


were not you the first to accuse him of caprice


stop let me return to the first idea genevive yuu were wrong not io write to maurice


mel exclaimed genevive


do vou think so


i not only think so but more than that i have during these three weeks pondeied much upon it


and asked genevive timidly


ami i look upon th it course to be absolutely necessai y ofi i ex burned genevive


no no du iner do not ask me to do that you know genevive that i never exact any thing from you i merely pray you to do so


wt ii hear mt beg ol you to write to cn zen maurice


but observed genevive


liear me imerrupied dixmer


there seither suiiiethiug veiy grave between you and mkui ee or your quarrel springs from some cbililish pet because as fur as i am concerned he never complained of my conduct


genevive did not reply


jf it arises from childishness it is folly to prolong it


if it has a mure serious reason


ven then in our present position we ought not to stand upon our dignity or pi ide


do not place in the balance a qun rel of y ung people with the immense nttitsts at stake make an effoi t willi yourself


wrte to citizen lindey and he will return


ginevleve reflected n moment


but bait she cannot tiny other means be found that would euiiipromise one less and still eecuie a proper understanding with maurice


compromising haul you


on the other hand it seems to me the most natural


no nu not from me my friend


geiievieve you are very stubboi n allow me to retnack


that it is the first time ou have perceived it


dixmer crumpled his handkerchief in his hauil and wiped the moisture fioin his brow yes and un that account bitiil he my astonishment is increased


my god i dxmer is it possible that you do not


comprehend the reason of my resistance and flint ynu will coiupel me to


speak


ellie allowed her head to fall on her breast and ber arms by her side as heebie and re duci d to the utmost exireinity dixmer seemed to make a violent effort with himself took genevive haid raised her head and looking into her eyes burst into a laugh which genevive would have discovered to be j forced if she bud been less agitated at the momiit


i see how it is said h and in truth you tire tu liti wnsbljnd


willi your mimi my dear genevive with your elevation of character you were afraid that maurice might fall in love with jou


genevive fe t a mortal coldness at her heart


her husbands irony concerning maurices love the violence of which fi oin knowing his cha racter she easily understood and in which she participated actually petrified her


she had not strength to look at him


she fell it would be impossible for her to reply


have guessed it


is it not so continued dixmer


if maurice loved you instead of quarrelling with me he would have redoubled his care and attention so as to deceive me


if maurice had loved you he would not so easily have renounced the title of friend in the house under cover of which so much treachery often lurks


on my honour exclaimed genevive


do not make sport of such matters i do implore you


i do not make sport madam i only say that maurice does not love you that is all


and i said genevive blushing i tell j ou you are deceived


lu that case resumed dixmer


maurice who has had the strength to mure rather thuo violate the confidence of his host is on honest man bul such honest men are rare genevive and one should use every effort to regainthem genevive you will write to maurice will you not


oh i my god uttered the young woman j as she let her head fall between her hands


fur he upon whom she trusted for support in the hour of danger deserted her and precipitated her onwards rather than withheld her


dixmer regurded her a moment and then forcing himself tomile he enid


come my dear friend no womanly pride jf maurice begins a new declaration augh at tile second as you dill at the first


i know you genevive you have a worthy andnoble heart


i can trust you oh exclaimed genevive gliding down with one knee on the ground oh i my god who can be sure of others when ope is not sure ofoneselt dixmer became as pale as if till his blood had ehhsd back to his heart


genevive said he i was w


i ong


to make you endure all the agony you have suffered


i ought to have said to you at once qevevieve we have reached a period which requiresgreat devotedness


ge nevive i have devoted to the queens interest our noble benefactor not my arm my head or my happinessothers will give her their lives i will do more i will risk even my honour and if it perishes ii will only be a tear the more dropped into this ocean of grief which is about to engulph france


but my honour will i un no risk when it remains under the protection of such woman as genevive


for the first time dixmer entirely revealed himself ge nevive rnised her head fixed upon him her beautiful eyes full of admiration stood slowly up and presented her brow to be kissed


i you wish it then said she


dixmer made a signal in the affirmative


dictate then said she taking up the pen


not at all answered dixmer


it is enough to use not to abuse this youmj man and since he will become reponciled with us qn tile receipt of a letter from gepevieve let the letter be written by her un i not hy dixmer


i dixmer kissed his wiles bipw a second time thanked her and retired


gnievieve t hen w rote thefollowingtremblmg citizen mauriceyou know huw


much my husband loves you


have three weeks of a separationthat to us seemed an agecaused you io forget him


come we


aw ait you youri return will be to us a veritable lte


genevive


i cr he continued


charles omalley the irish dragoon


in br chapiterxv caraier


powaa


be within afewweeksi after myarrival in wo ibadbecozne a matriculated stu


b dent of theuniversity and the possessor sf ehambers wvithin its walls in conjune re tion with the sage artd prudent gentleman ft i have introduced to my readers in the lst chapter


had my intentions on en stering college been of themost studious and regularakind the companion into whosesociety i was then immediately tbrown would have quickly dissipated d them


he voted morning chapels a bore reek lecturep a humbug examinations a farceend pronounced the statute book with its attendant train of tines and pun ishment an unclean thing


with ali smy country babits and predelictions free h upon me that i was an easily won disc ple to his code need not be wondered t sp and indeed ere many days had passed over my thorough indifference to all col it kbeg rule and regulations hbad given me a high place in the esteem of webber and his friends


as for myself wa most aereeably surprised to fiid thatwhat


i had fooked forward to as a very melan ceholy banishauent was likely to prove a most agreeable sojourn


under webbers directions there was no hour of the day that hbnq heavily upon our hands we ta bose abeut eleven and breakfasted after which succeeded fencing sparring bil iards or tenris in the park about three r got on horseback and eitlier cantered in j the pheanix or about the squares till visit iag tsi after which made our calls s and then dressed for dinner which we sievter thought of taking at commons but bad it from morrisonewe both being eported sick in the adeans list and bhereby exempt from she meagrefare of the fellows table


in the evening our oeipastion became still more pressing here were balls suppers whist parties rows at the theatre shindies in the street devilled drumsticks at hayess select oyster parties at the carlingford in fact every known nethod of remaining tup all night and appearing both pale and penitent the following morning


wbbsr bad a large acquaintance in miblio and soon made me known to them all among others the officers of thethlight dragoons in which regi sment power was a captain were his pairular friends and we had frequent viitationsto dine at theirmess


there it wassfirt that military life presented it ailt to mein the most attractive possible em


and heigbtened the passion i had already so strongly conceived for the army


power above all others took my fancy he was agay dashinglooking handsome follow of about eight andtwenty who had already seen some service having joined whilethis regiment was in vportu gal was inheartand soul a soldier and ad thbat species of pride and entbusiasm ia all that regarded a military career that osm sp emall part of thecharm n the hbartacter of a young officer


i sat near him the second day we diind atthe mess and was niuen pleased at manyalight attentions in his manner towards ame


i called


oh you today lr


omallyy said he in company with a friond


who is most anxious to see you


indeedtl said


i did not hear of it


we left no cards eitherof us as we wcre determined to make you out on another day


my companion his the most urgent reasons for seeing you i use yen are puzzled said he and al thoughl


poomisedst keep his secret i pneust blab it was sir george ldash wood was with me he told us of your zumantic adventure in the eest and faitb there is zq


doubt you saved the ads life


was sheworth thetrouble of it said ltied old major whose conjugal eape isances imparted a very crusty tone to rbthe questi s think said i need only tell her iasme to convince you of it


sleres a obumper to her esaid power illingj his glass antd every tnue man will follow my example


when ahehip hipping which fdllowed the toast was over i found myqelfa n jopylng so small share of the atfentiob of the party as the deliverer of lucy adashwood


sir george i enudgelling his brain to show his gratitude io you said power s


what a pity for the sake of his peace t zmlnd that youre in the army aid pother its so easy to show a man a blickcte regard by a quick promotion too saidpower again theyre going to smak


a lawyer of as strapping ae fellow as


ever carried aeabretaschbr a lawyer


cried out half as dozen to tber prettsymuch with thesametorie and emphasis ae though be had said a twopenany postman the devil they arel


cat the service atoace


youhllget no pospmotlon itn


it said the colonelb fel with a black eye like yoa would ook niuch better at the head of a squea tgaitban of a string of witnesses


trust meo youd shine more ino conducting a ypiequet tha a prosecution


bfut if i cant said


ilen take my plan said power and ansi e it uc you ayours said two or three in a breasth ay mine did yoa never know thbat


i i s tired to the bar


cdtne come if w asonly for omllauee use and benefit


a wesay ia the parehmentsi must ell youthe story


h vie cluret was pushed briskly round obairs drawnup to fill any vacant sepace


ad power began his story i asm not over longwinded dont be scared at my beginning my bhistory s rrwhcbat far back


i began life that ttunlucky of al earthly contrivances flt ssiiityig casahlties in case anyihing aybetall the bli e u hia u fecseirmee of domesticjurymast only lugged out se in a gale ofwindayounger son


my be brother tom a thickskulled pudding th headed dog that had no taste for any he thing save hin dinner took it into his ti wise head cne morning that be would th go into the army and although i had si been originally destined for asoldier no or sooner was his choice made than all de regard for my taste and inclinations was p forgotten and as the family interest ti was only enough for one it was decided e lehould be put in what is called a learned ct profession ann let push my fortune


r take your choice dick said my father g with a most benign smile take your choice boywill you be a lawyer a parson or a doctor


a had he said will you be put in the p stocks the pillory or publicly whipped i could not have lookd more blank than at thequestion


o as a decent protestant


heshould have grudged me to the church as a philan thropist he might have scrupled at i making me a physician but as hehad fi lost deeply by lawsuits there looked something likesa lurking malice in send a iing me to the bar


now sofar i con curred with him forhaving no gift for a eithersermonsor senna i thought id jp ake abad administrator of either and a as i was ever regarded in the family as r rather ofa shrewd and quick trrn with cl avery natural taste for roguery i began c to think he was right and that nature n intended me for the circuit


from the hour my vocation was pro t nounced it had been happy for the fami o ly that they could have got rid of me


a certain ambition torise inmy profes sion laid hold on me and i meditated all i day and night


howi was to get on every trick every subtle invention to pheat the enemy that ai could read of t i treasured up carefully being fully imp pressed with the notion that roguery meant law and equity was only another


name for odd and even


maly days were spent haranguing ape cialjuries of housemaids and laundresses cross examining the cookcharging the under butler and passing sentence of death upon the pantry boy who i may t arkd was invariably hanged when the court rose


if the mutton were overdone or the turkey burned i drew up an indictment against old margaret and against the kitchen maid as an accomplice nd the family hungered while i harangued


and t in


fact into such disrepure didi bring the legal profession by the score of an noyance of which made it the vehicle that my father got a kind of holy horror


of law courts judges and crown solici tors and absented himself from the assizes the same yearfor which being a high sheriff he paid a penalty of


t he next day i was sent of in disgrace to dublin to begin my career in college and eatthe usual quartos and folios of ibeefand mutton which qualifya man for i the woolsack


years rolledover in which after an ineffectualeffort to get through cdllege the only examination ever got being a jubilee for the kings birth day i was at a length called to the i ish bar and saluted r my friends as counsellor power


lhe whole thing was so like a joke to me that it keptae in laughter for three terms and in fictit was the best thing could happen me forl had nothing else e to do


thbe hall of the four courts was a very pleasant lounge plenty of agreea blefellows that never earned sixpence or were likely to doso


then the circuits were so many country excurslons that supplied fun of one kind or o her but no profit


as for mei was what is called a r good junior i knew how to look after td he waiters to inspect thedecaoting of


the wine and the airing of the claret and was always attentive tothe father of d the circuit the crossest old villain that ever was a kings counsel tthesemi nent qualitiee and my being able to sing a song to honour of our own bar


were t srecommendations enough to make a tavourite and i was one


now the reputation i obtained was a pleasant enough at ifirst but somehow bwondered that i never got a brief


be sgad it it rained civil bills or declarations devil a one would fall upon my head and i t it seemed as if the only object i had in slife was to accompany the circuit a kind of deputy assistant commissary general never expected to come into action


to be cure i was not alone in misfortune sthere were several promising youths who cut great figures in trinity in the same p predicament the only difference being that they attributed to jealousy what i upected was forgetfulnees for i dont think a singleattorney in dublin iniew w obe of us


tro years passed over and then i walked the hall with a bag filled with ee newspapers to look like briefs and was a regularly called by two or three criers


from one court to another


it never o took even when i ued to seduce a scountry friend to visi the courts and get ld him into an animated convessation in a co arner between two pillars devil a one t would believe him to be a client and i ca ws faitly dopplused


how is a mani ever to distinguish him self in such a walk as this e was my d eternal question to myselfevery morning as put on my wig my face is as well h known here as lord manners every one ayse


how are you dick how goes it powerj but except holmes that said if one mbrning as he passed me eb al fit ways busy no onealludec to the uossi at bilityof my having any thing to do


sif i could only get a footing tboight id i lord how iud astonish them as the l song


says t perhaps a recrait might chance to shoot ry gratgensral buonaparte


ct


so says i to myselflll make thesehalls rg ring ftitoma day or other if the occa


ies r ever ozee ast itself


bt fzlth is seemed as some cunning solicitor over heard me


and told his associates for o they avoided me like a leprosy


the bome circuit i had adopted for some time past for the very palpable reason that being near town it was least expen i sive and it bad all the advaritages of any i other for me in getting me nothingto i do


well one morning we were in philipstown i was lying awake in bed i thinkinghow long it would be before id p sum up resolution to cut the bar where certainly my prospects were not the most cheering when some one tapped gently at my door


come in said i


the waiter opened the door gendy and held out his hand with a large roll of papertied round with a piece of red tape


counsellor says he hansetl


what do you mean said i jumping out of the bed what is it you villain i b


a brief


a brief sotsee but its forcounsel a lor kinshella below stairs


that was the first name written on it sbethershin said he imr


mgrath hid me give it to you carefully


by this time i had opend the envelope c and read my own name at full length as junior counsel inthe important case of monaghon v mseean to be tried in the record court


atballinasloe


that will do said i flinginging it on the bed with a v careless air uas if it werean every day a matter with me


but counsellordarlin give us a tbrifle s to dhrink your health with your first cause and the lord send you plenty of them


myfirst saidi with u smile of most ineffable compassion at his simplicity


im worn out


with them do you know


r peter


i was thinking seriously of leaving the bar whenuyti came into the room


upon my conscience its in earnest am


peter believed me i think for i saw him give a very peculiar look as he pock eted the halfcrown and left the room


the door was scarcely closed when i gave way to the free transport of my i ectneyv there it lay atlasc the long lookedfor longwishelfor object ofall my happiness and though i well knew that a junior counsel has about as much to do inthe conducting of a case as a rusty handspikehas in a navalengage ment yetisuffered not such thoughts to mar the current t my happiness


there was my name in conjunction with the two mighty leadersonthe circuit and though theyeach pocketed a hun tiredi doubt very much ifthey received


their briefs with one half thesatisfaction


r iy s jovat leneth alittle subdued opened the roll of paper and began care c fullyto peruse about fifty pages ofnarra tive regarding a watercourse that once had turned amill but for some reasons


doubtless known toitself or its frientls would do so nolongerand thus set two respectable neighbours at loegerheads


r and involved themin a record that had been now heard three several times


quite forgetting thestibordinate part i was destined to fill i opened the ase in a most flowery ortion in which i des canted upon the benefits accruing to mankind from water communicaioun since the days of noahremarked


upon the antiquity of mills and especially of millers and consumed half an hour in a preamble of generalities that i hoped would make a very considerable impres sion upon the court


just atthe criti cal moment when i was about to enter more particularly intohe case three or fourof the great unbrieafed came rattling into my room and brdoein upon the oration


i say powersaid one come and bave an hours skating on the canal he courts are filled and we shant beiimsied


skate my dear fellow said i in a most dolorous tone out of the question see i am chained to a devilish knotty case with kinsbells and mills


confound your humbugging said ano


ther that may do very well in dublin c for the attorneys but not with us


i dont well understand you i replied there is the brief henesy expects rei to report upon it thlie vening and i amnt so hurried


here a verychorus of laughiiang broke forth in which after several vain efforts to resist i was forced to join and kept it up with the others when outr mirth was over my friends scrutiniied the red tapetied packet and pronounced it a real brief with a degree of surprise that certainly augured little sfor their famniliarity with such objects of natural history


when they had


left the room i lei ssurelyexamnined the allimportant doeu mentspreiiding iftrt hbeforetae upon the table and suirveying it as a newly anointed sovereign might be supposedto b contemplate a map of his dominions


at last said i to myselfat las and here is the footstep to the woolsack


for r mre than an hour i sat motionlee a my eyes fixed upon the outspread paper slost in a very maae of reverie


the am a bition which disappointment had crushed e and delay had chilled came all suddenly backand all my daydreams of legal success my cherished aspirations of silk gowns and patents of precedents rushed once more upon me and i resolved to sdo or die


alas


a very little refec ii tion showed me that the latter was per e fectly practicable but as a junior coun sel five minutes of very commonplace reci ation was all my province and that with the main business of the day i had about as much to do as the callboy of of a playhouse has with the stiuccess of a tragedy


my lnrd this is an action brought by timothy higgins c and down i go no more to be remembered and thought sof than if i never existed


how different sit would be were i the leader


zounds ll bow i would worry the witnesses brow a


beat the evidence ejole the jury and t oftea the fijutdle


if


she ourd ee just in his mercy


to remove old


mills and kinshella before tuesday who bknows but my fortune might be made


this supposition once started rep me speculating upon all the possible chances that might cut off two kingss counsel in three days and left me fairly con vinced that my own elevaion was cer tain were they only removed from my path


fortwo whole days the thought never left my mind and on the evening of the second day i sat moodily over my pint of port in the clonbrock arms with my friend timothy casey captain in the north cork militia for my companion


fred said rim take off your wine man when does this confounded trial come on


tomorrow said i with a deep groan


well well and if it does what matter he said youll do well enough never be afraid alas


said i you dont understandthe cause of my depression


i here entered upon an account of my sorrows which lasted for above an hour and only con cluded as a tremendous shout in the street without announced an arrival


for several minutes such was the exeitement in the housesuch running thither and hither such confusion and such hubbub that we could not make out who had arrived at last a door opened quite near us


and we saw the waiter assisting a very portly looking gentleman off with his great coat assuring him the while that if he would only walk into the coffee


room for ten minutes the fire in his apartment should be got ready


the stranger accordingly entered andt seated himself at the fireplace having never noticed that casey and myselfthe only persons therewere in the room


i say phil who is he


inquired casey of the waiter


counsellor


mills captain said the waiter and left the room


thats your friend said casey


i see said i and i wish with all my heart he was at home with his pretty wife in leesonstreet


is she goodlooking inquired tim


devil a better saidi and hes aseeal ous as old nick


hem said tim mind your cue and ili give him a start


here he suddenly changed his whispering tone for a louder key and resumed i say ipower it will make some work for you lawyers


but who can she be


thats the questin


here he took a much crumpled letter from his pocket and pretended to read a great sensation was created in the neighbourhood of merrionsquare yester day by the sudden disappearance from her house of the handsome mrscon found it whats the namewhat a hand he writes


hill or miles or something like thatthe lady of an eminent barris ter now on circuit


the gay lothario is they say the ihon eeorge


i was sothunderstruck at the rashnees of the rstroke i could say nothing while the old gentleman started as if he had sat down on a pin


cisey meanwhile went on hell and fury said the kings counsel rushing over what is it youre saying


youappenr warmn old geiie tnan said casey putting up the letter and rising from the itable


show me tiat letter show


methat infernal letter sir this instant


short you my letter said tcasey cool that airi bow


you are cbrralnlya goiod one


do you know me


sir answer me that said ibe lawyer bursting with gpas a on


not at present


said


sim quietly i


but i hope to do so


in the morning in ex plantion of your language and conduct


a tremendous ringing of the bell here sumrnmeed the waiter to the room


who is that inquired the lawyer


the epithet be judged it safe to leave unsaid as he pointed to casey


captain casey sir the commanding officer here


just so said casey and very much at your service any hour after five in the morning


then you


refue jirc to explain the paragraph i have just heardyou reiad


well done oul gentleman so you have been listening to a private conver sation i held with my friend here


in that case we had better retire to our room o saying he ordered the waiter to send a fresh bottle and glasses to no


and taking my arm


very politely wished mr mills a good night and left the coffeeroom


before we had reached the top of the stairs the house was once more il com motion


the new arrival had ordered out fresh borsesandwoas murrying every one in his


impatience to get away


in ten minutes the chaise rolled off from the door and casey put ting his head out of the window wished r him a pleasant journey while turning to me be said theres one of themn out of the way for you if we are even obliged to fight the other


y


the port was


soon despatbched and i with it went all the scriiples of conscience k iat first felt for the cruel ruse we had d just practised


scarcely was the other o bottle called for when we heard the land lord shouting out in a sentorian voicea two horses for goron bridge to meet counsellor kinshella


thats the other fellow said casey


d it is said i f then we must be stirring said he


a waiter i achaise andpair in minutes dye hear


power my boy i dont want syoustiny here and study your brief its little trouble counsellor kinsbell


siillgive you inthe morning


t all he would tell me of his plans was that he didnt mean any serious bodily harm tothe counsellor but thato certainly d he was notlikely to be heard of for tou


n sandtwenty hours


meanwhile power go in and win my boysuch another walkover may never occur


i must not make my story longer


the next morning the great record of mona ghan v mcshane was called on


and as the senior counsel were not present the attorney wished a postponement


i how


ever was firm told the court i was quite prepared and with such an air of assu rance that i actually puzzled the attor ney


the case was accordingly opened by me in a very brilliant speech and the witnesses called but such was my un lucky ignorance of the whole matter that i actually broke down the testimony of our own and fought like a rejan for the credit and character of the perjurers against us


the judge rubbed his eyes the jury looked amazedand the whole bar laughed outright


however on i went blundering floundering and foundering at every step and at half past four amidst the greatest and most up


oarious


mirth of the whole court heard the jury deliver a verdict against us just as old kenshella rushed into the court covered with mud and spattered with clay


he had been sent for twenty miles to make a will for mr daly of dalys mount who was supposed to be at the point of death but who on his arrival threatened to shoot him tor causing an alarm to his family by such at imputa tion


the rest is soon told


they noved for a new trial and i moved out of thbe profession


i cut the bar for it cut me ijoined the gallant th as a volunteer and here i am without a single regret i must confess that i didnit succeed in the great record of monaghrm v mshaune


once more the claret went briskly round and while we canvassed powers story many an anecdote of military life was told which every instant extended the charm of that career i longed for


another cooper major said power


with all my heart said the rosy little officer as he touched the bell behind himn and now lets have a mong


yes power saidhree orfourtogethber let us have the irish dragoon if its only


to convert your friend omalley


there


hiere goes then said dick inking off a bumper as he began the following cbant to the air of love id the soul of a gay irishman tre irish rimgoh


oh love is the soul of an irish dragpon in battle in bivouac or in saloon


from the tip of his spar to his bright saber tarche


with his soldierly gait and his bearing s high his gay laughing look and his light speaking eye he frowns at hiserival he ogles his wench


he springs in his saddle and thmsues the french with his jingling spur sad his bright saber tasche


his spirits are high and he little knows case whether sipping hisclaret or charging a square with his jingling spurand his bright saber


tasche


as ready to sing or to skirmish hes feqnd to take off his wine or to take lip it giound when the bugle may call him how little he tears to charge forth in column and beat the mqan sears


with bis jingling spar and his brighsabhr


ta sch e


when thg hbttle is aver


he trtv rides back to theer every soul in the niglrt bivouact


with his jingling spur and his biight saber stascbhe oh there you may see him in full glory crownd as he sits mid his friends on the hlrdlywes ground and tear with what feeling the toast he will give as he drinks to the land where all irtihmen live with his jingling spur and his bright sabier stasche


it was late when we broke up bou among ill the recollections of that pleas ant eveniing none clung to me so forcibly nonesmk so deeply in ray heart as the gay and careless tone of powers manly voice and as i fell asleep towards morn ing the words of the irish dragoon were floating through my mind and fodewed me to my dreams


the comic history of england


ccontinved from our last j


chapter vi


the wars op


the roses


j tho people of england were now divided into others throats merely for the difference between


a red and while rose


had it been for the sake of red and white cabbages or brown and white bread it vt auld not have been so remarkable


but as killing people in battle is better than starving them to death or suffering them to throw themselves off waterloo bridge the wars of the roses show the wisdomof our ancestors


in ten years six great battles were fought and as much blood spilt as would refine all the sugar to tlie end of the world


and tho earl of war wick knocked kings down and set them up again just as if they were so many ninepins


at lost when tho parties had fought almost to the extent of the irish cats which left nothing behind them


but two tails and a bit of flue edward


iv by way of rejoicing drowned his brother the duke of clarence in a butt of wine and king richard smothered his two nephews between pillows to bolster up his right to the crown but as they


werasound asleep in each others arms when this hapnaned thc little dears never knew nothing aboufit and it was not of much consequence


richard iii called crooked back who had a crooked way willi him of getting everything by


hook or by crookwhen he found it was all hookey with thc princes boldly seizedthc