we may make some won deiful discovery perhaps and produce such a dish as never was known hefure


i shall not be at all surprised if we do tom returned bis sister still laughing mer rily or if it should prove to be such a dish as we shall not feel very anxious to produce again hut the meat must come out of t lie saucepan at last somehow or other you know


we cant cook it into nothing at all thats a ereat comfort


so if you like to venture will


i have not the least doubt rejoined tom that it will come out au excellent pudding or at all events i am sure that i shall think it so


there is naturally something eo handy aud brisk about you ruth that if you said you could make a bowl of faultless turtle soup i should believe you


and tom was right


she was precisely that sort of person


nobody ought to have been able to resist her coaxing mauner aud nobody had any business lo try


yet she never seemed to know it


was her manner at all


that was the best of it


well she washed up the breakfast cups chatting away the whole time nnd telling turn all sorts of anecdotes about the brass and copper founder put everything iu its place niude the room as ueat as herself you must not suppose its shape was half as neat as hers though or anything like it and brushed toms old hat round aud round and round again until it was as sleek as mr pecksniff


then she discovered all in a moment that toms shirtcollar was frayed at the edge and flying up stairs for a needle aud thread came flying down agaiu with her thimble ou and net it right with wonderful experturss never once sticking the needle into his face although she was humming his pet tune from first to last and beating time with ihe fingers of her left hand upon his neckcloth


she had no sooner done this than off he was again and there she stood once more as brisk and busy as a bee king that compact little chin of hers into an equally compact htlle unnuet intent on bustlin out to he butchers without a minutes loss of time and inviting tom to come and see the steak cut with his own eyes


as to lorn he was ready to go anywhere so off they trotted arminarm as nimbly as you please saying to each other what a quiet street it was to lodge in aud how very cheap and what au airy situation


to see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block aud give his knife a sbarpeninl was to forget breakfast instantly


it was agreeable too it really was to see him cut it off so smooth and juicy


there was nothin savage iu the act although the knife was large and keen it was a piece of art high art there was delicacy of touch clearness of tone skilful baudliug of the sub ject fine shading


it was the triumph of mind over matter quite


perhaps the greenest cabbageleafever grown in a garden wis wrapped about this steak before it was delivered over to tom


but the butcher had a sentiment for his busiuess aud knew how to refine upon it


when he saw tom putting the cabbageleaf into his pocket awkwardly he begged to be allowed to do it for him for meat he said with some emotion fi must be humoured uot drove


back they went to the lodgings agaiu ofter they had bought some eggs and iiour and such small mailers and tom sat gravely down to write at one end of the parlour table while ruth prepared to make tbo pudding at the other end for there was nobody in the house but an old woman the landlord being a myb terious sort of man who went out early in the morning aud was scarcely ever seen and oving in mere household drudgery they waited on themselves


what are you writing tom inquired his bister laying her hand upon his boulder


why you see my dear said fom leaning hack in his chair aud looking up in her face i am very anxious of course to obtain some suitable employment and before m rwestlock conies this nlteruoon i think i may as well prepare a little description of myself and my qualifications such as he could shew lo any any friend of his


you had better do the some for me tom also said his bister casting down her eyes


i should dearly like to keep house tor you and take care of you always tom but we are not rich enough for that we are not rich returned iom cer tainly and we may be much poorer


but we will not part if we can help it


no no we will make up our minds ruth that unless we are so very unfortunate as io render me quite sure that you would be better off away iron me than with me we will battle it out together


i am certain we sliull be happier if wo can battle it out together


dont you think we shall think tom


oh lut tutl interposed tom tenderly


ii you mustnt cry


no no i wont tom


but you cant afford it


dear


you cant indeed


we dont know that said tom


how are we to know that yet awhile and without trying


lord bless my soull tome energy became quite grand there is no kuowib what may happen if we try hard


and am sure we can live contentedly upon a very little if we can only get it


yes that i am sure we enn tom


why then said tom we must try for it


mv friend john wcstlock is a capital fellowanil very shrewd and intelligent


ill take his advice


well talk it over with bim both of us together


youll like john very much when you come lo know him i am certain


dont cry dont fry you make a beefsteak pudding indeed said tom giving her a gentle push


why you havent bold ness enough for a dumpling t


you will call it a pudding lorn


mind


i told you not


i may as well call it that till it proves to be something else said tom


oh you are going to work in earnest ure you


aye avel tliat she was


and in sucli pleasant earnest moreover that toms atlen liin wandered from his writing every moment


first sin tripped down stairs into the kitchen for the flour then for the pieboard then for the ecs then for the butter then for a jug of water


ihcn for the rollingpin then for a puddingbasin then for the pepper then for the salt mnking a separate journey lor every thing mill laughing everv time she started off afresh


when all the materials were collected she was horrified to find she had no apron on and so ran vp stairs by way of variety to fetch it


she didnt put it on up stairs but came dancing down with it in her hand and being one of those liitle women lo whom an apron is a most becoming little vauity it took au immense time to arrange having to be care fully smoothed down beneath oh heaven what n wicked little stomacher and to be gathered up into little plaits by the strings before it could be tied and to be tapped rebuked and wheedled at the pockets before it would set right which at last it did and when it did but never mind this is a sober chronicle oh never mind i


and then there were her cuffs to be tucked up for fear of flour and she had a little ring to pull off her finger which wouldnt come off foolish little rinil and during the whole of these prepa rations she lioked demurely every now aud then at tom from under her dark eyelashes as if they were all a part of the pudding and indispensable tu iu composition


tor the life and soul of him tom could get no further iu his writing than a respectable young man nged thirtyfive and this not withstanding the show she made of being supernaturally quiet and going about ou tiptoe lest she should disturb him which only served as au additional means of distracting his attention and keeping it upon her


join the said at last in high glee


what now i said tom repeating to him self aged thirtyfive


will you look here a moment please


as if he hadnt been looking all the time i am suing to begin tom


dont you wonder why i butter ibe inside of the basin


said his busy little sister


eh tom v not more than you do i dare savreplied tom laughing


for i believe you dont know anything about it


what an infidel you are tom


how else do you think it would turn out easily when it was done


for a civileugineer aud land surveyor uot to know that


my goodness it was wholly out of the question to try to write


tom lined out a respectable young man aged thirtyfive and sat looking ou pen in hand with one of the most loving smiles imaginable


such a busy little woman as sue was i to full of selfimportance and trying so hard not to smile or seem uncertain about anything


i it was a perfect treat to tom to ee her with her brows knit and her rosy lips pursed up kneading away at the crust rolling it out cutting it up inio strips lining the basin with it shaving it off fine round the rim chopping up the steak into small pieces raining down pepper and salt upon them packing them into the basin pourinir in cold water for gravy and never venturing to steal a look in his direction lest her gravity should be disturbed until at last the basin being quite full and only wanting the lop crust she clapped her hands all covered with paste and fiourattom aud hurst out heartily into such a charming little laugh of triumph that the pudding need have had no other seasoning to commend it to the taste of auy reasonable man ou earth


wheres the pudding said tom


for he was cutting his jokes tom was


where


she answered holding it up with both hands


look at it


that a pudding said tom


it will be you stupid fellow when its covered in returned his sister


tom still pre tending to look incredulous she gave him a lap on the head with the rollingpin and still laughing merrily had returned to the compo sition of the top crust wheu she started and turned very red


tom started too for follow ing her eyes he saw john westlock in the why my goodness john i how did you i beg pardon said john your sisters pardon especially but i met an old lady at the street door who requested me to enter here and as you didnt hear me knock aud the door was open i made bold to do so


i hardly know said john with a smile why any of us should be disconcerted at my having acci dentally intruded upon such au agreeable domestic occupation very agreeably am skilfully pursued but i must confess that am


tom will you kindly cume to my relief


mr john westlock said tom


my i hope that as the sister of bo old a friend said john laughing you will have the goodness to detach your first impressions of me from my unfortunate entrance


my sister is not indisposed perhaps to say the same to you on her owu behalt retorted john said of course mat tins was qmic un necessary for he had been transfixed in silent admiration and he held out his hand to miss pinch who couldnt take it however by rea son ofihe flour and paste upun her own


this which might seem calculated to increase the general confusion and render matters worse lad in reality the bet effect in the world for neither of them could help laughing aud


bo they both fouud themselves oil easy terms im mediately


i am delighted to see you said tom


sit down


i can only think of silting down on one condition returned his friend and that is that your sister goes on with the pudding as if you were still alone


that i am sure she will said tom


on one other condition and that is thai you stay and help us to eat it


poor little kutu was seizea mui paipiwiuuii of the heart when tom committed this appal in indiscretion for she felt that if the dish turned out a failure she never would be able to hold up her bead before john westloc again


quite unconscious of her state of mind john accepted the iuvitatiou with all imogm uble heartiness and after a little more plea santry concerning this same pudding and the tremendous expectations he made belief to entertain of it she blushiugly resumed her occupation and he took a chair


am here much earlier than i intended tom but i will tell you what brings me and i think can answer for your being glad to hear it


is that anything you wish to show me f


oh dear no i cried tomwho had forgotten the blotted scrap of paper iu his band until this enquiry brought it to his recollection


a respectable young man aged thirtyfive ihe beginning of a description of myself ibam all


i dont think you will have occasion finish it tom


hut how is it you never told inn you hud friends in london


tom looked at his sibter with all bis might and certainly hia sister looked with all her might at biin


friends in london echoed tom


ah said westlock to be sure


have you any friends in london ruth my dear asked tom


i nm very happy to hear that i have said tom but its news to me


i never knew it


they must be capital people to keep a secret john


you shall judge for yourself relumed the other


seriously tom here is the plain state of the case


as i was sitting at breakfast this morning there enmes a knock ut my duor


on which you cried out very loud come in buggested tom


so i did


and the person who knocked not being a respectable young man aged thirty five from the country came in when he was invited tom instead of standing gaping aud stnriii about him ou the lauding


well


when he did come in i fouud be was a stranger rrave


businesslike sedatelookiug stranger


ilr


westloek said he


that is my name aid i the favour of a few words with you


soid he


pray be seated sir said i here john stopped for au instaut to glance towards ihe table where toms sister listening attentively was still busy with the basin which by this lime made a noble appearance


then he resumed the pudding having taken a chair tom


what cried tom


having taken a chair


you said a pudding


no no replied john colouring rather a chair


the idea of a stranger coming into my room at halfpast eight oclock in the morning and taking a pudding


having taken a clmir tom a chair amazed me by opening the conversation thus i believe you are acquainted sir with mr thomas pinch


no cried tom


his very words assure you


i told him that i was


did i know where you were at present residing


yes


in london


he had casually heard in a roundabout way that you had left your situation with mr peck sniff


was that the fact


yes it was


did you want another


yes you did


certainly said tom nodding his head


just what impressed upon him


you may rest atsureu mat


i set mat pumi ueyouu the possibility of any mistake aud gave him distinctly to understand that he might make up his mind about it


very well


then said he i think i can accommodate him


lord bless me


cried tom


ruth my dear think can accommodate him


of course i begged him pursued john westlock glancing at toms sister who was uot less eager in her interest than tom him self lo proceed and said that i would under take to see you immediately lie replied that he had very little to say beiug a man of few words but such as it was it was to the purpose and so indeed it turned out for he immedi ately went on to tell me tbat a friend of his was in want of a kind of secretary aud libra rian and that although the salary was small being only a hundred pounds a year with neither board nor lodging still the duties were not heavy nnd there the post was


vacant and ready for your acceptance


good gracious me


cried tom a hundred pounds a year i my dear john


ruth my love i


a hundred pounds a year


but the strangest part of the story re sumed jobu westlock laying his hand on toms wrist to bespeak his attention and repress his ecstacies for the moment the strangest part of the story miss linch is this


i dont know this man from adam neither does this man know tom


lie can said tom in great perplexity if lies a londner


i dont know any one in


and ou my observing john resumed still keeping his hand upon toms wrist that had no doubt he would excuse the freedom i took in inquiring who directed him to me how be came to know the change which had taken place in my friends position and how he came lo be acquainted with my friends peculiar fitness for such au office as he had described he duly said that he was not at liberty to enter into any explanations


xvot at liberty to enter into any explana tions


repeated tom drawing a long breath


i must be perfectly aware he said john added that to any person who had ever been in mr pecksniffs neighbourhood mr thomas pinch and his acquirements were as well known as the church steeple or the blue theblue dragonl replied tom staring alternately at his friend and his sister


aye think of lliatl he spoke as taoii liarly of the blue dragon i give you my word as if he had been mark tapley


i opened my eye i can tell you wheu he did so but i could nut fancy


i had ever seen the man before although he said with a smile you know the blue dragon mr westlock you have kept it up there once or twice yourself


kept it up there


i


so i did


you remember i om nouaea witu great aimnuuouic uuu falling into a state of deeper perplexity than before observed that this was the most unac countable and extraordinary circumstance he had ever heard of iu his life


unaccountable i his friend repeated


i became afraid of the man


though it was broad day aud bright sunshine i was posi tively afraid of him


i declare i half suspected him to be a supernatural visitor and uot a mortal until he took out a commonplace description of pocketbook aud handed me his card


mr fips said tom reading it aloud


austin friars


austin friars soundsghostly john


filis dont i think was johns reply


but there he lives tom and there he expects us to call this morning


and now you know as much of this strange incident as l do upon my honour


toms face between ins exultation in me hundred pounds a year and his wonder at this narration was only to be equalled by the face of his isur on which there sat the very best expression of blooming surprise that any painter could have wished to see


what the beefsteak pudding would have come to if it had not been by this time finished astrology itself could hardly determine


tom said ruth after a little hesitation


perhaps mr westlock in his friendship for you knows more of this than he chooses to tell


no indeed cried john eagerly


it is not so i assure you


i wish it were


cannot lake credit to myself miss pinch for auy sucu tuiug


au tnai


j


u ou mi i can judge am likely to know i have told you


couldnt you know more if you though proper said ruth scraping the pinboord industriously


no retorted john


indeed no


it is very ungenerous iu you to be so suspicious o me when i repose implicit faith iu you


have unbounded confidence iu the pudding mils pinch


she laughed at this but they booh got back into a serious veiu and discussed the subject with profound gravity


whatever else was obscure in the business it appeared to be quite plain that tom was offered a salary of one hundred pounds a year and this being the main point the surrounding obscurity rather set it off than otherwise


tom being in a great nutter wished to stur for austin friars instantly but they waited nearly un hour by johns advice belore tuey departed


tom made himself as spruce us could before leaving home and when john westlock through the halfopened parlour door hud glimpses of that brave little sister brushing the collar of his coat in the passage takiu up loose stitches in his gloves and hovering ihitly about and about him touching him up here and there in the height ol her quaint little oldfashioned tidiness be cullei to mind ihe fancy portraits of her un the wal uf the pcckaniffian workroom mid dccli with uncommon indignation that they were gross libels and not balfprelty enough though ns hath been mentioned in its place the artist alwavs made those sketches beautiful and he had drawn at least a score of them with his own hands


tom be said as they were walking along i begin to thiuk you must be somebodys


i suppose i am tom answered in his quiet wav


butl mean somebodys of consequence


bless your heart replied tom


my poor father was of no consequence nor my mother you remember them perfectly then


remember them


oh dear yes


my poor mother was the last


she died when ruth was a mere baby and then we both became a charge upon the savincs of that good old grandmother i used to tell you of


you re member


oh i theres nothing romantic in our history john


very well said john in quiet despair then there is no way of accounting for my visitor of this morning


so well not try they did try notwithstanding and never left off trying until they got to austin friars where in a very dark passage on the first floor oddly situated at the back of a house across some leads they found a liitle bleareyed glass door up iu one corner with mb


fifs painted on it iu characters which were meant to be transparent


there was also a wicked old sideboard hiding in the gloom bard by medi tatiug designs upon the ribs of visitors and an old mat woru into lattice work which being useless as a mat even if anybody could have seen it which was impossible had for many years directed its industry into another channel and regularly tripped up every one of mr fipss clients


mr fips hearing a violent concussion between a human bat and his office door was apprised by the usual means of communication that somebody had come to call upon him and giving that somebody admission observed that it was rather dark


dark iudeed john whispered in tom pinchs ear


not a had place to dispose of a countryman in i should think tom


tom had been already turning over in his mind the possibility of their having been tempted into that region to furnish forth a pie but the sight of mr fips who was small and spare and looked peaceable and wore black ions and powder dispelled his doubts


walk in said mr fipps


they walked in


and a mighty yellow jaundiced little oflice mr fips had of it with a great black sprawling splash upon the floor in one comer as if some old clerk had cut his throat there years ago and had let out ink instead of blood


chapter


xvii


fever on the roadster numerous churches an acquaint ancerefreshmentrooma at the stationstreet three eng fish residents in st petersburg proceeding to moscow mr sharmans do henry of proceeding towards teatime allowed at the stations regularity in the arrival of trains delibe rate movements


the excitement of the journey had tended to keep off a fever which i had felt about me for some time but which now attacked me with some violence


as i had not anticipated such a circumstance i had packed up all my extra clothing with my luggage so that i suffered from cold in the first paroxysms until the guard lent me a thick fur coat


the people at the station where we stopped and the passengers did not seem to know what ague was for they appeared much alarmed and crowdedrouudme expressing their astonishment at my shaking fit


even mr sharman attached more importance to my indisposition than it deserved and every one seemed anxious to contribute to my relief offering me tea or anything else i might wish to take


thefeverdid not cease till eleven oclock that night during all which time i lay in that uneasy state between waking and sleeping of the discomfort of which no one who has not experienced it can form on idea it will not therefore be expected that i should give the reader any information respecting this part of my route i only recollect that in one place at which we stopped probably at every i looked out of the windows and at a little distance from the railway i could see and count twentytwo churches in a large town situated in a low plain


i believe the railway between moscow and st petersburg runs generally through a level country in many places very swampy and i observed that on each side of the road for a considerable distance there was a footway constructed of planks through extensive marshes


a on the railway wood andnot coal is used for the engines and as they might sometimes be short of wood between the stations i observed that there were provisions of this fuel in little houses on the way where there was a guard who presented himself as the train passed and bore a flag to notify that all was right ahead


the engines on this line are provided by an american company which has a contract with the government


this i learned from an english man whom i had previously seen at woolwich and who recognised me and came to speak to me at one of the stations where he was employed as one of the working engineers he had been tempted to enter this service with the hope of bettering his condition but he did not seem quite satisfied with the change


the up and down trains run on different sides of the stations so that one refreshmentroom serves for both


in one of these at a late hour at night i was sitting and taking some soup when i felt the weight of a great brawny hand fall upon my back accompanied by a voice that could only have belonged to such a leg of mutton fist exclaiming well countryman how are you i turned round and saw three large powerful men standing behind me


they informed me in as brief a way as they could that they had been some years in the russian service as engineers and in consequence of the wat had given in their resignation this had at first been accepted by the government which however on second thoughts had deemed it better that they should be detained and they were now under the charge of a gendarme who were conducting them to moscow the place allotted for their residence until further orders


they requested me to call on their families and friends in st petersburg and inform them of their safety


in case this work should fall into the hands of any of them i take this opportunity of letting them know that i was not able to keep my promise being prohibited at st petersburg from communicating with the english residents there but i did all i could to serve them and requested the british viceconsul whom i saw before this prohibition on the part of the russian government to see their friends for me


although these men were apparently inconvenienced by their detention they parted from me with the following assuring expression which needs no comment from me a nevermind old chap


come what may they will be sure to treat you like a gentleman


i observed that whenever we stopped at a station of which there are about twenty in this distance of four hundred miles the guard who accompanied us walked up and down before my carriage


now although i had made no remark upon it mr sharman who also perceived him ordered him off and was anxious that i should not fancy he was there as any restraint upon me and delicately expressed himself to this effect


i was pleased to perceive that there was no unnecessary hurry in the railway movements such as those which annoy the english traveller plenty of time was allowed at every station to the passengers to take their meals and in each there was all that could be required in the way of refreshments


the time allowed for the train to pass from one station to another is carefully fixed for the driver who dare not arrive a minute sooner or later so that in some cases we had to go very slowly in orders not to arrive before the time


this however is not unpleasant as people on the continent do not give way to that nervous hurry which fidgets us and shorten our lives


who in england has time to look around him rich and poor seem to be urged along by an impetus which prevents their thinking of anything except of their next appointment and as soon as that is kept their thoughts fly to the next


mademoiselle ursulu


a tale


translated for the geelong advertiser from the french of moleri in the feuilleton of le mauricien


chapter


v a rew days afterwards milrie was seated in a summerhouse in a part of the gar den which was but little frequented she was engaged in embroidering a hand


kerchief


eugene with a book in ilis hand wa also in thegrden and had several times made a tour round the pond in the centre and passed up and down the principal walks scarcely conscious where he was going so much was he ab


sorbed in the book he was reading at length chance conducted him to the en trance of the summerhouse where marie was at work


she without taking time to look up at the intruder hastily endea


voured to conceal her materials under a smatl table


pardon mademoiselle said eu gene who could not avoid seeing her endeavours i have been indiscreet i will retire


oh no


i thought it was dorothee who came to surprise me said marie resuming her work


before you m eugeneican continue what iam about


you do not wish then that mademoi selle dorothee should see your embroi dery


indeed i do not that would destroy the pleasure i anticipate from surprising her


i understand you intend to make her a present of your performance


certainly and do you not intend on your part to have ready for her some pretty ribbon


me


o what occasion


on the occasion of the approaching fite to be sure


how


ii


this fhte soon to take place


you do not


know i exclaimed marie raising her large blue eyes on eugene full of astonishment


i do not indeed and i will feel ob liged mademoiselle if you will let me into the secret


i have yet time to repair a negligence which is quite involuntary


and so very unseemly


yes i avow it is a duty a duty


why do you not say a pleasure


a pleasure if you wish it


indeed


i think you have spoiled dorothee and to make up for doing so you are guilty of a forgetfulness which but ill accords with your usual complis ance towards her


it is true that i make myself as agreeable as i can but it is impossible for me to know all her fancies


what do you say why mademizelle you are so good that you judge all other hearts by your own


jealouy and haired are feelings which it is impossible for your mind to comprehend


it is not with such asyou that i would seek tranquility by a blind obedience to the slightest caprice by satisfying the most tyrannic i desires and above all by an endeavor to suppress my preferences under the veil of dissimulas tion which is requiredby politeness


what do suppose that dorothee so far as i can judge from eight days experience


you deceive yourself monsieur eu gene


i hope i do since the bounty of m bernard has raised in my heart all the affection of a son i would have been so happy to find here a mother in mademoi


selle ursule and asister in mademoiselle dorothee


and me said marie you forget me


you


yes am i not also a poor orphan


am i not like yourselt destitute of do mnetic ties


will you not thenbe my brother


your brother i yes and then as i do not judge dorothee so severely as you have done her we shall be your two loving sisters


eugenes countenance fell and he said badly it is on impossible dream marie


it is not as a brother that i would love youand that is also the reason why dorothee can never be a sister to me


a noise at this moment at the back of the summerhouse was heard eugene stopped


disconcerted marie reddened and allowed her work to fall from her inactive fingers which for some time had remained idle


no one appeared however


recovered from their fright the two young people came out of the summerhouse and walked up and down the garden


they spoke little but their hearts compre


hended the language of each others eyes


their walk was not over before made moiselle ursule had been put in posses


sion of all the little details of the com munication that had taken place between eugene and imarie


console yourself my angel said ur utle to dorolhee whose ttars were


fast falling


i can see in this a means of furthering our own projects


chapter vi


next day ursule rose at early dawn she had according to her idea a great task to fulfil ier first care was to viit marie whoin she found still embroider ing dorothees handkerchief but ursules mnd was so full of grave matters that she took no notice of such a trifling cir cumstance


she approached marie kissed her forehead and


siting dowd beside her took her hand in hers


marie looked at her in surprise for this caressing air was something new to her


poor child i said ursule with a sigh


marie trembled


she feared the an nouncement of some great calamity


if i did not love you so muoli i should cruelly reproach you my little dear


me mademoiselle


believe that if i have had the misfortune to displeaei you i have done so in ignorance but


it do not remember having done so


there is no occasion to tax your memouy for a wrong which is happening every dayevery instant


oh


mon dieu exclaimed marie terrified of what do you accuse me


of not loving me enough to entrust me with your confidence


ah you do not know poor inexperienced child what mischief arises to young ladies who keep secrets looked up in their hearts


secrels


i have none iassure yout come come


marie nodissimula tion it is useless


at my age one has nothing better to do than to look on and observe others to catch the expression of a glance to watch a gesture to catch a stray word nothing iscapes one and especially if one has had the misfortune of possessing a susceptible heart in ones youth it is rare that one can be deceived in ones conjectures


but mademoiselle what is it you have observed


many things


sometimes you apprar to be absorbed in a reverie you court solitude which is very unnatural foru girl ofseventeen


sometimes your breast is agitated your cheeks grow pale your eyes filled as if you were about to weep aud above all your behaviour at many


trifling circumstances apparently insih nificant which to an indifferent person would pass unnoticed


for instance when a certain person pays you any slight attention or speaks a kind word all of a sudden your color is heightened the smile returns to your lips and you seem raised from the ground


all this my dear child constitutes a language more clear more intelligible less deceiving than a spoken language and i will now give you a translation of itmarie you are in love


yes ispeak from conviction and as a proof i am in the right i will tell you the name of the object of you affection


it is m eugene


marie replied but by a deep and dif fused blush


ah my child said ursule after a moment of sience what a pity it is that you did not at once give me your confidence i would have saved you from


many pangs from many tears


en lightened by me you would have been able to vanquish in its birth a reprehen sible sentiment and you would not now be as you are on the brink of a fearful abyss


indeed replied marie recovering her courage a little i shall not attempt to combat the sentiment you haveread my heart i do loveeugene


but why do your mysterious words assume the tone of a sinister prediction


why frighten me with an abyss of wretched ness


i do not know whether eugene has discovered my sentiments but they are known to myself and forgive me my good ursule if i say that i do not think i have bestowed them upon an ingrate


that makes the danger all the more terrible my child


would you have me understand that eugene is not possessed of all tle quali


ties of a good and faithful lover


heaven preserve us


lie never can be yours


never


what obstacle then do you see


an insurmountable obstacle


is he not as poor as me


is he not an orphan like me


you are not poorneither the one nor the other


ah well i so much the better


you are not orphansneither the one nor the other


is it possible


ah well somucli


the better still


a father ormninther would never wish evil to their children


a fathersince i must speak would never consent to a crime


a crime


yes a crime


great god i behold the secret that i would have unfolded to you long ago had you but opened your heart to me yes imiarie you are the sister of eugene and he is your brother


i these words proncunced in a solemn voice fell like a thunderbolt on marie


she turned ghastly pale and fell back on the chair where she was seated


ursule after a time succeeded in restor ing her to consciousness and alter aew words of consolation left her aone


ursule went straight to the chamber of eugene where she did herself the pleasure of commencing a similar scene


eugene showed in appearatice a greater force of character thlanr marie ihe listened with a tranquil airto the revelations ofursule tlihaked her for the interest she haid takenn


i is ffairs and went out


aswwaliis wont to go to his daily task at the house of the colonel


if


ursule took the calmness of euene forreignation


she knew but little oftlie human heart


tlie storms of smothered passion are ever more dangerous than thosewich spend their fury in the fist hiurt


u reule had as yet performed only two partsof her programme


there yl re mained a lastblow to strike


chapter vii


after breakfast ursule put her mouth to her brothers ear and whis ered iiy teriously brother follow me into the gardei i have something to communicate to you of the greatestimportance


they walked several minuces in silence alongside of each other urstile was preparing her speech


im all attentiopn said barnard wilh impatience


tliere are myh brother somesub jecls so delicate that one must approlch them with thegreaest circumspection


that is to say that you hiave some report about other peoples affairs to make to me or some question that you want me to answer


that is all i can make out of your air of mystery


you know my disposition


i dislike answer ing


qestiois as much as i do listening to tales of scandal


when you have listened to me you will speak in another tone


i


do you thik so


well sister will you be so kind as to be brief come to the psintquickly you know mnymoments are valuable yee your timeisn


fhsorbed by affirs


out of


doors that yon


have no time left to survey the interior of your house


happily i am there and i have ears to hear and eyes to see


and your eyes and


your ears acquit themselves nmarvellously of their func tions


it is onlyjustice in me to say so


alon dieu


do not rail so


my brother waiit ilttlejand you will not be able to find expressions sirongr etoughl to testify your gratitude to me


svery well go on


have you not forsome time past seen something remarkable abiout eugene nothing he is always a good younz man regular attentive


and zealous


i do not think you can find in all louvier a heart more noble more


devoted more generous


i i ill not answer you broher by sayingr that tenderness makes you blind fiuice yutirppinion of eugene is exactly the samne as my ownbit why that but


you


will comprehend directly


have you perceivedlno ichange lately in marime also


none miarieis an angel


so also say ibut s


but but but


what the devil sister do youmean


will you oblige me by dropping this enigmatical tone and explaining to me in clear and iprecise terms what all your buts signify


they signify brotherthat eugene isnot less disposed thanyou to see an angel in marie and that mario partakes entirely of your opinion on the perfec


tions of eugene


swell what of ihat


doyou not comprehend i comrprclehnd othing at all


how


the admiration of these two young people the one for the other gives you no inquietude


none whatever


you do not fear that it may be transferred into a sentiment more deep in a word that it may become love it self


love


yes brother


what


eugene and marie


but i amfoolish to lend my ears to such an absurd supposition


still incredulous


what if i say to you that i have heard their ownacknow ledgment of it


i bernard stood silent a moment while concern was depicted on his visage


ah


my sister said he regarding her with a fixed look are you not play ing with my tranquility


do you not know that you are approaching a subject as delicate as it is serious


most serious do you mean to say that the love between the two is such that it may be come troublesomethat a marriage be tween them i am more clearsighted than you take me to be


the mystery with which you have enveloped ihe birth of eugene and marie is a secret which could not long escape the penetrating eye of a sister


what i do you know


you see it is useless to attempt con cealmient


wlat isit you know


eveiything my brother


all


yes but believe me can under stand that your sittiationihas lbeei ipain ful and difficuil und required much management iid reserve


my duty was to avert thle catastrophe whichl i foresaw and i have done so


now you shall never hear a word out ofiny mouth on the subject


and so saying ursile left iheapart mnit but turned rouand asidpressed er finger to herlips as it


t roipronmie in a solemn manner that she would keep them closed


that is to say said benhard to him self that before twentyfour houis all louviers will be in tile secret how the dauce did she make the discovery


but whaat itters it


i must think at once of prevent ng ltheconsequence of an indiscretion of which i am unhappily too certain bernard made two or three times the tour of the garden and then left itih the intention of oingg to see the coloiel


to be continued


parliament was to assemble on thie th ofjanuary


it is believed liat there is a split in the cabinet in which there are two parties the old and new whigs the old headed by lord pilmerston ihe new by lord john russell


the division seems to have originated in the determi ntion of lord


plalmerston tolet


louis phillippe know that lordinormanby the british ambassador at parisi was not in joke


it seems thatonthe th novem ber the french government had a grand ceremony in honour of thenuptials ot the duc do montpensier at which the whole of the diplomatic body were pre sent ith


the single exception of lord normanby he received a tormal invitation from the french court in answer to which he felt it hii duty to aiake an equally formal reply l tthe effect that the ex isting relations


detween the two govern


ments on the subject of the presumptive leiress to the crown of spain being married to a son of the king of france in continvention of the understandings ex isting bet ween the two crowns of england and france had produced positive instruc tions to him from his government that he should carefully absent himself from all celebrations in honor of that affair


this is perhaps the first occasion in diplomatic history in which a formal invitation to a fete was made the occasion ofi the delivery of on important state paper


this it is which is said to have caused the split i the cabinet lord normaibys note being said to have been in the tandwrtingot lord palaerston


h eriots hospitalheriots hospital is the most richly endowed charitable in titutiol in scotland


at present it boards clothes and educates o boys who are taught reading writing arithmetic ge ography latin greek french mathe mdtics drawing and vocal music the revequo rather exceeds per annum of which is expended in the hospital while the retnaining is now employed in erecting and support ing a certain number ofschools in the city where elementary education without board is given gratis to all children burn in the city of edinburgh in whose behalf application is made


thre are fiveol these fchools open


and two others building


tiie eddystone ligiithzousethe


eddystone lighthouse exhibited a flua of distress during the late gale but so violent was the storm


tlht the agent in vain attempted to hold communication


with the lightkeepers


on sunday a more successful effort was made and the eddystone was reached by the diligent tender


there was a tremendous sea in the channel and the wind was blowing strong irom


the westward


after ap proaching the lighthouse as near as the boisterous state of the weather would permit the lightkeepers were signalled to throw out a letter in a sealed bottle


from this it was ascertained that the dis tress flag had been kept hoisted in conse quence of the damaged state of the lower part of the door of the basement entrance caused by a great weight of water which had forced itself into the lighthouse


a rlici ronubelast week charles donnellan who had been convicted and secttencod by the magistrates of east ham for stealing caibages was dis charged from ilford gaol where were found upon him one bag containing in gold another having s


in gold and silver and bank securities for


a case isnow before mr commissioner funes court in which the fiat is dated so far back as


the bankrupts were merchants in the city


most of theo creditors are dead but those who survive as well as the representatives of the deceased now olaim a dividend which has not yet been declaredbristol jourulrl


the lights and shadows of immi grant life


we subjoin the first portion of an original story illustrative of the perils and pleasures of emigrant life written in a plain popular unpretending style we are sure it will be a pleasant novelty to our readers chap


i hopes fears and happy results


it was a lovely evening in the summer of when a british ship freighted with a rich and valuable cargo cast anchor in hobsons bay among the numer ous craft of all sizes and descriptions already floating there


the ship was of large tonnage and contained besides the rich and varied merchandise of the cargo upwards of three hundred human beings of all ranks sexes and ages which the reputation of our golden soil had induced to encounter the perils and discomforts of a voyage round half the globe


among this living freight were to be found men and women of every variety and shade of character and habits some fitted to grapple with the stern realities of life and others accustomed to see and feel only the softer influences some who had manfully struggled with adversity in its varied forms others who had been reared in compara tive luxury and to whom adversity had as yet been a stranger


osborne hayes his wife and four children formed an interesting group on the deck of the ship as she approached the anchorage and at length was carefully steered among the now numerous ships at anchor in the bay


the sun was sinking to rest behind the western hills gilding with his glorious beams the loftiest buildings of the distant melbourne towards which many an anxious eye was directed


they felt a relief that the anxieties and discomforts of the voyage were at an end yet although the haven lay before them an unknown future was before them also whether for weal or woe is wisely hid from human knowledge


hope and fear mingled with each other as this little family of immigrants gazed on the land of their adoption but the former predominated when they looked on the numerous vessels with their taper spars drawn as it were in symmetrical lines against the clear atmosphere of an australian sky and the clustering houses of the distant city appeared through the same transparent medium to be almost close upon them


there is something in the atmosphere of aus tralia especially on a summer evening singularly en chanting to the new arrival so completely dif ferent from that to which he was accustomed in his native country that he feels a buoyancy of spirit and a lightness of heart to which he had long been a stranger


to our little group of immigrants this feel ing was kindly vouchsafed and whatever darker shades of thought might intrude themselves on the more anxious minds of the parents they could not help joining in the more youthful and elastic expressions of admiration at the beauty of the scene indulged in by their more lighthearted offspring


the rapid approach of darkness did not prevent the numerous groups of passengers from lingering about the docks and gazing on the twinkling and scattered lights of the city and the neighboring townships till at length they gradually disappeared to seek the rest in their berths which the anxieties and excitements of the past day so much demanded and which was so neces sary to invigorate them for the duties of the morrow


many a head sought its pillow to dream of a speedy for tune in this strange and now renowned land and many a chequered course lay before these for the present happy dreamers


hayes and his family sought retirement early as he well knew he would require to be on shore as early as possible to provide a home for to shelter those dear to him


the first buzz of activity among the shipping therefore was quite sufficient to arouse him from his anxious slumber and to awaken and prepare his family for what now lay before them


they had heard from the pilot on the evening of their arrival that houses were scarce and difficult to be had even at an exor bitant rent


he was anxious to be on shore with as little delay as possible to try and secure a shelter of some kind or other for a time at least as they could not be allowed to remain on board the ship longer than the following day


it was a welcome sound therefore when the noise of paddlewheels and the hissing of the steam pipe gave notice whilst finishing his breakfast that a steamer was alongside to convey those passengers to melbourne who were ready to go there


there was no time to be lost plenty of employment made the commanders of these useful vessels saucy they would wait for no one it was bundle up quickly and be off as they must make hay while the sun shines


as hayes moved over the ships side to get on board the steamer his wife gave him many instructions as to what she would like and what they would require in utter ignorance of what was to be obtained


be sure now osborne and get a wellaired house and a bit of garden a neat place you know


yes yes my dear i will do all i can to get what will please you but i fear there is not much choice


landed on the wharf hayes and his eldest son who accompanied him were quite bewildered with the hurry and hustle that occurred and it was with no little diffi culty they elbowed their way through groups of women and children and piles of chests boxes and bundles of bedding


those who recollect the period to which we allude will recognise the picture then daily to be seen in the neighborhood of coles wharf amid dust in summer and mud in winter enough to sicken the most adventurous or even the most ardent goldseeker


through this babel of tongues and worldly chattels they made their way at last and gained the less crowded area of flinders street and from thence to the more central streets of the city


calling on some old acquaintances who had come out some time previously mr hayes found that col lingwood was the only locality in which he was likely to obtain the accommodation he sought for and thither the two new chums bent their steps


after a long and anxious search in that district they found the only place to be had was a small cottage constructed of rough paling of three apartments and unplastered and for which the rent of two pounds per week was demanded payable in advance


this was rather start ling to poor hayes who pictured to himself how his wifes notions of a nice cottage and garden would be dissipated when she beheld the house she would be compelled for a time at least to put up with


emi grants from the older countries of europe especially from great britain are apt to fancy neat cottages surrounded with all the luxuriant vegetation of a sunny clime meeting the eye in every direction on their lan ding


how grievous then the disappointment to thos who arrived at the period we allude to on finding the homes of the colonists destitute of every trace of vegetation and except in some very solitary instances presenting nothing but an arid waste around them


there was no alternative however and he agreed at last for this miserable accommodation at a rent that would have secured a mansion in old england


the anxious wife and her little family watched every steamer in the hope that her husband and son would be on board of some of them but none came near they visited a ship here and there and the last one had turned her head towards the mouth of the river as the sun neared the western horizon


the shades of evening began to fall lights twinkled in the distance and gleamed from the cabin windows of the vessels in the bay anchored around them


the passengers still on board had one after the other or in little groups re tired to rest still no appearance of the absentees


every shore boat that rowed or sailed past was watched with intense anxiety


ten oclock came eleven oclock came duly chimed on the ships bell by the watch on deck the mother and her daughter for her little boys had long since been sound asleep in their berths paced the deck alone no one being there save a solitary sea man nodding on the end of the windlass


the mid night hour steadily approached a sickening feeling of despair came over the anxious watchers it was the first time they had been left alone in a strange landthey wept bitterly in each others arms


the chief officer of the ship a very excellent young man who had shown them much kindness during the voyage came on deck shortly before twelve oclock and addressing them in his usual kindly manner on seeing their distress and anxiety strove to comfort them that mr hayes would be on board yet by a shore boat or finding himself too late for the steamer had probably sought the hospitality of some acquaintance in melbourne


they were thus engaged in conversing when a sudden squall such as often occurs in hobsons bay swept over the ship and simultaneously a cry of distress arose apparently not far from the stern of the ship


the group were startled and the mate more used to such matters sprung aft and while calling out to the man on the watch forward to follow him he threw himself over the taffrail and slid down by the rope by which the jolly boat was riding astern in a moment


with praiseworthy alacrity the seamen fol lowed the rope was cut and taking an oar each they pulled quickly towards thoespot from whence the cry proceeded


fortunately the night was clear starlight and as they had given the alarm on leaving the ship the people in several other vessels heard it and prepared to render assistance


the sufferers were soon descried and in time to save them for the worthy mate and his fellow seaman had the great satisfaction of saving five human creatures from a watery grave


his satisfaction was however much increased when he found that three of the rescued were passengers of his own ship being mr hayes and his son together with another passenger whom they had accidentally met on the beach and the two boatmen


pulling rapidly alongside with the rescued people the chief officer sprang up the side ladder to assure mrs hayes of her husbands safety


he found her in a fainting state for she had recognised his voice but with several fellowpassengers and the doctor attending on her the alarm having brought them from their berths


tho voice of mr hayes however assuring her of his own and her sons safety did more than anything else to recover her and she roused herself to assist in attending to the drenched and shivering ones


warm blankets and restoratives not the least effectual of which was warm brandy and water speedily restored them


the story of the misfortune was soon told


mr hayes had been no long detained before he finally suc ceeded in his mission that the last steamer for the bay had left the wharf hours before he could reach it


crossing the river he and his son walked to what is now well known as sandridge but was then designated liardets beach


a wooden jetty erected at this place accommodated the watermen who now found ample employment with their whale boats in supplying the means of communication with the shipping in the bay especially after the hours during which the steamboats plied about amongst the ships


these watermen at the time of our story were dissipated insolent fellows many of them from over the water and taking ad vantage of the extraordinary demand for their services arising from the daily arrivals of living freight both from foreign ports and the adjacent colonies they sought every opportunity of extorting as much money from the unfortunate immigrants who were their vic tims as they possibly could


nor was their any law to restrain them


an extraordinary emergency had called them into existence and the police were as yet powerless to reach them


they charged what they pleased and did what they pleased and woe to the un fortunates that necessity brought within their power


it was very late before mr hayes and his son arrived at the jetty where they expected to find watermen to put them on board their own ship


a couple of boats were gently rising and falling in the long roll of the water but no boatmen were visible


turning towards tho only publichouse they inquired if any boatmen were there


one or two half drunken voices answered and slowly there staggered forth a couple of as cut throatlooking rascals as ever man trusted his life with


they were willing to take the hayes off but demanded a sovereign each for the job as they said it was after hours and the night threatening and they would not go unless they were well paid for tho job


you may go yourself jem if you like for less but i dont go for less than forty bob and little enough too


i say mister its no use talking thems gold digging times so if you wants to get aboard tonight you must stump up said the other waterman taking a strong puff of the short pipe in his mouth


wont you take us for a sovereign remonstrated mr hayes it is hard to pay so much for such a small service


at this juncture and while arguing with tho obdu rate watermen a fellowpassenger who had also been detained in the city later than he expected came up and joined them


mr hayes and he consulted together for a few minutes then turning to the watermen they told them that if they would take the three for two pounds they should have it


will you take the offer of the genelmen bill said jem


well if they stand a nobbler when we get on board i dont care though i do replied this surly looking son of neptune


you shall have it said mr hayes so let us get to the boat


but it was no easy matter to got the fellows to go to the boat they had something to say to this one and something to this other hangeron about the public house that mr hayes got impatient and endeavoured to get them to proceed to the jetty but all in vain they would take their own way and only replied to the re monstrances addressed to them with the remark theres no hurry mate take it cool


at length the wearied travellers got the half drank villains to proceed to the jetty and the whole party embarked in an excellent whaleboat a species of craft well adapted for boating purposes in such a bay as hob sons


the evening was clear starlight as before re marked and a gentle though freshening breeze was blowing from the south imparting a refreshing and de licious coolness to the atmosphere after a hot and sultry day


considering the unsteady condition of the boat men it would have been prudent had they used their oars only but these selfwilled and reckless rascals after shovingoff from the jetty would hoist the sail a square lugsail to save themselves the fatigue of row ing


the boat bounded onwards like a thing of life as the breeze caught the resisting canvas and was rapidly nearing the ship pointed out to the crew when the squall rushing across the bosom of the bay caught the sail and the sheet being fast through the false security of the men she heeled over throwing her living freight into the water and went down


fortunately mr hayes and his son were good swim mers and so was their fellowpassenger they were therefore enabled to sustain themselves in the water during the brief period which the alacrity of the chief officer allowed to elapse before they were rescued as before narrated


how to cuue a snake bite


on tho th inst about noon william john eldest son of mr samuel hawthorne of this town was passing by a small shrub around tho stump of which unobserved a snake of tho leadcolor tribe was coiled


tho reptile made a sud den spring from its coil and caught the young man by tho inner sido of the calf of the left leg inflicting with its fangs two deep and distinct wounds in the flesh about half an inch apart


master hawthorno imme diately applied a ligature under the knee and sprang upon his horse which fortunately was standing sad dled a few rods distant and jalloppedono milo to his tent and took from his desk a pnekintr needlo and a razor with tho former he pierced tho flesh under tho true skin a safo distance outside of each puncturo of the reptiles fangs and with the latter in the absenco of any aid ho cleverly cut away about the sizo of a two shilling piece of tho flesh


tho wound bled freely about a pint


at this moment the mon arrived with whom ho had been at work when tho accident hap pened ono of whom ho sent to fetch from a convenient fire a redhot coal which he placed upon the wound for about two minutes and cauterized it


ho then mounted his horso and galloppcd a distance of eleven miles to his fathers residence at singleton where dr glennio was in immediate attendance who upon a closo examination pronounced the patient out of danger attributing the cause to tho instant active and coura geous conduct of tho young man at the moment tho accident occurred tho doctor applied a paste formed of ipecacuanha and ordered one drachm of volatilo alknliina glass of water to be taken internally every halfhour until countermanded


the case exhibited no dangerous symptoms until noon of tha next day when si sudden drowsiness und headache took place but by repeating tho doses of volatilo alkali and tin ablution in cold water the symptoms disappeared gradually


tho snako was j feet long and the first of the color seen in this neighborhood


it indicted tho wounds through the trowsers although new uud of stout buckskin


as soon as the trowsers could possibly be pulled up after tho bite the wounds were seen each encircled with a venomouslooking yellow ring


singleton correspon dent of the sydney morning herald


eotjien is the crimea


this morning beforo tho battle when lord raglan was waiting surrounded by his stalf for tho troops to get into their places a gentleman joined us on a handsome little grey pony


this pony began neighing and screaming in tho most wonderful manner and so continuously that one could hardly hear what was said


at last it attracted lord ltaglans attention and ho said i never heard a pony make such a row does any one know who tho gentle man is


somo ono of tho staff said i think ho is one of tho newspaper reporters my lord shall i tell him to go away


lord raglan luughod and said if you do he will show you up you may depend upon it


it so happened that had made this gontleinans acquaintance ou tho beach a few days before


so i told lord raglan that it was mr icinglako the author of eothcn


oh said my lord a most charming man


and was going to speak to him when marshal st arnaud came up so for the timo ho could not do so


about eleven oclock as wo were nearing tho russian position indood when within sight of them lord raglan and his staff were riding in advance presently a pony dashed past us at a furious pace and who should it bo


but mr kinglakc


on ho went rignt through our skirmishers with his horsos head between his legs but fortunately for his rider the saddle got forward aud after a time went over tho horses oars of course the author eothcn went with tho saddle


it was rather an absurd thing just beforo a battle wo all laughed except lord raglan who rode up to him and enquired most kindly after him offered him i think


one of his own ponies to ride and told his orderly to put tho saddle to rights


mr kinglnke wa all thanks


that night after the battle lord raglan mot him wandering about not knowing where to go so he asked him to dinner


of course he came and delighted every one present with his charming manner and conversa tion


letters ft om head quarters by an officer of the stair


mfltole the story oe


a eeather


js bouglarf errata


a story from punch chapter xv


continued from our lost


iam of madame spanneus stockgos sip of gowns and cloaks


short history of a scarletheeled shoe


whkn i next saw the light i found myself among the castoff finery which formed the stock in trade of madame spanneu


there was in tolerable good company to be sure


but with fllen companions with degraded silks cashiered taffeties expelled satins velvets thrust for ever from the society of the great


now was i alonea solitary plume


there were feathers thick as snowflakes upon madame spanneus shelves


thus though at first felt a sinking of the spiritthough as i remembered my former glory when i nodded above the baby prince i felt a sort of sickness from the close musty atmosphere about me i soon became reconciled to my condition


indeed there was great jollity among us


for tu o or three nightsfor it wa only at night that the talk and fun began and my companions maintained the dignity of sulks


we were however speedily laughed into good temper and then we ourselves laughed with the loudest


jetery day madame spanneu added to her stock thus every night gave us fresh matter of enjoyment


we were wont to receive the newcomers as hardened jail birds welcome culprits on their first captivity grinning them out of their sorrow jesting them into obduracy


indeed so hardened so reckless as i become that hud been selected for the head or even garrick i do not thinksuch is tho j infection of lawless companyi should have been sensible of the abasement am not about to reveal the secrets blabbed by my com panions but this adiice my love for mankindbadly as i have been treated by the racecompels me lo give


never gentle reader so long as you have a stitch about your anatomy believe yourself alone


if thoughtless people could only know what their leftoff clothes say about them sure i am they would resolve upon one of tno things either to reform their lives or to go naked


let no man harbour a black spot in his breast and believe that his waistcoat is holly ignorant of the stain


let no man drop an illgotten guinea into his pocket and think the poke unconscious of the wrong


his very glovethough it reek with civetshall smell anti babbie of the bribe that has burnt his hand


his cravat shall tighten about his throat if that throat be seared with duily lies


lgno


ranee of man


to believe that what is borne upon the body has no intelligence with the moral good or evil dwelling in the oui to think that the purple of a dives utuns not the inner most arrogance olits bearer that the rag tint flutters upon lazarus breathes net the sweetness of a mayday blossom


i know that people who believe themselves courageous thinkers may call this a superstition


i will not argue it but i will gay there may be worse


houevcr it is perhaps well for poorer men that the rich put no faith in such bigotry for it folks were once assured that their castoff garments could reveal all the deeds and speculations of the wearers great indeed would be the man who could afford to give away an old coat


no we should have even prime ministers and kings conscieiicekeepets burning their clothes in their bolted bed


chambers cautiously and secretly as a gallant burns his paphian letters the night before pistols


the stories i heard whilst on the shelf of madame span neu made the white down upon me stand upright as the down of a thistle


how the gowns were wont to discourse how the short cloaks would giggle with merriment i how the very gloves would lisp their little adventures i nay there was a high scarletheeled shoean odd onecan i forget the story with which it would make every gown and petticoat heave and flap again with laughter as it toldand we had the story with every newcomerthe curious incident by which in a scuffle it lost its fellow


this shoe was a very old shoe it had beenin the possession of madame spanneus predecessor flun ugde amongst other odds and ends and having for many years out lived the fashion and being in a state of widowhood had no hopes of returning to the world again


hence the great de light of this scarletheeled shoe was to prattle all the scandal it could remember and i believe invent of the sphere from which it was irrevocably banished


niy often the shoe would receive a smart reprimand from a peachcoloured satin which would declare itself ready to turn red at the absurd prattle of the old wretch that would extend its sides with ijiighter mocking the censure


then i remember there was a grave jong trained pompadour that would continually beg to know what the scarletheeled shoe took them for adding that its fittest place after what it had seen or professed to sec


in this naughty world would be a convent and to go the rest of its life downatheel in penance for past iniquities


at these re bufces the shoe would laugh immoderately its high glowing heel rapping in a spasm of merriment against the shelf like a streetdoor knocker


the worst of it was the shoe would never let any other companion tell its history the shoe insist ing that the narrator had in the course of the story determine edly omitted various matters which tlie said shoe with more loquacity than charity would insist upon supplying


there was particularly remember a darling little smokecolourcd satin cloak trimmed with deathblack lacea beautiful quiet modest thing that diana herself might have worn of riinhts when she slipped out to chat with endymion well the envi ous shoe would never let the smokecoloured cloak tell its story


five successive nights it tried hard to do so but still the shoe would so pervert the motives of the cloakwould so minutely finish particulars where the cloak merely intended a general sketchwould so insist upon dutch painting when the cloak for reasons of its own merely wished an outline in the faintest chalktlmt at length the patience of the cloak was worn out and the tender little thing in a rumple of passion that astonished a very staid lutestnnga late udy mayoress by thebyebegan to use its tongue so rapidly and to call such names that there was a general rising and shaking of gowns to smother the invective


i particularly remember too that a pompadour with all the mojesty of the court of louis qua torze begged the smokecoloured cloak if only for the sake of other ladies to remember that there were feathers present nnd then there was a sudden hushand then a murmuratid then whispering sounds in which however i clearly distin guished the words dont know where it may go to wretches of men amongst all sorts of people and then for the first time sense of my equivocal position came upon me


i then felt myself as belonging to no party


today i might be in the bead of a chaste and gentle countess tomorrow in the hat of some masquehuntlng unprincipled gallant


i could not but acknowledge the prudence of the pompadour i felt myself a kind of being of a harem endured but never to be taken cordially into confidence


i own the thought sad dened me but i was speedily drawn from myself by the loud amvcfhecarlelheekd iuoe who led fwiher


be fiddled


i i don t care what they hear i so swear away little smokecolour say your worst roy darling and then let me try it can t beat you p ueloak folding itself i dignity deigned no answer and for a time there was a pause only interrupted by the low mahclou


chuckle and witchlike snigger of the scarletheeled shoe


hope however that without being treasonous to my trust i have sufficiently warned my beloved female readers


againand again let me tell them there is peril in ilk there is danger in satinyea jeopardy in a bit of riband


when they are assured that castoff gowns can babblethst ci f tthngurhat m retinsid outnay that i haveknown even the tag of a staylace stab reputation when tbeyknow hi


rt them be be sf kd clud tbtswin bctwcen th


he worldand in the innocency of their thought defy the gossip en of those who have most closely known them re


however i quit this part of my subject i cannot refuse to myself the desireof givn i the words i heard itav more than twenty times the shout jhsroar or tub maaaeklto shoe


the shoe speaks once upon a timefor i shall give no other register


there wai borne in the english count beautiful female child


she was tedaughter of king minister but whether the first or the tenth what does it matter


i have heard it said however that it was the minister whoever be was who first puta taa upon aboalaulelrtor um which if there beany truth in history tka ptilihmmt of corns rta ant tent down upanalfhpoik


ii t


a this child was christened and great was the revelry at the baptism


au the fairies then in englandfor upon some huff or other the greater number of the good folk had quitted britain flying like a flight of s wallows from a cliff of dover like the swallows no one knew whitherait the fairies who were too old to travel and so were left behind came tothechrlstening and according to their custom as shown in many histories brought an especial gift of goodness for the little suckling


one brought the voice of a nightingaleone the grace of a lawn


one the simplcness of a lambone the gaiety of a kid


and then she had all sorts of fairy clothing with a good gift and a blessing worked in every article


in truth she was clothed from top to toe from the workshops of the good people


silo wanted nothing nothing but shoes


they had been forgotten and greatgreat was the sorrow of the fairies for unless the baby were instantly shod and that by fairy hands it was doomed that the child should go barefoot all its life


unseemly and most uncomfortable would this have been to the beauteous daughter of the minister of the king


everybody was in grief and everybody asking everybody what was to be done when an old woman where she came from nobody can tell appeared in the court carrying myself and my little sister both ol us then of baby siie


here said the strange old womanhere an it please you are the shoes


i but all the fairies cried out witchhagdeviland swore by all their fairy rings by moonlight and by whatever else the good people hold solemn thot the babe would be lost if suffered to wear the old womans shoes


what however was to be resolved


either the child must have the shoes ihen provided or go barefoot


now bare feet for the daughter of a minister of a king was not to be thought ofthe child might as well have been born a gipsy beggar


whereupon the kings minister rose and with u pas sionate voice ciiedput on the shoes put on the shoes und immediately al


the fairy foil vanished with a howl leaving the little old woman to it her gill upon the child


wonderful shoes were we for we were no sooner on the feet of the ministers daughter than we became fixed as her flesh growing hour hy hour and day by day as her feet grew and so we grew and so we agreed for about seventeen years


it was impossible that there could be a more loving miirof shoes


we were always whispering in each others ear kissing one another and behaving with the greatest closeness olaffec tion


this lasted tor seventeen years and then i know not how it was a sudden aversion arose between usand in the end we never felt so happy ai when we were apart


at length it matters not how lost my companion and the ministers daughter in grief in misery died


she hud re ceived every good gift but all was as nothing what was each virtue under the sun when a beldame fairy had bestowed upon her wrangling shoes


i this was the story of the higbhcelcd shoe


i heard it over and over again but never without sounds of anger contempt or scorn from the gunns boddices cloaks and stomachers about mc


to be continued


kate staffor d concluded


chapter x leonatoneighbours your are tedious dogberryit pleases your worship to say so but we are the poor dukes officers but truly for my own part if i were as tedious as a king i could find it in my heart to bestow it all of your worship


much ado about nothing


morley had promised that his servants should shew st quentin the way to corbies forest where graham now lived


soon after dawn the tramp of horses feet drew kate to her window


the wreathes of mist were rising from the surface of the river the wildducks leading forth their brood upon the stream the birds chirping their morning notes the cattle rising from their pos tures of repose the dogs running briskly hither and thither


st quentin was leaning against one of the posts of the verandah and watch ing impatiently the groom who from the stables at some distance was leading the horses prepared for the ride


he mounted and kate watched till they were out of sight


the road was like most bush roads gum trees on one side mimoso perchance on the othjer a patch of swamp oak in one place and in onother a clump of native cherry


they had crossed a wide and barren swamp now dried up and covered with a kind of course straw the remains of rushes and flags which had once flourished there and had ridden for a short distance over a space of more open woodland when they came almost suddenly on a track of land totally dis tinct in appearance from anything st quentin had yet seen in the country


here the trees close together large and thick with numberless suckers drawing nourishment from the parent stem formed an almost impenetrable mass of shade


they were bound to gether by creepers not delicate climbing plants the growth of a summer but ancient grey powerful coils like mighty cables bowing and bending towards each other the sturdy patriarchs of the forest


the pathway was narrow dark and gloomy overgrown even in this season of drought by dark hurried vegetation it was choked up by the branches of trees broken by deep ruts and marked by the footprints of animals which shewed that this rugged spot was yet not unfrequented


broken pines slabs patches of fern deep holes hidden by the fallen leaves more than once endangered the safety of st quentins surefooted grey occa sionally they saw building a bark hut or barn the property of some small settler whom the fertile soil and certain crops had tempted to settle in this wilder ness


these rich unhealthy inacces sible districts do not want inhabitants for thither come the very poor the covetous the reckless and those whose crimes compel them to shun observation


under the shade of a clump of trees which seemed to shut out the influences of sun and air stood a small hut of the most wretched description


it had not been illbuilt originally the corner posts were square and upright and the roof still kept its shape though the bark which covered it had lately been patch ed


but a few years in this variable and consuming climate suffices to bring to ruin structures so frail as these


the heavy and excessive rains swell the wood which is often used for building when quite green


the slabs are thus pushed out of their place and when dried by a long continuance of heat and drought they contract and no longer supported by each other they fall away leaving the hut a melancholy and miser able ruin


a little child was playing with a bunch of fern before the door of the hut we speak of


she was delicate and sickly but one glance at her dark eyes convinced st quentin that he saw the child of edith lennox


we will not describe the meeting which ensued


there was much joy and much of sorrow


lord and lady strathdean returned at most immediately to their native country


st quentin with kate who had be come his wife followed them speedily


the elder lady strathdean was thankful to recover her daughter and to the last days of her lifewhich closed at no distant periodloved edgar better than any living creature since malcolms death


edith more humble than in her days of adversity was like her husband grave but for the most part happy


kate and fanny kept up a sisterly correspondence


fannys boys are favour able specimens of the manly and spirited class to which they belongthe race of young australians


kates young children are fair pretty and mischiev ous


about the sime that strathdean and his wife reached england tom wales disappeared


the news of his impos ture had not reached strathdean when he scandalised the old butler by desiring a large portion of the old family plate to be packed in his travelling carriage under pretence of himself directing the remodelling of the old trumpery


on the following day he must have reached london for he withdrew a large sum then lying at his bankers


he was never heard of again and the family were not anxious to trace him


jaeier puutmpbreps qlockt


personal adventures of master humphrey


thb old curiosity hopciiapter lri


the bland and openhearted proprietor of ba


chelors hall slept on amidst the congenial accom paniments of rain mud damp fog and rats until late in the day when summoning his valet tom scott to assist him to rise and to prepare breakfast he quitted his couch and made his toilet


thii duty performed and his repast ended he again betook himself to bevis marks


this visit was not intended for mr swiveller but for his friend and employer mr sampson brass


both gentlemen however were from home nor was the life and light of law miss sally at her post either


the fact of their joint desertion of the office was made known to all comers by a scrap of paper in the handwriting of mr swiveller which was attached to the bellhandle and which giving the reader no clue to the time of day when it was first posted furnished him with the rather vague and unsatis factory information that the gentleman would return in an hour


theres a servant i suppose said the dwarf knocking at the housedoor


shell do


after a sufficiently long interval the door was opened and a small voice immediately accosted him with oh please will you leave a card or message eb said the dwarf looking down it was something quite new to him upon the small servant


to this the child conducting her conversation as upon the occasion of her first interview with mr swiveller again replied oh please will you leave a card or message ill write anote said the dwarf pushing past her into the office and mind your master has it directly he comes home


so mr quilp climbed up to the top of a tall stool to write the note and the small servant carefully tutored for such emer gencies looked on with her eyes wide open ready if he so much as abstracted a wafer to rush into the street and give alarm to the police


as mr quilp folded his note which was soon written being a very short one he encountered the gaze of the small servant


he looked at her long and earnestly


how are you r said the dwarf moistening a wafer with horrible grimaces


the small servant perbaps frightenbd by his looks returned no audible reply but it appeared from ihe motion of her lips that she was inwardly repeating the same form of expression concerning the note or message


do they use you ill here


is your mistress a tartar said quilp with a chuckle


in reply to the last interrogation the small ser vant with a look of infinite cunning mingled with fear screwed up her mouth very tight and round and nodded violently


whether there was anything in the peculiar sly ness of her action which fascinated mr quilp or anything in the expression of her features at the mo ment which attracted his attention for some other reason or whether it merely occurred to him as a pleasant whim to stare the small seavant out of countenance certain it is that he planted his elbows square and firmly on the desk and squeezing up his cheeks with his bands looked at her fixedly


where do you come from


he said aftera long pause stroking his chin


i dont know


whats your name nothing nonsense i retorted quilp


what does your mistress call you when she wants you a little devil said the child


she added in the same breath as if fearful of any further questioning but please will you leave a card or message these unusual answers might naturally have pro voked some further inquiries


quilp however without uttering another word withdrew his eyes from the small servant stroked his chin more thoughtfully than before and then bending over the note as if to direct it with scrupulous and hair breadth nicety looked at her covertly but very narrowly from under his bushy eyebrows


the result of this secret survey was that he shaded his face with his hands and laughed slyly and noise lessly until every vein in it was swollen almost to bursting


pulling his hat over his brow to conceal isis mirth and its effects he tossed the lettertg the child and hastily withdrew


once in the street moved by some sec


ua he laughed and held his sides and laug i and tried to peer through the dusty area railings as if to catch another glimpse of the child until he was quite tired out


at last he travelled back to the wilderness which was within rifle shot of his bachelor retreat and ordered tea in the wooden summer house that afternoon for three persons an invitation to miss sally brass and her brother to partakeo of that entertainment at that place having been the object both of his journey and his note


it was not precisely the kind of weather in which people usually take tea in summer houses far less in sumnmer houses in an advanced state of decay sand overlooking the slimy banks of a greatriver at low water


neverthelesis it was in this choice re treat that mr qulip ordered a cold collation to be repared and it was beneath its cracked and leaky roof that he in due course of timne received mr sampson and his sister sally


youre fond of the beauties of nature said quilp with a grin


is this charming brass


is it unusual unsophisticated primitive


its delightful indeed air replied the lawyer


cool said quilp


nnot particularly so i think air rejoined brass with his teeth chattering in his head


prhaps a little damp and agueish said quilp


just damp enough to be cheerful sir re joined brass


nothing more sir nothing more


and sally said the delighted dwarf


does she like it


shell like it better returned that strongminded lady when she has tea so let us have it and dont bother


sweet sally cried quilp extending his arms as if about to embrace her


gentle charming overwhelming sally


hes a very remarkable man indeed


soli loquized mr brass


hes quite a troubadour you know quite a troubadour i these complimentary expressions were uttered in a somewhat absent and distracted manner for the unfortunate lawyer besides having a bad cold in his head had got wet in coming and would have willingly borne some pecuniary sacrifice if he could have shifted his present raw quarters to a warm room and have dried himself at a fire


quilp how everwho beyond the gratification of his demon whims owed sampson some acknowledgment of the part he had played in the mourning scene of which he had been a hidden witnessmarked these symp toms of uneasiness with a delight past all expression and derived from them a secret joy which the cost diest banqpet could never have afforded him


it is worthy of remark too as illustrating a little feature in the character of miss sally brass that although on her own account she would have borne the discomforts of the wilderness with a very ill grace and would probably indeed have walked off before the tea appeared she no sooner beheld the latent uneasiness and misery of her brother than she developed a grim satisfaction and began to enjoy herself after her own manner


though the wet came stealing through the roof and trickling down upon their heads miss brass uttered no complaint but presided over the tea equipage with imperturbable composure


while mr quilp in his uproarious hospitality seated himself upon an empty beer barrel vaunted the place as the most beautiful and comfortable in the three kingdoms and elevating his glass drank to their next merry meeting in thas jovial spot and mr brass with the rain plashing down into his tea cup made a dismal attempt to pluck up his spirits and appear at his ease and tom scott who was in waiting at the door under an old umbrella exulted in his agonies and bade fair to split his sides with laughing while all this was passing miss sally brass unmindful of the wet which dripped down upon her own feminine person and fair apparel sat placidly behind the tea board erect and grizzly contemplating the unhap


piness of her brother with a mind at ease and con tent in her amiable disregard of self to sit there all night witnessing the torments which his avaricious and grovelling nature compelled him to endure and forbade him to resent


and this it must be ob served or the illustration would be incomplete although in a business point of view she had the i strongest sympathy with mr sampson and would have been beyond measure indignant if he had thwarted their client in any one respect


in the height of his boisterous merriment mr qullp having on some pretence dismissed his attendant sprite for the moment resumed his usual manner all at once dismounted from the cask and laid his hand upon the lawyers sleeve


a word said the dwarf before we go further


sally barkee for a minute


mliss sallydrew closer as if accustomed to buai t sess conferences with their host which were the better for not having air


business said the dwarf glancing from brother to sister


very private business


lay your heads together when youre by yourselves


a certainly sir returned brass taking out his t pooketbook and pencil


ill take down the heads if you please sir


remarkable documents added the lawyer raising his eyes to the ceiling most remarkable documents


he states his points so clearly that its a treat to have em


i dont know any act of parliament thats equal to him in j clearness


t i shall deprive you of a treat said quilp o edrily


put up your book


we dont want any documents


so


theres a lad named kit miss sally nodded implying that she knew of v shim


a kitt said mr sampson


kit


ha


ive iseard the name before but i dont exactly call to mindi dont exactly youre as slow as a tortoise and more thick


beaded than a rbinoceros returned his obliging client with an impatient gesture


f hes extremely pleasant i cried the obsequious sampson


his acquaintance with natural history too is surprising


quite a buffoon quite


there is no doubt that mr brass intended some compliment or other and it has been argued with show of reason that he would have said buffoo but c made use of a superfluous vowel


be this as it may quilp gave him no time for correction as he performed that office himself by more than tapping him on the head with the handle of his umbrella


v dont lets have any wrangling said miss sally staying his hand


ve showed you that i know him and thats enoughl


shes always foremost said the dwarf patting her on the back and looking contemptuously at sampson


i dont like kit sally


nor i rejoined mliss brass


nor said sampdson


why thats right cried quilp


half our work is done already


this kit is one of your t honest people one of your fair characters a prowl


ing prying hound a hypocrite a doublefaced whitelivered sneaking spy a crouching cur to those that feed and coax him and a barking yelping dog to all besides


fearfully eloquent cried brass with a sneeze


quite appalling


come to the point said miss sally and a dont talk so much


fight again exclaimed qulp with another aontemptuous look at sampson always foremost i i say sally he is a felping insolent dog to tbll besides and most of all to me


in short i owe sim a grudge


thats enough sir said sampson


no its not enough sir sneered quilp will i you hear me out


besides that i owe him a grudge on that account he thwarts me at this minute and stands between me and an end which might other


wise prove a golden one to us all


apart from that i repeat that he crosses my humour and i hate him


now you know the lad and can guess the sert


devise your own means of putting him out of my way and execute them


shall it be done


it shall sir said sampson


then give me your hand retorted quilp


sally girl yours


i rely as much or more on you than him


tom scott comes back


lantern pipes more grog and a jolly night of it


i no other word was spoken no other look ex changed which had the slightest reference to this the real occasion of their meeting


the trio were well accustomed to act together and were linked to each other by ties of mutual interest and advantage and nothing more was needed


resuming his boisterous manner with the same ease with which he had thrown it off quilp was in an instant the same uproarious reckless little savage he had been a few seconds before


it was ten oclock at night before the amiable sally supported her beloved and loving brother from the wilderness by which time he needed the utmost support her tender frame could reader his walk being for some unknown reason anything but steady and his legs constantly doubling up in unexpected places


overpowered notwithstanding his late prolonged slumbers by the fatigues of the last few days the dwarf lost no time in creeping to his dainty house and was soon dreaming in his hammock


leaving him to visions in which perhaps the quiet figures we quitted in the old church porch were not without their share be it our task to rejoin them as they sat and watched


to be continued


f lfastera iutnpbtres oocft


personal adventures of master humphrey


tin old curiosity shopuc


ptu tle last


the magic real which roll g on before has led the chronicle tius far nowi slackens in its pace and stops


it lies before the goal the pursuit is at an end


it remains but to dismiss the leaders of the little crowd who have borne us company upon the road ansl so to close thg journey


foremot among them smooth sampson brass and sally arm in arm claim our politeattentdon


mr sampson then being detained as already has been shown by the justice on whom he called and being so srongly pressed to protract his stay that he could by no means refuse remained under his protection for a considerable time during which the great attention of his entertainer kept him so ex tremely close that he was quite lost to society and never even went abroad for exercise saving into a small paved yard


so well indeedwas hismodest and retiring temper understood by those with whom he had to deal and so jealous were they of his ab


sence that they required a kind of friendly bond to be entered into by two substantial housekeepers in the sum of fifteen hundred pounds apiece before they would suffer hiim to quit their hospitable roof doubting it appeared that he would return if once let loose on any other terms


mr brass struck with the humour of this jest and carrying out its spirit to the utmost sought from his wide connexion a pair of friends whose joint possessions fell some halfpence short of fifteen pence and proffered them as bail for that was the mierry word agreed upon on both sides


these geiitlemen being rejected after twentyfourhuis pleasantry mr brass consented to remain and did remain until a club of choice spirits called a grand jury who were in the joke summoned him to a trial before twelve other wags for perjury and fraudwho in their turn found him guilty with a most facetious joy nay the very populace entered into th whim and when mr brass was moving in a iiackney coach towards the building where these wags assembled saluted him with rotten eggs and carcasses of kittens and fq ned to wish to tear him into shreds which greatly increased the comicality of the thing and made him relish it the more no doubt to work this sportive vein still further mr brass by his counsel moved in arrest to judgment that he had been led to criminate himself by assurances of safety and promises of pardon and claimed the leniency which the law extends to such confiding natures as are thus deluded


after solemn argu ment this point with others of a technical nature whose humorous extravagance it would be difficult to exaggerate was referred to the judges for their decision sampson being meantime removed to his former quarters


finally some of the points were given in sampsons favour and some against him


and the upshot was that instead of being desired to travel for a time in foreign parts he was permitted to grace the mother country under certain insigni


fcant restrictions


these were that he should for a term of years reside in a spacious mansion where several other gentlemen were lodged and boarded at the public charge who went clad in a sober uniform of grey turned up with yellow had their hair cut extremely short and chiefly lived on gruel andlight soup


it was also required of him thatbhe should partake their exercise of constantly ascending an endleak flight of stairs and lest his legs unuised to such exertion should be weakened by it that he should wear upon one ankle an amulet or charm of iron


these conditions being arranged he was removed one evening to his new abode and enjoyed in commniaon with nineother gentlemen and two ladies the privi lege of being taken to this place of retirement in one of royaltys own carriages


over and above these trifling penalties his tname was erased and blotted out from the roll of attoriseyd which erasure has been always held in these latter times to be a great degradation and reproach and to imply the commission of some amazing villanyas indeed would seem to be the ease when so many worthless names remain among its better records unmolested


of sally brass conflictiig rumours went abroad


some said with confidence that she had gone down to the docks in male attire and had become a female sailor others darkly whispered that she had en listed as a private in the second regiment of foot guards and had been seen inunifoin and on duty to wit leaning on a musket and looking out of a sentrjybox in st jamess park one evening


there were many such whispers as these in circula


tioi butthe trutll appears to be that after a lapse of five years daring which there is no direct evi dence of her haying been seen atall two wretched people were more than once observed to crawl at dusk from the inmost recesses of st giless and to take their way along theastreets with shufflingsteps and cowering shivering forms looking into the roads and kennels asathey went in search of fuse fold or disregarded offal


these forms were never beheld but in those nights of cold and gloom when thre terrible spectres who lie at a hll otherimes in the obscene hiding places of londons iarchihwkys dark vaults dndcellars venture to creep into the streetsl thoeembodied spirits of disease asd vice and famine


it was whispered by tlhose wlio shoild have known them that tiese aero sampison addlis sister sally and to this day it ii sad they oeine times pass on hbad nights iri the same losbisonsme guisei close at the elbow of the shrinkihng passenget the body of quilp beingfound thoughsot iintil komesdayshtid elapsed tiinquest hlad ican held upon it near the spot where it hid beed wadht ashorem the general suppositidri was tilat h had committed sticide sdidthliasppeiring to be fravoired by all the circumistancebf hiis deathi tlde veridict was to thateffecthewas leftto beoburled withsa eoke through his hesartin te ceitrheo rfoii lonely riioadd


it was rumoured aflethwardi hitlis hirrible ia d barbarous ceremony had ipibrn dispeiieid with and that the remains hadbeen secretly given up to tom scott


biuteirenile piiis divlded for itihi


a ti htilsdd d thihf uiiu atnidnhi b nd diiedledilieinitd a gilscg trllite


ttlliie hiave had their origin in thle stiiple fact of toms shlieddig tears upon the inquest which he certainly did extraordinary as it may appear


he mani fested besides a strong desire to assault the jury and being restrained and conduckted out o court darkened its only window by standing


on his head upon the sill until he was dexterously tilted upon his feet again by a cautious beadle