i perceived at once that there was a great gulf between us and us i had even then learned enough of the nature of the human mind to know that disputation hardly ever converts or convinces i contented mysolf with remarking iu an indifferent manner


every thing in this world is unhealthy


the stranger smiled


ani yet aaid lie


you foel pleasure i am sure in the contemplation of this beautiful scenery and you admire the glory of the setting sun


i have pleasure in nothing aud i admire nothing answered i i hate scenery and suns


i see no thing in creation but what is full and ruined


my companion made no immediate remark upon this but after a pause took the book out of my hand and turning over the leaves read aloud that passage in which pascal compares the world to a dungeon and its inhabitants to condemned criminals awaiting the hour that shall summon them to execution


can you believe my friend


the stranger asked for short as our acquaintance has been i venturo to call you such can you believe this to be true why not t i replied


my own experiences feelings life sufferings all testify to my soul of its truth


but before i add any thing further will you


allow me to ask you what religion you profess


a good one i hope he answered i have been


icaicdo


colliilio oliriotian


then said i you know that it is thobelief


of the holiest and most learned theologians of your church that the majority of mankind cwill be irre vocably consigned to eternal misery


really i know no such thing he replied


have you never read massillon i asked on the small number of the saved


i take the judgment of no one individual even in my own church he answered as my guide


the goodness the justice of god i interrupted him


stop said i what do you


and here reader clarence mangans autobio


graphy stops also


had poor clarence taken his spiritual advisers opinion as to the quality of his reading we dare say that he would recommend kempiss imitation of christ or of fabers beautiful works the perusal of these would have afforded his mind and heart more ease than pascals mnrtimtinn


nr ilip sprrnh after the incomnrehnnsiblc


this sketch of his life the only one he ever wrote is mainly due to the entreaties of the rer c p meehan of ss michael and johns dublin


ho aw clearly enough that serious ravages were being made by the habits of mangan upon his naturally delicate constitution aud he entreated of him to


write a sketch of his life and not leave to others what ought to be done by himself


mangan promised fairly enough but his perfor mance went no farther than we have seen


mr mee han has himself contributed hisshare to irish history by his geraldines and his confederation of kilkenny which have been published by duffy of dublin in his irish library


it is a sad dening reflection to contemplate the backsliding of this rev gentleman from a red hot young irelander he became a hireling of the dublin evening post even in its worst days of and


james mangan the father of clarence was a native of shanngolden in the county of limerick who married catherine smith of fisliamblestreet dublin


clarence was the first born of this pair and came into this world in the spring of


n


tlieme of remorse with clarence was some galling perfidy that lie iuu rnj ot


tno hands of a young lady


with unusual bitterness of manner he frequently alluded to the priceless argosy of a hearts first affections tossed amid tho quicksands of womans caprice to a love fresh pure fervent and beautiful as ever lighted passions flame in human bosom sported and trifled with its jealous agony derided ana its nrsi rapturous k ration chilled by cruel and bitter scorn


poor clarence


it was impossible for a nature like his so full of tender impulsiveness to exist without loving


all the romantic elements blended in his fine and subtile organisation like the flowers and the sun only required the encouraging smiles of beauty to open the fulded leaves of a most im passioned heart


but that heart was not like a tendril accustomed to cling onco its ties of affection rent they were rent for ever


though at this period self abasement to mangan was unknown his strange eccentricity of manner and costume


rendered him remarkable


he was not formed to win the love of a woman


though never did living man possess a soul more generous or truthful in its impulses more fond more trusting more womanly in its gentleness clarence had not those soft parts of conversation the elmmberers have and acutely and keenly according to his most sensitive nature must he have felt this when rejected perhapb for one over whom his intellect lifted him as loftily as the starry heavens above the dull earth


clarence was invited by the young clergyman whom he met in his rambles to visit his residence where his family resided


amongst that family was a sister of cultivated intellect to whom clarence was introduced


he liked her at first sight and he v nbt


finiiirltnltniff liked her more and more as ne uiw j


her


at last he plucked up his courage and pro posed to her butwitli cruel design she made no other reply than that she would think of it


she then made an appointment with him to call upon her in a few days which clarenoe was but too happy to keep and when speaking to him in the dining room a young rain walked in upon their in terviow and no sooner did she see him than she baid smilingly mr mangan my husband husband mr mangan


had heavens lightning blasted her in his sight he could not have been more amazed


she had been clandestinely married to this young man for few months previous to the proposal of clarence but had not the courage to tell him so


tho effect produced upon him by the bursting of thisradiant hued bubble created by an over ardent fancy whn inv nmld tho strings of iiu hearts lute its first young cadence tenderly ikkiiii


upon this vokairo has nothing better to say than regardcr lo inondc comine un cachot et les homines comine des oriininels quon va executor oest lit la pounce dliti funatique


strange that a man of such an analytical mind us the philosopher of femey should not havo perceived that fanaticism bo called is but another name for enthusiasm tho spirit that has always governed uiul to eternity will govern the universe


us proner name is activity


it


mnkoi


the madmen who had made men mail ily thulr contiirion cunnuetorn and mnifi founder or sects and syalcms


ihya but with the vast amount of evil which it has un questionably generated is intermingled a still vaster amount of good and if a little leaven leavenetn the whole lump what may we not anticipate from au abundance of it was indeed terrible


from a letter which we hold of bis a luief extrnct will be sufficient to paint his feelings at this time


my father and mother ineint well by me but


they did not understand tne


they held me by chains of iron


t dnrrd not move or breathe but by their permission


they seemed to watch my every action and to dive into my very thoughts few of which rrmrh us i loved ihem nnfl i had a mor bid love of them i ever made them acquainted with


my existence was miserable i ofteu longed for death


death however came not i but in its place there came something worse than death love


i formed an attachment to a young lady who gave me every encouragement for forne months and tlien appeared to take n great delight in exciting me to je lousy


one veiling i well remember it she openly flighted me


escaped from marriage with her but it was at the expense of my health and peace of mind


there cm be no doubt that this passage in bis career exorcised a dark influence over his after life


had the object of his afiection been worthy the love of such a heart had the sweet home influences which lie knew not once wreathed their bpell around him how different might have been his fate


and was she happy


alas no


her husband lived with her for a few years and then left her for ame rica


the following beautiul poem which appeared first in the comet newspaper on the th eecember and nhnfist the oily similar outpouring that ho


ever uttered may be linked with this sad incident of u life with few rays of joy to chequer with bright


iess the shadows that surrounded it


there is depp feeling and real true passion in every line of it


to fftances


thechnrtnttie glided life is over


i lle to feel i live in vain and worlk were worthless to recover tlmt dazzling drenm of mine again


the idol i adored is broken


and i may weep us overthrow thy lips at length my dnom have spoken and all tliat now remains is woe


and is it thus indeed we sever


t j


and liast thou then forgotten all


and canst tliou cnrt ire on for ever


to mourn a dark nml hopeless thrall f


i


oh pcifljy


lurrkhul ornji vt


in stranger lover husband wife


thou wt the waokcst drop f woe


that bubbles in the cup of life


but mnst of all in womans breast


triumphant in thy blasting power


vtlmu reignejt liko a deinonruest v


v fjntlinme in some celettial bower


r


s


oh t cold and cruel she who while


r she lavishes sllwucs to win


her lover oer can smilo anil smile ytt be all dark and false within


who when his glances on another too idly anil too long have dwelt


will sigh as if she sought to smother the grief her bosom never felt


who veried in evory witching art that eer the wannest love would dare first having kalneil her victims heart then turns lilm over to despair


alas and enn such treachery be the worm that winis in suma along is nobler belter far than she who revels in iuch heartless wrong


go now and triumph in thy guilt and weave thy wanton spells anew


go false as fair and if them wilt again betray the fond and true


vet this my lnst and long farewell ja less hi anger than in sorrow mine ii the tale which myriads tell who loathe today and dread tomorrow


me frances


me thou nererknewest nor savest that if my speech was cold the love is deepest oft and truest that burns vitliin the soul untold


farewell


in lifes gay giddy whirl


soon wilt thou have forgotten me


v but where oh


most dissembling girl s where shall i from thine imago lcef farewell


for theo the heavens are bright and flowers along thy pathway lie


the bolts that strike the winds that blight will pass thy bower of beauty by


but when shall i find rest


ala


soon as the winter winds shall rnvo at midnight


through the long dark grass auuic iii i ic uiijllucihuuruu uc


tt is many years since we first met clarence


mangan and the citcumstancea of that meeting are fresh in our memory as the events of yesterday


it was at the dinner party of a literary club that be had recently joined in the midst of a circle of dublins choicest spirits of whom


some lie far off beyond the wave


some sleep in ireland too


primitive in appearance simple in habits knowing


nothing of the world


and not yet under the do minion of


that fatal indulgence to which in after life lie was


unfortunately a slave he was not quite at home among the wild and reckless beings he then viicouiivertt


to roust the retiring and half frightened student the president called on him for asonff


lie declared his


inliii iu was nrpsknii u uy s bowterous companions


nervously anxious to court their good opinion he then with the utmost simplicity said lie would attempt a recitation and actually in a monotonous lone went through nearly the whole of marino faliero before lie discovered they were only amusing themselves at his expense


we afterwards met him frequently and always found him the same simple innocent creature full of that fiesh romance which in youths springtime is the parent of imagination


which as at the touch of an enchanters wand summons up shapes of beauty and glory investing thopresentwith the radiant hues of happiness gild


ing the future with the golden glow of hope


he was the least worldly being we ever met


his sensibili ties were keen and easily excitable and his whole organisation physical and mental was instinct with genius


a peculiar feature of his character was the intense melancholy that rested on him almost con tinuajly like a shadow


no matter how great the festivity how bright with pleasure the faces sur rounding him a deep gloom would suddenly fall upon him a gloom that he could not hake off as if a visible presence from what he called the lamp less spectrepeopled shore of death


haunted him


the actual tone of his mind is indeed accurately illustrated in the following beautiful verses written as far back as early in


hb dying enthusiasr to his friend


gpajl nonloroof ufe what can life bestow in this amphitheatre of strife i


all times dark with tragedy and woe r knovest thou not how care and pain


dulld their landless dwelling in the brain r ever as the stern intrusion


of our teachers time and truth


turns to gloom the bright illusion


itainbowed on the soul of youth


could i live to find that this is s t


oh nono


ai the stream of llmo sluggishly doth flow took how all of beaming and sublime sinks into the black abyss bolow


yea the loftiest intellect earliest on thi strand of death is wreckdl


nought of lovely nothing glorious lives to triumph oer decay


desolation reigns victorious mind ik dungeonwalled by clay


could i bear to feel mine own laid low f


i


oh


no nol c ilcjtlpss oer the earth v


thronging millions go


but behold how genius love und worth move like lonely phantoms to and fro


suns arcqiirnched and


kingdoms fall


but the doom of theie outdarkens all


juie ihey then t ys lores devotion sicken withers in its bloom fond altectlons deep an ocean


in lhir cradle flnil their tomb


sbal linger then to count each throe f


no no


prisonbursting death welcome be thy blow thine is but the forfeit of my breath


not the spirit nor the njiirlts glow


spheres of beauty hallowd spheres


uiidcfttced by time undtmmed by tears


henceforth hail


who would grovel in a world impure as this


who would weep in cell or hovel when a palace might be hi


f wouliuf


tlimi havo me this bright lot forego


i


oh


no no i at the same period that such music sad as the sighing of the night wind through cypresses bend ing weepingly over young graves in many a pro longed cadence attested iiis melancholy he would often exhibit a startling revulsion to mirth nearly allied to eccentricity or rather madness


about eighteen years ago in one of those singular moods he dashed off very curious verses of which the fol lowing is a smnpft


the slauguterlnguutch has ccaaeil between the ores jlarbarlaiu


am flail i thorn butcliurlm grate lion tuly on my uci vts


i i have no eye for culverina bruins cartridges nut


the following exquisite sonnet written about the same time may he taken as ait average example of his early translations from lakgier


de fouchkiies


eyes t no they are not eyes but gods that cxerclso dominion over kings whoso hghc within them lien bods no but radiant skies whose beams uud azure dies and changeful evolutions dazzle and surprise skies t no but sm that rise in brilliancy or guise and by their glory blast our feeblyzazlng eyes


suns t rather lightnlngi they with boundless powers of ray which flame before loves bolts the heralds of his way


if gods would they iluplay such alldestroying sway t


if skies they could not ihus eccentrically stray


wo suns


it cannot he but one in heaven we see nor lightnings thine remain and flash more vividly


ytt all they appear to me then henceforth let them be suns gods skies eyes and lightnings


each alternately i when we knew mangan first he was in the hum blest circumstances being then an attorneys clerk in the office of mr leland fitzwilliam square


his earnings which generally averaged about fifteen shillings weekly were still sufficient for hisinexpen sive and unpretending habits


he was then a dili gent german french and italian student every unoccupied moment in his office every hour that ought to have been spent in recreation being do


voted to his darling pursuit of language acquirement


in this he oon gained a facility that was most ex traordinary the intense application of two or three months being sufficient to enable him to translate if not literally with all the true spirit of his author


afcer the drndgery most jading dtudgery it must have heen to such a soul as his of copying out two or three skins of parchment some long lease or law deed he has been frequently seen to pull a dogs cared german volume from his pocket and in an instant to become so deeply absorbed in its study that time and place were alike forgotten


then at home in some poor lodging after a frugal meal his solitary candle might have been seen burning long into the daikcold winter morning hours while he held communing with silent books which in their silence say more to the mind than thunder to tho ear


it might be truly said of vim that he pursued knowledge under sad and painful difficulties


he was a large contributor to the literary columns of the comet some of his poems printed therein are exquisitely beautiful


his prose and poetical contributions also appeared in the dublin snlirist in the dublin university ma gazine in the nation newspaper while edited by gavan duffy j imthe united irishman while under john mitchells care ihthe pennu maeazine of unliltn in james duffys catholic magazine in the irishman newspaper ans in other periodicals and papers


he usually ttrote above the signature of clarence m lilonos and j c nf his contribu tions to the university magazine and the nation were those of most value but we shall direct atten tion to those of the former at the present


to be continued


fttestetr


ltutptlrritts qlloclt


personal adventures of master humphrey


tib old curiosity sopcapter t xxvi tu single gentleman among his other peculiarities and


ihe had a very plentiful stock of which hbe every day furnished some new specimentook a most extraordinary and remarkable interest in the exhibition of punch


if the sound of a punchs voice at ever so remote a distance reached bevia lmarks the single gentleman though in bed and asleep would start up and hurrying on his clothes make for the spot with all speed and presently return at the head of a long procession of idlers having in the midst the theatre and its proprietors


straightway the stage would be set up in front of mr brasss house tihe single gentleman would establish himself at the first floor window and the entertainment would proceed with all its exciting accompaniments of fifle and drum nod shout to the excessive consternation of all sober votaries of busi ness in that silent thoroughfare


it might have been expected that when the play was dlone both players and audience would have dispersed but the epilogue was as had as the play for no sooner was the devil dead tthan the manager of the puppets and his partner were summoned by the single gentleman to his chamber where they were regaled with strong waters from his private store and where they held with him long conversations the purport of which no human being could fathom


but the secret of these discussions was of little importance


it was sufficient to know that while they were proceeding the concourse without still lingered round the house that boys beat upon the drum with their fists and imitated punch with their tender voices that the office window wasrendered opaque by flattened noses and the keyhole of the streetdoor luminous with eyes that every time the single gentleman or either of his guests were seen at the upper window or so much as the end of one of their noses was visible there was a great shout of execration from the ex cluded mob who remained howling and yelling and refusing consolation until the exhibitors were delivered up to them to be attended elsewhere


it was sufficient in short to know that bevis marks was revolutionised by these popular movements and that peace and quietness fled from its precincts


nobody was rendered more indignant by these proceedings than mr sampson brass who as he could by no means afford to lose so profitable an inmate deemed it prudent to pocket his lodgers affront along with his cash and to annoy the audiences by such imperfect means of retaliation as were open to him and which were confined to the trickling down of foul water on their heads from unseen watering pots pelting themwith fragments of tile and mortar from the roof of the house and bribing the drivers of hackney cabriolets to come suddenly round the corner and dash in among them precipitately


it may at first sight be matter of surprtse to the thoughtless few that mlr


brass being a professional gentleman should not have legally indicted some party or parties active in the promotion of the nuisance but they will be good enuugh to rerember that as doctors seldom take their own prescriptions and divines do not always practice what they preachl so lawyers are shy of meddling with the law on their own account knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application very expensive in the working and rather remnarkable for its properties of close shaving than for its always shaving the right person


come said mr brass one afternoon this is two days without a punch


im in hopes he has run through emr all at last


why are you in hopes z returned miss sally


what harm do they do heres a pretty sort of fellow


cried brass laying down his pen in despair


now heres an aggravating animal i well what harm do they do retorted sally


what harm cried brass


is st no harm to have a constant hallooing and hooting under ones very nose distracting one from business and making one grind ones teeth with vexation


is it no harm to be blinded and cuhoked up anld have the kings highway stopped with a set of screamers and roarers whose throats must be made ofof srabs suggested mlr


swiveller


ahlt of brass said the lawyer glancing at his clerk to assure himself that he had suggested the word in good faith and without any sinister intention


is that no harm


the lawyer stopped short in his invective and listening for a moment and recognising the well known voice rested his head upon iis hand raised his eyes to the ceiling and muttered faintly theres another


up went the single gentlemans window directly


theres another repeated brass and if i could get a break and four blood horses to cut into the marks when the crowd is at its thickest id give eighteenpence and never grudge it


the distant sqcaeak was heard again


the single gentlemans door burst open


lhe ran violently down the stairs out into the street and so past the window without any hat towards the quarter whence the sound proceededbent no doubt upon securing the strangers services directly


wish i only knew who his friends were muttered sampson filling his pockets with papers if thleyd just get up a pretty little commission de lurnaico at the grays inn coffee house and give mse the job id be content to have the lodgings empty for one while at all events


wstlh which words and knocking his hat over his eyes as if for the purpose of shutting out even a glimpse of the dreadful visitation mr brass rushed from the house and hurried away


as mir


swiveller was decidedly favourable to these performances upon the ground that looking at a punch or indeed looking at anything out of window was better than working and as lie had been for this reason at some pains to awaken in his fellow clerk a sense of their beauties and manifold deserts both he and miss sally rose as withl one accord and took up their positions at tie window upon the sill swhereof as in a post of honour sundry young ladies and gentlemen who were employed in thle dry nurture of babies and who made a point of being present with their young charges oin such occasions had already established thlemselves as comfortably as the circumstances would allow


ithe glass being dim mr swiveller agreeably to a friendly custom which he had established between them hlitched of tlhe brown headdress from mliss sallys hiead and dusted it carefully therewih


by the time he had handed it back arid its beautiful wearer ihad put it on again whlich she did with per feet composure and indifference the lodger returned with the shlow and shlowmen at hiis heels and a strong addition to the body of spectators


the exhibitor disappeared wvitlh all speed behind thle drapery and his partner stationing hlimself by the side of the theatre surveyed thle audience witha remarkable expression of melanchloly whichl becamne more remarkable still whlen hi breathed a hornpipe tune into that sweet musical instruient wsiclhis popularly termed a rtouth organ without at all chmingtsgte mournful expression of the upper iaritof his face though hiis minouth and chin were of necessity in lively spasms


h drama proceeded to its close and held the spectators enchlained in the custonmary manner


hle sensation wlich kindles in large assemblies when they pre relieved from a state of trealhless suspense and are again free to speak and move was yet ripe whlen tis lodger as oussil stynmmned the men up stairs


both of you he called from the window for only the actual exhlibitor a little


fat man prepared to obey thie summons


want to


talk to you


come both of you


cnome ltommy said tlfelittle man


i nt a talker replied the other


tell him so


what should i go and talk for dont you ole the gentlesmans got a bottle and glass up thlete returnted ite little man


and couldntyou have said so at first retorted the other with sudden alacrity


now what are you waiting for


are you going to keep the gentle


man expecting us all day


havent you no manners


with this remonstrance the melancholy man who was no other than mlr


thomas codlin pushed past his friend and brother in the craft mir harris otherwise short or trotters and hurried before him to the single gentlemans apartment


now my men said the single gentleman you have done very well


what will you take


tell that little man behind to shut the door


shut the door cant you said mr codlin


turning gruffly to his friend


you might have knowed that the gentleman wanted the door shut without being told i think


mr short obeyed observing inder his breath that his friend seemed unusually cranky


and ex pressing a hope that there was no dairy in the neighbourhood or his temper would certainly spoil its contents


the gentleman pointed to a couple of chairs and intimated by an emphlatic nod of the head that ho expected them to be seated


miessrs


codlin and short after looking at each other with considerable doubt and indecision at length sat down each on the extreme edge of the chair pointed out to him and iheld their htats very tight while the single gentleman filled a couple of glasses from a bottle on the table beside hitm and presented them in due form


youre pretty well browned by the sun both of you said their entertainer


have you been travelling


mr short replied in tile affirmative with a nod and a smile


mr codlin added a corroborative nod and a short groan as if he still felt the weight of tihe temple upon ihis shoulders


to fairs markets races and so forth i suppose pursued the single gentleman


yes sir returned short pretty nigh all over the west of england


i have talked to men of your craft from north east and south returned their host in rather a hasty manner but i never lighted on any from the west before


its our regular summer circuit is the west master said short thats where it is


we lake the east of london in the spring and winter and the west of england in the summer time


manys the hard days walking in the rain and mud and with never a penny earned weve had down in the west


let me fill your glass again


much obleeged to you sir i think i will said mr codlin suddenly thrusting in his own and turning shorts aside


im the sufferer sir in all the travelling and in all the staying at home


in town or country wet or dry hot or cold tomn codlin suffers


but tom codlin isnt to complain for all that


oh no


short may complain but if codlin grumbles by so much as a word oh dear down with him directly


it isnt his place to grumble


thats quite out of the question


codlin ant without his usefulness observed short with an arch look but he dont always keep his eyes open


lihe falls asleep sometimes you know


remember them last races tommy


will you never leave off aggravating a man said codlin


its very likely i was asleep when fiveandtenpence was collected in one routtd isnt it


i was attending to my business and couldnt have my eyes in twenty places at once like a peacock no more than you could


if i ant a match for an old man and a youung child you ant neither so dont throw that out against me for the cal fits your head quite as correct as nmine


you may as well drop the subject tom said short


it isnt particular agreeable to tite gentle


man i dare say


ihen you shouldnt have brought it up re turned mr codlin and i ask the gentlemans pardon on your account as a giddy chap that likes to hear himself talk and dont much care what he talks about so that he does talk


their entertainer had sat perfectly quiet in the beginning of this dispute looking first at one man and then at the other as if he were lying in wait for an opportunity of putting some further question or reverting to that from which the discourse had strayed


but from the point where lir


codlin was charged with sleepiness he had shown an increasing interest in the discussion which now attained a very high pitch


you are the two men i want lie said the two men i have been looking for and searching after


where are that old man and that child you speak of sir said short hesitating and looking towards his friend


ite old man and his grandchild who travelled with youwhere are they


it will be worth while to speak out i assure you much better worth your while than you believe


they left you you say at those races as i understand


they have been traced to that place and there lost sight of


have you no clue can you suggest no clue to their recovery did i always say tliomis cried short turning with a look of amazement to his friend that there was sure to he an inquiry after them two travellers


you said


returned mr codlin


did i always say that that ere blessed child was the most interesting i ever see


did i always say i loved her and doated on her


pretty creetur i think i hear her now


codlins my friend site says with a tear of gratitude a trickling down her little eye codlins my friend site says not short


shorts very well she says ive no quarrel with short ito means to be kind i dare say but codlin site says has the feelings for my money though hite maynt look it


a repeating these words with gredlt emotion mr codlin rubbed tihe bridge of his nose with his coat sleeve and shaking ihis head mournfully from side to side left the single gentleman to infer that front the moment ihe lost sight of his dear young charge his peace of mind anti happiness had fled


good god said the single gentleman pacing up and down the room have i found these men at last only to discover that they can give me no in formation or assistance


i it would have been better to have lived on in hope from day to day and never to have lighted on them than to hiave my expecla tions scattered


stay i minute said short


a man of the name of jerryyou know jerry thomas oh dont talk to me of jerrys replied mr codlin


how can care a pinchl of snuff for jerrys when i think of that ere darling child


codlints my friend site sas dear good kind codlin as is always a devising pleasures for me


i dont object to short site says but i cotton to codlin


once said that gentlemant reflectively she called me father codlin


thought i should have bust a man of tile name of jerry air said short turning from hiis selfishl colleague to their new acquaintance wet keeps a company of dancing dogs told me in a accidental sort of way tlhat ihe had seen the old gentleman in connexion with a travelling waxwork unbekntown to him


as theyd given us tihe slip and nothing had come of it and this was down in the country that hed been seen i took no measures about it and asked no questious but i can ifyot like is this man in town said the impatient single gentleman


speak faster


no hie isnt but he will he tomorrow for ihe lodges in our house said mir


short rapidly


then bring hiim here said tihe single gentleman


heres a soveresgn apiece


if i can find these people through your means it is but a pirelude to twenty more


return to mo tomorrow and keep your own counsel upon this subject though i need hardly tell you that for youll do so for your own sakes


now give me your addressaod leave me


lthe address was given the two men departed tlhe crowd went with them and the single gentleman for two mortal hours walked in uncommon agitation up and down hiis room over the wondering hieads of mr swivellor and mliss sally brass


to be contnited


little dorrit


chapter xxxvi


in chapter thirtysix mr dorrit and his family leave the dismal marshalsea iu which so much of their lives havo withered away


tho parting of the collegians with their old father is racily described the mahsiialsea


becomes ax orphan


and now tho day arrived when mr dorrit and his family were to leavo tlie prison for ever and the stones of its muchtrodden pavement were to kuow them no more


the interval had been short but ho had grcatlycom plained of its length and hail been imperious with mr itugg touching the delay


iio hail been high with mr rugg and liai threatened to employ some one else he had requeued mr rugg not to presume upon the place in which ho found him but to do his duty sir and to do it with promptitude


he had told mr itugg that he knew what lawyers and agents were nnd that ho would not submit to imposition


on that gentle mans humbly representing that ho exerted himself to the utmost miss funny was very short with him de siring to know what less ho could do when ho liad been told a dozen times that money was no object and expressing her suspicion that ho forgot whom he talked to


towards the marshal who was a marshal of many years standing and with whom he had never had


any previous difference mr dorrit comported himself with sevarity


that offieer on per sonally tendering his congratulations offered the free use of two rooms in his houso for mr dorrits occupation until his departure


mr dorrit thanked him at tho noment nnd replied that he would think of it but the vlardhall was no sooner gono than ho sat down and vrote him a cutting note in which ho remarked that ho had never on any former occasion had tlio honor of re oeivimj his congratulations wliieh was true though indeed there had not boon anything particular to con gratulate him upon and that be begged on behalf of limself and family to repudiate the marshals offer vith all those thanks which its disinterested character and its perfect independence of all worldly considera tions demnnded


although his brother showed so dim a glimmering of interest in their altered fortunes that it was vory doubtful whether ho understood them mr dorrit caused him to bo measured for new raiment by the hosiers tailors hatters


and bootmakers whom be called in for himself and ordered that his old clothes should be taken from liim and burned


miss fanny and mr tip roquired no direction in making an appear ance of great fashion and elcganco ana the three passed this interval together at tho best hotel in the neighborhood though truly as miss fanny said tho best was very indifferent


in connexion with that establishment mr tip hired a cabriolet horso and groom a very neat turnout which was usually to be observed for two or three hours at a time gracing the borough high street outside the marshalsca courtyard


a modest little hired chariot and pair was also fre quently to bo seen there in alighting from and enter ing which vehicle miss fanny fluttered tho marshals daughters by tho display of inaccessible bonnets


a great deal of business was transacted in this short period


among other items messrs peddle and pool solicitors of monument yard wero instructed by their cliout edward dorrit esquire to address a letter to mr arthur clennam enclosing tlie sum of twentyfour pounds liino shillings and eightpcnco being the amount of principal and interest computed at the rate of five per cent per annum in which their client believed himsolf to be indebted to mr clennam iu making this communication and remittance messrs peddle and poole wero further instructed by their client to remind mr clennam that tlin favor of tho ad vance now repaid including gato fees had not been asked of him and to inform him that it would not havo been accepted if it had beon openly proffered in his name


with which they requested a stamped receipt and remained his obedient servants


a great deal of business had likewise to bo dono within the sosoonto beorphaned marshalsea by mr dorrit so long its father chiefly arising out of applications mado to him by collegians for small sums of money


to these he responded with tho greatest liberality and with no lack of formality always first writing to appoint a time at which the applicant might wait upon him in his reoih and then receiving him in the midst of a vast accumula


tion of documents and accompanying his donation for he said in overy sueh case it is a donation not a loan with a great deal of good counsel to the effect that he tho oxpiring father of tho marshalseo hoped to be long romombured


as an example that a man might preserve his own and the general respect even there


tho collegians were not envious


besides that they had a personal and traditional regard for a collegian of so many years standing the ovent was creditable to the college and made it famous in the newspapers


per haps more of them thought too than wero quite aware ot it that tho thing might in the lottery of chances have happened to themselves or that something of the sort might yet happen to themselves some day or other


they took it very well


a few were low at the thought of being left behind and being left poor but even these did not grudge the family their brilliant xoverso


thoro might


have been much more envy in politer places


it seems probable that mediocrity of fortune would have been disposed to be less magnanimous than tho collegians who livedfrom hand to mouth from the pawnbrokers hand to tho days dinner


they got up an address to him which they presentol in a neat frame and glass though it was not afterwards displayed in the family mansion or preserved among the family papers nnd to which he returned a gracious answer


in that document he assured them in a iloyal manner that ho received the profession of their attach ment with a full conviction of its sincerity and again generally exhorted them to follow his example which at least in so far as coming into a groat property was concerned thero is no doubt tlicy would havo gladly imitated


he took the samo occasion of inviting them to a comprehensive entertainment to bo given to the whole college in the yard and at which he signified ho would havo the honor of taking a parting glass to the health and happiness of all those whom he was about to leave behind


he did not in person dine at this public repast it took place at two in the afternoon and his dinners now camo in from tho hotel at si but his son was so good as to take tho head of the principal table and to bo very free and engaging


he himself went about among the company aud took notice of individuals and saw that the viands were of the quality ho had ordered and that all were served


on tho whole ho was like a baron of tho olden time in a raro good humor


at tho conclusion of the repast ho pledged his guests in a bumper of old madeira and told them that he hoped they had enjoyed themselves and what was more that they would enjoy themselves for the rest of tho evening that ho wished tliom well and that ho bade them welcome


his health being drank with acclamations he was not so baronial after all but tliut in trying to return thanks he broke down in the manner of a mere serf with a heart in his breast and wept before them all


after this great success which he supposed to be a failure ho gave thom


mr chivcry arid his brother officers whom ho had before hand presented with ten pounds each and who were all in attendance


mr chivery spoke to the toast saying what you un dertake to lock up lock up but remember that you are in the words of the fettered african a man and a brother ever


the list of toasts disposed of mr dorrit urbanely went through the motions of playing a game at skittles with the collegian who was tho next oldest inhabitant to himself and left tho tenantry to thoir diversions


but all these occurrences preceded the final day


and now tho day arrived when he aud his family were to leave the prison for ever and when the stones of its much trodden pavement were to know lliom no more


noon was the hour appointed for the departure


as it approached there was not a collegian within doors nor a turnkey absent


tho lattor class of gentlemen appeared in their sunday clothes and tho greater part of the collegians were brightened up as much as cir cumstances allowed


two or three flags were oven dis played and the children put on odds and ends of rib l


it


taf hjmnlr fltci try


r served a serious but graceful dignity


much of his attention was given to his brother as to whoso bearing on the great occasion he felt anxious


twelve oclock having just struck and the carriage being reported ready in the outer courtyard the bro thers proceeded down stairs arminarm


edward dorrit esquire once tip and his sister fanny fol lowed also arminarm mr plornish and maggy to whom had been entrusted tho removal of such of the family effects as were considered worth removing fol lowed bearing bundles and burdens to be packed in a cart


in the yard were tho collegians and turnkey


in the yard were mr pancks and mr itugg come to see the last touch given to their work


in tho yard was young john making a new epitaph for himself on the occasion of his dying of a broken heart


in the yard was the patriarchal casby looking so tremen dously benevolent that many enthusiastic collegians grasped him fervently by tho hand and the wives and female relatives of many more collegians kissed his hand nothing doubting that lio had done it all


in tho yard was the usual chorus of peoplo proper to such a placo


in tho yard was the man with the shadowy grievance respecting the fnnd which the marshal embezzled who had got up at five in the morning to complete the copying of a perfectly unintelligible history of that transaction which he had committed to mr dorrits care as a document of the last importance calculaed to stun the government and effect the marshals downfal


in the yard was the insolvent whose utmost energies were always set on getting into debt who broke into prison with as much pains as other men have broken out of it and who was always being cleared and com plimented while tho insolvent at his elbow a mere little snivelling striving tradesman half dead of anxious efforts to keep out of debt found it a hard matter indeed to get a commissioner to re lease him with much reproof md reproach


in tho yard was the man of many children and many burdens whose failure astonished everybody in the yard was tho man of no children and largo resources whoso failure astonished nobody


there wore tho peoplo who wero always going out tomor ow and always put ting it off there were th people who had come in yesterday and who we r much more jealous and resent ful of this freak of fortune than the seasoned birds


there were some who in pure meanness of spirit cringed and bowed before the enriched collegian and his family there were othors who did so really because their eyes accustomed to the gloom of their lmprison ment and poverty could not support the light of such bright sunshine


there were many whoso shillings had gone into his pocket to buy him meat and drink but none who wero now obtrusively hail follow well met i with him on tho strength of that assistance


it was rather to be remarked of the caged birds that they were a little


i sny oi tne mru aoout to do so grandly free ana tnat tliey had a tendency to withdraw themselves towards the bars and seom a little fluttered as ho passed


thvough these spectators the little procession headed by the two brothers moved slowly to the gate


mr dorrit yielding to tho vast speculation how the poor cieuturos were to get ou without him was great and sad but not absorbed


ho pattod children on the hoad like sir roger do coverly going to church ho spoko to tho peoplo in tho background by their christian j names lie condescended to all present and seemed for their consolation to walk encircled by the legend in golden characters bo comfortod my people i bear it


at last thrco honest chccrs announced that he had passed the gate and that tho marshalsea was an orphan


before they had ceased to ring in tho echoes of tho pri son walls tho family had got into their carriage and the attendant had the steps in his hani


then and not before good gracious


cried miss fanny all at once whores amy


her father had thought sho was with her sister


her sister had thought she was somewhere or other


they had all trusted to finding her as they had always done quietly in the right place at tho right moment


this going away was


perhaps the very first action of their joint lives that they had got through without hor


a minute might havo been consumed in tho ascer taining of these points when miss fanny who from her seat in the carriage commanded tho long narrow passage leading to the lodge flushed indignantly


now i do say pa cried she that this is dis graceful


what is disgraceful fanny


ido say she repeated this is perfectly infamous


really almost enough even nt such a timo as this to make one wish ono was dead


ilore is that child amy in her ugly old shabby dress which sho was so obsti nate about pa which i over and over again beggod and prayed hor to change and which she over and over again objected to aud promised to chango today say ing she wished to wear it as long as over sho remained in there with you which was absolute romantic non sense of thfe lowest kind hero is that child amy dis gracing us to the last moment and at tho last moment by being carried out in that dross after all


and by that mr clenman too


the oilcnco was proved as she delivered the indict ment


clennam appeared at tho carriagedoor bearing the little insensible figure in his arms


sho has been forgotten ho said in a tono of pity not free from reproach


i ran up to her room which mr chivery showed me and found tho door open nnd that she had fainted on the floor dear child


sho ap peared to have gone to chango her dress and to have sunk down overpowered


it may havo been the cheer ing or it may havo happened sooner


take caro of this poor cold hand miss dorrit


dont let it fal


l


thank you sir returned miss dorrit bursting into tears


i belicvo i know what to do if youll give me leave


dear amy open your eyes thats a love


oh amy amy i really nm so vexed and aslmmed


do rouse yourself darling


oh why nre they not driving on


pray pa do drive on


tho attendant getting between clennam and the nrriagodoor with a sharp by your leave sir


bundled up the steps and they drove away


tnta mril ikcirjich i


florence obrien


an irish tale


continued from our last


what a heaven of happiness is at this momeiit enshrined in the bosoms of these young creatures


said the priest cno day half in soliloquy and half to mrs rooney a he stood at her ivindow gazing upon them as they returned from their daily ramble round the bay and to florences young garden at dames court


though evidently delighted nay absorbed with each other they both looked up brightly and smilingly as florence kissed her hand to him her venerated friend


what pity major eertie that lovers could not be tfanslated without tasting of marriage


this sounded very like heresy flip atninr nml tfrs


tinnnov t nnd thn hitter


tjinnoii a mnfl catholic as to the celibacy of the clergy would have piotested at once against such unnatural doctrine had not florence and mr joyce entered the room


you will break your heart florence dear to learn tho major leaves the kingdom said mrs ilooney as florence cordially shook hands with the gentleman named


every good man leaves the kingdom cried florence startled by this information yet i hope it is not so


t am indeed come to request the honor of your commands for england


for england


and at this time


oh must we then indeed at last call it war


exclaimed florence clasping her hands in sorrow as she sank on her chair


so boon as my regiment reaches its new destination i shall benefit by the leave of absence i have obtained


in this country i foresee service to which i have no vocation


we have repelled the french troops or the elements did so for us and there are i british olhcers enow in ireland to repress the wretched insurgent peasantry without my help and some who may have better will to the work


i follow abercrombie


tho good genius of ireland has indeed for a time forsaken her said florence her eyes filling with tears


your regiment leaves the town too


are we then to be left to the unmitigated mercies of general lake the yagers and


oh worse than all tar own native yeomanry


some of your loyal or superloyal magistrates fair florence tlo my brother officers the honor it seems to suspect that we are half traitors from the very little we have ventured to do and to counsel la restraining their fury or in showing some greater


scmdiaiicq ul iiumuiawj vcr vuuu luoultca uml cv tholio countrymen than suits


their policy


be it so


certain military functionaries too


but i am telling tales out of school


ono thing i must say and in this circle may freely be you cautious sir and he turned to joyce evil malignant eyes arc upon you for your own sake for the sake of ono dearer still


but i have said enough you are a marked man


i hope it may not be quite so bad said the priest while the blood and spirit niounted into the cheeks and glowed in the eyes of florence as she instinctively rose and grasped the hand of joyce and as poor mrs rooney became ashy pale


no gentle man has conducted himself better or with truer loyalty con tinued fitzmaurice in those trying times


i know it returned major bertie


but is good conduct always a guarantee of personal security in your country sir lie turned to florence were it not lor one consideration that i know and feel you ought to refuse mo i should have prayed mrs rooney and you florence to place yourselves under my solitary wing in wiltshire till tins gale lull


but if ever you or yours dear florence shall want tlie poor refuge can aiford


he looked to joyce while florenco pressed the hand she took between both her own


this was no ordinary leavetaking


her eyes brimmed and overflowed as this sensible openhearted and honorable english soldier whom her heart had ever revolted from thinking of as tho enemy of her country pressed a fathers kiss upon her lips and bade god bless her


the first words spoken after he had gone away accompanied by


joyce were addressed by florence to the priest


evdn this english gentleman you perceive sir feels that


his is hot the time for joyce to seek mere personal safety by deserting his post


where there is hope there may still be duty


if half the intelligence we receive be true if lakes


troops and tho yeomen are to bd let loose upon us she paused from the appalling contemplation


say it out florence cried the priesti


now the time has comer when it is his duty to raise to our oppressed people the rallying cry of a young vendean hero in a kindred cause


si javarice svivez moi si je recule tuezmoi si je vieiir uenjez moi


the eyes of florence sparklec


in sympathy with the enthusiasm bf the priest


had she examined her


own political opinions there might have been


found at this time a wide distinction from those he entertained but they were united by a common and ardent love for their own suffering hmd


liuslij iliy dear sii said mrs kooney somewhat alarmed and only aware that tho priest had been speaking treason in french since he had addressed florence who was no classic scholar


t itemertiber judkin fitzgerald does not understand the french lingb and fancies it all treason at present


nay put in judith who had entered with a basket of turf or on some sncli errand to deliver herself of a budget of newest news as father miko says rogue and rubble though he be called saving your riveicnees presence but he is only a friar and as father miko says judy honey trason and rason always agreed barring a t nay hes a cute roguo ill warrant hiiri and now they agree to that tee too maam


now there you go mike fagan says lfor knowing him from a ihricky slip of a boy about castle joyce about my own age i have less respect thero you go


did you ever hear his iliserence from the altar and that ia dr fitzmaurice your elders and betters tacho them creeds


did you not hear him with your bwn two long ears last sunday morning from the altar itself lay his holy


commands the ruined craturs of tenacre men to give the murdering army the rations aiid the oats and liay and guns nnd


butter and fowls and whatever it plased them toforach quietly j and to render to ctesar the things which are cajsarshuaieh


distress judith says he again


bould roguogive


ctiesar his duo give tho devil his duo


resist the devil and that is hib due


and you may tell doclhor


fitzmaurice with my respects maam that this is goodmodeiu irish divinity


his reverence looked a good deaf annoyed while florence jblf amused by


such characteristic signs of tlie times enquired wimfc next judith i


know you have not yet come to the int


what next jewel


why that tho rapparee saving your itiyerencos presence but no more than myself you never liked him has stuck his breviary in his cassock pouch shouldered a pike and off and across the country to castlebar at the hade of larry llyan and a lot of moro boys to git their frinch lesson or to hold a station maybe in tlie mountains and confess the army


and judith nogged sagaciously


tho villain


exclaimed mrs eoonev


gone off to join the rubbles ill warrant and carried off squire jacks own boy


huiach


rubbles mrs rooney maam


cried judith half sullenly and resenting the degrading epithet from the lips of another which she still occasionally employed herself is it yourself said it


then in troth it did not become a gentle woman to use them bad mimes for pool countrymen in trouble


bad names indooj judy gallagher


bad manners woman cried the insulted lady


sure am i not at liberty on my own fiure to say my cousin squire joyce knows more of father mikes rubble tricks than tlie hour he was christened


och florence darling jewel what is to come of all this


that villain has brought the army ami the government upon jack as sure as i sit here


and mrs ilooney had recourse to her hand kerchief while florenco and the priest exchanged grave earnest looks


this new folly of father mikes is infinitely perplexing said the latter and to have sedliced mr joyces servant


still i hope the best


john is strong in inocence


hitherto he has taken no active step


this was tho very passiveness which judith gallagher atld her gossips resented


neither squire nor priest had in their estima tion half entitled themselves to the honor of being suspected or to tho glory of tnartyrdom


another week elapsed florences military friends and their corps had been replaced by troops more congenial to the evil feelings of the district


signs of future disturbance were afforded by the sullen acquiescence or clamorous discontent with which the country people submitted to the military contributions levied upon them


the farmers and peasants grumbled to see their linrsfla nna nnffla nnrrlcwl rvff nnrl flint hronrl etui


i nliorl fvnm flin mouths of their children to nourish their enemies j and their ill advised resistance was met by summary and severe punishment


towards the northwest the communication with portmullina was still open j and every day intelligence whether false or true was received from that quarter about the cruelty of the inemy and the brilliant success increasing numbers and frequent triumphs of the insurgents


by some inexplicable means father mike was able to transmit bulletins to port mullina containing as many lies as if they had been issued by a generallissimo and epistles alternately rousing and upbraiding to the loveen tranced supine squire who ought long before this to have declared himself


they produced effect


father mikes influence had decayed as florence exerted her happier influence


and his had long been that of habit the power of an energetic animal over a far more powerful mind sunk into torpidity to all the ordinary interests of life


squire joyce was not now to be instigated to arms by his quondam spiritual director and factotum but it was impossible to resist the tears and supplications of the people around who implored him to protect them from the exactions amounting to plunder of the predatory bands of soldiery and from the seizure of their arms


hid remonstrances at the english headquarters scarcely met with civiliiy


to expostulate with the native party he knew was tnadness


yet another week wore away and joyce and florence shunning tho town altogether endeavoured to avoid giving or looking offence


at evening fall the priest still stole towards the only house in which lie durst now give vent to his feelings


by this time the communication with dublin before uncertain was quite broken up


wield ow tuul


wexford were in the hands ot the rebels with much of the intermediate country


and every mile of the road was rendered insecure to the inemy the name which mrs rooney herself had ilnconciously adopted from judith to designate the kings troops and the yeomanry


the oil ly com munication between the capital and the british headquartera was by sea roundabout and tediotis


i the lovely month of may was gradually advancing and nowhere within the british dominions is this sweetest softest most joyous of the months more charmiug than in the valleyb and sheltered bays of the south of ireland


deep in the lucid twilights of this enchanting season and long after the young may moon was beaming upon their path florence was often straying with her lover and the priest each alike now pining yearning for tidings from dublin of the fate of the conspirators of fitzgerald the state of the insurrection in ulster and leinstei and the prospects of pacification


it was in one of those customary saunters returning from dames court to the supper which judith nightly eooked and seasoned with horrors and the victories over the inemy which she had picked up in course of the day that a jad seen hastily running across a field leapt the furze fence and stood before them


he was instantly recognised as tho brother of larry ivy iin


fly your honour


there is ti castle warrant against you cohie roundabout by water


the army are after you


mother of glory


they are on s


i aril too late to savo you


oh miss florence


i


and i run for the bare life for your sake but take across the field squire you tnay be saved yet


thero are boats in the bay i follow you


florence slid her hand from the arm which she leaht and found it closped in that of joyce


the trampling of horses hoofs was heard the still air


her heart beat fast and thick


good heaven is it then come to this


but i fly dearest since it must bo so florence i wiil hot fly


in deed i am blameless and if free thought is become a crime in ireland i have lived long enough


but tell me your wihes dearest i shall do all i can


to share your fate whatever it may be tlifct is the only wish i can form the only idea my mind takes in at this moment


as joyce clasped her in silence to his bosom the sound of the horses feet came faster and nearer


follow me my children cried the priest striking off the path


we can reach the town and my chapel by the back way escape is hopeless iii this beleaguered part of the country were it even desirable


what ever fortune may have in btore for you of good or of evil you will best meet it together


you will marry us tonight exclaimed joyce iti transport as they all sheltered behind the thick copse on the roadside


and you florence love dearest


his voice involuntarily sank to the thrilling low tones of the most passionate entreaty and by the pressure of his hand against her side florence gave emphatia consent


in a place where aliiiost every one was upon the alert to seild or kad military parties astray it is not surprising that tho civil functionaries and their cscort were detained and baffled for a time about the outskirts of the town and in their farther search but when they had been seen taking the way to dames court all was given up by the lew persons who were aware of tho nature of their errand


as they pushed otl tho concealed party could hear their con versation and see their sabres aild helmets flash in the iadin twilight avoiding the bridge pot a momeht was lost by otir friends in


gaining a part of the river noarly opposjte to where the priests garden sloped down to its steep bank and jittle ceiemony was used in seizing a small balmonboat in wlneh they were at some risk from the strong current convoyed acioss by the nctive lad who had attached himself their service


they gained ad


imttance to the garden niul thence through the priests private toor into the chape


in less than ten minutes lights were kindled in tho chapel the priest in iis vestments and florence pale tiut intrepid sad but unsubdued was standing a bride before


the altar with no bridal decoration nor insignia savo the floods of hair which she had hastily undone to veil the blushing modesty that was not confusion


the ceremony had not commenced when noise and tumult were heard about the front entrance to the chapel where tho horsemen were already drawn up and whence impetuous commands were issued to open the door


this mandate the priest was not disposed to heed until he had discharged his sacfed function but a bullet sent through a window whizzing past struck on the altarpiece


we must give way to those sacrilegious ruffians crfed fitz maurice profoundly shocked in his most sacred feelings as hs looked upon the outraged symbols of his faith


let mo parley with them cried joyce feeling that he had right to exposa his friend alid the sanctuary of religion to outrage and insult but determined that he would not leave the chapel until he was indissolubiy united to florence


he spoke to those without from a gallery window demanding to know which was their leader and the kings messenger rode forward


i am presume the person yon seek said ho and i am quite ready to surrender myself to lawful authority


here there is no intention to elude or resist you


i am engaged in one of the most solemn offices of life for the fulfilment of which i crave your indulgence for a brief quarter of an hour


surround the chpel if you pleased there is no ono present in it save myself an aged ecclesiastic a lady and two female domestics


and i caution you in all friend liness not to alarm the towns people if you would convey me off safely i i give you my word of honour quietly to go along with you in the space of time have signified


thero was consider able demurring among the party and difference of opinion but at last it was intimated that if the gentlemen charged with the execution of the warrant were admitted with two or three troopers the party would forbear the extremity of forcing the door and patiently wait without the length of time specified


give the prisoner time to collogue with the d


d priest cried tho ruffian who appeared to he the inferior functionary


he will get time enough to confess yet before he is hung


blarney and botheration


i have seen fifty fellows strapped within the last month and less fuss about it knock up the door men


silence sir said tho military officer


do you seek to raiso the town


do you wish a rescue


and after a few moments farther consultation it was intimated to joyce that as his character as a gentleman avas well known to the military officer commanding the escort he should have his own terms pro vided the messengers and himself were at once admitted into the chapel


this compromise was gladly accepted by the priest and the agitated bride and the bolts being withdrawn the three armed officials were let in


caught in the priests dark rattrap by the powers


cried tlie fellow who had formerly spoken what would major sirr say to such discipline and this piece of humbug altogether


keep silence and your post by the door sir said the eng lish officer sternly i am responsible for the safety of your prisoner


and he advanced towards the altar and in the stronger body of light at once recognised florence the heuuty of portmullina and the betrothed of the prisoner


without a word save commanding silence with the dignity of bearing which might have become a cardinal celebrating the nuptials of princes fitzmaurice fulfilled his solemn office and that concluded and the priests rank laid aside again and again lie bestowed his paternal benediction upon the young pair who also received the warm congratulations of the englishman as soon as he had shaken off his astonishment at what appeared like a dream


i need not tell you sir that if you wish to carry mr joyce safely through this country this lady his wife must accompany him said the priest


with her by his side you are all safe otherwise credit me your party were it doubly stronger will never cross the blackwater


with the slightest suspicion that mr joyce a gentleman wellbeloved over all the province is your prisoner his safety and your lives are not worth a pins fee


the disarming is not yet altogether completed in our neighbourhood


with his lady it will readily be believed they are travelling for their own pleasure under a military escort a thing quite common at present


the english officer curled his lip at tho imagined danger though not altogether insensible to it and gbneed to the per plexed messenger


you surely cannot gentlemen tear me from my bride even at the altar cried joyce


the englishman was moved


he looked at the beautiful florence now clinging to her husband her bloodless lips mur muring an indistinct entreaty


i suppose your ears are of some value to you gentlemen said tlie officer leading the principal man apart whatever your lives may be


my party leaves you at the next station


so far you are safe and a fresh conduct will be granted you but i do believe after all this ladys presence is a better guarantee for your safety to the coast for i conclude you must go to dublin by water than a troop if you think so sir said tho man the safety of tin prisoner and his excellencys service must bo our law


the officer again curled hi lip but suppressed the sarcasm which rose to it


i tell votl what sir he added firmly i shall throw no responsibility upon you that i do not share


i take it upon mo to permit mrs joyce to accompany her husband to the head quarters of this province and once there let stewart or moore or who ever it be either forward her or send her back


lie turned aside to joyed who bad heard this proposition whispering


dont thank me that were dangerous


with every inclination to make matters agreeable to you i can do no more but upon my word i believe that our gentlemen will find i have brought them into a scrape and that it will be much less einbarrassiug to send on mrs joyce to dublin by sea along with you than aifoid her an escort back to this


joyce looked his grateful thanks and florence retired for an instant with the priest to prepare for her hasty journey during which time the warrant was formally executed and the prisoner manacled


dr fitzmaurice placed her in silence in the dark carriage at the chapel door


her husband was already seated there and she involuntarily recoiled on perceiving who was his companion


a slight esenion of self command stifled this feeling


the man waa only doing his duty


it required a much stronger effort of selfcontrol to tifie the shriek of horror which halt burst forth when florenco tarted from the cold yet corroding touch of her husbands fetters


the iron entered her soul


but the emotion was evanescent and smiling at her own weakness she silently clasped the imprisoned hands the more fondly within her own


the word was given to the horsemen the carriage moved and for the lioxt dark hour joyce could only guess of the feelings of his bride b the warm tears that trickled dowii tho cheek pressed to hers and by the longvlmgering first kiss that rested there


how true it is that the mind is its own place makes its dwii happiness


while those of his friends to whom tho news of the arrest was by this time communicated were filled with alarm pity and indignation ho was breathing in rapture and secretly naming this as tiie happiest day and hour of his life for it had given him ilorenco


he was a prisoner but she was by his sido


his hands wero fettered but they were locked in hers and as oi ten through the night while changing horses or stopping tor consultation or refreshments their companion left them for a few seconds to themselves the gushings of her passionate revelations and questionings tho so full con fidings of the past were mingled with his curesses as again and again he breathed my own at last my own


it was scarcely possible for florence to recall him from the intoxicating dream of rapture attending the accomplishment of a lifelong hope or to fix his attention upon his own critical situation


xa lay dawned and the sun rose proudly in a bright may morn i florence gazed yearningly back wbonthe carriage and its military escort gallopped over those northward heights from which though inuny toiies away she had been told the mountains around the bay f portmullina might etiil bo seen


but even then joyce could billy look upon her as if the past and future and every external thing were alike forgotten


their companion now left them to travel outside


ono sad thought haunted tho mind of florence ione painful mystery remained to bo cleared and then all would be how and for ever entire unbroken confidence


she had already in tile past weeks told all her hopes for they scarcely reached expectations from the reported settlement of lier deceased uncle in russia and tho service major bertie had rendered her by means of his diplomatic connections in st petersburg that was a very simple affairs and without any fortune whatever accruing to her if joyce were fortunate enough to procure tlie agency of his own estates no very ambitious desire when once settled at dames court by activity good management and perseverance they might in the course of long but wherefore not happy years retrieve the worst consequences of his fathers extravagance and his own mis conduct


the ordinary interests of life were thus perfectly un regarded there was no fear whatever of their being rich enough for happiness


but there were deeper cares


tell me one thin florence said as to one that has ac quired tho blessed rigbt to your fullest confidence tell mo if this horrible arrest be wholly without shadow of cause if you have iu no way been mixed up in the intrigues of michael fangan


joyce solemnly protested that he had not that in his burning iindignation he had of late often been ready to league himself with those who were called conspirators but that doubts of tho ipurity or of tho disinterestedness of their motives the counsels of dr fitzmanriee who detested tho french republicans and his affection for herself had held him back until now that affairs had assumed the hideous aspect which made it the duty of every patriotic irishman to come forward then dear jack said florence cheerfully i shall try to place faith in the consolation dr fitzmaurice gave me at parting and cherish the tho hope that your arrest is but a part of the ipanicspreading system pursued at this moment to reconcile british alarmists to the dreadful state of this country un fortunately in relation to poor ireland all the british are alarmists but vheu a panic is


longer needed you will be set at liberty


i trust it will be so dearest


life was never half bo precious to me as now


and i am almost so selfish as to be glad of this arrest since iit takes you out of the way of harm for a few months though to a prison if i may share it


if the insurrection shall spread to


our quarter how could you have remained neutral


and indeed indeed jack to say all i fear that as a wife i might not have proved quite so heroic as i havo sometimes imagined myself and yet for poor ireland


our own dear land on which i am gazing


dearer for its wrongs and sufferings oh what would i not eril


i have told you the truth and the whole truth florence said


t mtn


ci ui lama fv


l t rvujw


mlljllvucilj y uuu llltio uuo ul itilluu juu ixluslf ut prepared


i have no doubt whatever that father mike lias used imy name in


many of his projects and transactions the better to serve his secret purposeo and you know how eagerly evidence is sought and how obtained at this time against obnoxious in dividuals


the cheek of florence blenched


this was a view of the matter which she had not taken


then we are betrayedl


she exclaimed bitterly wringing the lettered hands of her husband


and i have no hope no con boktion save that in life and death we are united


and all


dearest florence is not that much


to me at this moment


it is everything replied joyce ill a tone of affectionate reproach


in today and yesterday are compres ed the happiness of a thousand years and now let fate do its wort upon me


a loug pause followed ere florence breathed in his ear


but one question more on the dark morning of my fathers death was my husband present with me


florence i was


you have long suspected it


if it were wrong forgive meit was unintended


my servant hastily awoke me from may i tell it


intemperate sleep and informed lro of


that fatal quarrel of our fathers


half distracted i rowed across the bay to witness florence if i had loved you before with tho madness of a passionate boy from that hour


i


worshipped you you were my life my death my fate my


imagination was haunted by night and by day with one sole absorbing idea but not your haughty coldness not your girlish scorn of my pretensions was ever half so exquisitely tormenting


as seeing in my unhappy times that while despising you perhaps


loved mo a little and very tenderly pitied me to be continued


a tale of two cities


lv three cooks


jsy charles diekcnt


continued f ron the aye of august


book the finst


rkallkd to lifk


chapter v cowtinuhd


thb wivk shof


the wlncihop keepi r accordingly rollsd hi eyca about until they rested upon ai elderly eatlemaa and a young lady who were seated in a corner


other company were there two plajing cards two play ing doiniaoe three stindiag by the counter lengthening out short tupply of wine


as he panted behind the counter he took notice that the elderly gentleman aid in ti look to the young lady


hib ia uur man


what ihodcvii do von do in that galley there


sid monsieur dcfurge to kiraself i dont know you


but he feigned not to notice the two etran gers and foil into discourse with the triumvirate ef customers who were drinking at tbe counter


h w goes it jacques eaid ono of these three to monsieur defare


is all tbe spilt wine swallowed


every drop jvques answered monsieur defurge


when this interchange of chriton nama was effected midame defargo picking her teeth with her toothpick couched auother grain of cough and raised her eyebrows by the breadth of another line


it is sot ofteu aid the fecoud of the three addrtssing monsieur defirgtf that many of these tnibcmble beass know the taste of wine or of any thing but beck breal and death


is it not eo jacques it is ho jacques monsiour dcfarge returned


at this second iuterohange of the christiaa name madame defurge still using her toothpick with profound composure coughed another grain of cough and ruiied her eyebrows by the breadth of auo her line


tbe lat tho three now stid hs ay hb ho put tfowu his eiopy drinking vesdel and smacked hia lips


ah


so much the worse


a bitter tafto it istliat sycit poor cattlcaiways have in their mouths


and hard lives they live jacques


am i light jacques


fou nro right j deque v was the mpanse of mortficur di forge


this ihird iotf rotisnge of tha christian nam was completer


at the moineut when madame latvrg put her foot b pick ir kept her eyebrows up and slightly rustled in her lloirl then


true


muttered


her husband


geatlemew my wife


the three customers pulled off their hats to madainii defarge with three flourishes


she ac knowledged their homage by bending her head awl giving them a


quick look then she glanced ia a casual maimer round the wine shop took up her knitting with sreat apparent ealmnefia and re pvsi of spirit and bccame absorbed in it


gentleman sii


her husbtinj who had kept his bright eye obsnrvnutiy upon her good day


the chamber furnished bachelorfashion that you w jibed to fee and wmb inquripc for when i rtep ped out is on the qflli floor


the doorway of the suiirose gives on the littlo court yard cloie to the left hsre


pointtug with bis hand near to the window of my establishment


but now that i remember oue of you has ulready been there and can show the way


gentlemen adieu


they paid for their wino and left the place


the eyes of monmaur


drffarge were studying his wife at her knitting when the elderly gentleman advanced from his corner and begged the fuvor of a word


willingly sir said monsieur defarge and quietly stepped with him to the door


their conference was very short but very de cided


almost at the first word monsieur defarge started and became deeply attentive


it bad not inbted a minute when he nodded ani went out


the gentleman then beckoned to the young lady and they too went out


madame defarge knitted with nimble fingers and steady tyebrows and saw nothing


mr jarvis lorry and miss manette emerging from the wine shop thus joined monsieur defarge at the doorway to which lie had directed hia other com pany just before


it opened from a stinking little black court ard and was the general public en trance to a great pile of houbes inhabited by a great number of people


in tho gloomy tilepaved entry to tbegloomytilepaved staircase monsieur defarge beut down ou one knee to the child of his old master and put her hand to his lips


it was a gentle action but not at all gently done a very remarkable transformation had come over him in a few eaconds


he had no goodhumour in hia face nor any openness of aapcct left but had be come a secret angry dangerous min


it is very high it is ft littlo difficult


better to begin slowly


thus monsieur defarge in a ten voice to mr lorry as they began ascending the stairs


is he alone v the latter whispered


alone


god help him who should be with him


said tho other iu the same low voice


is he alivay alone then yes


of his own dfsire of his own necessity


as he was when i first saw him after they found mo and demanded to know if i would take him and at my peril be die creet aa


he fa then so he is now


he is greatly onangea l changed v th keeper of tho wine shop stopped to strike the wall with his hand and mutter a tremendous curse


no direct answer could have been half so forcible


mr lorrys spirits grew heavier und heavier as he and hia two companions aseendod higher and higher


such a staircase wifh its accesaorias in the older and more crowded part of paris would be bad enough now but at that time it was vileindced to unaccus tomed and unhardened senses


every little habita tion within the reat foul nest of one high building fhat ia to say the room oc rooms withiu every door that opened on the general staircase left its own heap of refuse on its own landing besides flinging other refuse from its own windows


the uncon trollable aud hopeless mass of decomposition so engendered would have polluted the air eveu if povrrty and deprivation had not loaded it with their intangible impurities the two bad sources combined made it alwwt insupportable


through meh an atmosphere by o steep dark hhft of dirt aud poison the way lay


yielding to his own dis tnrbioce of mind and to hia young companions agitation which bfceatee greater every inataut mr jarvie lorry twice htopped to rebt


each of these stoppages was made at a doleful grating by which any languishing good airs that were left uncorrupted seemed to escape and all spoilt nnd tickly vapors seemed to orawl in


through the rusted bars tastes rather than glimpses were caught of the jumbled neighbor hood aud nothing within range nearer or lower than the summits of the two great towers of notre dame had nuy promise oa it of healthy lite or wholesome aspirations


gjaijiast the top of ihe staircase was giice nd they stopped for ihe third time


there was yet at npper staircase of a steeper inclination and i of con tracted dinionionp to be ascended before the garret story was reached


the keeper of the wine shop alweys going a lit tie in advjncp and awivf going on the side which mr lorry took as though he dreaded to be asksd any question by the j us hdy turned himself about here and carefully fueling in the pockcls of the coat he carried over his shoulder took out a key


t


the dnor is locked then my friend sajjl mr lorry surprised


ay


yes was the grim reply of monsieur defarge


yen tbink it necessary to keep the unfortunate gentleman so retired v think it necessary to turn the key


mon sieur defarge whispered it cloer in his ear and frowned heavily why i why


because he has lived ao long locked up that ho would be frightened rava tear him seif to pieces die aoma to i know nstwkat harti if hia door wig left open


is it possib e exclaimed mr lorry


is it possible f repeated defarge bitterly


yes


aud bauiiful world wo live in when it iji pofsible and when many other such things are possible aud not only possible but done done see you


under that sky there every day


long livo tho devil


let us go on


this dialogue had been held in so very low a whisper that not a word of it had reaohed the young ladys ears


but by this time she trembled under euch strong emotion and her face expressed such deep auxicty


and abore all fuch dread and terror thst mr lorry felt it incumbent on him to speak a word or two of reissuraace


courage dear miss


courage


business


the worst will be over in n moment it is but pas sing the room door and the worst is over


then all the good you bring to him all the relief all the happines you bring to him begin


let our good friend here assist you on t ha side


thats well frieud defarge


come now


business business


they wentupslowly aud softly


the etaitc ise was short add they were soon at the top


there as it had an abrupt turn in it they came all at once in sight of three men whose heada were bent down close together at the side of a door and who were intently looking into the room to which the door belonged through some chinks or holes iu the wall


on bearing footsteps close at hand these three turned and rose and showed themaelveti to be the three of one name who had been drinking in the wino shop


i forgot them in tho surprise of your visit exclaimed monsieur defarge


leave us good boys we have business here


the three glided by and went silently down there appearing to be no other dnor on that floor and the keeper of the wine shop going straight to this ona when they were lelt alone mr lorry aked him in a whisper with a lit le anger do you make a nhow of monsieur manette i show him in ths way you hive seen to a chosen few


is that well


i think it in well


who are the few


how do you choose them


ichoosothem as real men of my name jaques is myname to whomthesigbtis likely todo good


enough you are english that is auother thing


stay there if you please a little mo ment


with an rul monitory gesture to keep them back he stooped and looked in through the crevice in the wall


s on raisin


hi htd again he struck twice or thrice upon fho door evidently with no other object than to make a noise there


with the same intention he drew the key across it three or four times before be put it clumsily into the lock and turned it as heavily as he coald


the door nlovly opened inward under hi hand and he looked into tbe room and said something


a fuint voice answered something


little moro than a ingle syllable could have been spoken en either side


he looked back over his fhoulder and bnckoneci them to enter mr lorry got his arm securey round the daughters waist and held her for he felt that the waa sinking


a a business business


he urged with a moisture that was not of business shining on his cheek come iu come in i am afriid of it she auswered shuddering


of it


what


i tneau of him


of my father


eemlered in a rnunner desperate by hor utate and by the beckoning of their conductor he drew over hia neck tho arm that shook upon his bhoul dgv


lifed bar a little and hurried her iuto tbe room


he sat her down jist withiu the door and held her clinging to him


defarge drew out the key


closed the door lacked it on the inside took ont the key agin and held it in his hand


all this he did methodic ally


and with as loud and harsh an accompani ment of noise as he could mike


finally be walked across the room with a measured tread to where the window was


he stopped there and ficod rouad


the garret built


to be a depository for firewood nnd tho like was dim and dark for the window of dormer shape was in truth a dor in the roof with a littlo crane over it for tho hoisting up of stores from the street


ungltiaed aud ciofiug up the middle in two pieces like any other door of french construction


to exclude the cold one half of this door was fast oloacd and the other was opened but a very little way


such a scanty por tion of light was admitted through those meant that it was difficult on first coming in to see any thing and long habit alone could havo slowly formed in any one tbe ability to do any work requiring nicety iu such obscurity


yet work of that kind was being done in tho garret for with hia back towards the door and his face towards the window whsrg the ksfper of the wiucshop stood looking at him a whitehaird man sat on a low bench stooping forward and vry busy making shoer


i chapter vi tub bhoesiaker


good day said monsiour defarge looking down at the white head that bent low over the sboemaking


it was raised for a moment and a vary faint voice responded to tho salutation bb if it were at a distance good day


you are still hard at work i see


after a long silence the head was lifted for another moment and the voice replied yes i am working


this time a pair of haggard eyes had looked at tho questioner before the face had dropped again


tbo faintness of tb voice was pitiable ana dreadful


it was not the faintnebs of physical weakness though confinement and hard fare no doubt bad their part in it


its deplorable pocu liarity was that it was tho faintness of solitude and disuse


it was like the last feeble echo of a sound made long and long ngo


so entirely had it lost the life and resonance of the human voice that it affeoted the senses like a ouce beautiful color faded away into a poor weak stain


so sunken und suppressed it was that it was liho a voice underground


so expressive itwas of a hopeless und lust creature that a famished traveller wearied out by lonely wandering in n wilderness would havo remembered home and friends in such a tone before lying down to die


s me minutes ofsilent work had passed and tho haggard eyes had looked up again not with any interest or curiosity but with a dull mechanioai perccptiou beforehundthot the spot where the only visitor they were aware of had stood was not yet empty


i want said defargp who had not removed his gaze from the shoemaker to lot iu a little moro light here


you can bear a little more


tbe shoemsker btopped his work looked with a vacant air of listeniog at the floor on one side of him then similarly at tho floor on the othr side of him then upward at the speaker


what did you say


you can bear a littlo more light i must bear it if you let it


in


laying the palest shndow of a stress upon the second word


the opened halfdoor was opened a little fur ther and secured it that angle for the time


a broad ray ol light fell into tho garret and showed tho workman with an unfinished shoe upon hia lap pausing iu his labor


his few common tools and various scraps of leather were u his feet and on hia beuch


he had a white beard raguedly out but uot very long a hollow face and exceedingly bright eyes


the hollowncss and tbini eia of his face would have caused them to look large under his yet dark eyebrews and his coafued white hair though they had been really otherwise but they were naturally large and looked unnaturally so


his yellow raga of shirt hy open at the throat and showed his body to be withered and worn


he and hia old canvas frdok


and his ioobi stockings atid ell hi


poor tatters of cot ics id


in a long seolusiou from direct light a o r down to such u ruli uniloruiity of pa h m ti vl luw i but it would have been lsru t su which vifl


which


lie ha put tip a band betvecn hi


eyot an i tho light and the very bone


of it ketnihl ran parent


so he sat with a eteadfrtstly vaoant rive anting in hia work


he never looked in th figure for him withcul lirt looking don on this sja of himself tin on that as if he had lost the hilit of issociiilini place with sound he never fpoke without fir


wandering in thismiuner and for getting to speak


are you jfing to finish that pair of shoes to day asked defarge motioning to mr lorry to corae forward


what did you say d yu wean to linith that pair of tnees today


i cant cay that i mean to


i suppve s dont know


j nt the ijufchtiod reminded hira of iio work ana he bent ovor it


rgaiu mr lirry cam silcnly forward vavicg ilia laughter by the door


when be had stoo l lor a minute or two by ihe fide of defarge the shoe maker looked up


he showed uo surpriic at see ing another figure but the unsteady tingero of oue of bis h inds strayed to his lips an he looked nt it his lips iind hia nails wero of lh


same pile load color aud then the baud dropped to his work and he once more bent over the shoe


the look and the action had occupied but an susuar


you have a visitor you see said monsieur defarge


what did you fty


here is a visitor


the shoeniaksr looked up as before but without removing a hand from his work


gome paid defarge


here is monsieur who kuows a well made phoe when uu scea oae


siow bitn that shoe you aro working at


take it mon sieur


mr lorry took it in hia hand


tell monsieur what kind of shoe it if ind the makers name


there waa


a longer pause than usna before tha shobmaker replied i forget what it was you asked me


what did you say v i said couldnt you describe the kind of shoe for mousieurs information


it is a ladys shoe


it a youaj ladys walkingshoe


it is in tho probont mde


i ucver saw the mode


i have had pattern in my hand


he glanccd at the shoe with some little paslog touh of pride


and tbe makers name said defarge


now that he ha


i


no work to hold he laid ha knuckles of the right hand iu tbe hollow or tba left and then the knuckles of the left hand in the hollow of the right and then passed a hand aerons his bearded chin aud


so on in regular cbaugss without a moments intermssion


the task of re calling him from the vacancy into which he always sank when hu had bpoken was liko recalling sotno very weak person from a swoon or endeavoring iu the hope of some disclosure to stay tic ppirit of a i lastdying man


did you ask tne for my name assuredly i did


one hundred and five north tiwor


is tha all


one hundred and five north tower


with a weary sound that waif not a sigb nor a groan he b nt to work again until tho silcnce wo again brokeu you


aro not a fhooiuaker by trade


tad mr lorry looking steadfastly a h m


his haggard eyes turned to djfavge as if ha would have transferred tbe question to him but an uo help came from that quarter they turned bick on the questioner wheu ibey had sought the around


i am uot a shoemaker by trade


no i ws cot a pboeunkor by trade


i i learnt it he


e


i taught mvslf


i acked leave to


lie lapsed away oven for minute ringing tboso meusured changes on his hands the whole tiny


his eyes cme finely back at ht to ihe faos from which uiy had wandered when they rested on it


he ptirted and resumed m the manne of a seeper thit moment awake reverting to a subjoot ot last night


i i a iked leave to leach myself aud i get it with i mush dililuity utter a long while and i have mnde shoe sver sinoe


ah he held out his hand for tbe shoe thd had been taken from bim mr lorry said still lr king btcdfrily iu bis face monsieur mmieue do you rcmembsr atilng of me


tho shoo dropped to the ground and he sat looking fl


vrill y at the questioner


mousieur manette mr lorry isid hiihmd upon dofarguo arm do you remeinbtr nothing ot this mail look at him


look at iu is i there no old binker no old liusiaes co old


er van t no old time citing in jour mind mksijtir miuette


asllie ciptivoof many years sat looking i xedy by turns at mr lorry and u defarge


some long ob literated mark of ai adivoy intent intellig no i in the middle of tbe forehead gradually forced th ra aelvea through the black mist that had laiei on bitn


they were overclouded agun they ware fainter they were gone but thoy had ieiu there


and so exactly was tha expression repeated on tho fair young face ol her who had crept along the wall to a point where she could see him and where she now stood luoking at him


with hands whioh at first had been only raised in frightened compassion if not even to keep him oil and shutout the sight of him


but whioh were now extending towards liim trembling with eagerness to lay the spectial face upon her warm youn breat and love it back to lifo and hope so exactly was tho expression repeated though iu stronger obaractera on her fair young face that it looked as though it had paesed like a moving light from him to her


darkness hud fallen on him in its plac


he looked at the two less end lesb attentively and hib eyes in gloomy abstraction sought tho ground nnd looked about him in the old way


finally with a long deep eigh ho took the shoe up aud resumed his work


have you recognised him mmaieur


asked defarge iu a low whisper


yea for a moment


at first i thought it quite hopeless but i have unquestionably eoen for a single moment the faoe that i onoe knew woll


hush i let ua draw further back


hush


she had moved from tho wall of tha garret vory near to the bench on which he bat


there wbs something awful in hia unconsoiousnesa of tha figure that could havo put out its hand and touched him as he stooped over his labor


not a word was spoken not a sound was made


she stood like a spirit beside him and


he bent over his work


it happened at length that he had occasion to change tne instrnment in his hand tor his shoe makers knife


it lay on that side of him whioh was not the side on which she stood


he had taken it up aud was stooping to work again when his eyes caught the skirt of her rtrea


he


raised them aud saw her fice


the two apectat irt started forward butsho stayed them with a motion of her hand


she had no fear of bi striking at her with the unite though they had


he stared at her with a earful look aud after ft while his lips began ta m some words thougk do sound proceeded rom hem


by degrees i


t the pauses of his thicic and anorjd inomliing waa heard to say


what is this


with the tears streaming down her faoe ene put her two hands to her lips and kissed them to him then clasped them on her breast as if eho laid his ruined head there


you ave not the gaolers daughter she sighed no


who are you not yet trusting the tones of her voice she sat down on the banoh beside him


he recoiled but she laid her hand upon his arm


a strange thrill struck him when she did eo and visibly passed over his frame he laid tha knife down softly an he sat staring nt her


ller golden hair which she wore in long curls bad been hurriedly pushed aside ntid felt down over her neik


advancing lsn hand by litle aod littlo he look it up und looked at it


iu the midsc ol the aclum ho went astray and wiih naother deep sigh fell to work at hia shoemakiug


but sot for long


releasing hia arm ehe liid her hand upon hia shoulder


alter looking doubt fully at it two jr three times as if to be sure that it was really there he laid down bis work put hib hand to his neok and took ofl a blackened string with a scrap of folded rag attached to if


he opened this carefully on bis knee and it contained a very litila quantity of hair not moro jinn one or


two long golden hairs which he had in some old day wound ofl upon his linger


tie took her hair into his hand again and linked closely at it


it is the same


how cao it


when was it


how wsb it


the stofiy of the campaign written in a tent from tuegriinoa


from slaekuoodt magatine


part


cnarteb h conttuued


on the rd may an expedition which had been for some days in course af preparation consisting of about french with guns and english with gnns sailed for kertsch but just after arriving iu sight of its destination was recalled by n message from iin fnnnli nnmmflnaer


ho had received telegraphic instructions from the emperor to despatch nil the transports he could command to the boflphorus to convey the french re serves there to tho scat of war and considered the instructions ns sufficiently imperative to necessitate tie recall of


jlie oxpedirior which accordingly returned nmid much diesatis faction


a few days afterwards general canrobert resigned the control of the army to general peusticr and took the command of the first division the same lie had held under st arnaud several events marked tho change of com manders


on the night of the nd lit frencli made a determined attack ou the rifle pits between ihe quarantine ad central hstions which forra part of the eartlinorlus covering tho town it nine oclock a enn lonade accompanied by volleys far wairner


and more sustained than in any prcyijus night attack or operation of the siege marked tho commencement of the enterprise aril con tinued without intermission till three in the morning


tho moon rather gumiuered than shono upon the scene and against the cloudy horizon the flashes of the guns like summer lightning marked tho lines of defence and at tack j the rattle of small arms was almost in cessant and occasional cheers rising from the gloom showed some udvantego won or charge attempted


on the following day i visited the scene of combat