following so excellent an example we now at the end of an act but not the last lay before our readers the true state of the chequered board on which our ac tors are playing their respective parts


kitelys game is to make fanny earle his victim all his moves tend to that great point some are oblique others direct but the goal towards which they are directed is the same


her brother is in his service and looks upon him as a benefactor her lover for despite of any direct avowal he is so is far away and in debted to kitely for the means to woo the god dess fortune mrs osqueeze and her daughter are well inclined to aid his schemes the insig nificant nips appears to be imbued with the same feeling while forky and knuckler those men of crime are working in darkness to further the designs of the master fiend


so stands the board the game has to be played out


kitely was alone in his sanctum


on a table before him were several wooden bowls contain ing gold dust and nuggets of the precious metal interspersed with rolls of notes and heaps of foreign coin and amidst them as a show of protection more than necessity was one of those deadly weapons of modern invention an american revolver


a grim smile of satisfac tion passed over his face as he contemplated the shining treasure before him and he solilo quized thus aye gold is the mainspring of action the lever which moves the human world and yet a continual paradox


men dive into the deepest bowels of the earth and ascend the loftiest gibbets to obtain it


lt broods like an incubus over the misers bosom and flits like a meteor through the dreams of poverty


it both opens and closes the heart it chills old blood and makes the youthful current glow like lava it desolates cities and lays waste kingdoms its carving knife is the sword its food hearts torn from quivering carcasses its draught the warm blood of its victims


but there are men who know its true use and wield it like a sceptre over the pleasures of life


beauty immolates itself upon the alter of gold and the slime and slaver of hypocrisy trails after it


who cares for love so long as he can possess


who needs sincerity when flattery will fawn and bend and twist and turn into any form to furnish gratifi cation


if there be such fools hawk kitely is not of their brotherhood he can purchase en joyments enough to riot and revel in and when desire failshe can build a church and die as some lying priest will tell him brimful of virtue


a slight knock at the door interrupted the cur rent of his thoughts and an old man who acted as clerk to kitely entered the room handed a card to him and waited patiently for his orders


stunner thought kitely stunner


he wants money thats certain but from me surely will not have it


my conscience will not allow me to encourage spendthrifts but ill deal mently with him read him a sound moral lec ture talk to him of the stewardship of wealth and the delight of earning bread by the sweat of his brow


he then told the senile servitor to admit stunner before whose entrance however he carefully removed all the vestiges of wealth from the prying eye of curiosity


he was about to plead poverty the sight of his hoard must have created scepticism


ah


kitely my dear fellow how are you cried stunner as he darted into the apartment


i havent set eyes upon you since that stupid police office job


dreadful snob whiffle chat ter ive dead cut him since on your account i really have


i seriously regret having deprived you of the acquaintanceship of so valuable a person mr stunner


his feeble attempts to injure me did not excite the slightest feeling of anger against him


i trust there is sufficient charity in my disposition to furnish every excuse for the inexperience of youth


yesthat sound horsewhipping you administered i presume was an act of charity


precisely


egad if it be so ill never approach your alms houses


a sweet girl that miss earle her brother doing the scribble in your office i see nice fellow pity he has turned clerk


there we differ mr stunner


in my opi nion no avocation is superior to that of a mer chant


he is the great extender of civilisation the cementer of the differences of kingdoms which war can never close


monarchs may boast of their power but the merchant princes are the real sovereigns


for instance look at india dont mention a word about it


i did look at it but it didnt suit my book or complexion


got cleaned out in pocket and as yellow as a guinea


mili tary messes did the one and cayenne curry and mulligatawney messes the other


in dia is a very hot subject with me


but it taught you the folly of squandering your means and health in the pursuit of illusory joys


i wont vouch exactly for that kitely


lt may be all very well for you dull plodding fel lows to pore over ledgers and multiply the ac counts in your bank books but it would not suit me out of my line altogether too slow one must live


i will not say with napoleon i do not see the necessity but a life passed in grossness and sensuality is a most valueless existence


by jupiter


what a mentor


but confess there of gammon about this advice kitely you are not the immaculate chap people think you


you do a little on the sly eh


my actions are open as the day mr stunner but am i to ascribe the honor of your visit to the desire of obtaining an analysis of my charac ter


nonot exactly stammered stunner taken completely aback by the cool selfposses sion of kitely the fact is that my business is entirely in your way a little money transaction


between ourselves and here jack assumed the confidential i have overrun the constable you understand me the pace has been a trifle too severe


wrote a long letter to the gover nor explaining my difficulties expenses of sta tions want of labour fall in wool and all that sort of thing you know received for answer dear jackive just advanced tom in the dragoons at a charge of five thousand horaces church selection has cost me two thousand janes marriage with the earl of splicem made sad inroads into the ready cash alfred is at oxford george at eton and your mother as extravagant as if she had the bank of england at her beck


under these circumstances you will see the positive necessity of confining your self to the annual advance agreed upon between us


your mother is angry at your having ne glected to send her a necklace of nuggets of gold not that she could wear it but as she re marked the present would look so filial


attend to her wishes in this respect jack it will be ad vantageous to you


i should regret to leave you in a dilemma ergo three months after the receipt you can draw upon your affectionate father at six months date for a couple of hundred or so


then follow lots of best loves affectionate regards lots of kisses and all that sort of thing kitely which are very pleasant but not marketable commodities


now under these distressing circumstances what would you advise me to do


to act up to your fathers instructions mr stunner and at the expiry of the time mentioned in his letter draw upon him


wait till then


d it man youre as cool as wenham ice or a cucumber petrifaction it is all very well to say wait but the people here refuse to wait for me


the waiters at hotels have changed their characters and are as saucy as bantam cocks and lodginghouse keepers look as black as coal mines


now tell me kitely like a good fellow what would you do in my case


never having experienced such a case i con fess myself totally incapable of answering your question


as a general principle however were i in such a position i should endeavour to get out of it as quickly as possible


oh ah


oh


i perceive resumed stunner you do not patronise the advance australia maxim


nothing can be done with you


i am not to be done mr stunner but your bill at three months date with a sound indorse ment might be done although i literally am pushed for funds at the present time


a sound indorsement


you might as well recommend a shortwinded man to become a pearl diver as me to procure such a secu rity


how wisely spoke the philosopher who de fined independence to beletting wants depend upon means murmured kitely sufficiently loud to let the maxim reach the ears of stun ner


quite right my lord stony batter re sponded jack in the same key and he made his bow to kitely humming with the most agree able nonchalance may we neer want a friend nor a bottle to give him


scarcely had this visitor departed when the elderly gentleman announced the advent of nips to whom admission was immediately vouch safed


well my lad enquired kitely eagerly what intelligence have you brought


good news


ha


how does the young lady stand af fected


vell i dunknow about that ezzactly


she seems to fret about somethink like the robins over the babes in the vood


indeed muttered kitely his face becom ing livid under the pain of suppressing his emo tions


by a strong effort he resumed his usual manner and enquired with apparent indifference whether she had received any letters


i should rayther think she had replied nips evidently enjoying the sharp pangs of kitely


from whom enquired he abruptly


vy you see not bein in the inside of em and only havin been at vun of them schools vere readin and ritin varnt thought much of i cant positiveiy say but thinkin as how you might like to see a specimint i took this here vun out of her vurkbox


kitely snatched at the letter and devoured its contents which ran thusmy dear fanny i shall not be at home till tomorrow morning as i intend to remain at the office in order to make up some accounts which are required imme diately


the kindness of mr kitely our bene factor demands and it shall receive every grateful acknowledgement from your affection ate brother frank


psha ejaculated kitely but immediately recovering himself he cast a searching glance upon nips to which the boy returned one of the most perfectly assumed innocence


you cant read my lad i be lieve


not ritin


i can manage a morsel in prin tin if its large letters and werry plain


i tries mister wyse a bit now and then im a redin the story of the mouse and the lion and my eye ant it a lark how the squeaker got the roarer out of a mess


grattertude is every think as the vork house kid said ven they gave him a nex tray spoonful of soup for keepin the coppers a bilin


the aptness of the illustration startled the man of guile and again he bent the same pene trating gaze upon nips who was engaged at the time in endeavouring to secure a blowfly which had manifested a strong inclination to establish a settlement on his nose


can the boy be dis honest


ls he playing a double game thought kitely


he then abruptly addressed him


i think you expressed a strong partiality for miss earle vell i dont recollect sayin anythink of the kind


shes werry vell in her vay like all lodgers but preyshus little wails any of em gives me


that ere mr mordin sarved me out a couple of wallopins as i shant easily forget


but vats the use of talkin low vages and vallop ins allers goes vith orphians


if vun vas a moke he couldnt be vus sarved out


not so nips be true to me and your re ward shall far exceed your expectations if you have indulged in any


here is halfacrown my lad


have you aught else to tell me


oh yesmissus is agoing to have a swarry tomorrer night and please youre to come up so i heerd em say


miss katie was a writin an invite so i spose it will come to hand all in due coorse as the churchwarden said ven he held the plate at a charity sarmon


can i go please sir


yes my lad


nips took his departure but as he passed through the outer office he was nearly knocked down by a portly personage dressed in a blue frockcoat buttoned up to the throat trowsers of a lighter hue strapped tightly over unex ceptionable boots whose heels were decorated with extensive spurs


whiskers and extensive moustaches of raven dye and gigantic size com pleted the figure which was to all intents and purposes of the military order


vell you neednt hit a small cove so hard if you do belong to the milingtary


out of the way responded the gentleman to the nipsean appeal and he entered kitelys room


out of the way echoed nips out of the way old dan tucker theres more in that cove than meets the eye


he ant vat he seems


nips was right it was forky jem who came to grace the levee of hawk kitely esq


to be continued


the life of hugh oneill


by john mitcuel esq


continued from our last


chapter vii


tneitt at courtbagnalvs sister escape of odonnelltrinity college


a d


we may conceive with what tormy joy he tribes of tyrconnell welcomed tneir irincej with what mingled pity and wrath thanksgivings and curses they heard of chains and wanderings and sufferings ind beheld the feet that used to bound so lightly on ihe hills swollen mid crippled by that cruel frost by the crueller fetters of the saxon


but little time was now for festal rejoicing or the unprofitable luxury of cursing for juslthcn sir richard uingham the english leader in connaught


relying on the irresolute nature of om ddonnell and not aware of red hughs return had sent two hundred men by sea to donegal where they took by surprise the franciscan monastery drove away the lkonks muking small account of their historic studies and learned at inals and garrisoned the buildings for the queen


issuing out from thence tile soldiers made raids into the country round about spoiling the people driving away their sheep and oxen and burning their houses on the march


the fiery hugh could ill endure to hear of these outrages or brook an english garrison npon the soil of tyrconnell


he collected the people in hot haste led them instantly to donegal and commanded the english by a certain day and hour


betake themselves with all speed back to connaught and leave behind them the rich spoils ihev had taken all which they thought it prudent without further parley to do


and so the monks of st francis returned to their home and their books gave thanks to god and prayed as well they might for hugh odonnell


t


in the following spring on the rd day of may tlure was a solemn meeting of the warriors clergy and bards of tyrconnell at the rock of doune in ilmacrenan the nursingplace of columkille


and here the father of red hugh renounced the chieftaincy of the sept and his impetuous son at nineteen years of age was duly inaugurated by the erenaeh ofirghil and made the odonnell with the ancient ceremonies of his race


and surely it was time that the powers of tyrconnell should be wielded by a tesolute hand


upon the eastern border of odonnells country where the two old rivers finn and moume which the deluge left behind mingle their waterst dwelt tirlough lynnogfi oneill in the town and castle of strabane holding such poor state as the dungannon chief still permitted him


this foolish old tirlough kept certain english troops in his country under the command of one captain willis perilous auxiliaries for an irish chiet and it was a heartbreak says the chronicler to iiugh odonnell that the english of dublin should thus obtain a knowledge of the country


he fiercely attacked strabane drove back tirlough and his englishmen as far as glengiven daugiren and besieged them in ocalians castle on the banks of roa river


ocahan came forth to treat with odonnell reminded him that he had been liis fosterson and that the fugitives were liis guests and so persuaded the young chief to refraim from violating the hospitality of a friendly roof


for that time o donnell retired but lie never rested nor suffered tirlough to rest while those detested english were on his borders


the old chief was soon obliged to banish his outlandish allies and accept the powerful friendship of odonnell in their place and this is the last we hear of tirlough


he died the next year


shortly after we find this captain willis on the scene again maguire it seems had made some kind of compact with fitzwilliam that no english marauder in name of a sheriff should be sent into fermanagh j and in consideration of this promise had given the corrupt deputy a herd of three hundred cows


vet in the year willis having been driven out of tyrowen isfoundin maguires country purporting to be a sheriff there and having with him three hundred of the very rascals and scum of the kingdom and all living says moryson upon the spoil of the country until fermanagh could endure the banditti no longer


mac gtiire and his people set upon willis who had fortified nimself after the usual manner of the english in a church reduced him to extremity and were on the point of destroying both sheriff uniposse comitatus when hugh oneill interfered losavo their lives on condition of their instantly quitting the country but mac guire did not lay down his arms


the english of connaught were growing too strong to be endured as near neighbours and the forces of fermanagh being in the field he led them southwards by the eastern shore of lough allen and the base of the iron mountain through the south of breffni oruarc through corrw and over the bridge of boyle abbey to the plains of maghai


bingham was then in camp upon a hill near tulk and a body of his cavalry meeting with a party of mac guires while patroling at night fled to the main body and were pursued bv the irish with slaughter into heir trenches


william clia jd who commanded thc


it was in donegal ai bey the annals of the four masters were compiled t ms


life of odonnell


t ibid


j lees memorial moryson the english


i deputy fitzwilliam was about this time recalled to england


ah historians of both nations concur in representing jnm ms


life of odannell


osullivun calls th leader who fcl guelfurd and camden tcllus that the english gained a considerable victory here


t vlf g ur t b t f o r s o o had made primate of au ireland morvss t tufe


tvtf of o donnell


a gpcnsrl see also for drebs of irish and scotch m life of odonnell and ware


ii boalrthaua riscoid


see us life of odonnell and osulliyan the latter calls the place vadiim panum biscoctorum


bset cnmilict moryson cox lee osullivan mao gcchegan party was slain


and the priuiate mac jaurant who resided with mac guire and had accompanied him on the expedition was among the slain on the side of the irish


the lord deputy immediately despatched a hosting into mac guires territory


a large army ofthemeath and leinster forces under command of marshall bagnall and hugh oneill marched into fermanagh from the cast and binghams troops invaded it from connaujjlit


mac guire boldly met them at the ford of the lambs corner where the river issues from lough frne and contested that passage stoutly hilt oneill having crossed at the head of the cavalry and chirged the irish in flank mac guire was obliged to retreat


in this charge the zealous oneill was wounded in the thigh and as the irish chronicler relates he thought this well for him because lie was not suspected by the english


the army proceeded through mac guires country wasting and plundering in their inarch and then departed leaving a body of troops with connor hoe mac guire whom the english set up as a rival to the lawful chieftain


this was the first queens mac guire andit was confidently hoped that civil war would soon desolate the lands of fermanagh and leave it ready tor english sheriffs in a year or two


young odonnell could ill endure this saxon settlement on lough erne io keep the english out of ulster was the grand passion of his life and his fiery spirit chafed at the strange policy of oneill which we can well believe he did not understand


yclhitherto he hadacted by the advicc of his cautious confederate and refrained from joining mac guire j but wlien fitzwilliam in the beginning of led another army to the north took enniskillen by surprise andleftan english garrison there hugh koe could look on in silence no longer


he led the clan conal into fermanagh and laid close siege to enniskillen whicli he cut off from all communication with the country


the northern irish were not skilled in the attack or defence of fortified places and this siege seems to have been carried on entirely bv way of blockade


all summer odonnell lay before it and his troops scoured the country to the southward burning and wasting the lands in possession of the english unil at last by the mouth of august


garrison had cunsumcd all their provisions and it was hoped must soon surrender from mere famine


while hugh roe was here a messenger came to him from the north announcing that a force of scottish auxiliaries whom he expected had arrin in the foyle under the command of donald gorm mac donald and mac leod of ara


he hastened to derry to meet thein found there an efficient and wellarmed body of troops and incorporated them as the irish histo rian asserts j with the irish forces but this is improbable as in dress arms and manner of fighting the scots differed considerably from the irish


their principal weapon was the huge twohandled broad sword and they wore the tartan of their clans while the irish infantry bore shurp battleaxes and short swords and were enveloped in long woollen cloaks which in action they often wound round the left arm


hut whatever may llave been the organization of these scots or their place in battle they were a welcome aid to their brother celts of ireland and did good service in these wars against the cnemv


while red hugh was absent from the camp the clan conal and mac gwire lying before enniskillen received news of a large army coming upon them from connaught commanded by sir edward herbert and sir henry duke to raise the siege and victual the garrison


mac gwire prepared to meet them and ooked anxiously northward for odonnell and the scots


and now the english had passed the mountains of leitrim and he could see the smoke of their devastating progress as they burned the country in their march when most opportunely a body of three hundred galloglasses and one hundred cavalry of the welltrained troops of tyrowen with cormac oneill the chiefs brother at their head arrived in the irish camp


with this reinforcement aud the troops of fermanagh and tyrconnellmac gwire and cormac waited for the enemy at a ford near enniskillen and encountered them in a pitched battle


from morning till night the english pressed on gallantly and were as fiercely met but at last their whole army was utterly routed and pursued over the river with such slaughter and havoc that the baggage was left behind


all the stores of bread intended to relieve enn skillen were lost in the river and that battleground is called the ford of jiiseuits unto this day knniskillen was immediately surrendered to mac gwire


tiie english lied to sligo through the mountains of breffni oruarc and fermanagh was once more cleared of foreign soldiery


odonnell was returning rapidly from derry when messengers met him with the news of the victory and he was orry says the chronicle that he had not been in that battle as he would have prevented the escape of so many of as one of the most flagitious greedy cruel and corrupt governors that an english monarch ever sent to ireland


to the nobles and people of the pale lie was as odious as to the irish enemyfor he never respected any mans necessity says lee in comparison of his own commodity and then he kept so miserable a christmas as dublin had never seen before


but his viceroyalty is famous for the founding of dublin university


perrot had some years before proposed to convert st patricks cathedral into a college and the project was bitterly opposed by a rchbishop loftus who had ether uses for the revenues of his two cathedrals and was particularly interested in the livings of this church saysleland by leases and estates which he had procured for himself and his kinsmenbeing in fact one of those rapacious bishops censured by dr mant who alienated the lands of the church and reduced many bishoprics as low as sacrilege could make themt


nothing therefore was done for that time but alter loftus had procured the reeal disgrace and death of perrot for he never could forgive that sacrilegious attempt in a layman he determined to si jnalize his own zeal for education and heartily cooperated with the queen in her renewed plan of a college


and instead of despoiling his churches for the purpose he pointed out as a convenient site that suppressed monastery of all hallows then in the hands of the dublin corporation


he convened a meeting prevailed on the mayor and aldermen to give the ground and buildings for so meritorious an object and to collect fundscirculars were addressed tj the principal gentry of the pale entreating assistance by way of private contribution but dr mant gives the reply of one person to that application and seems to infer from it that the proceeds thus obtained were very small he had applied to all the getitlemen of the barony of lorth whose answer was that they were poor and not able to give anything


there were forfeited lands however in the south and some abbeys which had lately fallen into the hands of english rannniiv odornov in ill kerrv


kerry conff cong in paeityodorncy mayo


besides innumerable monasteries ill ulster long since suppressed as we snw but where the monks still contumaciously did their almsdeeds and prayed for the souls of many an irish chieftain who had endowed their houses to that end


some of these a generous queen could bestow in a certain anticipatory manner upon her new protectant coilege


the college indeed was long kept out of its northern property was frustrated as dr lelancl has it of the benefit of its grants by thewdrsin ulster but ueinga true undertaking college it took the letters patent


in the meantime and was content to wait like other undertakers and realize the queens bounty by degrees as the swords of her generals ana the plots of her statesmen shuuid extend english power in ireland


tlmj was ljuudcd and endowed by a protestant princess this great irotestaut university for stricily prolcsuut purpuses with catholic funds aud upon tie lauis of a catholic abbey


lees metnjriul


t iliitory of the ciiurcli of ireland pige


to be continued in our next


j


the ministers wooing


i tale op new england


by mr ii b stows continued f roii the jige of september


chapter xii


continued miss rrissr


in hr professional prowena she felt a pardonable pride


what feats could she relate of wonderful dresses got out of impossibly small patterns of silk


what marvels of silks turned that oould not be told from new


what reclaimiugs of waials that other dressmakers had hopelessly spoiled ilad not mrs general wileos once been obliged to osll lu her aid on a dres ssnt to her from paris


and did not miss prissy work three days and nights on that dress aud make every slilcb of that trimming over with her own hands before it was fit to be seen


aud when mrs governor dexters best etlver gray brocade was spoiled by miss pimlico anil there wasnt anoiher scrap to pattern it with didnt sho make a new waist out of tho cape and piece ono of the sleeves twentyuino times and yet nobody would ever have known that there was a joining in it t


in fact though miss prissy enjoyed the fair aver age plain sailing of her work she might


bo said to revel in difficulties


a lull pattern with trimming all amplo and ready awoke a moderate enjoyment but tho resurrection of anything half worn or im perfectly made tho brilliant success when after turuiug twisting piecing contriving and by un heardof inventions of trimming a dress faded and defaced was restored to more than pristine splen dour that was a triumph worth enjoying


it was true misa prissy like most of her nomadic compeers was a little given to gossip but alter all it was innocent gossip not a bifc of malice in it it was only ull the pirjieulnrn about mrs lhusandsoa wardrobe all the statistics of mrs thatandtothers chinacloset all tho minute items of mis simpkinss wedding clothes and how her mother cried ihe mornin of the wedding and said that sho didnt know anything how she could fparo louisa jane only that kdward was fuch a good boy that she felt she could love him like an own son and what a providence it seemed ihnt the very ring that was put into the brideloaf wab one that


h


i gave her when he llrst went to sea when che wouldnt be engaged to him because the thought she loved tjomas strickland better but that was only because she hadnt found him out you know


and sa forth and so forth


somalimos too her narrations assumed a solemn ca t aud brought


o


mind the hush of lunerale and told of words spoken in faint whispers when hands were clasped for tho last time aud of utterances crushed ut from hearts when the hammer of a great sorrow strikes out ppaiks of tho divino even from com mon stone nnd there would be real tears in the little bluo eye and the pink bows would flatter tremulously like the last three leaves on a bare scarlet maple in utituinu


iu fact dear reader jossip like romance has its noble tideto it


how can you love your ueiihbor as yourself and


not feel a liltlo curiosity as to how he fares what he wears where he goes aud how he takes tho great life tragicomedy


at which you and ho arn both more than spectators


shoiv me a persrn who lives in a country villr absolutely without curiosity or interest on ihese fuljects uud


i will fhow jou a cold fit oyster to whom tho tide mud of propristy is the wholo of ex atfonecf our esteemed collaborators remarks a dull town where there is neither theatre nor circus nor opera must have some excitemont aud tho real tragedy and comedy of lifo must ccino io place of tho secondhand


hence tne notea gosip ing propensities of country places which so ioug as they are not poisoned by euvy or illwill hive a respectable utd picturesque side to them tin undoubted leave to be as probubly ha almost everything which ohnunately and nlways insists being except sin i as it i it must bo confessed that the orrival of aiis prissy iu a family was much like tho setting up of a domestic ehowcaee through which you could look into all the families in the neighborhood nnd th noverondiug drama of life wrihs marriugefl death joy of newmado motbrs whoso babes weighed jast eight pouuds and three quarters and had hair ht would part wilh a comb and tears of rachols who wept for their children and wonld not be comforted because they j were not


was tbcte a tragedy a mystery in all newport whoso secret closet had not been un j locked by mis prissy


she thought not and you always wcnderej wilh an uncertain curiosily j what those things might be over which she gravely hook her head decliring with such a look ob if you only could know


and ending with a general sigh and lamentation like the confiden tial chorus of a greek tragedy


wo havo been thus minute in bcotching miss prissys portrait because wo rather likd her


she has great power we admit and were she ft eourfaced angular energetic body with a heart whose secretions had nil bccome acrid by disap pointment and dyspepsia the might be a fearful gnome against whose family visitations one ouht to watch and pray


ay it was the came into tho bouse rather like one of thoso breezy day of spring which burst all the blossom ret all tho doors and windows openmako the henscrekl


and the turtles peep filling a solemn puritan dwelling with ua much bustle nnd chatter as if a box of mar tins were setting up houfekecping in it


let us now introduce you to tho sanatuary of mrs scudders own private bedroom u here tho committee of exigencies with miss prifsy at their head are sealed in solemn cession around tha cam phorwood trunk


dress you know is of tome importance after all said mrs scudder inthat apologetio way in which sensible people generally acknowledge a eccret leaning towards anything bo very mundane


while the good lady npokc she was reverentially unpinning aud shaking out of their lragrnnt folds creamy crape shawls of rich chinese embroidery india muslin scarfs and aorons and already her hands were undoing tho pins tf a silveiy damask linen in which was wrapped her own weil djug dress


i have always told mary she con tinued


that though ourhearls ought not to be set on these things yetthey had tbeiri import ance


certainly certainly maam chimed in miss prissy


i was sayiug to miss general wilcox tho other day j didnt seo bow we could considor the lilies of of tha field without seeing ihe importance ollook ing pretty


ive got a flowerdeluce in my garden now from one of tho nrw roots thai old major sea forth brought over from franco which ia just tho most beautiful thing you ever did see nnd i was thinking as i looked at it today that if womens dresses only grew on em as handsome aud well fitting ns that why there wouldnt be nny need of me but as it is why wo must tliinh if we want


jo look well


now peuchtrees i sposo might bear just as good peaches without tho pink blow but then who would want em to


miss deacon twitohel when i was up there the olher day kept kind o sighin causo cerintha anu is getting a new pink silk made up cause she said it was suoh a dying world it didnt saem right to call off our attention bat i told her it want any pinker than tho appleblossoms and what with robiua and bluebirds and one thing or another the lord is always cnlling off our attention and i think we ought to observe tho lords works and take a lesson from em


yes yon are quite right eaid mrs scudder rising nnd shaking out a splendid white brocade on which bunohes of moserosas were looped to bunches of violeia by graceful fillets of blue ribbons


this was ray wedtliugdress eha said


liitlle


miaa prissy sprang up and olopped her hands in n ecstaoy


well now miss scudder really did ever see anything more beautiful


it really goes be


yond anything i over sw


i dont think in all the brocades i ever made up i ever saw


pretty a pattern as this


mr scudder choso it for me himself at the silk factory in lyons said mrs scudder with par donable pride and i want it tried oa to mary


really miss scudder


this oucht to bo kent for her wedding dress eaid slits prissy as sho delightedly bustled about the cougenial task


i was up to miss marvyne aworking last week she said as sho threw tho dress over mnrys head nnd she said that james cxpccted to make his fortune in thit voyage and come home and settle down


marys fair head emerged from the rustling folds of the brocade her cheeks crimson as ono of the toss rosos while her mothers face assumed a severe gravity as sho remarked that sho believed james bad been much pleased with jane spencer aud that for her part she should bo verv glad whiin he came homo if ho could marry inch a steady sensible girl and sattlo down to a useful christian life


ah yes just so a very excellent idea certainly slid miss priey


it wants a little taken in hero ou the shoulders and a little uuder the arms


the biases are all right the sleeves will want altoring mies scudder


i hope you will have a hot iron ready for pressing


mrs scudder rose immediately to see the eom maud obeyed and as her baok was turned miss jprissy went on in a low tone now for my part dont think ihorob a word of truth in that story about james marvyn and jane spencer for i was down there nt work ono day when ho called and i know there couldnt have been anything between them beside miss spencer her mother told mo there wasnt


tiiere mis bcudder you beo that ig a good lit


its asto nishing bow near it comes to fitting just an it was


i didnt thitik mary was eo near whir you were whan you were a girl miss scudder


tho olher day when i was up to general wilcoxs the general he was iu the room wheu i wns a trying on mies wilcoxs cherry velvet and she was asking cnuldnt


i come this weok fur her and i mentioned i wag coining to miss scnddor aud the geaeral says ho i used to know her when sho was a girl


toll you she was ono of tho handsomest girls in no iv port by george says he


and says i general you ought to seo her daughter


and tho general you know his jolly way he laughed nnd eays he if flio ia as handsome us her mother was dont waut to see her says ho


i tell you wife says he i but just mistd falling iu lovo with icaty ste phens could nave told her more than tnar sad


mrs scudder with a flish of hor old ooqnotte girlhood for a moment lighting hor eyes and stiaightening


her lithe form


i guess if i should show a letter he wrote to mo once


but what am i tilking about sho said suddenly stiffening back iuto a sensible womau mua prissy do you ihink it will be necessary to cut it off at the bottom


it foems n nity to out such rich eilk


so it does i declare


well i believo it will do to turn it up


i depend on you to put it a little into modern fashion you know said mrs scuddor


it is many a year you kno since it was made


oh nevsr you fear


you leave all that to me said miss prissy


now there never was anyr thing so lucky at that just before ull these wed ding dresses had to be fixed i got a letter from ray sister martha that works for all tho first fa milies of boston


and martha bhe is really uou sually privileged beoause tho workb for miss cranoh aud miss crunch gets letters from misi adams you know mr adams is ambassador now at the court of st jjme and mist adnns writes home all the particulars about the courtdresses and martha she heard ono of the letters read and shu told miss orauoh that she would givo the best five pound note she had if sho could just copy that de scription to send to prissy


well alias crauch let her do it and i have got a copy of the letter hero in my workpocket


rend it up to miss general wilcoxs and to major seaforthv uud


ill ro d it to you


airs kay


scudder was a born subject of a jrown and though now a republican matron had not outlived tho rcvercaco from childhood implanted for the high and stately doings of courts lords ladies queens and princesses aud therefore it was not without some awe that sho siw miss prissy produco from her little black workbag tho wellworn epistle


here it is said miss prissy at lah


i only copied out the parls about being presented at court


sho says ono is odi iged hero to attend the circles of the quecu which are held once a fortnight and what renders it very ox pensive is that you cannot go twice iu the same dress aud a ourt dress you cannot muke use of elsewhere


i directed my inailiuauillitui ijlot iu uiun uljnm un as i conld possibly a pear with decency


accus ingly it is wnitc luiehtiiiig covered und full trimmed with white crape festooned with liluo libbm and mock poititlace over a hoop of enor mous sizii


there ia puly a narrow train alout ihreo yaids in itffcjlli to to govuvui which is put inio a ribbon the leti tido the queer only tiuviug her train borue


ruuled culls ior irurried ladies treble lace luifl a v dry drei


ip wilh ljog lace lappets tvo while plumiv a d a blonde laco ha dkei chief


this is iny jigging


tho revelations


or the ch ron i clks of the vicious donkeys


chapter it


vow it came to pass that lang tho son of belial sat in hi chamber ami communed with himsef


and ho said


behold i am in a hobble and tho hohmn is this


tho chiefs of tho council nnd the elders of tho peope have dived into mr secret wars and tracked my footsteps through croofcod paths and thor haro declared that i am not flt to sit in their councils


and i lang the son of belial know it alto


but lt is not my intenion to confess it


no i will it in tho wtofj honour irittf which i have rai od myself upontherhaaks f mychosen donkeys and will maintainthe same and i will stick to the same like that wondrous salvo adhesive which bullrush tho son of chartist phyicking korco who dwells at tho pestle and mortar ca ho th diaculum


and i will gather together my chosen ones and staunch defenders th doukers tn succour me for where ciao can i look for holp t then it carno to pass that lui g the son of bolial when ho asked liimsolf the question an swered and said to himself im turo i dont know


and ho really did not


then ho sent out his spies and his earwhis perers and inslniiitnrsand wrigglers arnonst the donkeys and they hearkened to ihorworls nnd saiil tell us what yon want ns fodonnd wo will do it aro the servants of lang the son of belial dogs that they would not do this great thing


and the spies and the earwhisperer nndtho insinuators and wriglors answered and said


o yo aro not dogs yo aro only donkeys


and they rejoiced and smiled exceedingly on hearing these words for they wro plpaaed with their cars for there was nothing uko them for ivngtlt m the whde breadth of tho land then tho spies and tho earxvhsprcrs


and tho insinuato s and ibo wrigglers sad in alow ynico


tjirry not m monent


i bot sq nnd sun rob out ttawkcscyo tho sonof lnnkaitcrthebrowhv and he will toll you what ls required of you


and they went


and llawksey the son of lnokaftorthcbrowns told them what to do and tho sum of his words was this lol o donkeys


we will write certain letters to hill tho chief ruler of the city com manding him to call a mevtlng of the citixens to fix tiing tho son of bolial firmly in the seat in which ho now sitteth shaking


and ii mill tho chief ruler of the city is obstinato


and hoarkoneth not to our words nnd


it ls likely this wilt como to pass for he is no friend to tho donkeys then wo will make pub lic his acts in tho columns of our paper and we will charge tho samo to yo o i donkeys for yo oro patient animals and aro accustomed to bear heavy burdens


then tho donkeys answered and said well wo know it hut blow tho expense


and ilnwkscyo tho son of lonkaftorth browns cried out in a loud voice


tour words aro full of honey and sweetness they are uko an o venino hill taken up unexpectedly when its drawer hath long fled to thu land of oromlse


then tho donkeys departod and ilawkseyo tho son of lookaftorthobrowns wrote totters tn hill the chief ruler of tho city commanding him to call a mooting of the citizens


and hill the chief ruler ol tho city broko the seal of the lotter and road it


aud ho folded it down in one corner and traced certain words upon it and they were these i shalt tako no heed of your commands ye are a pack ofaseandnlt men arc tired of your braying


and ho returned thc letter


now when this was laid boforo tho donkeys they wcro exceeding wroth for they loved not the truth


and they cried out with one accord publish


publish


lot it bo in all mens hnnds inthy newspaper


o hawkseye and let it


bc beforo all mens eyes upon the dead walls and public places in tho city from placards and posters issuing fromthy press let it be dono nnd wo will pay for tho same


and it was dona for ifawktoyo tho son of lookaftcrthobrowns was well assured that tho donkoys woud pay for tho same otherwise it would not have been done


and no wiso man blamed ilawkseyo the son of lookafterthobrowna


i


now it carno to pass that tho donkeys gathered together at the temple of tho sundial in the square called barrack and standofttliegrass fur there was exceeding good feedfor them and ibero wcro also certain mon of


war living about tho same whom the donkey meant ito annoy by their resoluto demonstration


but the men of war pipeclayed their car melita and blackened their shoes and poluhed thoir muskets nnd got ready for inspection and they cracked jokes upon the miiorablo donkeys xml wero not afraid


then tho anger of


tho donkeys knew no bounds


and certain littleboys xtko had climbed on to tho roof of tho temple and lookod down upon the donkeys raised their voices nnd cried


begin spoonoys ve cant raft here all day its arter vuu and the chaules vants to go to their vurk


j


then wilshire the son of old niokodomus the tanner smilod upon


these infants and happed forward and said unto tho assembled don keys


tho glory of camelbnb and of flood thu son of y z neddy bray hath departed from amongst us theyhaveturnoditbpir backs upon us ashamed of our goings dh


and they fofusod to como hither to


look upon their bro thers


thoroforo i say unto yon that tho mantle


of donkey skin hath fallen upon mo and i will rolgn over your mootlngs


and tho donkoys brayed loudly


o toa


otea


o yea


let wilshiretho son of old nickodenius tho tanner bo from hondotorth tho king of the donkeys for he deservoth tho


honour well


now it carno to pass that turlowgrant tho son nf calfskin not naringa knowledgeoftho


law tn his head nor a fear of tho law in his heart begnn to kick most viciously and bray molt loudly


and ho said down with the council down with tho house and down with every one wlio thlnkcth not ns i think and who opposoth lang tho son or belial orstnyetit his naughty tricks


and thereat tho llttto boys on tho roofof tho templa shouted iioooorhooorah calf


kw


and tnrbwgrant gratefully acknowledged tho compliment


f j


then parkeshnory rnshed forward and iiis hair stood nhend ukotinto the hair of a supers annuatod broom nnddils eyeballs glistened like onto tlioglisteiiinjroffiro eyehalls nf a wooden cockhorse and hi anns extended and moved to and fro like untothe moviiig of the sails of a windmill anil his mouth opened like tinto the opening of thu muthjjf


dando when ho swat lowcth a bushel of nafjeooysters and payeth not for tho samo and jitfr garments flutteredliko unto the fluttering of thogarments of


a scare crow which friitphtbismall birds from com mitting felonious acts upon fruit


and lie looked like a man who ltadimbibed much wine and his voice jimmied jlkeeiiri ifie voice of


a drum beatonwith two iksbja small boy mixed with tho brnyingof senny


trumpet and the biaylngof adonkey


a ndthe whole tribe p donkeys cried aloud behold a prophet


sin inspirod ono


listcu to his words


jtitcn prfcesennory opened his mouth and cried out


lo


t have a pinchbeck watch which will not go but if i had monkey vot wouldnt go for lang the on of belial and johanna south cote id put bi enrcaso to considerable incon venience


and thrt the wholeitribo of donkeys cried out as with one accord


sarve him right


and they applauded hti resolution nnd lifted up theirheels and carried it without opposition because there wai nobodyto oppose thom i then bullrush the son of chartistphysick ingforce and stwartihe


son of topmanaud pltmanthe cedar plank sawyer nnd hnwkeseyo theson of


lookifterthebrowds and driscoll tho son of garry nd domestic happiness and dadswll the son of lordnoseoo lifted up their voices and made guy fawkescs of themselves for they blouod up itho curtoil chamber and tho councillm and tliehoiies or the citizens andthocitftens who dwelt thoroin looking after their ownbusiness


and their words isjcrouh of gunpowder arid explosivo compounds butlik unto the words and doings pf the donkoys fy ended iii smoko


and it came to pass that when tho donkeys were tired of their sport they trotted off to the abiding place of lang the son of


belial in tho street of jamison and told him what they had dono for him


thun lang tho son of belial answered and said of a truth ye hare mndo great asses of yourselves o my donkeys


and i pray that my enemies may du the samo so that i may triumph ovor thom


but his enemies did not


for they knew a trick worth any two of langs tho son of bolial


thon the donkoys departed to tholr so ve ral stablos


and a they entered their s illoawan qer


thsv found nat provender for their jenny asses had taken advantage of their absence and cooked no victuals


and this grieved the donkeys sorely


soendeth the second chapter of the revela tion oqthe chronicles of


the vicious kicking donkeys


the teetotallers catechism


r the rev


m scally oc chapter ix


wo unto him who giveth his neighbour drink that presenteth his gall and m aketh him drunk lab xi


r


the next great cause my son of drunkenness is the wipkd fpractice of maikig intoxicatinag driniks the means of expressing friendship and hospitality to vwards those whom weiv esteem


this rac tic has proved itpelf to be the greatest cagse of the wide extent to which the vice of drunkenness prevailed in ireland during sa great many years


the custom was and unfortunately is yet in many parts when friends meet the decanter of wine amongst respectalile persons and the bottle of rum or some other intoxicating beverage is laid upon the table and alas how often have men met as the most affectionate friends and parted with hearts utill of rage and anger against each other in consequence of their having drank to each others good heilth from the decanter of wine oo


the bottle of rum


s i ouppose father this ras


the great cause of all the quarrels and factionfights that used to take place before now


f


the veryanie my son


s it appears to me a very strange thing that friendscould not


beas fond of each other and aa friendly too


by partaking of some wholesome refreshment when they meet in company at their houses or in public placesas by treating each other to a dangerousedrink f such apractice would well become rational eings and ould b ti ue atimu lant


tottuefriendship whilst on the con trary the baneful custom hithertoin exist ence has torn asunder invery many in tances hearts that werestrongly united in the bonds of mutual affection


too fre quently hasithappened that the next day after a friendly meeting took placobetween meihbours and relatiobs both parties re gretted from theirlieairtsthattheirmeetinig took place in consequence of the sick heads and afflicted hearts thatfollowedthe carous ing of the previous day


but father why do you yourself practicer what you so much condemn in others namely giving to your friends when theydine with you those intoxicating drinks


my son that is indeed a practical


question and i must answer it


such is the infatuation attached to old customs even though they are bad that it requires fa great deal of prudence and fortitude to abolish them effectually


now it is true that i order those intoxicating drinks to be laid upon the table at dinner but you never see me make use of them myself


they are not evil in themselves and therefore i am not immediately guilty of any crime by having themplaced before my guests as marks of hospitality


the case would be quite different if i becamethe promoter of intoxication by drinking of those liquors myself and inducing others to


do the same thing by pressing them to follow my ex ample


the result of smy practice is as


you may see that


no one ever leaves my table druik forihe force of good example acts in thiscaseas apreventative to ciime


i do hope however to see the day when will be saved the trouble ofgiving poison to any friends in theshape ofgood cheer


tue stoliy of the campaign


written in a tent from the crimea


from blackwooie magazine


the fitcmr of the qluvixqk


paht


chatted xv


oiboumbpeotivb


continued from our last


the naval portion of our armament was splendid


our ships of war our fleets of powerful steamers and huge transports commanded the admiration and respect oi the french


no signs of national frugality or shortcoming were visible there


but a very cursory glance at the condition of our military force when tbe war began will show its utter inadequacy to our rank and pretensions in tbe scale of nations


in all our garrisons at home and abroad tbe troops were barely sufficient to supply the accessary guards


at gibraltar we bad guns and artillerymen to work them


at chobham we thought we had done great things when we assembled men to play at sol diers white foreign potentates laughed in their sleeves at tho display


our cavalry force was absolutely ridiculous in its weak ness filter numerically for some petty principality than for a mighty monarchy


regiments appeared in turkey admirably equipped but inferior in numbers to a re spectable squadron


the artillery that complex arm involving duties so various and which demand so much time in ac quiring has been always kept at a strength below its due proportion in an army such as is now in the field


batteries at woolwich for years consist ed of four guns and four waggons each drawn by four horses witb gunners and drivers in proportion whereas in the field each battery has six gons drawn each by eight horses and seventeen wag gons of various kinds ammunition store forge waggons with three times the num ber of horses considered necosbary on the peace footing


the horses both of artil lery and cavalry always accustomed to be separated by stalls at the beginning of the campaign perpetually kicked each other as they stood at their picquetropes and num bers of them were thus crippled for weeks and some permanently injured


tho train of carriages witb the supply of smallarm ammunition for tbe infantry was devised at woolwich when tho war broke out and tbe vehicles were constructed in such a fashion that the animals of the country we were employed in could not draw them and they were left useless at varua which could not bavc happened bad our field equipments been systematically kept as efficient as those of continental armies


and in mentioning continental armies i do not mean to draw any comparison un favorable to nur own troops and our own system so far as they go


we have little to learn in war from any nation and tbe superiority in the internal management of the french army is princi pally due in my judgment wherever it really exists to the ample supplies of men and material which maintained and prac tised in time of peace respond witb ease and efficiency to tbe requirements of tbe war


probably all this will now bo remedied


soldiers will be enlisted transport procured surgeons commissioned and the glory of england maintained in a fashion worthy of her unrivalled resources and tben will come peace


and with peace will return our habit of considering that alone valu able the value of which can be measured by the commercial standard the army will shrivel to a skeleton its members will be again the object of jealousy and taunts until in a new war we shall again learn our deficiencies from our misfortunes


in our first campaigns our victories will remain unimproved for want of cavalry our supplies of all kinds will fail for want of transport and our troops suddenly transformed from popinjays to heroes will bo called on to make good with blood and sweat the parsimony of tbe repentant na tion


lastly to consider what course of ac tion having for its object the capture of sebastopol would have been preferable to that we bad adopted or rather into which we had been urged


if landing in july we bad been con ducted by die same sequence of events to our present position where should we have been in september


the garrison would still bare fortified the south side as fast as we could erect batteries to assail it


our reinforcements could arrive no more quickly in summer than in winter the command of tho sea made the seasons equally avail able to us


but with the enemy tbe case was different


myriads of troops marching from tho interior would have thronged tbe roads of the crimea


supplies not merely sufficient for tho present but for any future emergency would bave been accumulated in sebastopol and the neighbouring towns


the garrison secure of help would bave been encouraged to double efforts and wben that help arrived it would bave been so effectual as eventually no matter how gallant and desperate our resistance to penetrate by forco of numbers our position and drive us into tbe sea


if the enterprise bad been delayed tili the spring of ss it is quite possible that our landing would bave been no longer unopposed or cheaply effected


the rus sians alive to the danger would have in trenched their coast line reiuforccd the garrison and augmented their forces in tbe crimea


it may be said that we too would have been better prepared to sustain the enter prise


it might have been so but to learn wisdom or precaution in tbe conduct of a war from anything but disaster would have been contrary to our national custom


it is more likely that the army inactive for a year in turkey would have been the fertile theme of loading articles sarcastic indignant or abusive that public zeal oxhaustiig itself in invective would have lefo us little bettor provided for the enter prise in than in and that if not baffled by the obstacles interposed by tbe forewarned enemy our successes would bave been purchased at a cost of life still greater than that wo deplore


therefore it seemed to some that though our losses and sufferings bad been great we bad not paid too deaily for our footbold on tbe enemys soil if the capture of sebastopol should produce effects permanently crip pling to russian power


those losses and those sufferings were due to the timehonored policy of our na tion


our troops were paying the draw back on the pride of being englishmen


they were brave and indomitable there fore victorious but few and ill provided for war therefore sorely distressed


but tbe nation was aroused and relief was it was trusted at band


a little more en durance a little more misery borne witb cheerfulness and we should see the prize in our grasp while tbe czar impotent to succour would witness witb fruitless rage the fall of the illustrious city


mr


caudles breakfast talk


rfroro punch


january b


chapter i how mb


caudle married miss pbbttyman and how he nagged her to death


when harry prettyman saw the very superb funeral of mrs caudle prettyman attended as mourner and was particularly jolly on tbe coach he observed that tbe dis consolate widower stowed tbat above all men he knew how to make the bebt of a bad bargain


tbe rernack as ibe jr wended would have said was unmanly brutal but quite like that prettyman


the same scoffer when caudle declared he should never cease to weep replied he was very sorry to hear it for it must raise tbe price of onions


it was not enough to help to break the heart of a wife no the savage must joke over its precious pieces


the funeral we repeat was remarkably handsome in prettyroans words nothing could be more satisfactory


caudle epoke of a monument


whereupon prettyman suggested death gathering a nettle


caudle the act did equal honour to his brain and his bosom rejected it


mr caudle attended by many of his friends returned to bis widowed borne in tolerable spirits


prettyman said jocosely poking his two fingers in caudles ribs that in a week hed look quite a tulip


caudle merely replied he could hardly hope it


prettymans mirth however communicated itself to the company j and in a very little time the meeting took tbe air of a very pleasant party


somehow miss prettyman presided at the teatable


there was in her manner a charming mixture of grace dignity and confidence a beautiful black swan


prettyman by tbe way whispered to a friend that there was just this difference between mrs caudle and his sister mrs caudle was a great goose wbereas sarah was a little duck


we will not swear that caudle did not overhear the words for as he resignedly stirred bis tea lie looked at tbe lady at the bead of the table smiled and sighed


it was odd but women are bo aptl miss prettyman seemed as familiar with caudles silver teapot as with her own silver thimble


with a nile upon her face like the butter on tbe muffins she handed caudle his teacup


gaudle would now mi then abstractedly caet his eye above tbe mantelpiece


there was mr


caudles portrait whereupon misb prettyman would say you must tab


comfort mj cadlft indeedou jnubt


at length m


caudle replied lwil misstrettyuian


what then pateeid tbrougb


caudjeibrain


we know not


but this we know in a twelvemprifinaha a week from that lay sarah prettyman was caudles second wife


mrs caudle number two


poor thing


a fashionable novel


in three chapters


cinrtri itue iiorriulk scsriciox


a year ago i was walking in greenwich park


it was on a sunday


lint then x had been din ing at tho trafalgar tho preceding day


with tho ministers and was still suffering from the white bait and wellingtons inexhaustible humour


i was going up the hill and involuntarily agree ing with tho poet dunn how hard it is to climb when i saw in tho distanco the form of lady seraphina podgkinson


dut might i not bo mistaken f


might not tho whitebait ot which i had partaken so largely still affect my vision


i reconnoitered still ctoscr


yes


it was her chantilly voil and swanlike nockher cambric handkerchief with s p and a roso bud worked in hair in tho cornerhor lace mantilla and classic shouldersher cinderella uko footstep and silk stockingsher vory self


dut


no


i would not boliove my eyes


sho who was tho toast of every mossroom tho fashionable frontispiece of every dook of beauty tho laura of every keepsako petrarch tho thou of every sonnet tho heroine of every bet and song she whoso stall nt a fancy fair took moro money in a day than the pan theon does in a week ho of whom slr jere miah snobs said that when sho was absent from hyde park tho ring had lost its brightest jewel she the proud beauty who had nmdo n favour of going to almacks and never went to tho opera oxcoptlng on a tuesday to be seen m greenwich park on n dimmehe


she who never nppeared in publio without halfadozen of tho very best blues ono to carry hor pocket handkerchief another her vinaigrette another her poodle and so on till ench captain hnd a something which ho might dangle and cherish to bo discovered walking hy hersolf


amongst tho nurscrymnids and tho sunday swans and edgars of tho metropolis i inipossiblo


thc absurdity was too intense for belief


i would not credit snell an improbability fur a moment j on the part of ono who had presented me only on my last birthday with n magniltcent pair of bead braces


but what did i seo


by nil that was false and jilting in woman she had on the very mousseline de laine i had brought her from paris lt was tho very samo sprigtho j identical heartseaso lacerated with thorns a pattern too indicative alas


of my own unhappi ness


i needed no further corroboration i my brain polkaed backwards and forwards and then waltzed giddily round and felt vastly uko ona who had lost nil his money at cards and is con scious for tho first time whnt n fool he has been i i rushed madly away but could not help taking a farewell glance before i turned my back upon her for eyer


would i had been blind for then i should not havo witnessed with my burning eyes tho perfidious aristocratic seraphina giving her arra to n sixfoot serjeant nuil taking no orango from his berlin fingers


oh


the strangers tale or the chimney corner of a


coun try inn


from frasers magazine for february


it was late onocliecrloss october evening sortie years agn when proceed ing to scotland from avisit to the lukes i an i veil at the blue bull the liend imitelry of a small tillage in the north of


england


the latter part of my drivo liad buen through a flat sterilo country presenting no bingle feature lo divert my attention from the palsing fleet of jills blenching wind which swept almost aoanunotuly over its desolate aurfaoe witk a s earcbioglceenneas against which


tay triple envelopement of bodycoat surtoutamiplnirk felt almost tis light


and porous a if llieir fabrio bad been of open network


a constant necea inn of sleety showers iwd been brewing in tbe horiaanlo wiudward throughout the day and now and then a dark cloud broke as it were front its moor ings and scudding before the blast discharged as it passed overhead


its icy contents on my jaded solf autl horse with a prepense bitterness and ninlioo which more than once niucmne fain to imitate the example of a philosophie iooking old steed which passed upon the io id and hy turning my back upon it with proper spirit manifest my con temptuous indignation nt its scurvy treat ment


andauere by the way as am something of a practical physiologist may as well note tlown for the difica tion of meteorologists held nowadays in such high repute a well certicd conclusion whieh may perchance aid them in their aptly misty pursuit of what is without doubt in these paris an ex ceedingly dim andfoggy science


what ugnieuts the value of said condhuion is that so to spcak it belongs to the moral rather than the jjicacharocter of the subfile substance to which it re fersa feature which the discerning will peroone ineffably enhances its importance as tending to elucidate the rationale of hat for some six thousand years has been proverbially though improperly reaaule i an the most fitting symbol of causeless caprioo ami motive less instabilityan explosion of which tfalso theory by the demonstration of the true one will serve sill moro brightly to in adate tho enlightened ge in which wo have the singular fell nily to live and pinnacle it yet higher in the estimation of the cleareyed nor shippers of the purely intellectual


the french philosophers hae


lately dt is asserted by themselves discovered rthe most uroly s nsibilily m a cabbage und their visual acumeu has been pro nounced unparalleled since the days of lynceus


jut how poor and pitiful loos this appear when compared with the perception of a motive of inten tion in tho wind itselfthe wind which to ordinal y oiltcs u utterly invisible and only known hy its occasional affect ing deposits ot victimised little lies c upon their tender surface


were given lo the gralulatory and eulogistic strain


might here gorgeously discourse on


this great subject and haply inti rate my claim to learned gratitude


but as i auiot a most modest add un assuming temper incline not to blow tbe trumpet before myself and there fore willingly evade the invidious task


ivell then without further flourish the plain fact is that there is avait deal of malice in the windthat ita freaks discover a most designing and circum venting spirit


it takes a base plea mire in tormenting a poor traveller in ntafcog its assaults mon the least de ienailile points a well as for him at the most inopportune conjunctures nu showing a craft and policy in mb ino


lo of annoyance which on priori grounds would be altogether incredible


lflid turn ins back to meet the brunt it forbwilh abates its violence cunningly husbanding its strength where its ex penditure would bo useless and re serving its liorceit audbitiercst gusts to mtftiie his pallid cheeks and ruddy nose withalwhentempted hythe momontaiy lullthe unlucky wight turns agin to pursue his journey


and again if lie be


bu ta traveller to and fro and lias struggled on manfully against it for a while in the hope that it in his ia vanee it was iris enemy in bia re turn otlcat it will bo bis ally most assuredly if the malicious tyrant hap pen to be in spnrlne mood he is doomed to find in llio taliiy of his expectations another instance ol tho decriifulness of human hopes for uo sooner does he reverse his route no soouer does he begin to felicitate himself and be on kindly terms with his old loe than suddenlyprestissimo the latter has leered about and again rudely blusters at bim from ibo opposition driving tho breath down his throat if ho open his mouth in upbraiding or couiplaint ventingat will the venom of his spleen n angry buffets upon his victimwjio lils heart full of bitterness at ibu spite ful treachery with the defiance ol in dignation and despair doggedly with half shut eyes and puckered cheeks and iteetli presented bnre against the storm plods on


such is the veritable conclusion and mlio will confess hunsi it so dull of per ception and sotlestitnteot experience hsloavow scepticism upon the point


at this i have inductively arrived long since and if cntortainod any urking misgiring as to its soundness the evidence furnished by the present occasion was quite sudle cnt to make me abjure all heretical doub s and root mo more firmly in the orthodox belief and consequently boreasusing this ter n generically cor i could could fix the offending blast to no specific point or quarter of the compassand w ero not n the most fricndl footing as with hard aet teeth and haltshut eyes i urged ni failing horse on to to the little village ot hich i bave made mention above


ubo evening was closing in clouds and storm when i reached the iun and ve rily after such a drive it lightened my heart and raised my pulse lo look upou the round rubicund physiogniuiy oi boniface reflective ot a richly stocked larder as it shone ucuiguantly on nit nessing the arrival of a subslanliallook ingguest with a alise and gig und horno to boot


ri i y la a few ininutesjtriy small travelling traps were consigned lo my chamber my loadof wot cloth thrown off my feet introduced into a most luxurious pair ot slippers my own bythe way for totally eschew tbe current gear supplied hy boots and my person in stalled in a huge arm chair right oppo eito tlrtit radient source of comfort ou a wincr vening a biasing fire shall i not luke mine ease in mineion muttered as atretched myself most unsbpbjstioutodly befare tue genial flame my qniplacencynot in the least disturbed by tbe oopatinal noteof pre parktion from bebind whore the waiter worthy follow wes taking snugar rangements in my behalf for recruit ingexhauaed nature


here waiter satd i when the chink of the cover an nouioced that dinner was placed wheel thej table over here nearer the fire thats well


kow loosen the cork in that bottle and snuff the canillo that will do and so icavo nie for the present end bark ye when ring let mo hare in a steaming supply ot hot water belter bring ititi the kettlewith sono of vour best brandyyour very best oiiild ye for i requirsomotbingof vir tue to chase away tho chill haveoaugbt from that bitter wind


never fear sir jlji bring you stuff that would set the heart ot a snowball on fire


any thing clso sir j nothing moro at present myod fellow said i benignly for al tho mo ment benevolence was too warm at my heart to let mo notico the rather equi vocal commendation bo conferred upon his spirit


and now thought i as fter hirv ing replenished my plate i laid my hand upon the shoiry it is a deuced pity there was not home cheery companion opposite to fill up that ugly vacancy and appropriate that other roast fowl it oats so capitally with this yorkshire ham


and then a fellow who to a keon appetite adds a nice sensibility is wont to feel half ashamed of himself h lien cramming down hi meat in solitude he cannot for tlie life of him adopt the in genious and convenient fiction thal he is exceeding moderation solely from an amiablo desire of countenancing his friend


but tut


i have really been so absent as to have deprived this second lowl of both its wiugs and truly i blush for my incontinence when view the anatomysetting aside ilio neck and feet which to do inyselt justice i have left in unimpaired integritywhich have male of its dear departed com pa mon


hut come i must drown unplea


sant reflection in a bumper of this home brewed


ila


genuine and capital in good soalh a sovereign quieter ot all qualms


and now as a matter of form for in my present capacity of conser vative it is my duty to forswear all de parture from established customs


i will just try what theso knickknackeries are made of but i will make short work with them and then finish with my tum bler of brandypunch just as my old friend


father fogarty used to say to fill up the interstices


but fairly aud softly what is that stationed with re spectful firmness behind the cruetg it spectral or substantial realer illusive


as i am a man of discernment it is gcodiona fide cheshire in tbe very prime of its grand climacteric and it would be a great pity so it wouldand a shabby act of injustice into the bargain to pretermit such modest and unobtru sive merit without giving it some mark of my esteem for its high deserts


so here goes or a very inadequate testimony of my regard


but alas


i terrestrial j


ya are transientman iscaprieiousplea sure palls in the possessionpossession is the parent of new desire all which cardinal themes of tho moralist i now verified nt my own expense


scarce one little hour had passed since a snug meal and a snoringfire wore the grand desi


derata in my eyes but now with all the prefixes aud llixos of good cheer with a most desuable alteration in my person alities and highly delectable beverage to boot they seemed but small things in my sight so long as thesocial attribute df my humanity found no scope for its thiiulgenoe


not thali would have it supposed that i never like to be alone and let frolic fancy follow bor bent and rango at willwherever her own unlet tered impulse prompt or lapse iuto that more dreamy mood in which the understanding takes repose indolent vaeunyuf thought aud bleeps and lefroslied


while the fsce conceals themood lethargic willi a inatk of deep deliberation as the man weie takeil t hu full stfungth absorbed i and lost such dissipation i am sorry to say i often but too delicious in my tight und such a dash ot contradiction is there in my ni tu re


seldom so much so as when i should bo nlletigerooas and attention as when called on to bcarkon to a grave dis course or ej tculate al some old ladys lahls ot terror gleaned from a sunday pa per or weigh the wisdom or wonder at ino wit ol some ol those elderly gentle men so often met with now adays who grafting a shoot of iheflighy philosophy ot modern lashion upon the sturdy trunk of last centurys sagacity delight in delivering opaquo aphorisms about the otuiiipotcnco ol kuowledge anittho ex


cellence of the corrrct enlightenment or inventing


wooden sarcasms against the stolidity of such as aro not smitten with a similar veneration for education and reform and machinery aud steam and political economy and above alf the seientifij


but as i had no such in contivo on the present occasion i was provokiogly diaonclined to send my imagination abroad upon the wing in qoekt of pleasure and craved rather for the company of one or two of my own speeies with whom i might chat about aome of the sublunary commonplaces ot ot tbe day


such a craving however is generally mott inopportune iu a coun try inn aa moat solitary traveler know to their cost and in lieu of gratify ing t it i was tain to lay banda upon the moi ety of an old newspaper which i espied iu the corner of the apartment


but wb was myjaftervi fiiiiirrudpykiiockihg


uieltehyer lill


igit ovtiuy sinistersupporlcr against thojfootofiamost contumacious hablo in tcred vvilli chancery uoticesahtiounco bents of discugagodactive young fool liieiij staid elderlycooksirroipectaiil nurses c but vyilhvfnothiug vvhich tlie most selfmortifying uioital could poruseexcepting vkanty fragment of production of that mott poetioai of practical tuenand who of the present genertioniamerited itie latterepithet


so highly f robins elogistfvii certain stately


and majeptio ulatision willi


its appendage of gardens girded with foliage and filled with frulgeelysianr pleasure grounda tdstcfliytlisposedslirubberiessweep ing


lavvnsvcrilanlvislas richly wodetl scenery tsid c


vltlieieeiqui


si te ly adapted to


the wantsand wishosof onie weal thy old w est indian iu iho longevity of which class by tho way bo is peculiarly interested who may feel inclined in this beauteous eden to pro long tiutihan lipppiness the riel auttttunal evening bchis lie


at


the tootit was cruelly and courtly announced alackaday


thattho estimationsof imagination anti mensuration should so widely difler that jflie olerit of tliia coiiceuliated essence of all thal is ex quisite wastuiroeu acres three pbds and twelve perches r disheartened by


rapd descent frain


if io regionol fancy


to that of


fact and disappointed in my search after the readable i was returning crest fallen and oompanionless to my chair when most felicitously i bethought myself of the aparnheutycleped the j travellersroom which iai generally attached to sueli inns as are on or ad jacent to tho great coinniorcial tracks


a room of this kind is seldom destitute of company which if not very rcchjerch is pfton very racy with a pretty fair al ipwance of floating intelligence and no rarely a good dash of wbimsioaluessiu soine of its members wlioaro apt to ex hibit thehisefyes in aspects not a little amusing to the hunter after the charac teristic or tlie ridiculous


iollowing up the lucky thought i forthwith instituted an inquiry lind gathered fron tho waiter that mysup position was quite correct


that there were five or six in the room already that moro miht drop in as the evening advanced and iliat an elderly gentle man a stranger had arrived a tevy mi nutes before in a post chaise amihad desired to be slicwn into the sume apart ment


i resolved to loso no timo in a ul inga myself to the number and accord ingly shortly found my person snugly ensconced in the chimneycorner and my optics employed in leisurely pcrusjj ing tbo coni punypresent


au except one who was a little aloof and whom i rightly took to be the stranger genlle mnrwere seated at tbb samo table earnestly bul joyously employed iu lay inga fitting substratum for such post pcreniul poutious as the severity ot


the weather warranted and the genial com fort of the firesideinvited


i be waiter waa


burry ing lo and fro in obedience to diver simultaneous directions arrang ing glasses


preparing materials saying jos sir to one who askud bim if be wasleuf and no sir to another who callod for a knife and fork casting in his fleet career an occasional glance of mingled menace and reproach al a fatheaded pantryboy vvliose state of general bewilderment told that ho was yet only in his apprenticeship and onlopng to administer acuff to the sanie youth when his stupidity sur passed all suiforauco and when whieh was more than once he detected him in iho ilficit act of abstraciugsuiidry morsels which struck hifancy from such savoury disher as were coubgned to hiiu for conveyance puttido oh hbo


whole the sceuo was highly gratifying to the philanthropist anti friend to retributivo justice and as


ampretty vyoll up iu both those characters had much rea ren to felicitateimysejfon my ohange of locality


itfa sbprtiiuo


the entire party was seated srmicircularly in front of a noble fire each will iii yard ol play nit ponsuble at baud uud all apprenily in high state of cordiality and boon com panotishi


p und al tor the severi ty of theirmprniiigsiexprc posed ochorus the favourite old fes tivo songy which a dlunip little maninr company bummed as ho filled his pipe tho day is gone the nights our owa


then let us feast the soul


if any pain or cuie rcmaiu vv hydrown it inthii howl


v


v rut though the circumstancos within doors tended lo mirthful jollity the in creasing violence of tho storm without soon exorcised a couuter influence arid as the window shook in their castsmid tbo bail rattled heavily upon llio sound ing panes you might perceivea


sombre hue gradually gathering over ithe con versation a hue which deepened into bsuluto gloom as the wiiiilsassaulted the now quaking tenement which housed us witha groaning vehemence and loree which signified a desire anti aa some would bare it anftbilty


tcnrryour position by sepulchred storm and hap ly perform n wild requicscat over bur remains wccould bear ilieni nitistcr ing as it were ujioii the distiiiit waste then swooping sullenly and with aug menting lorcv aliig


hilltlfeyrchid the expecting inny round the trembling wallsi of which ibey blustered with sa vago turbulence as if furious at tho ob stiuacy of its obstruction blast after blast fell upon tlib already rickerty building with ia pertinacity and force which seriously seemed te manace its stability but though its old walls shook hey y et withstood the brunt and the baffled eiripest ipnt with its eilbrlt retired for a hi lo to gather strength for a fresh attack


a change now came ever the spirit ef the party or at least over their con versalien and instead pi


quips and crank being bandied jtuerrilytoaud fro each seemed to find a strang pleasure in trying to inspire tbo rest with dismal farobouings about the winil worthiness of tile radier antwl jcut ed fico which for the present shel jil


jjftlus and many lntd copious stories itontius


saws and modern


in jaj of bciugg innumerable buried jy tho falls of houses vastly stouter ched by storms vastly weaker tluntlo house pntl storm withwhich we luckless mortals had to doal with at the current cruis


hut though every one seemed lo jield his assent to the justice ot these fears and to bo most charitably disposed te preparo his neighbour for the worst yet somhow cr other io fur as i could ace noone appeared particu larlyuneasy in regard to bis own indi vidual salcty h uti as tbe blast roared about the house or rumbled down the chlmuey each drew his chair closer lo the hearth and swallowed his beverage with a degree of placidity which would have redounded to tho credit of aurelius antoninus himself considering the im minent hazard in which according to the general avowal we were all placed


he elderly gentleman of whom i have spoken was sealed in an arnichiir op posite me in bo corresponding corner without asyoi having takon any part in the cemersatin or being apparently influenced by iholcehngs which gave occasion to it fjno in mouth his eyes fixed upon the glowing grate ho pulled leisurely away in a ttate of tho most perfect quietude varied only by his occasionally seizing tio poker which he kept at hand and roiimiif up tlc blazing eoacoiil uro till the flicker ing flame threw broad masses of jellow light on all around and duskily illumi nated the i onoto recesses of the heavily wainscoted and somewhat gloomy old npartmtnt


ho was a tell largely framed man seemingly about sixty but of hale and nervous constitution with the look of oile who had spout tho greater portion of his lite in severe but healthy occupations


hough a little stooped ho was of a goodly presence had a pleasant rubicund countenance lively welldefined features a lather scanty supply of whitened hair abd wellset eloquentbluo eyes nhoso moislness told thal ho was no no leo totuller anti whoso mingled expression ot thoughtful intelli gence and manly feeling with perhaps a slight dash of the romantic as ho mused silently in his chair before the waring flames gave lum an inlcrcst and at tractiveness which strongly inolmod mo to a closer and mole social relation than thal ot mere proximity


as jet however he seemed indisposed to con versation and i know not how to ongage him in it until seeing lum knocking the ashes out of his pipe and about to reple nish i culled lo mind that i had a piece of choice ucgrohead in my cigar case given me ab special favour by an amer can captain a few days helene


tbi precious article i minedlately produced and giving secondhand the commenda tions ot its donor requested lliat lc would oblige me by an opinion of its merits which i doubted not he would rate the higher after making uie of the very indifferent maenal iurntshed by tho inn


ho thanked me for my offer which he added


was most acceptable b that which e had just been sinoktug bad bul


a very sorry flavour and after a few whiffs pronounced miue to be ge nuine end nonpareil


it would be worth gold added he to any unlucky extern this pinching nightevery pull would drue away a pang and gratefully ho offered up as incens to the memory of ihe first grower of the cloud com pelling and care dispelling weed


true true as gospel said a little man near bimi vm a smoking en thusiast tnyselt sirquite of a con genial taste with you and can fully enter into your poetry about pipes and tobacco


do you know of a stormy foreboding owtul night like ibis theres something in my lind quite sublime like


very truo very rue sir rejoined the old gentleman particularly when a man has takon a hearty dinner and is sitting before a roaring fire with a suiking tumbler of punch beside bim and a braco within hiui


dare saj gentlemen said be addressing himself to ibe company that you are all of my opinion that these little aide and appli ances groatly heighten the fleet und marvellously sharpen a mans sense oi admiration lor the sublimo and awful


a cordial laugh from tho party with the exception of the rather disconcerted smoking enthusiast followed by a simultaneous kissing of glasses signified an entire concurrence in his doctrine


i mjself btldtd be after a brief pause i myself at this moment afford an instance m point for i was just thinking with a good deal of in terest aud perhaps some pleasure of a scene of no little difficulty ns well as danger which took place in this neigh bourhood now nearly thirty years since nnd which though it had enough in deed of excitement had any thing but ogrecahility for me at the linio of its occurrunco


heaven hjess mo


i eja culated the old gentleman thoughtfully as if to himself how yon wicked blastand the spot where am seated recall to my mind thai fearful night and the scenes of which it was ihe fining witness as vividly as if ibey dated hut irom yesterday these allusions to events doubtless of dismal interest kindled the curiosity bl


the company who well disposed m their present mood to relish alight thal anywise savoured of the uild and wonderful anxiously soliciting the old tuan to he allowed to share in the sub ject of his thoughts which request they said be could hardly relusej after having awakened their anxiety by bis references to it


ile answered that he would atonco comply with our wishes as independent of his desires to consult our inc ination it would he interesting to himself sitting on the spot be did after the lapse of so long a period to recall circumstances which had io closely heeled kim at the time but which b deserved doubtless derived much of their iuterest in bia ey from bis per tonally engagementin them and would not probably possess bait the eest for


others in the mere recital


the follow ling is the story much io tho words iu which it vrrs narrated by theold gen ii trian but destitute ofcoursojof the additionalintoies which ii drew from tho appropriate accompaniments of his airand manner and tramour presottt consciousness of his having been the hero of hat ho related


to be continued


the alinistlilis wooing


a talb of new enqlani


by mrs h b stowt


chapter xii


miss pkissy


will our little mary really fall in love with the doctor


the question reaches ua in anxious tonei from all the cirole of our readers aad what espe eially shooks us is that grave doctors of divinity and serious stookingknitting matrons seem to be the class wllo are particularly set against tbe success of our excellent orthodox nero and bent on reminding us of the claims of that unregenerate james whom we have sent ts sea on purpose that


marr ronntror horaolf nf tfiaf


fnnlioh partiality for him whioh all the christian world seems bent on perpetuating


now really sayb tho rev mrs q looking up fro wi her bundle of sewing society work you are not going to let mary marry the dootor my dear madam is not that just what you did yourself after having turned off three or four lascinating young sinners as good as james any day


dont make us believe that you are sorry for it now


is it possible says dr theophrastus vho is himself a stanch hopkinsian divine and who is at prebiittt recovering irom his last grand effort on natural and moral ability is it possible that you are going to let mary forget that poor young man and marry dr h


that will never do in the world


dear doctor consider what would have become of you if some lady at a certain titns had not had the sense and discernment to fall in love with ihe man who came to her disguised a a theologian but hes so old saya aunt maria


not at all


old f


what do you mean


forty ia the very season of ripeness the very meridian of manly lustre and splendour


but he wears a wig


my dear madam so did sir charles grandison and lovelace and all the other fine fellowsof those days the wig was the distinguishing mark of a gentleman


no spite of all you may say and deolare we do insist that our doctor is a very proper and probable subject for a young lady to fall in love with


if women have one weakness more marked than another it is towards veneration


they are boru worshippers makers of silver shrines for some divinity or other wbicb of course they always think fell straight down from heaven


the first step towards their falling in love with an ordinary mortal is generally to dress him out with all manner of real or landed superiority and having made him up they worship him


now a truly great man a man really grand and nble in heart and intollect has this advantage with women that bo is an idol ready made to hand and so that very painstaking and ingenious sex have less labor in getting him up and oan be ready to worship him on shorter notica


in particular is this the cbbs where a sacred pro fession and a moral supremacy are added to the intellectual


just think of the career of celebrated preachersand divines id all ages


have they not stood like tbe image tht nebuchadnezzir the king set up nnd all womaukiad ooquettes und flirts not excepted been ready lo fall down and worship even before ihe round of cornet flute harp suckbut and so forth


is not the faithful paula with her beautiful face prostrate in rever ence before poor old lean haggard dying st jerome in the most splendid painting in the world aa emblem and eiga of womans eternal power of selfracrifice lo svlat phe deems nolie t hi man


does no old richard baxter i u vilh


delightful pinprlehiattlm liv liis


wiln fell in love with hira firf i it hislonjr pale fact ami


hov shr ii eiihd


dear foul nflcr m hit


v nri


oi rn n


i v hat she had loundliirn less ktr snd bilti


r ti i ehehad expected


the fact is women nre burdened with foal faith reverence more than they know what to lo with thoy stunt like n hedye of hweef throwing out flumeting let drils everywhere nr


fcmetliiiij


high and blrong to climb by and


vn they fiud it


bo it ever o


rough in


the hark tuv catch utjon it


and instiinccs r


ho wanting i


f those who have filmed away from tie futery f adtiiirers to prestrate iheinclvfs at tbu feet i f


genuine hero who never wooed ism except rj heroic deeds and tho rhetoric of n noble hiv


never wan there a dihtinguishcl man wbost greatuefs could sustain the test of mimiiefv tneslic inspection better than our doctor


strong in a bingletcnrted humility a perfest unoon scioufncih of self an honest aad sincere absorp tion in high and holy themes and objects


ihvre wb iu him what we bo seldom see a perfectlcgic


tf life his minutest deeds ere the true resultsrf h s sublimest principle


iiis whole uaitro physical nud intellectual was simple pure arid cleanly


he was temperate us an anchorite in nil uiatteth of living avoiding from a healthy in stinct all those intoxicating stimuli then common among the clergy


in bis early youth indeed lie hnd formed an attachment to the almost universal clerical pine but observing a delicate wotiua once nauseated by coming into the atmosphere which he and his brethren had pollute h set himself gravely to reflect that that which could so olletul a woman must needs be uncom ly


nud unworthy a christian man wherefore he iid his pipe on the mantelpiece and never nftcrwivds resumed the indulgence


in all his relations with womauhood ho was de licate and reverential forming his manners by th it old precept the elderwomenentreat as moiiio the youuger as sisters whioh rule short and simple as ir is is nevertheless the most perfect rtsum of all true geutlemanliness


then es fr person the doctor was not handsome to be sur but


ho ws what sometimes serves with womm better majestic and manly and when anim tivl by thought and feeling having even a commanding grandeur of mien


add to nil this that iir valiant hero ia now on the straight road to bring him into that situation most likely to engage the warm partisanship of a true woman namely thri of a man unjustly abused for rightdoing nn ono may see that it is ton to one our mary may fall in love with him yet before she knows it


if it wore not for this mysterious selfnessand


hameness which makes this wild wandering nn oanonical sailor jmea marvyn so intimate ard internal if his thread were not knit up with ihe thread of her life were it not for the old habit if feeling for him thinking for him praying for him hoping for him fearing for him which woe is us


is the unfortunae habit of womankind


if it were utst for that fatal something which neither judgment nor wistuv nor reason nor common sense shows any great skill in unravelling we are quite suro tlmt alary would be in love with the doctor within the next six months


es it


is we leave you all to infer from your own heart and conseiounr ss what bis chnnces are


a new aort of scene is about to open onour he roine and we bhall show her to you for an ever


in ut least in new associations and with a different background from that homely and rural one in which hhe has fluttered as a white dove amid leafy and congenial surroundings


as wo have before iutiinated newport presented a resume of innny different phases of society all brought upon a social level by the then universally admitted principle of equality


there were scattered about in the settlement lordly mansions whoso owners rollod in emmi zoned oarriages and whose wide halls wete the scenes of a howy and almost princely hospitality


by her husbands side mrs katy soudder wag al lied to one of these families of wealthy plant t iv und often recognized the eoriieclioti with a quiet undertone of witisfaetiou as a dignified and m if respecting woman should


she liked once in a while quietly to let people know that altboi


b thoy lived in the plain little cottage and mcde t o pretensions yet they had good blood in their volni that mr scudders mother ivas a wilcox nnd that tho wileoxes were she supposed as hipn anybody generally ending the remark wilb t e observation


that


ult these things to ui sure were matt ers of small conseijtieuo pitk u t last it wud


lie of far more impor auce to have been a true christian than to have beeu conneeu d wilb the highest families of the land novel thtloes mrs scudder was not n l tlc pleused to have in her possession


n card of iuv i tion to a splendid wedding party but was jsoi c to bo itivi ti on


friday at the wilcox jfailor


thought it


it very becoming imm oi icti h


deceskorl


mr dotnlder that his ilnw and duugi vr should be brought to mind c becoming and praiseworthy io faet tha though fin old wo man as shi said with n conplncent striighty ing of her tall lithe bgurr she really thouuht


o must make an effort to go


accordingly early ono morning after all d mestic duties had been fulfilled and the clock loudly tickiug through the empty rooms told that all needful bustle had died down to silence m b knty mary and miss prissy diamond the dress maker might have been observed sitting in toloirn senate around the camphorwood trunk before spoken of and which exhaled vague foreign nnd indian perfumes of eilk and bandalwood


you may have heard of dignitaries my good reader but


i assure you you kiiow very littli uf a situation of trust or importance compared o that of the dressmaker in a small new kngland town


what important interests does aha hold in her hands iiow its she besieged courted deferred to


three months beforehand all her days and nighm are spoken for and the simple statement that only on that day you can have mfbs clippers ib of itself an apology for any omission of attention elsewhere it strikes homo at once to the deepest conscious ness of evory woman married or single


iiow thoughtfully is everything arranged weeks before hand for the golden important season when miss clippers can come on that day there is to be uo extra sweeping dusting cleaning oooking no vi siting no receiving no reading or writing but all with one heart and soul are to waft upon her intent to forward the great work which sbo gra ciously affords a days leisure to direct


seated in her chair of state with her wellworn cushion bristling with pins and needles at her sid j her ready roll of patterns and her scisorp the hears judges and decides ev caflitdra on the pod sible or not possible iu that important at


on which depends the right presentation of the floral part of natures great horticultural show


she alone is competent to say whether there is any available remedy for the stained brnndth iu janes dress whether the fatal spot by any magical boon


pocus oan be cut out from the fulness or ini tial up and hmotherod from view iu the gather or concealed by some now fashion of trimming falling with genorouh appropriateness exactly aorow tliu fatal weak poiut


shecan tell you whether that rem nant of velvet will make you a basque whether mammas ld silk can reappear iu juvenile greee for miss luoy


what marvels follow her whom ever she goes


what wonderful results does t he contrive from the most unlikely materials us everybody after her departure wonderb to see old things become bo much better


than new


among the mobt influential and happy of her clans was miss prissy diamond a little dapper doll like body quick in tier motions and nimble in her tongue whose delicate cpmplexion flaxen curl merry flow of spirltstand ready abundance of gaiety song and atpr oart from herprofessional accomplishments made her a welcome gues in every family iu the neighborhood


miss prissy laughingly boasted being past forty sure that the avowal would always draw down on her quite a storm of compliments on the freshness ol her sweetpea complexion and the brightness of her merry blue eyes


she was wellploased to hear dawning girla wondering why with so many ad vantages she had nevor married


at such re marks miss ribsy always laughed loudly and de clared that she bad alwoya had such a etriiu f engagements with the women that she never


itid half an hour to listen to what any man living would say to her supposing she could stop to hear him


besides if i were fo get married nobody else could she would say what would bectme of all the weddingclothes for everybody else


but sometimes when mis prisy felt extremely gracious she would draw out of her little cheat just the ltint e t tipend of a sigh anj tall somo young lady in a confidential undertone that one of these day sb would tell ber something aud then there woa


d come a wink of her blue eye and a hitterifi f the pink ribbons iu her cap quite htimuntiu u youthful inquikitivenee thojgb wj have iijvr been able to learn by any of our antiqiaii m r eearches that the expectations thus exeitcd trj ever gratified


the mysteries of sydney


not by the author of the mysteries of paris or the mysteries of london but by one of ourselves


part iichapter xvi


lipey continues his narrative to young daylight


the hulkthe bay shipdeath at sea


they did not seem over and above anxious to furnish us with house room in newgate as two days after our trial we were packed off with sixteen others by the van to the hulk at cha ham which was then under the charge of captain owen


he was a regular tartar and was more likely to have been brought up on hot coals and brimstone than mothers milk and farinaceous food


he was hated alike by his officers and the convicts although he adopted somewhat different modes of treatment to them when they committed a fault


it was a kick out for the one and a tieup for the other