may happiness and peace never again rest upon your soul my boy lester until you shall have taken the first step on the right path and bowed down to the accep tance of a humble and unquestioning faith


but reflection had reinstated proud human reason on her throne in the boys heart and he answered coldly only let this state of indecision pass from my mind my mother and then he assured that happiness and peace will reign where firm opinions have their abode


bat enough of thisfarewell my mother my dear dear motherand the stoic lad became suddenly the living child and clung weeping to his mother with a passionate strained embrace


alas alas


she sighed as she watched the swiftspeeding coach that bore away her treasure and her lips continued to murmur in the words of the poet and thy dark sinoh


i could drink the cup if from this woe its bitterness hah won thee


do you wonder reader at the one sole thought that possessed with such inten sity that mothers heart and made her boys intellect and talent but so much pain to her yearning love


she knew well the sin of the human heart and saw in lesters ability but a stumblingblock to his attainment of that one thing need ful without which the gift of life itself was but tremendous woe upon his devoted head unless indeed he made it a step by which to rise higher and nearer to eternal life


if to have made that bojr a believing christian it had been neces sary and possible for a human hand to strike down the lamp of his glorious thought and leave him a dullersouled mortal than those around him hers would have been the unhesitating hand which would strike the immolating blow unhesitatingly she would have deprived him of all hope of happiness in this life if by so doing she could have secured him eternal happiness in the next


so pure was that mothers love


but there was no need of such a sacri fice if it had been within the range of human possibility to offer it


the eye of god was upon lester eshton the work of god was preparing for him to do and in due time he who ruleth all things brought the workman to his la bour and guided him in its performance


we shall see how gentle reader


pet perennials


no


i by patty parsley


chapter i farewell to the mountain farewell to the dell the flower and the fountain bright spot in the wild wood dear home of my childhood farewell


oh farewell


olave lystor sat silently gazing from her chamber window


what ailed the maiden i wonder that she who was the very spirit of joy and mirth should sit alone in the moonlight while ringing peals of laughter floated up from below


her dark gleaming eyes shone brighter even than usual for they were shining through tears her rosy cheeks were rosier with excitement the rings of soft dark hair floated back with the night breeze and the full pouting lips quiver ed with suppressed utterance and the lovely olave lystor appeared beneath the moons soft light and with the gloamings of feeling reflected upon her features like a being of a more beautiful world


but again what ailed the maiden


truth to say gentle reader hers is a sad tale to tell but have patience and you shall know all


here on this very homestead in which olave dwelt now had her father twenty years before settled amid the wild bush with a young wife and infant child as his only but his allsufficient com panions


here had he toiled until plenty smiled around him and no comfort was wanted in his happy home


and olave lystor smiled as she thought of that long ago


but here too sorrow had come upon the bright child of her parents love


loss a long succession of losses fell upon mr lyster a dry season and consequent failure in pasturage a disease among the flocks a bankers failure a fall in the price of wool and suddenly the rich squatter was a ruined man and then when he turned disparingly to his dear ones for the strength which he had not came the final and the bitterest blow of all the gentle light of his life the mother of his darling child fell away and was no more seen she had passed to her home above when she lost her home below


mr lyster never recovered that last loss


his orphan child removed him from the home which was no longer their own to the house of an uncle in sydney and there after six months of almost unconscious existence mr lyster too drew back into the un seen amid smiles and tears smiles for his own joy tears for the sorrow of the helpless one he left behind unprotected save by the hand of god


a month or two olave lingered in the house of her uncle and then calling forth all her energy she declared her determination of seeking some employ ment


in vain they entreated her to remain and be to them as she had been to her parents the light of their eyes and the pride of their hearts for they were childless


olave wept but was firm


i am a woman she said and no longer a child i have the power to work and the will to work gods sentence pronounced upon mans sins and turned to a blessing in the utterance was that he should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow


i bow willingly to that sentence for i know that the breath that turned it to a blessing will give me strength to perform it


and then earn ing my daily bread i shall possess mans noblest earthly prerogative independ


ance


uncle aunt i must work do not prevent me


and they bade her go with their blessing


and now came olave again on her childhood home


she had learnt that its new proprietor mr glenstone required a governess for his children and the thought of the old place the dear old place came over her and conquering down her proud reluct ance to appear as a servant in the little village which her father had founded she applied for the situation and obtain ed it


on the evening of which i speak olave had been more than two years in mrs glenstones family and as i hinted was loved by all within its precincts employers pupils servants all


nay to whisper in my readers ear there were some out of the family that loved her even more than those within it


well what ailed pretty olave lystor then that she sat all alone in her chamber and let her tears glisten down through the moonlight as if her very heart would break


just this mrs glenstone had informed her that evening that she should spend the winter with her whole family in town


was that all


oh silly olave to grieve so bitterly at six months absence from home


they will soon slip by silly olave


or perhaps could it be possible that another piece of information given accidentally by the good lady in her chattiness viz that their excellent minister mr dean would be removed to another and better living before their return could have caused this outburst of sorrow


verily i think not for olave was a sensible pretty girl who knew her own value and mr dean was a fatherly old man of forty without any fortune a widower and with a child a little sixyearold daughter on his hands into the bargain verily i think not


perhaps she was sorry to leave their next neighbours mr weston and his sister mr weston was a very nice young gentleman with a very nice fortune who wore a moustache paid open court to olave and moreover was actually negociating with mr glenstone for the purchase of lystor dale


thats the way the regrets were flying i dare be certain


your little head olave had been building bright chateaux en espagne and you had dreamt of yet being mistress of lystordale and now you weep because you think your air castles are knocked down


look again pretty olave there is not a stone moved only the building is retard ed for awhile


take heart maiden the hope still remains steady and sure win the day


but now mrs glenstone entered the room and laid her hand upon olaves shoulder before she knew any person was present


olave started


what weeping miss lystor


said the old lady and wherefore pray


olave smiled and rose to wash the tear marks from her face saying as she did so


i am foolish i fear madam but theres no place like home


mrs glenstone watched her for a moment and then said smilingly


brush your curls smooth miss lys tor for there is a gentleman enquiring for you below


what who exclaimed olave veer ing round from the glass trembling and pale as a sheet


mr weston desires to see you mrs glenstone said slowly but still with the mischievous smile


oh is that all


murmured olave only mr weston


and the blood rushed back again suffusing cheek and temple with a ruddy glow


only mr weston answered the lady and she left the room


i dont believe she cares for him i dont believe olave lystor cares one straw for gilbert weston soliloquised the old lady as she descended the stairs but she added if olave is not in love with somebody i dont know what it is to be in love and the goodman says i once did and he dont think ive forgotten yet and i dont think i have either


heigho


who can it be i wonder


an autobiographical jail sermon


from dickens household words


chapter


the third


the hero settles in business as a shoplifter in edinburgh


captures


escapes


murder


flight


returned to edinburgh haggart put up at the house of a dealer in stolen goods and worked for about three months with william henry a well known enib during which time he was engged chiefly in that branch of his art known to some as shoplifting but known to him as working at the hoys and coreing


this business not proving so lucrative as the purse and pocket book line the new partners agreed to take a country stroll


after one or two adventures illness


obliged our hero to return toithe capital where he met with a new friend in george bagriea willing but poor snib and returned to his fathers house giving no accountof his time


during absence but promising to live a quiet life and work at his old business of millwright


he waa well received and three days after his return being on the point of slipping out for a nights pleasure he became so seriously ill that he kept his bed for a month after wards he describes in an edifying way


how when sick unto death feelings of re morse operatedgreatly upon him but he goes on to say that when recovery bet in even while in a feeble and weak state he at tempted little enterprises of shoplifting


but he lived athome kept such good hours and made his absences so short that his parents thought he could not be doing any thing that was wrong


a paltry


adven turer having implicated him ina mean theft of a roll of tobacco which it was be neath his dignity to think of committing david was caught and brought before the magistrate


a lost firkin of butter was then laid at his door


the proof was inadequate he had effectually blinded his own family and he was released after ten days in calton hill jail when his uncles became cautioners on his behalf


not many days afterwards two ladies mrs kean and kate camron both com pletely flashas well as game entered with nim into a considerable enterprise of shop lifting upon a draper


the ladies being taken betrayed their companion but he made out so gocd a defence before the ma gistrate that he wasjonly erdered


to find bail


this was about the middle of january eighteen hundred and nineteen when hag gart was betwen seventeen and eighteen years of ege


he remained quiet at home for a month afterwards when one night going up cowgate i methe says george bagrie and another cove whom i did not know bagrie asked me what i was doing


i said


nothing


upon which he replied it is a pity such a good workman should be idle


they accordingly joined efforts at once on the same nightj earning a watch and chain on the next day they started for mussle eurgh and did an important stroke of busi ness in the lifting of some small costly bales out of a merchant tailors shop


david again had left his fathers house and soon afterwards for acts of violence waa imprisoned for four months in bridewell


it seems to have been soon after this time that his mother died of a broken heart


when released from bridewell whether he had been carried hitting out right and left at the menials of justice he lived quietly for five weeks and ate heartily to recover the strenth taken out of him by bread and


water diet


as soon sb he had got stouter and could stand a brpsh he went off to leith with twoassociates a baker and an umbrella maker who agreed with him that leith was a pretty good place for a few adventures


they took lodgings in the kirkgte and re mained eight or ten day s from leith they went to perth with a perth man whom they left there and at perth they joined to their company an able pickpocket named doctor black from perth they went to aberdeen accompanied by a filth cove


at aberdeen races david and the doctor kept together and collected no fewer than thirty pooketbooks but not so much as would sweeten a grawler in the whole of the w


planted them all in a cornstalk near the raceground


a day or two afterwards the whold parly was seized and david and the doctor spent two months together in the bridewell


being released they travelled back to edinburgh robbing their way on


on christmas day being at leith david en tered a house after dark and obtained a watch silver spoons and a pair of boots on new years morning he was at work in edinburgh with two fresh associates and received as his share of ihe produce of that tuornings work five silver watches and a gold one


go the new year eighteen hundred and twenty began prosperously


on the eigh teenth of january he was arrested on suspic ion of a robbery but after two daya detention released upon finding bail


at the game time


his two ccmjnio s of itw yejg dny wce j ilc lockup ouse end daxid nirciul his frnnds uudennired the jailors watch fulness with drink took his keys from him ard fob cut ret his friends only but also four other pi loners


then he went over to j leith and did good business by shopliftinf


and the flashing of hia hands through shop window panes a a prckpocket and by entering a house or two at lith he was seized ty the police and after a desperate fihfc with them for big liberty wag carhied to the jiil atreamiur all over with blood


having obtained a tile davidcontrived after a detention of two weeks to break his way cut of this prison together with an associate


once free tthey ran


to dalkeith without stopping where they procured on the same night iu the way of business twelve yards of superfine blue cloth which they carried on to kelso


arrived with all possible speed at dumfries they atrended the market an d found money plentiful


david also obtained a tolerable sum of property which he removed one evening out of the house of one mr christian graham


here too our hero fell in again with his old friend barney mguire


they met only to part


baruay wearing hid friends coat was arrested by mistake for david but being taken there was reason why he should be kept and tran sported to botany bay


david started for carlisle but was pursued and caught by the dumfries polie


and passed back to the authorities iu leith


then he was tried in edinburh for one act of housebreaking eleven acts of theft ani one act of prison breaking


the jury brought him in guilty of theift only


but there yeas informality and after lying uu aeatenced in edinburgh jail the prisoner was forwarded to dumfries there to be tried for the business he had been doing in those parts


on the way he was detained two days in the jail of peebles and saw a was of escape from it bat the shamefully rotten state of the jail blankets which would bear no weight defeated his inten tion


he wrapped a torn fragment of blanket round hia body before leaving as he writes


for future use little dreaming of the awful purpose it was afterwards to be tarned to


it was used in aid of the escape made soon afterwards from dumfries jail


with a large stone slung in it a deathblow was given to the turkey of dumfries thomas morris


the plan of escape wa dcaporate and contrived not by one prisoner only but david haggart was the onlycaptive who on the alarm being given baffled his pursuers


at cne time in a ditch by gumlungan wood after he had crossed an open field with constables in chace i could have breateed he says on john richardson us he passed me


never did a fox double the hounds in better style


next day being concealed in a haystack on the other side of annan i heard a woman ask a boy if that lad was taken that had broken out of dumfries jiil the boy answered no but the jailor died last nigbtat ten oclock


he knew then that when he w tried next it would be for murder


the woman and boy passed on


the fugitive came out of the stack


hurrying away he presently changed clothes with a searcrow in a field and marched on in the dress of a potato bogie chapter the last


david haggart resumes business in england scotlandand visitsireland


seizure


trial


condemnation


execution clerical ad miration of his piety and phrenological enjoyment of his bumps


at carlisle our hero found au old ac quaintance mrs stubs in riceargate who gave him the first food he had had since he left dumfries jail


travelling on then by nght in girls clothes he reached newcastle and remlined there for twelve days dilligent in his profession as a thief


one evening on his way to the theatre he brushed against john bichardson who did not notice him


thereupon he determined to return to edin burgh


and went by coach filching purses on hia way


i at edinburgh he went out only at night and in girls clothes


one night dressed in hia own clothes he ventured to leith and there met the wellknown chief of the police


their eyes met david thrust his hand into his breast pocket as if for a pistol and he doubtless carried one upon which the officer


of justice fled and a minute after david fol j lowed hi example


he then went on a scotch professional tour with a partner and returned again to edinburgh where he read a police bill offering a reward of severity pounds for his apprehension


this caused him again to travel


be went to perth where there was during his stay an illami nationfor the queen


carolines acquittal at which he writes in his own learned style under the eye of approving pastors i played a noble stick having got four wedge scouts silver watches and a dressgold one and thirteen screavesin a lil which i forkt from a suok


i took four of the scouts from shopkeepers who were standing at their own doors


never was there such a down in a voil hue and cry in a town


firm to his calling the heroic youth did all this knowing well that arrest for the stealing even of a pin would involve trial for a murder


after a profitable tour among surrounding fairs haggart returned to perth by coach slipping away at the journeyb end without paying any fare and soon afterwards was with his comrades for the time surprised in a privateroom at an inn by constables


he assumed the air of a gentleman and tue inn keeper whom he had taken care never to cheat believed him to be one


quite fil ing to accompany the officers and explain any misunderstanding he stepped aside for his great coat and slipping out at the back door made all haste to an obscure bouse in the town which he did not leave till two days afterwards avhen he had business was done but in the evening david robbed aud beat on the highway a farmer who had many banknotes in his pocket


with one comrade david then doing business by the way proceeded to glasgow and embarked at the broomielaw for ireland


one passenger was the provost of kirkaldy who landed at lamlash and before laud in scrutinised our hero


he wrote a letter noxt day to dumfries


it was well for kin ays david i did not know his sus picionsat the time for he went on shore in blacknight and i could too easily have put him under the wave


at the fairs in ireland david for si time was happy


paddy land he instructs us is the land for pickpockets lots of money oceans of drink and knocking down pell mell even on j then is the time to work away at the business


england is too much hunted and there is no money in scot land at drum more a man who had been fel lowprisoner with haggart at dumfries saw him and being afterwards pulled for thieving sought his own release by telling that he had seen haggart the


murderer at market


by this mans help haggart was taken and spiteof his ingenious imitation of the irish brogue detained


three yeo men were ordered to join the constables in sitting up with him all night in the court room to prevent his escape


yet he can


trived to take a harlequins leap through a large window alight upon his legs unhurt by the broken glass and run under the shadow of a dark entrance white the bewildered watch men hunted out into the night


he then travelled to newry there resumed his busi ness and afterwards reached dublin where he paid the money for a passage to america


a new partner and a lucky stroke of bnsiness tempted him to forfeit his passagemoney and remain in ireland a run of success followed after which he was proceeding to belfast to take ship for france when ho heard of a fair at clough six miles on one side of bis route which he resolved lo attond


and at which he resolved to exercise his call ing for the last time upon british soil


there he was seized by a pigdrover for a theft which had been committed on the spot but could not bo proved


the pigdrovei dragged him before a justice at dcwnpatrkk where his personal resemblance to an old irish offender secured his condemnation


returned to jail he happened to pass within sight of the magistrate at drummore and was recognised as the man who had escaped from the court house


he was carried to kilniainham jail and detected in an attempt to break that prison the account he gaye of himself was i tiusausjactery


joba kichsvdaon was ire laiiii setking haggart tie was stiuimoned to j kiiiiiaiiibaiij and knew ms man


heavily i fettered hagart was


carried back to dum i irfes and arriving there at dark was met by a thousand of curious spectator who came out with torches to see the murderer


haggsrt went up the stairs on which morriii had re ceived his deathblow


he wag twenty years old and already at tho end of his career


sooa afoerwads condemned t death he re ceived liia sentence with a carele fiir and answered the judge with a flappait comment but he writes that while being sentenced two thoughts were strong in him


a recollection that his mother was dead of a broken heart and an impulse to leap over the dock upon the heads of tli people and make one des perate effort more for life


he did not repent until repentance was the last trick to him to play


he wrote verses in prison


had he not struck for liberty and was it aofc as a martyr for liberty that he wau doomed to fall


here are some of his lines my life by perjruywa sworn away ill say that to my dying day


oh treacherous smith you did me betray for all i wanted was liberty


nomalice in ray heart is found to any man above the ground


now all good people that speak of me j you may say i died for my liberty great was tho satisfactoin of the chaplain over this young christian who listened to his prayers wept at his eloquence remained on liis knees as long as the reverend gentlemni j pleased and only asked in


return that the j clergy could make much pf him


we


are i told that his conduct on the scaffold was in i the highest degree becoming that the benefical influence of religion wa apparent in his whole demeanour and that he mot his fate with the same intrepidity which dis tinguished all the actions oi his short but guilty and eventful life


in his last day david was visited by a distinguished phrenologist whe on goini over his head found that he had a greater development of the organs of benevolence and justice than had been supposed phrenology proceeded to depict this said youth as having been in his early boyhood obstinately brave but free from hatred or the spirit of revenge selfwilled at home in the resolve to take no course dictated to him against his owncon sent by other persons as a youth cunning and dexterous conscious of superiority to his associates in intellectual power and disv crimination


he was a child who would grow with years fumes in resolve having power to keep his own counsel labouring ia the sporting life for love of cleverness and love of money or the desire of applause fora associates


he would probably see


that other men called honest lived practi cally as he did he would never be cruel cfr brutal he would never inflict serious suf fering on any individual with bitterly re gretting it


he would not be the slave to animal passions


his sense of justice was not remarkably defective his sentiment of benevolence was great and so were his in tellectual powers


so we are dutifully to believe that the good and the wise honoured david in his very interesting end


being neither good nor wise in such matters we believe about onethird of what he relates in his exemplary work and make bold to consider him an un mitigated rascal


louis phillippe described by louis blanc


the staunch republican writes liberally of the citizen king in his historical revelationshe says louis phillippe was a prince gifted with many good qualities


his domestic virtues were such as to command res pect


both from a disposition naturally merciful and from a philosophical no tion of the value of human life he was so averse to shedding blood that his ministers were sure to meet with an almost desperate resistance on his part whenever they asked him to affix his signature to a sentence of death


upon the whole he was a man of remarkably sober character


nor did liberty under his reign receive any mortal wound


in times orforeigq and internal difficulties he succeeded in warding off imminent dangers and the middle classes were indebted to him for the repose they so dearly prized


still when the hour of his doom struck no wish was ex pressed for his crowns preservation no helping hand was held out to hfm the moneyed classes kept aloof the soldiers either refused to fight or fought reluctantly for the first time the shop keepers beemed to have forgotten that revolutions are bad for trade the most active part of the national guard actu ally countenanced the insurrection the old king looking around and seeing nothing but a dreary attitude became disheartened and a government which had lasted no lesa than seventeen years was overthrown by a touch


formerly it was a fashion to preach the natural now it is the ideal


people too often forget that these things are


profoundly compatible that in a beau tiful work of imagination the natural should be the ideal and the ideal na tural


beautiful idea


the baptised ad monition of the hindoss is as impressive as it ia beautiful little babe thou entered the world weeping while all around you smiled continue so to live that ycu may depart in smiles while ill around you weep


an american account of the weather


first said he it blew thenitsnew than it friz then it thew and aer that it friz horrid


odily infirmities


bodily infirmi ties like breaks in a wall have oi ten becomes an avenue through which the light o heaven has entered to the soul and made the imprisoned inmate long for release


a man cannot be agreeable and good company unless he is able to think nicely end readily upon all that is said in conversation which he can never do unless he has a good fund of wit a faithful memory and a suitable ima gination


it is requisite also to be master of ones


mother tongue and know all the niceties beauties and de laeacies of it


without this though our thoughts were the best in the world we cannot expect they should please


influence of a smile


a beau tiful smile is to the female countenance what the sunbeam is to the landscape


it embellishes an inferior face and re deems an ugly one


a smile however should not become habitual or insipi dity is the result nor should the mouth break into a smile on one side the other remaining passive and unmoved for this imparts an air of deceit and gro tesqueness to the face


a disagreeable smile distorts the lines of beauty and is more repulsive than a frown


there are many kinds of amiies each having a distinct charactersome announce goodness and sweetnessothers betray sarcasm bitterness and pridesome soften the countenance to their lan guishing tendernessothers brighten by their spiritual vivacity


guzing and porihgslbefore a mirror cannot aid in requiring beautiful smiles half so well oturnthe gaze inward to watch that j the heirl keeps unsullied fn m ihe re flections ol cvil anu is illuminated by weetthoughts


mail accident


an accident of a somewhat serious nature occurred to a passenger by the gundagai mail which left yass on last thursday mor ning


it appears there were thive pas sengerstwo women and mr dignam of vernsrstreet gouiburntwo of whocn and the driver sat in the front seat


when about five miles from yass the wheel of the vehicle came ia contact with a large stone on the road and the sudden shake threw thi driver and mr dignam from their seatsthe former falling on the road anil the latter seizing hold of the guardirons round the seat


the horses then at once bolted and mr dignam retained his hold for some time his body swinging outside of the wheel


after hanging in this perilous position for some minutes his hands slipped their hold and hefell with violence on the road the wheel passing over hijbody


the progress of the horse was stayed by the driver of the binalong mail who was only a short distance ahead


mr dignam was removed to bowniug in a tiltcart which happened to be passing and yesterday was removed into yass and is now under the care of dr campbell


but a few months have elapsed since we had to report a fatal accident occurring from the same cause which occasioned the above accident but until some proper supervision is exercised to prevent the overcrowding any position of such light vehicles as the gundagai mail we suppose the contractors or the drivers will be permitted to endanger the lives of passengers with impunity yass courier


a delicious scene


inquiring young ladyoh dear to tell me how charles declared his leve


ex pectant wife well faniiy we were in the parlour you know and all at oae he turned up his eyes so i thought ha was ill


then he turned em down and squeezed my waist and asked me if


id have himandand inquiring young lady


well dearwell what did he do next


expectant wife nothing dear but i said yes and gracious


how he kissed me j then dear i laid my head oa his shoulder and then he talked dear


oh howl trembled


thought could never go through it


obliging organ man


mary h if you please the young ladies want you to play a polks


oran man i ah miss mine is a serious organ but i play a psalm quick if you like


loss of a promissory note


a man named john edward henry evans reports that on saturday night about ten oclock he lost a promissory note for in the theatre royai


the note is drawn to the credit of the above mentioned party and payable to him herald mineralogical discovery


a mineral substance very beautiful in ap pearance has been known tor some time to exist on the surface in large quan tities in a locality said to be near dun dee w e have received a sairrl which can be seen at the express i office


some think it is arsenicothers antimony


we believe a saraple has been forwarded to the rev mr clarke with a request soliciting that gentle mans opinion


in colour tlie mineral resembles tarnished silver but it is lighter than that


metal is appear ance throughout is uniform and it readily emits sparks when struck by


ft piece of steel express attempted robberies


we have heard of two or three attempts having been made during the last woek to en ter private dwellings by means of ske leton keys


in each instance the thieves have by some means been balked in heir attempts


the conse quence is


that few persons if any nnw keep much money on their premises the facilities afforded for pl icing cash in safe keeping by the establishment of branches of the oriental and ot the commercial banks having been to a j very great exleul readily seized on


it j is believed that the thieves are the srne persons who the last week entered the dwelling of the rev mr creed and we hope their career will be summarily terminated one of these days by their being captured by the police who are the alerti yass courier


tiie ministers wooing


a tale ok nbw england


jill mr


b tilowc


continued from ihz aye of juy


ciiutkh vii


tub filiems am llelatiovs of jaship mr zebewse marvyv tbe father of jamcp wo


he sample of fiu individuality so purely tbo result of now england foeioly antl eaooation


i hat he must be embodied in our blorj as a representative man of lie limes


he otvrtd a large farm in the immediate vici nity of newport which he worked with bis own bawls and kepi under the most careful cultivation


he was a man past tbe middle of life viith a white lead n keen blue eye and a faoe graven deeply wilh tho lines of energy and thought


his was one tf those clearlycut m nda which new england forms am tig her fdrinirn as she forms quartz crys tals ill her moutituine by a sort


of gradual in fluence flowing tbrouah every poic of her seil and syalem


hid cdacation properly so called


nd been merely that of those common bhools and acade mies with which tho stales are thickly sown and which ure the springs of so much intellectual activity


hero he had learned to think and to ioquirfi a procchs vehch had not ceafifld with bis fchoolilays


though toiling daily wih his eona and hired man in all the miuutiic ol a farmers life he kept an observant eye on the field of literature and here was not a new publication heard of hat be did not immediately find means to add it to hie yearly increa iug stock of books


in particular was he a welesd and careful theologian and h the contrcvciiul tracs sermons aud books wiih which then as ever tinco new england has abounded not only lay on his shelves but had his pencilled annotalions ejuerics and comments thickly scattered along their margins


there was boarce an office of public trust which bad not at ob time or another been fiilod by him


ho was deacon of the church chairman of the school cemuiitlce justice of the pejce had been twice repreicntative in the slate iegidlature and was iu permauence a sort of adviser general in all cases between neigh bor and neighbor


among other acquisitions he had gained some knowledge of tho general farms of law and his advice waa often asked ia preference to that of tho regular practitioner


j his dwelling whs one of those large square while greenuiineicei mansions coot clean nnd roomy wherein tho respectability of


new eng land in those eluys rejoiced


the windows were thidfld by clumps of iilucs fhudecp yard with its white fencoenoioscd v mivccp of clean short grisa md a few fruittrcev


opposite the houe


van a fmall butcksmithis shed which of a wet jay vas epsrkliog und lirely with beliovs and ringing iirge while air zebedec and liib sons were hammering nnd pounding and putting in order an thing that was out of tho way in farming loals or twtabfisbmeuis


not uti frequently thei in teat fcientigc work or the list tractate of theology lay open by bis side tho con tents of which would be discua


ea ith a neighbor or two as iltcy t stored fr to fay tlio truth tu iuy a neighbor less furehandtd and thrifty felt the eoefit of this atrangement of mr zefccde and wo lid drop in to eee if he wouldnt just tighten th t rivet or kind oeabe outlhat ere brace or lt a feller have a turn wilh his bellows cr a j trjke or two on his anvil to all which the good man consenttd with a grave obligingness


the fact was that as nothing in the establishment of mr marvyn was often broken or lost or out of place he had frequent applications o lend to those leeb fortunate persons always to be found who supply their own lack of oonsiderateness from the abuudance of their neighbors


he who is known alwayb to be in hand nnd always obligiug ina naighborhood stands a chance aometimes of having nothing for himself


mr ze bedee reflected quietly on this subject taking it as he did all oihers into grave and orderly con sideration and finally provided a complete set of tools which he kept for the purpose of lending and when any of these were lent he told the next applicant quietly that the xc or the hoe was already out and thus he reconciled the scripture which commanded him to do good and lend with that law of order which was written in his nature


early in life mr marvyn had married one of the handsomest girls of bis acquaintance who had brought him a thriving and healthy family of ohildrea of whom james was the youngest


mrs marvyn was at this time a tall sadeyed gentle mannered woman thoughtful earnest deepnatur ed though sparing in the matter of words


in all her household arrangements she had the same thrift and order which characterised her hueband but hers was a mind of a finer and higher stamp than bis


in her bedroom near by her workbasket stood a tabic covered with books and so systematic were iier nuuaeiiuiu urruugemuuui iiiui cue iievetr any day missed her regular hours for reading


one who should have looked over tbis table would have seen there how eager and hungry a mind was iitl behind the silent eyes of this quiet woman


history biography mathe matics volumes of tho encyclopedia poetry novel all alike found their time and place there and while ehe pursued her household labors the busy active soul within travelled cycles aud cycles of thought few of which ever found expres sion in words


what might be that marvellous music of the miserere of which the rend that it convulsed crowds and drew groans and tears lrom the most obdurate


what might be those won j drous pictures of raphael and lecnardo da vinci


what would it be to see tbe apollo the venus


what was tbo charm that enchantcd the old mar bles charm untold and inconceiveablo to one who had never seen even the slightest approach to a work ofart


then those glaciers of sivilzer land that grand


unapproachable mixture of bauty and sublimity in her mountains


what would it bo to one who oould see it


then what wero all those harmonies of which the read masses fugues symphonies


oh could she ouce hear the misercrc of mozart just to know what music was like


and the cathedrals what were tliey


iiow wonderful they must bo wilh their forests of arches many colored as autumn woods with paiuted glas and the chants and anthems rolling down their long aisles


on all there things she pondered quietly as she sat often on sundays in the old staring rattle windowed meeting house and looked at the unjoiith old pulpit and beard the choir fasillaing or sing ing fuguing tunes but of all this sho said noth ing fciomeiimrs for


days her though would turn from these subjects and bo aksorbed in mathematical or metaphysioal studies i have been following that treitifc on optica for a week nnd never understood it fill today ehe once raid to her husband


i have found now that there has been a mistake in drawing the diagram


i have corrected it and nov the de moufitrafion i complete


dinah tiiko care that wood is hickory and it takes only seven biicks of that size to heat the oven


it i


not to bi


fupposed hat a womau of this sort wa


an inattentive listener to preaching so stimulating to the intellect as that of dr ii


no pairof eye followed the web of his reasonings with a keener and more anxious watchfulness than those sad deepbet hazel ones and as she was drawn along tho train of lis inevitable logic a close observer might have seen how the shadow


dtepntd over them


for while others listened fer the clearness of tbe thought for thi tcuts nets of tbe argument she listened as a soul wide jine rirnng acute rein ssed whose every fibre is a noive listens to the problem of its own des tiny listened ts the mother of u family lister s to know what were the possibltcsthe probabilities of this rayftericub existence of oars to herbolf and hope dearer to her than herself


the consetjuence of all her liitcning was a his tory of deep in ward sadnes


the exultant joy cr thu cntiie sulmiesion with whch others seemed to view the scheme of the universe as thus un folded did not vieit her mind


euiytmg to her teemed shrouded in gloom and mystery aud that darkness the received as a token of unregeneracy


as a sign that she was one of thote who arc destined iy a mysterious uecree never lo receive the light of the glorious gospel of christ hence while her husband was a tlacon of the church sbe for years had sat in htr pew while the sacramen tal elements were distributed a mournful fpecta


tor


punctilious in every duty exaot reverential the still regarded herself as a child of wrath an enemy to god ard an heir of perdition nor could fhe ee nny hopo of remedy except in tbe sove reign mysterious dcerec of an infinite and un known power a mercy for which bhe waited with the sickuesi nf hope defeved


her children had grown up successively around her intelligent and exemplary


her eldest son vas mahematical professor in one of the leading colleges of new england


iler se cond boh who jointly with bis father superintended tho farm was a man of wide litirary culture and of fine mathematical genius ana riot unirtquently on winter evenings the eon father and mother worked together by their kithsn fireside over the calculations for the amannc for tho ensuing year whioh the son had been appointed to edit


everything iu the family arrangements wsb marked by a sober precision a grave and quiet selfpossessiod there was little demonstrative nee of a flection between parent and children brothers atid sisters though great mutual affec tion and confidence


it was not pride nor stern ncs but a sort of htbitual sharaefacednces that kept far tnok ia each soul those feelings which are tbo mest beautiful in their outcome but after a whie the habit became so fixed a nature that a caressing or affectionate expression could not have pasted the lipb of one to another without a painful awkwardness


l we was understood once for all to be tbe basis on which their life was built


once for all they loved each other and after that tho less said tbe better it had cost the womans haart of air a marvyn


some pan ge ia the earlier part of her wedlock to accept of this onee for all in the place of tnose elaiiy outgushmgs which every woman desires should be like gods loving kiudness new every morniug but hers too was a nature strongly inclining in ard and after a few tremulous movement the needle of her sul keitled and her life lot was accepted not as what sho would like or could conoeive but as a reasonable and good one


life was a picture painted in low cool tones but in perfect keeping and though another and brighter style might have pleased better she did not quarrel with this


into this steady decorous highly respectable circl tee youngest ohild james made a formi dabie eruption


one sometimes sees launched into a family circle a child of so different a nature from nil the rest that it might seeen as if like an aerolite he had fallen out of another sphere


all the other babie of the marvyn family had been of that orderly contented sort who sleep till it is con venient to take them up and while awake buck their thumbt contentedly and look up with jarge rourd eyes at the ceiling when it is not convenient for


their elders and betters that they fhould do i anything else


in farther advanced childhood they hud been qaict and decorous children who conld be all dressed aud set up in chairs so many dolls of a


sunday morning patiently awaiting the stroke of the churchball to be carried out and pat into the waggon which took them over the two miles road to church


possessed of such tranquil orderly avid exemplary yotiua offshoots mrs marvyn had bon considered eminent for her faculty in


riugin up children


bet james was destined to put faculty and every otber talent which his mother possessed to root


he was an infant ot moods and tenses and those not of any regular verb


he would cry of nightp and he would be taken up of mornings and he would not suck hi


thumb nor a bundle of carawayseed tied in a rag and dipped in sweet mi k with which the good gosalps


in vain endea vored to pacify him


he fought manfully with his two eat fat fiats the battle of babynood ut terly rererjtd nil nursery maxims end reigned ababy over tbe whole prostrate household


when old enough to run alono his splendid black eyesarid glosuy rings of hkir wero seen flashing titid bbbing in every forbidden place and occupa tion now trailing oh his mothers gown he as sisted her in salting her butter by throwing in small contributions of snuff or sugctr oa the case mihl be and again after one of those mysterious periods of silence whioh are of most ominous sig nificance in nurbery experience he would rise from tho demolition of her indigobag showing a face ghastly with blue btreaks and looking more like a gnome than tho bou of a respectable mother


there wa not a pitcher of any description of con tents left within reach of his little tiptoes and busy fingers that was not pulled over upon his giddy head without iu


the least seeming to improve its steadiness


in bhort his mother remarked that ehe was thankful every night when bhe had fairly gotten him into bed and asleep james had really got through one more day and killed neither him self nor any one elee


ab a boy the case was little better


he did not talje to study yawned over bookb and cut out moulds for running anchors when he should have been thinking of his columua of words iu four syl lables


no mortal knew how he learned to read for he never seemed to stop running long enough to learn anything and yet he did learn and used the talent in conning over travels sea voyages and lives of heroes and naval com manders


spite of father mother and brother he seemed to possess tbe most extraordinary faculty of running up unsavoury aiquaintances


he wan a hail fallow wellmet with every tom and jack and jim and beu and dick that strolled on the wharves aud astonished bis father with mi nutest particulars of every ship schooner and brig in the harbor together with biographical notea of the different toms dicks and harrys by whom they were woiked


there was but ono member of the family that seemed to know at all what to make of jame and that was their negro servant candace


in those days when domestic slavery prevailed in new england it was quite a different thing in in its aspects from the same institution in more


southern latitudes


the hard soil unyield ing to any but the most considerate culture the thriftv


close ehrewd habils of the people


and their uutiring activity and industry pre vented nmong the mass of tbe people any great relianoe on slave labor


it was sotiethiug foreign grotesque and picturesque in a life of the most matteroflact sameness it was even as if one should see clusters of palmtrees scattered here and there among yankee wooden meetinghoues or open ones eyes on clumps of yellowstriped aloes growing among hardhaok aad huckleberry bubhcb in tbe pssturcs


added to this there were from the very firt in new england serious doubts in the minds of thoughtful and coiesiealious people in reference to the lawfulness of slavery


aud this scruplo pre vented many from availing themselves of it and proved a rtraint ou all eo that nothing lik plant ationiife existed and what servants were owned were scattered among diftyient families of which they came to be regarded and to regard themselves as a legitimate part and portion mr marvyn a a man of substance numbering


two or three in his establishment among whom candace reigned chief


the presence of these tropical specimens of humanity with their wide joyous rioh physical abundance of nature and their hearty abandon of outward expression was a relief to the still cleir ut lines in which the picture cf new england life was drawn which an artiet must appreciate


no race has ever abown such infinite and rich capabilities of adaptation to varying soil and oircumstinccs as tho negro


alike to them the saowb of


canada the hard rocky land of new england with its set lines and orderly wayp or tho gorgeoui profusion and loose abundance of the southern states


sambo and cuffy expand under tkom all


new england yet preserves amon her hills and valloys tbe lingering cchoes of the jokes and jollities of vari ous sable worthies who saw alike in orthodoxy and heterodoxy in dr tbisaide and dr thatside only food for more abundant merriment in fact i the minister of those days not untrequently had his black shadow a sort of afiicau boswell who powdered hia wig brushed his boots defended and patronised his sermons and ft ui led complacently about as if through virtue of his blactness he hstl absorbed ivery ray of lis m islt ri dignity aid wisdom


in families th prcsjcce of the eote was a godeend to the childrer ettpplyiae from tio abundant outwardness and dcrnonatritivences of their nature ihat aliment of sympathy so deut to childhood which the represed and quiet habits of vew england eduiationdenitd


many and many a new englander e oants among his pleasiniest earl recollections the memory of some of tboee genial creatures who i y ibeir warmth of n iture wfj e ibe qt st atd most potent mesmeiiz i b of hia child ith mind


uabdacc was a powerfully buiu nibjesic black woman corpulent hetvy with a swinging ma jesty of motion like that of a ship iu a ground swell


ifer shining black ekii and glistening white teeth were indications of perfect physical vigour which had never known a days scknee


her turban of broad red and yellow bandanna stripes had even a warm tropical glow and her ample bkirtb were always ready to be spread over every childish transgression of her youngest pet and favorite james


sbe used lo hold him entranced long winter evenings while she sat knitting in the chimney corner and crooned to him strange wild african legends of the tbiuga that ehe had seen in her childhood antl early dayb for bhe had been stolen when about fifteen yeara of age and these weird dreamy talks incrensed the fervor of his roving imagination and his desire to explore the wonders


of the wide and unknown world


when robaked or chastised it was she who had secret bowels of mercy for him and hid doughnuts in her ample boeom to be secretly administered to him in miti gation of the sentence that eent him supperless to bed and many a triangle of pie many a wedge of cake had conveyed to him surreptitious conso lations which his more conscientious mother longed but dared not to impart


in fact theee ministrations if suspected were winked at by mra marvyn for two reasons first that molhers are generally glad of auy loving kindueaa to an erring boy which they are not responsible for and jcuvliuj luab uaiiuaui wue ou tsvt iu uci way ft auu opinions that one might as well come in front of a ship under full sail as endeavor to ntop her in a matter where her heart was engaged


to be sure she had har own private and special quarrels with massa jamea when he disputed any of her sovereign orders in the kitchen and would sometimes pursue him with uplifted rolling pin and flowery band when he had baalchad a gingernut or cooky without suitable deference or supplication and would declare roundly that there never was sich an aggravatin young un


but if on the strength of this any one else ventured a reproof candace wab immediately rounl on the other side dat ar chile gwin to be spilcel cause deys all era apickiet on him hes weft enough ony let him aoue


well under this miscellaneous ao tment of in fluences through the order nnd graviiy and solemn monotone of life at home with the unceasr ing tioktack of tbe clock for ever resounding through clean emptyseeming rooms through the eea ever shining ever smiling dimpling soliciting like a magical charger who comes sad dled and bridled and offers to take vou to fairv land threugh acquaintance with all sorts ot foreign outlandish ragamuffins among the shipa


in the harbor from disgust of slowmoving oseo and longdrawn endless furrows round the fifteenacre lot from misunderstandings with grave elder brothers and feeling somehow ns if lie knew not why he grieved his mother all the time just by being what he was und coul lnt help being and finally by a bitter break with his father in which came that last wrench for an in dividual existence which some time or other the young growing mind will give to old authority by all these united was the lot at length cwt for one evening jamea was missing at bupper missing by the fireside gone all night not at home lo breakfast


till finally a strange weird most heathenishlooking cabin boy who had often bean forbidden the premises by mr marvyn brought in tilottcr


half defiant half penitent whicn an nounced that jamea had sailed in the ariel the evening before


mr zsbcdee marvyn set his face as a flint and baid he went out from us because he was not of us whereat old candace lifted her great fbury fist from the kneadingtrough and shaking it like alarge snowball said


oh you go long massa sfarvvn vull live to count dat ar bov foe ela ytiilf


o your old age yet


now i tell ye goc de makin o ten ornary men in him kittles dats full allera will bile over t good yeast will blow ont do cork lucky ef it dont bust de bottle


tell ye ders angels has der hooks in aich and when do lord


wants himdeyll haul him in eafe and sound


and oaudace concluded her speech by giving a lift to her whole batch of dough and flinging it down iof the trough with an emphasis that made the pewter on the dresser rattle


t


this apparently irreverent way of expressing hjr mind bo contrary to the deferential habitu studiously inculcated in family discipline had grown to be so muoh a matter of course lo all the


family that nobody ever thought of rebuking iti there was a sort of savage freedom about her which they excuscd in right of her having been born and bred a heathen and of course not to be expeoted to corao at once under the yoke of civi


lisatioq in fact you must all have noticed my dear readers that there are norae sorts of peoplo for whom everybody turna out as they would for a railroad car without stopping to ask why and candace was one of them


moreover mr marvyn was not displeased with this defence of james as might be inferred from his mentioning it four or five times in the course oc


the morning to by how foolish it was wonder ipg why it was that candace and everybody else got so infatuated with that boy and ending at last after n long period of thought witli ihe remark that these poor afrioan creatures often seemed to have a great deal of shrewdness in them and that he was often astonibhed at the penetration that candaoe showed


at tbe end of the year james came home moro quiet and manly than he bad ever been known before so handsome with his sunburnt faoe and hia keen dark eveb and elossv curls


hint linlf the girls in tbe front gallery lost their hearts the first sunday he appeared in church


he was tender as a woman to kia mother and followed her with his eyes like a lover wherever she went he made due and manly acknowledg ments to his father but declared his fixed and settled intention to abide by the profession he had


chosen and be brought home all eorta of strange foreign gifts for every member of the household


candaoe wa glorified with a flaming red aud yellow turban of moorish stuff from mogadore together with a pair of gorgeons yellow morocco lippers with peaked toesj which though there ap peared no call to wear them inher common course of life bhe would put on her fat feet and oontem plate with daily satisfaction she became inorens ingly strengthened thereby in the conviction that the angels who had their hookb in massi jamess jacket were already beginning to shorten the line


the settler chapteu ii


i continual fivm stplemlter id


the voyage in perspective


the handys were to dine that day with sir walters mother a most estimable lady and who occupied the principal bouse in the village of whinsley


the old church embo somed among lime trees and tlie archdea conry buill in the old english style of architecture standing between the road and the park


in fact tbe archdeaconry was called park gate


on this occasion as it had been intimated to mrs handy that the party would consist only of tlie cromley family she had determined on over thecromleys to her view of tbe ques tion


but handy had already stolen a march upon her having that morning for warded bis papers for the sale of liis com mission


during tbe drive to whinsley only two miles he said vou can tell the ashes that i regret to be obliged to be absent tomorrow but my business is urgent only three weeks a short time to make all our arrangements


you will have george and mary cromley to meet them and your brother comes with them quite party enough you will not want me


their visit is to you not to me and you know i can never keep up the fire against the forty parson power of old aslie and then your brother and i would be sure to be sparring as is always tlie case when he introduces his law


let the parson and the lawyer have it out together by tbcbye i must enquire about that chancery suit that has been so long pending eleven years already and not a rap have we bad all that time except tbe hundred pounds and afterwards fifty which we managed to squeeze out of that old cur mudgeon triglyph your fathers executor


ill sec old crusly about it and if it is not settled before we embark ill raise a hurri cane about their ears


shall be off to town by the mail tonight


you can go back in bulls chaise which i will order to be at mrs cromleys at any hour


you alley arnvuu


ui uiu iiuubis m mi umu he goodwills who lived at a very short distance were entering


the goodwill were also connected with the cromleys and mrs handy reckoning very nsucli on mrs goodwills alliance had arranged her plan of operations most judiciously


as soon as the ladies were fairly seated in the drawingroom mrs cromley observed with a view probably of reconciling the handys to the climate of england you you who have been so long in a tropical climate must feel this first wintering very sharp indeed it is the severest winter we have had for many years past and the snow has rather interfered with my little outdoor occupations


are you fond of gardening addressing herself particularly to mrs handy who was looking rather abstracted at the moment


no replied the latter


oh yes yes i beg pardon


i like this cold weather and am very loud of flowers i like a good kitchen garden too


how i laughed tlie other day when i saw my husband driving home in the gig loaded with tbe cabbage plants you were so good as to givfefaira


rlicdocs not mind not he and would not care if the whole parish laughed at him he is never


happy as when he is puddling about in the garden or at some improvements as he calls them he cant bear town he has newly thatched tbe stable and coach house built a set of pig styes


planted oul lhat bit of road which he said com manded the house and was in the midst of grubbing up the old hedge row where those fine ash trees stand between the paddock and the plantation when the now came then he got fidgety but he enjoyed very much the shooting of the deer with sir walters keeper the other day


he is fond of rifle shooting being so much accus tomed to it


he does not care about partridge shooting as he saye its a bore to be plodding a whole day after a brace of birds and we never want them for our larder is always full thanks to our nume rous sporting friends but these jien are always so unsettled particulary these old soldiers


now some men will amuse themselves the whole of a dull day with the newspapers and books but my husband does not read much except when he takes up the history of marlborough or prince eugene or voltaires siecle of louis qualorae et quinze or the history of turenne or some of tbobe military works which you knote are so uninteresting to us or else if he gets hold of any of those books about the horrid colonies but lie is so unsettled and a tear started in he eye of tw affectionate mrs handy


dear me what is the matter exclaimed mrs cromley


i thought sobbed mrs handy that this neighbourhood suited him so well entirely his own choice every thing comfortable about us among our own friends arid yet he is restless all this time handy was talking with old goodwill about the emancipation of the slaves by which goodwill who had a valuable estate in the west indies had been a considerable loser notwithstanding the enormous amount of compensation the government had made to the proprie tors for tbe change in the system


wfiy what does he want said mrs cromley is there any thing my son can do to make you more comfortable


would your hus band like to join the yeomanry


that might afford him some little amusement in his own line and the officers are all gentlemen of consideration in the county


oh no replied mrs handy his passion is ever for active life for it was only on account of the peace that be requested to be put upon halfpay or he might have remained with his regiment but now nothing short of emigrating to new south wales will satisfy him and he has actually sent in proposals to sell out of the army altogether to go to that horrid country and then what is lo become of us


after pausing for a few moments mrs cromley said my dear mrs handy much as we esteem you all and much as we should regret any false step your husband might take for i cannot admit that the gentle men are always right yet i am inclined to think that upon this occasion your husband has not acted without reflection though another change must occasion a very great sacrifice of comfort to you as well as himself for i believe that settlers in all new countries lead a very anxious life


wiiat say you mrs goodwill


have you heard lately from george not very lately replied mrs goodwill but the last accounts were very favourable


he had nearly completed his buildings his sheep had increased to about five tlousand and he was thinking of taking his own grant higher up the river


the hnd he is on now being a purchase he made on ac count of some improvements which saved him a great deal of time at comnencing but he finds it much too limited for his increasing stock


he writes in high spirits speaks of the vineyard which he has planted and would not change hu condi tion or any consideration


you know that his father offered him a farm here but be preferred what he called independence


consider then resumed mrs crom ley the difficulty that is experienced by all classes in this country since the termi nation of that frightful war in providing for their families


it was but the other day that my son asked lady crumleys father lord a


n for a situation of a trifling emolument for an old colkge ac quaintance of his a young man of consi derable talent and was told tliat there were upwards of


seven hundred expectants on the list and many of them sons of men of very high rank


so that notwithstand ing lord a s interest at the treasury nothing could be done unless the applicant would go to one of the colonies


separa tion from ones friends is naturally very painful but our duty to ones own family should be paramount to every other consi deration


in these arguments mrs good will appeared fully to concur with the old lady and at length mrs handy found her love for the land of her birth yield to the prospects of a permanent establishment for those to whom she was bound by the closest ties of conjugal and maternal affec tion


the conversation was here broken off by the announcement of the archdeacon miss cromley and mr george cromley sir walter and lady cromley entered im mediately afterwards


the family party being now complete dinner was announced and a regular good oldfashioned dinner it was


all at home sans gtne


as soon as the ladies had retired sir walter who had been sitting between his mother and mrs goodwill during the dinner said well handy i hear from my mother that you are thinking of leav ing us and she wants my opinion upon your plan of emigrating to new south wales out wuicn i am sorry to say i can not give as i seldom pay much attention to the discussions in the house respecting the colonies


indeed their management is entirely confided to the secretary of state and exciies but liule interest to the members generally for we know that the secretary of state is in possession of tlie very best information upon the subject being in constant communication with the several governors all of whom are ap pointed by himself without any rcfereuce to the house


but i understand tliat new south wales notwithstanding its recent formation promises to become a flourishing place although i should hardly think il will be of any value to the mother country in our life time at least not like the west indies where our friend goodwill has his sugar plantations what say you good will


come fill your glues and let us hare some wine


goodwill filled his glass passed the decanters and looking lather gravely observed lhat much of the pros perity of all colonies depended upon good rovernincnt


ion nave


amiuea lie saia that the governors of all colonies are


ap pointed by the secretary of state without any reference to the house


well then it follows almost as a matter of course that the information they afford the authority to which they owe their several appoint ments must be in accordance with the po litical views of such authority or they would soon be relieved for i apprehend that at this moment there are plenty of candidates for governments


my opinion which is founded on some experience coin cides precisely with that which napoleon expressed in liis speech on the government of the colonies that is that the colonies should have representation in the centre of the state


i had anticipated the turn our conversation was likely to take today and made a memorandum upon this very point here it is and then pulling a slip of paper from iiib waistcoat docket read


government must be informed as to the real situation of the colonies and for this purpose it must patiently bear the parties interested for it is not sufficient to acquire


the character of justice lhat the ruling power does wlialis right


it is also ne cessary that the most distant bubjecu of tbe empire should be con vinced that this is the case arid this they will never be unless they are sensible that they have been fully licard


were a council of state composed of angelb or gods who could perceive at a glance every thing thai should be done it would not be sufficient unless the colonists had the conviction that they had been fully and impartially tieard


all power must be founded on opinion if government had on the other hand a colonial representation to refer to it would become acquainted with the truta


j it would proclaim it and transmit


it in despatches to its colonial subjects


commerce and the colonies have oppo site interests the first is that of purchasers and consumers the latter ihnt of raisers and producers


no sooner is it proposed to impose duties on colonial produce than i am besieged with memorials from all the chambers of commerce but no one ad vances any thing in fevourof the colonies


the law whatever it is arrives there in unmitigated rigour without the principles which led to it being explained or their receiving any assurance that their interests have been balanced with those of ihe other side


but the colonists are french men and our brothers they bear a part of the public burdens and the least lhat can be done for them in return is to give them such a shadow of representation


bravo said sir walter we must have you in the house to represent the colonies


come archdeacon have the goodness to let us have the advantage of your views upon this important subject of emigration after you have filled your glass and passed the decanters you have them all to yourself


poor handy


and i cant get a glass


after passing tbe decanters the archdeacon said i agree with that good man numa pompilius who when he was solicited to govern the romans said that any alteration in a mans life is dan gerous to him but as for one that neitier wants any sufficient convenience of life nor has any reason to find fault with his present circumstances nothing less than mere madness can make such a man change and remove from a state of life which be has been long used to which though there were nothing more in it has however by being more secure an advantage over that condition which is uncertain what it will prove and although i have heard that in some of the colonies there are people whose position may seem to be as enviable as that of king tjzziah of old of whom it is written also he built towers in the desert and digged many wells for he had much cattle both in the low country and in the plains husbandmen also and vine dressers in the mountains and in carmel for he loved husbandry


yet my prayer is that of agur die son of jakeh give me neither poverty nor riches feed me with food convenient for me lest i be full and deny thee and say who is the lord


or lest i be poor and steal and take the name of god in vain


come let us join the ladies


to be continued


punishments in the habeh


most people have heard of the reputed gallantries of the richmond watermen on the shores of the thames have you not heard of a gallant young waterman the boatmen and water men of tbe bosphonib have the same reputation in constantinople and most dearly do they and their deluded fair ones pay for it on de tection


in such cases the cord or cimetar is the doom of tlie young beau whilst the frail lady is committed to the deep sea bed


money in turkey will counterbalance all enemies save female frailty


a melancholy iustauce of this occurred at constantinople whilst i was there


mabommed ali tbe governor of topbana had in bis harem a circassian girl of great beauty he had also a favourite young male secretary who was always in attendance upon hu person


having been told that this young man wu not only accuniomed to address the ladles of his establishment when sent to accompany them in boats or carriages but that direct in telligence was supposed to exist between liitn and the circassian tbe pacha warned him to beware and forbade him to hold intercourse of any kind with tlie inmates of the harem


the lovers for so it seems they were contrived nevertheless u communicate lor


some time without exciting further suspicion


it chanced however one afternoanthat the pacha strolling through a portion of his harem overlooking the garden perceived his female save leaning againot the trellistvork blind of the windw and conversing with the object of her attach ment who stood outside


upon seeing this mabommed ali retired behind tbe door cur tain listened aud sufficient words soon reached his ears to convince him that the girl was guilty guilty at least of loving tlie youthful turk


the sequel is horrible ani unless resting upon authority scarcely to be called in question would not bear narration


drawing uib sword and rushing suddenly forward ere the victim had time to speak or fly mabommed ali seized her by the hair and with one stroke of his klionisban blade uearlj severed her body


death with excruciating agonies soon ensued aud at nightfall the body according to report was disposed of in the neighbouring bosphorus


judging in the mean time by tbe unhappy girls shrieks lhat some miserable fate bad befallen her the youth flew from the house and hurried down the hill to beshiktasb to the palace of tbe grand marshal rusa pacha the friend and patron ot his master


castidff himself upon his knees at the feel of this all powerful functionary the fugitive told his elory narrated what he believed to have oc curred and then reminding hiza pacha that uieir iaiuers were oosom inena vesuugut ijio intercession and protection


after pointing outlo tbe applicant the extent and gravity of his ocfence hiza facba desired him to remain in the palace and dispatched a note to ma hommed ali requesting that pardon might he extended to the offender as a personal favour to himself aud as a mark of consideration for his own father the intimate friend of the youths parent


iu the course of tbe day a avouralile reply was returned ana me juuub pan was directed to ramme us lisual avoca ious inthe tonshynatiryfs household


this irderhayinglieen obeyed matters wenl on monthly for fbreeor four days


the pacha tailing and sontongued made ho referenoe o past events land treated lib attendant as lothing had occurred to disturb the repose of lis household whilst the youth concealing he anguishbe felt at being the cause of the mfortuiiate victims murder redoubled bis ixertious to please and satisfy his master


upon the fourth evening however as the pacha wa seated in blfl garden opposite to jie window within which he had enacted ihe liideoub dutv usually entrusted to the common beadaman lie was observed to start compress liis lips and finger his robary with more than usual rapidity liis handsome and usutlly serene countenance became clouded and niter fixing a stern and searching look upon bis pardoned attendant he bade him walk up the alley and pluck a flower from one of tbe carnation plant plaoed beneath the fatal window


the youth bowed and turned h back to obey


at this moment the pacha made a signal to tbe oavasses usually attendant upon liib person three or four of lue men instauilyefepped forward and ere the smoke curlinffrrirnwabomraedalilipsiad vanished all was over a bright blade glittered in the evening sunbeams and a headless trunk rolled upon the shellstrewed walk


as the head ell mahonimed ah rose mounted ins bonw aiid proceeded to sunbet prayer t the convent ofihe metlevy derviblies it breshiktash


whites constantinople


mpjqesfrt


toutaifor ae prwrie


hhet bowuiif flnlir pf ijrutmieiln


jjuhceilon ulbe mollngobce pf tin


tuummtalutr in urkbueitmt tbnum v p pubujbed bj the isld hihur ijowuno at toe stationery wrehoum in brubineiukli uldtblljmut omttali


literature


the ministers wooing


a tale of new england


by mrs h b etowe continued from tin age of september


chapter xiii continued


to maryd iuesperlenced eye it seemed like an enchanted dream a realisation of all she had dreamed of grand and high society


she had her little triumph of an evening for everybody asked who that beautiful girl was and more than one eallant ofithe old newport first families felt him self adorned and distinguished to walk with her an his arm


busy officious dowagers repeated to mrs scudder the applauding whispers that fol lowed her wherever she went


really mrs scudder said gallant old general wilcox where have you kept tuoh a beauty all this time


its a sin and a shame to hide such a light under a bushel


and mrs scudder though of course like you and me sentible reader properly apprised of the perhhable nature of such fleeting honors was like us too but a mortal and smiled condesoedingly on the follies of the scene


the house was divided by a wide hall opening by door the front ono upon the street tho back into a large garden the brood central walk of which edged ou each sido with high dipped hedges of bon now robplendetnt with oolored lamps seemed lo continue the prospect in a bril liant vista


tho oldfashioned garden was lighted in every part and the oompany dispersed themselves about it in picturepquo groups


we have the image in our mind of mary as she stood with her litilo hat and wreath of rosebuds her fluttering ribbons and rich brocade as it were a picture framed in the doorway with her back to the illuminated garden and her calm innocent face regarding with a pleased wonder the unaccus tomed gaieties within


her dress which under miss priwys forming bana nau ueeu iuuuu iu ubjuuib was appearance ol style and fabhion which more particularly cha racterised the mode of those times formed a sin gular but not unpleabing contrast to tho sort of dewy freshness of air and mien which was charac teristic of her btyle of beauty


it seemed so to re present a being who was in the world yet not of it who though living habitually in a higher region of thought and feeliog waa artlessly curicus and innocently pleased with a fresh experience in an altogether uutried sphere


the feeling of being in a oircle to which the did not belong where her presence was jn a manner an accident and where she felt none of the responsibilities which como from being a component part of a society gave to her a quiet disengaged uir which produced all tho effect of the perfect ease of high breeding


while she stands there there comes out of the door of the bridal receptionroom a gentleman with a stylishly dressed lady on either arm with whom he teems wholly absorbed


he is of middle height peculiarly graceful in form and moulding with that indesoribable air of high breeding which marks the polished man of thj world


his beauti fullyformed head delicate profile fibcinating sweetness of smile aud above all nn eye which seemed to have an almost msmerio power of at traction were traits which distinguished ono of the most celebrated men of the lime and one whgee peculiar history yet lives not only iu our national records but in the private annala of mauy an american family


good heavens


he said suddenly pausing ia conversation rs bis oje accidentally fell upon mary who is thit lovely creature v oh that said mrs wilcox why that is mary scidder


her father was a family connec tion of the generals


the family aie in rather modest circumstances but highly reipeotable


after a few moments more of ordinary chitohat in which from time to lime he darled upon her glances of rapid and piercing observation the gentleman might have been observed lo disombar rass himself of one of tho ladieb on his arm by passing her with a compliment and a bow to another gallant and after a few moments more he spoke something to mrs wilcox in alow voice oiid with that gentle air of deferential sweetnefs which always made eveiybody well satisfied to do his will


tho contcquence was that in a few moments mary was startled from her calm specu lations by the voice of mrs wilcox saying at her elbow in a formal tone miss scudder i have the honor to present to your acquaintance colonel burr of the united states senate


ciupter xiv


at the period of which we are speaking no name in the new republic was associated with ideas of morebriliiaut promise or invested with a greater prestige of popularity and success than that of uolonei aaron burr


sprung of a line distinguished for intellectual ability tbe grandson of a man whose genius ha swayed new england from that day to this the son of parentb eminent in their day for influential and popular talent he united in himself tho quipkest perceptions and keenest delicacy of fibre with the most diamond hardness un i unflneh ing bteadinissof purpose


apt subtle dazzling adroit nn man in his lime ever began life with fairer chince fur success and fame


his ninr


as it fell on the ear of our heroine curried


iti it the suggestion of all this and when with his pecu liarly engaging smile he offered his urm she felt a little ol the fl liter natural to a modest young parson unexpectedly honored with the notice of the distinguished cfthe earth whom it is seldom tho lot of humble individuals to know except by dis tant roport


cut although mary


wrs a blushing and sensitive persou the was not what is commonly callcd a diffident girl her nerves had that steady poise which gave her presence of mind in the most un wonted circumstances


uinw icn ccutuuuch buureccuu iu uei


uy uui new companion were in a tone ntid style altogether different from any in which she had ever been ap proached different from the dashing frankneeb of ner bailor lover and from the rustic gallantry of her other admirers


that indesoribablo mixture of ease and deference gnided by a fine tact which shows the practised high bred man of the world made its impresion on her immediately as the breeze on the chords of a wind harp


she felt herself pleasantly stayed and breathed upon it waj as if an atmosphere were around her in which he felt a perfect ease and freedom an assuruncg that her lightest wordj mght launch forth safely as a tiny boat on the smooth glassy mirror of her listeners pleased attention


i came to newport only on a visit of business he said after a few moments of introductory con versation i wab not prepared for its many at tractions


newport has a great dcpl of beautiful scenery said mary


i havo heard that it was celebrated for the beauty of its scenery and its ladies he an swered but he added with a quick flash of his dark eye i never realised the fact before


theglance of theeye pointed and limited the com pliment at the eamo time there war a wary shrewd ness in it


he was measuring how deeply his shaft bad sunk as he always inetinctively measured the person he talked with


mary had been told of her beauty since her child hood notwithstanding her mother had essayed all that transparent respectable hoaxing by which discreet mothers endeavour to blind their diugh ters to the real foots in such cases but in her own calm balanced mind she had accepted what she vas so often told as a quiet verity and therefore she neither fluttered nor hushed on this occasion but regarded her auditor with a pleased attention as one who was saying obliging things


cool he thought to himself


hum a little rustic belle i suppose well aware of her own valne rather piquante upon my word


shull we walk in the garden


he said the oveding is so beautiful


they passed out the door and began promenad ing the long walk


at the bottom of the alley he stopped and turning looked up tho vista of box ending in the brilliantly lighted rooms where gen tlemen with powdered heads lacerufflea and glit tering knee buckles were handing ladies in stifl brocades whose toweling heads were shaded by ostrich feathers and sparkling with gems


quite courtlike on my word he said tell me do you often have such brilliant entertain ments as these


i tuppose they do said mary i never waa at one beftre but i sometimes hear of them


and you do not attend


aid the gentleman with an accent which made the inquiry a masked compliment


r no i do not saidtfary these people gene rally do not visit ub


what a pity lisaid that their parties should want euch an ornament i but he added this night must make them aware of their over sight if ynu are not always in society after this it will surely not be from want of solicitation


you arc very kind to think so replied mary but even if it were to be bo i should not see my way clear to be often in such scenes as this


her companion looked at her with a glance a little doubtful and amused and said and pray why not if the inquiry bo not pre sumptuous


because said mary i should be afraid fhey would take too much time and thought and lead me to forgot the great object of life


the bimple gravity with which this waa said as if quite assured of the sympathy of her auditor appeared to give him d secrit amusement


his bright dark eyes danced as if he suppressed some quick repartee but drooping his long lashes de ferentially he said in geutu tones i should like to know what so beautiful a mimo arl nnnum art thi ragf nwoot rt lif


jruuub iauy uvuaiucio uc gicai uijoui


u jno


i mary answered reverentially in those word familiar from infancy to every puritan child to glorify god and enjoy him for ever


really he said looking straight into her eyes with that penetrating glance with which he was accustomed to take tho gauge of every one with whom he conversed


is it not said mary looking baok calm and firm into the sparkling restleba depths of his eye


in that moment tvo souls going with the whole force of their being in two opposito direotionb looked out of their windows at eaoh other with a fixed and earnest recognition


burr was practised in every act of gallantry he had made womankind a study ho never saw a beautiful face and form without a sort f restless desire to experiment upon it and try his power over the interior inhabitant


but juat at this mo ment something streamed fnto his soul from thoso blue earnest eyes which brought back to his mind what pious people had bo often told him of his mother tho beautiful ana earlysainted esther burr


he was one of those persons who systematically managed and played upon himelf and others as a skilful musician on on instrument


yet one secret of his fascination waa the naivctf with which at some moments ho


woild abandon himself to bome little impulse of a nature originally sensitive and tender


hid the ttram of feeling which now awoke in him come over him elsewhere he would have bbut down soma spring in bis mind and excluded it in a moment but talk ing with a beautiful croature whom ho withed to please he gafe way at once to the emotion real tearb stood iu his fine eyes he ruised marys hand to his lips and kissed it saying thank you my beautiiul child for so good a thought


it is truly a noble sentiment though practicable only to those gifted with angelic natures


oh i trust not i said mary earnestly touched and wrought upon more than she herself knew by the beautiful ees tho modulated voice tbe charm of manner which seemed to enfold her like an italian summer


burr sighed a real sigh of his bettor nature but passed out with all ttiu more freedom that he felt it would interest his fair companion who for the time being was the oue woman in the world to him


pure artless souls like yours he said can not measure the temptations of those who are called to the real battle of life


in a world like this how many nobler aspirations full withered in the fierce heat and struggle of the conflict


chapter xv


progress in ironwork


cyrus loxwood made no lengthened stay in kent


airer rambling for a couple of mornings about the fields and woods with kitty and josh and spending two most pleasant evenings in the old bowery parlours or on the sunny lawn he return ed to town leaving the good old major and his man to dress flies and hook fish at will


on bis own part he had formed a most worthy opinion of these excellent newbuds whose hospitality simplicity and intelligence had all been quite to his taste


yet to the true workerthere is no place so full of enjoyment as the spot where his work lies around him


this was the case with cyrus who was never so happy as when quiet in his garret study or in his workshop with his men for he now employed two others besides john olave


what was of further account at this time a yard and work shops were to let in his own neighbour hood these pleasantly situated close to the river and with a field on one side so hiring them and making his yard at blackwall henceforth a mere station for unwrought material he commenced to model and cast on a wider scalethough far from that which might be considered one of full practical efficiency


he had countless difficulties to contend with as all originators have let their plans of work be what it may


not but what originality to be at all adaptable to the needs or taste of the age in which it rises must be the logical offspring of antecedent causes both past and present and on this ground has hearty recipience by that class of enlightened thinkers who see in the eternity of speculative hopes the noblest signs of the progres sion of humanity


but from the multi tude such originality meets with but cold reception till its adaptability to some need of their own has been made thorough ly clear


hence the slowpaced difficul ties of all material and many social advances


since the period cyrus bad broached many of his ideas and speculations with respect to the entire adaptability of iron to a new noble and progressive style of architecture in many journals and in more than one pamphlet of great power the crystal palaces of hyde park and sydenham had risen and metallurgy in countless other forms proved its extra ordinary capacity of meeting the most re cently developed needs of the age


there could be but little doubt but what his writings had been of great accountthat his suggestions had been acted uponhis ideas modified and taken sometimes with acknowledgment oftener otherwise but it was not in the construction of railway stations suspension bridges or artpala ces that his allotted work lay but with homes for the people


engineers might make their principles subservient to the three first incorporated liberality and enlightenment might raise palaces for the artistic education of all classes but his vocation his work his exalted ideas in relation to utility truth and beauty were to be devoted to a lowlier though not less holy purposethe amelioration the improvement the constructive advance of those dwellings upon whose thresh olds lay the weight of so much social crime misery and ruin cyrus had seen clearly from the first that the great social need of homes for aggregates of population could be alone worked out by the application of a new material as well as new principles


not new be it understood as respected their eternal existence in nature but new as to discovery and in suggested application lo socialogieal needs


so far as things had thus gone those who had been guided by his suggestions or had borrowed his ideas could but give a very limited effect to them as it was in domestic architecture on an extensive scale that the great as sisting province of metallurgy would show itself and little or nothing hav ing been as yet attempted in that direc tion the great field of his coming utility lay yet untouched by less skilful hands


his principles rested upon concrete truth ably reasoned out


hence their applicability and vitality


this had been essentially the case in the three great architectural epochs and must be again if utility and beauty in combina tion were to be ours


marble stone and brick had been made to effect as many noble purposes as inhert matter could now it was that a new vital material was oursone we could fuse aould adapt and multiply to an incon ceivable extent and one which by its very tendency to oxidation or rust imperatively necessitated the application of decorative arts


instead of walls formed of cubes of stone raised one upon another or of layers of bricks iron walls would be double eaeh one formed of plates the inner decorated and perforated at will and held to the other by flanges or pinscapable in themselves of being made conspicuous objects of graceful ornament


space would not only be thus saved but the walls being hollow would allow room for ventilation the introduc tion of warm air and all the apparatus for sewerage and other purposes


then again there would be entire safety from fire in buildings so constructed and insect accumulations would be impossible


more than this these hollow walls would give scope to other utilitiessuch as space for closets recesses for book cases furniture works of art and where the masses were concerned many of the most useful articles of their homes might be considered as fixtures and make the occupancy of such an advanced class of homes still more a thing to be desired


as already said such homes could be alone erected and brought effectively into operation through a combination of ca pital


it might be the thousands of rich men or the accumulated funds of hard working industry


because not one home alone was wanting but hundreds and vast capital could be alone the moving power


there were other points which sombination could effectthese of an es sentially moral kind in value perhaps and ultimate purpose of as large account as capital itself


one was that an incor poration under the admirable law of limited liability could enforce as it now stands and has yet to stand under a still wiser generalization authoritative rule of essential value to moral advance in a way and with a stringency that could neither be enforced nor even laid down with due efficiency as the singlehanded capitalist


rules that roughs and les classes dangereuses would laugh to seora and take a vicious pleasure in setting at defiance if cognizant that they were the mere result of some individual will would appear under a new form indeed one of almost self enforcement if known to them as the rules of a congregated body of intelli gent men


to be continued


the mysteries of


paris concluded


monsieur cried sir walter and clemence at the same time alarmed at tlje vehemence of rodolphe and the increasi g pallor of marie who looked at her


father with surprise


blush for you


continued e oh i ifi ever rejoiced and felt pride in pjy sovereign rank it is that thanks to th rank i can elevate you as much as you h e heretofore been abased


do you hear my darling childmy beloved daughter


or it is iit is i who am your father i


and the prince no longer able to con quer his emotion threw hims if at the feet of marie


god be praised cried she clasping her bands


mly benefactor is mfather


be praised my


she could not finish the blow was too violent she fainted in thejarms of her father


curses on my head


i


i hate killed her cried rodolphe in tears knhelinu before his daughter


marie my child listen to me it is your father


pardon oh


pardon


i have killed her


calm yourself said clemence there is doubtless no danger


sde her cheeks are tinged with color it is the shock only the shock


sbut hardly convalescent she will die


woe is me at this moment david the negro phy sician entered precipitately


davidmy child is dying


i once saved your lifeyou must save thatof my child cried rodolphe


there is no danger let your highness be assured


you speak the truthni danger none


not any monseignent


a few drops of ether and this attack will pass over


oh i thank you david my good david cried the prince warmly


monseigneur said david there is no cause for the slightest uneasiness


but fresh air is necessary the chair can be rolled on the terrace by openng the door of the garden she will then son recover the next halfhour was passed by ro dolphe in the most heartrendiig suspense


at the end of that time sir water murphy entered joyously exclaimingm she has re covered


her first words xere ly fatherl she asks to see you chapter xxvl ttie end


since rodolphe had informeliher of the murder of marie helen setton over whelmed by the revelation which ruined all her hopes tortured by deep remorse had been attacked by violmnt nervous sopasms and a frightful deirium her wound hardly healed reopined and a fainting fit of long duration hal caused her attendants to suppose her dead


however from the strength of her consitution she did not sink under this seversn attack a new glimmering of life once nore reani mated her


seated in an armchair in order to re lieve the oppression which stifoated her helen almost regretting the eath from which she had just escaped wts occupied with bitter thoughts


suddenly her brother entered the cham ber he with difficulty restratnel his agi tation at a sign from him her tvo women withdrew


how are you now saidae to his sister


sin the same statei am tery weak and from time to time almost suffocated


why did not god take me awaj from this world during my last attack


shelen said seyton after a pause you are between life and deatha violent emotion might kill you as it night save you


i have now no more emotbns to ex perience my brother


rhe sirit of my drowned daughterdrowned b my fault is therealways there before me


it is not emotionit is incessant motmorse


i am really a mother now since i no longer have a child the frightful reproaches of the prince have killed my ambition the maternal sentiment is awakened in mo t the pic ture of the extreme misery of mydaughter


helen said her brother hesitating and weighing each word if by chlucesup posing an impossible thinga miracle you were informed that yout daughter still lived how would you support such a discovery


i should die with shame and despair at the sight of her


do not believe thatyou could be too much elated with the triumnphof your am bition


i for if your daughter had lived the prince would have married nouho told you so


in admitting this supposition it seems to me that i should not hage a right to live


after having received the hand of the prince my duty would jbe to deliver him of an unworthy wifemy daughter of an unnatural mother


the embarrassment of seyton increased every moment


chrged by rodolphe who was in an adjoining room to inform helen that marie was alive lie did not know how to accomplish it


the state of his sister was so criticalithat she might expire from one rroment to nothber there was then no time to be lost in celebrating the marriage in extremis which was to legitimate the birth of marie


for this sad ceremony he had brought with him a clergyman with witnesses


time was pressing but ranorse feelings of maternal tenderness whith replaced in hielens heart her mercless ambition rendered the task of seyton still more difficult


all his hope was hat his sister deceived him or deceived herself and that her pride would he awakentd as soon as she gained this crown so loug andam bitiously coveted


sly sister said seyton i am in a ter rible perplexity one word from me per haps will restore you to lifeperhaps will send you to your tomb


i have already told you that i have no more emotion to dread


ose alone how which


if it conccrned your child my child is dead


if she were not


we have exhausted thi supposition already


enough my brothermy remorse is already too deep


t


but ii it were inot a supposition


if by chanceaan incredible chanceyour daugh


ter had been rescued from death if she lived


you alarm me donot tilklthus


well i then may god pardon


me and judge you


she lives still


my daughter


she lives i tell you


the prince is here with a clergyman


i have sent for two of your friends for witnesses the wish of your life is at length realisedthe prediction is fulfilledyou are a sovereign


seyton had pronounced these words fixing on his sister a look of anguish watching for each sign of emotion


she placed her hand upon her heart and falling back in her chair suppressed a slight cry which appeared to have been caused by some sudden and excruciating pain after which her face became com posed and calm


what is the matter my sister


nothing surprise unhopedfor joy


at length my wishes are crowned


i was not deceived thought seyton


ambition rulesshe is saved


i shall livesee how calm i am


where is the prince


he is here


si wish to see him before the ceremony


my daughtershe is there also without doubt


no you will see her afterward


in spite of himself seyton was uneasy at his sisters calmness


for a moment he thought he saw in her eyes restrained tears after some hesitation he ietireid


rodolphe entered and closed the door


your brother has told you all


de manded the prince coldly


all one word monseigneur


speak madame


i wish to see my daughter


it is impossible


i tell you monseigneur that i wish to see my child


she is


hardly convalescentshe has been quite ill this morning this interview might be fatal to her


sbut at least she will embrace her mo ther for what purpose


you are now a sovereign