they and the handmaid before mentioned being ia such ec stacies of fear that i scarcely knew what to do with them i naturally bethought myself of some restorative or comfortable cordial and nothing better occurring to me at the moment than hot


i brandyaudwater i procured a tumblerfull


without delay


it being impossible to stand or sit without holding on they were all heaped together in one corner of a long sofaa fixture extending entirely across the cabin where they clung to each other in momentary expecta tion of being drowned


when i approached this place with my specific and was about to j administer it with many consolatory expressions to the nearest sufferer what was my dismay to i see them ali roll slowly down to the other end


and when i staggered to that end and held out the glass once more how immensely baffled were my good intentions by the ship giving another lurch and their all rolling back again


i suppose dodged them up and down this sofa


for at least a quarter of an hour without reach ing them vnce and by the time i did catch them the brandyandwater was diminished by constant spilling to a tea spoonful to complete the group it is necessary to recognise in this disconcerted dodger a very pale individual who had shaved his beard and brushed his bair last at liverpool and whose only articles of dress linen uot included were a pair of dreadnought trousers a bluejacket formerly admired upon the thames at richmond uo stockings and one slipper


of the outrageous antics performed by that ship next morning which made bed a practical joke and getting up by any process short of failing out an impossibility say nothing


but anything like the utter dreariness and de solation that met my eyes when i literally tumbled up on deck at noon never saw


ocean and sky were all of one dull heavy uniform lead colour


there was no extent of prospect even over the dreary waste that lay around us for the sea ran high around us and the horizon encompassed us like a large black hoop


viewed from the air or some tall bluff on shore it would have been imposing and j stupendous no doubt but seen from the wet and roiling decks it only impressed one giddily and painfully


in the gale of last night the life boat had been crushed by one blow of the sea like a walnutshell and there it hung dangling in the air a mere faggot of crazy boards


the planking of the paddle boxes had been lorn sheer away


the wheels were exposed and bare and they whirled and splashed their spray about the decks at random


chimney white with crusted salt topmasts struck stormsails set rigging all knotted tangled wet aud drooping a gloomier picture it would be hard to look upon


was now comfortably established by cour tesy in the ladies cabin where besides our selves there were only four other passengers


first the little scotch lady before mentioned on her way to join her husband at new york who had settled there three years before


secondly and thirdly an honest young york shireman connected with some americau house domiciled in that same city and carrying thither his beautiful young wife to whom he had beeu married but a fortnight and who was the fairest specimen of a comely english country girl i have ever seen


fourthly fifthly and lastly another couple newlymarried too if one might judge from the endearments they frequently interchanged of whom i know no more than that they were rather a mysterious runaway kind of couple that the lady had great personal attractions aiso and that the gentleman carried more guns with him than robinson crusoe wore a shooting coat and had two great dogs on board


ou further consideration i remember that he tried roast pig and bottled ale as a cure for sea sickness and that he took these remedies usually in bed day after day with astonishing perseverance


i may add for the information of the curious that they decidedly failed


the weather continuing obstinately and al most unprecedentiy bad we usually straggled into this cabin more or less faint and miserable about an hour before noon and lay down on the sofas to recover during which interval the captain would look iu to communicate th state i of the wind the moral certainty of its changing tomorrow the weather is always going to i improve tomorrow at sea the vessels rate of sailing and so forth


observations there were none to tell us of for there was no sun to take them by


but a description of one day will j serve for all the rest


here it is


the captain being gone we compose our selves to read if the place be light enough and if not we doze and talk alternately


at one a bell rings and the stewardess comes down with a steaming dish of baked potatoes and another of roasted apples and plates of pigs face cold ham


salt beef or perhaps a smoking mess of rare hot collops


we fall to upon these dainties eat as much as we can we have great appetites now and are as long as possible about it


if the lire will burn it will sometimes we are pretty cheerful


if it wont we all remark to each other that its very cold rub our hands cover ourselves with coats and cloaks and lie down again to doze talk and read provided as aforesaid until dinner time


at five another bell rings and the stewardess reappears with another dish of potatoesboiled this timeand store of hot meat of various kinds not forgetting the roast pig to be taken medici nally


we sit down at table again rather more cheerfully than before prolong the meal with a rather mouldy dessert of apples grapes and i oranges and drink our wine and brandy and i water


the bottles and glasses are still upon the table and the oranges and so forth are rolling about according to their fancy and the ships way when the doctor comes down by special nightly invitation to join our evening rubber immediately on whose arrival we make a party at whist and as it is a rough night and the cards will not lie on the cloth we put the tricks in our pockets as we


take them


at whist we remain with exemplary gravity deducting a short time for tea and toast until eleven oclock or thereabouts when the captain comes down again in a souwester hat tied under his chin i and a pilot coat making the ground wet where i he stands


by this time the card playing is over and the bottles and glasses are again upon the table and after an hours pleasant conversa tion about the ship the passengers and things in general the captain who never goes to bed and is never out of humour turns up his coat collar for the deck again shakes hands all round and goes laughing out into the weather as merrily as to a birthday party


as to daily news there is no dearth of that commodity


this passenger is reported to have lost fourteen pounds at vingtetun iii the saloon yesterday and that passenger drinks his bottle of champagne every day and how he does it being only a clerk nobody knows


the head en gineer has distinctly said that there never was such timesmeaning weatherand four good hands are ill and have given in dead beat


several berths are full of water and all the cabins are leaky


the shipss cook secretly swigging damaged whisky has been found drunk and has been played upon by the fireengine until quite sober


aw the stewards have fallen down stairs at various dinner times and go about with plasters ia various places


the baker is ill and so is the pastry cook


a new man horribly indisposed has been required to fill the place of the latter officer and bas been propped and jammed up with empty casks in a little house upon deck


and commanded to roll out pie crusts which he protests being highly bilious it is death to him to look at


news


a dozen murders on shore would lack the in terest of these slight incidents at sea


divided between our rubber and such topics as these we were running as we thought in halifax harbour on the fifteenth night with little wind and a bright moonindeed we had made the light at its outer entrance and put the pilot in chargewhen suddenly the ship struck upon a bank of mud


an immediate rush on deck took place of course the sides were crowded in au instant and for a few minutes we were in as lively a state of confuson as the greatest lover of disorder could desire to see


the passengers and guns and water casks and other heavy matters being all huddled together aft however to lighten her in the head she was got off amd after driving on towards an un comfortable line of objects whose vicinity had been announced very early in the disaster by a loud cry of breakersakead and much backing of paddles and heaving of the lead into a constantly decreasing depth of water we dropped anchor in a strange outlandish looking nook which nobody on board could recognise although there was land all about us and so close that we could plainly see the waving branches of the trees


it was strange enough in the silence of mid night and the dead stillness that seemed to be created by the sudden and unexpected stoppage of the engine which had been clanking and blasting in our ears incessautly for so many days to watch the look of blank astonishment expressed in every face beginniug with the officers tracing it through ail the passengers and descending to the very stokers and furnace men who emerged from below one by one and


clustered together in a smoky group about the hatchway of the engine room comparing notes in whispers


after throwing up a few rockets aud firing signal guns in the hope of being hailed from the land or at least of seeing a lightbut without any other sight or sound presenting it selfit was determined to send a boat on shore


it was amusing to observe how very kind some of the passengers were in volunteering to go ashore in this same boat for the general good of course not by any means because they thought the ship in an unsafe position or con templated the possibility of her heeling over in case the tide were running out


nor was it less amusing to remark how desperately unpopular the poor pilot became in one short minute


he had had his passage out from liverpool and during the whole voyage had been quite a noto rious character as a teller of jokes


yet here were the very men who had laughed the loudest at his jests now flourishing their fists in his face loading him with imprecations and defying him to hts teeth as a villian


t


the boat soon shoved off with a lantern and sundry blue lights on board and in less than an hour returned the officer io command bringing with him a tolerably tall young tree which he had plucked up by the roots to satisfy certain distrustful passengers whose minds misgave them that they were to be imposed upon and ship wrecked and who would on no other terms be lieve that he had been ashore or bad done anything but fraudulently row a little way in the mist specially tu deceive them and compass their deaths


our captain had foreseen from the first that we must be in a place called the eastern passage and so we were


it waa about the last place in the world in which we had any business or reason to be but a sudden fog and some error on the pilots part were the cause


we were surrounded by banks and rocks and shoals of all kinds but had happily drifted it seemed upon the only safe speck that was to be found thereabouts


eased by thia report and by the assurance that the tide was past the ebb we turned in at three oclock in the morning


i was dressing about halfpast nine next day when the noise above hurried me on deck


when i had left it over night it was dark foggy aud damp and there were bleak bills all round us


now we were gliding down a smooth broad stream at the rate of eleven miles an hour our colours flying gaily our crew rigged out in their smartest clothes our officers iu uniform again the sun shiuing as on a brilliant april day in england the land stretched out on either side streaked with light patches of snow white wooden houses people at their doors telegraphs working flags hoisted wharfs appearing ships quays crowded with people distant noises shouts men and boya running down steep places towards the pier all more bright and gay and fresh to our unused eyes than words can paint them


we came ta a wharf paved with uplifted faces got along side and were made fast after some shouting and straining of cables darted a score of us along the gangway almost as soon as it was thrust out to meet us and before it had reached the shipand leaped upon the firm glad eartb again


i suppose this halifax would have appeared an elysium though it had been a curiosity of ugly dulness


but i carried away with me a most pleasant impression of the town and its inhabitants and have preserved it to this present hour


nor was it without regret that i came home without having found an opportunity of returning thither and once more shaking hands with the friends f made that day


it happened to be the opening of the legis lutive council and general assembly at which ceremonial the forms observed on the com mencement ot a new session ot far liam en t in england wereso closely copied and so gravely presented on a tnall scale that it was like looking at westminster through the wrong end of a telescope


the governor as her majestys represantative delivered what may be called the speech from the throne


he said what he had to say manfully and well


the military band outside the building struck up god save the queen with great vigour before hts excel lency had quite finished the people shouted the ins rubbed their hands the outs shook their heads the government party said there never was such a good speech the opposition declared there never was such a bad one the speaker and members of the house of assembly withdrew from the bar to say a great deal among themselves and do little and in short every thing went on and promised to go on just as it does at home upon the like occasions


the town is built on the side of a hill the highest point being commanded by a strong for tress not yet quite finished


several streets of good breadth and appearance extend from its summit to the water side and are intersected by cross streets running parallel with the river


the hottses are chiefly of wood


the market is abundantly supplied and provisions are ex ceedingiy cheap


the weather being unusually mild at that time for the season of the year there was no sleighing but there was plenty of those vehicles in yards and byeplaces and some of them from the gorgeous quality of their decorations might have gone on without alteration as triumphal cars in a melodrama at astleys


the day was uncommonly fine the air bracing and healthful the whole aspect of the town cheerful thriving and industrious


we lay there seven hours to deliver and ex change the mails


at length having collected all our bags and all our passengers including two or three choice spirits who having indulged too freely in oysters and champagne were found lying insensible on their backs in unfrequented streets the engines were again put in motion and we stood off for boston


tobe continued


comparative national staturein consequence of arguments respecting the height for our soldiers we bare taken seme pains at varions times to ascertain the relative height of english irish and scotch recruits


as far as the line regiment are concerned the irish have a decided advantage in height


it must be however taken into account that the guards the marines and the rnsjory of the cavalry and artillery are eng lish and the recruits for these are all of superior standard


it may then be doubted if an equal number of tall men were deducted out of the total recruits raised in ireland whether any difference would exist


in weight the english recruit has the advantage the heights being equal


a regiment of the line that con sists wholly of englishmen will generally be found to average shorter than either the irish scotch or mixed corpsnaval and military gazette


important invention in propelling steamboatsa trial was lately mada on the river mer sey of mr edward finchs patent propeller which was eminently successful


a small steamer called the lapwing of tons burthen and eighteen horsepower has been constructed as the well known engineering establishment of mr rigby at hawarden for the purpose of trying the merits of mr finchs invention


we are informedthat in coming roo nd from liverpool although so small a vessel she per formed orne part of the trip at the rate of twelve miles per boar


the invention seems to be a very simple contrivance


the paddleboxes are still preserved ont instead of paddle wheels two plates are applied the broadest parts of which are at their extreme ends fixed obliquely at angle of forty degrees one on each side of the vessel at the ends of tba paddle shaft


these plates or propellers are made of wrought iron and appear very strong and compact and about eleven feet long and three fret six inches in the widest parts


they are entirely out of the water twice in the rvo lution of the paddle shaft when be engine is on ber centre and have the deepest hold of the water when the engine is at half stroke or at its greatest power


they thus act like oars or sculls no backwater is created and the disagreeable beating of the paddleboards on tbe water and consequen vibration of the vessel is avoidedliverpool albion


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marie antoinette or the chevalier of tue red house


continued from our last


chapter xxvi


as maurice finished mentally his gloomy reflec tion and was leaning over tfie parapet regarding the stream with melancholy attention he was aroused hythe regular march of a patrol appioack ing his position


ile looked around it was a company of the national guards marching towards him


maurice amidst the obscuiity imagined be sawloriu


it was cei tainly him and the moment lorin perceived his friend he ran to him with open arms


so i have you my boy at last he exclaimed


moibleu wc do not encounter each other without difliculty


what are you doing here in patrol asked maurice uneasily


i am heading an expedition my friend


the point at issue is to reestablish on its primitive base our shattered republic


then turning to his company he said carry armspresent armspile arms


it is not yet daik enough converso over your own af fairs while we talk of ours


then facing his friend he said i have learned two important things today at the section


what are they


the first is that you and i begin to be sus pected


i know that


what next


ah you do know it


well


the second is that the whole conspiracy of the carnation was directed by the chevalier of the lied house


i know that too


but you do not know that the carnation and the tunnel only formed one conspiracy i also know that


then let us proceed to a third affair


you do not know that i am certain


we are going to ar rest the chevalier this very night


arrest the chevalier


yes


you are then becoming a gendarmes


no j but on the other hand a patiiot who owes something to his country


this chevalier makes dreadful ravages with conspiracy after con spiracy


tho counti y orders me as a patriot to relieve them of this chevalier who annoys them beyond expression and merely obey my counti y it is quite the sanie said maurice and still it seems strange you engage yourself iu such auenterpiise


i did not undertake it


it was forced upon mei besides i should have sued for it because it is ab solutely necessary by some striking action to establish our reputation


that is not only the becurity we have for our lives bitt it establishes our right to give that fiightful simon sit inches of steel


t i how did they know that the chevalier of the red house headed the conspiracy of the tuunel


it is not yet certain


it is only presumed


i


ah you reason from deduction


i no we proceed upon a certainty


how do you account for that


lotus sec


j hear me then go on


i had scarcely heard the crier proclaim the conspiracy discovered hy simonthe wretch simon who seems to be cveiywherethan i de termined to judge of the truth myself


but they spoke of a tunnel does it exist


qh i certainly it cists


i you say that you have seen it


i i repeat that i have seen the tunnel and that at communicates between the cellar of madamo plumeau and a house n the street la corderic


the number is or do not remember which


truly lorin have you been through it


my faith throughout its whole length


i asj sure you itiwaseceedingly well contrived and executed


it was intersected by three iron gates r which they were compelled to bieak down


had ihe conspirators succeeded they would have had ij time enough through the sacrifice of three or four men to have placed the widow capet in


safety


fortunately it was not so and the villanous simon again discovered it


but it seems to me said maurice that those who inhabited the house ought to have been the first to be arrested


that would have been done but not a single person was found in it


still the house belonged to some one


yes but he was a new proprietor whom no one knew


it was known that the house had changed bands about three weeks previous j tht was all


the neighbours had heard noises but as the house was old it was thought to be undergoing epairs as for the original proprietor he had left paris


i arrived during the discussion of these facts


it seems said i to santerre drawing him aside that you arc all cmbarrnased


true re plied he we are


thin house bas been sold has it not


yes


about three weeks ago


sold before a notary


well said i inquire at all the notaries in paris and you will discover who has sold it


he will produce the in strument of sale and upon it will be found the name of the purchaser of this house


capital that is advice said santerre and from a man whom they charge with being a bad patriot


lorin lorin i shall reestablish you or may the devil burn me


in short continued lorin what was said was doue


the notary was found as well as the instrument of sale and on that was written the uame and abode of tho buyer


then santerre kept his word


he appointed rae to arrest him


and this man was the chevalier of the red house not at all only his probable accomplice


then why do you state that you were going to airest the chevalier wc are going to arrest both of them together


in the first place do you know the chevalier perfectly


you have his description


parbleu


santerre gave it to me


five feet three inches fair hair blue eyes strait nose ckes nut beard besides i have seen him


when today


you saw him said maurice


and you also


maurice started


you know the fair looking little mon who saved us this morning


he who commanded the troop of aristocrats and who struck so hard was it him asked maurice


himself


he was followed but was lost in the neighbourhood of our proprietors house of the rue corderie so that we presume he lodges there


indeed it is probable


it is certain


but it seems tome lorin that if you arrest ia the evening him who saved our lives in the morning you will be wanting in gratitude


go along soid lorin do you think they saved us with the intention of doing so


and why so then the troop were lying in ambush to rescue poor heloise tison as she passed


our cutthroats in convenienced them and they fell upon them


we were saved by a mere fortunate occurrence


since i think all depends upon intention and as the motive was hero absent i cannot reproach myself with ingratitude


besides do you not see mau rice the chief point here is the necessity which ex ists for our reestablishing ourselves by some grand stroke besides i have become responsible for you


to whom to santerre


ho knows you commend the expedition


how so are you sure said he of arresting the cri minals


yes replied i if maurice was pre sent


but replied he are you sure of maurice


he has been very lukewarm for some time


those who say so i remarked are deceived


maurice has cooled down no more than i have done


and you will be answerable for him said he


as for myself i replied


i then went in search of you i but could not find you


i then took this route because it was mine and because you ordinarily pursue it


finally i found you


there go for rard let utt march


my dear lorin l nmamazeaat it butvdo not feel the least desire for this expedition


you may say you did not meet me


impossible all my men have seen you


well you may say that we mot but that i de clined joining you


again impossible and why so


because in that case you would no longer be a lukewarm patriot but a suspected one


such per sons are conducted to the place de la revolution and invited to salute the statue of liberty with this difference that instead of doing it with ones hat they do it with ones head


well lorin anything may arrive that chooses


what i am about to say moy surprise you


lorin stared at maurice


well continued maurice i am tired of life


lorin burst into a loud laugh good said he out of sorts with your swccthcait and filled with melancholy


come good amadis become a man again and from thence change to a riten as for me on the other


hand i never am a better patriot than when em bi oiled with arthemise


bythebye the goddess utters a thousand kind things in praise of you


thank her for me lonn


adieu


why adieu because i am going


where to parbleui home


mauiice you arc lost


i laugh ut it


maurice my friend reflect


it is done


i have not told you all


all what all that nanterre told me


fwhatdid he say when i requested that you should head the expedition he said take care


of whom asked i maurice said he


he goes often into that neighbourhood


which quarter where the chevalier resides


what i exclaimed maurice docs he live about heie


i


it is presumed so at least since his accomplice resideb here he who is the purchaser of the house in the street la corderie faubourg victor asked maurice


yes


in which street the old street st jacques


i good god murmured maurice and as if blinded by a flash of lightning he covered his eyes with his hands


after a bhort interval and as if he had summoned courage his condition asked he


i master tanner


his name


dimer


j you ore right lorin said maurice sup pressing to all appearance by a powerful effort the emotion he experienced


i will go with you


you are right


are you armed i have mysabrcas usual


take in addition these brace of pistols


and you i i have my carbine


carry orms i shoulder


arms i forward i march


i i


the patrol advanced accompanied by maurice


who marched beside lorin preceded by a man in plain clothes who guided them


he was a police spy


i from time to time a figure detached itself from the angles of the streets and the doors of the houses exchanging a few words with the guides


these were spies on the watch


they reached a narrow lune the spy did not waver a moment


he seemed well instructed


ile entered the lune at the very garden gate through which maurice had once been ledmanacled


it is here said he


heie


what asked lorin


where wc will discover the two leaders


maurice supported himself against the wall as if he was about to fall


there arc three entrances said the spy


this one another opening into the pavilion and a third the principal one


by tho latter i shall enter with six or eight men guard this entrance with four or five men and put three trusty ones at the pavilion door


as for me said maurice i shall get over the wall and watch in the garden


capital said loria more especially as you can admit us from the interior


willingly said maurice but do not quit the passage or approach until i call you


what ever passes within i can perceive from the garden


you know the house then asked lorin


at one time i wished to purchase it


lorin concealed the men in the nooks and corners whilst the spy retired with eight or ten national guards to force the principal entrance


in a short tima the sound of their footsteps ceased without having in this deserted place excited the slightest attention


maurices men were at their post concealed as much as possible


one might have sworn that nothing extraordinary was passing in the old street so profound was the tranquillity that reigned


maurice began climbing the wall


wait said lorin


what the pass words


right


the carnation and tunnelarrest all who do not pronounce these words pass all who do


such are the watchwords


thank you said maurice as he leaped from the wall into the gurdon


chapter xxvii


the information maurice received proved such a blow to him that it required the utmost cxei eise of selfcontrol to conceal from lorin the mental anguish which overcame him


but when he was once alone in the garden amidst the silence of the night his mind became cnlmer his ideas no longer disorderly flowed through his brain in a more regulated form and were more under the command of his reason


what i could this house which maurice had so often visited with the purest pleasure could this house when considered his paradise upon earth be the mere resort of con spirators


was all that fine response made to his ardent friendship mere hypocrisy


was gencvieves love converted into the passion of fear


our readers know the disposition of the garden where they have so often followed our youthful characters


maurice glided from abutment to abutment until he was entirely concealed from the moons rays by the shadow of the greenhouse in which he had been imprisoned on that day when first he entered the house


this little greenhouse stood in front of the pavilion inhabited by genevive


this night instead of the light shining isolated and fixed from the young womans chamber it wandered from window to window


maurice per ceived a person through one of the curtains which had been accidentally drawn half aside hastily pressing several articles into a portmanteau and he observed with asfonhhment that arms glanced in his hands


he raised himself upon a buttress to gain a better view of the interior


a strong fire blazed up from the hearth and attracted his atten tion


he then perceived genevive who was burning papers


a door opened at that moment and a young man entered the room upon which the other person immediately quitted


maurices first idea was that it must be dixmer


the young woman ran to him took his hands and for au infant each gazed on the other appa rently a prey to violent emotion


what species of emotion was it


maurice could not divine nor did the murmur of their conversation reach him


suddenly maurice scanned the figure of the visitor


it is not dixmer murmured he


in fact dixmer was tall und stout built whilst this person was thin and of low stature


jealousy is an active stimulant and in a second maurice had made his comparison


it is not dixmer murmured he as if he had been obliged to repeat it so as to convince himself of genevieves perfidy


he drew nearer to the win dow but the nearer lie approached the less he could see whilst his brain was on fire


ile struck his foot against a ladder and in an instant raised it against the wall


he cautiously ascended and put his eye close to the opening in i the curtain


the unknown wos a man about twentveiiht or twentynine years of agc his eye was blue and his form elcgnnt


he still retained the youug womans hands in his and addressed her at the same time that he wiped away the tears which veiled ge ncvieves eyes


a slight noise made by maurice caused the young man to turn his face towards the window


maurice could scarcely restrain an evclumation of surprise when he recognised his mysterious protector of the place du chatelet


genevive at the same time withdrew her hands from the unknown and advancing to the ch mney piece assured herself that all the papers were consumed


maurice could restrain himself no longer all those terrible passions which tortura manlove vengeance jealousy gnawed at his hcurt with their teeth of lire


seizing his opportunity he violently burst open the wings of the insecure window and leaped into the room


at the same moment a couple of pistols were presented to his breast


genevive tumedroundt the noise and perceiving maurice remained mute with astonishment


sir baid the young republican coolly to him who doubly held his lifein his hands siryou are the chevalier of the red house


and if it may be so


oh


if it is soyou arc a brave man and consequently a cool one


i have a few words to say to you


speak said the chevalierwithout how ever low ering his pistols


you can kill me but you cannot kill me before i have uttered a cry or raoier i sholl not die without doing so


if i utter a cry there are a thousand men surrounding this house who in ten minutes would reduce it to ashes


so lower your arms and beor what i hove tosoy to madam to genevive asked the chevalier


to me murmured the young woman yes to you


genevive as pale as a statue seized maurices arm but he repelled her


madam you are aware of what you affirmed to me said maurice with profound contempt


i now perceive you have spoken the truth


in fact you do not love morand


maurice hear me exclaimed genevive


madam i have nothing tohear


you have deceived me


you have severed with one blow all the ties which unitedmy heart to yours


you said you did not love morand but you did not say you loved another t


sir said the chevalier why do you speak of morand or rathor to what morand du you allude


to morand the chemist


mordnd the chemist stands before you


morand the chemist and the chevalier of the red house are one and the same person


he stretched forth his hand to a neighbouring table i and in a moment assumed the black wig which had so long deceived tho eyes of the young repub lican


jl


ah yes said maurice with increased dis dain


yes i understand


it is not morand whom you love since he no longer exists


but the bubterfuge although more adroit is not less con temptible


the chevalier made a threatening motion


sir continued maurice will you permit me to converse a little with madam


join in our conversation if you please


it will be brief i assure you


genevive made a movement to the chevalier to be patient


so contiued maurice youyou genevive have made the laughingstock of your friends and caused mc to be execrated by mine


you have made me hllnfl as i was an accomplice in oil your plots


you have employed me as a tool


do you hear


it is an infamous actionbut madam you will bei punished


this gentleman will sloy me before your eyes but in fiveminutes he will also be a corpse at your feet or if he survives it will only bo to loose his head on the scaffold


he diel exclaimed genevive


his head fall upon the scuffold


maurice you do not know that he is the protector of my family and for bim i would readily sacrifice my own life


if he die iii die for you aro my love he is my religion j ah


said maurice


youperhapsmean tor say you still lovo me


indeed women are so weak and cowardly


then turning round he said to the young royalist come come sir you must either kill me or die yourself


why so because if you do not kill me i will arrcstyou


and maurice extended his hand to grasp his collar


i will not dispute my life with you said the chevalier


behold i


and he threw his wea pons into an arm chair


and why not dispute your life with me because my life is not worth the remorse i should experience in killing a gallant mau besides besides genevive loves you


ahl exclaimed the young woman folding her hands together


ah i you are always the good groat loyal and generous armand


maurice looked at both with a kind of stupified astonishment


hold said the chevalier


i shall retire to my chamber but i give you my word of honour that it is not to escape but only to conceal a portrait maurice quickly cast his eyeb on genevive


whether the chevalier divined maurices thoughts or whether he wished to push generosity to the ut most he said come i know you arc a republi can but i know also that you have a pure and loyal heart


i shall trust in you to the utmost


look


and he drew from his breast a miniature which he presented to maurice


maurice held down his head and pressed his brow


i await your order sir said the chevalier


if you still desire my arrest knock nt this door when the time is come to deliver mc up


i care no longer for life from that moment that my existence ceases to be upheld by the hope of saving the queen


the chevalier retired without maurice making one bingle gesture to retain him


he had scarcely disappeared ere genevive thicw herself at the young mans feet


faidou pardon me maurice for nil the evil i have wrought you


pardon my deceptions


for the sake of my tears and suffering pardon me for i have wept and borne much


my husband de parted i know not where this morning


i do not know that i shall ever sec him more


now there is but one friend left mcno not a friend but a brother and you seek to kill him


pardon maurice purdon me


maurice laised her up


what would you said he


it is fate


every one now plays for his life


the chevalier has staked his and lost


now he must pay the forfeit


that is to say he diesif i understand you


yes


ile mubt die and you tell me so i it is not mc genevive


but fate has not yet pronounced her sentence in this case since youyou can save him


at the expense of my word consequently of my honour


i understand that genevive


close your eyes maurice


that is ull i ask you to do and as far as the gratitude ofwomen can go i promise you mine will reach it


it would be useless madam to shut my eyes


there is a password given without which no one can leave the house for us


i informed you it is surrounded


and you have the password undoubtedly


maurice well


my friend my dear maurice


the password


tell it mci must have it


genevive exclaimed maurice


genevive


what do you ask of me maurice in the name of that love which i bear you be without faith and honour betray your cause and renounce deny your principle igenevive what do you who tempt mc so offer me in eturn for all that


oh


maurice suve him save him in the first place and then ask even my life


genevive replied maurice with a sad voice hear me


i have placed one foot in the gulf of infamy


if i must descend altogether i wish nt least to have a good argument against myself


genevive swear to me that you do not love the chevalier


i love tue chevalier as a sister or a mend should love not otherwise i swear


genevive do youlove me


maurice i love you as sure as god now hears me


if i do as you wish will you forsake parents friends and country to fly with the traitor


mauricemaurice


she hesitates


and mau rice diew back with all the violence of disdain


genevive who was supporting herself against him felt him yield and sank on her knees


maurice said she throwing her head back and elusping her hands maurice whatever you wish i will swearolder me i shall obey


you will be mine genevive


when you evact it


swear by the name of ct genevive raised her arm my gd said she you pardoned the sdultressi hope also to be pardoned


big tears rolled down her cheeks upon the long i tresses which fell over her bosom i


oh not sonot so said maurice or i will not receive your oath


i swear resumed she to consecrate my life to maurice to die with or for him if neces sary if he will only save my friend protector brother the chevalier of the red house


it is well said maurice


he shall be saved


he proceeded towards thechamber


sir said he esume the attire of the tanner morana


i restore your parole


you are free


and now madam said he to genevive the password is the carnation and tunnel


then as if he were afraid to remain any longer in the room where he had pronounced the words which made him a traitor he opened the window and leaped into the garden


to be continued


i the exile bt the author of ibb vothcomino


tradbdy or looob debona shrike


j concluded


chajpter iii


it was about eight oclock tbe sam ercning hen mr percy having ordered coffee begged or her daughter to set down to the piano play lor me j love laid she thai dear favorite air of your


poor brothers the recollections of ireland


ellen as ever alive to her parents slightest viih and frederick hastened to offloiale at the instrument in the way of turning over the leaves of the musicbook for his sister as he best could j for the notes were to him as so mach hebrew


i sweetly and eipressively did the fond girl play her


lott brothers favorite air and as she occasionally mrotd to gaze upon her mother whose tearsa btverfailiog source of reliefflowed fast and si


lently her own bine eyes involuntarily filledthe pig grew gradually more indistinct while a aap i pressed sob awakened fredericks attention to the deep sensibility of his sister


way me the ocean king ellen said he t is more livelyless monotonous than this wiles you ought to play and dance as merrily as a utk for who knows but that in one of my voy ht i may discover this kuight errant brother of urs u mg rumoured was it not thst he had proceeded to india t and tis by no means impos titleh may happen


god grant it said hit sister oh god grant it for his mothers sake sud as she turned towards her weeping parent her brother as be affection ately pressed her hand audibly whispered amen they had succeeded in restoring


mrs petey to an ordinary degree of calmness when a ring at the garden gate and the subsequent sound of footsteps announced the arrival of visitors


the servant entered the room and handed a card to the lady of the house


read it for me frederick said she as she gave it to ber son


frederick glanced at the eard


gracious heaven


how strangehow very extraordinary


mother whom do you bink we bare here ex claimed he as he read aloud theiiame mr charles stanley stanley continued frederick the companion of onr old school dayshow truly welcome is he


the servant retired and immediately ushered in our two friends


stanley ww obliged to repeat his name for tho whole party gszert from one to the other of their visitors in uncertainty


how warm was the welcome of motlier of sister aud of bro ther


stanley the intimate friend and companion of henry percythe lovedthe lostand now the foundbut they knew it not


stanley intro duced henry peroy respectively to the party as a mr tyndall and as the exile bowed low to the for mal enrtesy of the unconscious ladies the big tear of nature fell nnnotieed at his feet


henry peroy gazed npon his motherhis widowed mother yes she was still the some though years of sorrow had changed her hair to snow the same calm serenitythe stamp of holy resignationsat upon her careworn brow and as she listened breath lessly to catch stanleys lightest whisper in the fond expectation that he would touch npon the subject ever nearest to her heart the trembling tear and quivering lip told bim that he was idolized at ever


he looked upon his sister a young and blooming woman yet the same as when ten yean ago they had wandered round the gardeninte which the window near which he sat atilt led


she too regarded bis friend with an earnestness thal assured him that anxiety for a brothers fate wt uppermost in her thoughts


oh bow fondly hov tenderly did he look upon his sister


his eyes wen rivetted upon bers and once she caught them fixe to searchingly upon her that she felt the consoioui tide rush fuller into her cheek when she perceived thp stranger rise and proceed to the opposite sid of the room


yes the very room was the same the furniture the pioturcsall all were as be had left them


hi turned towards the piano the piece which ellet had so lately played was still there the recol leotions of irelandhis wellremembered favo rite how


happy how careless when last beard and whiobhe wonld fainhave asked now to hen once again but the words as he strove to frame them died away voicelessunuttered


still hi remained near the instrument his look rivetted the page which oft times before he had tnrned ai his beloved sisters side a teara large heav teardropped upon the keys as stanley who wa fearful his friends feelings might overcome hi resolution of remaining undiscovered asked hiu to oblige the party with a tune


then did necesit master the agitation of the moment and he fal tered the name of miss percy accompanying thi same with a request that she would favor him am his friend with the recollections of ireland


ellen once more sat down to the instrument he brother once more was at her side he to whon that piece of music had been dedicated once egaii felt his heart swell nigh to bursting the voice the scenes of other days passed rapidly before hin early associations awoke the kindred sympathie whioh bad long lain dormant in his bosom thi man who had struggled bravely for years agains the vicissitudes of life and every species of hard ship felt his heart faint almost within him


el lei thought she heard a suppressed sobshe lookei up but the strangers face was turned asidehi hand still held the corner of the page and sh thought she could perceive one bright humid eire


upon that hand the source of which she doubtei not though she knew not why or how it origi noted


stanley whispered henry percy to bis friem as bis sister rose from ber seat i cannotrn feelings will not allow me to prolong thisdiscover my heart will burst if i ol asp not at least on relative to tts throbbing embrace this night


coull you by any possibility contrive me a meeting will that dear girl in the garden presently


oh m sister my darling bestbeloved sister exclaimer poor percy yon shall receive consolation in th assurance of your brothers existence and deathles affection


stanley pressed percy hand as he returned hi whisper rest satisfiedit shall be done am passed onward where he seated himself by th side of miss percy


mrs percy could now n longer repress her impatience to make those enqui ries which her heart dictated


and tell me mi stanley she asked for you must know the pong which the uncertainty of my poor boys fate houri awaken have you any intelligence whatever reis tive to your unhappy friend


have yon ever hear from or of him since you last wrote to england


pardon me my dear mrs peroy said stanley i am the most inexcusably careless fellow ii england i may say now


i have news good newi excellent news


i am the bearer of a letter frot your sona letter containing sews which i doul not


will gladden the hearts of all his anxioo friends


frederick read the letter to yon mother continned stanley handing a letter to th younger percy which had been prepared for th purpose by henry and whose handwriting wi instantly recognised by the whole party


if mia percy will favor me with her company we will tak a turn round the garden for i have something importance to communicate to her relative to bc brother


mbs percy instantly rote and tremblingly ai cepted the arm whioh stanley offered


as the passed into


the gordan stanley hastily glande round the room but bia friend was not to be seei and rightly conjectnring that ha had retired befoj them he led his fair companion ap one of the ni meroub flowerwalks


you must not allow yourself to bs agitated m dear miss percy said stanley


i have news i communicate respecting your lost relative nb eb will affect yon powerfully i doubt not bat yon most restrain your natural emotions for i find it necessary to


summon mr tyndall tu our confer ence


he it is who has been your brothers con stant companion during the entire period of his voluntary absence he will be better able to in form you of all which now so deeply interests you


who is this mr tyndall enquired miss per


oy be appears to be suffering from some unhap piness this evening when he stood near ma at the piano i distinctly heard a suppressd sob escape bim whilst i also detectedthe presence of a tear upon hts band as he turned he music pbg


tyndalltfpliedstanleybas had much sot


row lo bear up againstbis fate hos been less ex empt from difficulty and misfortune than that of most he is also deeply sensitive and it may be that the recollection of a dearly loved sister might have intruded at the instant yon allude to more especially as that sister like yourself wto pattiteu larly devoted to music in which she waa also emi nently successful


will you excuse me for a moment continued stanley whilst i seek my friend and invite him to join us


the young lady was left atone agi tated by this sudden and unexpected interview in which she had borne so strange a port


she scarce noticed the length of stanleys absence nntil her mind had revolved every circumstance which pro bability suggested as at all bearing npon the nature of his communication


she slowly paced the walk the lapse of time and the approach of evening insensibly warned her of stanleys delay and impatiently did she await the moment when he should rejoin her


at last he came and she has tened to meet him he approached end took her hand which he raised tenderly to his lips


miss percy involuntarily started bock it was that same deep blue eye whose extraordinary and piercing glance she had that evening before encountered now regarding ber with an expression of mingled sadness and affection it was tyndalls hand in wbich bers was resting it was bis hand which had pressed bers to his lips


for a circumstance so extraordinary so unexpected and so inexplicable mies percy was utterly unprepared she hastily drew back and faltered some indistinct words whioh fell unintelligibly on the ear of ber com panion


pardon me miss percy said tyndall in a low and half broken voice pardon the friend of your brother it an homage whioh were be present he would not disapprove for as i love him dearly and tenderly so do i love his sister


stanley has sent me here to explain an event which ought to be cautiously conveyed to your affectionate mother to you shall i entrust the happy the important circumstance of your brothers safetyf hib retnrn from india und of bis arrival in england but where mr tyndall ex claimed miss percy oh where is my brother


why is be not here to bless the tearful eyes of his doating mother and happy sister t


oh if you do lovs my brother as you have told me hesitate no longer but bring him to us let ns enjoy the reality of this blessed thia unlookedfor resnlt


my brother roy dear brother


were your brother nigh at this moment miss percy replied tyndall you would not recognise him time has wrought a change and sorrows have stamped many a furrow upon the brow which your lips have so often pressed in happier days the boy whom you remember but as a boya light hearted gay and merry boyis now the staid contemplative man


indias scorching sun has embrowned thefair bloom of childhood and his cheek is swarthy as that you now gaze upon


much and constant anxiety for ten long years has robbed him of the careless smite of boyhood and though the souree of all his core bas passed away though he is independent nay wealthyalthough he is blessed with the love of a kind and geutle being who longs to oall you sisterthough in these he has been truly blessed yet the arrow had entered deep into his soul long ere those blessings became his and the mark is still to be discerned where misfortune once plaoed her withering hand


my dear brother is married then said the lady


oh when shall i see ber whom i already love as a dear dear sistershe whobe love has sup ported her husband and lightened his heaviest afflictions


tell me mr tyndall when shall i meet her tomorrow he replied


and my brother is the voice of nature then so utterly dead in a sisters bosom tis there not one note left of all the harmony pf past years nnwrung unbroken


is there no idea whioh has haply slumbered since those years now ready to spring into being no


kindred sympathy tnothing of the bright and happy past left on which to fonud even conjecture


bitter painful truth continued tyndall a child i left my fathers homemy mothers bosom but changed indeed most i ba when natures voice itself responds not to my retnrn


oh ellen is the task still left me of avowing myselfyonr brother


henry henry forgive


was all the tender girl eould niter os throwing her arms round her brothers neck she fainted on bis bosom


bless thee


heaven bless thee


exclaimed percy as he strained the loved burthen to bis breast now nature take thy fill and as be supported his unconscious sister itt his arms his tears long restrained fell fast and thickly


a shock so unexpected had completely overthrown m s percys selfpossession and her swoon con tinned so long that henry beooming alarmed was on the point of rising and bearinghis sister towards the house when the sonnd of footsteps restrained his intention and as they continued to advance to wards the spot where they were percy supporting his sister endeavoured to escape observation by retiring behind a laurel bush of which many adorned the garden but he was too late


hell and damnation


wham have we here exclaimed captain peroy springing with one bound to the place and then stopping short as though transfixed to the spot so utter was bis astonish ment wordb however soon came to iib assist ance


villain whom are you exclaimed he seizing tyndall by the collar and forcibly dragging him who still retained miss percy lu his anns towards tho house bot be you man or devil yon s ball answer rn for tbisjnsult


ralease thia lady bbaasmhbbjjje my sister or by my fathers soul i will not spare you


at this instant stanley who had been at tracted by the disturbance came up and at once perceived the state of affairs


percy said he addressing frederick be patient nd i will ex plain all this look to your sister he motioned to tyndall who resigned miss percy to her bro ther and then followed stanley


stay exclaimed frederick in a voice of thun der tyndall obeyed


yon are to be found i presume enquired frederiek


at any time was the reply and tyndall rejoined his friend


onrsisterknows you j ked stanley


she does replied tyndall but


frederick rapst also beiatisbed go my friendand i will here await a brothers welcome


as stanley approached miss percy was just re turning to consciousness she opened her eyes and looked enquiringly around but they met not the objeot of which theywere in search


my bro ther she faintly murmured


j here am responded the deep voice of the captain but who the devil was that villainthat tyndallthat friend of stanleys but by my fathers soul i swear to love him interrupted his sister f you will swearwe will all swearto love him


love him said or rather screamed


frederick love the devilthe dark fiend of hellhimselfi say curse curse not responded a voice at his elbow fit was stanleyscurse not one whom yon know notwho has never injured you or yours who is entitled by birth to your best affections tis natures highest noblest commandment


fre derick would you curse your brother


my brother exclaimed the young man my long lost only brother


oh god ia it possible


stanley recall him he must not not leave us low


he awaits you at the end of this walk re joined stanley if misspercy feel sufficiently recovered i will accompany her to the house but remember frederick on yonr return with henry that nothing mnst occur to undeceive your mother this evening tomorrow we must decide upon some way of gratifying the wish which bas been preying npon her fond heart for many a long and anxious year


frederick hastily promised to be cautious and hastened to embrace his happy brother


henry frederick were the only words they uttered but the fond pressure of their hands the brotherly embrace with which an arm round eaoh they promenaded the wellremembered walks in the same garden which had so often witnessed their boyish sports testified how truly welcome to them was the hour whioh again gave to each a brother


an hour passed away and still they lingered there still remained something to be recalled some fondly remembered scene of ohildhood to be revisited and os they unwillingly advanced towards the house henry warned his brother not to com municate the secret of his return to his mother which he purposed should be done through bis own fond wife


you will walk to the hotel with us to night urged henry mary is prepared to be introduced to a brother and tomorrow hopes to clasp a mo ther and a sister to ber bosom


need we say more


frederick that night was welcomed by his fair relative and returned home with a heart almost too full of happiness


the following day beheld mrs percy the hap piest of mothers and as she made henry kneel by the side of the wellremembered old armchair as in days of oldas she smoothed back the dark bair from his foreheadas she gazed into his eyes now beaming with peace and love the fond mother smiling through her tears wondered that she had not at first recognised her child


mary and ellen percy were mutually pleased with each other and henry having successfully pleaded with his brother to resign his captaincy the two brothers purchased a handsome residence a few miles further from the city to which mrs percy and her daughter imme diately removed and undisturbed happiness fully compensated for the vanished misery of former years


recollections of ireland


by thomas f meaouer


chapter iii


stuarts election of course is to me a misty scene


it is a phantom rather than one of the distinct realities of memory


i was a child and not exceeding three years old when it took place


the incidents and figures of the scene have left upon my mind no visible impression


the meri who conspicuously figure in it and most of whom i haveinentioned were introduced to me at a much later day


they were old men and dying men the day first appeared in public life


but tho sound of the hot strife is still buzzing in my ears and my eyes grew


dim in


tho glare whic burst from it amid the swaying toandfro of gaudy banners and tho discharge of cannon


theresult of the election was the defeat of the bwresfords


it was sisweeping defeat


it was the annihilation of their political consequence they never recovered


it


the enormous expense it entailed so thoroughly disgusted the present marquis of waterford gave him so fearful an intimation of the penalties of public lifethat nothing could ever induce him to set his foot within its frontiers


he has scrupulously kept aloof from politics


not even tho mastership of the buck hounds would lienccept thoughoffered to him at the cordial suggestion of prince albert


what was the gain to the people


what power accrued to them in the overthrow of the house of curraghmore


the power to return fat noodles and rich stupidities in the name of religious freedom and tenant right to parliament


pu silanimity succeeds to bigotry and bloated inac tivity to aristocratic dominatinn


theres the victory and then theres the gain


one acre of land good against all claims ensured to him for ever were better to the irishman by a thousand times than a thousand of such triumphs


it would make him richer freer happier nobler


that one acre would have more wealth and vir tue in it than a catacomb stuffed with emanci pation acts


with that one acre to take his stand on a legion of beresfords would bo no more to him than a pyramid of mummies


i have said that my recollections of watorford refer for the most part to political events and personages


of other events and personages there was a dearth


social lifo was at an ebb in the old city


there were very few gaities


a ball in the assembly room two or three dinner parties apicnic in summer these were the only events that enlivened the sobriety of the twelve months


the fashionable circle was very small


composed principally of these who had enjoyed municipal honours and cmoliments under the old tory reign it had no affinity with the people


t was ctiff with illiterate conceit


socially selected from it was politically hostilo to the great body of the citizens


the conservative diindidittofor parliamentarj honours always bad its sympathies


if the whig or psuedo liberal was sometimes favoured with them it was owing to the aristocratic acquaintances and tastes he cultivated


mr wyse was esteemed by this dainty society of noodles less for his eloquence j and scholarship than for his being a f lvourite guest in london at the tables of distinguished


whig noblemen


one evening discussing the chances of mr wyses defeat by the parlia mentary contest of an amiable authority of i this feud circle


i speak of a kind old soul who no doubt imagines there are velvet cushions nnd lnunes in heaven for all those who have bien rospeuable on earth nnd bare benches only for those who have sat in the lower classes below this kind old foul his mouth running over with excitement and black rapee told me df a visit he had recently paid mr wyse at his ridences wahun terrace london


the table


he said was literally covered with invi tations from the hihest nobility in england


there was an invitation from the marquis of lansduwne to supper


theie was another from the earl of shrewsbury to lunch


another from the eail of ellsemere


another from baron urunow the prussian ambassador


a dozen or two fiom such men as lord morpeth visronnt mahon and the duke of cleveland


and is it such a man a man who receives such invitations as those is it him you are going to turn out nf parliament


this was the logic the philosophy the patriotism of the municipal nobility the genteel broken down old logyism of waterford


yitli the loss of the city treasury and town bull they lost their importance and the consciousness of the deprivation wa visible in the penitential jsobrittyof theirfeatures


in this condition the people seemed to regard them with a pity slightly adulterated with contempt


the first thing which struck me and that which aroused my imagination most on returning to my native city was to find a number of ad mirable men men in various departments of business and building up their fortunes with skill and honour occupying socially an obscure position


these men never had their dinner parties their balls their festive gatherings


the city lathers seated in


the twn ball alone indulged in such plays


so haughtily did they indulge in them no other people not even their betters presumed to be convivial


a worthy tobacconist in patrickstreet though eminently entitled to do so by his good presence courtesies and fair circumstances would as soon have thought of committing sacrilege as of making his appear ance in the same room though it were a public one where alderman babcock and his daughters or sheriff gillot and his showy wife or captain yellewwig and his enchanting niece were figuring on the floor


a strong disdain for men in business was active in these gentlemen


the lower classes as they called them were diseased with it as well as the higher


the bitterest thing that could he said against a public man was that his father made boots was successful as a cailor or tanned the best leather


no young fellow sure of an income of a year or less even thought of going into business


they entered their names perhaps at the queens inns and eat the prescribed number of dinners to qualify them for admission to the bar


it was considered genteel to be a member of the bar the celebrities of the profession constituting with the officers of the army and the retinue of the castle and other public establishments the only aristocracy of the irish metropolis


besides it was the main road to political preferment


a barrister of six years standing whether he prac tised or not was elegible to a colonial salary or some berth at home and was sure to receive the one or the other providedbe was valuable enough


to


be


bribed


the club


yet with all their conceit nnd pretensions there were good souls amongst the old tory fashion ables of waterford


i was a member of the county and city club and had many opportuni ties afforded me of learning their worth and con ceiving a genial fondness for them


the mar quis of wacerford the earl of huntingdon lord uarew sir joshua paul sir henry barron sir nugent humble were members of it


purely a social club a club for pleasant intercourse and merry meetings politics were rigorously ex cluded from its walls


no one entered wi ih his repeal button or orange sash


both were left in the umbrella stand at the jutside door


what ever they were without however widely they differed in the streets within all were irish gen tlemen cordial generous and jovial


very nearly threefourths of the club were conserva tives or tories


only two or three were repeal ers


i had the honour to be one of the latter


political


consideredj it was a desolate minority


but so true were the members of the fundamen tal principle of the club that they might all have been repealers for anything offensive ever heard to the contrary


the majority were loyalists to the marrow and never lust an opportunity toas sert the fact


thev were sincerely so


truth ful hightoned gallant their loyalty won my respect though it failed to invite my concurrence


loyal as they were however they were friendly and affectionate to the rebel


inwardly con demning his insubordination to the queen they openly loved him for his fidelity to the club


a staunch friend of the pleasant institution they knew me to be


of the principle on wbich it was established they knew


i warmly approved


they knew that in public over and orer again had prayed for that tolerant genial generous brotherhood amongst irishmen of the feasibility and beauty of which in a little sphere they themselves had furnished such delightful evu deiice and to the last moment for these reasons


i believe


continued to be their favourite


well do remember howcordially they used to drink my heahh and cheered my stammering speeches at their dinners


well dp remember thejovial welcome and the shuffling of chairs round the fireplace every night i came in


early or late the later the better they always bad a chair and


a cheer for me


well too o i remember the kind importu nity with which many of them endeavoured as the fatal time drew near to dissuade me from the enterprise


the failure of which they predicted would remove me from tho old house on the adelphijfor ever and a day


some of them afew daysbefore my arrest in july met me at dinner at a friends of mine close to the lunatic asylum on johns hill nnd urged me to with draw from the movement theros no use youll fail youll lose every thing must stand my ground i said


ob nonsense they replied quit it and come with us


where to


i asked


to italy to greece to egypt


they ex claimed the invitation was a tempting one


a party of honest cheerful spirited fellow full of life intelligence and the best good nature to ramble with from the suir through the mediter ranean to the nile was a prospect almost too en chanting to resist


struck with it i felt my patriotism relax


had it not been of iron it would hive melted in the warmth of such friend ship and the seductions which it breathed


the iron may have rusted but it is iron still


of this club and all belonging to it i cherish the liveliest remembrance


many a time do the old faces i so often saw there reappear to me sparkling and laughing grinning or frowning darkening into horror at some rich joke as they used to do night after night in that magic circle round the fire place in the smoking room


many ii time as i sat on deck on my way to the worlds end in her gracious majestys sloop of war the swift have i travelled back through the waves the sea birds and the clouils through boisterous and dismal scenes of all sorts to that big weather slated house looking out over thu adelphi across the suir to the abbey church and cromwells rock and there forgetting everything else but the club house though the trade winds were in our sails arid the southern stars wore shining clear and full and fresh above us and the nlbs tross swept down and wheeled about us in his mijestic plenitude of wing haie i uad the papers and eaten my anchuvy to ist and smnked till midnight gossippmg andjoking ovir the oc currences of the day with my old friends in that snugand dustyruom right opposite the timber yard of jajob penivse one of the most sedate and estimable qunkers of the ljrba intacta


it was indeed i pleasent thing to drop in there almut nine or ten oclock at night


a little while after you opened the door you could dis cern nothing plainly


the sinoka was dense filling the four corners


the group about the fireplace was hut a darker cluud


as you ap proached it resolved itself into several distinct fragments


rach fnigmeit was a gentleman


the gentlemmi had hss cigar his short clay pipe his rminiln or his chibouque


night after night for the twelvemonth it was the same


for the last twenty or thirty yewrs it had been the same


the habitues of that cozy and capacious fireplace formed a stock company of the pleiisentest per formers on the provincial stage of life


an unctuous laziness lept them at home


had tiny moved abroad their good qualities and wit would have shone as brightly iii a broader sphere


neither the kildarestreet club in dublin nor the carlton


nor the athenseum in london would have been too ambitious u theatre for many of them to have figured in


endowed by nature and improved by ait by travel reading constant intercourse with endless varieties of people they wevewell qualified toshine


draw down applause and he the favourites wherever they choose to stay


one wa an attorney a wildlooking big honed disordeily dressed gentleman whose ideas and language partook strongly of the excitement of his appearance


his anecdotes were volumi nousvand his speculations interminable


profuse and incongruous his descriptions of scenery bewildered himself as well as his hearers


i was present one night he described a storm at kil larney


his hair flew about in every direction from the top and back of his head


his waist coat unbuttoned his neckerchief wriggled ami danced like an eel about his neck


with hands wide open and the fingers standing violently apart his arsis swept the air up and down right and left to and fro here and there and every wherea pair of condors wings in the ccstacies of plunder


mangerton was hid in one enormous cloud the reeks and the toomies had disappeared the waves were leaping up and pouring over ross castle the thousands of bones and skulls in muckruss abbey were tumbling and dashing about and splitting each other to splinters with the wind and he exclaimed his eyes ready to burst and his hair tearing itself out from the roots and his long wild arms jumping away from their sockets hnd the wind and the water and the woods and the mountains were all my dear keating on fire


immediately after such an effort as this the poetic attorney struck by the aspectof incredulity nil round voald compose himself a little and put the question dont you think it was so


it matters not whether he whs answered in the affirmative or otherwise


having put the ques tion he coniuded he was perfectly understood and subsided for a time into less riotous enjoy ment


he filled his pipe


if i remember rightly it was an old blick pipe very short and very dirty the ugliest dwarf of an old dudeen


cros sing his legs he lit his pipe buttoned a button of his waistcoat and silenced himself in smoke


still however the big brown eye glared upfn the company flashing back the red coal which filled the grate


from his momentary trance he was sureto wnkeupwith a jerk to inflict a rhapsody of science on the survivors of his original audience


he was better than the hint act for dispersing a crowd


no crowd could withstand his delirious vocabulary an hour


a convivial soul unconsciously pouring over with the strangest fun he was a bewildered theorist and a precarious politician


in his profession alone could one depend on him


there he was steady intelligible reliable decidedly successful


at one time he was proprietor of the wulerford chronicle and vehemently insisted on repeal


his edicor was ah eccentric and fruitful genius used a copious pen nnd used it boldly


thoirgh he died very dismally and few followed him to the grave poor quarry fiamm will not be for gotten in and around waterford for many i year to come


his speeches less startling in their imagery than those of nash were more solid in their matter and subtle in their wit


he died a repealer


his employer the incongruous attor ney the proprietor of the chronicle lives happily as a whig in improved business as queens pro secutor at quarter sessions


unworthy ofan epitaph commemorative of patriotism


i trust he shall have one reminding the readers of his tombstone that with all his vagaries in public life his good fellowship in private was consistent whilst the sobriety of the attorney made ample amends for the midness of the poet


another member of the club of whom i pre serve a durable impression was old bell of the manor


he had served in the wnterford militia long before the peace of and in civilian dress ever after kept up the consequence of the periodical profession


i forget whether he was captain bell or major bell or colonel bell


it is of little importance


whatever his military distinction may have been he was a great old bell with a hard oldsoldier face bushy black whisk ers a white cravat having a comical tie always a big dinner coat of a very dark shade big baggy trousers a little fop short white stockings loose shoes a purple wig an over shadowing hat a pair of brown worsted or leather gloves and a stupendous umbrella of brown cot ton


ii was refreshing to see the old soldier shouldering his inseperable umbrella with his boots freshly blackened turning out of his house oppositeto harry downes extinct distillery and calmly moving through the tumult and perils of the tramore carstand into beresford street along the footpath under the bishops wall of a morning to the club


calmly silently solidly lie moved alonjr disturbed by nothing tinder htiayen on his way to read the papers he returned as he set out complacently and slowly with an unruffled countenance a rigid face and a fearless gait


what became of him the rest of the day the public never knew


about eight oclock in the evening however he was down again to the club


as before he came along by the tramore car stnnd through beresfordstrcet under the wall of the bishops garden with his heavy umbrella across his shoulder with a steady conscience and a measured step without a word without a dis sipated thought without a quiver of the lip


silent erect large oldfashioned sombre some what and almost grim


bell carefully stacked bis umbrella in some safe nook and without a syllable took his accustomed scat amongst the smokers


his seat was on the left hand side of the fireplace


there was a bandy little wooden shelf midway up close to the chimneypiece projecting from the wall


it was fitted with a brass hinge and could bt let up or down like the leaf of a table


the first thing old bell did at the fireplace was to take a chair


it was usually an arm chair


the second thing he did was to call for a glass of grog brandy and cold water


the third thing he did was to set tins glass of grng upon the old shelf beside him at his elbow


the fourth to draw out his pipe from the breast pocket of his dinner coat


the pipe in variably was a clean white pipe with a pretty long shank and a thin smooth coating of red sealingwax at the tip


obviously pipes were his only expense


the fifth thing mr bell did was to cut a pipefull of tobacco


the sixth to fill his pipe


the seventh to light it well


the eighth nnd last to smoke it to the bowl


all this was done in deep silence


the veteran hardly raised his


eyes once during the deliberate proceeding


if spoken to be lifted one tyelid and eyebrow it little smiled perhaps and then relnpted


forced to sneak be spoke economically with a small expenditure of breath using the shorten syllables


bell was an orangeman


a staunch bluff inveterate worshipper of william of pious memory


more hiiteful to


him than heelzebub the jope was his perpetual dread


with nil the kindness of bis nature he was ever more or less suspicious of his catholic acquain tances and looked upon them as people rather to be tolerated than trusted


he would not ban hut would keep a keen watch on them lfe would not perhaps deprive them ol a vote but would never give them a giirj


he could never forgive them the gunpowder plot or the spanish armada


when the statue of king william was blown up in college green he flourished bis um brella swore the militia must be called out and the emancipation act instantly repealed


as fo daniel oconnell no fate was toubad for that monstrous disturber ol the peace


i know not if the big cotton umbrella is at rest


i know not if the last white pipe in the cozy corner i have spoken of has been smoked


but if the worst lias come if the bellsbave tolled furbell if bell sleeps in the same sweet earth with those be feared in life then peace npd happiness and glory be to him


he was a true and gentle soul unobtrusive yet uncompromising slow but sure


a cromwell in bis way but a cromwell with more heart than brains


that the evenings at the club to which such men resorted were pleasant in the extreme need not be said in my native city in that old city of the suir social unity was sadly wanting


in irelandall through ireland it was wanting too


this social unity is n groundwork ofa unity yet more stable vet more conspicuous and fruitful in great events and blessings


the unity wbich the army of lord charlemont despite of f the weakness of its leadership and the defective i ness of its enterprise with ineffable brilliancy i pourtrayed


the unity for which wolfe tone if the clearest boldest spirit sprung from irish soil ii studierl toiled travelled begged organised j moved the military genius of p colossal empire manned a noble fleet fought bled was manacled h and in his dungeon died


the unity to accom plish which the young scholar historian poet i orator known to us as thomas davis sprang i to light struck the harp burned the midnight


oil thought and sung and rambled thought ii like a greyhaired saint of old sung like a feudal bard of old mid lifted spears and flowing horn cups and clashing swords and spurs ram j bled far like the hunted outlaw orer moor and i river through bog and glen by rath and cairn and chapel plucking flowers and golden relics and laurels bathed in blood and offerings from every race settled by conquest or misfortune in i the land all for the crowning of the future nation rising from the dead and with liberty to be made j immortal and so thinking siagin rambling toiling wasting brain and heart was struck to earth with the splendour of the vision died p delirious with the destiny in the full blaze of ej wbich with lion heart and eaglewing he soared


rj with nil their childishness with all their folly with all their indolence with all their incentives to


driftless gaity and frolic with all their loyalty to f kngland and her king or queen the darkest turpitude of all may the social institutions flourish which bring irishmen together make them know each other trust each other love each other and in convivial circles teach them they are brothers all


this done there is a family


from a family comes a camp


from a camp a nation


the oneeyed monki oubistmas rojianb


onaptblt i tho lovely and incomparable bianca sat pc nive in the balcony of the castello di rab j tho silver moon looked round no doubt gaze upon her and appeared as bright ns new crownpiece frosh from tho mint ora spru young merchant just going to change


her path on tho dark bluj waters of tho la looked beautiful exceedinglyand very ii a milkwalk


the nightbreoze sigh through the umbrageous treesand bian through sadness


she thought of lier own v valdi who had gone that morning to the fight and she shuddorcd when sho pondered on i rough engagements with tho foeand on tender engagements to her for


they had loi boen betrothed to each other


mars


exclaimed bianca shield my on lovel


and


may his valor make iii foes yic as readily to his armsas my love prompts r to dol nay should he be beatento a mumm oven in that pickle preserve himfor while i iife nay while theres a spark left i feel that j must love


i ouaptblt li v the morning broke in mist


how woll it a forded with tho feelings of tho mourning bianc ivhoso vivaldi too was missed


the door of her bmidoi creaked upon i hinges as she sat stirring a lump of sugar in h cold cold tea


truly you aro before tho lark fair bianca said a manly voice


say rathr padre im above a larkl


sai the amiable bianca smiling like the sun throng a rainy windowfor all fun has vanishe since vivaldi went


the padre rugantino was a monk an biancas confessor and although like tho a phabet ho could only boast of one eye he wt famed also for a wiso head y z


rugantino saw her melancholy for ha was man of profound observation but refrained froi pressing the subject of her lovers doparture


h iok up her guitar and sung tho


following ar propriate


htis to cupid


love they say is as bliud as a bat winky bliuky fa la la la


but o


what beficfrom his bow can flinch


he takes no ell if ho gives him on inch


im sure he must see in the dark like a cat winky blinky fa la la la tove tboy say is winged like a bird mighty flighty fa la ja la


he doats upon sighs and longing oyes little or big ho cares n ught for their sizr


oh how ho smiles when their vowi ara heard mighty flighty fa la la la love they say is as bold as brass cease gentle father said tho forlorn bianca in a voico that would have melted flintseven music cannot soothe my woos to sleep


winky blinky fa la la la continue tho kind padre who was so lost in tho sublimity of tho composition he was singing


that ho wa heedless of biancas voice and it wns not till ik tamed tho remaining organ of vision toward her and beheld her fuco grown pallid und hoi fragile form limp with faintness that ho stayci tho purling course of bis melody


corps di bacco exclaimed rugantino you aro affected no padre said tho mild bianca scorn inf ilie notion of affectation


i am really particu larly queer


sickgiddy said the monk passing hi


irm round her trembling form


he kicked opcr ibo french window of her boudoir and led bianca into tho balcony


what a beautiful group did they form for tho blacklead poncil of an artist


the monk was in his largo grey cowl sho iu her maidcnioflrfl cruel vivaldi


to leave so fair a floweret to pine andi droop said tho monk sollo voce sxing bis rye upon hor with a searching glance ah bianca


there is one devoted to thee vho would blink glory to bask for over in thc dazzling rays of thy transcendant charras


indeed said bianca uponyour honor


upon my kneesi swear in the glare of ihy beauty i am scorched o a very cinder


re plied the monoculous monk


bianca gave him such a lookand laying lier lily hand upon his shaven sconce she ex claimed go thou old cinder


sinner i should ay


never cross tho threshold of tho costello ii raboni more or bo assured my vnssala will make no bones of breaking thine


perfidious traitor avaunt


hugantino tho repulsed rejected scorned ru gantino breathing vengeance vanished from sight


bianca then called for her por ur it was her isual hour for luncheon bade him bring tho ray and informed him sho was not at home whenever that monk knocked at her door and if he attempted to make a speech to put him mi grafter iii


tho moon and bianca wore both up


the wind donned mournfully through tho agitated trees is bianca coulod her ivory brow in tho inoon thine


a slight noise induced her to turnwhen lo she beheld two and twenty suspicious looking fellows standing with daggers drawn at her shoulder


peacol said the two and twenty assassins brandishing their steels


two aadtwonty piecesebxa tho affrighted mali


alack was already much depressed bot i shall now indeed bo terribly rut up


he could uttor no morefor they muffled up mr fragilo form in a cloak and carried har off like a dose of prussic acid in a jiffy


cemptbr iv


tho rough rudo and rugged rugantino mored to bo the lender of a desperate gang of brigands


a iinglo lamp hung from tho damp roof of tho cavern whero the shorn monkbrigand sat cast wg his eye upon tho gloomy and disconsolate bianca like unto a baldhead pigeon wooing pouter


monster sobbed tho damselto go for io lock mo up in this dismal den


ho


ho answered rugantino twasbut this morning you repulsed my shaven noddle ptbcontemptand now you complain of my iseemy misery continued bianca roy lews are shod in vainthou art steeled and i un holenvy al this fnterosting juncture a horn sounded without


tho banditti rushed in


bearing a voundedprisoner richly attired


h was vivaldi


the lovers wero both overpowered by their eelingsthey could only utter a syllable


y hooked bianca


cv exolaimed vivaldi


i fyindeoa bnd tho ruthloss rugantino aeeyu my aylor t not wljttlnlrwlhand hod it tre a sit y wnved h hand and the mroditti vnmshod in a moment


a


pauso ensued


byyildisqcl tho monk lam resolved s j jhis place until sho bo iivity towardsjthe moid he sung ill love the evver dearlee


bravo exclaimed vivaldibravobri gand monk or wlmtsoer thou art


bianca novoi i shall bo thine


weare


botrgthed wc an bound


no that you aro not interrupted rugan i tino but take care yousbnubo safe bind siife find


and tutting two cords ho tied ur


tho two lovers at the two opposite extremities ol tho cavern


now mark rae continued ho it now wants thrco hours of dawn j if at the expiration of that time bianca rofuses to become mine you vivaldi certainly swing


if she consent you shall then bo free niorofrco than welcome for ill show you the door immediately


in thc i meantime ill take a slumber and leave the rest to you


then taking a deep potation from n i pitcher of claret he dropped off into that sound j sleep which virtue and drunkenness alone can know


i vivaldi managed to draw a penknifefrora


his pocket with his teeth and


sawedvvy athis bonds with e ime


hope


but alas


in ins eager ness lie let it fall


despair


filledhis valiant breastho dropped tilsheadand uttered a sigh for he could not pick it up again


i i biancas teeth and perseverance however provedmoro effectual than vivaldis knife and courage


tho enamored maiden o ecstacy


gnaxved the rope in twain


oh gnawtie bianca


fondly chided her lover


she severed his bondshe seized a sword which was drawu upon the wall and they stole away


chapter v tho fugitives had scarcely emerged from the dusky shadows of the umbrageous wood when they wera surrounded by uugantino and his band who vivaldi know from experience wcro not to bo played upon


plaoing his back against a tree vivuldi brandished his toledo bianca locked herself also to the trunk at thc foot for she had no arms and fearfully felt that she had notbiug but hermale to defend her


tho conflict wns desperate


tho bark of tho tree flew in nil directions hacked and hewed by thc blows aimed nt vivaldi while bianca sung in derision away flew tho light burk ssc


like a chip in porridge victory hovered be twecu thc pan osat last she appeared actually inclined to favor tho brigands when a bark splinter struck the solitary optic of rugantino aud made a diversion in favor of vivaldi who laughed heartily nt his antagonists pain


you have certainly put him out my love said the gentle biaucn encouraging the valorous efforts of vivaldi


i am sure this poor tree must take them fer n puny set of ellen for it has stood against them all


and snipped for the fight too my bianca


said vivaldi still pleasant though oxhauetcd im como oft scotfree and wc ought to make it a bow for the bark it lias lost


i chapter vi


bianca confident in thc magnanimity of her own vivaldi thought no more of thc s words that flashed around lier than if they were so many flashy blades hovering around her in a ball room


but oh in tho height of her hopes a swinging blow from the ftuilcliion of thc lieutenant snap ped vivaldis sword short to the hilt


oh faithless steal


cried he vainly handling the handle in his haud


oh why did we steal it


cried tho dis tracted bianca as she picked up tho blade sho could not handle


vivaldi and bianca were now seized and tho banditti were just conducting them quietly back j to tho cavern when huzza burst on the air


the fact is


vivaldis followers who had never j been behind before in defending their master i having retreated on tho preceding night before tho suporior numbers of tho foe had rushed to tho castollo and summoned bis vassals


the affair wns now quickly decided


tho corded monk had sentence recorded against him without benefit of clergytho band was soon strung up as they had acted in concert with their leader and bianca and vi valdi united lived in harmony to relato for many years to wondering ears tho history of the ouoeyed monk


american notes for general circulation


by charles dickens


volume


iichapter i a night steamer on the potomac river


a virginia roar and a black driver


richmond


balti more the harrisburgh mail and a glimpse of the city


a canal boat


we were to proceed in the first instance by steamboat and as it is usual to sleep on board in consequence of the starting hour being four oclock in the morning we went down to where she lay at that very uncomfortable time for such expedi tions when slippers are most valuable and a familiar bed in the perspective of an hour or two looks uncommonly pleasant


it is ten oclock at nightsay halfpast tenmoonlight warm and dull enough


the steamer not unlike a childs noahs ark in form with the machinery on the top of the roof is riding lazily up and down and bumping clumsily against the wooden pier as the ripple of the river trifles with its unwieldly carcase


the wharf is some distance from the city


there is nobody down here and one or two dull lamps upon the steamers decks are the only signs of life remaining when our coach has driven away


as soon as our footsteps are heard upon the planks a fat negress particularly favoured by nature in respect to bustle emerges from some dark stairs and marshals my wife towards the ladies cabin to which retreat she goes followed by a mighty bale of cloaks and greatcoats


i valiantly resolved not to go to bed at all but to walk up and down tho pier till morning


i begin my promenadethinking of all kinds of distant things and persons and of nothing nearand pace up and down for half an hour


then i go on board again and getting into the light of one of the lamps look at my watch and think it must have stopped and wonder what has become of the faithful secretary whom i brought along with me from boston


he is supping with our late landlord a fieldmarshal at least no doubt in honour of our de parture and may be two hours longer


i walk again but it gets duller and duller the moon goes down next june seems far ther off in the dark and the echoes of my footsteps make me nervous


it has turned cold too and walking up and down without any companion in such lonely circum stances is but poor amusement


so i break my staunch resolution and think it may be perhaps as well to go to bed


i go on board againopen the door of the gentlemens cabinand walk in


somehow or otherfrom its being so quiet i supposei have taken it into my head that there is nobody there


to my horror and amazement it is full of sleepers in every stage shape attitude and va riety of slumber in the berths on the chairs on the floors on the tables and par ticularly around the stove my detested enemy


i take another step forward and slip upon the shining face of the black steward who lies rolled in a blanket on the floor


he jumps up grins half in pain and half in hospitalitywhispers my own name in my ear and groping among the sleepers leads me to my berth


standing beside it i count these slumbering passengers and get past forty


there is no use going further so i begin to undress


as the chairs are all occupied and there is nothing else to put my clothes on i deposit them upon the ground not without soiling my hands for it is in the same condition as the carpets in the capitol and from the same cause


having but partially un dressed i clamber on my shelf and hold the curtain open for a few minutes while i look round on all my fellowtravellers again


that done i let it fall on them and on the worldturn roundand go to sleep


i wake of course when we get under weigh for there is a good deal of noise


the day is just then breaking


every body wakes at the same time


some are selfpossessed directly and some are much perplexed to make out where they are until they have rubbed their eyes and leaning on one elbow looked about them


some yawn some groan nearly all spit and a few get up


i am among the risers for it is easy to feel without going into the fresh air that the atmosphere of the cabin is vile in the last degree


i huddle on my clothes go down into the fore cabin get shaved by the barber and wash myselfthe washing and dressing apparatus for the passengers generally consisting of two jack towels three small wooden basins a keg of water and a ladle to serve it out with six square inches of looking glass two ditto of yellow soap comb and brush for the head and nothing for the teeth


every body uses the comb and brush except myself


everybody stares to see me using my own and two or three gentlemen are strongly disposed to banter me on my prejudices but dont


when i have made my toilet i go upon the hurricane deck and set in for two hours of hard walking up and down


the sun is rising brilliantly we are pass ing mount vernon where washington lies buried the river is wide and rapid and its hanks are beautiful


all the glory and splendour of the day are coming on and growing brighter every minute


at eight oclock we breakfast in the cabin where i passed the night but the windows and doors are all thrown open and now it is fresh enough


there is no hurry or greediness apparent in the despatch of the meal


it is longer than a travelling breakfast with us more orderly and more polite


soon after nine oclock we come to potomac creek where we are to land and then comes the oddest part of the journey


seven stage coaches are pre paring to carry us on


some of them are ready some of them are not ready


some of the drivers are blacks some whites


there are four horses to each coach and all the horses harnessed or unharnessed are there


the passengers are getting out of the steamboat and into the coaches the luggage is being transferred in noisy wheelbarrows the horses are frightened and impatient to start the black drivers are chattering to them like so many monkeys and the white ones whooping like so many dro vers for the main thing to be done in all kinds of hostleriug here is to make as much noise as possible


the coaches are something like the french coaches but not nearly so good


in lieu of springs they are hung on bands of the strongest leather


there is very little choice or difference between them and they may be likened to the car portion of the swings at an english fair roofed put upon axle trees and wheels and curtained with painted canvas


they are covered with mud from the roof to the wheeltire and have never been cleaned since they were first built


the tickets we have received on board the steamboat are marked no so we belong to coach no


i throw my coat on the box and hoist my wife and her maid into the inside


it has only one step and that being about a yard from the ground is usually approached by a chair when there is no chair ladies trust in providence


the coach holds nine in side having a seat across from door to door where we in england put our legs so that there is only one feat more difficult in the performance than getting in and that is getting out again


there is only one outside passenger and he sits upon the box


as i am that one i climb up and while they are strapping the luggage on the roof and heaping it into a kind of tray behind have a good opportunity of looking at the driver he is a negrovery black indeed


he is dressed in a coarse pepperandsalt suit excessively patched and darned particu larly at the knees grey stockings enor mous unblacked highlow shoes and very short trowsers


he has two odd gloves one of particoloured worsted and one of leather


he has a very short whip broken in the middle and bandaged up with string


and yet he wears a lowcrowned broad brimmed black hat faintly shadowing forth a kind of insane imitation of an en glish coachman


but somebody in autho rity cries go ahead


as i am making these observations


the mail takes the lead in a four horse waggon and all the coaches follow in procession headed by no


by the way whenever an englishman would cry all right


an american cries go ahead which is something expres sive of the national character of the two countries


the first half mile of the road is over bridges made of loose planks laid across two parallel poles which tilt up as the wheels roll over them and in the river


the river has a clayey bottom and is full of holes so that half a horse is con stantly disappearing unexpectedly and cant be found again for some time


but we get past even this and come to the road itself which is a series of alternate swamps and gravel pits


a tremendous place is close before us the black driver rolls his eyes screws his mouth up very round and looks straight between the two leaders as if he were saying to himself we have done this often before but now i think we shall have a crash


he takes a rein in each jerks and pulls at both and dances on the splashboard with both feet keeping his seat of course like the late lamented ducrow on two of his fiery coursers


we come to the spot sink down in the mire nearly to the coach windows till on one side at an angle of fortyfive degrees and stick there


the insides scream dismally the coach stops the horses flounder all the other six coaches stop and their four and twenty horses flounder likewise but merely for company and in sympathy with ours


then the following circumstances occur


black driver to the horses


hi


nothing happens


insides scream again


ho


horses plunge and splash the black driver


gentleman inside looking out


why what on airth gentleman receives a variety of splashes and draws his head in again without finishing his question or waiting for an answer


black driver still to the horses jiddy


jiddy


horses pull violently drag the coach out of the hole and draw it up a bank so steep that the black drivers legs fly up into the air and he goes back among the luggage on the roof


but he immediately recovers himself and cries still to the horses


pill


no effect