at last however the matter was accomplished they got into the public streets which have been wisely laid out wide and spacious and were on their way to the then rapidly increasing suburb of collingwood


fulton and ford were in these days unknown to fame


bourke street and swanston street could boast of no lines of cars and omnibuses into which a newly arrived immigrant could step and be rapidly whirled off and taken for a small charge to within a short walk of any part of the various suburbs and townships in the neighborhood of melbourne


these public conveniences were not in existence at the time of which we write


you might walk from elizabeth street casting your eye on the postoffice clock in pass ing till you came exactly under the grinning mask with something like a quadruped of the bovine species on the top of it in all the glory of gold and color and crushing the aforesaid mask nearly flat thereby as it were squeezing the grin out


this superlative we had almost said supernatural work of art indicates to all comers that here is kept the now famous hotel called the bull and mouth the origin of which oftenadopted sign has puzzled antiquarians for many a day and we fear is destined to do so for a long time to come


looking round from under the grinning mask of the bull and mouth not a solitary public conveyance was to be seen continuing till you come to swanston street even then a single hackneycoach was not to be met with the few vehicles of that kind in existence stood in collins street and might be got when you did not want them they being mostly engaged in tak ing diggers wedding parties to church


a common dray was used for all puposes of conveyance and let the lady be ever so finely dressed or the gen tleman ever so sprucely attired they had no alternative but to put up with the accommo dation if either unable or unwilling to walk or pay as much for a hackneycoach if it could be got as would suffice for a journey from london to edin burgh in a comfortable railway carriage


fortunately private enterprise has obviated this state of things and the new arrival now has the advantage of those who came four years ago inasmuch as he can be accommo dated at a reasonable cost with a conveyance to any of the neighboring suburbs or townships in a moment and with an ordinary quantity of luggage


trudging on through the long streets as yet un made and intersected here and there with water courses ankle deep in most parts with mud and in some the stumps of trees yet remaining to trip the unwary pedestrian in a dark night our immigrants found themselves tired and wearied at the north end of collingwood and at the door of a wooden erection which from its appearance had they met with it at home they would have set down as a house carpenters shop


entering this domi cile which was constructed of rough split palings they found the interior wall bare and unlined the sun shining through many parts admitting at same time the dust always so plentiful here while a glance at the roof and the looselike adhesion of the shingles gave evidence that the rain in its season would in all likelihood make their acquaintance


the whole had such a comfortless appearance that poor mrs hayes wept with vexation to think of the comforts she had left to come to what she considered was certain misery before her


and is this the only house that you could find for us in this place exclaimed mrs hayes through her tears why it is not good enough for a stable


i know my dear it is not such a house as i would have brought you to if i could have done otherwise said mr hayes but from the number of people who have arrived lately every room in the place is occupied and there was no alternative


but do not fret we shall all do what we can to make things comfortable and as the weather is warm it may do till we can fall in with something better


with such cheering words did hayes try to comfort his wife and as they could not remain in an empty house he took them all up to a neighboring hotel where he engaged rooms for the night and then he left them considering he would be back to the ship in good time to have their luggage brought on shore and carted up the same night


mr hayes reached the ship in very good time to get everything on shore especially as he found his friend the chief officer had got his bulky things on deck ready for removal


but it was doubtful whether a steamer could be induced to come alongside that day again especially as most of the passengers had left and the inducement was not sufficient for them to put off the time required


the usual signal however was made but though more than one steamer was seen calling at the newly arrived vessels none came near the ship where hayes was so anxiously waiting


the signal was however quite sufficient to induce several watermen to come alongside who chuckled at the chance which the nonappearance of a steamer would give them of taking a little advantage of a new chum when they once had him in their power


under any other circum stances the friendly chief officer of the ship would have at once manned a boat and landed mr hayes and his luggage at the beach jetty but the almost cer tain risk of losing both the boat and her crew deterred him from doing what he would otherwise have consi dered but a friendly action


at this time the crews of every ship that arrived seized every opportunity of de serting for the diggins but all the precautions that could be used were not sufficient to prevent desertion and loss of boats which were often stolen during the night by the men in spite of the most stringent restric tions as to their use on any occasion whatever


wearied at length beyond all endurance at the delay and the day being far gone mr hayes yielded at length to the repeated offers of a couple of watermen to land him and the luggage at the beach jetty where they assured him he would have no difficulty in finding a dray to take the whole where he wished to go


in this the rascals know well they were deceiving him as they were aware no drays came there unless specially engaged to do so and even then the owners could not be depended on in fulfilling their engagement new ar rivals were therefore often put to great personal discom fort as well as pecuniary loss which many could ill afford through the misrepresentations of the watermen and the faithless conduct of the draymen together but those are now matters of history and it is to be hoped the colony will never again undergo such a state of chaos and con fusion as then prevailed


the luggage was safely stowed in the whaleboat alongside and mr hayes was rowed on shore the even ing being calm and not a breath of air stirring the quiet waters of the bay


the jetty was easily reached and as agreed on the watermen assisted in carrying the various packages and depositing them on the beach ready for removal but though mr hayes called at the whole three or four houses then in existence he could hear of no dray to be had nor yet any like lihood of any till next day at all events when some stray one might come at a venture to take advantage of the times


to remonstrate with such villains as the watermen would only subject him self to insult and abuse so he settled with them and as darkness was fast closing in he saw he had no alterna tive but to make up his mind to spend the night on the beach watching his effects hoping that the morning might bring him some friendly drayman who would relieve him from the charge by carrying them to their destination


selecting a warm coat as some protection from the night air mr hayes for a while paced backwards and forwards on the sand the soft nature of which soon rendered such an operation very fatiguing and he was soon obliged to give up the exercise and seat himself upon a bundle of bedding


lighting a cigar he strove to wile away the tedious hours by passing in review the train of circumstances that had been carried up to the present time and wondering and conjecturing how it would end and what the probable future might be


but his dreamy speculations whether of a gloomy or a cheerful tendency were often interrupted by those annoyances incidental to the country and climate


the dismal croak of the bull frog in the adjacent swamp grated continually on his ear the very appearance of the trees and stunted scrub was strange and so different from anything he had ever seen before while the mosquitoes which the stillness of the night rendered more than usually troublesome attacked him inces santly with their tiny stings in every exposed part that he was reminded forcibly of his location in a strange land under strange and even painful circumstances though not such but that a little exertion and self denial would overcome


he dozed occasionally through fatigue yet the importance of his charge and the ne cessity for constant watching to prevent depredators ever on the alert from helping themselves to some of his goods


the night passed thus wearily so that it was with feelings of intense pleasure he beheld the first streak of the morninglight illumine the eastern sky


the scene soon became intensely gorgeous and beauti ful


on the calm surface of the bay was reflected the rich gold and crimson in which the orb of day came shrowded while the luminous light shed around began to lick the taper spars of the many symmetrical craft that floated so quietly on the glowing waters


silence lent enchantment to the lovely prospect and mr hayes gazed with admiration on the wondrous effect produced on the locality by the rising of that orb which comes to cheer man in his labors and dispel gloom from the face of creation


the scene and the hour was fitted for the contemplative mind the stillness was soon to be invaded a flash then a sudden boom and a curling wreath of white smoke gave warning that the morning gun was fired from the sloopofwar at anchor among the shipping distin guishable from her beautiful form and the symmetry of all her spars and rigging


at the same time the flag of st george was seen taking its place at the peak of the little guardian craft and while its folds slowly gave them selves to the little wind there was the rays of the sun gave a brighter lustre to the crimson and white of its field


the murmur of busy sounds now became audi ble


the red ensign appeared at many a peak and those little bits of sparkling color enhanced as they were by the rich rays of the morning light gave a vigor to the tone ot the beauteous picture which hobsons bay never fails to present on a fine morning


extraordinary price for negroes


a letter from lexington georgia of december to the augusta chronicle says about dollars worth of property was sold here today land and negroes


some of the sales were ahead of anything we have ever heard


a negro girl years old sold for dollars another girl years old sold for dollars another girl years old sold for dollars another girl years old in the family way for dollars a boy years old for dollars a fellow years old for dollars


these negroes belonged to the estate of john wynn deceased and were sold on a credit of twelve months


there were of wynn s negroes sold today who brought dollars


of these a great number more than ordinary were women and children and a few diseased and old sold low


it is also proper to state that but few of these negroes were bought by the legatees and not ono of those of whom we have mentioned specific prices


they were common negroes field hands


but the most extraordinary sales were of three negroes belonging to the estate of mrs mary watson leah a negro girl years old sold for dollars harriet about years old and child in her arms sold for dollars term months


these prices appear incredible but all who are disposed to doubt can be satisfied by referring to tho record of the court of ordinary of oglethorp county


death op the right rev dr grant


we regret to have to announce tho death of the right rev dr grant roman catholic bishop of st georges south wark which melancholy event occurred on thursday night tho th instant at st george dr grant was consecrated bishop in tho chapel of tho english college at rome of which


ho had been for some timo rector by his lato eminence cardinal franzoni on the gth of july


the deceased prelate was only years of age at tho time of his decease which took place rather suddenly


dr grant hnd been suffering for bomo time from lung disense accompanied by disease of the heart on the morning of the ith he folt unable to rise and his physician dr hamilton roc was summoned


the remedies prescribed afforded no relief and towards evening he gradually sank until ten oclock when ho calmly expired after having received nil the last rites of tho church from the very rev dr doyle


the reported death op the right rev dr grant


the times yesterday contained n circum stantial account of the right rov


dr grant roman cathohc bishop of southwark


as thero was some grounds to question the authenticity of this announce ment mr w a grant ab of the catholic institute in this town nnd brother of the right rov


prelnto tele graphed to london for information on the subject an we are happy to state an immediate reply was received from dr grant himself convoying the pleasin intelli gence


i am perfectly well


our great metropolitan contemporary notwitlisanding his pride of place now and again exhibits the small weaknesses of other folk and the frequency with which ho has been hoaxed of late would show that he is no more proof against im position than his more unpretending brethren of the provinces


the georgian revolver affair was some what excusable considering the distance interposed to inquiry but to kill a bishop within tho times own metropolitan district when his lordship according to his own statement was perfectly well would suggest tho notion that our friends of printinghouso squ require looking after


tho following was tlio r announcement of our contemporary rfrave


marie antoinette or the chevalier of the red house


continued from our last


the chevalier of the red house was too no tive and audacious an enemy not to give rise to vigorous measures after his entrance into paris and appearance at the temple


the most severe searches were made in a number of houses and old stricter nature than ever but with the exception of some emigrant females being discovered and some old men who had no inclination to dispute with their executioners the few days of life that remained to them no other result flowed from the examination


the sections as may be easily believed were closely occupied during many days after the attempt at the temple and consequently the secretary of the section of lepelletier one of the most influential in paris had little time to think of his unknown


maurice said nothing nor did he avoid anything to his friend as to what had passed during his adventure that night


but he who knew well maurices joyous and expansive heart perceiving him constantly dreaming and courting solitude doubted not but that the rascal cupid had passed in that direction


in the meantime the chevalier was not taken and nothing was said about him


the queen widowed and her child orphaned contented herself with weeping when alone with her daughter and sister


the young dau phin commenced in the hands of the shoemaker simon that martyrdom which promised in two years to reunite him with his father and mother


there was an interval of calm


the mountain volcano reposed itself before devouring the girondins


maurice felt the pressure of this calm as one feels the weight of the atmosphere previous to a tempest and not knowing what to do during this leisure time he was left solely occupied with the ardour of his sentiment which if it was not love at least resembled it strongly


he once more perused the letter kissed the sapphire and determined in spite of the resolution he had taken to forget all to risk another attempt which he promised himself should be the last one


the young man decided on one thing which was to go to the section of the garden of plants and request from his colleague some information concerning the inhabitants


but the idea that the unknown was connected with some political movement withheld him


any indiscretion on his side might conduct the charming ci feature to the place de la revolution and bring her head to the block a supposition which caused a terrible shudder to pass through maurices frame


he therefore resolved to make the attempt alone and without making any enquiries


his plan was a very simple one


the lists or names affixed to each door outfit to give him the first intimation


then inquiries of the porters ought to clear up the mystery


in capacity of secretary of the section of the rue lepelletier he had a clear and distinct right to question


but maurice did not know the name of the unknown although he might be guided by analogy


it would be impossible for such a charming creature not to have a name in harmony with her formsome name of sylph fairy or angel


maurice dressed himself in a browncoloured coat put on a red bonnet worn on grand occasions and set out on his expedition without informing any one


he carried one of those knotted cudgels called a constitution v rich in his vigorous hand was like the mace of hercules


he placed in his pocket his commission as secretary of the section lepelletier


these constituted at one and the same time his guarantee physical and moral


he commenced by passing anew the streets st victor and the old street st jacques deciphering by the fading light of day all the names inscribed by a good or bad writer on the panels of the doors


maurice reached his hundredth house and consequently the hundredth on his list without perceiving the least trace in the world of his unknown when a shoemaker perceiving the expression of imp silence on the countenance of the reader opened the door and came out in his leathern apron holding his own and looking at maurice from under his spectacles citizen said he do you wish some information concerning the lodgers in this house


in that case speak i am ready to answer


i thank you citizen stammered maurice i am looking for a friends name mention the name citizen i know every one in this quarter


where does your friend live in he lives i believe in the old street st jacques but i fear he has removed what is his name


i must know that first maurice hesitated an instant then pronounced the first name that presented itself to his recollection


rene said he


his trades maurice was surrounded with tan works a tanner replied he


in that case said a bourgeois who stopped short and looked at maurice with a sort of goodnatured smile not exempt from defiance in that case ask his master true said porter very true


the masters know the names of their workmen


there is citizen dixmer who is master of a tannery and has more than fifty men inquire for him maurice turned round and perceived a master tanner of a high stature placid countenance and whose richness of dress announced the opulent citizen r only as the citizen porter remarked continued the bourgeois it will be necessary to know this friends in une i have


said was reno rene is only a baptismal name


it is the family name i want all the workmen inscribed at my house are under the family names in faith said maurice whom this kind of interrogation disturbed i dont know the family name


j how citizen


said the bourgeois with a smile in which more irony was apparent that intended


how citizen you do not know the family name of your friend


no i in that case it is most probable you will not discover him


the the bourgeois saluting maurice gracefully stepped forward and entered a house in the old street st jacques


the fact is then said the porter you do not know the name of the family


i


well i do not answered maurice who longed for an opportunity of venting his spleen on some one and who was even inclined to in vite a quarrel


nothing citizen nothing at all concerning them


however if you do not know the family name of your friend it is probable as citizen dixmer observed very probable you will not be able to find him


the citizen porter shrugged his shoulders and marched into his lodge leaving maurice strongly disposed to thrash him had not his age protected him


had he been twenty years younger maurice would have exhibited the disgraceful spectacle of equality in law but fine


quality in strength


the day was fast declining and maurice had little time to spare he profited by it to examine the first then the second lane


he examined every door and nook looked over every palisade hoisted himself up every wall peeped through every gate knocked at several deserted magazines and finally consumed about two hours in a useless search


nine oclock sounded the night was gloomynot a sound was heard or the least movement perceived in this quarter whose life seemed to have departed with the day


maurice who had begun to despair was about to retreat when he observed a light at the turning of a narrow alley


he advanced along the gloomy passage without perceiving that at the moment he was buried within its shades a peering head disappeared from the midst of a clump of trees behind the wall from which all his movements had been watched


a few seconds after the head had vanished three men let themselves into the alley by a small door whilst a fourth closed the door of the alley itself


at the end of the alley maurice discovered a court


it was from the opposite side that he saw the light


he knocked at the door of a solitary miserablelooking house


at the first knock the light was extinguished


maurice re doubled his knocks no one replied


perceiving he was only wasting his time he recrossed the court and entered the alley


at the same in stant the house door opened and three men came out when a whistle was given


maurice turned round and saw three shadows at the distance of about double the length of his staff


in that light which always exists in dark places to eyes accustomed to them shone three sword blades


maurice saw he was beset and wished to show play with his sick but he touched with its ends both sides of the alley


at the same instant a violent blow on the head rendered him senseless


this attack was unforeseen and came from the four men who entered the alley by the little door in the wall


seven men threw themselves all at once on maurice and in spite of his desperate resistance they threw him on the ground tied his hands and bandaged his eyes


maurice uttered not a crysummoned no aid strength and courage always rely on themselves and feel ashamed of foreign aid


besides in such a deserted quarter maurice might have called in vain


maurice at his age marked everything like a respite as being the sign of hope and therefore judged when his eyes were bandaged that he was not to be immediately killed


he consequently retained his full presence of mind and waited the result


who are you asked a voice still animated with the struggle


i am a man who is about to assassinated


more than that you are a dead man if you speak aloud or raise any alarm


had i wished to do so i should have done it before


are you ready to answer my questions


ask them first and then i shall know whether i can reply to them


who sent you here


nobody


you came of your own accord


yes tis false


maurice made a tremendous effort to free his hands but it was impossible


i never lie said he


no matter whether you came yourself or were sent by others in either case you are a spy


and you cowards


what cowards


yes you are seven or eight to one man manacled and yet you insult that man


cow wards cowards cowards


this violence on maurices part instead of irritating his adversaries seemed on the other hand to calm them because such conduct proved that the young man was not what they thought him a veritable spy who would have trembled and begged for mercy


there is no insult intended said a softer but more imperious voice than the others who had spoken


in these days a man may be a spy without being a dishonest character only he risks his life who is one


you have spoken justly your presence is welcome


i will answer you honourably


what brought you into this neighbour hood v to inquire for a woman


an incredulous murmur responded to the excuse and gradually increased into a tempest there are no women here resumed the former voice


we understand what you mean by a woman and there are no such characters as you are in pursuit of in this neighbourhood


confess your project or died proceed then said maurice


you will hardly kill me for the mere pleasure of doing so at least if you are not real brigands


maurice made a second and more violent effort entirely unexpected too to detach the cords from his hands


suddenly a cold painful sensation pierced his breast maurice in spite of himself started back


ah


you feel that said one of the men


good


there are eight inches more than the one with which you have made your acquain tance


finish your work then said maurice resigned


it will at least be soon over


what are you demanded the person whose voice was remarkable for softness and imperiousness combined


you wish to know my name yes your name


i am maurice lincey


what i exclaimed a voice maurice lindey the revolutionist the patriot


maurice lindey secretary of the section lepelletier


these words were pronounced with such fury that maurice saw they were decisive his reply would therefore irrevocably decide his fate


maurice was incapable of cowardice


he drew himself up proudly and said in a firm voice yes maurice lindey the secretary of the section lepelletiermaurice lindey the patriot revolutionist jacobinin short maurice lindey the most glorious day of whose life will be when he dies in the cause of liberty


amidst the stillness of death that answer was given


maurice presented his breast awaiting the moment when the blade whose point he had only felt should be plunged into his side


it is indeed the case said a voice after a few seconds betraying some emotion


young man do not lie search my pocket said maurice and you will find my commission


look on my breast and if my blood has not effaced them you will see the initials ml embroidered on my linens instantly maurice was lifted up by vigorous arms


he was borne a short distance he heard first one then a second door opened only the last was narrower than the first for the men who carried him could scarcely squeeze themselves through


themurmursand whisperings continued


i am lost said maurice to himself they will put a cord round my neck and throw me into some pool in the havre


in an instant afterwards be felt that the men ascended some steps a warmer atmosphere struck his countenance and he was placed on a start


he heard a door doublelocked and the footsteps receded


he imagined he was left alone


he listened with all the attention a man is capable of when his life may depend upon a word and he thought he could distinguish the same voice which had attracted his attention from its firmness and sweetness saying to the others


let us deliberate


a quarter of an hour passed which seemed an age to maurice


nothing could be more natural


young good looking vigorous sustained by the combined power of one hundred friends devoted to him through whom and by whom he at times dreamed of the performance of great things he found himself all at once without any preparation exposed to the chance of losing his life in an ignoble ambuscade


he knew he was confined within some hundred chamberlain was he watched


he endeavoured once more to break the cords


his muscles of steel swelled out and were strained to the utmost


the cord cut into the flesh but it would not break


the worst of it was his hands were tied behind his back and therefore he could not remove the bandage from his eyes


if he could see perhaps he might escape


these efforts were made without opposition from any one and without anything stirring around him


he argued that he must live alone


his feet encountered something heavy and dull perhaps sundi or soft earth and acrid penetrating odour assailed the smell announcing the presence or vegetable substances


maurice thought he was in some greenhouse or some edifice of the kind


he advanced rubbed against a wall and turning to grope with his hands felt several garden instruments which caused him to utter an exclamation of joy


i with incredible efforts he examined them all one after the other


his escape then only became a question of time


if providence or chance only gave him five minutes and if he found only a cutting instrument he would be saved


he at length found a spade


from the manner in which maurice was bound it cost him a violent struggle to turn the spade so as to planted handle downwards


he succeeded in maintaining it against the wall and frayed away the cord by friction against the blade


it was a lengthened operation and the iron cut slowlythe perspiration rolled from his forehead heard the shuffling of feet approaching him he made a final effort violent incredible yet with all his force the half worn cord brake


he uttered a cry of joy as he was then certain at least to die defending his life


maurice pulled the bandage from his eyes


he had not deceived himself he was in a species of pavilion where numerous plants were arranged unsuited to the colder atmosphere


in a corner were the garden tools before him a window


he sprang to the window


it was secured by bars of iron and a man armed with a carbine placed as sentinel before it


about thirty paces distant on the other side of the garden arose a pavilion


the venetian blinds were lowered but through them a light could he seen burning


he approached the door and listened another sentinel passed and re passed these were the footsteps he had heard


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continued froin our lut


i go upon the stagethe greenroom


the actorsht


guntwolf and a pinch of snuff


in the midst of our conversation roynew acquaintance arid myself were separated by one of the ardrobe women and for the time i heard no more of fanny davis or miss gauntwolf


a few days passed and to my exceeding delight was selected by mrs clive and was to appear the next night before the hing and queen in the head or bizarre in farquhars comedy of the inconstant


many little incidents much gossip which fell to my knowledge in my progress from the wardrobe to the boards i pass in silence


my sensations upon first entering the greenroom were delicious


i wes in fairyland


even though i bad passed through the disenchanting atmosphere of a dressingroom i looked upon every actress as very near a heiithen goddess and garrick and aiken were more than mortal men


indeed at first there seemed to me an air of romance about the meanest persona something that took them awayset them apart from common life


the very stage carpenters were not to my intoxicated fancy the mere mechanics of the outer world


and then the ease the hilarity of the greenroom the free and mirthful intercourse of men and women


nothing prim or ceremonious in any of them but as i thoughta large happy family of privileged mortals delighted to delight the world folks whose hardest labour whs most delicious excitement whose lives were passed in communicating pleasure and receiving therefrom the sweetest plaudits and the most approving smiles


i felt this i who had seen palacelife iwho had been familiar with the breath and looks of royalty


whether it was that i associated the words of sliakspeare with garrick i cannot clearly say but sure i am i often thought the actor more of a king than king george the third


mrs yates too i there was such inborn grace in that gentle creature and fair abington with her street liquid voice and dovelike looks and charming mrs barry and kind womanly pritchard and outspcaking pure hearted kitty clive who would beard the terrible manager and then bestow the kindest words and thoughts upon the poorest underlingsthe meek and pauper fanny davisand there were and are many many such who looking down temptation with virtuouslooks are made by their weekly shillingswages earned in a fiery furnacemeekhearted ministrants of daily bread to a whole family


i have known many scenes of life but none in which the filial principle more noblynay in few so noblyexercised itself as among players from high to low the vagabonds branded in the statute


many a time has the bouse rung with plaudits of mrs cibber in her sweet devotion as the selfdenying child


and at that moment among the few girls the attendants of the scenethe creatures upon whom undistinguishing profligacy in the boxes would set a pricewere those who practised in the hard prose of life the lovely fable of the poet


believe it reader have known cordelias in cotton gowns and grecian daughters in pattens


jlct me however return to the greenroom


as i have said for some time all the actors appeared to me creatures of another world meto and women elevated above common life


at last i discovered that had confounded them with their stage characters


it required indeed a strong effort to separate the two


garrick would be a heromrs cibber a heroine


they dwelt in a cloud of rainbow fiction cast by poetry around them


or luve sometimes thought the actorthat is the mere wordspeaker who brings no great original mind to his taskthe jackdaw that innocent of the larceny is neverthe less the jackdaw always dressed in the feathered pens of authors


observe gentle reader i would not utter this opinion in a greenroom more should destiny in its benevolence ever again lead me into that elysium it is an opinion i would there and then most vigorously deny


it is so difficult for the com mon mind to disunite the hero and the actorto wipe off every particle of rouge and pick offevery spangle


i have digressed more than enough


you have says the reader


to my story then


mrs clive cried the callboy and oh


how my heart beat as bizarre carried me upon her head to make my first ap


pearance on the stage


their majesties were in the royal box hut in the days write of this was a common event


never theless hilf st jamess was in the theatre and at different intervals of the night half the ministry in the grcenioom


pelham chatted familiarly with harry and marquesses und i lords formed about garrick as though indeed king david held a real levee in the playhouse


now ministers know themselves i mrs clive again cried the call boy for kitty was talk ing ntuaukninb to one of his majestys equerries mrs tjfiveact drops up maam was tne summons wnen mrs clive bizarreand mrs abington onana hurried from the greenroom and clive had scarcely time enough to say to her friend what an ass that colonel is my dear


ere both the ladies were upon the stage


shall i ever forget the sensation


i was sick and dizzy and blind


as for the folks in front i could distinguish no one


i saw nothing but a huge black moving massa vast one thing heaving about and making a noise for the applausewhich in my folly i took at first wholly to myselfwhen clive entered tas excessive


when it had ceased and i had a little recovered myself i heard the kingand so must all the audiencesay to the queen thats clivecliveclever woman clive good charactergood i charactergood woman good woman


for a moment i felt confused that their majesties who must so often have seen me when i adorned the prince of willes should behold me on the j stage


poor vanity


how indeed should they know mc


when clive made her exit she was stopped at the wing by miss gauntwolf who was to play one of the two ladies who assist bizarre in her little plot against durctc


it was a great night for miss gauntwolf for she was for the first time entrusted with two lines yes she had on that night to make what we must call ber virgin speech as the first lady


the second dumb lady was given to fanny davis


do you like my dress mrs clive asked miss gauntwolf with a fainting air tbe two lines she had to deliver making her an object of exceeding interest toherself


humph said kitty looking the lady up and down and then looking her through why child and clive seized her by the ear


whereat sparkled a very handsome diamond whose is this


mine maam answered miss gauntwolf softly


indeed


and clive took


long breath


and this ring mine maam and ibis necklace


mine maam


all this finery yours child cried kitty and then she asked in a voice cold enough to freete quicksilverand pray whatwhat irnay you have given for them


nothingnothing at all aid


miss gauntwolf with forced vivacity


yes you did said clive yes you did poor thing and bought them in the dearest market


clive was then making her way to the green room a mr gauntwolf dressed for the fourth bravo in the comedy came tip


me was a tall bigboned man with a coarse thin rugged face high cheekbones and a voice like the edge of a saw


with this he assumed a sort of pompous gentility as gilding to the base material


seeing mrs clive talking to his daughter ne was approaching kitty with a mouth set for a compliment nd had uttered a word or twothough knew not what when clive started back as though from a pitfull and ith almost tragic intensity of expression cried beast


she then passed a few steps on and was met by her friend the equerry who again opened smalltalk which i did not attend to


the truth is my curiosity was quickened towards gaunt wolf who was still near me


i saw him apply himself to his snuffboxa very handsome gold article with a picture of venus painted in enamel on the top


he was snuffing away the indignity put upon him by clive as moody also with open snuffbox stood talking to another actor near him


gaunt wolf unasked put his fingers into moodys box at the same lime advancing hil own


moody looking the intruder full in the face instantly emptied the box visited by gauntwolfs fingers on the floor


what may that be on the lid asked another actor standing by gauntwolf


venusvenus was the answer


twas given to mei think ive said to by his lordship


humphi said the actor glancing at gauntwolf and then at his daughter i thought it was vir ginia or the lioman father


for a long time i could not understand why it was that everybody shunned gauntwolf as though his breath carried a pestilence


at last i learned the horrid story


that such a men could look in the face of heavenin the face of man that be should walk upright i that a reptile in soul he did hot crawl like a snake to his grave upon the dust that he should live and bear the loathing of the world upon his shoulders and yet try to smile and make grim faces of content beneath it


i the unutterable wretch bad sold his daughter i he ate drank and clothed himself from the spotted fame of nts trafficked child


yes mr gaunt olf had shown himself equal to the devil in wickedness and really carried with him the diploma of his iniquity in that gold boxgiven to him by his lordship i there


pohl let us put some camphor in our ink and go ton


uti clive remained talking to her friend as garrick carne from the stage


he was about to enter the greenroom when he met the young gentleman who played dugard


my good lad said garrickyou are dull plaguy dull in this flat


very flat


what would you have me do sir


indeed i should be happy to be instructed


said the meek dugard


do v cried garrick why you must feet more spirityou runst work yourte into the passion thatsound my lad


this it what you must doyod must put more champagneyes thats itou must put mote champagne into it


sir replied the actor with literalness of apprehension sometimes found behind the scenessir i should be very happybut impossible


impossible i cried david looking with his urondtrful eye iinpoisibe to put more champagne into it i yes sir salt


the st higard with mv mary how can afbtrj it foraged cried david smothering laugh jhed forgotten that


no tee small beer is the best we catsexpect furn you


at this moment fanny davis dressed for the second lady was letdbands upon by mrs clive come to my room child said kitty andthe dressingroom is a sanctuary of wttchtapeakftb farther nevertheless i may say this much fanny wo for that night mrs clive stagejewels and what passed between the two convinced me that kitty had been good aa her word and had called upon poor davis and his uthngfms chiidjus


from stjitsjleuned she had tbe play went on and i was in tire highett spirits


my dear said mrs abington coming off the stage into the green room theres that viper kelly in d pit


poor wretch i come for the benefit or his venom i sup pose whereupon further conversation ensued from which i gathered that the said hugh kelly was one of those insects of the inkhorn that make their dirty meals of public and private slander


of him however have more to say in another chapter


confound it kitty cried garrick


in the course of the night why didnt you catch tny eye in the last scene


i couldnt said clive with a luce of delicious impudence it so burnt me up i couldnt look at it


burnt you up i exdoimed garrick half laughing half vexed


quite ruc cried the indomitable kitty how poor mrs garrick has endured it i cant tell by this timo i won der the poor soul isn t cinders t


still the play went on


an actori forget his namewho played gibbet again and again lamented to airs clive his hard destiny


he was the only man who could play mirabel but that theatre he vus crushed ruined annihilated hie greenroom was empty


mrs clive sat alone unseen behind the door


gibbet the illused actor entered


he thought himself solitary with his wrongs tie stalked up and doivn the room swelling and swellingand then muttering and muttering his injuries


at length he paused before the picrgltiss nnd gazing intently al himself ric clenched his fist and shaking it vehemently at the reflection ol his face growled with bursting heart youyouyou are aaa fettered lion hn


ha


i screamed kitty clive and the fettered lion more than amased rushed from the greenroom


tobe continued


flaster


tiltmpfirro lorik


personal adventures of master iiudpiilley


thi otd cuiiosity shopchiattett xlvi


it was the poor schoolmaster


no other than the poor schoolmaster


scarcely less moved and sur prised by the sight of the chili than slte had been on recognising him lie stood for n moment silent and confounded by this unexpected apparition with out even the presence of mind to raise her from the ground


but quickly recovering his selfpossession he threw down his stick and book and dropping on one knee beside her endeavoured by such simple means as occurred to him to restore her to herself while her grandfather standing idly by wrung his hands and implored her with many endearing ex pressions to speak to him were it only a word


sshe is quite exhausted said the schoolmaster glancing upward into his face


you have taxed her powers too far friend


she is perishing of want rejoined the old man


i never thought how weak and ill she was till now


casting a look upon him half reproachful and half compassionate the schoolmaster took the child in his arms and bidding the old man gather up her little basket and follow him directly bore her away at his utmost speed


there was a small isn within sight to which it would seem lie had been directing his steps when so unexpectedly overtaken


towards this place lie hurried with his unconscious burden and rushing into the kitchen and calling upon the company there assembled to make way for gods sake de posited it on a chair before the fire


the company who rose in confusion upon the schoolmasters entrance did as people usually do under such circumstances


everybody called for his or her favourite remedy which nobody brought each cried for more air at the same time carefully excluding what air there was by closing round the object of sympathy and all wondered why some body else didnt do what it never appeared to occur to them might be done by themselves


the landlady however who possessed more readi ness and activity than any of them and who had withal a quicker perception of the merits of the case soon came running in with a little hot brandy and water followed by her servant girl carrying vine gar heartshorn smelling salts and other such re storatives which being duly administered re covered the child so far as to enable her to thank them in a faint voice and to extend her hand to the poor schoolmaster who stood with an anxious face hard by


without suffering her to speak another word or so much as to stir a finger any more the women straightway carried her off to bed and having covered her up warm bathed her cold feet and wrapped them in flannel they despatched a messenger for the doctor


the doctor who was a red nosed gentleman with a great bunch of seals dangling below a waistcoat of ribbed black satin arrived with all speed and taking his seat by the bedside of poor nell drew out his watch and felt her pulse


then lie looked at her tongue then he felt her pulse again and while he did so lie eyed the half emptied wine glass as if in profound abstraction


i should give her said the doctor at length a teaspoonful every now and then of hot brandy and water


why thats exactly what weve done sir said the delighted landlady


i should also observed the doctor who had passed the foot bath on the stairs i should also said the doctor in the voice of an oracle put her feet in hot water and wrap them up in flannel


i should likewise said the doctor with increased solemnity give her something light for supper the wing of a roasted fowl now why goodness gracious me sir its cooking at the kitchen fire this instant i cried the landlady


and so indeed it was for the schoolmaster had ordered it to be put down and it was getting on so well that the doctor might have smelt it if ite had triedperhaps lie did


you may then said the doctor rising gravely give her a glass of hot mulled port wine if site likes wine and a toast sir suggested the landlady


ay said the doctor in the tone of a man who makes a dignified concession


and a toastof bread


but be very particular to make it of bread if you please maam


with which parting injunction slowly and por tentously delivered the doctor departed leaving the whole house in admiration of that wisdom which tallied so closely with their own


everybody said lie was a very shrewd doctor indeed and knew per fectly what peoples constitutions were which titers appears sense reason so suppose lie did while htec supper was preparing she child fell iota a refreshing sleep from which they swore obliged to rouse her when it was reedy


as alto evinced extra ordinary uneasisess on learning that leer grandfather was belose stairs end was greatly troubled at the thought of their being apart lhe soak his supper with her


finding her still very restless on this head they made him tsp a bed in an inner roam to wvhichs he preseittly retired


the key of this chianslir hisl


pened by good fortune to he on thsat aide of sthe door which vest in nells room alto turned it on tim when sthe landlady lied retired and crept to bed swiths a thankful heart rte schsoolbnaster sat far a lang time snmoking isis pipe by sthe kitchen fire swhich was nose deserted thinking wish a very happy face on sthe fortunate chance which had brought him so opportunely to the childs assistance and parrying as well as in his simple way lie could the inquisitive crossexamina tion of the landlady who lied a greet curiosity to be made scqtisinted with every particular of nells life and history


the peer schoolmaster was so open hearted and an little versed in tho most ordinary cunning or deceit that lsoe could net have failed to succeed in sthe first five mittutee bet that lie hap


pesed to be unacquainted seitli what aloshewishied to know and so ise told leer


the landlady by no means satisfied wsiths this assurance which shte con sidered an ingenious evasion of sthe question rejoined that he had isis reasons of course


hleaven forbid that alte should wish to pry into the affairs of her customers whsichs indeed score no business of iter whli lied so many of iter own sue lied merely asketi o civil question and to be euro asoe knewc is sottld meet with a civil swsser site seas quite satisfied quito


site would rather perhaps that lie would have said at once that lhe didint choose to be com municative because that seould have been plain sod intelligible


however site lied nso riglst so be offended of couree


he was the best judge and hsad a perfect right to say what lie pleased nobody could dispute that for a moment ole dear so


i i sosure you my good lady saildcthe mild schoolmester that i have told you the plain truths as i htope to be saved i have told you sthe truths why then i believo you are in earnest rejoined this landlady with reedy good humour and im very sorry i have teazed you


but curiosity you know is the curse of our sex and thats the fact


hi


e landlord ecratched his head as if he thought the curse sometimes involved the other sex likewise but he was psevented from making any remark to that effect if he had it in contemplation to do so by the srhoulmasters rejoinder


you should question me for half a dozen hours at a sitting and welcome and i would answer you patiently for the kindness of heart you have shown to night if i could lie said


as it is please to take case of her in the morning and let me know early how she is and to understand that i am pay


master for the three


so parting with them on most friendly terms not the less cordial perhaps for this last direction the schoolmaster went to his bed and the host and hostess to theirs


the report in the morning was that the child was better but was extremely weak and would at least require a lays rest and careful nursing before she could proceed upon her journey


the schoolmaster received this communication with perfect cheerful ness observing that he had a day to spare two days for that matter and could very well afford to wait


as the patient was to sit up in the evening lie appointed to visit her in her room at a certain hour and rambling out with his book did not re turn until the hour arrived


nell could not help weeping when they were left alone whereat and at sight of her pale face and wastsd figure the simple schoolmaster shed a few tears himself at the same time showing in very energetic language how foolish it was to do so and how very easily it could be avoided if one tried


it makes me unhappy even in the midst of all this kindness said the child to think that we should be a burden upon you


how can i ever thank you


if i had not met you so far from home i must have died and ite would have been left alone


well not talk about dying said the school master and as to burdens i have made my for


tune since you slept at my cottage


indeed cried the child joyfully


oh yes returned her friend


i have been appointed clerk and schoolmaster to a village a long way from here and a long woy from the old one as you may suppose at five and thirty pounds a year


five and thirty pounds i i am very glad said the child no very very glad


i am on my way there now resumed the schoolmaster


they allowed me the stage coach sireoutside stage coach hire all the way


bless you they grudge me nothing


but as the time at which i am expected there left me ample leisure i determined to walk instead


how glad i am to think i did so


ihow glad should we be


yes yes said the schoolmaster moving rest


lessly in his chair certainly thats very true


but you where are you going where are you coming from what have you been doing since you left me what had you seen doing before now tell me do tell me


i know very little of the world and perhaps you are better fitted to advise me in its affairs than i am rualified to give advice to you but i am very sincere and i have a reason you ihave not forgotten it for loving you


i have felt since that time as if my love for him who died had been transferred to you who stood beside his bed


if this he added looking upwards is the beau


tiful creation that springs from ashes let its peace prosper with me as i deal tenderly and comnpas sionately by this young child i the plain frank kindness of the honest school master the affectionate earnestness of his speech and manner the truth which was stamped upon his every word and look gave the child a confidence in him which the utmost arts of treachery and dissimulation could never have awakened in her breast


she told him all that they had no friend or relative that she had fled with the old man to save him from a madhouse and all the miseries lie dreaded that she was flying now to save him from himself and that she sought an asylum in some remote anl primitive place where the temptation before which he fell would never enter and her late sorrows and dis tresses could have no place


the schoolmaster heard her with astonishment


this child


he thought


ilas this child heroically persevered under all doubts and dangers struggled with poverty and suffering upheld and sustained by strong affection and the consciousness of rectitude alone


and yet the world is full of such heroism


have i yet to learn that the hardest and bestborne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record and are suffered every day i


and should i be surprised to hear the story of this child


what more lie thought or said matters not


it was concluded thsat nell and hser grandfather slsould accompany isim to tlse village withtler hse was bostod and thsat he shsould undcavossr to find thsem some hssmhle occupation by whichs tisey could subsist


swe sisali ho astre so succeed said the school master hseartily


the cause is too goad a one to fail


to be cossttsuesl


flatterya gront ntsrmbor of ladies of rank were isresent and i isosseyed words from pretty lips coulsl surfeit i hsas enougs tsf tises


one can ssvailnv a great deal of sulsissied ereom tss be ostre and is does not hurt an old stomachtsir ffslter scotts disrsj


a gernittimar whsoso sottse was repair insg svent one slav to see isos the jots wvas prngresoisgn atsd observing a ssusntsmy of nails lyitss aboet ssaid to the carpenter wh ydons volt sake care of slsese nails


thleyil certainly ise lost


no seplied tlse carpenter youll find them all in sthe bill


ous opinion toothels following from sthe picayssne proves else editor to be a gentle


man of some taste


if mnan svas snade in slse image of isis maker surely woman was designed to keep tim still in remenmbrance or iteaven


whien a man reflects sspsn paradise and asks isis mind for sometlsing earslsly thtat resembles is iso ran thinik of womnan iuvrly vonman and nsosthnsr else


picture innssrenre youths asnd huassy in wvsman and ifvs du nsot see paradise go to an ocultst imnsediately fur depend sspun it there is tomotlsisg sthe matter withs your eyes


asmericots aper


bsswltare os ptoper iwo sany o the nineseenths rensary beware oj iojsrt


it hs a its arms against out as siell us isgaindsit e ages of so called dasrktsess


you itave msinds sickenesi as thse ion vulgar mssserialivss of ithe dayassd popery isas a spiritual msauk ansi can elothse isselt as a saint or a nmarsyr


you are dintracted by doubt ansi din sensitsnsand papery offers yost a rock on svlichs to rest alsove tise battles of opinion


secioty is rent and torn fretm top to hostossand popery syihl sundersako to makst it wisole


the whlolu body of tlsoughts is lyissg sick or duasl by sthe departore of the soul of reiiglutnpopery vvill prusniso so restore its life


governments ore broken up by relsellioss paopery will stsppors tsens with its isterdicts


i blasphsemy and inmpiety are let loose by letting loose individual judgmentsand popery sans acitist with whsich to bind thsems agains


veu iear of universal frasernizstiotn of liiertyequality assd peace tlsrougls


out tho wvorldpopsery calls itself clsrissian asnd eltristiasts are n peuplu of brotlsurs switlsnut distine tiont of place or clitmate or birth wey say again to sthe nineseenths cesstsry estore of popery


it seas smistete dosvn at thse lteformatissns its ste next coo tusy is ruvivesl again


in thso fiencs sevolusioss it seemnes at its death gasp it is now fall of vlgour


qutarterls flevieso


by mrs s c hall


jwjletha gave mm another shilling and after he was fairly out of the room grappled the book commenced looking at the pictures in right earnest and congratulated herself on her good bar gain


in due time the house was cleared and she went to bed placing the bible on the top of the table amongst a miscellaneous collection of wornout dusters and tattered glass cloths waiting to be mended


that night the master of the grapes could not sleep more than once he fancied he smelt fire and after going into the unoccupied rooms and peeping concluded from page j rn


through the keyholes and under the doors of those that were occupied he descended to the bar and finally enter ing the little barparlour took his day book from a shelf and placing the candle sat down listlessly turning over its leaves but the top of the table would not shut and raising it to remove the obstruction matthew saw a large family bible pushing away the day book he opened the sacred volume


it opened at the rd chapter of pro verbs and as if guided by a sacred light his eyes fell upon the th verse and he read who hath woe who hath sorrow who hath contentions


who hath bab bling


who hath wounds without cause


who hath redness of eyes


they that tarry long at the wine they that go to seek mixed wine


look not thou upon the wine when it is red when it giveth its colour in the cup when it moveth itself aright


at the last it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder


he dashed over the leaves in fierce displeasure and as if of themselves they folded back at the th chapter of galatians envyings murders drunkenness revellings and such like of the which i tell you before as i have also told you in time past that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of god


new and old new and old murmured matthew to himself i am condemned alike by the old and new testament


he had regarded intoxication and its consequences heretofore as a great social evil


the fluttering rags and the flesh less bones of the drunkard and his family the broils the contentions the illfeeling the violence the murders wrought by the dread spirit of alcohol had stood in array before him as social crimes as social dangers


but he did not call to mind if he really knew that the word of god exposed alike its destruction and its sinfulness


he was one of the many who however good and moral in themselves shut their ears against the voice of the charmer charm he ever so wisely and though he often found wisdom and consolation in a line of wattss hymns he rarely went to the fountain of living waters for the strengthening and refreshing of his soul


he turned over the chapter and found on the next page a collection of texts written upon a slip of paper in the careful hand of one to whom writing was evidently not a frequent occupation


proverbs xxiii


for the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags


cor vi


nor thieves nor covetous nor drunkards nor re vilers nor extortioners shall inherit the kingdom of god


again that awful threat


mur mured matthew and have i been the means of bringing so many of my fellowcreatures under its ban


samuel i


and eh said unto her how long wilt thou be drunken


put away thy wine from thee


luhe xxi


and take heed to yourselves lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and cares of this life and so that day come upon you unawares


ay that day repeated the land lordthat hay the day that must come


ephesians v and be not drunk with wine wherein is excess but be filled with the spirit


proverbs xx


wine is a mocker strong drink is raging and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise


woe to thee who seilest wine to thy neighbour and mingiest strong drink to his destruc tion


he rose from the table and paced up and down the little room


no eye but his who seeth all things looked upon the earnestness and agitation of that man


no ear but the allhearing heard his sighshis halfmuttered prayers to be strengthened for good


he said within himself who will counsel me in this matter


to whom shall i fly for sympathy


who will tell me what i ought to do


how remedy the evils i have brought on others while in this business even when my heart was alive to its wickedness


he had no friend to advise with none who would do aught but laugh at and ridicule the idea of giving up a good business for conscience sake but so it was that it occurred to him you have an immortal friend take counsel of him pray to him learn of him trust him make his book your guide and opening the bible he read one other passage


keep innoeency and take heed to the thing that is right for that shall bring a man peace at the last


pondering on this blessed rule of life so simple and so comprehensive he turned back the pages repeating it over and over again until he came to the first flyleaf wherein were written the births marriages and deaths of the humble family to whom the bible belonged and therein second on the list he saw in a stiff halfprinted hand the nameemma hanby only daughter of james and maryjane hanby born soandso married at such a date to peter croft


emmahanbyborn in his native village the little emma hanby whom he had loved to carry over the brook to school by whose side in boylove he had sat in the meadows for whom he had gathered flowers whose milk pail he had so often lifted over the churchstile whom he had loved as he never could or did love woman since whom he would have married if she lighthearted girl that she was could have loved the tall yellow awkward youth whom it was her pastime to laugh at and her delight to call daddy


was she then the wife the torn soiled tattered wornout insulted brokenspirited wife of the drunkard peter croft


it seemed impossible


her memory had been such a sunbeam from boyhood up the refiner of his naturethe dream that often came to him by day and night


while passing the parochial school when the full tide of girls rushed from its heat into the city air his heart had often beat if the ringing laugh of a merry child sounded like the laugh he once thought music and he would watch to see if the girl resembled the voice that recalled his early love


and i have helped to bring her to this he repeated over to himself even i have done this


this has been my doing


he might have consoled himself by the argument that if peter croft had not drunk at the grapes he would have drunk somewhere else but his scared conscience neither admitted nor sought an excuse and after an hour or more of earnest prayer with sealed lips but a soul bowed down at one moment by contempt for his infirmity of purpose and at another elevated by strong resolves of great sacrifice matthew carrying with him the drunkards bible sought his bed


he slept the feverish unrefreshing sleep which so frequently succeeds strong emotion


he saw troops of drunkardsbleareyed trembling ghastly spectacles pointing at him with their shaking fingers while with pestilential breath they demanded who had sold them poison


women toodrunkards or drunkards wives in either case starved wretched creatures with scores of ghastly chil dren hooted him as he passed through caverns reeking with gin and hot with the steam of all poisonous drinks


he awoke just as the dawn was crowning the hills of his childhood with glory and while its munificent beams were penetrating the thick atmosphere which hung as a veil before his bedroom window


to matthew the sunbeams came like heavenly messengers winging their way through the darkness and chaos of the world for the worlds light and life


he had never thought of that before but he thought of and felt it then and much good it did him strengthening his good intent


a positive flood of light poured in through a pane of glass which had been cleaned the previous morning and played upon the cover of the poor drunkards bible


matthew bent his knees to the ground his heart full of emotionsthe emo tions of his early and better nature and he bowed his head upon his hands and prayed in honest resolve and earnest zeal


the burden of that prayer which escaped from between his lips in mur


i murs sweet as the murmurs of living


waters was that god would have mercy upon him and keep him in the right path and make him unworthy as he was the means of grace to others to be gods instrument for good to his fellowcreatures to minister to the prosperity the regeneration of his own kind


oh if god would but mend the broken vessel if he would but heal the bruised reed if he would but receive him into his flock


o how often he repeated god give me strength


lord strengthen me


and he arose as all arise after stead fast prayer strengthened and pre pared to set about his work


i now quote his own account of what fol lowed i had he said fixed in my mind the duty i was called upon to perform


i saw it bright before me


it was now clear to me


whether turned to the right or to the left there it was written in letters of light went down stairs i unlocked the streetdoor


i brought a ladder from the back of my house to the front and with my own hands in the grey sofl haze of morning i tore down th sign of my disloyalty to a good cause the grapes lay in the kennel anc my first triumph was achieved


then descended to my cellar locker myself in turned all the taps an broke the bottles into the torrents o pale ale and brown stout whicl foamed around me


never once di my determination even waver vowed to devote the remainder of nr life to the destruction of alcohol an to give my power and my means t reclaim and succour those who hai wasted their substance and debase their characters beneath my roof felt as a freed man from whom fetter have been suddenly struck off


i sense of manly independence thrille through my frame


through th black and reeking arch of the beei vault i looked up to heaven


i aske god again and again for the strength of purpose and perseverance which i had hitherto wanted all my later life


while called a respectable man and


an honest publican i knew that


i i was acting a falsehood and dealing in the moralperhaps the eternal deaths of many of those careless drinkers who had sorrow and tor ment and quarrels and wounds with out cause even while i who sold the incentives to sorrow and torments and quarrels and wounds without cause knew that they bit like serpents and stung like adders


what a knave i had been


erecting a temple to my own respectability on the ruins of respectability in my fellowcreatures


talking of honesty when i was in ducing sinners to augment their sin by every temptation that the fragrant rum the whitefaced gin the brown bouncing brandy could offer all adul teratedall untrue as myself all made even worse than their original natures by downright and positive fraud


talking of honesty as if i had been honest going to church as if i were a practical christian and passing by those i had helped to make sinners with contempt upon my lip and a standby i am holier than thou in my heart even at the time i was inducing men to become accessaries to their own shame and sin and the ruin of their families


bitter but happy tears of peni tence gushed from my eyes as the ocean of intoxicating and baneful drinks swelled and rolled and seethed around me


i opened the drain and they rushed forth to add to the iniquity of the river


away they go i said their power is past


they will never more turn the staggering workmen into the streets or nerve his arm to strike down the wife or child he is bound by the law of god and man to protect


never more send the self inflicted fever of delirium tremens through the swelling veins never drag the last shilling from the drunkards hand never more quench the fire on the cottage hearth or send the pale overworked artizans children to a supperless bed never more blister the lips of woman or poison the blood of childhood never again inflict the saturdays headache which induced the prayerless sunday


awayaway


would that i had the power to so set adrift all the so perverted produce of the malt the barley and the grape of the world


as my excitement sub sided i felt still more resolved the more i calmed down the firmer


i became


i was as a paralytic recover ing the use of his limbs as a blind man restored to sight


the regrets and doubts that had so often disturbed my mind gathered themselves into a mighty power not to be subdued by earthly motives or earthly reasoning


i felt the dignity of a mission


i would be a temperance missionary to the end of my days


i would seek out the worst among those who had frequented the grapes and pour counsel and advicethe earnest counsel and the earnest advice of a purely dis interested maninto ears as long deaf to the voice of the charmer


i was a free man no longer filling my purse with the purchasemoney of sorrow sin and death


i owed the sinners confirmed to lead the old life of sin in my housei owed them atonement


but what did i not long to do for that poor emma


when i thought of her of her once cheerfulness her once innocence her once beauty i could have cursed myself


suddenly my sister shook the door


she entreated me to come forth for some one had torn down our sign and flung it into the kennel


when i showed her the dripping taps and the broken bottles she called me and be lieved me mad


she never understood me but less than ever then


i had of course more than one scene with her and when i told her that instead of ale i should sell coffee and sub stitute tea for brandy she like too many others attaching an idea of feebleness and duplicity and want of respectability to temperance resolved to find another home


we passed a stormy hour together and among other things she claimed the drunkards bible but that i would not part with


i lost no time in finding the dwell ing of peter croft


poor emma


if i had met her in the broad sunshine of a june day i should not have known her


if i had heard her speak i should have recog nised her voice among a thousand


misery for her had done its worst


she upbraided me as i deserved


you she said and such as you content with your own safety never think of the safety of others


you take care to avoid the tarnish and wretchedness of drunkenness your selves while you entice others to sin


moderation is your safeguard but when did you think it a virtue in your customers


i told her what i had done


that in future mine would be strictly a temperance home that i would by every means in my power undo the evil i had done


will that she answered in low deep tones of anguish will that restore what i have lost


will it restore my husbands character


will it save him even if converted from self reproach


will it open the grave and give me back my child my first bom who delicate from its cradle could not endure the want of heat and food which the others have still to bear


will it give us back the means squandered in your house


will it efface thc memory of the drunkards songs and the impurity of the drunkards acts


matthew


that you should thrive and uve and grow rich and respectable by what debased and de bauched your fellowcreatures


look


she added and her words pierced my heart look


had i my young days over again i would rathersupposing that love had nothing to do with my choicei would rather appear with my poor degraded husband bad as he has been and is at the bar of god than kneel there as your wife


you


coolheaded and moderate by nature knowing right from wrong well edu cated yet tempting others to the destruction which gave you food and plenishing your comfortable rooms


your intoxicating drinks the pleasant company all all wiling the trades man from his home from his wife from his children and sending him back when the stars are fading in the daylight


to what a home to what a state


i do think as you stand there matthew hownley well dressed and wellfed and respectable yes that is the word respectable


that you are at this moment in the eyes of the almighty a greater crimi nal than my poor husband who is lying upon straw with madness in his brain trembling in every limb without even a bible to tell him of the mercy which christs death procured for the penitent sinner at the eleventh hour


i laid her own bible before her


i did not ask her to spare me every word was true i deserved it all i went forth i sent coal and food and clothing into that wretched room i sent a physician i prayed by the bed side of peter croft as if he had been a dear brother


i found him truly peni tent and with all the resolves for amendment which so often fade in the sunshine of health and strength


he wailed over his lost time his lost means his lost characterall lostall god had givenhealth strength happi nessall gone


all but the love of his illused and neglected wife


that had never died


and remember she said to me there are hundredsthousandsof cases as sad as his in the christian land we live in


strong drink fills our gaols and hospitals with sin with crime with disease with death


its mission is sin and sorrow to man woman and child


under the cloak of goodfellow ship it draws men together and the goodfellowship poisons heart and mind


men become mad under its influence


would any man not mad squander his money his character and bring himself and all he is bound to cherish to the verge of the pau pers gravenay into it


of five families in this wretched house the mothers of three and the fathers of four never go to their ragged beds sober


yet they tell me good men wise men great men refuse to promote temperance


they have never seen how the halfpint grows to the pint the pint to the quart the quart to the gallon


they have never watched for the drunkards return or experienced his neglect or illusagenever had the last penny for their childrens bread turned into spiritsnever awoke to the knowledge that though the snow of december be a foot on the ground there is neither food nor fire to strengthen for the days toil poor emma


she spoke like one inspired and though her spirit was sustained neither by flesh nor blood she seemed to find relief in words


when i spoke to her of the future with hope she would not listen


no she said my hope for him and for myself is beyond the grave


he cannot rally those fierce drinks have branded his vitalsburned into them


life is not for either of us


i wish his fate and mine could warn those around us but the drunkard day after day sees the drunkard laid in his grave and before the last earth is thrown upon the coffin the quick is following the example set by the deadof another and another glass


she was right peters days were numbered and when she knelt beside his coffin she thanked god for his peni tence and offered up a prayer that she might be spared a little longer for her childrens sake


that prayer gave me hope she had not spoken then of hope except that beyond the grave


m a


if t n c h u z z l e w


i t by c mckens esq


conlixved from our lad chapter xlvi


in which siisstecksmff makes love


mil


jonas makes tvhath uugaup makes tea and mkchdffey makes business


ok the next days official duties coming to a close tom hurried home without losing any lime bv tlie way and after dinner sad a short rest sallied out again accom panied by hutli to pay bis projected visit to todgerss


tom took ilutli with bim not only because it was a great pleasure to him to have her for a companion whenever be could but because lie wished her to cherish and comfort poor merry wliicb ehe tor her own part having heard the wretched history of that young wife from tom was all eagerness to do


sue was so glad to see me said tom that i am sure ehe nil be glad to see you


your sympathy is certain to be much more delicate sod acceptable than mine


i am very far from being certain of that tom she replied and indeed you do yourself an injustice


indeed you do


but i hope she may lite roe tom


oh she is sure to do that


cried tom connuently


wliu a number of friends i should have if everybody was of your way of thinking


shouldnt i tom dear said bis little sister pinching him upon tlie cheek


tom laughed and said that with refer ence to this particular case be had doubt at all of finding a disciple in merry


for you women said tom you women my dear are so kind and in your kindness have such nice perception you know so well how to be affectionate and full of soli citude without appearing to be your gen tleness of feeling is like your touch so iigbt and easy that the one enables you to deal with the wounds of the mind as ten derly as the other enables you with the the wounds of the body


you are such


my goodness tom bis sister inter posed


you ought to fall in love imme diately


tom put this observation off goodbu raouredly but somenhat gravely too and they were soon very chatty again on some other subject


as they were passing through a street in the city not very far from mrs todgerss place of residence ruth checked tom before the window of a large upholstery and furniture warehouse to call his atten tion to something very magniccut and ingenious displayed there to the best ad vantage for the admiration and temptation of the public


tom had hazarded some most erroneous and extravagantly wrong guess in relation to the price of this article and had joined his sister in laughing heartily at his mistake when he pressed her arm in his and pointed to two persons at a little distance who were looking in nt the same window with a deep interest iu the chests of drawers and tables


hush


tom whispered


miss peck sniff and the young gentleman to whom she is going to be married


why does he look as if he was goiug o be buried tom f inquired his little sister


why he is naturally a dismal young gentleman i believp said tom but he is very civil and inoffensive


i suppose they are furnishing their house whispered butli


yes i suppose they ore replied tom


we had better avoid speaking to them


they could not very well avoid looking at them however especially us some ob struction on the pavement at n little distance happened to detain them where they were for a few moments


miss peck sniff had quite the air of having uken the unhappy moddle captive and brought him up to the contemplation of the furniture like a lamb to tlie altar


he offered no resistance hut was perfectly resigned and quiet


the melancholy depicted in the turn of his languishing head and in his dejected attitude was extreme and though there was a fullsized fourpost bedstead in the window such a tenr stood trembliug in his ere as seemed to blot it out


augustus my love said hiss peck sniff ask the price of eight rosewood chairs and the loo table


perhaps they are ordered already said augustus


perhaps they ore ano thers


they can make more like them if they are rejoined hits pecksniff


no no they cant said moddle


its impossible i he appeared for the moment to be quite overwhelmed and btupified by the prospect of his approaching happiness but recover ing entered the shop


he returned imme diately saying iu a tone of despair twentyfour pound ten miss pecksniff turning to receive this announcement became conscious of the observation of tom pinch and sister


oh really cried miss pecksniff glancing about her as if for some conve vient means of sinking into the earth


upon my word i there never was such a to think ine should be so very mr augustus moddle miss pinch i miss pecksniff m quite gracious to miss finch in this triumphant introduc tion exceedingly gracious she wabkind and cordial


whether the recollection of the old service tom hod rendered her in knocking mr jonas on tlie head had wrought ibis change in her opinions or whether her separation from her parent had reconciled her to all humankind or to all that increasing portion of humankind which was not friendly to him or whether the delight of having some neiv female acquaintance to whom to communicate her interesting prospects was paramount to erery other consideration cordial and kind miss pecksniff was


and twice miss peck sniff kissed miss pinch upon the cheek


augustus mr pinch you know


my dear girl said miss pecksniff aside


never was so ashamed iu my life


ruth beirgcd her not to think of it


i mind jour brother less than anybody else simpered miss pecksniff


but the indelicacy of meeting any gentleman under such circumstances i augustus my child did vou


here miss pecksniff whispered iu his ear


the suffering mr moddle repeated twentyfour pound ten


oh you silly man i i dont mean them said mi pecksniff


i was speak ing of the


itere she whispered him again


if its the same patterned chintz as that in the window thirtytwo twelve six said moddle with a sigh


and very dear


miss pecksniff stopped him from giving any further explanation by laying her faaml upon his lips and betraying a soft embar rassment


she then asked tom pinch which way he was going


i was going lo see if i could find your sister answered tom to whom i wished to say a few words


we were iroing to mrs tod gens where i had the pleasure of seeing her before


its of no use your going on then said cherry for we have not long left there and i know she is not at home


but ill take you to my sisters house if you please


augustus mr moddle i mean and myself are on our way to tea there now


you neednt think of him she added nodding her head as she ob served some hesitation on toms part


he is not at home


are you suret asked tom


oh am quite sure of that


i dont want any more revenge said miss peck sniff expressively


but really i must beg you two gentlemen to walk on and allow me to follow with miss pincli


my dear i never was so taken by surprise


in furtherance of this bashful arrange ment moddle gave his arm tu tom and miss pecksniff linked her own in ruths


of course my love said miss peek sniff it would be useless for me to disguise after what you have seen that i am about to be united to the jrenllemau who is walk iug with your brother


it would he in vain to conceal it


what do you think of him


pray let me hbve your candid opinion


ilulh intimated that as far as she could judge he wab a very eligible swain


i am curious to know said miss peck sniff wiib loquacious frankness whether you have observed or fancied in this very short space of time that he is of a rather melancholy turnt ruth acknowledged that he had im pressed her at first sight as looking rather no really i said miss pecksniff


well i that is quite remarkable


i every body says the same


mrs todgers says the same and augustus informs me that it is quite a joke among the gentlemen in the house


indeed but for the positive com mands i have laid upon him i believe it would have been tlie occasion of loaded firearms being resorted to more than once


wlibt do you think is the cause of bis ap pearance of depression v hutu thought of several things such as his digestion his tailor bis mother and tbe like


but hesitating to give utterance to any one olibetn she refrained from express ing an opinion


my dear said miss pecksniff i shouldnt wish it to be known but i dont mind mentiouing it to you having known your brother for so many years i refused augustus three times


he is of a most amiable and sensitive nature always ready to shed tears if you look at him which is extremely charming and be has never recovered the effect of that cruelty


for it was cruel said miss pecksniff with a selfconvicting candour that might have adorned the diadem of her own papa


there is no doubt of it


i look back upon my conduct now with mushes


i always liked him


i felt that he was not to me what the crowd of young men who had made proposals had been but something very different


tvn what right had i to refuse bim three times t


it was a severe triul of his fidelity no doubt said liulli


my dear returned miss pecksniff


it was wrong


but such is the caprice and thoughtlessness of our sex i let me be a warning to you


dont try the feelings of any one who makes you an offer as i have tried the feelings of augustus but if you ever feel towards a person as i really felt towardb him at the very time when i was driving him to distraction let that feeling find expression if that person throws himself at your feet as augustus moddle did at mine


think said miss pecksniff what ray feelings would hare been if i had goaded him tu suicide and it had got into the papers i ruth observed that elie would have been full of remorse no doubt


kemoreet cried miss pecksniff in a sort of snug and comfortible penitence


what ray remorse ufittiiw moment even after making reparation by accepting liim it would be impossible to tell you looking back upon my giddy self tny dear bow that i am sobered down and made thoughtful by treading on the very brink of matrimony and contemplating myself as i was when i was like what you are now shudder


i shudder


what is the consequence of my past conduct


until augustus leads me to the altar he is not cure of me


i have blighted and withered the affections of his heart to that extent that he is not sure of me


i eee that preying on his mind and feeding on his vitals


wbat are the re proaches of my conscience when i see this in the man love


to i cootinvtdj


upe and adventures of martin chtjzzlewit


n y c


d i c k e x s esq


continued from cur last


chapter xxxii


treats of todgkiiss again and of another blighted plant besides the plants upok the leaps


ei


eli on the day next after lint on which she bade adieu to the halls of her youth and the scenes of her childhood miss pecksniff arriving safely at the coachoffice in london was there received and conducted to her peaceful borne beneath tbe shadow of the monument by mrstodgers


mrs tudgers looked a little worn by cares of gravy and other such solicitudes arising out of her establish ment but displayed her usual earnestness end warmth of manner


and bow my street miss pecksniff said she how is your princely pa f miss pecksniff signified in confidence that lie contemplated the introduction of a princely ma and repeated the sentiment that she wasnt blind and wasnt quite a fool and wouldnt bear it


mrs todgers was more shocked by the in telligence that any one could have expected


she was quite bitter


she snid there was no truth in man and that the warmer lie ex pressed himself as a general principle the falser ond more treacherous he was


she fore saw with astonishing clearness that the object of mr pecksniffs attachment was designing worthless and wickid and receiving from charity the fullest confirmation of these views protested with tears in her eves that she loved miss pecksniff like a sister and felt her inju ries as if they were her own


your real darling sister i have not seen more than once since her marriage said mrs todgers and then i thought her looking poorly


my sweet miss pecksniff i always thought that you was to be tbe lady


oh dear no i cried cherry shaking her head


oh no mrs todgers


thank you


no


i not for any consideration he could oftir


i dare say you are right said mrs tod rers with o sisrli


i feared it all along


but the misery we have had from that match here among ouiselves in this house my dear miss pecksniff nobody would believe


lor mrs todgers awful awful i repeated mrs todgers with stong emphasis


you recollect our younsest gentleman my dear


ji course i ao saiu cuerry


you may have observed said jfrs


tod gers how he used to watch your sister and that a kiud of stony dumbness came over him wliecerer


she was in company f


i am sure never saw anything of the sort said cherry in a peevish manner


what nonsense mrs todgers


my dear returned that lady in a hollow voice i have seen him again and again sitting over his pie at dinuer with his spoon a perfect fixture iu his mouth looking at your sister


i have seen him standing in a corner of our drawingroom gazing at her in such a lonely melancholy state that he was more like a pump than a man and might have drawed tears


i never saw ill cried cherry thats all i can say


but when the marriage took place said mrs todgers proceeding with her subject when it was iu the paper and was read out here at ureaktast l tnougut ue nan taken leave of his senses i did indeed


the violence of that young man my dear miss pecksniff the frightful opinions he expressed upon the subject of self destruction the extraordinary actions he performed with his tea the clench ing way iu which he bit his bread and butter the niamier in which be taunted mr jiukins all combined to form a picture never to he forgotten its a pity he didnt destroy himself i think


observed miss pecksniff


himself said mrs todgers it took another turn at night


he was for destroying other people then


there was a little chaffing going on i hope you dont consider that a low expression miss pecksniff it is always in our gentlemens mouths a little chaffing going on my denr among em all in good nature when suddenly he rose up foaming with his fury and but


for being held b three would have had mr jinkinss life with a boot jack i miss pecksniffs fice expressed supreme indifference


and noiv said mrs todgers now he is the meekest of men


you cnu almost bring tbe tears into his eyes by looking at him


he sits with me the whole day long on sundays talking in such a dismal way that i find it next to impossible to keep my spirits up equal to the accommodation of the boarders


his only comfort is in female society


he takes nrelialfprice to the play to an extent which i sometimes fear is beyond his means and i see the tears a standing in his eyes during the whole performance particularly if it is any thing of a comic nature


ilie turn


i expe rienced ouly yesterday said mrs todgers putting herband to lit side when tbe house maid threw his bedside carpet out of the win dow of his room while i was sitting here no one an imagine


i thought it vas him and lhat he had done it at last the contempt with which miss charity re ceived this pathetic account of the stale to which the youngest gentleman iu company was reduced did not say much for her power of sympathising with that unfortunate charac ter


siic treated it with great levity and went on to inform herself then and afterwards whether any other changes had occurred in the commercial hoardiughousc


mr bailey was pnne and had been suc ceeded such is the decay of human greatness i by an old woman whose name was reported to be tamaroo which seemed an impossibility


indeed it appeared in the fulness of time that tbe jocular boarders had appropriated tbe word from an english ballod in which it is sup posed to express tbe bold and fiery nature of a certain hackneycoachman and that it was bestowed upon mr baileys successor by rea son of her haying nothing fiery aliout her except an occasional attack of that fire which is called st anthonys


this ancient female had been engaged iu fulfilment of a vow registered by mrs todgers that no more boys should darken the commercial doors and she was chiefly remarkable for a total absence of all comprehension upou every subject what ever


she was a perfect tomb fur messages and small parcels and when despatched to the postoffice with letters bad been frequently seen endeavouring to insinuate them into casual chinks iu private doors under the de lusion that any door with a liole in it would answer the purpose


she was a very little old woman and always wore a very course npron wiiu


a oiu ueiore uuu a loop ueuinu logeuier with bandages on her wrists which appeared to be afflicted with an everlasting sprain


she wab on all occasions chary ol opening the streetdoor and ardent to shut it again and she waited ut table in a bonnet


this uas the only great change over and above the change which had fallen on the youngest gentleman


as fur him he more than corroborated the account of m rs


todgers csessiug greater sensibility than even she given him credit for


he entertained omc terrible notions of destiny among other matters and talked much about peoples missions upon which he seemed to lave some private information not generally attain able us he knew it had been poor merrys missions to crush him in the hud


he was very frail and tearful for being aware fliat a shepherds mission was to pipe lib flocks and that a boatswains mission was to pipe all hands and that one mans mission was to be a paid piper and another mans mission was lo pay tbe piper so he had got it into bis head that his own peculiar mission was to pipe his eye


which lie did perpetually


he often informed mrs todgers that the aun had set upon him that the billows had rolled over him that the car of juggernaut had crushed liini and alao bat the deadly upas tree of java had blighted him


his name was meddle


towards this most unhappy moddle miss pecksniff conducted herself at first with dis tant haughtiness being in no humour to be entertained with dirges in honour of her mar ried sister the poor young gentleman was additionally crushed by this and remonstrated with mrs todgers on the subject


even she turns from me mrs todgers said moddle


then why dont you try and be a little bit more cheerful sir


retorted mrs todgers


cheerful mrs iodgers


cheerful


i cried the youngest gentleman when she remindb me of days for ever fled mrs todgers


then you had better avoid her a short time if she does said mrs todgers and come to know her again by degrees


thats my advice


but cant avoid her replied moddle


i havent strength of mind to do it


ob mrs todgers if you knew what a comfort her her nose sir mrs todgers cried


her profile in general said the youngest gentleman but particularly her nose


its so like hers who is anothers mrs todgers i the observant matron did not fail to report this conversation to charity who laughed at the time but treated mr moddle that very evening with increased consideration and pre sented her sideface to him as much as pos sible


mr moddle was not less sentimental than usual was rather more so if anything hut he sat and stared at her with glistening eyes uud seemed grateful


well sirl said the lady of the boarding house next day you held up your head last night


youre coming round i think


only because shes so like her who is anothers mrs todgers rejoined the youth


when she talks and when she smiles i think im looking on iieu brow again mrs todgers


this was likewise carried to charitv who talked and smiled next evening iu her most engaging manner and rallying mr moildle on the lowness of his spirits challenged him to play a rubber at cnbbage


mr moddle taking up ihe gaunlet they played several rubbers for sixpences and charity won them all


this may have been partially attributable to the gallantry of the youngest gentleman but it was certainly referable to the state of his feelings also for his eyes being frequently dimmed by tears be thought that aces were tens and knaves queens which at times occa sioned soiiii confusion in his play


on the seventh night of cribbage when mrs todici silting by proposed that instead of gambling they should play for love mr meddle was seen to change colour


on the fourteenth night he kissed miss pecksniffs snuffers in the passage when she went up stairs to bed meaning to have kissed her hand but missing it


in short mr moddle began to be impressed with the idea that m iss pecksniffs mission was to comfort him and miss pecksniff began to speculate on the probability of its being her mission to become mrs moddle


he was a young gentleman bliss pecksniff was not a very young lady with risiug prospects and almost enough to live on


really it looked very well


besides besides he had been regarded as devoted to merry


merry had joked about him and had once spoken of it to her sister as a conquest


he was belter looking better shaped better spoken belter tempered better mannered than jonas


he was easy to manage could be made to consult tbe humours of his betrothed and could be shown off like a lamb when julias was a bear


there was the rub


in the meantime the cribbage


went on and mrs todgers went off for the youngest gen tleman dropping her society began to take miss pecksniff to the play


lie also began ns mrs todrers said tu slip home iu his diniiertiinrs and get away from the office at unholy seasons and twice as he inform


d mrs todgers himself he received anonymous letters enclosing cards from furniture ware houses clearly tbe act of that ungentle manly ruffian jiukius ouly he hadnt evidence enough to call him out upon


all of which so mrs todgers told miss pecksniff spoke as plain english as the shining sun


my dear miss pecksniff you may depend upon it said mrs todgers that he is burn ing to propose


my goodness me why dont lie then i cried cherry


men are so much more timid than we think em my dear returned mrstojgers


they baulk themselves continually


i saw the words on todgerss lips for months and months before hfi said em


miss lnkknift fiiilimtffed rhfifc


todjrfiia might not have been a fair specimen


oh yes he was


ob bless you yes my dear


i was very particular in those days i assure you said mrstodgers biidling


no no


you give mr moddle a little encourage ment miss pedksniff if you wish him to speak and hell speak fast enough depend upon it


i am sure i dont know what encourgement he would have m rs todgers returned cha rity


he walks with me and plays cards with me and he comes and sits alone with quite right said mrstodgers


thats indispensablp my dear


a ml lip iitfi vppv flmp in mp also quite correct said jlrs todgers


and he looks at me


to be sure lie does said mrs todgers


and he has his arm upon the back of the chair or sofa or whatever it is behind me you know should think so said mrstodgers


and then he begins to cry i mrs todgers admitted that be might do better than that and might undoubtedly profit by the recollection of the great lord nelsons signal at tbe battle of trafalgar


still she said he would come round or not to mince the matter would be brought round if miss pecksniff took up a decided position and plainly showed him that it must be done


determining to regulate her conduct by this opinion tbe young lady received mr moddle on the earliest subsequent occasion with an air of constraint and gradually leading him to inquire in a dejected manner nhy she was su changed confessed to him that she felt it necessary for their mutual peace and happiness to take a decided step


they had been much together lately she observed much together and had tasted the sweet of a genuine recipro city of sentiment


she never could forget him nor could she ever cease to think of him with feelings of the liveliest friendship hut people had begun to talk the thing had been observed and it was necessary that they should be no more to each other than any gentleman or lady in society usually are