isaac list with great apparent humility protested that he had never doubted the credit of a gentleman so notorious for his honorable dealing as mr jowl and that lie had hinted at the production of the box not for the satisfaction of his doubts for he couldl have none but with a view to being regaled with a sight of so much wealth which though it might be deemed by some but an unsubstantial and visionary pleasure was to one in his circumstances a source of extreme delight only to be surpassed by its safe depository in his own personal pockets


although ir


list and dlr


jowl addressed themselves to each other it was retmarkable that they both looked narrowly at the old man who with his eyes fixed upon the fire sat brooding over it yet listening eagerlyas it seemed from a certain involuntary motion of the head or twitching of the face from time to timeto all they said


ily advice said jowl lying down again witlh a careless air is plain i have given it


in fact


i act as a friend


why should i help a man to the means perhaps of winning all i have unless con sidered him my friend


its foolish i dare say to be so thoughtful of the welfare of other people but thats my constitution and cant help it so dont blame me isaac list


i blame you


returned the person addressed not for the world mr jowl


i wish i could afford to be as liberal as you and as you say he might pay it back if he won and if he lost youre not to take that into consideration at all said jowl


but suppose he did and no things less likely from all i know of chances


why its better to lose other peoples money than ones own i hopel ah


cried isaac list rapturously tthe pleasures of winning


the delight of picking up the money the bright shining yellow boys and sweeping em into ones pocket i the deliciousness of having a triumph at last and thinking that one didnt stop short and turn back but went halfway to meet it i the butyonre not going old gen tleman


ill do it said the old man who had risen and taken two or three hurried steps away and now returned as hurriedly ill have it every penny


why thats brave cried isaac jumping up and slapping him on the shoulder and respect you for having so much young blood left


ilha ha ha


joe jowls half sorry he advised you now


weve got the laugh against him


ha ha


iha i he gives me tmy revenge mind said the old man pointing to him eagerly with his shrivelled hand mind he stakes coin against coin down to the last one in the box be there many or few


remember that


im witness returned isaac


ill see fair play between you


i have passed my word said jowl with feigned reluctance and ill keep it


when does this match come off i wish it was overtlonight i must have the money first said the old man and that ill have tomorrow why not toiighlt urged jowl


its late now and i should be flushed and flurried said the old man


it must be softly dune


no tomorrow night


then tomorrow be it said jowl


a dropof comfort here


luck to the best man


fill


the gipsy produced three tin cups and filled them to the brim with brandy


the old man turned aside and muttered to himself before he drank


her own name struck upon the listeners ear coupled with some wish so fervent that be seemed to breathe it in an agony of supplication


god be merciful to us said the child within herself and help us at this trying hour


what shall i do to save ihim


the remainder of their conversation was carried on in a lower tone of voice and was sufficiently concise relating merely to the execution of the project and the best precautions for diverting sus picion


the old man then shook hands with his tempters and withdrew


they watched his bowed and stooping figure as it retreated slowly and when he turned to look back which he often did waved their hands or shouted some brief encouragement


it was not until the had seen him gradually diminish into a mere speck upon the distant road that they turned to each other and ventured to laugh aloud


so said jowl warming his hands at the fire its done at last


he wanted more persuading than i expected


its three weeks ago since we first put this in his head


whatll he bring do you think whatever lie brings its halved between us returned isaac list


ithe other mnan nodded


we must make quick work of it ite said and then cut hiis acquaintance or we may be suspected


list and the gipsy acquiesced


when they had all three amused lthemselves a little with their vic tims infatuation they dismissed the subject as one wwhich had been sufllcieotly discussed and began to talk in a jargon whlich the child did not understand


as their discourse appeared to relate to matters in which they were warmly interested however she deemed it the best time for escaping unobserved and crept away with slow and cautious steps keep ing in the shadow of the hedges or forcing a path through them or the dry ditches until site could emerge upon the road at a point beyond their range of vision


then shie fled homewards as quickly as shie could torn and bleeding from the wounds of thorns and briers but more lacerated in mind and threw herself upon her bed distracted


the first idea that flashed upon her mind was flight instant flight dragging him from that place and rather dying of want upon the roadside than ever exposing him again to such terrible temptations


then site remembered that the mcime was not to be committed until next night and there was tise inter mediate time for thinking and resolving what to do


then she was distracted with a horrible fear that ihe might be committiing it at that moment with a dread of hearing shrieks and cries piercing ithe silence of the night with fearful thougbits of what he might be tempted and led on to doi if he were detected in the act and hiad but a woman to strug


gle withl


it was impossible to bear such torture


she stole to the room where the money was opened the door and looked in


god be praised


he was not there and she was sleeping soundly


shie went back to her own eroom and tried to prepare hierself for bed


but who could aleep sleepl who could lie passively down distracted by such terrors


they came upon her morte andmore strongly yet


half undressed and with her hair in r wild disorder she flew to the old mans bedside clasped him by the wrist asid roused him from hiis sleep


whats this


ihe cried starting up in bed ndtd fixing his eyes upon her spectral face


i have had a dreadful dream said the child with an energy that nothling but such terrors could have inspired a dreadful horrible dream


i have had it once before


it is a dream of grey haired men like you in darkened rooms by nilslt robbing the sleepers of their gold


up up


tirhe old man shook in every limb and folded his hands like one who prays


not to me said the child not to meto ileaven to save si from such deeds


ithlis dreamn is too real


i cannot sleep cannot slay hiere


i cannot leave you alone under the roof where uochu drearns come


upi i we must fly


lie looked at her as if she were a spiritshe stiglit haive been for all the lusk of earth site luad stnd treetbled more and more


there is no time to losa i will not lose one minute said the child


up and away with mu l tonight i murmured tihe old man


yes tonight replied the child


tomorrow night will be too late the dream will have come again


nothing but flight can save us


up i lthe old man rose from his bed his forehead be dewed with the cold sweat of fear and bending before the child as if she had been an angel mes senger sent to lead him where she would mode ready to follow her


she took him by the hand and led him on


as they passed the door of the room he had proposed to rob she shuddered and looked up into his face


what a white face was that and with what a look did he meet hera i site took him to her own chamber and still holding him by the band as if she feated to lose himn for an instant gathered together tile little stock she had and hung her basket on her arm


the old man look his wallet from her hands and strapped it on his shoulderms his staff too she had brought away and then led him forth


through the strait streets and narrow crooked outskirts their trembling feet passed quickly


lip the steep hill too crowned by the old grey castle they toiled with rapid steps and had not once looked behind


but as they drew nearer the ruined walls tile moon rose in all lher gentle glory and from their venerable age garlanded with ivy moss and waving grass


the child looked back upon the sleep


ing town deep in the valleys shade and on the faroff river with its winding track of light and on the distant hills and as she did so she elapsed her hand she held less firmly and bursting into tears fell upon the old mans neck


to be continued


utramatirjie the story of a fatie fe flttoift scrtttltf


a story from pojicn chapter xxxv


continued dom our lost


am taken to drurylane theatre and become part of its wardrobe


the playhouse behind the scenes


trakt by duty of his office retired with click abram and patty from the dock into tho prison


the highwayman rallying his courage and his gallantry begged to congratulate the girl on her escape


gads mel he cried im glad of it though i lose the honour of your company to tyburn


yet curse the jurymen


to have ones dinner spoilt by such set of blockheads i buttermen and shoemakers to hang a gentleman


and then abram burst into a wild and hollow laugh to show his fine philosophy


miserable man cried inglewood your grave is dug your knell about to toll death is staring iii your face


wretched creature


would you jest with god


abram started at this passionate reproof of inglewood whose pale thin cheek was flushed and quivering with emotion and then the highwayman summoning his contempt stared at the intruder and executed a long loud whistle


inglewood with sorrow in his face and voice raised his hands and cried heaven be merciful to you i he then joined mr and airs lintlcy and the miss peachtcks all of whom were con


gratulating and caressing patty


the maiden sisters were heapingjoously weeping and mrs lintlcy declared that patty should go home with her she was such a good innocent creature ami would bring a blessing upon any house


then lintlcy smiled and miss amelia peachick slipping a guinea into traplys hand begged him la send for a coach


as for miss leonora i heard her whisper to her sister that she thought no harm could come to the poor creature ho was found guilty tiley had no doubt only done it to frighten him


traply departed on his errand as he hurried away i caught a glance of inglewood he stood somewhat apart from the group gazing at pattyhis heart in his eyes


and thus left him


when the turnkey returned to his wife he was so mollified by the harvest of the day that although he had entirely for gotten mc he suffered his spouse to remind him of his brutality with no other reply than a jocose growl and delivered me bent and rumpled and as his spouse said not fit for any christian to wearinto the hands of his helpmate


i was curious to leam the condition of mrs cramp but heard nothing more than at traply reported at supper that she had been a crying and a melting over click like butter


the next morning mrs troply left newgate carrying mc with her


in a few minute found myself consigned to the hand of a feathcrcleancc in shoelane with an injunction from mrs traply to be put in order with no delay


its been a hand some thing in its lime but like most of us a little tumbled and worse for wear said an old woman the shopkeeper and as i found an acquaintance of lier customer


ha i mrs briggs when i wore that feather at chester cried mrs traply


well well you may say tumbled and lill a significant toss of the head the turnkeys wife departed i suppose for newgate


shes n nice crctur she is said mrs briggs to her dirty shopgirl she wear a feather


i ill be bound fort got out of some poor thing in troublesome dear soul in gaol


about a fortnight passed in which time i was cleaned and set in order andas i thought from a glance of myself in a glassmade lo look as beautiful as ever


alas i as to carry my whiteness back to negale


fortunately no


mrs briggs was a shrewd shopwoman


she had mislaid or lost an excellent feather brought among others by a large customer and she resolved that i should take the place of the missing goods


as for mrs traply said lier acquaintance mrs briggs she might be put off with anything and never know j any better


now mr garrick was so particular


my heart throbbed at the words


was i to become the property of mr garrick


woo i wju uuu me stage


havirfgplayed my part above the cradle of a real prince of wales was to wave amongst kings and princes of sixty shillings per week


these thoughts possessed me as i lay in a bundle upon a shelf among other feathers of all kinds and i colours when after an anxious three days i felt myself j carried out of the shop with my companions


in a short time


i found myself at the stagedoor of drurylane theatre


my bosom beat and glowed for i was among his majestys i servants i assuredly there is something subtly intoxicating in the air of a theatre


had vio sooner passed the vestibule of the j playhouse than i felt myself an exceedingly great creature


my every filament seemed to expand with new dignity felt


myself swelling like a cats tail


it is the atmosphere i i thought


it is the air impregnated with the spirit of poetry of mighty thoughtsthat gives an elevation a largeness of manner even to the doorkeeper


the place seemed to mc a sort of halfway house between the sordid homeliness of the world and the revealed glories of the land of romance


i felt drunk but the intoxication was delicious


i was soon deposited in what i found to be the ladies wardrobe


looking about me i discovered more than one old acquaintance in the gowns i had fallen among at madame sjianneus


there was my old friend the lutestring at times devoted to the nightly service of mrs clive mrs pritchard was wont to wear the pompadour and the smokecoloured cloak had graced the fair shoulders of the gentle mrs abing ton


i nodded to them and at night began to talk to them as old acquaintances


they however treated me contemptuously s a newcomer and a nobody desiring me to remember that all the town was mad after them that indeed the morid itself could not turn round without them


snubbed i was com pelled to hold my peace or now and then to have a whispering chat with a shabby old blue bodicecommonly worn as it informed me by the meaner peoplo of the playhouse


i have never yet opened my mouth upon the stage said the lioddice to me in a tone of melancholy and when i begged to be further informed of its meaning it assured me that it was only worn by the girls who acted speechless peasants and tonguetied domestics


bless you it sighed i have never yet been into the ant greenroom but have merely stared at


it with all my cyletholcs as i have passed on and off with the mob


now you said the boddice you arc sure to have better luck


shouldnt wonder to see you very soonas mrs oakley or the queen in hamlet


i said the boddice heaving a deep sigh i have never known the sweets of a round of applause in all my life now youll have ithot as i you can sup it


i confess iti was in a flutter of delight at


thse words though from what heard from every piece of raiment that opened its lips i conceived a deep aversion tor mr garrick


no one had a civil syllabic for him


aro j managers i asked of the boddice always such wicked people such tyrants such knaves such shufflers such hypo


crites


the boddice made answer with significant emphasis my dear always


kitty was the house good tonight


asked the pompadour of the lutestring or rather mrs pritchard of mrs clive for i shall give to the garments the names of the ladies who some times wore them


j quite good enough answered clive


that jew gar riek actsworse and worse


now kitty cried mrs abington in tile gentlest voice why will you abuse david


im sure he loves you like a brother


yes


as brother cain loved brother abel replied kitty


love me


i didnt the wretch take mc out of miss prue and the romps ive played for thirty years


had the impudence to talk of my age


he doesnt sfce the wrinkles in lils own faceas deep and as black as a coalpit


why didnt the


sick monkey stay in italy


i could kiss beard for having driven him out of the country with catgut


the brute i took me out of miss pruel why doesnt he take himself out of anger


but rlicn youtnoir love observed mrs yates repre sntedbyvwhitc satin petticoat you know hes a manager


at this ill the ladies laughed in chorus


ina short tim


i learned all the past and present politics of theplayhouse


poor mr garrick had been twanged riwny from tragedy by the fiddles of mr beard at covent garden


arne and artaxerxes had been too much for david and shak spearc and so the manager had fallen conveniently sick the rosinsickness my dear as i heard mrs clive declare and sought the restorative air of italy and france


i wish when tbey had him abroad theyd have made him a cardinal cried mrs pritchard


yes chimed in clive with a chuckle or a rabbi im sure theyd have found him jew enough


own felt myself delighted with the sallies of these ladies and of clive in particular for though she was always the loudest in her abuse of garrick it seemed more as an exercise of her vivacity than of spleen


she called him a jewa tyrahta turka devil but she did so with a laugh that turned her bitterest words into sugarplums


it must be a delicious life that of an actress i whispered one evening hen nil was silent to my friend the bnddice


i dare say it is was the ans er but i know its terrible work to be as i am


nobbdy ought to be so miserable a nobody as the nobody of a theatre only added the boddice in theatre nobody ever thinks itself nobody


theres the little girl who wore me last night


poor soul


i she has a few shillings a week and is indeed as good and meek a little creature as ever bore spangles


yet when even the klug and queen come to the house docs she think herself one of tho chief attractions of the show


is it possible


i cried


what folly and after all said the boddice is it not well that it is so


conceit to a player must be as oil to a machine a thing necessary to keep the engine harmoniously at workto prevent the grinding clanging friction that elso must follow llie lower the actor too the greater the need of such oil


and nature is kind added the boddice in such cases it generally happens the greater the supply


i see not the necessity observed that comes of your ignorance of stago life replied the boddice nay i might add of lifo in almost every variety


is there so hard a lesson for a man to con as to learn that he is nobody


in a playhouse it is especially difficult


here strange as it may seem men are kept in stirring spirits by a lively sense of their wrongs


like eels they arc made the more vivacious by skinning


the man who plays catesby to garricks richard believes but for the tyranny of fate he could play richard every bit as well if not better than the manager


he recollects the applauses of his youth from rustic hands he remembers how he made certain barns echo and tremble and he thinks with pity on a london audience and mr garrick


now m like catesby know his real worth and you make him a miserable creature


let a man uncon sciously offer a counterfeit guinea and in his ignorance he ill throw it with an air upon the counter and when accused of the attempt to pass a pocketpiece fly into a tempestuous passion making loud assertions of his honour and gentility


let the same manif ho can persuade himself to tho act knowingly offer the bad coin and with what a poor sneaking grace will he acquit himself


now the catesby i speak of and such actors never will be persuaded that their richards are pocketpieces no they are goldbest mint


goldbut it


is the perverscness the injustice of men that flings them back upon their hands


tiley are however rich that they them selves possess them although refused by nil the world


prove i tho pieces brass or copper make their holders know as much and they in that knowledge would bo poor indeed i understand i replied


in truth have fallen amongst a strange people


nay if they have follies weaknessesand who has not to laugh at there are virtues even in a playhouse soil to praise and venerate


j virtues i cried and i am afraid with a slight laugh


listen said the boddice


you spoke of funny davis the little gil who last night ore me


will tell you a short a very short history of that gentle that heroic child


i tu be continued


i


personal adventures of miastelt hutlphriey


tl old cuniosity siiopc


apeit xxvii


mwhen they had travelled slowly forward for some short distance nell ventured to steal a look round tire caravan and observe it more closely


one half of itthat moiety in which the comfortable proprie tress was then seatedwas carpeted and so par titioned off at the further end as to accommodate a sleepingplace constructed after tire fashion of a berth on board ship which was shaded like the little windows with fair white curtains and looked comfortable enough though by what kind of gym


nastic exercise the lady of the caravan ever contrived to get into it was an unfathomable mystery


the other half served for a kitchen and was fitted up with a stove whose chimney passed through the roof


it i eld also a closet or larder several chests a great pitchler of water and a few cooking uten sils and articles of crockery


these latter necessa ries hung upon the walls which in tlhat portion of the establishment devoted to the lady of the caravan were ornamented with such gayer and lighter deco rations as a triangle and a couple of well thumnbed tambourines


the lady of thecaravan sat at one window in all the pride and poetry of the musical instrnments and little nell and her grandfather sat at tire other in all the humility of the kettle and saucepans while the machine jogged on and shifted the darkening pros pect very slowly


at first the two travellers spoke little and only in whispers but as they grew more familiar with the place they ventured to converse with greater freedom and talked about the country through which they were passing and tihe different objects tlhat presented themselves until the old man fell asleep which the lady of the caravan observing invited nell to come and sit beside her


well child she said how do you like this way of travellingl nell replied that she thought it was very pleasant indeed to which the lady assented in the case of people who had their spirits


for herself she said she was troubled with a lowness in that respect which required a constant stimulant thouglh whet her tihe aforesaid stimulant was derived from the sus picious bottle of which mention has been already made or from other sources she did not say


thats the happiness of you young people she continued


you dont know what it is to be low in your feelings


you always have your appe tites too and what a comfort that is


nell thought that sire could sometimes dispense with herown appetite very conveniently and thought moreover that there was nothing either in thire ladys personal appearance or in her manner of taking tea to lead to the conclusion that her natural relish for meat and drink had at all failed her


she silently assented however as in duty bound to what the lady had said and waited until she should speak again


instead of speaking however she sat looking at the child for a long time in silence and then getting up brought out from a corner a large roll of canvas about a yard in width which she laid upon the floor and spread open with iher foot until it nearly reached from one end of the caravan to tire other


there child she said read that


nell walked down it and read aloud in enor mous black letters the inscription jarleya wax work


read it again said tile lady complacently


jarleys waxwork repeated nell


fthats me said the lady


i am mrs


jar lay


giving the child an encouraging look intended to reassure her and let her know that although she stood in the presence of the original jarley sire must rot allow herself to be utterly overwhelmed and born down the lady of the caravan unfolded another scroll whereon was the inscription one hun dred figures the full size of life and then another scroll on which was written the only stupen


dous collection of real waxwork in the world and then several smaller scrolls with such inscriptions as now exhlibiting within the genuine and only jarley jarleys unrivalled collection jar ley is the delight of the nobility and gentry the iroyal family are the patrons of jarley


when she had exhibited these leviathans of public an nouncement to tire astonished child sire brought forth specimens of tire lesser fry in tihe shape of hand bills some of which were couched in the form of parodies on popular melodies as believe me if all jarleys waxwork so rale i saw thy show in youtihful prime over the water to jarley while to consult all tastes others were composed with a view to the lighter and more facetious spirits as a parody on tile favourite air of if i had a don key beginning if knowl a donkey wet wouldnt go to see ritr jurleys waxwmart show do you think id acltnowledge him


oht no no


then run to jarleys besides several compositions in prose purporting to be dialogues between the emperor of cllina and an oyster or the archbishop of canterbury and a dissenteron the subject of church rates but all having the same moral namely that the reader must make haste to jarleys and that children and servants were admitted at half price


when she lhad brought all these testimonials of her important position in society to bear upon her young companion mrs jarley rolled them up and having iput them care fully away sat down again and looked at the child to triumph


never go into the company of a filthy punch any more said mrs jarley after this


i never saw any waxwork mnaam said nell


is it funnier than punch funnier


said mlrs jarley in a shrill voice


it is not funny at all


oh i said nell with all possible humility


it isnt funny at all repeated mrs jarley


its calm andwhats that word againcritical noclassical thats itits calm and classical


no low beatings and knockings about no jokings and squeakings like your precious punches but always tile same with a constantly unchanging air of coldness and gentility and so like life that if vwaxworkonrlyspoke and walked about youd hardly know tile difference


i wont go so far as to say that as it is ive seen waywork quite like life but ive certainly seen some life that was exactly like waxwork


is it here maam asked nell whose curiosity was awakened by this description


is what hiero child


tile waxwork maam


wiy bless you child wirat are you thlinking of how could such a collection be here wrere you see everythling except the inside of one litle crrp


board and a few boxes


its gone on in thie other wans to thie nassemblyrooms and thlere itll be ex hilbited tle day after tonrorrow


you are going to the same town and youll see it i dare say


its natural to expect that youll see it and ive no doubt you will


surppose you couldnt stop away if you was to try ever so much


i shiall not be in the town i think manam said tile child


not there lcried mris


jarley


then whlere will you bel lildont quite know


i am noqt certain


you dont mean to say that youre travelling about thire country without knowing where youre going to i said thie ladlyof thie caravan


whal urrious people you are vi hat line are you in you looked to me at thre races child as if you were out of your element and isad got these by acri


dent


we were there quite by anecident returned nell confused by this abrupt questioning


we are poor people maam and are only wandering about


we have nothing to doi wish we had


you amaze me more and more said ellis


jar ley after remaining for some time as mute as one of her own figures


why what do you call your


solves


not beggars indeed mnam i dont know what else we are returned the child


lord bless me said the lady of the caravan


never heard of such a thing


whod have thought it


she remained so long silent after this exclamation that nell feared she felt her having been induced to bestow her lpotection and conversation upon one so poor to be an outrage uponer dignity that nothing could repair


this persuasion was rather confirmed than otherwise by the tone in which she at length broke silence and said


and yet you can read


and write too i shouldnt wonder yes maam said the child fearful of giving new offence by tihe confession


well and what a thing that is returned lmrs


jarley


i cant i nell said indeed in a tone which might imply either that sihe was reasonably surprised to find the genuine and only jarley who was the delight of the nobility and gentry and the peculiar pet of the royal family destitute of these familiar arts or tlat site presumed so great a lady could scarcely stand in need of such ordinary accomplishments


in whatever way mlrs


jarley received the response it did not provoke her to further questioning or tempt her into any more remarks at the time for shie re lapsed into a thoughtful silence and remained in tlhat state so long that nell withdrew to the other window and rejoined her grandfather who was now awake


at length the lady qf the caravan shook off her fit of meditation and summoning the driver to come under the window at which site was seated held a lung conversation with him in a low tone of voice as if she were asking his advice on asi important point and discussing the pros and cons of some very weighty matter


this conference at length con eluded site drew in her head again and beckoned nell to approach


and the old gentleman too said mrs jarley for i want to have a word with iim do


you want a good situation for your granddaughter master


if you do i can put her in the way of getting one


what do you say i cant leave her answered the old man


we cant separate


what would become of me without her i should have thought you were old enough to take care of yourself if you ever will be retorted mrs jarley sharply


but ire never will be said the child in an ear nest whisper


i fear he never will be again


pray do not speak harshly to him


we are very thankful to you


site added aloud but neither of us could part from the other if all the wealth of the world were halved between us


mrs jarley was a little disconcerted by this re ception or her proposal and looked at the old man who tenderly took nells hand and detained it in his own as if she could have very well dispensed with his company or even his earthly existence


after an awkward pause she thrust her head out of the window again and had another cunference with the driver upon some point on which they did not seem to agree quite so readily as on their former topic of dtscussion but they concluded at last and sire ad


dressed the grandfather again


if youre really disposed to employ yourself said lrs


jarley there would be plenty for you to do in the way of helping to dust the figures and take the checks and so forth


what i want your granddaughter for is to point em out to the com pany they would be soon learnt anid site has a way with her that people wouldnt think unpleasant though she does come after me for ive been always accustomed to go round with visiters myself which i should keep on doing now only that my spirits make a little ease absolutely necessary


its not a common offer bear in mind said the lady rising into the tone and manner in which site was accus tomed to address her audiences its jarleys wax work remember


the dutys very light and gen teel the company particular select the exhibition takes place sn assembly rooms townhalls large rooms at inns or auction galleries


there is none of your open air wagrancy at jarleys recollect there is no tarpaulin and sawdust at jatleys remem ber


every expectation held out in the handbills it realised to the utmost and the whole forms an effect of imposing brilliancy hitierto unrivalled in this kingdom


rltemember that thle price of admission is only sixpence and that this is an opportunity which may never occur again


descending front the sublime when she had reached this point to the details of common life mrs jarley remarked that with reference to salary sihe could pledge herself to no specific sum until sithe had sufficiently tested nells abilities and narrowly watched her in the performance of her duties


ijut board and lodging both for her and her grandfather she bound herself to provide and site furthermore passed her word that tbe board should always be good in quality and in quantity plentiful


nell and her grandfather consulted together and while they were so engaged mrs jarley with her hands behind her walked up and down the caravan as she had walked after tea on the dull earth with uncommon dignity and selfesteem


nor will this appear so slight a circumstance as to be unworthy of mention when it is remembered that the caravan was in uneasy motion all the time and that none but a person of great natural stateliness and acquired grace could have forborne to stagger


now child cried mrs jarley coming to a halt as nell turned towards her


we are very much obliged to you maam said nell and thankfully accept your offer


and youll never be sorry for it returned mrs jarley


im pretty sure of that


so as thats all settled lets have a bit of supper


in tite meanwhile tihe caravan blundered on as if it too had been drinking strong beer and was drowsy and came at last upon tihe paved streets of a town which were clear of passngers anti quiet for it was by this time near midnight and the townspeople were all abed


as it was too late an hour to repair to the exhibition room they turned aside into a piece of waste ground that lay just within the old town gate


and drew up there fr the night near to anothter caravan which notwithstanding that it bore on the lawful pannel the great name of jarley and was employed besides in conveying from to place the waxwork which was its countrys a pride was desig


nated by a grovelling stampolfice as a common stage waggon and numbered tooseven thousand odd hundredas though its precious freight were mnere flour or coals i lthis illused machine being empty for it had deplosited its burden at the place of exhlibition and lingered here until its services were again required was ssigned to the old man as his sleeping place for the night and witlsin its wooden walls nell made him up the best bed she could from the mnaterials at hand


for herself site was to sleep in mrsjarleys travellingcarriage as a signal mark of that ladys favor and confidence


she had taken leave of her grandfather and was returning to the other waggon when site was tempted by the pleasant coolness of the night to linger lor a little while in the air


the moon was shining down upon the old gateway of the town leaving the low arclthway very black and dark and with a mingled sensation of curidsity and lear she slowly approached the gate and stod still to look uip at it wondering to see how dark and grim and old and cold it looked


there was an empty niche from which some old statue had fallen or been carried away hitundreds of years ago and shite was thinking what strange people st must have looked down upon when it stood there and how many hliard struggles might have taken place and hiow many murders might hiave been doneo uipon that silent spot when there suddenly emerged from the black shade of theo arch a man


the in stant iheo appeared she recogeized himwho could have failed to recognize in that instant itle mis shtpen quilp


he street beyond was so narrow and the shadow of the houses on one side of the way so deep that ito seemed tohave risen out of tite earth


but tlere he was


lthe child withdrew into a dark corner and saw him pass close to hler


lie ihad a stick in hiis hand and whlen hie hiad got clear of the shadowv of thle gateway lie leant upon it looked backdirectly as it seemed towards wivere site stoodand beckoned


to her


oh no


thank god not to her for as she stood in an extremity of fear itesitating whethler to scream for help or come from iher hidingplace and fly before hie should draw nearer there issued slowly forth fron tile arch another figure that of a boy wihoe carried on his back a trunk


faster sirrahl i said quilp looking up at the old gateway and showing in the moonlight like some monstrous itage that had come down from its niche and was coasting a backward glance at its old house faster


its a dreadful heavy load sir the boy pleaded


ive come on very fast considering


you have come fast considering retorted quilp ou creep you dog ou crawl you mea


sure distance like a worm


there are the chimes now halfpast twelve


lie stopped to listen and then turning upon the boy with a suddenness and felocity that made hinm start asked at what hour that london coach passed the corner of the road


the boy replied at one


come on then said quilp or i shall be too late


fasterdo you hear me


faster


ithe boy made all the speed lie could and quilp led onward constantly turning back to threaten him and urge him to greater haste


nell did not dare to move until they were out of sight and hearing and then hurried to where she had left her grand


father feeling as if the very passing of the dwarf so ntear him must have filled him with alarm and terror


but he was sleeping soundly and she softly with drew


as she was making her way to her own bed she determined to say nothing of this adventure as upon whatever errand the dwarf had conime and she feared it must have been in search of them it was clear by his inquiry about the london coach that he was on his way homeward and as lie had passed through that place it was but reasonable to suppose that they were safer from his inquiries there than they could be elsewhere


these reflections did not remove her own alarm for sihe had been too much terrified to be easily composed and felt as if she were hemmed in by a legion of quilps and the very air itself were filled with them


the delight of the nobility and gentry and the patronized of royalty had by some process of self abridgment known only to herself got into her tra velling bed where she was snoring peacefully while the large bonnet carefully disposed upon the drum was revealing its glories by the light of a dim lamp that swung from the root


the childs bed was already made upon the floor and it was a great comfort to tier to hear tihe steps removed as soon as she had entered and to know that all easy commu nication between persons outside and the brass knocker was by this means effectually prevented


certain guttural sounds too which from time to time ascended through the floor of tire caravan and a rustling of straw in the same direction apprised her that the driver was couched upon the ground beneath and gave her an additional feeling of security


notwithstanding these protections she could get none but broken sleep by fits and starts all night for fear of quilp who throughout her uneasy dreams was somehow connected with the waxwork or was waxwork himself or was lrs jarley and waxwork too or was himself mrs jarley waxwork and a barrel organ all in one and yet not exactly any of them either


at length towards break of day that deep sleep came upon her which succeeds to weariness and overwatching and which has no consciousness but one of overpowering and irresistible enjuyment


chapter iii


dr livingston visits cape town in sir


livingstons departure for england commences his fourth and great journey to the northbeaches karomanattack of the transvaal boers upon kolobengthejr murderous design against dr livingstonpursues st near course nw


the entry laborious travellings flooded country search for the chose three days and nights amongst the seeds and bulrushes sails down the riveramazement on the makololoweloome it linyantlconduct of sekeletu and his people


r t


we now enter upon dr livingstons fourth and greatest exploratory enterprise


having as companied mrs livingston and his children via cape town a thousand miles from kolobenj and sent them to the care of the directors in england on the th of june he coat menced that memorable journey which whether we consider its extent its perils the additions made by it to geographical science and ethnology or its probable consequences social and spiritual to the tribes of central and southern africa has we believe no parallel in the history i of modern travel


in proceeding from cape town to kuruman he met with obstacles and misad ventures which at the time proved tryingttb his ardent spirit but in which he subsequently recognised the finger of god for it was during this detention that the transvaal boers un happily recognised by the british government as a free republic made a murderous attack upon the bakwains solely because their chief circle an admirable christian man would not become their vassal or secure for them a monopoly of the traffic in ivory by prohibiting english traders from passing through his country to the north


ascribing this assertion of his undoubted right to the influence of dr livingston these ruthless men resolved to wreak their vengeance upon the missionary and made no secret of their murderous design


having therefore desolated the native location at kolobeng and killed sixty of the bakwains they hastened to the mission house


on reaching the spot the commandant repeatedly expressed his disappointment at not capturing dr livingston and his determination to have his head


this design having been frustrated they proceeded to appropriate or wantonly destroy his property for which to this day he has received no compensation


distressed as he was by these sad events the following passage shows the christian estimate he had formed of them and the important influence they exerted upon his subsequent proceedings the determination of the byers


makes me more resolved than ever to open up a new way to the interior and the experience of that kind providence which prevented me from falling into the hands of those who would at least that sadly crippled my efforts encourages me to hope that god graciously intends tomakesome further use of me


the losses we have sustained amount to upwards of


we shall move the more lightly now that we can put all our goods into one wagon


his detention at kuruman though trying was necessary but at length he proceeded in a nnw direction though by a different route from that taken on previous journeys in order to avoid the fly


this new path brought him into a denselywooded country where to his great surprise he found vines growing luxuri andy and yielding clusters of dark purple grapes


but it was a weary journey both for man and beast as the grass was from eight to ten feet high and our traveller was compelled to perform the double duty of driver and road maker having as he tells us either the axe for the whip in hand all day long till we came to lat


deg min


at this point he found himself approaching the chobe and entering that network of rivers previously described


but the state of things now differed widely from that which existed on his former visit


then the waters were at their lowest point and flowed within their ordinary channels put now the country was flooded


this was a formidable difficulty and it was much increased by the sudden illness of all his attendants save one lad


he had therefore to work his way to linyanti almost unassisted being compelled to leave invalids and wagon behind


but he had a brave heart and went forward


having with some difficulty crossed the smallest of these streams he and his companion reached one named sanshurah halfamile broad and abounding with hippopotami


embarking in a small pontoon which he had brought with him from cape town he proceeded across the flooded country in search of the chobe


after splashingas he terms it through twenty miles of an inundated plain he climbed a high tree and was gladdened by the sight of the muchdesired river but on approaching it he found a broad chevaux demise of papyrus reeds and other aquatic plants interlaced with a creeper resembling the convolvulus which rendered the chobe almost unapproachable


but by breaking or bending down this rank vegetation so as to obtain a foothold above the water often deep out of which it grew our traveller and his native attendant struggled on toward the open stream taking the pontoon with them


but a still more formidable barrier than reeds and flags presented itself in what he calls a horrid sort of grass about six feet high and having serrated edges which cut the hands most cruelly wore my strong moleskin un mentionables quite through at the knees and my shoes nearly new at the toes


three days were thus spent amongst that mass of reeds but though constantly wading and wet up to the middle he slept soundly at night and on the fourth day he was rewarded by reaching the river and launching the pontoon upon its bosom


joyfully embarking in this frail craft they paddled down the chobe about twenty miles when they arrived at a village of the makololo


the natives stood aghast at this apparition


entrenched as they supposed by their rivers they believed themselves unapproachable


dr livingstons sudden arrival therefore was to them a great marvel and the achievement exalted him in their eyes


the only explanation they could devise for so strange an event was that she had fallen on them as from a cloud yet i came riding on a hippopotamus pontoon but the difficulties of this part of the journey were now surmounted


as soon as the intelligence of their arrival reached linyanti a number of canoes with people were despatched from that town to convey them and their wagon thither


here they received a welcome such as was given to their highest chief


sekeletu the successor of sebastian then only nineteen years old was especially delighted


i have now got another father he said instead of sebastian


and the people shared this feeling


the idea seemed universal that with missionary some great indefinite good had arrived


many expected to be ele vate at once to a condition equal to that of the bakwains and inhabitants of kuruman of which they had received very exaggerated accounts others imagine that they would be very soon transformed into civilised men possessing the clothing horses arms wagons sec of europeans jesus they said


i had not loved their forefathers hence their own present degradation


he had loved the white men had given them all the wonderful things they now possess sorts ithadpome to teach them to pray to jesus and to pray for there their wants would be soon supplied


a very great deal too was exact rpm medicines and my liberality acct without entering into many details of this second visit of our friend to linyanti there were circumstances attending it which deserve a brief notice


sebastian it appealed had nominated a daughter as his successor but against her own inclinations she therefore sincerely and gracefully relinquished her title in favour of sekeletu


as however there was a pretender to the chieftainship from whose designs the young man apprehended danger he accepted authority with reluctance and the sequel showed that there were solid reasons for his fear


having positively prohibited the sale of children sekeletus rival clandestinely brought a slavetrading party of mambari into his dominions and received from r them as a reward a small cannon


armed with this formidable instrument of death


and now confident of wresting the power from its rightful possessor he came to the place where sekeletu and dr livingston were having arranged with his followers that while holding a conference with the chief they should at a given signal ham string aim with a battleaxe


without being aware of the conspiracy the presence of dr livingston as he walked by the side of sekeletu proved the means of frustrating it and some of the conspirators during the same evening disclosed it to the chief who satisfied with the of guilt of the pretender ordered his im mediate execution


of this however


dr livingston knew nothing until the following ways canadian and states jwivai li go ore to canada for a wife when i marry said a young south shore farmer to his friend r when i come home it night shell have a nice making fire on and a clean kitchen and a comfortable supper for me but if f marry a new yorker itll bed when i come home john go down to the well for some water to make the tea for john go and bring some logs to put on there to boilthejkettle


no


no a canadian two miners the wife for me


johnstone notes oh north america


jpfii


frenchman and the evolishman ta french man seems gratified at an opportunity of being po lite an englishman to regret the trouble that it costs him an englishman grows tired after the third boat and looks vexed suffers or impatience the frenchs mans desire to please seems to strengthen byhabit his bark is indiarubber his hams caoutchouc his hat brim is metallic and looks never shabbier foy repeated


tiandling


his courtesy at the first meeting does not imply eternal friendship yet is as sincere i as


the cold cautious bend of an englishman john bull if he can considers it a clear gain to slip round a corner and escape shaking hands monsieur wait ten minutes at the safe door in hopes of meeting a friend at


pere jean or the jesuit missionary


a catholic story founded on facts


chapter vi


the morn


the sun came up over the eastern hills brightly and beautifully not a cloud across his path


his first slanting beams fell upon the form of a tall warrior stealing his way down the banks of the st lawrence a short distance behind came another cautiously covering and concealing every footstep as he passed while to the south deep in the forest might be heard the sounds of conflict and pursuit


rapidly they hurried on yet carefully until at length the underwood became thick and heavy and difficult to penetrate and the ground soft and swampy


then emerging from the wood they kept along by the edge of the water searching closely for the marks of footsteps upon the sand or clay


the examination was in vain


for a moment the tall warrior looked about in doubt then renewing the scrutiny proceeded down the river


but he met with no better success


an unusual expression of pain passed across bis features and resting the butt of his gun upon the ground he leaned upon it in thought


his dress was torn and bloody and the marks of many wounds were upon him


the sun played brightly across the face of ahasistari but his spirit was dark and sad


he had found no trace of father laral


his solemn vow was in his memory


at length twice he whistled low but piercingly at the second time a rustling was heard a short dis tance down the bank where the bushes overhung the water and lifting carefully aside the leafy branches a huron appeared urging his canoe from his hiding place


a few strokes sent the light bark to the feet of ahasistari and the rower stood beside him


the three indians spoke together for a mo ment and then sat down silently upon the shore


a slight noise startled them and ahasistari ex claimed he comes


in a moment more a step was heard upon the sand and watook soiled and stained with the marks of battle stood before them


he looked ahasistari in the face and then his head sank down upon his breast in silence


the chief addressed him speak huron


raising his hand towards the south while his eyes glowed like burnimr coals the young brave exclaimed the hawk carries off the dove the mohawks lead away the father of the black gown and the yonrig ftenchman to their villages to tor ture and watook


and his strained arms pressed tightly against his bosom as if to keep down its inward struggle watook looked upon it


ahasistari sat motionless for a moment then looked fixedly at the young indian his eye seeming to pierce into the depths of his soul


not a muscle moved not a nerve quivered but there was a sorrowful sternness in his glance


then he gazed around upon the group of hurons how many iroquois


the days are many before the villages can be reached and night and day and he grasped his knife expressively


a deep exclamation of approval broke from his two companions


watook replied not but pointed to the sands of the shore and then to the leaves of the forest


it is useless said the chief and sank again into silence


at length raising himself up to his full height he said i have sworn my brothers


you are bound by no vow


go


the waters are opened to quebec


ahasistari will join his father of the black gown and share his fate


the hurons drew back from the shore to the tide of their chief and stood immovable


a gleam of hope broke upon the mind of the leader and point ing to watook he said go sweep down the river to the place of gathering bring up the warriors who may have escaped and lead them upon our trail we will rescue our people or perish with them


watooks heart beat high


he could bring rescue to the very villages of the mohawks and save the the novice and the priest


he stepped lightly into the canoe and with a few strokes sent it far into current


then waving his hand to the three hurous who stood silently gazing after him he steered his course directly down the river


watook hath a bold young heart he will lead the braves of the hurons when the arm of ahasistari iajcold said the chief and the three devoted war riors turned away upon the trail of the enemy


the iroquois marched silently on through the pathless forest striking directly for their villages guided only by that wonderful instinct which enables an indian to toil on day and night over hill and valley through forest and thicket and swamp as unerringly as if directed by the compass


the prisoners were placed in the centre of tho line and so guarded that escape was impossible


the two frenchmen like the hurons were bound tightly with thongs of deer skin but in the midst of their sufferings they enjoyed the happy privilege of being together


the hour of noon had come the heat was oppres sive even in the shaded forest and the thick black dresses of the jesuit and the novice increased their painful march


at length the party paused to re fresh themselves


renfi my son said father laval let us offer up the last part of the rosary


it is the five dolors


the recollections it contains will console us in our sufferings


in our misfortunes we must pray to god to assist us with his heavenly consola tions and to enable us to endure them with patience


let us offer them up as an atonement through the blood of christ for our past offences


the novice acquiesced in silence and the priest began the prayers


for a moment their captors did not heed the conversation of the prisoners


father laval proceeded and rene bourdoie raid tho re sponses


hitherto the captive hurons had main tained a stern and dogged silence permitting no sign of pain to escape them and enduring passively and with native stoicism all the insults of the mo hawks


butthcsouud of the first avc maria in the clear voice of the jesuit came like sweet music to their sullen hearts softening their savage humor and soothing them into love and prayer


gently its holy influence spread among the group of sufferers and their stern features became first sad then calm and placid until the light of religious aspiration beamed from many a scarred face turned mildly up to heaven


the response came low and broken from the lips of the ybungnovice swelling up liko a sweeping wave as ono by one the deep musical tones of the captive hurons oihed it


aee maria v


it came like the thought of a loving mother like the memory of a holy love


aw maria


swelling up in the wild forest from captive hearts from parched and feverish lips calmed by its gentle murmurs to the mother of the sorrowful the mourning


ave


like dew to the withered flower was the sweet prayer to the stricken soul and tears came down the swarthy cheeks of the christian warriors


amazed the mohawks looked upon the irene then they laughed aloud contemptuously at the fainthearted braves who wept wept in captivity


dogs women


they said are the huron no warriors


shall we go back to their tribes to carry off a brave to torture


ye are women


our squaws will beat you with whips


ye are not worthy of a warriors death


but the christian hurons prayed on sancla maria


their full deep voices piercing up to heaven heedless of the scorn and taunts and blows of their captors


at length a mohawk approached the jesuit


does the word of the medicine turn the huioa warriors to women


he is a magician let him be silent and he struck him a blow in the ce with his clenched hand


the blood gushed from the lips of the priest and he bowed his head in silence


in the forest from a thicket three figures crouch ing low glared fiercely out upon the scene over the dark features of the chief of these flashed the fire of anger his nostrils were dilated his lips parted his hand grasped his carabine convulsively


then as the priest bowed meekly to the blow the warrior released his weapon and pressed his hands upon his brow as if to shut out the scene a low sigh escaped him and he too knelt and prayed


but for the meek bearing of the priest recalling the duty of the christian to the heart


of the chief there surely had been death among the conquerors in that instant


ahasistari knelt and prayed tho time far action had not yet come it was not vengeance but deliverance that he sought


tlie jesuit bowed meekly to the blow then raising his eyes up to heaven while his arms were drawn back by the thight thong around his wrists he prayed on in silence


in silence prayed the captives but the still incense of their hearts floated upwards not less sweetly to the throne of god


it was the dedication of the forests of the iroquois to the faith of christ


the mohawks soon made thoir repast and snatched


a few moments of repose


the wretched remains of their dinner were thrown to the captives whose hunger was left unsatisfied while from the tightness of their bands they were unable to


enjoy the mo mentary rest afforded by the halt


the lino of march was soon formed again and


the mohawks refreshed by their repose hurried on tho tiwd cap tives at a rapid pace urging the weary and the lagging with heavy blows


many hours passed thus


renc bourdoise was faint and weary and his faltering step betokened that without rest his strength would soon give out


in that case a certain death awaited him for the captors would not pause or delay when a blow of the tomahawk could in a moment relieve them of their trouble a mohawk warrior perceiving his weariness approached htm and brandishing his weapon over his head pointed forward to the route they were pur suing and intimated by a significant gesture his


fate in case he should be unable to keep up with the party


thus incited the young novice exerted him self anew and ever and anon his tormentor as his efforts seemed to flag assumed a threatening pos ture or struck him with a heavy stick which he had picked up on the march or pricked him forward with the point of his knife


the folds of his black robe were stiff with blood yet the fainting noiice toiled on patiently turning up his eyes to


heaven and murmuring a gentle prayer for his tormentors


father laval stronger and more accustomed to fatigue looked in helpless agony upon the suffering of his young companion he cheered him onward with words of hope and then as the cruolty of the savage increased he consoled him with thoughts of holy comfort


bear up my son


thou art tho soldier of jesus


thou art scourged ft yeas scourged


it is a glorious privilege to die in


his service heaven is the reward of the happy martyr


pray forme father pray for


me


oh god


continued the youthful novice looking sadly up to heaven oh god i grant me strength to endiiro this trial grant me fortitude i the road became more difficult and the progress more painful


a powerful huron marched near the delicate young frenchman no word had yet escaped his lips


at length he approached tho sufferer and pressing iub huge shoulder against him said lean on me my brother


at the samo moment kiohbn the relentless mo hawk again pricked the blooding novice with his knife


tlie youth started forward and with a deep groan fell to the ground


there ho lay unable to rise


the iroquois grasped his tomahawk with a savage exclamation and raised it over his head to strike the exhausted captive


it was a moment of agony


the tall huron sprang forward with mighty effort he burst the cords that bound his wrists and


rushed between the iroquois and his victim


on his left arm he caught the descending blow which gashed deep into his brawny muscles j with his right he lifted up the light form of tho


novice and folding it to his powerful ohest while the pale face of the insensible youth rested gently on his dark red shoulder strode stornly forward to the front of the group of captive


deep exclama tions of satisfaction escaped the iroquois j ut


no one attempted to interrupt the warrior for the indians love a bold deed ileiswrave said one he is worthy of the stake


rr yes he is a warrior he shall die by the tor ture


the huron strode on with his helpless burden as tenderly nnd genlly guarding itas a father does the child he loves


le loup will bear his young white brother heexclaived


tears flowed down the checks of the jesuit and he raired his heart to heaven in thankfulness for the providential rescue of ws companion


at the same instant the cry of a hawk was heard in the forest repeated thric clearly and shrilly


then feeming to die awry in the distance a gleam of joy brolie out on the bronzed face of the huron end with a firmer and lighter step le lnup pressed onward


he knew by the signal that his chief was upon their trail and that three of his tribe were pear


the iroqnois listened suspiciously to the onnd but it was repeated no more


the sun was sinking low in the west


the shades of the hills grew out lengthening


on the bosom of the river the red light fell in streams sparkling from the summits of the little waves


par down its waters many a weary mile a war canoe urged on by a single indian made its way


large drops of sweat stood upon the rowers brow


a moment he paused and razed upon the setting sun then shaking his clenched hand towards the far southwest bent sternly to his oar once more


at length he turned the bow of his canoe towards the shore he reached it and bounded on the beach


then


drawing his bark upon the sand he stepped into the forest with his tomahawk in his hand and began toeamine the trees some distance from the water and finding no marks on them notched several in a peculiar manner


as he went further in a figure stepped from behind a large oak which had hitherto concealed him and approaching the canoe iniprted it carefully and afterwards bent over the footsteps of the young indian


the person was dressed in a hunting shirt gathered close around his waist by a leathern belt which also served to support a long curved knife and a small steel axe


a large powder horn and a ball pouch of deer skin were slung over his shoulder his feet and legs were protected by moccasins and leggins of untanned skin and his equipments were completed by a small black hair cap set jauntily on his head


he seemed satisfied with the result of his exami nation and said half aloud as he arose huron cmoe huron moccasin no mohawk thief and now pierre for mons le sauvage


pierre had emigrated from france many years before and with the aid of his son had made himself useful as a hunter


to the smaller outposts of the french


lie supplied them with game


in one of their exclusions the mohawks came upon them and after a long chase succeeded in killing and scalping the young man


henceforth pierre considered the mohawks as his deadliest enemies


he had served asa spy under the great champlain a man dreaded by the indians of every tribe and whose name had becone a war cry to the french


pierre was an expert woodsman and an indefatigable indian fighter well known and loved by the hurons who gave him the sobriquet of l espion hardi


the frenchman laughed as he entered the forest to meet the indian


ho ho huron he shouted


as


he strode carelossly along


watook heard the voice and springing to a tree cast his rifle into rest but the dress and language of tlievpeaeer tld him it was a frie id and lie came leaping towards him


ugh l espion hardi


thepaloface isfthe friend of the huron hesaid


jr


very true savage very true


has the frenchman found any hurons


here


tnd he waved


his handaroundiiiviv r jnone but yourself iiuronv


then watook told himqfthe sad misfortune which had befallen hiparty andof


the capture of the two freiichmeiiaiid


howha had come thither to gather thescattered hurons and attempt a rescue


exclamations of anger escaped the


hunteras he listenidto the story and his


manner became more grave


the scalp of the son ofthedarins scout banes


n the mohawk bdge


is his knife rusty


will he strike the trail of the iroquois said the indian in conclusion


pierre drew ths weapon from his belt and ran his finger across its glittering bladi and his feeling deepened into fury as he


remembered the sad day in which his son had perished


huron he said at length in a stern voice


huron


daring scout will strike the mohawk inhisviluge than recovering his wonted equani mity continued


the braves went deeply into tlie forest before they triicc off towards ths rendezvous they will be here yet for the current of the river assisted you forward ahead of them it is rapid now


let in build a fire and pass the niglit here


no mohawks are out tymsnws fr


the party you fell in with must have been a strong one and it is not


likely that there is another out


when the hnrons come in we can strike off through the forest to the trail of your chief


i the counsel seemed wise to ths


indian and they prepared to bivouac upon the spot


about midnight the saund of a footstep struck upon the car of the frenchman who kept watch sitting at the foot of a tree shaded from the light of the fire


qui va la sajd the hunter who still adhered somewhat to his old military habits j qui va la


but the figure approached and


tha next moment a huron stalked up


to the fire


watook awoke and greeted his comrade


the hurons are scattered and will come in slowly for they are very weary said the stranger


he made no other allusion to their late defeat


when morning dawned four or five warriors had collected ana uiejmpatient watgolt proposed to set out


no said the huron who hid first come in


more braves come more braves v


they are already two days march before us said watook but pierre coincided with the first


by the hour of noon about fifteen warriors had


assembled some of them wounded and all wearied


compelled by stern necessity that night they


passad at the place of rendezvous and on tho follow ing morn set out through the forest to strike on the trail of the iroquois


night and morn oaino and went night and morn


the captors and their captives toiled on through the pathless forest


still on on went the weary march


still on the rear of the conquoring mohawka homed three dusky formh stern silent watchful


i toba continued


tho yusa gourior reports the crops beyond burrrowo on thn lnohlun us miserable unrl stinted


in appearance


from tho ualhurnt fren pest ne jeurn that loto rains have ununoj tho nppeirancu of tho orops in tlmboyan districts to bo all that could lx


cknircil


i


the herald publishes a letter received lost mail from which it appear that tho duty at prtmiit charged iti france on ivool exported from tlicsa colonies u likely to ba abolished


the lesson of life


a household nouanck


continued from page chapter iv


and what what if tho jew give notice of the rob bery askud belleville almost stunned by the intelligence of the careless do


la jonquillo


what if aaron de nounce tho thief


think not of it my dear chevalier replied do la jonquille tho jew is a man of honour


no no you have nought to fear


i i lour


exclaimed


belleville looking fiercely at the immovcablo marquis let the felon tremble what have i to dread


alas most spotless chovalier replied do la jon quillo with affectud compassion in this wiokod work ingday world purity oven as bright as yours will be dimmed bo somewhat tarnished by the tainting breath of common rumour


now though i his friend believe the chevalier jelloville to bo of a moitt ancient honourable houso there are unbelieving dullards who may wisbto know bis quartcrings though i am well content to think him rich as the mogul the sordid folks in paris may sometimes ask to see his ready monoy


truly now mjr it not bo so thrico noblo chevalier


marquis cried belloville dwolliug with significant emphasis on tho word


ha


confess does not my marquis sound well as your chevalier has it not as true a ring


como belleville let the meddling world if it choose play tho herald with our titles tis not for us to busy ourselves with such unprofitable employment


to mo you shall be princo if you will so i pray you let alone my humblo raarquisatf


saying this do la jonquille rocking himself in his chair stared confidently at belleville confounded by tho assurance of his companion


i


i fear me marquis that our tastes will henceforth unfit us for a communion that


no no interrupted de la jonquille never beliere it


i perceive your delicacy you shrink from the superiority of my accomplishments


i do indeed replied bollville sternly


tut


tho mero ignoranco of modesty


take the word of tho marquis de la jonquillo ha


a blooming title is t not take his word that you nro in a fair way to eclipse even tho brilliancy of his name


oh chovalier


and do la jonquille guzed intently at belleville you know not your powers aro oven unconscious ofyonr triumphs


enough of this enough that i know and loathe your infamy that i command you to bo gone cried belleville


and the bracelet the diamonds chevalier said the unmoved marquis will you keep the trinket or shall i pay the crowns


shall i


madame belleville


and the marquis bowed with his excelling grace as the matron entered the room


madame belleville you come at a most happy moment


let mo ask a ladys taste


we talked oi diamonds and


i fear sir said madame belleville coldly that i have seen the spoil you speak of fear i know its history


spoil is a harsh word from fair lips replied the


unabashed marquis a cruel word for trust me the chevalier is the most punctilious player


i nover knew a man bring such fine morality to the gatningtablo cardinals might learn of him


another time for praise most honourable marquis said belleville should we meet again i may have better leisure to listen to this eulogy


tis always thus with him madame cried the smiling do la jonquille deaf ears to his own merits and the promptest tongue for the virtues of his friend


bellevillo almost maddened by the phlegmatic assur anoe of his visitor was yet curbed by a lurking menace in his eyes


for a third time the chevalier bowed and glanced towards the door and still the marquis stood his ground and smiled


shall wo meet tonight belloville


asked do la jonquille or for one evening do you play tlio hermit


i have business answered bolloville drily business it may be of a delicate and serious import with eugene de loire


you know tho gentleman if my memory fuil not nobla marquis i have heard you say as much


we have met answered de la jonquille with com posure but our meeting was so brief and the crowd so great i can hardly hope to lingor in his memory


oh


we have the means to bring you to his thoughts said belleville and he fixed his eyes upon the tranquil cutpurse


and may i look for such service from the friendship of my best companion if asked de la jonquille whilst belleville turned his face from the keen malignant glunco of the inquirer


why so


i must rack my wit to iind a due reward for such rare courtesy


edith who had watched the threatening and significant looks of tho two friends for such thev had hitherto de clared themselves sought to know ot her husband the motive of do la jonquillos sudden bittornbis whilst loathing him she trembled at his words


what hasty speech lmd passed what inadvertent thought escaped to stir the temper of the marquis


a thousand pardons gentlo madame belleville ro plied de la jonquillo


fear tho ghastly sight that stopped me on my way poor youth


a brave hopeful fenoroub lad has made me most unfit for company oor murdered lad


and de la jonquille calling up a look of sadness crossed bis arms and sighed heavily humph


a suddon griof let us hope not a fatal one and yet you spoko of murdor marquin


said belleville sneeringly


was tho victim a very vulued friend or a mere acquaintance to bo replucod at tho noxt tavern


dear maduino bellevile said do la jonquillo doign ing no reply to the irony of the chevalier my poor young frionu antoine laval antoino laval


exclaimed madame bolloville


f what of him oh merciful llpuven


antoine


madame belleville obsorved the chovalier coldly i fear i lack a porfect knowledge sf your many esti mable friends


i i t a i u speak sir speak cried madame bollovlllo to tho marquis what of antoine


heed not myjiusband ho knows not


tho misery may come of thisknows riot tho youth


i


your pardon madame belleville answered de la jonquille the chevalier and the unhappy lad met but two nights since


bellevillo said tho marquis surely you remember the handsome stripling in thu bloom coloured satin him who staked ana lost with such emotion


antoine at a gaminghouse


antoino snared by tho


fiends of play cried madame belloville


j i counselled him wanted him of his danger his inexperience said de la jouquillo but who can resist the chovalier


rupert husband


no no your soul is saved thnt sin


changed us you are debased degraded by your hateful trade you aro yourself a father and could not lure that noble yuuth to crime


if if it bo other wise


what then asked belleville nnd ho glared fiorcly at the agonized woman


what if this antoino laval if so hes called played and lost his every crown whats in it but good luck since im the winner


and yet the history of the poor lad when known may cause some idle talk among tho tenderhearted folks of paris


who knows chevalier said do la jonquille that greedy grumbling justice may not ask a restitution of your winnings


hear tho story


this antoino laval was the son tho only child of a merchants widow


at his fathers death his mother quitted paris and m itli a small pittance the produce of remaining merchandise devoted herself to one only care the education of her darling boy


he grow up a handsome frank ingcuioub youth and many many were the days of future happiness hoped for by tho widowed heart of the fond mother


humph


so far a moving story said belloville bitterly and for that you are new at tho trick or pathos movingly told


even eugene do loire might forget his losses touched by tho sympathetic strain of the marquis de la jonquille


hear me out hear out tho tale then if you hayo lungs for the sport crow your laughter


a twelvemonth since tho widow and her son returned to paris a friend of tho dead merchant took tho youth into his office where every day his gentleness intelligence and cheerful habits obtained him praise advancement and in brief a pluce of highest contldcnce


one night urged by curiosity ho had seen no such haunt in paris ho sought the tables


whilst there watching thu games fixed in his purposo not to play a visitor accosted him learned his history his occupation his command of wealth incalculable


you know that visitor chevalier you know his subtle elegant address his fatal smilu


madame belleville raised her eyes to the lowering burning brow of her guilty husband and reading thoro his infamy buried her fuuo in her hands and wept con vulsively


why do you pauso v asked belvillo


toll out your tale good marquis of tho gibbet most delicate jonquillo of tho rope out with it i too hayo a history that in jjood time may follow


the marquis dc la jonquille smiled gently elevated his oyebrows and proceeded with


his story again and again antoino appeared at the tables his


friend advised tempted tho young man staked


wcin night after night ho won i saw his fortune saw him doomed


well tho story hastho old ending ytho run changed tho young man lost nnd lost lib stauod money not his own it passed into your purse


chovalier belleville and ere you had soughtyour peaceful pillowy the mi serable antoino lavel tho poor wrctelied maddened dupe hurt taken alonpintho dark


sayihgthis


tlio


marquis fixed hib eyes on bclyilliyand coldly btnlled why why do you preach this to mo


oxclaimcd tho infuriated belleville why hypocrite villain out purse


c


what besides


nothing more asked do la jon quille and still ho smiled


come make my character complete for evil call me companion friend of the chevalier belleville


miscreant shouted bellevillo and drawing bis rapier he rushed upon the marquis


miscreant


though i defraud the gallows ill


but at this moment belvillos weapon foiled by the easy mastery of his opponent flow to a far end of the apartment and as it had been glass shivered as it fell into pieces


belleville stared wondorstruck at the sleight


fie belleville observed oe la jonquillc at the time placidly sheathing his weapon fie i you hold a rapier as twere a flail


madame bellovjlle and the marquis bowed profoundly to the fainting terrified woman i have the honour to take my leave


f villain cried belville impotent with rage villain


wo shall meet again


certainly most certainly repliod do la jonquillo and again smiling on the chevalier the robber marquis walked leisurely from tho apartment


bolville with a mysterious feeling of minglod awe and hatred of his departed visitor stood motionless silent


no sound was heard in tho apartment eavo the deep sob bings of his wretched wife accusing him in bitterest accents of his guilt


ho stood humbled and degraded not daring to meet a face which for more than eighteen years had shone with love upon him


he seemed to himself a felon arraigned at his own hearthstone


edith wife cried bclloville and his hoart sank at the words falling in a chair he appeared awaiting his sentence


awhile ho sat in silence then starting from bis seat exclaimed imploringly his voico breaking with tho intensity of his passion wife wife for tho love of god speak to mo


ere all the words were uttered edith was in her husbands arms


so tliou art still edith said belleville after some timo venturing to meet his wifes eyes still my wife


and yet tis not tho facenot the look of edith


why do you gaze so upon mo


why those frozen eyes why that face of stone


am i grown so hateful hideous


speak your thoughts woman i can almost soo thorn criod belleville gloomily


his passion returning as ho felt himself more and moro alionuted from the good kind spirit of her who though sho could not but cling to it could not but feel how wicked worthless was the object of her womans love


well said bollovillo folding his arms and drawing himself up to challenge tho keonost glances of his wife well ho criod in laughing mockery what see you


what monstor do you look upon


truth though of tho bitterest i givo you all honour madamo bollovillo ever falls from your tongue i can listonto it oven now


what see you ask mo not ask mo not criod edith tis too terrible to spook


indood i by mercury and all my other saints j you make mo curious


como paint the pioturo madamo belleville


i t will bo in blood then answered edith and rupert recoiled at the words at the voico for it was the voico


of the accusing angel that uttorod them


in tho blood of tho futhorless in tho


tears of the widow the widow walling for her child


oh man


what fiend has snared your


fiend


the bugbear of a slavish mind the fabled goblin of poor weak fools who take drudgery as their destiny and dare not for the jaokolantnorn break their chain or cast their load away


am i to bo startled by such jargon as gossips uso


or shall i at once con fess that i have made away my soul to our great enemy that under sign and seal i am his future bondman


no husband no


well you say all such compacts between man and demons are but the fancies of a fablers tale


tis thoughts rupert thoughts that harden ing tho hoart to all tho charities of life make man a selfish hunter of his race t is thoughts that killing human sympathies condemn tho immortal soul


the fiends that ho in wait for us need no charm to raise them no mystio word no wizards spell the wickedness of thought is power sufficient


how often to think ovil is to call a devil up to act it


humph


can it bo


asked bellevile sneeringly


can so much danger be about us


the stars preserve poor thinking man


you deem me visionary dreaming belleville said edith and her eyes filled with tears


tell me she cried her voice deepening as she spoke when you thought to despoil antoine laval if no imp of darknw wcro at hand whetting a weapon for his breast peace


raved belleville his eyes flashing peace


or wilt make roe mad


what know i of his death


t is true i won his gold but won it fairly openly


his fate is upon his own head


edith approached her husband and extending her arms towards him her form dilated her eye axed her face her attitudo that of a prophetess she spoke in thrilling tones


upon your head rupert upon yours


i look upon it and see no single hair that is not dyed with helpless blood no spot of your face that is hot stained with the lifo of a dupe


devils exclaimed belleville and in his madness he rushed towards edith his hand grasping for his sword edith unmoved by his fronzy calmly pointed to the broken weapon on the floor


bollevillo abashed at his own desperate cowardice awed by tho stern tranquillity of tho better naturo beforo him paused and muttered


leave mo dost hear i i would bo alone


impossible rupert said edith impossible


am i not master here madam asked belleville haughtily


were you master of all paris rupert you could not now command tho solitudo of ono poor hour


ay asked bellevillo wonderingly


even now i see him by your side i see him the companion of your futuro life cried edith the follower for over at your hand until the grave shall opon for you


foacc and bogone cried belloville


does the woman seo ghosts in broad day


you see him


whom


antoino laval answered edith


as she spoke a shriek resounded through tbo house belleville started and with whito face and in a voice tremulous with appro tension askoil was not that marie


your daughter answered madame belleville


what do i seo oxeluimod belleville as a girl with staring vacant oyes and smiles of latent madness glided into tho apartment


it cannot be


cried the father and his trembling hands clasped his head


as ho gazed upon tho terriblo faco of tho girl a face of youthful beauty blighted by tho looks of a maniac wifo wife it cannpt bo


criod belleville in agony speak that is is


and inc pablo of further spocoh ho stood gasping with his hand pointing towards tho maiden


edith looked upon her child and the brow of tho mother wns darkened for over with tho horrid truth


the par on t neither raved nor shod a tear but turning her face struck old with suddon misery upon her husband


she answered him in a voice of hollow whispering that is knew tho truth but yesterday that is tho affianced bride of antoine laval


at tho words rupert fell as dead at tho feet of


his wtlless child


ifiramakljs anroljnbtfe


t the chevalier of the red house continued from our last chapter ix maurice as is the case in the commencement of nil great passions lived in n state of alternate happiness and misery


his lahour during the day in the section lepelletier his visits to the old street st jacques and perambulations v amongst the branches of the clubs of thether mopylites occupied the whole of his time


he had not deceived himself that in seeing genevive every evening he was only swallow ing draught nfter draught of a love without hope


genevive was one of those women to all appearance free in manners yet bashful who extended her hand freely to a fiiend present ing her brow to be kissed with all the con fidence of a sister or the ignorance of a virgin before whom it would have been blasphemy to speak of love and sacrilege to think of its de sires


if amidst the purest productions of raphaels splendid pencil there is a madonna wthsmiling lips and chaste eyes giving a ce lestial expression to the countenance the reader must borrow that as the portrait of gi nevieve


surrounded with flowers of which she possessed the freshness and perfume isolated from her husbands occupation as well as himself genevive seemed every time maurice saw her to be a living enigma the meaning of which he could not divine and the renson for which he dare not ask


one evening when accoiding to custom the two were seated alone at the window by which maurice had on a former occasion entered with such noise and precipitation the evening breeze wafting around them the perfume of the lilac he after a long silence watching at the same time the intelligent and religious look of ge nevive fixed upon a glittering star in the azure sky hazarded the following questions how it happened that one so young was united to a husband w ho had passed the middle period of life


why she was so distinguished whilst her husband bad evidently received a vulgar education so poetic whilst his whole mind was directed to weighing stretching and co louring the hides used in his business in short asked maurice why have we in a tanners house this harp that piano and these works the pastimes of a lady


why this aristocratic display which i detest in other houses but which i adore in yours


genevive turned upon maurice a look full of candour


thinks said she for this question


it proves to me that you are a man of delicacy and that you have never questioned any one concerning me


never madam replied maurice


i have a devoted friend who would die for me i have a hundred comrades ready to march where i please to lead them but amidst all these brave hearts when it concerns a woman and that woman genevive i know only one that i can trustthat is myself


thanks maurice said the young woman


i shall then inform you myself of all that you desire to know


your maiden name first asked maurice i only know the wifes


genevievecomprehended the amorous selfish ness of such a question and answered smiling genevive du treilly


genevive du treilly replied maurice


mv family continued genevive was ruined in the american war in which my father and eldest brother took part


both gentlemen said maurice


no no answeied genevive blushing


you have how ever informed me that your maidennnme was genevive du treilly


my family mauiice was rich but had not attached to them one particle of nobility


you distrust me said the young man smiling


oh no no replied genevive


in america my father and mortnds were inti mately connected


dixmer was morands man of business


seeing e were ruined and know ing that dixmer possessed an independent for tune morand presented him to my fafher who again introduced him to me


i perceived that a marriage had been arranged i understood it to be the wish of my family i neither had loved nor did i love any one and i accepted


i have been dixmers wife these three years and i must say that during that time my husband has been so kind and attentive that independent of the difference in our taste and age as you have remarked i never for a moment experienced a single regret


but observed maurice when you mar ried dixmer he was not then at the head of this manufactory


no we lived at blois


after the th of august dixmer purchased this and the adjoin ing workshops


to spare me the sight of things which might have disturbed my habits which are as tou say maurice a little aristo cratic he gave me this pavilion in which i could live retired according to my taste and where i feel proud when a friend like you comes to distract or share my reveries


genevive at the same time extended her hand to maurice which he kissed with ardour


genevive blushed slightly


now my friend said she withdrawing her hand you know why lam dixmers wife


yes replied maurice fixedly regarding genevive but you have not told me how m morand became the partner of dixmer


ohl that is very simple


dixmer as i told you possessed a fortune but scarcely suf ficient for him to undertake singlehanded a business of such impoi tance as this


the son of this morand who was my fathers friend and protector was provided with half of the neces sary capital and possessing a knowledge of chemistry he devoted himself to the business withthat activity jou have remarked and thanks to him it has become widely extended


and morand said maurice is likewise one of your good friends is it not so madam


morand possesses a noble nature and one i of the most elevated souls under heaven if he has afforded no higher proofs said maurice a little annoyed with the importance which the young woman accorded to her hus bands partner than those of dividing the profits of the business and inventing a new dye for morocco permit me to observe that your eulogium is a little too exalted


he has given me others sir answered genevive


i


he is still young however observed maurice although it is difficult thanks to his green spectacles to tell what age he is


he ia thirtyfive


you have known him a considerable time since our infancy


maurice bit his lips


he had always sus pected that morand lu ved genevive


ah i said maurice that explains his familiarity with you


contained within those bounds which you have always seen answered genevive smiling


it seems to me that such familiarity scarcely amounts to that of a friend and needs


no explanation


oh pardon me madam you know that i all violent affections bave their jealousies and my friendship was jealous of that which j ou seemed to entertain for morand


he remained silent genevive did the same


morand wss no further considered hut mauricvlefr genevive this time more amorous than ever becausehe was jealous


however blind the young man might be whatever bandage was over his eyes whether trouble was in his heart there were in ge nevieves recital such a hiatus so many hesita tions and such concealments to whioh he paid no attention at the moment hut which recurred to his mind and tormented him strangely that the extreme liberty allowed by dixiuer to con verse with her at all times and as often as he pleased could notreassure his mind


both were left together each evening in a kind of solitude more than that maurice became a sort of messmate in the house genevive being how ever protected in a great measure by her an gelic purity of mind during these interviews


she was nccompunied even by maurice in the walks she was obliged occasionally to take in the neighbourhood


in the midst of this fami liarity acquired in the house one thing as tonished himit was that the more he sought no doubt with the view of watching genevieves sentiments


the friendship of morand the more the latter avoided him although his mind and manners bad captivated the young man in spite of his prepossessions


maurice complained of this bitterly for he did not doubt but that morand had discovered jin him a rival in genevieves affection


the citizen morand said he one day to genevive hates me


you said genevive turning her beau tiful eyes upon him full of astonishment youl morand hate you i am sure of it


and why should he hate you do you wish me to tell j ou exclaimed maurice


certainly replied genevive


well because i maurice paused


he was about to say because i love you


i must not tell you why continued maurice blushing


the fierce republican was in genevieves pre sence as timid and hesitating as a young child


genevive smiled


tell me there is no sympathy between you


and then i might believe you


you are of on ardent nature exalted mind and inquiring dis position moraud is a merchant engrafted on a chemisthe is modest timid and it is that timidity and modesty which prevents him nulling the first advance towards you


eh i who asks him to make advance


i have made fifty towards him he never replied to them


no continued maurice bending his head it is certainly not the reason


what then can it be


maurice preferred silence


the day after he hud this explanation with genevive he reached her house about two oclock


he found her dressed and prepared to go out


ah you are welcome said genevive you shall be my chevalier


where are you going asked maurice


to auteuil


it is splendid weather and i prefer walking


our carriage will take us outside the barrier where he shall find it on our return


we shall walk to auteuil and when i have concluded my business weean re turn in the same manner


ob cried maurice enchanted what an excellent days journey you present to mel the young people set out


near to passy they took the road and jumping lightly on the side path they pursued their journey on foot


on reaching auteuil genevive stopped


wdit for me at the edge of the park said she i will rejoin you when i have finished


whose house are you visiting asked maurice


a friends


where i cannot accompany you


genevive bo ed smiling impossible said she


maurice bit his lips


tis well said he i will wait


eh what asked she


nothing answered maurice


will you belong


if i thought i should have discomposed you maurice or your arrangements for the day i would not have asked you to render me this trifling service i could have been ac companied by morand interrupted maurice quickly


not at all


you know morand is at the manufactory at rambouillet and will not re turn before the evening


now i perceive to what cause i owe the preference


mauricesaid genevive softly i cannot allow the person to wait who has given me the rendezvous


if it is inconvenient to you to accompany me back again return to paris only send forward the carriage for me


nonomadam said mauricequickly i i am quite at your service


he howedto genevive who sighed slightly and entered auteuil


mauricee proceeded to the place appointed and walked up and down beheading like tar quin the heads of the herbs flowers and weeds with his cane


his walk was confined to a narrow space


like all men much preoccupied maurice merely marched on a little distance and then turned back agiin that which oc cupied maurices mind nits to discover whether genevive loved him or not


her manners with the young man were those of a friend and sister


he felt that was not sufficient


he loved her with all his heart


she continually occupied hs daily thoughts she was the everreturning dream at night


formerly he merely desired to see genevive now it was necessary that she should love him


genevive was absent about an hour which beemed an age to maurice


she approached him with a smile upon her lips maurice on the other hand met her with lowering brow


our poor hearts are so constituted that we force grief upon ourselves even in the bosom of happiness


genevive took maurices arm smiling


here i am crid she


pardon me my friend if i have caused you to wait too long


maurice replied with a nod and both entered a charming alley soft and shady which led them in a circuitous manner to the highway


it was one of those lovely spring evenings in which every plant sends its odour to the sky and every bird fluttering amongst the thickets raises its song to godone of those evenings in fact destined to be remembered


maurice was silent


genevive was pensive


she plucked the leaves withone hand from abouquet which she held in the other which rested on maurices arm


what is tbe matter asked maurice sud denly and who has made you bo sd today


genevive might have answered happi ness


she turned upon him her soft poetic look and said and you are you not sadder than usual me said maurice i have reason to be so


i am miserable but y oui you miserable


uudoubtedly


do you not at all times discover by thetremblihg of my voice that i suffer


does it riot often happen wheni con verse uith you or your husband thati am com pelled to seek the open air because my breast feels as if about to burst


but asked genevive embarrassed to what do you attribute this suffering


if i were a lady said maurice laughing sadly i should say it was a nervous attackg do you suffer now


very much


then let us return


j so soon madam a v unquestionably


f v


ah that is true murmured the young man


i forgot that morand was to return from rambouillet at nightund now it draws near


genevive looked reproachfully at him


again


bald she


why did you make the other day such a pompous eulogium of morand


it is your own fault


why may not one say before persons whom we esteem what one thinks of an estima ble man


that must be a lively esteem which urges you at the pace you are now going


you fear no doubt that you may lose some minutes


you assume maurice today the sove reignty of injustice


have i uot spent half tho day with you


you are right and indeed i exact too much replied maurice giving way to the im petuosity of his character


let us proceed and join morand


come along


genevive felt vexed in her heart


yes said she come along and see mo rand


he at least is a friend who never gave me pain


those are precious friends aid maurice almost suffocated with jealousy


and i for my part should like to be acquainted with similar ones


they had at this moment reached the high way


the horizon was red and the sun was gradually disappearing casting its fading ra s on the sparkling dome of the invalides a star the first that arose and thaton which genevievo hud ona former evening fixedher looks sparkled in the sky with greatbrillinncy


genevive withdrew from maurices arm with a sad resignation


what has occurred that you pain me so said she


ah replied maurice it is only that i feel myself less capable of making m self loved than some people i know


maurice exclaimed genevive


oh i


madam if all is constant goodness and continued calm he at least will not suffer much


genevive rested her fair hand again on maurices powerful arm


i do beg of you said she in an altered voice say no moresay no more about that


and why so because your voice discomposes me


so everything in me displeases you even my voice


silence i conjure you


i shall obey madam


the impetuous young man passed his hand over his humid brow


genevive saw he really suffered much


natures like that of maurice experience un known buffering


you are my friend maurice said genevive looking at him with a celestial expression a most precious friend


act maurice so that i may not lose my friend