doybunmean to get rid ofthe young girl and the old womani it will be too much for one tine ferrandl


i tell you to write to polidori to be here to night by nine oclock


chapter xvii


the marquis dllarville the day after tile marquis had followed his wife to the house in the rue du tem ple thomas seyton went there set madame pipelet jabbering and learned the result of that visit


helen seyton now conceived an other odious plan


another anonymous letter was concocted to the marquis in order to effect a complete rupture between him and rodolphe


this letter was thus couched you have been most slhamefillly deceived


the other day your wife went to a rendeavous at a very august personages who has hired in thoe rue du temple a room in the fourth story under the name of rodolphe


if you doubt these facts strange as they may appear go to the house and inform yourself paint to yourself the features of the august personage spoken of and you will easily ackuowledge that you are the most credulous good natured husband who has ever been so sovereignly deceived


swhat are you going to do to night said he mechanically to his wife


i shall not go out and yourself what are your plans


i do not know answered he with a sigh society is insupportable ti me


i will pass this evening like so many other evenings alone


why alone since i am not going out


m dhiarville looked at his wife with sur prise doubtless but i know that you often prefer solitude when you do not go out


yes but as i am very capricious said clemence smiling at present i prefer par taking my solitude with you if it is agreeable to you


sreally cried m dharville with emo tion hew kind you are to anticipate what i dare not express i after my unjust and cruel suspicions the other day to find you so forgiving it is i confessa surprise for me but a surprise the most delightful


let us frgetthe past said she to her husband with an angelic smile


clemence can you forget


answered he sadly


have i not dared to suspect you


to tell you to what extremity a blind jea ousy has impelled me


but what is all this compared to other wrongs still greater more irreparable let us torget the past repeated clo nonce restraining her emotion


what do i hear


the past alsocan rou forget it


i hope to do so


clemence brought back to noble resolu ions by the influence of itodolphe was irmly resolved to surround her husband vith the mosttouching attentions but she elt that she was incapable of ever loving iim


an impression still stronger than right than hatred and yet not incompata le with affection and esteem separated lemencefrom her husband for ever


ai


dhairvitle soon perceived ih itin this espect his hopes were vain and lie at last elapsed into his usual state of melancholy


rom this he was roused by the entrance f a valet who announced the arrival of he grandduke of gerolstein


i am a thousanidtimes happy madame o have the honor to meet you said ro lolphe and i doubly appreciate my good ortune since it also procures me the plea ure of seeing you my dear marquis the conversation continuedin a friendly train nntil a valet decihamber entered ringing a letter to the marquis


it was he anonymous denunciation which accused he prince of being the lover of madanie iharville


m dharvilledrew near to one of the andelabras on the chimneypiece and pened the letter


lrodolphe and clemence conversed toge


her while he read it twiceover his ounitenance remained bdinposed aner rous tremblidgalmost imperceptible agi ated h is hands alone then after a noments hesitatioh he put the note into hepocketof his waistcoat made a hurried attempt at an apology and left the room


your husbands mind appears preoccu


pied said rodolphe to the marchioness his smile appeared constrained


when your royal highness arrived mi lharville was proudlyaffected aihehads great trouble to conceal it


have arrived perhaps at an inoppor tune moment


no monseigneur you have even spared me the conclusion of a painful coniversa tion


after a briefpause rodolphe


and the marchioness conversed about thei unfor tunate family of the morels


ah i itwas a kind of happy inspiration that inducedme to tke thatppor room in the houseof the rue du templefof which i have spoken


to you


you cannot imagine all that i find curiousthere


exclaimed ro dolphe


some dayyou shall know how many horrible calamities may overwhelm one singlefainily


oh i will go aldsee them do not dothat


i


you know


i havea room in the house be guarded against any newccowardly acts ofyour enemiesor of mine and since the alorels are now out of the reach of want think of others


my neighbour in the rue du temple is a charming little grisette she calls herself rigoletto she is alwnys laughing and never had a lover because slhesaysshe has no time to be in love for sbhe must work from twelve to fifieen hours a day to gain twenty five sous on which she lives


can she live on so small an amount


yes she has even articles ofluxury even birds who ecat more than sliedoes her little room is as neat as possible and her dressreally quite coquettish


live on twenty five sous a day i she is a prodigy


sa real prodigy of order labour eco nomy and practical philosophy i assure you


she is she says a very skilful semp stress


tomnorrow i will send her some work


poor girl i tolive on so small asum and so uuknowfito us who are rich whose smallest caprices cost


a hundred times that amount i


rodolphe touched with this charitable eagerness smiled sadly in seeing this young woman of twentyr so handsome so lovely trying to forget in noble occupations the domestic troubles which afflicted her


ithe marchioness perceived the shade of sadness which clouded the brow of ro dolphe and said how happy you ought


to be in continually devising the good of others


fromwhat source have you then drawn these feelings of tender commisera tion


rodolphe replied i have suffered much i still suffer this is the reason i know the cause of many sorrows syou monseigneur you unhappy


yes to prepare me to solaceall kind of sorrows fate has willed i should undrgo them all


as a lover it has struck me through the first woman that i loved with all the blind confidence of youth asa husband through my wife as a son it has struck me through my father as a father through my child strange as it may ap pear to you the loss of this child whom i had hardly seen is the sorrow of my life


each year redoubles the bitterness


it seems to increase as her years would have increased


and her mother monseigneur does she still live


asked clemence


oh i do not speak of her i cried ro dolphe


sometimes i ask myselfif it were not better my child should be


dead than to have remained in the hands of her mother


i should have loved her


so well i nnd besides it seems to me that among princes there is always in our love for a son a kind of interest of race and name but a daughter


a daughter


she is loved for herself alone


what delight to con template a pure and lovely being


to cnhale her virgin purity to watch over her with tender care


the fondest mother cannot experiense this feeling she is herself too similar to taste these ineffable delightsshe will appreciate much more the manly qua


lities of a bold and noble boy


but pardon me madame my regrets and my recollec tions have in spite of myself carried me away you will excuse me


the mysteries of paris chapter xxii


iihe i nte vitv ew


after several days delirium and suffer


ing which had caused the most serious fears for her life helen seyton became convalescent


it was towards the close of the day when seated in a large armchair and sup ported by her brother she was attentively surveying herself in a mirror which was held by one of her women kneeling before her


this was in the saloon where la chouette had made her murderous attempt


helen was as pale as marble which gave a bolder relief to her dark eyes and hair a large robe of white muslin completely cpncealed her form


give me the bandeau of coral she said to tone of her women in a weak


but im perious voice


syou will fatigue yourself said her brother you are already so imprudent


the bandeau i the bandeau repeated ihelen impatiently as she took the jewel and placed it on her brow


now fasten it and leave me she added to her women


as they were retiring she said as soon as his royal highness the grand duke of gerolstein arrives he must be ushered in here


sat length said helen throwing her self hack in her chair as soon as she was alone with her brother at length touch this crown the dream of my life


the prediction is about to be accomplished


calm your emotion said her brother earnestly


yesterday they despaired of your life disappointment might cause a relapse


you are right


the fall would be dreadful for my hopes have never been nearer being realized than now


what a hope


sovereign princess


almost a queen she added with rapture


sbeware of such mad dreams the awak ening will be terrible


smad dreams


hlow


i when rodolphe shall know that this young girl now a prisoner at saint lazare is his child do you think that


seyton interrupted his sister believe he replied with bitterness sthat princes place reasons of state and political proprieties before natural ties


do you count so little on my address


the prince is not the same fond and enamoured youth whom you seduced in days gone by


sdo you know why i have wished to ornament my hair with this band of coral


and why i have put on this white robe


it is because the first time rodolphe saw me at the court ofgerolstein i was dressed in white and i wore this same bandeau of coral in my hair


how said thomas seyton looking at his sister with surprise you wish to evoke these recollections do you not on the contrary dread their influence i


i know rodolpho better than you


doubtless my features now changed by ago and sufferings are no longerthose of the young girl of sixteen he so wildly lovedwhom he has alone loved for


i was his first love


and this love unique in the life of man leaves always in his heart ineffaceable traces


believe me my brother the sight of this ornament will a awatken in frodolphe not only the memo ries of his love but also those of his youth a and to men the recollection of their first i emotions isalways sweet and precious


but to those soft memories are joined e others of terrible import


do you forget t the fatal termination of your lovel


the conduct of the princes father towards you


p your obstinate silence when rodolphe de


b manded your child then quite an infant


i your daughter of whose death ten years ago you informed him in a cold letter


do you forget that since that time the t prince has only felt for you contempt hatred


pity has taken the place of hatred


j since he has known that i was in a dying state each day has he sent the baron de grann to make inquiries


just now he answered my note and said that he would come here


this concession is everything my brother


he believes you dying


he supposes that he is coming to take a last farewell


you were wrong not to write to him what you are now about to disclose


si know why i act thus


this revela tion will fill him with surprise and joy and i shall be present to profit by his first burst of tenderness


to day or never lihe shall say to me a marriage would make the birth of our child legitimate


if he says so his word is sacred and the hope of all my life will at length be realised


at this moment was hfeard the noise of a carriage which enteredthe courtyard


sitis heit is rodolphe criedhelen


yes it is the prince he is getting out of the carriage


leave me alonethis is the decisive moment said helen with immoveable selfcontrol for a towering ambition and unbounded selfishness had always been and still were the ruling motives of this wo man


but leave me cried helen in a tone so imperious that her brother left the apart ment some moments before the prince was introduced


when rodolphe entered the saloon his countenance expressed pity but seeing helen seyton seated in the chair decked with her jewels he drew back with surprise anid his physiognomy became immediately sombre and suspicious


she divining his thoughts said to him in a soft and feeble voice you thought to find me dying you came to receive my last farewell


i have always regarded as sacred the last wishes of the dying but it appears that i have been deceived


reassure yourself said helen inter rupting rodolphe reassure yourself


i have not deceived you there remain for me but a few hours to live


alas


after i seventeen years of separation i see you again l thanksob thanks


but in your turn render praise to god for having moved you to come to listen to my last prayer


if you had refused me i had car ried with me to the tomb a secret which t will be the joy the happiness of your life


what do you mean to say demanded the prince with surprise


rodolphe our child is not dead


our child i tell you she lives


the accenit of truth with which these f words were pronounced agitated the prince to the very bottom of his heart


our child he repeated advancinhas tily towards helen our child ourda ter


she is not dead i have certain proofs i know where she istomorrow you shall seeher


are you deliriousl


in the name of heaven e iam not delirious rodolphe


in this casket amng some papers and itaportrait is that which will prove to you the truthof what i say you will find a paper stained r with my blood s with your blood


l the woman who informed me that our child was still living was dictating to me sher confession when i was stabbed with a poniard


and who was she


how didshe know


it was to her our child was delivered quite an infant after having falsely re ported her death


but this womanher name


can she be believed


where did you become ac quainted with her


i tell you rodolphe that this is all pro vidential


some months since you rescued a poor girl frdm poverty to send lher to the countrydid you not r a yes to boqueval


jealousy and hatred drove me wild


i caused this young girl to becarried off by the woman of whom i have spoken


and she took the unhappy child to st lazares yes and she is there stilli is not said rodolphe she is there no h longer e no longer at saint lazare


cried


he len with alarm


alas i cried rodolphe an avaricious monster had an interest in her death


they have drowned her madame


my daughter


cried ielen interrupt ing rodolphe and rising on her feet ima moveable as a marble statue a what does she say my god


i cried rodolphe


my child i repeated helen whose face became livid and frightful from despair they have killed my child


la goualeuse yobi u child


i repeated a odolphe recoiling with alarm


tn o


la goualeuse i yes


that is the name the woman mentionedthis woman called la chouette


deaddead i cried helen still motionless her eyes fixed and glaring they have killed her


ilelen replied rtodolphe as pale and alarmed as she calm yourselfanswer me la goualeusethis young girl whom a you have caused to be carried off by la chouctte from boquevalwas our child


ohh


no noyou ravethis cannot be


you know not no you know not how frightful this is


speak to me tranquilly d often there are appearancesresemblanees which deceive but explain to metell me all the reasons you have to credit this t for it cannotno no


i it must not heait is not so


o


after a fearful pause helen collectedher n thoughts assumed a forced calmness ad recounted how she had parted with her daughter in order to avenge herself against rodolphe


listen tome said she when our child was four years old my brother commis sioned madame seraphin to bring up the child until she was old enough to be placed at school


the sum destined for her iu ture support was placed by mybrother with a notary renowned for his probity


the letters of this man and others addressed at this period to me and my brother are in thatcasket


at the end of a year they wrote me that the health of my child failed eight months after that she was dead and they sent me the official notification of her decease


at this time madame sera phin delivered our child to la chouette by the hands of a wretch now in the gal leys


i began to write this confession of la chouette when she wounded me


the paper is there with a portrait ofour daugh ter at the age of four years


examine all letters confessions portraitand you who have seen this unfortunate child can judge


at these words which exhausted her strength heleni fell back almost lifeless in her chair


rodolphe was thunderstruck at this re velation


there are some misfortunes so unlooked for so horrible that we are unwilling to believe them until compelled by over


whelning evidence


rodolphe persuaded of the death ofl marie had but one hope left which was to convince himself that she was not his child


with a frightful calmness he approached the table opened the casket and fell to reading the letters one by one and ex amining with scrupulous attdntion the papers which accompanied ilein these letters stamped at the postoffice


related to the childhood of mlarie and to the investment of the funds destined for her support


itodolphe could no doubt the authenticity of this correspondence


the confession of la chouette was con firmed


by the infir mation obtained lby ito doiphe himsell and which pointed out a prisoner at itnclihetrt as the man who had delivered la gmuaiuese to la chouette whom the unfortunte child herself had recognised at the tapisfranc


it was then with pdowing and alarming anguish that itodolphe acquire in spite of himself the terrible conviction that la goualeuse was his daughter and that she was dead


this concourse of circumstances could not leave the slightest hope to the prince


a last proof was reserved for him


he cast his eyes upon the miniature which he had almost feared to look at


the blow was frightful


in this infantineand charming face al ready radiant with that divine beauty which belongs to the cherubim hlie recognised in a striking manner the features of la goua leuse her grecian nose her noble fore head her large blue eyes her little mouth already slightly serious


for said madame seraphin to helen in one of her letters which ltodolphe had just read thechild asks always for its mother and is very sad


sat the sight of this miniature the tu multuous and violent feelings of rodolphe were stifled by his tears


he fell back heartbroken on a chair and concealed his face in his handssobbitig convulsively


suddenly he raised his head wiped away his tears arose and approached helen his arms crossed on his bosom his manner menacing and pitiless


he looked at her for some moments in silence then said in a hollow voice listen to me madame oh


fatal day of what are you going to inform me


t sit is necessarythat you shouldknow in this awful moment all the evils caused by your insatiable ambitioneand un bounded selfishness


do you understanud me woman without heart and without con science


do you hear me unnatural f mother p


oh have pity i rodolphe no pardon for you who formnierly with out pity for a sincere love coldly trifled in f the furtherance of your execrable pride swith a generous and devoted passion of which you feigned to partake


no mercy for you who armed the son against the father


no grace for you who instead of watching piously over your child aban doned her to mercenary hands


no mercy for you who after having refused me my child have now caused her death by your unholy deceptions


maledictions on you you my evil genius and that of my family


ohl my godl you are without pityl


you shall hear me i tell youl


do you remember the last clay i saw youit is seventeen years sinceyou coultd no longer conceal tlihe fruits of our secret union which i believed indissolubole


i knew the inflexible character of my father


i knew what political marriage hie pro jeeted for me


iuravingt


his indignation i declared to him that you were miy wife before god and befiore man


his anger was terrible i he would not give credence to my marriageso much deception seemed impossible to him


ihe threatened me with his displeasure if i allowed myself to stpeak before him again of stuchl fotll


then i loved you like a madman duoe of vyour seductions


i thouht that gucr rigid s heart had also beate for mie


i answered to my lather that i would never have any wife but you


at these words his anger had no bouuds he called you the most outrageous unmos n swore that our intir ritge was null acnd thatin order to punish your presumption lie would


place you it the pillory


yielding to my mad passion to the violence of my temper i dared to resent my fathers langunge


i dared to threaten him


exasperated at the insult my fatther struck me rae linded me


and hadit not been that sir wititer mbr


d py intbrfered i might have been a par ricide


do you hear


parricide


i and all for your sake


alas


i was ignorant of all this t d in vain i have thought my cirduct ex plated the blow i have received tbday is my punishment


but have i not also sufered from the obduracy of your father who broke our marriage


why accuse me of not havinge loved youu when


why cried rodolnhe interrupting her and casting upon her a glance of withering scorn


know it then and bh no more surprised at the horror with which you inspire me


after this fatal scene my father ascertained from polidori through whom our marriage was solemnised that it was null that the clergyman was a rmeek one and that you your brother and myself had all been deceived


to disarm mry ththers anger polidori did more he gave him one of your letters to your bro d ther which he had intercepted heaveos


i can itbe possible


is inycouiempt for you explemed now


e


oh i ondugh


enouth i in this letter is unfolded your am bitions projects with revolting coolness you treated me with an icy disdain you sacrificed me to your infernal pride i was only the instrument by whose means you i were to obtain the fulfilment of your des tiny


unfortunate that i am


now i under stand all


when on the morrow wfithout ad dressing me a word of reproach my father shodw ed mine this letterthis letter which in every line revealed the blackness of y our hearti could only fall on my knees and askpardon


since that day i havebeen pursued by unceasing remorse


soon i left germany on a long journey then com menced the penance which i imposed upon myself


it will only finish with my life


to recompense the good punish the bad solace those who suffer probe all the wounds of humanity to endeavour to snatch souls from perditionsuch is the task that i have imposed upon myself


it is noble and holy it is worthy of you


if i speak of this vowreplied rodolphe with as much disdain as bitterness of this vow which i have fulfilledaccording to my power wherever i have been it is not to be praised by you


listen to me then


not long since arrived in france ny sojourn in this country was not to be lost to the expiation


i wished to know those classes whom poverty crushes hardens and depraves knowing that timely succour ant


kind words have often saved many a poor wretch from the abyss of despair


in or der to be my own judge i assumed the disguise and language of the people whom i wished to observe


it was on ne of these excursions that for the first time i met


he stopped for his emotions overpow ered him


rodolphle then related the manner in which ihe had met la goualeuse recapi tulated the history of that unfortunate child he was proceeding to relate the sub sequent events of her life when hclen ex claimed oh would that i could die


it is bit ter agony


listen again he resumed escaping from the hands of la chouette wandering without bread without shelter hardly eight years of age she was arrested as a vaga bond and put into prison


ahl


these were the best days of your daughter madame


yes in her prisonhouse each night she thanked god that she suffered no more from cold and hunger and was beaten no more


and itis in a prison that she passed themost precious yearsof a young girls life those years which a tender mother al wayssurrounds with so jealous and pious a solicitude yes instead of being protected with maternal care your daughter ihas only known the brutal indifference of jailors and then one day society in its cruel carelessness cast her innocent and pure beautiful and ingenuous into the filth and mire of this great city


oh


cried rito dolphe giving free vent to the sobs which


overpowered him your heart is hardened your selfishness cruel but you would have weptyes you would have wept


on hear ing the touching story of your child


poor girl i still uncorrupted in the midst of this horrible degradation which was for her a frightful dream


oh i if you knew how at eachti moment i saw revealnd the most adorable dispositionhow much goodness how much touching charity


rodolphe could not finish but cried in a heartrending voice anid this is my daughter i my child


simprecations on my head i mtrmured helen concealing her face in her hands as if she had feared the light of day


yes cried rodolphe maledictions on you i for when rescuing her from this filth i had placed her in a peaceful retreat you ihad her torn away by your miserable accom plices


it was you who delivered her up to jaques ferrand


the features of the prince assumed a frightful expression of rage and hatred


silent immoveable he remained as it were crushed by the thoughtthat the murderer of hischild mtill lived


i have never before experienced this never


this desire for vengeancethis thirst for bloodthis calm and xetlecting rage


it is my child whom this man de livered to all the horrors of infamy and misery i and it is my daughter whom he has murdered


i will kill this man


and the prince sprang towards the door


where are you going


do not aban don me cried helen half rising and ex tending towards rodolphe her supplicating bhands


do not leave me alone


i am going to die


salone


i no


i


no


i l leave you with the spectre of your daughter whose deathyou have caused i hlelen fiantic threw herself on her knees uttering a cry of affright as if an ahlarming phantom had appeared to her


pity it die


but rluodolphlie transported with passion was beyond the reach of her tappeal


like and adventures of mahtn chuzzlewit


ii c dickens esc chapter xxxiv


ik which the travellers move home


nabd asd encountkb distinouislilid chanactehs


uiok the wat


among the passengers on board tlio steam boat there was a fuint gentleman sitting on a low campswol wilb bis lejs un a high barrel of flour ab if he were looking at the prospect witli bis ankles who attracted their attention speedily


he had straight black hair parted up the middle of hi head and hanging down upon liis coat a little fringe of hair upon his chin wore no neckcloth a white hat a suit of black long in the sleeves aud short in the legs soiled brown stockings and laced shops


his complexion naturally muddy was ren dered muddier by too strict an economy of soap and water and the same observation will apply to the washable pirt of his attire which be might have changed with comfort to him self nnd cratificatioc to liis friends


he iras aboutnveandtbirly was crushed nnd juuuned up in a heap under the shade of a large green cotton umbrella andrumiuated over his tobacco plug lite a cow


he was not singular to be sure in these respects for every gentleman on boaid ap peared to have had a difference with liis laun dress and to have left off washing himself in early youth every gentleman too was per fectly stopped up with tight plugging and was dislocated in the greater part of his joints


but about this gentleman there was a peculiar air of sagacity and wisdom which convinced martin that he was no common character and this turned out to be the case


how do you do sir


said a voice iu martins ear


how do you do sirp said martin


it was a tall thin gentleman who spoke to him with a carpetcap on and a long loose coat of green baize ornamented about the pockets with black velvet


you air from europe sir t


i am snid martin


you nir fortunate sir


martin thought so too but he soon dis covered that the gentleman and lie attached different meanings to this remark


you air fortunate sir in having an oppor tunity of beholding our elijah pograin sir


your klijabpogram i saiil martin think ing it was all one word aud a building of some sort


yes sir


martin tried to look as if he understood him hut he couldnt make it out


yes sir repeated the gentleman


our elijah pograin sir is at this minute identi cally settin by the engine biler


the gentleman under the umbrella put his right forefinger to his eyebrow as if be were revolving schemes of state


that is elijah pograin is it


said mnrtir


yes sir replied the other


that is elijah pogrom


dear me i said martin


im astonished


but he had not the least idea who this elijah pogrom was having never heard the name in all his life


if the liiler of tins vessel was toe bust sir said his new acquaintance and toe bust now this would be a estival day in the calendar of despotism pretty nigh equallin sir in its effects upon the human race our fourth of glorious july


yes sir that is the honourable elijah pogram member of con gress one of the masterminds ol our country sir


there is a brow sir there quite remarkable said martin


our own million al chiggle sir is said to have observed when he made the celebrated pogrom statter in marblewhidi rose so much contest and prejudice in europe that the brow was more than mortal


this was before the pogram defiance and was there fore a prediction cruel smart


what is the pograin defiance f asked martin thinking perhaps it was the sign of a publichouse


an oration sir returned his friend


oil i to be sure cried martin


what am i thinking of


it defied


it defied the world sir said the other gravely


it defied the world in general to cumpete with our cuuntry upon any hook and devellopd our internal resources for making war upon the universal airtli


you would like to kuow elijah pogram sir


if you please said martin


mr pugram said the stranger mr pogram having overheard every word of the dialogue this a gentleman from europe sir from england sir


but genrous encmies may meet upon the neutral site of private life the languid mr pogram shook hands with martin like a clockwork figure that was just running down


but he made amends by chewing like one that was just wound up


mr pograin said the introducer is a public servant sir


when congress is re cessed he makes himself acquainted with these free united states of which he is the gifted son


it occurred to martin that if the honour able elijah pogram had staid at home and sent his shoes upon a tour they would have answered the same purpose for they were the only part of him in u situation to see anything


in course of lime however mr logram rose aud having ejected certain plugging consequences which would have impeded his articulation took up a position where there was something to lean against nnd began to talk to martin shading himself with the green umbrella nil the lime


as he began with the words how do you like


martiu took him up and said the country i presume f


yes sir said elijnh pogram


a knot of passengers gathered round to hear what fol lowed nnd martin beard his friend say ab he whispered to another friend and rubbsd his hands poprram will smash him into skyblue fits


know


why said martin after a moments he sitation i have learned by experience that you take an unfair advantage of a stranger when you ask that question


you dont mean it to be answered except in one way


now i dont chose to answer it in that way for i cannot honestly answer it in that ivny


and therefore i would rather not answer it at all


but mr pogram was going to ninke a great speech in the next session about foreign rela tions and was going to write strong articles on the subject and as he greatly favoured the free and independent custom a very harmless and agreeable one of procuring information of any sort in any kind of confidence and after wards perverting it publicly in any manner that happened to suit him he had determined lo get at martins opinions somehow or other


for if he could have got nothing out of kirn he would have had to invent it lor him and that would have been laborious


he made a mental note of liis answer and went in ngain


you are from eden sir


how did you like eden f martin said what he thought of that part of the country in pretty strong terms


it is strange said pogram looking round upon the group this hatred of our country and her institutions i this national antipathy is deeply rooted in the british mind i good heaven sir


cried martin


is the eden land corporation with mrscadder at its head and nil the misery it bus worked at its door an institution of america


a part of any form of government that was ever known or heard of vt i consider the cause of tbis to be said pogrom looking round again and taking him self up where martin had interrupted him partly jealousy and prejudice and partly the natral unfitnessof the british people to appre ciate the exalted institutions of our native land i expect sir turning to martin again that a gentleman named chollop happened in upon you during your location in the town of eden


i yes answered martin but my friend can answer this better than i can lor i was very ill at the time


mark i the gentleman is speaking nf mr cliollop


oh i yes sir


yes


see


him observed mark


a splendid example of our native raw ma terial sir f said pogram


interrogatively


indeed sir i cried mark


the honourable elijah pojrrnm glanced at his friends us though be would hnve said ob serve this


see what follows


and they ren dered tribute to the pogram genius by a gentle murmur


our fellowcountryman is a model ol a man quite fresh from katurs mould said pogram wilh enthusiasm


he is a true born child of this free hemisphere i verdant as the mountains of our country bright and flowing as our mineral licks unspiled by withering convenlionaliiies as air our broad and boundless perearersl hough


he may be so air our bans


wild he niny be


so uir our buftilers


but he is a child of natur and a child of freedom and his boastful answer to the despot and the tyrant is that his blight home is in ihe seilin sun


art ol this relerrcd to unoiiop ami pnrl to a western postmaster who being a public de fauher not very long before a character not at nil uncommon in america hud been removed from office md on whose behalf mr pogram he volcd for pouniin had thundered the last sentence from his scat in congress at the head of an unpopular president


it told brilliantly fur the bystanders were delightej and one ot them said to martin that he guessed he had now seen something of the eloquential aspect of our couutrv aud was chawed up prilty small


mr pogram waited until his hearers were calm again before he said to mark yuu do not seem to cuiuciile sir


why said mark did ul like him much and thats the nutli sir


i thought he was a bully and i did ul admire liis can iv them murderous little persuaders and being so ready to use em


its singhii said pogram lifting his umbrella high eiiiiusli to lack all round from under it


its strange


you obstrve the settled opposition to our institutions wlnch pervades the british mini


i


what an extraordinary people you are i cried martin


arc mr cliullup and the class he represents un institution here


are pistols with revolving barrels swordsticks bowieknives and such things institutions on which you pride yourselves


are bloody duels brulal combats savage assaults shootings down nnd stabbing in the streets your institu tions


why i shall hear next that dishonour and fraud are among the institutions of the great republic


i the moment the words passed his lips the honourable elijah pogram looked round again


this morbid hatred of our institutions he observed is quite a study for the physiolo gical observer


he s alludiu to liqiujiation


oh i yuu may make anything nn insti tution if you like said martin laughing and i confess you had me there jor vuu cer tainly have made that one


but the greater part of these things are one institution with us and we call it by the generic name of old bailey


the bell being rung for dinner at this mo ment everybody ran away into the cabin wliiiuer the honourable elijah pogiam fled with such precipitation that he forgot his um brella ivis up and fixed it so tightly in the cabin door that it cuuld neither be let down nor got out


for a minute or so this accident created a perfect rebellion among the hungry passengers behind who seeing the dishes and learing the knives and forks at work well know what would happen unless they gut there instantly and were nearly mad while several virtuous citizens at the table were in deadly peril of choking themselves in their unnalural efforts to get rid of all the meat before these others came


they carried the umbrella by storm how ever and rushed in at the breach


the honor able elijah pogram and martin found them selves after a severe struggle side by side as they might have come together in the pit of a london theatre nud for four whole minutes afterwards pogram was snapping up great blocks of everything he couu get hold of like a raven


when he had taken this unusually protracted dinner he began to talk to martin and begged him not to have the least delicacy in speaking with perfect freedom to him for he was a calm philosopher


which martin wus extremely glad to hear for he had begun to speculate on elijah being a disciple of that other school of republican philosophy whose noble sentiments are carved wilh knives upon a uupils body and written not with pen and iia hut tjir and fpitliprn


what do you think of my countrymen who are present sir inquired elijah pogram


oh very pleasant said martin


they were a very pleasant parly


no man had spoken a wonl every one hod been intent as usual on his own private gorging aud the greater part of the company were decidedly dirty feeders


the honourable hijjli pogram looked ot martin as if he thought you dont mean lint i know


and he was soon confirmed in this sitting opposite to them wus a gentleman in a high state of tobacco who wore quite a little ben id composed of the overflowings of that weed ns they had dried nhoul his mouth ami chin so common an ornament that it scarcely attracted martins observation but tbis good citizen burning to assert his equality against all comers sucked his knife for some moments and made a cut with it at the butter just as martin was in the act of taking some


there wns a iuciiiess aboul the deed that might have sickened a scavenger


when elijah pogram to whom this was an everyday incident suw that martin put the plate away and took no butter he was quite delighted and said well t the morbid haired of you british to the institutions of our country is os tosishinl


upon my life cried marlin iu his turn ibis is the most wonderful community that ever existed


a man deliberately makes e hog of himself and thats an institution


we have no time to actiuire forms sir said elijah pogram


acquirel cried martin


but its not n question of acquiring anything


its aqueslion of losing ihe natural politeness of a savage and that instinctive good breeding which ad monishes one inn n not to offend and disgust


mother


dont you think thnt man over the way for instance naturally knows better but considers it a very fine and independent thing to be a brute in small matters


i


he is a native of our country and is nnt rally bright and spry of course said mr pogram


now observe what tbis comes to mr pogrom pursued martin


tiie mass of your countrymen begin by stubbornly neglecl ing little social observances which jiuv nothing to do with gentility custom usage government or country but are acts of come nion decent natural human politeness


yuu abet them iu this by resenting all attacks upon their social offences ns if they were a beautiful national feature


from disregarding small obligations they come in regular course to dis rcgaid great ones and so refuse to pay iheir debts


what they may do or what they may refuse to do next i dont know but any man may see if he will that it will be something following in natural succession and a part of one great growth which is rotten at the root


the mind of mr pogram was too philo sophical to see this so they went on deck again where resuming liis former post he chewed until he was in a lethargic state amounting to insensibility


after a weary voyage of several days they came again to tbot same wharf where mark had been so nearly left behind on the night of starling for eden captain kcdgick the landlord was standing there and was greatly surprised id see them coining from ihe boat


why what the tornal


i cried the captain


well i i do admire at this i do


we can stay atyourhouae until tomorrow captain i suppose said martin


reckon you can stay there for a twelve month if you like retorted kedgick coolly


but our people wout best like your coming back


wont like it captain kcdgick said they did expect you was agoing to settle kedgick answered tis he shook his head


theyve been took in ou cant deny


what do you mean r cried martin


you didnt ought to have received em said tin caplain


no you didnt i


my gocd friend returned martin did i want to receive them


was it any act of mine


didnt you tell me they wouhl rile up and that i should be flayed like a wild cut and threaten all kinds of vengeance if i didnt receive them


i dont know about that relumed the captain


but when our peoples frills is out theyre starched up pretty stiff i tell you i with thai he fell into the rear in walk wilh marl while martin and elijah pograin went on to ihe naliumil


weve come back alive you see i said mark


haint the thing i did pxpect the cop loin grumbled


a man aint got no right to lie a public man unless he meets the public views


our fashionable people wouldnt have attended his levre if they had knondit


nothing mollified the captain who persisted in taking it very ill that they had not both died in eden


the boarders at the national felt stmiigly on the subject too but it imp pened by good fortune that they had not much lime


iu think about this grievance lor it was suddenly determined to pounce upon the honourable elijah logram and give him a levec fonhniih


as the general evening meal of the house was over before the arrival of the boat mar tin mark and pogrom were taking tea ami fixings nt the public table by themselves when the deputation entered to announce this honour consisting of six gentlemen boarders and a very shrill loy


sir said the spokesman


mr pogrum cried the shrill boy


the spokesman thus reminded of the shrill boys presence introduced him


doctor ginery dunkle sir


a gentleman of great poetical elements


he ban recentlr jined us here sir and is an acquisition to us ir do assure you


yes sir


mr judd sir


mr lzzard sir


mr julius bib sir


julius washington merryivealher bib said the genlleinan to himself


i beg your pardon sir


excuse me


mr julius washington merryweatlier bib sir a gentleman iu the lumber line sir aud much esteemed


cohmel grnper sir


pro fessor piper sir


my own name sirj is oscar bufium


each man took one slide forward ns he was named butted at the honourable elijah pu gram with his head shouk bauds aud slid back again


the introductions being com pleted the spokesman resumed


sir air


pogrom cried the shrill boy


perhaps said the spokesman with a hopeless look you will be so good doctor ginery dunkle as to charge yourself wilh the execution of our little office sir as there was nothing the shrill bqy desired more he immediately stepped forward


mr pograin


sir


a handful of your fellow citizens sir hearing of your arrival at the national hotel and feeling the patriotic character of your public services wish sir to have the gratification of beholding you aud mixing with you sir ad unbending wilh you sir iu those moments which air suggested buffum


which air so peculiarly the lol sir of our great and happy country


hear cried colonel grappr in a laud voice


good i hear him gooj


i


and llierefoie sir pursued the doctor they request us a mark of their respect the honour of your company at a little le vee sir iu the ladies ordinary at eight oclock


mr pogram boned and said fellow countrymen


good ried the colonel


hear him


good


i mr pogram bowed to the colonel indivi dually and then resumed your approbation of my labours in the common cause goes to my heart


at all times and in all places iu the ladies ordinary my friends and in the battle field


good very good i hear him i hear him


said the colonel


the name of pogram will be proud to jine you


and may it my friends be written on my tomb he was a member of the con gress of our common country and was active in his trust


the commiltee sir said tile shrill boy will waitupun you at five minutes afore eight


i take my leave sir


mr pugram shouk hands with him and everybody else once more and when they came back again at five minutes before eight they saiii one by one in a melancholy voice liow do you do sir and shook hands with mr pogram all over again as if he had been abroad for a twelvemonth iu the meantime and they init now at a funeral


but by this time mr pogram hod freshened himself up and had composed his hair nnd fea tures after the pogiain statue so that any one with half nn eye might cry out there lie is


as he delivered ihe defiance


i the committee were embellished also and when they entered the ladies ordinary in a body there was much clapping of hands from ladies and gentlemen accompanied by cries of pogram i pogram i aid


some standing up on chairs to see him


the object of the popular cures looked round the room ns he walked up it and smiled at the same time observing to the shrill boy that he knew something of the beauty of the daugh ters of iheir common country but had never seen it iu such lustre and perfection as nt that moment


which the shrill boy put in the poper next day to elijah pogranis great surprise


we will request you sir if you please said buffcm laying hands on mr pogram as if he were taking his measure for a coat to stand up with your back agin the wall right in the furthest corner that there may be more room for our fellow citizens


if you could set your bock right slap agin that curtainpeg sir keeping your left leg everlastingly behind the stove we should be fixed quite slick


mr pogram did ab lie was told and wedged himself into such a little comer that the pogram statue wouldnt have known him


the entertainments of the evening then be gan


gentlemen brought ladies up and brought themselves up nnd brought coch other up and asked elijnh pogram what he thought nl this political question and what he thought of that and looked at him and looked at one another and seemed very unhappy indeed


the ladies on the chairs looked at elijah pogram through theirglassesaud said audibly i icish hed speak


why dont lie speak


oh do ask him to speak


and elijah pogram looked sometimes at the indies mitt sometimes elsewhere delivering senatorial opinions as he


wns asked for ihein


but the great end and object of the meeting seemed to be not to let elijnh pogram out of the corner on any ac count so there they kept him hard nnd fast a great bustle ot the door in the course of the evening announced the arrival of some re markable person and immediately afterwards an elderly gentleman much excited was seen to precipitate himself upon ihe crowd and battle hm way towards the honorable elijah pogram where he stood with mark beside him for lie did not so often forget him uotv us formerly though he still did sometimes thought be knew this gentleman but had no doubt of it when lie cried as loud as lie could with his eves starling out of his head sir mre


homiuy i


lord bless that woman mark


she has turned up bgain i here she comes


sir answered mr tapley


pogram knows her


a public cha racter


always got her eye upon her country sir i if that tboro ladys husband is of my opinion what ajully old gentleman he must be


a lane was maile nnd mrs hominy with the aristocratic stalk the pocket handkerchief the clasped hands and the classical cup came slowly up it


in a procession of one


mr pugrum testified emotions of delight on seeing her nnd a general hush prevailed


for it was known thnt when a woman like mrs hominy encountered a man like pogram something interesting must be said


their first salutations were exchanged in a voice too low to reach the impatient ears ofie throng but they soon became audible for mrs hominy felt her position and knew what tvas expected of her


mrs h was hard upon him nt first nnd put him through a rigid catechism in reference to a certain vote he hud given which she had found it necessary as the lnnther of the modern gracchi to deprecate in a line by itself set up expressly for the purpose iu german text


but mr pugram evading it by a welltimed allusion to the slarspangled banner which it appeared had ihe remarkable peculiarity of floating on the breeze whenever it was hoisted where ihe wind blew she forgave him


they now enlarged on certain questions of tariff commercial treaty boundary inipurlation and exportation with great tflvcl


and mrs hominy not only talked as he saying is like ii book hut actually did talk her on u books word for wonl


my i what is this cried mrs hominy opening a little note which was handed her by her exciiol gentlemanusher


do tell


oh well uotv i only think


ami ihen she read aloud as follows two literary indies present their compli ments to ihe mother of the modern gracchi and claim her kind introduciiou as their ta lented countrywoman to the honourable nnd distinguished


elijah pogrnm whom the two lls have often contemplated in the speaking marble of the soulsubduing chiggle


on n verbal iiitimatioii from the mother of the m g thnt she will comply wilh the request of the two lls they will have the immediate pleasure of joining the galaxy nsssemliled to do honour to the patriotic conduct of a pograin


it may be another bond of union between the two l ls and the mother of the m g to observe that ihe two llsare transcendental


mrs hominy promptly rose and proceeded lo the iloor whence she returned after a minutes interval wlih the two lls whom she led through llic lane in the crowd with all that stateliness of deportment which was so remarkably her own up to the great elijah pograin


it wns as the shrill hoy cried out in an ecstacy quite the last scene fromcorio


oue of the lls wore a brown wig of un common size


sticking on the forehead of the oilier by invisible means was a massive cameo iu size and shape like the raspberry tart which is ordinarily sold for a penny re presenting on its front the capitul at wash ington


miss toppit and miss codger said mrs hominy


to be continued


guided by circumstances as to conclude at the legal age for taking orders


v


twoclersymenimd three subordinate teachers will thus jb uiillcdn the business of vnriefl tuition which such an establishment will require


the bishop together wilh tbe honorary fellows will likewise be cognizant of whatever is proceeding within it


a valuable library will belong to tbe college and measures will he taken u augment it continually fur the benefit of the students


the expenditure so far as the remuneration of teachers is concerned will be sufficiently met by n judicious outlay of the sum subscribed in england


in addition to this the scholar ships form an essential element of the system winch might be provided for by voluntary en dowment of hinl in the culuny


a third expense ivill he incurred by the necessity of a fund for the general expenses of the bursars establishment which cannot lie defrayed from the tuition fees of the students owing first to the uncertainty of that source of income and secondly to the necessity of applying the fees so accruing to u building fund which will thus accumulate in proportion to the success of the college wilh the public


t h s holt homes


bt silvbbpen


continued from page chapter xi


more of the tadcaster household


as a matter of course the yorks look d with great contempt upon people of the normans olass and upon the nor mans in especial for presuming to rent a floor immediately above theirs


mr york never condescended to notice one of them with the exception of william though mrs york always curious about the lodgers affairs sometimes gossipped with poor mrs norman or asked liddy questions


but liddy rarely went into their room mrs norman never


for though a sensualist in the fullest sense liddy was too much a childtoo infantile in her manners thoughts and feelings to win anything more than a passing glance from mr york


it was some nobler grander nature that he must subdue some one who though very womanly he would wrestle with in words for no one more than he knew better how to make speech the instru ment of human woe and ruin


norman from only meeting this man a time or two in the street had formed a far from favourable impression of him


he is better educated and may be far higher born and bred than i have been thought he but i do not like that hangdog look of his or the gaze that never seeks or meets yours


so acting on a judgment thus formed in spite of his natural inclination to think favour ably of most people norman sternly forbid hi children making acquaintance with the yorks in any way


for a time this did not seem likely tmt going to the street door one evening to take some letters just as william came in from his office mrs tadcaster asked him to leave the yorks letters al their door


this the lad goodnatured ly did and from time to time the kind ness was repeated till it grew into a custom and he was asked in


he usually found mr york lying on the sofa smoking and reading and mrs yorl crouched on a stool by the window oj the fire either altering or making som tawdry piece of finery that is to say i the domestic exchequer were not absolute ly bankrupt or if that was the case sitting moodily with her dishevelle head buried in her hands


on tbe lad i entrance she would rise run forward to inspect the superscription of the letters before her husband could take them and then goodnaturedly would ask william to partake of whatever there might be on the tablecake or wine or fruit or teaas might chance to be for mr york never stinted himself of any luxury whilst he had a shilling left to procure it


for a long time he did not condescend to notice the lad except with a brief thank you but kept on smoking or reading


one night however when the boy had lingered for a moment to talk with mrs york he took his pipe from his lips and pushing a book towards him asked william if he liked reading


william answered affirmatively


well ill lend you this said york it is a french novel and very lively too


a boy may learn a great deal of the world from it as he said this a bitter smile passed across his lips


if you please sir replied william at present i know nothing of french and if i did father would not like me to read books of the kind


he has bought some nice books of history for me and liddy and tom to read and takes in


chambers journal and other things indeed said mr york with his ha bitual sarcastic smile hes a methodist isnt he


no sir coloured william who felt the sarcasm implied but he wishes that we should get good and sober ideas and he says we cannot through reading trashy books of any kind


j mr york smiled still more and raised his spectacles


you tell your father everything i suppose my boy


yes sir replied the lad with straight forward manliness i never do anything but what i wish my father to know


mr harlow my masters chief clerk and mrs burn are always telling me to keep this good conscience for mine is a place of great trust


i suppose so


but you are safe with me im a gentleman and a scholar and only offer you a book that any boy might m read


so take itits a translation and when youve done with it you can have another volume


william would rather not have taken the book for he knew if he did he must hid it from his fathers sight but as it was offered with such apparent civility tie did not like to be churlish enough to refuse so as mr york pushed it towards him he took it up


could he have read what was expressed by those cold slow moving lengthened fingers and the look in those eyes behind the spectacles the lad would as soon have taken up some deadly poison or teptile but boylike he did not


his resolution was to take and hide the hook and return it unread in a night or two


but opening it looking into it at tracted by the meretricious art which dressed up the most sordid unhallowed contaminating viee in words the most pleasant and alluring he read on and on imparted his secret to liddy got her to hide the book and so thc evil thus be gun was carried onward


liddy in her turn peeped and read whilst her mother was lying down or otherwise engaged and greatly attracted by the adventures of women who were said to be very beau tiful had many lovers and abundance of rich dresses and money without working for either she got william to borrow other volumes


on the night the yorks had gone to the playnot an unusual thing when they had money sufficient though mr york would have rather been at home smoking his pipethey had been cautiously fol lowed as already said by two men


when the performance was about half over these latter entered an adjacent box and soon took occasion to offer mrs york some small civility


this whenever op portunity occurred they repeated and at length entered into conversation with her much to the annoyance of the husband who always held aloof from strangers


he scowled at her jogged her elbow and told her to be quiet but to little pur pose


it pleased her so to make him jea lous if she could and flattery howevei fulsome suspicious and in this case in discreet to receive from persons utterly unknown to her gave her a rare satisfac tion she determined to enjoy both to the full


when the play was over and thej came forth it was found to be raining so again the strangers put themselves prominently forward and offered th yorks a seat in the eab they had hailed


we wouldrather walk replied york doggedly


if we wished it we could have a cab


for he had enough gooc sense and breeding to perceive the uttei impropriety of thus making familiar ac quiiiiitaubhip with perfect strangers with men


too whose fast appearance and flashly dress looked far from satis factory


well shall go exclaimed mrs york with much effrontery yow can please yourselfbut certainly i will never walk whilst i can ride


saying this she permitted herself to be handed into the cab and it drove away


for a moment the husband stood looking after it then he settled his spectacles nervously as was his habit when greatly irritated pressed his hat over his brows and went slowly home


this mrs york reached long before himbut not sooner than her polite friends had elicited all from her garrulity that for the present they wished to learn


at any time said the more astute looking stranger of the two as the cab entered the street in which mrs york was to be set down that you would like to see a play or concert madam you have but to send a line to the address on this card and tickets shall be yours


i move in select society and often for an actors or a singers sake take tickets i have no time to use


here the man presented her with a highly scented card on which with some address of good account was the name colonel pilcher


mrs york glanced down at the card and reading by the light of a lamp they were passing the word colonel she was quite satisfied and replied that some time or another when mr york was engaged she would avail herself of the kind offer as he did not care much for plays and always went reluctantly


but we shall certainly not wait any lengthened time said the other stranger who had already announced himself as mr stapleton by name and the nephew of a bishop without calling to pay our respects to a lady who has thus afforded us the happiness of conveying her home


saying this stapleton and the socalled colonel handed out mrs york at her own door and when the cab was once more on its way with a hearty laugh they congratulated themselves that they had thus set in motion a deep and long laid scheme against the wealth of mr wroxeter


mr tadcaster and his two journeymen worked in the front kitchen whilst that at the back was devoted to the especial use of mrs tadcaster her children her pots and pans and two turnup bedsteads


the former being much the smaller was onethird filled by a large working bench and here throughout the day and till it was late sat the jeweller and his two men


it was no very healthy place as may be imagined for the journeyman that boarded with the tadcasters slept as well as lived in it and the moment it was duskindeed long before it was so in the street abovethree or four strong jets of gas were lighted thus adding to the heat and closeness


as the jeweller worked for some of the first london firms as well as for those who dealt in cheap flimsy imitative articles all classes of trinkets were to be seen in his workshop as bracelets and rings of great price and trashy articles not worth as many pence


as a sittingroom the tadcasters occu pied their back parlour and william having been invited in there a few times this jed to his being eventually asked down into the workshop to see the rich things lying there


here he saw watches chains rings and seals and boylike soon began to ask questions about them


he had long wished to give liddy a locket on one of her birthdays and he was ambitious to possess a watcha chain as yet he did not dream of so he asked mr tadcaster as to what their price would be


the jeweller told him and to his great delight he found that he might soon save enough to give liddy the pretty present


as for a watch said mr tadcaster could get you a secondhand one for little or nothing and you might make it complete by an imitation albert chain it would look as good as a real one and very few would be a bit the wiser


but i dont think that the chain would do for my age or place i am not grown up yet and mr wroxeter wishes his clerks to dress very plain father i know too likes nothing that is a pre tence


well youre a lad of very little pluck thats all i know


i was out of leading strings long before your age replied the jeweller with great nonchalance and if id wished to have had a chainreal or imitationid have had it


so hereu be one at your service whenever you like it


so saying he went on with his work


from the time that liddy had so deeply offended her father by wearing the made moiselles pirouettes old flowers and imitating their habitual mode of speaking to their miserable careworn motlier she had kept aloof from them though with her usual tenderness of feeling she felt sorry to appear unkind or rude


for to her at least they were always good natured and kindly spoken


so she flitted away from them like a little caged bird or waited a long time on the stair case till they were closed in their room and did all she could to be obedient to the promise she had made in the little weeping prayer she had prayed at her fathers knee


one holiday afternoon however mrs norman being better than usual went out to make some purchases for a parcel that was going to be sent into the country in the ensuing week and liddy having some little piece of needlework to enclose thereina dolls frock or some thing of that sortshe stayed at home to finish it


as it was a great delight to her to be so employed for liddy was never so happy as when occupied with some innocent labour of love she had taken her seat by the sunny window where giddys cage hung and opening the little wicker door let him come forth and hop about


this the bird did and after examining everything upon the small table by which his little mistress sat and after lifting up every ribbon and flounce upon the tiny garment he perched himself upon her shoulder and nestled his beak in her beautiful hair


as she thus sat some one came down the stair j case and liddy knew by the footing who it was


dear miss margaret said the child i do come in


i am quite alone and i


want you to see what a nice frock i have made for cicys doll out of the piece o silk you gave me


margarets good kind face looked in and then entering she came gently to wards the child and stooping kissed her


cicy will be so pleased said the child and i shall tell her in my letter who it was that gave me the silk and ribbon and cut it out


she will know then that it was my dear miss margaret


i am glad you love me liddy for i do you more tenderly than i can well explain


and all my people upstairs like you hannah and mother especially but the last has been too poorly for some days for us to ask you up


i heard mrs tadcaster say that she was ill that is why i anj giddy did not come


it is very thoughtful of you darling and now as we are alone though i cant stay above a minute tell me how you get on at school


margaret as she s poke listened for thc reply with an anxiety that was quite apparent


oh


just the same replied the child as she stole her one arm about margarets neck


miss brooks is goodnatured but she lets the great girls have too much their own way and some of them are very rude and spiteful


but father is going to work in kent and he says if he can find a country school he will put me there for a time


in a year or so i can come home again and he can then educate me in the way he wishes without offend ing good miss newbud


has miss brooks got lodgers again questioned margaret


yes there are several sets of people in the house


the lodger who occupied the front parlour went away last week and now a person who had an upstairs room has taken it


she is rather an old person and is always giving the girl sweatrneats when she meets them


she offered me some yesterday and asked me into her parlour but i neither took them nor went in


father has told me to go into nobodys rooms and besides i dont like the look of the woman


you are quite right liddy said margaret thoughtfully we must all be very careful especially a young girl like you


so now this little chat is over i must go


be very careful and be always quite sure that i am your friend


yes i m sure you are miss margaret i could tell you things i could not to mother


if i were ever in trouble i am sure i should come to you


and no heart will sympathize with you more truly my dear replied mar garet as her eyes filled with tears


so saying she kissed liddy tenderly and went


margaret had not long returned up stairs to her work before the normans street door bell rang and liddy wonder ing who it was ran down to see


but no one was there vexed that she had been taken off her work she was returning past the pirouettesdoor when it was pulled suddenly back and both girls in light gauzy dresses rushed out pressed her in their arms and regardless of her struggles and entreaties brought her into the room and closed the door


there ma mignonne they said in a breath


youve run off from us a long time but wve caught you today


come you must stop a bit and let us kiss you and see your beautiful hair


ah


if we had such it would be fortune


then clapping their hands laughing and skip ping about they hugged the child kissed her twirled her round and snatching away the net which confined her hair let it fall about her shoulders


oh


please dont cried liddy pas sionately for these girls rudeness vexed her infinitely


i musnt stop or be kept father and mother will be very angry let me go it is so rude and cruel of you to pull down my hair


forgive us petit said the elder whose name was adeline


we do not mean to be unkind only you are very beautiful and we like to talk to you as you wont talk to us


let me go cried liddy and she strove to gain the door


madame pirouette who robed in a tat tered dressing gown sat bending over some gauzy work by the window now looked up and added her entreaties to those of liddy


though it told a sad tale of tyranny to hear how meekly she spoke and how she qualified even her j entreaties


my dears she said in a jargon of broken french and english forgive my asking you but let the little one go


her parents do not like her to know about fine dress and dancing there hold your tongue interrupted jeannotte the youngest and go on with the skirts


are we never to have a little badinage and that too that were paid for


madame looked up with surprise


but seeing how hard and earnest and real her daughters were she said no more but only shaking her head and sighing resumed her work


jeannotte now drawing back a curtain that hung over a sort of recess took down a gay coloured petticoat put it on and began twirling and capering before an old cheval glass which had been bought to serve the double purpose of seeing their steps therein as well as their charms


when tired she bounded towards liddy who stood restrained by adeline and asked her if she should like to dance as well


youre a puss said adeline tormen tingly as she let the petted child go away a little from her arms only to draw her back and a little spiteful elf though you are a beautythat many eyes long to see you


well as you dont like dancing will you take a walk some day soon in kensington gardens say


to be continued


life and adventures of martin chuzzlewit


dtcsickeks esq


chapter xxxvii


tom ikoh coiko astbay finds that he is kot


the only pbbson is that lleeicament


he iletaliates urok


a fallen foe


toms evil genius did not lead liim into the dens of any of those preparers of cannibalic pastry who are represented in many standard country legends as doing a lively retail busi ness in the metropolis nor did it mark him out as the prey of ringdroppers pea and thimbleriggers duffers touters or any of those bloodless sharpers who are perhaps a little better known to the police


he fell into conversation wuu


uo genuciuau uu ivun uuu liim into a publichouse where there happened to be another gentleman who swore he had more money than any gentleman and very soon proved he had more money than one gen tleman by taking his away from him neither did he fall into any otiier of the numerous mantraps which are set up without nolice m the public grounds of this city


but he lost his way


he very soon did that and in try ing to find it again he lost it more and more


now tom in his guileless distrust of london thought himself very knowing in coming to the determination that he would not ask to be directed to furnivals inn if he could help it unless indeed it should happen to find himself near the mint or the bank of england in which case he would step in and ask a civil question or two confiding in the perfect re spectability of the concern


so on he went looking up all the streets he came near and froiu up half of them and thus by dint of not being true to goswellstrect and filing off into aldermanbury and bewildering himself in barbican and being constant to die wrong point of the compass in london wall and then getting himself crosswise into thames street


by an instinct that would have been marvellous if he had had the least desire or reason to go there he found himself at last hard by the monument


the man in the monument was quite as mysterious a being to tom as the man in the moon


it immeuiaieiy occurreu iu mm mai


the lonely creature who held himself aloof from all mankind in that pillar like some old her mit was the very man of whom to ask his way


cold he might be little sympathy he had perhaps with human passion the column seemed too tall for that but if truth didnt live in the base of the monument notwith standing popes couplet about the outside of it where in london tom thought was she likely to he found i coming close below the pillar it was a great encouragement to tom to find that the man in the monument had simple tastes that stony and artificial as his residence was he still pre served some rustic recollections that he liked plants hung up birdcages was not wholly cut off from fresh sroundsel and kept young trees in tube


the man in the monument himself was sitting outside the door his own door the monumentdoor what a grand idea i and was actually yawning as if there were no monument to stop his mouth and give him a perpetual interest in his own existence


tom was advancing towards this remarkable creature to inquire the way to furnivals inn when two people came to see the monument


they were a gentleman and a lady and tlie gentleman said how much apiece


the man iu the monument replied a tanner


it seemed a low expression compared witu the monument


the gentleman put a shilling into his hand and the man in the monument opened a dark little door


when the gentleman and lady had passed out of view he shut it again and came slowly back to his chair


he sat down and laughed


they dont know what a many steps there is he said


its worth mice the money to stop here


oh my eye the man in the monument was a cynic a worldly man i tom couldnt ask his way ol hivi


he wns prepared to put no confidence in anything he said


my gracious cried a wellknown voice behind mr pinch


why to be sure it is


at tie same time he was poked in the bad by a parasol


turning round to inquire into ibis salute he beheld the eldest daughter of his late patron


miss pecksniff said tom


why my goodness mr pinch cried cherrv


what are you doing here


i have rather wandered from my way said tom


i


i hope you have run away


said charity


it would be quite spirited and proper if you had when my papa so far forgets himself


i have left him returned tom


but it was perfectly understood on both sides


was not done clandestinely


is he married


asked cherry with a spasmodic shake of her chin


no not yet said tom colouring to tel i you the truth i dont think hes likely to be ififmissgrabam is tbeobjectof his passion


tcha mr pinch cried charity with sharp impatience youre very easily deceived


you dont know the arts of which such a creature is capable


oh


its a wicked world


you are not married


tom hinted to divert the conversation


no no said cherry tracing out one particular paving stone in monument ard with the end of her parasol


i


but really it s quite impossible to explain


wont you walk you live here tueni shiu iuw


yes i returned miss pecksniff pointing with her parasol to todgerss i reside witu this lady at present


the great stress on the two last words sug gested to tom that he was expected to say something in reference to them


so he said only at present


are you going home no mr pinch returned charity


no thank you


no


a motherinlaw who is younger than i was going to say who is as nearly as possible about the same age as one s belf would not quite suit my spirit


not quite said cherry with a spiteful shiver


i thought from your saying at present really upon my word


i had no idea you would press me so very closely on the subject mr pinch said charity blushing or i should not have been so foolish as to allude to oh really wont you walk in


tom mentioned to excuse himself that he had an appointment in furnivals inn and that coming from islington be had taken a few wrong turnings and arrived at the monument instead


miss pecksniff simpered very much when he asked her if she knew the way to furnivale inn and at length fuund courage a gentleman who is a friend of mine or at least who is not exactly a friend so much as a sort of acquaintance


oh upon my word i hardly know what i say mr pinch you mubtnt suppose there is any engagement between us or at least if there is that it is at inn immediately i believe upon a little busi ness and i am sure he would be very glad to accompany you so as to prevent your going wrong again


you had better walk in


ou will very likely find my sister merry here she said with a curious toss of her head and any thine but an agreeable smile


then i think ill endeavour to find my way alone


said tom for i fear she would not be very glad to see me


that unfortunate occurrence in relation to which you and i had some amicable words together in private is not likely to have impressed her with any friendly feeling towards me


though it really was not my fault she has never heard of that you may depend said cherry gathering up the corners of lier mouth and nodding at tom


i am far from sure that she would bear you any mighty ill will for it if she had


you dont say so f cried tom whowas really concerned by this insinuation


say nothing said charity


if i had not already known what shocking thiugs treachery and deceit are in themselves mr pinch might perbapb have learnt it from the buccess they meet with from the succees they meetwitb


here she smiled as before


but i dont say anything


on the contrary i should scorn it


you bad better walk in there wns something hidden here which piqued toms interest and troubled bis tender heart


when in a moments resolution he looked at charity he could not but observe a struqffle iu her face between a senbe of triumph and a sense of shame nor could be but remark how meelin even his eyes which she cared so little for she turned away her own for all the sdlenetic defiance in her manner


an uneasy thought entered toms bead a shadowy misgiving that the altered relations between himself and pecksniff were somehow to involve an altered knowledge on his part of other people and were to give him an insight into much of which he had had no previous suspicion


and yet he put no definite con struction upon charitys proceedings


he certainly hnd no idea that as he had been the audience and spectator of her mortification she grasped with eager delight at any opportunity uy reproaching tier sister with his presence iu iicr far deeper misery for he knew uothiug of it and only pictured that sister as the same


wddy careless trivial creature she always had been with the ame slight estimation of himself which she had never been at ihe least pains to conceal


in short he had merely a confused impression that miss pecksniff was not quite sisterly or kiud and being curious to set it right accompanied her as sue desired


the housedoor being opened she went in before tom requesting him to follow her and led the way to the parlour door


oh merry she said looking in i am so glad you have not gone home


who do you think i have met in the street and brought to see you


mr pinch


there


now you are surprised i am sure


not more surprised than tom wns when he looked upon her


not so much


not half so much


mr pinch has left papa my dear said cherry and his prospects arequite flourishing


i have promised that augustus who is going that way shall escort him to the place he wants


augustus my child where are you


with which miss pecksniff screamed out of the parlour calling on augustus moddle to appear and left tom pinch alone with her


if she had always been his kindest friend if she had treated him through all his servitude with such consideration as was never yet re ceived by struggling man if she had light ened every moment of those many years and had ever spared and never wounded him his honest heart could not have swelled before her with a deeper pity or a purer freedom from all base remembrance than it did then


my eracious me


you are really the last pereou iirtlie world i should have thought of seeing i am sure


tom was sorry to hear her speaking in her old manlier


he had not expected that


yet lie did not feel it a contradiction that he should he sorry to see her so unlike her old self and sorrv at the same time to hear her speaking in her old manner


the two things seemed quite natural


i wonder you find any gratification in coming to see me


i cant think what put it in your head


i never had much in seeing you


there was no love lost between us mr pinch at any time i think


her bonnet lay beside her on ine soia aim she was very busy with the ribbons as she spoke


much too busy to he conscious of the work her fingers did


we never quarrelled said torn


tom was right iu that for one person can no more quarrel without an adversary than one person can play at chebs or fight a duel


i hoped you would be glad to shake hands with an old frieud


dont let us rake up bygones said tom if i ever offended you forgive me


she looked at him for a moment dropped her bonnet from her hands spread them before her altered face and burst into tears


oh mr pinch


she said although i never used you well i did believe your nature was forgiving


i did not think you could be she spoke as little lite her old self now for certain as tom could have wished


but she crompij tji im nnnealin


to him reproachfully ind he did not understand her


seldom showed it never i know that


but i had that belief in you that if i had been isked to name the person iu the world least ikely to report upon me i would have named ou confidently would have named me


tom repeated


yes she said with energy aud i have jften thought so


after a moments reflection tom sat himself upon a chair beside her


do you believe said tom oh can you think that what i said just now said with any but the true and plain iutention which my words professed


i mean it in the spirit and the letter


if i ever oflended you forgive me i may have done so many times


you never injured or offended me


how then could i possibly retort if even i were stern aud


bad enough to wish to do it after a little while she thanked him through her tears and sobs and told him she had never been at once bo comforted since she left home


still she wept bitterly aud it was the greater pain to tom to see her weeping from her standius in especial need jusf then of sym pathy and tenderness


come come i said tom you used to be as cheerful as the day was long


ah i usedl she cried iu such a tone as rent toms heart


and will he again said tom


no never more


if you should talk with old m r chuzzlewit at any time she added looking hurriedly in his face


i sometimes thought he liked you but suppressed it will you promise me to tell him that you saw me here and that i said i bore in mind the time we talked together in the churchyard i tom promised that he would


many times since then when i have wished i had been carried there before that day i have recalled his words


i wish that he should know how true they were although the least acknowledgment to that effect has never passed my lips and never will


tom promised this conditionally too


he diil not tell her how improbable it was that he and the old man would ever meet again hecuuse he thought it might disturb her more


if he should ever know this through your means denr mr pinch said mercy tell him that i sent the message not for myself but that he might be more forbearing and more patient and more trustful to some other person in some other time of need


tell him that if he could know how my heart trembled iu the balance that day and what a very little would turn the scale his own would bleed with nitvforme


yes yes said tom win


when i appeared to him the most un worthy of his help i wasi know i was for have often very often thought about it since the most inclined to yield to what he showed me


oh i if he had relented but a little more if he had thrown himself in my way for but one quarter of an hour if he had extended his com passion for a vain unthinking miserable girl in but the least degree he might and i believe he would have saved her tell him that i dont i blame him but am grateful for the effort that ue made uuiaskuim lur me i w youth and in a merciful consideration for the struggle which an illadvised and unawakened nature makes to hide the strength it thinks its weakness ask him never to forget this when he deals with one again i although tom did not hold the clue to her full meaning he could guess it pretty nearly


touched to the quick he took her hand and said or meant to say some words of consola tion


she felt and understood them whether they were spoken or no


he was not quite certain afterwards but that she lad tried to kneel down at his feet and bless him


he found that be was not alone in the room when she had left it


mrs todgers was there shaking her head


tom had never seen mrs todprers it is needless to say but he had a perception of her being the lady of the bouse and he saw some genuine compassion in her eyes that won his good opinion


ah sir


you are an old friend i see said mrs todgers


yes said tom


and yet quoth mrs todgers shutting the door softly she hasnt told you what her troubles arc im certain


torn was struck by these words for they were quite true


indeed he said she had not


and never would said mrs todgers if you saw her daily


she never makes the least complaiut to me or utters a single word of explanation or reproach


but i know said mrs todgcrs drawing iu her breath i know


tom nodded sorrowfully so do i fully believe said mrs todirers taking her pockethandkerchief from the fliit reticule that nobody can tell one half of what flint poor voung creature has to undergo


but though she comes here constantly to ease her poor full heart without bis knowing it and saying mrs todgers i am very low today i think that i shall soon be dead sits crying iu my room until the fit is past i know no more from her


and i believe said mrs todgers putting back her handkerchief again that she considers me a good friend too


mrs todgers might have said her best friend


commercial gentlemen and gravy had tried mrs todgerss temper the main chance it was such a very small one iu her case that she might have been excused for looking sharp after it lest it should eutirely vanish from her sight had taken a firm hokl on mrs todgerss attention


but insomeodd nook of mrs todgerss breast up a great many steps aud in a corner easy to be overlooked there was a secret door wiili woman written on the spring which at a touch from mercys baud had flown wide open and admitted her for shelter


when boardinghouse accounts are balanced with all other ledgers aud the books of the flecordins angel are made up forever perhaps there may be seen an entry to thy creilit lean mrs todgers which shall make tliee beautiful


i ffhe was growing beautiful so rapidly in toms eyes for he saw that she was poor and that this good had sprung up in her from among the sordid strivings of her lite that she mibt have been a very veuus iu a minute more if miss pecksniff had not entered with her friend


mr thomas pinch said charity per forming the ceremody of introduction with evident pride mr moddle


wheres my sister


gone miss pecksniff mrs todgers answered


she had appointed to be home


ah sighed charity looking at tom


oh dear me i shes greatly altered since shes been anoth


since shes been married mrs tod gers observed moddle


my dear augustus said miss pecksniff in a low voice verily believe you have said that fifty thousand times in my hearing


what a prose you are


this was succeeded by some trifling love passages which appeared to originate with if not to be wholly carried on by miss pecksniff


at unv rnti mr moddle was much slower in his responses than is customary with young lovers and exhibited a lowness of spirits which was quite oppressive


he did not improve at all when tom and he were in the streets but sighed so dismally that it was dreadful to hear him


as a means of cheering him up tom told him that he wished joyl cried moddle


ha ha


what an extraordinary young man thought tom


the scorner has not set his seal upon you


you care what becomes of you said moddle


tom admitted that it was a subject in which he certainly felt some interest


i dont said mr moddle


the cle ments may have me when they please


im ready


tom inferred from these and other ex pressions of the same nature that he was jealous


therefore he allowed him to take his jwn course which was such a gloomy one lhat he felt a load removed from his mind when they parted company at the gate of furuivals it was now a couple of hours past john westlocks dinnertime and he was walking up and down the room quite anxious for toms safety


the table was spread the wine was carefully decantered aud the dinner smelt delicious


why tom old hoy where on earth have you been


your box is here


get your hoots off instantly and sit down


i am sorry to say i cant stay john re plied tom pinch who was breathless with the haste he hud made iu running up the stairs


cant stay if youll go on with your dinner said tom ill tel


you my reason the while


i mustnt eat myself or i shall have no appetite for the chops


there are no chops here my good fellow


no


but there are at islington said tom


john westlock was perfectly confounded by this reply and vowed he would not touch a uorsel until tom had explained himself fully


tom sal down and told him all to which lie listened with the greatest interest


he knew tom too well and respected his jelicacy too much to ask him why lie had laken these measures without communicating with hiui first


he quite concurred in the expediency of toms immediately returning to his sister as he knew so little of the place in which he had left her and goodhumouredly proposed to ride hack with him in a cab iu which he might convey his box


toms pro position that he should sup with them that night he flatly rejected but made an appoint ment with him for the morrow


and now tom he said as they rode along i have a question to ask you to which i expect a manly aud straightforward answer


do you want any money


am pretty sure you do


i dont indeed said tom hplieve von are deceiving me


with many thanks to you i am quite in earnest tom replied


my sister has some money and so have i if i had nothing else john i have a fivepound note which that good creature mrs lupin of the dromon handed up to me outside the coach in a letter begging me to borrow it and then drove off as hard as she could go


and a blessing on every dimple in her handsome face say i


cried john though liy you should give her the preference over me dont kuow


never iniud


bide my lime tom


aud i hope youll continue to bide it returned tom guily


for i owe you more already in a hundred other ways than i can ever hope to pay


they parted at the door of toms new resi dence


john westlock sitting in the cab and catching a glimpse of a blouming little creature darling out to kiss tom and to help him with his box would not have had the least objection to change places with him


well i she was a cheerful little thing and hod a quaint bright quietness about her tliat was infinitely pleasant


surely she was the bebt sauce for chops ever invented


ihe po tatoes seemed to take a pleasure in sending up their grateful steam before her the froth upon the pint of porter pouted to attract her notice


but it was all in vain


she saw nothing but tom


tom was the first and last thing in the world


as she sal opposite to tom at supper fingering one of toms pet tunes upon tlie table cloth and smiling in his face he had never been so happy injsife tobf


itervaturce


the mysteries of paris chapter i


the tapisfranc


in parisian slang a tapisfrane means no innof the very lowestclass generally kept by a discharged convict who is called an ogre or if a woman an ogresse


a tavern f


this kind is frequented by the refuie ofthepopulation


liberated galley


slaves sharpers robbers and assassins con gregate there


when a crime is committed the police cast their nets in these recep tacles of filth as the most certain means of discovering the offenders


this preface will apprise the reader that he is about to be a spectator of dismal and disagreeable scenes


if he is not afraid we will penetrate into terrible unknown re gions where frightful and hideous figures warm like reptiles in a marsh


on the th of december a cold and rainy evening a man of athletic form wearing a miserable blouse crossed the pont au change and plunged into the cild a labyrinth of obscure crooked and narrow streets which extend from the palais de justice to notre dame


this man on entering the rue aux feves situated in the middle of the cite slackened his pace for he felt himself on his own ground


the night was dark and sharp gusts of wind and rain beat against the wallsthe clock of the palace of justice struck ten some women sheltered under the heavy arched door ways were singing in a subdued tone some popular airs


one of these creatures must have been known by the man of whom we have spoken for he stopped suddenly before her and seized her by the arm


the unu fortunate creature drew back and said with a timid voice le chourineur


this was the name lie had acquired in the galleys


it means one who handles the knife is it you la goualeuse said the man in the blouse i want some brandy and you must pay for it


i have no money said the girl trembling for this man was much feared in the quarter


f ifyour purse is empty the ogresse of the tapisfranc will give you credit for your pretty face


mon dieu


ialready owe her the rent of the clothes on my back


sali


you refuse then


cried the chou rineur giving theunfortunate wretch a random blow withhis fistin the dark which made her utter a piercing cry


hardly hadhe done so when he cried with a horrible oathali


youve scratched me with your scissors have you and foaming with rage he rushed in pursuit of la goua leuse down the daik alley


come no nearer she said i have done nothingwhy did you strike me


i ll soon let you know cried he still groping down the dark alley


ahl now have you now ill make you dance he cried seizing with his powerful hands a delicate and slender armbut it was not the arm of la goualeuse


i shall make you dance first


cried a hoarse voice in his ear


is it you brasrouge


answer me and dont squeeze so hard sit is not brasrouge said the voice


good


there will be blood shedthen cried tlo chourineurbutto whom belongs this little paw that i have hold of


it is the fellow of this and so saying the stranger seized the ruffian by the throat with his other hand


la goualeuse who had fled to the bottom of the alley and mounted a few steps of the staircase stopped a moment and cried out to her defender


oh thank you sir for having taken my part


le


chourineur struck me because i wouldnt pay for some brandy


now that im in safety take care ofyourselfhe is the chourineur


the terror caused by the very name of this man was great


i tell you he is the chourineur


repeated la goualeuse


the stranger replied calmly in the slang of


the place


and i also am a ruffler who is no coward


they were both silent for some timebut the noise of a deadly conflict was heard


do you wish me to kill you cried le chourineur mfaking a violent effort to get rid ofhis adversary who he found pos sessed great strength


good good ill make you pay forla goualeuse and your self to he added grinding his teeth


anotherstruggle ensued


let go my cravat cried the almost strangled chourineur


come under the light and well look at the whites ofeach others eyes cried the unknown and throwing himself on the cchourineur he backedhim to the entrance of the alley then pushing hi


violently tlhrew him into the street beneath the light of a wretched hanging lame


the ruffian fell but recovering himself immediately rushed with fury on the unknown whose slight figure gave no indication of the strength he had displayed


the chourineur although of an athletic makeand very expert in an irregular sort of pugilism found that he had met his master


the unknown tripped up his heels and with wonderful dexterity threw him twice


not yet willing to ackltnowledge himself conquered the chourineur returned to the charge foaming with rage


the defender of la goualeuse changing his mode of hghting rained down on the head of the ruffian a torrent of blows with his fists which struck as if they were made of iron


these blows wortihy the admirationof the most famous boxers of london were so entirely out of all the rules of freich fighting that the chourineur was doubly stunned and for the third time fell upon the pavement like an ox crying enough i enough


sif he gives up have pity on him dont kill him said la goualeuse who stood in the doorway of the house of brasrouge she then added with astonishment but who are you my defender


except the mlaitre decole there is nobody capable of fighting the chourineur


i thank you much sir alas


i if it had not been for you he would have cruelly beaten ime


the unknown insteadofanswering her listened attentively to helr voice never had a sound more sweet more silvery more soft reached his ears he endeavoured to catch a glimpse of her face but the night was too dark the light fromn the lamp too feeble


aftler having remained some minutes im moveable the chourineur raised himself and sat up


take care i said la gounleuse retreat ing into the alley and draiving her protec tor by the airnm take care


perhaps he will try to revenge himself


be quiet my girl if he wanits any more i am ready to serve him


the brigud heard these words


ive had enough for one day but some other time nerhaus


swhat i not content


cried the un known with a menacing voice


is it that i have fought foul


no no i dont complain i must say youre a trump said the brigand in a peevish tone


but with that sort of respect which physical force always inspires in such people


youve fairly served me out and except the maitre decole no one to this hour could ever say the same


well


what then


why ive found my mas ter thats all


you will find yours one of these days sooner or later one thing is sure now that you have put the chourineur under your feet you can do as you please in the cit


all the women will be your slaves ugres and ogresses wont dare to refuse you credit


who are you then


if youre a thief i amnot your man


i have used the knile it is true because when the blood rushes to my head i must strike


but i have paid for my jcourinances in going fifteen years to the galleys


i finished my time


i owe nothing to the judge and i was never a thief you may ask la goua leuse


t it is true he is not a robber saidthe latter


well come and take a glass of brandy with me and we shall become acquainted said the unknown


come lets have in ill feeling now that is genteelyoure my master i own ityou know how to play with your ists those last blows came down like a lailstorm


thunder


how they poured on ny sconcenever felt any thing like it ust like a blacksmiths hammera new game


i guess ybu must teach it me


ill begin as soon as you like


not with menot with niei feel yet a little dizzy butyou must know brasrouge asyou were in the entrance to his house


brasrouge said the unknown sur prised at this question does nobody but brisrouge live in this house


brasrouge has his own reasons for not desiring neighbours said the chourineur smiling in a significant manner