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,,international ,,magazine  ,of         
,literature1 ,art1 and ,science4  ,vol4 
,,ii4      ,,new ,,york1 ,,january #a1  
#ahea4       ,no4 ,,ii4   ,transcriber's
 note3 ,minor typos have been corrected 
and footnotes moved to the end of the   
article4     ,illustration  ,,edmund    
,,burke4   ,edmund ,burke is the most   
illustrious name in the political       
history of ,england4 ,the exploits of   
,marlborough are forgotten1 as          
,wellington's will be1 while the wisdom 
and genius of ,burke live in the memory1
 and form a portion of the virtue and   
intelligence of the ,british nation and 
the ,british race4 ,the reflection of   
this superior power and permanence of   
moral grandeur over that which1 at best1
 is but a vulgar renown1 justifies the  
most sanguine expectations of humanity4 
,it may be said of ,burke1 as it was    
said by him of another1 that his mind   
was generous1 open1 sincere2 his manners

 plain1 simple1 and noble2 rejecting all
 sorts of duplicity and disguise1 as    
useless to his designs1 and odious to   
his nature4 ,his understanding was      
comprehensive1 steady1 and vigorous1    
made for the practical business of the  
state4444 ,his knowledge1 in all things 
which concerned his duty was            
profound4444 ,he was not more           
respectable on the public scene1 than   
amiable in private life4444 ,a husband  
and a father1 the kindest1 gentlest1    
most indulgent1 he was every thing in   
his family1 except what he gave up to   
his country4444 ,an ornament and        
blessing to the age in which he lived1  
his memory will continue to be          
beneficial to mankind1 by holding forth 
an example of pure and unaffected       
virtue1 most worthy of imitation1 to the
 latest posterity4  ,in the last of a   
series of articles by ,mrs4 ,s4 ,c4     
,hall1 entitled ,pilgrimages to ,english
 ,shrines1 and published in the ,london 
,art ,journal1 we have an account of a  

visit to the residences and to the grave
 of ,burke1 which we reproduce in the   
following pages1 with its interesting   
illustrations4   ,,the ,,grave ,,of     
,,edmund ,,burke4  ,it has been said    
that we are inclined to over-value great
 men when their graves have been long   
green1 or their monuments gray above    
them1 but we believe it is only then we 
estimate them as they deserve4          
,prejudice and falsehood have no        
enduring vitality1 and posterity is     
generally anxious to render justice to  
the mighty dead2 we dwell upon their    
actions1--we quote their sentiments and 
opinions1--we class them amongst our    
household gods--and keep their memories 
green within the sanctuary of our       
,,homes2 we read to our children and    
friends the written treasures bequeathed
 to us by the genius and independence of
 the great statesmen and orators--the   
men of literature and science--who have 
been4 ,we adorn our minds with the      
poetry of the past1 and value it1 as    

well we may1 as far superior to that of 
the present3 we sometimes1 by the aid of
 imagination--one of the highest of     
,god's gifts--bring great men before us3
 we hear the deep-toned voices and see  
the flashing eyes of some1 who1 it may  
be1 taught kings their duty1 or quelled 
the tumults of a factious people3 we    
listen to the lay of the minstrel1 or   
the orator's addresses to the assembly1 
and our pulses throb and our eyes       
moisten as the eloquence flows--first1  
as a gentle river1 until gaining        
strength in its progress1 it sweeps     
onwards like a torrent1 overcoming all  
that sought to impede its progress4     
,what a happy power this is6--what a    
glorious triumph over time6--recalling  
or creating at will6--peopling our small
 chamber with the demigods of history2  
viewing them enshrined in their         
perfections1 untainted by the world2    
hearing their exalted sentiments2       
knowing them as we know a noble statue  
or a beautiful picture1 without the     

taint of age or feebleness1 or the      
mildew of decay4  ,if these sweet       
wakening dreams were more frequent1 we  
should be happier2 yes1 and better than 
we are2 we should be shamed out of much 
baseness--for nothing so purifies and   
exalts the soul as the actual or        
imaginary companionship of the pure and 
exalted2 no man who purposed to create a
 noble picture would choose an imperfect
 model2 no one who seeks virtue and     
cherishes honor and honorable things1   
will endure the degradation of ignoble  
persons or ignoble thoughts2 no one ever
 achieved a great purpose who did not   
plant his standard on high ground4  ,a  
little before the commencement of the   
present century1 ,england was rich in   
orators1 and poets1 and men of letters2 
the times were favorable to such--events
 called them forth--and there was still 
a lingering chivalric feeling in our    
island which the utilitarian principles 
or tastes of the present period would   
now treat with neglect1 if not contempt4

  ,the progress of the ,french          
,revolution agitated ,europe2 and men   
wondered if the young ,corsican would   
ever dare to wield the sceptre wrenched 
from the grasp of a murdered king2      
people were continually on the watch for
 fresh events2 great stakes were played 
for all over ,europe1 and those who     
desired change were full of hope4 ,it   
was an age to create great men4  ,let us
 then indulge in visions of those1 who1 
in more recent times than we have yet   
touched upon1--save in one or two       
,,pilgrimages1--illumed the later days  
of the last century2 and1 brightest and 
purest of the galaxy was the orator1    
,,edmund ,,burke4 ,ireland1 which gave  
him birth1 may well be proud of the     
high-souled and high-gifted man1 who    
united in himself all the great         
qualities which command attention in the
 senate and the world1 and all the      
domestic virtues that sanctify home2    
grasping a knowledge of all things1 and 
yet having that sweet sympathy with the 

small things of life1 which at once     
bestows and secures happiness1 and1 in  
the end1 popularity4  ,,edmund ,,burke  
was born on ,arran ,quay1 ,dublin1      
,january the #ast1 #agcj2 his father was
 an attorney3 the name1 we believe1 was 
originally spelt ,bourke4  ,the great   
grandfather of ,edmund inherited some   
property in that county which has       
produced so many men of talent--the     
county of ,cork2 the family resided in  
the neighborhood of ,castletown ,roche1 
four or five miles from ,doneraile1 five
 or six miles from ,mallow--now a       
railroad station--and nearly the same   
distance from the ruins of ,kilcolman   
,castle1 whose every mouldering stone is
 hallowed by the memory of the poet     
,spenser and his dear friend1 the       
,shepherd of the ,ocean1 ,sir ,walter   
,raleigh4 ,there can be little doubt    
that ,edmund--a portion of whose young  
life was passed in this beautiful       
locality--imbibed much thought1 as well 
as much poetry1 from the sacred memories

 which here accompanied him during his  
wanderings4  ,nothing so thoroughly     
awakens the sympathy of the young as the
 imaginary presence of the good and     
great amid the scenes where their most  
glorious works were accomplished2 the   
associations connected with ,kilcolman  
are so mingled1 that their contemplation
 produces a variety of                  
emotions--admiration for the poem which 
was created within its                  
walls--contemplation of the glorious two
 who there spent so much time together  
in harmony and sweet companionship1     
despite the storms which ravaged the    
country2 then the awful catastrophe1 the
 burning of the castle1 and the loss of 
,spenser's child in the flames1 still   
talked of in the neighborhood1 were     
certain to make a deep impression on the
 imagination of a boy whose delicate    
health prevented his rushing into the   
amusements and society of children of   
his own age4 ,there are plenty of crones
 in every village1 and one at least in  

every gentleman's house to watch the    
master's children and pour legendary    
lore into their willing ears1           
accompanied by snatches of song and     
fairy tale4 ,all these were certain to  
seize upon such an imagination as that  
of ,burke1 and lay the foundation of    
much of that high-souled mental         
poetry--one of his great                
characteristics2 indeed1 the            
circumstances of his youth were highly  
favorable to his peculiar               
temperament--his delicate constitution  
rendered him naturally susceptible of   
the beautiful2 and the locality of the  
,blackwater1 and the time-honored ruins 
of ,kilcolman1 with its history and     
traditions1 nursed1 as they were1 by the
 holy quiet of a country life1 had ample
 time to sink into his soul and         
germinate the fruitage which1 in after  
years1 attained such rich perfection4   
,an old schoolmaster1 of the name of    
,o',halloran1 was his first teacher2 he 
played at learning at the school1 long  

since in ruins2 and the ,dominie used to
 boast that no matter how great ,master 
,edmund 7,god bless him7 was1 ,,he was  
the first who ever put a ,latin grammar 
into his hands4  ,edmund was one of a   
numerous family2 his mother1 who had    
been a ,miss ,nagle1#a having had       
fourteen or fifteen children1 all of    
whom died young1 except four1--one      
sister and three brothers3 the sister1  
,mrs4 ,french1 was brought up in the    
faith of her mother1 who was a rigid    
,roman ,catholic1 while the sons were   
trained in the father's belief4 ,this1  
happily1 created no unkindness between  
them1 for not only were they an         
affectionate and a united family1 but   
perfectly charitable in their opinions1 
each of the other's creed4 ,as the      
future statesman grew older1 it was     
considered wise to remove him to ,dublin
 for better instruction1 and he was     
placed at a school in ,smithfield kept  
by a ,mr4 ,james ,fitzgerald2 but1      
fortunately for his strength of body and

 mind1 the reputation of an academy in  
the lovely valley of ,ballitore1 founded
 in the midst of a colony of ,quakers1  
by a member of that most benevolent and 
intelligent society--the well-known     
,abraham ,shackleton--was spreading far 
and wide2 and there the three young     
,burkes were sent in #agda1 ,edmund     
being then twelve years old4  ,he was   
considered not so much brilliant1 as of 
steady application4 ,here1 too1 he was  
remarkable for quick comprehension1 and 
great strength of memory2 indications   
which drew forth at first the           
commendation1 and as his powers         
unfolded1 the warm regard of his master2
 under whose paternal care the          
improvement of his health kept pace with
 that of his intellect1 and the grateful
 pupil never forgot his obligations3 a  
truly noble mind is prone to exaggerate 
kindnesses received1 and never detracts 
from their value2 it is only the low and
 the narrow-minded who underrate the    
benefits they have been blessed with at 

any period of their lives4  ,in #agdc he
 entered ,trinity ,college1 ,dublin1 as 
a pensioner4 ,he gained fair honors     
during his residence there1 but1 like   
,johnson1 ,swift1 ,goldsmith1 and other 
eminent men1 he did not distinguish     
himself so as to lead to any speculation
 as to his after greatness1 although his
 elders said he was more anxious to     
acquire knowledge than to display it2--a
 valuable testimony4 ,his domestic life 
was so pure1 his friendships were so    
firm1 his habits so completely those of 
a well-bred1 well-born ,,irish          
,,gentleman--mingling1 as only ,irish   
gentlemen can do1 the suavity of the    
,french with the dignity of ,english    
manners--that there is little to write  
about1 or speculate upon1 beyond his    
public words and deeds4  ,like most     
young men of his time1 his first oratory
 was exercised at a club1 and his first 
efforts as a politician were made in    
#agdi1 previous to his quitting the     
,dublin ,university1 in some letters    

against ,mr4 ,henry ,brooke1 the author 
of ,gustavus ,vasa4 ,his determination  
was the bar1 and his entry at the       
,middle ,temple bears date ,april #bc1  
#agdg4 ,his youthful impressions of     
,england and its capital are recorded in
 graceful language in his letters to    
those friends whom he never lost1 but by
 death2 one passage is as applicable to 
the present as to the past4 ,i don't    
find that genius1 the 'rath primrose    
which forsaken dies1' is patronized by  
any of the nobility1 so that writers of 
the first talents are left to the       
capricious patronage of the public4  ,it
 was the taste of his time to desire1 if
 not solicit patronage4 ,in our opinion 
literature is degraded by patronage1    
while it is honored by the friendship of
 the good and great4 ,nothing is so     
loathsome in the history of letters as  
the debased dedications which men of    
mind some years ago laid at the feet of 
the so-styled patron6 ,literature in our
 days has only to assert its own        

dignity1 to be true and faithful to the 
right1 to avoid ribaldry1 and preserve a
 noble and brave independence2 and then 
its importance to the state1 as the     
minister of good1 must be acknowledged4 
,it is only when forgetful of great     
purposes and great power1 that          
literature is open to be forgotten or   
sneered at4 ,still the indifference an  
,englishman feels towards genius1 even  
while enjoying its fruits1 was likely   
enough to check and chill the enthusiasm
 of ,burke1 and drive him to much       
mystery as to his early literary        
engagements4 ,one of his observations   
made during his first visit to          
,westminster ,abbey1 while hopes and    
ambitions quickened his throbbing pulse1
 and he might have been pardoned for    
wishing for a resting-place in the grand
 mausoleum of ,england1 is remarkable1  
as showing how little he changed1 and   
how completely the youth      ,was      
father to the man4  ,yet after all1 do  
you know that ,i would rather sleep in  

the southern corner of a country        
church-yard than in the tomb of the     
,capulets8 ,i should like1 however1 that
 my dust should mingle with kindred     
dust2 the good old expression1 'family  
burying-grounds1' has something pleasant
 in it1 at least to me4  ,this was his  
last1 as it seems to have been his first
 desire2 and it has found an echo in    
many a richly dowered heart4  ,lay me1  
said ,allan ,cunningham1 where the      
daisies can grow on my grave2 and it is 
well known that ,moore--      ,the poet 
of all circles1--  and1 as a poor       
,irishman once rendered it--      ,the  
darlint of his own1   has frequently    
expressed a desire to be buried at      
,sloperton beside his children4  ,the   
future orator found the law1 as a       
profession1 alien to his habits and     
feelings1 for at the expiration of the  
usual term he was not even called to the
 bar4 ,some say he desired the          
professorship of logic at the           
,university of ,glasgow1 and even stood 

the contest2 but this has been disputed1
 and if he was rejected1 it is matter of
 congratulation1 that his talents and   
time were not confined to so narrow a   
sphere4 ,at that period his mind was    
occupied by his theories on the ,sublime
 and ,beautiful1 which were finally     
condensed and published in the shape of 
that essay which roused the world to    
admiration4  ,mr4 ,prior says1 and with 
every show of reason1 that ,mr4 ,burke's
 ambition of being distinguished in     
literature1 seems to have been one of   
his earliest1 as it was one of his      
latest1 passions4 ,his first avowed work
 was ,the ,vindication of ,natural      
,society2 but he wrote a great deal     
anonymously2 and the essay on ,the      
,sublime and ,beautiful1 triumphant as  
it was1 must have caused him great      
anxiety2 he began it before he was      
nineteen1 and kept it by him for seven  
years before it was published--a        
valuable lesson to those who rush into  
print and mistake the desire for        

celebrity1 for the power which bestows  
immortality4  ,the literature which is  
pursued chiefly in solitude1 is always  
the best sort3 society1 which cheers and
 animates men in most employments1 is an
 impediment to an author if really      
warmed by true genius1 and impelled by a
 sacred love of truth not to fritter    
away his thoughts or be tempted to      
insincerity4  ,the genius and noble mind
 of ,burke constituted him a high priest
 of literature2 the lighter1 and it     
might be the more pleasurable enjoyments
 of existence1 could not be tasted      
without interfering with his pursuits2  
but he knew his duty to his ,god1 to the
 world1 and to himself1 and the         
responsibility alone was sufficiently   
weighty to bend a delicate frame1 even  
when there was no necessity for laboring
 to live--but where an object is to be  
attained1 principles put forth or       
combated1 ,god or man to be served1 the 
necessity for exertion always exists1   
and the great soul must go forth on its 

mission4  ,that sooner or later this    
strife1 or love1 or duty--pursued       
bravely--must tell upon all who even    
covet and enjoy their labor1 the        
experience of the past has recorded2 and
 ,edmund ,burke1 even at that early     
period of life1 was ordered to try the  
effects of a visit to ,bath and         
,bristol1 then the principal resort of  
the invalids of the ,united ,kingdom4   
,at ,bath he exchanged one malady for   
another1 for he became attached to ,miss
 ,nugent1 the daughter of his physician1
 and in a very little time formed what1 
in a worldly point of view1 would be    
considered an imprudent marriage1 but   
which secured the happiness of his      
future life2 she was a ,roman ,catholic2
 but1 however unfortunate dissenting    
creeds are in many instances1 in this it
 never disturbed the harmony of their   
affection4  ,she was a woman exactly    
calculated to create happiness2         
possessing accomplishments1 goodness of 
heart1 sweetness of disposition and     

manners1 veneration for talent1 a       
hopeful spirit to allay her husband's   
anxieties1 wisdom and love to meet his  
ruffled temper1 and tenderness to subdue
 it--qualities which made him frequently
 declare that every care vanished the   
moment he sheltered beneath his own     
roof4  ,edmund ,burke became a husband1 
and also continued a lover--and once    
presented to his ladylove1 on the       
anniversary of their marriage1 his idea 
of a perfect wife4#b  ,for a            
considerable time after his marriage    
,burke toiled as a literary man1 living 
at ,battersea or in town1 now writing1  
it is believed1 jointly with his brother
 ,richard and his cousin ,william a work
 on the ,european ,settlements in       
,america1 in two volumes1 which1        
according to tradition1 brought him1 or 
them1 only fifty pounds6 then planning  
and commencing an abridgment of the     
,history of ,england4  ,struggling1 it  
may be with difficulties brought on by  
his generous nature1 and which his      

father's allowance of two hundred a     
year1 and his own industry and          
perseverance could hardly overcome1 the 
birth of a son was an additional        
stimulant to exertion1 and1 in          
conjunction with ,dodsley1 he           
established the ,annual ,register4 ,this
 work he never acknowledged1 but his    
best biographers have no doubt of his   
having brought forth and nurtured this  
useful publication4 ,a hundred pounds a 
volume seems to have been the sum paid  
for this labor2 and ,burke's receipts   
for the money were at one time in the   
possession of ,mr4 ,upcott4  ,long      
before he obtained a seat in ,parliament
 he won the esteem of ,doctor ,johnson1 
who bore noble testimony to his virtue  
and talent1 and what he especially      
admired1 and called1 his affluence of   
conversation4  ,for a time he went to   
,ireland as private secretary to ,mr4   
,hamilton1 distinguished from all others
 of his name as single-speech ,hamilton2
 but disagreeing with this person1 he   

nobly threw up a pension of three       
hundred a year1 because of the          
unreasonable and derogatory claims made 
upon his gratitude by ,hamilton1 who had
 procured it for him4  ,while in ,dublin
 he made acquaintance with the genius of
 the painter ,barry1 and though his own 
means were limited1 he persuaded him to 
come to ,england1 and received him in   
his house in ,queen ,anne-street1 where 
he soon procured him employment2 he     
already numbered ,mr41 afterwards ,sir  
,joshua1 ,reynolds amongst his friends2 
and his correspondence with ,barry might
 almost be considered a young painter's 
manual1 so full is it of the better     
parts of taste1 wisdom1 and knowledge4  
,mr4 ,burke was then on the threshold of
 ,parliament1 ,lord ,verney arranging   
for his debut as member for ,wendover1  
in ,buckinghamshire1 under the          
,rockingham administration2 another star
 was added to the galaxy of that        
brilliant assembly1 and if we had space 
it could not be devoted to a better     

purpose than to trace his glorious      
career in the senate2 but that is before
 all who read the history of the period1
 and we prefer to follow his footsteps  
in the under current of private life4   
,he was too successful to escape the    
poisoned arrows of envy1 or the         
misrepresentations of the disappointed4 
,certain persons exclaimed against his  
want of consistency1 and gave as a      
reason that at one period he commanded  
the spirit of liberty with which the    
,french ,revolution commenced1 and after
 a time turned away in horror and       
disgust from a people who made murder a 
pastime1 and converted ,paris into a    
shambles for human flesh4  ,but nothing 
could permanently obscure the fame of   
the eloquent ,irishman1 he continued to 
act with such worthiness1 that1 despite 
his schism with ,charles ,james ,fox1   
the people did him the justice to       
believe1 that in his public conduct1 he 
had no one view but the public good4    
,he outlived calumny1 uniting unto      

genius diligence1 and unto diligence    
patience1 and unto patience enthusiasm1 
and to these1 deep-hearted enthusiasm1  
with a knowledge1 not only1 it would    
seem1 of all things1 but of such ready  
application1 that in illustration or    
argument his resources were boundless2  
the wisdom of the ,ancients was as      
familiar to him as the improved state of
 modern politics1 science1 and laws2 the
 metaphysics and logic of the ,schools  
were to him as household words1 and his 
memory was gemmed with whatever was most
 valuable in poetry1 history1 and the   
arts4  ,illustration3 ,,gregories4      
,after much toil1 and the lapse of some 
time1 he purchased a domain in          
,buckinghamshire1 called ,gregories2    
there1 whenever his public duties gave  
him leisure1 he enjoyed the repose so   
necessary to an overtaxed brain2 and    
from ,gregories some of his most        
interesting letters are dated4#c ,those 
addressed to the painter ,barry1 whom   
his liberality sent to and supported in 

,rome1 are1 as we have said1 replete    
with art and wisdom2 and the delicacy of
 both him and his excellent brother     
,richard1 while entreating the          
rough-hewn genius to prosecute his      
studies and give them pleasure by his   
improvement1 are additional proofs of   
the beautiful union of the brothers1 and
 of their oneness of purpose and        
determination that ,barry should never  
be cramped by want of means4#d  ,after  
the purchase of ,gregories#e ,mr4 ,burke
 had no settled town-house1 merely      
occupying one for the season4 ,in one of
 his letters to ,barry1 he tells him to 
direct to ,charles-street1 ,st4 ,james's
 ,square2 he writes also from           
,fludyer-street1 ,westminster1 and from 
,gerrard-street1 ,soho2 but traces of   
his whereabouts are next to impossible  
to find4 ,barry was not the only artist 
who profited by ,edmund ,burke's        
liberality4 ,barret1 the                
landscape-painter1 had fallen into      
difficulties1 and the fact coming to the

 orator's ears during his short tenure  
in power1 he bestowed upon him a place  
in ,chelsea ,hospital1 which he enjoyed 
during the remainder of his life4       
,indeed1 this great man's noble love of 
,art was part and parcel of himself2 it 
was no affectation1 and it led to       
genuine sympathy with1 not only the     
artist's triumphs1 but his difficulties4
 ,he found time1 amid all his           
occupations1 to write letters to the    
irritable ,barry1 and if the painter had
 followed their counsel1 he would have  
secured his peace and prosperity2 but it
 was far otherwise3 his conduct1 both in
 ,rome and after his return to ,england1
 gave his friend just cause of offence2 
though1 like all others who offended the
 magnanimous ,burke1 he was soon        
forgiven4  ,he never forgot his ,irish  
friends1 or the necessities of those who
 lived on the family estate2 the        
expansive generosity of his nature did  
not prevent his attending to the minor  
comforts of his dependants1 and his     

letters home frequently breathe a most  
loving and careful spirit1 that the     
sorrows of the poor might be            
ameliorated1 and their wants relieved4  
,we ought to have mentioned before that 
,mr4 and ,mrs4 ,burke's marriage was    
only blessed by two sons2 one died in   
childhood1 the eldest grew up a young   
man of the warmest affections1 and      
blessed with a considerable share of    
talent2 to his parents he was every     
thing they could desire2 towards his    
mother he exhibited the tenderness and  
devotion of a daughter1 and his demeanor
 to his father was that of an obedient  
son1 and most faithful friend2 at       
intervals he enjoyed with them the      
pleasure they experienced in receiving  
guests of the highest consideration2    
amongst them the eccentric ,madame de   
,genlis1 who put their politeness to the
 test by the exercise of her            
peculiarities1 and horrified the meek   
and amiable ,sir ,joshua ,reynolds by   
the assumption of talents she did not   

possess4  ,the publication of his       
reflections on the ,french ,revolution1 
which1 perhaps1 never would have seen   
the light but for the rupture with ,mr4 
,sheridan1 which caused his opinions to 
be misunderstood1 brought down the      
applause of ,europe on a head then      
wearying of public life4  ,but1 perhaps1
 a tribute ,burke valued more than any1 
remembering the adage--an adage which1  
unhappily1 especially applies to        
,ireland--no man is a prophet in his own
 country1 was1 that on a motion of the  
provost of ,trinity ,college1 ,dublin1  
in #agij1 the honorary degree of        
,,ll4,d4 was conferred upon him in full 
convocation1 and an address afterwards  
presented in a gold box1 to express the 
,university's sense of his services4    
,when he replied to this distinguished  
compliment1 his town residence was in   
,duke-street1 ,st4 ,james4  ,his term of
 life--over-tasked as it was--might have
 been extended to a much longer period1 
but that his deeply affectionate nature1

 as time passed on1 experienced several 
of those shocks inseparable from even   
moderate length of days2 many of his    
friends died2 among others1 his sister  
and his brother2 but still the wife of  
his bosom and his son were with         
him--that son whose talents he rated as 
superior to his own1 whom he had        
consulted for some years on almost every
 subject1 whether of a public or a      
private nature1 that occurred1 and very 
frequently preferred his judgment to his
 own4 ,this beloved son had attained the
 age of thirty-four1 when he was seized 
with rapid consumption4 ,when the malady
 was recognized and acknowledged1 his   
father took him to ,brompton1 then1 as  
now1 considered the best air for those  
affected with this cruel malady4        
,cromwell ,house1 chosen as their       
temporary residence1 is standing still1 
though there is little doubt the rage   
for extending ,london through this once 
sequestered and rural suburb1 will soon 
raze it to the ground1 as it has done   

others of equal interest4               
,illustration3 ,,cromwell ,,house4  ,we 
have always regarded ,cromwell ,house1  
as it is called1 with veneration4 ,in   
our earliest acquaintance with a        
neighborhood1 in which we lived so long 
and still love so well1 this giant      
dwelling1 staring with its whited walls 
and balconied roof over the tangled     
gardens which seemed to cut it off from 
all communication with the world1 was   
associated with our ,hero ,worship of   
,oliver ,cromwell4 ,we were told he had 
lived there 7what neighborhood has not  
its ,cromwell ,house87--that the ghastly
 old place had private staircases and   
subterranean passages--some underground 
communication with ,kensington--that    
there were doors in the walls1 and out  
of the walls2 and1 that if not careful  
you might be precipitated through       
trap-doors into some unfathomable abyss1
 and encounter the ghost of old ,oliver 
himself4 ,these tales operated upon our 
imagination in the usual way2 and many  

and many a moonlight evening1 while     
wandering in those green lanes--now     
obliterated by ,onslow and ,thurloe     
,squares--and listening to the          
nightingales1 have we watched the huge  
shadows cast by that solitary and       
melancholy-looking house1 and1 as we    
have said1 associated it with the stern 
and grand ,protector of ,england4 ,upon 
closer investigation1 how grieved we    
have often been to discover the truth1  
for it destroyed not only our castles in
 the air1 but their inhabitants2 we     
found that ,oliver never resided there1 
but that his son1 ,richard1 had1 and was
 a rate payer to the parish of          
,kensington for some time4 ,to this     
lonely sombre house ,mr4 and ,mrs4      
,burke and their son removed1 in the    
hope that the soft mild air of this     
salubrious neighborhood might restore   
his failing strength2 the consciousness 
of his being in danger was something too
 terrible for them to think of4 ,he had 
just received a new appointment--an     

appointment suited to his tastes and    
expectations2 he must take possession of
 it in a little time4 ,he was their     
child1 their friend1 their treasure1    
their all6 ,surely ,god would spare him 
to close their eyes4 ,how could death   
and he meet together8 ,they entreated   
him of ,god1 by prayer1 and             
supplication1 and tears that flowed     
until their eyes were dry and their     
eyelids parched--but all in vain4 ,the  
man1 in his prime of manhood1 was       
stricken down2 we transcribe1 from an   
article in the ,quarterly ,review1 on   
,fontenelle's ,signs of ,death1 the     
brief account of his last moments3      
,burke's son1 upon whom his father has  
conferred something of his own          
celebrity1 heard his parents sobbing in 
another room at the prospect of an event
 they knew to be inevitable4 ,he rose   
from his bed1 joined his illustrious    
father1 and endeavored to engage him in 
a cheerful conversation4 ,burke         
continued silent1 choked with grief4    

,his son again made an effort to console
 him4 ',i am under no terror1' he said2 
',i feel myself better and in spirits1  
and yet my heart flutters1 ,i know not  
why4 ,pray1 talk to me1 sir6 talk of    
religion2 talk of morality2 talk1 if you
 will1 of indifferent subjects4' ,here a
 noise attracted his notice1 and he     
exclaimed1 ',does it rain8--,no2 it is  
the rustling of the wind through the    
trees4' ,the whistling of the wind and  
the waving of the trees brought         
,milton's majestic lines to his mind1   
and he repeated them with uncommon grace
 and effect3      ',his praise1 ye      
winds1 that from four quarters blow1    
,breathe soft or loud2 and wave your    
tops1 ye pines1     ,with every plant1  
in sign of worship wave6'  ,a second    
time he took up the sublime and         
melodious strain1 and1 accompanying the 
action to the word1 waved his own hand  
in token of worship1 and sank into the  
arms of his father--a corpse4 ,not a    
sensation told him that in an instant he

 would stand in the presence of the     
,creator to whom his body was bent in   
homage1 and whose praises still         
resounded from his lips4  ,the account  
which all the biographies of ,burke give
 of the effect this bereavement produced
 upon his parents is most fearful even  
to read2 what must it have been to      
witness8 ,his mother seems to have      
regained her self-possession sooner than
 his father4 ,in one of his letters to  
the late ,baron ,smith1 he writes--,so  
heavy a calamity has fallen upon me as  
to disable me from business1 and        
disqualifies me for repose4 ,the        
existence ,i have--,i do not know that  
,i can call life4 99 99 ,good nights to 
you--,i never have any4 ,and again--,the
 life which has been so embittered      
cannot long endure4 ,the grave will soon
 close over me1 and my dejections4 ,to  
,lord ,auckland he writes--,for myself1 
or for my family 7alas6 ,i have none71  
,i have nothing to hope or to fear in   
this world4 ,and again in another       

letter--,the storm has gone over me1 and
 ,i lie like one of those old oaks which
 the late hurricane has scattered about 
me4 ,i am stripped of all my honors1 ,i 
lie prostrate on the earth2 ,i am alone1
 ,i have none to meet my enemies in the 
gate4 ,i greatly deceive myself1 if in  
this hard season of life1 ,i would give 
a peck of refuse wheat for all that is  
called fame and honor in the world4     
,there is some thing in the wail and    
character of these laments that recalls 
the mournful ,psalms of ,david2 like the
 ,psalmist he endeavored to be          
comforted1 but it was by an effort4 ,his
 political career was shrouded for      
ever--the motive to his great exertions 
was destroyed--but his mind1 wrecked as 
it had been1 could not remain inactive4 
,in #agie his private reply to ,mr4     
,smith's letter1 requesting his opinion 
of the expediency of and necessity for  
,catholic ,emancipation1 got into public
 circulation2 and in that singular      
document1 though he did not enter into  

the details of the question with as much
 minuteness as he would previously have 
done1 he pleaded for the removal of the 
whole of the disabilities of the ,roman 
,catholic body4 ,from time to time he   
put forth a small work on some popular  
question4 ,he originated several plans  
for benefiting the poor in his own      
neighborhood4 ,he had a windmill in his 
park for the purpose of supplying the   
poor with cheap bread1 which bread was  
served at his own table2 and1 as if     
clinging to the memory of the youth of  
his son1 he formed a plan for the       
establishment of an emigrant school at  
,penn1 where the children of those who  
had perished by the guillotine or the   
sword amid the ,french convulsions1     
could be received1 supported1 and       
educated4 ,he made a generous appeal to 
government for the benefit of these     
children1 which was as generously       
responded to4 ,the house appropriated to
 this humane purpose had been inhabited 
by ,burke's old friend1 ,general        

,haviland2 and after his death several  
emigre ,french priests sheltered within 
its walls4 ,until his last fatal illness
 ,mr4 ,burke watched over the           
establishment with the solicitude of a  
friend and the tenderness of a father4  
,the ,lords of the ,treasury allowed    
fifty pounds per month for its          
sustenance3 the ,marquis of ,buckingham 
made them a present of a brass cannon   
and a stand of colors4 ,when the        
,bourbons were restored in #ahad they   
relieved the government from this       
charge1 and the institution was         
dissolved in #ahbj2 in #ahbb ,tyler's   
,green ,house1 as it was called1 was    
sold in lots1 pulled down1 and carried  
away2 thus1 ,burke's own dwelling being 
destroyed by fire1 and this building1   
sanctified by his sympathy and goodness1
 razed to the ground1 little remains to 
mark the locality of places where all   
the distinguished men of the age        
congregated around the ,burkes1 and     
where ,edmund1 almost to the last1      

extended hospitalities1 coveted and     
appreciated by all who had any          
pretensions to be considered as         
distinguished either by talent or       
fortune4  ,it has frequently struck us  
as strange1 the morbid avidity with     
which the world seizes upon the         
slightest evidence of abstraction in    
great men1 to declare that their minds  
are fading1 or impoverished3 the public 
gapes for every trifle calculated to    
prove that the palsied fingers can no   
longer grasp the intellectual sceptre1  
and that the well-worn and hard-earned  
bays are as a crown of thorns to the    
pulseless brow4 ,it was1 in those days  
whispered in ,london that the great     
orator had become imbecile immediately  
after the publication of his ,letter to 
a ,noble ,lord2 and that he wandered    
about his park kissing his cows and     
horses4  ,a noble friend went           
immediately to ,beaconsfield to         
ascertain the truth1 and was delighted  
to find ,mr4 ,burke anxious to read him 

passages from ,a ,regicide ,peace1 which
 he was then writing2 after a little    
delicate manoeuvring on his part1 to    
ascertain the truth1 ,mr4 ,burke told   
him a touching incident which proved the
 origin of this calumny on his          
intellectual powers4  ,an old horse1 a  
great favorite of his son's1 and his    
constant companion1 when both were full 
of life and health1 had been turned out 
at the death of his master1 to take his 
run of the park for the remainder of his
 life1 at ease1 with strict injunctions 
to the servants that he should neither  
be ridden1 nor molested by any one4     
,while musing one day1 loitering along1 
,mr4 ,burke perceived this worn-out old 
servant come close up to him1 and at    
length1 after some moments spent in     
viewing his person1 followed by seeming 
recollection and confidence1 he         
deliberately rested his head upon his   
bosom4 ,the singularity of the action   
itself1 the remembrance of his dead son1
 its late master1 who occupied so much  

of his thoughts at all times1 and the   
apparent attachment1 tenderness and     
intelligence of the creature towards    
him--as if it could sympathize with his 
inward sorrow--rushing at once into his 
mind1 totally overpowered his firmness1 
and throwing his arms over its neck1 he 
wept long and loudly4  ,but though his  
lucid and beautiful mind1 however       
agonized1 remained unclouded to the     
last1 and his affections glowed towards 
his old friends as warmly as ever1 his  
bodily health was failing fast2 one of  
the last letters he ever dictated was to
 ,mary ,leadbeater1 the daughter of his 
old friend and master1 ,shackleton2 this
 lady was subsequently well known in    
,ireland as the author of ,cottage      
,dialogues4 ,the first literary attempt1
 we believe1 made towards the           
improvement of the lower order of       
,irish1 was by her faithful and earnest 
pen2 to this letter1 congratulating her 
on the birth of a son1 is a ,,ps4 where 
the invalid says3--,i have been at ,bath

 these four months to no purpose1 and am
 therefore to be removed to my own house
 at ,beaconsfield to-morrow1 to be      
nearer to a habitation more permanent1  
humbly and fearfully hoping that my     
better part may find a better mansion6  
,it would seem as if he anticipated the 
hour of his passing away4 ,he sent sweet
 messages of loving-kindness to all his 
friends1 entreating and exchanging      
pardons2 recapitulated his motives of   
action on various political emergencies2
 gave directions as to his funeral1 and 
then listened with attention to some    
serious papers of ,addison on religious 
subjects and on the immortality of the  
soul4 ,his attendants after this were in
 the act of removing him to his bed1    
when indistinctly invoking a blessing on
 all around him1 he sunk down and       
expired on the #ith of ,july1 #agig1 in 
the sixty-eighth year of his age4  ,his 
end1 said his friend ,doctor ,lawrence1 
was suited to the simple greatness of   
mind which he displayed through life2   

every way unaffected1 without levity1   
without ostentation1 full of natural    
grace and dignity1 he appeared neither  
to wish nor to dread1 but patiently and 
placidly to await the appointed hour of 
his dissolution4  ,illustration3 ,,the  
,,tomb ,,of ,,edmund ,,burke4  ,it was  
almost impossible to people1 in fancy1  
the tattered and neglected churchyard of
 ,beaconsfield as it now is--with those 
who swelled the funeral pomp of the     
greatest ornament of the ,british       
senate2 to imagine the titled           
pall-bearers1 where the swine were      
tumbling over graves1 and rooting at    
headstones4 ,seldom1 perhaps never1 in  
,england1 had we seen a churchyard so   
little cared for as that1 where the tomb
 of ,waller#f renders the surrounding   
disorder in a sacred place more         
conspicuous by its lofty pretension1 and
 where the church is regarded as the    
mausoleum of ,edmund ,burke4#g ,surely  
the decency of churchyards ought to be  
enforced1 if those to whom they should  

be sacred trusts1 neglect or forget     
their duty4 ,that the churchyard of     
,beaconsfield1 which has long been      
considered a shrine1 should be suffered 
to remain in the state in which we saw  
it1 is a disgrace not only to the town1 
but to ,england2 it was differently     
cared for during ,burke's lifetime1 and 
though1 like that of the revered ,queen 
,dowager1 his ,will expressed a         
disinclination to posthumous honors1 and
 unnecessary expense1 never were        
mourners more sincere--never did there  
arise to the blue vault of heaven the   
incense of greater1 and more deep-felt  
sorrow1 than from the multitude who     
assembled in and around the church1     
while the mortal remains of ,edmund     
,burke were placed in the same vault    
with his son and brother4  ,the tablet  
to his memory1 placed on the wall of the
 south aisle of the church1 records his 
last resting-place with the relatives   
just named2 as well as the fact of the  
same grave containing the body of his   

entirely beloved and incomparable wife1 
who died in #ahab1 at the age of #gf4   
,deeply do we deplore that the dwelling 
where he enjoyed so much that renders   
life happy1 and suffered what sanctifies
 and prepares us for a better world1    
exists no longer2 but his name is       
incorporated with our history1 and adds 
another to the list of the great men who
 have been called into life and received
 their first and best impressions in    
,ireland2 and if ,ireland had given     
nothing to her more prosperous sister   
than the extraordinary men of the past  
and present century1 she merits her     
gratitude for the gifts which bestow so 
much honor and glory on the ,united     
,kingdoms4  ,mrs4 ,burke1 previous to   
her death1 sold the mansion to her      
neighbor1 ,mr4 ,john ,du ,pre1 of       
,wilton ,park4 ,mrs4 ,haviland1 ,mr4    
,burke's niece1 lived with her to the   
last1 though she did not receive the    
portion of her fortune to which she was 
considered entitled4 ,her son1 ,thomas  

,haviland ,burke1 grand-nephew of       
,edmund1 became the lineal              
representative of the family2 but the   
library1 and all the tokens of respect  
and admiration which he received from   
the good1 and from the whole world1 went
 with the property to ,mrs4 ,burke's    
nephew1 ,mr4 ,nugent4 ,some of the      
sculpture which ornamented the house now
 graces the ,british ,museum4  ,the     
mansion was burnt on the #bc;d of       
,april1 #ahac4 ,the ground where it     
stood is unequal2 and some of the park  
wall remains1 and fine old trees still  
flourish1 beneath whose shade we picture
 the meeting between the mourning father
 and the favorite horse of his lost son4
  ,there is a full-length portrait of   
,edmund ,burke in the ,examination ,hall
 of the ,dublin ,university4 ,all such  
portraits should be copied1 and         
preserved in our own ,houses of         
,parliament1 a meet honor to the dead1  
and a stimulant to the living to go and 
do likewise4 ,it hardly realizes1       

however1 the ideal of ,burke2 perhaps no
 portrait could4 ,what ,miss ,edgeworth 
called the ground-plan of the face is   
there2 but we must imagine the varying  
expression1 the light of the bright     
quick eyes1 the eloquence of the        
unclosed lips1 the storm which could    
gather thunder-clouds on the well-formed
 brow2 but we have far exceeded our     
limits without exhausting our subject1  
and1 with ,dr4 ,parr1 still would speak 
of ,burke3  ,of ,burke1 by whose        
sweetness ,athens herself would have    
been soothed1 with whose amplitude and  
exuberance she would have been          
enraptured and on whose lips that       
prolific mother of genius and science   
would have adored1 confessed--the       
,goddess of ,persuasion4  ,alas6 we have
 lingered long at his shrine1 and yet   
our praise is not half spoken4  --,the  
notes and drawings for this paper were  
contributed by ,f4 ,w4 ,fairhold1 of the
 ,society of ,antiquaries4  ,,footnotes3
  #a ,sylvanus ,spenser1 the eldest son 

of the ,poet ,spenser1 married ,ellen   
,nagle1 eldest daughter of ,david       
,nagle1 ,esq41 ancestor of the lady1 who
 was mother to ,edmund ,burke4  #b ,this
 as a picture is outlined with so       
delicate a pencil1 and colored with such
 mingled purity and richness of tone1   
that we transcribe a few passages1 as   
much in honor of the man who could      
write1 as the woman who could inspire   
such praise3--  ,the character of ----  
,she is handsome1 but it is beauty not  
arising from features1 from complexion1 
or from shape4 ,she has all three in a  
high degree1 but it is not by these she 
touches a heart2 it is all that         
sweetness of temper1 benevolence1       
innocence1 and sensibility1 which a face
 can express1 that forms her beauty4    
,she has a face that just raises your   
attention at first sight2 it grows on   
you every moment1 and you wonder it did 
no more than raise your attention at    
first4  ,her eyes have a mild light1 but
 they awe when she pleases2 they command

 like a good man out of office1 not by  
authority1 but by virtue4  ,her stature 
is not tall1 she is not made to be the  
admiration of every body1 but the       
happiness of one4  ,she has all the     
firmness that does not exclude          
delicacy--she has all the softness that 
does not imply weakness4 99 99  ,her    
voice is a soft1 low1 music1 not formed 
to rule in public assemblies1 but to    
charm those who can distinguish a       
company from a crowd3 it has this       
advantage--you must come close to her to
 hear it4  ,to describe her body1       
describes her mind2 one is the          
transcript of the other2 her            
understanding is not shown in the       
variety of matters it exerts itself on1 
but in the goodness of the choice she   
makes4  ,she does not display it so much
 in saying or doing striking things1 as 
in avoiding such as she ought not to say
 or do4         99       99       99    
99       99  ,no persons of so few years
 can know the world better2 no person   

was ever less corrupted by the          
knowledge4  ,her politeness flows rather
 from a natural disposition to oblige1  
than from any rules on that subject1 and
 therefore never fails to strike those  
who understand good breeding1 and those 
who do not4         99       99       99
       99       99  ,she has a steady   
and firm mind1 which takes no more from 
the solidity of the female character1   
than the solidity of marble does from   
its polish and lustre4 ,she has such    
virtues as make us value the truly great
 of our own sex4 ,she has all the       
winning graces that make us love even   
the faults we see in the weak and       
beautiful in hers4  #c ,our cut exhibits
 all that now remains of ,gregories--a  
few walls and a portion of the old      
stables4 ,mrs4 ,burke1 before her death1
 sold the mansion to her neighbor1 ,mr4 
,john ,du ,pre1 of ,wilton ,park4 ,it   
was destroyed by fire soon afterwards4  
#d ,during ,barry's five years'         
residence abroad he earned nothing for  

himself1 and received no supplies save  
from ,edmund and ,richard ,burke4  #e   
,mr4 ,prior says in his admirable ,life 
of ,burke--,how the money to effect this
 purchase was procured has given rise to
 many surmises and reports2 a           
considerable portion was his own1 the   
bequest of his father and elder brother4
 ,the ,marquis of ,rockingham offered   
the loan of the amount required to      
complete the purchase2 the ,marquis was 
under obligations to him publicly1 and  
privately for some attention paid to the
 business of his large estates in       
,ireland4 ,less disinterested men would 
have settled the matter otherwise--the  
one by quartering his friend1 the other1
 by being quartered1 on the public      
purse4 ,to the honor of both1 a         
different course was pursued4  #f       
,waller was a resident in this vicinity1
 in which his landed property chiefly   
lay4 ,he lived in the family mansion    
named ,well's ,court1 a property still  
in the possession of his descendants4   

,his tomb is a table monument of white  
marble1 upon which rises a pyramid1     
resting on skulls with bat's wings2 it  
is a peculiar but picturesque addition  
to the churchyard1 and1 from its        
situation close to the walk1 attracts   
much attention4  #g ,our engraving      
exhibits his simple tablet1 as seen from
 the central aisle of the church1       
immediately in front of the pew in which
 ,burke and his family always sat4      
,,poems ,,by ,s4 ,g4 ,,goodrich#h   ,for
 the last twenty years the name of ,mr4 
,goodrich has been very constantly      
associated with ,american literature4   
,he commenced as a publisher1 in        
,boston1 and was among the first to     
encourage by liberal copyrights1 and to 
make attractive by elegant editions1 the
 works of ,american authors4 ,one of his
 earliest undertakings was a collection 
of the novels of ,charles ,brockden     
,brown1 with a memoir of that author1 by
 his widow1 with whom he shared the     
profits4 ,in #ahbh he began ,the ,token1

 an annual literary souvenir1 which he  
edited and published fourteen years4 ,in
 this appeared the first fruits of the  
genius of ,cheney1 who has long been    
acknowledged the master of ,american    
engravers2 and the first poems and prose
 writings of ,longfellow1 ,willis1      
,mellen1 ,mrs4 ,osgood1 ,mrs4 ,child1   
,mrs4 ,sigourney1 and other eminent     
authors4 ,in ,the ,token also were      
printed his own earlier lyrical pieces4 
,the work was of the first rank in its  
class1 and in ,england as well as in    
this country it was uniformly praised4  
,in #ahca an anonymous romance was      
published by ,marsh  ,capen1 of ,boston4
 ,it was attributed by some to ,willis1 
and by others to ,mrs4 ,child1 then     
,miss ,francis4 ,it illustrated a fine  
and peculiar genius1 but was soon       
forgotten4 ,mr4 ,goodrich appreciated   
its merits1 and applied to the          
publishers for the name of the author1  
that he might engage him as a           
contributor to ,the ,token4 ,they       

declined to disclose his secret1 but    
offered to forward a letter to him4 ,mr4
 ,goodrich wrote one1 and received an   
answer signed by ,,nathaniel            
,,hawthorne1 many of whose best         
productions1 as ,sights from a ,steeple1
 ,sketches under an ,umbrella1 ,the     
,prophetic ,pictures1 ,canterbury       
,pilgrims1 c41 appeared in this annual4 
,in #ahci1 ,mr4 ,goodrich suggested to  
,mr4 ,hawthorne the publication of a    
collection of his tales1 surrendering   
his copyrights to several of them for   
this purpose2 but so little were the    
extraordinary qualities of this         
admirable author then understood1 that  
the publishers would not venture upon   
such an experiment without an assurance 
against loss1 which ,mr4 ,goodrich1 as  
his friend1 therefore gave4 ,the public 
judgment will be entitled to little     
respect1 if the copyright of the works  
of ,hawthorne be not hereafter a most   
ample fortune4  ,mr4 ,goodrich soon     
abandoned the business of publishing1   

and1 though still editing ,the ,token1  
devoted his attention chiefly to the    
writing of that series of educational   
works1 known as ,peter ,parley's1 which 
has spread his fame over the world4 ,the
 whole number of these volumes is about 
sixty4 ,among them are treatises upon a 
great variety of subjects1 and they are 
remarkable for simplicity of style and  
felicity of illustration4 ,mr4 ,goodrich
 has accomplished a complete and        
important revolution in juvenile        
reading1 substituting truth and nature  
for grotesque fiction in the materials  
and processes of instruction1 and his   
method has been largely imitated1 at    
home and abroad4 ,in ,england many      
authors and publishers have disgraced   
the literary profession by works under  
the name of ,parley1 with which he has  
had nothing to do1 and which have none  
of his wise and genial spirit4  ,besides
 his writings under this pseudonym1 ,mr4
 ,goodrich has produced several works of
 a more ambitious character1 which have 

been eminently popular4 ,among them is a
 series entitled ,the ,cabinet ,library1
 embracing histories1 biographies1 and  
essays in science2 ,universal           
,geography1 in an octavo volume of one  
thousand pages2 and a ,history of all   
,nations1 in two large octavos1 in which
 he has displayed such research1        
analysis1 and generalization1 as should 
insure for him an honorable rank among  
historians4 ,we cannot better illustrate
 his popularity than by stating the     
fact1 that more than four hundred       
thousand volumes of his various         
productions are now annually sold in    
this country and ,europe4 ,no living    
writer is1 therefore1 as much read1 and 
in the ,united ,states hardly a citizen 
now makes his first appearance at the   
polls1 or a bride at the altar1 to whose
 education he has not in a large degree 
contributed4 ,for twenty years he has   
preserved the confidence of parents and 
teachers of every variety of condition  
and opinion1 by the indefectible        

morality and strong practical sense1    
which are universally understood and    
approved4  ,like many other eminent     
persons1 ,mr4 ,goodrich lets sought     
occasional relaxation from the main     
pursuits of his life in poetry1 and the 
volume before us contains some forty    
illustrations of his abilities1 as a    
worshipper of the muse whose temples are
 most thronged1 but who is most coy and 
most chary of her inspiration4 ,they    
have for the most part been previously  
printed in ,the ,token1 or in literary  
journals1 but a few are now published   
the first time4 ,in typographical and   
pictorial elegance the book is unique4  
,it is an exhibition of the success of  
the first attempt to rival the ,london  
and ,paris publishers in woodcut        
embellishment and general beauty of     
execution4  ,that ,mr4 ,goodrich        
possesses the poetical faculty in an    
eminent degree1 no one has doubted who  
has read his fine lines ,to ,lake       
,superior3  ,illustration      ,father  

of ,lakes6 thy waters bend1             
,beyond the eagle's utmost view1        
,when1 throned in heaven1 he sees thee  
send       ,back to the sky its world of
 blue4      ,boundless and deep the     
forests weave       ,their twilight     
shade thy borders o'er1     ,and        
threatening cliffs1 like giants1 heave  
,their rugged forms along thy shore4    
,nor can the light canoes1 that glide   
,across thy breast like things of air1  
,chase from thy lone and level tide1    
,the spell of stillness deepening there4
      ,yet round this waste of wood and 
wave1       ,unheard1 unseen1 a spirit  
lives1     ,that1 breathing o'er each   
rock and cave1       ,to all1 a wild1   
strange aspect gives4      ,the         
thunder-riven oak1 that flings          
,its grisly arms athwart the sky1     ,a
 sudden1 startling image brings         
,to the lone traveller's kindled eye4   
,the gnarled and braided boughs that    
show       ,their dim forms in the      
forest shade1     ,like wrestling       

serpents seem1 and throw                
,fantastic horrors through the glade4   
,the very echoes round this shore1      
,have caught a strange and gibbering    
tone1     ,for they have told the       
war-whoop o'er1       ,till the wild    
chorus is their own4      ,wave of the  
wilderness1 adieu--       ,adieu1 ye    
rocks1 ye wilds1 ye woods6     ,roll on1
 thou ,element of blue1       ,and fill 
these awful solitudes6      ,thou hast  
no tale to tell of man4       ,god is   
thy theme4 ,ye sounding caves1          
,whisper of ,him1 whose mighty plan1    
,deems as a bubble all your waves6  ,the
 ,birth ,night of the ,humming ,birds   
has been declared by the ,london        
,athenaeum equal to ,dr4 ,drake's       
,culprit ,fay1 and it may be regarded as
 in its way the best specimen of ,mr4   
,goodrich's talents4 ,it is too long to 
be quoted in these paragraphs4 ,in      
descriptions of nature he is uniformly  
successful1 presenting his picture with 
force and distractness4  ,there are many

 examples of this in one of his longest 
poems1 ,the ,mississippi1 in which the  
traditions that cluster around the      
,father of ,waters1 and the advances of 
civility along his borders1 are         
graphically presented4 ,the river is    
described as rising4  ,illustration     
,far in the west1 where snow-capt       
mountain's rise1       ,like marble     
shafts beneath heaven's stooping dome1  
,and sunset's charming curtain drapes   
the skies       ,as if ,enchantment     
there would build her home4  ,the bard  
laments that              though these  
scenes are fair     ,as fabled ,arcady1 
the sylph and fay1       ,and all their 
gentle kindred1 shun the air1     ,where
 car and steamer make their stormy way2 
,yet trusts that in a future time1      
,perchance some ,cooper's magic art may 
wake       ,the sleeping legends of this
 mighty vale1     ,and twine fond       
memories round the lawn and lake1       
,where ,warrior fought or ,lover told   
his tale4  ,in the volume are several   

allegorical pieces of much merit1 of    
which the most noticeable are the ,two  
,windmills1 ,the ,bubble ,chase1 and    
,the ,rainbow ,bridge4 ,several smaller 
poems are distinguished for a quaint    
simplicity1 reminding us of the old     
masters of ,english verse2 and others1  
for refined sentiment1 as the ,old ,oak1
 of which the key-note is in the lines1 
,here is the grassy knoll ,i used to    
seek       ,at summer noon1 beneath the 
spreading shade1     ,and watch the     
flowers that stooped1 with glowing      
cheek1       ,to meet the romping       
ripples as they played4  ,illustration  
,the longest of ,mr4 ,goodrich's poems  
is ,the ,outcast4 ,it was first         
published many years ago1 and it appears
 now with the improvements suggested by 
reflection and criticism4 ,its fault is1
 a certain intensity1 but it has noble  
passages1 betraying a careful study and 
profound appreciation of the subtler    
operations of the mind1 particularly1   
when1 in its most excited action1 it is 

influenced by the observation of nature4
  ,the volume will take its place in the
 cabinets of our choice literature1 and 
will be prized the more for the fact    
that by selecting ,american themes for  
his most elaborate compositions1 ,mr4   
,goodrich has made literature           
subservient to the purposes of          
patriotism4  ,,footnotes3  #h ,poems3 by
 ,s4 ,g4 ,goodrich4 ,new ,york1 ,g4 ,p4 
,putnam4 ,the designs--about forty--are 
by ,mr4 ,billings1 the engravings by    
,bobbett  ,edmonds1 ,lossing  ,barrett1 
,hartwell1 and others1 and the printing 
by ,mr4 ,john ,f4 ,trow4                
,illustration  ,,richard ,b4 ,,kimball4 
,the author of ,st4 ,leger was by that  
admirable work placed in the leading    
rank of the new generation of ,american 
writers4 ,the appearance in the         
,knickerbocker for the present month1 of
 the commencement of a sequel to ,st4   
,leger1 makes it a fit occasion for some
 notice of his life and genius4  ,mr4   
,kimball is by inheritance of the first 

class of ,new-,england men1 numbering in
 his family a signer of the ,declaration
 of ,independence1 a ,president of the  
,continental ,congress1 and several     
other persons honorably distinguished in
 affairs4 ,he is a native of ,lebanon1  
in ,new ,hampshire1 where his father is 
still living--the centre of a circle    
bound to him by their respect for every 
public and private virtue4 ,though he   
had completed his preparatory studies   
before he was eleven years of age1 he   
did not enter college until he was      
nearly thirteen4 ,four years after1 in  
#ahcd1 he graduated at ,dartmouth1 and  
upon devoting one year to the study of  
the law1 he went abroad2 travelled in   
,england1 ,scotland1 and ,germany2 and  
resided some time in ,paris1 where he   
attended the lectures of ,majendie1     
,broussais1 and ,louis1 in medicine1 and
 those of the elder ,dupin1 and         
,coulanges1 in law4 ,returning1 he      
entered upon the practice of the law1 at
 ,waterford1 in this state1 but soon    

removed to ,new-,york1 where a year's   
devotion to his profession made him     
familiar with its routine4 ,in #ahdb he 
went a second time to ,europe1 renewing 
the associations of his travel and      
student-life in ,great ,britain and on  
the continent4 ,since1 for seven years1 
he has been an industrious and          
successful lawyer in ,new-,york4        
,although but few works are known to be 
from the pen of ,mr4 ,kimball1 he has   
been a voluminous author4 ,the vigorous 
and polished style of his avowed        
compositions1 is never attained but by  
long practice4 ,he has been1 we believe1
 a contributor to every volume of the   
,knickerbocker published since #ahdb4   
,he printed in that excellent magazine  
his ,reminiscences of an ,old ,man1 ,the
 ,young ,englishman1 and the successive 
chapters of ,st4 ,leger1 or the ,threads
 of ,life4 ,this last work was published
 by ,putnam1 and by ,bentley in ,london1
 about one year ago1 and it passed      
rapidly through two ,english and three  

,american editions4 ,it was not raised  
into an ephemeral popularity1 as so many
 works of fiction easily are1 for their 
lightness1 by careless applauses2 it    
arrested the attention of the wisest    
critics2 commanded their study1 and     
received their verdict of approval as a 
book of learning and reflection in the  
anatomy of human life4  ,mr4 ,kimball   
had been eminent in his class at college
 for a love of ,greek literature1 and he
 studied the ,roman also with reverent  
attention4 ,it was his distinction that 
he had thoroughly acquainted himself    
with the philosophy of the ancients4 ,at
 a later day he was attracted by the    
speculation of the ,germans1 and a      
mastery of their language enabled him to
 enter fully into the spirit of         
,spinosa1 ,kant1 and ,fichte1 as he did 
into that of the finer intelligences1   
,goeethe and ,richter1 and pervading he 
found the passion to know ,whence are   
we8 ,what are we8 ,whither do we go8 ,in
 ,st4 ,leger1 a mind predisposed to     

superstition by some vague prophecies   
respecting the destiny of his family--a 
mind inquisitive1 quick1 and earnest1   
but subject to occasional melancholy1 as
 the inherited spell obtains a mastery  
of the reason--is exposed to the        
influences of a various study1 and      
startling experiences1 all conceived    
with a profound knowledge of human      
nature1 and displayed with consummate   
art2 having a metaphysical if not a     
strictly dramatic unity2 and conducting 
by the subtlest processes1 to the       
determination of these questions1 and   
the flowering of a high and genial      
character2 as ,professor ,tayler ,lewis 
expresses it1 at rest1 deriving         
substantial enjoyment from the present1 
because satisfied with respect to the   
ultimate1 and perfect1 and absolute4#i  
,aside from its qualities as a          
delineation of a deep inner experience1 
,st4 ,leger has very great merits as a  
specimen of popular romantic fiction4   
,the varied characters are admirably    

drawn1 and are individual1 distinct1 and
 effectively contrasted4 ,the incidents 
are all shaped and combined with        
remarkable skill2 and1 as the ,athenaeum
 observes1 ,here1 there1 everywhere1 the
 author gives evidence of passionate and
 romantic power4 ,in some of the        
episodes1 as in that of ,wolfgang       
,hegewisch1 for example1 in which are   
illustrated the tendency of a desperate 
philosophy and hopeless skepticism1 we  
have that sort of mastery of the        
feelings1 that chaining of the intensest
 interest1 which distinguishes the most 
wonderful compositions of ,poe1 or the  
,german ,hoffman1 or ,zschokke in his   
,walpurgis ,night2 and every incident in
 the book tends with directest certainty
 to the fulfilment of its main design4  
,the only other work of which ,mr4      
,kimball is the acknowledged author1 is 
,cuba and the ,cubans2 a volume         
illustrative of the history1 and social1
 political1 and economical condition of 
the island of ,cuba1 written during the 

excitement occasioned by its invasion   
from the ,united ,states1 in #ahdi1 and 
exhibiting a degree of research1 and a  
judicial fairness of statement and      
argument1 which characterizes no other  
production upon this subject4 ,as it was
 generally admitted to be the most      
reliable1 complete1 and altogether      
important work1 upon points commanding  
the attention of several nations1 its   
circulation was very large2 but it was  
produced for a temporary purpose1 and it
 will be recalled to popularity only by 
a renewal of the inevitable             
controversies which await the political 
relations of the ,antilles4  ,a ,story  
of ,calais1 in the following pages1 is  
an example of ,mr4 ,kimball's success as
 a tale writer4 ,though less remarkable 
than passages in ,st4 ,leger1 it will   
vindicate his right to a place among the
 chief creators of such literature among
 us4  ,,footnotes3  #i ,the             
,inner-,life1 a ,review of ,st4 ,leger1 
by ,professor ,tayler ,lewis1 ,,ll4 ,d41

 c4     ,,the ,,bishop ,,of ,,jamaica4  
,among the distinguished strangers who  
visited the ,united ,states during the  
last season1 no one has left a more     
favorable impression upon ,american     
society than the thoroughly accomplished
 scholar and highbred gentleman1 the    
,bishop of ,jamaica4 ,we propose a brief
 sketch of his history3  ,,aubrey       
,,george ,,spencer1 ,d4,d4 and          
,d4,c4,l41 was born in ,london on the   
#abth of ,february1 #agie1 and is the   
eldest son of the late ,hon4 ,william   
,spencer1 the poet1 whose father1 ,lord 
,charles ,spencer1 was a son of ,charles
 the second ,duke of ,marlborough1 and  
grandson of ,john ,churchill1 the       
illustrious hero of ,ramillies and      
,blenheim4 ,his ,christian names were   
given by the ,dukes of ,st4 ,albans and 
,marlborough1 who were his great uncles 
and godfathers4 ,his mother was ,susan  
,jennison1 a countess of the ,holy      
,roman ,empire1 and a lady of singular  
beauty and accomplishments1 to whom ,mr4

 ,william ,spencer was married at the   
court of ,hesse ,darmstadt1 in #agia4   
,aubrey ,spencer and his younger brother
 ,george 7subsequently ,bishop of       
,madras17 received the rudiments of     
learning at the ,abbey ,school of ,st4  
,albans1 whence the former was soon     
removed to the seminary of the          
celebrated ,grecian1 ,d4 ,burme1 of     
,greenwich1 and the latter to the       
,charter house4 ,for some time previous 
to his matriculation at ,magdalen ,hall1
 ,oxford1 ,mr4 ,aubrey ,spencer was the 
private pupil of ,mr4 ,mitchell1 the    
very learned translator of              
,aristophanes4 ,at the house of his     
father in ,curzon street1 at ,melbourne 
,house in ,chiswick1 ,blenheim1 and     
,woolbeednig1 ,hallowell ,hill1 7the    
seat of the ,countess ,dowager          
,spencer17 he was in frequent and       
familiar intercourse with many of the   
most distinguished contemporary         
statesmen1 philosophers1 and other men  
of letters2 and in this society his own 

literary and conversational talents     
obtained an early celebrity1 and        
commended him to the regard and         
friendship of ,mr4 ,rogers1 ,mr4        
,campbell1 ,lord ,byron1 ,mr4 ,hallam1  
,lord ,dudley1 ,mr4 ,coutts1 ,mr4       
,wordsworth1 ,mr4 ,francis1 ,mr4 ,homer1
 ,thomas ,moore1 ,mr4 ,southey1 ,lady   
,caroline ,lamb1 ,mr4 ,crabb1 and many  
other authors1 with some of whom he     
still maintains a correspondence1 while 
some have fallen asleep4  ,with the     
society of the county of ,oxford1 and   
with that of the ,university1 he was    
equally popular4 ,in the early part of  
the year #ahah1 he took leave of his    
,college1 on being ordained deacon1 and 
entered on a charge of the parish of    
,great ,oakering1 in the diocese of     
,london4 ,from this1 which is a very    
unhealthy part of ,essex1 he removed at 
the end of the year to ,bannam1         
,norfolk1 where he became the neighbor  
and frequent guest of the ,earl of      
,albemarle and the ,bishop of ,norwich4 

,in ,march1 #ahai1 he was admitted a    
priest1 and soon after gave up the      
brilliant society in which he had       
hitherto lived1 and devoted himself to  
the ,church in the ,colonies1 where1 for
 a quarter of a century1 he has filled a
 distinguished part as archdeacon and   
bishop4  ,his first visit to the        
,bermudas was undertaken for the        
recovery of his health1 to which a      
colder climate has always been hostile2 
and when1 in the year #ahbe1 these      
islands were attached to the diocese of 
,nova ,scotia1 he was1 at the instance  
of the late ,primate1 appointed to them 
as ,archdeacon and ,ecclesiastical      
,commissary to the ,bishop of the see4  
,here he may be said to have created the
 ,ecclesiastical ,establishment which1  
under his conciliatory influence1 has so
 rapidly and largely increased2 and with
 it he soon associated the revival of   
,bishop ,berkeley's ,classical ,academy1
 and a system of general instruction1 of
 which a chain of schoolhouses1 from    

either extremity of the island1 are the 
abiding monuments4  ,from his connection
 with the ,bishop of ,nova ,scotia1 the 
visits of ,archdeacon ,spencer to that  
colony were frequent1 and many of the   
inhabitants both of that province and of
 ,new ,brunswick retain a lively        
impression of his abilities1 as they    
were illustrated in his preaching and in
 the practice of the other duties of his
 profession and position4  ,in ,july1   
#ahci1 ,dr4 ,spencer was consecrated by 
the venerable ,archbishop of            
,canterbury1 on the nomination of the   
crown1 to the new see of ,newfoundland1 
retaining still episcopal jurisdiction  
over the isles of ,bermuda1 under the   
extension of the ,colonial ,episcopate1 
which relieved the indefatigable ,bishop
 of ,nova ,scotia of a large portion of 
his cares4 ,the new ,bishop was enabled1
 by the aid of the ,society for the     
,promotion of the ,gospel in ,foreign   
,parts1 to quadruple the number of his  
clergy within four years1 and to        

consecrate more than twenty additional  
churches within the same period4 ,a very
 grateful sense of the ,bishop's        
exertions1 and of the prosperous results
 of his unceasing labor1 was manifested 
in the several addresses presented to   
his lordship on his subsequent          
translation to the diocese of ,jamaica1 
by the clergy and laity of ,newfoundland
 and ,bermuda4  ,in a paper which only  
purports to be a biographical notice of 
one who is still living1 it is not      
desirable to do more than briefly advert
 to the principal topics and dates of a 
history which may hereafter be          
advantageously amplified and filled up4 
,the real progress of the established   
church in ,newfoundland at this period1 
would be best gathered from the         
,bishop's letters to the government and 
the religious societies1 and to the     
clergy under his jurisdiction1 but to   
these documents it is not likely that   
any biographer will have unreserved     
access during the life of his lordship4 

,on the decease of ,bishop ,lipscombe1  
in ,april1 #ahdc1 ,bishop ,spencer was  
translated1 under circumstances         
peculiarly indicative of the high       
opinion which was had of his ability by 
the ,queen's ministers and the heads of 
the ,english church1 to the see of      
,jamaica1 one of the most important     
connected with the crown4 ,he quitted   
his old diocese1 as the papers of the   
day amply testify1 with the respect of  
all denominations of ,christians4 ,a    
national ship1 the ,hermes1 was         
appointed to convey him and his family  
and suite to ,jamaica1 where he arrived 
in the first week of ,november1 having  
made the land on the auspicious festival
 of ,all ,saints4  ,the sermon delivered
 by him at his installation1 in the     
cathedral at ,spanish ,town1 was        
published at the request of the ,speaker
 of the ,house of ,assembly1 while the  
,earl of ,elgin1 the ,governor-,general1
 in his speech to the ,legislature1     
congratulated the inhabitants of        

,jamaica on the appointment of a prelate
 of such approved talents and piety to  
that see4 ,at every point of the        
,bishop's visitation1 which he commenced
 by a convention of eighty clergymen1 at
 ,spanish ,town1 he was met by          
congratulatory addresses from the       
vestries1 and other corporate bodies1   
declaratory of their confidence in his  
projected measures1 and of their desire 
to aid him in the extension of the      
church4 ,in consonance with his views   
the local ,legislature passed an act    
increasing the number of island curates1
 and providing higher salaries for their
 support1 while at the same time1 they  
granted three thousand pounds as a first
 instalment to the ,church ,society1    
which had been organized by him1 and to 
which the ,governor-,general contributed
 the annual sum of one hundred pounds4  
,on his visit to ,england in #ahde and  
in the beginning of #ahdf1 he was       
continually employed in preaching in aid
 of various charities1 and in assisting 

at public meetings which had for their  
object the promotion of ,christianity by
 the servants of the church4 ,at the    
weekly meetings of the ,society for the 
,propagation of the ,gospel1 in ,london1
 he was a constant attendant2 and the   
increase of the funds of that           
association1 and the conciliation to it 
of many powerful supporters1 are result 
of measures which may be traced to his  
projection and tact4 ,in his reply to an
 address from the clergy1 on his return 
from a recent visitation1 published at  
length in the last annual report of the 
parent ,society for the ,propagation of 
the ,gospel1 will be found the clearest 
exposition of the existing state and    
future prospects of the church in       
,jamaica2 and a charge addressed by his 
lordship to the clergy of the ,bahamas1 
on the subject of a difficult and       
embarrassing question1 for the          
adjustment of which the ,bishop received
 the thanks of the ,queen's government  
and of the local ,executive1 is full of 

valuable information on the condition1  
principles and progress of the colonial 
establishment4 ,in closing the last     
session of the ,bahamas ,legislature1   
,governor ,gregory declared in his      
speech1 with reference to this matter1  
that he considered the arrival of the   
,bishop in the island1 at that juncture1
 as a convincing proof of the           
interposition of a special ,providence  
in the conduct of human affairs4  ,in   
#ahbb1 the ,bishop was married to       
,eliza1 the daughter of ,john ,musson1  
,esq41 and the sister of a former friend
 at the ,university4 ,he has had one    
son1 now deceased1 and has three        
daughters4  ,as a man of letters1       
,bishop ,spencer is entitled to a very  
honorable position4 ,as a scholar and as
 a critic1 he has evinced such abilities
 as1 fitly devoted1 would have secured  
fame2 as a poet and essayist1 he has    
unusual grace and elegance2 and a       
collection of the various compositions  
with which he has relieved the monotony 

and arduous labors of his professional  
and official career1 would vindicate his
 title to be classed with those prelates
 who have been most eminent in the      
literary world4  ,the following poems1  
from autographs of ,bishop ,spencer1 we 
believe are first given to the public in
 the ,international4  ,,he ,,giveth     
,,his ,,beloved ,,sleep4      ,i tread  
the church-yard's path alone1           
,unseen to shed the gushing tear3     ,i
 read on many a mould'ring stone        
,fond records of the good and dear4     
,my soul is well-nigh faint with fear1  
,where doubting many went to weep2      
,and yet what sweet repose is here--    
,he giveth ,his beloved sleep6      ,the
 world has but a feverish rest1     ,to 
weary pilgrims sometimes given1         
,when pleasure's cup has lost its zest1 
,and glory's hard-earned crown is riven4
     ,here1 softer than the dews of even
     ,fall peaceful on the slumbering   
deep1     ,asleep to earth1 awake to    
heaven--       ,he giveth ,his beloved  

sleep4      ,yes1 on the grave's hard   
pillows rise     ,no cankering cares1 no
 dreams of woe2     ,on earth we close  
our aching eyes1     ,and heavenward all
 our visions grow4     ,the airs of     
,eden round us flow1     ,and in their  
balm our slumbers steep4     ,god calls 
,his chosen home1 and so       ,he      
giveth ,his beloved sleep4      ,ah6    
vainly could the human voice1     ,in   
this dull world of sin and folly1       
,tell how the sainted dead rejoice      
,in those high realms where joy is      
holy--     ,where no dim shade of       
melancholy     ,beclouds the rest which 
angels keep1     ,where1 peace and bliss
 united wholly       ,he giveth ,his    
beloved sleep4      ,if on that brow so 
fair1 so young1     ,affliction trace an
 early furrow1     ,if ,hope's too dear1
 delusive tongue     ,has broke its     
promise of to-morrow1     ,seek not the 
world again1 to borrow     ,the deathful
 print its votaries reap4     ,man gives
 his loved ones pain and sorrow1        

,god giveth ,his beloved sleep4         
99       99       99       99       99  
,,lines ,,written ,,on ,,witnessing ,a  
,,confirmation1 ,,in ,,bermuda1 ,,in    
#ahbf4      ,veil'd in robes of snowy   
whiteness1       ,filled with love and  
sacred fear1     ,forms of beauty1 eyes 
of brightness1       ,at the altar's    
foot appear4      ,there with hearts    
oppressed with feeling       ,what their
 dying ,saviour felt2     ,at ,his      
throne of mercy kneeling       ,where   
their pious parents knelt1      ,many a 
youth1 and many a maiden       ,meekly  
and devoutly bow1     ,and from worldly 
cares unladen       ,ratify a           
,christian's vow4      ,hark6 what voice
 subdued and holy       ,in that deep   
and tender tone1     ,prays upon those  
suppliants lonely       ,christ's       
eternal benison6      ,god6 who call'st 
them to inherit       ,joys no mortal   
tongue can speak1     ,guide them with  
thy gracious ,spirit       ,through the 
storms that round them break4      ,when

 thou seest these children straying     
,from the way thy word imparts1         
,then1 thine anger yet delaying1        
,renovate their faltering hearts4       
,if provoked by strong temptation       
,from thy paths again they swerve1      
,if in prideful elevation       ,they   
forget the ,god they serve1      ,then  
by timely1 mild correction1       ,lead 
them1 wheresoe'er they roam1     ,fan   
the embers of affection       ,for their
 ,father and their ,home4         99    
99       99       99       99           
,,midnight4      ,midnight is on the    
earth3       ,flowers that in darkness  
bloom1     ,their odorous life pour     
forth           ,beneath the gloom4     
,o'er palace and o'er stall       ,her  
sable curtain spread1     ,mantles      
within its pall           ,the living   
dead6      ,midnight is on the sea3     
,a soft and still repose     ,steals    
o'er the untroubled lea           ,that 
darkly glows4     ,hushed in their ocean
 caves       ,the winds their sleep     

prolong1     ,or mourn along the waves  
,in dreamlike song4      ,midnight is in
 the ,heaven3       ,the planets of the 
air     ,to her as vassals given1       
,wander and worship there4     ,no sound
 comes from her throne1       ,piled in 
those lofty skies1     ,calmly she      
broods upon       ,her own deep         
mysteries4      ,yet in her silence     
deep1       ,there breathes a language  
fraught     ,with spell to wake and keep
       ,the energies of thought2        
,and on her awful brow       ,strange   
characters appear1     ,the portraitures
 to show       ,of the advancing year4  
,night is a fearful book1       ,and in 
her darkling skies     ,did ,seers and  
,magi look1       ,searching earth's    
destinies4     ,but oh6 had ,i the power
       ,to ancient science given1     ,i
 would not use this hour           ,to  
rifle ,heaven4      ,the night is       
,memory's sphere1       ,in light and   
shadow cast2     ,in her dim disk appear
           ,the last--the past4     ,the

 lov'd ones of our youth       ,hasten'd
 to life's last bourne2     ,dear to the
 heart's deep truth1           ,will    
they return8      ,ask of the phantoms  
pale       ,that haunt the hollow sky1  
,ask of the fitful gale       ,that     
mourns and passes by1     ,invoke the   
spirits' home1       ,unsearchable1     
unseen--     ,where do the wanderers    
roam8       ,are they as they have been8
      ,silence is on the land1       ,no
 voice comes from the sea1     ,no spell
 can reach thy strand1       ,thou dim  
,eternity6     ,fled like the cloudy    
rack       ,with morning's early breath1
     ,what night shall bring them back8 
,the night that brings us death6        
99       99       99       99       99  
,,stete ,,super ,,vias ,,antiguas4      
,my heart lies buried with the past1    
',mid scenes where fleeting memory      
strays     ,and time its darkening      
shadows cast       ,o'er all the marks  
of by-gone days2     ,i look in vain for
 ancient ways--       ,the olden paths  

are worn and gone2     ,no friend that  
trod them here delays1       ,i pass    
benighted and alone4     ,yet in this   
mist of life and mind1       ,which ever
 dark and darker grows1     ,there is   
one living lamp enshrin'd1       ,whose 
ray in deathless lustre glows4     ,that
 star-like light my ,god bestows        
,to break the deep sepulchral gloom2    
,its beams ,eternity disclose1          
,and show the garden round the tomb4    
,,encouragement ,,of ,,literature4   ,in
 the concluding volume of the ,life of  
,southey1 just published by the         
,harpers1 is a letter from the poet in  
answer to one by ,lord ,brougham1 on the
 subject of the encouragement of        
literature by government4 ,your first   
question1 writes ,southey1 is1 whether  
,letters would gain by the more avowed  
and active encouragement of the         
,government8  ,there are literary works 
of national importance which can only be
 performed by co-operative labor1 and   
will never be undertaken by that spirit 

of trade which at present preponderates 
in literature4 ,the formation of an     
,english ,etymological ,dictionary is   
one of those works2 others might be     
mentioned2 and in this way literature   
might gain much by receiving national   
encouragement2 but ,government would    
gain a great deal more by bestowing it4 
,revolutionary governments understand   
this3 ,i should be glad if ,i could     
believe that our legitimate one would   
learn it before it is too late4 ,i am   
addressing one who is a statesman as    
well as a man of letters1 and who is    
well aware that the time is come in     
which governments can no more stand     
without pens to support them than       
without bayonets4 ,they must soon know1 
if they do not already know it1 that the
 volunteers as well as the mercenaries  
of both professions1 who are not already
 enlisted in this service1 will enlist  
themselves against it2 and ,i am afraid 
they have a better hold upon the soldier
 than upon the penman2 because the      

former has1 in the spirit of his        
profession and in the sense of military 
honor1 something which not unfrequently 
supplies the want of any higher         
principle2 and ,i know not that any     
substitute is to be found among the     
gentlemen of the press4  ,but neediness1
 my ,lord1 makes men dangerous members  
of society1 quite as often as affluence 
makes them worthless ones4 ,i am of     
opinion that many persons who become bad
 subjects because they are necessitous1 
because 'the world is not their friend1 
nor the world's law1' might be kept     
virtuous 7or1 at least1 withheld from   
mischief7 by being made happy1 by early 
encouragement1 by holding out to them a 
reasonable hope of obtaining1 in good   
time1 an honorable station and a        
competent income1 as the reward of      
literary pursuits1 when followed with   
ability and diligence1 and recommended  
by good conduct4  ,my ,lord1 you are now
 on the ,conservative side4 ,minor      
differences of opinion are infinitely   

insignificant at this time1 when in     
truth there are but two parties in this 
kingdom--the ,revolutionists and the    
,loyalists2 those who would destroy the 
constitution1 and those who would defend
 it1 ,i can have no predilections for   
the present administration2 they have   
raised the devil who is now raging      
through the land3 but1 in their present 
position1 it is their business to lay   
him if they can2 and so far as their    
measures may be directed to that end1 ,i
 heartily say1 ,god speed them6 ,if     
schemes like yours for the encouragement
 of letters1 have never entered into    
their wishes1 there can be no place for 
them at present in their intentions4    
,government can have no leisure now for 
attending to any thing but its own and  
our preservation2 and the time seems not
 far distant when the cares of war and  
expenditure will come upon it once more 
with their all-engrossing importance4   
,but when better times shall arrive     
7whoever may live to see them71 it will 

be worthy the consideration of any      
government whether the institution of an
 ,academy1 with salaries for its members
 7in the nature of literary or lay      
benefices71 might not be the means of   
retaining in its interests1 as connected
 with their own1 a certain number of    
influential men of letters1 who should  
hold those benefices1 and a much greater
 number of aspirants who would look to  
them in their turn4 ,a yearly grant of  
ten thousand pounds would endow ten such
 appointments of five hundred pounds    
each for the elder class1 and           
twenty-five of two hundred pounds each  
for younger men2 the latter eligible1 of
 course1 and preferably1 but not        
necessarily1 to be elected to the higher
 benefices1 as those fell vacant1 and as
 they should have improved themselves4  
,the good proposed by this1 as a        
political measure1 is not that of       
retaining such persons to act as        
pamphleteers and journalists1 but that  
of preventing them from becoming such1  

in hostility to the established order of
 things2 and of giving men of letters1  
as a class1 something to look for beyond
 the precarious gains of literature2    
thereby inducing in them a desire to    
support the existing institutions of    
their country1 on the stability of which
 their own welfare would depend4  ,your 
,lordship's second question1--in what   
way the encouragement of ,government    
could most safely and beneficially be   
given1--is1 in the main1 answered by    
what has been said upon the first4 ,i do
 not enter into any details of the      
proposed institution1 for that would be 
to think of fitting up a castle in the  
air4 ,nor is it worth while to examine  
how far such an institution might be    
perverted4 ,abuses there would be1 as in
 the disposal of all preferments1 civil1
 military1 or ecclesiastical2 but there 
would be a more obvious check upon them2
 and where they occurred they would be  
less injurious in their consequences    
than they are in the state1 the army and

 navy1 or the church4  ,with regard to  
prizes1 methinks they are better left to
 schools and colleges4 ,honors are worth
 something to scientific men1 because   
they are conferred upon such men in     
other countries2 at home there are      
precedents for them in ,newton and      
,davy1 and the physicians and surgeons  
have them4 ,in my judgment1 men of      
letters are better without them1 unless 
they are rich enough to bequeath to     
their family a good estate with the     
bloody hand1 and sufficiently men of the
 world to think such distinctions       
appropriate4 ,for myself1 if we had a   
,guelphic order1 ,i should choose to    
remain a ,ghibelline4  ,i have written  
thus fully and frankly1 not dreaming    
that your proposal is likely to be      
matured and carried into effect1 but in 
the spirit of good will1 and as         
addressing one by whom there is no      
danger that ,i can be misunderstood4    
,one thing alone ,i ask from the        
legislature1 and in the name of         

justice1--that the injurious law of     
copyright should be repealed1 and that  
the family of an author should not be   
deprived of their just and natural      
rights in his works when his permanent  
reputation is established4 ,this ,i ask 
with the earnestness of a man who is    
conscious that he has labored for       
posterity4  ,the publication of this    
letter1 and of the correspondence       
between ,southey and ,sir ,robert ,peel1
 in which the poet declines being       
knighted1 on account of his poverty--a  
correspondence eminently honorable to   
the late ,prime ,minister1 has          
occasioned an eloquent letter from      
,walter ,savage ,landor to ,lord        
,brougham on the same subject4          
,,classical ,,novels4   ,the ,edinburgh 
,review rebukes the daring of those     
uneducated story-tellers who profane by 
their intrusion the holy lands1 the     
sacred names1 and golden ages of art4   
,we have acceptable specimens of the    
classical novel by ,dr4 ,croly1         

,lockhart1 ,bulwer1 and ,collins 7the   
author of ,antonini71 and in this       
country by ,mrs4 ,child and ,william    
,ware2 but nineteen of every twenty who 
have attempted such compositions have   
failed entirely4 ,the ,edinburgh        
,reviewer1 after showing that the       
writers whom he arraigns have merely    
parodied the exterior life of our own   
time1 proceeds--  ,it is not uncommon to
 excuse such deviations from historical 
propriety by saying1 that if the mere   
accidents have been neglected1 the      
essential humanity has been only more   
fully realized3 and those who quarrel   
with the neglect are stigmatized as     
pedants having no eyes except for the   
external4 ,we think1 however1 that it   
will be found1 in most cases where the  
plea is set up1 that the humanity for   
which the sacrifice has been made is    
equally external with that which has    
been disregarded1 and much more         
commonplace and conventional2 being in  
fact1 only the outer life of existing   

society4 ,we are met1 of course1 by the 
triumphant answer that ,shakspeare wrote
 ,roman plays with a very slender       
knowledge of the classics4 ,it would be 
sufficient to reply1 that we are        
speaking of cases where ignorance of    
antiquity is not counterbalanced by any 
very exuberant or profound knowledge of 
human nature4 ,possibly posterity may   
have to deal with another myriad-minded 
dramatist whose poverty is better than  
other men's riches2 but it must not be  
rashly presumed that he is likely to    
appear at all2 or1 if at all1 with the  
same deficiency of learning which was   
not unnatural three hundred years back4 
,meanwhile1 it is a perverse and        
pernicious paradox to maintain that     
,shakspeare's consummate genius was in  
any way connected with his 'little      
,latin and less ,greek1' or that he     
might not have portrayed the ,romans yet
 more successfully if he had known more 
about them4 ,believing this1 we are not 
presuming1 as the same absurd reasoning 

would have it1 to set up ourselves      
against him4 ,we do not say that any    
other man in his age or our own1 however
 great his command of learning1 could   
possibly mend those plays by touching   
them2 but we say that ,shakspeare       
himself1 with increased knowledge1 might
 have made them yet more perfect4 ,it is
 easy to oppose inspiration to          
scholastic culture2 to coin antitheses  
between nature and art2 and to say that 
,shakspeare's ,romans are more ideally  
true than ,niebuhr's4 ,there is some    
truth in all this2 but it is not to the 
purpose4 ,a poet like ,burns may have   
really known more of classical life than
 a critic like ,blair2 nay1 it may be   
that if ,keats or ,tennyson had been a  
senior medallist at ,cambridge1 they    
would not have produced any thing not   
only so beautiful but so purely ,greek  
as ,endymion or ,oenone4 ,in what we    
were just saying we were thinking of the
 very highest minds4 ,and1 when we      
recollect how gracefully ,milton could  

walk under the weight of his immense    
learning1 we need not fear that the     
,alantean shoulders of ,shakspeare would
 have been oppressed by a similar load4 
,the knowledge of antiquity may operate 
on the recipient so as to produce mere  
bookishness and intellectual            
sophistication2 but in itself it is a   
real and legitimate part of all         
knowledge1 a portion of that truth with 
which poets are conversant1 a lesson set
 in other schools than those where man  
is teacher4 ,we know not what were      
,shakspeare's feelings with respect to  
his own deficiencies2 but we cannot     
believe that the same modesty which     
besought his friend to chide with       
,fortune1 'the guilty goddess of his    
harmful deeds1' would have shrunk from  
confessing want of knowledge as an evil 
to be lamented1 at the same time that it
 was imputed to want of opportunity4 ,if
 he was self-centred1 it was in his     
strength1 not in his weakness4 ,his     
eulogists may show the greatness of     

their faith in him by doubting whether  
he could have assimilated the learning  
which obstructs ,ben ,jonson's ,catiline
 and ,sejanus2 but we have no proofs    
that he thought so meanly of himself or 
of that which he happened not to        
possess4 ,on the contrary1 it may be    
argued1 from the diligent use which he  
has made of such information as he had1 
that he would gladly have taken         
advantage of more4 ,arnold1 in his      
,roman ,history1 has noted the poet's   
perception of historical truth in a     
matter where it might well have been    
overlooked2 and future critics may      
perhaps spend their time more profitably
 in discovering other indications of a  
like vigilant industry than in laboring 
to prove that the absence of so servile 
a virtue has been conducive to his      
preeminence as a creative artist4       
,,sliding ,,scale ,,of ,,the            
,,inconsolables4   ,the editor of ,the  
,albion thus christens1 while he        
translates1 the following lively        

narrative1 culled from the varied       
columns of the ,courrier des ,etats     
,unis4 ,the malicious writer dates from 
,paris2 but for such experiences our own
 city would probably be quite as        
prolific a hunting-field4         99    
99       99       99       99  ,how     
rapid is the progress of oblivion with  
respect to those who are no more6 ,how  
many a quadrille shall we see this      
winter1 exclusively made up from the    
ranks of inconsolable widows6 ,widows of
 this order exist only in the literature
 of the tombstone4 ,in the world1 and   
after the lapse of a certain period1    
there is but one sort of widows         
inconsolable--those who refuse to be    
comforted1 because they can't get       
married again6  ,one of our most        
distinguished sculptors was summoned1 a 
short time since1 to the house of a     
young lady1 connected by birth with a   
family of the highest grade in the      
aristocracy of wealth1 and united in    
marriage to the heir of a title         

illustrious in the military annals of   
the empire4 ,the union1 formed under the
 happiest auspices1 had been1 alas6 of  
short duration4 ,death1 unpitying death1
 had ruptured it1 by prematurely        
carrying off the young husband4 ,the    
sculptor was summoned by the widow4 ,he 
traversed the apartments1 silent and    
deserted1 until he was introduced into a
 bedroom1 and found himself in presence 
of a lady1 young and beautiful1 but     
habited in the deepest mourning1 and    
with a face furrowed by tears4 ,you are 
aware1 said she1 with a painful effort1 
and a voice half choked by sobs1 you are
 aware of the blow which ,i have        
received8 ,the artist bowed1 with an air
 of respectful condolence4 ,sir1        
continued the widow1 ,i am anxious to   
have a funeral monument erected in honor
 of the husband whom ,i have lost4 ,the 
artist bowed again4 ,i wish that the    
monument should be superb1 worthy of the
 man whose loss ,i weep1 proportioned to
 the unending grief into which his loss 

has plunged me4 ,i care not what it     
costs4 ,i am rich1 and ,i will willingly
 sacrifice all my fortune to do honor to
 the memory of an adored husband4 ,i    
must have a temple--with columns--in    
marble--and in the middle--on a         
pedestal--his statue4  ,i will do my    
best to fulfil your wishes1 madam1      
replied the artist2 but ,i had not the  
honor of acquaintance with the deceased1
 and a likeness of him is indispensable 
for the due execution of my work4       
,without doubt1 you have his portrait8  
,the widow raised her arm and pointed   
despairingly to a splendid likeness     
painted by ,amaury ,duval4  ,a most     
admirable picture6 observed the artist1 
and the painter's name is a sufficient  
guarantee for its striking resemblance  
to the original4  ,those are his very   
features1 sir2 it is himself4 ,it wants 
but life4 ,ah6 would that ,i could      
restore it to him at the cost of all my 
blood6  ,i will have this portrait      
carried to my studio1 madam1 and ,i     

promise you that the marble shall       
reproduce it exactly4  ,the widow1 at   
these words1 sprung up1 and at a single 
bound throwing herself towards the      
picture1 with arms stretched out as     
though to defend it1 exclaimed1 ,take   
away this portrait6 carry off my only   
consolation6 my sole remaining comfort6 
never6 never6  ,but madam1 you will only
 be deprived of it for a short time1    
and--  ,not an hour6 not a minute6 could
 ,i exist without his beloved image6    
,look you1 sir1 ,i have had it placed   
here1 in my own room1 that my eyes might
 be fastened upon it1 without ceasing1  
and through my tears4 ,his portrait     
shall never leave this spot one single  
instant1 and in contemplating that will 
,i pass the remainder of a miserable and
 sorrowful existence4  ,in that case1   
madam1 you will be compelled to permit  
me to take a copy of it4 ,but do not be 
uneasy--,i shall not have occasion to   
trouble your solitude for any length of 
time3 one sketch--one sitting will      

suffice4  ,the widow agreed to this     
arrangement2 she only insisted that the 
artist should come back the following   
day4 ,she wanted him to set to work on  
the instant1 so great was her longing to
 see the mausoleum erected4 ,the        
sculptor1 however1 remarked that he had 
another work to finish first4 ,this     
difficulty she sought to overcome by    
means of money4  ,impossible6 replied   
the artist1 ,i have given my word2 but  
do not distress yourself2 ,i will apply 
to it so diligently1 that the monument  
shall be finished in as short a time as 
any other sculptor would require1 who   
could apply himself to it forthwith4    
,you see my distress1 said the widow2   
you can make allowance for my           
impatience4 ,be speedy1 then1 and above 
all1 be lavish of magnificence4 ,spare  
no expense2 only let me have a          
masterpiece4  ,several letters echoed   
these injunctions1 during the few days  
immediately following the interview4 ,at
 the expiration of three months the     

artist called again4 ,he found the widow
 still in weeds1 but a little less      
pallid1 and a little more coquettishly  
dressed in her mourning garb4 ,madam1   
said he1 ,i am entirely at your service4
  ,ah6 at last2 this is fortunate1      
replied the widow1 with a gracious      
smile4  ,i have made my design1 but ,i  
still want one sitting for the likeness4
 ,will you permit me to go into your    
bedroom8  ,into my bedroom8 ,for what8  
,to look at the portrait again4  ,oh6   
yes2 have the goodness to walk into the 
drawing-room2 you will find it there1   
now4  ,ah6  ,yes2 it hangs better there2
 it is better lighted in the            
drawing-room than in my own room4       
,would you like1 madam1 to look at the  
design for the monument8  ,with         
pleasure4 ,oh6 what a size6 ,what       
profusion of decorations6 ,why1 it is a 
palace1 sir1 this tomb6  ,did you not   
tell me1 madam1 that nothing could be   
too magnificent8 ,i have not considered 
the expense2 and1 by the way1 here is a 

memorandum of what the monument will    
cost you4  ,oh1 heavens6 exclaimed the  
widow1 after having cast an eye over the
 total adding up4 ,why1 this is         
enormous6  ,you begged me to spare no   
expense4  ,yes1 no doubt1 ,i desire to  
do things properly1 but not exactly to  
make a fool of myself4  ,this1 at       
present1 you see1 is only a design2 and 
there is time yet to cut it down4       
,well1 then1 suppose we were to leave   
out the temple1 and the columns1 and all
 the architectural part1 and content    
ourselves with the statue8 ,it seems to 
me that this would be very appropriate4 
,certainly it would4  ,so let it be1    
then--just the statue1 alone4  ,shortly 
after this second visit1 the sculptor   
fell desperately ill4 ,he was compelled 
to give up work2 but1 on returning from 
a tour in ,italy1 prescribed by his     
physician1 he presented himself once    
more before the widow1 who was then in  
the tenth month of her mourning4 ,he    
found1 this time1 a few roses among the 

cypress1 and some smiling colors playing
 over half-shaded grounds4 ,he brought  
with him a little model of his statue1  
done in plaster1 and offering in        
miniature the idea of what his work was 
to be4 ,what do you think of the        
likeness8 he inquired of the widow4  ,it
 seems to me a little flattered2 my     
husband was all very well1 no doubt2 but
 you are making him an ,apollo6         
,really8 well1 then1 ,i can correct my  
work by the portrait4  ,don't take the  
trouble--a little more1 or a little less
 like1 what does it matter8  ,excuse me1
 but ,i am particular about likenesses4 
,if you absolutely must--  ,it is in the
 drawing-room1 yonder1 is it not8 ,i'll 
go in there4  ,it is not there any      
longer1 replied the widow1 ringing the  
bell4  ,baptiste1 said she to the       
servant who came in1 bring down the     
portrait of your master4  ,the portrait 
that you sent up to the garret last     
week1 madam8  ,yes4  ,at this moment the
 door opened1 and a young man of        

distinguished air entered2 his manners  
were easy and familiar2 he kissed the   
fair widow's hand1 and tenderly inquired
 after her health4 ,who in the world is 
this good man in plaster8 asked he1     
pointing with his finger to the         
statuette1 which the artist had placed  
upon the mantel-piece4  ,it is the model
 of a statue for my husband's tomb4     
,you are having a statue of him made8   
,the devil6 ,it's very majestic6  ,do   
you think so8  ,it is only great men who
 are thus cut out of marble1 and at full
 length2 it seems to me1 too1 that the  
deceased was a very ordinary personage4 
,in fact1 his bust would be sufficient4 
,just as you please1 madam1 said the    
sculptor4  ,well1 let it be a bust1     
then2 that's determined6  ,two months   
later1 the artist1 carrying home the    
bust1 encountered on the stairs a merry 
party4 ,the widow1 giving her hand to   
the elegant dandy who had caused the    
statue of the deceased to be cut down1  
was on her way to the mayor's office1   

where she was about to take a second    
oath of conjugal fidelity4 ,if the bust 
had not been completed1 it would        
willingly have been dispensed with4     
,when1 some time later1 the artist      
called for his money1 there was an      
outcry about the price2 and it required 
very little less than a threat of legal 
proceedings1 before the widow1 consoled 
and remarried1 concluded by resigning   
herself to pay for this funeral homage1 
reduced as it was1 to the memory of her 
departed husband4     ,a ,,new ,,series 
,,of ,,tales ,,by ,,miss ,,martineau4   
,there is scarcely in ,english          
literature a collection of tales by a   
simple writer that are better adapted   
for the instruction of the masses1 than 
,,harriet ,,martineau',s ,illustrations 
of ,political ,economy4 ,without        
believing her a very profound           
philosopher1 we are inclined to think   
these works could be remembered longer  
than any of her other writings4 ,the    
pleasure and instruction we derived from

 them were recalled by the announcement 
in the ,london ,leader that she is to   
contribute a new series of stories for  
the people1 to that journal4 ,we copy   
the first of them4   ,,the ,,old        
,,governess4  ,the afternoon was come   
when the ,morells must go on board4     
,they were going to ,canada at last1    
after having talked about it for several
 years4 ,there were so many children1   
that it was with much difficulty they   
had got on for some years past2 and     
there was no prospect for the lads at   
home4 ,they had1 with extreme           
difficulty1 paid their way3 and they    
had1 to a certain extent1 educated the  
children4 ,that1 however1 was ,miss     
,smith's doing4  ,we shall always feel1 
every one of us1 said ,mrs4 ,morell1    
with tears1 to the elderly homely       
governess1 that we are under the deepest
 obligations to you4 ,but for you1 the  
children would have grown up without any
 education at all4 ,and1 for the        
greatest service you or any one could   

possibly render us1 we have never been  
able to give you your due1--even as     
regards the mere money4  ,i can only say
 again1 replied the governess1 that you 
do not look at the whole of the case4   
,you have given me a home1 when it is no
 easy matter for such as ,i am to earn  
one1 with my old-womanish ways and my   
old-fashioned knowledge4  ,i will not   
hear any disparagement of your ways and 
your knowledge1 interrupted ,mrs4       
,morell4 ,they have been every thing to 
my children3 and if you could have gone 
with us4444  ,this1 however1 they all   
knew to be out of the question4 ,it was 
not only that ,miss ,smith was between  
fifty and sixty1 too old to go so far1  
with little prospect of comfort at the  
end of the journey2 but she was at      
present disabled for much usefulness by 
the state of her right hand4 ,it had    
been hurt by an accident a long time    
before1 and it did not get well4 ,the   
surgeon had always said it would be a   
long case2 and she had no use whatever  

of the hand in the mean time4 ,yet she  
would not part with the baby till the   
last moment4 ,she carried him on the    
left arm1 and stood on the wharf with   
him--the mother at her side--till all   
the rest were on board1 and ,mr4 ,morell
 came for his wife4 ,it was no grand    
steamer they were going in1 but a humble
 vessel belonging to the port1 which    
would carry them cheap4  ,now1 my love1 
said the husband4 ,now1 ,miss ,smith1   
taking the child from her4 ,words cannot
 tell4444  ,and if words could have     
told1 the tongue could not have uttered 
them4 ,it was little1 too1 that his wife
 could say4  ,write to us4 ,be sure you 
write4 ,we shall write as soon as we    
arrive4 ,write to us4  ,miss ,smith     
glanced at the hand4 ,she said only one 
word1 ,farewell6 but she said it        
cheerfully4  ,the steam-tug was in a    
hurry1 and down the river they went4    
,she had one more appointment to keep   
with them4 ,she was to wave her         
handkerchief from the rocks by the fort2

 and the children were to let her try   
whether she could see their little      
handkerchiefs4 ,so she walked quickly   
over the common to the fort1 and sat    
down on the beach at the top of the     
rocks4  ,it was very well that she had  
something to do4 ,but the plan did not  
altogether answer4 ,by the time the     
vessel crossed the bar it was nearly    
dark1 and she was not quite sure1 among 
three1 which it was1 and she did not    
suppose the children could see her      
handkerchief4 ,she waved it1 however1   
according to promise4 ,how little they  
knew how wet it was6  ,then there was   
the walk home4 ,it was familiar1 yet    
very strange4 ,when she was a child her 
parents used to bring her here1 in the  
summer time1 for sea air and bathing4   
,the haven and the old gray bathing     
houses1 and the fort1 and the           
lighthouse1 and the old priory ruins    
crowning the rocks1 were all familiar to
 her2 but the port had so grown up that 
all else was strange4 ,and how strange  

now was life to her6 ,her parents gone1 
many years back1 and her two sisters    
since2 and now1 the ,morells6 ,she had  
never had any money to lose1 and the    
retired way in which the ,morells lived 
had prevented her knowing any body out  
of their house4 ,she had not a relation 
nor a friend1 nor even an acquaintance1 
in ,england4 ,the ,morells had not been 
uneasy about her4 ,they left her a      
little money1 and had so high an opinion
 of her that they did not doubt her     
being abundantly employed1 whenever her 
hand should get well4 ,they had lived   
too much to themselves to know that her 
,french1 learned during the war1 when   
nobody in ,england could pronounce      
,french1 would not do in these days1 nor
 that her trilling1 old-fashioned style 
of playing on the piano1 which they     
thought so beautiful1 would be laughed  
at now in any boarding school2 and that 
her elegant needleworks were quite out  
of fashion2 and that there were new ways
 of teaching even reading1 spelling1 and

 writing4  ,she knew these things1 and  
cautioned herself against discontent    
with the progress of society1 because   
she happened to be left alone behind4   
,she suspected1 too1 that the hand would
 not get well4 ,the thing that she was  
most certain of was1 that she must not  
rack her brain with fears and           
speculations as to what was to become of
 her4 ,her business was to wait till she
 could find something to do1 or learn   
what she was to suffer4 ,she thought she
 had better wait here4 ,there was no    
call to any other place4 ,this was more 
familiar and more pleasant to her than  
any other--the ,morells' cottage being  
far away1 and out of the question--and  
here she could live with the utmost     
possible cheapness4 ,so here she staid4 
,the hand got well1 as far as the pain  
was concerned1 sooner than she had      
expected4 ,but it was in a different way
 from what she had expected4 ,it was    
left wholly useless4 ,and1 though the   
time was not long1 it had wrought as    

time does4 ,it had worn out her clothes2
 it had emptied her little purse4 ,it   
had carried away every thing she had in 
the world but the very few clothes she  
had on4 ,she had been verging towards   
the resolution she now took for three or
 four weeks4 ,she took it finally while 
sitting on the bench near the fort4 ,it 
was in the dusk2 for her gown1 though   
she had done her best to mend it with   
her left hand1 was in no condition to   
show by daylight4 ,she was alone in the 
dusk1 rather hungry and very cold4 ,the 
sea was dashing surlily upon the rocks  
below1 and there was too much mist to   
let any stars shine upon her4 ,it was   
all dreary enough2 yet she was not very 
miserable1 for her mind was made up4    
,she had made up her mind to go into the
 work-,pouse the next day4 ,while she   
was thinking calmly about it a fife     
began to play a sort of jig in the yard 
of the fort behind her4 ,her heart      
heaved to her throat and the tears      
gushed from her eyes4 ,in this same     

spot1 fifty years before1 she had heard 
what seemed to her the same fife4 ,her  
father was then sitting on the grass1   
and she was between his knees1 helping  
to tassel the tail of a little kite they
 were going to fly2 and1 when the merry 
fife had struck up1 her father had      
snatched up her gay ,harlequin that lay 
within reach1 and made him shake his    
legs and arms to the music4 ,she heard  
her own laugh again now1 through that   
long course of fifty years1 and in the  
midst of these tears4  ,all that night  
she pondered her purpose3 and the more  
she considered1 the more sure she was   
that it was right4 ,i might1 thought    
she1 get maintained by charity1 no      
doubt3 ,i might call on any of the      
clergymen of this place1 and the rich   
people4 ,or ,i might walk into the shops
 and tell my story1 and ,i dare say the 
people would give me food and clothes4  
,and1 if it was a temporary distress1 ,i
 would do so4 ,i should think it right  
to ask for help1 if ,i had any prospect 

of work or independence in any way4 ,but
 ,i have none3 and this1 ,i am          
convinced1 points out my duty4 ,hopeless
 cases like mine are those which public 
charity--legal charity--is intended to  
meet4 ,my father little dreamed of this1
 to be sure2 and the ,morells little    
dream of it at this moment4 ,but when do
 our parents and friends1 when do we    
ourselves1 dream of what our lot is     
really to turn out8 ,those old notions  
have nothing to do1 if we could but     
think so1 with the event4 ,nor has my   
disgust any thing to do with my duty4   
,the plain fact is1 that ,i am growing  
old--that ,i am nearly helpless--that ,i
 am cold and hungry1 and nearly         
naked--that ,i have no friends within   
reach1 and no prospect whatever4 ,i am1 
therefore1 an object for public charity1
 and ,i will ask for what is my due4 ,i 
am afraid of what ,i may find in the    
workhouse2--the vicious people1 the     
dirty people1 the diseased people1--and1
 ,i suppose1 not one among them who can 

give me any companionship whatever4  ,it
 is dreadful2 but it can't be helped4   
,and the worse the case is about my     
companions--my fellow-paupers--7for ,i  
must learn to bear the word7--the       
greater are the chances of my finding   
something to do for them2--something    
which may prevent my feeling myself     
utterly useless in the world4 ,this is  
not being wholly without prospect1 after
 all4 ,i suppose nobody ever is4 ,if it 
were not so cold now1 ,i could sleep    
upon mine4  ,it was too cold for sleep2 
and when1 in the morning1 she offered   
her old shawl in payment for her bed1   
assuring the poor old woman who let it  
that she should not want the shawl1     
because she was going to have other     
clothes1 the woman shook her head       
sorrowfully1--her lodger looked so wan  
and chilled4 ,she had no fear that there
 was any thought of suicide in the case4
 ,no one could look in ,miss ,smith's   
sensible face1 and hear her steady1     
cheerful voice1 and suppose that she    

would do any thing wild or impatient4   
,who is that woman with a book in her   
hand8 inquired the visiting             
,commissioner1 some months afterwards1  
of the governor of the workhouse4 ,the  
governor could only say she was a single
 woman of the name of ,smith1 who had no
 use of her right hand4 ,as to who she  
was1 he could tell no more than this2   
but his wife had sometimes mentioned her
 as a different sort of person from     
those they generally saw there4 ,she    
could not only read1 but she read very  
well3 and she read a great deal aloud to
 the old people1 and in the infirmary4  
,she talked unlike the rest1 too4 ,she  
said little2 but her language was good1 
and always correct4 ,she could not do   
much on account of her infirmity3 but   
she was always willing to do what could 
be done with one hand2 and she must have
 been very handy when she had the use of
 both4  ,i should have thought her eyes 
had been too weak for much reading1     
observed the ,commissioner4 ,has the    

medical officer attended to her8  ,the  
governor called his wife3 and the wife  
called a pauper woman who was told the  
question4 ,this woman said that it was  
not exactly a case for the doctor4      
,nobody that shed so many tears could   
have good eyes4 ,ah6 the governor might 
be surprised2 because ,smith seemed so  
brisk in the daytime1 and cheered the   
old people so much4 ,but she made up for
 it at night4 ,many and many a time she 
cried the night through4  ,how do you   
know8 asked the ,commissioner4  ,i sleep
 in the next bed1 sir4 ,i can't say she 
disturbs any body2 for she is very      
quiet4 ,but if any thing keeps me awake 
,i hear her sobbing4 ,and you need but  
feel her pillow in the morning4 ,it is  
wet almost through4  ,and does that     
happen often8  ,yes1 sir4 ,many a time  
when she has turned her back1--gone into
 the infirmary1 or been reading to the  
old people1--,i have got her pillow and 
dried it4 ,and ,i have seen her do it   
herself1 with a smile on her face all   

the time4  ,the ,commissioner walked    
away4 ,before he left the place1 the    
woman ,smith was beckoned out by the    
governor4 ,she went with a beating      
heart1 with some wild idea in her head  
that the ,morells had sent1 that some   
friends had turned up4 ,while still in  
the passage1 however1 she said to       
herself that she might as well look to  
see her parents risen from the dead4    
,the ,commissioner had1 indeed1 nothing 
to tell4 ,he wanted to ask4 ,he did ask1
 as much as his delicacy would allow4   
,but he learned nothing2 except1 indeed1
 what he ought to have considered the   
most important thing1 the state of her  
mind about being there4 ,about that1 she
 was frank enough4 ,she said over again 
to him what she had said to herself1    
about this being the right place for one
 in her circumstances4 ,she considered  
that it would be an abuse of private    
charity for her to be maintained in     
idleness at an expense which might set  
forward in life some person in a less   

hopeless position4  ,you speak          
cheerfully1 as if you were in earnest1  
said the ,commissioner4  ,of course1 ,i 
am in earnest1 she replied4  ,and       
cheerful she remained throughout the    
conversation4 ,only once the            
,commissioner saw her eyes filled and a 
quiver on her lips4 ,he did not know it2
 but he had unconsciously called her    
,madam4  ,would she prefer the          
children's department of the ,house8    
,there was no doubt that she could teach
 them much4 ,would she change her       
quarters8 ,no4 ,she was too old now for 
that4 ,she should not be a good         
companion now for children2 and they    
would be too much for her4 ,unless she  
was wanted--  ,by no means4 ,she should 
be where she preferred to be4  ,she     
preferred to be where she was4 ,the     
,commissioner's lady soon after dropped 
in1 and managed to engage ,smith in     
conversation4 ,but there was no result2 
because ,smith did not choose that there
 should be4 ,perhaps she was more in the

 infirmary2 and had oftener a warm seat 
by the fire1 and was spoken to with more
 deference4 ,but this might be solely   
owing to the way she made with the      
people by her own acts and manners4 ,the
 invalids and the infirm grew so fond of
 her that they poured out to her all    
their complaints4 ,she was favored with 
the knowledge of every painful sensation
 as it passed1 and every uneasy thought 
as it arose4  ,i never thought to die in
 such a place as this1 groaned old      
,johnny ,jacks4  ,i wonder at that1 said
 his old wife2 for you never took any   
care to provide yourself a better--to   
say nothing of me4 ,and she went on to  
tell how ,johnny had idled and drank his
 life away1 and brought her here at     
last4 ,much of ,johnny's idling and     
drinking having been connected with     
electioneering in an abominably venal   
city1 he was a great talker on politics1
 and the state was made responsible for 
all his troubles4 ,he said it was a     
shame that any body should die in a     

workhouse2 he appealed to his neighbor  
,smith1 who was warming his broth1      
whether it was not so8  ,which is best8 
she answered2 being here1 or on a       
common1 or the sea-sands8 ,because1 she 
added1 there was a time when old people 
like us were left to die wherever they  
fell4 ,there are countries now where old
 people die so4 ,i should not like that4
  ,you don't mean to say that you or any
 one likes being here8  ,oh1 no2 ,i     
don't mean to say that4 ,but things are 
better than they were once3 and they may
 be better again4  ,i shall not live to 
see that1 groaned ,johnny4  ,no2 nor ,i4
 ,but it is something to think of4      
,d---- it1 said ,johnny1 ,i am not the  
better for any good that does not happen
 to me1 nor to any body ,i know4  ,are  
not you8 said neighbor ,smith4 ,well1   
now1 ,i am4  ,and so she was to the end4
 ,she died in that infirmary1 and not   
very long after4 ,when the ,morells'    
letter came1 it was plain that they had 
enough to do to take care of themselves4

 ,so she did not let them know1--in her 
reply1 written by the hands of the      
schoolmaster1--where she was4 ,the      
letter was so cheerful that they are    
probably far from suspecting1 at this   
moment1 how she died and was buried4 ,as
 from the abundance of the heart the    
mouth speaketh1 there was so much in her
 letter as rather surprised them about  
her hope and expectation that the time  
would come when hearty work in the      
vigorous season of life should secure   
its easy close2 and when a greater      
variety of employment should be opened  
to women4 ,there was more of this kind  
of speculation and less news and detail 
of facts than they would have liked4    
,but it was a household event to have a 
letter from ,miss ,smith2 and the very  
little children1 forgetting the wide sea
 they had passed1 began shouting for    
,miss ,smith to come to them just 7as it
 happened7 when her ear was closing to  
every human voice4     ,,on ,,the       
,,attempts ,,to ,,discover ,,the        

,,northwest ,,passage4   ,there are some
 peculiarities of style in the following
 performance1 which is by no means      
devoid of eloquence1 and which derives a
 certain interest from the efforts now  
being made to discover the fate of ,sir 
,john ,franklin4 ,the author is ,,george
 ,,stovin ,,venables1 ,,ll4 ,d41 of     
,jesus ,college1 ,cambridge4   ,,the    
,,northwest ,,passage4      ,and now    
there came both mist and snow1     ,and 
it grew wondrous cold2     ,and ice1    
mast high1 came floating by1     ,as    
green as emerald4     ,and through the  
drifts and snowy clifts     ,did send a 
dismal sheen3     ,nor shape of men1 nor
 beasts we ken--     ,the ice was all   
between--     ,the ice was here1 the ice
 was there--     ,the ice was all       
around3     ,it crack'd and growl'd1 and
 roar'd and howl'd1     ,like noises in 
a swound4          ,,coleridge4 ,rime of
 the ,ancient ,mariner4  ,the secret    
wonders of the gloomy ,north bid proud  
defiance1 in their solitude1 to man's   

triumphant daring4 ,who shall pierce the
 ancient prison-house where ,nature's   
might1 in mightier chains of adamantine 
frost1 lies fettered1 since ,creation8  
,who shall live where promontories huge1
 of piled ice1 like monstrous fragments 
of primeval worlds tossed on the surge  
of ,chaos1 over the waves rear their    
triumphant heads1 and laugh to scorn the
 undreaded kinghood of the lordly sea8  
,a fearful challenge6 yet the charmed   
spell1 which summons man to high        
discovery1 is ever vocal in the outward 
world1 though they alone may hear it1   
who have hearts responsive to its tone4 
,the gale of spring1 breathing sweet    
balm over the western waters1 called    
forth that gifted old adventurer#aj to  
seek the perfumes of spice-laden winds1 
far in the ,indian ,isles4 ,yea1 there  
is power in ,nature's solemn music4 ,all
 have heard the sighs of ,winter in the 
middle air1 and seen the skirts of his  
cloud-woven robe lingering upon the     
misty mountain-top3 but years rolled on1

 ere man might understand the mystic    
invitation of that call to seek the     
,monarch in his ,arctic home4  ,at      
length that call is answered4 ,daringly 
yon gallant ship1 towards the ,polar    
,star1 walks the untrodden pathways of  
old ,ocean1 leaving the haunts of man4  
,even now1 the bounds are passed where  
silently the ,boreal ,morn#aa folds and 
unfolds1 in swiftest interchange1 her   
silver robe of alternating light over   
the midnight ,heaven4 ,there is a change
 in every sight and sound4 ,white       
glaciers clash on the tormented waves1  
in fierce career waving eternally1 and  
hoary whales1 with musical din#ab       
booming along the deep1 breathe forth in
 giant chorus1 wondrously1 the welcome  
of the ,spirit of the ,north4  ,joy to  
the brave6 ,that old phantasmal veil    
which checked the view of dim antiquity1
 shrinks from their eagle glance1 while 
fabled hills and regions of impenetrable
 ice fade in the blue expanse of mighty 
bays#ac--now spread the bosom of the    

expectant sail unto the ,eastern breeze1
 and while the prow furrows the yielding
 waters1 image forth high dreams of     
lofty hope--the joyous bound of billows 
gushing between parted shores1 where    
,asia's rocky brow for ever frowns on   
the opposing continent4 ,and1 borne on  
spirit-plumed wings1 let fancy soar far 
from that sunless clime1 to the warm    
,south1 where soft skies slumber through
 the cloudless noon1 o'er the gold      
palaces of fair ,cathay4  ,why pause ye 
in mid ocean8 ,still the sail swells to 
the voiceful breeze2 the high mast bends
 with hideous creak1 and every separate 
rib in the huge fabric quivers4 ,yet the
 ship on the unmoved waters motionless  
struggles1 as one1 who in a feverish    
dream nervelessly fleeing o'er a haunted
 waste1 strives horribly to shun some   
fiendish shape1 with straining sinews1  
and convulsive gasp1 and faint limbs1   
magic-stricken4 ,there is rest1 dismal  
and dreary1 on the silent sea3 most     
dismal quiet3 for the viewless might of 

the keen frost-wind#ad crisps the       
curling waves1 binding their motion with
 a clankless chain along the far        
horizon4 ,fruitlessly the imprisoned    
vessel writhes1 until the gale1 lulled  
in the embrace of evening1 leaves its   
prey1 to share the torpor of the        
lifeless waste1 till earth awaken from  
her half-year's sleep4  ,yet1 in those  
daring hearts1 the cheerless voice of   
boding ,fear or dull ,despondency can   
find no answering tone1 whether the     
storm1 round the snow-rampart#ae        
howling1 interweaves his solemn moans   
with the rejoicing shouts of the glad   
theatre1#af or simple strains of homely 
music leave that warm recess--vibrating 
far into the tremulous air4 ,here1 even 
here are pleasures2 those stray#ag forms
 of joy1 which ,nature spreads          
throughout the world1 that he who seeks 
may find them4 ,when the ,sun1 uprising 
from his long and gloomy trance1 beams  
through the clearer air1 how beautiful1 
in some obscurest dell#ah of that lone  

land1 led by the music of an unseen     
river to see fair flowers1 with         
light-awakened buds1 salute the spring  
tide4 ,happily1 they smile in the midst 
of nakedness1 like sweet memories of    
laughing infancy1 beaming around the    
desolation of an aged heart4  ,oh1 that 
the might of ,man's majestic will were  
self-sufficing6 that the meaner chains  
which bind him to this dark1 material   
world1 before the lightning glance of   
,enterprise might fade1 as those        
,philistian bonds1 that fell from him of
 ,zorah4 ,back--in sorrow back--the     
ocean-wanderers turn the unwilling prow2
 for ,nature may not yield1 and all is  
lost1 save gloomy thoughts of unrequited
 toil in the storm-beaten deep2 and     
phantasies of gorgeous dreams1 for ever 
desolate2 and hopes1 which were1 and    
will not be again4  ,yet if the race of 
,man1 as some have deemed#ai1 form but  
one mighty ,being1 who doth live1 yea   
with intenser life1 while kingly ,death 
benumbs each separate atom with the     

touch of his pale sceptre--one          
unchanging ocean of everchanging        
waves--one deathless heaven of clouds1  
which to their graves roll ceaselessly3 
if it be so1 not vainly have long years 
sent forth their heralds on the         
trackless deep1 where high endeavors of 
exalted will which in themselves find no
 accomplishment1 shall build at length  
perfection4 ,peacefully he#bj sleeps1   
who erst beheld the rifted shores of    
,greenland glister in the sun1 like     
gold3 and that deserted chief#ba whose  
angry moan once mingled wildly with the 
screaming winds and the hoarse gurgle of
 ingulfing waves1 is unremembered now4  
,but high ,emprise died not with them4  
,have not our latter days beheld1 with  
awe1 the ice-borne ,muscovite#bb ride   
the fierce billows of the ,polar ,sea8  
,has not the ,northern hunter seen the  
flag of ,england1 o'er her floating     
palaces1 unfurled in his dominions      
crystalline8 ,and who shall mourn1      
while1 in the mystic race1 from hand to 

hand still moves the unquenched torch1  
that none have reached the goal8 ,not   
suddenly doth the sweet warmth of       
universal life1 from brumal caves       
advancing1 interfuse the vast abysmal   
air1 or penetrate the deep heart of the 
frost-entranced ,earth4 ,gentle1 and in 
its very gentleness invincible1 it      
moves1 though ruthlessly stern ,winter  
calls his rallied armies on1 and        
snow-blasts violate the joyous prime4   
,so is it1 with the silent victories of 
,man's enduring spirit3 we have seen    
,winter and ,spring2 and shall we not   
behold the full rejoicing of the        
complete year8  ,the hour shall come1   
nor shall the longing heart in that dark
 interval be all unblest with glance    
prophetic4 ,though no meteor shape glare
 from the speaking sky1 no sheeted ghost
 wander dim-moving in the weird         
midnight1 with such forshadowings true  
as ever wait on him who1 with a calm and
 reverend eye1 hath viewed the mysteries
 of things1 and dared to image forth the

 future from the past--bind on the      
mystic robe1 and from the brow of       
,hope's enchanted hill look boldly forth
 upon the coming ages4 ,saw ye not white
 fog-wreaths floating through the cold  
gray dawn over ice-laden billows1 as    
they roll through yon rock-cinctured    
chasm8 ,a dusky shape looms through the 
hazy atmosphere1 and sails1 as of some  
struggling bark that wearily breasts the
 opposing strength of angry waves1#bc   
float with a fitful motion to and fro4  
,still on and on--a breath-suspending   
sight of pale ,solicitude1 and fearful  
hope--and hark6 the triple crash of     
,britain's joy1 the magical music of her
 wild hurra1 peals with a sound of      
mighty exultation through the aerial    
depths4 ,the cloven mist unwraps its    
folded canopy1 and lo6 the blue         
,pacific1 boundlessly outspread1 far    
glitters in the silvery light of morn4  
,,footnotes3  #aj ,columbus4  #aa ,the  
phenomenon which is commonly called     
,aurora ,borealis1 is in high latitudes 

frequently seen to the south4  #ab ,on  
entering the ,arctic ,circle1 the       
musical sounds of the white whales is   
first heard4  #ac ,modern discoverers   
have frequently found an open passage in
 latitudes1 where chains of hills were  
laid down in the old charts4  #ad ,the  
effect of the change of temperature at  
the beginning of winter is almost       
instantaneous1 as young ice at the      
thickness of half an inch will stop a   
large vessel in full sail4  #ae ,captain
 ,parry found considerable advantage    
from raising a wall of snow round the   
ship1 in its winter station4  #af ,the  
theatrical amusements1 which were       
introduced during the stay of the ,fury 
and ,hecla at ,melvile ,island1 are well
 known4  #ag ,alluding to the following 
lines of ,mr4 ,wordsworth3--            
----,pleasure is spread throughout the  
earth1     ,in stray gifts1 to be       
claim'd by whoever shall find4   #ah    
,the beautiful effect of these ,arctic  
,oases is described in the account of   

,captain ,parry's second voyage4  #ai   
,see the speech attributed by ,socrates 
to ,diotima in the ,banquet of ,plato4  
#bj ,sir ,martin ,frobisher1 who in     
#aegg anchored on the ,western coast of 
,greenland1 reported that in that       
country the stones be altogether        
sparkled1 and glister in the sun like   
gold4  #ba ,hudson4  #bb ,baron         
,wrangle4     ,,recollections ,,of      
,,paganini4   ,the ,leaves from the     
,portfolio of a ,manager1 in the        
,december ,dublin ,university ,magazine1
 disclose a number of interesting facts 
connected with ,prynne's ,histriomastix1
 ,milton's ,samson ,agonistes1 ,hannah  
,more's ,tragedies1 ,ireland's          
,shakspeare ,forgeries1 and not a few   
very startling disclosures respecting   
the extraordinary emoluments of first   
class performers1 from ,roscius down to 
,jenny ,lind4 ,from this portion of our 
,manager's ,portfolio we select the     
amusing recollections of ,paganini in   
,ireland1 twenty years ago3  ,catalani1 

,pasta1 ,sontag1 ,malibran1 ,grisi1     
,taglioni1 ,rubini1 ,mario1 ,tamburini1 
,lablache1 cum multis aliis1 have       
received their thousands1 and tens of   
thousands3 but1 until the ,jenny ,lind  
mania left every thing else at an       
immeasurable distance1 ,paganini        
obtained larger sums than had ever      
before been received in modern times4   
,he came with a prodigious flourish of  
trumpets1 a vast continental reputation1
 and a few personal legends of the most 
exciting character4 ,it was said that he
 had killed his wife in a fit of        
jealousy1 and made fiddlestrings of her 
intestines2 and that the devil had      
composed a sonata for him in a dream1 as
 he formerly did for ,tartini4 ,when you
 looked at him1 you thought all this1   
and more1 very likely to be true4 ,his  
talent was almost supernatural1 while   
his 'get up1' and 'mise en scene1' were 
original and unearthly1 such as those   
who saw him will never forget1 and those
 who did not can with difficulty        

conceive4 ,the individual and his       
performance were equally unlike anything
 that had ever been exhibited before4   
,no picture or description can convey an
 adequate idea of his entrance and his  
exit4 ,to walk simply on and off the    
stage appears a commonplace operation   
enough1 but ,paganini did this in a     
manner peculiar to himself1 which       
baffled all imitation4 ,while ,i am     
writing of it1 his first appearance in  
,dublin1 at the great ,musical ,festival
 of #ahcj1 presents itself to 'my mind's
 eye1' as an event of yesterday4 ,when  
he placed himself in position to        
commence1 the crowded audience were     
hushed into a deathlike silence4 ,his   
black habiliments2 his pale1 attenuated 
visage1 powerfully expressive2 his long1
 silky1 raven tresses1 and the flash of 
his dark eye1 as he shook them back over
 his shoulders2 his thin1 transparent   
fingers1 unusually long2 the mode in    
which he grasped his bow1 and the       
tremendous length to which he drew it2  

and1 climax of all1 his sudden manner of
 placing both bow and instrument under  
his arm1 while he threw his hands behind
 him1 elevated his head1 his features   
almost distorted with a smile of        
ecstasy1 and his very hair instinct with
 life1 at the conclusion of an          
unparalleled fantasia6 ,and there he    
stood1 immovable and triumphant1 while  
the theatre rang again with peals on    
peals of applause1 and shouts of the    
wildest enthusiasm6 ,none who witnessed 
this will ever forget it1 nor are they  
likely again to see the same effect     
produced by mere mortal agency4  ,the   
one string feat ,i always considered    
unworthy this great master of his art4  
,it has been done by fifty others1 and  
is at best but an imperfect exhibition  
on a perfect instrument2 a mere piece of
 charlatanerie1 or theatrical 'gag1' to 
use a professional term1 sufficiently   
intelligible4 ,there have been1 and are1
 mighty musicians on the violin4        
,spagnoletti1 ,de ,beriot1 ,ole ,bull   

7who according to some plays without any
 string at all71 ,sivori1 ,joachim1     
,ernst1 ,levey1 c4 c41 are all in the   
list of great players2 but there never  
was more than one ,paganini2 he is      
unique and unapproachable4  ,in ,dublin1
 in #ahcj1 ,paganini saved the ,musical 
,festival1 which would have failed but  
for his individual attraction1 although 
supported by an army of talent in every 
department4 ,all was done in first-rate 
style1 not to be surpassed4 ,there were 
,braham1 ,madame ,stockhausen1 ,h4      
,phillips1 ,de ,begnis1 c4 c41 ,sir ,g4 
,smart for conductor1 ,cramer1 ,mori1   
and ,t4 ,cooke for leaders1 ,lindley1   
,nicholson1 ,anfossi1 ,lidel ,hermann1  
,pigott1 and above ninety musicians in  
the orchestra1 and more than one hundred
 and twenty singers in the chorus4 ,the 
festival was held in the                
,theatre-,royal1 then1 as now1 the only 
building in ,dublin capable of          
accommodating the vast number which     
alone could render such a speculation   

remunerative4 ,the theatre can hold two 
thousand six hundred persons1 all of    
whom may see and hear1 whether in the   
boxes1 pit1 or galleries4 ,the          
arrangement was1 to have oratorios kept 
distinct on certain mornings1 and       
miscellaneous concerts on the evenings  
of other days4 ,the concerts were       
crushers1 but the first oratorio was    
decidedly a break down4 ,the committee  
became alarmed2 the expenses were       
enormous1 and heavy liabilities stared  
them in the face4 ,there was no time to 
be lost1 and at the second oratorio1    
duly announced1 there stood ,paganini1  
in front of the orchestra1 violin in    
hand1 on an advanced platform1          
overhanging the pit1 not unlike orator  
,henley's tub1 as immortalized by the   
poet4 ,between the acts of the ,messiah 
and the ,creation1 he fiddled 'the      
,witches at the ,great ,walnut ,tree of 
,benevento1' with other equally         
appropriate interpolations1 to the      
ecstatic delight of applauding          

thousands1 who cared not a pin for      
,hadyn or ,handel1 but came to hear     
,paganini alone2 and to the no small    
scandal of the select few1 who thought  
the episode a little on the north side  
of consistency4 ,but the money was      
thereby forthcoming1 every body was     
paid1 the committee escaped without     
damage1 and a hazardous speculation1    
undertaken by a few spirited            
individuals1 was wound up with deserved 
success4  ,when the festival was over1  
the town empty1 and a cannon-ball might 
have fired down ,sackville-street1      
without doing much injury1 ,paganini was
 engaged by himself for a series of five
 performances in the theatre4 ,for this 
he received ,l#a1adc4 ,his dividend on  
the first night's receipts amounted to  
,l#ccj 7horresco referens76 without a   
shilling of outlay incurred on his part4
 ,he had the lion's share with a        
vengeance1 as the manager cleared with  
difficulty ,l#bjj4 ,the terms he        
demanded and obtained were a clear      

two-thirds of each night's receipts1    
twenty-five guineas per night for the   
services of two auxiliaries1 worth about
 as many shillings1 the full value      
allowed for every free ticket1 and an   
express stipulation that if he required 
a rehearsal on a dark morning1 when     
extra light might be indispensable1 the 
expense of candles should not fall on   
him--a contingency which by no possible 
contrivance could involve a             
responsibility exceeding five or six    
shillings4  ,,footnotes3  #bc ,a current
 is supposed to flow constantly from the
 ,pacific through the ,north-,west      
,passage into the ,atlantic4     ,a     
,,peasant ,,duchess4   ,the ,stamford   
,mercury gives an interesting account of
 the life and fortunes of a young woman 
of that neighborhood who rose to a high 
station by means of her personal        
attractions1 and1 after a checkered     
life1 died in ,italy a few weeks ago4   
,she was the daughter of ,john ,peele1 a
 small farmer at ,corringham1 near      

,gainsborough1 who eked out a somewhat  
declining livelihood by dealing in      
horses1 c41 having previously been in   
better circumstances4 ,being an only    
daughter1 and aware that she possessed  
no small share of rustic charms1 she    
resolved to try her fortune in a higher 
sphere4 ,she became a dressmaker in     
,gainsborough1 and resided subsequently 
in ,hull1 and it is said as housemaid in
 a good family in ,london1 where her    
attractions obtained for her the        
attentions of a person of rank1 to whom 
she afterwards averred she was married2 
and she from that time occupied a       
position where her fortunes led her into
 contact with some of the highest       
classes4 ,a few years afterwards she    
astonished her former companions by     
appearing with her carriage and livery  
servants in the character of chere amie 
to ,mr4 ,fauntleroy1 then a flourishing 
banker in ,london4 ,the riches of the   
banker were of a doubtful character1    
however2 some time afterward she was    

convicted of forgery1 and paid the      
penalty with his life4 ,affected by the 
ruin1 but not participating in the crime
 of ,fauntleroy1 she struggled bravely  
with fate1 and generally maintained a   
fair appearance in society both in      
,london and ,paris4 ,she shortly        
reappeared in her native county as      
,duchess of ,palata4 ,at this time the  
fortunes of her family had reduced them 
to be the occupants of a small cottage  
at ,morton1 and age rendering her father
 incapable of active exertion1 he filled
 the humble office of rural postman4 ,to
 her honor it should be recorded that   
she enabled her parents to pass the     
remainder of their days in comfort4 ,six
 or seven years ago she again visited   
her native place1 a widow1 his grace the
 ,duke of ,palata having paid the debt  
of nature4 ,her mother she left at      
,morton1 paid the last duties to her    
father 7somewhat ostentatiously71 and   
volunteered her assistance to promote   
the advancement of her female relatives4

 ,again1 however1 a change came o'er the
 spirit of her dream2 and some three or 
four years ago the public journals      
announced her marriage to the son of an 
,irish clergyman of good family4 ,in    
this character1 accompanied by her niece
 as femme de chambre1 but not by her    
husband1 she once more visited          
,gainsborough and the scenes of her     
youth2 after making her mother an       
allowance1 she again departed for       
,italy1 in good health2 but death1 which
 spares neither rank nor character1 has 
closed the last scene of all1 in this   
strange eventful history4         99    
99       99       99       99  ,the     
author of the ,nibelungenlied is        
unknown1 and1 whether it be the work of 
one poet1 of two1 or twenty1 is still a 
matter of doubt1 among ,german critics4 
,that the ,nibelungenlied has been      
extensively interpolated1 is1 ,i        
believe1 agreed on all hands2 we may    
conclude as much1 from having reason to 
believe that it was handed down for some

 time 7how long1 nobody knows for       
certain71 by oral tradition1 and what   
effect such a state of things may have  
on popular poetry1 we may readily       
collect from what ,bishop ,percy and    
,sir ,walter ,scott have told us of the 
variations in the old ballads of        
,england and ,scotland4 ,lachmann       
attributes it to the thirteenth century4
     ,original ,correspondence4         
,,paris1 ,,dec4 #b1 #ahej4  ,,from time 
immemorial1 no one knows why 7for the   
legends which recount her history leave 
it doubtful whether she performed on any
 instrument71 ,st4 ,cecilia has been    
chosen by musicians as their patron     
saint2 and the musicians of ,paris1 on  
the approach of winter1 always celebrate
 a mass1 in music1 to her honor1 and for
 the benefit of the distressed members  
of their body4 ,not that they entertain 
any exaggerated idea of the consoling   
powers of the musical art1 or hope to   
relieve the positive sufferings of      
poverty and destitution by any          

combination of sounds1 no matter how    
harmonious2 but this festival being held
 in the church of ,st4 ,eustache1 the   
largest in ,paris1 and all lovers of    
music being so eager to gain admission1 
that the immense aisles of this grand   
old pile 7which will contain five       
thousand persons71 are always crowded to
 overflowing on these occasions1 every  
one paying a franc for his admission3   
the sum thus gained1 together with the  
collections taken up in the middle of   
the service1 by the committee of ladies 
chosen for that purpose 7who go round   
among the crowd1 preceded by the beadle1
 and followed by two or three attendant 
gentlemen1 carrying a little embroidered
 bag of a particular shape1 used for    
that purpose1 in which they receive the 
contributions of the benevolent71       
constitute a fund1 from which many an   
unfortunate or superannuated brother of 
the tuneful craft obtains relief4  ,this
 vast building1 with its lofty arches1  
is admirably calculated for the         

performance of grand religious          
compositions2 the effect of the music   
being enhanced by the aspect of the     
building1 and the accessories of        
sculpture1 painting1 and carving1 which 
render this church one of the richest in
 the capital4  ,to obtain places on any 
occasion of the kind1 it is necessary to
 go an hour or two in advance2 and the  
gradual filling of the aisles is one of 
the most curious scenes which a stranger
 can contemplate4 ,as there are no pews1
 each person1 on entering1 helps himself
 or herself to a chair1 which he holds  
aloft over the heads of his already     
seated neighbors1 as he slowly forces   
his way onward through their serried    
ranks1 until he espies some             
unappropriated gap into which he can    
insinuate his chair and himself2 the    
police and the beadles always taking    
care to keep a little pathway1 just     
large enough to squeeze through1 open   
all through the outer aisle that runs   
round the church4 ,for the unfortunate  

people who form the walls of this       
pathway1 the process of filling is a    
severe infliction2 the uninterrupted    
stream of in-comers1 forcing their way  
along with a ruthless disregard of the  
shoulders of those between whom they    
pass1 is really1 7especially when the   
in-comer happens to be a very stout man1
 or a very fat lady1 enveloped in an    
unusual quantity of drapery17 almost    
overpowering4 ,every now and then the   
beadle comes along1 rapping his         
silver-headed cane on the pavement1 and 
crying1 ,way1 there6 keep out of the    
path6 and escorting a party of          
privileged individuals for whom seats   
have been reserved2 and1 as the beadle  
is always tall and stout1 and always    
forces his way through in defiance of   
apparent impossibilities1 a chorus of   
murmurs accompanies his progress4 ,the  
beadle is a very grand personage1 and   
his appearance sufficiently indicates   
this fact4 ,he wears a cocked hat1      
covered with silver lace1 and decorated 

with nodding white plumes2 a scarf of   
crimson velvet1 stiff with embroidery in
 silver thread1 covers the upper part of
 his person2 black velvet smalls1       
fastened at the knee with silver        
buckles1 white silk stockings and       
gloves1 and enormous buckles in his     
polished shoes1 complete his attire4 ,he
 wears a massive silver chain round his 
neck2 and a sword hangs at his side to  
strike terror into the hearts of all    
beholders4 ,besides the grand beadle1   
there are several minor ones1 dressed in
 black1 but wearing heavy silver chains2
 gens d'armes also are always present1  
and often soldiers1 who mount guard1    
musket in hand1 at all the doorways1 and
 on the steps of the chancel4  ,when    
these sapient guardians of the peace    
perceive that as many have been admitted
 as can possibly be squeezed into the   
building1 they shut the doors2 and the  
process of distribution goes on until   
the mass is equalized throughout the    
edifice2 a task of no small difficulty1 

as the portions of the building         
contiguous to the doors are always      
densely packed at an early period1 so   
that the greater number have to pass    
through these crowded centres to gain   
the remoter parts of the church4        
,meantime people chat1 and look about   
them1 amusing themselves as they best   
can2 and the sonorous edifice echoes    
with the footsteps of the moving mass4  
,but at length the noise subsides2 the  
organ utters its voices1 and a hush1    
intense1 unbroken1 falls on the vast    
assembly4 ,the glorious music peals     
through the vaulted aisles1 and swells  
upward to the arching roof1 pervading   
every nook and corner of the fane2 and  
so perfect is the stillness that one    
would think the winged notes the only   
living things within its precincts4  ,on
 ,friday last this annual solemnity was 
celebrated as usual at ,st4 ,eustache2  
the mass1 composed by ,adam1 a very     
noble and beautiful composition1 was    
admirably executed by a choir of two    

hundred and fifty singers1 and a band of
 one hundred musicians1 including the   
whole orchestra of the ,opera ,comique1 
and the best performers from the        
,italian opera4 ,the solos were sung by 
,mesdames ,grimm and ,couraud1 and by   
,bassine and ,chapuis1 the latter being 
one of the best tenors in the city4     
,some of the quartettes1 with           
accompaniments of harps and wind        
instruments1 were indescribably         
beautiful4  ,the ,archbishop of ,paris  
made an elegant little address1 in which
 he spoke of art in ,pagan and in       
,christian days1 and of its mission in  
the present2 and winding up with an     
appeal to the liberality of his hearers 
on behalf of the charitable idea which  
had prompted this performance4 ,the     
,archbishop is a man of mild and grave  
countenance1 but his dress was very     
inharmonious4 ,he wore a surplice of    
very rich lace1 a cape of violet silk1  
and a scarf richly embroidered in gold1 
which was all very pretty1 but his arms 

and hands were encased in sleeves1      
finished with gloves1 of scarlet cloth1 
which showed through the lace sleeves of
 the surplice1 and gave the hands a very
 frightful appearance4 ,he wore a little
 round cap on the top of his head1 a    
golden crucifix on his bosom1 and an    
enormous gold ring on his right hand4   
,he spoke very slowly1 screaming rather 
than speaking1 in order to make himself 
heard in the distant parts of the       
building4 ,the service lasted two hours1
 and yielded several thousand francs4   
,the ,duchess of ,narbonne1 famed for   
her benevolence1 was so desirous to aid 
on this occasion1 that though unable1 on
 account of her great age1 to go among  
the crowd making the guest1 as it is    
termed1 she held a bag at one of the    
great doors1 adding to the sum she thus 
received1 a thousand francs as her own  
contribution1 and a hundred francs for  
her chair1 for which the ordinary price 
is two sous4  ,the musicians are not    
alone in their preparations for winter4 

,the shopkeepers are just beginning the 
periodic display which betokens the     
coming on of the holidays3 and          
conspicuous among the novelties whose   
appearance thus indicate the approach of
 ,christmas1 is a new style of          
porcelain1 of ,english invention1 which 
imitates with great success the antique 
marble vases1 pitchers1 c41 of classic  
days4 ,many of these objects are of     
great beauty2 the creamy hue of the ware
 itself1 slightly translucent1 the      
graceful simplicity of their forms1 and 
the delicate mouldings of classical     
designs in bass-relief with which they  
are adorned1 producing an admirable     
effect1 highly creditable to ,english   
taste4  ,while modern art is thus       
successfully emulating the symmetrical  
achievements of ancient times1 a relic  
of great interest1 recalling the        
romantic age of ,spanish history1 has   
just been unexpectedly brought to light4
 ,some workmen1 employed in making      
repairs in the ,guildhall of ,burgos1 in

 ,spain1 have recently discovered the   
tomb of the ,cid1 so renowned in ancient
 story2 a tomb whose very existence was 
unknown4 ,an old chest1 long considered 
as mere rubbish1 and on which stood the 
antique chair from which1 in other days1
 the ,counts of ,castille gave judgment1
 having been opened through the         
curiosity of these workmen1 was found to
 contain the remains of ,don ,rodrigo   
,campeador1 and his wife ,chimena1      
immortalized in ancient legend1 in the  
verses of ,guilhen de ,castro1 of       
,corneille1 and in our own days1 in the 
graceful writings of ,mrs4 ,hemans4 ,the
 remains of the renowned hero and his   
beautiful spouse are to be removed to   
the church of ,san ,gadeo1 where a      
suitable monument will be erected to    
their memory4  ,the following incident1 
connected with the two prevailing manias
 of the day1 lapdogs and                
balloon-ascensions1 is just now amusing 
the gay circles of this gossiping       
capital4  ,it seems that ,madame de ,n41

 the accomplished and beautiful wife of 
a triple millionaire of the quartier    
,st4 ,honore1 equally renowned for the  
charms of her wit1 and for the intensity
 of her passion for the barking pets so 
dear to ,parisian hearts1 had taken a   
violent fancy 7shared by half ,paris7 to
 a certain tiny gray spaniel1 the       
property of one of the most admired of  
the innumerable representatives of      
,albion at this time here congregated1  
the beautiful and distinguished ,lady   
,r41 whose intimacy was assiduously     
cultivated by ,madame de ,n41 all for   
the love of the little gray spaniel4    
,sylphide1 the spaniel in question1 was 
in sooth well calculated to make havoc  
in hearts susceptible to canine charms4 
,her glossy fur1 combed1 bathed1 and    
perfumed every day with the utmost care1
 was of the most delicate mouse-color1  
and softer than silk2 her lustrous eyes 
sparkled like jewels1 and her expressive
 face1 with the delicate drooping ears  
that adorned her graceful head1 were the

 realization of the most ideal dream of 
little-doggish beauty2 her tail was     
perfection2 her slender legs1 in their  
light electric movements1 hardly touched
 the ground2 and the dainty way in which
 she raised her charming little paws    
from the sidewalk1 when1 by some rare   
chance 7attired in her newest paletot of
 the finest merino1 lined with wadded   
silk1 and trimmed with a rich braid1 her
 neck encircled with a silver collar1   
whose burnished chain was attached to   
her mistress's waist71 she honored the  
sidewalk with their pressure1 was so    
irresistibly bewitching1 that all the   
fair round arms of ,paris opened        
spontaneously at the sight1 as though to
 offer a nestling-place to the little   
beauty1 and raise her from a contact    
unworthy of so peerless a creature4     
,any price1 no matter how exorbitant1   
that could have been asked for this     
little paragon1 ,madame de ,n4 would    
very gladly have paid2 but1 unhappily1  
,sylphide was not to be sold3 ,lady ,r4 

was very fond of her1 and never seemed  
to understand the various hints thrown  
out from time to time1 with the utmost  
tact and delicacy1 but still quite      
intelligibly1 by ,madame de ,n42 and all
 that the latter could do was to bring  
her utmost power of petting to bear on  
the subject of her adoration1 trusting  
to some unlooked-for stroke of good     
fortune to aid her in the accomplishment
 of her heart's desire4  ,sylphide was  
excessively fond of sugar-plums 7in     
which she was a great connoisseur71 and 
also of fresh brioche1 crumbs of which  
she would eat1 in the most charming     
manner1 from the snowy hand of her      
admiring friend2 and as the bonbonniere 
of ,madame de ,n4 was always well       
supplied with her favorite dainties1    
,sylphide1 who1 on her side1 was not    
ungrateful1 soon contracted a lively    
affection for ,madame de ,n4 and her    
bonbonniere4  ,such was the position of 
affairs1 when an incident occurred which
 produced a total estrangement between  

the two ladies4 ,m4 de ,s41 a gentleman 
well known in the diplomatic circles1   
whom ,madame de ,n4 had long numbered   
among her conquests1 fascinated by the  
charms of the fair islander1 deserted   
his brilliant countrywoman1 and ranged  
himself among the satellites of her     
rival4 ,and by a curious coincidence1 at
 the very time that ,m4 de ,s4 quitted  
thus abruptly the orbit of ,madame de   
,n41 the ,prince of ----1 who had       
hitherto been one of the brightest      
luminaries in the train of ,lady ,r41   
left her ladyship to lay his homage at  
the feet of the charming ,parisian4 ,but
 the acquisition of the ,prince seems to
 have failed to console the latter for  
the loss of a knight who had so long    
worn her colors2 and the defection of   
,m4 de ,s4 drew from her an expression  
of resentment towards her rival1 which  
the mutual friend to whom these angry   
feelings had been confided1 lost no time
 in repeating to the object of her      
displeasure4 ,but ,lady ,r41 so far from

 being affected by the indignation of   
,madame de ,n41 merely replied1 with a  
careless shrug of her handsome          
shoulders1 ,mais1 ma chere1 she has     
really nothing to complain of2 all the  
world knows that 'exchange is no        
robbery6'  ,at this time a magnificent  
bracelet1 the latest achievement of the 
wonder-working ateliers of ,froment     
,meurice1 had been the object of ,lady  
,r4's most violent desire2 but her lord1
 who was subject to occasional attacks  
of a malady not uncommon to the husbands
 of beautiful and fashionable ladies1   
was just then suffering from an attack  
of jealousy so acute1 that1 to the      
despair of ,lady ,r41 he utterly refused
 to gratify her desire to become the    
possessor of this costly ornament2 and  
the lady1 after having vainly called to 
her aid all the force of her address1   
and all the charms of her eloquence1    
found herself obliged1 though with a    
heavy heart1 to renounce the idea of its
 acquisition4  ,lady ,r4's desire for   

this bracelet1 and its disappointment1  
were no secret to ,madame de ,n42 and on
 learning1 from the gossiping confidant1
 the response made by her rival to her  
complaint1 a sudden thought darted      
through her mind4 ,chere amie1 said she 
to the confidant1 ,i beg you to say to  
her ladyship1 that1 since such is her   
opinion1 ,i hold her to the acceptance  
of the consequences of her maxim4  ,the 
confidant lost no time in delivering    
this message1 to which ,lady ,r41       
thinking only of her host of admirers1  
laughingly replied1 that ,madame de ,n4 
was quite at liberty to make any        
practical application of the principle  
that she pleased4  ,within two hours    
from the reception of this challenge1   
the beautiful bracelet1 inclosed in an  
elegant case1 on whose lid the initials 
of ,lady ,r41 surrounded by her crest1  
were engraved in letters of gold1 had   
passed from the jeweller's show-rooms to
 the boudoir of ,madame de ,n41 who     
thenceforth1 by means of an espionage   

that followed every movement of her     
rival1 kept her constantly in view4 ,at 
length the tournament1 to be followed by
 the balloon-ascension 7held a week or  
two ago in the ,champ de ,mars71 was    
announced to the great delight of the   
spectacle-loving public2 and having     
learned that the fair ,englishwoman was 
to be present in an open carriage1      
,madame de ,n4 determined to avail      
herself of this occasion to execute her 
scheme4  ,accordingly on the appointed  
day1 the bracelet1 in its elegant case1 
being placed in the carriage beside her1
 and the coachman duly instructed in the
 part he was to play1 ,madame de ,n41   
holding in her hand her bonbonniere1    
supplied with fresh crumbs of the most  
delicate brioche1 followed1 at short    
distance1 the carriage of her rival to  
the ,champ de ,mars1 and took her stand 
just in the rear of her ladyship's      
phaeton4  ,lady ,r4 was in excellent    
spirits1 receiving the homage of a crowd
 of attendant cavaliers2 ,sylphide1 to  

the unspeakable joy of ,madame de ,n41  
being seated on the front seat nearest  
her carriage4  ,madame de ,n4 waited    
patiently through the various evolutions
 of the gorgeous scene2 and1 at its     
close1 when the great balloon of ,m4    
,poitevin rose majestically from the    
field1 surrounded by its graceful band  
of nymphs that seemed to float1         
self-sustained1 in the air1 their silver
 wands and wreaths of flowers shining in
 the light of the setting sun1 when all 
eyes followed the aeronauts1 and        
deafening acclamations rent the air1 in 
less time than we take in recounting the
 movement1 the carriage of ,madame de   
,n4 advanced to the side of ,lady ,r4's2
 ,sylphide1 attracted by the well-known 
bonbonniere1 leapt lightly into the     
outstretched arms of her friend2 and    
,madame de ,n4 depositing the morocco   
case on the very spot ,sylphide had     
quitted1 bowed gracefully to her rival1 
and drove rapidly away1 before ,lady ,r4
 had had time to comprehend what was    

passing4  ,great was her ladyship's     
amazement1 as may well be supposed2 and 
great1 for the first few moments1 was   
also her indignation2 but the mystery   
was soon explained2 for1 in opening the 
case1 which occupied ,sylphide's vacant 
place1 and which was unmistakably       
intended for her1 she perceived the rich
 bracelet she had so much wished for1   
and beside it1 the card of ,madame de   
,n41 on which was written1 in pencil1   
these words1 which contained the key of 
the enigma1 ,exchange is no robbery4  ,a
 hearty laugh1 which she tried in vain  
to repress1 broke from the lips of the  
fair lady2 much to the astonishment of  
the gentlemen who had witnessed the     
scene1 and to whom1 notwithstanding     
their eager inquiries1 ,lady ,r4 very   
naturally declined giving any           
explanation of the affair4  ,i shall    
observe your instructions1 to keep you  
advised of whatever occurs here in the  
middle of the world4      ,,stella4     
,authors and ,books4   ,the ,german book

 trade has1 for some months1 been fairly
 overwhelmed with books upon ,hungary4  
,we notice among the latest1 ,flowers   
from ,hungarian ,battlefields1 a        
collection of novelettes1 with scenes   
drawn from real life in the late war1 by
 ,sajo1 one of the most popular writers 
of ,hungary4 ,the stories are spirited  
and vivid4 ,confessions of a ,civilian1 
and ,confessions of a ,soldier1 are two 
books1 of which the last named has been 
for some time before the public1 and has
 excited attention by the thoroughness  
of its absolutist tendencies4 ,the      
,civilian is the opposite of the        
,soldier1 being a liberal of the first  
stamp4 ,both these writers1 however1    
oppose the present ,austrian ministry4  
,a ,german translation of ,horwath's    
,history of the ,hungarians is coming   
out at ,pesth in numbers1 and is        
welcomed by the ,german critics4 ,this  
is regarded by the most competent judges
 as an excellent work4 ,janos the ,hero1
 a ,romance of ,hungarian ,peasant      

,life1 by ,alexander ,petoefy1 one of   
the most popular ,magyar writers1 is    
spoken of as a most successful          
delineation of national peculiarities4  
,the ,revolution and the ,jews in       
,hungary1 is an interesting chapter out 
of the history of the ,hungarian ,jews1 
by ,j4 ,eichorn4 ,the fidelity of the   
,hebrews to the cause represented by    
,kossuth and his associates1 and        
defended by the entire nation1 is as    
well known as the extortions with which 
the butcher ,haynau attempted to punish 
their patriotism4 ,rerum ,hungaricum    
,monumenta is the last work of the      
lamented antiquarian ,eudlicher1 and is 
designed to open to the literary world  
the authentic sources of early          
,hungarian history4 ,it is1 in short1 a 
most valuable collection of ancient     
documents relating to the origin of the 
,magyars1 their first settlement in     
,hungary1 and their history under the   
native princes of the race of ,arpad4   
,one of the best results of this work   

will be the provocation of other savans 
to similar investigations1 which cannot 
fail to throw light on many obscure     
historical questions4         99        
99       99       99       99  ,a very  
interesting work has just made its      
appearance at ,leipsic1 giving an       
intimate though by no means flattering  
account of the condition of the ,,polish
 ,,population ,,in ,,gallicia4 ,the     
peculiarities of this race of people are
 described as wild barbarism combined   
with elegant politeness1 dreamy         
melancholy1 and practical cunning4 ,the 
author was in ,gallicia before the      
peasants' insurrection in #ahdf4 ,he    
narrates a variety of the most striking 
scenes1 which though highly colored are 
apparently true in the main4 ,among     
other things he gives an account of a   
dinner-party to which he was invited1 at
 the house of a nobleman4 ,the house    
stood in the midst of a scattered mass  
of outbuildings1 none of which bore the 
slightest appearance of neatness1 order1

 or comfort4 ,every thing1 in fact1 has 
the appearance of neglect and decay4    
,many of the walls are supported by     
props to prevent them from tumbling4    
,around the doors the slightest rain    
produces a disgusting morass1 while the 
general aspect of the whole reminds the 
beholder of ,attila's wooden palace in  
,pannonia1 where he heaped up the booty 
of a world1 and received the ambassadors
 of ,rome4 ,when the writer reached the 
door1 he found his host with some other 
gentlemen waiting to receive him4 ,the  
company was numerous1 and all1          
especially the ladies1 expensively      
dressed1 in the last ,parisian fashion1 
with abundant jewelry and ornaments4    
,the saloon in which they were received 
was large but low1 the walls covered    
with dirty paper1 the floor of rough    
boards1 the furniture of all sorts and  
sizes1 and nowhere a trace of art or    
refined taste4 ,the conversation was    
carried on in ,french1 and the ladies   
exhibited a thorough acquaintance with  

,paris matters1 notabilities1 and gossip
 generally4 ,at the table the drinking  
was almost incredible1 and the topic of 
conversation1 the emancipation of       
,poland4 ,every word was aimed at the   
conversion of the ,german guest4 ,the   
hard treatment of the serfs was spoken  
of as necessary1 as they must be kept in
 complete subjection in order to be made
 useful in the great work4 ,the         
festivity grew more and more ardent1    
till at last one of the gentlemen took a
 shoe off from a lady's foot1 filled it 
with wine1 and after drinking from it   
himself1 passed it to the others1 so    
that all could pledge the ladies from   
such a cup4 ,the next morning the       
stranger saw by chance a sight of       
another kind1 as he was taking a walk4  
,behind a wall a man lay on the earth2  
another held fast his head1 and a third 
his feet1 while a fourth stood over him 
with a whip1 laying on with all his     
might4 ,the lord stood by in his        
dressing-gown1 smoking a long pipe1 and 

coolly directing the procedure4 ,the    
guest turned away from the spectacle1   
but was told by his servant that this   
was the tenth man who had undergone the 
same punishment that morning4 ,the      
offence was1 that they had not begun    
work at sunrise4 ,of course a peasantry 
so treated could have no affection for  
their masters4 ,all the work was done in
 the worst manner1 while the lord was   
plundered in every way by his servants4 
,of the supplies for the family1 more   
than half were regularly stolen1 there  
being no supervision in the household4  
,the extravagance of the masters was    
boundless1 and when they got out of     
money they resorted to the ,jews1 who   
had the whole commerce of the country in
 their hands1 besides having mortgages  
on most of the estates4  ,this is the   
merest outline of a small portion of the
 book4 ,it renders more intelligible the
 atrocities which took place in the     
insurrection of #ahdf1 and which the    
,austrian ,government permitted1 if they

 did not foment4         99       99    
99       99       99  ,one of the most  
remarkable philologists and travellers  
of the present day is the ,hungarian    
,professor ,,reguly1 a man as yet little
 known out of his own country and       
northern ,europe4 ,he has devoted       
himself a good deal to the exposition of
 the affinities between the ,magyar and 
the ,finnish languages1 and his labors  
have impelled a number of learned       
,hungarians to the same study4 ,in the  
year #ahci he left his country1 and     
passed ten years in the north of ,asia  
and ,europe1 mostly among the ,finnish  
tribes of the ,moguls1 ,ostiacks1       
,tsheremisses1 ,nordwins1 c41 making    
himself familiar with their manners1    
customs1 dialects1 songs1 and           
traditions1 in order to attain a        
thorough personal acquaintance          
therewith4 ,he also spent a long period 
in ,kasan and ,st4 ,petersburgh1        
studying the other languages of ,central
 ,asia4 ,his adventures during this time

 were1 as may be supposed1 remarkable4  
,he suffered not only the privations and
 exposures inseparable from such an     
undertaking1 but was also poorly        
supplied with money1 and often in the   
greatest distress from that cause4      
,nothing but scientific enthusiasm      
carried him through1 till he became     
acquainted with some ,russian savans1   
and a ,russian ,councillor named        
,balugyanszky1 who were of great        
assistance to him4 ,he left his home a  
vigorous young man1 and comes back      
broken down in strength and health4 ,his
 investigations have related not only to
 philology1 but to geography and        
ethnography4 ,he has penetrated farther 
into the north of ,asia than any        
previous traveller4 ,on his return1 at  
,st4 ,petersburgh1 he prepared1 at the  
special request of the ,geographical    
,society1 a vast map of ,northern ,asia 
along the ,ural ,mountains1 between #eh 
and #gj deg4 north latitude1 and #gb and
 #hj deg4 east longitude1 giving about  

five hundred localities4 ,this map is   
made on the largest scale1 containing   
sixteen large quarto sheets4 ,the ,st4  
,petersburgh ,gazette says of it1 that  
it has proved ,reguly to be the         
discoverer of a vast territory for      
,russia4 ,he is now at ,pesth1 engaged  
in preparing for publication the fruits 
of his ten years' absence from home4 ,he
 will treat of the languages of the     
,european and ,asiatic ,finnish tribes1 
their grammar and vocabularies1 with    
constant regard to the analogies of the 
,magyar tongue4 ,by way of introduction 
he will first publish a special work1   
containing his philosophical views on   
the organism of language4 ,after these  
philological treatises he will print a  
series of ethnographic works on the     
various races among which he has lived1 
with collections of their songs and     
traditions1 and finally a detailed      
narrative of his travels1 with a        
condensed account of their scientific   
results4 ,the conclusion of his         

philological studies is briefly1 that   
the ,central-,asiatic1 or as it might be
 called1 the ,ural-,altaic group of     
languages1 is divided into six branches 
or families1 namely1 the language of the
 ,mandshu ,tartars1 the ,mongols1 the   
,turkish-,tartar tribes1 the ,samoyedes1
 the ,fins1 and the ,magyars4 ,these    
families have however no nearer relation
 to each other than the individual      
tongues of the ,indo-,european group1 as
 the ,indian1 the ,romanic1 ,german1    
,celtic1 ,slavic1 and ,persian          
languages4 ,still he regards the ,magyar
 and ,finnic languages as having greater
 mutual affinities than the others1     
though not to such a degree that one of 
these races of men can be supposed to be
 derived from the other4 ,he rather     
supposes all of the races whose         
languages form the ,central-,asiatic    
group to have sprung from an original   
race1 which was probably ,scythian4     
99       99       99       99       99  
,the ,austrian government has just set  

on foot an enterprise which promises to 
be of use to both ,literature and       
,science4 ,the plan is1 to prepare and  
publish at the expense of the ,imperial 
,treasury1 a great work on the          
ethnography of the ,empire1 and all     
savans1 teachers1 artists1 poets1 of    
every race1 are invited to furnish      
materials4 ,it is designed to give a    
complete account of the origin1 history1
 manners1 language1 character and       
condition of each of the many tribes and
 peoples included under the ,austrian   
sceptre4 ,this will be combined of      
course with descriptions of the country1
 scenery1 climate1 soil1 minerals1 and  
natural and industrial productions of   
each region4 ,it is supposed that the   
whole will be completed in eight big    
volumes4 ,it will be accompanied by a   
vast ethnographic map1 which is now     
being prepared with great energy under  
the superintendence of the ,minister of 
,commerce4         99       99       99 
99       99  ,,karl ,,gutzkow is one of 

the most prolific and popular novel and 
playwrights now living in ,germany4 ,as 
to his last work1 ,die ,ritter vom      
,geiste 7,the ,knights of the ,spirit71 
of which only the first volume has been 
published1 the critics entertain the    
most contradictory opinions4 ,some      
exclaim at its great length1 which      
indeed is rather terrific3 there are to 
be nine books1 and the first occupies   
the whole of the first volume4 ,others  
are charmed with the skill with which   
the details of the work are wrought up1 
and the great variety of persons who    
figure in the story4 ,the author has    
certainly laid out all his strength in  
this book1 which is designed to         
reproduce the present age in all the    
contradictions of its doctrines and the 
complexity of its tendencies4 ,but      
instead of seizing these in some central
 and vital point1 and setting them forth
 in a work whose very simplicity would  
conceal its depth from most readers1    
,gutzkow has adopted the easier and more

 clumsy method of multiplying his       
characters and complicating the actions 
of his drama4 ,thus it is hardly        
possible for it not to be tedious and a 
failure4 ,but we can speak of it more   
fairly when it is farther advanced4     
99       99       99       99       99  
,dr4 ,,neander',s ,library is advertised
 for sale by auction at ,berlin1 but our
 correspondent thinks it will be saved  
from the hammer by a private            
subscription1 which will secure it to   
the ,university4         99       99    
99       99       99  ,,karl ,,simrock  
has just brought out at ,frankfort a new
 collection of ,,german ,,popular       
,,songs1 not obsolete or artistic poems1
 but such as still live among the       
people1 and are familiar to every class4
 ,among ,volkslieder1 he says in his    
preface1 ,i include only such as have   
proceeded directly from the people1 and 
still bear the tokens of their origin1  
in their unsophisticated form1 and      
simple1 hearty language4 ,the pieces of 

cultivated poets which have found access
 and become loved with the people1 are  
reserved for a future collection of     
favorite ,german songs4 ,the distinction
 here hinted at between the people's    
songs and popular songs is not generally
 understood4 ,all previous collections  
have confused the two1 and some even    
have not a single production of the     
people4 ,for example1 ,des ,knaben      
,wunderhorn1 whose great merit must be  
recognized1 contains antique poems which
 by no means issued from among the      
people4 ,in another place he says3 ,the 
songs here collected and arranged have  
been newly written down1 literally from 
the mouths of the people2 and where they
 could not be procured in this way1 have
 been corrected by comparison of all    
earlier versions4 ,so that as they here 
stand1 they are in a sort my own        
property4 ,the work is spoken of by     
competent critics as perfectly          
successful4 ,we believe that ,simrock1  
who is perhaps better qualified for the 

undertaking than any other man in       
,germany1 intends in a future edition to
 publish the melodies of the songs along
 with the words4         99       99    
99       99       99  ,belgian          
,literature is a standing joke with the 
authors of ,paris1 and not without      
reason1 for the majority of the books   
printed by the publishers of ,belgium1  
are pirated from their ,french          
neighbors4 ,there is1 however1 such a   
thing as a ,belgian literature1 though  
it is not very extensive1 and one of its
 chief ornaments is ,professor          
,,borgnel1 of ,liege1 best known as the 
author of a ,historie des ,belges a la  
fin du dix-huilieme ,siecle1 published  
some six years since1 to which he is    
about to bring out an addition1 carrying
 the history back to the beginning of   
the same century4 ,he has also been     
occupied for several years with the     
history of the ,flemish ,provinces1     
under the domination of the ,spaniards1 
and has a work on that subject in       

preparation4 ,the ,introduction to it   
appeared not long since among the       
,memoirs of the ,brussels ,academy1     
where it is entitled3 ,philippe ,i4 et  
la ,belgique4 ,in treating a subject    
which the masterly pen of ,schiller has 
already rendered familiar to the world1 
,prof4 ,borgnel does not attempt to     
imitate the ardent and splendid         
eloquence of that great poet and        
historian2 ,borgnel's merits are        
distinctness in his outlines1 remarkable
 clearness of arrangement1 perfect      
impartiality towards individuals and    
parties1 and conscientious use of       
materials4 ,of these he has had a       
greater variety1 including many         
manuscripts not before brought to light1
 than any previous writer4         99   
99       99       99       99  ,among   
the new books announced in ,london is   
,notes on ,north ,america1              
,agricultural1 ,social1 and ,economical1
 by ,j4 ,f4 ,w4 ,johnston1 author of    
,lectures on ,agricultural ,chemistry4  

,we may anticipate something of value   
from a man of his studies and well      
earned reputation4 ,professor ,johnston 
passed the greater portion of his time1 
while in ,america1 in the ,british      
,provinces4 ,he had been led to believe 
that they offered the most interesting  
field for his professional observation4 
,when he came into ,new-,england1       
,new-,york and ,pennsylvania1 he was    
continually surprised at the perfection 
and the success of our agriculture4 ,he 
regretted only1 that the mistake into   
which he had been led by ,british       
travellers1 had detained him from the   
,united ,states until the period of his 
absence from home was nearly expired4   
,professor ,johnston's lectures in      
,new-,york were given under singular    
disadvantages1 but the too small        
audiences who heard them were pleased   
and instructed4 ,all who became         
acquainted with him were impressed with 
a belief of his candor and his talents4 
,we hope to see immediately an edition  

of his book in this country4         99 
99       99       99       99  ,in      
,geissen1 ,prof4 ,,liebig1 has published
 a ,review of the ,progress of          
,chemistry1 ,mineralogy1 and ,geology1  
in the year #ahdi4 ,he has been assisted
 in its preparation by ,professor ,kopp 
and several other savans connected with 
the ,university at ,giessen4 ,it is     
marked by his usual completeness1       
breadth of scope1 and exhaustive        
treatment of each particular subject4   
,liebig is now engaged in preparing a   
new series of ,chemical ,letters1 which 
will be specially devoted to the growth 
of this science1 in connection with the 
history of mental progress in general4  
,professor ,knobel1 of the same         
,university1 has also issued a work on  
the ,genealogies of the ,book of        
,genesis1 which excites remark by the   
thoroughness of its historical          
investigations4 ,leopold ,schmid's last 
work is on the ,spirit of ,catholicism1 
and also highly spoken of by both       

,catholic and ,protestant writers4 ,this
 author holds a high rank in the        
,catholic literature of ,germany1 and   
has been chosen ,bishop of ,mayence4    
,professor ,hillebrand is occupied with 
a revision of his highly esteemed       
,history of ,german national literature 
since ,lessing4 ,there seems to be no   
reason to fear that ,giessen is doing   
less than its share toward keeping the  
ocean of ,german books up at a          
high-water mark4         99       99    
99       99       99  ,,beranger1 the   
veteran chansonier1 is now occupying    
himself in writing biographies1         
anecdotes1 criticisms1 c41 of the public
 men with whom1 in the course of his    
long career1 he has been in contact4 ,it
 is five years since he announced his   
intention of giving such a work to the  
public1 and he thinks it will possess   
great historical value1 while of his    
songs1 which alone will convey his name 
to the last ages in which the language  
of ,france is spoken1 he thinks but     

indifferently well4         99       99 
99       99       99  ,the house1 at    
,paris1 in which ,,eugene ,,sue laid    
some of the most exciting scenes of his 
,wandering ,jew1 has lately been        
advertised for sale1 and has been       
visited by crowds of curious loungers4  
,it is known as the ,hotel ,serilly1 and
 is situated at ,no4 #e ,rue ,neuve     
,saint ,francois1 in the quarter called 
the ,marais4 ,at the time the ,wandering
 ,jew was published1 the street was     
often filled by groups of gazers at the 
strange old edifice1 which had been so  
exactly described by the romancer1 that 
no one could mistake it4 ,some even     
ventured to knock at the door and seek  
further information4 ,they were received
 by a mysterious and taciturn old       
,hebrew1 who looked as if he himself had
 charge of the great ,rennepeal         
treasure1 and three-quarters of the     
visitors went away convinced that they  
had seen the veritable ,samuel himself4 
,now that the whole house has been      

thrown open to the public1 there have   
been found under it vast sub-cellars    
extending under the large garden in the 
rear1 and in these cellars are seven    
wells1 partially filled up1 but with    
walls of careful masonry1 and other     
indications that they were of great     
depth and great utility4 ,the opinion   
was at once set on foot by the          
explorers1 that the millions of the     
treasure had been concealed in one of   
these wells4 ,the fact is1 that the     
house formerly belonged to a ,protestant
 family which suffered extreme          
persecution after the revocation of the 
,edict of ,nantes1 and which doubtless  
found the subterranean passages         
extremely convenient4 ,in the year      
#agia1 it was inhabited by the          
revolutionist ,carnot4         99       
99       99       99       99  ,the     
,,count ,,de ,,tocqueville1 a relative  
of the author of ,democracy in ,america1
 has just published a historical work on
 the ,reign of ,louis ,,xvi4 ,the       

writer1 an old man almost sinking into  
the grave1 enjoys the advantage of      
having himself witnessed and even shared
 in a part of the events he describes4  
,he was intimate with ,malasherbes1 and 
personally devoted to the unfortunate   
,louis4 ,of his ability as a writer1 a  
former work on the ,reign of ,louis     
,,xv4 furnished proofs which are        
repeated in the present volume4 ,of     
course he does full justice to the      
amiable personal qualities of ,marie    
,antoinette and her husband1 without    
doing injustice to their faults4 ,but he
 shows that after all what was charged  
upon them as political crime1 was but   
the consequence of long-standing causes1
 over which they had no control1 or even
 of measures of reform to which with the
 best intentions1 they had given their  
consent4 ,in speaking of the mission of 
,franklin at the ,french ,court1 ,m4 de 
,tocqueville gives some interesting     
details4 ,at ,paris1 he says1 the zeal  
for the cause of the insurgents         

constantly increased4 ,the women who    
exercised a great influence in the reign
 of ,louis ,,xvi41 became passionate    
supporters of the ,americans1 and made  
aiding them a question of honor4 ,the   
simple manners of their envoys1--their  
hair without powder1 their citizens'    
dress1 pleased by a sort of piquant     
novelty4 ,all who approached ,franklin  
were charmed by his wit4 ,in him people 
venerated the founder of the liberty of 
a great nation1 and even grew           
enthusiastic in behalf of that liberty4 
,m4 de ,tocqueville shows however that  
the prime minister ,maurepas only feared
 the ,americans because he was          
embarrassed in his position1 and thought
 to relieve himself by making war with  
,england4 ,but as there was no good     
reason for making such a war1 the       
honesty of the ,king revolted at it4 ,m4
 de ,vergennes also said in the         
,council1 that ,england would be much   
more weakened by a long war with her    
colonies1 than by their loss4 ,but how1 

repeated all the women1 can we help     
embracing the cause of a people which   
sends us ambassadors without powder1 and
 with shoe-strings1 instead of buckles8 
,so weighty a reason turned the balance1
 and the war was declared4 ,that war    
finished the ruin of the ,french        
monarchy1 not only by inspiring the     
officers and soldiers sent to the       
,united ,states with new ideas1 but also
 by completing the exhaustion of its    
finances4 ,with regard to the           
,revolution in which ,louis ,,xvi4 lost 
his head1 it is enough praise for our   
historian1 that while he inclines always
 to the monarchical side1 he is not     
altogether unjust to the popular virtues
 which shone with such rare brilliancy  
amid the gloom of that epoch4         99
       99       99       99       99    
,the great work of ,j4 ,g4 ,,audubon and
 the ,rev4 ,dr4 ,,bachman1 upon the     
,viviparous ,quadrupeds of ,north       
,america1 is much praised by those      
persons in ,europe whose praise is of   

most value4 ,the ,athenaeum remarks     
that1 hitherto1 the mammalia of ,america
 have been known chiefly through        
descriptions by zoologists1 in the      
,transactions of ,european ,societies1  
and that no systematic attempt has been 
made to bring together into one         
connected view the very varied forms of 
animal life presented by this great     
continent1 while these authors have not 
only used the materials which were at   
hand in the works of others1 but have   
themselves observed with great diligence
 the habits of many of the creatures    
which they have described4 ,their work  
is creditable to the ,united ,states1   
where a large number of subscribers have
 induced the authors to undertake       
it1--and a most valuable addition to our
 general natural-history literature4    
,the geographical range within which the
 animals described in these pages are   
found is not that of the government of  
the ,united ,states merely2 it          
comprehends ,russian and ,british       

,america1 in fact1 all the country which
 lies north of the tropics in the ,new  
,world4         99       99       99    
99       99  ,at the last ,,michaelmas  
,,book ,,fair at ,leipsic1 the          
,catalogue contained the titles of      
#e1jbc new works published in ,germany  
since ,easter4 ,this is from twelve to  
fifteen hundred more than at any fair   
since the ,revolution of #ahdh4 ,a great
 number of these books are large and of 
remarkable merit1 being in some sort1   
the accumulation of the more profound   
scientific labors of the past two years4
         99       99       99       99  
99  ,the ,,baroness ,,von ,,beck has    
just published in ,london two volumes of
 ,personal ,adventures in the ,hungarian
 war4 ,she is herself a ,hungarian1 and 
she saw her husband fall while cheering 
his men to defend a barricade at        
,vienna4 ,in this book ,kossuth is her  
hero1 her prophet1 her demigod2 and she 
sacrifices all other celebrities without
 compunction at the altar of his        

greatness4 ,dembinsky she treats with   
manifest injustice2 ,georgey comes out  
on her pages as a very ,mephistopheles4 
,klapka himself does not escape without 
animadversion4 ,but without adopting her
 opinions1 either of the man she blames 
or the subject she discusses1 it cannot 
be denied that she has great cleverness1
 and a wonderful power of exciting and  
interesting the reader4         99      
99       99       99       99  ,a       
valuable scientific periodical is the   
,geographisches ,jahrbuch for the       
,communication of all the more important
 ,new ,investigations1 edited by the    
distinguished ,,berghaus1 and published 
by ,perthes of ,gotha4 ,the last number 
has an article by the editor on the     
system of ,mountains and ,rivers of     
,africa1 which differs altogether from  
what is laid down in the present maps4  
,the author lays down the river ,nile as
 flowing from the ,n',yassi1 and as     
connected with a great number of rivers 
in ,dar ,fur1 ,waday1 and ,fertil1 with 

relation to which only the vaguest views
 have hitherto been entertained4 ,the   
article shows1 too1 that the newly      
discovered lake ,n',gami1 in ,southern  
,africa1 has been long known under the  
name of ,nampur4 ,the same number of the
 ,jahrbuch also contains an article from
 the pen of the late lamented ,,albert  
,,gallatin1 on the climate of ,north    
,america4 ,this article was written in  
,english1 and was translated into       
,german for the ,jahrbuch4         99   
99       99       99       99           
,,berghaus has also lately issued a     
complete work of the highest interest1  
especially now that so much attention is
 every where paid to ,ethnographic      
studies4 ,its title is ,grundlinien der 
,ethnographie 7,outlines of             
,ethnography74 ,it is in two parts1 and 
contains a universal tabular description
 of all the races of the globe1 arranged
 ethnographically and geographically1   
and according to languages and dialects1
 with a comparative view of their       

manners1 customs1 and habits4 ,no person
 who undertakes to investigate the      
origin of the human family and the      
mutual relations of its different       
members1 can afford to be without this  
work4 ,published in ,stuttgart4         
99       99       99       99       99  
,,berthold ,,auerbach has just brought  
out a little volume of tales1 which we  
may well infer from his previous        
performances are charmingly replete with
 grace1 good humor1 and a keen          
perception of whatever is peculiar to   
his subject4 ,the title of the book is  
,deutsche ,abende 7,german ,evenings74  
,it contains three stories3 ,nice       
,people1 ,what is ,happiness8 and ,the  
,son of the ,forester4 ,published at    
,mannheim4         99       99       99 
99       99  ,,baron ,,sternberg1 a     
dilettante book-maker of ,germany1 who  
generally resides at ,berlin1 has just  
added a new romance1 or rather the      
beginning of one1 to his previous       
publications4 ,it bears the promising1  

if not pretentious title1 of ,the       
,german ,gil ,blas 7published at        
,bremen71 and claims to be comic1 as a  
matter of course4 ,as a whole1 the book 
is a failure4 ,though there are passages
 here and there which may be read with  
satisfaction1 there is not enough unity 
and connection between the different    
parts1 and the humor is generally but a 
thin potation4 ,it must be said1        
however1 that the absence of continuous 
interest is the fault of most comic     
novels1 as well as poems4 ,even the     
matchless works of ,jean ,paul grow     
tedious by the endeavor to read much of 
them at a time1 a fact which may be     
ascribed to the sentimentality and mere 
fantastics with which the kernels of his
 wit are overburdened4 ,it is certain   
that no ,german humorous work can be    
compared with those great originals in  
that kind1 ,gil ,blas and ,don ,quixote1
 or even with the much inferior works of
 ,smollett and ,dickens4 ,baron         
,sternberg's last effort forms no       

exception to this remark1 and there is  
little hope that the second and         
concluding volume1 whose appearance in  
,germany ought to be made by this time1 
will prove superior to the first4 ,his  
,royalists1 an anti-democratic novel1   
which he had the courage to publish in  
the chaos of #ahdh1 and which excited   
much attention1 and a great deal of     
severe criticism1 was far better4       
99       99       99       99       99  
,,the ,,new ,,faith ,,sought ,,in ,,art1
 is the title of an anonymous little    
book lately issued at ,paris1 which1    
though not of great value1 has more     
poetic originality of thought than is   
often found in printed pages4 ,the      
author thinks that the time has gone by 
in which the subjects of art could      
properly be sought in the lives of      
saints and legends of the ,church1 and  
wishes to substitute for them the lives 
of artists and celebrated inventors1 who
 have sprung from the bosom of the      
people4 ,with this writer1 every thing  

is democratic and popular4 ,for him the 
people is alone ,king1 and worthy of all
 honor4 ,nothing1 he says in one place1 
is truer than the song of ,beethoven4   
,it is the song of life1 the voice of   
truth1 an infallible voice1 which will  
create a world1 and cause the old false 
world to crumble4 ,born of the people1  
the people sing in him1 although they   
know him not4 ,in painting1 the heroes  
of the author are ,ruysdael1 ,rembrandt1
 ,claude-,lorraine1 and ,paul ,potter4  
99       99       99       99       99  
,the ,poet ,,freiligrath has received   
orders to leave the village of ,bilk1 in
 the neighborhood of ,dusseldorf2 where 
he was residing1 and to quit the        
,prussian territories4 ,he will probably
 go back to ,england1 where he passed   
some time in a counting-house or perhaps
 come to the ,united ,states1 where he  
has several friends1 to whom he has     
written of such an event as possible4   
99       99       99       99       99  
,in ,,african ,,discovery greater       

advances have been made in the last two 
years than before since the journeys of 
the brothers ,lander4 ,we mentioned in  
the last ,international that the        
,american traveller1 ,dr4 ,w4 ,mathews1 
had been heard of at ,vienna1 and we now
 learn that he has been very successful 
in the five years of his adventure in   
the northern and central parts of the   
continent4 ,letters received in ,berlin 
from ,drs4 ,barth and ,overweg1 contain 
information of their having accomplished
 the journey across the ,great ,desert1 
or ,sahara1 and of their arrival near   
the frontiers of the kingdom of ,air or 
,asben1 7,air is the modern ,tuarick1   
and ,asben the ancient ,sudan name71 the
 most powerful in that part of ,africa  
after ,bornou1 and never explored by    
,europeans4 ,on the #bdth of            
,august--the date of their last         
letter--they were at ,taradshit1 a small
 place in about #bj deg4 #cj' ,n4       
latitude1 and #i deg4 #bj' longitude ,e4
 of ,greenwich4 ,among their discoveries

 are some of peculiar interest1 one of  
which is of several curious and very    
ancient sculptures1 apparently of       
,egyptian origin4 ,the ,king of ,prussia
 has1 at the instance of the ,chevalier 
,bunsen and ,baron ,alexander von       
,humboldt1 augmented the funds of the   
two travellers by a grant of #a1jjj     
thalers4  ,while ,richardson1 ,barth and
 ,overweg have penetrated the terra     
incognita of the north1 ,dr4 ,krapf and 
the ,rev4 ,mr4 ,rebmann have explored   
the region described on the common maps 
as the ,great ,southern ,sahara1 and    
found it to be fertile1 healthy1        
abounding in mountains1 valleys and     
rivers1 and inhabited by a race         
altogether superior to that which       
occupies the ,atlantic coast4 ,mr4      
,mansfield ,parkyns is endeavoring to   
cross the country southward from the    
,nile to the river ,gambia2 ,mr4        
,charles ,johnson is travelling in      
,abysinnia2 ,baron von ,mueller is      
conducting an expedition up the ,white  

,nile2 and the ,american missionaries   
and colonists are gradually extending   
their knowledge over the various        
settlements on the eastern coast of the 
continent4         99       99       99 
99       99  ,,the ,,prussian           
,,expedition ,,to ,,egypt1 ,denkmaeler  
aus ,a,egypten und ,a,ethiopien nach den
 ,zeichnungen der von ,sr4 ,majestat dem
 ,koenige von ,preussen ,friedrich      
,wilhelm ,,iv4 nach diesen ,laendern    
gesendeten1 und in den ,jahren #ahdb-de1
 ausgefuhrten wissenschaftlichen        
,expedition3 ,herausgegeben von ,dr4 ,r4
 ,lepsius2 published at the expense and 
under the guarantee of the ,prussian    
,government1 will be completed in eighty
 parts1 or eight hundred plates4 ,most  
of the plates are printed with tints1   
and many in the colors of the originals4
 ,this work forms a necessary completion
 of the celebrated work of the ,french  
,expedition under ,napoleon4 ,parts ,i4 
to ,x4 are now advertised as ready for  
subscribers1 in ,london1 at three       

dollars and a half each4         99     
99       99       99       99  ,a ,,new 
,,work ,,on ,,africa1 by ,h4 ,c4 ,grund1
 is advertised at ,berlin4         99   
99       99       99       99  ,almanacs
 for popular use1 offer a means much    
used in ,france for the propagation of  
political1 social and religious         
doctrines4 ,every sect and party issues 
its ,almanac1 and some issue several1   
crammed to the brim with the peculiar   
notions whose dissemination is wished   
for4 ,one of the most successful for the
 year #ahea1 is the ,almanach des       
,opprimes 7,the ,almanac of the         
,oppressed74 ,in fact1 it is aimed      
wholly at the ,society of ,jesuits1     
whose history it exposes in the blackest
 colors4 ,it begins with the early life 
of ,loyola1 depicts his debaucheries1   
his ambition1 the religious mechanism   
invented by his enthusiastic and        
fanatical genius1 the flexibility of his
 morality1 and goes on to give an       
account of the intrigues and crimes of  

his successors in various countries and 
times1 with an analysis of their books1 
their missions and their miracles4      
,another of these publications is called
 the ,almanach du ,peuple1 containing a 
very great variety of articles of       
substantial value4 ,among the           
contributors are1 ,f4 ,arago1 ,quinet1  
,charras1 ,carnot1 ,girardin1 ,george   
,sand1 ,pierre ,leroux1 ,dumil ,aeur1   
,e4 ,lithe1 ,mazzini1 and other         
republicans distinguished in the        
political1 literary and scientific      
world4 ,this ,almanac had the honor last
 year of being seized by the            
,government1 but on trial before a jury 
it was acquitted of the charge against  
it1 of being dangerous to society1 and  
provoking citizens to hate the republic 
and despise the authorities4         99 
99       99       99       99  ,a critic
 in the ,allegemeine ,zeitung1 in       
noticing ,ottomar1 a ,romance from the  
,present ,time1 the last novel from the 
pen of ,madame ,von ,zoellner1 takes    

occasion to give some hard hits at      
women's novels in general4 ,it always   
must and always will be a failure1 he   
says1 when a woman attempts to form a   
just conception of masculine character1 
and to put her conception into language4
 ,female writers always comb out        
smoothly the flaxen hair of their       
heroes1 and dress them up in the        
frockcoat of innocence4 ,they go into   
raptures over a sort of green           
enthusiasm1 and a romantic              
fantasticality of virtue1 such as we    
godless fellows are not guilty of       
possessing2 and in this way they turn   
out automatons which resemble nothing in
 earth1 heaven1 or elsewhere4 ,the      
critic however admits that ,madame      
,zoellner1 who is undoubtedly one of the
 best living ,german novel writers1     
possesses remarkable and peculiar       
merits4 ,no other woman occupies so high
 a place with the ,german public1 except
 it be ,fanny ,lewald4 ,madame ,zoellner
 is praised for the pure moral tone of  

her writings4         99       99       
99       99       99  ,one of the most  
accomplished writers in ,france--,m4    
,,de ,,cormenin--and one of the most    
spirituel of that spirituel nation1 said
 at ,frankfort1 ,it is true that it is  
difficult to abolish war1 but it is far 
more difficult to abolish death2 and yet
 if people would take the same pains to 
avoid the one as they did to escape the 
other1 they would certainly accomplish  
their object4         99       99       
99       99       99  ,one of the most  
ardent and vigorous writers of ,young   
,france1 ,alphonse ,esquiros1 has       
brought out at ,paris a new book called 
,the ,history of the ,martyrs of        
,liberty4 ,the author aims to follow the
 development of liberty in humanity2 to 
expose the tie which unites ancient and 
modern society in historic solidarity2  
to determine the transformation of the  
doctrines1 which1 for a century past1   
have invaded the religious world under  
the name of philosophy1 political       

economy1 and socialism2 to set forth the
 fertile sufferings which have brought  
about that double triumph of liberty in 
ideas and in facts1 namely ,christianity
 and the ,french ,revolution2 to        
indicate the questions yet undecided2   
and to call to their solution both the  
miseries of the laboring classes and the
 lights of science4         99       99 
99       99       99  ,whatever may be  
said of the more elaborate writings of  
,,george ,,sand1 it is impossible for   
the most scrupulous critic to deny or   
resist the charm of her smaller works1  
such as the ,mosaic ,workers1 the       
,devil's ,love1 and ,fadette4 ,to these 
she has just added another1 which is    
spoken of with the utmost delight by all
 who have read it1 as a work of         
remarkable genius4 ,it is intended for  
the use of children1 and is called ,the 
,history of the veritable ,gribonille4  
,the text is accompanied by richly      
engraved illustrations1 designed by ,mr4
 ,maurice ,sand1 the son1 we believe1 of

 the author4 ,why will not some         
,american publisher give us a           
translation1 with the original          
illustrations8         99       99      
99       99       99  ,to the already   
immense literature of the ,french       
,revolution1 we now have to signalize   
another addition1 which is worth the    
attention of those who are not weary of 
books relating to that momentous epoch4 
,it is a ,biography of ,camille         
,desmoulins1 by ,ed4 ,fleury--an octavo 
volume1 lately issued at ,paris4 ,the   
author discusses the history of this    
famous pamphleteer and revolutionary    
rhetorician1 as an advocate defends a   
client before a jury4         99        
99       99       99       99  ,,the    
,,history ,,of ,,the ,,principles1      
,,institutions ,,and ,,laws ,,of ,,the  
,,french ,,revolution1 from #aghi to    
#ahjj1 is an anti-revolutionary work of 
elaborate character1 and decided        
ability1 published a few weeks since at 
,paris1 by an anonymous author1 who     

thinks he can do something toward       
getting the world right by rolling back 
some of its more recent gyrations4      
99       99       99       99       99  
,a popular ,history of the ,french      
,revolution1 from #aghi to #agii1       
written by ,,hippolite ,,magen1 and     
lately published at ,paris1 in one      
volume1 is having a great success among 
the laboring classes of ,paris and other
 ,french cities4 ,it is of course in    
favor of the ,montangards4         99   
99       99       99       99  ,a       
valuable manual for students of ,french 
history is ,m4 ,,louis ,,tripier',s     
collection of ,french ,constitutions1   
since #aghi1 with the decrees of the    
,provisional ,government of #ahdh4 ,it  
has just been issued by ,cotillon1 at   
,paris4         99       99       99    
99       99  ,,mirabeau1 the great      
revolutionist1 is the subject of a new  
work just published at ,vienna1 from the
 pen of ,franz ,ernst ,pipitz1 a native 
of that city1 but now a teacher at the  

,university of ,zurich4 ,it is in great 
part the result of original             
investigations1 and in many particulars 
departs from the received biographies1  
while in others it casts a new light on 
facts previously known4 ,the critics of 
,vienna speak in the highest terms of   
it1 as worthy to be named along with the
 most brilliant ,french productions on  
the same subject4 ,they are1 however1   
bound to say the best thing possible for
 a book by a ,viennese author1 since    
they have but few to rejoice in4        
99       99       99       99       99  
,,the ,,memoirs ,,of ,,massena1 which   
have for some time been in course of    
publication at ,paris1 are at last      
completed1 by the issue of the final    
volume1 which contains the history of   
the campaign of #ahaj-aa1 in ,portugal4 
,no complete account of this campaign   
has ever before been published4 ,the    
book also casts a great deal of light   
not merely on the history of the        
,marshal himself1 but on the wars of    

,napoleon in general4 ,it is founded on 
documents left by ,massena1 which have  
not before been published or consulted4 
99       99       99       99       99  
,m4 ,,cousin1 who1 after having exerted 
a more powerful influence in philosophy 
than any of his contemporaries1 7though 
this influence was1 in a large degree1  
secondary in its character71 has        
recently been almost forgotten4 ,we see 
by a paragraph in the ,debats that he is
 collecting and editing all his various 
writings upon the subject of education4 
,they will fill several volumes4        
99       99       99       99       99  
,another tribute to the memory of       
,,louis ,,philippe1 has just been       
offered by ,m4 ,r4 ,,paignon1 who has   
collected and published a volume of the 
deceased ,king's thoughts and opinions  
on matters of ,state4 ,this work        
exhibits the mental and political       
history of its subject in the best      
light1 and has the merit of being       
arranged with care and fidelity4        

99       99       99       99       99  
,m4 ,,felix ,,pignory1 of the           
,commission despatched by the ,french   
,government1 in search of the tomb of   
,godfrey of ,bouillon1 has returned from
 ,asia1 and reports some curious        
discoveries relative to the object of   
the mission4         99       99        
99       99       99  ,a new and        
enlarged edition of ,,zuinet',s ,genie  
des ,religions has appeared at ,paris4  
99       99       99       99       99  
,,the ,,political ,,maxims ,,and ,,the  
,,private ,,thoughts ,,of ,,frederick   
,,the ,,great is the title of a curious 
piece in the last number of ,frazer's   
,magazine4 ,it is unique as a sample of 
kingcraft2 and every line supplies a    
proof of the candor1 hypocrisy1         
unscrupulousness1 sense of duty1        
courage1 sensuality1 and intellect1 of  
the great ,prussian1 to whom are        
partially due the literary merits or    
demerits of the paper4         99       
99       99       99       99  ,the new 

edition of the ,,poems ,,of ,,elizabeth 
,,barrett ,,browning1 contains besides  
many original pieces1 her translation of
 the ,prometheus ,bound1 of ,a,eschylus1
 never hitherto published1 although1 as 
she informs us1 once privately          
circulated in another and less complete 
form4 ,it bears no mark of a woman's    
hand3 it is rugged1 massive1 and        
sublime1 as befits the grand old fate   
drama which the genius of the ,greek    
moulded out of the immortal agony of the
 beneficent ,titan4 ,from the new poems 
we select the following exquisite love  
sonnets1 from a series scarcely inferior
 to those in which ,shakspeare has given
 the history of his heart-life3      ,i 
lift my heavy heart up solemnly1     ,as
 once ,electra her sepulchral urn1      
,and1 looking in thine eyes1 ,i overturn
     ,the ashes at thy feet4 ,behold and
 see     ,what a great heap of grief lay
 hid in me1     ,and how the red wild   
sparkles dimly burn     ,through the    
ashen grayness4 ,if thy foot in scorn   

,could tread them out to darkness       
utterly1     ,it might be well perhaps4 
,but if instead     ,thou wait beside me
 for the wind to blow     ,the gray dust
 up1 444 those laurels on thine head1   
,o my beloved1 will not shield thee so1 
,that none of all the fires shall scorch
 and shred     ,the hair beneath4 ,stand
 further off1 then6 ,go4      ,go from  
me4 ,yet ,i feel that ,i shall stand    
,henceforward in thy shadow4 ,never more
     ,alone upon the threshold of my    
door     ,of individual life1 ,i shall  
command     ,the uses of my soul1 nor   
lift my hand     ,serenely in the       
sunshine as before1     ,without the    
sense of that which ,i forbore1     ,thy
 touch upon the palm4 ,the widest land  
,doom takes to part us1 leaves thy heart
 in mine     ,with pulses that beat     
double4 ,what ,i do     ,and what ,i    
dream include thee1 as the wine         
,must taste of its own grapes4 ,and when
 ,i sue     ,god for myself1 ,he hears  
that name of thine1     ,and sees within

 my eyes1 the tears of two4             
,beloved1 my beloved1 when ,i think     
,that thou wast in the world a year ago1
     ,what time ,i sat alone here in the
 snow1     ,and saw no foot-print1 heard
 the silence sink     ,no moment at they
 voice2 444 but link by link     ,went  
courting all my chains1 as if that so   
,they never could fall off at any blow  
,struck by thy possible hand4444 ,why1  
thus ,i drink     ,of life's great cup  
of wonder4 ,wonderful1     ,never to    
feel thee thrill the day or night       
,with personal act or speech1--nor ever 
call     ,some prescience of thee with  
the blossoms white     ,thou sawest     
growing6 ,atheists are as dull1     ,who
 cannot guess ,god's presence out of    
sight4      ,first time he kissed me1 he
 but only kissed     ,the fingers of    
this hand wherewith ,i write1     ,and  
ever since it grew more clear and white2
     ,how to world greetings 444 quick  
with its ',oh1 list1'     ,when the     
angels speak4 ,a ring of amethyst     ,i

 could not wear there plainer to my     
sight     ,than that first kiss4 ,the   
second passed in height     ,the first1 
and sought the forehead1 and            
half-missed1     ,half falling on the   
hair4 ,o1 beyond meed6     ,that was the
 chrism of love1 which love's own crown1
     ,with sanctifying sweetness1 did   
precede4     ,the third1 upon my lips   
was folded down1     ,in perfect purple 
state6 ,since when1 indeed1     ,i have 
been proud1 and said1 ',my love1 my     
own4'         99       99       99      
99       99  ,the candidateship between 
,lord ,palmerston and the historian     
,alison for the office of ,lord ,rector 
of the ,university of ,glasgow1 resulted
 in a majority for the latter1 on the   
gross poll1 of #fi4 ,as1 however1 of the
 four nations into which the students   
were distributed1 each of the candidates
 had two1 the election should have been 
decided by the vote of the present      
,rector1 ,mr4 ,macaulay2 but he declines
 the duty1 and would not go to the      

university during the contest4          
99       99       99       99       99  
,the ,official ,gazette announces that  
the ,queen has been pleased to appoint  
,,alfred ,,tennyson1 ,esq41 to be ,poet 
,laureate in ordinary to her ,majesty1  
in the room of ,william ,wordsworth1    
,esq41 deceased4 ,there have been poorer
 poets than ,tennyson among the         
laureates2 but this appointment does not
 and ought not to give much             
satisfaction4 ,mr4 ,tennyson had already
 a pension from the government1 and was 
in no need of the salary of this office1
 as one or two others1 and as we        
conceive1 greater poets1 are2 and it had
 been hoped that the queen would appoint
 to the place the greatest poet of her  
own sex who has lived in                
,england--,elizabeth ,barrett ,browning4
         99       99       99       99  
99  ,the original ,,ms4 of              
,,waverley1--wholly in the handwriting  
of ,sir ,walter ,scott1--the same which 
was sold in #ahca with the other ,,mss4 

of the series of novels and             
romances--has been presented to the     
,advocates' ,library at ,edinburgh1 by  
,mr4 ,james ,hall1 brother of the late  
,capt4 ,basil ,hall4 ,several of the    
,,mss4 of ,scott are in this country1   
having been sold here by ,dr4 ,lardner1 
soon after his arrival here with ,mrs4  
,heavyside4         99       99       99
       99       99  ,,mr4 ,,horace      
,,mayhew1 author of the metropolitan    
,labor and the ,poor articles1 has      
ceased to write for the ,london ,morning
 ,chronicle1 the conductors of that     
journal wishing him to suppress1 in his 
reports on the condition of the working 
classes1 facts opposed to free trade4   
,this appears to be characteristic of   
the advocates of that side4         99  
99       99       99       99           
,d',,israeli has published an edition of
 his father's ,curiosities of           
,literature1 with a ,view of the        
,character and ,writings of the ,author4
 ,he is now engaged upon a ,life of     

,lord ,william ,bentinck1 which he has  
undertaken at the request of the ,duke  
of ,portland4 ,we do not think the      
author of the ,wondrous ,tale of ,alroy 
will do very well in history4         99
       99       99       99       99    
,the ,,earl ,,of ,,carlisle has recently
 given two lectures before the          
,tradesmen's ,benevolent ,society of    
,leeds1 and the ,mechanics' ,institute  
of the same city1 upon the ,scenes1     
,institutions1 and ,characteristics of  
the ,united ,states1 which he visited   
when ,lord ,morpeth4         99       99
       99       99       99  ,,leigh    
,,hunt has probably done a foolish thing
 in again becoming an editor4 ,he is too
 old4 ,we have1 by the last steamer1    
,leigh ,hunt's ,journal3 a ,miscellany  
for the ,cultivation of the ,memorable1 
the ,progressive1 and the               
,beautiful--certainly a characteristic  
title4         99       99       99     
99       99  ,a ,posthumous work of     
,,joseph ,,balmas1--7the celebrated     

,spanish priest1 whose book on          
,catholicism and ,protestantism has     
lately been translated1 and published in
 ,baltimore1 and who perished           
prematurely in #ahdh71 has just been    
published4 ,it is entitled ,escritos    
,posthumos1 ,poesias ,posthumos1 and    
contains prose and verse on science1    
literature1 and politics4         99    
99       99       99       99  ,the     
,death of the late ,,mrs4 ,,bell        
,,martin1 at the ,union ,place ,hotel1  
in this city1 was briefly noticed in the
 last number of the ,international4 ,it 
appears from a statement in the ,london 
,times that the vast estates known as   
the ,connemara property1 to which she   
had succeeded as the daughter and       
heiress of the late ,mr4 ,thomas        
,martin1 of ,ballinahinch ,castle1 in   
,galway1 was among the first brought    
into the new ,encumbered ,estates       
,court1 and has been for some months    
advertised for sale4 ,the ,dublin       
,evening ,mail has the following remarks

 upon the melancholy history of ,mrs4   
,martin1 whose novel of ,julia ,howard  
must preserve for her a very            
distinguished rank among the literary   
women1 of our time3       ,the          
vicissitudes of life have seldom        
produced a sadder or more      rapid    
reverse than that by which the fortunes 
of this excellent      lady were        
darkened and overthrown4 ,born to a     
noble inheritance      which extended   
over a territory far exceeding the      
domain of      many a reigning ,german  
prince1 her name was known throughout   
the ,united ,kingdom as that of the     
,irish heiress4 ,five years      ago her
 expectancy was considered to be        
equivalent1 over and      above all     
encumbrances and liabilities1 to a      
yearly income of      #e1jjjl4 ,before  
two years of the interval had elapsed   
she      found herself at the head of   
her patrimonial estates1 without a      
shilling that she could call her own4   
,the failure of the potato      crop1   

the famine and pestilence which         
followed1 the scourging      laws       
enacted and enforced by an ignorant     
,legislature to redress      the        
calamity1 and the claims of             
money-lenders1 swept every inch      of 
property from under her feet4 ,her hopes
 and her prospects      were for ever   
blighted4 ,her projects for the         
improvement of the      wild district   
over which she had reigned as a sort of 
native      sovereign were at an end2   
and she went forth from the roof of     
her fathers as a wanderer1 without a    
home1 and1 as it would      almost      
appear1 without a friend4 ,never was    
hard fate less      deserved2 for her   
untiring and active benevolence had been
      devoted from her childhood to the 
comfort and relief of those      who    
suffered1 and her powerful and original 
mind was      incessantly employed in   
devising means of moral and physical    
amelioration in the condition of the    
tenantry on her father's      estates4  

,she gave up her whole time to such     
pursuits1 avoiding      the haunts of   
fashion and those amusements which might
 be      considered suitable to her age 
and place1 that she might      perform  
the various duties of physician1        
almoner1      schoolmistress1 and       
agricultural instructor4 ,her almost    
daily      habit was to visit the poor  
and the sick in the remote recesses     
of that wild region1 sometimes on       
foot--more frequently in her      little
 boat1 well provided with medicaments   
and food1 which she      impelled by the
 vigor of her own arm through the lakes 
which      stretch along the foot of the
 mountains4 ,how grievous it is to      
reflect that she should so soon have    
been driven across the      ocean in    
search of a place to lay her head4 ,the 
,american editor      intimates that the
 object of her voyage was to collect    
materials for literary works4 ,we have  
no doubt that such was      among her   
projects2 for she was a very            

distinguished writer1      and would by 
no means eat the bread of idleness or   
dependence2      but there is reason to 
believe that it was a more stringent    
compulsion which obliged her1 at an     
advanced period of the      year1 and in
 a peculiarly delicate situation1 when  
even      peasants remain on shore1 to  
encounter the tedium and perils of      
a voyage in a sailing vessel4 ,we have  
heard1 in fact1 from a      quarter     
which ought to be correctly informed1   
that she was      proceeding to the     
residence of a near relative of her     
father1      with the intention of      
remaining there till some favorable     
change might come over the color of her 
life4         99       99       99      
99       99  ,our countrywoman1 ,,mrs4  
,,mowatt1 has revised and partially     
rewritten her novels of ,the ,fortune   
,hunter1 and ,evelyn1 or the ,heart     
,unmasked1 and they have just been      
published in ,london4 ,the ,athenaeum   
says of them3       ,these tales give us

 a higher idea of ,mrs4 ,mowatt's       
talents as      an authoress1 than her  
plays did4 ,taken in conjunction with   
those dramas1 and with the pleasing     
powers as an actress      displayed by  
the lady1--they not only establish a    
case of more      than common           
versatility1 but indicate that with     
labor and      concentration1 so gifted 
a person might have taken a high        
place1 whether on the library shelf or  
on the stage4 ,in another      point of 
view1 they are less agreeable4 ,alas1   
for those      primitive souls1 who with
 a perverse constancy may still wish    
to fancy ,america a vast ,new-,england  
of simple manners and      superior     
morals6 ,the society which ,mrs4 ,mowatt
      describes--whether in ',evelyn1'  
which begins with a wedding out      of 
,fleecer's boarding-house1 or in ',the  
,fortune ,hunter1' which      opens with
 table-talk at ,delmonico's--is as      
sophisticated as      any society under 
which this wicked old world groans1 and 

which      our ,sir ,e4 ,lytton and     
,mrs4 ,gore have satirized--or ,balzac  
7to      shame the ,french7 has shown   
up4 ,major ,pendennis himself      could
 hardly have produced anything more     
blase in tone than      some of the     
pictures of ',new-,york ,society' drawn 
by this      ,american lady1--drawn1    
moreover1 when the lady was young4      
,evelyn is married to a rich man1       
without her heart having any      thing 
to say in the matter1--by a mother who  
is a superfine      ,mrs4 ,falcon3--and 
wretched mischief comes of it4          
,brainard1      the fortune hunter1 is a
 heartless and cynical illustration     
that a ,broadway hunter can be as       
unblushingly mercenary1 and as          
genteelly dishonorable as the veriest   
old ,bond ,street hack1      bred up in 
the traditions of the ,regency1 who ever
 began life      on nothing and a showy 
person--continued it on nothing and the 
reputation of fashion--and ended no one 
cares how or where4      ,there are     

character1 smartness and passion in both
 these      tales--though a certain     
looseness of structure and              
incompleteness of style prevent us from 
being extreme in      praising them1 or 
from recommending them by               
quotation1--and      though1 as has been
 said1 the tone and taste of the life   
which      they describe must jar on the
 feelings of those who are              
unwilling to see the decrepitude of     
elderly civilization coming      down   
upon a new country1 ere its maturity has
 been reached--or      even ere its     
youth has been sufficiently and steadily
 trained4         99       99       99  
99       99  ,,mrs4 ,,southworth1 the   
authoress of ,retribution1 ,the         
,deserted ,wife1 c41 has a new novel in 
the press of the ,appletons1 entitled   
,shannondale4 ,mrs4 ,southworth is the  
most popular of our female novelists1   
notwithstanding the doubtful morality of
 her works4         99       99       99
       99       99  ,,charles ,,mackay1 

who1 two or three years ago1 passed some
 months in ,new-,york1 and who is known 
for his very candid and intelligent book
 upon the ,united ,states1 entitled ,the
 ,western ,world1 has gone to ,india1 as
 an agent of the ,manchester ,chamber of
 ,commerce1 for the purpose of inquiring
 into the state and prospects of ,indian
 cotton cultivation4 ,mr4 ,mackay has   
had experience in the collection of     
statistical information2 he has lived   
long enough abroad to know that         
essential differences sometimes lurk    
beneath external resemblances in the    
social arrangements of two countries1   
and to be on his guard against the      
erroneous inferences to which ignorance 
of this fact leads4 ,he is naturally    
acute1 energetic1 and cautious4 ,for the
 difficult task of investigating and    
reporting upon the condition of an      
important branch of industry1 and the   
circumstances which are likely to       
promote or retard its progress among a  
community so different from the ,english

 as that of ,india1 he is probably as   
well fitted as any man who could have   
been selected4 ,the foundation of the   
,british ,indian empire and the         
establishment of the ,united ,states as 
an independent nation1 were contemporary
 events4 ,the loss of her ,american     
colonies helped to concentrate the      
attention and exertions of ,england upon
 her ,indian dominions4 ,the progress   
made by ,british ,india since #agfj1 in 
civilization1 material wealth1 and      
intelligent enterprise1 is barely       
perceptible2 while the ,united ,states  
have expanded from a few obscure        
colonies into a nation second only to   
,great ,britain in the value and extent 
of their commercial relations1 second to
 none in intelligence and successful    
enterprise4 ,the ,anglo-,norman         
inhabitants of the ,old ,thirteen       
provinces have made the valley of the   
,mississippi1 and the prairies beyond   
it1 which little more than half a       
century ago were mere wastes1 the       

thronged abodes of a vigorous and       
wealthy ,european population4 ,they have
 done this without the aid of the       
aboriginal tribes1 who have proved      
irreclaimably addicted to their nomade  
habits4 ,the ,anglo-,normans who rule   
,british ,india have had to deal with a 
country thickly peopled with races far  
advanced in civilization1 though of a   
peculiar character2 yet1 in every       
respect1 the results of their efforts   
lag far behind those visible in         
,america4 ,to place the difference in a 
most striking point of view1 it is only 
necessary to contrast the cotton produce
 and the mercantile marine of ,british  
,india with those of the ,united        
,states4 ,there is actually a more      
fully-developed steam navigation between
 ,panama and ,california than between   
,bombay and ,china4 ,the causes of these
 results are plain enough to us1 but to 
the ,english they are enigmas4 ,the     
mission of ,mr4 ,mackay will scarcely   
end in a revelation of the truth1 that  

liberty and independence have kept      
healthy the blood in the vigorous limbs 
of the ,americans1 while trammels and   
vassalage have deadened the energies of 
the ,indies2 but it may have an         
important influence upon the question   
whether the ,east ,india ,company's     
charter shall be renewed1 and it        
certainly will develop much information 
interesting to the cotton-growers of the
 ,united ,states4         99       99   
99       99       99  ,,mr4 ,,de        
,,quincey is one of the greatest of the 
elder race of literary men now living in
 ,great ,britain1 and we believe he is  
in no very affluent circumstances4 ,the 
bestowal of a pension by the ,government
 upon ,mr4 ,james ,bailey1 an editor of 
the classics1 residing at ,cambridge1 on
 the ground of his literary services1   
causes ,the ,leader thus to refer to the
 author of ,the ,opium ,eater--         
,where is ,thomas ,de ,quincey's        
pension8 ,some may not regard him1      
as we do1 the very greatest living      

master of the ,english      language2   
some may think lightly of those         
fragmentary works and      fugitive     
articles with which he has for more than
 thirty years      enriched our         
literature2 but1 whatever may be the    
individual      estimate of his         
services1 one fact is patent1 namely1   
that you      cannot mention ,de        
,quincey in any circle of the ,british  
,islands1      pretending to literary   
culture1 but his name will sound        
familiar2 in most it will awaken        
responses of gratitude for      high    
pleasures bestowed1 in none will it     
arouse indignation of      high power to
 base uses4 ,now1 this we call a clear  
case for      national beneficence4 ,he 
has done the state service1 and they    
know it2 but they will not reward it4   
,apropos of pensions3 ,upon the whole1  
we have the best exchequer in the world1
 and to soldiers we have evinced no     
special lack of liberality4 ,to give    
five hundred dollars a year to ,mr4     

,audubon1 ,r4 ,h4 ,dana1 ,moses ,stuart1
 ,edward ,robinson1 ,h4 ,r4             
,schoolcraft1 ,james ,g4 ,percival1 ,c4 
,f4 ,hoffman1 and some half dozen       
others1 would be something toward an    
honorable discharge of the country's    
obligations in the premises1 and        
probably no slight addition to the      
happiness of men who have added much to 
the real glory of the nation1 while it  
would cost less than a morning's useless
 debate in ,congress4 ,in a recent      
letter to ,lord ,brougham1 on a cognate 
subject1 ,savage ,landor exclaims3      
,probably the time is not far distant   
when the arts and      sciences1 and    
even literary genius1 may be deemed no  
less      worthy of this distinction    
than the slaughter of a thousand        
men4 ,but how1 in the midst of our vast 
expenditure1 spare so      prodigious a 
sum as five hundred a year to six1 and  
three      hundred a year to six more6  
99       99       99       99       99  
,a ,,mr4 ,,chubb has published in       

,london1 in a small volume1 a paper     
which he read before the ,institution of
 ,civil ,engineers1 on the construction 
of locks and keys4 ,it embraces a       
history of the lock and key from the    
earliest ages1 illustrated profusely    
with wood cuts4 ,it forms an instructive
 and entertaining essay2 but we think   
,mr4 ,chubb might have learned something
 more of the subject in the lock        
factories of ,newark and this city4     
99       99       99       99       99  
,,mr4 ,,ticknor',s ,history of ,spanish 
,literature has been translated into    
,german1 and is announced for           
publication by ,brockhaus4         99   
99       99       99       99  ,,mr4    
,,dicken',s ,david ,copperfield is at   
length completed1 and ,mr4 ,wiley has   
published it in two handsome volumes1   
profusely illustrated4 ,there is a      
variety of opinions among the critics as
 to its rank among the works of ,boz2   
but it is not contended by any that it  
evinces a decay of his extraordinary and

 peculiar genius4 ,we copy a paragraph  
which strikes us as just1 from the      
,spectator3       ,this story has less  
of ,london life and town-bred character 
than most of its predecessors2 but what 
may thus be gained in      variety is   
lost in raciness1 breadth1 and effect4  
,the peculiar      classes forced into  
existence by the hotbed of a great city1
      and owing a part of their gusto to
 town usage1 may be narrow      enough  
if compared with general nature1 but    
they are broader      than the          
singularities whom ,mr4 ,dickens copies 
or invents as      representatives of   
genteel country life1 or human nature in
      general4 ,in the mere style there 
is frequently an      improvement--less 
effort and greater ease1 with occasional
      touches of the felicity of        
,goldsmith2 but we should have          
thought the work was likely to be less  
popular than many of the      previous  
tales of ,mr4 ,dickens1 as well as      
rather more open to      unfavorable    

criticism4 ,any prose fiction that is to
 take rank      in the first class1 must
 have what in epic poetry is called a   
fable1--some lesson of life embodied in 
a story that combines      the utile and
 the dulce4 ,this fable should not only 
please the      reader by its succession
 of coherent events1 and by the variety 
of its persons and fortunes1 but should 
touch by appeals to the      common     
kinship of humanity1 and teach worldly  
conduct of      ethical lessons by      
particular incidents1 as well as by the 
general development4 ,and when this end 
is attained1 whether by      design or  
instinct1 technical rules are readily   
forgotten2 even      the great rule of  
unity of action can be dispensed with4  
,it      does not appear that ,mr4      
,dickens has the critical training      
necessary to feel the importance of this
 principle1 or a      knowledge of life 
sufficiently deep and extensive to      
enable him      to embody it            
unconsciously1 as a well-chosen story   

will always      compel an author to do4
 ,so far as ,david ,copperfield appears 
designed with any other object than as a
 vehicle for writing a      number of   
sketches1 it would seem intended to     
trace the ,london      career of an     
inexperienced young man1 with infirmity 
of      purpose1 a dangerous friend1 and
 no very experienced advisers4      ,any
 purpose of this kind is only prosecuted
 by snatches2 the      theme is         
constantly deserted1 and matters are    
introduced that      have no connection 
with the hero further than his being    
present      at them1 or their occurring
 to his acquaintance4 ,in fact1 from    
the time that ,david ,copperfield       
emerges from boyhood1 the      interest 
in his adventures ceases1 beyond that   
sort of      feeling which many readers 
entertain of wishing to know 'how it    
ends4'         99       99       99     
99       99  ,,mr4 ,,david ,,dudley     
,,field1 of this city1 one of the three 
commissioners who prepared the amended  

,code of the ,state of ,new-,york1      
abolishing the distinction in procedure 
between law and equity1 being in        
,england for a brief visit1 was invited 
by the leading members of the ,law      
,amendment ,society to give some account
 of the great changes effected here in  
the administration of justice4 ,he      
complied1 and a meeting of the ,society 
was summoned specially to hear him4 ,the
 result is much remarked upon in nearly 
all the ,london journals4 ,mr4 ,field is
 a clear headed man1 master of his      
subject1 perspicuous in his rhetoric1   
and distinct in his elocution1 so that  
our new constitution was most           
advantageously displayed before his     
learned and critical hearers4 ,the      
,spectator says of the subject3         
,the visit of ,mr4 ,dudley ,field to    
,england1 and his interesting           
statements to the members of our ,law   
,amendment ,society1 are      real      
events in the progress of law reform in 
this country4 ,the      injustice which 

the ,english people submit to in the    
revered      name of ,law1 and in the   
sacred but in their case profaned name  
of ,equity1 is more enormous than the   
future historian will be      able      
remotely to conceive4 ,the keystone of  
the barbarous ,gothic      portal to    
,justice in our common-law procedure was
 struck out      some twenty years ago1 
when the logical forms of legal contest 
were reduced to their now moderate      
number2 other heavy blows      have     
further undermined the ruin1 and almost 
cleared away      whatever was feudal in
 that portion of the edifice2 and then  
came the raising of the new and noble   
portal of the ,county      ,courts4     
,still1 in all but the most trivial     
litigation the delay      and expense   
are such that justice can only be had at
 a      percentage utterly disgraceful  
to a nation either honest or      merely
 clearheaded and commercial4 ,we still  
preserve a      diversity of tribunals1 
to administer laws that ought not to be 

inharmonious2 and we are prevented from 
making the laws      harmonious by the  
difficulties of finding tribunals able  
to      rule the concord and administer 
the whole field of law as a      single 
empire4 ,in this case1 as in a multitude
 of others1 our      young relations    
across the ,atlantic have done that     
which we      only longed to do4 ,in    
this rivalry of nations1 far above all  
other rivalries1 they have pushed       
development of institutions      which  
they received from forefathers common to
 us both1 to a      more rapid          
perfection than we4 ,mr4 ,dudley ,field 
is one of three      men who framed a   
constitutional law for the ,state of    
,new ,york1      under which the courts 
of legal and equitable jurisdiction have
      been successfully merged2 the     
enactment has succeeded in              
practical working2 and the spectacle of 
,equity swallowing up      ,law has been
 so edifying to the citizens of his     
,state1 that      three other ,states of

 the ,union have resolved to enact1 and 
four further ,states have appointed     
conferences to deliberate      upon1 a  
similar procedure4 ,it is               
impossible--however      narrow-minded  
lawyers may object--that what ,americans
 find      practicable and beneficial   
should be either impracticable or       
disadvantageous to ,englishmen4         
99       99       99       99       99  
,a second part of the ,historical       
,collections of ,louisiana1 by ,b4 ,f4  
,french1 has been published by ,mr4     
,putnam4 ,it contains some interesting  
papers1 among which are translations of 
an original letter of ,hernando de      
,soto1 on the ,conquest of ,florida1 of 
a brief account of de ,soto's memorable 
expedition to ,florida1 from a recently 
discovered manuscript by a writer named 
,biedma1 and ,hackluyt's translation of 
the longer narrative by a gentleman of  
,elvas4 ,it is to be followed1 we       
understand1 by a second volume4         
99       99       99       99       99  

,,elihu ,,burritt is one of those people
 who are filled with the comfortable    
assurance of their own greatness4 ,he   
seems always to regard the mob of men as
 very diminutive creatures1 while his   
introverted glances are through a lens  
which reveals a character of qualities  
and proportions the most extraordinary4 
,this is unfortunate4 ,it renders ,mr4  
,elihu ,burritt1 par excellence1 the    
bore of his generation4 ,he is really a 
person of very small abilities2 of very 
little information1 considering the     
opportunities presented by his travels2 
and the learned blacksmith has no       
learning at all4 ,he had1 indeed1 an    
unusual facility in acquiring words1 but
 he knows nothing of languages2 not     
having in any a particle of scholarship2
 of the philosophy1 even of his mother  
tongue1 being as ignorant as the        
bellows-hand in his smithy at           
,worcester4 ,but because of this not    
uncommon faculty of acquiring           
words--acquiring them as ,zerah ,colburn

 did a certain mastery of figures1      
without being able to comprehend any    
principle of mathematics--,mr4 ,everett1
 or some one else1 advertised him as    
learned1 and ever since he has neglected
 his fit vocation to crowd himself into 
conspicuous places1 all over            
,christendom2 to blow continually his   
penny whistle in the ears of the little 
people called philanthropists2 to speak 
and write in addresses and letters      
immense aggregations of ambitious       
platitudes1 to pontiffs1 emperors1      
kings1 parliaments1 etc41 respecting    
their particular affairs1 all of which  
addresses and letters are as cogent as  
the barkings sent by a lap-dog toward   
the moon1 and receive from all sorts of 
people1 except diminutives and          
impertinents whose profession is        
philanthropy1 just about as much        
consideration as ,dian yields to the    
fast-yelping cur4 ,it is all            
unfortunate1 for poor ,elihu ,burritt   
will never be persuaded that he is a    

subject of derision only1 instead of    
admiration2 that men pause to regard him
 as a miracle of conceit and assurance  
rather than as a prophet2 and that his  
commonplaces about olive leaves1        
calumets1 universal brotherhood1        
fatherland1 etc41 have no more influence
 than the maudlin rigmarole of the      
madman whose preternatural force is lost
 in senility4 ,it is time for ,elihu    
,burritt to go back to his shop3 the    
world wants a new fool4         99      
99       99       99       99  ,,john   
,,mills1 remembered by some unfortunate 
,new-,yorkers as ,john ,st4 ,hugh       
,mills1 has written half a dozen        
tolerable novels since he went home1 and
 he is now publishing1 in the ,united   
,service ,magazine1 a series of papers  
illustrative of his ,american travels1  
in which he illustrates his knowledge   
and veracity by certain anecdotes1 which
 are described as having occurred on the
 western prairies of ,louisiana4        
99       99       99       99       99  

,,president ,,hitchcock1 of ,amherst    
,college1 who is capable of a very      
conclusive treatment of the subject1 has
 in the press of ,philips  ,sampson1 a  
work on the connection of ,geology and  
,religion4         99       99       99 
99       99  ,,dr4 ,,latham',s very     
important work on the ,varieties of     
,man1 we are glad to hear is to be      
republished by the ,appletons4 ,though  
much less voluminous than the work of   
,pritchard1 and therefore less          
particular generally in its             
illustrations1 it may be regarded as    
decidedly the most masterly and         
satisfactory production that has yet    
appeared in ethnology4 ,the prospect of 
its republication affords us the more   
satisfaction1 because the superficial   
and flippant infidelity of ,dr4 ,robert 
,knox has been reproduced here by a     
respectable publishing house1 and widely
 diffused4 ,the ,races of ,man1 by ,dr4 
,knox1 is what is called a clever book2 
the ,yankees might style it smart2 but  

it is no more entitled to consideration 
as an exhibition of scholarship1        
intellectual strength1 or fairness1 than
 the rigmarole of the ,millerite or the 
,mormon4         99       99       99   
99       99  ,,the ,,homoeopathic       
,,review ,,and ,,quarterly ,,journal    
,,of ,,medical ,,science1 is a new      
periodical1 commencing with the year1 of
 which the general character is         
indicated by the title4 ,it is edited by
 ,dr4 ,marcy1 author of ,the            
,homoeopathic ,theory and ,practice1 one
 of the most eminent scholars and       
successful practitioners of the new     
school2 ,dr4 ,herring1 of ,philadelphia1
 whose name is familiar to the students 
of ,german literature and science1 and  
who was one of the most trusted friends 
of ,hahnemann2 and ,dr4 ,metcalfe1 who  
has been known as an able lawyer and    
ingenious critic1 and who is regarded as
 a very accomplished physician4 ,under  
such direction1 the ,homoeopathic       
,review can hardly fail of success4 ,it 

will certainly1 we think1 commend the   
doctrines of the ,hahnemannists to the  
favorable consideration of all          
thoughtful readers1 and compel those who
 have been accustomed to deride the new 
principles to a courteous treatment of  
them4 ,mr4 ,radde is the publisher4     
99       99       99       99       99  
,the cheapness of good books and good   
editions is one of the wonders of our   
time4 ,american publishers have done    
much toward bringing literature into the
 homes of the poor1 but the cheap books 
manufactured in this country have1 for  
the most part1 been badly printed1 and  
in every respect so wretchedly put      
together1 that they were hardly worth   
preserving after a first reading4 ,the  
,english are now competing vigorously   
for the popular market here1 and mainly1
 through the house of ,bangs  ,brother  
of this city4 ,bohn and other great     
,london publishers are supplying us with
 well printed1 well bound1 and          
excellently illustrated books1 at prices

 altogether lower than those for which  
the ,american manufacturers have offered
 or can afford them4 ,to sell such a    
book as ,lodge's ,portrait ,gallery1 in 
eight volumes1 with all its finely      
engraved heads1 for ten dollars1 one    
must have the world for a market2 and so
 with the long list of important        
writings in the compactly but correctly 
and elegantly printed volumes of ,bohn's
 ,standard ,library--the best and       
cheapest popular series ever issued in  
any country4         99       99        
99       99       99  ,many very correct
 writers are very poor authors1 and     
there are abundance of good books with  
imperfect rhetoric2 yet we have a right 
to ask some attention to the details of 
style in a literary critic4 ,professor  
,henry ,reed has a delicate appreciation
 in poetry1 but his remarks are nearly  
always marred by verbal infelicities    
incompatible with a knowledge of        
literary art4 ,thus1 within a few pages 
of his ,memoir of ,gray1 just published1

 he says of ,jacob ,bryant1 who has been
 dead a century1 that he has recorded2  
that ,gray retained a high admiration of
 ,dryden's poetry1 as was strongly      
expressed1 c42 that an ode published in 
#agdg1 being the first publication of   
his ,english verse 7meaning his first   
publication in ,english verse72 that    
,gray could not break through the       
circumspection of so contracted a system
 of metaphysics as that of ,locke's2    
that it is apparent from what ,gray has 
done 7as if ,gray were now living1 or   
present71 c4 c4 c4 c4 c41 all through   
every thing he publishes4 ,such things  
in a professor of mathematics would     
attract no attention1 but they will be  
observed in a ,professor of ,english    
,literature4         99       99        
99       99       99  ,mr4 ,,bancroft is
 not1 as we were led by some newspaper  
to state in the ,international1 engaged 
in printing his ,history of the         
,revolution2 and when he does give it to
 the press1 it is by no means likely    

that he will have to leave ,new-,york to
 find a publisher for it4 ,the ,history 
of the ,colonization of                 
,america--introductory to the ,history  
of the ,united ,states--has secured for 
,mr4 ,bancroft a place among the        
greatest historians2 he has now the     
assurance that he is writing for other  
ages2 and he will not endanger his fame1
 nor fail of the utmost perfection in   
his work1 for any needless haste4 ,this 
second part of his ,history will        
probably occupy five volumes2 and       
although the story has been written by  
many hands1 with more or less fulness   
and various degrees of justice1 ,mr4    
,bancroft will have studied it from     
beginning to end in the original        
materials1 of which his collection is by
 far the best that has ever been made4  
,if upon this field any one successfully
 competes with him for the historic     
wreath1 he must come after him1 and be  
guided by his light4         99       99
       99       99       99  ,,henry ,r4

 ,,schoolcraft1 ,,ll4 ,d41 is occupied1 
as his official duties permit1 in the   
composition of memoirs of his long and  
honorably distinguished life4 ,his great
 work upon the ,history and ,condition  
of the ,indians1 now in press1 and to be
 published in some half-dozen splendid  
quarto volumes by ,lippencott1 ,grambo  
,co41 of ,philadelphia1 will contain the
 fruits of his observations in that     
department which he has made so         
peculiarly his own1 and upon which he   
will always be the chief and highest    
authority2 but his personal adventures1 
and his reminiscences of his            
contemporaries1 will form the subject of
 this additional performance4         99
       99       99       99       99    
,,dr4 ,,samuel ,,johnson1 the father of 
the ,protestant ,episcopal ,church in   
,connecticut1 and the first ,president  
of ,king's ,college1 now ,columbia      
,college1 in ,new-,york1 was one of the 
most interesting characters in our      
social history4 ,his abilities1         

learning1 activity1 and influence1      
entitle him to be ranked in the class of
 ,franklin 7who was his friend and      
correspondent1 and who printed1 at his  
press in ,philadelphia1 several of his  
works71 as a promoter of the highest    
civilization in the colonies4 ,except   
the ,memoirs of ,franklin1 we have      
hitherto had no more attractive specimen
 of biography than the book known as    
,dr4 ,chandler's ,life of ,dr4 ,johnson4
 ,franklin's ,memoirs1 it is well known1
 never came before the public in the    
form in which they were written1 until a
 few years ago1 and it has lately been  
discovered that ,dr4 ,johnson's had     
suffered a similar disadvantage4 ,dr4   
,johnson amused himself in his old age  
by writing recollections of his life and
 times1 which1 after his death1 were    
placed in the hands of ,dr4 ,chandler1  
who changed them from the first to the  
third person1 omitted many particulars  
which he did not deem it expedient to   
publish1 and added others which the     

modesty of ,dr4 ,johnson had not allowed
 him to write4 ,the book thus made by   
,dr4 ,chandler was printed by his       
son-in-law1 the late ,bishop ,hobart1   
who probably was not aware of its       
origin4 ,but ,dr4 ,johnson's ,,ms4 has  
now been discovered1 and it will        
immediately be given to the public1     
under the supervision of the ,rev4 ,mr4 
,pitkin1 of ,connecticut1 who is adding 
to it many notes and illustrative       
documents4 ,it is very much to be       
regretted that so little of the         
extensive correspondence of ,dr4        
,johnson with the chief persons of his  
time in the literary and the religious  
world abroad1 has been preserved2 but   
the book will contain numerous letters  
by his more eminent contemporaries which
 have not appeared elsewhere4         99
       99       99       99       99    
,somebody has made the discovery that   
,general ,charles ,lee1 of the          
revolutionary army1 was not unwilling to
 be considered the author of ,junius2   

and two or three of our contemporaries  
have been busy with the subject of the  
internal and other evidence in the case4
 ,these critics are about as wise as the
 editor of an evening paper who         
published one of the old ,washington    
forgeries1 lately1 as an important      
historical document4 ,it was            
characteristic1 that the chief wrote so 
familiarly to his wife of affairs6 ,in  
the same way1 the history of the ,book  
of ,mormon 7originally composed as a    
religious novel by the ,rev4 ,solomon   
,spaulding71 appears as a curious and   
altogether new exposure6 ,we shall not  
be surprised if the same journals advise
 us that ,walter ,scott wrote the       
,waverley ,novels4         99       99  
99       99       99  ,,emilie          
,,girardin has a new book ,l',abolition 
de la ,misere1 in which he proposes the 
entire abolition of suffering4 ,he has  
found the philosopher's stone4          
99       99       99       99       99  
,somebody is writing for the ,united    

,service1 ,reminiscences of a ,voyage to
 ,canada1 and we have looked into a     
couple of his chapters to see what sort 
of stuff1 respecting ,america1 is thus  
submitted to the officers of her        
,majesty's ,army and ,navy4 ,the style  
of a fellow who talks of his fellow     
countrymen 7not meaning1 as the words   
do1 persons who live with him in rural  
neighborhoods71 is scarcely deserving of
 criticism2 but the silliness of the    
falsehoods of this latest ,english      
traveller among us1 may be referred to  
as illustrating the causes of the common
 prejudices in ,england against the     
,united ,states4 ,after describing his  
arrival at the ,tremont ,house1 in      
,boston1 he says3       ,a clerk meaning
 our old friend ,parker1 dressed in the 
height      of fashion1 presided at the 
bar meaning the office at which      we 
applied for rooms1 wherein to perform   
our duties of the      toilet4 ,the one 
to which ,i was directed contained      
several beds      without curtains1 from

 which the occupants had evidently but a
      short time previously taken their 
departure4 ,this was however a          
matter of indifference1 as ,i imagined  
the apartment would have      been      
entirely at my own disposal4 ,in the    
course of a few      minutes however1   
the door was opened1 and in walked an   
individual1 who1 depositing a small     
carpet bag on the floor1      commenced 
operations of a similar nature to those 
,i myself was      engaged in--not a    
word was at first exchanged between us2 
he      eyed me critically1 ,i returned 
the compliment1 till at length ,i       
was favored with ',stranger1 ,i guess   
you are from ,europe' 7a      strong    
accent on the last syllable71           
immediately followed by      questions  
as to where ,i was going1 what was my   
business1 c4      ,this was somewhat    
amusing1 so ,i informed my gentleman ,i 
was      journeying to ,new-,york1      
whereupon he told me ,i should see an   
'almighty fine city4' ,his curiosity    

being next attracted by my              
portmanteau1 which was lying open on a  
chair1 he strode up and      peered into
 it most attentively4 ,thinking ,i might
 as well      follow his example1 ,i did
 the same by his carpet bag2 whereupon  
giving a grunt of dissatisfaction1 he   
collected his valuables      and soon   
after took himself off4  ,thirty years  
ago1 the ,duke of ,saxe ,weimar         
published a western story of a coachman 
who said1 ,i am the gentleman what's to 
drive you4 ,our very original ,united   
,service tourist tells of a visit to    
,mount ,auburn1 and adds3       ,whilst 
driving back to the hotel ,i happened to
 remark1 ',that      is the man who     
drove us from the steamer in the        
morning4'      ,upon which ',jehu'      
quickly replied1 ',i reckon ,i'm the    
gentleman that drove you4' ,this        
information was received on      our    
part with all the respect due to the    
elevated rank of our      charioteer4   
,in a paragraph about luggage3          

,the ,american trunk is a ponderous     
solid affair made of wood1      secured 
with braces of iron1 studded with brass 
or iron nails1      and usually having  
the name or initials of the owner1 and  
frequently the state of which he is a   
native1 painted on it in      large     
white letters4 ,owing to this custom1   
the traveller is      liable to be      
addressed by any peculiarity            
appertaining to his      trunk being    
affixed thereto4 ,thus a gentleman      
passing through      the states1 found  
himself designated as ',mr4 ,air        
,tight1'      because this simple term  
was marked on the outside of a          
tin-box1 and no affirmations on his part
 could induce the      bystanders to    
believe to the contrary4 ,they 'reckoned
 it was on      his box1' and that was  
sufficient4  ,of the personal appearance
 of the ,americans3       ,to a stranger
 newly arrived from ,england1 the       
absence of fresh      complexions and of
 bright and cheerful faces among the    

male      part of the creation is very  
striking4 ,they are gaunt1 sallow1      
cadaverous looking creatures2 their     
general1 far from      prepossessing1   
appearance1 in no way improved by the   
habit of      wearing long1 straight    
hair1 combed entirely off the face1 the 
bare throat1 the never absent 'quid1'   
and that abominably nasty      habit of 
constant expectoration4  ,and this trash
 is from one of the most reputable      
periodicals published in ,london--the   
one of all most especially addressed to 
gentlemen4  ,in the next number of his  
,reminiscences the author promises a    
sketch of the city of ,new-,york1 for   
which his authority will probably be    
,mrs4 ,trolloppe1 ,mr4 ,joseph ,miller1 
and the last pick-pocket who went home  
to ,london4         99       99       99
       99       99  ,the ,peace         
,congress1 in which we have most        
faith--the only one that is likely to   
exert any very desirable influence1 is  
that to assemble next year in ,hyde     

,park4 ,this will be a display of works 
rather than one of words2 and apropos of
 its lingual character1 which will show 
very conclusively that as yet all the   
nations of the earth are not as one     
people1 we find in ,the ,leader this    
paragraph3  ,the ,exhibition of #ahea1  
seems to promise a whole literature of  
its own4 ,journals are already          
established for the record of its       
proceedings4 ,useful information will be
 at a premium--unless there should      
happen to be a glut2 while in the shape 
of translations and dialogue-books1     
every facility will be offered to       
foreigners4 ,what a ,babel it will be6  
,how the ,english ear will be rasped by 
,slavonic and ,teutonic gutturals1 or   
distended by the breadth of ,southern   
vowels4 ,it will be a marvel if this    
incursion of barbarians do not very much
 affect the purity of our own tongue1   
and damage the tender susceptibility of 
the ,london ear1 already so delicate    
that when an actor says--as it sometimes

 happens--,donnar ,elvirar is coming1   
the whole audience rises in a mass to   
protest against the outrages on taste4  
,we are told the ,athenians were also   
merciless critics in such matters4 ,nay1
 there is a famous anecdote perpetually 
cited as an illustration of ,athenian   
delicacy in matters of pronunciation1   
that ,theophrastus was known to be a    
foreigner even by a herbseller4 ,people 
who wonder at every thing recorded of   
the ,greeks1 will regard us probably as 
reckless iconoclasts if we break that by
 a stone flung from common sense2 but   
really1 with the daily experience of    
,scotchmen and ,irishmen before us1 we  
must say the most wonderful part of the 
anecdote is1 that it should have been   
recorded4 ,theophrastus came from       
,lesbos--if we remember rightly--and his
 pronunciation1 therefore1 naturally    
preserved some of the ,lesbian flavor1  
as ,carlyle's does that of ,annandale4  
,would any critic compliment the cockney
 on delicacy of ear because it detects  

the accent of ,carlyle1 or ,sheridan    
,knowles1 to be other than its own true 
,london accent8 ,yet1 this is precisely 
what critics do with respect to the     
,athenians4         99       99       99
       99       99  ,,milton1 ,,burke1  
,,mazzini1 and ,,daniel ,,webster1      
present the most extraordinary examples 
of the harmonious and effective         
combination of political and literary   
genius1 that have appeared in modern    
times4 ,there have been and there are   
now many politicians who are eminent as 
authors3 but these are preeminently     
great in both statesmanship and letters4
 ,mazzini is now the chief apostle of   
republicanism in ,europe1 as ,milton was
 in the time of the ,protector4 ,he     
devises and executes the schemes which  
promise advances of liberty and         
happiness1 and he is equal to the       
defence with the pen of every thing he  
essays in affairs4 ,young ,italy1 since 
it was put down by ,french bayonets1 has
 had as little quarter from parasite    

writers as from patristic governors2 but
 ,mazzini has come to her defence with  
as vigorous a pen as that with which    
,milton vindicated the people of        
,england against the hireling           
,salmasius1 under similar circumstances4
 ,in another part of this number of the 
,international1 we have copied from the 
,london ,examiner a reviewal of         
,mazzini's work on the ,italian         
revolution4 ,we should be glad to see it
 criticised by ,mr4 ,walsh also1 or by  
,professor ,bowen1 in his ,north        
,american ,review4         99       99  
99       99       99  ,since ,,sir      
,,francis ,,head went home from ,canada1
 and finished the last edition of his   
,bubbles and ,travels1 and the funny    
anathema of poor ,mr4 ,william ,lyon    
,mackenzie1 in the ,times1 he has been  
very quiet1 except now and then1 when he
 has given an explosive and amusing     
paper in the ,quarterly4 ,but now he has
 published a new book1 on ,the          
,defenceless ,state of ,great ,britain1 

in which1 the ,examiner says he has made
 up for lost time4 ,says the critic1 ,it
 is calculated to rouse all the old     
women in the country4 ,such a fee-fa-fum
 of a book we never read4 ,the ,duke's  
letter to ,sir ,john ,burgoyne was      
nothing to it1 and it beats even ,lord  
,ellesmere hollow4 ,the baronet thinks  
every thing portends a ,french invasion1
 and he advocates the largest war       
footing4         99       99       99   
99       99  ,the ,,rev4 ,,dr4          
,,bloomfield1 whose edition of the      
,greek ,testament is so well known in   
this country1 has just published two    
volumes of additional ,notes1 critical1 
philological1 and explanatory1 in       
fulfilment of a promise made in the     
third edition of his ,new ,testament1 in
 #ahci4 ,this promise was1 that he would
 make no further change in the notes to 
the ,new ,testament1 but reserve all    
additions for a separate supplementary  
work4 ,that work1 after the direct labor
 of eleven years1 is now published2     

forming a companion to all the editions 
of ,bloomfield's ,greek ,testament      
except the first two4 ,the annotations  
relate to a critical examination of the 
readings of the text1 with the reasons  
for that selected1 philological notes on
 the meaning of words1 and exegetical   
annotations on the verbal               
interpretations of passages4         99 
99       99       99       99  ,,mr4    
,,cooper has a new book in press which1 
in ,new-,york1 will produce a profounder
 sensation1 than any he has yet written4
 ,it is entitled ,the ,men of           
,manhattan1 and reveals the social      
condition of the city1 past and present1
 as it is known only to the author of   
,the ,littlepage ,manuscripts4 ,mr4     
,cooper is a thorough ,new-,yorker2 he  
is intimately acquainted with all the   
sources of her past and present and     
prospective greatness2 and he has       
watched1 with such emotions as none but 
a gentleman of the old school can feel1 
the infusion and gradual diffusion of   

those principles of plebeianism and     
ruffianism1 from discontented           
improvidence1 immigration1 and other    
causes1 which threaten to destroy       
whatever has justified the wisest pride2
 and to sink--not raise--all the mob of 
people to a common level4 ,he has his   
whims1 and though they have won for him 
little popularity1 we regret that they  
are not shared more largely by the      
public1 which will never appreciate his 
merits as a censor1 until the best      
features of our civilization are quite  
obliterated4         99       99        
99       99       99  ,,mr4 ,,judd1 the 
author of ,margaret1 an original1       
indigenous1 striking1 and in many       
respects brilliant ,new-,england story1 
and of ,philo1 a crude1 extravagant1    
ridiculous mass of versified verbiage1  
has lately published 7through ,phillips 
,sampson1 of ,boston17 a new work       
entitled ,richard ,edney1 or the        
,governor's ,family2 a ,rus-,urban      
,tale1 simple and popular1 yet cultured 

and noble1 of morals1 sentiment and     
life4 ,it is worthy of the author of    
,margaret4 ,though it evinces very      
little of the constructive faculty1 it  
illustrates in every page a quick and   
intelligent observation1 a happy talent 
for characterization1 and great         
independence in speculation4         99 
99       99       99       99  ,mr4 ,c4 
,p4 ,,castanis1 formerly known in this  
country as an agreeable lecturer upon   
various subjects connected with ,modern 
,greece1 has just published 7through    
,lippencott1 ,grambo  ,co41 of          
,philadelphia71 a narrative of his      
captivity and escape during the massacre
 by the ,turks on the ,island of ,scio1 
together with various adventures in     
,greece and ,america4         99        
99       99       99       99  ,,mr4 ,e4
 ,g4 ,,squier1 whose large work upon    
,american antiquities1 published by the 
,smithsonian ,institute1 made for him a 
most desirable reputation1 is now       
engaged in the preparation of an        

elaborate work upon the remains of      
ancient civilization in ,central        
,america1 to contain the results of     
investigations during his recent        
official residence there4         99    
99       99       99       99           
,,nathaniel ,,hawthorne',s new work1    
,the ,house of ,seven ,gables1 is in the
 press of ,ticknor1 ,reed  ,fields1 of  
,boston4         99       99       99   
99       99  ,,miss ,,fenimore ,,cooper1
 whose beautiful work entitled ,rural   
,hours in ,america has been so much and 
so justly applauded1 has a new volume in
 the press of ,putnam4         99       
99       99       99       99  ,in the  
new novel of ,olive1 republished by the 
,harpers1 7which is much praised by the 
,london critics71 the heroine1 who has a
 lofty1 noble nature1 full of poetic    
feeling and enthusiasm for art1         
determines to devote herself to its     
study1 urged on by a desire of          
liquidating a debt contracted by her    
father4 ,apropos of the purpose of her  

life1 and the sphere of her sex3        
,she became an artist--not in a week1 a 
month1 a year4 ,art      exacts of its  
votaries no less service than a         
lifetime4 ,but in      her girl's soul  
the right chord had been touched1 which 
began      to vibrate into noble music1 
the true seed had been sown1 which      
day by day grew into a goodly plant4    
,vanbrugh had said truly1      that     
genius is of no sex2 and he had said    
likewise truly1 that      no woman can  
be an artist--that is1 a great artist4  
,the      hierarchies of the soul's     
dominion belong only to man1 and it     
is right they should4 ,he it was whom   
,god created first1 let him      take   
pre-eminence4 ,but among those stars of 
lesser glory1 which      are given to   
lighten the nations1 among sweet-voiced 
poets1      earnest prose writers1 who1 
by lofty truth that lies hid            
beneath legend and parable1 purify the  
world1 graceful painters      and       
beautiful musicians1 each brightening   

their generation with      serene and   
holy lustre--among these1 let woman     
shine6 ,but her      sphere is1 and ever
 must be1 bounded2 because1 however     
lofty      her genius may be1 it always 
dwells in a woman's breast4             
,nature1 which gave to man the dominion 
of the intellect1 gave      to her that 
of the heart and affections4 ,these bind
 her with      everlasting links from   
which she cannot free herself1--nay1 she
      would not if she could4 ,herein   
man has the advantage4 ,he1      strong 
in his might of intellect1 can make it  
his all in all1      his life's sole aim
 and guerdon4 ,a ,brutus1 for that      
ambition      which is misnamed         
patriotism1 can trample on all human    
ties4 ,a      ,michael ,angelo can stand
 alone with his genius1 and so go       
sternly down into a desolate old age4   
,but there scarce ever      lived the   
woman who would not rather sit meekly by
 her own      hearth1 with her husband  
at her side1 and her children at her    

knee1 than be the crowned ,corinne of   
the ,capitol4       ,thus woman1 seeking
 to strive with man1 is made feebler by 
the      very spirit of love which in   
her own sphere is her chiefest          
strength4 ,but sometimes chance1 or     
circumstance1 or wrong1      sealing up 
her woman's nature1 converts her into a 
self-dependant human soul4 ,instead of  
life's sweetness1 she has      before   
her life's greatness4 ,the struggle     
passed1 her genius      may lift itself 
upward1 expand and grow mighty2 never so
 mighty      as man's1 but still great  
and glorious4 ,then1 even while she     
walks over the world's rough pathway1   
heaven's glory may rest      upon her   
up-turned brow1 and she may become a    
light unto her      generation4         
99       99       99       99       99  
,,dautzenberg1 a ,flemish poet1 has     
issued at ,brussels a volume of small   
compositions1 which1 apart from         
freshness of fancy and beauty of        
thought1 are remarkable for the         

correctness and smoothness of their     
form4 ,the ,flemish tongue is used by   
him with a lyrical success that would   
reflect honor on a writer in the more   
melodious dialects of ,southern ,europe4
 ,he has also licked that jaw-cracking  
tongue so far into shape1 that it serves
 for regular hexameters4         99     
99       99       99       99  ,,miss   
,,strickland',s ,,lives ,,of ,,the      
,,queens ,,of ,,england1 republished by 
,lea  ,blanchard of ,philadelphia1 in   
ten or twelve volumes1 is a work of very
 great interest and value1 for its      
illustrations of the higher and         
progressive ,british civilization4 ,her 
,lives of the ,queens of ,scotland1 soon
 to be issued from the press of the     
,harpers1 resembles generally her former
 work1 by the success of which it was   
probably suggested1 as much as by the   
desirableness of the biographies of the 
,northern ,queens1 as adjuncts to the   
lives of those of ,england4 ,a good deal
 of matter was collected in reference to

 the later ,queens of ,scotland during  
the biographer's researches for the     
,queens of ,england2 and this1 augmented
 by further inquiries among public and  
private archives1 especially among the  
muniment-chests of noble ,scottish      
families1 forms the materials of the    
present undertaking4 ,the lives do not  
begin till the ,tudor times1 when the   
nearer relationship with ,england       
imparts a greater interest to the       
subject1 not only from the closer       
communication between the courts1 but   
from the prospects of the ,scottish     
succession to the ,english crown4       
99       99       99       99       99  
,,john ,s4 ,,dwight1 of ,boston1 has    
recently delivered an admirable lecture 
before the ,mercantile ,library         
,association of this city1 on ,operatic 
,music1 illustrated by a critical       
examination of ,rossini's ,don          
,giovanni4 ,mr4 ,dwight's rare musical  
learning and accomplishments1 his       
exquisite taste in art1 and his         

remarkable felicity of expression1 were 
displayed to singular advantage in this 
masterly lecture1 and won the cordial   
applauses of the most appreciative      
critics in his large and highly         
intelligent audience4         99        
99       99       99       99  ,a       
,history of the ,greek ,revolution is   
soon to be given to the public by ,baron
 ,,prokesh ,,osten1 who for many years  
was ,austrian ambassador at ,athens1 and
 who now fills the same office at       
,berlin4 ,of course his book will be    
published at ,vienna4         99        
99       99       99       99  ,a ,,new 
,,edition ,,of ,,the ,,complete ,,works 
,,of ,g,oe,e,t,h,e1 in thirty volumes   
7it would look much better and be far   
more convenient in fifteen71 is         
advertised in ,berlin4 ,two volumes are 
ready1 and the whole are to be issued   
before the close of #ahea4         99   
99       99       99       99  ,w4 ,g4  
,,simms1 ,,ll4 ,d41 is referred to in   
the ,southern ,literary ,gazette as     

having delivered in ,charleston lately  
an elaborate poem entitled ,the ,city of
 the ,silent1 on the occasion of the    
consecration of a beautiful rural       
cemetery near that city4         99     
99       99       99       99  ,,dr4    
,,oliver ,,wendell ,,holmes is writing a
 biographical sketch of the late ,dr4   
,parkman1 to form a part of a work      
called ,the ,benefactors of the ,medical
 ,school of ,harvard ,university1 of    
which the poet is himself one of the    
professors4         99       99       99
       99       99  ,,pierre ,,dupont1  
the ,parisian ,socialist poet1 has      
lately issued a new book containing six 
songs that have not before been         
published4 ,dupont is as much a favorite
 with the people as ,beranger1 and      
though he does not equal the latter in  
originality of fancy and gayety of      
spirit1 he even excels him in           
revolutionary point and enthusiasm4 ,his
 songs are heard in every workshop and  
at every popular banquet1 their words   

and music are universally familiar1 and 
when the clubs were permitted1 each     
meeting was opened and closed with a    
song of ,dupont's1 the whole audience   
joining in the chorus4 ,this was done   
instinctively and without previous      
arrangement4 ,it often happened1 too1   
that after some orator had delivered an 
ardent speech1 ,dupont would appear at  
the tribune with a new song which he had
 composed on the inspiration of the     
moment4 ,now each new political event is
 sure of a response from this poet2 one 
of his late productions is the ,chant du
 ,vote 7vote song71 in which he         
denounces the attempt of the ,government
 to destroy universal suffrage4 ,perhaps
 his most powerful production is the    
,marsellaise of ,hunger2 the hold this  
has taken on the public may be judged   
from the fact1 that when at the theatre 
of the ,porte ,st4 ,martin a piece was  
performed1 called ,misery1 founded on   
incidents in the ,irish famine1 when the
 curtain went down at the end of the    

first act1 the beholders spontaneously  
set up this song4 ,so in the same       
theatre1 when the piece representing the
 downfall of ,rome was performed 7this  
piece afterwards became famous through  
its prohibition by the ,government71 one
 of the spectators in the pit began the 
chorus of ,dupont's ,soldier's ,song3   
,les peuples sont pour nous des freres  
,et les tyrans des ennemis1  the whole  
house joined in1 and the performance had
 to be interrupted till the song was    
ended4 ,the ,chant des ,transportes     
wherever it is heard moves the people to
 tears and indignation4 ,the ,peasant's 
,song prophecies the time when          
independent industry shall render the   
earth blooming with fertility1 and the  
corn and wine shall be free as warmth in
 summer weather4 ,while the majority of 
his poems are political and social1 some
 of them are full of love and           
appreciation of outward nature4 ,in one1
 the ,romance of the ,poplar1 this      
sentiment is finely combined with the   

spirit of liberty4         99       99  
99       99       99  ,,arago',s great  
work1 which was some time since         
announced in the ,international1 is now 
nearly complete and will soon be given  
to the public4 ,the scientific and      
literary world of ,europe expect it with
 impatience4 ,it is said even that      
,alexander von ,humboldt intends to be  
its translator into ,german1 but this is
 not probable4 ,it is also rumored that 
the author gives an appendix in which he
 for the moment abandons science for    
politics1 in order to pay off some of   
the attacks he has suffered from        
,proudhon4 ,our own opinion is that he  
had better stick to his trade and leave 
,proudhon alone4         99       99    
99       99       99  ,,charles ,,sumner
 has published 7through ,ticknor1 ,reed 
,fields of ,boston17 two volumes of his 
,orations and ,addresses4 ,mr4 ,sumner  
is a scholar of the finest and rarest   
capacities and accomplishments4 ,he is  
of the school of ,everett1 but has more 

earnestness1 and consequently more      
compactness of expression1 and more     
force4 ,he enters heartily into all the 
'progressive' movements of the day1 and 
is of many the intellectual leader4 ,his
 bravery is equal to every emergency    
into which he may be led by a search    
after truth1 and to all combats he      
brings arms of the truest metal and most
 exquisite polish4 ,there are in        
,new-,england many more fervid and      
powerful orators1 but we know of none   
whose orations are delivered with a more
 pleasing eloquence4 ,we have not       
leisure now to review ,mr4 ,sumner's    
volumes2 but if among our readers there 
are any who desire to see displayed the 
very form and spirit of the new age1 we 
commend them to ,the ,true ,grandeur of 
,nations1 and the other discourses1     
speeches1 and essays1 here published4   
99       99       99       99       99  
,,the ,,manhattaner ,,in ,,new-,,orleans
 is the title of a small volume1 from   
the press of ,j4 ,s4 ,redfield1 which   

was written by an accomplished          
,new-,york lawyer who had resided some  
time in the ,crescent ,city4 ,it is a   
very graphic and delightful picture of  
the social life of the metropolis of the
 ,south2 betraying a quick insight1 a   
genial appreciation of what is manly1   
and fairness in regard to every thing4  
,we have had need of such a book1 for   
hitherto we northerners have generally  
known less of our southern neighbors    
than even ,professor ,bowen knew of the 
,hungarians1 before ,mrs4 ,putnam       
enlightened him4 ,we are sorry that ,mr4
 ,hall1 to whom we are indebted for ,the
 ,manhattaner in ,new-,orleans1         
intimates that it is the last book for  
the preparation of which he will ever   
have withdrawn his attention from the   
law4         99       99       99       
99       99  ,,elizabeth ,,barrett      
,,browning1 ,,margaret ,,fuller         
,d',,ossoli ,,and ,,george ,,sand1 is   
the title of an article in which the    
characters and genius of these three    

remarkable women is discussed1 in the   
last number of ,the ,palladium1 a new   
,english monthly4         99       99   
99       99       99  ,,ike ,,marvel',s 
,reveries of a ,bachelor1 7printed by   
,baker  ,scribner71 appears to be the   
book of the season4 ,all the critics    
praise it as one of the choicest        
specimens of half-romance and           
half-essay1 that has appeared in our    
time4 ,but for ourselves--we have not   
read it4         99       99       99   
99       99  ,the subject of ,junius is 
again discussed in ,junius and his      
,works1 ,compared with the character and
 ,writings of the ,earl of              
,chesterfield1 by ,w4 ,cramp1 just      
published in ,london4         99        
99       99       99       99  ,,parke  
,,godwin',s beautiful story of ,vala1   
suggested by the career of ,jenny ,lind1
 has been issued in a luxurious quarto1 
by ,putnam4     ,the ,fine ,arts4       
,,gift ,,from ,,the ,,bavarian ,,artists
 ,,to ,,king ,,louis4--,the artists and 

artisans of ,munich have combined to    
make to ex-,king ,louis of ,bavaria a   
gift such as monarchs have not often    
received4 ,it consists of a writing-desk
 and album4 ,the desk is of oak         
varnished1 adorned with rich carving1   
and with locks and the ,bavarian arms in
 gilt bronze enamel4 ,the carving       
contains the most charming figures      
representing the various arts and       
trades4 ,the album is bound in crimson  
velvet1 the clasps and ornaments of gilt
 bronze4 ,on the outside is a medallion1
 designed by ,widnmann1 set in          
brilliants1 representing ,king ,louis   
surrounded by artists4 ,a smaller       
medallion stands in each corner1 one    
representing architects with plans and  
models by ,hautman2 sculptors and bronze
 workers with the statue of ,bavaria1 by
 ,halbig2 historic painters by          
,esseling2 and landscape and genre      
painters by ,widnmann4 ,between the two 
upper medallions is a rich ornament with
 the arms of the four tribes of ,bavaria

 in enamel1 and the inscription ,louis  
,i4 ,king of ,bavaria3 between the lower
 medallions is a similar ornament with  
,the ,german ,artists1 ,a4 ,d4 #ahej4   
,all the ornaments are in the old       
,german style of the fifteenth century4 
,in the ,album are #agg sheets1 each    
containing a contribution from some     
artist4 ,the title-page is by ,esseling4
 ,kaulbach has a drawing of unusual     
freshness and beauty1 representing the  
,king calling to new life1 at ,rome1 the
 neglected art of ,germany4 ,but we have
 not space to speak of the works of     
individual artists in this remarkable   
collection4 ,it is enough to say that   
every distinguished painter and sculptor
 in ,germany is represented in it4      
99       99       99       99       99  
,,charles ,,eastlake has been chosen    
,president of the ,royal ,academy1 and  
the ,queen has made him a knight4 ,sir  
,charles ,eastlake is in some respects a
 great painter1 and he has produced many
 works which evince very remarkable     

talents4 ,among the few pictures by him 
which evince genius1 is that owned by   
,mr4 ,henry ,carey ,baird1 of           
,philadelphia1 of ,hagar and ,ishmael4  
,he has done something in literature1   
and from his own account of himself we  
quote1 that1 like ,haydon1 he was born  
at ,plymouth1 a soil congenial to art1  
for in its environs was also the        
birth-place of ,sir ,joshua ,reynolds4  
,like ,rembrandt1 ,reynolds1 and so many
 before them1 ,eastlake showed an early 
aversion to the ,latin ,grammar4 ,he    
fled the ,charter-house school2 and a   
glimpse of ,haydon's picture of ,the    
,dentatus1 which was at that period     
exhibited at ,plymouth1 made him a      
painter4 ,after studying in the ,academy
 two years1 under ,fuseli1 he produced  
,the ,raising of ,jairus's ,daughter4   
,this won him a patron1 in ,mr4 ,harman1
 by whom he was commissioned to make    
studies of the miracles of art1 at that 
time collected in the ,louvre by        
,napoleon4 ,here also ,lawrence1        

,haydon1 ,wilkie1 and we believe        
,allston also1 came at this time to     
study4 ,in the ,louvre ,eastlake made   
his first acquaintance with the wonders 
of ,roman art4 ,but the pleasant task of
 copying these old masters was          
relinquished on the sudden return of    
,napoleon from ,elba4 ,at a not much    
later period1 the fallen hero became    
himself the subject of his pencil4      
,eastlake made a sketch of the          
ex-,emperor as he appeared from the     
gangway of the ,bellerophon1 when at    
anchor in ,plymouth roads1 interesting  
as the last delineation of a noble      
visage1 then untinged with chagrin4 ,in 
#ahag and #ahai he visited ,italy and   
,greece1 rather stirring up their living
 treasures than measuring antiquity with
 the inch rule of the archaeologist4    
,nor yet did ,eastlake confine himself  
to the external forms of art and nature2
 he then laid the foundation of that    
intimate knowledge of the arts1 be they 
called formative1 architectural1        

plastic1 or pictorial1 the able         
elucidation of which renders his        
writings so valuable4 ,thus1 whilst all 
the technical skill of ancient colorists
 is found in his style of painting1 all 
the principles on which ,dutch and      
,venetian masters proceeded are found in
 his writings4 ,those who reflect on the
 unceasing labors of the ,secretary of  
the ,fine ,art ,commission1 will be     
rather inclined to believe that the     
title of ,president was alone wanting to
 render ,eastlake the legitimate leader 
of art in ,england4 ,we need only       
mention his translation of ,goeethe's   
,theory of ,colors1 the ,notes to       
,kugler1 and the ,materials for a       
,history of ,oil ,painting4         99  
99       99       99       99  ,,new    
,,picture ,,by ,,kaulbach4 ,the ,king of
 ,bavaria has ordered from ,kaulbach a  
picture some twenty feet high1 to       
represent the ,apotheosis of a ,good    
,prince4 ,the lucky potentate is to be  
painted rising from the tomb1 and       

conducted up to heaven by attending     
angels1 where the ,saviour1 enthroned   
between the cherubim of ,power and      
,justice1 receives him with open arms4  
,the purple mantle and crown1 the signs 
and adornments of earthly might1 sink   
from the transfigured monarch upon the  
tomb1 around which the ,seven ,works of 
,mercy bear witness for him1 while the  
,seven ,deadly ,sins lie under the earth
 asleep and in chains4 ,the idea of the 
composition was suggested by the ,king4 
,kaulbach has advanced so far with its  
execution that the cartoon is nearly    
completed4         99       99       99 
99       99  ,,the ,,royal ,,russian    
,,porcelain ,,manufactory1 at ,berlin1  
is known over the world for the elegance
 and excellence of its productions2 most
 of the porcelain transparencies which  
are so common in all countries1 and so  
much admired1 are from this source4 ,an 
honorary council has just been named to 
have the supervision of the artistic    
department of the institution4 ,among   

its members1 are the eminent painter    
,,cornelius1 the sculptor ,,rauch1 and  
the architect ,,huler4         99       
99       99       99       99  ,mr4     
,,healey1 according to a letter by ,mr4 
,walsh in the ,journal of ,commerce1 is 
proceeding rapidly in ,paris with his   
picture of the ,american ,senate1 during
 the debate so famous for the passages  
between ,mr4 ,webster and ,col4 ,hayne4 
,mr4 ,healey is said to be a very worthy
 person1 and it is to be regretted that 
his skill and genius are not equal to   
his morals1 in which case we might not  
despair of his producing a work not     
altogether unworthy of this subject4    
,some accident introduced ,mr4 ,healey  
to the late ,king of the ,french1 who   
gave him various orders1 the reception  
of which was so noticed in the journals 
as to be of the greatest possible       
advantage to him4 ,he was suddenly      
elevated in the common opinion to the   
condition of the first rank of artists4 
,but he is really a painter of very     

ordinary capacities4 ,we have probably  
some hundreds who are very much superior
 to him4 ,it is impossible to point to  
even one portrait by him that is        
remarkable for any excellence2 and all  
his fame rests1 rather than upon his    
productions1 upon his having received   
orders from ,louis ,philippe4 ,we       
remember the general surprise with which
 groups of his portraits1 displayed in  
the rotunda of the capitol1 were viewed 
by critics4 ,the study of ,daniel       
,webster1 upon whose every feature ,god 
has set the visible stamp of greatness1 
was among them1 and it looked like the  
prim keeper of the accounts in a        
respectable grocery-store4 ,so of all   
the rest4 ,men sat to him from deference
 to the wishes of the ,king1 but every  
body felt that he was not an artist4    
,accidents and newspapers may confer a  
transient reputation1 but they can endow
 no one with abilities2 and to espouse  
the cause of newspapers against the     
cause of nature is a grievous wrong1 in 

the end1 to both newspapers and nature4 
99       99       99       99       99  
,,an ,,elegant work of much value to the
 students of modern art has lately      
appeared at ,berlin1 under the title of 
,rimische ,studien 7,roman ,studies71   
from the pen of ,,von ,,kestner1 a      
diplomatist by profession4 ,the author1 
who by the way is a son of the famous   
,,charlotte1 the heroine of ,goeethe's  
,werther1 dwells with the utmost        
partiality on these ,german artists1 who
 have developed their talents by long   
and intimate acquaintance with ,roman   
art1 and who are now at work in the     
fatherland4 ,to the productions of      
,cornelius1 he devotes a great deal of  
space4 ,the special purpose of the work1
 as the author says in his preface1 is  
to glorify ,germany in the great        
creations of its artists4         99    
99       99       99       99  ,,the    
,,philharmonic ,,society of ,paris1 at  
one of its recent concerts1 gave a piece
 of original ,russian music1 called the 

,song of the ,cherubim1 by              
,,bortniansky1 a composer who has       
written a good deal for the ,imperial   
,chapel at ,st4 ,petersburg4 ,it is a   
chorus without accompaniment1 and is    
spoken of by the critics as most        
original and striking1 in fact unlike   
any thing familiar to ,western or       
,southern ears4 ,we can easily conceive 
of a peculiar style of music being      
produced from the bosom of the ,greek   
,church4 ,those who have heard the      
melancholy and touching1 half-barbaric  
music usually employed in its ritual1   
will not be surprised that out of it    
there should arise a quite new order of 
compositions4         99       99       
99       99       99  ,,the             
,g,oe,e,t,h,e',s ,,inheritance--an      
extensive collection of models1         
engravings1 sculptures1 carvings1 gems1 
minerals1 fossils1 original drawings1   
c41 collected by the great poet1--is to 
be sold at ,weimar1 for the benefit of  
his heirs1 two grandsons4 ,a catalogue  

raisonnee has been published by         
,fromman1 at ,jena1 and it makes a very 
interesting book4 ,it is suggested in   
the ,art-,journal for ,december1 that if
 the collection were distributed in     
separate lots1 in ,america1 or ,england1
 or ,germany1 the heirs would realize   
three or four times as much as they will
 by a single sale for the whole1 which  
they have determined upon4 ,letters upon
 the subject may be addressed to ,baron 
,walther ,von ,goethe1 at ,vienna4      
99       99       99       99       99  
,the author of the following remarks on 
,,art-,,unions1 is an eminent artist1   
whose name has never been associated    
with any discussions of these           
,institutions1 or with any controversies
 connected with them1 and he has not1 we
 believe1 since the foundation of the   
first ,art-,union in ,america1 had any  
production of his own in the market4    
,,art-,,unions3 ,,their ,,true          
,,character ,,considered4               
,,art-,,unions1 and their management1   

have recently attracted much attention  
in this country1 if we may judge from   
the numerous articles on the subject    
which have appeared in some of the most 
reputable journals4 ,it is now about ten
 years since the first ,art-,union was  
established in this city4 ,others1 in   
various sections1 have followed1 and    
all1 whatever their peculiarities1 have 
been more or less successful in their   
chief objects4  ,now it is reasonable to
 suppose1 that the result of these ten  
years' efforts to promote the           
cultivation of the ,fine ,arts among us1
 should furnish some evidence of their  
capabilities for the accomplishment of  
so worthy and so great a work4 ,the     
whole subject of their usefulness       
resolves itself into the following      
queries3  ,i4 ,has any person of decided
 genius1 who was unknown1 friendless1   
and in need1 been sought out by them1   
assisted1 encouraged1 and at last added 
to the effective number of artists who  
are profitably employed among us8  ,,ii4

 ,have those artists who have received  
the larger share of the patronage of    
these institutions1 shown by their works
 a corresponding advance in the         
knowledge and love of excellence and    
truth in art8  ,,iii4 ,have they        
furnished any peculiar advantages to    
artists1 as a body1 by supplying the    
means of their improvement1 in a free   
access to books1 casts1 pictures1 or    
good engravings8  ,,iv4 ,do ,art-,unions
 promote the interests and reward the   
labors of those who are most eminently  
deserving8  ,v4 ,do they elevate the    
pursuit of art1 in the minds of the     
people1 and teach them its value1 by    
distributing to them1 in return for     
their subscriptions1 only the best      
specimens which they can purchase from  
the studios of our artists8  ,,vi4 ,are 
there a dozen well known artists who    
will openly testify to a conviction of  
their usefulness8  ,it is believed by   
many that an affirmative response cannot
 be given to these questions2 and if    

not1 then the subject of their influence
 need be no longer discussed4  ,it is   
not my intention1 nor my desire1 to     
inquire into the management of these    
institutions4 ,it is only at the system 
itself that ,i wish to direct the       
attention of the reader4 ,if it is      
proved that1 as a system1 this is not   
calculated to elevate and enlarge the   
sphere of the arts1 but on the contrary1
 that its tendency is to degrade and    
stifle all that is lovely and desirable 
in their pursuit1 then there will be no 
need of troubling ourselves with the    
lower and baser subject of management2  
for there is no bad system1 which1 by   
any method1 can be managed into a good  
one1 and satisfy the just demands of    
those whose interests it professes to   
hold in its keeping4  ,numbers rather   
than quality seem to govern the         
,art-,unions in their purchases of      
works1 that they may give to subscribers
 a greater number of chances to draw    
something for their money1 and thus     

encourage them to future patronage4     
,this is the principle on which all     
lotteries live3 and when we come to sift
 the matter to the bottom1 we cannot but
 acknowledge that ,art-,unions are      
nothing else but lotteries1 under       
another and more popular name4 ,both    
exist ostensibly for the good of others1
 who in reality are but the dupes of a  
most deceitful and vicious system1      
against which every good citizen should 
indignantly turn his face4 ,it cannot be
 justly said in defence of ,art-,unions1
 that they spend more money for art than
 was ever done in the same period of    
time1 nor that they have distributed    
works amongst a class of people who     
never thought of giving money for such  
things before4 ,they must first prove   
that this great amount of money which   
they have collected1 has been spent     
judiciously1 for the benefit of         
deserving and meritorious artists1 and  
that the works distributed are such as  
to elevate the judgment and enlarge the 

feelings in relation to art1 among those
 who may have received them4  ,it is for
 the interest of lotteries to offer some
 very large and valuable prizes at the  
head of their list1 to attract the      
attention of the public1 and thus to    
sell their tickets4  ,similar means are 
adopted by ,art-,unions to increase     
their subscription lists1 which show    
that the system is managed in the most  
efficient manner4 ,those who can look   
back fifteen and twenty years1 will     
remember that our country was literally 
flooded with the bulletin boards of     
lotteries1 printed in the most gaudy and
 attractive colors1 showing a brilliant 
schedule of prizes1 and pledging almost 
certain wealth to all who would venture 
their money on the grand scheme4 ,they  
will also call to mind how many a victim
 there was to this deceptive and        
depraved system of legal fraud1 until it
 became so injurious to the public      
morals1 that ,legislatures were forced  
to hurl the bolts of the law against    

them1 in all parts of the ,united       
,states1 and so put an end to their     
iniquity4 ,lotteries have been justly   
prohibited by wise governments1 because 
they attract men from legitimate        
pursuits1 into the speculative1         
uncertain1 and1 morally1 illegitimate   
pursuit of fortune4 ,the case is similar
 in its results to that of ,art-,unions4
 ,they attract many from a calling for  
which their talents have fitted them1   
into a sphere so much above their       
natural powers1 that they must in time  
fall back1 victims to vanity and love of
 gain1 into a lower plane of life       
perhaps1 than that they once happily    
occupied4 ,the effect of these ,unions  
is seen rather in the great number of   
persons of mediocre abilities they have 
encouraged to enter upon the cultivation
 of art1 than in the bringing forth     
greater powers and excellence in those  
whose undoubted genius is apparent to   
the world4  ,it was remarked by         
,carlyle1 that our modern intellect is  

of the spavined kind1 all action and no 
go2 and so it appears to be in regard to
 the efforts that are being made to     
promote the interests of art1 in this   
country4 ,art-,unions have been active  
enough1 for many years1 and have        
possessed themselves of hundreds of     
thousands of dollars1 and yet it is no  
go2 the interests of art still lie      
gasping1 without much hope of a change  
for the better4 ,there is a great       
display made every year in the          
distribution of prizes1 and every means 
used to gain public confidence1 by      
holding up the names of the most        
respectable citizens as guarantees that 
nothing under their control can go      
wrong2 and by issuing bulletins in which
 is proved1 by figures1 the flourishing 
state of the institution1 and           
consequently of the beautiful arts2 yet 
in spite of all this1 the great mass of 
common-sense minds and of true lovers of
 art1 heretics that they are1 go away   
and exclaim1 ,well1 after all it's 'no  

go1' the works distributed are no better
 than those of last year1 and we are    
really afraid there are no hopes for the
 arts in this country1 so long as no    
other plan is adopted for their         
improvement4  ,some of the petty states 
in ,germany and in southern ,europe     
obtain a large revenue from lotteries1  
which are entirely under the control of 
the crown1 and are hence commonly called
 ,royal1 or ,imperial4 ,the prizes are  
comparatively small1 but the tickets are
 fixed at such a very low sum1 say from 
ten to twenty cents1 that they come     
within the reach of the poorest         
inhabitants4 ,the consequence is that   
nearly all persons who are ignorant of  
the scheme which the ,government has    
laid to tax them1 spend more or less    
every year for lottery tickets4 ,we have
 known persons who1 under the excitement
 produced by these plans for rapidly    
gaining fortunes1 have pawned the last  
blanket from their beds1 to obtain the  
means of purchasing a ticket4 ,at every 

drawing of these ,imperial lotteries1   
there is nothing left undone by ,royalty
 to strike the people with a sense of   
their importance1 and the honesty with  
which they are conducted4 ,in an open   
square is erected a kind of stage large 
enough to be occupied by some twenty    
persons4 ,rich canopies of scarlet and  
gold overhang it1 and above all are     
figures of ,justice1 ,plenty1 ,virtue1  
c4 c4 ,the ,royal band of music is      
stationed near1 and amidst its          
enlivening tones1 holding in silence    
many thousands of anxious hearts1 the   
cortege1 preceded by ,royalty itself1   
ascends1 and is seated in the order of  
its dignity4 ,in front of the throne are
 placed1 upon pedestals1 two large      
revolving globes half filled with       
tickets1 and by the side of each stands 
a page1 in magnificent costume1         
blindfolded4 ,then commences the        
distribution of the prizes1 in the usual
 way1 by drawing numbers from the       
globes1 by the hands of the pages1 which

 are announced from the throne1 and so  
along to the ears of the most distant in
 the multitude4 ,at intervals1 the      
drawing ceases1 while most charming     
music serves to keep the crowd together1
 and possibly to drive for the moment1  
from many a heart1 the pangs of         
disappointment or despair4 ,now there is
 some excuse for ignorance on this      
subject1 among those poor people1 for   
there are no means by which they can be 
enlightened and warned of the evil4 ,but
 in this country1 where the press is    
free1 and the means of information      
abundant1 it would be sad to reflect    
that such things can1 under any name or 
phrase1 long continue unmasked and      
unshorn of their power4  ,there is      
consolation in the belief1 that however 
prosperous this species of gaming may   
be1 the time is not far distant when its
 true character and tendency will be    
made manifest2 and when the unseen but  
certain operations of the moral sense of
 our people will put an end to its      

inglorious career2 if not directly1     
through the action of the laws1 yet     
indirectly1 by withholding the necessary
 contributions to its further support4  
,this parallel between ,art-,unions and 
,lotteries is drawn that the character  
of the former may be more readily       
comprehended by the reader4  ,in the    
recent drawing of the ,american         
,art-,union there were distributed one  
thousand works of art1 making about one 
prize to sixteen blanks4 ,but where did 
all these thousand works come from8 and 
what are they8 ,have they all been      
executed by living ,american artists8   
,are they paintings1 or sculptures1 or  
engravings1 purchased from the artists  
who made them1 and who have received an 
adequate price for them8 ,we know from  
their advertisement that sixty of them  
are impressions from the large          
engravings after ,col4 ,trumbull's      
pictures of the ,battle of ,bunker ,hill
 and the ,death of ,montgomery4 ,now the
 purchase of these engravings from the  

pictures of a long deceased painter can 
be of no possible service to the        
painters living and laboring among us1  
nor to the progress of art in any way4  
,as well might the ,art-,union purchase 
for distribution sixty copies of        
,dunlap's ,history of the ,arts of      
,design1 or of ,allston's ,lectures on  
,art1 or any object pertaining to the   
subject that may be procured at any time
 of the book or print sellers4 ,it is   
true1 they must manage to offer a number
 of small prizes1 the best way they can1
 that they may in some plausible way    
meet the expectations of their very     
extended lists of subscribers1 to which1
 it seems1 they never attempt to set a  
limit4 ,here is another proof that they 
are mere speculators upon the labors of 
artists1 and only seek to enlarge their 
subscriptions1 and usurp a power and    
control over the great body of artists1 
which should never1 with their consent1 
be allowed to any1 no matter how        
respectable1 body of men4  ,let us turn 

to the ,western ,art-,union4 ,having but
 few good prizes to offer1 nothing      
indeed which would ensure them a large  
subscription list1 it became necessary  
to procure some well known production   
for this purpose1 as a capital prize4   
,the managers therefore negotiated1 in a
 very quiet manner1 with a ,mr4 ,robb1  
of ,new ,orleans1 for one of ,,hiram    
,,powers',s finest statues1 the ,greek  
,slave1 then in the possession of ,mr4  
,robb1 and it was accordingly taken to  
,cincinnati1 and placed on exhibition in
 the ,art-,union1 as one of the prizes  
to be distributed this year4 ,handbills 
were then sent over the ,united ,states 
announcing this fact4 ,of course1 with  
such a celebrated work as this1         
thousands would be seduced to purchase a
 ticket1 and thus place the ,art-,union 
in a most flourishing condition1 and    
probably secure to it at least double   
the sum which it had paid1 or the       
sculptor had originally received1 for   
the statue4  ,now let us consider this  

transaction in its true light4 ,the     
,art-,union was established solely for  
the purpose of benefiting artists1      
protecting their interests1 and         
increasing the knowledge of art among   
the people4 ,from these facts it is     
evident that neither of these purposes  
were kept in view or carried out4       
,instead of negotiating with the        
sculptor himself for one of his works1  
and giving him a liberal price for it1  
they never mentioned the subject to him1
 but secretly purchased one of another  
person--a rich man1 who was in nowise   
whatever connected with the arts4  ,one 
would have supposed that even if there  
were very strong inducements to such a  
procedure on the part of this           
institution1 for the sake of gain1 still
 that a friendly feeling towards the    
great sculptor1 of whom the ,queen ,city
 is so proud1 and a due regard for his  
interests and his fame1 would have      
prevented the consummation of such an   
act4 ,it can be no pleasing reflection  

to ,mr4 ,powers1 that a work which many 
persons in ,europe1 as well as in       
,america1 would have purchased at any   
reasonable price1 should1 by any        
movement of his own townsmen1 be        
disposed of at a public raffle1 so that 
of its final destination he must long   
remain in ignorance4  ,it seems1 from   
what has here been adduced1 that        
,art-,unions have not proved of service 
to art or artists1 notwithstanding the  
immense amount annually collected for   
this ostensible purpose2 but that they  
are in reality only lotteries operating 
under another but less objectionable    
name4  ,if a corporation can be granted 
by the ,legislature1 with the privilege 
of selling pictures1 or statuary1 by    
lottery1 every other branch of industry 
is as much entitled to such a privilege1
 or our laws are onesided and unjust4   
,we would then see distributions of     
prizes from every quarter1 until the    
whole mechanical and commercial         
interests of the country would be turned

 into ,lotteries or ,unions4 ,following 
the example of the ,art-,union in this  
state1 we have already advertised a     
,homestead ,art-,union1 the grand prize 
of which is a house and lot situated in 
,williamsburgh1 which cost nearly       
#e1jjj4 ,subscribers are entitled to an 
elegant and valuable engraving1 which   
has heretofore sold at #g4ej1 7being    
#b4ej more than the price of            
subscription17 and superior in execution
 and elegance to any picture distributed
 in this manner4 ,it has in its         
collection for distribution ninety-nine 
elegant and costly oil paintings and    
engravings1 richly framed in ornamental 
and plain gilt frames4 ,all the         
difference between these ,unions1 seems 
to be in the fact that the ,homestead   
has limited the number of               
tickets--certainly an improvement on the
 other1 so far as the public interest is
 concerned4 ,we may expect to hear very 
soon of ,bread and ,meat ,art-,unions1  
when the whole community1 for a very    

small outlay1 may live like princes1 and
 snap their fingers at haggard want4    
,the tendency of these hotbed methods of
 cultivating an appreciation of art and 
of rewarding its professors1 has been to
 discourage artists from any suitable   
efforts to provide instruction1 upon a  
liberal scale1 to those who are seeking 
for it4 ,indeed it takes from them the  
power to do so1 by drawing away funds   
necessary to such an object1 which1 but 
for these grand schemes1 would be likely
 to come into their hands4 ,one has but 
to observe the motives which induce     
persons to subscribe to an ,art-,union1 
to be convinced that the great majority 
do so for the sake of                   
self-aggrandizement1 that is1 to have a 
chance of getting the works of our best 
artists for a mere tithe of their value1
 or in the language of the              
advertisements1 of obtaining a valuable 
return1 for a small investment2 as they 
would buy any other lottery tickets3 to 
make the most out of their money4 ,but  

there are many who subscribe from nobler
 motives--real lovers of art1 whose only
 object is to lend a helping hand to its
 interests1 and to show a generous      
sympathy in the struggles and           
self-denying endeavors of all whose     
souls are so wrapt up in its pursuit    
that they scarcely arrive at the        
knowledge requisite to a charge of their
 own pecuniary and worldly affairs4     
,this latter class of subscribers       
believe they are gratifying this genuine
 love of the beautiful and good1 when   
they give annually their five dollars to
 an institution chartered for the       
express design of protecting and        
cherishing the interests of art1 and of 
enlarging the field of its labors and   
usefulness among the people4 ,these     
genuine patrons give1 without a hope or 
thought of drawing a prize1 or receiving
 in any shape a return for their        
subscriptions4 ,did they reflect upon1  
or know1 that these funds were worse    
than misapplied1 they would withhold    

them1 and seek in some other way to make
 a proper appropriation of them4  ,we   
have said that these ,art-,unions       
prevent artists from taking any steps to
 provide the means of instruction for   
those who need and seek it4 ,as an      
illustration of this we may mention the 
present state of the ,national ,academy 
of ,design4 ,it is1 and has been for two
 or three years1 quite prostrate for    
want of funds2 its schools have been    
closed1 and without assistance it must  
soon die4 ,a few years ago it was in a  
flourishing state1 and offered the      
advantages of study which their fine    
collection of casts from the best       
antique statues1 and a small but well   
selected and growing library could      
afford to students4 ,such have been the 
results of ,art-,unions upon schools of 
art everywhere4 ,to be sure the members 
of the ,national ,academy are not       
entirely free from censure in this      
matter1 for many of them1 smitten with  
the ,union mania1 gave it their         

countenance1 and even something more    
substantial1 to assist its infant       
struggles for popularity1 little        
suspecting1 certainly1 that they were   
lending a club which would sooner or    
later strike them to the ground4 ,it may
 not be out of place here to remark1    
that it is firmly believed that the     
,academy of ,design can yet rise up from
 its ashes1 and overthrow all such      
schemes as ,art-,unions1 by placing     
itself upon a more liberal and popular  
footing2 and by disclaiming all         
exclusive titles as utterly unworthy the
 ambition of every sensible and         
right-feeling artist4 ,institutions in  
this country1 to be useful1 must be     
placed on a popular foundation2 and to  
be popular1 they must rest upon the     
broad republican principle of equal     
rights and equal privileges to all4 ,let
 the members of the ,academy open their 
doors wide enough to admit all classes  
of artisans who desire to study the     
principles of design--the basis upon    

which the beauty and the saleability of 
their works mainly depends4 ,there might
 then1 in addition to the sections of   
,painting and ,sculpture1 be added those
 of ,architecture1 ,ornamental ,marble  
and ,stone ,workers1 ,carvers in ,wood  
and ,metal1 ,gold and ,silver ,smiths1  
,cabinet ,makers1 and indeed1 as many   
other occupations as chose to unite     
themselves1 in separate sections1 for   
the purposes of mutual instruction in   
the ,art of ,design4 ,this would at once
 be practical and popular1 and with such
 objects in view1 the ,academy could    
with very little additional funds be put
 into immediate and successful          
operation1 and become a highly honorable
 and most useful institution4 ,these are
 mere suggestions1 thrown out for the   
consideration of the members of the     
,academy and others interested4 ,this is
 not the proper place to enlarge upon   
such a subject4  ,artists must learn1 if
 they do not know1 how to control their 
own affairs1 and if they are determined 

to succeed1 they must not think of      
trusting their interests to the keeping 
of those not of their profession1 and   
entirely uneducated in art1 and who     
consequently cannot be qualified to     
discharge so delicate a duty with       
judgment and fidelity4 ,it is an old    
saying1 but very applicable to the      
present instance1 that if you neglect   
your own business1 you need not expect  
others to attend to it for you4 ,let    
artists depend more upon private sales  
of their works to those who can         
appreciate them for a just remuneration1
 than upon the deceptive offers which   
chartered schemes may hold out to them4 
,they will then1 by their worth and     
their artistic merits1 build up about   
them a solid body of friends and        
patrons1 of whom nothing but death      
itself can rob them2 and the number of  
whom time will but increase1 until they 
may look forward with well-founded hopes
 to a peaceful and honorable old age1   
and a full reward for all their labors4 

,they cannot justly suppose that        
permanent success and a distinguished   
name can be attained through any other  
channel than by honesty1 and excellence 
in their works4 ,honors and rewards from
 private sources may be very laggard in 
their approach1 but they must ultimately
 come--especially in this enlightened1  
progressive1 and prosperous country--to 
those who have fairly earned them4      
,recent ,deaths4   ,those who have been 
accustomed to visit the bookstore of    
,bartlett  ,welford1 under the ,astor   
,house1 during the last half-dozen      
years1 must have been familiar with the 
commanding figure and gentle but uneasy 
expression of our late excellent friend1
 the ,rev4 ,,sereno ,e4 ,,dwight1 ,d4   
,d41 who died in ,philadelphia on the   
thirtieth of ,november1 in the          
sixty-fourth year of his age4 ,dr4      
,dwight was born in ,greenfield1        
,connecticut1 in #aghf1 and was educated
 at ,yale ,college1 where he was        
graduated in #ahjc1 being then about    

seventeen years of age4 ,he became a    
tutor in the college1 but soon abandoned
 this occupation to commence the study  
of the law at ,burlington in ,vermont1  
and in a few years he was admitted to   
practice in the highest courts of the   
country4 ,an early and ever-increasing  
predilection1 however1 led him to the   
profession of his father1 and upon      
completing his theological studies he   
was settled over the ,park-street       
,congregational church1 in ,boston1     
where1 he rapidly acquired the fame of  
being one of the ablest1 most eloquent1 
and most useful divines in              
,new-,england4  ,he had contracted a    
cutaneous disease1 from the injudicious 
use of calomel1 while a tutor in ,yale  
,college2 and its effects increased so  
much now1 that his parishioners1 who had
 become quite attached to him1 in #ahbe 
induced him to undertake a voyage to    
,europe4 ,a year's travel1 in ,great    
,britain1 ,germany1 ,france1 and other  
countries1 failed to restore his health1

 and soon after his return to the       
,united ,states he resigned his charge  
of the ,park-street church1 and         
undertook the ,presidency of ,hamilton  
,college1 which in turn he was compelled
 to surrender1 and in #ahcj he opened1  
at ,new-,haven1 an ,academy1 in which he
 was assisted by his wife1 a daughter of
 the late ,judge ,daggett4 ,the decline 
of ,mrs4 ,dwight's health1 and other    
circumstances1 induced him to relinquish
 the business of teaching2 he visited   
the ,southern ,states1 was during       
several sessions chaplain to the ,united
 ,states ,senate1 and1 devoting himself 
to literature1 wrote an elaborate memoir
 of his great-grandfather1 ,jonathan    
,edwards1 and several works of less     
importance1 one of which was ,the       
,hebrew ,wife1 written to illustrate the
 ,jewish laws of marriage1 and published
 in ,new-,york in #ahcf4  ,the death of 
his wife1 and increasing physical       
infirmities1 led him to adopt a habit of
 the utmost seclusion in ,new-,york1    

where he passed nearly all the residue  
of his life4 ,his last appearance in    
public was in the summer of #ahdh1 when 
he consented to act with ,mr4 ,john ,r4 
,bartlett 7now the chief of the ,mexican
 ,boundary ,commission7 and the writer  
of these paragraphs1 as an examiner of  
one of the departments of the ,rutgers  
,female ,institute4 ,he died suddenly1  
while upon a visit to ,philadelphia for 
the purpose of trying the effect of the 
hydropathic treatment of his disease1 on
 the #cjth of ,september4 ,in the ,home 
,journal of ,december #ad1 ,mr4 ,willis 
says of him3--       ,in the death of   
this excellent man we have lost a       
friend1      whose loss to ourself we   
most sincerely mourn1 though the grave  
was1 to him1 a welcome relief from an   
insufferable disease1      that had made
 life wretched for years4 ,mr4 ,dwight  
was the son      of ,rev4 ,dr4 ,dwight1 
,president of ,yale ,college4 ,he became
 pastor      of ,park-st4 church1 in    
,boston1 while we attended it in        

boyhood1      and it is our pride to    
record that we were so fortunate as to  
secure his friendship at that time1 and 
to retain it1 in      undiminished      
warmth and kindness1 to the day of his  
death4 ,mr4      ,dwight was a man of   
qualities unusual in his profession4    
,when      he first came to ,boston1 in 
perfect health1 he was1 in personal     
appearance1 the ideal of a high-souled  
and faultlessly elegant                 
gentleman--with more of manly and       
refined beauty1 indeed1 than      we    
remember to have combined in any other  
man4 ,he wore these      winning gifts  
most unconsciously1 being beloved by the
 humblest      for his open and         
accessible simplicity and kindness3 and 
his      health first gave way under the
 laborious discharge of his             
parochial duties4 ,he was too severely  
critical and polished a      scholar to 
be either a very eloquent preacher or an
 easy      writer1 but his sermons were 
models of purity of style1 study1       

and elevated thought1 and his pastoral  
intercourse and counsel      were too   
delightful ever to be forgotten by those
 who enjoyed      it4 ,sent to ,europe  
for his health1 by his congregation1    
,mr4      ,dwight was received and      
followed with a degree of enthusiastic  
and flattering attention which fully    
confirmed his mark as a      man1 and   
showed how ,nature's noblemen are       
recognized and      honored everywhere4 
,he resumed his duties on his return1   
but      was soon obliged by illness to 
relinquish them1 and1 from that         
time forward1 he was never again well4  
,his weakness took the      shape of a  
cutaneous disease of the most irritating
 and      incurable form1 and though he 
made one or two attempts at             
re-commencing his usefulness1 it was    
sadly in vain4 ,he resided              
secludedly in ,new-,york during the     
latter years of his life1      giving to
 books and scholarship what mind he     
could withdraw      from pain1 and1 even

 thus1 ready always with kindness and   
delightful earnestness1 to give counsel 
or sympathy to those he      loved4 ,mr4
 ,dwight was a martyr to that great     
wrong of our      country toward all    
clergymen--to express it by a common    
saying1      the working a free horse to
 death--and we have only to look      at
 the pale faces1 the stooping chests1   
and the slender frames      of most of  
our clerical men1 to see how mind1      
patience1      attention1 needful       
leisure and more needful sleep1 are     
cruelly      overdrawn upon1 by the     
service expected of them4 ,but for his  
share of suffering by this exacting     
system1 ,mr4 ,dwight might      have    
been1 for years to come1 the ornament   
and pride to his      country which his 
unequalled combination of fine gifts    
qualified him to be2 and we should not  
mourn1 as we now do1      over his life 
embittered while it lasted1 and sent to 
the grave      in what might have been  
its meridian of usefulness and          

ornament4         99       99       99  
99       99  ,,count ,,brandenburgh1 the
 ,prussian ,prime ,minister1 died on the
 #fth ,november at ,berlin4 ,he was a   
natural brother of the late ,king of    
,prussia1 being the illegitimate son of 
the present ,king's grandfather1 by the 
,countess ,doenhoff ,frederichstein1 and
 was acknowledged1 educated1 and        
admitted as such1 by the ,prussian      
,royal family1 by whom he was invariably
 treated as a friend and relative1      
although not with royal honors4 ,he was 
born on the #bc;d of ,january1 #agib1   
and had nearly completed his #eith year4
 ,he was educated for the military      
profession and entered the service in   
#ahjg2 his promotion continued          
regularly1 and in #ahab he was a captain
 on the staff of ,general ,von ,york1   
under whom he saw some service4 ,in     
#ahac he became major1 and in that rank 
took part in the numerous actions       
between the ,prussian and the ,french   
armies1 including the battles of        

,leipsic1 and ,bautzen1 ,brienne1 ,laon1
 and ,paris4 ,at the passage of the     
,rhine at ,caub1 ,count ,brandenburgh   
was the first who reached the ,french   
bank4 ,for his good conduct at ,mokern  
and ,wartenburg1 he received the ,iron  
,cross of the first class4 ,in #ahad he 
was made lieutenant-colonel4 ,in #ahaf  
he received the command of the regiment 
in which he first entered the service4  
,from #ahaf to #ahdf he received various
 promotions1 charges1 and decorations4  
,in #ahdh he was made general in command
 of the #hth army corps4 ,up to this    
time he had taken no part in politics4  
,the ,london ,times says3       ,it was 
in the midst of those scenes of anarchy 
and violence      which1 about two years
 ago1 had shaken the ,prussian monarchy 
to      its foundations--when a furious 
,assembly1 beleaguered and              
intimidated by a more furious mob1 had  
usurped sovereign power      in the     
capital1 and a democratic constitution  
was all but      grafted on the military

 throne of ,frederic the ,great1--that  
we      remember to have exclaimed1 in  
the wonder and the dread of that        
terrible period1 ,will no one save the  
house of ,hohenzollern8      ,the state 
seemed to be on the brink of a cataract1
 and even the      leaders of the       
popular movement were ignorant of the   
dark and      stormy course before them4
 ,at that moment1 it was announced one  
morning1 to the amazement of the        
,prussians and of ,europe1 that      an 
elderly gentleman1 who had never taken  
any active part in      politics1 but   
had lived in the most exclusive circles 
of the      aristocracy1 and the        
,prussian ,guards1 was about to enter on
 the      task which the boldest men had
 found beyond their courage1 and        
the ablest beyond their capacity4 ,but  
though he laid small      claim to skill
 in political tactics1 or experience in 
the      administration of affairs1     
,count ,brandenburgh brought to the     
service of his sovereign precisely those

 plain qualities which      no one else 
appeared to possess4 ,he had sense1 he  
had firmness1      he absolutely        
contemned the storm of unpopularity     
which greeted      his appointment1 and 
he proceeded to conduct the ,government 
with full confidence that1 although his 
countrymen were      peculiarly subject 
to fits of enthusiasm1 they respect     
nothing      so much in the long run as 
a clear will and definite authority4    
,after about fifteen months the citizens
 of ,berlin hailed ,count               
,brandenburgh as the saviour of his     
country4         99       99       99   
99       99  ,,george ,,grenville1      
,,lord ,,nugent1 died on the #bfth of   
,november at ,lillies1 near ,aylesbury1 
aged sixty-one4 ,he was the second son  
of the ,marquis of ,rockingham1 and     
inherited the ,irish ,barony of ,nugent1
 on the death of his mother1 in #ahab4  
,during the same year he was elected ,m4
 ,p4 for ,aylesbury1 and continued to   
represent that borough on the ,liberal  

interest1 until #ahcb1 when he was      
appointed ,lord ,high ,commissioner of  
the ,ionian ,isles4 ,he held that office
 until #ahcf1 when he returned to       
,england4 ,in #ahdg he was re-elected   
for ,aylesbury4 ,he enjoyed a very fair 
literary reputation4 ,he was the author 
of ,lands1 ,classical and ,sacred1      
,memorials of ,hampden1 and other       
interesting productions4 ,in conjunction
 with ,lady ,nugent1 he also brought out
 the popular ,legends of the ,library at
 ,lillies4         99       99       99 
99       99  ,m4 ,,alexandre            
,,fragonard1 the eminent ,french painter
 and sculptor1 died in ,october4 ,he was
 a pupil of ,david4 ,as a statuary1 his 
great work is the frontispiece of the   
old ,chamber of ,deputies2 and1 as a    
painter1 he executed several fine       
pieces1 amongst others a ceiling of the 
,louvre1 representing ,tasso reading his
 ,jerusalem4 ,his chief works were      
engraved in #ahdj4         99       99  
99       99       99  ,m4 ,,joseph      

,,droz1 a member of the ,french         
,institute1 died in ,paris in ,november4
 ,the youth of ,m4 ,droz was devoted to 
stormier occupations than that in which 
he gathered the laurels now laid upon   
his grave4 ,for three years he was a    
soldier3--for upwards of fifty he has   
been devoted to letters and to          
philosophy4 ,his last escort was        
composed of the men who had been his    
comrades in that latter field1--and over
 his grave ,,mm4 ,guizot and ,bartholemy
 ,saint-,hilaire1 pronounced eulogies4  
99       99       99       99       99  
,,professor ,,schorn1 died in ,augsburgh
 on the #gth of ,october1 at the        
premature age of forty-seven years4 ,in 
the formation of the ,munich ,gallery1  
he was the most trusted and active      
emissary1 and traversed considerable    
portions of ,europe1 including ,england 
and ,italy1 in search of those treasures
 which now enrich this famous gallery4  
,when in ,london1 his companion was ,von
 ,martins1 the eminent ,brazilian       

traveller and naturalist4         99    
99       99       99       99  ,,gustave
 ,,schwab1 one of the most popular poets
 of ,germany1 died at ,stuttgart on the 
#dth of ,november1 aged fifty-eight4    
,schwab was the friend of ,uhland4 ,his 
death was very sudden4 ,on the morning  
of the day on which he was summoned1 he 
had entertained a party of his friends  
at breakfast1 and read to them passages 
of a translation into ,german verse1    
which he was making of the poetical     
works of ,m4 de ,lamartine4     ,spirit 
of the ,english ,annuals4  ,,new ,,tales
 ,,by ,,thackeray1 ,,bulwer1 ,,mrs4     
,,hall1 c4   ,the holiday souvenirs for 
the present season are less numerous in 
,england1 as in this country1 than in   
some previous years2 but the ,keepsake1 
edited formerly by ,lady ,blessington1  
and now by her niece1 ,miss ,power1 is  
among the few favorite annuals that are 
continued1 and it is as good as in its  
best days4 ,we quote several of its     
chief attractions1 and first            

,,voltiguer3  ,,by ,,the ,,author ,,of  
,,the ,,history ,,of ,,pendennis4       
,there arose out of the last ,epsom     
races a little family perplexity1       
whereon the owner of ,voltiguer little  
speculated3 and as out of this          
apparently trivial circumstance a       
profound and useful moral may be drawn1 
to be applied by the polite reader2 and 
as ,epsom ,races will infallibly happen 
next year1 and1 ,i dare say1 for many   
succeeding generations2 perhaps the     
moral which this brief story points had 
better be printed upon ,dorling's next  
,correct ,card1 as a warning to future  
patrons and patronesses of the turf4    
,this moral1 then--this text of our     
sermon1 is1 ,,never----but we will keep 
the moral1 if you please1 for the end of
 the fable4  ,it happened1 then1 that   
among the parties who were collected on 
the ,hill to see the race1 the carriage 
of a gentleman1 whom we shall call ,sir 
,joseph ,raikes1 occupied a commanding  
position1 and attracted a great deal of 

attention amongst the gentlemen         
sportsmen4 ,those bucks upon the ground 
who were not acquainted with the fair   
occupant of that carriage--as indeed1   
how should many thousands of them       
be8--some being shabby bucks2 some being
 vulgar bucks2 some being hot and       
unpleasant bucks1 smoking bad cigars1   
and only staring into ,lady ,raikes's   
carriage by that right which allows one 
,briton to look at another ,briton1 and 
a cat to look at a king2--of those      
bucks1 ,i say1 who1 not knowing ,lady   
,raikes1 yet came and looked at her1    
there was scarce one that did not admire
 her1 and envy the lucky rogue her      
husband4 ,of those ladies who1 in their 
walks from their own vehicles1 passed   
her ladyship's1 there was scarce one    
lady in society who did not say1 is that
 all8--is that the beauty you are all   
talking about so much8 ,she is          
overrated2 she looks stupid2 she is     
over-dressed2 she squints2 and so forth2
 whilst of the men who did happen to    

have the honor of an acquaintance with  
,lady ,raikes and her husband 7and many 
a man1 who had thought ,raikes rather   
stupid in his bachelor days1 was glad   
enough to know him now71 each as he came
 to the carriage1 and partook of the    
excellent luncheon provided there1 had  
the most fascinating grins and ogles for
 the lady1 and the most triumphant      
glances for all the rest of the         
world1--glances which seemed to say1    
,look1 you rascals1 ,i know ,lady       
,raikes2 you don't know ,lady ,raikes4  
,i can drink a glass of champagne to    
,lady ,raikes's health4 ,what would you 
give1 you dog1 to have such a sweet     
smile from ,lady ,raikes8 ,did you ever 
see such eyes8 did you ever see such a  
complexion8 did you ever see such a     
killing pink dress1 and such a dear     
little delightfully carved ivory        
parasol8--,raikes had it carved for her 
last year at ,baden1 when they were on  
their wedding-trip4 ,it has their coats 
of arms and their ciphers intertwined   

elegantly round the stalk--a ,j and a   
,z2 her name is ,zuleika2 before she was
 married she was ,zuleika ,trotter4 ,her
 elder sister1 ,medora1 married ,lord   
,t--mn--ddy2 her younger1 ,haidee1 is   
engaged to the eldest son of the second 
son of a noble ,d-ke4 ,the ,trotters are
 of a good family4 ,dolly ,trotter1     
,zuleika's brother1 was in the same     
regiment 7and that1 ,i need not say1 an 
extremely heavy one7 with ,sir ,joseph  
,raikes4  ,he did not call himself      
,joseph then3 quite the contrary4       
,larkyn ,raikes1 before his marriage1   
was one of the wildest and most         
irregular of our ,british youth4 ,let us
 not allude--he would blush to hear     
them--to the particulars of his past    
career4 ,he turned away his servant for 
screwing up one of the knockers which he
 had removed during the period of his   
own bachelorhood1 from an eminent       
physician's house in ,saville ,row1 on  
the housekeeper's door at ,larkyn ,hall4
 ,there are whole hampers of those      

knockers stowed away somewhere1 and     
snuff-taking ,highlanders1 and tin hats1
 and black boys1--the trophies of his   
youth1 which ,raikes would like to send 
back to their owners1 did he know them2 
and when he carried off these spoils of 
war he was not always likely to know4   
,when he goes to the ,bayonet and       
,anchor ,club now 7and he dined there   
twice during ,lady ,raikes's 444 in     
fine1 when there was no dinner at home71
 the butler brings him a half-pint of   
sherry and a large bottle of ,seltzer   
water1 and looks at him with a sigh1 and
 wonders--,is this ,captain ,raikes1 as 
used to breakfast off pale hale at      
three1 to take his regular two bottles  
at dinner1 and to drink brandy and water
 in the smoking billiard-room all night 
till all was blue8 ,yes1 it is the same 
,raikes2 ,larkyn no more--riotous no    
more--brandivorous no longer4 ,he gave  
away all his cigars at his marriage2    
quite unlike ,screwby1 who also married 
the other day1 and offered to sell me   

some4 ,he has not betted at a race since
 his father paid his debts and forgave  
him1 just before the old gentleman died 
and ,raikes came into his kingdom4 ,upon
 that accession1 ,zuleika ,trotter1 who 
looked rather sweetly upon ,bob ,vincent
 before1 was so much touched by ,sir    
,joseph ,raikes's determination to      
reform1 that she dismissed ,bob and     
became ,lady ,raikes4  ,dolly ,trotter  
still remains in the ,paddington        
,dragoons2 ,dolly is still unmarried2   
,dolly smokes still2 ,dolly owes money  
still4 ,and though his venerable father1
 ,rear-admiral ,sir ,ajax ,trotter1     
,k4,c4,b41 has paid his debts many      
times1 and swears if he ever hears of   
,dolly betting again1 he will disinherit
 his son1 ,dolly--the undutiful         
,dolly--goes on betting still4  ,lady   
,raikes1 then1 beamed in the pride of   
her beauty upon ,epsom race-course1     
dispensed smiles and luncheon to a host 
of acquaintances1 and accepted1 in      
return1 all the homage and compliments  

which the young men paid her4 ,the      
hearty and jovial ,sir ,joseph ,raikes  
was not the least jealous of the        
admiration which his pretty wife caused2
 not even of ,bob ,vincent1 whom he     
rather pitied for his mishap1 poor      
fellow6 7to be sure1 ,zuleika spoke of  
,vincent very scornfully1 and treated   
his pretensions as absurd72 and with    
whom1 meeting him on the course1 ,raikes
 shook hands very cordially1 and        
insisted upon bringing him up to ,lady  
,raikes's carriage1 to take refreshment4
  ,there could have been no foundation  
for the wicked rumor1 that ,zuleika had 
looked sweetly upon ,vincent before     
,raikes had carried her off4 ,lady      
,raikes received ,mr4 ,vincent with the 
kindest and frankest smile2 shook hands 
with him with perfect politeness and    
indifference1 and laughed and talked so 
easily with him1 that it was impossible 
there could have been any previous      
discomfort between them4  ,not very far 
off from ,lady ,raikes's carriage1 on   

the hill1 there stood a little black    
brougham--the quietest and most modest  
equipage in the world1 and in which     
there must have been nevertheless       
something very attractive1 for the young
 men crowded around this carriage in    
numbers2 and especially that young      
reprobate ,dolly ,trotter was to be     
seen1 constantly leaning his great      
elbows on the window1 and poking his    
head into the carriage4 ,lady ,raikes   
remarked that1 among other gentlemen1   
her husband went up and spoke to the    
little carriage1 and when he and ,dolly 
came back to her1 asked who was in the  
black brougham4  ,for some time ,raikes 
could not understand which was the      
brougham she meant--there was so many   
broughams4 ,the black one with the red  
blinds was it8 ,oh1 that--that was a    
very old friend--yes1 old ,lord         
,cripplegate1 was in the brougham3 he   
had the gout1 and he couldn't walk4  ,as
 ,raikes made this statement he blushed 
as red as a geranium2 he looked at      

,dolly ,trotter in an imploring manner1 
who looked at him1 and who presently    
went away from his sister's carriage    
bursting with laughter4 ,after making   
the above statement to his wife1 ,raikes
 was particularly polite and attentive  
to her1 and did not leave her side2 nor 
would he consent to her leaving the     
carriage4 ,there were all sorts of      
vulgar people about3 she would be       
jostled in the crowd3 she could not bear
 the smell of the cigars--she knew she  
couldn't 7this made ,lady ,raikes wince 
a little73 the sticks might knock her   
darling head off2 and so forth4  ,raikes
 is a very accomplished and athletic    
man1 and1 as a bachelor1 justly prided  
himself upon shying at the sticks better
 than any man in the army4 ,perhaps1 as 
he passed the persons engaged in that   
fascinating sport1 he would have himself
 liked to join in it2 but he declined   
his favorite entertainment1 and came    
back faithfully to the side of his wife4
  ,as ,vincent talked at ,lady ,raikes's

 side1 he alluded to this accomplishment
 of her husband4 ,your husband has not  
many accomplishments1 ,vincent said 7he 
is a man of rather a sardonic humor71   
but in shying at the sticks he is quite 
unequalled3 he has quite a genius for   
it4 ,he ought to have the sticks painted
 on his carriage1 as the ,french        
marshals have their batons4 ,hasn't he  
brought you a pincushion or a           
jack-in-the-box1 ,lady ,raikes8 and has 
he begun to neglect you so soon8 ,every 
father with a little boy at home 7and he
 congratulated her ladyship on the birth
 of that son and heir7 ought surely to  
think of him1 and bring him a soldier1  
or a monkey1 or a toy or two4  ,oh1 yes1
 cried ,lady ,raikes1 her husband must  
go4 ,he must go and bring back a        
soldier1 or a monkey1 or a dear little  
jack-in-the-box1 for dear little ,dolly 
at home4  ,so away ,raikes went2 indeed 
nothing loth4 ,he warmed with the noble 
sport3 he was one of the finest players 
in ,england4 ,he went on playing for a  

delightful half-hour2 7how swiftly1 in  
the blessed amusement1 it passed away67 
he reduced several of the sticksters to 
bankruptcy by his baculine skill2 he    
returned to the carriage laden with     
jacks1 wooden apples and soldiers1      
enough to amuse all the nurseries in    
,pimlico4  ,during his absence ,lady    
,raikes1 in the most winning manner1 had
 asked ,mr4 ,vincent for his arm1 for a 
little walk2 and did not notice the     
sneer with which he said that his arm   
had always been at her service4 ,she was
 not jostled by the crowd               
inconveniently2 she was not offended by 
the people smoking 7though ,raikes was  
forbidden that amusement72 and she      
walked up on ,mr4 ,vincent's arm1 and   
somehow found herself close to the      
little black brougham1 in which sat     
gouty old ,lord ,cripplegate4  ,gouty   
old ,lord ,cripplegate wore a light blue
 silk dress1 a lace mantle and other    
gimcracks1 a white bonnet with roses1   
and ringlets as long as a chancellor's  

wig1 but of the most beautiful black    
hue4 ,his lordship had a pair of        
enormous eyes1 that languished in a most
 killing manner2 and cheeks that were   
decorated with delicate dimples2 and    
lips of the color of the richest        
sealing-wax4  ,who's that8 asked ,lady  
,raikes4  ,that1 said ,mr4 ,vincent1 is 
,mrs4 ,somerset ,montmorency4  ,who's   
,mrs4 ,somerset ,montmorency8 hissed out
 ,zuleika4  ,it is possible you have not
 met her in society1 ,mrs4 ,somerset    
,montmorency doesn't go much into       
society1 ,mr4 ,vincent said4  ,why did  
he say it was ,lord ,cripplegate8       
,vincent1 like a fiend1 burst out       
laughing4  ,did ,raikes say it was ,lord
 ,cripplegate8 ,well1 he ought to know4 
,what ought he to know8 asked ,zuleika4 
,excuse me1 ,lady ,raikes1 said the     
other1 with his constant sneer2 there   
are things which people had best not    
know4 ,there are things which people had
 best forget1 as your ladyship very well
 knows4 ,you forget2 why shouldn't      

,raikes forget8 ,let by-gones be        
by-gones4 ,let's all forget1 ,zulei--,i 
beg your pardon4 ,here comes ,raikes4   
,how hot he looks6 ,he has got a hat    
full of jack-in-the-boxes4 ,how obedient
 he has been6 ,he will not set the      
,thames on fire--but he's a good fellow4
 ,yes2 we'll forget all3 won't we8 ,and 
the fiend pulled the tuft under his     
chin1 and gave a diabolical grin with   
his sallow face4  ,zuleika did not say  
one word about ,lord ,cripplegate when  
,raikes found her and flung his         
treasures into her lap4 ,she did not    
show her anger in words1 but in an      
ominous1 boding silence2 during which   
her eyes might be seen moving constantly
 to the little black brougham4  ,when   
the ,derby was run1 and ,voltigeur was  
announced as the winner1 ,sir ,joseph1  
who saw the race from the box of his    
carriage--having his arm around her     
ladyship1 who stood on the back seat1   
and thought all men the greatest        
hypocrites in creation 7and so a man is 

the greatest hypocrite of all animals1  
save one7--,raikes jumped up and gave a 
,hurrah6 which he suddenly checked when 
his wife asked1 with a deathlike        
calmness1 ,and pray1 sir1 have you been 
betting upon the race1 that you are so  
excited8  ,oh no1 my love2 of course    
not4 ,but you know it's a ,yorkshire    
horse1 and ,i--,i'm glad it wins2 that's
 all1 ,raikes said2 in which statement  
there was not1 ,i am sorry to say1 a    
word of truth4  ,raikes wasn't a betting
 man any more4 ,he had forsworn it3 he  
would never bet again4 ,but he had just1
 in the course of the day1 taken the    
odds in one little bet2 and he had just 
happened to win4 ,when his wife charged 
him with the crime1 he was about to avow
 it4 ,but no1 he thought2 it will be a  
surprise for her4 ,i will buy her the   
necklace she scolded me about at ,lacy  
and ,gimcrack's2 it's just the sum4 ,she
 has been sulky all day4 ,it's about    
that she is sulky now4 ,i'll go and have
 another shy at the sticks4 ,and he went

 away1 delighting himself with this     
notion1 and with the idea that at last  
he could satisfy his adorable little    
,zuleika4  ,as ,raikes passed ,mrs4     
,somerset ,montmorency's brougham1      
,zuleika remarked how that lady beckoned
 to him1 and how ,raikes went up to her4
 ,though he did not remain by the       
carriage two minutes1 ,zuleika was ready
 to take an affidavit that he was there 
for half an hour2 and was saluted by a  
satanical grin from ,vincent1 who by    
this time had returned to her carriage  
side1 and was humming a ,french tune1   
which says that on revient toujours a   
ses premi-e-res amours1 a se-es         
premieres amours4  ,what is that you are
 singing8 ,how dare you sing that8 cried
 ,lady ,raikes1 with tears4  ,it's an   
old song--you used to sing it1 said ,mr4
 ,vincent4 ,by the way1 ,i congratulate 
you4 ,your husband has won six hundred  
pounds4 ,i heard ,betterton say so1 who 
gave him the odds4  ,he is a wretch6 ,he
 gave me his word of honor that he      

didn't bet4 ,he is a gambler--he'll ruin
 his child6 ,he neglects his wife for   
that--that creature6 ,he calls her ,lord
 ,crick--crick--ipplegate1 sobbed her   
ladyship1 ,why did ,i marry him8  ,why1 
indeed6 said ,mr4 ,vincent4  ,as the two
 were talking1 ,dolly ,trotter1 her     
ladyship's brother1 came up to the      
carriage2 at which1 with a scowl on his 
wicked countenance1 and indulging       
inwardly in language which ,i am very   
glad not to be called upon to report1   
,vincent retired1 biting his nails1 like
 a traitor1 and exhibiting every sign of
 ill-humor which the villain of a novel 
or of a play is wont to betray4  ,don't 
have that fellow about you1 ,zuly1      
,dolly said to his darling sister4 ,he  
is a bad one4 ,he's no principle3       
he--he's a gambler1 and every thing     
that's bad4  ,i know others who are     
gamblers1 cried out ,zuleika4 ,i know   
others who are every thing that's bad1  
,adolphus1 ,lady ,raikes exclaimed4     
,for heaven's sake1 what do you mean8   

said ,adolphus1 becoming red and looking
 very much frightened4  ,i mean my      
husband1 gasped the lady4 ,i shall go   
home to papa4 ,i shall take my dear     
little blessed babe with me and go to   
papa1 ,adolphus4 ,and if you had the    
spirit of a man1 you would--you would   
avenge me1 that you would4  ,against    
,joe6 said the heavy dragoon2 against   
,joe1 ,zuly8 ,why1 hang me if ,joe isn't
 the greatest twump in ,chwistendom4 ,by
 ,jove he is6 said the big one1 shaking 
his fist2 and if that scoundwel1        
,vincent1 or any other wascal1 has said 
a word against him1 by ,jove--  ,pray   
stop your horrid oaths and vulgar       
threats1 ,adolphus1 her ladyship said4  
,i don't know what it is--you've got    
something against ,joe4 ,something has  
put you against him2 and if it's        
,vincent1 ,i'll wring his--  ,mercy6    
mercy6 ,pray cease this language4 ,lady 
,raikes said4  ,you don't know what a   
good fellow ,joe is1 said the dragoon4  
,the best twump in ,england1 as ,i've   

weason to say1 sister3 and here he comes
 with the horses4 ,god bless the old    
boy6  ,with this1 honest ,sir ,joseph   
,raikes took his seat in his carriage2  
and tried1 by artless blandishments1 by 
humility1 and by simple conversation1 to
 coax his wife into good humor2 but all 
his efforts were unavailing4 ,she would 
not speak a word during the journey to  
,london2 and when she reached home1     
rushed up to the nursery and instantly  
burst into tears upon the sleeping      
little ,adolphus's pink and lace cradle4
  ,it's all about that necklace1 ,mrs4  
,prince1 the good-natured ,baronet      
explained to the nurse of the son and   
heir4 ,i know it's about the necklace4  
,she rowed me about it all the way down 
to ,epsom2 and ,i can't give it her now1
 that's flat4 ,i've no money4 ,i won't  
go tick1 that's flat2 and she ought to  
be contented with what she has had2     
oughtn't she1 ,prince8  ,indeed she     
ought1 ,sir ,joseph2 and you're an angel
 of a man1 ,sir ,joseph2 and so ,i often

 tell my lady1 ,sir ,joseph1 the nurse  
said3 and the more you will spile her1  
the more she will take on1 ,sir ,joseph4
  ,but if ,lady ,raikes was angry at not
 having the necklace1 what must have    
been her ladyship's feelings when she   
saw in the box opposite to her at the   
,opera1 ,mrs4 ,somerset ,montmorency1   
with that very necklace on her shoulders
 for which she had pined in vain6 ,how  
she got it8 ,who gave it her8 ,how she  
came by the money to buy such a trinket8
 ,how she dared to drive about at all in
 the ,park1 the audacious wretch6 ,all  
these were questions which the infuriate
 ,zuleika put to herself1 her           
confidential maid1 her child's nurse1   
and two or three of her particular      
friends2 and of course she determined   
that there was but one clue to the      
mystery of the necklace1 which was that 
her husband had purchased it with the   
six hundred pounds which he had won at  
the ,derby1 which he denied having won  
even to her1 which he had spent in this 

shameful manner4 ,nothing would suit her
 but a return home to her papa--nothing 
would satisfy her but a separation from 
the criminal who had betrayed her4 ,she 
wept floods of tears over her neglected 
boy1 and repeatedly asked that as yet   
speechless innocent1 whether he would   
remember his mother when her place was  
filled by another1 and whether her      
little ,adolphus would take care that no
 insult was offered to her untimely     
grave8  ,the row at home at length grew 
so unbearable1 that ,sir ,joseph        
,raikes1 who had never had an           
explanation since his marriage1 and had 
given into all his wife's caprices--that
 ,sir ,joseph1 we say1 even with his    
'eavenly temper1 he broke out into a    
passion2 and one day after dinner1 at   
which only his brother-in-law ,dolly was
 present1 told his wife that her tyranny
 was intolerable1 and that it must come 
to an end4  ,dolly said he was quite    
wight1 and backed up ,raikes in every   
way4  ,zuleika said they were a pair of 

brutes1 and that she desired to return  
to ,sir ,ajax4  ,why1 what the devil is 
urging you8 cried the husband2 you drive
 me mad1 ,zuleika4  ,yes2 what are you  
at1 ,zuleika8 ,you dwive him cwazy1 said
 the brother4  ,upon which ,zuleika     
broke out4 ,she briefly stated that her 
husband was a liar2 that he was a       
gambler2 that he had deceived her about 
betting at ,epsom1 and had given his    
word to a lie2 that he had deceived her 
about that--that woman1--and given his  
word to another lie2 and that1 with the 
fruits of his gambling transactions at  
,epsom1 he had purchased the diamond    
necklace1 not for her1 but for          
that--that person6 ,that was all--that  
was enough4 ,let her go home and die in 
,baker ,street1 in the room which1 she  
prayed ,heaven1 she never had quitted6  
,that was her charge4 ,if ,sir ,joseph  
,raikes had any thing to say he had     
better say it4  ,sir ,joseph ,raikes    
said1 that she had the most confounded  
jealous temper that ever a woman was    

cursed with2 that he had been on his    
knees to her ever since his marriage1   
and had spent half his income in        
administering to her caprices and       
extravagancies2 that as for these       
charges1 they were so monstrous1 he     
should not condescend to answer them2   
and as she chose to leave her husband   
and her child1 she might go whenever she
 liked4  ,lady ,raikes upon this rang   
the bell1 and requested ,hickson the    
butler to tell ,dickson her maid to     
bring down her bonnet and shawl2 and    
when ,hickson quitted the dining-room1  
,dolly ,trotter began3  ,zuleika1 said  
he1 you are enough to twy the patience  
of an angel2 and1 by ,jove1 you do6     
,you've got the best fellow for a       
husband 7a sneer from ,zuleika7 that    
ever was bullied by a woman1 and you    
tweat him like a dawg4 ,when you were   
ill1 you used to make him get up of a   
night to go to the doctor's4 ,when      
you're well1 you plague his life out of 
him4 ,he pays your milliner's bills1 as 

if you were a duchess1 and you have but 
to ask for a thing and you get it4  ,oh1
 yes1 ,i have necklaces6 said ,zuleika4 
,confound you1 ,zuly6 had'nt he paid    
three hundwed and eighty for a new      
cawwiage for you the week before8       
,hadn't he fitted your dwawing-woom with
 yellow satin at the beginning of the   
season8 ,hadn't he bought you the pair  
of ponies you wanted1 and gone without a
 hack himself1 and he gettin' as fat as 
a porpoise for want of exercise1 the    
poor old boy8 ,and for that necklace1 do
 you know how it was that you didn't    
have it1 and that you were very nearly  
having it1 you ungwateful little devil  
you8 ,it was ,i prevented you6 ,he did  
win six hundwed at the ,derby2 and he   
would have bought your necklace1 but he 
gave me the money4 ,the governor said he
 never would pay another play-debt again
 for me2 and bet ,i would1 like a       
confounded1 gweat1 stooped fool3 and it 
was this old ,joe--this dear old        
twump--who booked up for me1 and took me

 out of the hole1 like the best fellow  
in the whole world1 by ,jove6 ,and--and 
,i'll never bet again1 so help me----6  
,and that's why he couldn't tell--and   
that's why he wouldn't split on me--and 
that's why you didn't have your         
confounded necklace1 which old          
,cwipplegate bought for ,mrs4           
,montmowency1 who's going to marry her1 
like a confounded fool for his pains6   
,and here the dragoon being blown1 took 
a large glass of claret2 and when       
,hickson and ,dickson came down stairs1 
they found her ladyship in rather a     
theatrical attitude1 on her knees1      
embracing her husband's big hand1 and   
calling down blessings upon him1 and    
owning that she was a wretch1 a monster1
 and a fiend4  ,she was only a jealous1 
little spoiled fool of a woman2 and ,i  
am sure those who read her history have 
never met with her like1 or have ever   
plagued their husbands4 ,certainly they 
have not1 if they are not married3 as1  
let us hope1 they will be4  ,as for     

,vincent1 he persists in saying that the
 defence is a fib from beginning to end1
 and that the ,trotters were agreed to  
deceive ,lady ,raikes4 ,but who hasn't  
had his best actions misinterpreted by  
calumny8 ,and what innocence or good    
will can disarm jealousy8         99    
99       99       99       99  ,very    
different from ,,thackaray is the genial
 ,mrs4 ,s4 ,c4 ,,hall1 from whom we have
   ,,edward ,,layton',s ,,reward4  ,i   
could not have believed it6 exclaimed   
,mrs4 ,pierce ,bradshaw4 ,i could not   
have believed it6 she repeated1 over and
 over again2 and she fell into a fit of 
abstraction4  ,her husband1 who had been
 glancing wearily over a magazine1      
turning leaf after leaf without reading1
 or perhaps seeing even the heading of a
 page1 at length said1 ,i could6  ,you  
have large faith1 my dear1 observed the 
lady4  ,fortunately for ,selina1 ,i had 
no faith in him1 was the reply4  ,mrs4  
,pierce ,bradshaw was not an eloquent   
person2 she never troubled her husband  

or any one else with many words2 so she 
only murmured1 in a subdued tone1       
,fortunately1 indeed6  ,what a fellow he
 was6 said ,mr4 ,p4 ,bradshaw1 as he    
closed the magazine4 ,do you remember   
how delighted you were with him the     
evening of the tableaux at ,lady        
,westrophe's8 ,there was something so   
elegant and dignified in his bearing2 so
 much ease and grace of manner2 his     
address was perfect--the confidence of a
 well-bred gentleman1 subdued almost1   
but not quite1 into softness by the     
timidity of youth4 ,this was thrown into
 strong relief by the manners of the    
young men of the family1 whose habits   
and voices might have entitled them to  
take the lead1 even now1 in the         
go-a-head school1 which then was hardly 
in existence--at all events in ,england4
  ,you were quite as much taken with him
 as ,i was4  ,no1 my dear1 not quite4   
,edward ,layton was especially suited   
for the society of ladies4 ,his tastes  
and feelings are--or were at that       

time--all sincerely refined2 he was full
 of the impulse of talent1 which he     
never had strength to bring forth3 his  
thoughts were ever wandering1 and he    
needed perpetual excitement1            
particularly the excitement of beauty   
and music1 to bring them and keep them  
where he was4 ,he was strongly and      
strangely moved by excellence of any    
kind1 so that it was excellence2 and the
 only thing ,i ever heard him express   
contempt for was wealth6--yes wealth6   
,i could not have believed it1 said     
,mrs4 ,pierce ,bradshaw again4  ,that   
particular night it was whispered he was
 engaged to ,lelia ,medwin4 ,when she   
sung1 he stood like a young ,apollo at  
her harp1 too entranced to turn over the
 leaves of music1 his eyes overflowing  
with delight1 and the poor little girl  
so bewitched by his attentions that she 
fancied every whisper a declaration of  
love4  ,shameful6 said ,mrs4 ,pierce    
,bradshaw4  ,then her mother showed     
every one what a lovely sketch he had   

made of ,lelia's head1 adding1 that     
indeed it was too lovely2 but then1 he  
was a partial judge4  ,she was a silly  
woman1 observed the lady4  ,she would   
not have been considered so if they had 
been married1 replied the gentleman4    
,mammas have no mercy on each other in  
those delicate manoeuvrings4 ,well1 he  
waltzed with her always2 and bent over  
her--willow-fashion2 looked with her at 
the moon2 and wrote a sonnet which she  
took to herself1 for it was addressed   
',to mine own dear ----2' and then when1
 about eight weeks afterwards1 we met   
him at the dejeuner at ,sally ,lodge1 he
 was as entranced with ,lizzie ,grey's  
guitar as he had been with ,lelia's     
harp1 sketched her little tiger head for
 her grandmamma1 waltzed with her1 bent 
over her willow-fashion1 looked with her
 at the moon1 and wrote another sonnet1 
addressed ',to the loved one4'  ,such   
men---- exclaimed ,mrs4 ,pierce         
,bradshaw4 ,she did not finish the      
sentence1 but looked as if such men     

ought to be exterminated4 ,and so they  
ought6  ,there was so much about him    
that ,i liked3 his fine talents1 good   
manners1 excellent position in society1 
added to his good nature1 and----  ,good
 fortune1 added ,mrs4 ,pierce ,bradshaw4
  ,no1 ,mary1 said her husband1 quietly1
 ,i never was a mammon worshipper4 ,this
 occurred1 if you remember1 before the  
yellow pestilence had so completely     
subverted ,london1 that the very        
aristocracy knelt and worshipped the    
golden calf2 and no blame to the calf to
 receive the homage1 whatever we may say
 of those who paid it4  ,i did not mean 
that as a reproof1 ,pierce1 replied his 
wife1 most truly4 ,i think it quite     
natural to like young men of fortune--we
 could not get on without them1 you     
know2 and it would be very              
imprudent--very imprudent1 indeed--to   
invite any young man1 however excellent4
 ,when we want to get these young girls1
 our poor nieces1 off1 ,i declare it is 
quite melancholy4 ,jane is becoming     

serious since she has grown so thin2 and
 ,i fear the men will think ,belle a    
blue1 she has so taken to the ,british  
,museum4 ,oh1 how ,i wish people would  
live1 and bring up1 and get off their   
own daughters6 ,four marriageable       
nieces1 with such farthing fortunes1 are
 enough to drive any poor aunt          
distracted6  ,this was the longest      
speech ,mrs4 ,bradshaw ever made in her 
life1 and she sighed deeply at its      
conclusion4  ,you may well sigh6 laughed
 the gentleman2 for the case seems      
hopeless4 ,but ,i was going to say1 that
 as ,i knew him better1 ,i was really   
going to take the young gentleman a     
little to task on the score of his      
philandering4 ,lelia was really attached
 to him1 and had refused a very         
advantageous offer for his sake2 but the
 very next week1 at another house1 ,i   
found him enchained by a sparkling      
widow--correcting her drawings1 paying  
the homage of intelligent silence and   
sweet smiles to her wit1 leaning his    

white-gloved hand upon her chair1 and   
looking in her eyes with his most       
bewitching softness4 ,the extent of this
 flirtation no one could anticipate2 but
 the sudden appearance of ,lady ,di'    
,johnson effected a total change4 ,she  
drove four-in-hand1 and was a dead      
shot--the very antipodes of sentiment4  
,we said her laugh would drive ,edward  
,layton distracted1 and her cigarette be
 his death4 ,but1 no6 the magnificence  
of her tomboyism caught his fancy4 ,he  
enshrined her at once as ,diana1 bayed  
the moon with hunting-songs1 wrote a    
sonnet to the chase1 and then1 with his 
own hands1 twisted it into a cigarette1 
with which her ladyship puffed it to the
 winds of heaven1 while wandering with  
the ,lothario amid a grove of fragrant  
limes4 ,the miracle was1 that at        
breakfast the next morning ,lady ,di'   
was subdued1 voted driving unfeminine1  
and asked ,edward to take the reins for 
her after lunch4 ,you remember we left  
them there2 and ,i next met him at      

,killarney1 giving his chestnut locks to
 the breeze1 his arm to the oar1 and his
 eyes to a lady of blue-stocking        
celebrity1 who1 never having had many   
lovers1 was inclined to make the most of
 the present one4 ,circumstances        
rendered me acquainted with some facts  
relating to his 'flirtations1' if his   
soft and sentimental ways could be      
called by such a name4 ,i had seen poor 
,lelia at ,baden-,baden2 and ,i dare say
 you can recall what we heard of another
 love of his nearer home4 ,well1 ,i     
encountered my ,hero of ,ladies that    
very evening1 wandering amid the ruined 
aisles of ,mucross ,abbey4 ,i saw that  
his impressible nature had taken a      
thoughtful1 if not a religious tone1    
from the scene4 ,and he commenced the   
conversation by declaring1 that ',he was
 a great fool4'  ,knave1 rather1 said   
,mrs4 ,pierce ,bradshaw4  ,no1 replied  
her husband2 not a knave1 but a singular
 example of a man whose feelings and    
susceptibilities never deepen into      

affection--unstable as water--tossed    
hither and thither for want of fixed    
principles1 and suffering intensely in  
his better moods from the knowledge of  
the weakness he has not the courage to  
overcome4 ,i was not inclined to let him
 spare himself1 and did not contradict  
his opinion that he was a 'fool1' but   
told him he might be what he pleased    
himself1 as long as he did not make     
fools of others4  ',i tell every woman  
,i know that ,i am not a marrying man1' 
he replied4  ',that1' ,i said1 'does not
 signify as long as you act the lover1  
each fair one believing you will revoke 
in her favor4'  ',i give you my honor1' 
he exclaimed1 'as a man and a gentleman1
 ,i never entertained for twenty-four   
hours the idea of marrying any woman ,i 
ever knew4'  ,the villain6 exclaimed the
 lady4 ,i hope1 ,pierce1 you told him he
 was a villain6  ,no2 because ,i knew   
the uncertainty of his disposition3 but 
,i lectured him fully and honestly1 and 
yet said nothing to him so severe as    

what he said of himself4 ,i told him he 
would certainly be caught in the end by 
some unworthy person1 and then he would 
look back with regret and misery upon   
the chances he had lost1 and the        
unhappiness he had caused to those whose
 only faults had been in believing him  
true when he was false4  ',better that1'
 he answered1 'than marrying when he    
could not make up his mind4'  ',then why
 play the lover8'  ',he only did so     
while infatuated--he was certain to find
 faults where he imagined perfection4'  
,what assurance6 said ,mrs4 ,pierce     
,bradshaw4  ',i am sure1' ,i said1      
',lelia was very charming4 ,lelia       
,medwin was an excellent1 amiable little
 creature1 with both good temper and    
good sense4'  ',that was it1' he said3  
'only fancy the                         
six-foot-one-and-three-quarters wedded  
to bare five feet6 ,the absurdity struck
 me one night as we were waltzing and   
whirling past a looking-glass2 ,i was   
obliged to bend double1 though ,i never 

felt it till ,i saw it4'  ,really1 ,i   
have not patience1 observed ,mrs4       
,bradshaw4 ,and so her feelings were to 
be trampled upon because she was not    
tall enough to please him6 ,why did he  
not think of that before8  ',but there  
was ,lizzy ,grey1 related to half the   
aristocracy1 with a voice like an       
angel4'  ',a vixen1' he said1 'though of
 exquisite beauty--could have torn my   
eyes out for the little attention ,i    
paid ,mrs4 ,green4'  ',little           
attention6' ,i repeated2 'more than     
little4'  ',her wit was delicious1' he  
replied2 'but she was a widow6 ,only    
fancy the horror of being compared with 
',my dear first husband6'  ',then your  
conquest of ,lady ,di' ,johnson6 ,how   
badly you behaved to her6'  ',she was   
magnificent on horseback2 and her       
cigarette as fascinating as the fan of a
 ,madrid belle1 or the tournure of a    
,parisian lady4 ,they were her two      
points4 ,but when she relinquished both1
 ,i believe in compliment to me1 she    

became even more commonplace than the   
most commonplace woman4'  ,the puppy6   
muttered the lady3 the dreadful puppy6  
,i could not have believed it6  ,mr4    
,bradshaw did not heed the interruption1
 but continued3  ',and who1' ,i         
inquired1 'was the ,lady of the ,lake8  
,i do not mean of this lake1 for ,i see 
her reign is already over--your passion 
expired with the third chapter of her   
novel1 which ,i know she read to you by 
moonlight--but the fair ,lady of        
,geneva1 whose betrothed called you     
out8'  ',her father was a sugar-boiler1'
 was the quiet reply3 'a sugar-boiler1  
or something of the kind4 ,what would my
 aristocratic mother say to that8 ,of   
course ,i could have had no serious     
intention there4 ,indeed ,i never had a 
serious intention for a whole week4'    
',but1 my dear fellow1 when presents are
 given1 and letters written1 and locks  
of hair and vows exchanged----'  ',no1  
no6' he exclaimed2 'no vows exchanged6  
,i never broke my word to a woman yet4  

,it was admiration for this or          
that--respect1 esteem1 perhaps a tender 
bewilderment--mere brotherly love4 ,and 
in that particular instance her intended
 got angry at my civility4 ,i know ,i   
was wrong2 and1 to confess the truth1 ,i
 am ashamed of that transaction--it     
taught me a lesson2 and1 but for the    
confounded vacillation of my taste and  
temper1 ,i might perhaps have been a    
,benedick before this4 ,you may think it
 puppyism1 if you please2 but ,i am     
really sorry when ,i make an impression1
 and resolve never to attempt it again3 
but the next fine voice1 or fine        
eyes----'  ',or cigarette1' ,i          
suggested2 and then ,i said as much as  
one man can say to another1 for you know
 a woman can say much more to a man in  
the way of reproof than he would bear   
from his own sex2 but he silenced me    
very quickly by regrets and good        
resolutions4 ,it was after that our     
little niece1 ,selina1 made an          
impression upon him4  ,i did not know   

all you have now told me1 expostulated  
his wife4 ,i own ,i thought it would    
have been a good match for ,selina2 and 
he was evidently deeply smitten before  
he knew she was your niece4 ,i managed  
it beautifully2 but you cut the matter  
short by offending him4  ,there1 say no 
more about it1 said the sensible        
husband2 you thought your blue-eyed1    
fair-haired1 doll-like favorite1 could  
have enchained a man who had escaped    
heart-whole from the toils of the       
richest and rarest in the land4 ,it     
really is fearful to see how women not  
only tolerate1 but pursue this sort of  
men4 ,you call them 'villains1' and ,i  
know not what1 when you are foiled2 but 
if you succeed1 you temper it2 they have
 been a little wild1 to be sure--but    
then1 and then1 and then--you really    
could not refuse your daughter2 and add1
 ,men are such creatures that if the    
world knew but all1 he is not worse than
 others4  ,for shame1 ,pierce6 how can  
you8 said the lady4  ,i told him then1  

continued ,mr4 ,bradshaw1 that he would 
take 'the crooked stick at last2' but   
that he should not add a tress of       
,selina's hair to his collection1 to be 
turned over by his ,,wife one of those  
days4 ,of course he was very indignant1 
and we parted2 but ,i did not think my  
prophecy would come true so soon4 ,i    
have long since given up speculating how
 marriages will turn out1 for it is     
quite impossible to tell4 ,if women     
could be shut up in a harem1 as in the  
,east1 a man who was ashamed of his wife
 might go into society without her2 but 
for a refined and well-educated         
gentleman1 as ,edward ,layton certainly 
is1 to be united to the widow of a      
sugar-boiler6--yes1 absolutely6--who is 
an inch shorter than pretty ,lelia and  
more tiger-headed than ,lizzy ,grey1 and
 who declares she hates music1 although 
her dear first husband took her hoften  
to the ,hopera--who adds deformity to   
shortness1 talks loudly of the          
hinfluence of wealth1 and compares the  

presentations at the ,mansion ,house1   
that she has seen1 to those at ,st4     
,james's which she has not yet seen6    
,verily1 ,edward ,layton has had his    
reward6         99       99       99    
99       99  ,,bulwer ,,lytton          
contributes to the ,keepsake an essay1  
characteristic of his earlier rather    
than of his later style3   ,,the        
,,confirmed ,,valetudinarian4           
,certainly there is truth in the ,french
 saying1 that there is no ill without   
something of good4 ,what state more     
pitiable to the eye of a man of robust  
health than that of the ,confirmed      
,valetudinarian8 ,indeed1 there is no   
one who has a more profound pity for    
himself than your ,valetudinarian2 and  
yet he enjoys two of the most essential 
requisites for a happy life2 he is never
 without an object of interest1 and he  
is perpetually in pursuit of hope4  ,our
 friend ,sir ,george ,malsain is a      
notable case in point3 young1 well born1
 rich1 not ill educated1 and with some  

ability1 they who knew him formerly1 in 
what were called his gay days1 were     
accustomed to call him lucky dog1 and   
enviable fellow4 ,how shallow is the    
judgment of mortals6 ,never was a poor  
man so bored--nothing interested him4   
,his constitution seemed so formed for  
longevity1 and his condition so free    
from care1 that he was likely to have a 
long time before him3--it is impossible 
to say how long that time seemed to him4
 ,fortunately1 from some accidental     
cause or other1 he woke one morning and 
found himself ill2 and1 whether it was  
the fault of the doctor or himself ,i   
cannot pretend to say1 but he never got 
well again4 ,his ailments became        
chronic2 he fell into a poor way4 ,from 
that time life has assumed to him a new 
aspect4 ,always occupied with himself1  
he is never bored4 ,he may be sick1 sad1
 suffering1 but he has found his object 
in existence--he lives to be cured4 ,his
 mind is fully occupied2 his fancy      
eternally on the wing4 ,formerly he had 

travelled much1 but without any pleasure
 in movement3 he might as well have     
stayed at home4 ,now1 when he travels1  
it is for an end2 it is delightful to   
witness the cheerful alertness with     
which he sets about it4 ,he is going    
down the ,rhine2--for its scenery8      
,pshaw6 he never cared a button about   
scenery2 but he has great hopes of the  
waters at ,kreuznach4 ,he is going into 
,egypt2--to see the ,pyramids8 ,stuff6  
the climate on the ,nile is so good for 
the mucous membrane6 ,set him down at   
the dullest of dull places1 and he      
himself is never dull4 ,the duller the  
place the better2 his physician has the 
more time to attend to him4 ,when you   
meet him he smiles on you1 and says1    
poor fellow1 ,the doctor assures me that
 in two years ,i shall be quite set up4 
,he has said the same thing the last    
twenty years1 and will say it the day   
before his death6444  ,what a busy1     
anxious1 fidgety creature ,ned ,worrell 
was8 ,that iron frame supported all the 

business of all society6 ,every man who 
wanted any thing done1 asked ,ned       
,worrell to do it4 ,and do it ,ned      
,worrell did6 ,you remember how         
feelingly he was wont to sigh1--,upon my
 life ,i'm a perfect slave4 ,but now    
,ned ,worrell has snapped his chain2    
obstinate dyspepsia1 and a prolonged    
nervous debility1 have delivered him    
from the carks and cares of less        
privileged mortals4 ,not ,ariel under   
the bough is more exempt from humanity  
than ,edward ,worrell4 ,he is enjoined  
to be kept in a state of perfect repose1
 free from agitation1 and hermetically  
shut out from grief4 ,his wife pays his 
bills1 and he is only permitted to see  
his banker's accounts when the balance  
in his favor is more than usually       
cheerful4 ,his eldest daughter1 an      
intelligent young lady1 reads his       
letters1 and only presents to him those 
which are calculated to make a pleasing 
impression4 ,call now on your old       
friend1 on a question of life and death1

 to ask his advice1 or request his      
interference--you may as well call on   
,king ,cheops under the ,great ,pyramid4
 ,the whole houseguard of tender females
 block the way4  ,mr4 ,worrell is not to
 be disturbed on any matter of business 
whatever1 they will tell you4 ,but1 my  
dear ma'am1 he is trusted to my marriage
 settlement2 his signature is necessary 
to a transfer of my wife's fortune from 
those cursed railway shares4 ,to-morrow 
they will be down at zero4 ,we shall be 
ruined6  ,mr4 ,worrell is in a sad1     
nervous way1 and can't be disturbed1    
sir4 ,and the door is shut in your face6
  ,it was after some such occurrence    
that ,i took into earnest consideration 
a certain sentiment of ,plato's1 which  
,i own ,i had till then considered very 
inhuman2 for that philosopher is far    
from being the tender and sensitive     
gentleman generally believed in by      
lovers and young ladies4 ,plato1 in his 
,republic1 blames ,herodicus 7one of the
 teachers of that great doctor          

,hippocrates7 for showing to delicate1  
sickly persons1 the means whereby to    
prolong their valetudinary existence1 as
 ,herodicus himself 7naturally a very   
rickety fellow7 had contrived to do4    
,plato accuses this physician of having 
thereby inflicted a malignant and wanton
 injury on those poor persons2--nay1 not
 only an injury on them1 but on all     
society4 ,for1 argues this stern1       
broad-shouldered ,athenian1 how can     
people be virtuous who are always       
thinking of their own infirmities8 ,and 
therefore he opines1 that if a sickly   
person cannot wholly recover health and 
become robust1 the sooner he dies the   
better for himself and others6 ,the     
wretch1 too1 might be base enough to    
marry1 and have children as ailing as   
their father1 and so injure1 in         
perpetuo1 the whole human race4 ,away   
with him6  ,but1 upon cool and          
dispassionate reflection1 it seemed to  
me1 angry as ,i was with ,ned ,worrell1 
that ,plato stretched the point a little

 too far2 and certainly1 in the present 
state of civilization1 so sweeping a    
condemnation of the sickly would go far 
towards depopulating ,europe4 ,celsus1  
for instance1 classes amongst the       
delicate or sickly the greater part of  
the inhabitants of towns1 and nearly all
 literary folks 7omnesque pene cupidi   
literarum74 ,and if we thus made away   
with the denizens of the towns1 it would
 be attended with a great many          
inconveniencies as to shopping1 c41 be  
decidedly injurious to house property1  
and might greatly affect the state of   
the funds2 while1 without literary      
folks1 we should be very dull in our    
healthy country-seats1 deprived of      
newspapers1 novels1 and ,the ,keepsake4 
,wherefore1 on the whole1 ,i think      
,herodicus was right2 and that sickly   
persons should not only be permitted but
 encouraged to live as long as they can4
  ,that proposition granted1 if in this 
attempt to show that your confirmed     
,valetudinarian is not so utterly       

miserable as he is held to be by those  
who throw physic to the dogs--and that  
in some points he may be a decided      
gainer by his physical sufferings--,i   
have not wholly failed--then ,i say1    
with the ingenious ,author who devoted  
twenty years to a work ,on the ,note of 
the ,nightingale1--,i have not lived in 
vain6     ,a ,,story ,,without ,a       
,,name4#bd  ,,written ,,for ,,the       
,,international ,,monthly ,,magazine1   
,,by ,g4 ,p4 ,r4 ,,james1 ,,esq4        
,continued from ,page #dd4   ,,chapter  
,,vi4  ,reader1 can you go back for     
twenty years8 ,you do it every day4 ,you
 say1 ,twenty years ago ,i was a        
boy--twenty years ago ,i was a          
youth--twenty years ago ,i played at    
peg-top and at marbles--twenty years ago
 ,i wooed--was loved--,i sinned--,i     
suffered6 ,what is there in twenty years
 that should keep us from going back    
over them8 ,you go on so fast1 so       
smoothly1 so easily on the forward      
course--why not in retrogression8 ,but  

let me tell you3 it makes a very great  
difference whether ,hope or ,memory     
drives the coach4  ,but let us see what 
we can do4 ,twenty years before the     
period at which the last chapter broke  
off1 ,philip ,hastings1 now a father of 
a girl of fifteen1 was a lad standing by
 the side of his brother's grave4       
,twenty years ago ,sir ,john ,hastings  
was the living lord of these fine lands 
and broad estates4 ,twenty years ago he 
passed1 from the mouth of the vault in  
which he had laid the clay of the       
first-born1 into the open splendor of   
the day1 and felt sorrow's desolation in
 the sunshine4 ,twenty years ago1 he had
 been confronted on the church-yard path
 by a tall old woman1 and challenged    
with words high and stern1 to do her    
right in regard to a paltry rood or two 
of land4 ,twenty years ago he had given 
her a harsh1 cold answer1 and treated   
her menaces with impatient scorn4  ,do  
you remember her1 reader8 ,well1 if you 
do1 that brings us to the point ,i      

sought to reach in the dull flat expanse
 of the far past2 and we can stand and  
look around us for awhile4  ,that old   
woman was not one easily to forget or   
lightly to yield her resentments4 ,there
 was something perdurable in them as    
well as in her gaunt1 sinewy frame4 ,as 
she stood there menacing him1 she wanted
 but three years of seventy4 ,she had   
battled too with many a storm--wind and 
weather1 suffering and persecution1     
sorrow and privation1 had beat upon her 
hard--very hard4 ,they had but served to
 stiffen and wither and harden1 however4
 ,her corporeal frame1 shattered as it  
seemed1 was destined to outlive many of 
the young and fair spirit-tabernacles   
around it--to pass over1 by long years1 
the ordinary allotted space of human    
life2 and it seemed as if even          
misfortune had with her but a preserving
 power4 ,it is not wonderful1 however1  
that1 while it worked thus upon her     
body1 it should likewise have stiffened 
and withered and hardened her heart4  ,i

 am not sure that conscience itself went
 untouched in this searing process4 ,it 
is not clear at all that even her claim 
upon ,sir ,john ,hastings was not an    
unjust one2 but just or unjust his      
repulse sunk deep and festered4  ,let us
 trace her from the church-yard after   
she met him4 ,she took her path away    
from the park and the hamlet1 between   
two cottages1 the ragged boys at the    
doors of which called her ,old ,witch1  
and spoke about a broom-stick4  ,she    
heeded them little3 there were deeper   
offences rankling at her heart4  ,she   
walked on1 across a corn-field and a    
meadow1 and then she came upon some     
woodlands1 through which a little sandy 
path wound its way1 round stumps of old 
trees long cut down1 amidst young bushes
 and saplings just springing up1 and    
catching the sunshine here and there    
through the bright-tinted foliage       
overhead4 ,up the hill it went1 over the
 slope on which the copse was scattered1
 and then burst forth again on the      

opposite side of wood and rise1 where   
the ground fell gently the other way1   
looking down upon the richly dressed    
grounds of ,colonel ,marshall1 at the   
distance of some three miles4  ,not more
 than a hundred yards distant was poor  
man's cottage1 with an old gray thatch  
which wanted some repairing1 and was    
plentifully covered with herbs1 sending 
the threads of their roots into the     
straw4 ,a little badly cultivated       
garden1 fenced off from the hill-side by
 a loose stone wall1 surrounded the     
house1 and a gate without hinges gave   
entrance to this inclosed space4  ,the  
old woman went in and approached the    
cottage door4 ,when near it she stopped 
and listened1 lifting one of the        
flapping ears of her cotton cap to aid  
the dull sense of hearing4 ,there were  
no voices within2 but there was a low   
sobbing sound issued forth as if some   
one were in bitter distress4  ,i should 
not wonder if she were alone1 said the  
old woman2 the ruffian father is always 

out2 the drudging mother goes about this
 time to the town4 ,they will neither   
stay at home1 ,i wot1 to grieve for him 
they let too often into that door1 nor  
to comfort her he has left desolate4    
,but it matters little whether they be  
in or out4 ,it were better to talk to   
her first4 ,i will give her better than 
comfort--revenge1 if ,i judge right4    
,they must play their part afterwards4  
,thus communing with herself1 she laid  
her hand upon the latch and opened the  
door4 ,in an attitude of unspeakable    
grief sat immediately before her a young
 and exceedingly beautiful girl1 of     
hardly seventeen years of age4 ,the     
wheel stood still by her side2 the      
spindle had fallen from her hands2 her  
head was bowed down as with sorrow she  
could not bear up against2 and her eyes 
were dropping tears like rain4  ,the    
moment she heard the door open she      
started1 and looked up with fear upon   
her face1 and strove to dash the tears  
from her eyes2 but the old woman bespoke

 her softly1 saying1 ,good even1 my     
dear2 is your mother in the place8  ,no1
 replied the girl2 she has gone to sell 
the lint1 and father is out too4 ,it is 
very lonely1 and ,i get sad here4  ,i do
 not wonder at it1 poor child1 said the 
old woman2 you have had a heavy loss1 my
 dear1 and may well cry4 ,you can't help
 what is past1 you know2 but we can do a
 good deal for what is to come1 if we   
but take care and make up our minds in  
time4  ,many and strange were the       
changes of expression which came upon   
the poor girl's face as she heard these 
few simple words4 ,at first her cheek   
glowed hot1 as with the burning blush of
 shame2 then she turned pale and        
trembled1 gazing inquiringly in her     
visitor's face1 as if she would have    
asked1 ,am ,i detected8 and then she    
cast down her eyes again1 still pale as 
ashes1 and the tears rolled forth once  
more and fell upon her lap4  ,the old   
woman sat down beside her1 and talked to
 her tenderly2 but1 alas6 very cunningly

 too4 ,she assumed far greater knowledge
 than she possessed4 ,she persuaded the 
poor girl that there was nothing to     
conceal from her2 and what neither      
father nor mother knew1 was told that   
day to one comparatively a stranger4    
,still the old woman spoke tenderly--ay1
 very tenderly2 excused her fault--made 
light of her fears--gave her hope--gave 
her strength4 ,but all the time she     
concealed her full purpose4 ,that was to
 be revealed by degrees4 ,whatever had  
been the girl's errors1 she was too     
innocent to be made a party to a scheme 
of fraud and wrong and vengeance at     
once4 ,all that the woman communicated  
was blessed comfort to a bruised and    
bleeding heart2 and the poor girl leaned
 her head upon her old companion's      
shoulder1 and1 amidst bitter tears and  
sobs and sighs1 poured out every secret 
of her heart4  ,but what is that she    
says1 which makes the old woman start   
with a look of triumph8  ,letters6 she  
exclaimed2 two letters3 let me see them1

 child--let me see them6 ,perhaps they  
may be more valuable than you think4    
,the girl took them from her bosom1     
where she kept them as all that she     
possessed of one gone that day into the 
tomb4  ,the old woman read them with    
slow eyes1 but eager attention2 and then
 gave them back1 saying1 ,that one you  
had better destroy as soon as           
possible--it tells too much4 ,but this  
first one keep1 as you value your own   
welfare--as you value your child's      
fortune1 station1 and happiness4 ,you   
can do much with this4 ,why1 here are   
words that may make your father a proud 
man4 ,hark6 ,i hear footsteps coming4   
,put them up--we must go to work        
cautiously1 and break the matter to your
 parents by degrees4  ,it was the mother
 of the girl who entered2 and she seemed
 faint and tired4 ,well had the old     
woman called her a drudge1 for such she 
was--a poor patient household drudge1   
laboring for a hard1 heartless1 idle1   
and cunning husband1 and but too        

tenderly fond of the poor girl whose    
beauty had been a snare to her4  ,she   
seemed somewhat surprised to see the old
 woman there2 for they were of different
 creeds1 and those creeds made wide     
separation in the days ,i speak of4     
,perhaps she was surprised and grieved  
to see the traces of tears and agitation
 on her daughter's face2 but of that she
 took no notice2 for there were doubts  
and fears at her heart which she dreaded
 to confirm4 ,the girl was more         
cheerful1 however1 than she had been for
 the last week--not gay1 not even calm2 
but yet there was a look of some relief4
  ,often even after her mother's        
entrance1 the tears would gather thick  
in her eyes when she thought of the     
dead2 but it was evident that hope had  
risen up3 that the future was not all   
darkness and terror4 ,this was a comfort
 to her2 and she spoke and looked       
cheerfully4 ,she had sold all the thread
 of her and her daughter's spinning1 and
 she had sold it well4 ,part she hid in 

a corner to keep a pittance for bread   
from her husband's eyes2 part she       
reserved to give up to him for the      
purchase of drink3 but while she made   
all these little arrangements1 she      
looked somewhat anxiously at the old    
woman1 from time to time1 as if she fain
 would have asked1 ,what brought you    
here8  ,the crone was cautious1 however1
 and knew well with whom she had to     
deal4 ,she talked in solemn and oracular
 tones1 as if she had possessed all the 
secrets of fate1 but she told nothing1  
and when she went away she said in a low
 voice but authoritative manner1 ,be    
kind to your girl--be very kind2 for she
 will bring good luck and fortune to you
 all4 ,the next day she laid wait for   
the husband1 found and forced him to    
stop and hear her4 ,at first he was     
impatient1 rude1 and brutal2 swore1     
cursed1 and called her many and evil    
names4 ,but soon he listened eagerly    
enough3 looks of intelligence and eager 
design passed between the two1 and ere  

they parted they perfectly understood   
each other4  ,the man was then1 on more 
than one day1 seen going down to the    
hall4 ,at first he was refused admission
 to ,sir ,john ,hastings2 for his       
character was known4 ,the next day1     
however1 he brought a letter written    
under his dictation by his daughter1 who
 had been taught at a charitable school 
of old foundation hard by2 and this time
 he was admitted4 ,his conversation with
 the ,lord of the ,manor was long2 but  
no one knew its import4 ,he came again  
and again1 and was still admitted4  ,a  
change came over the cottage and its    
denizens4 ,the fences were put in order1
 the walls were repaired1 the thatch    
renewed1 another room or two was added2 
plenty reigned within2 mother and       
daughter appeared in somewhat finer     
apparel2 and money was not wanting4  ,at
 the end of some months there was the   
cry of a young child in the house4 ,the 
neighbors were scandalized1 and gossips 
spoke censoriously even in the father's 

ears2 but he stopped them fiercely1 with
 proud and mysterious words2 boasted    
aloud of what they had thought his      
daughter's shame2 and claimed a higher  
place for her than was willingly yielded
 to her companions4 ,strange rumors got 
afloat1 but ere a twelvemonth had       
passed1 the father had drank himself to 
death4 ,his widow and her daughter and  
her grandson moved to a better house1   
and lived at ease on money none knew the
 source of1 while the cottage1 now neat 
and in good repair1 became the dwelling 
of the old woman1 who had been driven   
with scorn from ,sir ,john's presence4  
,was she satisfied--had she sated       
herself8 ,not yet4   ,,chapter ,,vii4   
,there was a lady1 a very beautiful lady
 indeed1 came to a lonely house1 which  
seemed to have been tenanted for several
 years by none but servants1 about three
 years after the death of ,sir ,john    
,hastings4 ,that house stood some miles 
to the north of the seat of that        
gentleman1 which now had passed to his  

son2 and it was a fine-looking place1   
with a massive sort of solemn           
brick-and-mortar grandeur about it1     
which impressed the mind with a sense of
 the wealth and long-standing of its    
owners4  ,the plural has slipped from my
 pen1 and perhaps it is right2 for the  
house looked as if it had had many      
owners1 and all of them had been rich4  
,now1 there was but one owner1--the lady
 who descended from that lumbering1     
heavy coach1 with the two great leathern
 wings on each side of the door4 ,she   
was dressed in widow's weeds1 and she   
had every right to wear them4 ,though   
two-and-twenty only1 she stood there    
orphan1 heiress1 and widow4 ,she had    
known many changes of condition1 but not
 of fate1 and they did not seem to have 
affected her much4 ,of high-born and    
proud parentage1 she had been an only   
child for many years before her parents'
 death4 ,she had been spoiled1 to use a 
common1 but not always appropriate      
phrase2 for there are some people who   

cannot be spoiled1 either because the   
ethereal essence within them is         
incorruptible1 or because there is no   
ethereal essence to spoil at all4       
,however1 she had been spoiled very     
successfully by fate1 fortune1 and kind 
friends4 ,she had never been            
contradicted in her life2 she had never 
been disappointed--but once4 ,she had   
travelled1 seen strange countries--which
 was rare in those days with women--had 
enjoyed many things4 ,she had married a 
handsome1 foolish man1 whom she         
chose--few knew rightly why4 ,she had   
lost both her parents not long after2   
got tired of her husband1 and lost him  
too1 just when the loss could leave     
little behind but a decent regret1 which
 she cultivated as a slight stimulant to
 keep her mind from stagnating4 ,and    
now1 without husband1 child1 or parents1
 she returned to the house of her       
childhood1 which she had not seen for   
five long years4  ,is that all her      
history8 ,no1 not exactly all4 ,there is

 one little incident which may as well  
be referred to here4 ,her parents had   
entered into an arrangement for her     
marriage with a very different man from 
him whom she afterwards chose1--,sir    
,philip ,hastings2 and foolishly they   
had told her of what had been done1     
before the young man's own assent had   
been given4 ,she did not see much of    
him--certainly not enough to fall in    
love with him4 ,she even thought him a  
strange1 moody youth2 but yet there was 
something in his moodiness and          
eccentricity which excited her fancy4   
,the reader knows that he chose for     
himself2 and the lady also married      
immediately after4  ,thus had passed for
 her a part of life's pageant2 and now  
she came to her own native dwelling1 to 
let the rest march by as it might4 ,at  
first1 as she slowly descended from the 
carriage1 her large1 dark1 brilliant    
eyes were fixed upon the ground4 ,she   
had looked long at the house as she was 
driving towards it1 and it seemed to    

have cast her into a thoughtful mood4   
,it is hardly possible to enter a house 
where we have spent many early years1   
without finding memory suddenly seize   
upon the heart and possess it totally4  
,what a grave it is6 ,what a long line  
of buried ancestors may not the present 
always contemplate there4  ,nor are     
there many received into the tomb worth 
so much respect as one dead hour4 ,all  
else shall live again2 lost hours have  
no resurrection4  ,there were old       
servants waiting around1 to welcome her1
 new ones attending upon her orders2 but
 for a moment or two she noticed no one1
 till at length the old housekeeper1 who
 knew her from a babe1 spoke out1       
saying1 ,ah1 madam6 ,i do not wonder to 
see you a little sad on first coming to 
the old place again1 after all that has 
happened4  ,ah1 indeed1 ,arnold1 replied
 the lady1 many sad things have happened
 since we parted4 ,but how are you1     
,goody8 ,you look blooming3 and walking 
into the house1 she heard the reply in  

the hall4  ,from the hall1 the old      
housekeeper led her lady through the    
house1 and mightily did she chatter and 
gossip by the way4 ,the lady listened   
nearly in silence2 for ,mrs4 ,arnold was
 generous in conversation1 and spared   
her companion all expense of words4 ,at 
length1 however1 something she said     
seemed to rouse her mistress1 and she   
exclaimed with a somewhat bitter laugh1 
,and so the good people declared ,i was 
going to be married to ,sir ,philip     
,hastings8  ,mr4 ,hastings he was then1 
madam1 answered the housekeeper2 to be  
sure they did4 ,all the country around  
talked of it1 and the tenants listened  
at church to hear the banns proclaimed4 
,the lady turned very red1 and the old  
woman went on to say1 ,old ,sir ,john   
seemed quite sure of it2 but he reckoned
 without his host1 ,i fancy4  ,he did   
indeed1 said the lady with an uncheerful
 smile1 and there the subject dropped   
for the time4 ,not long after1 however1 
the lady herself brought the            

conversation back to nearly the same    
point1 asked after ,sir ,philip's health
 and manner of living1 and how he was   
liked in the neighborhood1 adding1 ,he  
seemed a strange being at the time ,i   
saw him1 which was only once or         
twice--not likely to make a very        
pleasant husband1 ,i thought4  ,oh dear1
 yes1 madam1 he does1 answered ,mrs4    
,arnold1 many a worse1 ,i can assure    
you4 ,he is very fond of his lady       
indeed1 and gives up more to her than   
one would think4 ,he is a little stern1 
they say1 but very just and upright2 and
 no libertine fellow1 like his brother  
who was drowned--which ,i am sure was a 
providence1 for if he was so bad when he
 was young1 what would he have been when
 he was old8  ,better1 perhaps1 replied 
her mistress1 with a quiet smile2 but   
was he so very wicked8 ,i never heard   
any evil of him4  ,oh dear me1 madam6 do
 not you know8 exclaimed the old woman2 
and then came the whole story of the    
cotter's daughter on the hill1 and how  

she and her father and old ,mother      
,danby--whom people believed to be a    
witch--had persuaded or threatened ,sir 
,john ,hastings into making rich people 
of them4  ,persuaded or threatened ,sir 
,john ,hastings6 said the lady in a tone
 of doubt4 ,i knew him better than      
either of his sons2 and never did ,i see
 a man so little likely to yield to     
persuasion or to bow to menace2 and she 
fell into a deep fit of musing1 which   
lasted long1 while the old housekeeper  
rambled on from subject to subject1     
unlistened to1 but very well content4   
,let us dwell a little on the lady1 and 
on her character4 ,there is always      
something to interest1 something to     
instruct1 in the character of a woman4  
,it is like many a problem in ,euclid1  
which seems at first sight as plain and 
simple as the broad sunshine2 but when  
we come to study it1 we find intricacies
 beneath which puzzle us mightily to    
resolve4 ,it is a fine1 curious1        
delicate1 complicated piece of anatomy1 

a woman's heart4 ,i have dissected many1
 and ,i know the fact4 ,take and lay    
that fibre apart--take care1 for        
heaven's sake6 that you do not tear the 
one next to it2 and be sure you do not  
dissever the fragments which bind those 
most opposite parts together6 ,see1 here
 lies a muscle of keen sensibility2 and 
there--what is that8 ,a cartilage1 hard 
as a nether millstone4 ,look at those   
light1 irritable nerves1 quivering at   
the slightest touch2 and then see those 
tendons1 firm1 fixed1 and powerful as   
the resolution of a martyr4 ,oh1 that   
wonderful piece of organization6 who can
 describe it accurately8  ,i must not   
pretend to do so2 but ,i will give a    
slight sketch of the being before me4   
,there she stands1 somewhat above the   
usual height1 but beautifully formed1   
with every line rounded and flowing     
gracefully into the others4 ,there is   
calmness and dignity in the whole air1  
and in every movement2 but yet there is 
something very firm1 very resolute1 very

 considerate1 in the fall of that small 
foot upon the carpet4 ,she cannot intend
 her foot to stay there for ever2 and   
yet1 when she sets it down1 one would be
 inclined to think she did4 ,her face is
 very beautiful--every feature finely   
cut--the eyes almost dazzling in their  
dark brightness4 ,how chaste1 how lovely
 the fine lines of that mouth4 ,yet do  
you see what a habit she has of keeping 
the pearly teeth close shut--one pure   
row pressed hard against the other4 ,the
 slight sarcastic quiver of the upper   
lip does not escape you2 and the        
expanded nostril and flash of the eye1  
contradicted by the fixed motionless    
mouth4  ,such is her outward appearance1
 such is she too within--though the     
complexion there is somewhat darker4    
,much that1 had it been cultivated and  
improved1 would have blossomed into     
womanly virtue2 a capability of love1   
strong1 fiery1 vehement1 changeless--not
 much tenderness--not much pity1--no    
remorse--are there4 ,pride1 of a        

peculiar character1 but strong1         
ungovernable1 unforgiving1 and a power  
of hate and thirst of vengeance1 which  
only pride can give1 are there likewise4
 ,super-add a shrewdness--a policy--a   
cunning--nay1 something                 
greater--something approaching the      
sublime--a divination1 where passion is 
to be gratified1 that seldom leads      
astray from the object4  ,yes1 such is  
the interior of that fair temple1 and   
yet1 how calm1 sweet1 and promising it  
stands4  ,i have omitted much perhaps2  
for the human heart is like the caldron 
of the witches in ,macbeth1 and one     
might go on throwing in ingredients till
 the audience became tired of the song4 
,however1 what ,i have said will be     
enough for the reader's information2 and
 if we come upon any unexplained        
phenomena1 ,i must endeavor to elucidate
 them hereafter4  ,let us suppose the   
lady's interview with her housekeeper at
 an end--all her domestic arrangements  
made--the house restored to its air of  

habitation--visits received and paid4   
,amongst the earliest visitors were ,sir
 ,philip and ,lady ,hastings4 ,he came  
frankly1 and in one of his most happy   
moods1 perfectly ignorant that she had  
ever been made aware of there having    
been a marriage proposed between himself
 and her2 and she received him and his  
fair wife with every appearance of      
cordiality4 ,but as soon as these visits
 and all the ceremonies were over1 the  
lady began to drive much about the      
country1 and to collect every tale and  
rumor she could meet with of all the    
neighboring families4 ,her closest      
attention1 however1 centred upon those  
affecting the ,hastings' race2 and she  
found the whole strange story of the    
cottage girl confirmed1 with many       
another particular added4 ,she smiled   
when she heard this--smiled blandly--it 
seemed to give her pleasure4 ,she would 
fain have called upon the girl and her  
mother too4 ,she longed to do so1 and to
 draw forth with skill1 of which she    

possessed no small share1 the key secret
 of the whole4 ,but her station1 her    
reputation1 prevented her from taking a 
step which she knew might be noised     
abroad and create strange comments4     
,she resolved upon another move1        
however1 which she thought would do as  
well4 ,there would be no objection to   
her visiting her poorer neighbors1 to   
comfort1 to relieve2 and she went to the
 huts of many4 ,at length one early     
morning1 on a clear autumn day1 the     
carriage was left below on the high     
road1 and the lady climbed the hill     
alone towards the cottage1 where the    
girl and her parents formerly lived4    
,she found the old woman1 who was now   
its occupant1 busily cooking her morning
 meal2 and sitting down1 she entered    
into conversation with her4 ,at first   
she could obtain but little information2
 the old woman was in a sullen mood1 and
 would not speak of any thing she did   
not like4 ,money was of no avail to     
unlock her eloquence4  ,she had never   

asked or taken charity1 the old woman   
said1 and now she did not need it4  ,the
 lady pondered for a few minutes1       
considering the character of her ancient
 hostess1 trying it by her experience   
and intuition2 and thus she boldly asked
 her for the whole history of young     
,john ,hastings and the cottage girl4   
,tell me all1 she said1 for ,i wish to  
know it--,i have an interest in it4     
,ay8 said the old woman1 gazing at her1 
then you are the pretty lady ,sir       
,philip was to have married1 but would  
not have her8  ,the same1 replied the   
visitor1 and for an instant a bright red
 spot arose upon her cheek--a pang like 
a knife passed through her heart4  ,that
 was the price she paid for the         
gratification of her curiosity4 ,but it 
probably was gratified1 for she stayed  
nearly an hour and a half in the        
cottage--so long1 indeed1 that her      
servants1 who were with the carriage1   
became alarmed1 and one of the footmen  
walked up the hill4 ,he met his lady    

coming down4  ,poor thing1 she said1 as 
if speaking of the old woman she had    
just left1 her senses wander a little2  
but she is poor1 and has been much      
persecuted4 ,i must do what ,i can for  
her4 ,whenever she comes to the house1  
see she is admitted4  ,the old woman did
 come often1 and always had a conference
 with the lady of the mansion2 but here 
let us leave them for the present4 ,they
 may appear upon the stage again4       
,,chapter ,,viii4      ,,my ,,dear ,,sir
 ,,philip3  ,i have not seen you or dear
 ,lady ,hastings for many months2 nor   
your sweet ,emily either1 except at a   
distance1 when one day she passed my    
carriage on horseback1 sweeping along   
the hill-side like a gleam of light4 ,my
 life is a sad1 solitary one here2 and  
,i wish my friends would take more      
compassion upon me and let me see human 
faces oftener--especially faces that ,i 
love4  ,but ,i know that you are very   
inexorable in these respects1 and1      
sufficient to yourself1 cannot readily  

conceive how a lone woman can pine for  
the society of other more loving friends
 than books or nature4 ,i must1         
therefore1 attack the only accessible   
point ,i know about you1 meaning your   
compassion1 which you never refuse to   
those who really require it4 ,now ,i do 
require it greatly2 for ,i am at this   
present engaged in business of a very   
painful and intricate nature1 which ,i  
cannot clearly understand1 and in which 
,i have no one to advise me but a       
country attorney1 whose integrity as    
well as ability ,i much doubt4 ,to whom 
can ,i apply so well as to you1 when ,i 
need the counsel and assistance of a    
friend1 equally kind1 disinterested1 and
 clear-headed8 ,i venture to do so1     
then1 in full confidence1 and ask you to
 ride over as soon as you can1 to give  
me your advice1 or rather to decide for 
me1 in a matter where a considerable    
amount of property is at stake1 and     
where decision is required immediately4 
,i trust when you do come you will stay 

all night1 as the business is1 ,i fear1 
of so complicated a nature1 that it may 
occupy more than one day of your        
valuable time in the affairs of         
,your faithful and obliged servant1     
,,caroline ,,hazleton4  ,is ,mrs4       
,hazleton's messenger waiting8 asked    
,sir ,philip ,hastings1 after having    
read the letter and mused for a moment4 
,the servant answered in the            
affirmative2 and his master rejoined1   
,tell him ,i will not write an answer1  
as ,i have some business to attend to2  
but ,i beg he will tell his mistress    
that ,i will be with her in three hours4
  ,lady ,hastings uttered a low-toned   
exclamation of surprise4 ,she did not   
venture to ask any question--indeed she 
rarely questioned her husband on any    
subject2 but when any thing excited her 
wonder1 or1 as was more frequently the  
case1 her curiosity1 she was accustomed 
to seek for satisfaction in a somewhat  
indirect way1 by raising her beautiful  
eyebrows with a doubtful sort of smile1 

or1 as in the present instance1 by      
exclaiming1 ,good gracious6 ,dear me6 or
 giving voice to some other little      
vocative1 with a note of interrogation  
strongly marked after it4  ,in this case
 there was more than one feeling at the 
bottom of her exclamation4 ,she was     
surprised2 she was curious2 and she was1
 moreover1 in the least degree in the   
world1 jealous4 ,she had her share of   
weaknesses1 as ,i have said2 and one of 
them was of a kind less uncommon than   
may be supposed4 ,of her husband's      
conduct she had no fear--not the        
slightest suspicion4 ,indeed1 to have   
entertained any would have been         
impossible--but she could not bear to   
see him liked1 admired1 esteemed1 by any
 woman--mark me1 ,i say by any woman2   
for no one could feel more triumphant   
joy than she did when she saw him duly  
appreciated by men4 ,she was a great    
monopolizer3 she did not wish one       
thought of his to be won away from her  
by another woman2 and a sort of         

irritable feeling came upon her even    
when she saw him seated by any young and
 pretty girl1 and paying her the common 
attentions of society4 ,she was too well
 bred to display such sensations except 
by those slight indications1 or by a    
certain petulance of manner1 which he   
was not close observer enough of other  
people's conduct to remark4  ,not to    
dwell too long on such things1 ,sir     
,philip ,hastings1 though perfectly     
unconscious of what was going on in her 
heart1 rarely kept her long in suspense1
 when he saw any signs of curiosity4 ,he
 perhaps might think it a point of      
,roman virtue to spoil his wife1        
although she had very little of the     
,portia in her character4 ,on the       
present occasion1 he quietly handed over
 to her the letter of ,mrs4 ,hazleton2  
and then summoned a servant and gave    
orders for various preparations4  ,had  
not ,i and ,emily better go with you8   
asked ,lady ,hastings1 pointing out to  
him the passage in the letter which     

spoke of the long absence of all the    
family4  ,not when ,i am going on       
business1 replied her husband gravely1  
and quitted the room4  ,an hour after1  
,philip ,hastings was on horseback with 
a servant carrying a valise behind him1 
and riding slowly through the park4 ,the
 day was far advanced1 and the distance 
was likely to occupy about an hour and a
 half in travelling2 but the gentleman  
had fallen into a reverie1 and rode very
 slowly4 ,they passed the park gates2   
they took their way down the lane by the
 church and near the parsonage4 ,here   
,sir ,philip pulled in his horse        
suddenly1 and ordered the man to ride on
 and announce that he would be at ,mrs4 
,hazleton's soon after4 ,he then        
fastened his horse to a large hook1 put 
up for the express purpose on most      
country houses of that day in ,england1 
and walked up to the door4 ,it was ajar1
 and without ceremony he walked in1 as  
he was often accustomed to do1 and      
entered the little study of the rector4 

,the clergyman himself was not there2   
but there were two persons in the room1 
one a young and somewhat dashing-looking
 man1 one or two and twenty years of    
age1 exceedingly handsome both in face  
and figure2 the other personage past the
 middle age1 thin1 pale1 eager and      
keen-looking1 in whom ,sir ,philip      
instantly recognized a well known1 but  
not very well reputed attorney1 of a    
country town about twenty miles distant4
 ,they had one of the large parish books
 before them1 and were both bending over
 it with great appearance of            
earnestness4  ,the step of ,sir ,philip 
,hastings roused them1 and turning      
round1 the attorney bowed low1 saying1  
,i give you good day1 ,sir ,philip4 ,i  
hope ,i have the honor of seeing you    
well4  ,quite so1 was the brief reply1  
and it was followed by an inquiry for   
the pastor1 who it seemed had gone into 
another room for some papers which were 
required4  ,in the mean time the younger
 of the two previous occupants of the   

room had been gazing at ,sir ,philip    
,hastings with a rude1 familiar stare1  
which the object of it did not remark2  
and in another moment the clergyman     
himself appeared1 carrying a bundle of  
old letters in his hand4  ,he was a     
heavy1 somewhat timid man1 the reverse  
of his predecessor in all things1 but a 
very good sort of person upon the whole4
 ,on seeing the baronet there1 however1 
something seemed strangely to affect    
him--a sort of confused surprise1 which1
 after various stammering efforts1 burst
 forth as soon as the usual salutation  
was over1 in the words1 ,pray1 ,sir     
,philip1 did you come by appointment8   
,sir ,philip ,hastings1 as the reader   
already knows1 was a somewhat           
unobservant man of what was passing     
around him in the world4 ,he had his own
 deep1 stern trains of thought1 which he
 pursued with a passionate earnestness  
almost amounting to monomania4 ,the     
actions1 words1 and even looks of those 
few in whom he took an interest1 he     

could sometimes watch and comment on in 
his own mind with intense study4 ,true1 
he watched without understanding1 and   
commented wrongly2 for he had too little
 experience of the motives of others    
from outward observation1 and found too 
little sympathy with the general motives
 of the world1 in his own heart1 to     
judge even those he loved rightly4 ,but 
the conduct1 the looks1 the words of    
ordinary men1 he hardly took the trouble
 of remarking2 and the good parson's    
surprise and hesitation1 passed like    
breath upon a mirror1 seen perhaps1 but 
retaining no hold upon his mind for a   
moment4 ,neither did the abrupt question
 surprise him2 nor the quick1 angry look
 which it called up on the face of the  
attorney attract his notice2 but he     
replied quietly to ,mr4 ,dixwell1 ,i do 
not remember having made any appointment
 with you4  ,the matter was all well so 
far2 and would have continued well2 but 
the attorney1 a meddling fellow1 had    
nearly spoiled all1 by calling the      

attention of ,philip ,hastings more     
strongly to the strangeness of the      
clergyman's question4  ,perhaps1 said   
the man of law1 interrupting the baronet
 in the midst1 ,perhaps ,mr4 ,dixwell   
thought1 ,sir ,philip1 that you came    
here to speak with me on the business of
 the ,honorable ,mrs4 ,hazleton4 ,she   
told me she would consult you1 and ,i   
can explain the whole matter to you4    
,but the clergyman instantly declared   
that he meant nothing of the kind2 and  
at the same moment ,sir ,philip         
,hastings said1 ,i beg you will not1    
sir4 ,mrs4 ,hazleton will explain what  
she thinks proper to me1 herself4 ,i    
desire no previous information1 as ,i am
 now on my way to her4 ,why my good     
friend here should suppose ,i came by   
appointment1 ,i cannot tell4 ,however1  
,i did not2 and it does not matter4 ,i  
only wish1 ,mr4 ,dixwell1 to say1 that  
,i hear the old woman ,danley is ill and
 dying4 ,she is a papist1 and the       
foolish people about fancy she is a     

witch4 ,little help or comfort will she 
obtain from them1 even if they do not   
injure or insult her4 ,as ,i shall be   
absent all night1 and perhaps all       
to-morrow1 ,i will call at her cottage  
as ,i ride over to ,mrs4 ,hazleton's and
 inquire into her wants4 ,i will put    
down on paper1 and leave there1 what ,i 
wish my people to do for her2 but there 
is one thing which ,i must request you  
to do1 namely1 to take every means1 by  
exhortation and remonstrance1 to prevent
 the ignorant peasantry from troubling  
this poor creature's death-bed4 ,her sad
 errors in matters of faith should only 
at such a moment make us feel the       
greater compassion for her4  ,mr4       
,dixwell thought differently1 for though
 a good man1 he was a fanatic4 ,he did  
not indeed venture to think of          
disobeying the injunction of the great  
man of the parish--the man who now held 
both the ,hastings and the ,marshal     
property2 but he would fain have        
detained ,sir ,philip to explain and    

make clear to him the position--as clear
 as a demonstration in ,euclid to his   
own mind--that all ,roman ,catholics    
ought to be1 at the very least1 banished
 from the country for ever4  ,but ,sir  
,philip ,hastings was not inclined to   
listen1 and although the good man began 
the argument in a solemn tone1 his      
visitor1 falling into a fit of thought1 
walked slowly out of the room1 along the
 passage1 through the door1 and mounted 
his horse1 without effectually hearing  
one word1 though they were many which   
,mr4 ,dixwell showered upon him as he   
followed4  ,at his return to his little 
study1 the parson found the young man   
and the lawyer1 no longer looking at the
 book1 but conversing together very     
eagerly1 with excited countenances and  
quick gestures4 ,the moment he entered1 
however1 they stopped1 the young man    
ending with an oath1 for which the      
clergyman reproved him on the spot4     
,that is very well1 ,mr4 ,dixwell1 said 
the attorney1 and my young friend here  

will be much the better for some good   
admonition2 and for sitting under your  
ministry1 as ,i trust he will1 some day 
soon2 but we must go ,i fear directly4  
,however1 there is one thing ,i want to 
say2 for you had nearly spoiled every   
thing to-day4 ,no person playing at     
cards--  ,i never touch them1 said the  
parson1 with a holy horror in his face4 
,well1 others do1 said the attorney1 and
 those who do never show their hand to  
their opponent4 ,now1 law is like a game
 of cards--  ,in which the lawyer is    
sure to get the odd trick1 observed the 
young man4  ,and we must not have ,sir  
,philip ,hastings know one step that we 
are taking1 continued the lawyer4 ,if   
you have conscience1 as ,i am sure you  
have1 and honor1 as ,i know you have1   
you will not suffer any thing that we   
have asked you1 or said to you1 to      
transpire2 for then1 of course1 ,sir    
,philip would take every means to       
prevent our obtaining information4  ,i  
do not think it1 said the parson4  ,and 

justice and equity would be frustrated1 
proceeded the attorney1 which you are   
bound by your profession to promote4 ,we
 want nothing but justice1 ,mr4         
,dixwell3 justice1 ,i say2 and no one   
can tell what card ,sir ,philip may     
play4  ,i will trump it with the knave1 
said the young man to himself2 and      
having again cautioned the clergyman to 
be secret1 not without some obscure     
menaces of danger to himself1 if he     
failed1 the two gentlemen left him1 and 
hurried down1 as fast as they could go1 
to a small alehouse in the village1     
where they had left their horses4 ,in a 
few minutes1 a well known poacher1 whose
 very frequent habitation was the jail  
or the cage1 was seen to issue forth    
from the door of the alehouse1 then to  
lead a very showy looking horse from the
 stable1 and then to mount him and take 
his way over the hill4 ,the poacher had 
never possessed a more dignified        
quadruped than a dog or a donkey in his 
life2 so that it was evident the horse  

could not be his4 ,that he was not      
engaged in the congenial but dangerous  
occupation of stealing it1 was clear    
from the fact of the owner of the beast 
gazing quietly at him out of the window 
while he mounted2 and then turning round
 to the attorney1 who sat at a table    
hard by1 and saying1 he is off1 ,i      
think4  ,well1 let him go1 replied the  
lawyer1 but ,i do not half like it1     
,master ,john4 ,every thing in law      
should be cool and quiet4 ,no           
violence--no bustle4  ,but this is not a
 matter of law1 replied the younger man1
 it is a matter of safety1 you fool4    
,what might come of it1 if he were to   
have a long canting talk with the old   
wretch upon her death-bed8  ,very       
little1 replied the attorney1 in a calm 
well-assured tone1 ,i know her well4    
,she is as hard as a flint stone4 ,she  
always was1 and time has not softened   
her4 ,besides1 he has no one with him to
 take depositions1 and if what you say  
is true1 she'll not live till morning4  

,but ,i tell you1 she is getting        
frightened1 as she comes near death6    
exclaimed the young man4 ,she has got   
all sorts of fancies into her head2     
about hell1 and purgatory1 and the devil
 knows what2 and she spoke to my mother 
yesterday about repentance1 and         
atonement1 and a pack of stuff more1 and
 wanted extreme unction1 and to confess 
to a priest4 ,it would be a fine salve1 
,i fancy1 that could patch up the wounds
 in her conscience2 but if this ,philip 
,hastings were to come to her with his  
grave face and solemn tone1 and frighten
 her still more1 he would get any thing 
out of her he pleased4  ,i don't think  
it1 answered the lawyer deliberately2   
hate1 ,master ,john1 is the longest     
lived passion ,i know4 ,it lasts into   
the grave1 as ,i have often seen in     
making good men's wills when they were  
dying--sanctified1 good men1 ,i say4    
,why ,i have seen a man who has spent   
half his fortune in charity1 and built  
alms-houses1 leave a thoughtless son1 or

 a runaway daughter1 or a plain-spoken  
nephew1 to struggle with poverty all his
 life1 refusing to forgive him1 and     
comforting himself with a text or a     
pretence4 ,no1 no2 hate is the only     
possession that goes out of the world   
with a man3 and this old witch1 ,danby1 
hates the whole race of ,hastings with a
 goodly strength that will not decay as 
her body does4 ,besides ,sir ,philip is 
well-nigh as puritanical as his         
father--a sort of cross-breed between an
 ,english fanatic and an old ,roman     
cynic4 ,she abominates the very sound of
 his voice1 and nothing would reconcile 
her to him but his taking the mass and  
abjuring the errors of ,calvin4 ,ha6 ha6
 ha6 ,however1 as you have sent the     
fellow1 it cannot be helped4 ,only      
remember ,i had nothing to do with it if
 violence follows4 ,that man is not to  
be trusted1 and ,i like to keep on the  
safe side of the law4  ,ay1 doubtless1  
doubtless1 answered the youth1 somewhat 
thoughtfully2 it is your shield2 and    

better stand behind than before it4     
,however1 ,i don't doubt ,tom ,cutter in
 the least4 ,besides1 ,i only told him  
to interrupt them in their talk1 and    
take care they had no private gossip2 to
 stick there till he was gone1 and all  
that4  ,sir ,philip is not a man to bear
 such interruption1 said the attorney1  
gravely2 he is as quiet looking as the  
deep sea on a summer's day2 but there   
can come storms1 ,i tell you1 ,john1 and
 then woe to those who have trusted the 
quiet look4  ,then1 if he gets in a     
passion1 and mischief comes of it1      
replied the young man1 with a laugh1 the
 fault is his1 you know1 ,shanks4       
,true1 answered the attorney1           
meditating1 and perhaps1 by a little    
clever twisting and turning1 we might   
make something of it if he did1 were    
there any other person concerned but    
this ,tom ,cutter1 and we had a good    
serviceable witness or two4 ,but this   
man is such a rogue that his word is    
worth nothing2 and to thrash him--though

 the business of the beadle--would be no
 discredit to the magistrate4 ,besides1 
he is sure to give the provocation1 and 
one word of ,sir ,philip's would be     
worth a thousand oaths of ,tom          
,cutter's1 in any court in the kingdom4 
,as to thrashing him1 that few can do1  
replied the youth2 but only remember1   
,shanks1 that ,i gave no orders for     
violence4  ,i was not present1 replied  
the attorney1 with a grin2 you had      
better1 by a great deal1 trust entirely 
to me1 in these things1 ,master ,john4  
,if you do1 ,i will bring you safely    
through1 depend upon it2 but if you do  
not1 nobody can tell what may come4     
,here comes ,folwell1 the sexton4 ,now  
hold your tongue1 and let me manage him1
 sir4 ,you are not acquainted with these
 matters4   ,,chapter ,,ix4  ,did you   
ever examine an ant-hill1 dear reader8  
,what a wonderful little cosmos it      
is--what an epitome of a great city--of 
the human race6 ,see how the little     
fellows run bustling along upon their   

several businesses--see how some get out
 of each other's way1 how others jostle1
 and others walk over their fellows'    
heads6 ,but especially mark that black  
gentleman1 pulling hard to drag along a 
fat beetle's leg and thigh1 three times 
as large as his own body4 ,he cannot get
 it on1 do what he will2 and yet he tugs
 away1 thinking it a very fine haunch   
indeed4 ,he does not perceive1 what is  
nevertheless the fact1 that there are   
two others of his own race pulling at   
the other end1 and thus frustrating all 
his efforts4  ,and thus it is with you1 
and me1 and every one in the wide world4
 ,we work blindly1 unknowing the        
favoring or counteracting causes that   
are constantly going on around us1 to   
facilitate or impede our endeavors4 ,the
 wish to look into futurity is vain1    
irrational1 almost impious2 but what a  
service would it be to any man if he    
could but get a sight into ,fate's great
 workshop1 and see only that part in    
which the events are on the anvil that  

affect our own proceedings4 ,still1 even
 if we did1 we might not understand the 
machinery after all1 and only burn or   
pinch our fingers in trying to put      
pieces together which fate did not      
intend to fit4  ,in the mean time--that 
is to say while the attorney and his    
companion were talking together at the  
alehouse--,sir ,philip ,hastings rode   
quietly up the hill to the cottage ,i   
have before described1 and therefore    
shall not describe again1 merely        
noticing that it now presented an       
appearance of neatness and repair which 
it had not before possessed4 ,he tied   
his horse to the palings1 walked slowly 
up the little path1 gazing right and    
left at the cabbages and carrots on     
either side1 and then without ceremony  
went in4  ,the cottage had two tenants  
at this time1 the invalid old woman1 and
 another1 well-nigh as old but less     
decrepit1 who had been engaged to attend
 upon her in her sickness4 ,how she got 
the money to pay her no one knew1 for   

her middle life and the first stage of  
old age had been marked by poverty and  
distress2 but somehow money seems to    
have a natural affinity for old age4 ,it
 grows upon old people1 ,i think1 like  
corns2 and certainly she never wanted   
money now4  ,there she was1 lying in her
 bed1 a miserable object indeed to see4 
,she was like a woman made of           
fungus--not of that smooth1 putty-like1 
fleshy fungus which grows in dank       
places1 but of the rough1 rugged1 brown1
 carunculated sort which rises upon old 
stumps of trees and dry-rot gate-posts4 
,teeth had departed nearly a quarter of 
a century before1 and the aquiline      
features had become more hooked and     
beaky for their loss2 but the eyes had  
now lost their keen fire1 and were dull 
and filmy4  ,the attorney was quite     
right4 ,hate was the last thing to go   
out in the ashes where the spark of life
 itself lingered but faintly4 ,at first 
she could not see who it was entered the
 cottage2 for the sight now reached but 

a short distance from her own face4 ,but
 the sound of his voice1 as he inquired 
of the other old woman how she was going
 on1 at once showed her who it was1 and 
hate at least roused the dull cold ear  
of death4  ,for a moment or two she lay 
muttering sounds which seemed to have no
 meaning2 but at length she said1       
distinctly enough1 ,is that ,philip     
,hastings8  ,yes1 my poor woman1 said   
the baronet2 is there any thing ,i can  
do for you8  ,come nearer1 come nearer1 
she replied1 ,i cannot see you plainly4 
,i am close to you1 nevertheless1 he    
answered4 ,i am touching the bed on     
which you lie4  ,let me feel you1       
continued she--give me your hand4  ,he  
did as she asked him2 and holding by his
 hand1 she made a great struggle to     
raise herself in bed2 but she could not1
 and lay exhausted for a minute before  
she spoke again4  ,at length1 however1  
she raised her voice louder and shriller
 than before--,may a curse rest upon    
this hand and upon that head6 she       

exclaimed2 may the hand work its own    
evil1 and the head its own destruction6 
,may the child of your love poison your 
peace1 and make you a scoff1 and a      
by-word1 and a shame6 ,may the wife of  
your bosom perish by----  ,but ,sir     
,philip ,hastings withdrew his hand     
suddenly1 and an unwonted flush came    
upon his cheek4  ,for shame6 he said1 in
 a low stern tone1 for shame6  ,the next
 moment1 however1 he recovered himself  
perfectly2 and turning to the nurse he  
added1 ,poor wretch6 my presence only   
seems to excite evil feelings which     
should long have passed away1 and are   
not fit counsellors for the hour of     
death4 ,if there be any thing which can 
tend to her bodily comfort that the hall
 can supply1 send up for it4 ,the       
servants have orders4 ,would that any   
thing could be done for her spiritual   
comfort2 for this state is terrible to  
witness4  ,she often asks for a priest1 
your worship1 said the nurse4 ,perhaps  
if she could see one she might think    

better before she died4  ,alas1 ,i doubt
 it1 replied the visitor2 but at all    
events we cannot afford her that relief4
 ,no such person can be found here4  ,i 
don't know1 ,sir ,philip1 said the old  
woman1 with a good deal of hesitation2  
they do say that at ,carrington1 there  
is--there is what they call a seminary4 
,you do not mean a papist college6      
exclaimed the baronet1 with unfeigned   
surprise and consternation4  ,oh1 dear1 
no sir1 replied the nurse1 only a       
gentleman--a seminary--a seminary       
priest1 ,i think they call it2 a papist 
certainly2 but they say he is a very    
good gentleman1 all but that4  ,sir     
,philip mused for a minute or two1 and  
then turned to the door1 saying1        
,methinks it is hard that a dying woman 
cannot have the consolations of the     
rites of her own faith--mummery though  
they be4 ,as a magistrate1 my good      
woman1 ,i can give no authority in this 
business4 ,you must do as you think fit4
 ,i myself know of no priest in this    

neighborhood1 or ,i should be bound to  
cause his apprehension4 ,i shall take no
 notice of your word1 however1 and as to
 the rest1 you must1 as ,i have said1   
act as you think fit4 ,i did not make   
the laws1 and ,i may think them cruel4  
,did ,i make them1 ,i would not attempt 
to shackle the conscience of any one4   
,farewell1 and passing through the door1
 he remounted his horse and rode away4  
,it was in the early autumn time of the 
year1 and the scene was peculiarly      
lovely4 ,i have given a slight          
description of it before1 but ,i must   
pause and dwell upon it once more1 even 
as ,sir ,philip ,hastings paused and    
dwelt upon its loveliness at that       
moment1 although he had seen and watched
 it a thousand times before4 ,he was not
 very impressible by fine scenery4 ,like
 the sages of ,laputa1 his eyes were    
more frequently turned inwards than     
outwards2 but there was something in    
that landscape which struck a chord in  
his heart1 that is sure to vibrate      

easily in the heart of every one of his 
countrymen4  ,it was peculiarly         
,english--,i might say singularly       
,english2 for ,i have never seen any    
thing of exactly the same character     
anywhere else but in ,old               
,england--except indeed in ,new         
,england1 where ,i know not whether it  
be from the country having assimilated  
itself to the people1 or from the people
 having chosen the country from the     
resemblance to their own paternal       
dwelling place1 many a scene strikes the
 eye which brings back to the wandering 
,englishman all the old1 dear feelings  
of his native land1 and for a moment he 
may well forget that the broad ,atlantic
 rolls between him and the home of his  
youth4  ,but let me return to my        
picture4 ,sir ,philip ,hastings sat upon
 his horse's back1 very nearly at the   
summit of the long range of hills which 
bisected the county in which he dwelt4  
,i have described1 in mentioning his    
park1 the sandy character of the soil on

 the opposite slope of the rise2 but    
here higher up1 and little trodden by   
pulverizing feet1 the sandstone rock    
itself occasionally broke out in rugged 
maps1 diversifying the softer           
characteristics of the scene4 ,wide1 and
 far away1 on either hand1 the eye could
 wander along the range1 catching first 
upon some bold mass of hill1 or craggy  
piece of ground1 assuming almost the    
character of a cliff1 seen in hard and  
sharp distinctness1 with its plume of   
trees and coronet of yellow gorse1 and  
then1 proceeding onward to wave after   
wave1 the sight rested upon the various 
projecting points1 each softer and      
softer as they receded1 like the        
memories of early days1 till the last   
lines of the wide sweep left the mind   
doubtful whether they were forms of     
earth or clouds1 or merely fancy4  ,such
 was the scene on either hand1 but      
straightforward it was very different1  
but still quite ,english4 ,were you     
ever1 reader1 borne to the top of a very

 high wave in a small boat1 and did you 
ever1 looking down the watery mountain1 
mark how the steep descent1 into the    
depth below1 was checkered by smaller   
waves1 and these waves again by ripples8
 ,such was the character of the view    
beneath the feet of the spectator4      
,there was a gradual1 easy descent from 
the highest point of the whole county   
down to a river-nurtured valley1 not    
unbroken1 but with lesser and lesser    
waves of earth1 varying the aspect of   
the scene4 ,these waves again were      
marked out1 first by scattered and      
somewhat stunted trees1 then by large   
oaks and chestnuts1 not undiversified by
 the white and gleaming bark of the     
graceful birch4 ,a massive group of     
birches here and there was seen2 a      
scattered cottage1 too1 with its pale   
bluish wreath of smoke curling up over  
the tree-tops4 ,then1 on the lower slope
 of all1 came hedgerows of elms1 with   
bright1 green rolls of verdant turf     
between2 the spires of churches2 the    

roofs and white walls of many sorts of  
man's dwelling-places1 and gleams of a  
bright river1 with two or three arches  
of a bridge4 ,beyond that again appeared
 a rich wide valley--,i might almost    
have called it a plain1 all in gay      
confusion1 with fields1 and houses1 and 
villages1 and trees1 and streams1 and   
towns1 mixed altogether in exquisite    
disorder1 and tinted with all the       
variety of colors and shades that belong
 to autumn and to sunset4  ,down the    
descent1 the eye of ,sir ,philip        
,hastings could trace several roads and 
paths1 every step of which he knew1 like
 daily habits4 ,there was one1 a        
bridle-way from a town about sixteen    
miles distant1 which1 climbing the hills
 almost at its outset1 swept along the  
whole range1 about midway between the   
summit and the valley4 ,another1 by     
which he had come1 and along which he   
intended to proceed1 traversed the crest
 of the hills ere it reached the        
cottage1 and then descended with a wavy 

line into the valley1 crossing the      
bridle-path ,i have mentioned4 ,a wider 
path--indeed it might be called a road1 
though it was not a turnpike--came over 
the hills from the left1 and with all   
those easy graceful turns which         
,englishmen so much love in their       
highways1 and ,frenchmen so greatly     
abhor1 descended likewise into the      
valley1 to the small market-town1       
glimpses of which might be caught over  
the tops of the trees4 ,as the baronet  
sat there on horseback1 and looked      
around1 more than one living object met 
his eye4 ,to say nothing of some sheep  
wandering along the uninclosed part of  
the hill1 now stopping to nibble the    
short grass1 now trotting forward for a 
sweeter bite1--not to notice the oxen in
 the pastures below1 there was a large  
cart slowly winding its way along an    
open part of the road1 about half a mile
 distant1 and upon the bridle-path which
 ,i have mentioned1 the figure of a     
single horseman was seen1 riding quietly

 and easily along1 with a sauntering    
sort of air1 which gave the beholder at 
once the notion that he was what ,sterne
 would have called a picturesque        
traveller1 and was enjoying the prospect
 as he went4  ,on the road that came    
over the hill from the left1 was another
 rider of very different demeanor1 going
 along at a rattling pace1 and          
apparently somewhat careless of his     
horse's knees4  ,the glance which ,sir  
,philip ,hastings gave to either of them
 was but slight and hasty4 ,his eyes    
were fixed upon the scene before him1   
feeling1 rather than understanding1 its 
beauties1 while he commented in his     
mind1 after his own peculiar fashion4 ,i
 need not trace the procession of       
thought through his brain4 ,it ended1   
however1 with the half uttered words1   
,strange1 that such a land should have  
produced so many scoundrels1 tyrants1   
and knaves6  ,he then slowly urged his  
horse forward1 down the side of the     
hill1 soon reached some tall trees1     

where the inclosures and hedgerows      
commenced1 and was approaching the point
 at which the road he was travelling1   
crossed the bridle-path1 when he heard  
some loud1 and as it seemed to him1     
angry words1 between two persons he     
could not see4  ,i will soon teach you  
that2 cried a loud1 coarse tongue1      
adding an exceedingly blasphemous oath1 
which ,i will spare the reader4  ,my    
good friend1 replied another milder     
voice1 ,i neither desire to be taught   
any thing1 just now1 nor would you be   
the teacher ,i should chose1 if ,i did1 
though perchance1 in case of need1 ,i   
might give you a lesson1 which would be 
of some service to you4  ,sir ,philip   
rode on1 and the next words he heard    
were spoken by the first voice1 to the  
following effect2 ,curse me1 if ,i would
 not try that1 only my man might get off
 in the mean time2 and ,i have other    
business in hand than yours4 ,otherwise 
,i would give you such a licking in two 
minutes1 you would be puzzled to find a 

white spot on your skin for the next    
month4  ,two minutes would not detain   
you long1 replied the calmer voice1 and1
 as ,i have never had such a beating1 ,i
 should like to see1 first1 whether you 
could give it1 and secondly1 what it    
would be like4  ,upon my soul1 you are  
cool6 exclaimed the first speaker with  
another oath4  ,perfectly1 replied the  
second2 and1 at the same moment1 ,sir   
,philip ,hastings emerged from among the
 trees1 at the point where the two roads
 crossed1 and where the two speakers    
were face to face before his eyes4  ,the
 one1 who was in truth the sauntering   
traveller whom he has seen wending along
 the bridle-path1 was a tall1           
good-looking young man1 of three or four
 and twenty years of age4 ,in the other1
 the ,baronet had no difficulty in      
recognizing at once1 ,tom ,cutter1 the  
notorious poacher and bruiser1 whom he  
had more than once had the satisfaction 
of committing to jail4 ,to see him      
mounted on a very fine powerful horse1  

was a matter of no slight surprise to   
,sir ,philip2 but1 naturally concluding 
that he had stolen it1 and was making   
off with his prize for sale to the      
neighboring town1 he rode forward and   
put himself right in the way1 determined
 to stop him4  ,ay1 ay6 ,here is my man6
 cried ,tom ,cutter1 as soon as he saw  
him4 ,i will settle with him first1 and 
then for you1 my friend4  ,no1 no1 to an
 old proverb1 first come must be first  
served1 replied the traveller1 pushing  
his horse forward a few steps4  ,keep   
the peace1 in the ,king's name6         
exclaimed ,sir ,philip ,hastings4 ,i1 as
 a magistrate1 charge you1 sir1 to      
assist me in apprehending this          
man6--,thomas ,cutter1 get off that     
horse6  ,the only reply was a coarse and
 violent expletive1 and a blow with a   
thick heavy stick1 aimed right at ,sir  
,philip's head4 ,the magistrate put up  
his arm1 which received the blow1 and   
was nearly fractured by it2 but at the  
same moment1 the younger traveller      

spurred forward his horse upon the      
ruffian1 and with one sweep of his arm  
struck him to the ground4  ,tom ,cutter 
was upon his feet again in a moment4 ,he
 was accustomed to hard blows1 and like 
the immortal hero of ,butler1 could     
almost tell the quality of the stick he 
was beat withal4 ,he was not long in    
discovering1 therefore1 that the fist   
which struck him was of no ordinary     
weight1 and was directed with skill as  
well as with vigor2 but he was          
accustomed to make it his boast1 that he
 had never taken a licking from any man1
 which vanity caused him at once to risk
 such another blow1 in the hope of      
having his revenge4  ,rushing upon the  
young stranger then1 stick in hand1 he  
prepared to knock him from his horse2   
for the other appeared to have no       
defensive arms1 but a slight hazel twig1
 pulled from a hedge4  ,he will jump off
 the other side of his horse1 thought   
,tom ,cutter2 and then1 if he do1 ,i'll 
contrive to knock the nag over upon him4

 ,i know that trick1 well enough4  ,but 
the stranger disappointed him4 ,instead 
of opposing the horse between him and   
his assailant1 he sprung with one bound 
out of the saddle1 on the side next to  
the ruffian himself1 caught the uplifted
 stick with one hand1 and seized the    
collar of the bruiser's coat with the   
other4  ,tom ,cutter began to suspect he
 had made a mistake2 but1 knowing that  
at such close quarters the stick would  
avail him little1 and that strength of  
thews and sinews would avail him much1  
he dropped the cudgel1 and grappled with
 the stranger in return4  ,it was all   
the work of a moment4 ,sir ,philip      
,hastings had no time to interfere4     
,there was a momentary struggle1        
developing the fine proportions and     
great strength and skill of the         
wrestlers2 and then1 ,tom ,cutter lay on
 his back upon the ground4 ,the next    
instant1 the victor put his foot upon   
his chest1 and kept the ruffian forcibly
 down1 notwithstanding all is           

exclamations of ,curse me1 that isn't   
fair6 ,when you give a man a fall1 let  
him get up again6  ,if he is a fair     
fighter1 ,i do1 replied the other2 but  
when he plays pirate1 ,i don't-- ,then  
turning to ,sir ,philip ,hastings1 who  
had by this time dismounted1 he said1   
,what is to be done with this fellow1   
sir8 ,it seems he came here for the     
express purpose of assaulting you1 for  
he began his impertinence1 with asking  
if you had passed1 giving a very        
accurate description of your person1 and
 swearing you should find every dog     
would have his day4  ,his offence       
towards myself1 replied the ,baronet1 ,i
 will pass over1 for it seems to me1 he 
has been punished enough in his own way2
 but ,i suspect he has stolen this      
horse4 ,he is a man of notoriously bad  
character1 who can never have obtained  
such an animal by honest means4  ,no1 ,i
 didn't steal him1 ,i vow and swear1    
cried the ruffian1 in a piteous tone2   
for bullies are almost always cravens2  

he was lent to me by ,johny             
,groves--some call him another name2 but
 that don't signify4--,he lent him to   
me1 to come up here1 to stop your gab   
with the old woman1 ,mother ,danty2 and 
mayhap to give you a good basting into  
the bargain4 ,but ,i didn't steal the   
horse no how2 and there he is1 running  
away over the hill-side1 and ,i shall   
never catch him2 for this cursed fellow 
has well nigh broken my back4  ,served  
you quite right1 my friend1 replied the 
stranger1 still keeping him tightly down
 with his foot4 ,how came you to use a  
cudgel to a man who had none8 ,take my  
advice1 another time1 and know your man 
before you meddle with him4  ,in the    
mean time ,sir ,philip ,hastings had    
fallen into a profound reverie1 only    
repeating to himself the words ,john    
,groves4 ,now the train of thought which
 was awakened in his mind1 though not   
quite new1 was unpleasant to him2 for   
the time when he first became familiar  
with that name was immediately          

subsequent to the opening of his        
father's will1 in which had been found a
 clause ordering the payment of a       
considerable sum of money to some very  
respectable trustees1 for the purpose of
 purchasing an annuity in favor of one  
,john ,groves1 then a minor4  ,there had
 been something about the clause        
altogether which the son and heir of    
,sir ,john ,hastings could not          
understand1 and did not like4 ,however1 
the will enjoined him generally to make 
no inquiry whatsoever into the motives  
of any of the bequests1 and with his    
usual stern rigidity in what he         
conceived right1 he had not only asked  
no questions1 but had stopped bluntly   
one of the trustees1 who was about to   
enter into some explanations4 ,the money
 was paid according to directions       
received1 and he had never heard the    
name of ,john ,groves from that moment  
till it issued from the lips of the     
ruffian upon the present occasion4      
,what the man says may be true1 said    

,sir ,philip ,hastings1 at length2 there
 is a person of the name he mentions4 ,i
 know not how ,i can have offended him4 
,it may be as well to let him rise and  
catch his horse if he can2 but remember1
 ,master ,cutter1 my eye is upon you2   
two competent witnesses have seen you in
 possession of that horse1 and if you   
attempt to sell him1 you will hang for  
it4  ,i know better than to do that1    
said the bruiser1 rising stiffly from   
the ground as the stranger withdrew his 
foot2 but ,i can tell you1 ,sir ,philip1
 others have their eyes upon you1 so you
 had better look to yourself4 ,you hold 
your head mightily top high1 just now3  
but it may chance to come down4  ,sir   
,philip ,hastings did not condescend to 
reply1 even by a look2 but turning to   
the stranger1 as if the man's words had 
never reached his ear1 he said1 ,i think
 we had better ride on1 sir4 ,you seem  
to be going my way4 ,night is falling   
fast1 and in this part of the country   
two is sometimes a safer number to      

travel with than one4  ,the other bowed 
his head gravely1 and remounting their  
horses they proceeded on the way before 
them1 while ,tom ,cutter1 after giving  
up some five minutes to the condemnation
 of the eyes1 limbs1 blood1 and soul of 
himself and several other persons1      
proceeded to catch the horse which he   
had been riding as fast as he could4    
,but the task proved a difficult one4   
,,to ,,be ,,continued4  ,,footnotes3    
#bd ,entered according to ,act of       
,congress1 in the year #ahej1 by ,g4 ,p4
 ,r4 ,james1 in the ,clerk's ,office of 
the ,district ,court of the ,united     
,states for the ,southern ,district of  
,new ,york4     ,,cyprus ,,and ,,the    
,,life ,,led ,,there4   ,eidolon1 or the
 ,trial of a ,soul1 and other ,poems1 is
 the title of a new volume of verses    
from the press of ,pickering1 written by
 ,,walter ,r4 ,,cassels1 a student of   
the school of ,shelley1 and ,keats1 and 
,tennyson1 and ,browning4 ,a favorable  
specimen of his abilities is offered in 

the following description of ,cyprus3   
,amid it riseth ,olympus1       ,stately
 and grand as the throne of the gods1   
,and the island sleeps 'neath its shadow
     ,like a fair babe 'neath the care  
of its father4       ,streams clear as  
the diamond       ,evermore wander      
around it1     ,like the vein'd tide    
through our members1     ,quick with the
 blessings of beauty1     ,and health   
and verdurous pleasure1         ,filling
 with yellow sheaves     ,and plenty the
 bosom of ,ceres2     ,calling forth    
flowers from the slumbering earth1      
,like thoughts from the dream of a poet1
     ,till the island throughout is a   
garden1     ,the child and the plaything
 of summer4      ,in luscious clusters  
the fruit hangs     ,in the sunshine1   
melting away       ,from swetness to    
sweetness2     ,the grapes clustering   
'mid leaves1     ,that give their bright
 hue to the eye       ,like the setting 
of rubies2     ,the nectarines and      
pomegranates       ,glowing with crimson

 ripeness1     ,and the orange trees    
with their blossoms     ,yielding sweet 
odor to every breeze1         ,as the   
incense flows from the censer4      ,the
 air is languid with pleasure and love1 
,lulling the senses to dreams ,elysian1 
,making life seem a glorious trance1    
,full of bright visions of heaven1      
,safe from the touch of reality1        
,toil none--woe none--pain1     ,wild   
and illusive as sleep-revelations4      
,time to be poured like wine from a     
chalice         ,sparking and joyous for
 aye1       ,drain'd amid mirth and     
music1         ,the brows circled with  
ivy1       ,and the goblets at last like
 a gift         ,thrust in the bossom of
 slumber4          ,thus are the people 
of ,cyprus2     ,young men and old      
making holiday1         ,decking them   
daintily forth         ,in robes of     
,sidonian purple2     ,the maidens all  
beauteous1 but wanton1                  
,foolishly flinging youth's gifts1      
,its jewels--its richest adornment1     

,like dross on the altar of pleasure2   
,letting the worm of mortality          
,eat out their hearts till they bear    
,only the semblance of angels4     ,,the
 ,,count ,,monte-,,leone1  ,,or1 ,,the  
,,spy ,,in ,,society4#be   ,,translated 
,,for ,,the ,,international ,,monthly   
,,magazine ,,from ,,the ,,french ,,of   
,h4 ,,de ,,st4 ,,georges4  ,continued   
from page #fj4   ,,book ,,third4  ,we   
left young ,rovero in despair1 yielding 
to the stupefaction which overpowered   
him1 just as the singer leaned over his 
bed to be assured that he was asleep4   
,la ,felina looked at him for some time 
in silence1 with pity in her eyes4 ,why 
does he love me8 said she2 what have ,i 
done8 why should this poor lad love one 
who scarcely knew him8  ,rovero moved4  
,heavens6 is the effect of the narcotic 
over8 ,will he awaken8  ,felina6        
murmured ,taddeo4  ,my name ever on his 
lips and in his heart4 ,yes6 ,i was     
right in avoiding another interview3    
this letter tells all4 ,she took a paper

 from her bosom4 ,but if he resist my   
prayer1 if he shrink from the duty      
imposed on him by honor and humanity6   
,he alone can accomplish it--all my hope
 is in him6  ,she approached the table1 
and by the pale moonlight looked at the 
flask of ,massa wine4 ,a single glass   
had been taken from it4 ,one glass6 said
 she1 only one glass8 ,his sleep cannot 
be long4 ,this torpor will terminate    
before any one enters his cell4 ,but    
,lippiani the turnkey is devoted to me1 
and will see nothing4  ,drawing near the
 bed she took out of her fine hair a    
long gold pin1 with which to fasten the 
letter on his pillow1 so that his eyes  
would rest on it when he awoke4 ,while  
,felina's face was near ,rovero's as she
 put the letter beneath his head1 her   
warm breath hung on his lips2 they      
pressed hers1 and1 terrified1 she sprang
 from his side4  ,the prisoner dreamed  
of happiness1 and doubted not that his  
fancy was realized4 ,whether this kiss  
had overcome his torpor1 or whether1 as 

,la ,felina thought1 the narcotic had   
been taken in such small quantity that  
it had produced but a slight effect1    
,taddeo tossed on his bed4 ,the singer1 
terrified at these signs1 which were the
 precursors of his awakening1           
disappeared by the secret passages      
through which she had entered4 ,an hour 
rolled by before ,taddeo could triumph  
over his sleep4 ,his heavy eyes shut    
together in spite of himself1 and his   
eyelashes rested on each other4 ,all    
sensation was lost in general lassitude4
 ,in the first disorder of his mind1 he 
asked himself if he had not again       
dreamed of the appearance of ,la        
,felina4 ,had he not seen her           
approaching his bed just as he sunk to  
sleep1 he would have been sure of it4   
,he shuddered at the thought that he had
 lost the opportunity so anxiously      
expected4 ,at last he recovered his     
strength1 and attempted to rise4 ,as he 
did so1 his hand touched ,la ,felina's  
letter on the pillow4 ,when he drew out 

the diamond-headed pin which fastened   
it1 he no longer doubted that he had    
actually seen her4 ,having been unable  
to rouse him1 she had written to him4   
,he felt angry with himself4 ,he would  
have given ten years of his life to     
regain that one lost hour4 ,he went to  
the tall window of the chapel to invoke 
a single ray of the moon to enable him  
to read the lines which had been traced 
by the hand of the woman he worshipped4 
,this consolation was denied him4 ,the  
moon was hidden by clouds1 and the      
completest obscurity pervaded the       
prison4 ,what ,taddeo suffered during   
the time till day1 which it seemed to   
him would never dawn1 may be fancied1   
but not described4 ,his fate was in his 
own hands1 yet it was unknown4 ,ardently
 clasping to his heart and to his lips  
the perfumed paper on which ,felina had 
written1 his heart became intoxicated4  
,he passionately kissed the sheet on    
which the singer had left her words1 and
 a sad presentiment of misfortune took  

possession of him4 ,he almost feared the
 coming of day1 the light of which would
 reveal to him his fate4  ,day dawned1  
at first feeble1 then brighter1 and     
still brighter1 and finally brilliant   
and clear4 ,he opened the letter1 and   
his eyes glanced over it with tender    
earnestness4 ,a livid pallor overcast   
his features1 a nervous tremor shook    
him4 ,the lines traced by ,la ,felina he
 could not read2 and overcome by        
despair1 he sank to his seat4 ,the      
keeper entered4 ,signor1 said he to     
,taddeo1 the person who visited you     
three days ago asks permission to see   
you again4  ,who is he8 said            
,taddeo--his voice choked with grief4   
,the ,marquis de ,maulear4  ,the name   
recalled to the prisoner his mother and 
,aminta4 ,this memory soothed his       
wounded heart4 ,my mother1 my sister1   
thought he2 but for their tenderness    
what now would be my life6 ,show the    
,marquis in4  ,while the keeper was     
absent1 he hurried to the bed1 examined 

it anxiously as if in search for        
something which had escaped his         
observation4 ,seizing the letter1 he    
read anxiously the last lines1          
approached the bed1 and discovered the  
mysterious deposit ,la ,felina had      
placed under the pillow4 ,he took it and
 concealed it carefully in his clothing2
 and with an accent which betrayed the  
contest in his crushed heart1 he said   
aloud1 as if he wished some one to hear 
him1 ,you judged me correctly1 ,felina2 
misfortune will not make me unjust2 ,i  
will do what you ask6  ,a cry of joy    
echoed beneath the vault of the old     
chapel4 ,taddeo turned4 ,the cry had    
penetrated his heart4 ,but he was alone4
 ,just then ,henri de ,maulear entered4 
,yesterday evening1 ,signor ,rovero1    
confiding your promise1 ,i informed the 
minister that1 consulting with prudent  
reflections1 you would accept the pardon
 offered by the ,king4 ,you are free1   
and can now accompany me4  ,let us hurry
 to my mother1 ,monsieur1 said ,taddeo1 

casting one last look on the chapel     
walls1 which had shut up so much sorrow1
 happiness and torment4 ,he followed the
 ,marquis4 ,an hour afterwards two      
gentlemen on noble ,english steeds--the 
best the stables of the ,marquis        
afforded--rode toward ,sorrento4 ,one of
 these riders1 ,rovero1 was melancholy1 
so that even the ,french amiability of  
the ,marquis could not divert him from  
gloomy meditations4 ,ever and anon a    
smile hung on his lips1 till chased away
 by some painful memory4 ,the ,marquis  
de ,maulear1 satisfied that ,taddeo     
concealed a secret from him1 avoided any
 allusion to it1 with the delicacy and  
good taste which above all things fears 
indiscretion4 ,he feigned to attribute  
to the reserve of a new acquaintance his
 companion's coldness and absence of    
mind4 ,for his own part1 delighted at   
being able to restore this prodigal son 
to the parental roof1 anxious to see her
 whom he loved 7to whom1 relying on     
,taddeo's promise1 he had gone the      

evening before to announce her brother's
 return71 he could scarcely repress his 
delight4  ,signor1 said he to ,taddeo1  
at a moment when the state of the road  
forced them to slacken their pace1 we   
have arranged all3 we have left the     
festivities and pleasures of ,naples1   
and have nothing to say of your         
suffering and captivity4  ,not one word1
 ,monsieur1 if you please1 either of    
what ,i have passed through1 or of the  
sufferings of my friends4  ,i think your
 mother and sister know nothing of what 
you have undergone4 ,had they1 their    
suffering and alarm would have been     
great4 ,but do not flatter yourself that
 the arrest of ,count ,monte-,leone is  
unknown to them4 ,one of the ,neapolitan
 papers informed them yesterday of that 
fact2 and ,i do not hide from you1 that 
in my presence1 your mother deplored    
your unfortunate intimacy with one so   
adventurous and rash4  ,and what said   
,aminta8 asked ,rovero anxiously1 as if 
struck by a thought1 which hitherto had 

escaped him4  ,signorina said nothing1  
observed ,maulear1 with an air of       
surprise2 and he heard the news with the
 most perfect indifference4  ,to him she
 is unchanged1 murmured ,rovero4  ,low  
as was the tone in which this was       
uttered1 ,maulear heard it1 and could   
not repress the question1 which he put  
with great anxiety1 ,to whom is the     
,signorina always the same8  ,to him--to
 the ,count1 said ,taddeo4 ,i confide to
 you almost a family secret4 ,count     
,monte-,leone deeply loves my sister4   
,he never told me so1 but it is the     
case4 ,if he be restored to liberty1 as 
his friends hope1 it will be a good     
match for ,aminta4  ,every word of      
,rovero fell like a drop of boiling oil 
on the heart of ,maulear4  ,my father1  
said ,taddeo1 left us but a moderate    
fortune4 ,perhaps some day we may be    
rich--richer than the ,monte-,leone--for
 we are the only heirs of the ,roman    
,cardinal ,justiniani1 my mother's      
brother1 who1 as eldest son1 inherited  

all the property of my maternal         
grandfather4 ,as yet1 however1 our      
fortune in small1 though sufficient for 
my tastes and ideas4 ,but my mother and 
sister have other notions2 and the      
marriage of ,aminta and ,count          
,monte-,leone would assure her a        
magnificent and brilliant portion4  ,but
 if your sister does not love ,count    
,monte-,leone8  ,her refusal would make 
two persons unhappy2 first the ,count of
 ,monte-,leone1 and in the second       
place----  ,and in the second place8    
said ,maulear4  ,myself4  ,yourself6    
said ,maulear1 with surprise2 ,are you  
intent on their marriage8  ,yes1 replied
 ,taddeo1 with emotion2 now1 all my     
happiness depends on it4  ,maulear was  
amazed at these singular words4         
,scarcely had they been uttered1 when   
,taddeo spurred his horse sharply1 and  
rode toward the house of his mother1    
which he saw a few hundred yards        
distant4 ,henri followed him1 troubled1 
and for the first time1 with a          

care-marked brow1 paused at ,aminta's   
door4 ,a fond mother clasped her son to 
her bosom1 with that pleasure which a   
mother only knows4 ,aminta1 entirely    
recovered from her accident1 kissed her 
brother affectionately4  ,my son1 said  
,madame ,rovero to ,taddeo1 as she      
clasped the hand of ,maulear1 beyond all
 doubt the ,marquis has told you what we
 owe him4  ,the ,marquis has only told  
me how devoted he was to you4  ,well1   
said ,aminta1 ,i will be less discreet4 
,with exquisite grace she told ,taddeo  
all that had passed4  ,ah1 ,monsieur1   
said he1 opening his arms to the        
,marquis1 ,i would ,i could find some   
dearer name than friend to give you4    
,aminta blushed1 and looked down4       
,maulear saw the motion1 and a gentle   
hope stole over him4 ,the name which    
,taddeo could not think of1 perhaps1    
suggested itself to ,aminta4 ,it was the
 name ,maulear was so anxious to give   
,rovero4  ,aminta's brother wished to   
see the courageous child who had so     

heroically sacrificed himself for her4  
,all followed ,signora ,rovero to the   
room of the invalid4 ,he was better4    
,the great inflammation of his face had 
disappeared1 and his eyes had returned  
to their orbits4 ,apparently he was     
rapidly recovering2 but the cruel       
prediction of the physician seemed about
 to be verified3 ,he will live1 but will
 never speak again4 ,only harsh and     
broken sounds escaped the invalid's     
lips4  ,aminta1 who had become          
,scorpione's nurse as soon as she was   
able to leave her room1 had already     
learned to discriminate between the     
modulations of his voice4 ,a kind of    
mute groan called her to him2 a hiss    
expressed pain or impatience2 but when  
his violent and almost savage nature was
 excited1 a terrible bellowing was      
heard1 and the bravest heart might quail
 at the inhuman sound4 ,tonio was asleep
 when the visitors entered his room1 but
 he awoke1 and without seeming surprised
 at the curious faces that surrounded   

his bed1 looked at them earnestly4  ,he 
first recognized ,taddeo1 and a         
contraction of his lips1 which1 bent    
from their deformity1 might have been   
called a smile1 testified his pleasure  
at the visit4 ,aminta's presence always 
produced a strange effect on ,scorpione1
 which his inability to speak enhanced4 
,his eyes1 of pale green1 became        
suddenly lighted up with a peculiar and 
gentle languor1 which was so tender that
 they seemed almost attractive4 ,this   
singular magnetism had a novel effect on
 the invalid4 ,but his brow soon became 
contracted2 a violent storm seemed to   
agitate his heart2 and the hissing was  
heard4  ,what is the matter8 asked      
,taddeo4 ,aminta said she did not know4 
,he had perhaps some new suffering1 or  
something put him out of humor4         
,following the direction of ,tonio's    
eyes1 she saw they rested sparkling and 
bright on those of ,maulear4 ,aminta    
quailed1 and ,henri1 who saw her        
tremble1 hurried to sustain her4 ,he    

thought the strength of the young       
convalescent needed this aid4 ,but at   
the moment when the girl accepted the   
arm of ,maulear1 ,scorpione rose and    
uttered the horrible cry by which he    
expressed his impotent fury4 ,all       
shuddered as they heard him4 ,aminta let
 go ,maulear's arm1 and quickly sought1 
by gesture and words1 to soothe the     
,cretin1 as she would appease an angry  
child4 ,he became soothed at once1 and  
,signora ,rovero left him1 followed by  
,taddeo1 ,maulear1 and ,aminta2 but     
,aminta did not take ,maulear's arm4    
,,ii4 ,a ,,night ,,at ,,sorrento4  ,a   
feeling of uneasiness had suddenly taken
 possession of ,maulear while in the    
presence of ,aminta and ,tonio4 ,but he 
had not remarked the smile of happiness 
which played on the features of the     
invalid when ,aminta1 with the most     
natural air in the world1 took the arm  
of her mother instead of his own4       
,signor1 said ,aminta's mother to the   
,marquis1 as they went into the hall1 do

 not suffer this festival in honor of   
the return of my son to be celebrated   
without your presence4 ,share our family
 meal1 and be satisfied that in doing so
 you will gratify us all4  ,the offer   
delighted ,maulear1 and time flew by    
with the rapidity love only confers on  
it when passed in the presence of loved 
ones4  ,about dinner time two strangers 
came to the villa1 the ,count ,brignoli 
and his son4 ,the ,count was an old     
minister of war of ,murat1 and had been 
a colleague of ,taddeo's father4 ,he was
 one of the best friends of ,rovero's   
widow and daughter4 ,a country neighbor1
 he often visited them4 ,his son        
,gaetano had been educated and brought  
up with ,aminta1 and a close friendship 
had been the consequence4 ,gaetano was  
twenty years of age1 and his features   
bore the imprint of masculine and       
impressive ,neapolitan beauty1 deficient
 neither in the dark locks nor black    
though somewhat glassy eye1 which is as 
it were the ordinary seal of the        

countenances of the men of the south4   
,the arrival of these visitors          
displeased ,maulear4 ,the beauty of     
,gaetano struck him unpleasantly4 ,the  
intimacy between ,aminta and the young  
man1 though thus explained1 wounded him4
 ,during the whole day he fancied that  
he discovered a thousand of those little
 trifles which a lover treasures up so  
carefully1 and also that ,aminta seemed 
happy in his presence4 ,his anxiety had 
begun to pass away1 when a new          
circumstance revived it4 ,aminta1 who   
was a perfect musician1 went to the     
piano1 and sang some of those charming  
canzonets which are so sweet and        
touching1 like the flowers of this      
country of melody4 ,the voice of ,aminta
 found an echo in the heart of ,maulear1
 and his ecstasy was at its height1 when
 ,gaetano joined her and sang the       
charming duo from ,romeo e ,julietta1   
the chef-d'oeuvre of ,zingarelli4 ,the  
jealous ,maulear1 as he heard this      
passionate music1 could not believe that

 art alone inspired the singer4 ,he     
trembled when he thought1 that as       
,julietta loved ,romeo1 ,aminta might   
adore ,gaetano4  ,unable to repress the 
agitation which took possession of him1 
,maulear left the saloon at the end of  
the duo1 to superintend the preparations
 for his departure4 ,the night was dark1
 and pale lightning shot through the    
sky1 foreboding a storm4 ,the ,marquis  
could not repress his mortification4    
,the voices of ,aminta and the young    
,italian1 blended together1 followed him
 wherever he went ,people1 thought he1  
only sing thus when they are linked     
together by love4 ,art alone cannot give
 so passionate an expression to their   
tones4 ,indeed1 what sentiment can be   
more natural8 ,educated together1 always
 near each other1 their affection cannot
 but have grown up with them1 so that   
now they perceive the effect without    
being aware of the cause4 ,they love    
each other because they were born to do 
so1 as birds mate in the spring because 

it is the season of love4 ,the spring of
 ,gaetano and ,aminta is come4 ,how can 
,i1 a stranger to this young girl1 hope 
to please her8 ,her real preserver was  
not ,i1 but the unfortunate ,tonio4 ,her
 gratitude to me then must be very      
feeble4 ,besides1 does gratitude lead to
 love8  ,as he indulged in these painful
 reflections1 his eyes became fixed on  
the skies1 already damascened with black
 clouds4 ,he strode rapidly across the  
court of the villa until he saw in front
 of him ,gaetano ,brignoli4 ,maulear    
could not repress a sentiment of anger  
at seeing him1 and one of those emotions
 inconsiderately indulged in1 and which 
reflection often punishes1 though too   
late1 took possession of him4  ,signor1 
said he to the young man1 you love the  
,signorina ,aminta ,rovero4 ,gaetano1   
surprised at the sudden rencontre in the
 dark1 and yet more amazed at the       
excited tone of the ,marquis1 looked at 
him1 and in his dark black eyes shone   
neither anger nor indignation1 but only 

astonishment at the question4  ,i have  
the honor to ask you1 said ,maulear1 now
 become more calm1 having more command  
of himself1 and blushing at his first   
uncivil question1 if you do not 7and it 
is very natural7 feel a deep and tender 
affection for your childhood's friend1  
the ,signorina ,aminta ,rovero8  ,if ,i 
love ,aminta8 replied ,gaetano4 ,ah6    
,monsieur1 who would not love her6 ,do  
you know a more beautiful girl in       
,naples8 ,do you know any one more      
cultivated and refined than she8        
,certainly not1 said the ,marquis1 with 
a voice of half-stifled emotion4  ,she  
is my childhood's friend1 the companion 
of my sports4 ,with her ,i received my  
first lessons in music4 ,the divine art 
,i adore4 ,you all know we accord1      
exactly4 ,i often sing false1 my teacher
 tells me1 but she never does4  ,to hear
 one the heart loves and adores1 spoken 
of with qualification and familiarity by
 a stranger1 is often an acute pain to a
 lover1 so acute1 that even the         

familiarity of a brother with a sister  
often causes distress to certain minds4 
,some jealous souls think this a robbery
 of friendship1 and a profanation of    
their idol4  ,maulear1 wounded that the 
cherished name of ,aminta should be so  
cavalierly treated by ,gaetano1 replied 
with ill-disguised temper1  ,i          
understand1 ,signor1 that there is      
nothing false1 even musically speaking1 
in the sentiments expressed by you to   
,signora ,rovero4 ,perhaps this is an   
exception to your usual habits1 as your 
professor says4 ,but were he to find    
fault with the correctness of your      
tones1 he could not censure the         
sincerity of the passion breathed       
through them4  ,is not that true8 said  
,gaetano1 really flattered at ,maulear's
 compliment4 ,it is exalted1 distinct1  
and intense4 ,it is of a good school1   
and of the lofty style of ,tacchinardi4 
,ah6 ,signor1 replied ,maulear          
impatiently1 you know as well as ,i do1 
that no artist1 however skilful and     

great1 can express love as lovers do4   
,the fact is1 continued ,gaetano1 that  
,zingarelli must have loved some        
,julietta1 when he wrote his ,romeo4    
,and you1 answered ,maulear1 must adore 
,signorina ,aminta1 to play so well the 
part of ,romeo6  ,certainly1 said       
,gaetano1 smiling2 and ,i know very few 
tenors in ,san ,carlo who sing that duo 
as ,i do4 ,all must confess that there  
is no ,julietta like her4  ,maulear was 
amazed1 and could make no reply4 ,the   
young man either was sincere1 and had   
not understood him1 or he had affected  
not to do so1 assuming the remarks of   
his companion to refer to the singer1   
and not to the lover4 ,he positively    
refused to become ,maulear's confidant1 
and by his adroitness and tact made     
himself understood4 ,the result of all  
this was1 that ,maulear remained in a   
cruel state of doubt in relation to the 
sentiments ,gaetano entertained for     
,aminta1 and1 what was yet more painful1
 in relation to those of ,aminta for    

,gaetano4  ,excuse me1 ,marquis1 said   
the young man to ,maulear1 our          
conversation is so unexpected1 that ,i1 
in my surprise1 forgot a commission with
 which ,i was charged by ,signora       
,rovero4 ,i sought you to inform you of 
it1 when our conversation was diverted  
to something else4 ,signora ,rovero1    
fancying that you were superintending   
the preparations for your departure1    
wishes you to postpone them until       
to-morrow1 as the night is dark and the 
road difficult and dangerous4 ,look1    
said he1 at these large drops of rain1  
which are the avant-couriers of a       
violent storm4  ,indeed1 said ,maulear1 
,i will then accompany you to the       
ladies4  ,when they returned to the     
room1 they found ,signora ,rovero       
talking with the ,count ,brignoli1 and  
,taddeo1 with his head on his hand1 lost
 in sad meditation4 ,leaning on the back
 of his chair1 was the poetic figure of 
,aminta4 ,her long black curls fell over
 her brother's brow1 and when he looked 

up to see what it was that hung over    
him1 she leaned her face towards his    
until their lips met4  ,brother1 said   
she1 ,i closed your eyes on purpose that
 ,i might hide what ,i see in them4     
,what do you see there1 my dear sister8 
,i see1 said she1 by their sadness and  
languor1 that my brother has three      
pieces of a heart4 ,two he keeps for my 
mother and myself1 but the third--  ,is 
for none1 said ,taddeo1 rising4  ,very  
well1 very well1 ,monsieur1 said        
,aminta1 piqued4 ,no one asks you for   
your secret4 ,we take an interest only  
in those we love--and ,i love you no    
more4  ,my good sister1 said ,taddeo1   
clasping her hands with emotion1 love   
me1 love me better than ever1 for ,i    
have more need of your affection4       
,aminta threw herself in his arms4      
,what is all that8 said their mother1   
looking around4  ,a family drama1 said  
,gaetano1 who had just come in with     
,maulear4  ,yes1 ,gaetano1 said ,signora
 ,rovero1 and a happy scene of that     

drama2 for ,i know of no family more    
fortunate than mine4  ,aminta drew near 
to ,maulear1 and her manner was so kind1
 and she paid such attention to her     
guest1 that ,maulear felt his uneasiness
 pass away and his confidence return4   
,just then the storm burst in all its   
fury4 ,the wind whistled violently among
 the tall trees of the park4 ,signora   
,rovero kept her three guests4 ,a night 
passed beneath the same roof with       
,aminta1 gratified every wish of the    
,marquis1 and promised him an           
opportunity on the next day to declare  
himself to the ,rose of ,sorrento1 and  
confirm or dissipate his jealous doubts4
  ,signora ,rovero wished to discharge  
every duty of hospitality to her guest1 
and escorted him herself to the room he 
was to occupy4 ,this room1 said she to  
,maulear1 was long occupied by my dear  
daughter2 but after the death of her    
father we altered our arrangements1 and 
,aminta is now in my own room4 ,since   
that time it has been occupied by our   

young friend ,gaetano ,brignoli4 ,i have
 to-night placed him elsewhere1 to be   
able to give you the best room4         
,maulear quivered with joy at the idea  
of occupying the room in which she he   
adored had slept1 and it was with a kind
 of veneration that he took possession  
of it4 ,the room was on the first story1
 in the right wing of the villa1 and    
looked on a terrace covered with        
flowers1 and communicating with all the 
rooms of the first floor4 ,it was       
possible to reach1 in two ways1 the     
rooms of the first story--from the      
interior of the building1 and from the  
exterior by this elegant terrace4 ,but  
,maulear did not observe that night the 
situation of his room4  ,the early days 
of ,march having been colder than those 
of ,february1 after a strange season1   
which well-nigh had deposed winter from 
its throne1 and the injury ,aminta had  
received not having permitted her to    
leave her room1 during his previous     
visits the ,marquis had not examined the

 residence of ,signora ,rovero4 ,the    
terrace on which his window opened was  
therefore completely unknown to him4    
,for about two hours after ,maulear had 
been conducted to the old room of       
,aminta by ,signora ,rovero1 he was so  
agitated by the events of the evening   
that he could not consent to seek       
repose4 ,love1 hope1 and jealousy1      
disputed for the possession of his      
heart4 ,seated in a vast arm-chair1 near
 the hearth1 the fire on which flickered
 faintly1 the eyes of ,maulear were     
mechanically directed to one of the     
windows of his room1 by the beating of  
the rain against it4 ,all at once he    
saw1 or thought he saw1 a white figure  
on the other side of the window pause   
for a few instants1 as if it sought to  
enter his room4 ,maulear fancied himself
 under the influence of a dream4 ,he    
rubbed his eyes1 to be sure that he was 
awake1 and that his sight did not       
deceive him4 ,he hurried towards the    
window and opened it hastily4 ,but as he

 moved1 and his steps were heard1 the   
nocturnal visitor disappeared1 and      
,maulear lost sight of it amid the      
shadows of night4 ,for a moment he      
thought it some aerial being1 flitting  
through space1 and coming1 like the     
djinns of the ,east1 to watch by night  
over the faithful believer4 ,but his    
poetry gave way to material evidence1   
and the sight of the terrace1 of whose  
existence he had had no suspicion1      
proved that the djinn was really a human
 being1 who for some unknown motive had 
wandered across it1 and was by no means 
so unreal as he had supposed4 ,the idea 
of crime and theft occurred to him4 ,he 
was about to follow the person who fled1
 when he saw on the terrace1 before his 
window1 an object which he immediately  
picked up1 and examined by the light of 
his lamp4 ,it was a veil of white lace1 
at that time the ordinary dress of      
,neapolitan women1 a vaporous cloud in  
which they framed their features1 the   
relic of a fashion imported from        

,france1 and made illustrious by the    
pencil of our ,irabey1 the great        
portrayer of the grace and beauty of the
 empire4  ,it is beyond doubt some      
love-scrape1 thought ,maulear1          
interrupted by my occupying this        
bedroom2 and the heroine of the         
adventure1 having come to the window to 
ascertain whether or not ,i slept1 has  
fled1 losing a portion of her drapery1  
like a frightened sheep running through 
thorns4 ,when1 however1 he had examined 
the veil more closely1 ,maulear observed
 its elegance and richness1 and began to
 think which of the inmates of the villa
 was likely to wear such a one4 ,was    
this the headdress of a chambermaid8 ,if
 not1 who else but ,aminta could wear   
it1 unless indeed her mother did8 ,lost 
in conjectures1 the ,marquis was roused 
by hearing a door in the same corridor  
on which his room was1 open4 ,he        
listened4 ,two persons spoke in a low   
tone2 and walking with such precaution  
that it was evident they had no         

disposition to be overheard4 ,such an   
occurrence1 in a house usually so silent
 and calm1 excited ,maulear's curiosity 
so much1 that he resolved to know who   
the mysterious personages were4         
,silently leaving his room1 he went down
 the long corridor through which those  
he wished to follow had preceded him4 ,a
 faint light from a dark lantern1 borne 
by one of the strangers1 fell on the    
path in front of them1 and was a guide  
to ,maulear4 ,thus they descended the   
principal staircase of the villa1       
crossed the ground floor1 and entered   
the front court4 ,a puff of wind just   
then put out the lantern1 as the person 
who bore it was attempting to brighten  
its flame4  ,fool6 said one of the two  
men to his companion4 ,how can ,i saddle
 my horse now8  ,it is already saddled1 
said the other4  ,then ,i have nothing  
to do but mount6  ,and you will not have
 occasion to use the spur1 said the man 
with the lantern1 for he is wild1 from  
having been three weeks in his stable4  

,as the two speakers thus communed1 they
 entered the second courtyard of the    
villa4 ,maulear had followed them       
thither1 hidden in the deep shadow4 ,a  
horse1 ready saddled1 was waiting there4
 ,one of the two men sprang lightly into
 the saddle1 and the other1 as he opened
 a gate into the fields1 through which  
the horseman rode1 said1 in a voice full
 of fear1 ,may ,god protect you in this 
terrible midnight storm1 ,signor        
,taddeo4 ,beware of the road down the   
ravine1 and be careful whom you meet4   
,,iii4--,,the ,,avowal4  ,maulear1      
uneasy and disturbed by what he had     
seen1 returned to his room4 ,what could 
induce ,taddeo thus to leave his        
mother's house1 alone1 at midnight1 and 
in a storm8 ,could it be that1 so       
recently liberated1 he was about to     
begin again that life of plot and       
sedition which already had cost him his 
liberty8 ,a deep interest united        
,maulear to ,taddeo4 ,the love he felt  
toward the sister1 made him devoted to  

the brother1 and the new dangers which  
might befall the young man seriously    
affected ,maulear4 ,the night passed    
away without his being able to sleep4   
,in addition to fear on account of      
,taddeo1 his heart was yet agitated by  
the emotions of the previous day2 but   
above all1 he thought of the woman who  
had stood at his window1 and whose      
appearance he could not forget4 ,a      
terrible idea then occurred to him4 ,the
 room he occupied had been that of      
,gaetano ,brignoli4 ,had this young     
girl1 apparently so pure and modest1 had
 the ,white ,rose of ,sorrento1 any     
secret amour or intrigue8 ,the young man
 who had seen the companion of her      
infancy might know of it4 ,could this   
charming flower be already scorched by  
the hot breath of passion8 ,maulear     
reproached himself as with a crime1 for 
the mental profanation of his divinity4 
,the morning meal assembled together all
 the family and guests4 ,taddeo         
participated in it as naturally as if he

 had passed the whole night in the      
villa1 and not a word was said of his   
nocturnal expedition4 ,he was not so    
melancholy and moody as he had been on  
the previous night1 and a careful       
observer might have marked on his       
features the satisfaction following the 
performance of a painful duty4 ,the     
,brignoli bade adieu to ,signora ,rovero
 immediately after breakfast1 and       
returned to their villa4 ,maulear was   
delighted at their departure4  ,marquis1
 said ,taddeo1 permit me to treat you as
 a friend1 and ask a favor of you--a    
favor that will require you to renounce 
the brilliant saloons of ,naples1 whose 
chief ornaments are the attaches of the 
,french embassy1 to lead for a time a   
retired country-life with my mother and 
sister8  ,if that be the favor you ask  
of me1 said ,maulear with joy1 you      
confer one on me4 ,i accept your        
proposition with gratitude4  ,what are  
you thinking of1 brother8 ,how can you  
propose such an exile to the ,marquis8  

,our life in the country is so sad and  
melancholy2 what can we offer him as a  
compensation for the amusements he would
 sacrifice8  ,where would be the merit  
of the service1 unless its performance  
cost some sacrifice8 said ,taddeo4 ,in  
one word1 this is the state of affairs4 
,an obligation1 my honor imposes on me1 
requires me for at least a week to be   
absent from ,sorrento4 ,the trial of    
,count ,monte-,leone will begin in a few
 days1 and ,i must be present at it4 ,it
 is said1 added he1 with hesitation and 
a significant glance at the ,marquis1   
that the ,count's partisans will on that
 occasion be active4 ,his enemies too   
are numerous1 and as he is known to have
 come to this house1 ,i cannot feel     
satisfied unless some courageous and    
energetic man replaces me1 and deigns to
 watch over the two dear beings ,i am   
forced to leave4 ,this1 ,marquis1 is    
what ,i expect from you4  ,my heart1 my 
arm1 my life1 are all at the ladies'    
disposal4 ,you may rely on me4  ,aminta 

looked down1 for the first consecration 
made by ,maulear was evidently intended 
for her4 ,taddeo did not remark it1 and 
clasped with gratitude the hand of his  
new friend4 ,signora ,rovero1 terrified 
at the idea of losing her son again1    
looked sadly at him4  ,i do not know    
what is going on1 said she with emotion1
 and with that instinct which reveals to
 a mother the danger of a beloved son4  
,i shudder1 however1 ,taddeo1 when ,i   
see you surrounded by danger4 ,you do   
not like the government1 ,i know1 for by
 the fall of ,murat a brilliant career  
was closed before you1 for your father  
was one of his greatest favorites4 ,but 
in your father's name ,i1 your mother1  
his widow1 whose hope and support you   
are1 beseech you not to expose the life 
which does not belong to you alone4     
,remember1 my child1 your sister and    
myself have no other support in life    
than yourself1 and that my weak and     
failing existence could not withstand   
your loss4  ,taddeo grew pale1 for the  

association with which he was affiliated
 might expose him to all the dangers of 
which his mother was apprehensive4 ,he  
concealed his agitation by caresses and 
iterations of love1 mentally resolving  
to turn aside in time from his sad      
career1 as if those who involve         
themselves in perdition can pause in the
 rapid descent down the declivity to    
sorrow and death1 whither the sturdiest 
champions are hurried to be entombed in 
the grave they have dug for themselves4 
,you will go then to ,naples8 said      
,signora ,rovero to her son4 ,god grant 
that ,monte-,leone recover his liberty1 
since he is your friend6 ,but1 ,taddeo1 
do not trust to his adventurous mind2 he
 is a hurricane1 enveloping all in his  
path4 ,heaven grant he may not bear you 
away with him4  ,this conversation on   
this subject1 so painful to the mother  
and annoying to the son1 ended here4    
,will you deign1 ,signorina1 said the   
,marquis to ,aminta1 to accept me as a  
guest for a few days8  ,certainly1 if   

you are not afraid of our retreat4      
,besides1 added she1 with a smile1 one  
must have suffered as much as ,leonora's
 lover1 not to be happy in the paradise 
of ,sorrento4  ,maulear remembered the  
words he had written on the wall of     
,tasso's house4 ,but before he could    
express his astonishment and joy1       
,aminta was gone4 ,just then it was     
announced to ,maulear1 that his horse   
waited him at the gate of the park4  ,we
 will accompany you thither 7my sister  
and ,i71 said ,taddeo4  ,signora ,rovero
 called ,aminta to her1 and added3 ,the 
air is keen1 my child3 cover your head  
with your lace veil4 ,it becomes you4   
,maulear turned quickly toward ,aminta  
with his mind full of fear and          
surprise--  ,i am afraid ,i have lost my
 veil4 ,i looked for it this morning1   
but could not find it4 ,aminta seemed   
annoyed4 ,her emotion was perceived at  
once by ,maulear1 who said to himself3  
,what mystery is this8 why conceal it   
from me8 ,the coincidence of a veil     

being found by him1 and of ,aminta      
having lost one1 made him keenly        
anxious3 he was terrified1 confounded1  
and so excited1 that he could scarcely  
speak to ,taddeo and ,aminta as he      
crossed the park with them4  ,remember1 
said ,rovero to him1 that my mother and 
sister will expect you here in a few    
days4  ,in a few days1 said ,aminta1    
giving the ,marquis her sweetest smile4 
,in a few days1 replied ,maulear1 as he 
mounted his horse1 and cast on the young
 girl a look of doubting love4 ,he then 
galloped off1 and soon disappeared in   
the long road to ,sorrento4  ,when he   
returned to ,naples1 the whole city was 
busy with the approaching trial of      
,monte-,leone1 who was so beloved by one
 portion of the community and so        
unpopular with the other4 ,the nobility 
of the two ,sicilies deplored the errors
 of the ,count1 and regretted that one  
of the most illustrious of the great    
names of ,naples should embrace and     
defend so plebeian a cause2 one in their

 eyes so utterly without interest as    
that of popular rights4 ,but it was     
wounded at the idea that a peer should  
die by the hand of the executioner4 ,the
 old leaven of independence1 innate in  
all the aristocracies of ,europe2 the   
feudal aspirations which ,louis ,,xi4   
and ,richelieu had so completely        
annihilated and subdued in ,france1 yet 
germinated in the minds of the nobles of
 ,naples4 ,they loved the king because  
he maintained their privileges1 and had 
re-established the rights of their      
birth4 ,they would have revolted had he 
touched them4 ,from pride of birth they 
would have applauded the execution of a 
plebeian conspirator1 but were prepared 
to cry out en masse against that of     
,monte-,leone1 because he was one of    
themselves4  ,the people looked on the  
illustrious prisoner as a defender of   
their rights1 and sympathized with him4 
,to sharpen this sympathy1 the adepts of
 the ,italian vente everywhere          
represented their chief as a martyr to  

his love of the people1 and a victim of 
monarchy4 ,most injurious charges were  
everywhere circulated against ,fernando 
,,iv4 ,it was said that he had inherited
 the hatred of ,carlos ,,iii4 to the    
,monte-,leoni1 and sought to follow out 
on the son the vengeance to which the   
father had fallen a victim4 ,nothing was
 omitted that could stimulate the favor 
of the superstitious and impressionable 
people of ,naples4 ,the same            
executioner1 block and axe1 which had   
been used at the father's death1 by a   
strange fatality1 would come in play    
again at the murder of the son4 ,the    
imprisonment of the son at the ,castle  
,del ,uovo1 where the father had died1  
gave something of plausibility to this  
story4 ,but what most excited public    
curiosity was the strange incident which
 had taken place at ,torre-del-,greco4  
,all were impatient for its explanation4
 ,the double and impossible presence of 
the ,count at the house of ,stenio      
,salvatori1 and within the fifty locks  

of the ,castle ,del ,uovo1 his contest  
with his enemy1 the wound he was accused
 of having given him1 his ubiquity at   
the same hour in different places1      
produced a thousand incredible versions1
 a thousand bets on this wonderful fact1
 unrivalled in the judicial annals of   
,naples4  ,the name of ,monte-,leone was
 so closely and intimately linked with  
the destiny of the ,marquis de ,maulear1
 with his friendship to ,taddeo1 and his
 love of ,aminta1 that he partook of the
 general interest inspired by the       
,count1 and as a man of honor hoped for 
acquittal1 notwithstanding the influence
 it might exert on his happiness4  ,to  
lose confidence in one we love1 is the  
greatest agony possible4 ,the four days1
 therefore1 which separated him from    
,aminta1 were four centuries to         
,maulear4 ,like the majority of rich    
young men of our times1 yielding at an  
early age to liaisons1 he had formed an 
erroneous and unjust opinion of women in
 general4 ,the withered myrtles he had  

often gathered1 the passing amours in   
which almost all the men of his rank1   
fortune and appearance indulge1 had     
distorted his mind in relation to a sex1
 the least respectable portion of which 
alone he was acquainted with4 ,but the  
young ,marquis had exalted sentiments1  
and his high spirit turned aside from   
vulgar1 common pleasures4 ,his first    
loves1 or not to profane that word1 his 
first indulgences1 had for their object 
those women who lead astray an ardent   
mind or passionate natures2 those women 
who1 betrayed into marriage1 seek       
elsewhere a recompense for their        
misfortunes or the deceptions practised 
upon them1 and fancy they can find it in
 the inexperience and youth of young    
men1 whom chance throws in their way4   
,the latter proudly1 and at first       
eagerly1 accepting their conquests1 soon
 discover1 that often they are not      
heroes4 ,they become themselves the     
accomplices of the criminal devices1 the
 studied falsehoods1 employed by married

 women to abuse those on whom they      
depend4 ,in either case they see each   
other insensibly change1 and in spite of
 themselves conceive an aversion to     
those pleasures1 even in sharing which  
they blush4 ,the idol becomes a mere    
woman1 and the hero of these adventures 
fancies himself right in estimating all 
women by a few exceptions1 and becomes  
an atheist in love because he has       
sacrificed to false gods4  ,this        
deplorable theory had taken possession  
of ,maulear4 ,his naturally pure        
sentiments1 the poetry of his heart1 had
 been dissipated in ephemeral           
indulgences4 ,the ,countess of          
,grandmesnil1 the guardian of the young 
man1 fearing lest a serious passion     
should contravene his father's          
views1--encouraged him in his liaisons1 
or at least she did nothing to induce   
him to abandon them4 ,under this sad    
opinion1 which is unfortunately too     
common in our days1 that female virtue  
is but a name1 and that the most prudent

 only need opportunity to go astray1    
,maulear came to ,naples1 where we must 
say much success in gallantry fortified 
his faith in these detestable           
principles4  ,his meeting with one so   
pure as ,aminta had wrought a complete  
change in his ideas4 ,he saw woman under
 a new aspect1 as we dream of her at    
twenty1 when the young soul first       
awakes4 ,he suffered intensely when     
suspicion gnawed at his heart4 ,what1   
said he1 yet under the influence of the 
pernicious theories of his youth1 not   
one woman worthy of respect6 ,even this 
young girl1 apparently so modest and    
pure1 unworthy the confidence ,i reposed
 in her4 ,the recollection of the chaste
 and maidenly appearance of ,aminta soon
 put such ideas to flight1 and ,maulear 
thenceforth had but one idea1 but one   
desire4 ,he sought to clear up the      
strange mystery of his nocturnal vision1
 and extricate himself from his cruel   
perplexity4  ,on the day appointed for  
his return to ,sorrento1 as the clock   

struck ten1 he stopped his horse at the 
garden gate where four days before he   
had left ,aminta4 ,the gate was open4   
,he entered the orange grove which lay  
between it and the house4 ,a secret hope
 told him he would find ,aminta there4  
,he was not mistaken4 ,she sat beneath a
 rustic porch1 which served as a portal 
to the prettiest cottage imaginable4    
,this building1 constructed of the      
slightest material1 had windows closed  
with gayly-covered verandahs1 and served
 to shelter walkers from the heat of the
 summer's sun4 ,it was ,aminta's        
favorite retreat1 and thither she came  
in the morning to paint her sisters1 the
 white ,bengal roses1 the red cactus and
 the graceful clematides1 which         
surrounded her charming retreat4 ,there 
in the evening1 pensive and reflective1 
the young girl suffered her glance to   
stray over the vast horizon of the sea  
gilded by the sun's expiring rays4 ,on  
the day we speak of1 ,maulear found her 
reading1 or rather seeming to read1 for 

her book rested on her knee1 her ivory  
brow supported by her hand4 ,her eyes1  
lifted up to heaven1 seemed to ask the  
realization of some gentle dream        
inspired doubtless by the author4       
,perhaps the nature of the dream might  
have been devised by the book--,tasso's 
,divine ,poem6 ,maulear glided rather   
than walked to her1 so fearful was he of
 destroying the beautiful tableau       
presented to him by chance4 ,then he    
paused some moments behind a screen of  
leaves1 and looked at the beautiful     
dreamer1 in mute but passionate         
adoration4 ,as he scanned her girlish   
form1 becoming intoxicated with her     
modest charms1 ,maulear blushed at his  
suspicions1 and resolved to abandon     
them4 ,god did not make such angels for 
men to distrust1 and ,aminta1 beautiful 
as the heavenly beings1 must be pure and
 spiritual as they4  ,he left his       
concealment1 and approached ,aminta4    
,she moved when she saw him1 for he had 
surprised her in a dream4 ,the dreams of

 young girls are treasures to be        
concealed from the profane in the most  
profound sanctuary of the heart4 ,aminta
 advanced a step or two towards         
,maulear1 thus testifying her wish to   
return to the villa4 ,but the ,marquis1 
afraid of losing this favorable         
opportunity to see her for a short time 
alone1 begged her to be seated1 and took
 his place beside her1 making1 as an    
excuse1 an allusion to the fatigue of   
riding rapidly from ,naples to          
,sorrento4  ,aminta sat down1 but with  
an embarrassment which ,maulear could   
not but see4 ,you have kept your        
promise1 ,signor1 said she1 seeking to  
disguise her trouble by speaking first4 
,how could ,i not keep my promise8 said 
,maulear4 ,it was to see you again4  ,we
 know what such devotion must cost you1 
,aminta replied1 speaking aloud1 as if  
her words were not intended only for    
,maulear4 ,both my mother and myself are
 very grateful to you4  ,signorina1 said
 ,maulear1 with an effort1 for he was   

afraid of wasting in commonplaces       
moments in which every word he uttered  
had a priceless value1 ,i did not think1
 as ,i wrote on the wall of ,tasso's    
house the simple lines you deigned to   
read and remember1 that ,i thus wrote   
out my horoscope1 and divined the       
happiness fate marked out for me at     
,sorrento4  ,happiness8 said ,aminta1   
and she trembled as she spoke4 ,you must
 refer to the service you have rendered 
me4  ,i speak1 said ,maulear1 unable to 
restrain himself1 of a new and strange  
feeling to me1 full of pleasure and     
pain1 of hope and fear4 ,i speak of a   
love1 which will be the pride and joy of
 my existence1 if it be shared2 which   
will bring despair and torment1 if she  
who inspires it rejects it4  ,pray be   
silent1 said ,aminta1 rising and looking
 with fear around her4  ,ah1 you have   
understood me1 said ,maulear1           
attributing to his confession ,aminta'a 
emotion4  ,the young girl was silent4   
,her eyes turned towards the door of the

 hut1 as if she feared some one would   
open it4  ,what ,i say here1 ,signorina1
 with nought near me but the passing    
cloud and flying bird1 ,i wish to repeat
 to those who love you--before your     
mother and brother1 whom ,i would look  
on as my own4 ,it is for you to tell me 
whether ,i shall speak to them or be    
silent4  ,just then a faint noise was   
heard in the summer-house4  ,maulear did
 not perceive it1 for ,aminta1 more and 
more disturbed by the mysterious noise1 
had suffered the ,marquis to take her   
hand1 and the latter1 interpreting this 
favor as his heart wished1 fell on his  
knees before the young girl1 who1       
overcome with emotion1 sat down4        
,aminta1 said he1 passionately1 since   
the first day ,i saw you1 my soul1 my   
life1 have been your own4 ,if you but   
will it1 your life shall be my own--my  
own1 to make every hour of your life one
 of joy and pleasure--mine1 in adoring  
you as we do the saints in heaven4      
,maulear1 with his eyes fixed on        

,aminta's1 sought an echo to the        
outpourings of his soul4 ,his lips were 
on ,aminta's hand1 when1 between the    
young girl and himself1 he saw a hideous
 head1 made yet more horrid by the agony
 it expressed4 ,aminta suddenly         
withdrew1 and ,maulear experienced that 
terror of which the bravest are sensible
 when they tread on a reptile4          
,scorpione6 said the ,marquis4  ,this   
name1 on the lips of the ,marquis at    
such a time1 made such an impression1   
that a stream of blood1 mingled with    
white froth1 burst from his lips1 and   
fell at ,aminta's feet4  ,help1 ,signor6
 said she to ,maulear1 help1 ,i pray    
you1 for this unfortunate man6 ,this is 
the first time he has gone out since    
that cruel day4 ,see1 he dies6  ,what is
 the meaning of all this8 said ,maulear 
to himself1 as he hurried towards the   
villa4 ,twice my being with ,aminta has 
exercised the same effect on this       
unfortunate being4 ,can she love him8   
,can he be jealous8   ,,iv4 ,,the       

,,grand ,,judge4  ,the trial of ,count  
,monte-,leone1 which had been so        
anxiously looked for1 and had given rise
 to so many disputes about the curious  
story which occupied both the high and  
low of ,naples1 was about to begin4     
,the ,duke of ,palma had not been able  
to make good his promise to the         
prisoner1 and bring him promptly before 
his judges4 ,the incident at            
,torre-del-,greco made a new inquiry    
necessary1 and the examinations1        
researches1 and inquiries of every kind 
it led to daily1 retarded the trial1    
much to the regret of the king and his  
minister of police1 who were aware of   
the extent to which the public          
imagination was excited1 and feared its 
consequences4 ,monte-,leone began to    
feel grave apprehensions in relation to 
the dangerous game he had played4 ,on   
the evening of his excursion1 faithful  
to his word1 the ,count had presented   
himself again to the keeper of the      
,castle del ,uovo in the costume in     

which he had left it1 and the pious     
wicket-keeper1 when he saw the false    
assistant jailer1 who had gone out on   
the previous evening1 return with a     
trembling and uncertain step1 read a    
long lecture on intemperance and the    
results of drunkenness1 deplorable      
faults1 especially to be regretted in   
one of his profession1 where1 added the 
turnkey proudly1 one needs morality1    
reason1 and vigilance especially1 to    
unravel the plots of the prisoners      
confided to him1 and to triumph over    
their detestable mania for liberty4     
,when ,pietro on that evening1          
palpitating as he was with fear1 saw    
,monte-,leone1 whom he waited for at the
 postern of the castle1 return1 his joy 
was so great that he was ready to clasp 
the ,count's neck4 ,the latter was not  
much flattered by his transports4       
,well1 said the head-jailer1 you are a  
noble and true gentleman4 ,a scoundrel  
in your place would have escaped1 and   
put his keeper in trouble4 ,you are of a

 good race1 of a noble and generous     
blood1 you have paid me well1 and have  
been unwilling to hang the father of a  
family4 ,now1 added he1 do not let us   
talk together1 or even look at each     
other4 ,our looks may be watched and    
interpreted4  ,from that time ,pietro   
became more brutal1 more savage and     
stern than ever4 ,the visit of the      
minister of police justly enough        
increased the terror of the jailer4 ,he 
had from public rumor heard of the      
terrible episode at ,torre-del-,greco1  
though he did not precisely understand  
the motives of the prisoner4 ,he was    
aware that he had become an accomplice  
of his crime1 and shuddered more and    
more at its probable results4 ,whenever1
 therefore1 the ,count sought to ask him
 any question1 ,pietro exhibited such   
terror1 and his countenance was so      
complete a picture of fright1 that      
,monte-,leone at last ceased to speak to
 him4 ,no news from without1 nothing    
enlightened the ,count in relation to   

the consequences of his daring conduct1 
and for the first time he despaired of  
the result4 ,one morning his door opened
 as usual at meal time2 but instead of  
withdrawing1 the keeper approached      
,monte-,leone kindly1 his ugly face1 on 
account of the complaisance which lit it
 up1 seeming yet more horrid4 ,he said3 
,excellence1 the great day approaches1  
and we must arrange some little details 
about which the ,high ,court will no    
doubt be ill-mannerly enough to question
 us6  ,you can speak then1 replied      
,monte-,leone1 with surprise4  ,to-day  
is not yesterday4 ,then and ever since  
your escape1 my gossip1 the ,headsman1  
who lives up there as you know1         
distrusts me4 ,i learn from his         
assistant1 who is a friend of mine1 that
 the story of the cell undermined by the
 sea has made him fancy ,i wish to      
deprive him of his perquisites4 ,i know 
that while he waters his flowers on the 
platform he keeps an eye and ear open   
for all that passes here4 ,besides1 he  

would not be at all sorry to obtain my  
place for his first assistant--a        
promising lad who becomes his son-in-law
 to-day4  ,ah6 said ,monte-,leone1 the  
executioner's daughter is to be married4
  ,a love match4 ,he wished to postpone 
the wedding until after your affaire1 as
 he calls it1 for on such cases he      
always has large perquisites1 and would 
be able largely to increase the bride's 
portion4 ,the young girl1 however1 was  
in love1 and was unwilling to wait for  
you4 ,the worthy father then determined 
to make her happy1 and ,i have just seen
 all the party set out for the church of
 ,santa-,lucia4 ,the executioner1 his   
wife1 the bride1 and the little         
executioners1 all in their best garb4   
,the procession was so imposing1 they   
might have been taken for a family of   
turnkeys4 ,lest1 however1 the people    
should disturb the ceremony by a volley 
of stones1 they set out early1 at five  
o'clock4 ,as1 therefore1 we have no     
inquisitive neighbors1 ,i am come to    

have an understanding with your         
excellency1 in order that ,i may not be 
compromised in the trial4  ,so be it6   
said the ,count1 let us have an         
understanding4 ,in the first place1 have
 they any suspicions8  ,of whom8  ,of   
you to be sure1 for unless ,i have wings
 and flew out of the window to          
,torre-del-,greco1 no one but you can   
have opened the prison gate to me4      
,that is true1 then1 said ,pietro1 you  
went to ,torre-del-,greco to stab       
,stenio ,salvatori4 ,i really would not 
have believed it1 for it seems that     
twenty thousand piasters is too large a 
sum for the pleasure of a poniard       
thrust--in the arm too6 ,after all1     
though1 we ,neapolitans regard nothing  
valuable compared with revenge6  ,it    
matters little to you whether it was for
 revenge or another purpose4 ,all ,i    
wish is1 for you alone to know that ,i  
was away for twelve hours4 ,as neither  
you or ,i will mention it1 ,i am at     
ease4  ,you are right in the main1 your 

,excellency4 ,but we have placed our    
heads in the balance1 and ,i am         
determined yours shall not outweigh     
mine4 ,the hand of justice weighs       
heavily1 especially on the poor4 ,it    
would be very bad if now1 when ,i am    
prepared to live happily and pleasantly 
on the proceeds of our little operation1
 ,i were called on to dangle at the end 
of a rope1 to the great delight of the  
dealers in ice-water and macaroni1 whom 
the people of ,naples on that day would 
enrich4 ,few would miss the             
entertainment which would be given at my
 expense4  ,what makes you fear this8   
asked the ,count4  ,one idea4 ,they     
might take it into their heads to       
examine separately all the inhabitants  
of the castle4 ,first your ,excellency1 
as its principal guest1 then your humble
 servant1 the gate-keeper1 and even my  
assistant ,crespo4 ,if all did not tell 
the same story the ,grand ,judge would  
see some trick4  ,you think so8 said the
 ,count1 moodily4  ,i know so1 said     

,pietro4 ,the ,grand ,judge1 as the     
child's story-book says of ogres1 loves 
fresh meat1 and would see a spot on the 
brow of an angel4 ,now1 ,i am not       
exactly an angel--and if he saw a spot1 
your excellency's head might be safe1   
but for want of a chicken he might twist
 my neck4 ,the jailer would be the      
victim1 and my friend the executioner   
would have to do with me4 ,i know him4  
,he would be enthusiastic in the        
operation1 to make a vacancy in my      
place4 ,he is bound up in his family4   
,for an instant the ,count had not heard
 the jailer4 ,one single name inspired  
him with the greatest terror1 for it    
recalled one of the participators in his
 escape4 ,this man held in his own hands
 his own and his accomplice's escape4   
,pietro had not foreseen all4 ,this     
assistant1 the character and dress of   
whom he had assumed1 this ,crespo1 this 
mole1 would be summoned before the      
magistrate4 ,the keeper had seen and    
spoken to him1 had opened the gate of   

the castle to suffer him to pass out1 or
 at least fancied he had4 ,what then    
would the man say8 ,with great emotion1 
then1 ,monte-,leone said1  ,the danger  
does not come from the place you        
apprehend4 ,one witness1 however1 may   
ruin all4  ,of whom do you speak8 said  
,pietro1 trembling4  ,of ,crespo1 said  
the ,count4  ,ah--what have you to fear 
of ,crespo8  ,have you gained him over8 
,no4 ,i was spared the trouble4 ,at this
 moment the poor fellow is probably in  
the other world4  ,have you killed him8 
said the ,count1 with terror4  ,for what
 does your excellency take me8 ,one may 
yield to the prayers of a prisoner1 and 
secure a fortune by permitting him a few
 hours' exercise1 yet be no murderer4   
,if ,crespo dies1 it is in consequence  
of his unfortunate passion4  ,was he in 
love8  ,no4 ,he was fond of water-rats4 
,horrible appetite4  ,not at all1 said  
the jailer4 ,crespo says the animal is  
very savory1 especially when fat as     
those in the ditches of the castle are4 

,the waters bear hither all the offal of
 ,naples1 and the rats live like canons4
  ,and ,crespo eats them8  ,he has a    
passion for game of that kind1 and does 
nothing but hunt them4 ,he makes some   
very ingenious traps to catch them with4
 ,i do not molest him1 because the taste
 is so innocent1 and besides1 saves me  
the expense of several cats4  ,but how  
came that passion to endanger ,crespo's 
life8  ,ah--one is not always lucky4    
,perhaps the last rats ,crespo ate1 had 
feasted on arsenic--rats are so         
whimsical4 ,the poor devil1 perhaps1 was
 poisoned in that manner4 ,rather an    
expensive taste4 ,unfortunately1 the    
lesson will do him no good4  ,after this
 touching funeral oration1 the jailer   
took out a blue and torn handkerchief1  
and dried his eyes4 ,the ,count         
shuddered at this story4 ,he understood 
the atrocious plan adopted by ,pietro to
 get rid of a dangerous witness1 and    
forgetful of his own safety1 said1      
,perhaps1 if you hurry for a physician1 

the poor man may yet be saved4  ,bah6 do
 you think the ,governor would let one  
of his officers die without assistance8 
,the doctor1 however1 was too late2 and 
when ,i came hither1 ,crespo was dying4 
,notwithstanding his firmness1 the      
horror of ,monte-,leone at the wretch   
was so great that he hastened to        
terminate the conversation4 ,the quasi  
complicity in a crime committed in cold 
blood1 and with premeditation2 was      
odious to him4  ,do not fear lest my    
examination should compromise you4 ,i   
will be prudent4 ,now1 one word more1 or
 if you please to consider it so1 one   
favor more--when will ,i be tried8  ,in 
two days4 ,to-night they will come to   
take you to ,castello ,capuano1 where   
the supreme court will meet4  ,pietro   
left1 and ,monte-,leone relapsed into a 
profound reverie4 ,the drama was about  
to begin4 ,what the ,count hitherto had 
done1 was as it were but a prelude1 an  
exposition1 or rather a skilful         
introduction4 ,on the eve of the event  

he did not quail1 but like a sagacious  
tactician asked himself if he had been  
guilty of no neglect1 if he had taken   
advantage of all the circumstances4 ,one
 thing alone made him uneasy4 ,when he  
returned to the ,etruscan villa1 to     
assume the clothes of the               
assistant-jailer1 he saw with terror    
that he had lost the great emerald1 the 
chef-d'oeuvre of ,benvenuto1 the family 
ring1 so long celebrated and so well    
known4 ,he readily enough fancied that  
it had been lost during his rapid       
flight1 and did not suspect that it had 
fallen into the hands of his enemies4   
,reassured on this point1 he waited     
patiently for the hour when1 as the     
jailer said1 they would come to take him
 to ,castello ,capuano4 ,it came at     
last1 and ,monte-,leone was glad of it1 
for it seemed to bring him nearer to    
liberty4 ,it was about midnight when the
 ,governor came to the ,count's cell1   
accompanied by the worthy jailer and    
several officers4  ,excellency1 said he 

to ,monte-,leone1 ,i have an order from 
the ,duke of ,palma1 minister of police1
 to take you to ,castello ,capuano1 to  
be tried4  ,i am ready to obey the      
orders of the ,duke1 said ,monte-,leone1
 late as the hour and bad as the weather
 are4 ,but1 ,signor1 the ,duke treats me
 like those curious monsters1 who travel
 by night to avoid the anxious eyes of  
the public1 and to enhance the profits  
received from their exhibition4         
,signor1 the ,duke of ,palma1 said the  
,governor1 piqued by this irony in      
relation to his patron1 has a more      
exalted object than exciting or allaying
 the curiosity of the people of ,naples4
 ,he wishes to prevent any demonstration
 of your numerous partisans in your     
favor4 ,such conduct would certainly    
injure your cause4  ,the sarcasm of the 
,count had made the ,governor say too   
much4 ,he had revealed to ,monte-,leone 
the interest he had excited1 and the    
efforts which might be made to save him4
 ,to a man like ,monte-,leone nothing   

was lost1 and like a skilful geometer1  
he knew how to take advantage of the    
errors of his adversary4  ,let us go1   
,signor1 said ,monte-,leone to the      
,governor4 ,i am impatient to make an   
acquaintance with the new castle which  
the king honors me with4 ,let me change 
once or twice again1 and ,i will be able
 to publish a statistical account of all
 the dungeons in the kingdom1 for the   
information of his majesty's beloved    
subjects4  ,an hour after this scene the
 ,count was in a room of ,castello      
,capuano1 appropriated to the reception 
of great and distinguished criminals to 
be tried by the high court4  ,on the    
next day1 a man of cold and ascetic air 
waited on ,monte-,leone4 ,this person   
was ,felippo ,san ,angelo1 the ogre of  
whom ,pietro had spoken1 the terror of  
all criminals1 the ,grand ,judge of     
,naples4 ,if the morale of the ,judge   
had been calumniated by ,pietro1 his    
physique bore a strong analogy to that  
of certain beasts of prey to which      

carnivorous appetite is attributed4 ,his
 nose was hooked like an eagle's1 his   
brow was prominent1 oblong and bald1 his
 lips were thin and fixed as if he had  
never smiled1 his body was long and     
attenuated1 and he never met the glance 
of those with whom he spoke4  ,signor1  
said the ,grand ,judge1 ,i am come to   
announce to you1 as the law requires1   
that you will appear before the court on
 the day after to-morrow4 ,you will be  
allowed to choose an advocate1 and1 as  
,grand ,judge of the ,kingdom1 ,i come  
to invite you to do so4  ,i am deeply   
sensible of your ,excellency's          
consideration1 said ,monte-,leone1 but  
,i must say1 the first act of your      
justice is unjust4 ,if my enemies have  
had two months to prepare their         
accusation1 it is cruel to allow me but 
two days to prepare my defence4  ,this  
is the provision of the laws which      
regulate at ,naples the special courts1 
like the one which is to try you1       
,signor ,comte4 ,i do not make the law1 

but only administer it4  ,but1          
,excellency1 a man of your character    
should not administer an unjust law2    
nothing should compel him to do so4     
,signor1 said the ,grand ,judge1 much   
annoyed at finding himself unexpectedly 
drawn into such a discussion1 the       
legislator gives us the text of law1 we 
find the interpretation4 ,your judges1  
the chief of whom ,i am1 have carefully 
studied them1 and if we have assumed on 
our honor and conscience their          
application1 it is because we think them
 just4 ,we do not permit the accused to 
contest their forms4 ,when a man is     
unfortunately brought before a court1 he
 must submit4  ,i do1 ,excellency1 said 
,monte-,leone1 ,i will even court their 
severity1 and will not take advantage of
 the very short time allowed me to      
choose a defender4 ,for humanity's sake 
alone ,i address you as ,i do4 ,it seems
 to me1 however1 that it is necessary   
that ,i should know1 in the first place1
 of what ,i am accused2 and ,i wait     

until it please your ,excellency to tell
 me4  ,you are charged1 ,signor1 with   
two capital crimes4 ,first1 of having1  
on the night of the #bjth ,december1    
#ahae1 conspired against the security of
 the state1 near the ruins of ,pompeii1 
where you presided over a secret        
society1 the object of which is the     
overthrow of royalty4 ,you are1 in the  
second place1 accused of having         
attempted to assassinate ,stenio        
,salvatori1 of ,torre-del-,greco1 to    
avenge yourself on account of his       
testimony4  ,is this all8 asked         
,monte-,leone4  ,it is1 ,signor1 said   
the ,grand ,judge2 ,i think such charges
 are important enough to induce you to  
remember that you must now choose your  
counsel4  ,you are right1 ,signor1 said 
,monte-,leone4 ,for such a cause a      
skilful advocate is required1 one who   
shall be able to impress your heart with
 the conviction of my innocence1 for on 
his word depends my life or death4      
,find such a one1 then1 ,signor1 said   

the ,grand ,judge4 ,believe me1 however1
 the most eloquent advocate has less    
influence over a conscientious judge    
than the facts of the case1 the light   
which illumines them1 and which it is   
their duty to make brilliant in our     
eyes1 rather than seek an opportunity to
 display their fluency and their        
political opinions1 or1 worse yet1 to   
produce public or private scandal--     
,you are right1 ,signor1 but the person 
who will speak in my behalf is neither  
eloquent nor skilful1 yet the most      
famous pleas1 the most powerful defences
 of ,naples1 will not produce so much   
effect as the words of that man4  ,you1 
,signor1 alone1 said the ,grand ,judge1 
can choose your defender4 ,but let me   
know his name--  ,that can only be      
revealed at the trial4  ,but you do not 
know1 ,signor1 you thus deprive yourself
 of a precious right to all who are     
accused1 secured them by law1 the right 
of communicating with their defenders4  
,that right ,i waive4 ,the man who will 

defend me will know his grave mission   
only when called on in the face of the  
supreme tribunal to fulfil it4  ,the    
,grand ,judge looked with amazement at  
,monte-,leone4 ,why1 ,signor1 cannot he 
be informed of his grave duty8  ,god    
forbid he should6  ,why8  ,because in   
that case ,i would lose my cause4 ,the  
,count laughed4  ,act then1 ,signor1 as 
you please4 ,strange and whimsical as   
your conduct is1 ,i have no authority to
 speak of its advantages and            
disadvantages4  ,he bowed to            
,monte-,leone and withdrew4  ,he is mad1
 said he1 as he was leaving ,castello   
,capuano4  ,he is a fool1 said          
,monte-,leone1 as the ,grand ,judge     
left4 ,he did not understand that one   
defends himself from the effects of a   
crime committed1 but not when no crime  
has been committed4   ,v4--,,the        
,,trial4  ,the appointed day came at    
last1 and all ,naples assumed a strange 
and unusual air4 ,one subject of        
interest took possession of all the     

city1 one idea occupied it1 and from the
 ,senator to the ,lazzarone all had one 
name on their lips4 ,monte-,leone1      
,count ,monte-,leone4  ,monte-,leone1   
the people's friend1 said some4         
,monte-,leone1 the conspirator1 said    
others4  ,monte-,leone1 the assassin of 
,stenio ,salvatori1 said the enemies of 
the ,count4  ,monte-,leone1 the victim  
of ,fernando1 said the enemies of the   
,king4  ,as all this was going on around
 the prison1 calm and thoughtful        
,monte-,leone waited for the hour of    
trial4  ,castello ,capuano1 usually     
called la ,vicaria1 had been for several
 centuries the palace of the ,kings and 
,viceroys1 until ,pedro de ,toledo      
abandoned for a more splendid palace1   
that of the existing ,kings1 and devoted
 la ,vicaria or ,castello ,capuano to   
the civil and criminal courts of the    
realm4 ,nothing can be more sad and     
melancholy than the portion of the      
palace in which the prisons are4 ,as if 
to enhance this appearance1 the outside 

of the prison was hung with iron cages1 
in which were the heads and hands of    
persons who had been executed4 ,these   
relics of humanity1 long before dried   
up1 and the skeletons of which alone    
remained1 rattled in the night wind     
horribly1 and filled with superstitious 
terror the minds of belated travellers  
returning through the ,porta ,capuano1  
from which the ,castle took its name1 to
 ,naples4  ,la ,vicaria was then from an
 early hour in the morning besieged by a
 numerous crowd1 awaiting the opening of
 its gates to rush into the hall of     
audience4 ,the doors were opened4 ,the  
hall was instantly occupied by a crowd  
of curious persons1 who everywhere in   
,europe are attracted by criminal       
trials4 ,it is a matter of surprise that
 in ,france women1 and especially those 
of rank1 are attracted in numbers       
sufficient sometimes to form a majority 
of the audience4 ,but the reason is1    
that women are nervous and              
impressionable1 and that they constantly

 require excitement4 ,they are not often
 careful in the selection of these      
emotions1 provided there are violent    
shocks1 revulsions of feeling1 terror1  
hope1 surprise4 ,such are the fruits of 
criminal trials4 ,the head of the       
prisoner becomes a shuttlecock between  
the advocate and magistrate4 ,the varied
 chances of such a scene offer great and
 real interest1 effacing all the        
fictions of tragedy4 ,there1 far more   
than on the stage1 women take delight in
 the dark dramas1 and are the first to  
resent the terrible effect of the       
denouements4  ,the beautiful women of   
,naples did not fail to add to the      
interest of the representation of this  
drama1 the hero of which possessed the  
admiration of all and the good graces of
 many4 ,some of the upper seats were    
occupied by women of high rank1 who did 
not dare to show themselves publicly at 
this strange spectacle1 and came1 like  
beggars1 to enjoy a scene which they    
would be ashamed to have acknowledged4  

,places1 too1 had been reserved for the 
patrician women1 near the bench of the  
judges and advocates4 ,these cold1      
careless creatures1 attracted by mere   
curiosity1 were not the most numerous of
 the agitated crowd4 ,the private       
friends of the ,count1 his partisans1   
the members of the society of which he  
was the chief1 formed an imposing mass  
agitated by the most tumultuous         
sentiments4 ,two hearts beat violently1 
and1 though in different places1 a      
skilful clock-maker would have declared 
that one was not faster than the other  
by a single second4 ,these two hearts   
were full of the same object1 desired   
the same thing1 pursued the same end4   
,one sentiment united both1 and they    
were equally tortured by hope and fear4 
,one of these was a woman dressed in    
black1 and having a half disclosed1     
fresh and beautiful face4 ,a fine and   
delicately gloved hand was placed upon  
her heart as if to restrain its         
pulsations4 ,her other hand1 from time  

to time1 was passed beneath her veil1 to
 bear to her lips an exquisitely        
embroidered and perfumed handkerchief4  
,she sat alone on one of the remote     
benches4 ,for a long time she remained  
motionless1 but suddenly seeming anxious
 to avoid observation1 she approached1  
as nearly as possible1 the front of the 
recess in which the bench on which she  
had been sitting was placed4 ,she then  
cast a quick1 anxious glance on the     
crowd which filled every portion of the 
court-room1 returned1 and became again  
motionless1 and apparently calm as she  
had been before4  ,the other actor in   
this silent scene1 was a young man with 
a pale and agitated countenance1 which  
betrayed the anxiety of his mind1 and   
the deep interest he took in the events 
of the day4 ,yet not to the place       
reserved for the judges1 nor the doors  
through which the prisoner would be led1
 did he look4 ,suspiciously examining   
every bench in the hall1 perceiving 7so 
to speak7 the mass of spectators1 the   

long lines of which rose one above      
another1 he examined the most remote1   
even1 without perceiving what he was    
evidently so anxious to find4 ,at last1 
by a sudden start1 he attracted the     
attention of those near him1--a         
half-stifled cry burst from his lips2 he
 had perceived the lonely woman on the  
remote bench4  ,do you know that lady8  
said a young man who sat upon the       
advocates' bench4  ,i know her8 said he1
 not at all4  ,excuse me1 you seemed    
surprised when you saw her4  ,the fact  
was1 ,i had not remarked those seats2   
they are real opera boxes4  ,look again1
 ,signor1 the lady amuses herself       
strangely4  ,i see nothing1 sir1 said   
the pale young man1 who still kept his  
eyes fixed upon the lady4  ,three times1
 said the first speaker1 she has placed 
her hand upon her hair1 as if she would 
point out to somebody a diamond pin     
which shines amid her jetty locks like a
 star in a stormy sky4  ,you think so8  
,i am sure of it1 it is a signal--and   

see1 she has taken her pin from her     
hair1 and is imploring4 ,ah6 sir1 what a
 pretty ,venus hand4 ,one kiss on her   
hand1 and ,i would die content6  ,to be 
sure1 said the other mechanically1 and  
without knowing what he said4  ,it is   
some intrigue1 said the gossiper1 the   
women of our country go everywhere1 to  
the church1 to the court1 and to the    
theatre4 ,it would be odd if it were the
 judge's wife4 ,they who always condemn 
others1 sometimes must atone for it4    
,speak lower1 ,signor1 speak lower2 you 
may compromise her4  ,true1 true1 but by
 ,st4 ,januarius1 see what she is about 
now2 he spoke lower4  ,what6 said the   
young man4  ,she has placed her finger  
upon her pin1 and looks this way1 as if 
she was interrogating you4  ,you are    
mistaken2 besides1 how can you see under
 a veil which way she looks8  ,there is 
no doubt about it1 it is intended for   
us1 and she wishes to speak either to   
you or to me4  ,looking towards the     
person of whom they spoke1 for the      

purpose of giving more force to his     
asseveration1 he was amazed to see her  
white hand holding the diamond pin to   
her lips4 ,the scene we have been so    
long describing had taken place in a few
 seconds4 ,prompt as was the reply of   
the young man to the interrogatory of   
the woman1 his companion had perceived  
it4 ,the latter being a man of good     
taste1 and perfectly expert in the      
telegraphs of love1 was persuaded that  
he had interfered in some love affair1  
and hastened to say to the hero of the  
adventure1  ,do not be afraid1 sir1 ,i  
have seen nothing4 ,well-bred people1   
such as you and ,i are1 never speak of  
secrets we thus become acquainted       
with--and ,i am ready to maintain with  
my lip and with my sword1 that you have 
not the slightest acquaintance with the 
lady there4  ,thank you1 sir1 said the  
young man2 your conduct proves you to be
 a gentleman4  ,just then all the       
assemblage became full of eager         
expectation at the entrance of the ,high

 ,court1 preceded by the ,president4    
,the court is opened--produce the       
prisoner1 said the ,grand ,judge4  ,the 
agitation became stronger4 ,women stood 
up in their chairs1 men climbed up on   
the banisters1 and others1 vexed at not 
being able to see1 protested against the
 appropriation of seats by the legs and 
boots of those in front of them4 ,the   
disorder was quickly put an end to by   
the imperious voice of the ,grand       
,judge1 who threatened to have the hall 
cleared if order were not at once       
restored1 and the respect due to the    
court maintained4 ,all became           
immediately quiet2 the audience sat     
down1 those in the rear ceased to       
complain1 and many an eye was fixed on  
,count ,monte-,leone4  ,the ,count sat  
in the lofty seat reserved for him1 an  
arm-chair replaced the stool used by    
vulgar criminals4 ,the respect due to   
rank and birth was religiously observed 
in this aristocratic tribunal4 ,the     
noble1 if found guilty1 was certainly   

sentenced to death1 as the merest       
commoner--the form of trial1 though1    
always exhibited respect for illustrious
 names1 which was most gratifying to the
 people4 ,the fact was1 at that time    
people believed in social superiority1  
had faith in their ,god1 king and       
nobles1 and though they demanded that   
their nobles should be punished1 did not
 expect them to die like common people2 
the difference was the difference       
between the rope and the sabre4 ,that   
very difference1 however1 between the   
two deaths--the terrible theatrical     
effect of the latter1 made a great      
impression on the masses4  ,the public  
accuser arose1 and pronounced an        
eloquent harangue against ,monte-,leone1
 as guilty of two crimes1 the nature of 
which the ,grand ,judge had already     
described to him in prison4  ,first     
crime3 ,conspiracy against the ,state1  
in having presided at the secret venta  
of ,pompeia1 as chief of a society1     
having for its object the overturning of

 the monarchy4  ,,to ,,be ,,continued4  
,,footnotes3  #be ,entered according to 
,act of ,congress1 in the year #ahfj1 by
 ,stringer  ,townsend1 in the ,clerk's  
,office of the ,district ,court of the  
,united ,states for the ,southern       
,district of ,new-,york4     ,from      
,graham's ,magazine4  ,,ballad ,,of     
,,jessie ,,carol4  ,,by ,,alice ,,carey4
                 ,i4      ,at her       
window1 ,jessie ,carol1       ,as the   
twilight dew distils1     ,pushes back  
her heavy tresses1       ,listening     
toward the northern hills4     ,i am    
happy1 very happy1       ,none so much  
as ,i am blest2     ,none of all the    
many maidens       ,in the ,valley of   
the ,west1     ,softly to herself she   
whispered2       ,paused she then again 
to hear     ,if the step of ,allen      
,archer1       ,that she waited for1    
were near4     ,ah1 he knows ,i love him
 fondly6--       ,i have never told him 
so6--     ,heart of mine be not so      
heavy1       ,he will come to-night1 ,i 

know4      ,brightly is the full moon   
filling       ,all the withered woods   
with light1     ,he has not forgotten   
surely--       ,it was later            
yesternight6     ,shadows interlock with
 shadows--       ,says the maiden1 ,woe 
is me6     ,in the blue the eve-star    
trembles       ,like a lily in the sea4 
,yet a good hour later sounded1--       
,but the northern woodlands sway6--     
,quick a white hand from her casement   
,thrust the heavy vines away4     ,like 
the wings of restless swallows          
,that a moment brush the dew1     ,and  
again are up and upward1       ,till we 
lose them in the blue1     ,were the    
thoughts of ,jessie ,carol1--       ,for
 a moment dim with pain1     ,then with 
pleasant waves of sunshine1       ,on   
the hills of hope again4     ,selfish am
 ,i1 weak and selfish1       ,said she1 
thus to sit and sigh2     ,other friends
 and other pleasures       ,claim his   
leisure well as ,i4     ,haply1 care or 
bitter sorrow       ',tis that keeps him

 from my side1     ,else he surely would
 have hasted       ,hither at the       
twilight tide4     ,yet1 sometimes ,i   
can but marvel       ,that his lips have
 never said1     ,when we talked about  
the future1       ,then1 or then1 we    
shall be wed6     ,much ,i fear me that 
my nature       ,cannot measure half his
 pride1     ,and perchance he would not 
wed me       ,though ,i pined of love   
and died4     ,to the aims of his       
ambition       ,i would bring nor wealth
 nor fame4     ,well1 there is a quiet  
valley       ,where we both shall sleep 
the same6     ,so1 more eves than ,i can
 number1       ,now despairing1 and now 
blest1     ,watched the gentle ,jessie  
,carol       ,from the ,valley of the   
,west4                 ,,ii4      ,down 
along the dismal woodland       ,blew   
,october's yellow leaves1     ,and the  
day had waned and faded1       ,to the  
saddest of all eves4     ,poison rods of
 scarlet berries       ,still were      
standing here and there1     ,but the   

clover blooms were faded1       ,and the
 orchard boughs were bare4     ,from the
 stubble fields the cattle              
,winding homeward1 playful1 slow1       
,with their slender horns of silver     
,pushed each other to and fro4          
,suddenly the hound upspringing         
,from his sheltering kennel1 whined1    
,as the voice of ,jessie ,carol         
,backward drifted on the wind1          
,backward drifted from a pathway        
,sloping down the upland wild1          
,where she walked with ,allan ,archer1  
,light of spirit as a child6     ,all   
her young heart wild with rapture       
,and the bliss that made it beat--      
,not the golden wells of ,hybla         
,held a treasure half so sweet6     ,but
 as oft the shifting rose-cloud1        
,in the sunset light that lies1         
,mournful makes us1 feeling only        
,how much farther are the skies1--      
,so the mantling of her blushes1        
,and the trembling of her heart1        
',neath his steadfast eyes but made her 

,feel how far they were apart4          
,allan1 said she1 ,i will tell you      
,of a vision that ,i had--     ,all the 
livelong night ,i dreamed it1       ,and
 it made me very sad4     ,we were      
walking slowly1 seaward1       ,in the  
twilight--you and ,i--     ,through a   
break of clearest azure       ,shone the
 moon--as now--on high2     ,though ,i  
nothing said to vex you1       ,o'er    
your forehead came a frown1     ,and ,i 
strove1 but could not soothe you--      
,something kept my full heart down2     
,when1 before us1 stood a lady       ,in
 the moonlight's pearly beam1     ,very 
tall and proud and stately--            
7,allan1 this was in my dream6--7       
,looking down1 ,i thought1 upon me1     
,half in pity1 half in scorn1     ,till 
my soul grew sick with wishing          
,that ,i never had been born4           
',cover me from woe and madness6'       
,cried ,i to the ocean flood1     ,as   
she locked her milk-white fingers       
,in between us where we stood1--        

,all her flood of midnight tresses      
,softly gathered from their flow1       
,by her crown of bridal beauty1         
,paler than the winter snow4            
,striking then my hands together1       
,o'er the tumult of my breast1--        
,all the beauty waned and faded         
,from the ,valley of the ,west6      ,in
 the beard of ,allan ,archer            
,twisted then his fingers white1     ,as
 he said1 ,my gentle ,jessie1       ,you
 must not be sad to-night2     ,you must
 not be sad1 my ,jessie--       ,you are
 over kind and good1     ,and ,i fain   
would make you happy1       ,very       
happy--if ,i could6     ,oft he kissed  
her cheek and forehead1       ,called   
her darling oft1 but said1     ,never1  
that he loved her fondly1       ,or that
 ever they should wed2     ,but that he 
was grieved that shadows       ,should  
have chilled so dear a heart2     ,that 
the time foretold so often       ,then  
was come--and they must part6     ,shook
 her bosom then with passion1       ,hot

 her forehead burned with pain1     ,but
 her lips said only1 ,allan1       ,will
 you ever come again8     ,and he       
answered1 lightly dallying       ,with  
her tresses all the while1     ,life had
 not a star to guide him       ,like the
 beauty of her smile2     ,and that when
 the corn was ripened       ,and the    
vintage harvest prest1     ,she would   
see him home returning       ,to the    
,valley of the ,west4      ,when the    
moon had veiled her splendor1       ,and
 went lessening down the blue1     ,and 
along the eastern hill-tops             
,burned the morning in the dew1         
,they had parted--each one feeling      
,that their lives had separate ends2    
,they had parted--neither happy--       
,less than lovers--more than friends4   
,for as ,jessie mused in silence1       
,she remembered that he said1           
,never1 that he loved her fondly1       
,or that ever they should wed4          
',twas full many a nameless meaning     
,my poor words can never say1     ,felt 

without the need of utterance1          
,that had won her heart away4      ,o   
the days were weary6 weary6       ,and  
the eves were dull and long1     ,with  
the cricket's chirp of sorrow1          
,and the owlet's mournful song4     ,but
 in slumber oft she started       ,in   
the still and lonesome nights1          
,hearing but the traveller's footstep   
,hurrying toward the village lights4    
,so1 moaned by the dreary winter--      
,all her household tasks fulfilled--    
,till beneath the last year's rafters   
,came the swallows back to build4       
,meadow-pinks1 like flakes of crimson1  
,over all the valleys lay1     ,and     
again were oxen ploughing       ,up and 
down the hills all day4     ,thus the   
dim days dawned and faded       ,to the 
maid1 forsaken1 lorn1     ,till the     
freshening breeze of summer       ,shook
 the tassels of the corn4     ,ever now 
within her chamber       ,all night long
 the lamp-light shines1     ,but no     
white hand from her casement            

,pushes back the heavy vines4     ,on   
her cheek a fire was feeding1       ,and
 her hand transparent grew--     ,ah1   
the faithless ,allan ,archer6           
,more than she had dreamed was true4    
,no complaint was ever uttered1         
,only to herself she sighed1--     ,as  
she read of wretched poets       ,who   
had pined of love and died4     ,once   
she crushed the sudden crying           
,from her trembling lips away1     ,when
 they said the vintage harvest          
,had been gathered in that day          
,often1 when they kissed her1 smiled    
she1       ,saying that it soothed her  
pain1     ,and that they must not be    
saddened--       ,she would soon be well
 again6     ,thus nor hoping nor yet    
fearing1       ,meekly bore she all her 
pain4     ,till the red leaves of the   
autumn       ,withered from the woods   
again2     ,till the bird had hushed its
 singing       ,in the silvery sycamore1
     ,and the nest was left unsheltered 
,in the lilac by the door2     ,saying1 

still1 that she was happy--       ,none 
so much as she was blest--     ,none1 of
 all the many maidens       ,in the     
,valley of the ,west4                   
,,iii4      ,down the heath and o'er the
 moorland       ,blows the wild gust    
high and higher1     ,suddenly the      
maiden pauses       ,spinning at the    
cabin fire1     ,and quick from her     
taper fingers       ,falls away the     
flaxen thread1     ,as some neighbor    
entering1 whispers1       ,jessie ,carol
 lieth dead4     ,then1 as pressing     
close her forehead       ,to the        
window-pane1 she sees     ,two stout men
 together digging       ,underneath the 
church-yard trees4     ,and she asks in 
kindest accents1       ,was she happy   
when she died8--     ,sobbing all the   
while to see them       ,void the heavy 
earth aside2     ,or1 upon their        
mattocks leaning1       ,through their  
fingers numb to blow1     ,for the      
wintry air is chilly1       ,and the    
grave-mounds white with snow2     ,and  

the neighbor answers softly1       ,do  
not1 dear one1 do not cry3     ,at the  
break of day she asked us       ,if we  
thought that she must die2     ,and when
 ,i had told her1 sadly1       ,that ,i 
feared it would be so1     ,smiled she1 
saying1 '',twill be weary       ,digging
 in the churchyard snow6'     ',earth1' 
,i said1 'was very dreary--       ,that 
its paths at best were rough2     ,and  
she whispered1 she was ready1           
,that her life was long enough4     ,so 
she lay serene and silent1       ,till  
the wind1 that wildly drove1            
,soothed her from her mortal sorrow1    
,like the lullaby of love4     ,thus    
they talked1 while one that loved her   
,smoothed her tresses dark and long1    
,wrapped her white shroud down1 and     
simply       ,wove her sorrow to this   
song3                 ,,iv4             
,sweetly sleeps she3 pain and passion   
,burn no longer on her brow--     ,weary
 watchers1 ye may leave her--       ,she
 will never need you now6     ,while the

 wild spring bloomed and faded1         
,till the autumn came and passed1       
,calmly1 patiently1 she waited--        
,rest has come to her at last6          
,never have the blessed angels1         
,as they walked with her apart1         
,kept pale ,sorrow's battling armies    
,half so softly from her heart          
,therefore1 think not1 ye that loved    
her1       ,of the pallor hushed and    
dread1     ,where the winds1 like heavy 
mourners1       ,cry about her lonesome 
bed1     ,but of white hands softly     
reaching       ,as the shadow o'er her  
fell1     ,downward from the golden     
bastion       ,of the eternal citadel4  
,from ,the ,memorial1 just published by 
,putnam4  ,a ,,story ,,of ,,calais4     
,,by ,,the ,,author ,,of ,,st4 ,,leger4 
,some years ago1 ,i was detained        
unexpectedly in ,calais for an entire   
week4 ,it was with difficulty ,i could  
occupy the time4 ,for a while my chief  
resource was to inspect the different   
faces which daily presented themselves  

at the ,hotel de ,meurice1 where one    
could see every variety of features     
belonging to every country1 age1 sex1   
and condition4 ,i grew tired of this    
presently1 for ,i had been on the       
continent a considerable period1 and had
 seen the human species under as many   
different phases as could well be       
imagined4 ,therefore1 when the third day
 brought with it one of those           
disagreeable storms peculiar to the     
coast--half drizzle1 half sleet and     
rain--it found me weary of the amusement
 of attending on new arrivals and       
departures1 and of the nameless petty   
doings by which time1 in a bustling     
hotel1 is attempted to be frittered     
away4 ,a misty1 dreary1 damp1 offensive 
day6 ,an out-and-out tempest1 a thorough
 right-down drenching rain1 would have  
been in agreeable contrast with the     
previous hot1 dusty1 sunny weather2 but 
this--it seemed absolutely intolerable6 
,i was1 besides1 in no particular       
condition to be pleased4 ,i was neither 

setting out upon a tour1 nor returning  
from one1 but had been interrupted in my
 progress and forced to stand still at  
this most uninteresting spot4 ,i came   
down1 and with a bad grace1 to order    
breakfast4  ,garcon1 ,cafe--oeufs a la  
coque--biftek--rotie--vite6  ,i was     
about repeating this in a louder tone1  
for the waiter seemed engrossed with    
something more important than attending 
to my wants1 when ,i heard a quiet voice
 behind me--  ,garcon1 ,cafe--oeufs a la
 coque--biftek--rotie--vite6  ,i turned 
angrily upon the speaker1 doubtful of   
the design of this repetition of my     
order4  ,the reader will perceive that  
my breakfast was a substantial one2     
indeed1 such a breakfast as an          
,american1 who had not so far lost      
himself in ,european society as to      
forget his appetite1 would be very      
likely to call for4 ,the idea that ,i   
was watched1 doubtless made me a little 
suspicious1 or sensitive1 or irritable2 
at any rate1 ,i turned1 as ,i have said1

 angrily upon the speaker4 ,he was a    
slightly made1 elderly man1 at least    
fifty1 with pleasant features1 a calm   
appearance1 and quiet manners--a person 
evidently at home with the world4 ,i    
recollected at the same moment1 that the
 stranger had been at the hotel ever    
since my arrival there1 although ,i had 
not1 from his unobtrusive habit1 given  
him more than a passing notice4 ,his    
appearance at once dispelled the frown  
which ,i had brought to bear upon him2  
but when he answered my stare with a    
respectful yet half familiar bow1 ,i    
could have sworn that it came from an   
old acquaintance4 ,i need not say that  
,i returned the salutation cordially4   
,at the same time my new friend rose1   
came towards me1 and held out his hand4 
,i am quite sure1 he said1 that you are 
an ,american--perhaps a ,new ,englander2
 ,i am both2 why1 then1 should not      
countrymen beguile an unpleasant day in 
company8 ,excuse me--,i did hear your   
order just now1 and as it suited my own 

taste1 ,i proposed to myself that we    
should breakfast together2--we may trust
 to ,francois2 he has been here1 to my  
knowledge1 more than twenty years1 and  
pleases every body4  ,i pressed the hand
 of my new acquaintance--acknowledged   
myself to be from ,new ,hampshire--gave 
my name1 and received in return--,philip
 ,belcher4  ,we sat down to the same    
table1 and very soon ,francois appeared 
with a well-served breakfast4  ,pray1   
said ,i1 what can one do to relieve the 
monotony of this intolerable place8 ,if 
the country about were agreeable--nay1  
if it were bearable6 but as it is1 ,i   
repeat1 what is to be done8  ,done6 said
 ,mr4 ,belcher1 rather sharply1 a       
hundred things6 ,put on your ,mackintosh
 and overshoes2 come with me to the     
,courtgain1 and see the fishermen       
putting to sea1 their boats towed out by
 their wives and daughters2 a sight1 ,i 
will be bound1 you have not beheld1     
although you may have coursed ,europe   
over1 and been at ,calais half a dozen  

times4  ,mr4 ,belcher proceeded in this 
vein1 detailing many things that could  
be seen to advantage even in ,calais2   
but as he suggested nothing which       
interested me so much as he himself did1
 ,i had the boldness to tell him so1 and
 that my curiosity was excited to know  
more of him4  ,there is nothing in my   
history that can amuse a stranger2      
indeed1 it is without incident or       
marvel4 ,to be sure1 ,i am alone in the 
world1 but ,i have never been afflicted1
 or suffered misfortune1 within my      
recollection4 ,my parents died when ,i  
was very young2 my father and mother    
were both only children2 a small        
property which the former left was      
carefully invested1 and faithfully      
nursed during my minority1 by a         
scrupulous and honest lawyer1 in no way 
connected with us1 but whom my father   
named as executor in his will1 and my   
guardian4 ,ill health prevented my      
getting on at school4 ,i can't say that 
,i was an invalid1 but my constitution  

was delicate and my temperament nervous4
 ,i tried to make some progress in the  
study of a profession1 under my         
excellent guardian1 but was forced to   
give it up as too trying to my nerves4  
,the excitement of a court-room ,i could
 not endure for a day1 much less for a  
lifetime4 ,before ,i was twenty-five1 my
 income had so much increased that ,i   
could afford to travel4 ,i have gained  
in this way my health1 which1 however1  
would become impaired should ,i return  
to a sedentary life2 so1 as a matter of 
necessity1 ,i have wandered about the   
world4 ,you see my story is soon told4  
,i found ,mr4 ,belcher was not in the   
habit of talking about himself1 and ,i  
liked him the better for it4 ,without   
pressing for a more particular account1 
,i led the conversation to treat of the 
different countries he had visited1     
referring1 by the way1 to some principal
 objects of attraction4 ,here ,i touched
 an idiosyncrasy of my new friend4  ,i  
never formed1 he said1 any distinct     

'plan' of travel4 ,i never 'did' ,paris 
in eight days1 nor the gallery of the   
,louvre in half an hour1 as they have   
been done by an acquaintance4 ,i never  
opened a guide-book in my life2 ,i never
 employed a commissionere1 a valet1 a   
courier1 a cicerone1 or a dragoman4 ,my 
pleasure has been to let the            
remarkable--the beautiful--the          
interesting--burst upon me without      
introduction1 and ,i have found my      
account in it4 ,i have quitted the ,val 
d',arno1 turned off from the ,lake of   
,como1 passed to the wrong side of ,lake
 ,leman and its romantic castles1       
pursuing my way1 regardless of these    
well-worn attractions1 while ,i beheld  
rarer--at least familiar scenes--and    
enjoyed with zest what was fresh and    
unhackneyed4 ,no everlasting 'route'--no
 mercenary and dishonest landlords--no  
troops of travellers1 travelling that   
they may become 'travelled'--but in     
place of all this1 ,i saw every thing   
naturally--the country in its           

simplicity--the inhabitants in their    
simplicity--while1 ,i trust1 ,i have    
preserved my own simplicity4 ,indeed1 ,i
 rather prefer what your tourist calls  
an 'uninteresting region4'  ,for that   
reason1 ,i remarked1 pleasantly1 you    
have come here to ,calais to spend a few
 weeks2 you must enjoy the barren       
sand-plain which extends all the way    
from this to ,st4 ,omer4 ,how           
picturesque are those pollards scattered
 along the road1 with here and there a  
superannuated windmill1 looking like an 
ogre with three arms and no legs3 then1 
to relieve the dreariness of the place1 
you have multitudes of miserable cabins1
 grouped into more miserable villages1  
to say nothing of the chateaux of dingy 
red1 in which painters of the brick-dust
 school so much delight4 ,really1 ,mr4  
,belcher1 you will have a capital field 
here6  ,my new acquaintance shook his   
head a little seriously1 as if          
deprecating further pleasantry4  ,you   
are like the rest of them1 ,i fear1 he  

remarked1 a surface traveller2 at least 
you will force me to believe so if you  
go on in this way4 ,but come1 he        
continued1 the storm threatens to last  
the morning2 if you wish1 ,i will help  
to make away with part of it1 by        
recounting a little adventure which     
happened to me hard by those very       
pollards1 which you are pleased to abuse
 so freely4  ,it is needless to add that
 ,i joyfully assented to the proposal1  
and was soon seated in ,mr4 ,belcher's  
room before a cheerful fire--for he had 
managed even in ,calais to procure      
one--when he commenced as follows3  ,i  
think it was during the first season ,i 
was on the continent1 that ,i visited   
,st4 ,omer4 ,after spending a day or two
 in that place1 ,i concluded to walk to 
,calais1 and set out one morning        
accordingly4  ,the weather was fine2 but
 after ,i had been a few hours on the   
road1 the wind began to blow directly in
 my face1 and soon enveloped me in a    
cloud of sand from which there seemed no

 escape1 and which threatened actually  
to suffocate me4 ,to avoid this ,i left 
the highway1 but keeping what ,i        
supposed to be in the general direction 
of the road1 ,i struck out into the     
adjacent fields4 ,there was nothing for 
a considerable distance to repay me for 
this detour1 except that ,i thus was rid
 of the sand4 ,the country was barren   
and uninteresting1 the cottages little  
better than hovels1 and the whole scene 
uninviting4 ,but ,i pushed on1 not a    
whit discouraged2 indeed my spirits rose
 as the prospect darkened1 and like a   
valiant general invading a country for  
the purpose of conquering a peace1 ,i   
resolved in some way to force an        
adventure before ,i reached ,calais4 ,i 
trudged along for hours1 stopping       
occasionally for a draught of sour wine 
and a bit of bread4 ,i made no inquiry  
about the main road1 for ,i preferred to
 know nothing of it4 ,in this way ,i    
proceeded1 until it was almost night1   
when ,i spied1 some half a mile distant1

 a cluster of trees surrounding a small 
tenement4 ,i turned at once toward the  
spot1 and coming up to it1 found a      
cottage not differing in size or        
structure from those ,i had seen on the 
way1 except that it appeared even more  
antiquated4 ,it was1 however1 in perfect
 repair1 and finely shaded by a variety 
of handsome trees1 and flanked on one   
side by a neat garden4 ,the door stood  
open and ,i entered4 ,there was no one  
in the room4 ,i called1 but received no 
answer4 ,i strayed out into the garden  
and walked through it4 ,at the lower end
 was a small inclosure covered over at  
the top as if to protect it from the    
weather1 and fenced on each side with   
open wire-work1 looking through which1  
,i beheld a small grave1 overspread with
 mosses1 and strewed with fresh-gathered
 white flowers4 ,it bore no name or     
inscription1 except the following simple
 but pathetic line2      ,enfant cherie1
 avec toi mes beaux jours sont          
passes4--#agid4  ,surprised by the      

appearance of fresh flowers upon a tomb 
which had been so long closed over its  
occupant1 ,i turned1 hoping to find some
 explanation of the mystery1 in what ,i 
might see elsewhere1 ,but there was     
nothing near to attract one's attention1
 nor was any person within sight4       
,after taking a glance around1 ,i       
returned to the cottage1 and walking in1
 sat down to wait the arrival of the    
occupants4 ,in a few minutes1 ,i heard  
voices from the side of the house       
opposite the garden1 and soon two       
persons1 of the peasant class1 evidently
 husband and wife1 came in4 ,the man was
 strong and robust1 with the erect form 
and martial appearance acquired only by 
military service1 and which the weight  
of nearly sixty years had not seemed to 
impair4 ,his countenance was frank and  
manly1 and his step firm4 ,the woman    
appeared a few years younger1 while the 
air of happy contentment which beamed in
 her face1 put the ordinary             
encroachments of time at defiance4      

,altogether1 ,i had never seen a couple 
so fitted to challenge observation and  
interest4 ,they both stopped short on   
seeing me4  ,i hastened to explain my   
situation1 as that of a belated         
traveller1 attracted by the sight of the
 cottage2 and told them ,i was both     
hungry and tired1 and desirous of the   
hospitality of their roof4 ,i was made  
welcome at once4  ,louis ,herbois1 for  
that was his name1 gave me a bluff1     
soldierly greeting1 while ,agathe1 his  
wife1 smiled her acquiescence4 ,supper  
was soon laid2 ,i ate with a sharpened  
appetite1 which evidently charmed my    
host1 who encouraged me at intervals1 as
 ,i began to flag4  ,supper concluded1  
,i was glad to accept the offer of a    
bed--for ,i was exhausted with fatigue4 
,i had been so engrossed with the       
repast1 that curiosity was for the time 
suspended1 and it was not again in      
action until ,i had said good-night to  
my entertainers1 and found myself in the
 room where ,i was to sleep4 ,this was  

an apartment of moderate size2 the      
furniture was old and common1 but       
neither dilapidated nor out of order2   
the bed was neatly covered2 around the  
room were scattered several books of    
interest1 and in one corner was a neat  
writing-desk1 of antiquated appearance1 
with silver mounting1 and handsomely    
inlaid2 while some small articles of    
considerable value placed on a table in 
another corner1 indicated at least      
occasional denizens very different from 
the peasant and his wife4 ,yet this     
could not be a rural resort for any     
family belonging to the town4 ,there    
were but two other apartments in the    
house1 and these were occupied4         
,nevertheless1 ,i reasoned1 these things
 can never have been brought here by the
 worthy people ,i have seen2 and        
then--the little grave in the garden8   
who has watched the tomb for so many    
years1 preserving the moss so green and 
the flowers so fresh--cherishing an     
affection which has triumphed over time8

 ,how intense1 how sacred1 how strange  
must be such devotion6 ,i decided that  
some persons besides my host were       
concerned1 in some way1 in the history  
of the little dwelling1 and with this   
conclusion ,i retired2 and so1 being    
fatigued by my day's travel1 ,i soon    
fell asleep4  ,i awoke about sunrise4   
,going to the window1 ,i put aside the  
curtain1 and looked out into the garden4
 ,louis ,herbois and his wife were      
there1 renewing the garlands with fresh 
flowers1 and watering the moss which was
 spread over the grave4 ,it must be     
their own child1 thought ,i1 and        
yet--no--,i will step out and ask them1 
and put an end to the mystery4 ,i met   
the good people coming in3 they inquired
 if ,i had rested well1 and said that   
breakfast would soon be ready4 ',you do 
not forget your little one1' ,i said to 
the old fellow1 at the same time        
pointing towards the inclosure4         
',monsieur mistakes1' replied he1       
crossing himself devoutly4 ',some dear  

friend1 ,i suppose8' ,he looked at me   
earnestly3 ',on voit bien1 ,monsieur1   
que vous etes un homme comme il faut4   
,after you have breakfasted1 you shall  
hear the story4 ',ah1 there is then a   
story1' said ,i to myself1 as ,i        
followed ,louis ,herbois into the       
cottage1 where ,agathe had preceded us1 
and sat down to an excellent breakfast4 
,when it was concluded ,i asked for the 
promised narration4 ',let me see1' said 
,louis1 ',agathe1 how long have we been 
married8' ,agathe1 matron as she was1   
actually blushed at the question1 yet   
answered readily1 without stopping to   
compute the time4 ',yes2 true2 very     
well2' resumed ,louis4 ',you must know1 
,monsieur1 that my father was a soldier1
 and enrolled me1 at an early age1 in   
the same company with himself4 ,having  
been detailed1 soon after1 on service to
 one of the provinces1 ,i was so        
severely wounded that ,i was thought to 
be permanently unfitted for duty1 and   
was honorably dismissed with a life     

pension4 ,owing to the care and skill of
 a famous surgeon who attended me1 and  
whom ,i was fortunate enough to         
interest1 ,i was at last cured of my    
wounds1 and very soon after ,i wandered 
away here1 for no better reason1 ,i     
believe1 than that ,agathe was in the   
neighborhood2 for we had known each     
other from the time we were children4   
,very soon she and ,i were married1 and 
we took this little place1 and were as  
blessed as possible4  ',in the mean     
time1 great changes were going on at    
,paris4 ,the revolution had begun1 and  
soon swept every thing before it4 ,but  
it did not matter with us4 ,we rose with
 the birds1 and went to rest with the   
sun1 and no two could have been happier3
 am ,i not right1 ,agathe8' ,the old    
lady put her hand affectionately upon   
the shoulder of her husband1 but said   
nothing4 ',and we have never ceased     
being happy3 we are always happy1 are we
 not ,agathe8' ,the tears stood in      
,agathe's eyes1 and ,louis ,herbois went

 on4 ',well1 the revolution was nothing 
to me1 they were mad with it1 and killed
 the king1 and slew each other1 until   
our dear ,paris became a bedlam--still1 
as ,i said1 it was nothing to me4 ,to be
 sure1 ,i went occasionally to ,calais1 
where ,i heard a new language in every  
body's mouth1 and much talk of ,les     
hommes suspects1 ,mandats d'arrets1 with
 shouts of ,abas les aristocrates1 and  
,vive la ,republique--but ,i did not    
trouble myself about any of it2 ,agathe 
and ,i worked together in the field1 and
 in the garden1 and in the house--always
 together--always happy4 ,one morning we
 went out to prune our vines1 the door  
of the house was open1 just as you found
 it yesterday2 why should we ever shut  
the door8 we were honest1 and feared    
nobody2 we stood--,agathe here on this  
side holding the vine2 ,i1 with my      
knife1 on the other side1 bending over  
to lop a sprout from it2 when down came 
two young people--lad and lass--upon us1
 as fast as they could run2 out of      

breath--agitated--and as frightened as  
two wood-pigeons4 ,the young man flew to
 me1 and catching hold of my arm begged 
me1 pour l'amour de ,dieu1 to secrete   
his wife somewhere--anywhere--out of the
 reach of the gens-d'armes1 who were    
pursuing them4 ,i felt in ill-humor1 for
 ,i had cut my finger just then2        
besides1 ,i did not relish the mention  
of the gens-d'armes1 so ,i replied      
plainly1 that ,i would have nothing to  
do with persons who were suspects4 ,why 
should ,i thrust my own neck into the   
trap8 they had better go about their    
business1 and not trouble poor people4  
,bah6 such a speech was not like ,louis 
,herbois6 but out it came1 ,heaven knows
 how1 and no sooner had ,i finished than
 up runs the young creature1 and seizing
 my moustache she cries1 ,my brave      
fellow1 hie away1 and crop off all this2
 none but men have a right to it2 ,god  
grant you were not born in ,france2 no  
,frenchman could give such an answer to 
a man imploring protection for his wife4

 ,look at my husband--did he ask aid for
 himself8 ,do you think he would turn   
you off in this way1 had you sought his 
assistance to save her8 pointing to     
,agathe1 who stood trembling all the    
while like an aspen4 ,ah6 you have made 
a mistake1 ,i see you repent1 be quick2 
what will you do with us8 ,and she held 
me tight by the moustache until ,i      
should answer1 while the husband stared 
upon me in a sort of breathless agony4  
,i took another look at the little      
creature1 while she kept fast hold of   
me1 and saw that she was----eh bien6 ,i 
see you understand me1' said ,louis1    
interrupting himself1 as he glanced     
towards his wife4 ',my heart knocked    
loud enough1 believe me1 and there the  
dear little thing stood1 her hand1 as ,i
 was telling you1 clenched fast in my   
moustache--ha6 ha6 ha6--and looking so  
full into my eyes1 with her own clear   
bright blue gazers4 ,mon ,dieu--mon     
,dieu6 ,agathe we must help these       
pauvres enfans4 ,you are a              

,frenchman--,i thought so1 cried the    
little one1 letting go my moustache and 
clapping her hands4 ,oh6 hasten1 hasten1
 or we are lost6 ,all in good time1 said
 ,i1 for-- ,no no1 interrupted she1 they
 are almost upon us3 in a moment we may 
be captured1 and then ,albert1 oh1      
,albert1 what will become of you8 ,so   
saying1 she threw her arms about her    
husband1 and clung to him as if nothing 
should part them4 ,voila bien les       
femmes2 to the devil with my caution2   
come with me1 and ,i will put you in a  
place where the whole ,directory shall  
not find you1 unless they pull my       
cottage down stone by stone4 ,i hurried 
them to the house1 and hid them in a    
private closet which1 following out my  
soldier-like propensities1 ,i had       
constructed in one end of the room1 in a
 marvellously curious way4 ,not a soul  
but ,agathe knew of it1 and ,i disliked 
to give up the secret1 but ,i hurried   
the young people in1 and arranged the   
place1 and went back to the vines and   

cut away harder than ever4 ,in two      
minutes1 up rode three dragoons with    
drawn swords1 as fine looking troopers  
as one would ask for4 ,i saw them       
reconnoitre the cottage1 then spying me1
 they came towards us at a gallop4 ,what
 have you done with the ,comte and      
,comtesse de ,choissy8 said the leading 
horseman4 ,you had better hold your     
tongue1 ,i retorted1 than be clattering 
away at random4 ,what the devil do ,i   
know of the ,comte and ,comtesse de     
,choissy1 as you call them8 ,look1 you1 
said the dragoon1 laying his hand on my 
shoulder2 the persons for whom ,i seek1 
are escaped prisoners2 they were seen to
 come in the direction of this cottage2 
our captain watched them with his glass1
 and he swears they are here4 ,and look 
you1 ,monsieur ,cavalier1 ,i am an old  
soldier1 as you see1 if scars and hard  
service can prove one1 and it seems to  
me you should take an old soldier's     
word4 ,i have said all ,i have to say2  
there is my house1 the doors are        

open--look for yourself3 come ,agathe1  
we must finish our morning's work4 ,so  
saying1 ,i set at the vines harder than 
ever4 ,i looked neither one way nor the 
other1 but kept clipping1 clipping1 thus
 standing between the dragoons and poor 
,agathe1 who was frightened terribly1   
although she tried to seem as busy as   
,i4 ,the rider who was spokesman1 stared
 for a minute without saying a word1 and
 then broke out into a loud laugh4 ,an  
old soldier indeed6--a regular piece of 
steel6 one has but to point a flint at  
you1 and the sparks fly4 ,he turned to  
his men3 ,our captain was mistaken1     
evidently2 this is a bon camarade2 we   
may trust to him4 ,we will take a turn  
through the cottage and push forward4   
,with that he bid me good morning1 and  
after looking around the house the party
 made off4  ',well1 ,agathe1 what's to  
be done now8 said ,i1 when the dragoons 
were fairly out of sight4 ,we have made 
a fine business of it4 ,ah1 ,louis1 said
 she1 let us not think of the danger2 we

 have saved two innocent lives1 for     
innocent ,i know they are3 what if we   
have perilled our own8 ,heaven will     
reward us4 ,nothing more was said1      
though we both thought a great deal1 but
 we kept at our work as if nothing had  
happened4 ,it was a long time before ,i 
dared let the fugitives come from their 
hiding-place2 for ,i was afraid of that 
cursed glass of ,monsieur le ,capitaine4
 ,when ,i did open it ,i found my       
prisoners nearly dead with suspense4 ,we
 held a council as to the best means for
 their concealment--for who would have  
had the heart to turn the young people  
adrift8--and it was finally settled that
 the comte and his wife should dress as 
peasants1 and take what other means were
 necessary to alter their appearance1   
that they might pass as such without    
suspicion4 ,this was no sooner resolved 
than carried out4 ,agathe was as busy as
 a bee1 and in a few minutes had a dress
 ready for ,victorine--we were to call  
her by her first name--who was now as   

lively as a creature could be1 running  
about the room1 looking into the glass1 
and making fun of her husband1 who had  
in the mean time pulled on some of my   
clothes4 ,after this1 the young comte   
explained to me that his father had died
 a short time before1 leaving him his   
title and immense estates1 which1       
however1 should he die childless1 would 
pass to an uncle1 a man unscrupulous and
 of bad reputation4 ,this uncle was     
among the most conspicuous of the       
revolutionists4 ,through his agency the 
,comte de ,choissy and his young wife1  
with whom he had been but a twelvemonth 
united1 were arrested1 and shortly after
 sentenced to death4 ,they escaped from 
prison and the guillotine by the aid of 
a faithful domestic1 and were almost at 
,calais when they discovered that they  
were pursued4 ,by leaving the road and  
sending the carriage forward1 they      
managed to gain the few moments which   
saved them4 ,their principal fear now   
was from the wicked designs of the      

uncle1 for the ,directory had too much  
on their hands to hunt out escaped      
prisoners who were not specially        
obnoxious4 ,for some days the young     
people did not stir from the house1 but 
were ever ready to resort to their      
hiding-place on the first alarm4 ,there 
were1 however1 no signs of the          
gens-d'armes in the neighborhood4 ,i    
went to ,calais in a little while1 and  
found1 after much trouble1 the old      
servant who was in the carriage when the
 comte and his wife deserted it4 ,he had
 been permitted to pass on without being
 molested1 so alert were the soldiers in
 pursuit of the fugitives2 and he had   
brought the few effects which he could  
get together for his master on leaving  
,paris to a safe place2 and to prevent  
suspicion1 he himself had taken service 
with a respectable traiteur4 ,by        
degrees1 ,i managed to bring off every  
thing belonging to my guests1 and we    
fitted up the little room in which you  
passed the night1 as comfortably as     

possible1 without having it excite      
remark from any one casually entering   
it4 ,albert was industrious1 aiding me  
at my work1 no matter what ,i was doing1
 and ,victorine1 too1 insisted upon     
helping my wife in whatever she did1    
here1 there1 and everywhere1 the        
liveliest1 the merriest1 the most       
innocent creature ,i ever set eyes upon4
 ,but for all that1 one could see that  
time hung heavy on the comte4 ,he became
 thoughtful and triste1 and like every  
man out of his proper place1 he was     
restless and uneasy4 ,not so the dear   
wife3 she declared she had never been so
 happy1 that she had her ,albert all to 
herself3 wanted nothing more3 if she but
 knew how to requite us1 she would not  
wish the estates back again--she would  
live where she was1 forever4 ,then her  
husband would throw his arms around her1
 and call her by endearing names1 which 
would make the little thing look so     
serious1 but at the same time so calm   
and satisfied and angel-like1 that it   

seemed as if the divine soul of the     
,holy ,virgin had taken possession of   
her1 as she turned her eyes up to her   
husband and met his1 looking lovingly   
down4444'  ,here ,louis ,herbois        
stopped1 and felt for his handkerchief1 
and blew his nose until the walls       
resounded1 and wiped his eyes as if     
trying to remove something that was in  
them1 and proceeded--  ',any one to have
 seen her at different times would have 
sworn ,i had two little women for guests
 instead of one3 so full of fun and     
mischief and all sorts of pranks2 so    
lively1 running hither and yon1 teasing 
me1 amusing ,agathe1 rallying her       
husband2 but on the occasions ,i        
mention1 so subdued1 so thoughtful      
so--different from her other self3      
,ciel6 she had all our hearts4          
',several months passed1 much in the    
same manner4 ,the comte by degrees      
gained courage1 and often ventured away 
from the house4 ,twice he had been to   
the town1 but his wife was in such      

terror during his absence1 that he      
promised her he would not venture again4
 ,he continued meanwhile moody and ill  
at ease2 it would be madness to leave   
his place of concealment2 this he knew  
well enough2 still he could not bring   
himself to be patient4 ,do not think1   
,monsieur1 that the ,comte de ,choissy  
failed to love his wife just as ever3   
that was not it at all4 ,a man is a man 
the world about2 the comte felt as any  
body would feel who finds himself       
rusting away like an old musket1 which  
has been tossed aside into some         
miserable cock-loft4 ,i had seen the    
world and knew how it was with him4 ,but
 what could be done8 ,in ,paris things  
were getting worse and worse4 ,at first 
we had le ,cote ,gauche2 les            
,montagnards2 les ,jacobines3 then came 
les ,patriotes de '#ic2 and after that1 
les ,patriotes par excellence1 who were 
succeeded by les ,patriotes plus        
patriotes que les patriotes3 and then   
the devil was let loose in mad earnest2 

for what with les ,bonnets-,rouges1 les 
,enrages1 les ,terroristes1 les ,beveurs
 de ,sang1 and les ,chevaliers du       
,poignard1 ,paris was converted into a  
more fitting abode for ,satan than his  
old-fashioned country residence down    
below4 ,pardon ,monsieur6 ,i am getting 
warm2 but it always stirs my blood when 
,i recall those days4 ,i see1 too1 ,i am
 getting from my story4 ,well3 ,i tried 
to comfort the comte with such scraps of
 philosophy as ,i had picked up in my   
campaigns--for in the army1 you must    
know1 one learns many a good maxim--but 
,i did little by that4 ,the sweet young 
comtesse was the only one who could make
 him cheerful1 and smile1 and laugh1 and
 seem happy in a natural way1 for he    
loved her as tenderly as a man ever     
loved2 besides1 the comtesse had now a  
stronger claim than ever upon her       
husband4 ,i fancy ,i can see her sitting
 there1 her face bent over1 employing   
her needle upon certain diminutive      
articles1 whose use it is very easy to  

understand4 ,do you know1 when she was  
at work on these1 that she was          
serious--never playful--always serious2 
wearing the same expression as when she 
received from her husband a tender word8
 ,no3 nothing could make her merry then4
 ,i used to sit and wonder how the      
self-same person could become so changed
 all in one minute4 ,how the comte loved
 to look at her6 his eyes were upon her 
wherever she was2 not a word she spoke1 
not a step she took1 not a motion of    
hers escaped him4 ,well1 the time came  
at last1 and by the blessing of ,god and
 the ,holy ,virgin1 as beautiful a child
 as the world ever welcomed1 was placed 
by my ,agathe in the arms of the        
comtesse4 ,perhaps1' added ,louis       
,herbois1 in a lower voice1 while speech
 seemed for the instant difficult1      
'perhaps ,i have remembered this the    
better1 because ,god willed it that we  
ourselves should be childless4 ,when    
,agathe took the infant and laid it in  
the mother's bosom1 the latter regarded 

it for a moment with an expression of   
intense fondness2 then1 raising her eyes
 to her husband1 who stood over her1 she
 laughed for joy4  ',mother and daughter
 prospered apace4 ,the little girl      
became the pet of the house2 we all     
quarelled for her2 but each had to      
submit in turn4 ,how intelligent6 what  
speaking eyes6 what knowing looks6 what 
innocently mischievous ways6 mother and 
child6 ,i wish you could have seen them4
 ,i soon marked a striking change3 the  
young comtesse was now never herself a  
child4 ,a gentle dignity distinguished  
her--new-born1 it would seem--but       
natural4 ,i am making my story a long   
one1 but ,i could talk to you the whole 
day in this way4 ,so1 the months passed 
on--and the revolution did not abate2   
and the comte was sick at heart1 and the
 comtesse was1 as ever1 cheerful1       
content1 happy1 and the little one could
 stand alone by a chair and call out to 
us all1 wherever we were4 ,the comte1   
notwithstanding his promise1 could not  

resist his desire to learn more of what 
was going on than ,i could inform him   
of4 ,i seldom went away1 for when hawks 
are abroad1 it is well to look after the
 brood3 and as ,i had nothing to gain1  
and every thing to lose1 by venturing   
out1 ,i thought it best to stay at home4
 ,the comte1 on the contrary1 was       
anxious to know every thing4 ,he had    
made several visits to ,calais1 first   
obtaining his wife's consent1 although  
the agony she suffered seemed to fill   
his heart with remorse2 this1 however1  
was soon smothered by his renewed and   
unconquerable restlessness4 ,one morning
 he was pleading with her for leave to  
go again1 answering her expressions of  
fear with the fact that he had been     
often already without danger4 ,there is 
always a first time1 said my ,agathe1   
who was in the room4 ,and there is      
always a last time1 too1 said ,i1       
happening to enter at that moment4 ,i   
did not know what they were talking     
about1 and the words came out quite at  

random4 ,the comtesse turned pale4      
,albert1 she said1 content yourself with
 your ,victorine and our babe3 go not   
away from us4 ,the infant was standing  
by its mother's knee1 and without       
understanding what was said1 she        
repeated1 ,papa--not go4 ,the comte     
hesitated3 ,what a foreboding           
company--croakers every one of you--away
 with such presentiments of evil4 ,go ,i
 will1 to show you how foolish you have 
all been2 and with that he snatched a   
kiss from his wife and the little one1  
and started off4 ,the former called to  
him twice1 ,albert1 ,albert6 and the    
baby in imitation1 with its little voice
 said1 ,papa1 papa6 but the comte did   
not hear those precious tones of wife or
 child1 and in a few minutes he was out 
of sight4 ,i cannot say what was the    
matter with me2 my spirit was troubled2 
the comtesse looked so desponding1 and  
,agathe so triste1 that ,i knew not what
 to do with myself4 ,i did nothing for  
an hour1 then ,i spoke to ,agathe3      

,wife1 ,i am going across to the town4  
,she said1 ,ah1 ,louis1 ,i almost wish  
you would go4 ,see how the comtesse     
suffers4 ,i am sure ,i shall feel easier
 myself4 ,then ,i told her to say       
nothing of where ,i had gone1 and away  
,i went4 ,it did not take me long1 for  
it seemed as if ,i ought to hasten4 ,i  
got into the town1 and having walked    
along till ,i came to the ,rue de       
,paris1 ,i was about turning down it    
when ,i saw a small concourse of people 
on the opposite corner2 ,i crossed over 
and beheld the ,comte de ,choissy in the
 custody of four gens-d'armes1 and      
surrounded by a number of citizens4 ,my 
first impulse was to rush to his        
assistance1 but ,i reflected in time1   
and contented myself with joining the   
crowd4 ,one of the soldiers had gone for
 a carriage1 and the remainder were     
questioning him2 the comte1 however1    
would make no reply1 except1 ,you have  
me prisoner1 ,i have nothing to say1 do 
what you will4 ,i waited quietly for an 

opportunity of showing myself to him1   
but he did not look toward me4          
,presently ,i said to the man next me1  
,neighbor1 you crowd something too hard 
for good fellowship4 ,the comte started 
a very little at the sound of my voice1 
but he did not immediately look up4     
,shortly he raised his head and fixed   
his eyes on me for an instant only1 and 
then turned them upon others of the     
company with a look as indifferent as if
 he were a mere spectator4 ,what a      
courageous dog6 by ,heaven1 he never    
changed an iota1 nor showed the         
slightest possible mark of recognition2 
still1 ,i knew well enough he did       
recognize me1 but ,i got no sign of it1 
neither did he look towards me again4   
,soon the carriage came up and he was   
hurried in by the gens-d'armes1 and off 
they drove6 ,i made some inquiries1 and 
found that the comte was known1 and that
 they were taking him to ,paris4  ',it  
seems that he had been observed by a spy
 of the uncle during one of his visits  

to the town1 and although he was not    
tracked to his home--for he was always  
very cautious in his movements--yet a   
strict watch was kept for his next      
appearance4 ,i went to see the old      
domestic1 but he knew not so much as ,i4
 ,my steps were next turned homeward4   
,what a walk that was for me8 ,how could
 ,i enter my house the bearer of such   
tidings6 ,bon ,dieu6 ah1 bon ,dieu1 ,i  
exclaimed1 ayez pitie6 and ,i stopped   
under a hedge and got down on my knees  
and said a prayer1 and then ,i began    
crying like a child4 ,i said my prayer  
again1 and walked slowly on2 then ,i saw
 the house1 and ,agathe in the garden1  
and the comtesse with the little one    
standing in the door--looking--looking4 
,i came up--,albert--where is ,albert8  
where is my husband8 ,i made no answer4 
,tell me1 she said1 almost fiercely1    
taking hold of my arm4 ,i opened my     
mouth and essayed to speak1 but although
 my lips moved ,i did not get out a     
syllable4 ,i thought ,i might whisper   

it1 so ,i tried to do so1 but ,i could  
not whisper6 ,the comtesse shrieked1 the
 child began to cry1 and ,agathe came   
running in4 ,come with me1 said ,i to my
 wife1 and ,i went into our chamber and 
told her the whole1 and bid her go to   
the comtesse and tell the truth1 for ,i 
could not4 ,my dear ,agathe went out    
half dead4 ,i sat still in my chamber2  
presently the door opened1 and the      
comtesse stood on the threshold4 ,her   
eyes were lighted up with fire1 her     
countenance was terribly agitated1 her  
whole frame trembled3 ,and you are the  
wretch base enough to let him be carried
 off to be butchered before your eyes   
without lifting voice or hand against   
it1 without interposing one word--one   
look1 one thought6 ,cowardly recreant6  
she screamed1 and fell back in the arms 
of my wife in violent convulsions2 the  
infant looked on with wondering eyes and
 followed us as we laid the comtesse on 
the bed1 and then put her little hand on
 her mother's cheek1 and said softly1   

,mamma4 ,in a few minutes the comtesse  
began to recover4 ,she opened her eyes  
with an expression of intense pain1 gave
 a glance at ,agathe and me1 and then   
observing her child1 she took it1 and   
pressed it to her breast and sobbed4    
,shortly she spoke to me1 and oh1 with  
what a mournful voice and look3 ,louis1 
forgive me2 ,i said ,i knew not what2 ,i
 was beside myself4 ,you have never     
merited aught from me but gratitude2    
will you forgive me8 ,i cried as if ,i  
were a baby4 ,agathe too went on so that
 ,i feared she could never be reconciled
 to the dreadful calamity--for myself1  
,i was well nigh mad4 ,i could but      
commend the comtesse to the ,great ,god 
and hasten out of her sight4 ,five      
wretched and wearisome days were spent4 
,the character of the comtesse meantime 
displayed itself4 ,instead of sinking   
under the weight of this sorrowful      
event1 she summoned resolution to endure
 it4 ,she was devoted to her child2 she 
assumed a cheerful air when caressing   

it2 she even tried to busy herself in   
her ordinary occupations2 but ,i could  
not be deceived1 ,i knew the iron had   
entered her soul4 ,all these heroic     
signs were only evidences of what she   
really suffered4 ,did ,i not watch her  
closely8 and when the comtesse1 folding 
her infant to her breast1 raised her    
eyes to heaven as if in gratitude that  
it was left to her1 ,i fancied there was
 an expression which seemed to say1 ,why
 were not all taken8 ,the little one1   
unconscious of its loss1 would talk in  
intervals about papa2 and when the      
mother1 pained by the innocent prattle1 
grew sad of countenance1 the child would
 creep into her lap1 and putting its    
slender fingers upon her eyes1 her lips1
 and over her face1 would say1 ,am ,i   
not good1 mamma8 ,i am not naughty2 ,i  
am good1 mamma4  ',five days were passed
 in this way2 on the morning of the     
sixth1 we were startled by the comtesse1
 who1 in manifest terror came to us     
holding her child1 which was screaming  

as if suffering acute pain3 its eyes    
were bloodshot and gleamed with an      
unnatural brilliancy1 its pulse rapid1  
and head so hot that it almost burned me
 to feel of it4 ,presently it became    
quiet for a few minutes1 but soon the   
screams were renewed4 ,alas6 what could 
we do8 ,agathe and ,i tried every thing 
that occurred to us1 but to no purpose3 
the pains in the head became so intense 
that the poor thing would shriek as if  
some one was piercing her with a knife1 
then she would lay in a lethargy1 and   
again start and scream until exhausted4 
,not for a moment did the comtesse allow
 her darling to be out of her arms4 ,for
 two days and two nights she neither    
took rest nor food2 absorbed wholly in  
her child's sufferings1 she would not   
for a moment be diverted from them4     
,agathe too watched night and day4 ,on  
the third night the child appeared much 
easier1 and the comtesse bade ,agathe go
 and get some rest4 ,she came and laid  
down for a little time and at last fell 

asleep2 when she awoke it was daylight2 
she knocked at the door of the          
comtesse--all was still2--she opened it 
and went in4 ,the comtesse1 exhausted by
 long watching1 had fallen asleep in her
 chair1 with her little girl in her     
arms4 ,the child had sunk into a dull   
lethargic state never to be broken4     
,alas6 ,monsieur--alas6 the little one  
was dead6 ,agathe ran and called me4 ,i 
came in4 ,what a spectacle6444 ,which of
 us should arouse the unhappy comtesse8 
or should we disturb her8 ,were it not  
better gently to withdraw the dead child
 and leave the mother to her repose8 ,we
 thought so4 ,i stepped forward1 but    
courage failed me4 ,i did not dare      
furtively to abstract the precious      
burden from the jealous arms which even 
in slumber were clasped tightly around  
it4 ,oh6 my ,god6444 ,while we were     
standing the comtesse opened her eyes3  
her first motion was to draw the child  
closer to her heart--then to look at    
us--then at the little one4 ,she saw the

 whole4 ,she had endured so much that   
this last stroke scarcely added to her  
wretchedness4 ,she allowed me to take   
the child1 and ,agathe to conduct her to
 the couch and assist her upon it4 ,she 
had held out to the point of absolute   
exhaustion1 and when once she had       
yielded she was unable to recall her    
strength4 ,she remained in her bed quite
 passive1 while ,agathe nursed her      
without intermission4 ,i dug a little   
grave in the garden yonder1 and ,agathe 
and ,i laid the child in it4 ,the mother
 shed no tears2 when from her bed she   
saw us carry it away she looked         
mournfully on1 and as we went out she   
whispered1 ,mes beaux jours sont passes4
 ,soon the grave was filled up and      
flowers scattered over it1 and we came  
back to the cottage4 ,as ,i drew near   
her room ,i beheld the comtesse at the  
window1 supporting herself by a chair1  
regarding the grave with an earnest     
longing gaze which ,i cannot bear to    
recall4 ,as ,i passed1 her eye met      

mine1--such a look of quiet enduring    
anguish1 which combined in one          
expression a world of untold agonies6   
,oh6 ,i never could endure a second look
 like that4 ,i rushed into the house3   
,agathe was already in4 ,i called to her
 to come to me1 for ,i could not enter  
that room again4 ,wife1 ,i said1 ,i am  
going to ,paris4 ,do not say one word4  
,god will protect us4 ,comfort the      
comtesse4 ,agathe1 if ,i never return1  
remember--it is on a holy errand--adieu4
 ,i was off before ,agathe could reply4 
,i ran till ,i came to the main road1   
there ,i was forced to sit down and     
rest4 ,at last ,i saw a wagoner going   
forward2 part of the way ,i rode with   
him1 and a part ,i found a faster       
conveyance4 ,at night ,i walked by      
myself4  ',i had a cousin in ,paris1    
,maurice ,herbois1 with whom in old     
times ,i had been on companionable      
terms4 ,he was a smith1 and had done    
well at the trade until the revolution  
broke out1 since then ,i had heard      

nothing from him4 ,he was a shrewd      
fellow1 and ,i thought he would be      
likely to keep near the top of the      
wheel4 ,but ,i had a perilous time after
 getting into ,paris before ,i could    
find him4 ,i learned as many of the     
canaille watchwords by heart as ,i      
could4 ,i thought they would serve me if
 ,i was questioned2 but my dangers      
thickened1 until ,i was at last laid    
hold of1 for not giving satisfactory    
answers1 as un homme sans aveu1 and was 
on the point of being conveyed to a     
maison d'arret1 when ,i mentioned the   
name of ,maurice ,herbois as a person   
who could speak in my favor4 ,what1 said
 one1 le ,citoyen ,herbois8 ,the very   
same1 said ,i1 and little thanks will   
you get from him for slandering his     
cousin with a charge of incivisme4      
,there was a general shout at this1 and 
off we hurried to find ,maurice4 ,i had 
answered nothing of whence ,i came or   
where ,i was going1 which was the reason
 ,i had at length got into trouble4 ,i  

knew ,maurice to be a true fellow1      
revolution or no revolution1 and so     
determined to hold my peace till ,i     
should meet him4 ,i found that he had   
been rapidly advanced by the tide of    
affairs1 which had set him forward      
whether he would or no4 ,indeed ,maurice
 was no insignificant fellow at any     
rate4 ,the noise of the men who carried 
me along1 soon brought him out4 ,i spoke
 first3 ,maurice1 my dear cousin1 ,i am 
glad to find you2 but before we can     
shake hands1 you must first certify     
my--loyalty1 ,i was about to say1 but   
bit my tongue1 and got out civisme4 ,my 
friends1 said ,maurice1 this is my      
cousin ,louis ,herbois1 once a valiant  
soldier1 now a brave and incorruptible  
citoyen4 ,he is trustworthy2 he comes to
 visit me2 ,i vouch for him4 ,this was  
so satisfactory1 that we were greeted   
with huzzas1 and then ,i went in with   
,maurice4 ,i need not tell you how much 
passed between us4 ,in short1 we talked 
till our tongues were tired4 ,i found my

 cousin as ,i expected1 true as a piece 
of his own steel4 ,he had been carried  
along1 in spite of himself1 in the      
course of revolution1 and had become a  
great man as the best chance of saving  
his head4 ,i told him my whole story1   
and the object of my visit4 ,a fruitless
 errand1 ,louis1 said he2 ,i know the   
case2 and where personal malice is added
 to the ordinary motive for prosecution1
 there is no escape4 ,poor fellow1 ,i   
wish ,i could help him2 but the uncle1  
he is in power3 ah6 there is no help for
 it4 ,suddenly a new thought struck him4
 ,louis1 did you come by the ,hotel de  
,ville8 ,yes4 ,what was going on8 ,i    
looked neither right nor left2 ,i don't 
know4 ,well1 what did you hear8 ,i heard
 a cry of ,vive ,tallien6 with strange  
noises1 and shouts1 and yells2 and      
somebody said that the ,national ,guards
 were disbanding1 and had forsaken      
,robespierre2 and the people were       
surrounding the ,hotel de ,ville4 ,then1
 ,dieu merci1 there is hope4 ,you are in

 the nick of time2 let us out4 ,if      
,robespierre falls1 you may rescue the  
comte4 ,he is in the ,rue ,st4 ,martin2 
in the same prison is ,madame de        
,fontenay1 the friend of ,tallien1 whom 
,robespierre has incarcerated4 ,the     
former will proceed thither as soon as  
,robespierre is disposed of1 to free    
,madame2 there will be confusion and    
much tumult4 ,i know the keeper3 ,i must
 be cautious2 but ,i will discover where
 the comte and the lady are secured4    
,then ,i will leave you with the jailer2
 the crisis cannot be delayed another   
day4 ,wait till you hear them coming1   
then shout ,vive ,tallien6 run about1   
dance around like a crazy man--hasten   
the jailer to release ,madame1 and do   
you manage to rescue the comte--then be 
off instantly2 don't come here again2   
strike into the country while the       
confusion prevails4 ,come2 let us go    
this minute4 ,and ,i did go4 ,i found   
,maurice's introduction potent with the 
keeper1 and what was better1 ,i found   

the keeper to be an old companion in    
arms1 who had belonged to the same      
company with me4 ,we embraced2 we were  
like two brothers2 nothing could have   
happened better4 ,i learned from him all
 ,i cared to know4 ,i staid hour after  
hour2 just as ,i was in despair at the  
delay1 ,i heard the expected advance4 ,i
 found my fellow-soldier understood what
 it meant4 ,i began to shout ,vive      
,tallien6 as loud as ,i could cry4 ,in a
 fit of enthusiasm ,i snatched the keys 
from the hands of the keeper1 as if to  
liberate the lady1 while my comrade     
opened the doors to the company4 ,i hied
 first to the comte's room4 ,in one     
instant the door was unlocked4 ,quick6  
,i whispered2 follow me--do as ,i do4   
,shout1 huzza2 jump this way and        
that--but stick close to me4 ,in another
 minute ,i had unbolted the door of     
,madame de ,fontenay1 making as much    
noise as ,i could get from my lungs--the
 comte keeping very good time to my     
music4 ,so1 while we were shouting ,vive

 ,tallien6 at the top of our voices1    
,tallien himself rushed in with a large 
party4 ,i took the opportunity to gain  
the street1 and without so much as      
thanking my comrade for his attentions1 
,i glided into an unfrequented lane1 the
 comte at my heels2 and ,i did not stop1
 nor look around1 nor speak1 till ,i    
found myself under cover of an old      
windmill near ,st4 ,denis1 where ,i used
 to play when ,i was a boy4 ,there ,i   
came to a halt1 and seizing the comte in
 my arms1 ,i embraced him a thousand    
times4 ,i look some provisions from my  
pouch1 which my cousin had provided1 and
 bade him eat1 for we should stand in   
need of food4 ,we then proceeded1       
avoiding the main road1 and getting a   
ride whenever we could1 but never       
wasting a moment--not a moment4 ,i told 
the comte what had happened1 and that he
 must hasten if he would see his wife   
alive4 ,at last we came near our house4 
,the comte could scarcely contain       
himself2 he ran before me3 ,i could not 

keep up with him4 ,how my heart was     
filled with foreboding6--how ,i dreaded 
to come nearer6--but apprehension was   
soon at an end4 ,there was my little    
cottage1 and in the doorway1 leaning for
 support against the side1 stood the    
comtesse1 gazing on vacancy--the picture
 of despair and desolation4 ,at the     
sight of her husband1 she threw out her 
hands and tried to advance3 she was too 
feeble1 and would have fallen had he not
 the same moment folded her in his arms4
  ',bien ,monsieur6' continued ,louis   
,herbois1 after clearing his voice1 'the
 worst of the story is told4 ,the       
comtesse was gradually restored to      
health1 and the comte was content to    
remain quietly with us till the storm   
swept past2 but the lady never recovered
 the bright spirits which she before    
displayed1 and the comte himself could  
never speak of the little one whom he   
kissed for the last time on that fatal  
morning1 without the deepest emotion4   
,it seems to have been destined that    

this should be their only affliction4   
,the uncle was beheaded in one of the   
sudden changes of parties the succeeding
 year1 and in due time the comte        
regained his estates4 ,sons and         
daughters were born to them1 and their  
family have grown up in unbroken        
numbers4 ,the comte and comtesse can    
scarcely yet be called old1 their health
 and vigor remain1 and they enjoy still 
those blessings which a kind ,providence
 is pleased to bestow on the most       
favored4 ,but the ,comtesse de ,choissy 
will never forget the child which lies  
there4 ,twice a year1 accompanied by the
 comte1 she visits the cottage4 ,she    
lays with her own hands fresh flowers   
over the little grave1 and waters the   
moss which overspreads it2 and the tears
 stand in her eyes when she looks upon  
the spot where we buried her first-born4
 ,we have engaged that every morning we 
will renew the flowers1 and preserve the
 mosses always green4 ,it is a holy     
office1 consecrated by holy feelings4   

,ah6 life is a strange business3 we may 
not be always serious1 we cannot be     
always gay4 ,god grant1 ,monsieur1 that 
in heaven we may all be happy6'  ,i have
 given you the whole story1 said ,mr4   
,belcher1 after a short pause2 but look1
 the sun is out2 let us go to the       
,courtgain4     ,from ,fraser's         
,magazine4  ,,life ,,at ,a              
,,watering-,,place4  ,,oldport          
,,springs4  ,,by ,,charles ,,astor      
,,bristed4   ,hold on a minute1 said    
,harry1 as they were about to take the  
stage1 after a very fair three-o'clock  
dinner at ,constantinople 7the          
,occidental1 not the ,oriental city of  
that name72 there goes an acquaintance  
of ours whom you must know4 ,he has     
arrived by the ,westfield train1        
doubtless4  ,away sped ,benson after the
 acquaintance1 arm-in-arm with whom he  
shortly returned1 and1 with all the     
exultation of an ,american who has      
brought two lions into the same cage1   
introduced ,m4 le ,vicomte ,vincent ,le 

,roi to the honorable ,edward           
,ashburner4  ,ashburner was rather      
puzzled at ,le ,roi1 whose personal     
appearance did not in any way answer1   
either to his originally conceived idea 
of a ,frenchman1 or to the live         
specimens he had thus far met with4 ,the
 ,vicomte looked more like an           
,englishman1 or perhaps like the very   
best kind of ,irishman4 ,he was a       
middle-sized man1 of thirty or          
thereabout1 with brown hair and a florid
 complexion2 and very quietly dressed1  
his clothes being neither obtrusively   
new nor cut with any ultra-artistic     
pretension4 ,except his wearing a       
moustache and 7of course7 not speaking  
,english1 there was nothing continental 
about his outward man1 or the first     
impression he gave of himself4          
,fortunately1 he was also bound for the 
,springs1 so that ,ashburner would have 
abundant opportunity to study his       
character1 if so disposed4  ,the stage  
in which our tourists were to embark was

 not unlike a ,french diligence1 except 
that it had but one compartment instead 
of three2 in which compartment there    
were three seats1 and on each seat more 
or less room for three persons1 and two 
more could sit with the driver4 ,all the
 baggage was carried on the top4 ,the   
springs were made like coach-springs1 or
 ,c-springs1 as they are always called  
in ,america 7just as in ,england a      
pilot-coat is called a ,p-jacket71 only 
they were upright and perpendicular to  
the axletree instead of curving2 and the
 leathern belts connected with them1 on 
which the carriage swung1 were of the   
thickest and toughest description4 ,as  
the party1 with the addition of ,le     
,roi1 amounted to eight1 ,benson        
managed1 by a little extra expenditure  
of tin and trouble1 to secure the whole 
of one vehicle1 and for the still       
greater accommodation of the ladies and 
child1 the gentlemen were to sit on the 
box two at a time by turns4 ,benson's   
first object was to get hold of the     

reins1 for which end he began           
immediately to talk around the driver   
about things in general4 ,from the price
 of horses they diverged to the         
prospects of various kinds of business1 
and thence slap into the politics of the
 country4 ,the driver was a stubborn    
,locofoco1 and ,benson did not disdain  
to enter into an elaborate argument with
 him4 ,ashburner1 who then occupied the 
other box-seat1 was astonished at the   
man's statistical knowledge1 the variety
 of information he possessed upon local 
topics1 and his accurate acquaintance   
with the government and institutions of 
his country4 ,it occurred to him to     
prompt ,benson1 through the convenient  
medium of ,french1 to sound him about   
,england and ,european politics4 ,this  
,harry did1 not immediately1 lest he    
might suspect the purport of their      
conversational interlude1 but by a      
dexterous approach to the point after   
sufficient preliminary2 and it then     
appeared that he had lumped the despotic

 powers of the old world in a heap      
together1 and supposed the ,queen of    
,england to be on a par with the ,czar  
of ,russia as regarded her personal     
authority and privileges4 ,however1 when
 ,benson set him right as to the        
difference between a limited and an     
absolute monarchy1 he took the          
information in very good part1 listened 
to it attentively1 and evidently made a 
mental note of it for future reference4 
,the four-horse team was a good strong  
one1 but the stage with its load heavy  
enough1 and the roads1 after the recent 
storm1 still heavier1 besides being a   
succession of hills4 ,the best they     
could do was to make six miles an hour1 
and they would not have made three but  
for a method of travelling down-hill1   
entirely foreign to ,european ideas on  
the subject4 ,when they arrived at the  
summit there was no talk of putting on  
the drag1 nor any drag to put on1 but   
away the horses went1 first at a rapid  
trot1 and soon at full gallop2 by which 

means the equipage acquired sufficient  
momentum to carry it part of the way up 
the next hill before the animals        
relapsed into the slow walk which the   
steepness of the ascent imposed upon    
them4 ,indeed this part of the route    
would have been a very tedious one 7for 
the country about was almost entirely   
devoid of interest71 had it not been for
 ,le ,roi1 who came out in great force4 
,he laughed at every thing and with     
every body2 told stories1 and good ones1
 continuously1 and only ceased telling  
stories to break forth into song4 ,in   
fine1 he amused the ladies so much1 that
 when he took his turn on the box they  
missed him immediately1 and sent ,benson
 outside again on the first opportunity2
 whereat the ,vicomte1 being very much  
flattered1 waxed livelier and merrier   
than ever1 and kept up a constant fire  
of jest and ditty4 ,as to ,ashburner1   
who had a great liking for fresh air1   
and an equal horror of a small child in 
a stage-coach1 he remained outside the  

whole time2 for which the fair          
passengers set him down as an insensible
 youth1 who did not know how to         
appreciate good company2 until the      
evening becoming somewhat chilly by     
comparison with the very hot day they   
had undergone1 both he and ,harry took  
refuge in the interior1 and a very jolly
 party they all made4  ,while they were 
outside together1 ,benson had been      
giving ,ashburner some details about ,le
 ,roi--in fact1 a succinct biography of 
him2 for be it noted1 that every        
,new-,yorker is able to produce off-hand
 a minute history of every person1      
native or foreign1 at all known in      
society3 for which ability he is        
indebted partly to the inquisitive      
habits of the people1 partly to their   
communicative disposition1 partly to    
their remarkable memory of small        
particulars1 and partly to a fine       
imagination and power of invention1     
which must be experienced to be fully   
appreciated4 ,benson1 we say1 had been1 

telling his friend the story of his     
other friend or acquaintance2 how he was
 of good family and no fortune2 how he  
had written three novels and three      
thousand or more feuilletons2 how he had
 travelled into some out-of-the-way part
 of ,poland1 where no one had ever been 
before or since1 and about which he was1
 therefore1 at liberty to say what he   
pleased2 how1 besides his literary      
capabilities1 such as they were1 he     
played1 and sang1 and danced1 and       
sketched--all very well for an amateur2 
how he was altogether a very agreeable  
and entertaining man1 and1 as such1 was 
supposed to have been sent out by a sort
 of mutual-benefit subscription-club1   
which existed at ,paris for the purpose 
of marrying its members to heiresses in 
different countries4 ,ashburner had once
 heard rumors of such a club in         
,germany1 but was never able to obtain  
any authentic details concerning it1 or 
to determine whether it was any thing   
more than a traveller's traditionary    

legend4 ,even ,benson was at fault here1
 and1 indeed1 he seemed rather to tell  
the club part of the story as a good    
joke1 than to believe it seriously      
himself4  ,as they approached the       
termination of their journey1 their talk
 naturally turned more and more on the  
,springs4 ,the ,vicomte was in          
possession of the latest advices thence2
 the arrivals and expected arrivals1 and
 the price-current of stock3 that is1 of
 marriageable young gentlemen1 and all  
other matters of gossip2 how the whole  
family of the ,robinsons was there in   
full force1 with an unlimited amount of 
,parisian millinery2 how ,gerard ,ludlow
 was driving four-in-hand1 and          
,lowenberg had given his wife no end of 
jewelry2 how ,mrs4 ,harrison1 who ought 
not to have been 7not being of our set71
 nevertheless was the great lioness of  
the season2 how ,miss ,thompson1 the    
belle expectant1 had renounced the      
,springs altogether1 and shut herself up
 at home somewhere among the            

mountains--all for unrequited love of   
,hamilton ,white1 as was charitably     
reported2 last1 but not least1 how ,tom 
,edwards had invented six new figures   
for the ,german cotillon4 ,ashburner did
 not at first altogether understand the 
introduction of this personage into such
 good company1 supposing from his       
familiar abbreviation and ,terpsichorean
 attributes that he must be the         
fashionable dancing-master of ,oldport1 
or perhaps of ,new-,york2 but he was    
speedily given to understand that1 on   
the contrary1 ,mr4 ,edwards was a gay   
bachelor of good family and large       
fortune1 who1 in addition to gambling1  
intriguing1 and other pleasant little   
propensities1 had an insatiable passion 
for the dance1 and was accustomed to    
rotate morning1 noon1 and night1        
whenever he was not gambling1 c4 as     
aforesaid4 ,and1 continued ,benson1     
,i'll lay you any bet you please1 that  
the first thing we see on arriving at   
our hotel1 will be ,tom ,edwards dancing

 the polka2 unless1 indeed1 he happen to
 be dancing the ,redowa4  ,very likely1 
said ,mrs4 ,benson1 seeing we shall     
arrive there at ten o'clock1 and this is
 a ball-night4  ,both ,harry and his    
wife were right2 they arrived at        
half-past ten1 just as the ball was     
getting into full swing4 ,on the large  
portico in front of the large hotel     
opened a large room1 with large windows 
down to the floor1--the dining-room of  
the establishment1 now cleared for      
dancing purposes4 ,all the idlers of    
,oldport1 male and female1 black and    
white1 congregated at these windows and 
thronged the portico2 and almost into   
the very midst of this crowd our party  
was shot1 baggage and all4 ,while       
,ashburner was looking out of a confused
 heap of people and luggage1 he heard   
one of the assistant loafers say to     
another1 ,look at ,mr4 ,edwards6        
,profiting by the information not       
originally intended for him1 he followed
 the direction of the speaker's nose1   

and beheld a little showily-dressed man 
flying down the room with a large       
showily-dressed woman1 going the        
poursuite of the ,redowa at a terrific  
rate4 ,so that1 literally1 the first    
thing he saw in ,oldport was ,tom       
,edwards dancing4 ,but there was no     
opportunity to make a further study of  
this1 one of the most remarkable men    
among us1 for the party had to look up  
their night quarters4 ,benson had       
dispatched in advance to ,mr4 ,grabster1
 proprietor of the ,bath ,hotel at      
,oldport ,springs1 a very particular    
letter1 stating the number of his party1
 the time he meant to be there1 and the 
number of rooms he wanted1 and had also 
sent his horses on ahead2 but though the
 animals had arrived safe and found     
stable-room1 there was no preparation   
for their master4 ,ashburner1 at the    
request of the ladies1 followed ,benson 
into the office 7for the ,bath ,hotel   
being1 nominally at least1 the first    
house in the place1 had its bar-room and

 office separate71 and found ,harry in  
earnest expostulation with a            
magnificently-dressed individual1 whom  
he took for ,mr4 ,grabster himself1 but 
who turned out to be only that high and 
mighty gentleman's head book-keeper4    
,the letter had been dispatched so long 
beforehand that1 even at the rate of    
,american country posts1 it ought to    
have arrived1 but no one knew any thing 
about it4 ,both the young men           
suspected--uncharitably1 perhaps1 but   
not altogether unnaturally--that ,mr4   
,grabster and his aids1 finding a       
prospect of a full season1 had not      
thought it worth their while to trouble 
themselves about the application1 or to 
keep any rooms4 ,ashburner suggested    
trying another hotel1 but the roads were
 muddy1 and vehicles scarce at that time
 of night1 so that altogether there     
seemed a strong probability of their    
being compelled to camp out on the      
portico4 ,but it was not in ,benson to  
give it up so4 ,he possessed1 as we have

 already hinted1 that faculty so        
alarmingly common in his country1 which 
polite people call oratory1 and vulgar  
ones the gift of the gab2 and he was not
 the man to throw away the opportunity  
of turning any of his gifts to account4 
,warming with his subject1 he poured out
 upon the gorgeously-attired ,mr4 ,black
 such a flood of conciliatory and       
expostulatory eloquence1 that that      
gentleman absolutely contrived to find  
some accommodation for them4 ,the       
ladies1 child1 and servants were huddled
 together into one tolerably large room1
 in the third story4 ,benson had a sort 
of corner-cupboard in the fourth1 that  
might1 perhaps1 have accommodated a     
mouse with a small family2 and to       
,ashburner and ,le ,roi were assigned   
two small chambers in the fifth4 ,as to 
the baggage1 that was all piled up in   
the office1 with the exception of a few 
indispensable articles4 ,supper was out 
of the question1 there being no room to 
eat it in because of the dancers4 ,the  

ladies did not want supper2 they only   
regretted not being able to unpack their
 trunks1 and dress for the ball then and
 there going on2 their eyes lighted up  
at the sound of the music1 and their    
little feet began to beat the floor     
incontinently4 ,the gentlemen took a    
drink all round by way of substitute for
 something more solid4 ,ashburner had   
mounted to his dormitory--no small      
journey--and was sitting on his bed1    
wishing he had some contrivance for     
pulling off all his clothes at once     
without the trouble of removing them    
piece by piece1 when he heard in the    
passage the voice of ,le ,roi1 quantum  
mutatus ab illo6 ,the ,vicomte had sworn
 up all his own language1 and was       
displaying a knowledge of ,english      
expletives that quite surprised his     
fellow-traveller4 ,on investigation1 the
 cause of his wrath proved to be this3 a
 semi-civilized ,irish waiter had shown 
him to ,no4 #bif1 in accordance with    
,mr4 ,black's directions4 ,but ,mr4     

,black1 in the multiplicity of his      
affairs1 had forgotten that ,no4 #bif   
was already tenanted1 to wit1 by a      
,western traveller1 who did1 indeed1    
intend to quit it by an early stage next
 morning1 but had not the least idea of 
giving up his quarters before that time2
 and accordingly1 as if from a          
presentiment that some attempt would be 
made to dislodge him1 had1 in addition  
to the ordinary not very strong         
fastenings of the door1 so barricaded it
 with trunks and furniture1 that it     
could have stood a considerable amount  
of siege4 ,the waiter had gone off1     
leaving ,le ,roi to shift for himself4  
,bells were scarce in the upper stories 
of the ,bath ,hotel1 nor was there any  
light throughout the long corridor1     
except the one tallow candle which his  
useless guide had deposited on the      
floor4 ,utterly upset at the idea of    
having to tramp down four pair of stairs
 and back again in search of            
accommodation1 the unlucky ,gaul was    

seeking a momentary relief in the manner
 above stated1 when ,ashburner came to  
the rescue4 ,his bed happened to be     
rather a large one--so large1           
comparatively1 that it was a mystery how
 it had ever found its way into the     
little room1 the four walls of which    
seemed to have grown or been built up   
around it2 and this bed he instantly    
proposed to share with ,le ,roi for the 
night4 ,the ,frenchman mercied1 and     
couldn't think of such a thing for five 
minutes1 edging into the room and       
pulling off his coat and boots all the  
time2 then he gave a glorious           
exemplification of cessanta causa1 for  
all his rage vanished in a moment1 and  
he was the same exuberantly good-natured
 and profusely loquacious man that he   
had been all day4 ,on he streamed in a  
perpetual flow of talk long after both  
were in bed1 until ,ashburner began to  
feel as a man might to whom some fairy  
had given a magical instrument1 which   
discoursed sweet music at first1 but    

could never be made to stop playing4    
,and when at length the ,vicomte1 having
 lighted on the subject of women1 poured
 out an infinity of adventures with     
ladies of all countries1 of all which   
stories ,vincent ,le ,roi was1 of       
course1 the hero1 his fellow-traveller1 
unable to help being disgusted at his   
vanity and levity1 turned round to the  
wall1 and without considering whether he
 was acting in accordance with          
bienseance1 fell fast asleep in the     
midst of one of the most thrilling      
narratives4  ,when ,ashburner awoke next
 morning1 the first thing he was        
conscious of was ,le ,roi talking4 ,it  
required very little exercise of the    
imagination to suppose that he had been 
going on uninterruptedly all night4     
,afterwards he became aware of a        
considerable disturbance1 evidently     
originating in the lower story of the   
house1 but sufficiently audible all over
 it1 which he put down to the account of
 numerous new arrivals4 ,by the time    

they had completed their toilettes      
7which did not take very long1 for the  
room being just under the roof1 was of a
 heat that made it desirable for them to
 evacuate it as soon as possible71      
,benson made his appearance4 ,he had    
obtained possession of his baggage1 and 
arrayed himself in the extreme of summer
 costume3--a white grass-cloth coat1    
about the consistency of blotting-paper1
 so transparent that the lilac pattern  
of his check shirt was distinctly       
visible through the arms of it2 white   
duck vest1 white drilled trousers1      
long-napped white hat1 a speckled cravat
 to match his shirt1 and highly         
varnished shoes1 with red and white     
striped silk stockings1--altogether very
 fresh and innocent-looking4 ,he came to
 show them the principal spring1 which  
was not far from the hotel--just a      
pleasant walk before breakfast1 though  
it was not likely they would meet many  
people so early1 on account of last     
night's ball4  ,i am afraid your        

quarters were not very comfortable1 said
 ,harry1 as the three strolled          
arm-in-arm down a sufficiently sandy    
road2 but we shall have better rooms    
before dinner to-day4  ,the house must  
be very full1 ,ashburner remarked2 and  
were there not a great many arrivals    
this morning8 ,from the noise ,i heard1 
,i thought at least fifty people had    
come4  ,no2 ,i glanced at the book1 and 
there were not a dozen names on it4     
,hallo6 and ,benson swore roundly in    
,spanish1 apparently forgetting that his
 friend understood that language4       
,ashburner looked up1 and saw meeting   
them a large ,frenchman and a small     
,irish boy4 ,the ,frenchman had an      
immense quantity of hair of all sorts on
 his face1 nearly hiding his features1  
which1 as what was visible of them had a
 particularly villainous air1 was about 
the best thing he could have done to    
them2 and on his head he carried a      
something of felt1 which indisputably   
proved the proposition that matter may  

exist without form4 ,the ,irish youth   
sported a well-meant1 but not very      
successful attempt at a moustache1 and a
 black cloth cap pitched on one side of 
his head4 ,in other respects1 they were 
attired in the usual costume of an      
,american snob2 that is to say1 a       
dress-coat and full suit of black at    
seven in the morning4 ,ashburner noticed
 that ,benson spit ostentatiously while 
passing them2 and after passing he swore
 again1 this time in downright ,english4
  ,le ,roi had seen in his acquaintance 
with ,european watering-places1 a goodly
 amount of scamps and blacklegs1 and    
,ashburner was not without some         
experience of the sort1 so that they    
were not disposed to be curious about   
one blackguard more or less in a place  
of the kind2 but these two fellows had  
such a look of unmitigated rascality1   
that both the foreigners glanced        
inquiringly at their friend1 and were   
both on the point of asking him some    
questions1 when he anticipated their    

desire4  ,god forgive me for swearing1  
but it is too provoking to meet these   
loafers in respectable quarters4 ,the   
ancients used to think their journey    
spoiled if they met an unclean animal on
 starting1 and ,i feel as if my whole   
stay here would go wrong after meeting  
these animals the first thing in the    
first morning4  ,mais qu'est ce qu'ils  
sont donc1 ces vaut-riens8 asked ,le    
,roi4  ,the ,frenchman is a deported    
convict1 who is doing us the honor to   
serve out his time here2 the ,irishman  
is a refugee1 ,i believe4 ,they have    
come here to report for ,the ,sewer4    
,they cooled their virtuous indignation 
in the spring1 and were returning4      
,hallo1 ,benson6 ,hallo6 ,i thought that
 was you6 shouted somebody1 a quarter of
 a mile off1 from the hotel steps4  ,ah1
 said ,harry1 ,i understand now why you 
heard so much noise this morning4 ,bird 
,simpson has arrived4  ,mr4 ,simpson1   
popularly known as the bird 7why no one 
could tell exactly1 but people often get

 such names attached to them for some   
inexplicable reason71 came on a half-run
 to meet them4 ,he was a tall1 showy1   
and rather handsome1 though not         
particularly graceful man2 very flashily
 got up in a blue cutaway with gilt     
buttons1 wide blue stripes down the     
sides of his white trousers1 a check    
shirt of enormous crimson pattern1 and a
 red and white cravat2 no waistcoat1 and
 wide embroidered braces1 the work of   
some lady friend4 ,he seemed to have    
dressed himself on the principle of the 
tricolor1 and to have carried it out in 
his face--his cheeks being very red1 his
 eyes very blue1 and his hair very      
white4 ,after having pump-handled       
,benson's arm for some time1 he made an 
attack on ,le ,roi1 whom he just knew by
 name1 and inquired if he had just come 
de l'autre cote1 meaning the other side 
of the ,atlantic1 according to a common 
,new-,york idiom2 but the ,vicomte not  
unnaturally took it to mean from the    
other side of the road1 and gave a      

corresponding answer in ,english as     
felicitous as ,mr4 ,simpson's ,french4  
,then he digressed upon ,ashburner1 whom
 he saw to be an ,englishman1 in so     
pointed a manner1 that ,benson was      
obliged to introduce them2 and the      
introduction was followed by an         
invitation on ,simpson's part to the    
company to take a drink1 which they did1
 somewhat to the consternation of the   
,frenchman1 who knew not what to make of
 iced brandy and mint before breakfast4 
,then ,simpson1 having primed himself   
for the morning meal1 set about         
procuring it1 and his departure visibly 
relieved ,benson1 who was clearly not   
proud of his acquaintance4 ,le ,roi also
 went after his breakfast1 taking care  
to get as far as possible from the      
corner of the room where ,simpson was4  
,there1 said ,benson1 is a very fair    
specimen of 'second set4' ,he is ,b1    
,no4 #a1 rather a great man in his own  
circle1 and imports ,french goods4 ,to  
hear him talk about ,french actresses   

and eating-houses1 you would think him a
 ten-years' resident of that city1      
instead of having been there perhaps    
four times in his life1 a week each     
time4 ,but you know we ,americans have a
 wonderful faculty of seeing a great    
deal in a little time4 ,just so with    
,italy2 he was there two months1 and    
professes to know all about the country 
and the people4 ,but he doesn't know the
 set abroad or at home4 ,sometimes you  
meet him at a ball1 where he does his   
duty about supper time2 but you will    
never see him dancing with1 or talking  
to1 the ladies who are 'of us4'         
,nevertheless1 they will avail          
themselves of his services sometimes1   
when they want to buy silks at wholesale
 prices1 or to have something smuggled  
for them2 for he is the best-natured man
 in the world4 ,and1 after all1 he is   
not more given to scandal than the      
exquisites1 and is a great deal honester
 and truer4 ,once ,i caught a fever out 
on the north-eastern boundary1 and had  

not a friend with me1 or any means of   
getting help4 ,this man nursed me like a
 brother1 and put himself to no end of  
trouble for me until we could fetch     
,carl on4 ,i would certainly rather have
 been under such an obligation to some  
other men ,i know than to ,simpson2 but 
having incurred it1 ,i do not think it  
can be justly paid off with a           
'glad-to-know-you-when-,i'm-at-,bath-aga
in' acquaintance2 and ,i feel bound to  
be civil to him1 though he does bother  
me immensely at times with his          
free-and-easy habits1--walking into my  
parlor with his hat on and cigar in his 
mouth2 chaffing me or my wife in        
language about as elegant as an omnibus 
driver's2 or pawing ladies about in a   
way that he takes for gallantry4        
,talking of ladies1 ,i wish mine would  
show themselves for breakfast4 ,ah1 here
 are two men you must know2 they are    
good types of two classes of our        
beaux--the considerably ,french and the 
slightly ,english--the former class the 

more numerous1 you are probably aware4  
,mr4 ,white1 ,mr4 ,ashburner--,mr4      
,ashburner1 ,mr4 ,sumner4  ,hamilton    
,white was a tall1 handsome man1 some   
few years on the wrong side of thirty1  
broader-shouldered and deeper-chested   
than the ordinary ,american model1      
elaborately but very quietly dressed1   
without any jewelry or showy patterns4  
,there was something very ,parisian in  
his get-up and manner1 yet you would    
never take him for a ,frenchman1 still  
less for a ,frenchified-,englishman4    
,but he had the look of a man who had   
lived in a gay capital1 and quite fast  
enough for his years3 his fine hair was 
beginning to go on the top of his head1 
and his face wanted freshness and color4
 ,his manner1 slightly reserved at      
first1 rapidly warmed into animation1   
and his large dark eyes gave double     
expression to whatever he said4 ,his    
very smallest talk was immensely        
impressive4 ,he would tell a stranger   
that he was happy to make his           

acquaintance with an air that implied   
all the ,spaniard's mi casa a la        
disposicion de usted1 and meant about as
 much2 and when you saw him from the    
parquet of the ,opera talking to some   
young lady in the boxes1 you would have 
imagined that he was making a dead set  
at her1 when in fact he was only        
uttering some ordinary meteorological   
observation4 ,apart from his knack of   
looking and talking sentiment1 he had no
 strongly-marked taste or hobby3 danced 
respectably1 but not often2 knew enough 
about horses to pick out a good one when
 he wanted a mount for a riding-party2  
drank good wine habitually1 without     
being pedantic about the different      
brands of it2 and read enough of the    
current literature of the day to be able
 to keep up a conversation if he fell   
among a literary circle4 ,he was not a  
marrying man1 partly because his income1
 sufficient to provide him with all     
bachelor luxuries1 was not large enough 
to support a wife handsomely2 partly    

because that a man should tie himself to
 one woman for life was a thing he could
 not conceive1 much less practice3 but  
he very much affected the society of the
 softer sex1 and was continually amusing
 himself with some young girl or young  
wife4 ,he rather preferred the          
latter--it was less compromising2 still 
he had no objection to victimize an     
innocent debutante1 and leave her more  
or less broken-hearted4 7,it must be    
observed1 however1 for the credit of    
,american young ladies1 that they are   
not addicted to dying of this complaint1
 so often fatal in novels2 many of      
,hamilton's victims had recovered and   
grown absolutely fat upon it1 and       
married very successfully47 ,wherever   
there was a fiancee1 or a probable      
fiancee1 or a married belle with an     
uxorious husband1--in short1 wherever he
 could make himself look dangerous and  
another man jealous or foolish1 he came 
out particularly strong2 at the same    
time1 being adroit and not over         

belligerent1 he always contrived to stop
 or get out of the way in time if the   
other party showed open signs of        
displeasure4  ,frank ,sumner was rather 
shorter than ,white1 rather younger1 and
 rather more dressed4 ,he had the same  
broad shoulders1 which in ,america1     
where most of the beaux are either tall 
and thin or short and thin1 find favor  
with the ladies2 just as blondes create 
a sensation in southern countries1      
because they are so seldom seen4 ,in    
almost all other particulars1 the two   
men were totally unlike1 and ,sumner    
might have passed for an ,english       
gentleman put into ,french clothes4 ,he 
was reserved in his conversation1 and   
marked in the expression of his likes   
and dislikes4 ,with no more intention of
 marrying than ,white1 he took care     
never to make love to any woman1 and if 
any woman made love to him1 he gave her 
no encouragement4 ,he was not richer    
than ,white1 not so good-looking1 and   
certainly not so clever1 but more       

respected and more influential2 for the 
solid and trustworthy parts of his      
character1 backed by a bull-dog courage 
and an utter imperturbability1 got the  
better in the long run of the other's   
more brilliant qualities4  ,some of     
these things ,ashburner observed for    
himself1 some of them ,benson told him  
after ,white and ,sumner1 who did not   
ask the stranger to take a drink1 had   
passed on4 ,he had noticed that the     
latter's manner1 though perfectly civil1
 was very cold compared with the        
empressement which the former had       
exhibited4  ,he doesn't like your       
countrymen1 said ,harry1 and nothing can
 vex him more than to be told1 what is  
literally the truth1 that he resembles  
an ,englishman in many respects4 ,i     
believe it is about the only thing that 
can vex him4 ,what an immovable man it  
is6 ,i have seen a woman throw a lighted
 cigar into his face1 and another cut   
off one end of his moustache 7that was  
when we were both younger1 and used to  

see some queer scenes abroad71 and a    
servant drop half a tureen of soup over 
him1 and none of these things stirred   
him4 ,once at ,naples1 ,i recollect1 he 
set our chimney on fire4 ,such a time we
 had of it2 every one in the house      
tumbling into our room1 from the        
piccolo1 with no coat and half a pair of
 pants1 to the proprietor in his        
dressing-gown and spectacles--women     
calling on the ,virgin1 men running     
after water--and there sat ,frank1      
absolutely radiating off so much        
coolness1 that he imparted a portion of 
it to me1 and we sat through the scene  
as quietly as if they had only been     
laying the cloth for dinner4 ,a rum pair
 they must have thought us6 ,the day    
before we had astonished the waiter by  
lighting brandy over a pudding4 ,i      
suppose we left them under the          
impression that the ,anglo-,saxons had a
 propensity to set fire to every thing  
they came in contact with4  ,it is very 
odd that so many of your people should  

be afraid of resembling us1 and take the
 ,french type for imitation in          
preference to the ,english4 ,the        
original feeling of gratitude to ,france
 for having assisted you in the war of  
independence1 does not seem sufficient  
to account for it4  ,certainly not2 for 
that feeling would naturally diminish in
 succeeding generations1 whereas the    
,gallicism of our people is on the      
increase1--in fact its origin is of     
comparatively recent date4 ,but we      
really are more like the ,french in some
 senses4 ,politically the ,american is  
very ,anglo-,saxon4 ,so he is morally2  
but socially1 so far as you can separate
 society from morals1 he is very        
,french4 ,the ,englishman's first idea  
of his duty in society is               
non-interference2 the ,frenchman's and  
,american's1 amusement4 ,an ,englishman 
does not think it his business to       
endeavor to amuse the company in which  
he happens to be2 an ,englishwoman does 
not think it her duty to make any       

attempt to entertain a man who is       
introduced to her4 ,a ,frenchman will   
rather talk trash1 knowing that he is   
talking trash1 than remain silent and   
let others remain silent4 ,so will an   
,american4 ,but an ,englishman1 unless  
he is sure of saying something to the   
point1 will hold his tongue4 ,the       
imperturbable self-possession of the    
,english gentleman is generally         
understood by us1 any more than it is by
 the ,french4 ,his minding his own      
business is attributed to selfish       
indifference4 ,the picture that half our
 people form of an ,englishman is1 a    
heavy1 awkward man1 very badly dressed1 
courageous1 and full of learning2 but   
devoid of all the arts and graces of    
life1 and caring for nobody but himself4
 ,it is a great pity that there is not a
 better understanding2 but1             
unfortunately1 the best ,englishmen who 
come here seldom stay long enough to be 
appreciated1 and the best ,americans who
 go to ,england seldom stay there long  

enough to appreciate the country4       
,whenever an ,american chances to stay  
some years among you1 he ends by liking 
,england very much2 but it is very      
seldom that he has any provocation1     
unless compelled by business1 to stay   
some years1 for acquaintances are harder
 to make in ,london than in any other   
city1 while it has less resources for a 
man without acquaintances than any other
 city--besides being so dear4 ,but here 
come the ladies at last2 now for        
breakfast4  ,breakfast was the best     
managed meal at the ,bath ,hotel4 ,the  
table d'hote began at half past seven1  
but fresh relays of rolls and eggs1 ham1
 chops1 and steaks1 were always to be   
obtained until half-past ten or eleven  
by those who had interest with the      
waiters4 ,after breakfast the company   
went to work promenading4 ,there was a  
very wide hall running through the      
hotel1 and up and down this1 and up and 
down the two broadest sides of the      
portico1 all the world walked--our set  

being conspicuous from the elegance of  
their morning costume4 ,one side of the 
portico was devoted to the gentlemen and
 their cigars1 and there ,ashburner and 
,benson took a turn1 leaving with the   
ladies ,le ,roi and a small beau or two 
who had joined them4 ,suddenly ,benson  
pressed his friend's arm4  ,here comes  
really 'one of the most remarkable      
men'--the very god of the dance2 behold 
,tom ,edwards6  ,ashburner beheld a     
little man1 about five feet and a half  
high4 ,if he could have stood on his    
bushy black beard it would have lifted  
him full three inches higher4 ,besides  
this beard he cherished a small         
moustache1 very elaborately             
curling-tongsed at the ends into the    
shape of half a lyre4 ,otherwise he had 
not much hair on his head1 but what he  
had was very carefully brushed4 ,his    
features were delicate1 and not without 
intelligence1 but terribly worn by      
dissipation4 ,to look at his figure1 you
 would take him for a boy of nineteen2  

to look at his face1 for a man of       
thirty3 he was1 probably1 about half way
 between the two ages4 ,every thing     
about him was wonderfully neat3 a white 
coat and hat like ,benson's2            
cream-colored waistcoat and             
pearl-colored trousers2 miraculously    
small feet in resplendent boots1 looking
 more like a doll's extremities than a  
man's2 a fresh kid glove on one of his  
little hands1 and on the other a        
sapphire ring1 so large that ,ashburner 
wondered how the little man could carry 
it1 and thought that he should1 like    
,juvenal's dandies1 have kept a lighter 
article for summer wear4 ,then he had a 
watch-chain of great balls of blue      
enamel1 with about two pounds of        
chatelaine charms dependent therefrom2  
and delicate little enamelled studs1    
with sleeve-buttons to match4           
,altogether he was a wonderful lion1    
considering his size4 ,even ,benson had 
not the courage to stop and introduce   
his friend until he passed the great    

dancer more than once1 in silent        
admiration1 and with a respectful bow4  
,and as they passed he detailed to      
,ashburner1 with his usual biographical 
accuracy1 the history of ,tom ,edwards1 
which he had begun in the stage-coach4  
,tom had been left in his infancy with a
 fortune and without a father1 to be    
brought up by relatives who had an      
unlucky preference of ,parisian to      
,american life4 ,under their auspices   
and those of other ,mentors1 whom he    
found in that gay capital1 his progress 
was so rapid1 that at a very early age  
he was known as the banker of two or    
three distinguished lorettes1 and the   
pet pupil of the renowned ,cellarius4   
,indeed1 he had lived so much in the    
society of that gentleman and his       
dancing girls1 that he took the latter  
for his standard of female society1 and 
had a tendency to behave to all         
womankind as he behaved to them4 ,to    
married ladies he talked slightly       
refined double-entendre3 to young ladies

 he found it safest to say very little1 
his business and pleasure being to dance
 with them2 if they did not dance1 he   
gave them up for uncivilized beings1 and
 troubled himself no further about them4
 ,of old people of either sex he took no
 further notice than to order them out  
of the way when they impeded the        
polkers1 or dance bodily over them when 
they disobeyed4 ,still it must be said1 
in justice to him1 that dancing was not 
his sole and all-absorbing pursuit4     
,having an active turn of mind and body1
 he found leisure for many other        
profitable amusements4 ,he was fond of  
that noble animal1 the horse1 gambled   
habitually1 ate and drank               
luxuriously1--in short1 burned his      
candle at a good many ends3 but the     
dance was1 though not his sole1         
certainly his favorite passion2 and he  
was never supremely happy but when he   
had all the chairs in the house arranged
 in a circle1 and all the boys and women
 of our set going around them in the    

,german cotillon1 from noon to midnight 
at a 7so-called7 matinee1 or from       
midnight to daybreak at a ball4  ,and   
now1 said ,benson1 ,i think my cousin   
,gerard must be up by this time2 he and 
,edwards are generally the last to come 
down to breakfast4 ,perhaps we shall    
find him at the ten-pin alley2 ,i see   
the ladies are moving that way4  ,to the
 ten-pin alley they went4 ,down stairs1 
men were playing1 coat off and cigar in 
mouth2 while others waited their turn1  
with feet distributed in various        
directions4 ,above1 all was decorum2 the
 second story being appropriated to the 
ladies and their cavaliers4 ,and very   
fond of the game the ladies were1 for it
 afforded them an opportunity of showing
 off a handsome arm1 and sometimes a    
neat ankle4 ,gerard was not there2 they 
had to wait some time for alleys3       
altogether ,benson was a little bored1  
and whispered to his friend that he     
meant to console himself by making a    
little sensation4  ,by your play8 asked 

,ashburner4  ,no1 but by taking off my  
coat4  ,why1 really1 considering the    
material of your coat1 ,i think it might
 as well be on as off4 ,surely you can't
 find it an impediment8  ,no1 but ,i    
mean to take it off for fun1--just to   
give the people here something to talk  
about2 they talk so much about so       
little4 ,they will be saying all over by
 to-morrow that ,mr4 ,benson was in the 
ladies' room half undressed4  ,after an 
hour's rolling they turned hotelwards   
again1 and as they did so a very spicy  
phaeton1 with gray wheelers and black   
leaders1 drove up to the door4 ,a tall1 
handsome man1 handed out a rather pretty
 and very showily-dressed little woman2 
and ,ashburner recognized ,gerard       
,ludlow4  ,it was not the first time he 
had seen ,gerard4 ,they had travelled   
half over ,greece together1 having      
accidentally fallen upon the same route4
 ,as the ,honorable ,edward had all the 
national fear of compromising himself1  
and ,gerard was as proud and reserved as

 any ,englishman1 they went on together 
for days without speaking1 although the 
only ,anglo-,saxons of the party4 ,at   
last1 ,ludlow having capsized1 horse and
 all1 on a particularly bad road1       
,ashburner took the liberty of helping  
to pick him up1 and then they became    
very good friends4 ,gerard was at that  
time in the full flush of youth and     
beauty1 and the lion of the ,italian    
capital which he had made his           
headquarters1 where it was currently    
reported that a certain very desirable  
countess had made desperate love to him1
 and that a rich nobleman 7for there are
 some rich noblemen still left on the   
continent7 had tried very hard to get   
the handsome foreigner for a son-in-law4
 ,knowing this and some other similar   
stories about him1 ,ashburner was a     
little curious to see ,mrs4 ,ludlow1 and
 confessed himself somewhat disappointed
 in her2 he found her rather pretty1 and
 certainly not stupid2 lively and       
agreeable in her manners1 like most of  

her countrywomen2 but by no means       
remarkably distinguished either for     
beauty or wit4 ,benson explained to him 
that his cousin had married for tin4    
,but ,ludlow always talked of his father
 as a rich man1 and his family as a     
small one4 ,i should have supposed money
 about the last thing he would have     
married for4  ,yes1 he had prospects of 
the best2 but he wanted ready money and 
a settled income4 ,he was on a small    
allowance2 he knew the only way to get a
 handsome one was to marry1 and that the
 more money his wife brought1 the more  
his father would come down with4 ,so as 
,miss ,hammersley had eight thousand a  
year1 old ,ludlow trebled it2 and       
,gerard may build as many phaetons as he
 likes4 ,i don't mean to say that the   
match is an uncongenial one--they have  
many tastes alike2 but ,i do mean to say
 that love had nothing to do with it4   
,well1 ,i used to think that in your    
unsophisticated ,republican country1    
people married out of pure love2 but now

 it looks as if the fashionables1 at    
least1 marry for money about as often as
 we do4  ,they don't marry for any thing
 else1 replied ,benson1 using one of the
 slang phrases of the day4#bf  ,while   
the two friends were gossiping1 ,sumner 
and ,le ,roi had carried off the ladies2
 and an assemblage of juvenile beaux and
 young girls1 and some few of the       
younger married women1 had extemporized 
a dance in the largest of the public    
parlors1 which they kept up till two    
o'clock1 and then vanished--to dress1 as
 it appeared1 for the three o'clock     
dinner4 ,benson's party had obtained    
their apartments at last1--a parlor and 
two bedrooms for the ladies on the first
 floor1 and chambers for the three men  
in the second story1 of a recently built
 wing1 popularly known as the ,colony1  
where most of the gay bachelors1 and not
 a few of the young married men1 slept4 
,at dinner the ladies presented         
themselves as much dressed as they could
 be without being decolletees2 and the  

men had doffed their grass-cloth or     
linen garments1 and put on dress-coats1 
or1 at least1 black coats4 ,ashburner   
was a good-looking young man enough1 and
 had sufficient vanity to take notice1  
in the course of the morning1 that he   
was an object of attention2 at dinner   
many looks were directed towards him1   
but with an expression of disappointment
 which he did not exactly understand at 
the time1 but afterwards learned the    
reason of from his friend4 ,though      
making no pretensions to the title of   
exquisite1 he happened to have a very   
neat shooting-jacket1 unexceptionable in
 material and fit2 and our set1 having  
approved of this1 were curious to see   
what sort of costume he would display at
 dinner4 ,when1 therefore1 he came to   
table1      ,avec les memes bas et la   
meme cravate1  and the shooting-jacket  
unchanged1 they were visibly            
disappointed4 ,benson1 to keep him in   
countenance1 had retained his white     
coat1 on the plea of its being most     

wanted then1 as they were in the hottest
 part of the day1 which excuse did not  
enable him to escape some hints from his
 sister-in-law1 and a direct scolding   
from his wife4  ,our ,englishman thought
 the dinner hardly worth so much        
dressing for4 ,the dishes1 so far as he 
had an opportunity of judging1 were     
tolerably cooked2 but their number was  
not at all proportionate to that of the 
guests2 in short1 it was a decided case 
of short commons1 and the waiters were  
scarce to match4 ,there were but two    
parties well attended to4 ,one was the  
family of an old gentleman from the     
,south1 who was part owner of the       
building1 and who1 besides this         
advantage1 enjoyed the privilege of     
letting his daughter monopolize the     
piano of the public parlor half the day1
 to sing ,italian arias shockingly out  
of tune1 much to the disgust of the     
boarders generally1 and especially of   
the dancing set1 who were continually   
wanting the instrument themselves for   

polking purposes4 ,the other was----the 
reporters of ,the ,sewer2 who had a     
choice collection of dishes and waiters 
always at their command4 ,to be sure    
they had their end of the table to      
themselves1 too1 for not a person sat   
within three chairs of them on either   
side2 but this they1 no doubt1 accepted 
as a complimentary acknowledgment of    
their formidable reputation4 ,every one 
else was famished4 ,the married women   
grumbled1 and scolded their             
husbands--those convenient scapegoats of
 all responsibility2 the young ladies   
tried to look very sentimental1 and     
above all such vulgar anxiety as that of
 meat and drink1 but only succeeded in  
looking very cross2 the men swore in    
various dialects at the waiters whenever
 they could catch them flying1 and the  
waiters being used to it didn't mind it2
 and ,ashburner1 as a recollection of a 
former conversation flitted across his  
mind1 could not help letting off a tu   
quoque at his friend4  ,i say1 ,benson1 

quoth he1 is this one of the hotels that
 are so much better than ours1 and that 
our people ought to take a lesson from8 
,harry looked half-a-dozen bowie-knives 
at him4 ,besides the natural irritation 
produced by hunger1 his wife and        
sister-in-law had been whipping him over
 each other's shoulders for the last    
half-hour1 and now this last remark made
 him ready to boil over4 ,for a few     
seconds his face wore an expression     
positively dangerous1 but in another    
moment the ridiculous side of the case  
struck him4 ,with a good-humored laugh  
he called for some wine--the only thing 
one was sure to get1 as it was an extra1
 and a pretty expensive one1 too1 on the
 hills--and they drowned their hunger in
 a bumper of tolerable champagne4  ,the 
fact was1 that the ,bath ,hotel had been
 a most excellent house three or four   
summers previous1 and the enterprising  
and gentlemanly landlord 7to borrow an  
,american penny-a-liner's phrase7 having
 made a fortune1 as he deserved1 had    

sold out his lease1 with the good-will  
and fixtures of the establishment1 to   
,mr4 ,grabster4 ,the latter gentleman   
was originally a respectable farmer and 
market-gardener in the vicinity of      
,oldport2 and having acquired by his    
business a fair sum of money1 was       
looking about for some speculation in   
which to invest it4 ,he commenced his   
new profession with tolerably good      
intentions1 but having as much idea of  
keeping a hotel as he had of steering a 
frigate1 and finding a balance against  
him at the end of the first season from 
sheer mismanagement1 he had been        
endeavoring ever since to make up for it
 by screwing his guests in every way4   
,people naturally began to complain4    
,two courses were open to him--to       
improve his living1 or to tip an editor 
to puff him4 ,he deemed the latter      
course the cheaper1 and bought ,the     
,sewer1 which1 while uttering the most  
fulsome adulation of every thing        
connected with the ,bath ,hotel1        

frightened the discontented into silence
 through dread of its abuse4 ,ludlow1   
and some of the other exclusives1 had1  
in the beginning of the present season1 
contrived a remedy1 which1 for the time1
 was perfectly successful4 ,they held a 
private interview with the cook1 and    
made up a weekly contribution for him1  
on condition of their having the best of
 every thing1 and enough of it1 for     
dinner2 and the waiters were similarly  
retained4 ,for a time this worked to a  
marvel1 and the subscribers were as well
 fed as they could desire4 ,but the     
other guests began to make an outcry    
against the aristocracy and             
exclusiveness of private dishes on a    
public table1 and the servants soon hit 
upon a compromise of their own1 which   
was to take the money without rendering 
the quid pro quo4 ,this1 of course1 soon
 put an end to the payments1 and things 
were on the old starvation footing      
again4  ,after dinner1 every body who   
had horses rode or drove4 ,the roads    

about ,oldport were heavy and sandy1 and
 terrible work the dust made with the   
ladies' fine dresses and the gentlemen's
 fine coats4  ,rather different from the
 drives about ,baden-,baden1 said       
,benson4  ,yes2 but ,i suppose we must  
console ourselves on moral grounds1 and 
remember1 that there we owe the         
beautiful promenades to the             
gambling-table1 while here we are       
without the roads1 and also without the 
play4  ,ah1 but isn't there play here6  
only all sub rosa4 ,wait a while1 and   
you'll find out4  ,and ,ashburner did   
find out before many nights1 when the   
footsteps and oaths of the young        
gamblers returning at four in the       
morning to their rooms in the ,colony1  
woke him out of his first sleep4 ,after 
the drive1 tea--still at the            
table-d'hote--and after tea1 dressing   
for the ball1 which this night was at   
the ,bellevue ,house1 appropriately so  
called from commanding a fine view of   
nothing4 ,as the ,bellevue was not a    

fashionable hotel 7although the guests  
were sufficiently fed there71 some of   
the exclusive ladies had hesitated about
 assisting on the occasion2 but the     
temptation of a dance was too strong to 
be resisted1 and they all ultimately    
went4 ,le ,roi accompanied the ,bensons 
in the all-accommodating ,rockaway4 ,the
 ,bellevue had a colony1 too1 in the    
second story of which was the ballroom4 
,as they ascended the stairs1 the lively
 notes of ,la ,polka ,sempiternelle1    
composee par ,josef ,bungel1 et dediee a
 ,m4 ,t4 ,edwards1 reached their ears2  
and hardly were they over the threshold 
when ,edwards himself hopped up before  
them1 and without other preface or      
salutation than a familiar nod1 threw   
his arm round ,mrs4 ,benson's waist1 and
 swung her off in the dance2 while      
,sumner1 who had simultaneously         
presented himself to ,miss ,vanderlyn1  
took similar possession of her4  ,do you
 dance8  ,no1 ,i thank you4  ,while     
,benson asked the question1 ,le ,roi    

dived at a girl and whirled her away3   
almost before ,ashburner had answered   
it1 his friend shot away from him1      
making point at a young married lady in 
the distance2 and his bow of recognition
 ended in the back-step of the polka1 as
 the two went off together at a killing 
pace4 ,in five seconds from the time of 
entrance1 ,ashburner was left standing  
alone at one end of the room1 and his   
companions were twirling at the other4  
,for so habituated were the dancers to  
their fascinating exercise1 that they   
were always ready to go at the word1    
like trained horses4 ,and certainly the 
dancing was beautiful4 ,he had never    
seen gentlemen move so gracefully and   
dexterously in a crowded room as these  
young ,americans did4 ,le ,roi and      
,roewenberg1 who1 by virtue of their    
respective nationalities1 were bound to 
be good dancers1 looked positively      
awkward alongside of the natives4 ,as to
 the ladies1 they glided1 and swam1 and 
realized all the                        

so-often-talked-of-and-seldom-seen      
poetry of motion4 ,indeed ,ashburner    
thought they did it too well4 ,he       
thought of ,catiline's friend1          
commemorated by ,sallust1 who danced    
better than became a modest woman4 ,he  
thought some of their displays were a   
little operatic1 and that he had seen   
something like them at certain balls in 
,paris--not the balls of the ,faubourg  
,st4 ,germain4 ,he thought that the     
historian's aphorism might be extended  
to the male part of the company1--and   
that they danced better than became     
intelligent men4 ,he thought--but as he 
prudently kept thoughts to himself1 and 
as some of his foreign prejudice may    
have been at the bottom of them1 we will
 not stop to record them all4 ,by and by
 there was a quadrille for the benefit  
of the million1 during which the        
exclusives rested1 and ,ashburner had   
full opportunity of observing them4 ,the
 first thing that struck him was the    
extreme youth of the whole set1 and more

 especially of the masculine portion of 
it4 ,old men there were none4 ,the old  
women1 that is to say1 the mammas and   
aunts1 were stuck into corners out of   
the way1 and no one took any notice of  
them4 ,hamilton ,white was quite an old 
beau by comparison--almost              
superannuated4 ,sumner would have been  
nearly off the books but for his very   
superior dancing4 ,even ,benson seemed a
 middle-aged man compared with the      
majority of our set1 who averaged       
between boys of seventeen and young men 
of twenty-four4 ,and the more juvenile  
the youth1 the larger and stiffer was   
his white tie4 ,some of these           
neck-fastenings were terrific to behold1
 standing out a foot on each side of the
 wearer4 ,all the ,joinvilles that      
,ashburner had ever seen1 on all the    
gents in ,london or elsewhere1 faded    
into insignificance before these        
portentous cravats4 ,he could not help  
making some observations on this fashion
 to ,benson1 as he encountered him      

promenading with a fair polkiste4  ,did 
you ever notice the whiffletrees of my  
team-trotting wagon1 how they extend on 
each side beyond the hubs of the wheels8
 ,they serve for feelers in a tight     
place3 wherever you clear your          
whiffletrees1 you can clear your wheels2
 and these cravats are built on the same
 principle--wherever you clear your tie1
 you can clear your partner4  ,by one in
 the morning the democracy of the       
ballroom had had enough of four hours'  
dancing and looking on4 ,our set was    
left in full possession of the floor4   
,forthwith they seized upon all the     
chairs1 and the interminable ,german    
cotillon commenced4 ,it lasted two      
hours--and how much longer ,ashburner   
could not tell4 ,when he went away at   
three1 the dancers looked very          
deliquescent1 but gave no symptoms of   
flagging4 ,and so ended his first day's 
experience of an ,american              
watering-place4  ,,footnotes3  #bf ,this
 is the strongest ,american 7slang7 way 

of putting an affirmation2 and1         
probably1 the strongest instance of it  
on record is that of a ,bowery boy1 who1
 when asked by a clergyman1 ,wilt thou  
have this woman8 replied1 ,i won't have 
any one else4     ,from the ,dublin     
,university ,magazine4  ,,the ,,mystic  
,,vial3  ,,or1  ,,the ,,last            
,,demoiselle ,,de ,,charrebourg4        
,continued from page #ge4   ,,part ,,ii4
  ,,vi4--,,the ,,miniature4  ,lucille   
had not1 therefore1 gained by her       
marriage the position to which her      
ambition aspired4 ,she had made several 
ineffectual efforts to dissolve the     
spell of isolation which seemed to      
seclude the intercourse of the ,chateau 
des ,anges from all human ken and       
visitation as absolutely as the palace  
of a merman4 ,with the exception1       
however1 of a few visits from the great 
ladies who resided in the neighborhood1 
no casual beams from the brilliant world
 of rank and fashion without penetrated 
the dismal shadows of her gorgeous      

abode4  ,she was dissatisfied1 angry1   
and resolved upon the earliest fitting  
occasion to rebel against the selfish   
tyranny which consigned her to solitude 
and monotony4  ,she had hitherto gained 
nothing by those little expedients1     
hints1 and even entreaties1 which are   
sometimes found so effectual in like    
cases4 ,the old fermier-general was just
 as smiling and as promising as the     
,chateau des ,anges itself1 but1 alas6  
as absolutely impenetrable4 ,an iron    
will encountered and repressed all her  
shifts and struggles4 ,she chafed and   
coaxed alike in vain4 ,whether the bird 
sang or fluttered1 the bars of her cage 
were immovable4  ,under these           
circumstances1 no very cordial feelings 
began to animate the fiery girl         
respecting her resolute and reserved old
 helpmate4  ,meanwhile the humble       
cottage in the park of ,charrebourg was 
deserted1 and permitted to fall to      
decay1 for the old visconte1 and even   
,marguerite1 had been removed to the    

establishment at ,des ,anges1 and so1 in
 process of time1 the little walks were 
overgrown with grass1 the fences spread 
and straggled1 dark green plants        
clambered to the roof1 and weeds showed 
themselves over the tiled vestibule and 
even ventured into the inner chambers4  
,thus time and nature1 in mournful      
alliance1 began their obliterating work4
 ,but there were some plants and flowers
 which grew outside what had been for so
 long ,mademoiselle ,lucille de         
,charrebourg's window4 ,they had been   
the objects of her care1 and            
,gabriel6--sweet but sorrowful          
remembrance6--had been1 in those happy  
times1 privileged to tend them for her4 
,poor ,gabriel was now desolate indeed1 
but he pleased himself with dressing    
those flowers1 and watering1 and weeding
 them day by day1 just as if she were   
there2 and he would then sit on the bank
 that bounded the bowling-green1 and    
watch the desolate casement where he    
used so often to see that face that too 

probably was never more to beam on him4 
,and thus hours would glide away1 and1  
young as he was1 he came to live chiefly
 in the past4  ,and generally when he   
rose1 and with an effort1 and many a    
backward look1 lingeringly departed1 he 
would strengthen his sinking heart with 
some such reflection as this3--  ,she   
did not love the fermier-general--it was
 the visconte who made her marry him4   
,this ,monsieur ,le ,prun--what was he  
at first but a roturier--no better than 
myself--and made his own money--fortune 
may yet befriend me also4 ,i have       
energies1 and resolution1 and courage1  
for her sake1 to dare ten thousand      
deaths4 ,i'll not despair4 ,and then the
 old fellow can't live very long--a few 
years--and so who knows yet what may    
befall8  ,there was one beautiful rose  
which grew close to the window1 and     
which ,lucille herself had planted1 and 
this tree ,gabriel came gradually to    
regard as connected by some sweet and   
silent sympathy with the features and   

feelings of its mistress4 ,when it      
drooped1 she1 he thought1 was sick or in
 sorrow2 when1 on the contrary1 it was  
covered with blossoms and fresh leaves1 
she was full of smiles and health2 when 
a rough gust tore its slender sprays1   
some vexation and disappointment had    
fretted her2 and when again it put forth
 new buds and sprouts1 these were       
forgotten1 and time had gathered round  
her new hopes and delights4 ,thus this  
tree became to him an object of         
strangely tender interest1 and he       
cherished the fancy that1 in tending and
 guarding it1 he was protecting the     
fortunes and the happiness of poor      
,lucille4  ,meanwhile1 as a sort of     
beginning of that great fortune that    
awaited him1 he obtained employment as  
an under-gardener at the ,chateau de    
,charrebourg1 which had just been let to
 a wealthy noble1 whose millions had    
elevated him 7like ,monsieur le ,prun7  
from the bourgeoisie to his present     
rank4  ,but we must return to the       

,chateau des ,anges4 ,lucille's         
apartments were situated at a side of   
the chateau overlooking a small court   
communicating with the greater one at   
the front of the building2 and this     
narrow area was bounded by a lofty wall1
 which separated the other              
pleasure-grounds from the park4  ,it was
 night2 ,lucille and her gentle         
companion1 ,julie1 had been chatting    
together1 as young-lady friends will do1
 most confidentially4 ,the little maiden
 had detailed all her sadness and       
alarms4 ,her married companion had been 
fluent and indignant upon her wrongs and
 disappointments4 ,each felt a sort of  
relief1 and drawn as it were into a     
securer intimacy1 by the absence of     
,monsieur le ,prun1 who was that night  
necessarily absent upon business4  ,the 
conversation had now shifted to ,julie's
 engagement4  ,and so1 ,i suppose1 ,i   
must marry him4 ,is it not a cruel      
tyranny to compel one who desires       
nothing but to live and die among good  

,christians1 in the quiet of a convent1 
to marry a person whom she does not or  
cannot love8  ,yes1 ,julie1 so it seems2
 but you may yet be happier so married1 
than leading the life you long for4     
,remember1 ,julie1 he is not a man who  
has outlived the warmth1 and tenderness1
 and trust of youth4 ,he is still       
capable of a generous passion1 and      
capable of inspiring one4 ,there is no  
grief like the tyranny of one whom law  
and not love has made your master4  ,as 
they conversed1 some cases of ,lucille's
 lay open on the table before her       
companion1 who had been amusing herself 
in girlish fashion by the varied        
splendor and exquisite taste of the     
jewelry they contained4  ,this brooch1  
she said1 taking up a miniature in      
enamel1 representing some youthful      
tradition of ,monsieur le ,prun's       
person1 set round with diamonds1 is set 
very like mine1 but ,i hate to look at  
it4  ,it represents1 then----  ,the     
,marquis4 ,yes4  ,the world calls him   

handsome1 ,i am told4  ,yes1 but        
somehow1 if he be so1 ,i can't perceive 
it2 he does not please me4  ,well1 then1
 bring me the miniature1 and ,i will    
pronounce between you and the world4    
,with a melancholy smile ,julie ran to  
her own apartment1 hard by1 and in a few
 minutes returned4 ,with curiosity all  
alive1 ,lucille took the brooch and     
looked at it4  ,well1 what say you8     
asked ,julie1 who stood behind her      
chair1 gazing at the trinket over her   
shoulder4 ,lucille was silent1 although 
nearly a minute had elapsed4  ,he       
certainly has the noble air1 she        
continued2 but still ,lucille offered no
 criticism4  ,on a sudden she put down  
the miniature sharply on the table1 and 
said1 abruptly1 ,it is time to go to    
rest2 let us go to bed4  ,she rose and  
turned full round on ,julie as she      
spoke4 ,her face was pale as death1 and 
her eyes looked large and gleaming4 ,her
 gaze was almost wild4  ,are you ill8   
said ,julie1 frightened1 and taking her 

hand1 which was quite cold4  ,o1 no1 no1
 said ,lucille quickly1 with a smile    
that made her pallor and her dilated    
stare more shocking4 ,no1 no1 no--tired1
 vexed1 heart-sick of the world and of  
my fate4  ,julie1 though shocked and    
horrified1 thought she had never seen   
,lucille look so handsome before4 ,she  
was an apparition terrible1 yet         
beautiful as a lost angel4  ,you are1   
after all1 right1 she said suddenly4    
,i--,i believe ,i am ill4  ,the windows 
of the apartment descended to the floor1
 and opened upon a balcony4 ,she pushed 
the casement apart1 and stood in the    
open air4 ,julie had hurried to her     
assistance1 fearing she knew not what1  
and stood close by her4 ,never was scene
 so fitted to soothe the sick brain1 and
 charm the senses with its sad and sweet
 repose4 ,the pure moon1 high in the    
deep blue of the heavens1 shed over long
 rows of shimmering steps1 and urns1 and
 marble images--over undulating         
woodlands1 and sheets of embowered and  

sleeping water1 and distant hills1 a    
mournful and airy splendor4  ,it seemed 
as though nature were doing homage to so
 much beauty4 ,the old forest wafted    
from his broad bosom a long hushed sigh 
as she came forth2 the moon looked down 
on her with a serene1 sad smile2 and the
 spirits of the night-breeze sported    
with her tresses1 and kissed her pale   
lips and forehead4  ,at least five      
minutes passed in silence4 ,lucille1 on 
a sudden1 said--  ,so1 at the end of a  
year you will be married8  ,it seemed to
 ,julie that the countenance that was   
turned upon her gleamed with an         
expression of hatred which froze her4   
,but the moonlight is uncertain1 and may
 play wild freaks with the character of 
an excited face4  ,yes1 dear ,lucille2  
alas6 yes1 she answered1 in a tone that 
was almost deprecatory4  ,well1 well1 ,i
 am better now1 she said1 after a second
 interval4 ,my head1 ,julie--my poor    
head6  ,have you a pain there1 dear     
,lucille8  ,yes1 yes1 it's all there1   

she said1 abstractedly2 and1 returning1 
she kissed her gentle companion1 bade   
her good night1 and was alone4  ,julie  
was strangely perplexed by the scene    
which had just occurred4 ,she could     
account for it upon no theory but the   
supposition that some flickering vein of
 insanity was shooting athwart her      
reason1 and as suddenly disappeared4 ,as
 soon as she was partially composed1 she
 kneeled down at the bedside1 and prayed
 long and fervently2 and for far the    
greater part of the time poor ,lucille  
was the sole theme of her supplications4
 ,at last she lay down1 and composed    
herself to sleep4 ,spite of the         
unpleasant images with which her mind   
was filled1 slumber ere long overpowered
 her4 ,but these painful impressions    
made teasing and fantastic shapes to    
themselves4 ,her pillow was haunted1 and
 strange dreams troubled her slumbering 
senses4 ,from one of these visions she  
awoke with a start1 and found herself   
sitting upright in her bed1 with her    

heart beating fast with terror4 ,a burst
 of passionate wailing from ,lucille's  
apartments thrilled her with a sort of  
terror at the same moment4 ,in hushed   
uncertainty she listened for a          
repetition of the sound2 but in vain4   
,she was prompted to go and try whether 
she needed any help or comfort2 but     
something again withheld her2 and1 after
 another interval of somewhat excited   
reflection1 she once more gradually fell
 asleep4 ,again1 however1 hateful       
visions tormented her4 ,she dreamed that
 a phantom1 said to have haunted the    
chateau for ages1 and known by the      
familiar title of ,la ,belle ,colombe1  
was pursuing her from chamber to        
chamber1 dressed in her accustomed      
shroud of white2 and had at last        
succeeded in chasing her into a chamber 
from which there was no second door of  
escape--when she awoke with a start2    
and1 behold6 there was a light in the   
room1 and a female form1 dressed in     
white1 standing between the bedside and 

the door4 ,for some moments she fancied 
that she saw but the continuation of her
 dream1 and awaited the further         
movements of the figure with the        
fascination of terror4 ,but gradually   
her senses reported more truly1 and she 
perceived that the figure in white was  
indeed ,lucille--pale1 haggard2 while   
with one she held the candlestick1 with 
the other she motioned slowly towards   
the bed1 which she was approaching with 
breathless caution1 upon tiptoe4 ,with  
an effort ,julie succeeded in calling   
her by name1 almost expecting as she did
 so to see the whole apparition vanish  
into air4  ,awake1 awake2 how softly you
 breathe1 ,julie6 said ,lucille1 drawing
 close to the bedside1 and drawing the  
curtains4  ,yes1 dear ,lucille2 can ,i  
do any thing for you8  ,no1 no--nothing 
but----  ,how do you feel now8--are you 
better8  ,yes1 better than ,i desire to 
be4  ,but why are you here1 dear        
,lucille8 ,has any thing--frightened    
you8  ,ha6 then you heard it1 did you8  

,heard it8 ,what8  ,why1 how long have  
you been awake--did you--did you hear   
music--singing8  ,no1 no2 but in truth1 
dear ,lucille1 ,i thought ,i heard you  
weeping4  ,o1 nonsense2 who minds a     
girl's weeping4 ,but you heard nothing  
else8  ,no1 indeed4  ,lucille appeared  
greatly relieved by this assurance4 ,she
 stooped over her and kissed her2 and it
 was not until her face was thus brought
 near that ,julie could perceive how    
worn and wan with weeping it was4  ,i   
have been dreaming1 then2 yes1 yes1 ,i  
suspected as much--dreaming1 she said2  
and1 as she reached her own room1 she   
muttered--  ,well1 ,god be thanked1 she 
did not hear it4 ,but what can it mean8 
,what madness and crime can have        
conjured up these sounds8 ,what can it  
mean but guilt1 danger1 and despair8    
,,vii4--,,the ,,devil',s ,,coach4  ,it  
seemed to ,julie that ,lucille was moody
 and abstracted next morning4 ,sometimes
 for a few moments she talked and smiled
 as before1 but this was fitfully1 and  

with an effort4 ,she appeared like one  
brooding over some wrong that had taken 
possession of her thoughts1 or some dark
 and angry scheme which engrossed her   
imagination4 ,she soon left ,julie and  
retired to her own apartments4  ,when   
,monsieur ,le ,prun returned1 some time 
after noon1 not finding his young wife  
in her usual chamber1 he went up stairs 
to wish her good day in her own suite of
 rooms4  ,he was surprised at the sullen
 and stormy countenance with which she  
greeted him4 ,she had not yet ventured  
to rebel against his authority1 although
 she had frequently hinted her          
remonstrances and wrongs4 ,but there was
 now a darkness charged with thunder on 
her brow1 and the fermier-general began 
seriously 7in nautical phrase7 to look  
out for squalls4  ,good-day1 my pretty  
wife4  ,good-day1 sir4  ,are you well   
to-day8  ,no4  ,hey8 that's a pity2 what
 ails you1 my charming little wife8     
,solitude4  ,solitude6 pooh1 pooh6 why1 
there is ,julie4  ,julie has her young  

lover to think of4  ,and when you weary 
of her1 he continued1 resolved not to   
perceive the slight but malicious       
emphasis1 you have got your own sweet   
thoughts to retire upon4  ,my thoughts  
are ill company1 sir4  ,well1 as it     
seems to me1 the pretty child is out of 
temper to-day1 he said1 with evident    
chagrin4  ,perhaps ,i am--it is         
natural--,i should be a fool were ,i    
otherwise4  ,par bleu6 what new calamity
 is this8 he asked1 with a smile and a  
shrug4  ,nothing new1 sir4  ,well1 what 
old calamity8  ,the past night had      
wrought a change in ,lucille2 and1      
little as she had ever liked ,m4 ,le    
,prun1 she now felt a positive hatred of
 him1 and she answered with a gloomy    
sort of recklessness--  ,sir1 ,i am a   
prisoner4  ,tut1 tut6 pretty rogue4     
,yes1 a prisoner2 your prisoner4  ,a    
prisoner on parole1 perhaps2 but        
provided1 pretty captive1 you don't     
desert me1 you may wander where you     
will4  ,pshaw6 that is nonsense1 she    

said sharply4  ,nonsense6 he repeated1  
testily2 it is no such thing1 madame2   
you have the handsomest equipages in    
,france4 ,pray1 when did ,i refuse you  
carriages1 or horses1 or free egress    
from this place8 par bleu6 or lock the  
gates1 madame8 ,treated as you are1 how 
can you call yourself a prisoner8  ,what
 advantage in carriages1 and horses1 and
 open gates1 when we are surrounded by a
 desert8  ,a desert8 what do you mean8  
,there is not a soul to speak to4  ,not 
a soul--why1 you are jesting2 pray1 is  
the ,marquise de ,pompignaud nobody8 is 
the ,conte de la ,perriere nobody8      
,worse than nobody1 monsieur3 ,i should 
prefer a desert to a wilderness haunted 
by such creatures4  ,sacre6 what does   
the child want8  ,what every wife in    
,france commands--society1 sir4  ,well1 
,i say you have got it3 independently of
 your immediate domestic circle1 you    
have a neighborhood such as ought to    
satisfy any reasonable person4 ,there   
are persons fully as well descended as  

yourself1 and others nearly as rich as  
,i am1 all within easy visiting         
distance4  ,the rich are all plebeians1 
and the nobles are all poor2 there is   
and can be in a group so incongruous no 
cordiality1 no gayety1 no splendor2 in a
 word1 no such society as the last      
descendant of the ,charrebourgs may     
reasonably aspire to4  ,it is fully as  
numerous and respectable1               
notwithstanding1 as the society which   
the last descendant of the ,charrebourgs
 enjoyed in the ancestral park where    
first ,i had the honor of making her    
acquaintance4  ,yes2 but not such as    
with my birth and beauty ,i might and   
must have commanded1 sir4  ,well1 what  
do you expect8 ,these people won't give 
fetes4  ,bring me to ,paris1 sir2 ,i    
wish to take my place among the noble   
society1 where ,i may meet my equals2   
and at court1 where ,i may1 like all my 
ancestry1 see my sovereign4 ,here1 sir1 
my days fly by in melancholy isolation2 
,i am kept but to amuse your leisure2   

this1 sir1 is not indulgence--it is     
selfish and tyrannical4  ,monsieur ,le  
,prun looked angrier and uglier than    
ever she had seen him before4 ,his eyes 
looked more black and prominent1 and his
 face a great deal paler4 ,but he did   
not trust himself with an immediate     
answer2 and his features1 as if in the  
effort to restrain the retort his anger 
prompted1 underwent several grotesque   
and somewhat ghastly contortions4  ,his 
handsome wife1 meanwhile1 sat sullen and
 defiant1 daring1 rather than           
deprecating1 the menaced explosion of   
his wrath4  ,their matrimonial          
bickerings1 however1 were not so soon to
 reach their climax4 ,monsieur ,le ,prun
 contrived to maintain a silent         
self-command--thrust his hands into his 
pockets1 walked to the window humming an
 air1 and after a few moments' pause1   
turned abruptly and left the room4      
,near the stair-head he met old         
,marguerite on her way to ,lucille's    
apartments4 ,he signed to her to follow 

him1 and entered a chamber there4 ,she  
perceived the unmistakable traces of    
angry excitement in his face--always    
sinister in an old man1 but in one so   
powerful1 and about whom she had heard  
so many dark rumors1 full of vague      
terrors4 ,as soon as he had closed the  
door1 he said to her--  ,i hope they    
make you comfortable here1 ,marguerite8 
,yes1 sir1 very comfortable1 she        
replied1 with a low courtesy1 and       
trembling a good deal4  ,well1          
,marguerite1 ,i suppose you would wish  
to make a suitable return4 ,now1 some   
vile miscreant meddler1 who has got the 
ear of your young mistress1 has been    
endeavoring to make her unhappy in her  
present secluded situation--,i think ,i 
could place my hand upon the culprit2   
but at all events1 do you lose no       
opportunity henceforward of cheering    
her1 and reconciling your young         
mistress1 to this most suitable         
residence4  ,it was perfectly plain from
 his looks1 that ,monsieur ,le ,prun    

suspected her of being the meddler in   
question2 but before she could muster   
presence of mind to attempt her         
exculpation1 he was gone4 ,the interview
 was like an ugly1 flitting dream4 ,his 
angry face and menacing croak had scared
 her senses but for a moment2 the       
apparition had vanished1 and1 with a    
heart still beating fast1 she went      
stealthily on her way4  ,now ,julie     
perceived that a change had taken place 
in ,lucille--she was anxious and        
excited1 and appeared morbidly and      
passionately eager to share in those    
amusements which before she had desired 
with comparative moderation4  ,julie1 ,i
 will mix in the world2 ,i will meet    
people and associate with my equals--,i 
am resolved upon it4 ,if ,monsieur ,le  
,prun persists in refusing my reasonable
 wishes1 it will perchance be the worse 
for himself4  ,such sentences she used  
to utter amidst blushes and pallor1 and 
with a fire and agitation that painfully
 perplexed her gentle1 but now somewhat 

estranged1 little companion4  ,her      
conduct1 too1 became eccentric and      
capricious2 sometimes she appeared      
sullen and reserved--sometimes1 at      
moments1 as if animated with a positive 
hatred of her unoffending companion4    
,then1 again1 she would relent1 and1 in 
an agony of compunction1 entreat her to 
be reconciled4  ,it happened1 not       
unfrequently1 that business compelled   
,monsieur ,le ,prun to pass the night   
from home4 ,upon one of these occasions 
,lucille had gone early to her bed1 and 
old ,marguerite1 at her special desire1 
sat beside her4  ,well1 ,marguerite1    
said her young mistress1 ,i am going to 
exact the fulfilment of a promise you   
made me long ago1 when first you came   
home1 and before you became afraid of   
,monsieur ,le ,prun4 ,you told me1 then1
 that you knew some stories of          
him--come1 what are they8  ,hey dear1   
bless the pretty child6--did ,i though8 
,yes1 yes1 ,marguerite2 and you must    
tell them now--,i say you must--,i will 

have them4 ,nay1 don't be afraid2 ,i'll 
not tell them again1 and nobody can     
overhear us here4  ,but1 my pretty pet1 
these stories----  ,then there are      
stories--see1 you can't deny it any     
longer2 tell them1 tell them to me all4 
,why1 they are nothing but a pack of    
nonsense4 ,you would laugh at me4 ,it is
 only about monsieur's father1 and the  
wonderful coach they say he left to his 
son4  ,well1 be it what it may1 let me  
have it4  ,well1 then1 my pretty bird1  
you shall have it as they told it to    
myself4  ,she looked into the next      
apartment1 and having satisfied herself 
that it was vacant1 and shut the door of
 communication1 she prepared for her    
narrative4  ,we have clipped the        
redundancies and mended the inaccuracies
 of honest ,marguerite's phraseology2   
but the substance and arrangement of the
 story is recorded precisely as she gave
 it herself4  ,monsieur's father1 they  
say1 began with a very little money1    
madame1 and he made it more by--by--in  

short1 by usury2 ,i beg pardon1 but they
 say so1 madame2 and so finding as he   
grew old that he had a great deal of    
gold1 and wishing to have some one of   
his own flesh and blood to leave it to1 
when he should be dead and buried1 he   
bethought him of getting a wife4 ,he    
must have been a shrewd man1 ,i need not
 tell you1 to have made so much money1  
so he was determined not to make his    
choice without due consideration4 ,now  
there was a farmer near them1 who had a 
pretty and innocent daughter1 and after 
much cautious inquiry and patient study 
of her character1 old money-bags        
resolved that she was excellently suited
 for his purpose4  ,she was young and   
pretty1 and he old and ugly1 but rich2  
well1 what followed8  ,why1 she1 poor   
thing1 did not want to marry him at all2
 for though he was rich1 he had a very  
ill name in the country1 and she was    
afraid of him2 but her father urged her1
 and the old man himself spoke her fair1
 and between them they overpowered her  

fears and scruples1 and so she was      
married4  ,poor thing6 said ,lucille1   
unconsciously4  ,well1 madame1 he       
married1 and brought her home to his    
desolate old house1 and there1 they say1
 he treated her harshly2 and1 indeed he 
might there safely use her as he        
pleased1 for there was not another house
 for a great way round to be seen3 and  
nobody but his own creatures and        
dependents1 who1 they said1 were just as
 bad as himself1 could hear her cries1  
or witness his barbarities4  ,lucille   
sat up in the bed1 and listened with    
increased interest4  ,poor thing6 it was
 there1 in the midst of sufferings and  
cruelties1 that she gave birth to a     
child1 who is now ,monsieur ,le ,prun1  
the great fermier-general2 but her      
health1 and indeed her heart1 was       
broken2 and1 some rumor having reached  
her relations1 that she was sick and    
unhappy1 a cousin of hers1 who1 they    
said1 was in love with her in their     
early days1 brought the village         

physician with him to see her1 though it
 was full three leagues and a half away4
  ,the cousin loved her2 poor fellow1 he
 was true1 said ,lucille1 with a blush  
of interest4  ,ay1 so they say2 but     
,monsieur ,le ,prun1 who was a jealous  
curmudgeon1 would not admit him2 but he 
did allow the physician to see her      
7himself standing by71 because he was   
always glad to have the use of any      
body's skill for nothing--which1 more   
than any love he bore his poor wife1 was
 the reason of his letting him prescribe
 for her4 ,well1 of course1 she could   
not send any message to her friends1 nor
 tell how she was treated1 for old ,le  
,prun was at her bedside2 but the       
physician saw that she was ill1 and he  
said to the old miser--',your wife can't
 walk1 and she must have air2 let her   
drive every day in your coach4' ',i have
 no such thing1' said old ,le ,prun4    
',but you are rich1' said the physician1
 'you can afford to buy one2 and it is  
your duty to do so for your wife1 who   

will die else4' ',let her die1 then1 for
 me--the devil may send her a coach to  
ride in1 as they say he sent me my      
money2 but ,i'll not waste my gold on   
any such follies4' ,so the physician    
went away1 disappointed and disgusted1  
and her poor cousin was not able to     
effect any good on her behalf2 but it   
seems the words of ,monsieur ,le ,prun  
did not fall quite to the ground--they  
were heard in the quarter to where they 
were directed4 ,that evening closed in  
clouds1 and before twelve o'clock at    
night1 they say1 there came on such     
another thunder-storm as never was heard
 in the neighborhood1 before or since4  
,nothing but thunder1 roaring and       
crashing1 peal upon peal1 till the old  
house shook and trembled to its very    
base2 and the blue lightning glared at  
every window1 and split along the       
pavement in streams of livid fire2 and  
all this time the rain was beating      
straight down in an incessant and       
furious deluge4  ,and so1 ,i suppose1   

the devil came in the midst of the      
tempest1 and took him away bodily in a  
flash of lightning8  ,no1 no1 my pretty 
bird1 not so fast4 ,there was an old    
negro servant of his1 a fellow just as  
wicked as himself1 who was sitting in   
the kitchen1 cursing the rain that was  
battering in huge drops down the        
chimney1 and putting out the wood at    
which he was warming his shins1 when1 in
 the midst of the dreadful hubbub of the
 tempest1 what should he hear but the   
rush of a great equipage1 and wheels and
 horses clattering over the pavement1   
amidst the shouts of men and the sound  
of horns4 ,up jumped the black1 and1    
listening1 he heard a loud voice        
shouting through the storm1 as if to    
summon some one to the door4 ,though    
they say he was a courageous old sinner1
 his heart failed him1 for such sounds  
had not visited the old house within the
 memory of man in the day time1 much    
less in the dead of night2 and1 instead 
of going to the door1 he hurried away to

 the chamber where old ,le ,prun was    
cowering1 screwed up in the middle of a 
great old fauteuil1 and more frightened 
at the tempest than he would have cared 
to confess4 ,so he told him of the      
sounds he had just heard1 and he and his
 master mounted together to a small room
 in a gable over the hall-door1 and from
 the casement of this they commanded a  
view of the paved court in front4 ,it   
was so dark1 however1 that they could   
see nothing2 and the thunder still      
echoing in loud explosions1 and the rain
 battering at the windows1 prevented    
their distinctly hearing the words which
 the voice was shouting outside4 ',shall
 we open the casement and ask him what  
they want8' said the old negro4 ',let it
 alone1' said his old master1 shoving   
his arm back again1 with a curse4 ,at   
the same moment a vivid flash of        
lightning1 or rather several in almost  
continuous succession1 shed for some    
seconds a blue1 pulsating illumination  
over the scene1 and then they saw before

 their eyes a coach1 with a team of     
horses and outriders1 in the style of a 
royal equipage1 drawn up before the hall
 door2 and all the postillions and      
outriders were sitting motionless1 with 
their whips pointing to the house1 as if
 they were signing to the inhabitants to
 come out3 and some one was looking from
 the window1 and cried1 in a tone like  
the shriek of the wind--',the coach that
 ,monsieur ,le ,prun ordered this       
morning4' ,in the quivering blue light  
the whole thing looked like a smoky     
shadow1 and was swallowed in darkness in
 a moment4 ,then came the bellowing     
thunder-burst1 and a wild scream of     
winds rushed whooping1 and sighing1 and 
hissing through the tree-tops1 and died 
away in the unknown distance4 ,the two  
old sinners1 master and man1 crept away 
from the window1 and stumbled their way 
back again to the chamber which         
,monsieur ,le ,prun had occupied before1
 and which1 being in the rear of the    
house1 and most remote from the sight   

that had scared them1 was preferred by  
them to any other4 ,in the morning a    
coach1 of first-rate workmanship in all 
respects1 was standing in front of the  
hall door1 just where they had seen it  
on the night before1 but no sign of     
horse1 rider1 or owner4 ,for several    
days it remained in the same position1  
no one caring to touch it2 but at the   
end of that time1 having grown          
accustomed to its presence1 and         
gradually less and less in awe of it1   
they lodged it in the coach-house2 and  
so1 after a considerable time1 the old  
usurer's instincts prevailed1 and he    
resolved to make trial of the vehicle1  
with a view to sell it in ,paris4 ,at   
first the horses snorted1 and reared1   
and shyed1 when they were attempted to  
be harnessed to it1 but in a little     
while they too became reconciled to it1 
and ,monsieur ,le ,prun made an         
experimental trip in it himself4        
,whatever passed upon that occasion1 it 
certainly determined him against parting

 with it4 ,and1 it was said1 whenever he
 was thenceforward in doubt about any   
purchase1 or meditating any important   
financial coup1 he invariably took a    
solitary drive in this                  
preternaturally-acquired vehicle2 and1  
in the course of that drive1 his doubts1
 whatever they may have been1 were      
invariably resolved1 and some lucky     
purchase or successful operation upon   
',change was sure to follow4 ,it was    
said that upon these occasions ,monsieur
 ,le ,prun was always heard to converse 
with some companion in the coach2 and   
the driver once avowed that1 having been
 delayed by an accident on the road1 as 
the darkness came on1 he distinctly saw 
two shadowy outriders spurring duly in  
their van1 and never lost sight of them 
until1 with hair standing on end1 and   
bathed in a cold sweat1 he drew up in   
the court before his master's house4    
,and what happened to old ,le ,prun8    
,when they returned from one of their   
drives1 taken1 ,heaven bless us6 for the

 purpose of consulting the ,evil ,one1  
so to speak1 face to face1 they found   
old ,le ,prun quite dead1 sitting back  
in his wonted attitude1 and with his arm
 slung in the embroidered strap4  ,and  
what has become of the wonderful coach8 
,that ,i have never heard2 but they say 
that ,monsieur ,le ,prun1 the           
fermier-general1 has it in one of his   
houses1 either in the country or in     
,paris1 and that1 whenever he wants to  
consult the familiar demon of the       
family1 he takes a drive in it alone2   
and this1 they say1 has been the cause  
of his great successes and his enormous 
fortune4  ,i should like to ride in that
 coach myself1 said ,lucille4  ,heaven  
and all the saints forbid6  ,i want to  
know my destiny1 ,marguerite4 ,were ,i  
sure that all my days were to pass as at
 present1 ,i would rather die than live4
  ,oh1 but sure my pretty bird would not
 ask her fortune of--of--  ,yes1 of any 
one--of any spirit1 good or evil1 that  
could tell it4 ,i am weary of my life1  

,marguerite4 ,i would rather beg or work
 with my liberty1 and the friends ,i    
like1 than see my days glide by in this 
dull1 wealthy house1 without interest1  
or hope1 or--or love4  ,but never       
desire1 while you live1 my child1 the   
visits of the ,evil ,one4 ,once asked   
for1 it is said he never refuses them4  
,say you so8 then ,i invite him with all
 my heart1 she said1 with a bitter      
pleasantry2 he can't be a great deal    
worse than the society ,i have sometimes
 had to share2 and1 if he discloses the 
futurity that awaits me1 he will have   
been the most instructive companion that
 fortune ever lent me4  ,chut6 madame1  
listen4  ,what is the matter1           
,marguerite8  ,did not you hear8        
,what8--whom8  ,there--there again2     
blessed ,virgin shield us6  ,psha6      
,marguerite2 it is nothing but the moths
 flying against the window-panes2 ,i    
have heard that little tapping a hundred
 times4  ,well1 well1 maybe so2 but say 
your prayers1 my dear1 and ask          

forgiveness for your foolish words4     
,no1 ,marguerite2 for in truth ,i do    
wish my fortune were read to me1 and    
care not by whom4  ,hey1 what's that8   
,chut6 in ,heaven's name hold thy mad   
tongue1 she cried1 in the irritation of 
panic2 surely that is no moth4 ,may the 
saints guard your bed1 my child4 ,you   
heard it1 did you not8  ,hum--yes--there
 was a sound4  ,i should think so1 par  
bleu6 something a size or two larger    
than a moth1 too4  ,it was a spray of   
one of the plants swung by the breeze   
against the window4  ,ma foi6 it was no 
such thing1 my sweet pet2 no1 no1       
something with a pair of wings fluttered
 up against it4  ,had the old woman1 in 
her trepidation1 had leisure to study   
the countenance of her young mistress1  
she would have perceived that her cheeks
 were flushed with crimson4 ,but she was
 too busy with her medley of prayers and
 protestations1 and too fully           
preoccupied with the idea of an         
unearthly visitation4  ,well1 well1     

,marguerite1 be it as you say2 ,i'll not
 dispute the point2 but leave me now2   
,i'm tired1 and would sleep4 ,good      
night4  ,after the old woman had        
withdrawn some minutes1 ,lucille rose   
from her bed4 ,she had only been        
partially undressed2 and throwing on her
 dressing-gown1 and putting her little  
ivory feet into her slippers1 she glided
 to her chamber-door1 which she secured1
 and then cautiously1 and almost        
fearfully1 stepped to the window1 which 
she pushed open1 and stood upon the     
balcony4  ,with a beating heart1 and a  
cheek that momentarily changed color1   
she looked all along the edges of the   
court1 and over the tall plants1 and    
under the shadow of the lofty           
jessamine-covered wall4 ,she listened   
with breathless and excited             
suspense--she waited for some minutes2  
but1 having watched and listened in     
vain1 she pressed her hand on her heart1
 and1 with a deep and trembling sigh1   
turned back again4 ,it was at this      

moment she saw something white1 no      
bigger than a playing-card1 lie at her  
feet4 ,she picked it up1 entered her    
room1 and trembling violently1 closed   
the window again1 and was alone4        
,,viii4--,,the ,,ordeal4  ,the next     
morning came with sunshine1 and the     
merry carols of all the sylvan choirs4  
,it would have meetly ushered in a day  
of rejoicing2 but joy seemed to have bid
 an eternal adieu to the luxurious      
solitudes of the ,chateau des ,anges4   
,julie that morning remarked that       
,lucille remained unusually late in her 
own rooms4 ,fearing that she might be   
ill1 she ventured to visit her in her   
apartments4 ,it was past twelve o'clock 
when she knocked at her door4 ,there was
 no answer2 and she knocked repeatedly1 
but without success4 ,at last she opened
 the door1 but ,lucille was not as usual
 in that room4 ,she walked through it1  
and the apartment beyond it1 without    
seeing her2 but in her dressing-room1   
which lay beyond that again1 she found  

her4  ,she was sitting in a loose       
morning-robe2 her head was supported by 
her hand1 and the open sleeve of heavy  
silk had fallen back from her white     
round arm4 ,an open letter lay upon the 
table under her gaze4 ,she had evidently
 been weeping1 and was so absorbed      
either in her own reflections or the    
contents of the letter1 that she did not
 perceive the entrance of ,julie4  ,the 
visitor paused2 but feeling that every  
moment of her undiscovered presence     
added to the awkwardness of her         
situation1 she called ,lucille by name4 
,at the sound of her name she started   
from her seat1 and stood1 pale as death1
 with all her dark hair shaken wildly   
about her shoulders1 and her eyes       
gleaming with a malign terror upon the  
intruder4 ,at the same moment she had   
clutched the letter1 and continued to   
crumple it in her hand with a spasmodic 
eagerness4  ,julie was almost as much   
confounded as ,lucille4 ,both were      
silent for a time4  ,i beg your pardon1 

dear ,lucille2 ,i fear my unperceived   
intrusion startled you4  ,yes1 yes2 ,i  
suppose ,i am nervous4 ,i am not well4  
,oh1 ,god6 you did startle me very much4
  ,to do her justice1 she looked        
terrified2 every vestige of color had   
fled from her face1 even from her lips1 
and her eyes continued gleaming wildly  
and fixedly on her4  ,why did you come1 
then--what do you want of me8 she said1 
at last1 excitedly1 and even angrily4   
,i came to ask how you are1 ,lucille--,i
 feared you were ill4  ,i--,i ill8 ,you 
know ,i was not ill1 she said hurriedly 
and impatiently1 and either forgetting  
or despising her own excuse of but a    
moment before4 ,you came--you came for a
 purpose1 ,julie--yes1 yes--do not deny 
it--there is perfidy enough already4    
,you wrong me1 ,lucille2 ,i told you the
 simple truth--why should ,i deceive    
you8  ,why--why8 ,because the world is  
full of deceit1 full of falsehood and   
treason--they are every where1 every    
where4  ,she turned away1 and ,julie    

perceived that she was weeping4  ,she   
was pained and puzzled--nay1 she was    
crossed every moment by the horrid fear 
that ,lucille's mind was unsettled4 ,her
 strange agitation seemed otherwise     
unaccountable4  ,lucille--dear          
,lucille--surely you will not be angry  
with your poor little friend--surely you
 believe ,julie4  ,she looked at her for
 a moment1 and said--  ,yes1 ,julie1 ,i 
do believe you2 and so saying1 she      
kissed her4 ,but--but ,i am utterly1 and
 ,i fear irremediably miserable4  ,but  
what is the cause of your wretchedness1 
my dear ,lucille8  ,this place--this    
solitude oppresses me2 ,i cannot endure 
the isolation to which ,i am unnaturally
 and tyrannically condemned4 ,oh1       
,julie6 there are circumstances1        
secrets1 miseries1 ,i dare not tell you2
 fate is weaving round me a net1 to all 
eyes but my own invisible4 ,but why do  
you look at me with those strange       
glances8 ,do not believe that ,i am     
guilty1 because ,i am miserable--do not 

dare to touch me with such a thought4   
,she stamped her little foot furiously  
on the floor at these words1 while her  
cheek and eye kindled with excitement4  
,it speedily subsided1 however1 into a  
deep and sullen gloom1 and she          
continued--  ,i scarce know myself1     
,julie1 what ,i am1 or what ,i may be2  
but my heart is as full of tumult1 of   
suffering1 of hatred1 as hell itself4 ,i
 will at least be free--my captivity in 
this magician's prison shall            
terminate--,i will not endure it4 ,it   
shall end soon1 one way or another--,i  
will liberate myself4  ,lucille spoke   
with something more than passion--it was
 fierceness2 and her gentle companion   
was filled with vague alarms4 ,she had1 
as feeble natures often have1 an        
instinctive appreciation of the superior
 energy and daring of her more fiery    
companion1 and knew that she would1 too 
probably1 take some violent and         
irreparable step in furtherance of her  
resolution4 ,it was1 therefore1 with    

feelings of anxiety and fear that she   
left her to the solitary influence of   
her own angry and excited thoughts4     
,monsieur ,le ,prun did not arrive till 
night4 ,as he and the ,count de         
,blassemare rolled homeward1 side by    
side in his carriage1 under the         
uncertain moonlight1 between the lordly 
rows of forest-trees that1 like files of
 gloomy ,titans1 kept perennial guard   
along the approaches of the chateau1 or1
 as ,lucille has not unaptly styled it1 
the magician's prison1 they talked      
pretty much as follows3  ,le ,prun1 my  
good friend1 you are jealous--jealous1  
by all the imps in true love's          
purgatory1 said ,blassemare4  ,not      
jealous1 but cautious4  ,a nice         
distinction4  ,why1 when one has reached
 our time of life----  ,ours6 you might 
be my father4  ,well1 ,i can't deny it1 
for nobody knows how old you are4 ,but  
at my years a man with a young wife must
 exercise precaution4 ,par bleu6 we are 
neither of us fools1 and ,i need not    

tell you that4  ,why1 yes1 we have had  
our experiences--,i as a spectator--you 
as----  ,of course--therefore this      
threatened irruption of frivolity and   
vice--  ,say of youth and beauty2 the   
other qualities--frivolity and vice--may
 coexist with age and ugliness1 and1    
therefore1 harmlessly4  ,well1 what you 
will1 it does not please me4 ,but1 under
 existing circumstances1 with my        
application pending1 you know it was    
impossible to deny the marchioness her  
whim4  ,of course2 and so for a single  
night the ,chateau des ,anges becomes a 
fairy palace4 ,well1 what harm--you     
can't apprehend that a single fete1     
however gay and spirited1 will--ruin    
you4  ,why1 no2 after all1 it is1 as you
 say1 but a single fete1 and then       
extinguish the lights1 and lock the     
doors1 and so the ,chateau des ,anges   
becomes as sober as before4  ,and ,i    
wager a hundred crowns you will tell    
,madame ,le ,prun that you have given   
this fete entirely on her account4  ,i  

thought of that1 he replied1 with a     
grin2 but it would not be wise4  ,why   
so8  ,because it would make a precedent4
  ,and will you never again indulge her 
fancy for society8  ,by ---- my good    
friend1 never4 ,she fancies she has a   
great deal of spirit1 and will contrive 
to rule me2 but she does not know       
,etienne ,le ,prun--she does not know   
him--,i will treat her like what she    
is--a child4  ,and she will treat you1  
perhaps1 like----  ,like what8  ,like   
what you are--a bridegroom of seventy4  
,if she dares4 ,ay1 ,blassemare1 ,i have
 just as little trust as you in what    
conventionality calls the virtue of the 
sex4 ,i rely upon my own strong         
will--the discipline ,i can put in      
force1 and their salutary fears4  ,there
 was here a pause of more than a minute 
in the dialogue2 each appeared to have  
enough to think of1 and the carriage was
 driving nearly at a gallop under the   
funereal shadow of the dense and lofty  
trees4 ,with a fierce start1 ,monsieur  

,le ,prun cried1 suddenly--  ,what do   
you mean8  ,i8--nothing4  ,why do you   
say that8  ,what8  ,you                 
said--,bluebeard4  ,hey8  ,ay6--what the
 devil did you mean by that8  ,upon my  
soul1 ,i said no such thing1 said       
,blassemare1 with a hollow1 satirical   
laugh4  ,monsieur ,le ,prun glanced over
 his shoulder once or twice1 and then   
hummed to himself for a time4           
,seriously1 he repeated1 did you not    
call me by that name8  ,i6--no2 ,i      
always call things by their name1 and   
yours is gray4  ,hem6--what is he       
driving in this shadow for8 ,tell him to
 keep in the moonlight--one would think 
he wanted to break our necks4  ,monsieur
 ,le ,prun1 it was evident1 had become  
fidgety and fanciful4  ,a few minutes'  
rapid driving brought the carriage to   
the hall-door of the chateau1 and its   
wealthy1 but1 perhaps1 after all1 not   
very much to be envied1 master conducted
 his familiar imp1 ,blassemare1 into a  
saloon1 where supper awaited them4  ,i  

don't myself understand these things1   
,blassemare1 but you will be my         
stage-manager1 and get up the spectacle 
in the best style4  ,why1 yes4 ,i don't 
see why ,i should not lend a hand1 that 
is to say1 if nothing happens to call me
 away1 said ,blassemare1 who delighted  
in such affairs1 but liked a little     
importance also4  ,how soon is it to    
take place8  ,she said in about three   
weeks4  ,ha6 very good4  ,and the ,count
 de ,blassemare was instantaneously     
translated1 in spirit1 among feu        
d'artifice1 water-works1 arches1 colored
 lamps1 bands1 and all the other        
splendors and delectations of an        
elaborate fete4  ,i remember1 said ,le  
,prun1 abruptly dispelling these happy  
and gorgeous visions with his harsh     
tones1 when ,i was at school1 reading   
about ,socrates and those invisible     
demons that were always hovering at his 
ears2 it was devilish odd1 ,blassemare4 
,but to be sure those were good-natured 
devils2 ay1 that is true1 and meant him 

no harm4  ,by my faith1 ,i forget all   
about it2 but what the devil connection 
have these demons1 blue1 black1 or red1 
with your fete8  ,i sometimes think1    
,blassemare1 you are a worse fellow than
 ,i am1 for you have no qualms of       
conscience4  ,no qualms of stomach1 no  
fumes of indigestion2 as for conscience1
 it is an infirmity of which we both    
stand equally acquitted4  ,i did not    
speak of it in a good sense1 said ,le   
,prun1 gloomily2 it may be remorse or   
superstition1 but ,i fancy the man who  
has none of it is already dead1 and     
under his coffin-lid1 so far as his     
spiritual chances are concerned4        
,faith1 it is a treat1 ,le ,prun1 to    
hear you talk religion4 ,when do you    
mean to take orders8 ,i should so like  
to see you1 my buck1 in a cassock and   
cowl begging meal1 and telling your     
beads1 and calling yourself brother     
,ambrose4  ,i have not good enough in me
 for that1 he replied1 in a tone which  
might be earnest1 or might be a sneer2  

besides1 ,i dare say that the grand     
melange of rapture and diablerie they   
call religion is altogether true2 but   
par bleu6 my good fellow1 there is      
something more than this life--agencies1
 subtler and more powerful mayhap than  
those our senses are commonly cognizant 
of4 ,i say ,i have had experience of    
this truth1 and of them4 ,you laugh6 and
 ,i suppose will laugh on1 until that   
irresistible old gentleman-usher1       
,,death1 presents you to other realities
 face to face4  ,well1 so be it4 ,if    
they have faces1 ,i suppose they have   
mouths1 and can laugh1 and chat1 and so1
 egad ,i'll make the best of them2 it is
 one comfort1 we shall all understand   
religion then1 and need not plague our  
heads about it any further4 ,but1 in the
 mean time1 suppose we have a game of   
piquet4  ,agreed6 call for cards1 and1  
by the time you have got them1 ,i will  
return4  ,le ,prun took a candle1 and   
opening a door which led through a      
passage to a back stair communicating   

with ,lucille's apartments1 he directed 
his steps thither for the purpose of    
announcing his arrival1 and ascertaining
 at the same time the state of his      
wife's temper4  ,he tapped at the door1 
and1 having received permission to      
enter1 did so to the manifest surprise  
of the occupants of the chamber1 who had
 expected to see one of the servants4   
,julie1 who was in the very middle of a 
story about the ,marquis de ,secqville1 
her intended husband1 7to which ,lucille
 was listening1 as she leaned pensively 
back in her rich fauteuil1 with downcast
 eyes17 suspended her narrative4  ,well1
 sir8  ,well1 madame8  ,such was the    
curt and menacing greeting exchanged    
between the fermier-general and his     
wife4  ,you appear dissatisfied1 he     
said1 after an interval1 and having     
taken a chair4  ,i am so4  ,this is     
tiresome1 ma femme4  ,yes1              
insupportably2 this1 and every thing    
else that passes here4  ,it appears to  
me1 you are somewhat hard to please4    

,quite the reverse4 ,i ask but to mix in
 human society4  ,you have society      
enough1 madame4  ,i have absolutely     
none1 sir4  ,i can't say what society   
you enjoyed in the ,parc de             
,charrebourg1 madame1 he began1 in an   
obvious vein of sarcasm4 ,and as he did 
so1 he thought he observed her eyes     
averted1 and her color brighten for a   
moment4 ,he did not suffer this         
observation to interrupt him1 but he    
laid it up in the charnel of his evil   
remembrances1 and continued3 ,i don't   
know1 ,i say1 what society you there    
enjoyed4 ,it may have been very         
considerable1 or it may have been very  
limited3 it was possibly very dull1 or  
possibly very delightful1 madame4 ,but  
if you had any society there whatever1  
it was private1 secret2 it was neither  
seen nor suspected1 madame1 and1        
therefore1 you must excuse me if ,i     
can't see what sacrifice1 in point of   
society1 you have made in exchanging    
your cottage in the ,parc de            

,charrebourg for a residence in the     
,chateau des ,anges4  ,sir1 ,i have made
 sacrifices--,i have lost my liberty1   
and gained you4  ,i see1 my pretty wife1
 it will be necessary that you and ,i   
should understand one another1 he said1 
tranquilly1 but with a gloom upon his   
countenance that momentarily grew darker
 and darker4  ,that is precisely what ,i
 desire1 replied his undaunted helpmate4
  ,leave us1 ,julie1 said the           
fermier-general1 with a forced calmness4
  ,julie threw an imploring glance at   
,lucille as she left the room1 for she  
held her uncle in secret dread4 ,as she 
glided through the door her last look   
revealed them seated at the little      
table2 he--ugly3 black1 and venomous2   
she--beautiful1 and glittering in gay   
colors4 ,it was like a summer fly       
basking unconsciously within the pounce 
of a brown and bloated spider4  ,depend 
upon it1 madame1 this will never do1 he 
began4  ,never1 sir1 she repeated       
emphatically4  ,be silent1 and listen as

 becomes you1 he almost shouted1 with a 
sudden and incontrollable explosion of  
rage1 while the blood mounted to his    
discolored visage4 ,don't fancy1 madame1
 that ,i am doting1 or that you can     
manage me with your saucy coquetry or   
sulky insolence4 ,i have a will of my   
own1 madame1 under which1 by ,heaven1   
,i'll force yours to bend1 were it fifty
 times as stubborn as ever woman's was  
yet4 ,you shall obey--you shall submit4 
,if you will not practise your duty     
cheerfully1 you shall learn it in       
privation and tears2 but one way or     
another1 ,i'll bring you to act1 and to 
speak1 and to think as ,i please1 or    
,i'm not your husband4  ,well1 sir1 try 
it3 and in the mean time1 ,i expect---- 
,what do you expect8 he thundered4  ,i  
expect to receive a counterpart of this1
 she said1 with deliberate emphasis1    
holding the magic vial steadily before  
his eyes4  ,for a second or two1 the    
talisman appeared powerless1 but only   
for so long4 ,on a sudden his gaze      

contracted--he became fascinated1       
petrified--his face darkened1 as if a   
tide of molten lead were projected      
through every vessel--and a heavy dew of
 agony stood in beads upon his puckered 
forehead4 ,with all this horror was     
mingled a fury1 if possible1 more       
frightful still2 every fibre of his face
 was quivering2 the hand that was       
clenched and drawn back1 as if it held a
 weapon to be hurled into her heart1 was
 quivering too2 his mouth seemed gasping
 in vain for words or voice2 he         
resembled the malignant and tortured    
victim of a satanic possession2 and this
 frightful dumb apparition was          
imperceptibly drawing nearer and nearer 
to her4  ,a sudden revulsion broke the  
horrid spell of which he was the slave2 
like one awaking from a nightmare1      
conscience-stricken1 he uttered a       
trembling groan of agony1 and with one  
hand upon his breast1 the other clutched
 upon his forehead1 he hurried1         
speechless1 like a despairing1 detected 

criminal1 from the room4   ,,ix4--,,the 
,,untold ,,secret4  ,julie1 who had     
heard high words as she traversed the   
apartments which lay en suite1 paused in
 the lobby at the stair-head--a sort of 
oeil de boeuf1 to which several         
corridors converged1 and with a lofty   
lantern-dome above1 from which swung a  
cluster of rose-colored lamps4  ,here   
she sat down upon a sofa1 ill at ease on
 account of the scene which was then    
going on so near her2 and1 in the midst 
of her reverie1 raising her eyes        
suddenly1 she saw ,monsieur ,le ,prun1  
the thick carpets rendering his tread   
perfectly noiseless1 gliding by her with
 a countenance guilty and terrible      
beyond any thing that fancy had ever    
seen4  ,without appearing to see her1   
like a spectre from the grave he came1  
passed1 and vanished1 leaving her frozen
 with horror1 as if she had beheld a    
phantom from the dead and damned4  ,with
 steps winged with hideous alarm she    
sped through the intervening chambers to

 that in which she had left ,lucille4   
,she was standing with an ashy smile of 
triumph on her face1 and in her hand was
 still mechanically grasped the queer   
little vial with its four spires of     
gold4  ,monsieur ,le ,prun had recovered
 his self-possession to a certain extent
 by the time he reached the apartment   
where he had left ,blassemare4 ,but that
 observant gentleman did not fail to    
perceive1 at a glance1 that something   
had occurred to agitate his patron      
profoundly4  ,egad1 he thought1 ,i      
should not be surprised if the girl were
 taken at disadvantage by his abrupt    
visit1 and that the venerable ,adonis   
saw something to justify his jealousy4  
,a husband has no right to surprise his 
wife4 ,le ,prun1 he continued carelessly
 aloud1 ,i wonder why ,nature1 who has  
been so bounteous to the sex1 has not   
furnished husbands1 like certain snakes1
 with rattles to their tails1 to give   
involuntary warning of their approach4  
,le ,prun poured out a glass of cold    

water and drank it4 ,blassemare         
observed1 as he did so1 that his hand   
trembled violently4 ,the fermier-general
 was silent1 and his flippant ,mercury  
did not care just then to hazard any    
experiment upon his temper4             
,blassemare6 he exclaimed1 abruptly     
arresting his glass1 and eyeing his     
companion with a sort of brutal rage1 ,i
 ought to run you through the body1 sir1
 where you stand1 for your accursed     
perfidy4  ,what6 me8--by my soul1 sir1  
,i don't understand you1 he replied1 at 
once offended and amazed4 ,why the devil
 should you murder me8  ,you have broken
 your word with me6  ,in what respect8  
,exactly where it was most vitally      
needful to keep it1 sir4  ,deuce take me
 if ,i know what you mean4  ,you do--you
 do--a thousand curses6 ,you must know  
it4  ,but hang me if ,i do4  ,you have  
suffered that calumny to reach her ears4
  ,what calumny8  ,she must have seen   
her4  ,her6--whom8  ,she must have      
spoken with her4  ,do say1 plainly1 what

 it is all about8  ,about that--that    
d---- woman2 there1 is that             
intelligible8 ,she is at large1 sir1 in 
spite of all ,i've said--in spite of all
 you undertook1 sir2 and she has been   
filling my wife's ears with those       
hell-born lies that have been whispered 
to you1 sir1 and which it was your      
business to have suppressed and         
extinguished4 ,by ----1 ,blassemare1 you
 deserve my curses and my vengeance4    
,as he concluded1 he struck the glass   
upon the table with a force that        
shivered it to pieces4  ,monsieur le    
,prun1 said ,blassemare1 coolly1 ,i     
deprecate no man's vengeance1 and fear  
no man's sword2 but whatever be the     
ground of your present convictions1 it  
is utterly fallacious4 ,the person in   
question has never stirred abroad--you  
mean the sister of course--since your   
marriage1 except under close and        
trustworthy attendance2 and the         
other--that you know is out of the      
question4  ,there has been mismanagement

 somewhere1 or else some new device of  
infernal malice2 ,i say the thing has   
been misconducted1 with the same cursed 
blundering that has always attended that
 affair2 and ,i would rather my wife    
were in her coffin than have seen what  
,i have seen to-night4  ,what6 in her   
coffin6 echoed ,blassemare1 with a sort 
of fiendish satire4  ,ay1 sir1 in her   
coffin6 said ,le ,prun1 with a black    
defiance which made ,blassemare shrug   
his shoulders and become silent4  ,the  
chill and the smell of death seemed to  
him to have come with these words into  
the room4 ,but he would not on any      
account have betrayed his sensations2 on
 the contrary1 he pointed gayly to the  
cards1 and looked a smiling             
interrogatory towards the fermier4 ,but 
that excellent gentleman was in no mood 
for picquet4 ,he declined the challenge 
gloomily and peremptorily4  ,ma foi6 you
 suffer trifles to plague you strangely1
 said ,blassemare1 as they parted for   
the night4 ,what on earth does it       

signify after all8 ,thwart a woman1 and 
she will strive to vex you--there's     
nothing new in that2 why should not     
,madame ,le ,prun share the pretty      
weaknesses of her sex8 ,on the other    
hand1 indulge her1 and she will flatter 
as much as she teased before4 ,you are  
too sensitive1 too fond1 and1 therefore1
 exaggerate trifles4 ,good night4       
,monsieur ,le ,prun withdrew1 and       
,blassemare muttered--  ,remorseless old
 criminal6 ,i shall keep my eye close   
upon you1 and if ,i see any sign of the 
sort----  ,he set his teeth together1   
smiled resolutely and threateningly1 and
 nodded his head twice or thrice in the 
direction of the door through which the 
fermier-general had just disappeared4   
,the violent explosion we have just     
described was not followed by any very  
decisive results4 ,the fermier-general  
and his wife had not been upon very     
pleasant terms for some time previous to
 the scene which had so fearfully       
agitated the millionaire2 and1 whatever 

may have been the immediate promptings  
of his anger1 his temper had cooled down
 sufficiently1 before the morning1 to   
enable him to carry the matter off1 like
 a man of the world1 with a tolerable   
grace4 ,whatever change for the worse   
had taken place in his feelings towards 
his wife1 he was able to suppress the   
manifestation of it3 but1 as we have    
said1 their relations had of late been  
by no means cordial1 and ,monsieur ,le  
,prun did not think it necessary to     
affect any warmer sentiment toward his  
wife1 nor any abatement of the sinister 
estrangement which had been gradually   
growing between them4  ,meanwhile the   
preparations for the fete proceeded at  
the ,chateau des ,anges upon a scale    
worthy of the rarity of the occasion and
 the vastness of the proprietor's       
fortune4  ,all these were carried on by 
,blassemare1 who indulged his gallantry 
by consulting the beautiful young wife  
of the fermier-general upon every detail
 of the tasteful and magnificent        

arrangements as they proceeded4         
,monsieur ,le ,prun had a special object
 in gratifying the great lady who had   
insisted upon this sacrifice4           
,blassemare had1 therefore1 a carte     
blanche in the matter4 ,there were to be
 musicians from ,paris1 bands of winged 
instruments among the trees1 galleys and
 singers upon the waters1 illuminated   
marquees and fanciful grottoes1 feu     
d'artifice1 and colored lamps of every  
dye1 in unimaginable profusion1         
theatricals1 gaming1 feasting1          
dancing--in a word1 every imaginable    
species of gayety1 revelry1 and         
splendor4  ,as these grand projects     
began to unfold themselves1 ,lucille's  
ill-temper began to abate4 ,her interest
 was awakened1 and at last she became   
pleased1 astonished1 and even delighted4
  ,now at length she hoped that the     
long-cherished object of her wishes was 
about to be supplied1 and that she was  
indeed to emerge from her chrysalis     
state1 and enjoy1 among the sweets and  

gayeties of life1 the glittering freedom
 for which she felt herself so fitted1  
and had so long sighed in vain2 and     
which1 moreover1 as the reader may have 
suspected1 she desired also in          
furtherance of certain secret and       
cherished aspirations4  ,monsieur de    
,blassemare found his aesthetic and     
festive confidences most encouragingly  
received by the handsome and imperious  
,madame ,le ,prun4 ,the subject of his  
consultations delighted her2 and knowing
 well the close relation in which he    
stood with her husband1 she perhaps     
thought it no such bad policy to secure 
him1 by a little civility1 in her       
interest4 ,she little imagined1 perhaps1
 engrossed as she was with other images1
 to what aspiring hopes she was thus    
unconsciously introducing the ,sieur de 
,blassemare4 ,that gentleman was proud  
of his bonnes fortunes2 and the rapid   
chemistry of his vanity instantaneously 
transmuted the lightest show of         
good-humor1 in a handsome woman1 into   

the faint but irrepressible evidences of
 a warmer sentiment of preference4      
,perfectly convinced of the reality of  
the penchant he believed himself to have
 inspired1 you may be sure the lively   
scoundrel was not a little flattered at 
his imaginary conquest4 ,he debated1    
therefore1 in his self-complacent       
reveries1 whether he should take prompt 
advantage of the weakness of his victim1
 or pique her by the malice of suspense4
 ,he chose the latter tactique1 and1    
with a happy self-esteem1 reserved the  
transports of his confession to reward  
the longings and agitations of a        
protracted probationary ordeal4  ,thus  
,blassemare was in his glory1           
superintending the preparations for a   
fete1 which left him nothing in         
prodigality and magnificence to desire2 
enjoying1 at the same time1 the         
delightful consciousness of having      
placed1 without an effort1 the prettiest
 woman in ,france at his feet1 and the  
piquant sense1 beside1 of his little    

treason against old ,le ,prun4  ,thus   
matters proceeded2 but1 strange to say1 
while the evening for which all these   
preparations were being made was still  
more than a week distant1 ,madame ,le   
,prun1 whose impatience of even that    
brief delay had been unspeakable1 on a  
sudden lost all her interest in the     
affair4 ,such1 alas6 is the volatility1 
the caprice1 of women4 ,the object for  
sake of which she had led poor ,le ,prun
 a dog's life for so long1 was now      
presented to her1 and she turned from it
 with indifference1 if not with disgust4
 ,this would1 indeed1 have been very    
provoking to ,le ,prun himself1 had he  
been just then upon speaking terms with 
his wife2 but not happening to be so1   
and being in no mood to talk about her  
further to his gay familiar1            
,blassemare1 he was wholly ignorant of  
those feminine fluctuations of interest 
and of liking which ,blassemare himself 
did not fully comprehend4 ,the change   
was so abrupt as to excite his surprise4

 ,her apathy1 too1 was unaccompanied by 
ill-temper1 and was obviously so        
genuine1 that he could hardly believe it
 affected merely to pique him4 ,we are  
disposed to think there was a powerful1 
but mysterious1 cause at work in this   
change4  ,it was just about this time   
that one night1 ,julie1 having sat up   
rather later than usual1 and intending  
to bid ,lucille good night1 if she were 
still awake1 entered her suite of       
apartments1 and approached her          
dressing-room door4 ,she heard her rush 
across the floor1 as she did so1 and1   
with a face of terror1 she emerged from 
the door and stood before it1 as if to  
bar ingress to the room4  ,julie was    
disconcerted and agitated by this       
apparition2 and ,lucille was evidently1 
from whatever cause1 greatly terrified4 
,the two girls confronted one another   
with pale and troubled looks4 ,lucille  
was white with fear1 and1 alas6 as it   
seemed to her companion1 with the       
agitation of guilt4 ,julie looked at her

 all aghast4  ,good night1 ,julie1 good 
night1 she whispered1 hurriedly4  ,good 
night1 answered she2 ,i fear ,i have    
interrupted--,i mean1 startled you4     
,good night1 good night1 repeated       
,lucille4  ,as ,julie retreated across  
the lobby1 she was overtaken by         
,lucille1 who placed her hand upon her  
shoulder4  ,julie1 will you hate me if  
,i tell you all8 she said1 in great     
agitation1 as she hurried with her into 
her apartment4  ,hate you1 ,lucille6    
,how could ,i hate my dear friend and   
companion8  ,friend1 ,o yes1 friend2    
what a friend ,i have proved to you6    
,come1 come1 you must not let yourself  
be excited2 you know you are my friend1 
my only friend and confidante1 and you  
know ,i love you4  ,lucille covered her 
face with her hands and sobbed or       
shuddered violently4 ,julie embraced and
 kissed her tenderly2 but1 in the midst 
of these caresses1 her unhappy friend   
threw her arms about her neck1 and1     
looking earnestly in her face for a few 

seconds1 drew her passionately to her   
heart and kissed her1 murmuring as she  
did so--  ,no1 no2 she never could      
forgive me4  ,and1 so saying1 she       
mournfully betook herself away1 leaving 
,julie a prey to all manner of vague and
 perplexing alarms4  ,whatever was the  
cause of ,lucille's profound mental     
agitation1 it was an impenetrable       
mystery to ,julie4 ,blassemare obviously
 did not know what to make of it2 and as
 the fete drew near without eliciting   
any corresponding interest on her part1 
,julie1 who had observed with pleasure  
the delight with which at first she had 
anticipated the event1 was dismayed and 
astonished at the change4 ,as often as  
she had endeavored to recall her to the 
topic so strangely approached1 and      
inexplicably recoiled from1 upon the    
occasion we have just described1        
,lucille repulsed her curiosity1 or at  
least evaded it with entire and         
impenetrable secrecy4 ,finding1         
therefore1 that the subject was         

obviously distasteful to her1 she       
forbore to return to it1 and contented  
herself with recording the broken       
conversation of the night in question   
among the other unexplained mysteries of
 her life4  ,well1 ,lucille1 she said to
 her one day1 as they were walking upon 
the terrace together1 and interrupting  
by the remark a long and gloomy silence1
 you do not seem to enjoy the prospect  
of the gay night which my uncle has     
prepared1 now that it approaches1 half  
so much as you did in the distance4     
,enjoy it8 no1 no4  ,but you longed for 
such an occasion4  ,perhaps1 ,julie1 ,i 
had reasons2 perhaps it was not all     
caprice4  ,but do you not still enjoy   
the prospect8 surely it has not lost all
 its charms8  ,i say1 ,julie1 ,i had    
reasons--that is1 perhaps ,i had--for   
wishing it4 ,i have none now4  ,well1   
but it seems to me it positively        
depresses you4 ,surely1 if it were      
merely indifferent1 it need not distress
 you4  ,ah1 ,julie1 ,julie1 we are      

strange creatures2 we know not          
ourselves1 neither our strength nor our 
weakness1 our good nor our evil1 until  
time and combinations solve the problem1
 and show us the sad truth4  ,it seems  
to me1 said ,julie1 with a gentle smile1
 you take a wondrous moral tone in      
treating of a ball1 my pretty sage2 and1
 notwithstanding all you say1 ,i suspect
 you like a fete as well as most young  
women4  ,julie1 when ,i tell you        
honestly ,i hate it--that ,i would      
gladly be hidden in the roof or the     
cellar of the loneliest tower in the    
chateau upon that evening1 you will     
cease to suspect me of so poor a        
dissimulation4 ,honestly1 then1 and     
sadly1 these crowded festivities1 ,i    
expected but a short time since with so 
much delight1 are now not only          
indifferent to me1 but repulsive4 ,i no 
longer wish to meet and mix with people2
 the idea1 on the contrary1 depresses1  
nay1 even terrifies me4  ,lucille1 you  
are hiding something from me4           

,hiding6--no1 nothing--that is1 nothing 
but my own thoughts1 the images of my   
reflections2 nothing1 dear ,julie1 that 
it would not render you unhappy to hear4
 ,why should ,i throw upon your mind the
 gloom and shadows of my own8  ,but     
perhaps your troubles are fantastic and 
unreal2 and1 were you to confide in me1 
,i might convince you that they are so4 
,julie1 they are real4  ,so thinks every
 body who is haunted by chimeras4       
,these are none4 ,oh1 ,julie6 would ,i  
could tell you all4 ,the agony of the   
relation would be in some sort          
recompensed by having one human being to
 tell my thoughts to4 ,but it cannot be2
 it is quite1 quite impossible4  ,this  
impossibility is also one of the        
imagination4  ,no1 no1 ,julie2 the      
effort to repose this confidence would  
destroy all confidence between us4 ,i   
have said enough--let us speak of other 
matters4 ,my innermost grief1 be it what
 it may1 ,i must endure alone4 ,julie1  
it is a hard condition2 but ,i must and 

will--alone4  ,here they were           
interrupted by ,blassemare1 who gayly   
joined them1 with a prayer that they    
would resolve a momentous difficulty1 by
 deciding upon the best site for one of 
his principal batteries of fireworks2   
and so1 with little good-will1 they     
surrendered themselves for a quarter of 
an hour to the guidance and the light   
sarcastic conversation of the master of 
the revels1 with whom for the present we
 shall leave them4   ,x4--,,the ,,fete4 
,at length the eventful night arrived--a
 beautiful1 still1 star-lit night4 ,you 
may fancy the splendor of the more than 
royal festivities4 ,what a magnificent  
levee of gayety1 rank1 and beauty6 ,what
 unexampled illuminations6--what        
fantastic and inexhaustible ingenuity of
 pyrotechnics6 ,how the gorgeous suites 
of salons laughed with the brilliant    
crowd6 ,how the terraces1 arched and    
lined with soft-colored lamps1 re-echoed
 with gay laughter or murmured          
flatteries6 ,what an atmosphere it was  

of rosy hues1 of music1 and ceaseless   
hum of human enjoyment6 ,for miles      
around1 the wandering peasants beheld   
the wide1 misty1 prismatic circle that  
overarched the enchanted ground1 and    
heard the silver harmonies and drumming 
thunders of the orchestras floating over
 the woods1 and filling the void        
darkness with sounds of unseen          
festivities4 ,in such a scene all are in
 good-humor--all wear their best looks4 
,each finds his appropriate amusement4  
,the elegant gamester discovers his     
cards and his companions2 the garrulous 
find listeners2 the gossip retails1 and 
imbibes1 from a hundred sources1 all the
 current scandal2 vanity finds          
incense--beauty adoration2 the young    
make love1 or dance1 or in groups give  
their spirits play in pleasantries1 and 
raillery1 and peals of animated         
laughter2 their elders listen to the    
music1 or watch the cards1 or in a      
calmer fashion converse2 while all1 each
 according to his own peculiar taste1   

find whatever pleases their palate best4
 ,whatever is rarest1 most              
fantastic--things only dreamed of--the  
epicurean connoisseur has only to       
invoke1 and1 at a touch of the magic    
wand of ,mammon1 it is there before him4
 ,wines1 too1--what-not1 est-est1 tokay1
 and all the rest1 flowing from the     
inexhaustible tap of the same           
,mephistopheles1 with his golden gimlet4
 ,all the demons of luxury riot there1  
and at your nod ransack the earth for a 
flavor or a flask2 and place it before  
you1 almost before your wish is uttered4
 ,it is1 indeed1 the ,mahomet's paradise
 of all true believers in the stomach1  
and worshippers of ,bacchus4 ,thus in a 
realized dream all eddies on in a       
delicious intoxication1 and each is at  
once the recipient of enjoyment and the 
dispenser of good-humor1 imbibing       
through every sense enchanted fare1     
reflecting smiles1 and radiating        
hilarity4 ,each1 indeed1 becomes1 as it 
were1 a single glowing particle in the  

genial and brilliant mass1 and tends to 
keep alive the general fire1 from which 
he derives and to which returns at once 
light and geniality4 ,it is admitted    
that he who has discovered the grand    
arcanum1 and has the philosopher's stone
 in his waistcoat-pocket1 is1 so to     
speak1 ex officio1 a magician4 ,but ,m4 
,le ,prun had no need of any such       
discoveries4 ,he had the gold itself1   
and was1 therefore1 a ready-made        
magician1 and as such was worshipped    
accordingly with an oriental fanaticism4
  ,monsieur le ,prun had1 like other    
favorites of fortune in the latter days 
of the monarchy1 purchased his patent of
 noblesse4 ,every body knew that he was 
a parvenu2 and rumor1 as she is wont in 
such cases1 had adorned his early       
history with so many myths and portents1
 that ,niebuhr himself could hardly have
 distinguished between the fable and the
 truth4 ,it was said and believed that  
he was a foundling--a ,gipsy's son1 a   
wandering beggar1 a tinker4 ,others had 

seen him in rags1 selling pencils at the
 steps between the ,pont-,neuf and the  
,pont-au-,change4 ,others1 again1       
maintained that he had for years filled 
the canine office of guide to an old    
blind mendicant1 whose beat was about   
the ,rue de ,bauboug2 and were even     
furnished with a number of pleasant     
anecdotes about his hardships and       
adroitness1 while in this somewhat      
undignified position4 ,indeed1 the      
varieties of positions though which good
 ,mother ,gossip sent him were such1 and
 so interminable1 that a relation of    
half of them would alone make a library 
of fiction4 ,but fortune had consecrated
 this mean and smutty urchin4 ,he stood 
now worshipped in the awful glory of his
 millions1 pedestalled on his           
money-bags1 gilded from head to heel2   
and what could the proudest noblesse    
upon earth do but forget and forgive the
 rags and hunger of his infancy1 and    
come together1 from the east and from   
the west1 to drink of the cup of his    

enchantments1 and cry1 ,long live ,king 
,solomon in all his glory8  ,she is     
beautiful as a divinity1 exclaimed the  
gallant old ,marquess de ,fauteuil1 who 
had just completed an admiring survey of
 the fair ,madame le ,prun4             
,pretty--yes2 but she has the manners of
 a petite moine1 said the ,duchess de la
 ,cominade1 an old flame of the marquis1
 who1 in spite of her marriage and her  
mistakes1 conceived her claims upon his 
devotions unabated4  ,and her little    
gossip1 too1 ,le ,prun's niece1 is a    
charming creature--an exquisitely       
contrived contrast4 ,by my word1 this   
place deserves its name--is it not truly
 the ,chateau des ,anges8  ,who is that 
young person whom ,le ,prun is leading  
towards them8 ,he is the only man ,i    
have seen to-night whose dress is       
perfect2 and he looks like a hero of    
romance4  ,that8--eh8 ,why that is the  
,marquis de ,secqville4  ,what6 the     
horrid man who enslaves us all8 ,i have 
not seen him for years--how very        

handsome he is6  ,yes2 and ,i fancy that
 melancholy air assists him very much in
 vanquishing the gentle sex4 ,i once had
 a little vein of that myself4  ,so you 
had1 murmured the duchess1 with a tender
 smile of memory1 and a little sigh4    
,but is it not a madness of poor ,le    
,prun to present that terrible man to   
his handsome young wife8  ,he is to     
marry the niece--the affair is          
concluded4 ,poor little thing6 she looks
 so frightened2 see--a little fluttered 
pigeon of ,venus--it becomes her very   
much4  ,meanwhile ,le ,prun and the     
marquis were approaching ,lucille and   
,julie1 who were seated together close  
to a window which opened to the floor1  
and admitted the soft summer air1       
charged with such sounds and perfumes as
 might have hovered among the evergreen 
groves of ,calypso's island4  ,he is    
coming1 said ,julie1 he is coming with  
my uncle4  ,who8 asked ,lucille1 looking
 coldly on the advancing figures4       
,my--my fiance1 the ,marquis de         

,secqville1 whispered ,julie1 in        
trembling haste1 blushing1 and dropping 
her eyes4  ,oh1 then1 ,i must observe   
him carefully1 said ,lucille1 with an   
arch smile4  ,do1 and tell me honestly  
what you think of him4  ,ha6 little     
rogue1 ,i see you are not quite so      
indifferent as you pretend4  ,my heart  
is indifferent--but--but he is very     
handsome--don't you think so8  ,hush6   
here he is4  ,i have the happiness1     
madame1 to present ,monsieur le ,marquis
 de ,secqville1 with whom1 as you are   
aware1 we are about to have the honor of
 being nearly allied4  ,so said         
,monsieur le ,prun1 with a smile of     
conjugal affection1 which may1 or may   
not1 have been genuine4  ,i was not     
until now aware of the full extent of   
the honor and the happiness involved in 
that alliance1 said the marquis1 with a 
glance of respectful admiration4        
,madame le ,prun acknowledged this      
little speech with a slight bow1 and a  
cold and haughty smile4  ,you have been 

in the south lately8  ,yes1 madame1 with
 my regiment at ,avignon4  ,so he says1 
interrupted the fermier-general1 with a 
cunning leer2 but his colonel swears he 
never saw him there4  ,then either you  
or your colonel must be wrong1 said     
,madame le ,prun1 drily4  ,no1 no1      
madame2 but ,monsieur le ,prun likes a  
jest at my expense4  ,not at all1 said  
,le ,prun1 laughing2 ,i protest         
,d',artois1 his colonel1 vows he has not
 seen him for six months at least4      
,they are in a conspiracy to quiz me4   
,then you were at ,avignon8  ,no such   
thing1 ,i tell you2 the fellow was about
 some mischief--ha6 ha6 ha6  ,he is     
resolved to laugh at me4  ,yes1 yes1 ,i 
say he is a mischievous fellow--the most
 dangerous dog in ,france2 and so shy   
that1 by my word1 it requires a shrewd  
fellow like myself to discover his      
rogueries4  ,and so he deserves not only
 all my sins1 but a great deal more4    
,stay--here is the ,visconte de         
,charrebourg4 ,visconte1 this is the    

,marquis de ,secqville1 my future       
nephew4  ,the old visconte looked       
closely and dubiously for a moment in   
the young man's face4 ,the marquis1 on  
the contrary1 seemed to have some little
 difficulty in suppressing a smile4     
,but that ,i know ,i have not had the   
honor of meeting you before1 ,i         
should----but no doubt it is a family   
likeness4 ,i knew your father when he   
was about your age1 and a very handsome 
fellow1 by my faith4 ,is his brother1   
the ,conte de ,cresseron1 still living8 
,the old gentleman drew the marquis away
 before he had had time to pay his      
devoirs to ,julie1 who had shrunk at his
 approach into the background1 and left 
the little group to themselves4  ,what  
do you think of him8 whispered ,julie1  
resuming her place by ,lucille4  ,he is 
pretty well4  ,monsieur le ,marquis is a
 handsome man1 said ,blassemare1 who at 
that moment joined them2 and1 addressing
 ,lucille1 ,you have seen him before8   
,i8--no4 ,he has just been presented to 

me for the first time4  ,and you think  
him----  ,rather handsome--indeed1      
decidedly handsome2 but1 somehow1 his   
melancholy spoils him4 ,but ,i forgot1  
,julie--,i ask your pardon1 my pretty   
niece1 for criticising your hero4       
,remember1 however1 ,i admit his beauty1
 though ,i can't admire him4  ,there is 
no truth of which we have been reminded 
with such unnecessary reiteration1 as   
the pretty obvious fact that every human
 enjoyment must1 sooner or later1 come  
to an end4 ,the fete at the ,chateau des
 ,anges had no exemption from this law  
of nature and necessity4 ,musicians1    
cooks1 artists1 and artisans of all     
sorts1 gradually disappeared4 ,at length
 the last equipage whirled down the     
great avenue1 and a stillness and void1 
more mournful from the immediate        
contrast1 supervened4  ,the windows were
 closed--the yawning servants betook    
themselves to their beds1 and the angel 
of sleep waved his downy wings over the 
old chateau4 ,the genius of ,blassemare 

was of that electric sort which is not  
easily unexcited4 ,he could no more have
 slept than he could have transformed   
himself into one of the stone ,tritons  
of the fountain by which in the         
moonlight he now stood alone4           
,blassemare had had a magnificent       
triumph2 so well-contrived an           
entertainment had never1 perhaps1 been  
known before2 and1 like certain great   
generals1 he felt desirous to visit the 
field of his victory after the heat of  
action was over4  ,monsieur ,le ,prun   
was also wide awake and astir from other
 causes4 ,no vein of ,blassemare's      
excitement--not even jealousy1 nor      
conscience1 nor any mental malady--kept 
him waking4 ,the cause of his vigilance 
was1 simply1 his late supper and an     
indigestion4  ,now it happened that both
 these worthies were walking            
unconsciously almost side by side--,le  
,prun along the summit1 and ,blassemare 
along the base1 of the beautiful terrace
 which stretched in front of the windows

 of the chateau4  ,there was a little   
receding court which lay in front of    
,madame ,le ,prun's windows1 which were 
furnished with a heavy stone balcony4   
,on the side opposite was a high wall1  
which divided the pleasure-grounds from 
the wild1 wooded park that lay          
immediately beyond1 and in this was a   
door with a private key and a spring    
lock4  ,now it happened that both       
,monsieur ,le ,prun and the ,sieur de   
,blassemare1 as they approached this    
point1 amid the fumes of expiring lamps 
and the wreck of fireworks1 heard       
certain sounds of an unexpected sort4   
,these were1 in fact1 human voices1     
conversing in earnest but suppressed    
tones--so low1 indeed1 that were it not 
for the breathless stillness of the     
night they would have been unheard4     
,sacre6 muttered ,le ,prun1 looking up  
like a toothless old panther4  ,ma foi6 
what's this8 whispered ,blassemare1     
whose jealousy was also alarmed4  ,the  
sounds continued--the eavesdroppers     

quickened their paces4 ,le ,prun was1   
however1 unfortunately a little         
asthmatic1 as sometimes happens to      
bridegrooms of a certain age1 and1 spite
 of all his efforts to hold it in1 he   
could not contain a burst of coughing4  
,its effect was magical4 ,there         
supervened an instantaneous silence1    
followed by the dropping of a heavy body
 upon the ground1 as it seemed1 under   
,madame ,le ,prun's windows4 ,the       
descent was1 however1 unfortunately     
made2 a dog1 evidently hurt1 raised a   
frightful yelping1 making the night     
additionally hideous4 ,blassemare       
hurried up the steps1 and at the top    
encountered ,le ,prun1 running and      
panting1 with his sword drawn4 ,there   
was a sound1 as of hastily closing the  
casement above the balcony--a light     
gleamed from it for an instant1 and was 
extinguished--and1 at the same moment1  
they beheld the dim figure of a man     
hurrying across the court1 and darting  
through the opposite door1 which shut   

with a crash behind him4  ,thieves6     
robbers6 shouted ,le ,prun1 dashing at  
the door4  ,robbers6 thieves6 cried a   
shrill voice of alarm from ,madame ,le  
,prun's casement4  ,horns6 antlers6     
halloed ,blassemare4  ,robbers6 robbers6
  ,thieves6 thieves6  ,the lady         
screamed1 ,le ,prun bawled1 ,blassemare 
laughed4  ,he is gone1 however1 said the
 latter1 as soon as the explosion had a 
little subsided4 ,suppose we get the    
key1 madame4 ,please throw us yours from
 the window4 ,i promise to pink the     
burglar through the body4 ,quick--quick6
  ,ay1 ay1 thundered ,le ,prun1 the key6
 the key6  ,madame ,le ,prun was too    
much excited to get it in an instant4   
,she ran here1 and flew there--she      
screamed and rummaged4 ,le ,prun        
stormed4 ,a key was at last thrown out1 
amid prayers and imprecations4 ,how     
provoking6--it was a wrong one4 ,another
 effort--a new burst of execration from 
,le ,prun--another fit of laughter from 
,blassemare--more screaming and pressing

 from the window--and all accompanied by
 the sustained yelping of the injured   
lap-dog4  ,here it is--this must be it1 
and another key clangs and jingles on   
the ground4  ,yes1 this time it is the  
right key4 ,the door flies open--,le    
,prun rushes puffing among the bushes4  
,blassemare sees something drop         
glittering to the ground as the door    
opens--a button and a little rag of     
velvet2 he says nothing1 but pockets it1
 and joins the moonlight chase4  ,it is 
all in vain4 ,le ,prun1 perspiring and  
purple1 his passion as swollen as his   
veins1 knowing not what to think1 but   
fearing every thing1 staggered back1    
silent and exhausted2 ,blassemare also  
silent--no longer laughing--abstracted1 
walks with knit brows1 and compressed   
lips1 beside him4  ,of course1 said     
,blassemare1 you have the fullest       
reliance upon the honor of your wife8   
,monsieur ,le ,prun growled an          
inarticulate curse or two1 and          
,blassemare whistled a minuet4  ,come1  

my dear ,le ,prun1 he resumed1 let us be
 frank2 you are uneasy4  ,about what8   
,madame ,le ,prun4  ,she is not injured8
  ,no1 but----  ,ah1 she's in league    
with the thieves1 may be8 said ,le      
,prun1 with an agitated sneer4          
,precisely so1 answered ,blassemare1    
with a cold laugh4  ,i know what you    
think1 and ,i know what ,i think1       
replied ,le ,prun1 with suppressed fury4
  ,his suspicions were all awake2 he was
 bursting with rage1 and looked truly   
infernal4  ,on the faith of a gentleman1
 said ,blassemare1 with a changed tone1 
,i cannot be said to think any thing    
about the affair4 ,i have my doubts1 but
 that is all4 ,we men are naturally     
suspicious2 but1 after all1 there are   
such things as thieves and              
housebreakers4  ,le ,prun said nothing1 
but looked black and icy as the north   
wind4  ,at all events1 said ,blassemare1
 we men of the world know how to deal   
with affairs of this sort2 so long as   
any uncertainty exists1 put ostensibly  

the best possible construction upon it4 
,thus much is due to one's dignity in   
the eyes of the public2 and in private  
we may prosecute inquiries unsuspected1 
and with the greater likelihood of      
success4  ,i know the world as well as  
you1 ,blassemare4 ,i'm sick of your tone
 of superiority and advice4 ,i know when
 to respect and when to defy the world4 
,a man can no more make a fortune       
without tact than he can lose one       
without folly4  ,well1 well1 said       
,blassemare1 who was used to an         
occasional rebuff1 and regarded a gruff 
word from his principal no more than he 
did the buzz of a beetle1 ,i know all   
that very well2 but you1 robust fellows1
 with millions at your back1 are less   
likely to respect those subtle and      
delicate influences which sometimes1    
notwithstanding1 carry mischief with    
them1 than we poor1 sensitive           
valetudinarians1 without a guinea in our
 pockets2 and if you will permit me1 ,i 
will1 when ,i return to-day1 sift the   

matter for you4 ,i understand woman2 it 
is an art in itself1 though not1        
perhaps1 a very high one4 ,a careless   
conversation with ,madame ,le ,prun will
 let me further into the mystery1 than a
 year spent in accumulating             
circumstantial evidence4 ,you may rely  
on the result4  ,the fermier-general    
uttered something between a growl and a 
grunt1 which might or might not convey  
assent2 and1 waving ,blassemare towards 
the house1 walked along the terrace     
alone2 and sat himself down upon the    
steps at the further end4  ,the mental  
torpor which supervenes under sudden    
disasters was not1 in the case of the   
fermier-general1 without its dreamy     
groups of ugly images in prospect4 ,as  
the light broke1 and the darkness began 
to melt eastward into soft crimson mists
 and streaks of amber1 ,monsieur ,le    
,prun rose stiffly from his hard1 cold  
seat1 and1 with the slow step of a man  
irresolute and oppressed with profound  
wrath and mortification1 began to return

 homeward4  ,robbers6--thieves6 he      
muttered bitterly4 ,how glibly the      
traitress echoed the cry6 ,the rascal   
,blassemare gave the true alarm--she did
 not echo that4 ,d---- her1 and         
d----him6 ,robbers1 indeed6             
,thieves6--very like4 ,i know what they 
came a thieving for4 ,upon her          
balcony--talking in murmurs--the candle 
extinguished in such a devil of a       
hurry--the ready cry of ',thieves'--the 
spring door open for his flight--and the
 long delay to find the key4 ,bah6 what 
proofs are wanting8  ,he heard just at  
this point a cracked voice singing a gay
 love verse from an open window4 ,he    
knew the voice2 every association       
connected with the performance and the  
performer jarred upon his nerves4  ,it  
was indeed the ,visconte de             
,charrebourg1 some of whose early gayety
 had returned with his good fortune4 ,he
 had1 such was the pride of his rich    
son-in-law1 a little household of his   
own1 and kept his state and his own     

exorbitantly early hours in a suite of  
rooms assigned him1 through one of whose
 windows1 arrayed in a velvet cap and   
gown of brocade1 he was rivalling the   
lark and greeting the rising sun1 and1  
while sipping his chocolate in the      
intervals1 moved1 with the nimble       
irregularity of idle and active-minded  
age1 about his apartment4  ,well1 sir1 a
 pleasant affair this6 cried a harsh    
voice1 interrupting his cheery          
occupation2 and on looking round he saw 
the purple and sinister face of the     
fermier-general looming through the     
window4  ,what affair8 asked the        
visconte1 in unfeigned astonishment1 for
 he had been quite certain that his     
worthy son-in-law was quietly in his    
bed4  ,your daughter's conduct4  ,what  
of her8  ,just this--she is a ----6 and1
 with the term of outrage1 ,le ,prun    
uttered a forced laugh of fury4  ,i     
cannot have heard you aright3 be kind   
enough to repeat that4  ,there was a    
certain air of pomp and menace in this  

little speech1 which drove ,le ,prun    
beyond all patience4 ,he repeated the   
imputation in language still grosser4   
,this was an insult which the ancient   
blood of the ,charrebourgs could not    
tolerate1 and the visconte taunted him  
with the honor which one of his house   
had done him in mingling their pure     
blood with that of a roturier4 ,then    
came the obvious retort1 beggar1 and    
even trickster1 retaliated by a torrent 
of scarcely articulate scorn and        
execration1 and an appeal to the sword1 
which1 with brutal contempt1 7while at  
the same time1 nevertheless1 he recoiled
 instinctively a foot or two from the   
window17 the wealthy plebeian retorted  
by threatening to arrest him for the    
sums he had advanced4 ,le ,prun had the 
best of it2 he left the outraged        
visconte quivering and shrieking like an
 old woman in a frenzy4 ,it was some    
comfort to have wrapt another in the    
hell-fire that tormented himself4       
,from the ,examiner4  ,,mazzini ,,on    

,,italy4   ,we may--we do differ from   
,mazzini in many of his political views1
 and in our estimate of what may be the 
wisest policy for ,italian liberals in  
existing circumstances4 ,we think that  
he seeks to impart to politics a        
mathematical precision of which they are
 not susceptible1 and does not          
sufficiently regard a principle the     
correctness of which has been admitted  
by himself1 that the fact of a thing    
being true in principle cannot give the 
right of suddenly enthroning it in      
practice4 ,but his errors are all on the
 large and generous side4 ,he is too apt
 to attribute to society the precise    
convictions and spirit he feels within  
himself1 and so to expect               
impossibilities1 by impossible means4   
,but there is a power of reasoning in   
,mazzini1 an unsullied moral purity1 a  
chivalrous veracity and frankness1 an   
utter abnegation of self1 and a courage 
that has stood the severest trials1     
which command not only respect but      

veneration4 ,he belongs to the martyr   
age of ,italian liberalism1 and         
possesses himself the highest qualities 
of the martyr4  ,his declared object in 
publishing the small volume#bg before us
 is to correct public opinion in        
,england as to the ,italian movement in 
which he took part4 ,but it is a        
statement of principles rather than a   
narrative of details4 ,it is always     
dignified in tone1 often singularly     
eloquent1 and substantially it contains 
little which would be likely to draw    
forth an expression of willing          
disagreement from any well-educated1    
high-minded1 liberal ,englishman4  ,mr4 
,mazzini thus declares his reasons      
,,why ,,the ,,government ,,should ,,be  
,,republican4       ,the ,italian       
tradition is eminently republican4 ,in  
,england1 the      aristocratic element 
has a powerful influence1 because it has
 a      history3 well or ill1 it has    
organized society3 it has      created a
 power1 snatched from royalty1 by       

conquering      guarantees for the      
rights of the subject2 it has founded in
      part the wealth and the influence 
of ,england abroad4 ,the                
monarchical element has still great     
influence over the      tendencies of   
,france1 because it also claims an      
important page      in the national     
history2 it has produced a ,charlemagne1
 a ,louis      ,,xi41 a ,napoleon2 it   
has contributed to found the unity of   
,france2 it has shared with the communes
 the risks and the      honors of the   
struggle against feudalism2 it has      
surrounded the      national banner with
 a halo of military glory4 ,what is the 
history of the monarchy and of the      
aristocracy of ,italy8 ,what            
prominent part have they played in the  
national development8      ,what vital  
element have they supplied to ,italian  
strength1 or      to the unification of 
the future existence of ,italy8 ,the    
history of our royalty in fact commences
 with the dominion of      ,charles ,v41

 with the downfall of our liberties2 it 
is      identified with servitude and   
dismemberment2 it is written on a       
foreign page1 in the cabinets of        
,france1 of ,austria1 and of            
,spain4 ,nearly all of them the issue of
 foreign families1      viceroys of one 
or other of the great powers1 our kings 
do not      offer the example of a      
single individual redeeming by brilliant
      personal qualities the vice of    
subalternity1 to which his      position
 condemned him2 not a single one who has
 ever evinced      any grand national   
aspiration4 ,around them in the         
obscurity of      their courts1 gather  
idle or retrograde courtiers1 men who   
call      themselves noble1 but who have
 never been able to constitute      an  
aristocracy4 ,an aristocracy is a       
compact independent body1               
representing in itself an idea1 and from
 one extremity of the      country to   
another1 governed1 more or less1 by one 
and the same      inspiration3 our      

nobles have lived upon the crumbs of    
royal      favor1 and if on some rare   
occasions they have ventured to         
place themselves in opposition to the   
monarch1 it has not been      in the    
cause of the nation1 but of the         
foreigner1 or of      clerical          
absolutism4 ,the nobility can never be  
regarded as an      historical element3 
it has furnished some fortunate         
,condottieri1 powerful even to tyranny1 
in some isolated town2      it has knelt
 at the feet of the foreign emperors who
 have      passed the ,alps or crossed  
the sea4 ,the original stock being      
nearly everywhere extinct1 the races    
have become degenerated      amidst     
corruption and ignorance4 ,the          
descendants of our noble      families  
at ,genoa1 at ,naples1 at ,venice1 and  
at ,rome1 are1 for      the most part   
specimens of absolute intellectual      
nullity4      ,almost every thing that  
has worked its difficult way in art1 in 
literature1 or in political activity1 is

 plebeian4       ,in ,italy the         
initiative of progress has always       
belonged to the      people1 to the     
democratic element4 ,it is through her  
communes      that she has acquired all 
she has ever had of liberty3 through    
her workmen in wool or silk1 through her
 merchants of ,genoa1      ,florence1   
,venice1 and ,pisa1 that she has        
acquired her wealth2      through her   
artists1 plebeian and republican1 from  
,giotto to      ,michael ,angelo1 that  
she has acquired her renown2 through her
      navigators1--plebeian1--that she  
has given a world to humanity2          
through her ,popes--sons of the people  
even they--that until the      twelfth  
century she aided in the emancipation of
 the weak1 and      sent forth a word of
 unity to humanity4 ,all her memories of
      insurrection against the foreigner
 are memories of the people3      all   
that has made the greatness of our      
towns1 dates almost      always from a  
republican epoch3 the educational book1 

the only      book read by the          
inhabitant of the ,alps or the          
,transteverin who      can read1 is an  
abridgment of the history of the        
,ancient ,roman      ,republic4 ,this is
 the reason why the same men who have so
 long      been accused of coldness1 and
 who had in fact witnessed with         
indifference the aristocratic and royal 
revolutions of #ahbj and      #ahba1    
arose with enthusiasm and with a true   
power of      self-sacrifice at the cry 
of ,st4 ,mark and the ,republic1 ,god   
and the ,people6 ,these words contained 
for them a guarantee4      ,they awoke  
in them1 even unconsciously to          
themselves1 the      all-powerful echo  
of a living past1 a confused            
recollection of      glory1 of strength1
 of conscience1 and of dignity4         
,with such elements how would it be     
possible to found a monarchy            
surrounded with an aristocracy8 ,how can
 one speak of a balance      of powers1 
where there are but two forces--foreign 

absolutism1      and the people8 ,how   
could one organize a constitutional     
monarchy where the aristocracy is       
without a past1 and where      royalty  
inspires neither affection nor respect8 
,it will surprise many candid readers to
 find ,mr4 ,mazzini repeatedly declaring
 in this book that the republican1 or1  
as he calls it1 the national party1 are 
not responsible for the disunion1 which1
 at a time when the whole nation was    
armed against the foreigners and might  
have driven them from the country1      
turned its forces against its own       
citizens4 ,he gives proof that his own  
advice was for union till the day of    
victory1 and not till then for          
discussion as to what party should reap 
its fruits4 ,whether to monarch1 or to  
people1 he affirms that he was ready to 
submit2 he asserts repeatedly that it   
was only after having been betrayed that
 the national party set up for          
themselves2 and he expresses his belief 
that even now1 when a union of princes  

has been seen to be impossible1 the     
leadership of a single prince would be  
accepted by all1 supposing such a       
fitting leader could be found4 ,he thus 
describes       ,,the ,,republican      
,,party ,,and ,,their ,,detractors4     
,they have said1 and they say again1    
without taking advantage of      the    
favorable position in which events have 
placed them3--,let      the nation      
arise2 let her make herself mistress of 
her own      territory2 then1 the       
victory once gained1 let her freely     
decide      who shall reap the fruits4  
,monarch or ,people1 we will submit     
ourselves to the power she herself shall
 organize4 ,is it      possible that so 
moderate and rational a proposition     
should be      the object of such false 
interpretations1 in a country which     
reveres the idea of right and of        
self-government8 ,is it      possible   
that its leaders should be the object of
 so much      calumny8       ,it is time
 that these calumnies should cease4 ,it 

matters little      to us1 who act as   
our conscience dictates1 without        
troubling      ourselves as to the      
personal result2 and to whom faith and  
exile have given the habit of looking   
higher than the praise or      blame of 
this earth4 ,but it should be recognized
 as most      important by all who      
believe that political questions        
agitated      by whole nations1 are     
questions eminently religious4 ,for     
religion1 to all those who see more in  
it than the mere      materialism of    
forms and formulae1 is not only a       
thought of      heaven1 but the impulse 
which seeks to apply that thought1 as   
far as possible to government on earth1 
our rule of action for      the good of 
all1 and for the moral development of   
humanity4      ,politics then are like  
religion--sacred2 and all good men are  
bound to see them morally respected4    
,every question has a right      to     
serious1 calm1 and honest discussion4   
,calumny should be the      weapon of   

those only who have to defend not ideas1
 but crimes4       ,it is immoral to say
 to men who have preached clemency      
throughout the whole of their political 
career1 who have      initiated their   
rule by the abolition of capital        
punishment1      who1 when in power1    
never signed a single sentence of exile 
against those who had persecuted them1  
nor even against the      known enemies 
of their principle4--,you are the       
sanguinary      organizers of terror1   
men of vengeance and of cruelty4 ,it is 
immoral to ascribe to them views which  
they never had1 and to      choose to   
forget that they have1 through the      
medium of the      press here and       
elsewhere1 attracted and refuted those  
communistic systems and exclusive       
solutions which tend to      suppress   
rather than to transform the elements of
 society2 and      to say to them1 ,you 
are communists1 you desire to abolish   
property4 ,it is immoral to accuse of   
irreligion and impiety      men who have

 devoted their whole lives to the       
endeavor to      reconcile the religious
 idea1 betrayed and disinherited by the 
very men who pretend to be its official 
defenders1 with the      ,national      
movement4 ,it is immoral to insinuate   
accusations of      personal interest   
and of pillage1 against men who have    
serenely      endured the sufferings of 
poverty1 and whose life1 accessible     
to all1 has never betrayed either       
cupidity or the desire of      luxury4  
,it is immoral continually to proclaim1 
as the act of a      whole party1 the   
death of a statesman killed by an       
unknown      hand1 under the influence  
of the irritation produced by his own   
acts and by the attacks of another      
political party1 many months      before
 the ,republican party recommenced its  
activity4  ,mr4 ,mazzini charges no     
direct treachery against ,carlo         
,alberto4 ,he declares him to have been 
himself the victim of the weakness which
 caused others as well as himself so    

much loss and misery4 ,for the          
impossible political project of a       
,kingdom of the ,north he was content to
 surrender the grand reality of a       
,united ,people which fate had placed   
within his hands4   ,,charles ,,albert4 
,genius1 love1 and faith were wanting in
 ,charles ,albert4 ,of the first1 which 
reveals itself by a life entirely1      
logically1 and resolutely devoted to a  
great idea1 the career of ,charles      
,albert does not offer the least trace2 
the second was stifled in him by the    
continual mistrust of men and things1   
which was awakened by the remembrance of
 an unhappy past2 the last was denied   
him by his uncertain character1 wavering
 always between good and evil1 between  
to do and not to do1 between daring and 
not daring4 ,in his youth1 a thought1   
not of virtue1 but of ,italian          
ambition--the ambition however which may
 be profitable to nations--had passed   
through his soul like lightning2 but he 
recoiled in affright1 and the           

remembrance of this one brilliant moment
 of his youth presented itself hourly to
 him1 and tortured him like the         
incessant throbbing of an old wound1    
instead of acting upon him as an        
excitement to a new life4 ,between the  
risk of losing1 if he failed1 the crown 
of his little kingdom1 and the fear of  
the liberty which the people1 after     
having fought for him1 would claim for  
themselves1 he went hesitating on1 with 
this spectre before his eyes1 stumbling 
at every step1 without energy to        
confront these dangers1 without the will
 or power to comprehend that to become  
,king of ,italy he must first of all    
forget that he was ,king of ,piedmont4  
,despotic from rooted instinct1 liberal 
from self-love1 and from a presentiment 
of the future1 he submitted alternately 
to the government of ,jesuits1 and to   
that of men of progress4 ,a fatal       
disunion between thought and action1    
between the conception and the faculty  
of execution1 showed itself in every    

act4 ,most of those who endeavored to   
place him at the head of the enterprise1
 were forced to agree to this view of   
his character4 ,some of those intimate  
with him went so far as to whisper that 
he was threatened with lunacy4 ,he was  
the ,hamlet of ,monarchy4  ,a           
characteristic passage of the volume has
 relation to   ,,lamartine',s ,,views   
,,of ,,italian ,,independence4  ,the war
 between the two principles was general 
in ,europe--the enthusiasm excited by   
the movements in ,italy1 especially the 
,lombard insurrection and the prodigies 
of the five days1 was immense2 and      
,italy could1 had she willed it and     
known how1 have drawn thence sufficient 
force to counterbalance all the strength
 of hostile reaction4 ,but to do this1  
it was necessary1 whatever the mean     
policy of the ,moderates might fear1 to 
give to the movement a character so     
audaciously national as to alarm our    
enemies1 and to offer the most powerful 
element of support to our friends4 ,both

 felt the time was ripe1 and began to   
believe that ,italy would be but ,italy1
 and not the ,kingdom of the ,north4 ,i 
remember the consoling words ,lamartine 
addressed to me1 at his house1 on the   
eve of my departure for ,italy1 and in  
presence1 amongst others1 of ,alfred de 
,vigny1 and of the same ,forbin ,janson 
whom ,i was afterwards to meet preaching
 the papal restoration1 and getting up  
various petty conspiracies and          
ridiculous intrigues at ,rome4  ,the    
hour has struck for you1 said the       
minister1 and ,i am so firmly convinced 
of it1 that the first words with which  
,i have charged ,monsieur d',harcourt   
for the ,pope are these2 ,holy ,father1 
you know that you ought to be the       
,president of the ,italian ,republic4   
,but ,monsieur d',harcourt had quite    
other things to say to the ,pope1 on the
 part of that faction which involved    
,lamartine in its snares whilst he      
imagined that he could control it4 ,for 
myself ,i attached no importance1 except

 as a symptom1 to these words of        
,lamartine1 a man of impulse and of     
noble instincts1 but unstable in belief1
 without energy for a fixed purpose1 and
 without real knowledge of men and      
things4 ,he was indeed the echo of a    
tendency all-powerful1 in those moments 
of excitement1 upon the ,french mind2   
and every re-awakening nationality1     
every political programme1 which1 if not
 absolutely republican1 was like that1  
at least1 of the ,italian constituent1  
would have compelled the support of the 
most hesitating government in ,france4  
,from great things great things are     
born4 ,the dwarfish conception of the   
,moderates froze up all souls1 and      
imposed an utter change of politics upon
 ,france4 ,the ,,italian ,,people was an
 ally more than sufficiently powerful to
 preserve the ,republic from all danger 
of a foreign war2 a ,kingdom of the     
,north1 in the hands of princes little  
to be relied upon1 and hostile1 by long 
tradition1 to the ,republicans of       

,france1 did but add a dangerous element
 to the league of kings4 ,the ,french   
nation became silent1 and left its      
government free to exist without any    
foreign policy1 and to leave the        
destinies of the republic to the        
impenetrable future4  ,the incidents    
described in most detail are those      
immediately preceding and following the 
fatal surrender of ,milan2 and it is    
impossible not to be struck by the      
contrast of the royal and the republican
 party1 assuming the statement to be in 
all respects correct4 ,but passing this 
ignominious period1 there ought to be   
small difference of opinion in a free   
and educated country as to where the    
right lay in the subsequent ,roman      
struggle4 ,what sensible or honest      
,protestant would not sympathize with   
the indignant eloquence of this earnest 
,italian protesting against the flimsy  
oratory of a ,jesuit ,frenchman8        
,,mazzini ,,to ,,montalembert4  ,you    
base your argument upon the void2 you   

discuss that which was1 not that which  
is4 ,the ,papacy is dead1 choked in     
blood and mire2 dead1 because it has    
betrayed its own mission of protection  
to the weak against the oppressor2 dead1
 because for three centuries and a half 
it has prostituted itself with princes2 
dead1 because in the name of egotism and
 before the palaces of all the corrupt1 
hypocritical1 and skeptical governments1
 it has for the second time crucified   
,christ2 dead1 because it has uttered   
words of faith which it did not itself  
believe2 dead1 because it has denied    
human liberty and the dignity of our    
immortal souls2 dead1 because it has    
condemned science in ,galileo1          
philosophy in ,giordano ,bruno1         
religious aspiration in ,john ,huss and 
,jerome of ,prague1 political life by an
 anathema against the rights of the     
people1 civil life by ,jesuitism1 the   
terrors of the inquisition1 and the     
example of corruption1 the life of the  
family by confession converted into a   

system of espionage1 and by division    
introduced between father and son1      
brother and brother1 husband and wife2  
dead1 for the princes1 by the treaty of 
,westphalia2 dead1 for the peoples1 with
 ,gregory ,,xi41 in #acgh1 and with the 
commencement of the schism2 dead1 for   
,italy1 since #aecj1 when ,clement      
,,vii4 and ,charles ,v41 the ,pope and  
the ,emperor1 signed an infamous        
compact1 and extinguished1 at ,florence1
 the dying liberties of ,italy1 as      
to-day you have attempted to extinguish 
her rising liberties in ,rome2 dead1    
because the people has risen1 because   
,pius ,,ix4 has fled1 because the       
multitude curses him1 because those very
 men who for fifteen years have made war
 upon the priests1 in the name of       
,voltaire1 now hypocritically defend    
them1 because you and yours defend them1
 with intolerance and by force of arms1 
and declare that the ,papacy and liberty
 cannot live side by side8 ,you ask     
,victor ,hugo to point out to you an    

idea which has been worshipped for      
eighteen centuries4 ,it is that idea    
which you have declared irreconcilable  
with the ,papacy1 and which was breathed
 into humanity by ,god2 the idea which  
has withdrawn from ,catholicism the half
 of the ,christian world1 the idea which
 has snatched from you ,lammennais and  
the flower of the intellects of ,europe1
 the idea of ,christ1 that pure1 holy1  
and sacred liberty which you invoked for
 ,poland some years back1 which ,italy  
invokes for herself to-day1 under the   
form1 and with the guarantee of         
nationality1 and which you cannot       
pretend to be good for one country and  
bad for another1 unless you believe it a
 part of religion to create a pariah    
people in the bosom of humanity4  ,very 
admirably1 too1 and nobly written1 are  
,mr4 ,mazzini's later remarks on the    
republican and anti-papal administration
 of ,rome1 and the coldness it met with 
in ,england and elsewhere4 ,we must     
admit that it is hard for a people to   

struggle1 suffer1 and bleed alone1 yet  
hold themselves in this temperate       
attitude4 ,it is not generous1 as ,mr4  
,mazzini too truly complains1 in a      
nation having the enjoyment and the     
consciousness of liberty herself1 to    
wait until the hour of victory has      
sounded for another nation before she   
stretches out a sister's hand towards   
her4   ,,what ,,the ,,republicans ,,did 
,,and ,,england ,,might ,,have ,,done4  
,i affirm that with the exception of    
,ancona1 where the triumvirate were     
obliged energetically to repress certain
 criminal acts of political vengeance1  
the republican cause was never sullied  
by the slightest excess2 that no        
censorship was assumed over the press   
before the siege1 and that no occasion  
arose for exercising it during the      
siege4 ,not a single condemnation to    
death or exile bore witness to a        
severity which it would have been our   
right to have exercised1 but which the  
perfect unanimity which reigned amongst 

all the elements of the state rendered  
useless4 ,i affirm that1 except in the  
case of three or four priests1 who had  
been guilty of firing upon our          
combatants1 and who were killed by the  
people during the last days of the      
siege1 not a single act of personal     
violence was committed by any fraction  
of the population against another1 and  
that if ever there was a city presenting
 the spectacle of a band of brothers    
pursuing a common end1 and bound        
together by the same faith1 it was ,rome
 under the republican rule4 ,the city   
was inhabited by foreigners from all    
parts of the world1 by the consular     
agents1 by many of your countrymen2 let 
any one of them arise and under the     
guarantee of his own signature deny1 if 
he can1 the truth of what ,i say4       
,terror now reigns in ,rome2 the prisons
 are choked with men who have been      
arrested and detained without trial2    
fifty priests are confined in the castle
 of ,st4 ,angelo1 whose only crime      

consists in their having lent their     
services in our hospitals2 the citizens1
 the best known for their moderation1   
are exiled2 the army is almost entirely 
dissolved1 the city disarmed1 and the   
factious sent away even to the last man2
 and yet ,france dares not consult in   
legal manner the will of the            
populations1 but re-establishes the     
papal authority by military decree4 ,i  
do not believe that since the           
dismemberment of ,poland there has been 
committed a more atrocious injustice1 a 
more gross violation of the eternal     
right which ,god has implanted in the   
peoples1 that of appreciating and       
defining for themselves their own life1 
and governing themselves in accordance  
with their own appreciation of it4 ,and 
,i cannot believe that it is well for   
you or for ,europe that such things can 
be accomplished in the eyes of the      
world1 without one nation arising out of
 its immobility to protest in the name  
of universal justice4 ,this is to       

enthrone brute force1 where1 by the     
power of reason1 ,god alone should      
reign2 it is to substitute the sword and
 poniard for law--to decree a ferocious 
war without limit of time or means      
between oppressors rendered suspicious  
by their fears1 and the oppressed       
abandoned to the instincts of reaction  
and isolation4 ,let ,europe ponder upon 
these things4 ,for if the light of human
 morality becomes but a little more     
obscured1 in that darkness there will   
arise a strife that will make those who 
come after us shudder with dread4  ,the 
balance of power in ,europe is          
destroyed4 ,it consisted formerly in the
 support given to the smaller states by 
the great powers3 now they are          
abandoned4 ,france in ,italy1 ,russia in
 ,hungary1 ,prussia in ,germany1 a      
little later perhaps in ,switzerland2   
these are now the masters of the        
continent4 ,england is thus made a      
nullity2 the celsa sedet in ,eolus in   
arce1 which ,canning delighted to quote1

 to express the moderating function     
which he wished to reserve for his      
country1 is now a meaningless phrase4   
,let not your preachers of the theory of
 material interests1 your speculators   
upon extended markets deceive           
themselves2 there is history to teach   
them that political influence and       
commercial influence are closely bound  
together4 ,political sympathies hold the
 key of the markets2 the tariff of the  
,roman ,republic will appear to you1 if 
you study it1 to be a declaration of    
sympathy towards ,england to which your 
government did not think it necessary to
 respond4         99       99       99  
99       99  ,and yet1 above the        
question of right1 above the question of
 political interest1 both of which were 
of a nature to excite early the         
attention of ,england1 there is1 as ,i  
have said1 another question being       
agitated at ,rome of a very different   
kind of importance1 and which ought to  
have aroused all those who believe in   

the vital principle of religious        
reformation--it is that of liberty of   
conscience4 ,the religious question     
which broods at the root of all         
political questions showed itself there 
great and visible in all its ,european  
importance4 ,the ,pope at ,gaeta was the
 theory of absolute infallible authority
 exiled from ,rome for ever2 and exiled 
from ,rome was to be exiled from the    
world4 ,the abolition of the temporal   
power evidently drew with it1 in the    
minds of all those who understood the   
secret of the papal authority1 the      
emancipation of men's minds from the    
spiritual authority4 ,the principle of  
liberty and of free consent1 elevated by
 the ,constituent ,assembly into a      
living active right1 tended rapidly to  
destroy the absolutist dogma which from 
,rome aims more than ever to enchain the
 universe4 ,the high aristocracy of the 
,roman ,catholic clergy well know the   
impossibility of retaining the soul in  
darkness1 in the midst of light         

inundating the intelligence of men2 for 
this reason they carried off their ,pope
 to ,gaeta2 for this reason they now    
refuse all compromise4 ,they know that  
any compromise would be fatal to them2  
that they must re-enter as conquerors1  
or not at all4 ,and in the same way that
 the aristocracy of the clergy felt this
 inseparability of the two powers1 the  
,french government1 in its present      
reactionary march1 has felt that the    
keystone of despotism is at ,rome--that 
the ruin of the spiritual authority of  
the middle ages would be the ruin of its
 own projects--and that the only method 
of securing to it a few more years of   
existence was to rebuild for it a       
temporal domination4  ,england has      
understood nothing of this4 ,she has not
 understood what there was of sublime   
and prophetic in this cry of            
emancipation1 in this protestation in   
favor of human liberty1 issuing from the
 very heart of ancient ,rome1 in the    
face of the ,vatican4 ,she has not felt 

that the struggle in ,rome was to cut   
the ,gordian knot of moral servitude    
against which she has long and vainly   
opposed her ,bible ,societies1 her      
,christian and ,evangelical ,alliances2 
and that there was being opened1 had she
 but extended a sisterly hand to the    
movement1 a mighty pathway for the human
 mind4 ,she has not understood that one 
bold word1 respect for the liberty of   
thought1 opposed to the hypocritical    
language of the ,french government1     
would have been sufficient to have      
inaugurated the era of a new religious  
policy1 and to have conquered for       
herself a decisive ascendency upon the  
continent4  ,the writer of such passages
 as these may nevertheless be of good   
heart4 ,though we may not think him     
exactly qualified to conduct to a       
successful issue practical political    
movements in the existing state of      
,italian society1 we think him qualified
 for something far higher and nobler4   
,like ,knox and ,wicliffe1 ,huss and    

,luther1 ,mr4 ,mazzini is no maker of   
ephemeral arrangements and compromises2 
but like them he is the uncompromising  
asserter of principles1 and the creator 
of a national sentiment1 that will in   
time give law to the makers of such     
arrangements4 ,looking to the yet weak  
and timid condition of public opinion in
 ,italy--looking to the narrow          
provincial views which still hamper     
general society--above all1 looking to  
the limited power of its princes and    
prelates1 and to the imbecile and       
demoralized characters of its ,pio      
,nonos and ,antonellis1 we must confess 
that we see no hope of any immediate    
political settlement1 the attainment of 
which need make it worth while for ,mr4 
,mazzini to compromise or abandon for a 
moment his most extreme political       
opinions4 ,nothing is to be accomplished
 at present2 and he is therefore more   
usefully employed in rallying his party 
by fervent reiteration of his           
principles1 and in forming a pure and   

elevated public sentiment alike by his  
precepts and his example4  ,how masterly
 is this sketch of the career of   ,,pio
 ,,nono4  ,a ,pope arose1 by his        
tendencies1 his progressive instincts   
and his love of popularity1 an exception
 to the ,popes of later times3 to whom  
,providence1 as if to teach mankind the 
absolute powerlessness of the           
institution1 opened1 in the love and in 
the illusions of the people1 the path to
 a new life4 ,so great is the           
fascination exercised by great          
memories--so great is the power of      
ancient customs--so feverish1 in these  
multitudes who are said to be agitated  
by the breath of anarchy1 is the desire 
for authority as the guide and sanction 
of their progress1 that a word of pardon
 and tolerance from the ,pope's lips    
sufficed to gather round him1 in an     
enthusiasm and intoxication of          
affection1 friends and enemies1         
believers and unbelievers1 the ignorant 
and the men of thought4 ,one long cry1  

the cry of millions ready to make       
themselves martyrs or conquerors at his 
nod1 saluted him as their father and    
benefactor1 the regenerator of the      
,catholic faith and of humanity4 ,the   
experience of three ages and the        
inexorable logic of ideas1 were at once 
forgotten2 writers1 powerful by their   
intellect and doctrines1 until then     
dreaded as adversaries1 employed        
themselves in founding around that ,one 
man systems destined to prepare for him 
the way to a splendid initiative4 ,the  
many advocates of liberty of conscience1
 weary of the spectacle of anarchy      
revealed by the ,protestant sects1      
remained in doubt4 ,the few believers in
 the future church remained silent and  
thoughtful4 ,it might be that history   
had decided too rashly1 it might be     
amongst the secrets of ,providence that 
an institution1 which had for ten       
centuries at least given life and       
movement to ,europe1 should rise again1 
reconciled with the life and movement of

 humanity1 from its own tomb4 ,the minds
 of the whole civilized world hung1     
troubled and excited1 upon the word     
which was to issue from the ,vatican4   
,and where now is ,pius ,,ix48  ,in the 
camp of the enemy3 irrevocably disjoined
 from the progressive destinies of      
humanity2 irrevocably adverse to the    
desires1 to the aspirations which       
agitate his people and the people of    
believers4 ,the experiment is complete4 
,the abyss between ,papacy and the world
 is hollowed out4 ,no earthly power can 
fill it up4  ,impelled by the impulses  
of his heart to seek for popularity and 
affection1 but drawn on by the          
all-powerful logic of the principle that
 he represents1 to the severity of      
absolute dictatorship2 seduced by the   
universal movement of men's minds1 by   
living examples in other countries1 by  
the spirit of the age1 to feel1 to      
understand the sacred words of progress1
 of people1 of free brotherhood1 but    
incapable of making himself their       

interpreter2 fearful of the             
consequences1 and trembling like one who
 feels himself insecure1 lest he should 
see the people1 raised to a new         
consciousness of its own faculties and  
of its own rights1 question the         
authority of the pontificate--,pius     
,,ix4 vacillated contemptibly between   
the two paths presented to him1 muttered
 words of emancipation1 which he neither
 knew how nor intended to make good1 and
 promises of country and independence to
 ,italy which his followers betrayed by 
conspiring with ,austria4 ,then1 struck 
with sudden terror1 he fled before the  
multitudes who cried aloud to him       
courage2 he sheltered himself under the 
protection of a ,prince whom he         
despised--the executioner of his        
subjects2 he imbibed his tendencies1 and
 in order to revenge himself for the    
quiet with which ,rome1 provoked in vain
 to a civil war1 was organizing a new   
government1 he solicited foreign aid2   
and he who had1 from a horror of        

bloodshed1 shortly before endeavored to 
withdraw ,roman assistance from the     
,lombard struggle1 agreed that ,french1 
,austrian1 ,neapolitan1 and ,spanish    
bayonets should rebuild his throne4 ,he 
now wanders amidst the fallacies of     
secret protocols1 the servant of his    
protectors1 the servant of all except of
 duty and of the wish of those who hoped
 in him1 turning to the frontiers of    
,rome and yet not expecting to re-enter 
there1 and as if kept back by the       
phantoms of the slain4 ,the ,louis      
,,xvi4 of ,papacy1 he has destroyed it  
for ever4 ,the cannon ball of his allies
 discharged against the ,vatican1 gave  
the last blow to the institution4       
,whilst these things were happening1 a  
,prince was pursuing in the north of our
 peninsula a similar course1 accompanied
 by the same hopes1 by the same         
illusions and delusions of the people4  
,he was saluted by the title of the     
,sword of ,italy4 ,the choicest spirits 
from all parts pointed out to him       

,austria and the ,alps1 and suspended1  
in order to make the last trial of      
monarchy1 the propagandism of their most
 cherished ideas4 ,he was preceded by   
the encouragement of all ,europe1 and   
followed by a numerous and valiant army4
 ,where died ,charles ,albert8  ,thus   
has ,providence shown to our people1    
desirous of the right1 but lukewarm in  
faith and too credulous in the illusions
 of the old world1 the powerlessness of 
monarchy to insure the safety of ,italy1
 and the irreconcilability of papacy    
with the free progress of humanity4 ,the
 dualism of the middle ages is          
henceforward a mere form without life or
 soul2 the ,guelph and ,ghibelline      
insignia are now those of the tomb4     
,neither ,pope1 nor ,king6 ,god and the 
people only shall henceforth disclose to
 us the regions of the future4          
99       99       99       99       99  
,future times--nay the present will do  
ample justice to ,mazzini1 as well as to
 ,pio ,nono4 ,in the first will be      

frankly recognized one of those iron men
 who are able to beard tyranny and      
profligacy even while they stand alone1 
the apostles of reformation1 the        
originators and heralds of after change4
 ,in the other--but the words just      
quoted anticipate as it seems to us1 and
 in no ungenerous spirit1 the verdict   
and language of history4  ,,footnotes3  
#bg ,royalty and ,republicanism in      
,italy2 or ,notes and ,documents        
relating to the ,lombard ,insurrection1 
and to the ,royal ,war of #ahdh4 ,by    
,joseph ,mazzini4 ,charles ,gilpin4     
,from the ,keepsake for #ahea4  ,,the   
,,mother',s ,,last ,,song4  ,,by ,,barry
 ,,cornwall4       ,sleep6--the ghostly 
winds are blowing2     ,no moon's       
abroad2 no star is glowing2     ,the    
river is deep1 and the tide is flowing  
,to the land where you and ,i are going6
          ,we are going afar1           
,beyond moon or star1          ,to the  
land where the sinless angels are6      
,i lost my heart to your heartless sire2

     7',twas melted away by his looks of
 fire27     ,forgot my ,god1 and my     
father's ire1     ,all for the sake of a
 man's desire3--          ,but now we'll
 go          ,where the waters flow1    
,and make us a bed where none shall     
know4      ,the world is cruel2 the     
world's untrue2     ,our foes are many2 
our friends are few2     ,no work1 no   
bread1 however we sue6     ,what is     
there left for us to do--          ,but 
fly--fly1          ,from the cruel sky1 
,and hide in the deepest deeps--and die6
     ,from the ,ladies' ,companion4  ,a 
,,drive ,,about ,,my ,,neighborhood ,,in
 #ahej4  ,,by ,,mary ,,russel ,,mitford4
   ,if there be one thing more than     
another in the nice balance of tastes   
and prejudices 7for ,i do not speak here
 of principles7 which incline us now to 
the elegance of ,charles1 now to the    
strength of ,cromwell1--which disgust us
 alternately with the license of the    
,cavaliers and the fanaticism of the    
,roundheads2 it would be the melancholy 

ruin of cast-down castles and plundered 
shrines1 that meet our eyes all over our
 fair land1 and nowhere in greater      
profusion than in this district1 lying  
as it does in the very midst of some of 
the most celebrated battles of the      
,civil ,wars4 ,to say nothing of the    
siege of ,reading1 which more even than 
the vandalism of the ,reformation       
completed the destruction of that noble 
abbey1 the third in rank and size in    
,england1 with its magnificent church1  
its cloisters1 and its halls1 covering  
thirty acres of buildings1--and such    
buildings6 within the outer courts2--to 
say nothing of that most reckless       
barbarity just at our door--we in our   
little village of ,aberleigh lie between
 ,basting-,house to the south1 whose    
desperately defended walls offer little 
more now than a mere site1--and         
,donnington to the west1 where the      
ruined ,gatehouse upon the hill alone   
remains of that strong fortress1 which  
overlooked the well-contested field of  

,newbury1--and ,chalgrove to the north1 
where the reaper1 as he binds his sheaf1
 still pauses to tell you the very place
 where ,hampden fell2 every spot has a  
history6 ,look at a wooden spire1 and   
your companion shakes his head1 and says
 that it has been so ever since the     
,cavaliers were blown up in the church  
tower6 ,ask the history of a crumbling  
wall1 and the answer is pretty sure to  
be1 ,cromwell6 ,that his ,highness the  
,lord ,protector did leave what an      
accomplished friend of mine calls his   
peculiar impressions upon a great many  
places in our neighborhood is pretty    
certain2 on so many1 that there is no   
actual or authentic catalogue of all2   
and in some cases there is nothing but  
general tradition1 and the nature of the
 impressions in question1 to vouch for  
the fact of their destruction at that   
period4  ,amongst these1 one of the     
edifices that must have been best worth 
preserving1 and is even now most        
interesting to see1 is the grand old    

castellated mansion1 which in the reign 
of ,elizabeth belonged to one of her    
favorite courtiers1 and was known as    
,master ,comptroller's ,house1 at       
,grays4  ,the very road to it is        
singularly interesting4 ,passing through
 the town1 which increases in growth    
every day1 until one wonders when and   
where it will stop1 and looking with    
ever fresh admiration at the beautiful  
lacework window of the old ,friary1     
which ,i long to see preserved in the   
fitliest manner1 by forming again the   
chief ornament of a church1 and then    
driving under the arch of the ,great    
,western ,railway1 and feeling the      
strange vibration of some monster train 
passing over our heads1--a proceeding   
which never fails to make my pony show  
off his choicest airs and graces1       
pricking up his pretty ears1 tossing his
 slender head1 dancing upon four feet1  
and sometimes rearing upon two1--we     
arrive at the long1 low1 picturesque old
 bridge1 the oldest of all the bridges  

that cross the ,thames1 so narrow that  
no two vehicles can pass at once1 and   
that over every pier triangular spaces  
have been devised for the safety of foot
 passengers4 ,on the centre arch is a   
fisherman's hut1 occupying the place    
once filled by a friar's cell1 and      
covering a still existing chapel1       
dedicated to the ,virgin ,mary1 now put 
to secular uses--a dairy or a cellar4   
,a little way down the river is one of  
the beautiful islands of the ,thames1   
now a smooth and verdant meadow1 edged  
round with old willow pollards calmly   
reflected in the bright1 clear waters1  
but giving back in the twelfth century a
 far different scene4 ,here was fought a
 wager of battle between ,robert de     
,montford1 appellant1 and ,henry de     
,essex1 hereditary ,standard-bearer of  
the kings of ,england1 defendant1 by    
command1 and in the presence of ,henry  
the ,second4 ,the story is told very    
minutely and graphically by ,stowe4     
,robert de ,montford at length struck   

down his adversary1 who fell1 says the  
old historian1 after receiving many     
wounds2 and the ,king1 at the request of
 several noblemen1 his relations1 gave  
permission to the monks to inter the    
body1 commanding that no further        
violence should be offered to it4 ,the  
monks took up the vanquished knight1 and
 carried him into the abbey1 where he   
revived4 ,when he recovered from his    
wounds1 he was received into the        
community1 and assumed the habit of the 
order1 his lands being forfeited to the 
,king4 ,i have always thought that this 
story would afford excellent scope to   
some great novelist1 who might give a   
fair and accurate picture of monastic   
life1 and1 indeed1 of the monastic      
orders1 as landlords1 neighbors1        
teachers1 priests1 without any mixture  
of controversial theology1 or inventing 
any predecessors of ,luther or          
,wicliffe4 ,how we should have liked to 
have heard all about ,the ,monastery1   
about the ,abbot and ,father ,eustace1  

untroubled by ,henry ,warden or ,john   
,knox6 ,from the moment that they       
appear1 our comfort in the book         
vanishes1 just as completely as that of 
the good easy ,abbot ,boniface himself4 
,there we are in the middle of vexed    
questions1 with the beautiful pile of   
,melrose threatening every moment to    
fall about our ears6  ,our business now1
 however1 is to get over the bridge1    
which after the excitement of one       
dispute with a pugnacious carrier1 and  
another with a saucy groom1 whose       
caracoling horse had well nigh leaped   
over the parapets on either side2 after 
some backing of other carriages1 and    
some danger of being forced back to our 
own1 we at last achieve1 and enter      
unscathed1 the pleasant village of      
,caversham4  ,to the left1 through a    
highly ornamented lodge1 lies the road  
to the ancient seat of the ,blounts1    
another house made famous by ,pope1     
where the fair ladies of his love1 the  
sisters ,martha and ,teresa1 lived and  

died4 ,a fine old place it is2 and a    
picturesque road leads to it1 winding   
through a tract called the ,warren1     
between the high chalk-cliffs1 clothed  
with trees of all varieties1 that for so
 many miles fence in the northern side  
of the ,thames1 and the lordly river    
itself1 now concealed by tall elms1 now 
open and shining in the full light of   
the summer sun4 ,there is not such a    
flower bank in ,oxfordshire as          
,caversham ,warren4  ,our way1 however1 
leads straight on4 ,a few miles further1
 and a turn to the right conducts us to 
one of the grand old village churches1  
which give so much of character to      
,english landscape4 ,a large and        
beautiful pile it is4 ,the tower half   
clothed with ivy1 standing with its     
charming vicarage and its pretty        
vicarage-garden on a high eminence1     
overhanging one of the finest bends of  
the great river4 ,a woody lane leads    
from the church to the bottom of the    
chalk-cliff1 one side of which stands   

out from the road below1 like a         
promontory1 surmounted by the laurel    
hedges and flowery arbors of the        
vicarage-garden1 and crested by a noble 
cedar of ,lebanon4 ,this is ,shiplake   
church1 famed far and near for its      
magnificent oak carving1 and the rich   
painted glass of its windows1 collected1
 long before such adornments were       
fashionable1 by the fine taste of the   
late vicar1 and therefore filled with   
the very choicest specimens of mediaeval
 art1 chiefly obtained from the remains 
of the celebrated ,abbey of ,st4        
,bertin1 near ,st4 ,omers1 sacked during
 the first ,french ,revolution4 ,in this
 church ,alfred ,tennyson was married4  
,blessings be upon him6 ,i never saw the
 great ,poet in my life1 but thousands  
who never may have seen him either1 but 
who owe to his poetry the purest and    
richest intellectual enjoyment1 will    
echo and re-echo the benison4  ,a little
 way farther1 and a turn to the left    
leads to another spot consecrated by    

genius1--,woodcot1 where ,sir ,edward   
,bulwer ,lytton passed the earlier years
 of his married life1 and wrote several 
of his most powerful novels4 ,i have    
always thought that the scenery of ,paul
 ,clifford caught some of its tone from 
that wild and beautiful country1 for    
wild and beautiful it is4 ,the terrace  
in the grounds commands a most extensive
 prospect2 and beneath a clump of trees 
on the common behind the house1 is the  
only spot where on a clear day ,windsor 
may be seen on one side1 and ,oxford on 
the other1--looking almost like the     
domes1 and towers1 and pinnacles that   
sometimes appear in the clouds--a fairy 
picture that the next breeze may waft   
away6 ,this beautiful residence stands  
so high1 that one of its former         
possessors1 ,admiral ,fraser            
7grandfather to that dear friend of mine
 who is the present owner71 could       
discover ,woodcot ,clump from the mast  
of his own ship at ,spithead1 a distance
 of sixty miles4  ,wyfold's ,court1     

another pretty place a little farther   
on1 which also belonged once to a most  
dear friend1 possesses the finest       
,wych-elms in ,england4 ,artists come   
from far and near to paint these stately
 trees1 whose down-dropping branches and
 magnificent height are at once so      
graceful and so rich4 ,they are said    
always to indicate ecclesiastical       
possession1 but no trace of such        
dependency is to be found in the        
title-deeds1 or in the tenure by which  
in feudal times the lands were          
held1--that of presenting a rose to the 
,king1 should he pass by a certain road 
on a ,may-day4  ,and now we approach    
,rotherfield ,grays1--its bowery lanes1 
its wild rugged commons1 and its vast   
beech woods1 from the edge of which     
projects every here and there a huge    
cherry-tree1 looking1 in the blossoming 
springtime1 as if carved in ivory1 so   
exquisite is the whiteness1 casting upon
 the ferny-turf underneath showers of   
snowy petals that blanch the very       

ground1 and diffusing around an         
almond-like odor1 that mingles with the 
springing thyme and the flowering gorse1
 and loads the very air with heavy balm4
  ,exquisite is the pleasantness of     
these beech woods1 where the light is   
green from the silky verdure of the     
young leaves1 and where the mossy       
wood-paths are embroidered with         
thousands of flowers1 from the earliest 
violet and primrose1 the wood-anemone1  
the wood-sorrel1 the daffodil1 and the  
wild hyacinth of spring1 to the         
wood-vetch1 the woodroof1 the           
campanulas1 and the orchises of         
summer2--for all the ,english orchises  
are here3 that which so curiously       
imitates the dead oak leaf1 that again  
which imitates the human figure2 the    
commonest but most pretty bee orchis1   
and the parallel ones which are called  
after the spider1 the frog1 and the fly4
 ,strange freak of nature this1 in a    
lower order of creation1 to mimic her   
own handyworks in a higher6--to mimic   

even our human mimicry6--for that which 
is called the man orchis is most like   
the imitation of a human figure that a  
child might cut from colored paper4     
,strange1 strange mimicry6 but full of  
variety1 full of beauty1 full of odor4  
,of all the fragrant blossoms that haunt
 the woods1 ,i know none so exquisite as
 that night-scented orchis which is     
called indifferently1 the butterfly or  
the lily of the valley4 ,another glory  
of these woods1 an autumnal glory1 is   
the whole fungus tribe1 various and     
innumerable as the mosses2 from the     
sober drab-colored fungi1 spotted with  
white1 which so much resemble a sea-egg1
 to those whose deep and gorgeous hues  
would shame the tinting of an ,indian   
shell4 ,truffles1 too1 are found beneath
 the earth2 and above it are deposited  
huge masses of the strange compound     
called in modern geological phrase      
,agglomerate4 ,flint and coral1 and     
gravel1 and attrited pebbles enter into 
the combination of this extraordinary   

natural conglomeration1 which no steel1 
however hardened1 can separate1 and     
which seems to have been imitated very  
successfully by the old builders in     
their cements and the substances used in
 the filling up of their grandest       
structures1 as may be seen in the layers
 which unite the enormous slabs of      
granite in the ,roman walls at          
,silchester1 as well as in the works of 
the old monkish architects at ,reading  
,abbey4 ,another beauty of this country 
is to be found in the fields1--now of   
the deep-red clover1 with its shining   
crimson tops1 now of the gay and        
brilliant saintfoin 7the holy hay71 the 
bright pink of whose flowery spikes     
gives to the ground the look of a bed of
 roses4  ,and now we reach the gate that
 admits us down a steep descent to the  
,rectory-house1 a large substantial     
mansion1 covered with ,banksia roses1   
and finely placed upon a natural        
terrace1--a fertile valley below1 and   
its own woods and orchard-trees above4  

,my friend the rector1 raciest of men1  
is an ,oxford divine of the old school2 
a ripe scholar2 one who has travelled   
wide and far1 and is learned in the     
tongues1 the manners1 and the literature
 of many nations2 but who is himself    
,english to the backbone in person1     
thought1 and feeling4 ,orthodox is he1  
no doubt4 ,nowhere are church and       
schools1 and parish visitings1 better   
cared for2 but he has a knack of        
attending also to the creature comforts 
of all about him1 of calling beef and   
blankets in aid of his precepts1 which  
has a wonderful effect in promoting     
their efficacy4 ,mansion and man are    
large alike1 and alike overflowing with 
hospitality and kindliness4 ,his        
original and poignant conversation is so
 joyous and good-humored1 the making    
every body happy is so evidently his    
predominant taste1 that the pungency    
only adds to the flavor of his talk1 and
 never casts a moment's shade over its  
sunny heartiness4  ,right opposite the  

,rectory terrace1 framed like a picture 
by the rarest and stateliest trees1     
stands the object of my pilgrimage1     
,grays' ,court1 a comparatively modern  
house1 erected amongst the remains of a 
vast old castellated mansion1 belonging 
first to the noble family of ,gray1 who 
gave their name not merely to the manor1
 but to the district2 then to the house 
of ,knollys2 and latterly to the        
,stapletons1 two venerable ladies of    
that name being its present possessors4 
,all my life ,i had heard of ,grays'    
,court2 of the rich yet wild country in 
which it is placed2 of the park so      
finely undulated1 and so profusely      
covered by magnificent timber2 of the   
huge old towers which seem to guard and 
sentinel the present house2 of the far  
extended walls1 whose foundations may   
yet be traced1 in dry seasons1 among the
 turf of the lawn2 of the traditions    
which assign the demolition of those    
ancient walls to the wars of the        
,commonwealth2 and of the strange       

absence of all documentary evidence upon
 the subject4  ,another cause for my    
strong desire to see this interesting   
place1 is to be found in its association
 with one of those historical personages
 in whom ,i have always taken the       
warmest interest4 ,lord ,essex 7whose   
mother was the famous ,lettice ,knollys1
 who had had for her second husband     
another of ,queen ,elizabeth's          
favorites1 ,robert ,dudley1 ,earl of    
,leicester71 when confined in ,london1 a
 prey to the tyranny of ,elizabeth1     
petitioned1 in one of those eloquent    
letters to the ,virgin ,queen which will
 always remain amongst the earliest and 
finest specimens of ,english prose1 to  
be allowed to repair1 for the benefit of
 his health1 to ,master ,comptroller's  
house at ,grays4 ,ah6 we can fancy1 when
 looking over this lovely valley1 with  
its woods1 its verdure1 its sweep of    
hills1 its feeling of the near river1 we
 can well fancy how the poet-heart of   
the great ,earl must have longed to     

leave the trial1 the turmoil1 the       
jangling1 the treachery1 the weary      
fears1 the bitter humiliations of his   
,london captivity1 and to taste once    
more the sweet air1 the pleasant sights1
 the calmness and the quiet of the      
country4 ,hope and comfort must have    
come with the thought4 ,one of the      
prettiest pictures that ,i know1 is an  
extract from a contemporary letter1 in  
the first volume of ,mr4 ,craik's most  
interesting book1 the ,romance of the   
,peerage1 telling of the ,earl and      
,countess1 during one of the daily      
visits that she was at one time         
permitted to pay him when he was a      
prisoner in ,essex ,house1 walking      
together in the garden1 now he1 now she1
 reading one to the other4 ,the whole   
taste and feeling of the man1 the daily 
habit of his life1 is shown in this     
little circumstance4 ,and this is the   
brave soldier who1 when examined before 
the ,privy ,council1 a council composed 
of open enemies and treacherous friends1

 had been kept nearly all the day       
kneeling at the bottom of the table4    
,tyranny drove him into madness1 and    
then exacted the full penalty of the    
wild acts which that madness prompted4  
,but ,essex was a man in advance of his 
age2 the companion as well as the patron
 of poets2 the protector of papist and  
puritan2 the fearless asserter of       
liberty of conscience6 ,he deserved a   
truer friend than ,bacon1 a more        
merciful judge than ,elizabeth4  ,to the
 house of ,knollys belongs another      
interesting association1 that strangest 
of genealogical romances1 the great case
 of the ,banbury peerage4 ,the cause was
 decided 7if decided it can be called   
even now7 by evidence found in the      
parish register of ,rotherfield ,grays4 
,the place has yet another attraction in
 its difficulty of access2 the excellent
 ladies of the ,court admitting few     
beyond their own immediate connections  
and nearest friends4 ,one class1 to be  
sure1 finds its way there as if by      

instinct--the poor1 who1 as the birds of
 the air detect the grain under the     
surface in the newly sown ground1 are   
sure to find out the soil where charity 
lies germinating4 ,few excepting these  
constant visitors are admitted4 ,but1   
besides the powerful introduction of our
 mutual friend the rector1 a nephew of  
theirs1 and his most sweet and          
interesting wife1 had for some time     
inhabited the house which had been the  
home of my own youth1 so that my name   
was not strange to them2 and they had   
the kindness to allow me to walk over   
their beautiful grounds and gardens1 to 
see their charming ,swiss dairy1 with   
its marbles and its china1 and1 above   
all1 to satisfy my curiosity by looking 
over the towers which still remain of   
the old castle1--piles whose prodigious 
thickness of wall and distance from each
 other give token of the immense extent 
and importance of the place4 ,it is said
 to have been built round two courts4   
,alnwick and ,windsor rose to my        

thoughts as ,i contemplated these       
gigantic remains1 and calculated the    
space that the original edifice must    
have covered4 ,one of these towers is   
still occupied by the well of the       
castle1 a well three hundred feet deep1 
which supplies the family with water4   
,it will give some idea of the scale of 
the old mansion1 to say that the wheel  
by which the water is raised1 is        
twenty-five feet in diameter4 ,two      
donkeys are employed in the operation4  
,one donkey suffices for the parallel   
but much smaller well at ,carisbrook1   
where the animal is so accustomed to be 
put in for the mere purpose of          
exhibiting the way in which the water is
 raised to the visitors who go to look  
at the poor king's last prison1 that he 
just makes the one turn necessary to    
show the working of the machine1 and    
then stops of his own accord4 ,the      
donkeys at ,grays1 kept for use and not 
for show1 have not had a similar        
opportunity of displaying their         

sagacity4  ,one cannot look at the place
 without a feeling of adaptedness4 ,it  
is the very spot for a stronghold of the
 ,cavaliers3 a spot where ,lovelace and 
,montrose might each have fought and    
each have sung1 defending it to the last
 loaf of bread and the last charge of   
powder1 and yielding at last to the     
irresistible force of ,cromwell's       
cannonade4     ,from the ,keepsake for  
#ahea4  ,,stanzas4       ,come not1 when
 ,i am dead1       ,to drop thy foolish 
tears upon my grave1     ,to trample    
round my fallen head1       ,and vex the
 unhappy dust thou wouldst not save4    
,there let the wind sweep1 and the      
plover cry2           ,but go thou by4  
,child1 if it were thine error or thy   
crime       ,i care no longer1 being all
 unblest2     ,wed whom thou wilt2 but  
,i am sick of time1       ,and ,i desire
 to rest4     ,pass on1 weak heart1 and 
leave me where ,i lie4           ,go    
by--go by6      ,,alfred ,,tennyson4    
,from ,blackwood's ,magazine4  ,,my     

,,novel3  ,,or1 ,,varieties ,,in        
,,english ,,life4  ,,by ,,pisistratus   
,,caxton4  ,continued from page #abj4   
,,book ,,ii4--,,chapter ,,vii4  ,in     
spite of all his ,machiavellian wisdom1 
,dr4 ,riccabocca had been foiled in his 
attempt to seduce ,leonard ,fairfield   
into his service1 even though he        
succeeded in partially winning over the 
widow to his views4 ,for to her he      
represented the worldly advantages of   
the thing4 ,lenny would learn to be fit 
for more than a day-laborer2 he would   
learn gardening1 in all its             
branches--rise some day to be a head    
gardener4 ,and1 said ,riccabocca1 ,i    
will take care of his book learning1 and
 teach him whatever he has a head for4  
,he has a head for every thing1 said the
 widow4  ,then1 said the wise man1 every
 thing shall go into it4  ,the widow was
 certainly dazzled2 for1 as we have     
seen1 she highly prized scholarly       
distinction1 and she knew that the      
parson looked upon ,riccabocca as a     

wondrous learned man4 ,but still1       
,riccabocca was said to be a ,papist1   
and suspected to be a conjuror4 ,her    
scruples on both these points1 the      
,italian1 who was an adept in the art of
 talking over the fair sex1 would no    
doubt have dissipated1 if there had been
 any use in it2 but ,lenny put a dead   
stop to all negotiations4 ,he had taken 
a mortal dislike to ,riccabocca2 he was 
very much frightened by him--and the    
spectacles1 the pipe1 the cloak1 the    
long hair1 and the red umbrella2 and    
said so sturdily1 in reply to every     
overture1 ,please1 sir1 ,i'd rather not2
 ,i'd rather stay along with            
mother--that ,riccabocca was forced to  
suspend all further experiments in his  
,machiavellian diplomacy4 ,he was not at
 all cast down1 however1 by his first   
failure2 on the contrary1 he was one of 
those men whom opposition stimulates4   
,and what before had been but a         
suggestion of prudence1 became an object
 of desire4 ,plenty of other lads might 

no doubt be had1 on as reasonable terms 
as ,lenny ,fairfield2 but the moment    
,lenny presumed to baffle the ,italian's
 designs upon him1 the special          
acquisition of ,lenny became of         
paramount importance in the eyes of     
,signor ,riccabocca4  ,jackeymo1        
however1 lost all his interest in the   
traps1 snares1 and gins which his master
 proposed to lay for ,leonard           
,fairfield1 in the more immediate       
surprise that awaited him on learning   
that ,dr4 ,riccabocca had accepted an   
invitation to pass a few days at the    
,hall4  ,there will be no one there but 
the family1 said ,riccabocca4 ,poor     
,giacomo1 a little chat in the servants'
 hall will do you good3 and the squire's
 beef is more nourishing1 after all1    
than the sticklebacks and minnows4 ,it  
will lengthen your life4  ,the ,padrone 
jests1 said ,jackeymo1 statelily1 as if 
any one could starve in his service4    
,um1 said ,riccabocca4 ,at least1       
faithful friend1 you have tried that    

experiment as far as human nature will  
permit2 and he extended his hand to his 
fellow-exile with that familiarity which
 exists between servant and master in   
the usages of the continent4 ,jackeymo  
bent low1 and a tear fell upon the hand 
he kissed4  ,cospetto6 said ,dr4        
,riccabocca1 a thousand mock pearls do  
not make up the cost of a single true   
one6 ,the tears of women1 we know their 
worth2 but the tear of an honest        
man--fie1 ,giacomo6--at least ,i can    
never repay you this6 ,go and see to our
 wardrobe4  ,so far as his master's     
wardrobe was concerned1 that order was  
pleasing to ,jackeymo2 for the ,doctor  
had in his drawers suits which ,jackeymo
 pronounced to be as good as new1 though
 many a long year had passed since they 
left the tailor's hands4 ,but when      
,jackeymo came to examine the state of  
his own clothing department1 his face   
grew considerably longer4 ,it was not   
that he was without other clothes than  
those on his back--quantity was there1  

but the quality6 ,mournfully he gazed on
 two suits1 complete in the three       
separate members of which man's raiments
 are composed3 the one suit extended at 
length upon his bed1 like a veteran     
stretched by pious hands after death2   
the other brought piecemeal to the      
invidious light--the torso placed upon a
 chair1 the limbs dangling down from    
,jackeymo's melancholy arm4 ,no bodies  
long exposed at the ,morgue could evince
 less sign of resuscitation than those  
respectable defuncts4 ,for1 indeed1     
,jackeymo had been less thrifty of his  
apparel--more profusus sui--than his    
master4 ,in the earliest days of their  
exile1 he preserved the decorous habit  
of dressing for dinner--it was a respect
 due to the ,padrone--and that habit had
 lasted till the two habits on which it 
necessarily depended had evinced the    
first symptoms of decay2 then the       
evening clothes had been taken into     
morning wear1 in which hard service they
 had breathed their last4  ,the ,doctor1

 notwithstanding his general            
philosophical abstraction from such     
household details1 had more than once   
said1 rather in pity to ,jackeymo1 than 
with an eye to that respectability which
 the costume of the servant reflects on 
the dignity of the master1 ,giacomo1    
thou wantest clothes2 fit thyself out of
 mine6  ,and ,jackeymo had bowed his    
gratitude1 as if the donation had been  
accepted2 but the fact was1 that that   
same fitting out was easier said than   
done4 ,for though--thanks to an         
existence mainly upon sticklebacks and  
minnows--both ,jackeymo and ,riccabocca 
at that state which the longevity of    
misers proves to be most healthful to   
the human frame1 viz41 skin and         
bone--yet1 the bones contained in the   
skin of ,riccabocca all took            
longitudinal directions2 while those in 
the skin of ,jackeymo spread out        
latitudinally4 ,and you might as well   
have made the bark of a ,lombardy poplar
 serve for the trunk of some dwarfed and

 pollarded oak1 in whose hollow the     
,babes of the ,wood could have slept at 
their ease1 as have fitted out ,jackeymo
 from the garb of ,riccabocca4          
,moreover1 if the skill of the tailor   
could have accomplished that            
undertaking1 the faithful ,jackeymo     
would never have had the heart to avail 
himself of the generosity of his master4
 ,he had a sort of religious sentiment  
too1 about those vestments of the       
,padrone4 ,the ancients1 we know1 when  
escaping from shipwreck1 suspended in   
the votive temple the garments in which 
they had struggled through the wave4    
,jackeymo looked on those relics of the 
past with a kindred superstition4 ,this 
coat the ,padrone wore on such an       
occasion4 ,i remember the very evening  
the ,padrone last put on those          
pantaloons6 ,and coat and pantaloons    
were tenderly dusted1 and carefully     
restored to their sacred rest4  ,but    
now1 after all1 what was to be done8    
,jackeymo was much too proud to exhibit 

his person1 to the eyes of the ,squire's
 butler1 in habiliments discreditable to
 himself and the ,padrone4 ,in the midst
 of his perplexity the bell rang1 and he
 went down into the parlor4  ,riccabocca
 was standing on the hearth1 under his  
symbolical representation of the        
,patriae ,exul4  ,giacomo1 quoth he1 ,i 
have been thinking that thou hast never 
done what ,i told thee1 and fitted      
thyself out from my superfluities4 ,but 
we are going now into the great world2  
visiting once begun1 ,heaven knows where
 it may stop6 ,go to the nearest town   
and get thyself clothes4 ,things are    
dear in ,england4 ,will this suffice8   
,and ,riccabocca extended a ,l#e note4  
,jackeymo1 we have seen1 was more       
familiar with his master than we formal 
,english permit our domestics to be with
 us4 ,but in his familiarity he was     
usually respectful4 ,this time1 however1
 respect deserted him4  ,the ,padrone is
 mad6 he exclaimed2 he would fling away 
his whole fortune if ,i would let him4  

,five pounds ,english1 or a hundred and 
twenty-six pounds ,milanese6#bh ,santa  
,maria6 ,unnatural ,father6 ,and what is
 to become of the poor ,signorina8 ,is  
this the way you are to marry her in the
 foreign land8  ,giacomo1 said          
,riccabocca1 bowing his head to the     
storm1 the ,signorina to-morrow2 to-day1
 the honor of the house4 ,thy           
small-clothes1 ,giacomo4 ,miserable man1
 thy small-clothes6  ,it is just1 said  
,jackeymo1 recovering himself1 and with 
humility2 and the ,padrone does right to
 blame me1 but not in so cruel a way4   
,it is just--the ,padrone lodges and    
boards me1 and gives me handsome wages1 
and he has a right to expect that ,i    
should not go in this figure4  ,for the 
board and the lodgment1 good1 said      
,riccabocca4 ,for the handsome wages1   
they are the visions of thy fancy6      
,they are no such thing1 said ,jackeymo1
 they are only in arrear4 ,as if the    
,padrone could not pay them some day or 
other--as if ,i was demeaning myself by 

serving a master who did not intend to  
pay his servants6 ,and can't ,i wait8   
,have ,i not my savings1 too8 ,but be   
cheered1 be cheered2 you shall be       
contented with me4 ,i have two beautiful
 suits still4 ,i was arranging them when
 you rang for me4 ,you shall see1 you   
shall see4  ,and ,jackeymo hurried from 
the room1 hurried back into his own     
chamber1 unlocked a little trunk which  
he kept at his bed head1 tossed out a   
variety of small articles1 and from the 
deepest depth extracted a leathern      
purse4 ,he emptied the contents on the  
bed4 ,they were chiefly ,italian coins1 
some five-franc pieces1 a silver        
medallion inclosing a little image of   
his patron saint--,san ,giacomo--one    
solid ,english guinea1 and two or three 
pounds' worth in ,english silver4       
,jackeymo put back the foreign coins1   
saying prudently1 ,one will lose on them
 here2 he seized the ,english coins and 
counted them out4 ,but are you enough1  
you rascals8 quoth he angrily1 giving   

them a good shake4 ,his eye caught sight
 of the medallion--he paused2 and after 
eyeing the tiny representation of the   
saint with great deliberation1 he added1
 in a sentence which he must have picked
 up from the proverbial aphorisms of his
 master3  ,what's the difference between
 the enemy who does not hurt me1 and the
 friend who does not serve me8          
,monsignore ,san ,giacomo1 my patron    
saint1 you are of very little use to me 
in the leathern bag4 ,but if you help me
 to get into a new pair of small-clothes
 on this important occasion1 you will be
 a friend indeed4 ,alla bisogna1        
,monsignore4 ,then1 gravely kissing the 
medallion1 he thrust it into one pocket1
 the coins into the other1 made up a    
bundle of the two defunct suits1 and1   
muttering to himself1 ,beast1 miser that
 ,i am1 to disgrace the ,padrone1 with  
all these savings in his service6 ran   
down stairs into his pantry1 caught up  
his hat and stick1 and in a few moments 
more was seen trudging off to the       

neighboring town of ,l----4  ,apparently
 the poor ,italian succeeded1 for he    
came back that evening in time to       
prepare the thin gruel which made his   
master's supper1 with a suit of black--a
 little threadbare1 but still highly    
respectable--two shirt fronts1 and two  
white cravats4 ,but1 out of all this    
finery1 ,jackeymo held the small-clothes
 in especial veneration2 for as they had
 cost exactly what the medallion had    
sold for1 so it seemed to him that ,san 
,giacomo had heard his prayer in that   
quarter to which he had more exclusively
 directed the saint's attention4 ,the   
other habiliments came to him in the    
merely human process of sale and barter2
 the small-clothes were the personal    
gratuity of ,san ,giacomo6   ,,chapter  
,,viii4  ,life has been subjected to    
many ingenious comparisons3 and if we do
 not understand it any better1 it is not
 for want of what is called reasoning by
 illustration4 ,amongst other           
resemblances1 there are moments when1 to

 a quiet contemplator1 it suggests the  
image of one of those rotatory          
entertainments commonly seen in fairs1  
and known by the name of whirligigs or  
roundabouts1 in which each participator 
of the pastime1 seated on his hobby1 is 
always apparently in the act of pursuing
 some one before him1 while he is       
pursued by some one behind4 ,man1 and   
woman too1 are naturally animals of     
chase2 the greatest still finds         
something to follow1 and there is no one
 too humble not to be an object of prey 
to another4 ,thus1 confining our view to
 the village of ,hazeldean1 we behold in
 this whirligig ,dr4 ,riccabocca        
spurring his hobby after ,lenny         
,fairfield2 and ,miss ,jemima1 on her   
decorous side-saddle1 whipping after    
,dr4 ,riccabocca4 ,why1 with so long and
 intimate a conviction of the villany of
 our sex1 ,miss ,jemima should resolve  
upon giving the male animal one more    
chance of redeeming itself in her eyes1 
,i leave to the explanation of those    

gentlemen who profess to find their only
 books in woman's looks4 ,perhaps it    
might be from the over-tenderness and   
clemency of ,miss ,jemima's nature2     
perhaps it might be that1 as yet1 she   
had only experienced the villany of man 
born and reared in those cold northern  
climates2 and in the land of ,petrarch  
and ,romeo1 of the citron and myrtle1   
there was reason to expect that the     
native monster would be more amenable to
 gentle influences1 less obstinately    
hardened in his iniquities4 ,without    
entering farther into these hypotheses1 
it is sufficient to say1 that on ,signor
 ,riccabocca's appearance in the        
drawing-room1 at ,hazeldean1 ,miss      
,jemima felt more than ever rejoiced    
that she had relaxed in his favor her   
general hostility to man4 ,in truth1    
though ,frank saw something quizzical in
 the old-fashioned and outlandish cut of
 the ,italian's sober dress2 in his long
 hair1 and the chapeau bras1 over which 
he bowed so gracefully1 and then pressed

 it1 as if to his heart1 before tucking 
it under his arm1 after the fashion in  
which the gizzard reposes under the wing
 of a roasted pullet2 yet it was        
impossible that even ,frank could deny  
to ,riccabocca that praise which is due 
to the air and manner of an unmistakable
 gentleman4 ,and certainly as1 after    
dinner1 conversation grew more familiar1
 and the ,parson and ,mrs4 ,dale1 who   
had been invited to meet their friend1  
did their best to draw him out1 his     
talk1 though sometimes a little too wise
 for his listeners1 became eminently    
animated and agreeable4 ,it was the     
conversation of a man who1 besides the  
knowledge which is acquired from books  
and life1 had studied the art which     
becomes a gentleman--that of pleasing in
 polite society4 ,riccabocca1 however1  
had more than this art--he had one which
 is often less innocent1--the art of    
penetrating into the weak side of his   
associates1 and of saying the exact     
thing which hits it plump in the middle1

 with the careless air of a random shot4
  ,the result was1 that all were charmed
 with him2 and that even ,captain       
,barnabas postponed the whist-table for 
a full hour after the usual time4 ,the  
,doctor did not play--he thus became the
 property of the two ladies1 ,miss      
,jemima and ,mrs4 ,dale4  ,seated       
between the two1 in the place rightfully
 appertaining to ,flimsey1 who this time
 was fairly dislodged1 to her great     
wonder and discontent1 the ,doctor was  
the emblem of true ,domestic ,felicity1 
placed between ,friendship and ,love4   
,friendship1 as became her1 worked      
quietly at the embroidered              
pocket-handkerchief1 and left ,love to  
its more animated operations4 ,you must 
be very lonely at the ,casino1 said     
,love1 in a sympathizing tone4  ,madam1 
replied ,riccabocca1 gallantly1 ,i shall
 think so when ,i leave you4            
,friendship cast a sly glance at        
,love--,love blushed or looked down on  
the carpet1 which comes to the same     

thing4 ,yet1 began ,love again--yet     
solitude1 to a feeling heart--          
,riccabocca thought of the note of      
invitation1 and involuntarily buttoned  
his coat1 as if to protect the          
individual organ thus alarmingly        
referred to4  ,solitude1 to a feeling   
heart1 has its charms4 ,it is so hard   
even for us1 poor ignorant women1 to    
find a congenial companion--but for you6
 ,love stopped short1 as if it had said 
too much1 and smelt confusedly at its   
boquet4  ,dr4 ,riccabocca cautiously    
lowered his spectacles1 and darted one  
glance1 which1 with the rapidity and    
comprehensiveness of lightning1 seemed  
to envelope and take in it1 as it were1 
the whole inventory of ,miss ,jemima's  
personal attractions4 ,now1 ,miss       
,jemima1 as ,i have before observed1 had
 a mild and pensive expression of       
countenance1 and she would have been    
positively pretty had the mildness      
looked a little more alert1 and the     
pensiveness somewhat less lackadaisical4

 ,in fact1 though ,miss ,jemima was     
constitutionally mild1 she was not de   
natura pensive2 she had too much of the 
,hazeldean blood in her veins for that  
sullen and viscid humor called          
melancholy1 and therefore this          
assumption of pensiveness really spoilt 
her character of features1 which only   
wanted to be lighted up by a cheerful   
smile to be extremely prepossessing4    
,the same remark might apply to the     
figure1 which--thanks to the same       
pensiveness--lost all the undulating    
grace which movement and animation      
bestow on the fluent curves of the      
feminine form4 ,the figure was a good   
figure1 examined in detail--a little    
thin1 perhaps1 but by no means          
emaciated--with just and elegant        
proportions1 and naturally light and    
flexible4 ,but that same unfortunate    
pensiveness gave the whole a character  
of inertness and languor2 and when ,miss
 ,jemima reclined on the sofa1 so       
complete seemed the relaxation of nerve 

and muscle1 that you would have thought 
she had lost the use of her limbs4 ,over
 her face and form1 thus defrauded of   
the charms ,providence had bestowed on  
them1 ,dr4 ,riccabocca's eye glanced    
rapidly2 and then moving nearer to ,mrs4
 ,dale--,defend me 7he stopped a moment1
 and added17 from the charge of not     
being able to appreciate congenial      
companionship4  ,oh1 ,i did not say     
that6 cried ,miss ,jemima4  ,pardon me1 
said the ,italian1 if ,i am so dull as  
to misunderstand you4 ,one may well lose
 one's head1 at least1 in such a        
neighborhood as this4 ,he rose as he    
spoke1 and bent over ,frank's shoulder  
to examine some ,views of ,italy1 which 
,miss ,jemima 7with what1 if wholly     
unselfish1 would have been an attention 
truly delicate7 had extracted from the  
library in order to gratify the guest4  
,most interesting creature1 indeed1     
sighed ,miss ,jemima1 but too--too      
flattering6  ,tell me1 said ,mrs4 ,dale 
gravely1 do you think1 love1 that you   

could put off the end of the world a    
little longer1 or must we make haste in 
order to be in time8  ,how wicked you   
are6 said ,miss ,jemima1 turning aside4 
,some few minutes afterwards1 ,mrs4     
,dale contrived it so that ,dr4         
,riccabocca and herself were in a       
farther corner of the room1 looking at a
 picture said to be by ,wouvermans4     
,mrs4 ,dale4--,she is very amiable1     
,jemima1 is she not8                    
,riccabocca4--,exceedingly so4 ,very    
fine battle-piece6  ,mrs4 ,dale4--,so   
kind-hearted4  ,riccabocca4--,all ladies
 are4 ,how naturally that warrior makes 
his desperate cut at the runaway6  ,mrs4
 ,dale4--,she is not what is called     
regularly handsome1 but she has         
something very winning4  ,riccabocca1   
with a smile4--,so winning1 that it is  
strange she is not won4 ,that gray mare 
in the foreground stands out very       
boldly6  ,mrs4 ,dale1 distrusting the   
smile of ,riccabocca1 and throwing in a 
more effective grape charge4--,not won  

yet2 and it is strange6--she will have a
 very pretty fortune4                   
,riccabocca4--,ah6  ,mrs4 ,dale4--,six  
thousand pounds1 ,i dare say--certainly 
four4  ,riccabocca1 suppressing a sigh1 
and with his wonted address4--,if ,mrs4 
,dale were still single1 she would never
 need a friend to say what her portion  
might be2 but ,miss ,jemima is so good  
that ,i am quite sure it is not ,miss   
,jemima's fault that she is still--,miss
 ,jemima6  ,the foreigner slipped away  
as he spoke1 and sat himself down beside
 the whist-players4  ,mrs4 ,dale was    
disappointed1 but certainly not         
offended4--,it would be such a good     
thing for both1 muttered she1 almost    
inaudibly4  ,giacomo1 said ,riccabocca1 
as he was undressing1 that night1 in the
 large1 comfortable1 well-carpeted      
,english bedroom1 with that great       
,english four-posted bed in the recess  
which seems made to shame folks out of  
single-blessedness--,giacomo1 ,i have   
had this evening the offer of probably  

six thousand pounds--certainly of four  
thousand4  ,cosa meravigliosa6 exclaimed
 ,jackeymo--miraculous thing6 and he    
crossed himself with great fervor4 ,six 
thousand pounds ,english6 why1 that must
 be a hundred thousand--blockhead that  
,i am6--more than a hundred and fifty   
thousand pounds ,milanese6 ,and         
,jackeymo1 who was considerably         
enlivened by the ,squire's ale1         
commenced a series of gesticulations and
 capers1 in the midst of which he       
stopped and cried1 ,but not for nothing8
  ,nothing6 no6  ,these mercenary       
,english6--the ,government wants to     
bribe you4  ,that's not it4  ,the       
priests want you to turn heretic4       
,worse than that1 said the philosopher4 
,worse than that6 ,o ,padrone6 for      
shame6  ,don't be a fool1 but pull off  
my pantaloons--they want me never to    
wear these again6  ,never to wear what6 
exclaimed ,jackeymo1 staring outright at
 his master's long legs in their linen  
drawers--never to wear--  ,the breeches1

 said ,riccabocca1 laconically4  ,the   
barbarians6 faltered ,jackeymo4  ,my    
nightcap6--and never to have any comfort
 in this1 said ,riccabocca1 drawing the 
cotton head-gear2 and never to have any 
sound sleep in that1 pointing to the    
four-posted bed4 ,and to be a bondsmen  
and a slave1 continued ,riccabocca1     
waxing wroth2 and to be wheedled and    
purred at1 and pawed1 and clawed1 and   
scolded1 and fondled1 and blinded1 and  
deafened1 and bridled1 and              
saddled--bedevilled and--married4       
,married6 said ,jackeymo1 more          
dispassionately--that's very bad1       
certainly2 but more than a hundred and  
fifty thousand lire1 and perhaps a      
pretty young lady1 and--  ,pretty young 
lady6 growled ,riccabocca1 jumping into 
bed and drawing the clothes fiercely    
over him4 ,put out the candle1 and get  
along with you--do1 you villainous old  
incendiary6   ,,chapter ,,ix4  ,it was  
not many days since the resurrection of 
those ill-omened stocks1 and it was     

evident already to an ordinary observer1
 that something wrong had got into the  
village4 ,the peasants wore a sullen    
expression of countenance2 when the     
,squire passed1 they took off their hats
 with more than ordinary formality1 but 
they did not return the same broad smile
 to his quick1 hearty ,good day1 my man4
 ,the women peered at him from the      
threshold or the casement1 but did not1 
as was their wont 7at least the wont of 
the prettiest71 take occasion to come   
out to catch his passing compliment on  
their own good looks1 or their tidy     
cottages4 ,and the children1 who used to
 play after work on the site of the old 
stocks1 now shunned the place1 and1     
indeed1 seemed to cease play altogether4
  ,on the other hand1 no man likes to   
build1 or rebuild1 a great public work  
for nothing4 ,now that the ,squire had  
resuscitated the stocks1 and made them  
so exceedingly handsome1 it was natural 
that he should wish to put somebody into
 them4 ,moreover1 his pride and         

self-esteem had been wounded by the     
,parson's opposition2 and it would be a 
justification to his own forethought1   
and a triumph over the ,parson's        
understanding1 if he could              
satisfactorily and practically establish
 a proof that the stocks had not been   
repaired before they were wanted4       
,therefore1 unconsciously to himself1   
there was something about the ,squire   
more burly1 and authoritative1 and      
menacing1 than heretofore4 ,old ,gaffer 
,solomons observed1 that they had better
 moind well what they were about1 for   
that the ,squire had a wicked look in   
the tail of his eye--just as the dun    
bull had afore it tossed neighbor       
,barnes's little boy4  ,for two or three
 days these mute signs of something     
brewing in the atmosphere had been      
rather noticeable than noticed1 without 
any positive overt act of tyranny on the
 one hand1 or rebellion on the other4   
,but on the very ,saturday night in     
which ,dr4 ,riccabocca was installed in 

the four-posted bed in the chintz       
chamber1 the threatened revolution      
commenced4 ,in the dead of that night1  
personal outrage was committed on the   
stocks4 ,and on the ,sunday morning1    
,mr4 ,stirn1 who was the earliest riser 
in the parish1 perceived1 in going to   
the farmyard1 that the knob of the      
column that flanked the board had been  
feloniously broken off2 that the four   
holes were bunged up with mud2 and that 
some jacobinical villain had carved1 on 
the very centre of the flourish or      
scroll work1 ,dam the stoks6 ,mr4 ,stirn
 was much too vigilant a right-hand man1
 much too zealous a friend of law and   
order1 not to regard such proceedings   
with horror and alarm4 ,and when the    
,squire came into his dressing-room at  
half-past seven1 his butler 7who        
fulfilled also the duties of valet7     
informed him with a mysterious air1 that
 ,mr4 ,stirn had something very         
particular to communicate1 about a most 
howdacious midnight 'spiracy and 'sault4

  ,the ,squire stared1 and bade ,mr4    
,stirn be admitted4  ,well6 cried the   
,squire1 suspending the operation of    
stropping his razor4  ,mr4 ,stirn       
groaned4  ,well1 man1 what now6  ,i     
never knowed such a thing in this here  
parish afore1 began ,mr4 ,stirn1 and ,i 
can only 'count for it by s'posing that 
them foreign ,papishers have been       
semminating--  ,been what8              
,semminating--  ,dissemminating1 you    
blockhead--disseminating what8  ,damn   
the stocks1 began ,mr4 ,stirn1 plunging 
right in medias res1 and by a fine use  
of one of the noblest figures of        
rhetoric4  ,mr4 ,stirn6 cried the       
,squire1 reddening1 did you say ',damn  
the stocks8'--damn my new handsome pair 
of stocks6  ,lord forbid1 sir2 that's   
what they say3 that's what they have    
digged on it with knives and daggers1   
and they have stuffed mud in its four   
holes1 and broken the capital of the    
elewation4  ,the ,squire took the napkin
 off his shoulder1 laid down strop and  

razor2 he seated himself in his         
arm-chair majestically1 crossed his     
legs1 and1 in a voice that affected     
tranquillity1 said--  ,compose yourself1
 ,stirn2 you have a deposition to make1 
touching an assault upon--can ,i trust  
my senses8--upon my new stocks4 ,compose
 yourself--be calm4 ,,now6 ,what the    
devil is come to the parish8  ,ah1 sir1 
what indeed8 replied ,mr4 ,stirn3 and   
then laying the forefinger of the right 
hand on the palm of the left1 he        
narrated the case4  ,and whom do you    
suspect8 ,be calm now1 don't speak in a 
passion4 ,you are a witness1 sir--a     
dispassionate1 unprejudiced witness4    
,zounds and fury6 this is the most      
insolent1 unprovoked1 diabolical--but   
whom do you suspect1 ,i say8  ,stirn    
twirled his hat1 elevated his eyebrows1 
jerked his thumb over his shoulder1 and 
whispered--,i hear as how two ,papishers
 slept at your honor's last night4      
,what1 dolt6 do you suppose ,dr4        
,rickeybockey got out of his warm bed to

 bung up the holes in my new stocks8    
,noa2 he's two cunning to do it himself1
 but he may have been semminating4 ,he's
 mighty thick with ,parson ,dale1 and   
your honor knows as how the ,parson set 
his face agin the stocks4 ,wait a bit1  
sir--don't fly at me yet4 ,there be a   
boy in this here parish--  ,a boy6--ah  
fool1 now you are nearer the mark4 ,the 
,parson write ',damn the stocks1'       
indeed6 ,what boy do you mean8  ,and    
that boy be cockered up much by ,mister 
,dale2 and the ,papishers went and sat  
with him and his mother a whole hour    
t'other day2 and that boy is as deep as 
a well2 and ,i seed him lurking about   
the place1 and hiding hisself under the 
tree the day the stocks was put up--and 
that ere boy is ,lenny ,fairfield4      
,whew1 said the ,squire1 whistling1 you 
have not your usual senses about you    
to-day1 man4 ,lenny ,fairfield--pattern 
boy of the village4 ,hold your tongue4  
,i dare say it is not done by any one in
 the parish1 after all2 some            

good-for-nothing vagrant--that cursed   
tinker1 who goes about with a very      
vicious donkey--whom1 by the way1 ,i    
caught picking thistles out of the very 
eyes of the old stocks6 ,shows how the  
tinker brings up his donkeys6 ,well1    
keep a sharp look-out4 ,to-day is       
,sunday2 worst day of the week1 ,i'm    
sorry and ashamed to say1 for rows and  
depredations4 ,between the services1 and
 after evening church1 there are always 
idle fellows from all the neighboring   
country about1 as you know too well4    
,depend on it1 the real culprits will be
 found gathering round the stocks1 and  
will betray themselves3 have your eyes1 
ears1 and wits about you1 and ,i've no  
doubt we shall come to the rights of the
 matter before the day's out4 ,and if we
 do1 added the ,squire1 we'll make an   
example of the ruffian6  ,in course1    
said ,stirn2 and if we don't find him1  
we must make an example all the same4   
,that's where it is1 sir4 ,that's why   
the stock's ben't respected3 they has   

not had an example yet--we wants an     
example4  ,on my word1 ,i believe that's
 very true2 and the first idle fellow   
you catch in any thing wrong we'll clap 
in1 and keep him there for two hours at 
least4  ,with the biggest pleasure1 your
 honor--that's what it is4  ,and ,mr4   
,stirn1 having now got what he          
considered a complete and unconditional 
authority over all the legs and wrists  
of ,hazeldean parish1 quoad the stocks1 
took his departure4   ,,chapter ,x4     
,randal1 said ,mrs4 ,leslie1 on this    
memorable ,sunday--,randal1 do you think
 of going to ,mr4 ,hazeldean's8  ,yes1  
ma'am1 answered ,randal4 ,mr4 ,egerton  
does not object to it2 and as ,i do not 
return to ,eaton1 ,i may have no other  
opportunity of seeing ,frank for some   
time4 ,i ought not to fail in respect to
 ,mr4 ,egerton's natural heir6          
,gracious me6 cried ,mrs4 ,leslie1 who1 
like many women of her cast and kind1   
had a sort of worldliness in her        
notions1 which she never evinced in her 

conduct--gracious me6--natural heir to  
the old ,leslie property6  ,he is ,mr4  
,egerton's nephew1 and1 added ,randal1  
ingenuously letting out his thoughts1 ,i
 am no relation to ,mr4 ,egerton at all4
  ,but1 said poor ,mrs4 ,leslie1 with   
tears in her eyes1 it would be a shame  
in the man1 after paying your schooling 
and sending you to ,oxford1 and having  
you to stay with him in the holidays1 if
 he did not mean any thing by it4  ,any 
thing1 mother--yes--but not the thing   
you suppose4 ,no matter4 ,it is enough  
that he has armed me for life1 and ,i   
shall use the weapons as seems to me    
best4  ,here the dialogue was suspended1
 by the entrance of the other members of
 the family1 dressed for church4  ,it   
can't be time for church6 ,no6 it can't6
 exclaimed ,mrs4 ,leslie4 ,she was never
 in time for any thing4  ,last bell     
ringing1 said ,mr4 ,leslie1 who1 though 
a slow man1 was methodical and punctual4
 ,mrs4 ,leslie made a frantic rush at   
the door1 the ,montfydget blood being   

now in a blaze--whirled up the          
stairs--gained her room1 tore her best  
bonnet from the peg1 snatched her newest
 shawl from the drawers1 crushed the    
bonnet on her head1 flung the shawl on  
her shoulders1 thrust a desperate pin   
into its folds1 in order to conceal a   
buttonless yawn in the body of her gown1
 and then flew back like a whirlwind4   
,meanwhile the family were already out  
of doors1 in waiting2 and just as the   
bell ceased1 the procession moved from  
the shabby house to the dilapidated     
church4  ,the church was a large one1   
but the congregation was small1 and so  
was the income of the ,parson4 ,it was a
 lay rectory1 and the great tithes had  
belonged to the ,leslies1 but they had  
been long since sold4 ,the vicarage1    
still in their gift1 might be worth a   
little more than ,l#ajj a year4 ,the    
present incumbent had nothing else to   
live upon4 ,he was a good man1 and not  
originally a stupid one2 but penury and 
the anxious cares for wife and family1  

combined with what may be called        
solitary confinement for the cultivated 
mind1 when1 amidst the two-legged       
creatures round1 it sees no other       
cultivated mind with which it can       
exchange an extra-parochial thought--had
 lulled him into a lazy mournfulness1   
which at times was very like imbecility4
 ,his income allowed him to do no good  
to the parish1 whether in work1 trade1  
or charity2 and thus he had no moral    
weight with the parishioners beyond the 
example of his sinless life and such    
negative effect as might be produced by 
his slumberous exhortations4 ,therefore 
his parishioners troubled him very      
little2 and but for the influence which 
in hours of ,montfydget activity1 ,mrs4 
,leslie exercised over the most         
tractable--that is1 the children and the
 aged--not half-a-dozen persons would   
have known or cared whether he shut up  
his church or not4  ,but our family were
 seated in state in their old seignorial
 pew1 and ,mr4 ,dumdrum1 with a nasal   

twang1 went lugubriously through the    
prayers2 and the old people who could   
sin no more1 and the children who had   
not yet learned to sin1 croaked forth   
responses that might have come from the 
choral frogs in ,aristophanes4 ,and     
there was a long sermon apropos to      
nothing which could possibly interest   
the congregation--being1 in fact1 some  
controversial homily1 which ,mr4        
,dumdrum had composed and preached years
 before4 ,and when this discourse was   
over1 there was a loud universal grunt1 
as if of release and thanksgiving1 and a
 great clatter of shoes--and the old    
hobbled1 and the young scrambled1 to the
 church door4  ,immediately after       
church1 the ,leslie family dined2 and1  
as soon as dinner was over1 ,randal set 
out on his foot journey to ,hazeldean   
,hall4  ,delicate and even feeble though
 his frame1 he had the energy and       
quickness of movement which belongs to  
nervous temperaments2 and he tasked the 
slow stride of a peasant1 whom he took  

to serve him as a guide for the first   
two or three miles4 ,though ,randal had 
not the gracious open manner with the   
poor which ,frank inherited from his    
father1 he was still 7despite many a    
secret hypocritical vice1 at war with   
the character of a gentleman7 gentleman 
enough to have no churlish pride to his 
inferiors4 ,he talked little1 but he    
suffered his guide to talk2 and the     
boor1 who was the same whom ,frank had  
accosted1 indulged in eulogistic        
comments on that young gentleman's pony1
 from which he diverged into some       
compliments on the young gentleman      
himself4 ,randal drew his hat over his  
brows4 ,there is a wonderful tact and   
fine breeding in your agricultural      
peasant2 and though ,tom ,stowell was   
but a brutish specimen of the class1 he 
suddenly perceived that he was giving   
pain4 ,he paused1 scratched his head1   
and glancing affectionately towards his 
companion1 exclaimed--  ,but ,i shall   
live to see you on a handsomer beastis  

than that little pony1 ,master ,randal2 
and sure ,i ought1 for you be as good a 
gentleman as any in the land4  ,thank   
you1 said ,randal4 ,but ,i like walking 
better than riding--,i am more used to  
it4  ,well1 and you walk bra'ly--there  
ben't a better walker in the county4    
,and very pleasant it is walking2 and   
'tis a pretty country afore you1 all the
 way to the ,hall4  ,randal strode on1  
as if impatient of these attempts to    
flatter or to soothe2 and1 coming at    
length into a broader lane1 said--,i    
think ,i can find my way now4 ,many     
thanks to you1 ,tom2 and he forced a    
shilling into ,tom's horny palm4 ,the   
man took it reluctantly1 and a tear     
started to his eye4 ,he felt more       
grateful for that shilling than he had  
for ,frank's liberal half-crown2 and he 
thought of the poor fallen family1 and  
forgot his own dire wrestle with the    
wolf at his door4  ,he stayed lingering 
in the lane till the figure of ,randal  
was out of sight1 and then returned     

slowly4 ,young ,leslie continued to walk
 on at a quick pace4 ,with all his      
intellectual culture1 and his restless  
aspirations1 his breast afforded him no 
thought so generous1 no sentiment so    
poetic1 as those with which the         
unlettered clown crept slouchingly      
homeward4  ,as ,randal gained a point   
where several lanes met on a broad piece
 of waste land1 he began to feel tired1 
and his step slackened4 ,just then a gig
 emerged from one of these by-roads1 and
 took the same direction as the         
pedestrian4 ,the road was rough and     
hilly1 and the driver proceeded at a    
foot's-pace2 so that the gig and the    
pedestrian went pretty well abreast4    
,you seem tired1 sir1 said the driver1 a
 stout young farmer of the higher class 
of tenants1 and he looked down          
compassionately on the boy's pale       
countenance and weary stride4 ,perhaps  
we are going the same way1 and ,i can   
give you a lift8  ,it was ,randal's     
habitual policy to make use of every    

advantage proffered to him1 and he      
accepted the proposal frankly enough to 
please the honest farmer4  ,a nice day1 
sir1 said the latter1 as ,randal sat by 
his side4 ,have you come far8  ,from    
,rood ,hall4  ,oh1 you be young ,squire 
,leslie1 said the farmer1 more          
respectfully1 and lifting his hat4      
,yes1 my name is ,leslie4 ,you know     
,rood1 then8  ,i was brought up on your 
father's land1 sir4 ,you may have heard 
of ,farmer ,bruce8  ,randal4--,i        
remember1 when ,i was a little boy1 a   
,mr4 ,bruce1 who rented1 ,i believe1 the
 best part of our land1 and who used to 
bring us cakes when he called to see my 
father4 ,he is a relation of yours8     
,farmer ,bruce4--,he was my uncle4 ,he  
is dead now1 poor man4  ,randal4--,dead6
 ,i am grieved to hear it4 ,he was very 
kind to us children4 ,but it is long    
since he left my father's farm4  ,farmer
 ,bruce1 apologetically4--,i am sure he 
was very sorry to go4 ,but1 you see1 he 
had an unexpected legacy----            

,randal4--,and retired from business8   
,farmer ,bruce4--,no4 ,but1 having      
capital1 he could afford to pay a good  
rent for a real good farm4  ,randal1    
bitterly4--,all capital seems to fly    
from the lands of ,rood4 ,and whose farm
 did he take8  ,farmer ,bruce4--,he took
 ,hawleigh1 under ,squire ,hazeldean4 ,i
 rent it now4 ,we've laid out a power o'
 money on it4 ,but ,i don't complain4   
,it pays well4  ,randal4--,would the    
money have paid as well1 sunk on my     
father's land8  ,farmer                 
,bruce4--,perhaps it might1 in the long 
run4 ,but then1 sir1 we wanted new      
premises--barns1 and cattle-sheds1 and a
 deal more--which the landlord should   
do2 but it is not every landlord as can 
afford that4 ,squire ,hazeldean's a rich
 man4  ,randal4--,ay6  ,the road now    
became pretty good1 and the farmer put  
his horse into a brisk trot4  ,but which
 way be you going1 sir8 ,i don't care   
for a few miles more or less1 if ,i can 
be of service4  ,i am going to          

,hazeldean1 said ,randal1 rousing       
himself from a reverie4 ,don't let me   
take you out of your way4  ,oh1         
,hawleigh ,farm is on the other side of 
the village1 so it be quite my way1 sir4
  ,the farmer then1 who was really a    
smart young fellow--one of that race    
which the application of capital to land
 has produced1 and which1 in point of   
education and refinement1 are at least  
on a par with the squires of a former   
generation--began to talk about his     
handsome horse1 about horses in general1
 about hunting and coursing2 he handled 
all these subjects with spirit1 yet with
 modesty4 ,randal pulled his hat still  
lower down over his brows1 and did not  
interrupt him till past the ,casino1    
when1 struck by the classic air of the  
place1 and catching a scent from the    
orange-trees1 the boy asked             
abruptly--,whose house is that8  ,oh1 it
 belongs to ,squire ,hazeldean1 but it  
is let or lent to a foreign ,mounseer4  
,they say he is quite the gentleman1 but

 uncommonly poor4  ,poor1 said ,randal1 
turning back to gaze on the trim garden1
 the neat terrace1 the pretty belvidere1
 and 7the door of the house being open7 
catching a glimpse of the painted hall  
within--poor2 the place seems well kept4
 ,what do you call poor1 ,mr4 ,bruce8   
,the farmer laughed4 ,well1 that's a    
home question1 sir4 ,but ,i believe the 
,mounseer is as poor as a man can be who
 makes no debts and does not actually   
starve4  ,as poor as my father8 asked   
,randal1 openly and abruptly4  ,lord1   
sir6 your father be a very rich man     
compared to him4  ,randal continued to  
gaze1 and his mind's eye conjured up the
 contrast of his slovenly1 shabby home1 
with all its neglected appurtenances6   
,no trim garden at ,rood ,hall1 no scent
 from odorous orange blossoms4 ,here    
poverty at least was elegant--there1 how
 squalid6 ,he did not comprehend at how 
cheap a rate the luxury of the          
,beautiful can be effected4 ,they now   
approached the extremity of the         

,squire's park pales6 and ,randal1      
seeing a little gate1 bade the farmer   
stop his gig1 and descended4 ,the boy   
plunged amid the thick oak groves2 the  
farmer went his way blithely1 and his   
mellow merry whistle came to ,randal's  
moody ear as he glided quick under the  
shadow of the trees4  ,he arrived at the
 ,hall1 to find that all the family were
 at church2 and1 according to the       
patriarchal custom1 the church-going    
family embraced nearly all the servants4
 ,it was therefore an old invalid       
housemaid who opened the door to him4   
,she was rather deaf1 and seemed so     
stupid that ,randal did not ask leave to
 enter and wait for ,frank's return4 ,he
 therefore said briefly that he would   
just stroll on the lawn1 and call again 
when church was over4  ,the old woman   
stared1 and strove to hear him2         
meanwhile ,randal turned round abruptly1
 and sauntered towards the garden side  
of the handsome old house4  ,there was  
enough to attract any eye in the smooth 

greensward of the spacious lawn--in the 
numerous parterres of varying           
flowers--in the venerable grandeur of   
the two mighty cedars1 which threw their
 still shadows over the grass--and in   
the picturesque building1 with its      
projecting mullions and heavy gables2   
yet ,i fear that it was with no poet's  
nor painter's eye that this young old   
man gazed on the scene before him4  ,he 
beheld the evidence of wealth--and the  
envy of wealth jaundiced his soul4      
,folding his arms on his breast1 he     
stood a while1 looking all around him   
with closed lips and lowering brow2 then
 he walked slowly on1 his eyes fixed on 
the ground1 and muttered to himself---- 
,the heir to this property is little    
better than a dunce2 and they tell me ,i
 have talents and learning1 and ,i have 
taken to my heart the maxim1 ',knowledge
 is power4' ,and yet1 with all my       
struggles1 will knowledge ever place me 
on the same level as that on which this 
dunce is born8 ,i don't wonder that the 

poor should hate the rich4 ,but of all  
the poor1 who should hate the rich like 
the pauper gentleman8 ,i suppose ,audley
 ,egerton means me to come into         
,parliament1 and be a ,tory like        
himself4 ,what6 keep things as they are6
 ,no2 for me not even ,democracy1 unless
 there first come ,revolution4 ,i       
understand the cry of a ,marat--',more  
blood6' ,marat had lived as a poor man1 
and cultivated science--in the sight of 
a prince's palace4  ,he turned sharply  
round1 and glared vindictively on the   
poor old hall1 which1 though a very     
comfortable habitation1 was certainly no
 palace2 and with his arms still folded 
on his breast1 he walked backwards1 as  
if not to lose the view1 nor the chain  
of ideas it conjured up4  ,but1 he      
continued to soliloquize--but of        
revolution there is no chance4 ,yet the 
same wit and will that would thrive in  
revolutions should thrive in this       
commonplace life4 ,knowledge is power4  
,well1 then1 shall ,i have no power to  

oust this blockhead8 ,oust him--what    
from8 ,his father's halls8 ,well1 but if
 he were dead1 who would be the heir of 
,hazeldean8 ,have ,i not heard my mother
 say that ,i am as near in blood to this
 ,squire as any one1 if he had no       
children8 ,oh1 but the boy's life is    
worth ten of mine6 ,oust him from what8 
,at least from the thoughts of his uncle
 ,egerton--an uncle who has never even  
seen him6 ,that1 at least1 is more      
feasible4 ',make my way in life1' sayest
 thou1 ,audley ,egerton8 ,ay--and to the
 fortune thou hast robbed from my       
ancestors4 ,simulation--simulation4     
,lord ,bacon allows simulation4 ,lord   
,bacon practised it--and--  ,here the   
soliloquy came to a sudden end2 for as1 
rapt in his thoughts1 the boy had       
continued to walk backwards1 he had come
 to the verge where the lawn slided off 
into the ditch of the ha-ha--and1 just  
as he was fortifying himself by the     
precept and practice of my ,lord ,bacon1
 the ground went from under him1 and    

slap into the ditch went ,randal        
,leslie6  ,it so happened that the      
,squire1 whose active genius was always 
at some repair or improvement1 had been 
but a few days before widening and      
sloping off the ditch just in that part1
 so that the earth was fresh and damp1  
and not yet either turfed or flattened  
down4 ,thus when ,randal1 recovering his
 first surprise and shock1 rose to his  
feet1 he found his clothes covered with 
mud2 while the rudeness of the fall was 
evinced by the fantastic and            
extraordinary appearance of his hat1    
which1 hollowed here1 bulging there1 and
 crushed out of all recognition         
generally1 was as little like the hat of
 a decorous hard-reading young          
gentlemen--protege of the dignified ,mr4
 ,audley ,egerton--as any hat picked out
 of a kennel after some drunken brawl   
possibly could be4  ,randal was dizzy1  
and stunned1 and bruised1 and it was    
some moments before he took heed of his 
raiment4 ,when he did so1 his spleen was

 greatly aggravated4 ,he was still boy  
enough not to like the idea of          
presenting himself to the unknown       
,squire1 and the dandy ,frank1 in such a
 trim3 he resolved at once to regain the
 lane and return home1 without          
accomplishing the object of his journey2
 and seeing the footpath right before   
him1 which led to a gate that he        
conceived would admit him into the      
highway sooner than the path by which he
 had come1 he took it at once4  ,it is  
surprising how little we human creatures
 heed the warnings of our good genius4  
,i have no doubt that some benignant    
power had precipitated ,randal ,leslie  
into the ditch1 as a significant hint of
 the fate of all who choose what is1    
now-a-days1 by no means an uncommon step
 in the march of intellect--viz41 the   
walking backwards1 in order to gratify a
 vindictive view of one's neighbor's    
property6 ,i suspect that1 before this  
century is out1 many a fine fellow will 
thus have found his ha-ha1 and scrambled

 out of the ditch with a much shabbier  
coat than he had on when he fell into   
it4 ,but ,randal did not thank his good 
genius for giving him a premonitory     
tumble2--and ,i never yet knew a man who
 did6   ,,chapter ,,xi4  ,the ,squire   
was greatly ruffled at breakfast that   
morning4 ,he was too much of an         
,englishman to bear insult patiently1   
and he considered that he had been      
personally insulted in the outrage      
offered to his recent donation to the   
parish4 ,his feelings1 too1 were hurt1  
as well as his pride4 ,there was        
something so ungrateful in the whole    
thing1 just after he had taken so much  
pains1 not only in the resuscitation1   
but the embellishment of the stocks4 ,it
 was not1 however1 so rare an occurrence
 for the ,squire to be ruffled1 as to   
create any remark4 ,riccabocca1 indeed1 
as a stranger1 and ,mrs4 ,hazeldean1 as 
a wife1 had the quick tact to perceive  
that the host was glum and the husband  
snappish2 but the one was too discreet  

and the other too sensible1 to chafe the
 new sore1 whatever it might be2 and    
shortly after breakfast the ,squire     
retired into his study1 and absented    
himself from morning service4  ,in his  
delightful ,life of ,oliver ,goldsmith1 
,mr4 ,foster takes care to touch our    
hearts by introducing his hero's excuse 
for not entering the priesthood4 ,he did
 not feel himself good enough4 ,thy     
,vicar of ,wakefield1 poor ,goldsmith1  
was an excellent substitute for thee2   
and ,dr4 ,primrose1 at least1 will be   
good enough for the world until ,miss   
,jemima's fears are realized4 ,now1     
,squire ,hazeldean had a tenderness of  
conscience much less reasonable than    
,goldsmith's4 ,there were occasionally  
days in which he did not feel good      
enough--,i don't say for a priest1 but  
even for one of the congregation--days  
in which 7said the ,squire in his own   
blunt way71 as ,i have never in my life 
met a worse devil than a devil of a     
temper1 ,i'll not carry mine into the   

family pew4 ,he shan't be growling out  
hypocritical responses from my poor     
grandmother's prayer-book4 ,so the      
,squire and his demon stayed at home4   
,but the demon was generally cast out   
before the day was over2 and1 on this   
occasion1 when the bell rang for        
afternoon service1 it may be presumed   
that the ,squire had reasoned or fretted
 himself into a proper state of mind2   
for he was then seen sallying forth from
 the porch of his hall1 arm-in-arm with 
his wife1 and at the head of his        
household4 ,the second service was 7as  
is commonly the case1 in rural          
districts7 more numerously attended than
 the first one2 and it was our ,parson's
 wont to devote to this service his most
 effective discourse4  ,parson ,dale1   
though a very fair scholar1 had neither 
the deep theology nor the archaeological
 learning that distinguish the rising   
generation of the clergy4 ,i much doubt 
if he could have passed what would now  
be called a creditable examination in   

the ,fathers2 and as for all the nice   
formalities in the rubric1 he would     
never have been the man to divide a     
congregation or puzzle a bishop4        
,neither was ,parson ,dale very erudite 
in ecclesiastical architecture4 ,he did 
not much care whether all the details in
 the church were purely gothic or not3  
crockets and finials1 round arch and    
pointed arch1 were matters1 ,i fear1 on 
which he had never troubled his head4   
,but one secret ,parson ,dale did       
possess1 which is perhaps of equal      
importance with those subtler           
mysteries--he knew how to fill his      
church6 ,even at morning service no pews
 were empty1 and at evening service the 
church overflowed4  ,parson ,dale1 too1 
may be considered1 now-a-days1 to hold  
but a mean idea of the spiritual        
authority of the ,church4 ,he had never 
been known to dispute on its exact      
bearing with the ,state--whether it was 
incorporated with the ,state1 or above  
the ,state--whether it was antecedent to

 the ,papacy1 or formed from the        
,papacy1 c41 c4 ,according to his       
favorite maxim1 ,quieta non movere 7not 
to disturb things that are quiet71 ,i   
have no doubt that he would have thought
 that the less discussion is provoked   
upon such matters1 the better for both  
church and laity4 ,nor had he ever been 
known to regret the disuse of the       
ancient custom of excommunication1 nor  
any other diminution of the powers of   
the priesthood1 whether minatory or     
militant2 yet for all this1 ,parson     
,dale had a great notion of the sacred  
privilege of a minister of the          
gospel--to advise--to deter--to         
persuade--to reprove4 ,and it was for   
the evening service that he prepared    
those sermons1 which may be called      
sermons that preach at you4 ,he         
preferred the evening for that salutary 
discipline1 not only because the        
congregation was more numerous1 but also
 because1 being a shrewd man in his own 
innocent way1 he knew that people bear  

better to be preached at after dinner   
than before2 that you arrive more       
insinuatingly at the heart when the     
stomach is at peace4 ,there was a genial
 kindness in ,parson ,dale's way of     
preaching at you4 ,it was done in so    
imperceptible fatherly a manner1 that   
you never felt offended4 ,he did it1    
too1 with so much art1 that nobody but  
your own guilty self knew that you were 
the sinner he was exhorting4 ,yet he did
 not spare rich nor poor3 he preached at
 the ,squire1 and that great fat farmer1
 ,mr4 ,bullock the church-warden1 as    
boldly as at ,hodge the ploughman1 and  
,scrub the hedger4 ,as for ,mr4 ,stirn1 
he had preached at him more often than  
at any one in the parish2 but ,stirn1   
though he had the sense to know it1     
never had the grace to reform4 ,there   
was1 too1 in ,parson ,dale's sermons1   
something of that boldness of           
illustration which would have been      
scholarly if he had not made it         
familiar1 and which is found in the     

discourses of our elder divines4 ,like  
them1 he did not scruple1 now and then1 
to introduce an anecdote from history1  
or borrow an allusion from some         
non-scriptural author1 in order to      
enliven the attention of his audience1  
or render an argument more plain4 ,and  
the good man had an object in this1 a   
little distinct from1 though wholly     
subordinate to the main purpose of his  
discourse4 ,he was a friend to          
knowledge--but to knowledge accompanied 
by religion2 and sometimes his          
references to sources not within the    
ordinary reading of his congregation    
would spirit up some farmer's son1 with 
an evening's leisure on his hands1 to   
ask the ,parson for farther explanation1
 and so he lured on to a little solid or
 graceful instruction under a safe      
guide4  ,now on the present occasion1   
the ,parson1 who had always his eye and 
heart on his flock1 and who had seen    
with great grief the realization of his 
fears at the revival of the stocks2 seen

 that a spirit of discontent was already
 at work amongst the peasants1 and that 
magisterial and inquisitorial designs   
were darkening the natural benevolence  
of the ,squire2 seen1 in short1 the     
signs of a breach between classes1 and  
the precursors of the ever inflammable  
feud between the rich and the poor1     
meditated nothing less than a great     
,political ,sermon--a sermon that should
 extract from the roots of social truths
 a healing virtue for the wound that lay
 sore1 but latent1 in the breast of his 
parish of ,hazeldean3  ,and thus ran--  
,the ,political ,sermon of ,parson      
,dale4   ,,chapter ,,xii4       ,for    
every man shall bear his own burden4    
,galatians1 c4 vi41 v4 #e4  ,brethren1  
every man has his burden4 ,if ,god      
designed our lives to end at the grave1 
may we not believe that he would have   
freed an existence so brief from the    
cares and sorrows to which1 since the   
beginning of the world1 mankind has been
 subjected8 ,suppose that ,i am a kind  

father1 and have a child whom ,i dearly 
love1 but ,i know by a divine revelation
 that he will die at the age of eight   
years1 surely ,i should not vex his     
infancy by needless preparations for the
 duties of life4 ,if ,i am a rich man1  
,i should not send him from the caresses
 of his mother to the stern discipline  
of school4 ,if ,i am a poor man1 ,i     
should not take him with me to hedge and
 dig1 to scorch in the sun1 to freeze in
 the winter's cold3 why inflict         
hardships on his childhood1 for the     
purpose of fitting him for manhood1 when
 ,i know that he is doomed not to grow  
into man8 ,but if1 on the other hand1 ,i
 believe my child is reserved for a more
 durable existence1 then should ,i not1 
out of the very love ,i bear to him1    
prepare his childhood for the struggle  
of life1 according to that station in   
which he is born1 giving many a toil1   
many a pain to the infant1 in order to  
rear and strengthen him for his duties  
as man8 ,so is it with our ,father that 

is in heaven4 ,viewing this life as our 
infancy1 and the next as our spiritual  
maturity1 where1 'in the ages to come1  
he may show the exceeding riches of his 
grace1' it is in his tenderness1 as in  
his wisdom1 to permit the toil and the  
pain which1 in tasking the powers and   
developing the virtues of the soul1     
prepare it for the earnest of our       
inheritance1 the 'redemption of the     
purchased possession4' ,hence it is that
 every man has his burden4 ,brethren1 if
 you believe that ,god is good1 yea1 but
 as tender as a human father1 you will  
know that your troubles in life are a   
proof that you are reared for an        
eternity4 ,but each man thinks his own  
burden the hardest to bear3 the poor man
 groans under his poverty1 the rich man 
under the cares that multiply with      
wealth4 ,for1 so far from wealth freeing
 us from trouble1 all the wise men who  
have written in all ages1 have repeated 
with one voice the words of the wisest1 
',when goods increase1 they are         

increased that eat them2 and what good  
is there to the owners thereof1 saving  
the beholding of them with their eyes8' 
,and this is literally true1 my         
brethren2 for1 let a man be as rich as  
was the great ,king ,solomon himself1   
unless he lock up all his gold in a     
chest1 it must go abroad to be divided  
amongst others2 yea1 though1 like       
,solomon1 he make him great             
works--though he build houses and plant 
vineyards1 and make him gardens and     
orchards--still the gold that he spends 
feeds but the mouths he employs2 and    
,solomon himself could not eat with a   
better relish than the poorest mason who
 builded the house1 or the humblest     
laborer who planted the vineyard4       
,therefore1 'when goods increase1 they  
are increased that eat them4' ,and this1
 my brethren1 may teach us toleration   
and compassion for the rich4 ,we share  
their riches whether they will or not2  
we do not share their cares4 ,the       
profane history of our own country tells

 us that a princess1 destined to be the 
greatest queen that ever sat on this    
throne1 envied the milk-maid singing2   
and a profane poet1 whose wisdom was    
only less than that of the inspired     
writers1 represents the man who by force
 and wit had risen to be a king1 sighing
 for the sleep vouchsafed to the meanest
 of his subjects--all bearing out the   
words of the son of ,david--',the sleep 
of the laboring man is sweet1 whether he
 eat little or much2 but the abundance  
of the rich will not suffer him to      
sleep4'  ,amongst my brethren now       
present1 there is doubtless some one who
 has been poor1 and by honest industry  
has made himself comparatively rich4    
,let his heart answer me while ,i speak3
 are not the chief cares that now       
disturb him to be found in the goods he 
hath acquired8--has he not both         
vexations to his spirit and trials to   
his virtue1 which he knew not when he   
went forth to his labor1 and took no    
heed of the morrow8 ,but it is right1 my

 brethren1 that to every station there  
should be its care--to every man his    
burden2 for if the poor did not         
sometimes so far feel poverty to be a   
burden as to desire to better their     
condition1 and 7to use the language of  
the world7 'seek to rise in life1' their
 most valuable energies would never be  
aroused2 and we should not witness that 
spectacle1 which is so common in the    
land we live in--namely1 the successful 
struggle of manly labor against adverse 
fortune--a struggle in which the triumph
 of one gives hope to thousands4 ,it is 
said that necessity is the mother of    
invention2 and the social blessings     
which are now as common to us as air and
 sunshine1 have come from that law of   
our nature which makes us aspire towards
 indefinite improvement1 enriches each  
successive generation by the labors of  
the last1 and1 in free countries1 often 
lifts the child of the laborer to a     
place amongst the rulers of the land4   
,nay1 if necessity is the mother of     

invention1 poverty is the creator of the
 arts4 ,if there had been no poverty1   
and no sense of poverty1 where would    
have been that which we call the wealth 
of a country8 ,subtract from            
civilization all that has been produced 
by the poor1 and what remains8--the     
state of the savage4 ,where you now see 
laborer and prince1 you would see       
equality indeed--the equality of wild   
men4 ,no2 not even equality there2 for  
there1 brute force becomes lordship1 and
 woe to the weak6 ,where you now see    
some in frieze1 some in purple1 you     
would see nakedness in all4 ,where stand
 the palace and the cot1 you would      
behold but mud huts and caves4 ,as far  
as the peasant excels the king among    
savages1 so far does the society exalted
 and enriched by the struggles of labor 
excel the state in which ,poverty feels 
no disparity1 and ,toil sighs for no    
ease4 ,on the other hand1 if the rich   
were perfectly contented with their     
wealth1 their hearts would become       

hardened in the sensual enjoyments it   
procures4 ,it is that feeling1 by       
,divine ,wisdom implanted in the soul1  
that there is vanity and vexation of    
spirit in the things of ,mammon1 which  
still leaves the rich man sensitive to  
the instincts of heaven1 and teaches him
 to seek for happiness in those elevated
 virtues to which wealth invites        
him--namely1 protection to the lowly and
 beneficence to the distressed4  ,and   
this1 my brethren1 leads me to another  
view of the vast subject opened to us by
 the words of the apostle--',every man  
shall bear his own burden4' ,the worldly
 conditions of life are unequal4 ,why   
are they unequal8 ,o my brethren1 do you
 not perceive8 ,think you that1 if it   
had been better for our spiritual       
probation that there should be neither  
great nor lowly1 rich nor poor1         
,providence would not so have ordered   
the dispensations of the world1 and so1 
by its mysterious but merciful agencies1
 have influenced the framework and      

foundations of society8 ,but if1 from   
the remotest period of human annals1 and
 in all the numberless experiments of   
government which the wit of man has     
devised1 still this inequality is ever  
found to exist1 may we not suspect that 
there is something in the very          
principles of our nature to which that  
inequality is necessary and essential8  
,ask why this inequality6 ,why8 as well 
ask why life is the sphere of duty and  
the nursery of virtues4 ,for if all men 
were equal1 if there were no suffering  
and no ease1 no poverty and no wealth1  
would you not sweep with one blow the   
half at least of human virtues from the 
world8 ,if there were no penury and no  
pain1 what would become of              
fortitude8--what of patience8--what of  
resignation8 ,if there were no greatness
 and no wealth1 what would become of    
benevolence1 of charity1 of the blessed 
human pity1 of temperance in the midst  
of luxury1 of justice in the exercise of
 power8 ,carry the question further2    

grant all conditions the same--no       
reverse1 no rise and no fall--nothing to
 hope for1 nothing to fear--what a moral
 death you would at once inflict upon   
all the energies of the soul1 and what a
 link between the heart of man and the  
,providence of ,god would be snapped    
asunder6 ,if we could annihilate evil1  
we should annihilate hope2 and hope1 my 
brethren1 is the avenue to faith4 ,if   
there be 'a time to weep1 and a time to 
laugh1' it is that he who mourns may    
turn to eternity for comfort1 and he who
 rejoices may bless ,god for the happy  
hour4 ,ah6 my brethren1 were it possible
 to annihilate the inequalities of human
 life1 it would be the banishment of our
 worthiest virtues1 the torpor of our   
spiritual natures1 the palsy of our     
mental faculties4 ,the moral world1 like
 the world without us1 derives its      
health and its beauty from diversity and
 contrast4  ',every man shall bear his  
own burden4' ,true2 but now turn to an  
earlier verse in the same chapter4      

',bear ye one another's burdens1 and so 
fulfil the law of ,christ4' ,yes2 while 
,heaven ordains to each his peculiar    
suffering1 it connects the family of man
 into one household1 by that feeling    
which1 more perhaps than any other1     
distinguishes us from the brute         
creation--,i mean the feeling to which  
we give the name of sympathy--the       
feeling for each other6 ,the herd of    
deer shun the stag that is marked by the
 gunner2 the flock heedeth not the sheep
 that creeps into the shade to die2 but 
man has sorrow and joy not in himself   
alone1 but in the joy and sorrow of     
those around him4 ,he who feels only for
 himself1 abjures his very nature as    
man2 for do we not say of one who has no
 tenderness for mankind that he is      
inhuman8 and do we not call him who     
sorrows with the sorrowful1 humane8     
,now1 brethren1 that which especially   
marked the divine mission of our ,lord1 
is the direct appeal to this sympathy   
which distinguishes us from the brute4  

,he seizes not upon some faculty of     
genius given but to few1 but upon that  
ready impulse of heart which is given to
 us all2 and in saying1 ',love one      
another1' ',bear ye one another's       
burdens1' he elevates the most          
delightful of our emotions into the most
 sacred of his laws4 ,the lawyer asks   
our ,lord1 'who is my neighbor8' ,our   
,lord replies by the parable of the     
,good ,samaritan4 ,the priest and the   
,levite saw the wounded man that fell   
among the thieves1 and passed by on the 
other side4 ,that priest might have been
 austere in his doctrine1 that ,levite  
might have been learned in the law2 but 
neither to the learning of the ,levite1 
nor to the doctrine of the priest1 does 
our ,saviour even deign to allude4 ,he  
cites but the action of the ,samaritan1 
and saith to the lawyer1 ',which now of 
these three1 thinkest thou1 was neighbor
 unto him that fell among the thieves8  
,and he said1 ,he that showed mercy unto
 him4 ,then said ,jesus unto him1 ,go1  

and do thou likewise4'  ,o shallowness  
of human judgments6 ,it was enough to be
 born a ,samaritan in order to be       
rejected by the priest1 and despised by 
the ,levite4 ,yet now1 what to us the   
priest and the ,levite1 of ,god's chosen
 race though they were8 ,they passed    
from the hearts of men when they passed 
the sufferer by the wayside2 while this 
loathed ,samaritan1 half thrust from the
 pale of the ,hebrew1 becomes of our    
family1 of our kindred2 a brother       
amongst the brotherhood of ,love1 so    
long as ,mercy and ,affliction shall    
meet in the common thoroughfare of      
,life6  ',bear ye one another's burdens1
 and so fulfil the law of ,christ6'     
,think not1 ,o my brethren1 that this   
applies only to almsgiving--to that     
relief of distress which is commonly    
called charity--to the obvious duty of  
devoting1 from our superfluities1       
something that we scarcely miss1 to the 
wants of a starving brother4 ,no4 ,i    
appeal to the poorest amongst ye1 if the

 worst burdens are those of the body--if
 the kind word and the tender thought   
have not often lightened your hearts    
more than bread bestowed with a grudge1 
and charity that humbles you by a frown4
 ,sympathy is a beneficence at the      
command of us all1--yea1 of the pauper  
as of the king2 and sympathy is         
,christ's wealth4 ,sympathy is          
brotherhood4 ,the rich are told to have 
charity for the poor1 and the poor are  
enjoined to respect their superiors4    
,good3 ,i say not to the contrary4 ,but 
,i say also to the poor1 ',in your turn 
have charity for the rich2' and ,i say  
to the rich1 ',in your turn respect the 
poor4'  ',bear ye one another's burdens1
 and so fulfil the law of ,christ4'     
,thou1 ,o poor man1 envy not nor grudge 
thy brother his larger portion of       
worldly goods4 ,believe that he hath his
 sorrows and crosses like thyself1 and  
perhaps1 as more delicately nurtured1 he
 feels them more2 nay1 hath he not      
temptations so great that our ,lord hath

 exclaimed--',how hardly they that have 
riches enter into the kingdom of        
heaven8' ,and what are temptations but  
trials8--what are trials but perils and 
sorrows8 ,think not that you cannot     
bestow your charity on the rich man1    
even while you take your sustenance from
 his hands4 ,a heathen writer1 often    
cited by the earliest preachers of the  
gospel1 hath truly said--',wherever     
there is room for a man1 there is place 
for a benefit4'  ,and ,i ask any rich   
brother amongst you when he hath gone   
forth to survey his barns and his       
granaries1 his gardens and orchards1 if 
suddenly1 in the vain pride of his      
heart1 he sees the scowl on the brow of 
the laborer--if he deems himself hated  
in the midst of his wealth--if he feels 
that his least faults are treasured up  
against him with the hardness of malice1
 and his plainest benefits received with
 the ingratitude of envy--,i ask1 ,i    
say1 any rich man1 whether straightway  
all pleasure in his worldly possessions 

does not fade from his heart1 and       
whether he does not feel what a wealth  
of gladness it is in the power of the   
poor man to bestow6 ,for all these      
things of ,mammon pass away2 but there  
is in the smile of him whom we have     
served1 a something that we may take    
with us into heaven4 ,if1 then1 ye bear 
one another's burdens1 they who are poor
 will have mercy on the errors1 and     
compassion for the griefs of the rich4  
,to all men it was said--yes1 to the    
,lazarus as to the ,dives--',judge not1 
that ye be not judged4' ,but think not1 
,o rich man1 that we preach only to the 
poor4 ,if it be their duty not to grudge
 thee thy substance1 it is thine to do  
all that may sweeten their labor4       
,remember1 that when our ,lord said1    
',how hardly shall they that have riches
 enter into the kingdom of heaven1' he  
replied also to them who asked1 ',who   
then shall be saved8' ',the things which
 are impossible with men are possible   
with ,god3' that is1 man left to his own

 temptations would fail2 but            
strengthened by ,god1 he shall be saved4
 ,if thy riches are the tests of thy    
trial1 so may they also be the          
instruments of thy virtues4 ,prove by   
thy riches that thou art compassionate  
and tender1 temperate and benign2 and   
thy riches themselves may become the    
evidence at once of thy faith and of thy
 works4  ,we have constantly on our lips
 the simple precept1 ',do unto others as
 ye would be done by4' ,why do we fail  
so often in the practice8 ,because we   
neglect to cultivate that ,,sympathy    
which nature implants as an instinct1   
and the ,saviour exalts as a command4   
,if thou wouldst do unto thy neighbor as
 thou wouldst be done by1 ponder well   
how thy neighbor will regard the action 
thou art about to do to him4 ,put       
thyself into his place4 ,if thou art    
strong1 and he is weak1 descend from thy
 strength1 and enter into his weakness2 
lay aside thy burden for the while1 and 
buckle on his own2 let thy sight see as 

through his eyes--thy heart beat as in  
his bosom4 ,do this1 and thou wilt often
 confess that what had seemed just to   
thy power will seem harsh to his        
weakness4 ,for 'as a zealous man hath   
not done his duty1 when he calls his    
brother drunkard and beast1'#bi even so 
an administrator of the law mistakes his
 object if he writes on the grand column
 of society1 only warnings that irritate
 the bold1 and terrify the timid3 and a 
man will be no more in love with law    
than with virtue1 'if he be forced to it
 with rudeness and incivilities4' ,if1  
then1 ye would bear the burden of the   
lowly1 ,o ye great--feel not only for   
them1 but with6 ,watch that your pride  
does not chafe them--your power does not
 wantonly gall4 ,your worldly inferior  
is of the class from which the apostles 
were chosen--amidst which the ,lord of  
,creation descended from a throne above 
the seraphs4  ,the ,parson here paused a
 moment1 and his eye glanced towards the
 pew near the pulpit1 where sat the     

magnate of ,hazeldean4 ,the ,squire was 
leaning his chin thoughtfully on his    
hand1 his brow inclined downwards1 and  
the natural glow of his complexion much 
heightened4  ,but--resumed the ,parson  
softly1 without turning to his book1 and
 rather as if prompted by the suggestion
 of the moment--,but he who has         
cultivated sympathy commits not these   
errors1 or1 if committing them1 hastens 
to retract4 ,so natural is sympathy to  
the good man1 that he obeys it          
mechanically when he suffers his heart  
to be the monitor of his conscience4 ,in
 this sympathy behold the bond between  
rich and poor6 ,by this sympathy1       
whatever our varying worldly lots1 they 
become what they were meant to          
be--exercises for the virtues more      
peculiar to each2 and thus1 if in the   
body each man bear his own burden1 yet  
in the fellowship of the soul all have  
common relief in bearing the burdens of 
each other4 ,this is the law of         
,christ--fulfil it1 ,o my flock6  ,here 

the ,parson closed his sermon1 and the  
congregation bowed their heads4         
,,footnotes3  #bh ,by the pounds        
,milanese1 ,giacomo means the ,milanese 
lira4     ,gleanings from the ,journals4
   ,dr4 ,,turnbull says in the ,medical 
,gazette1 ,it has struck me that1 if we 
could discover any substance which could
 be so applied as to contract the iris1 
one cause of the effect of              
shortsightedness would be remedied4 ,the
 result1 ,i am happy to say1 has been   
most satisfactory4 ,in the first        
instance ,i applied the extract of      
ginger1 which was rubbed five or ten    
times over the whole forehead1 with the 
view of acting upon the fifth pair of   
nerves4 ,afterwards ,i substituted a    
concentrated tincture1 of the strength  
of one part of ginger to two parts of   
spirits of wine1 decolorated by animal  
charcoal4 ,in numerous cases this       
application has almost doubled the      
vision4         99       99       99    
99       99  ,mr4 ,,george ,,cruikshank 

has presided over a temperance meeting  
at ,bristol4 ,he maintained in his      
address that if ,shakspeare were alive  
now1 he would be of their society6 ,in  
',othello1' there was the character of a
 bad man1 one ,iago1 who1 setting       
himself to work the ruin of another1    
begins by making him drunk1 and when it 
is first offered to him the answer is1  
',not to-night1 good ,iago4 ,i have very
 poor and unhappy brains for drinking4  
,i could well wish courtesy would invent
 some other custom of entertainment4'   
,they would re-echo that wish1 he was   
sure2 courtesy might invent a better    
custom of entertainment than that of    
drinking--7applause74 ,we observe that  
the meeting gave three cheers for ,the  
,bottle4 ,a stranger to modern          
engravings would no doubt consider this 
in the last degree inconsistent4        
99       99       99       99       99  
,we find in the ,london papers accounts 
of a ,copying ,electric ,telegraph1     
invented by a ,mr4 ,bakewell1 who had   

given lectures upon it at the ,russell  
,institution4 ,its object is the        
transmission of the handwriting of      
correspondents4 ,its advantages are1    
freedom from error1 as the messages     
transmitted are fac-similes of the      
originals3 authentication of the        
communications by the transmission of   
copies of the handwriting2 increased    
rapidity1 to such an extent that a      
single wire may be as effective as ten  
with the needle telegraph1 and          
consequent economy in the construction  
of telegraphic lines of communication4  
,the secrecy of correspondence would    
also be maintained in a greater degree  
by the copying telegraph1 as it would   
afford peculiar facility for            
transmitting messages in cipher1 and the
 telegraph clerks1 instead of being     
compelled by their duties to read all   
the messages transmitted1 might be      
forbidden from perusing any portion but 
the address4 ,as an additional means of 
secrecy1 the messages may be transmitted

 invisibly1 by moistening the paper with
 diluted muriatic acid alone1 the       
writing being rendered legible by a     
solution of prussiate of potass4        
99       99       99       99       99  
,the original ,mrs4 ,partington was a   
respectable old lady 7says ,notes and   
,queries71 living at ,sidmouth1 in      
,devonshire4 ,her cottage was on the    
beach1 and during an awful storm        
7,november1 #ahbd1 when some fifty or   
sixty ships were wrecked at ,plymouth7  
the sea rose to such a height as every  
now and then to invade the old lady's   
place of domicile2 in fact1 almost every
 wave dashed in at the door4 ,mrs4      
,partington1 with such help as she could
 command1 with mops and brooms1 as fast 
as the water entered the house1 mopped  
it out again2 until at length the waves 
had the mastery1 and the dame was       
compelled to retire to an upper story of
 the house4 ,the first allusion to the  
circumstance was made by ,lord ,brougham
 in his celebrated speech in the ,house 

of ,commons on the ,reform ,bill1 in    
which he compared the ,conservative     
opposition to the bill to be like the   
opposition of ,dame ,partington1 who    
endeavored to mop out the waves of the  
,atlantic4         99       99       99 
99       99  ,it is stated that the     
,neapolitan ,government has granted a   
sum of twenty thousand ducats for       
continuing the excavations at ,pompeii4 
,,footnotes3  #bi ,,jeremy ,,taylor--,of
 ,christian ,prudence4     ,ladies'     
,fashions for ,january4   ,illustration 
,the evening costumes of the present    
season are characterized by profuse     
trimming4 ,the skirts of the newest     
dresses1 excepting those composed of    
very rich materials1 are all very fully 
trimmed4 ,corsages1 whether high or low1
 are ornamented in some way or other4   
,flounces1 employed to trim the skirts  
of ball dresses1 are made somewhat      
fuller than heretofore4 ,even lace      
flounces1 which used to be set on plain1
 are now gathered up in slight fulness4 

,to add still more to the appearance of 
amplitude in dresses trimmed with lace1 
some dressmakers edge the skirts with a 
fontange of ribbon4 ,with ball dresses  
of transparent textures1 trimmed with   
flounces of the same1 this fontange of  
ribbon is frequently placed at the edge 
of the slip worn under the dress4 ,tulle
 dresses are now fashionable for ball   
costume4 ,some pretty organdy muslins1  
intended for very young ladies1 have    
just been introduced4 ,these dresses    
should be made with two jupes1 simply   
edged with a broad hem4  ,cloth is      
adopted for morning walking dresses1    
redingote form1 open down the front1 and
 embroidered in arabesque pattern1 in   
silk braid and other trimming2 the      
sleeves are worked at bottom1 and open1 
to admit underneath cambric or muslin   
sleeves tight at the wrist2 the body is 
embroidered to match the skirts4 ,with  
this redingote is worn a pardessus of   
the same cloth1 embroidered in front and
 at bottom with braiding of from two to 

two and a half inches wide4             
,illustration  ,the more showy dresses1 
and a little decolletees1 are square in 
front 7,louis ,,xv4 style71 the body    
pointed1 the skirt plain1 and but few   
flounces4 ,the colors are sombre and    
plain2 the materials are velvet1 satin1 
damask1 watered1 antique1 and some      
plaids1 for the theatres and for half   
dress4 ,these dresses are always worn   
with open sleeves1 trimmed with         
engageantes4  ,short velvet cloaks1     
richly embroidered either in satin      
stitch1 silk braid1 or gimp1 are in     
vogue1 the preferred colors being       
burnt-bread and black4 ,short velvet    
cloaks1 of the paletot shape1 half      
tight1 trimmed with lace1 embroidered   
entirely in satin stitch1 and with      
narrow braiding1 are also worn4  ,on    
mantelets of silk1 entirely embroidered 
velvet ribbon is worn2 or stamped velvet
 flowers1 upon the stuff1 produce a very
 pleasing effect4 ,the braid used for   
the arabesque pattern is commonly plain1

 or has only a thick cord1 and is from  
half to three quarters of an inch wide4 
,walking boots1 entirely of leather1 are
 the most fashionable4  ,in the         
,illustrations which we give this month3
  ,i4 ,is a ,cap of ,alencon lace1 with 
flat bows of ribbon1 and lappets of the 
same4  ,,ii4 ,a ,bonnet of pink satin1  
covered with cut black velvet4 ,a       
trimming of black lace encircles the    
crown4 ,the bonnet may be lined either  
with pink satin or with black velvet2   
and the under trimming consists of small
 pink flowers4 ,strings of pink satin   
ribbon4  ,,iii4 ,engageantes of ,india  
muslin1 with two rows of ,mechlin lace1 
one above the other4  ,,iv4 ,velvet     
mantelet1 with arabesque in silk        
braiding1 a quarter of an inch wide1 and
 satin stitch1 slightly fitting to the  
waist2 wide sleeves1 and entirely       
embroidered4  ,v4 7,see the group of    
figures upon the following page47  7,i47
 ,evening ,costume for a ,bride1 back   
view4--,the headdress a wreath of white 

roses1 mingled with orange-blossom4     
,back hair arranged in twists1 in the   
style called noeud d' ,apollon4 ,across 
the forehead may be worn a narrow       
bandeau of pearls or diamonds4 ,dress of
 white crape over white satin2 front of 
the skirt with bouquets of the same     
flowers as those in the wreath4 ,the    
corsage has a berthe of folds of white  
tulle4 ,the sleeves slightly full1 and  
ornamented on the shoulder with         
epaulettes of tulle4 ,necklace1 a single
 row of pearls4 7,,ii47 ,costume for an 
,evening ,party4--,dress of brocade1 the
 ground a dark violet color1 with large 
bouquets of flowers in a variety of     
hues4  ,illustration  ,a sortie de bal  
of cerulean blue satin1 edged with a    
broad band of velvet of the same color1 
on which a braid is disposed in a zigzag
 pattern4 ,the headdress of loops of    
narrow blue velvet ribbon fixed on each 
side of the head4 7,,iii47 ,bride's     
dress suited to the ,nuptial            
,ceremony4--,robe of white satin2 the   

skirt ornamented with side trimmings1   
consisting each of a row of lace1 headed
 by a fronce of white satin ribbon4     
,this trimming is set on spirally up    
each side of the skirt1 and is attached 
at intervals by small bows of white     
satin ribbon4 ,the corsage is half high 
at the back1 and is sloped somewhat     
lower in front4 ,the front of the       
corsage is trimmed with rows of lace set
 on horizontally4 ,on the neck is worn a
 chemisette of lace4 ,the sleeves are   
finished at the ends with a full        
trimming of white satin ribbon4 ,the    
under-sleeves are loose at the ends1 and
 are edged with two rows of lace4 ,on   
each arm a bracelet of gold1 one of the 
serpent pattern1 and the other fastened 
by a cameo snap4 ,bridal wreath of      
orange-blossom and jasmin4 ,a very large
 veil of tulle illusion is fixed under  
the wreath instead of being thrown over 
it1 as is sometimes customary4