Evening Star Newspaper, June 19, 1897, Page 17

sf THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1897-24 PAGES, rc horse which was raised am the | had a particular reason for these | I saw the same woman hanging clothes on | voice gave th urage yk up, I «S H R cE WS B U R Y ” — coltesians and servants;and doubt- | excursions as little as possible, whioh was | the line. She had her back to, me, as om | hed betore ne te conse eet . jess if he had been go tacky as to I an | that they exposed me to frequent meetings | the former occasion, but time I lin- | dozen Sunday evenings had made me fa- of honor, je | with gay young sparks of my own age, |. a 8 a pot ose scornful looks as they rode by, with or is ill-chance eye or an arm ip th [ib -osctomptaoee names they called after would have forgiven Olver the king's sufferings only, miliar; the dull circle of yellow light; with- in it madam’s spectacles shining over the ANHEUSER-BUSCH BREWING 17 SS’N, : beok, while her finger industriously fol- : BY STANLEY J. WEYMAN. But in place of that It was me, asi 0 dressed the boys’ hair, and ter barrels, at a litte behind her her to be ofe of the troop, that, Fare! the like, fOUnd-st Aifficult to Support— tT could not s¢e | husband, n and pecpvent himself THE LEADING BREWERY IN THE WORLD. ee night by the sive a alpngtcs<,. 3 ayes; with the aig of thoge ri ns 6 | did not turn | by turns. is Was not all, poe for |- ° (Copsright, 1697, by Stanley J. Weyman.) fright at nothing and galloped t Abing off | dignity of learning and the Latin fomeug, iny wore &/ this time I saw also and imprimis a dim, iigaae aes ee weccaa ool _ ; Without drawing rein} for whi a yeagon, which I had imbibed from my late 4 pred ef f] Ace, framed in the background be- Written for Tue Eve ~~ | Gnd because an example was needed, they | “Bo it rememboren Ge naliiation oc tha afeh, find | hind the two old people; and that now in| Brewers Of the Most Wholesome and Popular Beers. were disbanded. True, I never heard that ] which I shall presenily tell) that at this | by and by she B » | shadow, now in light, gleamed before my the fault lay with our master, nor that he | time I was only eighteen, an at ye and_took up the iy ket to go in| fascinated eyes with unearthly beauty. = was a man of less courage than his neigh- | the passions and ambitions awake, and that 5 and thereon, in the act of | Once twice, fearing to be observed, I 3 bors; but he took the matter peculiarly to | this was my life. At a. time when youth.| rising from stooping, igpked directly at | avert my gaze and looked elsewhere, Chapter 1. heart, and never forgave the Roundheads | demands change and excitement, and the | ™e, not being mote than -two, or, at the | guiltily and with hot temples; but always the siur they had unwittingly cast on his That the untimely death at the age of fif- ty-eight of that great prince, Charles, Duke of Shrewsbury, my most noble and generous patron, has afflicted me with a sorrow which I may truly call acerbus et ingens, is nothing to the world; which from one in my situation could expect no other, and on the briefest relation of the benefits I had at his hands, might lock for more. Were this all, therefore, or my task confined to such a relation, I should supererogate in- deed in making this appearance. But I am informed that my lord duke’s death has re- vived in certain quarters those rumors to his prejudice which were so industriously fringe of ornament, my days and weeks | mcst, three paces front =It was but one went by in @ plain round, as barren of | look, and it lasted, I suppose, two seconds wholesome interests as it was unadorned | 0- 50, but it touched sometping in me that by ony kindly aid or companionship. To re, ride, to teach, to use the cane, to move al- ways in a dull atmosphere of routine; for diversion to pace the yard I have de- scribed, always with shrill quarrelings -in my ears_these with the weekly walk, made up my life at Ware, and must form my ex- cuse. How the one dame to an abrupt end, how I came to have sore need of the other it is now my business to tell, but of these in the next chapter. Wherein, also, I propose to show, without any moralities, another thing that shall prove them to the pur- pose, namely, how these early experiences, which I have thus curtly described, led me T honor; on the contrary, and in the event he regularly celebrated the 30th of Janu- ary by flogging the six boys who stood low- est in each form, and afterward reading the service of the day over their smarting tails. By some, indeed, it was alleged that the veriest dunces, it of loyal stock, might Icok to escape on these occasions; but I treat this as a calumny. That the good man did in truth love and favor loyalty, however, and this without sparing the rod in season, I am myself a bright and excellent example. For, though I never attained the outward flower of scholarship by proceeding to the learned degre of arts at either of the universities, I gained the root and kernel of the matter at Bishop's Stortford; being able at the age had_never been toych¢#befpre, and at this time of writing, and I have been long married, and have'ch§dren, my body burns the remembrance of it. For not only was'the face that-for those two sec- onds ‘looked into mine of rare beauty, brown and low-browed, With scarlet, laugh- ing lips and milk white,teeth and eyes of witching, ‘brighter than. a queen's jewels, but in the look, short as it was and pass- ng, shone a something that I had never seen in a woman's face before,‘a some- thing, God knows what—appea! or passion or temptation—that on the instant fired my blood. I suppose, nay, I know, that the face that flashed that look at me from longer I let my eyes dwell on the viston— for a vision it seemed in the halo of the candles—and the more. monotonous hung the silence, broken only by Mrs. D.’s even drone, the more distinctly the beautiful face stood out, and the more bewitching and alluring appeared the red lips and smiling eyes and dark, clustering hair, that moment by moment drew my heart from me and kindled my boy's brain and filled my veins with fever! sin of David!” to all seeming endiessly, while the air of the dingy, whitewashed room grew stale, and the candles guttered’ and burned low, returned to it again. always the “Seventhly, and under this head, of the Mrs. D. booming on, in her deep voice, The Original Budweiser The Michelob The Muenchener The Faust The Anheuser The Pale Lager put about at the time of his first retire- * fine’hand, and read | Per viam dolorosam to my late lord, and | under the dirty sunbonnet could change to and the boys, poor little wretches, . ment, and which, refuted as they were at | Of fourteen, 10, ae ST cack tee Wen Mingled my fortunes with his under clr! marvel, and ina minute, and as by a mares aot ite ee aie eee the time by the express declaration of his| ook and Christ cross to younger boys. | ‘-mstances not unworthy of examina| miracle, become dull and almost ugly, or e z. sovereign, and at leisure by his own be- havior, and the support which at two great crises he gave to the Protestant succes- sion, formed always a proof of the malice, 8s now of the persistence, of his enemies. Still, such as they are, and though not these circumstances only, but a thousand thers, have time after time exposed them, i am instructed that they are again afloat, and find favor in circles where to think ili of public men is held the first test of ex- pytence. And this being the case, and my affection f6F my lord such as is natural, { perceive a clear duty. I do not, indeed, sup- Pose that any one ean at.this time of cay ch nse of all good men ved—I mean the rumors; nor js a plain ie those with whom the most beautiful in the world. But then that and all such things wereenew to me, who knew no women, .and had never spoken to a woman in the way of love; or thought of one when her back was turned and she gone without a second glance. I went back to the house another man, my heart thumping in my breast and my 4 cheeks burning, and my whole being op- pressed with desire and bashfulness and Wonder and curiosity, and a hundred other emotions that would not permit me to be &t ease until I had hidden myself from all eyes. Well, to be brief, that in the space I have taken to tell it changed all. I was eighteen; the girl’s shining eyes burned me up, as flame burns stubble—in an hour, @ day, a week. I can no more say within what time than I can describe what befell me before I was born, for if that was a I whether Mr. eres went nearer to breaking his neck. At last—or was it only my fancy—I made out @ small, the circle of light. ing—one of the candles began to move but to move so little and so stealthily, tha’ sworn, if Mr. D.’s wig had nota moment later taken fire with.a light flame, and a second brought him, still half asleep, but swearing, to his feet. as if she had been shot, mouth open, and the volume lifted; her surprise at the in- terruption so great that she could not for D.’s neddings or recov- brown hand gliding within Then—or was I dream- could not swear to it; nor ever could have fench, and a frizzling sound, that in a PART It. CHAPTER II (Continued). Mrs. D. halted in the middle of a word, Served on all Pullman Dining and Buffet Cars. Served on all Wagner Dining and Buffet Cars. Served on all Ocean and Lake Steamers. Served in all First Class Hotels. Served in the Best Families. Served in all Fine Clubs. every Man-ol-War and Cruiser. Served at most of the Carried on States Army Posts and Soldiers’ Homes. The Greatest Tonic, ‘‘Malt-Nutrine” the Food-drink, is prepared by this Association, ports, ntly furbished up, of sleeping, this was a dream, and passed | a while find words. But the stream of her | —S2@-3-m&w30t__ —— = nm in France weigh more than a swift and confused as one. I was madly | indignation, th vhé a, onl: fathered consistent lfe.. But my, lora’s case is now, and desperately in love. Her face, bril- Kees Se he into mine, while I rained kisses on her| . Apples as Medicine. as I take it, removed to the appeal court of posterity, which nevertheless a le, con- stantly iterated may misiead. To provide somewhat to corre and wherefrom future historians ‘aw, I, who knew him well and deep in his confidence at the time of Sir John Fen- racy—of Which these calum- down my shrinking from no fullness, at times even venturing on pro- ys remembering a saying of ers, that the most material part y is often that in which the mself least. To adventure which in the case of many, rhaps the bulk of writers, might surfeit of their readers, I feel ng, which, first place in the circum- to appear, was later im- constant practice in the compo- sition of my lord's papers. liant, mischievous, alluring, rose before the thumbed grammar by day, and the window of the fetid crowded bed room by night, and filled the slow, gray dawnings, now with joy and -now with despair. For the time 1 thought only of her, lived for her, did my work in dreams of her. I kept no count of time. I gave no heed to what passed round me, but I-went through the routine of my miserable life, nappy as the slave that, rich in the possession of some beneficent drug, defies the pains of labor and the lash. I say my miserable life, but I say it, so great was the change, in a figure only and in retrospect. Mrs. D. might scorn me now, and the boys squab- ble roufid me; yet, that lifé was no longer miserable nor dull, whereof every morning flattered me with hopes of seeing my mis- tress, and every third day or so fulfilled the promise. = With all this, and though from the mo- ment her eyes met mine across the tence YOU ARE TO COME TO THIS SIDE.” by those who take mankind for their study. Chapter II. To begin with, Mrs. D., though she seldom condescended to our house, and when engaged in her kitchen premises These attainments, and the taste for polite learning, which, az these pages must tes- tify, I have never ceased to cultivate, I owe rather to the predilection which he had for mae than to my own gifts; which, indeed, though doubtless I was always a boy of scme parts, I do not remember to have volume, and in a few second broke forth. down on the table, Do you know that the boys are here?” He had taken it off and now held it at arm's length, looking at it so ruefully that the boys, though they knew the danger, could scarcely restrain their laughter. member!” that made us quake. zied at dinner, sir, and swilled small beer you would have remained awake instead of spins. a good wig, and staining your scul! roughly. would brook no denial the wig to Jennie, si emptorily. ycur head. It is well that good Mr. Nesbit “Mr. D.! she cried, slamming the book ou disgusting beast! “My wig is on fire!” he cried for answer. “And serve you right for a weak kneed his wife answered in a voice “If you had not guz- Ay, and causing these little ones—” “I never closed my eyes!” he declared, “Rubbish!” she answered in a tone that And then, “Give she continued, per- “And put your handkerchief on face. Doubtless the darkness and her grief gave me boldness to do this; and to do a hun- dred other mad things in my ecstasy. For as I had never spoken to her before, any more than I had ever held a woman in my arms before, so I had not thought, I had not dreamed of this!Of her hand,perhaps,but no more, Therefore,and though since Adam's time the stars have looked down on many a lover's raptures, never, I verily believe, have they gazed on transports so perfect, so unlooked for, as were mine at that mo- ment! And all the time not a word passed between us, but after a while she pushed me from her, and, holding me at arm's length, looked at me strangely; and then, thrusting me altogether from her, bade me, almost roughly¢ go back. “What? And leave you?” I aried, aston- ished and heart-broken. “No, sir; but go to the other side of the she answered firmly, drying her eyes and recovering something of her usual From the Medical Summary. The German analysts say that the apple contains a larger percentage of phosphorus than any other fruit or vegetable. This phosphorus is admirably adapted for re- newing the essential nervous matter, lithl- cin, of the brain and spinal cord. It is, perhaps, for the same reason the old Scan- dinavian traditions represent the apple as the food of the gods, who, when they felt themselves growing feeble and infirm, re- sorted to this fruit for renewing their pow- ers of mind and body. Also the acids of the apple are of signal service for men of’ sedentary habits, whose livers are sluggish in action, these acids rving to eliminate from the body noxious Matters which, if retained, make the brain heavy and dull, or bring abcut jaundice, skin eruptions and other allied troubles. Some such experi- : s ill € ck 5 zs to ignore the proximity of ours, | hér beauty possessed me utterly, o full | dces not know what language has been | calmness. “And more, if you love me as| ence must have led to our custom of tak- maancariy tua(eveacerar Desens Tos, in eee Paris nota hay Segre ceed in Ware the eepathiion of a coke uentietapeca eerorea ab ane. ra ner] | Used during his discourse. It would cut waniaay Youle ie ee x ing apple passe with roast pork, rich chich Si : fue, | ever erent 2 e Interv; 4 hat excellent the heart. ¥ rotested. “If?” I cried. “If! And| goose and like dishes. But sottiy, and a little if'you please, above: | Vance’ a (aa fee pret shrewd and capable housewife. Whether | always in the wretched guise in which she | hear, cis sive the wig to Jeonie?' she thos, | what then?” A good ripe, raw apple is one of the sot n ttle, jiease, - Tian tolithe: a ; e 23 : on I ” inasmu! the particulars which enabled | the, Promoting me to the place of anes | she owed this solely to the possession of a| had first appeared to me, which, so far | dered. “A handkerchief is good enough tor ‘You will learn to obey.” she answered, | easiest of vegetable substances for the my lord's enemies to place a sinister inter- pretation on his conduct in those years had somewhat to do with me. Therefore, before 1 can clear the matter up from every point of view, I am frst to say who I am, and how I came to fa!l in the way of that great man, and gain his approbation, with ether preliminary matters relating to my- self, whereof some do not please at this distance, and yet must be set down, it with a wry face. Of which I am glad to say, the worst comes first, or at least early. And with that to proceed, premising always that as in all that follows 1 am no one, and the | from wrecking my passion, augmented it by the full measyre of the ‘mystery and charm with which the sordidacss cf her dress, in contrast with her sparkling beauty, invested her irtimy anind, But for. speaking with her, that was another mat- ter, and one presenting so,,many difficul- ties (whereof, as the boys’ constant pres- ence and Mrs. D.'s terftper Were the great- est, so my bashfulness! wa#not the least), that I think we migh¥ have gone another fortnight, and perhaps a thisd to that, had Rot a certain privilege on which Mr. D's good lady greatly prided Herself, come to our aid in the nick of‘time? and by bring- sharp temper and voluble veice I cannot say, but only that during all the time I was there I scarcely ever passed an hour in our miserable playground without my ears being deafened and my brain irri- tated by the sound of her chiding. She had the advantage, when I first came to the school of an elderly servant, who went about her work under an even flow of scolding, and, it may be, had become so accustomed to the infliction as fo be neither the better nor worse for it. But about the time of which I am writing, when, as I have said, I had been there twelve months, would have done it, but for the fit that took him at the first news of the Rye House plot—which a friend imprudently brought to him when he was merry after dinner—and at one and the same time car- ried him off, and deprived me of the best of pedagoguss. After that, and learning that his succes- sor had a son whom he proposed to pro- mote to the place I desired, I returned to the school no more, but began to live at home, at first with pleasure, but after no long interval with growing chagrin and tedium. Our house possessed none of the comforts that are necessary to idleness, profane swearers and filthy talkers. too good! ing for it; but between his anger and Jen- nie’s clumsiness the wig, in passing from one to the other, fell under the table. This caused Mrs. D., who was at the end of her patience, went a candle. for the grease in its-fall cast a trail of hot drops on her Sunday gown, and in a flash she was-on the maid and had smacked her face till the room rang. gage!” she cried in fury, her face crimson. And Too good, sir!” He went reluctantly to obey, seeing noth- to spring in a rage, and down Nor was this the worst, “Take that, and that, you clumsy bag- coolly and yet with an archness that trans- ported me anew. “I am not one of your boys.” For that word I would have caught her in my arms again, but with @ power that 1 presently me to know, and whereof*that was the first exercise, she waved me back. “Go!” she said masterfully. “For this time, go. Do you hear me?” I stood in awe of her and was easily cowed, and I crossed the fence. When 1 was on my side she, came to the gap and rewarded me by giving me her hand to kiss. “Understand me,” she said. “You are to come to this side, sir, only when 1 stomach to deal with, the whole process of its digestion being completed in eighty- five minutes. In the Hotel des Invalides of Paris an ap- ple poultice is used commonly for flamed eyes, the apple being roasted and its pulp applied over the eyes without any intervening substance. Long ago it waa said apples do easily and speedily pass through the belly, therefor lify the belly. And for thi , they do mol- me reason @ modern maxim teaches that “To eat an ap- ple going to bed, the doctor then will beg his bread.” Fruits were given us before drugs, and 7 's, I shall deal very suc- S marked a chan: 3. D.' , | Ing us into the same room:{a thing which | “And that! And the next time you offer to | give you leave. 3 they all have some medicinal virtue. ae eures co concesne annie hare and therefore when the ents Lge a toe aadene trom he eer pair had never occurred before, and of itself | take a gentieman’s wig have better man- “Or I eried. “Can you be so cruel?” Prunes, apples, pears, figs, peaches, are ings, and where I must state them for] indoors from swinging on the gate, ot sive’ | and rising shrillness of her tone that she | threw me into a fever),,compined with for- | rers. ‘This will cost youa year’s wages, my ‘Or not at all, if you prefer it,” she con-| all aperient, and how much better itis to clearness of narrative will do so currente | Ing in the stack yard, I found im it nether | nag passed from drilling an old servant | tune to aid my hopes. fine madam! And let me hear of your step- | tinued drily. “More, you must go in now, | keep the liver and bowels free from clog- calamo, as the ancients were wont to} welcome nor | oscupaine place of assistant | @ Informing a new one. To confirm this| This privilegé—tor 56 Mrg. D. invariably | ping over the doorstep until it is earned, | OF I shall be missed and beaten. You do| ging by pleasant fruit laxatives than, by say and*so forthwith to those more im-| brother had seized one seat thews and | theory before long “Lazy slut! and | styled it—was the solemn gathering of the} and I will have you jailed and whipped. not want that to happen, I suppose?’ resorting every few days to drastic saling portant matters with which my readers de-| t© my father. and having F°tresh ground | “Dirty baggage!” and “Take that, In- | household on one Sundty ineach month to} Do you hear? And you,” she continued, If that hag touches you again,” I cried, | purgatives, or to calomel and its various sire to be made acquainted. euersidawl eine nee of ee eeainaa= solence!” were the best of the terms I | listen to a discourse whichnshe read to us | turning ferociously on ker husband,“‘swear-| boiling with rage at the thought, “I will—| compounds. Suffice it, then, that I was born near Bishop's Stortford, on the borders of Hert- fordshire, in that year so truly called the Annus Mirabilis 1666; my father, a small yeoman, my mother of no better stock, she being the daughter of a poor parson in that neighborhood. In such a station she was nct likely to boast much learning, yet she culd read, and having served’ two years in a great man’s still room, had ac- quired notions of gentility that went as i with lated er station as they were little calcu- o increase her contentment. Our y not far from tne high road be- are and Bishop's Stortford, which with frequent opportunities nd court, who were gf that way two or year to Newmarket to occasions we rs to the side on the pageant, lies, both mask- gentlemen in ali heard, and these so frequently mingled with blows and slaps, and at times with a sound of sobbing, that my gorge rose. I had listened indifferently enough, and, if with irritation, without much pain, to the chiding of the old servant, and I knew no more of this one. But by the instinct which draws youth to youth, or by reason of Mrs. D.’s increased severity, I began to feel for her, to pity her, and at last to wonder what she was like, and her age, and so forth. Nothing more formidable than a low pal- ing separated the garden of Mrs. D.'s house from our yard, but that her eyes might not be offended by the ignoble sight of the trade by which she lived, four great water butts were ranked along the fence, which, being as tall as a man, nicely ar- ranged, and strengthened on her side by an accumulation of rubbish and whatnots, formed a pretty effective screen. The boys, indeed, had their spyholes, and were in the habit of peeping, when .I did not check herself, her husband _ sitth meekly by, from the works of sqgme independent di-. vine. On these occagjons.,she delivered herself so sonorously.and “with so much gusto that I do not déubt she found com- pensation in them from the tedium of the sermon on passive obedience or the fate of the Amalekite, to which in compliance with- the lews against dissent she had perforce listened earlier in the day. The master and.mistress and the servant sat on one side of the room, I with the boys on the other; and hitherto I am unable to say which of us suffered more under the in- fliction. But the appearance of my saint— so, when madame’s voice rang shrillest and- most angrily over the soapsuds, I had come to think of her—in a place behind her master and mistress (being the same in which the old servant had nodded ahd grunted every sermon evening since com- ing) put a new complexion on the matter. For her, she came in apparently uncoi scious-of my presence, “and took her seat, ness. Did I milk, the cows kicked over the bucket, while I thovght of other things; did I ploy, my furrows ran crooked; when I threshed, the flail soon wearied my arms. In the result therefore the respect with which my father had at first regarded my learning wore off, and he grew to hate the sight of me loafing in the doorway, my sleeves too short for my chapped arms, and my breeches barely to my knees. Though my mother still believed in me, and occa- sionaliy, when she was in an ill-luimor with my father, made me read to her, her support scarcely balanced the neighbors’ sneers. Nor, when I chanced to displease her—which to do her justice was not of- ten, for I was her favorite—was she above joining in the generai cry and asking me, while she cufy:d me, whether I thougat that cherries fell into the mouth and meant to spend all my life with my hands in my pockets. To make a long story short, at the end of ing on the Lord’s day like a drunken, raf- fling, godfo1 much better: @ coarse outburst of vixenish temper, made prominent by after events. But what I felt at the moment I should vainly try to de- scribe. on the point of springing on the woman, and at another all but caught the sobbing girl in my arms and challenged the world to touch her. fully awakened, and the more inclined to remember decency in proportion as his wife forgot it, recalled me to myself by sternly bidding me see the boys to their beds. der, but flocked to the door, and I with them, In our retreat it was necessary to pass close te the shrinking girl, whom Mrs. D. was still abusing with all the cruelty imaginable; and as I did so I heard, or dreamed that I heard three words, breath- ed in the faintest possible whisper. ken tantivey! You are not It stands in my memory now, as merely Suffice it that at one time I was Fortunately, Mr. D., now Glad to escape, they needed no second or- I say I will— “What?” she said softly, and her fingers closed on mine and sent a thrill to my heart. “I will strangle her!” I cried. She laughed a little cruelly. “Fine words,” she said. “But I mean them,” I answered passion- ately. And I swore it. What will not a boy in love promise? “Well,” she answered, whispering and leaning forward until her breath fanned my cheek, and the intoxicating scent of her hair stole away my senses—“perhaps some day I shall try you. Are you sure you will not fail me then?” I swore it, panting, and tried to draw her toward me, but she held back, laughing softly and as one well pleased; and then, in a moment, snatching her hand from me, she vanished in the darkness of the gar- den. (To be continued.) ee As Told by Horatio Seymour. From the Utica Observer. Speaking of Horatio Seymour at the Cog- burn Club last evening, the old political member was reminded of the following anecdote, which, he asserted, the governor used to tell on himself: “I had just taken my seat in the railway carriage when I noticed two ministerial< looking men in front of me,” said the gov- ernor. mour” asked one. “Do you know this Horatio Sey- ‘No,’ came the answer, ‘although I have seen him.’ ‘Have you? Then I pray you to tell me how he looks!’ “Well, he looks what he is—a great drunk- ard, governor. answered the one who had seen the ‘Ah,’ said the questioner, sadly, ‘it's a great pity that he should be governor, I understand that he owns an interest in . and mettlesome horses | twelve months, whereof every day of the | them; but in only one place, at the corner | with downcast eyes and hands folded, and | dreamed I heard, for the girl neither looked Equality. more than half the rum shops in Utica.’ some among us better | last ten increased my hatred of the home | farthest from the house, was it possible that dull iook on her face which, when she | at me, nor removed the apron from her | an men are equal in God's sight: Yes,” was the response; ‘and he has to thi was ever the fore- y on these excur- % before I learned or days after, and hand surroundings, the dull strip of common be- fore our door, the duck pond, the horizon ard the twin ash trees on which I had cut my name so often, I heard through a neigh- to see from our side a small patch of the garden, by accident, as it were, and with- out stopping or manifest prying. This cor- ner I had hitherto shunned, for Mrs. D. chose, veiled three-fourths of its beauty. But my ears flamed, and the blood surged in my head, and I thought that all must read my secret in my face. face, nor by abating her sobs or any other sign betrayed that she spoke or that she was conscious of my neighborhood. Yet the three words—‘Garden, ten min- ‘There 1s no bisck snd there is no whites There is no high and there is no-low; There is no friend and there i no foe; And earthly passion and earthly pride look out for them in the morning, as he is always too drunk in the afternoon to at to that or any other business.’ tend I pricked up my ears,” concluded the governor, “for S , ‘The gh-nce of the head cannot abide. I was curious to know what had causeq@ expect none but gloomy looks and fretful| bor that an usher was required in a school | had more than once sent me from it with : = utes"—so gently breathed, that I doubted t answers, while my father dared no more| at Ware, This was enough for me, while, |a flea in my ear and hot cheeks; now it | , With Mts. D-. however, this was the one | Jitter heard, could only have come. from | THe Petty distinctions of rank and caste these two to go for me so severely. Prese spell duty for as much as a week than| of my family, who saw me leave with | became a favorite with me, and. na tow a | hour of the er-tand faxsivedfotsthatatieilipemeliccen ently I discovered. “Have you seen hig refuse the king's taxes. greater relief on their own account than |TI could, without courting the notice of the | ®2tural in one of her carping temper slept, that I found the ten minutes I spent, see- or "s great love when the angel Death Has stilled the heart beats, and stopped the breath; d she tasted a pleasure comparatively Thanksgiving proclamation? asked cne Nevertheless, and whatever she was as a | hope on mine, only my mother felt or af-| wretched urchins who whined and p- [and she tasted a ing the boys to bed by the light of one | And the gates of Leaven as wide do swing “Yes. And I think it scandalously infidel. —and it is true she could ding my | fected regret. With ten shillings in my| pled round me, 1 began to drequene ait? pure. peatestically aerhged Intense) a || Per i eee vee | ses ces ens ate) awe Ga SS ee s ears, and, fer as handsome as she . there were times when he wouid have been happier with a plainer woman—I am far from saying that she was a bad moth- er. Indeed, she was a kind, {f fickle and passionate one, wiser at large and in in- tention, than in practice and in small mat- ters. t if for one thing only—and putting aside natural affection, in which I trust I am not deficient—she deserved to be named by me with undying gratitude. For hav- ing learned to read, but never to write, be- yond; that the trifle of her maiden hame, she valued scholarship both by that she had, and that she had not, and in the year after I was breeched, prevailed on my pecket, her parting gift, and my scanty brary of three volumes packed among my clothes on my back, I plodded the twelve miles to Ware, satisfied the learned Mr. D— that I had had the smallpox, would sleep three in a bed, and knew more than he did, and the same day was duly ergaged tv teach in his classical seminary, in return for my board, lodging, washing and nine guineas a year. He had trailed a pike in the wars, and wes an ignorant, but neither a cruel, nor, save in the pretence of knowledge, a dis- honest man. It might be supposed, there- fore, that, after the taste of idleness and sometimes leaning against the abutting fence, with my back to the house, as in a fit of abstraction, and then slowly turn- ing—when I did not fail to rake the afore. said patch with my eyes, and sometime: taking that corner for the limit of a brisk walk to and fro, which made it natural to wheel again at that point. Notwithstanding these ruses, however, and though Mrs. D.’s voice, raised in anger, frequently bore witness to her neigh- borhood, it was some time before I caught a glimpse of the person whose fate, more doleful than mine, yet not dissimilar, had awakened my interest. At iength I espied in the character of the family priest, her vanity permitted and even incited her to wear, and provided witli a couple of tall tallow candles, which it was her husband’s duty to snuff, she would open the dreaded quarto and prop it firmly on the table be- fore her. Then, after giving out her text in a tone that need not have disgraced Hugh Petens, or the most famous preacher of her persuasion, it was her custom to lift her eyes and look around to assure herself that all was cringing attention, and this was the trying moment, and woe to the boy whose gaze wandered; his back would smart for it before he slept. These bh I I muituous I ever passed. spoken I should have found it a sorry time indeed; since, even now the moment the dcor was closed behind me I discerned a conduct, thought of a hundred thin, I should have said and saw a os convicted. Now, however, all was not over. I was about to see her, to speak with her, to pour out my indignation and pity, haps to touch her hand; and in the liclous throb of fear and excitement with which these anticipations filled my breast If she had not undred reasons to be dissatisfied with my hundred things should have done, and stood a coward per- de- speedily forgot to regret what was past. And the fires of hell burn just as bright For the tich or poor, for the black or white, —J. CG BREN written by the rector of the leading Episco- pal Chureh in Albany.” a EMBARRASSMENT. % independence I had had, I should here find myself tolerably placed and in the fair way of promotion. But I presently found that I had merely exchanged a desert for a prigon, wherein I had not only the shep- herding of the boys to do, both by night and day—which, in a short time, grew in- conceivably irksome, so that I had to choose whether I would be tyrant or slave; but also the main weight of teaching, and there no choice at all but to be a drudge. And this without any alleviation from week's end to week's end, either at meals or at any other time; for my employer's wife had high notions, and must keep a separate house, though rext door, and with communications, sitting down with us only on Sundays, and then at dinner, when woe betide the boy who gobbled jhis food, or choked over the pudding balls. Having satistied herself on my first coming, that my father was neither of the quorum nor of the justice's kin, and a mere rustic no- bedy, she had no more to say to me, but when she was not scolding her husband ad- dressed herself solely to one of the boys, who, by virtue of an uncle who was a canon, his seat beside her. Insensibly, her husband, who, at first, with an eye to my knowledge and his own deficiencies, had been more civil to me, took the same tone, and not only that, but, finding that I was to be trusted, he came less and less into school, until at last he would only appear fa a few minutes in the day, and to carve when we had meat and to see the lights ex- Unguished at night. This without any added value for me, so that the better I served him—and for a year I managed his school for him—the less he favored me, and at last thought a nod all the converse he owed me in the day, her, slowly crossing the garden, with her back to me, ani a yoke on her shoulders. Two pails hung from the yoke. I smelled swill, and in a trice, seeing in her no more than a wretched drab, in clogs and coarse sacking apron, I felt my philanthropy brought to the test, and, without a second glance, turned away in disgust, and thought no more of her. After that I took a distaste for that cor- ner, and I do not remember that I visited it for a week or more, when at length chance of custom taking me there again, preliminaries at an end, however, and the discourse begun, the danger was over for the time, for in the voluptuous roll of the long wordy sentences, and the elections and damnations, and free wills that plenti- fully bestrewed them, she speedily forgot all but the sound of her own voice, and nothing occurring to rouse her, might be trusted to read for the hour and a half with pleasure to herself and without risk to_ others. So it fell out on this occasion. As soon, » | therefore, as the steady droning. of her Chapter III. Doubtless there have been men able to boast, and with truth, that they carried to their first assignation with a woman an even pulse. But as I do not presume to rank myself among these, who have been commonly men of high station (whereot my late Lord Rochester was, I believe, the chief in my time), neither the unhappy oc- currence which I am in the way to relate, notwithstanding, have I, if I may say #0 without disrespect, so little heart as to crave the reputation. In truth I experi- enced that evening, as I crept slowly out ofthe back door of Mr. D—'s house, and stole into the gloom of the whispering garden, a full share of the gullty feeling that goes with secrecy, and more than my share of the agitation of spirit natural in one who knows fathe>, who. for hfs part, good man, never advanced ond the neck verse,‘o bind me to the ancient grammar school at Bishop's Stortford, then kept by a Mrs. G—. I believe that there were some who thought this as much beyond our preten- sions as our small farm fell below the homestead of a man of substance, and for certain, the first lesson I learned at that school was to behave myself lowly and rev- erently to all my betters, being trounced on arrival by three squire’s sons,and afterward, in due order and gradation, by all who had or affected gent'lity. To balance this I Paces from which I could leave without difticulty, though at the risk of detection—I glanced back to assure myself that all was still; then shivering, as much with excitement as @t the chill greeting the night air gave me, I hastened to the corner of the fence, wher ce I before seen my mistress. I felt for the gap with my hand, and peered through it, and called her name softly, “Jennie! Jennie!” and listened; and after an interval called again. RS teen. For what was our life? Such‘ hours AY as we did not spend in the drudgery of ARLEN school, or in our beds, we passed in a yard MN on the dark side of the ‘house, a grassiess Ny piece, overshadowed by one skeleton tree, \ muddy in winter and dusty in summer, 3 wherein, since all violent games and sports were forbidden by the good lady’s scruples \ E “I Plodded Twelve Miles.” (who belonged to the fanatical party), as ‘8 achool stood in the wit found that I had the advantage of my | S8voring of popery, we had, perforce, to oc- its Sooke to the country, and between master’s favor, and that for no greater a | CUPY ourselves with and com- sipping ae wind among the pop- thing than the tingg of my father’s opin- | Plaints and childish Abutting om the lars and rippling of # neighboring fons. For, whe: the commonalty in | Sarden of her nouse, ‘yard presented brook, and those Ree oes that seem : that country, as in all the eastern coun- | 0" every side but one @ near prospect Spurn the night, I haa stood =e ties, had been for the parliament in the | Water butts and -clethes, so that ay a. a feo. differing et troubles = still loved Hebe Spey my from these, and having origin at a 3 father was a king’s man, w! placed him spot pearer y igh in Mr. G—'s estimation, who had and set my heart been displaced by the Rump and hated all of that side. and not fer Capeoe oa @ greater degree, for a wi him later, after he had withdrawn to Oxford. For being of St. John’s ton at stake bs Bimeeif in‘ body ‘3 i he entered himwelf