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and asked her what she thought about it. Her replies, mixed up, as they were, with her wild immoderate laughter, afforded me nothing beyond a sympathy with her mirth, which certainly was most infective. Reader, I am not a portrait-painter; but, nevertheless, I will attempt to give you an outline of Eileen. In the first place, she was a poor girl, (else she would not have been my servant,) born of honest parents; but, if fate had placed her in a higher sphere, she had natural accomplishments enough to have graced it,-namely, youth, beauty, and health,-and,

o importance,-I forget exactly what, but I think it was some speech in the House of Lords,-when a knock at the

. "Who is it? and

ghing, as usual. "There's a crather b

s it?"

I think he's some relation to poor Darby, th

unt in some way for the extraordin

o relation at all," shouted D

out into her hearty wild laugh, that was su

. "I thought we should n

her. What the divil are ye laughin' at, honey?" said he (entering

na," said I, "and leav

d have knocked her down, had she not adroitly escaped him by shutting the door after her, and holding the hand

his?" said I, severely. "Did

tairs out o' yir honor's sight, maybe I wudn't give her cherry-lips a pogue (yir hon

is while?" inquired I, not

own time of it, sir, since you were so unfortunate as to part with me, yir honor

thinking he might have later news than my po

ad the measles, are in good health, and well to do as when I left them. Has the bracket hin taken to standin' upon one leg yit, sir, since she lost

me some account of what has befallen you o

," replied Darby, "in no time. Ha

id I; "le

or by land: ye see, I didn't go far afore I met with a disappointment, for I met a berrin' comin' right fornenst me-what coud I do but turn back, in

rry!" inte

f it where it first started; and so arn't we all blackberries? As the priest says on Ash-Wendsday, "Remember, man, you are but dust, and into dust

s of the

tip of t

the roots of

the boy to lilt at a weddin' or a wake! but, pace be width 'im-God rest his sowl! as I said when I saw the scragh put over him for the first time. Well, ye know, yir honor, that oncet upon the same road width the

st yet,

send ye many days, and prosprous ones too! But there's a taste in chusin' a ber

on of a living man. When he dies, all churchyards are the sam

d Darby; "but would ye like to be b

isliking," answered I; "for I shou

ably provided for? I mane yir honor's dead body that's al

ou nor I, Darby, know much about tho

e, as if it couldn't spake plainly for itself that it was bred and born here in ould Ireland ages ago! Isn't the 'Desarted Village' a butiful histhory, masther? Lame Kelly, the poet, says, it bates the world for makin' the heart soft. It's myself that never passes the spot without a tear in my eye, like a widow's pig, as the sayin' is. There's the ruins of the dacent church on

be able to appreciate thee in all thy varied splendour of moral and intellectual worth; but he has a heart full of benevolence like thine own, an

your return (though you did not come back as s

n break yir last sleep!" said Darby

it," said I; "go o

ied he. "Whereabouts

you are no

don, I think I was at th

," said I

ed Coffey, the whisperer,-ye know Ned Coffey, yir honor, that brakes in the wild coults width a charm he's got? Well, anyhow, if he didn't laugh so as if his mother was a horse; but I never minded him, only went on wonderin' to myself what cud av' made him so humoursome at a berrin'. Well, never mind that, I went on beautifully for a time, as good as an hour an' a half, when, all of a suddent, l

ed I, affecting a grave concern;

nd turnin' up the basket wid' my horse, I found he was bewitched into the shape of a porke

, he returned home that ve

as it may, I was never so frightened in all my born days, for I tuk to my heels, an' was out o' sight in no time, li

pranks was in l

like whiskey, pop

olagh, a nate

strate as a sha

d, and away we set, I and my horse, full gallup. Oh! many's the ditch we cleared without seein'; but still, never a bit did we come nearer to the light! 'Is it a Will,' says I to myself, 'or a Jack?' an' wid that out it goes on a suddent, and laves me up to my chin in a bog. Augh! then, hadn't I a cruel time of it there? I was, for all the world, like a flay on Father Fogarty's pock-mark'd nose, or a blind horse in a tan-yard,-no sooner out o' one hole than into another! At last I got upon dry land, and wasn't I thankful for that same? for I got hoult ov a stone wall that directed me straight on to a gate that was only hasp'd; so I opened it, an' let myself out upo

ld not have been overtaken by the night, a

bog-holes an' ditches, and a scratch or two on my hands an' cheeks, that I made nothin' ov. 'Where will we put up for the night,' says I to my horse; but yir honor knows the crathur cudn't answer me: so I tuk my own advice, an' went sthraight to 'The Cat and Bagpipes.' 'Will I get a lodgin' here the night?' says I to the lan'lady.-'Who are ye?' says she.-'Who am I!' I says; 'I'm yir honor's servant, on a mission,' says I, mentionin' yir name, masther.-'Can ye pay for a bed?' says she.-'Can money do it?' says I.-'To be sure,' says she.-'Then, look here,' says I; an' wid that I show'd her four and sixpence-for I only spent sixpence at the berrin'.-'Go into

way?" i

who knows what they might have made of me? Lord bless ye! they'd av' turn'd every hair o' my head into pump-handles, if they liked, afore morn! so I thought it best to sit up a while, an' kick up a bit ov a dance in the kitchen width Katheen the maid, an'

dance,"

pair o' legs o' yir own, an' it's a pity that a lame pi

at," said I; "holid

Will ye give us the barn, sir, for a

d a barrel of ale

y, cutting an anticipatory caper on the carp

that I never dance,

th' other side, and thought then I was a race-horse on the Curragh of Kildare, an' yir honor clappin' spurs into me within twenty yards of the winnin' post! Well, that was better than t'other; but, as I was draming in this fashion, I began to think they'd never call me at all, when Katheen, yir honor,-the purty little girl, sir, that kept me up so late the night afore, dancin' with her in the back-kitchen,-gave a puck at the door with her fist, that sent in one of the panels, and dumb-foundered quite an ould clock on the back of it, that was pointin' width its two hands to some hour last year. 'Who the divil's that?' says I.-'It's only me,' says she, with a voice like a spaking-trumpet, or a chorus of ganders. (I think the crather had a could upon her.) 'Arrah! d'ye never mane to lave off sleepin'?'-'What o'clock is it, alanna!' says I.-'Oh! the same hour it was this time yisterday, I suppose,' says she, 'for the clock is down.'-'Faith! it is,' says I, nate and clane upon the flooer; 'but never mind that, the sun's up!'-'Ay,' says Katheen, 'this two hours or more.'-'And so wud I,' says I, 'if I had as far to travel in the day as he has!'-'Augh!

I cannot s

bit was it like me; so, turnin' 'pon my heel, 'Bad look to them!' says I, 'they've woke the wrong man;' for yir honor remimbers that I slept width a furrener the night afore, and left orders to be called early; so I had nothin' for it but run back agen as hard as I cou

imed I. "I thought yo

h for Mat Sleven; an' The Three Blacks, that ye'd take for two twins, they're so like one anuther; and The Red Herrin' for Pat Gaveny in the market, that

ose his eyes?

forty-fut laddher. And more's the pity, for he had plenty o' drawin' about the counthry to do; an' now his dog has got into the line ov it for him, the crathur! Well, anyhow, knowin' he was a jidge o' colours, I ax'd him to feel my face, an' tell me what was the matther width it; so he puts his hand upon me, an' may I never die, masther, if it didn't turn as black as a crow as soon as he drew it acrass my cheek! 'Well,' says I, '

DU

an whom I met in quarantine, at Poiti

cage for the wild beasts, remained. This cage, from the solidity of the masonry, and the enormous size of the blocks, seemed indestructible, but was not so; for when I

nt of the town whom I had known at college. He proposed that we should dine together at the "Trois Pelerins;" and, after drinking as good a bottle of wine as it afforded, he related to me what a few d

ost sceptical of my acquaintance: and thus this number thirteen occasioned some remarks, and the stranger w

ast summoned resolu

t dine t

" said

s repeated

bout to retire, when Alfonse, to whom he came as an umbra, proposed

course of the year to one of a party of thirteen; that way is, to dec

all the studen

ng ourselves?" s

on; "for then two of us would have to fig

aid all th

h one of the office

ll make a pool, as usual, at the

out," said

"that would be a bad omen

own to table with as much gaiety and i

amphitheatre). Let us imitate that people in every thing that is great. Nothing could be more splendid than the games of the gladiators which were celebrated over the tombs of the mighty dead,-nothing more sumptuous than the festivals held at their funerals. This is probably

ne and all; "a splendid idea, b

ivered against the pavement. So, during the rest of dinner, every plate as fast as it was cleared, every bottle as soon as emptied, followe

ny; but it so happened that the r?ti, which is, as you know, in France alw

exclaimed they al

Here, cook! cook!" w

f was not f

, then said, "Must I g

as death, and all cotton cap in hand, crawled in

ke us for the officers? What do you m

ered out an apology. Alfo

stable r?ti of yours; but, as it is the first time of happening, m

ut of a dish into it an enormous clou

e cap, and see you don

and white jacket streaming with the contents of the plat, wa

glasses, and bottles, accompanied by noises of all sorts, which rose to f

o grand for them. In short, when all that remained of the dessert was bundled well up, the collegians got on the table, and, at the risk of cutting their feet with the fragments of the crockery, and the splinters of the glass, danced thereon, till everything was pounded, smashed, and broken. Then the table-cloth, with all it contained,

ound one of their own, which doubtless befriended them in this mad leap. Certain it is that none of the party met with the slightest accid

general place of rendezvous for the students a

hout waiting till the game was ended, asked, or rather demanded, in an authorit

, the players did not seem inclined to comply with this requisition; but when they learnt that a more moment

and shoes, or of chenapans, who in the regiment went by the name of crans, or bourreaux des cranes. The old grognards, however, did not quit the room. The chenapans interchanged glances with each other; and one or two of the sub-lieu

dy of young men, in a duel, when two only are concerned; nor can we form a notion how slight a thing a duel is considered, when it is the cu

wn, might hesitate about demanding satisfaction for an insult however gross, would, in that a

reduced to two; these two were the stranger guest and Alfonse. The lookers-on watched anxiously every stroke. Those balls, that as they rolled carried with them the fate of a man, were followed by earnest looks. The officers came nearer and nearer, and ranged them

against them. T

d him, and made two or three times the circuit of the room, as though he were in search, but in vain, of some one worth quarrelling with. At last he perceived a sort of sub-lieutenant, originally drum-major and ma?tr

tion in which I find myself placed; but my honour i

inaries, he gave him a

a madman from his chair; and had not Alfonse, with the activity and nimbleness of a cat, leap

heels, when his own comrades stopp

boxing! the thing is too serio

morrow?" said one of the of

round," was

officer who had received

please," replied Alfonso w

ll that blow is avenged!" said

I have hurt my knuckles against

ch a time of night as this?"

e ancient ma?tre d'armes; "a sword in one

e me step by step round the garden. Don't think it, my lad. Besides, the lamp may go out. But, if you have no objectio

," said t

ing to the police. The swords were then brought. The two adversaries cast lots for them, and then pul

took the

the adversary by the perpetual flutter of their two white points, thus to turn away his attention from the sword. But Alfonse had a manner of fighting of his own

, rested their swords on the toes of their boots. A traveller from a commercial house who happened to be present, and could have no interest in the scene other th

f the steel; for both parties, as they skirmished, were well aware that a single faux pas was death. T

eeded this advantage, if advantage it was, for he by degrees lowered his body till he was right under the sword of

me more adventurous, attacked him again with increased fury,-so much so, that, thrown off his guard, his left foot quitted the cushion of the table, against which it had been fixed. Then it was that Alfonse made a rapid lunge at the officer's face. He endeavoured to regain the ground he had lost, to resu

he raised himself to his full height, and fell

g. Never did I see, for I was present, so dreadful a contest! Never did I experience anything so frightful as the silence of those two men,-as the flashing of their swords by

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AEL BUR

RATION BY GEOR

es, I was kept on hard duty; and though there were some pretty women who appeared on Sunday during the cessations of the usual shower of shells from the Miguelite camp, yet there were so many competitors for their smiles, that I really could not take the trouble of making myself as amiable as I otherwise should, and, as I flatter myself, I could. Don Pedro the emperor, who now sleeps with his fathers, and whose heart is deposited in the cathedral of Oporto, was then without the society of his imperial and beautiful wife; and, whether it was to set a good example to his court, or to prevent his mind from dwelling on the absence of his true love, he was one of the most active of my rivals, and I protest there was not a pretty face in the whole town that he had not the pleasure of paying his addresses to. The Marquis of Loule, his brother-in-law, also separated from that most lovely and most generous of Portuguese princesses who now sits nightly at Lisbon, smiling on all the world from her box at the French theatre in the Rua dos Condes, was regularly employed in the same operations; and I never took

ne's C

ites, for permission to erect a post on the left bank, which permission was most liberally granted. A party was instantly set to work, and in the course of a few days a flag-staff was hoisted; and a large house and court-yard given for the accommodation of the officer and men who were to work it. As luck wo

ot very acceptable to the officers or the men. Our commodore, with the foresight that distinguishes a British officer, had provided for the coming difficulty; and had arranged with the Miguelite general for an abundant supply of fresh provisions, meat, poultry, and vegetables, for all the ships' crews, on the distinct understanding that no part of it was to be passed over to the besieged city. The squadron therefore lived in abundance, while the garrison was half starved; and as we passed through the streets with our shining red faces and sleek sides, puf

of this paper, and from which all learned communities may be informed that, for original

aultless; her feet and her hands were small: one could span her waist; and she walked with that combination of majesty and grace which a Spanish woman can alone assume. Poor Carolina was as good as she was beautiful; and though the emperor, and his hopeful brother-in-law, and all the gay cavaliers of the camp, were ready to throw themselves at her feet, she behaved with a discretion which won her the good opinion of the whole army, not to speak of the fleet, where such remarkable virtue could be fully estimated. I among the rest of the inflammable multitude had been struck with th

e before informed you; and the little signal-station which I occupied was the abode of plenty. The Miguelites faithfully performed their engagement; and day after day the regular supplies of beef, poultry, vegetables, and fruit came in. The commodore of course respected the contract that he had entered into; and though the emperor made several advances to his favour, and though he was openly solicited on his behalf by various officers of the staff, he refused to allow a pound of meat to be passed into the city. Several of the British

n the oak door of the charming Carolina. I soon found myself in the well-known quarter, and before the house that contained my love; and, after reconnoitring for an instant to see that the emperor or his staff were not in the way, ran up to the first landing, where she lived, and pulled

"I have not the honour

serve you, and my good intentions w

cannot accept a service from stran

arolina," I exclai

honour to wish

sion: I am an off

to do with

devote myse

must dispense with your unseasonable visit. I

open with one hand, while with the other I pulled the fowl from my pocket, and held it dangling before her face. Oh! if you had seen her look!-her eyes were fixed as Hamlet

ur welfare. I have heard that you were suffering from the severe affliction that has fallen on this city; and, though I risk my character and the safety of his Britannic Majesty's f

is getting late: I am certain you are anxious to return to your ship." With these words she shut the little slide of the door, and I remained in the passage, gaping with astonishment, confounded with delight, and wondering at the new recipe I had invented for making love. I waited fo

secured a duck out of the next basket of poultry, and hastened on the wings of love to lay my treasure at her feet. No sooner did my trembling hand pull the bell-cord, and my eager voice announce my name, than I heard her gentle step in the passage, and soon the little slide of the door was opened, and I felt my heart leap to my mouth as I beheld her beautiful eye beaming on me with undisguised satisfaction. To ensure my welcome, and to save the dear creature from the pangs of expectation, I produced the duck, swinging it to and fro before the wicket, as a nurse does a pretty toy that she offers to the longing wishes of the child. Carolina smiled her sweetest smile; and, when I pushed in th

med friendly nod. I soon landed at the arsenal, and mounted the long hill which led into the town, holding myself as straight as possible, so that the exuberance of my pocket should not be perceived. Unfortunately for me, a score of hungry dogs, which infest all Portuguese towns, were holding a council of war at the quay when I stept on shore; and one of them, getting scent of the end of the leg of mutton which hung through the hole in my pocket, gave a hint to the rest of the contr

and at least two dozen dogs smelling and sniffing at my skirts, they both burst out into an uncontrollable fit of laughter, and roared and roared again in a paroxysm of mirth. A crowd of dandies were passing at the moment, watching the window of Carolina, each hoping to be the favoure

lenged the whole party! how cheerfully would I have drawn the leg of lamb from my pocket, and stuffed it in the mouth of each impertinent dandy! but not only was my own honour at stake, but that of the British fleet, and I bore all in the king's name, and for the credit of the service. I have been in many a hot engagement, but I never suffered more than I did that day. At length, after doubling through two or three by-streets, I got rid of

r way with me into the presence of my mistress; but, after I got in, I heard them growling and barking on the stairs. The neighbou

sented me in due

ish cavalier, Se?or Gallina,-I beg pardon, Se?or Marinero,-and permit me

e bulk of my pockets, and wondering what kind of commodity it was that produced so misplaced a swelling on so well-formed a young man as I flatter myself no one can deny I am; but, just at this moment, the bevy of hungry curs at the door set up such a howl in concert, that my angel was fain to cram her handkerchief into her mouth to conceal her laughing, and I thought the old dame would go into a fit, so violent was her merriment. Finding the case going thus hard against me, I determined to strike a

upon the handle of the leg; and it was evident the aunt was carrying on an internal debate whether it should be boiled, broiled, roasted, or stewed, or served up, according to the fashion of the province, with a mass of garlic. The dogs were waiting for me in the passage, and they eagerly followed me as I went down stairs; even the smel

. Fortunately for me, one of the aides-de-camp of the emperor had that morning come on board to request of the captain some provision for the imperial table, protesting that Don Pedro and his staff had nothing better than salt fish for rations; which request the captain was compelled, by a strict sense of duty, to refuse; and everybody set it down as certain, the instant the circumstance was brought to mind, that it was the aide-de-camp who stole the lamb. He had come wrapped up in his cloak, which wa

g officer was introduced who solicited an immediate audience. The young man appeared buried in grief, and every now and then applied a handkerchief to his eyes, to wipe off the unbidden tears which mocked the sword which hung at his side. His profound sorrow and gentleman

" said the captain, a li

me from a child, when I was left an unprotected orphan, and has placed me in the station which I now hold, is at the point of death, and the doctors all agree that nothing but caldo di gallina (fowl broth) can save her life.

ptain; "you know the convention

support him; but surely an old woman at the point of death was not contemplated by the treaty, and I entreat you to save the life of this most deserving and venerable of aunts."

llow, I can do nothing for you; I have signed a convention, and I cannot break it, were it to save the emperor's life: but go you to my steward,

ttle his affair to his satisfaction. He called on the following day to return his grateful thanks; but the captain would not hear a word. I observed, however, that he went down to the steward's cabin, and took a hasty

his part in a consummate manner, and I am told he boasts to this day of the trick he played the British squadron in the Douro. The captain, I am also told, gave him a little of his mind, having met him last year near the Admiral

likes it. So our Pedroite friend shrugged up his shoulders, and vanished in doub

eathers and all, and thrust it into the same coat-pocket which had been enlarged to hold the leg of lamb. I asked and received leave to go on shore, and pushed as fast as four oars could impel me to the usual landing-place near the old nunnery. I saw some of the idle dogs basking in the sun, but did not heed their presence, so filled was I with the idea of my Carolina; and, jumping out of the boat, I ran along the quay, totally unconscious of the sneers that my presence excited. At last, when I got to the open rope-walk where the market is usually held, the number of my canine assailants became increased; and one of them, bold

t I felt more for poor Carolina than I did for myself; and I could not help expressing my anxiety on her account to one of the brother officers who came to condole with me on my situation. The false friend, I was told afterwards, profited by the hint; and, instead of committing himself as I did, he hired a little cottage at the Miguelite side of the river, under cover of the guns of the fleet, where he placed Carolina and her aunt, and soon taught them to forget me. The worst of the affair was, that General Santa Martha sent in a formal complaint to the consul and the commodore of the squadron, and threatened to stop the usual supply of provisions f

-No. VI.-MRS. B

H OF FOL

u ever, for instance, find yourself from head to heel one vast complication of cramps? or burst out into sudorific exudation like a cold thaw, with the thermometer at zero? Were your eyes ever turned upside down, exhibiting not

yea, we are assured, on n

ourable, i. e. stormy, seasons, weathering Dungeness Point in an egg-shell, or careering on her broomstick over Dymchurch wall. A cow may yet be sometimes seen galloping like mad, with tail erect, and an old pair

stood, in the good old times, a row of houses then denominated "Frog-hole;" modern refinement subsequently euphonized the name into "East-street:" but what's in a name? the encroachments of Ocean have long since levelled all in one common ruin. Here, in the early part of the seventeenth century, flourished, in somewhat doubtful reputation, but comparative opulence, a compounder of medicines, one Master Erasmus Buckthorne; the effluvia of whose drugs from within, mingling agreeably with the "ancient and fish-like smells" from without, wafted a delicious perfume throughout the neighbourhood. At seven of the clock in the morning when Mrs. Botherby's narrative commences, a stout Suffolk punch, about thirteen hands and a half in height, was slowly led up and down before the door of the pharmacopolist by a lean and withered lad, whose appearance warranted an

he had reached his destination, and paused of his own accord; "how now, man? How fares thine emplo

is up and stirring; but he hath rested none, and complaineth that the same gna

. "Good morrow! I have looked for, longed for, thy coming this hour and m

ch sotto voce, as, abandoning the bridle to honest Hodge, he dismount

of that sturdy and sterling class which, taking rank immediately below the Esquire, (a title in its origin purely military,) occupie

ght of

eman of

of the Nor

man o

s yearl

them out

clear olive of her complexion, and "the darkness of her Andalusian eye," at once betrayed her foreign origin; in fact, her "lord and master," as husbands were even then, by a legal fiction, denominated, had taken her to his bosom in a foreign country. The cadet of his family, Master Thomas Marsh, had early in life been engaged in commerce. In the pursuit of his vocation he had visited Antwerp, Hamburg, and most of the Hanse Towns; and had already formed a tender connexion with the orphan offspring of one of old Alva's officers, when the unexpected deaths of one immediate and two presumptive heirs placed him next in succession to the family acres. He married, and brought home his bride; who, by the decease of the venerable possessor

no more of your pharmacy;-burn, burn-gnaw, gnaw,-I had as lief the foul fiend were in m

at pale. There was a perceptible faltering in his voice as, ev

z says it is water,-and Doctor Buz says

hem wrong," said E

r colour. The world talks loudly of your learning, your skill, and cunning in arts the most abstruse; nay, sooth to

r, "to be maligned by the ignorant and superstitious. B

nothing wrong there," said the leech. "Your wrist:-no; the pulse is firm and r

e matter with me. Why is it that something seems ever gnawing at my heart-strings? Whence this

, Master Marsh,"

ed himself by both hands on the arms of his elbow-chair, and in ac

ave thine own overweening fancies. Take less of food, more air, put aside thy fla

said the

and a fai

quoth Mar

fair

se, but in a tone som

yself to thy lawful occasions, use thy good hap, follow t

ing pains. My wife, too,-when I meet her gaze, the cold sweat stands on my forehead, and I could almost think--" Marsh paused abruptly, m

ch pity seemed slightly blended with contempt. "Have done with such follies, Master Marsh. You are well, an you would

f Brenzet writes me that he hath a score or two of fat ewes to be sold a pennyworth; I had thought to have sent Ralph Looke

or his journey; while the leech, having bidden him farewell, vanished through an opposite door, and betook himself to

y, nor ma

rowsy syrups

icine thee to

u own'st

were who affirmed that Lucifer himself was then and there raised in propria persona, with all his terrible attributes of horn and hoof. In support of this assertion, they adduce the testimony of the aforesaid buxom housemaid, who protested that the Hall smelt that evening like a manufactory of matches. All, however, seem to agree that the confabulation, whether human or infernal, was conducted with profound secrecy, and protracted to a considerable length; that its object, as far as could be divined, meant anything but good to the head of the family; that the lady, moreover, was heartily tired of her husband; and that, in the event of his removal by disease or

e upper with what the first Wit of our times describes as "a favourable eruption of buttons." The precise duties of this employment have never, as far as we have heard, been accurately defined. The perfuming a handkerchief, the combing a lap-dog, and the occasional presentation of a sippet-shaped billet doux, are, and always have been, among them; but these a young gentleman standing five foot ten, and aged nineteen "last grass," might well be supposed

which its recesses no doubt contained. On this occasion it was unlocked, and Marian was about to rush forward in eager anticipation of a peep at its interior, when, child as she was, the reflection struck her that she would stand a better chance of carrying her point by remaining perdue. Fortune for once favoured her: she crouched closer than before, and saw her mother take something from one of the drawers, which she handed over to the leech. Strange mutterings followed, and words whose sound was foreign to her youthful ears. Had she been older, their import, perhaps, might have been equally unknown.-After a while there was a pause; and then the lady, as in answer to a requisition from the gentleman, placed in his hand a something which she took from her toilette. The transaction, whatever its nature, seemed now to be complete, and the article

t upon my hand," said the young lady, when routed out

rambling about among the bushes, and tearing your clothes to rags. What with you, a

look, here is another!" As she spoke, Marian drew forth one of those extended pieces of black pointed wire, with which, in the days of toupees a

ll, as you call it?" asked Susan, turning over th

," said the child

nd a lower key, "Well! I wish I may die if it doesn't look like my ma

tier of Romney Marsh. Their progress was comparatively slow; for, though the brown mare was as good a roadster as man might back, and the gelding no mean nag of his hands, yet the tracks, rarely tra

Marsh, and nearly caused him to fall from his horse. With some difficulty he succeeded in dismounting, and seating himself by the road side. Here he remained for a full half-hour in great apparent agony; the cold sweat rolled in large round drops adown his clammy forehead, a universal shivering palsied every limb, his eye-balls appeared to be starting from their sockets, and to his attached, though dull and heavy serving-man, he seemed as one struggling in the pangs of impending dissolution. His groans rose thick and frequent; and the alarmed Ralph was hesitating between his disinclination to lea

aving the romantic castle of Saltwood, with its neighbouring town of Hithe, a little on their left, they proceeded along the ancient p

, something less than a hundred years previous to the period of our narrative, commenced that series of supernatural pranks which eventually procured for her head an unenvied elevation upon London Bridge; and, though the parish had since enjoyed the benefit of the incumbency of Master Erasmus's illustrious and enlightened Namesake, yet, truth to tell, some of the old leaven was even yet supposed to be at work. The place had, in fact, an ill name

bishops of the Province. Since the Reformation, however, it had been disparked; and when Master Thomas Marsh, and his man Ralph, entered upon its confines, the open greensw

g-merchants, itinerant vendors of crockery and cutlery, wandered promiscuously among the mingled groups, exposing their several wares and commodities, and soliciting custom. On one side was the gaudy riband, making its mute appeal

omfited climber. There the fugitive pippin, swimming in water not of the purest, and bobbing from the expanded lips of the juvenile Tantalus. In this quarter the ear was pierced by squeaks from some beleaguered porker, whisking his well-soape

ancers yet were there, and jingled their bells merrily among stalls well stored with gingerbread, tops, whips, whistles, and all those noisy instruments of domestic torture

the blessings of health among the admiring crowd. Meanwhile his attendant Jack-pudding was busily employed on the proscenium, doing his best to attract attention by a practical facetiousness which took wonderfully with the spectators, interspersing it with the melodious notes of a huge cow's horn. The fellow's costume varied but little in character from that in which the late-(alas! that we should have to write the word!)-the late Mr. Joseph Grimaldi was accustomed to present himself before "a generous and enlightened public:" the principal difference consisted in this, that the upper garment was a long white tunic of a coarse linen, surmounted by a caricature of the ruff then fast falling i

r to him; that besides salves and cataplasms of sovereign virtue, by combining sundry mosses, gathered many thousand fathom below the surface of the sea, with certain unknown drugs found in an undiscovered island, and boiling the whole in the lava of Vesuvius, he had succeeded in producing his celebrated balsam of Crackapanoko, the never-failing remedy for all human disorders, and which, a proper trial allowed, would go near to reanimate the dead. "Draw near!" continued the worthy, "draw near, my masters! and you, my good mistresses,

n't please you?" asked an elderly countryman, whose

every bone in your body fractured or out of joint. A toothache!-propound a tester, master o' mine,-we ask

length produced a sixpence, which he tendered to the jest

reed my counsel aright, and I will warrant thee for the nonce. Hie thee home, friend; infuse this

e put upon him. He retired, venting his spleen in audible murmurs; and the mountebank, finding the feelings of the mob enlisted on his side, waxed mo

moral, physical, natural, and supernatural! Hath any man a termagant wife?-here is th

nable gravity, Pierrot, having pocketed their groats, delivered to each a small packet curiously folded and closely sealed, containing, as he averred, directions which, if truly observed, would preclude any chimney from smoking for a whole ye

wned hat adorned with a cock's feather; while the thick shoulder padding of a quilted doublet, surmounted by a falling band, added a little to his personal importance in point of breadth. His habit was composed throughout of black serge, relieved with scarlet slashes in the sleeves and trunks; red was the feather in his hat, red were the roses in his shoes, which rejoiced, moreover, in a pair of red heels. The lining of a short cloak of faded velvet, that hung transversely over his left shoulder, was also red. Indeed, from all that we could ever see or hear, this agreeable alternation of red and black appears to be the mixture of colours most approved at the court of Beelzebub, and the one most generally adopted by his friends and favourites. His features were sharp and shrewd, and a fire sparkled in his keen grey eye much at variance with the wrinkles that ran their irregular furrows above his prominent and bushy brows. He had advanced slowly from behind his screen w

rable buffoon to divert him when his life is in jeopardy?" said a shrill c

awakened interest the figure of his questioner: "I ca

ce it we have met,-in other climes, perchance,-and

s me of somewhat I have seen before, where or

uldst thou on the Frith of Aldington?-is it a score or two

ficance: a pang shot through him at the moment, and the vinegar aspect of t

wn breath, "what knowest thou of me, fello

the clock strikes One!" As he spoke, a single toll from the bell-tower of Bilsington came, wafted by the western breeze, over the thick-set and lofty oaks which intervened between the Frith and what had been once a priory. Dr. Aldrovando tur

and that a sudden and most marvellous, hath come over me; I am free; I breathe again; I f

ertheless, heed my counsel well! Thou art parlously encompassed; I, and I only, have the means of relieving thee. Follow thy courses; pursue thy journey; but, as thou valuest

ce more within his canvass screen, he rode slowly and thoughtfully off the field.-What should he do? Was the man a mere quack? an impostor? His name thus obtained!-that might be easily done. But then, his secret griefs; the doctor's knowledge of them; their cure: for he felt that his pains were gone, his healthful feelings restored! True; Aldrovando, if that were his name, had disclaimed all co-operation in his recovery: but h

and forming, as it were, the cord of a bow, the area of which constitutes that remote fifth quarter of the globe spoken of by travellers. Trivial objections to the plan were made at the time by cavillers; and an old gentleman of the neighbourhood, who proposed, as a cheap substitute, to put up his own cocked-hat upon a pole, was deservedly pooh-pooh'd down; in fact, the job, though rather an expensive one, was found to answer remarkably well. The French managed, indeed, to scramble over the Rhine, and the

and Master Cobbe remained unvisited. A rude hostel in the neighbourhood furnished entertainment for man and horse; and here,

Doctor, issuing from the thicket as the first silvery gleam tremb

h hesitated not to obey; the secon

st not unnaturally from his lips; but all question was

The door gave way on the application of a key, and Marsh followed his conductor resolutely but cautiously along a narrow passage feebly lighted by a small taper that winked and twinkled at its farther extremity. The Doctor, as he approached, raised it from the ground, and, opening an adjoining door, ushered his guest into the room beyond. It was a large and oddly-furnished apartment, insufficiently lighted by an iron lamp that hung from the roof, and scarcely illumined the walls and angles, which seemed to be composed of some dark-coloured wood. On one side, however, Master Marsh could discover an article bearing strong resemblance to a coffin; on the other was a large oval mirror in an ebony frame, and in the midst of the floor was described in red chalk a double circle, about six feet in diameter, its inner verge insc

er bath." The visitor cast his eyes again upon the formidable-looking article, and perceived that it was nearly filled with water. A cold bath,

"Passion of my heart! let but yon minute-hand reach the hour,

most unnatural sound for a mouser,-it see

ding out in strong relief from the contrast afforded by the sable background, was a waxen image-of himself! It appeared to be secured and sustained in an upright posture by large black pins driven through the feet and palms, the latter of which were extended in a cruciform position. To the right and left stood his wife and José; in the middle, with his back towards him, was a figure which he had no difficulty in recognising as that of the Leech of Folkestone. It had just succeeded in fastening the dexter hand of the image, and

stroke of Nine plunge thy head beneath the water; suffer no

lded to such rotatory friction; but he spun on, the Cat mewed, bats and obscene birds fluttered over head, Erasmus was seen to raise his weapon, the clock struck!-and Marsh, who had "ducked" at the instant, popped up his head again, spitting and sputtering, half choked with the infernal mixture, which had insinuated itself into his mouth, and ears, and

ack Cat purred,-its purring seemed strangely mixed with the self-satisfied

had nearly reached the quarter: at once the parties separated; and Buckthorne stood again before the figure, his hand armed with a long and sharp-pointed misericorde, a dagger little in use of late, but such as, a century before, often performed the part of a modern oyster-knife, in tickling the osteology of a dismounted cavalier through the shelly defences of his plate-armour. Again he raised his arm. "Duck!" roared the Doctor, spinning away upon his cephalic pivot: the Black Cat cocked his tail, and seemed to mew

not his attention been again called by Aldrovando to the magic mirror. Great dissatisfaction, not to say dismay, seemed to pervade the conspirators; Dame Isabel was closely inspecting the figure's wounded hand, while José was aiding the pharmacopolist to charge a huge petronel with powder and bullets. The load was a heavy one; but Erasmus seemed determined this time to make sure of his object. Somewhat of trepidation might be observed in his manner as he rammed down the balls, and his withered cheek appeared to have acquired an increase of paleness; but amazement rather than fear was the prevailing symptom, and his countenance betrayed no jot of irresolution. As the clock was about to chime half-past nine, he planted himself with a firm foot in front of the image, waved his unoccupied hand with a cautionary gesture to his companions, and, as they

fitable bargain for the drunken orgies of midnight wassail, or the endearments of some rustic light-o'-love. Tenfold was his astonishment increased when, after retracing in silence their journey of the preceding day, the Hall, on their arrival about noon, was found in a state of uttermost confusion. No wife stood there to greet with

lean apprentice of Erasmus Buckthorne declared that the page had summoned his master in haste about six of the clock, and that they had rode forth together, as he very believed, on their way back to the Hall, where he had supposed Master Buckt

easible. Trusty Ralph said nothing, but shrugged his shoulders; and, falling into the rear, imitated the action of raising the wine-cup to his lips. An opinion, indeed, soon prevailed, that Master Thomas Marsh had gotten, in common parlance, exceedingly drunk on the preceding evening, and dreamt all that he had so circumstantially related. This belief acquired additional credit when they whom curiosity induced to visit the woody knoll of Aldington Mount declared that they could find no building such as that described; nor any cottage near, save one, indeed, a low-roofed hovel, once a house of public entertainment, but now half in ruins. The "Old Cat and Fiddle"-so was the tenement called-had been long uninhabited; yet still exhibited the remains of a broken sign, on which the keen observer might decypher something like a rud

girl, and a handsome. She became, moreover, heiress to Marshton Hall, and brou

ng I could never with any accuracy ascertain; but it was found enveloped in a tattered cloth, that seemed to have been once a carpet, and which fell to pieces almost immediatel

inted out by some later artist; possibly in compliment to the tradition, which, teste Botherby, records that of Mr. Marsh to have gangrened, and to have undergone amputation at the knuckle-joint. If really the resemblance of the gentleman alluded to, it must have been taken at some period antecedent to his marriage. There is neither date nor painter's name; but, a little above the head, on the dexter side

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, THAN HE EVER WAS BEFORE. WITH SOME PA

Dodger,-and, turning a different way when it reached the Angel at Islington, stopped at length before a neat house in a quiet shady street near Pentonville. Here a bed was prepar

the boy lay stretched upon his uneasy bed, dwindling away beneath the dry and wasting heat of fever,-that heat which, like the subtle acid that gnaws into the very hear

been a long and troubled dream. Feebly raising himself in the bed, w

en brought to?" said Oliver. "This

the curtain at the bed's head was hastily drawn back, and a motherly old lady, very neatly and precisely

nigh. Lie down again, there's a dear." With these words the old lady very gently placed Oliver's head upon the pillow, and, smoothing back his hair from

covering

rateful little dear it is. Pretty creetur, what would his mothe

folding his hands together; "perhaps she has

r, my dear," said

if she knew I was ill, she must have pitied me even there, for she was very ill herself before she died. She can't know anything about me though," added Oliver a

erpane, afterwards, as if they were part and parcel of those features, brought some cool stuff for Oliver

ly exhausted with what he had already said. He soon fell into a gentle doze, from which he was awakened by the light of a candle, which, being brought n

tter, are you not, my de

you, sir," r

aid the gentleman: "you'

" answere

ou're not. He is not hungry, Mrs. Bedwin

seemed to say that she thought the doctor was a very clever

don't you, my dear

," repli

shrewd and satisfied look. "You're

her thirsty,"

ectly natural. You may give him a little tea, ma'am, and some dry toast without any butter. Don't kee

tuff, and expressing a qualified approval thereof, hurried away: his boo

little bundle a small Prayer Book and a large nightcap. Putting the latter on her head, and the former on the table, the old woman, after telling Oliver that she had come to sit up with him, drew her chair close to the fire and went

his languid eyes the intricate pattern of the paper on the wall. The darkness and deep stillness of the room were very solemn; and as they brought into the boy's mind the thought that dea

st which it is pain to wake from. Who, if this were death, would be roused again to all the struggles and turmoils of lif

and when he did so, he felt cheerful and happy. The crisis of

him carried down stairs into the little housekeeper's room, which belonged to her, where, having sat him up by the fireside, the good old l

"I'm only having a regular good cry. There, i

y kind to me, ma'

e you this morning, and we must get up our best looks, because the better we look, the more he'll be pleased." And with this, the old lady applied herself to warming up in a little

eeing that Oliver had fixed his eyes most intently on a po

g his eyes from the canvass; "I have seen so few that I

y custom, child. The man that invented the machine for taking likenesses might have known that would neve

likeness, ma'a

oking up for a moment from t

m?" asked Ol

a good-humoured manner. "It's not a likeness of anybody that

ty: so very beautif

ld lady, observing in great surprise the look o

here I sit they seem fixed upon me. It makes my heart beat," added Oliver in

ervous after your illness. Let me wheel your chair round to the other side, and then you won't see

him, and Mrs. Bedwin, satisfied that he felt more comfortable, salted and broke bits of toasted bread into the broth with all the bustle befitting so solemn a preparation. Oliver got

variety of odd contortions. Oliver looked very worn and shadowy from sickness, and made an ineffectual attempt to stand up, out of respect to his benefactor, which terminated in his sinking back into the chair again; and the fact is, if the truth must

ng his throat. "I'm rather hoarse this morning

Bedwin. "Everything you have

; "I rather think I had a damp napkin at dinner-time ye

ver, "and very grateful indeed

utly. "Have you given him any nou

erself up slightly, and laying a strong emphasis on the last word, to intimate that betw

couple of glasses of port wine would have done him a

lied the little invalid with

rownlow; "Oliver wha

Twist,-Oli

leman. "What made you tell the

o, sir," returned O

omewhat sternly in Oliver's face. It was impossible to doubt him;

t Oliver no longer existed, the old idea of the resemblance between his features a

th me, sir," said Oliver, ra

leman.-"Gracious God, what's t

ts living copy,-the eyes, the head, the mouth; every feature was the same. The expression was for the insta

lamation, for he was not strong enough to be

THE TH

A NEW ACQUAINTANCE IS INTRODUCED TO THE INTELLIGENT READER, AND CONNECTED

the individual are among the first and proudest boasts of a true-hearted Englishman, so I need hardly beg the reader to observe that this action must tend to exalt them in the opinion of all public and patriotic men, in almost as great a degree as this strong proof of their anxiety for their own preservation and safety goes to corroborate and confirm the little code of laws which certain profound and sound-judging philosophers have laid down as the mainsprings of

sages at all to shorten the road to any great conclusion, their course indeed being rather to lengthen the distance by various circumlocutions and discursive staggerings, like those in which drunken men under the pressure of a too mighty flow of ideas are prone to indulge, still I do mean to say, and do say distinctly, that it is the invariable practice of all mighty philosophers, in carrying out their theories, to evince great wisdom and foresight in providing

mmon consent beneath a low and dark archway. Having remained silent here, just long enough to recover breath to speak, Master Bates uttered an exclamation

atter?" inqui

!" roared C

Dodger, looking cautiously round.

starting on again as if he was made of iron as well as them, and me with the wipe in my pocket, singing out arter him-oh, my eye!" The vivid imagination of Maste

advantage of the next interval of breathlessness

peated Cha

?" said t

ping rather suddenly in his merriment, for the Do

minutes, and then, taking off his hat

u mean?" sa

e wouldn't, and high cockolorum," said the Dodger

isfactory. Mr. Bates felt it so,

rms, thrust his tongue into his cheek, slapped the bridge of his nose some half-dozen times in a familiar but expres

the fire with a saveloy and a small loaf in his left hand, a pocket-knife in his right, and a pewter pot on the trivet. There was a rascally smile o

countenance; "only two of 'em! Where's the t

anding, the door was slowly opened, and the Dodger

said the furious Jew, rising with

they were alarmed at his violence, and look

Dodger tightly by the collar, and threatening him with

side, and conceived it by no means improbable that it might be his turn to be throttled second, dropped upon his kn

the Dodger so much that his keeping in the

rk clean out of the big coat, which he left in the Jew's hands, the Dodger snatched up the toasting-fork and made a pass at the merry old gentlem

pitude, and, seizing up the pot, prepared to hurl it at his assailant's head. But Charley Bates at this moment calling h

have know'd as nobody but an infernal rich, plundering, thundering old Jew could afford to throw away any drink but water, and not that, unless he done the River company every quarter.

s,-the kind of legs which in such costume always look in an unfinished and incomplete state without a set of fetters to garnish them. He had a brown hat on his head, and a dirty belcher handkerchief round his neck, with the long frayed ends of which, he sm

ffian. A white shaggy dog, with his face scratched and

he man. "You're getting too proud to o

d to it, however; for he coiled himself up in a corner very quietly without uttering a sound, and, winking his ve

nder they don't murder you; I would if I was them. If I'd been your 'prentice I'd have done it long ago; and-no, I couldn't have sold you arterwar

said the Jew, trembling

ays mean mischief when you come that. You know my name:

said the Jew with abject humilit

ther out of sorts too, unless you mean as little harm when

atching the man by the sleeve,

a piece of dumb show which the Jew appeared to understand perfectly. He then in cant terms, with which his whole conversatio

it," said Mr. Sikes, layi

as he turned round to the cupboard, he might have thought the caution not wholly unnecessary, or the wish,

which gracious act led to a conversation in which the cause and manner of Oliver's capture were circumstantially detail

that he may say something whi

d Sikes with a malicious grin

arding the other closely as he did so,-"I'm afraid that, if the game was up with us, it might be up w

t the old gentleman's shoulders were shrugged up to his ear

ns, not excepting the dog, who by a certain malicious licking of his lips seemed to be meditating an

t the office," said Mr. Sikes in a much lo

nodded

till he comes out again," said Mr. Sikes, "and then he

he Jew

being adopted; and this was, that the Dodger, and Charley Bates, and Fagin, and Mr. William Sikes, happened one and all

nd, it is difficult to say. It is not necessary to make any guesses on the subject, however; for the sudden ent

the Jew. "Bet will go

nquired the

office, my dear," s

nd earnest desire to be "jiggered" if she would; a polite and delicate evasion of the request, which shows the young lady to have bee

young lady, who was gaily, not to say gorgeously atti

the Jew in a soothing m

's no use a trying it on

t?" said Mr. Sikes, look

l," replied the

or it," reasoned Mr. Sikes: "nobody

ed Miss Nancy in the same composed manner, "

, Fagin,"

't, Fagin,"

ll, Fagin,"

e commission. She was not indeed withheld by the same considerations as her agreeable friend, for, having very recently removed into the neighbourhood of

-papers tucked up under a straw bonnet,-both articles of dress being provided fro

cing a little covered basket. "Carry that in

er t'other one, Fagin," said Sikes

-door key on the fore-finger of the young lady's right hand. "There;

the little basket and the street-door key in an agony of distress. "What has become of him!-where have they taken him t

tone, to the immeasurable delight of her hearers, Miss Nancy paus

s young friends, and shaking his head gravely, as if in mute adm

s glass, and smiting the table with his enormous fist.

de the best of her way to the police-office; whither, notwithstanding a little natural timidity consequen

f the cell-doors and listened. There was no sound within, so she

ured Nancy in a gen

ang to the House of Correction for one month, with the appropriate and amusing remark that since he had got so much breath to spare, it would be much more wholesomely expended on the treadmill than in a music

a faint and

ere?" inquired Miss Nanc

d the voice;

n the streets, and doing nothing for his livelihood. In the next cell was another man, who was going to the same priso

ht up to the bluff officer in the striped waistcoat, and with the most piteous wailings and lamentations, rendered m

him, my dear,"

amed Miss Nancy in

an's got him," re

ious heavins! what gentle

witness having proved the robbery to have been committed by another boy not in custody; and that the prosecutor had carried him away in an insensible condition to his own

gate, and then,-exchanging her faltering gait for a good swift steady run, returned b

ry hastily called up the white dog, and, putting on his hat, expeditiously departe

im. Nancy, my dear, I must have him found: I trust to you, my dear,-to you and the Artful for every thing. Stay, stay," added the Jew, unlocking a drawer with

or behind them, drew from its place of concealment the box which he had unintentionally disclo

this occupation. "Who's there?"

oice of the Dodger

cried the Je

e other ken, Nancy says?" in

ds on him. Find him, find him out, that's all;

ntelligence, and hurried down

ursued his occupation. "If he means to blab us am

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man agencies which modern writers have so extensively indulged in. Opposing myself thus, to innovation, I have ventured on one of the boldest changes in dramatic arrangement, by postponing the performance of the overture until the

able place in the undress circle,-suppose the theatre crammed to the pigeon-holes, the orchestra already tuned, and every eye bent upon the leader, awaiting his premonitory tap;-then, when the nervous system

daughter of the

the shilling gallery, infernal cries of "Down in the front!" "Music!" "Curse your pedigree!" "Hats off!" "How's

ce, by presenting them with the first act, to judge how far the music of the overture is adapted to the business of the sta

ereditary Prince of Coolavin; and his serene highness the Duke of Darmstadt, I am eternally grateful. To the performers, male and female, the composers, the orchestra at large, scene-painters and scene-shifters, prompters and property-men, box-keepers and check-takers, sentries and police, I present my heartfe

Au

1,

IN TH

WELL THAT

MATIC EXT

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formed by the largest orchestra ever collected in a European theatre, assisted by the

rture the following nove

Mons. Tambourette, Member of the Legion of Honour, K.

rilliant variations for the Irish pipes, by Kalkbrenner,-Mr. P

by a distinguished amateur, who h

ry Hertz) on one pian

Sir Geor

on,-lent to the lessee for

Mr. T.

twice encored, bell rin

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discovered drinking "heavy wet." Mags rather fresh, and Poppleton evidently

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and Pop! the cov

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ned by pot-boy. He forks out tanner, and disappears. Solo-Apollonicon. Hurried music descriptive of

ne

taking "some'ut short" at the counter. Enter, in full uniform. Captain Connor; O'Toole and Blowhard in shell jackets.

, O'Toole,

a

my boys, and gin

'

r fight, or fits

l

another go, then

r

nother go, and hey

m he chucks under the chin,) some

rine of her on

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ds, and one of

t Blowhard, and yo

rting, yet your

I could live

wives on three

ve a monied m

o be a trad

msies, is the l

cers keep the G

matters stand,

awake, Tim. (To the Capt

more round of ja

eerless lad

et;-to Knightsbr

split that I

ohnny, shake hands, and s

ne

ir, and the other to her bed-chamber. She is discovered standing at the window in

ot-half-past four!

ed faith, and thri

s, I waived a

sed a counter

offer from a

warning left

in, that rich

tanhope, and cu

ise. Voice

ce, and with one bob I'm sham

First I'd s

e rushes in, and embr

spirit.)-Unhand me, fellow!

int, I feel in

and Miss S.-(

.

, lay aside your

s you'll scarcel

rdon seal'd alre

oul! I scarce h

ss

r; but y

llect what'

young an

.

ty Miss

do lay aside your

you'll scarcel

rdon seal'd alre

soul! I had no

door. Miss S. looks out ala

ost-lost

madam, what

o broadsword on th

d! Zounds! My teet

him?-(Opens the chamber doo

n nothing

eep beneat

ns. Mags

e alone. Oh, hap

ervant

elow who says he

an; for that 'ere

e in, and I will

er S

Miss Smashaway

assion you c

ave, a frown a

has robb'd his

er that the man d

and here comes

er M

e Mr. Po

s ever one

th me; for life I'

ld you sav

. Let

bed will sure

o bed-chamber.

re is my

Maid, h

Sir, you're d

e. Your life's no

re shall

Maid.) Put him w

e firm, "Clipcl

rd strikes against the stairs. Enter

arms.)-My own loved Guar

Connor! (K

ing her.)-Swe

you dally, deare

ou on

sweetest, a

,-(taps his cheek playful

y sneeze

What's

ear Terence, but t

y coughs

nother! Do cats

redden! Tell

k! Zounds! If m

e hour he dare

s into the bed-chamber. Mis

y eyes! anothe

th one

m dead wi

I smo

m before him into

Why, hell and Tommy!

, and play me f

l shal

h his sword, while Clipclose an

ord! I'm de

epare fo

Indeed, sir,

y, sir, affect

pardon, and r

, Mrs. Clipclos

s all this? What d

sband, and a

as it for this I ga

-Was it for this I

nch, brown stou

ting the lives of the company, when enter an elderly pieman with a juvenile dea

flash madam hit

close).-And that cove knock'd

iceman.)-Let m

ay, sir, l

! and keep your ga

underneath, attended b

what is this? it

the ga

, dash my w

se rises through the stage, dressed in

-Ghost an

ow to you,

os

the fam

-li, fal-

et here t

-fal-

ve-making y

-re-lo

clear away

-fal-

ss

! we're goi

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er Ghost, yo

-fal-

ice

Miss S. w

-fal-

he Gh

zes! should w

-fal-

pt. C's f

Wi

ou traitor,

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Wi

deceivin

-fal-

Wi

ar enough for

-fal-

Wi

and reduced

-fal-

inds his teeth passionately, then

night before Lare

pt

ck, I'm done

in come down

r, your glo

e pass to

he Gh

old rum-loo

it a favour

your sulph

own stairs t

a troop in

-Shut your potato-tr

moral-Life-Guar

p, my Connor; 'tw

d my best belo

pany).-Ladies and Gemmen,

st, must be his

ose)-Bent upon wedlock,

ese had not br

and left my h

pocket of my dar

and there you'l

nly and stick t

rentices, and

urf, the finis

f, and leave o

and mend young "

ully.)-Did you

Rich as

m, son Bob, de

ar ghost, to die

ou for

, your pardo

short; but sti

liana I woul

heart. What would

play, "Blue bonnet

leton each choose one of the Captain's Wives; the Police dance with the Ladies' Maids; and the Pieman with "All-hot." Twice down the middle, poussette,

here's nae luck

y, and we

Old Grum

say, "thri

e-toes tod

luck about

now lu

w luck abo

rumpy d

emendous applause, and

REMARKS B

general consent, this play has been declared not inferior to the happiest effort of the bard of Avon, as player-people call William Shakspeare. I have not seen it represented; for, th

ue by the public would amount to a large tottle. No doubt the restoration of the drama is a matter o

one hundred and three battalions of foot, and, on an average, twelve drums to each regiment,-a shameful waste of public money, by-the-bye, one drum and fife being quite sufficient for each corps, as they only alarm an enemy in war-time, and, in peace, destroy the utility of servant-maids by seducing them eternally to the windows. Well, even permitting this extravagant number to remain; by adopting Mr. Tambour

ve for a return of the drummers attached at present to the army: specifying their respective names, w

J

y 1,

occupied. Might not a one-handed fife be introduced, or a pandean pipe substituted, and fifers totally abolished? I see no reason why the same man sho

.H

S FROM THE D

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N THE SPA

OF "ST.

ed to despise book-knowledge of every kind, and argued that it only tended to mislead. "I have good reason to be satisfied on this point," he said to me one day at Vienna. "History is not to be relied on; a fact is told a hundred different ways; the actions

he private history of each, some ridiculous adventure or silly contre-tems. I marvelled how he could have collected so great a store, such as it was, of anecdote and information; how he carried it all in remembrance; and, still more, at

ease. Before we separated, I pointed out a certain Englishman to him, who was playing high, and did not notice us: I asked him "If he knew anything respecting that gentleman?" I had my private reasons for asking this question,

, without hesitation, in a sort of business-like way, he entered at once into the details I most wished to know respecting the young Englishman we had left at the salon d'écarté; and left no doubt on my mind, from some circumstances I already knew respect

forgetting I was not alone

would not permit it; and, apologising for my abstraction, insisted that he should finish the

ven in Italy and the Ionian islands, where I had before met him by some extraordinary chance, as well as at Constantinople and at Athens, he had always been enveloped in this same most magnificent mantle. At last I thought of the fable of the man, the sun, and the wind; so concluded that he wore this Spanish cloak to guard him equally from heat and cold, to exclude the su

certain that I had not intimated such intention to him); "I am proceeding there myself on

an hotel in Paris, and another to bring him to the sanctuary of your home, to the fireside of an Englishman, to the board of your ancestors, to

d to penetrate the cause. He gave me a smile

s. We spent some months together at Rome, and met with a few adventu

sign of displeasure, "That I did not wish to pry into the youthful follies of so near a relative; at the same time I thought it odd I never should have heard my father mention that he had f

every attention from me on his own account, as well as for the sake of another--" He did not finish the sentence; but, folding his cloak more

s to write, sentimental billets-doux sometimes twice a day, for so often they passed between my fair Platonist and myself. I had to select all her books, her flowers, and to choose her ribbons. I know not how it might have ended, for affairs began to

versation. I was uneasy respecting the life of an only parent, and I had just parted with one of the prettiest women in France, at the moment, too, when we both wished Platonism in the same place its founder was, dead and buried; but I might have saved myself the trouble of being annoyed, for the stranger did not seem to recognise me, nor wish to speak to any one. His carriage was lofty a

e to the roaring of the winds and the dashing of the waves! I began to sympathise most sincerely with the unhappy sufferers; for such sights and sounds are sure to affect the feelings of those who both see and hear. In short, I began to look grave, and become squeamish. I saw nothing bu

me, and he bowed ceremoniously, with a smile which seemed to say, "I wish you joy, young man, of your sea-sickness!" I turned from

lor; only try one of my cigars; they are not of common use; one o

riter says, for "the swell-mob;" but at this moment the thought of it was execrable. I could

lways get as far away as I can from those who do.

re we shall touch the shore, for you see both wind and tide are against us. I assure you the

n of no gentle kind; it dropped into the boiling waves, making a noise like a his

g coolness he lighted another from his own, and presented it to me. I was puzzled what to do, for the courtesy of this man was extreme. I was exceedingly sick, and wished to get

a hunter does after a long day's sport, hungry almost to famine, and I descended to the saloon, and called lustily to the steward to bring me a cold fowl, a plate of ham, and a bottle of porter. No more nausea, no more livid lips and blue cheeks. All of a sudden I became eloquent, poetical, and brimful of the tender passion. I wished to console some of my fair companion

pe from his society at Dover, as I feared he would offer to accompany me to London, and I could hardly refuse him after the service he had rendered me. I therefore lingered below some few m

cians could not comprehend her malady, but agreed to call it a general debility, an exhaustion of the vital energies, without

e she was first seized; and on reference to my note-book, found out that her first appearance of illness was at the precise hour when the

how he had cured me of my sickness in a moment; how wonderfully he knew the private history of every individual; and I ended by believing that there was something of a supernatural agency about him. "Perhaps," thought I, starting up suddenly, and sp

m going out I knew not whither, to make inquiries for the cloaked stranger, and request him to give me another of his marvellous cigars. As I

her," exclaimed I, breaking from

t him in the parks, at the exhibitions; but could not find him. At length I thought of the British Museum, but why I did so appears to me most mysterious; I drove instantly thither, and ran through all the rooms with the mos

vour. I stood before the table at which he sat, and watched his countenance as he seemed engrossed with his Oriental li

bow or a look of recognition. I knew not

ammered out, "I fear I

m always ready to listen to the son of Sir Geor

s by some mysterious drug or preparation," I said, hesitating

plied the strang

ngerously ill; can

the stranger, and an inexpressible gl

ht have been deemed, since every medical man has free liberty

ey seemed as if turned to stone, for

ther's case to you, si

ous apartment, in which there were not above a dozen other persons, in a state of mind resembling a chaos, occasion

emi-god-and she too of so peculiar a mind, so enamoured of all that is great and wonderful; so romantic, too! Wretch that I am! is my belo

sed his book, and returned it to the librarian. He w

" said I, "come, I conjure

, who was dozing in a sort of lethargic stupor, that appeared to be the precursor of death. My two sisters stood

on, some convulsive spasm, passed over his countenance as he looked upon that face which never had its equal yet on eart

nce so placed, which sent up a pale blue flame, and a most intoxicating odour. He desired that my mother should be raised in bed, even to a sitting posture, when he placed the blazing plate immed

exclaimed the latter, "and

to the stranger for saving a life so prized? No. In my heart I loathed him at the very time he was heaping benefits upon me. And

the finger of this mysterious visitant a ring of great value, that belonged once to my father. H

said, and his voice faltered, "for a signal bene

ceived, and I cursed him in my heart for it, that -- retained the ring, after having expressed her asto

s presented that ring to him who is now no more. Marquis! I must speak to

madness must some time or other scorch my brain; I was full of delusions; I could behold nothing clear with my mental vision. I once heard a learned physician say to my father, "

me not think about it, or-

hen my gentle cousin tried each soft persuasive art to lead me to his presence, I taunted her in the cruellest manner with her hypocrisy, as I chose to call her blandishments, and bade her "go to the fascinating marquis, and heap her witcheries on him." Nothing could exceed the patience of this devoted being, her sweetness of temper, her a

e who loved me still, notwithstanding my growing malady, to have some one with me night and day

rom that time the marquis was not permitted to enter the house. I heard of this at first with incredulity, then with complacency. By degrees I grew calmer. I was afterwards shown a letter from the cloaked stranger, dated Rome; and it confirmed their assertions. I once more

ssions; I knew he loved her, and feared he would gain her: but on my saying one day, as if by accident, in her presence, "that I feared S-- gamed high, and consequently was not worthy of the regard of any woman of discretion,"

misunderstand you; and, if it be any comfort to you, believe that I most tenderly return your affection. But, oh, my beloved cousin! think how you have been afflicted,-and then ask yourself whether I ought to listen

wholly by my fear of losing her, as I believed that detested foreigner was

usions. You had no cause why you should form such a prep

e is disparity of years; but,

ldly, "he wears a mos

as, since he had cured my mother. "Did he not remove it when he dined and drank tea

lips; "why are you so excited now when talking of this stranger? Your mother, Th

id, "from gratitude alo

tude only. Are y

kindness!" I continued. "But say, did

oo cold; or he was poorly, or some excuse or other.

entail on my innocent offspring such a calamity. But then this inexplicable stranger;-perhaps he had the power to cure me,-he had already performed almost a miracle;

one; so it was determined that she, with Louisa and Emily, accompanied by our sweet relative, should bear me company to Italy, and thither we accordingly went. We linge

off in quest of the man for whom I had an antipathy, powerful, incurable; and for what purpose? To request his aid, mysterious, perhaps sinful,

e as my keeper, when I saw from the window of my hotel the cloaked stranger pass with a lady on his a

t he promised that he would dine with me the following day, although hi

w this stranger, he was looking at an inscription at Athens, and I felt a secret desire to get from his presence; but he entang

ame table, and I again reques

er the cloth is removed I will, if you sti

nd became abstracted and melancholy; not a word was said respecting my request to him, nor di

o read; whilst I, pondering on all I had ever known of him, began to feel the most burning de

aid I, "and you promised then you wou

ever the most safe? Is not the outer clothing of nature ever the most beautiful to the eye? What deformity dwells in mines, in caver

was not thinking of Nature at all, but of th

rquis, "and sought me at Naples? The knowledge, I should deem, could n

" I replied, piqued at his irony; "but, when a ma

aid my companion; "

exclaimed, with pertinacity. "Is

," he answered, with a tone that froze me to the heart.

apartment save my faithful

If you insist on this strange request, the door must be

or, forsooth, because he takes off his cloak! But I must humour him, I suppose, or he will find an excuse for breach of promise."

k of your request,-that one that brought you hither, and which I should conceive of more importance than the s

I; "but, after all, the man is right; I had better attend to the

aid I, "have you an

s your mother knows. He in return did me a serv

. I fancied too that my youngest sister gave indications of the same disorder; she was growing melancholy and reserved. "Oh, heavens!" thought

" said the stranger; "have you

how is it that I have inherited the disease? Should not the

s day, so that the sun of reason shone brightly on him until his death? What had I to do with future generations? with a race

re the root of this disease? stop its fatal progress? pre

icians, down, down to the present hour? It is woven into man's very nature; the warp and woof of which he is composed. I can check its open manifestation in a single individual; but the evil

of passion. I even began to think that madness ruled me at that very

poke aloud, "Then I must never marry; my childre

t be free from madness. Why, 'tis the very sign they are so, their wishing to rivet fetters on themselves; but

ou not

like a large boa-constrictor, reaching to his very throat,--But I sicken as I write! The remembrance of that moment, how shall it

ard its extremity drop upon the floor! I saw it extend itself, and creep along! More-more still descended; fewer coils were round him! He turned himself to facilitate its de

dark undulation on the floor, "be

ed, I was alone. The stranger had departed, leaving the door ajar; but he

hree notches of the devil's tail will perfectly restore you; but it must be cut

n my bosom. I think he saw the action, for he looked mournfully on me, and shook hi

had remai

hy, Hu

the boards of the floor are singed, y

yet I wrestled with the spirit of darkness within. I tried to persuade myself that I had been overtaken only by a dream; that my whole acquaintance with the pretended marquis was nothing but an illusion, a vision of the imagination, an optic delusion, an hallucination o

dred stratagems, to dispel the gloom that arose amongst us all. Emily sat, absorbed in her own melancholy thoughts, a fellow-sufferer, I fancied, with myself. My lovely, innocent, affectionate cousin held my fevered hand in one of hers, and imploringly aske

ONG O

eaven, soft

art an an

watch arou

I with thee

poppies o'

fever of

ealing vi

ay compos

r call this angel mine? Better to die at once, o

to visit you; drive her not away by ill-timed violence; here, let

poppies o'e

fever of

I fell

ll seated by my side; all the rest were gone; candles burned on the table-it was midnight

ve spoken strange things during your sleep. You have declared that I had the power to restore you; can I d

my arms round that pure, angelic form,

odore? You deny not what y

, for you are the purest p

; this is one of your delusions! Would that it wer

I am at least perfectly sane.

me the

to allude to such a circumstance; I was willing to run all hazards of my posterity inheriting so dreadful a disease. My father had done as I intended to do; and the remedy was as open to my offspring as to mysel

ere she spoke; her cheek was blan

this being; and, should he be indeed the author of all evil, out of evil shall come good, for I have courage, for your dear sake, to take from him the

nded was granted to me, for they feared to oppose my wishes.

shown into the same room; but the marks upon the floor were gone,-new boards were t

the devil, should seek in vain; but wh

features bore the stamp of angelic beauty; but, alas! the expression was-the fallen angel. He salute

thousand objections. Some other person might be found; but I, fool that I was! overr

to refuse. Reluctantly he drew from a secret pocket in his cloak a small steel hatchet, with many figures inscribed upon it. She received it at his hands; but I observed a fixedness in her beautiful ey

ch he had been sitting. She flew like lightning thither, raised the glittering tool

ar Theodore!" she whispere

rust it into my coat-pock; I then turned to congratulate my deliverer, but she was a life

had no return of my malady, but I have experienced anguish fourfold! The only benefit derived has been that my siste

; for myself, I shall never need it for my offspring, my affections are buried in the grave; but I have bequeathed it to m

ION FROM

SERE

w strains ar

my dream

, look! wh

s so late

sound, I

in slum

ng no music

my sick

music of

s my hear

all me with

r dear, g

IT GALLERY

onductor informed me, were taken at Florence; and their history might serve as a hint to artists. The painter had, unfortunately, commenced with the handsomest of the girls; and, having somewhat flattered the likeness, of course the family were delighted with his performance: but, when the older and the uglier Cannons came to sit, no flattery could render their portraits tolerable to them. The consequence was, that they were considered as bad resemblances, and

NNON F

in a French promenade, a Spanish alameda, or an Italian corso, has fallen upon some branch of the family; nay, more properly, on two or three of them; for, if a body perchance hit

alked about, and dragged about in pick-nicks, déjeuners champêtres, gipsy-parties, marooning-parties, through wo

litical economy, statistics, or the study of men and manners, with the gentlemen. Not in the least degree. The only paintings the fair part of the family admired were their own lovely faces. All foreign tongues were as foreign to them as Sanscrit. The only pursuit of polity that occupied Messrs. Cannons', senior and juniors,

uced Mr. Commodus Cannon to bestow upon this box the euphonious appellation of Wick-Hall, arose from a natural association of ideas and a proper sense of gratitude; for, be it known, that Mr. Commodus Cannon had once been a tallow-chandler of great renown in the ward of Candlewick

airy, and their brew-house, and their wash-house, and their ice-house, and their hot-house, their cosey fire-side and their snug bed-rooms, to wander about the world, and dwell in cold and dreary, or in broiling and stewing lodgings; drink sour ordinaire wine instead of port, sherry, gooseberry, and nut-brown October; be cheated and laughed at by foreign servants, instead of being attended by worthy, homely, and honest domestics; and become the ridicule of strangers, i

althiest resident in or near the village; therefore was Wick

lly,-nay, would have met any modern Crichton with a thesis on the subject to show and prove, that he was the greatest man in the world; and he argued that Europe being the finest part of the creation, France the most delightful country in Europe, Paris the most s

year; Mr. Hiccup, M.R.C.S., who, to the duties of his profession in the attendance of man and beast, added the pursuits of rat and mole-catcher, perfumer, stationer, and tobacconist; and Mr. Sniffnettle, the attorney, solicitor, conveyancer, proctor, appraiser, auctioneer, poet-laureat and parish-clerk. A hop a

ons proud,-some say haughty, supercilious, and arrogant. It migh

as no ot

but pride; fo

arrog

articulations so greased, and oiled, and anti-attritioned, that they would bob, an

bronze figure of the Egyptian god Crepitus in the tomb of one of his noble ancestors. To this proud circumstance the family also owed the Christian-name of "Commodus," which the elder Cannon always bore,-Commodus being of Gallic origin. Sometimes Mr. Commodus

ns of glory! of worldly greatness! Gre

fetter, and th

kford was in a state of commotion, of effervescence, of ebullition, boiling over with hope and fear. A comet wagging its tail over their steeple,-an eclipse, which would have set all the Muckfordians smoking bits of glass, and picking up fragments of brok

it the advantages that might be derived from their parliamentary connexions and ministerial interest?-No. Was it the hopes that their residence might induce other rich families to inhabit the neighbourhood?-No-no-no! If the reader cannot guess, he must have lived at the antipodes, or in a desert, or never lived in life. The question

ate Muzzle; "the Wittingtons are great

dear madam," remarke

wax-chandlers," ad

dlers," repli

Sniffnettle, who, as we have seen, wa

k, or lighter

basket, on his

ow spots

illumined the minds of the party as brightly as two pounds of fours might have e

uzzle, with a benevolent smile; "but pride is a

rs. Sniffnettle; "if they're brought

d knows how they made it!-they were as pert a

shame comes after,"

e was a clerk," profession

de, now," said Mr. Hiccu

d the poet,

nly vain, the g

like most persons doting upon poesy, d

dies or gentlemen ever said "I wonder i

es, if they are at the foot of the ladder, if those who are climbing up are properly rolled down? There is no need of crying "Heads below!" the gr

by the chief authorities of Muckford, a question of

the Wittingtons, or wait until they call

t that was marching towards his mouth, and k

cking of a nut she had just intro

roasted chestnut napkin, unconscious of

eeling with a steel knife; a circumstance that would ha

r of cherry brandy instead of "j

ve a toothpick in his g

arted, and trod

ad an Irish godfather,) made a horrible mistake, by d

-handkerchief; and Oliver Cannon, who had been lolling

ield ought in mercy to have burst from his cerements to have answered

might have been called manual tautology, since it was a scratch already,-"as to the matter of that, it is c

s. Nothing could be more clear, more lucid, nay, more pellucid, than Mr. Commodus Cannon's remark,-more self-evident, more conclusive,-yet it on

him thinks proper to honour us with a call, you are a mean-spirited, petty-

pontaneous roar, one well-fired volley of approbation without a stragg

speaker; "and can hold up our heads

ns, and another fire of

ell you, Mr. Cannon, just look at your crest and your mo

Cornelius Cannon, who w

ortly wanting to borrow money from us; but, as we are neighbours, and we are longer resident at Muckford, it's our busine

on to the vote; it was carried by nem. diss. acc

ones were sent the Lord knows where by the impatient gentlemen, while the ladies, who were too well bred to pronounce the vulgar name of the infernal regions, only wished every servant in the house a visit to the monarch of that grilling kingdom every hour of the day; and every horse, and every ass, nay, the very colts and fillies, shod and unshod, broken or unbroken, were sent to and fro from Wick-Hall to the neighbouring town, like buckets up and down a well, for silks, and ribands, and bobbins, and laces, and caps, and bonnets, and feathers, furs, and furbelows, and rouge-pots, and cold cream, and antique oil, and pomatum, and washes, and lotions, Circassian and Georgian, that were ever employed since the days of Jezebel to scr

nd Debrett's Peerage and Joe Miller, the Racing-calendar and the Court-guide, were studied during

ly hedge. Poor Kitty Cannon was in a most piteous plight from having made a trifling mistake in the use of some medicines sent her by Mr. Hiccup; for, in a very great hurry to try on an invisible corset, she rubbed her throat with some palma Christi oil, and swallowed a hartshorn liniment that had been intended for external use. In her burning agonies she of course kept the whole house in hot water, for everybody was so busy that nobody could attend upon the poor sufferer; who, unable to call out, and having torn up her bell by the roots, was only able

ed his scratch wig to be curled tight, with the not unfrequent vulgar wish that the whole family might be blown t

nigh, and impatiently looked for, as a circumstance had taken place

iable disposition, Hiccup carried various new publications to his daughters, who immediately ran to show them to the Miss Cannons, calling the ladies by their Christian names with singular impertinence,-such a book having been lent by the beautiful Lady Arabella,-such a review by the lovely Lady Celestina. Moreover, Lady Tabby Catson, during the intermissions of her ailments, had fits of devotion that took her like stitches in the side, when Mr. Muzzle was instantly sent for in one of the carriages. Thus wer

ching. But, alas for human and mortal hopes! one hour,-nay, one half-hour,-one quarter,-the time of reading a letter on foolscap paper, on letter paper, on note paper, only a few lines

propitiate the angry heavens by casting some over her left shoulder. A thundering rap at the hall-door made the whole family jump, start, and stare. A footman in the Wittington livery was at the door! he delivered a letter! Oh! how all the young hearts did beat and leap! and how the old fount of circulation of Mrs. Cannon did palpitate, as in days of yore! Scarcely had the door been closed, when the whole family, with the exception of Mr. Cannon, who was buttering toast, rushed like a torrent, or a cataract, or any thing else you like, to secure the missive, anxious as they were to ascertain its

ly consume a stick of odoriferous wax. To his equals, though they are but few, he writes on paper somewhat inferior, with a smaller seal. To his titled inferiors, plain note paper, with a crest and motto. To his untitled correspondents, half a sheet of letter paper (it must be cut in an uneven and ragged manner), with a fancy seal, that his noble blazon may not be polluted by vulgar eyes. To people in business, cits, snobs, a wafer-but still a wafer-gently

ct his steward to call upon him. His lordship has been led to understand that Mr. Cannon's young men have been in the practice of shooting on his grounds; now h

s supporting parts of the furniture. The young men, as his lordship had dared to call Mr. Cannon's promising and amiable sons, bore the insult with all the calm dignity of men wantonly offended; they onl

ock! sooner see him, and all his seed, breed,

pithy speech of Commodus Cannon; even Mrs. Cannon, forgetting, in a moment of just indignation, that female discretion that ou

't stick my paddock chokefull of buck-wheat, and not leave

r rap at the door, louder, if possible, and more authoritative than the footman's, interrupted the discussion. All and every one ran to

t of the room, followed by all t

owed his duty wristbands to be seen puckered up above his hairy and meagre hands, and bony, long, crooked fingers, with hooked nails in half mourning. How comes it that the coat-sleeves of certain petty attorneys and apothecaries are generally too short, save and excepting when they have donned their Sabbath and visiting raiment? It surely must arise from the usual practice of extending the arm

n encyclopedia

, Mr. Cannon, regarding the approaching county

Mr. Cannon, with a prope

lordship intends to put up Mr.

o me? What do I care for

n would have inflicted a

and beamed with ousters and ejectments, as he

the table a liberal thump.

sires that you will v

that I'd sooner see Mr

al; more especially as Cannon seemed to be a good man, with a silver urn and tea-pot on the table, and every appearance of wealth and independence about the goods and chatt

, who had laid out upwards of th

refuse to vote

sir, nolens volens

ustice

has a right to do what he li

my political o

for his lordshi

ous, oppressiv

rdship must be in the right. Primò, he is lord of the manor; secundò, his property in the county is ver

, he has

ne has a right to do wha

hat there cudgel is my own, and suppose I knocked you down with it? This he

at case, sir, if you made use of that there cudgel, as you call it, the law would soon make you cut your stick; and if

t of the hand, ready for anything-as the Irish say-from pitch-and-toss to manslaughter, and bidding Cannon, in a vulgar language unbecoming a solicitor, to prepare "to t

the entrance of Mrs. Cannon. "Well, sir?"

ust have a revolution in this here

as happened?" replied

sworn by G-, like any duke or marquis,)-by gums! this here proud big-wig aristocracy must be brought down; nothing can save poor England but the abolition of this insolent peerage, these hereditary law-makers from father to son. I say, no peers! no bishops! no lor

-arms, were terrified, and fancied the worthy man was

, the Right honourable the Earl of Wittington, the Right honourable the Lady Tabby Catson! If their noble fingers ached, 'twould be in the Gazette, so it would. If they got a surfeit from cramming turtle down their noble throat

owed this violent paroxysm; and the Cannon circle, drawing round their chief with becoming uneasine

n; to keep possession of it at the expense of conscience by voting for Mr. Eelback, an abnegation of a fr

hat, frighted

e where all was

flutter, and hardl

the hall once more interrupted the busy

its?" exclaime

utter horror, Mrs. Cannon recognised the daughter of Mr. Suet, a carca

The ex-Miss Suet explained matters. She had married Mr. Grits, a grocer, who had failed thrice, once a bankrupt, and twice an insolvent, by which means he had realised a tole

Grits would not have been received; now, in the distress

and a butler!-No, no, thrice no;-the breach was immeasurably widened. Mr. Cannon stuttered and stammered all the insults that had been heaped upon him. Mrs. Grits plainly saw that no pacification could be expected; and, although she expressed the u

ord should have annoyed you. Oh! he is as proud as Lucifer when he goes to open h

nd!" repeated Mr. C

us France, that belle France, to exist, or

spell; it seemed a password, a Shibbolet

he country! only

a jolly red-faced fellow, with an enormous abdomen

stuff, the tailor in the Minories, married his daughter to a general,-ay, a real general; and then, such living, and such society, and such amusements! Gardes du corps with such nice moustaches, and patés de truffes, and omelettes soufflées, and bal

d and forty-t

ve upon eggs à la coque, à la tripe.

prime joints, if you plea

s ways of cooking them, chapon à la barbare, chapon à la Veluti, chapon au parfait amour; and then, the Hussars, and the Lancers, a

he was too old to learn to parlez-vous, but the ladies procured grammars and dictionaries, to brush up their boarding-school education; and in ten days the whole family were packed

d was delighted with their departure. "Hurrah! All

Grits opened an inn at the sign of the Mitre, opposite Cushion-Lodge, and, as the Rev. Mr. Muzzle had been appointed tutor to the youngest of the honourable Catsons, whenever he saw the sign bearing the episcopal diadem swinging in the wind, despite all humility, a warrantable ambition would often lea

ER ON L

olding both his

ke, and not unfrequently terminating in a fit of indigestion. If he happened to be (as there are many) a priggish quack, it is not unlikely he would add as a sequel, that it was a most injurious and unmannerly indulgence, particularly favouring a determination of blood to the head, and decidedly calculated to injure the fine nerves of the facial

of a cloudless mind. Life without it were without hope, for it is the exuberance of hope. It

rday we noticed a little urchin writhing apparently in the agony of anguish; he had been punished for some trivial delinquency, and his little spirit resented it most gloriously. How the young dog roared! His little chest heaved up and down; and every blue vein on his pure forehead was apparent,-bursting with passion. Anon, a conciliatory word was

will burst forth as in days gone by: but he has no longer the cue and action for passion he then had; the cares of the world have already mingled themselves in his cup, and his young spirit is drooping beneath their influence. The laughter of boyhood is a merry carol; but the first rich blush has already passed away. The boy en

ome great man, to whose conduct they shape their passions as a model. Does his lordship say a bon mot, it is caught up and grinned at in every possible manner till, the powers of grimace expended,

rin on their countenance, which, before you have said three sentences, will resolve itself into a simper, and terminate finally in a stentorian laugh. These men may truly be said to go through life laughing; but habit

Speak to one of these men of happiness, virtue, &c. he meets you with a sneer, or a bottle-imp kind of chuckle; talk to him of any felicitous circumstance, he ch

. People, he will tell you, should overcome these vulgar propensities; they are abominable. A young man of this class is generally consumptive, his lungs have no play, he is always weak and nar

to its follies, and has learnt to gather wisdom even from laughter. Such are the men who do honour to society, who have learnt to be temperate in prosperity, patient in adv

torrent, were too strong to pursue its ordinary course; but, breaking forth from the narrow channel that confined it, rushed forth in one broad impetuous stream. It is the voice of anguish that has chosen a d

we'll merr

w we'll

ter all, is bu

TER C

S OF THE TEMPE

wine!

parkl

gne hissing

d joy, and

The grape's

heart in it

he war

urple

w

ine! th

e we'l

ibations

d first on

of the illu

worship at

asure'

fly th

are wash'd

wine!

ntlin

flashing wi

cheek has ca

breathing w

of song arou

oriou

ing th

acy

wine!

uaff

woman! D

festive so

bowl, and

ls. Hurrah!

soul

rtal

immorta

OF HAJ

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topped, and there he advised me to put up for the night, promising

are the two persons who were so

e of the people. Our whole country is principally divided into two factions, holding their opinions. There is also a moderate set who do not partake o

hen here before in the days of our embassy, returned as fast as I recognised the objects which before had been familiar to my sight, but which had been much obliterated by my absence in Persia. I again sat upon chairs instead of my heels; again I ate with knives and for

remembered enough to make myself understood; and so far I felt independent, and needed not the attendance of a mehmander. I thanked my friend Jan for all his kind

rangistan, who spoke each their different language, and adapted themselves as well as they could to the manners of the English. I was visited by the landlord, a well-looking, well-spoken man, and his wife, an elderly lady, who, having come once

nd." The street was positively more thronged with men and women than even one of the most crowded bazars of Ispahan. I saw more carriages, more horses, more carts, and more stir, than I recollected to have seen when here before. Every one seemed busy, and bustled along, as if all depended upon their haste. Whence they were coming, whither going, who could say? Were they all thinking of ruin, or were they bent upon happiness? I was longing to stop and ask each person what had happened, so very uncommon was this state of things compared with what I had been accustomed to witness in my own country, or even in the European countries through which I had travelled. I continued to walk through this astonishing street, thinking I should never come to the end of it, when I reached

ed forthwith to seek them out, and to renew my acquaintance. I paced along the street, looking upon every house with uplifted eyes, in the hope of discovering some sign by which I might recognise it; but the buildings were all so hopelessly alike that I began to despair of hitting upon the right knocker. It came to my mind that a lion's head held the knocker, because I had compared it in former days to the face of the mamma Hogg herself; but, upon inspecting the knockers, they all had lions

Hogg a

e, which explained to me, what I had never known before, that, when an Englishman dies, it is the custom to make a painting, as I supposed, explanatory of the history of his life; for, afterwar

ad too?" said I; "where

The father Hogg, it seems, had died not many months ago of apoplexy; his widow was living in a neighbouring street, in a small house, with her eldest daughter, who was still unmarried. Mrs. Figsby (alas!

lpitation of the heart. It was opened by a brilliantly-dressed servant in a gaudy kalaat, with a thick paste of w

me, by the blessing o

ivering me over to the keeping of another man without a kalaat, I was walk

hall I

nswered, recollecting w

imed aloud, as well as I could understan

e rounded into coarse cushions, behind which reposed her almost secluded eyes. The beautiful throat of former days was scolloped into graduated ridges; and those arms, which formerly were lovely by themselves, were now so bound over with broad belts of golden bracelets, that they looked like the well-fitted hoops of a wine-cask. The hair, whic

ressed all sorts of surprises at seeing me, particularly as I had never been announced in the public newspapers; assured me that Mr. Figsby, who was not at home, would be delighted to see me; se

uld have made a marriage with a man who seemed to be a favourite of Fortune, and whose luck appe

ave got a reform, 'tis true; and Figsby is rejoiced, and hopes to be returned for Marylebone, and, who knows whether he may not sit in the cabinet one of these days? But the aristocracy they won't be quiet, do what you will, an

I had heard in the coach. "What news is this?" thought I, "that women should

hib was a grocer," said I

nsiderable angry emphasis. "He is a W

since he has left his priva

ave been abolished. Schedule A. and schedule B. have been all the fashion of late; we talk of nothing else; and there are to be mem

d I, "what do

ish Figsby may become a member of parliament, and sit in th

all you desire," said I, "in the name of th

eing an old friend in truth. I knew that you would

eople? is he a ne

reign people! They are all the men and women you see walki

laimed I. "What news is this? They have go

said she; "but what is t

if any Persian wanted anything more, and talked about his rights, all that he would get for hi

Englishmen. They must be fairly represented; and, if such men as Figsby are

also. In former days he was happy to be allowed to take the lowermost place in the mejlis or assembly; now he walked in with an air of consequence and protection. He came into the room with a noise and bustle; hi

ade such a speech, Bessy, you would have been quite charmed. The

ill be an M.P., and who knows what else! And here is the

But stop! let me see; are you a ten-pound householder? is your name

Persian Mirza. I am ignorant of your ten-pounds, your church-doors, and you

hings!"

y!" exclaime

hing now thought

e state, and to Marylebone, that Figsby

ught of making my retreat; but, before I did so, after having observed a look

to dine with me in a few days; I hope, prince

lease Allah!" and the

PTE

sperity which had struck my eyes, there might be truth in the rumours which had been so current in Persia, that England was declining fast in greatness, and was on the brink of ruin. I had occasionally seen madmen in my own country, from whose brain all sense had fled when their minds were bent upon a particular subject, but who

eded to a certain dark and obscure street, where, on former occasions, I recollected the sovereign had ordered his vizier to receive the ambassadors and ministers of foreign powers, and there to transact their business, and, sure enough, I found things just as I had left them; thus far there had been no reform. I fou

rooms, I found myself in the presence of one whom I first took for the vizier, but who I soon found was only his deputy. He was very kind and civil, and asked my business in courteous language; upon which I told him that I was just a

ter from our minister in Persia? I do not thin

er but this;" upon which I drew from my breast the grand vizier's letter, which I delivered into his hand. He was at a loss whilst he unrolled it, for he evidently did not know the top from the bottom; and

on his features, from which I augured favourably. He then desired me to wait, whilst he took up the paper

The appearance and manners of this personage were full of charm; and, although a man in his high office had usually the power

t my country is on the brink of ruin, and that his majesty the Shah, apprehending disast

ject of my mission," said

ravelled to Persia? It is new to me, as it is, I be

ho knows all, and does all for the good of his subjects, was convinced of the fact; the same was confirmed by all strangers arriving at his imperial gate; and it was announced by the English minister himself that a great change was about to take place in his country; that old counsels, which had been followed since the recollection of the most

taken place in the government of this country," said he, "is true; and our minister's wor

zier's words were words to be repeated to the king of kings, I inquired, "As I am

an they had before of making their wishes known through their represe

be a concentrated essence of the thousands and tens of thousands of those who choose him; and that

atives could only cry out 'black' or 'white' as it choosed to please, not themselves, but certain khans

n me. "The omrahs, therefore, are displeased, and cry out 'Ruin!' and the

d rough infidels whom I had met in the coach, and which only tended to obscure the great conclusion to which I had come by the light of my own wit. I allowed him to talk, and he seemed

rwise, why should this great country be so terribly torn from one end of it to

without producing a great shock of interests

fates of his creatures. All changes in government ought to be as gradual as changes in the seasons. If a great change takes place without a previous preparation of the people's minds, and an almost imperceptible one in their habits, of course the sudden transition will produce a shock so violent, that the mischief may perhaps be without remedy. If, du

g him, when I recollected the letter with which I was charged from the Shah-en-Shah, the kin

t my countenance was turned upside down, he said, with great kindness of manner, "There will be no harm done if you deliver it immedi

UNC

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pt a

fuge to which

hour of blea

ends, like summer

tune's shield

d a soul could

lend to any g

ney, and wo

bill, or eve

s again next

ved a debtor

*

use, in many

res were ranged

t-coats, and gown

ts of dress (n

id, some marrie

e hi

re hung three

"Who pennyle

king-house, w

article to

sh, nor fear hi

many an ungr

tore, without

som friend, a

st dwell among

BLOWS ROUND

YCE J

ller is fain to look to his footing, and put up with a blow which is neither to be parried nor returned. I cannot fix the precise date, but it was during the last century, that a bit of a breeze was kicked up in the higher circles among the Winds; and, from the strife that ensued, more serious consequences seemed to threaten than were at first apprehended. Whether the East was intent on going westward, or the North determined on veering to the south,

he South wind, "a poor, soft, effeminate creature, only fit to breathe o'er a bed of

t a bully," replied the other; "yet I flatter

ld maids, invali

s so lavishly heaped upon you, by the aged, th

ost exclusive order. "If you persist, I shall positivel

ide Temple-bar," exclaimed the East, in

onfined to the Old Bailey," chir

Boreas, blus

t y

looked particularly black, and the

" said the latter, in r

ied the tormentor; for the West wind is occasio

seemed to have possessed the contending parties with an implacable spirit of opposition, and contrived to divide his influence so impartially that each played the very devil with the other. When the uproar had sufficiently subsided to permit observation, it was clearly apparent that the North, as was his wont, rather sided with the East, and the South as plainly inclined to the West; so, after amusing himself with their differences, the crafty instigator of the feud proposed that the affair should be permitted to blow over, and, by way

reatest of modern heroes, the victor of a hundred fights. In every l

nds!" exclai

l; yet, so evanescent is popularity, and so great is the distinction between civil matters and military, that coming y

th, ready to take offence should h

ble as-as t

ignificant whistle, that sounded v

without further remark,

on, the scene of revelry and delight, not a vestige will remain; vast local improvements will be completed, magnificent residences erected;

ted to the people," observed the No

ng temple opposite?" inquired the

he resort of beauty, ran

erfectly cognisant of affairs so particularly

rtistes, as they are called, while native industry and talent are neglected and unrequited. But

" said

ion, they reached the prese

am, on whose waves float a thousand argosies freighted with riches from every dist

Boreas, too far north to l

ed among the

hat r

sion," was

exhibition of British artists, at which persons pay a shilling to view their own portr

uth, in simplicity of soul, "and m

the devili

ties afforded them to profit by the experience,

thers. They appropriate all the 'light' to their own pictures, and the 'shade' to their neighbours'. Yonder dirty-looking gate is Temple-bar, where in the olden time traitors' heads stood in goodly row, as

when the attention of the gentle South was attracted to the

ir guide, "tha

up at the idea of stiff breezes an

of this realm declares that a debtor shall pay in person what he is deficient in pocket: a sap

he exterior, the Winds expressed an eagerness to view the inside of the cathedral; but their importunities were negatived by their companion, who intimated in strong terms his repugnance to such a proposition. "Besides,"

in you unwillingly,

or your care and guidan

uarter of the town," said the Ea

in,-rely upon my speedy

o seemed to think the spot a g

awaiting my coming. For

deceiver disappeared down one of the nar

ade several rounds of the church, the hands of the clock made several rounds of the dial, yet the absent one appeared not; and their patience was nearly exhausted, when the South

F THE

where the spi

sweets o'er th

lossoms their

eath for the

each shinin

e brow of the

I

oam at the

rewell to the

ew from each s

eps as light

m all with my

isper,-that L

annot waste my time in such frivolities.

have nothing better to occupy us than at

. At length the North declared that he had busin

ves! My engagements are imperative,-

the East, with

le lounge of that period; "moreover, the Countess of B-- expects me at her party. I am i

e in this gloomy plac

ity, even for him; "I have a plan to remedy the dilemma. I go,-th

"Two are very good company

ate, I shall follow your example," said t

oppose me," grunted the latte

e always leaves his votaries in the lurch; and on this occasion his boon companions at the Chapter gave him such good cheer, that he forgot the poor winds, who have ever since been alternately looking, but in vain, for his arrival. To their honour be it told, that they each and every one performed his promise of remaining for a stated period, neither excepting the boisterous North, the cutt

y," this trial had been spared them; but they listened to the tempter. Let al

HARD

s not fair to

rtune, in her f

less smiles

nter's honour,

p engaged on hi

worthy of

Lazarus

s his earliest

e to colour, br

skilfully as

gs on the ric

ere, no doubt,

is hostess-best

ible her

orld our arti

she said, "from

pecial messa

a likene

th a calmness

which we do

brushes carefu

at-a coat which

t, and with u

e add

, revolvin

stess, when he'

hey paid him

add a little

family of s

people, sea

seen upon eac

, and of

artist, who

upon his

business eye,

seven wanted

ady soon our

rds of gentle

Thingo'me,

keness of ou

ortune seldom

ery t

shoul

late V

ill more glor

he head li

ad, with silv

seam'd an

heart 'gan inw

dered on that

r'd, in a mo

ir, he'

perplex'd-the c

'd up by doubt,

my soul!" h

you can let me

but requir

eatures-give th

-and, though the

the thing,

can,-no, I beg

s he coul

the eldest s

he sobb'd

ong ere she aga

ed him l

ed a groan: "But

keness of the

ce, whose age mi

ven't, sir, no

the l

angest thing tha

me," the baffle

I must say,

sent for me b

rn'd to the su

you d

s, features, s

ll still paint t

ld do that," said

er longish no

second; "ther

as not so

pursued the fi

aller than the

a third, "how

ll-not

n oval face, e

he eldest son

azed upon him

w's face

cried anoth

ment, sir," an

ity the art

one for?" but s

at they said, t

grandpa was

on that poi

mething here

ve he for his

, with a c

d, with much p

ed an o

.

TS A

f Naval Life d

OLD S

.

it not

swift passage

teen yea

ome ill pl

ient till the

pect more

ksp

th remarkably fine-looking men, who might be taken for brother officers but for the difference in their uniforms. The one on the larboard hand has his head erect, his chest thrown forward, his left hand thrust into his waistcoat, and his right foot in advance planted firmly on the deck; he is indulging in high-wrought and proud feelings as he silently gazes on the prize; his voice is not heard, but there is a speaking meaning in his look as he contemplates the red cross of St. George upon a white field floating majestically above the tricolour, whilst his own untarnishe

esirable command. One step he makes sure of; a few hours more may perform fresh wonders; and his mind, with all the vividness of a seaman's hope, is making a hop, skip, and a jump progress to certain conclusions favourable to promotion. The fact is, Seymour had been long neglected; he was an excellent officer, and a brave man; had fought in sever

reverse. Night is coming on; they are running into the gulf of Genoa. There are the Hieres, a little open on the larbo

tain Begaud; "there are ships of the line in the immediate neighb

upon the enemy. On the other hand, the enterprise is worth a little risk; and, though I despise the fellows wh

is-" he paused: "sacré! the rascal who told you merits

tood upon the forecastle; "it beats my larning out and out. Here we captures a French frigate, and has all the prisoners in limbo, when, ins

Mr. Savage?" asked Jemmy Ducks, to

mewhat roughly, at the presumption of the inquirer in addressin

!" answered the humble poulterer,

Jack?" said the boatswain to his vete

ng that the boatswain was twiddling his rattan with his fingers, as a prelude to castigation, he turned to the poulterer, and

o to a timber-head! and, in the regard o' that, his lordship himself too often speaks to 'em as if they had flesh and blood like his own, when, Lord love you! they arn't got ne

passing on in a hurry, and calling to hi

uster Nugent, may I presume to ax you if you can just deligthning my mind as to what cruis

med after a celebrated city that formerly monopolised the commerce of the world. C

rned the impatient boatswain; "a

enant, laughing; "why, he's been dead nearly two

reat vexation of the boatswain, who was on the qui-vive to ascertain wh

? and it's customary, sir, to pay proper respect, sir, to your superiors, sir, your betters, sir, you scape-grace, lubberly blackguard, sir;" and down came the stick at every "sir." The boy made the best of his way across the forecastle; but was again stopped by the boatswain. "Come back here, you wagabone. Don't you know,

recastle, "I hopes he'll sarve out his infarnal favours as the Lords o

ature in all its richest perfumes! then is the hour for contemplation! it is then the mind ranges over

light, let thy

ling, every pu

painter is baffled; he cannot produce the deepening tints as the web of

stood side by side abaft; "there is a holy tranquillity about it tha

ead, "has ever been to me the star of my destiny. Three days since I quitted Toulon; that orb at night was dim, and a heavy foreboding rested

tarnished. You fought your ship well, and be assured my account of the action shall do you ample just

ponded the Frenchman, "if you have

quiet, the dubious light, it is just the time for such a thing. Pray favo

d," commenced the Frenchman; "I

e," uttered his lordship; "but I fancy I

there I passed my boyhood; but he was an austere man, and, having a large family of his own, I was looked upon as an incumbrance, and the only individual who appeared to commiserate my fate was an aged woman who lived in a cottage upon the estate, and was looked upon as a sibyl of no mean pretensions. She it was who first taught me to look upon yon star, and watch its capricious changes, so as to connect them with the occurrences of my life; and she it was who read my future fate on the tablets of inspiration. And who was this female? Twenty years before she had been the favourite of fortune, enjoying the luxuries of the capital, yet with an unblemished reputation. She had an only child,-a daughter, resplendent in her opening beauty of girlhood,-a type of that loveliness with which we characterise the angels. She was seen in the garden of the Tuileries by that depraved debauchee, the Fifteenth Louis; his agents secretly forced her to the Parc aux Cerfs; and the distracted mother, ascertaining the lost condition of her child, spoke publicly and loudly of the cruel grievance. But there was a Bastile then, monsieur," added he, with bitter emphasis, "engines o

ardent desire to redress the wrongs of Madame T--. Such, monsieur, was Jacques Begaud in his thirteenth year, when, tired of a vegetative life, I quitted my uncle's house, which, though it had been a place of shelter, had never been a home to me, and travelled on foot to Toulon. My small stock of money was soon expended; but yet I wanted for nothing. A piece of bread and a little fruit, with some wine, no one denied me; and, monsieur, I felt the sweets of liberty. Why I went to Toulon I do not know, for Paris was my aim; and Madame T

ace; "I am anxious to learn in what manner yo

ence embarked for Sicily, where I narrowly escaped one of those dreadful visitations which swallowed up so many thousands in its vortex. At Messina, where I obtained temporary employ, one great source of delight to me was standing on the rocky shore and viewing the fearful commotion of the waters, as they rushed through the straits. To witness this spectacle I have walked miles; and the roaring and tumbling of the billows excited in my heart feelings of joyous pleasure. I had frequently observed a youth of my own age similarly engaged. He stood with his arms behind him looking down upon the troubled ocean, as if he wished to penetrate its hidden depths, and search for undiscovered mysteries; he seemed to view it as a monster wi

ce bowed a

none to weep for me. Without hesitation I sprang into that hissing foam, and was instantly thrown half body out again by the turbulence of the underset, as it forced itself to the surface. I struck out steadily and strongly with my arms and feet, but could preserve very little command as the impetuous waters rolled me over and over; but still I neared the object of my solicitude, who kept afloat, and at length I was by his side. Yet what could I do to aid him in his peril? 'Lift your head well up!' exclaimed I; 'strike out boldly with the current. I will not leave you.' He gave me one look; it was full of calm pride. I saw he was getting weak and required help, yet he disdained to ask for it. Mon Dieu! but that was a struggle for existence! and momentarily was strength failing in that youth, whilst I felt my own gradually grow less. 'Dive!-dive!' shouted I, as I beheld that gigantic wave returning, in all its terrible vengeance, to meet us; 'dive for your life!' But he was nearly insensible to my call. I seized him by the shoulder, forced him under as far as possible, and the enormous billow passed above our heads. Once more the light of Heaven was on us,-once more we could see the blue expanse as if resting like a canopy on the summits of the mountains, and the eddy had whirled us to the entrance of an inlet, where the water was comparatively tranquil. 'Save yourself,' said my companion, 'I will do my best to follow. Save yourself, my friend.' I know not how it was, but the appellation, 'my friend,' seemed to instil fresh vigour into me. 'I will not abandon you,' shouted I; 'and, if you can fetch the cove, we are both saved.'-'It is impossible,' answered he; 'run no further hazard on my account.' His head was drooping, nature was nearly exhausted; he swam deep, and I became sensible that, unless by some desperate impulse, I could not save him. I swam close to him, gave him one end of my neckerchief, and told him to grip it tight; the other end I fixed between my teeth, and boldly tried for the inlet. A wave assisted my endeavours; the swell bore me onward, but it was towards a point where the sea was breaking fearfully high, and the passage to the inlet was extremely narrow. My companion complied with my injunctions; yet I could not forbear shuddering when I looked at the craggy barrier that seemed to foretell our fate. We neared the rocks, and, had the swell been rolling in, must have been dashed to pieces; but, just as we approached, the wave was receding; it carried us into the inlet stream. Hope cheered me on a few strokes more: the water was undulating, but smooth; but that youth, that pale youth, had disappeared. Still he could not be far distant. I turned, and dived; long practice had rendered me perfectly familiar with the art. I saw him sinking,-almost helpless; he was near the bottom. I went down after him even lower, and, taking renewed impetus from striking my feet against the ground,

ted him with a flat piece of whalebone on which in my idle hours I had rudely carved my name. We parted, and in a short time my hazardous enterprise was richly recompensed. I found what I coveted, gold! I filled my slender pockets, and yet there was gold; I dug a hole and buried my treasure, but still wealth almost unbounded lay scattered in the streets. I hastened to the harbour; wrecks and dead bodies were everywhere floating. A boat was drifting near the quay, and, having secured her, I hastened back to the place where my riches were concealed. But the marauders had entered the town, and I feared that they would plunder me; so I returned to the boat and shoved off from the shore, and

ch a daylight! The storm had passed away,-the gorgeous splendour of the sun as he arose from the horizon was worth all the pain I had endured only to witness; but his cheering rays came as kindly to my heart as they were welcome to my person. It was like the smiling face of a friend to gladden the spirit in adversity. I was at no great distance from the shore; yet so beautiful was the scene, that, but for hunger, I should have been contented to have remained gazing on the spectacle. The cravings of nature, however, were powerful; I paddled to the rocks, landed, and hurried back to that remnant of a town I had been so eager to quit. I found no

once to hide and to direct; its position was unchanged. I gazed earnestly around,-I listened for a sound; but all was solitary and silent. In ecstasy I rolled away the obstruction, thrust in my arm, and, whilst my fingers clutched the golden heaps, my breast was on the earth, and I could hear the beatings of my heart. Thus I lay for some time indulging in delicious dreams of future enjoyment, not unmingled, however, with those contemplations which had become harmonised with every action of my existence. At various intervals I removed my gold to a place of greater security, and soon after availed myself of an oppo

t d--ly like thieving, monsie

in poverty to the very lips, bound by a solemn pledge to a certain purpose, through influences that had actuated me from m

, monsieur, I own your narrative has interested me; and, under the hope that there is somet

hid both the frown on his brow a

nd the nobility, that were eagerly swallowed by the lower orders, to increase and justify their hostility to the great. At first I kept aloof from any decided course, and for two years was a silent observer of all that was passing around me. I lived frugally, so as neither to excite envy nor create suspicion; and I saw with inexpressible satisfaction that the machinery was putting together that would, when brought into full operation, decide the fate of the Bourbons. I was almost d

ng between the trees admitted sufficient light to show two of the combatants stretched upon the ground. There were still two to two engaged with swords; but one of them fell soon after my arrival, and the survivor turned to assist his fellow against the only opponent left. Whilst they were upon an equality I did not care to interfere, especially as I knew not which was the injured party; but the odds decided me at once, and, snatching up a sword, I placed myself in attitude by the side of the solitary. My antagonist was a skilful swordsman; but I had time to observe that the individual whom I befriended was richly dressed, and by no means a master of his weapon, whilst the person opposed to him was greatly his inferior. I got close to him, parried a thrust from my own immediate engagé, and returned by a side sleight upon his comrade, who received it in his breast, and, staggering backwards with great violence, pulled the sword from my hand and left me at the mercy of the other. His pass was sure; but, dexterously evading it, the weapon only went through the fleshy part of my arm, and the force with which it was given brought it up to the hilt. We grappled together. I was young and vigorous, but he possessed all the muscular strength and power of manhood. I felt his grip upon my throat; we fell heavily together upon the earth. He retained his superiority above me; and strangulation was rapidly going on, when suddenly his hold relaxed, he sprang from me, rolled over and over, and then stretched himself stiffly out a lifeless corpse. The sword of the disengaged had passed through his heart. I was not long in recovering sensibility, and on raising my head saw that we were all down, wounded and bleeding. The gentleman in rich attire was seated with his back against a tree, wiping the perspiration from his forehead, and, on seeing me move, he exclaimed, 'Whoever you are, take m

s, from being torn by the brambles, certainly was not much suited for the ostentatious gaiety of a court at a period when extravagant profusion was considered as essential to the prosperity of the nation; nor had it lost anything by the struggle on the ground with the bandit. Still I obeyed without hesitation; and, after passing through several gorgeous apartments, an officer with a white wand arrested our further progress. He then tapped gently at an inner door; there was the tinkling of a bell, the portal flew back, and within was a resplendent blaze of light that dazzled and confounded me. I was reassured, however, by the voice of my companion, who uttered in a low voice, 'Enter, young man;' and obeying, I found myself in the presence of the king and queen. Louis was seated at a table covered with toys, and the young prince was on his knee. Marie Antoinette was watching with the eye of maternal affection the playful delight of her child; and, much as I had imbibed an undeviating hatred to royalty, I could not behold the spectacle unmoved. Near her majesty stood the young Countess de M--, and the fascination of her beauteous eye enchained my faculties. In a few minutes the que

stle, and Lord Eustace immediately star

atch, his voice reverberating amongst the sails, an

being furnished with his night-glass, walked forward to examine the stranger, le

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WARD

RATION BY GEOR

ut the dirt,-where the trees are clipt into poles, and the hedges grow behind palings,-where "no thoroughfa

entleman had inhabited a small shop at the foot of Snow-hill for more than forty years, retailing tobacco to the tradesmen, and cigars to the apprentices; and,

ooded" by a solitary laburnum, which was approached over a highly "ornamental Chinese bridge," crossing "a convenient stream of water." The interior of the building it was "impossible for the most fastidious to object to;" the rooms were so low, and the windows so small, that the

el-traps and cabbages might be taken as fixtures; nevertheless he reached the bridge without having made up his mind. There he paused, and gazed in anxious meditation upon the black a

uch a manner as to imply that other people f

o they

all his former assertions? It was a case which required extreme caution. "I am no angler myself,-I

upted Tweasle with gluttonous simplicity

ent it is taken from the water,

aid Tweasle; and he took the It

business was to be disposed of; and, that no time might be lost, Mr. Tweasle, without taking off his glov

dertook to pack up everything that could be got in London, and purchase everything that could not be got in the country. The gentleman, acting as a man should, wholly neglected the domestic. He gave his attention to the noble arts of agriculture and self-defence, b

ich had just been sent home, "I thinks here's everything a contented mi

terrified than assured:-fire-arms and accidents were, in her mind, synonymous; and her only answer was

ender the whole complete, Master Charles, only son and heir, was commissioned to procure live stock

or breakfast!" c

aration from the "friends of his youth," and ate cake and drank wine with imposing solemnity; but, as the ceremony was repeated, he committed himself by an occasional smile, and at last slipped out something about "poor devils, who were smoked to death like red herrings." Mrs. Tweasle was shocked, and hurried her husband away; wh

ry, and I'll give you stewed

cold beef to offer you, sir," replied th

sures of new-laid eggs and the country, till, having finished one glass of gin and water, he undertook to explain to his friend how it was that he also could leave off business like a squire. Nor was this personal investigation of private family

s well off as I am at the present moment, if

her daughters, telling Mr. Tweasle "they were going to bed;" and Mr. Ging

ollection. He thought some one pushed him about in a passage, and remembered

t of Snow-hill. Mr. Tweasle was the first to jump in; the person to whom the business had been advan

behind him. "The many-many-happy-peaceful days I've seen in it!-I can't expect to see them again!-On a Saturday and on a Monday I've often been fit to drop

by her husband's pathetics: "cheer up! You know trade ain't what it

er, Tweasle was the first to recover himself: he took his victim affectionately by the hand, and, leaning forward, whispered in prop

vice of his deceiver; for, jerking his hand away, and looking Tweasle sternly in the face, he sa

" his opinion of the weather was now of no importance; he might henceforth loiter over his dinner undisturbed by any thought of the shop!

e house as the coach turned into Hatton-garden, she added, "there's

asle, chidingly. "That roof has

e in it,-no place to dry a rag

m and water, mother, or else she

here!-stop!" a voic

for us," observ

tradiction, her husband the next momen

et ready for disbursement, if Mr. Tweasle would accompany him to an inn in the Borough, and there go through the account This was vexatious. The fear of losing the money had long

k probably in the evening down to Hornsey,-when I've given a receipt

tobacconist's face.-"The fellow must have overheard the arrangement," thought Tweasle; and an undefined feeling of alarm took

urself uneasy, but set the steel-traps. I have pistols,-mind that, love,-I have pistols!" for, afraid

ll had been discussed, when the clock announced the hour of nine, and then the debtor insisted

darkness announced that he had quitted the extremest outskirts of the metropolis, Mr. Tweasle paused, and audibly informed himself that "he was not afraid:" on receiving which information, he buttoned hi

ong a lane rendered gloomy by high and parallel hedges, which inclosed fruitful pastures, and prevented grazing cattle from being impounded; at a little distance from

reon he was standing. It was a gloomy spot,-one unrelieved mass of shade, in which the clouded heavens seemed to harmonize; everything was in awful repose,-the night was cold, but not a zephyr was abroad. Painfully oppresse

h much gravity; "just such a spot as a murder

s still. "They didn't know I was armed," thought Tweasle; "it was lucky I showed them my determination:" and, in something bordering upon confidence in the effects of his own courage, he ventured to whisper "Who's there?" when, receiving no answer, he increased his demand to "Who's there, I say?" in a somewhat louder voice. He was anxiously waiting the result of this boldness on his part when the animal, probably attracted by the sound, slowly moved towards the spot where Tweasle was standing. "Ah! come-d-n-don't-now-I-I'm armed, you know!" screamed the traveller, running about and wildly striking right and left

a "regular row" of contending emotions, deprived him of all self-control; and, if the pistol had not just at that moment accidentally exploded, he had probably fallen to the ground. As it was, the noise revived him; and, taking ad

he had killed alone? or had he companions? Did not robbers usually congregate in bands; and might he not be pursued? But Tweasle was adopting the very best mode of avoiding such a danger, as, long before he asked himself the question, his walk had quickened into a sort of hand-gallop, which this fresh terror increased to the wild speed of utter despai

y anti-soporific; and, seeing that Tweasle naturally writhed under the infliction

o, seizing Tweasle by the collar, lifted him from the ground, and giving him a shake that was sufficient to render any human n

licate dexterity that scarcely acquainted the owner of the abstraction, everything that his pockets contained was removed without unnecessary delay; and Tweasle was beginning

skin yo

in horror of what appeared to him a refinement on even fictitious barbarity. "Skin myself!-Yo

s," said the taller of the three with

heir hearts by saying something pathetic, "do consider I'm

beggar, dashing his fist into Tweasle's face; an ac

y, as though the blow had refreshed him. "Don't think I shall resist; take what

if we pads don't teach more vartey than a bench of bishops. Never in all my bor

impossibility for any

or you, if you

something else;-I'm willi

them rags off your ugly pig of a

such a purpose, the coolness of the night, the dislike he had to spectators at his toilet, and other things objectionable, but without effect: his opposi

vinced the plunderers it was of more value than its outside promised, as proved to be the case, notes to the amount of several hundreds being found pinned to the lining. They made many mock apologies for depr

are thought nothing of in the country." Whereupon she proceeded, with a strange concatenation of ideas, to state her opinion of second marriages; lamented that widows' caps were so difficult to get up; drank a little more rum and water; endeavoured to divert her mind with the Newgate Calendar, but could not enjoy it for thinking how cruel it was of Mr. Tweasle not to come home earlier, and openly protested against sl

place where they were congregated a cheerless aspect; and they were excited to a degree of listening silence, and staring inquisitively at one another, while John recounted how a lady of high respectability chanced to be sitting by herself in the kitchen of a dilapida

y disabled from affording; while Master Tweasle, seizing the rattle, and aiding its noise with his voice, in no small degree increased the family distraction; above which, however, was plainly heard some one without, using his best endeavours to force the entrance. Whoever that some one was, he appeared wholly unmindful of secrecy; which palpable contempt of caution, and open disregard of whatever re

y this, the family ventured to the first-floor window, whence they could plainly see what all agreed was a countryman

the furniture was not unpacked; and, if he could only have got in, he would have carrie

t louder, and then with all his former violence frequently returned, making actions as if he were vowing vengeance against the family, or calling imprecations down upon their heads for their

e back of the house; saw him, with a lofty courage that disdained at broken bottles, scale the garden-wall; and to their extreme delight, just as they were cert

ill he had hit his object, who might be distinctly seen making various strange contortions near the jessamine bower, had not his mother forbidden him. The boy, vexed by the check he received, mistook his ill-humour for bravery, and pettishly volunteered to ad

id the lad, "com

, only thought that the exchange of a woman for a man was a vast sacrifice on his part; he

ould not stir out: filial obedience supplied the place of resolution; he unb

ower, and there discovered his father writhing and moaning, with one leg fast in a tra

any more. It's me, Charles! l

t you, father!-o

ortunate leg, which was held in the trap, and feeling his cond

ll fetch

of domestic exhibition of; but, deaf to his parent's entreaties, the boy ran away, quite full of his discovery. On the steps he met the maid-

's legs, she kept moaning, and entreating her husband only to consider how his conduct had pained her. The poor maid-servant displayed great goodness of heart; she tenderly bound her master's naked legs, gently lifted him into the chair that was brought to convey him into the house, and appeared quite to overcome the natural delicacy of her s

convalescent, and was beginning to grow valiant in his descriptions of his

ously shot at and killed by some person or persons unknown; this is to give notice, that whoever will render su

hange his charitable purpose. No one could account for this: in pence the late tobacconist had always been a pattern of benevolence; but to give pounds was not in the ordinary scale of his charity. None could

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BY GEORGE

THE FO

WNLOW'S, WITH THE REMARKABLE PREDICTION WHICH ONE MR. GRIM

at ensued, which indeed bore no reference to Oliver's history or prospects, but was confined to such topics as might amuse without exciting him. He was still too weak to get up to breakfast; but, when he came down into the h

tching the direction of Oliver

ed Oliver, with a sigh. "Wh

d, that, as it seemed to worry you, perhaps it might pre

me, ma'am," said Oliver. "I li

as fast as ever you can, dear, and it shall be hung up again.

n the country; and a son, who was clerk to a merchant in the West Indies, and who was also such a good young man, and wrote such dutiful letters home four times a year, that it brought the tears into her eyes to talk about them. When the old lady had expatiated a long time on the excellences of her children, and the merits of her kind good husband besides, who had

d a complete new suit, and a new cap, and a new pair of shoes, to be provided for him. As Oliver was told that he might do what he liked with the old clothes, he gave them to a servant who had been very kind to him, and asked her to sell them to a Jew, and keep the money for herself. This she very readily did; and, as Ol

ng to Mrs. Bedwin, there came a message down from Mr. Brownlow, that if Oliver Twist f

child," said Mrs. Bedwin. "Dear heart alive! if we had known he would have asked fo

s shirt-collar, he looked so delicate and handsome, despite that important personal advantage, that she went so far as to say, looking at him with great com

ere was a table drawn up before the window, at which Mr. Brownlow was seated reading. When he saw Oliver, he pushed the book away from him, and told him to come near the table and sit down. Oliver complied, marvelli

Mr. Brownlow, observing the curiosity with which Oliver sur

," replied Oliver; "

u will like that, better than looking at the outsides,-that is, in some cases, b

said Oliver, pointing to some large quartos

ing as he did so; "but other equally heavy ones, though of a much smaller

ather read them, s

e to be a book-writer?"

ing to be a bookseller; upon which the old gentleman laughed heartily, and declared he had said

"don't be afraid; we won't make an author of you, while ther

he old gentleman laughed again, and said something about a curious inst

iver had ever heard him speak in yet, "I want you to pay great attention, my boy, to what I am going to say. I shall t

the old gentleman's commencement; "don't turn me out of doors to wander in the streets again. Let me stay her

warmth of Oliver's sudden appeal, "you need not be a

will, sir," in

nd more strongly interested in your behalf than I can well account for, even to myself. The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of my

f than to his companion, and remained silent for a short time

careful, perhaps, not to wound me again. You say you are an orphan, without a friend in the world; and all the inquiries I have been able to make confirm the statement. Let me hear your story; whe

relate how he had been brought up at the farm, and carried to the workhouse by Mr. Bumble, a peculiarly impati

up?" inquire

there were any muffins in the house, and, wh

d friend of his, and he must not mind his being a little rough in his m

n stairs, sir?"

ownlow; "I would rat

om his waistcoat, and a very long steel watch-chain, with nothing but a key at the end, dangled loosely below it. The ends of his white neckerchief were twisted into a ball about the size of an orange;-the variety of shapes into which his countenance was twisted defy description. He had a manner of screwing his head rou

, or I'll be content to eat my own head, sir!" This was the handsome offer with which Mr. Grimwig backed and confirmed nearly every assertion he made; and it was the more singular in his case, because, even admitting, for the sake of argument, the possibility of scientific improvements being ever brought to that pass

g his stick upon the ground. "Hallo! what's that?" he

st, whom we were speaking

er b

speak: stop-" continued Mr. Grimwig abruptly, losing all dread of the fever in his triumph at the discovery; "that's the boy that had t

Brownlow, laughing. "Come, put down y

; directly she got up I saw her look towards his infernal red lamp with the pantomime-light. 'Don't go to him,' I called out of the window, 'he's an assassin,-a man-trap!' So he is. If he is not--" Here the irascible old gentleman gave a great knock on the ground with his stick, which was always understood by hi

is it?" said Mr.

d Mr. Brownlow, nodding g

, boy?" said

er, thank you, sir

disagreeable, asked Oliver to step down stairs, and tell Mrs. Bedwin they were ready

g boy, is he not?" i

" replied Grim

't k

erence in boys. I only know two sorts o

ich is

d cheeks, and glaring eyes; a horrid boy, with a body and limbs that appear to be swelling out of the s

ot the characteristics of young Oliver

eplied Grimwig. "

tly, which appeared to afford Mr.

? Fevers are not peculiar to good people, are they? Bad people have fevers sometimes, haven't they, eh? I knew a man that was hung

g that no man should dictate to him whether a boy was well-looking or not, he had resolved from the first to oppose his friend. When Mr. Brownlow admitted that on no one point of inquiry could he yet return any satisfactory answer, and that he had postponed any investigation into Oliver's previous history u

humour; and as Mr. Grimwig, at tea, was graciously pleased to express his entire approval of the muffins, matters went on very smooth

life and adventures of Oliver Twist?" asked Grimwig of Mr. Brownlow, at the

d rather he was alone with me at the time. Come up

th some hesitation, because he was confuse

rownlow; "he won't come up to you to-morrow morning. I

not," replied Mr

r. Grimwig, "I'll--" a

ruth with my life," said Mr.

h my head," rejoined Mr. Gri

Mr. Brownlow, checkin

Grimwig, with a provo

s which Mr. Brownlow had that morning purchased of the identical bookstall-keeper who has al

," said Mr. Brownlow; "the

sir," replie

icular. He's a poor man, and they are not paid

ood on the step and screamed for the boy; but there was no boy in sight, and both Oliver

laimed Mr. Brownlow; "I particularly wis

ig, with an ironical smile; "he will be

you please, sir," said Olive

st malicious cough from Mr. Grimwig determined him that he should, and by his prompt discharge

ld gentleman. "The books are on a c

books under his arm in a great bustle, and waited

you have brought those books back, and that you have come to pay the four pound ten I ow

tful bow, and left the room. Mrs. Bedwin followed him to the street-door, giving him many directions about the nearest way, and the name of the bookseller, and the name of the st

dy, looking after him. "I can't bear, s

he turned the corner. The old lady smilingly returned his

ngest," said Mr. Brownlow, pulling out his watch, and p

him to come back, do yo

asked Mr. Bro

Grimwig's breast at the moment, and it was ren

s back, a set of valuable books under his arm, and a five-pound note in his pocket; he'll join his old

attach to our own judgments, and the pride with which we put forth our most rash and hasty conclusions, that, although Mr. Grimwig was not a bad-hearted man, and would have been unfeignedly sorry

rcely discernible; but there the two old gentlemen co

THE FI

OLIVER TWIST, THE MERRY O

ever. I am aware that, in advising even this slight dereliction from the paths of prudence and worldliness, I lay myself open to the censure of many excellent and respectable persons, who have long walked therein; but I venture to contend, nevertheless, that the advantages of the proceeding are manifold and lasting. As thus: if the object selected should happen most unexpectedly to turn out well, and to thrive and amend upon the assistance you have afforded him, he will, in pure gratitude and fulness of heart, laud your goodness to the skies; your character will be thus established, and you will pass through the world as a most estimable person, who does a vast deal of good in secret, not

and no ingratitude in individual cases tempted him to wreak his vengeance on the whole human race, I shall not enter into any such digression in this place: and, if this be not a

pewter measure and a small glass, strongly impregnated with the smell of liquor, a man in a velveteen coat, drab shorts, half-boots, and stockings, whom, even by that dim light, no experienced agent of police would have hesitated for one instant to recognise as Mr. W

s winking, or whether his feelings were so wrought upon by his reflections that they required all the relief derivable from kicking an unoffending anima

ner, and labouring perhaps, at this moment, under a powerful sense of injury, made no more ado but at once fixed his teeth in one of the half-boots, an

d deliberately opening with the other a large clasp-knife, which he d

ntertain some unaccountable objection to having his throat cut, he remained where he was, and growled more fiercely

o left, and from left to right, snapping, growling, and barking; the man thrust and swore, and struck and blasphemed; and the struggle was reaching a most

ld adage; and Mr. Sikes, being disappointed of the dog's

between me and my dog for?" s

n't know," replied Fagin humbl

red thief!" growled Sikes. "

s I'm a living man, B

rce sneer, "sneaking in and out, so as nobody hears how you com

d the Jew with

en't half the pluck of curs, lets a man kill his dog how he likes," repli

e table, affected to laugh at the pleasantry of h

ay. You'll never have the laugh at me, though, unless it's behind a nightcap. I've got the upp

"I know all that; we-we-have a mutu

erest lay rather more on the Jew's side than

and this is your share. It's rather more than it ought to be, my

osed the robber impatiently

ew forth an old cotton handkerchief from his breast, and, untying a large knot in one corner, produced a small brow

, is it?" in

replied

long, have you?" inquired Sikes suspiciously. "Don't put on a injured

ring the bell. It was answered by another Jew, younger th

s for an instant as if in expectation of it, and shook his head in reply so slightly that the action would have been almost imperceptible to a third person. It was lost upon Sikes, who

, speaking-now that Sikes was looking on-

rds, whether they came from the heart o

urprise, which perhaps might mean that

iss Dadsy," r

? Strike me blind, if I don't honor t

te of boiled beef id t

es, pouring out a glass o

t lifting his eyes from the ground, he retired, and presently returned ushering in Mis

e you, Nancy?" inquired S

f its contents; "and tired enough of it I am, too. The

ar!" said Fagi

e suddenly checked herself, and, with several gracious smiles upon Mr. Sikes, turned the conversation to other matters. In about ten minutes' time, Mr. Fagin was seized with a fit of coughing, upon which Miss Nancy pulled her shawl over her shoulders, and declared it wa

the dark passage, shook his clenched fist, muttered a deep curse, and then with a horrible grin reseat

to Clerkenwell he accidentally turned down a by-street which was not exactly in his way; but not discovering his mistake till he had got halfway down it, and k

ho, starved and beaten, might be lying dead at that very moment, when he was startled by a young woman screaming out very loud, "Oh, my dear

ng. "Let go of me. Who is it?

ations from the young woman who had embraced him, and who

ve found him!" With these incoherent exclamations the young woman burst into another fit of crying, and got so dreadfully hysterical, that a couple of women who came up at the moment asked a butcher's boy, with a shiny head o

man, grasping Oliver's hand; "I'm better no

, ma'am?" inquired

his parents, who are hard-working and respectable people, and joined a

tch!" said

u little brute,"

know her. I haven't got any sister, or father and m

ow he braves it out!"

now saw her face for the first time, and

"He can't help himself. Make him come home, there's good people

-shop, with a white dog at his heels; "young Oliver! Come h

w them. Help! help!" cried Oliver, s

e these? You've been a stealing 'em, have you? Give 'em here!" With these word

rom a garret window. "That's the onl

ced carpenter, casting an appro

good!" said

another blow, and seizing Oliver by the collar. "Come on, y

ittle wretch he was described to be, what could one poor child do? Darkness had set in; it was a low neighbourhood; no help was near; resistance was useless. In another moment he was dragged into a labyrinth of dark, narrow courts, and forced

t had run up the street twenty times, to see if there were any traces of Oliver; and still

OF THE SEVEN

RGE HO

he famous physician, this woman confessed that she had used this liquid in poisoning above six hundred persons; and Gmelin says that more people were destroyed by it than by the plague, which had raged for some time before it came into use. This crime also prevailed, though for a shorter time and to a smaller extent, in France; and was far from being unknown in England. We intend to give our readers such information as we have collected on this curious subject; and though the most regular way might be to begin with the Signora Tofa

es of thirty thousand livres a-year; and his wife, who had two brothers and a sister, brought him a fortune of two hundred thousand livres, with the prospect of a considerable share of her father's inheritance. The marchioness enjoyed the gifts of nature as wel

Croix, a captain of cavalry. There was some mystery about this man's birth. It was known that he was from Montauban. Some thought him an illegitim

igent; he was remarkably courteous and obliging, and entered into any benevolent or pious proposal with the same alacrity with which he agreed to commit a crime. He was vindictive, susceptible of love, and jealous to madness. His extr

's conduct, so that the pair carried on a guilty commerce without any suspicion on his part. His affairs became so disordered, that his wife succeeded, on this ground, in obtaining a separation, and after this paid no respect to decency or concealment in her connexion with her paramour. Scandalous, however, as her conduct w

, that she regained her father's favour, and even his confidence. St. Croix availed himself of the power which love had given him over his mistress to root out every good principle or feeling from her mind. Under his horrid lessons she became a monster, whose atroci

superiority in this art of taking the most deadly, and at the same time the safest, revenge on their enemies. It appears, accordingly, (as we have already said,) that it was from the Italians that the poisoners of other countries derived their skill. They acquired the art of composing poisons so disguised in their appearance and subtle in their effects, that they baffled the penetration and art of the physicians of that age.

nate duty. She anxiously attended to his every comfort; and, as his health had suffered from the fatigues of his office, she employed herself in superintending the preparation of nice and nourishing broths, which she gave him herself with every appearance of tender care. It is needless to say that these aliments contained some articles of Italian cookery; and the wretch, as she sat by his bed-side, witnessing his sufferings

as never thought of. The friends of the family were desirous only of pitying and comforting them; and the inconsolable daughter, who had tended her father with such filial piety, had the largest share of sympathy

pared by herself, the effect of which she found means to learn without committing herself. But this was not enough: she desired to be an eye-witness of the progress and symptoms of the effects produced by the poison; and for this purpos

hich caused the death of many people whom she had no intention of destroying. The Chevalier du Guet was at one of these pretty dinners, and died of it two or three years ago.

to his son, M. d'Aubray, who succeeded to his father's office, and another brother a counsellor. It was necessary, therefore, to

he succeeded in causing the death of the magistrate, who was their first object of attack. His anxiety to do his business promptly made him fail in his first attempt. He gave the magistrate a glass of poisoned wine and water; but the dose was too strong: and no sooner had the magistrate put his lips to the glass, than he cried, "Ah, you scoundrel, what is this you have given me?-do you want to poison me?" He showed the liquid

r design; but they took more effectual measures for its success, not caring though th

haussée. One day at dinner there was a giblet-pie. Seven persons who eat of it became very ill, while those who had not partaken of it suffered no uneasiness. The two brothers we

nother for twenty-five thousand livres in the name of Martin, one of his familiars. The sum at first sight appears a small one, amounting only to about two thousand three hundred pounds sterling; but

lack, and falling to pieces, as if they had been put on a large fire; and the liver was burnt up and gangrened. It was evident that he had been poisoned: but on whom could suspicion fall?-there was no clue whatever to guide it. The marchioness had gone to the country. St. Croix wrote her that the magistrate was d

essions which she wished to gain by the death of her father and brothers. The sister's life was repeatedly attempted i

to marry St. Croix, and for that purpose poisoned her husband repeatedly. But St. Croix, who had no desire to have a wife as wicked as himself, gave the poor man antidot

he perpetrators of the crime. Nobody thought of St. Croix as having had anything to do with it. He had for a long time ceased, to all appearance,

them by a glass mask over his face. One day the mask by accident dropped off, and he fell dead on the spot; "a death," says the French writer who mentions this occurrence, "much too good for a monster who had inflicted it by long and agonizing pangs on

and that it can be of no use to any person in the world except herself; and, in case of her being dead before me, to burn it, and all that it contains, without opening or meddling with anything. And should any one contravene these my in

oison, either external or internal, appeared on the bodies of the animals which had perished by it, and that it was impossible to detect its existence by any chemical tests. It would appear, therefore, that St. Croix had by his studies greatly increased in skill since the deaths of the d'Aubray family. The poisons administered to them were of a comparatively coarse and ordinary kind; they burnt up the stomach and bowels, produced horrid torment, and left unequivocal marks of thei

transactions. There were a number of letters from her to St. Croix, and the d

would return next day. When she came back, she was told that the casket could not be given up to her. Thinking it high time, therefore, to take care of herself, she went off during the following night, and took refuge in Liege; leaving, however, a power to an attorney to appear for her and contest the validity of the promise she had given to St. Croix. La Chaussée, too, had the impudence to put in a claim to certain sums of money, which, as he

," she said, "I was talking nonsense;" but at the same time she earnestly begged her not to repeat what she had heard. The marchioness (this witness added) was in the habit, when anything chagrined her, to say she would poison herself. She said there were many ways of getting rid of people when they stood in one's way,-a bowl of broth was as good as a pistol-bullet. The girl added, that she had often seen La Chaussée with Madame de Brinvillier, who chatted familiarly with him; and that she had heard the marchioness say, "He is a good lad, and has been very serviceable to me." Mademoiselle Villeray, another witnes

e wheel, after having been put to the question ordinary and extraordinary, to discover his accomplices; and the Marchioness de Brinvillier was condemned, by default, to be beheaded. Under the torture, L

vided with an escort, and a letter from the king to the municipality of that city, requesting tha

d in ambush near the spot; and then, having obtained an order from the authorities to that effect, he made a search in her apartment. Under her bed he found a casket, which she vehemently insisted on having returned to her, but without effect. She then tried to bribe one of the officer's men, who pretended to listen to her, and betrayed her. During her retreat she had carried on an intrigue with a person of the name of Theria. To him she wrote a letter, (which she intrusted to her confidant,) beseeching him to come with all haste and rescue her from the hands of Desgrais. In a second letter she told him that the escort consisted only of eight persons, who could easily be beaten by f

Madame de Brinvillier tells us, in her confession, that she was debauched at seven years old, and has led an abandoned life ever since; that she poisoned her father, her brothers, and one of her children; nay, that she poisoned herself, to try the effect of an antidote. Medea herself did not do so much. She has acknowledged this confession to be of her writing,-a great blunder; but she says she was in a high fever whe

s to show that circumstances thus brought to light cannot be used in a criminal prosecution. Her confused, evasive, and contradictory answers to the questions put to her on her interrogatory by the court,-a very objectionable step, by the way, of French criminal procedure,-were considered as filling up the measure of evidence against her; though, in this case, it was sufficiently a

mned to make the amende honorable before the door of the principal church of Paris, whither she was to be drawn in a hurdle, with her feet bare, a rope about her neck, and carrying a burning torch in her hands; from thence to be taken

to see her execution, and every window on her way to the Place de Grêve was crowded with spectators. Lebrun, the celebrated painter, placed himself in a convenient situation for observing her, in order, probably, to make a study

ureur-général, and was an hour with him; but the subject of their conversation is not known. At six o'clock she was taken in her shift, and with a rope round her neck, to N?tre Dame, to make the amende honorable. She was then replaced in the hurdle, in which I saw her drawn backwards, with a confessor on one side and the hangman on the other. It really made me shudder. Those who saw the execution say she ascended the scaffold with a great deal of courage. Never was such a crowd seen, nor such excitement and curiosity in Paris." In another letter the fair writer says, "A word more about La Brinvillier. She died as she lived, that is boldly. When she went into the place where she was to undergo the question, and saw three buckets of water, 'They surely are going to drown me,' she said; 'for they can't imagine that I am going to drink all this.' She heard her sentence with great composure. When the reading was nearly finished, she desired it to be repeated, saying, 'The hurdle struck me at first, and prev

had got into her husband's service. Penautier was put in prison; but Madame de Sevigné says that the investigation was stifled by the influence of powerful protectors, among whom were the Archbishop of Paris and the celebrated Colbert. In one of her letters she says, "Penautier is fortunate; never was a man so well protected. He will get out of this business, but without being justified in the eyes of the world. Extraordinary things have transpired in the course of this investigation; but they cannot be mentioned." He was re

he petitioned for the life of his chère moitié. Wretched as he must have been, he is the less entitled to sympathy because his own dissolute character contributed to bring his misfo

d, in our next number, by a

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e. I am aware how common a feeling, even amongst those who have committed the most atrocious crimes, this dread of entailing obloquy upon their memories is; but I cannot say that I participate in it. Perhaps I wish to offer some atonement

many years have elapsed since the chief events I am about to relate took place, that even they no longer come before me with that distinctness which they did formerly. They do not torture me now, as of old times. The caustic

erkenwell. I went a few months ago to look at the house, but it was taken down; indeed, the neighbourhood had undergo

urnished; my father, a tall, dark man, with a harsh unpleasing voice;

ddiction to drinking. Naturally of a violent and brutal temper, intoxication inflamed his evil passions to a pitch-not of madness, for he had not that excuse-but of frenzy. It is well known that gentleness and forbearance do not allay, but stimulate

marriage,-he had engaged to come home the instant he quitted his work. He returned, however, about one o'clock in the morning, and in his accustomed state. The very preparations for his comfort, which he saw upon the table, served as fuel to his savage and intractable passi

leaving my bed, I tottered towards him, I can never forget. It is impossible to describe the mingled terror and hatred which entered my bosom at that moment, and which never departed

r even to me, at this moment, and after all that I have d

out just in time to preserve for the present a worthless and degraded life. A violent cold supervened, which settled upon his lungs; and, in about a month, the doctor informed my mother that her husband was in a rapid decl

he body in a paroxysm of grief, calling it by those endearing names which indicated a love he had neither requited nor deserved. Had I bee

e him for the last time?" said my mother on the m

The manner in which he had repulsed me nearly three years before, had never for a moment departed from my mind. There

anied by a request that she would never apply to, or trouble him again. There was, however, one person who stept forward in this extremity,-Mr. Ward, a tradesman, with whom my mother had formerly lived as a servant, but who had now retired from business. He offered my mother an asylum in his house. She

hted at the progress I made, or appeared to make, which he protested was scarcely less than wonderful; a notion which the tutor was, of course, not slow to encourage and confirm. He predicted that I should inevitably make a bright man, and become a worthy

sent me with a message into the City, where, in consequence of the person being from home, I was detained several hours. When I returned, it appeared that Mr. Ward had gone out shortly a

hn," she said; "are you sure

stion. I would not answer; and she

the same feeling I remembered to have conceived against my father,-a feeling of bitter malignity revived by a fresh object. I endeavoured to quell it, to subdue it, but I could not. I recalled all my mother's former kindness to me, h

r was seated at the window, employed at her needle; and, as she raised her eyes, I per

d, in a low and

hope you are

, "you don't know ho

rd, child; I did not mean to d

bosom with my clenched hands. "It's here, mother-her

," said my mother; "I will

would not believe me. You shall not go to Mr. Ward yet!" and I drew her int

and hid my face in her lap. "No, no; don't say anything now to me-don't-don't

feared from my lengthened stay that I had come to harm. Dear, good woman! Oh! that I might hop

nation of setting me on in the world immediately I became of a proper age. It could hardly be expected that the heir-at-law would have fulfilled these intentions, even had he been cognisant of them. He was a low attorney, living somewhere in the neighbourhood of Drury-lane; and when he attended the funeral, and during the hour or tw

ence, therefore, as my mother could command, was set on foot in my behalf; and I at length got a place as errand-boy to a picture-dealer in Wardour-street, Oxford-street. The duties required of me in this situation, if not of a valuable description, were, at leas

felt a degree of discontent of my condition, for which I had no other cause. As I sat by the kitchen fire of an evening when my day's work was done, I often pictured to myself the old man lying where we had left him in the churchyard, mouldering insensibly away, unconscious of rain, or wind, or su

sh fancy a hard and cold selfishness was but the exterior of those narrow prejudices which too many of that class, if not of all classes, indulge, or rather inherit. He felt that a distance ought to be preserved be

faces of some of Raffaele's angels. The broad and serene forehead, the widely-parted eyebrow, the inexplicable mouth, the soul that pervaded the whole countenance! I can never forget that face; and, when I cal

y way. I cannot express the happiness I felt at receiving and obeying any command from her. A smile, or the co

h of reading,-I cannot call it study. But my chief delight was to peruse the lives of the great masters of painting, to make myself acquainted with the history and the comparative merits of their several performances, and to endeavour to ascertain ho

leased attention did she listen to me when I descanted on the one subject upon which I constantly dwelt,-the determination I felt, as soon as I had saved money enough, and could see a little more clearly into my future prospects, to take her from service, that she might come and li

had seen her frequently in former years disfigured by her husband's brutality; I had seen her in pain, in anguish, which she strove to conceal; but I had never known her to be confined to her room. When I saw her now,

forth. I quickly singled them out from the concourse issuing from the church-doors. I drew my master as

ying?" he

"No, not dy

spare you: we are ver

his at the time. I turned, in perplexity, to Louisa Bromley. She understood the silent appeal, and interceded for me. I lov

r was a servant were kind, and even frien

ile, which I could not bear to see upon her face, it was so unlike joy, but it was to comfort me,-she told me that she knew she was about to die, and she endeavoured to impress upon me those simple m

ter, and wanted a little sleep; and at that moment her hand was clasped in mine. The lady of the house took me gently by the arm, and, leading

omething about her looking like one asleep. I burst into a loud laugh. Asleep! that blank, passive, impenetrable face like slee

t she forgave all my faults, all my omissions, all my sins towards her. And then I knew she was dead, and fell down upon my knees to pray;

d to pay her funeral expenses; but I would not permit it. Not a fa

That thought was, that the Almighty was unjust to deprive me of the only being in the world who loved me, who understood me, who knew th

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g and defying the obstacles and impediments to its career. With this view constantly before me, I read even more diligently than heretofore. I made myself a proficient in the principles of mathematics; I acquired some knowledge of mechanical science; but, above all, I took every opportunity of improving my taste in the fine arts. This la

eeling? Be this as it may, he treated me with great kindness; and I was grateful for it, really and strongly so. I had been long since absolved from the performance of those menial duties which had been required of me when I first entered his service; my wa

lt, caused me to strive by every means at my command to advance the fortunes of her father. And, indeed, the old man had become so attached to me,-partly, and I doubt not unconsciously, because

he was apparently candid, his address indicated frankness and entire absence of guile, and he was handsome; yet I never liked the man. It is commonly supposed that women are gifted with the power of de

in a few months Bromley's daughter was marrie

ubt whether she had not made a choice which she might have occasion afterwards to deplore. However, things went on smoothly for a time. Steiner was civil, nay, even friendly to

stinately adhered to my own opinion, whenever I was called upon to pronounce one. This led to frequent differences, which commonly ended in a dispute, which Bromley was in most cases calle

leverness and extraordinary genius; for both of which requisites, as he was signally deficient in them, he especially

ested Steiner, I must love his child. But the boy, from the earliest moment he could take notice of anything, or could recognise anybody, had attached himsel

nt in the manners of the latter, and a studied, an almost formal civility on the part of his daughter. I now think there must have been something of the kind, although it was not at the time apparent to me. I am certain, at all events, there

rade as one of the best judges of pictures in London. I had more than one interview, of his own seeking, with this gentleman. He made me a most flattering and advantageous offer: he would have engaged my services for a certain number of years, and at the expiration of the per

e supplied me daily with such additional cause of hatred, that I felt a species of excitement, of delight, in renewing from time to time my altercations with him: a delight which was considerably increased by the fact that he was quite incapable of competing with me in argument. There wa

,) had employed me to bid for several amongst the collection; and had requested my opinion of a few, the merit of which, although strongly insisted upon, he was disposed to doubt. When I returned in the evening,

ding several conversations with Mr. T

had been holding co

one so. Pray, may I as

y services," I replied, "and I

likely," said Ste

likely. He might with justice consider me

-- would follow you to your new situation. You wou

at enraged him. "Mr. -- would follow me certainly

has been using you for his own purposes. You have been endeavouring to undermine our

I approached him, and with a glance of supreme scorn replied, "

isted as well as I was able; but what can weakness do against strength, even though it have justice on its side? He seized me by the cravat, and, forcing his knuck

the long score of ancient grudges in which he was indebted to me. His wife was clinging to his arm, and as I looked into her face I perceived terror in it, certainly; but there was no sympathy,-nay, that is not the word,-I could not have borne that; there

me, and was now clinging to the skirt of my coat, uttering in imperfect accents my name. I looked down. The little thing wanted to come to me to kiss me. Sweet innocent! there was one yet in the worl

d the door to me, and had perceived my agitation, followed me up stairs. She inquired the cause, and was greatly shocked at the frightful contusion upon my temple. I told her all, for m

in for it," she said, as she

rs. Matthews?" and I

nished,-that's what I said. Hangi

the same effect, and at last left me to procure a bottle of rum, which,

of Steiner. After what I had done for him!-an old servant who had indeed served him!-who had refused a certainty, a respectable station in society, perhaps a fortune, for his sake! And he must escape,-he must go unpunished,-he must revel in the co

. I did not go to bed to sleep. My senses were in a strange ferment. The roof of my head seemed to open an

r words-would be repeated; but all was silent. I struck a light, and after a time became more composed. Even the furniture of the room was company to me. Before morning I had shaped my plan of revenge, and it was i

until I could turn myself round; and I hoped, in the mean time, that what had taken place would be overlooked and forgotten. Steiner received me with a kind of civil arrogance, and went to confer with his partner. They presently returned

rd-to me,-only to me. Mrs. Steiner had likewise suffered the influence of her husband to undermine, and for the time to destroy her better feelings; and she treated me upon all occasions, not merely with marked coldness, but with positive insult. I need hardly say that Steiner enjoyed almost to satiety the advantage he had gained over me. Even the very

will probably think so. He will be mistaken. It was a source of inconceivable, of exquisite

value, but the purchase had brought Bromley's account at the banker's to a very low ebb. Mrs. Steiner and the child were going to spend the Christmas holidays with some relatives residing at Canterbury. She passed through the shop silently and without even noticing me, and hurried the boy along lest he should wish-and he did ma

g which had supported me during the last six months, which had been more necessary to my soul than daily sustenance to my body, had deserted me then, but that by a powerful effort I contrived to retain it. While I deplored having

iation to greater events! I was, I remember standing at the door of a small chandle

house tapped me

s to move on; you are preventing my

, "I hope there is no h

, good-humouredly. "I hope you hav

ed at the woman ea

ook quite flurried. I have

moved away. The agony I endured fo

must inevitably discover it in the morning. I trembled at the contemplation of that, and my limbs were overspread with a clammy dew. It was too late to make a pretext of business in the shop at that time of night. Bromley

lord of the Green Man, in Oxford-street, entered the parlour where I was

mewhere on the other side of the street;

anway-yard, ran down Tottenham-court road, crossed the fields, (they

e wall of the churchya

ire, master?" said o

a lurid and dusky red, and at intervals casting a shower of broken flam

would afterwards remember having seen me in his parlour, and informing me of the fire in the neighbourhood, and I should be discovered. These though

e firemen, the uproar of the crowd, faintly shadowed forth the tumult in my mind at that mo

hands, and stamping his naked feet upon the pavement

d! Gibson," sai

at child?" cri

the infant! th

u remember?" I thought the sudden fr

were too late! t

ay through the stifling smoke that seemed almost to block up the passage, and sprang up stairs. Th

and, running up the wall, expanded upon the ceiling; and then I saw a figure in

d?" I exclaimed, i

clasping me with both arms. She shook her

cried the child, who h

ately, and, seizing the bo

once, for Heaven's sake!" and

d left my side. Gracious Heavens! she had been precipitated below! A sickness came upon me then,-a sensation of being turned sharply round by some invisi

ALBR

h, as though they were sent as emissaries to link themselves with your destiny, or on the watch mysteriously to bring it about. One person in particular, whose name I do not even know, if he has one, I have met fifty times in

g no children of his own, he at length adopted him, in forma pauperis, and gave him a small share in his business. This man of the law did not bear the most exemplary of characters, and perhaps it was in order to conceal some nefarious practices to which Mascalbruni was privy that he made the clerk his associate. Perhaps also he discovered in his character a hardihood, combined with cunning and chicanery, that made him a ready instrument for his purposes, and thus enabled him, like Teucer, to fight behind the shield of another. Under t

end. They perhaps, also, from having had no admission into the house during the old miser's life, were ignorant of the strength of his coffers; and the disappearance of the murderer, who, by a will which they discovered and burnt, had been made his sole heir, was by them deemed too fortunate a circumstance; so that they neither inquired into

peck of purga

sufficient knowledge of the world, at least of the worst part of mankind, to avoid sinking in that quagmire, which has swallowed up so many of the thoughtless and inexperienced who have trusted to its flattering surface. In fact, Nature seemed to have gifted him with the elements of an accomplished sharper, and he seconded her attributes by all the resources of art. He took an apa

peculiar to his nature, he soon set about accomplishing himself in the externals of a gentleman. With this view he passed several hours a day in the salle d'armes, where h

ni, now a match for the ma?tre d'armes, frequently exercised with this old grognard, who had the character of being a crane, if not a bourreau des cranes;[12] and one day, before a numerous gallerie, having struck the foil out of his hand, the fencer so far forgot himself, in the shame and vexation of defeat by a youngster, as to pick up the weapon and strike the Italian a blow on the shoulders with the flat part of the foil, if it be not an Irishism so to call it. Those who saw Mascalbruni at that moment would not have forgotten the traits of his countenance. His eyes flashed with a sombre fire; h

French, so as to speak it almost without any of the accent of a foreigner; and having a magnificent voice, he added to

n, he had frequently gone into the gambling-houses of the Palais Royal, and had been much struck with these words, almost obliterated, on the walls of one of them, "Tutus

nominated, in the maisons de jeu, L'Avocat. He won such enormous sums of the bank, that, on his return to his lodgings one night, he was

e, three, seven, fifteen, &c. on triple numbers, i. e. after three of a colour, either red or black, had come up, and not till then, he played, and opposed its going a fourth; thus rendering it necessary that there should be twelve or thirteen success

cards, which, having a thicker coat of paint, are thus made easily sensible to the touch; and would extract from each pack one or two, the knowledge of whose non-existence was no slight advantage in discarding. He did not long wait for associates in his art. There was formed at that time a club in the Rue Richelieu on the principle of some of the English clubs, it being entirely managed by

he prince passed a week with George the Fourth at the Cottage at Windsor, and afterwards assisted at a concert at the Hanover Square rooms, himself leading a concert on the piano. This by the bye. Mascalbruni on that occasion attracted all eyes, and fascinated all ears, and was greeted after a solo with the loudest plaudits. He had now become the fashion, and, having forged a letter from one of the cardinals at Rome to a patroness of Almacks, obtained the entrée, and made one of the three hundred that compose the world of London. You know, however, in this wo

to represent the twelve Seasons. Louisa was May, and excelled the rest, (I do not speak of the present year,) as much as that season of flowers does the other months. It was an 'incarnation of May!'-a metaphor of Spring, and Youth, and Morning!-a rose-bud just opening its young leaves, that brings the s

ul, which from

told us 'twas from

r seen but one who might compare with her, and she was engulfed that

lth, by the circumstance of his having received thirty thousand pounds in one year by fines on the renewal of leases. He had one son, then on a Continental tour

ch almost every family of distinction had taken, introduced a rage for Co

nguage was spoken at the opera but French or Italian,-no topics of conversation excited so much interest as those which had formed the charm of their residence abroad,-and the fair daughters of England drew comparisons unfavourable to f

sessions; and had a liaison at Rome, where she was unaccompanied by

ry many women in high life who have some secret adorer, some favourite friend, to keep alive the flame which too often lies smothered in the ashes of matrimony. I do not mean that this attachment is frequently carried to criminal l

lbruni contrived to ingratiate himself with both the mother and the daughter. He was young, handsome, and accomplished; an inimita

very venial one. He got admission into several clubs,-Crockford's among the rest:-his games were écarté and whist; games at which he

's hands. He belonged to one of the oldest families, and had one of those historical names that are a passe par-tout. I had seen him at the soirées of Paris, and he was in the habit at the écarté table, if he had come

etended to have lost large sums, and it is now well known that they divided the profits of their gains during the season. No one certainly suspected either of unfair practices, though their uniform success might have opened the eyes of the blindest. The Marchioness of S.'s card-parties and

ver, as I ought to have done,

town, was a cypher in the family, and little thought of

ss the summer at the episcopal palace in the Emerald Isle. He had succeeded in g

ll the intensenes

mellow voice marry itself with her contralto! They rode together, not often in the parks, but through those shady and almost unfrequented lanes of which there are so many in the environs of the met

But why do I dwell on these details? When I look on this picture and on that, I am almost forced to renounce the opinion that kindred

a continual fête. It was settled that the wedding was t

correspondent, in the openness of her heart did not conceal from him that passion, no longer, indeed, a secret. Her letters teemed with effusions of her admiration for the

s disappointment, though it was urged with delicacy, at this foreign connexion. He wrote also to the bishop, and, after obtaining from him all the necessary particulars as to the Marchese Mascalbruni,-through what channel he became

ate with Cardinal --, and they immediately proceeded to his palace. They found from him that he had never heard the name of Mascalbruni; that

overed that a person answering the description given had quitted Rom

ing a swindler; and, not trusting to a letter's safe arrival,

gnation of the father, the vexation and self-reproaches of the

e most sacred ties, the most solemn engagements; that his she should be,-or, if not his, that she should never be another

believe that he lay perdu somewhere in the neighbourhood, watching like a vulture

Miss M.'s femme de chambre, with whom he is said to have carried on an intrigue, was observed by the servants

scalbruni gained intelligence of

olting was the language in which she at times clothed them, that even her mother-and no other was allowed to attend her-could scarcely stay by her couch. How perfect a knowledge of human nature has

maid, yet

r return

wanderings of the poor su

her, and a sense of the unworthiness of the object of her regard, at last brought back the

constitution or education, or that the superior delicacy and fineness of the nervous system makes them more easily susceptible of new impressions to efface the old, I

k, swoln by th

its banks, pour

, and soon was

regret; and, save that at times a paleness overspread her cheek, rapidly chased by a blush, be it of vir

ared in the Court Journal of

uring the last season. Revelations of an extraordinary nature, that hastened the return of the Honourable Mr. M. from the Contine

no one on this side the water answered it. Louisa M. was no longe

when fresh preparations were made for her

casions, the happy pair, Lady M. the bride-maids, and a numerous party

atified by that mystical type of union-the ring-when a figure burst through

; his whole appearance, in short, exhibited the same diabolical rage and thirst of vengeance that had electrified the salle d'armes in his memorable conflict. He advanced straight to the altar with long and hurried steps, and, tearing aside the hands of the couple, the ring fell over the communion rails to the ground. So profound was the silence, so great the consternation and surprise the sight of this apparition created in the minds of all, that the sound of the ring, as it struck and rolled along the vaulted pavement, was audibly heard. It was an

ed and panic-stricken were the spectators and audience of this scene, that they could scarcely believe it to be other than a dream, till they saw the bride exten

of Mascalbruni's words. "Mine she has been" continually rang in the husband's ears; and on the anniversary of that eventf

f players than those he had been in the habit of duping. He was narrowly watched, and detected in the act of pocketing a queen from an écarté pack. The consequen

nsuing week the following announcement was made in a wel

ian blac

more than rhyme with rascal. And as it is our duty to un-mask all such, we shall confine ourselves at present to saying that he has been weighed at a fashionable watering-plac

ly exhausted, and with but a few louis in his pocket

ce, so that his former acquaintance should not be able to recognise him, and frequented the lowest hells-those cloac?, the resort of all the vilains and chenapans, the lowest dregs of the metropolis. By what practices this

tle so that only his eyes are visible,-was observed from the windows often passing and repassing the hotel. The novelty of the costume attracted the attention of Mrs. M.; and the blackness of his eyes, and their peculiarly gloomy exp

smilingly; "we are not at Terracina. It w

e met him face to face, it is not unlikely that he would have remembered the vill

e reverberées at a vast distance apart, suspended between the houses, giving a very dim and feeble ray. Few persons-there being then no trottoirs-were walking at that hour; and it so happened that not a soul was stirring the whole length of the street. But, within a few yards of his own door, the figure I have described rushed from u

isian police, the author of this crime, who I nee

pher. Having been in town at the period when he was in the zenith of his glory, and being slightly acquainted with the family whom, like a pestilen

place was crowded to excess with that mercurial population, who during this saturnalia, particularly its last nights, mingle in one orgie, and seem to endeavour, by a kind of intoxication of the sens

for men to appear without them; and, as I had no love-affair to car

ion. The pair wore fancy dresses. The domino of the man was of Persian or Turkish manufacture, a rich silk with a purple ground, in which were inwoven palm-leaves of gold, The costume of the lady, who seemed of a portly figure, not the most symmetrical, was a rich Venetian brocade, such as we see in the gorgeous pictures of Paul Veronese, and much in use during the dogal times of the republic. As

emained at the Ridotta much later than I should otherwise have done, in order to find out my unkn

watched the incognito into a box with his inamorata, where he took off his mask, and wh

n are a kind of Figaros, and, like the agents of the Austrian police, are acquainted with the names and address of almost every resident in Venice, especially of those who frequent the public places. The man, however, did not know my friend by that

gether amused me. "An angel of darkness!" I was

ay to Fusina, and thence to Milan; indeed I had made all the preparatio

sons to whom I have almost as great an objection as to cicerones, preferring rather to miss seeing what I should like to see, than to be told what I ought to like to see; not that it has fallen to the lot of many guides, or travelle

observed a great crowd collecting together immediately in front, but at some distance off, the pea

the criminal was not a Swiss, but an Italian. He seemed perfectly acquainted with all the particulars of the event that had transpired, for he had been present at the trial; and, as we w

e addressed. On their arrival at Coire they had a guide; but the Italian persuaded his master, who seemed much attached to him, to discharge Pierre, on the pretence that he was thoroughly acquainted with the country, and spoke the language, which indeed he did. He was a dark brigand-looking fellow, with a particularly bad expression of countenance, and a gloomy look ab

solitary place, and a fit one for a deed of blood. A narrow path had been worn in the side of a precipice, which yawned to the depth of several hundred feet over a torrent that rushed, as though impatient of being confined, foaming and boiling through a narrow chasm opened for itself through the rocks. I

ot wait till night-fall, or none but (and here he pointed to the sky) He above might have been privy to the crime. It was, however, mid-day. Into the deep-worn pass I have mentioned runs a rivulet, which, sparkling on the green bank, had made for itself a little basin. The day was hot and sultry; and the young gentleman, tempted, it would seem, by the gentle murmur of the water as it fell rippling over the turf, and its cr

nd the other was in the act of rifling him, in order afterwards to hurl him down the precipice into the bed of the river. So intent was he on the former of these occupations, that he did not perceive my countrymen till they seized hi

being willing to perform the office. He arrived last night; and how do you think, sir? According to our laws, he is to be executed with a sword that has not been used f

r approach, they made room for me; and curiosity to witness this mode of execution, the remn

o whom he had just made his confession; and over him, on an elevation from the ground by means of a large stone, stood t

consisted of bread and water, had worn his cheek to the bone, and given it the sallowness of one in the black stage of cholera. His face was covered with a thick beard, every hair of which stood distinct from its fellows; and his matted locks, thickly sprinkled with grey, trailed over his ghastly

Eleventh. He called to mind a figure of Rubens',-not the one who is turning round in the Descent of the Cross at Antwerp, and saying to the thief, writhing in horrible contortions after he has wrenched his lacerated foot from the nail, "S

idical form and startling contrasts of colour and expr

evailed among the assembled crowd; and it spoke well for the morality and good

ss?-though given with no common vigour, so blunt was the instrument, that, instead of severing the head, it only inflicted a gash whi

wards in the dust. I then saw what I have heard described of Charlotte Cordé, after she had been guillotined;-the muscles of the face were convulsed as if with se

be present; and I should not have awaited its awful termination, could

piritual consolation in the dungeon and at the block. The Jesuit and myself had mutual revelations to make to each other, connecting the present with the past, and which have

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THE LIFE OF A D

RATION BY GEOR

risible propensity with the happier effusions of the laughing philosophers of this Miscellany. I have no cachinnatory ambi

now proceed, sympathetic reader, to narrate a

on the 1st of May 1792, whereas, by some contradictory vagary of Dame Nature, I entered this valley of tears on the 1st of April! This ought to have been con

zed as "The-odd-dose-us Oth-er Wise." Nor was this the only disappointment which attended me on this occasion, for the pew-opener having received instructions to clean the copper coal-scuttle in the vestry-r

h a splendid specimen of that vegetable dye called carroty. I was to have been "as straight as an arrow;" but a cup of tea having been spilled over me as I lay in the s

ule on the tip of my nose. This luminary so excited my infant wonder, that my eyes (really fine for green) were continually rive

ted my chaplet of pearls, than the striking-weight of a Dutch clock which overhung my cr

ppoint

g. Poor mamma! she lost her life from a singular mistake. The house in which we lived had taken fire, and two good-natured neighbours threw Mrs. Wise out of the window instead of a feather-bed. She alighted on the head of Captain S--, wh

chool-days, merely ob

some unluc

e vocative case

f I was by accident "full of the god," I could never knock down any one but a proctor. If I determined on keeping close in my rooms, the wind immediately changed to N.E. by N. at which point my chimneys smoked like a community of Ya-Mynheers. My maternal uncle, Theodosius Ot

ussia tallow, tall, and somewhat slender. Indeed her condition is perhaps better described by "the slightest possible approximation to lanky." During one short quadrille she told me of all her tastes, hopes, experience, family

ed Selina and her mamma into a green fly, and found the next morning

a kidney-potato, red and dirty, gave me ingress into a room with green blinds, seven horsehair-bottomed chairs, a round mahogany table, four oil-paintings (subjects and masters un

d her to a chair, and then seated myself beside her. Our conversation grew animated,-confiding. She recapitulated the amount of her three and a half per cents, and in the most considerate manner inquired into my pecuniary situation. I was then possessed of seven thousand pounds; for my father, during the three last years of his life, had been twice burned out, and once sold up, and was thus enabled to leave me ind

ask me such

ary to my happiness. Oh! name the happy hour when Hymen's chain-

oment, and the

orrow

for, in my joy at her compliance, I had for

I entered Skelton's (the tailor's) shop with

ness, and he hastened to accompany me to Selina. I was so excited by the novelty of my situation, that I fell over the maid who was cleaning the step of the door, and narrowly escaped dragging Quillit after. Had he fallen, I shudder at the contemplation of the probabl

g the poet's descripti

s some rock's vas

bours, and the

ift Camilla sc

nding corn, and ski

ope, or one of Pickford's

led in the perspiring lawyer, but looked in vain for that expression of admiration which I f

r. Quillit

" replie

essary preliminary to the delicate ceremony which my frie

ed up her face into an expression between laughing and crying; and I-I

make the arrangements for your marriage-settlement; and my

pounds, fourteen shillings, an

settled upo

equire nothing!"

g from my chair in ecstasy

illit, and took o

hall not be subject to the accidents of fortune. Mr.

e kidney-potato shot out of the house as I turned the corner of the street. I found the door ajar, and, not considering any ceremony necessary, I walked into the parlour. I had put my handkerchief into the left pocket of my coat when I was somewhat startled by

nt ma

id I. "And

nswered from t

ma, dear!" s

r to those which I experienced at this particular moment. When I recovered, I was stretched on the hearth-rug wi

aid -- You know whom I mean,-

; only I anticipated being married to

ded me a bill for seven hundred and sixty-two pounds, one shilling, and eightpence, being the amount of damages and costs in Smithers versus Wise. I paid Quillit, sold my house a

nder affair, by proxy, which produced me

ood fellow to help him into matrimony. I was just the boy; my expensive experience, my good-nature, my leisure,-in short, there was nothing wanting to fit me for this confidential character. Now, be it known that old Smith had very strong parliamentary predilections, and one of his sine qua nons was, that his son-in-law should be M.P. for somewhere,-Puddle-dock would do,-but an M.P. he must be. Politics were of no consequence; but he must have a decided opinion that the Bumbleby railway would be most beneficial, if carried through a swampy piece of ground which Smith had recently purchased. Styles was of the same opinion; but then he was only a member of the "Bull's-eye Bowmen," and Mr. Snuffmore's sixpenny whist club. I had made

this election, or never

, "nothing would give me

address-pith, nothing but pith. Ever see my letter in support of the erection of a pound for stray cattle

ppear so presumptuous on my part,

all means,-I'll form on

placard to prevent the elec

hour afterwards there was not a dead wall in Bu

on't do for me. I couldn't make a speech of ten consecutive lines,

out in that peculiar style which an o

at the same time. Smith would be equally gratified at your return for Bumbleby; yo

so did the town of Bumbleby the next morning, for every quarter cried out "Other Wise for ever!" It was too late to retract; and accordingly I was nominated, seconded,

man,

r Wi

ity,

he at the defeat I had experienced, that he left the next morning without an adieu. I must confess that I was rather disappointed at his sudden retreat, and considerably more so on finding that his exertions in my behalf had redu

James's Square, when I encountered Styles. His surprise was as great as mine, but not so en

I couldn't help it. I'm sorry to hear how much your contest has distressed you. I was the ca

said and done, that before I was aware of it I had given him a draft on Drummond, shaken hands with him, and was mechanically discussin

e counting-house, presented my bill, and fully expected to have received either bank-notes or gold in exchange. I waited a

ll?" said a gentleman with a powde

Mr. St

does he

y; but I hope there

, did step in, and very unceremoniously proceeded to inspect the contents of my various pockets. "Conclusive!" said the powd

se, where I was informed that I was to live rent-free for the ne

ilent evidence of the little piece of crumpled paper, which was covered with pen and ink experiments on the signature of John Allgold and Co. whose name occupied the centre of Styles' bill. The recorder (in a very impressive manner, I must

ds long of every new song, and all for a penny," and "the last dying speech and confession" of those who, dreading to be bed-ridden, and possessing an unconquerable aversion to doctors' stuff and virtue, have danced upon nothing, and died with their shoes on. "How often," thought I, "have I seen a withered hag kneeling at the rails of an area, exciting the sympathies and curiosity of servants of all-work, and greasy melting cooks, by the recital of atrocities that the hand of man never executed. 'Here's a full, true, and 'tickler accoun

lation of the scene I had still to enact. To be led forth "the observed of all observers," who would look on me with an eye, not of pity, but of morbid curiosity,-to hang quivering in the air,-and to feel, while consciousness remained, that each shuddering of struggling nature was imparting a savage delight to those who could be the willing witnesses of the sacrifice of a fellow-creature! My brain sickened with its agony, and I fell into a stupor which my jailor called sleep. I was pinioned, and led forth to die. Life had now n

FESSOR.

IAH GA

the world's

PTE

rustic lane, to every tall old-fashioned house there is an iron gate, an ensign of blue and gold, and a large brass plate, proclaiming that a ladies' seminary is established upon the premises. On

RIA H

ung Ladies from

MISSE

wipe you

ge near a wood." The elder pupils diverged at once from stitching and samplers: they played like Thalberg, and pirouetted like Taglioni; they learned geography, geology, mythology, entomology, modern history, and simple equations (Miss Z. Pidge); they obtained a complete knowledge of the French, German, and Italian tongues, not including English, taught by Mis

London, and of the very heart of it; for he had caught completely the peculiarities which distinguish the so-called cockney part of the City, and obliterated his h's and doubled his v's, as if he h

took place which I am about to relate, that young lady declares that she was not the person who brought him to Bulgaria House,-nothing but the infatuation and entreaties of Mrs. Alderman Grampus could ever have induced her to receive him. The reader will g

ladder (Jacob's ladder he profanely called it); and Miss Bole ring such changes upon the dumb-bells as might have been heard at Edmonton, if the bells could have spoken. But the most promising pupil of Professor Dandolo, as indeed the fairest young creature in the establishment of Bulgaria House, was Miss Adeliza Grampus, daughter of the alderman whose name we have mentioned. The pride of her mother, the idol of her opulent father, Adeliza Grampus was in her nineteenth year. Eyes have often been described; but it would require bluer ink than ours to depict the orbs of Adeliza; the snow

e out, Miss Adeliza," cries he with the tenderest air in the world; "back a little more straight," and he gently seizes her hand, he raises it considerably above the level of her ear, he places the tips of his left-hand fingers gently upon the young lady's spine, and in this seducing attitude gazes tenderly into her eyes! I say that no woman at any age can stand this attitude and this look, especially when darted from such eye

fore her raptured lover saw her eyes turning towards the ce

ts, nichts, mein Florestan," it is as nothing compared to th

less and eternal main! The frightened Turk shrunk palsied at the sound; it was louder than the loudest of the cannon, or the stormy screaming of the tempest! Dandolo! how many brave hearts beat to hear that name! how many bright swords flashed forth at that resistless war-cry

th upwards with so much similar literary ware, that her little mind had gone distracted. Her father had sent her from home at fifteen, because she had fallen in love with the young man who opened natives in the shop, and had vowed to slay herself with the oyster-knife. At Miss Pidge's her

s Binx occasionally strolled into the village by themselves; they visited the library unattended; they went upon little messages for the Misses Pidge; they walked to church alone, either before or after the long row of young virgins who stre

young ladies in this kingdom, or queendom rather, peruse this, and reflect how dangerous it is for young ladies of any age,-ay, even for parlour-boarders-to go out alone! In the present instance Miss Grampus enjoyed a more than ordinary liberty,

cquaintance, did it chance that you always addressed yourself to tha

(for to such a pitch of familiarity

me and circle. "And mine," said she tenderly, "they followed when yours were not fixed upon them, for then I dared not look upwards.

fore I wooed the easy and foolish Miss Pidge, therefore I took upon me the disguise of-ha! ha!-of a dancing-master." (And the young man's countenance assumed a grim and demoniac smile.) "Yes; I degraded my name and my bir

no means even of subsistence; that he saw enough of this lady to be aware that he could make her useful to his purpose; and he who had been, we believe it in our conscience, no better than a travelling mountebank or harlequin, appeared at Bulgaria House in the chara

en by the above explanatory hints, "how did I learn to love thee? Who art thou?-what

dful confession. But dark as I am, and wretched, nay, wicked and desperate, I love thee, Hadeliza,-love thee with the rapturous devot

e fallen to the ground, had she not been restrained by the strong arm

ask not, if guil

ove thee, whate

bonnet, her veil, her gloves, nay, on her very cheeks, he imprinted a thousand maddening kisses. "But say, my sweet on

d blushed. "My parents

nary?" said he; "twenty pound a quart

humble, bu

is your

an of yon

and what is hi

ell; he is-an

t of her walk. They moved moodily on for some time, Miss Binx and the other young man marching astonished in the rear. At length they came within sight of the sem

k time towards the school-house. Her young man had bolted completely; and close at the si

ive you money to buy clothes for this, that you should go by false names, and make love to that saucy, sla

retired down the street. His curses might be heard long after he had passed. He n

ws of the Miss Pidges' seminar

coach to town. On the back seat sate the usher, on th

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ply injurious to the character of the establishment, that the pupils emigrated from it in scores. Miss Binx retired to her friends at Wandsworth, Miss Jacobs to her relations in Houndsditch, and other young ladies not mentioned in this history to other and more moral schools; so that absolutely, at

im,-that every flower was blighted upon which he shone! Ferdinand, Ferdinand! you have caused ruin there" (pointing to the empty cupboards and forms)

w designated "Moscow Hall, by Mr. Swishtail and assistants:"-the bankrupt and fugitive Misses Pidge hav

hter who had neglected her education, forgotten her morals for the second time, and fallen almost a prey to villains! Miss Grampus for some months was kept in close confinement, nor ever suffered to stir, except occasionally to B

d Adeliza walking, he followed her to church; and many and many a time as she jostled out at the gate of the Artillery-ground, or the beadle-flanked portal of Bow, a tender hand would meet hers, an active foot would press upon hers, a billet discreetly delivered was as adroitly seized, to hide in the recesses of her pocket-handkerchief, or to

and tender correspondence. Nine times at least in a week, she by bribing her maid-servant, managed

ly changed in outward guise? He wears not the dress which formerly adorned him. Is he poor?-is he in disguise?-do debts oppress hi

eli

san will leave a barrel of oysters at the Swan

d.

girl brings three pounds of it wrapped in a si

eli

in it a small pot of anchovy paste: may it prove ac

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and silk trimming, a white broad-brimmed beaver, hessians, and nankeen tights. His costume at present was singularly changed for the worse: a rough brown frock-coat dangled down to the calves of his brawny legs, where likewise ended a pair of greasy shepherd's-plaid trousers; a dubious red waistcoat, a blue or bird's-eye neckerchief, and bluchers, (or h

m,-in fact, he literally did what is often done in novels, he devoured them; and Adeliza, on receiving a note from him the next day, after she had eagerly

than your miserable, faithful Roderick. Yes! I am poor,-I am tracked by hell-ho

nts of his haughty heagle have seized our wealth, and consigned most of our race to dungeons. I am not a prisoner, only an exile. A mother, a bed-ridden grandmother, and five darling sisters

irst! My poor grandmother lies delirious in her bed, and cries in vain for drink. Alas! our water is cut off; I have none to give her. The

rt too good to me already, and I blush

tched bu

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ount of

yard,

it which the tenderest lover might not write. But the shrimps, the half-crown, the horrid picture of squalid poverty pres

ge concerning the Prussian autograph, who had planted his standard at Venice. "I knew it!"

russian autograph had nothing to do with Venice, and had forgotten altogethe

empty, and a weeping apprentice dragged before the Lord Mayor. It is true that no signs of the money were found upon him; it is true that he p

d sevenpence suffice? 'Tis all I have: take it,

ed. My father dines abroad; I shall be in th

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mind was made up. "I will see her," he said; "I will e

nd served the Milton morsels to the customers. Age had not diminished her skill, nor had wealth rendered her too proud to resume at need a profession which she had followed in early days. Adeliza flew gracefully to and fro with the rolls,

and threw a halo round the Royal Exchange. She was lost in maiden meditation, when her eye fell upon a pane of glass in her own window: squeezed against this, flat and white, was th

sor concluded his melody, and entered at once into the shop. He pretended to have no knowledg

a precious hot evening, to be sure!-hot, ma'am, and hungry, as they say. I

rampus blushed, or looked as

w,

or; "you're a precious deal better than law,-you're d

, stood fainting against a heap of ginger-beer bottle

cloth for the gentleman. Do you take hoyst

I have a little of both. I'll begin, if you please, with that there, (Lord bless its claws, th

h to bisect the lobster, while the Professor in a dégagé manner, his cane over his shoulder, and a c

ggle, and a smack, Mrs. Grampus was induced to sus

oman returned blushing now like a rose,

er sternly to stay in the shop. She approached the stra

a sudden she began to giggle like her daughter

ourse say what took place; but it is evident th

and restored to perfect good-humour. The little errand-boy was despatch

ting-room, and Adeliza was pained to think th

eaten before: here is the bill as

ers at 3s.

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a'am, you ought to let me off very cheap;" and the Professor, the

going to quarrel about that. Hadd another glass of brandy and w

ered Mrs. Grampu

went laughing away, pleased with her merry and facetious customer; the little boy pic

Blue Lion and get the gentleman his glass: but no, you are better where yo

ange at least a few words with him her soul adored; and h

ond of pleasure, he was equally faithful to business: without a word, he hung up his

is faithful lady regularly performed,) he asked h

o-night, besides one pound eight to rece

gentleman smiling, as his eye gladly

best of all: how

. Grampus, "they wouldn't

ghing, "and he an't done yet. Haddy is gone t

uch alarmed. "Only one, a

said t

was picking up the oyster-shells still, there were so many of them; the Professor

out the bill: a horrid thought cross

the air the idle piece of paper, and

voice of thunder, "to think I'm a goi

the little boy grinned as he dropped two hundred and forty-four oyster-shell

glass of brandy and water lay there extended. Like Tarquinia rever

, had arrived at the shop only in time to hear the fatal name of Dando. She saw him, tipsy and triumpha

de. Mrs. G. held the vinegar-cruet to her nostrils; her husband brought the soda-water fountain to play upon

his scene of desolation. He walked unconcerned through the shop, his hat cocked on one side as before, swaggering as before, whist

of the goods, a silver fork, a plated ditto, a dish, and a pewter pot were fou

pupils circumspection, to youth the folly of sickly sentiment, the pain of bitter deception; to manhood the crime, the meanness of gluttony, the vice which

ted per letter; the bearer being directe

WHO CARED

ed state. Be it as it might, Jacob, though no longer in youth, and in spite of my Uncle Toby's showing that "love is below a man,"-Jacob took unto himself a wife,-an unquestionable better half, seeing his share was so small in the economy of domestic life. But at how high a standard Jacob ought to have p

b was a modest-minded man!-she made up in temper what she lacked in size; which temper, in the opinion of many, was the personal property of the devil! And as the most difficult conquest of Mahomet was that of his wife, so

were hurricane-proof! and the title of "boatswain" was not improperly a sobriquet of this fair cheapener of sugar, with which the vessel was ostensibly freighted, though upon occasions she had more slaves than her husband on board; so that,

ould prove a well; and in truth it did, as will be shown. Old Jacob had friends, as who has not that has anything to give?-and this day-the only one he could look forward to with a smile since he had been "blessed"-he determined should prove a golde

iver in the other, did Jacob invade the-to him-sanctity of the cellar. The lock was wrenched, lights were stuck in empty bottles, and Jacob, who in his young-going days had swilled it with the best, soon verified the sentiment of Le Sage, that "a reformed drunkard should never be left in a cellar." Now, whether joy or brandy had t

af to the music of her voice, a bucket of water from the well refreshed Jacob to a truth he would willingly have slept in ignorance of,-that the wife of his bosom was alive, and he started as a thief would at an opening door. She seized him by the collar, and, showering the first-fruits of her passion upon him who could so well appreciate it, the "boatswain" rose within her, and, after bestowing sundry terms of approbation upon his boon companions, she turned them out of the house, as the vulgar saying hath it, "with their tails between their legs." Jacob would have slunk away, but Fortune willed it otherwise. His "rib" shouted the word of command, "Tack, you lubber, and be ---- to you!" Jacob recognised the voice,-how could he have mistaken it?-and waited for orders. Now it so fell out, as Mrs. Tibs ran for t

s day the impression may be seen: he fell stunned into the water, and before aid coul

s undertaker, and she contracted with a jobbing carpenter for a wooden shell. Jacob never loved luxuries, and the pride of cloth covered not his outside, gilt nails syllabled not his virtues.

was seated at the very next window, in the very next house to that on which the officer had bestowed his attentions; and no sooner was the kiss blown, than slam went the window! A glazier who was passing felt himself a richer man by at least three and sixpence. No sooner was the window closed, than-curtains are always in the way-they were drawn aside, and a face was glued to the glass, all eyes and wire ringlets. Another kiss from the officer on the piebald horse. The lady nodded her head, and

d of no mean wealth, her avarice clung like birdlime to her. Biddy had a brother, an honest tradesman: his wife died young, and his children, for he had two, a boy and a girl, were unto him gold and jewels! Biddy held up her hands, and called it a tempting of Providence. Long sickness and misfortunes-for brother Dick had friends-and serving others, placed him in a debtors' prison! Without means, and lacking food, Dick asked his sister's aid,-a score of pounds to make him a man again. Biddy with thousands saw him want on;-saw him, sick and feeble, die, a prisoner for a friend's debt, and his children without a roof but heaven! Now, whether Biddy's conscience smote her,-and it was speculated by some that she possessed that luxury,-we kn

led with his bread and butter; for he flung the penny through one of the parlour windows, when, as ill luck would have it, it missed the head of his loving aunt, and ended the days of a cracked

shold, and went, no on

tion,-for Laura was a pretty girl,-and asked if Mrs. Tibs were at home. Laura's meek answer was, "Ye

ce; in fact, Biddy Tibs was a post-office in her own person; and these praiseworthy efforts she exercised not altogether from mercenary motives, though, to do her justice, her pride never stood in the way where money was offered: but she loved mischief as a cat loves milk, and would cheat for nothing, rather than not cheat at all. Now

m horrorfied to think what the girls about here ar

your mother tells everybody so: but

o better than they should be, I know. Look how they dress! and we all know what they have to live upon. And those Miss Cartriges, with their thick an

tinct "Hem!"

hem again, like the gi

rom under her grey ey

ly military men; and, would you think it? an officer on a pie

with a face full of

thought it!" eja

head as she adde

sort of people, for I shut the window in h

window?" and Biddy looked a no

him through

And-well, I couldn't imag

s for?" inqu

let

d Lauretta's v

f you." Saying which, the old woman fumbled in her pocket, and, taking a three

r me; but, before many hours, I trust I shall whisper in your ear the love I feel for my pretty little angel." Lauretta held her breath till she was red in the face in a vain endeavour to look celestial. The letter continued:-"And if my swee

en Horn, Roya

or a man must be in earnest when he threatens to kill himself,

r. Now none knew better than Lauretta Birdseye how well a keyhole afforded sight and sound; and, throwing the door suddenly open, she burst into the passage. A

who sat like a cat watching a mouse, of her Christian determination to save human l

had ever made an appointment with her,"-who shall questio

o go,-and, what is mo

hich it stands forms the principal promenade of all the little gentry, all the small-consequence people, their pride

hussy" were coming down the way she was to go up,-and, or her eyes deceived her, no less a hussy than Laura Dyke! who, she shuddered to think, had picked up a new man. Lauretta heard-or fancied she heard-a titter as they passed; and the man-he looked very like an officer-laughed outright. Lauretta bridled in the full virginity of three-and-thirty, and walked up the opposite side! How long she walked up and down, this side and that side, from the top to the bottom, and sate "like Patience" on one of the seats at the top, we will not here describe. Suffice it, after waiting two hours

or. Lauretta looked, and so did Biddy as she cried, "What you! then wh

d for it. Mrs. Tibs, the age we live i

an the men do. And haven't you been carried off after all?

ed a vestal, "I am not aw

beggar's slut of mine, I'll teach her to cross me!" But, as her eye rested upon Lauretta, her face changed again, and pursed into a th

ity of a Cleopatra; "I have had a strange thought about

iddy's eyes open

rl of yours looking after him, and he might have blown his filthy kisses to her; and last night,-I won't be

ecame lead as she gasped, "Bat that I was not

l as she added, "She heard us read it throu

had at length stumbled on a Tarquin!-it was wine and oil to her heart. But, to find herself cozened, to have hatched the wrong egg!-her fury knew no bounds. She raved, and-we trust, for the first time in her life-ut

yke, had gone off with a man!" and so great was her horror, that, upon the butcher-boy's bringing the meat, she wouldn

ome currants, on a cabbage leaf; another, a pot of jam; a third, an invitation,-if she could go, it would do her so much good. Biddy was not expected to live the day. But-oh, the ingratitude of this old creature!-ill as she was, her grey eyes looked like glass upon them, and twinkled with a cunning light; and in the course of the day she promised, in no less than six different quarters, the house she lived in, and a legacy besid

d not only left the city of C--, but her loving friends, w

d circumstance the player! Teg was ragged, and none would employ him; begging was so unprofitable there was no living by it. Without food for two whole days Teg grew desperate, and, tempted by the smell, stole from the door of a cook-shop a plateful of savoury tit-bits,-the third lost that morning; and, in the act of tasting, Teg was detected, seized, and, by a merciful magistrate sent to the House of Correction. Teg, himself no sinner, was here shut round by sin. Teg stole a meal, urged by the crying wants of hunger, and he was here mated with those who held theft a principle; and, like a bur, he clung

r with the least appearance of kindness, who, driven like a dog, had the wickedness to stain her threshold with ingratitude? Had she bestowed a sign of goodness upon

reams of the past, and whispered love and gentleness! But Laura had a callous mind, and, strange to say, never once felt her deprivation, or she would have sunk beneath it, as an outcast from society, her freshness gone; her beauty, like an autumn's leaf, seared, and cast forth unto the winds; her heart bruised, and her hopes destroyed, she crawled at midnight thr

ty never descended to her garden, nor did the sparrows,-they knew it would be a waste of time;-and thus she lived without kin and without kind, no servant being so little a feeder as to live upon abuse. And it was noted as a peculiar fact, that, the older she grew, the more evil grew her tongue. Characters fell like grass before her. Young or old, weak or strong, all felt her lash! And upon one occasion she made such inroads upon the chastity of two maiden ladies, sisters, and worthy to be so of the far-famed Irish giant, that, under pretence of tea and scandal, Biddy could no

the rain fell in streams, and the wind moaned like a human voice. For an instant she saw, or thought she saw, a light shoot across the garden. She looked, and looked, and-she closed the shutters, and sat closer to the fire; and, rocking herself over it in her chair, mumbled, "Bl

eir warmth, and muttered, "At night, one is full of fancies; it's only the wind;" and, communing with herself, she added, "I've paid them back their own, and given them lies for lies, and they hate me for it: but they fear me, too,-that's one comfort,-for they know I'm rich. Rich-ha! ha! there's a sly cupboard there," and she pointed to a recess in the wall, where a concealed door stood half ajar; "there's a nest holds more eggs than they think for; and if I had liked-but the boy is none of mine-the boy-" A draught of air as from an opened door made her look round. She sat frozen to her chair as the figure of a man darkened in the room; a second, masked like his fellow, stood in the shadow

; their knocking obtaining no answer, the door was forced; and in the back room they found Biddy Tibs upon the ground, dead, with a handkerchief knotted roun

ning to the "gallows-tree." Women yelled their execrations at the head of the pale and shaking culprit, for he had murdered one of their own sex; and clapped and shouted as the cart drew from under his clinging feet. Men, "as it was only for a woman,"

iff and dead, a half-clothed and haggard woman asked, i

d to the stripling figure of the hanging man; "he as

g scream rang through the ai

rself. Her eyes looked leaden! Want, sorrow, and dissipation had writ their blight upon her, and,

, and the pillow of her death-bed been smoothed by the hands of loving friends. But, as it was, her brother died from want; Biddy fell, strangled by her nephew's hand. He had been seen in a taproom, whe

ween two of her distant relations, which, to the b

e grass grows rank about a tombstone which is still point

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GATTA.

ROSS C

t," and, coming across the sparkling surface of the ocean in partial eddies, ruffles it for a moment and passes on. Fainter and fainter still,-nothing but an occasional cat's-paw is visible, far as the helmsman's eye can range. The cutter has no longer steerage way; the fold

of ocean, boundless, waveless, beautiful: the sea-gull was idly resting on the surface, the puffin and the cormorant diving and appearing continually; while a league off a man-of-war brig, covered to the very trucks with useless canvass, lay as if she rode at anchor. Beyond the motionless vessel, the Scottish coast was clearly defin

low black hull was symmetry itself, while the taunt spars and topmast displayed a cloud of sail, which at a short distance would appear to require a bark of double the size to carry. Above deck everything was sim

ay, and, leaving the dangerous rock of Carrickbannon between us and the flying bridge of Carrick-a-rede, fou

ality of the bottom, in calms there is a heavy and sickening roll, and in storms a cross and dangerous sea. Without a leading wind, or plenty of it, a vessel find

s. Beneath, all seems rifted rocks and endless caverns, and easily accounts for the short and bubbling sea that flows above. Everything considered, the loss of life occasioned by the passage of this sound is trifling. For weeks together all communication with the main land is frequently totally int

age, we had postponed our departure until the last hour. On Monday the regatta would commence; and we should have been in the Clyde the day before. A breeze for half an hour would have carried us clear of the tides, and liberated us from this infernal sound; and every

rig's royals fluttered for a moment, and then blew gently out; the top-gallant sails filled; presently the lower canvass told that the wind had rea

h increasing velocity the vessel displaced the water, and flung it in sparkling sheets from her bows. Next minute the maste

egularity is not to be endured; the wheels grate over the same gravel that the thousand which preceded them have pressed before; the same hedge, the same paling meets the eye; there hangs the well-remembered sign; that waiter has been there these ten years,-ay, the same laughing barmaid, and obsequious boots, and bustling hostler, all with a smile of welcome, cold, mechanical, and insincere; not even the novelty of a new face among them,-all rooted to their places like the milestones themselves. Pish! one wearies of the road; it has no danger, no interest, no excitement. Give me the deep blue water; its very insecurity has charms f

e as if in scorn. The hissing noise with which the smooth and coppered sides slipped through the yielding waters marked our increased velocity. Yet we experienced little inconvenience; on the morocco-cushioned sofa even a Roman might have reclined in comfort. To every movement of the yacht the

nd it came in partial squalls, accompanied by drizzling rain. Rathlin, and the Irish highlands were fading fast away, while the tower on the Mull of Cantire flung its sparkling light over the dark waters, as if s

ritish seas. Harbour, and rock, and shoal, have each their distinguishing beacon; and, when he once sees the chalk cliffs of his native island, the returning mariner may count himself at home. Light after light rises from the murky horizon: there,

cliff it occupies, and steered for the little island of Sanna. Momentarily the sea rose, the night grew worse, the dim and hazy twilight faded away, the wind piped louder, and the rain came down in torrents. When the weather lo

the openings of the islands, half-flooded the deck with a boiling sea that broke over the bows, or forced itself through the lee-scuppers. Anxious to end our dreary navigation, "Carry on!" was the word, and light after light rose, and was lost successively. We passed the lights on Cumray; and, presently, that on Toward, in Dumbarton, minutely revolving, burst on the sight after its brief eclipse with dazzling brilliancy; while from the opposit

dia-rubber boots, proved garments of such excellent endurance, notwithstanding a three hours' pitiless pelting of spray and rain, that we shuffled off our slough, and showed in good and dry condition, as if we had the while been snug in the royal mail, or, drier yet, engaged at a meeting of the Tempera

fected! To the dreary darkness of a flooded deck, the luxury of this lighted and luxurious cabin has succeeded. The wind whistles through the shrouds, the rain falls spattering on the skylight,-what matter?-we heed them not; th

roduce. In my own cabin I listened for a brief space to the growling of the storm; sleep laid his "leaden

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THE MAID

from Vol. I

took a small chain of hair from his neck; he laid it on the cover that was before him: he approached the door again. But the keepsake, that had never left its seat for many a year, was too precious to him to be so discarded. He returned: he lifted it, and, thrusting it into his bosom, pressed it again and again to his heart, then again and again to his lips, drinking his own tears, th

the landscape; but there was no landscape there. Mountain, wood, torrent, river, lake, were obliterated! Nothing was present but Glorvina. Rich she stood before him in the bursting bloom of young womanhood! Features, complexion, figure, voice-everything changed; and, oh, with what enhancing! Her eyes, in which, four years before, sprightliness, frankness, kindness, and unconsciousness used to shine,-what l

! It drew forth the token of Glorvina! Niall could scarce believe his vision. He looked again and again at the precious gift; he pressed it to his lips; he thrust it into his breast; snatched it thence to his lips again, and looked at it again; divided between incredulity and certainty, past agony and present rapture. He looked about him; no one was in sight. "How came it here?" exclaimed he to him

peated the echo, and ec

ll the last rever

n a yet louder voice, in the tone of

!" cried the voice

pirit!" exclaimed

!" returne

st capacity; but he heard not the voice of the echo. The arms of Glorvina

have gone on, but checked herself, looked in his eyes for a moment, h

er in the intervals of the kisses which he printed

ic such as harp never yet awakened; "come!

not many words for a time. With the youth all language seemed to be concentred in

shoulder of Niall; Niall's arm was again the girdle of Glorvina's waist. Language began to flow. Glorvina related minutely, as maiden modesty would permit her, the cause of her secluded retirement and reported death. As she spake, Niall drew her closer to him, and she shrank not; he leaned his cheek to hers, and she drew not away; he drank her breat

a!" crie

Malachi stood before his da

maid was there also. Malachi stood with folded arms, looking thoughtfully and

as the fir

ody of the tomb. If thou showest her not to him, he will search for her. Niall has come in time. The voice of the prophetic Psalter has called him hither; he has come to espouse thy fair child; a bride thou must present her to the Dane. In the f

he earth; he placed his daughter's hand in that of the yo

ked the hour of mirth and gratulation; watchfulness was in them, and anxiety, and alarm. Still the mirth halted not, nor slackened. The king was joyous; on the countenances of Niall and Glorvina sat the smile of supreme content; the spirits of the guests were quickening

sided into breathless attention; yet nothing was heard, though

mingled good-nature and sarcasm, "wh

replied the bard with solemnit

g the strings then!" rejoined the ki

ll be free from him whose footsteps now are turned towards thy

. "Come, take thy harp, old man, and show thy skill; and p

command or request of Malachi. He sat, all expectation,

nd Malachi pushed back his seat, and reached to the harp, which stood neglected beside the bard: he drew it toward

ng on the point of beginning the strain. Malachi started up too. All were upon their feet; and every

e, and with extended hand approached the visitor, who smilingly bowed to his welcome, and followed him to the head of the board, r

ed the place where she sat with a cheek now as white as her nuptial vest;

s he lifted it, holding it for a second or two at full length; then

t were about to touch it; and lifting it commandingly on high, "Glorvina!" he repeated, casting a glance of haughty defia

he looked towards the king, and turned away in disappointment to see that Malachi thought of nothing but the feast, and noted not the daring gaze which the rover kept bending on his child. He looked round the board

ed at the limits of his presumption yet. He caught her delicate hand, and held it in spite of her gentle, remonstrating resistance. He dared to raise it to his lips, and hold it there, covering it with kisses, till, the dread of consequences lost in the dismay of outraged modesty, th

Glorvina. "No! enchanting one! Thus may not the Dane be served by the woman that infl

attendants of Turgesius, baring their weapons, rushed in the direction of Niall, but stopped short at the sight of treble the number of their glaives waving around him. They looked not for suc

uld be sheathed, and the seats resumed. Then calling to his attendants, he pointed to his prostrate guest, and signed to them to raise him, assisting them himself, and giving directions that he should be conveyed to his own chamber, and laid upon his own couch. This being performed, he motioned to Glorvina to withdraw from

r from its master's friend. Consummation awaits not the rites that have been performed to-day. The obligation of those rites shall be dissolved! We mingle blood no further! Thou art henceforward an alien-an outlaw; and at the peril of thy life thou crossest, after this, our threshold, or the confines of our rule!" So saying, Malachi resu

portal. It was the bard, who had quitted the hall

om the couch, and shall sit at the feast again; but in the fray that shall follow that feast, he shall fall to rise no more.' The mountains are lofty in Moran, my son, where Slieve Danna

appeared, leadi

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e wrung the old man's hand. Several others on horseback came up.

cried on

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sufficed to concert a plan for future meetings; and they dropped off one by one as the destination of each call

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have provided," s

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ave provided too, and Glorvina were now at my side! I would not have waited for the

down a path that belted a small wood, they came all

said Nia

though his companion, the third of the riders

eams from it. You see you are expected. I leave one to wait upon you while I go forward to make pr

the fire, and looked around him. The door of an inner apartment was open. He saw that a couc

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he dame, "and will not come in. Come in!"

door, and reached his hand to the other, who hesitatingly took it. "Whoever thou art, we are companions for t

open the folds of an ample cloak to give the owner air. What was his amazement to discover the form of a female! His heart stopped for a second or two at the thought that flashed across him! Another moment decided a qu

y soul, hope-comfort-anything that belongs to happiness?-and, lo! now it overflows, full beyond measure with content-bliss-transport! Revive, my Glorvina! Speak to me! Thy form is in my arms! They feel that they surround thee, yet wi

. She desisted. She fixed her full eyes upon her lover. Affection, and modesty, and honour, were blended in the gaze which they bent upon him! The soul of Niall felt subdued. His arms, gradually relaxing their pressu

me! Yet-" She faltered, and her eyes fell; and she raised them not again till she had concluded what she meant to say. "Yet," she resumed, "I had not left my father's roof this night to follow thee, but from the dread o

th her eyes encountered Niall's, beaming with reverence and love. He drew her gently towards him. She did not resist. She bowed her fair head till it rested on his shoulder; her arm half encircle

exclaimed, in a

aith the Psalter:-The land must obtain her freedom ere the bridegroom his rights. What the altar shall grant must be enjoyed by means of the sword! Niall must journey on to the lake of the lonely shieling! Thither shall gather to him the choice and true amon

vain to resist fate. Its hand it is that severs us for the present. Thy life is in

ended her white arms towards him; he moved not. Once more she said farewell, and not a word did he utter in reply.

ce of Malachi as a spy, had betrayed to the king. Sternly the father fixed his eyes upon his child as she entered; but with amazement encountered

'amen' to the blessing? Why are they then of no avail, and through thee? Did not thy command as a father cease when thou resignedst me to a husband? Why is it then resumed, and that husband alive? Did not the holy man p

ned silent. Yet longer she await

to the offender, and with injury to him who dared resent the wrong. The dread of similar insult-if not of worse, stronger than the opposition of maiden reserve, compelled that child-unasked, unexpected, unpermitted-to fly for protection where protection had been promised, accepted, and sanctioned, but never experienced yet; and scarce had she found it when she was wrested from it, and brought back-brought back to the hall which the spoiler, whom she dreads, is as free to enter as she! And now-" She broke off. The eyes of

w from one another's embrace. "'Tis well!" continued he; "and now I will speak

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ltered for

ay I love her? Need I tell thee I would have what I love? Requirest thou such wasti

e advanced towards Turgesius-he fixed upon him a look of fire-his lips trembling, and his cheek wavering

e for the honour of my child? Dost thou offer to bring shame upon the roof that has given thee wel

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as if in cordiality. "Come! Be no wrath between us! Thy armed men are few, and those less thy subjects than my slaves! My bands hover on the borders of thy kingdom; a part of them are here with their master in the very heart of it. True thou hast said. Thou hast been my host; thou hast received me as thy friend! I would

er hair the large golden pin that held her tresses up, and pointing it to her heart. Turgesius stood transfixed. Glorvina never started nor flinched;

s destiny, and not thou, that has afflicted her. But-listen to thy Glorvina. On one condition

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em with me, and if he finds one among them whom he prefers, her shall he take as my ransom. I doubt not of their consent. In ten days we shall present

hou exceedest the time the half of another day, thou wilt not blame me, fair one, if I come to fetch thee?" He then approached Malachi, and taking the hand of the king without questioning whether it was given or not, shook it. Glorvin

ver-modest, generous bearing, divested defeat of chagrin on the part of the unsuccessful. Since then, he had sojourned with the Saxon, whose art of warfare he had thoroughly mastered, trained by the greatest captain of that nation. With avidity his young countrymen availed themselves of his instructions, and learned a mode of attack and defence superior to that they had hitherto

e! You see what a company we have here to greet you," continued he. "You see how we banquet! You l

g, were enjoying a moment's repose in an interval of practice; then, turning upon Niall a look full of sad i

ve; but greater is the fortitude that cowers not before the unseen weapons of misfortune. My soul is heavy wit

come to pass. My soul sickens already! To whom do the tidings relate that demand such prep

her, "hath ever its solac

ance of fire. "Is the maid in danger, or hath she suffered wrong? the wedded maid

man, "is spread for her in the castle of Turgesius!" He paused, a

ding his arms tightly upon his breast. "Go on!" he repeated, observing that the young man hesi

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na promise to surrender herself to the arms of the rover. Five days remain unexpired. Up! Call thy friends around thee! inform them of the wrong, the dishonour that awaits thee. A

ience. His friends were on their feet without the summons of his tongue. They simultaneously closed around him when

rch; then turned their eyes upon Niall, waiting his command. He raised his sword aloft, and his eyes went along with

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in the van; he moved

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o demand what was forbidden;-to take what was withheld. Niall, with a host of warriors, is at thy gate. Thy

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o the stranger, whose summons at thy gate was the knock which he gave with the hilt of his sword,-was the blast of the horn of war! Low lies the glory of thy race! From the king of a people art thou shrunk into the minion of a robber, who, not content with making a mockery of thy crown, brings openly pollution to thy blood!

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right in the direction of Niall, and then stood still; still fixing her eyes steadily upon her bridegroom with an expression in which neither defiance nor deprecation, neither reproach nor fear, neither recklessness nor shame, but love-all love-was apparent. Niall scarcely breathed! An awe came over his chafed spirit as he surveyed his bride. The more he looked, the more the clouds of wrath rolled away from his

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drew near; they halted within fifty paces of the walls, and, unfolding their ranks, presented to the eyes of the Dane, Glorvina and her kinswomen, faithful to the

e me there with my kinswomen. If thou findest amongst them, her whom thou deemest more

ant glance around him upon his chiefs; and led

lace her there. He turned; and, as she looked down the chamber along with him, she saw that his chi

asks not a damsel even to remove her veil, content with the charms of the fair Glorvina. Her does he lead to the banquet which has been prepared for her

and blood may flow as well as wine. Before my kinswomen withdraw their veils, let thy chieftains deposit their weapons without the hall, and each as he returns a

invitation of Turgesius. Of her own accord she entered the apartment prepared for the rover and herself. Closely he followed her. The door was closed after him. He sprang to

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rm of battle were on. Turgesius waxed paler still. Surprise and terror see

himself, grasping a reeking brand. The robber tottered. Life was almost extinct as the youth,

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before many months were over he was knighted and made a gentleman of the bedchamber, and from that time became all-powerful at court. There is a letter from Lord Thomas Howard to Sir John Harrington, written about the year 1608, which shows the feelings of the courtiers upon the subject. "Carr," says the writer, "hath all the favours, as I told you before. The king teacheth him Latin every morning, and I think some one should teach him English too; for he is a Scottish lad, and hath much need of better language. The king doth much covet his presence: the ladies, too, are not behind hand in their admiration; for, I tell you, good knight, this fellow is straight-limbed, well-favoured, and smooth-faced, with some sort of cunning and show of modesty, though, God wot, he well knoweth when to show his i

ot less singular depravity. When Essex returned, after a few years' absence, he found her affections quite estranged from him. She had conceived a passion for the handsome favourite, and received her husband with contemptuous coldness; while she endeavoured, by her arts and allurements, to captivate the object of her guilty flame. To these means she added others more peculiarly characteristic of the age. There was a woman of the name of Turner, a servant or depe

tess's own were sufficient, Rochester was soon cau

od graces of the reigning favourite, appeared to be on the road to political distinction. To the raw youth, who had had "greatness thrust upon him" so rapidly, the services of a

in order to pay his court to his patron, encouraged and assisted him in the prosecution

ge with her lover, was the only way to prevent their separation. The countess, therefore, instituted proceedings against her husband for a divorce, on grounds to which only a shameless and abandoned woman could think of resorting. The favourite gained the king's sanction and support to this scandalous suit; and, after a course of pr

d frightened at the idea of Lord Rochester's marrying a woman of whose atrocious character he was well aware. He, therefore, earnestly dissuaded Roch

terly ruin your honour and yourself. You shall never do it by my advic

ir power over him; "but, in faith, I will be even with you for this." So saying, he flung away in a rage, and left the place. The conference wa

ador to Russia. The king complied; and Overbury accepted the appointment with great alacrity. But this act of kindness, as it seemed to be, on the part of Somerset, was

all not be able to do you so much good as if you remain with me. If you are blamed, or even committed for refusing," he added, "never mind: I will take care tha

ng, in England, in the seventeenth century. Without even the shadow, or the accusation, of a crime, Sir Tho

tures. One Richard Weston, who had been shopman to an apothecary, was made under-keeper, and specially charged with the custody of Overbury. This man had been an agent of Lady Essex in her secret transactions with Dr. Forman and Mrs. Turner, and in affording opportunities for her guilty meetings with Lord Rochester a

, from that time, some poisonous substance was mingled with every article of food or drink which was given him. "He never ate white salt," said one of the witnesses on the trials which afterwards took place, "but there was white arsenic put into it. Once he desired pig, and Mrs. Tu

er his promise, and received for answer that "the time would not suffer; but, as soon as possible might be, he would hasten his delivery;" a promise which he certainly intended to fulfil, though not in the sense in which it was meant to be understood. By way of "hastening his delivery," Rochester sent him a letter, containing a white powder, wh

erwise have had in the Tower. To gratify a sickly appetite he expressed a wish for tarts and jellies, which were provided by Mrs. Turner, and sent to Elwes, the lieutenant of the Tower, to be given to Overbury, by Lord Rochester and Lady Essex. These sweetmeats were not poisoned at first; but the poisoned ones were accompanied by a letter from Lady Essex to Elwes, in which she said, "I was bid to tell you that in the tarts and jellies there are letters, but in the wine none; and of that you may take yourself, and give your wife, but, of the other, not. Give him these tarts and jelly this night, and all shall be well." The meaning of the word, letters, is sufficiently evident; but the countess afterwards removed any doubt on the subject, by confessing, on her trial, that "by letters she meant poison." Rochester appears to have been then residing at some little distance from town; for Lady Essex was the immediate agent in these transactions, and carried on a correspondence with Rochester on the subject. In one of his letters to her he expresse

ng to the fashion of the times, was exhibited by the courtiers, and another by the gentlemen of Gray's Inn; their repugnance to this act of sycophancy having been overcome, it is said, by the persuasions of Bacon,-a man whose moral deficiencies formed a strange contrast to his almost superhuman vastness of

ful manners, quick parts, and courtly obsequiousness. These two men became rivals and enemies. Somerset was universally odious from his arrogance and rapacity; and Villiers was looked upon with favour as the probable instrument of his fall. Somerset, now aware of his danger, and trembling for the discovery of his guilt when he might no longer have the king for a protector, availed himself of his remaining influence with James to obtain from him a pardon for all past offences. This he begged as a safeguard against the consequences of any errors into which he might have fallen in the high offices w

haughty earl, though he had received a hint that the king expected this offer to be graciously received, spurned at it. "I will none of your service," was his answer, "and you shall none of my favour. I will, if I can, break your neck, and of that be confident." It was im

in Scotland. Pressed by the king's questions, Elwes admitted his knowledge of Weston's intention to poison his prisoner, but denied his own participation in the crime. Weston, being apprehended and examined, admitted circumstances which involved Mrs. Turner, and the Earl and Countess of Somerset. The king is

siness of poisoning. Lord, in what a miserable condition shall this kingdom be, (the only famous nation for hospitality in the world,) if our tables should become such a snare as none could eat without danger of life, and that Italian custom should be introduced among us! Therefore, my lords, I charge you, as you

him with more seeming affection than at this time, when he knew Somerset would never see him more; and, had you seen that seeming affection,-as the author himself did,-you would rather have believed he was in his rising than setting. The earl, when he kissed his hand, the king hung about his neck, slabbering his cheeks, saying, 'For God's sake, when shall I see thee again? On my soul I shall neither eat nor sleep until you come again.' The earl told him 'On Monday,'-this being the Friday. '

ived, he found the countess in a state of violent agitation. "Weston," she said, "was taken; he should likely be seized immediately, and they should all be hanged." She went into an inner room, where Franklin heard her conversing with her husband. On her return she again urged Franklin to be silent, and made him swear not to reveal any thing. "The lords," she told him, "i

f confessed that he had been the medium of the correspondence carried on between Lord Rochester and Lady Essex, not only in regard to the poisoning of Overbury, but during their adulterous intercourse; and he also confessed that, after Overbury's death he had received, as a reward, one hundred and eighty pounds from the countess, by the hands of Mrs. Turner.

if I can get this done, you shall have as much money as you can demand: this is fair-play. Your sister, Frances Essex." In a letter to Forman, she says, "Sweet father,-I must still crave your love, although I hope I have it, and shall deserve it better hereafter. Keep the lord [Rochester] still to me, for that I desire; and be careful you name me not to anybody, for we have so many spies that you must use all your wits,-and all little enough, for the world is against me, and the heavens favour me not. Only happy in your love, I hope you will do me good; and, if I be ungrateful, let all mischief come unto me. My lord is lusty and merry, and drinketh with his men; and all the content he gives me is to abuse me, and use me as doggedly as before. I think I shall never be happy in this world, because he hinders my good; and will ever, I think so. Remember, I beg, for God's sa

; and, casting money often among the people as she went, she was carried to Tyburn, where she was executed, and whither many men and women of fashion came in coaches to see her die; to whom she made a speech, desiring them not to rejoice at her fall, but to take example by her. She exhorted them to serve God, and abandon pride and all other sins; related her bree

are of the crime. One of the principal pieces of evidence was the voluntary confession of Franklin the apothecary, who had been employed to provide the poisons. This man, among many other things, said, "Mrs. Turner came to me from the countess, and wished me from her to get the strongest poison I could for Sir Thomas Overbury. Accordingly I bought seven, viz. aquafortis, white arsenic, mercury, powder of diamonds, lapis costitus (lunar caustic), great spiders, and cantharides: all these were given to Sir Thomas Overbury at several times." He declared also, that the lieutenant knew of these poisons: "for that appeared," he said, "by, many letters which he writ to the Countess of Essex, which I saw, and thereby knew that he knew of this matter."-"For these poisons," he further said, "the countess sent me rewards. She sent many times gold by Mrs. Turner. She afterwards wrote unto me to buy more poisons. I went unto her, and told her I was weary of it; and I besought her upon my knees that she would use me no more in these matters: but she importuned me, bade me go, and enticed me with fair speeches and rewards; so she overcame me, and did

lly to have been prompted by remorse. In passing sentence upon him, the Lord Chief Justice said, that, "knowing as much as he knew,

by the Lord Chief Justice. "But the Lord Chief Justice Coke," says Sir Anthony Weldon, "in his rhetorical flourishes at Monson's arraignment, vented some expressions as if he could discover more than the death of a private person; intimating, though not plainly, that Overbury's untimely remove had in it something of retaliation, as if he had been guilty of the same crime towards Prince Henry; blessing himself with admiration at the horror of such actions. In which he flew so high a pitch that he was taken down by a court lure; Sir Thomas Monson

following. During this interval the earl and countess were frequently examined, and many efforts were made to bring them to confession. On the 24th of May the

ss of Somerset, h

f Somerset, all the while the indictment was reading, stood, looking pale, trembled, and shed some tears; and at the first n

, what sayest thou? Art thou guilty of

the Lord High Steward, answered, 'Guilty,

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hen sentenced her to th

example, and pleaded Not guilty. The most remarkable feature of this trial is the

er to Somerset, after hi

our behaviour betrays you. All I entreat of you is, that you will free me from this place, and that we may part friends. Drive me not to extremities, lest I shou

afterward

that my unreverend style might make you neglect me. With what face could you do t

othing! When I heard (notwithstanding my misery) how you went to your woman, curled your hair, and in the mean time send me nineteen projects how I should cast about for my libert

there came many breaches between us; of the vow you made to be even with me, and sending for me twice that day that I was caught in the trap, persuading me that it was a plot of mine enemies to send me beyond sea, and urging me not to accept it, assuring me to free me from any long trouble. O

with a desperate and fatal revenge. He remembers, too, the threat which had been applied to himself; knows himself to be in the power of the man who used it; feels himself to be dying by inches, of maladi

W. Button that his physician should presently go. Upon this, I only addressed myself to my Lord of Somerset, and none else, who said my son should be presently delivered, but dissuaded me from presenting any more petitions to the king; which notwithstanding, I (seeing his freedom still delayed) did deliver a petition to the king to that purpose, who said I should have present answe

your son's delivery; therefore I would advise you to retire into the count

delusive hopes till all was over; and he then wrote

e to commiserate the death of a son, than I of a friend. But, though he be dead, you shall find me as ready as ever I was to do all the courtesies that I possibly can to you and your wife, or your children. In t

ions to their testimony, and laboured to explain away the facts which could not be denied. From eight in the morning till seven at night he exerted himself with an energy worthy of a better cau

onvenient place; it is therefore, according to his majesty's gracious pleasure and command, ordered that the Earl of Somerset and his lady do repair either to Greys or Cowsham, the Lord Wallingford's houses in the county of Oxon, and remain confined to one or other of the said houses, and within three miles' compass of either of the same, until further order be given by his majesty." In 1624, they both obtained full pardons; the lady, on the ground that "the process and judgment against her were not as of a principal, but as of an accessory before the fact;" and the earl, merely on the ground of the king's regard for h

t on me and my posterity for ever!" how are we to account for so flagrant a violation of it? Even had he not so earnestly called down the curse of Heaven upon his head, he was bound by the strongest obligations of public justice not to screen from condign punishment crimina

l extant a letter from him to the king, written immediately after his condemnation, in which he desires that his estate may be continued to him entire, in a style rather of expostulation and demand than of humble supplication. There is a studied obscurity i

rise at the trial out of Somerset's behaviour. Bacon accordingly drew up a paper of this sort, on which the king with his own hand made some marginal notes. Bacon having said, "All these points of mercy and favour to Somerset are to be understood with this limitation,-if he do not, by his contemptuous and insolent carriage at the bar, make himself incapable and unworthy of them," the king's remark in the margin was, "That danger is well to be foreseen, lest he upon one part commit unpardonable errors, and I on the other part seem to punish him in the sp

ave been very untractable; and the king's dread of his conduct during his trial, and anxiety to know the result,

se passages, and desired to be directed by the king, for he was gone beyond his own reason to hear such bold and undutiful expressions from a faulty subject against a just sovereign. The king falls into a passion of tears: 'On my soul, Moore, I wot not what to do: thou art a wise man; help me in this great strait, and thou shalt find thou dost it for a thankful master;' with other sad expressions. Moore leaves the king in that passion, but assures him he will prove the utmost of his wit to serve his majesty. Sir George Moore returns to Somerset about three o'clock next morning of that day he was to come to trial, enters Somerset's chamber, tells him he had been with the king, found him a most affectionate master unto him, and full of grace in his intentions towards him. 'But,' said he, 'to satisfy justice you must appear, although you return instantly again without any further procedure; only you shall know your enemies and their malice, though they shall have no power over you.' With this trick of wit he allayed his fury, and got him quietly, about eight

by a party of yeomen of the guard, was caused by the Lord Chief Justice's having made some indiscreet allusion to suspicions regardi

her exercise of that kind; and he is never idle. He is very kind to his dependents, supports their interests against all persons whatsoever, and urges all that he undertakes for them or others with such zeal as ensures it success; for, besides his exerting his whole strength to compass what he desires, he is already feared by those who have the management of affairs, and especially by the Earl of Salisbury, who appears to be greatly apprehensive of the prince's ascendency; as the prince, on the other hand, shows little esteem for his lordship." This high-spirited and magnanimous boy could not fail to be aware of the faults and vices of his father's character. He entertained great admiration for Sir Walter Raleigh; was often heard to exclaim, "No king but my father would keep such a bird in a cage;" and his aversion to the Earl of Salisbury

rooted hatred. When Carr was made Viscount Rochester, Henry, then about fourteen, as we are told by Osborn, "contemned so far his father's election of Rochester, that he was reported either to have struck him on the back with his racket, or very hardl

and activity of the prince," says Dr. Birch, "soon gave umbrage to his father's court, which grew extremely jealous of him."-"The king," says Osborn, "though he would not deny any thing the prince plainly desired, yet it appeared rather the result of fear and outward compliance than love or natural affection; being harder drawn to confer an honour or pardon, in cases of desert, upon a retainer of the prince, than a stranger."

stomach and bowels, excessive thirst, burning heat, blackness of the tongue, convulsions, and delirium. The physicians "could not tell what to make of the distemper," were confounded by "the strangeness of the disease," and differed in their opinions as to its tr

ad been begun for Prince Henry, in the name of his brother Charles. After a very short interval, all persons were prohibited from appearing in mourning before the king; and orders were given that the preparations for the Christmas festivities should proceed without interruption. The Earl of Dorset, in a letter writte

ueen," says Dr. Welwood, "to her dying day could never be dissuaded from the opinion that her beloved son had foul play done him." Bishop Burnet, in his History of his own time, says, that Charles the First declared that the prince, his brother, had been

have failed in the extreme of facility and humanity, than in that of cruelty and violence." Hume's facts, it is notorious, often assume the colouring of his political feelings; of which a pretty strong instance occurs in this very case of Sir Thomas Overbury, whose imprisonment in the Tower, says this historian, "James intended as a slight punishment for his disobedience" in refusing to go as ambassador to Russia. James

esh, in the course of an inquiry into some matters relating to the trial of Somerset, in King James the First's reign, he says to his correspondent, 'But what is all this, you will say, to my history? Certainly nothing; but one historical inquiry leads to another: and I recollect that the impression upon my mind was, that there was more reason than is generally all

, perhaps, for ever inscrutable. But the events which we have related f

nscience were embittered by mutual hatred so rancorous and implacable, that they passed year after year in the same dwelling without the interchange of a single word. Their doom may be likened to that so fearfully described in the tale of the Caliph Vathek. It seemed as if their punishment was begun ere yet they had tasted of death. The everlasting fire was already burning in their hearts

ELLENT

MADUKE

nt offer-so plai

e contents of a letter which a few hours previously, had been recei

aving lived together during the greater part of a long life, not only had their habits and modes of thoug

for the preceding forty years; that is, Mrs. Gibbs was by the side of the table with her "work," and Mr. Gibbs sate with his feet upon the fender, an open book by his side, on which his spectacles were

ark had escaped from the lips of that gentleman once every evening during nearl

dear," said she, "of

subject at the moment when you spoke; I was thinking that we mu

, resumed his horizontal posit

are to accept Mr. Paine as a son-in-l

eyes and yawning most uncomfortably,

lady, "you must allow, we have g

he had such an idea as you seem to intimate, I'm sure it has never been encouraged by me; he

, and the conversation on M

able age for Caroline; two giddy people together would never do

ed," interposed Mrs. Gibbs: "I hope you con

e nodded his head just at the r

sband for my daughter, I should

o misunderstood his wife; "it wou

easant man," rum

dge of the world, a great

e in the Reg

r. Paine, and a comfortable belief that if Mr. Charles Langton should go out of his mind, it would be entirely his own

to nightly custom, a perambulation in the dark, in order to see that everything was right; and having descended into the kitchen, and peeped into the cellar, and put his foot into a dish of wat

ht of the moon entered his dressing-room. He manifested, however, no romantic desire to sit and watch her s

iends by stating that it was one of those evenings when the moon attains a brilliancy so extraordinary, that "you may see

leave no more impression behind than we should experience after a survey of the fragmental patterns of a kaleidoscope,-each movement produces a variation, but there is nevertheless a general sameness of character which is altogether destructive of a permanent effect;-but in the lives of all men there have been moonlight "passages"

vidualize,-we feel more deeply how mysteriously we stand, lonely in the midst of countl

and the w

unintellig

tle maiden is by your side; but you do not choose the elm-walk now, because the "school-boys" divert themselves thereon, and you prefer a semi-solitary stroll. Onward still: you are mixing in the bustle and heat of life; and there are moonlight hours when the thought of your vain career comes upon your mind, and you form in your heart new resolves, and pant

ds upon this subject, but we are afra

logue took place, the young lady to whom it referred was indulging in a pleasant stroll in the garden of a cottage which stood in one of the little valleys at the foot of this range, and in whi

iful this is!" was all that mutually escaped their lips. A midsummer night and a garden-path are capable of imparting much power to the most delicate young ladies; and instances are by no means rare of some who

y mild, and that Miss Gibbs had a headache, and found herself better out of doors;" and then they were told that it was past ten o'clock,-and they promised to come in directly; and Mr. Langton only asked Caroline to take one turn more, and during that time he took Miss Gibbs's arm; and then he must walk once more round, and "this should positively be the last;" and so they took another turn, and this time his arm gently encircled her waist; and as they came in, there was a little hesitatio

little difficulty in anticipating the result: the first disclosed the decision upon a plan which it had long been the chief object o

t which as yet existed only in his own imagination. Nevertheless, although the daylight had thus produced its usual effect, and had given a matter-of-fact turn to his thoughts, he felt that he really did love Caroline, although it might be prudent to wait some few years before he made a formal declaration to that effect. Like most other young persons, he imagin

kfast-table, he received from Ca

s and

feel, but n

d by the very difficulties with which he might have to contend before he could make her his wife,-that, with her as the reward of his exertions, he could not fail to succeed, and that to her influence alone he should proudly at

t by the course of several years; we must therefore hurry the read

obedience which children should at all times bestow upon their parents, and enforcing the same by the observation that those who had lived in the world nearly sixty years must of course in that time have acquired a nic

nce of Mr. Paine: and then Caroline's friends were entreated to come and see her as often as possible, and they were particularly requested by Mrs. Gibbs not to put any idle fancies into her head which might prejudice her against the match; and one young lady of four-and-thirty, who had once possessed some charms,

our story Caroline had long been the wife of Mr. Paine; and, having become the mother of three children, had made every effor

this a very proper view, and towards the end of his life he became much respected. Some time before his death he had purchased for his son a partnership in a house of "high standing," in which that gentleman had gradually risen from junior partner until he became the head of the firm. He inherited along with his father's wealth a great similarity of disposition; and his id

ds to their hats, he became very deeply impressed with the idea that he really was an extraordinary person. No doubt he was so; but it was the misfortune of Mr. Paine that he never contemplated that "unbending of the bow" which is rather necessary to make home happy, and consequently when he returned from town he was cold and formal, in order to pr

e whose qualities differ most widely from their own. Acting upon this principle, Mr. Paine

w not disposed to correct. He knew and liked everybody in the world; and his philanthropy was not thrown away, for he was universally sought after, and in the making up of parties was always spoken of as a very desirable man. He humoured the foibles and flattered the caprices of his friends; the ladies liked him because he was "so useful," and the men s

-iron stateliness, he invariably seemed to produce a feeling of deference in the minds of those with whom he came in contact. Though professing poverty, he never borrowed. His appearance was extremely good; whi

's feelings, of course he entertained as much regard for him as he could under any circumstances feel for any one. Fraser was therefore a frequent visitor at

her husband's selfish coldness was not placed in the most favourable light by a contrast with his agreeable friend. This was a dangerous discovery; but just at the period when i

h getting into all those spots which at other times he had been taught to shun. Occasionally a foot would become fixed between the iron gratings of an area in such a manner that he was unable to extract it; and then he would immediately roar as though he had been placed there by some tyrannical nursery-maid, and a crowd would collect to sympathise with his pangs, and at length to witness his extrication. At other times the gutter would seem to offer irresistible attraction; and in all cases the attentive guardian to whom he was entrusted consented not to tell her "missus" of his delinquencies if he would promise not to say a word about the young man from the baker's. This system was carried on till it had nearly terminated in a serious event. The child, having on o

aph, which ran as follows, decorat

rescued by a person who happened to witness his perilous situation. We merely notice the circumstance in order that we may have the satisfaction of recording

nt she did not heed the name, and, throwing it on one side, she pressed the terrified boy to her breast with hysteric minglings of tears and laughter. That afternoon Mr. Paine returned in co

look over; and therefore I must move, that is, I would su

onded, fell to the ground

me of the person by whom

d, and, without looking at i

ond Buildings," ruminated Mr.

claimed Caroline;

so extraordinary in the name-is

very old friend of the name of La

imself on the sarcastic, "Raymond Building

o an occasional sneer, which was the highest effort of his conversational power. But with Fraser, who had been a silent

forward a note of thanks and an invitation to dine. This was immediately accepted, for Langton was not ignorant that the mother of the boy

ed of that class of persons who get their heads muddled in wool and tallow speculations during the day, and who attempt to becom

t them talk, let th

city will hang

, till at length, when the dessert made its appearance, he took an opportunity of effecting an elaborate speech, the object of which was to impress upon his friends the sensation which would have been created if the eldest child

and I must therefore beg that he will accept the cordial thanks of this meeting,-that is, of

glance at Caroline with peculiar significance, which seemed to intimate a considerable degree of conte

by pride than any other sentiment, yet he could not help feeling the most sincere regret that Caroline had entered

it is evident she can never love, yet she may still be saved from a more fearful sacrifice. I will see her, and in the recollection of our early friendship, as well as in the recent claim which I have acquired upon her feelings, I will venture to speak boldly and sincerely. In warning her of the precipice on which she stands, she must not, however,

should be so weak in practice as it ever is. Here was another stone a

esult of this course will be best given in the description of an interview

uld have given additional value to your character, that I now dread an inroad on your peace. You confess that you are wearied with the cold and monotonous routine of your daily life, and that it is your fate to be linked with one who is incapable of understand

kind of you now to tax me with the fault." As she said this, the tears started to her eyes, and as Langton gazed upon her he knew that the very confidence which had appeared so dangerous when he imagined it to be given to another, was now unreservedly bestowed upon himself: did he

ee you give way thus. Come, come, we must no

who cannot fail to love you, and I must claim no share in your thoughts. Believe me, I will conquer every emotion that you desire to be repressed. I will endeavour to be all that you would wish to see me,-indeed I will: only tell me that you are not offended,-that you do not think less kindly of me than you have always done,-and that you will sometimes think of her who, while she lives, can never cease to th

ou rin

sappeared. Servants always think you ring at the

he "undelicate" conduct of that lady to her sympathising colleagues, and several strong resolutions were immediately carried expressive of their unqualified admiration of virtue in general, and their particular disapprobation of the deviation from its strict rules which had just been detailed; but as the said committee could not perceive any particular benefit to themselves that was likely to result from a disclos

op if he ever breathed a syllable about it, and the milkwoman thanked Heaven that she never was a mischief-maker, of course the insulted housemaid "didn't mind telling them," upon their promis

ter the house again, she would occasionally call after dark to see her old fellow-servants, with whom she would sometimes take a glass of ale, in order to show how completely she had subdued those feelings of animosity which she might be expected to entertain towards the person at whose c

e, too, who always seemed to love the dear children so!-who would take care of them now?-and then that Mr. Langton, she always said from the first she never liked him! But no," she continued, her goodness of disposition ag

at gentleman at the insurance office of which he was chairman, (the seal bearing the royal arms, which had been produced by the application of

ard will set your fealings in a flame, & cause you grate distres. i am sorry to say your confidens is

, is one of her old bows. You may depend upon my assurance, for altho' there is an animus sig

writ you will peraps be unhappy all the r

sincere w

.J

most essential to their happiness, must have admired the benevolence with which Providence has thus bestowed upon the mind a capability, when it is deprived of one pursuit, of falling back with redoubled ardour upon another. But Mr. Paine was an exception to this rule; he was ra

o frailty had never entered into his mind; but, when the idea was once aroused, he seemed without hesitation to receive it as a truth; and that that truth should be forced upon him by the agency of a person who was evidently of the lowest class wa

by whom his altered manner had been remarked, he ventured to ask, with an air of forced coldness, "Whether it had ever occurred to him that Mr. Langton had been in the habit of paying more than

avowed "that he entertained no very high opinion of the gentleman in question, but" (of course) "his opinion of Mrs. Paine's correct feeling was so strong that he thought the matter need

k more explicitly: he had no remedy; wronged as he was, he had no remedy. He might go into a court of justice, and there, in consideration of his shame being recorded upon oath, he might receive a sum equal to about a tith

a few days after this, that Carolin

my mind; yet, perhaps, parting as we do for ever, I may be forgiven for saying that I always loved you: this I could not help; but, with such a feeling, I ought to have shown more strength of mind than to have sacrificed your happiness and my own even to a parent's wish. I failed to do so, and it is right that the penalty should be borne. Farewell! You can appreciate all that

stant at the drawing-room door, as if about to open it, and then with a hurried step ascended to his dressing-room above. Caroline and Langton moved not; they seemed to dread some coming event, and yet they had no definite groun

nces of this scene, and have only now to de

ttle talk at the time; but as it was proved, to the satisfaction of a coroner's jury, that his death took place on a Wednesday, and that upon that day he had written a short note which he had dated "Thursday," they without hesitation

etrospect of the affair, condemned Mr. Paine for his pride, Mr. Fraser for his politeness, and Caroline and Langton for th

o the education of her children, and seeking consolation in the exercises of religion, wherein alone she could hope that it might be found. She died at the commencement of the present y

le power of judging wisely for themselves; and, even if they should possess this power, strength of character is required to enable them to resist all other influences, and to abide firmly by the judgment they have formed. Remembering that my fate was thus rendered unhappy, you will not hesitate to guard my children against the misery I have endured. Watch over them, I entreat you; and let that love which, when it was best

GRAPHY OF A

ation has it caused, to the sensible diminution of apothecaries' bills and undertakers' fees! If I had been a diner-out, I might have provided myself with dinners for two years upon the strength of it; but I was contented with the honour, and left the profit to the smaller wits, who, by a process well known to themselves, contrive to extract venison out of jests, and champagne out of puns. For years I have reposed on my laurels as the inventor of a new thought; and, but for the hope that there were still more worlds to conquer, I would have folded my arms in dignified resignation, and acknowledged to myself that I had not lived in vain. About a month ago, however, my complacent pride in my production received a severe check; and circumstances ensued which have led me to doubt whether in these degenerate days it is possible for a man to imagine any new thought. I was in the society of half a dozen men of real wit, but of no pretension,-men of too joyous a nature to be envious of my achievement,-when one of them actually uttered my joke,-the joke upon which I pride myself,-coolly looking me in the face, and asserting that he was the author of it. I felt at first indignant at so dishonest an act; but, convinced of my own right, I smiled contemptuously, and said nothing. My friend noticed the smile, and saw that it was not one of mirth but of scorn, and has ever since treated me with the most marked coolness. When I returned home I retired to my chamber, and throwing myself into my comfortable arm-chair, I indulged in a melancholy reverie upon the vanity of human exertion, and the disposition so common among mankind to rob the great of their dearly-acquired glory. "Even Homer," said I to myself, "did not escape the universal fate. Some deny his very existence, and assert that his sublime epic was the combined work of several ballad-mongers; others, again, generously ackno

iography

yes fell upon a roll of parchment which it held in its ha

l. "I am the joke upon which you pride yourself, and, although I say it

I, as I felt my heart yearning with paternal kindness

at me with very unfilial impertinenc

d I with much warmth, and with the air of an offended parent; "and, w

only parts of those orbits which mirth permitted to remain open; "really, my good friend, the honour to which you la

You know that you are my production;-

much solemnity in telling an unimportant truth. However, we will not argue the point; I will proceed at on

th more reverence than I had yet as

d me dry," said the Joke

ses, one of which I handed to the Joke, who, nodding g

OKE'S

and a lodging, had no relish for poetry; but they understood a joke, and the bard brought me forth for their entertainment; and, while my self-love was flattered by their hearty laughter, his wants were supplied by their generous hospitality. But I was not only acquainted with Homer, for Aristophanes very happily introduced me into one of his lost comedies. Anacreon and I were boon companions; and, while upon this part of my career, you will permit me to give vent to a little honest pride, by informing you in few words that I once brought a smile into the grave face of the divine Plato; that I was introduced into an argument by no less an orator than Demosthenes; that I was familiarly known to Esop; that I supped with Socrates; and was equally well received in the court of Philip of Macedon and the camp of his victorious son. Still a humble follower in the train of civilization, I passed over to Rome. I was not very well received by the stiff, stern men of the republic; but in the age of Augustus I was universally admired. The first time that I excited any attention was at the table of Mec?nas, when Horace was present. I may mention by the way that it was Horace himself who, in a tête-à-tête, first made known my merits to his illustrious patron, and the latter took the first opportunity of showing me off. I was never in my life more flattered than at the enthusiastic reception I met from the men of genius there assembled, although I have since thought that I was somewhat indebted for my success to the wealth and station of the illustrious joker. However that may be, my success was certain; and so much was I courted, that I was compelled to visit every house in Rome where wit and good-humour stood any chance of being appreciated. After living in this manner for about a hundred years, I took it into my head to go to sleep; and I slept so long, that, when I awoke, I found the victorious Hun in the streets of the city. This was no time for me to show my face; and, seeing so little prospect of happy times for me and my race, I thought I could not do better than go to sleep again. I did

ensive that some of my friends, more learned than myself, might have discovered the antiquity of my "joke," and would quiz me on the subject. I restraine

y, and I only managed it by going to sleep again. You awoke me from that slumber, when, like many others who came before you, you passed me off as your own. You remember you got much c

t a Joe?" said I

hat I am not? Do you mean to insult me by the vile insinuation that I ever s

aid I; "I assure you

ticed that his neck grew every instant longer and longer, until his chin seemed to be fully two feet from his shoulders. I was unable to endure the sight, and rising up, half frantic with nervous excitement, I put my hand convulsively upon his head, with the benevolent intention of squeezing it down to its proper level. He glared furiously at

d-natured Irish boy named Phelim, who had entered at the summons, "I th

s head, Phe

r the bed's?

e's," re

I dare say," said Phelim as he pulled my boots of

solemnly, "did

g your pardon for my bouldness,) been trying to broach that bottle of champagne at this

pagne was even at that moment sparkling over the neck

of it," said Phelim, picking up the

though my faith was somewhat st

the bottle; "you'll find it a dear one when the landlady brings in her bill

e, however, to the belief that I was not drunk, but that the illustrious Joke actually visited me in propria persona. I am the more inclined to

SE

THE FRENCH OF

tte, with large black eyes, and one of those fascinating faces whose charm consists more in expression than in regularity of features, and

esents, and the delight of being called Madame. Her husband was as generous to her as he was rich. Twelve months had passed in a continued round of gaiety and amusement, when M. de Hautevi

by the world; that she was invited everywhere; and that, by her fortune and her position, she was called upon to become an ornament of society. Ye

me time, a well-bred, a well-mannered egotist. He had all the air of devoting himself to the wishes of others, whilst he was exclusively occupied in compassing his own; he would appear to be taking a lively interest in those around him, whilst, in reality, he never felt any interest in anybody but himself. Too thoughtless to do harm, he was as little disposed to do

for him, he would turn to her, and say, "I am afraid, my dear, you will not like this party; there will be nothing at all but play. I shall be very happy to take you; you know I always do exactly

Se

re me; but your cook puts too much salt in everything, which is not wholesome for a young woman; and then, she sends up her dishes in a careless, slovenly way, which is very annoying to me on your account, as you often give dinners. The other day there were six people at table,

cle; will you take the trouble of l

I think nothing of trouble wh

er think of!" said Nathalie, kissing her uncle; and he, good old man, forthwith discharged the cook

use they might occasion a dampness which would be dangerous for Nathalie. And then, the elegant calash was to be exchanged for a landau, as being a c

to the numerous proposals which were made to her, and sent off all suitors to her uncle, te

f Nathalie would have been different; but, as it was, she thought nothi

ght be less inclined to give way, less indulgent to him than Nathalie, so that he never failed to find some serious fault in every

ittle played. The ladies do not like it in a room, because it is noisy; the gentlemen prefer bouillotte or écarté; so that the old gentleman very seldom found an opportunity of indulging his propensity. If any of his niece's visitors did happen to pla

necessary attention, and was continually making mistakes: the uncle scolded; and at last, N

y sorry; it would have given you so much pleasure. I

athalie was allowed to stand unrivalled for personal beauty and ele

h on his eye. To her great astonishment there entered a tall, handsome young man, with

nsiderable, and he had increased his fortune by his own exertions. Under these circumstances it is not surprising that, after fifteen years spent at sea, he should have yielded to a longin

ed her dancing, and could look nowhere else. All the other beauties in the room passed before him

dances so beautifully?" at last h

eville, a young widow.

her enc

t least equal to her personal charms. But you must ask her

ng an opportunity of entering into conversation with her. Once he was on the very point of succeeding, when a young man came up, and led her away to the quadrille. Poor Armand bit his

notice it, she felt secretly not a little flattered; for D'Apremont had been described to her as a man who was far from agreeable in the society

a chance of meeting his fair widow. He had succeeded in speaking to her, and had done his utmost to render himself agreeable. His behaviour was entir

your love, and a joke of your sighs." And to Nathalie some equally kind friend would say, "The captain is an original, a bear, with

on the point of forgetting himself, and letting out an expression a little too nautical, Nathalie looked at him with a slight frown. He stopped short, stammered, and dared not finish

ed, that when Nathalie one day told her uncle that she had asked the captain to her house, the old gentleman almost flew into a passion, and said, with a vehemence quite uncommon to him, "You have acted very wrong, Nathalie; you do not consult me as you ought. I am told that Captain d'

ng to put off the captain; but this the uncle did not require:-he thoug

was the case in the present instance: to the game of tric-trac it was owing that Madame de Hauteville became Madame d'Apremont. The captain was an excellent player; and happening in the course of conversation to broach

d of the captain's want of gallantry,-that

her uncle; "sailors are very disagreeable peop

M. d'Apremont. I found him so agreeable and so well-bred, that I have asked him to come very ofte

eing necessary to M. d'Ablaincourt's amusement, he came very often to the house, and at last succeeded in winning the heart of the young w

e an end to his visits here; no more tric-trac. If she accepts him, he will be one of the family; I sh

ed Armand; but, as a woman never should seem to yield too

that you love

Oh, madame, I

love me, you will not hesitate

er you

efore a lady: secondly,-and on this point I insist more particularly,-you must give up smoking

, "To please you I will submit to

in the world as a newly-married and happy couple. Yet the world was not satisfied. "How could that affected flirt marry a sailor?" said o

s are produced by contrast: mark but the union of light and shade; and is not strength wanting to uphold weakness:-the wild bursts of mirth to d

and sometimes became pensive, his brow was contracted, and his eyes betrayed a secret uneasiness: but this lasted not; it was but as a fleeting cloud, which passes without leavin

husband one day when she saw him stamping his f

, as if ashamed of having lost his self-possess

perceived a something impatient in your manner. If I have unconsciousl

nce more, and she racked her brain to guess what cause her husband could have for this uneasiness. Not being satisfied with her own solution of the problem, she communicated her thoughts to her uncle, who replied immediately, "Yes, my dear,

usband must have some secret which preys upon his

many things which a ma

and to tell me everything, to have no mysteries with me, as I have none with him. I can

him, promised to do his utmost to discover the cause of his nephew's uneasiness; but he went no further th

take a stroll into the country every day after dinner. This was too natural a request to be denied; and after dinner, whether they were alone or not, out went Armand, and returned in the best humour imaginable. Still Nathalie was far from being satisfied; her suspicions returned, and she said to herself, "My

se life seemed to be to give her pleasure, she felt would be wrong, and she gave up the idea. To her uncle alone she ventured to disclose her anxiety, and he simply answered, "True, your husband plays les

a party, a young man present said, l

the window of a little cottage about half a mile from hence? If my hor

easant!" exclaimed Nathalie, fixin

tain, endeavouring to conceal a visible embarras

ch his words had made upon Nathalie, and perceiving that he h

ed?" asked Nathalie. "

As for the man, he had on a blue smock-frock, with a sort of cap on his head. I don't kno

assumption of a disguise proved that he was engaged in some extraordinary intrigue, and in a flood

, and in a fit of jealousy she begged to return to town. Her husband consented immediately, and in a few days they were in Paris. Here the captain again betrayed the same symptoms of discontent, until one day he said to his wife, "My dear, a walk after

biting her lips with spleen; "go and

ve, if it a

t; take your walk; I

eturned in excellent spirits, and again

very wretched; and the more so that when he is with me he is all kindness, all attention! I know not how I can tell him that he is a monster, a traitor! But tell him I must, or my heart will burst! Yet if I could but g

d gentleman, burying himself in h

he returns, he is always cheerful and gay, gives me a thousand little marks of his attention, and swears that he adores me as he did the day

trac," was the answer of the im

mit some rash act-I shall get separated from my husband. Oh! my good uncle, you who are so kind,

ge, seeing that it has been the business of my li

is mystery is not cleared up

e quiet, easy life he was now enjoying, and he therefore decided upon taking some steps to restore peace. He pretended to follow the captain; but, finding this f

ere, my de

another; so that all your suspicio

y, who stood always at the corner of their house, and whom she had heard more than once praised for his quickness and intelligence. Having ascertained that he knew her husband by

moment arrived, the captain went out, and the little messenger was on his track. Trembling, and in a fever of agitation, Nathalie sat counting the minutes and sec

tered tone of voice, "what hav

-to the Vieille Rue du Temple in the Marais. There he went into a queer-looking sort of a h

n an alley!-O

went in too. He kept on going up stairs till he got to the

ey,-and my uncle to take his part! You are quite sur

the keyhole: as there were only two doors, I soon found the right one; and there I saw the

imself!-O Hea

out dressed in a grey smock, with a Greek cap on his head. And so, ma'am, I th

and fetch a coach directly, get up with

her, she was out of the house, in the coach, and gone. In the Vieille Rue du Temple the coach stopped; Nathalie got out, pale, trembling, and scarcely able to support herself. The boy showed her the entrance, and she

n, or I s

s, and she saw nothing but her husband alone, in a s

aimed Armand in

, who has discovered your perfidy, and has been made acquainted with your d

friend that I missed, my darling pipe that I sighed for in vain! At last I could hold out no longer; and, when we were in the country, happening to go into a cottage where an old man was smoking, I asked him if he could afford me a place of refuge, and at the same time lend me a smock and a hat; for I was afraid that my clothes might betray me. Our arrangements were soon made; and, thanks to this precaution, you had no

er husband's arms, and cried

ve to hide yourself for that!" and away she went to her uncle with a face all beaming with joy, to tell him that Armand loved h

sband to smoke as he plays at tric-trac; and so," thought th

of the permission you so kindly give me, still I shall be equally car

o happy at being undeceived in my suspicions, th

RE PAPER

R NIGHT'

, THE

oon in their mouths, and others wit

on dunghill shin

ttle of hay, it expresses some puzzled wonder of the new sensations its wearer must experience in tinglings never felt before, and cravings for food until then unsuited to his appetite. But on the stage this is impossible. As the manager cannot procure for his fairies representatives of such tiny dimensions as to be in danger of being overflown by the bursting of the honey-bag of an humble-bee, so it is impossible that the art of the property-man can furnish Bottom with an ass-head capable of expressing the mixed feelings of

plays drops hints, "vocal to the intelligent," that he feels the difficulty of bringing his ideas adequately before

rthy scaffold

bject. Can th

ds of France?

wooden O, th

ight the air

row himself, with appliances and means to boot a hundred-fold more magnificent and copious than any that were at the command of Shakspeare, does not deceive us into the belief that his fifty horses, trained and managed with surpassing skill, and mounted by agile and practised riders

ings by what the

ontent

most vile an

posed, in bra

nt to their imagination

it must be your imagination then, not theirs. He retorts with a joke on the vanity of actors, and the conversation is immediately changed. The meaning of the Duke is, that, however we may laugh at the silliness of Bottom and his companions in their ridiculous play, the author labours under no more than the common calamity of dramatists. They are all but dealers in shadowy representations of life; and if the worst among them can set the mind of the spectator at work, he is equal to the best. The answer to Theseus is, that none but the best, or, at all events, those who approach to excellence, can call with success upon imagination to invest their shadows with substance. Such playwrights as Quince the carpenter,-and they abound in every literature and every theatre,-draw our attention so much to the absurdity of the performance actually going on before us, that we have no inclination to trouble

in dale, fo

ntain, or by

ached margen

ringlets to the

ren sort," rapt so wondrously from his loom and shuttle, his threads and thrums, to be the favoured lover of the Queen of Fa?ry, fresh from the spice

s to call forth the marked approbation of the warlike Duke; and yet, when the danger is suggested of frightening the ladies, who all, Amazons as they were, must be daunted by sounds so fear-inspiring, he professes himself gifted with a power of compass capable of imitating, even in the character of a roaring lion, the gentleness of the sucking dove, or the sweetness of the nightingale. He is equally fit for all parts, and in all parts calculated to outshine the rest. This is allowed; but, as it is impossible that he can perform them all, he is restricted to the principal. It is with the softest compliments that he is induced to abandon the parts of Thisbe and the lion for that of Pyramus. Quince assures him that he can play none other, because "Pyramus is a sweet-faced man; a proper man as one shall see in a summer's day; a most lovely, gentlemanlike man; therefore YOU must undertake it." What man of woman born could resist flattery so unsparingly administered? the well-puffed performer consents, and though he knows nothing of the play, and is unable to tell whether the part for which he is cast is that of a lover or a tyrant, undertakes to discharge it with a calm and heroic indifference as to the colour of the beard he is to wear, being confident, under any circumstances, of success, whether that most important part of the costume be straw-colo

rned to call "the histrionic profession." The triumphs of the player are evanescent. In no other department of intellect, real or simulated, does the applause bestowed upon the livi

ets his hour u

is heard

ve every scrap of information that may bear upon the elucidation of a text, or aid towards the history of the author. With the sense of this transitory fame before them, it is only natural that players should grasp at as much as comes within their reach while they have power of doing so. It would be a curious speculation to inquire which personally has the greater enjoyment,-the author, neglected in life, and working for immortal renown, or the actor living among huzzas, and consigned to forgetfulness the moment that his hour is past. I suppose, on the usual principle of compensation, each finds in himself springs of happiness and self-comfort. The dim distance, in its shadowy and limitless grandeur, fills with solemn musings the soul of the one; the gorgeous gilding of the sunny scenery in the foreground kindles with rapturous joy the heart of the other. Shenstone lays it down as a principle, that, if it were left to our choice whether all persons should speak ill of us to our faces, and with applause behind our backs, or, vice versa, that the applause should be lavished upon ourselves, and

ppearance spreads an universal joy; his occultation involves the world in dramatical eclipse; that his performance of the lover can only be surpassed by his performance of the tyrant; and that it must puzzle an impartial public to decide whether nature and art, genius and study, designed him for a heroine couchant, or a rampant lion. To this it is little wonder that the object of applause lets down his ears too often donkey-like, and permits himself to be scratched by a Master Cobweb, spun though he be by a bottle-bellied spider, or a Master Peas-blossom, who can only claim Mistress Squash for his mother and Master Peascod for his father. In Peter Quince, Shakspeare shadowed forth, by anticipation, Sheridan's Puff. Quince is a foo

my own congenial land of newspaper from his native soil of poetry. But he never long remains o

ief scene of

hisbe, very tr

as the "Duke ycleped Theseus" and his following; and the fairy mythology of the most authentic superstitions would be ransacked in vain to discover exact authorities for the Shakspearian Oberon and Titania. But, no matter whence derived, the author knew well that in his hands the chivalrous and classical, the airy and the imaginative, were safe. It was necessary for his drama to introduce among his fairy party

most elaborate working in the musical construction of the verse, and a somewhat recondite searching after all the topics favourable to the display of poetic eloquence in the ornamental style, is employed in the description of the fairy scenes and those w

meditation

n box of the poet could supply; but it is not more ornamente

pes of corn, a

ous Phi

nces resulting from

refore stretch'd

st his sweat, an

e his youth at

s empty in the

atted with the

y contrasted with misfortune

e

alter; hoary

esh lap of the

yems' chin a

aplet of swee

n mocker

f these splendours is tumbled in Bottom the weaver, blockhead by original formation, and rendered doubly ridiculous by his partial change into a literal jackass. He, the most unfitted for the scene of all conceivable personages, makes his appearance, not as one to be expelled with loathing and derision, but to be instantly

anticipate any such object for her charmed affections. He is determined

or cat,

ar with bri

ful; one for whom all the magic treasures of the fairy kingdom are to be with surpassing profusion dispensed. For him she gathers whatever wealth and delicacies the Land of Fa?ry can boast. Her most airy spirits are ordered to be kind and courteous to this gentleman,-for into that impossible character has the blindness of her love transmuted the clumsy and conceited clown. Apricocks and dewberries, purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries, are to feed his coarse palate; the thighs

inks, looks wit

eps, weeps ever

ome enforce

attractions best calculated to captivate the opposite sex, to fling herself at the feet of age or ugliness. Another, decked with graces, accomplishments, and the gifts of genius, and full of all the sensibilities of refinement, will squander her affections on some good-for-nothing roué, whose degraded habits and pursuits banish him far away from the polished scenes

resence, and n

f Lord Grizzle; but, as I have not the illustrious tragedy in which it appears, before me, I

nto cell

rawny porter w

ould be amusing to trace the courses of thought by which the hetero

e Titania is the hardest. The man who is deprived of external graces of appearance may have the power of captivating by those of the mind: wit, polish, f

but the gui

the gowd f

the fond eye, wilfully averting its gaze from the miserable mass in which they are buried. But woe unto the unhappy lady who, like Titania, is obliged to confess, when the enchantment has

course, orders about her tiny attendants as if they were so many apprentices at his loom, and dwells in Fairy Land unobservant of its wonders, as quietly as if he were still in his workshop. Great is the courage and self-possession of an ass-head. Theseus would have bent in reverent awe before Titania. Bottom treats her as carelessly as if she were the wench of the next-door tapster. Even Chri

rd in

ker nor Chris

ce more he calls for a pot of the smallest ale. (I may again cite Fielding in illustratio

er is to the w

vain sought how to explain the enigma, he yields to the belief, and then performs all the parts assigned to him, whether of business or pleasure, of counsel or gallantry, with the easy self-possession of a practised gentleman. Bottom has none of the scruples of the tinker of Burton-heath, or the bon vivant of Bagdad. He sits down amid the fairies as one of themselves without any ast

urt of the amused caliph. This is the natural ending of such an adventure; but, as Bottom's was supernatural, it was to conclude differently. He is therefore dismissed to his ordinary course of life, unaffected by what has passed. He admits at first that it is wonderful, but soon thinks it is nothing m

tative of the romantic and the tender before dukes and princesses; and if the judicious laugh at your efforts, despise them in return, setting down their criticism to envy. This you have a right to do. Have they, with all their wisdom and wit, captivated the heart of a Titania as you have done? Not they-nor will they ever. Prosper therefore, with undoubting heart despising

BLUE'

. C.B.

t," and so close

ies, for the room

new satin dress

a corner at L

dance, but ran '

me fainted; but

fore witness'd a

he staircase at

heaven, if a gir

of partners to

ror's bright s

warm blushes at

de, (for eldes

had beauty, bu

thought) were the bri

o had fortunes at

e waltzing, and o

match'd," young and

y corners were c

nd of hand, at my

crowd goes on fli

ogether, the gre

dance, too, where, t

other, to get t

ITH THE C

SECOND) OF

L--s, of L-- Hall, in Leicestershire; my mother is from the sole remaining branch of the renowned family of M

to the elegant young man with whom I was speaking; "pray p

n heart when I was about twelve years old. I did nothing but devise schemes after this event to retrieve our wretched circumstances when I became old enough. A thousand plans, wild and visionary, passed through my brain; I could not sleep at night for projects and inventions. I became fevered, restless, taciturn, irritable, and absent. One day, when I had arrived at the age of fifteen, on returning from a solitary walk, weary and exhausted, with a lump of clayey substance, wrapped up carefully, in my han

r mother rouse you, L--, int

start; "would you have had a son of the ancient house of L-- go

an," said I mildly; "but I interrupt you. Tell me what effect was produ

ut I suppose the relation will cause you some displeasure. We

ery so bad as the slavery of the passions. Then a

er's voice,-the beseeching accents of her who had never yet spoken to me a reproachful word from my earliest recollections,-'to be calm, and hope that better times would come,' I darted out of the house like an arrow from the bow, and, coward as I was, after wandering about for hours to summon resolution for the act, rushed to the river about a mile from the village, and threw m

I exclaimed reproachfully; "I trust you have been repentant for it.

oudly; "if you are already disgusted with my conduct as a boy, perhaps it mig

aid I, affecting an indifference that I did not feel; bu

xtinct. What is your opinion, sir, as a medical man? Can life be rekindled in the human breast when once fairly extinguished? for my part I think it can, and that mine is a renewed l

be extinguish

sting with him. "Are we not living in one great hospital, amidst the dying and t

said I impressively; "I am sure of the perpetui

ve been absolutely dead? since, if so, I can account better for many of those thoughts and sensations that now puzzle and perplex me exceedingly. But I will not press my in

and a future state another time; what were your sensations on recovering the use o

n the clouds sailing by upon the blue ocean of immensity above my head. I felt myself calm and composed as that depth of sky, fathomless, unsearchable,-for memory was not yet awakened in me,-an

sence; and she should be spared from the bitter knowledge that her only, her beloved son, intended to have deserted her in her

t. My mother's tenderness! her uncomplaining sufferings! the sacrifices she had made to procure me the necessaries of life! her total absence of all selfishness! her pri

iscordant voice close to my ear. 'Tears are showers for good resolutions; th

a most melancholy expression, yet they were strongly tinctured with benevolence, and had a most searching quality,-something that seemed not of this earth. My reason still tottered on its throne: the delusion again darted across my mind that I was not in the same state of existence as formerly, and that this strange-looking being

a blighting wind over him. I knew he had been subject to all sorts of fancies and

r hunchback! I wonder how he fished you out of

her shudder. I took out my watch, and struck the hour; it had

hus he continued:-"I stammered out my thanks for the service he had done me; but my knees kn

; I composed it myself in the island of Ceylon, from the rarest spices, and have often proved its efficacy.' He approached me; he only reached my waist; and, what was most strange, I heard not the slightest sound as he moved his feet! Feet!-shall I call them f