was unwell, and kept her chamber, and that Master Warner was never visible much before noon. He was, therefore, prayed to take

satisfy his curiosity, turned the conversation upon Warner and Sibyll, a theme upon which the old woman was well disposed to be garrulous. He soon learned the poverty of the mansion and the sacrifice of the gittern; and his generosity and compassion were busil

the penury of his host. Placing his marks before him on the table in the little withdrawing parlour, he began counting them over, and putting aside the sum he meditated devoting to Warner's relief. "But how," he muttered, "how to get him to

his invention, he was wont to peripatize. The sight of the gold on the table struck full on the philosopher's eyes, and waked him at once from his revery. That gold-oh, what precious instruments, what learned manuscripts

t himself in Adam's way. "Honoured sir," said the young man, "you say justly what want I with all this gold? The only gold a young man should covet is eno' to suffice for the knight's spurs to his heels. If, without offence, you would-that is-ahem!-I mean,-Gramercy! I shall never say it, but I

e usury. Come to me this day year, when this world will be a new world, and Adam Warner will be-ha! ha! Kind Heaven, I than

he old gentleman takes to my gold as kindly as if it were mother's milk. 'Fore Heaven, mine host's laug

oot, at a distance; and, turning his attention whence it proceeded, he beheld a figure emerge from an alley opposite the casement, with a sack under one arm, and several books heaped under the other. At his heels followed a train of ragged boys, shouting and hallooing, "The wizard! the wizard!-Ah! Bah! The old devil's kin!" At this cry the dull neighbourhood seemed suddenly to burst forth into life. From the casements and thresholds of every house curious faces emerged, and many voices of men and women joined, in deeper bass, with the shrill tenor of the choral urchins, "The wizard! the wizard! out at daylight!" T

wn age will have small honour if th

le obstacle to further progress. Perceiving that he could not advance without offensive measures on his own part, the poor

s old, was thrown down at his feet, and the rest gave way. But the poor man, seeing one of his foes thus fallen, instead of pursuing his victory, again paused, and forgetful of the precious burdens he carried,

d a woman, from one of the

g steadily to the grown people at the windows, said, "Ye train your children ill;" picked up his sack and books, sighed, as he saw the latter stained by the mire, which he wiped with his long sleeve, and too proud to show fear, slowly made for his door. Fortunately Sibyll had heard the clamour, and was ready to admit her father, and close the door upon the rush which instantaneously followed his escape. The baffled rout set up a yell of wrath, and the

that ingenuous youth; but when he now perceived the arrival of more important allies, when stones began to fly through the wicker lattice, when threats of setting fire to the house and burning the sorcerer who muttered spells over innocent little boys were heard, seriously increasing in depth and loudness, Marmaduke felt his chivalry called fort

e, produced a momentary effect on the besiegers, when one of them, a sturdy baker, cried out, "Heed him not,-he is

eved boy, followed by his wife, gesticulating and weeping, ran from his house, waving a torch

rmidable knotted club in his hand, pushing his way, with Herculean shoulders, through the crowd; and stationing himself before the threshold and brandishing aloft his formidable weapon, he exclaimed, "What! In the devil's name, do you mean to get yourselves all hanged for riot? Do you think that King Ed

the mob. "It is our good friend Robin

But what I say is this, never go against law, while the law is too strong. And it were a sad thing to see fifty fine fellows trussed up for burning an old wizard. So, be off w

olar. Marmaduke, who, though so ignorant of books, was acute and penetrating in all matters of action, could not help admiring the address and dexterity of the club-bearer; and the danger being now over, withdrew from the casement, in search of the inmates of the house. Ascending the stairs, he found o

er I could brave, a priest's malice I could pity; but to find the very children, the young race for whose sake I have made t

d, whether knight or scholar, must learn to despise the hootings that follow Merit. Father, Father, they threw mud and s

e raptril vulgar, the hildings and cullions who hiss one day what they applaud the next, I hold it the duty of every Christian and well-born man to regard them as the dirt on the crossings. Brave soldiers term it no disgrace to rec

oung man; mean was I, methinks, and sordid to take from thee thy good gold. But thou knowest not what fever burns in the brain of a man who feels that, had he wealth, his knowledge could do great things,-such things!

r went his way to his chamber,

ad returned to the hall, and informed him that he

e,-"a hard fate, to be banned and accursed by the world, o

e that thy sex forbids thee to follow thy father's footst

and after a pause, sa

o a starving beggar. But when his passion of scholar and inventor masters him, thou might

ncle, who was a learned monk, declare that he could not constrain himself to pray to be delivered from temptation, seeing that he might th

ouch of that small, soft hand, freely and innocently resigned to him, sent a

sweetness, there lurked something of dangerous ambition. She loved to recall the court-life her childhood had known, though her youth had resigned it with apparent cheerfulness. Like many who are poor and fallen, Sibyll built herself a sad

arrow floor, and muttering to himself. He turned abruptly as she entered, and said, "Come hither, child; I took four

ceive them. Fear not, thou

buy thyself gauds and gear, or let us eat, and drink, and la

getting the wants of his own child, had employed it upon the service of an Abstract Thought, and whom the scorn of his kind now pierced through all the folds of his close-webbed philosophy and self forgetful ge

y into his hands. "Let us both starve rather than you

man no more. Go, and leave me. Go, I say!" and the poor student, usually so mild and gall-l

as firm, when, one night, a THOUGHT passed into my soul,-a thought to make Matter the gigantic slave of Mind. Out of this thought, thou, not yet born after five-and-twenty years of travail, wert conceived. My coffers were then full, and my name was honoured; and the rich respected and the poor loved me. Art thou a devil, that has tempted me to ruin, or a god, that has lifted me above the earth? I am old before my time, my hair is blanched, my frame is bowed, my wealth is gone, my name is sullied. And all, dumb idol of Iron and the Element,

destroyed too, what were left me? Is it a crime to murder Alan?-a greater c

he hooting, the pelting, the mob, was gone,-clean gone from his breast. The Model began to move, life hovered ove