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4,srea puce evolve the old Horse Ylled:! I which she had qualified herielt But Lady
_lethal:mikes .bythe pollard, _where the own*
Illbrabsth Wes' didereat, 5240 inte*haU44410
hiirelid the nettle growtire
Nirhertithe bramble and the brushwoee:etreeoe ter 11484.1V-Kikeh t'AO nclunnifessexPeflea
of Inietaledge would figirs ail It
blindlyeer the bank, .
° •There's a fence 1 never Peso ' little awry, and with a kink, somewhere in
.40, the tint jerks and chatters on the tree,
thegolden,..threed; bat alwaya..a virtue, and
In the eedges atid the grass, to be rewarded Be et1012. •
Lord Eustase had .vola hie father of , say
Elizabeth's damaging eondeecension at the
tenniii party, and he had ,himeelf, with hie
own aristocratic and august eyes, eeen her
shake hands. with the omad'hatin• it the
church door on the Sunday following.
heel seen and Wondered; but he had not
interfered, partlybecanse of that 'bit of
land which had been. weighing on his mind
for some time peat; partly because- he
thought that it it was her good pleasure to
find any merit in that extraordinary-looh-
ing,young man coiled Caleb 504g -to my
lord his very name, wits enough -Ad, in the
plenitude of her seraphie sweetness, she
thought he; grace and condeecension would
hny wey; or to the smallest 'degree; re:
deem him from the gross, burden of his
inheritance ; well, that we. just -her good-
ness warping her intellect. The earls her
father, did not share her bellef,and had no
,part in her choice. Sly is always Sly,. and
the etY does not breed ° Nor 71e it
politically desirable to aim at such 0061
or 'Impel transmutation. • Meyelly and
religiously, of course, it Was all, right,het
then he was not so moral net 60 religibus
either in a transcendental way as ehti. Men
never are so good as Women, and .she WAS
bweotrtseAthhaannt ehe sevte rawgoemme na n, h iws egsei tnloe
playing at providence and philanthropy
pleased, her, hiedelight,Whe took the shine
out of them all; and if no one profited, it
did no one any harm. Wherefore he merely
ridged, hie eyebrows when he • paw his
daughter's act of condesoension before the
whole congregation, and odd not a word to
bring a shade of sorrOw on that pure, sweet,
holy face, whiels was to :him the dearest
thing Inlite.• •
Besidea, again, My lord had. the :true
English gentleman's feeling with respeet tO
the action of wensen. He gave them their
head tip to a certain point ;on the one hand,
becheitle they were'half of • hie , own -order,
whose, status tottohed his own, and who
Were therefore entitled to rope* as their
birthright; on the other, for contempt -as
to whatthey might do: The two Motives
had their common source in Pride; which
is not wholly bad. • When tenderness is
superadded,as:with my lord for his daughter,
the thing 'dikedsootherconsPlexion,,and
, what was the lofty toleration of contempt
becoimee the free gift • of love recognizing
equelsnoral, rights. , tAti)
' All the dame,' the ' ei.kniner 'and his
family were Of adifferent flesh 'and blood
from the flash and blood of those bore in
the purple. in mylord's estimate of human
value; and his dear delight's undoubted
virtue had as uocloubteilly, a queer tkvitie in.
it somewhere. • . • '
It Welan proud day for Miles Stagg when
my lord's,. agentWrote to him,' offering him
thet parcel of land known as: the ,Redhill
Braesfor siich atia such a suns; which;
truth teeny; Wee ' about three- times its
market ifiTiie770ne-third badzbeeitiiddifor
becanee cif that abutment 'of the .garden
wall; the other, becianse it was the Earl of
King:phonate who opened negotistione it
second hand with .Miles Stagg, the ' ex -
miner; -the thirde-wasthectiolid. base line of
which these other two made the sides of
the triangle. • • ,
,Withbut le trace Of•enobbishness in his
rough-hewn character, 'Miles -could not be
indifferent to inich topsy-tervydom of con-
ditions as was implied in this offer. It was
simPly home's nature that: he should be
priesd of the censCiothiness that he, only
few years ago amen deydaberer; earning his
twenty • to thirty shillinge a Week.; should
now be able to helpmy lord, who wris like
a little god among them all. •
"Proud 1 ay, that was he, surely,"as he
gaid te Nancy. Vehti was partly dated and
•
,
Bet forgery shame I turn my,h0scl aside,
'hile-the tears come tek and lack
• And my aurae is on the apOt-•••-,
' the Place where the Old. horse died. -
, .
There's his hoof upon 'the; ,ehininey.. there's file
„
hide upon the ebair„
,>
Abetter never bent him to the rein; I
Now, for &limy love and eare„ lc'vei an empty
still end ban: •
tistatlineVer ride -ray gaiiant horse again!!
' • EloW•halaid him out at speed,
No* he loved to have a lead.
• . fitUe be snorter' hi hie:mettle and 1iI Pride
Not a flyer of the hunt • .
Was, beeide hlirt.in the front. , •
At the pittee Where the Old herae, 4101 ••'
'
Was he blown? 1 hardly thInkit PILI be ?
I ce.nngt tell. ., •
•Ve had rifilfor ferty .ininuteb in the vale, _ ,
Na was reaching, at: his bridle; he was going
•r strong and well, •
And he never seemed to falter or to fail;
• .Though,l,sometintes fancy, too, .
:That/ale aring spuit khesv •
• • The teak beyond the ootonisse °this stride;
• • • Yet be faced it, true and 'brave,
' • And droCped into hie grave.
At the plate° Whore the,Old hour
whup in_half mihute, bedhe. ne'ier seemed
tUstlIr
T.belleCO. ;ed:. rewele in: ;he
• fall; - • • ,1
•
In hiti lite* had tiot,•felt before the Mamie! the
And 1 knew thatit was over once for all,
When metionleas he lay- •
•• In his chseress ned, of clay, '
rinddleduewithout an effort on his side-:
• 'Tsvas a hard and biter Btt•Okee
For bis honest back was broke,
At the Nage where the oidhorie thee.
, With a neigh so .faint and feeble that it touched
. .
me lie° itsgroan,• • . •
he seemed, to inuriner, " ere •i
• die.; • •
,Then set histeeth, and stretehOd WO limbs, and
• • so I stood alone, ' ' „
While the.merry chase went • pitelless eweepi•
tug by. •
-Mn 1 wonsahlyhne week . • -
If the tear was on my cheek • ,
For a brotherhood that dea,theould this divide
Mel -toned anditmazed,' " . •
. . Through a woeful mist igszed, • .
• ton theplace where the °labors° dled.•
There are than both gook and wise who held
' that; in a future state,
Ptunb creatures we have chatisheds hate
below .
"Shall give us lbyous, greeting whenlve pate; the
• . golden gate:;
' • '
1,0 it folly thaOnope it may be so?
• - FOrnevermen had friend:
• . Mere enduring tothe end, •
'rruermato insvery turn of tithe and tide;
7 , Coetid1 thinlowted meet agate. ." •
. • • "It would: )lghten halfrny pale' • .
At the plape Where the old horsedied,
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1
ESTgLIES 1gFATUATION
A NOVEL.
, CHAPTER. V.
, .A.
THE OtOUBE AND THE Jame
The big estates 'of. landed 'proprietors,
where neithereo,s1 nor iron bee been foetid;
where-noknowte...ens_liateLeprting_inv„land..
the serniedetachei villas dear to the jerry
. bander Ste. AA ytst HIMSDOWni do ;not repro.
• senttheir former income,nor oonsideratien,
• Farms are no longer fortunee, and fields do
' little more than ,pil for selves. ! •
The ET o! xingshono was an Musii.ple
• id the inthlesenesir of th ti eti: There was
, no pthieible blame to b,foun41 With himand
his. They bed lived,the 'or iheil live', Of
. ordinary gallant ge tlemen; enjoyine the
sunshine, while it asted an believing in
lite AVATrAditig9�htinuanoo,by.direat provi-
dential 'Ordi.g, kir their benefit:. They
• had not bee "spendthrifts of hnSictravaginit
kind, .erfd t ey had not been. mthistroutilY
' •viOieus, Neither had '' they. come tit the
front he greatgenerale nor as noted titans -
men, though they had been for generations
:officers in the army and'navy, nor had they
ended he .government offitiiilsOf high rank
,. ti. . •
.atter lieginning es attisehee: Of ; very proble- partly frightened by the event.,
.. ---.-7•,--• 'media value., . Still, the family wealth had And . yet he telt sorryalmost ashamed
, slowly decreased uoth in • actual bulk end •-that the great •and . powerful should' be
. ' relative proportions, till,, is has been said, so ,bumbled and brought so fir lOw. ' He
,. the-preeentearlhaddieentIoreedleilet• the, woold rather. have negotiated ' :.tor..
- cootie for. what : re061 it ,Would WO,. and. Lady' Elizabeth's li-and op • theTilion
. live in the DeWer Moire with . as .mnak. equal -termer of .money for rank,and as
, 0) tronoiny he hotteuld command and more g
- modesty than he enjoyed. It was, however, 'I
•.iiitonly hope, but even 'with thie thingsdid 0
.....11,0t mend, hiid the' red lion conchant, which f
- wail -,their proud- :family crest, was daily i
• mere Sharply pinching within, that galling t
net of debt. and 'difficulty drawing ever e
tighter and tighter round it. What was to
be done? Bow frith that proveebial stone ,
-get•the desiredhlood?: -..--!-, . , ,- .---1-• - •••t
,
The Kiegslionite estate innet, be still fur.'
thee' clipped; and if th f ul fiend himeelf
'held the shears he in t e dealt With as a
gentleman and comic° sl ' entreated. .The
-t-listate went up as dapite.t e garden wall of
Redhilliend that iltiveh hiny lord could
• t)
.1.77-iiell without his/son's son's , c osent-was just
. , ' what, would ow the•• et -int er to ' buy,' It
• , - : ' 'Was grief and/pain to traffic the land, whioh
repreeenlihis dignity; for the•••gold-ofe,..
''., Men:who , in former days, my lord'wenkl:
not have, takereinto his service as :a grolom,
nor idmitted his 'son into his house tie a
elloe.bleek. :Bet these de ts were pressing;
teener *is ' absolutely emissary. let as
, difficult to firid is ithurie in hpot beneath
.' the rainbow ; ,the Jewii , were • elierks, of a
More formidable kind\ than 'Mlles ' Stagg
weeild be, and thatbi ' poor land would,
' L fetch h good pricelit t hirsute millionaire,
• on whose garden Wal ,it', ,abutted,nhOuld
, deene to have itn o throw °tit another
runner into the ric oil Of • laided ' pro-
prietorship. ' ,
My,lord was no Christiln demiicritt after
the pattern ot hin daughter. On the con:
traty, he looked at states and, prinoipalitiee
• he of divine ordination, and held •the tam-
. perers thereviith as rebels. against ' the ex-
press decree of . the Alinsighty-7rebels; With
, Whom the policeman's ireucheon _was. the
• 'only valid, e,rgerdent, hnd a felon'e . prie.on
cell, the righteous,remedy. - 'In this .sWeep-
' lag condemnatioin, hovirelter; he did not
include that' daughter -•h e delight, aii it
•
.i,
has been said be teed 't 411 her. ,Like
'many other hiving and " herefore illogicial
:people: love made a line of its oens, and
• ' allowed a DOW principle t appose when it
• tooehed hineelf. ;Hed i been -Molly, thee
dairymaid, far, snetance 'dr Mrs'. Cla
- '•ricarde.. or eveAtfre. Stewarhough' he
, the wifo of a clergyinan oho Was officially
!.. free Of certain , philanthropic. fade ctsviere
to the .1million-4-who had Maintained OM
• • easential, euperiority :of the humeti being
..• Over the cetheintionelolaime of aristocratic
'. • i o; . ' gentlehood, he wotdd 'have eoneigned any
One of then" to the eternal .. perdition 'for
ood a lad ha ever Stepped ler a likely
ady's husband and the father other lady.
hip's bairns. That *mild have been a
air exchange and no robbery, he 'laid; but
his Offer of a panel Of poor land for three
imeti tharket value was Mich a confee.
ion of need. It made him downright sorry.
for the grand old family, and he was no.
wise nainded to sniff at the evident eater..
ionnor would -he -haggle -over the,price.
He weld& pay my lord whist he asked, and
much good ,snight the brass do him -hot
eaid ironicelly, but in serious earnest,
He, Miles wanted naught. with- ecniiety
for himself, he wag Mein glad that
Caleb ehoidd have his whack. He wanted
truly toi see hislad Weddedto a hiss with's).
grand name, eo that he Should thus benble
to fOund a tonally, as such Wealth as theirs
should -doe -Ile wanted Lady Elitabeth as
his 'daughter -Mime, but heW8 not going
to -put down this on the beckof the cheque.
Things must come as they woulol,and Caleb
intiet strike his own sewn in his own why;
knowing'as how hie daddy wasat his book
to seeond all his efforts.
, Preece the bargain °wits coecluded ' be-
tween ' the horny -handed Craesus and 'the'
empty.handed arietoorat on the strictest
business footing; e,nd my lord never knew
how much he owed to the generoeity of the
Man he generally • deeighated as " that
brute" *lien he •spoke of Inns at all. • My
lord paid part of hie 'Imre' pressing . debte
with', the ex.miner'e Money, and the
ex -miner wondered whet on earth he
should do With the land now that • he
had, it, and what good•ivould be the braes
to bins. when , they were of none to his
lordship. •
"They'll do to remind thole, tines, that
a fool and hie money's soon parted," said
Jibs Fieher, striking hie long chin.
Arel.,Mibie answered, with h voice like a
feig.biorn,, 1' Ay,. man, that ' wili they 1"
laughing as if the loss of 'so many then.
eandetitood•as• a huge financial jeke,
"The wont bit land all round 'the
eountry.side . continued Jiro, always in
big qualityof Janus -Mentor On the one side
-and Thersites on the other. '
." That's sherd it, Jim," 'returned his
former and preeent platten. • •
•
•,•—•,-•••••
•
no.
., •
. —
MAO, as rVe heueht. the land, Th Y gar(Ten dleiselittation to snhinit to who. wnnl
L-1-440goi".°.,i
XloMebantril-itepeitteiii4-illindieui44.-
; "es if ary plough ' as was ever'
forged would' go in among them stones ! I
think thou* hieing, thy eyesight,
Why, Viand is fell:land; top and bottom;
and Pulses Ye osn stuff ,pillows With, thistle
seed, I don't see what yell make of: it, o
where the vally of it lies, nohow."'
" foe 1" said Miles laughing amain
and slapping his pookets as he was wont,
when pleiteed, "It I don't find a vally
for the land, tell me my • nam ' not Miles
Stagg, and call me Jaok „ limn in -
dead."
04 Jabk-pudding, jack.fool, ack-ass
That's what I'll oall thee,' grumbled Jim,
walking back to his turnips as skiff as a
ioldier on parade, and tvon n tuaripe
'onion. •
• ;Bat if the purchase t of thie : reel of
land, this part of the great earl's estate,
with its rich crop of ragwort and thistles,
did add reach to Miles Stagg'a essential
position as a landed proprietor, still less
advanee by even a hsir's breadth that dar-
ling dream of aristocratic'. alliance whit%
he caressed, Bottom Mighthave caressed
Titania; it to:imbed Caleb's position, in the
sooietv of the place, ,e,nd Materially im-
proved his qoestienable holding. It wee,
cone thing for this rough and hirente Sly,
thiseremiiee Stag& to leve bought Red.
hill ; to have built a hideous new house en
the pito of the old, dark, tumble-down, in-
convenient Elizabethan gem; to hey° set
up" glass" by the acre, and te let egrly
old Jim rieber negleot all their poten-
tialities when he had dODO so; and another
thing to bay the braes direct from my lord
himself. The former owner of Redhill
had been an absentee, holding a coffee
•plantation in jennies, whin!' he could
neither leave nor sell, and which did not
pay its working expenses, 'and the tt.Offee'
had been let to any one who woold take
it -now Ili a shady .." captain, who,
as they said in those parts, "shot the moon"
one night when the place had got too hot,
for him, and now to a farmer who turned
the banqueting hall into a granary. Thua
the neighborhood; had felt' no tevinge -of
reSentful sympathy for diepossession Of, an
honored holder . when Stagg had
bought the place, nor disapprobation •of
the new man'o, "land. grabbing." Nor
had it felt panel:Amity or locally enriolied
by the miner's gold which had flowed over
the seas and. had done no-good' to any one
ht homc.., When,it.e.ame to the opening of H.
direct conduit -when rnY lord lowered his
• — 47be faiOhirr .
tt•g,
-•01,1/Mt iMAA1B, TertISAV to the third lotvitetion.
.8.11191 hBe1S4t1i7t1140.1140. pni. Want to OPMel.POPr
fellow, why ask him, mother?"said Estelle
fullof compaSfOle4„fOr the ullzAPPY OreatTme,
whom her mother. OQ einiablypeeetiouted
and BO haronely •dietreesed. .
IVO o,nr duty" said Mrs. ,Clenticaede;
with Admirable ,eelf.,commend. '"Ati Lady',
Elizabeth myth, it le, moth, a: pity that the
Owner of snchlarge.reeponpibilities ahould
be so little ratte/tou •14thi;utioeqoufrithbaepenpy.",., Boa
Estelle. He just Miserable all the time
he hchere. Be givee, pie the iMpreesion, of
ue9t...,:„haa beg, ii.tro.dd. en on. lam
sura be is Unhappier With his own peoplethan witlz ,
,"• 1:9Erneight .14. more tip to. him than
you are, my dear," said Mrs. Clanrioertle.
Young people onderete,nd eaoh, other ea
Deuces better than they nnderstand us older.
folks. If.you •woold ;tete hies in, haod BS
LOS,. Elizabeth does,. you mould •perhapri:
make something of, a gentlen'en of him," •
"He seemweVen more:Miserable:with me
•than, with, yen," objeoteciEstelle,
• .•`1 That ie hematite he Nee *on shrink from
you ' despise her
mother.: .• • - • .
• "No, annot deep* him, 'nether," re.
tiirned Estelle, .gravely " thakwould be '
thicherithhle7and uneliristiap." • -
that is just whet, it is," eaid Mrs.
Clanrioarde, a little eagerly, "It. is really
tinoliaritable„ really uociskistian,. Estelle,
end am-, very sorry to mee my denghter
cherish, moll an unhOly. temper. You know
that am not . one of . your . dreadful
deekoorats, and that X holdte the distinotioo
of °lessee and • all that, but thie, is quite
different from. anYthing of thatkind. It is,
.not an ordinary, cese At GO4 has
endowed theta people with Wonderftal meane.
either for good peewit -and it is our duty
all of xis to do what we can to insure that
they shall be for good," •
" Yes, I see;'' said Estelle, slowly:' ••
" that hope, iny'ilear, yeti will be
kinder to this: peer ,deeotate young man,":
continued Mrs. Clanricerde; ',bringing down
the hammer of prineiple once therewith awill
on, the heated iron of sympathy. You are
doing areligions duty, remember, and Lady
Elizabeth Bets you the good exensple.". •
:Warmed by , her mother's,: words, and
withall hertonsoience icineed,'Estelle took
heeit, of :grace tei her .che.ritable weilltk.and
'the nett time that Caleb Stagg suffered him -
crest so far as to coridetieend to sell pert of golf to be caughtshe wthisoeweet and kind
the great: Kingehouse estate toihe formai. and gentle' that her trodden worth. Scarce
miner,. and, had. got three times its market knew On What bathe was reetinginor What
Value for the parcel: -,then 'the neighborhood bird was 'singing , there in the bushes over
pricked tip ite ears irid rubbed:its dry, hands head, ; ".*$ . - •
together, ;and wondered if,.perchiincer any 'And at this moment Mrs.Clanrichridellated
drop' of this beautiful golden ointment the young millionaire; and would have slain
Would, ever moieteri this'an& that and the him ehetiould; , •
other of those. curved- and hungry But/ Estelle was not ed. passionately die..
A • .
Conxiged as her mother.: She had not the
. "Poor fellovi 1." she thooght, pity. in.,01.y.
, • •, -mac On MOON WILT.
"'What a, misfortune to he so shy. and Un-,
. , • .. •• * . • .
.The Earl, of liusgshouse.,was devoted to gainly I And fanoy'his being eo Much afraid
aetrenomye----,the=isountetts-:-.13Mbreidersx. _of,:me.,=-Ateltanrcinicip:the,3voirldeeed-be-
Between ( thee° two abserptionslay timid() ,aeratel of ite . .
tract of domestic, ..fieedom 'by_yi_hich. Lady And then she thought of Charlie 'Osborne
Elizabeth profited, one interfering. Her '-dear, handsome, ,well-mannered 'Charlie,
father, •eeheso: favoirite•pnrsoit oautied Win ihat prineeps among nsen, who would
to tarn night': into day, vise' asleep . When dcieverythieg better thin any one tilse,'.and.
he should hisielbeiin awake, Her Mother
'who had grown ..indolent in her ocinipai.
atiee poverty and beolnsion, asked only, to
be let atone, .wrestlingviith the 'difficulty. of
'shades and stitahes and Mourning in com-
pletion the annihilation 'of endeavor. Hence
Lady' Elizabeth. lived her Own life emPhat.
isally, 'and. carried' out the *utmost of
which she she was: capable thephilanthroplis
.dootritses whieh " Parson Lot's '" time
would have gene under the nanie Of Christ-
ian Socialises:, She ,•redelved ' whim she
Would, and did ati she, weinfol, andthe only One
who -ever. dreamed of .-objeothii- was her
brother Enetaee, and he found audience.
His father pooliTeohed him in fever tif his
delight," and his mother. followed suit in
favor other indolence. Elizabeth really
went too far, and did what she onght. not,
that,--priived,-W.etil&tiecessitite her own
stricter : suiveillitMe aind•nthee active oom-
paniOnshiP; and for Ade the effort. would
be. too great. 'Of the two, she preferred to
he an earl& rather thee a fly,.and to stick
her head intotbe sand, taming nothing rather
than to • light on a :Windovepane, looking all
ways at once. • .. • •
Enetace was so ,fidgety she 'said,,Iplato-
tively, to inylord ; and -he had ilways.betexe
jealOue of ,Elizabeth,,Why could he not let
her alone .? If tthe iiited to hsee dirty,frittle
children • about her, and give then" tea, hid
ettlteein the park; there was plenty of monk
arid -no. one suffered. And. it she, cheese to
admit. the! Woisdetful young. maii-.:-this
hideous yew* Stagg. e• and to talk to him
AS if he were a human being lie any Other,
that Wee her,affak, and no other venom's.
She, my lady,' supposed ,the girl was -not
thinking. of marrying him, and:it-inievery
minable .of her, to try te, niee hiin• leap
odiranithan he' Wits ; in view Of 'bierespcine.'
ibilities, indeed, it was more than amiable
was nieriterione ; for anundly 'the
napkin in Which this ;immense nugget • was
wrapped' left much to be de,sixed on the
stiore of pattern, and get,tip generally.
'akY1 Pi' the eunhOt 41hkang, on s tract of
thsholehaphodek
4..teieereriiier-eler:itee -
know :himself at times e and if he -ad 1300 --
Willem did his parents. Miles wasof the two
the more seriously disturbed. He thought
his lad was losing snob. mita nEt he eve r had;
lint Nancy paid,it was just dyspepsia -whit*
she pronounced " diehPePsy ' -and pre-
scribed peppermint drop"; as a fine remedy. * .
Then the mood would pass altogether, ona -
not a trace. of this deep, if dreamy, sadness
wthild remaitt. Invitations, would &nue
either from the vicarage Or from the illanri.
oardes, from- the curate or the dootor, the
retired major or.thkhalf.pay captain vend
Caleb would, go to the gatherings with the
rest; and be the " cynosure" on More
aegetints than One. When he. had 'been .
with Lady Elizabeth his was calmer, more
reconciled, with himself and life, and fitter
for such duties. as fell to his share. She had
that power over him, which seine women
possess, of eocahing the perturbed spirit, aa
when a cool hand rests lightly OD fevered
brow; and had it not been for her, the poor
oinad'hann. would have found things harder
than theY'Nele, khough why they should' be
herd ht, was a Puzzle to him, for winch
he had nu solution handy.
The Reolhill miner lad, whom so lately
no One had known, - was now quite a per-
eonage in the place ; and though he was as .•
roughly oast 'Lind rudely moulded as Could
well be; he WAS ill the seine the- Golden
Calf to those wanderers in the desert of
impecuniosity; and. being golden, thtisgh a
calf, was gently entreated and courteously
entertained. Who svonld not have been?
Whose father could and wotild give three
thnes its market valoe,for apiece of land,
bearing mostly ragwort and thistles, and
pay the "'mom, down, like a nian,•on the
spot, neither discount asked nor ebjeotion
'made ? NO wonder that he was made
nun& of by the soeiety of Kingshouse 1 No
wonder that he was courted' by Mrs. Clan-,
ricarde, to Whom at tine moment Caliban •
himself, ire imillion'aire, 'Would have been
welconse,he potentied souin.law ! and no
wonder that, as is Conseenenze,, this un-
wonted excitement Was, almost too much.
for him. and, together with Other thitigs;
disturbed lihementolequilihriturt soriseevhet •
gravely. 1. •CHA.PTEt
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same reasonii. •
, "Thom thistlee and ragwort fairly bet
my garden," 'continued " It takes a
man's time to kged down t' weeds as flies
over the wall." ' ' •
" il• stub Jim," said Miles„
roughly cheery. Thorest got to be glad, his distress under the preemie and evident , morenitrineos than the cry of a lark in the
• By the grace �f whioh' reationing it-canie
about that Lady Elizabeth was unmolested,
ind-Lord Eustace went back to•hie regiment
decidedly not the,victor ; and Caleb Stagg
we made free ef those wide and ithallew
stairs which led uP to Lade Elizabeth's
quaint and hrlistically furnished room. Thie
was one of the doors which opened for hies in
some sense consequent on that pale of Red-
hill Braes. ' • '
Thee it cable about that Caleb *as really
is good deal at the Dower House, Which at
one emelt(' would rather have gone into a
lion's den than enter; and that Lady.Eliz-
abeth, talting her mother's view of his
responsibilities, and agreeing with her as to
the pattern end Rt.up of.the napkin, did
what ehe ccinld to bring this heir to. millions
somewhat into' line with at least the
ordinary gentry of the, country, and her Pk;
ample infitienced others.. '
It
influenced Mrs. Clatiricarde perhaps
neon then any. other, Where Lady Eliza-
beth arm% Meaner folk might follow, and
Mrs. Clanricarde followed so fast as to Ont.
run her pioneer altogether; Her dooicopened
AS Wide as it would go, And not a week
passed without seme expression Of material
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pang.' It weethe birth hour • of his soul
with theone, of his social humanity, with
the other. In both he: suffered; but the
pangsof the letter were unspeakable and
unappeasable, while the, joys in the ,former,,
overshadowed' the pain. When the soul .
confesses its sins, is not the Very confession
self -healing? ' , • '1
And all this time his lather added, to 'his
anguish by his coarse congratulations
whenevbr he °sine home frcien cioelif those
Kingshouse githeeings,his rine imagination •
plucking the fruit that was not yet (lien in
the bud when heorged his son to carry the
mall daughter in . terms that burnt the ,
peer fellow's heart within him like eo
shrivelled parohnseist.
Meanwhile all this, :Anental torture' was
hidden fiora the two who caused it. TO •
Lady Elizabeth poor Cale)" was a well-
dadringr*ellAcservin
capable creatiiie to instruo an develop;
to Estelle be was is human animal to.whoin;
for Compassion's eake, shewtss .aegentle as •
she would have been to a horse or a • dog, '
but with Whom she felt no more possibility •
erhe-was the dearest fellow -m -the -world--- -of-comradeship 'and infinitely lees '
as beautiful in heart ea he was in person-,
and without a flaw, that she, his lover, and,
in a:mariner, his worshipper, could diecover.
Ali, if mother Would only believe in him
as , he deserved to be believed,in, and
allow the engagement between them to be
openly oonfeised-standing foursquare on
that sound ground of future succeas-4that
ground Which was to Estelle as true as*.
per foundation's of the Great.City wall!
:But 'nether was iiiexorible on this point.,
It was like asking'.one parched with thirst
Rarity of affection. Of a truth; it was •
Beauty and the:beast ; and the Beast Was
the sacriflae.
, Sometimes a horrible , thought .crossed
Estelle's mind, but it was•one.so degrading
to her rno,ther as well as to herself as to be
almost blasphemous. And yet she eould
not wholly benish it. •
Her mother's praises pricked the poor
girl like witches' needles. She felt their
invisible points and emarted ander' .them,
but she had to, keep Silence.. • Of what good
to eat'hainend anchovies, -to beseech her. Autry out? and-ttyw)ons--could- she--ciy
penniless as she was,to allow of a prespective
marriage and present engagement between
her daughter and Charlie °aborts° -burying
'her' one available talent in the earth and
planting her best investment in. foredoomed
failore-...1t.......weeehnord to iskit ; it woiald
benriiiiinal madness to grant it. A.nd there
the :iitter -ended, -and- ner more -need be-
Which Was het cold comfort for Estelle.to
parry on • her quivering linwhen Charlie had
urged her to press his Claim on Mrs. Clanri-.
oerde Once again aii so often before -when,-,
perhaPe, be had written a letter as 'Dad as
tears and has warm as Using blood, and had
had, for all reponse anegatieeen-sharpas.
kniyes and :„ aS, cold es .it Wee ,sharp
Then the two poet 'tortured lovers:had.
nothing for ithut to hold' each other by. the
hand, look into each other's beautiful eyes
swear to be faithful through. life and Mite
depth, • and separate in h aate-fear .tif. detec-
tion esingled with doubt whether . they
could meet again to.tnorrove-4th Estelle, s
side; &nil:ilea with shame at.her deceit. For
by7tbis time Charlie .whe forbidden! tee
Santee altogether, • and an' hie intercourse
With Estelle ivacicontrabandfrain the start
to the finish. ,.• , . 6.
And really for 'a :girl whohad been pro=
perly educated arid sagely lectured to hey°
run like 1 lapwing under cever•of a hedge,
then suddenly te appear. in the garden
saunteringup• the *dad walk; as cool as a
encumber, with oyes, yet bright fromunehed
tears, and lips a little redderthan 'tend by
force of being unduly pressed- really . to
have to etoop to these subterfuges -for the
sake Ofr h lover the against , a motlier,, is a
trial to tho'conseience of a ethierei kind!
No wonder, then; tee...indemnify that
Mather for this uncOniefesed infractionof
her , orders, the poor giel made liereelf au
Await end gentle to Chicle Btegg that he was
somethries aszqd as by a vision Of.glory,
and sornetimes made to'feel like a:bruised
Worn" trodden under 'foot by ' is bird of
pariclise.• Then he wOuld.rienge into the
woods and bury himself 'out of 'sight or he
would mount the fells Anddieeppear overthe
other Side ; and often in these latter days he
would lie down with his face turned to the
earth,' and sidiliee a child for Some strhrge
pain about his heart for whibli he could give
no name nor. dame:When in-theee mead!' ho
used to be no etill that the birdedlew low•
shout him; and the bees butted round his
hair, losing their Way etheng the heather,'
Hones would pan while he Ameba this
state; Ittilf of trance and half of .agony.
'It seemed' to him as if he bonen hie heart
interest on the part of the mother of Estelle all the tiortoWs of the world . is if he and
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far the only eon of thit rough-hewn Cremate •his nature mode common cause With death;
of Redhill; But it was uphill work. Between and joy waieblotted ontiorever. And then.
her resolve to domesticate Caleb Stagg and sOmetimee tine mcod woeld pads for nothing
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Lsdy Elifiebeth'e liking for . the Beast --
which, by -the -Way, romped: te,her a kind of
madness --sealed her lips -to her; and
Charlie had enough trotibleti to bear as
things were, she deed not to addto their'
her own share. -* • ' • •
(To buContinued)„.
Superstitions and Figures,
,
Virgil tells us that the gode,esteemed odd
numbers ' • •
Theso were seven wise men isi antiquity •
andieVen wonders of the world.
Miraculous . powers are alienated to. be .
possessed; by:the seventh-danghter.
Nine grains Of wheat laid' ons'adour-leaved'
clover •enableskene to seethe fairies.
It is in ancienthelief thitthalihrigeitithe ,
body Of ii man occurs every seventh year..
Faletaff say° " They say there ifedivin-
ity inodd. nurnbers, either by nativity;
chance, or. death." .. :
-The number three w,aii theperfect num-
ber of the -Pythigerearie, who said it •
repreeented the beginning middle and end..
In the Faroe islands there is a supereti-
tion that seals ,cast Off, their skint" every
ninth Month and Resume the human Wisp°.
. Arriong ,the Chinese heaven is odd, earth' '
• even, and the numbers 1,3, 5, 7 and 9
belong to , haween, while the digits are of
the earth, eartliy..",
, The Siamese haie a regard for odd num-
bers:. and insist on having an odd number
of • doors, windows and •ro,oine in their •
;bonen; and • that all'idairoases Must have ,
an odd number. of steps.
Rules for Fat keople anti for Lean, .
To increese the weight : Eat, to the ex-
tent of satisfying,a natural appetite, of fat
meats butter, cream, milk, cocoa, .cbocp-•
late:bread, potatoee, Tette, parsnips,' oar- „lee
rots, beats, farinaceous foods, is Indian.
corn, rice, tapioca, sago,. corn sterchi,„_
pastry, cuaterds,oatmeal,stigar sweet wines .
and ale. Avoid acids; exercise, ex,e little as
pessible, sleep all yotecan and Unit worry ,
or fief , •
TO reduce the Weight Eat, to the ex- -
tent of satisfying it' natured. appetite; . of
lean meat, poultry, game, eggii; , '
moderately, green Vegetables, turnips, SAO-
oulept 'fruits, tea or coffee.'Drink lime
jnice,letnope.de mid acid drinks. Avoid
fat; batter, cream, sugar, pastry, rice, sago,
tapioce, ceirn; steich, potatoee, carrete,
beets, parsnips and sweet wines. Exereisce
freelY.-:--111f#icialndEz, „
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The 'tinted States treops drove 60.0
families out of Oklahoma, Tex., on W
nesclay. They aro now eitcareped aronnd
Prtreell; I. T. Slitneof the people regaled,
and had to he tied teweggone and pulled
oat.
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