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HomeMy WebLinkAboutLucknow Sentinel, 1891-09-18, Page 2• • 1440 a shirt More' yyears ago t si I shall name. T sQugiit to win a good wife'o fame. Iknew not how- tbt}t all the same Made a shirt. 1 out,, Zc stitched, vrith many a tear ; - Bellowed it out, both front and. rear ; I carved thin arm -holes wide, for fear There Wenld;n't fist, John's neck°I measured to be true. The hand must fit --that much I knew, I'd heard so oft. All else I drew And. puckered in, At last twas Bono. 4 world of art, Complete;d:`hoped inevery_part. 1!.(.1emeB,�Junn y' I colie-d wan qua; lug heart, ".Try off). your shirt, : musteonfesedthulged:aoutawlmt__-_. ,In places where I thought"t should not, But Sohn, the brutel yelled out, "Great Scott, And such behavior, language, welt; Re uttered things I'll never tell - may torrggei thein whoa i dwell In higher spheres. 0 woman of the present day • Te you's inscribed this little lay ;; 9u Little know theman you ay. li:fd.�..:_ M �. �'i7tai:.:,NYlilitu�j�1✓`i.Ef�.rty3• If his "•tree lnward»ess.' know, IIave him. your idol Yt'd ova w t ,And sentiments to four winds blow, bLakg him a shirt ! AmVHamilton. -4 SISTERS But they had._ -no. sooner alighted and shaken out their skirts than down from the terrace stepped Mr. Westmoreland, the first and most substantial instalment of expected cavaliers, to • assist the major to convoy his party to the field. Mr. Westmoreland was unusually alert and animated, and he pounced . upon Eleanor, after hurriedly saluting the other ladies, with such an open preference that Mrs. Duf Scott re -adjusted lier schemes upon the spot. If the young man insisted upon choosing the youngest instead of the middle one, he must be allowed to do so, was the matron's prompt conclusion. She would rather have begun at the top and worked downwards, leaving fair Eleanor to be disposed of after the elder sisters were -settled:.;. but she recognized the wisdom of taking the goods the gods pro- vited as she could get them. " I do declare," said Mr. Westmoreland, �_..-looking. straight at the girl's face, framed in the soft little bonnet, and the pale blue disc of her parasol, " I: do declare I. never saw anybody look so-so-" ` Come, come," interrupted the chaperon, " I don't allow speeches of that sort." She spoke quite sharply, this astute diplo- matist, so that the young man who was used to being allowed, and even encouraged, -tomake speeches of that sort, experienced the strange sensation of being snubbed, and was half inclined to be sulky -over it ; and at the same moment she quietly seconded his menceuvres to get to Eleanor's side, and took care that he hadhis chances generally for the rest of the day. Meanwhile Mrs. Duff -Scott, in the care --- of Mr.-Westmoreland,--awaited-theit_ret on the lawn, slowly sweeping to and fro, with her tram rustling over the grass be - .hind her, and feeling that she had never enjoyed a Cup Day half so much before. Her girls were admired to her heart's con- tent,and-she literally basked in the radiance of their success. , ;, he regarded them,in- deed, with an enthusiasm of affection and interest that her' husband felt to be the most substantial safeguard against pro- •zniscnous philanthropy that had yet been afforded her. How hungrily she had longed for children of her own-! How she had envied other women their grown=up daughters t --always withthe sense that hers would have been, like her cabinets of china, so much more choice and so much better "arranged"' than theirs. And now -that she had discovered these charming orphans, who had beauty, and breeding, and culture, and not a relative or connec- tion in the world, she did not know how to restrain the extravagance of her satis- faction. As she rustled majestically up and down the lawn, with one fair girl on one side of her and one on the other, while men and women turned at every step to stare at them, her heart swelled and throbbed with the long -latent pride of motherhood, and a sense that she had at length stumbled upon the particular " specimen " that she had all her life been , bunting for. The only drawback to her enjoyment in them was the consciousness that, though they were nobody else's, they were not altogether hers. She would have given half her fortune to be able to buy them, as ` she would buy three bits of precious crockery, for her- absolute posses cion, body and soul -to dress, to manage, to marry as she liked. . The major kept Elizabeth Walking about with him until the hour appreached for the Maiden Plate race and luncheon. And when at lash they joined their party they found ' that Ars. Duff;Scott was already getting = /_together -her guests-forethelatteraentettai - 'merit. She was seated on a bench, between Eleanor and rattly, and before her stood a group of men, in variousl attitudes of ani - ley his side. And. not only by his side, but, ss .thou. who- -could not -gain. a .f a ' ' ' upon the stand ooegre gated upo' he ter elevation, gradually wedged against him almost as tightly as on the former.memor- able occasion. Below ,them stood Mrs. Duff -Scot, protected by Mr. Westmore- land, and Patty and F,,leenor, guarded 'vigilantly by the little -major. It was Mr.. Yelverton himself who had quietly 'seen and seized upon his chance of renewing his original relations with Elizabeth. "Miss King," he said, in a low tone of authority, "take my arm -it will steady. :You."' • She took his atm, and felt .ai once that she was in' shelter and safety. Strong as she -was, her- impulse•.-ts--lean..-on, almost irresistible. "Now, give mo your Reread," he said. The noonday sun was pouring down, but at this critical juncture the convenience of the greatest number had to be considered, and unselfish women were patiently exposing their best cd'mplexions to destruction. Of o course Elizabeth declared she should . d -yqr well until the race was over. W h ere - fon her ccim.pshfoYto-ok`iu�-idi�•kV from her hand, opened it, and held it -as from his great height he was able to do - so that it shaded her without incommoding other people. And so they stood, in silent,. enjoyment, botlethinking of where and how' something like this -and yet something so different -had happened.before, but neither of •:;them saying a word to betray their as run, an. e exci amen Orli 'OM r r► they were summoned' by Mrs. Dtiff-Scott to follow her to the carriage -paddock for lunch. Down on the lawn again they sauntered side by side, finding themselves tete-a-tete without listeners for the firsttime since they had been introduced to each other. Eliza- beth made a tremendous effort , to ignore the secret intimacy between them. " It is a lovely day, is it not ?" she lightly re- marked, from under the dome of her straw- colored parasol. " I don't think there has been such a fine Cup Dayy for years." " Lovely," he assented. " Have you often been here before?" " I ?-Oh, no. I have never been here before." - He was silent a moment, while he looked intently at what he could see of her. She had no air of rustic inexperience of the world today. "You are beginning to un- deretand crowds," he said, - "Yes -I am, a little." Then, glancing up at him, she said, " How does thia crowd affect you? Do you find it all interesting?" He met her eyes gravely, and then lifttd his own towards the hill above the grand stand, which was now literally black with human beings, like a swarming ant -hill. " I think it might be more interesting up yonder," he said ; and then added, after a pause-" if we could be there." -' Eleanor was walking just in front of them, chatting airily with her admirer, Mr., Westmoreland, who certainly was making no secret of his admiration ; and she turned round when she heard .this. " Ah, Mr. Yelverton," she said, lightly, " you are very disappointing Yon don't- care --for- our - great Flemington show. You are not a connoisseur in ladies' dresses, I suppose." " I know when a lady's dress is becoming, Miss Eleanor," he promptly responded, with a smile and bow. At which she blushed and laughed, and turned her back again. For the moment he was a man like other men who enjoy social success and favor- ready to be all things to all women ; but it was -only for a moment. Elizabeth , noted, with a swelling sense of pride and pleasure, that he was not like that to her. " I am out of my element in an affair of this kind," he said, in the undertone that was meant for her ear alone. " What is your element ?" " Perhaps i oughtn't to call it my element -the groove I have got into --my 'walk of life,' so to speak." " Yes ?" I'll tell you about it some day -if I ever get the chance. I can't here." - ` I should like to know. And I can guess a little. You don't spend life wholly in getting pleasure for yourself -you help his teeth, and walked on silently, not see- ing where hewwent. For a moment he felt stunned withthe shook: Then he was bre ` : iib'tohimself by a harsh laugh from Mrs. Aaron. " Dear men, said. she, in a high tome, " the Miss Kings have become so grand that we are `beneath their notice. You and I are not good enough for them now, Mr. Brion. We umet hide our dimin- ished heads." " I see," he assented, with savage quiet- ness. " Very well. I am quite ready to hide mine." Meanwhile. Patty, at. the -farther end of the lawn, was• ..overwhelmed with ren gree. for what she. had done. At the firet sight of him, in close intercourse with that woman, who Mrs. Duff again re- minded her, was not nidewho,-though a wife and mother, liked men to "dangle" round -her-she had arraigned and judged and sentenced him with the swift severity of youth, that knows nothing of the com- plex trials and suffer Lge-which teach elder people to bear and forbear with one another. But when it was over, and she had seen his shocked and bewildered tesehaenallesehessesaitenseset59.#ettirviRa him revived, and she would .have given anything to be able to make reparation for her cruelty. The whole after- noon she was looking for huh, hoping for a chance to ehow him somehow that she did not altogether " mean it," but, though she saw him several times -eating his lunch with Mrs. Aaroms under the refreshment shed close by the Duff -Scott carriage, others." • " What makes you think that.?" " I am sure of it." • - " Thank you." Elizabeth blushed, and could not think of a remark to make, thou she tried hard. ".Just at present," h went on, " I am on pleasure bent entirely. I am taking several months' holiday -doing nothing but amusing myself." " A holiday implies work." -"MY t' " I suppose we alt work, more or less." " Oh, no, we don't. Not voluntarily - not disinterestedly -in that way." " You mean in my way ?" - " Yes." " Ah, I see that Westmoreland has been ,p romancing.".:,..., .:• ,.,.., . " I have not heard a word from Mr. Westmoreland -he has never spoken of 'you to me." L- "-Who-then 1" - " Nobody.'-'- . - " These are your own conjectures ?" Later in the afternoon, when the great. of hisshalf-dozen successive victories from, the same point of view as that taken by the Duff -Scott party -he never turned his head again in her direction or seemed to have the faintest consciousness that she. was there:- .And here:And next day, when no longer in her glorious apparel, but walking quietly home from the Library with Eleanor, she met - him unexpectedly, face to face, in the Fitz- roy Gardens. And then he cut her -dead. - CHAPTER XXIII. MR. YELVERTON'S MISSION On a Thursday evening in the race week -two days after the "Cup," Mrs. Duff - Scott took her girls to the Town Hall to one of a series of concerts that were given at that time by Henri Ketten, the Hun- garian pianist, and the Austrian band that had come out to Melbourne to give eclat to the exhibition. It was a fine, clear night, and the great hall was full when they -arrived, notwith- standing the fact that half -a -dozen theatres were open and displaying their most attrac- tive novelties, for music -loving souls are, pretty numerous -in this part of the world, taking all things into consideration. Aus- tralians may not have such an enlightened appreciation of high-class music as, say, the educated Viennese, who live - and breathe and have their being in it. There are, indeed, sad instances on record of a great artist, or a choice combination •of artists, having appealed in vain for sympathy to the Melbourne public -that is to say, having found not numbers of paying and applauding listeners, but only a select and fervent few. But such instances are rare, and to be accounted for at the result;' not of indifference, but of inexperience. The rule is -as I think most of our dis- tinguished musical visitors will testify - that we are a people peculiarly ready to recognize whatever is good that conies to us, and to acknowledge and appreciate it With ungrudging generosity. And so the Austrian band, though it had many critics, never played to a thin audience or to inat- tentive ears ; and 'no city in Europe (ac- cording to his own death -bed• testimony) ever offered such incense of loving enthu- siasm to Ketten's genius as burnt steadily in Melbourne from the moment that he laid his fingers on the keyboard, at the Opera House, until he took his reluctant de- parture. This, I hasten to etpl'ain (lest I should be accused of blowing"), is not due to any exceptional virtue of discrimination on our part, but to our good fortune in having inherited an enterprising and active intelligence from the ` brave men who had the courage and energy to make a new country, and to that country being such a land of plenty that those who live in it have easy times and abundant leisure to enjoy themselves. Mrs. Duff -Scott sailed into the hall, with her girls around her, and many eyes were turned to look at them and to watch their progress to their seats. By. this time " the pretty Miss Kings " had become well known and much talked about, and the public interest in what they wore, and what gentlemen were in attendance en them, was apt to be keen on these occasions. To -night theounger girls, with their lovely hair lifted from their white necks and coiled high at the back of their heads, wore picturesque flowered gowns of blue and white stuff, while the elder sister was characteristically dignified in black. And thegentlemen in attendance upon them were,Ir. Westmoreland, still devoted to Eleanddr, and the portly widower whom Mrs. Duff -Scott had intended for Elizabeth, -but wile was perversely ad-di'cfeil to Patty. The little party took their places . in the body of the hall, in preference to the gallery, and seated themselves in two rows of three -the widower behind Mrs. Duff - Scott, Patty next him behind Eleanor, and Elizabeth behind Mr. Westmoreland. And i when the concert began there was an empty � chair beside Elizabeth. By -and -bye, when the overture was at an ' end-whenthe sonorous tinkling and trumpeting of 'the orchestra had ceased, arid she was listening, in soft rapture, to Ketten's delicate improvisation, at once echo andre u e, reminiscentofthe idea particularly handsome in his evening dress (but she always thought him handsome ; big nose, -leather-cheeks, -red mouetaohe-and 'all), and that his well -out coat and trousetif were not in their first freshness. Then the conc€rt went on as before -but not as before -and they sat side by side and lis- tened. Elizabeth's programme lay on her knee, and he took it up to study it,, and laid it lightly on her knee again. Presently she pointed to one and another of the selections on the list, about which she had her own strong musical feelings, and he looked down at them and nodded, understanding what she meant. .And egsJ_in they sit baric in their chairs and gazed serenely at, the stage under the great organ, at Herr .Wildner cutting the air with his baton, or at poor Ketten, -with his long, -white solemn face, sitting at the piano in a bower of, votive -wreaths and . -bouquets, raining his magic finger-tips like a sparkling cascade upon the key -board, and wrink- ling the shin of his forehead up and down. But they had no audible conversation throughout the whole performance. When between the two divisions of the programme, he relaxa- tion for t lli n i situ o anci'ref es`.-hinenr of"thee lier'i`ori`ilei's=aiti`3"r their audience, Mr. Westmoreland turned round with his elbow over, the back of his chair, and appropriated an opportunity to which they had been secretly looking forward. "So you've got bank ? ", he remarked for the second time. "I thought you were going to make a round of the country ? " "I shall do it in instalments," replied - !nation and repose, conspicuous . amongst Cu race and all the excitement of the day 'Who was the tall f rm of Mr. 'Kin scote i iii�i t! gi was over, Mrs. Duff -Scott gathered her '!%;demon, '.Elizabeth,'had only had distant brood together and took leave of tier casual ' limp; ase; him• during the four weeks that ,male guests. "Good-bye, Mr. Yelverton," lice he was introduced to her, r she said cordially, when his turn came to et having seemed inclined ; bid her adieu "you will come and see me at "',41114 acquaintance probably ' at my own house, I hope?" i}se she had' not sought it for herself ; but`ntiyitCrhe" girl saw, with a uickened � Elizabeth looked up at him when she t q ; heard the words. She could not hells it -- pulse, dint1the happiness of speaking to him she did not know what she did. And in her again was an thig're for her. He seemed to eyes he read the invitation that he declared 1 d d ' • be aware of her. approach as soon as she was gravely he would do himself the' honor to within sight, and lifted his head and turned accept. that the and had been elaborating, and to watch her -still sustaining his dialogue p CHAPTER XXII, prophetic of the thusbetenderly sonata with Mrs. Duff -Scott, who lid singled him j that he was tenderly approaching, CROS PURPOSES. I Elizabeth was award that the empty chair out to talk to ; and Elizabeth, feeling his _ p y eyes upon her, had a sudden sense Of dis- Paul, who Was a good talker, was giving was taken, and knew, without ' turning her comfort in hddr beautiful dress and cl.t;ed his companion an animated account. of the • head, by whom. She tried not to blush surroundings. She was sure that he would French plays going oil at one of the theatres.' and feel fluttered -she was too old, she draw comparisons, and she did not feel her- just then -which • she had not yet been to' told herself, for that nonsense -but for self elevated by the new dignities that had see -and describing with great warmth the half a minute or so it tvas an effort to been conferred upon her. graceful and finished acting of charming control these sentimental tendencies. He Coming up to her party, she was intro- Madame Andree, when he was suddenly laid his light overcoat over the back of his duced to several strangers -amongst others, aware of PattyKingpassingclose besidehim. chair, and sat down quietly. Mrs. Duff - to the husband Mrs. Duff -Scott had aelectd Patty was walking at her chaperon's side, Scott looked over lr shoulder, and gave for her, a portly widower with a grey beard with her head erect, and her white parasol, him a pleasant Mid. Mr. Westmoreland -and in the conversation that ensued she with its pink lining, held well back over said, " Hullo 1 Got back again ?" And quite ignored the only person in the group her shoulder, a vision of loveliness in her then Elizabeth felt sufficiently composed of whose presence she was distinctly con- diaphanous dress. He caught his breath at to turn and hold out her hand, scious. ' She neither looked at him nor sight of her, looking SQ different from her which he took in a strong clasp that spoke to him, though aware of every word ordinary self, and was about to raise bishat, was ' not far removed from a -squeeze. and glance and movement of his until pre- when -to his deep disritaly and surprise- They did not speak to each other ; all standing upon the slope she awe t haughtily ant him, mootin his nor did they look at each other, though Mr. .,>,. , �- t —ems — _ _.. " You won't have time to do much a way, if yon are going home again next month.' Will you?" " I can extend my time a little, if neces- sary." Can you? Oh, I thought there was some awfully urgent business that you had to go back for -anew costermonger's theatre to open, or a street Arab's public -house - eh?" Mr. Westmoreland laughed, as at good joke that he had got hold of, but Mr. Yelverton was imperturbable. " I have business 'in Australia just now," he said, " and I'm going to finish that first." " No," said Mr. Westmoreland, with- drawing his eyes from the contemplation of Eleanor and her aesthetic gown, " he's not a society man. He don't go much into clubs, Yelverton. He's one of . the richest com- moners in Great Britain -give you my word, sir, he's got a princely fortune, all to his own check -and he lets his places and lives in chambers in Piccadilly,' and spends nearly all his time when he's at home in the slums and gutters of Whitechapel • He's got a mania for philanthropy, unfortunately. It's an awful pity, for he really would be a good fellow." At the word " philanthropy," the major made• a clandestine grimace to Elizabeth, but composed his face immediately, seeing that she was not regarding him, but gazing with serious eyes at the narrator of Mr. Yelverton's peculiarities. " He's been poking into every hole and corner," continued Mr. Westmoreland, " since he came here, overhauling the factory pleces, and finding out the prices of things, and the land regulations, - and"t don't know what. He's • just been to Sandhurst, to look at the mines -doing a little amateur emigration business, I expect. Seems a strange thing," concluded the young man, thoughtfully, " for a rich swell of his class to be bothering himself about things of that sort." Mrs. Duff -Scott• had been listening at- tentively, and at this she roused herself and sat up in her chair. " It is the rich who should do it," said she with energy. "And I .admire him -I admire him, that he has given up his own selfish ease to help those whose lives are hard and miserable. t believe the squalid wretchedness of places like Whitechapel -though I have never been there -is something dreadful -dread- ful 1 I admire him," she repeated defiantly. "I think it is a pity a few more. of us are not like him. I shall talk to him about it. I -I shall see if I can't help him." This time Elizabeth did look at the major, who was making a feint of putting his handkerchief to his eyes. She smiled at him sweetly, and then she walked over; -to Mrs. Duff -Scott, put her strong arms round the matr o n's shoal dere, nd kisedhe fer- vently. three other stringed, inti utn.ents and their human complement. Patty at the piano, • Eleanor, Mrs. Duil-_Scott, &nd half -a -dozen more ,enthifsiasts-with a_ mixed audiences around them. In the dim, hig room beyond, the majoe entertained the inartistic, out- lawed fewho did not care, nor pretend to care,, for aught but the sensual comfort of downy chairs and after dinner chit-chat. And, at the farthest end, in a recess of cur- tained window that had no lamps about it, sat Elizabeth and Mr. Yeiverton, side by side on a low settee -not indifferent to the pathetic wail of the far -distant violins, but finding more entertainment in. their own talk than the finest music could have afforded them. " I had a friend, who gave up everything toga and.worl amongtkthe London poor- - in the usual clerical way, you know, with schools and guilds and. all the right and proper things. hie used to ask •-meti for money, and insist on my helping ' hire with a lecture or a. reading now and then, `land I got drawn in. I had always had an uses or doing something -taking a line of some sort- somehow omehow thus got hold of me. I couldn't see all that misry-you've no ides. =ii1311',; t'V.14ig 1i'%iti ,. R .. • v , ws a . see;, r't.:- nse ,. `.ssese�ies " I have read of it," she said. " You would have to see it to realize it in the least. After I saw it I couldn't turn. my back and go home and enjoy myself as if nothing had happened. An I had no family to consider. I got drawn in." "-And that is your work ?"said Elizabeth. " I knew it." " No. M friend talks of ' his work '- sentry they wGtV p gg of grass connectingthe terrace with the eyes fairly, with a col disdain, but ma zing Yelverton was speedily informed of all the lawn to see the frst race as bests they no sign of recognition. details of his neighbor's appearance, and to -night a little company of the elect - could, and then she found herself once more The blood rushed into his face, and he set she took no time to ascertain that he looked TTnrr WullneV and his violin, together with CHAPTER XXIVV - AN OLD STORY. Mrs. Duff -Scott's drawing -room, at 9'` -or 10 o'clock on Friday evening, was a pleasant sight. Very spacious, very voluptuous, in a subdued, majestic, high-toned way ; very dim -with splashes of richness -as to. walls and ceilings ; very glowing and splendid-- with plendid- with folds of velvety darkness -as to win- dow curtains and portieres. The coloring of it was such as required a strong light; to show how beautiful it was, but with a proud reserve,' and to mark its unostentatious superiority over the glittering salons of the uneducated nouveaux riches, it was always more or less in a warm and mellow twilight, veiling its sombre magnificence from. the vulgar Jast-crow -its muffs coxnpart ment was lit by wax candles in archaic - candlesticks amongst the flowers and bric-a- brac of an etagere over the niantlepiece, and by seven shaded and colored lamps, of Various artistic devices, judiciously distri- buted over the abundant table -space so as to suffuse with a soft illumination the occupants of tweet of the wonderfully stuffed and rotund chairs and'lounges grouped about the floor ; and yet the side -of the room was decidedly bad for reading. in. "'It does not light! up well,'! was the consolation of women of Mrs. Duff -Scott's acquaintance, who still clung to pale walls and primary colors and cut -glass chandeliers, either from necessity or choice. " Pooh !" rvlrs. Duff -Scott used to. retort, hearing of this just criticism ; "as if I wanted it to light up !" But she had compromised with her principles in the arrangement of the smaller division of the room, where, between and beyond a pair of vaguely tinted portieres, stood the' piano, and all other material appliances for height- ening the spiritual enjoyment of musical people. here she had grudgingly retained the gas -burner of utilitarian Philistinism. It hung down from the ceiling straight over the piano, a circlet of gaudy yellow flames, that made the fr e of Ivory plaque upon the wall to glitter. But the brilliant corona was borne in no gas -fitter's vehicle ; its shrine was of dulbrass, medieval and precious, said to have been manufactured, in the first instance, for 'either papal or im- perial purposes --it didn't matter which. In this bright music -room was gathered splendid, too -but they don't.allow. me to use that word, and I don't want it. What I do is all wrong, they say -not only use- less, but mischievous." .. " I don't believe it," said Elizabeth. "-Nor I, of course -though ey may be right. We can only judge ac ding to our lights. To me, it seems that hen things are as bad as possible. a well-meaning per- son can't make them worse and may make them better. They say ' no,' and argue it all out as plainly as possible. Yet I stick to ...y view -I go on in myown line. It doesn't interfere with theirs, though they say it does." " And what is it ?" she naked, with her sympathetic eyes. " Well, you'll hardly understand, for you don't know the class -the lowest deep of all -those who can't be dealt with by the societies -the poor wretches whom nothing will raise, and who are abandoned as hope- less, outside the pale of everything. They are my line." _ " Can there be any abandoned as hope- less ?" " Yes. They really are so, you know. Neither religion nor -political economy can do anything for them, though efforts are made for the children. sodden, sense- less, vicious lumps of misery,. with the last spark of soul bred out of of them -a sort of animated garbage that cumbers the ground and makes the air stink -given up as a bad job, and only wanted out of the way -from the first they were on my mind more than all the others: And when I saw them left to rot like that, I felt I might have a free " And can you succeed where so many have failed ?" " Oh, what I do doesn't involve' success or failure. . It's outside all that, just ea they are. They're only brutes in human shape=hardlyhuman shape either ; but I have a feeling for brutes. I love horses and dogs -I can't bear to see things suffer. So that's all I do -just comfort them where I. can, in their own way ; not the parson's way -that's no use, I wouldn't mock them by speaking of religion -I suppose religion, as we know it, has had a large hand in making them what' they are ; and to go and tell them that God ordained their miserable pariah -dog lot would be rank blasphemy. I leave all that. I don't bother about their souls, because I know they haven't got any ; I' see their wretched bodies, and that's enough for me. It's something not to let them go out of the world without ever knowing what it is to be physically com- fortable. It eases my conscience, as a man who has never been hungry, except for the pleasure of it." " And do they blame yon for that ?" " They say I pauperize them and demoralize them," he answered, with a sudden laugh ; " that I disorganize the schemes of the legitimate workers -that I outrage every principle of political economy. Well, I do that, certainly. But that I make things worse -.that I retard the legitimate workers -I won't believe. " If I do," he concluded, " I can't help it." "No," breathed Elizabeth, softly. " There's only one thing in . which I and the legitimate workers arealiko-everybody is alike in that, I suppose -the want of money. - Only in the matter of beer and tobacco, what interest I'could get on a few hundred pounds ! What I could do in the way of filling empty stomachs and easing aches and pains if I had control of large means ! What a good word ` means' is, .. n_t.it?—We_ vant-_means' fox all the ends we seek -no matter what they are." - "I thought," said Elizabeth, "that you were rich. Mr. Westmoreland told us so." (To bo continued.) Children s.1r. 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