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`' NY ilotention," said Patty, firmly, with
$er ails nose. it ttlifted,. and a -high.-color -in.
bier face, is to put an end
_, . thy. useless and ..cul ble waste
oif time, The man I cove atc'l a
;engaged: oao`�• is working; and slav#ng;: and
Waiting for me.; and I, like the the rest of
ou, am neglecting hien, and sacrificing'him,
-
as hf `ane• were no consequence " tylia ever..
This: shows me how I. have been treating,:
Bri t 1� wit! !"tt`"do it ee X34 ..
become Miss Yelverton to repudiate all 1`
undertook when I was only Patty King. I
;1 Yelverton by name, but I am• King by
nature, still. 1 don't want to be a great
swell. I •have seen the world, and I am
satisfied. Now I want to go' home. tot Paulf
•..7."i:;v:'■uite,V . 4.1A. 4Si1trw..- ,.u, 2.m. , ,,.f..... ea s"'�n'-s•'�id':�
ask you, if you please, Kingscote, .to take
my passage for at once. I shall go back
next month, and I dial' marry Paul Brion
as soon as the steamer gets to Melbourne.0
Her brother-in-law put out his hand, and
drew her to him, and kissed her. " Well
. done,". he said, speaking boldly from his
CHAPTER L. •
"T.HY PEOPLE SHALL BE DIY PEOPLE."
• Fatty softened down the terms in which
shiNiadedher declaration of independence,
when she found that items received in so
x prop r a spirit. She asked them if they had
*ar--objec-tion=whieltrafiter—tensing-therrt-
• tiat it didn't matter whether they had or
not, was a graceful act, tending to make
things pleasant without committing any-
body. But if they had objections (as of
comae they had) they abandoned them at
this crisis. It was no use to fight against
PauleeBrion, so_ _they _accepteci._him,__ and
made the best of him.
But Patty was dissuaded from her daring
enterprise, as first proposed ; and Paul was
written to by' her brother and guardian, and
adjured to detach himself from his news-
paper for a while and come to England for a
holiday—which, it was delicately hinted,
might take the form of a bridal tour And
_in: that little mining-room,rsacted..to .the.
private intervievWs of the master and
mistress of the house, great schemes
were conceived and elaborated for the
purpose • of seducing Mrs. Brion's
husband to remain in England for
good and alL , They settled his future
for him in what seemed to' them an irre-
at'ttibly attractive way.
When Mr. Yelverton wrote Paul
to ask him to visit them, Patty to
also • to suggest that his precious health
might suffer ' by coming over at a
season, and to advise him to was til
February. or March. , But the momter
Iover had read those letters, he put his
hat and went.forth to'his office to demand -
leave for six months, and in a f days
was onboard the returning mail ste on
his way to England. He did not f like
waiting now—after waiting for two. —
and she was not in the least afraid he
would accept her advice.
Paul's, answer arrived' by post, as as
bimself speeding through Europe—notso
much absorbed in his mission as to neglect
note -making by the way, and able . write
brilliant articles on Gambetta's des and
other affairs of the, moment, while ng
forboat or train"to carry him to be-
- loved ; and it• was still only the' fir week
in January .when they' received a tele at
Yelverton'announcing his imminent L
Mr.. Yelverton himself went to Ld to
meet him, and Elizabeth rolled he in
furs and an opossum rug in he ug
brougham and drove to the count rail-
way station to meet them both, ng
• Patty sitting . by the woo e
in the hall. Mrs. Duff -Scot as
in town, and Eleanor with her, t to
see Rossetti's pictures through the y
darkness of the winter days, but in reality
bent on giving the long -divided to as
much as possible of their own soviet a
little while. The carriage went fort early
in tho afternoon, with its lamps d,
and it returned when the cold nig d
settled down on the dreary landsca 5
o'clock. • Paul, ulstered and comfo d,
walked into the •dimly -lighted, war vast
space,. hung round with: ghostly bane d
antlera, and coats of mail, and pictures
whereof little was visible but the s,
and marched straight into the rude le
Of the firelight, where the s 1 re
awaited hint by t - : twinklin t e,
herself only a ' ou r' me 'against thek
behind he ; and %. e ,pair stood e
earth , gand ,kiss rd each other silently,
w' izabeth, accompanied by he s..
band, went to take her bonnet off, to
see how Kingscote junior was.getting
After that Paul and Patty part o
more. They had a few peaceful. we at
Yelverton, during which the newspa in
,leilseilee got *lothins{ whatever"fr 'te
fertile brain of its brilliant- contributor
(which, Patty thought, must certain a
most serious matter for the propri ;
and in which interval they ma co a -
tion for all past shortcomings as as
their opportunities, which were prof d
,various, allowed., It delighted Paul t
up at Patty the several slights and s
that she had inflicted on him in t d
Myrtle street days, and it was her t
luxury in life to make atonement for
,all—to pay him back a hundredfold 1l
that he had suffered on her account. e
number of " soft things " that she d
upon the' piano from morning till t
would alone have set him up in " Fridays'
for the two years that he had been driven to
Mrs. Aarons' for entertainment; a e
abject meekness of the little spitfire t e
used to know ivas enough to provoke
to
wrote
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him to
bull her, if he hail had an thin of the " I must start at once, CONCLUSION.
While Mrs. Westmoreland thus disports
herself in the gay world, Mrs. Brion purl.'
sues her less brilliant career in much peace
and quietness. When she and Paul came
back to Australia, a bride and bridegroom, -
free to follow their own devices unhampered
by any uceessity to consider the feelings of
.relatives and friends, nothing would satisfy
her \but to go straight.from the'dhi.p to Mrs.
M'Intyre's, and there temporarily abide in
those tobacco -perfumed rooms- which had
once been such forbidden ground ,to her.
She scoffed at the Oriental ; she turned up
her nose at the Esplanade ; she would
mot hear of any suites of apartments,
no matter how superior they mightrbe. Her
idea of perfect luxury was to go and live as
Paul had lived; to find out all the little de-
tails of his old solitary life which aforetime
she had not dared to inquire into, to ram -
av,.dan?a,M„.m:,.•
if 5
.neok.and tie• it to his button -hole like lobate
-string She'-d..see him -harsher first.
Pe :ruary came, and Mrs. Duff -Scott re --
,turned,' ama'l prep-04101one dor t • = wedding
were.set going. The;fairy go. „ • ther was
'.d terneined to make up for the disappoint-
•ment::e'he hadsuffered u l zsbeth's case. by
,making a 'great festival of, the second l eer-
.riagaef the..fa,mily,. ,;n.d,they Iet her have
her wish, the result beingthat the bride of
the poor. ' ress-writer h a d txosseau worth
of -that coronet which she had extravagantly.
thrown away, and presents the list and
desert ,tion of whrc fifled-a whole column
f theereiverton Advertiser, .and made the
Al :a. :_!:_ ,•'
envy. In March they were married in
Xelverton village church. They went to
London for a week and came back for a
fortnight ; and in -April they crossed the
'sea again, bound for their Melbourne home.
For alt the .beautiful arrangements that
eheeaski.m"^te ac ?�'iE7e .kleas n of rekethhk iasis'
The Yelvertons road reckoned without their
host—as is the incurable habit- of sanguine
human nature—with the usual result. Paul
had no mind to abandon his chosen career
and the country that, as a true Australian,
he .loved and served as he could never love
and serve another, because he had married
wou no a ow m o e persua e a
Though her heart was torn in two at the
thought of partingwith Elizabeth; and with
that precious baby who was Elizabeth's
rival in her affections, she promptly and un-
complainingly tore herself from both of them
to follow her husband whitheraoever it
seemed good to him to go.
CHAPTER LI. .
- PATIENCE REWARDED.
Eleanor, like Patty, withstood the seduo-
tions of English life and miscellaneous Eng-
lish admirers,and lived to be MissYelverton
-in-her turn,- unappropriated and ..independ-
ent. And, like both her sisters, though
more by accident than of •deliberate inten-
tion, she remained true to her first love, and
after seeing the world and supping hill of
pleasure and luxury, returned to Melbourne
and married Mr. Westmoreland. That hi
to say, Mr. Westmoreland followed her to
England, and followed her all over Europe
—dogging. her from ...place to . place with. a
steadfast persistence that certainly deserved
reward—until the Major and . Mrs. Duff -
Scott, returning home almost immediately
after Patty's marriage and de-
.parture, brought - their one ewe
lamb, which the Yelvertons had not the
conscience to immediately deprive them of,,
back to Australia .with them ; when her
persevering suitor promptly took his pass-
age in the same ship. All this time Mr.
Westmoreland had been as much in love as
his capacity for the tender passion—much
larger than was generally supposed—
per-mitted.
Mr. Westmoreland, being. fond
of money, as a constitutional and
hereditary peculiarity—if you can call that
a peculiarity—was tempted to marry it
once, when that stout and swarthy person
in the satin gown and diamonds exercised
her fascinations on him at the club ball,
and he could have married it at any time
of his bachelor life, the above .possessor of
it being, like Barkis, " willin'," and even
more than " villin'." Her fortune was
such that Eleanor's thirty thousand was but
a drop in the bucket compared with it, and
yet even he did not value, it in. comparison
with the favor of that capricious young
lady. So he followed her about from day
to day and from place to place, as if he .had
no other aim in life than to keep - her
within sight, making himself an insuffer-
able nuisance to her friends very
often, but apparently not offending
her by hie open and inveterate pur-
suit. She teas not kind, but she was not
cruel, and yet she was both in turn to a dis-
tracting degree. She made his life an
ecstrcy of miserable longing for her, keep-
ing him by her side like a big dog on a
chain, and feeding him with stones (in the
prettiest manner) when he asked for bread.
But she grew very partial to her big dog in
the process of tormenting him and witness-
ing his' touching patience under it. She
was "used to him," she said ; and when,
from some untoward circumstance over
which he had no control, he was for a little
while absent from her, she felt the gap he
left. She sensibly missed him. .Moreover,
though she trampled on him herself, it hurt
her to see others do it ; and when Mrs.
Duff -Scott and Kingscote Yelverton respec-
tively aired their opinions of his character
and conduct, she instantly went over to his
,side, and protested in her heat
if not in words, against the' in-
justiee and opprobrium that he incurred
for her sake. So, when Elizabeth became the
much -occupied mother of a family, and
when Patty was married and gone off into
the world with her Paul, Eleanor, ,left alone
in her indepeudenco, began to, reckon up
what it was worth. Tho spectacle of her
`Sisters' Wedded - lives's gave fiat pleasant'
notions of matrimony, and the state of
single blessedness, as suck, never. had any
particular charms for her. Was it wprth
while, she asked herself, to be cruel any
more ?—and might she not just as well
have a house and home of her own as Eliza.
beth and Patty ? Her lover was only a big
dog upon a chain, but then why. shouldn't
he be ? Husbands were not required to be
all of the sane pattern. She didn't want
to be domineered over. And she didn't see
anybodyh lilted better.Sheh
-.y
-winter with us. But I must go now. And mage boldly over his bookshelves and dealt
,doe do—oh do let me keep Nelly for a lit- and cupboards, which once it would have
the while longer ! You know I will take been indelicate for her to eo much as look
care of her, and. I couldn't bear the sigat of at, to revel in the sensgi?that it was improper
no longer for her to Make just as free as
my house with none of you in it 1"
So elle went and of course she took. she liked witlabitidefunct baehelorhoetie the
Eleanor, secretly cretly longed for the land- of a -Ming conditions. of which hadhed so many
sunshine after her full dose of " that terrors for her. When Paul represented
horrid English climate," and who, with a- that it was not a fit pines for her to go into,
sister at either end of the world, perhaps she told him that there was no place in the
missed Patty, who had ben her companion world so at, and begged so hard to be taken
by night as well as by day, more than she there, if only for a week or two, that ho let
would miss Elizabeth. The girl was very 'her have her way. And a very happy time
- re'ady toga She weptrbitterly -when the- -.they-spent-at-.No, 7..,notwith usling_.y.
actual parting•came, but she got over it in a little inconveniences. Andeven theiuconven-
that- av-e.=f
reat satisfaction to 141 rs. ierices had their charm. Then Mrs. Duff -Scott eanor came out, When it was felt to
major, u"`�'Wre t`�e'vecl ""'`
Dui%Scotts an the J , a
them of all fear that they had been selfish be time to say good-bye to these humble
about bringing her away. They joined the circumstances—to leave the flowery carpet,
mail steamer at Venice, and there found now faded and threadbare, the dingy rep
Mr. Westmoreland on board. He had been suite, and the smirking Cenci over the
summoned by his agent at home he ex- mantlepiece, for the delectation of lodgers
,gym } , alge :, oktg,se ,t,,,o. whom such things were.appropriate ; and
tire, and he had to be there to sign_ papers. o se ec a` `ioa4'e-arid f'tiicnfsir xos`il'l tied`
And since,it had so happened that he was the occupation of Miss Ye1verton that was
obliged to go back by this particular and her (now) distinguished husband.
boat, he hoped the ladies would make hfrm By good fortune (they did not say it was -
useful, and let him look after their luggage good fortune, but they thought it), tho old
and things. Eleanor was properly and con-, landlord next door saw fit to die at this par-
ventionally astonished by the curious coinci- titular juncture, and No. 6 was advertised
h
arts it .. wst)tl(1 'to be let. Mr. and Mrs. Brion at once
PPen- tris irriV as rue: '4iae; c apef'o ;""' 51` I€t"u'i O 'r Eeente-e
for her part, was indignant and annoyed by .old house, which, it seemed to them, was
it -for a little while ; -afterwards ehe, too, admirably suited to their present modest
reflected that Eleanor had spent two unpro- requirements ; and, by the joint exercise of
ductive years in England and was growing Mr's. Duff -Scott's and Patty's own ex -
older every day. Also that she might cer- cellent taste, educated in England to
tainly go farther and fare worse. So Mr. the last degree of modern perfectibility,
Westmoreland was accepted as a member of the purveyors of art furniture in ourenlight-
t sl -e rave ling party. All— he env ells res eel o-i'tytren sfnrmed a hutrrhie--dtiveihing
of escort were relegated to him by the of'leas than a dozen rooms into a little pal -
major, and Mrs. Duff -Scott sent him hither ace of esoteric delights. Such a subdued,
and thither in a way that hehad never been harmonious brightness, such a refined sim-
accustomed to. But he was meek and pitchy, such an unpretentious air of corn -
biddable in these days, and did not mind fort pervades it from top to bottom ; and as
what uses he put his noble self to for his a study of color, Mrs. Duff -Scott will tell
lady's sake:- And she was very -gracious.- you, it -is unique -in the Australian-eolonies.
The conditions of ship life, at once so favor- It does her good—even her—to go and rest
able &deco unfavorable for the growth of her eyes and • her soul in the contemplation
tender relations, suited his require- of it. Paul has the bureau in his study
meets in every way. She could not snub (and finds it very useful), and Patty has the
him under the over -watchful eyes of their piano in her'drawing-room, its keyboard to
fellow -passengers. She could not send him a retired corner behind a portiere (draped
away from her. She was even a little where once was a partition of foldingdoora),
tempted, by that ingrained vanity of the and its back, turned outwards, covered
female •heart, -to -make -a-display, before -the with.... -=a piece. --of - _South . Kensington.
other and less favored ladies of the subject- needlework. In this cosy nest of theirs,
like homage, which she, queen -like, re- `where Paul, with a new spur to his energies,
ceived. Altogether, things went on in a works his special lever of the great machine
very promising manner.. So that when, no that makes the world go on (when it would
farther than the Red Sea—while life seemed, fain be lazy and sit down), doing great
as it does in that charminnglocality, reduced things for other men if gaining little glory
to its simple elements, and the pleasure of for himself—and where Patty has after -
having a man to fan her was a. compare- noon teas and evenings that gather together
Lively strong sensation—when at this pro- whatever genuine exponents of intellectual
pitious juncture, Mr. Westmoreland be- culture may be going -about, totally eclipsing
wailed hid hard fate for the thousandth the attractions of Mrs. Aarons' Fridays to
time, and wondered whether he should ever serious workers in the fields of art and
have the good fortune to find a little favor thought, without in any way dimming the
in her sight, it seemed to her that this sort brilliancy of ' those entertainments—the
of thing had gone on long enough, and that- married pair seem likely to lead as happy a
she might as well pacify him and have done life as can be looked for in this World of
with it. So she said, looking at him lan- compromises. It will not be all cakes and
guidly with, her sentimental blue eyes— ale, by any means, The very°happiest lives
•' Well, if you'll promise not to bother me are rarely surfeited with these,:perhaps,
any more, I'll think about it." • unwholesome delicacies, and I doubt if
He promised faithfully not to•bother her theirs will even bo amongst the happiest.
any more, and he did not. But he asked They are too much alike to be the ideal
her presently, ' after fanning her in silence match. Patty is thin-skinned and pas -
for some minutes, what color she would sionate, too ready to be hurt to the heart
like her carriage painted, and she answered by the mere little pin -pricks and mosquito
promptly, " Dark green." bites of life ; and Paul is ,proud and
While , they were yet upon the sea, a '•crotchety, and, like the great Napoleon,
letter—three letters, in . fact—were des- given to kick the fire with' his boots when
patched to Yelverton, to ask the consent of he is put out. There will be many little
the head of the family to the newly -formed gusts of temper, little clouds of misunder-
engagement, and not long after the party standing, disappointments, and bereave -
arrived in Melbourne the desired permission menta, and sickness of mind and body ; but,
was received, Mr. and Mrs. Yelverton hay- with all this, they will find their lot so
ing learned the futility of opposition. in blessed, by reason of the mutual love and
these matters and having no serious sympathy that, through all vicissitudes,
objection to Nelly's choice. And will surely grow deeper and stronger every
then again Mrs. Duff -Scott plunged day they live together, that they will not
into the delight of preparation of trousseau know bow to conceive,a, better one. And,
and wedding festivities—quite willing that after' all, that is the - most one can ask or
the " poor dear fellow," as she now called wish for in -this world.
him (having taken him to. her capacious Mrs. Duff -Scott, being thus deprived of
heart), should receive the reward all her children, and finding china no longer
of his . devotion without unnecessary the substantial comfort to her that it used
delay. The house was. already there, to be, has fulfilled her husband's darkest
a spick and span family' mansion in d' t' d " " fphilanthropy.
Toorak, built by Mr. Westmoreland's
father, and inherited by himself ere the first
gloss was off the furniture; there was
nothing to do to that but to arrange' the
chairs and sofas, and scatter Eleanor's wed-
ding presents over the tables. There was
nothing more possible. It was "hopeless,"
Mrs. Duff -Scott said, surveying the bright
and shining rooms through her double eye;
glass. Unless it were entirely cleared Out,
and you started afresh from the beginning,
she would defy you to make anything of it.
So, as the bridegroom was particularly
proud of his furniture, which was both new
and costly, and would . have scouted with
indignation any suggestion of replacing it,
Mrs. Duff -Scott abandoned Eleanor a:stheti-
cally-to her fate. ' There was nothing to
wait for, so the pair were made one with
ceremony no . on f
�rent pomp and c ny. ,,:. t .1 „;a;„fir.
their return to Australia. -Eleanor had the
grandest wedding of them all, and really
did wear ” woven dew " on the
occasion—with any quantity of lace
about it of extravagant delicacy and
preciousness. And nfi'iv she has settled her-
self in her great, gay -colored, handsome
house, and is already a very fashionable
and mirth -admired and . much-sought•after
lady—so overwhelmed with her social en-
gagements and responsibilities sometimes
that she says she doesn't know what she
e she s e might go should do if she hadn't Patty's quiet little
farther and fare worse. Aird—sho wa house to slip into now and then. But she
getting older every day. enjoys it. And sho enjoys leading her in -
Mrs. Duff -Scott broke in upon a these fatuated husband about with her, like a
meditations with the demand that she tame beer on a string, to show people how
(Eleanor) should return with her to Mel- very, very infatuated he is. Itis her idea.
bourne, if only for a year or two, so that of married happiness—at present.
she should not be entirely bereft and deso- CHAPTER LII.
late. •
Y y g said the energetic
bully in him. The butter -like consistency l woman, suddenly seized with a paroxysm of
Ni to which sho melted in this freezing English I home sicknetis and a sense of the necessity
winter tine was" such as to diaqualify her to, be doing something now that at Yelver-•
for ever frog sitting in judgment upon
Elizabeth's c jogai attitude. She fell so
low, indeed, tl at she became, in her turn,
a mark for Ele or's seoflin • cr titian.
" Well, I never thought to see yeti ,
• grovel to any living, being—let alone a man
—as you do to him," said that young lady
on • one occasion, with an impudent smile.
" Tho citizens of Calais on their knees to
Edlvard'tlleThi rd' we re,truculent swaggerers
by comparison."
" You mind your own business," retorted'
Patty, with a flash of her ancient spirit.
Whereat Nelly rejoined that sho would ,
mind it by keeping her flance'in his proper
place wherillier time came to have a fiance.
She would nbt tot 'him put a rope round,her
4
.
to there seemed,not ing more to do, and
in order to shake off the depressing effect of
the first break in their little circle.. " I
have bees away too long—it is time to be
looking after my own business: Besides, I
can't allow Patter,, to remain in that young
man's lodgings -full of dusty papers and
tobacco smoke, and where, I dare say, sho
hasn't so much as a peg to hang her dresses
on. She must get a house at once, and I
must be there to see about it, and.to help
her to choose the furniture. E=lizabeth, my
darling, you have your husband and ohild—
I am leaving you happy and comfortable—
and I will come and see you again in a year
or two, or perhaps you and Kingscote will
take a trip over yourselves and spend a
r,.
•
lre rc lona an gone an for
n London she served a short but severe
apprenticeship to that noble cause which
seeks to remove the curse of past
ignorance and cruelty from those to.
whom it has come down in heredi-
tary entail—those on whose unhappy
and degraded lives all the powers of evil
held, mortgages (to quote a thoughtful
writer) before ever the deeds were put into
their"hands—and who are now preached at
and punished for the crimes that, ,not they,,
but their tyrants of„ the past committed.
She took a lesson in that new political
economy which is to the old science what
the spirit • of modern religion is to the eccle=
siasticiam which has been.� its unwilling
mother, and has learned tha£, the rich are
responsible for the peer—that, let these
interesting debating clubs that call them-
eelyes..the people's ariiaments,,,savNOM,.
P 1? .,.
they like, the moral.. of 'the great social
problem is that the selfishness of the past,,
must be met by unselfishness in the present,
if any of"ls would hope'to see good days in -
the future.
" It will not do," says Mrs. Duff -Scott to
her clergyman, who deplores the dangerous
opinions that she has imbibed, " to leave
these matters to legislation. Of what use
is legislation ? Here are a lot of ignorant,
vain men who know nothing about it, fight-
ing with ono another for what they can get,
and the handful amongst them who are
really anxious for the public good aro left
nowhere in the scrimmage. It -is we • who
must put our shoulders to the wheel, my
dear sir—and the sooner we ' set about
it the better. Look at the state of Europe"
—she waves her hand abroad—" and see
what things are homing to ! The very heart
of those countries is being eaten out by the
cancer -growths of Nihilism and all sorts of
dreadful isms, because -the poor are getting
educated to understand why they are so
poor. Look at wealthy England, With more
than a million paupers, and millions and
millions -that are worse than. paupers—Eng=
land is comparatively quiet and orderly
under it, and why ? Because- a number of
good ' people like Mr. Yelverton "—the
clergyman shakes his head at the mention
of this wicked sinner's name h
e given
themselves up to struggle honestly and face
to -face with the evils that nothing but° a
self-sacrificing andindependent philan-
thropy can touch. I believe that if Eng-
land escapes the explosion of this ferment-
ing democracy, which is brewing such a
revolution as the world has never seen, it
will be owing to neither Church nor State—
unless Church and State both mend their
ways considerably—but to the self-denying
work that is'being done outside of them by -
those who have a single•hearted desire to
help,,. to really help, their wronged and
witched fellow-creaturee." .
And the man who set her to'this good
work pu-renes it himself,, not in haste or
under fitful and feverish' impulses of what
we call enthusiasm, but with refreshed
energyand redoubled power, by reason of
the great "means" that are now at his
disposal, the faithful companionship that et
once lightens and strengthens the Iabor a#•
his hands and brain, and the deep passion
of love for wife and home which keeps hia
art warm` with -vital l einevolence "for • all -
the world. Mr-. Yele n hate not become
more:orthodhx chute -h4 xrriage;-butt that
was not to be • expect "d. In these days.
orthodoxy and goodness are not synonymous
terms. It is doubtful, indeed, if orthodoxy
has not rather become the synonym for the
opposite of goodness, in the eyes of those
who judge trees by their fruits and whose
one's self: While it is patent to the candid
observer that the men who have.studiod the
new hook of Genesis whie. Iter -day
science has written for us, and ave known
that Exodus from the land of bondage
which is the inevitable result of such study,
conscientiously pursued, are, as a rule, dis-
charity, sympathy and self-abnegation, a.
regard for the sacred ties' of brotherhood
binding man with man, which, being incom-
patible with the petty meannesses and
cruelties so largely •practiced in sectarian
circles, make their u ostentatious influence
to be felt like,swcet wholesome leaven
all-around thein: r. # ran-Is--Elizabeth'n----- ---
husband, and as time goes on sho ceases to
wish for any change in him save that which
means progression in his self -determined
course. It was not lightly that he flew iia
the face of the religious traditions of his
youth ; rather did he crawl heavily and -- ,
.unwillingly. me a._y from them, in_- irrcaistibLe_
obedience to a conscience so sensitive and
well-balanced that it ever pointed in the
direction of the truth, like the magnetic
needle to the pole, and in which ho dared to
trust absolutely, no matter how dark the
outheek seemed. And now that, aftermuch
search, he has found his way, as far .as he
may hope to find it in this world, he is too
intently Concerned to discover what may be
ahead of him, and in stor`3'for''those who
will fallow him, to trouble himself and
others with irrelevant trifles—to indulge in
spites and jealousies, in ambitions that lead
nowhere, in quarrels and controversies
about nothing—to to his precious
strength and facul£ie /he child's play
that with so Many of u is the occupation of
life, and like other child's play, full of
pinches and scratches and selfish squabbling
over trumpery toys. • The one who has
learned that "the hope ofnature' is in man,"
and something of what great nature is, and
what man should be, there no longer exists
much temptation to envy, hatred, malice
and uncharitableness, or any other of the
vulgar vices of predatory humanity, not yet
cured of .its Belt -seeking propensities. He
is educated above that level. His
recognition of the brotherhood of . men,
and their common interests and high
destiny, makes him feel for others in their
differences with him, and patient and for-
bearing with those whose privileges have
been fewer and whose light is less than his.
Elizabeth is a happy woman, and she
.knows it well. It seems to her that all the
prosperity and comfort that should have
been her another's has, like the enormous
wealth that she inherits, been accumulating
at cempound interest, through, the long
years representing the lapsed generation,
for her sole profit and enjoyment. ` She
strolls often through the old plantation,
where, in a remote nook, a moss -grown
column stands to mark the spot
where a little - twig, a' hair's breadth
lack of space, was enough to destroy
one strong life and ruin another, and to
entail such tremendous consequences upon
so many people, living and unborn ; and
she frequently drives to Bradenham Abbey
to call on or to dine with her step -uncle's
wife, and sees the stately environment of .
her mother's .girlhood—the " beautiful
rooms with the gold Spanish leather on the
walls,'' the " long gallery with the painted
windows and the slippery oak floor and the
thirty seven family portraits all. in a row."
—which she contrasts with the bark -roofed
cottage on the sea cliff within *hose walls
that beautiful and -beloved woman after-
wards lived and died. • And then she goes --
home to Yelverton to her husband and
baby, and asks what she has lone to deserve
to be so much bettor off than those who
went before her ?
And yet, perhaps, if all accounts were
added up, the sum total of loss and profit
on those respective investments that we
make, or that are made for us, of our
property in life, would not be found to
'differ so very inueh,'one case with another.
We can neither suffer nor enjoy beyond a
Berta n„ po,tt tt.., Elizabeth, ia. ri h beLyond,. the,.
-dreams of avarice in all that to' such a
woman is precious and desirable, and 1#: , . y
in her choice and lot beyond her ut, :6
expectations. Yet not'so'hippy as
have nothing to wish for—which we know,
as well as Patty, means " too happy to
last."' There is that hunger for her absent
sisters, which 'tries in vain to satisfy itself
in weekly letters of prodigious length, left
as a sort of hostage to fortune, a valuable if
not altogether trustworthy security for the
safety of her. dearest possessions.
•THIO END. -
A Traveler 1Rcjolclng.
Summerside, P. E. I. Oct. 10, 1888 :
Having Lased -St. Jaco]as Oil for a badly.
sprained knee, I can testify to its peculiarly.
curative properties, as less than one bottle
completely cured the sprain." GEonnu
GREO(3, Traveller for J. C. Ayer & Co. ' -
Never Touched Ater.
Diggs—I found a pretty caustic n,' `cher=
in-law yoke in the, paper and' showed it to
my wife's another.
Figgs—What did she say !
Diggs—She laughed, and said she supposed
there were just such mothers-in-law in the
world.
Men who feel "run down" and ',' out of
s )rts," whether from mental worry; over-
work, excesses or indiscretions will find a
speedy ''burs in Dr. Williams' Pink Pills.
' All dealers.
. Van All—Sa.yl -Burton, I ve •got a new
sister. • Burton --You don't say 1 Come
let's have something. When did it happen?
Van All —Last , night about 11.45. 1 pro-
pose'd.
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