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The girls have galled sae down to ad- d them Mee ring rows,pdt ' M nae; "Dass JeleMbes," thought I, •1do not .ut..ethusg tn., and manly is a regular
mire theu tae, they bowl estreesely ware their hat A►-► be sfikiepMwa. Ile you emsaider your- (hiatal :Jewett
well ; LiNabel, majestic, dote, and fair , eswedtrtgle sass' h1, and did ave eases salt so much better thea your fellow De. Urquhart spoke to het.
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4 sur ]ate nosed "'fit' I doubt if amytia et t is this world would quits ouasiosasthma.e. 1s in these asthma. re
creature' that you hesitate turuieg "Su, ►t I overheardMrs. you say to s.
mafrbM odea owes* a disturb thaegaaaamity d herdeep, due "MiIitl., d sautes," 1 oveshMrd t lady a civil answer to a and remark- imam eleauton, you 'Mkt soldier&' 'Bate' u
aY'RYt w ksh hs e:� e•a geaard aolt•taespsed mouth—+ image, obeerefe, who apparently Mew all tibout kindly, too -Leeds yea, leesooth, like • strong word -for • tJhriati•u women
rest► Y tt died. aside gm j Pairs al, Wte • white it "Nosed our Atom wear uniform the leseit h ematlemea who was ant My uvea weapons torose oleo :w
, esawiatd�io me" redeems. redeems, Mt eta &shed, ow- Yam much admired is our wham they -- avoid N. " to Nave usether r geMlaman from duo ase • •Yes, 1 beta dellen ►weave my prin-
4 a�attl agesta.x Limbed, .ant ao wonder That white But these puns We maned unoumt- ins---'aheeW have OMB moot happy, eipies, twtloda, ubsmry Macs, ouu4nu
Leasee ,will kill halt the °doses in the moldy prod d bedsit, mad strutted and kers never km jetrotasd-' What 1 die in the justice of my didhl& In penes
camp the elms going to pat es bar pink sidled about the dear, very v loroas dad girl, is this your Meat d esametiooadYy they are id e, uselw, extravagant, 01101 -
but I suggested how ill pink would m gnitoest; anti) dwelt amt dragged to -yuan Pled kaki► d thinking and braes of abs awatay-the mere butter
look *seiner scarlet, and au, after • series their destiny --in the shape of somas fair judging for your noble ladle itis d society la war -yoga know whet
d.Breen, Miss Lisa took my advice. partner, whettheyimmediatelye d +the follies of iosisle1 they aro"
She is evidently beat upon leaning her into shyness and awkwaida -my, I 'P1.! fief' "Do I 1 with • slight smile. l
best to -night might add-♦tapi411j ; bat were they sot To punish myself for lay ouw•rdioe, 1 1 grew more am..!.
PPleteee, &leo ; lout I wish Peae1ope the kepdal tholes d their oouatry, determined to tura round and look at "in truth had 1 sow 1»t' a emrk of
wind nut wear such airy dresses, and dad din ea their amine wards lie id/. et the pa{lemgn- military ardor, it condi/ oars been
sash • quantity of artificial Gowen, while this moment on the asst'sating-phone- lis pmei_heseet was mat severe. He queuched within the lust year. I never
her outdo are so thin and her teeth so Mrs, Grantee's billiard -table 1 had • good food, brown end dark; • thin, sae • thing --well not say a Riau -with a
Elie used to have very pretty I wafahed the ease out d um corner spars, Airy tire; en bin soinewkat red oust ou, who does trot stake Minitel(
hair ten years ago. I remember being in • strafe of dreaaay amusement ; ming- tamed. Y,ip yes were gems, yet lite thoroughly a,atsaspt-
,eaoseding •koekedly and fieroe about • led with a vague curiosity as to how leas without a )kg apitit d know, which The word stuck in the middle Fur
nerd of hers Wet I saw stolen in the sum- I should be left to mit wdhifary there, and seamed to have dearly penetrated mid no then permed slowly by say sister Lies'
ase,,houae, by Francis Charteris, before whether it weld be nary dull, if "with been rather amused by um foolish em- bell; leaning un the arm of {*pain Tre-
esesound out that they were engaged. goring fed" -including a trite of supper barreimm at rune ridieukes iadasiiu:t. harm, looking as I never saw Lisabel
She rather expected him to -night, 1 -I ihud kadtospemd the entire waning. This veld me for the ieement; then 1 look before. It suddenly rushed across
Neely. Mr& Charlton was sure to have Mrs. Grantee atom bustling up. smiled -we both smiled, and began to ma what might happen -perhaps had
invited him with us ; but of course, he "My dear girl -are you not d pan g 1" ismk.ppeod. 8uppo..in aka. perrior+-
has not coma He never did cane, in "Apparently not," mord I, laughing, Of 000ram,it would bare been di!<arsst •tepy venting ss7 prejultess,I should bs
my recollection, when he maid he would- and trying to each bee, and make room had he been a young man, but he was fitly condemning my --what an odd
I ought top and dress ; but I can do for herr. Vain attempt ! Mrs. Grantee not I should Una he 1100 noatyj forty. idea -my briber -in-law 1 Pride, if Ise
it in ten =mates, and it is not worth never will sit down wlile there is any- At this moment Mea Oramtem amps emelt feeling, awed use to bested&
erhils wasting more time. Those two thing that she thinks elm he deme for up, with her used pleased look whoa she 1)r. Urouhart mid, quietly enough,
girls -what • capital foil each makes to anybody. en a nomad she would leave thinks other people are pleased with ote "I ah wind tot you -indeed 1 ought to
the other !.--1 ale, dark, lively -nos to been buzzing all round the room Mein another, end mei4, in that friendly mann- hove tow you before_tbMM 1 as myself
say satirical ; large, amiable, and fair. amiable bas in semi ef moa untortu- er that Brakes eiegybody else feel friend- ie tit army."
Papa ought to be proud of them -I sup- nate youth upon wham to indict me as • btogetker alai I am sure I looked --as 1 lett-lib a
pole he is partner -but not even my desire of dace- "A partner, .es. That's right, Kiss downright time This comes, 1 thought,
Height) ! 'Tis a good thing to be good- in would allow me to sink so low as Dow You shall ham a quadrille in a d somiougtime's miae, especially to
looking. And nest best, perhaps is that. minute, doctor." mtramgsea Oh! should I ever learn to
downright ugliwrr-nice, interesting, at- For safety I ran atter, and attacked the Doctor ! I feat relieved. He might hued my tourism, gabble pretty harmless
tractive ugliness --such as I hive seen in good old lady on one of bar week points have been worse--perkape, from his mamma as other giro 1 Why Rheum I
some women ; nay, I have somewhere Luckily she caught the bait, and we were beard, even a camp officer. Lays talked eeriouely to this man at all t
read that ugly women have often been soon safely landed on the great blanket, "Our friend takes things too mach fee I know nothing of Lim, and had no busi-
lowed beat bed, and anti -beer distribution question, granted," he maid, smiling. "I holism I nem to be interested in him, or even
But to be jest ordinary ; of ordinary now shaking our pariah to its very foun- must introduce myself. Ny name is Ur- to have listened to him -my mister would
height, ordinary figure, and, oh me ; let dation& I am aahamed to say, though quhart." say -until he had been properly "intro
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me lift up my head from the desk to the the rector's daughter, it is very little I "Dr. Urquhart r' duced;" =Oil 1 knee whore he lived,
looking-glaaa, and bike • good stars et an know about our pariah. And though at "Ye" and
who were hill
Mbar aid mother,
undeniably ordinary face. 'Tis not plata- first I rather repented of my nese. seeing Here the quadrille began to form, and ad what was him p otoaaiow, and how
ant. Well ; I am as I was made ; let me that Mn, Granton'. deafness made both I to button my gloves not discontentedly moth income ha hid a year•
not undervalue myself, if only ont of re- her remarks and my answers moat un- He said: Still, I did feel interested, and could
versnce for Him who made me. pleasantly public, gradually I became so "I fear I am assuming a right on false not st ret seemed that
Surely --Captain Treherne'■ voice be- interested in what she was ase , for I never danced in ss life. b�
7 lin telling . + pretenses 7 I was bound to say : I wished it to b•
low. Does that young man expect to be that we must have kept on talking nearly You do, I sew I most not detain you doss if poesibhe
taken to the ball in our fly ? Truly, he twenty minutes, when some one Bled from another partner." And, ems •' But you are Dr. Urquhart An
is making lamed( one of the family al- the old lady way. again, my unkknown fed read, who meemd asesy-meegoon i• oesatoely like a soldier;
ready. And there is papa calling us, "Sorry to leave you, Miss Dora, but I to have such eztssme perietratioos into his bminess i• to sere lite ratite than to
What will papa say ?
leave you in good company," she said, my motives and intentions, mooed acids destroy it Surely you never could have
Why, he did nothing ; and Lisabel, as nodding and smiling to some people be- Of course I got no partner -I never killed anybody r
she swept slowly down the staircase with hind the oda, with whom she probably do. When the doctor reappeared, I was The a.eweot 1 had put the question I
a little silver lamp in her right hand, thought I was acquainted ; but I was not, unfeignedly glad to see him. He took bo'n[ aumum and uncalled for, in fid,
likewise said nothing ; but she looked- nor had the slightest ambition for that no notice whatever of my humiliating bow actually impertinent it woe. Cover_
"Everybody is lovely to somebody," honor. Strangen at a ball have rarely state of solitude, but set down in one of ed with confusion, 1 drew beak, and
mays the proverb. Query, if somebody I anything to say worth saying or hearing. the dancers' vacated phioes, and re- looked another way. It was the greatest
could name should live to the age of So I never turned my head, and let Mn. named the thread of our conversation as did imaginable when just then Lisabel
Methuselah, will she ever be lovely to Granton trot away. - if it had vever been broken. saw me, and mime up with Captain Tre-
anybody ? My mind and eyes followed her with • Often, in a crowd, two people not borne, all asiles, to say, was it not the
What nonsense ! Bravo ! thou west half sigh, considering whether at sixty I much interested therein, fall upon sub- pleasantest qty imaginable ! and who
in the right of it, jolly miller of Dee ! stall have half the activity, or cheerful- jeota perfectly extraneous, which at once lad I been dancing with 3
"I cars for nobody, no, not 1 ; nems, or kindliness. of her dear old self. make them feel interested in these and << Nobody, '
And nobody cares for ane.' No one broke it upon mymeditatiou& in each other. Thus,it seems quite odd
So let me lock upmydesk and dread forPapa's� q " Nsy, I sac you myself talking to
white head was visible in a die- these morningto think d the multiple
the ball- Really, not a bad ball ; even tent doorwayfor the o theyhad cityd topics which r- some strange coking p Who was he ?
� girls, etar'ogen� P A rather odd-looking person, and-"
now -when looked at in the light of next long since vanished in the whirligig. I Urquhart discussed last night. I gained « Hash, please. It was a Dr. Ur -
day's quiet -with the leaves stirring lazily caught at times a glimpse of Penelope's from him much various information.
in the fir -trees by my window, and the rose -clouds of tartletan her a face, He must have been & traveller, and tidied."
Tre-
broad sunshine brightening the moor- � great" Urquhart of out Y' cried young Tre-
and ever smiling white teeth, that oon- observer too; and for me, I marvel now herne. " Why, he told me he should
lands far away tract ill with her restless black eyes ; it to recollect how I spoke m mind
Piot a bad ball even to me who um- y freely to y not come, or should not stay ten ninnies
is always rather painful to me to watch on many things which I usually keep to if he came- Much too solid for this
ally am stoically contemptuous of such my eldest osier et parties. And now and myself, partly from shyness, partly bo- kind of thing -eh, you see 1 Yet a capi-
senseless amusements ; doubtless from then Lisabel came grating, moonlike, cause nobody here et hem" cares ole tat fellow. The bed fellow in all the
the mean motive that I like dancing, and through the room, almost obscuring straw about than. Among others came world. Where is he"
am rarely asked to dance ; that I am young, slender Captain Treherne, who the universal theme --the war. But the " bed fellow in all the world"
just five -and -twenty, and get no more at- yet appeared quit. comsat in his occulta- I maid I thought the three much- psad entirety disappeared•
tention than if I were five -and -forty. Of tion. He also seemed to be of myat Quakers, who went to the
comae, I protest continuallythat I don't opin-laughed I enjoyed the red of the evening to -
P ion that scarlet and white were the bed Car Nicholas, were much nearer the trsmely-what is, pretty well Not alto -
care a pin for this fact(mem mean again), of colon, for I did not see him make the truth than many ods` their mockers. War
gether' now I costo to tenni of it, for
For I do care -at the very bottom of my slighted danced I attempt to dance with any 1 ady seemed to me Su utterly opposed to to my hos't's *intent,
heart, I do. Many a time have I leaned but Limbal. Chasti&nity that I did not see how any Captain Treherne seemed eager to bring
my head here -good old desk, you will Several people, I noticed, looked .t Christian man could ever become a mol- op his whole regiment, sureeenvely, for
tell no tales ! and Dried, actually cried- them and .mild and one lad whim- I -.
f„ 7 for my patronage and Penelope's and
with the pain of being neither pretty, pered something about "poor clergy- .At this Bo Urquhart leaned his elbow (N. B. not Lisabel's,) whenever I caught
agreeable, nor young- ' man's daughter" and "Sir William Tre- ow the arm of 40 soh and looked ma • distant glimpse of Dr. Urquhart's
Moralists may, it is every r. woman's kerne."
steadily in the foe brown bevel, eemcienes stung me for my
power to be in a measure •11 three ; that I felt hot to my very temples, Oh, if "Do lav mean that a Christian man filly and want of tact Dear ms ! What
when she is not liked or admired -by we were all in Paradise, or s nunnery,or is not to addend hie own life or liberty,
some few at least -it is a sign that she is some lace where there was neither that of �, ander any circumdanost • thing it is that one can so sellout utter
P an honest opinion without offending
neither likeable nor admirable- There- thinking nor making or marriages !: or is he to wear a red coat peaodolly
somebody.
fore, I suppose I am neither. Probably I determined to catch Lisa when the while peace hats, and at hie first battle Was he really offended 1 He mud
very disagreeable. Penelope often says waltz was done. She waltzes well, even throw down his musket, shoulder his
so, in her sharp, and Lisabel in her lazy gracefully, for a tall women -but 1 Testament and walk awayl" have seen that I did not mean any harm;
an
way.Ii. would applythe same e'er"- nor does he look hake one of those touchy
P wished, I wished -my wish was cwt short Thome words, though of s freer tons people who are always wincing as if they
cion to a gnat on her waist, or a dagger by a collision which made me start up than I was used to, were not token in trod on tails of imaginary added Yet
pointed at her heart. A "thoroughly with an idea of rushing to the rsseue; any irreverence. They puzzled me. I ho made no attempt to Dome and tali to
amiable woman !" Now, 1 never lean- ever, the next moment Treherne and felt as if I lead been playing the oracle me again; for which _T was
never shall be --am amiable woman.u a subject whereon I had not then try' partly
she had recovered their balance and ) became I woul' have liked to make hiss
To return to the ball -and really I were spinning on again. 01 course 1 sat 1e11st grounds to form an opinion d al.
some amends, and pertly became he
would not mind returning to it and hay- down immediately. Yet I would not yield.
ing it •11 over again, which is more than But my looks must be terrible tell- "Dr. Urquhart, if you recollect, I said seemed the only man present worth talk-
ome can say of many hours of our lives tales, mince some one behind me said, as 'beoosse •saddler.' H"w hang ahsedy ing t".
especially of those which roll on rapidly plain as if in answer to my thoughta: a addier, a Christian n s
mahould set, 1 I do wonder more and more what my
as hours seem to roll after five -and- "Pray be satisfied; the is could not we nee wise enough to judge. But 1 do mieters ern find in the v"nng men they
twenty. It was exceedingly amusing.
have been in the least haft" think, other prv,hssionsa being open, for dimesante chatter with,.
To n► they are
Large, well -lit racism filled with well- L was surprised; for, though the •unix him to shoos. voluntarily the ptotassioe en,enno' ited,&btd'tely unendurable•
dressed people ; we do not often make was polite, even kind, people do not, &t of ann., and to receive wages for taking Tat there may be good in spina
of thew
such a goodly show in our country enter -least in our country society, allures • away life, is at best • monstrous entreaty. Key 7 Nry, there must be good in every
taiim ent: but then the Granton know lady without an introduction_ I an- Nay, however it may be gkrsed over and harm being. Alas, me' Well !right
everybody. Nobody would do that but .mored civilly, of Doane, but it west refined away, sandy. in hoe of the pion Dr. Urquhart say last night that there
dear old lira (kanton, and "my Cohn," have been with some stiffness of manner, "emend. III"' dsh! wag ,' military ase an judgments .o hard' aa thaw of
who, if his has act three pennyworth of for the gentleman said glory smears hale bstteer than • pictur- the Siring, the inv.perrencd, and the
brains, has the kindest heart aad the "Pardee tee; I eonjeded it was your sales form of murder." young
heaviest purse to the whole neighbor- wstv who etrppud, alai that yoe ware 1 spoke strongly- macre strongly, pun. bought to add that, when we were
hood. uneasy &bout her,.' bowed, and usismii- haps, than • young woman, whose opisi- manly waiting for our fly to lraw up to
I am sure Mn (Ironton must have fait •Celt' moved away rata are more instincts and emotions tem the hall dor', Dr a.rluhsrt sudhenly art
proud d her handsome suite of rooms, 1 felt uncomfortable; nnoertern wholk- ssstses priapi, ought to speak. if so paired Papa had Penelope on his
quite • perambulatory perterte. boasting w to take any notice of him or 'toe; cess Dr. Urquhart sate me a fitting rebuke arm; Leaded was whuperutg with Cap
all the buss ..f the sdnh"w suhdeed by Laurie who it wee that heel used the un- �' total ileese. tail Trsbwae. Y.s, dep.a l u
the proper a.tupletnent 4 inevitable Noir did he for some time. Pen it,
liberty of speak to me -� arse s, flat )Dory man will be say brother -in -
black fey -std ►y, as the mercies ed- dewier_ _wad whetter It woold have much as look at me, but bent bis lead ow. "'Id by myself to the d"e'wq,
ta,wwd, clot after dot of the adored mar* iso eoernibYag ,,ween in any way to down till d could only finch the fora- looking ons ,on the pooh darh night,
let made tts appeannee round tee deers. maw, mover Nava 11011 "r a 'Thank .h-ressnd serail, d }nrelsead, ucee, end when .nome ons bekind se said
cosopl.ted the coloring of the arena yea " early hoard. Certainly. though a mr "Trey taxi within obeli.& Tan
tae�d duty- lir rwpewoeioi,sv .„A goes They or• etosr wswottve whew .iewd as is. ,•,tenon tense a.ttled the melt. Isabs it nesse, pcprpyra'. tntolere►le, , younggeb 1&ri.,. •re*ewerk half osr'efnl
ae , aisarrr •.Ave oe•rhea dila &Cuss .e ssd whale.,, Mot rode' Aattev. 'herr a
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s swami
Tey I bite seYiera
1 matt help wetting it -it relieves say
miss Al as.ssiag have ase beea die -
kg about that horrid region laic wtocb
sed[ beasir' Asada* afoot hes team
tsammmogdiflel ; woad sad round ; asp
dad down ; is M the south asap amdemt
at the morib camp ; directed hither and
thither by cuddle -headed privates ; star-
ed at by pappyisk young Akers ; choked
with chimney -smoke ; jolted over tads
kid with aehr-or no scads at all -and
pestered everywhere with the digit d
lounging, lay sod groups -that oolur is
beooratwg toms & perfect eye -sore 1 What
a trent it is to sat home and look aydelf
in my ons *mom -the tiniest add -safest
nook in all spat out
my wrath in the blackest of ink with fid
bolded of pima Bikes you (query, who
Gan I be ileeeimg, for nobody will ever
read this), what Loss it matter 1 And
after all, I repast, it relieves my mint.
I do hate evldisa. I always did from
my youth up, eel the war of the East
startled everybody Eke a thunder -clap.
What a time it was -this time two years
ago ? How the astmal sa►maaos of each
day, as set down is the asaspapers, suede
my old romattoa *dad like mere balder-
dash ; how the present, in its infinite
pit en:teas, its tangible honor, and the
awfulness of what they called its "glory,"
oast the tame page Altogether into (bade ?
Who read anything but that fearful
"Times ?"
And now it is all gone by ; we have
peace again ; and this 30th of September,
1866, I begin with my birthday a new
journal (capital one, too, with a firstrate
lock and key, saved out of ray summer
bonnet, which I didn't buy), Nor need
I spoil the day -as once -by crying over
those, who, two years since,
Wepttip iced Alma's Weights to (dory.
Conscience, tender over deed heroes,
feels not the smallest oompnaction in
writing the angry initiatory lines, when
she thinks of that odious camp which has
been establi bed near us, for Um educa-
tion of the military mind, and the hard-
ening of the military body. Whence
rel-oosta swarm out over the pretty
neighborhood like lady -birds over the
hop gardens -harmless, it is true, yet
forever flying in one's face in the most
unplesaant manner, and making inroads
through one's parlor windows, and crawl-
ing over one's tea -table. Wr•etebed red
insects! except that the act would be
murder, I often wish I cold put half a
dozen of them, swords, epaulets, mus-
taches, and all, under the heel of my
ahoe.
Perhaps this is obstinacy, or the love
of contradiction. No wonder. Do I
hear of anything but soldiers from morn-
ing till night 1 At visits or dinner -parties
cin I speak to a soul --and 'tie not much
I do speak to anybody -but that eke (I
use the pronoun advisedly) is sure to
bring in with her second sentence some-
thing about "the camp 1"
I'm sick of the mutt). Would that my
sisters were ! For Lisabel, young and
handsome, there is some excuse, but
Penelope -she ought to know better.
Papa is determined to go with us to the
Orantone' ball to -night. I wish there
were no nocessity for it ; and have sug-
gested, aa strongly as I could, that we
should stay at home. But what of that?
Nobody over did that I ever remember.
So poor paps is to be dragged out from
his cozy arm -chair, jogged and tumbled
across these wintery moon, and stuck up
solemn in a corner jof the drawing -room
-being kept carefully out of the card -
room because he happens to be a clergy-
man. And all the while he will wear his
politest and most immovable of smiles,
kid as if he liked it. Oh, why cannot
people say what they mean, and do as
they wish i Why must they be tied and
bound with horrible chains of etiquette
even at the age of seventy ! Why can-
not he say, "young ladies"), "i had fax
rather stay at home ; go you and enjoy
yourselves," or better still, "go, two of
you, but I want Dore-"
No, he never will say that He never
did want any of us much ; me lets than
any. I am neither eldest nor youngest,
neither Miss Johnson nor Mise Liaabel,
only Mine Dora -Theodora --"the gift of
God," as my little bit of Greek taught
me. A gift -what for and to whom ? I
declare, since 1 wad a baby, since I was
a little solitary ugly child, wondering if
I ever had a mother like other ohildrsn,
since even 1 have been • woman grown,
I never have been able to find out
Well, d suppose it is no nee to try to
alter things. Paps will go his own way,
and the girls thein. They think the
grand climax of existence is "society." he
thinks the same, at lent for young wo-
men, properly introduced, escorted , and
protected there f1,,, as the three Misses
J"hneren ewe.( flntt.nng doves have
oto other (spawn o pr,tecto.r he nukes
n Martyr of himself on the shrine of pe
And with re grave prw11ra_itlit sled q
aedwal &tend wrapped tie depholle fm ;
my shawl
' • A plaid, 1 as.. lb* is .uensibla
Then is nothing tug warmth like a good
plaid,. he said, with • iariis, whish,
seen had It test boa Asa his mase, and
a .fight atretgtkeekag ami hsdatuuug of
lie ltmgirak, ssarosly amounting to aa
•ooat, would have patty well showed
what part et the kingdom Dr- Uaquhaat
came from I was wog, is my blunt-
ness, to put the divest question. bet felt
as it 1 hdoommdNed nisei! quitit iough
for one night
Just thou was sbeested out, " Mr.
Johamom's"- (uk dinar ! shall we ever get
:,me voteceatio l into our plebiau name 1) a
- ' Mr. JoLsonl mintage. and 1 was '
hurried into the fly. Not by the doctor,
though; he stood like a bear on the door-
step, and never attempted ted Mir.
What's all
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tr'ir '+ CHAPTER 0
Yid arsnY-.
iioepifoe! Yeaorwada, Sept. 711*. -
Private William Oarter, ret_ t4; admitted
a week to -dap. Ga dria bow--typkeid
furs -slight delirium -bun case. Asked
caw to write to kis mother; did net day
where. Mess.: to inquire aseng his ii -
vision if anything is known about kis
trismus.
Corporal Thomas Mesdames sit BO -
Delirium tnmeos-- diug. knew hies
in the Crimea, when he was a perfectly
sober fellow, with constitution of iron.
"Treock work did it," be step. "add Is.t
winter's idleass•." Mem.: to send for
him after hisdie m hospital,
and see what calf be done; also to see
that decent body, ho wife, after sy
rounds to -morrow.
M. U. --Max Urquhart, M. D., 1l. R
0. Who keeps scribbling his name up and
down this page like a silly athuol-boy,
Om for want of something to do.
Something to do ! never for these
twenty years and nate have I been so
totally without occupation.
What a place this camp is ! Worse
then ours in the Crimea, by far- To-
day especially, Rain pouring, wind
howling, mud ankle-deep; nothing on
earth for me to be, to do, or to suffer,
except -yes ! there is something to suffer
-T skssos's eternal luta
Faith, I must be very hard up for oar
cupstioa when I tine coatiaee this jour-
nal of my rases into Use personal diary
of the worst patient I have to deal with
-the most thankless, unestielestory, and
unkindly. Physician, heal thyself ! But
how 1
I shall tear oat this page -or stay, Iii
keep it as a resssrkabie literary and psy-
chological fact -and go on with my ard#
title on Gunshot Wounds.
In the which, two hour after I find I
have written exactly tea lines.
Them must be the sort of circumstan-
ces under which people commit journal&
For some do -and heartily as I have al-
ways contemned the proceeding, as we
are prone to contemn peculiarities and
idiosyncrasies quite foreign to our own, I
begin to -day dimly to understand the
state of mind in which such a thing v
might be possible.
" Diary of a Physician," shall I tall iti
Did not some one write a book with that
title 1 I picked it up on ship -board -a
story -book, or some such thing -but i
scarcely ever read what is called " light
literature-" I never had time. Be-
sides, all fictions grow tame compared to
idea realities of daily life, the horrible
episodes of crime, the pitiful bits of hope -
lea misery that I meet with in my pro -
Notion. Talk of romance !
Was I ever romantic 1 Once, #per-
haps. Or at least I might have bees.
My profession, truly there is nothing
like it for me. Therein I find inoetaant
work, interest, hope. Daily do I thank
heaven that I had courage to seize on it
and go through with it, in ordtr-a000rd-
ing to the phrase I heard used lad night
--" to save hie instead of destroying it"
Poor little girl --the meant nothing -
the had no idea what she was saying.
L it that which makes me so unsettled
today 1
Perhaps it would be wiser never to go
into society. A hospital ward is far more
natural to ase than $ ball -room. There,
is work to be dost, psis to be alleviated,
evil of all kiads to be mat and overcome
- here, nothing but pleasure, nothing to
do but to enjoy.
Yet some people can enjoy, and actu
ally do se; i aur sure Omit girt dd. Seve-
ral time. during the evening an. looked
quite happy. i do not often see people
looking happy.
1s smi.sfmg, thea, our normal and na
turd state t It to exist synonymous
with to orders 1 Ota the be tae law of.
a beseaeeat Providencia 1 or ars such re
sults allowed to happier ins certain swoop
weal stet, utterly irremediable and er
retrievable, like- -
What am 1 wvitias t What am 1 ear
to write 1
" Physician, heel thyself " And sure
ly that is nee of • physician's first du
ties A disease struck inward the
deeveM tyro knows how fatal is treatment
which results in that Tt may he 1 have
gone en the wrong trek •ltoget.het et
loon „neo, mi netwrn sen Rnglan.*
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paste gut
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from it --u
but to bra
Now, 1
amity, but
speak. I
disease wi
parattvely,
oessantly u
find in mit
aucholy fro
men for ue
or egotism
high pitch,
insanity.
as dieting,
disease of t
have atudie
and cones
was simple
herself ufte
the law of
tion of an
others, uud
original ide
laid to sleek
Why cans
do for myse
prescribed !
It was wi
that I went
a vague sor
anonymous
so long beei
with all his
Lad. I shod
any hams.
The tall
and the see
pleasanter t
sister. An
was Johnson
What an
cause him t
door, with
his nerves
now, in the
compel him
tional argot
be it chime:
men ought s
as base s pa
wise face i
stood- -
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was summa
have been e
dead. He
What a sea
seems when
What an ea
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e same les
when I was
have just ha
that it nigh
I find there
have feared
way have si
perhaps the
Shall I to
-this steel
are hundrec
with every
exactly the
Yet this i
write it do
plain Engle
in degree h
have oat do
recount to
of his dela
mere telliry
vanish.
I went at
once Nei
my life Ia
that would
walked as
along road
whether, ft
rise. She
nineteen y
months, all
tic is corm
self like a
waves of m
upon the
there was r
hide from --
but the pia
that night
What an
coming bac
be kept at
A knock
d poor Ca
turn to dai;
me.
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