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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Signal, 1881-01-21, Page 21 A LIFE FOR 1 LIFE. /SY VMS DULOCI CHAPTER X11. IK bTukY. Just finished by long letter to Limbo', and lingered over the direction, •Mrs. Treherne, Treherne Court." How strange to think of our Lim as Mistress there. Which she is in fact, for Lady Treherne, a mild, elderly lady, is wholly engrossed in tendring Sir Williain, who is very infirm. The old people's rule seems merely nominal - it is Lisabel and Agustus who reign. Their domain is a perfect palace --and what a queen Mita Lis must look there- in ! How well she will maintain her positiori, and enjoy it, too. In her case, are no poetical sufferings from haughty parenta, delighted to crush a poor daugh- ter-in-law -With the burden of an honor Unto which she was not born. - Already they both like her and are priaid .4 her, which is not surprising. I thought I had never seen a inure beautiful crea- ture than my sister Liaa, when, on her way to Treherne Court, she came home for a day. Home ! I forget, it is not her haute 'low. •How strange. this must have been to her, if she thought about it. Possibly .ho did not, being never given v. senti- ment. And, though with us ahe was not the least altered, it was amusing to see how, to everybody else, the appeared quite the married hely; even with birs. Grantou, who,happeuing to call that day, was delighted to see her, and seems not to cherish the smallest resentment in the ',natter of "my Colin.' Very generous -for it is not the good old lady's first ilisappointment-she has been going a wooing for her son ever since he was one:. and -twenty, and has not found a daugh- ter-in-law yet. Colin, too, conducted himself with the utmost sang-froid; and when Agustus, who is beaming with benevolence to the whole human raee, invited him to escort nobler than the life of thought. his mother, Penelope and me, on our So I keepyeasoning with myself. If first vteit to Treherne Court, he accepted I could only find a good and adequate the invitation as if it were the pleasunt- reason for some things which perplex me est in the world. Truly, if woinen•e sorely, about myself and -other people, hearts are as inipressionable as wax, it would be a great comfort. men's are as tough as gutta perch*. Talk To -day, &along a heap of notes which breaking them-feugh ! . papa gave tris to make candle -lighters of, I hope it indicates no barbarity on my I found this note, which I kept, the part if I confess that it would have raised handwriting being peculiar -and I have my opinion of hint, and his sex in gener- a few crochets about handwriting. al, to have seen Colin for a month or 1,0 at leaat, wholesomely miserable. Lisabel • behaved uncommouly wull with regard to him, and, indeed, in every way. She was as bright as a May morning, and full of the good qualities 4 her Agustus, whom she really likes . very much after her fashion. She will doubtless be among the many wives who become eztremelv attached to their hus- s te • TRE MON SIGNAL, FRIDAY JANUARY 21, 1881, eountry, wA t tier- -.Us, Bid Or cme natuutai, he 111141101111 Iithkigliff la hie antis Max, after01104 could it hat eine* lift ter, herds 1 &au tedionitig to gilts up-strunipe perhaps, that it should kave laated No long- wy belief is the pvatibie happiness of life. Apparently, people were meow meant to be happy. Sall fleahas of plemantneas come and go er it may be that in some few lives are ecstatic momenta, With as this I have been thinking of, and thenit is all over. But many people Be plod- ding along to old ode, in • dull, straight reed, with little sorrow and no jo. Is my love to be sleek as thief Then the question arises, what am I to do with it t It sometimes crosses my mind what Dr. Urquhart said, about his life being "owed. ' All our lives are, in one sense: to ourselves, to our fellow -creatures, or to God ; or, is there some point of • union which includes all three 1 If I only could find it out ! Perhaps, according to Colin Gnutton's lately learned ductrioe-I know whence learned -it is the having something to do. Something to be, your fine preach- ers of self -culture would suggest; but self -culture is often no better than ideal- ised egotism; people sick of themselves want something to do. Yesterday, driving with papa along the edges of the camp, where we never go new, I caught sight of the slope where the hospital is, and could even distin- guish the poor fellows sitting in the sun or lounging about in their blue hospital clothes. It made rue think of Smyrna and Scutari. Nu; while there is so nuch misery and sin in the world, a man has no right to lull himself to sleep in a paradise of self- improvement and self -enjoyment; in which there is but one supreme Adam, one perfect specimen of humanity, name- ly, himself. He ought to go out and work -fight, if it must be, wherever duty calls him. Nay, even a woman has hardly any right, in these days, to sit still and dream. The life of action is inenten sae in these pelt* Mtn Mg the samm-ilhospli he les siMenyer, kers end aims es 03te mag awe Els, dein% it 11 in Jay for many a twee body whim he t=i' thia. w, hearing el things like I amitcoltoome tine -bei I this mak onieleel quieter. It does not meek matter after all --it doss sot indeed! 1 never wasted any- body to think about me, to oars for as, half as much as anybody to look up to- - to be satisfied in - to honor and rever- ence. 1 can do that still! Like a fool, I have lime crying *gain, till I ought, properly, to tear this leaf out, and beiges afresh. No, 1 will not. Nobody will ever see it, and it does no harm to any human being. "God blest him !" the old woman said. 1 might say something of the like sort too; for he did me a deal of good; he was very kind to me. "DEAR Sia: Press of business, and other unformen circumstances, with which I am fettered, make it impossible for me to accept any invitatiorui at pres- ent. I hope you will believe that I can uever forget the hospitalities of Rock - mount, and that I am ever most grate- fully your faithful servant, Mee Cage - KART. Can he, then, wean our acquaintance hands after marr age. To wy benighted to cease ' Should we be a hindrance in ntind, it has always seemed advisable to his busy, useful life --such a frivolous have a slight prefarence before that cere- family as ours ? It may be so. Yet I mony. fear papa will be hurt. She told nee with a shuddtr that was This afternoon, though it was Sunday, altogether natural and undisguised, how I could not atay in the house or garden, • glad she was that they had been married but went out, fax upon the !neer, and at once, and that Agustua had sold out, walked till I was weary. Then I sat me for there is a chance of the regiment's down upon a heather -bush, all in a heap, being soon ordered on foreign sera ioe. my arms clasped round wy knees, trying 1 had not heard of this before. It was to think of this hard question --what is some aurprise. to become of me; what am I to do with Liget:re! was very affectionate to me the my life 4 It lime before ine, apparently whole day, and, in going away, said mho is bleak, barren, and monotonous as hoped 1 did not niiss her much, and that. these miles of moorland -stretching on I should get a good husband of my own and on in dull undulations, or dead flats, (mon; I did not know what a comfert it till a range of low hills ends all ! Yet, was. sometimes, this wild region has looked "Somebody to belong to you -to care quite different. I remember describing tor you -to pet you- your own personal it once -how beautiful it was, how property, in short-whocan't get rid of breezy and open, with the ever-changing you, even when you're old and ugly. tints of the moor, the ever -shifting and Yes, l'ia glad I married poor dearAugus- tus. And, child, I hope to see you mar- ried also. A good little thing like you would make a capital wife to somebody. Why, simpleton, I deulare she'. cry- on my heather -bush and cry. !" ' Tears do one good occasionally. When It must have been the over-eacite- I dried mine, the hot weight on the top ment of this day; but I felt, as if, had I of rny head seemed lighter. If there not cried, rny temples and throat would have burstowith a choking pain, that lasted long after Lisabel was gone. They did not altegether stay more than fame hours. Agustus talked of CHAPTER HER STORY. Paps and Penelope are out to di llll er. I myself was out yesterday, and did not return till they were ipone; so I sit up for them; and, meantime, shall amuse myself with writing here. The last date was Sunday, and now it is only Tuesday, but much seems to have happened between. Am1 yet melting really has happened but two quiet days at the Cedars, and one gay evening --or people would call it gay. It has been the talk of the neighbor- hood for weeks, this amateur concert at the cauip. We got our invitation, of course; the such and such regiments (I forget which; at least I forget one) pre- senting their compliments to the Reverned William Henry and the MissesJohnston, and requesting their company. But papa shook his head, and Penelope was indifferent. Then I gave up all thoughts of going, if I ever had any. The surprise was almoet pleasant when Mrs. Granton, coming in, declared she would take Inc herself, as it was quite necessary 1 should have a little gayety to keep me from moping after Lisabel. Papa consented, and I went. Driving along ever the moon) was pleasant, too, even though it snowed a little. I found myself laughing back at Colin, who sat on the box, occasionally turning to shake the white flakes off him, like a great Polar bear. His kind- ly, hearty feet) was quite refreshing to behold. I have a habit growing attached to places, independently of the !wraith con- nected with then). Thus, I cannot en- agine any time when it would not be an I stood up, and dressed myself in the enjoyment to drive•up to the hall door silver-gray silk I wore at the ball; tried of the Cedars, sweeping round in the to stick the red camelia in my hair, but wide curve that Colin is so proud of the buds all broke oft' under my fingers, making bis carriage wheels describe, to and I had to go down without it. It leek back up the familiar hill -side, where was all the same. I did not much care. the winter sun is shilling on that slope However, Colin insisted on going with a of trees; then run into the house, lantern to hunt for another flower, and through the billiard -room, and out again his mother took a world of pains to fasten by the dining -room windows, on to the it in, and make me look "pretty." broad terrace. There, if there is any They were 80 kind- it wan wicked not sunshine, you will de sure to get it; any wind, it will blow in your face; ally bit of color or laudscapte beauty, you will catch it on this green lawn, grand old cedars, the distant fir -woods, lying in a still mans of dark blue shadow, or standing up, one by one, cut out sharply against the brilliant west. Whether, it iwany meteorolegical peculiarity I know not; but it seems to Inc as if, whatever the day' has been, there is always a fair sunset at the Cedars. I love the place. If 1 went away for years -if I never saw it again -I should always love it and remember it; Mrs. Granton soo, for she seems an integral part of the picture. Her small, elderly figure trotting in and out of the rooms; little 1 f (luired alter you, W you w Byothe by, he i were boiler. were ill." 1 testi/led 1 denied 4 this. sh expreseiou that, "(h, whti make the offer. The tiovernment ad tat for ' in had told hini you )es, she must hate something to f in its duty in riot er ad iwt•;" chiefs 1 tee sure 1 hope she had, Leashes and letting it be known in a ay extreme fury' Ise Dud poor beery! Tleie was a duet uf some general n.sy it was prepared to give In Mattel of wintry and Imola If the "Oh, but you looked ill. You were just like is ghost the day hire Trill:borne was et Rockuitiunt- my son noticed it. Nay, you need not flush up so angrily; it was only wy Colin's anxisity about you -f---erweas always fond 1,f his old else, - I smiled, mill said his old play -fellow was very uiuch•oblioesi to him. Se this busineea is not so engrossing but that Dr: Urquhart mu find thee to pay visits somewhere. And he had been inquiring for me. Still he might have made the inquiry at our own dour. Ought people, even if they du lead a busy life, to forget ordinary courtesy- ac- cepting hospitality, and neglecting it - cultivating soquaintance, end then drop- ping it I I think not; all the respect in the world cannot make erste put aside one's uotutuon sense judgment of anoth- er's actions. Perhaps the very respect 'mikes one more tenacious that no single action should le even questionable. 1 did think then. and even to -lay 1 have thought sometimes, that Dr. Urquhart has been somewhat in the wrens( to- wards us at Ruckniount. But as to ac- knowledging it to any one at home - never ! Mrs. Granton discussed him a little, and spoke gratefully of Colin's obliga- tion» to him and what a loss it would be for Colin when the regiment left the mitt, end then the prone &VMS Ogee On for an Italian swig, Poor youth ! a fourth -rate opera singer might hate done it hatter; but 'tie Mesh to criticise; he did his beet; and whttOs after a grand roulade, he popped down, with all his heart and lungs, epee the hitt note, there arose a cordial English cheer, to which he responded with an awkward duck of the head, and a de- lighted simile; very unprofessional, but tater is a fessisaritie use and the Denise at the lout of it are thew of responsible persons who are able to give good mouri ty for the due performence of the nal tract, Perlianient cannot atfiev1 ignore it. Parliament is the trustee et the peo- ple, said is responsible for the proper disbuisseuent if the public funds. To contract to hand over several million dollars and several million acres of land altietlier pleasaiit anti natural. more then the work building the road 'lite evening was now half over. Mae can be done for, would be el do that Granton thought 1 was looking tired, fqr which there could be mi justaliestiou. end Colin wrapped wy feet up in his fur 'fiat businem of Parlisninet is to make coat, for it waa very cold. ty sure afraid 1 was not enjoying inyielt, so I bent my whole appreciative faculties to the comical -faced young officer whti skipped forward, hueging els vielin, whIch he played with math total self - oblivious enjoyment tine. he was the least nervous and moat sneceeisInl tit all the amateurs; the timid young officer aith the best possible bargain for the country, and if a week'sdelay, or a mon 'a e - lay, or a year.. delay, will save what is equal to ten or fifteen millions of dellers there is no possible excuse for hastily pushing the present contract through. It way be quite, true that theGoverument is plalgtel by the contract; but Parlia- ment is mot ledged, and without the the splendid bass voice, wan wits ways endorsement (if Parliament the Govern - losing his place and putting tis compete inenfs pledge goes for nothing. ions out ; and tile enema young etticer This was quite understood by both who marched up to the pianoeorte as partite to the contract when it was sign - though it was a ream', and pounded ed. Looking at the matter from a ita- away at a heavy sonata, its if feeling tat timed pant of view, without regard to England' expected him to du his duty: the interests of either party, we feel free which he did, and was deliberately re- to say that the Government will not be treating, when, in that free -and -easy way justified in calling upon its supporters to with which audience and stage intermit'. reedy the contract whiles better offer is gled, st.1ne one called 111111 : before it. ' This is en the assumption, camp. " .ensdell, you're wanted !" td Course, that the new syndicate Isa. " How fortunate that your brother -in- " Who wants ere I not been formed with a view to selling law sold out when he did. He could net " Urquhart." At least I was alinest out. --(Telegram. well have ddne so now, when there is a sure that was tee mule. 1.4111.• There was a good deal more of singing Tar liberal Leader. and playing; then "God save the Queen, ' with a fullc lotus an military • Mr. Blake ems fertunate man in hav- ing been called upon to a.ssume the lead - Yes I said That grand old tune is always exciting: erahip of the Reform party at the time report of their being ordered on aztive service shortly. Colin says we are likely to have war again, but I do hope not." Arid just then Colin came to fetch me it was so, especially, here to -night. to the green -houses, to choose a camel., Likely to have war. If so, a year fur my hair. hence, where might be all therm gay Likely to have war again ! When young fellows, whispering and flirting Mrs. Granten left me to drew, I sat over with pretty girls, walked about the room my bedroom ffre, thinking --1 hardly by, proud mothers and sisters! I never know what. All sorts of visiting were thought of it, never understood it, till stand together, and It lute flitting through my mind -of licence I now ---I who used to ridicule itnd despise ImmUti°11 nutY plistforni and 'have heard talked about, in hospital, in soldier*, ! These inethers-these Mir elktilleel 111111 1" 1•11" 111° battle, on the battle -field afterward. ters ! they might nut lutes felt it for make 110111e of the finest speeches of his Especially one, which Agustus has often theintelees but my heart felt bureting. life. Whether he wins or loses in ask- . ing Parliament to reject this contract described, when he woke up, stiff and I Gould hardly stand. cold, on the moonlight plain, from under We were some time in gutting out uf very little difference; frein apurely Op - his dead horee, and saw Dr. Urquhart the door through the lung linsesuf epau- pollution point of view it would be better standing over him. lets and swords, the uwners of which -I for his Ponoses if he slid not win, and Colin whistling through the corridor, beg their pardon, but cannot help say- the contract went thretigh, for then he Mrs. Granton's lively " Are you ready, ing it- were nut too civil; until e voice would be provided with a telling cry for my deer ?" made me conscious that this behing cried: ,the general election. Mr. Blake's weak pint ea a leader is his want (ef warmth, would not do "Do make way there -how do you ex, pect those ladies to push past you? and, what is so :narked in Sir John Ansi a courteous helping hand was Mactl°nahlt Pero"tial magnetism, • al - lie la of the most genial bald out to Mrs. Grantee, weepy gentle- though socially man ought to any lady- espeviajiy an disposition. It is a great misfortune to old lady. him that he is sheresighted, not inen- "Doctor,tally, but physically. 'fhat has a very le that you ? What A scram- ble this is ! Now. will yo a assist my great deal to do with his lack '4 personal Then --and nut till then, I am positive and often in the corridors and On the ponularity. He does not see people, young friend here ..• - he recseplized Me. street passes his own friunda and' sup - Something has. happened to hint- porters'. Naturally, people do nut like to be ignored, end wheu they. do not un• derstimd the reason they set it down to haughtiness, self-importance and pride. e - [Globe. , he was. The Syndicate centrist is such a splendid thing to attack, that it &theist looks as if it heel been made un purpose to provide him with a platform to go before the people. It has given him an issue upon which all sections 4 the Op - her clear loud voice ---she is a e tet yet always steadfast arch ef the sky. --along the up-tairs pasaagea; her per - To -day I found it all coteries., blank, petual activity --I think she is never and cold; ita monotony almost frighten- quiet but when she is asleep; above all, ed me. I could do nothing but crouch her uuvarying goodness and cheerful- ness. Truly the Cedars would not be tho Cedars without my dear old lady! I don't think she ever knew how fond I wes of her, even as a little girl. No- body could help it; never anybody had anything te do with Mrs. Granton with- out becoming fond of her. She is al- most the only -person living of whom I never heard any one speak an unkind word, because she herself never speaks an ill word of any human being. Every one she knows is "the kindest creature," "the nicest creature,- "the cleverest creature" -I do believe if you presented to her Diebolus himself, she would telly call him "poor creature;' would supped that his temper must have been aggra- vated by the unpleasant place be had to live in, and set about item° plan for im- proving his complexion, and euaceatling his horns and tail. At dinner, 1 took my feverit• seat, where, seen through this greatest of the three windows, a cedar with its "broad green. layers of shade,- is intersected by a beech still faintly yellow, an I have seen it autumn after autumn, bairn the same apse. It seemed just like old times. I felt happy, as if something pleasant was about to happen, and Raid as much Mrs. Grant( hacked delighted. "I am sure, my dear, I hope so; anti I trust we shall see you here very often in- deed. Only think, you have never been since the night of the ball. What a deal has happened between usiw and then." 1 had already been thinking the same. It !nut be curious to any one who, like Our Lisa, had married a stranger and not an old acipsintanee, to analyze afterward the fine imperialism' 14 a first meeting, most likely lereught about by the ',vernal chance. Curious to try and recall the late you thee viewed critically steels aly, with the meat ahoolum in- difference -haw it gratinelly altered armi altered. poly by a speenel effort can th, oti sawneey repeniluos e pr ne arse tram the memos by which it has bootee what it is now -a fere by itself, ita peculiarities pigment, its planeness sacred, mei its beauties heareedul *bore had Len anybody to lay a canoe hand there, and say, " P.sor child, never mind,- it might have gone away. But there was no one ; Liss was the only one who ever ‘• petted " me. riding over to the canip, set his fnend, I thought I would go home and write Dr. Urquhart, whom he Iras heard node a long letter to Lisa. ing of since the wedding -day; but Lisa- Juat as I was rising from ley heather - IAA persuaded him against it. Min's bush- my favogite haunt, beings& round friendship with one antt'aer is worth lit- as a iniudereein, as soft as a velvet cush- tle, apparently. ion, and hidden by two great furze - Penelope here mad she could answer for Dr. Urquhart's being in the land of the living, as she had mqe him a week before at Cartwright's coVtage, the day, the poor old man'ieas killed. Why did she not tell me of this? But then she has taken such a prejudice against him, and exults so over what she calls his " rude behavior to the family.- • It always seemed to me very foolish to be forever defending them whose character Ur itself a sufficient defense. If a false word is apoken of a friend, one must of ceurse deny it, disprove it. But to be incessantly battling with personal prejudice or animosity, I would scorn it! Ay, as utterly as 1 would scorn myself under similarattacks. 1 think in every leaser affection that is worth the name, the Nene truth hada which (remember being strek witrirmlis play, the only ilay 1 t ver law acted The The beeline is told by her sister HaiI, int , You 1, this deferot Airs. bushes from the road-• I heard foot -steps approaching. Having no mind to be discovered in that gipsy plight, I crouch- ed down again. People's footsteps are so different, it is often easy to recognize them This step, I think, I should have known any- where-- e u ick , regular, determined ; rather hasty, as if no time could be lost; as if it would never " let theorem grow under it, as the proverb says. Crouch- ing lower yet I listened; I heard him talk to an old woman, who had been aiming up the road towards the village. No words were distinguishable, but the voice, I could not have mistaken it --it is not like nar English voices. How strange it is, listening to foot- steps or velem, when the owners do not know you are neer them. Something like being a ghost, and able to watch thew perhaps watch (veer them with- out feeling it unnatural or wrong. He %woe talkie - I ought 0 explain She answers Dr. Urquhart a talking for see ersi -Yon is..re said. minutes. The other voice, by it. quer- I 'eve Mut Teals say /totemic. !Ui'. etousuese. I gapesed b5 poor Mrs. e eta.ke life. I %se •ftd sek Word? taart-' • wrigPitii: but it softened by degrees, teesert, In word's the trutt. wtsielil vs mit, and then 1 heard distinctly her earnest At least, 1 think the pituage ran theis, ..sggnaa„.. eeee0e___thal lapseaec. ae lie walked away, and vanishesl ovet the el,pe of the hill. the looked after kern a minima, and then, turning. tod- ilea on )ea way., When 1! oiestieNik her, which was not Ist* errne tine, aloe told sae the whole imir taasktiest, and how good Dr, lias been. Alen. the wholes alms her peer (Withrow- al Wag ' -in IrrwIl also* it. Mrs. 110entitrijghteehemite aka tot stall anattewkiere to liairditts41 au& De I Weehert has pro - shielding her wit, if he ean. I don't unelkinemell' intuit Minot theme sort of or out of it. tClessi fdrehilfe1 wlsrid - -Penelope never Witt for I cut it eut if a newspaper tifterwatol, and long reinemberd it. What an it see:ned ainos the night of Int which Fiancis took ult. Ail.' mtrange, tireare has becottit, the isk preeeteiti it left; aoniethi like tm 11 al- ways have is reading ef TholtI4 tba --4 love su A./vs aw et rou- in ita holy .trength, that n rri, ef, nor death, have any 'Newsy o love whiah make; you feel that to have pwirmased, must be bliss un able, iumlienable. better than all h nem or presperity that this world c give better than en , in the 1 on..ietintes snit f this Katherine in 14 lifit in I. us; bot 1 c" isa th" w this play, when *he referees •, ise her tit Teethart has mid has eiren great aver barter his conscience t a his !de, c'Inf,.'" t the mother ..1 i in Ili wt u Mita 1108 slier the Use comes. 'says b. MEI -7-". ris. herself N• le ' also, whim' wen. • Mirrestizod the did e..inan, with the ollrittlieell,e...zialboaree rteseb Web hie taus . event. " the doctor's been 41,4V ow.... -..-- - ,..... ' '' • ...-- ...4 ,Alhesso.. *11 feels in the world. In tie *mese 4 the afternoon. Catlin was tliniteet out, t hes is o epoireally, for The lust sneser sae anni yew h, WII0 Tbe Ses' arisitssilas time or los slwiettee,, a natural wossluness determinatien, and rirobahli more in- i"nww41.411 .4 a new aral,,eigl has leen very Law a wislow DIV1 never , teamed a whole regiment 'if iteettette, wity eft pet t • enunt7 than to try and enjoy on's self. somethiug has alters. hint very much. Driving along in the (there, clear twi- I felt certain of that on the very first light, 011 we caught sight of the long glimpae I caught of his face. It shecked lines of lamps which made the camp au me siethat I never said "how '1 ye do 1" picturesque at night time, I found that 1 never even put out my hand. tfh, compelling one's self te bogey sometimes that had He scarcely spoke, and we lost him in makes one so. We committed all sorts of blunders in the crowd almost immediately. the dark --came across a sentry, who There was a great confunon of car - challenged us, and, nobody thinking of rives. Colin ran hither and thither, giving the password, hal actually leveled but ceulil a it find ',airs. Some minutes his gun, and'was proceeding in the grav • after, we were still out in the bitter eat manner to do his duty and fire upon night; Mrs. Granton talking to some - us when our coachman shrieked, and body, I standing by myself. 1 felt very Colin jumped out, which he had to do a deselute anil cold. dozen times, tramping the snow with hit -How long have you had that culigV" thin boots, to his inother's great unease I knew who it wax, anti tnrned nese, and laughing all the time -before, we discovered the goal our hepes-- the concert room. Almost any one cis would have grown cream, but the good mother and son have the gayest spirits and the best tempers ima.ginable. The present -the present is, after all, the only thing certain. I begin to feel as cheery as they. Giving up our ticket to the most gen- tlemanly (if sergeants, we entered the concert -room. Such a blaze of scarlet, such a stirring of pretty heads between, such a murmur of merry chat. For the first minute, corning out of the dark, it dueled me. I grew sick and could see nothing; but when we were quietly seat- ed 1 looked round. There were many of our neighbors and acquaintances whom I knew by sight or to bow to -and that was all. I could see every corner the room Atilt that was all. The audience seemed in a state ef ex eh- erint enjoyment, especially if they had a bit of scarlet beside them, which nearly every tone had, except ourselves. "You'll be quite ashamed t/f poor Colin, in his plain black, Dora, my dear?" Not very likely, as I told her, with iny heart warmly grateful to Colin, who had been so attentive, thoughtful, and kind. Altogether a gay and pretty scene. Grave persons might poem ly eschew it or condemn it: but no! a large liberal Here Colin earns up, le alLY -we had spirit jedgee all things liberally, and would never see evil in anything but sin. I sat, *Inkling all 1 waist Rut more than enes ghastly imaginations intruded, picturing these young °Driers otherwhere than here, with their merry inuatached faces premed upon the, reddened gnus, their goodly limbs leveed and mingled; • worse, thenvielees, their kindly, lightsome 1,601 VINO, Alined i atoll shat soldiers are meet be, in lealltle-- fiend,' rather than men, beeind to resent* that slaughter which is the ishisoltite necessity .4 war. Te be the alain er the slayer -- We shook henda. "You had no business •.zit here on • Allowstrue on deposits. 1/rafts. lettyrs of credit and circular notes issued nitrate - 111 all parts o' the world. ' • CANADIAN BANK 11F COMMERCE Banhing. BANK OF MONTREAL. • • ('.1 PITA L. - • iit,uuktisks• N1711PLUS• • • 411.‘61,,ton0. Goderich Branch. e.°11. DUNSFORD, - Mosiuy, such a night. Why did you rime !" Semehow, the ahareness did not of- fend me, though was rare in Dr. Ur- quhart, who is usually extremely gentle in his way ef speech. 1 told him my cough was nothing -it was indeed as rivich nerveuenessi as cold, though, of ceurse, 1 did not etinfess that -- and then another fit CINI!Le. ..n, leaving me all shaking and trembling "You ought not to hat:teem:1m, ie there nobody to take better care of you, child? No -don't speak. Yon roost .uhinit if you please." He took off a plaid lie hail about him,' and wraeped me up in it. chew and warm. 1 reisisted a little, and then yielded. "You mud! What could one 410 bet yield f Pro- testing again, 1 wen hidden to "held my tongue." "Never mind me! 1 ain ;heti ti, all weathers; I'm not a little delicate este tare like you . - I said, laughing. I was a great (bed stronger than he had any notion of --but as he had beret our aqcuaintance by taking professional care of me, he might just as well continue it; and it certainly was a little colder here than it as that night at the Cedars. 'Yes. better walk on to meet the carnage, rather than wait for it' • Ye and Dr. lleinhert exchanged a few words, then he Wink his mother en Inc am geed Colin, he never neglects his old naither-- and offered um the other. "Let me take care of Mita Theielore," said IFr. Uniiiharr, rather decidedly. "Will you comet I am sure he meant int) to come. 1 hope it wu not rude tv Colin, but I weld nut help coming I could not help taking his arm. 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