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Mo. 15, 1879
MICHAEL HARGRAVE'S MARYEST.
CHAPTER IX,—Continus'
Oh I ye rich, who, to the thinking of
some, are so much too rioh, do you ev-
er, I wonder consider what the tnere
trifles you lose in sour vague ventures
would be to a poor struggliug man of
bnshnoss ? I fancy not, The rich aro
indifferent, and the poor are proud.
He would be glad, and the rich willing
—and, perhaps, as society is now con.
etituted, it is a simple imposeibllity
either should understand the other ; but
it is sad, I sornetilnea fatroy in my poor
imagiuifag, that be who is able to give
should be so far removed from the roan
who requires—the mean who needs
froru the mare who desires to befriend.
a. Ali ! if to you who read God has giv-
etmuch, "Remember the cure in the
ground.'' I ask of you no lees. Think,
for the love of the Great G.id, whether
the seed you are planting, is likely to
produce a harvest you will care t,n reap;
whether tat this Christmas tide you
leave considered the poor ,and needy --
-the man who require;] a helping hand,
the woman who wanted but small as-
•sietance to be preserved from such evil
:as no human language can express 2
It is but little, and yet so much that
Mie mightiness of its glory shall stretch
'from the shores of Time across the
,ocean of Eternity.
At the time it was given—nay, in
ices memory now — Mrs, Broekley's
•unite—which was so much to her—
seemed more to him than the whole of
hie cousin's wealth dropped reltaotautly
Prone a dead man's gland. He had sur-
mounted the worst of hie difficulties ;
be was married; he was happy ; he
was content. What slid all this
waste of riches as at first it looked like
to his unwonted eyes, signify to him 2
Coda his nature, steeped in beeinese,
as it had been perforce ; assimilated to
1lie oeoupatim. as that of the hand of
the dyer, be changed so suddenly that
in the twinkling of an eye he should
feel able to take upon himeelf fresh du-
ties and fresh interests.
He ezperieuced no wild feeling of ex-
ultation when he considered the gift
.Fortune had thrown to him. He did
not hurry to seize it. At that first
moment of pusseeeinn he probably re-
garded his new wealth marecalt¢ly and
critically than at any future period of
lite career.
The past seemed to arise and stand
before hitti—the past, which his fath-
er's mad oi;travaonce and senseless
thriftlessness had rendered so Much
like a wild debauch, succeeded by
x Bary morrows of shame and poverty,
d• rami hard, bard work.
For years he had turned his
thoughts from these subjects ; but now
all these things came back to metuory
—ghastly shapes rising from out a dis-
itonored grave ; and for a moment the
sunlight faded and the prospect grew
dirn, the songs of tate larks sounded
afar off, and the murmuring of the wa-
ters seemed to thretiteu instead of lull.
Then there name another recollec-
tion., and this time a blessed one. IIe
tlleaght of the malt poor in packet,
honest of heart, singiie of heart, who
walked once where he was walking,
thinking only of nis dead, lying white
and quiet iu the darkened house, which
for her sake should deem forever after
densly.
And now he was sleeping, too ; but
he had gone to his rest content, with
'no words of mur'nuring because his
+day had been lard, and the heat in-
tense, and his burden heavy ; but ra-
ther with whispered sentences of grad, -
tilde and thanksgiving that G.+d had
been so good to him, so infinitely
merciful, so unspoakabty gractous.
He heel gone without a fear for his
-child, at last content to leave her ; and
that moment Michael Gargrave felt
an almost triumphant satiefactiou in
tlhe thought that from the moment she
;broke down the barriers of reserve
•whtelt had become a very part and
parcel of his life, he had given to her
more than the tenderness of a father—
more than the companionship of a
rotber.
-Already the once familiar scenes
trere growing old; already the hopes,
of horning were becoming blurred and
elitn, like ttte sorrows of the long ago.
He looked across the wide e:tpanse
.of marsh to the spot where he had
known such happiness. Up into the
still air the blue smoke was rising.. He
asoald see the red roofs of the barns ;
she trees shading the fleet that field e.v-
erytliing that he loved on earth ; the
pleasant fields beyond, lying geiet on.
der the sunlight. Not in all the years
that had gone before ,lid the charm of
his home ever seem so great. Could
he give it all up—the peace, the quiet.,
the modest desire:], the unalloyed con-
tent 2 Could he go ont and take hie
place in the great world, rind find such
happiness in the millet of his new state
---as he had. Felt within the narrow ter-
ritory, so small that in the distance he
seemed but a speck on the landscape 2
He said to himself it would be diffi•
cult, almost impossible, to put on the
thonghts, ideas and habits of his new
Rife as Age ]night don a fresh garment; w
but he was deceived, Already the
ohmage he imagined wellniglt impos-
sible was begun ; already in feeling, as
well as is reality, Michael Gargrave
was the owner of Brayley rather than
the proprietor of a Glass Works on the
River Lea.
Whore now was his satisfaction at
the large order which that morning's
poet had brought ? What had become
of his project of sending is that tender
on the morrow ?
As his eyes wandered to the factory
his thoughts followed in the same di-
rection, and he smiled pelf sadly
think he need never trouble !Aimee
about such matters again ; that tate i
tereste of yesterday were not the into
este of to -ley.
And then, uis eyes reverting to t
cottage, he smiled again, because of
thought that was all pleasure.
The previous evening Lucy, enlar
ing upon the woes of some witloa
whose hard struggle for daily brea
tvae likely to end, and ehnrtly, wit
the breaking up of her home, said
her husband --
"Poor creature, it was pitiful to s
her distress. I wish we could help her
To which he answered, partly b
Cause he felt the case to be alrno
hupolesa partly because he had ofte
to check Lacy's charitable impnleee.
"So do I, dear ; but we must be ju
before we ate generous."
"That is true," site said ; but t
could see her thoughts were with 111
widow rather than ,with his just debt
Now the memory of her disappoin
meet recurred to bite, and the first th
qualified feeling of delight he wiper
euced in consequence of his iulter
testae thrilled through him at the saw
moment.
No more lingering on the marshes
straight over the grass he strode to th
nearest footpath.
He crossed the bridge, lie wallas
fast beside the stream. The door o
the dear house where he had found a
much happiness was wide open, rand i
the porch stood his yonug wife watou
ing for his coming.
She ran to the gate to meet him
'How fast you were walking, dear,
she said, both bands °leaped round I1'
arm clad in hoddeu grey. "Mr. Her
you brought no bad news, did he ?"
"No, indeed, quite the contrary
vbat made you think he had 2"
"You were talking so earnestly t
hitn when yon went nut."
"Silly little Lucy," he said, fond]
trotting liar heir.
"Yee, I am afraid I am," she answer
d, serionely, "for I cannot get poo
ars. Laydou out of my mind ; and
ave been thinking, Michael, that as
au manage without a new dress ants
mantle, might I—couldn't we?—giv
for what they would have cost 2•'
He !oohed at her so gravely, with at
xpreselou s0 etrauge—to her so nein
elligible—that she said,
"I will net say more about it, Rich -
t, if it vexes you."
"It does not vex me, pretty one," he
epli ed,"Do just what your heart tette
on. Now ecu away to your widow
nd make haste home again, for I want
011.''
"And Toiler wants you," she said, as
he hurried iuto the house to put on
er bonnet.
He could not wait for her return, be
as constrained to go and meet her, to
tke her hand and put it within his
rm and hold it there while they walked
u the soft s-.vtrd under the shady
rees together; she iu malt an ecstasy
f delight because of the widow',t hap -
bless, that she babbled on regardless
f his silence, till, at length,something
his look made ber cry out,
"Michael, I a+n sure you have had
rad news. What is it?"
"r have had news, dear, but not
ad," was his answer ; and then 11e
Id her. "You can be generous now,
ucy, and just too," be reinarked,won-
ering at tier silence. But she shook
er head in answer.
She drew her 1lerid from out her
run and sat dawn on a bank by the
ayside, and began absently to pull up
the tufts from out the green grass,
eking them over absently.
Why, Limy, what is the matter ?"
Iced her husband. "Do you under -
and what I menu 2 We are now rich
ople. We need never be anxious or
rry about money any more."
One by one great tears rolled down
r cheek.
"Lucy—Lucy 1" He sat down on
o bank by her side and put his arm
end her, Wad tried to look into her
co but she hid it on his shoulder.
"What nils you, my dear ? Tell
e," he entreated.
"I ought never to have married
u," she answered, speaking in gripe,
th little sobs between. "It did not
atter so flinch while we were pony and
niggling ; bat I am not it fit wife for
u, now and 1 °an not be jest or gen.
ens either. I cannot make you free
tin, and I am sorry --curry."
"Ara you 2" be said. I stn not,"
t'I never can be a fine lady."
"No, that, you can't, thank heaven."
"Your sister has often lamented I
Itis so unlike -ea
TRE TIMES.
"My dear," ha interrupted. +"1 can•
not pare you any inch things ; you
most not think them. $umbly 1 am
•grateful for the fortune t4at has come
to me ; but I would thankfully give it
up this instant if keeping it involved
the loss of you."
He felt her stealing a little nearer to
him ; he felt her hand touch his, and
he went on, not without an effort, for
he had never found it easy to speak of
himself or his own feelings.
"I go back in ea,mory to that night
whoa I sate alone uu Queen -square. I
to think of the wards which deotded my
If choice, '.Remember the Dorn in the
n- .ground.' Ah 1 Luey, I °uuld not know
r. what 1 was planting ►heta r uuuid not
forecast what should spriug from the
reed tben sown. All I knew for a cer-
tainty was that from tares a man may
not reap wheat."
"The corn 1 put in the ground that
night was but the produce of hesitating
resolutious ; it was scarcely of illy Owu
free wilt 1 cia..t it in the furrows at all,
and yet what a ilt•rve.t lite been given
au we. Friends i,r the times of bitter•
est need, and a wire wtwee love has
always been the greatest blessing of
my life, without whom Bayley would
be to nee valueless.
He talked a little more but that was
the gist of his targuw -nt, that she was
the nue tiling for wham he most ear .-
atly desired to offer thaukegivilg,
'1'ueu, when tier eyes were dry and
her lieatt quiet, he said, "Come, dear,
let us go howe."
So baud in hand they weeded their
way down the green lanes ted across
fietde—where the grain .3 as already i❑
ear—baud iu hand together ---as hand
10 hand they have walked thrumeh life
ever since, eoru springiuu up behind
them as they passed aluug, and ripen-
ing to a harvest they shall uut fear to
reap.
THE END.
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CLPA.J.,ING SALE
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Exeter, Ont,
THE NATIONAL POLICY
Having triumphed at the polls,
ISAAC C ARLING
Is prepared to give all his customers the betefits that will accrue from Its adoption, and has on
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nur . ah For the igz .
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