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1turgeync has cleiriereit a nano with a
tioree as little lame as is ewe to be
found in Florence, and in this vehicle
they are presently rolling along. None
of them are in very exuberant spirits.
Burgoyne is as well aware as if her sen-
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5Itite bps had put the fact info- words,
that for Elizabeth the plea:ern of the
outing has evaporated with the absence
of ityng, and that it is only the Son,
hearted shrinking of a sweet nature
from inflicting mortification on a fellow.
creature that set her opposite to him in
her white gown. He has never seen her
dressed In white before, and says to
tiderneelf that it was ter. Byngtesselientliat
she has made hereelf so summer -flue.
But even if it be so, it Is not. Byng who
Is profiting by it. It is for him, not
Byrig, that the large Italian light is
glorifying its thin fabric. Lily -pure,
snow -clean she looks, sitting under her
tsunshede, and he. sits over against her
en a stupid silence, as if, did he epeak
at all, he must put into brutal words the
brutal questions that, are dinging in his
beaditethai, seem knocking for utterance
against the gate of his set teeth.
"What is the `screw loose'? How is
she an 'unfortunate girl'? t Why have
they 'never held up their heads since'?
ince what ?" He looks in a fierce per-
lexity, from one .to the other of those
delicately poised heads, held aloft with
euch modest 'dignity. Surely it is be-
yond the betinds of possibility that aley
heavily hideous shame or leaden dis-
grace can ever have weighed upon
them I Probably the intensity of his
thought has given an intensity to his
look, of which he is unaware, for 'he
presently finds the soft veiled voice of
.
Elizabeth—Elizabeth whet' has hitherto
been as mute as himself --addressing
hlin '
"How very- grave you look!' I wonder
„what' you are: thinking of ?" nt• •
The, question, striking in so strangely
pat, lkings him back with a start. For a,
80CMCI. ant almost overpowering tempta-
tion assails him, to ten her what is the
Object oriels thought, to answer her with
that, whole and. naked truth which we
cantso seldem eniploy in our intercourse
with our fellow men.- But one glance at
her innocent face, which has a vague
trouble'in it, chases the lunatic impulse,
though he dallies with the temptation to
the extent of saying : .
Would you really like to know? Do
you really wish me to tell you?"
He looks at her penetratingly at he,
puts the question. Before either his eyes
or his mariner she sh.rinks. "
"Ok, no—no 19 she cries with trernu-
iota -haste, "of course not I I was only
joking: What tbusines's have I with your
thoughts? I never wish to know
people's thoughts; if their looks and
words are kind, that is all that concerns
met" •
Ha ,relapses , into silence; but her
words, and still More, the agitated. man- s
strew weet forms les daily dining -1,01e
exetipt On the happy Sunnay, to ehiele he
umet look forward so warmly.
°Must not he love Sunday ?" cries
Elieabeth, with sparkling eyes. "Do not
you long to know what, they have for
dinner on Sundays? Do you think he
would mind telling us?"
Elizaneth's spirits are going .up like
quicksilver. It Is evident, despite the
delicate melancholy of her, ram, that she
is naturally of an extremely joyous and
enjoying nature, and gifted with a
freshness of sensation which belongs
ordinarily rather to the green age, at
which Jim first remembers her, than to
the mature one which he. know % for a
certainty tiitititheneoni has reel:lean .he.
is filled with such a lively and she -
prised delight at all the little details of
arrangement of the monastic life that he
is at last impelled to say to her, some-
thing wonderingly '
"But you must have eon hundreds of
monasteries before?"
"Not one,"
"But there are, or were, such swarms
of them all over Italy."
"I dare say. I was never In Italy be-
fore."
"Not realty ?"
She lifts up herhand, and waves it at
him with an air of hasty deprecation of
furtherquestion, growing suddenly
grave. •
"Don't, ask me whether' I have been
here or there. or whether I have ,don
this or that. I have never been'any-
where or done anything,"
Her desire for a cessation of all in-
quiries a's to her .doings is obviously, so
-earnest that Jim of course complies with
it. Once or twice before he has been
struck, by her strange want of acquain-
tance with 'facts and phenomena, which
would have come as a matter et course
within the'range of observation of every
woman of her 'age and station. Against
his will, a horrid recollection flashes
upon him of a novel ho had once reen in
which the hero exhibits a singular
ignovence of any events or incidents
that had occurred within the ten years
preceding the opening of the Story—an
ignorance vehicle towards the end of the
third volume was accounted for by Its
transpiring that he has spend, the inter-
vening period in a convict prison I Ile
drives the grotesque and monstrous idea
with scourges out of his mind; but it re-
curs, and recurs to be displaced by
another hardly ilese painful if in some
degree mere probable. Can, it be possi.
ble that the crushing blow, which nas
fallen upon the Le Merchant family, and
upon Elizabeth in particular, ,whatening
the.Mother's hair, and giving that tear -
washed look to the denighter's sweet
eyes—can it be possible that that heavy
stroke was insanity? Can Elizabeth
have been out of her mind? Can she
have spent in congfieement any of the
past, from all allu'sion to which she
hies away with a sensitiveness more
brinising than that of
"The tender horns of cockled
He Is so much absorbed in his ter -
milting speculations ebout her that for
he moment he forgets her bodily Pre-
sence; and -it is only her voice hertsoft
ner in which they are, prenounced, make
-a vague yet definite addition to the dis-
quiet. of his -said.
By setting off at so judiciously late 'an
hour as five otplock, ehey have avoided
the greeter parthef the flood of tourists,
Which daily sets'towards Ceriosa, and
which , they meet, tightly packed
crowded vehicles, sweeping Fierence.
wards in a choking cloud of white dust;
so tleat on reacting the Certosa Monas-
tery, sitting so grandly on its hill -top,
they have the satiefaction of. finding that
it is temporarily all theft, own—all their
erten hut for the fe,ev white-frocked
fighree and tottsured• heeds which an
econornicoelernocratiti Governinetit leas
left, to hint what in Its palmy. days was
the state of that which is now only a
Government museum. •
° A burly monk receives them. He .does
not lookehtt all a prey to the Pensive sor-
row one would expect at the desecra-
tion of his holy things end the disper-
siege of Wet fraternity. -Probably, in hii
Slav peasant mind there is room for no-
thing but gelf-congratulalion at hie be-
ing one of the few—only fifteen in all—
left to end their days en the old home.
lie leads them stolidly tiarcugh
and refectory—the now too rOomy Nine..-
. tory, where the poor remnant of Car-
thusians dine together only on Sundays
—through meageely-furnished cells, In
one of which he matter-of-faetly tete
down the front flap of te clipboard to
sane voice, that brings him back to a
consciousness of it. erheye have been led
into a salon, in which, tes itheir• guide
tells them, the confraternity* used to re-
ceive anyitheer,sonage" that came to visit
them. Alas, no personage ever visits
the frocned remnant now I It is a
charming, lightsome room, that gives
one, no monastic idea, with pretty airy
fancies' of flowerewreeths and erabes-
gees, and dainty dancing figures painted
on wall .and ceiling and doom. One of
these letter is half open, and' throegh it
comes an exemislie sudden view of the
hills, with Mir sharp cut shadows and
their sunlit slopes; ef shining Florence
at their feet, of the laugh of young ver-
dure, and the wedded gloom and glory
of cypress erid poplar filling the fore-
ground, Upon Elizabeth's small fee.,
turned suddenly -towards him, seems re -
fleeted some of the ineffable radiance of
the Tuecan, light, .r
"When next I dream of Ileaven„" she
seys, in her tender vileating voice "it
will be like this, Do you ever dream of
Ileavea? I often do, and I always eteake
crying because it is not true; but—with
a joyful eliange of key ---"I will not cry
any more without lecher cause. Since I
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he is ed:' neje aeiye,
neneee you cniiie ieire?" he eneeete in
a nee of detenny fratereenatien;
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nionteranee, in wheal ie 4 nit of
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CIIAPTER XIV.
Presently they pass into the stifle
cloistered • garden, in whose unmown
grass -squares gray -blue flowers are
plowing, beide whose walks pale pink
peonies are flushing, and round whose
well the gene rosemary bushes are set.
Tlirough the whole plaC,"e is an atmos-
phere of deep peace, .of silence, leisure,
dignity. It is virtually a tete-e.-tete,' as
their tonsured guide, seeing their evi-
dent harmlessness, has left them to their
own devices; and Mrs, elet Merchant has
eat down rest upon a camp -stool
which' Elliabetheia been carrying'evere
since they left -the carriage. It has fidget-
ed'Jim to see her -burdened with it; for
let a man be. ever so little in love with a
woman, his tendency always is to think
her as brittle as spun glass, to believe
that any weight, however light, will
bruise her arm—any pebble, however
tiny, wound her tender foot. - He has
offered to relieve her of it—but she leas
refused—playfully at drete-telling him
she is sure that he wilt lose it; -end,
afterwards; when he insists, more
gravely, though with. gentle gratlthele,
saying •that it would never do for leer no
get into the habit of being waited upon,
and that she always carried maanny's
things. It is perhaps absurd that a
woman. of six -and -twenty should' speak
of her mother as ",mammy," yet the
homely- and childish abbreviation seems
to him to come "most fair and Ieatonsly"
from her lips;
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They 1 stay ,a long time in the seen-
kiseed garden, eensidering that there is
after all not very much to see .there.
But Elizabeth's light steps, that to -day
seem set to some innocent dancing -
tune, are loath to leave it'; she must
smell the great new peonies, monthly -
rose -colored, faintly perfumed; she must
'steal a spleig of 'rosemary ."to pint 'into
her coffin when she.elies," 'at 'which he
catches his breath, shuddering; she must
peep into the well. ' He insists on her
holding his hand for safety as she leans
over to do so; her little fingers gripebis
tight as she cranes her neck . and bends
her'- lissom body. But what a ernall
litinalul they- are compared •t�. those
other fingers,. those kind, useful, but un-
deuhtedly send fingers, which he ha.s
held perfenctoraly through many a mat-
tertonfa,Ot hour. By -and -bye, they stray
away together out ot the bounteous air
of the hill -top into a semi -underground
church, to see the fifteenth' and sixteenth
century monuments, which look as fresh
as if their marble' 'had left its' home. in
Carrara 'but' yestercloy,. , They etand
looking down at thosenthree kin who lie
side, by ,side before the high attain' each.
with head dropped a little sideways en
the shoulder, as if overcome by sudden
sleep.. They step on into the side chte
p01,, ,where that yet nobler milked figure,
fashioned by Doeatelers hand, stretches
his prone lengtbinabove his border of
fruit and flowers, among which lies a
carved skull, through whose,empty eye-
holes—strange and , grisly fancy cone
feasting with so ,much beauty—a mock-
ing ribbon runs. ' Elizabeth* is perfectly
silent the whole time, but no flood- of
talk coed melee Jim half so conscious
of her presence,' palpitating with sym-
pathy and' feeling, could glee' belt the
confidence he enjoys that ehew Ill intro-
duce no allusion to eithertinensal Green
or Woking, - as it is but too phbehle
that the excellent companion of most of :
iii.s ' Florentine' rambles would have
donee .1, - e ,,.. ,
Elizebeth has-been perfectly silent, yet
'at last she speaks. It Is in the Chapter
Houee, where, as most of us have done,
they, have suddenly come 'Upon another
tomb, the :tomb of one lying JIM -length
on the pavement before the altar, with
no separating edge 'of marble or
wrought -iron railing to keep him from
the foot of the passed-hy. He lies there,
portrayen with elude an extraordinary
vividneSee of life about leis Prostrate
figure mutt his severe, powerint flute, that
one feels inclined to speak low, lest he
should lift his white lids end look rebuke
at us. In the lines about his mouth there
Is a hint of.eardonic mirth. Is he-heare
lug our foolish echatter--touched with a
grave contemptuous =mei/tent at it?
Or is he keeping in his sleep the mein -
ore ' of some four hundred years' old
jest? Elizabeth baa involuntarily crept
close to iluegoyetes side with the ges-
ture of a frighteeeel child. .
."4re you elite that he did not stir?"
elm asks tremulierely under her breath.
-.tier next theught is that her mother -
must, see hien toe, this wonderful living
dead man, and they presently set forth
to return to the garden to fetch her. But
apparently she has grown tired of wait.
ingfor them, for, as tliey „enter the 'clois-
ter, n eneeletc, they see her advancing te
heel them. ,
"al would not be left alone with him at
night for the wealth Of the Indies,"
Elizabeth is saying, with a half -weenie
laugh --"Oh, mammy, you would
never have forgiven rue if I had let you
go without seeing him! "Why, what is
this ?'Lwith a sudden change of key --
"what has happened?" For as they
draw War to Mrs. Le Merchant they see
that her walk to a eteggering one and'
that aim meetly healthy, chime pallor of
her face is ineehaneed for a livid white.
wee. "%tenet le it, darling 1" WWI
Elizabeth, in an accent Of terror. "Oh,
Jim,'sire is pang to faint!" In ithe agi-
tation oh the MOillent she has UrleOli*
eciouoly returned to the familiaIad-
h
tee') which ala' used eleveren to en PloY
towel -do him 11I:their boy -girl Itgirl aye.
'at your meld round leer on thattide
/ can hold her up on this, Let. us elei
her !oleic to the catep-eteohn
A camp-31.6ot Is ,, :rat' urn CaS7 nor a
to
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Tny 7,;:"',",1 in LV-i,,LY-'Lnr;
7,(ly no, -23e0;
rrzEi hoe keen, arid
en' no esee tele eeentitein at
eiee ee-eihee al eve Lee inetf deep -
Nei en Nizeiiethhi eftght, olneethen.
"Deco eiao oticu fonit? Is she ePt to
t1D it t " ac -ins aiiie in n 1i:intent".
tnticeete-ficeer replies the gel in a
%:,1-,3:3 an her
motheen white face. gelling, day.
Hunt what hae happened to you?"
Perhaps nit. ie through the vivifying
rain of those wenn aneees, but a little
color is certainly beginning to steal been
into the elder Womante Owen, and she
draws a long breath.
"Ole, if clic could have a glass of wa-
ter I" cries Elizabeth, greedily, verifying
these slight signs of returning con-
sciousness. "(let her a glass of water 1
Oh, please get her a glass of water -.'-
quick! quick!"
Burgoyne, complies, though it is not
without reluctant misgivings that he
draws the efficacious support of his own
solid arm, eind leaves Elizabeth'poor
little limb to bear the whole wnight of
her mother's :nee, body. -
Their guide has, as before mentioned,
disappeared; and Jim has not the elighte
eet idea in which direction to seek him.
It is five ,good minutes before he dis-
covers him, standing near the door Of
the monastery, in conversation with a
N.4110r•Ilyi,io appaeennyterest ix the act,
departure, The stranger is in cleraeal
dress; and as he twee to nod farewell
to the monk, Jim reeognizes in his fea-
tures those of 'the Devonshire clergy-
man, whom he had last seen, and so Un-
willingly heard, by the well -brim of the
Dellosguarde. Villa. In a second a. light
has flashed into his mind. Mrs. he Mar-
chant, too, has seen that streleger—has
seen him, for the first time for ten years,
sine() it is evident that the recognition
of Mother and daughter In the ViatTore
nabuoni, to which the Moat's late rec-
torhad referred, could not have been
reciprocal. It is to the fact of her hav-
ing been brought suddenly and unpre-
paredly face to face with that mysterious
past, which seems to be always block-
ing his oweLpath to her friendship, that
is to be attributed the poor woman's
collapse. A rush of`puzzled 'commission
flows over hen as he realizes the fact-,
and his one impatient wish is to return
with all speed he may to the forlorn
couple he has left, to reassure thein as to
the removal (even though it may only be
a temporary one) out of their' pain of the*
object of their unexplained terror, Will
the mother have imparted to her•ehild
the pause of her fainting, or will sten
have tried to keep it free). -her? .
The first glimpse be gels when, hav-
ing at length procured the desired, glass
of water, he comes into sight of them,
answers the geestion for him. Mrs. Le
Merchant is evidently recovered., Site is
sitting up no longer supported by her
daughter's, arm, and that daughter is
lying on her knees, with her head buried
In her mother's , As he nears them,
he Secs the elde.. woman hurriedly
pressing her daughteets arm • to warinher
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of his approach, and Elizabeth obedient-
ly lifts her face. But such a face I Ile
can scarcely believe, it is the same that
laid itself—hardly less bloomily fair than
they—against tine faint peony buds half
an hour ago; a face out of which the
innocent glad shining ha e been blown
by some gust of brutal wind—seared,
blanched, miserable,
"Oh, r.s, I am better, much better --
quite well, in fact," says Mrs. he Mer-
chant, pushing away the offered glass,
and speaking with a ghastly ehactow of
her former even cheerfulness. "Give it,
te Elizabeth, she needs it more than I
dot Atotreece,- I egavenher a. terrible
fright I"
To be continued).
44.
OLDEST DIAMOND FIELDS.
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Kohinoor Probably. Caine From Them
Abotit Years Ago,
In a recent report ofgeological
survey of India, there is an interesting
account of the Panne diamond fields of
Central India. Historically this cowl -
try, is believed- to be the original home
of the diamond, and from them it is sup-
posed that the famous Kohinoor was
extracted some three and a. half centuri-
es ago; the earikest diamonds dating
some twenty-five years previously.
Of late years India has quite retired -
from the flea as a precious stone pro-
ducer to an, extent or value.,, but from'
the account given it should be • worth,
the while. of a small syndicate to take
up these diamonds„ says the Pioneer,
and work them sy,sternancally, though
it is said that neither in lustre nor price
,do the stones found compare with the
yield of the South African fields.
The methods, however, now in vogue
tmean merely- superficial treatment, fol-
lowing the lines which have been in •
vogue for oenturies, with the probable
result that the strata containing the
most valuable deposits of stones are not
reached.. From a ,geological point Of
viewthere are said, to be diamond bear-
ing conglomerates over several areas,
which would admit of deep shaft sink.
beg, and systematic mining under corn-
tietent eotitrel being carried on profitab-
ly. '
STORIES ABOUT WORDS'.
C.'urious Origin of 'Words nd Phrase
Commonly Used.
According to etymologY a -"retail
grocer" as it used to he spelt, is really
a trader "in gross" --that is to say, in
large quantities, wholesale, English-
men of other days spoke of "grossers ol
fish" and "grossers of wine," and an
act, of Edward III., expressly inentione
that "grassers" dealt in all manner el
goods. In those days "spicera was Me
word for "grocer" in the modern sense,
!ant hanneeen drat- the,,Geocerie Corn.
puny; funded in the 'fourteenth cen-
tury, specialized in spicery, and so "gro-
cer" gradually took the place of "spleen"
"Blatherskite is generally recognized
as an American word, -but its origin is
Scotch, really the old "Inetherekete,"
from "blether," to talk nomsense (old
'Norse "blddlit," nonsense) and "skate,"
a term of opprobrium. In the song,
"Maggie Lauder," written about 1650,
Occur Ap,e words, "Jog on your gait, ye
bletherskateh and this song was a very
popular one in the Ameripan camp dur.
in the war of independence. Hence the
vogue of the expressive word„ "in Its
Americanized roan. "Bletherumskite,"
was the Irish version eatly in the nine.
teenth century.
"Etiquette" is a French word which
originally meant a label indicating the
price or quality the English "ticket"—
and in old French was usually' special-
ized to inclan soldier's billet. The
phrase "that's the fticket" stows the
change of the present meaeing of Mane
ners according to code, Iltirke solemn-
ly explained' that "etiquette had its orb'
ginal application to those ceremonies
and formal observances practiced at
courts. The term came afterward .to
signify certain formal Methods used in
the- transaetions between sovereign
•
States." •
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you know. very, 'well none but officer
and non-commissioned officers are al.
lowed to walk across this grass." Pre
vale Smith:. "But, SergeanfeMajort e
Captain Graham's verbal betters toe-
Sergeanttletajor : • "None. ot that, eft'
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