The Sentinel, 1881-04-15, Page 2To on Old coat.
root coat, well loved for many reasons,
Since both of us grow old, be true;
This hand has brushed you for ten seasons;
E'eu Socrates no ruore could do.
While Time your thin and white -seamed stuff
Keeps on attacking without cud,
Wisely, like me, his blows rebuff;
And never lot us part, old friend.
That birthday down, when first 1 wore you, .
1 'mud we311—ii1&m0ry yet 114strong -
My friends around to honor bore'you.
And poured their welcome forth in song.
Your shabby plight—of which l'in vain—
Hinders them not an arm to lend --
They'd freely feast us now again ;
Su never let UR part, old friend.
You're patched behind, an ancient rending ;
That, too, recalls a past delight ;
one night to run from Jane pretending,
1 felt her soft hand clutch me tight.
Torn, were you, and that frightful tear
It took tny Jane two days to mend ,
NV rule 1 was held hor captive there;
So never let us part, old friend.
!lave you been steepe.1 in musk and amber
Which fops sniff, looking in the glass?
Or pushed along an ante chamber.
For swells tosneer itt 104 We
Throughout all France, by faction rent, •
Ribbons and stars fell strife can send -
A field -flower is your ornament ;
St) never let us part, old friend.
Fear no more days oritlle ranging,
When our tw'r fates become as one,
Of pleasure with rain interchanging,
Of intermingling rain and sun.
For the hist -time 1 144.11)11 Khan doff
My clothes, just wait! Witt we will wend
--- Together. gently going off •
Su never let us part, old friend.
sitting at the table; before her was a book,
but it was shut; she was leaning her head
uponher hand in a weary, listless way.
" Do you want my uncle?" she asked.
"You will find him at the harbor."
"No," said Jack, turning very red. "1
wanted to speak to you."
"To me?" She looked up Wondering.
To me ?"
"Yes." Jack blushed mere violently.
I am guilty of greatpresumption in daring
to call here; but," here he stammered,
"the truth is, you are unhappy, and I
want to know if I, if we, my friend and I,
can help?"
"What makes you think that I am un-
happy ?" she asked coldly.
Becauee you are pale, and your eyes
are heavy; because you stay in -doors all
day when you ought to be in the sunshine;
because you never once smiled during the
Whole time wheu we were in the boat. Do
not think that I alone remarked these
things; my companion saw them, too. I
know you are uuliappy."
"You canuot help," she said, sadly, "No
one can help."
"Let me try," he replied. "Believe me,
I am not forciug myself upon you through
any idle curiosity. I know the world better
than you—better, perhaps, than your uncle
• 0
She shuddered slightly, as if the name
pained her. Was it then a fact that this
old villain ill-treated her? "Let us advise
" Oh !" she replied; "you are very good,
but you, cannot help,. If you could do me
any good, I think I would take your help.
You look as if you were a get:Alen:lab, and
true."
• NO RELATIONS ;
-7t. Priory of To -dray.
--
Jack said not a word; the presence of
the girt; so silent, so beautiful, so mysteri-
ous, weighed dewn- his soul. Ilow could
such. a girl belong to such a man? She- had
nOt spoken. Perhaps her beauty was one
of those accidents whereby out of a rustic
and common stock- sometimes. a beautiful
. flower is produced: the village beauty is
often the daughter of a hind no whit dis-
tinguished above his fellows; her grace,
her bearingeher face, comes . to her as a
gift of the. gods ; such a -girl --Should be -
called Theodora. But generally, when she
speaks the charm is broken; for out of that
anairlenis mouth there dregs no pearls, but
gait() the contrary ; and the.beituty of the
village beffeis too- often- of the kind which
we are tauglie to issciciatee with the devilit ;
looks better upon! the gage, `whither it.
isgenerallybrougat, teen in. the drawing:
• room, whereat es etalein alleared.-ta appear.
This posseased. sueli a. profile, -such:
_ strewing, :such graceful litiCS; RS
inIghthelOnglo- aesCCIadittit‘
dred querauseofabeaUty„ r'Where did she get
- it froin. ? Was C'obbledick ref, Jatietocratie
—descent? Have -noble families intermerried:.
- ewith the Gobbleaicks.? Are the coneetted,
by- half_ a, dozen desceutte, with :revalty?
_All the -mottling long they. sealed, the
morning long the old Pita geseonaded With
story after storyaof hie awn extraordinary.
.courage - where a; lesser
ereatureepaust havo_beeri crashed; ' Captain
Iternsay was gerierilly.,withhim. Ile went
. on, the yoteng, men obsereed, without seem-
- ing to care weether any -ode listened or
not e he `Wok no apace whatever of Li&
laincri: The. girl remained 'perfectlya. silent,
once or team when tae-aaetaddressed her
narne,-she replied with a- "yes or " LiOin
WitilOtit adding aeivord, , Jack and
rooked, lieten,ed and. wondered I
Presently their captain put the, ship
- about and they made for homeabeatieg up
against the wied,.- Then there _Were fewer
storieseadeause frequent tacks cause- the
thread of snarra,tive to be larokee, ariaft
is`difficuit_evbeifone itterrilpted in the
7 . fall flight, Of imagination and haat° ileseencl
to mirth. to renew with fidelity, truthfulness.,
ana eonsistency. New, e Stephen' was
always consistent in. „his 'details while th
story teats& only altered the story
where he told it On another occasion".
The voyage homeward, __therefore, was.
mere -silerat, The girl still preserved the
sarnereserva ; the Poet ceased his endeavors
to _make her -talk. Seek .stilt woadered.
Presently the boat entered the creek of
. Boeceatle ; Stephen lowered sails endeinaa.
feet- -minutes - they. were -standing on. the.
. . .
quay.-: The Ora with a slight inclination
a her head walked_ quickly away
Poete'. said -Jaickawhen a' _few -minutes
later they were stendaag,an roes- above
Poet, this ia some Of your lianaliwcak;
- I have- dreamed a aream. atheaeht we
Were in leboat out Itt, aec,-; there were cruel
profession my unelea fancy chooses to give
my father; and it is dreadful to think of
leaving the very pretence and outward
show of being a lady, and of descending to
the lower levels; and then there is the ter-
rible debt. However can that money be
paid? I owe him now for fifteen weeks, at
thirty shillings a -Week."
"1 know a way of paying that debt,"
said Jack.
"1 eennot take money from _you, Mr.
Davenant," she replied, with a sudden
change in her manner.
"You shall not, Avis. Here is my plan.
I am a painter, an artist. What I paint
best are heads. My pictures are worth—
well, not too much, but something. I.will
paint your head, and I will offer you for
the 'permission to make that painting the
sum of thirty guineas. Then you can pay
your debt."
But that is taking money from you,"
she said.
" Not at all. It is earning money by
work. You will have to sit to me a dozen
times while I am painting it. That is your
part of the work, and very tedious work it
is. When the picture is finished, it will
be sant to the Royal Academy, and, if it is
sold, will fetch a hundred guineas at least,"
" But if it is not sold ?"
"Then it will be worth to me," said Jack
"a great deal more than a hundred
guineas."
But she refused to take his money,
though she promised to let him paint her.
Two days afterwards she was astonished
by a most unexpected burst of generosity
on the part of Stephen Cobbledick, who
informed her, with effusion, that she was
to consider the debt due to him on account
of board and lodging as wiped off the book.
"Stephen Cobblediek," he said, "was
always a generous man. None of, his
enemies ever accused- him of meanness.
Therefore, when his niece came to _ stay
with him, he was content to share and
share so long as there remained a shot in
the locker." So that, in line, the past was
to count as nothing, andthe thirty shillings
a week wet) to begin from that day only.
He did not think it necessary to inform
the girl that. in an interview witaMe. Dave -
neat, that young gentleman haa used
strong exptessions as to the vices of
greed and araspingness ; that Mr. Davenant
had further informed him that he Was not
fit to have a girl at all in his charge ; that
it was his, Mr. Davenaut a intention to
find a more fitting asylum for . her, and
that, meantimer-he would pay her generous
benefactor for what he had already spent
epee her since her arrival; at the tate of a
pound laweek. 4
"1 do my best to be a gentleman., and
true," said Jack, humbly, Try me:"
She shook her head again. He saw that
tears stood in her eyes. . -
-"-Come," said Jack. "Will you do one
thing which will help?" -
"What it that?"
"Pet ou. your hat and come with me for
a walk upon t ee cliffs: That will do you
good."
She hesitat de It was not through the
fear that to walk with a young man would
be- improper, because sae had never learned
by experieuce or example that certain most
.innocent things may be regarded as impro-
per. Not -wily was, the girl innocent -her.
self, but she was also ignorant of t °riven-
tioualities. 'IOW should she learn them,
brought up in a; school where no mee Were
present or talked about? • .- •
a" Come:a-
said. the tenipter. "The day
is bright and. warm ;eit is a pleasure 'even
to . breathe - on such day as this. -Come
with reee'aae. _
She looked.at---him aetifi. lie was -tall
e
and hendsorne. I erlitepte comehnese does
. .
Produce eome effect upon the miteds of - girls, -
though they "certainly manage eo. fall in
love with the most remeakableaugly - men.
Thefacewas bright; too, and the eyes were
straight.'' She looked, -and yielded.
Ten -minutes -later the port and towa of
Beeeastle were lying ' at their feet tar be:
low them. They were climbing the head-
land, of Willapark. The girl was a good
walker,though she . -had taken to bad ways
oalate, and, stayed. hadoora -
Where they reithea the .top, her pale
face was-flushede and her eyes were bright,
the -set leek had left heraips, arid on her
mouth was a mile
Jack • was almost afraid lack at her,;'
she 'eeemed to hire, still, a kind of dteeni.
"Let us talk "lie said -
- They set down, side ayeideeas if they
had known each other since infancy. •
The first -day .they talked ,about- the
place : tiaeasecoua day_ Jack felt his way to.
More personal and confidential talk, the
third day he astonished- hhieself . by his -
boldness and success. - ,e
"Let me be your brother," tie' -began,
this artful deceiver, who Would have re-.
fused the offer of becoming the _young.
tady'a *brother if it Ilea been in
eaeneet. “ My name is Davenant, and they
always call nee Jack, thatie, my name", is
not John; you know ; but, if year will. tall
me Jack, it would: make things . simpler'
'But I hardly know- you all," she re-
plied, with a Jitter:). laugh.- "It is so odd to
_see it man for the third time or eo and then
to call aini by hiaChristiaa name' - -
“Not if that man calls you by - your
Christian name, Let us try: -atoW- thea:
Avis--whatsa pretty name!"
"Jack' blushed a rosa red—“. what
good nainealor a man
- atong the...shere with sharp _ e Avis," •-he repeated,' "now then :that
:ready to grind and destroy any ship that we are brother and sister—let 118 • take
Should be dr.iverr, upon thein; there were hends upon it "—he -held -out his right -hand
"1 must take you back to town, Jack,"
said the Poet.
"Not yet. I must paint her face. I
have promised that.
"Do not promise too much," th
added, with a meaningin his wor
was at this period that the eonve
was held which I have already re
"Do not promise too much."
' Jack turned from his friendwithimpa-
tience: because at this time he was ready
to promise anything.
She was changed in those few daes since
ri
first he saw her; no longer sile t and
depressed. She was bright, smiliure and
ready to talk and ask questions. L ie had
begun to look cheerful again; hope as in
her heart, but not yet love.- She was
humble ; the knowledge of her birai had
made her more humble than befor. . She
t:i
was ignorantof the wotld, hut sh( knew
enough to be sure a gentleman oug t not
to.marry beneath him; not to marry at all
seemed a light affliction to her, arid she
was resolute that since no gentleman could
marry her, she would marry no one at all.
t
Had she been brought up among irls of
Stephen Cobbledick's class, she wo Id, on
the other hand, have dreamed eon inually
of some gentleman falling in love a ith her.
Poet
Ls. It
ation
orded.
That is, indeed, tbe dream of the
dress -maker, and, I dare say, of th
blest girl that lives. The king and
ondon
hum-
beggar -
maid ; the prince and Cinderela ; how
many stories have been written, heaamany
dreams dreamed, upon this therrie? Be-
cause poor Avis had been taught to believe,
as all gentlewomen try to believe: that a
set down as the cost of Avis' maintenance
ars seventy, and the same sum might be
charged for every year of her existence.
Now, as she was eighteen years of age,
that meant a total of 'sixteen hundred and
twenty pounds, as he chalked it up on a
neighboring stone.
"She owes me," he said, "sixteen hun-
dred and twenty pounds; or, countin' the
interest out of which I have been choused,
seventeen hundred pounds in all. There's
e, sum I She shall go for it, though. I
shall charge nothing—nothing at all—for
loss of her serviees and agonies at parting
from my dearly beloved niece. What a
uncle I am !"
He was, indeed, as he was about to prove,
the most remarkable of all uncles recorded
in history, except perhaps Richard the
Third, guardian of the Babes in the Wood,
and the Barber Fiend.
So rapt was he in the vision of his own
goodness, that he paid no attention to the
operation conducted just below him, of
fa
inserting a new plank in the side of -
coaster, nor did he hear the footsteps o* a
man who was walking leisurely towa ds
him. lie was a thin, slenderly -built man,
about the average height, dressed in a
black frock coat,buttonedup,black trousers,
and a tall hat. He might have been a dis-
senting minister, or a traveller for it retie
glow; publication, or a temperance lecturer,
or a promoter of public companies, so
much did his appearance betoken ostentae
tious respectability. His age tnight have
been anything, but was certainly over
forty, as was manifested by the crow's feet
round his eyes. His features were good
and certainly handsome, though too long
and sharp; his eyes were keen and small ;
his lips were thin, with a nervous twitch
in them, and they were flexible; his hands
and feet were small and delicate.
He stood awhile looking at his goo,d-„
visionary, who sat gazing into space as IsS
counted up his gains, and heard him not.
The strangersmiled. "What mischief is
the old man thinking of now ?" he mur-
mured. "He looks aged, but there's work
in Stephen yet."
He stepped over the ropes which lay
about the quay, and laid his hand au Ste-
phen's shoulder, not heavily, but with a
quick hard grip, as if he had caught his
victim at last. .
e` Shipmate," he said, "how goes it?"
Stephen started, looked up in his lace,
jumped to his feet, dropping his pipe,which
Was smashed on the stones, and forgetting
his vision of marriage settlements. Never
wits man more astonished. Hie jaw drop -
ped, his eyes opened, he spread out his
hands in helpless astanisament.
a Cap en' Ramsay'a he cited at length.
"It' hisself " ' • - -
1.4 , . .
'gentleman cannot fall in love b
station, she concluded that she was
marry at all. A sad thing to have,
no husband, and no joy of little c
a grievous thing, yet a light thingan com-
parison with that threatened dese nt into
the rough world from which er new
friend promised somehow to rea ue her.
She had me thought of love. k, the
kind and generous hearted Jacjt, pitied
her loneliness; lee would find- mething
for her, some place somewhere: e asked
not what or when: she left it tru tfully to
Stephen Was net (meta those thiniskinned
.people whe !Shrink into their T.tibelli On the
adrainistrationof rebuke; - not it:tall-eat was
custarear,a on -board -shipboth to Igive and
to take admonition-, with or without kicks,
repeat -ceding, cudgeling, or knocking dawn,.
and ueoffenceOn.tather..side, or suleiwpient
malice, -grumpiness, Or thought of :teverige:
He therefore took the -money ; acknowledged
by his salute ,lack's rank as a superior
officer, -and made na difference in his.eheer-
fat manner when lie met 'him thatevenina,
at tae -Wellington- Arius. .He liked' jack,
in fact; allthebetter for it. -•
- Mr. Davenant, ho said, was borri.te tread
the quarter-deck and to -geee hie orders
-
through a trumpet. ; lie :BliOuld have been
sent to sea, by rights, where he would have
tarried out an admiral or apilot, at the very
low his
ever to
to lover,
ildren ;
The portrait too was begun. Mile she
sat, Jack could gaze upon her wit out re-
pros,ch.
I
As he looked and tiansferredhe' features
i
re the canvas; he fell more and :t ore in
eovee .Yet he aidnoword of a ye; nee
did he by any of those outwaid-si igs, corn -
men among lovers, betray hiapas on. For
•as yet he was uncertain %hat to do, he
thought oflier happinesse or trie4ao think
of taat, first s but While he set himself - to -
'work to zees= out:the thing calaily, the
black caves; there werelong,hungry- oo, g
reefs running, out' to mea; there were lecke
. of strange shapes. standing by themselves in
the water; -there was a- bright stinithine
•
and a -dancing sea; -there was an old sailor_
wilose talk was like ehe sound of the brook
which ceases _not, as the splash of the
Water from the roof on ,a rainy day; and
- there was a maiden—.such- a maiden, -so
dainty, so_ sweet. Give inc back my dream."
"Do -you ' remember," -Jack preetiently
asked, 'what the old felow_was saying?'
“Not it word,'.' replied the Poet- "-I was
thinking how such a girl could be his
. .
. niece. .Why, his wife, and his daughters,
his female _cousins', and their daughters,
- his female connections by marriage, and
ae their daughters; must be, or have been, or
are about to be, dumpy, hrowaYefell-blo-wn,
broad -nosed. -Call that girl his- niece?" -
at Wesethinking- about her, too," said
atteck ; “Ievas thinking how she came
there. _lac, you think she really' a person
named dobbledick? Beauty should have it
graceful_ name. Every girl who ` turns
- out well ought to - be renewed to, change
her -name for something appropriate,
just as the actresses do: A.visis pretty.
How -did slie get that heme, I wonder?
-Did yonnetiee how sad seetned? What
is .the --Metter with her, I_ wonder?- She
. would not speak she did not smile ; her
face` is too - pale; her eyes ale • weighed_
down with some grief. Good heavens!'
Does, that old villain ill-treat 'her . jack
clenched his fists bathe thought came irito
his mind. -
- For two days they had no chance of see-
ing her again, because she did not leave the
cottage. Yet the weather was fine.,- Was
- she ill?. Did she never comp out?
"1 must and will see her," said Jack, on
the tiara day. -ae . -
• - mind was _nista() Up; he would
attack the citadel itself.-- He boldly went
to the cottage; no•one was in the porch;
the -a -door stood open; he stepped in;
• - -before, him was another door; he. knock-
ed gently, receiving- the -customary in -e
vitation ; he opened it, and found within
' the girl he ,desired ato. speak. She -Waa
.and-folde& hers in lus strong -grasp— tell
inc evhy youareunhappy . •
"That wOuld be to tell you all my poor
little history." •
Then tell it _me.
• She told him., as ' we know it. He was a
youth of quick sampathiee, and guessed
more than what she told. -How could
he help ? _
"Avis," he saga" -Oak kind of life cannot
go on. You must leave your guardian as
sooti as possible. Strangel I wondet if
legeetoldthe truth when he said you were
his aiece?" aae
- " I do not -know. The tad woman who
•
rec- ollection of her voice, Whichlas
. a -cheer -
fill :tied sweiitaenotleae;eshich is Fel-common
him; .and-hissh.eiirtleapedup ; oilks eholight
As for the Pot, Mr. aolebledick regarded
-
him with aversion. He was always sneer-
ing, he aid;ashe turned up his nose at the:
finest yarn, and askitd eearcliing questions
es if they Wereenot.true. -
. .
the gita wits pre.tty, mist tlitit'Jeakbadeyes-,
He *itte.not each a fools! not: te see tlaet
affectation amorigiatiliieneaearn.e -Upon
of her eyes go lirepia andaso deep, or the:
outline eif her lace, Which he drew perpetu-
ally:: . Upon every Margin.; of her tall : and.
lassoni figure elaridelee could not rt &SOU - be -
pause he feta - -' .--
At ' Aisp he argued With himee f_that a
girl 'living en-auch a Manneredestarnet but
Ite coarse in her ideas; yetshehal BO lived,
lie.' rememberedebut three_saorai 'months;
audit *9,3 pain and misery to liaa. !There
- .
and thatahe best way to get of his
niece, and at the , same . time, socure a firm
hold upon her, fins,nciallyewas to facilitate,
As. well as his inexperience would allow,
the groesth of a tender feeling towards the
girl as well as the interest she had already
aroused in the heatt of the young fellove
trom London.
-1 '
• He wanted ardently to get rid of - her.
- -
She was m his way; he could not nee as
le liked while she was there; he! wanted
as most people do, to revert as Much as
possible to the ways of the Primitive Man;
he would have gnawed his bones, cracked
them with his teeth to extract the rnareow ;
he would not have been unwilling to clothe
himself in skinsaf there were any to be got
and he would ha,ve made his cottage like
are minde .which can never be loarse . or
t
coinrnon just as there are some - hide calf
never be pure and sweet,
' -It had not 'mitered into his taheme ' of
:life. to: marry early. Ile .was of e of the
:Men _ who preach the : doctrine i hit it is
best to make your way first,. year name .if
t
thateie possible, and year ince e, before
you commit yourself to the- e ances of
matrimony. New; hiename -N9 8 not yet
made, but was already in the ma 'Lig, se to
speak; and his fortune was all ta be made:.
:Are for any feeling-ehat he - Woila marry
beneath him, that was far free being in
his thoughts at 'all. Who Mat
he _ said, minuet .possably :mart
waits upon us says that he had neither
brother nor aister."
"I -do not believe that you are his niece
at all," said Jack stoutly, abut that does
not matter. -By. bis own' allowing, your
1. •
the -cave of the flint weapon period. It is.
aranfal to reflect that ,mankind. have- -ilea
onlyte be dragged against tacit will to the
chilly heights .of. culture; but that, they
must .be kept their forcibly, else they will
'relapse and Walleye once more in the
'Poet Pat; Who loves the society of his pig
in: his -cabin, ilea tape of what eee- should
rill beard -Me alit for the -tyraeula :of -people
who are not only 'clean; but also poWerful.
Nexttogettiegaid: of her, he :wanted to
recover the Money which had been, against
his knowledge spent upon the Seventy'
remade a year This. dreadful prodigality
for ton years lit -least, 'besides whet he had
spent before;- and .when. heeleomalained to
-his manof business:with wheel he had left
his money, unfeelipg person called
him manes. , reckonedit up. areeenty
agenda a year for ten years: that 'made
seven hundred, -which be eteeld--have
bought hala a dozen cottages, 'the only form
Of investment whieh he knew. :Their there
was the interest: three- pounds a year,
at least: thiety pounds more gone. Now,.
if agentlemaneaateahe.n thought that all-
:geralemen were ticheawere. to fall in love
with. Avis, it mould be hard ifehe could net
extract from him, either before or after
marriage,- tberetirn of that l sante witle,a
little more., "I should make it;" he _ said,
With glistening eyes; I -should maaeite—,
ay --6. round thousand,' or .fifteen hundred
nds Hang Me if for each a 'girl as
"-Shake . hands, old salt," sail the other. -
alt as myself, I,guesa No Othar-h-oss has
gat into that skin.- Why, there; it s cheera
lualockint at,your old face spin. Kind o'
brings back old days; doesn't it
"It does; it does," responded atepben.
"But come, cap en, this demands it drink.a
"Hold hard, you come in my tow .so
long as I'm here," said Captain Ramsay.
44 -Let us go tcathribar." _
They went there, and drank each other's
health a,t-the captain's- expenee.
"-Ana where,easked the stranger, "tan
We have a place 'where we can sit and talk
hy.ouraelies, with nobody ptiCkin' up their
e7Sstetleshielehtellle?ithe warier to his 'oSver cottage;
where, appropiatitia Avis' room for the
occasion, they sat and talked -
"To .tairilaa cried Stephen, - that'
ales:surd-live to see you a seteira down in my
own house.' _
"Here am, you. see. I was at Livera
pool,- when I remembered that- you had
given up the piloting and were come liome..
And by reason of your sometimes
educatioh was an accident; you owe hini
nothingfor that; he makes 110 areteneeartt
effectioe; lie (teen charges you an exorbi-
tant sum every week for Your -simple 'MOP:
temaiice ;, you -are-left. veholly . alone . and
neglected; you, know nes °ea:in-this place;
yotamust leave it -,• .
"But I Mi:11 heat ot eothingto do.: My
schb011eietrese -can lied me no &tee - as
governess; and, indeedei-fear I- rim- not
pletei enough.tateach; and I 'ambeanted,-
day and night, with stlie thought that he
will force 4). take any place that I. cam
gets—even—even—to strand behind it bar
endserve sailers with rem."' •
By -heaven !"..cried Jack, "that would
iee Avis, answering to the name of Boscastle Steve,
beneath I concluded to run down here and prospect.
' around:till I found yoe."
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It Was eo pleasant, this #11:1e. ig foe:Ming-
about with the girl; talkieg,sittiag together, -
Walking on the cliffs, or 'sailing ia the boat,
that he yeas -loth to disturb it. ,;The days
went on, and every day he fifi'q -mere o
her; the behest. fisaermen. offBoscestle
UNA it for gaanted that they wee courting.
Avis had nO, saame- to: run,
hire while -be was ayetsefer off ;'
shame in tellingehim all she th
hoped ; - she .shoWed la tn , het
they made-- 'journeys ter 'gee the -alaces of _ al retheriaber," Captain Raniseyerepliede .
*Web the _girl had heard to matey weird a sad divided the pleader. It was risky,
legioes sin her childaooda -Tha. Castle of but . creditable.' It 'wouldn't Tate ' do to .
Tiataaiagel St. -Nightoras laeive, ad Minster have- shown up in Boston for 'await° after ' ,
that, week" it?"
-"And what have you been: te, dein' of
. _. _ .
since, - dap'ea? Have . you set down. to -
enjoy. the proceeds of honest itidustrai . or
have you fooled away your pile ?"
eli've-eafsealed ' away that pile, and tie
made more piles; -and: • I've fooled them .
away." • , _. , • - -
"Euchre?' asked the pilot. - --e---
“ And monty; and any Other darned thing': ,
Rerharks such .'aie these are difficelt . te : ale - Guess if the Prodiga,1 Son had one.
it
receive, under saidlar eircumst ' aces. :Yet_ to New Orleans be Would -have dropped/the --
jack,. through some fear of the result, or al&maras dollarsin a way to reflect %edit '
some scruple about aimaelf; *Old not -say On that city." ,
II* wards which would -sever t ' atfrateraaa - "Ay, -ay.. When I seteyeelest uaaa you;
bond: ' Caa'ene- you was :a .Salem Man, and a
. Quaker, by profession when in shore -.gain'• ,
.be too Mach: 'Bat; Avis, there are other
and . meet
lie had no
light and
very soul
Together,
" In my Own bailee," replied the -.other .
with iteration; "the same house as I
bought ivi41 dozen others when I :
come -home eighteen /ears ago, after 'that •
little job of ours, where we done evert',"
a "What little job??
" yoiaknows the black lob, evben we ship- -
aede—Eto hot—that crew of darkies in
Bostoni • pretendina—Ho! . h�! hol--that
we Were bound for Liverpool, and run 'ern
down to New Orleans and sold 'ern. every
unconsciously in perfect trust men jack." -
church,. where Jack made s
-ways with Avis in the foaegroim
went to Forrabuey church to
hauated . no More by the fool'
meeting any of her school-fello
"1 told the girla" she said, 'i larms•
going -into the world -- to find a:father and
mother, and perhaps a sister.aaleabratheee
But, Jack, -I never thought th it I- should,
find so kind a brother as you." '
etches al-
; -Etna they
ther, Aeite
h - fear of
peaple in theworld besides your -school;
inistress. -There ere, for instauce, the Poet
and myself." '. - , ' ' •
"Now I have told you," she said simply,
"1 -feel as if hope was coming back to me,
Jack "—she blushed, again very prettily as
she celled bim a secand time by his name
—"you will not think I am ashamed to
work, and w ald rather live on with him
d
in 7 the little ttage. To be sure, it is not
pleasant fo girllo be told. that she is not,
which she ways thought she was, a lady,
but only it common sailor's daughter, or a self, all girls, and all bringtrig im a g
afhipearpenter's daughter, or whatever pots, he indulged his waking lieurie ninety pounds syear neegh as easily e
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changed same name from Ramsay to Angela
BASISAY, „ANGEI
Ho ! Aegel 1" e
NoW,Whilettiesetwe were Ta idly p sating e Your memory is so good, old mate, that ,
through ill tarsi* nicely grader. edemotious. Iniustask you to .renaember nothing about
of. ' admiration,- 'weeder, resa et, ' ainegiag-,, me Se -eat What I tell you. -And whati 'tel ' -
ahd. - ardent _desire for each ot r.'s seciaa," -yau now. is- thise • I am . Ramsay -a.gairie -
Which make up and :lead. to the, delightful Jefferson 'Rar4SaY1 earamodore in the -nava '-
amain -, of laaa (which, ailleaa amen' feel eiathe Confederate States, . I was barn 840:
it at lewd onee in his life, -he had ., better -refixed in Norfolk. I am Sec.esa. to the back..
never_beeri aora), an event leap stied which hone. Bully. for the blue flag! _ a hail
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Wag destined totrouble eVotyt ' ng, Always train the South, the. land:of chivalry, -wherc . .
that detestable elatah in 1 man , affairs. na abolitionist skunk shall be permitted to •
*Web. interrupts hindertea The -Amore.- dwell, tuid all the whites air .gentlemen -
Can . poet observes -one this 'Pei a'. that tae torn; .nriefit- of them of the ancient atistee - -
Course of true love may falai be compared • eeacy of -Great Britain. We air figlitine-
/Ws' it Man ought not to pay two thousand with the ilow of the Mississippi. lor it. ha a :sit, 'for libertyeand. our constitutioa. The -
down.aAad -that would :make -me very fell - and-ne- ig- htY stream; and: it irresis- peculiar Institution- has been forcelpon.
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comfortable:- -Arcry comfortable, indeed, it eible a and it.has snags--; and.-1hire-aro: en- us by our aneestors. ' We anal. consider it
would. .-Ah 1 if you '.do keepa goina on a certain of - its slatitudes- .alla eters. he its when we have established :ter freedom
eastiie of your bread upon the -*Oats, hoW waters, and Tattles -on its sla ree, besides eaem . the North. Abolition we abhor, -bra - -
it doescome back, same :day; to be .sure! fevers. - The snags, also, areanot found :in cause ,we love our niggers too well -to . give
If I'd forty nieces, lamed --ieee 'wouldn't the early rertaaele Of the rivea inch further them the llbOrrty.they would convert into
treat em all," the 'same way;.- make -43m, assists that poet's metaphor. 11 ,L .1 - license. No, sir, tlie South at this -momenta
ladies, with silk stockingsand white hands, :: The 'EWE it was this; . . - a . . is the *stud chamaiiin of eoristitutienal '
.and take WO- thousand Pena aftieee. for -- Stephen Colablediea was ouo -morning rights, and the defender - Of morality . and.
'em all tetrad when their ichaps came to 'Rested _ on a hawser on -the e1iarbor- eanaY! ten -gam.' 'aea '
marry thein. -• It's „beautiful! It's_ what Hifi' abort pipe was in his.mt. tith, hie loge 11 He delivered this harangue with a shwa;
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the la,Waeas call; I - suppeserea . Marriage Were stretched aut, and be:* conteneplata Mae which- greatly added to -the effect: -. • .
settlemerit.. I truly- wish I'd had forty—ay. • ing, With an alt of great sa sfadion, --Shr? ' -Stephen Cobbledick waiatiffeeted ahnoet
or fifty nieces—or - it hundreda'at° the same wreaths Of tobaCco-smoke, ':. oratheY.aeue to tears. -"He_ ought," he'exchtimed, "to ,: .
rate." . -, -.. .. r‘ ' - • ae ' : - a - - . , - Vaned- a delicious castle of:$t• in, 'connected have been a bishop I"
With this blissful flibeen,of Snemerous .velth the. "Marriage Settle ent a of his se e Sol °agate' said *Captain Rainsay, "if
and penuilesa.fainily.all dependent oaahiiri niece. 'Itheeleicourredtotha icked old Man eeetabody had what was best for him. I
" • that, while he was about it, j3ighty eve?' Should . like to be a bishop—hi' Englend.'
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