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By CHARLES RHADH, AVTHOR OK " Hard Cash," " Never too Late to Mend;' " Put Yourself hi Bis Place," " Griffith Gaunt," " Foul Play," " A Simpleton,'- arc. MONTREAL: DAWSON BROTHERS. PUBLISHERS. 1877. Entered according to Act of Parliament of Canada, in the year 1877, by DAW SOX nROTin.ks, in thi Office of the Minister of Agriculture. A. A. Stbvbnson, Printer, 345 St. Jamrs Stiibct. A WOMAN-HATER . CnAPTER I. • "TllF. Ooltlon Stiir," IloiiiburR.wiisa liiiiii- ble lidtt'l, not used by gay giiinbliTs, hut by niotli'st tiiivj'lers. At Iwo «'(l()ck, iiiio fine day in Juno, thore wviv two .stiiiiigciH in tlie aullv a muiii/tr. Hi'iiti'd iit small tabli's a long way apart, and wlmlly absorlu'd in tlu'irown busint'SH. Oiii- was a latly, about twenty-t'iiiir yours old, who, in till' jircstMit rt'uose of luT teat- urt's. looked romcly, Hcdato, and womanly, hut not thf rcmarkabh^ porson hIiu roal- ly was. IUt londnad high and white, hut a lilth' liro!|di'r than sculptors nlloct ; her long h;iir. coiled tight in a gniat many sniooih sn.'ik^'s upon her snowy nape, was almost tlaxeii, yet her eyehrows anil long laslies not ]iale, l)ut a reddish-brown; her gr.'iy eyes large and iirofound; her mouth rather large, beantiCiilly shaped, amiable, and ex)iressive, Itiit tiill of resolution; her! ehin a little broad, her neck and hands ad- 1 miraldy white and polished. She was an ; Anglo-Dane -her father Knglisli, | If you ask me what slm was doing, why I hunting; and had been, for some days, in I all the inns of Ilimiluiry She had the visit- i ors' liiink. .'Mid was goin, thronnh the names of I he whole year, and studying each to see whetlH'r it looked real or iissumed. Inter- spersed were tlip|)ant comnients and verses, ada)tted to draw a smile of annisement or eontcnipt : luit this hunter passed them all o\er as nullities; the steady ]iose pera had t'allen really ill; he was commissioned to replace her, nud had only thirty hours to do it in. So he was hunting -a singer. \Vhat tin' lady was bunting can never be knuwti, iinlo;^ she siioulil cLouMe to ruvuul it. . Karl, tlio waiter, felt hound to rouse these abstracted guests and stimulate their a]i])e- fites. He utfected,thi'refoie,to look on them as people who had not yet lueakfasted, ami tripited up to Mr. Asluuead with a bill of fare, rather scanty. The busiest Englishinan can eat. ami .\.sh- meatl had no objection tu smiti-h a mouth- ful ; he gave his order in (ierman w ith an English accent. Ibit the lady, when appeal- ed to. siUd, Hidtly, in i)nre (.ierman,"! will wait for the tuhli d'hote.'' '• The tabic d'hote .' It wants four hours to that." The lady looked Karl full in the face, and said, slowly and very distinctly, "Then, I — will — wait — four-— Inuirs." These wimple words, uttereil llrmly, and in a contralto voice of singular volinne and sweetness, sent Karl skijiping; hut their ef- fect on Mr. Ashmead was more remarkable: he started up from his chair, with an excla- uuitHin, af I bent his eyes eagerly on the melodious speaker. He could ludy see her back hair and her tigure ; but apparently this quick-eared gentleman had also i|uick eyes, for he said, aloud, in Knglish, "Her hair, too — it. must be;'' and he came hur- riedly toward her. She caught a word or two, ami turned and saw him. "Ah!" said she, and rose, luit the (loints other lingers still rested on the book. " It is!" cried .\slimeail. "It is!" " Ves. .Mr. Asbmc.'iil," s.iiil the lady, color- ing a li;t ie. I HI I in pure linglish, and with a. eoninosiire not easily disturbed; "it is Ina Kloskiiiu;." " What a ple.isure!" cried Ashmead ; "and w hat a surprise ! Ah. madam. I never ho]>ed to see villi ;igain. When I heard you had left the Munich Opera so sudden, I said. 'Tlu're j;ties one more brightirstar, (|nenched forever.' And you to desert tis— you, the risinnest singer in (lermany !" " Mr. .\shniead!" " Villi can't deny it. Vou know you were." The lady, thus made her own Judge, seem- ed to retlect a moment, and said, " I was a well-grounded musician, thanks to my par- !'.xif|j. ; I was a very hard-working singer; and 1 had the advantage of being etupport- A WOMAN-HATKK. 0(1 in my i>ar1.v cnroor l>y a fjrntWMiiaii of | "Antlfiirn liiiii to a cnnntcr-trnor — make jmlnniriit ;iini s]>iiit, who wis a iiianafifi' Jiiin Hiiiu'iik." u! lirst.aiid l>ioiij;lit iiif foi ward, al'irrw anl Iiia Kluskiii^; siiiili-il for tlio lirst tiino. a iiojiiilar a«tiit, and lalktd iiiaiiagt-is iiilo Aflniuad too (ImcUli'd at liis own wit, l)nt a noiid opinion of nil'." I turntd suddmlv uravc tlif next nioint>nt, "Ail. nia(Lini." said Aslnin-ad, tondcrl.v, ; and moral i/.til. He indnoiinci-d it desirable, "it iH a ^;rcal jilcasMrc to Inar tliis from tor tlic intcrt'stN of mankind, that a fircat yon. and spoki'M wilii tiial nnlluw voice, and risin;: hinj;ir slionld not hive out of thi) wliirji wonitl eh.irni a ratKesnakc: Imt what ImMiness ; oul>idcrs weic w ron<;-lieaded and wonid my zeal and devotion have availed, ] ahsnrd, ami did not understand tlie trne if you had not lieen a Inirn Hinder ?" j artist. However, having diseour.sed for " Why — yes," said Ina. tlioimlitfnlly ; " I ' « you to diiu' with me at the Knrsaal, and voiee. ^ i tln-n adjourn to the b'oyal llox, Vou are a "Oh, you (h> admit that." said Mr, Ash- C^ueen of Sonj;, and that is where you iiml mead, with a iliuekle ; "then why Jump otV he shall sit, and nowhere else." . the ladder so near the top f Oh. ol course Ina Klo^ki1ln wjis chau;;in;j; ecdor all thin I kmiw - the old story: but you irii;iht uive twenty-two hours to love, and still sjiare a couple to uiiisic." "That seems a reas(mable ble." said he." "You are in trouble. I declare "Yes. but he said I embraced one po, he is no to lue there. Ah! he knew 1 shiuihl need villain." Then she dried her eyes, and said, niy nu)ther when his second letter cjiiik'. resolutely, " If I am to tell you. you must ' He had idanned il all, thai the Idow might not apply harsh words to him. 'i'hey would ' not kill mc. He wrote to tell me lit* was a close my mouth at once, and close my heart." ruined man. .'ind he w as too proud to let me "1 won't say a word."' said Ashmcad. snli- support him: he licnged my pariUui lor his missively ; "so tell me all." | love, for his desertion, for ever haviufi' cross- Ina rellected a monniil, and then told her ed my luilliant path like a dark cloml. Ihi tale. Dealing now with longer sentt'iices, ]iraised me, lu^ thaidicil nu-, ho Messed me; she hctrayeii her foreign half. | lint lu' left me: it was :i he.'iutifnl letter; "Being alone so long," saivcd, and was now own passion out. Then Lis y;re;il rcsth'ss- enaliled to say, <'heerfnlly : "Let us take a iiess, h;i\iiig now no chain, became too business vicv,' of il. He is gone — gone of sinmg for our liappiiu'ss. He jiined for his own aeeoid. Dive him your blessing — t'hange, as sonii' wainlerers )iine for .•! lixed I have nirni him uiine — and forget him." home. Is it not strange ? I, a child ot' the " Koritet him! Never while I live. Is theatre, am at heart domestic. Ilea gen- that yonr iidvice? (>li. Mr. .Vshmead! ami tleiiian and a sclioLar. born, bred, and lilted the moment I s.aw yonr friendly face I said to adorn the best society, is by nature, a to myself, ' I am no longer alone: hero is Boluunian." om^ that will hel]> me.'" "One wcMil : is (here another woman ?" "And so I will; you may he sure of that," " No. not (hat I know of. llemcn for- s.iid Ashmead. eagerlv. " W'hat is the husi- bid !" said Ina. " Miit tlieri' is sciiielhiiig Very dreadful : (here is gambling, .'le has a pa.ssion for it, and I fear I we;irieil him by my remonstrances. He driigged me about from (uie gaml)ling jdace to iinothcr. and 1 ness f ••The business is, to find him. That is the lirst thing." " Hilt he is in England." "Oh no; that was eight months ago. Ho saw that if I resisted, he would go wilhont could not stay eight iininths in any coun- ine. He. lost a fortune while we were to- try; besides, there are no gambling huii.se8 getlier, and I do really bclie\e he is mined, there." pimr dear." j " And have you been eight mouths seurcb- Ashmoad snpiiressed all sif^ns of ill tern- , ing Europe for this madman f ' 10 A WOMAN-HATEK. " No ; at tiiHi priilf ami unn'^r werr stroiin, Wliy, conHidpr — tlio wny to rocovor n mftii in and I said, ' Hiti- I Hta.v till he couieN back not to run nrtcr liini, luit to make liini run to nic and to liis M'nmH." " i to ,V"n : it is liko calcliinn niotliH ; you don't "Hraval" mix out into the >;ardiii after tlicni; yon " YfN, lint month aflrr month wont liy, 11^''' the candlf and optn the window, ami farryin>{ away my pridi- ami my an^cr, ami tlni/ do the rest -as he will." li-avinj; my allfclion undiminished. At last j "Yes, yes; hut what am I to do for i/(»h /'' I eould liear it no longer; no, as he woidd asked Ina, <;etlinv!; a little uneasy ami num- not come to his senses -" . pieions. "Von took leave id' yours, and came out •• Wiial. didn't I till yon ?" said .\shmead, on a wild-noiiMe ehase," said Ashimad, hut with enol etiinnii ly. " Why. only to siii)i; too reKretliilly to aftVont her. forme in this little i>|ieia, that is all." Ami "U ir((M." .said Ina; "I feid it. itut it is he |iul his haml.s in his |iiiekel.s, ami awaited not one now, Iteiaiise I havt! j/oii to a,sMiHt [ tliumler-elaps. me with >our exiteiiem e and aliility. You "Oh, that is iill. is it ?" said Ina. panlin^j will tind him for me, somehow or other. 1 a little, and Inrnin/^ two ;;ieat reproai lifiil know you will." Let a woman have ever so little K"'l''t she must have tact, if she i« a true wmnan. ^ow tact, if its etymology is to be trusted. eyes on him. "'I'hat is all," said he, svoiilly, "Why, wliat attraeted him at lirs f Wasn't it your Niny;in;;, the adnuration of the jmldie. implies a line sense, iiiid power of toueh: the lionum'ts and lir;ivas .' What (■:iu;jlit HO, in virtue of lui' s<'\, she pats a horse the niuih onee will r.'iteli it :iuain ' moping' hefuri' site rides him. and a man liefore she won't. And sniilx ^vuu will no! rel'nse t.> dri\es him. There, ladies— there is ,'iu- in- , draw him merely heianse yni can pnll me dietment III two eoniits; traverse either td' out of a li\ into ihe liar^a'ii. LonU here: I them, if yon can. Iia\ e Miidertaken to tind a sin;;er liy to-mor- . Joseph .\sliiiie:ii|. thus deliealely lull ef- row iii;;hl ; .'iiid w hat < liaiiee is theii' id' my feetiially niiimpiiiali'il. .suelled with urali- yelliii;;- e\eii a I liii d rati' miet \\li\, llie tied \aiiily. and said. •• \'(Mi are (piite lij^lit ; \ hour I ha\e spml so ;i;;reealdy laikinj; you ean'tdo thissoi't id' tliiiif; joiirself--you to you has diminislied iii.\ ehanee." want an a)xeiit.' "Of eoiirse 1 do." ''Oil," said lua. "ihi.-, is dririiKj me into your net." "Well, yon have iiot one. Nnw lit me " I own it," said .lose|di, elieirfnlly ; " I'm see: lifty to one, he is not :it llumlmi';; at i|nile inisi'rii|iiiloiis, lui ;niM' I know \ on s\ ill all. If he is, he most likely stays at l'r;ink- ihaid; me afleiw aid." fort. He is a swell, is he not ?'' | "Thi! very ideji of f^oin;; liaik to tlieslai;e "Swell!" said the An;;lii-l>ane, jin/./led. iiiakes me treiiilile." saiil Ina. "Not that I am aware of." She wasstriit- "Ot'eonrse it does; and those who tiem- ly oil her ijnard a^xaiiisl vituperation of her Ide sneeeed. In a lony; ex)ieiienee I never heloveil scamp. knew an instanee to i he conti'ary. 1 is the "I'ooli. pooh." said Ashniead: •■ofcoii'se conceited fools, who feel safe, tiiat are in lie is, iind not the sort, to iodjje in llom- tlaiifier." Inirji." I " What is the pint ?'' '■Then lichold my illeonlpoten(•(^ !"' said "One you know Sieliel in I'ltin^l, with In " lliit //(( place to look for him is Ihe •fani- blin^ salooii. Ilein there f" '■Oh no." "Then y(Mi must." "What! -Me !^ Alone?" "No; with your ai;enl." "Oh, my friend: I s.iid yon would find liiin." "What a woman I She will have it he i.s in Ifoinluirfi. And suppose we do tind him, and yon should not he welconio?" '■ I shall not lie nnweleoine. / ultall he a chaiuje." "Shall I tell you how to draw him to I with admiiation." t W o new soiins." " I'^xeiise me. I do not know it." '■Why, every liody knows it."' " You mean every Imily has heard it siinp. I know neither the niiisie nor Ihe words. and I ('.'in not siii^i incorrectly even I'or yon." '•Oh, you can inasler the iiirs in a day, and the cackle in half. in hour." '• I :ini not so espi ililioiis. If yon .are se- rious, jjet me t he hook -oh! he calls tin? inl- et's wtirds the e;ieUl(!! — and the iiiiisie of tlio part directly, and liorrow me the score." '•llorrow you tlntseorel Ah! that shows the school you were bri'd in. I jrazc at you Honilinrir, wherever he isf" said Ashmead, very demurely. " Y«'H, tell me that." " And do Hir a ^ood turn into the l>:irj;ain?" ''Is it possible? can I lie so fortunate?" " Yes; and. ((.s ijitii siiii, it i.s u slice of luck i " As much as they w ill ^ive." to be able to kill two birds with ouc stoue. ! "t)f course; but yi\e me a hiut." "Then please don't, for w c have not a mo- ment to waste. Yon have terrified mo out of my senses. Fly!" " Y'es, lint hefore I liy t llert^ is something to be settled -s.ilaiN A WOMAN-HATER. 11 /oil /" lll'lll " No, no ; you will pot in»> somo inoiiry, for I am poor. I kiiv<> all my Hiiviii^H to my (Uar mollxr, itiid Ht-ttlfd Ikt on it t'ariii in "ThoD hIic niUHt leave the hotel." "Oil" (liaUKlltily)/W/lfl^ JH IIH slio ploOARM.'" Aslinii-ail went, to Ina KloHkin^ in a ra(;o fleur old Denmark, llut 1 nally sinj; tor.v«M and told litr all tlii.s, and said lie would moru than lor ilomltiirK, no iiiak<> no ditll- taki- her to another hot<-l kept hy a i-'reneh- cnlticH. Ahove all, do not discusH Halary inan : them' <'<'rnuum were hears. Ihtt Inn with me. Settle it ami draw it tor me, and Kloskin;; Just shni);t:ed her shonlderH, and de not let me hear any more ahout' that. I suid,"'rak<' me to her." am on thorns." | lie did so; ami kIh* said, in Crerman, I "Madam. I can <|iiiie understand your re- He Hooii found the ilirertor, and told him, Inetanee to havi- your |iiano struiuined. exeiteilly, there wiis ii way out of his jires- Hut a« your iioiel is i|niel and respectahle, ent ditlieulty. Ina Kloskin^ was iit the and I am unwilling; to leave it, will you pr-r- towii. H; had implored her to return to mit me to play to yon, and then you shall the Opera. She had refused at lirsl ; hut deciile whether I am worthy to st.iy or not." he had used all his iulluence with her, and The spinster drank those ineilow aeeents, at last had ohiained a half promise on ecu- enlnreil a little, lookearts, which hi> specified out of his own half sullenly, "No, madam, you are polite, liead ; salary a hundred thalers per nijiiit. 1 must risk my poor iiiano. He jdeased to and a half clear lieuefit on her last appear- ance. 1 The dirertor deiiHiired to the nalary. ' Ashmead said he was mad: she was the Oerinan .Mlioni. hei low notes like a trump- perfect tune. come with me. ' .^he then conducted them to 'i lar^'i- iiii- oceiipied room on the lirsl door, and un- locked the piano, a very line one, ami in et, and the compass id' a iiie7.7.n-soprai'o he- sides. 'I'he director yielded, and drew up the en^a^ement in duplicale. Ashmead then horrowed the musie and ciiiiie hack to the Ina sat down and perfurmed a eom)iosi- tioM then ill Voj;iie. '• Voii |»l,iy correctly, iiiadaiu," said the spinster; "hut your niiisic - - what stiitf! Such thin;;s are null. They vex the I'ar a inn triuniphant. He waved the agreement little, hut they never ri-adi the mind." over his head, then siihinilti-d it to her.! Ashmead was wroth, ami could hardly con- She glanced at it, made a wry face, and fain liim.-"lf: lint the Kloskiii^; was amused, said, "Two nioiitlis! I iie\er dreamed of ;iiid rather pleased. " Mademoiselle has pos- siieli a thiiin." iiive tastes in music,'' saiil she; "a|l the "Not worth your while to do it for less," i hetter." said Ashmead. " Come," said he, aiithori-i "Yes," said the Rpinster, "most music is tiitively, "yon have "jot a nood har;;ain ev- mere noise. I hate and despise forty-nine ery way: so sijiii." I (ompositions out of lifty; hut the lifiieth I She lilted her head lii;j;h and looked at him like a lioness, ;it h.'iiii; onleied. Ashmead rejilied hy putiiiiy; the paper he- fore her and Ki^''"K '"''' Hie |ien. She i-ast one more ;i>|n'oaclifiil jilance, then si;;iied like a liiliih. "Now," said she, tiiriiiii;; fiett'ii a iiiano '■ adore. (;i\e me somctliin^i simple; with a little soul in it — if you can," Ina Kloskin^r looked at her, ami ohserved her aye and her dress, the latter <-lil-fawh- ioiied. she said, (|iiiet ly," Will mademoiselle do me the honor to stand hefore me ? I will '1 want sinu her a trille my mother iaii;;iil me." I 'file spinster complied, and stood i>reet "You shall have oiii'," said he, coaxinttly. ; and si ill', with her arms folded. Ina lixed ,Ho went to the landlord and iiKjuired if her deeji eyes on her. itlayinji a liipiid |iro- there was a jiiaiio in the house, "Yes, there is one," said he. "And it is mine," said a sharp female voice. "May I hejr the use of it V "No," said the lady; a tall, Ixmy sidn- ster. "I can not ha\e it sti-iiiiinied on and put out of tune hy every hody." hide all the tiliu-; then swelled her < hest and sail;; the old \'eiietiaii canzonet, " II )>ese;iliire dell' onda." It is a small tliiiifj, hill there is no liiiiil to the jjeiiiiis of .sonj;. Thl^ Kloskinn saii;; this trille with a voice NO ijrand, NonoroiiN, and Hweet, and, ahove all, with such feelin>x. taste, and purity, that somehow she lrans]>orted her hearers to Ve- "Hut this is not every liodv. The lady I net iaii waters, mooii-lit, and thrilled them to want it for is a professional musician. Toji the heart, while the great glass chandelier of the tree." I kejit rinifinn very audihly, so true, massive, "The hardest strunuuers going." and vihrating were her tones in that large " Hilt, mademoiselle, this lady is going to ; empty room, sing at the opera. She mimt study. She 1 At the first verse that cross-grained spin- miixl have a piano. " Hut" (grimly) luiue." ' she ueeil not have ster. with real likes and dislikes, juit a hony hand <|uietly ht-fore her eyes. At the last she made three strideu, at) a uoldier uiurcbuu, ^ IT A WOMAN-llATKK aiip M\ all of II pitM'c, like n wooden inaii- nt'qiiiii, on tlio Min>;«r'M nock. "Taki< my and ratln'r1ii}ili-pit<'li<'d whonovor Mio npoke to a pi'iHon of lur own hcx : u coinoly En- ^li:Hll liloiitit', with pall' fyi'luMlicH; a kcoy, Hfhsililc KJrl ; and not a downright wickitd ont' iinl.\ Itorn ailful. Tliis wiis Fanny l)o- qllll ]»ian«>," hIh- soI)Ii( d, '• lor you liavn taken f lie lirarl out ol' my liody." Ina irlnrmd lur rmhiiicc, and did not rontnil lifi- |ilta,Hiiri'. " 1 lua viiy piond of vi'i;aiid tlic tail pMillcman - wlioso nda- Btndi a roniincKt." Miiid hIio. ' tion slir was, ami whose wife she ii-Nolvi-d I'roni that honr Ina was tin- landlady's to lie in mn- year, t line vrarM, or tin, accord- jM't. The room ami jiiano were made over hiK to his power of resistance — was Jlur- »o her, anil lieii'n '" a fjreal fright at, what rin;;ton Vi/aid. a liarfoidshire siiniic, with Hlie had nmit rtaken, ulie Ntndied and prai'- twelve tlioiisand aireH,and a lihrary. tieed hi'r part iii;:ht ami day. She made As for I'aimy.slie had only two thonsand Ashniead eall a rehearsal next day, and she poiintls in ail the world; so eompensaling eame home from it, wri'tcLed and almost Xatnre endowed her with a fair eomidixion, liysterieal. | l^ray, inesmerie eyes, an, and residntion — She snmmoiu'd her slave Aslnnoad; he qualities that often enalih; a poor nirl to eon- stood lietore her w ith an air of hypueritical qner landed estates, with their male iucuin- snltmission. I Inani-es. " The I'lule was not at r(du'arsal,Sir,"said IJeautifnl iiiid delieato -on tl'.o surface — • Hhe.severely/'iior theOboe, nor the Violon- as was Miss Dover's eonrtwhip of her lirst cello." cousin onee removed, it diil not strike lire. "Just like "em."' said Aslimead. Iraniinilly. It neither pleased nor annoyed him; it fell •■'riie 'I'euor is a t|uaveiiii;; iliek. lie is as dead as a lantern lirinn; lui an ieeherj;. one ot' those who think that an unmaidy Not that he dislike;ht no.se, with ex- misery — ami I thank and Itless you for it;|qnisite nostrils, coral lii)s, and ivory teeth. for these tlnu'iis ami nettles they lacerate me, and make me live. Tlie\ hreak the dull letharfiic ajfony of utter desolation." Then, as her iwrxt's were femali' nerves, ami her fortitmle female f(U'litude. she nave way. lor onee, .iiid heiian to cry patiently Unt what lirst stiiick the licholdcr were her glorious dark eyes, and ina<;nilicent eyelirows as lilaek as Jet. Ih^r hair was really like a raven's dark purple w iii;^. These heauties. in a stern character, inil \i't liiM'ilt'iii'il liy til)' wiirlil. 'I'liis voiiiij; hilly wiisZitf Vi/;ii would liavr niadi< a |>oor hand a) iiintinK Iiit thiiii;;hts ii|iiiii InT roiinti'- niiticp. iliivinK iiisfallrd iirrst'll', with rrniiniiM! I iiistini't, in a rrinixnn roin-ii that t'rainrd IuM' ; to |ii>rfei'liiiii. /ill' \'i/aiil was at. wmk cm- ' hi-oii|ci'inrovin>; your wiHdom," said Zoe; "and, instead of dwelliiiK on my jierfections, which do not exist, I \> irth yuu \Miiilil Irll me tliinns.'' What Ihiimsf" Will, "llow can 1 tell till I hear tleni t then. thin^M about yourself." "That is a poor snbiect." " l.ct me he the Juiluc" "(Hi, there ale lots ol' t'ellows who arc al- ways talking about thenisclNc-i. Let nil' bo an exception." This answer pii//leil Zoe. and she wa« Hi- lent, and put on a cold loiik. .She wa.s mil aecusliimcd to be refused aiiv thiiiK M'U8t>u- able. .Severne examitied her closely, and saw ho was c.xpccti-d to obey her. lie then resolved to prenare, in u day or t\Mi. an antiiliiouiapliy full Ol . iiils. that shmilil .-alisfy Zoe's cnri- osi.y.a . will her ailniii ii inn ^iiid her love. Ibit h ' I onlil not dii it all in a niKiiicMl, be- (••'•'se his incniory of liis real life obstriictiMl fancy. Mi'«n',..je he operated a diver- sion. II'- Hai'l, "Set a poor fellow an exjiiii- )de. 'I 1 me siiineihin^ about iioiirxtlf; sinc< I h.: ,e the bad lasle, and the p,'esiimp> ! ion, to le interi'sieu in \oii.,'inil can't help it. bid you spring from tlie I'nam of the Archipeiaj; I? or are yon desi ciidt'd from llacchii.» and Ariadi' '" "If yon want seiisililc .,■'., vers, ask sen- sible i|iit sitated. "(Jo on, Mr. Severne ; not all of them, what ?" 8uid Zoe, prep.ired to stand up foi hei sex. % "Not perfect." "That is a very cautions statement, and — there — yon are as slip[»cry as an eel, (hero is no getting hold of \ mi. Well. m". er mind, 1 will set you an example of communicative- ness, and reveal this mystery hidden as yet friim maiikiiid." " Sjjcak, dread qncen ; thy servant hoar- eth." " Ha ! ha ! ha ! Mr. Severne, you amuso me." " You only interest me," was the soft re- ply. Zoe blushed pink, but turned it oif. " Then why do you not attend to my interesting narrative, instead of — Well, then, it be- gan with my asking the dear fellow to take me a tour, especially to Kome." 14 A WOJIAN-HATER. "Yon wanted to see tho Htatues of yonr you flint two womnn would be too much for I uii*« man : I aiiccHtorH, and sliaiiit* iliciu." "Miicli olilim'c' , I was not quite bupIi a\ "No.it was the trufli ; and Rirls are artful yooMC. I wanli'd to hi'i- tlio Tilirr. and llie (■rcatnivs. csiircially when tliey put their ColoHMHiiii.and Trajan's pillar, and tlio Tar- licad.s Io;;.'|Ii.t. Hnt lu'ar tlic eiul of all our peian rofk, and flm one cvorlaHtiiif,' city cunniii-i-. ( )iir day, aft t-r dinner, Harrinjjton that, hinds aneient and modern bisthf had risen aliovi> the re- friends, you have played your little game gion of his ideas. Having sileneed her com- pretty well, esjieeially you, Zoe, that are a nu'iilator. she returned to herstory. "Well, novice iu the line arts eonipared with MiH,s duy friend." ; 'and who?' " Hai)i>y girl !" " ' Oh, a jierson equal to the occasion, an **He (piiet, i)lease. .So 1 asked Harring- old maid as bitter against men as ever ton to let me havt? Fanny with ns, and you grapes were sour. She would follow us up 8honld have s.en his face. What. In* travel stairs, down stairs, and into my lady's chani- with acoujile of ns! lb — 1 don't see why her. She woidd have an eye a the key-hole I should tell yo\i what the monster said." j by day, and an i .ir by night, when wo went "Oh yes, please do." | up to bed and talked over the events of our "You won't go telling any body else, ' frivolous day.' In shi»rt, he enumerated our then ?" 1 dnenna's jierfections till our l>lood ran cold ; " Not a living soul, njjou my honor." and it was ever so long before ho would tell "Well, then, he said" — she began to us who it was — Aunt M.-iilland. We scream- blush like a lo.se" that he looked on me as t-d with surprise. They are like cat and a mere femahi in embryo; I luul not yet de- dog, and never agree, exce])t to dill'er. Wo veloped the vices of my sex. lint Fanny sought an ex]danation of this strange choice. Dover was a. ri])e (lirt, and she would set nu' He obliged us. ' It was not for his gratitica- llirting,;iiid how conld he manage tlie pair, lion he took thc! old eat, it was for us. Sho 111 short. Sir, he refused to take ns, and g.'ivt^ would relit!ve him of a vast resiionsibility. his reasons, such as they were, poor d<'arl Th(> vices of her character W(uild prove too Then 1 had to tell Fanny, 'fhen she began strong for the little faults of ours, which to cry, and told me to go without her. Hut were only volatility, trivolity, flirtation — I I would not do that, when I h.ad once a.sked will not fell you what he said." her. Then she clmiir round my neck, and ' "I seem to hear Harrington t. liking," said kissed me, and hegged me to be cross and .Severne. "What on earth makes liim so sullen, and tire out dear Harrington." | hard upon women? Would you mind tell- " That is like her." ' ing me that f" " How do you know ?" said Zoe, sharply. " Never ask mo that question again," said "Oh, I hav(^ studied her eharactrr." Zoe, with sudden gravity. "When, pray?" said Zoe, ironically, yet j " Well, I won't; I'll get it out of him." blushing a lit t le, because her secret meaning j " l( you say a word to him about it, I shall was, " Von are always at my ajiron-strings, ' be shocked and olfendiMl." and have no time to fathom Fanny." She was pale and red by turuH; but Sev- " When 1 have noiliing better to do; when erne bowed his head with a respectful sub- yon are out of the room." ! mi.ssion that disarmed her directly. Sho "Well. 1 shall l>t^ out of the room very turned her head away, and Severne, watch- soon, if you say another word." ing her, saw her t!yes (ill. "And serve me right, (oti. I am a fool to "How is it," said she, thoughtfully, and talk, when yim allow ine to listen." looking away from him, "that nuMi leave out " He is incorrigible!". said Zoe. pathetical- their sisters when they sum up womanlvindt ly. "Well, then, I refused to pout ai Har- Are not we women too? My poor brother ringt(ui. It is not as if he had no rea.son to (jnite forgets he has one woman who will distrust wdiiien, poor dear darling. I in- never, never desert nor deceive him; dear, vited Faimy to stay a month wilii us; and, darling fellow!" And wiih these three last when once slu^ was in the house, she soon got words she rose, and kissed the tips of her fin- over me, and persuaded nui to play salii('(' ((Hiiiiient ;;iveii, and r(>s«i ti> retire; for .slie felt they on w hat she had told him. '• Why, it is like were both on ilaii<;erou,s ;iroiMid ; lint, as slio a novel." j tnriied away, .she made a little deprecating '•A vnry unroinantic oni'," rejilied Zoe. i gestnre, and said, softly, " Forgive me." "I don't know that. 1 have read very in- That soft tone gave Severne eonrage. and tercsting novels wilh fewer new eiiarai'ters that gestnro gavle, tnrn abonl. Sevens eontimo'il his ri'marks, bnt in a lowi'i' voice. "Then there's ,i woman-li;iter, ami :i man- ' hater: good foi- diirlogiu'.' ' ama/.enieiit. I I'anny heard tlieejaenhitions, and whi|)pt>d away from Harrington, into the window. Zoe, with uo motive but her own coym'.ss, had already snateheil her hand away from Severne. lint both yonng ladies were one moment too late. The eaglt^ eye of a teriible old I maid had cmliraced the entire sitnation,and Now this lianter did not please Zoe; .so j they saw she had. shi' fixiid her eyes npon Severne, .inil said:' Hairiiigton Vizard, Es(|., smoked on, with " Von forge! the |n'incipal fignn- -a mysteri- < his back to tht! gronp. l!nl the rest were a oils young genllcman who looivs nint-tei'ii, - pietnr(^ : the nnitinons face and keen eyes and is twenty-nin(>, and was lost sight of in j of l''anny Dover, bristling with defense, at Kni;Iand niiu' years ago. Ht» has been trav- 1 tho window — Zoo, blushing erimson, atid eling e.ver since, and wherever h(( went he tiewly started :iway from her too-enterpris- tlirtetl ; wo gatln^r so nnich, from his accom- ; ing wooer; and the tall, thin, grim old maid, lilishmcnt intheiirt; lliicnt.nol to say vol- i standini;- slill',as sentinel, , 'it iln- bedroom nl)l(!, at. limes, but no egotist ; for he never dooi. ;ind gimleling both her charges altt>r- lells yon any thing about himscit', m)r even : nati'ly with steel-gray weleiune. Wheif- om'v have yon been all dejected voice, " il call be any pleasure to a j this lime ? We \> ro, tifiaid we had lost you." man to rel.ite the follies of an idle, aimless I Aunt lired her pistol in reply: " I was not life — and to you. who \va\o given n higher ' far olf — most fortunately." aspirations, and uiaile iiie awfully .so fy Lean j Zoe, liudinu; that, even under crushing cir- iiot live my whole life o\cr ag;di' ? I can't ; cnmstanees, Fanny Ii.hI tieht in her, glided bear to think of the years I have wasti'd,' [ instantly to her side, and ,\unt Maitluud said he; "and how can I talk to yon, whom opened battle .all round. I rever<'nee, of the past follies I despi.se? No, ju'/iy iloii't ask me to risk your esteem. It is so dear to me." Then this artist put in iu'aclic(> a litt •' May 1 ask, Sir," said she to Severne, with a horrible smile, " what yon wen; doing whi'ii 1 came in ?" Ztx' clutched I'anny, and both iiwaited Mr. mameiivni he had learned, of compressing j Severne's reply'for one moment of ketui anx- his mnseles and forcing iv little nnwilling j iety. water into his eyes. So, at the end of his \ "My di-ar Miss Maitland," said that able l»r(itty little speech, he raised two gentle, im- ] young m.an.very respect fully, yet with asort ploringeyes, with half a teai'in each of them, of cheerful readiness, as if he was delight- To be sure, nature assisted his art lor once; | ed at her deigning to <;uestion him, " to tell he did bitterly regret, but out of pure ego- j you the truth, I was aduuring Miss Vizard's tism, the years he had wasted, and wished diamond ring.'' with all his heart he had never known an.v Fanny tittered : Zoe blushed again at such woman but Zoe \'i/ard. The coiid)ination (d'art and sincerity was too much for the guileless and inexperieuced a lib and such aphmh. "Oh, indeed," said Miss Maitland. "You were admiring it very close, 8ir." 16 A WOMAN-HATER. i M ! " It is like herself — it will boar iiispec- tidii." Tills was wormwood to Miss Miiitliuid. "Even in our aslies livt^ thuir woiilr.d tires ;'' and, tlion>;li she was sixty, slm disliked to land tlicy retired to (heir rooms; and Zoe ! said sill' would )ifV(tr come out a);aiii, anil I'jiiin.v must stii.v with her. Fanny felt snre niiiiii would tlij w iluit vi'solvf in a few hours; so slic suliuiitti'd. lull di-clared it was absurd, hear a yonnj; woman iiraised. She liridled, and Ihr very \\;iy to ^ivc a perfect tritle im- then returned to the attack, "Next time you wish to iiispeet it, you had better asL: her lo take it off' ami show you." " May I, Miss Maitland f" inquired the in- genuous youth. " She would not think that li, liberty r His mild ertrontery staf^K'"'''"'' '"'i' '"'' " moment, and she {flared at him.si 'hless; but soon rreovered, and said, liitli'riy, " I'^v poi tanee. " Kiss your haiul !" said she, disdainfully — "that isMotliiui;. If i was the nuin, I'd have kissed Ixitli vour chfeUs lony before this." "And then 1 .should have boxed your ears and made you cry,'' said Zoe, with calm su- [leriorily. So she had her way, and the deserted SfV4"riu' felt dull, but was too yood a}j;eneral to show it. Ho bestownl his welcome eom- dently ho/." With this she turned her back ! pany on Mi. \'izard. walked with him, talk- on him lather uuyracionsly, aud opened lire OU her own sex. "Zoe!" (sharply). "Yes, aunt!" (faintly). "Tell yoiir brother — if he ran leave oft' smokiiii; — I wish to speak to him." Zoe huiifjf h(M' head, and was in no hurry to bring about the proposed eoiifcrenee. ed with him, aud made himst.-lf set agreeable, that Vizard, who admired him greatly, said to him," What a good fellow you are to be- stow your sunshine on me! I began to be afraid tho.st- girls had got you, and tied you i to tlifir apron-st rings altog«'ther." I " Oh no !" said Severne. " They are eharm- [iiig; but, after all, one eaii't «lo without a, While she deliberated, says Kaiiiiy, with I male friend: there are so few thing.s that vast alacrity, " I'll tell him, auiil." I interest lailies. I'nU'ssyou can talk red-hot "Oh, Fanny!'" murmured Zoe, in a re- religion, you arc bound to llirt with them a proaehfnl whisi)er. I little. ,To bo sure, they look shy — if you "All right!" whispered Fanny, in n>idy, (lo; Imt, if you don't— " aud whi|>]ied out on to the balcony. " Here's ' '• They hted a cij^iir. While he was Muokinj.; it he observed an Kujilish j^cu- tlomaii witli a stalwart lijfure and a lieau- tiful lirown beard, stamliufi on the steps of the hotel. '"Halloo!" said he, and hailed him. "Hy! I'xmoor! is that you f" Lord l.'xmoor looked tip, and knew him. He entered tho liotel, ami the next minuto tho waiter ushered him into Vizard's silliny- I'oom. Lord Uxnioor, like Mr. Vizard, was a land- ed proprietor in Harfordshire. Tho county is lar^o, and they lived too many miles ajiart to vi^■it ; but they met, ami agreed, at elec- tioi; lid county business, aud hud u respect for euch other. 13 I Meeting at Frankfort, these two found plenty to say to each other about homo; iind as L(U'd rxm(M)r was alone. Vizard asked him to dim-. " Vou will balance us," said he; "we iirc^ terribly overpelticoati'd, and ono of them is an old maid. Wo generally dine; at I lie ttililr d'hote, but I have (uderod dinner hor to-day. We are going to the ope- ra at Hoinburg. Vou are not obliged to do that, ycui know. Vou are in for a bad din- ner, that is all." "To till the truth," said Lord Uxmoor, " I don't care for mosic." "Then you deserve a statue for not pre- tending to love it. I adore it, for my jiart; and 1 wish I was going alone, for my hens will be sure to cackle^ vial a pyojxtn, and spoil some famous mcloily with talking about it, I and who snug it in Lomlon, instead of list- i oiling to it, and thanking God for it, iu deep I silence." ' lioril I'xnuior stared a little at this sudden sally, for he w.is unaci|uainted with Vizard's oiM! eccentricity, having met him only on county business, at which he was extra ra- I tional, and jiassed for a great scholar. Ho really did suck good books as well as ci- gars. After a fow more words, they parted till dinner-timo. Lord Uxmoor came to his appointment, and found his host and Miss Maitland, whom he knew; and he was in languid conversa- 'tioii with them, when a side door ojieiied, ' and in w alked I'.inny Dovei-, fair aud bright, ill C'anibriilge blue, her hair well dressed by ! Zoo's maid in tho style of the day. Lord 1 Uxmoor rose, ;uid received his fair eonntry- i woman with respectful zeal : he had met her once liefore. She. too. sparkled with pleasure [ at meeting a H.'irfordsiiiie squire with a long I iiedigree, purse, ami beard, three things she ; admired greatly. In the midst of this, in glided Zoe, and seemed to extinguish every body, and even to i)ale the lights, with her dark, yet siin- ' like beauty. She was dressed in a creamy- I white satin that glinted like mother-of-pearl, I its sheen ami glory uiifrittered with a single idiotic trimming; on her lueast a large dia- moml cross. Her iiead was an Athenian sculpture — no chigiioii, but the tight coils of antiiinity ; at their side ono diamond star sparkled vivid llame, by its contrast with ' those polished ebon snakes. Lord Uxmoor was dazzled, transfixed, at the vision, and bowed very low when Vizard introduced him in an ort'-hand way, saying, ' " My sist'.'i'. Miss Vizard— but I dare say you t have met her at tho county balls." * I " I have? never been so fortunate," said. Uxnioor, humbly. I "I have," said Zoe; "that is, I saw you waltzing with Lady Betty Gore, at the race hull, two years ago." 18 A WOMAN-HATER. "^V^lat!" said Vizard, alarmod. "Uxninor, I "Poor follow," said Xod; "my heart bleeds ■wore you waltzing with Lady JU'tty (iow f" for liini." " You havo it y this, and turned liiniid me to contradict." I and loving eyes on '•dear Ned." IJnt Fan- Finding Zoe was to lie trusted as a conn- ny stoixl Inr i;niunil. " (•« to ' S. T.' to-nior- ty chronicle. Vizard turned hharply to lu-r row morning, Imt don't desert 'Z.V.' and 'F. and said, "And was he llirting with her?" Zoe colored a little, and aaid, "Now, llar- riugton, how can 1 tell ?" " You little hypocrite," said Vizard, " who can tell better?" D." lo-niglit." Zoe smiled. " l?nt I have telegraphed !" objected Ned. "Then telegraph again —ho/," said Fanny, firmly. Now this was unexpected. Severne liad At this retort Zoo blushed high, ami the set his heart up(ni roiinc li iioh; but still lie water came into her eyes. was afraid of otlending Zoe; and, besides, Nol)ody minded that but IJxinoor, and he saw I'xmoor with liis nolile lieard and Vizard went on to explain, " That Lady liet- ' ty Gore is as heartless a co(iuette as any in tiie c(mnty, and don't you Uirt with her, or yon will get entangled." " You disapprove her," said Uxmoor, cool- ly ; " then I give her U]) forever." He look- ed at Zoe while he said this, and felt how easy it would he to resign Lady Hefty and a great many more tor this peerless creature. He should like to go. "Why, you said you hated music!" said Vizard. Lord ITxmoor colored. "I recant," said lie, bluntly; jiud every body saw what had operated his I'onversion. Tiiar is a ]>un. It is half ail hour, by rail, tVum Franli/ort to Iloml>iiig,aiid the ]iarty could not lie se-at- cd together. Vi/ard hestiiwi'd Zoe ;ind Lord IJxmoor in oik! carriage, Fanny and Severne ill anotlier, and liimselfand a cigar in a third. Severne, >. as some tine, fellows do, because nations are c(Min)oseil (d" very ditlereiit individuals, and I know only one to the million; but I do take on me to say that the individual Ilerr who executed Doctor Faustus at lloinbnrg that night, had every thing to learn, except what he had to unlearn. His jierson wa.s obese ; his delivery of the words was mouth- ing, chewing, and gurgling; .'ind he uttered the notes in tune. hut. without jioint, ]>athos, or passion ; a steady lay clerk from York or Durham Cathedral would have done a little better, because he would have been no cold- er at heart, and more exact in time, and would jiave sung clean, whereas this gentle- man set his windpipe trembling all through the bnsi' »'ss, as if palsy was jia.ssion. By what system of leverage sucii a man caiuo to be hoisted on to such a pinnacle of song as Faiist, puzzled our English friends in fnuit as much as it did the Anglo-Danish artist at the wing; for Eugliah girls kuuw what is what in opera. I>i 90 A W03L\^*-nATER. Ill Tho MarguoritP had a voice of Hufflciciit fiioc and iittororl a littlo moan. Slio linil roal- rouii)as8, and ratlicr swi-t-t, thoiiKli fliiii. [ ly a soul aliovo tlit'sc artitii-cs. "Sotlu'ii," TIm- part dciua-ids a licttt-r wttrss than Pat- said hIh', •• if tlioy do receive me, it will bo ti, and this Friinlcin was not lialt' as t;ood : i out ot'tdiarily." she put on the iiaiut'ul ;:tiu of a i>rizf-li;,'hl- j "No, no; hut on your first ni^ht you mnst er who iiasrcfcivtMi a stafrfXcriT, and srinnt'd have two strings to voiir how." all tliroufjh the part, tliouc,di there is little " Ihit 1 hav<' only one. These cajidinij in it to jrrin at. spceciieH an- a wa.ste of hreatii. A sin<;er She also sutVered hy havinred Ina Klos- i visil)iy, for the time drew near. kin<; to lii^r faithful Ashmcad. "1 feel all | Ashnicad rau,otl' and Immnht her some out of tune. I shall never he ahh>. And hrandy and water. She- put up her hand the audience so cold. It will he like sinj;- i a;;ainst it with royal scorn. "Xo, Sir! If inj; in a sepulchre." | the theatre, and the lijihts, and the peo|)le, "\Vhat would you think of them if they tin- mind of (ioclhc, and the music of (tou- applauded ?" said Ashmcad. nod, can't excite m(^ without tliat, \u\t me 'I uhould say they were fjood, charitahle I at the coui\ter of a vafi-, for I have no biisi- soiils, and the very audience 1 ^shall want iu ness here." live ndnutes." The power, without violence, and the "No, no," said Ashniciid ; "all you want jiramleur with which sjic said this would is a discriniinatinjj; audience ; and this is one. have lM'(Miiiht down the house had she s])ok- Iv'cuKMuhcr, they have iill seen I'atti in Mar- en it in a play without a note of music ; and fiucrite. Is it likely they would applaud I Ashmcad drew hack rcspectfidly, hut chuck- this tin stick?" 'led internally at the idea of this Minerva Ina turned the convrrsaMoii with femi- givinji chiui^ic iu a c«/'c'. nine (piickncss. "Mr. Ashmcad, lunc youi And now her cue was coming. She or- kcpt your ]iroini.sc ; my name is not iu the ; dercd every hody out of the entrance not pro<;rauuu< .7" very ceremoniously, and drew wtdl hack. Then, at her cue, she uuide a stately rush, ami so, heiiiji in full swing hefore she clear- ed the wing, she swept into the centre of But of course I have uurscd you a I tlu> stage with great rapidity and Vesolii- tion ; no trace either of her soi-ro\vful heart It is not; and a great mist.ake too." "I have not hcen announced hy name iu anv vvav ?" "N bit." "Nursed mc ? What i.s that? Oh, what i or her (juaking limbs was visible from the have you beeu doing ? No charlatanerie, I I front, hojie." I There was a little apjihuise, all duo to "Nothing of the kind." said Ashmead, ! ANlimcad's i)rcliminary ajiology, but there stoutly; "only the regular l)usiness." j was no real reception; foi' (iermany is largo "And pray what is the regular business?" and musical, Jind she was not immediately iu(piired Ina, ich a spirit, and with imiierfeet rehears- I yet with restrained power; hut the tones als, etc. ; iu short, the usual patter; and tho were so full and lie.vilile, the expressicni so usiurl etlect, great applause — itideed, the I easy yet exact, that the Judges saw there only applause that I have heard in this thea- j was no ethu-t, and suspected something big tre to-night. Asluuead ahead of Gounod, nught be yet iu store to-night. At tho eiul so far." of her song she did let mit fov a moment, loa Klofjkiug put both bauds before ber ] and at this well-timed foretaste of berpow- A WOMAN-HATKR. 21 Ih' IkmI roal- Si) tlu'U," ', it will bo it you must so cjijoliiiij A sinjitT (1 tlicy liiid opt'iis licr "iitli^tliiit I't (111 — itiid t know. I i tliiiik it to llfllllllo t licr soiiio > licr liiiiul vd, Sir! If the iM'o|ilc, sic (if (ioii- ^Ktl, Jiiit ino vo no Itusi- c, nnd tlin tliiH would (I she s)t(ik- UMisic ; and lint ciinck- lis Jlincrva Sj. Sho or- it ranee not well Iiack. lately iMisli, V NJie e.iear- e centre of and Vesolu- • wl'ul licart le from tlio all duo to , lint tliero liny is lar^o nuM'dialely there was li marks a lation snd- ifid on llio rather tall lower: and ■ihowed the home upon the house, way. Slio lot tamely, tlu) tones pression so saw there cthiiif^ big At the end u moment, )f her pow- er there was applanse, lint notliiuK extrava- gant. She was (|iii(e content, however. She met Aslinic.'id as shi; came olf. and said. "All is well, my friend, so far. They are sitlinj; in Judy;ment on me, like Hensilde jieoide, und not in a hurry. I r;itlier like that." "^'oiir own fault,"' said .loseph. "Yon should liavti hein announced. Prejudice is a surer card than jud(;incnt. The (luhlie is an ass." "It must come to the same tliincars hence. Now if I was a man, I should love that woman, and make her love me." "Then I am icry glad yon are not a man," said Severne, (enderly. " So am I," whispenul Zoe, and blushed. The <'nrtaiii rose. "Listen now. Mi'. ("L.tMcrbox," said Zoe. Ne*l Severne ((Unposeil himself to listen; but Kriinleiii (iraas liad not sung many bars before he revolted. " Listen to w hat f" said he ; " and loaii,"said she, "To be ilargiierite, one must be great and sweet and tender — yes, and far inoro lovely than ever woman was. That lady is a better color for the part th.an I am; but ncilhershe nor 1 sluill ever be Marguerite." He murmured in her «'ar. " Y(MI are Mar- guerite, for you could lire a man's 'eari s(» that he would sell his soul to gain yon." It was the accent of passion, and the sen- sitive girl (|iiivercd. Yet she defended her- self—in words: "Hush!" ssiid she. "That is wicked — out of an opera. Fanny would laugh at yon if she heard." Here were two reasons for not nuiking such hot love in the stalls of an opera. Which of the two weighed most with the fair reasoner shall be left to her own sex. The brief scene ended with the declara- tion of the evil siiirit that Marguerite is lo.st. "There,'' said Zoe, na'ively, "that is over, thank goodness. Now you will liear my singer.'' Siehcl and Marta came on from opposite sides of the stage. " See !'' said Zoe ; " isn't she lovely f" and she turned her beaming face full on Severne, to share lu'r ]ileasiire with him. To her aniazenient, tin; man seemed triiiisfonned : a dark cloud had come over his sunny countenane(\ He sat, pale, and seemed to stare at the tall, majestic, drejimy singer, who stood immovable, dress- ed like a velvet youth, yet looking like no earthly boy, but a draped statue of Mer- cury, "New-lighted on a heaven-kiaping hill." The bloo Hijiiiiil that liis iiiwc was li'ri'(liii;i, liiil it wasoliiopircat <'iiiiMM|iifiicf. lit- I'vcii poiiitcil Willi liis lini;»'r tuit ami tlii'H l)ark axuiii, iiitiicaliiiK ''•' slioiild iioi lir l(Mi>i jii' done: anil the Kloskiiin ha,t with aniazenieiit anil ilelijiht : the hon.-i liiinji hrcathless; liy-and-by there ■were jiale cheeks, iiantini; liosoms, and wet eyes, the triu'. rare triumphs of the sover- uit;ns of sonj;; and. when the last note had jiealed and ceased to vihrate. the pent-np leeliufis broke forth in a roar of ap)danse which shocdi the douio, followed by a clap- piiifl of hands, liKo a saivo, that never Ktopjied till Ilia Kloskiny, who had retired, came forward a^aiii. She cotirtesieil. with admirable dipinity, modesty, and res))eetful ^riivily, and the applause thnndered, and ])eople rose at her ill cliistev.s about the house, and waved their hats and haiidkerchiet's at her, and .-i little Italian recoi;ni/ed her, and cried out as loud as he. could, " Vivat la Kloskin^. vivat!" iinil she heard that, and it jjave lier a thrill; and Zoe Vizard, beinfi ;ratulation : for at such rare momouts (except iu Anjjlo- .'^axony') instinct seems to te" nn m I'ljit tnio art is a sunshine of the ,>)Oul, aim iiIcsma tlio rich and the poor alike. One person was atfcelcd in !inother way. ll:irrin<;lo>i Vizard sat rapt in attention. ;iiid never took his eyes oil' her, yet said not a word. Several Knssian ;iiid I'rnssinn fjrandeea sou;;ht an introduction to the new siiijier. Itiit she I, leaded fati;iiie. The niaiiajicr en- treated her to Slip with him, :ind meet th(< (iraiid I>iike of llessi-. She said she had a prior eiinam'ment. She Weill iiuietly home, and siijiped with her faithful Ashniead.and very heartily too; for nature was exhausted, and agitation had (liiite sjioiled her dinner. .losi'idi Aslimead. in the jtride of his heart, [iroposed a botlleof ('h;imiia<;iie. Thet^iieeu of Sonjt, with triumph llushed, looked rather blue at that. "My friend." said she, in a meek, deprecating way. "we are workin>j people: is not Hordeaiix jjood enough for «« r " Yes ; but it is not good enough for the occasion," said .Ii>sei>h, a liltUi testily, "Well, never mind;" and he imittered to himself, " that is the worst of yood woiHeii ; I hey are so terribly stingy." The t^iieen of Song, willi triutnjdi tluslie.l, did not catch these words, but only a little growling. However, as su)i|)er proceeded, she got uneasy. So she rang the bell, iiiul ordered « /lint : of this she drank one spoon- ful. The remainder, co-oiieratiiig with tri- umph and claret, ke|)t Ashnicad in a great How of spirits. He traced her a brilliant career. To be photogra|ihcil to-morrow morning as .Sieliel, and in plain dress. Par- agraphs in Era, I-'i ilio >tln'r way. iiltfiitiitii. . .vt't said 1 jiraiidcos • ■w siiifjcr. aiia^-cr cii- iiicct tlio slii^ liad H PIwmI with ■artily too; latidii had f his heart, 'l'ln'(/ll('(>!l kt'd latiuT I >*\u\ ill ii t' woikiiijj lough lor iKMi^jh for tie testily. MtttMcd to Hi WOIHI'U ; h Ihishe.l, ily a litllo procccihMl, • lell, and one s|i(i()ii- X witii tri- iii a jjreat \i hrilliant o- morrow I't'ss. Par- , Iiidipvnd- 's. Larjio i Corraris, New York, lud smiled and found ier.se If. 'matter?" i not there loo hogan Severno ; loorotier- hnt liiiug tell Ilar- >ii in. t emer^icd ling; hut leatH, and rriiifjton. ook their time to projtose an exrnrsicMi next day, Sunday, to a lovely little lake (tpeii tarii.i'jfe, four horseH. 'I lie younjj ladies aeeeiued, hut Mr. Se.venie deelined ; he ihiinked liord \'\- iiioor iiolilely, hut he liad arrear.s of corrt;- snondeiice. Zoe cMst a uiortirii il. ;nid ratlier a haiiLrh- ty i^liinic on him. and l";iiiiiy .sliiii^;^eil ln'r shoulileis ineredniously. riiesc two ladies lini.shed hair tojietiier in Z<'e's room. That i.s a sooihiii;!; ii]ier- atim. my masters, and famous for stimulii- tiii; females to friendly j^ossip; hut this time there was. I'ur otiee. a ^^narded reserve. Zm w:l^ irritated, |iu//.!ed, imiililied, and evi'ii y;rieved hy Severiie's eonduet. Fanny wa.i gnawed hy jealousy, and out (d' temper. Sin had forgiven Zoe Ned Severne. Hut that young lady was iiisatiahle; liord l'\- nidor, loo, had t'alien openiv in love with her: o|ienly to a female eye: so then a hOncle had no elninee with a dark girl hy : tl us reas(Uieody wr)uld say, " How (defer! 'I'iiat is just the way girls really ta!r," said Zoe, with unatfected dignity, aud rising like a Oreek cidiimn. Fanny Hounced out of the room. Zoe sat down and sighed, atid her glorious eyes were dimmed. Mystery — douht — and now a (inarnd. What a day ! At her age a little cloud seems to darken the whole sky. Next morning the little party met at hreakfast. Lord Fxmoor, anticipating a delightfid day, was in high spirits, anr game now, conceived in a moment, and at once put in execution, was to encourage Usmoor's attentions to Zoe. She hegan hy openly courting Mr. Severne, to make Zoe talk to IJxmoor, and also make him think that Severne and she were the lovers. Her intentions were to utilize the com- ing excursion ; she would attach herself to Harrington, and so drive Zoe aud Uxmoor to- gether ; ami then Lord Uxmoor, at his pres- eut rate of amorous advauce, would probar I (■' 4 24 A WOMAN-HATKR. . Utt l! I !l|| 1 l>ly Ifiiil 7op to n (Ictncliod rock jiihI iiiaki' lliT !' NClioils (liM'lilial ion. Tills ;;c)im1, illl fill nil! fell hurt' Mi'li :i (li't«'il, luiil licrHflt' Icl't ill lilt* colli. Tlifii'- ioic sill" icsolvcil it slioiild lit' iiiiiili' iniiiiii- liiri'lv, iiiiil ill I'riiNsiii. Willi S.-vcnif iil liiiiiil. anil so ill all |i!'o)ial>ility ciniii- lo iiiitliiii<:. Sliii t'vi'ii (iliiniisfd a vista of roiisi'i|iii'iiri-s. and ill tliat litlli' avi'iiiic disrcnii'd tlir lifliirc of Fanny Dover jdaviii;; tln' part of coiisoli-r, frii'mi, and ultiniiitoly spoiiso to a weuUhy uoltle. CHAPTER V. Tiir li'ttors wcri- liroiiy;lit in. Oiip was to Vizard, iVoiii llcrrirs annouuciii)! a n-init- tamr; one to Lord rxinoor. On rrailiiiij; it lie was siii'iirisi'd into an t'Xclanialion, and liJH ii\fi' I'xiin-sscd ;;i»'at riinrtTn. "Oh !" naid Zof — " llairinuton I" Hairinj;ti)n\s attt-ntion bciii^i thus drawn, 111* said, '• No had news, I liopc i" " Vi'<," Kaid rxiiidor. in a low voiri', " very liad. My oidfst. triifsl, dcari'st fiirinl lias lifcii sci/t'd with siiiall-liox, and his lifi' is in daiijiiT. He has asUcd for nii', |ioor fel- low ! This is from Iiis sister. 1 iiiiist start liy the twelve-o'eloek train.'' '■ Siiiall-pox! why. it is eontayious," cried Fanny, "and so distiiiiirinj;." "I can't help that," said the honest fel- low ; and instantly raiifi the hell for his serv- niit, and fiavo the rei|iiisite orders. Zoe. whose eye had never left him all the time, said, suftlx. " II is hrave .-ind ;;ooil of yon. We ]ioor, emotional, cowardly girl-s slioiild sit down and cry." " You would not, Miss Vizard," said lie. lirmly, lookin.u, full at her. "If yon think you would, yon don't know yourself." Zoe colored hi;rh. ami w;is silent. Then Lord Lxiii lor showed the true Eii- glisli f;entlem;in. ' I do hope,'' said he, ear- nestly, thonj;li in a somewhat hrokeii voice, "that you will not let this spoil the jileas- nre we h;id jdaiiiied toifcther. Harrington will he my deputy," " Well, I (hm't know," saiil Harrington, sympathizingly. Mr. Severne remarked, "Sncli an occnr- ronce i)utsi)leasnre out of one's head." This ho said with his eye.s on Lis plate, like one repeatinij a Icskou. "Vizard. I entreat you," said ITxmoor, al- most vexed. "It will only make me more unhappy if you don't." " Wo will go," cried Zoe, earnestly ; " xve promise to go. What does it matter? We .shall think of you and your poor friend wherever wo ans. And I shall pray for him. But, ah! I know how littli! prayers avail to avert these cruel hereavements." ■?lie was young, but old enough to Lave prayed hard for lior sick mother's life, ami, lik.- the rest of IIS, prayed in vain. .\t this reinenihrancu the tears ran nndis'^iiised down her cheidvs. The open sympathy of one so young and heantifiil. and withal ratiier reserved, nlalU^ Lord Ixmoor gulp, and, not lo hreak do» loiif as the conversation was tri\ ial ; lint \\ hen troii- hle came, sh;' was the one to speak to him hravely and kindly. Well, what must ho, must. All this ran through his mind. and made liini sigh; hut it never occurrei', to him to shirk — totelegra)di instead rcNt. I'rnit'Mlltl'iMM'U I lirr cIu'cUn '" vdiiiij,' jiikI ^••rvt'd, iMiiilo I'ri'iik din' II I llllt III' UillH'u nii'il a\\;iy. Ill' ciiliiiii'ty '<■ torn a\'iiy i siMiit, niiil i> "nilliy of I'll c iriitiiic; il M' Imif as I w hrii frmi- pi'ak III him af must lio, "^ iiiiiiil.aiKl inrlliriT. to ail iil');iiii,{j > Sl'll'-llclliiU. il III' Wilson •i)k leave of •a II If to lii-r, ill III- Idwr- '•IJlKl IdcSH zanl. Ji JH lavc to run •'■Just when riake it." iiilKici'iitly, . ivi- ill tlio way JKime. lid ; and do 1 " went away ■it words. K'lit iiiit on inM,l(iii held ■s. " \V,dl, ' tlielakef" 1 Zoe, reso- 'fnlly away t the lii-ue of beauty was a deliyhtfnl talker: lie reud two or tlirco newspapers every day, j and reciillected the best tliinjiH. Now it is not e\ery body can remember n thoiisMnd diHeonnected facts and p'eull lliem a ftritiim. He was various, lliieiil, and above allsiiperli- eiul; and siieh are your best conversers; lliev have somelhiiiL; ^riioil and strliily ephem- eral III sa.\ on ever\' thin;;, and don't know enough of an> I liini; to impale i heir bearers. In my yonlh there talked in Tall .Mall a;;eii- tleniaii known as "( cm versa! ion Siiarpe." lie eclipsed e\ery body. Fveii Macanlay paled. Sharpe talked all lh<> Idessed after- noon, and ;;i'a\e men lislell^d eiichaiiled; and of all he said, i' it hi ii;rop« and tronlde to come to it: it is ejisier and pleasanler to run alioiit the cottage with a lot of rooms ;ill on the •inniiid-lloor. The mind and body lioth y,et inlo liiibits — sometimes jipart. sometimes in conjiinciion. Nowadays we seat the body to work the in- tellect, even in its lower form of mecliailieal lalior: it is your clod that toddles alioiit labiM'inii. 'i'he I'eripatef ies did not endure: their nil I bod was not suited to man's micro- cosm, liodily movements fiitier mental at- tention. We .s(V at the feet of (Tailialiel. or, as some call him, Tyiidall ; and we sit to Haeoii and Adain ."iiri>ose. His preliminarv ^ossi]>, that made the time lly so aijreeably, was intended to oil the way ; to lubricate ■1111 v>r. A WOMAN! lATKK. m (•r((SH-1»*>»;;i'lc willl I lie U-;;h Niiufil (low II III ^llllll|lH ! Von |i:hI t\M> |iai'lvM uiiil a |il<* iiikManil, itml wi-n- mi liiinl iiiMiKi |M.llIHl:^ ,>...! ,M..i.i.r.. .. ... ...... at if llial I |iiil iii.v iiiaiv'.s iinsc i'i;{lit iivtT Vi/aiil Nva.x Niaiiliil '•> tlii^ mmMi ii iiirii tlic i|iiarl(li«' lirlorf ynii huw (miImt lirr i>r ' ■ ' ' III!'. 'I'lial lirilv'f was likt> a iliit'i (if (idotit- tlif )>asnns;<' of a |ircnnMlitnt«'«l iiill. As soon iis III' hail jjoi Ni/anl into iiiii'ifl y;(>o(i liii- iiiiir. 111' Haiil, /( /)((»yi().< ol' iioilim;^ llial liail lia.s,si(l. '• H.v-tlii'-li.\«, "111 I't'llow, tlmt livf liimtlrt'il i>omiiis ymi |iriiiiiisi'il fn Icml iiii'I" of a riilivciHal i'lii liil lirl'lii ajjiri'alil''. m. . ■ ■....:.. .......,.- " \\ liv. voti liaM' hail iliirr liiiinlii'il anil I'l'mis .siiow with tlir liawdmrii liiiioni, ami lo«t it," Huiil lie. " Now laUi' mv aiUirr, |iiiiiii"»i's s|iaiklril on iis liaiik 'iki- tniia/i's. uihI iliin't liisi" any iiiorr." Tlif liiiils rliiiiiipril. itii- >ky .•>miliil. Ilii- .sim " I don't ini'aii to. lint I am ilciii'iiiinril l>iii-iii-il iH'rCiiiMcs; anil I lirrr xat my lori^ iinil to will liaik llir tliH'c linnilrril. ami a ;;ifai liix iVIlow -iiniiiiars. snirk-snack pil-init — ili-al niori', ln^ori' I Iravr iliis, I liavi- ilis- riiltinir. ili-aliii;:, plaNin;:, irvokiii;;, sror- foviTi'il a HVHtfin, an infallilili' on"." iiiL'. ami I'Mliaii^'iiiK i.O.r.'s noi woitli tlm "I am sorry to In-ir il.'saiil I' ill in^lo'i, iiaiiiT." j;ra\i'l>. "'riiai i'^ tin' sn omi slip on lln-; '• All trni' lnit flii' ri'viikintr," NSiiil .*'ov(>niP, r lail to ruin : t III' ;:aiiililiT w illi a -\>liiii is imrrily. ••.MotistrrI liy tlio incmnry of tlir roiilirini'il maiiiai." tiiosi- yoiitlil'iil ilaxs, 1 ilrniaml ii fair lii'ar- " What I hcraiisr ()//((■)• systfins liavo liri'ii in;;." Thrii. ;;ra\ I'ly, •• llaiiK' it all, \'i/aril, trii'il anil |iroviil to In- falsi'.' Minr is iiii- 1 am not a ft-llow that is alwjiys inirinlinix triril. anil it is incif prrjinliri- to ;lit ih'.'ils. ;i vail ajrainsi a pl.'iyer i ser\ i-il expert them to liapiien turn ahoiit, who eoiild foresee at any ;ii\ en deal w lietli- ! and liet !ieiorilili;:ly. Hut tiny don't liap- er the card that was •ioinu to lome up the j pen turn ahoiit ; they make short runs ami iieare.st thirty would he on the red or hlai k ?" ; soiiietime.s Ion;; ones. They pusilividy avoid "No avail at all. (lod Allni;;hty lould ! alteriiat ion, Iluve you uot obsurvcil thia at lireivk till' hiink every !ifreriiooii. vl/i/rs!' ' tiente el ipiaraiite ."" iw we say in i'raiitu. Do yon prcteml to I "No." oiiinisiieiiie ?" j "Then yon have not \^■,•^telled the cards." "Not exaetly."' i "Not mtieli. The faees of t lie ;;aiiililers "Well, hut iire.srienco of isolated events, | were always my study. They aro iiistriiet- jireeeded hy no iiiilicio, l)elon;;s only to om- ■ ive." Did they not teach you that , "Well. linn. I'll j;ive ymi an examido outside -for the priiKiple runs throiiKli nil equal (dianies. Take the iiniver.sity lioat- luseienee mueli at Oxford ? 'The • taii;>ht ine vi rv little at Oxford." "Fault of the plaee, eh/ You tau;;ht raee: you liave kejtt your eye mi that ?" tlwm sonu'thin;;, lliou;;h; and the present' "Kather. Never missed one yet. Como ci.iiversiition reiiiinds me of it. In your ! all the way from Harfordshire to see it." Beeoml term, when every other man is still | "Well, there's an example.'' quizzed and kejit down as a Freshman, you j "Of eliame? No. thank you. That fjoos •were already a leader, a iliief of misrule: ' by .strenuth. skill, wind, endiir;inee, eliaste you fminded a whist i Inh in Trinity, the livinj;, .self-denial, and jiidieioiis trainiiifj. primmest eolleee of all. The Dons nnited i Kvery winniu;; boat is manned hy virtues." you out in eoUe^e; hut you did not sue- ! His eye tlashed. and he was as earnest all iu t'limb; you fullilled the sayiii;; of .Sydney j ii moment as he h:id been listless. ACoiiti- 8niitli, that 'eribhiiKe should lie iilayed in neiital eyiiie had dubbed this insular eyiiio taverns, and sixpenny whist in the howling mad. wilderness.' Ha! ha I how well I remember The ju-ofessor of elianees smiled sii)ii'rior. ridiiiy aeross Hiillin;;ton (ireen one tine aft- ' "Those things deeide each individual race, ernooii, and tindin;; four Oxford Iiaeks lial- ' and the best men win, because it ha;iiieii.sto tered in a row. and the four undere;railiiates * be the only race that is ne\er .sold. ' Hut;ro that Lad hired them on long tick, sitting ! fariher back, uud you liud it is chuucc. It IHl tol lllf till i\\ ral eol thi ml li{ Y| el[ 1") w r oil \\ I ml hi '. 'il«' TiirliM or \*illl till' |,.^r|H ll.lil twri |i;i,ks I w.T,. M. Iiiinl •"»<• ri;;|i( ovrr ••iilicr li,i- ,,r IliCi 111" IMloliC- rn lilixiiii, ;iii,| N 'ikf li>|i;i/rs. Illlllll. Ill,' Mill II iiiv lonlund ik -|iif-|,(it — Vldviiij;, sciir- Mil wiirili 111,, N.'lill SCVITIIO, IIHliKiiy ot' '1 ii (Mir 'liciir- if nil. Vi/iiid, I.VS illtnillilij^r up')!! oriicr liaslily. niid f I'lctcn,! to jilTiflicc, Jilltl III' w Isc."' ■■ill'T tiirco. ^ oh- turn aliniif, ^ ilon'l h.ii)- '1' iiMiN anil li\('ly jivKid r\ ed UjIs at till' cards." I« >,Mllll)liTH ic iiistriict- II cx.'iinido tliroiiKli .'dl ■I'.sity l.oat- lliat ?•' «'t. Conio see it." Tliat jjoca lec, ciijiste 1 Ir.'iininjj. y virtues." •iicst all in A Conti- iiliir cynic 1 sii|((;ii()r, 'liial race, ia;'|K'n.sto I. lUit:<;o laiice. It A WOMAN HATKU. » \h ])tirc cliancc tlitit sciuls tlic licst im-n up mrtita ijiuirh, rirfumxpire. Vm\ your «'v»'s, til ('aiiil>rind odd all: all these deliulilM, and the reiilH, ami races and in. itches the university link h.'is I he cninpiers, :ind the ser\ anis, iind the in- come owl e<|iial on the ri\cr ami al Lord's: come imd liveries of :in unprincipled prince, the second is, the luck has sclilom alter- who would otherwise he a poor hut honest nated. I don'l say m-ver. Ihit look al the ;;cni leinan, w llh one lioniii ,\\\^\{ wA of ihiriy list of events; it is piililisjied every .March. Iila/iii;{ lackeys, all come from the /^ains id' Yon may see there the Kieiit tnilh llial even the hank, >vhich are the losses of the play- chances shun direct allcmation. In this, ers, es|ieciiilly of those that have jiot a sys- j)roperly worlied, lies a furliinc :it lloniliiii;;, ttin."' where the play is si|niiri'. Kcd ;;airis onee ; isc veriie shot in, " A liank was liroken last you hack red next time, and stop. Yon are week." on hlack. and win ; yon donhle. This is the "Was it T 'I'licn all it lost has retiiiiied (jjimc if yon h;ive only a I'ew pounds, lint with live hiindrcil pounds yon can iloii'iie more coiiia;;eonsly, and work the short run hard; and that is how losses .'ire aveiled and y;;iin- secured. Alice ;it Weishailcii I eannlit i i li^iier out on ii lioli(';iy. It was (looil-l'i iii...i, yon know. l;;a\eliim a stnn- liinj;' iliiincr. lie was close as wax at tirsi — tiial miniil lie the s:ilt lish: hilt aflcr the to it, or \, ill return to it to-iii;;ht ; for ;iam- liicis ki ow no iliiy of rest." '•<>li yes, they do. It is shiil on (lood- I'liilay." " Voii surprise me. Only three hundred and sixty-foiir da\s in the ye.tr. KrainlesM a\ai'ice is more riMsomihle than I lhon<;lit. .'severiie. yolKs is a Vel> -.erioiis case. You have reiliiied \ our inciini.. that is clear; for ro'/iiniix (I lit broihrllr, i\\)i\ ii holtle of ('li.iiii- all I'ji^lish ^;eiil leniaii (liii s not stay years pa;;ne, he let mil. 1 rememher one thiii'i' monit- 1 au angel, with the voice of a peacock or a II llli ' ^■\ i: 28 A -SVOMAX-IIATER. giiinoa-lion—!>ii(1, luckily for iin-, tliat is u I "No; at lloiiiliiirs : nt the oitera. You i'ri'(|U»Mit anan;;i'uifut — hIu^ is no im(Mc to niusf j-ivc nic your word not to It'll a soul." lilt' thau the lirt-sliovt-l. Ifslic lias a swfi-t " 1 iilf(ii;t" you my wtinl of honor.'' vtiit'o auil jialf fves, I'm safi' Intlt I am Will. Ilif laily who sang tht; part of ''Siflwl .'"' mutlfri'il Scvfriu'. "Vfs."sai 1 N'i/.aril. ilfJi'itiMlly. SfVfrni' ti.vt'd his t'yt's on his frifud witli a stranjjti cxiui'ssioii of fonfiision and fiiri- osiiy, as if he ttiuld iitit takf if all in. J$iit hf siiitl nothing, only lookotl very hard all salt' a^iiiu'^t .liiiio, X't-nus. ■•iiiil Minerva I'or Siflitd." two yi-ars ami several months after t\w last; hut when two events eoiiieide. wlieii Uiy timi^ is uji, ami the lovely, me' itlioiis fe- male eomes, then I am lost. !'>el"ore 1 have seen lier anil hi'ard her tiv e minutes. 1 know my fate, and I never resi.sl ii. I iieM-r ean ; that is u fiirions ^lart of the mania. Then the time. eommeiiees a little il'am.a, all the aets of | Viz.ard hurst tint. '"O niiserir hmnimim wliieli are stale eoiiii i : yet eiu h time they meiites, o iieetor.a ea'ea !' There I sat. in the take me l>y siir|irise, as if they were new. stalls, a hapjiy man e(uii]iaralively, lieeauso In sjiite of jiast ex!>eiienee, I heeiii all eon- my heart, though full of "sears, was at peace, liilence ami tiiisi : hy-and-hy come the siili- and my reason, after jn'riodical alidications, tli^ lint wi'll-known sinus of deceit ; so i Ion hi had resumed its llui^Mc for }j;ooil ; so I, w eak is foiced on me; ami then 1 am all snsiii- niorlal. fancied. Siehel aiiiiearctl ; tall, easy, (ion, and so darkly \i'.;ilanl lliat soon all is ilij;nilied, and walking- like a wave; mod- certainty: tor 'lis foiirheries ties t'emmcs' ' est. fair, nolile. }ireat, dreamy, and, ahovo all, arc tlialiolicallv snhile. hut nionotonoiis. divinelv sad: the soul of wtunanhood ami Tliey seem to vary only on the siii lace. One looks too i;cntle and sweet to ;oiltless. the Oltl .lewry. Hut, to eoniplcte the delii- past the scenery, and I ditl not see her nieet sioii, all my sweethearts and wives are ro- lier lover at the next step — a fellow with a mail tie and poetical skin-dee]), tu' tliev wiuiid wasli-leat her face, j;reasy locks iu a sausae'(^ not attract me, ami all turn out vulvar to roll, and his hair shaved olV his forcheatl — the core. \W tlnir lovers alone can ymi and snalcli a jiot of ]ioiter iVoni his hands, ever know them, liy the men they can't and dr.iin ii to t lie iIicms, jinil say, ' It is all love, and the men tlicy ilo love, you find rinlit. Hairy ://(«/ Irtchcd 'em.' l{ut 1 know, tlie.se creatures, that iiiiitare sentiment so liy experience, she did : so • sjiuve tiui ]»t'ut ;' divinely, arc lianl. prosaic, vulvar little (lei; ■ friend ;unl fellow-liinatie, for my saktv tliiiijis. thinly ^;ilt ami iloiihle v;ir;iislie(l." ' antl yours, have I'rankfort with me to-inor- ''Tliev arc much heller than we, 'ire; hut ! row." you don'i know how to take them," said Sev- erite. with the calm supcrituity of success. " \o," replied Vi/aid, drviv : " .■iirse me if Severne hune' his head and tlionnht hard. Hell' was a new and wonilcrfiil turn. He felt all inanner id' .vtraiiiii- thiiies; a iian^f I do. Well, 1 did hope 1 had oiitj^rown my I of jealousy for one. He ftdt tliat on every mania, as I have done the loothache; tor ;iciiiniil it would lie wise to i;o, and, imleeil, this time I had passed the I'atal period, the daneeroiis to slay. lint a mania is a m.aiiia, three years. II is nearly four years now ' and so lie coiiltl not. "Look here, old fel- Kiiice 1 went throiil| tl w I Sll 101 (ill liut you are nuitu isafo from hir for ono ^iT A WOMAN-HATER. 39 ho o|),.r;i. Von ' to Ifll Jl ,S(,,ll." ' iioiior.'' '^' tlio part of n(>. '.Ily. Ills Criciu] wifli "■^ioM iiiid ciiii- " iill ill. lint vi'iy liiinl all ••'I'll' lioiiiiiiiini '■<• I f^.tt, in tli(! livi'l.v, hecaiiso was at jx'aco, I iili(iica(i<,iis, "<1 ; so I, weak ■'■'I; (all, easy, wave : 111(1(1- iiKl.iiliovr all, ■ iiaiiliodd and <'.v lips. Slio i'lt sdincdiiiijv 'iiy l);ick. I lltil llic thc- iiovt'i' do. r '•'l"'ii<'*ll<'ll'f't (lu) |<1 soul away ? Il<'r(' slion(! '"•i!y, all (1)0 isli flu; sonl; ikI lavisliiiijr liintiiiciif. I ;*' ii Koddcss, «<'(' 111 r meet •IIOU- Willi Jl ill a s;insa;H(: * (ort'licad — • II Ills liands. •■•>:' It is all J5ii( I know, '■ <|ni |)cii( :' I'll' my sak(^ iiif (o-nior- "ii.ulit liard. 1 turn. He ^x; fi iiaii;,r It on every ml, indeed, in ii mania, IV, old lel- (•i-iiiinrow, lit'liiiid ine, ■r than e.\- ii]itivatin;r iiic? How Ilia Klos- •' siu||,.,i. itr for ono nd Bv day." coiitinneil SJevoriK*, "so you mm^l lie nasonalde. 1 will jio with y(ni Tuesday, as early as yon like; luit do lie a jidod fellow, and lot me have the live hnndrecl lo rry my system with to-morrow." \'i/ai(l looked sad, ami ma lt> lio re|ily. .'>everiie ^ot impatient. " \\'li\ , what i.-. it to a rich hdlow lik(\V(Hi ? If 1 lad twelve thousand acres in a rin^- I'eiice. no friend would aslc mi^ twice for such ;i trilling;' Slim." \ i/.ard, I'or the first lime, wore a supercil- ious smile at lieiii;^ so misundc stood, and did not deiun a reply. Severne went on niistakiiiii Ins man: "I can ^ii ve yon bills for the money, and for t he three hiimlred you did lend me." Vizard did not receive this as expected. "Uillsf said he,;;ravely. " What, do \ou do that sort of tliiiifj; as well ?"' '•Why not. ]iray .' !^o Ioiil; as I'm the holder, mif the diawer nor the ai'ceptor. IJesides, they are not acconmmdat ion bills, but c()()d commercial paper." "Voii are a meiili.inl. then, are you?" "Ves: in a small way. If you w ill allow lue, I will explain."' He did so: and to save eomments, yet eii- nble the reader to appreciate his explana- tion, the true part of it is printed in italics, the smiill, nu/mlaciotis p(>rt'..m in onlinary t.vp". " Ml/ r^ldh' hi IIuuliHfidciii: oim tiling h(> asks for. There. ;j,et me the bills, and I'll draw a idieek on .Miiiler : I lerries ad- vised him by Saturday's post ; so we. can ;!iaw on .Monday.'' ".Ml ri.nht, old m.an," said Sev(U'm\ and went away briskly I'or the bills. When he yot from the lialcony into tho room, his steps tla,i:'ji<''l a little; it striu'k liiiii that ink takes time to dry, and moro t ime to darken. As The Itoirr, with her nimble c.irj^oes, was firs; cousin to The Fhiin;/ Dutchman, with his crew of ghosts, so the liills received by Severne, as ]inrchase-money for his ship, iKH'ossurily partook of that ship's aerial char- acter. Indeed, they existed, tis ilie School- men nsi<' to say, in posse, biij not in esse. To lie itss p.ediiitic and mmc exact, they exist- ed as slips )1' blank pajier with ;i ijovern- mciit stamp. To i,ive them a mercantile ehaiacter for a time, viz., until presented for payment, they nmst be drawn liy :iu im- aginary ship-owner or a visionary merchant, ;iml imhused by at least one shallow and a man of straw. The man of straw sat down to inscribo self and shadows, and became a dishonest writer of liction; for the art he now com- menced appears to fall short of fleem them at liiaMi- lity ? His only real concern was to eon. al their recent oiiij,in. .So he wrote them with a broad-nibbed ]iei:,that they mi^^ht be tho blacker, and set them to dry in the sun. He thi'li ]uiicce(led to a chaiijiC of toilet. \\liile thus employed, thi'fe was a sharj) tap at his door, and \'izard's \oice outside. Severne started with ti'iror. smipped up tin* threi^ bills with the dexterity of a conjurer — the liamlle t'lrneil — ho shoved theni into a drawer- X'izard eamo in^he shut tho drawer, and paniecl. \'iz.ird had followed the enstom of O.no- nians amoiin' themselves, which is to knock, and then come in, unless forbidden. ' Come," sjiid he, idicerl'iilly, " thoso bills; I'm in il hurry to cash them miw, iind end the onlv ditfereiu'e we have ever had, old fellow."' I The bh)od left Sevcrue's cheek and lips Ml' l:*i 30 A WOMAN-HATER. for ii moment, .and lui tlionjiht Hwiftly nud\ Misojjyn ponsontctl, Init sighed. Th:>tsijnrh liard. Tlio blood returned, along Willi liiH went iiiiiiilied, aiid the lady wa.sleil no ready wit. time. "ilow good you are," Huid lie: '-l.ut no.! '-Do yon .sre wliat is going on betweeu It is Sunday." ' ; your sister and tiiut young man ?" "Sumliiy!" shouted Vizard. "What is j ' " Ves ; a litt!.- Ilirtation." that to you— a I'ellow who has been years ' "A great deal n.ore than that. I caught abroad ?" them, in this very room, making love." " I can't help it," said Severne, ajiologet- : " Voii alarm me," said Vizard, with marked ically. "I am sujierstitious — don't like to tr.'int[iiiility. do business on a Sunday. I would not even | " I saw him— kiss— lu-r — hand." shunt at the tables on a Sunday— I don't | " Vou relieve me," said Vizard, .as calmly tliiiil;." ashehadlieen alarnn-d. '•There's no harm "Ah, yon are not (piite sure of that, in that. I've kissed the Queen's hand, and There i.s a limit to your sujierstilionl Well, the nation did not rise upon me. Howev- •v>ill you listen to a story on a Sunday '!'' : er, 1 object to it. The superior sex sliould " Katherl"' not play the spaniel, 1 will tell him to drop "Then once on a time tliere .vas a .'Scotch that. Ihit, perndt nie to say, all this is in farmer who had a bomiy cow, and another your deiiartment, not mine." farmer coveted her honestly. One Sunday , "Hut what can 1 do against three of they went home together frr)iii kirk, and them, unless yon support me? There you tiiere was the cow grazing. Farmer Vi have lei them go out together.'' stopiied, eyed her. and said to Farmer 1, 'Gien it were Miunlay. as it is tlni Sabba' day, what would ye tak' for your coowf Together with Fanny Dover, ynu mean," "Yes; ami if Fanny had any gns on him, Zoe wouhl be safe — '' TIh! oilier said the jirice woiiid be niiiei " And jukm' Neil torn in two." jKininls if it wax MoxiUiij. i\.\u\ so ihey kept " liut Fanny, 1 am giie\ed to say, seems the Salibath; and the cow changed hands, inclined to assist thisycmiig uum with Zo(>: though to the nakt>d eye she grazed (ui in that is because it docs not matter to her. mtu. Our negotiation is just as eomiilete. | She has oilier views — serimis ones." So what does it matter wlictlier th(^ actual I "Serious! What? A nunnery? Then exchange ol" bills and cash takes place to- I pity my lady abbess," day or to-nnu'row ,'" | •• Her views are plain enough to any bo(]y "Do vou reallv mean to sav it docs not but vou,'' matter to von?" asked Severne. ' Not oiui straw. 'Are thev? Then make nie as wise as niv nei ihbiu'.- Tl len, as itr to vou, am does lo me. L!,ive me my foolish way, like al "W dear good Icllow,'' ' joke.'' •• Now that is snnirt," said Vizard — " verv 'Well, then, she means to marry '/"'(. hat I Oh, come! — I hat is too good a It is sober earnest. Ask Z( asli v(Uir smart." Then, wilh ;i look of parental ad- IVii'iid Mr. Severiii! — ask the i hamber-maids niratioii. "lie gets his own wav ii ask any creature with aii <'ve in its head. thing, lie wiJI ha\(^ your nionev — he uitn't Oh. the blindnes.s of \ou nu-n ave your monev, i// I wonder whether h The Mi: loiivn was s Irnck dumb, ^^■|lcIl n-iil <'oii sent to walk those girls out. ami he rccov reij^ \i wns to repine al the lot id" disburden me td" their too profitable dis- Th.'it I will, with pleasure Kven mv own familiar cousin — on.-c r<'- d -111 whom I trusted ! 1 d<'iiule yi Well, Ihey are al luncUcon— with their; to inform her that I think her tnlnnthlr, an h( miiets on. 1 will join (hem in liv»< ininutes,' that m.itriniony is no longer a habit ol' mine. Set her on to poor Severne; he is a ladies' man, and 'the more (he merrier' is After luncheoii. Miss Vizard, Miss Dover, l his creed. and Mr. Severne started for a strc ' ("Ine irl as Fannv lot to be divert- Jliss Maillauil suggested that Vizard ed from a purpose (d" thai sort. liesides.sl lO should accompany them. I has too much sense to plunge into the .Sev- Ooiildn't think of deserting you," said \ erne and pauiierism! She is iienl on a ricl he, dryly The young ladies giggled, heeausc thene two rarely o|iened their mouths to agree, one being a professed womau-haler, and the other a m.in-hater, in words. Says Misander, in a sourisli way, "Since you value my c(ui\ crsation so, perhajis j-ou will bo good enough not lo siuokc for the uuxt ten uiiuutea." husband, not a needv adventurer. you. Madam, in my friend's name, I thank 'You are V(>rv welcome. Sir —it is oiilv thi^ triilh. Tiieii ill) a swift return to her original toidc : "No; 1 know perfectly well what Fanny Dover will do this ufter- iioon. She sketches." "It is too true," said Vizard, dolefully : «sl it WCI skJ T' oiH mil si^ coil wil 4 A WOMAN-HATER. 31 kmI. TliiiUi.rh ly wasted lio f? on between HI ?" lilt. I Cilllgllfc iij; love.'' 1, withiiiaikcd 111(1." ii'l, as ralinly ••re's IK) liariii ii's Iiainl, ami IIK'. Ifowov- 1)1- SOX should 11 Iiiiii to drop ;ill tliis is ill iisf tlirco of Tlu'ie you 1', ynii moan." y ■ 4US on say. sooms m witii Zo(«: ittcr to her. lies." t'l-y f Tlien to any body ' as wise aa vvy you.'' loo i^dod a ' — ask yonr nilier-iiiiiids ill its head. 111). Wlien I' I lie lot of n — oii.'e ]■(■- depiih' yoi| lii) be divell- ii'sides, sho to the .Sev- t on a rieh f, I tliaidv it is only retiini to ■ lierfeetly this ufter- dolofully: ■\^ I 5 "showed me, a ship in full sail, and I ]iraised be severely and solemnly reproached is au- it in mi/ ira)/. 1 said, "Thai roclc is railier oilier; and bet'ori! a man ! well done.'" 'J'he ollieial woman-hater was melted in a '■ Well, slio ■will bo seized wilh a desire to ; moment by tlie saiiey girl's tears. "Tiiero! sketch. She will sit down .-ipart and say, ! theicl" said lie, kindly, "have a little nier- ' rieaso don't watch me ; it makes me iierv- I ey. IIan;i it ail; don't make a mountain oils.' The. other two will tal^e the bint, and .ota mole-hill." make lovo a j^ood way ott; and Zoe will ^o ' 'J'he otlicial man-hater never moved a fjreater leii; one of ^hulM-th's witches, and iiacy you dreail will \w av<'rted by ; to se(^ the phenomenon, the. other faults of their character, their ■ As Fanny ski|)ped out and ( loscd the jealousy, and their petulant tempers. Take. door. Miss Maitland turned to \'izard, with my wind for it, they are sparring at this lean linger still |(ointiiig after Fanny, and moment, and that poor silly Severiie nicdi- uttered a monosyllable — ating and inoilerating, and getting scialrh- j "Lami:!" ed on lioth sides for trying to lie just." i ^'i/ard burst out laughing. ''La fourbe!" At this moment the iloor ojieiied, and I'^an- said he. ".Miss Maitland, accejit my (;oin- ny Dover glitlercd on the threshold in (.'am- idinients: you ]iossess the key to a sex no bridg(! lihie. fellow can unlock. And. m)W I have found "There," said \'izard, "did '.lilt I toll you ? an iiitcr)U-eter, 1 begin to bo interested in They arc couK! hcune."' j this little comedy. The tirst act is just "(^nly me," said Fanny, gayly. ' over, 'i'liere will bo half an Innir's wait till " Wlieri' are the others.'" ini|iiired Mi.ss the simulatiix of intinnity comes running Mailland, slLirply. , baidc with t lie pilgrims of I hi' Khine. Are " Not far oil' only by the ri viM'-side." ' they 'the pilgrims of I lie Kliiiio,' or ' the j)il- " Ami you lefi iii!)se two alone I" griiiis of Love f Time will show. Play to " Now don't be (loss, aunt." ciii'd I'anny, reo(unmonce with a M'llial oneimnler; you ;inil iiniped up to her. "These new boots will be (uio against three; I'oi- all that, I ari! so tight. I really couldn't be:ir lluiu don't eii\y the greater number.'' any U)nger. 1 believe 1 siiall lie lame, as " I iiree to one ? No. .Surely you will be it is." on the right side for cuice." "You oiinht to be aslianicil of youisclf "Well, you see, I iiin the audience. AVo What will the people say ?" <'an't be all diumiilis jicrxmur, nud no spei;- '■Lal anal, it is .lUro.id. One does what lator. During the wait, I wonder m lielhor (Uie liki's— out of I'.ngland.'' the audience, having nolliing lietler to do, "Here's a voile of morals!" said Vizard, may be perinilled to smoke a cigar." wlioniusi havehisslap. " ."^o long a lucid interval is irksome, td" " .\onsen ;e,"said Miss .Maillanil: "she will course. Well, the balconv is your smoking- iie sure to niei't sonedMidy. All l:]nglaud is roears did not return. old; you know the world; you have as poor A'i/.aril. ha vinu nothing belter to do, fell an o|union of the iiian as 1 liavo.oiyoii wimld to thinking of iiia Klosking, and that wan have set your own cap ;it him - you know not good for him. .Solitude and ciiiuii fed you would; and you have lol oat things to Ins mania, and at last it took the form of me. when you were olC.Nour guard. F.iniiy actimi. lie r.iiig. ami ordered up his man Dover, ymi are ladniving wickedly ; you are Hariis. a close, discreet personage, and di- a false friend to that poor girl," roi tod him to go over to llomburg, and luing '.<|ion this, lo! the perl Fanny, hitherto back all the information he could about the HO roa, aunt,"' said race!" Fanny, eaeerly, " because then she is frieht- "Why did y(Mi come hack before you liad cned to death, and clinj^s to him — //" he is found them '!" nicf." '•Aunt, it was ;r'/((' does not mind tliiit." ward, I'aniiy piiUeil up short the moment " Zoe ? (Jli, slie has uot iiotliing fown. and that is two years old. Hut my' bine "Yes," said Miss Maithmd, "come into Eilk, I can't aflord to ru'ii (7. Ntdiody would my roum, detir." give mt> anotlier. / know." Fanny coinplieil. with a rueful face, not "AVhai a heartless worldl" said Vizard, douhtins; tlitit the public "dear" was to j;-ct dryly, it rather liot in lu-ivate. "It is past !! jest, the wlidle tliiuj;," ob- H<'r unetisiness was iiiit lessened when the jeetcd Miss Maitland: "and now we are old imiid s;iid to her, ;;r!iuly, " Now sit you together, jdease tell me. if yoti can, eitlier down there, iind never iriind your dress.'' of you. who i.s this man? What are his However, it came rat iier mildly, iifler a'.l. means.' I know the I'ecrufir, the liaraitvt- " Fanny, you are not a had u'iil. and y(Ui fl/7c, and the I.hihIkI doilnt, l)iU not Severne, have .slniwii yon wire sorry; so I am no; j;o- That is a river, not a family,'' imr to b(> hard on yon; only you must lie a " Oh." said Vizard, " family names taken enod uirl now, and help me to undo the from rivers tire n.'vcr iiarvcnueif. But we mischief, and tlwn I will I'lueive you," can't all !»> down in Jhirke. Ned is of a ^ " Anut," said Fanny, piteously, " I •■mi old- fjood stock, the old I'nglisli yeoman, the er than she i.s, and I know liiave done r.atli- couutry's luide." ' er wroiiu, and I won't do it any more ; but "Yeoman .'" Siiid the Maitlaud. with sov- ' lu-ay, pray, don't ask me to Vie uiikind to lier ereiau contempt. | to-day: it is lirooch-day.'' Vizard roisted. "Is this the place to Miss ^Maitland only st arod at this obsniro sneer ;it an KiiLilish yeouuin, where you see annonucement : so F:inny had to explain an unprincely priiue liviiii; by a gambling that Zoe and she had titled and made it uji, table 1 What says the old stave ? : and Zoe liad given her a lirooch, Hereuiion "'A Ocrmnii prim-?, n niiiniiii!" of Franco, siie w(>nt for it, and both ladies forgot tho And a l.iird o' ilie Ncirtli Conntiic; ; toiiic thev were Hiire iiiijirr-^-.iu lulcen. '•<■ of thnt. But Kir, Cor one. 11,. 'A«Ul: iis rriKi .-is '\s ^cni.U; iiiid "II lii'liiud your [ iliiit. "Wliafc ilif to tll(> Vdiiilir otli.T to t'iiko a '■'■• ili;if in iill. I .'^li.ill Hay IK) ■'<1»'. I'll! ti) liJH liis I'acL* a^'aiii, I'l'i'ioacliriilly. ""' filing's. tli(-y «t .sue ]i()\v it i's •11 yon tlicro is ■li'-H-lctc ill the SI'. .'Hint.'' said II slit' is IViMiif. I liiiii— //■ Iw is lis revelation lililiili;; at'ter- f file liioiiieiit, '■iii'il red. and •ill' laslies, at "inkles ill his iaid she really • "eoiiie into I't'lll f.ic<>, uot ir" \vas to j4et lied wlien the ■ -Vow .sit you >iir dress."' •Il.v. aflera'I. ,'iil, and yell I am iM)' ^(). lii must lie a lo undo tho e .\oi|." V. " I am old- ■t'lloiie ralli- >■ more ; liiit iikind to her A WOMAN-HATER. a3 iii.s oliseiiro '» explain ^;i5 made if; np, Hereupon A 'or;,Mt tho H tiler, to ex- W :* tlie liidoeli, ;,!i irl. like ine, before grandpapa left yon the money, and you know it is Just as W(dl to have a titf now and then with a rich one, beeause, uhen yon kiss and make it nji, yon always get some KtM'oneiliation Tliin d over the skit upon her age, though she did not forget nor lorgive it, and repeat- <'d the whole conversation of Vizard and Severne with rare lidelity; but, as I abhor what the evangelist calls " battology,"' and ; .Shakspeare "damnable iteration," I must j draw njioii the iiilelligeiice of the reader fif ! any), and he must be jilcased to imagine tho j whole dialogue of those two unguarded smokers repi-ated to Fanny, and interrupt- ed, commented on at every salient point, j scrutinized, sifted, : as much as he, eonld no, ain.'if; at the tire, asdoniestus air theireiii- I and more ilian lie had ever been lieiore. plovW things, hilt not llieir own, yon niuy ' He never even asketl hinisell' wlielher jier- he 's.n-e. There was a eliennse taretiilly j maneiit liappiness was iilMly to H|.riM^' troni foldeil into tlie Hnialleat i>ossHil)lo coniiiass, this love; he was hell'-induiyent, reckless, and donhled over a hor.se at a ^'ood distaiiee ! and in love. from the <'old lire. Tliere were olin'r iXnv- ^ nients and snpidemeutaries, all treated in , tlie sanio way. Tho Misoiiyn looked, and rennirked as follows: "Idi'otH!— at every thin-,' but tak-j injj in the men. He hioked at her. wished h(> eonld recall his wholes Hie, and sillied. " Why ;irments to the ifcnial heat; and .so j "On nn', Mr. Severne ?" and she bhished elo.se that, had a spark llown, tin^y would crim.son. and her bosom bc^an to heave, have l)eeii warnu'd wiih a veii^ieance. .imi His words led her to expect a dcclaralion the superiority of the male inlellcct dcm- , and a proposal of marria;;f. onstrated. This done, he retired wiili aj Ho saw her mistake; and her emotion ;;nilly air, for he did not want to l>e ean^iht spoke so plainly and sweetly, and iried him meddling in such frivolities by Miss Dover so, that it cost him a -real etfort not to clasp or .Miss Maitland. However, he was <|uiie her in his arms. Hut that was not his cue safe; those superior spirits were wholly oc- at iirescnt. He lowered his eyes to <;i\e her copied with the hd'tier things of the mind, time, and said, sadly: "lean not help seeing; especially the characters of their nei;;hbor.H. ' that somehow thcic is suspicion in tlu'air 1 nnist now no for the.se truants that are about me. .Miss .Maitland [Mils (picsi ions •^iviuii every body so much troultlc. laud drops hints. Miss Dover watches nn; When Fanny fell lame, ami said she was like a lynx. Kven you ;;ave me a hint the very sorry, l)ut she nnist jio Inuiu^ and otiier day that I never talk to you aliout my change hvT boots, Zot; was for lioinj;' home relations and my [lasl life." too. Jbit Fanny, doubtinji her sincerity, I "Pr;iy do not confound nie with other was peremptory, and said they h.ad only to ' peo])le," said Zoe. ]ir(Mully. " If 1 am curi- Ktroll slowly on and then Turn ; she should ous, it is liecanse I know you nuist have meet them comiiiji' back. Zoi^ colored hif;h, busiiecting they had seen the last of this in- genious youuK lady. " What a fi'ood fiirl !" cried Severne. "x am afraid she is a very naughty girl," Raid Zoe, faintly; and th<' lirsi ellect of done many good things and clever things; but you have too little vanity or too much pride to tell thenit^ven tooiu' who — ^esteenis yon, and could ai)iireeiate." "1 kmnv you are as generous and noble as most iieople arc narrow-minded." s;iid Faimy's retreat was to make her a great .Sevcrm', enthusiastically, " and 1 li.ive do- deal more reserved and less sprightly. j termined to tell you all ab(uit myself." ISoveriu) observed and understood, and saw ho must give her time. He was so re- H))eetful, as widl as temler, that by degrees Zoe's cheeks beamed with gralitied [iride, and her eyes sparkled. " Only, as 1 woidd not tell it to any body she came out again, and beamed with youth ; hut yon, I nnist stipidate that you will re- and happiness They strolled very slowly by th(> f.iir riv- er, and the pretty little nothings they said to each other began to be mere vehicles for those soft tones and looks in which lovo is nnnle far more than by the words them- selves. When they started on tliis walk, Severno had no distinct nor serious views on Zoe. But he had been playing with lire for somo time, and so now he got well burned. Walking slowly by his side, and conscious cciv(^ it in sacred conlideiice, and not n.'peut it to a living sold." "Not even to my brother, who loves you so r "Not even to him." This alarmed the instinctive delicacy and modesty of a truly virgin scud. "I am not experienced," said she. "But I feel I ought not to yield to curiosity, ami hear from you any thing I am iorbidden to tell my brother. You might as well say I must not tell my mother; for dear Harring- of being wooed, whatever th') words might ton is all the mother 1 have, and 1 am suro be, Zoe was lovelier than ever. Those low- he is a true friend to yon" (this last a little ered lashes, that mantling cheek, those soft, teudor murmurs, told him he was dear, aud reproachfully). Uut for kieverue'a habitual self command, he uh dil \V SCI ed nil pu ho in^ th it h.' l>a A WOMAN-HATER. il(l one corn- Ill' COlllll llf>, liicii Ijcrorc. wlii'lliiT |M'r- s|iiiiiji fniiii lit, rci'lvlcsH, ('i)iilil rcciill '. jlditly. {(■(■a use I am I'll ,!;i\t' lu r liclj' scfiii;; II ill (lie air s (lUi-siioiis .VatcllCS IIH! ' a liiiit tlin u alioiit my Willi other I am I'lii'i- miist liavo ^•■1' thiiifrs ; r too llillrli o — csti't-ms ami iiolilo kIciI." Kaiil I li.ivo dc- ,S.'lf," itit'd [iiiilo, ) any luuly oil will rc- iiot repeat ' lovca you ilicacy and ho. "But ioHity, and rlii(l(l(Mi to well say I r Harrinf;- I am Hiii'o ist a little command, 36 1 4 fjjlo oni. He liecame con- necteil with a fast lot, some of the young nobility. Of course he could not vie with them. He got deeply in delit. Not hut what they were in debt too, every one of them. He used to send to me for money oftener than I liked ; but I never siispei'ted the rate he was going at. 1 was anxious, too, about him; but I s;iid to myself he was just sowing ills wild oats, like other fellows. Well, it Went on until — to his misfortune and mine -ho got entangled in sumo tiiilli is. it adorns every thins. Luckily fiu- them "the kye had not conn' ' And so Zoe. drenched with rain, and her hame," anil the shed was emi)ty. They jiot dress a hathii'fi-.iiown, was only a (ireek into the farthest corner of it ; for it was all ; piddess tinted lilnc. her Imst and shoulders open toward the river; antl the rain paltei- j and her moulded ti^nre covered yet reveal- ed on the roof as if it would break it. Thus driven tojielher. was it wonderful that soon her hand was in his, and that, as they i>nrreil toj;ether, and nnirnnired s(d't nothings, more than once she was snriirised into returidiiK the soft \)ressnr(! which ht^ fiave it so often ? ed. AVhat was hIic to an artist's eye ? Just the Towidy Veiuis with her sculptor's cun- ning draperies, aiul .Juno's jjait. " Et vera iiicesca patiiit Den." When slie j^ot to the hotel she Indd up her liui^er to Severm> with a ])retty ]>creinp- The ])lnmi) declaration she had lied from, ] tcn'incss. She had shown him so mu(di teu- aiid now seemeil delicionsly rcsii^ned to, did (li'rness. she felt she Innl ii rifjht to order not actually conu'. But he did what she him now. " I nnist liej; of you," said she, valued more, he resumed his conlideiu'cs: "to j;o straight to your rooms iind dress told her he h.id vices: was loud of KiHi^- i ^''•T quicklv, and present yourself to llar- hliufj-- Kxcused it on th«^ seoro of his loss • rinj;ton live miinites before dinner at least."' hy his broth: r. Said he hojied soon to hear \ " I will (d)ey." said he. obsenuioiisly. ^food news 'Voui Camnla. Didn't r siiu'e he had met her. What dedaratifin was ucsedcd ? The nnderstand- inij! was complete. Neither donbt<'d the other's love; ami Zoe would have thonnht hers(df a faithless, wicked j^irl, if, alter this, she had ij;one ami aicepted any other man. iJnt presently she had a mis<:ivin}i, and h)oked at her watch. Yi's, it wantetl biii to him, and scudded to her own room. At si;;lit of the Idaziu;; lire and proviih'ut l)reparatioiis, she started, and said aloud, "Oh, how nice of them !" and, all dripping as she was, lie .stood there with her young heart in a double ^^low. Such a nature as hers has too little ej;;o- tism ami low-bred vanity to uudervaln.o worthy love. The mlinili' heart of a Zoo \'i/ard can love Init (me with i)assion, yt;t oiu' hour to dinner. Now her brother was ever so many more with warm and tender rather a Tartar about punctuality at din- all'ection. ner. She felt she was already in dani;i'r of She ;;ave Aunt Maitlaml credit for this censure tor her lonjr ^7c-((-/('/c with Severue, provident all'ection. It w;is out of the though the rain was the culprit. She could sprijjhtly Fanny's line; and she said to her- not alt'ord to draw every eye upon her by self: " Dear ohl thinn! thert>. I thoufjht sho heiuii; late for dinner alonjj; with him. , w.'is bottliini "P '» lecture for nu'. .and all the She told Severne thev nmst ^o home m)W, tinu' her real anxietv was lest I should hl^ rain or no rain, and she walked resolutely out into the weather. Severing did not like it at all, hut lie was wise enough to dei)l()re it only on her ac- cei;nt ; auarly dressed, and, when Kosa came ami exclainuMl ;it the comlition of her cast-olf robes, .she lauyhed, and told h( \\ : nil an| ani w;| mil hi[ evi toil gri ^i i A WOMAN-IIATKR. 37 11IJt1„,,1 nf ],jj, "■ "Wliv. it, ' : "tliifs is no ••rsi'ii. Until- I '''"<• llauiicl. liica." I •■'■^ tlic liills. I' iv'os.i, rcady .'UhI loilir i„>, 'm (Irt'SS ||;„1 ilpaci skin. h very l.ojd. <" Ifll tho ''•• Mcaiity <•• 'I'Im' |.,'f- '■■< I'C lioiilcly itaiity. J)i- 'ioiiimI liair "iainonds <' addin it, \<'i'.v tliiufi. ill, and iK-r l.v a (iivck il siioiddors ,vct ifvcal- •'>"<• ? Jn.sfc ptor's cuu- II' held up ly IxTcinj)- iiuicli tcn- f (<> order ' said slip, and dress If to Hiir- ■ af least." Ilsly. Iii'r liand nni. •rovident '<1 alond, (" il Zoo ■(t>Hfc oiileied her to dry liie dress and iron it " Why, h'l, miss, you'll never wear it a;;ain. to III Mire ?" said Jiosa, dennirely. " I don't know," said- the youni; lady, arch- ly ; "lint I mean to take ;j;reat care of it," and liuist out laii;^hiii;i' like a peal of silver hell.s, heeauso she was in hij;h spirits, and saw what Ko.sa would he ;if, (iive awiiy tho i:;own she had lieen woo<>d that they had no more faults than men, and iirlidnhi were not more deceitful. " [ndeed .''' said Vi/ard. '■ Not — more — dirtit/iil .' Do yon speak from exjierienci' ?'' '•Oil no, no,"' said Kanuv, ;iettin;j rather fri^^htened. " I only thinii so, somehow." " Well, hut y(Hi must have a reason. May I respectfully in(|uire whether more men and wet llirou,ij;h in — no, thank yon! Such have jilted you than you have jilted ?" jrowns as these ho landmarks, my masters. ! '• ^oii may ini|uire as respectfully a.H yon Vi/ard, unconscious of her arrival, was like, hiit I sha'Ti'l tell you." wjilkiuf; up and down tho room, tid«;<'tiii;; "That is tij;ht, Miss Dover," saiauty upon tho foul sox. To my mind, there is only one thinji wo heat you in ; we do stick hy each other rather hotter than \du do. You are triiei' to us. We aro a little truer to each other." " Not a little." siiyj-jostj'd Vizard, drvl.v. " Imu- my part," .said Zoo, hliishini; pink at lior holdn»'.ss in advancinj,' an opinion on so L'ir;;o a matter, "I think those compari- sons are rather iiarrow-min.ltMl. What havo in a cow-shod, and then drenched. Uiit I'll irr to do with had jieople, male or femalo? havo il nice walk with you, dear, up jind A f^ood man is ^ood iiud ii j;ood woman i.s down tln^'oom." | good : still, I (h> think that women havo "Come on, thou." ' fjroator hearts to love, and moii, porhajts, 8o sho put her ri^ht hiind on his left irroater hearts for friendship."' Theii.hlnsh- shonlder iiiid y;avo him her left hand, iind in;; roseate, " Kven in the short tinu^ wo they wjtlked up jind down the room. Zoo ha ve lieen here we have seen two ;;ent lemon hciimin;;' with happiness and ali'cction for i^ive iiji ploasiiro for self-denyiiifr tViemlship. every hody, ;ind walking :it il graceful hoiul. Lord I'xmoorgavc us all uji for ;i sick friond. Sovorno oanio in, dres.sed, and porfoct iis Mr. .Sovoriio did more, jiorhaps, for ho lo.st though just taken out of a handhox. Ho that diviim singer. You will never hoar sat down at ii little tahlc, ;ind read ii little her now, Mr. .Severno.'' .journal unolitrnsivoly. It was his oio to divest hi,s hito tetc-a-titc of puhliu iuipor- tiinets Thou oiinu^ dinner, and two of tho ])arty ahsent. Vizard heard their voices going like mill-clacks at this sacred hour, iiud summoned them r;itlicr rouiihlv. iis stated! The .Maitland gun went olf. "A sick friend!— Mr. Severno ?— ha ! h;i! ha! Yon silly girl, ho has got no sick friond. Ho was at tho giiming tahlo. Thjit was his sick friond.'' It wa.s an olVortive discharge. It wing- ahovo. His hack was to Zoo, anil sht; rulihod od a duck or two. It killed as I'ollows : the lier liiinds gii.vly to Sovorno, iind sent him ;i , tninquillity, tho good humor, and tho cou- llyiiig whisper, "Oh, wlntt fun! wo aro the | tent of the little party. culprits, ;nid they iire tho ones scolded." >Sovorno started, and stiired, and lost color. Dinner waited ton minutes, and then the and then cast at \'izard ii venomous look defaulters appeared. Nothing was said, hut never soon on his face liefore, for ho natii- Vizanl looked rather glum, aiitl Aunt Miiit- 1 riiUy ooncluded that Vizard had hotrayed hind ciist a vicious look at Severno and Zoe. ' him. They luid niiule a forced march jind out- I Zoo was amazed, looked iuataiitly at Sev- Ihinked her. She sat down, ;nid liided her } ernt^, saw it was true, and turned i)alo at time, like !i fowler waiting till tlu ducks his evident discomtituro. Her lover had come within shot. Hut the conversation was common])laco, inconsooutivc, shifty, and vague, and it was two hours liofore iiny thing ciimo within shot. All this lime uot a soul suspected the aiuhushod fowler. At lutit Vi^sui'd buviug throwu out ouo of been guilty of deceit — mean and rather hoiirtless deceit. Even Fanny winced at tho point-blank denunciation of a ,voung man who was him- self polite to every body. Sho would have done it in a very different way — insiuua- tiuus, iuuueudo, etc. 'I 38 A WOMAN-HATER. 'fi '3: S "Thoy liiivp, found yon out. ohl t'fllow," I Huid Vizard, iiicnily : " Imt you lu'i-d not look iiM it' you had roltlied a clmrili. U.win it all! a t'tdlow has m^t a ri^^lit to ^lauilii^' if lio cliooscM. Any way. lie jiaid I'nr liis •wlii.stlc, for he Idsl three hiHuh'ed jiounds.'" "Three iiiindred iiounds!" cried the lerri- Ide ohl maid. •• Where ever did lie eci tlieni to lose r • Sevorno divined that he iiad nolhinjj to gain by tietion here; so he said, .sullenly, "I ;rot tlieui troni Vizard, luit 1 ;.:ave him value for them."' | "Von need not |)iililish our private trans- aeticuis, Ned," sanl Vizard. " .Mi.ss .Mail land, ! this is really not in y(uir department." "Oh ves, it is," said she, "and .so v(ui'Il find." This ijerfinacity lo young man saw his clianee, and did as good a hit ot' acting as ever was extemporized even by an Italian ndme. "Mi.ss N'izard," s.aid he, lixing his hazel eyes on her for the first time, in a way thiit nuide her feel his power, " what passed ill eonlidence lietweeii two friends ought to ho saci'ed. Dfui'l — yr admiring eyes, she turned, with flaming ehe(dis, on Miss Maitlaud, and said, "Well, aunt, you have driven them both out at the window; now say something i)retty to Fanny and mo, and drive us out at the door." Miss Maitlaud hung her head; she f*nw she had them all against her but Fanny, and Fanny was a trinmier. She said, sor- rowfully, "No, Zoe. I feel how unattract- ive I have made the room. I have driven away tho gods of your idolatry — they aro only idols of clay; but tliut you cau't bo- ll :; A W(JMAN-HATF.U. 39 t V lii-vc. 1 will li.'iiiisli iioliddy rise, except a riiiss-jjraiiu'tl Itut ri'siicclalilt' old wmiiaii, who is loo fxiicrii'iict'd, and too iiiucli .soiiri'd by it, to jdt-asn young iicoplo wln-n things all' j;"iii,n wroML;,'' With liiis «1h' took Inr lu'd-candlo anil rctiri'd. Zoc had an inward struggle. As Miss JIaitlan, will 1 cry, 'O giorno felice!" as 1 did this aft- ernoon, w hen t'he r,iin was i)ouring on nu', but my heart was all in a glow." These ])retty little lauientatioiH of youth •were iuterru|itcd by .Mr. .'^evenie slipping iiway from his friend, to try and recover lost gnuind. lie was coolly received by Zoe; then he looked dismayed, but alfected not to un- derstnnl; then Zoe pinched Fanny, which meant, "1 don't choose to put him on liis defense, but I am "lying to hear if he has any thing to say." Thereu]>on I'.mny (diey- t'd that signilic'int pinch, and said, " Jlr. Sev- erne, my cousin is not a woman of the world ; sIk' is a country girl, with old-fasluhned ro- nnintic notions that a man should be ,'ibove telling libs; I have known her longi'r than you, and I see she can't tinilersland your passing oli' tbo gambling tablo for a aick friend." " Why, I never did," said be, as bold as brass. " Mr. Sevorno !" "Miss Dover! my sick frioiul was at 'Tbo Golden Sta,r,' that's a siinill hotel in a (litl'er- cnt direction from the Kursaal. I was there from seven o'clock till nine. You ask the Avaiter, if you don't btdiovo me." l''uuuy gig{j;led at tliiu iuadveiteut sjjcecli ; but Zoe'.s feeling*! woro too deeply engaged to sliool fun Hying. " Fanny," cried she, ea- gerly, " I lieard hiin tell the coachman to drive him to that very pluco, 'Tho Uoldeu Star." " " Really f" said Fanny, mystitied. " Imlecd I did, s to go there at all, when 1 might hav«^ been by your side." "And heard La Klosking." " It was devilish bad taste, and you may well be surprised ;ind offended.'' "\o. no; not at that," said Zoe. "Hut. hang it all.(lon't make a fello-w worse than he is. AVliy should I invent a sick friend ? 1 suppose I have a right to go to the Kurs!i;il if I choose. At any rate I nie;in to go to-untrrow aftermKtn, and win a ]iot of mon(\v. Hinder nu' who can." Zoe beiiuied with ]deasure. "That spite- ful old woumn! I am iishamed of myself. Of course you hare. It becomes a man to siiy ^V voiix ; and it bec^omes a ivoman to yield. Forgive our nnwmthy (bmbts. Wo will all go to the Kursaal to-morrow. " The reconciliation was complete; and to add to Zoe'.s hai)piness. she made a little discovery. IJosa came in to see if she want- ed any thinn. Tli.'it. ymi must know, was Kosa's way of siiying. "It is very late. I'm tired; so the so(uier iioit go to bed, tho bet- ter.'' And Zoe was by nature so considerato that she often went to bed more for liosa'a convenience than her own inclination. But this time she said, sh.iridy, " Yes, I do. I want to know who had my tire light- ed for me in the middle of summer." " Why. s(iuire, to be sure," baid Kosa. "What! my brother f" "Yes, miss; andseen toit all hisself : least- ways I found ihe things ]iroperly mndiUed. 'Twas to l)e seen a uiau had been at 'em." Kosa retired, leaving Zoo's fac<' a pictnri'. Just then Vi/ard put his head cautiously in at the window, and said, in a comic whis- per, " Is she goiui ?■' "Yes. she is g(me," cried Zoo, "and you are wanted in her place." 8he ran to meet him. " Who ordered a lire in my room, and muddled all mv things?" said she, severely. "I did. What of that?" " Oh, nothing. Only now I know who is my friend. Young people, here's a lesson for you. When a lady is out in the rain, dou't prepare a lecture for ber^ like Auut 40 A \VOMA\HATi:i{. ill MaifliiiHl. but li^jlit litT liro, lil;(> this dciir old iliK'k of a wdiiiiiii-liiUiii;; iiii|iiisliir. Kiss 1IH< !'' (viiil(Mlll,V). "TIU'IO— IH'St." " Tliat it* not i'IiohkIi. H'tr liiilf. 'riuTc, and tlicri'. and tluTc, and llnrc, ami llitTi', and tlMTf." "Ny Itnlli cars, " yon ari' excit in^; ydinscir iilioni notli- in>j, and that will end in one of your licad- aflx'H. So Just take your <'Mmll(' ami j;o to hi'd, Iikt< a nood lit Me uiil." "Must I ? Well, thfii I will, (loo.l-l.y. tyrant (h-ar. Oh, how I lovoyoiil (.'(inic. Fnniiy." Sht* uavo her hand siiyly to Scvciiit', and Hoon tiit'v wcri' hoth in Zoc's room. Hosa was dismissed, ami they had their cliat ; hut it was nearly all on one side. Fanny liad |>leiiiy to say. luit did nor say it. She had not the iieart to cloud tiiat heam- inj» face a>;ain so soon; she temporized: Zoe ]ires.sed her witli ((nestions too; luir sho NJurr.' 1 IhiuLjs. Zoe asked her why .Miss Maitland w iis so hit ter a;iaiMNt |ioor Mr. Sev- eriie. Kanny said, in an olV-liand way, "Oh. it is only on your account she ohject.s to bini.' "And what .'ire lier olijertions?"' "Oh. only y;rannnatical om-s. dear. Slie says his aiitiKdniln aie oliscuie. and liis rcl- (j/irctnnknowu — lial ha I ha 1" I'aniiy lannh- ed ; liut Zoe did not see iho lim. 'i'hen runny stroked lier down. "Never mind thai old woman. / sliall interfere proiierly, if I see you in il.uiet'r: it was monstrous, her makiuj;' •■in iicliiiitlrf at the Very dinner table, and .s[foiling your liuiii>y day.' " Kut .she lia.sir t !"' cried Zoo, eajierly. "•All's well that ends well.' 1 am liajijiy — oh, .so hai)])y. You love me. Harrington loves nie. JJf loves me. What more can any woman ask for than to he anuitn hoief" This was tlie last word lietweeu Zoi; aud Fanny upon St. Brooch's Day. As Fanny went to her own rnoni, tlie vijiiiant Maitland opened her door that look- ed n|ton the corridor, ami beckoned her in. "Well," said she, "did you speak to Zoo?" "Just a word before dinner. Aunt, she came in wet to the skin, and in higher spir- its than Hosa ever kuew her." Atint groaned. "And what do you think! Her spoiled dress, she ordered it to bo ironed aud i)nt by. It ia a mae.'' Next day they all mot at a late l)reakfast, aud good hnmor was the order of the day. This encouraged Zoe to throw out a feeler about the gambling tables. Then Fanny said it must be uiee to gamble, because it was so naughty. "In a long experience," said Miss Dover, with a sigh, " I have fouud lh;it whatever is nice is nauglity, aud wliat- ever is naii;;lity is nice.'' "Tiieres a short code of morals," observed Vizard, "lor the use of seminaries. Now let US hear .Se\eriie; hi< knows all the de- fenses ol gambling lunai-y has discovered." Seveiiic. thus ;ippealed (o, said play was like oliier thinsis, bad only when cairicd to excess. ".\t lloltlburg, where the play is fair, what harm can there be in devoting two or tiirce hours of a h»ug day to hriilv it iimntinlr? The pl;iy exeri'isi's memory, Judg- iiieiit, xdnij-froUt, and other good i|Ualities ot' the mind, .\boveall.it is tm the sc|Uiire; now buying and selling shares withmit de- livery, bulling and bearing und ringing, and Slock Kxchaiige speculations in general, are just as unicli gamliling, but witJi cards all marked and dice loaded, and the fair play- er lias Mo chance. Tht^ w(Mld," said this voiithful philo.rophcr, " is taken in by words. The truth is, that gamliling with cards is fair.and gambling without cards a swindh-." "He is hard upon tin.- or say that I ajiprovc! of i»iiblio };aniblnig in general. Hut at Homburg tho (■«".;!.• .ly is .select. I have seen a (Jermaii ;ii n,. (', a Kussian iirince, and two English countesses, tli(^ very ilik' of London society, seat(>d at the same table in the Kursaal. I think, therefore, there can be no harm in yiuir going, under the conduct "f older liersons — my.self, for example, and your brother." "C'oile three," suggested Vizard — "the chaperonian code." "And a very good one, too," said Zoo. " liut, aunt, must we look on, or may we play, just a little, little ?" " My d<'ar, there cau be no great harm in playing a little, in (jooil comfxani — if you play with ,\our own money." She must have one dig at Sevcrne, " I sha'n't i>lay very deep, then," said Fanny ; " for I have got no money hardly." Vizard came to tho front, like a man. " No more ahould I," said he, " but for Ilcr- i A WOMAN- II ATI: R. 41 wlmt- HlTVcd New til.. (I..- .ivd/' IV was liiil to • lay is M'tili;; idili' , t, ..jii.|«- alitics I nan-; III (!(•- 'r^. and ■iiiTai, • aids |)lay- i this "oi'ds. lids JM iiMllc." ill tho yiniiig IT tho spirits rit'M mill Co. As it is, I am iv (''m-siis, and I "has t'iirirln>d Hie maii-onfiiijj rnmpaiiy auil shall hland jC KM), which voii Ihrci- ladiis I lu'ir iirincr, and liiiilt tin. Kiirsaal. and will lUMst ilividt'; anil Itctwccn you, no dmilit, clean yuii all mit ifyon play Inn;; cni.n;;h." ynii will Iticak the liank." | "'j'haf," said Scvcnu., •• I deny; ii in Acclainaliiins lii'cetcd tliis|iiece (irniisoi^- ninre than lialanced liy the liuhl the play- yiiy. When they had siili.sided, Sevenie CIS ha\e packs more than nine times rnnniii^i. When, ol'cardsscnt (or, and the pr.d'csMn leclnrcd. thcrel'ore. either color has conic np four "This," said he, " is the cream of the e;ame. I inii's, yon can put a modeiate stake on the Six pucks are pro)icrly shntlled and properly other color, and donlile on i( till it nnixt cut; i\u- players put I heir money on hlack come. Iiy the laws of nature. .'ecaiis(i the cards dealt for the chances are mature. This is called ■ tho red coim. nearest thirty-fino. Itcsides that," ^larlin;;ale ;' Imf ohserve. it only si-ciircs said he, "you can liet on the color or ajiainst aitaiiist loss. Heavy ;;:iiiis are made l>y it. The ii(^tnal color of the first card tin' doiildinj,' judiciously on the iriiiiiiii;i color, jdayer turns up on the hlack liin' iniisl he i<\- liy Minply liettini,' iii short runs of it. hlaik or red. Whichever it happens to he When red comes iij). liack red. and doiihlo is called ' the color.' .Say it is red ; then, if twice on it. Thus yon proiit l>v the re- the Idaidv line of cards wins, color loses, iiiarkalde and ohserved (act that the colors Now I will deal ay;iiin for both events. | do not, as ;i rule, alternate. Inn rea di iilti- " I deal for .\i>ir. \ mate ei[iiality'l>y avoiding;- alternation, and "Nine (d' Diamonds. Ked, tjieii. is the niakiiif;' short runs, wiili occasimial ImiK actual color turned u|) on the hlack line, inns: t he latter .are rare. and must he watch- Do you het for it, or ae;ainsi it ?'' i »'d with a view to the halaiiciii;,^ run of tho •• 1 liet for it,"' cried Zoe. "It's iiiy favor- other color. This is iiiv system." ite color.'' I "And you really tbiiiU you have invented "And what do you .say ou the main ' it ?'' asked Vizard, event '/" "1 am rtot so eoiiceilcd. Mf system was "Oh, red on that too.'' | conimnnicaled to me. in the Kuisaal itself, " \'ery ;;()od. I fjo (Ui doaliny; for Xoir. by an old eendeniaii.'' Queen of Diamonds — three y ,Iove. lloinjv (jiKjnc vt coiilnir. ' very lieard, and the most benovoleut couu- Tliere is iiothinjj; like cimraf^e, Y'ou bavo tenance he ever saw. won liolli events." "Oh, what .1 nice^janiel" cried '/.< He ti len continued to deal, and tliev all ' Curimis place for his reverence to be in," hazarded \'izard. "He saw me bettin;;. tirst mi the black. blotted ^ ! :f avoitl.s, :iiii1 arrives at equality hy runs. He tbeii ^jiivf me a hetter system."' " Anil, liavin;;' ex|iomi(led liia syalem. ho illustrated it? Tell the truth, now ; he sat ilown and lost the cuat oil' his back. It fol- lowed 1>!S fimily acres.'' "Yon are (|iiite wroiip; a^ain. He never plaj J. He has heart-disea.'^e, ;;iid his i)hysi- cian lias forhiddeu him all excitement.'' " His nation ?" "Humi.h! French." "All! tiio nation tiiat j)ro(lnced ' Lc jihilo- snphc nfUhi le saroh .' And now it lias .i(iiy;ar. ;ind let him rislc tjicm." "I could iiardly take such a lilierty witli an old fientlcman of ids a^^e and ajipearance — a man <(f honor too, and hij;h sentiments. Why. I'd bet sfven to four he is one (if Na- poleon's old soldiers." Till! ladies sided unanimously with Si - erne. "Wli.it I oHcr a viciix dv V ihnii'ue live liounds < Oil lie I'' " Fiddle-dce-dce!" said the iinhunitabh^ Vizard. " Uesi(h's. he will doit witli his usu- al urace. He will aiijiroach tlie son of Mars with tiiat feigned luimility wliicli sits so well on youth. ;iud aslv liiiii. as a ]ieis(Mial favor, to invest live pounds for liim at niiiijc ct iioir. Tiie old soldier will sfillcn into dou- ble di;;nity tit Hrst, then nive liim ii low wiid{, and end by sitfinjj down and li'am- Idiiij;. He will lie cautious at startinj:-, as one who o])eiis trenches for tiie siei;e of Miuun.on ; but soon the veteran will j;et heated, ami fjive battle. He will fancy liim- self at Jemi. since the croupiers-are Prus- .siaus. H' lie loses, ycui cut him ilciid, beinjf a hunidrum iCn^lishnian ; and if he wins, he cuts you. and jiockcts the cjisli, lieiii^ a Freuchman that talks senliiiicnt.'' This sally iirovoked a lauoh, in wiiich (Sev- eriie joined, and said," Uetilly. for a l.aiided proprietor, you know a tiiiu;^ or two." He consented at last, with some reluclaiice. to tike the money: and none of the persons present X\r\ at heart, though law as black as a coal." I " No apology needed in our present frame; ' you are all the more like the ace of ."Spades." "Do you want me to take you to the Klosking, Sir? Then you had better not make fun of me. I tell you she sang to me, and smiled on ny, iind c(uii'icsied to me : and, now you have ])ut it into my liead, I mean to call 111)011 her, and I will take you with me. What I shall do. I shall send iu my card. I shall be admitted, and yon will wait outside. As soon as she sees me, she will run to me \\itli both hands (uit, and say, in exceileni Froich, I lioiie, • //oic, inade- moiseile! ymi have deigned to remember me, and to honor me with a visit,' Then I shall say. in school I'rench, 'Yes. madaiue; excuse the intrusion; but 1 was so charmed with your iierfoi ini;nce. We le.ave Hom- bnrg to-morrow, jind as, itiilorliiualely for mys( If, I ciiu not have the pleasure of see- ing y(Mi again uiiou the stage — ' Then I shall stop for her to interrupt me. Then siu! will inteniipt me, and say charming things, as only I'oreiguers can; and then I shall say, still iu school Fremli, ' Madame, I am not alone. I liave my brother witli mo. He .adores music, and was as i'asei- nated with your Siebel as myself. May I present him?' Then she will say, 'Oh yea, by all nieiins:' and I shall introduce you. Then you can make love to her. That will be droll. Fanny, I'll tell you every word ho says." "Make love to her!'' cried Vizard. "Is this your estimate of a brother's motives? 1 My object iu visiting this ludy is uot to food my on 1 of a Nov port er : tal it for niui fear Ger thei Mr. A WOMAN- HAIER. 43 I .Mil a, my mania, but to cure it. I liave seen lier on the 8ta;;e, looking lilte tlio inrarnation of a poet's dream. I am exiam' with her. Now let mo catch her en deshabillt', with her porter on one wide, and her lover on the oth- er: and 80 to Barfordshire, relieved of a fa- tal illusion." " If that is your view, I'll go by myself, for I know she is a nohle woman, and as much a lady off the stage as on it. My only fear is she will talk that dreadful guttural German, with its ' oehes' and its ' aelies,' and then where shall we all be? We must ask Mr. Severn e to go with us." "A good idea. No — a vile one. lie is abominably haiulsome, and has the gift of the gab — in German and other languages. He is sure to cut me out, the villain ! Lock him ujt, somebody, till we come back." "Now, Harrington, don't bo alisurd. He mtist and shall be of the party. I hav(^ my reasons. Mr. Severiu-," said she, turning on him with a l)lush and a divine smile, "you will oblige me, I am sure.'' Severue's face turned as blank as a doll's, and he said nothiug, one way or other. It was settled that they should all meet at the Kursaal at four, to dine and l>lay. Hut Zoe and her jiarty would go on aliead by tin* one-o'clock train ; and so she retired to put on lierl)onnet— a tecluiicalexpres.sion, which imi)Iies a good ileal. Fanny went with her. and as events more exciting than the usinil routine of their young lives were ahead, their tongues went a rart^ pace. Ibit tin* only thing worth ])re- senting to the reader cauie at the end, aft- er the said business of the toilet had been. disi)atched. Zoe said, " I nnist go now, or I shall keep them waiting." "Only one, dear," said Fannv, dwU "Why only one?" " Mr. Severne will not go,' "That he will: 1 n.adc :' ^> lint of it." " You did, de.'ir ; but still hi will not go." Thi're was sometiiing in this and in Fan- ny's tone that startled Zoe .md mi/./led her sorely, t^ho, turneil round up( .i h(>r with Hashing eye, ami said, "No mysteries, please, dear. Wiiy won't he go with me wherevi>r I ask him to go, or, rathi-r, what nuikes yon think he won't ?" S;iid I'anny, thoughtfully: "I could not tell yon, all in a moment, why I feci so ])osi- tive. One iiuts little things together tlr.a. ar(» nothing apart : out; observes faces ; i do, end, with her ; so she drew herself up in her grand way, and folded her arms, and said, a little haughtily, "Then tell me what is it you know about him and me, without know- ing how on earth you know it." The supercilious tone and grand manner nettled Fanny, and it wasn't " brooch-day ;" she stood up to her lofty cousin like a little game-cock. "I know this." said she, with heightened cheek, and lla.^hing eyes, and a voice of steel, "you will never get Mr. Ed- ward Severne into one room with Zoe Vizard and Ina Klosking." Zoe Vizard turned very pstle, but her eyes Hashed iK'fiance on her fiiend. " Tliat I'll know," she said, in a deep voice, with a little gasp, but a world of prido and resolutiou. CHArTi:K VII. Tiir: ladies went down together, and found Vizard ready. Mr. Sever^ie was not in the rooMi. Zo(? in(|uired after him. ' (ioiu! to get a sun-.siiadc."' said Vizard. "There I" said Zoe to Fanny, in a tri- umphant whisper. "What is that for, but to go with us?" Fanny made no reply. They w;iitcd some time for Severne ai: 1 his sun-shade. At last Vizard looked at his watch, and said they had only live minutes to spare. "Conu" down and look after him. He mimt be somewhere alxuit." They went down, and looked for him ■ill over the Flatz. He was not to be seen. At last Vizard look (uit iiis watch, and said, "It is some niisunderslanding: we can't wait any longer." So he and Zoe went to tlH> tniin. Neither said niu!.» .asier in her mind. It really seemed as if Si^M'rne had given her the slip. I'rob.ibly he woid'l explain hi- c(tnduct ; but iin-n that I'anny should lorci.'il hi' wouM ;i\;'m1 her I onipi'uy rather than eall- moisel!" KlosIJng, and that Fanny should at least. Yiui don't seem to me to b) so ' be ris)>.; — this made tim thing serious, and quick at that as most girls. But, Zoe dear. ' T"!'cd Zoe to tln> iiuick : she was angry with you know very well one oflen knows a thing ['i anny for proithcHving truly ; she was rath- for certain, yet one doesn't know exactly | i ang'W with Sc erne for not cominvo Stnerne, Hhonhl Ix- abhj to foit'tfU hi.s condiuit better than she wlio did h)ve hiin ; such foresight hioUcd liUe ftvcatci- iiisi;;ht. All this Inm'.iliateil and also imzzled her stran.ufly ; and so she sat brooding as di'i'i>- ly as iier brother. As for Vizar\vhere else. There are lots of things to see. I give up the Klosking." Zo(^ stared at him a moment, ami (hen an- swered, with cold decis'on. "No, ili'ivr; you n iu4 allow me to rail on her, now I am here. She won't bite mi'."' "Well, but it is a strange thing to do." "What does that matter:' We are abroail." "Comt^, Zoe, I am uiueli obliged to you; but give it u))." "No. dear." Harrington smiled at her pretty peremp- toriness, and misiindc'stood it. "This i.s carrying sisterly lov<> a long way," sjiid lie. " I must try and rise to your level. I won't go with you." "'I'hcn I shall go alone." "What, if I forbid yon, miss T' She tapped him on the eheek with her fin- gers. "Don't alfect the tyrant, dear ; you can't manage it. Fanny said something that lias mortified me. I shall go. You ran ilo as vou liUi'. JJut stop; where does she live ?"' "Suppose I decline to tell yon? I am seized with a virtuotis lit — a regular par- oxysm." "Then I shall go to the ojiera ami in- quire, dear, Ibit" (coa.\ingly) "you will tell me, dear." "There," siiid Harrington, "you wicked, tempting girl, my sham virino has oozed away, and my real mania triumphs, She lives at 'The (iolden Star.' I was w(>ak enough to send Harris in last night to learn.'' Zoe smiled. lie hailed a conveyaner-, and they started at once for " The (iidden vStar," " Zoe," saitl Harrington, gr;.vely, "some- thing tells me I am going to meet m ,■ late." "All tho better," said Zoe. " I wish you to meet your fate. My love for my brother is not sellish, I am sure she is a good woman. I'erliaps I may lind out something." ".\bont what?" " Oh, uover mind." CHAPTER VIII. Ai.T. this time Ina Klosking was rehears- ing at the theatre, ([uite unconscious of the impending visit. A royal i)ersoiiage had eomiminded // Ilarhivrr, the part of Rosimi to be restiH'ed to the original key. It was written for a contralto, but transposed by the inllueiice of (iiisi. Having no i)erformanee that night, tliey began to rehearse rather later than usual, and did not leave ott till a ((uarter to four o'clock. Ina, wlio snll'ered a good deal at rehe.'irsals from the iiiaecuraey and aiiathy of the people, went iKune fagged, and witli her throat jiarehed — so does a bad rehearsal atl't'ct all good and earnest artists. She ordered a cutlet, with ]totato cliii)S, and lay day before. She smiled gratefully at his zeal. He also rennnded her that he had orders to tak(> her to the Kursaal. He said the tables would be well filled from five o'clock till ([Uite late, there being no other entertainment on foot that evening. Ina thanked him. and said she would not miss going on any a('c(uint; but she was rather fatigued and faint. "Oh. I'll wait for you as long as you like," said Ashmead, kindly. "No, my good comrade," said Ina. "I will ask you to go to the manager and get WW a little nnmey, and tlieii to the Kursaal \ and secure me a ]ilace at the table in the \ largest rocun. There I will Join you. If //(' is not tlu're — and 1 am not so mad as to think he will be there — 1 shall risk a few pieces myselt", to lie nearer him in mind." This am.ized Ashmead; it was so iinliko her. "You are joking," said he. "Wliy, if you lose the na])(deons at play, it will bo your death; you will grizzle so.'' " Yes ; but 1 shall not lost\ I am too un- budiy in Ionc to lose at I'ards. 1 mean to play this afternoon, and never again in all my life. Sir, I am resolved," "Oh, if you ■•ire resolved, there is no m(U'o to be saiil, I won't run my head against a brick wall." In.'i, being half n foreigner, thr)ught this rather brusi|ue. She hatked at him askant, and said, (luietly, "Others besides luc can be stubborn, and get their own way while s])i>aking the language of submission. Not I inxcntcd volition." With thi.s dea in his ear, the faithful .Jo- seph Weill otV, chuckling, and (ditained an advance from tlie manager, and then pro- ceeded to the ])rinci))al gaming table, and, after waiting some time, secured a chuir, which he kept for his chief. An hour went by; an hour and a half. He was obliged, for very shame, to bet. This be did, live fruuus ut u time, aud hit) I ri.sk by tltl withf watc in sill to gol favoif ohanl to evl of th| well Mil miniJ after! ant ami Oil on ^^[ Thisl of sil thatF A WOMAN-HATER. 45 risk was sn sniall and liis luck so (^vt•ll that 1 colors and pold laid on witli Oriental pro- hy degr<>es lit* was drawn into convt^sation Avith liis ni'inlilior, a yoni'sj; swell, vlio was watcliitif^ tlic inn of tlx; coloi's, and bt'ttiiiu; in silver, and i)ri('kinji ii card, ]ire])ariU(ny to j^oinjj in lor a K''''iit coup, iloantinie lie favored Mr. Asliniead with his theory of fusion, and sometimes with Oriental taste. Harrington tooii his sister tlironnh the drawinjr-rooms first; and she admired th« nnnsiial lol'tiness of the rooms, the Idaze of white and fjold and of celadon yreen and gold, and the great Russian lustres and the rhan('es; ami Ashmead listened very politely I mighty mirrors. Hut when they got to the to every word, because he was rather proud of the other's notice; he was so handsome, wtdl dressed, and w(dl spoken. Meantime Inji Klosking snatched a few minutes' sleep, as most artists can in the afternoon, and was awakened by the serv- ant bringing in her frugal repast — a cutlet and a pint of Bordeaux. On her plate he br(/iiglit her a large card, on which was i^'inted "Miss Zoe ^'i/ard.'' dining-room she was enchanted. That lofty and niagniticeiit .sy//((((, with its daring mix- ture of red and Idack and green and blue, all nndted into harmony by the rivers of gold that ran boldly among them, went to her very heart. A (ireek is half an Orient- al, ami Zoe had what may be called the courage '(iloriousi" she cried, and clasped her liands. '• And seel what a background to the emerald grass outside and This led to iiKiuiries, and he told her a lady \ the ruby Howers! They seem to come into of superlative beauty had called and left , the room through those monster windows." that card. Ina asked for a description. I " (Splendid I" said Harrington, to wlnini all "Ah, madann>,"8a:d Karl, ''do not expect this was literally Greek. "I'm so excited, details from me. I Avas too dazzled and I'll order dinner."' struck by lightning to make an inventory | "Dinner!'' said Zoe, disdainfully, and sat of her charms." j down and eyed the Mores(|ne walls around "At least you can tell me was she dark ; her and the beauties^ of nature outside, and or fair." j bnuight them together in one picture. " Madame, she was di'rk as night, but glo- Harrington was a long tinu in conchive rious as the sun. Her earthly abode is the with M. Clievet. Then Zo(! beminie inii)a- 'Kussie,' at Frankfort: blest hotel!"' " Did she tell yon so V "Indirectly. Siie wrote on the card willi the smallest jicncil I have hitherto wit- nessed: the letters .are faint, the ])encil be- ing inferior to the case, which was golden tient. " Oh, do leave off ordering dinner," said .■ilie, "and tuk(^ me out to that other para- dise." The f'hevet slirugle are! Kxcitemcnt! ton. They entered the noble hall. ins cards, or without I hem. Now look into th(^ mind of the ifainl)ler: he wants to make money, contrary to nature, ami un- justly. He wants to he rewarded witliout Micrit, to make a fortuiu' in a moment, and without imlnstry. vi<;ilanee, true skill, or pelf-ilenial : ' a |)enny saved is a penny rdid avarice; and I call it weak avarice, In -..usi* the •.>"!- bier relies on chaiu'e alone, y •' .•is un- even chances, and hoites tiiat ic"; lio will he as nuirli in love with him as w with himself. What silly eji-ot.sm I Yon admire the Kursaal. and you are ri^ilit ; then do Just ask yourself why is there notliinji to pay for so nniny exi)ensive enjoyments, and very lit- tle to pay for concerts and balls ; low prices at the opera, winch never ])ays its own ex- l)enses: even Chevet's dinners are reasomi- hle, if yon avoid his sham .JohaniMsbei'j^. All these chea]) delinhts, the .ijold, t\u\ col- ors, the any." Zoe's eyes tilled. "Yon are right," said she, humbly. "Thank you for thinking for me. I will not say a word to her before (/()//." "That is a good girl. But, come now, why say a word at all ?" "Oh, it is no use your demanding impos- sibilities, dear; I could no more help speak- ing to her than I could tly ; and dcm't go fancying she will care .i pin what I say, if I don't say it lief(U'e ii iinillcmiui." Having given him this piece of informa- tion, she left her amliush, and proceeded to meet the all-nm'onscicnis blue girl ; but even as they went,\ izard returned to his nininal condition, iiml doled out, rather imlo'.. , that tlwy were out on (ileasure, and n.Mght possibly miss the oliject of the excursion if they were to encourage a habit of getting I into rages aliont nothing. I Zoe was lietter than her word. .She met Faimy with open adnnration: to lie sure, she knew that a|iathy, or even train|uillity, j on lirst meeting the blues, would bo instuut- ly set down to envy. "And where did you get it, dear?" "At unite a small shop." " French ?" "Oh no; I think she was an Austrian. This is not a Fremdi mixture: hunl, discord- ant colors, that is the French taste." " Here is heresy," said Vizard. " Why, I thought the French beat the world iu ilrcss." "Y« tern : takes searle and n ant to Now, I and t treat bubjei "(i Fann> Mis "In 111 of put how, "M A WOMAN-HATER. 47 king of colors; and there is no harm in Jving Hcarlet, if you treat him with resjieet, iiud put a modest Bubjeet next to him." "(iypsy locks, for instance," suggested Fanny, slyly. ]Miss Maitland owned herself puzzled. " In my day," said she, " no one ever thon^^ht of putting blue upon bine ; l)iit really, some- how, it looks well." " May I tell yvu why, annt ? — becimse the dress-maker had a real eye, iind h.is ehosen the right tints of l>liie, It is all nonsense about one color not going with another. Nature delies that ; and how ? — Ity choosing the very tints of ea(di color (hat will go to- gether. The sweetest room I e\ersaw was ]iainted by a great art ist ; and, do y(m kin>\v, he had colored the ceiling lilue and the walls green ; and 1 assure you the eH'ect was heav- enly : but then he had ehosen the exact tints of green and lilne that would go to- gether. The draperies were between crim- son ancl maroon. Hut there's another thing in Fanny's dress; it is velvet. Now lilne vtdvet is blue to tlu' miml, but it is not bine to the ey(i. You try and paint lilne v(dvet; yon will be snrprised how much white you nmst lay on. Tin' high lights of all velvets are white. This white helps to bleiul the two tints of blue." "This is v(^ry instnictive," said Vizard: "I was not aware 1 had a sister yonthfnl but ])rofonnd. l.,et us go in and dine." Fanny demni'red. She said she believed Jliss Maitland wished to take one turn round the groiinils hrst. ! Jliss Maitland stared, but assented in a mechanical way; and they commenced their promeiuide. Zoe hung b ck and lj(>ckoned her brother. "Miss Maitlaml !" said slie, with such an air. " .S/ic wants to .show her blues to all the W(uld aiul his wife." " Very natnral," said Viz.ard. " So W(ndd you if you were in a situdet gown with a crimson cloak." Zo(? laughed heartily at this, and forgave Fanny her in'W dress: but she had a worst; bone than that to pick with her. It was a slnu't but agreeable promenade to Zoe; for, now they were alone, her broth- er, instead of sneering, comidimentetl her. "Never you mind my im|>crtinence," said he; "the trnlh is, I am [iroud of you. You are an observer." "Me? Oh— in color." "Never mind : an observer is an ol)server ; and genuine obs( croupiers in charge of ihe funds ehueked the precise amount of the witiniuKs on to each stake witli nnerrir"- dexie-i'v and the indilference of machines iid .ii<^ cliant re- commenced. "Faites le ,j(!U, messieu." Pause, ten seconds. " Le Jen est .'ait, messieu." Pause, two seconds. " Kien ne va plus." The Udllciir dealt, and tho croupier in- toned, " La ! IJoujfe Kajiiie et conleur perd ;"' the mechanical rakiny and dex.trous chiick- iufj followed. This, with a low Imzzinp^, and the dead- ened jiuffle of f^old upon ni'een cloth, and the lij;ht K''ii'i'iK <>t' tln^ cronpiers' rakes, was the lirst im|n'ession ujion Zoe's senses: hut the nii're i;'aine dill not monopdlize her atten- tion many si'conds. There wer(! other thiiijjs bettiir worth ncttinjf — the jireat varieties of linmau type that a sin;;h! passion had broufi'ht toy;ether in a small (ierman town. Her ear was rejjaled with such a jiolyjilot murninr as she had read of in (Jenesis, but had nev(!r witm^ssed befoii!. Here wens the sliar)> Tnscan and the mel- low Ivonnm, the sil)ilation of England, tiie brojfue of Irelaiul, tlu^ Shildioletji of the ^Rlinories, the twan^' of certain American States, the ffuttuial expectoration of (ier- niany, the nasal emidnisis of Fraiu'e, and even the modidateil Hindostaneo and the sonorous .Spiinish, all minglinji. Tho types of face were as various as the tonKiies. Here were tho green-eyed Tartar, the black-eyed Italian, and the gray-eyed in the i)]ay- 1 mixture re-a|)i)eared on her lieail in a prim- ition ; next. the[ rose hat witii a red i'eather. A gold chain, so big that it would have done for a felon instead of a fo]>reoiat('d t lie saj-acity of tlip ro- said, "Hnt she will lind il is all liio same mark, bnt lie did not lilic the hidy any tim thing." j Ix'ttcr for it. He meditated in sibMicc. Ho Fanny lanf;lu'd in Ins face. "Don't yon i remembered that, w lien they were in the see? C'est la chasst^ an t>evernc (jui com- ' ;;ardcn. Zoe had liiin>; lieiiind, and inter- monce." ! preted Fanny iil-nalnredly : and liere, was "En voila nn Severe," reidied lie. Fanny at tiie .same i;anie, literally baekbit- Slie was mute. She had not leained th; sort of Freneh in lier liuishiiif^ sehool. 1 forj>ive it. The next room was the same thins^ over ajjain. Zoe stood a moment and drank every tiling;- in, then turned to \izard, idiished, and said, " May we jilay a little now ?" " Wiiy, ofcour.se." "Fan'iiy!" "No; you iie^tin, dear. We will .stand by and wish you sneeess." " Voii are a coward," said Zoe, lot'tily ; and Avent to the table wiih more elianees of <'o" in,!;-, or liack-niltliliiiLV at all evenls. Said he to himself. •'And these two are friends! female friends." And he nursed his luisoj;- yny in silence. 'J'liey came into a very nidde room, the lar^i'cst of all, with enormous mirrors down to the ;iroiind, and a ceilinji blazing with gold, and tli(< air glittering with lustres. Two very large tables, and a distinguished company at each, especially at the trente et qiiiiranlc. Helore our little ]>arty had taken sis steps into the room, Zoe stood like a pointer ; and Fanny backed. Should these terms .seem or tiian veteran lancers iietray in charging ' disrespectful, let Fanny bear the bljime. It infantry. It wiis t he roiilt'lle talile she chose. ! is her application of the word " cha.sse" that That seems a law of her sex. The true solu- drew down the simile. tion is not so ])rotoinid as some that have | Yes, there sat Ned Severne, talking famil- been olfered. It is this; Irciilcd (iniirinitc is iarly to .Jose((h Ashmead, and preparing to not only unintelligible, but uninti'resting. , "itnt the pot on.' as he called it. At n),.,elle there i,s a \iictorial object and I Now Zoe was so far gone that the very dramatic incident; the board, the turning sight of Severne wiis a balsam to her. She of the tiionliiit't, i\ui\ the swift revolutions had a little bone o pick with him; and of an ivory ball, its lowered speed, its irreg- w hen he was out i.f sight, the lione seemed illar boun Is, and its liiial seltlemeiit in one pretty large. Hut when she s;iw his adora- of the nniiy holes, niimliered and colored. 1 ble face, unconscious, as it seemed, of wrong, Here the female unilerstamling sees some- ] the bon(! faded and the face shone, thing it can grasp, and. above all, the fi'uiale ! Her own face cleared at the siyht of him : eye catches siiinerhing pictorial and amiis- she lUriied back to I'.inny and N'izard, arch ing outsiile tiie loss or gain; and so she ; and smiling, ■•iiid put her linger to her mouth goes, by her nature, to roiilclli; whiili is a grciater swindle than the other. Zoe staked live ])oiinils on \o. 'Jl, for an excellent reason: she was in her twenty- lirst year. The ball was so illogical as (o go into No. Ii, and she lost. She stood by her number, and lost again. She lost diir- teen times in succession. iimni n. imn ii|> mi iii>,-n_ — <>iited to bet more nor her companions, jiartly because, the.v lieavily, for she said, " No. That will never bapi»en to me again, I know ;" ami she ro.se, the ricdier by several najxtleons, and said, "Now let us go to another." IS much as to say, " Let us have some fun. We have caught our tiuant: let us watch him, unseen, a little, before we burst on him." Vizard enjoyed this, aen, Seveiiie lost heart. He turned to A.shniead, with all the sn- ])erstition of a jfanilder. "Fortiod's sake, bet for me I" said ho. Ho cintthed his own hair eonvnlsively, in a strnii'Mle with his mania, and jirevaiied so far as to thrust £■',() into his own jiocdiet to live on. and j:;ave Ashniead live, tens. " Well, hilt," said Ashniead, " you miLst tell rue wliat to do." "No, no. IJet your own way. for me.'' He h.id hardly uttered these words, when 1m' seenii'd to ylare across the taiiii' .it the jffeat mirror, and suddenly jiuttinji' his hand- kerchief to his mouth, he made a holt side- ways, plunjicd amiilst the l)y-stan(lers, and emerged only to thish into a room at the side. As ho disai)i)eared, a lady came slowly and [xMisividy forw.ird from the outer door; lifted her eyes, as sin; neared the talde, saw a vacant chair, and jilided into it.revealinij, to Zoe Vizard and her |)avty, a noJile face, not so splendid and animated as (ui the stafxe, for its expression was slumliering; still it was the face of Ina Kloskinjj;. No transformation trick was ever ilone more neatly antl smoothly than this, in wliich, nevertheless, the performers acted Avillnuit concert. JSeverne lied out, and the Kloskinj; came slowly in ; y(^t no (uie hail time to take the si'at, she f;lid< d into it so soon after Sevenie ]iad vacated it. ZiH' Vizar(t !ind her frieinls stared after the llyiiie- Sevcrue; then stared at tht; new- c(uner; and then turned round anti .stared at each other, iu mutual amazement and ini|niry. What was the meaning of this donhle in- cident, that rescmliled a conjurer's f ri( k ? Haxinji looked at her companions, and seen only her own surprise rellected, Zoe Vizard lixed her eyes, like burning-j^lasses, ii])on Ina Kloskiiiij;, Then that lady thickened the mystery. She was very familiar with the man .Severiu' had l)(>cn so familiar with. Tiiat man contiihnted his sliaro to the multiplyinij; mystery. He had a inuddy complexion, hair the color of dirt, a lonjf nose, a hatchet face, mean litth; eyes, ami was evidently not a f;,entleman: he wore a hrown velveteen shoot ini^-eoat, with a ma- fjcnta tie that fii>ve Zoe a pain in the eye. !?he had already felt sorry to see her Siiveruc wa.s aciinainted with such a man ; he seemed to her th(! nc plus ultra of vuljrarity: and now. ludiold, the artist, tlie woman shi^ had 80 admired, was e<|ually familiar with the same ohjectjouabje persou. To ai)i)reriate the hopeless jnizzle of Zoe Vizard, the re.ader must he on his jiuard at;"i"st his own knowledge. lie knows that .Severne and .Ashmcad were two I5ohe- mians, who had struck up aci|iiaiiitance, all in a minnle, that very evening;, 15ut Zoe had not this knowled;;e; and she could not possibly divine it. The whole thinfj; was pr<'senled lo her senses thus —a vnlj;ar man, with a brown \el\eteen siniotin;;'-i'oat and a red-hot tie, was a nnilual friend (d' the fjentlemanly .Severne and thiMlieniliod Kloy'- kiiifj;. iSeverne hd't the inutiial friend; Made- nioiselle Kloskinj;' Joined the mutual friend; and there she sal, wiicre .Sexerne had sat a nionient a};'o, by the side of their mutual friend. All manner of thouiihts and surmises thnuiged upon Zoe, Vizard; but each way of account inj;- for the niyslt-ry contradicted some plain fact or other: so she was driven at last to a woman's remedy. She wcuild wait and watch. .'>everne would proliably come back, and somehow furnish the key; meantime, her eyi' was not likely to leave the Kloskinn', nor Ix'r ear to miss a .syllable the Kloskin;;' niiuht utter. Slii> whispered to N'izard.in a very pecul- iar tone, •' 1 will play at this talde," and steppcil up to it with the word. i The duration of siiidi beauty iis Zoe's is proverbially limited; but the limit to its jiower, whil(! it iloes last, has not yet been discovcr<'d. It is a fact tinit.as soon as she came close to the table, two male <;;nnblers looked u)), saw her, wondered at her, jind aidually JiimiaMl up and olfered their seats: she made a courteous inclination of the head, and installed Miss Maitl.and in one seat, without reserve, .she |)ut a Utile ^(dd on the talde, and asked .Miss Mailland,in .1 whisper, to play for Ikm'. She hersidf had neither eye nor ear, exce|d for Ina Kloskinjf. ; That lady was havinjj a (liseussion,.s()//() roce, wilh Asluneatl; and if she had been oni^ of your mumlders. whose name is hj;';(ui, (>ven Zoe's swift ear could have eautiht little or nothiuji. Mut when a voice has volume, ami the great habit of articulation has been bron^'ht to perfection, the words travel sur- prisingly. Zo(> lieard the lady say to .Vshmeail, scarce- ly abov(! her breath, "Well, but if he re(|uest- ed you to bet for him, how can he l)lanie yon if" Zoe could not catch Ashmead's reply, but it was aceompauied by a shaken of the head : so she understood him to object. . Then, after ji little more discussion, Ina Klosking said, " What immey have y(ui of mine V I Ashniead jirodnced some notes. 1 "Very well," said the Klosking. "Now I shiiU take 'my twenty-live ])ounds, and twenty-live pounds of his. and play. When I be returns we shall, at all cveuN have tweu- of Zoo kiiKws liolic- iMi". all lit Zoo II 111 not was tr ni.'iii, lit itiiil i>r the ilKlo,"- Madc- tVicnd; il sat a iniitital A WOMAX-HATEK. 51 ty-fivo poniids safe for him. I taku the re- the table, and saw a curious asscmbhigo of Biioiisiliilily." Iii;iires. "Oil," thdiijjlit Zoe, "then lie in coiiiiiii; 'J'liere \v;ih a solemn Turk melting his pi- baek. Ah, 1 shall see, what all this niean.H." asters with admiraliie lii-ivity; there was yjie lelf sick at heart. the U'lissiaii i)riiice,s8; and tiiere was a lady, Zoe \i/ard was on the other side, but not dnsscil in htiid, iMconj;rnoiiH colors, such as opjiosite Mademoiselle Kloskin;;; siie was once drew from a horrilied modiste tln^ cry. (•onsideral)ly to the ri^ht band, and as the "Ah I Dieiil (|nelle iinmoralite !" and thaCs new-cnmcr was nineji occupied. Just at liist, a fact. 'I'liere w.is a l'o|iisli ])riest, lookinj; with .Ashmead, who sat on her left. Zoe had sheepish as he staked his silver, and an An- tinie to dissect her. which she did without jilieaii rector, bettini;- livers, and as noiicha- mercy. Well, her cost nme was beautifully laiil. in ;lie lilest alisenee of his Hock ami tho made, and litted on a Hymmetrical tijiiire, but Haptist minister, as if he was ]dayinff at as to color, it was neutral — ii warm French whist with the old Misliop of Xcu-wich, who jj;ray — and neither courted admiration nor played a nightly riild)er in my father's day risked censure: it was nni)reteiidiiii;. Her — and a ver> bad one. There was a FrcMicli lace collar w,is valmible, lint not strikinj;. einint, nearly six feet hi,uh. to whom the Her hair was beiintiful, both in jjloss anil word "old" would have Iteeii unjust; li« color, and beautifully but neatly arranjied. was antii|ue. and had turned into bones and Her gloves and wristbands were perfect. leather; but the hair on that dilapidated As every woman aims at appcuiiiice. open- trunk was its own; and Zoe iircferred biiii ly or secretly, and every other woman knows miicli to the lusty old Knulish beau beside she does. Zoe did not look at this meek dress him, with ivory teeth and ebon locks that with nnile simplicity. unsus]iiciousofdesit;n, cost a pretty penny. but asked herself what was the ieadinji mo- tive; and the ipiestioii was no sooner asked than answered. "She has diessed foi' her fiolden hair and her white throat. Her hair. There was a fat. livid Neapolitan betting heavily : there was a creole l.ady, with a tine oval fai'e rather sallow, and eyes and hair as black us Zoe's own. Indeed, the her deep ieces. Inn, ; we say on Yorkshire turf, liaving settled matters with Ashmcad. look- | ludeid, that frontlet was so beautiful and Oil up. and. of course, took in every other well idaced, itdrew fiu'th glances of marked woman who was in sijiht at a single sweep, disdain from every lady within sight of.it, 81ie recogni/.ed Zoe directly with a tliish of Zoe excepted, v'she was placable. This was ]deasiire; a sweet, bright expression broke a lesson in color, and she m.-inaged to forgivo over her fact;, and she bowed to her with a the teacher in consiileration id'the lesson, respectful cordiality that wjis captivating. Amidst the gaudier birds there was a dove Zoe yielded to the charm of iminner, and — ;i young lady, well dressed, with Quaker- bowed and sniiled in return, lliough till that moment she nail been knitting her black brows at her in wonder and vague sus|(i- cion. Ilia trifled with the game at lirst. Ash- wife, a good daughter, and the making of ii like simplicity, in gray silk dress, with no liiuiinings, a white silk bonnet, and veil. Her face was full of virtues. Meeting her elsewhere, you would say, "That is a good nie.'id wa.s still talking to her of the young swell and bis system. He ex|ilaineil it to ood mill her.'' Her expression at the table was thoiiiiht fill and a little anxious; butev- lier, and how it had failed. " ^lO^ but what." cry now and then she turned li.'r head to said he, " there is a great deal in it most look for her husband, and ga\e liim so sweet evenings. Hut to-day there ■•ire no rniis; it a smile of conjugal sympathy and alfeetiou is all turn and turn about. If it would rain, as made Zoe almost jiray they might win. now, yon would see a change." 'I'lie husltand was an otticer, a veteran, with " Well, "said lua, " I will bet a few pounds grizzled hair and miistaclie, a colonel wlio on red, then on black, till these runs liegin.'' had commanded a lu-igade in action, but During the abovi* conversalion, of which could only love and siioil his wife. He Zoe caught little, because Ashmead was the ought to have been her father, her friend, chief speaker, she cast her i^yes all rouud her commander, and marched her out of that A WOMAN-ITATKR. I "-i if 'Curse-all" to the top of rjulfT-Miis. if need Cotivi-y — for liis lieiititifiil Inif eoiitrneted vas. Iiiste;i(l of lliat. lie slood lieliiiid lier ail coiiliiies liiiii to a iinniieiit of time and fhair like her laekev all day ; for tiiis dove was as desperate a ^anilder as any in Hii- rope. It Was not that she liet very heavily, hnt that she het every day and all day. She liejian in the afternoon, and played till uiid- writei. have str.iii;;(dy ne<;leeted lo notice, vi/., the proi/nxH of the roiinlciKunr nnder play. Many of the iniisk.s melted, us if they Inid lieen of wax, and the tiatiiral ex|tres- sioiis foreed their way; some, f^ot Unshed niiihr, if there was a labh' ;;oinii. Sli»' knew , with triumph, others wild and ha;;;;ard w ilh no day (d' relij;ioii, no day of rest. She won , their losses. One jihaslly ;;hirin^- loser sat and siui lost : her own fortnne and her hns- j (inite iiniet, when his all was fioiie ; hnt tiaml'ssfood thenioneydraiii; l)nt how alioiit I (dinehed his hands so that the nails ran the golden hours? She was losinjiheryouth j into the llesh ami iilood triekled: diseover- and waslinii' her sonl. Yid the administ ra- ] inj;' which, a friend dra^iicd him olf likh tion "iive her a w arnini; ; tiu'vdidiiot allow somethinji dead. .N(d)o(ly minded. till! irrelrievalde hours to Im> sttden from her with a uoi.seless haml. At All Souls C(d- 'I'he fat (dd liean eid worrieil l>y his teeth, ami judled them out in a pet, ami pocketed lene, Oxford, ill tlm lirst (piad the scholars of many a ;;eneratioM not to 1 tour times that, thonj;li her siiiiile slake throw away th(» seed-time of their youth, j was at liist oidy forty pcuimls, ^dld sci'ined whiidi lu'ver can (.'ome twice t^t any man. to ^row annind her, and even notes to riso ^Vell, the administration of the Kursaal I'oii- ' and make a cushion. She too was e.\cited, veyed to that lost English dove and others thou^ili not oix-nly ; her y;l<>^'''s were otf, and a note of warninji, which striudc the senses her own lov(dy hand, the whitest in the as does the immortal wariiin.ii enddazoued room, iilaced the stakes. You mijfht see a on the fair brow of that beauliful cidlejfe; ; red spot on her (die(d<-l>om', and a stranj;(^ ouly in the Kursaal the waruinij; strm k the f;lint in her deej) eye; but she could not do any thins tl'i't was not seemly. She i)layi'(l calmly, boldly, on the system that had < leared out Ned Severne. and she It ear, not the eye. They provided Freiuh (docks with a siiiRularly clear metallic strik- injitiek; their blows njioft the life of Tinu' rann sharp above the (diant, the mumble, j won heavily, because she was in luck. and the Jinji'le. 'J'hese (docks seemed to cry j was her hour and her vein. aloud, and say of the hmu's, whose waste I{y this time Zoe and I'.-iiiny were ele;ined they recorded, "Pere-uiit-ct-impu-taiitur, ! out, and looked in amazement at the Klos- jvere-unli-et-impu-tantur.'' . kinjj;, ;ind wondered how she did it. Keckless of this iirot(;st, the wavesof play ! Miss Mailland, at her last sovereij^ii, he- rolled on. ami, ere lonj;, sucked all our eared to rule any wild beast's; but they glowed with nu- the roost, and thrust red off the table, and holy tire; and, indeed, all down the tabh; tlu! Klosking lost £'J(J(). was now seen that which uo painter caul The Klosking put £200 ou red; it won. ractctl ;mi(1 miticf, llllilcl- illlicy \|II('S- liislicd il w illt scr Silt l>iif. iH run [•()\ cr- ir likh tl'Ctll. k.(,.(| ll IlIT •ll Olio w ill! ll :niil ,v ll.ld I'.itch- <(• rt'd- l.e- A WOMAN-IIATKR. 63 Sli(^ (loiililfil. l.'cil won, Sli(> (l()iil(Ii-(l. Ht'forc tlic KiijiliMli ])arty lertllic KiiiHiiiil, 'I'licri' was a dead siliiicc. Tli." ( nnlr l;idy /-<>«• asked, timidly, if tlu-y (>n;;lit not to iimko )iiit the iiia\iiiMiiii (111 rt'tl, £;!ilO. Kcd wmi. siimc iiii|iiiry alxiiit Mr. Scvltiii'. He had iii.'i KIdskiiij;- l()(d;t'd a little jiale; Imt.driv- lieeii taken ill .'ijiaiii. en l>y siiiiie iiiiac'tiunlalile iiii]iiilse, she "Ay, taken ill, and f^one to lie cured at donliled. So did the ereole. lied won. allot her t alile," said \i/ar- showed her )iy ojiening tlieni wide. ■■ W'lial th<^ other side of the tii- 1 taciturn, and 1)rmj<;lit him to a stand, hie. 'I'lieir eyes met: she dropped Ash- '" Ah,"' thon;;ht he. " notliiiij; interests t'lein nieail's ;irin.aiid made her a swee|iinj;courte- now; Adonis is not here." So ho retired sy full of ]iolite consideral ion, and a sort within himself, of courteous res|iect lor the person saluted, coupled with a certain diiiuily; and then sli(^ looked wistfully at her ii moment. I hcdieve she would have sjioken to Iier if ^lic had heen alone; lull Miss Maitland and Fanny I)o\-er had, hotli of them, a liicdc of pnttinjj; on noli nir litiKjcrc faces amonnst st-ran.uers. It did not mean niiieli ; it is an When Iliey reached the " Iiiissie," ho or- dered a ]H't')t soiipcr in an hour, and invited the ladies. Meantime they retired. Miss Maitland to her room, and Fanny, with Zoe, t.( hers. Hut this time Miss Dover had lost heriil.iciity, and wcmld, I verily helim-e. have slinnned a ti'tc-a-li'lc \l' slw "i>nld; hut there was a slii;lit jialeiiess in i "'. che(d<, and a unfortunate Fn^lish hahit : hut it rejiels coiiipr(>ssionofthelips, wii: .1 -ihl her plain- forei!i;iiers; they neither ilo it nor under- ly that yoiinu- lady me.-int to have it out with stand it. her. They both knew so well what wus com- Those two fact's, not lin/■ llic hind .' I sent Kosa,'' " My maid !" ".Mine, for (hat j(d>. I f;ave her half a crown to horrow it for a piittern." Zoe seized the handkerchief, and ran her eye over it in a moment. There was no trace of hlood on it, ami there were liis ini- tials, " F,. S.," in the corner. Her wrumin's eye fastened iiislaiilly tni these. "Silk"'' said she, :ind held it up to the li};ht. "i Hair - K"'<'''i' haii ! If^is /icr.t.'" Ami s.. Iluiir distress, and knelt to her, and cried with her. Not being a girl of steady principles sho went round with the wiml. "Dear Zo(!," said she, "it is deeper than I thought. La! if ycMi love him, why torment yoursi^lf ?" "No," said Zoe; " it is deceit and mystery that torment mo. Oh, what shall I do f what shall 1 do »' w ni: 111 hii w< le in s^^ 11" yn A WUMANHATI.R. S6 liiilf n Fanny iiilcrjirctiil lliis \;ij;iin fxrlaina- tioii III' MDi'i'DW as a.skin^ aiivicc, anil Naiil, " I (lair init advise y<»n ; I ran only tfll yim what 1 sliiMilil ill) in yimr |ilari'. I .sluinlil iiiai^i' ii|i my niiiiil at nnii' wIh'IIkt I IumiI till' man ur only liiiiii liim. IT 1 i>iily iiki'il liini, I wiiiilil turn liiin n|i at iino'." "Tiifn liini u\t1 wiiat i> tiial t" "'rni'ii liim ori, I lirn. II' I luvril liim, I wiiiilil Milt Irt any oilnr woman liavr llif Ifani liltli- liil of a c.lianci' ti> y;i't iiini. l''i)i' instance, I wmilil nut let liim know iIiIhuIiI sweetheart of liis lias won tliiee tlninsainl piMinils at least, lor 1 i4oteil hir winiiin;;s. Diaiiiiinil rut ilia nil iihI, my dear, lie is ciiii- cealinji' 1111111 yiin suinel iiiiii; or iitlic'r iilionl liim and I liis Kioskin;; : liide ymi t his one lit- tle thill;; aliimt tile Kloskiii;; iVuin him- till yon ;{et my gentleman sale to lamland." "And this is love! I call it warl'are." "And love is warfare, three times out of four. Anywa>. it is for ,\oii to ileeide. Zne. 1 do wish yon had never seen the iiimii. He is not what he seems. He is a poor advent- urer and a Inindle of deceit." " \oii are very hard on him. Voii don't know all." '■ No. nor a (|ii!irter; and yon know less. There, dear, dry your eyes and li^lit auai'i'^l it. After all, yon know, yon are mistress of the situation. I'll settle it for yon, which way you like." "You will/ Oil, I'annyl ymi are very good." "Say indnljfcnt, jdease. I'm not ijood, and never will he, if 1 van jwnnihlji hilp. I des))ise jiood ^leojile ; they are as weak as water. Milt I do like you. Zoe Vizard, lietter than any other woman in the world. That is not siiyiiiL"; very iiiiiih; my taste is for men. I think tlieni y,uils and de\ils coiii- ]>are(l with ns ; and I do admire gods and devils. No matter, dear. Kiss lue, and say, ' Fanny, act for nie," and I'll do it."' Zoe kissed her, , •mil theii.liy a truly vir- ginal ini|iiilse. hid her l)iiiiiiiig face in her hands and said nothing at all. Famiv gave her (deiitv of time, iind then said, kindly, " Well, dear /" Then Zoe murmured, scarce audibly, " A<'f — ilH if — I loved liiin.'' And still she ke]it licr face covered with her hands. Fanny was any thing lint surprised at this conclusion of the struggle. She said, with a certain alacrity. "N'cry well, I will : so now bathe your eyes and come in to sup- l)(>r." " No, no ; please go !ind make an excuse for lue." " I shall do nothing of the Idnd. I won't bo told hy-and-by 1 have done wrong. I ■will do your business, liat it shall be in your liearing. Then yon can interfere, if yon choose. Only yon had better not imt your word in till you see what I am driving at." With a little more rnrourageiuent, Zoo was prevailed mi to sponge her r'arfnl eyes, and iipiiipose herself, and Join Iliirringtoii at slipper. Miss .M.iiliand soon retired, pleading fa- tigue and packing; and she had not beeit gone long when Fanny gave her friend it glance, and began upon Harrington. " Von are very fond of Mr. Severne, are yon not .'"' said siie. " I am," .lid Niz.ird, stoutly, preparing for battle. " Von are not, )>erliaps." I'"aniiy hiiighed at this prompt pugnacity. " Oh yes, 1 am." said she ; "devoted, lint lie has a wealviiess, yon ninst own. He is rather fond of ganildiiig." '• He is, I am sorry to say. It is his 0110 fault. Most of IIS have two or three." "Don't yon think it woiihl be n \nty if he was to refuse to go witii ns to-morrow — was to prefer to stay here and gamble /'' "No fear of lh;it: he has given nie his word of honor." "Still, I think, it would be hardly safe to teniiit him. If yon go and tell him that friend of his won such a lot of money, ho will want to stop; nnd, if he does not stop, he will -J a way miseralde. Von know they began !• .ling with his money, though they went on with their own."' "Oh, did the\- 1 What was his own njou- ey r " How much was it, Zot; ?"' " Fifty pounds." " Well," s lid \'i/ar(l, " yoy uiUKt admit it is hard he should lose his own money. And yet I own 1 am most anxious to get him away from this place. Indeed, I have a proj- ect : I want him to rusticate a few niontlis at onr jdacc. while I set my lawyer to look into his jinairs and see if his estate can not be (deared. FU be lionnil the farms are un- derlet. What does the admirable Crichtou know about siudi trilles?" I''aiiny looked at Zoe, vvliosp color was lising hiizh at all this. "Well," said she, " when yoii ;;eiitlemeii fall in lovc^ irilli Ku-h I ()//((■)•, you certainly an' faithful creatures." " Hecanse we can count on lidelity in re- I turn," said Vizard. He thought a little, and said. " Well, as to the other thing, yon leave I it to me. Let ns nndcrstand inie another. I Nothing we saw at the gambling table is to be nieiitioncd by us T " \o." " Crichtou is to be taken to England for his good." " Yes." "And I am to be grateful to you for your co-oiieration in this." " Von can, if you like." "And you will secure an agreeable coiu- jiauion for the rest of the tour, eh ? my dip- lomatic cousin and my silent sister?" " Ves ; but it is too bad of yon to see through a poor girl and her little {j;ame ■■} I 'H Ih I'll ■■'; sa A WOMAX-IIATKR. like fliat. 1 own lio is a cliarmin;; ((mi-' A.slmii>a(l called iirtcr licr to kuow niiglit ])aiii(>ii.'' i lie oriier siijiiier. Fanny's cnnninj; cyt's f winkled, and Zo(^ " If yon will he so kind." Idiislied (rinsoii to see licr nolilc hriitlier Ashniead rejoiced at tliis mijjnarded per- iiiaiiii)nlate(' ,-y this aillnl minx, and then mission, and ordered a supiter that iiui'lo llattered lor i. i)cisi)icacity. Karl stare. From that moment a revulsion took i>laee The Ivioskinii returned in about half an ill her mind, and i>iidc l'onj;ht fnrionsly hour, clad in a cris|i inii/iioir. with love — for a time. j Ashmead confronted her. "I have or- This was soon made a]rised him. "Von have done very ■•■loomy, so I'ainiy asked, rather sliar))- well. We must now liejiin to ]>r<)ve tlio ]y," Well, what is the matter now ? didn't 1 truth of the old |iroveilt, ' Ce (jni vieiit par do it eleviM'ly V la tli'iti^ s'en va an tgmhoin-."'' " Yes. yes, too cleverly. • di, Faiinv, I he- ! At snpjicr Mr. Ashmead was the chief gill to revolt against niNsell." drinker, and, by a natnral conse(|neiice, the "Tlii.s is nice," said Fanny, "(io on, chief speaker : he ludd out brilliant pros- dear. It is jnst what J onj;ht to have ex- pects; he favored the Klosking with a dis- jiected. Yon were there, Von iiad only to course on iid\ crl isiiig. >,'o talent availed interfere. You didn't. And no\. you are without it: laijic posters. ])ictnres, window discontented." cards, etc. : linl as her talent was snperla- "Not with y(ni. Spare me. Von are not »tive. he ninsi now endeavor to keeit up with to blame: and 1 am very unhappy. I am it liy invent i(Mi in his line, the inilf circnm- losing my self-resiiect. Oil, if this goes on. stantial, the pnlf poetic, llu^ pull' anecdotal, 1 shall hate him.'' the piitf contro\ crsial, all tending to blow "Yes. dear — for li\'e minntcs; and then the fame (d'the Klosking in every eye and love himdonble. Come, don't deceive your- ring it in every ear. "Yon take my advice,'' self, and ('in't torment yoniself. All your said he, " and (le\dle t his immey, cM'ry iten- troiible, we shall le.ive it bejiind lis to-nior- ! iiy of it, to I'nlilicity. Don't yon touch a row, and every hour will take us farther single shiner for any t hing that does not ro- I'rom it." turn a hnndreil per cent, I'nlilicity does, \Vith this |iractical view of matters, sli(> when the article is )irime.'' kissed Zoe. and hmried to bed. ' "Yon foijit't," said she, "this mmu'V does lint Zoe scarcely closed her eyes all not all liehnig to me. Another can claim iiigiit. J hall': the gentleman with whom we arc iu .Severne did not reach the hotel till ])ast partnership." eleven o'clock, and W( lit straight to IiIm own room. ("IIAI'THU X. Ashmead looked literally blue. "Non- sense!'' said he, ronghly. "He can only claim his lil'ty pounds.'' "Nay. my tVieiid. I look two ('([iial suniH — o!ie w;is his, one mine.'' AsnMi:Al>accompanicd MadcinoisidlcKlos- ' "That has notiiing to do with it. Ho king to her apartment. It \\;is lighted, ami told me to liet for him. I didn't: and I the cloth laid I'm- supper under the chande- shall take him back his .C',0, and say so. I licr, a snow-white 1 lanihmg damask. Ash- know where to liiid him.'' mead took the \\innini;s out (d' his jiocket. "Where.'" and projidly jiiled the gold ;ind crumpled "That is my business. Don't you go notes in one j-rodigious mass upmi the lin- 1 mad now, and break my heart." en. tiiat shone like satin, ami made lheg(dd; "Well, my friend, we will talk of it to- look diMibly inviting. 'I'hen he drew back morrow morning. It certainly is not very and nioatcd on it. The Klosking, too. stood clear: and peihaps after I ha\c prayed and and eyed the j)ib> (d' wealth with ai:ia/e- slept I m;iy see mine plaiidy what is right." iiieut and a certain reverence. "Let me Ashinc.id (diserved she was pale, and count it," said Ashmead. He did so, and it asked her, witli eoucern, ifsln^ w.as ill. came to four thmis.ind nine hnndrcd and "\o. not ill," said slie, " but worn out. eighty-one pounds. ljii;lish mmiey. "And My friend. 1 knew not at the lime how to think." said he, "if yon had taken my urcar was my excitement; but now 1 am advice, you W(Md(l not have a penny of conscious thai this afteiiKMUi 1 have lived a tliis!" I week. My very knees give way under me." "I'll take your advice now," said she. "1 j I'pon this aduii.ssion Ashmead iiiirried hor will m^ver gamble ag.ain." ] to bed, "Well, lake my advice, and lock up the She slept soundly for some hours; but, Hwag before a ereatiire sees it. llomliurg having (UU'c awakened, she tell into a half is full of thieves." , slee|dess slate, and was full (ir- Hcr yt' (1(1110 • vo tlio flit ])iir willi a lino in poiicil hoKsi'iK 1''"' '" ^•''1'^'' <'Nlircssi(>n. "WliiU is the matter ?" said he. ill! early hreaklast with lier at nine o'clock. " Arc yon ill ?" As soon as over lie came .slic lie;n'aii ii|ioii "No, no. no. Only a lilllc — astonislieil. tlic topic of last ni«ilit. Slic had tlioii.uhl it Such a lliiiii; as that is very rare."' over, and said, frankly, she was ikiI willionl "That it is. I never saw a ease liefore.'' hojies the >ifiitleinaii. if he was really a iiiii- "Not one in all yonr life i'" asked she, I'.einan, iiiijiht he contented with soniethin;;' cauerlx'. less than half, lint she really did not sec' " Well, no : not that I renienilier.'' how she eoiild refuse him some sluice of Inr " llxcnsc me a iniimtc,'' said Ina Ivloskinii, winniiii;s, slionid he demand it. "Think of ami went hurriedly from the room, it," s;ii(l she. "The poor man loses- fJ-t'iH Aslimead thoiiuhl her manner very 1 thiid; yon said. Then he s.iys.'lJe; yon strange: but concluded she w;is a little nn- for me,' and noes away, trusting; to yonr hinged hy yesterday's excitement. Morc- hoiOH'. His lack changes in my hands. Is o\ cr. tlii're laced him an oniclel ot' enormous he to lose all when he loses, :uid win notli- si/e, and s. ivory. He thoiinht this worthy inif when he wins, merely liecanse I am so to di\iile a man's a1teiili(Hi escn with a f(nlniiate as to win nuicli .' However, we ure.at cre;ifi:re's tantrums. He de\ irted liini- siiall hear what Ac s;iys. You uave him self to it. and it occupie(l him so a<^reealdy your address.'' thai he did not oliserve the conduct of "I said I was at t he Miolden Star.'" prow 1- Mademois(dle Kloskiuy; on her return. She 0(1 Ashmead. in a time thai plainly showed jilaced three ]dioio;ii-aphss(d'tly on the talde, he was \ cxed w it h himself lor licini;' so com- not very f;ir from him. and 1 hen I'esnmed her miiiiicalive. .--eat; hut her eye iiexcr left him. ami slu! " 'I'lien lie will ]i;iy us a visit as soon as e.ive inonosyllaliic .ind almost impatient he hears: so 1 need nive mysidf no further replies to ever> thinu he mumldcd with Ihh tronhle." : month full (ddinelet. "\\'hy should you? Wail till he comes," When he had dime iiis omelet, lie notieod said crafty .Aslnncad. i the ]diot'ier:iphs. They were all colored. ina Klosldnp colored. She felt her friend He took om- np. It \v;is an (dderly wmnan, was tempt in ." He held our the ]ihotoer,iph at ariiis- " U iiat a pity! to bepin <;ainblin^ so leiieih. ami stared i'rom it to her. "Why, younp!" madam," said he. in an awe-sti'nck voice, "Oh, he is all lipid : if he loses e\ery "this is the iientlenuin — the )dayer — I'd farthiiij; of his ow n. he will marry money, swear to him." Anv woman would have him. Yoii lu'ver, Ina started iViun Inn- seat while he spoke. saw such a curled darlinj;'." |"Ahl' slie cried, "i Iliimi;lit so--iny ICd- " Dark or ^ai ■ .'" ' w;ii'd!"an(l sat dow n, t rcmblinu' violently. " I'air. I'i k ami white, like a "irl : a .\shniead ran to her and sprinkled water hand like a lad\ *s." " Indeed! Fine eyes?" " Splendid !" " What ('(den- ?" in her I'aee. for she secnic(l i-ead.v to faint : lint she iinirmured. "No, no!" and socm tln^ color rushed into her tace. .iml she clasped her liands tou'cther, and cried. " I have f(Miii(l "1 don't know, Lord bless yon. a man l!iin!"and soon the storm id' varyitip emo- (loes not examine another man's eyes, like lions ended in tears that pave her relief, yon ladies. However, m)W I think of it. It w as a Icip lime belorc she s|i(diit there was one curi(ms tliinp 1 should know when she did, her spirit and her inifnral him liy any where." sircnpth ol' character to(dv the iiiipcr hand. " Ami wh.it was that ?" I "Where is he f" .said she, lirinly. '' W(dl. y(Mi see. bis bail' was brown ; but [ " I le told me he w as at the ' l.'ussie." "' ,jiist iibove the forehead he h.id pid tme lock i " We will po there at once. When is tlio that was like your ow'n.p(d(l itself." I next tr.iiii .'" Whih* he said this, Hm' KlosUinp's face Ashmead looked at his watch. "In ten lIndt^rwent the most rapid and strikinp minutes. We can hardly do it." chaiipcs, ami at last she s.at lo(diinp at him | "Yes, we can. Order a carriape this in- wildly. j slant. I will he ready in one minute.'' It was s(un(^ time liid'ore he noticed her, They <,iMpht t he' t r.dn, ami started, and then he was (inile alarmed at herstiaujjc i As ihey glided uloiiy, Aahuicad begged ! i " B ! I ^;| l\ IIM 58 A ^vo.^!A^■-llATl:l^ Il V hvr not to ;iit too luiriicdly, ;iu(l e.\i)u,sc ; " Ilt'U scion clcim yon out. All, well I he liiisclt' to insult. can't roliyon ot'yoni' \ oicc, and liiM'iin't rub "\\'lio will (laif insnit inc ?" yon of your Aslum-ad." "Noliody, I liojic. Still, I ran not li.'.ir l"liry soon icaihcd I'rankfort. Aslinicad yon to I'.o into a stianm^ liot(d Imntin;;- tins pnl her into a cai riaj;c as a;;i('<'(l, and wont nnin. I is moiistrons ; Imt I'm afraid yon \ to tl"' " Kiissic." will no! I)c wcliDnic. Soniciliin^' lias just j Iini sat, wiili licr vi'il down, in the car- oi'cnni'd to nil': the roason lie ran olf so ! ria;;i-, and waiti'd Aslinicad's ictiiin with sudlcn was he saw yon condnji. 'I'liiic was ; Scviinc lii' was a lon^ tinu' londn^t. Sho a minor opposite. .\!i, v.c need nor have | lii'i;an to dtmlit. and then to fi'ar, and wou- tVarrd he would conic iiack lor his winiiini;s. '. dcr w hy he w a-- s p loiii;. Idior — villain I" "You stai) nic to the heart," said Inn. " 111' ran awa.\- at sinhi id' me .' .Mi, .Icsii, l)ily me I Wlial h.isc I done to him .'"' Honest Asliuiead had iniicli ado not to l)liil)l)er at tliis piiiieiii cry of anunisli, thoiiuli til'' w oman herself shed no tear just A I l.ist JK' >■: 111 ' in siiihl. I le was alone. As he drew ne.'.rer she saw his fac(> was thoronnhly downeasl. ".My dear iViend," he faltered, " you are .lilt (d' liicU to-day."' " I h' will iKit come wiili .'' then, lint his judniiieiit w;is nmlimnicd liy i " ( )h. he wdiild come fast iUiyhifhewas ])assion, and he !;a\t' her the iteiu'lil. "Take llii're; hiU he is udiie." " ( ome I To i lomhnrn ?"" "No. 1 'nl'ori unat(dy he is f>'one to I'hi- l:iiid. Went od'Iiv I lie fast train an hour my advice," said he, "and work if this \\ay. Come in a close carriajic to the side si reel that is m-ari's: i he • h'nssii'.' I'll ji'o into i lie Indid and ;is!i for him hy his nami — what is his name .'"' " -Mr. lOdward Si verne." Ilia fell hack in silence. Just as if she had heen struck in I he face. '• And say that I was afraid to stake his I " lie is I ra velinu, with an Kiiiilish family, money; Imt a friend ol' mine, thai is a liold and lliey ha\e ^oiie straijiht home. Ilerii jilayer, unilerlook it. and had a ureal run of i are I heir iiaincs. I looked in the visitors' luck. ' Tiiere is inoiicy owinu' you.' s.iys I. 'and my friend has hroiij;hl it,' 'I'lieu he is sure to come. \i)\i w ill have ytuir veil down ; I'll open the carri.-iiie door and lell him to jump ill, and when you ha\e !j,ot him you must niaivc !iim hear reason. I'll uive you a ■iood chance — I'll shut I he carriaue door.'" Ina smiled at, hi.'s iuuenuily — her lirsl smile that day. " You are indeed a friend," said she. "lie fears reproaclies : hut when he funis he is welcome, he \» ill st;iy wiih me : and he shall liave money in ])la\ with, and amuse liiiiisell' how he likes. 1 Uepi too liulii a rein on him, poor fellow; my i;ood mother taiij;ht me linidelice." "Yes, lint," said Ashiiiead, "von niiisl hook, and talked to tlio servant, and all, '.Mr. Vizard. .Miss Vi/.ard— '" " Vizard :"' "Yes -'.Miss Mailland. Miss Dover.' See, I wrote tlielii all down." ^ "Oh.l am iiiil'mtunate. Why was I ever horn '!'' " Don't say that, don't say that. It is an- noyiiijj;; hut we siiall he ahle to trace him now ; and. liesides, I see other ways of i;('t- t inji' hold of him.'" Ina luoke in upon his talk. "Take me to tilt; nearest eliiireh," she cried. " Maii"s words are vain. Ah, .iesii, let me crv to Thee:"' lie took her to the nearest church. Sho went in, and prayed I'or full Iwo hours. Sho promise me one tliiiii;-, not to let him know j cinie mit. pale and listless, and Asiimead not how much uioncN yon ha\<' won, and not to j iier home how he eonld. Her very hody j;o like a jioose and nivti him a. lot at once, i .seemed all crushed and limp. Ashmead left It never p.'iys to part with (lower in t his ; her. sml at he.iri himself. wicked wiu'ld. Yon j^ive him twenty pounds a day. to play with, whenever he is cleaned So lone' as she w as in sjelit, Ashmead cmihl think onlv oi' her miserv. Ihii the moment imt. Then llie money will last your time, she w as mil of siuht, he remeinhered the tlie- and he will never leave mui." atre. She was announced for l.'osina that " ( )li, how ciild-hearteil ,'iiid w ise yon ai'c !" said she. " Ihit such a hiimilialiiie iiosition lor liini .'■' very niulit. lie saw troulde of all sorts he- fore him. lie ran to the theatre, in ureat alarm, and told the mainieer she was taken Don't you he silly. You won'4 keep him very ill. He must chanire the hill. iiiiy other way." "I will he as wi.se as I can," siehed Ina. " I have had ii hitter lesson. Only iirinji' him to iiic,aiid then, w ho knows .' I am a c|iaiii;e: iiiy love may revive his, ami none of these l)iliahle precanlions may l)e needed. 'I'hey Would lowi'r us hoth." Ashmead ;,;roaned aloud. " I see," said he. " Imiiossihlel" was the reply. "If sho can't sin^, I close." Ashmead went h;ick to the "Star." Ina w.'is in her heilroom. He seiil ill a line, " Can yon siiifi (o-ujelit f If not, he says he must close." The reply came hack In r;ither a treiiililinij; hand. "1 suffer too much hy falsehood to H i'li; he iii't rub ■sIiiiH'ad nl went lie cur- II with i. Sho 1(1 wou- iio was ic had . Sh(^ 111 Uil(, licidy d hd't A WOMAX-HATER. TO break faith niystdf. I sliall pray fill ui^lit ; ' 'I'licy ojioncd very cnt-lilcp. ratiny nrtVct- aiid then I sliall Miii;jj. ICI . to remove all idi'a of concert CITAPILK XI. ! between the fair .assailants ; whereas it was That same inorninir oiir l'!ny-t lic-w,'iy. Mr. Severni'," said Fanny, liad been rising higher and higher all the .apropos id' a tdiiirch on a hill they were ad- night, and she came tay behind lasi iin;ji,'- carriage, as if he iiad just dis|)atched some to gel it ! We iie\cr saw you at the 'Kiis- vvomlcrful luisiness to get there in lime, sic."" While the tr.iin was starting, he busied him- " I was very ill." s(df in arranging his I hings ; but. once start- " Hieeding at t he nose ?" ed. he ]iiit on his sunny lo(dv. and ju'cpared ''No. 'I'liat always relieves me when it to be, as usual, the life ami soul of the party, comes. I am subject to fainting tils : once Hut. for once, he met a frost. Zoe was 1 lay iiiscuisilde so long they wcr(> going to ■\vra])ped ill impcnciiablc /((/«/<■»(■. and Fanny bnr.\ me. Xow do pray tell me what makes in polite inditference. Never was loss of fa- yon fimy any Ixidy won a lot with my vor more aldy marked, without the least ill- money." breeiling, and no good handle givjii to secdc "Well. \ will. You know you left fifty an exi)ianal i(Mi. punnds for ;i friend to bet with." No doubt a straight forwiird man. with .^cveriie srai'cii. but wiis too eager for in- justice (ui bis sidi'. would have asked them formation to (|nesliim her how she knew ]dump whether he Inul iieeii so iint'ortuu.ale this. " Ves. Idid," said he. as to olfeiid. and how; and this was what "And you leally don't know what fol- Zoe secretly wisheil. however she might lowed?" si-em to repel it. Hnt Severne was too crafty '•(Jood heiivens! how can I?" for that. lb' had learned the iirt of waiting. "Well, then, as you ran out — to faint, Afl<'r a few efi'orls at conv;amldin<; train d.asli over the next vi.iiiuet, and lal. Tin: >uim:v I riii". mom:^!" tr.idesinan tohel with. Il'he lakesa feniali) lie uil.'ieil (his furiously: audit is a en- partner, that is no hnsiuess ot 'mine; he is rious I'aef, hut Zoe (Mined red, and I'aniiy responsihle all the saiiu', and I'll have my ])ale. I; was really in (piile a cowed voiee money." Miss Dover went on to say. "i.al diMi't lly He juuiiied uji a( I h<' wiird. and looked (uit out like that. Well, then, the man refused at the window; he even fumhled witli the to het wilh your money ; so ilien .M.uli'inoi- door, and tried to o]ieu it, sell(> Kloskinu' Slid she would; and she I " Von had het terjiini]) luit,"' said raniiy. ]dayed — oh I how she did pla.\ ! She dou- ! "And then they would keep my money « ided, and douhled, and doulded. hiiiidicds tor ■:(iod. No," saiil he, " I'll waif for tlio upon hniidreyramid id' hank-notes ; and she seat, hudvinu; uiiiitter.ahle thinus. never stopped till she broke the hank — I'liiny lo(d no .(11 \oii( cic\eilies», _NO[( ooii i. " .Mr. Severne." said slie, " be c.'ilm. Fiin- , know what made me pooi-, ov you would iiy lias misled y(Mi without inlendiiiff it, fetd some rciiKUse. ))erliaps ; but you know She did not hear all that jiassed between I am ]ioor wlieii most 1 could wish 1 wa>s those two: I did, 'i'lie V(d veteeii and iie(d\- ri( h : you have heard that (dd woman there ti(( man refused to bet with your money, II lliiiii my jioverty in my leelli ; yet you could \vasMademois(dle Kloskinu who betted, jiiid keep this from me — just to assist ii (dieat with her own money. She took twenty-livc! aiul play upon the feeliiics of a friend. Now luisel <>ave it r V:\ her her w lio up a cry i 1 poor S( acci his ini; rest W am tern edi liiK m A WOMAN-IIATEK. Gl Now wliat fjood Ims tliaf ilonc yon, to iiiHict iiii.si'ry i»n iiit^ in siun t, on a man \\ lio iicvi-r jrnw vou ii monu'nl's pain il' lie ( onl' a station neai', and his win>'e liein^ was i rest less as it' he woulil lii i!A( K i<) lIo.MiuiKi, oltligc .Mi: BY Ui;M.\l.\l.\(i there.'' This demands an explanation. Inil it shall 1)e brief. Fanny's shrewd hint that tlie nntney could only he olitained from Mademoiselle Kloskiuij had pierced Zoe Iliroii;ih and throiijiii. Her mind jirasjied all that had hai)|iened. all that impended, and, wisely decliniui;' lo tr.\ and aecimiit t'or or reconcile all the Jii'iiDL; details, she seltled. with a woman's liroad instinct, that, sonicimw or otln-r, his iidiiiLj hack to llomhnri; meant .noiiiji' hack to Mademoiselle Kloskiii^. Whether thai lady woii'd hoy him or not .she did not know. lint .uoine i:ack to her meant jiiMiisi a Journey to see a risal, with fonse(|iiences iliimilahje. She had coniai;i'; she had jtride; she hail jealousy. She resolved lo lose iier loxcr. or have him all to herselt'. Share him she would not. nor even endure the torlure of the donlit. She took an (Mivelojie out of hei' saclnd. and. with the iiencil .ittached lo her c//f;/c- lahir. wrote t he fat.al w ords. •• If yr rather llian share him with the Kloskini; or aii.\ other w(uiian. Severne took the line, eyed il, realized it. ftdl hack from the window, and dro|i]M'd into his seat. This ii,'i\f Zoe a consoling sense of |)ower. Shi' had seen her lover riinl went on tlio "It i.s the lot ol women. Let me ieel the .same day. liand of a tViend, liiat is ail ; lor I am sick at I'.efoie they reaelieil lOn-iland the love- hcMit." makiii.n' lie I ween Severrie an(#Zii(>, t hon;.;li it, Fanny Kfive her her liand, and all tlio syin- ; never passed the lionnds of ^ood taste, wa.s pathy lier shallow natnre ha;irl !" said .Miss Maitland, iind to(dv She sal a nninient, aimost paralyzed with the hint. She had still an arrow in her iiiiiv- ])leasnre. and then <;ist iier eyes down, les! er — N'izai'd. their lire should i>roclaim her feelinj^s too i In mid-l 'hannel. ten miles soutli of Dover, plainly. i she ean.uht him in a Incid intervitl ol" iion- As for Severne. lie only <;laneed at hi'r as smoke. She rcminih'd him he hatl promised he came in, .■ind then shunned her eye. He tier to jii\e Mr. .s,.\,.iii,. ;i lijnt ahoiu Zoe. ](resenteey(Hid r<'- i lie did warn him. and in tht> followinratitnde as made him is a very iiretty j;irl, and you nniy Iind yonr- thrill wilh ])assion as well as ti'inmph. He self entanj;led licfore you ki.ow where yon felt her whoie hcirl was his, and from tli;it are."' lionr his poverty would never 1)(^ allowed to Severne hniii'- his lie;id. "Of course I weii;h with her. lie cleared up ami left off know it is nieat presumption in me."' aetinj;, lieeanse it was superllnims; he had " I'lcsuniption / I'iddlc-stick! Such ;i m;>n now (uily to liask in siinshine. Zoe, alw ays as yen are ou^lit not to lie tied to any w oni- tender. lint coy till this moment, made love an, or, if yon nnisl he. yon ou;;ht not to jro to him like a youuii u'oddess. Even I'anny cheaii. .Mind. Zoe is a poor ^irl: only ten yielded to the solid proof of sincerity he liad thousand in the world. Flirt with whom givh. then," said Severne, "it is only on him and spoil him. .More than once, indeed, my account you ohject." a di'lieate head.jnst jir.azed each of his square "Well. iirinci|tally. .\nd 1 don't exactly shoulders; hut candor compels me to own ohject. I w.arn. In the lirst place, ;is soon that their fatigue, and the yawiii;; of the as ever we uct into Itarfordshire, she will carriaire jit the tin)e. were more to lilame most likely jilt you. \i\\\ may lii' only her than till' tired j;irls. for at the enornnty there i'oiitinenlal lover. How can I tell, or i/o« was a iiromiit retirement to a distance. Miss cilhcv? And if not, iiiid yon were to lie weak Maitland had heen a lon^ tinu; in the Land enouj;h to marry her, she would develop nn- of iS'od, and ^'izard from the lirst had pre- expected vices diieetly — tln-y all do and fcrred male companions and tobacco. you are not rich enough to livo in a house of A WOMAX-IIATr:R. 63 io\. your own ; yon would liavp to livf i:i )iiiiu' : ;ic'(|iiaiiit,'m('(>s, stout IVllows all, whom '' lit- a Hut' talc loi- a risinjf Idadc like you I'' th' liits <>)' wouii'ii" (hucIi was liis jilirascol- '■Wliat a lfrril)l(' iirospcct ! to lie lied to oj;y) liail laiil low wiili damp licds, luiviuj; the best iricnd in ICu^laud, as well as llic ciipidfil two lor life with I'licumat isui au(i lovelies! woman I" luiiiliauo, and sent t iiie<' to t lieir lou;^ liomc "<»li, if llial is the view you take," said Me.anlinie Severne look the ladies Id ev- Vizard, lM'auiin;j with (l(dij;lil, " it is no use eiy jmldie atlraeti(ui liy day and nij;iil : and taliiin;;' it.'as(ui to.V"(i.'' \'i/aid thaidied him, lieloif the lair, lor Iuh When they reached Londiui, Mzard ,i;a\e eonsideral i(Mi in takinj; tlu'in oil' liis hands, Miss Mailland an onlliue (d'liiis eoiners.i- ami Seveine letcuieil by thaidvin^ him Tor 1 ion ; and so I'ar IVom seein^r i lie humor of it, lea\ ini; t hem im his. which, never! heless, was pretly strong;', and II may seem at lirst a vile selection; tint characteris! ic of i lie man ami his i me Ibilde, I am j;; to ask t he ladies who lionor m« slio took th(! hull', ami would uol e\en slay with t heir al lent ion to follow, no! that ;;ay to dinner at the holel. She would ;;(p into ammons parly of three, hut lliis solitary her own county hy the next train, haj; and cynic on his rcmnd. hajr.na;;('. Taking; a turn r(mnrofoiind respect and admiral)ly " Halloo!" said N'izaid, in his hlunt Wiiy; feijl'iu'd rem'ct. '• iinii are not well. What can I do for you?" That she was the du])e of his art, may lie '• I am all riulil." said she. '• I'lease <;o doubled : tliat he lost nothiii!; liy it, is cer- on." the latter winds in a lone that implied tain. .Men are not mined by civilily. As she was not a novice, and the altentiimsof Hooii as she was seated she said. " I bcij, Si!\ ei'iillemeii to stranjic ladies were suspected, you will waste no more time wiih nic. Mr. " I be;;; ymir pardon." said \'izard, coolly. Severne, you have ladiaved to me like a ).;eu- '• \'ou .aic not all i'ii;hl. Voii look a.^ if you th'inan, and that is very unusual in a man were jroiu;; to faint." of your a<;e now;idays. I can not ;ilter my "What, are my lips Itliie?"' opinion about my niece and you : but I (ini "No; l)ut they are j)iile." sorry yim are a ])oor ecntleman — much too " Widl. then, it is not a ease of faiiitinjj. ])oor to marry her — iind I wish I could m.ike It maii be exliausti(ui." you a riih one; but 1 can not. 'I'here is my " Voii know best. What shiill we do 7" liaml." i " \\ hy, mithin^. Yes; mind our own You should h.'ivo seen the air (d' tender Imsiness." veneration with which tiu' youii'j; .Machiavid "With all my heart. My business jiist bowed over iter hand, and even imprinted a now is to otlVr you smne restorative — a;;las.s li;iht touch mi it with his vid\ct lips. "•" whole party c.icr/;/ Mr.Scrcnic : and he retired "((f ennrse you are uoj obli;;ed; but you to his friemls, diseml)iirrassed of I he one foe mii;ht as well." he had not I iirned into a 'dow iiii;j,ht friend, " Wtdl, t hen, it is lliiii; ■•r." but only disarmed. Well does the ji'i'eat i " Iliin.e'ei'l" ■Voltaire reconnnend what he well calls "le "lliuiu-er —famine- si.irvation. Doirt grand art de jdairc." you know ICnjilish /"' A'izard sent Harris into IJarfordshire to i "I hope you are mit serious, madam," jjiepare for the comfort (d' Ihe ptirty, and to said N'izaul, \('ry ejiavidy. "However, if lieht lires in all the bedrooms, thonuh it ladies will say such lidnijs as that, men will. waM summer, and to sei^ the beds, bl.uikels, slomaidis in their bosmns iniist ;..t aceord- iind sheets aired a I the very lires of the veiy in;iiv. ObliiiC me by takilij^ my arm, ;is you rooms they were to be used in. This sai'red are weak, and we will ailjourn to that eat- oflicc lie never trusted lo a houstdrit|irii'ty, nnil cvimi willistaiiilin}; him with a |iiftty littU- air oC (IcIiaiiiM' tiiat ^va.s iiitiaMc. Imt i)ailiir ami iIk; wcaknos ol' licr IkmIv loiisidficd. Tlio jxmr womaii-liatfr's liowds licnim to yearn. "Look here. you iiilic s|iil(iri'." said lie; "if you don't ins.anliy take my arm, I'll catcii you up ami larry you omi- wiiii no more ti-ouMt* tiian you would carry a tlircad-i)aiifr."' Sill' lo;;kcd him up and down \cry krcnly, nn^ooil as cut n]( the meat Run\ll, and pass it to me a bit or two at ;i time .''' He was sniprised, but olieyed hci' orders. "And if yon could make me talk :\ little ? Because, ;it si;;ht of the meat so near me, I feel like .a tifiress — poor human nature,! Sir, 1 have not eaten meat for a week, nor food of any kind this two days."' "(ioodCod!" "So I nuist be ]irmleiit. Peojile. have fjorjied themselves witli furious eatinj;' un- der those circumstances; that is why I ask- ed you to supply nu' slowly. Thank you. You need not look at me like that. Better folk than I have flic:l of hunu'er. Something tells me I have re.iched the lowest spoke when 1 h:(ve been indebted to a stranger for a meal." Vizard felt the water come into his eyes; hut he. resisted that iiiliable weakness. "Bother that nonsense," said he. "I'll in- troduce myself, :ind then you can't throw strniifirr in my teeth. I am Ilarrinntoa Viz- ard, a Barfordshire siinire." "I thonirlit you were not a eockn(>y." "Lord forbid! Does that information entitle mc to any in return f ' "I don't know; but, whether or no, my name is It Inula dale." " Have another plate, Miss (jalc V "Thanks." 1 Ic ordered anol her. " 1 am priiiid of yoiii' confiding your name III me. Miss 'lalc; but, to tell the truth, uhaf I wanted to know is how a yonn.!;' lady of your talent and education could be so badly olf as you nnist be. It is not imper- tinent curiosity." The youni!; I.'idy lellcclcd ;i nnunent. "Sir,"' said she, "1 don't think it is: and I would not much mind tidling you. Of conr.sii I studied you before I came here. Kven hun- ger would not make mc sit in a laxern be- side a fool, or a snoli, or" (\\\\ h a laint blush) "a lilierliiic. But to tell one's own story, that is so ego I isi ical, for one i hiiig." "Oh, it is never ego I ist ical to oblige." "Now that is sophistical. Then, again, I am afraid I could not tidl it to you wilh- out crying, because you seem rather a man- ly man, ;iml some of it might revolt you, and you might sympalhi/.e right out, and then 1 should break down.'' " No matter. I'o us both good." " Ves. lint before the waiters and people! See how they are staring at us already.'' " We will have another go in at the beef, ami then adjourn to the garden for your narrative." "No; as much garden as you like, but no more lieef. I have eaten one sirloin, I leck- on. \Vill you give me one cup of black tea without sugar or milk ''' \'izaril gave the older. She sei'mcd to think some explanation necessary, though he did not. "One cup of tea agrees with my brain and nerves," saiil she. "It steadies them. Thai is a matter of individual experience. I should not piescribe it (o others any the more for that.'' Vizard sat wondering at the girl. He said to himself, "\Vhat is she? a liimin lut- tiinrr W'lien the tea canu', and she had sipped ii little, she perl;''d u)) womlerl'ully. Said she, I "Oh, the magic (>lfcct of food eaten juili- ! cionsly ! Now I am a lioness, and do not fear the future. Ves; I will tidl you my story — and if you think you are going to hear a love story, yon will be nicely caught — h;i ! ha! No, Sir," said she, with rising fervor and heightened co'or; " you will hear I a story tlu^ public is deeply interested in anil ' does not know it; ay, a story that will cer- tainly be referred to with wonder and shame whenever civilization shall become a reali- ty, and law cease to be a tool of injustice and nmnopoly." She jianscd a moment ; then said, a. little doggedly, as one used to encounter prejudice, "I :im a medieul stu- dent; a would-lie doctor." "Ah!" A WOMAN-HATER. 65 oiir iiiiiiio Ik' trull), 'iiiin- Ijidy iild lie so ml iiu[ifr- "And HO well qunlificd. by f;i'iniiiii' yilts, ' lory n.'cnrnlthj. To do tins .she wjis artful l)y Mtiiily t'roiii my iiifiuicy, liy zeal, i|iiirU ' cnoimli to turn sport into siMt'iu'c. ^jho Bi'iiscs, and ciillivatcd Jii(l|;iiifiit, that, wfii' I utilized a K'l""' = younj; i)C()j)le in IJostou nil Iht^ Icadin^i' London iihysicians examined ! play it. A writes an anecdote on paper, to-morrow liy (|iialilied persons at the same or perhaps produces it in print. She reads hoard as nnseir, most of those wealthy piac- it oil' to 15. 1{ ;;oes aw ay, and writes it down tilioneis — iioi all, mind you — would cul an | hy memory; then leads her writiujf out to indili'ereut li,i;iire. in uuuh'rn .scieiu'e com- C. (_' has to listen, ami convey her impres- jiared with me, whom you Inno had to res- i sion to i)aper. This she reads to U, and D cue from starva?ii>u — because 1 am a worn- ' j;oes and wrilei it. Then the iinal story an." jaiid l)'s version are coiup.ired ; and. f^eneial- Her eye tlas led. Hut she moderal'.'d Inr- fielf, and said, "Tii.al is I lie outline; and it is a ffrievance. Kow grievances are bores. You can escajie this oiu' liefore it is too late." " If it lies with me, I denuiml the ununtt.'st details," said N'lzard, warmly. "You shall have tinuu; and [vnc to the letter." Vizard settled the sunill account. ;uul aion. iiolitics. ami philosojyhy that have iii^italed the world. l?ut heri^ she li.'id to ecr assistance from her learneil friends. She was a woman valued by men of intel- lect, ami she bad uo meicy — milked ju- rists, jthysiciaus, theologians, and historians ail into my little piul. To be sure, they were as kind about it as she was unscru- A Lirri.r. xaimiativi', ov Ditv facts toi.d TO A WU.MAN-lIATi;:{ ISV A WOMAN. imlous 'J'liey saw I was a keen student, and "iave my mother many a little i^cm in writinji. Slie read them out to me: I list- {'IIAI'TKR Xir. "My fathi'i' was an Ameii llutl. taufjiit me to lis]i (ierman, French, and l^n- [ ''With this shar]) traininij;. school sub- j;lisli ; my niolher was an idetied woman: site tauelit me three rarities — attention, oliservation, ami accuracy. If I went a walk in the country. I had to hriiij; her home a budi>et; the mi'ii and women on jects were child's play to me, ami I won a iiino, you shut the understamliu<>;.' I aui nances, ami words ; every kind of biid in the nir. Jind insect aiifl chrysalis in the hedet's; the crops in the tields. the Howers ami lierlis on the banks. If 1 walked in the town, I nuist not be eyes and no eyes; woe betide nu- if I could only repiu't the dresses. L'eal- afraid 1 Ixne you with my mother." j '-^'id at all, not at all." I admire her." i "Oh, thank you! thaidi you, Sir! She lu'ver uses bie- words; so it is only of late I have had the uou^ to see how wise she is. .She corrected Ihe special blots of the female ly, I have known me, when 1 w as but ei^ht, , character in me, tuid it is sweet to nu-, to come honu^ to my mother laden with d(!tails, j talk of that detir frieiul. What would I when perhiips an untraim'd j;irl of eijj;hteen ! give to see her here !" could only have siiecilied that she had gone j u]> .and down a th(U'ouglif;'.re. Another I ime | " Well, then. Sir, she made me, as far as nu)ther W(uil(l take nu' on a visit: next day, I she could, a — what shall I say ' — a kind of or perhaps next week', she would expect me j litlle intro[)citit'n: titot 1 havo discovered since. " Fromlierlis to livini; tiiinj;s; never wpared a chrysalis, lint alwayw to(dv it lioine and watciied it break into winjjjs. lliiii;^ over tlie [londs in .lune, watcliin;; the euijsdf the Cro^ turn to tadpoles, and Ilie tadpides to Johnny Crapand. I oUcyed Scriptnre in one thing, for I studied the ants and their ■ways. j "I collortod birds' esfis. At nin<\ not a l)oy in the parisli could find more nests in ' a day than I could. With liirds'-nestinj;, ^ buying, iind now and then liei;ginji', I made a collection that Hjjures in a museum over j tlip water, and is entitled, 'Egj;s of Uritisli ' IMrds.' The c(dors attract, and )u'opl(> al- ways stoj) at it. Mut it does no Justice what- ever to the fireat variety of sea-liirds' ej;gs on the coast of Britain. '. "When I had learned wliat littlo thoy j teach in schools, especially drawing;, and \ that is tiseful in scientitic jiursuits, I was allowed to (dioose my own hooks ami at'eiid i lectures. One blessed day I sat and listen- ' ed to Afiassiz. Ah! \otraj;'edy well played, nor o])era suiifj, ever moved a heart so deep- ly as he moved mine, that great anir, in oie word, I was a nat- ural piiilosopher — veiv snsall, but earnest; aLid, in due course, my studies brought me to the wonders of the human body. 1 studied tho outlines of amitomy in books and i)lates and iirejiared figures, anil frciiii that, liy de- grees,! was led on to sui'gery and medicine — in liooks.yon undeisti'.nd ; at;d they areiuily half tin- battle. Meilicine is a thing one ciin do. It is a noble science, a i)raetieal sci- ence, and a subtle science, Avhere I thought my powers of study and olist^rvation might help me to Ite keen at reading symptoms, and do good to man, and be a famous wom- an ; so 1 conidmh'd to benefit mankind and myself. Stoj) ! that sounds like self-decep- tion. It must have been myself and nniii- kiiid I ((Micluded to benefit. Anyway, I ))es- tered that small section of mankind which consisteil of my parents utitil they consent- ed to let me study medicine in iMirojie." "What, all by yourself f" " Yes. Oh, girls are very indepemlent in the States, and govern the old p(>o|ile. Mine said 'No' a few dozen times, but they were liound to end in ' Yes,' and 1 went toZuric nest, and had lii;.'li vii'ws. liiti diivalrous open — as they oii;i;lit to li»«, and must, and sjiirit of a nallaiit nation tooli lin-, and liny >f .siiallow I ti-fatcd ns witli a dilicatc rcvcrcnco ttiat nii^iit liavf fniiit'd any woman'.s head. Mut \v(! had tlif credit id' a snt'cicd-at sex to kfi'p up, and felt our dan<;cr. and warned Hliali — there will he no danjier );irl.s crowdiuj; to any parliei ar school. Hesides. there will lie a nioreslrict and rap- id routine of exaininatitoms tainmeuls; she was a triu' descendant of | of yitddinj; to ('out iuental civilization, and those learned ladies who have adorned the (diairs well as of the sage: and she pur nie forward because of luy red hair. Sim said that would be a passport to the dark philoso- phers of France." "Was not that rather foxy. Miss (Jale V " Foxy as my hair itself. Mi-, ^■izard. '' Well, I a]iplied to a |>roless(U-. He re- <'eived me with iirofounil courtesy and feign- ed respeet, but was stafigered at my reipiest to matricidate. He gesticulated and bowed a la Fnuu'dine, and liegged the //c/'«i(.s,>(i(//i of his foxy-haired iu\ ader from ncul hern climes to consult his colleagues. Would I do him the great honor to call again next day at twelve t I did, and met three other ])olish- ed autliorities. One spoke for all, and said. If I bail not brought with me iiroofs of se- rious study, they should have dissua(b'd me very earnestly from a science I could not graduatt! in without going through jiracti- cal courses of amitoiuy and cliidcal surgery. That, howi'ver (with a regular French Hhrug), was my business, not theirs. It was not for them to teach me delicacy, but ratli- e,r to learn it from me. That was a Fremh sneer. The French are un iicns iiioijiicHr, you know. I received both shrug and sneer like marble. He ended it all by .saying, The school had no written law excluding doc- tresses; and the old records proved women had graduated, and e\iMi lectured, there. I had only to pay my fees, and enter upon my routine of studies. So I was admitted on sutferanee ; but I soon earned the good o])in- ion of tho ])r()fessors. and of this one in particular; and then Cornelia applied I'or adnnssion, and was let in too. We lived to- gether, and had no secrets ; and I think. Sir, I nuiy venture to say that we showed some little wisdom, if yon consider our age and all that was done to spoil us. As to ])arry- ing their little sly attemjits at llirtation, that is uothiug : we came prepared ; but when relaxing monopoly. That turiu'il me north directly. My mother is Fnglish : I wanted to l>e a Hri-tish doctress, not a French. Cor- nelia had misgivings, ami even c(uulcscended to cry over nu'. ibit I am a mule, and al- ways was. Then that dear frieiul nuulo terms with me: I must not bre.ak off my connection with the I'reneh school, sh<^ said. No, she had thought it well over, I must ask leave of tile Fremh judt'essors to study in the north, and bring back notes alxuit those distant Tliuli;ins. Says she, 'Your studies in that savage island will be allowed to go tor soim'thing lu're, if you improve your time, and ymi will be sure to, sweetheart, that I may be always priuul of you.' Dear Cornelia !'' "Am I to believe all this?'' said Vizard. •'Can women be such trm- friends?"' "What can not wonu'u be? What! are you om- of those who take us for a cUquc? Don't you know mtiro than half mankind are wouieu ?" ••Alas!" " Alas for thetn !" said Khoda, sharply. " \\'cll, well," said ^'izaI•d. putting on sud- den humility, "don't l(!t us quarrel. I bate quarreling — where I'm sure to get the worst. Ay, friendship is a line thing, in men or women ; a far nobler sentiment than love. You will m)t adnut that, of course, being a woman." " Ob yes. I will." said she. " Why, I liavo ob.served love attentively, and I lU'onounce it a fever of the ndnd. It disturbs the Judg- menr and perverts the conscience. Y'oii side with the beloved, right or wrong. What personal degradation ! I observe, too, that a grand ])assi(jn is a grand misfortune ; they WW, aUvitys in a storm of hope, fears, doubt, jealousy, rapture, rage, and the eml deceit, or else satiety. Friendship is steady and peaceful ; not muc^h jealousy, no heart-b: .u- ings. It strengthens with time, and sur- vives the small-pox and a wooden leg. It doubles our joys and divides our grief, and lights and warms our lives with a steady 'M C8 A WOMAN-HATER. flamo. Solem e mundo toUunt,qui Inlliiiit ami- for<\ tlio flrpt srciio of it— r how cfrf and Irnllilnl, sho is ol' nt'ccssity u /)«>•- ronld Iroad IMiny ami Crlsiis and cvi-r so timii. Do not laKc Iht for a JimIkc. Von nmcli iiioro niltliisli tiiat ( nsioni (liiicUs hti the Jndfit'. ;td. I?iit, as a .jnd|;i' never down hefore the Ha''"* "'' Knowledge, and siints hii niinil to eitlicr siile. do not rcfnse says, 'There — l)efoie yon ;;o the ri;ihl road, liei a fair iiearin!;. Ali(p\ e ail. alane(> nf Study now, with llie reverence tliey "lon't yonr nnderstandin;; he so npsel liy <|dM'in- deserve, the noii-oltservers of antii|nity." eral ehiidisliiiess as to faney that it matters ".'e (iidiiver's two nations went riod. When I was s,, iji-iired as t.> inter- to war ahont it; or that it matters much rnpt yon.yon had lefi I'ranee. ei«(\vm'd with wiiether yonr (,»ueen is called (j>n((n (d' In- lanrels, ami were just invading; Hritain." dia or Kmpress, lieeaiise twii parlies made a, Soiiiethin;; in his words or his tone (lis- noise alioiil it. and the c(miilry has wasted eonian-ed the snlitle oltserver, and she said, ten thousand si|iiari' miles of };()od i>ai>er on I'oldly. '•Knciisc me. 1 have hardly the t he siil'Jecl, trivial as the dust on a Imtter- conra^^e. My Urilisli history is a tale (d' in- lly'swinj;-. I'inhl against these illusions of justice, snll'erinir, insult, and. woi'st (d" all, jietty and eplicmrial minds. It dms not »i(d'eat. lean not jiroinise to relate it with matter the millionili neiii or oiiudit : the wound still hleeds." Kmpress of India ; and it matters ;;ieally to TInii Vi/;ird w.'is vexed with liimself. and DiiniLiiiil whether the whole race of women looked :;rave and ('(Miceriied. lie said, urn- are to he allowed to study medicine and tly. " Misstiale, I am sorry to^ive yon pain ; practice it. if they can rival the male, or aro hnt what you have told me is so new and to he ddiarred lidin tesliiifi their scicntilio inti-res'tint;', I shall he disap[Miinted if you ahility. and .';o outlawed, lln)i(w — you ,ire — a — ^jiist — man." In the act of siiyiiiji; this she lix((l her pray eyes steadily and sejircliii.iily u]ion ...... Vi/ard's face, so that lie cmild sc.ircely meet condition- a IcMrned lawyer explained it them, they were so powerl'nl ; 'hen sndilen- carefully to me; I will j;ive you his words. ly the ohserv;iti(Ui seemed to dio out of j — The iiuwril ten law of every nation aH:ed, i»n.ni 11 11 11 M^\ 1 inj > ill M \L «n 1 Mill \n iv r»iiij^n; iii ^^ iiiui ii ir» 111:111 .'..vvn 11 111 orpan : and Vizard then hej;au to siisi)ect f//)V'(7/i/ and c.ryi/ici//// withdi that a creature stood h(dV)re him with ?i id' the legislature. I'nd ■ power of discerning' and (li;;t'siiii}j; truth cri \ women have occasin 1 1... 1... 1 ..,.*. .- 1 '.i. 1 .1; : 1 such as he had not yet encountered eillier in man or woin.ni. ."^Ik' entered on her Brit- ish adventures in her clear silvery voice : it ■was not, like lua Kloskiiip's, rich and de«'p and tender, yet it had a certain iceutle heau- ty to those who love truth, hecanse it was disjuissiouate yet expressive, and cool yet not cold: one might call it truth's silver trumped. On the hrink of an extraordinary ])a8sage I p.-iuse to make no less than three remarks in my own i)erson. 1st. Let no reader of mine allow himself to fancy lilioda. tiale and her antecedents are a mere excrescenco of my story ; ehe waa rooted to it even be- eral mei'icim" aiul siir>; LS'^rt. But, for centnrie hy custom, om; hram h of pi.e tice the ob stetric, and that, togtdher with tue occa- sional treatment of children, and the iiiira- ing of hntli sexes, which is semi-inedical, and is their miiiiojmbj. seems, on the whole, to have c(Miteiited them, till late year.s, when their views were enlarged hy wider education .nnd other causes. JSiit their Jih- stinence from general jiractice, like their monoiioly of ohstetrics, lay with women thems(5lves, and not with thi^ law of En- gland. That law is the same in this re- spect as the common law of Italy and France; A \V(jma\-mati:r. Itiir- ion 'fiii^' of liis w ill H iiitii II I' i.H .sin- >■ 'I ri('\ IT t rrt'nsn iiikIci'- llirc lit' IIIMl tt'IH or Im)|- ^ went ; lllllcll of In- niiidi- II, wii.sicd i|>i r on Mil icr- sioiis of lies not iiiuildiul iiccii or rilll.V Id wonicii Ml' iinil , or mo ii'iitilio ".'((/, in iisiii'p, ccl law- lUiil fill' roust il lit icih of Holojinil, wlirrr so niniiy iloi'lnssrs linvf lilli'il tin- rliiiiis ol' iiiciliiiiH' anil oIIk'I' si'Ii'iiii-h, ni:ik)'s no inorr iliri'i't pi'ovi.sion for liiiiiili' stinlriitiH tliiiii lines llif loiiHi itnl ion ot' any Sioicli or Ku- jilisli nnivrrsily. 'I'lic wlioli' liiiiin lay with tin- women llienisi'lves, iinf late till' Anulo- SiiNon lias none in for eivili/alion with his nsnal enery;y, anil is eelipsiii^' Ilal,\ ; there- fore lii,s women iispirc to larger spheres ol' i II I el lee t anil net ion. Iie;;innilin in the .Slates, lieiaiise Anieriean women are lietter <'(lii- cati'il t hall l!n;;ii:-(li. 'I'lie inlvanee of irontni in lisel'iil III lainniellts Is lile iiinsl inrallilile .si^jii ill any eoniilry of ailviinejii!;- eiviliza- tion. All this alioiit eivili/atioii Is my oh- Herviilion, Sir, and not liie lawyer's. Now for the lawyer iiijalii. Siiili lieiiiir liie law of l'.nt;laiiil. I he Hrllisli leHislaliiie passed an Aet ill I-'.'j-'. the real olijeel olwliieh \Mis to protect tiii^ piililie anaiiist iiii apahle doe- tors, not against eapahie doetiesses or doc- toi'S. The Ael exellliles from medical prae- tiee all persons wliatevel'. male or female, unless rciiisleied ill a cerlalii re;;islcr; and to Met upon that renister, the iieisoii, male or female, must iirodnce a license or diplo- ma, iiraiited hy one ot' the lirilish exaniiiiiii;;' lioards speeitied in a .sclieduh^ attached lo the Act. "Now these examiiiinn' hoards were'' all memhers of l!ie Icailinii' medical schools. If the lejilslaliiic had lukeii the iiNiial ■)uecan- tioii, and had added a clause iviiijulliiiii those hoards to eKumiiie woriliy api)licaiits, the Act would have hecu a sound pulilic niea.s- iire; hut for want of that foresi;ilit — and wilhoiil forcsieht a lawy,ivei' i.s an impostor and a ])ulilii.' )»i'st — the .state rohhed women of their Old emnmoii-law rights with one hand, and with tin- other euaWled a respect- iilde trades - union to thrust them out of their new statutory r;;.;iits. I'nfoi I nnatcly, the respectahle union, to whmu tin' lej;isl,i- tiire dele^aied an nni'onsti^ilional jiowei' they did not elaini themselves, of exelndinji (|ualilied iiersoiis fnun examination, and so roliliiiu;- tlieiii of their license and their lucad, had an overpoweriiii; interest to ex- elude iiualitied woiiieii iVoui medicine; they had the same intert'st as the watch-makers' union, the printers', the i)ainters on china, the ealieo enjiravers', and othei's, lia\e to exclude qualilied women from tliose hiancli- OH, thoii;;li ])ecullarly tilted fiu' them, hut luit moie so than they are lor ihc practice of medicine, (iod lia\iiiji made litem, nud not vttn, the, medical and nnmusi(!iil sex, "Wherever there's :i trades- union, the ■weakest jjo to the wall. Those viiliiar tlieni with iinprLsonmcnt for it: was it in nature, then, that the ineilical union would lie liilinilely forhearin;; when the lej;ishi- tiire went and patted it on ihe hack, and said, )■(*)( can conspire with salety a;;ainst your female rivals/ Of course th« cli(|Uo were temjited, more than any cliiiue eould hear, liy the uiiwariness of the le;iislatiirc, and closed the doors of the medical schoids to I'cmale applicants. A;;aiiist iiiii|iialilied female, pracl it loners they never acted with such zeal and consent; ami why,'— the fe- male ijiiack is u piildic pest, and a ^ood foil lo the union ; the i|ualilled docliess is a puh- llc n I, and a h|ow to the union. "The lirilish medical iiiihmi was now in ii line allilnde hy Act of rarllament. It could talk its eonteni)it id' medical wcuiien, and act its terror y violeiu'c j who desire to practice medicine learnedly, and couBpirucy, though the law threatens | ami oppressiug those who, out of modesty, m nil 70 A WOMAN-HATER. ii :)■■ ; not yet quite smothered hy cnstom and mo- nopoly, desire to eoiisiilt a lenriitnl female physician, instead of being driven, like sheep, by iron tyranny — in a country that babbles Liberty — to a male physician or a female (juack. "Well, Sir, in 1849 Miss Elizabeth l?laek- •well fought the good light in th(< I'liitt'd States, and had her ti'oublcs; because the States were not so civilized then as now. She graduated Doctor at Geneva, in the State of New York. "Slie was ])racticing in England in 1858, and deniaiulfd her place on the Kegister. She is an Englishwoman by birth; but she ia an Englisli M.l). only tlirough America having more i)rains tlian Ihitain. This oiu- islander sings. ' Hail, <'oiumbia!' as often as 'Cod save the Queen !' 1 reckon. "Miss (iarrett, an entliusiaslic stmlent, traveled nortli, south, east, and west, and knocked in vain at the doors of every great school and university in Britain ; but at last found a chink in the iron shutters of the London Ai)othei'aries. It seems Parliament •was wiser in I'^la than in ISi^ti, for it insert- ed a clause in the Apothecaries Act of Ir'lfi fompflliiiji them to examine all ])ersous who should ajiply to tlicni for examination after j)roper courses of study. Their charter con- tained no loo])-liole to evade the Act, and substitute 'him' for 'person;' so they let Miss trarrett in as a student. Like all the students, she had to attend lectures mi Chemistry, Botany, Materia Medica, Zoolo- gy, Natural Philosophy, and Clinical Sur- gery, lu the collateral subjects they let her sit witli the male students; but in Anatomy and Surgery shi< had to attend the same lectures ))rivately, and i)ay for lectures all to liersclf. This cost her enor- mous fees. However, it is only fair to say that, if she had been one of a dozen fcmah^ students, the fees would have been dif- fused ; as it' was, she bad to gild the pill out other privates purse. "In the hospital teaching she ni't diffi- culties ami discouragement, though she ask- ed for no more oiiportunitier than are grant- ed readily to lu'ofessional nurses and Icmale amateurs. Jiut the whole thing is a nu're money <(uestion ; that is the key to every lock in it. "She was freely ariority ; thereupon the nuile students played the woman, and begged she might lie excluded; ami, I am sorry to say, for the credit of your sex, this unmanly rei|uest was coni- I)lied with by tlie wonninish males in iiower. " However, at her next hospital Miss (Jar rett was more discreet, and took pains to couceuil her galling superiority. I " All her trouble ended — where her com- petitors' began — at the public examination. She ])assed brilliantly, and is an English apothecary. In civilized France she is a ! leanu'd Physician. i "SI e had not been an apothecary a week ' before the Apothecaries' Society received six hundred letters from tlie uuMlical small- iVy in town and country; they threatened to send no nutre boys to the Apotliecaries, but to the College of Surgeons, if ever an- other woman received an Ajtotheeary's li- cense. Now ycui know all men tremble in England at the threats of a trades-union ; so the Apothecaries instautl,' cudgeled their brains to liud a way to disolu'y the law and obey the union. The nu'dical j-ress gave them a hint, and they jiassiul a l)y-law for- bidding their students to receive any part of their education privcilt'lji, ami made it known at the same time that their femalo stutlents would not be allowed to study tho heading subjects ;)H6/i(V_iy. Ami so they bat- tled the legislature and outlawed half tho nation by a juggle which the press and tho pulilic would have risen against, if a' single grown-. ip man had been its victim, instead (d'four million adult womcm. Now you aro a straightforward man ; what do you think of that?" " Hum|>h!" sa' 1 Vizard. "I do not alto- gether approve it. The strong should not use the arts of the weak in lighting tho weak. Bui ;.. spite of your eloquence, I nu!an to forgive them any thing. Sliaks- pciire .has jirovided them with an cxcuao that tits all time : "'Our poverty, but not our will, consents.'" "Poverty! the poverty of a company in the city of London ! AUon8 done. Well, Sir, I'or years after this all Europe, even Pussia, advanced in civilization, and ojien- ed their medical schools to women ; so did the I'nited Slates: oidy the pig-headed Brit- on stood stock-still, and gloried in liis mi- nority of (Uie; as if one small island is like- ly to be right in its monomania, and all civilized nations wrong. "But while I was studying in Franco, one lion-hearted Englishwoniaii was mov- ing our native i.sle. First she tried the Uni- versity of lAindon, and that sets uji for a liberal foundation. Answer: 'Our charter is cxjuH'ssly friimed to exclude women from meilic'vi inslrii.'tion.' "'fhen sh(! sat doAvn to besiege Edin- burgh. Now Edinbiirgh is a very remark- able jilace. It has only half the houses, but ten times the inttllect, of Liverpool or Manchester. And the University has two advantages as a home tif ncioia' over tlie English universities: it is far behiiiil them in (ireek, which is the language of Error and Nescience, and before them in English, and that is a touguo u good deal of kuowl- com- .■ition. nglLsIi 13 is a week ;tiived small- tenod iU'ios, er Jul- y's li- ble in tlioii ; (heir uud giivo \y i'or- liiirt lo it lllillo y tiio y biif- f tho A WOMAN-HATER. n cdRe is printed in. Edinbnrgli ia the only centre of Hrili.sh liferatnre, except Ijondou. "One nicdieul i)r(ife.ss()r received tlie pio- neer with a eoneise severity, iind declined to hear her i)leiid her cauHe, and one re- ceived her almost brutally. lie said, 'No respectabh* woman would apply to him to study Medicine.' Now i'csi)ectalilo women were studying it all over Kurope.'' "Well, but i»erhaps his soul lived in an island." "That is so. However, personal appli- cants must ex]>t;et a rub or two; and most of the profcsscus, in aixl out of medicine, treated her with kiniluess and court<'sy. ".Still, she found even the iVieudly pro- fessors alarmed at the idea of a woman nui- triculatin<>', and becomin she made a moilerate api)lication to the ►Senate, vi/., for leave to attt'ud medical lecturis. This recjuest was indorsed by a majority of tl'e medical professors, and <;rante(i. I5nt tui the appeal of a- few nu'd- ical ])rofessors aj^ainst it, the Senate sus- pended its resolution, on the ground that tlicn> was only one applicant. "This jjot, wind, and otlier ladii^s eanu^ into the tield directly, your humble servant auioufj; them. Then tho .Senate felt bound lo recommend the University Court to ad- mit such fcmal(< students to matricnlate as could iiass the preliminary examination: this is in history, logic, languages, and oth- er branches; and we prepared for it in good faith. It was a hapi^y time: after a good day's work, I used to go up the L'alton Hill or Arthur's Seat, and view the sea and the I'ira'us and the violet hills and thii ronum- tie undul.iticms of the city itself, and my heart glowed with love of knowledge cud Avith honorable ambition. 1 ran over the names' of worthy women who had aihn'ncd nu'dicine at sundry times ;ind in divers ])!aces, and rcsob'. 1 to di'serve as gr(>at a nauK^ as any in mstory. Refreshed l>y my walk — 1 generally walked eight miles, and practiced sjtynniastics to kee|) my muscles hard — I used to return to my little lodg- ings; :ind they too wen^ sweet to me, for I wa't learning a new science — Logic.'' "'I'liat was a nut to crack." " I have met few easier or sw. eter. One non-observer ha. It was not severe; we Imlies all passed with credit, thougli many of the male asi)irants failed." "How do you account for that?" asked Vizard. " With my eyes. I ohnerve that the aver- age inah^ is very superior in intellect to tho average fcniah! ; and 1 observe that tlu; pick- ed female is immeasurably more sui)erior to the average male than the average male ia to the average female." " Is it so simple as that ?" "Ay; why nv all miss her, because she is a colorless diamond. Those sjiecta- eles are preconceived notions, a priori reasou- ! ing, cant, j)rejndiee, the depth of Mr. Shal- low's inner cons(!i()usness, etc., etc. Theu i comes the observer, opens the eyes that God } has given him, tramjdes on all colored spec- tacles, and tinds Truth as surely as tin; spec- I tacled theorists miss her. Say that the iu- I tellect of the average male is to the average female as ten to six, it is to the intellect of the picked female as ten to a hundred and I (ifty, or even less. Now the intelU'ct of the male Edinburgh student was much al)ove I that of the average male, but still it fell far below that of the picdvcd female. All tho [examinations at Edinburgh showed this to all (iod's unspectacled creatures that used their eyes." These remarks hit Vizard hard. They ac- corded with his own good sen.se and method of arguing: but perlKijis my more careful readers may have already (d)served this. He I nodded hearty a^iproval for otico, uud she i went on : I " We had now a right to matriculate and I enter on our medical course. But, to our dis- may, the right was suspended. The jiroofs of our general proliciency, wlii( h we hoi)ed would reeon<'ile the professors to us as stu- dents of .Medicine, alarmed people, and rids(!d us unscrupulous enemies in some who were justly respected, and others who had iutlu- ence, thiuigh (hey hardly deserved it. "A general e;>un<'il of the Eniversity wa,s cjiUed (o reconsider the ])ledge the Senate had given us, and overawe tin* University Court by the wtdght of Academic opiniim. The Court itself was llutjtnating and rcidy to turn either way. A large number of male students ''o-operated against us, with a pe- tition. They, (oo, were a little vexed at our res]iectable tigure in the preliminary exami- nation. " The assembly mot, and the union orator A WOMAN-HATER. 1 li I i I ill i^: \ ii}i;i ; i , fjot ii]>; lip wna a ]>ro;u'1iPr of the fiospcl, and I'urricd tlu' w»'i};lit of tliat iillico. Cliiis- tiauity, as well as Sciciici'. wceinod to riso aj;aiiist, us in his ix-rson. He iiiado a Ioii<; and elorinent sjx'Pidi, liiisod on tlio intclli- j jiftMit surmises and jioimlar ))r(',jnilic('s that' were diH'iis<'d in ;i liiiiidrcd h'adiiii; artich's. and in letters to tiie edit(tr l)y men and w^m- | en to whom iiislory was a (h'ad letter iti iiKidern eontroversies; for the Press liattled this matter for two yetirs, ami fMriiished each i)arty with an artillery of reasons pro and con. " 111' said : ' Womaii's sjdiere is the hearlh , and the home : to impair her nKili\ not his rival, had iiiven her ■ a body nidit for war or liai'(l lalxir, and ai hrain four onnci's liy is the orator 'qui hnrleavee leslon))s.' I Takin^f the scientilic preacher's whole the-' >ry in tiieolooy and science, woman was liij;li i enou^li in creation to lie th(^ mot herof (.joii our side, not with a riviil theory, but with facts. Ho was a ])npil of Lord Haeon and a man of the nineteenth ceiilnry: so he ob- jected to a priori reasoniiii;' on a matter of | exiierience. To i^et tli^ the (|Uestion of capac- ity, he gave a lonji list of women who had been famous in science: such as Itel tesia Gozzadini. Novella Andrea, Xovella Calde- rini. Madalcna 15uousiy;nori. and many more, who were doctors of law and university ]iro- ' fessors : I)orot<'a Hocclii. who was pro less; ir ; both of ])hilosoiihy and medicine; Laura' Hassi, who was electetl jirofessor of pliiloso- ' jihy in 17152 by acclamation, and afterward ])rofessor of experimental physics; Aiinti Manzolini, i)rofessor td' anatomy in 17(10; (iai^tana Aj;iiesi, jirofcssor ot' mathematics; Christina Koccati, doctor of iihilosophy in 1750; Clotilde Tambroid. profi's.sor of tireek in 17l.';5; .Maria Dalle Donne, do(!tor of medi- cill(^in 170U; Zaftira I'erretti, doctcu- of iiiedi- ciiu' in l-Oii; Maria Sej^a, doctor of medicine in 17;i',»; .Madalcna Noe, );raduale of civil law in l.'^07. Ladies innumerable who uraduated in law and medicine at I'.avia, Fei'rara, and Tadua, includinji Elena F^nerezia Coriiaro, of I'adua, a very famous woman. Also in Sala- nnim'a. Alcala. Cordova, he named more t haii one famous (Uutress. Also in Ileidelliei';^, Cottinj>eii, Giesseii, WiirzbnrK, etc.. and even at Utrecht, with nuuiberlesH uradiiatea in tho arts uud I'acultios at Moutpollier aud Paris in all ages. Also outside reputations, as of Doctor ISonvin and her mother, ac- knowledged celebrities in their branch of medicine. This chain, lio said, has never been n-ally broken. Tlier» was scarcely a great foreign university without some fe- male student of high reimtaticui, Tliero were such women at \ienn;i and Pctersliurg; many such at Zurich. At Moiitpellier Made- moiselle Doumerguo wa.s carrying all be- fore her, and Miss (Jarrett and Miss Mary Put man at Paris, though they were weight- ed in the I'ace by a foreign language. Let the nuile English physician pass a stitf ex- amination in sci(Mititic I''rencli before he brayed so loud. He had never done it yet. This, lie said, is not an age of chimeras ; it is a wise and wary age, a\ hicdi ha.s established in all blanches of learning a sure test of ability in man or wdinan — jinblic exandna- tion folldwcd by a j)ublie rejiort. These pul)lic examinations are all conducted by males, and women are ])assing them tri- nmphaully all over Euroi)e and Amcricii, and graduate as doctors in excry civilized country, and even in half-civilized IJussia. " He then went into our own litthi jirelim- iiiary exannnation. ami gave the statistics: In Latin were exandned 55 men and ',i wom- en ; 10 men were rejected, but no W(unan ; 7 men were respectable, 7 optimi. or tirst-rate, 1 woman /)()»«, and 1 oplinui. In nnithemat- ics were examined (17 men and 4 women, of whom 1 woman was opHiiia, and 1 bona ; 10 men were 0]>limi. and '25 hoiii ; the rest failed. In German "J men were examined and 1 w om- an ; ) nnin was good and I woniiin. In logic )iH nicn were examined and 1 woman : tho woman came out liftli in r.aidc, and she had only been at it a month. In moral jdii^Ioso- pliy 1(5 men wore examined and 1 woman ; the woman came out third. In arithmetic! 51 men and 15 women ; "2 men were opiinii ;nul 1 W(unan optima : se\-cral men failed, and not one wonuiii. In mechanics pn attained tho highest excellence, o/j/Zmrt'. and not om^ man. In English, ij;$ men and '.i women ; ',i men were gooarticle of evi- dence, that my science I'ouhl elevate the higher w.x and degrade the lower. What cvidouce we had rau against it. Nurses uro A WOMAN-HATER. 73 atiniis, lor, ac- icli of III'VIT Tcly ji inc f'c- Thcn, sbiirn;; -Miulo- lU be- Mary iffcx- >ro ]ie it yot. it i3 est of miiiia- Tlicso ((■(1 by I'lii tri- irici'ica, ivilizi'd iiissia. in'cliin- tifsties: ■i woni- A "iiiaii ; ■st-rato, tlii'iiiat- lllCll, (if oiKi ; 10 t failed. 1 1 wom- Iii lo^io an ; tlio slit" bad libi"l()s<)- nnt, .Ts a class, niifomininp, vot all tbat i.s ; "It seems probable." iimst ajiiialliiij;-, (lis:;!istiii^, liorribl(>. and uii- ! "'riicii vii;\v tbat probability by tho light nrx\n(< ill tilt' ail of licaliiij;' is iiioiKipolizi'd by of fact : Ibcni. Wonicii sct^ worse tbiiijjs than doo | "Id pliyHiolngy the imilo studeuts were tors. Women nurse all llie jiatieiits of both 127. In ebeiiiislry. '^•Jii. sexes, oft en iiiuleilioriiide .•iiid siclieiiin;^ con- ditions, and l.iy than she did, yet they had been a year longer at the study. This entitled her to a ' Hope Scholarship' for that year. " Woiihl yon believe it? the scholarship was refused li(>r — in utter deliance of the ■Thus encoiiragecause the a }>yiori reasoners "The jirol'essors ol' the Faculty of Medi- took for granted she would bo deteated. cine .should, for ibis ]iiir|)ose, be ]iermitted Then the cry would have been, 'You bad your to have separate classes for women. chance; we let yon try for the Hope Scliol- "All these ri'giiiatiiui.s were apjiroved by .■iisliiii, but you could not win it.' Having the Chanci'ilor. jind ai'e to this day a jiart won it..sli.i was to bi> cheated our of it sonie- of the law of tii.'it I'liiversity. how or anyhow, 'flie s<')iarate class sys- " We ladies, live in niiniber, but afterward tern was not that laily's fault; .she would seven, were matriculated and registered pro- liave iireferred to ])ay the University lect- fcssional students of medicine, and jiassed iirer lighter fees, and attend a better leet- six deligliilui monliis we now look back ure with the male students. The sejiarato upon as if it was a lianjiy dream. ' class was an unf.ivorable condition of study, "We were iiicked women, all in earnest; which the I'niversily ini]iose(l on us as tho we deserved respect, and we m(>t with it. ! condition of admit ting us to the iiroiessional Tlie leachers were kind,,' ' we attentive ' study of medicine. Surely, then, to cheat and resjiectful ; the stiideiil ere courteous, ''that hidv out of her [lo]it> Scholarship, when and wo were all'iible to th.'iii, but discreel, she had eavned it iiinbT condit ions of study Whatever seven young women could do to enl'orredaiid unfa voialile, was |ierlidious and earn esteem, and reconcile even our ojipo- ilisl.onest. It was even a littlt; iin;^ratei'ul iieiits to the experiment, we did. 'lliere to the injured sex; for the money which was not an anti-student or downright llirt founded theae seholarshiiis w;is woineii'fi among lis : .•ind, indeed, 1 have observed that money, every penny of it. The eood I'rofesB- aii earnest love of st udy and sicienc uitrols or Hope had lectured to ladies lifty years the amorous frivolity of women even more ago; had taken their lees, ami foiiiuled hi.s than nieifs. rcrliaiis our heads are really scliolarslii|is with their money : and it would ■iiiuillrr than men's, and we haven't room in have done his heart good to sec a lady win them to be like Solomon— extremely wise and wear that ])ri/e, wliieh, but for his fe- and arrant I'ools. iiiale pui>ila, would never ha vi^ exi.sted. Ihit " This went on until the lirst professional it is easy to trample on a dead man; as easy I'xanii'iation ; but. after the examination, as on living women. the war, to our eonsternation, recommenced. I " T'he perlidy was followed by rutlile.s.s Am I, then, bad-he.irted tor thinking there tyra'K" They refused to admit the fair must have been Homethiiig in that exami- j crn»4i' a' ti. the laboratory, 'else,' said they, iiati 1 ■ih; Hi RH 1 >' ' .■' 1' ■■■ ■ ■ ■i'r ; ^:| ll'<-, ■ \ inferior male students too i;rf'iit an advan- tajie over licr. And so tlie iml)lic and I'ro- ffSMor Hope were HiicrKiccd to a trades-un- ion, and lost a jircat analytioal tlii'niist, and sonictliiii^ more : slici liad, to my kno\vlc(lj><', a subtle diagnosis. Now we have, at \nvH- ent. no (prat analyst, iuul the I'ew comiietent aralysts we have do not iiosscss diajiiiosis in i>roi)oi'tion. They can liiid a few jioisons in the dead, Itnt tln'y are slow to discover them in thc^ livinfj; so they are not to he counted on to save a life, where Crime is administering: poison. That woman eonld, and would, T think. '' Tiiey drove lier out of chemistry, where- in she was a j^cniiis, into surgery, in which HJie was only a talent, (^iie is now hoiise- surjieon in a <>reat liosi)ital, and the i)nl>lie liaH lost a "treat chemist and diagiiostie phy- sici.an comhined. " I'p to tlie date of this enormity tlie press liad been pretty evenly divided for and against ns. Hut now, to their credit, theV' were nminimons and reprol)ated the j'.ijijile as a hreaeli of pnl)lic faith and plain morality. Backed liy pnhlie opinion, one friendly professor took this occasion to move the Tniversity to relax tlie re;i;iila(ions of KcparaU; classes, since it had l>cen ahnsed. lie proposed that the fcniaU'. students should be iidmitted to the ordinary classes. "Tliis proposal was uei;-'Mved hy 08 to 47. "This small m.i.jorify was jiained hyacliar- acterislic man(cuvre. Tlie (Queen's name, wa^ gras ely (lraji;<'ed in as disaiiprovinj;' the pro- posal, wiien. in fact, it eonld never have heen submitted to her, or her connuen t, i i'nuy, must have been in writini;-; and as to the general question, she has never said a pulilic woi'd aji'ainst medical women. ,she has too nuich 8ens(! not to ask herself how can any wom- an be lit to be a (pieen, with powers of life and death, if no W(unau is fit to be so small a thinji, by comparison, as a physician or a Buriicou, " We v.ere victims of a small majfirity, ob- taiiu'd by imagination i)la,\ing n[)on liiuiky- isni, and the lirst result was, we were not allowed to sit (htwn to botany with males. Mind you, we mij^ht have jiathercedantic terms and childish chi.ssiticalions of botany, in which kimlied ]>ro])ertie8 are iy,iiored. Oidy tlu" male stu- dent must b(^ told in iiublic that a f(ix-j;love is iJiiiitiilin puijUdrit in the improved nomen- clature of science, and crow-foot is llaniin- citlua sccUrntiin, and the buckbeau is Mouj- aiithes trifoliala, and uniir-wort is Arlnmnia jiidttkn ; and tliat, haviny; lost tin* proiicr- tics of hyssop, known to Solomon, we ri'- gaiu our supurioiity over that luaiuud lie- brew Ity christening it OmtioJa officinalis. The sexes must m>t be taught in one room to discard such nyly and inexpressive terms I as snow-drop, meadow-sweet, feverfew, ! heart's-ease, cowslij), etc., and learn to know j the cowslip as Icrin — by class, pciitainlria I moiwijuuin ; and the buttercup as Acrin, pohj- xndriu motimjiiuia ; the snow-drop as (lalan- tliitx iiirdlix, llcjdiidriit 111(11101111111(1 ; and the meadow-sweet as Unuviu ; the heart's-easo as Vidla InatUiv ; and the daisy as Biilis pc- rt'iiiiiK, Siiiinciicnia niiiurjliia." "\\t']l,"said Vizard", "Ithiidc the individ- I tial nanu's can only hurt the jaws and other ornans of speech. But the classifications! , Is the mild lustre of science to be cast over I the natural disposition of yonny women to- I ward polyandria monoijynia? Is tri;'amy to I be identilied in their sweet souls with tloral innocenh <'ours(s of botany en- , (lured together. It will not liurtyonnj; ladies I a bit to tell them in the presence of yonnj^ ' j;entlenien that a cabbage is a thalamitloral exogeu, and its stamens are tet ladynamcuis, nor that the nnishrooni, I'mUidta cumiWHtriH, i and the toad-stool, J///((')i(( caiiijH'nlriH, -div. con- founded by this scitMicc in one class, Crijpio- r/auiia. It will urtt even hurt them to be told that the properties of the Anim macii- l((him are little known, but that the males are crowded lound tlu' centre of the spadix, and the females seated at the i)ase," I Said \'izard, pompously, "Th(! pulpit and the tea talde are centres of similar phenomena. Now I think of it, tin- pulpit is a. very fair calyx, but the tea table is sad- ly s(|uat." " Ves, Sir. But more than that : not one of these pedants who urowled at prondscu- ons botany has abominably sincere, and all this is a curious cliai>terof Iinmaii nature. I'lay proceed." Miss (ial(^ nodded gravely, and resumed : "So much ]>ublic ridicule fell on the tin- ion for this, and the blind llnnkyism which could believe Ihet^neen had meddled in the detail, that the profess(U-s melted undev it, ami threw open botany and natural history i to us, with other collateral scicuces. A WOMAN-HATER. 75 iidivid- lltl otlltT tii'iitious! list iivor oiiicii to- limy to ith lli.nil "Then came the great fight, which is not diili'il yft. "To (jualify for Medicine, and pass tlic stifi'exaniinalion by which tlie jjublic is very properly protected, yoii must be versed in aiiiitoniy and clinical t!in<;erv. Books and lectures di> not sullice for tliis without tlm Inuiian snbjcct — alive and dead. The I'ni- vcrsity (Jonrt knew that very well when it niatriiMilated ns, and thei'el'ore it i>rovided for our instruction by pronusing us separate classes. " IJacked by this public pled;^t , we waiteil OH the University I'rofcssor of Anatomy to arrange our fees for a separate lecture. He tiatly refused to instruct ns separately for love or nioiu>y. or to ])ermit his assistants. That meant ' the union sees a way to ])ut you in a cleft stick and cheat you out of your de- gree, in spite of the pledj^e the I'liiversity " Two aocomplislied women had joined us, and we were now the seven wise virgins of a half-civilized nation, and, if I know black from white, wo were sever of its brightest ornaments. We were seven ladies, who wish- ed to be doclresses, especiMJiy devoted to our own sex; seven good si uil<'iits, who went (ui our knees to tln^ L'niv(-rsity for those sejiii- rate classes iii anatomy and clinical surgery which the University was bouiii! in honor to sup])ly us: l)Ut, our i)rayer rejected, said to the Univei';iity : ' Well, use your own dis- erel ion aliout sejiarate or mixed classes ; but for your own credit iind that of human na- ture, do not •.villfitlly tie a hangman's noose to throttle the weak and deserving, and don't cheat seven )ioor, hard-woikiii;i, meri- torious women, your own matriculated stu- dents, out of our entrance fees, which lie to this dav in the Univcisitv cotters, out oi' the i has given you ; in s]>ite of your fees, ami of | excejitionally heavy fees we have paid to your time given to study in reliance ou the j your ]trofessors, out of all the fruit of our promise.' j bard stmly, out of oc • diplomas, anil our "Tiiis was a heavv lilow. I'lil there was i bread. Solve tiie kn()t v(uir own wav. Wo an extramural estalilishnu'Ut called Sur- geons' Hall, and the University formally rec- ognized all the lecturers in this Hall; so we applied to those lecturers, and they were shocked at the illiberality of the University jtrolcssors, and admitted us at once to mixed elasses. \\'e attended lectures with the male will submit to mixed classes, or any thing except j)rofessioiial destruction.' "Ill this spirit our li(m-lie;irted leader wrote the letter of an uninjured dove, and said thercv were a great many more wards in the iiitirmary than any male student eoubl or tlid attend: we vould be content to students to the u»ticipif\ could never be troubled with us, and we, arise should the exiteriment of mixed cla.ss- though less favored than the male students, es, which was then sueeeediiig, ever be tried, could just manage to qualify for that public "To ([Ualify ns for examination, we now i examination whiih was to prove whether needed but one thing more— hospital ]>iac- , we could make able physicians or not. tice. The intinnavy is sujiported not so "Sir, this gentle proposal was rejected much by the University as the town. Wei with rudi^ scorn, and in aggressive terms, applied, therefore, with some confidence for; Such is the spirit of a trades-union, the permissif)ii usually conceded to medical , "Having now shown you what we were, students. The managers refused us the tnini I will now tell what our enemies, declining inlirmdrji. Then we ap|iliiil tothe siUiscrib- to oliserve our conduct, though it was very ers. The ma j(U-ity. not belonging to a trades- luiblic, suggested we iiiiiKf he. Seven sharae- uiiiou, declared in our favor, and intimated less women who pursued medicine as a huu- plainly that they would turn out tlui illib- die for sexuality; who went into the dis- eral managers at the next election of man- 1 secting-rov-ai to dissect males, and into the agers. ' lios])ital to crowd ronnd the male jiatient, "Hut by this time the war was liot and and who deDimidid mixed classes, thar wo general, and hard lilowy. d(-alt on both sides. ! might liavi^ male companions in those It was artfully suppressed l)y our enemies in ' studies which every fcmiiiiue woman would the profes.-.iou and in the press that we had avoid altog<>tlier begged hard for the sei)ara;e class which "This key-note struck, the public was re- had been promised us in anatomy, and per- galed with a burst of hypocrisy such as Mo- mission to attend. !>y ourselves, a limited lien; luiver had the luck to witness, or, oh! number of wards in the iniirmary ; and on what a comedy he would have written ! this falsehood by suppression worse calum- ! "The iniiiiod(>sl sex. taking advantage of uicH were l>iiilt. ! Molitu'e's decPase w ithout heirs of his brains, "I shall tell you what we really were. and ' set to work in public to teach the modest what foul mouths and pens iusiuuated we sex modesty. must bo, 1 " lu the couduct of thia pleasant paradox, A WOMAN-HATER. p the roprospntativca of tliat sox wliicli lins iiiiu'h (;<)iii'ai;o and littk' modesty wcro two pi'ofissors — wlio i'()ii(liu'l('he ceased to be obwrrcd, can attend to nothing if a man is by; siie <'an't •work, she can't play, she is so eaten u]) ■\\'ith sexuality. The frivolous soul <'an Just manage to play croiiuet with females; but, enter a man ui)on the scene, and she does even that very ill, and can hardly be got to take her turn in the only thing she has re- ally given her mind to. 'We were anggls compared "with this ])altry creature; and she was the standing butt of pul)li(; censure until it was found that an iumginary i)icture of her could be made the handle for iusult- ijig her betters. "Against these seven prudes, decent do- tards and their foul-moulhed allies Hung oTit insinuations vhich did not escape ])ub- lic censure; and the medical students de- clared their modesty was shocked at our intrusion into anatomy and surgery, and pe- titioned against us. .Sonje. of the I'icss were deceiv<'d by this for a tinu-, and liurlitieut avcc IcH loiifiK. "I took u]). one d.ay. my favorite weekly, in which nearly i>verv writi'r seems to lue a scholar, and was regaled with such lines as this: "'It aj. pears tiiat giris are to associate •c\-:th boys as miMlical students, in order that, when they become women, they niay be able to speak to nuMi with entire plainness upon all the subjects of a doctor's daily ]iracti( . , "'In plain words, tiie aspirants to medi- cine and surgery desire to rid themselves Kj^eedily and ellectually of that modesty which nature bas ])lanted in women.' And tlien the writer concludes: 'We beg to sug- gest tluit there ;ire oilier i)laces Ix'sifles dis- Hecting-ro(uns :..id liospitals where tho.-i(^ ladu's may relieve themselves of tlH< mod- esty which they tind so troul)lesomo. But fathers naturally object to this being done at their sons' expcn.se.'" • "Infamous!" cried Vizard, "One com- fort — no nuin ever penned tlsat. That is some old womau writing down young ones." " I don't know," said Rhod.a. " I have met so nuiiiy womanish men in this busi- ness. All I know is, that my cheeks liurned, and, for once in the tight, scalding tears ran down them. It was as if a friend had spat ii])on nu). "What a chimera! What a monstrous misinterpretation of pure minds by minds im])ure! To iin the dissec!ing-roon» was a temple, and the dead an awe. re\(,'.t;iig to all our senses, uniil the knife revealed tc our minds the ('relator's hand in structura' beauties, that the trained can appreciate, if wicked dunces can't. "And as to the infirmary, we should have done Just what w(^ did at Zurich, We held a little aloid' tVom the male patients, unless sonui good-natured lecturer or pupil gave us a signal, and then we canu; forward. If wo came uninvited, we ahviiys stood behind the male students: iuit we did crowd round tho beds of the fcnuile ])atieiils, and idainied the inner row: and, .Silt, riiKv TUANiii;D GuD von I'.S OI'ENLY, "A few awkward revelations wero made during this discussion. A medical stmlent had the candor to write and say that he had been at a lecture, and the professor had told an indelicate stiu'v, and, linding il palatable to ni^; modest males, had .said, 'There, gen- tlemen: now if fem;ile students were ad- mitted here, I could not have t(dd you this anuising cir(iimstauc(\' 8o that it was our purifying iiitluence he dreaded in secret, though he told the i)ublic he dreaded the reveise. "Again, female patients wrote to the Jour- nals to beg that female students might be admitted to come between them and the brutal curiosity of the male students, to whi( h they were subjected in so oll'ensive a way that Uiore than one poor creature de- dared slie had felt agonies of shame, even in the middle of an agonizing operation, "This being a. cry from tluit jinlilic for whose sake iht; wiic.Ie cii(ine of physicians — male and female — exists, h.-id, of course, no great weight in the union controversy. "But, Sir, if grave men and women will sit cahuly down find tliiig dirt uiion every woman who shall ;ispire to medicine in au island, though she c.iii do so on a r.eighbor- ing c()ntinent with honor, and choose tln-ir time when the dirt can only fall on seven known women— since tli(! female students in that island are only seven— the pretended generality becomes a cowardly personality, iind wounds as su(di, and excitv's less c(dd- hcaried and moi'e hot-heatled bhi(d. It was so at riiiladelphia, and it w as so at Kdinlmrgh, "Our extramural teacher in anatomy was about to giv(! a conqietilive examination. Now on thes(! occasions we were particul.ar- ly (dmoxions. Otten and clearly as it had been proved, by « jjciocJ rea-souiug, tliat wo 'Bi'i thcii sta; that pnsl bani ing the and by i^i 'la. "I havo in this buai- Ih'oUh Imriiod, liii;;' tears ran ii'noitnnily cd" eriishin;^ solid reasons undi'r Imllow fact. i '•A band of medical students di'leiniined that for once ti jiriori rejisonin;;; .should hav( lair play, and not lie crushed liy a thinj; so that no loulcr terms aie known to the dn illusory as fact. Accordinjily, they j;ot the of mankind. homo to our several lodj;inj;s in triiimjdi ; the cowardly caititi's of the trades-union howled outside, and manaj;ed to throw a little dirt, upon onr };-owns, and also hurled epithets, most of which were new to me; but il has since been stated, by |ir— " I '"Her cubs." I "A thousand thanks, irood ^\r. IT(>i' does. On second tlnnmhts, ' her hinds.' I>oe is the will not t;rmli;'e us. "Onr lioness subscribed £.">, and lieeanio entitled to voti' iiml speech. As the foidest epithets had been hurled at her by the un- ion, ;ind a certain ]irid(ssor had told her, to her face, no respectable woman would c(une female of buck. Now 1 said sta;;s. Widl. to hiui and pro]iose to study mediefne, she the rnHi:ins who had nndertakeii 1o teach us said, ]uiblicly, that she had come to his-oidn- niodesty, swarmed in too. They dray;;j;ed a ion, ami respectable women would avoid sheep into the lecture-room, lighted jiipcs, | him — whi(di caused a lauuli. jirodiiced bottles, drank, smoked, .and abused '• "Shi' also;;ave a vener.-ible old jdiysician, ns ladies to onr faces, and interrupted the ! onr bitter o]iponent, a slap that was imt lecturer at intervals with their howls and j (]tiite so fair. His artemlant had l)een con- ribaldry ; that was intended to show the fertied in that outrafje, and she assumed — in professor he should not be listened to au.v | which she was not .justified— that the old more if he admitted the I'emale students. The affair i;ot wind, and other students, not connected with medicim', came pourini:; in, with no worse motive, ]irol>ably, than to sec I doctor a])])roved. 'To lie .sure,' said she, 'they s;iy he was intoxicated, and that is the only possible excuse.' "The old doctor had onlv to say that ho the lark. .Some of these, however, thounht I did iH)t control his assistants in the street, tlie introduction of tiie sheep unfair to so ; and his own mode of cou'iuctinj; the op])()si- respei'ted a leidnrer, and ;>r!>ceedeil to re- 1 tion ami his lonjjj life of honor were there to move her; luit the ])rofessor put up his ; correct this younji wonnin's unworthy sur- lianil, and said, ' Oh, don't remove htr : she mises — .and she would have had to ajiolofrizo is superior in intellect to many [leisons here for jjoin^ too far i^n mere surmise. But, in- presenl.' stead of that, he was so injudicious as to ae- " At the end of the leclure, thiiddnji us in I case her of foul lannua}j;e, and sii.y, 'My at- actmil dandier from these ruftians. he oil'ered , tendant is a jierfect {jentlenian ; ho would to let us out by a side door: but our lioness not be uiy iit tendant if he were not.' stood up, ami said, in a voice that riiies in! "( liir lioness had him directly. 'Oh,' said my ear even now, 'Th,aid< you, i^ir; no. ' she, ' it' Doctor .So-jind-su prefers to say that There are f/('a//(Hic» enough here to escort us I his atfemlant counuitted that ontra;j;o on safidy.' I decency wheji in his sober senses, I am iiinto "The niaij,ie of a jireat word from a irreat content.' lieart at certain moments when nunds are; "This was described as violent invective heated! At that word. Sir, the scales fell , by jicople with weak memories, who had from a hundred eyes ; lUJinhood awoke v\ ilh ; fiirnotteii t he nal are of the ontraue our limi- astiirt — ay,audclnvalry too; fifty manly fel- ' ess was commentinji on : but in truth it was lows were round us in a moment, with glow- i only superior skill in debate, w itli truth to ing cheeks and eyes, ami they carried us all , back it. :1 i! 1 A WOMAN-HATER. i!« 0! ' Bi ; 15 i I It . "For my part, I kojit the poliro report at ' the time, and liave compared it with her 'speech ; the Judiciiil comments on tiiost! ri- oters aro far more severe than lier.s. Tho trnth is, it was her facts tliat hit too Iiard, not Iier expressions. "Well, .Sir, she olitained a niiijoiity ; and those maini;;ers of the inliiinaiy whoohject- i ed to female students were dismissed, ami others elected. At the same meetini; tho Conrt of Contrihators passed a statnte mak- inji it the lii\v(d"tiie intirmary that students sinmld he admitted without regard to sex. "But as to the mere election of mana- gers, tho other party demanded a scrutiny i of tlie votes, and iiiHtrnctive tijiiires came out. There voted with ns twenty- eij^ht iirms, thirty-one iadies, seven doctors. " 'J'hcre voted witli tho union fourteen firms, two hnlies, thirtij-scvtn ilucti»'K, and three (InifUliftK. | "Thereupon the* triides-union, as declared by tho tiji'nrcs. all(>j;ed that firms onj^ht not to vote, yntd blue, they always had voted unchallenged, till they voted for fair play to \\omen. "'J'he union served tho Provost with an interdict not to declare tho new managers , elected. j "We apjilied for (uir tickets under tlio ; now statnte, Imt wen^ impudently refused, under the idea that the manageis must tirst ho consulted: so did tho servants of tin; intirmary defy tho masters, in order to ex- clude ns. ; " ]{y tills time tho groat desire of women to practice medicine hail lieguii to show it- self Isunihers came in, and matriculated; and the ])ressiire on the authorities to kee|i faith, and relax tho dead lock they had put | us in, was great. "Theri'upon the authorities, instead of; saying, 'Wi^ have jdedged oursehes to a gn^it nnmlier of persons, anil pocketed their fees,' took fright, and casti ahont for Juggles. ' They allectcd to discover all of a sudden ; that they had iicted illegally in nuitricu- ■■ latiiig female students. They would, there- fore, not give hack their fees, and jiay them two hundred ])onnds aiiicco for hreach of contract, hut detain their fees and sti)]> their studies until compelled by .judicial decision j to keep faith. Oliserve, it was under ad- 1 vice of tho Lord Jiistico-Cieneral they had matriculated us, and entered into a (contract with us, for fuljillinfi ic/u'c/i it wan nut, (Oid is: 1(0^ in tlw power of any mortal man to jiunish i them. j "But these pettifoggers said this: 'lVe\ have acted illegally, and therefore not we, ' but you, shall suft'er: tee will projit. liy our il- legal act, for wo will cheat you out of your fees to tho I'niviasity, and yonr fees to its professors, as well as the seed-tiuu! of your yoiitli, that we have w asted.' "Now in that country they can get tho opinions of the .judges by raising what they call an action of declai'ator. "One would think it was their business to go to the .judges, and meantime give ns the henelit of the legal doubt, while it lasted, and of tho moral no-douht, which will last till the day ol'.indgmeut, and a day after. " Not a hit (d' it. They dcliherately broke their contract with us, kept our fees, and cheated us out of the article we had bought of tliem, disowned all sense of moralit.v, yet shifted the burden of law on to onr shoul- ders. Litigation is long. I'eiiidy was in pos- session, rossession is nine iioints. The fe- male students are now sitting with thi'ir hands before them, .juggled out of their studies in plain detiance of .justice and imb- lic faith, wailing till time shall show them whether provincial lawyers can pellilbg as well as trades-union docloi's. "As for me, 1 had retired to civilized climes long before this. I used to write twice a week to ni.v imrcnts: but 1 with- held all mention of the outrage at Siirgeiin.s' Hall. I knew it wi. Id give them useless ]iain. But in three weeks or so came a let- ter frinii my father, unlike aii.v other I ever knew him write. It did not even begin, 'My dear child.' This was what he said. The words aro (>ngraved in m.v memory: 'Out of that nation of cowards aiiil skunks: (Hit of it this moment, once and forever. The (States are your home. Draft on Lon- don inclosed. AN'rite to me from Franco next week, or write to me no more, (iradu- at(^ in France. Then come north, and sail from Havre to New York. Von have done with Britain, and so have L till our next war. I'ray (!od that mayn't he long!' "It was like a lion's roar of anguish. I saw my dear father's heart was Imrsting with agon.v and r;igo at the insult to his daughter, and I slnd tears for him those wretches had never drawn from me. "1 had cried at lieiiig insulted hy sdicd- ars, in the Fress ; but what was it to mo tint the scum of the medical iirofession, which is the scum of (lod's whole creation, called me words [ did not know the mean- ing of, and tiling the dirt of their streets, iuid the tilth id' their souls, after mo? I was frightened a little, that is all. But tliat these reptiles could wound ni.v darling old lion's heart across the ocean — Sir, he was a man who could be keen and even severe with iiKMi : but evcrv virtuous woman was a sacred thing to him; had he seen one, though a stranger, insulted, as we were, ho would liave dioil in her defense; lie was a true American. And to think the dregs of mankind could wound him for his daughter, ami so near tho end of his own dear life! Oh !" She turned her head aw ay. "My poor girl !" said Vizard, and his own voice was broken. When he said that she gave Lim her hand, and I turiil and I Bt saidi becll A WOALVN-IIATER. 79 iiiK what they (licir Imsiiioss iitime },MV(» us ^liili'it la.stcd, lii<'li will last ii our .slioul- ly was in jios- II (s. 'riic, i\}. •A widi their "111 of flicir i'f and pnl)- I xlmw llicm II iii'tlilb^r as to <'ivili/( canio a Ict- otlicr [ ever t'\t'n lit'}i;in, lilt ln' .said, ly incniory: iihI .skunks: lid forever, aft on Lon- I'liiii Franco >ie. (iradii- ■lli, and sail have douo II our next loilu; !' iiijinish. I IS Imrslinjj suit to his him those iii(>. I hy sclud- ^ it to mo ludfcssion, (' ereafion, the mcjin- 'ii' streets, IT mo? I But that arliiifr „i,i >ir, ho was on severe iiiiian was seen one, ' were, he ho was a dred laud. \ft there was a disapiiointment forme. 1 inquircMl fort.'ornclia. The wretch had just ffone and married a jirofessor. I another I'oom. '' While the ■women were hrin<;iur; her to, an olllicial came to insist on the intermeTit feared she wasii]) to no f^ood, hy her writing | takiiii;- place. They are terribly exjied it ions so seldom of late. I i)i the south of Fnince. " 1 sent her a line that an idd fiicnil had ! "This caused an altercation: and tlio returned, and had not forgotten lii'r, iior our jioor lady rushed out. anil tindiiig the otiicer Diutual vows. I peremptory, lluiij' her arms round the body, "t>he came directly. .Tiid was for caressing and said they slumld not he jiarted — she away iu-r crinus and dissolving it in croco- ' would he luiried with him. dile tears; but 1 played the injured friend i " Tiie olliiial was moved, but said thi> law and tlie tyrant. v,-as striit. and the town must coudmt the "Then slie curled nuind inc. and coaxed, funeral unless she twmld liiul tiie, sad eoiir- aud said, ' Sweetheart, 1 can advance your age to give the n(H'essary instructions, interests all the better. Von shall be fa- : ^Vith this he was going out, iuexoralile, mous for us both. I shall be hapjiier in ' when all of a suddauty and her popularity, gained over ail the professors to it but one. H(: out. that scut my heari into my mouth, and I crieiit on floor was very handsome. A voung Knglish- I blankets, liiit not to touch him till 1 came man ami his wife took it fur a week. She; back with a learned physician. 1 he wife was musical —a real genius. The only w/im- embraced me, all trembling, and promised an I ever heard sing without whining; for; ob(>dience. I got n fiacre and drove to Doo- wo are, by nature, the medical and nnmnsical , tor Ihasseur. who was "my hostihi |ir'»fcssor, sex." j but very able. I burst on him. and told him "So you said before." had a case of catalepsy for him— it wasn't "I know 1 did ; and I mean to keep say- catalepsy, you know; but iihysiciaus are ing it till people see it. Weil, the young ' fond of (ireek : they prefer the wronu tiroek man was taken violently i\nd mysteriously wonl to the right English ; so I called it ill; liad syncope after syncoiic, and at last ' ' cataleiisy,' and said I believed they were ceased to breathe. going to Iniry a live man. H(i shrugged his "The wife was ])aralyzed. and sat stupe- shoulders, and said that was om^ of the cus- iied. and the iieople about feared for her , tmus of the country. He would come in an reason. j hour. I told him that would not do, the "After a time they begged me to come ! man would be in his coflin; he must como down ;inil talk to her. Of conr.se I went. (liriHdly. He smiled at my imiietuosity, and I found her with lu'r head upon his knees J sat down (ini(!tly, and looked at him. Ho j yuMded. " I yot him to the patient. He examined •' ! 1 li i 1 k li "llt.. ■i .si f r 'I |v!l '; ^'^1 BO A WOMAN-HATER. Iiim,.aii(l Hiiid lie iniirlit hv alivo, Imf IVnrcil liini. Ilowovor, oiio day Im mot mo. and tlio la.st s])iiik Wiis ;;(iin'j;niit. lie dared not j;r('c(('d mo witli a low liow. ' Madi'inoi- vt'iitiirc oil t'lictioii. We imiHt lif wary. M'llf," saiil lie, 'you were always a ;;ood slii- "Wcll, \vc Irifd tliis Niiimilanl and that, dciil ; Imt now yon show (lie .spiril ol'a (•<»«- till at last wo yot a si;;li out ol'tlit i)ationt ; ./'/(Vc, !ind so niaccfnlly that wo arcd/ZaKrocd ■and I shall not l'ory;o( tlio scroain ol'joy. at wo must have yon lor ono as soon as pos- tliat si;;h, w iihdi inanllis Avonilei I'lilly, tnr he made lapid pr(i;;ress, and I w;is ailiiiil led to my linal osaminatioii. It tljen we tried IViet ion. and ho ^ot well very was a se\ero one; hut I had some advan- f|iiiok. Indeed, as ho had iiothinji tho mat- taeo.s. Kaoli nation lias its wisdcni; and I tor with him — ox('oi)t hoiiij; dead — ho u<'t had sMidiod in various schools. ridiculously well, and liow York : a fortiiij;ht more and (lid not even hid ine i;ood-l)y. However, F my parents should ureet me as a Jairopeau wiis told they lioth inipiired for me, and were doetress, if not a Hritish. .sorry I was out when t hey went."' \ "The e\i itemciil had heoii too i;roat ; I "How |j;ood of tlionil'' said Vizard, turn- .sank a little exhaiisled on tho sot'a. They inured. | lu-onniit mo a leller. It was hlack-odjiod. I "Oh, iipvor mind. Sir; I iiiado uso of /(()». tore it open with a scream. .My fatlicr was I srrihhlod an iirticlo that very day, entitled dead."' it.' While there's I .ile there's Hope." and rilsli- 0(1 with it to tho editor of a journal. Hi! took it with deliuht. I wrote it a la Fran- CHArTEIi XIV (■(liaf : ]iictun! of tho dead hiisliand, mourn- ! '• I vv.\s ]>rostiali'd. stiipelied. I don't inu; wii'o, th(^ impondiiiji; iiitormont; effaced l;now what I did or how loiii^ I sat tlieri\ myself entirely, and said i\w wife had re- Hut rornelia came to conL;rat iil.ato me, aiul i'nsed to luiry him until Doctor Brasseur, found me tln'ie like stone, wit h the letter in ■whoso fame h;id reached her ears, had seen my hand. She pai ked up m\ clot lies, and tho iiody. To humor her, the doctor was took me homo with iicr. I made no resist- aiipliod to, and, his lieiuiVoloiR'O hi'iiiij; Ofjual aiico. I seemed all broken and limit, soul to his scionco, ho came : when, lo! a siidilon and body, and not a tear tiiat day. .sin'iiri.so ; tho swil't, iimM'rin;; eye of scionce. "J>!i,.Sir, how small every thinusooms he- (h^tectod some subtle, sign ihat had escaiied side, beroavement ! My (roubles, my insults, the lesser luininarres. Ho doubled tlio were, nolhiiiLj now; my triiimitli nothinjj;; dealli. ll(t ajipliod roiiiedies; ho exhausted for I had no father left to bo proud of it the means of hia art, with little avail at with mo. lirst, but at last .a siffh was elicited, then a | "1 wept witli anj;uish a liumtrod times a Ruoeze; and.marvidons torol.ato, in one hour day. Why had I loft New York ! why had tho dead man was sittinj,; u]), not eoiiva- 1 not foreseen this ovory-day calamity, and lesccnt, but well. I concluded with some jiassed every precious hour by hissidel was rclloctious on this moul impovluni cuxe of suh- to lose ? pemled aniiudtion very cn'ditabh! to the pro- t "Terror seized nio. ]SIy mother would ro fessioii of medicine and Doctor Urasseur." ; next. No life of any value was safo a day. "There was a fox !" Death did not wait for disoa.se. It killed "Well, look at my hair. What elsi! could because, it clios(>, ami to show its contempt yon expect if I said that befori; too. of hearts. "My notice published, 1 sent it to the " JJut just as I was ju'eparinE; to jjo to doctor, with my respects, but did not call ou lluvro they brought luo a telegram. I A WOMAN-HATER. 81 spronniod at it and put np my bainls. I said, •No, IH>;' I woiilil iiol rend iltutjf luld my iiiotlH'i' was dead. I would liavo lii-r a ii'W iiiiiiutcs loii;;'('r. Coriudia read il, and said it, was Croiii iicr. I fell on it and kissi-d it. 'I'JKi blessed telcirram told sln^ was eonun;; home. 1 was to go to London, and wait for lier. "I started. Cornelia ])aid my fees, and put my dii>lonni in my l)ox. 1 eai'ed lor notldnj^ now lint my own tle.sli and hlood — what wiis left (d'it, my motlier. "I reaelied London, and tele;;;raphed my address to my motlier. and l)e;;;ied lur to eomo at once and ease my lears. 1 told liei' my I'nmls were exliansted, l)nt oi'eonrse that was not tho thin;? I ponred out my lu-art about ; HO I dare say .slie Inirdly realized my (It'ploialile, eondition — listless and iiereaved, alone in a ^reat city, with no inmiey. "In her next letter she lie^iued me to he jiatient. ."^he liarayers of this congregation are requested for iiarringfon Vizard, saddled with u vi- rago." "Saddled with a virago!" screamed Fanny. "Saddled with a — !" sighed Zoe, faintly. "Sadilleil with a virago lOK Line !" sliout- ed Vizard, with a. loud defiance, that seemed needless, siiu'e nobody was oljecting vio- lently to his l»eing saddled. " Lo(dv here," said he, deseending all of a Hudilen to a meek, injured air, which, how- ever, did not last very long, " I was in the garden of J^eice-'er S(|uarc, aud a young lady turiu'd faint. I oliserved it, and in- stead of taking the hint and cutting, I of- fered assistance — off my guard, as usual. She deeli?uMl. 1 jiersisfed ; iirojiosed a glass of wine or spirit. She declined, hut at last let out she was starving." "Oh!" cried Zoo. "Yes, Zoe — st.arving. A woman more learned, mine scientific, more ehxiuent, more offensive to a fellow's vanity, than I ever saw, or even read of — a woman of (jcniHg, starving, like a geidus and a ninny, with a ring on her iinger worth thirty giuneas. But my learned goost! would not raise mon- ey on that, because it was her father's, aud he is dead." "I'lior thing!" said Zoe, aud her eyes glis- tem-d directly. " It ix hard, Zoe : isn't it ? She is a pliysi- cian— an al)le |)hysician ; has studied at Zu- rich, ami iit Edinburgh, and in France ; and has ••( French (li|iloma. but must not practice in England, because we are behind the Con- tinent in laws aud civilization — so tihc says, confouml her impudence, and my folly for becoming a W(unan's echo! But if I were to tell you her whole story, your blood wimld boil !it the trickery and dishonesty and oppression of the trades-union which has driven this git'tcd creature to a foreign school for edneation, and, now that a foreign nati(Ui admits her .ability and crowns her with honor, still she must not practice in this country, because she is a woman, and we are a nation of half-civilized men. That is /ier chat, you understand, not mine. We are not obliged to swallow all that; but, turn it how you will, here are learning, genius, and virtue starving. We must get her to accept a little money ; that means, in her case, a little fire aud food. Zoe, shall that wonnm go to bed hungry to-night ?" "No; never!" said Zoe, Avarmly. "Let mo think. Oiler her a loan." ' 1 1 i 11 62 A WOMAN-HATER. I' ! "Well ilono; that is ti pooil idea. AVill yoH iiiiileitako it if Sli« will \w far iiioio likely to accept. ISlio is ii liit ol' a iniide and all, is my viliiHO." " Vcs, dear, hIic will. Order the ( arria^e. Slie shall not no t<> IkmI iiiiiijiry — nobody ttliall that you :irc interested in." "Oh, alter dinner w ill di>." Diiiiier was ordered iuiinediately, aiul tho l)ron;;hani an lionr alter. At dinner N'izard f;ave them nil the out- line of the Kdinlnirjiii strn;;';;le and tin- imm and I'oiiH, dnrinjj which narrative his female hearers mij;lif have heen oliserved to net cooler ami cooler till they leachcil the zero of perfect apathy. Thoy listened in dead silence ; Imt when Harrington Inid done, Fanny said aside to Zo(S '" It is all her o\\ n fault. AVhat l>usiness have women to set up for doctors f "Of course not," said Zoe ; "only we must not say so. He iudul<;es itn in our whims." Warm iiartisan of inunortal ,jnslict>, when it was luiky enoujih to lie liacked hy her af- feetions. Miss Vizard rose directly after din- ner, and with a line imitation of ardor, said sho c(nild lose no more timt' — sho must ^o ami i)ut on her houiict. "You will come ■with me, I'"anny ?" Wlien I was a girl, or a hoy— I foi;tet ■which, it is so lonj;' i\ — a yonnj; lady, thus invited hy an atlectionate friend, used to do Olio of two thiiifjs: tiine times out of ten she sacriliced her inclination, and went; the tenth, she would make sweet, eny she felt hungry again, lint she had no food and no money. She lookcil hard at her ring, and jirolited a little by contact \\illi the sturdy good sense of \izai'd. She said to herself, " Men understand one another. I believe father would be angry with me for not." Then she looked tenderly and wi>t fully at the ring .'iiid kissed it, and iniirmnred, I "Not lonighl." You s<'e, she lioped sho might have a letter in the luorniiig, and so respite lii'r ring. I Then she made light of it, and said 1o herself, " No matter; 'qui doit dine.'" I Jbit as it was early tor bcil, anil she could not be long idle, sipping no knowledge, .';he took nj) the hist good German work that she had bought when she had money, and jiro- eeeded to read. She had no candle, but : she had a lucifer-niatcli or two, and an old ncwspiiper. Withthisshe made long s]>ills, and lighted one, and read two pages by that ]iaper torch; and lighted another before it , was out, and then another, ami so on in siic- j cession, lighting for knowh^lge against pov- erty, as she Iiad fought for it against pertidy. While she was thus absorbed, a carriage ■ drew up at the door. ! at the door. " Come in," said she ; iind Zoe entered just as the last spill burned out. Khoda fJale rose, in a dark room; but a gas-light over the way just showiul her fig- ure. " Miss Gale ?" said Zoe, timidly. " I am ^liss Gale," said Khoda, nuielly, but firmly. "I am Miss Viiard. the gentleman's sister that you met in Leicester Siiuare to-day;" and she took a cautions step toward her. Kboda"s cheeks burned. "Miss Vizard," she said, "excuse my re- ceiving you so; but you may have heard I am very i>oor. My last candle is gone. I But perha))s the landlady would lend me i one. I don't know. She is very disobli- ; ging. and very cruel." j "Then she shall not have the honor of lending you a candle," said Zoe, with one I of her gushes. "Now, to tell the truth," ; said she, altering to the cheerful, " I'm ruth- II n A WOMAN-IIATKR. m (T ;;ln(l. I wonltl rnlhrr talk to you in llin I This iinittlo wmh iiifcrriipti-il liy Rlitidii (lark, liir a little, jiiMl at lirst. May I f" Hy , Oalo |iiitliiiK Iter ri^lit wrist roiiiul Zof's this tiiiio nIih liatl f;ia(liially civpt up to ticck, ami laying licr fitrt'lifail on lit-r slioiil- Klidda. (Irr witli a little sol). So tlieii tliey liotL " I am afi-aid yon Hll^s^"sai'! Hlioda. " Hut , (listiilcd tlic inevitalde dew-drops, at least I eaii oll'ef yon a seat.'' j I5nt as K'lioda was not mneli yiveii tluit Zoe sat down, and there was an awkward way, she started np, and said, '• Darkness f sileneo. No; I must see the face that has coiiu' hero "Oh dear," said Zoe ; " [ don't know how ! to help me, ami m>t humiliate me. That is to hej^in. I wish ycm wcmld yive mo yonr the lirsl nse I'll make ot the money. I am hand, as I can't see your face." j afraid yon are rather plain, or yon eonldn't " With all my heart: there." ! he so nood as all this." (.\linosl in a whisper,) " He has told nu'." j "No," said Zoe, '• I'm not reckoned plain. Hhoila pnt tho ^thcT hand to her I'aee, Only a.s Idaek as a coal." thoiijih it was so dark. | "All the nnne to my tnste," said Uhoda, "Oh, .Miss (iale, how- could you? Only amlllewont ol'Ihe room, ami nearly stiimliled think I .Snp])ose you h.ad killed yonrsell', or over a liiznre seated on a step of the stair- made yourself very ill. ^'onr mother would have eonie directly ami fonml yon so; and oidy think how- unhajipy you would have made her." "Can 1 li.'ive forgotten my motlier ?" ask- ed h'hoda of herself, hut alimd. "Not willfully, 1 am sure, lint yon know Heninses are not always wise in these little tliinj;s. They want some <^ood hnmdrnm soul to advise them in the comnioa affairs ease. " Who are yon ?'' said she, sharply. " ^ly name is ,'^everne.'' "Ami what ar(^ yon doiiifi; there?" " Wailine; for .Miss Vizard.'' "Come in, then." "She told me not." "Then 1 tell you to. The idea! Miss Vizard!" "Yes!" "Please liave Mr. ."^everne in. Here ho of life. That want is supplied you now ; i is sitting; — like grief — on the stepa. I will for / am here — ha ! ha I'' "Yon are no more coninmniilace than 1 am; nuicli less now, I'll 1 '■ hound." "We will i)ut that to the test," .said Zoe, adroitly enoujih. "J/;/ view- of all this is, that here is a yoniiy; lady in want of money for a time, as every hody is now ami then, and that the sensihie course is to horrow some till your nn)lher cmnes over with her apron full of dollars. Now I have twenty jtonnds to leml, and if you are so mijihty sensihie as you say, you won't refuse to hor- row it." .■,(1011 !)( hack. ' She Hew to the landlady. " Mrs. Grip, I want a candle." " Well, the shops are open," said the wom- an, rudely. "Oh, I have lu) time. Here is a sover^ eiiin. riease ;;iv(> me two candles directly, candlesticks and .til." The woman's manner clinnged directly. "You shall have them this moment, miss, and my own candlesticks, which they are plated.'' She hrought tliem. and advised her only " Oh, Miss Vizard, yon are very {;;nod : hut ' to li^ht (,ne. " They dmi't carry well, miss," I am afr.'iid and ashamed lo horrow. 1 nev- said she. "They are wax — or snmmat." er (lid such a thin;;." "Then they are sumniat," said Miss (Jale, "Time you hegan, then. / have — often, after a single glance at their composition. Rut it is im use arguing. You must, (U- yon I " I'll make you a nice hot supi)er, miss, in will get poor me finely scolded. Perhaps half an hour," s.aid the woman, maternally, he was on his good hehavior with you, be- as if she was going to i/ire it her. ing a stranger; hut .at home oliedience is "No. thank you. Bring nie a twopenny e.\pecte(l. He will be sure to say it was loaf and a scuttle of coals." my stupidity, and that he would have made " La, miss, no more than that — out of a you directly.' " Do tell !" cried Rhoda, surprised into an idiom; "as if Pd have taken money Irom him.'' sov' ?" " Yes— TiiK cn.xMiE." Having shown Mrs. Grip her father was a Yankee, .she darted up stair.s with her "Why, of course not; hut between us it j candles. Zoe came to meet her, and liter- is nothing at all. There :" and she ])nt the I ally dazzled her. money in Rhoda's haml, and then held both | Khoda stared at her with .amazement and hand ami money rather tightly imprisoned growing rapture. "Oh, you lieauty!" she in her larger palm, and began to chatter, cried, ami drank her in from head to foot, so as to leave the other no opening. "O I "Well," said she, drawing a long breath, hles.sed darkness! how easy it makes things, j "Nature, you have turned out a com-plete does it not? I am glad there was no can- ; article this time, I reckon." Then, as Sev- dle ; we should have been fencing and bln.sh- erne laughed merrily at this, she turned her ing ever so long, and made such a fuss about candle and h(^r eyes full on him very brisk- nothing, and — " I ly. She looked at liiiu for a moment with m 84 A WOMAN-HATER. l.M ' ? a gratifu'd oyo at liis conieliiicss; then she \ unlikely. If I did, I never spoke to her, or started. "OliI" she eried. He received the j I Hlionld luivc remembered her. JJonH you i!.__ _*1 ,■!» 1 1. -1.1 J • Itl'T It* in.si)eetion merrily, till she uttered that ejae- I ilihik nlall- I, then he started a little, and staie_ Sll(^ seemed initio surpnseU anil niv lied when you said ' No.'" '"Well, you know, of courst> it /s a morti- ,, , , ^.. I fyinji; thinj; when a lady claims a gentli;- •' Von — don't — jinieuilier — 'man's a((iuaintance, and the ficntlcman doesn't admit it. Hut what could I do/ I couhln't tell a lie about it — could If " Of ciMirse not." " I was olf my ^uard, and rud. h ; hut you were not. What tact! — what delicacy! — • what hi^h breedinj^ ami angelic benevo- lence! — and so clever, tool'' "Oh, lie! yon listenear to lose a wmil that dropjicd from those almost tenderly " Have we ?'' said h(>, putting:; on a mysti- fied air. She fixed lum, and looked him throuoodness and be;iuly united. I will never despair of hu- man nature." This was too point-blank for Zoe; she blnsh(Ml crimson, and said, archly, " I tliink t lii).s so m-ar me. Yes, I listened, and j^ot it is time for me to run. 01:, but I forirot ; : such a lessnv woiii- If I am so very attractive, you will come anly art. and the way you contiived to nndio ami see me. Wo leave towu very soon, i the benel'actio'i sound mitliin;;'. "We are all Will you?" I of us at low water in turns, and for a time, "I will," said Rhoda. | esjiecially me, Zoe \'i/,ai(l; so here's a trilling "And sinc(> you took mo for an old ac- i loan.' A loan! — ymi'll iicNcr see a shilling quaintance, I hope yon \.ill treat me as of it again! Xo matter. Mliat do angels one," said Severnc, with cousunnaate grace want of numey .'" and .assunince. | "Oh, inayl'' said Zoe; "yt)U make me "I will. Sir.'' said she, icily, and with a ! blush." marvehnis curl of the lift that di done all this for a lady you do not after Zoe, and igmn'cd Severne altogether. really appro\e? Fancy! a she-doctor!" "My dear friend,' said Zoe, with a lillle ♦ juvenile pomposity, "iMie ought not tojndge one's intellectual siipcM'iors hiistily, and this CHAPTER XV. I ij,,]^. i^ ,,|irs;'' then gliding back to herself noixci home in the. carriage, Zoe was — ":ind it is my natur(> to aiij)rov(> what silent, but Severne talked nineteen to the those 1 love ap|0'ove, when it is not tlown- dozen. Had his object been to hinder his right wrong, you know." companion's mind from dwidling too long; "Oh, of cstion puzzled M'ords wdiiid till pages; his topics wivc that her. Miss (iaie was iiii extraordinary Aomaii, Imt "Come," said he, " I'll be frank, and ,s])e.'ik too nniscnline for his taste, and had made out in time. 1 don't think yon know your her own troubles setting up thictress, when brot'her Harrington. He is very inthuniuii- Iwr true lin(> was governess — for boy.s. He blc." Wius also glib and satirical uiion that favor- } " Inllammalile ! — what ! Harrington ? ite butt, a friend. Well, yes — lor I've seen simike issim from "Who but a.soi-(?(.sa)(/ wonnm-hater woidd his month ^ha! ha I'' pick u)) a strange virago, and send his sis- i "Ha! ha! I'll pass that off I'm- mine some ter to her with twenty pounds? I'll tell (lay when you are not by. But, seriously, j-ou what it is, .Miss Vizard — " j your l)rolher is the very nnin to make a fool Here Miss Vizard, who had sat de.ad silent (>f hiuifJelf with a, certain kind of wonntn. under a llow of words which is merely imli- He despises the whole sex— in theory — and cated aiiov(>, laid her haml on his arm to hi' is very hard up(m (U'dinary women, ami Ktop the lliix for a moment, and saiil, (luict- , does not ap|neciate their good ets a remarkable woman, ' Knnv.- her! — how should I ?' " I thought you might have nu-t her — ubroad." " Well, it is poasjhlo, o. uourse, but very he catches lire like tow. H(> fell in lovo with .Mademoiselle Klosking." "Oh, not in love !'' " 1 beg your pardon. Now this ia between A WOMAX-HATKR. ke (o her, or . DohH you iiid I tliiiik Sill' .si'ciiicd wlii'ii yini t h n iiKirti- is a gen t le- nient Iciiiiiu il.l I do? I Id I ?" li ; Imt you delicacy ! — lie beiievo- l cdiild not 1 lioiu (lioise ed, and got eiiile lady I ynur woiii- ved f o make • We are all I for a time, •e's a trilling ■e a shilling I I do angeln I make me light to see k I can't see ,• yon do not lioilor!" \i(li a lilllo iiol tojndgo ily, iiiul tliiH k to lierstdf l>rov(> what < not down- g; hut Is it ion puzzled :. and speak know your ; inllannna- arrington ? issnc! Ironi r nnne some t, seriously, make a fool of wonnin, leory — and vonnn, and 1 1(^ woman, ell in lovo ia between 85 you ami mo: he was in love with her — mad- ; The world is like the I, aw, fall of im]died ly in love. He was (udy saved liy oiir com- contracts: we gi\e and take, witliont open- ing away. If those I wo had met and nnnle ly agri'cing to ; snhfle .Severne counted on Mciiuiiintance, he \\onl(l have lieeu at her this, and was not disappointed. Zoe reward- mercy. I d'ln't say any li:irni would ha\<' ed him for hi.s pr;Mse.s and her happi'iess hy ceme of it; l)nt I do say that would have depended on the woman, anil ih>I on the ninn." Zee lo(d;ed V"rv serious, and said nothing. falling into his \ie\vs ahout Khoda Gale. Only she did it iu her own lady-like way, and not plump. Slu' came up to Harrington iind kissed lint her long silence showed liim !ii.s words him, and said, " Thank you, n a good errand. I fouml her in a \ cry mean ai)arlment, without lire or candle." " I thought as unnh," said Vi/ard. she take the money f '• Yes : as a loan."' "Make anv dittieultics?"' "A lit tie. dear." yevi'ine put in his word. WJUit to know all the tact am v.iiiih it was done, you uuist come to nie, fur Miss Vizard is n(d going to give you any ide;i i>{' it." '• He (|uiet. Sir, or I shall he very angry. I lent her the inom-y, dear, and her Irouhles :ire at an end : for her mother will certainly Join her liid'ore she ha- spent .>"ur twenty jiounds. Oh. and she had not parted with her ring; that is a cond'ort, is it no; .'" ■' ^■ou ;vre a g<«>«l-he:irted girl. Zoe," said Vi/ard. :»nproviiigly. Then, ri'covering him- IHir don't you he lilinded hy senti- -he deserves a good hiding for m)t fid wonnin is ever ecci'ntric ? l.';itc li b«T; jiailctu: aith her rii»U- Where is the sense she can get a husliand without. 'J'lia.f rW- of »i!4irx;ng, with tlurty poiiuds on your tiess will lu'cscrihe Harrington a wedding tiacerf" ring; ami if he swallows it. it will lie her Zne smiled, ami said tiin wortis wrre bard- last [ireseription ; she will senil out for tli»- «'r than his deeds, family (iocior after that, like other wivr-." "IJecause he doesn't niean ;i " You alarm nu'," said Z(ie. '• l':-.:ty do niiT put iu Fanny Dover, uiu'asy .it j. <«i»- nnike me unjust. This is a lady witIi a lin»- sation (d" her tongue, for all ■ . . rs:itu«tt nnnd, and m)t ;i designing wouniii." with Don Cigiir bad ju'oved uui)r)utieulile. "Oh, I don't siiy 'e h s laid any plans; "Are yon there still, my lady Disdain?" hut these thing; .w ; 'ways extemporized said N'izard. "I tlunight ymi were gone to the moment th-.- .ii iiic(, couu'.s. You can count hefoi and .i;i the in^tinets of every woman who !s IcM-r and needy, and on A'i/iird's i)ecnliar weakness for wmnen out of the ccunnuMi. He is hard upon the wlioh' sex; hut he is U" imitch for individuals. He owned as mneb himself to me one day. Ytm are not angry with me f " " No. m>. .\ngrv with //<»H f" ' i bed." '■ Y(ui might well think that. I bad noth- ing to kee|) me u])." Slid Zoe. ratbei snnirtly,"Oh yes, yon had — ( nriosity.'' Then, turinng to her broth- er ; "In short, you may make your ndnd (|uite easy. You havt lent your money, or given it, to a won by person, but a, little wroiie the end of it. You adored by srorcs, will soinftimcs yield to relieve me of a weijiht. Keally, when she the joint attacks of cieaolation, piqm', van- told me thai filile (d" learning mall reated, , ity, etc. honorable ambition imnislied, jiistiee baf- j In this state of flnctnatio!) ho made up lied by trickery, and virtue vilitied, aiid did his mind so far as this: he would manage not cry like llu' rest of you, «'.\cei>t at her so as to bo able (o go. father dying in New York tin* day she won I Even this demandee borne; here is a light, and i No objeetion was taken, and they rather justice down under dirty feet.' What Iu>!"' thought he W(udd go next ilay. But that (roaring at the toji of his vou'e). was not his game. It woidd never do to Zoe (inil I'diniii i siicaming, and iiinching go while they were in Lomlon. So In^. kept Ned Severne right and left). "Ah I ah I" ] postponing, anil saying he would not tear "Vizard to the rescue!" ! liimsi If away; ami at last, the day before "But, with the evening, cool retlection they were to go down to Barfordshirc, ho came. A sister, youthful but suddenly sa- affected to yield to a renu)nstrance of Vizard, gaeious (with a gleam of snsiiicion), very and said he would see them off, then run suddenly ha.s stillether came iii soon after with a card, and very little—" | said it was for Miss Vizard ; but he brought Miss Dover shot in, contemptuously, "I it to Harrington. lie read it: hail no comiianion — " I I "\(in might take llomlnirg on the way," said Fanny, out id' fun — lur fun — not really ' i"or want ot a fool to speak her mind to." CHAPTI'Ul XVI. iNOEXlOfs Mr. Severne having done his best to detach the poordoctress I'rom Vizard , and his family, in which the reader jtroba- bly discerns his true motive, now bent his miml on sliiniiug ttack to HoniburLi ami look- ing ;il'ler his nioiu'y. Not that he liUed the joii. To get hohl r)f if, he knew he must condense iMscality; he must jilay the ))eni- tent, the lover, and tlie scoundrel over again, i all in three days. ' Now, vhough his egotism was brutal, he was hum. in in this, tli.'it he had plenty of I good nature skin-deeii, and su|ieilieial seii- Hil)ilities, which nnide him shrink a little from this hot-pressed rascality and barbar- Itj'. On the other hand, he was urged by ))overty, and, laughable as if may appear, by jealousy. He had observed that the best of women, if they arc not only abandoned "Mi.ss KiioDA Gai.i:, M.D." " Send It up to Miss Vizard," said he. The man was going out; he stopfied him ami said, " You can show the lady in here, all the same." Khoda Gale was ushered in. She had a new gown and bonnet, md showy, but very nice. She colored faintly at sight of the two gentlemen: but Vizard soon imt he at her ease. He shook li.inds with her, and said, " ■'sit down. Miss Gale; my sister will soon be here. I have sent your card up to her." "Shall 1 tell her /"said Severne, with tho manner of one eager to he agreeable to tho visitor. " If y(m please. Sir," said Miss (^ale. Severne went out zealously, darted U]i to Zoe's room, knocked, and saiil,"I'ray como down : here is that doclress." Meantime, .lack was gning Jill the card, and .lill was ::ii ing it Mary to give to tho hilly. It got to Zoe's room iu a (quarter of an hour. IM A WOMAN-HATE K. 87 lattorod and MICH yield to I, liiquf, vau- lio niado up oiild iiiiiiia<;o So he be- iiiiifl candess 11 into lluut- Vizard. I tlii'v latlior . lint that lun-cr (U) to So h(^ kept nld not tear (lay hcl'oro 'ord.shirc, lio iccol'V'izard, itff. IhiMi run into Ills at- liarlDrdsliin'. 1)11 the way," -not really t Zoo. *" For lid wliy put ro was such viiij;- hi« cue in<^ intioeeiit th iilcasiiro. ricnioon tea lies \V(M(> up II whicii tlioy ^ thiiijj; needs b in tlio tea; !i a card, and t he brought [.D." Hid he. Tho if(l him and here, all tho She had a iVy, hut very it oftlie two It lie at her I'r, and said, er will Mooii up to her." lie, witli the eahle to tho < Cale. larted n]> to ' I'ray eouio ill tho card, nive (() tho (iuurter of Aiiv nmv.s from niaimna f" I'sked Vizard, still 'When I borrowed it, I felt in his blunt way, " Yes, Sir." "Good news?" sure I eouUl repay it ; but it is not so now. I My mother says it may be' montlis before she can ( oine, and she forbids nie positivtdy '•No. My mother writes me that I must lo ^o to her. (Jli ! but for tijat, I'll ]mt on not expect her. She has io (l^iit witli a (lis- hoy's cloihcs and go as a common sailor to honest execiiliir. Oil, iiiiniey, money At tliat moment Zoc eir.i'ivd the room, but Severne [laced t li gel 1(1 h( \'i/,ard fidireled on his chair. idiiiu;. lie (lid not I M'P I 11 ire to face Miss (laic; and even in llnit said he, dryly. lustn't {j,o ill a jiassion, short interval of time he had |ieisuaded Zoo to pr itect 1 ler liroi lii'r a;iaiiist tins loi'iiiida- hcad : Who caics ?" said Miss (ialc. Inrnin;;; her nlv on him in the wav 1 lia\c tried blc yoiin^' lady, and shorten the interview to descril ifslK I care, sau I \' I lind wrath in- So Z( itered the room bristling with terferes with my (iij;eslion. I'lease go det'ense (d' her brother. At sight of her, and t(dl us what voiir mother on, She Jliss Gale rose, and lier features liteiallv has iik oininon-sense than somehodv ehse F(l loiie wi th pi easiirc, T lis was rather (lis- 1 ariiiiii Lt to one so ,'inii,il(l( as d si won t name — iioliteness I'orliid.'-: Well, who doulits tliat ?"' said the ladv, as surprised into smiling sweetly in re- with frank good humor. ''Ofcour.se she turn ; but still her ([nick dercnsive eye drank Miss Gale on the spot, and s,iw, with alarm, the iiii|>ri)\ cnicnt in her a[i|iearan('e. lieallllV, as indeed she (lcsi'rve( hits more sense than any of us. Well, my other savs — oh, Miss Vizai'd !" ' No. she doesn't, now. She never heard Mic was ve to be; f)r 1 th e name ol \ izan IS siiiL!,nlarly tempciat Mi>s (iale was 10 humor for feeblo drank nothing but w ater and weak tea with- Jokes. She turned half angrily away frc out sugar, and never ale nor (hank excei)t him to Z( She says 1 have been well at honest meals. Her youth and pure con- educated, and know languaties ; and wo are stiliition had shaken oti' all that pallor, and both under a cloud, and 1 had better give up all thought of Medicine, and take to teaching.'' " Well, Miss Gale," said Zoe, "if you a.sk eyes full vi intellect, iuit not in tin? least im: I must say, I think it is good advice, love-darting; nose, an a(|iiiline steadily re- With all y(Mir gilts, how can you figlit the vers(>d ; month, vastly expressive, hut large ; world ' We are all interested in you here; teeth, even and while, hut ivory, not jicarl; and it is a, curious thing, hut do you know, tin- pleasure of .seeing Zoe lent her a loV(>ly color. Zoe microscoiied her in one moment : not one beaiitil'nl feature inherwhoh^ t'ace; chin, ordiii.'iry ; iieail, symnietrical d set we agreed tin- other dav voii would have to on with grace. 1 may add. to complct(( the :gi\e up medicine, and fall into soiih! occu ])ietiire, that sh(> had a way of turning this pation in which llieic are many ladiijs al head, cl("aii, swift, and liinl-like, without turning her liody. Tli.at- fainil'ar action id' ready to l;eep you in coiinteiianco. Teach- ing was mcnlioiicd, 1 think; was it not, llarringlon V Ixhoda (iale sighed deeply. "■] am not surprised," said she. "Most wonicii of tho world think with you. But, oh ! Miss Vizard, please take into account all that 1 have done and siiti'ered for Medicine. Is all that to go for ikiIIiukj ^ I'liink what a liitier thing il must he to do. and llieii to undo, to labor and study, and then knock it all down; to cut a slice out of one's life — out of t!i(> very heart of it — and throw it clean iiway. I know it is hard for you to " Mi.ssGale has heard enter into the feelings of any one who loves science, and is told to desert it. Ihit siljiposo you had loved a iniin ymi were jiroiid (d' — loved liini for ti\(> years — und tlii'ii they eaiiK^ to you and said. 'There are ditliculties in the way; he is as worthy as ever, and ho will never rlcsert i/oii, liiit yon must give/n'w st lip. and try iiiid get a taste for hiiiiian riih- I bish ; it will (Mily be live years of wasted Zoo looked at her brotlic!-, perplexed. | lite, wasted youth, wasted seed-time, wasted "Stuff and nonsense !" said ^'i/.ard; "you atfeclion, and then a long vegetable life of will not take it, Zoe." iinavailinu regrets.' I lovt^ science as other "Oh yes; if yon please, do," said lihoda, womcu love men. If 1 am to give up scieuto, hers was tint — so t'lill (d'lire and intelligence. Zoe settled in one iiKuiieiit that she w;is downright ]>lain. but iiiiglit probably be that mysterimis and incoinprehcnsihle .'ind daiiger(ms creature, "a geiitleiiniirs beauty," wliiidi, to women, means no lieaiity at all. but a witch-like creature that goes and hits Ibiil and eclipses real heailly, doll's to wit, by solium mysterious magic. "I'ray sit down," said Zoe. foriiially. Rlioda sat down, and hesitated a moment. She l'(dt a frost. \'i>:ard lielpeil her from her iiioi her." " Ves, Miss Vizard," said Klioila, timidly; "and very bad news, .s^he can not come at ])resent ; and 1 am so distressed at what I have done in borrowing that iiKUiey of > on ; and see. I have speni neaily three pounds of it in dress; but 1 have hronglil tin back." i ''i w m m 15 \ 88 A WOJLVN-IIAXER. why not die? TIhmi T shall not feel my ; Imrst. Yon will havo to sow flieni up !i. Jhit whet her yon the injustiec of llu' day. Do not make me a i will eve>- ;• t any iVes out ol' them, (his de- luir.se-muid. 1 icoii'l he a i;(ivi'rness; anil 1 lunst not die, hecause that would j;Tii!Vo my mother. Have pity on me!— lu'V.- pity!" She trembled all over, anu stretelied on lier hands to Zoc with truly tonehing siip- Ijlieation. Zoo forgot her part, or lost iho power to ])lay it well. She tnrneil her head away ami would not assent; hut two large tears rolled out of her lieantiful eyes. Miss (iale, who had risen in tin; ardor of her ai>i)eal, j bruises, and putrei'vingsores, and eveiy thi saw that, and it set her otl. Sim leaiu'd i to make >ou eouitoriable." ponenl sayelli not. However. I can answer for the ludu:i of our ( my nnin H;irris will b(\ himse-nniid, and not let one of your homiciihil sex set foot in 'he crili." Miss (iaic ioidvcd from Yij^ard to his sis- ter, like a pc;-son in a dream. She wasglow- Knglish too, if any woman can. This is the ; ing with happiness : Imi i( did no( spoil her. ])ro;;ranune. i farm two hundred acres — j She ,->aiil, hnmlily ami ( imidly, " I hope I may vicdiioiinlji, of cours(^ Xolvody in lOiigland I prove woi'thy." ' That is jiour hnsinoss." said Vizard, with has l>rains to do any thing liimmlf. That weakness is conlined to your late father's it- il bnilying. countrv, and thev sni'l'er for it b\ outliyl ing, oni lying, ontmano'iivrin; ami out will ing ns whenexcr wo enccuuiter sni)reim^ inditl'erence: "mine is to he just. 11 ive a cup of tea ?" ' Oh no, f iniiik you ; ami it will ho a part of my duty to object to afternoon to; them. Well, the larm-himse is largo. The , 1 am afraid nom^ of yon will mind me, But bailill' has no ehildn tlmro is a wing i'nr- Attor a I'ew more words, in which Sevorne, Dished, ami in)t occupied. You shall live seeing \'i/iii-d was in one cd' his Ikmi nH)ods, then', with the right of cntling vt ■elablcs, ind immovalde as him of K'hodes. atl't d roastiiiii <'hickens, sinking eygs, and riding now to In a partisan of the new air.inge- a couple of hoi'ses oti' I hcil' ie It. M iss (ia e rose to retire; Severno ran But what am I to do for all that f" bel'oro her to tho door, and o]>eued it as to a "Oh, only the W(uk of twr) men. You (luoen. She bowed formally to him as sh nuist keoji my house in perfect health. Tho i wont out ; when sh<< w;is on tin! other sido BorVantB have a trick of eatiug till they 1 the door, she turued her head iu hw sharp, A WOJLVN-HATER. II up !i;^:uii. opli'. ill tlio ill; and if n^' iiiji'i'ati- iiiiist iiialvo il iiiul you Iictlh'r you III, 111 is di'- ■aii answer t llu'y will lit, and lior [>n lire ! Is iry Avithiii seaso. Iii- i iKtuidil'iil III Wounds, very tlii"^ 1 so afraid ;i;race you. Hit I don't w to ladies vliat is tli(3 dear! an- r to Harris, with three servants, waitiii" for It! emerali tl line one 1 rill ' L'haiitied hands on his little tini;er, a very them, one with a li.nht eart for their lu<'- d sh •it iat^e, and tw witl I an ojieu earria;;e and was oil the third liiiiicr of your left liand , two spaiikii!.:.; Lays, wliose eoats shone like when we met last ;" and she pnssed down satin. The sei'vaiits, liveried, and top-boot- tlie stairs with ii face half turned to him, ed, and huckskiii-ylox ed, and snruee as if iiid a eritid smile. just out of a handliox, weic all smartness Severne stood lixe.l, !ciol.;iii;r after her; and respeetfiil zeal, 'i'hey ,u,ot the lui;;ra;;e •old crei)! ainoi j '.is liones : he was roused out in a trice, with Harris's assistance, II; .Ml liy a voh . -''i \c him sayini;, very ini|iii.>i- Harris tlien drove awiiy like the wind in his ti\ ely, '• Wliat does shi' say.'' He looked riiii:s at the rate i f twelve e\ideut ly seen all, and heard .>nme. .'-'everne miles an hour till they came to the loil^jn had no means ot' knowiii^j; lunv niiicli. His ;iate. It was oiiened at their .-ippro.ieh. ain'i heart lieat rapidly. A'ef he told her, lioldly, they diove full half a mile over a luoad that the doctress had admii^ed his I'liierald j;r;i vel-pat li. wiih rich crass on each --ide, rin;j;: as if to "ive y,i-ealcr force to this ex- ;ind crand old pat riarchs, oak and "neech, ]ilaiiiition, he look it off. ;iiid showed it lu-r, staiidiii^i- here and there, and dajipled deer, very a mica My. He ca leu kited tliat slie could ci'a/.iii;.; or lyiiiy;. in moil led ;iroups. till they hardly, at that distance, lia'.e lu'ard every came to a nolilc ;iM'nne ot' lofiy linie-tre<'s, syilahle, and, at the same t inic. he \\ as >iire wil h stems ol' rare si/.e and smoothness, she had seen Misstiale point at the liii^. land te verinji jtili's on jdles of traiisliieent •■ lliuni" haiil i'anny, and that was all she ' leaves that j;lowed in the suu like llakes oi' said. I ti"hl- Severne went to his own ronni to think.. At th" end of this avenue was seen an old Hi' was almost dizzy. He dri'aded this Kho- mansion, hiiilt of that heautifiil clean red (la (iale. She was incomprdii'iisilile, and hiick — which seems ti> liave died out — and held a swiird o\er his head, 'fonniies j:o white stcUM' facinj;s and miiliions, with ga- inst in the eoiiiiiiy. At Hie idea id" this Mes and (ui(d-windows by the dozen; l)ut keen siiil and '/.nr \'izard sittiiiy; under a between the aviuiiK^ and tiie house wa.s a tree I'nr two hours, with nothing; to Sc\ erne. ' lu' only stranger, into a he tiirniiiii' his back on ? A woniisn, l.i\ily, ; bedromu with ii ^rcat oricl-wiiid;)W lookinj; loviiij;, iiud celebrale.d. who was vci'y likely 'west. jiiiiiiiff f(U' him, and would sliare nut only; " This is your room. Sir." said he. "Shall licr winnliiK'^ at pla^ with him. but ilie I unpack sour thiiujs when they come ?" larjit' income she wnuhl make liy her talent, j . in niijility I'old.s, to 1)1' drawn at ni^ilittinic wlicii tlic oyo should neod n'lioso linni I'ca.slinj;' niion color. There! wire tlirce lirass Itcdstcails In a row, only lonr I't-ct' liroad. with sprinj; hcds, liair mattresses ;i foot tliiek. and snowy sheets for coverlets, instead of eonntei'|ianes ; so 1h;tt, if yon were hot, feverish, in- sleepless in one hed, you inif;ht try another, or two. Thick carpets and rug-.s, satin-wood ward- robes, prodiiiions wash-hand stands, with china l)aelis four feet hi.i;"'. Tow<'l-hurses, nearly as h\jx as a donkey, with short tow- els, Ion;? tow(ds, thick towels, thin towels, hathinjr sheets, etc. ; Ixiths of every shape, and cans of every size ; a larne knee-hole tivh'..- ; paper and envelopes of cNcry size. In sho. *■, a room to sleep in, study in, live in, and stick fast in. ni;j,lil and ws, ami felt in the temiile (d' comt'ort, and incapalile of leaving it alive. He went down to luncheon. Tt was dis- tinguishable from dinner in this, that they all got nji after it ; and Zoe said, "Come with mt', children." Fanny and Severne rose, at tin^ word. A'iz- ard baid he felt excluded from that iiivita- j tion, having cut his ■wise-teeth ; so he wSln^ took them to this and that fruit tree, set them to eat, ami locd^ed on supcricu-: !'y way id' rli- nnix, she led t hem (o the south wall, crimson with ten Ihousaml ])eaches ami nectarine.^; she ste|iiied over the liordei', took superb peaches and nectarines from the trees, and gave them with her own hand to Fanny and .*^everiie. The head gardener glai'cd in dis- m.'iyat the fair spidiator. Zoi' ol)serv<'d him, and laughed, " I'oor J.iicas," said she ; " he ' would like lluMii all to hang on the tree till they fell otV with a wasp insid(\ I'^at as nniny as ever you can, young people ; Lucas is anuising.'' '• J never IkmI pea< lies enough oil' the tree [ before," said Fanny. ' "No more hav(^ I,'' said Sev(>rnp. "Tliis must be the l'>lysian Fields, anil I shall spoil my dinner." '•Who cares?" s;iid Fanny, recklessly. " Dinner comes every day, and always iit the only tinu' when (me has in> appetite. Hut this eating of peaches — oh, what a , beauty!" " Children," said Zoe, gravel v, "I advise you iM)t to cat above a dozen. Do not enter on a I'atal course, which in one brief year : will reduce you to a hapless cmnlition. There — I was let loose among them at six- teen, anil everpince they pall, lint 1 uo like to see you eat them, and your eyes sparkle !'' '■That is too bad of yon," said Fanny, driving her white teeth deep into a peach. 1 "The idea ! Now, Mr. Severue, do my eyes ' s})arkle ;"' 1 " Like diamonds. Hut that ))roves noth- ing; il is tin ir normal condition." "There, nndvc him a courtesy," said Zoe, 1 " ami come along." She took them into the village. It was oiu' of the old sort : little detached houses with lit lie gardens in fiont,in allof \\hi(!! were a few humble llowers, and often a dark rose of sui'passing beauty. Hehind each cot- tage was a large garden, w ith various vege- tiibles. and sonu'linu's ji I'ew square yards of wheat. There ■was oin< little row of new brick honscr. standing together; tlieirimm- ber live, I heir name New Tow n. 'ibis tow n of live honsi's was I iled ; the detached houses w'-re thatched, and the walls idastercil and whilewashed like snow. Sinli whitewash seems ne\er to lie nnule in towns, or to lose its whiteness in ii day. This broad surface of vi\ id while w.as a liackgrmiml against which the clinging roses, the clustering, creeping honeysuckles, aud the deep j'ouiig ii[ ^" lie Would '1- Zi)c took anicii — four ill<>Coraiij,ro- >■'■•' llii' nails lioiiic, iiiid 'l'|ior(iii('ii(. Iht IViciid i^iit' took Si't (llclll (o \v;i.v i'l' ili- •lll. < lilllSDIl 'it'ctaiiiii'.'s ; "I'k snpcrl) '' lives, ;i|id I'liiiii.v and • ni'd in di.s- •^<'i'v<-d Iiini, Id sh,.; '■Ii,. lit' tree till ''• lOat as I'll'; Lucas oil' tlie trot) t^c- '■ Tills shall .spoil rccklossly. always at iil'l"'lift'. li, wliut a "I ad vise ' not enter Inicf year t'^ndilion. cm at six- ( I^io lik(^ NJiarklc!" tl Fanny, ' a iicacii. > my eyes ves iioth- said Zoe, It was ll IlOUSCS id' Avilii !; n a dark 'atdi coli- 'iis vefj(i- yardsof aek at Viz- and silvery fiom a cotta^ic oi' t wo that were aid ('oMrl,"said she. '• ranny I l^iuiiy !" iiud cookiiiji', and emliioidered t lie air. not I'oiiled slie .■stood si ill. it. The little windows had d lamond paiu Fanny came up. " W<*!1, what is tho mat- is in the Middle A^es, and every eottaue ter now f" said she, with i)ei't yet tlioroiigh- as open, sii^^^-eslin.!.; hospitality and ly a]>atlietie iiiditlerenee. dearth of thieves. Thei'e was also that old The mattei' is — ^extrava'j.'incii H.m ■iitial, 1 villajj;e yi -a I. sacred turf, that was every liod lad strip oi' is a man id' the world preteudiufi lu^ wonhl \ s bv el IS- like to end his dav.- .Mark.s"s Cot la' torn, thoueli ill strict law N'i/ard's. Hen Stop a hit. It was {c cow and a donkey went about ^la/- I loved. .\nd wouldn't you. Miss ''overf" i.y inji the edjjes, I'ov tl'.e turf in tl al was •• ( )li dear no. \\'e should he suie to (juar- sniooth as a lawn. Hy the side of tiie i;reen rel. cooped up in siicdi a mite of a place. No! IS the village ale-house. Alter the green, fiiv e me \'izard Court, and ideiity of money, and the man of uiy heart." '•Von lia\e not got one. I'm afraid," said ilier cottaiics ; two of tliei n "(Jiiilo ()V(,'rciiiiii;ii'(l with liHli woddliiiic, Willi sweet nii|sU-ri)SW, .nid wi'.li ci.'lii]liiip Oneof tlicse was called Marl Cottage, u- yoii would not juit him last, d "Wliv n<)t, when he is of the Inst ini- tlie other Allen's. The rnsi ic < liiirch stood jiortaiice .'" said Fanny. llippantly, and turn- in the niidille of a hill nearly half a mile eil the laugh her way. frmu the village. Tliey >rroi!ed up to it. It Tlie\ strollnl through the village togetli- had a tower Iniilt ol' lliut, and clad on two er, iuit in the grounds of Ni/.ard Coiiri Fanny sides with ivy three feet deep, and the body fairly g.'ive them the sliji. Sevcrne saw hi.s of the (dinn ii was as snowy as the col tages. (diance. and said, tenderly, and '• Did von hear what she said about a largo ai id on the soiilli side a dozen s walh martins had lodged their mortar nests under house b best for lovi>rs ; f he eaves. Th lev looked, auainst thi' while Ves. I heard her." said Zoe, defeiisivelv ; like riiggeil gray .stone bosses. Swallows and '•but very likely she did not mean it. That martins iiiiiiinieiable wheeled, swift as ar- voiing ladv's woids are air. rows, round the tou"r, (diirjiiiij. ill say d in and one t liing one dav and aiiot lier i he next." )ut of the cliiiii h ill 1 an open window, I don't know. T IS one thing every and added their music and their motion to young lady's mind is made ui» alxuit, and the beailly ol' the |>lare that ihether it is to be 1 o\i' or iiKUiev. Ket uriiing from ;lu' cliincli to the villige. '.* nn;nlit very lilvciy foriift to invite I'anny J)over. unless reminded ; hut. when she was there, she w;is welcome to slay forever if siie chose. It was ail one to liini. He never hotliered hinisidf to amuse his y;uests, and so they never hored liini. He never let them. He m.'ido thoni at home, put liis peoph; and his JiorscH at their service, and preserved his even tenor. iSo then the (picstion of Fanny's stay lay with Zoe, ; and Zoe would do one of two thin;;s — she would either say, with well-hred hypocrisy, she ou;;hl not to keep Fanny any louficr from her mother, and so i;et rid of lier; or would iuter|iose and ijive some rea- son or other. What that i.ason would he, Fanny had uo jin'cise i(U"i. She was sure it would not he the true one; hut then^ her insight into futurity ami females ceased. Now Zoe was thoroujfhly fascinated hy .Sev- erne, and Fanny saw it; ami yet Zoe was too hiiih-hrcd a yirl to ]iarade the ullajf(! and the nci;;hhorh()od with him alone — and so placard her attachment — before they were cn<;at;ed. and thii eii<>;agem(!nt sanctioned by the head of the liouse. This consitleratiou enabled .Miss Artful to make herself neces- sary to Zoe. Accordiiinly. she showed on the very tirst aftermjon that she was pre- pared to play the convoiient fri<'nd, and help Zoe to combine courtship with pro- priety. This )dan once conceived, slie adhered to it with pertiu.'icily and skill. !she rode and Avalki'd with them, and in imlilic i)Ut her- self rather forward and asserted tlie lead- er; but sooner or later, .at a projjcr time and place, she laKUed lieliiud, or cantered ahead, ami manipulated the wooinsj; with tact ami dexterity. The consei|uencc was that Zoe wrote of her own accord to Mrs. Hover, asking; leave to detain Fanny, because her brother hud iuvited a collcye frieud, uud it was rather awlcward for her without Fanny, there bc- inj; no other lady in tln^ house at jirescnt. .She showetl this to Fanny, who said, ear- nestly. "As lonji as ever y(m like. dear. '^laiiinia will not miss me a Int. Make \()ur mind easy." \'i/ard. knowing his sister, and entirely deceiveil in .Severm", exercised no vi;;ilaiice: for, to do Zoe justice, none was necessary, if Se Verne had liccn the man he seemed. Tiiere was no moih, r in the house to trcmlile for hci' dauuliler, to lie Jealous, to watch, to (|iu>siion, to dcniand a clear e x pla- na! iiui — in slioi't, to nu.'irii her yiumj; as only the molln'rs of creation do. The I^iysian davs rolled on ; Zoe was in heaven, and .Severuc; in a fo(d's paradise, en.joyinj; c\ery thini;. hoping; every tiling, forf;etlin;r e\ery tliinii', and fearing' noth- ini;'. lie had come to this, with ail his eun- niuii'; he was intoxicated and lilinth'd with passion. Now it was Ihat the idea of niarryinj;' Zoo liist enlci'ed his head. But he was not mad cnou.nh for I hut. He repelled it with ter- ror, ra;;e, .and desii.air. He passed ;in hour or two of a;;i)ny in his own room, and came down, lookin,^" pale and exhausted. Iiut, indeed, the little Humas, Hionnh he does not i)ass for a m(U',alist, s;,;s truly and well, '■ Les amours ilh'iiil imes ) /irtent 1(UiJours des fruits amers;'' and Ned Sevcrne's turn was come to suiter a few of the panji's ho had intlicted gayly on more than one wom- an and her lover. One miniiiu<;- at breakfast Vizard mado twt) anuouncenu'iits. " Here's news," said he; "J.)(icl(U' (i.ile writes to po.siiione her visit. She is ill. poor };irl !" '•Oh dear! wlml is the matter?" inquired Zoe, always kind-hearted. "(iastritis — so she says." " What is that .'" inquired Fanny. Mr. Severiu', who was nnudi pleased at this opportune illness, could not restrain his Inimor. and said it was a disorder produced by th<' fumes of ^as. Zoe. ac'ustomc time at liasil- (hm Hall, about nine mil<>s otV; so he had aske to dinner,"' said \"i/.,ird. He thi'n rant; the liell and sent for Harris, and ordered him to prejiare the blue chamber for Lcu'd l.'xmoor, and see the thin{j;s aired himstdf. Harris havinj; retired cat-like, "V'izard explained: "My A wo.max-hati:r. i.V, tlicro lic- it ini'sfiit. lio .s;ii(|, our- nr. •Miiiniiia ' your iiiiiid 111(1 ciiliri'ly <> vi;;ilimcf: icccss.ily, if I'lncil. •' liinisi) to ■ Ji'.iloiis, to llt'MI' CXIlIll- lill^ as only 7aio wuh in « jutradise, ^I'ly til in;;, 'ill;;' noih- lil Ills cnn- iinlcd Willi I'l'.vin;;- Zoe iH not niiul ' widi icr- •1 .'HI honr iiiul canio li'd. Jlnt, ii lio dncs ami well, t toiijonr.s I'lic's (urn l>iin^s lie L>nc woin- nvH niado •w.s," .said l)oue liur inquired loasod at strain liis :)rodnLe(l I S'lMillo- (ini(( to >t* in llio nplicity. iii^-cr at ord r.v- i( Hasil- 1k> liad and In* liiincr,'' •■11 and pri'paro in id sue having : "Aly 93 womankind sliall not kill rxinoor. Ho is a [ and lot nin soo your beautiful oyrs fixed on liowl fellow, and liis mania— we liave all ^ot a mania, mv vouii;^ liiend.s— is a re- .SJII'l tab! e one II !■ wants to improve the eontlilion of i ne poor — a^ianisl liinr wi 11. "His friend! that was so lias iiol lost him," said /oc I I loiic nt me •With disdain?"' ' No, no."' ' Willi Just sns)ii(ion f 'No; wilh nnnicriled pity." And he lie- an lo open the |iiaiio, 11(( hasn't lost liim in this Irtlcr. Miss | " What I do yon accom]iany yoiirse (insli, sail .hcn h 1 N'i/.ai'd. '• liul you can aslv him 1 '• 'ii's, after a t';isliioii; hy that means I don'l u'el run over.*' when 111 rues. "Of course 1 shall ask him. "said Zoe. j 'I'iicii this aceom])lislied ]ierson fixed his Half an hour lidbrc dinner there was a eyes on I'anny Dover, and saii;; her an Ital- grating of wheels on the ^ra\cl. ScMriieiaii lose som;- in the artilicial, jiassionato looked out (d' his hedroom w indow, and saw I style id' that nalion; and the ICiiglish girl rxmoor drive 11)). J )aik hliie coach ; silver , received it point -hlank with complacent harness, glilteriiig in the sun; four chest- ('oiDposure. Hut Zoe started and thrilled nuts, glossy as velvet ; t wo neat grooms as at I i;c liist note, and crept uji to the piano (luicli as lightning. lie was down in a mo- as if drawn l>y an irresistihlo cord. Sho ment, and his traps in the hall, iiiid the ga/.ed on the singer with .•im.'izenient and grooms drove the coach round to the staliles. admiration. His voice was a low tenor, They were all in the drawing-room when rcuiiid, and sweet ;is honey. It wa.s a real Lord rxmoor apiieaied; greeied Zoe wii h voice, a musical insirumeiit. respect fill war'iilli, N'i/.aril with e.asy friend- "More nmublc tli;in Imi; to plirplicnl'M mr ship, Severne and .Miss Dover with weli-hred i ^\'lH•ll wlivat i» t'l'c'ti, wlu'u iKiutliei-ii limls iippenr." civility. He took Zoe out, and sat at her And the Klosking had cured him of the fa- right hand at dinner. tal whine which stains the amateur, nialo As the new g'M'st, he had the liist claim or female, and had taught him climax, so on her attenlioii, and tiicy had a topic ic.'iiiy that he articulated and sang with perfect — his sick friend. He told her all alumt )mrity, and rang out his linal notes instead him, and his happy recoxcry, wiili simide of slurring them. In sliort, in plain jias- warmlh. Zoe was interested and sympa- sages he was a retlection, on a small scale, tlietic; iMinny listened, and gave Severne of that great singer. He kiu'w this hini- short answers ; Severne felt dethroned. self, and hail kcjit clear of song; it was so He was r.ither mortified, and a little nn- ' full of reminiscence and stings, lint now easy, hut too lira\i' to show it. He hided jealousy drove him to it. his time. In the driiwing-room Lord 1 x- It, was A'izard's rule to leave Hie room moor singled out Zoe, and courted her o)ien- whenever Zee or I'anny oiiened the piano. ly with respectful admiration. Se\erne So in the evening that instriimeiit of torturo drew l-'anny apart, and exerted himself to was always mute. amuse her. Zoe lienan to casi iine;isy glances. I'ut hearing a male voice, the squire, who Severne made coinmon c;nise with i'anny. doted on good music, as he aliliorred liad, ' We ha\ e no idianee against a lord or a lady, strolled in upon the chance, and he stared yon and I, Jliss Dover." ] at the singer. "1 haven't," said .die : "Imt von need not When tie' song ended, there was a little comidain. She wishes sin- was here." "So do I. Will you help me ?'' "No, I shall not. Vou can imike love to clamor of ladies' voices calling him to ac- eoiint for concealing his talent from them. "1 was afraid of A'izard,'' said he; "he nie. I am fired ul)li(.'. rxiiioor, \oii iii<' the imlilic iinitizrd jind didioliicd nl liiiii, Imt IMiioor It is to you \V« owe Illis jirftlV win liliT. coilltrd Zoo ;is il' lie dill not rsist. lie Im'- lluvo ynu any fuvoritf i>t>w^. I'lilili' .' Sny jiiin lo trcl liial lif was ilir man to iimiimt I lie word, and he sliall nIiij;- il xoii."' \\oiiicii in liarloidsliiii', Iml I'xnioor the man Scvcrnf IniiH'd ladiiT red ill iliat, and was lo many llicni. lie licnan lo sulk. /,oi'"h II lion t to rise .slow iy. w ill' n I x moor, w ho was unirk I'Vi' saw .and |iilifil. Slir was pn/zlcd instinctixcly a ;;fiil!rnian, ihonnh not a what lo do. Lord I'Miioor f^avo hi-r no courlit'i'. said, ''1 don'l imsunn' lo ilmosc fxriisc lor Ihrowiim cold water on idin, .Mr. Se\ erne's son;;s; Iml if we are ii'l lir- iiiK him, I own I shonld like to hear iiii l".n- j;lish sonu'; for 1 am mo mnsiei;in, and the words ari' e\erv lliinn with me." lieeaiiM' his adoration w;(s iinplied, not e.\- |iro |ira.\ say Ihiiifis The do;; did not slnr the short notes and to einnfort him ;'' Inii i'.inny read these yen- Iniwi noon the Ion;;' om's, as did a little fat tie glances <( In l)over. Mie j^ot liidd of Jew from l>onilon. willi a sweet voire and no hrains, whom 1 last heard howl il in the 'J'heatre Hoyal, Kdinl)iiry,h. No; he retain- <'d the jmre rhythm of the eomposition, and, ahove all, sanu; it with the nentle earnest- iH'ss and nni|naverinn' I'lnotion id'a lirilon. It slriiek /lie's heart \ioinl-lilanl\. She drew l>a<'k, hlnshiiij^ like the rose, in her Iniir and in the son<;, and hidiiiu' her ha|>|M- ness from all hut Hk* k(>en I'"anny. ICvery hody hnt Zoe a]i|daniled the Hon^;. She Hlioke only wilh Inr cheeks and eyes. Severne one day, and said, "What is the matter with yon?"' "Of coiir.se .\on ean'l di\iin-," said he, sar- castically. '• < >li yes. I e;in ; .and it is your own fault.'' "My I'aull! that is a ;iood Joke. Did 1 invite this imin with all his ail\ antaifes f That was \ i/.ard's doiii^, who calls liimsult' my friend."' " H' il was not this one, il would he soino 111 her. (.'an yon hope to keep Zoe \'i/.ard from lieiiiu: coiirled •' W'hv.shc is the hcau- Severiie rose from the piano. He was ty of the county I and her lu'other iiotniar- askeil to sin^ aiioiher. luit ih-clined, hinnh- ried. It is no use, yoin- niakini; love hy iii^ly. Indeed, soon afterward he jilided halves lo iier. She will j;o to some uiau out of the room and was seen no more that who is in earnest." ni^iht. i "And am I not ill earnest ?" Conseiiucntly he hecame Ihe tojiic of con- | " Not so niin h as he is. You have known versa I ion ; and the three, who though I they her four monllis, and never once asked her knew- him, vied in his piai.s( s. j to marry you." Ill the morning an expedition wasphiiined, | "So 1 am to be punished for my self-de- and Lord I'xmoor ](rotfered his " foiir-in- nial."' hand." It was accepted. All yoiint; ladies ^ " S(df-denial ! nonsense. r.Ien have no like to sit liehinil four sjiankinn' Irotter.s ; : sidf-deiiial. It is your cowardice.'' and few ohject lo he driven hy a viscount with a glorious heard and large estates. Zoo sat hv Kxinoor. Severne sat heliind ertv. 'Don't lie eriud. Von know il is niv pov- ' Vour poverty of sjtirit. You gave up them with Fanny, a spectator of his o]ien money for her, and that is as good as if you admiratiovi. He could not defend himself had it still, and heller. If you love Zoe, so well as last night, and he felt huiuiliated by the jtositi th scrajie up an ineoiiie someiiow, ami say tiie word. Whv. Hjiriington is liew itched with It was renewed dav after day. Zoe ol>en ! von, and In; is rolling in monev. I wouldn't cast a glance hack, and drew him into the lose lier hy cowardice, if I was yon. i: iversatioii ; yet, on the whole, I'xm oor moor wii )t\\tv marriage before he goes, thrust him aside liy his aihautages and his ' He is staying on for llnit. Now ftike my residnte wooing. j word t"or it, when one num oilers marriage The same thing at ilinner. It was only ! and the other does not, there is always a at night he could lie numlier one. He tuned ; good chance of the girl saying this one is Zee's guitar; and one night, when there I in earnest and the other is not. We don't was a party, he walked about the room with j expect self-denial in a man; we don't b(^- this, aud puttiug his left ley out, aevcuaded 1 licve in it. We see you seizing upou every wil nni crti till A WOMAN-HATER. 95 rilHliirc was 'III I'MiiDKr M. II,. 1,,.. Ill •" iiimiHo iii'lliiwiian ■iilk. '/.(w'h VMS l(||//li',l IVC Ikt IK) '!• on liiiii, I'll. IKll cx- ' NO cldM.ly I Scvcrnc. itiiiii ill cv- I ilriip I lull i> ;cii- ( ]li>l(l of itl Iif, siir- VII faiiU." I'. Did I aiila^^cs i s iiiiii.sflf I lie soiiK", ic N'izanl llin liiaii- iiiif iiiar- l()\o l)y >iuu iJiau known ■skcd Iicr • K«'lf-d(!. liavo no my pov- ^avo II]) 1.S if you iv(! Zoc, say tlio 0(1 Willi oiildii't 1. Ux- c K'>es. ik(i my arriajjo ways a one is t' don't n't lie- 1 every I fliinji olsp yoii caro for; ;iiid if you doii'l ,si'i/,c on IIS, il wounds nil r \ aiiilv, I iu' si inn - ^fsl passion \\<' liavi'. Considi r, I'xiiioor lias liilc, wcallli, cM'i'y tliinj:. lo lu'siow willi llic wi'ddiiii;- riiiu;. If in' oilers all llial, and yon don'l oilif all yon liasc, liow iiiMcli iiioif t;;('n( iiiiis lie looks lo lici'ilian yon do!" "In slioit, yon lliink- slic will doiil)| my aU'ection if 1 ilon'l ask Imt lo share my pox- erly."' '•If yon doii"l, and a rieli man asks lier fo share his all. I'm sure she will. Ami so should 1. Words are only wiu'ds.'' " Voii lorl lire me ; I'd latlnr die I hail lose her." ''Then live and win her. I've loiil yon Ihe way." " I will scrape an iiieome toj^otlier, and ask her." [ " I poll your honor?'' 1 "I'pon my soul." "Then, in my oiiinioii, you will have her in siiite of Lord I'Miioor.'' liol from liiis. lahvard Seveiiio sat down and wrote a ino\ iii^i lei ter lo a certain cous- in of his in llnnliiij;donsliire ; [ " My !>i:.\i; Cihsin, — I have often heard you say you were under oldieaiious ui my I t'alher, and had a iej;ard fur me. Indeed. ' _\ on have sliow n Ihe lal ler by lettiiie- 1 he in- leresf on in\ ni(n't;;aue inn oiil many years, and not forcclosin;;. Having' no other friend, 1 now wrile to you, ami llirow myself mi your pity. I have formeil a deeji altath-' nieiit to a yoniie- holy of inliiiite heanly and virrne. .'eclahility. Sooner or later I shall he aide lo repay ymi all. For (iod's sake, eonie to the assistance of your alfectionate cousin, j " KnwAiM) .'v..\n Ei)\yAi!n,~ I tlion,a,Iit you liad for- gotten my very exisleuce. Yes. I owe imu h to your father, iind have always saiil so, and acted accordingly. While you lia\e lieeii wanderinj; aliro.id, desert ing ns all, I have iin]iro\('d your estate. 1 have lioiii;lit all tlie other mortjiae-cs, and of late the rent has paid the interest, within a few ]ioiinds. J now make yon an oll'er. tlive mt^ a long lease of the two farms at .C^'f>'t a year -they will snnn he vacant ami C-'lliiOoiit of hand, and 1 will cancel all the iiiortejiKes, and give yon .1 receipt for I hem as paid in full. This will he like payinu yn .several tlKUisaml Itoiinds for a hem iiei.'il lease. The Ij'jd.'iii I must insist (HI, III Jusliee In my own family. " Voiir allectional( cousin, '•(ir.oitiii: .Si;\ r.i:\i:.'' This mnniliceiit (dl'er sni'iirised and de- li-ihled .'*evei'iie ; and. indeed, no ol her man lint ('(msin (Jeorije, who had a heart (d'jiidd, and was ^iralcfnl to Ned's fallier, and also loved lh(. scamp himself, as evei'y liody did, womIiI have made sin h an oll'er. (•iir adveiitnrer wrote and ( losed with it, and jiiished erat il nde. Then he askeil him- self how to ;.;et the iiiimey. Had lie hceii married to Zoe. or not thinkiiiLr (d' her, Ik^ would have fioiie at (mce to \izard, for the secnrily was ample. Iiiit in his ]M'e.sent did- icale siluati(m this would md do. No; ho must he aide to come and say, "My estate is sni.ill, hut it is (dear. Here is a r(>e(M]it f(U- .Ui'.oilii worth (d' morr, IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) 1.0 I.I 2.0 2.2 1.8 1.25 1.4 1.6 «• 6" ► 6^ "»' r /. J5^ .^ w <$>! .^ ^' o 7 /A Photographic Sciences Corporation 23 WEST MAIN STREET WEBSTER, NY. 14S80 (716) 872-4503 h. \ ^ <^ 03 A wom.vn-iiati:r. 1 tlio 1>ol1, roniitcmiaiKlfd tho tloir-carf, aiitl onlorod tlu' baioiiclic. "A l>ar<>iiflic for inci" Haiti ScvcriH'. "NVIiy, i am not j^niiiK t<* tako tlii> ladii-n to the station." "No; it is to lirin^i <"><" licrc. SIic conicH down from London live niinntrs lict'ort' von takt' the nil-train." 'I'ln-rr was a n fools; l)nt here was one wiio staii^ered and ' jinz/hMl liini. liriniit and keen as sleel, I qnirk and siiiritcd, yet ronti-olled I'v Jnil;^- i in<'nt, and always mistress of licrsi It', she i Kcenu'd to him a new speeies. The worst j of it was, lie felt himself in the jiower r.';ikfast- I time, and as soon as it w;is over drew \'i/ard ii|iart,and saiil .le wmild noslpone his \isit i to London until he had eominnnieated with ! his man id' Inisiness. lie wonhl ;;o to the I station ami telee;i'a|di him. and hy that means would do the civil and nwet Mi.ss (iale. \'izard stared at him. I "Von meet m> \irai;()? Why, I thoujrht | yon disapiiroved her entirely.'' " No, m) ; only the idea of a fennile doctor, not the lady herself. Hesides. it is a rule with me, my dear I'elliiw, ne\ er to li;t my.'^elf disa)»|>rove my friends' t'ricinls.'' •• That is a liriijht idea, and \ on are a ;;(iod fellow,"' saiil \i/.;.rd. "(io and nn-et the ]ie,st liy all nu'an. , ami lirin^; In-r here to lumdieon. After luncheon we will drive her lip to the farm ami '.'nscoiwe hi'r."' Edward Severne had this advanta)j;e over ' nmst iinposttirs, that he was masculine or' feminine as oeeasi(Mi re<|inred. For instaiieo, I he eonld he hysterical or hold to serve thi' turn. Amither examide — he watched f.ncs like a woman, ;iml yet he could Inok yon in the face like a man, eHiteci;illy when he w;is lyiny. In the present eoniuncture a crafty womiin woidd have iiristled with all the arts of wdf-di'fense, hut staid at home ami kept elosd to Zoe. Not so our master of arts ; he went iniuifully to meet Klmda (iale, and so secure a titc-ii-Ule, uutl learn, if possible, ! wlint she meant to do, and wlietlior she eonld h(! cannily ]n'o)iitiated. lie rea<'lied the station Itel'iue her. and wired ii very intelli- gent jicrson who, he km'W, ciuiducted deli- lale ini|niries, and had liecn very sueeessl'ul in a div(uce case, ]MiMi<' two years helme. Lveii as he dispatched this message there WIS a whistling and a rin;;in^ and the Hound sei|uloiisly into the cariiauc .'-■lie laid her heail liack ;ind cim- templated vacancy ahead in a manner any thiiifj; but cncoiiranin.i; to this new admirer Kate had sent her. He turiie\ in :i siul of iioot. and then ,j limit- ed in and seated himself inside. "Ihrnie,'' said lie to the eoiiehinan, and (dl'they went. When he c;iine in she started with wcll- l'ei;;ne;ra- cions word now and then." " rnforiiinalcly 1 don't deal in gracious words, only true ones." " I see that." "Then suppose yon iinilnto me, and tell me why you came to meet me?" This <|iiestiini came Irom her with sudden celerity, like Ij^ihtninir ,m\ ,^^^ ,|. idoiid, and she bent li<"r eyes on him with that jirodi^;- ions keenness she eonld throw into those stoel-jrray orbs, when her mind jnit on its full ]iower of observation. Severne colored a little, and IieHitatnd. " Come, now ," said this keen witch, " don't A WOMAN HATER. tliorslio could ii vcrv iiifrlli- 'IMlllrlcd ilclj. I'ly siutckmCiiI .Vines licriiic, llCS.Silnc ti„.,.,. ■ iiiil llri' sdiiiid fvi'iric ran to |>iil|iitatiii)r n :i'l,v In niilcr. •■i>- '. "Ho ," II tlicy Wfiit. with w.'ll- liiiii. yon li(f(ir(>. I' inc lakiii^r "'OIIIC lU'Ollio >) Illy f.dt, hnt Is.". said he; "lira." rvniits," Ml foo J)Oor, hilt a jri;,. II gracioiiM ii', and hll ilh NnddfMi 'loud, and liif jirodiv;- int(» tiioHo |)ut on its dtatod. uli, " don't nod fviry now and then, Init eyed each house and premises with ureat keenness. At last KJie stopiied his tliieiiey liy imjuir- in>; whether lie had been into them all ; and w hen he said he had not, she took advantage of that admission to inforni him that in two days' time she should he aide to tell hiin a /^reat deal more than he was likely to tell wait to make np n reason. Tell the trnlh ' blind her to the horrors of her situatinu for onco — qniek ! — qnick t — why did you for ii time." como to meet mcf" | The break wn.s driven ronnd in dno course, " I didn't come to be bullied," replied snp- ' with rxmoor's team harnessed to it. It pic Severne, aHeetinj; Hnllenness. i was followed by a doj^-eart eramnied with " YiMi didn't I" cried the other, aetinj; vast grooms, I'xmooriaii and Vizardian. Th« surprise, "Then what did yitu come torf break was padded and eiishioned, and held "I don't know ; iind I wish I h.idn't come." ei;;ht «>r nine people v«'ry comfortably. It "That I believe." Khoda shot this in like , was. indeed, a iii.irt of itienic van, used only an arrow. j in very tine w«-allier. It rolled on beanti- "Uut," continued Severne, "if \ hadn't, fnl springs. Its present contents were Miss nobody would: lor it is Vizard's Jiisticin;; (iiile and her ln^y;ane and two hamjiers full day, and the lailies are loo taken njt with a of^^ood lliin;,'s for her ; Vizard, .Severne, and lord to come and meet such vnlyuv tritles as Miss Dover. Zoe sat on the box beside Lord genius and learning and sci— " j I'xm ■. They drove through the village, "Come, come I" said l{lioda, contemptuous- and Mr. Severne was so obliging as to point ]y; "you care as little about scieiK-e and out its beanties to Miss (iaie. She took lit- leurning and genius as I possess them. Von tie notice of his comments, except by a stitf won't tidl me 1f Well. I shall find you out. " Then, after a i)ause, " Who is this lord f" " Lord rxnioor.'' "What kind of a lord is he?" "A very bushy lord." " Jliishy ? — oh, bearded like the pard! Now tell nie," said she, "is ho cutting you out with Miss Vizard f "You shall Judge for yourself. Pleasi; her. upon his method of inspecting villages, spare me on that one topic— if you ever | "That is right," saiil \'izard ; "snub him. spared any l)ody in your life." | He gets snnldied too little here. How daro "(Jh.dear me I'' said IJIioda. coj)lly. " I'm ! he [lepper science with his small-talk t But not so very cruel. I'm only a little vindic- it is our lanlt — we admire his volubility." five and cat-like. If people otleiid me, I like I "Oh," said Fanny, w itii a glance of tlefi- to ]day with them a bit, and amuse* myself, ance at Miss Gale, " if we iire to talk noth- and then kill them — kill them — kill them: , iiig but sciencj', it will be u weary world." that is all." This pretty little revelation of charaeter ! Afterthe village there was a long gradual was acconi|):(nied with :\ cruel smile that ascent of alioiit a mile, and then they enter- showed a long row of dazzling white tcet h. ed a new country. It was a si'ries of woods They seemed eajiable of killing any thing and clearings, some grass, somo arable, from a liar n]> to a hickory nut. i Huge oaks tiling their jirms over a road Severne looked at her and gave a shudder, lined on either side by short tiirf, closer "Then Heaven forbid yon should ever lie my cropiti'd l>y the gyjisics" cattle. Some band enemy!" said lie, sadly, "for I am iinlia]>]iy or other (d' them was alway.i encamped by enoughjiilready." the road-side, and never two bands at once. Hiiving delivered this disarming sjieec h, And between the.se giant trees, not one of lie collapsed, and seenK'ii tf) be overpowered which was ever felled, yo.; saw here and with despondency. Miss (iaIe showed no lb«>n' a glade, green as an emeriild ; or a signs of melting. She leaned back and e\ed yellow st nlilde, glowing in the sun. After him with steady and composed curiosity, as jibont a mile of this, still mounting, but a zoologist stnilyii))^ a new specimen and all grailiially, tiiey emerged iijion a spacious it« little niovemenis. [ table-land. ii hmg. broad, oiien, grass plateau, They drove up to the hall door, and Miss studded with cottage,-. In this lake of Oale was conducted to the drawing-room, gr.iss Ixmoor drew it]) at a word from Zoe where she found Lord I'Muoor and the two to show .Miss (Jale the scene. The cottages young ladies, '/ah' shook hands with her. were while as snow, and thatched as at Funny jjiit a limp paw into hers, which Islip: but instead of vegetable gardens made itself eiiually limp directly, so Fan- they all had orchanls. The tre«'s were ap- iiy'e dropped out. Lord Ixmoor was ]»re- jilo and cherry : of tin" latter not less than a sented to her, at his own re(|Uest. Soon thousand in that small hamlet. It was lit- ttfter this, lunche vi'.!;:<;eis knew not. tiie vaine of. There w.is h po'id >>r two in tlm lawn ; one had a woodr.i jtlanU fixed (Ml iiprl^rjil.s, tiial went in suiik- way. A woman wa.s out oi. tlie hoard hare-ariiii'(l. di|i|>iiii>az iirooches, all inlensi- tied in tiro and beauty l»y the cool adjacent shallows. Looking hack, the view wa.s quite open in most plaees. The wooded lanes ami strijis they had iiasscd were liitlo more in so vast a panorama than the lilaek stripes on a liaekfjaninion hoard, 'i'lie site was so hinh that the eye swept over all, and rested on a hroad valley beyond, with a ))atehwork pattern of variei^ated lidds, and tlu' eiirlinti steam of engines llyiii;^ across all Ihinlaml ; then swejit by a vast ineline np to a liori- ron of I'aint jirecn hills, the famous pastures of the United Kinjfdoin. 80 tlip.t it was a deep basin of folia^jii in front ; Imt you had only to turn your body and there was a forty-mile view. \>ith all the sweet varifties of color that tji'iii onr lields and meadows. as they bask in tlie iifternoon sun of that goldi'u time when summer melts into au- tumn, and mellows without a chill. "Oh," cried .Miss (iule. "don't any body speak, please ! It is too heautiful." They respected an enthusiasm so rare in tliisyoun;; lady, ami iet iicr eouteuiidate the scene at her ease. "I reckon," said sho, dogma tiijally, and nodding that wise little liead, '• that this is Old England — the iCngland my ancestors left in search id' liherly. and ihat'n a |)lant that ranks before cherry-trees, I rather think. No, I eouldn'l have gone ; I'd have staid and killed a hundred tyrauts. lint I wouldn't liavt^ chopped their heads oil" (to Vizard, very eontidenlially) ; "I'd have poisoneil 'em." "Don't, Mi.ss tiale." said Fanny; "you make my blooil run eidd." As it was (jiiite iudiflerent to Miss Gale whether she made Miss Dover's blood run cold or not, she paid no attention, but pro- ceeded with lii-r rellections. "'I'he cmly thing that spoils it is the smoke of those engines, reminding one that in two hours you or I. or that ]iastiiral old hermit there III ii smock-frock, and a pipe, and (di, what : bad tobacco, can be wrenched out of this I paradise, and shrieked and rattled otV ami j llniig into that wilderness id' brick called I London, where the hearts are as hard as the pavement e.\ee)(t those that have strayed there I'rom IJarf'iinlshiie," ' The witch changeil face and tone and ev- ery thing like liehtniiig, and threw this last in with a sudden grace and sweetness tiiat coiitra.sted .strangely with Ler usual sharp- ness. Zue heard, ami tiirni'il round to look down on her with a smile as sweet as honey. " I hardly think tiiat is a drawback,'' said slie, amicalily. "D.ies not being able to leave a place make it sweeter f for then we are free in it, yon know. Hut I niiisf own there in a ilrawback — the boys' faces, .Miss Gale, they air s(» pasty."' "Indeed I'' sflvs lihoda, pricking up her ears, I " Form no fal: • hopes of an epidemic. This is not ;ui inlirinary in a wood, Mi.ss (jale," said* Vizard. ".My sister is a great cidorLst. and jiitclies her exiiectations too liigli. I dare say their face e not mor", pasty than usual; but th a show place, ami looks like a garden , so /o(>. wants the boys to bi^ poppies and pansies, and the giris roses and lilies. Whiidi — they — -are — not." " .\ll I know is." said Zoe, residntely, " that in Isli|) the children's faces are rosy, but hell' they are pasty — dreailfnlly jiasty." •' \V(dl, you have got a liox of colors. We will come u]isoine day and tint all the put- ty-faced boys. ' It was to .Miss Dover the eoni|iaiiy owed this siigg(>sti(m. "No," said Klioda. "I'lieir faces are my busini'ss; I'll soon lix them. She didn't say |iutty-faceirited (iailoway and a steady idd horse, i lowed to gush; she is the parish virago — an farm-house comparatively new, and (piite su]>erior to the rest. Here were two goixl sunny rooms, with windows look- ing south and vrest,{ind they were both ]ia- l)ered with a white watered pattern, and a pretty French bord«'r of llowers at the npp«'r part, to look gay and cheerful. the third Grace, a virago: solidified vine- gar." Khoda Dale felt very happy. She was young, healthy, ambitions, and sanguine. She divined that somtdniw her turning-point had come ; anil when she contrasted her con- ditioti a month ago, ami the hardness of tho world, with the comfort ami kindiu'ss that now surroumled her, and the magnanimity which tied, not to bi^ thanked for them, sIim fi'lt for (un-e in a way humble as well as grateful, ami saiti to herself, " It is not to Z(K) was in the beli«'veil, norvadf.s tin- inatfriai mii- vers(% Hiiil |ii'<)l)ai)l,v aritnoH tVoiu it, an liar- nioiiy from tin; \vcll-stniii;j liarii. Tlicnry of tlio (lay, or I'lato riMlivivim — wiiicli is it f "O urt'at creative t-Ii-inciit, and stream of tendeneii-s in tlie nni\<-i.se, wliereliy all tliiii(;8 8trii;;;;l(! toward )ierl'eetion, ilei^'i to liti tlio recipient of that •;ratitiidf which tills mu and can not he silent ; and since gratitude is ri};ht in all, and most of all in 1110 at this moment, f<)r;;ive me if, in the weakness of my intellect, I fall into the idd error of addressin;; you as an intiividnal. It is hut the wealcness of the heart; we are jtersons, and so we cry out for a personal (jod to he grateful to. I'ray receive it so — if, indeed, these words of mitus have any nv- tess to your infinitely superior nature. And if it is true that you inlluence the mind of man, and are hy any act of positive volition the cau.so of these henetits I now prolit hy, then pray inlluence iiiy mind in turn, and make mo a more worthy recipient of all these favors; aliove all, inspire me to keep faithfully to my own si)here, which is on earth ; to he good and kiml and tolerant to my fellow-creatures, perverse as they are sometimes, and not content myself with say- ing good words to you, to whose informa- tion I can add nothing, nor yet to yourha|>- jtiness, hy any words of mine. Let no hollow sentiment of religion keej) me long |>rating on my knees, when life is so short, and" (jumping suddenly up) "my duties can only he discharged afoot." Kefreshed hy this aspiration, the like of which I have, not y(?ti heard ilelivered in churches — hut the rising generation will perhaps ho more fortunate in thar respect — she went into the kitchen, ordert>d tea, bread and hutter, and one egg for dinner at seven o'clock, and walked instiintly ha( k to liillstoke to inspect tho village, according to her itleas of insitection. Next mtuiiing ilown comes the hailifl's head man in his light cart, and ii iioto is delivered to Vizanl at the hreakfast tal)le. He reads it to himself, then proclaims si- lence, and reads it aloud: "Deak Sir, — As wo crossed -your hall to luncheon, there wa > thi^ door of a small room half ojten, and I saw a largo mahogany case standing ,s (i, tie's messenger with liis compliments. I'anny wonilcred what she wanted wiili it. "Not to inspect (»iir little cha.a.'lcrs, it is to be hoped," said Vi/ard. "Why not pay her a visit, yt»u la- dies? then slie will tell > on, pcrlia|ps." 'I'ho ladies instantly wore that bland look of in- •■rt but rtx'ky resistance I li;ive already iiot- eil as a cliaractcrisi ic of "vertie her senti- iniMits remained unchanged, she had m:in- aged to keeji the jjcace, and avert that open c(uni»etition for her fa viu- which would have tickled the vanity of a I'anny Dover, hut shocked the relined modesty of a Zoo Vizard. Ihit nature will have her way soon or late, and it is tht! nature of males to light for tho female. At .Severne's shot Uxmoordrew up a little haughtily, hut s. When you couio hack, tell mo evf.'ry word she says; I'll Rnon hIiow laci'il. I liiivo iss DovfiH cp- \ i/anrs, wliitli fiit earn dl" i<. IdDA Galk ' to deliver tin* ii'sst'iifjcr Willi iiiiiilcrcd what In iiisprct <»iir ' liDpcd," Haid a viisit, yon la- IMiliapR." Tlio ithl liKtk of in- vc alrciidy luit- ir «irls." Viz- uiMiiade tlioiii, ml my escort," line," Niiid Ned I a litde sneer, i. Tlie ;;elifie- in fieiieral tliat iioslile iiiteii- ar had hen;im, or course tlie hiiijf before ; ' drawn nioro d tai't of Zoo for a time. 'J'o liy the. size of he hxlies had my kept rioso noliody could I'.oe lildesH she I' native dij^ni- frank eonrte- ny little (|niet rne lier siMiti- ■^hf had maii- rert that open ■li would havo ly Dover, but ' a Zoe Vizard, y soon or late, o light for the lew up a littlo ire any thing lecustomed to , turned a lit- vas sorry, but e(]ual to tho de light of it. taid hIio. Iryly. iniy. "Hero due-stocking, go himself." t her alone," ^d alarmed. "Oliserve, I Wlu'u you rd she says; A WOMAN-HATER. 101 ])ray let nothing ou lost that fulls from my virago," "Never yon mind,"snid Faniiy. "Good wine needs i litish, ha! hu! You aro T\w party Marled after luncheon; and lovely, and have u wheedling tongue, and Severne, true to his new ii(diey, whipjied to you w< re there first. i5e good, now —and Zoe's side befoiit I xinoor, and engaged her you can tlirt with me to till up the time. [ ut once in conversation. hate not being flirted at all. It is stagnu> I'xmoor bit his lip, iind fell to I'anuy. ' tion." Funny saw at once w hat was going on, and j " Yes, but it is not so easy t(> flirt with nuKJe herself very agreeable to Ixmoor. He you just a little. Yiui are so charming." was polite and a little gratified, but east Thereupon he proceeded to tlatter her, and uneasy glances at tile olhir pair. wonder how he had escaped a jiassionato Meantime Severing was impioving his attachment to so brilliant a creature. opjKutnnity. "Sorry to dislurli Lord I'x- " What saved me," said he, oracularly, •• is, moor's monopoly,'' said he, sarcastically, that I never eould love two at once; nml "but I could not bear it any longer." \ Zoe seized my love at sight. She left mo " I do not oliject to tile change," said Zoe, ' nothing to lay at your feet but my admira- smiling nmternally on him; " Imt you will tion, the leiHlerest friendship man can feel bo good enough to imitate me in one thing for woman, and my life-long gratitude for — you will always bo polite to Lord Ux- | lighting my battli'. Oh, Miss Dover, I nuist moor." j be (|uite serious a nuunent. \Vhat other " He makes it nither hard." lady but you w(Uild be so generous as to bo- "It is only for a time; and we must all ' friend a poor man with another lady, when learn to be capable of self-denial. 1 assure there's wc-illh and title on llu' other side f" you I have exercised <|uile as much as I ask I I'anny binslicd .-tiid sofli'iied, but turned (if you. Edward, he is a gentleman ol' great it off. "There — no heroics, please," said worth, universally respected, and my l)roth- 1 she. "Yon are a dear little fellow; and er has a particular wi.sli to be friends \vith I don't go and be jealous, for he sha'n't have him. So pray be patient; be considerate, her. He would never .'isk me to his htiuse, Have a little faith in one who — " She did not end the sentence. "Well, I wilt," said he. "Rut please think of nu^ a littl<>. I am beginning to feel (|uite thrust aside, and r]egr;ided in my own eyes for pulling up with ii." you know. Now I think you would, ]>er- haps— who knows If Tell me, fasciiniting monster, are you uoing to be unt;rateful T'' "Not to you. My home would always bo yours; and you know it." And ho caught I her hand and kissed it in an unirovernablo "For shame, to talk so," said Zoe; but the transp(Mt. the strings cd' whiitf he pulled tears came into her eyes. ! hini.seU'. He to(ik cai-e to be (pnck aliout it, The master of arts saw, anil said no more, j thongli, ami not lei Zoe or L'xmoor sei-, who He had the art of not overdoing: he left were walking ou before and behaving se- the arrow to raidile. He walked by her i dately. side in silence for ever so long. Tlien.sud-j In Hillstoke livel, on a i^ension from Viz- denly, as if by a miglity elVort (d niisellish ard, old Mrs. (ireenaway, rheumatic about love, went off into delighHiil discourse. ; the lower joints, so she went on crutches; He cooed and wooed and lliitlereil andfasci- bnl sin' went fast, lii-ing vigorous, and so iiated; and by the timi> they read d the did her tongue. At Hillstoke she was Damo farm, Inid driven llxmoor out of her .leatl. ! (ireemiway. being a ndie of that generation Miss (Jale was (tut. The farmer's wife said which ai>plied the word dame to every wife sIh' had gone into the town — Uie.'ining Hill- high and low; but at Islip she was "Sally," stoke— which was, strictly speaking, a ham- l>ee;nise she had started under that title, let or tributary village. Hillstoke church tift.\-live years ago, jis lionse-maid at \'iz- ■w.'is only twelve years old. ami the tithes of : ard t'onrt ; and by the tenacity of oral tra- the place went to the ]iarson of Islip. ; dition, retained it ever since, in sjiite of two When Zoe turned to go, Txinoor seized husbands she had wedded aud buried with the o|)))()rtunity, and drew up beside her, e(|nal com|iosure. like a soldier falling into the ranks. Zoe, Ilcr feet were still springy, her arms felt hot ; but as Severn*^ took no open no- strong iis iron, and her eruti'hes active. At tice, she eould not help smiling at the be- sight of our ))arty she eann; out with amaz- havior of the fellows; and Uxmoor got bis ing wooden strides, agog for go.ssip, and met chance. | them at the gate. She managed to indicato Severne tnrned to Fanny with a wicked a courtesy, and said. "Good-day. miss; your sneer. " Very well, my lord," said he; "but sarvant. all the eompany. L(M-d, how nico 1 have put a spoke in your whe(d." you be dressed, all on ye, to — be — suro! " As if I did not see, you clever creature !" Well, miss, have ye heerd the uows t" said Fanny, admiringly. I "No. Sally. What is it ?" "Ah, Miss Dover, I need to*be as clover as I " What ! lii-.ant ye heerd about the young yon! Seo what I have against mo: u rich 'onmn at the farniT" lord, with tho bushiest beard." i " Oh yes ; wc cumo to seo her." ^ 103 A WOMAN IIATKR. \ • f! "No, (lid yp iiowT Well, Hlie wiih lion- not lialf iiii lioiir iik«>ii«\ Hy flu- siuiu- toii- koii, I dill |>ut lit'i' A (|ii(>Nti(iii, uiid mIic iiii- Bwcn'd iiif then and tlnrc" "And iiiav I auk >vliat tlu> (picKtion vrtiH r "And wclccinio, ini.ss. I said, nays I, 'Yonnj; 'onian, wlioif In- you I'onir iVoni .'" 8(> sayH hIic, ' Old 'onian, I Ix- cDnic I'nmi t'or- iii ])artH.' '1 tliDU^iit as niuili,' Hays 1. 'And what bo '« voiiw fur f 'To sojourn Ikto,' says .slii', wldcli shi' meant to bide a time. 'And what do '<• ccnnt to do wliilst luTu you hv V says 1. Says she, ' As niucli good as evor I can do, and as litlit^ harm.' 'That is no answer,' says I. She sai nanu^ I jrives her. She don't fjive in to that, ye know ; she is a Latiner, anil sfteaks acconlin^j. Sh"< fjav*' Master (iiles her o-vn descri|ition. Says she. Tin susi»ector-<;eneral of this here dis- triek.' So tlien (iiles ly wiis skeared ii bit — ho have ^ot an acre .'ind asked her did she come under the taxes, or was she a fresh imposition *' for v.'e are biinlened <'uou^h a'ready, no ollen.se to you. miss,' says .Fosh Giles. 'J)()n't y.>u bo skeared, old man,' says she, ' I sha'n't cost //ok none; your bet- ters pays for I.' So says (iiles, 'tjli, if you falls on Mipiire, I don't vally that; sipiire's back is broad enough to bear tlte load, but I'm a poor num.' 'I'hat's how a' tnwn on, ye know, l^>verty is always in his month, but the old I'hap have ;;ot a hatful of money hid away in the thatch or some're, only he haunt a fjot the heart to spend it." " Tell us more about the young lady," asked I'xmoor. " What yem;"'; Ijidy f Oh, hrr. She is not a youiij; lady — least v/ays siie is not dressed like one, but like a jdain, decent body. She was all (d'a piece — blm^ serii'e! Hless your heart, the pcchllers brin;^ it round here at elevenpence ha1f-]ienny t he yard, and a j;ooil breadth too; and plain boots, not heeled lik«' your'n, miss, nor your'n. ma'am ; and a felt luit like a boy. You'd say the parish \ liad dre+ised her Ibr ten shillings, and got ii ' l)ot of beer out ou'f.'' "Well, never mind that," said Zoo; "I must tell you she is a verj' worthy young lady, anet for her. Dross T Why, Sally, you know it is not the wisest that spend most on dress. You might tell US what she dors." Dauio Greenuway suutclied the word out of her mouth. "Well, then, miss, what slio have done, she have suspected e\<'ry thing. She have suspected the ponds ; she have sus- pected the houses; she have HUs|iected the folk ; slu! must know what they <>at aiul think and wear next their very skin, and what they do lie down on. She have been at the very boys and forbade 'em to swallow the cherry-stones, poor things; but old Mrs. Nash— which her boys lives on cherries at this tiuut o' year, and to be sure they are a KodsemI to keep the children hereabout from starving — well, l)anu< Nash told her the Al- mighty knew best ; He had put 'em (ogetlusr on the tree, so ^>i "ly not in the boys' insides; :ind that was common-sense to my mind. Ibit la! she wouldn't heed it. Slie said, 'Then you'd eat the peach-stone.s by (hat rule, and 'he lish boiu's and all.' Says she, ijuite resolute like. ' I forbid 'em to swallow the stones;' :ind says sin ,' Ye uniwnt gain- say me, none on ye, for I be the new iloctor.' So then it all come (tut. She isn't suspect- or-general ; slu; is a weiuh turned doctor, which it is against reason. Sha'n't doctor iiif for Duv ; lint that there old (iiles, he says h(^ is agr(*eable, if so be sin; wool doctor him cheap — cu.ssed old fo(d ! — as if any doctoring was cliea]) that kills a body and doan't euro 'em. Oear heart, I forgot to tell ye about the ponds. Well, you know there! be no welis here. We makes our tea out of the jionds. and capital good tea to driidv, far be- fore well water, for 1 mind that ime day about twenty years agone some interfering body did can a barrel up fnun Islip; and if W(i wants water withouteu tea, why, we can get plenty on't. and none too much malt and hops, at 'The. niack Horse.' .So this hero young 'oman she sus])ects the poor ponds, and casts a hevil-eye on them, and she bor- rows two mugs of (iiles, aiid carries the wa- ter home to sus))ect it closer. That is all she have done at present, but, ye seis she liaant been here so v(>ry long. You mark my words, miss, that young 'oman will turn llillstokei village tojisy-turvy or ever sho goes l)ack to London town." "Nonsense, Sally," said Zoe; "liow can any boily do that while my brother and I are alive?" She then 8li])ped half a crown into .Sjilly's hand, and led the wiiy to Islip. On the road her conversation with IJs- moor took ;i. turn suggestive of this inter- view. I forget which began it; Itut they dillvrcd a little in (iiiinion, Uxmocu- admiring Miss (iaie's zeal and activity, and Zot^ fear- ing that slm would ]irove a rash reformer, perhajis a reckless innovator. "And really," said she, "why disttirb things f for, go where I will, I see no such Paradise as these two villages." "They an^ indeed lovely," said ITxnuwr; "but my own* village is very jindty. Yet on nearer inspection I have found ho nniny defects, especially in the internal arrange- A WOMAN-HATKK. 109 moiits fif tlio rottagPH, tlmt I niii always f{la" '*"''! ^'"•'< "anil wisli all I lie ]io()i- itcoplc aliont yon to bo as hcaltliy anil an liMiipy as |M»sil>li'." "I irally , then Hiiflly opeiieil iier winilow an tlu> various ramillcations at home and he a sort of human sunshine, and dilliise ahroad of a M'emiii'..'ly trivial incident. blessin;;s all round him. The poor man t hat Tliey were .all scaled at liiMchcon. w hen encounters him om;;IiI Io hless the aciiiliiit. a servant came in with a salver, and said, Ihit there, I am not at your own ex- pense," said Zoe. "Weil, then," said she, sweetly, " please arccpt my sympathy. It is so r.'ire to lliid a nenth'man of your aije thinkiii^Tso little of himself and so much of poor people. Vet that is a 1 liviuc coniniaiid. lint somehow we for^^ct our rciJ|Ljioii out of church — most of iis. I am sure 1 do for one." 'I'liis conversation hron^jht thein to the villauce, and there they met X'izard. .and Zoe rejieated old .Sally's discourse to him winvl for word, lie shook his head solemnly, and said he shared her inisgivinjfs. " We havi' cani;ht ii Tartar." On .irrivinit at Vizard Court, they found Miss (iiile had called and lidt two cards. Open riviilry having now commenced he- iu«. j "Show him in lure," said, the hospitable Vizard. I "No, no," cried Severne. rather nervous- ly; "it is my lawyer on a little private hnsiuess." \'izaril told the servant to hhow the visit- or into the lilirary. ami take in the Madeira and Slime liisruits. "It is about a lease," Hnid Ned Severne, and went out rather hurriedly. " La I" said Fanny, " what a curious nanio — I'oikihis. And what does S. 1. mean, I wonder ?" "This is eni<:inafical discourse," said Viz- ard, dryly. " riease explain." " Why. the card luid I'oikihis on it." " You are very imiuisitive," said Zoo, col- oring. " No more than my neiy;hbors. Hut the man i>ut his s.ilvei- ri;;ht between our no.ses, tween I'xinoor and .'^everiie, his lordship was and how could I help seeing I'oikihis in large adroit enoiiy;h to contrive that the drag letters, and S. I. in little oues up iu the cor- shoiild be in reipiest next day. : ner '/" Then Severne got Fanny to convey a note to Zoe, imploring her to open her liedroom window and say good-night to him the last. "For," said he. " I have no coach and four, and 1 am very iinliap]iy." This and his staying sullenly at homo spoiled Zoe's ride, and she was cool to Ux- moor, and spoiled his diive. Saiil Vizard. "The female eyo is naturally swift. .*|ii'aiiiii('t'M; out, ami inilliir oC the yininn lailirs wan oIl'iTs a inaKiiiticfiit rcwanl — wiili iit'r('»M't scfii till ihe was at linnie. not disapjieur. I'oikilns, a pnlliii;; deleetive. lie intended merely to oiler her his respcels, S. 1., Seeiet Inquiry, / Hpidl Kmiuiry w illi ' and to side with hir^jeiierally against tlios« an K-liiit I'oikilns is a man id' the day. ! tool ish rnstiis; Init she was (deased with What the deiiep ran Ned Severne want - liiniT I suppose I minlit not to ohjeet. I liuve OHtahlishi'*! a female detective at ilill- Htoke. So Ned sets one ii|) at Isliji. I shall make my own secret arrangements. If I'oi- kilns settles here, he will he diawii throiifih the horse-pond hy small-minded nislies once u week." While lie was K"'"!! •>" '''<'' ♦'''■*< '^'"^ f'''t luieomfortalile, and almost irritated hy his volnhility, i.nd it was a relief to her when iSeverne returned. He had eonlided a most «lelieat« ease to tlie detective, jjiven him written instructions, and stipulated for his leaving the house without a word to any one, and, indeed, seen him otf — all in seven min- utes. Yet he returned to our jiarly co(d as a cuenmber, to throw dust in every hody's eyes. "I iiinst apolo^tize for this intrusion," he said to Vizanl; " Init my lawyer w;inted to consult me about the lease of one of my farms, and findinij; himself in the neij^hbor- Lood, he called instead of writing:.'' "Your lawyer, »'li ?" said Vi/ard, slyly. "What is your lawyer's name f "Jackson," said Ned, without a moment's hesitation. Fanny jji^nl*''! '" '"t '*^^" desjiite. Insteaii of stop)>in<; liere, .Severno must fro on ; it was ids unlucky day. "Not quite a gentleman, you know, or I would liave intlicteil liis society on yon." " Not quit(i — idi ?" said lIarrin<;ton, so dry- ly that Fanny Dover burst into a lit of un- coil trcdiable lau;;hter. Hut Zoe turned hot and cold to see him bliiiKleriiiK thus, and tellinj; lie upon lie. Severne saw there was sonietliin<; wroiip, and l»nried his nose in pifj<'on pie. He de- voured it with an excellent appetite, wliih; every eye rested cm him: Zoe's with shame and misery. Fxmoor's with open contempt, Vizard's with frood-humored satire. able that he spent the wlnde afternoon coiii- pai'iii^ notes with her upon vilhif^e life, and :lie aiiK'lioratioti it was capable of. Ka<'h could ('tH, i^aiiiHt Hhv'w |ili-aMf(l witli «'II" HO ajjH'o- It'I'llOOII COIII- la^i> lir«>, and i|«' of. Kach ilt-aH; and ho is )iai't dt'tlio ml many do- aiiK'iid tlioiii. and slic do- That iiitcr- liosity. Sho ioiisly oonrt- tiiral rcHcrvo tliis at tirst; for two iiior- Kv(' as this, ■ artful stato- I cat-liko rc- I' reat creature can not sin;; or act without ]ieril to life. tlioiij;h ii'ally both these arts are ^irand iiicdicim s. ami far less likeiy to injure tlie/mi/d /(V/r sick than are the eertifyiiiy; doctor's draiiuiits and drn^^s. Thedirectm- knew all this; but he was furi- ous at the disappoiiitnient threatened him. "No," said he: "tliis is jilways the way; a jioor devil of a iiiaiiancr is uever to h;ive a HiKM'ess. It istreaclieroiis.it is nny;rat<'fiil : I'll close. Von tell her if she is i|ilil iIidii- HUiiil iioiiiiil.s ill Kolil ami iiotftt." Aiiotlin- ill alt witii the iiiiittor tliiiH: •' Itiillii: KT Nollt. " Tln' lati'Mt rimii at llomlnir;; lias limi niudi' l>y ii I'aiitalrii T wIhimi' itraisi'H ;ill (ii r- man V ari' m>w riii;;iii;;. Maili'moiMlif Iviu.s- kili^, Nilrrr.HNor ami lival o!' AHiDiii, wriil tii tlic Kin'Maal, pinir lui^^ir h liiiiiis; ami slii- pa.ssi'tl it HI) wi'll that ill liall' an liniir tlic liaiik waM lii'uki'ii, ami tliiTr was a pili' nt' iiiilcH ami Ki>lil Iti'l'iiri' La Kioskiii); aiiinniil- \i\H to ten tiioiiMaml )ii)IIIiiIh ami iiii>ri>. 'I'lii' laily wavi'il tlirsr mmt to Iht ai;riit, Mr..Ii>- sr|iii Asliiiirail. wiiii a liami u liii'li./Kd'/u/roi- Ihi'si; is liiliiMcl ii> 111- ilir wliitt'st ill Kiiropi', uml irtinil i^iairl'iiily." On )irrii.Hin<; this, I. a Klnskiiii; iit'M tiro wliitr liamls n|i to liravcii in ama/i'im-iit at tlir skill ami kihuI lasti- w liirli liiul ilra<;gcil tills Iciitiii'i' into tilt' iiu'iili'iit. "A IMtAMATIC sntATIOV. "A ('irrnnistaiiri' lias latfly oiriint'il lii'rt» ^ villi Ii will inl'allilily lif srizi'd on liy lln^ iiov- ' ('lists in si'arrh ot'an ipriili'iit. Ma.ilrnioisi'lit> Kiosk iii^;, tilt' iii'w i-ontralto, w host' t tin in pli- ant i>ro;;i'i'ss tliron^'li I'jin>i)i' will jirolialily lie till- nt'Xl t'vt'iit in iiiiisic, walki'tl into llif Knrsaal the otlii'i' iii;;lil, lirok(> tlii> bank, ami walkfil out a<;aiti with twclvi! thoiisami > Iiiniiiils, ami tlial tliai'inin;; ('i)Iii|iiihiii'c w liii'li is saiil to ilisiiiiMiMHJi liiT ill iirivati- lil'r. i "What iiiakrs it niori" ii'maikahlc is that till' latly is nut a jiamcsliT. has nt'vrr playt'il lii'lorf, ami is saiil to liavtt dfi'lari'tl that i hIic shall iii'Vcr ]ilay a;;aiii. it is ci'i'taiii that, with siiih a lati', li;;iiio, and voict' as liiTs. she nt't'd iii'stT si't'k lor wi'alth at thf ganil)liii<; taltlf. Maili'iuoisflli' Kloskin;; is now- in nt'^otialioii with all the |iriiit'ipal fit it's of thf t'ontini'iit. IJiit the Hiifilish iiianaiii'is, wti apiirehoml, will prove awk- ward I'oinpt'titois.'' WiTo I to rt'prodiii(> tlic iiiiin other para- f^raplis, it woiild hi' a vt'ry I'lirioiis, iiisinict- ivc, ami ti'tlioiiH spi'iinii'ii ot littTatiirt' ; and, who knows. I iiii;;lit corrupt soini' iminat'ii- latf soul, inspirit .sonif aftor or at'tri'ss. siiiy;- vr or Hon^istri'ss. with an itfh for piililif Hflt'-hiiidalion, a I'oihlc from whifh tlify aro all at pri'si'iit so free. Witness the Era, the Ilonut, and ritjarn. Ilia KloHkiiif? spotted wliat she enii- ceivtMl to he a defect in these histories. "My frieml," saitl she. int-'kly, '' the sum I won was umler live th(nisaml i»ounils." " Was it T Yes. to he sure. Hut, you see, these are Eugliuh udvertitiuiuuntQ. Now Eu- 1 Khuid In ho rich that if you kee]> lUnvii to any t'lniliiiriilnl sum, yon ijive a false inipres- sitMi ill l'ji;;iand of the impoilancii on the spot." "And so wf iire to falsify lit^nresT In the lirsl of these le;;enils it was douhle tint Iriilli; anil, as I read, it enlarges tdi, hut it t'iilai';:i's," saitl Ina. with a tiallicisiii wo shall liaxt' to forgive in a lady who spoke live laiii;iia;;es. " Mailain," said Asliinead.dr.v Iy,"ytMi iiinst expect your capital to increase ra|iitlly, so lonu as I ciMitlm I it." Not litunv; herself swift to shetl jokt>s. Inn did not take tliciii ra|iiilly. She stared at him. Ill' ni'Mr iiiox I'd a muscle. She }{avii a sli;;lit slini;; id' her K>'d slioiililers, ami ii'sl^ned that attempt tu reason with the creature. She hail a pill in store for him, thoii;;h. She told him that, as she had sacrificed the lon^jiiifis of le'r heart to the |1oor of the tlie- alre, so she should sacriliee a porliiiii of her ill-uot It'll ^ains to the poiu' td' llit^ town. lie made a hidetiiisiy wry faiHt at that, asked what poor rales wt ,i> for, and as,siirotl her that "pauper' ineaiil " ilniiikaril.'' "It is not written so in Scriptiin," said Ilia; "anil I need their prayers, for I am very unhappy.'' Ill short, .Vslimead was driven out from the pi't'si'iict'-chamher with a thousaml t ha- ters to tlisli'iliiite iiiniui<,; the potu' of liolil- liiii'^; aiitl once in the siit'ct, his face ilitl not shine like an an^ii'l's of mercy, hut wan very pinched jind morose ; hardly reeoguizu- l)Ie— poor .loe! My-anil-hy lit> semtclied his head. Now it is unaceountalile, hut certain lieails olteii yield ail idea in retiirn fur tluit. .loseph's tlid. and his countenauee lu'i^hteiied. Three days after this Ina was siirjiriseil hy a note from the Hurunmaster. saying that he and certain of the town eiuincil wmild have the honor td' caliiii;; oil her at noon. What iiiinht this mean ! She sent to ask for Mr. Aslimead ; he was not to he I'oiiml ; he liad hithleii him.self too carefully. 'liie deputation eame jiml thanked her for her niiiniliceiit act id' charity. She lookeil iMi/./.leil at (irst, then hliisheil to the temples. " Miiiiif.cfiit act, ^lentle- iiieii ! Alas! I iliil hut direct my a^^cut to dislrihiite ji small sum anionic the deserving poor. He h.is ilone very ill to cmirt your atleiitioii. My little coutrihulion shoultl have heeii as private as it is insigniti- caiit." " Nay, luaihim," saitl the clerk of the eonn- eil, who wasarecoyrnized orator, "your n^jeiit tlid well to consult our wtu-tliy Mnr^om.'kster, who knows the persons most in iieeil ami most ileserviiiff. We do not donht that you love to tlo <;ootl in set ret. Nevertheless, we have aldo uur »euue uf duty, uud we tbiuL it I k<>i'|» down til I I'alNf iiiipit's- ilaiicit (III till) fi^riii'i'Mf III as ildiililc ilm !>;•'>* "It, I'lit (■iilluisiii wo ly wild Hpoku l,v,"ytiii iiiiiHt hr niiiidly, so icil j'llu's, Inn ■' con- tralto suddenly lulled out these three words, .loscph was ciintiin;;. H' put mi a criislied aiipi iiraiicc. iicccivi'd hy wliiih tin lirm liiit gentle Kloskin^ he^jan to soften her touo directly. " It has j;iveii me pain," said slip, sorrow- fully. "And I am afraid (!od will he auyry with us hot h fur our iisteiitat ion." "Not He." said .loscph. consolingly. "iJlcss voiir heart. He is not half so irritalilis The cunning .Vshmead divined her project, 1 as the parsons fancy; they confound Him and kept |iersist('iitly out of her way. That ' with ihemselvcs." did not suit her neither. .She was lonely, j Ina iuiiorcd this su;;<;estion with jierfect She ffave t he waiter a friciidly line to hriiii: ■ di;.iiiit,v. and llowcd on : " All I st ipiilatc now him to her. Now, mind you. she was too is that 1 may not sc'c this pitiable parade ill honest to jiretend she w;is not );"'iir? •" wL'old him. So this is what she wrote: "My ri!ll".\n, — Have yon deserted me? Coimi to me, and he rcnionstralcd. What ' in our day. Your miiniticcncc to the poor — luive you to fear? You know so well how ! confound the la/\ lot — and llie jj;r;ititudc of I\A Kl.dSKiMi." those pompous pri;;s. the (Icpiilatioii— tho print. "That is ]ia'''. praying; lor. then," said ,\shmca(l, resolutely. "You mij;lit a« well try to slop the waves ;is check imhlicity — t-o defend yourself. Arrived in a very few iiiiuutcs Mr. Ash- mead, jaunty, cheerful, and defensive. Ina, with a coiintciiaiice from which all presentation —your admirahle rcply- " You never heard it, no-.'—" " Which, as you say. I was not so fortu- nate as to hear. ;iml so must content invsidf discontent was artfully extracted, laid he-, \vith descriUinu; it -all this is tlyiiiy north, foro him, in flic friendliest way you can ini afiiiie, an Ku;;lisli Hihle. It was her father's, and hIi« always cirried it w ith her. " 1 wksli," said she, insidiously, "to consult you on a iiMSHa|j;e or two of this hook. How do you iiiidersland this — " ' Wheu thou doent thine alms^ do not iHoiilli, cast, and west. "Oh no, no, no! You have not advertUcd itr "Not advertised it f For what do you take m(> f ^Vait till you see the hill 1 ai.i runninfi up a^^ainst you. Madam, you must take peoplt; as they arc. Dou't try to im.- I i 108 A WOMAN-HATER. AslnnPixl me; it is impossible. Catch up that kiiifo and kill iiio. Til not nvsist ; on tlio contrMiy, I'll sit down and prcpan^ an obituary notice tor the weeklies, anble a donation, liavc pre- sented her with the freedom of lh(> burgh, written on vllMin iiml gold. Mademoiselle Klosking received the com|)linn'nt with ■ eharnnng grace and courtesy ; l)ut her mod- esty is said to have been much distres.sed at the publicity hereby given to an act siic wished to be known only to the persons re- lieved by her charily." Ina caught the culprit, and showed liini this. "A thousand pounds!" said she. " .Vre you not ashamed ? Was ever a nig- gardly act so embellished and exaggerated ? I feel my fac(> very red, Sir." "Oil, 111 <'xi)lain tliat in a moment," said Joseph, amicably. ''Each nation has » coin it is always qimting. France cu.uits in fraiu's, tiernmny in thalers, America in dollars, England in pounds. WiuMi a thing costs a million francs in I'rance, or a million dollars in the .States, that is always called a million pounds in the English journals : otherwise it would eonvey no distinct idea at all to an Englishman. Turning thalers aind francs into i)ounds — that is not cjcugijcr- ation ; it is only ti-annlalion." Imi gave him such a look. lie replied with an unabashed smile. She shrugged In-r shoulders in silence this time, and, to the best of my belief, made lU) more serious attempts to uu-Ashmcud her Ashmead. A month had now passed, ind that was a little un)re than half the dreary time slu! had to wade through. She began to c(unit the days, and tlnit made her i)iue jill the nn)re. Time is like a kettle. Ht^ blind to him, he Hies; watch him, he lags. Ili-rswce! t^'inper was a little atVccted, and siui even re])roa(hed Ashmead for holding her out false intpes that his advertisenu-nts of her gains would imluce Severne to eonu' to hir, or even write. "No," said she; "there must be sonu greater attract icui. Karl says that Miss Vizurd, who culled upou me, was a beauty, and dark. Perhaps she was the lovely girl I saw at the ojiera. She luis never been there since: and he is gone to England with people of that name." " Well, but that Miss Vizard called on you. She can't intend to steal him from you." " Ihit she nuiy not know ; a wonnm may injure another without intending. He may deceive her.; he has l)e;rayed me. Her ex- traordiuaiy beauty territies me. It enchajit- ed me ; ami how nnu'h niiu'e a man ?" Jtisejih said he tjionght this was all fan- cy; and as for his advcrtisinients, it was too early yet to pronounce on their etfeet. Tht! very t give him the least suspicion that yon know lui is a detective." "All right, I won't." "If he sounds you about the money, say uobody knows much about it, except Made- (U c\ fe A- ni nil A WOMAN-HATER. 109 I filio -was tho ■ra. .Slu) lias lio is goue to amo." nl called on L'al Lim from woman may in};. Jit! may nil'. lltT ex- . It iMR'liajit- niun ?" I wa.s all fan- ifnt.s, it waa heir ell'ect. ivtr.sation he I'ut (liulgcoii. scniciit.s hare plfa.sant inie. lie JH feeling lie man in a iiriniiit,an(l laron at Ibo several an- idenee! i»nt- ;n it is tbey him r asked pose." I ; for ho was id lua began , I think 80. Who else of sweeps. I good kick- h^mitb shall , " for once nger eonies e .so (hill we 10 comes to her wliito ■to an with s the only st .speak to lined in the 1, and iL'sir v." lim." will lodge ho know ^iciou that iionoy, say ept Made- moiselle Kloaking. If yon can get the mat- ter so far, come and tell me. Hut lie ijou very reserved, for yon are not clear." Aslimead received (iiese Instruct ions meek- ly, and went into the ndllr it iiKniijir and or- dered tliiiiicr. •'''mitli was (here, and had evidently got son!" inrorniuiion lioin K.ni, for he opened an easy conversation with At.'.imead, and it ended in their dining to- gcth.-r. Smith jilayed the open-handtMl conntry- nniii to the life — stood I'liainpagnc ,\sli- mead chattered, and seemed (iiiile olf his gnard. ii^milh ap]iroa<-hcd the snl>.jcct cau- tiously, "tiamhle here :••' much a.s ever .'" "All day, some of them." "Lailiesaiid all .'" "Why, the ladies are the worst." "No; ixw they now? Ah. that reminds me. 1 lii'ard there was a lady in this very house won a pot o' money." " It is true. I am her agent.' "I suppose she lost it all next day 7" "Well, not all. for she gave a thousaiiil pounds to the poor." •'The dress-makers collared the rest?" *'I can not say. I have nothing to do ex- cept with her theatrical hiisine.ss. She will iRak(! more hy that than she ever made at play." "What, is she tip-toj)?" "The most rising singer in Europe." "I should likt^ to see her." "That you can easily do. She sings to- night. I'll pass you in." "Von are a good fellow, lliive a hit of Biii)i)er with me iifterward. Hot tie of liz/." These two might lie compared to a couple of spiders, «'ach taking the other tor a tly. Smith was enchanted with Ina's singing, or lU'ctendcd. Aslimeail was delighted with him, or ])reteiided. "Introduce me to her," said Smith. "I dare not do that. Yon are not pro- fessional, are you ?" "No, but you can say I am, for a lark." Ashmead said he should like ti>; hut it would not do, nnless he was very wary. "Oh, I'm tly," said the other. "Slie won't get any thing out of me. I've heeii heliind the scenes often enough." Then Ashmead saitl he would go and ask her if he might jtrcsent a I^ondon manager toiler. He so(Mi brought back the answer. "She is too tired to-niglil : but I pressed her, ami she says she will be charmed it' yon will breakfast with her to-morrow at elev- en." He did not say that he was to be with her at half i)ast ten for special instinct ions. They wore very simple. " My friend." salil she,"! n ~an to tell this man soiintliing which he will think it his duty to telegraph or writt* to him immediately. It was for this I would not have the man to sn)iper, being aftei; post time. This morning ho shall either write or telegraph, and then, if yon are us clever in this as yon are in some things, you will watch him and lind out tha address he sends to." Ashnn-ad listened very attentively, and fill Into a brown-study. " .Mailam," said he at last, "this is a first- rate coinbinatlmi. You make him comiiiii- nicale with lOngland, and I will of my own to that £25, and won an eiiormons sum. Of course if the gentleman chooses to be chivalrous and abandiui his claim, he can ; but that Is not the way of the world, you know. I feel sure ; he will come to me for his share some day; ■ and the sooner the better, for money burns the ]Micket." Sharpus, alias Smith, salil this was really a curious story. " Now su])iiose," said he, "some line day a letter was t(» come asking ' you to remit that gentleman his half, what ' should yon doT" I "I should decline; it might be an eacroc. I I il!; Ill no A WOMAN-HATER. I , No. Mr. Aslinicad here knows tlio gentle- niun. Do yoii not f" '.' I'll swear to him any Mliero." "TluMi to receive liis nioiiev he must faeo tho eve of Asliniead. llii ! ha I" The detective tiirnetl Ihe conversation, and never came hack to the mihject; hut shortly he pleaded an engagement, and took hJH leave. Ashniead lingered hehind, hut Ina hur- ried him oil, with an enii»hatic command not to leave this man out of his sight a moment. Ho violated this order, !'>r in five minutes lie ran ha<'k to t<'ll her, in an agitated whis- per, Hiat Smith was at that moment writing a letter in tln^ mile a nuttHfcr. "Oil, pray don't come here!" cried Iiia, in despair. " Do not los<; sight of him for a moment.'' "(iive me that letter to i)ost, then," said Aslnnead, and snatched one up ina had di- rected overnight. He went to the hotel door and lighted a cigar; out came Smith with a letter in his very haiul. Ashmead jieercd with all his eyes; hut .Smith held the h'tter vertically in his hand and the address inward. The letter was sealed. Ashmeail watched him, and saw he was going to tluHJeneral Post. He knew a shorf- ervut, ran and took it, and lay in wait. As Smith aptiroachcd the iinx, letter in hand, he hustled \\\\ in a furious hurry, and imsted his own letter su as to stop Smith's hand at the very aperture liefore he could insert his letter. He saw. apologized, and ilrew hack. Smith laughed, and said, "All right, old num. That is to your sweetheart, or you wouldn't be in such a hurry." " No ; it was to my grandmother," said Ashmead. "Go on," saiil Smith, and poked the riha of Jose])h. They went home Jocular; hut the detective was no sooner (uit of the way than Ashmead stole uj) to Ina Kloskiiig, and i)nt his linger to his lips; for Karl was clearing away, and in no hurry. They sat on tenter-ho(dh Ashmead." He lo(d, I declare," cried Zoo "Ay, miss, Hannah .Judge it is. Y'our sarvant, ma'am ;'' ami she dropped two e(un'tesies, one for each lady. Mrs. Juh Ashinoiul." If iiwe, for Hho ;r Dauish eyo rmeiitsand my f he i.s false to lall kill him — , at Ashmead's ;on, ufotdshire." carried Lord ite.s' iiieetiiijj, •^evenie; hut nmil jihst 1)0- it (111 her hoii- it Fauiiy was tieiitly ill his < iiiiu; out to ivoiild openly I yive him his tood on tlio I door, ail aii- Ul lady, the lilt was she. Nilk lioiiiiet iilli a droll , and wind; »', Hli«htly very pretty h a Iioiinet. I that only it a searlet my colonel nd lookinj; forty years, scaped the uld toddlo id, indeed, huild, she every step I capsize tl 2()e is. Your ppcd two old nurso. ttago, hut except on scrvuuta A WOSLVN-HATER. Ill puterfained all the old pen.sioners and re- tiiiiii'rs at supper. Her sudden aiiiiearance, lliercfon-, and in gala costume, astonished Zoe. I'rolialiiy her face lietrayed this, for tli(^ old lady lu'ijaii, " Ylie paused to see the ef- fect of so liig a word, and then resumed, griiciously, " You see, most of our hills comes from that there llillstoke. If there's a lioaclier, or a thief, he is Hillstoke. They harl)ors the gypsies as ravages the whole country, mostly; iind now they have let loose this here yoiiiig 'oman on to lis. She is a Pom. I'HY : goes about the town a-sarch- ing: jiries into their housen and their vit- tels, and their very beds. Old Marks have got a iiin(d< heap at his door; for his garden, ye know. Well. miss, she sticks her ]iar;i- Hole into this licre, jiiid turns it Jibont, as if she was a-going to sjiread it: siiys she, 'I must know the de-i'om-po-sition of this "ere, as yon keejis under the noses of your yfiiing folii.' Well, I seed her a-going her rounds, and the folk had tolil me her w;iys: so I did set me down to my knitting and wiiit foi- her, and when she came to me I olVered her a seat; so she sat down, and says she, 'This Is the ial incident Iiappened. Miss Hiioda (iale came in siji;;ht, and walked rapidly into the t;ronp. After jireetiiij? the ladies, and ignoritifr Severiie, who took otf his hat to her, with deep resjiect, in the Itack^tround. she turned to Mrs. Judy;<'. '' Well, old l.-idy." said she, cbeerfufly, "and how do yon do ?"' Mrs. Judf^e replied, in fawniiiji accents. "Thank yon, miss, I be well enony;h to get about. I was a-tellinji 'em about you — and. to be sure, if is uncommon i;o()d of a lady like you to troublt^ so iniicli about poor folk." " Don't mention it : it is my duty and my inclination. You sec, my jiood woman, it is mit so easy to cure diseases ns people think ; therefore it is a part of medicine to prevent them: and to prevent tlieni you must re- move the pri'disposinji causes, and to lind out all those causes you mu.-,t have eyes, and use them." " You are rijjht, miss," said La .Tudire, ob- sequiously. " I'reveution is better nor cure, and they say 'a stitch in time saves nine.' " "That is capital jjood sense. Mrs. .Indge ; and pray tell the villagers that, and make them as full of 'the wisdom of nations' as yim seem to be, and their houses as clean — if yon can" " I'll do my best, miss," said Mrs. .Tudjje, obseipiiously ; "it is Mii^ least. w»' caii all do for a young lady like you that leaves the pomjis and vanities, ami gives her mind to bettering the c(unlisliing of poor folk." Having once taken this cue, and t'utered tipon a vein of llattcry, sh(> would ha ic been extremely voluble — for villages can vie with cities in adulation as well as in detraction— but she was interrupted by a footmau an- uouucing luncheon. Zoe haiuled Mrs. .Judge over to the man, with a request that he would be kind to her, ami have her to dine with the servants. Yellowplush saw the gentlefolks awuy, and then, i)arting his legs, and putting his thmnbs itito his waistcoat pockets, deliv- ered himself thus: " Wi'll, old girl, am I to give yon my harm round to the kitchen, or do you know the way by yourself!" "Young chap," said Mrs. Judge, nmltnmed a glittering eye, "I did know the way afore you was born, and I slnuild know it all om^ if so be you was to be hung, or sent to Bot- any Hay — to larn nninners." 1 la \ing delivered this shot, she rolled away in the direction of Koast Hcef. The little jtarty had hardly settled at the table when they were joined liy Vizard and Uxinoor; both gentlemen welcomed Miss (iale more lu'artily than the ladies had d«Mie, aiid before luncheon emled Vizard asked her if her report was ready. She said it was. " Have yon got it with you f ' " Yes." "Then ]dease hand it to mc." "Oil! it is in my head. I don't write nuich down ; that weakens the nn-inory. If you would give me half an hour after lunch- eon — " She hesitated a little. Zoe jealonsed a tiic-a-ictc, and parried it skillfully. "Oh," said she, " but we are all nnnh intcrestejl: are not you. Lord L'x- moor ?'' "Indc(Ml I am." said Uxnioor. "So am I," said Fanny, who didn't care a button. "Yes, but," said Khoda, "truths are not always .'igreeable, and there are some that I don't like — " .^lie In'sitated again, and this time actually l>liislied a little. The acute Mr. Severne, who had been watching her slyly, came to her assistance. " Look here, old fellow," said he to Vizard, "don't you see that Miss (iale has discovered some spots in your paradise ? but, out of del- icacy, does not want to publish them, but to contiili^ them to your own ear. Then you can mend tlicm or not." Miss (iale turned her eyes full on Severne. " You are very keen at reading people. Sir," said she. dryly. "Of course Ik- is," said Vizard. " He has given great atlenticm to your sex. Well, if that is all. Miss Cale, pray speak out and gratify their curiosity. You and I shall never (piarrcl over the truth." " I'm not so sure of that," said Miss Gale. " However, 1 suppose 1 must risk it. 1 never do get my own way ; that's a fact." Alter this little ebullition of 8])leen, she opened her budget. "First of all, I tind that these villages all belong to one person ; so does tlm soil. Nobody cm build cottages on a better model, nor make any other im- provement. You nro ^u absolute monarch. This is a piece of Russia, m>t England. They are all serfs, and you are the Czar." "It is true," said Vizard, ".tnd it sounds horrid, but it works benignly. Every snob who can grind the poor does grind them ; but a gentlennin never, ami lie hinders others. Now, ftn- instaiK^e, an English farm- er is generally a tyrant; but my power liui- ita his tyranny. He may discharge his labor- •|_ A WOMAN-HATER. 113 rr, but ho can't drivo Iiim out of tlio vilhiKf, \ Miss (iulc suiilod, and admitted that ono nor rol) him (»f pavinh relief, for poor Hi)(l;;e j or two of tiie prodi^^ies reseuilded antedilu- is/Mi/ tenant, not a nuoI)'m. Noliodycan imild vian monsters, hnt said ora'i larly tiiat na- a heor-sliop in Islip. That is true, lint if tiire was foml of prodminy; tlie. same thin;; they eonld, tliey would s(dl had beer, give on a large scale and a small scale, and it wan credit in tliu ardm* of competition, poison the villagers, and demoralize ihcm. 15c- lievo me, rei)ublican institutions ar»» b<'au- tifid on ]>aper; but they would not work well in Harfordshire villages. II(»\\e\er, yon jirofess to go by exiicrience in every Ihint;;. There are open villages within live miles. I'll give you a list. \'isit them. \ihi will find that liberty can be the father of tyran- ny. Petty tradesmen havt^ come in and biiill cottages, and gnmnd the poor down with rents uuUnown in Islip; farmers liavi^ l)uiit cottages, and turned their l.iliorers into slaves. Drunken uess, di.ssi|iation, poverty. • luite possible the .small type of antediluvian monster might have; survived the larg(\ "That is most ingenious," said Vizard; "but it docs not account for this fellow. He is not .-in anfedilnvi.iti ; he is a bare- faced modern, for he is a sii;AM-i'.\(iiNi',." This caused a laugh, for the creature had a perpendicular neck, like a funnel, that ro.se ont of ii l»ody like a horizontal cyliniler. "At any rate.", said Miss (i.ilc. " the littln monster w;is in the woi'ld lirst : so he is not an imitation of man's work." "Well," said Vizard, "after all, we havo had c 'lugli of tht> uumsters of th(^ deep, disatb'ction, and misery — that is what you Now we can vary the monotony, and say the will tind in the open villages. Now in j monsters of the shallow. Unf I don't see Isliji you have an onudpotent s(|uire, and ' how they eaii cause rheumatism." that is an abomimition in thenm of tliese, can not withstand tht^ heat of the human stomach; but otlu-rs can, fiu' I tried them in mud artilicially heated. [A giggle from Faun,, Dover.] Thanks to yonr ndcroscope, I have made sket(dies of several .um]>hibia who live in thost^ boys' stomachs, andirritate their membranes, and share their scanty nourishment, liesides other injuries." Thereupon she produced some drawings. They were hamled round, ami struck terriu' in gentle bosoms. "Oh, gracions!'' cried Fanny, "one ought to drink nothing biif. ("hampagne." Fxmoor looked grave. \'iz- anl affected to doubt their authenticity. Ho said, "You may not know it, but I am a zoologist, aiul these are anteililuvian eceen- "I never said they did," retorted Miss Gale, sharply : "but the water wiueh con- tains them is soft water. There is no limo in it, and that is bail for the bones in every way. Only the children drink it as it is: the wives boil it, and so drink soft wature diluent with lime in .solution, an acid is created in the blood which |)ro(lnccs gout in the rich, and rheumatism in the ])oor, thanks to their mea- gre food and exposure to the weather.'' "I'oor things I" said womaidy Zoc. "What is to be done .''' "La!'' saitl Fanny, "throw lime into thn ponds: that will kill the monsters, and euro tht^ old people's bones into the bjirgain." This compendious scheme st luck the imag- iiuition, but not all good peo- witU anuchrouiams." | pie, yet they all did look there, she ahoue ao H 114 A WOMAN-HATER. willi intclligcncp, liciiig now quite on ber nil-till. " lliilf-civilizcHl iiiiiM niakt's hlnndors tlmt Imtli the Miiviij;« ami tin-. liiiilds his lint by a riiiiniii}; Htroani. The civiliziMl iiiun draws jjood wa- trr to his door, thoii<;li hi' must lay down l)il>»'s troni a highland lake to a lowland city. It is only hall'-<'ivili/.<> your snlijeets to drink poison, or Mill yon hore me a well ? — Oh, please!'' "Do yon heal' that ?"said N'iziird, piteous- ly, to Txinoor. "Threatened and cajoled in one hreatli. Who can resist this fatal sex? — Miss (jale, I will Iku-c a wc^ll on Uillstoke eoniinon. Any idea how deep we nuist K"~ to the antipodes, or only to the centre .'" "Three hundred anil thirty feet, or therc- ubonis." " No mine ? Any idea what it will cost ?" "Of course I have. The well, the double windlass, the iion chain, the two buckets, a eiipida over the well, and twenty-three keys — one for every head of a house in the hum- let — will cost you about .Clil.')." " Why, this is Detail made woman. How do yiMi know all this ?" " From ToMi Wilder." " Who is he .'" " What, don't you know? He is the eldest s(ui of the Islip blacksniitli, and a man that will make his mark. He casts every Thurs- day iiijiht. He is the only villa>re hlaek- sniith in all the county wlu) ctmln. Yon know that, 1 suppose." "No. I had not the honor." " Well, he is, then : and I thoufjlit you would consent, because you are so jrood ; and so I thon : one week's incoiiu^ your Majesty." "She has inspected our rent-roll, now," said Vizard, itathetieally : " and knows noth- ing about the matter." " Kxeept that it is a mere llea-bite to you to bore through a hill for water. For all that, 1 hope yon will leave me to battle it with Tom Wilder. Then yon won't be elieat- ed, for once. IVx/ iilii'djiH arc, and it is abom- inable. It would have been live hundred if you had opened the business." "1 am sure that is true," said Zoo. S'ln added this would ]ilease Mrs..Juilge: she was full of the su))eriority of Islip to Hillstoke. "Stoj) a bit," said Vizard. "Miss (Jale has not reported on Isliji yet." "Is'o, dear; but she has looked into every thing, for Mrs. Judge told iiie. You buve been into the cottages f" " Yes." "IntoMarks's?" "Yes, 1 have been into Marks's." She did not seem inclined to b • very coni- niunicative; so Fanny, out of ni' :'hief,said, liertly, "And what did you see there, with your .\rgus eye ?" " I saw —three generations." " Ha ! ha ! La ! did you now ? And what were they all doing if" "They were all living together, nigbt and day, in tuie room." This conveyed no very distinct idea to the ladies; luilr Vizard, for the lirsl time, lurned red at this revelation before Fxnioor, improver of I'ottage life. "Coiifound the brutes," said he. "Why, I built them a new room; a larger one: didn't you see it V "Yes. They stack their pot ji toes in it." ".Inst like my ])eop]e," said Fxmoor. "That is the worst of it: they resist their own improvement." " Yes, but," said the doctress, " with mo- narchical jiower we can trample on them for their good. Outside Marks's door at the back there, is a muck heap, as he calls it; all the refusi^ of the house is thrown there; it is a, horrible melange of organic matter and decaying vegetables, a, hot-bed of fever and malaria. Suti'oeated and jtoi- soneil with the breath of a dozen persons, they open the window for fresh air, and in rushes typhoid from the stronghokl its vic- tims have built. Two children were buried from that house last year. They were both killed by the ilomestie airangeuieuts as cer- tainly as if they had been shot with a double- barreled pistol. The outside roses y; ii ad- mire HO are as delusive as llattery; their sweetness covers a Ibul, unwholesome den." " Marks's cottage ! The show place of tho and lio will N tlu'io iniiNi l<'l\Ot.S fJoilM' bucket. (!(!- ■ woman at 'iiifkof, uj). M.'ijf.sfy." >-i(i)l, now," inows iiotli- -liitc toyoii I'r. Fdi'all to )»a(tlc i(, n'Mx-ilicat- it in alioin- I hundred if Zoo. Slin in-: nIk) was llill.stokc. 'iMisH (Jalo il into every Vou have I . vpry coni- •liief, Naid, tlieri', with And w liufc r, night and net idea to iirs! i\uH', nv I'xnioor, nfbiind tho ilt them a .•on .see il r" oeH in il." il rxmo(M\ resi.st tlieir "with mo- on tlieni 's door at. ii.s he calls i.s tiirown of organic, il liot-lied 1 and ]»oi- n per.son.s, lir, and in id its vic- ere bnri- jdied to a (deasaiit aiiil elierislied illusion. Vi/ard, more eaiidid and open to new truths, slirugged his shoulders, and said, '• What can 1 ilo more than I have donef" "Oh, it is not your fault," said the doc- tre&s, graciously. "It is theirs. Only, as you are their su]ierior in intelligence and ])ower, you might tlo souuMhing to |int down in(h'cency, inunorality, and di.sease." "May I ask what?" "Well, you might build a granary for the poor people's potatoes. No room ran keep them ou should (lisja-rse at once with the strong hand of power." At this last projiosal, S<|uire Vizard — the truth must be told — dtdivered a long, plow- nnm'.s whistle at the head of his own table. "Pheugh!"said he; "for a lady that is nujre than half rei)nblican, you seem to be taking very kindly to monarchical tyranny." "Well, now, I'll tell you tins truth," said she. " Vou ha"e converted me. Kver since you promised ','e the well, I have discovered that the best .^trm of governm(;nt is a good- hearted tyrant." "With a fi male viceroy over him, cli?" "Oidy in these little d(unestic matters," said ]\'lioda, deprccatingly. " Women are good advi.sera in such things. 'J'lie male idiysician relies on drugs. Medical women are want(Ml to niod-rate that delusion; to l)revent disease l>y domestic vigilance, and cure it by well-selected esculents and pure air. 'J'hese will cure lil'ty for oiie that med- icine can ; besides, tlrngs kill ever so many : these never killed a creature. You will yive me the granary, won't yon .' Oh, and thtne's a black pond in the centre of the village. Your tenant Pitdiett, who is a fool — begging his ]*ardon — lets all his li A WOMAN-HATEIiV III (la.VH it is scarcely to lie liiiil. Now tliat \h not your fault, hut y. hetweeu IT.'O and l!rOO than between' IH'20 and H70. Ah, liow I envy you to Ite alile to do such firvnt thin!j;.s so easily! Water to itoisoiu'd Hill- stoke with , he owned h(> had dom; it out of his hatied to the sex. He said lie wasstiri! both girls disliked his virago iii their hearts, so ho had eoiui>elleral rule, I think the liuilc* bird looks well with his crest and feathers." " And so do I," said Fanny, warmly ; " ami yet 1 should not like Mr. Sovermj to hiive ti beai'd. Don't you tliink he is very hand- some ?" " He is something more," said Uhoda. " I lo is beautiful. If lu; was dressed as a woman, the gentlemen W(uild all run after him. I think his is the most perfect oval face 1 ever saw." " IJut you must not fall in love with liim," said Fanny. I " I do not mcau to," said Klioda. "Fall- A WOiUN-llATEli. 117 uy iuquired ilato it into inp in lovo is not my busiiu'ss: and if it I wuH, I hIiouIiI not .itltct ..Ir. Si'vcnu'." | "Wiiy not.iuay?" iin|uiiT u]) with lier. she ' was so eaficr. 'I'Im^ fruils did not interest iier, Itnt only the simples. Hlni was y the side of nuoth- j er row that really was Imrsc-radish. | "This is too liad, even for lslip,"said Miss ! Gale. " Here is onc^ of our deadliest [toisons ; planted hy the very side of an escnlenl herh, whieli it reseniltles. Yon don't hajipen to! Inive liiri'd tlie (h'vil for gardener at any time, do you ? .Inst laney ! any coolv niijiht <'onn' out lieri^ for horse-radish, and uatheri I this plant, and lay yon all dciul at your own talile. It is the Aconitnm of medicines, the ' Monk's-hood or Wolf's-liane of our .'inee.s- j tors. Call the jiardener, i)leaso, and have j evei-y hit of it pulled up hy the roots. None : (d" your lives are sjife while jioisons anil es- eidents are planted to<;ether like this.'' | And she would not huiliie till Zoe direct- 1 ed a {j;ardeiu'r to diij up all the Aconite. A ■ couple of them went to wiuk and soon nj)- rooted it. Tin; gardenera tlieu asked if they Hlnuild burn it. "Not for all the world," said Miss Gale. "Make a bundle of it for me to take liome. It is only poison in the hands of ignoramus- es. It is most Hovi'reign medicine. I shall make tinctines, and cheek ni.my a shiirp ill with it. Given in lime, it cuts down fever wonderfully ; and when you chuck the fever, yuu check the diseusu." Soon after this Miss (iale said she luid not come to stop; she was on her way to Tad- diii;;toM to buy lint and Gennan styptics, and many things useful in donu-stic sur- gery. " Tor," said she, " I he peoitle at Hill- Htoke are relenting; at least, they run to me with their cut lingers and black eyes, though they won't trust me with their sa- cred rheumatics. I unist also supply my- self with vermifuges till the well is «lug, and so mitigate puerile puttiness and inter- nal torments." The other ladies were not sorry to get rid of an irrelevant zealot, who talked neither love nor dress, nor any thing that reaches the soul. .So Zoe said, " What, going already T" and having paid that tax to politeness, returned to the house with alacrity. Ihit thi^ doetress would not go without her Wolf's-bane, Aconite yelejied. Tht! irrelevant /.ealot being gone, the true business of the mind was resumed; and that is love-making, or noveli.sts give us false pictures of life, and that is iniiiossible. As the doctre.ss drove friun the front-door, Lord I'xmoor emerged from the lilirary — a .'oinciilcnee that maile both girls smile; he hoped MissA'izaril was not too tired to take aiiolher turn. "Oh no!'' said Zoe: "are you, Fanny?" At the tiist .stii» they took, .Severn e came round aii angle of the building and joined them. He had watched from the balcony of his bedroom. lioth men looked black at each other, and made uj) to Zoe. !She felt uncomforta- ble, and hardly knew what to do. Howev- er, she would not seem to observe, and was polite, but a little still', to holh. However, at last .Severne, having a.ssert- ed his rights, as he, thought, gavir ^^'ay, but not without, a suHicieut motive, as may be gathered from his tirst word to Fanny. " My dear friend, for He:iven's sake, what is the matter? f?he is angry with me .'ilmut soiiRthiiig. What is it ? has she told you ?" "Not a word. Ihit I see she is in a fury with you; and really it is too ridiculous. You told a lib : that is the mighty matter, I do believe. No, it isn't, for you have told her ;i himili'eil, no doubt, and she liked you all the better; but this tinu? you have been naughty enough to be found out. and she is roniantie, and thinks her lover ought to bu the soul of truth." " Well, and so he ought," said Ned. "He isn't, then;" and Fanny burst out laughing so loud that Zoe turned round and cnvcloiicd them both in one haughty glance, as the exaggerating Gaul would say. "Lai there was a look for you," said Fanny, jiertly : "as if 1 cared for her black hrowB." 118 A WOMAN-HATHU. h. " I . " Yw f "Why, h(! advertises, stupid; and Lord IJxmoor and Ilarrinirton had sei-n it. (Jen- tlemen n'((d advertisements. That is one of their iiecnliarities." " Of course lie advertises : that is not \vliat I mean. I did not dro]) his card, did J? No, I am sur<^ 1 iiockeled it dinictly. What mischief-makiii}^ villain told them it was I'oikilus?" Fanny colored a little, but said, hastily, "Ah,tliiit I could not tell yon." " The footman, iierhaps ?" " I should not wonder." ( Whiit is a fib ?) "(!nrse him." " Oh, don't swear at the servants ; that is bad taste." "Not when he has mined me." " Ruined yon ?— nimsimse! Make up some other lib, and excuse the tirst." " I can't. I ilon't know what to do ; and before my rival, too ! This accounts for the air of triuin|)li he has w(nn ever since, and her ^{lances of scorn and pity. She is an aiif^el, and I have lost her." " Stntl'and iniuseiise!" said Fanny Dover. " l$tr a man, and tell ine the truth." "Well, I will," said he; " for I am in de- spair. It is all that I'urscd money at Iloni- burg. I could not clear my estiite without it. I dan* not r rellected a moment, then delivereil herself thus: " Yon were wrong to tell a lib atiout it. What y(Mi must do now - bra/en it out. Tell her you love her, but , have got your |iride, and will not come into her family a ])anper. I>efy her, to be sure: wt; like to be di-lied now and then, when we are i'oml of the felh w." "I will do it,"saiil he; "but she shuns me. I can't get a word with her." Fanny said she would try and manage that for him; and as the rest of their talk might not interest the render, and certainly would not i'dify him, • jiass on to the fact that she did, that very afternoon, go into Zoe's room, and tell her Severne was very I unhappy ; ht; had told a lib ; but it was not intended to deceive^ her, and he wished to ex]daiii the wlioh; thing. "Dill h(! explain it to you?" asked Zoe, rather shiirply. "No; but he said tiiongh to nialvc iiie think yon are using him very hardly. To be sure, you have another string to your liow.'' "Oh, tli't is the interpretation you put." "It is the true one. Do yon think you c!in make iiir believe yon wtmld hav»> shied him so long ifLonl Uxmoorhaduot been in the house t" Zoe bridled, but made no reply, and Fan- ny went to her own room, laughing. I Zoe was much distiirlied. Sln^ secretly j longed to hear Severne Jii ily himself. She could not forgive u lie, nor esteem a liar. ; She was one of those who could pardon cer- ! tain things in a woman she would not for- ! give in a man. Under a calm exterior, she had siilfered a noble distress ; but her prio'o would not let her show it. Y'et now that, he had ajipealed to her for a hearing, and Fanny knew he had appeale \u; sure : It, when wo slio shiiiiH kI 1111111)1^0 tlioir talk 1 fortiiinly to tlio fact *ii, ^o into was vory it was not wiHlicd to askod Zoo, iiialcc nu^ anlly. To ig to your you put." think you liavi^ NJiii'd pt hcen in :, and Fan- H^ socrotly nst'll". Sho I'ln a liar, laidon vor- Id not for- :tcrior, sho . her pri(ui now tha.*. arinjr, and ' began to >r wrinig : of a luLse- ler, was ii gh not so liord Ux- vo Vizard not make ! will find vould tell had told ; and they o felt for ilie might rson, if it luer, and, A VVOMAN-HAir.li. Hi) iiH hostcHfi, she managed not to think too nnicli of either of !;cr adniirerN. However, a Htoleii glaiue showed her tliey wer(> both out of spirits. She felt sorry. Iler nature was very piti- I'lil. She :isked herself was it her fault, iiiid dill not (piile a<'i|uit herseil', Teiliaps she iinght to have been more open, and derlared liir sentiments. Yet would that have been modest in a lady who was not formally en- ;;aged t She was pu/./,led. She had no ex- perience to guide her: only her high breed- ing and her virginal instincts. She was glad when the night ended. She caught lu'rself wishing the next day was gone too. Wlien she retired, I'.xmnor was alrt>ady gone, and Severne opened the door to her. lie tixed his eyes mi her so imploringly it made her lieart melt ; but she only blushed high, and went away sad ami silent. Ah her maid was undressing herslie caught sight of a letter on her table. "What is that f said she. "It is a letter," said Ko.sa, very domiire- l.v. Zo(^ divined that the girl had been H«ked to put it there. Iler bosom heaved, but slii^ woulil not en- courage such proceedings, nor let Ifosa see how I'ager she was to hear those very ex- cuses she had evaded. Hut, for all that, Kosa knew she was going to read it, for she only liaerm()st. She turned it round. It was not from him: was from Lord I'xmoor. Shu Hut down and read it. "DKAit M:ss Viz.\i{i>, — I have had no o])- l)ortunities <»f telling you all I feel foi' you, witlnuit iittra(!ting an attention that niighr. have been unpleasant to you; but 1 am sure you must have seen that 1 admired you at lirst sight. That was admiration of your beauty and grace, though even then you showed nn» a gentle heart and a sym])atliy that made me grateful. But now 1 have had thci privilege of being under the same roof with ycm, it is admiration no long<'r — it is deep and ardent love; and I see that my hitppiness de]»enils on you. Will you coidide »/««»• happiness to me ? I don't know that I could make you as ])roud and happy as I should be myself; but I should try very hard, out of gratitude! as well as love. We have also certain sentiments in common. That would bo one bond more. ' " Hut indeed I feel I can not make my love a good bargain to you, for you are peerless, and deserve a nmeh better lot in every way than I can offer. I can only kneel to you and say, 'Zoe Vizard, if yonr heart is your own fo give, pnif- be my lover, my queen, my wife.' '• Your faithful servant and devoted ad- mirer, UXMOOH." "Poor fellow!" said Zoe, and her eyes tilled. She sat <|uite quiet, with the letter open in her hand. She looked at it, and murmured, "A jiearl is oU'eicd me lure: wealth, title, all that some women sigh for, and— what I valine above .ill — a nol)le nature, a true heart, and a soul above all ineannuss. No; rxnioor will never tell a falsehood. He could not." She siglieil deeidy, and closed her eyes. .\11 was still. Tin- light was faint; yet sho closed her eyes, like a true woman, to seo the future clearer. Then, in the sober and deep calm, there seemed to be faint peejis of coming t,hings: it appe.ucd a troubled sea, and I'xmoiu's strong hand stret use. You can not explain .away a falsehood." '•Ofeunise not. I am here to confess that I told a falselnioil. Hut it was not you I wished to deceive. I was going to explain the wh(d(5 thing to yon, and tell you all; but there is no getting a word with you since that lord came." " He had nothing to do with it. 1 should have been Just as much shocketl." " Hut it would only have been for five minutes. Zoe!" " Well ?" ".lust put yourself in my place. A de- tective, who ought tr> h;ive written to mo in reply to my note, surprises me with a call. I was ashamed that such a visitor should enter your iuotlier's house to set; me. There sat my rival — an aristocrat. I w.'is surprised into disowning the unwelcome visitor, and calling him my solicitor." Now if Zoe had been an Old Kailcy coun- sel, she would have kept him to the ]»oint, reminded him that his visitor was nn.seen, and tixud a voluittary fulseliuud ou Uiiu ; but ISO A WOM^VN-HATEU. '. „ ; i bIio wiiH H«>t an oxpcrionrod (TOHH-rxniniiuir, iiimI ))«Tliii|m hIic wiiH at lifart as iii(liu;iniiit nt tlit> (Icti'ctivc a.s at tlu' talsflmiMl : nh nIic iiiiHHcil lit-r ailvaiilat;)', aixl Maiil, inilii;iiaiit- ly, " Ami wliat Imsiiu'Mn liail you witli a <1«- tcctivi^lf Your liavinu ono at all, and tlit>n railing liiin yoni- soliiitor, makes one think all nianiicr nt' tilings/' " 1 Hlioiiltl have told yon all aliont. it that al'tt'i'nooti, only our intfrconrsn in liroken otV to |)lcaN(> a rival. Su|i|iost' I ^avo you a rival, and usrd you for lici sake as yon us(> lui^ tor IiIm, what would y«ui Hay / That would lir a worse inlidelity Ihau Boiidiiit; I'or u detective, would it not if" Zoe replied,liau<{lilily, '• Yon have iiori;;ht to say yon have a rival; how tb>>' yon / He- sides," said slie, a little ruefully, "it is you who are on your defense, not nu'." "True; I for;;ot that. Kecriuiinatioii is Mot convenient, is it?" '• I ean eseaito it l»y shutting the wiudow," said Zoe, e(ddly. "Oh. don't tlo that. Let me have the bliss of Heeiu<; yon, and I will snlmiit to a good deal of iiijusl ire without a nninuur.'' "The detective .'" said Zoe. sternly. " I sent for him, and ;;ave him his instrn<'- tions, iinti he is ;;one tor me to llomlinru;.'' "Ah! I thon;;ht so. What for?" " Aliont my money. To try ami find out whether they mean to keep it."' "Would yon really take it if (hey would give it you f "Of course I would." " Y'et you know my mind about it." "I know you forbade me to go for it in l)erson : and I obeyed yon, did I not t" " Y'es, you did — at th(' timt;." "I do now. Y'ou object to my going in person to Honibnrg. You know I was once acquainted with that lady, and you feel aiiont her ii little of what i feel alxmr Lonl I'xmoor; about a tenth ji.irt of what 1 feel, I suppose, and with not one-tenth so nnudi reason. Well, I know wlnit the jiiiiigs of Jealousy are: I will never intlicf them on you, as you have on me. Hut I irill have my money, whether you like or not." Zoo looked amazed at lieing defied. Tt was new to her. She «'rew uj), but said nothing. Severne went on: "And 1 will tell yon why: because without money 1 ean not have you. My circimistances have lately improved; with my money that lies in Ilomburg I can now clear my family estate; of all encumbrance, and come to your broth- er for yn I shall r«-call my ileteetive, and let all go; for poverty or wealth will nnitter nothing to me: I shall hav(; lost the ungtd 1 luvu; and she once lovtsd nn^." lie faltered, and tlu^ sad cadence of his voice melted her. !She began to cry. lie turneil his h*>ad away and cried too. There was a silence. Zoe broke it first. '* Ldward," said she, softly. "Zoe!" " Y'ou need not defy nie. I would not hu- miliate ycm lor all the world. ' ^Vill it com- fort you to know that I have been very nn- hapjiy «!ver sim.'e yiui lowi'red yourself so F 1 will try and accept your explanali»ui." He claNjied his hands with gratitinle. " Ivlward, will yon grant me a favor f" "Can ycMi ask ?'' " It is t«» have a little more confidence in one who — Now yon nmst (diey nit< im]dic- itly, and perhaps we may both be happier to-morrow night than we are to-iught. Di- rectly after breakfast, take your hat, and walk to llillstoke. Y'ou can call on Miss (iale, if yoi' like, and say something civil." "\Vhat! go and leave you alono with Lord Uxmoor f ' " Yes." " Ah, Zoe, you know your power. Have a little mercy." "P»'rhaps I may have a great deal — if you obey me." "1 irill obey you." "'I'hen go to bed this minute." She gave him a heavenly smile, and closed the window. Next morning, as .soon as breakfast was over, Ned Severne said, "An.y messages for llillstoke.' 1 am going to walk up there this morning." " ICmbracc; my virago for me," said Vizard. Severne begged to be excused. He hurried off, and Lord Uxmoor felt a certain relief. I The Master of Arts a.sked himself what he could do to proiutiate the female M.D. I He went to the gardener an>WII IIIOll- ir; tlitui <'t all jjfii; iKitliiiig t;l 1 lovo; ICO of llJN cry. Ill) it first. n« Htood liaiiRiiiK liis head liko a culprit, I " Hprc, Jpiiny," sli«» nniil to a Hliurp liltlo iiiiil Maid, Willi wcll-fci>;iicd timidity, tliiit nirl. tlic iiiiiirH i;riiiidiiiccc. " take tliin dowu lie cauic, liy {ive thnn the paper. Don't you yive it IVoiii MisN Vi/.a I'd Ih welcome. Did she hcimI up will t the meat. Take tlii.H lutHket uu iiie these llowers loo? 'I'ln-y are lieaiitirul." your arm." "No. I gathered them myHclf. I have 'I'hen she walked out id' (he cot lap-, and always understood ladie.H love lloweiM.'' ! Sevcrne followed her; he ventured to say "It JH only hy report you know that.eli f , that was u novel i)rescription. Let iiio add siuiictliiii^ to your informal ion : ! She explained. " I'livsicians are ohli^ed a ('ood deal depends on the ^ivcr; and you may tlinn these out of tho window." >She tossed them to him. The Muster of Arts f^ave a hiimhle, patient HiKh.and tlirew the llowers out ;iiis. There is not a driiu in did nut think he would liuvo done that, and creation that could do him an atoni of ^ood. it vexed her economical soul. She cast a Nourishinj; food may. If not, why, he is ]iiercin<; ^;lanco at liim, then resumed her i hooked for tho Ion;; Journey. Well, he lius studies, and i;riio"< ' his presence. had his innin;;s. lie is fourscore. Do you Hut his jiatieiKi > ."iliaiiNtcd hers. He sat ' think jion will ever see fourscore — you and there twenty niiniii. s, at least, in ;i slate of | your vices ?'' i collapse that hade fair to last forever. | "Oh no. Hut I think yoit will; and 1 So \ire.sently she looked up, and allected hope so: for you ;;o aliout doiiiK j^ood." to start. " What ! are you there still V said she. " Yes," said he ; " yon did not dismiss nie ; only my poor Mowers." "Well," said she, ajiolo^ictically. "the "Ami some, people one could namo t,<) ahoiit doiii^ mischief?" Sevcrne mad' no reply. .'^ooii after tliev discovered a little ]i;roup, principally women and children. These truth is, I'm not stion;^ enough to dismi.ss were inspecting somelhinj; on the ^roiind. you hy the same road." "It is not necessary. You liavo only to say, ' Go.' " "Oh, that would he rude. Could not you go without hein;; told right out?" "No, I could not. Mi.ss Gale, I can't ac- count for it, hut there is smne strange at- traction. You hate me, and I fear yiui, yet 1 could follow you ahoiit like a dog. Let me sit here a little longer and see you work."' Miss (iale leaned her head upon her hand, iiiid contem|ilaled him at great length. I-'i- nally she ailoided a cat-like course. "No," said she at last; "1 am going my rounds: you can come \\ ith me. if I am so attractive." lie said he should he proud, and she |iut on her hat in thirty seconds. Tliev walked together in silence. He fell and chattering excitedly. The words of (i/re imiiort, "She havt^ po.ssessed him with a devil," struck their ear. Ihtt soon they caught sight of Miss (i.ile, and were dead silent. She said, " Wliat is the matter f Oh, 1 see, the. vermifuge has acted." It was so: a ]nitty-l'aced lioy had heen unahle to eat his hieakfast; had suhered lualai.si^ fVu" hours afterw.ird.and at last had heen seized with a sort of dry retching, anil had resloi'cd to the W(ul(l they so adorn a niinilier of amphiliia, which now wriggled in a heap, and no douht hilteily regretted the reckl.ss impalienee with which they had lied from an unpleasant medicine tu u cold-ln ailed world. " Well, good people," said 3Iiss Galo, "what are voii making a fuss ahontf Are if he was promenading a tiger-cat, that ■ they lietler in the hoy or luit of him f might stop any nioment to fall iijion him. The women could not tiiid their candor She walked him into a cottage: there was at .-i moment's notice, hut old Giles rejilied, a little dead wood hiirniiig on that portion heartily," Why, houtl lietteranempty house of the hrick lloor called the hearlli. A i>ale than a had tenant. old man sat close to the lire, in a wooden That is true," .said half a dozen voices arm-chair. She fell his |nilse, and wrote ! at once. They could resist comnion-seuse him a prescription : in its liipiid form, hut not. when sulidilied into a proverh. To Mr. Vizard's hoiisekeei>er. A'izard "Catch me the hoy," said Miss Gale, se- Coiirl "I'lease give the liearer two pounds of I llal'iliial I'ulpahilily destroys sell'-conli- good roast heef, or mutton, liol sailed, and denee ; so the hoy suspected himself of oue pint port-wine. Khoda Galk, M.D." i crime, and instantly took to llighl. Uia \VOMAN-HATER. y .I'^i ; if ' i [ 1. 1 y i. i if 1 II rorupanioiis lovod liimtinu,: so tliroi' swifter boys follo\v(;il him willi u ciiciTliil yell, s(n cnrtul biin, and bnni^lit liini up tor scii- teiico. "Dou't bo frijjbtcncd, Jacob," siiid \\\c doctress. "I only want ti) know whether you feel better or worse." His mother put in her word: " Ib^ was ever so bad all tlie mornihfj;." "Hold your Jaw," said old (.liles, " and let the boy tell his own tale." "Well, tiien," said .laeob, " I was mortal bad, but now I do (eel like a leather; wust on't is, I be so blessed hunjj;ry now, DalTd if I couldn't eat the devil — sti; fed with thuiulcr and liffhtiiins-" "I'll preserilx! aceordinsly," said Miss Gale, and wrote in iiencil an order on a beef- steak pie they had sent lier from tin; t'ourt. The boy's eonipiniious i)nt their heads to- petlita- over this order, and ottered theii' serv- ices to escort him. " No, thank you," said tlio doel ress. " He ■will fjo alone, you youny; monkeys. Your turn will come." Then she pro^eedt^d o;i her rounds, with Mr. Severne at her heels, until it was past one o'ldo'dv. Then shi; turned round and faced him. "We, will part here," saiil she, "ami I will explain my comlnct to yon, as ycni seem in the dark. 1 have been co-operatin;;' with Miss Vizard all this time. I reckon she sent you out of the way to f;;ive Lord llxmoor his opportunity, so 1 have detained you. While you havo been studying;' niediciiu', ht! has been poi)]tinjj the ([uestiou, of course. Gi>od- by, Mr. Villain." Her words went through tlie man like cold steel. It was one woman reading another. He turned very white, and ptit his hand to his heart. Hut he recovered himself, and said, "If she i>refers another to me, 1 must submit. It is not my nbsencf! for a 1'ew lioiu's that will make the dillerence. Ymi can uot make uu! regret the, hoiKs I have pa.ssed in your company. Goo, .Severne found them all at luncheon except Uxmoor. II(^ detailed his visit to Miss (iaie, and, while he talked, observed. Zoe was iieaming with love and kindness. He felt sure she had not (le(U'ive<| ^h iui aii- !<'«, I wisli I caii." l"vo: hut I, illHl tljiit l.v liiriiiiig UN. Ciood- imt it r<'- iiiid left l«t it bo l!< r pity. 10 put her . ' Niiy, ill a iiis (ciiiii iiiid (I(>.s- rock. llillsloko, •II t'Xccpt \Ii.'s.s(Jal,., Z(in was II.- r.-it I' IcariitMl, moor wiLs said to herself, "This is a man, and he shall | infernal passion I)egan to suggest all luaii- havo her." j ner of wild, wicked, and unreasonable She sat down and wrote a letter to Vizard, , hoju's. tellinj; him all she knew, and what she | Meantime there was no stopping. Ho llioiif^ht, viz., that another woman, and a soon I'oiiiid lie must speak seriously to Viz- respeetable one, had a claim on Mr. Severne, ; ard. Ifi^ went into his study and began which ought to be cloavly in<|i.ired into, and ! to open the subject. Vizard stopped him. the ludifM rirnion heard. '*Thiiik of it,' .H.sid | "Ketch theot her culprit," said he; and when she. "He disowned the woman v lio had saA'ed his life, he was so afraiil I should te'l Miss Vizard under what circumstances I lirst saw him." She folded and addressed the letter. But having relieved her mind in some de- gree by this, she asked herself whether it Avould not be kinder to all jiarties to try and Zoe came, l>Misliing, he said, "Now I am go- ing to make 'vhorter work of this than you have done. Zoe has ten thousand pounds. What have you got?" "Only .1. small estate, worth eight thou- sand pouu. Tim accommodating cousin sent him £.'i(i, to aid him in wooing his heiri'ss. He bought her a hoop ring, ap.dogized for its small value, and exiiressed his regret that all he upon my talile, and the other shall be hung could otter her was on as small a scab', ex- cept his love. She bluslu'd, and smiled on him, like heav- en opening. " Small and great, 1 take (hem," said she; jiiid her lo\ely head rested on his shoulder. They were engaged in my liedinom. Then, my dear Zoe, you will be safe from a step-mother. For I am yoMv father now. I'least; understand that." This lironght po(U- Zoe round his neck a'.;ain with such an ett'iision that at last h<^ h iniied her to Severne, and he led her from From that hmir he could command a tele- 1 le ji.e.ii, (|iiite overcome, and to avoid all d-tek with her whenever he chose, and his (ouvcrsation about what had just passed, 124 A \VOM.VX-HATER. 'If gave her over to Fanny, -while lie retired to compose hinisolf. By diniier-timo ho was as hajipy as a prince again, and relieved of all coiiiiniiic- tion. He heard ai'lerward from Fanny that Ziu) and she had discussed the incideiit Miid \'iz- ard's infatnallDri, Fanny heiii,:^ especially wroMi at Vizanl's alitist; of ix'itrls; liiil she told iiiiii she had advised Zoe not to nieii- tion that lady's name, hut let her die out. And, in point of faet. Zoo did avoid the 8ul)ject. There came an eventful day. Vizard got a letter, at lireakfast, from his bankers, that made him stare, and then knit his brows. It was about Edward Severue's aceeptancos. He said nothing, hut ordered his horse and rode into Taddington. The day was keen hut sunny, and, seeing him afoot so early, Zoe saiil she should like .1 drive before luncheon. She would show Severne and Fanny some ruins on I'agndl Hill. They could leave the trai> at the vil- lage inn and walk up the hill. Fanny begged off, and Severne was very glad. The prospect of a long walk up a, hill with Zoe, and then a day spent in utter seclusion with her, tired his imagination ami nuide his heart beat. Here was one of the oppor- tunities ho liad long sighed for of making passionate lovo to innocence and inexperi- ence. Zoe lierself was eager for the drive, and came down, followed liy Jiosa with some wraps, and waited in the morning-room for the dog-cart. It was behind time fiu" once, hecaus', the careful coachman had insisted on the axle being oiled. At last tlio sound of wheels was heard. A carriage drew up at the dooi-. "Tell Mr. Severne," said Zoo. " He is in the dining-room. 1 think." Jiut ir, was not tin; dt tirm, and tixed her eyes ui)oii her as if there was nothing elsti in sight. " You luive a visitor — Mr. Sevcruof ' "Yes," saiil Zoe, drawing up. "Can I speak with him?" "He will answer for himself. Fdward!" At her call Severne came out hastily be- hind Ina Klosking. Hhu turned, and ihey faced eacli other. " Ah !" she cried ; and in spite of idl, there was more of joy than any other passion iu the exclamation. Not so he. lie uttered a scream of disr m.iy, and staggered, white as a ghost, hut slill glared at Ina Klosking. Zoe's voice fell mi him like a clap of thun- der : " What ! —Kdjvard ! — Mr. fcjeverne ! — Has this lady still any right—" "No, none whatever!" he cried; "it is all past and gone." " What is past ?"said Ina Klosking, grand- ly. " Are vou out of your senses '/" Then she was close to him in a moment, by one grand movement, and took him by both lapels of his coat, and held him lirndy. " Speak before t his lady," sIm cried. " Have — I —no— rights — ^over you ?" and her voice was miijestic, and her Danish eyes gleamed lightning. The wretch's knees gave way a nnnnent, and he shook in her hands. Then, .sudden- ly, he turned wild. "Fiend! yon have ru- ined me!" he yelled; and then, witli his natural streiiglh, which was grent, and the su])ci'humaii jiower of mad excitement, hi whirled her right rouml and thing her froi him, and dashed out of the door, uttering cries (d' r'ig(^ and dcsiiair. The unfortunate lady, thus taken by sur- prise, fell heavily, and, by cruel ill luck, struck her temple, in falling, against the sharji corner of a martde ta)>le. It gashed her toreiiead feavl'iiUy, and she lay sense- less, with tlu^ blood spurting in jets from her white temiile. Zoe scre.'imed violently, and the hull and the hall staircase seemed to fill liy niiigic. In the terror and confusion, llanington Vizard strode into the hall, from Tadding- ton. "What is the matter f lit^ cried. "A woman killed ?" Some one cried out she had fallen. "Water, fools — a sponge — don't stand gaping!" and he lliing himself on his knees, and raised tin* woman's head from the lloor. One eager look into her white face — one wild cry— "(.ireat lioiM it is—" He had recognized her. CHAPTEIl XX. Ti" was piteous to see and h(>ai'. Tho blood would Tiot sto)); it spiirled no lon- ger, lint it- (lowed alarmingly. N'izard sent llarriii oil' in his own liy for a doctor, to save time. lUi calle verno ! — 1 ; " it ia all fiiiff.grand- :i nioiiioiit, 'li liiiii l>y liiin liniily, •v,(:rviiiK,"'l'lit' knew tln^ro must and hronglit her us fast aa the horaos could bo worse to come than this wild stupor, go- "Take iior to lier room, I-'anny dear," said Slio ;;lided in awifl ly, keen, lint 8elf-l)0H- /Vi/ard, in a Iinrried, faltering voice, "and Bessed.and took it^ all in directly. ; don't leave her; Ivosa, lielp Miss Dover. Do Vizard saw her, and cried, "Ah! Help! not leavi- her alone, night nor day." Then — she is hleeding to death!" to Miss (iale,"Sh() will livo? 'I'ell me she ".She shall not," sa-id IxMioda. 'I'hen to will live." ono footman, "iJriiig ii foothtixd yld that snit, and (ied it np in a silk handkereliief, and locked it away. In l the familiar faee.4. There was the f^lilterinff (ilate on the polished sidel)oard, the |iyraniid of llow- ers snrronnded with fruits. There were even chairs at the table, for the servants did not know he was to lie quite alone. Ihit he was. One delicate dish after an-' other was l>ron;;ht him, and sent away nn- tasted. Soon after dinner Hhoihi Gale came down and told him her patient was in a jire- carions condition, and h\ui feared fever and delirium. She he^-;;e(l him to send one servant up to the farm for certain medi- caments she. hi'.il there, and another to the chemist at. Taddiiii;toii. These, were dis- l)atclieve. "Jhit," said she, "thin't ask her to come down. She is ashamed to look any body in the face, iioor girl." " Why ? winit.has she done ?" "Oh, Harrington, she has m.'iilo no secret of her alieclion; and now, at sight i:f that woman, be has abandoned her." "Tell her 1 love her more, than I ever did, and respect, her more. Where is her pride '?" "I'ride! she is full of it; ami it will help her — hy-and-by. Ihit she has a bitter time to go through fiist. You don't know how she loves him." " Wh..i ! love Jiini still, after what he ha.s done V "Yes! She interitreta it this way and that. She can not bear to helitive another woman has any real right to separate them." " Separate them ! The scoundrel knocked /ice down f)r loving him still, and lied from them both. Was ever guilt niori'. clear? If she doubts that he is a villain, tell Jier from ni<« hc^ is a forgc^r, :iiid has given me bills with false names on them. 'J'he bank- ers gave mo notici- to-day, and I was coming h(nne to order him out of the liou.se wIumi this miserable business happened." "A forger! is it jiossible f said Fanny. " But it is no use my telling her that, sort of tiling. If lie had committed nnirder, :ine, I have liamlaged it, and now you must let me wet the bandage — to kcei> your brow cool." "Thank yon, madam," said Ina, in her own sweet but queenly way. "You are very good to me. I wish I could see your face more clearly. I know your voice." Tlu^n, after a sihMict\ during which MLss Gale eyed her with anxiety, she sai day, and I also with iin infusion of monk's-hood. That : poison, promptly administered, did not do- jceive her. She obtained a slight perspira- I tiou, which was so much gained in the battle. A WOMAi\-HATI':R. 197 1(1 let licr hide ilicliasawisli, euro Ler of a eiied her heart iiid writlied in .111(1 one bro- "tber. l{iit Is its vent, not (•'I'luetiT, but un, nntl Hi^bs, the throes of stage of Buf- tT s(Mises Ihat iVherosho was. the house of will tell you . hands, aud I before," said u; and it is so not jjjood for accident." poor forehead, now yon must uep your brow d Inn, in her y. "You are ould see your your voice." Jt which Miss slio said, ii]Sho folde moan. " Slriirk (loHii hij tliv rirji hand that irax rowed to protect me .'" saiilslie. Tlien was si- lent !igain. Then began to cry, aud sob, and wring her haiuls. Zoe put her hand to her heart, and moved feebly toward the door. However, she bed. 1 will send Fanny."' Then alw drew herself up. "Miss dale, every liody here is at your eonnnand. Tray spare in)tliing you can thiidv of lo save — »»// brother's giicnt."' There came out the l)itterdrop. When she Inul said that, .she stalked from the room like some red Indian bearing a mor- tal .irrow in him, but too proud to show it. iUit when she got to her own room she tlung herself on her .sofa, aud writhed and sobbed iu agony. I'.inny Dover eame iu and found her so, and Hew to her. Hut she ordered her out (|uite wildly. '•N(f, no; go to her, \i\n' all the rest, and leave poor Zoe all alone. She in aloue." Then Fanny clung to her, and tried hanl l() comfort, her. This young lady now became veiy ze.-il- ons and active. She divided her time be- tween the two sud'erers, ami was indefati- galilt! in their service. When she was not snpi)orting Zoe, she was always at Miss Gal(.''s elltow oH'cring lu-r services. "Do let UK^ helji you," she said. "Do pray let me help. We are poor at home, aud there is nothing 1 <-an not do. Fm worth any three servants." She always helped shift the patient into a fresh bed, and that was d(uu'. very often. She would run to the cook or the butler <'(ir any tiling that was wantcul in a hurry. Sins dung gi'iitility and humbug to the winds. 'I'lieii sIk; dressi'd iu ten minutes, and went, and dined with Vizard, and mad(! excuses for Zee's alisencc, to kec]* every thing smooth ; and liiially she iiisist(;d on sitting u|) with liia Kldsking till llii'ee in the morning, and iiiiule .Mi.ss Ciale go to iicil in tlii! room. "Paid nurses!'' said she ; " they are no use execitt to snore and drink the patient's wine. You anekoned a very good jndge. Ah! now I think of it, I will show yr)u something, and then you will Iielieve me." 81u< ran* titV to the lihrary, snatched np Ina's jiictnreset ronnd with pearls, ami came panting in with it. "There," saifl she; " miw yon look at that!" and she ]Mit it he- fore her eyes. "Now, who is that, if yon plea.s.^ ?" " Oh ! It is Ina Klosking t hat was. Please bring nu*. a glass." The two ladrag him away from the place; and he tleclan^s yon are the tirst singer in tht^ world; and you can not doul>t his sincerity, for hcru arc the pcnrlH." Ina Klosking's ])ale cheek coloi'ed, ami then she opened her two arms wide, aud put them ronnd Fanny's neck, aud kissed her. Her innocent Viinity was gratilieil, and her gracious nature suggested gratitude, to her, who had lironght her the compliment, in- stead of the usual ungrateful bumptionsness praise elicits from vanity. Then Miss Gale put in her word — "Wbeu you met with Miis nnforttiuate accident, I was for taking you up to my house. It is three nnles off; hut he would not hear of it. He said, 'No; here she got her wound, aud here she must bo cured.'" " So," said Fanny, " pray set your mind at ease. My cousin Harrington is a very good soul, but ratluir arbitrary. If you want to leave this place, you must get thoroughly well and strong, for he will never let you go till yon are." Metween these two ladies, clever and eo- ojx'raling, Ina smiled, and seenu'd relieved; but sho was too weak to converse any more just then. .Some hours afterward she beckcmed Fan- ny to her, and said, "The master of the house — what is his uiimef " Harrington Vizard." "Wlmt!—/icr father?" "Lii, no; only her half-brother." "If ho is so kind to nm bcH'anso I sing, why comes ho not to see me 1 She has conu^" Fanny smiled. "It is plain you are not an Englishwounin, though yon speak it so hcantifnlly. An Knglish gentlemau does not intrude into a lady"s room." " It is bis room." " H(! would say that while you occupy it it is yours, and imt his." "He awaits my invitation, then." " I dare say lie would come if yon were to invit(» him, but certainly not without." "1 wish to sci^ him who has been so kind to me, and so loves music; but not to-day —I feel unable." The n(!xt day .she asked for a glass, and was distressed at her api)earauce. Sho Ix'gged for ii cap. " What kind of cap ?" asked Fanny. "One like that,"saiil she, pointing to a portrait on the wall. It was of a lady in a jnaiu brown silk dress and a little white shawl, and a neat cap with a narrow laco border all round her face. This j)articnlar cap was out of date full sixty years; l)nt the house had a stor(;-room of relics, i.iid Fanny, with Vizard's help, soon runnnaged out a cap of the sort, with a narrow frill all round. Her hair was smoothed, a white silk band passed over the now closed wound, and the call hlted on her. She looked pale lint an- gelic. Fanny went down to Vizard, and invited him to come aud see Mademoiselle Klosking — by her desire. " Hut," she added, "Miss (iiile is very anxious lest you should got talking of Sevcrne. She says the fever and loss of blood llav(^ weakened her terribly; and if we bring the fever on again, sho can not answer for her life." ".Has she spoken of him to you f" "Not once." " TUou why should she to mo Y' A wo:man-itater. ISO c you occniiy it "Becnnao you are a man, and slio iiiiiy tliiuk to get tlio truth out ol' yon : slio knows ii'c shall only say what is for tlio bust, yjio is very deci), and we. don't know her mind yet." Vizard said he would ho as {guarded as ho could; but if thoy saw him going wrong, they must send him away. • "Oil, Miss Galo will do that, you may be sure," said Fanny. Thus prepared, Vizard followed Fanny up the stairs to the siek-room. Either there is sueh a thing as love at first sight, or it is something more than first sight, w^ien an observant mau gazes at a woman for an hour in a blazo of light, and drinks in her looks, her walk, her voice, and all the outward signs of a beautiful soul ; for the stout cynic's heart beat at entering that room as it had not beat for years. To be sure, he had not only seen her on tlie stage in all her glory, but had held her, pale and bleeding, to his manly breast, and his heart wanned to her all the more, and, in- deed, fairly melted with tenderness. Fanny went in aiul announced him. He followed softly, and looked at her. Wenlth can make even a sick-room pret- ty. The Klosking lay on snowy pillows whoso glossy daaiask was edged with lace, and upon her form was an eider-down quilt •ovcred with violet-colored sal in, and her face was set in that sweet cap which hid her wound, and made her elo(iucut face less ghastly. She turned to look at him, and he gazed at her in a way that spoke volumes. "A seat," said she, softly. Fanny wns for putting one close to her. " No," said Miss Gale, " lower down ; then she need not turn her head." So he sat down nearer her feet. " My good host," said she, in her mellow voice, that retained its quality but not its liower, " I desire to thank you for your good- ness to a poor singer, struck down — by the hand that was bound to protect her." Vizard faltered out that there was noth- ing to thank him for. He was proud to have her under his roof, though deeply grieved at the cause. She looked at him, ,.nd her two nurses looked at her, and at each other, as much as to say, " She is going upon dangerous ground." Thoy were right. But she had not the • courage, or perhaps, as most Avomen are a little cat-like in this, that they go away once or twice from the subject nearest their heart before they turn .and pounce on it, she must speak of other things first. Said she, "But if I was unfortunate in that, I was fortunate in this, that I fell into good hands. These ladies are sisters to me," and she gave Miss Gale her hand, and kissed the other hand to Fanny, tliQUgb she could scarcely lift it ; " and I have a host who loves mnsic, and overrates my poor ability." Then, after a pause, " What have you heard me sing?" " Siebel." "Only Siebel! why, that is a poor little thing." "So /thought, till I heard you sing it." " And, after Siobel, you bought my photo- graph." "Instantly." " And wasted pearls on it." "No, madam. I wasted it on pearls." "H" I were well, I should call that ex- tsavagant. But it is i)ermitted to flatter the sick. It is kiiul. Me you overrate, I fear; but you do well to honor music. Ay, I, who lie here wounded and broken-heart- ed, do thank God for music. Our bodies are soon crushed, our loves decay or turn to hate, but art is innnortal." She could no longer roll this out in her grand contralto, but she could still rai.se her eyes with enthusiasm, and her pale face was illuminated. A grand soul shone through her, though she was pale, weak, and pros- trate. They admired her in silence. After a while she resumed, and said, "If I live, I must live for my art alone." Miss Gale saw her approaching a danger- ous topic, so she said, liastily, " Don't say lY'you live, please, because that is arranged. You have been out of danger this twenty- four hours, provided you do not relajise ; and I must take car(^ of that." "My kind friend," said Ina,"Ishall not relapse; only my weakness is pitiable. Sometimes I can scarcely forbear crying, I feel so weak. When shall I be stronger?" "You shall be a little strongerevery three days. There are always ups and downs in convalescence." " When shall I be strong enough to move ?" " Let me answer that question," said Viz- ard. " When you are strong enough to sing us Siebel's great song." "There," said Fanny Dover; "there is a mercenary host for you. He means to have a song out of you. Till then you are his prisoner." "No, no; she is mine," said Miss Gale; "and she sha'n't go till she has sung me 'Hail, Columbia!' None of your Italian trash for me." Ina smiled, and said it vras a fair condi- tion, provided that "Hail, Columbia," with which composition unfortunately she was unacquainted, was not beyond her powers. "I have often sung for money," said she, "but this time" — here she opened her grand arms, and took Rhoda Galo to her bosom — " I shall sing for love." "Now we have settled that," said Vizard, " my mind is more at ease, and I will retire." " One moment," said Ina, turning to him. Iff 130 A WOMAN-HATER. I IE !? n Tlu'ii, ill n low ami ^<'ry meaning voice, " Tlicre in Hoinvthiiiy iIhc." "No tloulit there i.s plenty," said Miss Gale, Mliarply ; "ami, liy my authority, I ]>ii^(|iom' it all till yon ale stion,i;er. IJid lis j;(ioc|-l)y for I lie pit'sent, Mr. \'i/,ar(l." "1 oln^y," said lie. " iJiit, iiiadaiii, i>lease remember 1 am always ut your serv iee. (Send for me when you please, and the often- er the lietter for me." '•Thank yon, my kind host. Oldige \iw •with your hand." lie ;;a\e her his hand. She took- it, and imt her lips to it with i>uie- and gentle and seemly gratitude, and with no loss (d" digni- ty, flidiigh the aet was hunilde. Ilr tiiriied his head away, to hidi- tli(^ emoliou til a I aet and (he toueh of her sweet lips caused liim ; Miss (iale hurried him out of the room. "You naughty patient," said she, '-'you must do nothing to excite yoiirstdf." ".Sweet physician, lo\iiig nurse, I am not excited." Miss Gale felt her heart (o see. "(iratitiido does not excite," said Ina. "It is too tame a feeliivv !ii the hest of us." "'I'liat is a fact," sai • Miss (.iale ; "so let , ns all lie gratid'iil, and avoid exciting to]>ics. Think wliat / should Iced if you had a re- lapse. Wliv. voii would break mv heart." "Should i?" "1 really think you would, tough as it is. One gets so fond of an unsellish paticur. You can not think how rare they are, di'ar. You are a pearl. 1 can not afl'ord to lose y(ui." "Then you sliall not," said Ina, firmly. "Know that I, who seem so weak, am a "woman of great resolution. I will f()llow good counsel ; I will postpone all dangerous topics till 1 am stronger; I will live. I'or [ ■will not griexe the true friends ealamiry lias raised me." Of course Fanny told Zoo all about this interview. .She listened gloomily; and all she said was, "Sisters do not go for niueli ■when a •man is in love." "Do brothers, when a woman is?" said Fanny. "I dare say they go for as much as they are worth." "Zoe, that is njhe asked him if lie had any idea what had become of .Severne. " Fled the country, I sujipose." " Are von sure he is not lurking altout ?" " What for f • "To get a word with Zoe — ahuie." "He will not come near this. I will break every bone in his .skin if be does," " Ibit he is so sly ; he minlit bang about." " What for .' She never goes out ; and if she did, have you so poiu- an opinion of her as to think she would speak to him ?" "Oh no! and she would forliid liini to S])e;ik to her. Hill he W(nild be sure to per- sist, and he has such wondeilul powers of explanatioii, and she is blinded by love; I think he would make her believe black was white, if he had a ehance ; and if he is about, he will f a cliance scum.' day. .She is do- ing the very worst thing she could— shut- ting herself u|> so. Any moment sin; will turn wild, and rush out recldess. She is in a dangerous stale, you mark my words; she is broken-hearted, ami yet she is hitter against every body, except that young vil- lain, and he is the only enemy she has in the world. I don't lieliexi^ Madeuioiselle Klos- king (!ver wronged her, nor e\cr will. Ap- pearances are against her; liiit she is a good woman, or 1 am a. fool. Take my advice, Harrington, and be. on your guard. If ho had written a penitent letter to ^lademoi- selle Klosking. that would be a dili'erent. thing; lint he ignores her, and that fright- ens me tor Zoe." Harrington would not admit that Zoo needed any other safi'guard against a detect- ed scdundnd than her own sense of dignity. He consented, however, to take precautions, if Fanny would solemnly )iromis(>, not to tell Zoe, and so wound her. On that condition, he •would see his head keeper to-morrow, and all the keepers and watchers should bo posted so as to encircle the parish with vigilance. He assured Fanny these fellows had a whole system of signals to the ear and eye, and .Severne could not get within a mile of the house undetected. " But," said he, " I will not trust to that alone. I will send an advert isemeivt to the local papers and the leading Loudou jouruuls; so worded that A woman-iiati:r. 131 -if TTiirriiis- .slie is to 111) yiiiir Cflluw- iirsflfuci' it." lil.vill^ illT, I i.v li;i])i)in('s.s, iUw.i IIOl loVO • ;iii;;ry, so slie I'lnincil luitli- I li i)()(ir /(»(■ ; with Vi/iird, ()(■ coiilil not If jislii'd liim 1 licuoiiio of iiii;; iil)oiit ?" lldllC."' lis. r will i ill' docs." liaii^j; alioiit." s out; and if jiinion of Iwi' iiiiii ?" irbid liini to (' sure to piT- iil powers of i'd li.v love ; I vo Idack was if lie is about, Sill' is do- foidd— sliiit- iieiit slic will •ss. She is in ly words; she she is hitter at younjj vil- siie has in tlio noiselle Ivios- t-r will. A|)- : 8li(> is a ^ood ;e niy advice^, H'liard. If he to I^Iadenioi- o a dili'ereiiti il that fright- nit that Zoe linsf a detect- ise of diiriiity. I' [irecantions, ise not to tell iiat condition, ■r to-morrow, ers should lie parish with these fellows \o till! ear and within a mile 3iit," said he, . I will send il papers and D worded that the scoundrel shall know his forgery is de- will he. Hut now hick liore : We have two teeted, and that he will he ariested on a magistrate's warrant if he sets foot in 15ar- forlshire." l''aiiiiy said that was capital, and, alto- gether, lie had set her mind at rest. "Then do as much for me." s;iid Vizanh " IMease exiihiin a leiiiarkahle idieiionieiioii. Ydii wert> always a hii;j,lit girl, and no Imd ; hilt not exactly what hiimdrnm people would call a good girl. Voii are not of- fended r "Tiie idea! Why, I have jmhlicly dis- owned goodness again and again. Von have heard me." "So I have. Ihit was not that rather de- ceitful of you 7 for yon have turned out as good as gold. Anxiety lias kept me at home of Inte, and 1 have watched you. You live ladies ill love with one villain — that is ex- Citiiig. One gets nearly killed in the hoiisn — that is ghuionsly exriiing. The oflu-r is Jii'oken-hearled. If 1 were to he a had girl, and, say, 'It is not my husincss; 1 will leave them to themselves, and go my little mill- round of sidlishncss as liefore.' why. what a fool I must he I I should lose I'.xcitcment. Instead of that. I run and get things fur the Klosking — Kxiitemeiit. I rook for iier. and nurse her, and sit up half the night — Kx- citemenr. Then I run to Zoe. and do my liest I'or her — and get snn!die, how I shall tlirt ! Heaven help my next tlirtee! I shall soon tlirt out the stigma of a goud giil. Y'on mark my word.s; I shall tlirt with some marrhd max after this. I never did that .vet. Hut I shall ; I know I sha'.l. — Ah I — there, riiavc burned my linger." " Xevci- mind, 'iliat is excitin};." wise advice. I know that women ar(> all "As siteli I accept it. (lood-by, I iiinst liiimbugs ; only you are II humbug reviUNed, ' go and relieve Miss flale. Exit the good and deserve a statue— anil trimmings. Y'ou i girl on her mission of charity — ha! ha ! ha!" have been passing yourself olT for a*naiiglity : She hummed a valfc a dntx Iciiiiih, and went girl, and all tho lime yon were an extra | dancing out with such a whirl that her pet- good one." I ticoats, wliicli were iimple, and not, as now, "And that puzzles the woman-hater, the j like a sack tied at the knees, made (juite a cynical student, who says he has fatliomcd | eool air in the room. woman! My poor dear Ilarrington, if ymi She, had not been gone long when Miss can-not read so shallow a character as I am. Gale came down, full of her patient. She liow will you get on with tliose lailies up wanted to get her out of bed during the stairs — Zoe, who is as deep as the sea, and da\time, but said she was i.ot stronji enough turbid with ])iissioji, and the Klosking, who is as deep as the ocean ?" She thought a moment, and said, "There, I will have i>ity on you. Y'ou shall niider- stand one woman before you die, and that is me. I'll give yon the clew to my seeming inconsistencies — if ^o» will give me a cigar- ette." "What! another hidden virtue? Y'ou smoke f "Not I, except when I happen to he with a noble soul, who won't tell." Vizard found her a Russian cigarette, and lighted his own cigar, and she lectured as follows : "What women love, and can't do with- out, if they are young and healthy, and sjiir- ited, is — Excitement. I am one w ho pines for it. Now society is so constructed that to get. Excitement yon must be naughty. Waltzing all night and flirting nil day are Excitement. Crochet, and church, and ex- amining girls in St. Matthew, and dining ni famille, and going to bed at ten, are stagna- tion. Good girls — that means stagnant girls; I hate and despise tho tame little wretches, and I never was one, and never toi^it nil. Would he order an invalid-couch down from London. She described tho ar- ticle, aikd where it was to he had. He said Harris should go up in the morn- ing and bring one down with him. He then jnit her several (fueslions ahout her patient ; and at last asked her, with an anxiety he in vain endeavored to conceal, what shv thought was the relation between her and Sevenie. Now it may be remembered that Miss Galo had once lieen on the iioint of tidling him all she knew, and had written him a letter. But at that time the Klosking was not ex- liected to ajipear on the scene in person. Were she now to say she had seen her and Severne living together, Rhodafelt that sho should lower her patient. She had not tho heart to do that. Rlioda Gale was not of an amorous tem- perament, and she was all the more open to female attachments. Witli a little encour- ageinciit she would have loved Zoe, hut she had now transferred her atfection to tho Klosking. She replied to Vizard almost like a male lover defending the object of his atfection. r*^ 1» A AVOMAN-IIATF-R. i !l; I -i ift 1^1^ )■•' "Tlic fxai't rt'latioii is inoro lliiin I can li'II; lint I think lie lias livid ujion her, I'nr blio WM rldiir llian lir wnn; and 1 I'tcl hiiii' lie liaH proniisfd licr iiiarria;;)'. And my Hn'at fiar now is Ic^t lie Nlnmld fid liidd of lirr and iiiii's, Mins Dover tidls inc. I'lay kii'p Inr lure till sill- is i|nlto wt'll, plcast'." "1 will." "And tlii-n lit nn' liavi« lirr ii]> at llill- fitokc. Slif is lii-yiiming to love lui', and I doll' on lirr.'' ".So do I." " All, but you must not." "Why not?" "lii'iausi'." "Widl. why notr "8hi' is nut to lovo any man s\jit\\i) who ^vill not many her. 1 won't li-t hiT. I'll kill litT lirst, I lovi- In-r ho. A ro;;nr .slio Hha'n't many, and 1 raii't let you marry Iht, lit'ransi' In-r conni-ction with that .Sfvi-rni' is mysti'rioiis. .slic sit: tin' sonl ot' \ irtnr, lint 1 could not let !ioii i ■ my her until things arc lieaier."' " Make your mind easy. T will not marry her— nor any liody else— till things are it jjrcat deal clearer than I hiive ever I'ouiid tlieiii, where your sex is concerned." Miss (iaic aiiin'ovcd tin' resolution. Next day Vizard imsteil his kee|ii'rs, and sent his advertisenieiils to the Loudon and country Journals. Fanny came into liis study to tell him there was imue tronlile — Miss Mailhind tak- en seriously ill, and had written to Zoo. " Poor old soul !" .said \ izard. " 1 have a great iiiinil to ride over and .see her." ".''^omeliody oiiKht to go," said Fanny. " Well, you go." " How can I — with Zoe, and >rademoiselle Kloskiug, and you, to look after?" "liisiead of.oiie old woman. Not much excitement in that." "No, cousin. To think of your renii ui- lieringl Why, you must have g(uie to hod eolicr."' "I often do." " You w ere always au eccentric land- owner.'' " Don't yon talk. Yon arc a caricaturi^." This banter was interrniitcd by Miss (lalc, ■who came to tell Ilaniugton Mnileiuoiselle Kloskiug desired to sec him, at his leisure. lie saiil he would come directly. "liefore you go,'' said Jliss ( rubliish. Ibit the great bulk of our collect ion is ral li- er old-fa!iliioned. Il is sacred music— ora- torios, niasM's, ant hems, services, cliaiits. My mother was the collector. Her tastes were good, but narrow. Do you care for that sort of music .'" " Sjiercd music ;' Why, it is, of all music, the mosr divine, and soothes the Ininbled soul. Can I not .see the books? 1 read mu- sic like words. IJy reading 1 almost hivir." " \\'e will bring you up a dozen books to begin on." He went down directly; and such was his ))leasiire in doing any iliing for the Klos- kiug that he executed the order in jicrson, Iiroiighl up a little ]iile of folios and ((uar- toj-., beau I it'll lly bound and lettered, a lady^ hi'.v! ,g been the collector. ^'ow as lie iiiountcd the stairs, Avith his \i ry chin 11)1011 the iiile. who should In; see looking over the rails at him but his sister Zoe. She was sadly changed. There was a fix- ed ashen pallor on her cheek and a dark circle under her eyes. He sto|iped to look at her. "My poor child," said he, "you look very ill." " I am very ill, dear." " Would voii not be better for a change ?" " I might'." " Why coop yourself up in your own room ? Why deny yourself a brother's sympathy?'' 'J'he girl trembled, and tears came to her eyes. " Is it with me vou sympathize ?" said she. " Can you doubt it, Zoe f ' Zoe hung her head a moment, and did not !ifrririliii;j- iil in alwiivs liilU to till' Mill. At nil II awiiy I'nr laril a;;iiiii>l I mil a^aiiisl cratt'. Tlic ill siicaliiiit; M' on (iiir iiiiMl ivailc; rrv ; liiil iKi iiKiri) at all (Inc. coiirsp, sklnji. ivilli pillowH In' scaled, on licr iiiiiid, c I'at.s. 'I i;(i()(l music, I ( Tc. Silincc liiKir iiiiisic." '1)11 ({(Kill IIIU- 'vas, anil van (ir t no ^(i()(l tiic Mililii.sh. clioii i.s ralli- niiisic — (ira- ircs, cliiint.s. Her ta.sles yon caro for . of all innsio, the tninliled ? I read inii- ilmo.sf hear." iizen books to 1 siudi was liis lor tlie Kios- hu- in jiersoii, ios and (jiiar- ttercd, ii lady air.s, with his slioiild lie SCO but his bister icre was a fis- i. and a dark r. "Mv poor • ill." or a change ?" inrown room ? I syiniialhy ?" s canio to her izo ?" said she. it, and did not A WOMAX-HATKR. 1:J3 re]ily. Thon hIio mndo a (livorsi allli' t< d. He iiidic \viib me than ever, and let this eriicl blow bind us more closely, instead of dis- uiiiliii;; us." lie kissed her lovinjjly ; and liis kind Vi/unl Hfnrtod a little ;it the suddcnncHH of this, but lie said notliiii ;: he did not know w hat to say. When she had waited a little, a!id lie said notliinn, she spoke aKain. "'I'ell me siuuc- thiiiji about her. Is she ^ood f l"or);i\o me : it is not tliat I doubt." "She is Kood. according to her lights." " Is she proiul f" " Yes." "Is she Just ?" '■No. And I never met n woman that was." "Indeed it is rare. AVhy docs she not visit me .'■' " I doh'l know." "She biaines me forall that has ha]ipcni'd." "I don't know, madam. My sister looks words set her tears llowinj;. Ihit they did very ill, and keeps her own room. If she her little j;ood. They were bitter teal's, docs not visit you, she holds e(|iially aloof IJctwccn lierand her brother there was now I t'i'om im all. She has nol taken a sin;;lo a liariicr sisterly love ciiiild not ]iass. lie meal w i I li me for some day; haled and desjiisi'd Mil ward Sivenie; and she only distrusted him, and feared he was "Since I w asyoiir iiatieiit and your;;ucst." " Tray do not conclude (rum lliat — Who a villain. Slie loved him still with every can interpret a woman T' fibre of her heart, and pined for his expla nation of all that seemed so dark. So then he entered the siek-room with liis music-books; and Zoc. aft er watcliin;;' him in without sceniiny to do so, crept away to her own room. 'I'lien there was rather a pretty little scene. Miss (ial(i and Miss Dover, on each side of the bed, held a heavy music-book, and Made- nioiselle, Kloskiiij; turned the leaves and read, when the composition was worth read- ing. If it was not, she. i|uii'tly jiasscd it over, w itliout any injiirions comment. Vizard watched her from the fool of the bed, and could tell in a nionient by her face Avhether the coni|iositi(in was good, bad, or ' oned her frieiiib iiiililferent. When bad, her face seemed to proceeded to U "Another woman. Enigmas to yon, wo are transparent to each other. Sir, will yon grant nie a favor? Will yuii peisiiade ^liss X'izard lo see me here alone— all alone? It w ill be a greater trial to iiie than to her, for I am weak. In this re(|uest I am not self- ish. She can do nothing for me; but I can do a. little for her, to pay the debt of grat- itude I owe this lios|iitalile house. May Heaven bless it, from the roof to thu fouu- dation-stone!" "I will sjicak to my sister, and slii' shall visit you — w ith the consent of your physi- cian." "It is well," said Iiia Klosking, and beck- i(« of whom, Miss fialc, I' luilse, with suspicious turn impassive, like marble; when good, to glances at Vizard. Ikit she found the imlso expand ; and wIkmi she lii;bfcd on a master- ' calm, and said so. piece, she was almost Iransruiiircd, and her Vizard took his leave, and went straight toZ oc s loom. was not there, lit! was face shone with elevated joy. This was a study to the enamored Vizard, and it did not esca))e the iiiiick-sighted doc- tress. She dcsjiiscd music on its own mer- j solitary life. its, but she despised nothing that could be | He went down stairs and on to the lawn pressed into the service of medicine: and : to look for her. He could not see her any glad of that, for it ga\-e him liopes she was going to respect his advice, and gi\c up her she said to herself, "I'll cure her with escu- lents and musi( ,licn At last, w hen he had given np looking for The book was taken away to make room hei-, lu^ found her in his study crouched in a for another. coriii!!'. Then said Iiia Klosking, " Jlr. Vizard, I She rose at sight of him and stood bef n desire to say ii word to yi niy dear friiMids." Excnsti me, . liini. " Hariington." said she, in rathci a ! comuiandiii'T wav. "Aunt Muitland is ill, and Miss Gale colored up. She liad not fore- I wish to go to her." seen a /('/('-«-/(■/(' between Wizard and her ]ia- Harringtfui stared at her with surprise, liciit. However, there was no In-lp for it, | "You an^ not well enough yourself.'' and she withdrew to ii little distance with j "Quite well enough in body to go any ]'aiiny; bnt she said to Vizard, openly and where" exiu'cssively, " Keinciiiber!" " Well, but — " said Harrington. When they had withdrawn a little way. She caught him up impatiently. "Surely Ina Klosking iixed her eyes on Vizard, and : you can not object to my visiting Aunt Mait- Baid, iu a low voice, " Your sister!" | laud. She is dangerously ill. 1 hud a sec- 1 i '' w" - ■ ■ ijiiMiHiii 134 A AVOM A\-l I A THR. ■| Ml ji i ; ?«:• f (iiiil lot tt'v (liis iiiorning — soo." Ami she liold him out a letter. llairiiifiliiii was in a (litVnulty. lie lelt ,suf.' this was not her real motive; hut lie < 'tl not like "(> sa\ so harshly to an nnha])'- )iy jtirl. He took a moderate course. "Not just. now. dear." said lie. "What ! am I to wait till slie dies?"orieil Zot>, <;el I iu'j; aj;ilated a I liis oiniosil ion. " He reasoual'le, dear. Yon know you are 1h(^ mistress of this house. Do not KhisUinu;; 1 could not do otherwise wlien she was nearly kiih'd in my liali. Hut J'or my sister to jio away wliile she remains liere wouhl have a had ellect." " It is too late to tliink of that, llarrinu ton. The mischief is done, ami ytm mils: l>Iead your cci'entri'ily. \\'hy should I licar the hlaiiu> ? I never .•iiiiHoNcd it." " Ytm wmiid have sent her to an inn, oh ?" "No; hnt Miss (iaie otreretl to lake her." "Then [am to understand tliat you i)ro- )ios(> to mark your reiirid)at ion >.(' my eou- duct l>y Icaviiin' my lioust"." " What ! ])ul)liely ? Oil no. You may sa.\ to yoursclt" tliat your sister couhl not tie.ir to stay under the same roof with Mr. '- v- erne's mistress. Hut. tliis I'liatlerine; county shall never know my mind. My aiinl is daii;;'eroiisly ill. Slic lixcs tint thirty miles otV. She is a lit olijecl of pity. She is a respectahle-lady : she is all alone: no fe- male ]ihysieian, no tlirt turned .si.ster of (Miarily, no woman-hater to I'ctch and car- ry fiov- orned himsidt' like a man. "(io on, yonnjj; lady." said he; '' .u'o on. ,lecr, and taunt, and wound t he hesi hrot her any yimiii;- ni.ad- wmnau ever had. Hut don'l ll.ink I'll an- swer you as yon deserve. I'm loo cunnine. If I was to say an unkind word to you I Hhoiild sulVer ihe tortures of the ray let me ji'o to Aunt Maitlaud!" "You shall uo, Zoc. tlul 1 tc'i! you plain- ly, this step will be a hlow to our atlcci ion the tirsl." Zoc cried at that. Hut as she did not willnlraw her reiiuest, llarrinjjtou told iier, witli cold civility, that she must he ^jood t'non)>li to Uo ready directly alter hreakfast to-nnu'iow, and lake as little !u<;!;'aK^' "•"* "^''i' could with convenience to lierselt". Horses were scut on that nijjht Io llie "Fox," an iim half-way hetweuii Viziuil Court uud Mi»ti Muitlaud'8 pltico. I In lhi> morniiifj a li};lit harouclio, witli a Isliiij;- for liiufiaLit". came round, and Zoe v as soon seatctl in it. Then, l,t her surprise, i Ilarrin-iton came out and sat hcside her. i She wa.s jileascd at this, and said,"\Vliat, ' .-ire you fjoiiijj; with me, dear, all that way i" I "Yes. to save appearances." said he; and , took out a newspa]ier to I'cad. This I'ro/e Zoe, ;>n(l she retired witliiii lier- Jsclf. I It was a lino fresh morninj;; the coach- man drovo fast; the air fanned her cheek; the motion wasenliveiiinn ; the hoi-ses' hoofs laiiij ciuicli and clear upon Ihe road. I'^rcsh olijccts met the ey<' every moment. llcr heart was as sad and achiii>; as before, but there arose a faint cnconraninj"; seiuse that sonic day she niii;ht b(> belter, or thinjijs inii;lit lakt> some I urn. When they had rolled ahoni ten miles, she said, ill ,'i low voice, " llarriii^tou." j "\V(dW I " You were rinhl. Coopinj; one's S(>lfui) is j the way to no mad." f " Of course it is" " I feel a little better now— a very little." " 1 am ;;lail of it." Hut he was not hearty, and she said no more. He was (>xtremcly attentive to her all tlio jonrney, and, indeed, had never been lialf so polite to her. This, however, h'd to a result he did roll intend nor anticipate. Zoe, lieinj; now cool, f(dl into a stale of compunction and dismay. She saw his all'eclion leavinji her, and still' politeness c(miin;i' iiisicad. She leaned forv, ard. jml her hands on his knees, and looked, all scart"d, in his faet>. " Ilarriiijilon." she cried,"! was wronji. ^VIlat is .\niit Maillam. to nie ? You are my all. Hid him turn the hor.ses' heads and fjo 'ionic." " \\'hy, we are only six miles from the place." " What lines that m.alh-r ? AVe shall have had a jiood lonj; drive |oliiic with you after it; and I will rido «)r drive with you every day, if you will let me." Vizard could not help sniiliiijj. He was disarmed. " Yon imimlsixe yonno' inonkev," said he. " 1 shall ilo iiothiiiji; of Ihe kind. In the first place. 1 couldn't turn hack from any thiiiu; I'm only a imiii. In tin- next jilace, I liavi' been thinkiiifi it tivcr, as you have; and this is a fiood ino\c of ours, though I was a lillle morlilicd at lirsl. Occiipaliim is the best cure of love, and this old huly will liud you plenty. Hesides. nursiiif; im- proves lhi> char.actcr. ,I,ook ill tli.at frivo- lous tjirl I'aiiiiy, how sln> has come out. And you know. Zoe, if \(iii n'ct sick of it in a day or lwi>, you hav)' only to write to me, and I will senil for you dirtH'tly, A short ahsenee, with 80 ri'utiuuable u luutivo Uii visiting u ui'lio, with :i iind Zo<' wiiM licr siirprisc, csidi' licr. sai(l,"\Vli!it. 1 that wayf" said ho ; and d within hor- :; tlio coai'h- (1 licr chock ; iiorscs" lioot'M road. Fi'("sh oiiicnt. licr IS liot'oro, hill H' sciisi> thai r, or thiiifiH en miles, she on." uno'ssolf up is I vory little." .1 she said no > to her all tlio sor hi'on half lit ho did I'ot; oiiijr now cool, 1)11 mill dismay. C her, and still' r hands on his il, ill his t'aco. 1 was wroiii;. mt .f Yon arc rses' heads and iiilos tVom (ho Wi> shall havo lior, and 1 will 1 will rido or if yon will lot. linjj. llo was uuiiV moiikoy," if the Kind. In hack iVom any llio next idaco, ', as yon havo ; ours, thonj-'h I I. ()ccii|iatioii I this old lady •s, nnrsiii}'' ini- at that tVivo- 'onioont. And k of it in a day to to mo, and [ short alisiMico, u ua viditint; u A WOMAX-llATKU. 136 sick annt, will ])rovoko no conimcits. It is ' sion. Hut yon have not told mo where Mi.s.s all for the iiost." I N'i/arii is." Tiiis sot /oc at her case. ;iiid lirotlier ;iiid | "With lu'r aiiiit. Miss Maillaiid. ;it Som- sislor rosiimcil tiicir Usual iiiaiiiicis. ' crvillc N'illa. near liayloy. .\)iroiios, I liad 'I'hcy readied Miss Mail land's hciisi'. and bet ler toll yon what she is there tor, or your were adiiiilted to licr siclv-room. She was ' ;;ood Dowaj^or will lie askiiit; her to parties, really very ill. and thanked tiioiii so |i;itliit- ^ Slie lias coiiie to nurse her annt Maitland. ically for coniiiij; to visit a poor lone old ' The old lady is seriously ill, and all oiir woman that now they were hotli t;tad they had come. yoiiiiii ('(Millet tes ai(' j;'oiiii;' in for nursing;. Wo lia\(' a sick ladv at our house. I am sor- Zoe entered on her fiiiicti(nis with an ry to say, and she i.s nursed lilvc a inicen liy alacrity llial surprised liorscll". and \'i/ard liootross (ialo and ox-l'lirt l'"aiiiiy Dover, drove away, Ihir ho did not drive straight Now is tiiltillod the .sayiii;^ that was said, home, lie had started t'roni X'i/ard (.'oiirt with other views. lie had lclc;;i;iplied Lord rxiiKior the niL;lit hot'oii', and now ' I spare ycni the rest, and simi>ly remark that drov(> to liis pla< (", which was only liv(> ; our /oe. tired hy I ho oxaniiilo (d" those two 'O wiimaiil ill our lioiii'!* of ciise— ' miles distanl. llo t'oiind him at liinni', and soon told him his errand. " Do yon reiiiom- hor moetinij a yoniiil fellow at my honse, called Severiio ?" "1 do, "said Lord rxmoor,. dryly ononnh. "Well. Iu> has turned out an iiniiostor." rxmoor's cyo llashcd. Il(> had always siisiioetod Sovcnio of liciiiii h's vi\al. and a ladies, lias dcvoicd hcrscit' to nnrsiiifi Annt Maitl.iiid. It is \ery f^iiod of her, hiit ox- porienco tolls me she will vory somi Iind it, extremely trying;; and as she is a very pret- ty 'X^r\, and theroforo a tit snliject of male charity, yon niij;ht pay her a visit now- and (lion, and .show her that this host td'i'll pos- siMo worlds contains voiinji ijontlenu'n of main cause of his del'cal. "An impostor?" , distinction, with loiiu; and irlossv hoards, as said ho: "that is lallicr a slroiiii wind. \vcl) as ]iocvish old women, who arc extra Certainly I never lie.ird a i;oiillciiiaii toll ,' scllish and tyraiiniial wiicii they hapiion to such a falsoliood as ho \ (iliiiilcered ahoiit l>o sick." — what's tlio fellow's name? — a ilotoc- tivo." '• (>li, I'oikilns. Th.-it is noiliiiii!;. That was one of his white lies. !le is a villain all round, and a t'orntM' hy way ot' climax." " .V for^icrl \\ hat, a orMiiinal ?" •'Kalher, Here are his dratts. Thodraw- er jind acceptor do not oxi>l. The wludo tliiiii!; was writ Ion hy Ivlward Sevorne, whoso indorsement li;;iii\ s on lli(>hill. llo not 1110 to cash those hills. 1 dojiosit Ihoiii with yon, .and 1 ask ymi for ,a warrant to coimnit him — if ho slionid c(niio this way." ••Is that likely?" '•Not at all; it is a liiindrcd to or ',<:' never shows his nose aniiMi i i liai i'ord.^l ire. When he was t'oniid out, he oltcd. .iiid Ict't his very chtlhos in ■■■\\ !u ,m'. I packed them otf to the '."^w.r.i' im I'adi'inuloii. lie lias never liocii hoard ol' ^iin(■o; and I ha\i' Avarned him, hy adv crt isean'iil . |i;at he will he arresled if over he si^ts f,iol .a Uarl'ord- sliirc." "Well, then?" "W(dl, then, I am i.ot edinn- (o throw away a chance. The liejiLjar had tlu' iiii)iii- tloiico to spoon on my sister /oc. 'I'liat was my fault, not hers, lie was an (dd college ac(|naiiitance, and 1 ;ia\ c him op|Kirt unit ics - I do.serviN to ho horsewhipped. IIowcm;-, I'xmoor ]iOsitividy radiated ns this jn'o- y;raniiii(> was unfolded to him, Vi/.ard oh- served that, and chuckled inwardly. llo then handed him the forjicd acccjit aiiccs. J.ord I'xmoor he(;ii<>d liim to write down the facts on pajicr. .ind also his application for the warrant. M" did so, l,(U'd rxmoor locke(l lli(> ita)>cr r, .and the friends parted. \"i/ard drovr oil', >sy in his mind, and c(m- j;i at iilaliiiL; hiiiis ',1', not nnroasonahly, on his little coniliin.ition, hy means ot' wiiicli lie had provided his sister with a w.itch- doii. a (■oni|)aiiion. and an honoralile lover, all ill one, I'xnKxn' ]int on his hat and strode forth into his own ^ron ids, with his heart licat- iiit; hii;li at this stran;i'o turn ot' tliin<:s in t'a vor i<( his love, Neit lior torosaw t lie si r...ij:o coinhinat ituis w hi ell were to aris (Uii "fan event that ap- l»earod so simple am ided. r!iAlTI'.K XXH, 1n.» Ui()SKiN(i'> cure was retarded hy (lie stale of her mind. 'I'he excitement and sharp af;nii;. her physician had ('''ared, iti<'d aw 'ty as the fever td'llio hrain snhsided ; 1 am not noinn to eonimil the s.iiiio Idiii ilor | iuit th- .( (liori> ^■■(tlod down a uriin, listles.s Iwieo. Mv sister is in v(nir neiL;hhorhood . "''.mi ..y, w liii h oiisiructcd her roliuii to for a t'ew davs." ••All!" h aftli and viji'or. Once she said to K'hoilii ( do," Mill 1 havo iiotliiii;i to ;:et well lor." "And perhaps yoii will he jjood euoUj^h | A a n ';'. she i\'.:\ not speak her mitiv.. hnt to keo]! yonr eye mi her." | Ih.m^.'..; ' ^^roat deal. She olten asked aft- "I feel umeh honored by such a eomuiia j er Zoo: ami her ni>''scs eould see that her m ■ 136 A WOMAN-HATER. ml I 111 I; ! I? r ¥ h IM ,ft !■ one laiignid anxiety was somehow comioct- ' ed with tliiit liuly. Yet site did not seem liostilo to her now, nor jetdoiis. It was ' liard to understand her; slie was reserved, j and very deep. ^ The tirst relief to tlie deadly langnor of her mind eanie to her from Mnsic. That was no great wonder; hnt, strange to say, | the uinsic that did Iier good was neither old enough to be revered, nor new enough to he fashionable. It was English nmsic too, and jjnsse niiisic. She eanie aei'oss a eoUeetion of Angliean antliems and services — written, most of it, toward the end of the last centu- ry and the beginning of this. The com- posers' names promised little: they were Blow, Nares, Green, Kent, King, .Jaekson, etc. The words and the music of these , compositions seemed to suit one another; and as they were all quite new to her, she went through them almost eagerly, and hummed several of the strains, and with her white hut now thin hand beat time to others. She even sent for Vizard, and said to him, " f ou have a treasure here. Do you I know these compositions?" | He inspected his treasure. " I remem- j her," said he, "my mother used to sing this one, 'When the eye saw lier, then it bless- ed iier;' and parts of this one, 'Hear my ])rayer;' and, let me see, she used to sing this psalm, ' Praise the Lord,' by Jackson. I , am ashamed to say I used to ask for, ' Praise ; the Lord Jackson,' meaning to be funny, not devout." "She did not choose ill," said Ina. "I I thought I knew English music, yet here is a whole stream of it new to me. Is it es- teemed ?" " I think it was once, hut it has bad its day." " That is strange ; for here are some im- mortal qualities. These comjtosers had brains, and began at the right end; tlu\v, selected gi-and and tuneful words, gi-eat and pious thoughts ; they impregnated them- selves with those woi'ds, !uid jirodnced ap- propriate nmsic. The harmonies are some- times thill, and the writers seem scarcely to know the skillful use of discords ; but they had heart anil invention ; they saw their way clear before tliey wroto the lirst note; there is an inspired simplicity and fervor: if all thesi; choice things are dead, they must have fallen upo-^. bad interpret- ers." "No doubt," said Vizard; "so please get well, and let me, hear these i)ious strains, which my poor dear mother loved so well, interpreted wort liily." The Klosking's eyes filled. "That is a temptation," said slie, simply. Then she turned to Khoda Gale. "Sweet physician, ho has done me good. Ho has given me something to get well for." Vizard's heart yuarued. "Do uot talk like that," said he, buoyantly; then, in a broken voice, "Heaven forbid you shouh' have nothing better to live for tliau that!" "Sir," said she, gravely, "I have nothing hetter to li v(^ f(U' now than to interpret good musio worthily." There was a painful silence. Ilia broke it. She said, quite calmly, "First of all, I wish to know how others in- terpret these strains your mother loved, and I have the honor to agree with hei'." " Oh," said Vizard, " we will soon manage that for you. These things are not de- funct, only unfashionable. Every choir in England has sung them, and can sing them, after a fashion: so, at twelve o'clock to- morrow, look out — for squalls!" He mounted his horse, rode into the ca- thedral town — distant eight miles — and ar- ranged with the organist for himself, four leading boys, and three lay clerks. He was to send a carriage in for them after the morning service, and return them in good time for vespers. Fanny told Ina Klosking, and she insist- ed on getting up. By this time Doctress Gale had satisfied herself that a little excitement was down- right good for her patient, and led to re- freshing sleep. So tliej' dres.sed her loosely but very warmly, and rolled her to the win- dow on her invalid couch, set at a high an- gle. It was a fine clear day in October, keen hut genial; and after mullling her well they opened the window. While she sat there, projiped high, and inhaling the ])ure air. Vizard conveyed his little choir, by another staircase, into the antechamber; and, under his advice, they avoided preludes, and opened in full chorus with Jackson's song of praise. At the lirst burst of sacred harmony, Ina Khisking was observed to niiiie ?" " No. indeed," s.iid Fanny. "Yes, I will be frank with ytui : for I believe you jiro wiser than any erfeelly well what \'izard means: no, I don't like to tell it you all. It will give you ]>ain." " There is little hope of that. I am past pain." "Well, then — Miss Gale will scold mo," "No. She shall not." "Oh, I know you have got the upper hand even of her ; so if you promise I shall not bo 8colder that mail IVoin fjcttiiiji; hohl other a^ain. Well, then — oh, I onglit to have l)egnii by teliinj;' yon Jlr. Severne lor(i;ed billa to get money out ot Harrinjjton." "Good heavens!" "Oh, Harrinj;ton will never punish him, if he kee)iM liis distan(u>; hiit lie has adver- tised in all tlie jiapers, warnin;:; hii'i that if lie sets foot in Harfordsliire, he will be ar- rested and sent to priscni.'' Ina Kloskiiii:; shook her head. '•Wlien a man is in love with sneh a woinim as that, dangers eould hardly deter him."' "'I'liat depends n|>oii the man, I think. But llarrinjiton has done better than that. lie has iirovided her with a wateli-doy; — the best of all wateh-dofTs, ajiother lover. Lord T'xmoor lives near Aunt }. land, and he adores Zoe ; so tlariinnton u, s '•'!• '•u'^.-Ion- ed him to watch her, am' ■, li .tr 'id all. 1 wish he'd can,' *«< — an earl's •. ■ ■ ■t\ft and twenty thousand a year!" "You indieve my mind," said Ina. Then, after a pause, •' But let me ask you one ipies- tion more. Why did you not tell me Miss Yizarr. Vizard kninv the lady lietter now. But still he was a lit', le jealous even other ac([iniintances, and thought this one unworthy of lier; so he received him with stilf but "iuarded politeness, leaving him to oiien his luisiness. Ashmead, oxcrawed by the avenue, the dozen gables, f(Mirsc(U'e chimneys, etc., ad- dressed him rather obsecpiiously, but with a certain honest trouble that soon softened the bad impression caused by his aiijiearance, "Sir," said he, "])ray excuse this intrusion of a stranger; but I am in great anxiety. It is not for myself, but for a lady, a very distinguished lady, whose interests I am (diarged with. It is JlademoiscUe Klosking, the faiiKuis singer." Vizard maintained a grim silence. "You niav have heard of her." " I have.'' "1 almost fancy you once heard her sing — at Homburg." " 1 did." "ThiMi I am sure you must have admired Iier, being a gentleinan of taste. Well, Sir, it is near a fortnight since 1 heard from her." "Well, Sir?" " You will say what is that to you ? But the truth is, she lel't me in London to do cer- tain business for her. and she went down to this very [dace. 1 ottered to come with her, but she declined. To be sure, it was a dtdi- cate matter, and not at all in my way. She was to write to me, and r<'port lu'ogress, and givl^ me her address, that 1 might write to her; but nearly a fortnight has passed. I have not received a single letter. I am in real ilistress and anxiety. A great career awaits her in Kiigland, Sir; but this silence is so mysterious, so alarming, that I begin actually to hope she has playtnl the fo(d, and thrown it all up, and gone abroad with that bhick-uard." "What blackguard, Sir?" ■Joseph drew in his horns. "I spfdce too fjuick, Sir," said he; "it is no business of mine. I5ut these brilliant wonuui are as mad as the rest in throwing away their af- fections. They prefer a blackguard to a (1 to the door. at Yiznnl Mr.Ash- The vd- vfctl ; but to tlie Olio ,'." Tli.'iv, 111(1 otlit'i- 1 iif tress's n*i at si^ilit is admira- aii intro- Mfly lietter iloiis even i this Olio liiiii with iiy him to venue, tho '«, etc., ad- Imt with a ofteiied the icaraiiee. IS iiitrusiou "ixiety. It •ly, a very rests I am i Klosking, uco. id her siuff vo. admired Well, Sir, leard from 5-011 ? But II to (h) cer- it down to 3 with her, Aas a deli- way. Slio »j;ress, and it write to passed. I . I am in eat eareer liis sileneo it I hejvin I' tool, and with that A WOMAN-HATER. 139 apoke too ( isiiiesH of Ml are as • their af- lard t' j a good man. It is the rule. Excnso my plain Hpeiikiiig." ".Mr. Aslimead," said Vizard, "I may he able to answer your (iiiestioiis ahoiit this hidy ; hut, liefore I do so, it is right I should know how far you possess her <'oiilideuce. To speak iilainly, have you any ol)Jection to tell me w hat is the jireeLse relation between you and her?" " Certainly not, Sir. I am hei theatrical agent." " Is that all V "Not quite. I have been a good deal about hor lately, and have seen her in dee]) distress. I think I may almost say I am her friend, tliongh a very liunihle one." Vizard did not yet (piite realize the truth that this Boheiniaii had in his heart one lioly sj^ot— his pure de\-otioii and unsexnal friend!-:hip for that great artist. Still, his ])rejudic.« were disarmed, and he said, " Well, Mr. Aslimead, excuse my cross-(|nestioiiiiig you. I will now givc^' myself the i>lcasure of setting your anxieties at rest. Mademoi- selle Klosking is in this house." Aslimead stared at him, and then broke ont, "In this house? O Lord! how can that be ?" "It happened in a way very distressing to us all, though the result is now so delight- ful. Mad(>nu)iselle Klosking called here on a bu.siiiess with which perhaps you are ac- quainted." " I am. Sir." " Unfortunately , she met with an arrident in my very hall — an accident that endanger- ed her life. Sir; and of course we took.eharge of her. She has had a zealous jihysici.'iii and good nurses, and slit- is recovering slowly. She is (juite out of danger, but still weak. I have no doubt sln^ will be delighted to sec you. Only, as W(^ are all under tli(> orders of ]ier physi(!ian. and that physician is a wom- an, and a bit of a vixen, you must allow me to go and consult her first." Vizard retired, leaving Joseph happy but mystilietl. He was not long alone, lii less than a minute he had for eomiianioiis some well- buttered sandwiches nnnle with smoked ham, and a bottle of old Madeira ; the solids melted in his mouth, the lii[uid ran through his veins like oil charged with electricity and elixir vU(r. Jiy-and-by a female servant came for him, and ushered him into [n.a Kloskiiig's rr om. She received him with nnilisgnised !.tfec- tion, and he had much ado to kcc]) iVoni cry- ing. She made him sit down near her in the vast eiiilirasiire of the window, and gavt^ him a letter to read she had Just written to him. They eomi>ared not(>s very raitidly; but their discourse will not be given here, be- cause so much of it would be rcitetition. They were left alone to talk, anil they did talk for more than an hour. The Ijist iu- terruption, indeed, was a recitativo with ' chords followed by a verse from the leading treble. Mr. .Vshmcad looked puzzled; the Klos- king eyed him demurely. I llel'oro the anthem concluded. Vizard , tapjied. and was admitted from the miisie- rooiii. Ilia smiled, and waved him to a chair. ! Both the men saw by her manner f hey were not to niter a sound while the miisi(! was going on. When it ceased, she said, " Do yon apjirove that, my friend?" "if it pleases you, madam," replied tho wary Aslimead. " It does more than plea.se me ; it does mo ffood." "That reconciles me to it at once." " ( )li, then you do not admire it for itself?" " Not — very — much." "Pray speak plainly. I am not a tyrant, to impose my tastes." "\\'ell, then, madam, I feel very grateful to any thing that does yon good : otherwise I shoiilil say the inusi(! was — rather dreary; j and the singing — very insii>id." I The open struggle between .Toseph's hon- ' esty and his awe of the Klosking tickled } Vizard so that he leaned back in his chair I and laughed heartily. j The Ivloskiiig smiled silperior. "He I means," said she, "that the music is not operatic, and the boys do not clasp their hands, and shake their shoulders, and sing ])assionately, as women do in a theatre. Heaven forbid they should! If this world is all passion, there is another which is all peace ; and these boys' sweet, artless tones are the nearest thing we shall get in this world to the uiiimpassloned voices of the, angels. They are tit instruments for pious W4)rds set by comiiosers who, however ob- scure they may be, were men iiisiiircd, and have written immortal strains which, as I hear them, seem hardly of this world — they are so free from iill mortal dross." Vizard ;issentcd warmly. Aslimead asked ]peniiissioi) to hear another. They sang tho '■ Magniticat" by Ki;;g, in F. " riion my word," said Aslimead, "there is a good deal of 'go' in that." Then they sang the " Niim; Dimittis." Ho said, a little dryly, there was plenty of repose in that. * "My friend," said she, "th.ere is — to the honor of the composer: the '^higiiitieat' is the bright and lofty exiiUatioii of a young woman, who has borne the .Messiah, ami docs not foresee His sutfcrings, only the Ixiim to the world and the glory to herself But the ' Dimittis' is tht< very opjiosite. It is a gen- tle Joy, and the world c(mtciifedly resigned by a good old man, fatigued, who has run his raet>, and longs to sleep after life's fever. When next you have the good fortune to hear that song, think you see the sun de-- sceuding red and calm after a day of storms, !•! I ! !, I I'if i? r I 140 A WOMAN-HATER. and ail agt'd Christian savin;; '(loud-ni^lit,' and ydii w ill lionor ]>()or dc-iii Kiiij; as I do. Tlit^ ninsic that truly rcllctt^ ^^rcat wurds was iit.'ViT yet small music, wnif il wlin may." "You arc ri^h), madam," said Ashmcad. "When 1 doubted its being good unisie, I HUitpose I nK'ant sahible." "Ah, voilii .'" said the Klosking. Then, turning to Vizard lor symjiathy, " What this faitiit'ul fiiend un'wau" his liead- quartei's. "I shall be at ir service all the same, Sir, or MadeiiKtiscile Klosking's." " Have a glass of Madeira, Mr. Ashmead." "Well, Sir, to tell ilie truth, I have had one or two." "Then it knows the road."' " You are very good, Sir. What Madeira ! Is this the wine the doctors ran down a few years ago ? They couldn't have tasted it." "Well, it is like ourselves, imjuoved by traveling. That has been twice to India." "It will never go again, past me." tiaid Ashmead, gayly. "My mouth is a cape it will never weather." He went to his inn. IJefore he had been there ten minutes, up rattled a smart servant iu a smart dog- cart. " Hamper — for . Joseph Ashmead, Esquire." "Any thing to pay?" "What for?— it's from Vizard Court." And the dog-cart rattled away. Josejih was in the hall, and wituessi>d this phenomenon. He said to himself, "I Avish I had il vast acquaintaucc — all couxi'itY GICXTLICMKN." That afternoon Ina Kloskiiig insisted on walking up and down tl!e room, supported by Mesdenioiselles Gale r.iid Dover. The result was fatigue and slee]); that is all. "To-morrow," said she, "I will have but one live crutch. I must and will recover luy strength." Iu the evening she insisted 011 both ladies dining w ith Mr. Vizard. Here, too, she had her way. Vizard was in very good spirits, and when the servants were goue, complimented Miss Gale on her skill. " Our skill, you mean," said she. " It was you who prescribed this uew mediciuo of the mind, the ])saliiis and hymns and spir. itual songs; and it was you who adininis- teicd the Ashmead, and ht^ made her laugh, or nearly — and that ice have ne>'er been able, to do. .She must take a few grains of Ash- mead every day. The worst of it is, 1 am afraid we shall cure her too iiuiekly; and then we shall lose her. Hut that was to Ix! expected. J am very unf utunatt! in my at- tachments. I always was. If I fall in lovo with a woman, she is sure to hate me, or else die, or else tly away. I love this one to dis- traction, so she is sure to desert me, bec.'anso she couldn't misl)eliave, and I won't let her die." "Well," said Vizard, "you know what to do. Retard the cure. That is one of the arts of yrofessi(ui." "And so it is ; but how can I, when I lovo her? No, we must have recourse to our lie- nevident tyrant again. He must get Miss Vizard back here, licfore my goddess is well enough to s|)read iier wings and ily." Vizanl looked ]»uzzled. " This," said he, "sounds like a riddle, or female logic." " It is both," said Khoda. "Miss Dover, givr him the mot d'enUjme. I'm off — to the patient I adore." She vanished swiftly; and Vizard looked to Fanny for a solut ion. lint Fanny seemed ratlicu' vexed with Miss Gale, and said noth- ing. Then he jiressed her to explain. She answered him, with a certain reluc- tance : " Mademoiselle Klosking has taken it into her head that Zoe will never returu to this house while she is in il." " Who put that into her head, now ?" said Vizard, Ititterly. "Nobody, upon luy honor. A womau'a instinct." " Well ?" " She is horrified at the idea of keeping your sister out of her own house, so she is getting well to go; and the strength of her will is such that she wiU get well." "All the better; but Zoo will soon get tired of Souierville Villa. A little persua- sion will bring her liAiie. especially if you were to otter to take her place." "Oh, I <". ould do that, to oblige you, Ilar- ringtcm, if I saw any good at the end of it. Hut please think twice. How can Zoe and that lady ever stay under the same roof if How can they meet at your table, and speak to each other? They ans rivals." "They are both getting cured; and neither will ever see the villain again." "I lio])e not; but who' can tell? Well, never iniiid them. If their eyes are not opened by this time, they will get no pity from me. It is you 1 think of now.'' Then, iu a hesitating way, and her cheeks man- tling higher and higher witii honest blushes — "You have sutlenul enough already from women. I know it is not iny business, but it does gvieve me to see you going into trouble 1 and s])!!', > iidiiiiiiiM- IwT laiii;li, ' Ix'CIl i|l)|l^ lis of Asli- < is, 1 am tl ill my at- all in lovo inc, or el.so >nc to dJM- 10, liiM-anso •u't let bor IV what to )uo of tlio icn I lovo to (>m- 1)6- gt:t Miss CSS is well l.v." ," said he, 'pc" iss Dover, tt— to the ird looked iiy seemed said uoth- aiii. iiiii reluc- lis taken it return to ow ?" said Avomau's f keeping so she is ;th of her 800U get e ])ersiia- ly if you yon, Ilar- L'lid of it. I Zoe and nu! roof if ud HiJcak d neither f Well, are not no pity ''■ Then, 'ks man- t Itlnshes iidy from ss, but it ) trouble A WOMAN-HATER. 141 again. Wliat good can come of it ? Her connection with that man, so recent, and so — straiigt;. Tiie world uill inter]»rct its own way. Your position in the county — every eye upon you. I see the way in — no doubt it is strewed witli llowers; but I see no way out. He brave in time, Harrington. It will not be till' lirst tiiiu^ She must be a good woman somcliow, or faces, eyes, and voices, and ways, arc all ji lie. But if slie is good, she is very uiifortuiiate ; and siic will give vou a sore heart (or lil'c, if you don't mind. I'd clinch my teeth and .shut my eyes, and let her go in tinu'." Vizard groaned aloud, and at that a tear or two rolled down I'anny's burning cheeks. "You nw a good little girl," said Vizard, afl'ectionately ; " but I mdi )iot." He bung his head dcsiiondcntly, and^nut- tered, '" 1 sec no way out eif licr. Hut I yield to fate. 1 feared her, luid lied I'rom her. She has followed me. 1 can resist no more. I drift. Some men never know hapjiiness. I shall have had a happy fortnight, at all events. 1 thank you and respect you for your advice, but I can't take it. So now I suiipose you will bo too much otl'cuded to oblige me." "Oh dear no." "Would you mind writing to Auut Mait- land, and saying you would like to take Zoe's oliiee '." "I will do it with pleasure to oblige you. Besides, it will be a fil), and it is so long since I bavts told a good lib. When shall I write?" "Oh, about the end of the week." "Yes, th;it will be time enough. !MissOale ■won't /(7 lier go till next week. Ah, after all, how nice and na1ur.il it is ro lie naughty! Fibs and llirtation, welcome liome ! This is the beauty of being good — and I shall rec- ommend it to all my fri(>u witliDUt any frouble. Now luiughtiness sticks to you like a iiiir." So, with no uku'c ado, this new Jlentor be- came Vizard's accomplice, and they atrreed to get Zoti back betoni the Khisking could get strong enough to move with her physi- cian's consent. As the hamper of Madeira was landed in the hall of the "Swan" inii,a genial voic«> cried, " You are in luck." Ashnicad turned, and there was I'oikilus i)eeriiig at bim from the doorway of the commercial room. "What is the game now '!" t bought Ash- mead. But what he said was, " Why, 1 know that luce. I declare, it is the gent that Incit- ed m(^ at lio'uliurg. Bring in the hamper, Dick." Then to i'oikilus, "Have ye dined yet f" "No. fioing to dine in half an Inuir. Roast gosling. Just enough for two." " We'll divide it, if you like, and I'll stand a bottle of old Madeira. My old friend, Sfpiiro Vizard, has Just sent it inc. I'll Just have a splash; dinner will be ready l)y then." Ho bustled out of iht^ room. but said, ;is he weiit, "I say, old man, open Hie hami>cr, and put two bottles just within the smile of the lire." Ih^ (hen went u]) stairs, and ]tlungcd bis head in cold water, to clear his faculties for (be encounter. The friends sat down to diniu'r, an- ject being to pump each other. In the encounter at Homlmrg Ashnu-ad had an advantage ; I'oikilus thought him- self unknown to Ashmead. But this tinu! there was a chiinge. I'oikilus knew by this time that La Klosking had gout; to Vizard C'oiirl. How she had known Severne was there, ]uizzled him a good deal; but he bad ended by suspecting Ashmead, in a vagiio way. The parties, therefore, met on c^ven terms, Ashmead resolved to learn Avhat he could about Severne, and I'oikilus to learn what ho could alioiit Zoe Vizard and Mademoisello Klosking. Ashmead opened the ball. " Beeu loug here ?" ".Fust come." " Business ?" " Yes. Want to see if ther<>'s any chance of mv getting Jiaid fo.^ thai job." "Whatjoii?" "Why, th(> Homburg Job. Look here — I don't know why 1 should have any secrets from a good fellnw like you; only you must not tell any body else."' " Oh. hoiKU' bright !" "Well, then, 1 itm a detective." " Ye don't mean that f "I'm I'oikilus." "(Jood heavens! Well, I don't care. I haven't murdered any body. Here's your bi'allh, I'oikilus. I say, you could tell a tale or two.'" "That I could. But I'm out of luck this time. The gentleman that employed me has mizzled: and he jiromiscd me fifty jioniids. I came down heri> in hopes of liiidiiig him. Saw bim onee in this neighborbood." "\Vcll,\-ou won't lind him liere, I don't think. You must excuse me, but your em- })loyer is a villain. He has knocked a lady down, and nearly killed her."' "You (loirt say tli.'it ?"' ""\'es. that beautiful lady, the singer you saw in Homburg." " What ! the lady that said he should have his money f "The .same." " Why, he must be mad." "No.' A scoundrel. TIkiI h nil" "Then she won't give him his money aft- er that." 142 A WOMAN-HATER. 1,8- I' liih a; " Not if I ran help it. But if she likos to pny \rofiiso in lii.s thanks, ami said he licj^an to think it was his only ehance. Tiit'ii he had a inisoiviiiii. "I liave no.ilaiiii oil the lady," said he; "and I am afraid I have heeii a had friend to her. I did not mean it, thonjih, and the whole affair is dark to me." '• Yon are not very sharp, tlien, for a de- tective," said Ashmead. " W(dl, shnt your mouth and ojieii your eyes. Your ^Ir. Sev- erne was the lady's lover, and preyed iijion her. H(! left her: she was focd enonj;h to love him still, and pined for him. lie is a jjamhler, and was ;4anihlin<; by my side when Mademoiselle Kloskinj; canu; in; so he cut his lucky, and left me (ifty jioiinds to l>lay for him, and she put the jiot on, and broke the baidv. I didn't know wlio he was. but •we found it out by his photojirai)!!. Tiien you came smellin,u; after tlu^ money, and we sold you nicely, my tine deteelive. We nnnle it our business to know where you wrote to. "\'i/ard Court. .She went down there, and found him just lioinj; to be mairied to a beautiful youn;^ lady. She collariMl him. \U' Huule o])en — ne.'irly killed her. She lies ill in the house; and the othc)' young lady is gone away bro- ken-hearted." "Where to?" " How should I know ? What is that to you ?" "Why. dop'r you .see? Wherever she is, he won't be I'ar olf. He; likes her best, don't he ?" "It don't follow that she likes him, now she has found him out. Uv. had I'.etier not go after her, or he'll get a skiufid of bro- ken bones. Jly friend S<|uire Vizard is the man to make short work with him, if he caught the blackguard spooning after his sister." "And .serve him right. Still, I wish I knew where that young lady is." " I r. If they are cinming, we nnist be; wise ; and the wise alwjiys keep their temper. Yon will say Miss Vizard h.'is gone to Ircdand, but to what part is only known to her brother. Tell him this, and be very free and eom- nnniicative on all otlier subjects; for thi.s alone has any. importance now. As for me, I can ('.asily le;irn wln>re Somerville Villa is; and, in a day or two, shall send you to look after her. One thing is clear — I had bet- ter lose no time in recovering my strangth. Well, my will is strong. I will lost^ no limo — your arm, monsieur;" and she resumed her i)roinenade. Ashmead, instructed as above, dined again with the detective; but out of re- venge gave him but one liAttle of Madeira. As they sipped it, he delivered a great many words; and in the middle of Ihem said, "Oh, ))y-the-bye, I askeil after that poor young lady, (ione to Ireland, but they didn't km)\v what part." After dinner Ashmead went to the thea- tre. When he came back, Poikilus waa gone. So did Wisdom baffle Cunning that time. Hut Cunning did not really leave the field; that very evening an aged nnm in green spectacles was intiuiring about the \(ostal arrangements to \'izard Court; ami next day he ndght have; been seen in a back street of Taddington, talking to tin; village postnnin, and afterward drinking with bim. It was Poikilus groping his way. . "ricii.so L'd between could ro- ll lior Itrow e tiiiio in A.slinieiid, ilii.s i.s Hiill Uji they de- Miss Vizard, lontly; Init nanec! fell, lid lie ; ''it I'll give it ly, lie must I as godd as poiinds." ly i>oiiiids is I my friend, positive in- eiidly man- er. if tliey iiul the wise nil will say and, but to ler brother, e and eoin- tw; for this As for nio, ille Villa is; you to look -I had bet- iiy Hlr«iifitli. lose no I lino ill! I'esunied tove, dined out of !•(!- of Madeira. great iiiaiiy til said, "Oh, poor young they didn't 50 the tlica- jikiliis Avas ; that time. ' leave the •I'd man in altout the Court ; and 11 in a ba(;k the village g with him. A WOMAN-HATER. 143 CTLVrTER XXTII. A FKW words avail to describe the slug- gish waters of the Dead !^ea, l»ut wiiat pen can portray the Indian Ocean lashed and tormented l)y a t\vclone ? Even so, a lew woiils have sutliced to show tliat Ina Khisliing's licait was iill lie- iiumbeil and deadened; ami, willi the help of insult, treachery, loss of l)lood, brain-fe- ver, and self-esteem rebelling against vil- lainy, had outlived its power of sutlering ])oigiiant torture. Ibit 1 can not sketch in a few words, nor piiiiit in many, the tempest of passion in Zoe Vizard. Yet it is my duty to try and give the reader some little insight into the agony, the changes, the fury, the grief, the tempest of passion in a virgin heart ; in such a nature Hie grciit iiassions of the mind often rage even more fiercely tiian in older and exjiericnced woiiKMi. Literally, Zoe Vizard loved Edward iSev- erne one minute and hated him tlie next; gavi^ iiiui up for a traitor, and then vowed to belii^ve nothing until slii^ had heard his ex]»lanatiiiii ; luirncd with ire at his silence, sickened w ith dismay at his silence. Then, for a while, love and faith would get the u])lier hand, and she would be (jnite calm. Why should she torment herself.' An old Hweetlie:irt, aI)aiidone(l long ago, had come between them; he bad, uul'orrunately, done the woman an injury in his wild eudeavo)- to get away from her. Well, what business had she to use f ice ? No doulit he was asbaineil, alllicte.l, ;it what he bad done, be- ing a man ; or was in despair, seeing that lady installed in her brother's house, and her story, probably a parcel of falsehoods, listened to. Then sill? would have a gleam of Joy, for she knew he bad not wiitlen to Ina Klos- kiiig. Hut soon Dcspiuideiu'y ciime down, like a diirk chuid ; for she said to herself, "He has left us both, lie sees the woman he does not love will not let him have the one he docs love; and so he lias lost licart, and will have no more to say to either."' When her thoughts look this turn, she would cry iiiteoiisly. ISut nor lor long. Khe would dry her eyes, and luirn with Avriitb all round; she would still hate her rival, but call her lover a coward— a con- temptilde coward. After her day of raging and grieving, and douliting and fearing, anil lioiiing and de- spairing, night overtook her with an ex- hausted body, a bleeding heart, and weep- ing eyes. Hhe had been so hiippy — on the very brink of imradise; and now she was deserted. Her pillow wiis wet every night. She cried in her very slee[i ; and when she woke in the morning her body was always quivering; and in the very act of waking came a horror and an instinctive reluctuuco I to face the light that was to bring another I day of misery. Such is a fair though loose description ; of her condition. The slight fillip given to her s])irits by I the Journey did her a morsel of g 1, but it died a\\;iy. Ibning to nuise Aunt Mait- laud did her a little room. The truth is, she wanted to yet away from him. lie di'ew the rein, and stood stnek-still. Slie made a circuit of a mile, and came ui> fo him, with heij^htened color and Hashing eyes, looking beautiful. " "Well .'■' said she. " Don't you like gal- lojting?'' " Yes, but I don't like cruelty." " Cruelty !" "Look at the mare's tail how it is (|niv- ering, and lier Hanks panting! And no won- der. You have been over twice the Derby course at a racing jiace. Miss \'izard, a horst^ is not a steam-engine.'' " I'll never ride her again," siiid Zoo. " I did not come here to bo scolded. I will go home." They walked slowly homo in silence. Ux- moor hardly knew what to say to her; but at last he mnrnnired,a])ologetically, "Never mind tht^ poor mare, if yon arc any better for gallojjing her." She waited a moment before she spoke, and then she said, "Well, yes, [ am bet- ter. I'm better lor iny ride, aud better for my scolding. Good-by" (meaning for- ever). "(iood-by,'' said he, in the same tone. Only he sent the man; next day, and follow- ed I 'foil a young thorough-bred. •• What I" said Zoe; "am I to have anoth- er trial .'■' '•.\iid anotlier .'ifter that." So this tinii" she would only canter very slowly, and kejit stopping every now and then to iiKinire satirically if that would distress the mare. 15ii( I'xmoor was too good-humored to (|narrel for nothing. He only laughed, and said, "Yiui are not the only lady who takes [ a liorsi^ for a machine." 1 Thesi' I'ides did her bodily health some l)eruiaiient gi o I, Imt their etl'ect on her mind was tlecting. iSlie was in fair spirits when she was actually bounding through the air, luit she collap.sed afti'rward. At lirst, when she used to think that Sev- erne, never came near her. and rxnioor was so constant, she almost hated I'xmoor. So little does the wrong man jirolit by doing thi^ right tiling for a woman. I admit that, though not a deadly woniau-hater myself. Mnt by-anaration for good reasons. It was a decision she must aecejtt. Let her then consider how forloru is the conditit)!! of most deserted women compared witli hers. Hero was a devoted A woman-iiatj:k. ni'iiniiig for- Hiinio toiin. , and I'olluw- I'd. liiive auotli- ciiiifor very ■ly now anil (liat wonld -linnionnl to laii;;licd, and ly who hikes licaltli .SOUK) on licr ndnd sjiirits when myli tlic air, nk that S«v- r.xnioor was 'xnioor. 8(» fit i)y doin<^ [ admit that, tcr niystdf. I'lially hitter nan tor *U>- yiit man for Sovcnie did nd wounded ler h)ve. A jinrsnit, and he does not lier, tlionfih o hii)ynntbs las nocxphi- n lias lVif;ht- lave wasted Her hosom and wound- isscd to and heoan, by :>me eneour- vrithed and 1 to and fro ind all, and • Iiave some- is time, and Mr. S(ncrno it hound to ily iiad i)ast to liur that (I lier. Ho ily he knew isi)ired, and aration for n she. must liow forlorn ted women i a devoted 145 lover, whom she esteemed, and who coiihl ofTer her a high position and an honest h»ve. If she had a mother, that mother wonld al- most force her to engage herself at onee to Lord Uxmoor. Having no mother, the hest thing she could do would bo to force her- self — to say some irrevocable words, and never look back. It was the lot of her sex not to marry the hrst love, and to bo all the happier in the end for that diHapi)oint- raent, though at the time it always seemed eternal. All this, spoken in a voice of singular kind- ness by one who used to be so sharp, made Zoe's tears flow gently, and somewhat cool- ed her raging heart. She began now to submit, and only cry at intervals, and let herself drift ; and Uxmoor visited her every day, and she found it im- possible not to esteem and regard him. Nevertheless, one afternoon, just about his time, she was seized with such an aversion to his courtship, aud such a revolt against the slope she seemed gliding down, that she flung on her bonnet and shawl and darted out of the house to escape him. 8he said to the servant, "I am gone for a walk, if any body calls." Uxmoor did call, and, receiving this mes- sage, he bit his lip, sent the horse home, and walked up to the windnull, on the chance of seeing her any where. He had already observed she was never long in one mood ; aud as lie was always in the same mind, ho thought perhaps ho might be tolera- bly welccjmo, if he could meet her uuex- l)ected. Meantime Zoo walked very fast to get away from the house as soon as possible, and she made a round of nearly live miles, walk- ing through two villages, and on her return lost her way. However, a shepherd showed her a bridle-road, which, he told h(>r, wonld soon take her to Soraerville Villa, through "the small jiastures;" and, accordingly, she came into a succession of meadows not very large. They were all feuced and gated; but the gates were only shut, not locked. This was fortunate; for they were new tive- harred gates, and a lady does not like get- ting over these even in solitude. Her clothes are not adapted. There were sheep in some of these, cows in others, and the pastures wonderfully green and rich, being a! ways well manured aud fed down by cattle. Zoo's love of color was soothed by these emerald fields, dotted with white sheep and red cows. In the last field, before the lane that led to the village, a single beast Avas grazing. Zoe took no notice of him, and walked on ; hut he took wonderful notice of her, and stared, then gave a disagreeable snort. He took offense at her Indian shawl, and after pawing the ground and erecting his tail, he K came straight at her. at a tearing trot, and his tail out In-hind him. Zoe s.'iw, and screamed violently, and ran for the gate ahead, which, of course, was a few yards farther from her than the gate behind. .She ran for her lift;; lint the bull, when he I saw that, broke into a gallop directly, and came up fast with her. She could not escape. At that moment a man vaulted (dean over tlit^ gate, tore a pitchfork (uit of a liea)i of dung that luckily stood in the corner, and ! li(diited the ra;;i!ig liiil!,Jiist in time ; for at that moment Zo<' lost heart, and ' crouched, Hcreaming, in the side ditch, with \ her hands before her eyes. The new-comer, rash as his conduct seem- I ed, was count ly-bre.d, and knew what he was I about : he drove a jn'ong clean through the great cartilage of the bull's mouth, and Wiis kuocke. So, when the bull came down from his rearing, aud turn- ed to massacre his assailant, he was behind him, and seizing his tail, twisted it, and de- livered a thiiiidcring blow on his backbone, and foUowi'd it iifi liy a shower of them on his ribs. ''Kun to the gate, Zoe!'' lie roared. Whack I whack ! whack ! " Hun to the gate, I tell you!" Whack!— whack!— whack!— whack ! — whack ! Thus ordered, Zoe Vizard, who wonld not have moved of herself, being in a collapse td' fear, scudded to the gate, got on the right sideof it, and looked over, with two eyes like saiu'crs. She s.-iw a sight incrediltlo to her. Instead of letting the bull alone, now she was safe, Uxmoor was sticking to him like a ferret. The bull ran, tossing his nose with l>ain, and bellowing. Uxmoor, dragged by the tail, and conii>elled to follow in prepos- terous, giant stiiM<;li, as it' it hail Iicimi ])a|i('r, and drai^^^cd I'xnioor after him, and |iiiiii'd iiini down, and ton^ liini Miinie yards aion;; (lie lutrd road on liis back, and )Mini|)ed his head afjainst a stone, and so nut rid of him; then ])onnded away down tiii^ hiiie, snorting and l)elh)win;; and Ideedinji, tiie pronj.; still stuck thvon;;)) his nostiils iiiu> a pin. Zoe ran to I'xmoor, witii looks of iilarni and teniK'r concern, and lifted ids liead to her tender liosom ; for his clothes were torn, mid his cheeks and ham's hleediiiii. lint he soon shook otVhis confusion, and rose witli- out assistance, "Have you got OA-or your fright f said Lo; "tliat is the qupslioii." " Oh yes ! yes ! It is only yon I am alarm- ed for. It is much better I should be killed than you." "Killed! I never had better fun in my life. It was glorious. I stuck to him, and bit — there, I have not had any thing I could hit as hard as I wanted to since I used to tight with my cousin .liick at Eton. Oh, Jkliss Vi/ard,it was a whirl of Elysium, liutl am sorry you were frightened. Let mo take you lu)nie." "Oh yes, but not that way; tliat is the Avay the monster went !" (|nivered Zoo. "()li,he has had enough ufus." " l')Ut I have had too ninch of him. Take me some other road — a hundi'ed nules round. How I tremble!" " So yim do. Take my arm. No, putting the tijis of your tingei's on it is no use; take it really— yon want siijiport. Ho courageous now ; we are vci'v ncai' home." Zoe trembled, and cried .'i little, to con- clude th(( incident, but walked oravely homo on I'xmoor's arm. In the hall at Somervillo Villa she saw liim ch.'inge color, and insisted on his tak- ing soml^ jxirt-wine. " I shall be very glad," said ho. A decanter was brought. He tilled a large tumbler and drank it off like water. This was the first intimation ho gave Zoe tint ho was in pain and his nerves hard triei'. ; nor did she, indeed, arrive at that eoncln.sion until he had left her. Of course sln^ carried all this to Aunt Maitland. That lady was quite moA'cd by the adventure. She, sat up in bed. and list- ened with excitement and adnnration. She {ether: so voti At that Kilt'' she fonnil a man. She start- ran Jiway. Y(ui have found me ahuu! now, ed back and leaned aj;.iinst the nearest tree, so you are brave aijaiu ; but it is too late, with her hands liehind her. I am undeeeived. 1 decline to rob Ma '•Vou dare to tell me that! Well, at all events, ir is the ;ruth. Why did you leave her, then .'" I '"Out of self-respect. I was poor, she was rich and admired. Men sent her boMi|nets and braei'lets, and llattered her iichiiid the scenes, and 1 was lowered in mv own eyes: so I hftt her. 1 was uniiappy for a tinu'; "Don't tell me," said Zoo: "you never bnt I had my jiride to support me, and the lose your head. You are always self-])os- wound was healed long before I knew what se.sscd and artful. Would to Heaven 1 had it was to love, really to love." nevtsr seen , vou !'' Sim was violent. [ Tiiei-e was nothin.i; here that Zoe could He gave her time. "Zoe," said he, after eoiiti';i(lict. Slu^ kept silence, ami was mys- a while, " if I had not- lost my head, should tilled. I have ill-treated a lady and nearh kilhul her ?" "Ah!" said Zoo, sharply, "that is what you have been sntl'cring from. K'emorse. And well you amy. You ought to go back to her, and a.sk her pardon on your knees. Indeed, it is all you have left to do now." "I know I ought." "Then do what you onght. Good-by." " I can not. I hatt^ her." "W^hat, because you have broken her heart, and nearly killed her Then she attacked him on anothiT quar- ter. ''Have yon written to her since you behaved like a ruthaii to her ?" "No. And I never will, come what nniy. It is wicked of me ; but I li;ite her. I am compelled to esteem her. Hut I hale her.'' Zo(> could (]nite understand that; but in spite of that she saiil, "Of cour.se you do. Men always hate those they have used ill. Why did you not write to mef Had a mind to be impartial, I sujiiiosc ?" " I had reason to liclieve it would have "No; but because she has come between , been intercepted." me aud the ouly woman I ever reailly loved, j " For shame ! Vizard is incapable of such or ever can." : a thing." " Sho would not have done that if you had " Ah, you don't know how he is (hanged. in)t given her the right. I see her now ; she ' He looks on me as a mad dog. Consider, J.ookedjustice, and you looked guilt. Words! Zoe: do, pray, take the real key to it all. 148 A WOMAN-HATER. vi > ij i; i. IIo is in lovo with Mndoinoiscllo KldKkinji, matlly in lov(< with hor: antl I havo been so unlbrttiniitt^ as to injiirc her -luaily to kill her. 1 (larti nay he Ihink.s it is on your ac- count ho liati's nil'; Iml nuMi tlccoivti thcni- Hclvt'M. It is lor liir lie hates mo." "Oh!" "Ay. Think for a inonicni, and yon will 800 it is. Yon nw not. in his conliilonco. I am siiro ho has novtT tohl //<>» tliat ho ov- dorod his kcopors to slioot nii^ ilown it' I eanio ilhoiit tho honso at ni^ht." " Oh, no, no!" oriod Zoo. "Do yon know In; Inw raisod flio country a^aiiiHt mo, and has warrants out ii;;iiinNt nm for forgery, liocauso I \\;is taken in liy a roj^tui who jfavo mo liills with sham nainos on thoni, and 1 fjot Vizanl to oash thom? Ah soon us wo found out how I iiad boon tricked, my uncle and I otVorod iit onc»< to pay him liacli his money. Itiil no! he jn'o- iors to keoji the hills as a weapon.'' Zoo l)c>fj;an to Iki pn//.led a little. Hnt sln^ said, "Yon havt; been a loii^ time dis- covoriiifj all those jxi'ii'ViiniH's. Why have you hold no communication all this timef" " Heoaiiso yon wore inaccessililo. Does not your own heart toll yon tiiat I have lioeii all those weeks tiyin;; to communicate, and Uiial)U- .' Why, 1 oame throi; times niidor your window at ni;;lil, and yon iie\cr, novor would look out." " 1 dill look out o\or so often." "If I had hcon you, 1 should have looked ton thousand times. 1 only loft otfcomin^i when 1 hoard tho k«»«ii»ors wore ordered to shoot mo down. Not that I should have cared much, for I am di'sporato. Ihit I had just sense onou;--!! loft to see that, if my dead hoily had boon bron;;'ht blcedinoaranco8 are ho deceitful. I boo I have I Jinlgod too Inislily, and listened too little to my own heart, that always nmdc cxousos. Ihit it is too lato now." "Why toolutof" " It is." "Mut why?" " It all looked so ngly, and yon ■were si- lent. Wo aro nnfortnnato. My brother would never lot ns marry ; un«l, besides — Oh, why did yon liot conic, bi^forc ?" " I might as well say. Why did you not look out of your window? Yon could have done it without risking your life, as 1 did. Or why did you not advertise? You might, have invited an explanation from ' K. S., nndor cover to so-and-so." " Ladies never think of such things. You know that very well." " Oh, I doirt comi)lain ; but T do say that hose who love should not. bo ready to ro- jiroaoh ; they should )nit a generous con- ' stniotion. Yon might have known, and you ought to have known, that I was struggling i to find yint, and torn with anguish at my I impotonco." I "No, no. T am so young and inexperi- enced, and all my friends against yiui. It is they who have jtartcd ns." I "How can they jiart us, if you love mo I still as 1 love you ?" " Mooanse for tli(>, last fortnight I have not, loved yiMi, but hated you, and doubted yon, and thought my mily olianci^ of h:ip)iiiioss was to imitate your indilferonco : and while I was thinking so, another )>erson has oonio forwani ; one whom I have always ostoom- cil : and now, in my pity and dos[iair, I have given him lioitos." She hid hor burning face* ill lie'r hands. " I see; you are false to me, and thercforo you have sns|ieolod me of being false to you." At that she raised her head high directly. " lOdward, you aro iiiijiist. Look in my faco and you may so(^ what I have snllorod before I could bring niy.solf to condonin you." "What! your jialonoss; that dark rim un- der your lovi'ly eyes am 1 the oiiuso?" " Inileeil you are. Mnt I forgivi^you. You are sadly pale and worn loo. Oh, how un- fortunate wo aro !" " l»o not ory, dearest," said ho. " Do not despair. Ite luilm, and let mo kiu)w tho worst. I will not reproach you, though you have reproached me. I lovi' you as no wom- an 0.111 love. Come, toll mo." "TIkmi the truth is. Lord IJxmoor has re- newed his attention to nio." "Ah!" " Ilo has been hero every day." Sovorno groanod. "Aunt M.iitland was on his side, and spoke so kindly to mo, and he saved my life from u furious bull, lie is bravo, noble. I soo I havo 110(1 too littlo imtlc excusea. yon wore si- My l)rotlH«r iiii conld lin\(\ iff, UH I did. Yon niifflit IVoni ' K. S., (IiinKH. Yon I do Hiiy tliaf, iviuiy to lo,- •'luu'ons coii- owii, and yon IIS strnf,'f;iinjt iKiiiwIi at my iiid inoxpcii- ist y(Mi. n is yon lovo hm ;lit I liavo not donl)t<>d yoii, of Iiapitiiicss 't' : and wiiilo son lins coiiut «ays fs(c(Mn- •si)air, I liav<* biiniiiiy lac(( ind (Iiorcfoio 'ing falso to ii;,'li directly, •k in my faco avo HiiHorod to cond(smi) dark rim lui- •■ansof" vo yon. Yon Oil, liow 1111- n. " Do not i' know tlio tlion)j[li yon I UH no woiii- nioor bus re- in sido, and ivod my lifo rttvo, uoblo, A WOMAN-H.VTKU. HI) Rood, and ho loves mo. I liivvo (•oniinilttMl niysolf. I can not draw back willi lioiior." " But from iiic yon can, Imcansi' 1 am poor and liatod, and liavo no title. If yon .'ire comiiiitlt'd to Iiiiii, yon are cnf.a^cd to inc." " I am ; si> now J can f^o mullicr way. If I liad poison, I would take it this laoineiit, and end all." " For (iod's sake, don't talk so. I am sure you exa^jf^eratt^ Ycni can not, in tlicsi, few days, have pled;;ed your faith to anollicr. Let iiieseti your (i');>;er. All! there's my rin)j; ojj;rcut a torment. Oh, if 1 conld lind peace!" Af^aiii her ti-ars (lowed. 11(^ put on a synii>athi/iiiK.'iir. " You shall have peace. Dismiss him as 1 tell you, and he will troulile you no more; ahak*; hamlH with me, and say yon prefer him, and I will trouble yon no imu'c. lint with two lovers, peace is out of the i|nesl ion, and so is ncIi'- respccl. I know I could not vacillate^ lie- tween you anil Mademoiselle Kloskiuf'; or any other woman." "Ah, l''dward, if 1 do this, you ouf^lit to loV(i me \('ry dearly." " I snail. Mcttcr than ever -if possi^ile." "And never make me Jealous ay;ain." " I never shall, dearest. Our tronhles are over.'' "Edward, I have been very unhappy. I could not, hear these donlits auain." "You shall never he nnhapjiy aj^ain." "I must do whal you ie(|uiic, I suppose. That is how it alwavs ends. Oh dear! oh dear!"' * " Zoe, it must Ix' n meet nwi here r "When yon plcasi%"said she, laii{;uidly. "At ten o'clock.'"' " Yes." Then then^ was a (ciider parliiiff, and Zoe went slowly in. ."^iie went to her own room, ,jnst to think il all over alone. She ciiii^ilil sijfld of her face in the i^lass. Her cheeks eves were IniKbt morrow for certain." * "Then your course is plain. You mnsl had reeained color, and In c!boos(^ to-nii;;ht between him attd mt!. Y(m ; as stars. She slopped and looked .-il hciselt". must dismiss bim by letter, or ine upon this | "There now," said she, "and I seem to iny- spot. 1 have not much fortune to oiler yini, self to live ajiain. 1 was mad to think 1 and no (coronet ; but I love yon, and you have seen me r(>ject. a lovely and accomiilished woman, whom I esteem as iiiucb as ymi do this lord, llejeet bim f Why, yon have seen nu* llinj; her away from me like a dof; could ever lose .•iny my darlinj;', my idol.' man but him. He is There w;is no late ilinner at Somcrville Villa. Indeeil, ladies, left to thi'inselvcs, scl- sooner than ItNive yon in a nioinent's doubt doin dine laic. Nature is sironj; in them, of my love : if yon can not write a civil note and they are hnuniii'sl when the sun is Iii;,'li. ileclininj;' an earl for nn^ your love is not At seven o'clock Zoe N'izard w.is sealed at worthy of mine, and I will bcfrone with my her desk trsinu to write to Lord I'xnioor. love. 1 will not take it to Mademoiselle She si;;iie(l, she moaned, she he^an, ami Kloskin^f, though I esteem her as yim do this dropped the pen and hid her face. She be- lt U'd ; but, at all events, I will take it aw;iy came almost wild : and in that state she at from yon, and leave yon my curse instead, last tlashcd oli'what follows: for a falsi", tickle f^irl that could not wait one litthi mouth, but must fall, with her en- "Dk.aic Ltiiii) IxMudU, -For jiity's sake H;a;;ed riiijj on ber finger, into another man's forgive the in.iil words 1 saitl to yon to-day. arms. Oh, Zoe! Zoe! who could have be- It is imitossihle. I can do no ukuc than ad- lii'ved this of yon f" mire ami esteem yon. My heart is gone from " Don't reproach «JC. I won't bear it,"' she me forever. I'ray forgive me, llimigh 1 do orittd, wildly. 1 u.vi deserve it ; and never ace mc nor look at 150 A WOMAN-IIAtEfi. 'I I- , h I .''J -I ■? :fu-3 II .•';! me again. I ask pardon for my vacillation, It has been disgraceful; bnt it lias ended, and I was under a {;reat error, wliivh I tan not explain to you, when I led you to believe I had a heart to give you. My eyes are open- ed. Our paths lie asunder. I'ray, pray for- give nie, if it is possible. I will never for- give myself, U(U' cease to bless and revere you, whom I have used so ill. " ZOK ViZAUD." That day TJxmoor dined alone with his mother, for a wonder, and he told her how Miss Vizard had come round ; he told her also about the bull, but so vilely that she hardly comprehended he had been in any danger : these encounters arc rarely de- scribed to the life, except by us who avoid them — excei>t on paper. Lady Uxnioor was much pleased. She was a proml, politic lady, ami this was a ju- dicious union of two powerful houses in the county, and one that would almost counnand the elections. But, above all, she knew her son's heart was in the match, and she gave him a mother's sym])athy. As she retired, she kissetl him, and said, "When you are (|uite sure of the prize, tell me, and I will call njion her." Being alone, Lord Uxmoor lighted a cigar and smoked it in measundess content. The servant brought him a note on a salver. It liad come by hand. Uxnnxir opened it, and read every word straight through, down to " Zoe Vizard ;" read it, ami sat petrified. lie read it again. He felt a sort of sick- ness come over him. He swallowed a tum- bler of port, a wine he rarely touched ; but he felt worse now than after the bull-light. This done, lie rose and stalked like a wound- ed lion into the drawing-room, which was on the same floor, and laid the letter before his mother. "You are a woman, too," said he, a little helplessly. " Tell me— what on earth does this mean ?" Tlie dowager read it slowly and keenly, and said, " It means — another man." " Ah !" said Uxmoor, with a sort of snarl. "Have you seen any one about her?" "No; not lately. At Vizard Court there was. But that is all over now, I conclude. It was a Mr. Sevenie, an adventurer, a fel- low tJiat was caught out in a lie before us all. Vizard tells me a lady came and claimed him before Miss Vizard, and he ran away." "An unworthy attachment, in slim't?" "Very unworthy, if it was an attachment at all." "Was he at Vizard Court when she de- clined vour hand V" " Yes." "Did he remain, after you went!" " I supjiose so. Yes, he must have." " Then the whole thing is clear ; that man bus come forward again unexpectedly, or written, and she dismisses yoU; My dar- ling, there is but one thing for you to do. Leave her, and thank her for telling you in time. A less honorable fool would have hidden it, and then we might have liad a Countess of ITxmoor in the Divorce Court some day or other." "I had better go abroad," said Uxmoor, with a groau. "This country is poisoned for me." "Go, by all means. Let Janneway pack up your things to-morrow." "I should like to kill that fellow first." " You will not even waste a thought on him, if you are my son." " Yon are riglit, mother. What am I to say to her ?" " Not a word." " Wliat,not answer her lef^oT? It is hum- ble enough, I am sure — po' al! blether, I am wretcluHl, but I am no bitter, and my rival will revenge me." " Uxnioor, your going abroad is the only answer she sliall have. The wisest man, in these matters, who ever lived has left a rule of conduct to every well-born man — a rule which, believe me, is wisdom itself: 'Le brnit est pour le fat, lii plninte est pour le sot; L'huiiui'tu liummc ti'0iup6 H'uluigue, et lie die luul.' Y'ou will make a tour, and not say a word to Miss Vizard, good, bad, nor inditl'erent. I insist upon that." "Veiy well. Thank yon, dear mother; you guide me, and don't let me make a fool of myself, for I am terribly cut up. You will be the only Countess of Uxmoor in my day." Then he kneeled at her feet, and she kiss- ed his head and cried over him ; but her tears only made this proud lady stronger. Ne^ day he started on his travels. Now, but for Zoe, he would on no account have left England just then ; for he was just going to build model cottages in his own village, upon designs of his own, each with a little plot, aiitl a public warehouse or gran- ary, with divisions for their potatoes and apjiles, etc. However, he turned this over in his mind while he was packing ; he placed certain jtlans and papers in his dispatch- box, and look his ticket to Taddington, in- stead of going at one*! to London. From Taddington he drove over to Hillstoke, and asked for Miss Gale. They told liim she was fixed at Vizard Court. That vexed him : he did not want to meet Vizard. He thought it th(! part of a .Jerry Kneak to go and howl to a brother against his sister. Yet, if Viz- ard (luestioned liim, how could he conceal there was something wrong f However, he went down to Vizard Court; but said to the servant who ojiened the door, " 1 am rather in a hurry, Sir; do you tliiuk thatycui could imiciire me a few minutes with Miss GaloT You need not trouble Mr. Vizard." Hi My dar- >r you to do. elliufr you ill would Lavo liiivo lijid ii ivorce Court aid Uxmoor, is poisoned ineway pack How first." thought on 'hat am I to A WOMAN-HATER. 161 It is hnm- 1 ! Mother, ter, and my il is tlic oidy wisest num, sd has left a )orn man — a )m itself: !st pour le sot ; et lie ilit luou' b say a word idiherent. I ear mother: '. make a fool ut up. You xmoor in my and slie kiss- im; but her Y stronger, •avels. 11 no aerount r he was just 1 in his own n, eaeh with luse orgran- lotatoes and ed this over g ; he jilaced is disjiatch- Irtiugton, in- don. From iilstoke, and him she was xed him : ho He thought fo and howl Yet, if Viz- lie coueeal tlowever, ho t said to the 1 aiu ratiier it yassi(m for Zoe. Iwr his arm, and was a liapjiy man, parading "And he will have her, too," said slie, boldly, her very slowly, and sni>[ioiting her steiis, . Lord Fxmoor told Miss Gale be had call- and ]iurring his congiatnlations inttj her ed upon business. He was obliged lo leave home for a time, and wished to place his judj- ccts under the care of a person who could reiilly sympathize with them, and make ad- ditions to them, if necessary, "^len," said he, "are always making oversights in mat- ters of domestic comfort: besi(l(!s, you are full of ideas. I want you to bo viceroy Avitli full power, and act just as you would if the village belonged to you." Ithoda colored high at the compliment. - "Wells, cows, granary, real education — what you like," said he. " I kmiw your mind. ISegiu abolishing the lower orders in the only way they can be got rid of — by raising them in comfort, cleanliness, decen- cy, and knowledge. Then 1 shall not be mi.ssed. I'm going abroad." " Going abroad ?" "Yes. Here are my plans: alter them for the better, if you can. All the work to be done by the villagers. Weekly wagiis. We buy materials. They will bo more rec- onciled to improved dwellings, when they build them themselves. Here are the ad- dresses of the people Avho will furnish mon- ey. It will entail travelling ; but my peo- j)le will always meet you at the station, if you telegraph from Taddington. You ac- cept ? A thousand thanks. I am afraid I must be oft." She went into the hall with him, Inilf bewildered, and only at the door found time to ask after Zoe Vizard. "A little better, I think, than when she came." "Does she know you are going abroad ?" "No. I dini't think she does, yet. It was settled all in a hurry." He escaped further questiouiug by hur- rying away. Miss Galo was still looking after him, when Ina Klosking came down, dressed for a walk, and leaning lightly on Miss Dover's arm. This was by previous consent of Miss Gale. "Well, dear," said Fanny, "what did he say to you ?" "Something that has surprised and puz- zled me very inuch." She then related the whole conversation, with lier usual i»reeisiou. Ina Klosking obser\fd (|nietly to Fanny that this did not look like successful wooing. " I don't know that," said I'anny, stoutly. "Oh, Miss Gale, did you not ask him about berl" ear. " Suipik)s(^ I were to invite you to din- ner, what would you say ?'' "I think I should say, •To-morrow.'" "And a very good answer, too. To-mor- row shall be a fill'." " You s])oil me." " That is impossible." It was stiange to see them together ; he so happy, she so iipathetic, yet gracious. Next morning came a bit of human na- ture—a letter from Zoe to Fanny, almost entirely occupied with ]U'aises of Lord Ux- moor. She told the Bull story better than I have— if possible — ami, in short, made Uxmoor a hero of romance. Fanny carried this in triumidi to the • Then said other ladies, and read it (Hit. she. '• Didn't 1 tell you .'" lihoda read the letter, and owned herself puzzled. "I am' not, then," said Fanny: "they arc engaged — over the bull ; likcEu- ropa and — 1 forget who — ami so he is not afraid to go abroad now. That is just like the men. They cool directly the chase is over." Now the truth was that Zoo wiis trying to soothe her conscience with tdcxiuent praises of the man she had dismissed, and felt guilty. Ina Klosking s;iid little. She was ](uz- zled too at liist. She asked to see Zoe's handwriting. The letter was handed to her. She studied the characters. '■ It is a good hand," she said; "nothing mean there." And she gave it back. Hut, with a glance, she bad read the ad- dress, and learned that the post-town was Baglcy. All that day, at intervals, she brought her ])o\verful understanding to bear on the par- adox ; and though she had not the facts and tb<' clew I have given the rcadi'i', she came near the Initli in an essential matter. She salislied herself that Lord Uxmoor was not engaged to Zoe \'izard. Cleai'ly, if so, ho would not leave Liiglaiid for months. She resolved to know more; and just before dinner siie wrote a line to Ashincad. and re- (liiested him to call on her iiiuiiediately. That day she dined with \izard and the ladies. She sat at Vizard's right haml, and he told her how jiroiul and happy he was to see hel' there. Slie blushed taint !y, but miide no rejily. She retired so(m after dinner. All uexl day she expected Ashuicud. 15^ A WOMAN-HATER. I'r.' :^ if He did not f-ome. She diued with Vizard next day, and re- tired to the drawinui-rooni. The piano was opened, and she played one or two exquisite things, and afterward tried her voice, but only in scales, and somewhat timidly, for Miss Gale warned her she might lose it or spoil it if she strained the vocal chord while her whole system was weak. Next day Ashmead came with apologies. He had spent a day in the cathedral town on business. He did not tell her how he had spent that day, going about puffing her as the greatest singer of sacred music in tiie world, and paving the way to her en- gagement at the next festival. Yet the single-hearted Joseph had reallj' raised that commercial superstructure upon the sentiments .she had uttered on his lirst visit to Vizard Court. luu now held a private conference with him. "I think," said she, "I have heard you say you were once an actor." " I was, madam, and a very good one, too." " Cela va sans dire. I r ver knew one that was not. At all events, you cau disguise yourself." "Any thing, madam, from Grandfather Whitehead to a boy in a pinafore. Famous for my makes up." " I wish you to watch a certain house, and not be recognized by a i)erson who knows you." " Well, madam, nothing is infra din. if done for you; nothing is distasteful if done for you." " Thank you, my friend. I have thought it well to put my instructions on paper." " Ay, that is the best way." She handed him the instructions. He read them, and his eyes sparkled. "Ah, this is a commission I undertake with pleas- ure, and T'li execute it Avith zeal." He left her, soon after, to carry out these instructions, and that very evening he was in the wardrobe of the little theatre, rum- maging out a suitable costume, and also in close coufe/ence with the wig maker. Next day Vizard had his mother's sables taken out and aired, and drove Mademoiselle Klosking into Taddington in an open car- riage. Fanny told her they were his moth- er's sables, and none to compare with them in the country. On returning she tried her voice to the harmonium in her own antechamber, and found it was gaining strength — like herself. Meantime Zo.' Vizard met Severno in the garden, and told him she had written to Lord Uxmoor, and he- would never visit her again. But she did not make light of the sacritice this time. She had sacrificed her own self-respect as well as Uxmoor's, and she was sullen aiul tearful. He had to bo very wary and patient, or she would have parted with him too, and fled from both of them to her brother. Uxmoor's wounded pride would have been soothed could he have been present at the first interview of this pair. He would have seeu^everne treated with a hauteur and a sort of savageness he himself was safe from, safe in her unshaken esteem. But the world is made for those who can keep their temper, especially the female part of'the world. Sad, kind, and loving, but never irritable, Severue smoothed down and soothed and comforted the wounded girl ; and, seeing her two or three times a day — for she was com- pletely mistress of her time — got her com- pletely into his power again. " Uxmoor did not reply. She had made her selection. Love beck- oned forward. It was useless to look back. Love was omnipotent. They both began to recover their good looks aa if by magic ; and as Severne's passion, though wicked, was earnest, no poor bird was ever more completely entangled by bird-lime than Zoe was caught by Edward Severne. Their usual place of meeting was the shrubbery attached to Somerville Villa. The trees, being young, made all the closer shade, and the gravel-walk meandered, and shut them out from view. Severne used to enter this shrubbery by a little gate leadiug from the meadow, and wait under the trees till Zoe came to him. Vizard's advertisements alarmed him, and he used to see the coast clear before he en- tered the shrubbery, and also before he left it. He was so particular in this that, ob- serving one day an old man doddering about with a basket, lie would not go in till he had taken a look at him. He found it was an ancient white-haired villager gathering mushrooms. The old fellow was so stiff, and his hand so trembling, that it took him about a minute to gather a single fungus. To give a reason for coming up to him, Severne said, " How old are you, old man f " " I be ninety, measter, next Martinmas- day." "Only ninety?" said our Adonis, con- temptuously ; " you look a hundred and ninety." He would have been less contemptuous had he known that the mushrooms were all toad-stoo's, and the village ceuteuaire was Mr. Joseph Ashmead, resuming his original art.s, find playing Grandfather Whitehead on the green grass. CHAPTER XXV. Mademoisklle Klosking told Vizard the time drew near when she must leave his hospitable house. A WOMAiT-HATi'li. I patient, or im too, uud •other, d have been !8eut at the would have uteur and a 18 safe from, ose who can the female er irritable, toothed and d, seeing her he was com- ot her com- Love beck- o look back. both began f by magic ; igh wicked, ovei' more ue than Zoe iig was the pville Villa. 11 the closer ludered, and irnbbery by leadow, and ame to him. 3d him, and efore he eu- Bfore he left lis that, ob- lering about ;o in till he bund it was r gathering 'as 80 stiff, it took him le fungus, up to him, old man V Martin ma«- donis, con- indred and itemptuous ins were all enaire was jis original Whitehead Vizard the leave his " Say a month hence," said he. She shook her head. "Of course you will not stay to gratify me," said he, half sadly, half bitterly. " But you will have to stay a week or two longer par ordoniiance du medecin." " My physician is reconciled to my going. We must all bow to necessity." This was said too lirnily to admit a reply. "The old house will seem very dark again whenever you do g»," said Vizard, plaint- ively. " It will soon be brightened by her who is«ts true and lasting light," was the steady reply. A day or two jiassed with nothing to re- cord, except that Vizard hung about Ina Klosking, and became, if ponsible, more en- amored of her and more unwilling to part with her. Mr. Ashmead arrived one afternoon about three o'clock, and was more than an hour with her. They conversed very earnestly, and when he went, Miss Gale found her agitated. " This will not do," said she. "It will pass, my friend," said Ina. "I will sleep." She laid herself down and slept three hours before dinner. She arose refreshed, and dined with the little party ; and on retiring to the drawing- room, she invited Vizard to join them at his convenience. He made it his convenience in ten minutes. Then she opened the piano, played an in- troduction, and electrified them all by sing- ing the leading song in "Siebel." She did not sing it so powerfully as in the theatre ; she would not have done that evoo if she could ; but still sbe sang it out, and nobly. It seemed a miracle to hear such singing in a room. Vizard was in raptures. They cooled suddenly when she reminded him what be had said, that she must stay till she could sing Siebel's song. " I keep to the letter of the contract," said she. "My friends, this is my last night at V^izard Court." "Please try and shake that resolution," said Vizard, gravely, to Mesdemoiselles Do- ver and Gale. " They can not," said Ina. " It is my des- tiny. And yet," said she, after a pause, " I would not have you ronieinber me by that flimsy thing. Let me sing you a song your mother loved ; let me be remembered in this house, as a singer, by that." Then she sang Handel's song : " What thongli I truce onch herb and flower Tlidt (locks tlie morning dew; 1)1(1 I not own Jeliovatrs power, How vuln weri! all I knew.' Ilow vuln weri! all I knew." ' She sang it with amazing purity, volume, ' grandeur, and power ; the lustres rang and ; shook, the hearts were thrilled, and the very souls of the hearers ravished. She herself turned a little i)ale in singing it, and the tears stood in her eyes. The song and its interpretation were so far above what passes for music that they all felt compliments would be an imperti- nence. Their eyes and their long-drawn breath paid the true homage to that great mgster rightly interpreted — a very rare oc- currence. " Ah !" said she ; "that was the hand could brandish Goliath's sj)ear." " And this is how you reconcile us to los- ing you," said Vizard. "You might stay, at least, till you had gone through my poor mother's collection." " Ah ! I wish I could. But I can not. I must not. My Fate forbids it." " ' Fate' and ' destiny,' " said Vizard, "stuflE and nonsense. We make our own destiny. Mine is to be eternally disappointed, and happiness snatched out of my hands." He had no sooner made this pretty speech than he was ashamed of it, and stalked out of the room, not to say any more unwise things. This burst of spleen alarmed Fanny Do- ver. " There," said she, " now you can not go. He is very angry." Ina Klosking said she was sorry for that ; but he was too just a man to be angi'y with her long : the day would come when he Avould approve her conduct. Her lip quiv- ered a little as she said this, and the water stood in her eyes: and this was reniemlier- ed .and understood, long after, both bj' Miss Dover antl Rhoda Gale. "When does your Royal Highness pro- pose to start?" iiK^uired Rhoda Gale, very obsequiously, and just a little bitterly. " To-morrow at halfi)ast nine o'clock, dear friend," said Ina. " Then you will not go without me. You will get the better of Mr. Vizard, because he is only a man ; but I am a woman, and have a will as well as you. If you make a journey to-morrow, I go with you. Deny nie, and you sha'u't go at all." Her eyes dashed defiance. lua moved one step, took Rhoda's little defiant head, and kissed her cheek. " Sweet physician and kind friend, of course you shall go with me, if you will, and be a great blessing to me." This reconciled Miss Gale to the proceed- ings. She packed up a carpet-bag, and was up early, nniking provisions of every sort for her patient's journey: air-pillows, soft warm coverings, medicaments, 8timul.ant8,etc., in a little bag slung across her shoulders. Thus furnishetl, and eciuijtped in a uniform suit of gray cloth and wide-awake hat, she cut a very sprightly and connnamling figure, but more like Diana than Hebe. The IClosking came down, a pale Juno, in 154 A WOMAN-HATER. V i travelling coshiino ; and ii (iiuirtcrofaii lioiir licfort! ilw tiiiif a iiaii-liorsi' lly was at, (hi! door, anil ilr. Aslnucad in tlni liall. Tlie ladies were botli ready. But Vizard liad not ajipearcd. This caused an uneasy discussion. " lie nnist be very angry/' said Fanny, in a half wliisiier. " I can not ^t* wliile lie. is," siirhed la Klos- king. "There is a liuiit even to niy cour- aye." " Mr. ITanis." said Klioda, " would you mind telling Mr. Vizard V "Well, miss," said Harris, softly, "I did .stej) in and tell him. Wliich he told nie to go to the devil, miss — :i hobservatiou 1 uev- er knew him to make bi^fore." This was not encouraging. Yet the Klos- kiiig (juietly inquired wliere he was. " In there, ma'am/' said Harris. "lu his study." Mademoiselle Klosking, pl.aced between two alternatives, decided with her usual resolutiou. She walked immediately to tht* tlicy were going. Wben he sjiw the direction the carriage took, be knew it, and turned very grave indeed. lb' even rt>grctted that b<> bad put him- self so fpjindly niulei' 1 in' control of a woman. He cast searching gl.'inccs at Mademoiselle Klosking t(» try and se to him np, stared (Is violent- i-e." " did you onld come, t last long. dream. I •s, and car- steps stood ng arm in and wile. I, weeping, lere riiging •ly imt out , and I was less, and I tiid dashed d I felt my filled Avith sleep, and I •; his trou- jection, set ward!" she yon. lint ream. We ent on any )portnnity, s. Zoe, do lisgivings; r Heaven'o let us place •f man." ige." . little, hut [ ask too Zoe. "Of t. What! hair done is to he ?'' ."said he; of misgiv- th(! jieace, i> our hiiz- fc by nuir- A WOMAN-HATER. 1S7 "To-morrow! Why, Edward, are you mad? How can we he married, so long as my lirother is so jircjudii.'ed against yoiif" "If wo wait liis consent, we are parted forever. He would forgive us after it — tliat is certain. Ihit he would never consent. He is too nuuh under tht^ inllueuce of his — of Mademoiselle Kiosk ing." "Indeed, I can not hope ho will consent beforehand," sighed Zoe; "but I have uot | the courage to defy him ; and if I had, we could not marry all in a moment, like that. ' We should have to he cried in church." . | " Tliat is unite gone out among ladies and gentlenuMi." " Not in our family. Besides, even a spe- cial license takes time, I sup])ose. Oh no, I could not he married in a clandestine, dis- creditable way. I am a Vizard — i)lcase re- member that. Would you degrade the wom- an you honor with your choice ?" And her red cheeks and flashing eyes warned him to desist. "God forbid!" said ho. "If that is the alternative, I conseut to lose her^aud lose her I shall." He then ail'ected to dismiss the subject, and said, "Let uw. enjoy the hours that ans left nie. Much juisery or much Idiss can be con- densed in a few days. I will enjoy the bless- ed time, and we will wait i'or the chapter of accidents that is sure to part us." Then he acted reckless happiness, and broke down at last. She cried, but .showed no sign of yielding. Her pride and self-respect were roused and t)n tlieir defense. The next day he canu^ to her quietly sad. He seemed languid and listless, and to care for nothing. He was artful enough to tell her, on the information of Poikilus, that Viz- ard had hired the cathedral clu)ir three times a week to sing t(i his inamorata; and that he liad driven her about Taddington, dress- ed, like a duchess, in a Avhole suit of sables. At that word the girl turned pale. He observed, ami continued: "And it seems these sables are known throughout the county. There were several carriages in the town, and my informant heard a lady say they were Mrs. Vizard's sables, worth live hundred guineas — a Russian princess gave them her." "It is (luite true," said Zoe. "His moth- er's sables ! Is it possible !" "They all say he is caught at last, and this is to be the next Mrs. Vizard." "They may well say so, if he parades her in his mother's sables," .said Zoe, and could not conceal her jealousy and her indiguii- tion. " I never dared so much as ask his permission to wear tliem," said she. "And if you had, he would have told you the relics of a saint were not to be played with." "That is just what he would have said, I do believe." Tho female heart was stung. 'All. well," .said Severne, "I am sure I should not grudge him his hapjiiness, if you would .st!e things as he does, and be as bravo as he is." " Thank you," said Zoe. " Women can not defy tlu^ world as men do." Then, pas- sionately, " Why do you torment me so ? why do you urge me so ? a poor girl, all alone, and far from ad vi<'e. What on earth would you iiave me do ?'' '•.Secure us against another separation, unite us in bliss forever." ''And so I would if I could; you know I would. But it is impossible." '"No, Zoe; it is easy. There are two ways : we can reach Scotland in eight hours; and there, by a simple writing and di.chiration before witnesses, we arc mau and wife," '•A (iretna (ireim marriage?" "It is just as much a legal marriage as if a bishop married us at St. i'aul's. However, we could follow it u]) immediately by mar- riage in a church, (uther in Scotlanil or the north of England. But there is another way : we can be married at Bagley, any day, iH^fore the registrar." "Is that a luaniage— a real marriage!" "As real, as legal, as binding, as a wed- ding in St. Paul's." " Nobody in this county has ever been married so. 1 should blush to be seen about after it." •• Our tirst hajipy year would not be passed in this country. We should go abroad for six months." " Ay, tly from shanu;." "On our return we should be received with open arms by my own people in Tlunt- ingdfuishire, until your people came round, as they always do." He then showed her a letter, in which his pearl of a cousin said they would receive his wife with oi)en arms, and make her as happy as they could. Uncle Tom was coming home from iTidia, with two hundred thousand jiouii'ls; lie was a conlirnied old bachelor, and Edward his favorite, etc. Zoe faltered a little: so then he pressed her hard with love, and entreaties, and prom- ises, and even hysterical tears ; then she be- gan to cry — a sure sign of yielding, "Give me time," she said— "give me time," He groaned, and said there was uo time to lose. Otherwise ho never would have urged her so. For all that, sho could not be drawn to a decision. She must think over such a step. Next morning, at the usual time, he came to know his fate. But she did not appear. He waited an hour for her. She did not come. He begau to rage and storm, and curse his folly for driving her so bard. At last she came, and fouud him pale with 158 A WOMAN-HATER. n ' -it,' »> anxiety, and looking utterly niiaerahlo. Slio told biin hIio had paMMfd a slccplfSH night, and her iiead had aehetl ho in tho morning she eonld not move. ''My poor darling!" said ho; "and I am the cause. Say no more about it, dear ono. 1 see you do not love uw as 1 love you, and 1 forgive you." She smiled sadly at that, for she was surer of her own love than his. Zoe had ]»aHsed a night of torment and vaeillation ; and but for her brother having ])araded Mademoiselle Klosking in his nu)th- er's sables, she would, I think, have held out. But this turned lier a lit! le against her broth- er; and, as he was the main obstacle to her union with Heverue, love and pity conquer- ed. Yet still Honor and Pride had their say. " Edward," said she, " I love you with all my heart, and share your fears that acci- dent may separate us. I will lot you decide for both of us. But, before you decide, bo warned of one thing. 1 am a girl no longer, but a woman, who has been distracted with many passions. If any slur rests on mj' fair name, deeply as I love you now, I shall ab- hor you then." He turned pale, for her eye flashed dismay into his craven soul. He said nothing ; and she continued : " If you insist on this hasty, half-clandestine marriage, then I consent to this— I will go Avith you before the registrar, and I shall come back here directly. Next morning early we will start for Scotland, and be mar- ried that other way before witnesses. Then your fears will be at an end, for you believe in these marriages; only, as I do not — for I look on these legal marriages merely as sol- emn betrothals — I shall be Miss Zoe Vizard, and expect you to treat mo so, until I have been married in a church, like a lady." "Of course you shall," said he; and over- whelmed her with expressions of gratitude, respect, and affection. This soothed her troubled mind, and she let him take her hand and pour his honeyed flatteries into her ear, as he walked her slow- ly up and down. She could hardly tear herself away from the soft pressure of his hand and the fasci- iKitiou of his tongue, and sln^ left him, more madly in love with him than ever, and ready to face any thing but dishonor for him. She was to come out ;\t twelve o'clock, and walk into Baglcy with him to l)e(rotli herself to him, as she chose to consider it, before tho stipendiary magistrate, who married couples in that way. Of the two marriages she had consented to, merely as ])reliminaries to a real nuirriage, Zoe desiiisc.-d this the most ; for the Scotch marriage was, at all events, ancient, and resi)t.'ctable lovers had been driven to it again and again. She was behind her time, and Severno thought her courage had failed her after all: but no: at half past twelve she came out, and walked briskly toward Bagley. He was behind her, and followcMl lier. She took his arm nervcuisly. " Let me feel you all the way," she said, " to give me courage." So they walked arm in arm ; and, as they went, his courag<> secretly wavered, hers rose at every step. About half a mile from the town they met a carriage and pair. At sight of them a gentleman on the box tapped at the glass window, and .-aid, hur- riedly, " Here they are togitlicr." Mademoiselle Klosking said, "Stop the carriage:" then, pausing a little, "Mr. Viz- ard — on your word of honor, no violeiu'e." The carriage was drawn n\^, Ashmead opened the door in a trice, and la KUmking, followed by Vizard, 8te]>ped out, and stood like a statue before Edward Severne and Zoe Vizard. Severne dropped her arm directly, and was panic-stricken. Zoe uttered a little scream at the sight of Vizard; but the nc-xt moment took lire at her rival's audacity, and stepped boldly be- fore her lover, with iliishing eyes and ex- ))anded nostrils that literally breathed de- liauco. CHAPTER XXVII. "Yotr infernal scoundrel!" roared Viz- ard, and took a stride toward Severne. " No violence," said Ina Klosking, sternly: "it will be an insult to this lady and me." "Very well, then," said Vizard, grindy, "I nuist wait till I catch him ahuie." '• Meantime permit me to speak, Sir," said Ina. " Believe me, I have a btitter right than even you." " Then pray ask my sister why I find her on that villain's arm." " I should not answer her," said Zoe, haughtily. " But my brother I will. Har- rington, all this vulgar abuse* confirms mo in my choice : I take his arm because 1 have accepted his hand. I am going into Bagley with him to become his wife." This annonncemtint to. Ilt^ left you nionlLs iiefore we ever knew liim." "Look at him. lie does not say it is false." Zoe turned on S(>verne, i\n(l iit his face her own heart ijuakcd. "Are yon married to this lady?" she .'isked ; and lu-r eyes, di- lated to their full size, searched his every feature. "Not that I ]«iiow of," said he, impu- dently. " Is that the serious iinswer you expected, !Miss Vizard ?" sfiid 'na, ki'ciily. Then (o Severne, " You are unwise to insult Hie wom- an on whom, from this day, you nnist de- ]»end for bread. Miss Vizard, to you I s|)eak, till- ciirriage. Vizard, tourhe]iorted that liroken tlow- er of womaidiood, and half led, half lilted her on, until he l;iid her on a sofa in Somer- villt« \illa. Then, for the lirst time, he spoke to her. "We are botii desolate now, ray child. Let us love one another. I will be ten tinu's tenderer to you than I ever h.ave been." She gave a great sob, but she was past speaking. Ina Klosking. Miss Gale, and Ashmead re- turned in the carriage to Haglcy. Half a mile out of tli<- town ihey founil a man ly- and not- to this shameless man. For your iiig on the imthway, with iiis hat ofl", and motliei''s sake, do me justice. I have loved I \\ liite ;is a slieet. It was Edward Severnc. liim dearly, but now I abhor him. Would I (•(Mild break the tie that binds us, and give him to you, or to any lady who would have him! IJiit I can not. And shall I hold my tongue, and let you Ix; ruined and dishonor- ed ? I am an older woman than you. and bound by gratitiidt; to all your house. Dear He had run till he droiiped. Ashmead got down and examined him. He c.'iuie back to the carriage door, look- ing white eiiougii himself. "It is all over," said he ; " the niiiii is dead." Miss tialc was, out in a moment, and ex- amined liiiii. "No," said she. "'I'lu^ heart lady, I hav(! taxed my strength to save you. ; does not beat perceptibly, but he breathes. I feel that strength waning. Pray read this papci', and conscii*'. to save i/ouyiiclf." "I will read it," said Klioda- (iaic, inter- fering. " I know (ierinan. It is an au- thiuizcd duplicate certii'ying the maniage of Kdward !>evcrne, of Willingham, in Uniit- ingdonshire, England, to Ina Ferris, (laugh- ter of Walter Ferris and Eva Klosking, of Zutzig, in Denmark. Tiie marriage was sol- emiiiz(ul at Berlin, and here arc the signa- tures of several witnesses: Ev;i Klosking; Frilulein Criiafe; Ziig, the Capiieluicisrer ; It is another of those seizures. Help me get him into the carriage." This was dcuie, and the driver ordered to go .1 toot's p.ice. The stiinulants Miss Gale had brought for Imi Klosking wen? now applied to revive this malefactor : and both l;idies actually ministered to him with compassionate faces. lit) was a villain ; but he was superlatively handsome, and a feather might turn the scale of lite or death. The seizure, tbougli really appalling to Vieomte M(!nrice, French uiiache ; Count look at, did not last long. He revived a lit- Hompcsch, Bavarian plenipotentiary; Herr Formes." Ina exjilained, in a voice that was now feeble,"! was a public cliarac.ti;r : my mar- riage was public: not like tlie clandesliiie union which is all he dared otter to this well- born lady." i "The Havarian and French ministers arc both in London, "said Vizani, eagerly. " \^'e can easily Icani if these signatures arc forged, like your acccjitances tie in the carriage, and was taken, still in- sensilile, l)ut breathing hard, into a room in the railway liot('l. When lie was out of (Linger, Miss Gale felt Ina Klosking's pulse, ;md insii+ted on her going to Taddington by I lie next train, and leaving Severne to the care of ilr. Ashmead. Ina. whi>, in truth, was just then most un- fit for !ins- more trials, feebly consented, but not until s\\v. Inid given Ashmead some im- portant instructions res])ectingher malefae- Biitif one shadow of doubt remained, Sev- 1 ten-, and supplied him with funds. Miss Gale erne now n^moved it: he uttered a scream also instructed Ashmead how to proceed in of agony, and tied as if the demons of re- , case of a relapse, and provided him with morse and despair were spurring him with niaterials. red-hot rowels. The ladies took a train which arrived "There, you little idiot," roared ^'izard ; soon after; and, l)cing so fortunate as to get "does that open your eyes?" | a lady's carriage all to tliems.>lves, they sat " Oh, Mr. Vizard," said Ina, rei)roachfully, I intertwined and rocking together, aud Ina "for pity's sake, think only of her youtli, : Klosking found relief at last ina copioustlow and what she has to sutler. I can do no of tears. more for her: I feel — so — faint." L'hoda got hertoHillstoke, cooked for her, Ashmead and I'hoda supported her into , nursed lier, lighted fires, aired her bed, and 160 A WOMAN-HATER. ■t ti': thoHe two frieuds slept togfitlipr in each oth- cr'H uriim. A,sliiiit>a(l liad a hard time of it with Sov- oriM". Ho niaiiam'd j)r(^tty wfll witli him at first, because lie ntupeticd liiiii willi l)ran- dy Itefinv he had eonu) to liis Htiists, and in that Htatu Kot him into the next train. lint aH the fumeH wore ott", and .Scverne realized his villaiiiv, his defeat, and his abjt^ct con- dition between the two women ho had wronged, he snddfidy uttered a yell, and nnule a spring; at the window. Aslimead eaught him by his calves, and ;ie lull. This faithful agent and man-of-all-work took a private sitting-room with a (h)uble-bedded room adjoining it, and ordered a hot supper, with Champagne and Madeira. Severne hvy on a sofa, moaning. The waiter stared. " Trouldo !" whisjjered Ashmead, contidentially. "Take no notice. Supper as ijuick as po8sil)h;." liy-and-by Severne started up, and began to rave and tear about the room, cursing his hard fate, and ended in a kind of hysterical fit. Aslnnead, being provided by Miss Gale with salts and aromatic vinegar, etc., applied them, and emled by dashing a tumbler of water right into his face, which did him more good than chemistry. Then he tried to awaken manhood in the fellow. " What are you howling a'>out V said he. "Why, you are the only sinner, and you are the least siiflerer. Come drop sniveling, and eat a bit. Trouble don't do ou an empty stonuich." Severne said he would try, hut begged the waiter might not be allowed to stare at a broken-hearted man. " Broken fiddle-stick !" said honest Joe. Severne tried to eat, but could not. But he could drink, and said so. Ashmead gave him Champagne, in tum- blers, ajid that, on his empty stomach, set him raving, and saying life was hell to him now. But presently he fell to weeping bit- terly. In which condition Ashmead forced him to bed, and tlnre he slept heavily. In the morning Ashmead sat by his bedside, and tried to bring him to reason. "Now look here," said he : " you are a lucky fellow, if you will only see it. You have escaped ])iginny and a jail, and as a reward for your good c(Uiduct to your wife, and the many virtues you have exhibited in a short space of time, I am instructed by that lady to pay you twenty pounds every Saturday at twelve o'clock. It is only a thousand a year ; hut don't you be down-hearted ; I conclude she will raise your salary as you advance. You must forge her name to a heavy check, rob a church, and abduct a school-girl or two — misses in their teens atid wards cd" Chancery preferred — and she will make it thirty, no doubt ;" and Joe looked very sour. "That for her twenty pounds a week!" cried this injured num. "She owes me two thousand pounds and more. She has been my enemy and her own. The fo(d! — to go and peach ! She hail oidy to hold her tongue, and bo Mrs. Vizard, .nid then she would have had a rich husband that adores iier, and 1 shcnild have hanlled uw through." "Through the window I did. liord for- give mo for it," said Joseph. " Well, I'll go up to town with yon ; but I can't be always tied to your tail. I haven't got twenty pounds a week. To he sure," he added, dryly, "I haven't earned it. That is one comfort." He telegraphed to Hillstoke, and took Sev- erne np to London. There the Bohemian very soon found lie could live, and even derive some litth .n- joyment — from his vices — witl' Ashmead. He visited him }> Saturday, and conversed dt he came any other day, it wa^ an advance : he never got it. ' <-I>h . wrv ,ly. If to be for CHAPTER XXVIII. Fanny Doveu was sent for directly to Somerville Villa ; and three days after the distressing scene I have endeavored to de- scribe, Vizard brought his wrecked sister home. Her condition was pitiiible ; and the moment he reached Viaard Court he mount- ed his horse and rode to Hillstoke to bring Miss Gale down to her. \\ ,'irl or two — i>r Chancery it tliirty, uo Mir. tl» a wook !" -rv liy. If to be for A WOMAN II.VTER. 161 directly to ys after the i'ored to de- Jcked sister i\e ; and the t he luount- >ke to bring There he found In.i Khmkin.;, « iili li.r slie w.is a lioniely, well-read woman, of few Ixixes at the door, \\ ailing for Hie lly that, witnls, lint tiioMf I'rw ;;i!ii»c-sli(ir. Kxani- was to take her away. pi,. _.si„. i^^^^^^\ („ /,„, . •• Vouiig lady, excuse It wa.s a sad inlervit^w. He thanked her an old woman's fnedoni, who niiKJil lie your dee])ly for her noliio cinidnit to his Nistcr, inothif. The IniuMis of yoiiiin fulk iiavo and then he could not help sprakiiig of iiis a (Iral of .scUiii ihcm; iiiorr Ihaii you could own disappointmcni. I believe. Now JiinI you iiy soniciliing to Madcinoisclle Kloskiiig, on this occasion, ! take you out of self, and you will Itc another was simple, sad, and even tender, within creature." piiiiletit limits. She treated this as a part- " Ah," si;;heil Zoe, "would lo Heaven 1 ing forever, and therefore made no secret of could!"' her esleem for him. " lint," s.iiil she, " I "Oh, ".said Mrs. tiale, "any limly with hope one day to hear yon have lound a pari- nioney can do il, and (lie wurM so lull of ner worthy of you. As for me, who am lied for lite to one I despise, and can never love again, I shall s(>ek my consolaiiou in music, and, please God, in clnuilable ac- tions." He kissed her hand at jiartin'r, .•mil gave her a long, hmg look of niiseialile regret that tried her ciiing out the ground with L'lioda, .set- tling the gardciiH and the miniature i>ast- urcs, and planning the little houses aud oul-liouses, and talking a great deal, com- iiared with what she transacted, jiroNed itnil- ly a certain antidote to that lethargy of woe which opiu'esscd her. Aud here for a time I must leave her, returning slowly to health of body and .some tranquillity of mind, but still subject to tils of .shaftic, aud gnawed by bitter regrets. 162 A WOMAN-HATER. CHAPTER XXIX. Thk rppntiitiou Miidt'iUDiiscllo Klosking gained in tlio now oiiitorio, aided 1)y Asli- uiead's exertions, launched her in a walk of art that accorded with her sentinientn. Sho sang in the oratoiio wlienevi-r it ; could lie perfonned, and also sang select song.s from it, and other sacred songs at ■ coueerts. i She was engaged at a nnisical festival in ! the very cathedral town whose choir had heen so consoling to her. JSlie enteretl with great zeal into tills engagenuMit ; and lind- ^ ing there was a geni'i'al di'siie to introduce j tlie leading chorister lioy to tiie i)ul)lic iii a | duet, she surjiriseil thein all liy otlering to sing the second part wi(h him if he would reheiirse it earcl'tilly with her at lier lodg- ings. He was only too glad, as might lie Bniniosed. She louiul he had a lovely voice, hut little pliysica' culture. He read cor- rectly, liiit (lid not. wen know the nature of the vocal instrument and its constrnc- tion, which is that of a iiagpijie. She taught him how to kcH'p his lungs full in singing, yet not to gasp, and Ity this simjile means enabled liini to sing with more than twice the power lie liad ever exorcised yet. She also taught him the swell — a lignre of music he knew literally nothing about. When, after singing a great solo, to sal- vos of aiiplause, Mademoiselle Kloskiiig took tlu^ second part with this urchin, tlie citi- zens and all tlii^ musical jicople who haunt a catlK'dral were on tlu^ tiptoe of exjiecta- tinlraUo that supported him, and rose and swelled with him in ravishing harmony, on- chanted them. The vast improvement in tiit^ iioy's style did not escape the hundreds of pei'son.s who l;n(>w him, and this duct gave la Klosking a great personal popular- ity. Her Inst song, liy her own choice, was, "Wliat though I tiace" (Handel), au.l Hie majestic voluuit^ that rang through the ech- oing vault showed with what a generous spirit sIk' had suhducd that magniticeut or- gan not to (.'rnsh her juvenile partner in the preceding duet. Among th(^ jiersons present was Harring- ton N'izard. He had come thei'e against ills judgment, lint he could not help it. He hail lieen cultivating a dull tran(|nil- lity, and was oxen beginning his old game of railing on women as the great disturbers of nnile peac(>. At the sight of her, anil the sound of her lirst notes, .away went his Iran- (inilllly, and he loved her as ardently as ovei-. lint wIhmi she sang his mother's fa- vorite, and the very roof rang, and three thousaiul souls were thrilled and lifted to heaven by that pure and noble strain, the rapture could not [lass away from this onii lieurt; whilo the cur ucLud ul llio cessation of lier voice, the heart also ached and pined and yearned. He ceased to resist. From that day bo foUowt'd her about to her public perform- ances all over the Midland Counties; and she soon becaum aware of his presence. She said nothing till Ashmead drew her atten- tion ; then, being comiielled to notice it, slio said it was a great pity. Surely he must have more important duties at home. Ashmead ■wanted to recognize him, and lint him into the liest place vacant; but la Klosking said, "No. I will bo more his friend than to lend hiai the least encour- agement.'' At the end of that tour she returned to LcHidon. While she was there in her little suburban house, she received a visit from Mr. Edward Severno. He came to throw himself at her feet and beg forgiveness. She. said she would try and forgive him. He thou im- ])lored her to fi.rget the past. She told him that was beyond her power. He persisted, and told her he had come to his senses; all his misconi.'nct now seemed a hideousdrcam, and he found he had never really loved any one but In.r. So then he entreated licr to try him once more; to give him back the treasure of her lov . . She listc ueil to him like a woman of mar- ble. ''Love V '.M'l-e I despise!" said she. "Never. Tiie ds ^ l.as gone by when these words can move me. Come to me for the means of enjoying yourself — gambling, drinking, and your other vices — and I shall indulge yon. Jint do not profaiu> the name of love. 1 forbid you ever to enter my door on that errand. 1 presume yon want mon- ey. There is a hundred ])ounds. Take it, and keep out of my sight till you have wasted it.' He dashed tlic notes proudly down. She turiu'd her back on hini, and glided into an- other room. When she returned, he was gone, and the hundred pounds had nnmaged to accompany him. He went straight from lior to Ashmead, anil talked big. He would suo for restitu- tioii of conjugal rights. "Don't do that, for my sake," said Ash- mead. " Sh(^ will liy the country like a bird, and live in suw!" village on bread and milk." "Oh, I would noi do i/ok an ill turn for Hie world," said the I'uister of arts. "You have been a kind friend to mo. You saved my lif.". H is imbittev(>d by remorse, and ri collections of the happiness 1 have thrown away and the heart. I have wronged. No aialier!"' This visit disturbed la Klosking, and dis- posed her to leave loiidon. She listened to a brilliant oiler tiiat was made lier, through Ashmead, by the manager of the Halian Op- era, who was organizing a provincial toj" od and pined that day bo ilie pcrform- luiiitics; and •escnco. Sho \v lier atten- iiotico it, she oly he must hoiuo. izc hiui, and cant ; hut la bo nioro his hast encour- returned to ttlo suburban 1 Mr. Edward liniself at hor Sho said sho lie thou im- Slio tohl liim IIo persisted, lis senses ; all ideous dream, illy loved any reated lK;r to [lim back tho * Oman of mar- e !" said she. ly when these to me For tho iimblin^, ^ — and I shall ane tlie name enter my door I1U want mon- ids. Take it, :ill you have y down. Sho ;lided into an- yone, and tho to aecompany ■ to Ashmead, le for restitu- te," said Ash- hy like a bird, ■ad and milk." II ill turn for f arts. " You 1. You saved remorse, ami 1 have thrown wronged. No ikiiiff, and dis- Slie listened to e her, through he Italian (ip- •oviucial to ;•• A \VOMA\-IIATER. 163 The tour was well advertised in advanee, ; 1 he soul of an emperor, that he should waste and the company opened to a grand house his time and his ftcliiigs mo, on a woman who at Uirniinghain. Mademoiselle Klosking had not lieen long can neviir lie any thing to him, it is pitiable." "Well, but, after all, it is his biisiue.ss; on the .stage, when she discovered her (lis- and hc^ is not a child: besides, remember ho curded husiiand in the stalls, looking the is really very fond of music. If 1 were you, perfection of youthful beauty. The next I'd look another way, and take no notice." nunute she saw Vizard in a private box. | ''Hut lean not." Mr. Severne applauded her loudly, and lliiii her a bonrpiet. Mr. \'izard lixed his eyes (iii her, beaming with admiration, but made no imblic demonstration. The sanii! incident repeated itself escry night sho sang, and at every town " All ! — and wliy not, j>ray ?" "Hecanse he ahvay.s takes a box on my left liand,two from tlie stage. I can't think how he gels it al all the llieatres. And! lien he lixes his I'yes on me so, 1 can not iielp stealing a look. He nt^ver a|i]>lai)ds nor At last she sjioke about it to Aslimead, in I throws ine boiupiets. lie looks — oh, you the vague, suggestive way her sex excels in. can not conceive how he looks, and the "I pr(!Siinie you have observed the people in front." " Yes, madam. Two in iiarticnlar." "Could yon not advi.se him to desist ?" "^Vhich'of -cm, madam?" "Mr. Vizard, ol course, lie is losing his tinu3, and wasting sentiments it is cruel should lie wasted." Ashmead said ho dared not take any lib- erty with Mr. \'izard. So the thing went on. Severne made ac(|iiaiiitMnce with the man- ager, and obtained the ciihrc lichind the scenes. strange eli'ect it is beginning to iirodiice on me." '• He mesmerizes yon '" "I know not. lUil it is a growing fasci- nation. Oh, my dear physician, interfere! If it goes on, we shall be more wretched than ever." Then she envelo]>ed Khoda in her arms, and rested a Iiot i;beek against hers. " I see," said Khoda. " Yon are afraid ho will make you love him." " I ho|)e not. Hut artists are impression- iilile; and being look(>d at so, by one 1 es- He brought his wile a boiiiiiiet ev- | teem, night al'ler night when my nerves are ery night, and iiresented it to her with such ! strung-- r(/(f iii'dnact :" and slie g;ive a sliiv- rc^-crence and grace that sIk^ was ohliged cr, and then w;is a little liysti'rical : and tiiat to take it and courtesy, or seem rude to the was very unlike her ])eo]ile alioiit Then she wrote to Miss Gale, and begged her to come if she could. Miss Gale, who had all this time been writing her love-letters twice a week, imnie- H him it is offensive to me?" " No." " I'rav do not give him unnimi ihhhv hm. imh. h ... ...■.<■. not like a nobody dangling after a iiiiblic people, ami too little of yourself. Now tliat siiiger; that is common enough. ^Veal■eall is ciuitrary to the schi'iiie of nature. Wo run after by idle men ; even .signorin.'i /ii- , are .sent into the world to take care of iiiim- bettii, who has not much voice nor appear anee, iind s]ieiiks a Genoese piiloiH when she is not delivering a lihretlo. liut for a gen her one. "What!" said Ina; "are we to be all self- indulgence ? Is there to he no principle, no tleuiau of position, with u heart uf gold and ; womanly prudence, foresiyht, discretion T I 14% IM A WOMAN-HATER. I' F, : i 5 k 111}''" i I i < t i No; I iVcl llio siifi'itice ; lint hd iiowcr hIiuII liiiulor ine IVoiri iiiakiiif;' it. If you can not l)('rsuii(lo him, I'll do like otlii r siiigcrH. I will Vio ill, iind ([uit tlu! couiiiaiiy.'' '• Uon't do that," said lilioda. "Now you have, put on your iron look, it i.s no UN(^ ar- •Hiin<; — I know that t^) my cost. TIutc ! I will talk to him. Only (hurt hurry nus let nu^ fake my oitportunity." This bein}^ understood, Ina would not ])art with her for tlit^ jiresent, 1ml tufdv her to the theatre. Slie dismissed liei- dresser, at, I'lhodii's re(|uest, ami Rhoda tilled that oHiee. So they could talk fieely. Hhoda had never lieen lieliind the seines (tf a theatre! before, and she went juyinfj; about, ii;iioriMji tlie nnisi<', for she was al- most earless. I'resently, whom .should .she encounter but Edward .Severne. 8he start- ed, and looked at him like a basilisk. lie removed his hat, and drew back a stej) with a <;reat air of respect and hn)niiity. She was shocked and indij;nant with Ina for lettinjj; him l»e about her. .She followed her otf th(! stago into her dressing-room, and took her to task. " I have .seen Mr. Severne here." " He comes every nioht.'* "Ami yon allow him ?" "It i. the nuina<;er." "But ho would in)t admit him if yon ob- jected." "T am afraid to do that." " Why ?" "We should have an rurltnidrc. I Iind lu! has inid so nuudi (-(uisideration for me as to tell no one our relation; and as he has never 8])oken to me, 1 mO the most prudent Miinn' 1 can, and take no notice. Should he atteiMjit to intrude himself on me, then it will lie time to have him sto|i|icd in the liall, and I shall r looked nor smiled, lilioila saw that, and wondered. She thoujilit to herself, "That is carryinjj; politeness a Ion,n' way. To be, sure, she is half a, foreigner." Having done his nightly honuige, Severne left lllt^ theatre, and soon afterward the jierformanee conelmled, and Ina took her friend home. Ashmead was in the hall to show his ]>atronesH to her carriage;— a duty he never failed in. Khodii shook hands with him, and he said, " Delighted to see yon here, miss. You will be a great comfort to her." 'i'lii' two friemls connmined t ill two o'clock iu the morning; but llio liiuita of my tale forbid \\n' to repeat what passed. Suttice it to say that lihoda was fairly puzzled by the. situation; but, having a great regard for Vizard, saw clearly enough that ho ought to be sent back to Jslip. She thought that perhaps the very sight of .her would wound \ liis ()ride, and, tinding his mania discovered by a third jierson, ho would go of his own accord: so sho called on him. My lord received her with friendly com- I posure, and all his talk was about Islip. I Ho did not condescend to exjilain his ju'cs- j euco at Carlisle. He know that (jui hUxchsv k\icciix(; and left bor to remonstrate. Sho I had hardly courage for that, and hoped it might be unnecessary. She told ina what she had done. But her visit was futile: at night there was Vizard in his box. Next day the. couniany opened in Man- chester. A'izard was in his bos tluire — Severne in front, till Ina's principal song. Then he came round and presented his bou- (|uet. But this time ho. eanu>, up to Khoda (iale, and asked her Avhether a. penitent man might pay his respects to her in tho morning. She said she beli(!ved there were very few p to Kiuxhi a, lu'iiitont J her in tho ere very few tho virago. ot alraid." V of this ap- it Avas made, lini talk you i nie over aa I's reply. "I ever deceive t ; ho did not i at all. He nie for. Ho whom I have it speak; but [•gi VflH'SS. I I. my ingrati- rero terribly m not afraid knees, I im- ness. my in- don'l know ; one has no ;ainst a r»!al )ve with her. ler I disown- t'ss, who hae (iiscreet." "Well, then, sooner or later he is sure to foj'm some improper connection or other; that one thing, you charming villain." She j and then I lioju- you will aid me in pcrsuad^ lield out her hand to hiui in proof of her good faith. He threw himself on his knees directly, and kissed and nnunblcd her hand, and be- dewed it Avlth hysterical tears. "Oh, don't do that." said she: "or I'm bound to give you a good kick. 1 hate she- men." "Give me a moment," said he, " and I will lie a man agair)." He sat with his face in his hands, guljiing a little. "('ome,"said she, cocking her head like a keen Jackdaw; "now let us have the real object of your visil." "No, no,"' said he, inadveiinitly — "anoth- er tinu! will do for that. 1 am cnlilic in that w.'iv. Nothing you nor I coukl urge would induce her." A'izard replied, doggedly, "I will never despair so long as she Iceeps him out of lit r hoii^c.'' Iilioda told Ina Klosking this, ;ind said, "Now it is in your own hands. You have only to k't your clianiiiiig villain into your house, iind .Mr. X'izard will return to Islip." Ina Klosking burictl lu'r face in her hands, and thought. At night, A'izard in his box, as nsual. Scverne behind The scenes with his liou- "It could be hcljied in time. H'ytiu would i i|iiel. lint this night he staid for the bal- persnaihi her to take the liist step."' "What st(M>/" t, to see a Freueli dansense who had Joim>d them. He was aenuainteil wilh her before, "Not to disown her husband. To let him land had a s]irii;htly conyeisat ion wilh her. at least be lu'r iViend -her peiiilent, humble In oi her words, he renewed an old llirlation. I'riend. We art man and wile, .'t' 1 "re i The next (iper.i night all went as usii.il. \'i/ard ill I he box, locking sadder t lian usual. Klioda's good seiis(r had not been entirely wasted, ."^evenie. with his boiii| net. and his rave humility, mil il tlii^ phi>' eiiiled. and la to say so publicly, slii' would admit i\. In this respect at le.ast I h.ave been gen.'i'ous: will she mil be generous too? AVIial harm conld il do her if we lived under the same roof, ami F look her to the theatre ;ind Klosking passed out into the hall, lleiback fetched her home, iind di behind tlies<'eiies. I she crossed the se " .\V'»H(." "And ,'i kiss into the bargain.'' "./(((((((IS." "(J'esI ce cpu' niuis Acrrons." He chased her. She uttered a feigned He followed her; till! back, where it A s])asiii crossed his face. "I am (piile , was dark. bonudtMl ..vi-i in open trap, which aware of that." said he. " lint be is never she saw just in lime: but Scverne. not seeing admitted into her liouse." 1 it, because she was between him and it, fell I'-i i , i 166 A WOMAxN'-IlA'l'EU. W' 1 5 li! through it, and striking; tho muziiriiio, full iuto the cellar, ftftet'u left below tlie slai^e. The screams of the dancer soon liroujjht a crowd round the trap, and reached Made- nioiaelle Kloskingjust as she ^vas jjoinj; out to her carriage. "There !" slit; cried. "An- other accident !"' and she came hack, making sure it was some poor carpenter come to grief, as usual. On such occasions her pur.se was always ready. They brought yeverne u]) sensible, btit moaning, and bleeding at the temple, and looking all streaky about the face. They wore going to take iiim to the in- firmary; but Mademoiselle Klosking, with a face of angelic pity, said, "No; he bleeds, he bleeds. He must go to my house." They stared a little ; but it takes a good deal to astonish people in a theatre. Severne was carried out, his head hastily bandaged, and he was lifted into la Klos- king's carriage. One of tlie people of the theatre was directed to go on the box, and la Klosking ami Ashmead sn])i>orted him, ami he was taken to her lodgings. Slie di- rected him to be hiid on a comdi. iind a phy- sician sent fV)r, Miss Gale not ha\ing vet re- tnrned from Liverpool, whither she had gone to attend a lecture, Ashmead went for the ])hysician. Ihit almost at the door he met Miss Gaic and Mr. Vizard. " Miss," said he, " you are wanted. Tliere has been an accident. Mr. 8e verm' has fallen tiirongli a trap, and into the cellar." "No liones broken V "Not he: he has only broken his head; and that will cost her a broken heart." " Where is he f" "Where I hoped m'ver to see him again." "What! in her luuiso ?" said Khoda, and hniried off at once. " Mr. Ashmead," said Vizard, "a wird witii yon." " By all means, Sii*," said Ashmead. " as we go for tiie doctor. Dr. Menteitli lias a great n.'nne. lie lives close b\ yenr liotel. Sir." As they went, Vizard aslced iiim wliat he meant by saying this incident would cost her a broken heart. "Why. Sir," said .\shmead,"he is on his good behavior to get liark; has becMi for months begging and jiraying just to be let live under the same I'oof. She lias always refused. J$ut some feih)ws have such luck! I don't say he fell down !i trap on purpose ; bnt he has done it, and no broken bones, hilt ph'iity of blood. That is thi' very thing to overcome .a woman's- feelings ; and slu' is not proof ajjainst liity, lb; will have lier again. Why, she is liis nurse now ; and see how that will work. We havt; a week's more business here ; and, by bad luck, a dead fortnight, all along of Dublin falling through unexpectedly, lie is as artful as Old Nick ; he will spin out that broken head of his ami make it last all the three weeks ; anlenty of both — ami cut it; don't look right nor left, but cut it — and forgive my ])resnmption," Vizard was greatly moved. "Give me your hand," ho said; "you are a worthy man, I'll act on your advice, and never forget wliat I owe you. Stick to me like a let-ell, and sei- me otf Ity the next train, fori am going to tear my heart out of my bo.som." Luckily there was a train in half an hour, and Ashmead saw him olf ; then wei\t tosup- jier, ll(- did not return to Ina's lodgings, III! did not want to s(-e Severne nursed. He liked the fellow too, but he saw through him clean, and he worsliiped Ina Klosking, CHAPTER XXX. A I' one o'clock next day Ashmead received a note fnuii Madi-moisi-Ue Klosking, saying: "Arrange with Mr. X to close my tonr with Manchester. Pay (lit- fortnight, if re- (piin-d." She was witli the company at a mouth's notice on either side, you nuist uu- derstand. " Instead of going to tin- manager, he went at (Uice, in utter disnuiy, to Mademoiselle Klosking, and there learin-d in substance what I must now brielly relate. Miss Gale found Edward Severne deposit- ed on a sofa. Ina was on her knec-s by his side, s]ioiigiug his bleeding temple, with looks of gentle l>ity. Strange to say, the wound was in the s;ime |)lace as his wife's, but nion- contused, and no large! vein was divided. Miss (Jale soon stanched that. She asked him where his pain was. He said it A WOMAN-HATER. 107 ree weeks ; 11 be weak ler pardon a woman, wife, when Tliey will up to play feel it my jle gentle- e ; but the OS and dia- t for yon, n of Ihings box every it, and the bout you; cially now iise. Take md cut it. (Muau and lady. She he is. She ej) fxaiiiiiif? House all — and you t it ; don't ,nd forgive "Give mo a wortliy and never i> nie like a ti'ain, fori ny ))osoni." ilfan hour, ent to sup- s lodgiuss. lurat'd. He iroiigh him iking. nd received rig, saying: so Miy tour liglit, if re- iipany at a u must un- I'r, ho went idenioiseile substance ne deposit- iKU's by his iijile, with to say, tlie his wife's, n vein was Itliat. She He said it was in his head and his back, and he cast a 1 Iiia wept bitterly. haggard, anxious look on her. | Tlicy imrstMl liiiii night and day. He suf- "Take my arm," said she. " Now stand • feii'd little, and when he did Miss Gale stu- ui»." pclied the pain at once, for, as she truly said, He tried, but could not, and said his legs j "Nothing can hurt him." Vitality gradu- Avere benumbed. Miss (iah^ looked gnsve. ally retired to his head, ami lingered there "Lay him on my bed," said la Kloskiiig. a wliole day. But, to his last mouieut, the "That is lietter than these hard eouehes." i arl of itleasiiig never aban man!" ' Oh •Ho no: no! lias broken bis back, and nothing nieiit, he showed in this desperate condition singular patience and well-bred fortitude. He checked his wife's tears; assured her it was all for the best, and that he was ri-c- oneiled to the inevitable. "1 have had a happier time than ] deserve,'" said he, " and now I have a painless di^ath, nursed by two swe(>t women. My oidy regret is that I shall not be able to rt'iiay your devotion, Ina. nor become worthy ol '-our friendship. Miss Gale." He died without fear, it being his convic- tion that he should return after death to the pre<'ise condition in which he was before birth ; and when they begged him to see a elei'gynian, he Hiiid, " Pray.ilo not give your- selves or IiImi that trouble. I can melt back into th.e universe without his assistance." He even died content; fortius polished lb>heiniau liiid often foreseen that, if he li\('d long, h(! should di(' miserably. Ibit the main leatuie of his end was his extraordimiiy politeness. He ]ia;d Miss can save liim. His lower liiuhs have ali'caily I Gale complinients just as if lie was at ids lost sensation. Death will cree)) over the rest. Do not disturb your miiul with idle hopes. Von have two things to thank (iod for — that yon took him into your own house, and that he will die easily. Indeed, were Ik; to snlfor, I should stupefy him at onct?, for nothing can hurl him.'' Ina Kloskin gavis way nnd ease on a sofa : and scarce an hour licfore his decease he said, faintly, "I dci;lare— I have been so busy — dying — I have forgot- ten to send my kind regards to good Mr. Aslinu'ad. Pray tell him 1 tUd not forget his kindness to me." He just ceased to live, so quiet was liis turned faint, iind her knees death, and a smile rested on his dead feat- her, ln'hoda ministered to ures, and thev were as lieantiful as ever. her, and wliik she was so employed Dr. i So ended a lair, )>ernicious creature, en- Menteith was announced, lb' was shown dowed too richly witji the. art of pleasing, in to the i),'itient. and the aciideiit lb scribed and ([uite devoid of principle. Few bad to him. He (|uesti. Sht^ compared notes constantly with Miss (iale, and conceived a IVieudship for her. It, had heen a long time coming, hecause at tirsl .sln^ disliked Miss (iale's nninners very nnndi. But that lady bad nursed her tenderly, and now advised her, and Zoe, wiui c(uild not do any thing by halves, hecanu> devoted to her. As she warmed to lu'r good work, she gav(> signs of clearer judgment. She never mentioned Severne ; iuif she no k)ugor ab- solutely avoided Ina Klosking's name; and one day she spoke of her as a high-princi- pled wonuin; for which the Gale kissed her on the spf>t. One name she often uttered, and always with regret and self-reproach — Lord Ux- moor's. I think that, now she was herself luiilding and i)lanning for the ])ermanent imi)rovement of the jioor, she felt the tie of a kindred sentinumt. l.'xmoor was her ]ired- ecessor in this good work too, and would have been her associate if she had not been so 1 lind. This thought struck deep in her. Hi r mind ran nmre ami more on IJxmoor, his manliness, his courage in her defense, and his gentlemanly fortitiule and lu'avery in leaving hei", without a word, at her re- (jnest. Running over all these, she often blushed with shame, and her eyes tilled with sorrow at thinking of how she had treated him ; and lost him forever by not deserving him. 8he even made oblique and tindd in- quiries, but could learn notliing of him, ex- cept that he sent jicriodical remittances to Miss (iale for nuiuaging liis imi)rov(Mnents. These, however, cami? in through ii country agent from a town iigiMit, and left no clew . lint one line d her for the zcil and enthusiasm she had shown, and tlie progress his works had nnido und(H' lier sui)ervision. He was going away Avitlvnit even men- tioning the \'i/,ard family. J}ut the era It y (iale detained him. "Go- ing to V'i/ard t.'ourt .'" said siie. "No," said he, very dryly. "Ah, 1 understand; but i)erhaps you would not mind going with me as far as Islip. There is something there I wish you to see." " Humidi ! Is it any thing very particu- lar ? JJeeause — " " It is. Three cottages rising, with little Hower gardens in front, stjuaro plots behind, and arrangements for breeding calves, with other ingenious novelties. Anew head come into our business, my lord." " You have converted Vizard ? I thought you would. He is a satirical fellow, but he will listen to reason." "No, it is not: ilr. Vizard : indeed, it is no convert of mine. It is an inde])endent en- thusiast, lint I really believe your work at home had some hand in tiring her enthusi- asm." "A lady! Do I know her?" "Yon nnty. 1 snp])ose you know every body in Barfordshire. Will you come ? Do!" " Of course I will ccune. Miss Gale. Please tell one of your people to walk my horso down aft(;r us." She had her hat on in a moment, and walked him down to Islip. Her tongue was not idle on the road. "You don't ask after the people," said she. "There's ])oor Miss Vizard. 8he had a sad illiu^ss. We were almost afraid we should lose her." "Heaven fo'-bid !" said L'xmoor, startled by this sudden nc\V,-;. " JIademoiselle Klosking got quite well: and oh! what do you think f Mr. Severne turned out to be her husband." "What is that f shouted Fxnioor, and sto[)p(Hl e : it was the 17th of October." "Why, that was the very day I left En- glaml." "How odd! Why did ycui not stay an- other week? Gentlemen are so impatient. Never ndnd, that is an old story now. Here we are : those are the cottages. The work- men JU'e at dinner. Ten to one the enthu- siast is there; this is hei' time. You stay here. I'll go and see.'' She went otf on tip- toe, and peejied and )>ricd here and there, like a young witch. Presently she took a f(?w steps toward him, with her linger mys- teriously to her lips, and beckoned him. He entei'cd into tiie paiitominu- — she seemed so earnt'st in it and came to her softly. "Do Just take a i)eep in at that opening for a door," said she; "then you'll see her; her back is turned. She is lovely; only you know shi- has been ill, and I don't think she is very ha])iiy." Uxmoor thought this pee])itig at enthusi- asts rather an odd proceeding, but Miss , with little ots behind, alvi's, with ■ head come I thought low, but lie ■cd, it is uo •eiidcut en- mr worli at or onthusi- :now every nue? Dof" lie. Please c my horso omeut, and I the road. ," said she. ! had a sad wo should or, startled 'piite Avell : \h: Severue xmonr, and rue a mar- ling a niar- Vlr. Severuo s Vizard." lioda, care- jut lie was >acked him f October." I left En- )t stay an- inipatient. low. Here Tlie work- the entliii- You stay ott'on ti|>- and there, niie tooli a iuger m\s- I liim. Ho seemed so I'tly. it opening II see her ; ; only yim ', think she it entliusi- luit Miss A WOMAN-HATEK. I6d Gale had primed his curiosity, and he felt naturally proud of a female impil. He stepped up lighlly, looked in at tlie door, and, to his amazement, saw Zoo Vizard sit- ting on ca carpenter's liencli, with her lovely head in the sun's rays. He started, then gazed, then devoured her with his eyes. What! was this his puj)!! '/ How gentlc! and sad she seemed! All his stoicism melted at the sight of her. .She sat in a sweet, pensive attitude, jiale and drooping, but, to his fancy, lovelier than ever. She gave a. Jitth^ sigh. His heart yearned. She took out a lelti'i', read it slowly, and said, softly and slowly, "Poor fel-low!" He thought he recognized his own handwriting, and could stand lio nnu'e. Ho rushed in, and was going to sjieak to her; but she screamed, and no conjurer over made a card disajtpe.'ir (|utcker than she did that letter, as she l)oun(le(l away like a deer, and stood, blushing scarlet, and palpitating all over. IJxmoor was ashame gave it to him with a guilty air, and hid her lace. "Dear Zoe, sn])])ose I was to re])eal the olVer 1 madt^ here V - "I advise you not,'" said she, all in a Hurry. u ^vhy ?" ' " Because. Because — I might say ' Yes.' " "Well, then I'll take my chance once more. Zoe, will you try and love me ?" "Try? 1 belicne I do love yon, or near- ly. I think of yon ;'iy often." "'I'hen y(m will do something to make me happy." "Anything; ev(>ry thing," "Will yon marry me ?" I " Yes, that I will," said Zoo, almost impet- uously; "and then," with a grand look of conscious beautv, "I can make vou forgive I me." ! Uxmoor, on this, caught her in his arms, and kissed her with .siicli tire that she ut- tered a little stilled cry of alai-ni; but it was soon followecl by a sigh ot' comjdacency, and she sank resistless on his nninly breast. So, iifter two sieges, he carric'd that fair I citadel by assault. '' Then let not the manly lieart despair, nor take a mere brace of "Noes'' from any wom- j an. Nothing short of three negatives is J serious. j They walked out arm in arm, and very close to e.'ich other ; and he left her, solemu- . ly I'ligaged. Leaving t his pair to the delights of'court- shij), and growing allection on Zoe's side — for a warm attachment of'tlie noblest kind did grow, by degrees, out of her i)enitenco and esteem and air her fault — 1 nnist now take u]) the other thread of this narrative, and apolnaize for having invert- I'd the order of events ; for it was, in real- ity, several days after this hapjiy scene, that Mademoiselle Klosking sent for Miss Gale. CHAPTER XXXII. ViZAiiD, then, with Ashmead, returned home in despair; and Zoe, nowhap])y in her own minil, was all tenderness and sisterly consolation. They opened their hearts to Ciudi other, and she showed her wish to re- pay the del)t she owed him. How far she might have succeeded, in tiun-, will never be known. For hts had hardly been home a week, when MissGali; returned, all in black, and told him Si'verne was dead and buried. He was startled, and even shocked, re- nicnilu'ring old times; but it was not in human nature he slnudd be sorry. Not to i l)e indecorously glad at so opportune an exit was all that conld be expected from i him. I When she hail given him the details, his i tirst (|uestion was, "How did she bear it f "She is teriil)ly cut up— more than one would think p'ossible; for she was ice and mailile to him before he was htirt to death." " Where is she .'" I " (ione to Liiiiilon. She will write to me, I siiiipiise- poor dear. But one must give her time." rrom that hour \'izard was in a state of excitement, hoping to hear from Ina Klos- king (U' abdiit her; but unwilling, from del- ie.ary. to hurry matters. At last he became imitatient, and wrote to Ashmead. whose address he li.'id, and said, frankly, he had a delicacy in intruding on Mademoiselle Klosking in her grief. Yet his own feeliu'Ts would not allow him to m in A WOMAN-ILVTllR. eeem to iiPfjU'ct, lici-. Would Mr. AHlimoiid, ! Protestaut; and, iu the second, she is not 0, then, tell him wluirt^ sin- was, hm .shf had not fool." written to any one in Barfordsliirc — not even to her tried friend, Mi.ss (Jiile. lie received an answer by return of post: " I will advertise." " The idea !" "Do you think I am K"'"ff to sit down with my hands before me, and lose her for- " Deais Siu, — I am grieved lo tell yon that ! ever V Mademoistdle Kloskinj; lias retired from j "Xo, indeed; I don't think you are that imlilic life. She wrote to nie, tliree weeks sort of a man at all — ha! ha!" uj;o, from Dover, i-e(|nestiiiji me to aeeept, | " Oh, Miss tiale, pity me. Tell me how to as a token of her esteem, the surplus money iiiid her. That l''anny Dover says women are I hold in lianil for her — I always drew her only enigmas to men ; they understand one salarv — and biddingme farewell. The. sum another." ineluded her luolits by I'salniody, minus lier expenses, and was so large it eould never have beeu intended as a mere recognition of my humble services; and 1 think I Imve Siddom felt so downhearted as on reeeiving " What !" said Khoda, turning swiftly on him ; "does that little chit pretend to read my n(dde Ina?" " If she ean not, perhaps you can. You are so shrew d. Do tell nu', w hat does it all this princely donation. It has enabf^d me mean?" to take better otliees, and it may be the j " It meatus nothing at all, I dare sa.v, onlj' foundation of a little fortune; but I feel a wonnin's imi)ulse. They are such geese at that I have lost the truly great lady who times, every oiu' of them." has made a man of me. Sir, the relish is i " Uh, if 1 did but know what country she gone for nty O('eu])ation. I ean never be so is in, I would ransaek it." happy as I was in working tlu' interests of ; " Hum! — countries are biggish i)Ia(!es." that great genius, whose voice nnide our | " 1 , she had left the j " I am not. I'm a tall, beneiicent angel ; stage; but her dropping yon all looks as if and I'll tell you where she is — for nothing, she had left the worhl. 1 do hojje she has Kee]> your land : who wants it? — it is ouly not been so nnid as to go into one of those a bother." eursi^l <'onvents. " For pity's sake, don't trifle with nu'." " Mr. Vizard, I will now write to friends | "I never will, where your lii^arl is inter- in all the Continental towns where there is ; e.sted. She is at Ziitzig." good nmsic. She will iH)t bo abh* to keep i "Ah, yon good girl! She has written to awjiy from that long. I will also send pho- you." tograplis ; and hojie we may lu'ar something. ; " Not ,'i 11 i:c, tlu^ monster! And I'll serve If not, perhaps a, /ia/i('(()i(s«(/r()7i.s('»i' ill-used should — she Ikih. Fancy you not seeing that ! perscui, though not, of course, so ill-used as why, Fanny l>over would h.ive l(dd yon that himself, he took her Aslimead's letter. much in a moment, lint now you will liave "This is nice," said she. "Then;! I must to thiink mi/ mother for teaching me Atten- give up loving women. Hesides, they throw me over the moment a man comes, if it hap- jiiMis to be the, right one." "Unnatural creatures!" said Vizard. " Ungrateful, at all events." "Do you think she has gone into a con- vent ?" "Not she. In the first ijlace, she is a tion, the parent of JleiiuMy. Pray, Sir, who were the witnesses to that a bom iiuible mar- riage of hers ?■' "I remember two, Par(m llonipeseh — " " No, Count llompesch." " And CNuiiit Meuriet'." "Viscount. What, liave you forgotten Herr Formes, Frilideiu Criiafe, Zilg, the Caji- ibe 18 not a i» sit down use her for- )u arc that iiic h(»\v to wornen are ■rstaud ouo swiftly oil 11(1 to ii'iid can. You does it all •c say, only icli geese at ■oiiutry she jilacps." you where ,(irst as.si;>;n II onliiaiico ly liiiyer on i!" it'iit an<;cl ; or nothing. — it is only idi me." irl is inter- written to id I'll servo ■ liide-aiid- v eau you %'ll, yes— T ''irst of all, ise that is Iroiil.le. I eeiiif; that! Id you that 1 will ha\e me Atteii- y, Sir, who nable niar- leseh — " forgotten 'i, the Cap - polnieister, and her very mother? now, whose daugliter is slief" " 1 forgot, I'm sure." " Walter Ferris and Eva Klosking, of Ziit- zig, in Deiunark. I'aek — start for (,'oiien- hagen. Consult an ordnance map there. Find out Zutzig. (io to Ziilzig, and you have got her. It is some hide in a wilder- ness, and she can't escape," " You clever little angel! I'll lie there in three days. Do you really think 1 shall suc- ceed V "Your own fault if you don't. She has run into aciil ilcsKC through being too clever ; and, besides, women sometimes run away just to be caught, and hide on ])ur])ose t<) be found. I slyuihl not wonder if she has said to herself, ' He will liiid me if he loves me 80 very, very much — I'll try him." " Not a word more, angelic Fox," said Viz- ard. " I'm oft' to Zutzig." Ho went out on tire. She opened the win- dow, and screeched after him, "Every thing is fair after her behavior to me. Take her a book of those spiritual songs she is so fond of. ' Jolinny comes marching homtr" is worth the lot, 1 reckon." Away went V^izard; found Copeiiliagon with ease; Zutzig with ditliculty, heiiig a small village. J{iitoiu;e I here, he soon loiuid the farm-house of Kva Klosking. H(! drove up to the orer came out from the stable directly; and a buxom girl, with pale golden hair, o])ciied the door. These two seized bis luggages and conveyed it into the house, and the hired vehicle to the stable. Vizard thought it must bo an inn. The girl bubbled melodious souiuls, and ran off and brought asweet, venerai)le dame. Vizard recognized Kva Klosking at once. The old lady said, "Few strangers come here : are you not English ?'' " Yes, madam." "It is Mr. Vizard, is it not?'' "Yes, madam." "Ah, Sir, my daughter will welcome you, but not more heartily than 1 scaping Vizard when he pressed her too hotly. l?ut at last she was obliged to say, " Oh, ])ray, my friend — we are in Den- mark : here widows are expected to be dis- creet." "But that is no reason why the English fellows who adore them should be dis- creet." "Perhaps not ; but then the Danish lady runs away." Whicirshe did. But, after the bustle of the first day, he had so many opportunities. He walked with her, sat with hv.v while she worked, and hung over her, tMitranced, while she sang. He jirodiiced the liook from Vizard Court, without warning, and she screamed with delight at sight of it. and caught his hand in both hers iuid kissed it. She rev- eled in those sweet strains w Inch had com- forted her in allliction ; and, oh ! the eyes she turned on him after singing any song in this ]iarlirnlar book I Those tender glances thrilled him to the very marrow. To tell the honest truth, his arrival was a godsend i Ina Klosking. ANTieii she tirst c.'inie hoinc to lii'r native place, and laid her head on her mother's Ixisom, she was in Elysium. The house, the wood tires, the cooing doves, the bleating calves, the prim- itive life, the recollecti(Uis of childhood — all blushes, and givv(s hint both hands. "You j were balm to her, and she felt like ending here!" said she ; "(di, happy day ! Alother, | her days there. But, as the days rolled on, he must have the south chamber. 1 will go camcs a sense of monotony and excessive and ])re]iare. it for him. Tecia! — Tec a : tr;in<|nillity. She was on the verge oleiniui and she was all hostess. She cominit ted when Vizard broke in upon her. him to her mother, while she and the serv- ant went up stairs. From that numient there was no .stagna- tion. He made life very pleasant to her; Ho felt discomtitod a little. He wanted I only her delicacy took the alarm at his open m A WOM.VN-IIATKK. 'I . hi' I ' I ii'j. ■' ■> 11 •. I, ill'' m III (Icclaratioiis; slio (liought tlioiii so proniii- turo. At last lie said to licr, one day, " I licgiii to four yoii will iicvfi' lovo mc as 1 lovo you." "Who knows f said she. "Tiiiio works woinlfiH." "I wonder," said lie, " wlicilier yoit will ever marry any oflu-r man V Ina was shocked at that. "Oh, my friend, Low could I unless," said she, with a sly side-filaiii'e, '• you couseiited .'" "Consent i' I'd iiiassiicre liim." Ina turned to\vai'!■ siiil, (loav l.v ; tiiid lis M^lil III try ' And sli'o <|nrsli(in," , Inn's eyes lilt re was ii vc ; yet lit) K'illll. Slio hiiiil. It iild always isiial tliiii;;-, and jilayi'd iHiId (III it II liniiiir to liridn: sin- and coal- ili'-niaids - wiili tiiat I'ciiii'd Olio kfast ; and (' Cdiir liv- VOl'S. iK'ik ; and ' w lieu sill' \ iil,i4' aw ay : and tlnii study, and afsiiriiccd a pii'i'i' of III uitli a d: "(Jiind now with Now lie tile lialC- r dry eyes ton; u]) am Hying nlicail: InirsI in upon licr, and had liii in \ illaps in I In liiiiily coach with four horses, his arms in a moment, lieluie her mother: slrcamiiiiL; with rililions. she I'eiiced no loii;;er, lint owned he had They drove iiuiiid the ureen, howinj; and ^Milled her love, as he had deseived it in smilin;; in answer to ilie iicchimalions and every way. Iiiosin^s nt" the iioor, and then to V'i/ard She consented to lie married that week in Coiiil. The juieal dm. is Hew oiien. The London: uiiiy siie asked for a Conlineiital servants, male and female, lined tin- hall on tour liefore entering; N'i/ard Comi as his lioth sides, and received her howinj; and w.ife ; lint slit" did not stiimlate e\eii for , coiirfesyin;^ hiw, on Mie very Hjiot where siie that, shl^ only asked it snlmiissively, as one h;id nearly iim t her death ; lier hushaml took whose duly it now was to idiey, not die- lale. They were married in St. (ieor^e's ( hiireh very (|nielly. I>y sjieiial licensi". 'I'lien iliey saw her mother oil, and crossed lo Calais. They s|ieij| two happy months tofrelher on the Conliiienl, and retiinied lo London. I?nl N'i/ard was loo old-fashioiied ainl lno proud of his w ife to sneak into \ i/aid ( 'oiirl with he I', ile dill not make it a count \ niat- lier hanil and cimdncted her in stale to In r uw n apartmenl. Il W!is iipeii lioiise III all, that joytiil dav. and at nijiht maunilieent tii'e-works on ihe swfep, seen from Ihe draw in it-room liy .Mrs. \i/ard, .Miss .Nhiitland, Miss (Jale, Miss Iio- \cr. and the rosy-eheekcd curate, whom .she had I icd lo her apron si l'inL;s. At two in the moiniii;;', Mr. Harris showed .Mr. .\slimead to his conch. IJotli yenllemeii ter; hut he nave tin! villaj;'' such a J'vlr as' weni up the stairs n litlh? jrruver than any hiul not liecn seen for many a. day. The ol nui modem Judf^es, and lirin as a rock : preparal ions were intrusted to .Mr. .\shmcad, hut their lirmness resemhied that of a roof at Ilia's rc<|ui'sl, '■ lie will he sure to make rather lli;in a wall; for these di^nilics as it thealj'ical," she said; "11111 perhaps Ihe I hey went made one inverted V^so, A. sini|ile villajicrs will admire thai, and il will amuse you and me, love : and the poor dear ' It is lime the II oiiKdi- lldlcr dww to a old Tliiiif;' will he in his f;lory— I hope lie close, for the woniandniter is spoiled. Id- will not drink too much."' ; hei;ins sarrasiic s|iecches. from force of liali Ashnicad was indeed in his j^lory. Noth- il, lint slops short in the middle, lie is a. \u-^ had 1 11 seen in a pla\ llial he did no! very happ.N nian, and owes it to a woman, eliM'trily Islip with, and the surioiindin!.; vil- and knows ir. lie adores her; and to love la tent: but out again ' Miiiii iiiivni cclcbres pf-'imit Illu'dyciim PoRta;*. DiiWh, Stiilili, (ii'utib, ( 'rabbi!, Trniipi;, liroino, Ca- rey, 'I'ickifll, Evaut^.'" As for Ilia Vizard— la Klo.sking no longer -she has stejiped into her now p^aeo with Hid danced hornpipes undi.Hgiiised as Jacky her nativ*; dignit.v, seemliiiess, and conipos- 'Tars. IScerlloweil fnini a sturdy regiment of liar- rels. '-'I'lie Court" kitchen and the village bake-house kejit pouring forth meats, baked, boiled, and roast ; there was a jiile of loaves lire. At lirst a few county ladies put their little heads together and prejiared to give, themselves airs; but tlie beauty, dignity, and enehaiiling grace of Mrs. Vizard swept tliis little faction away like small dust. Her like a hay-stack; and they roasted an ox | perfeet courtesy, her mild but deeii dislike wliolo on the (ireeii ; and, whim they I'ouiid ' of all feminine ba(d\biting, her dead silenco they were liurning him raw, they fetched almiit the absent, except when she can speak the butcher, like sensible fellows, and dis- kindly, these rare traits li;ivc forced, by de- membcred the giant, and so roasted him giees, the esteem and conlidence of her own reasupils are two line voices- Tom Wilder, a grauil hass, ami tho rosy- chtM^kod (lira to, a greater rarity .still, a gen- uine eomiter-tenor. These two can hoth read music t(derahly; hut the curate used to sing ever> thing, liowover rull of Joy, witli a pathetic whine, for which Vizard ctiati'e, " bring me om^" So, next. Sunday, he brought her a learn- ed composition, and played it to her, prelim- inarv to their singing it. Hut she declined it on the sp(d. "What!" said she. " Mr. X , would you compare this meaningless Mliilf with Kent in F ? Why, in Kent the dominant sontiiuiuit of each com|iosition is admirably preserved. His ' M.'ignilicat' is hd'ty Jiildlation, with a free onward rush. Ilis 'Diinittis' is diviiu* repose after life's fever. But this po(n- pedant's ' Magnificat' begins with a mere crash, and then falls into the pathetic — an oxc(dIenl thing in its place, but not in a song of triumph. As to .ills 'Dimitfis,' it simidy delies flu* words. i This is no Christian wiiiiNet. It is not good old Simeon gent ly declining to his r(!st,con- , tent to close those (\ves which had soon the j world's salvation. This is a tempest, and 1 all the windows rattling, and the great Na- , poleon dying, amidst the fury of the ele- ments, witli ' t("'te d'.iriin'c I' on his dying lips, .lUd 'battle' ill his exi»iring soul, No, Sir; if the learned iMiglisliinen of this day can do nothing nearer the mark than iioi.kkui. MAd.NIl'ICAlS and ,ST(>lt.MY MNC OI.MI iriSK."*, I shall slaud faithful lo jioor dead Kent and I his fellows -they were my solace in si(d\noss I and sine trouble." I Jn accordance with these views of vocal ! music, and desirous to cx])aud its sphere, Mrs. Vizard has Just olfered handsome prizes \ in the c(Minty for the best service, in which th(5 dominant Hentiment of the words shall he as well iircserved as in Kent's desidsod service; and another priz(! to whoever can set any famous short secular poem, or poetic- al ))assago (not in ballad metre), to good and appropriat(i music. This has elicited several i)ieces. The composers have tried their hands on I'ry- : don's Ode; on tin? nuH'tiiig of Hector and I Andromache (I'ojio's Homer); on two short , ])oems of Tennyson, etc., etc. I But it is only the b(>gi lining of a good ■ thing. The pieces are under coiisidoratioii. j But Vizard says the competitors ar<^ trillers. I Hr shall set Mr. Arnold's version of " Hero I and Lo.'indor" to the hai'it, and sing it him- self. This, ho intimates, will silence com- petition, and prov(> an era. I think so too, if his music should hn}ij)cn to 0(|Ual the lines in valine But I hardly think it will, he- cause tho said Vizard, though he has taste and ear, does not know on(>. note from an- other. So I lioj)o " Hero and Leander" will fall into abler hands: and, in any case, I trust Mrs. Vizard will succeed in her worthy desire to enlarge very greatly tho sphere and the nobility of vocal music. It is a de- OrpmuHt ap- fll<> I'OIIipONi- ' iMit ol'tlatc. w by lourimd Ikt (1 I(>iirii- liiT, pifliiii- mIic (Iccliiicd hIic. " Mr. ni(>iiniii|r|t'Hs ill Kt'iit I lift iii]M)Mitii>ii is iiyniliciit' in II ward rush. ■ alter lilV's ' MaKiiiticat' Id tiicn falls lliiii<; ill its iiipli. As to the words. is not, f^ood Ills rest, cdii- lad Ht't'ii t\w ciiipcst, and III" Ki'cal, Na- of tho «do- \» d.yiiijLf lipH, il. No, Sir; Ills day can an iiui.KKui, IHMITTISKS, ad Kt'iit and (' ill sickness !\vs of vocal I its 8j»liore, dsonio jjrizes ••e, in which words shall it's despised ivhoover can ni.or jioetic- le), to jjood >iecos. Tlio lids on Dry- Hector and m two short ;? of a ;i;ood uisideration. < are t riders. )ii of " Hero sin;; it him- *ilenee coni- iiiiik so too, iial the lines it will, be- i(* has taste ito from an- laiider" will any case, I 1 her Avortliy the sphere It is a de- Hire worthy of this remarkable rhnrncter. of whom I now take mv leave with re;;;ret. I niiist own that rejjiet is ciiised ill part by my fear I hat 1 may imt have done her all the justice I desired. 1 have \i>Uii felt and regretted that many able female writers are doiiiij; mneli to per- petnati^ the* petty vices of a sex wliirli, aft- er all, is at present but half educated, liy devoting; three thick volinnes to such empty women as Hiojrraphy, tlu)iij;h a lower art than l-'ictioii, would not waste threi^ pa«;es on. They plead truth and fidelity to na- ture. " \V(( wiite the a\erane woman for the avera;;!' woman to read," s:i.\ llicy. But tlie.v an^ not consistenl ; lor the averam* woman is under live t'eet, and rather u^ly. Now these. paili\ women are all b(>antiful — KnXai re luyiiXat ri, as Homer hiilll it. Fiction has Just as miuli ii;iht fo select larj;e female souls as r>ioj;raphy (M' raiiitiii;; has ; and to pii'k out a sellish, shallow, illit- erate creature, with notliiuji but beauty, and bestow thn>e enormous volumes on her, is to iiiako a iierverso seh'ction, beauty bcinj;, after all, rarei- in women than wit. sense, and goodness. Il is as false and ijfnobic in art, as to marry a pretty face wiihoiit li^'art and brains is silly in conduct. Ik'sides, it };;iveH the lemale rmdf.r a low model instead of ahi;;h one, and so does her a little harm; whereas a writer ouj;ht to do {;ood--or try, !it all events. Having all this in m,v mind, and renieiu- licrins how many noble women have shone like stars in every age and every land, and feeling sure that, as civilization advances, such women will become far more coiuiikui. I have tried to look ahead and paint la Klosking. But such portraiture is diflliciilt. It is like writing a statue. Qui nillii lion credit fariiit liret ipse poricliim Mox fiiL'i'it i^tudiif aMiiiior illi; mols. Harrington Vizard, Esip, caught Miss Fanny iJovcv on the toj) roniul but one of the steps in his library. .She looked down, pinkish, and said she was searching for Tillotnon'ii ScnnoiiH. "What on earth can yon want of them ?" "To improve my mind, tt) bo sure," said tho minx. Vizard said, " Now yon stay there, liiiss — don't you move;" and he sent for Ina. She came directly, and he said, "Things have coino to a climax. M.v lady is hunting for TillotKOii'H ISermoiiK. I'oor J)cnisoii !" (That was the rosy curate's name.) "Well," .said Fanny, turning red, "I told you I nhoiiUI. Why slanild I be good any longer ? All tho sick are cured one way or other, and I am mystdf again." "Humiih!" said Vizard. "Unfortunato- A \V()MAN-H.\T1;K'. 175 CI ri't comniillee, and your wings are to Ml be I'lijiped by order of Council." '' l-a I" said I'.inn.v, pcrll.\ . Vizard imposed silence with a lordly wave, "It is a laii^habii' tliim;',but this divine i.s ill earnest, lie has revealed his hopes atid fears to nic." '•'I'heii he is a great baby," s.aid Fanny, coming down the steps. ".No, no; we ale both loo poor." .And she vented a little siyh, "Not you. Till' vicar has writt(«n to va- cate Now I don't like yon much, because ,\i>ii iie\cr imiKe me laugh: but I'm awful- ly loud 111" l)eniNiin ; ami if .mmi will niairy my dear Ui nii-oii, yon shall have the vicar- age : it is a fa I lUie." "(Ml, cousin ! ' '• Aiid,"sairelt.v gotxl wile; but she has one fault — she is too hard upon girls who llirt. Mr. Ashmead lloniishes. Hcsiihis his agen- cy, he soiiietirues treats for a new piece, col- lects a lilth' coiii|)i'iiy, and tours the]iroviii- cial theatres, lli' al w ay.-i phiys them a week at Taddingloii, and with perfect gravity loses six iiouiids jier night. Then he has a "bespeak," Vizard or I'xmoor riirn about. There is a line of cariiiiges ; the si. nhs crowd in to see the gentry. Vizurd jinys twenty pounds for IiIn li(ix,an(l takes twenty |ioitlids' worth of tickets, and .losepli is in his glory, ami stays behind the company to go to Islip Church next day, and s|)eiid a li)»[ii)y night at the Court, .\fter that he says he feels i/oinl for three or four days. .Mrs. (Jiili' now leases the Rillstoke farm of \'izard, and dot>s jiretty well. She breeds a gr<';it many sheep and cattle. The high uiniiiiil anil sheltering woods suit them. Slio makes a little money every year, and gets a very good house for nothing. Doctress (iale is still all eyes, and nolices every tiling. She studies hard and i>rac- tices a little. They tried to keep her out of tli(^ Taddingtoii inlirmary : but .she went al- most crying to A'izard, and he exploded with wrath. Ill' consulted Ijord Fxnioor. and be- tween them the inlirmary was threatened with the withdrawal of eight.v aniiiiiil siib- scriiitions if tliey persisted. The managers caved diiectly, and Doctress Gale is a steady visitor. A few mothers arc coming to their senses, and sending for her to their unmarried ly tor .your little plans of conduct, the heads i daughters. This is the main source of her of this establishment, here prescut, have sat I professional income. She has, however, tak- 176 A WOMAX-HATKR. j||l s l''i in '>i 1.1 g III (Ml Olio PiiormoiiH fee from !i hoii virmil wlio.st^ ' Htrontf overpower llifm by tlio arts of tho lilb hIh) Hiivi'd l)y csciilciit.s. She lolil liiiii weak. lit. once. Ill) wiihIic' -111(1 Ui(^ rcitcli ol'iiK'iliciiK^, I Slioiild that, part of my laic roiiHii any a!i(t sill' could do iiolliiii^ I'ur liiin unless lie, IioiicmI .syinpalliy with liiis lOii^li.shwotiiaii chose to live ill lici iioiisc, and cat and iliiiik who can Ic^^ally jdcscrilic, consult, ar*' 'ako only what she should ;;ive him. lie had a Ices in l''raiice, lint, not in l';ii;;land, llioiif^li honor of dyint;, t lioiij;li he li.id li\ed so well ; she coiiid itclipsd at a |ml>lic exaiiiiiiat.iiiii so he, snhiiiiltcd, and she did ■.. inally rnrt' nimvieiitiis of tlioso who can, it, may lio an that one glutton, riiil, sin- says she will well to inform Mii'Mi that, even while her never do it aj;aiii. "Alter foiiy years (if tiariat Ive, w as in the |»rcss, our );()V(!rniii(Mit, made dishes, tlicy oiiy;lit to he content U> dechiieil it would dosometliin;f for I he ro- dic; it is liare Justice," ijiiol h lihoda ( lale, lief of medical Wfimeii, lint, would hIcul, what, I omitted to im- , iiles, and leain to w'iie them, and to luidlo press on you i.s that when we were dcfealed, ' the e;;(ilisin of cli(|Ues, and respect the iia- it wan al\\ ays hy wvy small niajont ics. That I ion. I'll e present form of )^ovcriimeut exist,'* was so even will) I he opinions of I lie J nd 'res, on thai, uiidcrslandin^, .t ml so must all forms ■which h.avc hceii ilclivered sini't^ I tidd yon , of ^ovitrnment in P'onland. And il issoeasy. niy tale. There, were six .jurists, and only It only wuntsa little siunii'iicss of mind ami Hcven pel I ifo;;;;i'is. It Was SO all throN^h. eommon-si^isc. Ve.iis ai;o cert itiiales of al ■ iS'ow, for practical jinrposcs, I he, act (d'ania- tendance on various IcctnrcH wer(! reason- Joiity is the act (d :i hody. II must la- ho. ahly demaiuled. I iiey were, a, slight pre- It is the, way of the world; lint wlutn an I Miimptivc, (!viden(-(^ of jirolicieiicy, and had ;i iicciirate person cuiuis todcscrihe a linsineHs, sup|ilementary value, hecaiise I he puldic ir.s - niid deal wilii I In- i-haractcr of a whole, nni- aniinatioiiH were so loose and iiiadei|iuiti' ; versity, she is not to call the larj^er half the hut once esl.ililish a si ill, searchinn, siifli- Avlioie, ami make tiie iii.'ittitr worse, than it Cieiil, incorrupt ilde pnhlic esaniination, and was. That is no! scicntitic SciciKa; din- I hen to ha ve |iassed t hat cNaminal ion is not, (•liminalcs." ' presumptive hut, demonstrative iiroof of I am not sorrv t hedoci rcssoliercd I his lit I Ic prolici(^n(ty, and MWallowH U|) all iiiinoi' and explanation; it accords with hersoher miml nicndy presninplive proofs, liiid her veiicrat ion of truth. Ihit I could: 'I'here is iirti hin;;- much st npidcr t liiiii An- liavc' dlspc ised witliil for one. In Uriliiii, achi'iuism. What a vail cerl ilicalcs of lect- whcn wt- an; III. It, we howl; and the deuce iins in our ('ay f cither the, k)iiiirliiigh xaiiiiiiiition may lt(^ as I wliilit lior ,<>vi^rmiii'ii(, fill' till', l•t^- iiiilil hIccj) «il)fr. Ullt, i ol' lacddii i'iisiin', lull. ' a.s piililic. ari! aluiiyH Ml(!f'|i may too ioii^ a. iiiii|i out ol' 1 l< illflli-i;!,- lo inckloHH iiilliiciilial lrii;^(i !i lull 'arliaim III,, ^'Xtw'^ hair iisn like, a MO olislriifl, )li (InrahU; IhIh-II. Th.^ II never III' matliT. Ik'Iii are all l:i wry liavft I' mi lerD- " Uy r\(,H- (aiiiiiial inn learned -a , iiiiiler I lie rilt.eii Hlat,- a(es ol" I lie Mill;; ulal,- il III liriille '!;! till' na- lli'lll, exihtt* si; all Coriiis I \h ho eauy. f iiiiinl ami i-ali-s ol at - e. reason sliKliI' pre- , anil hail a ' pillilii; e,\- iaili'i|iiale ; lillJJ,, Mlllli- iial ion, aii'l it ion i.s nut ])i'oiil' of minor ami r than An- tes ol' lect- iirli'iliif ol>- 10 pupil to A WOMAN-ilATKK. 177 paHH the prcfit cxaminatimi, or it iloes not.: If it iloen, the eeililieate i.s sn|iei-||iloiis ; if it does not, the lertilieate is illnsoiy. What the Hiilish lej^isiator, if lor once lio would rise to he a laujfiver, .'lioiild do, and that f|ni(kly, is to tliiow ojien the medical Hchools to all iicvHiniH foi' niatrienlation. 'I'o Mirow open ail liosjiitals ami inlirmai'ies to inatriiiilateil stndenls, willioiil, iisiieet of Hex, as they are already open, hy .shameltiss ; partiality ami tranHjiarent ^^rced, to iinma- i trieulated vviinien, provided they eonline their amliition to tin; most repulsive and, nnl'eiiiinine part of Medieiiie, the nnrsin;; of ! holh se.M's, and lasinj; out ol' iiiijiies. ! Moth the aliDve, liffhts, as indejiemlent of Hex as other natural I'l^fhts, should he ex- jiressly jirotecf I'd hy " mandamus" and " unit I'oi' dama^eH." 'J'he, leitiiiers to ho ef>m- ' pelied to leetlire to mixed elasses, or to ;;iv(! Hi'parale, leetiires to matrieiilateil women I'm- iialf fei'S, wliieliever lliuse leetiirers prefer. JJefore this elanse all dillieiilties would melt, like hail in the do^f-days. .Male modesty is a purely ima;;inary artiele, set up for a trade ]iiirpose, and will ;;ive way to jiisliee llie moment it costs the proprietois fifty per r;ent. 1 know my own sex from hair to heel, and will takc! my IJilih; oath of lliul. i Of the fonsij^n matrieiilated student, Brit- ish or I'lniopean, ni)thiii;f shiMild lie den and-; eil hut 111" one thin;;, which matteis one straw, viz., infallihie piuofs of proliciency in Anatomy, Siiij^ery, .Medicine and ils col- laterals, under imhlii; examination. ThiH, which is llie only real safe;fuard, and the only iiecitssary Hafe^fuanl to Ihc jmlilic, and the only one Ihi' ]tuhlir asks, shoiilil lie jilaied. ill Homi) de;fiee, iindci' llir hhit riiiilinl of ijor- vrnmcnt without resjiect of cities, and much Uroiiter vif^i lance exeriMsed tliaii ever has hoeii yet. Why, uniler the « stem which (excludes learned women. inal>' <.'inces lia\(! been jicrsonali'd hy alii'- stid"nls, and so di))lonias stolen a;;ai • iii ' a;'ain. The, stu- deul,male or female, hhi ii!^ have power to com)ieI the exaniiuerH, hy tnandamuH and ! other Htiin;rent nuiiedies. t-. examine at fit times and seasons. In all llie iKipcr-work of ' these examinations, I he name, .i ml of course lliii sex, of the student hlionld he, concealed from the i!xaminers. Tliero is a very simple j way of doin;; it. Khoiild a law lie ))iiHHe<^ .ui this liroad and Himple hasis, that law will stand immortal,' with pi'ttifi>;;(.i;in;; acts falline ;ill anuinil, ^ accoiilin^' to the, eiistom of the country. Tl."- larger half of the population will no loiij,;! !".) iiucfumtitutionally .jnnKled, under cover of law, out of their ri^ht to take thciij N(!(;r ? Kealize tlir- luiril eoiiililitioi