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Tho the time the En- 'and has n light, : m the ' and a i which e is the ning or •ospect, 'vaters, Wessed it upon f*fnore which s cer- hotter esuti neous com- ining with- the horizon, for there were lines of black, blue cloud drawn across tho verge of the sky, and the lines were edged with gold. Above was a wide sheet of heavy cloud, low down and Oat, like a ceiling of black marble, beneath, and confined by which the whole rays poured on in horizontal lines, catching the edges of mountain and fell, and wood and moor, and casting long shadows from a solitary fir-tree and the finger-post with its long, bare arms. The finger-post pointed, in one direction, to a small town in Cumberland, which I shall «all Brownswick, and in the other to a village, which probably would not have had the honour of being pointed out at all had not several gentlemen of the foremen- tioned town thought fit to build themselves country-houses in its neighbourhood. The attraction was a little lake, much less in dimensions, indeed, than Windermere, but hardly less beautiful in the scenery which surrounded it. No indication of such i^nery being in the vicinity was afforded from the spot where the finger-post was placed. It was a dull, wide moor, cover- ed with withered heath, and here and there pakshes of broom and gorse. On aae hand you saw down a wide, broken slope, presenting nothing but irregular unduk- tJons for several miles, exceot a nit nr . tt pd. .ill, in ,he' exSe'dKe DlUe lines of Woorl nnA fl.li ^''^^"t-e, tows?' On ,h ''^V''T''' "" o'd solitary Ed to^r . °"'-^'' '"'"'^ "'« moor con. cut off L V?' ''T'"S ** '"f?'' •«"''<. >*'Wch cut ott the view of everythinff beyond It was a desolate scene and cl.ill; ifeavvand hard, but not without its sublimhv-C„ the extent, and the solitude, and iL demh of the tones. Let the reader remark k tp"r:srt^ r'?'° ""''•' ''"'-"- i»JltT^' '* ""'y necessary to say that aS Zf: '•? ''"' r."'"g' 'fnot quite set as I have said, two labouring men walked along the road, under the f.n|er.L?tak "g a direction from the towf andtoward tZ T •'' '""^' ^ remember7th« these two points were some nine n^I«, .pa«.andthattheiinger.postst<;Sat:? Clothed in the common dress of fh« ««umry, with smock-frocks Znlheir fr^^'^r"' r*^ «°«'^' 'eatherrgaiS upon their legs, the asnent nf ,k„ £ ' ," •jourers showed nothing more'Thanlhat" ttqr were both stout fellows of about Ae ""Jdleage. One might be forty, , he ito^ t ■ i as most Cumberland men are, but one had an inch or so the advantage of the otter. Iheir pace was slow, as if they were some- what wearj, and their gait was heavy and awkward, such as is gained by walkine over ploughed fields at the tail of a ploueh or harrow ; yet they were neither of them stupid, nor altogether ignorant men. It has long been a common mistake, and even since the mistake mu«t have been clearly perceived and corrected in the minds of most men, it has become a com- mon party falsehood to draw comparisons disadvantageous to the agricultural classes, between them and the manufacturingclass. Those whom it is intended to oppre.«, it is generally found necessary to calumniate, and the most popular me&ns of promulgat- wg a dangerous error ■ to ridicule all those who oppose it. Such has been the case with the agricultural labourer and small farmer. In point of plain common sense, and natural strength of intellect, they are generally very far superior to parallel classes in the manufaeturinjr dis- iricis. It IS true they are practical more than theoretical in all their proceedings : that thev are less "■""i' ' — -j- ° ' quick, less ready, per. h«ps both in mind and body, than the arti. •an or shopkeeper of a town, but, at the •amp time, their totions are sounder, firm, er, more precise, as their bodies are more ™^h? r •"•^ ' ^^" '"*'' *"h more capable of arriving at a just opinion upon a plain proposition than those cJasses which iT^" t"""*"'. "'"?•''• '■«"'"•''"«. ""d pre. judiced. Learning, perhaps, they do not possess Scattered thinly over a wide tract of country, instead of gathered into tne close communion as towns, they have filnf^"^""'!!^! "'' ^''P^essing their sen. timentsas a body, or of uniting for one oomnrjon object ; but in those cottages- and there are many of them— where such excellent cheap publications as those of Chambers and Knight have penetrated. I ..T -II^a'^ rfasonings on the subjects aubmitted, which, though the language Wight be rude, would not have disgrac^, *«r?J' T ""*"^.'"' ""y society in the world. I am convinced that if plain com- won sense be, as I believe it, the most ex. cellent quality of the mind, that quality is »h.I T^- '^l^ frequently than any where else m the veoman «nA ^ olass of England . As the two yeomen plodded on toward the home of rest, they were evidently buay . i^:j;iM.t iy at the 3r, firm, re more and no :h more >n upon 3 which nd pre- do not I wide id into y have nr 8en- or one iges— 9 such ose of ted, I bjects ^uage Paced, n the com- st ex. ity is any vard bitty '• ii with some subject that interested them deeply. More than once they stopped, tunit; t round toward each other, and spoke earnestly with more gesticulation, at Irast on cne part, than is common among tb^ phlegmatic nations of the north. Let us listen awhile to their convewa- tion, for it may have its interest. " 'Fore half of them are paid for,'' said the shortest of the two men, « they will have to pull them down, and then all the money is wasted." " Money enough to feed halfof the poor of the country if it were well managed," said the other, jogging on by his compan- ion's side ; « but it is all a job, Ben. They wanted to put out the old rogues and put in new ones, and so they made places lor them. The gentlemen pretended when they got up this new law, that the poor's rates were eating up all the property of the country. That was a lie, Ben, in the first place ; but even if it were true, I wonder whose fault that was if not the magistrates that suffered it ?" "Part theirs, part other folks," ans- wered the man called Ben ; " but it was a queer way to begin their saving to pull down, or sell for an old song, or leave to tot by themselves, all the old houses, and 'J build 10 new oome. They muT- K "'y ^^^^ »» save that ?nJ^ P!".°'' ^^'y close to ba^Jain ' '"'' '"'"^^'''''S '»'«« «to the beW only Dai fh""""" '?""'' " ^^"' "« When I lived ovela? Br"'''' . ^^^' how the overeeel^ „„H ^'°""'««"ck I saw on. Thev Ur? . ^^"°"'' "««'^ to go they oatei iTtt e^S:'^' «' finds of ohe^ nt„"f -'f ""^ '''^ ^^-^^ "^U they were Sev'lTraS io^b^'f" ^''^l' other. There wL^ t?r ■'°'*^ for each tor, found ourthrtth'- ^^«^'°°' the hat- Paving, though J had'onTT'*^ ""^'^"^ twelvfxnonthrbefore and £ ^ ^"'/^ another of the boarnl\ i .^ Greensides, Sides found out thaf it w..,i^ k.^^ ^" Better for all tha. «« ^'u'l """*'^ "'^" ^"«cft inrtead of cans K "^^f '° ''^^^ ^ats •upplvin^ ofT' "^^'■- ^^«'°n had the •uppiying of them. It was so well known costing ^alcu^te as much f all the years to close to into the u mean, 3out its ault; I Why, * I saw 1 to go ers, as e year, half a ere all 3sthat, •r each le hat- vanted paved isides, I of it; jrreen- ilJUch )hats id the nowii 11 a thing that all the contracts for the work- house went among themselves that no one, unless he was one of the board, ever of- tered at all ; so they got just what price they hked. Now what were the magis- trates and gentlemen about, not to ^top such things? It was a very good law, iien, ifit had been rightly -orked : but those who were put to look after it either cheated themselves or let others cheat, and then cried out that the rates were eating up all the rents. I tell you what, Ben, I have often thought that the old poor-law was a very safe thing in times of famine or want of work. Men won't stand and see their children starve. If peoplo don't sive them food they will take it, and, once thfey begin taking, will take something more. u^^ .In ^®^^^ng a lecturer man sav, that the first dutv of the soil was the su'p- port of every one upon it, and then I thought that it was a very lucky thinff that there was a law for making it do that duty m a regular sorf of way, rather than let those who wanted support take it where they^ould find it." ^ r.^' Ihey would tell you that the same is the case now," answered Ben, " though it IS not, Jacob, for it was a very different ctse when a man who could get a little 19 • hrtjf T ''"""S to do as much a. he could get, went to the parish for a few shillings to eke it out. He could t£n ^ ways go on and look out for morf to rfT He had something to hold fast by; but week and his family cannot be kept uwm ess than ten, he must either see Le^ ^^"'/Ifve, or give up his cottaT seU hft goods, and put himielf out -^f tKJ of all work, and go as a pauper toX' Union where he is to be separated fiim his wife and children, and fed and treaT^ worse than one of the prisoners in the Ml Then when he comes out, he comeV"ut ^ » Pauper, and finds it ten timrmom difficult to get work than before leTw^ character be ever so good A^nuL a to one he is a ruined mSrevtaX"'* no sprit left but to hate C^h^la " been ill-treating him. Many a man wh^ has no religion thinks he may iusTas In p. fer a bit and take his change of getS «t6 jail, where he is sure to be bettef tS ed than m the Union • and ali .kI, • ■ ' whS-'^ g'ving a few fhSiS'a.'^a' whereit 18 really wanted. Besides 2. =«=», Jacoo, It was a great cheok"'.,"'^;!'' 2;«te« and the on/check ^d?^ b»d- One farmer did not like ano£i r I much at ►r a few M then e to do. •y; but [lings a >t upon ome of ^e, sell ie way ' to the I from reated le jail, les out I more let his usand id haa have I who J well Jtting treat- flight veek ^pon > We >ther \f giving too little wages, because his men were sure to get the rest from the parish, and then the rates rose — but that brings me to what you asked ; I say it was partFy our own fault, Ben, that all these things have been changed in such a way — not, mine, because I never had a sixpence of the parish in my life— but every black- guard used to go and cheat the magis- trates through thick and thm. I rocoUec^ Jemmy Anderson, when he was getting sixteen or seventeen shillings a-week as a carter's shoemaker, going out and getting ten shillings from one parish, and eighl from another, every week of his life." ° "From two parishes?" cried Jacob. " Ay, he managed it," answered his com- panion, " by a little hard swearing, and there was many a one like him. Our of. ficers found him out, and refused to give him any more ; but the impudent varment went up before the magistrate and took his oath, and the magistrate made an or- der upon the parish. So he had it all his own way, " And \vas not that the magistrate's asked his friend ; Hlie law did not force them to do any thing of th« kind, unless they liked it." fl4on't fcn^w," answered ik9 other: 14 I never believe that into saw the law, Jacob ; but I do t very good laws are turned f,„, ^*'^,''«|°"«s by the way that mams- nf « r«. °^^f C'°P'" 8° ""' *»>« •'hang, ing a hnle of the meaning, and anothir tiung at all. But one thing is certain, that there were many folks among our- selves who were in the wrong, though the Magistrates were in the wrong too ^ StS there was no need of doing away a good I^h, ''TK"^"'\P^''P'«^adnotusfn. ff^.K ""fi"' . P®°P'« ''«'> abused it: or. L^^^u'^ <=hange it, they might have made It better, not worse ; less heavy u Jn the rich, but not throw all the weight uoon ^'epoor. They'll have to change hagaT depend upon it, or else not act upfo J aJ'J^^/^^ "°' "'"'"?« 't' ""less they are driven," answered Jacob; "one of their eS / 1° 'u°T ^^g^«' Ben, all over England, whether here or in the factories, for wi^"'"' ^^"^ '' their greatest help/ Wb Z!f .T •""' ""l ^""^ »° chance we must take just what thev will give " I'd rather starve in my own cottage ' but I do turned magis- chang. another e same 3ertain, g our- igh the Still a gcx)d used it it; or, have '■upon tupon again, • to it, tbear y are their over Dries, lelp; mce. live, m a tage ■' 15 w than go to a Union," said Ben, "if it were not for the childi'en. I could not bear to hear them cry for bread. However, I do not know that it is one ot their objects to bring our labour down, though they have certainly taken a good way to do so, Jacob; and it is such laws as these that makes poor men wish they had some hand in making the laws ; for they find none made by others for their good. Some of the gentlemen wish to do it, I do believe, but they do not know how ; and the end is, they put the sheep in the paws of the wolf, and tell the wolf to take good care of them; and then they call that political economy. It is the same in factory places. The master can do just what he likes, and the • workman has no hold upon him. Work as hard as he will, he is cheated one way or another of half his earnings ; if he grumbles, he is turned out to starve ; if he goes to the poor-house, he is worse than a galley-slave, as they call it, and if he goes to a new factcrv to seek other* work, he will not get it if he has been turned off for grumbling at the last ; for the masters are allowed to combine, as people say, against their workmen, though not the workmen against their masters. I heard it all from poor Will Simpson, when he came baok« labourer e^re;atTh°"''' """"' P"* '^e Ployer, or ha ve thp V^ ^'^^ "'^ '»« ««"• j-« tlmt are LdT^" he J::^;,"'-^ bourer. We takp ,. ^ "\g?°^ o^the la- Ben, becauTe oir Lste V^^^^^ ''"■'"^' • hundred; but I ^an, n °"f °"« of a farmers abou a.''".!" .?? "■"' «" •*«» lowers a Ld deal » -5".: ""'^^ 0"™ Setter be oit"! Vrr'' *« ''-^ shall set in wl?5' ""^ '^*'°'-' o*" »«» fast, ansflrered the other ««„. -ZFZ wind is coining sobbing over the mo«"' fifty years before— was a tract of woodland, through wh ch the rushing wind was' heard ns.ng higher and higher every mo- ment, while a few large d?ops of rain feU pattering emong the crisp, yellow leave, that strewed the grpu.J beneath. Hark ! cried the mm named Ben. w^^.'T/"""."""^ ''■« path into the' dr'nU;:* L"„i? -- -« ^aiiooing «.M \V" "'^l' '^^"'^'^ '""P' Tommy Hicks," «.d the other; «I know his shout well enough. He la worse than a wiU-<»'.U». 18 wS'5"*,^"^I'"''-a''hi»bones him day for the some «f h" ^°!!''f "*?• ^'"'°^' nonsense f^ would not go to hu a thing that's got no chi5 ''''«n!f '^ !"r°"^'' '° ^^ « 'J«a' of mis- lol'tiTlr^^'''°^' "«nd he never Mes time when any is to be done A h.kzng w,ulddo him^a vast deal of good boy t'othpr';'^ T"^^'^ ^''- G'bb's Doy to her day, because he would npt him take away his mother W LTaf^a^^^^^^^-^-S-^itg and'SeTtriLTrsir'''"^."'""^' "OSS," said the'ir " ut^ttt'ir Concluding that it was as his comnani :?^l-'J^"?.^*«''-!'outproc':ed:K orher"m^lu;;;T-" i'l*'"^""^' *^« wood^ merely saying, path through the i bones for " said the , and you t's got no al of mis- he never lone. A of good. I. Gibb's would 3r's tur- 'ed Ben; ar place le of the all that, allooing ? along, nd or ei" ! rain is le very mpani- d from J, the ghthd 1^ _ " I wonder they don't shut up Tommy Hicks m one of their Unions, or such sort of places ; there is many a man a great forlife " ' '' P^^^''*^ ^ mad-house The belt of wood was soon passed, and about a quarter of a mile more of moor succeeded, and then some patches of cul- tivated ground, amid which were scatter- ed eight or nine cottages of a very supe- nor description to those usually met with m that part of the country. They were, m fact, all the property of one proprietor^ a liberal and kind-hearted man, who took the repairs upon himself, and saw that they were always done in time and to per- fection. No broken thatch, no unstopped wall, no door half off the hinges was there ; bu with a great deal for comfort, and a little tor taste, each labourer of Mr. Gra hanri possessed a home— certainly not su- perior to that which every industrious man through the land ought to be able to com- mand, but very much superior to the hov- nLn r K ^ ^^^ peasantry of England are often to be found. Neither were they "~°" 'Ogcmei j each House pos-. sessed Its own little garden and bit of >. tatoground, andwas, moreover separat^ Scorn Its neighbour, in most .^s by » 20 Connecting them altogeK hi """""'y' several paths, well cfviredw.u"'"'' '""^ and one principal 3 ?? l ^'^^ ^""^ to be a private ol ^ ""^"^h it seemed place b^ZZ^ststTJ- ""T P'''*'^ '» ler toward AllerK „"^*"'"g 'he travel. ""ad crossed the h!hw?'r ^i'^'« "-i. the two labourers tlid'^^r '^' '''''"' »nj to the riffht .1,7 .u' '^e one turn- in'search o/hi 'ow„ eir '" ""1 '^«' «"'''' this time as dark^" "^^T' ^' '^«« ^y felling, in hety b^u sSered'w ''"^ '"*'" the wind dashini it al„1^1f '''"P^' """^ object : a sort of „^!h V** ''^''■^ °Pf^^"S a man's own d<^r ."felJ'Jf" '^^ ^'g^t of It was so to Ben HailM ^ P'^^"*"' '° him. hand upon the latch "S^i,""'^ ^' '^'^ his comfort and repavl-^ """'^'"'^ °^ labour in the sSs of f Z"' '"."'« ''«y'« We must faTe oL t ^"PPy ''°™«- or of bis dweltgTefoSrir '"'T''''' we may hereafter hZ . ''""' "^ when a few short mo„?,!\° '^^""^ •« '* ^n as he openedTh ' >"" P'^^^'J- ^8 blaze presente'd "ifLfT""', * "heerful well filled With fi'rL"'feli"g« g'^te. Wiiere coal wao ^k ""' '^ "f "^ ** comnry « *^ *^ had aliaoflt for takiag. j^v country. 'Ver, were ^ray sand it seemed ' place to le travel. here this he town, ne turn- 'ft, each was by the rain >ps, and pposing sight of to him, aid his inty of day's le. interi- lim, as to it i. As 3erful V jrate, mtry ferior A 91 good-sized pot hung above, heaving and sputtering with the broth for the eveninxr meal, and Ben's wife, a country-woman of about four or five-and-thirty, who had once been an exceedingly pretty girl, and re- tamed abundant traces of former beauty, was peeping into the black vessel to see tnat all was going on right within. Ben and his wife had married early, and three children of many were still left to them : a stout, well-grown boy of about hlteen, known in history as young Ben ; another boy of about eight, usually called lit le Charley, a rosy, curly-headed, cheer, ful urchm, full of fun and mischief; and^ a giri of about thirteen, very like her nriother, who was knitting blue worsted stockings for her father at the moment he entered, while her elder brother was cut- ting out the soles for wooden shoes, and the urchin was teasing the familiar cat till pussy put out her claws and took to the defensive. Round about were shelves, upholding various kinds of wares, well garnished in most instances, especially with neat, white plates and dishes, and manifold wooden ^ - • ' Every one started welcome nou/lo €%inn j^ »^ ^^ .•« w«, «>. turned o-k • , ^^^^ ^^^ ^*^^®r of the famUy. ine girl laid down her knitting, the son 22 smock-frock a;;d "aid " v*"" P""^'' h'' daddy." B,u I, ' ^°" are wet f-hLuponl'ec^LSrel''''"'^-^ «>r we have oth^r 1 . ^'^°'^® ^o"ie, -'''•o'^itisneoet^/Jtt""™.''-''' '° CHAPTER II. ^HE IBIOT ANrXHE TOZTHIST. voice afeaVt^mirin''''"''"-'" •'"ed a JI«" as the two la tr" '" ""^ ">«•>•. the little wood, "here herlr "'"'" ""»«""? f-ioTSS-l«tessedtotho loud enough Ldth-. v •^'' '^«*"'" '>'«« ?no"^h to^be heard h«^r^ '""' '''-'•'^•■ The figure from which , hi '•'" ">" ™«"-- «d was not one wS ,£^ "^"'^ P'-oceed. ^•^r without remark I^ ^^^ T'"^ P««« ^rl .*n alleged him ,^L^r7.°'"'«« been - ss^^n-'-M gave him a » pulled his are wet, pause any ^tne home, hand, to n. ST. cried a he moor, entering re going -hulJoo f ^ to thQ 5 moor, foceed- Jd pass tt of a wenty >^'*tim# le had never 28 reached the altitude of five feet and an inch, und would have looked like a boy h".U iio> K head prematurely gray and a grent width of frame shown that he had at least attained the period of manhood. In pomt of width, indeed, it seemed as if JNature, havincr curtailed him of his fair proportion in height, had endeavoured to make compensation, like a bad architect, by runnmg out the building to an enor- mous extent on either side. His limbs, too, were all-powerful, tho.igh somewhat short, and the face was broad like the person, with coarse, bad features, perhaps not altogether without expression, though generally vacant, and when lighted up by a ra.y of intellect showing naught that was good or pleasing. The eyes themselves, *T u ' r^^' ^^®"» ^"^ uncertain, render, ed the look always sinister. One of them must have squinted violently, but which of them it was could not easily be dis- covered, for it was alternately the right eye and the left that was nearest to the round and turned up nose. He was dressed, ao- cording to the old phraseology, in hodden e-"v> "*"i » paii \ji biruug Oui iigul-iacinc boots upon his ieet, which were small in proportion to his body, and of which he was wonderfully vain. On his head waa It 24 of the Blue S/fr^;^ '^^'.^^ ^'^^^^y^ "le ome uoat School, and in frnnt nf if heaTh T T\°'' "" occasionsa "2 or heath, fresh when it wa«j in ki^ ^ withered when tht d blossom, ^untjcc. It IS curious, howevpr t^ such unfr..* ] cunning and sense in I sir'Tn^i'fr 'j" "' """^ pose the whL K u"*?""^^' ^^ "'0"ld fimal? „, '^ • "■» mother had eft a Jdfnl^^'^y-^^ her death to be employ. Hicks coulT'r''"''"''^' ^ ">■" To£^ at the col "'7^' g"' •='°'hes and food uiu ue out ior d«vs w^^^Lo inootfts, toffethfir. or»^ •""'lu' ""'""^' "«J wandering? kL ^"*^ ^^ ^^® cpurseof his •everai workhouses and two jails; for he lose wom^ r the boys n front of ►nsa twig blossom, 3 passed. idiot of called ; to guide >pellation ^ever, to fines the sense in f whom men in licks in fiappen* magis* > would ild but left a mploy. 'om my d food voman y often , nay of his late of br h% did not at all deserve the name often be- stowed on persons of his peculiar degree of capacity, and Tommy Hicks was by no means an innocent. The person to whom his shouts were addressed had reason to feel that such was the case, for following, incautiously the directions he received, he plunged up to his knees in a marshy piece of ground, and at another step would have had the swamp over his head, while Tommy Hicks stood looking on, with his hands in his pockets, enjoying the scene amazingly, but not suffering his satisfaction to display itself in any thing beyond a grin which stretched his wide mouth from ear to ear, and showed all his white, irregular teeth. The stranger was a tall man, a strong and a quick one, and perceiving instantly the trick which had been played him, he drew back a step or two, walked quickly round the edge of the swamp to the spot where Tommy Hicks still stood, and, catching him by the collar threatened to punish him on the spot for what he had done. For an instant the idiot struggled in his graen with tremendous force,°but he speedily found that his opponent was still stronger than hiirtself, and ceasing his effort*, he said, in a sullen tone, «* It is your own 25 your name, my man v> ^"^^ ^ «'as " Shilling » „„j .L ^, distinct word l^oo«,pa3;g a"sVwTlket^ '^^^ ^'P™ pace, talking wild] vK ^ "f ''* " ^'°« M they blew ahd L , ""^ '^'"'^ ^n-^ «« seeming to for^e?„u'".?S^"'«t him, and «1 that^had^^E^teft w"'^"'"^'- however. TommyEs d /"f T ^' 5"ch thing,, ,„, th^oSJlf ° ./°'-g«t uered, ins pufdospq iiJi„ -"g"ta wan. Instead of taktoJL- ^^'^^''^Uy fixed. the wad abJve le iir -J, ^j'«'* ^ward «wve, uie jdiot Sidled away in the straight on " said the show me or 1 will so easily sks. 'ered the What's Tommy aughing, ming on hilling I e. hing to 3t word ee from a stout id rain 5% and 3 quar. not so, forget s vv an- fixed. 3Ward in the 27 direction of the wood ; and when he had come within about Mty yards of it, at a spot where the ground was broken and ir- regular and the paths very difficult to be traced even in broad daylight, he darted away with a shout of laughter, and, plunging into the woods, was lost in a moment to the eyes of the person who iollowed. , The stranger stood and gazed around him for a moment or two, murmurinff, « This IS very pleasant. Well, it can't be helped ; I have passed worse nights than this may be, let it rain as hard as it will, and though I may have no other bed than the moor. I will follow up the edge of the wood; I never yet saw a wood without a road through it;" and, pursuing this sage, determination, he turned his face to the wind and storm, breasting the slope nobly. '^ It needed a good deal of precaution to find his way along without stumbling, tor the ground was rough and uneven, cover- ed with tufts of heath and gorse, and wherever a broken bank gave the- bram.hlG an opportunity of hanging itself, there it was ready with its long arms and sharp claws to seize upon the traveller's leg, and spratch if it pould not detain him. He S'Sittri/r-^'-pM upon «ppa.^ntly completeirfi^^?^'' b1.^"P'"e''' less he strode on Zv ' ''"'neverthe. reached Ih^et^d" abnf i^ril^f lore. Judging at oncptha* k: '"'^^ »e- not lie to the nVht-nn/ f ^ "'^y could ledge of the coum.7 not f "^ "^"^ ''"o^" dence on theS^'n • °'" """y depen. f«>m an haWtutvor LS! f "''''S'^^ "o^ lights on bfth s Set . bufh?''''"^"" sfant to his fip«t i„„ J °"' "® wastson. onvrard, in abl Z ' '"*°?h'"« Way knocking JthhLt " m"'^ '""'^ ^e was day's dcSr ^ '''^ '"'"<'''1«« "» Ben Halli. tering the cS,. l""*^ """^"f' «" ^'"^V ' ^ '""oh so, fcr ther^is anl!7'i^ "P°" '''« hosts very kindly char,.?'' "^^P'^^"' "^ a unaffected acoepw"" '? "L" ''''^^''■"' «"d can do to enSfn f,! Z^u-" P°°'-'"an the -ndesceSSetSd; '^°"'' "" man rSt'th^rXh"' ""^rr "^ ^«»'I«- «g«*t at going, anf said' '<<^' '"^''^ '^" on njy wav m' /^ •' * ""Js* wend has done rSiTfh"^-- I<^«'-««ay|[ tended to 8 efn Ji . ^'"''^ '^''^''^ I '»- thank youtAl^r*^ "' "'»'"• ^ "^'1 -— / " ™"<'" " you can dir«nt ^„ .- ■ h^ 1 c^ g^^ Pmi«ipl0 uiw wliith n p^^ipl 83 I scratches his head, in a case of puzzle, has often been a question of deep interest ! to me ; but I have never been able to solve the problem. Whether it is that h^ seeks, by a natural instinct, to stimulate the or, gan of cogitation, or whether it is that the Unusual exercise of something within the skull makes its external teguments to itch or whether there is an irresistible inclina' tion in man's nature to do something with the hands when the mind is busy, and that the first thing that presents itself to work upon is the head, I do not know, but cer- tain it is that Ben Halliday was in a puz- j zle, and did scratch a spot a liitle above the left ear with a great deal of vigor and determination. " VVell now, sir,'' he said, at lenglh, " if you had asked for anything else in°the world I could have better told you where to find it than a public-house. There is not a place where you would like to sjeep, 1 think, nearer than Brownswick." ^ " Why, my good friend, that is just where I have come from," replied his visitor ; " and I should not like to go baok ttgaia over the moor to-night." Ben flaUiday was exceedingly disposed tobe JjQspiLaljie, a^d ^ w^? JiJ^ wjfe ; ftjjd w»]r i«i«d. # i«a^|^«Jb«ir,fer,$ iWtfAent 94 «• two, as if inqHJring what could be don- •out there are thin/rs in .K; "'""^""n*. ^..^ : ■, """S^ "1 this world whir>k are impossible, though I at one th^o >o„g|„ „,ere were not. Now sucL! tb-ng „s „ ,p„,e room is not tol; e"oect ed m tt hibourcr's coltaL'e nnH n? u Jacob prrsentintj himself rp^^"'® ^^"sm Icob H ?.r^ r"^ °"' "P°n the moor » ^ Jacob HiiJliday's eyes had onJv rested casun ly on the stranger for a moml. thai they had seen nothing of the bov /hf young gentleman joined tn he i.^' t^on, demanding, in a grave tone,"" What" '^ I';''^^. my good friend ?" ' "** Why, sir, he is a bov of »Kn„. .....i... ' "'^ " ■•"-•■--" ■iHairida;:'"^"'" I ^T^^l't^'^^^hd^ / «li I \f"7'jac«et and lecgins." could be done. ' world which at one time Vow, such a to be expect- and no such id in that of s be possess- therefore, to ite out of the dering upon ersation and errupted by i his cousin '6 man gave ?e, and then inything of 3ome home the moor." ^nJy rested I moment, oth replied e boy, the conversa- What :> it •'f ly. "He gins.'' aakedtha 85 '« Yes, sir ; have you seen him ?*' da. nanded Jacob, eagerly. " Yes, I think 1 have," answered the young gentleman ; " he was down at the bottom of the moor when I was cominn; up from Brownswick. Now do not alarm yourself, my good man, for he will do very well, and there is no danger ; but ho has met with an accident, if it be the lad 1 mean." Jacob Halliday, a man of warm and excitable disposition and quick imagina- tion, sunk down into a wooden chair by the table, and, with his hands resting on his knees, sat gazing in the stranger's face. " I assure you he will do very well," said the stranger, who felt for his anxiety, " 1 had him attended to by a surgeon im- mediately, who assured me there was not the least danger — it was that which de- tained me so late," he continued, turning toward Ben Halliday, " and the people to whose cottage 1 carried him promised to send somebody up to let his father know." " Will you have the goodness to let me hear all about it, sir ?" said Jacob, with as much calmness as he could assume. " Certainly," replied the young gentle- man. " 1 have been taking a tour on foot through this part of Cumberland, and I saC 86 had come out of IvZT ' ^^f J""' «« ' its narno—" vi)lage-I don't knoJ j.J^Ay,itisA]lenchurch,"saidBe„HaI. " And bad pone aliout half » m.-u I utjustasl| —I don't kno\s\ ' said Ben Hal. If a mile upon h crosses a Jit. ^^ng boy Jyingj d Jacob. pain/' con. 'topped to ask! told me that! wooden bridge h's feet, and ^^g against contrived to but he could «g his leg^ I ' in my arms vhich J had ;^d man and rrimly, who 1 to bed. I i come and that there dd 9oon be S7 well ; and making the people promise to let you know, I came on myself, for by that time the sun was rroinrr down." ** And so the poor boy's leg is broke,'^ cried Jacob Huliidny, starting up. "'l will bet a crown that that devil, Tommy Hicks, is at the bottom of it, breaking down tho bridge or something. 1 will break his bones for him, that 1 will." "Nonsense, nonsense, Jacob," cried Ben, as the other moved towards the door* " don't you go to do the poor Jad a misl chief for you don't know what. Go and see your boy, and how he is going on ; but if you find Tommy there, have nothing to say to him till you find you have got rea- son." " And I will go up and tell Margaret," said Mrs. Halliday, " and stay with her till you come back." "Thank you, thank you, Bella, said Jacob ; " but you had better tell her I shall rest down there, most likely ; for I won't leave Bill alone in that devil's den, and I'll bring him up to-morrow, if I can find an easy cart." (; his (( I dare say Mr. Graham will lend you spring van," replied Ben Halliday. Ill|o up early to-morrow, and ask him." Do, do, Ben," answered his coiiftta> (( 88 .nd^send down young Ben to let „, *ord of thanJcH V^ "'°"' "*'e"ng a "'™ 'lstnt^d-°7?^^-ov:?r^ Haliida^a^t JrBt'stl^r ^^^^ S!k?tt%r;r'^f^"^s:t rand, the y!un""T ^^' charitable er saying, •^ ^ gentleman turned to Ben, l^am, the banker „fR ^'^ ^"""""y Gra- « Yes lil" "^^"^o'^nswick ?" z es, sir, answered Ben • « T.„„k and I are two of hi« ,«„- ^ ;'»<'o'» tar irom here ?" I found ft letiet « to let md 3 cottage, and Jt uttering a ®r; butsud. ' ingratitude, » be said, (or alJ your t it is not for se you ; and it out some ^ind," ans. " I require Grod speed recovery.^' [^ on Jacob *« Was put- ^d tbickest ritable er- ed to Ben, n's name, ony Gra- " Jacob a better 1 here V i a letter 8§ rrom him at Brownswick, inviting me to stay with him for a few days ; and it was there I was going when the idiot led me into all the swamps he could find." " It isn't much above half-a-mile," ans- wered Ben ; "why, we are upon hisground [now, sir, and I am sure he will be very glad to see you. Lord, if you had told me that before, it would have saved us all that thinking about public-housi^s. Mr. Gra. ham would never have forgiven me if I had let you go to an inn, even if there had been one to go to, when you were invited to his house up there. He has a g^-eat sight of compahy with him, come to shoot, and all that ; and if they expect you, sir I should not wonder if they were waitiW for you before they take their dinner : for they dine when we sup." " I cannot well present myself in such a wet and muddy condition," said Ben's visitor, in a musing tone. Ben looked at his knapsack, "which lay on the floor, near the fire, as if he thought that It must contain wherewithal to im- prove his guest's outward annftflmno^ . k.,! the Other divining instantly what he me ant replied to the glance, /* No, that will not do. There is no, thing m It but some geological specimen^ 40 ■teau from Brownswfck If v^ P^J"?*"- - j» .T,r S;;-:: -rd «ernan took a more serious tnm ^k^ ". had previously assumed;r„nig™i^^^^^ ^ugoned wkh appaS -^i, S"|- HaUiday answered with franlr »♦ • l forwardness Hi« JI i • straight- lia« enough to ad2 'f r^ "°""'"- though thefe was a^L^d d:7of''''r sense in them- hut fi,f r °®"' o' P'am • little to hk's'"ll^ T.'!^^T.f-"'^.«'>t vehement discont^nnr^rii^^rL':^^ e«n.. even Ben HallidarSf ai prepossessed in favour of good The 41 'eople's Charter." The good man assur* ad him that the same feelings were very jneral throughout all that part of the jountry ; and he seemed so calm and rea- sonable, that his guest applied himself ta [prove to him that what was sought could not be granted with safety to the institu- tions of the country, and, if granted, would [only prove detrimental to the very classes who demanded it. He pressed him close with various arguments, and Ben answer, ed briefly, from time to time, but at length the laborer paused for a moment or twa thoughtfully, and then replied : " 1 dare say it is very true, sir, what you say; and I never pretend that 1 he charter is the best thing tliat could be in- vented ; but of one thing I am very certain, that gentlemen must either allow us a hand in making the laws which govern us, or make laws to protect us against oppression* It is all very well saying, as 1 have heard some say, that labor must find its own market like any thing else, and that it is but a commodity that is bought and sold, and such like ; but there's a difference be- tween it and other commodities ; for it must eat and drink, and will eat and drink ; and the market is not fair one. every thing is done by law for the buyer, and f 43 , fiothing for the seller • and «n ... . 'n the nature of thinU ,h "" ""^ ^'"'"J much of thesp thin„ ^.°°1^ understand! heard some of ft' T' ''""'°"gh I have «>«h about them bu „'":,• P^^^ hold ^hich is, that Tu'nS is a htf ^'?^"°'^' er. and that rich mpn <^ *'^'' 'as^-mast. ?'ke. to drive Z,™'"^''" "«« f"™. 'f they « a sort of poC Tev LrV^'"^- ^ i-^> and if those wfeJeTn'tSr"'^ "'^ —parliaments or r»;J> °® country they may beZdo n^t ?«f ^'■'' '"" ^''a'ever ers. and farmers and I 1*'"';" *''« "^ast- ;jke,do notS;li"tf ' ""'' ^""^ «"ne or another find Z'.hf^ "'^ «"ne suffering will noVllrf "' P'*''«"«e and hevery^rrytose^lh^Tf^^'-V ^ '^^^^ '^ell that theVoorToS' • '^u' ^°' ^ '^°°«' pod to themKs aS » ' '"''• ''° "" harm to the rich '„^w " ^'""^ "^«al of 'Whether they be InW ,""?"« '''^ ""h. or Jand'ordsf or Xt not th""»" ■^'"'^•''"•'» "any as good men as "ve w"' " -"^^ my master here • anrf I "^*"'— 'uch as .%ht for his ;iL:fl.r «"■•« I '-ould Wood ; but rn«n ■ ■•' '" ""^ ^^^ '^'■op of my « a scJrtt- bitter 7L""7 "'"" ""« "'"e among u, iZrL Z'^ ^P5«a<«ng fast "' ""° growing blacker Id all the while, J"e commodity] ^^yer gets it atf >nt understand! mhough I have 5f peopJe hold "ng I do know, »ard task-mast. se him, if they any thing. Jt ^e beyond the n the country or whatever ^^•e that mast- 'cls, and such y may some patience and r- I should ; ft>r I know 'e end, do no '•eat deal of '^ the rich, ? gentlemen ' are a great '<^— such as •'•e I would ^rop of my that there ■eading fast ^S blacker [and blacker, just like a cloud coming over khe sky, which will end in a storm. It [used not to be so long ago ; but the new Ipoor-kiw has done a great deal to make the change, for that first showed the people clearly that the rich were ready enough 'to take care of their own money, while they refused to do any thing to better the laborer's condition, or make his master deal fairly by him." The guest listened attentively, and then mused; bii; whether he saw that argu- ment would have no effect, or believed that there might be some truth in the cot- tager's views, he did not answer, and at length, taking out his watch, he said, "Now, I think I will go, my good friend, for it is half.past seven, and, in all proba- bility, they will be at dinner before I reach the house." CHAPTER III. THE COUNTRY BANKER. Every man should build his own house, if he can afford to pamper his peculiarities ; for the mind, which has been compared to many things, is, in fact, like a fragment of rock fallou off from the crag, full of . 44 knobsj and anwies ^n^ jj all sorts of shaneLnH- °'''^ *"'"'«"» of "any hu„dreZr^3,r„f ' f^^i'^^^^-re one ,hat-i„ all the multhuwl "\^T' '° or cases which are d. ni °^ ^''^af's Joclies and souls on thl^^eanr""""''^ ^°' not get one which will fi, ^'^"''--you will t'cular specimen of in/ ^'J''^' ""^ Par- ^eft from the g^eafro7 M '''' '"''' •>««" corners for his odrliit^ . " *""«' have "^t^-^^Z^Sl-Lr^y can houseLme\?:SJ>«d''"'lth.-sow„ period of which JZ"i:r '^'■"'^ "•« Portable house it walz.)' ^ ^ ^^'y oom- arranged-not what is cZl^l '■°°™-^' "'e" because Mr. Grahmi, Ld „ '""^"'fioent, jeets agreat fund of il w " certain sub- ing. become we^khv/fft'^ T"''- ^"^ hav. «o means so Wn L , " '"''^'■"^ '»'^«n by the town of BrownL 1 '"'^""factures of the only bank, he h?d '" " '""'='' '"'« ^as ^ny thing lil e osulr' °"^ "°"'°n that People remember rather/,' ''°."''' '""'^^ hehad not always been as :r/°T ""*' '^as. He was a man of ^ "' ^^ now Rii ♦;.,„.. J . . . ""an ol a vervant.„„ „„j «he^al and entering te^^^^^ ^ood to all around hij to see liappy &Q, d corners, of > and there are of chances to de of sheaths instructed for th— you will ^}^y any par- »ch has been an must have nobody can iih his own •s before the a verycom- roomy, Well magnificent, 'Grtfim sub- ^> and hav. ^g been by ; of the m, |iictures of ich his was notion that pW make ^J'get that as he now — -V, Ti; OiiU ition both ed to do ^ppy fee* 45 J, and to know there were happy hearts, [e had been industrious himself, and he )ved to encouraji^e industry. His princi- )al object in buying a large tract of what lad been considered waste land, and in. )ringing it into cultivation, was to give [employment to the peasantry of a poor Idistrict : and in dealing; with them he did not so much consider at what rate he could get their labor as what wages he could properly afford to give. He did not at all wish to do any injury to the neighbouring farmers or gentlemen, by giving higher wages than it was fair to give. That was not at all his object, and, throwing such considerations entirely out of the question, he only asked himself what was fair. The plan succeeded wonderfully — first, in making one half of his neighbours hate him mortally ; secondly, in making all the poor people love him warmly ; thirdly, in gaining for him ail the best la- borers in the county ; and, fourthly, in rendering the estate exceedingly produc- tive at the very time when every market- day heard prognosticatious of his never gCiiing a peiiiiy oi return. But this was only one of many success^ ful speculations. He was always ready to @nt«r jyitp my thing whieh held out even ■^•» *''"'out : he Mk « JT • '"^ "°' set on he Lou Jt a sfoTn, •"'^"' °^ '"""''s J terms, and in In,!, ""' '"°*' '^^""We •mnuf;,cture iLmrhTf"'- ^^^ P;ospered ; the n.iH Tem on S ""^ o^ depression na*;«5Pr? ' ^"® P®"od ^o-; the oontC pVvId^; «"^P"-' Some attributed all tCo m' T^^'k ""f" l"ck ; some to a keen foresiS ,f '''"'?' » events : some tr, ,u" ""^^^'g"t 'o comioe -Me others tr:^tljedtsert°" -as, perhaps, a little of all n Thl'h ^^^'^ fd great luck he cenVJiVu ^''T^^' least hopeful sdpc.Iw ^ ''"''' '°'" h« suecessflil than^h?,^ ?' 'vere often more ever, so i las Mr Qr"'''''''^- "<'^- prosperous ma^ ^''''"" "'«« « Very j>is?oL:*',urS :'r t '^ 'f •"'°- '•^ i separated from iSllilTtr^^-' people called them, grounds several masses the Itnt money to I Id not get on n a mil] which ^^ant of funds ; y of produce! period of de- s offered, he lost favorable essfuJ. The d lent money ; the period and prices ^ Rood one. »*• Graham's »t to coming 3n of great to hold on ^J^. There >e business, ^ad, for his often more f5g. JJow. 3s a very -bosen for p> though ^ uu oaa, •west Was rJc, as the masses of 47 wood, large and small, to which he added young plantations, arranged with great 'taste, in front of the house, while it was building, stretched out, sloping to the south ward, some two hundred acres of opan ground, rather unpleasantly soft to the foot, with more rushes and moss than were aUoffether beautiful or agreeable, while at the bottom of this marshy tract was a thick mass of tall old trees, some oaks, but more frequently pines, which cutoffentirely the view of the lake. But Mr. Graham set to work, ploughed and harrowed the whole of the open space, drained it upon a plan of his own, gave it a greater inclination away from the house, cropped it, cleansed it thoroughly,and then laid it down in grass. By the time the house was inhabitable — for it occupied nearly four years in build- ing and fitting up, Mr. Graham had as fine a lawn as ever was seen. He then at- tacked the wood, and cut his way clear through, till there was not a window on that side which had not a peepof the lake. He did nothing rashly, however. The oaks in general were spared, and he so ar- ranged it that when the winter wind tore off the brown leaves from the deciduous tree, a tall old pine or fir appeared through the stripped branees. Neither did he any The cutting was I „""^" forthat. .^7 left standing CeT"^''' ^""^ ">«! that from one uindol ' " '"""'' « P°««'on °ne part of , he sheet of^.,'^°' " ^'^'^ "f ''^'"nd, and from nnoh '"".""'' """'"'« Po-j'-on, without ZrZtr °I « '"'^''ent «"d. There was a m, "" '^S'^ning or *^"' ^h'-oh is uCysj:'"'^ '■-l>outthe%x 0/ land and watl"-^' ^'?'"'^'- The lines '^«,"-ees ; and -J: L ^'"^^^'-es among ranging them orS ;°'' "'fht go o„° h'»d the woody screen • ^^ ^'''^d, be- swted her best at ,? ' '" whatever vvav the green slope and the dT k T"'' '^"'' and the catches of th» .' '"'°'^^'' ^ood *«». bare, mis^ m ttli":" '"^ '"'^' ^"^ ,'',"wJ- Often too, ,„ ,"1, ''"'"« '''"« ^e. *''« scene, a whi e S f "«'«^ '"ag'c ta ^''er the face of the w''' ''°f 'vould ski« f ™« of .he masse, Z't'T'^' 'f' ''^'"'"^ appear again till u; 1 7 ^®®' '»''c' then re ^hind th^e p^rt of tht ?/"^"?"' ^»'^X ^7 'ef, sta'Td'ng. ^^ °''' '^°od which ha^ in l:'"'^_''r««'n. too, which fl„„..-„_ . ■■'''-ava„nSefo'::-7'>adIost ItseJf m ' ^hole late or small for ihat "ged, and the '^^h a position ?ot a view of ^^ and the hills f a ditf^^rent beginning or ■ ^^outtheex- ^- The lines ^^^es amonty might go on f^^iiked, be. hatever way 1^- Jn sum- I scene, with '•oken Wood, ^ ^aJce, with ^^g blue be. s^ magic to. ^ould skim hst behind 'fi then re- ib entirely vvhich had ^""^ down ^ ^ad lost ouse, and it into a 49 amp, now collected in a fixed bed witft e or two other small brooks, was led 05g till ^'t reached the top of a rocky nk some twelve or fourteen feet high* iid was there left to leap over at its own iscretion, forming a cascade within sight, reduced, indeed, by art in which no art as apparent. Nobody who had not seen he place before ever fancied that the tream had hau another bed. In all these things, as I have before said, r. Graham had been very successf'uL n one point of life, however, he had not een so, and it was an important one. /Vhenever a man suffers himself to be led 'in pursuit of an object not consonant to his general views and disposition, he is sure to get into a scrape. Mr. Graham was not naturally an ambitious man ; but some four-and-twenty years before, when he was nearly forty, he had done a little bit of ambition. In the straitened circumstan- ces of his early days he had remained single ; but as prosperity visited him and wealth increased, he began to sigh for do- mestic happiness. He was an enterpris- ing man, as I have said ; and he married a lady without knowing very much of her character. All he did know was, that she was handsome, about thirty years of age, 00 I country banke? Mr r °"°"""'*"'"' ''"^ J less, something it h! ""!• ■ ^«^««he fence. One miVhf ^ ^""^ '" y"""- del origin ofVhe S' r ''P°'' """""e civiJ tie shells ran.Sn'^.'f"^'' "'" '^'•^^'"■•l was not the case "''' however,! <'eauf-.^hTt\?;;:i^^^^^ r; ''^-H and ypt vo,m„ • , '"®'' ''ad made-f not marr^ a pee a?" ^^^ ^^''« ^^ould Peers though! ofwwfi I "' ''"' «""'• not -arr/her'S:; ;7^;;;r'' '''^i naps, that she had h,n fl. Il^ '""®' Per- nor her pori^on whlf "'""^"nd pounds | fifty- A? tSy.^S'lp r """' '""^ ^^ Jotid anri ^ '® clunw to «er mother w„c r?_. ^J'S^r attaehmfn •f ^"s likelter^n' "'''' "^' because ^ar^ in domes. ' sanr that was marries for a ^^ Redoes not Y^en he finds Obtained, even Jojerating bis '^^^ to them in ' l^- He eon. .^est be could 'is fine lady's ^^ urbanity; «e was very forgive that » . and tbus, ;e/gb6ourino. ^^^^ed for her am for his '^> however y ibe poor, J soften the ^ome, and ^e had her *^^e finer ' c'ung to achrriAn* ) because but she ^^ not 53 poor spirited, and would not in ball or ssembly go over and talk to those girls, le s, who dressed so badly and were Ittle taken notice of by any body. It is time, however, to go into Mr. Gra- am's house and see the interior, and we hall beg the reader to walk at once into he dining-room, on the some cold, windy utumnal night to which the two preceding hapters have been devoted. It was a large, handsome room, beau- ifully proportioned, with walls decorated with pilasters, between which hung some fine pictures by both modern and ancient artists. All the ornamental parts were very quiet, chaste, and in good taste, and the draperies which now hung over the windows, though rich in themselves, had not the least bit of gold upon them. A large bronze lamp hung from the ceiling in th e centre of the room, with the glasses so shaded that the light fell less upon the faces of the guests than upon the table, round which some sixteen persons were congregated. The plate which decorated the board was somewhat ancient in form, and thougii ihere was plenty of it, yet there was no great display. It might have been heavier, more rich in design, more orna* mental^ but every thing that could be wanU ^^Kr^r A^^^ though ine dinner, iodeerf T o«en,atious, but Et Va/M'"'^''''''"''^! '^''o would not tolerate t \^'^'"'^ «ook . 7^ a great deal ZtCeff " """"^Ht °f '•er husband's guests jf"" ^ ""'"''«' ^'d aot care about fha,L^**''- «^«ham W own guests, and bet '^"'' »«"'"ted she made a great r)l,- ''^'narked that z>b"'^ ''" hirr "t^*"^^" ''- She thus specialJv arm^v. • ^^°^^ whom •insisted of fou7 2Pf°P"«'«d ^ herself seduced down into rf^ f '!'""" ^''e had Jw'e Somebody, °if"'"''«^land •• a Lady « ^ery beautif^ !„ J '°''^' ""^en ringlets^ £-ion, %ht-bt'eyes'"a°:' <^^'-«'e -» "-'de mouth : her brJh 1 * ^"'er over. Captain Som^.J^;'"!^^^^ ^ Honourable and wristbands thai t ui''!*" , """^'ache llkfVf ^'' ''"at H?1„''«1'^ "ver the iike Charles /., anj ,„„. "'""S'" himself {"deed, poor man b. ^'^ melancholy. *^« navy, named Hall ^/r-^^P'"'" '» name him-w;.,. "„fr«'.'east sol will r^i:!i"'e,:ani'cjr„^^ •»»1 others. It wa^L^'"^ °" "Pon sev. ^^B loDg smcs he h«d 'aham thoughJ ^"^ewhathiorei '''s. Graham's »f,vu%ar from ^^ench cook ^ a thing — .jt [or a number . '^•s- Graham 3 ^er; it suited parked that between her hose whom ' to herself "^ she had ^ • a Lady 3n ringlets, cate com- ither over- onourable "mustache c over the t himself 'aneholy. y much aptain in so I will e or two on sev, he h^ 55 sen any service, was very quiet and in- significant, fond of shooting and fishings Ipiayed well at billiards and piquet, liked [good dinners, and frequented country houses where they grew. He was, more- (over, a tall, well-dressed, good-looking man, who made himself useful as well as ornamental. The fourth was a baronet, a member of parliament, a sucking politici- an, aspiring to n^^ij for the honor rather than the profit he thing, for he was wealthy ; but he had a vehement conceit in his own powers, wearied the House with large- worded speeches, and not very ap- posite quotations in Greek and Latin ; for he had lately come from Oxford, and had visited the lonion Islands; and he was considered a very rising young man, sim- ply because he treated the opinion of every body with contempt who did not exactly agree with the opmions which he formed himself, or which he was instructed to maintain. To this gentleman. Sir Arthur Green, Mrs. Graham was particularly attentive and gracious ; and, indeed, she had rea- sons of her own for being so, though he did not know them. In person he was exceedingly diminutive, except about the hips, which had been uitended by Nature r 6^ I ■or a hitroex-p speaking hi,„sej&'°" 'r^en he^ waj ' notions— and n,n- ^"'''°'en« attemior ,!, ?• , '^l' and consequemJv^ .'''^'T '^'^'•'' ""bod! yj-aham for «„, -T '""'eel over tr, m f <"• did 4 STT' '"'i^oun^r ^'^^y afd/ng her fa h ^"' ^''^ham per" P°«'f, although mS'p '° "'^besioC ;f«burGree„T„,rWnotad„,V«|,:;' '^ about thn r.;„? *''°"' the corn I-,... " *fce tariff. --B-'' tical observations upon the latter subject, land pursuing his own conversation as if [he either did not hear what Mr. Graham said, or thought it quite unworthy of no- |tice. That was not the way to the daugh- ter's heart; but Mrs. Graham. rather ad- mired it. The second course was nearly conclud- ed, and a great part of the usual subjects of a dinner-table had been exhausted. The country gentlemen had done all they xould ©n the topics of pheasants, hares, grouse, and partridges. .It had been de^ dared that not one woodcock had yet been seen in the country; which those who wished for an early winter pronounced a bad sign, and those who desired a late one a good sign. The markets and the wea- ther had been discussed. Some of the ladies had enjoyed a little bit of scandal, delicately admiaistered by Captain Hales, and it was over. The sucking politician's oratory began to fail. The. Honourable Captain Somebody amused himself with an oiange-wood toothpick, and looked afiif he were about to be led to the block. His sister sat in patient insipidity ; and Mi*. Grahwn hexself was heginnkkg to jkad *'n»8 rather W, ^h^„ . Pered something to Mr Gr«f.'"'""'' '^hi^ ed pleased, and said/ *^'"' ^*°^ ««^e has changed hi dreii''" " "' "^ «°°«i '"'^'^Zrt^V and Mrs. " What Pairfav lu ^ ®' ^nquirine " The eldest^' S"-,^/«''a'n ?" ^' ^as member t^vemr?" Pairft,, n-ho J^' Ed^va;,, Pairfi7,7J^. and «ephe«. o? , "'"h an IOC ination»„"^^"^ -'husband ;^as an oJd acq u ?ma'° ?'r' ' • " *« '"a' W ' 'nany good Join," tfol™"'' ''"'' *aj strange ones. Th. '„"«"' some very S,"-faxes then became ''"^'"''"' abo« ^y knew a Fair&l <='®"^''a'- Kverv •Fairfax; anj itas" -.fr """^ '"'o^ second course remoTed wh °'Y' «»d 'he 'oom door opened . j ^. ®" «he dinino- announced. ^S.T*^ ^'- ^airfa^^f: ^^as greeted warmttr^°'-"'-^^d '*!«?<>» of an old frii^l'- Graham, as °f Sir Arthur Greln i'" ^-''"" *>« 'hose ?'m, and every borf! f^® *"™ed uoon mternalJv Sf-T^.^ade their cnm Jl^" ■0 hoJd Mre. GSfm^i' ","'' «"deavoured .raname attention, by arft- to 5» Ig if she took any interest in the tobacco bestion ? to which Mrs. Graham replied lith a sweet smile, " Yes, very," and con- Sued to gaze at the new visitor. He was remarkably Handsome — that fas the first thing apparent ; he was re- markably well dressed—that was the next bservation made; he had all the ease, race, self-possession of a man of high tation — that was the closing remark : and Irs. Graham determined that he should ^e one of her set. The introduction to his wife and daugh- ler over, Mr. Craham asked if Mr. Fair- Fax had dined. He replied that he had, kt a cottage hard by, whence he had taken bhelter from the rain ; and seated opposite lo Margaret Graham, he gave an account Sf his adventures of the evening, lightly, »ayly, but mingling touches of kindly jfeeling and good sense, and merry com- jments on his own wisdom in putting him, jself under the guidance of an idiot, in a Imanner which amused and pleased both father and daughter, while Mrs. Graham Jdeclared it was delightful, and the whole party seemed to feel that a new spring of life and pleasure had burst forth in the midst of them, to stir the waters that had been inclined to stagnate. Tno dessert 60 *«in Hales, wh^was Sdt ^f ' """^ 4 . considerate. Sirlr hn, n*''«''^''"'oug attention ,o him Than fc"'' '"^ "'°l to pay to any body *^ accustom^l •^-'njriritrr^^^'"^^ , ration which /oreilners L?P°:'"-^ «^H upon, music and carr ","'''' <=''y H Fairfax would ha ^e Zt"^"^ ' ''"' ^ 'Jje latter, and Jcem a n '"^ '° ''° *" ««d taste did morel^rT'*' """^ f^elinl ier singing th^n „11 .k^^ expression o| ^orld w1>ufd We effected *' 'm'"^ '» 'J aeemed delighted „nH ,?^''- ^airfai * ?>-eat deal atut 1„ -""^^^ '« 1^4 jnus.c they rambTed on tn'"' •""'^ H {«>n- painting to po^trv . *° P^'pt'og, and have gone tbfougK^Lf ''^t they migh, a«s. had not Mrs rT i?^ ''''"'^le of fhef ;irA" '«"'.at some beaut^;.;. l"!.fL*''1 Which wftioh were, laid unon „ . m ' ^"^'•avings *»«»«'8sM«e"Pt" *,.'«'''«• Such,!, ^rs. Graham V pretext ibr. tol lay the truth, she cared not a straw Vhether Mr. Fairfax looked at the en- rravings or not. Certainly society is a btrange thing, and the devil must have had kome hand in its construetion : for we are |told that he is the father of lies, and the whole fabric is filled with his offspring. In reality and truth, Mrs. Graham had for the last half hour been observing her daughter and Mr. Fairfax. His liand- [some person, his high-toned air and man- ner, and his very gentlemanly appearance, seriously alarmtd Mrs. Graham for the [success of her scheme for marryina Mar- garet to Sir Arthur Green. She saw Margaret's eye sparkle with a much brighter look than usual, and her cheek grow warmer with excitement, as she lis- teded to a sort of conversation that she had never heard before, and Mrs. Graham reckoned that such a man as Mr. Fairfax would prove a very dangerous rival to the monkey-faced, consequential little being upon whom she had cast the eyes of affect tion. Wisely— very wisely— she did not make up her mind to do any thing that might check Mr. Fairfax's growing admi- ration of her daughter; for she thought, judging by what her husband had said of hk family, that he himself migiit be no -timuJus of riva?rv m^.h^ meantime, t) 'apidiy into full bo?;''' f ^' P''^^''"' however, in the timZ. , determined] lowW effect anrf^-^r""®' '^^^ 'o "le folJ -usttvXl°';;,f;-,^airft^^^ I .,, , ,, fcimer years with soL „p ««q"a"ited in You are%Idest o„ Mr cJT ^^'"^°"«^ Wr. John FairfaT'«,K *''*'" s^H of Cbventry ?" ' "^^^ "'as member for still lookdXenJT-''' ^r'^'y' and -p^onc^thete'^^^^^^^^^^ ■ r «'" -nS'e relaSraf r V-' id .w":*'*^ ^^''W^^ at that ..•;:!_"! -^^^ -0« 28 not in fK« -a ^ot in the armv '^ a^njy/' replied ippare enev [know { [ed son, bv hinr of it if "He tJEDifta Ir. Fairfax, looking'up : " he is now an Hmiral, but has only been so for two or |ree years." "Ah! 1 must have made a mistake," b"d Mrs. Graham; <» 1 knew he was tther in the army or navy. How is lady fairfux ?" "Don't frighten me, my dear madam," lid her young guest, laughing. "If lere is a lady Fairfax in my family, she bust have become so within the last ten lays ; and the very idea of my uncle mar- King is tatamount to a charge of lunacy, Ivhich you know is a disagreeable circum- Itance to a man's race. "You forget how lime flies, my dear lady; he is now Wventy.three, and though the best and '{indest man in the world, he is eaten up vith gout." *^ "Indeed!" exclaimed Mrs. Graham, ipparently in great surprise ; " then was le never married ?" " Never," replied Mr. Fairfax, "that I jknow of; and 1 think, as I am his adopt- led son, and have been brought lip entirely by him almost from my birth, now five- |and.t\vcnty years ago, i must have heard of it if such had been the case." " How strange that I should make such 1 a«»tteke !" exclainied Mm Graham. * the sort of „„„ wl.Csl,! il ,* """^m Y'"'out favour to ff ^" ^'""i'"- «reol there was a bias it vl. ?f' ^'' *'"'ougi,,] f called La^'^lSl tf"' ''^ '^^l Green. Besides, 1 e If c''u'"*" ^'''t «>me, distin»uisJ ed^nl" '"'='' '^ ''and 'hat Has no%" ,t i'"^- •"''" '°°. an ham'6 opinion. " "^"^^ '" ^'-s- GrJ About five or »»►, • ' '■• • ] Graham slipped ou.of"^r'^^ ^^''^' M ^l y^^y to The Jibr ' V wt'°°'" ^"-J •"«* ".Bu'-ke., Peerage and r'" "''« «'"''''^"l some time. Wbfn I baronetage" foi ''eoame quite radian, to '■''"^^'' ''^- A fated beside MarLa ' n ''" ^'- ^^"H J?ne Somethin/pfa";'' ^T' ^"^''^Lady P'ano,andSirAr&r/ ^^f^'a on the a wnnoisseur tulmdZ \ '^'"^ ""« air J ^'o.. places. Kar:"?.' «""«'« «» the Graham's eyes tl^at"iV» .''""' '" ^'A PteasedvvithierimpaSf""'' ^^'^4 She had never seeXr '°°°^ersation. as it wfl«> i... . "^'^ so carried „„-^ i' '^^^- Nephe. « old and highlj ^^^^^J ; and shJ '"ipflt to Jet htn ' Arthur Greeii »'0S although,! 'f^'-lierdauffj ^^ler than Ladi «"cfa a hand] ? »^an too, an^ ^« Mrs. Gra 6« nded the cause of the continual varia- nof expression wliich took placo in her ughtrr's countrnancf — the look ctf half- izzled thouirht chan<:iii^ suddt uly to ihnt brltjht intelliijjence, thon sobering down gravity, almost sadness, and *!».:^ ajrain nishingaway in a gay smiles or a ^ight ugh. But in truth Allan Ftii i'Lv's jon- rsation was very peculiar. It went unding like a roe, from suhjrct to sub- ct, and figure to figure, finding latent re- mblances in the heart of apparently dis- imilar things, suddenly setting every ing in a new point of view, the most joy- ul in the darkest and gloomiest aspect, nd extracting a smile even from a tra- edy. So rapid was the transition, that it as diflicult for the mind to follow him ; nd yet, like a playful child running away "rom pursuit, he paused every now and hen in his gay sport, in order to give the bllowers time to come up. Thus passed the first evening of his isit to Mr. Graham's house, and Allan airfax retired to his chamber to think rather than 1 1 rest. li 4 J 11 J ur i-^^i , )i any one,' Biia hand ; the gay, lively, sparkling young j,^iai was suddenly qonyerted ipto lh(^ » «nd thoughtful cffiie ; mi thou ghim 5s after, Mrs] »om and mad. ■^ she studiodi ronetage" for ^ned bea^ f^J ^^'- Fairfail y ^vhiJe LadjI stasia on thef 'ith the air music in the) m to Mrs.\ ^ Was welJl ^nversation.l 60 "^he is very )„ve, '^ '« h'ms.Jf „ j, inclusion he ended. ' ""'' '"'■"> 'iJ CHAPTER IV i:''/ -n uJ'P:/l^J ^ horn,l] P'-udpnt impulses tl if '""""'""'caffJ "'hich some peri„L»\'"'"'"'" "fm,,? keep youth out of ?; "l^"''5<">'« 4 ''■'•ee, four dav, "^'"P'aiioD. TwoJ ■ p'-«''«m himself Jas obi; !{"''°"g'' W Jong on ench uZnin. T"^ '° ''^ ^''^ent •"^''^'s of bns/ncss ^^' ^^"1" ">« ''arioJ g«ged, s,ili he pressed K I ''^ '"^^ '"n y sad, yet a ahn^ ^is face, and "^^f'lr at len J f "lust take car] ^^d with thi V. 'Piousness pro ^^ a horn, and 'Ommumcatim induct of maj 'fe to it, still insufficiVnt to «ion. Two] |f' ancJAJJaJ 'tarn's house, i^ing another] ^^ough Mrl ^0 be absent! j^e various! 'le vvasen.| »fs to amuse! '^e them aa 'ch as tliej 67 irticular set ; and in that number Mr. lirfax was now marked out with panic- (ar favour. To the greater part of the jiiests, too, his society was appareutly »ry agreeable. The Honourable Cap- lin Somebody liked him very much, and jclared that he rode beliorthan any man le had ever seen out of the troop of le regiment ; Lady Jane thought im, silently, extremely handsome ; Cup- in Halee was, of course, very friendly nd civil, though Fairfax shot a great deal etter than himself ; and Margaret Gra- am said nothing, but smiled when he pproached at first, and then became some- hat thoughtful. Thoughtful or smiling, however, he was preat deal with her, and, as it so fell out, ften alone; for Mrs. Graham's health was by no means good, and Margaret did the honours of her father's house during a great part of the time he was absent each day. She showed Mr. Fairfax the grounds, which were extensive: pointed out to him with pleasure and pride all the changes and improvements Mr. Graham iia\t iiiau^r, uuu vvu» vvLli picustu lu iiUVU an auditor who could fully appreciate the taste which her beloved parent had dis* played. The only discontented person TTSsS.r Arthur Green, whose consequence vanished from ihe moment of Mr. Fair. Jaxs appearance, and who, coldly rudo before, was inclined to be warmly rude atier his arrival. People paid very little nitention to him, liowi ver, and he did not venture to go too f.r. A new life seemed, Ti, 'J?\^''"'d. to enter ihe house with Allan 1< airfax. Not.ody looked bored any more. There was always someihins to be ^ seen someil.ing to be done, some amuse, nteiif, or at least some occupation, Mar. gant and l,e and Lady Jane visited the cottages of Ben flaliiday and his cousin, inquired after the boy who had been hurt nttd tallied kindly with the labourers' wives. They called on the clergyman of the parish, and heard all his details of parochial matters, and Maiga.^tt listened with pleasure to the contrast which Mr. !< airfax drew between the state of hanni- nrss and prosperity which spread around iWr. Graham's w.llinjr a„,| some oi her parts of the country which he hud lately visited ; but a rather unpleasant discus. . sioB followed at dinner that day, suggest. c scale of wages mLt h» f ' ' ^? "'^^''^ ""e principles.^ The 11 '"'"""'' '^Pon other and the employers o?T ^^ °' P-^P^Oy least a sufficiency for f°"' ""'' P^X « dependent oT°hem'u '"?P°" °'' '''<'*« Poor's-rates, or pillTL Yi; .!" '^'^''' "' •node of paymeVt fest • b^ ^ *?'•'"«' the subject I hnL. ' "'' *° change Jead, as I must bT'in R '^"'■^^'•^' ^^a" What think you of a i™'^"««''e'^ «" day. ?nd theMarsras weSr'.J^ ^?Sh' « remarked, tJ^ere i, n„, "7-«"iough, bo P'^perlysocS/ln hTwfr'r'?''' 'oneofyou.ithiik^atre'^'l'r}: "'-y inieresting district." ' " K IQ O ore for any ' unjustly.' » Mr. Gra- leman did 'f than by »r peasan. too many lieveyour Jaw and 'et us do ft'aid the 3on other property t pay at of those iges, or J ibrmer change expedi. 3t shall »n day. Brugh, Jgh, be fnarsh, rac^ ? on/1 «A <^en to ort, of 71 course ; and all parties agreed that the proposed expedition would be very de- lightful. Lady Jane, who, Heaven knows how, found, or fancied herseH re- lated to the well-known Ann Countess of Pembroke, to whom Brugh Castle once belonged besought that it might be in- eluded in the ride, and would not be de- terred by Mr. Graham's hint that the dis- tance would be very great. She was an mdefatigible horsewoman, she said, and she was sure that Margaret weuld not be tired ; the day, too, was certain to be fine: they were just getting the Indian summer, as It was called. November had become as warm as May ; and, in short, she re- solved that Brugh Castle should be visited. It IS wonderful how pertinacious those fair-haired, wide-mouthed, fine complex- loned girls can be when they like it. Every body yielded, of course, and it was arranged that the time of departure shonld. be at an earlier hour than had been pro- posed at first. ^ Oh, the ever eager heart of youth, how It bminHc (krih , •' . •' - «po-jj mc uuujiju ui enjoy- mentl Well may they call hope a flame and love a fire, for they both consume tnat^ which nourishes them, leaving the «rtofee of disappointment and ashen of r©- - 72 for .heZ:; J ' Tl^'^^'^'T'^ within ; but as whc r. a ^ , ^ "sunshiae p rays, ne shades his eves rmri ♦! .^ l they di.' . i, ^,:^ p^'^^i' '" }^^ loveliness forW H f •"'^?' "'•'"•' •«» looked «f am'l^ . f """"« "^^y '^•'l' 'he thrill BunshinelZd Lit H ^^^n^^' ''"'' tour/and fouSd a St/r'T'-" ?^ ^« Mr. Graham", h ^' "'^ invitation ta rienced-lit,f: ifd hltnf i.'^LT ''f I nevpr hov/. ^ """K It, or he would upon hi«.hf gaThii f";^ ^Yei:^ love too stion^r.Itrr""'""^ ihere was unr^iU^^ l1 „. ^ at house whjrr::.^^^^^ ^» ^it-^i 5 the coming ^^y. but wJ.k :! Ibe coming ^eofiatioas y^ of. ^but with Jess i*--''*t ^wh Itself exp««*^j, a that night xpedtaaons azes over a ight morn, on i};,e orb s proceed, loyeliness he looked ^ the thrill not let his m all ihat B thou,^ht, ofBrown- )Je sum of ?« of his itution to Jult of his ow expe- he Would rming- as ley wefe their in. 'ear, and ew-born , wit^ra 78 !hoi gh with some timidity. Margaret saw utat she was loved, and she felt that, for the first time, she was loved by one whose passion she could return. It made her thiill when she thought of it ; but yet it was very sweet, and no anxiety mingled with the feeling, for she knew that her fa- ther's whole hopes were in her happiness, and she saw that her mother was well in- clined to smile upon her love. Every one was awake by daybreak, and every one looked out of the window to see the aspect of the fcky. It was gray and shrouded ; a light frost lay upon the ground. To Margaret's eyes it looked unpromising ; for fear will come thrust'^ ing herself before hope, at the first obsta. cle in the course of enjoyment. Still she put on her riding-habit, and, looking bright enough herself to give sunshine to a wintry day, she went down to the break fast- room, where she found her father and Allan Fairfax. She caught Mr. Graham's eye fixed upon her while she shook hands with the latter, and she thought she saiv a slight but well-pleased smile upon his lips. The colour niounted warmly into her cheek, and turning to the window she looked out, saying, in a fahering voice, "I am afraid it will be a bad day." T* •"J you will hLTa b Zt'/'''" "" hour. your ride. [ Zl nof " "' '"^'•"'"g «" f»orro,v, and eve," ^.u'lir "','""''■'' '"^'O" '"'>'« to.niVht • b?. 1 *''"" «'« shall ^'Sl-t or te; hiuis lall"^' ^ "''"'°" "Pon . ^^ was as Mr r* Y* l"-eakfa,t «.as over .SIT '^'^- ^^''^'e spread the sky first bX^ ""st that over. Pjouds, and then d'sanl 'J**^ '"'° ""in |^("'e sun drank iheZ^'Tl ""''^^'y' «" «'s race. Mr r< u P *^ ''« "^se to run P-'Taxon a pSdl '"'"""«'' A'C accustomed to keen n ''°'"^', '^hich was «'<«'ghter ; he Im a^"""^ """> ""« of his oaptam Hales, and hefesfo^^^ '"""^^ *° heir horses wi.h ,£'" "/ ">« P««y had 'owed, and all sev^n „ .' "^ ^"''an' Mol- ten, while Mr. Sa,^ "".' •" ''"'« ''-'"o™ ton and dmve awav t^V '"'*> '^'spi.ae. P'Weedin. sloX „f r"''"'°'^- road toward Bri.^l.iw °' ^'■*' a^onff the the rest of ?hS "^^T' f^''^' ""d Ae Itenks of the htfl? I T^^ ^""^ "Pon round the western sZ u' f"'' ^^'^'ng of themselves and thet'h'""'"'^ '^««otio^ ''-av toward the "She >>-'!": '^"""^ '-'•'heyweTffi "'here the ■«g rose ov»r a aw. f Mr. Gra, nin an hour, morning for ^uch fbr to- ^' we shall eckon upon iJ. Before St that over- ^'into thin 'n^*>ely, as ''ose to run *ed Allan v'lich was that of his 'junter to Pa»'ty had 'vant fol. tie before ^is phae. ick. 'ong the ham and ^th upon skirting 'flection ^on the wound ere the ftnar* 75 row neck between two high, saddle-shaped mountains, and then decended rapidly to a plain several thousand feet below. From the highest point reached by the road the view was wild and sublime in the extreme — sublime from its immensity. As far as the eye could see was one expanse, un- broken, almost interminable ; for the faint boundary which separated it from the dis- tant sky was obscured by a mist so slight that it blended heaven and earth imper- ceptibly together. To the right, indeed, faint and far off, could be traced after long gazing, several waving lines, like those x)f clouds, but probably some of the hills of Niddesdale ; and on the left were the grand Cumberland mountains, which farther on appeared crowned by Skiddaw. I have said that it was uninterrupted ; but that wide plain was not unvar 1, for al- though the general hue was, in the near- est parts, of a bright deep-green, and in the distance an intense Hue, yet lines of dif- ferent colours, all profound in their degree, checkered the expanse without injuring — ..«.s„vr*ij^ . ricrc r:iQ muru was a wiae extent of what s«emc J iow wood ; beyond, a yelbw gleam crossed the plain ; then Gamesome undulations almost black,either from the nature of tlva soil or from a aba. aow ca.n oj ciouds whJ^k .i «ye CO..CI 'no, dSove t fh *'T*^'''°''« j'X've. Nature herself rir'^^/'«"»ky from monotony, "^^^ '^''''ved ,he vie,J. marked the vastne^s of^tk'"* ."""« "me aliiost at the feet of ?i,5" ^"<^erneath— . f^'rn the hilJ--!v' » P^'i' '^ho Razed «»d herds of oxe„ a'nd''"^*'''^ "fi^ .^.^tinguished father off ,°"'"*? """W b^ distance tilJ they be^J'^^Jf^^en'ng in the disappeared. ^ ^""^ ^'''n' specks, and '''ere lay the^n^p^^^'^^^cene ; «a„d fierce and Invincible i^l^"* ^•' ^ ''^n "le «nd more permaflem '"^ '° " stronger self." P^™'"»ent cone ueror than hfm' A«hurSn ;if'C^-«ed." said Sir ''^jn made ,o e.^e^^'"'' '^^^■' hJl ,, Margaret gently LITT P'"''^"«">e.' •be infinitely mo-fiLw ^^ "« bill, t^ ''«f"y. the LTt ±1: ■ '^ '' of human :!-rL;i have ucnVe.'* se's brU ill ^a human indiviu t^'ontact J© vain > world 77 self, is a wretched creature. Prid3, though an isolating passion, is at all events Independent : vanity is d ^p-^nrlent up^n )ther's opinion for its satisfiction, if not Ifur its .Niipport. Sir Arthur Green fanci- [etl himself prou'J, hut he was only vain; and a conviction which had beer i^rowinij [upon him that he was by no m^ans par- Iticularly pleasing in lVIar