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`No Pot:Axon's Alwarsaino fur him
✓ , t o ngioi on briar and wend.
,„ : •ltno nest 0( Ida MU* dam*,
g ., e raLmn,,inde or mind,
owl of Lincoln to telling hu 061110;
link. buto-o'•link,
0,r.0, spank ofook;
solo up that mot of ours.
sw.aig lb* oisomor &mom
Chem. obis, oboe.
of L:ne , iin is gaily drert,
bright blank wedding coat,
C 1 WI shoulders and white kin most,
in his merry note,—
g i p
40b.0 . link,
yonii, Nye, k, 'pink;
In! 4 . 131 Ce new coal la mine,
.we we.' never a bird ea lac.
Choc obe., ghee
Qoater wife,
ssi:, e nd quiet. with plata brows wimp,
s o ,g uolnii a patient life,
k, ,rums 'raki,) her hasasass4 WWI
B bob-o'-link,
Solot. spank, slunk,
4 :rowan,' you used sot tsar
• r.boers wh,;e I am hen.
Cho, abet, Chet.
r t'y W l nna IS obi;
.ett chirp II Dor only nuts.
tr. , l pr.nee of braggarts is he,
from hus little throat„—
„.' I:nk,
; •,,s, spank. 'pink;
5,,5a., I s.:ra.A of man,
v war 11 knaves, if yoss aim
Chef, nhoo, chaos.
egg , on a bed of hay,
f • w.tl purple, a pretty sight!
s. :to al..thrr sun Sit* all day
with all hit might
,nt, bob o' Ituk,
t , ap.uk;
.I• f- '` 3t oe•er goes out.
i t; _i -Ju,e eu,lo 1 fr..ho &boat.,
ebee, Ghee
•.e :,:t . e nee chip the shell
• . t< ic /Ire t.port for find
t • •1 beetles tom wel!
;.eels f:r the hungry brood.
huh. ,',l3rik,
t .1 ep I k
lo.ly to be
=I
y • ; , Jog fellow like me
vile*, oboe
' L.,re qc at :ftugth io mad*
• •.•1 w-rit, sod atl.nt with care.
itartment laid,
tvt:tta that merry air,
halt, bob-o'-ltak,
opank,
tn , we bat my mate and I
u.at and our nestling lie.
Cheap, rhea, abs..
racer, the children are grown
Lou :ro. c nn mere he knows,
a humdrum crone
.f a., : ha star a, he rm.
Poo.c . , nlc, bob.e-hok,
'oak, spank
I. eau p•ps that merry old strata
et Linc ,, ln tom• back awn.
Chee, uhee, chow.
icc ffliscellanp.
i HOST STORY
MOM HOUSEHOLD WORDS
. ice to you, toy frivod, the whole
hegiutitng to ueurly the eud
in...le that—that it happened, wu in
. 1111 rn3 :r wor• r:ttiug in a
I, the thAatre— At. of the twu lathe
're. The p ii..rwance wa-, I re-
E.l.St.ern ptc, e, io wL el Were 10 -
•T' irAueduries, and au elephant, at
1%1 6.,4t* We wore c tosid4 rabiy atutwd.
•••••• "hiw n )14 , ealat and es% u gay
.m t h ~u r ! mud. that evtuiug,
"e• t:e•re wiet In any Of the circuta
lt,e p.ace r ttin,t to catuta, or render
.—at.at I ant :About to describe.
SEU
L• Ed ' , to piece b, ttcr thanany serious
t:r ifs I,A e , o ta 'nod enough of the
•., mak:. to o turn with a sick die
i.u• th.•/04 to books or plays.
r !Agee our in irrisga, Alezir. and
0 • ad d portly cbildlnh , (xlairailn
-EAT. v....tw0-log all r•tirrt lig events, and
tnixin : z little in ,ciety, and then,
, xcep•l .n, corking uo aseociattotia be-
tLis to Lnodon; for we had
t•—vi• were quit, ahue and free. Free
w al, ii) I Vouitlaues grasped Alexis'
. tp,it..,l tL.e w )rd
wa. I. At times, as on this
' • • utl laugh like children. It
‘.) , kuow of a lurety that now we
te „ set—above all, love one
ti• , • , l by n. ouuuberacting spell,
u )in g creature for our aft and
b.• n - , o1) (.•r a year—l had thought
•:,i ler, ug. iu the morning—for a
•Jtja,. tjaV
•:1 very heartily, cherish
, , rc, iu‘Pso who would ou
'; ith.,t bad been fnghtened out of
a"uole and grown wild and rare in its
tapping at the lattice for a minute,
Le Suddenly, in the pause between
u hoise was half darkened, our
away.
.d it us," said Alexia, shivering.
but it was more like the invol-
1.1,r at winch people say, "Some
Lb over mj grave." I said so jes-
w gpered my husband, reprov •
'Rain the draught of cold air seemed
between us.
in the front, I behind the curtain
i:videl by some foot or two of spur
chair. Alexis tried to move this
vas fixed. He went round it, and
%antic , over my shoulders
' L.4don winter is cold for you my love.
we bud taken courage, and sailed
LAJ: So wore of the sear said I,
't Liu and stronger ebodcler. -
4u forme r p.aition, looking round in
"the audience. But neither of us
word Hupanoiia was enough
- 'WP au l r sikeuce over us both.
44 dud at last, rousing himself, with
tiutik you must have grown cud
. 4.11, Look: half the glasses opposite
. 4 ' our box It cannot be at me, you
4s: rttlaeliartr telling me I was the
. c . v) , ..0 ever baw?"
44 . Yet it wu quite trss—l had
.03, ill far back,strangs, awful Wass,
Pi of Qum, had ay mad wholly
ERR', WEEKLY.. OBSERVER
filled with one Ideal—one insane, eaquite dream; I,
when I brought my innocent child's garlands,
and sat me down under one great spreading,
magnificent tree, which seemed to me the king of
all the trees of the field, until I felt its dews drop-
ping death upon my youth, and my whole soul
withering ander its venomous shade.
•'Oh, Ales!" I cried, once more, looking fond- 1
ly on his beloved face, whore no unearthly beauty
dazzled, no unnatural calm repelled; where all •
was simple, noble, manly, true "Husband, I
thank he ci for that dear ugliness of yowl. ,
Above all, though blood runs strong, they say,
that I see in you no Ilkeston to—"
Alexis knew what woe I meant, though for
a whole year—sines God's mercy made it to us
only a name—we had sassed to utter it, and let
it die wholly oat of the visible world. We dared ;
not breathe to ourselves, still less to one soother, ;
bow much brighter, holier, happier, that world ,
was, now that the Divine wisdom had taken—
kint—into another. Fur be had been my hus
bands uncle; likewise one* my guardian. Re
was now dead.
I sat lookingat Alexis, thinking what estrange
thing it was that his dear face should not have
always been as beautiful to me as it was now.—
That loving my husband now so deeply, so whol
ly, clinging to him heart to heart, in the deep
peace as satisfied, all-trusting, and all-dependent
human affection, I could ever have felt that emo
tion, first as an exquisite bliss, then as an ineffable
terror, which cow had vanished away, and become
—nothing.
"They are gating still, Isabel."
"Who and where?" For I had quite for
gotten what he said about the people staring
at me.
"And there is Colonel Hart. He sees us. Shall
I b-ekon?"
"As you will."
Colonel Hart came up into our box. He shook
bands with my husband, bowed to me, then look
ed round, half curiously, half-uneasily.
"I thought there was a friend with you."
"None. We have been alone all evening."
"Indeed! How strange."
"What! That my wife and I should en
joy a play alone together!" said Alexis,
"Excuse me, but really I was surprised to find
you alone. I have certainly seen f, , r the last
half-hour a third person tinting on this chair, be
tween you both.
We could oot help starting; fir, osl tooted be
fore, the chair had, to truth, beeu left between
ns empty
"Truly our unknown friend must have been
invisible Nonsense, Colone.; how can you turn
Mrs. Sakraal pale, by tbui peopling with your
fancies the vacant air?"
"I tell you, Alexis," said the Colonel (he was
my husband's old friend, and had been present
at our hasty and private marriage), "nothing
could be more snake a fancy, even were I given
to such. It was a very remarkable person who
sat here. Even strangers noticed him "
"Him:" I whispered.
"It was a man, then," said my husband, rather
ani
grily.
"A very peenliar•looking, and extremely
handsome man. I saw many gIILMSeeI levelled at,
him "
"What wu he like?" said Me:is, rather sar
castically. "Dui he speak? or we to him?"
"Nu—DeitLer. He sat (iliac 'Still, this
chair."
My husband turned away If the had
not been his friend, and so very ..imple.miuded,
Lonest and sober a gentleman, I think Alexis
would have auliseted some drunken h.,sx, and
turned him out of the box immcdiatt•ly As it
was he only said:
'•My dear fellow, the third act 1, beginning
Come up again at its clo,e, an,i tell ni if y,Ki
again see my invisible fri,nl, fin
great au attrieti.,n to vioting, gratis, a druimitic
performance."
"I perceive—you tiouk at a mere laaPoic:ll.oilu
of mine. We shall see I suvl ct toe triek id
on your side. mud that you ar e Lea, 'tiring bottle
proscribed Hungarieu. But lit not bete, him
Adieu."
"The ghostly Hungarian shall not it next
you, love, this time," said trying uuee
more t , i remove the chair 13.1 t p..issibly, trough
be jeste.l, he wits slightly nervous, and his etli,rts
were vain "What w.insense this is: Isabel, let
us forget it I will stand behind yim, and watch
the play.
He stood. I clasping his hand secretly and hard
Then, I grew quieter; until, as the drip scene
fell, the same cold air swept past us It was as
if some one, fresh from the sharp sea wind, had
entered the biix. ' And, just at that moment, we
saw Colonel Hart's, and several other glasses
levelled as before.
"It ts strange," said Alexis.
"It is horrible," I said. For I had been cra
dled in Scottish, and then filled with German so--
perstition; and my own•life hod boen so wild, so
strange, that there was nothing too ghastly or
terrible for my imagination to oonjure up.
"I will summon the Colonel. We must SDI
out this," said my husband, speaking below his
breath, and looking round, as i, he thought be
was overheard.
Colonel Hart esme up. He looked very
serious; so did a young man that was with
him.
"Captain Elmore—Mrs. Sa!tram. &kraal, I
have brought my friend here to attest that I
have played off on you no unworthy j..st. Nut
ten minutes aims he, and I, and some others
saw this same gentlemen sittiug in this chair."
"Most certainly—in this chair," added the
young captain.
My husband bowed; he kept a courteous
calmness, but I telt his hand grow clammy in
mine.
"Of what appearsnee, sir, was the noku. , wn
acquaintance of my wife's and mine, whoui
everybody appears to eel, exoep - ourselves'''
'•He was of middlaiFe, dark-haired, pale.—
His features were very still, rather hard in ez
•,pression. He bad on-a cloth cloak with a fur
collar, aLd wen slams, pointed Charles-th.•• First
beard."
My husband and I clung hand to _hand with
so inexpressive horror. Could there be su-ther
man--a living man, who answered this at:scrip
tion?
"Pardon me," Alexis said faintly. "The par
trait is rather vague; may I ask you to repaint
it as circumstantially as you can."
"He was, I zepeat, a pale, or rather a sallow
featured man. His eyes were extremely pierci kig,
cold, and clear. The mouth closset—a very srm
but ionless mouth. The hair dark, seamed
with y—bald on the brow—"
" heaven!" I groaned in an anguish of ter
fus
ror. For I saw again - clear as if he had Dever
died he face over which,for twelve long mouths,
had swept the merciful sea waves, off the shores
of II ispanolia.
"Can yon,Captsia Moore," said Alexis, "men
the no other dutinguishing mark? this oounk
napes m slit resemble many men."
"I think nut. It was a most remarkable fare.
It struck me the more--beauase--" and the young ;
man grew almost as pals as we—"l ones raw au
other
very like it." •
"You see—a chases resemblanoe only Pear '
not, my darling," Alexis breathed in my ear.=
"Sir, have you say relostamee so sell me who
was the gentleman?"
"It was no living man, bat a corpse that we
*keg op ell a week, mei 'pis committed to
the fiseprwii She Guild illagise, Lt was met.
ly the same (see, and had the same mark--w mar
cross-shape, over one temple."
"'Tim he! He can follow and torture us still; I
knew he could "
Alexis smothered my shriek on his breast.
"3 . 1 y wife is ill. This desenption resembles
slightly a--• person we once knew. Hart, will
you leave us? But no, we must probe this mys
tery. Gentlemen, will you ones more descend
to the lower part of the house, whilst we remain
here, awl tell me if you still see this figure sit
titli in this chair."
limy went. Wu held our breaths. The lights
in tle theatre wure being extinguished, the au
dience moving away. N,, ()nee...me near our box.
It was perfectly empty Except our own two sel
ves, we were conscious of no sight—no sound. A
few minutes after Colonel Hut koccik.,d.
"Come in," said Alexis, obeeri.y.
But the Colonel—the bold soltlier--shrunk
heck like a frightemi
"I have seen him—l saw him but thissninnte,
sitting there."
I swooned away.
It is right I should brietly give you my history
up to this night's date.
I was a West Indiun heiress--a posthumous,
and soon after Birth, an orphan child. Brought
up in my mother's country, until I was sixteen
years old;—I never saw my guardian. Then be
met me in Paris, with my governess, and fur the
space of two years we lived under the same roof,
seeing one another daily.
I vies iery young; I had no father or mother,
I wished for neither, love nor husband; my
guardian became to me u the one object of my
existence.
It was no love-passi tn., he w as far too o ld for I
that, and I comparatively too young, at least too
childish. It was one of those insane, rapturous •
aduratione which young maidens sometime oon
cieve, mingling a little of the tenderness of the '
woman with the ecstatic enthusiasm of the de
eutee. There is hardly a prophet or leader noted
in the world's history who has not been follow
ed and worshipped by many nob women.
Such was my guardian, Anastasio.u—not his
true name, but itsufficed thee and will now. ,
Mane may recognise bon as 11 kuown leader
in the Prete.la political an I moral world—as one
who belle were force of .utellect, wielded the
and eileutly complete power of
soy wan 1 ever knew, women he won by his pol
ished •gsatieuese,—wen, by his equally pol
ished terength. He would have turned a com
pliment awl signed a death -warrant, with the
same exquisitely cairn grace. Nothing was to
Lint too great to too small. I have known him,
oar his way to advise that the President's solJi
ers should aweep t a cannonade down the throng
ed street—stop to pick up a strayed canary-bird,
stroke ice broken wing, and confide it with beau
oral tenderness to his bosom.
0 bow teilder:—hew mild:—how pitiful:—
could be be:
When I say I loved him, I use, for want of a
Letter, a word which iii expresses that feeling.
It was—lieaven forgive cue if I err iu using the
similitude—the sort of feeling the Shunamite
woman might have had fir Elisha. Religion
added to its ititeusi . :,; fur I was brought up a
devout Catholic; and be, whatever his private
dognasa w,ght have been, adhered strictly to the
forma of the church He was unmarried, and
most people supposed him to belong to that or
der called—Heaven knoll-how unlike Him from
wittim they 14,,sume their name—the Society art
J es 11a.
We lived thus—l entirely worshipping, be
guidiug, foutliing, watching, and ruling by turns
fo r two while years 1 was tnititr•-as of a large
fot . uue, and. iii ugh not beautiful, had, I be
lieve, a tel, r..bie rut••lli-ei, and a keen wit which
he used 10Hits, a., boy plays with fire
sveras, ..wu•iur 1....1ibe1' . with heir glitter--some
t 'nit hero agtiuet steers, and smiling
a. they fla s hed or seorched—knowiug thatagainst
Louse-it tlicy w-re utterly femme*, and num
less Knowing, perhaps, that ware it other
wise. be had only to tread them under foot, and
se p aside from the issues, with the same un
'nosed, easy bald..
I neser knew—nor know I to this day, wheth•
I was dear to hint or u.a. Useful I was, I iniuk,
and piciaaal, I Leoles , Pos s ibly be liked me a
1. , t1e--118 the potter likes his clay, and the skil
ful weehao e likes his tools—until the clay
had-rued, and the fine tools refused to obey the
waster's hand.
I was the brilliant West Indian heiress. I did
net marry. Why should I? At my house—at
least it was c4lie I mine—all ions and societies
!net, carrying tn their separate games; the quiet,
soft band of Auastastus playing his game—in,
and under, and through them all. Mingled with
this grand game of the world was a lesser one—
to which he turned sometimes, just for amuse
ment, and beeline he could not cease from his
metier—a simple, easy, domestic game, of which
the battledore was that said white hand, and the
shuttlecock my foolish child's bean.
Thus much have I dilated on him, and my
own life in the years when all its strong, wild
current flowed towards him; that, in what fol
lowed when the tide turne d, no one may accuse
we of fickleness, or musclese aversion, or insane
terror of one who after all was only man, "whose
breath is in his nostrils."
At seventeen I was only passive in his hands;
he was my sole arbiter of right and wrong—my
conscienoe--ealmost my God. As my character
matured, and in a few things, I began to dgeju
for myself, we had occasional slight differences.
begun, tau my part, in shy humility, continued
with vague doubt, but always ending in peni•
tepee and tears. Since one or other erred, of
course it must he I. These differences were
wholly on abstract pints of truth or justice.
It was his taking me to the ball at the Tuile
ries, whi.'h was given after Leuis Napoleon Bo
naparte had seized the Orleans property, and it
was my watching my consio's conduct there,
which made we tirot question, in a trembling ter
rified way—like one who catches a glimpse of
the te rade-waking pliest's hands behind the
robe of the worshipped idol—whether, great as
M Anastasius was as a political ruler, as a man
of the world, as a faithful member of the Society
of Just's, be was altogether so great when view- I
ed beside any one ut those whose doctrines Le
disseminated, whose faith he prof ssed.
Lle hid allowed me the New I statnent, and
had been reading it a good deal lately. I plac
ed him, my spiritual guide, first in veneretiug
love, than, with a curious marvelling °output
son, beside the fishermen of Gallilee, leende—
re verently be it spoken—beside the Dime Christ..
There was a certain difference.
The Beet time we came to any argument—el
ways on abstract questions, for my tnereitidivid
ual will never bad any scruple in resigning tabus
—instead of yielding and awning I (wailed the
contest, and brought it afterwards privately to
the infallible rule of right and wrong
The difference grew
Gradnall'Y, I began to take my onusin's wis
dom—perhaps, even his vitiates—with certain
rescrvatirins, feeling that there was growing in
m e some antagrourie quality which prevented
uly full sympathy with both
"But," I thought, .‘he is a Jesuit; he follows
only the law of hie order, which' allows tempo
rising,_ and_dipletuatising for noble ends. He
merely dresses up the Truth, and pots it in the
most charming and safest light, eyes as we do
our images of the Holy Virgin. using them for
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siinbio Mims NU I •ii beam suit as be
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will dandle sad play with the Truth, that, sot
fur his hope of actives, would Asastasioa stoop
to a lie."
Doe day, be told me he should bring to my
sailooos en Eng'delimits, his rotative, who bad de
termiued on leaving the world and entering the
priesthood.
"Is be of our faith?" asked I Indifferently.
"He is, from childhood. Re has a strong, Ilse
intellect; thi.4, under St guidance, may seam.
plish great things. Ones of our Society, he
might be my right bawl in every Curt is En
rope. You will receive him?"
"Certainly."
But I paid very little heed to the stranger.--
There go nothing about him striking or peen
liar. He was the very opposite of N. &taste
siuv. Besides, he was young, and I had learnt
to despise youth—my guardian wig fifty years
old.
Mr. Saltram (you will already hare guessed
that it was he) showed equal indifferenoe to me.
tie watched me sometimes, did little kindness
for me, but always was quiet and silo t- mere
cloud floating in the brilliant •ky, which M.
Anastasia, lit up as its gorgeous sun. For m e ,
I became moonlike, appearing chick at my cou
sin's set and rise.
I was not happy. I reed more in say Holy
Book and less in my breviary; I watched with
keener, harder eyes my cousin A.nastasins, weigh
ed all his deeds, listened to and compared his
words; my intellect worshipped him, my memo
vied tenderness clung round him still, but my
conscience bad fled out of hie keeping, and made
fur itself a higher and diviner ideal. Measured
with common mon, he was godlike yet—above
all passions,. weaknesses, crimes; but viewed by
the one perfect standard of man. 7 —Citristian man
—in eharity, humility, single-mindedness. guile
lessness, truth—my idol was no mon. I came
to look for it, and found only the empty ahrine.
Be went on a brief mission to Rome. I mar
velled that instead of u of yore wandering sadly
through the empty house, its air felt freer for
me to breathe in. It seemed hardly a day till
he came back.
I happened to be sitting with his nephew Alex
is when I beard his step down the corridor—the
step which had once Seemed at every touch to
draw mu+►c from the chords of my prostrate heart,
but which now made it shrink ioto itself, u if
an iron-shod football had passed along the
strings.
Anastasins looked slightly surprised at seeing
us together, but his welcome was very kind to
both.
I could cot altogether return it. I had just
found out two things which, to say the least, had
startled me. I determined to prove them at
once.
"My cousin, I thought you were aware that,
though a Catholic myself, my house is open, and
my friendship likewise, to honest men of every
creed. Why did you not tell that Mr ashram
has, for some years, been a Protestante"
I know not what reply he made; I know only
that it was ingenious, lengthy, gentle, courteous,
—that for the time being it seemed entirely sat
isfactory, that we spent all three together& most
pleasant evening. It was only when I lay down,
on my bed, face to face with the solemn Dark, in
which dwelt. conscience, truth and God, that I
dvseovered how Anaataaius had, ft.r some secret
—doubtless blameless, any, even justifiable pur
ppm, told of me, and to me, two 'towline lies!
Disguise it as he might, excuse it as he might,
and did, they were lies. They haunted me—
flapping their black wing. like a couple of Sends,
mopping and mowing behind him when he came
—setting ou his shoulders and mocking his beau
titul, calm, majestic face—for days. That was
the beginniitg nif sorrows; gradually they grew
until they blackened my whole world.
M Anasta.in.e whole soul was bent, as he
had fur once truly told me, on winning his young
nephew into the true fold, making him an in
strument of that great purpose which was to bring
all Europe, the PoptAlom itself, under the p•mer
of the S. ekty of Jews and i:s future head—
Anastasia..
The young man resisted. He admired and re
vered his kinsman; but he himself wits very sin.
gle.hearted, staunch, rod true. Something in
that strong Truth, which wss the basis of his
eharaeter, struck sympathy with mine. He was
very much inferior in most things to Ana►
issitts=he knew it, I knew it—but, through
sU, this divine elenvint of Truth was patent,
beautifully clear. It was the one quality I had
r,ver worshipped, ever sought for, and never
found.
Alexis and I became friends—equal earnest
friends. Not in the way of wooing or marriage
— at least, be never spoke of either, sad both
were far, oh bow far! from my thoughts—but
there was a great and tender bond between us,
which strengthened day by day.
The link which riveted it was religion. He
was, I said a Protestant, nut adhering to any
creed, but simply living—not preaching, butliv
lag the faith of Our Saviour. He was not per
feet —be had his sins and eLorteomiogs, even as
I. We were both struggling on towards the
glimmering light.. So, after a season, we clasp
ed bands in friendship, and with eyes steadfully
upward, determined to press on together towards
the one goal, and along the self same road.
I put my breviary aside, and took wholly to
the New Testament, assuming no name either
of Catholic or Protestant, but simply that of
Christian.
When I decided on this, of eourwe I told Anas
tasia& He received the tidings calmly. He
had ceased to be my spiritual confessor for some
time; yet I could see he was greatly surprised,
afterwards he became altogether changed.
"I wish," said I, one day, "u I shall be twen
ty•ene newt year, to have more freedom. I wish
even"—for since the discovery of my change of
belief be bad watched me so closely, so quietly,
so continually, that 1 had conceived a vague fear
of him, and a longing to get away-4o put half
the earth between me and his presenee—"l wish
even, if possible this summer, to visit my estates
in Hispaniola?"
"Alone?"
"N,►; Madame Gradelle will accompany me.
And Mr. Saltram will charter ow of hug ships
f )r my use.
For I slitmld say Alexis was, so far from being
a Roman Catitolio Priest, a manliest of large
means.
"I approve the plan. It will be of advantage
to your health. But Madame Gradelle is not
sufficient escort. I, as your guardian, will accom
pany and protect you."
A eold dread seised me. Was I never to be
free? Already I begun to feel my guardian's
influence surrounding me--an Wilms of love,
now of intolerable dismete, and even f Not
that he waa ever hanh or cruel—not that I ald
amuse him of any sing le wrong towards or
others; bat I knew had thwarted him, d
through him, his canse--that awase w boss
est dogma is that any means are sacred, an
good, to the one great end—Power.
I had opposed him, sad I was in • and—
;bat band which I had once believed to have al
most superhuman strength. In my terror I be
lieved it still.
"fie will go with as--we easaot escape from
bim," I said to Alexis. "Ile will make you s
priest std sees sae, as be glassed—L buoy be
did. Our Tory emir are sat au Gm"
"What, wbee the worlds ea wide, sad Bib so
leg, sad God's Wiwi all—whes too, I
as Ate, aid yam Alto hot las sor—doirariP
6,1855,
"I shall never be free. He is my ev l genius.
He will haunt me till my death."
It was a morbid feeling, I had, oonsequent on
the awful struggle which had so shaken body a nd
mind. The sound of his step made me turn sick
and tremble; the sight of his grand facie—per
haps the most beautffull ever saw, with its fault.
less features ' and the half-melancholy cast given
by the high bind forehead and the pointed beard
—was to me more terrible than any monster of
ugliness the world ever produced.
He held my fortune—he ruled my house. All .
natant,. there came and went under his coutroi,
except Alexis. Why this young man still came
—or how—l Gould not tell. Probably becauie
in his pure singleness of heart and purpose, he
was stronger even than M. Anastasia!
The time passed. We embarked on board the
ship Argo, for Hispaniola.
My guardian told me, at the last minute, that
business relating to his order would probably de
tain him iv Europe—that we were to lie at an
chor, for twelve hours, off Bane--end, if he then
ease set, sail.
He cam) not—we ailed.
It was a glorious evening The sun, as he
went down over the burning seas, bedecked us
with a finger of golded fire, westward--to the
free, safe, happy West.
I say us, because in that evening we first be
gan unconsciously to say it to—as if vaguely
binding oar fates together—Alexis and I. We
talked for a whole hour—till long after France,
with all our old life therein, bad become a mere
line, a cloudy speck on the horison--of the new
life we should lead in Hispaniola. Yet all the
while, if we ha.i been truly the priest and nun
be wished to make us, our words, and I believe
our thoughts, could not have been more angel
pure, more free from auy bias of human pasaion
Yet, es the sun went down, and the sea-breese
made us draw nearer together, both began, I re
peat, instinctively to say we, and talk of our fu
ture as if it had been the future of one.
"Good evening, friends!"
He was there---M Anastaeins: I stood pet
rified. All the gulden finger of hope bad van
ishes'. I shuddered, a captive on his compeiliog
srm--teeing nothing but his krriblesmillogfsc.!
and the black wilderness of sea. for the mo
ment I felt inclined to pounce therein—l Lad of
ten longed to plenge into the equally fear,oine
wilderness of Paris streets—only I felt sure he
would follow me still. Ile would track me, it
seemed, through the whole world.
"Yon see I have been able to accomplish the
voyage; men mostly can achieve any strong par
pose—at least some men. Isabel, thisseasou will
bring back your bloom. And, Alexis, my friend,
despite threw close studies you told me of, I hope
you will 'bestow a little of your society at times
on my ward and me. We will bid you a go , el
evening now."
He gave his nephew my powerlcu hand; that
of Alexis,
too, felt cold said trembling. It seem
ed uif ho likewise could not resist the fate
which, born out of one man's inclotnitalls wi:l,
dragged wiasuudi-r. Ere my gnar:ian consigned
me to Madame Grailetie, hi. said smiling, but
looking through me with his eyes,
"Raneniber, my fair cousiu, that Alexis is to
te.—must be—s priest."
"It is iMpossiblel" said 1, stung to rpsistsucv.
"You know be has proved the talseness of your
creed; he will never retain to it. His conscience
is his own."
"But not his passions He Is young—l am
old. He will be a priest yet "
With a soft hand-pressure, M. Aoastssius left
me.
[CONCLUDED MIXT WEEK.]
Presbyterians vs. the Know Nothing.
The Presbyterians of Shenango, of the AAso•
elate Presbyttrian Church, at a melitity; hPid at
New Win:Tien, on the 17th adopted the 1-4.ll•iw
ing resolutiou with reference to Secret S. , ies:
Resolved, That in the judgment of Pr s
bytery, the priuciplesof our Church_ exclude fi
communion the members of the Secret
called Know Nothings, and the meniner+ of Yl t
such Secret Societies, and that the Presby , :ry
direct session 4 to enforce this opinon.
This it doubtless the true doctrine—f, r no one
who has taken an with to practice deception, die
in ul at ion and "all manner of deceit," is dt to
cit in oommanion with Christians. Unfortunate
ly, however, all Presbyterians do not so regard
it; inasmuch as their clergymen and most con
spicuous members, have, in too many iustances.
been foremost in this unholy crusade against the
rights of their 'fellow citizens. Presbyterian.,
Methodists and Christians everywhere would sd
vance tea•.' Christianity by following the exam
ple of their Now Wilmington brethren.—..4llen
town Democrat.
IS IT Se—Somebody—We Mull knew who
and it makes no difference—thus warns young
m e n to look ont for the women:
"Young maul keep your eye peeled when you
are after the women! Is the pretty drers or from
so attractive? Or a pretty face even? Flounces,
boy, are no consequence. A pretty face will grow
old. Paint will wash off. The sweet smile of
the flirt will give way to the scowl of the ter
magant. The neat form will be pinched into
taboo. Another and far different being will
take the place of the lovely goddess who smiles
sweet smiles and eats sour candy. Keep your
eye peeled boy, when you are aftir the women.
If the little dear is cross and sok lds at her ino.
then in the back_room, you ma) be bure that you
will get particnlr fits all aroud the home. If
she apologises fur washing dis hes you will need
a girl to fan her. If she blushes when found at
the wash-tub with her sleeves rooled up, be sure
air, that she is of the codfish arictocracy—lettle
breeding and little sense. If you marry a girl
who knows nothing but to commit woman slaugh-
ter on the piano, you have got the poorest piece
of masie ever got up. Find one whose mind is
right, then pitch in. Don't be hanging round
like a sheep thief, as though ashamed to be seen
in the day time, but walk up like a chicken to a
ttingh, and ask for the 'mete line a man."
A GOOD TIMZ COMING TO TssysLiats --A
worthy lardlord of our acquaintance, whose 4is
position to accommodate all is much more capa
cious than his house; being applied to by a guest
for a bed by himself, replied,
"I am sorry, sir, but it is impossible to-night,
I hope soon howover to be able to accommodate
all travelers."
"You purpose building I suppose," said the
guest.
"Oh, no," continued the landiord—•'but as
soon as the nights get warn, so the bed bugs are
able to get out, my boarders all give up their beds
sod creep on the door; then I can give my beds
to travelers."—Ornaka Nebraskfan.
Mir A lady in a neighboring town, who had
risen rapidly from the kitchen to grim the Lead
of her waiter's table, was oSe day entertaining
a large party, when the conversation happen
ing to Sag, one of the pests remarked, "awful
pause.
"And what's your hesitate with my 'awful
paws?" in wrath retorted the landlady; "if you
bad scrubbed the house as long as I Ewe done,
your paws would nits hae been ate bonnie and
white as they us"
TRI 1•414 that, was heard of ..Sam" is Vir4ittia,
hip we min for "s 'lodge' in 'otos tut alder.
VW
TEE POOR APPLE BOY OP PAWL
(Prim 41401 Smith Abroad.")
The winter se far has been severe upon the
poor. Bread is fuel soussee and the weather
unusually cold. F.r the first time in many years
the Seine has been frozen solid, and enough st.ow
ie upon the ground for neighing. Daring hell
(Lys I was confined to my room by ill-health, not
severe enough for the bed, yet ehutting me up;
and as I looked from my window upon Place St.
Stdpice, and saw the white flakes rudely shaken
down by the bitter north winds, I said—" God
help the poor!" Thu Place contivally suggests
the prayer, as it appears in its wintry garb--au
appearance its architect made no preparation for,
in fact never dreamed of. The immense fountain
in the centre, with its four colossi figures of
church dignitaries sheeted in ice. has a grotesque,
chilling appearance; while the huge lions at the
base seem grJwling in stiffened rage as they freers
to death. The naiads and -naked gods of fouu
tains and squares look dismally out of place
through the falling snow. The boys are nut ac
customed to it—they play in a subdued, quiet
way, ea if this rough-visaged winter were a seri
ous affair, and not to be tiitlesi c with.
Tne voitureo, in a long line, seem frozen to the
ground; the drivers, very fat in-n, generally, are
shivering upon their boxes, or walk slowly about,
beating their breast, as if engaged in an insane
attempt to be lively, while the bony horses mum
ble and snore in their nose bags. The winds tear
about the great towers of St. Sulpwe, and over
the many ckintury shaded sells; the bright snow
dances down from heights, which made St. Sul
pice setae a mole-hill. The fountains of stony
dirints and couchant lions, coated in ice, is des-
sting white. The broad square is white. The tops
of ancient voitures look like sheets. The old
church is tipped with light at a thousand points.
Odthibuses run noiselessly, while the arntling
horses slip and fall upon their noses, then up and
stagger ou again. It is winter every where, but
nut our hearty, wholesome, merry winter, greet
ed by wild shouts of buys, and sPt to the
of sieigb bells; but miserable, dull, abirt ring
winter. Way up in a seventh story wind ,w, an ~)1.1
Fr‘nehman, iu red nightcap, has pocked nut his
Lead and said "saerer Hu pea in and heists an
umbrella, fir the roof leaks in numerous plats,
and suggests rheumatism. The withered old wu
man at the corner, watching her Land-cart .tf nr
auger, says "nacre," and the, too, sets up un an
cient umbrella, which rather makes things w.irsP;
while it mows above, it rains beneath ht r flee. pt•
ive shade. All Paris hays "saere," all France
says "saere," to this vile, stupid wfuter. which
comes so uucalled fir and brings Ault ru.sety.
Ail say "acre," but the little boy nn the pave
ment b e l.,w, anal lie is too piny try.og to sea his
few apples, to notice even ins own sufferings.
"Billet pomistes, messieurs; belles pommel mes
denies; un sou, warn:eat un sou," ("Beautiful
apples, gentlemen; Ene apples, ladies; a son, on-
I) a sou," et mos up through the c-Id. air, thin,
tremulous and :nceesant. I had watched that lad
three 0535. I caunot tell why, but I had to look
at him, fascinated, although my heart ached as I
gazed at the suffecing little figure He was
yutiug, quiet young, yet had an earnest, thought
ful expr,:ssion, premature io the large eyes; as
sad 4 out of piece was the starved look about she
thin lips, blue with cold, the awaken checks and
slender neck. Poor little fellow! the miserable,
thin blouse hung wet about his shivering firm,
while the old cup had an ugly hole in the tip,
and its I looked down, I could see the snow fall
and melt. And he never sold an apple—a doz
en wi, tiered, decayed things, c.:rtainly not tempt
ing; yet be never cased in his esruest efforts.
At daylight, I awakened, by that appeal; as the
fret ziug u alter evening swept down ,he streets,
it wAs the last cry to cease.
.My iusagivatiou pictured some sick father, some
w.dewed mother or sister, depentlieg upon thus
It.chle effort for dai:y bread I could nut look at
t: , e little sufferer auy more in quiet, and so sett
Nannette with order§ to purchase the snore stock
of the little street tueictiant. I watched theca
:low the window—the glad light which lit up
h,s thin, pile face, as sue took Lis apples—the
e.geroess with which he,bretight out ~ .6 piece
-.2 brown paper and insisted to an it , empt to tie
thrui up, .re beyond my telling, as I saw them
ngb my tears. Ou Nautiette s return, I
r if she knew where he lived
-In thus house, madam"
“In this house, Nam:lentil?"
"Oh, yea, madam, I often meet him nu the back
etetrwAy. Hie people live quiet up. I never ace
any hut ban '
“1011, Nannette, purchase his apples every
day; awl when you see him passing our kitchen,
give him something
I do not want to write of my few charities, but
cannot toil you clearly my huge history without.
The next day, au.l the re xt, my little merchant
was at his Stan In the meanwhile, Nann,tte,
with the activity p•culiar to her, Lad made fresh
discoveries, arrt was fall of information. The
family above c.uasisted of au old man, and his
two grandchildren—a my little apple-mer
chant and his sister, sick in bed. They had lost
father and mother, some mouths since, of the cho
lera; and the old .soldi ,, r, for such he war, with
great difficulty kept them in brzlid. Indeed, \an•
nette said she could not make out where the lit•
tie did come from.
Otte afternoon, some days after receiving this
intelligence, I happened in the kitchen, as my
little friend pissed up the stairway. :Some ill
greater than all the r. et was being received, fur
the big tears were coursing dawn the
check in silence. A strange impulse seised me
to follow him. I was framing in my ai.nd
exctise fur the intrusion as I followed unnoticed,
for he was busy with his sorrows, and a vain at
tempt to choke d-awn his sobs and tears Arri•
ving at the tuptnost lauding, I had to pause fur
strength—and saw Lim go in at a d..ur partly
open, which he left ajar behind him In a mo
ment I followed. The door was open to aid a pi, or
chimney, and as it was, I looked through a smoky
atmosphere upon the sickness and misery within
The room, a half garret, with ceiling sloping to
the fluor, and lit b) a sif3iigbt ut tour panes, was
almost destitute of furniture, and so dimmed by
smoke, it resembled ait n Au old table, on
which where a few dishes, two broken chairs, and
a low cot made up the sutu. Upon the cot / saw
through the gloom, a thin, pale lace, the counter.
part in death almost of my little apple boy—au
old man, whose snowy head seemed to gather
about and increase the light of tho apprtment.
The boy stood with his back to me in silence.
"Well, Maurice, my child, did you see my old
general, and will the doctor come?"
It was a minute before the boy I.( plied,
"They drove me fr.= the door—the doctor
says be has no time, but will have Marie taken
to the hospital."
The old man started, and said quickly:
"Not there, not there;—we have given it
enough."
Then after a pause; he added:
"Petit:Doe, my children, the good father will
find us yet."
The little sufferer lifted a skeleton hand, and
placing it on the old man's, said:
"I am better now—much better—l will be
we I soon, grandpa."
I felt myself an intruder on sacred ground, and,
hastened to offer my services. The embarrass
ment mmuctied - witt snob tendering assistance
waa great', increased by the prides? the old man.
U. who 414 not hmiste to impose idsegad head
to . 10 blast al wilder, spa s *Lis bei4p, sad
B. F. SLOB, EDITOR.
beg for his children, shrunk bark proudly 'bee
46 poor home was entorcd, and its secret lilh laid
bare. I drew, Irowev , r, the pr.fered chair t•
the other ride of the h , 4.1, and taking his Imam*
hand In f•gaud a way to the OW 011111a t i
heart and ctut:d rice. By dtgrtis I bad their
history—woe told h -,w ha.l lost his brace boy
rho wife f ilowed, and Low they oak
ep er and dr per in a iryiri•rt`i t Until a ti irvat i us
Stitt Pal !Len:. The grandatuer had gotaaht
%Turk Lut wis too fen ble for any servica. Th e
clildrvu Lad r.tr.‘,t, bravely in many ways, ulna
.rie was tak-n sick, and then the furniture and
ordinary comforts di,sapivared, until the lest sou
went, and the poor sneerer sank nearer sad
nearer to death
I will not iliv..ll rip:n this sad picture. I um
tioned this inE4n , .:o f stress to my friend, Mad
am B . and dt', who lows everything woeful,
had, among of h. r matters, stored awsy the cipher
which. marked tip.in a letter addressed to Los*
Ndpoieon, takes it dire,:t,y to his has& MO
wrote to him ihlt an of l soldwr of the gruo d
army was starving', to death at ti.. St, Svl
pieo. She received no answer. and no 'bodes
whatever seemed taken of her kind appeal; but
10"11 after, an unknown h-irt came to the assist
ance of-our p r Tu. furniture was re
s• orol, fu.! at.d c .133! to ahuudantly,-In
ter of Charity to•-,k r poaition l.
,v the bed-side,
and, stranger than all, one of the most eminAnt
ph) ritiaos in P.ris c m. , dolly to the garret. I
saw Cie f..t:r t.ue ot ail tui• good -4. stranger
tJai al tit,' ki,fi iruas 9 .LLI:CAUSO, seemed
familiar. She call. , in a F.a u, private carriage,
remained hot a sit•lt Time, yet was very thought
ful and kind
Po.erty could be d.;ven fnm the clonr, but
Sorrow remolded. I:, [ll hid n wineral, the fields
no herb. scictiee to rig the fleeting aim
(,, hioek his head
and every iity ;, ol , w'y from the
hurnblo hotno But it mai ull in ram; we felt
filet ohe tS flog O u..,fternoon, little Blau
nee _; tt tr.slu Jee t the civeing scene.
Ab,, ut 'L c Ir• re g , tit,.r , 1 the strange lady,
th_ of 8 - r Clarity, Maurice and
Th e s ro-.led the sleet
upon the r .f, .i, uv,r that• little oonch
to catch tt.- a: Leath 'flow slowly the
hours work.' ;.fiat. TI, • ~tuna without gradually
grew still, a, 'I. -nine quicker
and lower. cAt 1:1 , 4 t ) storm sad
struggle—Lod sodd,tily th r sun broke through
the -ktligLt , iu up-lu the little fore
—falling iu g. ay lu gr ay he til—falliog
in glory upon I he 1.,1 du ifu..,,'c •.f the Air beet.
f ac t ures ., eut T. 0.1 n can ever
make her app,a; hlf s aut.fui as age was by
the ii , tle p rty.
Thew things or,' , Jun •, We arc told, for politiOal
effL et; well, perl,:,ps tau only. happy in
knowing that they are di,oe.
VENANGO COUNTY —Eltehnive fires, as we
learn nom Cos , Ir,.sskisu psp2rs have recently
prevailed in this, w0 , r14 in v.iitous ruts of this
county Some but: also, it appears,-cases
destroyed. Th.' ;JyR: 11'e learn that
the house of )Ir. Juhn Grit) n•.n.ar Sugar Lake,
with all its e.,ntent3, mac totally consumed. p
small house nr b , loi,4tng to a man who is
clearing ian , l in SJa.lycr„tck t.,wnsbip, contain
ing &quantity of doil.,ug, t,,015, and a sum of
money, amounting in the who:0 to about lILSO
was also thstroyrd 'f htse are all we have heard
of, but there lilt doubtless other similiar eases,
a, the fire appears to b,t wAls lv r xtuldtd.
A Vt ry tine ssw :n;11 own .1 by Jarths )1. Stowe
tir, Co ,on 13 , g Ili, ry in "'loners tows.
teas Lu.ii lon S.,tu,day week, togeth
er with a (I.l,ll'ity :sssulAr The mill was
worth $4,:'00-1..),:r.i SJJO. Na insurance.—
Thu fire was c , nstouusca , d ibis ease from
a burning slab pits. Mr Stuwo was not as
home.
A LEARNED p,A•tg , 2.lll_, at Nantucket, used
every In rniu, : r„ ; 1 p.ls•Jsci at the Bible,
and s_tn: aj !:c i.roc_eded, in or
der, tun, lit iskinz que , t: oa , s to bow much
they retutt_slicr..ti I c Mlllt.l3t, be might MI-
Cort3lo W 1.19 Were boy of the school.
Ou one r::.:llr;.tu the b)ok of Job,
thug:
"There Iraa a man in thr land rf and his
name was J,o, wtt.. G d and cehewed
evti. E-e,kwid evil; that la, he esbewed evil
aJ-I ibacc +v“:l,ci have nothiog toile
Asti] it " 11 ; c:,e..r and forett.ole elu
cidation of !n, w.r ‘•, , coei‘," ho proceeded,
until a DUITO , I rCrie+ wc:e read and coa
t/tented on 1.11 suelitar clear and intelligible
ruaun,r.
After a long inrerv:!, when !lie young mind
h a d nine t d gc.r ,r s .n p. , li t ;ngue called
urn ne r.l b 4. I the Lowing
Lnh zuv
sra, the m trLo 17,z?"
\Vas he a 6`• 1 Luau?"
"Wq Le
ch , tv to), when nobo-is else would
have whiny to ' wL3 11...,b Holmes
al.ISWer
Tl.e la)) was permitted to take his seat
Exca‘Nalso WIN'Es —.I late number of
East •n Ciur,na, peth:istiL.cl at P4ulding, Miss., ,
give; an aecrmot d a -w:p n-gq:ia'eti in that vi
emit, by tWU (~! i . . 4 subs:t.b r•-, and v . )uclacs for
the trutu n' the. Frey 'llla chattles which
changed ownt.r , tvre nothing l sa Cum] tile wives
of the parties, wbj w. , re nn Co eve .4 emirs
tion, as they erentually did, nn to Alabama mad
the other tL Ttx.. Th. Ca/ :tat refrains from
giving the real names of the t..ithiess fieoediets,
and calls them t•Ohetliah'• and "Dick," but ro
cit iv the fircumst itt...a f th,..: trnussetion--lionr
;hey w-ut ~ u t tot to IA inch, ...at down oo s let
and emir d opt.° :he bu-,u,ss. liqw they auto
near "poi.io,; tue trade bi t5,,u , ,... Ut.es wife WIWI 6 4
`-yt,Lagtr erirer be a dczeu )ear.;" and lbeffle,
utter teach ,1,..ti . , r. , 1;, the , 1 ft teuce araallaolly
cqu3itzod by the t;..u..r , tta proposal of Dick to
izi.-e, in the way -, 1 hr ~t, ".1 cow and calf, toe
xtats, Au old gun and an ex-bell." The rrapec
tie etiiktreu of the two mothers rematited vitt'
;heir -....rdogtly augaired step-wethets,.failowed
them to the Sat a of their aloriuu.
SNEZZINCI —An iris ibl , , il , l gentleman was
taken with sneezing in the met spasmodic man
ner eight times; lie arrest,l the pitvoxistn for a
moment, and eztruiting his landkerclu(, bs
thus addressed ind.oantly say
ing:—"oh! go on—you'll blow )onr isr
fern al brains out presently:"
A couple of kitticrites who arrived is
New Li..utlon on or about th 11, theday whin
all thing should have gone ti, :mash. stepped ah
a hotel hut refuted hccause they were
nawilliug to grope their way out io tits dark,
when the time came I, ave. So they sat oat
their trunks in the entry all night, and the west
day kept an wnfaiter.uit cwion La the road, wain.
log for the blowiug -1 the hors.
Mow PRICES. —The story that the Rochester .
Claim telly of a man who offered twenty 5,0 Sift
"for the privilege of Waking a abort dils/11a
with that Steak " a frisad was carry's& is, ail 7
equalled by the proposition of soother tonspip.
eel individual, who offarsthirty teves.anoi a had
await to wad is awl instil widish va51516114.
ISM
NUMBER 5.