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John's Wife.
v _—
A young wife stood with her hand on her broom
And looked around the little room ;
“ Nothing but toil forever,” she said.
“ From early morn till the light has fled.
If you w cre only a merchant now.
We need not live by the sweat of our brow."
Pegging away, spoke shoemaker John. .
" We ne'er see well what we’re standing on."
A lady stood by her husband's chair,
And quietly passed her hand o’er his hair;
“ You never have time for me now," she said,
And a tear-drop fell on the low bent head.
“If we were only rich, my dear. _
With nothing to do from year to year,
But to muse each other—oh, dcar me i ,
What a happy woman I should be."
Looking up from his ledger. spoke merchant John
“ We ne'er see well what we're standing on."
A stately form in velvet dressed—
A diamond gleaming on her breast;
" Nothing but toil for iashion."shc said.
“ Till I sometimes wish that I were dead.
It I might cast this wealth aside.
And be once more the poor man's bride."
From his easy chair, spoke gentleman John:
" We ne’er see well what we’re standing on.”
Faint Heart.
“ Didn’t you notice that she wore a hat
of last year’s fashion? " exclaimed Miss
Allcrdyce, scornfully.
“ But her eyes were like gray stars. "
“ But her manner was dreadfully
quick and decided."
" She was very pretty."
” My dear Richard, you are really ab-
surd! ' The girl is a hospital nurse, and
what women with any refinement or
delicacy would take up any such profes-
sion as that? It shows she can't be
nice." '
“Ladies do such things nowadays"—
less defiantly. ‘
“Now, you know you are only saying
so because she is pretty. Of course
ladies do queer things, but that doesn’t
excuse an unwomanly feeling. Besides .
she is only a solicitor's daughter. I
shan't ask momma to call." I
“But don't you think common civili,
ty—‘l
” No I don't. She is only staying at
the Rectory, and we are not forced to
call on every one's friends. Besides,
Capt. Hardwicke is expected home, and
it w ould make it awkward. What would
one of Lord Belmont’s people say if we
asked them to meet a girl like Miss
Travers ?" .
“All the same, she's as pretty and
ladylike as any one I ever met.”
“Very likely, but she is not in our
set. Now, Richard, if you say any more,
I shall begin to think that you are full-
ing in love with her, if the idea is not
too absur ."
But Richard had closed the ‘ draw:
lug-room door upon his sisters’ languid
voices and was half way across the wide
lawn with its brilliant parte'rres of sum-
mer flowers.
Poor Richard Allerdyce! only son of
the richest banker in Chellowdean, peo-
ple of good family, but with just that
uncertainty of social position which
made them afraid of overstepping any
boundaries, rather gratified at being on
intimate terms with Lord Belmont and
the Hardwickes, he was of divided mind
this summer afternoon.
He had been greatly taken by that
sweet face and slight figure in the Rec-
tory pew last sunday; was sensible of a ,
ihill of more than civil interest when he
met their owner walking home with the
good old rector after service, and was
introduced to Miss Travers. while the
eyes ”like gray stars " were suddenly
raised to his; and he had evcrwsince
spent a larger portion of his time than
was strictly needful in walking past the
Rectory’s rose-covered garden gate.
But on the other side, his sisters' words
had certainly struck home.
Brought up, as all the Allerdyces
were, like hot-house plants, sheltered
from every breath of frosty air, it was
not strange that Richard at five-and-
twenty, though a big, burly enough
young Englishman to look at, was but
little of a man in heart or mind.
Knowledge of the world had been care-
fully kept from him, as from his sisters,
lest they should learn evil; but their
very ignorance had cost them the loss
of power to choose between evil and
good and had given them weak preju«
dices and conceited opinionativeness,
instead of a mind able to discern and
prefer the right.
Richars’s handsome face was overcast
as he swung out of the lodge gate and
down the road. Miss Travers a hospital
nurse! certainly it was a shock. Not
only did it seem to him unwomanly for
a woman to work at all, but infinitely
more so to do menial work. And then
the awful thought of what his mother
and sisters would say, were they asked
to receive a hospital nurse as his future
wife! For it had gone as far as that in
Richard's susceptible mind, even in
these three short days. All at once his
thoughts broke ofl‘ as Miss Travers her-
self, sweet and bright as ever, in her
black dress, came out from the Rectory
gate. the great Rectory mastifi' pacing
behind her. . '
Now Richard's own collie was at his
heels and there was a bitter feud of long
standing between those two faithful
followers. There was one angry growl,
a heavy rush, a thud, and then a brown
body and a black rolled together in the
dust in a manner suggestive of a dog’s
funeral on one side or the other. '
Richard, who was actually ptuggered
by the suddenuess of it all. could
not for a moment regain his senses; and
when he did it was to find Miss Travers
with both hands locked in the hair of
Rollo‘s shaggy neck, pulling him from
his foe with all her strength, and callin g
to Mr. Allerdycc to take hold of his dog
and pull him 0!.
She was being whirled around ins
cloud of dust by the frantic waltzers
before Richard could decide on where to
take bold, but the task was performed
for him by a gentleman in tweed knick-
erbockers. who started out of the
“White Hart,” a few yards away, and
ran to the rescue. Between Miss Trav-
ers and himself the combatants were
separated, each carrying of a few frag-
ments of the other's person; and Miss
Travers. flushed, panting, covered with
dust, but looking lovelier than Richard
had ever seen woman look before, sank
back against the Rectory wall and tried
tolaugh. The stranger lifted his hat,
looking straight at her, with apair of
piercing brown eyes.
“Excuse me, Miss Travers," he said,
in a rather off-hand manner, “ but that
was about as rash :1 thing as any one
could possibly do. The dogs might
both have turned on you and have bit-
ten you." ' '
"Thank you, Capt. Hardwicko, I had
not the least fear," was her only re-
spouse, given with a little haughtiness.
And then the gentleman. with a nod
to Richard. turned from them and
strode away as rapidly as he had come.
"Miss Travers, are you hurt? You
never should have done a thing like
that; Hardwicke was right; it was
awfully rush! By the way, you know‘
Hardwicke ?"
“No. I am not hurt a bit. Don’t
scold me. please; I know it was a silly
thing to do, but I didn't stop to think.
Pray don't look so horrified. ". '
“ But if you had been bitten !”
“Well. I wasn't." And her face
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“ I really don't think you could My
sisters never have done such a thing,"
he fultcred. ,
”Your sisters ? oh, perhaps not;"
with a little smile at the idea. “ But I
am quite used to tricycles. Iride one
whenever I get a chance. "
A further blow for Richard; but there
was no knowing how to refuse her. and
so he stood aside. She took her place
like one who was thoroughly used to
tricycles, and he could not but admit
that she adorned her position.
“ What a delicious hill to run down!
Ireally must try it," she said, witha
happy little laugh. as she placed her
feet on the treadles.
“Pray don't attempt it i ” was Richard's
horrified remonstrance.
The hill stretched doWn even more
abruptly than on the side he had
ascended, and near the bottom there
was a sudden sharp turn, with the rail-
way line running just below—tho
nastiest bit of road for miles around.
Perhaps even Agatha Travers wopld
have hesitated to hazard it, had it not
been for the consternation in Richard's
face.
“Mr. Allerdyco, you are faint-
hearted,” she said gaily, as shestarted
on her downward course—a little more
rapidly than she intended, but Richard’s
new tricycle worked smoothly.
His heart stood in his mouth, as the
country folk say, as she began to glide
rapidly ofl'. She turned her head and
flushed back a merry defiance.
“ My uncle. the chemist at Rochester.
used to say—" Then the wicked spar-
kle faded suddenly, and she called
quick and clear. “Can you not stop
me. please? The break is stifi' ; I can't
make it work ; it's running away."
On, on—faster, faster! She managed
to hold to the steering handle, and she
kept the machine in the middle of the
road ; but the mad pace grew more and
more desperate. She could never turn
that fatal cerncr by the railway em-
baukment;over it she must go. And
it was just then that Richard and she
both together saw the pufl' of snow white
smoke froni the hillside, and told them
that the evening express was out of the
tunnel, and thundering down that very
bit of line; -
It all flashed over Agatha. in one rush;
would the fall kill her, or would it.be
the train ? It must be one or the other;
the next second or two would settle
that. A swift prayer was on her lips.
but what she never quite know, for even
as she breathed it, someone or some-
thing in brown tweed knickcrbcckers
hurled itself over the road-side stile be~
fore her, a stout stick darted into the
firing wheel, and with one quick swerve
the tricycle crashed into the ditch, and
lay there, a confused mass of spinning
spokes andqmutilutcd tires, while Agatha
flow out from its midst like a ball. and
alightcd on a grassy bank a yard or two
away ; and the express rushed past with
a wild cry on the line just below, and
vanished round a sharp curve that
matched the curve above it.
~ “The poor tricycle! I am so sorry.
Is it very badly hurt ‘1’" she said.
And. in his relief and glnduess,
Richard could find words for nothing
but,— '
“ Bother the tricycle 1"
He was ready enough to say some--
thing, however, presently, when he found
himself obliged to stop and see its re-
mains decently cared for. while Capt.
Hurdwicke took charge of Miss Traver's
return to the Rectory. She said she
was none the worse for her fall. but por-
“ But you know Hardwickes ?" he per-
sisted, quite unable to get over his sur-
prise in that quarter.
“Oh yes. Capt. Hardwickc was in
hospital with an. accident some months
ago—my hospital. I had charge of him
there, that's all," she said, and her face
grew cold. .
Then she-pulled a rose from the hedge
so sharply that it fell to pieces in her
hand.
“Look here! let us cover over ethe
battle field with flowers,” she laughed.
showering the petals on the ground
before her. '
Richard went home more thoughtful
than ever. Surely this woman was a
novelty in his experience. .She acted
with the skill and during or a man; and
yet he would rather not think what his
sisters’ faces would be like had they
but seen it. Was it actually ladylike?
or should she not rather have fled from
the scene of conflict, or screamed and
fainted? To be sure, she looked as
beautiful as an avenging Amazon; but
then, was it quite correct conduct for a
girl ?
And Captain Hardwickc's manner. so
abrupt and dictatorial; he seemed to
,show her the difference in social posi-
tion between a noblemau's nephew and
a hospital nurse. ' It must have been an
awkward meeting as his sisters had said.
And then a cold shiver came over him
as he thought of Miss Travers intrm
duced as Mrs. Richard Allcrdyco at
Belmont Castle, and Capt. Hardwickc's
stony store of surprise. And yet-and
yet—she was so beautiful.
Nearly three weeks had passed since
the dog episode, and Richard's courage
still wavered in the balance. He had
grown to know Miss Travers well in
those three weeks, and to know her well
was but to love her better. There
never was a woman so sweet and clever
-—so sympathetic, so beautiful—he was
certain of that; no one he more ardeutly
longed to have for his wife; and yeti
That terrible strength of character, that
profession, that total lack of pedigree!
Only last night, in the moonlit garden
of the Rectory. he had almost flung all
prudence to the winds. she had been so
dangerously, fatally sweet (she was
always especially kind to‘him), but he
reeled back from the gulf just in time
when she mentioned casually. without a
change of voice or countenance, that
she had an uncle who was a chemist in
Rochester. Richard recoilod again as
he thought of it, and fancied Hard-
wicke’s look if he could have heard her.
For Capt. Hardwicke was still at the
“White Hart," and perhaps his pre-
sence, and the atmosphere of exalted
society about him. had been one of
Richard's restraining though uncon-
scious influences.
Now as he slowly worked his way up
the steepest hill in the neighborhood,
on his new tricycle, he was pondering
the old question in his mind. Could he
take the fatal plunge, or wait too
costly i’
A trim. graceful figure on the road
before him. as at last he gained the
summit, drove all also to the four winds;
and in a moment he had overtaken the
object of his cogitations, and sprung to
the ground beside her. , .
“ Mr. Allerdyce! how like a ghost~ you
' stole upon me! Oh,- I see, it was a tri-
cycle, and what a beauty! D0vlet mo
look at it i" she said, turning to shake
hands._ . >
And Richard, nothing 10th, began to
display his new toy—a perfect thing in
build and finish—the Allerdyces' posses-
sions always were the most perfect_of
their kind.
He began to explain it to her, forget-
ting all about the chemist uncle,but she
interrupted him. -
“Yes, I know all about them. thanks.
dimpled with a friendly smile st his
shocked look. _.__ ,
I see it is a regular bit of perfection. .I
should like to try it. May I l!"
.hnps'she was a little shaken ;for Capt.
Hardwicke kindly offered her his arm,
and she took it.
Richard hurried after them before
long. his whole heart aglow. That
awful minute had taught him that life
without Agatha Travers would seema
poor and worthless thing, were she a
factory girl. He hurried after them,
therefore, and came in sight of the
Rectory gate us two hands unclasped
over it, and a small dark head raised
itself swiftly from a brown shoulder,
where it seemed to have been resting.
“Good gracious !" was all Richard
could utter, as Agatha vanished, and
Capt. Hurdwickc sauntered towiird him.
“ Ah, Allerdyce, caught us. have you P
Then I mriy as well tell you all and
take your congratulations. Perhaps
you've heard how Miss Travers' nursing
saved my life last year. and of course I
fell in love with her. She would have
it, it was only gratitude, and refused to
let me make what she called a mesnlli-
ance.'just because there’s that brute of
a title coming to me some day. I offered
to drop the title altogether if she liked,
but nothing would do. and we parted
rather out of temper. I heard she was
down here, and ran down to see my
uncle, hoping he would talk her over,
but I began to think it was no use. I
was frantically jealous of you, old fellow l
Isaw she liked you, and I almost be-
lieve you could have out me out, if you’d
had the pluck to try, she was so‘ set
against me. But to-day has made it all
right, and she thinks I've saved her life
this time. so we’re quits. Well, old man.
am I not the luckiest man alive f"
“But—but—surely her family—"
stammered Richard.
“She’s an orphan. Oh, I see what
you mean ; she told me she shocked you
with an uncle who's a chemist. Bah i I
should think the mere fact of being a
hospital nurse was a patent of nobility.
But if she were a beggar maid, she
would still be a real princess, God bless
And Richard‘s groan may have been
an ascent.
———Oo-.o.—.~———
Looking Back.
_—
Looking back to-day across the mist
of bygone years, I see myself once
again a young girl, bright and beauti-
ful, radiant and happy, with the golden
hopes of youth and the possession of a
true man ’s love.
How plainly it all comes back to me
as I sit here by my lonely hearth. gray-
haired, wrinkled, bowed by the weight
of the long sad years-that dear, dead
never to be recalled past!
What. I wonder, has brought it back
so plainly to day ? Is it the hum of the
fisher folk's voices that floats up to me
as they mend their nets and sort their
fish, lounging on the stretch of yellow
sand below, or the shrill cry of the gulls
as they sweep by, and the ring of chil-
dren's light-hearted laughter ? Or isii
the ceaseless, monotonous wash of the
waves as they beat on the strand and
lap and fret at the base of the white
cliffs?
I think it must be that the dirge of
the waters wakens memory, with the
sight of that vast expanse of restless
blue sea, dancing shimmering in the
sunshine, as it danced and shimmercd
on that day long ago. when I first nflt
stson Hamilton.
How well , I remember it. though
sixty years have passed since then. It
was June. Crimson lampion nodded its
glowing head ; starwort was in the lanes;
the sorrel reddening. golden tresscd
laburnum in all its glory; and roses
everywhere. shedding their sweet fra-
grance on the summer air. Thelittlo
white Vicarage on the crest of the cliff
was half smothered with the queen of
flowers creeping over and clinging to it.
and its eaves were tasselled with the
purple flower of the wisteria.
Out on the lawn, under the shade of
the chest-nut tree, we girls sat laughing
and talking and pretending to work,
but really we weye waiting anxiously to
see uncle's new curate. -
And when he came, tall and stalwart.
handsome and courtly, the chattering
and laughing ceased, and we grew
strangely silent—I and my cousins, and
some young friends who had come
from the village to drink a dish of tea
and taste of a syllabub, for the making of
which olu Margery, my uncle's house-
keeper, was famed many long mile from
home, and to compare our tnmbour'
work-really it was to see Rawson
Hamilton.
He attached himself to me from the
first—picked up the knitting that fell
‘from my lap, and patiently held the
skeins of bright colored wool while I
rolled them into great balls; and once,
when his hand touched mine. he leaned
forward and whispered that “he would
like to remain thus Occupied forever;"
and I, being somewhat of a beauty and a
spoilt and only child, answered portly
and cuttingly. at which he went over to
my cousin. Minnie Roche, and walked
with her down the trim garden paths,
'and talked with her all the rest of the
evening. ,
Iknew he did not care for Minnie,
who was plain and awkward. and never
had much to say for herself-that he
did it simply because I had vexed him;
and I know also now, looking back with
these fear-dimmed old eyes of mine, that
he fell in love with me that day, and
woman never gained a truer or more
steadfast affection. ‘
But Iwns vain, and proud and chill-
ing in my manner when he addressed
me, and a whole month passed and we
were comparative strangers. until one
morning I went out alone in a little boat
my father kept for me, and somehow or
other I lost one of ,my'oars. and trying
to regain it, overturned the light skifl
and was struggling in the water in on
instant. "
I should have been drowned but for
Rawdon. It was early; very few people
were about. He was standing on the
beach, looking seaward. Seeing the ac-
ing into the sea, after a hard struggle
brought me safely to land. I was think-
ing how brave and noble he was to risk
his life for a stronger; but aloud I only
said,— _
“Thank you, Mr. Hamilton; I can
never express my gratitude.”
gently. “It gives me great happiness
to think I have been of service to you.”
"My father will say what I cannot, "_
’I replied, on he helped me up the steep
ascent to the top of the cliff, where our
old house was perched.
"I want no thanks. believe me." he
said again. with a look that brought
the blood to my cheeks and made my
lips droop.
My father's gratitude knew no bounds.
He never could make enough: of his
brother's curate after that. The cause
quencc was that young Hamilton was
very often at Gablo End, and constantly
in my society.
All through that pleasant summer
time I did little else but think of him,
and often I said to myself, ”He loves
me ; I shall be his wife some day.” Yet.
though I loved him, my vanity and
pride made me conceal my aflection
from him and treat him in s capricious,
heartless way. ~
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Often, when we were alone, his eyes
would soften and his voice take deeper
tenderer tones. I cmld see the love
words were trembling on his lips, and I
would suddenly freeze and speak in a
haughty, disdainful way, checking the
tender speeches. Then he \would look
-at_me in mute astonishment. not under-
standing the sudden change in my man-
ner and ask if he had ofi‘e'uded me and I
would say cutting'ly that “he had not
the power to do that."
After such a speech he always left me,
going away with down-bent head and
dejected aspect, to seek Minnie—gentle,
brown-eyed Minnie, whose soft orbs in-
variably were such a tender look when
thoy rested on him.
She seemed always to be able to soothe
him, and this used to madden mo.
Though I did drive him away from my
side with disdainful airs, I could not
bear to think that he should leave me,
with all my fresh. rosebud beauty, and go
to my plain, awkward cousin. I wanted
him to love me blindly. madly, absorb-
ingly—to bcfirst and foremost with him.
I wanted him to hog and pray for a smile
from my lips, a gentle word, a promise
of love. But that he would not do. He
cared for me honestly and well, with a
deep, quiet affection that neither time
nor change could effect. How deep, I
never knew. alas. until it was too late.
He never indulged in passionate pro.
testations or exaggerated rhapsodies.
yet my young ears longed for them. I
wanted to be worried and bothered and
wildly (pursued by the man I loved.
Still. had I reflected, my common sense
would have told mo that Rawdon Hamil-
ton would never follow up a woman who
seemed to despise and snub him—never
plead for an affection be deemed never
could be his ; that he was too honorable
to force his affections where he thought
they were not wanted.
But I was blind then, and in my
blindness groped away from all that
gives one happiness. shut the sunshine
out of my life, with my own hands
made my future barren, and tore myself
asunder from the being I loved best in
the world.
The summer was growing to a close,
the harvest was being garnered, and in
the midst of it came Major Chelton to
stay with my uncle at the vicarage. He
had been Wounded at Waterloo, and
came to be revived and strengthened by
the sea breezes—n becoming pallor on
his ' bronzed check, his arm in a sling,
and a general halo of romance and
glory about him.
The advent of this interesting .her)
fluttered my three cousins considerably;
on me it had really little effect, though
I pretended to take great interest in all
that concerned him, as I knew that by
so doing I could punish poor Rawdon
for what I termed his indifference and
want of devotion; while the major, who
thought it was the first duty of man to
flirt with every woman he came across,
publicly declared himself my ndorer.
Icured nothing for the man, but it
gratified my miserable vanity to see
. Rawdon's pain filled eyes gaze on us;
to see his face grow pale and his eyes
flush as the major held my hand or
whispered in my ear.
The soldier was gay enough, and full
of gallant, witty speeches and compli-
ments. We walked together through
the flowery woodlands, rode together
over sea swept downs, sang sentimental
ducts, and sometimes sailed “o’er the
summer son." And Rawdon turned to
Minnie for comfort and consolation,
which made me more and more gracious
in my manner to the other, because my
heart ached for my love.
So two months passed. and matters
seemed as though they would never,
come right, until one bright October
day Major Chelton, as we stood on the
crest of the clifi‘, asked me in a few
manly. honest words, to be his wife;
and I, covered with confusion (for I
never dreamed my flirtation would end
in this), was obliged to stammer that I
could not promise to be his wife because
I loved some one else.
He gave one look of surprise and con-
tempt. and then left me without another
word—left me rooted to the spot, staring"
seaward, my hands full of the lovely
flowers he had given me that morning.
How long I remained gazing at the
dancing waves I know not, but I was
awakened from my unpleasant rcvcry
by a voice exclaiming, “ Good afternoon,
Miss Roche, ” and found Rawdon Hamil-
ton by my side.
“ Good afternoon." I replied, mechani-
cally.
" It is along time since we met alone,”
he said, pointedly.
" Is it ?" ,
“Yes ; 'and I think you have not been
long alone now. Those are beautiful
roses. "
“Are they not ?" I cried, saucily,
recovering myself a little, and giving an
upward glance at him from under my
lids. ' .
“Very lovely ! May I have one 1‘"
“If you wish. Major 'Chelton gave
them to me, I must tell you."
“ Indeed ! Then you accept presents
from him ?"
"I accept flowers from him.”
I coquettishly pressed a crimson rose ’
to my lips. ‘
“You must love him very much to
kiss even his flowers." he said in a low,
even tone; but I could see that heavas
trembli; g with suppressed rage and
passion.
“Do you think so 1" I queried,
carelessly.
“Yes. I think so; and I suppose I
must congratulate you."
A moment later. as I remained silent,
he demanded hotly :
" Are you engaged to Major Chelton ?”
“You have no right to ask that." I
replied with proud d.isdain. .
“Well, will you give me the right!”
he cried eagerly. "Alicia, will you i"
For a moment I hesitated. The prize
was mine that I had longed for so
desperately. I wished to say “Yes,"
yet pride forbade. He must be pun-
ished for daring to seek Minnie’s society.
I would make him feel the weight of my
displeasure first; He should learn to
long and pray fora " yes ’3 from my lips;
so lifting my eyes and looking at him, I
said “ No," clearly and firmly.
“Doyou mean this?" he asked, in a
hoarse whisper, his face suddenly pale
and set.
“Yes," I answered again, though
already a pain was tugging at my heart-
strings.
"Then God pardon you for the way
you have treated me.” , ,
And turning, he strode swiftly down
the cutting to the beach. Loosing a
light boat he sprang inpand seizing the'
cars. pulled straight out to sea, never
glancing at me again.
I was hardly prepared for this termina-
tion to our love-scene, and looked after
the fast receding boat, wistfully. He
had taken my “No " very much in
earnest; but he would return and plead
once more for my love. Consoling my-
self with this reficction, I want slowly
home. .
Later on 'in the day I strolled out
again and stood 111: the edge of the cliff.
A change had taken place in the weather.
The blue sky was darkened by heavy,
quick-scudding clouds; the wind had
risen. and was lashing the sea info lines.
of white foam, and the shrill cries of tho
sea-gulls betokoned an approfiching
storm. I hurried down to the beach:-
Ruwdon‘s boat was not there.
"Hus Mr. Hamilton come back ?" I
asked a. fisherman. -
“No, missie.” replied the weather-
bcuien old salt. “It be toime he did,
for it’ll be a rare dirty noight. and any-
one getting near the Black Reef ina
small craft ’ull suffer for it. "
My heart sank usIheard old Dick’s
words. It was truly “a dirty night."
Every moment the wind howled louder.
and the surf thundered harder on the
strand. How can I den‘cibe my feelings
through that awful night—how téll of
the horrible agony I endured at the
reflection that he I loved best in all the
world was out in a frail skiff on the
storm-lashed ocean, driven out—by me!
Hour after hour went by, and still I
stood in the full blast of the bowling
wind, deaf to the entreaties of my father
and my friends, straining my eyes over
the churning sea to catch a glimpse of
the boat that had carried him away;
wringing my hands and praying Heaven
to save my love—to give him back to me.
My prayer was answered; my love
was given back to me. Not, alas! lasI
prayed for him to come to‘ me,'thobgh
my pride was punished;-aud-the pu'nish- ‘
ment, I think. much he I deserved it,
was heavier than'tho sin.
When the gray autumn morning
dawned the wind lulled, and, as the tide
came in, the waves bore on their crest
and cast almost at my feet the body of
my lover—all that was left of Rawdon
Hamilton.
They tried to keep me back, but I
fought like a madwoman, and breaking
from their hold, flung myself on the
corpse. Struining the heavy head to
my breast. I implored him frantically.
to look up, and speak to me one word—-
only one word! But no answer came
from the firm-shut month; there was
no uplifting of the closed lids.
Like one in a dream I ran my fingers
through the dark curls. damp with sea~
water, tangled with drifting weeds, and
bending pressed a long, last kiss on the
cold, still lips; then a merciful insensi-
bility overcame me.
I did not die of grief at the awhl
death of the husband of my heart; that
mercy was not vouchsafed me. I lived
on and on through the long, barren
years, seeing most of my companions
marry and bear children, and live happily
in the sunshine of their husbands’ love ;
lived to see relatives and contempor-
aries die; lived on—‘on with an empty,
aching heart, to a miserable, dreary old
age, burdened with a load of agonizing
remorse and terrible regret. from which
the reaper, death, alone, has power to
free me.
o-..
BISMARCK’S IRON RING.
There is quite a little romance 3550
ciaied with the large iron ring worn by
Prince Bismarck. The ring has the
Russian inscription of “Nitschewo,” a
word much used by the Russians, and
expressing much the same meaning as
our “No matter.” This is the story of
the ring: When Bismarck was Minister
at St. Peicrsburg in 1862 he received in
the winter an invitation to an imperial
hunt, which was to take place at a very
considerable distance from the capital
He turned up at whatlie supposed to be
the rendezvous with plenty of time to
spare, but unfortunately it turned out
that he was still a matter of sixteen
miles away. A peasant undertook to
bring him to the spot in time, and forth-
with Bismarck and his guide set off in a
sleigh with two diminutive horses. To
the suggestions of the Prussian Minis-
ter, who could only speak his own lan-
guage. that the animals in front were
only rats. the driver returned it our!
“Nitschewo.” “You‘ll be sure to be in
time ?" again ventured Bismarck after a
while, and the answer was another
"Nitschewo." The impatient hunts-
man complained that the pace was not
swift enough, and the peasant, with
“Nitschewo.” lashed his horses into
such a speed that Bismarck began to up
braid him. The answer was still the
same. 7A short time afterwards both
occupants of the sleigh were thrown
out, yet all the satisfaction Bismarck
could get from the driver was “Nita-
chewo." Picking up a piece of iron
which had been broken from the sleigh,
the Prussian Minister carried it back to .
St. Petersburg and had a ring made as _
a memento of an adventure which
might have had a more serious end.
This iron ring still adorns the finger of
the Iron Chancellor. When Bismarck
related this story he is said to have ad-
ded: -“My good Germans often re-
proach me with being too indulgent to
Russia; but they should remember that
I alone in all Germany am accustomed
in critical moments to say, ‘ Nitschewo'
(No matter), while in Russia a hundred
million people live who at the same
moment have ‘Nitschewo’ on the
tongue."
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A VANISHED ISLAND.
An official notification from the Dan-
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Denmark is poorer by the loss of an
island and of an interesting natural
{object South of the island Suderoe,
'one of the. Faroe group, a 'mighty clifl
rose sheer out of the sea to a height of
from eighty to 100 feet. Looked at
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soon from SIIdBI‘OO, it presented the ap-
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from the Faroese the name of Munken.
The monk was not merely a picturesque
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water. Fortunately it was uninhabited,
so no lives were lost. ' The occurrence is
noteworthy as proving that the continu-
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the winter by the action of driving ice
blocks. is able to saw through immense
masses of rock, consisting of hard basalt,
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FOND or a rim nunsnu'.
“It is a beautiful song," he said, as
the flute-like notes of her voice and the
tum tum of the piano accompanifiicnl
died away in the frescoes of the ceiling,
"but I am not partial to secular music.
I love the grand old hymns best.”
“Indeed?" she said, as she ran her
fairy fingers up and down the seven
octaves. ‘ \
“Yes," ho'cxclaimcd enthusiastically,
“ the grand old hymns for me. ”
“ Well," she murmured, as a rosy
blush stole over her damask cheeks and
the long. silken lashes shaded the bright
and beautiful eyes. and a sigh soft as
the perfumed scphyr that rustles the
leaves in the umbregedus grove at eve
when the diamond dewdrop trembles on
the petals of the modest rose slightly
stirred her bosom. “Well, I do not
know that I can blame you. for I am
fond of a certain him myself."
Thenaseason of occulation ensued,
over which we regretfully drop the
curtain. . __
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tics is the wonderful concentration of
the French Army in the plains of J one,
in 1806. Another is the entrance of the
army upon the campaign of 1815. Says
Jomiui: “Inseach of these cases Na‘
poleon possessed the ability to make
such arrangements that his columns,
starting from points widely separated,
were concentrated with wonderful pre-
cision upon the decisive point of the
zone of operations. and in this way he
insured the successful issue of the cam-
paign. The choice of the decisive point
was the result of skillful application of
the principles of strategy ; and the ar-
rangements for moving the troops give
us an example of logistics which origin-
ated in his own closet. It has been long
claimed that Berthier framed those in-
structions which were conceived with so
much precision and usually transmitted
with so much clearness, but I have had
opportunities of knowing that such was
not the truth. The emperor was his
own chief stafi' officer. Provided with a
pair of dividers, opened to a distance by
the scale of from seventeen to twenty
miles in a straight line (which made
from twenty-two to twenty—five miles,
taking into account the windings of» the
roads), bending over and sometimes
stretched at full length upon his map,
where the positions of his corps and the
supposed positions of the enemy were
marked by pins of different colors, he
was able to give orders for extensive
movements with a certainty and pre-
cision which were astonishing. --
Turning his dividers about from point
to point ,on the map. .he decided in a
moment the number of marches neces-
sary for each of his columns to arrive at
the desired point by a certain day, then
_ placing pins in new positions, and hear-
ing in mind the rate of marching that
he must assign to each column and the
hour of setting out, he dictated those
instructions which are alone enough to
make any man famous. Ney, coming
from the shores of Lake Constance,
Lannes from Upper Suabia, Soult and
Davoust from Bavaria and the Palatin-
ate; Bernadotte and Bugercau from
Franconia, and the Imperial Guard
from Paris, were all thus arranged in ,
line on three parallel roads, to debouch
simultaneously between Saulfeld. quu
and Pleuen, few persons in the army of
Germany having any conception of the
object of those movements, which
seemed so very complicated. In the
same manner, in 1815, when Blucher
and his army lay quietly in contou-
ments between the Sambrc and the
ac Rhine, and Wellington was attending
fetes in Bmssels,~both waiting a' signal
for the invasion of France, Napoleon,
who was supposed to be at Paris on-
tirely engrossed with diplomatic cere-
monies, at the head of hisguard, which
had been but recently reformed in the
capital. fell like a thunderbolt upon
Charlevoi and Bluchers’ quarters, his
columns arrived from all points of the
compass, with rare punctuality, on the
14th of June, in the plains of Beaumont
and upon the banks of the Sambre.
Napoleon did not leave Paris until the
12th. The combinations described above
were the results of wise strategic calcu-
lations, but their execution was 1111--
doubtedly a. masterpiece of logistics.
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ACTION OF MONKEYS.
.—
Au ofl‘icer stationed at Kolladgee, in
India. was once climbing a rocky. hill,
when he, and a native who accompanied
him, witnessed the following episode:
A poor monkey was being slowly en-
wrapped in file voluminous folds of an
enormous boa, its bones breaking like
pipe stems by the pressure. Gradually
the reptile unwound itself, leaving a
crushed, unrecognizable mass. The nu-
merous monkeys on the rock were in the
greatest state of excitement, running
wildly about, gesticulating, chattering
and moaning, though, of course, power-
less to help their comrade. While the
snake was commencing its gorge, and
before its body began to fill and swell
the officer and native went in quest of a
stout cudgel and a sharp knife, expect-
ing to make it an easy prey as soon as it
should be filled to repletion. When
they returned to the scene of strife, the
boa lay thoroughly gorged, beneath is
projecting mass of cliff, looking more
like a log than anything more lively.
On the summit above, a troop of mon-
keys was assembled, and three or four
of the largest and strongest were occu-
pied in displacing a massive fragment
of rock, already loosened by the rains
from the main ledge. By enormous ex-
ertion—made, too, with a silence quite
unusual to monkeys — they at length
succeeded in pushing the rock until it
trembled just over the boss head; then,
uttering a yell of triumph, they dropped
it over the miniature precipice. It stuck
the bee on the head, mashing it to a
jelly. As its great tail lashed about in-
effectually in its last struggle, there was
a general chorus of exuitation -— mun
joining his near relative, if we believe
some of our instructors—over this well-
accomplished not of vengeance.
A VILE mnra'rrox.
All old sailors know that the best
ropes that can be made are thus pro-
duced from Manila hemp-fibre, and they
also know that lives will often depend
upon the trustworthiness of such a rope.
Hitherto, no inferior fibre was known
that could , be mixed with the true
Manila without ready detection. But
unscrupulous dealers have discovered in
a fibre known as Sisal hemp—which
comes from Sisal Yucatan, in the Gulf
of Mexico—an adulterant which, while
resembling true Manilia hemp, has the
advantage of being much cheaper. A
fact too, with which they do not more to
concern themselves is, that the new
material possesses only half the strength
of that which in other respects it imi-
tates so well.
Baron De Worms urges the extreme
importance of extending to pilots the
obligation to pass the examination of
a test of color-blindness which is now
binding upon other ofiicers of the mer.
cantile marine.
Norwalk Chronicler