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+BUT IT'S NO USE TALKING ABOUT THAT NOW GIVE ME MY THINGS PLEASE. SHE PUT HER HAND OUT TOWARD THE FENDER. ALEXANDER SAT DOWN ON THE ARM OF HER CHAIR. DID YOU THINK I HAD FORGOTTEN YOU WERE IN TOWN HILDA. DO YOU THINK I KEPT AWAY BY ACCIDENT. THERE IS A LETTER FOR YOU THERE IN MY DESK DRAWER. IT WAS TO HAVE REACHED YOU ON THE STEAMER. I WAS ALL THE MORNING WRITING IT. I TOLD MYSELF THAT IF I WERE REALLY THINKING OF YOU AND NOT OF MYSELF A LETTER WOULD BE BETTER THAN NOTHING. MARKS ON PAPER MEAN SOMETHING TO YOU. HE PAUSED THEY NEVER DID TO ME. HILDA SMILED UP AT HIM BEAUTIFULLY AND PUT HER HAND ON HIS SLEEVE. OH BARTLEY DID YOU WRITE TO ME. ALEXANDER SLIPPED HIS ARM ABOUT HER. I DIDN'T KNOW IT BEFORE HILDA ON MY HONOR I DIDN'T BUT I BELIEVE IT WAS BECAUSE DEEP DOWN IN ME SOMEWHERE I WAS HOPING I MIGHT DRIVE YOU TO DO JUST THIS. I'VE WATCHED THAT DOOR ALL DAY. I'VE JUMPED UP IF THE FIRE CRACKLED. I THINK I HAVE FELT THAT YOU WERE COMING. HE BENT HIS FACE OVER HER HAIR. AND I SHE WHISPERED I FELT THAT YOU WERE FEELING THAT. BUT WHEN I CAME I THOUGHT I HAD BEEN MISTAKEN. ALEXANDER STARTED UP AND BEGAN TO WALK UP AND DOWN THE ROOM. NO YOU WEREN'T MISTAKEN. I'VE BEEN UP IN CANADA WITH MY BRIDGE AND I ARRANGED NOT TO COME TO NEW YORK UNTIL AFTER YOU HAD GONE. THEN WHEN YOUR MANAGER ADDED TWO MORE WEEKS I WAS ALREADY COMMITTED. HE DROPPED UPON THE STOOL IN FRONT OF HER AND SAT WITH HIS HANDS HANGING BETWEEN HIS KNEES. WHAT AM I TO DO HILDA. THAT'S WHAT I WANTED TO SEE YOU ABOUT BARTLEY. I'M GOING TO DO WHAT YOU ASKED ME TO DO WHEN YOU WERE IN LONDON. ONLY I'LL DO IT MORE COMPLETELY. I'M GOING TO MARRY WHO. OH IT DOESN'T MATTER MUCH ONE OF THEM. ONLY NOT MAC I'M TOO FOND OF HIM. ALEXANDER MOVED RESTLESSLY. ARE YOU JOKING HILDA INDEED I'M NOT. THEN YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT. YES I KNOW VERY WELL. I'VE THOUGHT ABOUT IT A GREAT DEAL AND I'VE QUITE DECIDED. I NEVER USED TO UNDERSTAND HOW WOMEN DID THINGS LIKE THAT BUT I KNOW NOW. IT'S BECAUSE THEY CAN'T BE AT THE MERCY OF THE MAN THEY LOVE ANY LONGER. ALEXANDER FLUSHED ANGRILY. SO IT'S BETTER TO BE AT THE MERCY OF A MAN YOU DON'T LOVE. UNDER SUCH CIRCUMSTANCES INFINITELY. HE GOT UP AND WENT OVER TO THE WINDOW THREW IT OPEN AND LEANED OUT. HE HEARD HILDA MOVING ABOUT BEHIND HIM. WHEN HE LOOKED OVER HIS SHOULDER SHE WAS LACING HER BOOTS. HE WENT BACK AND STOOD OVER HER. HILDA YOU'D BETTER THINK A WHILE LONGER BEFORE YOU DO THAT. I DON'T KNOW WHAT I OUGHT TO SAY BUT I DON'T BELIEVE YOU'D BE HAPPY TRULY I DON'T AREN'T YOU TRYING TO FRIGHTEN ME. SHE TIED THE KNOT OF THE LAST LACING AND PUT HER BOOT HEEL DOWN FIRMLY. NO I'M TELLING YOU WHAT I'VE MADE UP MY MIND TO DO. I SUPPOSE I WOULD BETTER DO IT WITHOUT TELLING YOU. BUT AFTERWARD I SHAN'T HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO EXPLAIN FOR I SHAN'T BE SEEING YOU AGAIN. ALEXANDER STARTED TO SPEAK BUT CAUGHT HIMSELF. WHEN HILDA ROSE HE SAT DOWN ON THE ARM OF HER CHAIR AND DREW HER BACK INTO IT. I WOULDN'T BE SO MUCH ALARMED IF I DIDN'T KNOW HOW UTTERLY RECKLESS YOU CAN BE. DON'T DO ANYTHING LIKE THAT RASHLY. HIS FACE GREW TROUBLED. YOU WOULDN'T BE HAPPY YOU ARE NOT THAT KIND OF WOMAN. I'D NEVER HAVE ANOTHER HOUR'S PEACE IF I HELPED TO MAKE YOU DO A THING LIKE THAT. HE TOOK HER FACE BETWEEN HIS HANDS AND LOOKED DOWN INTO IT. YOU SEE YOU ARE DIFFERENT HILDA DON'T YOU KNOW YOU ARE. HIS VOICE GREW SOFTER HIS TOUCH MORE AND MORE TENDER. HILDA HAD HEARD THAT SOFT DEEP TONE IN HIS VOICE ONLY ONCE BEFORE. SHE CLOSED HER EYES HER LIPS AND EYELIDS TREMBLED. ONLY ONE BARTLEY ONLY ONE

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+A LAUDABLE REGARD FOR THE HONOR OF THE FIRST PROSELYTE HAS COUNTENANCED THE BELIEF THE HOPE THE WISH THAT THE EBIONITES OR AT LEAST THE NAZARENES WERE DISTINGUISHED ONLY BY THEIR OBSTINATE PERSEVERANCE IN THE PRACTICE OF THE MOSAIC RITES. THEIR CHURCHES HAVE DISAPPEARED THEIR BOOKS ARE OBLITERATED THEIR OBSCURE FREEDOM MIGHT ALLOW A LATITUDE OF FAITH AND THE SOFTNESS OF THEIR INFANT CREED WOULD BE VARIOUSLY MOULDED BY THE ZEAL OR PRUDENCE OF THREE HUNDRED YEARS. YET THE MOST CHARITABLE CRITICISM MUST REFUSE THESE SECTARIES ANY KNOWLEDGE OF THE PURE AND PROPER DIVINITY OF CHRIST. HIS PROGRESS FROM INFANCY TO YOUTH AND MANHOOD WAS MARKED BY A REGULAR INCREASE IN STATURE AND WISDOM AND AFTER A PAINFUL AGONY OF MIND AND BODY HE EXPIRED ON THE CROSS. HE LIVED AND DIED FOR THE SERVICE OF MANKIND BUT THE LIFE AND DEATH OF SOCRATES HAD LIKEWISE BEEN DEVOTED TO THE CAUSE OF RELIGION AND JUSTICE AND ALTHOUGH THE STOIC OR THE HERO MAY DISDAIN THE HUMBLE VIRTUES OF JESUS THE TEARS WHICH HE SHED OVER HIS FRIEND AND COUNTRY MAY BE ESTEEMED THE PUREST EVIDENCE OF HIS HUMANITY. THE MIRACLES OF THE GOSPEL COULD NOT ASTONISH A PEOPLE WHO HELD WITH INTREPID FAITH THE MORE SPLENDID PRODIGIES OF THE MOSAIC LAW. THE NATURAL SUSPICIONS OF THE HUSBAND CONSCIOUS OF HIS OWN CHASTITY WERE DISPELLED BY THE ASSURANCE IN A DREAM THAT HIS WIFE WAS PREGNANT OF THE HOLY GHOST AND AS THIS DISTANT AND DOMESTIC PRODIGY COULD NOT FALL UNDER THE PERSONAL OBSERVATION OF THE HISTORIAN HE MUST HAVE LISTENED TO THE SAME VOICE WHICH DICTATED TO ISAIAH THE FUTURE CONCEPTION OF A VIRGIN. THE SON OF A VIRGIN GENERATED BY THE INEFFABLE OPERATION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS A CREATURE WITHOUT EXAMPLE OR RESEMBLANCE SUPERIOR IN EVERY ATTRIBUTE OF MIND AND BODY TO THE CHILDREN OF ADAM. ON HIS RETURN TO HIS NATIVE SKIES HE RECEIVED THE IMMENSE REWARD OF HIS OBEDIENCE THE EVERLASTING KINGDOM OF THE MESSIAH WHICH HAD BEEN DARKLY FORETOLD BY THE PROPHETS UNDER THE CARNAL IMAGES OF PEACE OF CONQUEST AND OF DOMINION. NOR COULD IT SEEM STRANGE OR INCREDIBLE THAT THE FIRST OF THESE AEONS THE LOGOS OR WORD OF GOD OF THE SAME SUBSTANCE WITH THE FATHER SHOULD DESCEND UPON EARTH TO DELIVER THE HUMAN RACE FROM VICE AND ERROR AND TO CONDUCT THEM IN THE PATHS OF LIFE AND IMMORTALITY. BUT THE PREVAILING DOCTRINE OF THE ETERNITY AND INHERENT PRAVITY OF MATTER INFECTED THE PRIMITIVE CHURCHES OF THE EAST. MANY AMONG THE GENTILE PROSELYTES REFUSED TO BELIEVE THAT A CELESTIAL SPIRIT AN UNDIVIDED PORTION OF THE FIRST ESSENCE HAD BEEN PERSONALLY UNITED WITH A MASS OF IMPURE AND CONTAMINATED FLESH AND IN THEIR ZEAL FOR THE DIVINITY THEY PIOUSLY ABJURED THE HUMANITY OF CHRIST. HE FIRST APPEARED ON THE BANKS OF THE JORDAN IN THE FORM OF PERFECT MANHOOD BUT IT WAS A FORM ONLY AND NOT A SUBSTANCE A HUMAN FIGURE CREATED BY THE HAND OF OMNIPOTENCE TO IMITATE THE FACULTIES AND ACTIONS OF A MAN AND TO IMPOSE A PERPETUAL ILLUSION ON THE SENSES OF HIS FRIENDS AND ENEMIES. ARTICULATE SOUNDS VIBRATED ON THE EARS OF THE DISCIPLES BUT THE IMAGE WHICH WAS IMPRESSED ON THEIR OPTIC NERVE ELUDED THE MORE STUBBORN EVIDENCE OF THE TOUCH AND THEY ENJOYED THE SPIRITUAL NOT THE CORPOREAL PRESENCE OF THE SON OF GOD. THE RAGE OF THE JEWS WAS IDLY WASTED AGAINST AN IMPASSIVE PHANTOM AND THE MYSTIC SCENES OF THE PASSION AND DEATH THE RESURRECTION AND ASCENSION OF CHRIST WERE REPRESENTED ON THE THEATRE OF JERUSALEM FOR THE BENEFIT OF MANKIND. IF IT WERE URGED THAT SUCH IDEAL MIMICRY SUCH INCESSANT DECEPTION WAS UNWORTHY OF THE GOD OF TRUTH THE DOCETES AGREED WITH TOO MANY OF THEIR ORTHODOX BRETHREN IN THE JUSTIFICATION OF PIOUS FALSEHOOD. BUT THE RASHNESS OF THESE CONCESSIONS HAS ENCOURAGED A MILDER SENTIMENT OF THOSE OF THE DOCETES WHO TAUGHT NOT THAT CHRIST WAS A PHANTOM BUT THAT HE WAS CLOTHED WITH AN IMPASSIBLE AND INCORRUPTIBLE BODY

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+SUCH INDEED IN THE MORE ORTHODOX SYSTEM HE HAS ACQUIRED SINCE HIS RESURRECTION AND SUCH HE MUST HAVE ALWAYS POSSESSED IF IT WERE CAPABLE OF PERVADING WITHOUT RESISTANCE OR INJURY THE DENSITY OF INTERMEDIATE MATTER. DEVOID OF ITS MOST ESSENTIAL PROPERTIES IT MIGHT BE EXEMPT FROM THE ATTRIBUTES AND INFIRMITIES OF THE FLESH. A FOETUS THAT COULD INCREASE FROM AN INVISIBLE POINT TO ITS FULL MATURITY A CHILD THAT COULD ATTAIN THE STATURE OF PERFECT MANHOOD WITHOUT DERIVING ANY NOURISHMENT FROM THE ORDINARY SOURCES MIGHT CONTINUE TO EXIST WITHOUT REPAIRING A DAILY WASTE BY A DAILY SUPPLY OF EXTERNAL MATTER. JESUS MIGHT SHARE THE REPASTS OF HIS DISCIPLES WITHOUT BEING SUBJECT TO THE CALLS OF THIRST OR HUNGER AND HIS VIRGIN PURITY WAS NEVER SULLIED BY THE INVOLUNTARY STAINS OF SENSUAL CONCUPISCENCE. OF A BODY THUS SINGULARLY CONSTITUTED A QUESTION WOULD ARISE BY WHAT MEANS AND OF WHAT MATERIALS IT WAS ORIGINALLY FRAMED AND OUR SOUNDER THEOLOGY IS STARTLED BY AN ANSWER WHICH WAS NOT PECULIAR TO THE GNOSTICS THAT BOTH THE FORM AND THE SUBSTANCE PROCEEDED FROM THE DIVINE ESSENCE. IF WE DEFINE THE PLACE WE MUST DESCRIBE THE FIGURE OF THE DEITY. IN THEIR EYES JESUS OF NAZARETH WAS A MERE MORTAL THE LEGITIMATE SON OF JOSEPH AND MARY BUT HE WAS THE BEST AND WISEST OF THE HUMAN RACE SELECTED AS THE WORTHY INSTRUMENT TO RESTORE UPON EARTH THE WORSHIP OF THE TRUE AND SUPREME DEITY. WHEN HE WAS BAPTIZED IN THE JORDAN THE CHRIST THE FIRST OF THE AEONS THE SON OF GOD HIMSELF DESCENDED ON JESUS IN THE FORM OF A DOVE TO INHABIT HIS MIND AND DIRECT HIS ACTIONS DURING THE ALLOTTED PERIOD OF HIS MINISTRY. WHEN THE MESSIAH WAS DELIVERED INTO THE HANDS OF THE JEWS THE CHRIST AN IMMORTAL AND IMPASSIBLE BEING FORSOOK HIS EARTHLY TABERNACLE FLEW BACK TO THE PLEROMA OR WORLD OF SPIRITS AND LEFT THE SOLITARY JESUS TO SUFFER TO COMPLAIN AND TO EXPIRE. BUT THE JUSTICE AND GENEROSITY OF SUCH A DESERTION ARE STRONGLY QUESTIONABLE AND THE FATE OF AN INNOCENT MARTYR AT FIRST IMPELLED AND AT LENGTH ABANDONED BY HIS DIVINE COMPANION MIGHT PROVOKE THE PITY AND INDIGNATION OF THE PROFANE. THEIR MURMURS WERE VARIOUSLY SILENCED BY THE SECTARIES WHO ESPOUSED AND MODIFIED THE DOUBLE SYSTEM OF CERINTHUS. IT WAS ALLEGED THAT WHEN JESUS WAS NAILED TO THE CROSS HE WAS ENDOWED WITH A MIRACULOUS APATHY OF MIND AND BODY WHICH RENDERED HIM INSENSIBLE OF HIS APPARENT SUFFERINGS. IN THE AGE OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM WHICH WAS DETERMINED BY THE COUNCIL OF NICE THE DIGNITY OF CHRIST WAS MEASURED BY PRIVATE JUDGMENT ACCORDING TO THE INDEFINITE RULE OF SCRIPTURE OR REASON OR TRADITION. BUT WHEN HIS PURE AND PROPER DIVINITY HAD BEEN ESTABLISHED ON THE RUINS OF ARIANISM THE FAITH OF THE CATHOLICS TREMBLED ON THE EDGE OF A PRECIPICE WHERE IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO RECEDE DANGEROUS TO STAND DREADFUL TO FALL AND THE MANIFOLD INCONVENIENCES OF THEIR CREED WERE AGGRAVATED BY THE SUBLIME CHARACTER OF THEIR THEOLOGY. THE WORTHY FRIEND OF ATHANASIUS THE WORTHY ANTAGONIST OF JULIAN HE BRAVELY WRESTLED WITH THE ARIANS AND POLYTHEISTS AND THOUGH HE AFFECTED THE RIGOR OF GEOMETRICAL DEMONSTRATION HIS COMMENTARIES REVEALED THE LITERAL AND ALLEGORICAL SENSE OF THE SCRIPTURES. HE TAUGHT THAT THE GODHEAD WAS UNITED OR MINGLED WITH THE BODY OF A MAN AND THAT THE LOGOS THE ETERNAL WISDOM SUPPLIED IN THE FLESH THE PLACE AND OFFICE OF A HUMAN SOUL. YET AS THE PROFOUND DOCTOR HAD BEEN TERRIFIED AT HIS OWN RASHNESS APOLLINARIS WAS HEARD TO MUTTER SOME FAINT ACCENTS OF EXCUSE AND EXPLANATION. HE ACQUIESCED IN THE OLD DISTINCTION OF THE GREEK PHILOSOPHERS BETWEEN THE RATIONAL AND SENSITIVE SOUL OF MAN THAT HE MIGHT RESERVE THE LOGOS FOR INTELLECTUAL FUNCTIONS AND EMPLOY THE SUBORDINATE HUMAN PRINCIPLE IN THE MEANER ACTIONS OF ANIMAL LIFE. BUT INSTEAD OF A TEMPORARY AND OCCASIONAL ALLIANCE THEY ESTABLISHED AND WE STILL EMBRACE THE SUBSTANTIAL INDISSOLUBLE AND EVERLASTING UNION OF A PERFECT GOD WITH A PERFECT MAN OF THE SECOND PERSON OF THE TRINITY WITH A REASONABLE SOUL AND HUMAN FLESH

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+IN THE BEGINNING OF THE FIFTH CENTURY THE UNITY OF THE TWO NATURES WAS THE PREVAILING DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH. ON ALL SIDES IT WAS CONFESSED THAT THE MODE OF THEIR COEXISTENCE COULD NEITHER BE REPRESENTED BY OUR IDEAS NOR EXPRESSED BY OUR LANGUAGE. IMPELLED BY RELIGIOUS FRENZY THEY FLED WITH ADVERSE HASTE FROM THE ERROR WHICH THEY MUTUALLY DEEMED MOST DESTRUCTIVE OF TRUTH AND SALVATION. ON EITHER HAND THEY WERE ANXIOUS TO GUARD THEY WERE JEALOUS TO DEFEND THE UNION AND THE DISTINCTION OF THE TWO NATURES AND TO INVENT SUCH FORMS OF SPEECH SUCH SYMBOLS OF DOCTRINE AS WERE LEAST SUSCEPTIBLE OF DOUBT OR AMBIGUITY. THE POVERTY OF IDEAS AND LANGUAGE TEMPTED THEM TO RANSACK ART AND NATURE FOR EVERY POSSIBLE COMPARISON AND EACH COMPARISON MISLEAD THEIR FANCY IN THE EXPLANATION OF AN INCOMPARABLE MYSTERY. IN THE POLEMIC MICROSCOPE AN ATOM IS ENLARGED TO A MONSTER AND EACH PARTY WAS SKILFUL TO EXAGGERATE THE ABSURD OR IMPIOUS CONCLUSIONS THAT MIGHT BE EXTORTED FROM THE PRINCIPLES OF THEIR ADVERSARIES. TO ESCAPE FROM EACH OTHER THEY WANDERED THROUGH MANY A DARK AND DEVIOUS THICKET TILL THEY WERE ASTONISHED BY THE HORRID PHANTOMS OF CERINTHUS AND APOLLINARIS WHO GUARDED THE OPPOSITE ISSUES OF THE THEOLOGICAL LABYRINTH. AS SOON AS THEY BEHELD THE TWILIGHT OF SENSE AND HERESY THEY STARTED MEASURED BACK THEIR STEPS AND WERE AGAIN INVOLVED IN THE GLOOM OF IMPENETRABLE ORTHODOXY. TO PURGE THEMSELVES FROM THE GUILT OR REPROACH OF DAMNABLE ERROR THEY DISAVOWED THEIR CONSEQUENCES EXPLAINED THEIR PRINCIPLES EXCUSED THEIR INDISCRETIONS AND UNANIMOUSLY PRONOUNCED THE SOUNDS OF CONCORD AND FAITH. UNDER THE TUITION OF THE ABBOT SERAPION HE APPLIED HIMSELF TO ECCLESIASTICAL STUDIES WITH SUCH INDEFATIGABLE ARDOR THAT IN THE COURSE OF ONE SLEEPLESS NIGHT HE HAS PERUSED THE FOUR GOSPELS THE CATHOLIC EPISTLES AND THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS. WITH THE APPROBATION OF HIS UNCLE HE ASSUMED THE OFFICE AND ACQUIRED THE FAME OF A POPULAR PREACHER

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+EXTERMINATE WITH ME THE HERETICS AND WITH YOU I WILL EXTERMINATE THE PERSIANS. AT THESE BLASPHEMOUS SOUNDS THE PILLARS OF THE SANCTUARY WERE SHAKEN. AFTER A SHORT CORRESPONDENCE IN WHICH THE RIVAL PRELATES DISGUISED THEIR HATRED IN THE HOLLOW LANGUAGE OF RESPECT AND CHARITY THE PATRIARCH OF ALEXANDRIA DENOUNCED TO THE PRINCE AND PEOPLE TO THE EAST AND TO THE WEST THE DAMNABLE ERRORS OF THE BYZANTINE PONTIFF. FROM THE EAST MORE ESPECIALLY FROM ANTIOCH HE OBTAINED THE AMBIGUOUS COUNSELS OF TOLERATION AND SILENCE WHICH WERE ADDRESSED TO BOTH PARTIES WHILE THEY FAVORED THE CAUSE OF NESTORIUS. BUT THE VATICAN RECEIVED WITH OPEN ARMS THE MESSENGERS OF EGYPT. THE VANITY OF CELESTINE WAS FLATTERED BY THE APPEAL AND THE PARTIAL VERSION OF A MONK DECIDED THE FAITH OF THE POPE WHO WITH HIS LATIN CLERGY WAS IGNORANT OF THE LANGUAGE THE ARTS AND THE THEOLOGY OF THE GREEKS. HE HAD CONTRACTED AN INTIMATE ALLIANCE WITH MEMNON BISHOP OF EPHESUS. NESTORIUS WHO DEPENDED ON THE NEAR APPROACH OF HIS EASTERN FRIENDS PERSISTED LIKE HIS PREDECESSOR CHRYSOSTOM TO DISCLAIM THE JURISDICTION AND TO DISOBEY THE SUMMONS OF HIS ENEMIES THEY HASTENED HIS TRIAL AND HIS ACCUSER PRESIDED IN THE SEAT OF JUDGMENT. SIXTY EIGHT BISHOPS TWENTY TWO OF METROPOLITAN RANK DEFENDED HIS CAUSE BY A MODEST AND TEMPERATE PROTEST THEY WERE EXCLUDED FROM THE COUNCILS OF THEIR BRETHREN. CANDIDIAN IN THE EMPEROR'S NAME REQUESTED A DELAY OF FOUR DAYS THE PROFANE MAGISTRATE WAS DRIVEN WITH OUTRAGE AND INSULT FROM THE ASSEMBLY OF THE SAINTS. BY THE VIGILANCE OF MEMNON THE CHURCHES WERE SHUT AGAINST THEM AND A STRONG GARRISON WAS THROWN INTO THE CATHEDRAL. THE TROOPS UNDER THE COMMAND OF CANDIDIAN ADVANCED TO THE ASSAULT THE OUTGUARDS WERE ROUTED AND PUT TO THE SWORD BUT THE PLACE WAS IMPREGNABLE THE BESIEGERS RETIRED THEIR RETREAT WAS PURSUED BY A VIGOROUS SALLY THEY LOST THEIR HORSES AND MANY OF THEIR SOLDIERS WERE DANGEROUSLY WOUNDED WITH CLUBS AND STONES. EPHESUS THE CITY OF THE VIRGIN WAS DEFILED WITH RAGE AND CLAMOR WITH SEDITION AND BLOOD THE RIVAL SYNODS DARTED ANATHEMAS AND EXCOMMUNICATIONS FROM THEIR SPIRITUAL ENGINES AND THE COURT OF THEODOSIUS WAS PERPLEXED BY THE ADVERSE AND CONTRADICTORY NARRATIVES OF THE SYRIAN AND EGYPTIAN FACTIONS. DURING A BUSY PERIOD OF THREE MONTHS THE EMPEROR TRIED EVERY METHOD EXCEPT THE MOST EFFECTUAL MEANS OF INDIFFERENCE AND CONTEMPT TO RECONCILE THIS THEOLOGICAL QUARREL. HE ATTEMPTED TO REMOVE OR INTIMIDATE THE LEADERS BY A COMMON SENTENCE OF ACQUITTAL OR CONDEMNATION HE INVESTED HIS REPRESENTATIVES AT EPHESUS WITH AMPLE POWER AND MILITARY FORCE HE SUMMONED FROM EITHER PARTY EIGHT CHOSEN DEPUTIES TO A FREE AND CANDID CONFERENCE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF THE CAPITAL FAR FROM THE CONTAGION OF POPULAR FRENZY. BUT THE ORIENTALS REFUSED TO YIELD AND THE CATHOLICS PROUD OF THEIR NUMBERS AND OF THEIR LATIN ALLIES REJECTED ALL TERMS OF UNION OR TOLERATION. HIS PROVIDENCE WILL DISCERN AND PUNISH THE GUILTY. RETURN TO YOUR PROVINCES AND MAY YOUR PRIVATE VIRTUES REPAIR THE MISCHIEF AND SCANDAL OF YOUR MEETING. AT THE STERN COMMAND OF HIS SOVEREIGN. WITHOUT EXPECTING THE ROYAL LICENSE HE ESCAPED FROM HIS GUARDS PRECIPITATELY EMBARKED DESERTED THE IMPERFECT SYNOD AND RETIRED TO HIS EPISCOPAL FORTRESS OF SAFETY AND INDEPENDENCE. BUT HIS ARTFUL EMISSARIES BOTH IN THE COURT AND CITY SUCCESSFULLY LABORED TO APPEASE THE RESENTMENT AND TO CONCILIATE THE FAVOR OF THE EMPEROR. THE FEEBLE SON OF ARCADIUS WAS ALTERNATELY SWAYED BY HIS WIFE AND SISTER BY THE EUNUCHS AND WOMEN OF THE PALACE SUPERSTITION AND AVARICE WERE THEIR RULING PASSIONS AND THE ORTHODOX CHIEFS WERE ASSIDUOUS IN THEIR ENDEAVORS TO ALARM THE FORMER AND TO GRATIFY THE LATTER. FROM THE FIRST MOMENT OF THEIR MONASTIC LIFE THEY HAD NEVER MINGLED WITH THE WORLD OR TROD THE PROFANE GROUND OF THE CITY. BUT IN THIS AWFUL MOMENT OF THE DANGER OF THE CHURCH THEIR VOW WAS SUPERSEDED BY A MORE SUBLIME AND INDISPENSABLE DUTY. AT THE HEAD OF A LONG ORDER OF MONKS AND HERMITS WHO CARRIED BURNING TAPERS IN THEIR HANDS AND CHANTED LITANIES TO THE MOTHER OF GOD THEY PROCEEDED FROM THEIR MONASTERIES TO THE PALACE

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+THE PEOPLE WAS EDIFIED AND INFLAMED BY THIS EXTRAORDINARY SPECTACLE AND THE TREMBLING MONARCH LISTENED TO THE PRAYERS AND ADJURATIONS OF THE SAINTS WHO BOLDLY PRONOUNCED THAT NONE COULD HOPE FOR SALVATION UNLESS THEY EMBRACED THE PERSON AND THE CREED OF THE ORTHODOX SUCCESSOR OF ATHANASIUS. AT THE SAME TIME EVERY AVENUE OF THE THRONE WAS ASSAULTED WITH GOLD. THE PAST HE REGRETTED HE WAS DISCONTENTED WITH THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE HE HAD REASON TO DREAD THE ORIENTAL BISHOPS SUCCESSIVELY DISENGAGED THEIR CAUSE FROM HIS UNPOPULAR NAME AND EACH DAY DECREASED THE NUMBER OF THE SCHISMATICS WHO REVERED NESTORIUS AS THE CONFESSOR OF THE FAITH. A WANDERING TRIBE OF THE BLEMMYES OR NUBIANS INVADED HIS SOLITARY PRISON IN THEIR RETREAT THEY DISMISSED A CROWD OF USELESS CAPTIVES BUT NO SOONER HAD NESTORIUS REACHED THE BANKS OF THE NILE THAN HE WOULD GLADLY HAVE ESCAPED FROM A ROMAN AND ORTHODOX CITY TO THE MILDER SERVITUDE OF THE SAVAGES. HIS FLIGHT WAS PUNISHED AS A NEW CRIME THE SOUL OF THE PATRIARCH INSPIRED THE CIVIL AND ECCLESIASTICAL POWERS OF EGYPT THE MAGISTRATES THE SOLDIERS THE MONKS DEVOUTLY TORTURED THE ENEMY OF CHRIST AND SAINT CYRIL AND AS FAR AS THE CONFINES OF AETHIOPIA THE HERETIC WAS ALTERNATELY DRAGGED AND RECALLED TILL HIS AGED BODY WAS BROKEN BY THE HARDSHIPS AND ACCIDENTS OF THESE REITERATED JOURNEYS

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+CHAPTER THREE TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUNE. ON THE FOLLOWING MORNING AT DAYBREAK JEAN VALJEAN WAS STILL BY COSETTE'S BEDSIDE HE WATCHED THERE MOTIONLESS WAITING FOR HER TO WAKE. SOME NEW THING HAD COME INTO HIS SOUL. JEAN VALJEAN HAD NEVER LOVED ANYTHING FOR TWENTY FIVE YEARS HE HAD BEEN ALONE IN THE WORLD. HE HAD NEVER BEEN FATHER LOVER HUSBAND FRIEND. IN THE PRISON HE HAD BEEN VICIOUS GLOOMY CHASTE IGNORANT AND SHY. THE HEART OF THAT EX CONVICT WAS FULL OF VIRGINITY. HIS SISTER AND HIS SISTER'S CHILDREN HAD LEFT HIM ONLY A VAGUE AND FAR OFF MEMORY WHICH HAD FINALLY ALMOST COMPLETELY VANISHED HE HAD MADE EVERY EFFORT TO FIND THEM AND NOT HAVING BEEN ABLE TO FIND THEM HE HAD FORGOTTEN THEM. HUMAN NATURE IS MADE THUS THE OTHER TENDER EMOTIONS OF HIS YOUTH IF HE HAD EVER HAD ANY HAD FALLEN INTO AN ABYSS. WHEN HE SAW COSETTE WHEN HE HAD TAKEN POSSESSION OF HER CARRIED HER OFF AND DELIVERED HER HE FELT HIS HEART MOVED WITHIN HIM. ALL THE PASSION AND AFFECTION WITHIN HIM AWOKE AND RUSHED TOWARDS THAT CHILD. HE APPROACHED THE BED WHERE SHE LAY SLEEPING AND TREMBLED WITH JOY. HE SUFFERED ALL THE PANGS OF A MOTHER AND HE KNEW NOT WHAT IT MEANT FOR THAT GREAT AND SINGULAR MOVEMENT OF A HEART WHICH BEGINS TO LOVE IS A VERY OBSCURE AND A VERY SWEET THING. POOR OLD MAN WITH A PERFECTLY NEW HEART. ONLY AS HE WAS FIVE AND FIFTY AND COSETTE EIGHT YEARS OF AGE ALL THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN LOVE IN THE WHOLE COURSE OF HIS LIFE FLOWED TOGETHER INTO A SORT OF INEFFABLE LIGHT. IT WAS THE SECOND WHITE APPARITION WHICH HE HAD ENCOUNTERED. THE BISHOP HAD CAUSED THE DAWN OF VIRTUE TO RISE ON HIS HORIZON COSETTE CAUSED THE DAWN OF LOVE TO RISE. THE EARLY DAYS PASSED IN THIS DAZZLED STATE. COSETTE ON HER SIDE HAD ALSO UNKNOWN TO HERSELF BECOME ANOTHER BEING POOR LITTLE THING. SHE WAS SO LITTLE WHEN HER MOTHER LEFT HER THAT SHE NO LONGER REMEMBERED HER. LIKE ALL CHILDREN WHO RESEMBLE YOUNG SHOOTS OF THE VINE WHICH CLING TO EVERYTHING SHE HAD TRIED TO LOVE SHE HAD NOT SUCCEEDED. SHE HAD LOVED THE DOG AND HE HAD DIED AFTER WHICH NOTHING AND NOBODY WOULD HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH HER. IT IS A SAD THING TO SAY AND WE HAVE ALREADY INTIMATED IT THAT AT EIGHT YEARS OF AGE HER HEART WAS COLD. IT WAS NOT HER FAULT IT WAS NOT THE FACULTY OF LOVING THAT SHE LACKED ALAS IT WAS THE POSSIBILITY. THUS FROM THE VERY FIRST DAY ALL HER SENTIENT AND THINKING POWERS LOVED THIS KIND MAN. SHE FELT THAT WHICH SHE HAD NEVER FELT BEFORE A SENSATION OF EXPANSION. THE MAN NO LONGER PRODUCED ON HER THE EFFECT OF BEING OLD OR POOR SHE THOUGHT JEAN VALJEAN HANDSOME JUST AS SHE THOUGHT THE HOVEL PRETTY. THESE ARE THE EFFECTS OF THE DAWN OF CHILDHOOD OF JOY. THE NOVELTY OF THE EARTH AND OF LIFE COUNTS FOR SOMETHING HERE. NOTHING IS SO CHARMING AS THE COLORING REFLECTION OF HAPPINESS ON A GARRET. WE ALL HAVE IN OUR PAST A DELIGHTFUL GARRET

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+NATURE A DIFFERENCE OF FIFTY YEARS HAD SET A PROFOUND GULF BETWEEN JEAN VALJEAN AND COSETTE DESTINY FILLED IN THIS GULF. DESTINY SUDDENLY UNITED AND WEDDED WITH ITS IRRESISTIBLE POWER THESE TWO UPROOTED EXISTENCES DIFFERING IN AGE ALIKE IN SORROW. ONE IN FACT COMPLETED THE OTHER. COSETTE'S INSTINCT SOUGHT A FATHER AS JEAN VALJEAN'S INSTINCT SOUGHT A CHILD. TO MEET WAS TO FIND EACH OTHER. AT THE MYSTERIOUS MOMENT WHEN THEIR HANDS TOUCHED THEY WERE WELDED TOGETHER. WHEN THESE TWO SOULS PERCEIVED EACH OTHER THEY RECOGNIZED EACH OTHER AS NECESSARY TO EACH OTHER AND EMBRACED EACH OTHER CLOSELY. MOREOVER JEAN VALJEAN HAD CHOSEN HIS REFUGE WELL. THERE HE SEEMED PERFECTLY SECURE. THE CHAMBER WITH A DRESSING ROOM WHICH HE OCCUPIED WITH COSETTE WAS THE ONE WHOSE WINDOW OPENED ON THE BOULEVARD. THIS BEING THE ONLY WINDOW IN THE HOUSE NO NEIGHBORS GLANCES WERE TO BE FEARED FROM ACROSS THE WAY OR AT THE SIDE. IT WAS THIS OLD WOMAN ORNAMENTED WITH THE NAME OF THE PRINCIPAL LODGER AND IN REALITY INTRUSTED WITH THE FUNCTIONS OF PORTRESS WHO HAD LET HIM THE LODGING ON CHRISTMAS EVE. HE HAD REPRESENTED HIMSELF TO HER AS A GENTLEMAN OF MEANS WHO HAD BEEN RUINED BY SPANISH BONDS WHO WAS COMING THERE TO LIVE WITH HIS LITTLE DAUGHTER. HE HAD PAID HER SIX MONTHS IN ADVANCE AND HAD COMMISSIONED THE OLD WOMAN TO FURNISH THE CHAMBER AND DRESSING ROOM AS WE HAVE SEEN. IT WAS THIS GOOD WOMAN WHO HAD LIGHTED THE FIRE IN THE STOVE AND PREPARED EVERYTHING ON THE EVENING OF THEIR ARRIVAL. WEEK FOLLOWED WEEK THESE TWO BEINGS LED A HAPPY LIFE IN THAT HOVEL. COSETTE LAUGHED CHATTERED AND SANG FROM DAYBREAK. CHILDREN HAVE THEIR MORNING SONG AS WELL AS BIRDS. IT SOMETIMES HAPPENED THAT JEAN VALJEAN CLASPED HER TINY RED HAND ALL CRACKED WITH CHILBLAINS AND KISSED IT. THE POOR CHILD WHO WAS USED TO BEING BEATEN DID NOT KNOW THE MEANING OF THIS AND RAN AWAY IN CONFUSION. AT TIMES SHE BECAME SERIOUS AND STARED AT HER LITTLE BLACK GOWN. COSETTE WAS NO LONGER IN RAGS SHE WAS IN MOURNING. SHE HAD EMERGED FROM MISERY AND SHE WAS ENTERING INTO LIFE. SOMETIMES AS HE MADE THE CHILD SPELL HE REMEMBERED THAT IT WAS WITH THE IDEA OF DOING EVIL THAT HE HAD LEARNED TO READ IN PRISON. THIS IDEA HAD ENDED IN TEACHING A CHILD TO READ. THEN THE EX CONVICT SMILED WITH THE PENSIVE SMILE OF THE ANGELS. HE FELT IN IT A PREMEDITATION FROM ON HIGH THE WILL OF SOME ONE WHO WAS NOT MAN AND HE BECAME ABSORBED IN REVERY. GOOD THOUGHTS HAVE THEIR ABYSSES AS WELL AS EVIL ONES. TO TEACH COSETTE TO READ AND TO LET HER PLAY THIS CONSTITUTED NEARLY THE WHOLE OF JEAN VALJEAN'S EXISTENCE. AND THEN HE TALKED OF HER MOTHER AND HE MADE HER PRAY. SHE CALLED HIM FATHER AND KNEW NO OTHER NAME FOR HIM. HE PASSED HOURS IN WATCHING HER DRESSING AND UNDRESSING HER DOLL AND IN LISTENING TO HER PRATTLE. LIFE HENCEFORTH APPEARED TO HIM TO BE FULL OF INTEREST MEN SEEMED TO HIM GOOD AND JUST HE NO LONGER REPROACHED ANY ONE IN THOUGHT HE SAW NO REASON WHY HE SHOULD NOT LIVE TO BE A VERY OLD MAN NOW THAT THIS CHILD LOVED HIM

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+HE SAW A WHOLE FUTURE STRETCHING OUT BEFORE HIM ILLUMINATED BY COSETTE AS BY A CHARMING LIGHT. THE BEST OF US ARE NOT EXEMPT FROM EGOTISTICAL THOUGHTS. AT TIMES HE REFLECTED WITH A SORT OF JOY THAT SHE WOULD BE UGLY. THIS IS ONLY A PERSONAL OPINION BUT TO UTTER OUR WHOLE THOUGHT AT THE POINT WHERE JEAN VALJEAN HAD ARRIVED WHEN HE BEGAN TO LOVE COSETTE IT IS BY NO MEANS CLEAR TO US THAT HE DID NOT NEED THIS ENCOURAGEMENT IN ORDER THAT HE MIGHT PERSEVERE IN WELL DOING. HE HAD RETURNED TO PRISON THIS TIME FOR HAVING DONE RIGHT HE HAD QUAFFED FRESH BITTERNESS DISGUST AND LASSITUDE WERE OVERPOWERING HIM EVEN THE MEMORY OF THE BISHOP PROBABLY SUFFERED A TEMPORARY ECLIPSE THOUGH SURE TO REAPPEAR LATER ON LUMINOUS AND TRIUMPHANT BUT AFTER ALL THAT SACRED MEMORY WAS GROWING DIM. WHO KNOWS WHETHER JEAN VALJEAN HAD NOT BEEN ON THE EVE OF GROWING DISCOURAGED AND OF FALLING ONCE MORE. HE LOVED AND GREW STRONG AGAIN. ALAS HE WALKED WITH NO LESS INDECISION THAN COSETTE. HE PROTECTED HER AND SHE STRENGTHENED HIM. THANKS TO HIM SHE COULD WALK THROUGH LIFE THANKS TO HER HE COULD CONTINUE IN VIRTUE. HE WAS THAT CHILD'S STAY AND SHE WAS HIS PROP

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+IT IS TO THEM AS THE DAISIES IN THE GRASS AND THE STARS IN THE SKY. OF THESE THINGS AND SUCH AS THESE THEY ASK NO QUESTIONS. BUT THERE YOU WILL STILL FIND ONE CHILD WHO TAKES THE PART OF THE EMPEROR'S DAUGHTER AND ANOTHER WHO IS THE WANDERING SINGER AND THE REMAINING GROUP THERE SHOULD BE NO MORE THAN SIX IN IT BECOMES THE SPRING GREEN LADY THE ROSE WHITE LADY THE APPLE GOLD LADY OF THE THREE PARTS OF THE GAME. OFTEN THERE ARE MORE THAN SIX IN THE GROUP FOR THE TRUE NUMBER OF THE DAMSELS WHO GUARDED THEIR FELLOW IN HER PRISON IS AS FORGOTTEN AS THEIR NAMES JOSCELYN JANE AND JENNIFER JESSICA JOYCE AND JOAN. FORGOTTEN TOO THE NAME OF GILLIAN THE LOVELY CAPTIVE. AND THE WANDERING SINGER IS TO THEM BUT THE WANDERING SINGER NOT MARTIN PIPPIN THE MINSTREL. WORSE AND WORSE HE IS EVEN PRESUMED TO BE THE CAPTIVE'S SWEETHEART WHO WHEEDLES THE FLOWER THE RING AND THE PRISON KEY OUT OF THE STRICT VIRGINS FOR HIS OWN PURPOSES AND FLIES WITH HER AT LAST IN HIS SHALLOP ACROSS THE SEA TO LIVE WITH HER HAPPILY EVER AFTER. BUT THIS IS A FALLACY. MARTIN PIPPIN NEVER WHEEDLED ANYTHING OUT OF ANYBODY FOR HIS OWN PURPOSES IN FACT HE HAD NONE OF HIS OWN. ON THIS ADVENTURE HE WAS ABOUT THE BUSINESS OF YOUNG ROBIN RUE. THERE ARE FURTHER DISCREPANCIES FOR THE EMPEROR'S DAUGHTER WAS NOT AN EMPEROR'S DAUGHTER BUT A FARMER'S NOR WAS THE SEA THE SEA BUT A DUCKPOND NOR. BUT LET US BEGIN WITH THE CHILDREN'S VERSION AS THEY SING AND DANCE IT ON SUMMER DAYS AND EVENINGS IN ADVERSANE. THE SINGING GAME OF THE SPRING GREEN LADY. THE EMPEROR'S DAUGHTER SITS WEEPING IN HER TOWER. AROUND HER WITH THEIR BACKS TO HER STAND SIX MAIDS IN A RING WITH JOINED HANDS. THEY ARE IN GREEN DRESSES. THE WANDERING SINGER APPROACHES THEM WITH HIS LUTE. THE WANDERING SINGER. LADY LADY MY SPRING GREEN LADY MAY I COME INTO YOUR ORCHARD LADY. THE LADIES. YOU MAY NOT COME INTO OUR ORCHARD SINGER BECAUSE WE MUST GUARD THE EMPEROR'S DAUGHTER WHO HIDES IN HER HAIR AT THE WINDOWS THERE WITH HER THOUGHTS A THOUSAND LEAGUES OVER THE WATER SINGER SINGER WANDERING SINGER O MY HONEY SWEET SINGER. THE WANDERING SINGER. LADY LADY MY SPRING GREEN LADY BUT WILL YOU NOT HEAR AN ALBA LADY. I'LL PLAY FOR YOU NOW NEATH THE APPLE BOUGH AND YOU SHALL DANCE ON THE LAWN SO SHADY LADY LADY MY FAIR LADY O MY SPRING GREEN LADY. THE LADIES. O IF YOU PLAY US AN ALBA SINGER HOW CAN THAT HARM THE EMPEROR'S DAUGHTER. NO WORD WOULD SHE SAY THOUGH WE DANCED ALL DAY WITH HER THOUGHTS A THOUSAND LEAGUES OVER THE WATER SINGER SINGER WANDERING SINGER O MY HONEY SWEET SINGER. THE WANDERING SINGER. BUT IF I PLAY YOU AN ALBA LADY GET ME A BOON FROM THE EMPEROR'S DAUGHTER THE FLOWER FROM HER HAIR FOR MY HEART TO WEAR THOUGH HERS BE A THOUSAND LEAGUES OVER THE WATER LADY LADY MY FAIR LADY O MY SPRING GREEN LADY. THE LADIES. THEY GIVE HIM THE FLOWER FROM THE HAIR OF THE EMPEROR'S DAUGHTER AND SING. NOW YOU MAY PLAY US AN ALBA SINGER A DANCE OF DAWN FOR A SPRING GREEN LADY FOR THE LEAF IS NOW ON THE APPLE BOUGH AND THE SUN IS HIGH AND THE LAWN IS SHADY SINGER SINGER WANDERING SINGER O MY HONEY SWEET SINGER. THE WANDERING SINGER PLAYS ON HIS LUTE AND THE LADIES BREAK THEIR RANKS AND DANCE. THE SINGER STEALS UP BEHIND THE EMPEROR'S DAUGHTER WHO UNCOVERS HER FACE AND SINGS. THE EMPEROR'S DAUGHTER. MOTHER MOTHER MY FAIR DEAD MOTHER THEY HAVE STOLEN THE FLOWER FROM YOUR WEEPING DAUGHTER. THE WANDERING SINGER

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+O DRY YOUR EYES YOU SHALL HAVE THIS OTHER WHEN YOURS IS A THOUSAND LEAGUES OVER THE WATER DAUGHTER DAUGHTER MY SWEET DAUGHTER. LOVE IS NOT FAR MY DAUGHTER. THE SINGER THEN DROPS A SECOND FLOWER INTO THE LAP OF THE CHILD IN THE MIDDLE AND GOES AWAY AND THIS ENDS THE FIRST PART OF THE GAME. THE EMPEROR'S DAUGHTER IS NOT YET RELEASED FOR THE KEY OF HER TOWER IS UNDERSTOOD TO BE STILL IN THE KEEPING OF THE DANCING CHILDREN. BUT IF TIME IS STILL TO SPARE THE SECOND PART OF THE GAME IS PLAYED LIKE THIS. THE DANCERS ONCE MORE ENCIRCLE THEIR WEEPING COMRADE AND NOW THEY ARE GOWNED IN WHITE AND PINK. THEY WILL INDICATE THESE CHANGES PERHAPS BY COLORED RIBBONS OR BY ANY FLOWER IN ITS SEASON OR BY IMAGINING THEMSELVES FIRST IN GREEN AND THEN IN ROSE WHICH IS REALLY THE BEST WAY OF ALL WELL THEN. THE LADIES IN GOWNS OF WHITE AND ROSE COLOR STAND AROUND THE EMPEROR'S DAUGHTER WEEPING IN HER TOWER. TO THEM ONCE MORE COMES THE WANDERING SINGER WITH HIS LUTE. THE WANDERING SINGER. LADY LADY MY ROSE WHITE LADY MAY I COME INTO YOUR ORCHARD LADY. FOR THE BLOSSOM'S NOW ON THE APPLE BOUGH AND THE STARS ARE NEAR AND THE LAWN IS SHADY LADY LADY MY FAIR LADY O MY ROSE WHITE LADY. THE LADIES. YOU MAY NOT COME INTO OUR ORCHARD SINGER LEST YOU BEAR A WORD TO THE EMPEROR'S DAUGHTER FROM ONE WHO WAS SENT TO BANISHMENT AWAY A THOUSAND LEAGUES OVER THE WATER SINGER SINGER WANDERING SINGER O MY HONEY SWEET SINGER. THE WANDERING SINGER. LADY LADY MY ROSE WHITE LADY BUT WILL YOU NOT HEAR A ROUNDEL LADY. I'LL PLAY FOR YOU NOW NEATH THE APPLE BOUGH AND YOU SHALL TRIP ON THE LAWN SO SHADY LADY LADY MY FAIR LADY O MY ROSE WHITE LADY. THE LADIES. O IF YOU PLAY US A ROUNDEL SINGER HOW CAN THAT HARM THE EMPEROR'S DAUGHTER. SHE WOULD NOT SPEAK THOUGH WE DANCED A WEEK WITH HER THOUGHTS A THOUSAND LEAGUES OVER THE WATER SINGER SINGER WANDERING SINGER O MY HONEY SWEET SINGER. THE WANDERING SINGER. BUT IF I PLAY YOU A ROUNDEL LADY GET ME A GIFT FROM THE EMPEROR'S DAUGHTER HER FINGER RING FOR MY FINGER BRING THOUGH SHE'S PLEDGED A THOUSAND LEAGUES OVER THE WATER LADY LADY MY FAIR LADY O MY ROSE WHITE LADY. THE LADIES. THEY GIVE HIM THE RING FROM THE FINGER OF THE EMPEROR'S DAUGHTER AND SING. NOW YOU MAY PLAY US A ROUNDEL SINGER A SUNSET DANCE FOR A ROSE WHITE LADY FOR THE BLOSSOM'S NOW ON THE APPLE BOUGH AND THE STARS ARE NEAR AND THE LAWN IS SHADY SINGER SINGER WANDERING SINGER O MY HONEY SWEET SINGER. AS BEFORE THE SINGER PLAYS AND THE LADIES DANCE AND THROUGH THE BROKEN CIRCLE THE SINGER COMES BEHIND THE EMPEROR'S DAUGHTER WHO UNCOVERS HER FACE TO SING. THE EMPEROR'S DAUGHTER. MOTHER MOTHER MY FAIR DEAD MOTHER THEY'VE STOLEN THE RING FROM YOUR HEART SICK DAUGHTER. THE WANDERING SINGER. O MEND YOUR HEART YOU SHALL WEAR THIS OTHER WHEN YOURS IS A THOUSAND LEAGUES OVER THE WATER DAUGHTER DAUGHTER MY SWEET DAUGHTER. LOVE IS AT HAND MY DAUGHTER. THE THIRD PART OF THE GAME IS SELDOM PLAYED. BUT I DID ONCE HAVE THE LUCK TO HEAR AND SEE THE LADY PLAYED IN ENTIRETY THE CHILDREN HAD BEEN GRANTED LEAVE TO PLAY JUST ONE MORE GAME BEFORE BED TIME AND OF COURSE THEY CHOSE THE LONGEST AND PLAYED IT WITHOUT MISSING A SYLLABLE. THE LADIES IN YELLOW DRESSES STAND AGAIN IN A RING ABOUT THE EMPEROR'S DAUGHTER AND ARE FOR THE LAST TIME ACCOSTED BY THE SINGER WITH HIS LUTE

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+THE WANDERING SINGER. FOR THE FRUIT IS NOW ON THE APPLE BOUGH AND THE MOON IS UP AND THE LAWN IS SHADY LADY LADY MY FAIR LADY O MY APPLE GOLD LADY. THE LADIES. YOU MAY NOT COME INTO OUR ORCHARD SINGER IN CASE YOU SET FREE THE EMPEROR'S DAUGHTER WHO PINES APART TO FOLLOW HER HEART THAT'S FLOWN A THOUSAND LEAGUES OVER THE WATER SINGER SINGER WANDERING SINGER O MY HONEY SWEET SINGER. THE WANDERING SINGER. LADY LADY MY APPLE GOLD LADY BUT WILL YOU NOT HEAR A SERENA LADY. I'LL PLAY FOR YOU NOW NEATH THE APPLE BOUGH AND YOU SHALL DREAM ON THE LAWN SO SHADY LADY LADY MY FAIR LADY O MY APPLE GOLD LADY. THE LADIES. O IF YOU PLAY A SERENA SINGER HOW CAN THAT HARM THE EMPEROR'S DAUGHTER. SHE WOULD NOT HEAR THOUGH WE DANCED A YEAR WITH HER HEART A THOUSAND LEAGUES OVER THE WATER SINGER SINGER WANDERING SINGER O MY HONEY SWEET SINGER. THE WANDERING SINGER. BUT IF I PLAY A SERENA LADY LET ME GUARD THE KEY OF THE EMPEROR'S DAUGHTER LEST HER BODY SHOULD FOLLOW HER HEART LIKE A SWALLOW AND FLY A THOUSAND LEAGUES OVER THE WATER LADY LADY MY FAIR LADY O MY APPLE GOLD LADY. THE LADIES. THEY GIVE THE KEY OF THE TOWER INTO HIS HANDS. NOW YOU MAY PLAY A SERENA SINGER A DREAM OF NIGHT FOR AN APPLE GOLD LADY FOR THE FRUIT IS NOW ON THE APPLE BOUGH AND THE MOON IS UP AND THE LAWN IS SHADY SINGER SINGER WANDERING SINGER O MY HONEY SWEET SINGER. ONCE MORE THE SINGER PLAYS AND THE LADIES DANCE BUT ONE BY ONE THEY FALL ASLEEP TO THE DROWSY MUSIC AND THEN THE SINGER STEPS INTO THE RING AND UNLOCKS THE TOWER AND KISSES THE EMPEROR'S DAUGHTER. THEY HAVE THE END OF THE GAME TO THEMSELVES. LOVER LOVER THY MY OWN TRUE LOVER HAS OPENED A WAY FOR THE EMPEROR'S DAUGHTER. THE DAWN IS THE GOAL AND THE DARK THE COVER AS WE SAIL A THOUSAND LEAGUES OVER THE WATER LOVER LOVER MY DEAR LOVER O MY OWN TRUE LOVER. THE WANDERING SINGER AND THE EMPEROR'S DAUGHTER FLOAT A THOUSAND LEAGUES IN HIS SHALLOP AND LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER. I DON'T KNOW WHAT BECOMES OF THE LADIES. BED TIME CHILDREN. IN THEY GO. YOU SEE THE TREATMENT IS A TRIFLE FANCIFUL. BUT ROMANCE GATHERS ROUND AN OLD STORY LIKE LICHEN ON AN OLD BRANCH. AND THE STORY OF MARTIN PIPPIN IN THE APPLE ORCHARD IS SO OLD NOW SOME SAY A YEAR OLD SOME SAY EVEN TWO. HOW CAN THE CHILDREN BE EXPECTED TO REMEMBER

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+I SIT HERE IN THIS GRACIOUSLY PROPORTIONED LITTLE ROOM WHICH I SHALL LEAVE FOR EVER NEXT WEEK FOR ALREADY YOUR MOTHER BEGINS TO PACK FOR ENGLAND AGAIN. I LOOK OUT UPON THE NEAT FRENCH GARDEN THAT I HAVE WATCHED THE SUMMER ROUND AND BEFORE ME IS THE PILE OF MANUSCRIPT THAT HAS GROWN HERE THE STORY OF MY FRIENDSHIP AND LOVE FOR MARY AND OF ITS TRAGIC END AND OF ALL THE CHANGES OF MY BELIEFS AND PURPOSES THAT HAVE ARISEN OUT OF THAT. I HAD MEANT IT TO BE THE STORY OF MY LIFE BUT HOW LITTLE OF MY LIFE IS IN IT. IT GIVES AT MOST CERTAIN ACUTE POINTS CERTAIN SALIENT ASPECTS. I BEGIN TO REALIZE FOR THE FIRST TIME HOW THIN AND SUGGESTIVE AND SKETCHY A THING ANY NOVEL OR BIOGRAPHY MUST BE. HOW WE MUST SIMPLIFY. EVEN MARY OF WHOM I HAVE LABORED TO TELL YOU SEEMS NOT SO MUCH EXPRESSED AS HIDDEN BENEATH THESE CORRECTED SHEETS. SHE WHO WAS SO ABUNDANTLY LIVING WHO COULD LOVE LIKE A BURST OF SUNSHINE AND GIVE HERSELF AS GOD GIVES THE WORLD IS SHE HERE AT ALL IN THIS PILE OF INDUSTRIOUS INEXPERT WRITING. LIFE IS SO MUCH FULLER THAN ANY BOOK CAN BE. ALL THIS STORY CAN BE READ I SUPPOSE IN A COUPLE OF HOURS OR SO BUT I HAVE BEEN LIVING AND REFLECTING UPON AND RECONSIDERING THE SUBSTANCE OF IT FOR OVER FORTY YEARS. I DO NOT SEE HOW THIS BOOK CAN GIVE YOU ANY IMPRESSION BUT THAT OF A CAREER ALL STRAINED UPON THE FRAME OF ONE TRAGIC RELATIONSHIP YET NO LIFE UNLESS IT IS A VERY SHORT YOUNG LIFE CAN HAVE THAT SIMPLICITY. OF ALL THE MANY THINGS I HAVE FOUND BEAUTIFUL AND WONDERFUL MARY WAS THE MOST WONDERFUL TO ME SHE IS IN MY EXISTENCE LIKE A SUNLIT LAKE SEEN AMONG MOUNTAINS OF ALL THE EDGES BY WHICH LIFE HAS WROUGHT ME SHE WAS THE KEENEST. NEVERTHELESS SHE WAS NOT ALL MY LIFE NOR THE FORM OF ALL MY LIFE. FOR A TIME AFTER HER DEATH I COULD ENDURE NOTHING OF MY HOME I COULD NOT BEAR THE PRESENCE OF YOUR MOTHER OR YOU I HATED THE POSSIBILITY OF CONSOLATION I WENT AWAY INTO ITALY AND IT WAS ONLY BY AN ENORMOUS EFFORT THAT I COULD RESUME MY INTEREST IN THAT SCHEME OF WORK TO WHICH MY LIFE IS GIVEN. BUT IT IS MANIFEST I STILL LIVE I LIVE AND WORK AND FEEL AND SHARE BEAUTY. IT SEEMS TO ME MORE AND MORE AS I LIVE LONGER THAT MOST POETRY AND MOST LITERATURE AND PARTICULARLY THE LITERATURE OF THE PAST IS DISCORDANT WITH THE VASTNESS AND VARIETY THE RESERVES AND RESOURCES AND RECUPERATIONS OF LIFE AS WE LIVE IT TO DAY. IT IS THE EXPRESSION OF LIFE UNDER CRUDER AND MORE RIGID CONDITIONS THAN OURS LIVED BY PEOPLE WHO LOVED AND HATED MORE NAIVELY AGED SOONER AND DIED YOUNGER THAN WE DO. SOLITARY PERSONS AND SINGLE EVENTS DOMINATED THEM AS THEY DO NOT DOMINATE US. WE RANGE WIDER LAST LONGER AND ESCAPE MORE AND MORE FROM INTENSITY TOWARDS UNDERSTANDING. AND ALREADY THIS ASTOUNDING BLOW BEGINS TO TAKE ITS PLACE AMONG OTHER EVENTS AS A THING STRANGE AND TERRIBLE INDEED BUT RELATED TO ALL THE STRANGENESS AND MYSTERY OF LIFE PART OF THE UNIVERSAL MYSTERIES OF DESPAIR AND FUTILITY AND DEATH THAT HAVE TROUBLED MY CONSCIOUSNESS SINCE CHILDHOOD. FOR A TIME THE DEATH OF MARY OBSCURED HER LIFE FOR ME BUT NOW HER LIVING PRESENCE IS MORE IN MY MIND AGAIN. I BEGIN TO SEE THAT IT IS THE REALITY OF HER EXISTENCE AND NOT THE ACCIDENTS OF HER END THAT MATTER MOST

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+IT SIGNIFIES LESS THAT SHE SHOULD HAVE FLUNG OUT OF LIFE WHEN IT SEEMED THAT HER LIVING COULD ONLY HAVE MEANT DISASTER TO HERSELF AND TO ALL SHE LOVED THAN THAT ALL HER LIFE SHOULD HAVE BEEN HAMPERED AND RESTRICTED. IT WAS THAT IDEA OF WASTE THAT DOMINATED MY MIND IN A STRANGE INTERVIEW I HAD WITH JUSTIN. FOR IT BECAME NECESSARY FOR ME TO SEE JUSTIN IN ORDER THAT WE SHOULD STAMP OUT THE WHISPERS AGAINST HER THAT FOLLOWED HER DEATH. HE HAD MADE IT SEEM AN ACCIDENTAL DEATH DUE TO AN OVERDOSE OF THE NARCOTIC SHE EMPLOYED BUT HE HAD NOT BEEN ABLE TO OBLITERATE ALTOGETHER THE BEGINNINGS OF HIS DIVORCE PROCEEDINGS. THERE HAD BEEN TALK ON THE PART OF CLERKS AND POSSIBLE WITNESSES. BUT OF ALL THAT I NEED NOT TELL YOU HERE WHAT MATTERS IS THAT JUSTIN AND I COULD MEET WITHOUT HATRED OR VIOLENCE. I MET A JUSTIN GREY HAIRED AND IT SEEMED TO ME PHYSICALLY SHRUNKEN MORE THAN EVER SLOW SPEAKING WITH HIS HABIT OF ATTENTIVE SILENCES MORE MARKED AND THAT DARK SCAR SPREAD BEYOND HIS BROWS. WE HAD COME TO OUR PARTING WE HAD DONE OUR BUSINESS WITH AN AFFECTATION OF EMOTIONAL ALOOFNESS AND THEN SUDDENLY HE GRIPPED ME BY THE ARM. STRATTON HE SAID WE TWO WE KILLED HER. WE TORE HER TO PIECES BETWEEN US. I MADE NO ANSWER TO THIS OUTBREAK. WE TORE HER TO PIECES HE REPEATED. IT'S SO DAMNED SILLY. ONE GETS ANGRY LIKE AN ANIMAL. I BECAME GROTESQUELY ANXIOUS TO ASSURE HIM THAT INDEED SHE AND I HAD BEEN AS THEY SAY INNOCENT THROUGHOUT OUR LAST DAY TOGETHER. YOU WERE WRONG IN ALL THAT I SAID SHE KEPT HER FAITH WITH YOU. WE NEVER PLANNED TO MEET AND WHEN WE MET. IF WE HAD BEEN BROTHER AND SISTER INDEED THERE WAS NOTHING. I SUPPOSE HE SAID I OUGHT TO BE GLAD OF THAT. BUT NOW IT DOESN'T SEEM TO MATTER VERY MUCH. AND IT IS UPON THIS EFFECT OF SWEET AND BEAUTIFUL POSSIBILITIES CAUGHT IN THE NET OF ANIMAL JEALOUSIES AND THOUGHTLESS MOTIVES AND ANCIENT RIGID INSTITUTIONS THAT I WOULD END THIS WRITING. IN MARY IT SEEMS TO ME I FOUND BOTH WOMANHOOD AND FELLOWSHIP I FOUND WHAT MANY HAVE DREAMT OF LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP FREELY GIVEN AND I COULD DO NOTHING BUT CLUTCH AT HER TO MAKE HER MY POSSESSION. I WOULD NOT PERMIT HER TO LIVE EXCEPT AS A PART OF MY LIFE. I SEE HER NOW AND UNDERSTAND HER BETTER THAN WHEN SHE WAS ALIVE I RECALL THINGS THAT SHE SAID AND WROTE AND IT IS CLEAR TO ME CLEARER PERHAPS THAN IT EVER WAS TO HER THAT SHE WITH HER RESENTMENT AT BEING IN ANY SENSE PROPERTY HER SELF RELIANT THOUGHT HER INDEPENDENCE OF STANDARD WAS THE VERY PROTOTYPE OF THAT SISTER LOVER WHO MUST REPLACE THE SEDUCTIVE AND ABJECT WOMANHOOD OWNED MASTERED AND DECEIVING WHO WASTE THE WORLD TO DAY. AND SHE WAS OWNED SHE WAS MASTERED SHE WAS FORCED INTO CONCEALMENT. WHAT ALTERNATIVE WAS THERE FOR HER. WHAT ALTERNATIVE IS THERE FOR ANY WOMAN. SHE MIGHT PERHAPS HAVE KEPT HER FREEDOM BY SOME ILL PAID WORK AND AT THE PRICE OF EVERY OTHER IMPULSE IN HER SWIFT AND EAGER NATURE. SHE MIGHT HAVE BECOME ONE OF THOSE POOR NEUTERS AN INDEPENDENT WOMAN LIFE WAS MADE IMPOSSIBLE FOR HER AND SHE WAS FORCED TO DIE ACCORDING TO THE FATE OF ALL UNTIMELY THINGS

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+SHE WAS DESTROYED NOT MERELY BY THE UNCONSIDERED UNDISCIPLINED PASSIONS OF HER HUSBAND AND HER LOVER BUT BY THE VAST TRADITION THAT SUSTAINS AND ENFORCES THE SUBJUGATION OF HER SEX. WHAT I HAD FROM HER AND WHAT SHE WAS IS BUT A MERE INTIMATION OF ALL THAT SHE AND I MIGHT HAVE MADE OF EACH OTHER AND THE WORLD. AND PERHAPS IN THIS STORY I HAVE SAID ENOUGH FOR YOU TO UNDERSTAND WHY MARY HAS IDENTIFIED HERSELF WITH SOMETHING WORLD WIDE HAS ADDED TO HERSELF A SYMBOLICAL VALUE AND WHY IT IS I FIND IN THE WHOLE CROWDED SPECTACLE OF MANKIND A QUALITY THAT IS ALSO HERS A SENSE OF FINE THINGS ENTANGLED AND STIFLED AND UNABLE TO FREE THEMSELVES FROM THE ANCIENT LIMITING JEALOUSIES WHICH LAW AND CUSTOM EMBODY. FOR I KNOW THAT A GROWING MULTITUDE OF MEN AND WOMEN OUTWEAR THE ANCIENT WAYS. THE BLOOD STAINED ORGANIZED JEALOUSIES OF RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE THE DELUSIONS OF NATIONALITY AND CULT AND RACE THAT BLACK HATRED WHICH SIMPLE PEOPLE AND YOUNG PEOPLE AND COMMON PEOPLE CHERISH AGAINST ALL THAT IS NOT IN THE LIKENESS OF THEMSELVES CEASE TO BE THE UNDISPUTED RULING FORCES OF OUR COLLECTIVE LIFE. WE WANT TO EMANCIPATE OUR LIVES FROM THIS SLAVERY AND THESE STUPIDITIES FROM DULL HATREDS AND SUSPICION. THE RIPENING MIND OF OUR RACE TIRES OF THESE BOORISH AND BRUTISH AND CHILDISH THINGS. A SPIRIT THAT IS LIKE HERS ARISES AND INCREASES IN HUMAN AFFAIRS A SPIRIT THAT DEMANDS FREEDOM AND GRACIOUS LIVING AS OUR INHERITANCE TOO LONG DEFERRED AND I WHO LOVED HER SO BLINDLY AND NARROWLY NOW LOVE HER SPIRIT WITH A DAWNING UNDERSTANDING. I WILL NOT BE CONTENT WITH THAT COMPROMISE OF JEALOUSIES WHICH IS THE ESTABLISHED LIFE OF HUMANITY TO DAY

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+CUCUMBER SAUCE. MODE PEEL THE CUCUMBERS QUARTER THEM AND TAKE OUT THE SEEDS CUT THEM INTO SMALL PIECES PUT THEM IN A CLOTH AND RUB THEM WELL TO TAKE OUT THE WATER WHICH HANGS ABOUT THEM. PUT THE BUTTER IN A SAUCEPAN ADD THE CUCUMBERS AND SHAKE THEM OVER A SHARP FIRE UNTIL THEY ARE OF A GOOD COLOUR. THEN POUR OVER IT THE GRAVY MIX THIS WITH THE CUCUMBERS AND SIMMER GENTLY FOR TEN MINUTES WHEN IT WILL BE READY TO SERVE. MODE CUT THE CUCUMBERS IN THICK SLICES SPRINKLE SALT OVER THEM AND LET THEM REMAIN FOR TWENTY FOUR HOURS. THE NEXT DAY DRAIN THEM WELL FOR SIX HOURS PUT THEM INTO A JAR POUR BOILING VINEGAR OVER THEM AND KEEP THEM IN A WARM PLACE. IN A SHORT TIME BOIL UP THE VINEGAR AGAIN ADD PEPPER AND GINGER IN THE ABOVE PROPORTION AND INSTANTLY COVER THEM UP. TIE THEM DOWN WITH BLADDER AND IN A FEW DAYS THEY WILL BE FIT FOR USE. ILLUSTRATION LONG PEPPER. LONG PEPPER THIS IS THE PRODUCE OF A DIFFERENT PLANT FROM THAT WHICH PRODUCES THE BLACK IT CONSISTING OF THE HALF RIPE FLOWER HEADS OF WHAT NATURALISTS CALL PIPER LONGUM AND CHABA. IT IS THE GROWTH HOWEVER OF THE SAME COUNTRIES INDEED ALL THE SPICES ARE THE PRODUCE OF TROPICAL CLIMATES ONLY. ORIGINALLY THE MOST VALUABLE OF THESE WERE FOUND IN THE SPICE ISLANDS OR MOLUCCAS OF THE INDIAN OCEAN AND WERE HIGHLY PRIZED BY THE NATIONS OF ANTIQUITY. THE LONG PEPPER IS LESS AROMATIC THAN THE BLACK BUT ITS OIL IS MORE PUNGENT. CUCUMBER SAUCE WHITE FOUR HUNDRED. MODE CUT THE CUCUMBERS INTO SMALL PIECES AFTER PEELING THEM AND TAKING OUT THE SEEDS. PUT THEM IN A STEWPAN WITH THE WHITE STOCK AND SEASONING SIMMER GENTLY TILL THE CUCUMBERS ARE TENDER WHICH WILL BE IN ABOUT ONE QUARTER HOUR. THEN ADD THE YOLKS OF THE EGGS WELL BEATEN STIR THEM TO THE SAUCE BUT DO NOT ALLOW IT TO BOIL AND SERVE VERY HOT. CUCUMBER VINEGAR A VERY NICE ADDITION TO SALADS. MODE PARE AND SLICE THE CUCUMBERS PUT THEM IN A STONE JAR OR WIDE MOUTHED BOTTLE WITH THE VINEGAR SLICE THE ONIONS AND SHALOTS AND ADD THEM WITH ALL THE OTHER INGREDIENTS TO THE CUCUMBERS. LET IT STAND FOUR OR FIVE DAYS BOIL IT ALL UP AND WHEN COLD STRAIN THE LIQUOR THROUGH A PIECE OF MUSLIN AND STORE IT AWAY IN SMALL BOTTLES WELL SEALED. GERMAN METHOD OF KEEPING CUCUMBERS FOR WINTER USE. INGREDIENTS CUCUMBERS SALT. MODE PARE AND SLICE THE CUCUMBERS AS FOR THE TABLE SPRINKLE WELL WITH SALT AND LET THEM REMAIN FOR TWENTY FOUR HOURS STRAIN OFF THE LIQUOR PACK IN JARS A THICK LAYER OF CUCUMBERS AND SALT ALTERNATELY TIE DOWN CLOSELY AND WHEN WANTED FOR USE TAKE OUT THE QUANTITY REQUIRED. NOW WASH THEM WELL IN FRESH WATER AND DRESS AS USUAL WITH PEPPER VINEGAR AND OIL. ILLUSTRATION THE CUCUMBER. THE MODERN EGYPTIANS AS DID THEIR FOREFATHERS STILL EAT IT AND OTHERS OF ITS CLASS. AN EXCELLENT WAY OF PRESERVING CUCUMBERS. MODE CHOOSE THE GREENEST CUCUMBERS AND THOSE THAT ARE MOST FREE FROM SEEDS PUT THEM IN STRONG SALT AND WATER WITH A CABBAGE LEAF TO KEEP THEM DOWN TIE A PAPER OVER THEM AND PUT THEM IN A WARM PLACE TILL THEY ARE YELLOW THEN WASH THEM AND SET THEM OVER THE FIRE IN FRESH WATER WITH A VERY LITTLE SALT AND ANOTHER CABBAGE LEAF OVER THEM COVER VERY CLOSELY BUT TAKE CARE THEY DO NOT BOIL. IF THEY ARE NOT A FINE GREEN CHANGE THE WATER AGAIN COVER THEM AS BEFORE AND MAKE THEM HOT. LET THEM REMAIN FOR TWO DAYS CHANGING THE WATER TWICE EACH DAY TO DRAW OUT THE SALT

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+PUT THE SUGAR WITH ONE QUARTER PINT OF WATER IN A SAUCEPAN OVER THE FIRE REMOVE THE SCUM AS IT RISES AND ADD THE LEMON PEEL AND GINGER WITH THE OUTSIDE SCRAPED OFF WHEN THE SYRUP IS TOLERABLY THICK TAKE IT OFF THE FIRE AND WHEN COLD WIPE THE CUCUMBERS DRY AND PUT THEM IN. BOIL THE SYRUP ONCE IN TWO OR THREE DAYS FOR THREE WEEKS STRENGTHEN IT IF REQUIRED AND LET IT BE QUITE COLD BEFORE THE CUCUMBERS ARE PUT IN. GREAT ATTENTION MUST BE PAID TO THE DIRECTIONS IN THE COMMENCEMENT OF THIS RECIPE AS IF THESE ARE NOT PROPERLY CARRIED OUT THE RESULT WILL BE FAR FROM SATISFACTORY. SEASONABLE THIS RECIPE SHOULD BE USED IN JUNE JULY OR AUGUST. ILLUSTRATION SALT MINE AT NORTHWICH COMMON SALT BY THIS WE MEAN SALT USED FOR COOKING PURPOSES WHICH IS FOUND IN GREAT ABUNDANCE BOTH ON LAND AND IN THE WATERS OF THE OCEAN. SOLID ROCKS OF SALT ARE ALSO FOUND IN VARIOUS PARTS OF THE WORLD AND THE COUNTY OF CHESTER CONTAINS MANY OF THESE MINES AND IT IS FROM THERE THAT MUCH OF OUR SALT COMES. SOME SPRINGS ARE SO HIGHLY IMPREGNATED WITH SALT AS TO HAVE RECEIVED THE NAME OF BRINE SPRINGS AND ARE SUPPOSED TO HAVE BECOME SO BY PASSING THROUGH THE SALT ROCKS BELOW GROUND AND THUS DISSOLVING A PORTION OF THIS MINERAL SUBSTANCE. CUSTARD SAUCE FOR SWEET PUDDINGS OR TARTS. MODE PUT THE MILK IN A VERY CLEAN SAUCEPAN AND LET IT BOIL. BEAT THE EGGS STIR TO THEM THE MILK AND POUNDED SUGAR AND PUT THE MIXTURE INTO A JUG. PLACE THE JUG IN A SAUCEPAN OF BOILING WATER KEEP STIRRING WELL UNTIL IT THICKENS BUT DO NOT ALLOW IT TO BOIL OR IT WILL CURDLE. SERVE THE SAUCE IN A TUREEN STIR IN THE BRANDY AND GRATE A LITTLE NUTMEG OVER THE TOP. SUFFICIENT THIS QUANTITY FOR TWO FRUIT TARTS OR ONE PUDDING. DUTCH SAUCE FOR FISH. MODE PUT ALL THE INGREDIENTS EXCEPT THE LEMON JUICE INTO A STEW PAN SET IT OVER THE FIRE AND KEEP CONTINUALLY STIRRING. WHEN IT IS SUFFICIENTLY THICK TAKE IT OFF AS IT SHOULD NOT BOIL. IF HOWEVER IT HAPPENS TO CURDLE STRAIN THE SAUCE THROUGH A TAMMY ADD THE LEMON JUICE AND SERVE. TARRAGON VINEGAR MAY BE USED INSTEAD OF PLAIN AND BY MANY IS CONSIDERED FAR PREFERABLE. NOTE THIS SAUCE MAY BE POURED HOT OVER SALAD AND LEFT TO GET QUITE COLD WHEN IT SHOULD BE THICK SMOOTH AND SOMEWHAT STIFF. EXCELLENT SALADS MAY BE MADE OF HARD EGGS OR THE REMAINS OF SALT FISH FLAKED NICELY FROM THE BONE BY POURING OVER A LITTLE OF THE ABOVE MIXTURE WHEN HOT AND ALLOWING IT TO COOL. ILLUSTRATION THE LEMON. THE LEMON THIS FRUIT IS A NATIVE OF ASIA AND IS MENTIONED BY VIRGIL AS AN ANTIDOTE TO POISON. IT IS HARDIER THAN THE ORANGE AND AS ONE OF THE CITRON TRIBE WAS BROUGHT INTO EUROPE BY THE ARABIANS. THE LEMON WAS FIRST CULTIVATED IN ENGLAND IN THE BEGINNING OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY AND IS NOW OFTEN TO BE FOUND IN OUR GREEN HOUSES. THE KIND COMMONLY SOLD HOWEVER IS IMPORTED FROM PORTUGAL SPAIN AND THE AZORES. SOME ALSO COME FROM SAINT HELENA BUT THOSE FROM SPAIN ARE ESTEEMED THE BEST. THIS JUICE WHICH IS CALLED CITRIC ACID MAY BE PRESERVED IN BOTTLES FOR A CONSIDERABLE TIME BY COVERING IT WITH A THIN STRATUM OF OIL. SHRUB IS MADE FROM IT WITH RUM AND SUGAR. GREEN DUTCH SAUCE OR HOLLANDAISE VERTE. TO PICKLE EGGS. MODE BOIL THE EGGS FOR TWELVE MINUTES THEN DIP THEM INTO COLD WATER AND TAKE OFF THE SHELLS. PUT THE VINEGAR WITH THE PEPPER AND GINGER INTO A STEWPAN AND LET IT SIMMER FOR TEN MINUTES

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+SEASONABLE THIS SHOULD BE MADE ABOUT EASTER AS AT THIS TIME EGGS ARE PLENTIFUL AND CHEAP. A STORE OF PICKLED EGGS WILL BE FOUND VERY USEFUL AND ORNAMENTAL IN SERVING WITH MANY FIRST AND SECOND COURSE DISHES. ILLUSTRATION GINGER. THE GINGER PLANT KNOWN TO NATURALISTS AS ZINGIBER OFFICINALE IS A NATIVE OF THE EAST AND WEST INDIES. IT GROWS SOMEWHAT LIKE THE LILY OF THE VALLEY BUT ITS HEIGHT IS ABOUT THREE FEET. IN JAMAICA IT FLOWERS ABOUT AUGUST OR SEPTEMBER FADING ABOUT THE END OF THE YEAR. THE FLESHY CREEPING ROOTS WHICH FORM THE GINGER OF COMMERCE ARE IN A PROPER STATE TO BE DUG WHEN THE STALKS ARE ENTIRELY WITHERED. GINGER IS GENERALLY CONSIDERED AS LESS PUNGENT AND HEATING TO THE SYSTEM THAN MIGHT HE EXPECTED FROM ITS EFFECTS ON THE ORGANS OF TASTE AND IT IS FREQUENTLY USED WITH CONSIDERABLE EFFECT AS AN ANTI SPASMODIC AND CARMINATIVE. EGG BALLS FOR SOUPS AND MADE DISHES. MODE BOIL SIX EGGS FOR TWENTY MINUTES STRIP OFF THE SHELLS TAKE THE YOLKS AND POUND THEM IN A MORTAR. BEAT THE YOLKS OF THE OTHER TWO EGGS ADD THEM WITH A LITTLE FLOUR AND SALT TO THOSE POUNDED MIX ALL WELL TOGETHER AND ROLL INTO BALLS. BOIL THEM BEFORE THEY ARE PUT INTO THE SOUP OR OTHER DISH THEY MAY BE INTENDED FOR. SUFFICIENT TWO DOZEN BALLS FOR ONE TUREEN OF SOUP. EGG SAUCE FOR SALT FISH. WHEN LIKED A VERY LITTLE LEMON JUICE. STRIP OFF THE SHELLS CHOP THE EGGS INTO SMALL PIECES NOT HOWEVER TOO FINE. LEMON JUICE MAY BE ADDED AT PLEASURE. EPICUREAN SAUCE FOR STEAKS CHOPS GRAVIES OR FISH. MODE PUT THE WHOLE OF THE INGREDIENTS INTO A BOTTLE AND LET IT REMAIN FOR A FORTNIGHT IN A WARM PLACE OCCASIONALLY SHAKING UP THE CONTENTS. STRAIN AND BOTTLE OFF FOR USE. ILLUSTRATION SHALOT. IT IS A BULBOUS ROOT AND WHEN FULL GROWN ITS LEAVES WITHER IN JULY. THEY OUGHT TO BE TAKEN UP IN THE AUTUMN AND WHEN DRIED IN THE HOUSE WILL KEEP TILL SPRING. IT IS CALLED BY OLD AUTHORS THE BARREN ONION AND IS USED IN SAUCES AND PICKLES SOUPS AND MADE DISHES AND AS AN ACCOMPANIMENT TO CHOPS AND STEAKS. ESPAGNOLE OR BROWN SPANISH SAUCE. ADD THE REMAINDER OF THE STOCK WITH THE SPICES HERBS SHALOTS AND ONIONS AND SIMMER VERY GENTLY FOR ONE HOUR. STRAIN AND SKIM OFF EVERY PARTICLE OF FAT AND WHEN REQUIRED FOR USE THICKEN WITH BUTTER AND FLOUR OR WITH A LITTLE ROUX. ADD THE WINE AND IF NECESSARY A SEASONING OF CAYENNE WHEN IT WILL BE READY TO SERVE. NOTE THE WINE IN THIS SAUCE MAY BE OMITTED AND AN ONION SLICED AND FRIED OF A NICE BROWN SUBSTITUTED FOR IT. THIS SAUCE OR GRAVY IS USED FOR MANY DISHES AND WITH MOST PEOPLE IS A GENERAL FAVOURITE. FENNEL SAUCE FOR MACKEREL. SIMMER FOR A MINUTE OR TWO AND SERVE IN A TUREEN. SUFFICIENT TO SERVE WITH FIVE OR SIX MACKEREL. ILLUSTRATION FENNEL. IT IS VERY GENERALLY CULTIVATED IN GARDENS AND HAS MUCH IMPROVED ON ITS ORIGINAL FORM. VARIOUS DISHES ARE FREQUENTLY ORNAMENTED AND GARNISHED WITH ITS GRACEFUL LEAVES AND THESE ARE SOMETIMES BOILED IN SOUPS ALTHOUGH IT IS MORE USUALLY CONFINED IN ENGLISH COOKERY TO THE MACKEREL SAUCE AS HERE GIVEN. FISH SAUCE. MODE PUT ALL THE INGREDIENTS INTO A LARGE BOTTLE AND SHAKE WELL EVERY DAY FOR A FORTNIGHT. FORCEMEAT BALLS FOR FISH SOUPS

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+MODE PICK THE MEAT FROM THE SHELL OF THE LOBSTER AND POUND IT WITH THE SOFT PARTS IN A MORTAR ADD THE CELERY THE YOLK OF THE HARD BOILED EGG SEASONING AND BREAD CRUMBS. CONTINUE POUNDING TILL THE WHOLE IS NICELY AMALGAMATED. WARM THE BUTTER TILL IT IS IN A LIQUID STATE WELL WHISK THE EGGS AND WORK THESE UP WITH THE POUNDED LOBSTER MEAT. MAKE INTO BALLS OF ABOUT AN INCH IN DIAMETER AND FRY OF A NICE PALE BROWN. SUFFICIENT FROM EIGHTEEN TO TWENTY BALLS FOR ONE TUREEN OF SOUP. FORCEMEAT FOR COLD SAVOURY PIES. MODE CHOP THE VEAL AND BACON TOGETHER AND PUT THEM IN A MORTAR WITH THE OTHER INGREDIENTS MENTIONED ABOVE. POUND WELL AND BIND WITH ONE OR TWO EGGS WHICH HAVE BEEN PREVIOUSLY BEATEN AND STRAINED. WORK THE WHOLE WELL TOGETHER AND THE FORCEMEAT WILL BE READY FOR USE. IF THE PIE IS NOT TO BE EATEN IMMEDIATELY OMIT THE HERBS AND PARSLEY AS THESE WOULD PREVENT IT FROM KEEPING. MUSHROOMS OR TRUFFLES MAY BE ADDED. SUFFICIENT FOR TWO SMALL PIES. ILLUSTRATION MARJORAM. MARJORAM ALTHOUGH THERE ARE SEVERAL SPECIES OF MARJORAM THAT WHICH IS KNOWN AS THE SWEET OR KNOTTED MARJORAM IS THE ONE USUALLY PREFERRED IN COOKERY. IT IS A NATIVE OF PORTUGAL AND WHEN ITS LEAVES ARE USED AS A SEASONING HERB THEY HAVE AN AGREEABLE AROMATIC FLAVOUR. MODE MIX ALL THE INGREDIENTS WELL TOGETHER CAREFULLY MINCING THEM VERY FINELY BEAT UP THE EGG MOISTEN WITH IT AND WORK THE WHOLE VERY SMOOTHLY TOGETHER. SUFFICIENT FOR A MODERATE SIZED HADDOCK OR PIKE. MODE SHRED THE HAM OR BACON CHOP THE SUET LEMON PEEL AND HERBS TAKING PARTICULAR CARE THAT ALL BE VERY FINELY MINCED ADD A SEASONING TO TASTE OF SALT CAYENNE AND MACE AND BLEND ALL THOROUGHLY TOGETHER WITH THE BREAD CRUMBS BEFORE WETTING. NOW BEAT AND STRAIN THE EGGS WORK THESE UP WITH THE OTHER INGREDIENTS AND THE FORCEMEAT WILL BE READY FOR USE. SUFFICIENT FOR A TURKEY A MODERATE SIZED FILLET OF VEAL OR A HARE. NOTE IN FORCEMEAT FOR HARE THE LIVER OF THE ANIMAL IS SOMETIMES ADDED. BOIL FOR FIVE MINUTES MINCE IT VERY SMALL AND MIX IT WITH THE OTHER INGREDIENTS. IF IT SHOULD BE IN AN UNSOUND STATE IT MUST BE ON NO ACCOUNT MADE USE OF. ILLUSTRATION BASIL. OTHER SWEET HERBS ARE CULTIVATED FOR PURPOSES OF MEDICINE AND PERFUMERY THEY ARE MOST GRATEFUL BOTH TO THE ORGANS OF TASTE AND SMELLING AND TO THE AROMA DERIVED FROM THEM IS DUE IN A GREAT MEASURE THE SWEET AND EXHILARATING FRAGRANCE OF OUR FLOWERY MEADS. IN TOWN SWEET HERBS HAVE TO BE PROCURED AT THE GREENGROCERS OR HERBALISTS WHILST IN THE COUNTRY THE GARDEN SHOULD FURNISH ALL THAT ARE WANTED THE COOK TAKING GREAT CARE TO HAVE SOME DRIED IN THE AUTUMN FOR HER USE THROUGHOUT THE WINTER MONTHS. FORCEMEAT FOR BAKED PIKE. SUFFICIENT FOR A MODERATE SIZED PIKE. FRENCH FORCEMEAT. IT WILL BE WELL TO STATE IN THE BEGINNING OF THIS RECIPE THAT FRENCH FORCEMEAT OR QUENELLES CONSIST OF THE BLENDING OF THREE SEPARATE PROCESSES NAMELY PANADA UDDER AND WHATEVER MEAT YOU INTEND USING PANADA. PLACE IT OVER THE FIRE KEEP CONSTANTLY STIRRING TO PREVENT ITS BURNING AND WHEN QUITE DRY PUT IN A SMALL PIECE OF BUTTER. LET THIS AGAIN DRY UP BY STIRRING OVER THE FIRE THEN ADD THE YOLKS OF TWO EGGS MIX WELL PUT THE PANADA TO COOL ON A CLEAN PLATE AND USE IT WHEN REQUIRED. BOILED CALF'S UDDER FOR FRENCH FORCEMEATS

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+PUT THE UDDER INTO A STEWPAN WITH SUFFICIENT WATER TO COVER IT LET IT STEW GENTLY TILL QUITE DONE WHEN TAKE IT OUT TO COOL. THAT PORTION WHICH PASSES THROUGH THE STRAINER IS ONE OF THE THREE INGREDIENTS OF WHICH FRENCH FORCEMEATS ARE GENERALLY COMPOSED BUT MANY COOKS SUBSTITUTE BUTTER FOR THIS BEING A LESS TROUBLESOME AND MORE EXPEDITIOUS MODE OF PREPARATION. ILLUSTRATION PESTLE AND MORTAR. PESTLE AND MORTAR NO COOKERY CAN BE PERFECTLY PERFORMED WITHOUT THE AID OF THE USEFUL INSTRUMENTS SHOWN IN THE ENGRAVING. FOR POUNDING THINGS SUFFICIENTLY FINE THEY ARE INVALUABLE AND THE USE OF THEM WILL SAVE A GOOD DEAL OF TIME BESIDES INCREASING THE EXCELLENCE OF THE PREPARATIONS. THEY ARE MADE OF IRON AND IN THAT MATERIAL CAN BE BOUGHT CHEAP BUT AS THESE ARE NOT AVAILABLE FOR ALL PURPOSES WE SHOULD RECOMMEND AS MORE ECONOMICAL IN THE END THOSE MADE OF WEDGWOOD ALTHOUGH THESE ARE CONSIDERABLY MORE EXPENSIVE THAN THE FORMER. VEAL QUENELLES. WHEN THE THREE INGREDIENTS ARE PROPERLY PREPARED POUND THEM ALTOGETHER IN A MORTAR FOR SOME TIME FOR THE MORE QUENELLES ARE POUNDED THE MORE DELICATE THEY ARE. IF THE QUENELLES ARE NOT FIRM ENOUGH ADD THE YOLK OF ANOTHER EGG BUT OMIT THE WHITE WHICH ONLY MAKES THEM HOLLOW AND PUFFY INSIDE. IN THE PREPARATION OF THIS RECIPE IT WOULD BE WELL TO BEAR IN MIND THAT THE INGREDIENTS ARE TO BE WELL POUNDED AND SEASONED AND MUST BE MADE HARD OR SOFT ACCORDING TO THE DISHES THEY ARE INTENDED FOR. FOR BROWN OR WHITE RAGOUTS THEY SHOULD BE FIRM AND WHEN THE QUENELLES ARE USED VERY SMALL EXTREME DELICACY WILL BE NECESSARY IN THEIR PREPARATION. NOTE THE FRENCH ARE NOTED FOR THEIR SKILL IN MAKING FORCEMEATS ONE OF THE PRINCIPAL CAUSES OF THEIR SUPERIORITY IN THIS RESPECT BEING THAT THEY POUND ALL THE INGREDIENTS SO DILIGENTLY AND THOROUGHLY. ANY ONE WITH THE SLIGHTEST PRETENSIONS TO REFINED COOKERY MUST IN THIS PARTICULAR IMPLICITLY FOLLOW THE EXAMPLE OF OUR FRIENDS ACROSS THE CHANNEL. FORCEMEAT OR QUENELLES FOR TURTLE SOUP. FRIED BREAD CRUMBS. CUT THE BREAD INTO THIN SLICES PLACE THEM IN A COOL OVEN OVERNIGHT AND WHEN THOROUGHLY DRY AND CRISP ROLL THEM DOWN INTO FINE CRUMBS. DIRECTLY THEY ARE DONE LIFT THEM OUT WITH A SLICE AND DRAIN THEM BEFORE THE FIRE FROM ALL GREASY MOISTURE. WHEN QUITE CRISP THEY ARE READY FOR USE. THE FAT THEY ARE FRIED IN SHOULD BE CLEAR AND THE CRUMBS SHOULD NOT HAVE THE SLIGHTEST APPEARANCE OR TASTE OF HAVING BEEN IN THE LEAST DEGREE BURNT. FRIED BREAD FOR BORDERS. PROCEED AS ABOVE BY FRYING SOME SLICES OF BREAD CUT IN ANY FANCIFUL SHAPE. WHEN QUITE CRISP DIP ONE SIDE OF THE SIPPET INTO THE BEATEN WHITE OF AN EGG MIXED WITH A LITTLE FLOUR AND PLACE IT ON THE EDGE OF THE DISH. CONTINUE IN THIS MANNER TILL THE BORDER IS COMPLETED ARRANGING THE SIPPETS A PALE AND A DARK ONE ALTERNATELY. MODE CUT UP THE ONION AND CARROT INTO SMALL RINGS AND PUT THEM INTO A STEWPAN WITH THE HERBS MUSHROOMS BAY LEAF CLOVES AND MACE ADD THE BUTTER AND SIMMER THE WHOLE VERY GENTLY OVER A SLOW FIRE UNTIL THE ONION IS QUITE TENDER. POUR IN THE STOCK AND SHERRY AND STEW SLOWLY FOR ONE HOUR WHEN STRAIN IT OFF INTO A CLEAN SAUCEPAN. NOW MAKE A THICKENING OF BUTTER AND FLOUR PUT IT TO THE SAUCE STIR IT OVER THE FIRE UNTIL PERFECTLY SMOOTH AND MELLOW ADD THE LEMON JUICE GIVE ONE BOIL WHEN IT WILL BE READY FOR TABLE. TIME ALTOGETHER TWO HOURS. SUFFICIENT HALF THIS QUANTITY FOR TWO SLICES OF SALMON. ILLUSTRATION SAGE. THERE ARE SEVERAL KINDS OF IT KNOWN AS THE GREEN THE RED THE SMALL LEAVED AND THE BROAD LEAVED BALSAMIC

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+WE WERE TAKING THEM SOME PROVISIONS AS THEY HAD COME TO LIVE ON A WILD PLACE WHERE THERE WAS NO GARDEN OR CHICKEN HOUSE AND VERY LITTLE BROKEN LAND. FUCHS BROUGHT UP A SACK OF POTATOES AND A PIECE OF CURED PORK FROM THE CELLAR AND GRANDMOTHER PACKED SOME LOAVES OF SATURDAY'S BREAD A JAR OF BUTTER AND SEVERAL PUMPKIN PIES IN THE STRAW OF THE WAGON BOX. WE CLAMBERED UP TO THE FRONT SEAT AND JOLTED OFF PAST THE LITTLE POND AND ALONG THE ROAD THAT CLIMBED TO THE BIG CORNFIELD. I COULD HARDLY WAIT TO SEE WHAT LAY BEYOND THAT CORNFIELD BUT THERE WAS ONLY RED GRASS LIKE OURS AND NOTHING ELSE THOUGH FROM THE HIGH WAGON SEAT ONE COULD LOOK OFF A LONG WAY. THE ROAD RAN ABOUT LIKE A WILD THING AVOIDING THE DEEP DRAWS CROSSING THEM WHERE THEY WERE WIDE AND SHALLOW. AND ALL ALONG IT WHEREVER IT LOOPED OR RAN THE SUNFLOWERS GREW SOME OF THEM WERE AS BIG AS LITTLE TREES WITH GREAT ROUGH LEAVES AND MANY BRANCHES WHICH BORE DOZENS OF BLOSSOMS. THEY MADE A GOLD RIBBON ACROSS THE PRAIRIE. OCCASIONALLY ONE OF THE HORSES WOULD TEAR OFF WITH HIS TEETH A PLANT FULL OF BLOSSOMS AND WALK ALONG MUNCHING IT THE FLOWERS NODDING IN TIME TO HIS BITES AS HE ATE DOWN TOWARD THEM. THEIR AGREEMENT WITH HIM WAS MADE BEFORE THEY LEFT THE OLD COUNTRY THROUGH A COUSIN OF HIS WHO WAS ALSO A RELATIVE OF MISSUS SHIMERDA. THEY COULD NOT SPEAK ENOUGH ENGLISH TO ASK FOR ADVICE OR EVEN TO MAKE THEIR MOST PRESSING WANTS KNOWN. IF THEY'RE NICE PEOPLE I HATE TO THINK OF THEM SPENDING THE WINTER IN THAT CAVE OF KRAJIEK'S SAID GRANDMOTHER. IT'S NO BETTER THAN A BADGER HOLE NO PROPER DUGOUT AT ALL. AND I HEAR HE'S MADE THEM PAY TWENTY DOLLARS FOR HIS OLD COOKSTOVE THAT AIN'T WORTH TEN. YES'M SAID OTTO AND HE'S SOLD EM HIS OXEN AND HIS TWO BONY OLD HORSES FOR THE PRICE OF GOOD WORK TEAMS. NOW WHY IS THAT OTTO. FUCHS WRINKLED HIS BROW AND NOSE. IT WOULD TAKE ME A LONG WHILE TO EXPLAIN. THE LAND WAS GROWING ROUGHER I WAS TOLD THAT WE WERE APPROACHING SQUAW CREEK WHICH CUT UP THE WEST HALF OF THE SHIMERDAS PLACE AND MADE THE LAND OF LITTLE VALUE FOR FARMING. AS WE APPROACHED THE SHIMERDAS DWELLING I COULD STILL SEE NOTHING BUT ROUGH RED HILLOCKS AND DRAWS WITH SHELVING BANKS AND LONG ROOTS HANGING OUT WHERE THE EARTH HAD CRUMBLED AWAY. PRESENTLY AGAINST ONE OF THOSE BANKS I SAW A SORT OF SHED THATCHED WITH THE SAME WINE COLORED GRASS THAT GREW EVERYWHERE. NEAR IT TILTED A SHATTERED WINDMILL FRAME THAT HAD NO WHEEL. WE DROVE UP TO THIS SKELETON TO TIE OUR HORSES AND THEN I SAW A DOOR AND WINDOW SUNK DEEP IN THE DRAW BANK. A LITTLE GIRL TRAILED ALONG BEHIND THEM. THE WOMAN HAD ON HER HEAD THE SAME EMBROIDERED SHAWL WITH SILK FRINGES THAT SHE WORE WHEN SHE HAD ALIGHTED FROM THE TRAIN AT BLACK HAWK. SHE WAS NOT OLD BUT SHE WAS CERTAINLY NOT YOUNG. HER FACE WAS ALERT AND LIVELY WITH A SHARP CHIN AND SHREWD LITTLE EYES. SHE SHOOK GRANDMOTHER'S HAND ENERGETICALLY. VERY GLAD VERY GLAD SHE EJACULATED. IMMEDIATELY SHE POINTED TO THE BANK OUT OF WHICH SHE HAD EMERGED AND SAID HOUSE NO GOOD HOUSE NO GOOD. GRANDMOTHER NODDED CONSOLINGLY. YOU'LL GET FIXED UP COMFORTABLE AFTER WHILE MISSUS SHIMERDA MAKE GOOD HOUSE. MY GRANDMOTHER ALWAYS SPOKE IN A VERY LOUD TONE TO FOREIGNERS AS IF THEY WERE DEAF

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+SHE MADE MISSUS SHIMERDA UNDERSTAND THE FRIENDLY INTENTION OF OUR VISIT AND THE BOHEMIAN WOMAN HANDLED THE LOAVES OF BREAD AND EVEN SMELLED THEM AND EXAMINED THE PIES WITH LIVELY CURIOSITY EXCLAIMING MUCH GOOD MUCH THANK. AND AGAIN SHE WRUNG GRANDMOTHER'S HAND. HE WAS NINETEEN YEARS OLD SHORT AND BROAD BACKED WITH A CLOSE CROPPED FLAT HEAD AND A WIDE FLAT FACE. HIS HAZEL EYES WERE LITTLE AND SHREWD LIKE HIS MOTHER'S BUT MORE SLY AND SUSPICIOUS THEY FAIRLY SNAPPED AT THE FOOD. THE FAMILY HAD BEEN LIVING ON CORNCAKES AND SORGHUM MOLASSES FOR THREE DAYS. THE LITTLE GIRL WAS PRETTY BUT AN TONIA THEY ACCENTED THE NAME THUS STRONGLY WHEN THEY SPOKE TO HER WAS STILL PRETTIER. I REMEMBERED WHAT THE CONDUCTOR HAD SAID ABOUT HER EYES. THEY WERE BIG AND WARM AND FULL OF LIGHT LIKE THE SUN SHINING ON BROWN POOLS IN THE WOOD. HER SKIN WAS BROWN TOO AND IN HER CHEEKS SHE HAD A GLOW OF RICH DARK COLOR. HER BROWN HAIR WAS CURLY AND WILD LOOKING. WITH HIM WAS ANOTHER SHIMERDA SON. EVEN FROM A DISTANCE ONE COULD SEE THAT THERE WAS SOMETHING STRANGE ABOUT THIS BOY. HE WAS BORN LIKE THAT THE OTHERS ARE SMART. AMBROSCH HE MAKE GOOD FARMER. HE STRUCK AMBROSCH ON THE BACK AND THE BOY SMILED KNOWINGLY. AT THAT MOMENT THE FATHER CAME OUT OF THE HOLE IN THE BANK. HE WORE NO HAT AND HIS THICK IRON GRAY HAIR WAS BRUSHED STRAIGHT BACK FROM HIS FOREHEAD. IT WAS SO LONG THAT IT BUSHED OUT BEHIND HIS EARS AND MADE HIM LOOK LIKE THE OLD PORTRAITS I REMEMBERED IN VIRGINIA. HE WAS TALL AND SLENDER AND HIS THIN SHOULDERS STOOPED. HE LOOKED AT US UNDERSTANDINGLY THEN TOOK GRANDMOTHER'S HAND AND BENT OVER IT. I NOTICED HOW WHITE AND WELL SHAPED HIS OWN HANDS WERE. THEY LOOKED CALM SOMEHOW AND SKILLED. HIS EYES WERE MELANCHOLY AND WERE SET BACK DEEP UNDER HIS BROW. HIS FACE WAS RUGGEDLY FORMED BUT IT LOOKED LIKE ASHES LIKE SOMETHING FROM WHICH ALL THE WARMTH AND LIGHT HAD DIED OUT. IN A MOMENT WE WERE RUNNING UP THE STEEP DRAWSIDE TOGETHER YULKA TROTTING AFTER US. WE STOOD PANTING ON THE EDGE OF THE RAVINE LOOKING DOWN AT THE TREES AND BUSHES THAT GREW BELOW US. THE WIND WAS SO STRONG THAT I HAD TO HOLD MY HAT ON AND THE GIRLS SKIRTS WERE BLOWN OUT BEFORE THEM. SHE LOOKED AT ME HER EYES FAIRLY BLAZING WITH THINGS SHE COULD NOT SAY. NAME WHAT NAME. SHE ASKED TOUCHING ME ON THE SHOULDER. I TOLD HER MY NAME AND SHE REPEATED IT AFTER ME AND MADE YULKA SAY IT. SHE POINTED INTO THE GOLD COTTONWOOD TREE BEHIND WHOSE TOP WE STOOD AND SAID AGAIN WHAT NAME. YULKA CURLED UP LIKE A BABY RABBIT AND PLAYED WITH A GRASSHOPPER. ANTONIA POINTED UP TO THE SKY AND QUESTIONED ME WITH HER GLANCE. I TOLD HER AND SHE REPEATED THE WORD MAKING IT SOUND LIKE ICE. SHE GOT UP ON HER KNEES AND WRUNG HER HANDS. SHE POINTED TO HER OWN EYES AND SHOOK HER HEAD THEN TO MINE AND TO THE SKY NODDING VIOLENTLY. OH I EXCLAIMED BLUE BLUE SKY. SHE CLAPPED HER HANDS AND MURMURED BLUE SKY BLUE EYES AS IF IT AMUSED HER. WHILE WE SNUGGLED DOWN THERE OUT OF THE WIND SHE LEARNED A SCORE OF WORDS. SHE WAS QUICK AND VERY EAGER. WE WERE SO DEEP IN THE GRASS THAT WE COULD SEE NOTHING BUT THE BLUE SKY OVER US AND THE GOLD TREE IN FRONT OF US. IT WAS WONDERFULLY PLEASANT. AFTER ANTONIA HAD SAID THE NEW WORDS OVER AND OVER SHE WANTED TO GIVE ME A LITTLE CHASED SILVER RING SHE WORE ON HER MIDDLE FINGER. ANTONIA REACHED HIM FIRST TOOK HIS HAND AND KISSED IT. WHEN I CAME UP HE TOUCHED MY SHOULDER AND LOOKED SEARCHINGLY DOWN INTO MY FACE FOR SEVERAL SECONDS

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+I BECAME SOMEWHAT EMBARRASSED FOR I WAS USED TO BEING TAKEN FOR GRANTED BY MY ELDERS. WE WENT WITH MISTER SHIMERDA BACK TO THE DUGOUT WHERE GRANDMOTHER WAS WAITING FOR ME. BEFORE I GOT INTO THE WAGON HE TOOK A BOOK OUT OF HIS POCKET OPENED IT AND SHOWED ME A PAGE WITH TWO ALPHABETS ONE ENGLISH AND THE OTHER BOHEMIAN

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+MEN WHO LIVE IN DEMOCRATIC COUNTRIES DO NOT VALUE THE SIMPLE TURBULENT OR COARSE DIVERSIONS IN WHICH THE PEOPLE INDULGE IN ARISTOCRATIC COMMUNITIES SUCH DIVERSIONS ARE THOUGHT BY THEM TO BE PUERILE OR INSIPID. NOR HAVE THEY A GREATER INCLINATION FOR THE INTELLECTUAL AND REFINED AMUSEMENTS OF THE ARISTOCRATIC CLASSES. THEY WANT SOMETHING PRODUCTIVE AND SUBSTANTIAL IN THEIR PLEASURES THEY WANT TO MIX ACTUAL FRUITION WITH THEIR JOY. IN ARISTOCRATIC COMMUNITIES THE PEOPLE READILY GIVE THEMSELVES UP TO BURSTS OF TUMULTUOUS AND BOISTEROUS GAYETY WHICH SHAKE OFF AT ONCE THE RECOLLECTION OF THEIR PRIVATIONS THE NATIVES OF DEMOCRACIES ARE NOT FOND OF BEING THUS VIOLENTLY BROKEN IN UPON AND THEY NEVER LOSE SIGHT OF THEIR OWN SELVES WITHOUT REGRET. AN AMERICAN INSTEAD OF GOING IN A LEISURE HOUR TO DANCE MERRILY AT SOME PLACE OF PUBLIC RESORT AS THE FELLOWS OF HIS CALLING CONTINUE TO DO THROUGHOUT THE GREATER PART OF EUROPE SHUTS HIMSELF UP AT HOME TO DRINK. HE THUS ENJOYS TWO PLEASURES HE CAN GO ON THINKING OF HIS BUSINESS AND HE CAN GET DRUNK DECENTLY BY HIS OWN FIRESIDE. I BELIEVE THE SERIOUSNESS OF THE AMERICANS ARISES PARTLY FROM THEIR PRIDE. IN DEMOCRATIC COUNTRIES EVEN POOR MEN ENTERTAIN A LOFTY NOTION OF THEIR PERSONAL IMPORTANCE THEY LOOK UPON THEMSELVES WITH COMPLACENCY AND ARE APT TO SUPPOSE THAT OTHERS ARE LOOKING AT THEM TOO. WITH THIS DISPOSITION THEY WATCH THEIR LANGUAGE AND THEIR ACTIONS WITH CARE AND DO NOT LAY THEMSELVES OPEN SO AS TO BETRAY THEIR DEFICIENCIES TO PRESERVE THEIR DIGNITY THEY THINK IT NECESSARY TO RETAIN THEIR GRAVITY. BUT I DETECT ANOTHER MORE DEEP SEATED AND POWERFUL CAUSE WHICH INSTINCTIVELY PRODUCES AMONGST THE AMERICANS THIS ASTONISHING GRAVITY. UNDER A DESPOTISM COMMUNITIES GIVE WAY AT TIMES TO BURSTS OF VEHEMENT JOY BUT THEY ARE GENERALLY GLOOMY AND MOODY BECAUSE THEY ARE AFRAID. THIS IS MORE ESPECIALLY THE CASE AMONGST THOSE FREE NATIONS WHICH FORM DEMOCRATIC COMMUNITIES. THEN THERE ARE IN ALL CLASSES A VERY LARGE NUMBER OF MEN CONSTANTLY OCCUPIED WITH THE SERIOUS AFFAIRS OF THE GOVERNMENT AND THOSE WHOSE THOUGHTS ARE NOT ENGAGED IN THE DIRECTION OF THE COMMONWEALTH ARE WHOLLY ENGROSSED BY THE ACQUISITION OF A PRIVATE FORTUNE. AMONGST SUCH A PEOPLE A SERIOUS DEMEANOR CEASES TO BE PECULIAR TO CERTAIN MEN AND BECOMES A HABIT OF THE NATION. WE ARE TOLD OF SMALL DEMOCRACIES IN THE DAYS OF ANTIQUITY IN WHICH THE CITIZENS MET UPON THE PUBLIC PLACES WITH GARLANDS OF ROSES AND SPENT ALMOST ALL THEIR TIME IN DANCING AND THEATRICAL AMUSEMENTS. I DO NOT BELIEVE IN SUCH REPUBLICS ANY MORE THAN IN THAT OF PLATO OR IF THE THINGS WE READ OF REALLY HAPPENED I DO NOT HESITATE TO AFFIRM THAT THESE SUPPOSED DEMOCRACIES WERE COMPOSED OF VERY DIFFERENT ELEMENTS FROM OURS AND THAT THEY HAD NOTHING IN COMMON WITH THE LATTER EXCEPT THEIR NAME. NO MEN ARE FONDER OF THEIR OWN CONDITION. LIFE WOULD HAVE NO RELISH FOR THEM IF THEY WERE DELIVERED FROM THE ANXIETIES WHICH HARASS THEM AND THEY SHOW MORE ATTACHMENT TO THEIR CARES THAN ARISTOCRATIC NATIONS TO THEIR PLEASURES. I AM NEXT LED TO INQUIRE HOW IT IS THAT THESE SAME DEMOCRATIC NATIONS WHICH ARE SO SERIOUS SOMETIMES ACT IN SO INCONSIDERATE A MANNER. THE AMERICANS WHO ALMOST ALWAYS PRESERVE A STAID DEMEANOR AND A FRIGID AIR NEVERTHELESS FREQUENTLY ALLOW THEMSELVES TO BE BORNE AWAY FAR BEYOND THE BOUND OF REASON BY A SUDDEN PASSION OR A HASTY OPINION AND THEY SOMETIMES GRAVELY COMMIT STRANGE ABSURDITIES. THIS CONTRAST OUGHT NOT TO SURPRISE US. THERE IS ONE SORT OF IGNORANCE WHICH ORIGINATES IN EXTREME PUBLICITY. IN DESPOTIC STATES MEN KNOW NOT HOW TO ACT BECAUSE THEY ARE TOLD NOTHING IN DEMOCRATIC NATIONS THEY OFTEN ACT AT RANDOM BECAUSE NOTHING IS TO BE LEFT UNTOLD. THE FORMER DO NOT KNOW THE LATTER FORGET AND THE CHIEF FEATURES OF EACH PICTURE ARE LOST TO THEM IN A BEWILDERMENT OF DETAILS. WHEN A MAN SPEAKS IN THE MIDST OF A GREAT CROWD MANY OF HIS WORDS ARE NOT HEARD OR ARE FORTHWITH OBLITERATED FROM THE MEMORIES OF THOSE WHO HEAR THEM BUT AMIDST THE SILENCE OF A MUTE AND MOTIONLESS THRONG THE SLIGHTEST WHISPER STRIKES THE EAR

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+IN DEMOCRACIES MEN ARE NEVER STATIONARY A THOUSAND CHANCES WAFT THEM TO AND FRO AND THEIR LIFE IS ALWAYS THE SPORT OF UNFORESEEN OR SO TO SPEAK EXTEMPORANEOUS CIRCUMSTANCES. IN ARISTOCRACIES EVERY MAN HAS ONE SOLE OBJECT WHICH HE UNCEASINGLY PURSUES BUT AMONGST DEMOCRATIC NATIONS THE EXISTENCE OF MAN IS MORE COMPLEX THE SAME MIND WILL ALMOST ALWAYS EMBRACE SEVERAL OBJECTS AT THE SAME TIME AND THESE OBJECTS ARE FREQUENTLY WHOLLY FOREIGN TO EACH OTHER AS IT CANNOT KNOW THEM ALL WELL THE MIND IS READILY SATISFIED WITH IMPERFECT NOTIONS OF EACH. WHEN THE INHABITANT OF DEMOCRACIES IS NOT URGED BY HIS WANTS HE IS SO AT LEAST BY HIS DESIRES FOR OF ALL THE POSSESSIONS WHICH HE SEES AROUND HIM NONE ARE WHOLLY BEYOND HIS REACH. HE THEREFORE DOES EVERYTHING IN A HURRY HE IS ALWAYS SATISFIED WITH PRETTY WELL AND NEVER PAUSES MORE THAN AN INSTANT TO CONSIDER WHAT HE HAS BEEN DOING. HIS CURIOSITY IS AT ONCE INSATIABLE AND CHEAPLY SATISFIED FOR HE CARES MORE TO KNOW A GREAT DEAL QUICKLY THAN TO KNOW ANYTHING WELL HE HAS NO TIME AND BUT LITTLE TASTE TO SEARCH THINGS TO THE BOTTOM. THUS THEN DEMOCRATIC PEOPLES ARE GRAVE BECAUSE THEIR SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CONDITION CONSTANTLY LEADS THEM TO ENGAGE IN SERIOUS OCCUPATIONS AND THEY ACT INCONSIDERATELY BECAUSE THEY GIVE BUT LITTLE TIME AND ATTENTION TO EACH OF THESE OCCUPATIONS. THE HABIT OF INATTENTION MUST BE CONSIDERED AS THE GREATEST BANE OF THE DEMOCRATIC CHARACTER. CHAPTER SIXTEEN WHY THE NATIONAL VANITY OF THE AMERICANS IS MORE RESTLESS AND CAPTIOUS THAN THAT OF THE ENGLISH. ALL FREE NATIONS ARE VAINGLORIOUS BUT NATIONAL PRIDE IS NOT DISPLAYED BY ALL IN THE SAME MANNER. THE AMERICANS IN THEIR INTERCOURSE WITH STRANGERS APPEAR IMPATIENT OF THE SMALLEST CENSURE AND INSATIABLE OF PRAISE. THE MOST SLENDER EULOGIUM IS ACCEPTABLE TO THEM THE MOST EXALTED SELDOM CONTENTS THEM THEY UNCEASINGLY HARASS YOU TO EXTORT PRAISE AND IF YOU RESIST THEIR ENTREATIES THEY FALL TO PRAISING THEMSELVES. THEIR VANITY IS NOT ONLY GREEDY BUT RESTLESS AND JEALOUS IT WILL GRANT NOTHING WHILST IT DEMANDS EVERYTHING BUT IS READY TO BEG AND TO QUARREL AT THE SAME TIME. IF I SAY TO AN AMERICAN THAT THE COUNTRY HE LIVES IN IS A FINE ONE AY HE REPLIES THERE IS NOT ITS FELLOW IN THE WORLD. IF I APPLAUD THE FREEDOM WHICH ITS INHABITANTS ENJOY HE ANSWERS FREEDOM IS A FINE THING BUT FEW NATIONS ARE WORTHY TO ENJOY IT. THE CENSURE OF FOREIGNERS DOES NOT AFFECT HIM AND THEIR PRAISE HARDLY FLATTERS HIM HIS POSITION WITH REGARD TO THE REST OF THE WORLD IS ONE OF DISDAINFUL AND IGNORANT RESERVE HIS PRIDE REQUIRES NO SUSTENANCE IT NOURISHES ITSELF. IN ARISTOCRATIC COUNTRIES THE GREAT POSSESS IMMENSE PRIVILEGES UPON WHICH THEIR PRIDE RESTS WITHOUT SEEKING TO RELY UPON THE LESSER ADVANTAGES WHICH ACCRUE TO THEM. AS THESE PRIVILEGES CAME TO THEM BY INHERITANCE THEY REGARD THEM IN SOME SORT AS A PORTION OF THEMSELVES OR AT LEAST AS A NATURAL RIGHT INHERENT IN THEIR OWN PERSONS. THEY THEREFORE ENTERTAIN A CALM SENSE OF THEIR SUPERIORITY THEY DO NOT DREAM OF VAUNTING PRIVILEGES WHICH EVERYONE PERCEIVES AND NO ONE CONTESTS AND THESE THINGS ARE NOT SUFFICIENTLY NEW TO THEM TO BE MADE TOPICS OF CONVERSATION. THEY STAND UNMOVED IN THEIR SOLITARY GREATNESS WELL ASSURED THAT THEY ARE SEEN OF ALL THE WORLD WITHOUT ANY EFFORT TO SHOW THEMSELVES OFF AND THAT NO ONE WILL ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THEM FROM THAT POSITION. WHEN AN ARISTOCRACY CARRIES ON THE PUBLIC AFFAIRS ITS NATIONAL PRIDE NATURALLY ASSUMES THIS RESERVED INDIFFERENT AND HAUGHTY FORM WHICH IS IMITATED BY ALL THE OTHER CLASSES OF THE NATION. WHEN ON THE CONTRARY SOCIAL CONDITIONS DIFFER BUT LITTLE THE SLIGHTEST PRIVILEGES ARE OF SOME IMPORTANCE AS EVERY MAN SEES AROUND HIMSELF A MILLION OF PEOPLE ENJOYING PRECISELY SIMILAR OR ANALOGOUS ADVANTAGES HIS PRIDE BECOMES CRAVING AND JEALOUS HE CLINGS TO MERE TRIFLES AND DOGGEDLY DEFENDS THEM. AS AT ANY INSTANT THESE SAME ADVANTAGES MAY BE LOST THEIR POSSESSORS ARE CONSTANTLY ON THE ALERT AND MAKE A POINT OF SHOWING THAT THEY STILL RETAIN THEM

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+THE RESTLESS AND INSATIABLE VANITY OF A DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE ORIGINATES SO ENTIRELY IN THE EQUALITY AND PRECARIOUSNESS OF SOCIAL CONDITIONS THAT THE MEMBERS OF THE HAUGHTIEST NOBILITY DISPLAY THE VERY SAME PASSION IN THOSE LESSER PORTIONS OF THEIR EXISTENCE IN WHICH THERE IS ANYTHING FLUCTUATING OR CONTESTED. AN ARISTOCRATIC CLASS ALWAYS DIFFERS GREATLY FROM THE OTHER CLASSES OF THE NATION BY THE EXTENT AND PERPETUITY OF ITS PRIVILEGES BUT IT OFTEN HAPPENS THAT THE ONLY DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE MEMBERS WHO BELONG TO IT CONSIST IN SMALL TRANSIENT ADVANTAGES WHICH MAY ANY DAY BE LOST OR ACQUIRED. THESE PERSONS THEN DISPLAYED TOWARDS EACH OTHER PRECISELY THE SAME PUERILE JEALOUSIES WHICH ANIMATE THE MEN OF DEMOCRACIES THE SAME EAGERNESS TO SNATCH THE SMALLEST ADVANTAGES WHICH THEIR EQUALS CONTESTED AND THE SAME DESIRE TO PARADE OSTENTATIOUSLY THOSE OF WHICH THEY WERE IN POSSESSION

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+THE TWO STRAY KITTENS GRADUALLY MAKE THEMSELVES AT HOME. SOMEHOW OR OTHER CAT HAS TAUGHT THEM THAT HE'S IN CHARGE HERE AND HE JUST CHASES THEM FOR FUN NOW AND AGAIN WHEN HE'S NOT BUSY SLEEPING. AS FOR KEEPING CATS IN MY ROOM THAT'S PRETTY WELL FORGOTTEN. FOR ONE THING MOM REALLY LIKES THEM. SHE SNEAKS THE KITTENS SAUCERS OF CREAM AND BITS OF REAL HAMBURGER WHEN NO ONE'S LOOKING AND SHE LIKES TALKING TO THEM IN THE KITCHEN. SHE DOESN'T PICK THEM UP BUT JUST HAVING THEM IN THE ROOM SURE DOESN'T GIVE HER ASTHMA. HE SCALES HIS HAT AT THE LOT OF THEM AND ROARS DOWN THE HALL TO ME HEY DAVEY. WHEN ARE YOU GETTING RID OF THESE CATS I'M NOT FIXING TO START AN ANNEX TO KATE'S CAT HOME. IT'S A REAL LEMON JUST A LOT OF PREACHING ABOUT GOVERNMENT AND CITIZENSHIP. THE SECOND SEMESTER I SWITCH TO A MUSIC COURSE. THIS IS O K WITH THE SCHOOL BUT NOT WITH POP. RIGHT AWAY WHEN I BRING HOME MY NEW PROGRAM HE SAYS HOW COME YOU'RE TAKING ONE LESS COURSE THIS HALF. I EXPLAIN THAT I'M TAKING MUSIC AND ALSO BIOLOGY ALGEBRA ENGLISH AND FRENCH MUSIC HE SNORTS. THAT'S RECREATION NOT A COURSE DO IT ON YOUR OWN TIME. POP IT'S A COURSE. YOU THINK THE SCHOOL SIGNS ME UP FOR AN HOUR OF HOME RECORD PLAYING. THEY MIGHT HE GRUNTS. HE DOES AND FOR ONCE I WIN A ROUND I KEEP MUSIC FOR THIS SEMESTER. I'LL BE LUCKY IF I HAVE TIME TO BREATHE. I GO DOWN TO THE FLOWER SHOP TO GROUSE TO TOM IT'S AFTER VALENTINE'S DAY AND BUSINESS IS SLACK AND THE BOSS IS OUT. WHY DOES POP HAVE TO COME BUTTING INTO MY BUSINESS AT SCHOOL. DOESN'T HE EVEN THINK THE SCHOOL KNOWS WHAT IT'S DOING. SOMETIMES SCHOOLS DO LET KIDS TAKE A LOT OF SOFT COURSES AND THEN THEY'RE OUT ON A LIMB LATER HUH. HE JUST LIKES TO BOSS EVERYTHING I DO. SO HE CARES HUH. BESIDES SAYS TOM HALF THE REASON YOU AND YOUR FATHER ARE ALWAYS BICKERING IS THAT YOU'RE SO MUCH ALIKE ME LIKE HIM SURE. AS LONG AS THERE'S A BONE ON THE FLOOR THE TWO OF YOU WORRY IT. MISTER PALUMBO COMES BACK TO THE SHOP THEN AND TOM GETS BUSY WITH THE PLANTS. I GO HOME WONDERING IF I REALLY AM AT ALL LIKE POP. IT'S FUNNY ABOUT FIGHTS POP AND I CAN GO ALONG REAL SMOOTH AND EASY FOR A WHILE AND I THINK WELL HE REALLY ISN'T A BAD GUY AND I'M GROWING UP WE CAN SEE EYE TO EYE ALL THAT STUFF THEN WHOOSH. I HARDLY KNOW WHAT STARTS IT BUT A FIGHT BOILS UP AND WE'RE BOTH BREATHING FIRE LIKE DRAGONS ON THE LOOSE. WE GET A HOLIDAY WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY WHICH IS GOOD BECAUSE THERE'S A T V PROGRAM ON TUESDAY THE NIGHT BEFORE THE HOLIDAY THAT I HARDLY EVER GET TO WATCH IT'S CALLED OUT BEYOND AND THE PEOPLE IN IT ARE VERY REAL NOT JUST GOOD GUYS AND BAD GUYS. THE PROGRAM GOES ON TILL ELEVEN O'CLOCK AND MOM WON'T LET ME WATCH IT ON SCHOOL NIGHTS. I GET THE PILLOWS COMFORTABLY ARRANGED ON THE FLOOR WITH A BIG BOTTLE OF SODA AND A BAG OF POPCORN WITHIN EASY REACH. HE'S TAKING THE KID FOR A WALK WHEN A THUNDERSTORM BLOWS UP. HE SIGNS OFF FINALLY AND UP COMES POP. HERE DAVEY OLD BOY WE CAN DO BETTER THAN THAT TONIGHT THE GOVERNOR AND THE MAYOR ARE ON A T V DEBATE ABOUT NEW YORK CITY SCHOOL REORGANIZATION. I JUMP UP TIPPING OVER THE BOTTLE OF SODA ON THE WAY. POP GOES RIGHT ON TUNING HIS CHANNEL. THAT'S THE LAST STRAW. POP LOOKS AT ME PRISSILY. YOU'RE GETTING ALTOGETHER TOO UPSET ABOUT THESE PROGRAMS STOP IT AND BEHAVE YOURSELF. GO GET A SPONGE TO MOP UP THE SODA. IT'S YOUR FAULT MOP IT UP YOURSELF. I'M TOO MAD NOW TO CARE WHAT I SAY I CHARGE DOWN THE HALL TO MY ROOM AND SLAM THE DOOR. I HEAR THE T V GOING FOR A FEW MINUTES THEN POP TURNS IT OFF AND GOES IN THE KITCHEN TO TALK TO MOM. IN A LITTLE WHILE HE COMES DOWN AND KNOCKS ON MY DOOR. KNOCKS THAT'S SOMETHING USUALLY HE JUST BARGES IN. YOUR MOTHER SAYS SHE TOLD YOU YOU COULD WATCH THAT PROGRAM WHATEVER IT WAS SO O K GO AHEAD YOU CAN FINISH IT. YEAH IT'S ABOUT OVER BY NOW. I'M STILL SORE AND BESIDES POP'S STILL STANDING IN MY DOOR SO I FIGURE THERE'S A HITCH IN THIS SOMEWHERE

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+WELL I DON'T THINK YOU SHOULD TURN A GUY'S T V PROGRAM OFF IN THE MIDDLE WITHOUT EVEN FINDING OUT ABOUT IT. I LOOK AT MY WATCH IT'S A QUARTER TO ELEVEN. POP MOVES OUT OF THE DOORWAY. HE SAYS HEREAFTER I WILL ONLY TURN OFF YOUR T V PROGRAMS BEFORE THEY START NOT IN THE MIDDLE. JUST AS I GET THE T V ON AND SETTLE DOWN THE DOORBELL RINGS. GOODNESS WHO COULD THAT BE SO LATE SAYS MOM. I TURN OFF THE TELEVISION SET I'VE LOST TRACK OF WHAT'S HAPPENING AND IT DOESN'T SEEM TO BE THE GRANDFATHER WHO'S THE SPOOK AFTER ALL. IT'S THE FIRST TIME HILDA HAS BEEN TO OUR HOUSE AND TOM INTRODUCES HER AROUND. HILDA CAME TO THE BEACH WITH US I SAY. I TOLD TOM WE SHOULDN'T COME SO LATE SAYS HILDA. HILDA SITS ON THE SOFA WHERE CAT IS CURLED UP. HE LOOKS AT HER PUTS HIS HEAD BACK AND GOES ON SLEEPING. TOM STIRS HIS COFFEE VIGOROUSLY AND TAKES ONE SIP AND PUTS THE CUP DOWN. POP DOESN'T LOOK AS SURPRISED AS I DO CONGRATULATIONS HE SAYS. TOM SAYS THANKS AND LOOKS AT HILDA AND SHE BLUSHES REALLY. TOM DRINKS A LITTLE MORE COFFEE AND THEN HE GOES ON THE TROUBLE IS I CAN'T GET MARRIED ON THIS FLOWER SHOP JOB. DOESN'T PAY ENOUGH POP ASKS WELL IT'S NOT JUST THE PAY. THE JOB ISN'T GETTING ME ANYWHERE I WANT TO GO. SO THAT'S WHAT WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT ALL EVENING. YOU KNOW I'D GET DRAFTED IN A YEAR OR TWO ANYWAY. I'VE DECIDED TO ENLIST IN THE ARMY. NO NOT IF I ENLIST IN THE ARMY THAT'S FOR THREE YEARS. POP SAYS YOU SOUND LIKE THE RECRUITING OFFICER HIMSELF YOU SURE OF ALL THIS. I'LL HAVE TO CHECK SOME MORE SAYS TOM. THE RECRUITING OFFICER AS A MATTER OF FACT TRIED TO PERSUADE ME TO SHOOT FOR OFFICERS TRAINING AND GO INTO THE ARMY AS A CAREER. WELL SHOVE BACK THE COFFEE CUPS AND I'LL BREAK OUT THAT BOTTLE OF CHAMPAGNE THAT'S BEEN SITTING IN THE ICEBOX SINCE CHRISTMAS. I GO AND RETRIEVE MY SPILLED BOTTLE OF SODA. THERE'S STILL ENOUGH LEFT FOR ONE BIG GLASS. POP BRINGS OUT THE CHAMPAGNE AND THE CORK BLOWS AND HITS THE CEILING. POP FILLS LITTLE GLASSES FOR THEM AND RAISES HIS TO TOM AND HILDA. HERE'S TO YOU A LONG HAPPY LIFE. THAT'S TRUE AND WE ALL DRINK TO CAT

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+JEM WILSON'S REPULSE. HOW INFINITE THE WEALTH OF LOVE AND HOPE GARNERED IN THESE SAME TINY TREASURE HOUSES AND OH. WHAT BANKRUPTS IN THE WORLD WE FEEL WHEN DEATH LIKE SOME REMORSELESS CREDITOR SEIZES ON ALL WE FONDLY THOUGHT OUR OWN THE TWINS. THE GHOUL LIKE FEVER WAS NOT TO BE BRAVED WITH IMPUNITY AND BAULKED OF ITS PREY. THE WIDOW HAD RECLAIMED HER CHILDREN HER NEIGHBOURS IN THE GOOD SAMARITAN SENSE OF THE WORD HAD PAID HER LITTLE ARREARS OF RENT AND MADE HER A FEW SHILLINGS BEFOREHAND WITH THE WORLD. SHE DETERMINED TO FLIT FROM THAT CELLAR TO ANOTHER LESS FULL OF PAINFUL ASSOCIATIONS LESS HAUNTED BY MOURNFUL MEMORIES. THE BOARD NOT SO FORMIDABLE AS SHE HAD IMAGINED HAD INQUIRED INTO HER CASE AND INSTEAD OF SENDING HER TO STOKE CLAYPOLE HER HUSBAND'S BUCKINGHAMSHIRE PARISH AS SHE HAD DREADED HAD AGREED TO PAY HER RENT. SO FOOD FOR FOUR MOUTHS WAS ALL SHE WAS NOW REQUIRED TO FIND ONLY FOR THREE SHE WOULD HAVE SAID FOR HERSELF AND THE UNWEANED CHILD WERE BUT RECKONED AS ONE IN HER CALCULATION. SO SHE TOOK IN SOME LITTLE CHILDREN TO NURSE WHO BROUGHT THEIR DAILY FOOD WITH THEM WHICH SHE COOKED FOR THEM WITHOUT WRONGING THEIR HELPLESSNESS OF A CRUMB AND WHEN SHE HAD RESTORED THEM TO THEIR MOTHERS AT NIGHT SHE SET TO WORK AT PLAIN SEWING SEAM AND GUSSET AND BAND AND SAT THINKING HOW SHE MIGHT BEST CHEAT THE FACTORY INSPECTOR AND PERSUADE HIM THAT HER STRONG BIG HUNGRY BEN WAS ABOVE THIRTEEN. HER PLAN OF LIVING WAS SO FAR ARRANGED WHEN SHE HEARD WITH KEEN SORROW THAT WILSON'S TWIN LADS WERE ILL OF THE FEVER. THEY HAD NEVER BEEN STRONG. THEY WERE LIKE MANY A PAIR OF TWINS AND SEEMED TO HAVE BUT ONE LIFE DIVIDED BETWEEN THEM. ONE LIFE ONE STRENGTH AND IN THIS INSTANCE I MIGHT ALMOST SAY ONE BRAIN FOR THEY WERE HELPLESS GENTLE SILLY CHILDREN BUT NOT THE LESS DEAR TO THEIR PARENTS AND TO THEIR STRONG ACTIVE MANLY ELDER BROTHER. STILL WANT HAD NEVER YET COME IN AT THE DOOR TO MAKE LOVE FOR THESE INNOCENTS FLY OUT AT THE WINDOW. NOR WAS THIS THE CASE EVEN NOW WHEN JEM WILSON'S EARNINGS AND HIS MOTHER'S OCCASIONAL CHARRINGS WERE BARELY SUFFICIENT TO GIVE ALL THE FAMILY THEIR FILL OF FOOD. BUT WHEN THE TWINS AFTER AILING MANY DAYS AND CARING LITTLE FOR THEIR MEAT FELL SICK ON THE SAME AFTERNOON WITH THE SAME HEAVY STUPOR OF SUFFERING THE THREE HEARTS THAT LOVED THEM SO EACH FELT THOUGH NONE ACKNOWLEDGED TO THE OTHER THAT THEY HAD LITTLE CHANCE FOR LIFE. MARGARET MET JEM WILSON SEVERAL DAYS AFTER HIS BROTHERS WERE SERIOUSLY ILL AND HEARD FROM HIM THE STATE OF THINGS AT HIS HOME. SHE TOLD MARY OF IT AS SHE ENTERED THE COURT LATE THAT EVENING AND MARY LISTENED WITH SADDENED HEART TO THE STRANGE CONTRAST WHICH SUCH WOEFUL TIDINGS PRESENTED TO THE GAY AND LOVING WORDS SHE HAD BEEN HEARING ON HER WALK HOME. SHE BLAMED HERSELF FOR BEING SO MUCH TAKEN UP WITH VISIONS OF THE GOLDEN FUTURE THAT SHE HAD LATELY GONE BUT SELDOM ON SUNDAY AFTERNOONS OR OTHER LEISURE TIME TO SEE MISSUS WILSON HER MOTHER'S FRIEND AND WITH HASTY PURPOSE OF AMENDMENT SHE ONLY STAYED TO LEAVE A MESSAGE FOR HER FATHER WITH THE NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOUR AND THEN WENT OFF AT A BRISK PACE ON HER WAY TO THE HOUSE OF MOURNING. SHE STOPPED WITH HER HAND ON THE LATCH OF THE WILSONS DOOR TO STILL HER BEATING HEART AND LISTENED TO THE HUSHED QUIET WITHIN. SHE OPENED THE DOOR SOFTLY THERE SAT MISSUS WILSON IN THE OLD ROCKING CHAIR WITH ONE SICK DEATH LIKE BOY LYING ON HER KNEE CRYING WITHOUT LET OR PAUSE BUT SOFTLY GENTLY AS FEARING TO DISTURB THE TROUBLED GASPING CHILD WHILE BEHIND HER OLD ALICE LET HER FAST DROPPING TEARS FALL DOWN ON THE DEAD BODY OF THE OTHER TWIN WHICH SHE WAS LAYING OUT ON A BOARD PLACED ON A SORT OF SOFA SETTEE IN A CORNER OF THE ROOM. OVER THE CHILD WHICH YET BREATHED THE FATHER BENT WATCHING ANXIOUSLY FOR SOME GROUND OF HOPE WHERE HOPE THERE WAS NONE

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+MARY STEPPED SLOWLY AND LIGHTLY ACROSS TO ALICE. AY POOR LAD GOD HAS TAKEN HIM EARLY MARY. MARY COULD NOT SPEAK SHE DID NOT KNOW WHAT TO SAY IT WAS SO MUCH WORSE THAN SHE EXPECTED. AT LAST SHE VENTURED TO WHISPER. IS THERE ANY CHANCE FOR THE OTHER ONE THINK YOU. ALICE SHOOK HER HEAD AND TOLD WITH A LOOK THAT SHE BELIEVED THERE WAS NONE. BUT EARNEST AS THE FATHER WAS IN WATCHING THE YET LIVING HE HAD EYES AND EARS FOR ALL THAT CONCERNED THE DEAD AND SPRANG GENTLY UP AND TOOK HIS DEAD SON ON HIS HARD COUCH IN HIS ARMS WITH TENDER STRENGTH AND CARRIED HIM UPSTAIRS AS IF AFRAID OF WAKENING HIM. WE MUN GET HIM AWAY FROM HIS MOTHER HE CANNOT DIE WHILE SHE'S WISHING HIM. WISHING HIM SAID MARY IN A TONE OF INQUIRY. AY DONNO YE KNOW WHAT WISHING MEANS. THERE'S NONE CAN DIE IN THE ARMS OF THOSE WHO ARE WISHING THEM SORE TO STAY ON EARTH. ALICE AND MARY STOOD BY WITH EYES FIXED ON THE POOR CHILD WHOSE STRUGGLES SEEMED TO INCREASE TILL AT LAST HIS MOTHER SAID WITH A CHOKING VOICE. NATURE'S STRUGGLES WERE SOON EXHAUSTED AND HE BREATHED HIS LITTLE LIFE AWAY IN PEACE. THEN THE MOTHER LIFTED UP HER VOICE AND WEPT. HER CRIES BROUGHT HER HUSBAND DOWN TO TRY WITH HIS ACHING HEART TO COMFORT HERS. AGAIN ALICE LAID OUT THE DEAD MARY HELPING WITH REVERENT FEAR. THE FATHER AND MOTHER CARRIED HIM UP STAIRS TO THE BED WHERE HIS LITTLE BROTHER LAY IN CALM REPOSE. MARY AND ALICE DREW NEAR THE FIRE AND STOOD IN QUIET SORROW FOR SOME TIME. THEN ALICE BROKE THE SILENCE BY SAYING. IT WILL BE BAD NEWS FOR JEM POOR FELLOW WHEN HE COMES HOME. WHERE IS HE ASKED MARY. THEY'N GETTEN A LARGE ORDER FRA FORRIN PARTS AND YO KNOW JEM MUN WORK THOUGH HIS HEART'S WELL NIGH BREAKING FOR THESE POOR LADDIES. AGAIN THEY WERE SILENT IN THOUGHT AND AGAIN ALICE SPOKE FIRST. I SOMETIMES THINK THE LORD IS AGAINST PLANNING. WHENE'ER I PLAN OVER MUCH HE IS SURE TO SEND AND MAR ALL MY PLANS AS IF HE WOULD HA ME PUT THE FUTURE INTO HIS HANDS. AFORE CHRISTMAS TIME I WAS AS FULL AS FULL COULD BE OF GOING HOME FOR GOOD AND ALL YO HAN HEARD HOW I'VE WISHED IT THIS TERRIBLE LONG TIME. LITTLE DID I THINK HOW GOD ALMIGHTY WOULD BAULK ME FOR NOT LEAVING MY DAYS IN HIS HANDS WHO HAD LED ME THROUGH THE WILDERNESS HITHERTO. SO SAYING SHE FELL TO TIDYING THE ROOM REMOVING AS MUCH AS SHE COULD EVERY VESTIGE OF SICKNESS MAKING UP THE FIRE AND SETTING ON THE KETTLE FOR A CUP OF TEA FOR HER SISTER IN LAW WHOSE LOW MOANS AND SOBS WERE OCCASIONALLY HEARD IN THE ROOM BELOW. MARY HELPED HER IN ALL THESE LITTLE OFFICES. BUT JUST NOW HE HARDLY SAW HER HE WENT STRAIGHT UP TO ALICE AND ASKED HOW THE LITTLE CHAPS WERE. THEY HAD BEEN A SHADE BETTER AT DINNER TIME AND HE HAD BEEN WORKING AWAY THROUGH THE LONG AFTERNOON AND FAR INTO THE NIGHT IN THE BELIEF THAT THEY HAD TAKEN THE TURN. HE HAD STOLEN OUT DURING THE HALF HOUR ALLOWED AT THE WORKS FOR TEA TO BUY THEM AN ORANGE OR TWO WHICH NOW PUFFED OUT HIS JACKET POCKET. HE WOULD MAKE HIS AUNT SPEAK HE WOULD NOT UNDERSTAND HER SHAKES OF THE HEAD AND FAST COURSING TEARS. THEY'RE BOTH GONE SAID SHE DEAD. AY POOR FELLOWS. THEY TOOK WORSE ABOUT TWO O'CLOCK. AY LAD BOTH. JEM WENT TO THE CUPBOARD AND QUIETLY EXTRICATED FROM HIS POCKET THE ORANGES HE HAD BOUGHT. BUT HE STAYED LONG THERE AND AT LAST HIS STURDY FRAME SHOOK WITH HIS STRONG AGONY. THE TWO WOMEN WERE FRIGHTENED AS WOMEN ALWAYS ARE ON WITNESSING A MAN'S OVERPOWERING GRIEF. THEY CRIED AFRESH IN COMPANY. MARY'S HEART MELTED WITHIN HER AS SHE WITNESSED JEM'S SORROW AND SHE STEPPED GENTLY UP TO THE CORNER WHERE HE STOOD WITH HIS BACK TURNED TO THEM AND PUTTING HER HAND SOFTLY ON HIS ARM SAID

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+OH JEM DON'T GIVE WAY SO I CANNOT BEAR TO SEE YOU. JEM FELT A STRANGE LEAP OF JOY IN HIS HEART AND KNEW THE POWER SHE HAD OF COMFORTING HIM. HE DID NOT SPEAK AS THOUGH FEARING TO DESTROY BY SOUND OR MOTION THE HAPPINESS OF THAT MOMENT WHEN HER SOFT HAND'S TOUCH THRILLED THROUGH HIS FRAME AND HER SILVERY VOICE WAS WHISPERING TENDERNESS IN HIS EAR. DON'T JEM PLEASE DON'T WHISPERED SHE AGAIN BELIEVING THAT HIS SILENCE WAS ONLY ANOTHER FORM OF GRIEF. HE COULD NOT CONTAIN HIMSELF. HE TOOK HER HAND IN HIS FIRM YET TREMBLING GRASP AND SAID IN TONES THAT INSTANTLY PRODUCED A REVULSION IN HER MOOD. MARY I ALMOST LOATHE MYSELF WHEN I FEEL I WOULD NOT GIVE UP THIS MINUTE WHEN MY BROTHERS LIE DEAD AND FATHER AND MOTHER ARE IN SUCH TROUBLE FOR ALL MY LIFE THAT'S PAST AND GONE AND MARY AS SHE TRIED TO RELEASE HER HAND YOU KNOW WHAT MAKES ME FEEL SO BLESSED. SHE DID KNOW HE WAS RIGHT THERE. BUT AS HE TURNED TO CATCH A LOOK AT HER SWEET FACE HE SAW THAT IT EXPRESSED UNFEIGNED DISTRESS ALMOST AMOUNTING TO VEXATION A DREAD OF HIM THAT HE THOUGHT WAS ALMOST REPUGNANCE. HE LET HER HAND GO AND SHE QUICKLY WENT AWAY TO ALICE'S SIDE. PARTLY TO RELIEVE HER FROM HIS PRESENCE AND PARTLY FROM NATURAL DESIRE AND PARTLY PERHAPS FROM A PENITENT WISH TO SHARE TO THE UTMOST HIS PARENTS SORROW HE SOON WENT UP STAIRS TO THE CHAMBER OF DEATH. MARY MECHANICALLY HELPED ALICE IN ALL THE DUTIES SHE PERFORMED THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THAT LONG NIGHT BUT SHE DID NOT SEE JEM AGAIN. HE REMAINED UP STAIRS UNTIL AFTER THE EARLY DAWN SHOWED MARY THAT SHE NEED HAVE NO FEAR OF GOING HOME THROUGH THE DESERTED AND QUIET STREETS TO TRY AND GET A LITTLE SLEEP BEFORE WORK HOUR. SO LEAVING KIND MESSAGES TO GEORGE AND JANE WILSON AND HESITATING WHETHER SHE MIGHT DARE TO SEND A FEW KIND WORDS TO JEM AND DECIDING THAT SHE HAD BETTER NOT SHE STEPPED OUT INTO THE BRIGHT MORNING LIGHT SO FRESH A CONTRAST TO THE DARKENED ROOM WHERE DEATH HAD BEEN. THEY HAD ANOTHER MORN THAN OURS. MARY LAY DOWN ON HER BED IN HER CLOTHES AND WHETHER IT WAS THIS OR THE BROAD DAYLIGHT THAT POURED IN THROUGH THE SKY WINDOW OR WHETHER IT WAS OVER EXCITEMENT IT WAS LONG BEFORE SHE COULD CATCH A WINK OF SLEEP. HER THOUGHTS RAN ON JEM'S MANNER AND WORDS NOT BUT WHAT SHE HAD KNOWN THE TALE THEY TOLD FOR MANY A DAY BUT STILL SHE WISHED HE HAD NOT PUT IT SO PLAINLY. IT'S VERY HARD ON ME FOR FATHER AND GEORGE WILSON ARE OLD FRIENDS AND JEM AND I HA KNOWN EACH OTHER SINCE WE WERE QUITE CHILDREN. I CANNOT THINK WHAT POSSESSES ME THAT I MUST ALWAYS BE WANTING TO COMFORT HIM WHEN HE'S DOWNCAST AND THAT I MUST GO MEDDLING WI HIM TO NIGHT WHEN SURE ENOUGH IT WAS HIS AUNT'S PLACE TO SPEAK TO HIM. I DON'T CARE FOR HIM AND YET UNLESS I'M ALWAYS WATCHING MYSELF I'M SPEAKING TO HIM IN A LOVING VOICE. I THINK I CANNOT GO RIGHT FOR I EITHER CHECK MYSELF TILL I'M DOWNRIGHT CROSS TO HIM OR ELSE I SPEAK JUST NATURAL AND THAT'S TOO KIND AND TENDER BY HALF. AND I'M AS GOOD AS ENGAGED TO BE MARRIED TO ANOTHER AND ANOTHER FAR HANDSOMER THAN JEM ONLY I THINK I LIKE JEM'S FACE BEST FOR ALL THAT LIKING'S LIKING AND THERE'S NO HELP FOR IT. WELL WHEN I'M MISSUS HARRY CARSON MAY HAPPEN I CAN PUT SOME GOOD FORTUNE IN JEM'S WAY. BUT WILL HE THANK ME FOR IT. HE'S RATHER SAVAGE AT TIMES THAT I CAN SEE AND PERHAPS KINDNESS FROM ME WHEN I'M ANOTHER'S WILL ONLY GO AGAINST THE GRAIN. I'LL NOT PLAGUE MYSELF WI THINKING ANY MORE ABOUT HIM THAT I WON'T

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+SO SHE TURNED ON HER PILLOW AND FELL ASLEEP AND DREAMT OF WHAT WAS OFTEN IN HER WAKING THOUGHTS OF THE DAY WHEN SHE SHOULD RIDE FROM CHURCH IN HER CARRIAGE WITH WEDDING BELLS RINGING AND TAKE UP HER ASTONISHED FATHER AND DRIVE AWAY FROM THE OLD DIM WORK A DAY COURT FOR EVER TO LIVE IN A GRAND HOUSE WHERE HER FATHER SHOULD HAVE NEWSPAPERS AND PAMPHLETS AND PIPES AND MEAT DINNERS EVERY DAY AND ALL DAY LONG IF HE LIKED. SUCH THOUGHTS MINGLED IN HER PREDILECTION FOR THE HANDSOME YOUNG MISTER CARSON WHO UNFETTERED BY WORK HOURS LET SCARCELY A DAY PASS WITHOUT CONTRIVING A MEETING WITH THE BEAUTIFUL LITTLE MILLINER HE HAD FIRST SEEN WHILE LOUNGING IN A SHOP WHERE HIS SISTERS WERE MAKING SOME PURCHASES AND AFTERWARDS NEVER RESTED TILL HE HAD FREELY THOUGH RESPECTFULLY MADE HER ACQUAINTANCE IN HER DAILY WALKS. HE WAS TO USE HIS OWN EXPRESSION TO HIMSELF QUITE INFATUATED BY HER AND WAS RESTLESS EACH DAY TILL THE TIME CAME WHEN HE HAD A CHANCE AND OF LATE MORE THAN A CHANCE OF MEETING HER. THERE WAS SOMETHING OF KEEN PRACTICAL SHREWDNESS ABOUT HER WHICH CONTRASTED VERY BEWITCHINGLY WITH THE SIMPLE FOOLISH UNWORLDLY IDEAS SHE HAD PICKED UP FROM THE ROMANCES WHICH MISS SIMMONDS YOUNG LADIES WERE IN THE HABIT OF RECOMMENDING TO EACH OTHER YES. MARY WAS AMBITIOUS AND DID NOT FAVOUR MISTER CARSON THE LESS BECAUSE HE WAS RICH AND A GENTLEMAN. THE OLD LEAVEN INFUSED YEARS AGO BY HER AUNT ESTHER FERMENTED IN HER LITTLE BOSOM AND PERHAPS ALL THE MORE FOR HER FATHER'S AVERSION TO THE RICH AND THE GENTLE. SUCH IS THE CONTRARINESS OF THE HUMAN HEART FROM EVE DOWNWARDS THAT WE ALL IN OUR OLD ADAM STATE FANCY THINGS FORBIDDEN SWEETEST. SO MARY DWELT UPON AND ENJOYED THE IDEA OF SOME DAY BECOMING A LADY AND DOING ALL THE ELEGANT NOTHINGS APPERTAINING TO LADYHOOD. IT WAS A COMFORT TO HER WHEN SCOLDED BY MISS SIMMONDS TO THINK OF THE DAY WHEN SHE WOULD DRIVE UP TO THE DOOR IN HER OWN CARRIAGE TO ORDER HER GOWNS FROM THE HASTY TEMPERED YET KIND DRESSMAKER. IT WAS A PLEASURE TO HER TO HEAR THE GENERAL ADMIRATION OF THE TWO ELDER MISS CARSONS ACKNOWLEDGED BEAUTIES IN BALL ROOM AND STREET ON HORSEBACK AND ON FOOT AND TO THINK OF THE TIME WHEN SHE SHOULD RIDE AND WALK WITH THEM IN LOVING SISTERHOOD. BUT THE BEST OF HER PLANS THE HOLIEST THAT WHICH IN SOME MEASURE REDEEMED THE VANITY OF THE REST WERE THOSE RELATING TO HER FATHER HER DEAR FATHER NOW OPPRESSED WITH CARE AND ALWAYS A DISHEARTENED GLOOMY PERSON. HOW SHE WOULD SURROUND HIM WITH EVERY COMFORT SHE COULD DEVISE OF COURSE HE WAS TO LIVE WITH THEM TILL HE SHOULD ACKNOWLEDGE RICHES TO BE VERY PLEASANT THINGS AND BLESS HIS LADY DAUGHTER. EVERY ONE WHO HAD SHOWN HER KINDNESS IN HER LOW ESTATE SHOULD THEN BE REPAID A HUNDRED FOLD. MEANWHILE HER WORDS OR EVEN MORE HER TONES WOULD MAINTAIN THEIR HOLD ON JEM WILSON'S MEMORY. A THRILL WOULD YET COME OVER HIM WHEN HE REMEMBERED HOW HER HAND HAD RESTED ON HIS ARM

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+DURING THE WEEK BEFORE CHRISTMAS JAKE WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT PERSON OF OUR HOUSEHOLD FOR HE WAS TO GO TO TOWN AND DO ALL OUR CHRISTMAS SHOPPING. BUT ON THE TWENTY FIRST OF DECEMBER THE SNOW BEGAN TO FALL. THE FLAKES CAME DOWN SO THICKLY THAT FROM THE SITTING ROOM WINDOWS I COULD NOT SEE BEYOND THE WINDMILL ITS FRAME LOOKED DIM AND GRAY UNSUBSTANTIAL LIKE A SHADOW. THE SNOW DID NOT STOP FALLING ALL DAY OR DURING THE NIGHT THAT FOLLOWED. THE COLD WAS NOT SEVERE BUT THE STORM WAS QUIET AND RESISTLESS. THE MEN COULD NOT GO FARTHER THAN THE BARNS AND CORRAL. THEY SAT ABOUT THE HOUSE MOST OF THE DAY AS IF IT WERE SUNDAY GREASING THEIR BOOTS MENDING THEIR SUSPENDERS PLAITING WHIPLASHES. JAKE WAS SURE HE COULD GET THROUGH ON HORSEBACK AND BRING HOME OUR THINGS IN SADDLE BAGS BUT GRANDFATHER TOLD HIM THE ROADS WOULD BE OBLITERATED AND A NEWCOMER IN THE COUNTRY WOULD BE LOST TEN TIMES OVER. ANYWAY HE WOULD NEVER ALLOW ONE OF HIS HORSES TO BE PUT TO SUCH A STRAIN. WE DECIDED TO HAVE A COUNTRY CHRISTMAS WITHOUT ANY HELP FROM TOWN. I HAD WANTED TO GET SOME PICTURE BOOKS FOR YULKA AND ANTONIA EVEN YULKA WAS ABLE TO READ A LITTLE NOW. GRANDMOTHER TOOK ME INTO THE ICE COLD STOREROOM WHERE SHE HAD SOME BOLTS OF GINGHAM AND SHEETING. SHE CUT SQUARES OF COTTON CLOTH AND WE SEWED THEM TOGETHER INTO A BOOK. WE BOUND IT BETWEEN PASTEBOARDS WHICH I COVERED WITH BRILLIANT CALICO REPRESENTING SCENES FROM A CIRCUS. FOR TWO DAYS I SAT AT THE DINING ROOM TABLE PASTING THIS BOOK FULL OF PICTURES FOR YULKA. WE HAD FILES OF THOSE GOOD OLD FAMILY MAGAZINES WHICH USED TO PUBLISH COLORED LITHOGRAPHS OF POPULAR PAINTINGS AND I WAS ALLOWED TO USE SOME OF THESE. I TOOK NAPOLEON ANNOUNCING THE DIVORCE TO JOSEPHINE FOR MY FRONTISPIECE. ON THE WHITE PAGES I GROUPED SUNDAY SCHOOL CARDS AND ADVERTISING CARDS WHICH I HAD BROUGHT FROM MY OLD COUNTRY. FUCHS GOT OUT THE OLD CANDLE MOULDS AND MADE TALLOW CANDLES. GRANDMOTHER HUNTED UP HER FANCY CAKE CUTTERS AND BAKED GINGERBREAD MEN AND ROOSTERS WHICH WE DECORATED WITH BURNT SUGAR AND RED CINNAMON DROPS. ON THE DAY BEFORE CHRISTMAS JAKE PACKED THE THINGS WE WERE SENDING TO THE SHIMERDAS IN HIS SADDLE BAGS AND SET OFF ON GRANDFATHER'S GRAY GELDING. WHEN HE MOUNTED HIS HORSE AT THE DOOR I SAW THAT HE HAD A HATCHET SLUNG TO HIS BELT AND HE GAVE GRANDMOTHER A MEANING LOOK WHICH TOLD ME HE WAS PLANNING A SURPRISE FOR ME. THAT AFTERNOON I WATCHED LONG AND EAGERLY FROM THE SITTING ROOM WINDOW. AT LAST I SAW A DARK SPOT MOVING ON THE WEST HILL BESIDE THE HALF BURIED CORNFIELD WHERE THE SKY WAS TAKING ON A COPPERY FLUSH FROM THE SUN THAT DID NOT QUITE BREAK THROUGH. I PUT ON MY CAP AND RAN OUT TO MEET JAKE. WHEN I GOT TO THE POND I COULD SEE THAT HE WAS BRINGING IN A LITTLE CEDAR TREE ACROSS HIS POMMEL. HE USED TO HELP MY FATHER CUT CHRISTMAS TREES FOR ME IN VIRGINIA AND HE HAD NOT FORGOTTEN HOW MUCH I LIKED THEM. BY THE TIME WE HAD PLACED THE COLD FRESH SMELLING LITTLE TREE IN A CORNER OF THE SITTING ROOM IT WAS ALREADY CHRISTMAS EVE. AFTER SUPPER WE ALL GATHERED THERE AND EVEN GRANDFATHER READING HIS PAPER BY THE TABLE LOOKED UP WITH FRIENDLY INTEREST NOW AND THEN. THE CEDAR WAS ABOUT FIVE FEET HIGH AND VERY SHAPELY. WE HUNG IT WITH THE GINGERBREAD ANIMALS STRINGS OF POPCORN AND BITS OF CANDLE WHICH FUCHS HAD FITTED INTO PASTEBOARD SOCKETS. ITS REAL SPLENDORS HOWEVER CAME FROM THE MOST UNLIKELY PLACE IN THE WORLD FROM OTTO'S COWBOY TRUNK. FROM UNDER THE LINING HE NOW PRODUCED A COLLECTION OF BRILLIANTLY COLORED PAPER FIGURES SEVERAL INCHES HIGH AND STIFF ENOUGH TO STAND ALONE. THEY HAD BEEN SENT TO HIM YEAR AFTER YEAR BY HIS OLD MOTHER IN AUSTRIA. OUR TREE BECAME THE TALKING TREE OF THE FAIRY TALE LEGENDS AND STORIES NESTLED LIKE BIRDS IN ITS BRANCHES

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+GRANDMOTHER SAID IT REMINDED HER OF THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE. WE PUT SHEETS OF COTTON WOOL UNDER IT FOR A SNOW FIELD AND JAKE'S POCKET MIRROR FOR A FROZEN LAKE. I CAN SEE THEM NOW EXACTLY AS THEY LOOKED WORKING ABOUT THE TABLE IN THE LAMPLIGHT JAKE WITH HIS HEAVY FEATURES SO RUDELY MOULDED THAT HIS FACE SEEMED SOMEHOW UNFINISHED OTTO WITH HIS HALF EAR AND THE SAVAGE SCAR THAT MADE HIS UPPER LIP CURL SO FEROCIOUSLY UNDER HIS TWISTED MUSTACHE. AS I REMEMBER THEM WHAT UNPROTECTED FACES THEY WERE THEIR VERY ROUGHNESS AND VIOLENCE MADE THEM DEFENSELESS. THESE BOYS HAD NO PRACTICED MANNER BEHIND WHICH THEY COULD RETREAT AND HOLD PEOPLE AT A DISTANCE. THEY HAD ONLY THEIR HARD FISTS TO BATTER AT THE WORLD WITH. OTTO WAS ALREADY ONE OF THOSE DRIFTING CASE HARDENED LABORERS WHO NEVER MARRY OR HAVE CHILDREN OF THEIR OWN

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+GRANDFATHER CAME DOWN WEARING A WHITE SHIRT AND HIS SUNDAY COAT. MORNING PRAYERS WERE LONGER THAN USUAL. HE READ THE CHAPTERS FROM SAINT MATTHEW ABOUT THE BIRTH OF CHRIST AND AS WE LISTENED IT ALL SEEMED LIKE SOMETHING THAT HAD HAPPENED LATELY AND NEAR AT HAND. IN HIS PRAYER HE THANKED THE LORD FOR THE FIRST CHRISTMAS AND FOR ALL THAT IT HAD MEANT TO THE WORLD EVER SINCE. HE GAVE THANKS FOR OUR FOOD AND COMFORT AND PRAYED FOR THE POOR AND DESTITUTE IN GREAT CITIES WHERE THE STRUGGLE FOR LIFE WAS HARDER THAN IT WAS HERE WITH US. GRANDFATHER'S PRAYERS WERE OFTEN VERY INTERESTING. HE HAD THE GIFT OF SIMPLE AND MOVING EXPRESSION. BECAUSE HE TALKED SO LITTLE HIS WORDS HAD A PECULIAR FORCE THEY WERE NOT WORN DULL FROM CONSTANT USE. HIS PRAYERS REFLECTED WHAT HE WAS THINKING ABOUT AT THE TIME AND IT WAS CHIEFLY THROUGH THEM THAT WE GOT TO KNOW HIS FEELINGS AND HIS VIEWS ABOUT THINGS. AFTER WE SAT DOWN TO OUR WAFFLES AND SAUSAGE JAKE TOLD US HOW PLEASED THE SHIMERDAS HAD BEEN WITH THEIR PRESENTS EVEN AMBROSCH WAS FRIENDLY AND WENT TO THE CREEK WITH HIM TO CUT THE CHRISTMAS TREE. IT WAS A SOFT GRAY DAY OUTSIDE WITH HEAVY CLOUDS WORKING ACROSS THE SKY AND OCCASIONAL SQUALLS OF SNOW. THERE WERE ALWAYS ODD JOBS TO BE DONE ABOUT THE BARN ON HOLIDAYS AND THE MEN WERE BUSY UNTIL AFTERNOON. THEN JAKE AND I PLAYED DOMINOES WHILE OTTO WROTE A LONG LETTER HOME TO HIS MOTHER. HE ALWAYS WROTE TO HER ON CHRISTMAS DAY HE SAID NO MATTER WHERE HE WAS AND NO MATTER HOW LONG IT HAD BEEN SINCE HIS LAST LETTER. ALL AFTERNOON HE SAT IN THE DINING ROOM. HE WOULD WRITE FOR A WHILE THEN SIT IDLE HIS CLENCHED FIST LYING ON THE TABLE HIS EYES FOLLOWING THE PATTERN OF THE OILCLOTH. HE SPOKE AND WROTE HIS OWN LANGUAGE SO SELDOM THAT IT CAME TO HIM AWKWARDLY. AT ABOUT FOUR O'CLOCK A VISITOR APPEARED MISTER SHIMERDA WEARING HIS RABBIT SKIN CAP AND COLLAR AND NEW MITTENS HIS WIFE HAD KNITTED. HE HAD COME TO THANK US FOR THE PRESENTS AND FOR ALL GRANDMOTHER'S KINDNESS TO HIS FAMILY. THIS FEELING SEEMED COMPLETELY TO TAKE POSSESSION OF MISTER SHIMERDA. I SUPPOSE IN THE CROWDED CLUTTER OF THEIR CAVE THE OLD MAN HAD COME TO BELIEVE THAT PEACE AND ORDER HAD VANISHED FROM THE EARTH OR EXISTED ONLY IN THE OLD WORLD HE HAD LEFT SO FAR BEHIND. HE SAT STILL AND PASSIVE HIS HEAD RESTING AGAINST THE BACK OF THE WOODEN ROCKING CHAIR HIS HANDS RELAXED UPON THE ARMS. HIS FACE HAD A LOOK OF WEARINESS AND PLEASURE LIKE THAT OF SICK PEOPLE WHEN THEY FEEL RELIEF FROM PAIN. GRANDMOTHER INSISTED ON HIS DRINKING A GLASS OF VIRGINIA APPLE BRANDY AFTER HIS LONG WALK IN THE COLD AND WHEN A FAINT FLUSH CAME UP IN HIS CHEEKS HIS FEATURES MIGHT HAVE BEEN CUT OUT OF A SHELL THEY WERE SO TRANSPARENT. MISTER SHIMERDA ROSE CROSSED HIMSELF AND QUIETLY KNELT DOWN BEFORE THE TREE HIS HEAD SUNK FORWARD. HIS LONG BODY FORMED A LETTER S I SAW GRANDMOTHER LOOK APPREHENSIVELY AT GRANDFATHER. HE WAS RATHER NARROW IN RELIGIOUS MATTERS AND SOMETIMES SPOKE OUT AND HURT PEOPLE'S FEELINGS. WHEN HIS DEEP SEEING EYES RESTED ON ME I FELT AS IF HE WERE LOOKING FAR AHEAD INTO THE FUTURE FOR ME DOWN THE ROAD I WOULD HAVE TO TRAVEL. AT NINE O'CLOCK MISTER SHIMERDA LIGHTED ONE OF OUR LANTERNS AND PUT ON HIS OVERCOAT AND FUR COLLAR. HE STOOD IN THE LITTLE ENTRY HALL THE LANTERN AND HIS FUR CAP UNDER HIS ARM SHAKING HANDS WITH US. WHEN HE TOOK GRANDMOTHER'S HAND HE BENT OVER IT AS HE ALWAYS DID AND SAID SLOWLY GOOD WO MAN. HE MADE THE SIGN OF THE CROSS OVER ME PUT ON HIS CAP AND WENT OFF IN THE DARK. AS WE TURNED BACK TO THE SITTING ROOM GRANDFATHER LOOKED AT ME SEARCHINGLY

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+THE WEEK FOLLOWING CHRISTMAS BROUGHT IN A THAW AND BY NEW YEAR'S DAY ALL THE WORLD ABOUT US WAS A BROTH OF GRAY SLUSH AND THE GUTTERED SLOPE BETWEEN THE WINDMILL AND THE BARN WAS RUNNING BLACK WATER. THE SOFT BLACK EARTH STOOD OUT IN PATCHES ALONG THE ROADSIDES. I RESUMED ALL MY CHORES CARRIED IN THE COBS AND WOOD AND WATER AND SPENT THE AFTERNOONS AT THE BARN WATCHING JAKE SHELL CORN WITH A HAND SHELLER. IT WAS THE FIRST TIME MISSUS SHIMERDA HAD BEEN TO OUR HOUSE AND SHE RAN ABOUT EXAMINING OUR CARPETS AND CURTAINS AND FURNITURE ALL THE WHILE COMMENTING UPON THEM TO HER DAUGHTER IN AN ENVIOUS COMPLAINING TONE. IN THE KITCHEN SHE CAUGHT UP AN IRON POT THAT STOOD ON THE BACK OF THE STOVE AND SAID YOU GOT MANY SHIMERDAS NO GOT. I THOUGHT IT WEAK MINDED OF GRANDMOTHER TO GIVE THE POT TO HER. AFTER DINNER WHEN SHE WAS HELPING TO WASH THE DISHES SHE SAID TOSSING HER HEAD YOU GOT MANY THINGS FOR COOK. IF I GOT ALL THINGS LIKE YOU I MAKE MUCH BETTER. SHE WAS A CONCEITED BOASTFUL OLD THING AND EVEN MISFORTUNE COULD NOT HUMBLE HER. I WAS SO ANNOYED THAT I FELT COLDLY EVEN TOWARD ANTONIA AND LISTENED UNSYMPATHETICALLY WHEN SHE TOLD ME HER FATHER WAS NOT WELL. MY PAPA SAD FOR THE OLD COUNTRY HE NOT LOOK GOOD. HE NEVER MAKE MUSIC ANY MORE. AT HOME HE PLAY VIOLIN ALL THE TIME FOR WEDDINGS AND FOR DANCE HERE NEVER. WHEN I BEG HIM FOR PLAY HE SHAKE HIS HEAD NO. SOME DAYS HE TAKE HIS VIOLIN OUT OF HIS BOX AND MAKE WITH HIS FINGERS ON THE STRINGS LIKE THIS BUT NEVER HE MAKE THE MUSIC HE DON'T LIKE THIS KAWN TREE. HE NOT WANT TO COME NEV ER SHE BURST OUT MY MAMENKA MAKE HIM COME. ALL THE TIME SHE SAY AMERICA BIG COUNTRY MUCH MONEY MUCH LAND FOR MY BOYS MUCH HUSBAND FOR MY GIRLS. MY PAPA HE CRY FOR LEAVE HIS OLD FRIENDS WHAT MAKE MUSIC WITH HIM. HE LOVE VERY MUCH THE MAN WHAT PLAY THE LONG HORN LIKE THIS SHE INDICATED A SLIDE TROMBONE. THEY GO TO SCHOOL TOGETHER AND ARE FRIENDS FROM BOYS. BUT MY MAMA SHE WANT AMBROSCH FOR BE RICH WITH MANY CATTLE. YOUR MAMA I SAID ANGRILY WANTS OTHER PEOPLE'S THINGS. YOUR GRANDFATHER IS RICH SHE RETORTED FIERCELY WHY HE NOT HELP MY PAPA. AMBROSCH BE RICH TOO AFTER WHILE AND HE PAY BACK HE IS VERY SMART BOY. FOR AMBROSCH MY MAMA COME HERE. AMBROSCH WAS CONSIDERED THE IMPORTANT PERSON IN THE FAMILY. MISSUS SHIMERDA AND ANTONIA ALWAYS DEFERRED TO HIM THOUGH HE WAS OFTEN SURLY WITH THEM AND CONTEMPTUOUS TOWARD HIS FATHER. AMBROSCH AND HIS MOTHER HAD EVERYTHING THEIR OWN WAY. THOUGH ANTONIA LOVED HER FATHER MORE THAN SHE DID ANY ONE ELSE SHE STOOD IN AWE OF HER ELDER BROTHER. AFTER I WATCHED ANTONIA AND HER MOTHER GO OVER THE HILL ON THEIR MISERABLE HORSE CARRYING OUR IRON POT WITH THEM I TURNED TO GRANDMOTHER WHO HAD TAKEN UP HER DARNING AND SAID I HOPED THAT SNOOPING OLD WOMAN WOULD N'T COME TO SEE US ANY MORE. GRANDMOTHER CHUCKLED AND DROVE HER BRIGHT NEEDLE ACROSS A HOLE IN OTTO'S SOCK. SHE'S NOT OLD JIM THOUGH I EXPECT SHE SEEMS OLD TO YOU. NO I WOULD N'T MOURN IF SHE NEVER CAME AGAIN. BUT YOU SEE A BODY NEVER KNOWS WHAT TRAITS POVERTY MIGHT BRING OUT IN EM. IT MAKES A WOMAN GRASPING TO SEE HER CHILDREN WANT FOR THINGS. NOW READ ME A CHAPTER IN THE PRINCE OF THE HOUSE OF DAVID LET'S FORGET THE BOHEMIANS. WE HAD THREE WEEKS OF THIS MILD OPEN WEATHER. THE CATTLE IN THE CORRAL ATE CORN ALMOST AS FAST AS THE MEN COULD SHELL IT FOR THEM AND WE HOPED THEY WOULD BE READY FOR AN EARLY MARKET. ONE MORNING THE TWO BIG BULLS GLADSTONE AND BRIGHAM YOUNG THOUGHT SPRING HAD COME AND THEY BEGAN TO TEASE AND BUTT AT EACH OTHER ACROSS THE BARBED WIRE THAT SEPARATED THEM SOON THEY GOT ANGRY. THEY BELLOWED AND PAWED UP THE SOFT EARTH WITH THEIR HOOFS ROLLING THEIR EYES AND TOSSING THEIR HEADS. EACH WITHDREW TO A FAR CORNER OF HIS OWN CORRAL AND THEN THEY MADE FOR EACH OTHER AT A GALLOP

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+THUD THUD WE COULD HEAR THE IMPACT OF THEIR GREAT HEADS AND THEIR BELLOWING SHOOK THE PANS ON THE KITCHEN SHELVES. PRETTY SOON THE FAT STEERS TOOK IT UP AND BEGAN BUTTING AND HORNING EACH OTHER. CLEARLY THE AFFAIR HAD TO BE STOPPED. THE BIG STORM OF THE WINTER BEGAN ON MY ELEVENTH BIRTHDAY THE TWENTIETH OF JANUARY. WHEN I WENT DOWN TO BREAKFAST THAT MORNING JAKE AND OTTO CAME IN WHITE AS SNOW MEN BEATING THEIR HANDS AND STAMPING THEIR FEET. THEY BEGAN TO LAUGH BOISTEROUSLY WHEN THEY SAW ME CALLING. YOU'VE GOT A BIRTHDAY PRESENT THIS TIME JIM AND NO MISTAKE. THEY WAS A FULL GROWN BLIZZARD ORDERED FOR YOU. ALL DAY THE STORM WENT ON. THE SNOW DID NOT FALL THIS TIME IT SIMPLY SPILLED OUT OF HEAVEN LIKE THOUSANDS OF FEATHER BEDS BEING EMPTIED. NEXT DAY OUR MEN HAD TO SHOVEL UNTIL NOON TO REACH THE BARN AND THE SNOW WAS STILL FALLING. THERE HAD NOT BEEN SUCH A STORM IN THE TEN YEARS MY GRANDFATHER HAD LIVED IN NEBRASKA. WE COULD NOT SO MUCH AS SEE THE CORRALS BUT WE KNEW THE STEERS WERE OVER THERE HUDDLED TOGETHER UNDER THE NORTH BANK. OUR FEROCIOUS BULLS SUBDUED ENOUGH BY THIS TIME WERE PROBABLY WARMING EACH OTHER'S BACKS. THIS'LL TAKE THE BILE OUT OF EM FUCHS REMARKED GLEEFULLY. AT NOON THAT DAY THE HENS HAD NOT BEEN HEARD FROM. AFTER DINNER JAKE AND OTTO THEIR DAMP CLOTHES NOW DRIED ON THEM STRETCHED THEIR STIFF ARMS AND PLUNGED AGAIN INTO THE DRIFTS. THEY MADE A TUNNEL UNDER THE SNOW TO THE HENHOUSE WITH WALLS SO SOLID THAT GRANDMOTHER AND I COULD WALK BACK AND FORTH IN IT. WE FOUND THE CHICKENS ASLEEP PERHAPS THEY THOUGHT NIGHT HAD COME TO STAY. ONE OLD ROOSTER WAS STIRRING ABOUT PECKING AT THE SOLID LUMP OF ICE IN THEIR WATER TIN. WHEN WE FLASHED THE LANTERN IN THEIR EYES THE HENS SET UP A GREAT CACKLING AND FLEW ABOUT CLUMSILY SCATTERING DOWN FEATHERS. BY FIVE O'CLOCK THE CHORES WERE DONE JUST WHEN IT WAS TIME TO BEGIN THEM ALL OVER AGAIN

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+SHE WAS FOUR YEARS OLDER THAN I TO BE SURE AND HAD SEEN MORE OF THE WORLD BUT I WAS A BOY AND SHE WAS A GIRL AND I RESENTED HER PROTECTING MANNER. BEFORE THE AUTUMN WAS OVER SHE BEGAN TO TREAT ME MORE LIKE AN EQUAL AND TO DEFER TO ME IN OTHER THINGS THAN READING LESSONS. THIS CHANGE CAME ABOUT FROM AN ADVENTURE WE HAD TOGETHER. ONE DAY WHEN I RODE OVER TO THE SHIMERDAS I FOUND ANTONIA STARTING OFF ON FOOT FOR RUSSIAN PETER'S HOUSE TO BORROW A SPADE AMBROSCH NEEDED. I OFFERED TO TAKE HER ON THE PONY AND SHE GOT UP BEHIND ME. THERE HAD BEEN ANOTHER BLACK FROST THE NIGHT BEFORE AND THE AIR WAS CLEAR AND HEADY AS WINE. WITHIN A WEEK ALL THE BLOOMING ROADS HAD BEEN DESPOILED HUNDREDS OF MILES OF YELLOW SUNFLOWERS HAD BEEN TRANSFORMED INTO BROWN RATTLING BURRY STALKS. WE FOUND RUSSIAN PETER DIGGING HIS POTATOES. AS WE RODE AWAY WITH THE SPADE ANTONIA SUGGESTED THAT WE STOP AT THE PRAIRIE DOG TOWN AND DIG INTO ONE OF THE HOLES. WE COULD FIND OUT WHETHER THEY RAN STRAIGHT DOWN OR WERE HORIZONTAL LIKE MOLE HOLES WHETHER THEY HAD UNDERGROUND CONNECTIONS WHETHER THE OWLS HAD NESTS DOWN THERE LINED WITH FEATHERS. WE MIGHT GET SOME PUPPIES OR OWL EGGS OR SNAKE SKINS. THE DOG TOWN WAS SPREAD OUT OVER PERHAPS TEN ACRES. THE GRASS HAD BEEN NIBBLED SHORT AND EVEN SO THIS STRETCH WAS NOT SHAGGY AND RED LIKE THE SURROUNDING COUNTRY BUT GRAY AND VELVETY. THE HOLES WERE SEVERAL YARDS APART AND WERE DISPOSED WITH A GOOD DEAL OF REGULARITY ALMOST AS IF THE TOWN HAD BEEN LAID OUT IN STREETS AND AVENUES. ONE ALWAYS FELT THAT AN ORDERLY AND VERY SOCIABLE KIND OF LIFE WAS GOING ON THERE. I PICKETED DUDE DOWN IN A DRAW AND WE WENT WANDERING ABOUT LOOKING FOR A HOLE THAT WOULD BE EASY TO DIG. THE DOGS WERE OUT AS USUAL DOZENS OF THEM SITTING UP ON THEIR HIND LEGS OVER THE DOORS OF THEIR HOUSES. AS WE APPROACHED THEY BARKED SHOOK THEIR TAILS AT US AND SCURRIED UNDERGROUND. BEFORE THE MOUTHS OF THE HOLES WERE LITTLE PATCHES OF SAND AND GRAVEL SCRATCHED UP WE SUPPOSED FROM A LONG WAY BELOW THE SURFACE. HERE AND THERE IN THE TOWN WE CAME ON LARGER GRAVEL PATCHES SEVERAL YARDS AWAY FROM ANY HOLE. IF THE DOGS HAD SCRATCHED THE SAND UP IN EXCAVATING HOW HAD THEY CARRIED IT SO FAR. IT WAS ON ONE OF THESE GRAVEL BEDS THAT I MET MY ADVENTURE. WE WERE EXAMINING A BIG HOLE WITH TWO ENTRANCES. THE BURROW SLOPED INTO THE GROUND AT A GENTLE ANGLE SO THAT WE COULD SEE WHERE THE TWO CORRIDORS UNITED AND THE FLOOR WAS DUSTY FROM USE LIKE A LITTLE HIGHWAY OVER WHICH MUCH TRAVEL WENT. I WAS WALKING BACKWARD IN A CROUCHING POSITION WHEN I HEARD ANTONIA SCREAM. SHE WAS STANDING OPPOSITE ME POINTING BEHIND ME AND SHOUTING SOMETHING IN BOHEMIAN. I WHIRLED ROUND AND THERE ON ONE OF THOSE DRY GRAVEL BEDS WAS THE BIGGEST SNAKE I HAD EVER SEEN. HE WAS SUNNING HIMSELF AFTER THE COLD NIGHT AND HE MUST HAVE BEEN ASLEEP WHEN ANTONIA SCREAMED. WHEN I TURNED HE WAS LYING IN LONG LOOSE WAVES LIKE A LETTER W HE TWITCHED AND BEGAN TO COIL SLOWLY. HE WAS NOT MERELY A BIG SNAKE I THOUGHT HE WAS A CIRCUS MONSTROSITY. HIS ABOMINABLE MUSCULARITY HIS LOATHSOME FLUID MOTION SOMEHOW MADE ME SICK. I SAW HIS COILS TIGHTEN NOW HE WOULD SPRING SPRING HIS LENGTH I REMEMBERED. I RAN UP AND DROVE AT HIS HEAD WITH MY SPADE STRUCK HIM FAIRLY ACROSS THE NECK AND IN A MINUTE HE WAS ALL ABOUT MY FEET IN WAVY LOOPS. I STRUCK NOW FROM HATE. ANTONIA BAREFOOTED AS SHE WAS RAN UP BEHIND ME. EVEN AFTER I HAD POUNDED HIS UGLY HEAD FLAT HIS BODY KEPT ON COILING AND WINDING DOUBLING AND FALLING BACK ON ITSELF. I WALKED AWAY AND TURNED MY BACK I FELT SEASICK. I KNOW I AM JUST AWFUL JIM I WAS SO SCARED

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+IF THE READER WILL EXCUSE ME I WILL SAY NOTHING OF MY ANTECEDENTS NOR OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES WHICH LED ME TO LEAVE MY NATIVE COUNTRY THE NARRATIVE WOULD BE TEDIOUS TO HIM AND PAINFUL TO MYSELF. SUFFICE IT THAT WHEN I LEFT HOME IT WAS WITH THE INTENTION OF GOING TO SOME NEW COLONY AND EITHER FINDING OR EVEN PERHAPS PURCHASING WASTE CROWN LAND SUITABLE FOR CATTLE OR SHEEP FARMING BY WHICH MEANS I THOUGHT THAT I COULD BETTER MY FORTUNES MORE RAPIDLY THAN IN ENGLAND. IT WILL BE SEEN THAT I DID NOT SUCCEED IN MY DESIGN AND THAT HOWEVER MUCH I MAY HAVE MET WITH THAT WAS NEW AND STRANGE I HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO REAP ANY PECUNIARY ADVANTAGE. BUT TO THIS END I MUST POSSESS MYSELF OF A CONSIDERABLE SUM OF MONEY NEITHER DO I KNOW HOW TO GET IT EXCEPT BY INTERESTING THE PUBLIC IN MY STORY AND INDUCING THE CHARITABLE TO COME FORWARD AND ASSIST ME. WITH THIS HOPE I NOW PUBLISH MY ADVENTURES BUT I DO SO WITH GREAT RELUCTANCE FOR I FEAR THAT MY STORY WILL BE DOUBTED UNLESS I TELL THE WHOLE OF IT AND YET I DARE NOT DO SO LEST OTHERS WITH MORE MEANS THAN MINE SHOULD GET THE START OF ME. I PREFER THE RISK OF BEING DOUBTED TO THAT OF BEING ANTICIPATED AND HAVE THEREFORE CONCEALED MY DESTINATION ON LEAVING ENGLAND AS ALSO THE POINT FROM WHICH I BEGAN MY MORE SERIOUS AND DIFFICULT JOURNEY. MY CHIEF CONSOLATION LIES IN THE FACT THAT TRUTH BEARS ITS OWN IMPRESS AND THAT MY STORY WILL CARRY CONVICTION BY REASON OF THE INTERNAL EVIDENCES FOR ITS ACCURACY. NO ONE WHO IS HIMSELF HONEST WILL DOUBT MY BEING SO. I REACHED MY DESTINATION IN ONE OF THE LAST MONTHS OF EIGHTEEN SIXTY EIGHT BUT I DARE NOT MENTION THE SEASON LEST THE READER SHOULD GATHER IN WHICH HEMISPHERE I WAS. THE COLONY WAS ONE WHICH HAD NOT BEEN OPENED UP EVEN TO THE MOST ADVENTUROUS SETTLERS FOR MORE THAN EIGHT OR NINE YEARS HAVING BEEN PREVIOUSLY UNINHABITED SAVE BY A FEW TRIBES OF SAVAGES WHO FREQUENTED THE SEABOARD. THE COAST WAS PERFECTLY WELL KNOWN BOTH NORTH AND SOUTH OF THE TRACT TO WHICH I HAVE ALLUDED BUT IN NEITHER DIRECTION WAS THERE A SINGLE HARBOUR FOR FIVE HUNDRED MILES AND THE MOUNTAINS WHICH DESCENDED ALMOST INTO THE SEA WERE COVERED WITH THICK TIMBER SO THAT NONE WOULD THINK OF SETTLING. THE CLIMATE WAS TEMPERATE AND VERY HEALTHY THERE WERE NO WILD ANIMALS NOR WERE THE NATIVES DANGEROUS BEING FEW IN NUMBER AND OF AN INTELLIGENT TRACTABLE DISPOSITION. SHEEP AND CATTLE WERE INTRODUCED AND BRED WITH EXTREME RAPIDITY MEN TOOK UP THEIR FIFTY THOUSAND OR ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND ACRES OF COUNTRY GOING INLAND ONE BEHIND THE OTHER TILL IN A FEW YEARS THERE WAS NOT AN ACRE BETWEEN THE SEA AND THE FRONT RANGES WHICH WAS NOT TAKEN UP AND STATIONS EITHER FOR SHEEP OR CATTLE WERE SPOTTED ABOUT AT INTERVALS OF SOME TWENTY OR THIRTY MILES OVER THE WHOLE COUNTRY. MEN PUSHED FARTHER AND FARTHER INTO THE MOUNTAINS AND FOUND A VERY CONSIDERABLE TRACT INSIDE THE FRONT RANGE BETWEEN IT AND ANOTHER WHICH WAS LOFTIER STILL THOUGH EVEN THIS WAS NOT THE HIGHEST THE GREAT SNOWY ONE WHICH COULD BE SEEN FROM OUT UPON THE PLAINS. THIS SECOND RANGE HOWEVER SEEMED TO MARK THE EXTREME LIMITS OF PASTORAL COUNTRY AND IT WAS HERE AT A SMALL AND NEWLY FOUNDED STATION THAT I WAS RECEIVED AS A CADET AND SOON REGULARLY EMPLOYED. I WAS THEN JUST TWENTY TWO YEARS OLD. I WAS DELIGHTED WITH THE COUNTRY AND THE MANNER OF LIFE. IT WAS MY DAILY BUSINESS TO GO UP TO THE TOP OF A CERTAIN HIGH MOUNTAIN AND DOWN ONE OF ITS SPURS ON TO THE FLAT IN ORDER TO MAKE SURE THAT NO SHEEP HAD CROSSED THEIR BOUNDARIES. I WAS TO SEE THE SHEEP NOT NECESSARILY CLOSE AT HAND NOR TO GET THEM IN A SINGLE MOB BUT TO SEE ENOUGH OF THEM HERE AND THERE TO FEEL EASY THAT NOTHING HAD GONE WRONG THIS WAS NO DIFFICULT MATTER FOR THERE WERE NOT ABOVE EIGHT HUNDRED OF THEM AND BEING ALL BREEDING EWES THEY WERE PRETTY QUIET. THERE WERE A GOOD MANY SHEEP WHICH I KNEW AS TWO OR THREE BLACK EWES AND A BLACK LAMB OR TWO AND SEVERAL OTHERS WHICH HAD SOME DISTINGUISHING MARK WHEREBY I COULD TELL THEM. IT IS SURPRISING HOW SOON THE EYE BECOMES ACCUSTOMED TO MISSING TWENTY SHEEP OUT OF TWO OR THREE HUNDRED. I HAD A TELESCOPE AND A DOG AND WOULD TAKE BREAD AND MEAT AND TOBACCO WITH ME

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+STARTING WITH EARLY DAWN IT WOULD BE NIGHT BEFORE I COULD COMPLETE MY ROUND FOR THE MOUNTAIN OVER WHICH I HAD TO GO WAS VERY HIGH. IN WINTER IT WAS COVERED WITH SNOW AND THE SHEEP NEEDED NO WATCHING FROM ABOVE. IT WAS A MONOTONOUS LIFE BUT IT WAS VERY HEALTHY AND ONE DOES NOT MUCH MIND ANYTHING WHEN ONE IS WELL. THE COUNTRY WAS THE GRANDEST THAT CAN BE IMAGINED. BEYOND THE DOWNS WAS A PLAIN GOING DOWN TO A RIVER OF GREAT SIZE ON THE FARTHER SIDE OF WHICH THERE WERE OTHER HIGH MOUNTAINS WITH THE WINTER'S SNOW STILL NOT QUITE MELTED UP THE RIVER WHICH RAN WINDING IN MANY STREAMS OVER A BED SOME TWO MILES BROAD I LOOKED UPON THE SECOND GREAT CHAIN AND COULD SEE A NARROW GORGE WHERE THE RIVER RETIRED AND WAS LOST. SO LONELY AND SO SOLEMN WITH THE SAD GREY CLOUDS ABOVE AND NO SOUND SAVE A LOST LAMB BLEATING UPON THE MOUNTAIN SIDE AS THOUGH ITS LITTLE HEART WERE BREAKING. THEN THERE COMES SOME LEAN AND WITHERED OLD EWE WITH DEEP GRUFF VOICE AND UNLOVELY ASPECT TROTTING BACK FROM THE SEDUCTIVE PASTURE NOW SHE EXAMINES THIS GULLY AND NOW THAT AND NOW SHE STANDS LISTENING WITH UPLIFTED HEAD THAT SHE MAY HEAR THE DISTANT WAILING AND OBEY IT. AHA THEY SEE AND RUSH TOWARDS EACH OTHER. ALAS THEY ARE BOTH MISTAKEN THE EWE IS NOT THE LAMB'S EWE THEY ARE NEITHER KIN NOR KIND TO ONE ANOTHER AND PART IN COLDNESS. EACH MUST CRY LOUDER AND WANDER FARTHER YET MAY LUCK BE WITH THEM BOTH THAT THEY MAY FIND THEIR OWN AT NIGHTFALL. BUT THIS IS MERE DREAMING AND I MUST PROCEED. I COULD NOT HELP SPECULATING UPON WHAT MIGHT LIE FARTHER UP THE RIVER AND BEHIND THE SECOND RANGE. I HAD NO MONEY BUT IF I COULD ONLY FIND WORKABLE COUNTRY I MIGHT STOCK IT WITH BORROWED CAPITAL AND CONSIDER MYSELF A MADE MAN. TRUE THE RANGE LOOKED SO VAST THAT THERE SEEMED LITTLE CHANCE OF GETTING A SUFFICIENT ROAD THROUGH IT OR OVER IT BUT NO ONE HAD YET EXPLORED IT AND IT IS WONDERFUL HOW ONE FINDS THAT ONE CAN MAKE A PATH INTO ALL SORTS OF PLACES AND EVEN GET A ROAD FOR PACK HORSES WHICH FROM A DISTANCE APPEAR INACCESSIBLE THE RIVER WAS SO GREAT THAT IT MUST DRAIN AN INNER TRACT AT LEAST I THOUGHT SO AND THOUGH EVERY ONE SAID IT WOULD BE MADNESS TO ATTEMPT TAKING SHEEP FARTHER INLAND I KNEW THAT ONLY THREE YEARS AGO THE SAME CRY HAD BEEN RAISED AGAINST THE COUNTRY WHICH MY MASTER'S FLOCK WAS NOW OVERRUNNING. BUT OVER AND ABOVE THESE THOUGHTS CAME THAT OF THE GREAT RANGE ITSELF. WHAT WAS BEYOND IT AH WHO COULD SAY. THERE WAS NO ONE IN THE WHOLE WORLD WHO HAD THE SMALLEST IDEA SAVE THOSE WHO WERE THEMSELVES ON THE OTHER SIDE OF IT IF INDEED THERE WAS ANY ONE AT ALL COULD I HOPE TO CROSS IT. THIS WOULD BE THE HIGHEST TRIUMPH THAT I COULD WISH FOR BUT IT WAS TOO MUCH TO THINK OF YET. I WOULD TRY THE NEARER RANGE AND SEE HOW FAR I COULD GO. EVEN IF I DID NOT FIND COUNTRY MIGHT I NOT FIND GOLD OR DIAMONDS OR COPPER OR SILVER. I WOULD SOMETIMES LIE FLAT DOWN TO DRINK OUT OF A STREAM AND COULD SEE LITTLE YELLOW SPECKS AMONG THE SAND WERE THESE GOLD. PEOPLE SAID NO BUT THEN PEOPLE ALWAYS SAID THERE WAS NO GOLD UNTIL IT WAS FOUND TO BE ABUNDANT THERE WAS PLENTY OF SLATE AND GRANITE WHICH I HAD ALWAYS UNDERSTOOD TO ACCOMPANY GOLD AND EVEN THOUGH IT WAS NOT FOUND IN PAYING QUANTITIES HERE IT MIGHT BE ABUNDANT IN THE MAIN RANGES

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+WE FOLLOWED AN ALPINE PATH FOR SOME FOUR MILES NOW HUNDREDS OF FEET ABOVE A BRAWLING STREAM WHICH DESCENDED FROM THE GLACIERS AND NOW NEARLY ALONGSIDE IT. THE MORNING WAS COLD AND SOMEWHAT FOGGY FOR THE AUTUMN HAD MADE GREAT STRIDES LATTERLY. HOWEVER I SHOWED NO SIGN OF WONDER OR DISAPPROVAL FOR I REMEMBERED THAT TO BE ALL THINGS TO ALL MEN WAS ONE OF THE INJUNCTIONS OF THE GENTILE APOSTLE WHICH FOR THE PRESENT I SHOULD DO WELL TO HEED. SHORTLY AFTER PASSING ONE OF THESE CHAPELS WE CAME SUDDENLY UPON A VILLAGE WHICH STARTED UP OUT OF THE MIST AND I WAS ALARMED LEST I SHOULD BE MADE AN OBJECT OF CURIOSITY OR DISLIKE. BUT IT WAS NOT SO. MY GUIDES SPOKE TO MANY IN PASSING AND THOSE SPOKEN TO SHOWED MUCH AMAZEMENT. MY GUIDES HOWEVER WERE WELL KNOWN AND THE NATURAL POLITENESS OF THE PEOPLE PREVENTED THEM FROM PUTTING ME TO ANY INCONVENIENCE BUT THEY COULD NOT HELP EYEING ME NOR I THEM. I MAY AS WELL SAY AT ONCE WHAT MY AFTER EXPERIENCE TAUGHT ME NAMELY THAT WITH ALL THEIR FAULTS AND EXTRAORDINARY OBLIQUITY OF MENTAL VISION UPON MANY SUBJECTS THEY ARE THE VERY BEST BRED PEOPLE THAT I EVER FELL IN WITH. THE STREETS WERE NARROW AND UNPAVED BUT VERY FAIRLY CLEAN. THE VINE GREW OUTSIDE MANY OF THE HOUSES AND THERE WERE SOME WITH SIGN BOARDS ON WHICH WAS PAINTED A BOTTLE AND A GLASS THAT MADE ME FEEL MUCH AT HOME. EVEN ON THIS LEDGE OF HUMAN SOCIETY THERE WAS A STUNTED GROWTH OF SHOPLETS WHICH HAD TAKEN ROOT AND VEGETATED SOMEHOW THOUGH AS IN AN AIR MERCANTILE OF THE BLEAKEST. IT WAS HERE AS HITHERTO ALL THINGS WERE GENERICALLY THE SAME AS IN EUROPE THE DIFFERENCES BEING OF SPECIES ONLY AND I WAS AMUSED AT SEEING IN A WINDOW SOME BOTTLES WITH BARLEY SUGAR AND SWEETMEATS FOR CHILDREN AS AT HOME BUT THE BARLEY SUGAR WAS IN PLATES NOT IN TWISTED STICKS AND WAS COLOURED BLUE. GLASS WAS PLENTIFUL IN THE BETTER HOUSES. LASTLY I SHOULD SAY THAT THE PEOPLE WERE OF A PHYSICAL BEAUTY WHICH WAS SIMPLY AMAZING. I NEVER SAW ANYTHING IN THE LEAST COMPARABLE TO THEM. THE WOMEN WERE VIGOROUS AND HAD A MOST MAJESTIC GAIT THEIR HEADS BEING SET UPON THEIR SHOULDERS WITH A GRACE BEYOND ALL POWER OF EXPRESSION. EACH FEATURE WAS FINISHED EYELIDS EYELASHES AND EARS BEING ALMOST INVARIABLY PERFECT. THEIR EXPRESSION WAS DIVINE AND AS THEY GLANCED AT ME TIMIDLY BUT WITH PARTED LIPS IN GREAT BEWILDERMENT I FORGOT ALL THOUGHTS OF THEIR CONVERSION IN FEELINGS THAT WERE FAR MORE EARTHLY. I WAS DAZZLED AS I SAW ONE AFTER THE OTHER OF WHOM I COULD ONLY FEEL THAT EACH WAS THE LOVELIEST I HAD EVER SEEN. EVEN IN MIDDLE AGE THEY WERE STILL COMELY AND THE OLD GREY HAIRED WOMEN AT THEIR COTTAGE DOORS HAD A DIGNITY NOT TO SAY MAJESTY OF THEIR OWN. THE MEN WERE AS HANDSOME AS THE WOMEN BEAUTIFUL. I HAVE ALWAYS DELIGHTED IN AND REVERENCED BEAUTY BUT I FELT SIMPLY ABASHED IN THE PRESENCE OF SUCH A SPLENDID TYPE A COMPOUND OF ALL THAT IS BEST IN EGYPTIAN GREEK AND ITALIAN. THE CHILDREN WERE INFINITE IN NUMBER AND EXCEEDINGLY MERRY I NEED HARDLY SAY THAT THEY CAME IN FOR THEIR FULL SHARE OF THE PREVAILING BEAUTY. I EXPRESSED BY SIGNS MY ADMIRATION AND PLEASURE TO MY GUIDES AND THEY WERE GREATLY PLEASED. I SHOULD ADD THAT ALL SEEMED TO TAKE A PRIDE IN THEIR PERSONAL APPEARANCE AND THAT EVEN THE POOREST AND NONE SEEMED RICH WERE WELL KEMPT AND TIDY. I COULD FILL MANY PAGES WITH A DESCRIPTION OF THEIR DRESS AND THE ORNAMENTS WHICH THEY WORE AND A HUNDRED DETAILS WHICH STRUCK ME WITH ALL THE FORCE OF NOVELTY BUT I MUST NOT STAY TO DO SO. WHEN WE HAD GOT PAST THE VILLAGE THE FOG ROSE AND REVEALED MAGNIFICENT VIEWS OF THE SNOWY MOUNTAINS AND THEIR NEARER ABUTMENTS WHILE IN FRONT I COULD NOW AND AGAIN CATCH GLIMPSES OF THE GREAT PLAINS WHICH I HAD SURVEYED ON THE PRECEDING EVENING. THE COUNTRY WAS HIGHLY CULTIVATED EVERY LEDGE BEING PLANTED WITH CHESTNUTS WALNUTS AND APPLE TREES FROM WHICH THE APPLES WERE NOW GATHERING. I SAW A FEW SHEEP WITH ROUNDED NOSES AND ENORMOUS TAILS. DOGS WERE THERE IN PLENTY AND VERY ENGLISH BUT I SAW NO CATS NOR INDEED ARE THESE CREATURES KNOWN THEIR PLACE BEING SUPPLIED BY A SORT OF SMALL TERRIER

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+IN ABOUT FOUR HOURS OF WALKING FROM THE TIME WE STARTED AND AFTER PASSING TWO OR THREE MORE VILLAGES WE CAME UPON A CONSIDERABLE TOWN AND MY GUIDES MADE MANY ATTEMPTS TO MAKE ME UNDERSTAND SOMETHING BUT I GATHERED NO INKLING OF THEIR MEANING EXCEPT THAT I NEED BE UNDER NO APPREHENSION OF DANGER. SUFFICE IT THAT I FOUND MYSELF TAKEN BEFORE THE CHIEF MAGISTRATE AND BY HIS ORDERS WAS PLACED IN AN APARTMENT WITH TWO OTHER PEOPLE WHO WERE THE FIRST I HAD SEEN LOOKING ANYTHING BUT WELL AND HANDSOME. IN FACT ONE OF THEM WAS PLAINLY VERY MUCH OUT OF HEALTH AND COUGHED VIOLENTLY FROM TIME TO TIME IN SPITE OF MANIFEST EFFORTS TO SUPPRESS IT. THE OTHER LOOKED PALE AND ILL BUT HE WAS MARVELLOUSLY SELF CONTAINED AND IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO SAY WHAT WAS THE MATTER WITH HIM. BOTH OF THEM APPEARED ASTONISHED AT SEEING ONE WHO WAS EVIDENTLY A STRANGER BUT THEY WERE TOO ILL TO COME UP TO ME AND FORM CONCLUSIONS CONCERNING ME. THESE TWO WERE FIRST CALLED OUT AND IN ABOUT A QUARTER OF AN HOUR I WAS MADE TO FOLLOW THEM WHICH I DID IN SOME FEAR AND WITH MUCH CURIOSITY. THE CHIEF MAGISTRATE WAS A VENERABLE LOOKING MAN WITH WHITE HAIR AND BEARD AND A FACE OF GREAT SAGACITY. HE LOOKED ME ALL OVER FOR ABOUT FIVE MINUTES LETTING HIS EYES WANDER FROM THE CROWN OF MY HEAD TO THE SOLES OF MY FEET UP AND DOWN AND DOWN AND UP NEITHER DID HIS MIND SEEM IN THE LEAST CLEARER WHEN HE HAD DONE LOOKING THAN WHEN HE BEGAN. HE AT LENGTH ASKED ME A SINGLE SHORT QUESTION WHICH I SUPPOSED MEANT WHO ARE YOU. THEY FELT MY PULSE THEY LOOKED AT MY TONGUE THEY LISTENED AT MY CHEST THEY FELT ALL MY MUSCLES AND AT THE END OF EACH OPERATION THEY LOOKED AT THE CHIEF AND NODDED AND SAID SOMETHING IN A TONE QUITE PLEASANT AS THOUGH I WERE ALL RIGHT. AS SOON AS IT WAS ENDED THEY PROCEEDED TO OVERHAUL MY SWAG AND THE CONTENTS OF MY POCKETS. THIS GAVE ME LITTLE UNEASINESS FOR I HAD NO MONEY WITH ME NOR ANYTHING WHICH THEY WERE AT ALL LIKELY TO WANT OR WHICH I CARED ABOUT LOSING. AT LEAST I FANCIED SO BUT I SOON FOUND MY MISTAKE. THEY GOT ON COMFORTABLY AT FIRST THOUGH THEY WERE MUCH PUZZLED WITH MY TOBACCO PIPE AND INSISTED ON SEEING ME USE IT. WHEN I HAD SHOWN THEM WHAT I DID WITH IT THEY WERE ASTONISHED BUT NOT DISPLEASED AND SEEMED TO LIKE THE SMELL. BUT BY AND BY THEY CAME TO MY WATCH WHICH I HAD HIDDEN AWAY IN THE INMOST POCKET THAT I HAD AND HAD FORGOTTEN WHEN THEY BEGAN THEIR SEARCH. THEY SEEMED CONCERNED AND UNEASY AS SOON AS THEY GOT HOLD OF IT. I REMEMBER THAT WHEN THEY FIRST FOUND IT I HAD THOUGHT OF PALEY AND HOW HE TELLS US THAT A SAVAGE ON SEEING A WATCH WOULD AT ONCE CONCLUDE THAT IT WAS DESIGNED. HE SPOKE TO ME SOLEMNLY AND STERNLY FOR TWO OR THREE MINUTES. THEN REFLECTING THAT THIS WAS OF NO USE HE CAUSED ME TO BE CONDUCTED THROUGH SEVERAL PASSAGES INTO A LARGE ROOM WHICH I AFTERWARDS FOUND WAS THE MUSEUM OF THE TOWN AND WHEREIN I BEHELD A SIGHT WHICH ASTONISHED ME MORE THAN ANYTHING THAT I HAD YET SEEN. IT WAS FILLED WITH CASES CONTAINING ALL MANNER OF CURIOSITIES SUCH AS SKELETONS STUFFED BIRDS AND ANIMALS CARVINGS IN STONE WHEREOF I SAW SEVERAL THAT WERE LIKE THOSE ON THE SADDLE ONLY SMALLER BUT THE GREATER PART OF THE ROOM WAS OCCUPIED BY BROKEN MACHINERY OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS. THE LARGER SPECIMENS HAD A CASE TO THEMSELVES AND TICKETS WITH WRITING ON THEM IN A CHARACTER WHICH I COULD NOT UNDERSTAND. THERE WERE FRAGMENTS OF STEAM ENGINES ALL BROKEN AND RUSTED AMONG THEM I SAW A CYLINDER AND PISTON A BROKEN FLY WHEEL AND PART OF A CRANK WHICH WAS LAID ON THE GROUND BY THEIR SIDE. AGAIN THERE WAS A VERY OLD CARRIAGE WHOSE WHEELS IN SPITE OF RUST AND DECAY I COULD SEE HAD BEEN DESIGNED ORIGINALLY FOR IRON RAILS. INDEED THERE WERE FRAGMENTS OF A GREAT MANY OF OUR OWN MOST ADVANCED INVENTIONS BUT THEY SEEMED ALL TO BE SEVERAL HUNDRED YEARS OLD AND TO BE PLACED WHERE THEY WERE NOT FOR INSTRUCTION BUT CURIOSITY. AS I SAID BEFORE ALL WERE MARRED AND BROKEN. WE PASSED MANY CASES AND AT LAST CAME TO ONE IN WHICH THERE WERE SEVERAL CLOCKS AND TWO OR THREE OLD WATCHES. HERE THE MAGISTRATE STOPPED AND OPENING THE CASE BEGAN COMPARING MY WATCH WITH THE OTHERS. THE DESIGN WAS DIFFERENT BUT THE THING WAS CLEARLY THE SAME. THIS HAD SOME EFFECT IN CALMING HIM

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+HE BEGAN PRESENTLY TO RELENT AND SPOKE TO ME IN A KINDER MANNER. I AFTERWARDS FOUND THAT IT WAS RECKONED A VERY GREAT MERIT TO HAVE FAIR HAIR THIS BEING A THING OF THE RAREST POSSIBLE OCCURRENCE AND GREATLY ADMIRED AND ENVIED IN ALL WHO WERE POSSESSED OF IT. HOWEVER THAT MIGHT BE MY WATCH WAS TAKEN FROM ME BUT OUR PEACE WAS MADE AND I WAS CONDUCTED BACK TO THE ROOM WHERE I HAD BEEN EXAMINED. THE MAGISTRATE THEN MADE ME ANOTHER SPEECH WHEREON I WAS TAKEN TO A BUILDING HARD BY WHICH I SOON DISCOVERED TO BE THE COMMON PRISON OF THE TOWN BUT IN WHICH AN APARTMENT WAS ASSIGNED ME SEPARATE FROM THE OTHER PRISONERS. THERE WAS ANOTHER DOOR WHICH OPENED ON TO A BALCONY WITH A FLIGHT OF STEPS DESCENDING INTO A WALLED GARDEN OF SOME SIZE

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+THAT WAS THE ADVERTISEMENT IT HAD ITS POINTS. I WAS NOT SURE WHAT IN THIS CASE AN OLD FASHIONED CHRISTMAS MIGHT HAPPEN TO MEAN. I IMAGINE THERE WERE SEVERAL KINDS OF OLD FASHIONED CHRISTMASES BUT IT COULD HARDLY BE WORSE THAN A CHOP IN MY CHAMBERS OR HORROR OF HORRORS AT THE CLUB OR MY COUSIN LUCY'S NOTION OF WHAT SHE CALLS THE FESTIVE SEASON. FESTIVE YES. SO I WROTE TO THE ADVERTISER. THE REPLY WAS WRITTEN IN A SPRAWLING FEMININE HAND IT WAS A LITTLE VAGUE. IT APPEARED THAT THE TERMS WOULD BE FIVE GUINEAS BUT THERE WAS NO MENTION OF THE LENGTH OF TIME WHICH THAT FEE WOULD COVER. I MIGHT ARRIVE IT SEEMED ON CHRISTMAS EVE BUT THERE WAS NO HINT AS TO WHEN I WAS TO GO IF EVER. THE WHOLE THING WAS A TRIFLE ODD. THERE WAS NOTHING SAID ABOUT THE SORT OF ACCOMMODATION WHICH WOULD BE PROVIDED NOTHING ABOUT THE KIND OF ESTABLISHMENT WHICH WAS MAINTAINED OR THE TABLE WHICH WAS KEPT. THE LETTER WAS SIGNED MADGE WILSON. NOW IT IS A REMARKABLE THING THAT I HAVE ALWAYS HAD AN EXTRAORDINARY PREDILECTION FOR THE NAME MADGE I DO NOT KNOW WHY. I HAVE NEVER KNOWN A MADGE AND YET FROM MY BOYHOOD UPWARD I HAVE DESIRED TO MEET ONE. HERE WAS AN OPPORTUNITY OFFERED. SHE WAS APPARENTLY THE CAREWORN MOTHER OF A LIVELY FAMILY. UNDER SUCH CIRCUMSTANCES SHE WAS HARDLY LIKELY TO BE LIVELY HERSELF BUT HER NAME WAS MADGE AND IT WAS THE ACCIDENT OF HER CHRISTIAN NAME WHICH DECIDED ME TO GO. I HAD NO ILLUSIONS. I DID NOT EXPECT A PRINCELY ENTERTAINMENT. STILL I FELT THAT IT COULD HARDLY BE WORSE THAN A CHOP OR COUSIN LUCY THE SUBJECTS OF HER CONVERSATION I NEVER CARED ABOUT WHEN THEY WERE ALIVE AND I CERTAINLY DO NOT WANT TO TALK ABOUT THEM NOW THEY ARE DEAD. AS FOR THE PILLS AND DROPS WITH WHICH HER HUSBAND DOSES HIMSELF BETWEEN THE COURSES IT MAKES ME ILL EVEN TO THINK OF THEM. ON CHRISTMAS EVE THE WEATHER WAS ABOMINABLE. ALL NIGHT IT HAD BEEN BLOWING AND RAINING. IN THE MORNING IT BEGAN TO FREEZE. BY THE TIME THE STREETS WERE LIKE SO MANY SKATING RINKS IT COMMENCED TO SNOW. AND IT KEPT ON SNOWING THAT TURNED OUT TO BE QUITE A RECORD IN THE WAY OF SNOW STORMS. HARDLY THE SORT OF WEATHER TO START FOR AN UNKNOWN DESTINATION IN THE HEART OF THE COUNTRY BUT AT THE LAST MOMENT I DID NOT LIKE TO BACK OUT I SAID I WOULD GO AND I MEANT TO GO. I HAD BEEN IDIOT ENOUGH TO LOAD MYSELF WITH A LOT OF CHRISTMAS PRESENTS WITHOUT THE FAINTEST NOTION WHY. I HAD NOT GIVEN A CHRISTMAS PRESENT FOR YEARS THERE HAD BEEN NO ONE TO GIVE THEM TO. LUCY CANNOT BEAR SUCH TRIFLING AND HER HUSBAND'S ONLY NOTION OF A PRESENT AT ANY TIME WAS A GALLON JAR OF SOMEBODY'S STOMACH STIRRER. I AM NO DEALER IN POISONS. I KNEW NOTHING OF THE PEOPLE I WAS GOING TO. THE YOUNGEST MEMBER OF THE FAMILY MIGHT BE TWENTY OR THE OLDEST TEN. STILL IF YOU HAVE NOT TRIED YOUR HAND AT THAT KIND OF THING FOR EVER SO LONG THE MERE ACT OF PURCHASING IS A PLEASURE THAT IS A FACT. I HAD NEVER ENJOYED SHOPPING SO MUCH SINCE I WAS A BOY. I FELT QUITE LIVELY MYSELF AS I MINGLED WITH THE CHRISTMAS CROWD LOOKING FOR THINGS WHICH MIGHT NOT TURN OUT TO BE ABSOLUTELY PREPOSTEROUS. I EVEN BOUGHT SOMETHING FOR MADGE I MEAN MISSUS WILSON. I HOPED TO GOODNESS THAT HE WOULD NOT PROVE TO BE A HYPOCHONDRIAC LIKE LUCY'S HUSBAND I WOULD NOT GIVE HIM PILLS. WHAT THE LIVELY FAMILY WOULD THINK OF A PERFECT STRANGER ARRIVING BURDENED WITH RUBBISH AS IF HE HAD KNOWN THEM ALL THEIR LIVES I DID NOT DARE TO THINK. NO DOUBT THEY WOULD SET HIM DOWN AS A LUNATIC RIGHT AWAY. IT WAS A HORRIBLE JOURNEY. THE TRAINS WERE LATE AND OF COURSE OVERCROWDED THERE WAS ENOUGH LUGGAGE IN OUR COMPARTMENT TO HAVE FILLED IT AND STILL THERE WAS ONE MORE PASSENGER THAN THERE OUGHT TO HAVE BEEN AN ILL CONDITIONED OLD FELLOW WHO WANTED MY HAT BOX PUT INTO THE VAN BECAUSE IT HAPPENED TO TUMBLE OFF THE RACK ON TO HIS HEAD. I POINTED OUT TO HIM THAT THE RACK WAS SPECIALLY CONSTRUCTED FOR LIGHT LUGGAGE THAT A HAT BOX WAS LIGHT LUGGAGE AND THAT IF THE TRAIN JOLTED HE OUGHT TO BLAME THE COMPANY NOT ME

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+HE WAS IMPERVIOUS TO REASON. HIS WRANGLING AND JANGLING SO UPSET ME THAT I WENT PAST THE STATION AT WHICH I OUGHT TO HAVE CHANGED. THEN I HAD TO WAIT THREE QUARTERS OF AN HOUR FOR A TRAIN TO TAKE ME BACK AGAIN ONLY TO FIND THAT I HAD MISSED THE ONE I INTENDED TO CATCH. IT IS SOME SATISFACTION FOR ME TO BE ABLE TO REFLECT THAT I MADE IT WARM FOR THE OFFICIALS HOWEVER COLD I MIGHT HAVE BEEN MYSELF. WHEN THE TRAIN DID START SOME FORTY MINUTES AFTER SCHEDULED TIME IT JOLTED ALONG IN A LABORIOUS FASHION AT THE RATE OF ABOUT SIX MILES AN HOUR STOPPING AT EVERY ROADSIDE HOVEL. I COUNTED SEVEN IN A DISTANCE I AM CONVINCED OF LESS THAN TWENTY MILES. WHEN AT LAST I REACHED CROFTON MY JOURNEY'S END IT TURNED OUT THAT THE STATION STAFF CONSISTED OF A HALF WITTED INDIVIDUAL WHO WAS STATIONMASTER PORTER AND CLERK COMBINED AND A HULKING LAD WHO DID WHATEVER ELSE THERE WAS TO DO. NO ONE HAD COME TO MEET ME THE VILLAGE WAS ABOUT HALF A MILE AND HANGAR DENE THE HOUSE FOR WHICH MY STEPS WERE BENT ABOUT FOUR MILES BY THE ROAD HOW FAR IT WAS ACROSS PLOUGHED FIELDS MY INFORMANT DID NOT MENTION. THERE WAS A TRAP AT THE BOY AND BLUNDERBUSS BUT THAT REQUIRED FETCHING. FINALLY THE HULKING LAD WAS DISPATCHED. IT TOOK HIM SOME TIME CONSIDERING THE DISTANCE WAS ONLY ABOUT HALF A MILE. WHEN THE TRAP DID APPEAR IT LOOKED TO ME UNCOMMONLY LIKE AN OPEN SPRING CART. IN IT I WAS DEPOSITED WITH MY LUGGAGE. THE SNOW WAS STILL DESCENDING IN WHIRLING CLOUDS. NEVER SHALL I FORGET THE DRIVE IN THAT MISERABLE CART THROUGH THE STORM AND THOSE PITCH BLACK COUNTRY LANES. BE YOU GOING TO STOP WITH THEY WILSONS I AM AH. IT BE ABOUT TIME AS SOMEONE WERE TO STAY WITH THEM AS WERE A BIT CAPABLE LIKE. I DID NOT KNOW WHAT HE MEANT. I DID NOT ASK I WAS BEYOND IT. I WAS CHILLED TO THE BONE WET TIRED HUNGRY. I HAD LONG BEEN WISHING THAT AN OLD FASHIONED CHRISTMAS HAD BEEN COMPLETELY EXTINCT BEFORE I HAD THOUGHT OF ADVENTURING IN QUEST OF ONE. BETTER COUSIN LUCY'S NOTION OF THE FESTIVE SEASON. WE PASSED THROUGH A GATE WHICH I HAD TO GET DOWN TO OPEN ALONG SOME SORT OF AVENUE. SUDDENLY THE CART PULLED UP. HERE WE BE THAT MIGHT BE SO. IT WAS A PITY HE DID NOT ADD WHERE HERE WAS. THERE WAS A GREAT SHADOW WHICH POSSIBLY DID DUTY FOR A HOUSE BUT IF SO THERE WAS NOT A LIGHT IN ANY OF THE WINDOWS AND THERE WAS NOTHING VISIBLE IN THE SHAPE OF A DOOR. THERE BE THE DOOR IN FRONT OF YOU YOU GO UP THREE STEPS IF YOU CAN FIND EM. THERE'S A KNOCKER IF NONE OF EM HAVEN'T TWISTED IT OFF. IF THEY HAVE THERE'S A BELL ON YOUR RIGHT IF IT ISN'T BROKEN. THERE APPEARED TO BE NO KNOCKER THOUGH WHETHER IT HAD BEEN TWISTED OFF WAS MORE THAN I COULD SAY. I HEARD IT TINKLE IN THE DISTANCE. NO ANSWER THOUGH I ALLOWED A MORE THAN DECENT INTERVAL. BETTER RING AGAIN SUGGESTED THE DRIVER HARD. MAYBE THEY'RE UP TO SOME OF THEIR GAMES AND WANTS ROUSING. WAS THERE A CHUCKLE IN THE FELLOW'S VOICE. I RANG AGAIN AND AGAIN WITH ALL THE FORCE I COULD. THE BELL REVERBERATED THROUGH WHAT SEEMED LIKE AN EMPTY HOUSE. IS THERE NO ONE IN THE PLACE. THEY'RE THERE RIGHT ENOUGH WHERE'S ANOTHER THING. MAYBE ON THE ROOF OR IN THE CELLAR. I SOUNDED ANOTHER PEAL. PRESENTLY FEET WERE HEARD ADVANCING ALONG THE PASSAGE SEVERAL PAIRS IT SEEMED AND A LIGHT GLEAMED THROUGH THE WINDOW OVER THE DOOR. A VOICE INQUIRED WHO'S THERE. MISTER CHRISTOPHER FROM LONDON. THE INFORMATION WAS GREETED WITH WHAT SOUNDED UNCOMMONLY LIKE A CHORUS OF LAUGHTER. THERE WAS A RUSH OF RETREATING FEET AN EXPOSTULATING VOICE THEN DARKNESS AGAIN AND SILENCE. WHO LIVES HERE ARE THE PEOPLE MAD. WELL THEREABOUTS

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+ONCE MORE I SUSPECTED THE DRIVER OF A CHUCKLE MY TEMPER WAS RISING. I HAD NOT COME ALL THAT WAY AND SUBJECTED MYSELF TO SO MUCH DISCOMFORT TO BE PLAYED TRICKS WITH. I TOLLED THE BELL AGAIN. AGAIN A LIGHT GLEAMED THROUGH THE PANE. AFTER A VAST AMOUNT OF UNFASTENING THE DOOR WAS OPENED AND ON THE THRESHOLD THERE STOOD A GIRL WITH A LIGHTED CANDLE IN HER HAND. THE STORM RUSHED IN SHE PUT UP HER HAND TO SHIELD THE LIGHT FROM DANGER. CAN I SEE MISSUS WILSON I'M EXPECTED. I'M MISTER CHRISTOPHER FROM LONDON. OH THAT WAS ALL SHE SAID. I LOOKED AT HER SHE AT ME. THE DRIVER'S VOICE CAME FROM THE BACKGROUND I DROVE HIM OVER FROM THE STATION MISS THERE BE A LOT OF LUGGAGE. HE DO SAY HE'S COME TO STAY WITH YOU IS THAT YOU TIDY. I'M AFRAID I CAN OFFER YOU NOTHING TO DRINK. WE'VE LOST THE KEY OF THE CELLAR AND THERE'S NOTHING OUT EXCEPT WATER AND I DON'T THINK YOU'D CARE FOR THAT. I CAN'T SAY RIGHTLY AS HOW I SHOULD MISS. NEXT TIME WILL DO BE IT ALL RIGHT. THE GIRL CONTINUED TO REGARD ME. PERHAPS YOU HAD BETTER COME INSIDE I THINK I HAD. I WENT INSIDE IT WAS TIME. HAVE YOU ANY LUGGAGE I ADMITTED THAT I HAD. PERHAPS IT HAD BETTER BE BROUGHT IN PERHAPS IT HAD. DO YOU THINK THAT YOU COULD MANAGE TIDY

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+I SAID IT MEANT NOTHING NOTHING ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. ONLY I FOUND IT DIFFICULT TO EXPLAIN AND WHEN I DID EXPLAIN SHE WOULD NOT UNDERSTAND. NOT THAT I HAVE A WORD TO SAY AGAINST MARY ANN EXCEPT THAT I NEVER KNEW A GIRL WITH QUITE SO MANY RELATIONS. TO BEGIN WITH SHE HAD SIX BROTHERS AND FIVE SISTERS AND SHE IS THE ELDEST OF THE BATCH AND THERE'S NOT ONE OF THE BROTHERS WHOM I FEEL DRAWN TO. HER FATHER IS A MOST REMARKABLE PERSON TO SAY THE LEAST. AFTER THEY HAD ARRANGED BETWEEN THEM THAT I WAS ENGAGED TO MARY ANN I WAS REALLY NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE A VOICE IN THE MATTER HER FATHER REMARKED WITH A POINTED AIR WHICH I CANNOT BUT THINK UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES WAS UNUSUAL THAT HE THOUGHT IT WAS ABOUT TIME THAT I DID COME TO THE SCRATCH AND THAT IF I HAD KEPT ON DILLY DALLYING MUCH LONGER HE WOULD HAVE HAD A WORD TO SAY TO ME OF A KIND. I DO NOT KNOW WHAT HE MEANT AND WOULD RATHER NOT ATTEMPT TO IMAGINE. BUT IT IS QUITE PLAIN TO ME THAT ALL THE ARRANGEMENTS FOR MY WEDDING ARE GOING TO BE MADE BY THE SNELLINGS. I DO NOT KNOW WHEN IT IS GOING TO BE BUT IT WILL BE EITHER NEXT WEEK OR THE WEEK AFTER CERTAINLY AT THE EARLIEST POSSIBLE MOMENT AND I SHOULDN'T BE AT ALL SURPRISED TO LEARN THAT ALL MARY ANN'S THINGS HAD BEEN ALREADY BOUGHT AND PERHAPS SOME OF THEM MARKED. WE ARE TO LIVE IN A HOUSE WHICH BELONGS TO A COUSIN OF MISTER SNELLING IT IS TO BE FURNISHED BY A BROTHER OF MISSUS SNELLING THE HOUSE LINEN IS TO BE SUPPLIED BY THE FATHER OF THE YOUNG MAN TO WHOM JANE MATILDA IS ENGAGED AND THE IRONMONGERY BY THE UNCLE TO WHOM GEORGE FREDERIC IS APPRENTICED. ALL APPARENTLY THAT IS LEFT FOR ME TO DO IS TO PAY FOR EVERYTHING. IT IS MOST DELIGHTFUL. IT MIGHT JUST AS WELL BE SOME ONE ELSE'S WEDDING SO UNIMPORTANT IS THE PART WHICH I AM SET TO PLAY IN IT. THE MERE SUGGESTION IS ABSURD. THE ALTERATION WHICH HAS TAKEN PLACE IN THEIR DEMEANOUR SINCE MY ACCIDENT WITH MARY ANN IS THEREFORE ALL THE MORE AMAZING. FOR INSTANCE LOOK AT THEIR BEHAVIOUR IN THE MATTER OF THE RING. THE ACCIDENT IN QUESTION OCCURRED UPON THE SUNDAY EVENING. I HAD BEEN WITH MARY ANN TO CHURCH AND HAD SEEN HER HOME AND HAD HAD A LITTLE SUPPER AND IT WAS AFTER SUPPER THAT IT HAPPENED. I DID NOT GO AND PURCHASE THE ENGAGEMENT RING THE FIRST THING ON THE MONDAY MORNING I OWN IT CERTAINLY NOT. NOR DID I TAKE ANY STEPS IN THAT DIRECTION DURING THE WHOLE OF THAT WEEK I WAS NOT PRESSED FOR TIME. BESIDES I WAS TURNING THINGS OVER IN MY MIND BUT THAT WAS NO REASON WHY THE MONDAY WEEK FOLLOWING FOUR OF HER BROTHERS SHOULD HAVE CALLED ON ME ON THEIR WAY TO THE OFFICE WHEN I WAS SCARCELY OUT OF BED AND ACTUALLY BREAKFASTING AND ASSAILED ME IN THE WAY IN WHICH THEY DID. THERE WAS WILLIAM HENRY JOHN FRANK FERDINAND AUGUSTUS AND STEPHEN ARTHUR. EACH OF THEM TWICE MY SIZE AND ALL OF THEM FRIGHTFULLY IGNORANT AND WHOLLY REGARDLESS OF THE SENSITIVE LITTLE POINTS OF THOSE WITH WHOM THEY CAME IN CONTACT. THERE IS NO CIRCUMLOCUTION ABOUT THEM. THEY GO STRAIGHT AT WHAT THEY WANT AND WERE SCARCELY INSIDE MY DOOR BEFORE THEY BLURTED OUT THE PURPORT OF THEIR COMING. IT WAS FREDERICK AUGUSTUS IF THE THING IS POSSIBLE HE IS IF ANYTHING MORE DIRECT EVEN THAN THE REST OF HIS FAMILY. LOOK HERE WHITING HOW ABOUT MARY ANN'S RING. THE GIRL IS FRETTING BUT YOU DON'T SEEM TO NOTICE IT. AND AS YOU DON'T APPEAR TO KNOW WHAT IS THE PROPER THING TO DO IN A CASE OF THIS KIND AND DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT THE RING OUGHT TO BE BOUGHT STRAIGHT AWAY WE'VE BOUGHT IT FOR YOU. I GASPED POSITIVELY GASPED. AM I TO UNDERSTAND THAT YOU'VE PURCHASED MY ENGAGEMENT RING. THAT'S IT ON YOUR ACCOUNT. FROM A COUSIN OF OURS WHO'S IN THAT LINE. I NEVER SAW PEOPLE LIKE THE SNELLINGS FOR POSSESSING RELATIVES IN ALL SORTS OF LINES

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+NO MATTER WHAT YOU WANT OR DO NOT WANT AND NEVER WILL WANT THEY ARE SURE TO HAVE SOME RELATIVE WHO HAS DEALT IN IT HIS OR HER WHOLE LIFE LONG. THEY PRODUCED THE RING AND TOLD ME WHAT I HAD TO PAY FOR IT A HANDSOME PRICE IT WAS. I WAS PERSUADED THAT SOMEBODY BESIDES THAT COUSIN GOT A PROFIT OUT OF MARY ANN'S ENGAGEMENT RING BUT I HANDED OVER THE AMOUNT. I DID NOT WANT ANY UNPLEASANTNESS AND I AM QUITE SURE THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN UNPLEASANTNESS HAD I DEMURRED. LATER IN THE DAY I TOOK IT WITH ME WHEN I WENT TO CALL ON MARY ANN. SHE APPEARED TO BE SURPRISED ALMOST INTO SPEECHLESSNESS WHEN I PRESENTED IT TO HER. THE MOMENTS WHEN I AM ALONE WITH MARY ANN ARE ALLEVIATIONS FOR THOSE MORE FREQUENT MOMENTS WHEN I AM NOT ALONE WITH MARY ANN. STILL I NOTICED THAT THE RING FITTED HER PERFECTLY AND I COULD NOT BUT WONDER IF SHE HAD TRIED IT ON BEFORE. IT IS FROM HER ACTION IN THAT MATTER THAT MY SUSPICION SPRINGS. THE WOMAN'S NAME IS BRADY. THERE SHE OWNS A COTTAGE OR IT MAY BE A PIGSTYE FOR ALL I KNOW. WHEN SHE HEARD OF MY ENGAGEMENT WITH MARY ANN SHE WROTE AND SUGGESTED THAT WE SHOULD SPEND OUR HONEYMOON IN HER COTTAGE OR PIGSTYE AND THAT I SHOULD PAY HER RENT FOR IT. THE MATTER WAS TALKED ABOUT AT DINNER. MARY ANN WAS SILENT FOR SOME TIME THEN SHE QUIETLY REMARKED. DON'T TROUBLE YOURSELVES TO DISCUSS AUNT BRADY'S PROPOSAL. I SHALL DO NOTHING OF THE KIND. THIS OBSERVATION WAS FOLLOWED BY PERFECT SILENCE. THE MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY LOOKED AT ONE ANOTHER. MARY ANN BEAMED AT ME AND SHE SAID YOU DEAR OLD MAN. PRESENTLY SHE CONTINUED. DO YOU KNOW THAT IN MARRYING ME YOU ARE DOING THE BEST THING FOR YOURSELF THAT YOU EVER DID IN ALL YOUR LIFE. I ENDEAVOURED TO EXPLAIN TO HER THAT I FELT SURE OF IT BUT I FEAR THAT MY EXPLANATION WAS A LITTLE STUMBLING. BUT SHE WENT ON WITH THE MOST PERFECT FLUENCY. THERE WERE NO SIGNS OF FALTERING ABOUT HER FLOW OF LANGUAGE. YOU WANT SOMEONE WHO CAN LOOK AFTER YOU AND YOU COULD NOT BY ANY CHANCE HAVE CHOSEN A PERSON WHO WILL LOOK AFTER YOU BETTER THAN I SHALL. SUCH AN ASSURANCE WAS MOST SATISFACTORY. WE HAD A LONG CONFIDENTIAL CHAT ON MATTERS OF BUSINESS. I FOUND THAT AS A WOMAN OF BUSINESS SHE WAS BEYOND ALL MY EXPECTATIONS. I TOLD HER EXACTLY WHAT MY INCOME WAS AND THE SOURCE FROM WHICH IT CAME AND ALL ABOUT IT. SHE DREW UP A PLAN ON WHICH WE WERE TO LAY IT OUT. IT WAS AN ADMIRABLE PLAN. I HAD NEVER HAD ONE BUT I SAW CLEARLY THAT IN THAT WAY THE MONEY WOULD GO TWICE AS FAR. IT TURNED OUT THAT SHE HAD A LITTLE MONEY OF HER OWN ABOUT A HUNDRED AND THIRTY POUNDS A YEAR. AND OF COURSE I HAD MY EXPECTATIONS AND SHE HAD HERS. IT WAS PLAIN THAT TOGETHER WE SHOULD MANAGE MOST COMFORTABLY DELIGHTFULLY IN FACT. IT WAS WONDERFUL TO LISTEN TO HER REALLY WONDERFUL. I SHALL MAKE PAPA GIVE ME FIVE HUNDRED POUNDS AT LEAST. A BIRD IN THE HAND IS WORTH TWO IN A BUSH' AND IT WILL BE SOMETHING TO HAVE BY US. I KNOW WHAT MAMMA CAN AFFORD TO GIVE AND I WILL SEE SHE GIVES IT. AND I WILL SEE THAT THERE IS NO SHIRKING ABOUT THE BOYS OR ABOUT THE GIRLS EITHER. I WILL TAKE CARE THAT MY RELATIONS DO THEIR DUTY. I HAVE DRAWN UP A LIST OF ALL THE PEOPLE WHO OUGHT TO GIVE US A PRESENT AND I SHALL TELL THEM WHAT THEY OUGHT TO GIVE IT WON'T BE MY FAULT IF I DON'T GET IT. OF COURSE THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE WITH WHOM YOU CAN'T BE PERFECTLY PLAIN BUT I SHALL BE AS PLAIN AS I CAN THERE'S A WAY AND A MANNER OF DOING THAT KIND OF THING. I HAVE NO INTENTION OF BEING PRESENTED WITH AN ENDLESS COLLECTION OF DUPLICATES OR A LOT OF USELESS RUBBISH WHICH I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH

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+IF YOU TAKE MY ADVICE YOU WILL FOLLOW IN MY FOOTSTEPS I ENDEAVOURED TO. BUT I AM BOUND TO ADMIT THAT SO FAR MY SUCCESS HAS BEEN AS NOTHING COMPARED WITH HERS. HERS HAS BEEN PRODIGIOUS. IT IS CERTAIN THAT WE HAVE A LARGE COLLECTION OF REALLY VALUABLE PROPERTY ABOUT THE HOUSE THE WEDDING PRESENTS TO MARY ANN. SHE HAS A KNACK OF GETTING PEOPLE TO DO WHAT SHE WISHES AND TO GIVE HER WHAT SHE WANTS WHICH IS A LITTLE SHORT OF MIRACULOUS. A SINGULAR FEATURE ABOUT THE SITUATION IS THAT PEOPLE ARE ACTUALLY BEGINNING TO PITY ME TO SYMPATHISE WITH ME FOR BEING ABOUT TO MARRY MARY ANN. I NOTICE THAT THEY ARE GENERALLY PERSONS WHO HAVE ALREADY TENDERED THEIR OFFERINGS. THE FACT OF HAVING GIVEN MARY ANN A WEDDING PRESENT SEEMS TO FILL THEM WITH A FEELING OF RANCOROUS ACIDITY WHICH TO ME IS INEXPLICABLE. MY BELIEF IS THAT THEY HAVE BEEN INDUCED TO SPEND AT LEAST TWICE AS MUCH AS THEY INTENDED AND THAT THEY RESENT IT. SUCH IS THE SELFISHNESS OF HUMAN NATURE. BUT WHY ON THAT ACCOUNT THEY SHOULD PITY ME I ALTOGETHER FAIL TO UNDERSTAND. WE HAVE ALL BEEN GIVING MARY ANN PRESENTS AND I SUPPOSE YOU MISTER WHITING HAVE BEEN GIVING HER SOMETHING TOO. THAT WAS WHAT MISSUS MACPHERSON SAID TO ME ONLY THE OTHER DAY. I HAVE GIVEN MARY ANN TWO OR THREE TRIFLES AND I SAID SO. AND WHAT INQUIRED MISSUS MACPHERSON HAS MARY ANN GIVEN YOU HER LOVE. SOMEONE SNIGGERED. I CANNOT PRETEND TO EXPLAIN WHY EXCEPT ON THE SUPPOSITION THAT ROMANCE IS DEAD AT LEAST IN THAT CIRCLE OF SOCIETY IN WHICH THE SNELLINGS MOVE. BUT THAT IS NOT THE ONLY SOCIETY THE WORLD CONTAINS. AS A MATTER OF FACT MARY ANN HAS GIVEN ME A PAIR OF SLIPPERS WORKED BY HER OWN HANDS. IT IS TRUE THAT THEY ARE A TRIFLE LARGE FOR ME AND THAT I SHALL NEVER BE ABLE TO KEEP THEM ON MY FEET EXCEPT WHEN I AM SITTING STILL. BUT MARY ANN DOES NOT SEEM TO THINK THAT THAT MATTERS SO WHY SHOULD I. HER YOUNGEST SISTER CLARA LOUISA HAS QUITE GRATUITOUSLY INFORMED ME THAT SHE HAS HAD THEM BY HER FOR SOME CONSIDERABLE TIME AND THAT NOT TO PUT TOO FINE A POINT ON IT THEY WERE ORIGINALLY DESIGNED FOR ANOTHER INDIVIDUAL ALTOGETHER A MISTER PILBEAM. BUT EVEN SUPPOSING THAT WHAT CLARA LOUISA SAYS IS TRUE OF WHICH I HAVE NO EVIDENCE I HAVE SURELY CAUSE TO CONGRATULATE MYSELF ON STANDING LITERALLY IN MISTER PILBEAM'S SHOES EVEN IF THEY ARE A LITTLE SPACIOUS. ON THE WHOLE I DO NOT KNOW THAT I REGRET THAT ACCIDENT I HAD WITH MARY ANN. IT IS TRUE THAT THERE ARE TIMES WHEN I AM A LITTLE DISPOSED TO WISH THAT SHE WERE NOT QUITE SO GOOD A MANAGER NOW AND THEN EVERY MAN LIKES TO CALL HIS SOUL HIS OWN. ON THE OTHER HAND SHE IS WELL QUALIFIED TO PROTECT ME FROM THE REST OF THE FAMILY SHE WILL KEEP THEM AT BAY. IF SHE HAD BEEN LIKE ME THEY WOULD HAVE RENT US LIMB FROM LIMB. AS IT IS UNLESS I AM MISTAKEN SOME OF THE RENDING WILL BE ON OUR SIDE AND THEY KNOW IT. P S THE CARDS ARE OUT FOR THE WEDDING. IT IS TO TAKE PLACE ON TUESDAY FORTNIGHT. WE ARE GOING FOR OUR HONEYMOON TO ITALY AND THE SOUTH OF FRANCE. A SECOND COUSIN OF MARY ANN'S IS IN THE COOK'S TOURS LINE. HE HAS GIVEN US FREE PASSES ALL THE WAY TO THE END OF OUR JOURNEY AND ALL THE WAY BACK AGAIN AND COUPONS FOR FREE BOARD AND LODGING AT THE HOTEL IT'S A WEDDING PRESENT. SO THAT AS MARY ANN SAYS OUR HONEYMOON NEED COST US PRACTICALLY NOTHING. BESIDES WHICH WE CAN ALWAYS SELL THE COUPONS AND RAILWAY PASSES WHICH WE DON'T USE

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+HE WAS YOUNG NO SPEAR HAD TOUCHED HIM NO POISON LURKED IN HIS WINE. BUT HIS VEINS STOOD OUT LIKE BLUE CORDS ON HIS TEMPLES AND HIS EYES DILATED WITH THE NEARNESS OF DEATH. WITH HER WAS THE WAZAM A NOBLE GROWN OLD IN THE ROYAL COURT. THE PRIESTS AND THEIR CLAMOR SHE EXCLAIMED. THEY ARE NO WISER THAN THE LEECHES WHO ARE HELPLESS. HE IS DYING NOW AND I STAND HERE HELPLESS WHO WOULD BURN THE WHOLE CITY AND SPILL THE BLOOD OF THOUSANDS TO SAVE HIM. THIS POISON. I TELL YOU IT IS NOT POISON SHE CRIED. SINCE HIS BIRTH HE HAS BEEN GUARDED SO CLOSELY THAT THE CLEVEREST POISONERS OF THE EAST COULD NOT REACH HIM. FIVE SKULLS BLEACHING ON THE TOWER OF THE KITES CAN TESTIFY TO ATTEMPTS WHICH WERE MADE AND WHICH FAILED. AS YOU WELL KNOW THERE ARE TEN MEN AND TEN WOMEN WHOSE SOLE DUTY IS TO TASTE HIS FOOD AND WINE AND FIFTY ARMED WARRIORS GUARD HIS CHAMBER AS THEY GUARD IT NOW. SHE CEASED AS THE KING SPOKE HIS LIVID LIPS DID NOT MOVE AND THERE WAS NO RECOGNITION IN HIS GLASSY EYES. BUT HIS VOICE ROSE IN AN EERY CALL INDISTINCT AND FAR AWAY AS IF CALLED TO HER FROM BEYOND VAST WIND BLOWN GULFS. YASMINA YASMINA. MY SISTER WHERE ARE YOU. I CAN NOT FIND YOU. ALL IS DARKNESS AND THE ROARING OF GREAT WINDS BROTHER. CRIED YASMINA CATCHING HIS LIMP HAND IN A CONVULSIVE GRASP. I AM HERE DO YOU NOT KNOW ME. HER VOICE DIED AT THE UTTER VACANCY OF HIS FACE. A LOW CONFUSED MOAN WANED FROM HIS MOUTH. THE SLAVE GIRLS AT THE FOOT OF THE DAIS WHIMPERED WITH FEAR AND YASMINA BEAT HER BREAST IN ANGUISH. IN ANOTHER PART OF THE CITY A MAN STOOD IN A LATTICED BALCONY OVERLOOKING A LONG STREET IN WHICH TORCHES TOSSED LURIDLY SMOKILY REVEALING UPTURNED DARK FACES AND THE WHITES OF GLEAMING EYES. A LONG DRAWN WAILING ROSE FROM THE MULTITUDE. THE MAN SHRUGGED HIS BROAD SHOULDERS AND TURNED BACK INTO THE ARABESQUE CHAMBER. HE WAS A TALL MAN COMPACTLY BUILT AND RICHLY CLAD. THE KING IS NOT YET DEAD BUT THE DIRGE IS SOUNDED HE SAID TO ANOTHER MAN WHO SAT CROSS LEGGED ON A MAT IN A CORNER. THIS MAN WAS CLAD IN A BROWN CAMEL HAIR ROBE AND SANDALS AND A GREEN TURBAN WAS ON HIS HEAD. HIS EXPRESSION WAS TRANQUIL HIS GAZE IMPERSONAL. THE PEOPLE KNOW HE WILL NEVER SEE ANOTHER DAWN THIS MAN ANSWERED. THE FIRST SPEAKER FAVORED HIM WITH A LONG SEARCHING STARE. WHAT I CAN NOT UNDERSTAND HE SAID IS WHY I HAVE HAD TO WAIT SO LONG FOR YOUR MASTERS TO STRIKE. IF THEY HAVE SLAIN THE KING NOW WHY COULD THEY NOT HAVE SLAIN HIM MONTHS AGO. EVEN THE ARTS YOU CALL SORCERY ARE GOVERNED BY COSMIC LAWS ANSWERED THE MAN IN THE GREEN TURBAN. THE STARS DIRECT THESE ACTIONS AS IN OTHER AFFAIRS. NOT EVEN MY MASTERS CAN ALTER THE STARS. NOT UNTIL THE HEAVENS WERE IN THE PROPER ORDER COULD THEY PERFORM THIS NECROMANCY. WITH A LONG STAINED FINGERNAIL HE MAPPED THE CONSTELLATIONS ON THE MARBLE TILED FLOOR. THE SLANT OF THE MOON PRESAGED EVIL FOR THE KING OF VENDHYA THE STARS ARE IN TURMOIL THE SERPENT IN THE HOUSE OF THE ELEPHANT. DURING SUCH JUXTAPOSITION THE INVISIBLE GUARDIANS ARE REMOVED FROM THE SPIRIT OF BHUNDA CHAND