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this place i remarked as we advance that an odd traveller would fall in upon the way so that before we had gone many miles farther the fatigue of the journey was much lessened by the society of the these were now collected into little groups of from three to a dozen each with the exception of myself and one or two othe... | 50 |
round shouldered with black twinkling eyes plump face rosy cheeks and nose twisted at the top in his character humour appeared to be the principle he was evidently an original and i am sure had the of turning the ludicrous side of every object towards him his eye would roll about from one person to another while his be... | 50 |
she retired from it this young creature went up and there knelt down but what a contrast to the calm unconscious and which went on at the moment through the whole room her prayer was short and had neither book nor beads but the of her bosom and her suppressed sobs sufficiently proclaimed her sincerity her petition inde... | 50 |
excitement all sensation arising from the influence of external whilst the heart is untouched and the mind in any worthy the majesty of god or the object of an immortal spirit as soon as we ascended the hill the whole scene was instantly before us a large lake surrounded by an of mountains bleak uncomfortable and deso... | 50 |
the pilgrim gets as far as the precisely that iii which school boys enter the walls of upon their i moved away from these upon the sharp stones with which tm island is keeping the chapel or thb dear pilgrim prison as it is called upon my right then turning i came round again with a to the spot from which i set out duri... | 50 |
pictures your your your candles your ashes your salt your water your charms your your your masses your penance your your your your your your your your floating funds of good works in this life to be sold out to the to relieve them from imaginary in the next you have your visionary and your lying visions your dreams and... | 50 |
the character of blessed priests with complete success these two gentlemen conducted themselves thus at a moment when there were if they believed it not less than two hundred whole and entire or at the very least a hundred and fifty of the world in a silver at their elbows when morning came the blessed light of the sun... | 50 |
m very you mentioned it said i bud you don t ow may be that i m five dear me is it possible you re under so many five well i replied i am ready under five but i ll lave it to yourself only when it s over may be ye u hear i me that ll ye thankful ye ever d me silver any way by this time i saw his drift but he really h... | 50 |
you here if you had not what would bear your expenses i had sir on setting out but my little boy was five days sick in and that the pilgrim took away with it what we had to carry us home and you expect me in short to furnish you with money to do that do you think my good man there are not in my own parish that have a b... | 50 |
to stand over you upon my word said i extending my feet one after another you have cut me up pretty well already i think but with the most provoking coolness is that sir the weapon of a christian is it the weapon of a christian vou whatever weapon it is you will soon the weight of it said he it over my head my good fat... | 50 |
since it is a venture at my the serious character of the of stories is a vol ii vi preface tion from my former attempts and i have received advice enough on that account to make me present them with some but because i have elsewhere it does not follow that i am for gravity of which any o vl is capable or proof against ... | 50 |
an of some peril she resolved by the assistance of filial duty to overcome this and to open her bosom to her father before he departed from her perhaps for ever i was present at the parting of the with his daughter which the subsequent event impressed too strongly on my memory to be ever forgotten it has been much disp... | 50 |
passage through their had given me no very favourable opinion of their habits or character and it was possible that the warlike and which i observed every where about me might be as much intended for the home security of a as for a precaution against their probable vicinity it was now too late lor me to my steps flight... | 50 |
lover and the after course of events proved that this conjecture was well founded there were grounds in these particulars for and alarm from t e nature of her attachment the and of the family must be of a very character what if my host himself should be secretly associated with some neighbouring of and under his occupa... | 50 |
she necessarily aware of the profession of its object he might have been brave generous in love at least honoured and honourable and the spanish tragedy compared with the wretches with whom her home associated her even as an angel of light would his fate else have crushed her with that eternal sorrow such were my ref... | 50 |
violence and have you the heart to resign me to such a horrible fate you have power or interest to save me let me not perish by i know not what i have a home far away let it not be made desolate let me return to my wife and to my young children and they shall daily bless thee at the foot of our i believe the necessit... | 50 |
to lead the way in the same deep silence a mutual and conscious seemed to keep us from speaking our way led through several dark narrow passages and through one or two small rooms which i lost no time in the accumulated which hung from all the angles of the the old dingy and the visible neglect of cleanliness gave them... | 50 |
the was to find its all the past except that horrible and distant part of it over which she had utterly again from her memory like words traced upon water the examination only lasted for a moment but it to convince me of this unwelcome result what then indeed could have been expected from the uncertain and of a i wonde... | 50 |
no recollection a spent ball on the struck me directly on the forehead and laid me insensible under foot amidst the dying and the dead when i recovered i found myself lying on a bed the same by a strange coincidence that i had already occupied but the faces around me though warlike were friendly my first eager inquiri... | 50 |
inquiries tended in no way to throw any light upon the fate of the in his progress through the had fallen in with a party of the provincial who were the country in pursuit of the bands that it and the capture of a wounded robber had furnished them with the particulars which led to their attack upon the inn the dying wr... | 50 |
ripe for heaven and may her bliss there be as endless and perfect as here it was troubled and fearfully hurried to its close the miracle of the holy cold meat in tbe cave in my younger days there was much talk of an old of great who lived in a rocky cave near he had a very reverend gray beard which reached down to his ... | 50 |
words you have heard it settled my brethren that the claims of our several are to be determined by to the cave now i know that our rivals will omit no that may show their house to i e the nearest wherefore not to be i am resolved to make a proper from our own i foresee notwithstanding that this measuring bout will lead... | 50 |
mistress and failing in that object by reason of her strict virtue he proposed to her but she him as a bad and brutal man which was his character let fall the blessing of her affection a young gentleman of small estate but good reputation in the province and be i g speedily married they lived together for three years v... | 50 |
fresh arguments the doctor replied alas he had already discuss ed the subject so often that his reasons were quite exhausted whereupon tlie flashing leaping quickly out of the the trembling hebrew plucked the dish towards him and with many struggles began to eat it cost him a thousand faces to swallow the first morsel ... | 50 |
he was no way moved by her appeal and the baker coming up and on the restoration of the loaf to which she made no answer but by her tears they began to drag her away between them and with as much violence as if she had been no such skeleton as she appeared by this time a crowd had assembled and beholding this and learn... | 50 |
on going nearer they discovered that it had a large wound on the left side and that it was then and breathing but was since dead they pointed as they said this to the body on the table where the blood was now beginning ta visibly through the linen cloth as for the of its being wounded or the author they could give no e... | 50 |
by any from the vigilance of her father almost forgave her that she was ready to obtain her by her hand on a first cousin to the in love with romance ft devil a certain gallant gentleman however who was named was so offended by the news that he would have slain the without any concern for the consequences to but the la... | 50 |
to bestow myself where that seat of love will not be wanting to my happiness as for the huge knight whom you have thought fit to select for my husband you will find him locked up in my closet for the manner of my departure i would not willingly have made you a party to your own disappointment but from your excessive vi... | 50 |
the two wept together for the space of many minutes in the mean time a domestic abruptly entered and exclaiming that the murderer of don was condemned and that he had seen him conducted to prison he delivered into the hands of his mistress a fragment of a letter which she read as follows most dear and injured lady be... | 50 |
head upon the matter which found means to remove by degrees taking care above all to caress the unconscious mare whenever they met and sometimes going half privately to converse with her in the stable at last being very much distressed by these proceedings he addressed as follows i am at my wit s end about this matter... | 50 |
humane spirits nevertheless that with a divine courage ventured into the very chambers of the sick and over their prostrate dies with the common enemy and amongst these was who led the way in such works of mercy till at last the stepped over his the story of own threshold and he was beckoned home by the ghastly finger ... | 50 |
him to unnatural action and first of all he away the pillows those ministers to harmless sleep but now unto death with which crushing the tender faces of his little ones he thus up their gentle before they can utter a cry men casting himself with horrid upon their bodies with this embrace he them till they are quite br... | 50 |
his and at last his dismissal the was taken from his finger which with a fresh jewel to console him for his disgrace after this event there being neither nor to amuse her the languid girl fell into a worse melancholy than before that quite disconcerted her parents after a consultation therefore between themselves they ... | 50 |
fortune toiling like so many abject turn in her wheel such a man is worse off than a poor for ah he has is at the momentary call of imperative chance or rather he is more wretched than a very beggar being with an appearance of wealth but as as if it turned like the money in the old story into leaves in our parent city ... | 50 |
the leaf alas poor says he thou hast been e too like me but yet not so thou but thy green leaves on the grateful earth which in another season will repay thee with sap and but those whom i have will not so much as lend to my living thou wilt thus regain all thy green summer wealth which i shall never do and besides th... | 50 |
husband at supper with a dish of after which she returned home and was first startled by the stern silence of who turned from her without a syllable her guilty heart immediately smote her and running up to her devilish she saw that it had been invaded but how much more was she shocked upon sight of the dreary and awful... | 50 |
i behold him here in this very spot nay here said she pressing her hands vehemently upon her bosom i pray thee do not this mock me for my life is so flown into thi hope that they must die together if you deceive me and only at the entrance of that doubt she burst into a flood of tears but bein assured that the news wa... | 50 |
had inflicted on his dear friend he cast himself therefore on the hard floor and would have dashed his tortured brains against the stones but for the struggles of the robber who hard hearted and savage as he had been by profession was yet touched with strange pity at the sight of so passionate a grief it settled upon h... | 50 |
cheerful influence of the genial sun then withdrawing a little way and against the dial she awaited the grateful change which she hoped to behold in the creature s looks whereas the tormented owl being dazzled and annoyed more than ever off again with many piteous efforts to the shady notwithstanding believing that thi... | 50 |
lived some centuries sooner when the customs recorded by the and were the common in her own times it was a novelty to see a young so over delighted as she was at the of her lovers to deeds of arms and as if he had been going only to with a lance at a holiday instead of the with the french in which he was engaged with h... | 50 |
match with yours and this my is made after the model of your own here is my too but before he could achieve the comparison his horse was staggering from the rush of the whose spear whether by accident or design was buried deep in the other s bosom the wounded man gave but one groan and fell backward and the horse of t... | 50 |
fall into the hands of the police they parted with mutual courtesy the gentleman returning home and with bis captive to the mountains where he bestowed him as a to his comrades desiring them to the him only for an enormous this sum was soon sent to their as agreed upon by his whereupon the was suffered to depart and he... | 50 |
she knew he was a discreet man and that he would depart before sunrise she hoped he might be lodged there that one night without the knowledge of she took him up therefore into the garret which contained nothing but a low sorry bed and a long stout rope the s w which had left there probably to tempt her to hang herself... | 50 |
widow than she had ever been as a wife as for what he had promised her faithfully kept his word sending her from time to time a portion of his gains so that with her old trade of and the property of she was maintained in comfort and never knew want all the rest of her days the two faithful lovers of our bark at length ... | 50 |
ship they were chased a long way out of their course into the straits of and the wind turning contrary increased towards night to a violent tempest in this extremity it required the tenderness of to encourage whose low spirited condition made her more fearfully alive to the horrors of the raging sea f which indeed roar... | 50 |
am with doubts i dare hardly to name but if fate did not mean to unite us in of it former cruelty the two of why should we be thus together where there are none besides as eternal a bar as was set up between us is now fixed between you and your husband nature herself by this hopeless separation you from all other ties ... | 50 |
trust and would to od that my life were a part of the submission i have your wife at the cost of your ten thousand and some perils besides for which if you owe me any thing i leave her my for i have nothing left me now but to die the merchant looking somewhat amazed at his discourse then him thus if the lady you speak... | 50 |
with her for some time at the palace which she was to exert her joint influence to convert the young lady to the roman catholic faith it was with many that contemplated the introduction of beautiful bride to his mother for he knew her nature notwithstanding with the fond imagination of a lover he hoped that the lovelin... | 50 |
rooms supplied the only clue for discovery of her destiny for in those days it was a common thing for the the to make a descent on the italian the distracted therefore went instantly on and required to be carried over to africa intending at all perils to his dear lady or partake of the same there happened to be a ship ... | 50 |
blood red cross their caps were of the same colours tall and pointed in shape somewhat like though not intended for that use and each of the wretches held in the left hand a lighted though this of the show was rather by the brightness of the sun certain walked by the side of the holding up the cross at every few paces ... | 50 |
with eyes turned upward and her mind absent and in a better place continued her secret prayers with much fortitude and devotion the dreadful which was made of three into one to the holy mystery being brought in readiness to the fire her to consider whether her tender body could endure such by the help of god she replie... | 50 |
relation of the former though at some degrees removed as she was thus lying in her chamber she heard the door open and came in but he was so little that he could not look upon the bed the lady asking who it was he answered and said my name is little and i am sent here by my father your who is called for he desires to k... | 50 |
his heart at last they came to a town where who never had any of his wit took care to hire a small house without any delay but his brethren were very much dismayed at so rash an act for they knew that there was not a coin amongst them all notwithstanding by several turns made shift to provide something every day to eat... | 50 |
done the work of a score of hands at the time appointed which was about noon the people came in a crowd as before to fetch away their every one striving to be first at the door in the mean time had the vessels heaped up behind him so as to be conveniently within reach whereupon opening the door and holding up one of th... | 50 |
their and these men falling into dispute with each other there arose a fresh uproar the therefore would fain have had them all thrust out of the place but the desired that the might have their way for a little longer not doubting that some fresh mirth would arise out of the accordingly before long the came forward with... | 50 |
stopped short and fixed his eyes on a certain on the right hand side of the way the gentlemen turning their heads in the same direction immediately beheld a young and beautiful woman in a very rich and fanciful dress and worthy indeed of the admiration of the monarch who with sheer delight stood as if rooted to the spo... | 50 |
both murmured and and ten in terms which drew from a cool rebuke for her want resignation to the will of god as years advanced however her dis i became even to herself and now that hope began to die away her heart gradually partook of the cold worldly spirit had upon the di of of her husband though but a which they hel... | 50 |
hi br ob a man is if god the safe it as i hope he will good ness vm i m poor and here s a family faith take care it s not sin you re by as you re but you know i m poor but i know you re no hut i m if god hasn t said it that your too much fixed upon the world be me it s on your knees you ought to be this same night the ... | 50 |
s to he had let them all he so thai they don t take too an mary moan you won t he forgotten he then passed out and did not appear for upward of an hour nor could any one of them tell where he had been well said honor after he had left the room we re now married near fourteen years and until this night i never see him s... | 50 |
wed sure he may if he likes but if he does he knows what s afore him not lie ever will i hope for it s a case it comes to it s a happy story for half the poor wives of the parish that you are in it said sure only be your tongue and taste this said the of her handing her a glass if you to go together in the name o go... | 50 |
had made on his heart as a manifest proof of much parental attachment he consequently loved his wealth through the medium of his sob and laid it down as a fixed principle that every act of on his part was merely one of prudence and had the love of a father and an consideration for his child s future welfare to justify ... | 50 |
on finding his heart at with it admitted his error and prayed to god that he might be enabled to overcome it it was therefore on the day subsequent to the of young for so had the child been called after his paternal grandfather that as a justification for his own conduct in ti e matter of the he disclosed to his wife w... | 50 |
him this the draws home and or houses until the are high he of it at a price which often for him a profit to one rd and occasionally one half above the sum lent upon which in the time interest is for instance if the accommodation be twenty pounds property to that amount at a is brought home by the this perhaps for thir... | 50 |
to this you ve brought them oh o the world v vol i e ac thb mi or fixed her eyes upon the victim of her husband s and in an they were filled with tears what did i do said the latter but strive to r my own how could i to lose forty pounds an i was for that your father knew was goin to when he got him to go security yo... | 50 |
axe naturally more than others i to go home for my other es an linen this observed but i won t go out tonight i must thin said an with the a god will too come what may why what is there to bring you out if it s a fair question to ax inquired the other a promise for one thing an my own my own heart that s nearer the for... | 50 |
its many toned music through the soul of o was upon the evening in question wholly free from a shade of melancholy for which she could not account and this impression did not result from any previous examination of her love for n though many such she had she knew that in this the utmost opposition from both her parents... | 50 |
you say never flatter me while you live will always speak what i feel and i hope you u do the same if i could what i said he yon would still say i flattered you it s not in the power of any words that ever were spoken to tell how i love you how much my heart an soul s fixed upon you you know own dear how unhappy i am t... | 50 |
feel that it s proper i m not sure that is don t you say you love me i do you know i do thb i have only another question to ask could you or would you me as you do an marry i could not and would not and will not i tim ready to promise i may easily do it for god knows the very of marrying another or being deprived of yo... | 50 |
so but the youth who can retire to the beautiful solitude of the still to brood over the image of her he loves and probably sits under the very tree where his love was and returned ha we say exalted with the of his happiness feels his heart go in upon the delightful objects that surround for every ng he looks upon is a... | 50 |
in service went to work with all the tact and of a the next morning after having left the bam where he slept he contrived to throw himself in the way of a girl who though vain and simple was at the same time conscientious and honest on passing from the bam to the kitchen he noticed her returning from the well with a of... | 50 |
affection and foresight was more than a by which he was led day after day into his prevailing vice in other words now tiiat love for his son and the hope him occupy a respect me station in society ou t to have justified the reason ing by which he had suffered himself to be it was apparent the prudence which he had stil... | 50 |
day while he s alive all honor that won t pass me i know otherwise myself do you think that if i hadn t got you i d been unhappy four an twenty hours let alone my whole life i tell that s an won t pass he wouldn t ate an the less if he was to the of get her i ou seen the breakfast he made this i didn t it to him but ma... | 50 |
him should bo known he now deeply distressed and regretted that the of his attachment had so far borne him away during their last that he had forgotten to concert measures with for their future he had often watched about her father s premises from a little before until the whole family had gone to bed yet without any c... | 50 |
a sudden in his whole manner in this business i m goin to you as a friend and a brother she loves me and a solemn promise of marriage has passed between us said it s it s you couldn t believe what a fool i am fool no but a faint hearted cowardly villain the of what do you mane what the are you at at whenever i happen t... | 50 |
your only son an your child too this was spoken in a of respect and sorrow at once impressive and affectionate his fine features were touched with something beyond sadness or regret and as the tears stood in his eyes it was easy to see that he felt much more deeply for his father s want of principle than for anything c... | 50 |
father and mother knows all about it an about your going to with the i have no from them that s a horse of another colour but you wouldn t have me as much to go to betray trust in the mane time i may as well my supper before i begin to tell you i happen to know about it another deep groan from followed the last observa... | 50 |
i liave a good to me you know i have an what we are brought down to now i have more nor you d believe to think of as much any way as ill make this box an steel useful i hope when i m spoke truth in assuring that the apology given for his on the preceding night bad escaped his memory it was fortunate for hun indeed that... | 50 |
why did you send such a forward and person as your father s servant to bring me your message i do not like him he almost stared me out of countenance poor fellow said i feel a good for him and i think he s an honest good hearted boy an besides he s in love himself i know he was always a and i say again like him but as ... | 50 |
did you ever see such a ah thin who can he be somebody to some o the i suppose replied his wife why thin it s not unlike little dick the in sober truth was so completely disguised by his dress by his hat whose and want of brim gave his face and head so wild and eccentric an appearance that we question if his own famil... | 50 |
of your own opinion in the choice of a husband now go up stairs or where sm till we see what can be done with with smiling face and glistening eyes passed out of the room scarcely sensible whether she walked ran or flew while the others went to renew the discussion with well said the you found out i suppose that she ca... | 50 |
oh to him iii go down on my two knees to you to beg as you hope to see in heaven that you ll make him not his daughter s heart she s your own sister there s but the two of an oh don t her in this this heavy heavy i won t interfere farther in it replied the young man who however felt disturbed and anxious in the extreme... | 50 |
do they wouldn t hear of it i went on my knees to them ay to every one of them the herself but twas all no use it s to b no match the or and why father did you go on your knees to any of them v said i m sorry you did aa i did it on your account an i d do it on your account poor boy well well it can t be helped but te... | 50 |
to him but as it was dark no particular si could be discovered on his no said he ly may i go to il if i ought o you d turn the hut don t he angry when i offered them didn t mean to give you the offence it ll enough for you to tell me you wont have them without g into a passion have what you about why about the shoes w... | 50 |
for no ra on so of as i said i d sleep in the barn it no difference one way or said with much solemnity if s hell many you n hia daughter as fast as he can an b why for you know about of late h s got very much out o favour in regard of not m to what people wish i m in the dark now there s goin on in the that yon and e... | 50 |
the er man advanced and with a look of deep scrutiny peered into his face a friend he exclaimed faith hour for a friend to be out who you eh is this o it is but you have the advantage of me if your father was here he would know any way i ought to a known the voice myself said how are you an what s bringing yourself at ... | 50 |
and pitch you head foremost into the flames rose and in a voice calm simply god knows if i know either your heart or wine you ll be for this you ve given me for no you know yourself that as soon as i heard anything of the ill will the i it to in that in that you might let him know it the best way you thought proper for... | 50 |
it then you are the very man we came for said the so you had better prepare to accompany us in the mean time you excuse us if we search your room this is unpleasant i grant but we have no discretion and must perform our duty v vol l n the what do you want in his room aid it fl robbery you re for it s robbery you re o... | 50 |
from his eye and pressed his father to his breast mother said he this will kill the old man it will kill him said his wife feeling it necessary to sustain him as much as possible don t take it so much to heart it won t signify s innocent aa no will happen him na the or but are you us are they must they bring you to j... | 50 |
placed his hand upon his heart something it is that makes me a a weight and there s a too i know i can t stand it long an it s about you it s all about you distress yourself too much father indeed you the of li na do why i hoped that you would comfort my poor mother till i back to her and you as i will god yes he re... | 50 |
be what he was or the bitter heart of the would appear with many other of a similar import the family of the however were painfully and peculiarly with the exception of herself of them entertained a doubt that was the maintained a good character and his direct of supported by such exact evidence left nothing to be urge... | 50 |
more than any girl in europe but if he s guilty of such an act against any one connected with you the guilt of all the in hell is no match for his well j he or p u have heard all we wanted to say to you and you needn t stay as she herself says observed john perhaps time will place everything in its true light at presen... | 50 |
t th or how how man come to the point my son sir r my only son was taken away from his mother an me an put into jail in an he innocent he was put in sir for bo o s haggard an as is above me he aft much burnt it as you then you are said the attorney i have heard of that outrage and to be plain you a good deal about you... | 50 |
on t it ll soon come to you no no said the other coolly not at au w might shut up shop if we made such st as that i ll tell you said tell you what his eyes gleamed with a bitter light and he clasped his withered hands together until the joints t e of cracked and the perspiration from bis pale sallow features tell you h... | 50 |
say replied with a hideous calmness of voice and manner you t you can t mane to say that he has run off i y money i do never see a shilling of it if you live to the age of a hebrew see what it is to fix the upon money you are now what you wished the world to believe you to be a poor man ho ho howled the he dam t he dam... | 50 |
report being true his soul clung with the of a death grip to the hope that however others might have suffered some chance might notwithstanding still remain in his particular favour in the mean time he poured out curses of against the guilty on whose head he the almighty s vengeance with a which appalled all who heard ... | 50 |
why will you fret father when you know i am innocent surely at the worst it is better to die innocent to live guilty said the old man still clinging to him and looking wildly in his face it s broke my heart s broke at last oh won t you pity me when you hear it won t you oh when you hear it won t you pity me it s gone i... | 50 |
wife the son was struck and somewhat by this sudden and extraordinary calmness of the old man father dear said he don t be too much all will be well yet i hope my trust in god is strong i hope all be well replied the old man sit nearer me an let me lay my head over upon your breast i m a great don t the world say that ... | 50 |
ought to pay the expenses and not be under an obligation to any one of so solemn a kind as that he then sent his love and to his mother at whose name eyes were again filled with tears and begged the old man to comfort and support her with the utmost care and tenderness as she was he requested him to her against visitin... | 50 |
not guilty in a full firm and mellow voice that drew the eyes of the spectators once more upon him and occasioned another slight hum of sympathy and admiration no change of colour was on his countenance nor any other expression save the lofty composure to which we have just alluded the of li na the trial at length pro... | 50 |
answer the question which the counsel has put to you the interests of society require such sacrifices and they must be made the or the old man kept his eyes fixed on the judge while he spoke but when he ceased he again fixed them on his son my lord he exclaimed again with clasped hands i can t i can t there is nothing... | 50 |
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