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^n xl.Lu*.y,*i. CHOIR. if fotlfbifowrgy^r inafiair very nerTfTnd very excited, I fear from the -^Noyes, tbabks," stammered Lizzie, followed the rest into the shadowy PC Goodness Explained and Reward^ undemonstrative, rather silent yet Uan ot abnserather, of too much wine. then, rather hurriedly: "I think path. ,e alter Teftnyson. observer gave closer, notice, he she went on, again disregarding i Know this friend of the Hudsonsat The soft rays of the eveningrsim came ir, half a bar,, would have seen'thaVihere was an undercurrent er daughter's muffled crythe cry of least I did, if it is the one who married gently through the treesr Aar onward! &$. and had left of strength^ of silent en one whose idol is tailing from its a lady whose name he afterward the upper part of the shrubbery in al Cvriul ditch, Save when Bhe knew Christmas was coming. durance in her character that was throne and breaking a heart in its fall, took." faoirand Precentor hitch, semi-twilight. The evening hymn of *."^s* i And then she was- good, 4 suspected even by her relations. Th ato a mess of pitch, & "if a young man will so behave "Ye3, that's the man. Why, it is praise of the birds had in it a solemnity iz-Jfis And at her tasks would i\ two young people had met at various They led the Old Hundred. when he has first won the love of a girl Go 'round ia her happiness humming. funny you should meet here. Where not often in their songs the flowers ^oles to right of them, parties that were given in the summer he professesprofesses to love and esteem, did you know him?" is*i* 'S**1*^* gave forth a perfume like that oi mors to left of them, ._ How kind to her pa, at Burleigh their parents were mutually what must she not expect afterwards incense in some high and sacred ceremony "And what's he like?" **"*~?as8as in front of them, To her brother and ma! ^r acquainted, consequently they when the first glamour of marriage in a spacious cathedral. But further questions were cheeked Bellowed and thundered. How genial and loving and pleasant met often, and the attachment, if it has cooled down to what should by the demand of her eldest eousin. The light tones were dropped? as by She was to her beau! h! that Precentor's look*, were one,that Mrs Howard had noted, be true, respectful love and high hon- She wanted, you know, Turn the sopranos .toolt*^* Tom for his sisters to come and mark those who suddenly enter a chamber had grown up without any obstacle so or?" From each a magnificent presen ieir owhlame and hook, out the tennis-courts. wherein Death, sits enthroned. far. Prom the Old Hundred. She paused.^ but no words came In one short moment, Elizabeth's Coming nearer they beheld Major' They fathomed her scheme They were so great a contrasthe from the listener, who sat with the bright vision of the future was .darkened: Anson kneeling by the seat, reverently One night in a dream, $Wched all the trebles here, so full of life and spirits, so cheery, so coldness of a statue carved by despair. the unforgotten past rose up supporting a drooping form, and gazing And each gave a package marked "Candy iggled the tenors there, amusing she so quiet, so restful and "Therefore, my dear, you see we On top sweets she found, with its sad reminiscences,- and the isingthe parson's hair, with a look of sadness, almost so sympatheticthat perhaps it could should be doing wrong, nor cuold we But, shaking them round. Thile his mind wandered old torturing question that only that despair, on a pallid face and closed not be wondered at that it was a case The bulk she discovered was sandy. ever forgive ourselves, if we permitted 'irs not to reason why i eyes, that rested on his shoulder. But very morning she had thought finally is psalm was pitched too high of "love at first sight." your engagement to continue. I am Columbus Dispatch. on that face was a smile^a smile that settled, was reopened in ail its uncertainty. eirs but to gasp and cry So far nothing had been said by the only too sorry for your sake, that I was the seal of everlasting peace. Yes, That both the two men who Out the old hundred young man except what eyes can say, wedid not know of this sad news until thank He'aven, everlasting peace! most influenced her life should meet, 'rebles to right of them, Jeff Davis and General Thomas. this afternoon. Now we can only but they had said a great deal, and 'enors to left of them, and at such a crisis in her fate! "I know," said Mrs. General Thornas, act as quickly as we can, and therefore their own language had been answered. -^a. tasses in front of them, She went to dress, feeling I have sent Mr. Stone a letter to The very afternoon on which Mrs. Bellowed and thundered, "the General felt most keenly, especially Follies of BressuThepeoplfrwho helplessly unable to decide fcormed they with shout and yell, say that the engagementindeed it Howard had invaded her husband's during the early years of the probably Major Anson would not long for a sensible ofc wise they sang, nor well, can scarcely be considered onemust sanctum to give utterance to her opinions come, or if he did, they might not war, that he was regarded with suspicion style of dress may justly complain rowning the sexton's bell. be broken off at once, and that we on her daughter's future, the meet, and he would have forgotten While all the church wondered. that the fashions of the present day by manyr because he was a Virginian. shall be glad if he will hold no further young people in question were resting her, and she need not see much of him do not satisfy their ideals. They may, Nor can any one realize as I do communication with you or any of us. after the toils of a game of croquet, ire the Precentor's glare, and Mr. Branksomeand then her however, cultivate a reasonable I have no doubt his leave is nearly up, how perfectly loyal and devoted he for croquet was played in those days lashed his pitchfork in air, heart sank with a foreboding of the amount reallf gratitude for the blessingsb and he will go awayperhaps abroad ponding fresh keys to bear calm, languid croquet, with none of tKey enjoy in that direction was in every act, word, and thought. wrong she must do him in any case. with hi3 regiment, and you will not be Oat the Old Hundred. the fierce excitement, the frantic He was born in Southampton County, To marry without love and wait for casting a backward glance at the fashions -!y he turned his back, obliged to meet him, and will/I have movements and contortions of its its coming afterwards, or to refuse Virginia, in 1S16.' ^Nearly all his ot the las-t century. Says Mary ^ached ii-e his hat from rack, no doubt, soon forget this little mis- successor, lawn tennis. him now, after all that had passed between "len from the screaming pack Frampton, whose journal furnishes friends and family connections were take." They professed to be watching with Himself he sundered. them! Her agonizinareflections one of the mirrora by which we may fully committed to the cause of the great interest another game played on She rose and kissed her daughter, (Hors to light of him, were broken abruptly by Janie's study by-gone manners and customs: South, thouch he had no relatives reples, to left of him, the lawn beneath the raised path on led her unresisting to the door, and voice. scords behind him which their seat was placed, but they advised her to retire to bed early and nearer than cousins in the Confederate "Are you ready? Come down the In 1780, everybody wore powder Bellowed and thundered. were really interested only in each go to sleep,and forget all about it. arm j*- people have come. Why, how nice and pomatum, and alarge triangular the wild howls they vvrough other they were far enough away to Elizabeth silently obeyed she knew you look! You've put on all your iglifc to the end they fought! The peculiarly delicate situation of thing called a cushion, to which the talk gently without being heard, and it was useless to attempt to move her ime tune they sang, but not, best things, I do believe, and that foui1 General Thomas will be better understood hair was frizzed up, with three or no unkind intruder had made himself, mother by arguments or persuasions .STot the Old Hundred. color in your cheeks makes you look by a brief reference to the facts. enormous curls on each side. or more often herself, an unwelcome besides, she felt too confused, too benumbed, Audre's Journal. quite pretty!", In 1835 there was a partial reorganization The higher, the pyramid of hair, third. like one who has had a heavy For Janie, the "spoilt child,"' and of the United States army. gauze and leathers was carried, the After a few pointless remarks on the blow and feels all deadened. Jefferson Davis was then Secretary ot favorite cousin, felt privileged to make 1 COMMON EPISODE. more fashionable it was thought to be, game, silence bad fallen between them. Mrs. Howard went down and told War. The Seco.nd' Cavalry was officered personal remarks and besides, in ail and such was the labor employed in Elizabeth sat looking on the ground, her husband and Emma that Lizzie by him ery larcely with men the pride of twenty, she thought learing thefabric, that night-caps were feeling that a great crisis in her life had taken her advice beautifully, and who were of Southern birth. lis four Lizzie's extra twelve years made her na Household Words. made in proportion to it, and covered had come. The weight of silence quite seen the wisdom of it. field officers were: Colonel, Aloert Sidney quite old and long past the age of over the hair, immense black pins, I. seemed almost unbearable, and, with "She has gone to bed, and Ihave no Johnston Lieutenant Colonel, good looks. powder, pomatum and all, ready for **I fJiink, John, that young Stone is an effort, she turned to her companion doubt,"a favorite and expressive Robert R. Lee: Senior Major, \V. J. In trembling silence Elizabeth followed the next day. Twenty-four pins was vying too much attention to Lizzie and began some trifling remark, expression"she will soon be all right Hardee Junior Major, George H. Janie into the roombut one b}' no means an unusual number to which died away unfinished on meeting again. It is quite a common episode Thomas. \1 these are familiar names glance reassured her. The dreaded J wear to bed. fhwhat? What young Stone?" his eyes full of a look that pierced in a girl's life. Ah," with a sish. "I in connection wi^h the war. When moment was deferred, neither the The perfection of figure.according to to her heart and filled her with an unknown went through one myself but I have the w.r began, twenty-five officers of Major nor Reginald Branksome was the fashion of the time, lay in the Mr. Howard, abstractedly, deep rapture. He spoke in a tone quite got over itquite." this legiment were graduates of West there. bmallnoss of the circumference into i paper. "I see the French are of repressed passion she listened. It was a favorite reminiscence of Point, and of these seventeen werenatives Out on the lawn the people went which one's unfortunate waist could Let those who will recall what words Mrs. Howard's. Many years ago she of the South. The regiments ig more setled at last. Oh, ah games of lawn-tennis were "made up, be compressed, and many a poor girl she heard. Love has always thesame had been engaged for a few weeks to a furnished seventeen generals for thewar. the young people paired offnot always 1 Stone," waking up to his wife's hurt her health very materially by language, varied only by the characteristics young man, but soon broke it off, as of whom twelve were in the Confederate to their own or other folk's satisfactionthe trying to rival the reigning beauty of -k "I thought he'd joined his of the speaker, uttered only she did not consider him steady, and service. elders at chattinq, or that day, the Duchess of Rutland,who ent long ago." with slight difference ot speechsometimes as within a year she married Mr. Howard, walked about the old-fashioned garden. Van Home-,the biographer of General was said to squeeze herself, to the size it may be conceded that she did hesitatingly, sometimes eagerly, he's still hanging abouton Thomas.says- "Two conbid.-rations, of an orange and.a half. "get over it" very satisfactorily. sometimes brokenly, sometimes assuredly, all probability, induced Mr. Davis Elizabeth exerted herself to amuse i says." In 1791, says the same writer, all but always with the same Meanwhile, her daughter, whom she io appoint Captain Thomas a major the guests, but whether from the heat, the gentlemen wore queues or tails, of t Lizzie. I've never seen meaning, "Hove! And you?" expected to inherit her own well-controlled to the Second Cavalryhis birth in or the subdued exc tement, soon grew considerable length and thickness near ogether." "Your eyes always told me they feelings, lay awake, looking Virginia and his eriiciency and salantry tired her head ached, and the noise of the head,dwindlingby degrees towards loved me! Did they not speak the with a numbness neither resignation ..I because men never see in the Mexican war. General Thomas the incessant chatter wearied her. the extremity, the whole, well-plastered truth?" nor despair, out on the stars. always believed that Mr. Davis had "Oh, for a few minutes' rest!" she said Mrs. Howard, as if and powdered they wo^aiso,great A look answered. What need to reply There are some hearts that cry out regard to a probable war between the thought. curls, frizzed, powdered, "andpomatumed,at ncing a fact. "Iindeed when they thon brightly and and make a moan over their crushed northern and southern states organizing She looked round no one seemed to the eara. see that he and Lizzie thiuthfullybright with a happiness hopes others keep silence and look that regiment. The writer want her just then, and, glad of a Ladies wore their hair flowing down unfelt before by her, and thruthful with tond a flirtation, and I with unweeping eyes on the fragments once asked him (Thomas) if he entertained chance of even momentary quiet, she their backs, and high in front, with the love of a pure soul? some weep the bitterness out of their this opinion. He promptly '-y ought." turned into a favorite path, shaded much pomatum and powder, put on hearts some carry it for ever with How long they sat in perfect contentment answered that he did. And in reply by trees, and leading away from the father thoughtfully with different kinds of puffs. This them as their constant friend. Perhaps to the question: "Did noo Mr. Davis neither could say, but it house. At the end was a rustic seat, powder was applied at a distance, that "t of a fellow I like, with Elizabeth the bitterness was depend on you as upon Generals Johnston,. see.ned almost like a thunderbolt falling and on it she rested, leaning back every hair might be frosted with u?^ greater in that in the burden laid on a son-in-law. But when Emma's voice was heard: Lee. Hardee, and other southern wearily with closed eyes, feeling almost One pound and sometimes two oi her was the sting of truth. qfficers to fight for the south in the "Lizzie, are you leady to go home?" 't see anything to too exhausted to make any powder were often put into the hair, ev^nt of war?' he said: 'Certainly he The merry farewells, the laughing struggle at all for the right, against lresser's block, and III. or wasted in the room in. one dressing. didJ appointments for the next meeting, v-\ational Tribune. what fate might send her. jhucklimat his joke. "Nothing," the doctors said, "much the walk backall were to Lizzie as a "Janie"," said her mother, "where is I ne first, he is not a the matter, but a little weakness the A General Who Has Seen Service. dream, except the long-lingering pressure Lizzie? Major Anson would like to heart weak avoid worry, and take His Word Was His Bond. of his hand as he whispered, knows how to play be introduced to herah, but, though, Maj. Gen. Prendergast who brought life quietly. 'To-morro wto-morrow!'' What I want you to start that set first." JO well." victory to British arms in Burmah, From the (New Yc\rk) Ameiican, Railroad- 1 Perhaps the worry to be avoided :C^K possibilities of untold joy lay hidden "Oh, mother, I saw her in the shrubbery! won the Victoria cross- when he had 1 don't believe Lizzie cares a was the disturbing element which had behind that word! To-morrow, to If Major Anson will come with barely attained his majority. He was The late Samuel I^ro^r was a merchant him she has too much sense, appeared in the shape of a new admirera hear his voice, to feel his hand, to me, it won't take a minute, and I know educated at the military academy of Boston, Mass ^vYieri the Reginald Branksome a man some watch his smile and glance of love that she's only amusing herself he'll excuse my leaving them afterwards." maintained by the historic East India elder Quincy was Mayor he sawr the eight years older than harself, of good came into his eyes when resting on her, company,and had been only a year or necessity of removing the Almshouse name, of good position, and, better and, greatest happiness of all, to know The major bowed they started, but two in active service- when the great watched them carefully, and the House of Correction to South Still,of good disposition. that to-morrow would only be the had just reached the shrubbery when mutiny be^an. For gallant services Boston. Mr. Brown owned a very largo "In every way suitable for Miss forerunner of many more bright days ecte it, and I am sure her sister called after her: he was promoted to the staff of Sir vacant estate where the buildings now* Howard," said the neighbors. So, too, all equally uncloudedso many that "Oh, JanieJanie, do come and arrange Hueh Roe. The following stirring incident nous. stand, and Mr Quincy called upon Elizabeth was forced to acknowledge she grew bewildered at the thought, this set!" at Jhansi is given as authentic: rd was a woman with a to herself. him and asked the price of the estate and gave herself up to the one dream "You seemin great request," he said While the British were- pressed backward He truly loved her of that there referred to. Thereply was "30,000." that youth values above all else, "He ieck her opinion once politely "I fear to detain you I think by the enemy until reinforcements was no doubt. He was an honesthearted Mr. Quincy said that would do, and loves me! I love him." I see my unknown friend in the distance. hing, nothing could alie arrived, a wounded sergeant, man, kind and just, and trustworthy asked thirty days' recusal and a bond Alas! poor Mrs. Howard, your Let me go up and see if there tone in which she said badly hurt, fell off his horse, and the to the utmost. There was no of it, in order to endeavorto persuade 1 warning words had the common fate is a mutual recognition, and then," he swarthy sepoys swarmed oyer him. showed -that her views obstacle to their marraige indeed everything the city council to agree to the measure. they came too late! added good-humoredly, "the players like wolves to finish their work. They pointed to it as the proper Mr. Brown replied that he should. jj^ct werenot to be changed II. will be happy, and you will feel at counted their victory too soon. Lieut~ conclusion. She liked him, she thoroughly give no bond, as he said his word was. "Lizzie, my dear, come up to my liberty." arguments reasonable or linkable. Prendergast's command was nearly respected him she confessed always his bond. The mayor took hi room I want to talk to you," she Janie hesitated, but after a glance lOOyards away from the wounded man that any one who married him would word, and in twenty-eight days had said, with more gentleness than was. at the Major, and another glance Howard sighed. He knew, by and had been ordered to fall back bat find the blessing oi a good husband, her wont. "My child." shutting the sbtamed the proper authority, and. at the players waiting about hold their ground, and wait for a experience, his wife's peculiarity, and yetoh, wayward heart! that door and drawing the gh*l down to a again waited on Mr. Brown, baymg with that aspeet of fretful helplessness highland battalion to come up beiore dso that she was a cautious womrho would not tread in the right path, chair at her side, "why did you not that he had come to complete the sale that undeeided people generally continhjg the advance,for the force at but wander into the tangled byways did not hastily jump to concms, tell me this before?" of the land. show, she determined to follow his advice, his front was too heavy to be driven amid the briars and sharp thorns! and that, though so inflexible, On Elizabeth's face came a look of and, with a bright smile and a without aid. At the head of his, column yet Elizabeth could not put from her "What land?" aked Mr. Brown* "wis generally just, and never laid sad self-reproach. laughing remark at her rudeness, hastened he heai*d the shout, not unlike sight the dark grey-eyes that were so "Why the South Boston land "Oh, mother," she said, her brightness back to the lawn, the law without cause. He the scream of a wounded tiger, utterly unlike the honest brown eyes spoke of," said the mayor. dimmed, and her eyes filling, "I Major Anson walked on slowly. inly did not Approve of Alfred with which the frenzied Pandies leaped could not close her ears to the soft, "At what price* sir?" askedj the could nofrspeak of it I was too happy! Elizabeth sat quietlyso quietly and would have been sorry to slight tenor, so utterly unlike the deejj upon their prey. It was twenty to former. But now I seel was selfish and wrong." only her feverish eyes showed any iscfaughtarLizzis his wife but, bass tones could not forget the loving one, but the man who had been, the "Thirty thousand dollars," replied Had her mother but been as kind knowledge of his approach. i other hand, he extremely dissrnpleasant words so easily spoken, so utterly heaviest hitter of his class at school, the latter, "the price agreed upon." and approachable as her father, Elizabeth He raised his hat courteously, a things, especially unlike the few hesitating sentences in and was the best athlet?and gymnast would not have hesitated, but "Did I say that amount, sir?" common-place remark upon his lips. which a love that she knew was "tender they interfered with his chilhappiness. in India, did not hesitate a moment. she knew that Alfred was not a favorite, "You did." "Mav I introduce myself as an old s-( and true" was offered to her. As the honest sergeant's English face and her timidity/ of spirit made "Have you any writing to that ef- friend?" sank down among the black ones he jg, as as often the case, a corncontrast Her lover did not press for an answer, her afraid of increasing the prejudice fect?" She half rose, with another of those saw his lieutenant start, and he knew but waited hop-fully, till seeing, against h.m. ibo his wife, he was an "No, sir, none-/* commonplace speeches that so effectively no more until they were both dragged by her pale cheek and weary look, "Yes," said Mr3. Howard gravely "Well,." said Mr. Brown, iince yoia lidulgent father, and one much hide our real feelings. out from under a heap of dead, whose that the indecision was becoming "had you but told me all as you were here I have been offe/ed $60,- "Do you remember ine, Major An- to letting things drift, in the heads bore a sign-manuel one would equally and agony to her as to himself. ought to have done, you would have son?" 000 cash for it. and you exoect me to Hefcing assurance that -'it would scarcely dare to see. "Thds is the sort in a few gentle, yet determined saved yourself much pain." The faint smile died away on her sell it for $30,000 to the city?" "*&& right." of thing they give us to risk our lives words, once more pleaded his cause, Here she went on, not heeding the lips on his face polite indifference gave "Id," replied Mr. Quinay "because of Ms three daughters had martost adding: with," saidPrendergast^looking at his scared look, which gave place to one way to a startled, eager look, as he you agreed to," happily and satisfactorily, bent and twisted sword, bloodstained "I must go to town to-day, but on of anguish as she finished: noticed the large burning eyes, the "Have yow any proof f%? that?" ould not Emma and Lizzie folveir witness,5* to the hilt, with which he had cut my return "When your father told me I was changing color, and the quickened, "Yes I ana the sisber's example? Aud then She caught at the reprieve, andmurmered: down six of the enemy before his company horrified, especially after the talk I'd gasjung breath that checked her utterance. "But you. being an inte?este party, oneespecially himself, though came to his assistance. The had with him yesterday. Alfred Stone, caanot be en. witness. Have you any "Yes when you come back I will tell Pandies were so intent upon their 3 not openty avow that selfish as he knows well, is not the husband Then their eyes met fully, and the otAer witness or proof* and do you you." work that they did inot see the avenger we should choose for you." Hitwould be quite happy, fourteen years had passed away into wish me to refuse $a5,00 for the "I shall be back on the 28th. Oh, until, with a mighty backhander, the dreary past, and the ensagement Mrs. Howard liked to pretend that ed Stone was a young officer 1 ind and. sell it to thoi city for 30,' that is the day of your garden-party! he clove to the throat one who was of a day had never been broken, but her husband al .vaj'S agreed with her, WO?" -tayirg with his pareats at Bur- Tas about Well, with so many people, it may be just raising his raaor-edged tulwar to thirty, was continuing still, casting its glorious but in this case, as in many others, (goodi'ea^ant "I do," ^f easier to speak to you and," lowering give the bleeding sergeant his death glamour around them, and hushing the poor man, rat below in bis study, "You have no boti2for it,haT you, manners, Dright, his voice, "somehow I cannot fear stroke. With thirteen cold-steel all care and uncertainty into perfe^ grieving over the affair, and wishing Mr. Quincy?" ell offbut, alas! what you have to tell me." peace. wounds he was 9 sight to see, and today vainly that it could be allowed to "None, sir, whatever," replied the it him and think, He pressed her handhngeringly, and. progress smoothly, and thinking that Prendei'cast's left arm bears th& v: mayosv stretching himself up with an whom I can he "was sure it would all turn out ineuacable effects of that morning?, with a look of trust and love left her. creat dignity"^one whatever but eyes at time- Merry voices were hearad iny scraps right, and Alfred make a good husband, twenty-nine yars ago, uuder the waHs IV. your- word and that you said, was "Wha4". joll after of careless talk. in his mouth and be quite steady, and all ofOhansi. It was the morning of the 28th, a you?-bond." noon!'' "That was a good set!" that." jjs and in morning grey and still, that ushered "And," replied Mr. Browi.stretchin "Did you see Janie's back-hander? It You, being young, have been deceived the lower in a perfect summer's day, bright and hinaseif up with equai diqrjity, "so ife Mr. Ruskin, in his last autobiographical quite upset the other side." by his outward looks and manners. signs that warm, and cloudless, cooled by a soft i^. My word is my boi d, and fox chapter, says: "I read all Capt. Then Mr. Branksome was heard I grant he is pleasant, but that self-cpntrol ind. $30,000 the land is yours," saying, in deeper tones than usual, Marryat'a novels without ever wishing is not enough, and we, who know his conduct. Elizabeth rose with a cheerful heart. and 'with suppressed eagerness: to go to sea: traversed the field more than you, have heard enough of .gcould be said Her decision had been made such love A writer i the Englfcih Illustrated Where is your cousin? I have not of Waterloo without the lightest inclination his character to know for a fact that -e rumors of friv- and trust deserved but one answer, yet.-' Magazine says theie no sach thing seen her to be a soldier went on ideal he is not steady" to unsteadiness and that one she would give, truthfully as debase in the House 01 ^.ords in the Janie began laughing: "Oh, there fishing with Izaak Walton without Elizabeth tried to speak, but a great _*a,t? found pleasure and without reserve. 5-onse that it exists in the Commons. a,re those two, talking over old times ever casting a fiy, and knew Cooper's ^#**Sa hours, and comikker'fSmperamen fear stayed her and choked her speech. At breakfast, amid the merry talk, The number of peers who are successful still!" but was checked by a strange ts than Her mother went on impassively,and 'Deerslayer' arid 'Pathundet' almost one voice rose: feeling that instinctively caused her to in making themselves heard might even, it waj hinted, in with the unyielding air she knew io "Who did you say, Janie, was coming by heart without handling anything lower her voice. The feeling spread. ba counted on the fingers ot bafch hends, Ihigher stakes atcards than well. with the Kudsons? Major who?" but a popgun, or having any paths The hum of men was hushed by some cold but"these, happily, are tha members ntjn^ short that, unless "We had heard many rumors before "Major Ansona cousin,' I think." to find beyond the solitudes of Gypsy thought foe Bright bedea$ v. hose opinions are looked for. Wheti that made us doubtful, but to-day I "Never heard of him bel'pre." IQ ^'pulled up, They knew not what. -mil." m&>^ Lord Salisbury, Lord Granvillo and. &\ heard from a witness, and a thoroughly "No I think he lives at X, miles man of the (w^orld. a Reginald* Branksome felt, the siidden trustworthy one, that Mr. Stone's away, and this is the first time he's porhap3 a couple of peers not sitfctng Iriy^ard not a fit husband. Archdeacon Farrar was given a gloom, and, unreasonably, the foreboding behavior last night was not at all correct. been here." *J? Elizabeth Howard, en the. front benches have spoken. $t breakfast in Cincinnati, by Rev. Dudley of a loss of Elizabeth's gentje*1 He was at the club till quite "Why, Lizzie? how hot you look!" eyes, her' r.rembers just leave the house, and if|**f love, that now ,it was gone W. Rhodes, rector of the Church of late, or rather early, playing some "Do you feel taint, my dear?" said 'ioappeaUojpit any outsider wants to make a speech from his possession, and that he was Our Savior, at Mount Auburn, at gambling gameecarte, I thinkfor her aunt kindly "don't do too much ^i\w left a lonely and desolate mar, With tho finds himself without an* jaudience which nearly all the clergymen of Cu very high stakes, very reckless in man- to-day. plicate-loo! I a tightening sense of pain at heart he cinnatf, of all sects, were present* and HO desists., I