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impetuously; " take time with affections THE DOCTOR'S MIXTURE. bHghted, a heart wasting away, a colour fading, and then we're to take time! I don't blame you, my dear Cecil. It's the BOOK II. cant of the day. But the truth is, we CHAPTER III. BEARDING THE LIONESS. cannot. We must settle it all in black and DOCTOR FINDLATER had been hesitating white before a fortnight is over. You know how to act. He had been at first incHned it is a grave business ; it isn't like a flirta­ to burst into the enemy's country, carry tion which fathers and mothers could smile his daughter and the young man to town, at. This is a grave, deliberate engage­ and have the marriage performed ofi"-hand. ment—th' issue of a life, my dear fellow. But he felt things were scarcely ripe for So what shaU we do ? Shall I see mamma this bold step: and as he hesitated, the or papa at once ?" precious opportunity was snatched from " No, no—^leave it aU to me," said the him. He was startled with the news that young man, greatly scared. " I am sure the enemy had advanced in full force, and there'll be a nice business, and frightful that there was to be a regular campaign work. You don't know her when she's and tedious stand-up fight. roused." He went in to his young friend. " Well, " She's not your mother, I believe ?" said there's news for you," he cried. " Papa the Doctor, carelessly. "Well, I'm not and mamma coming home to-morrow or behindhand either, when I'm roused. Just ixext day!" think it over, my dear boy. I must think The young man looked shy and sheepish. of my chUd, you know : and with the " Oh, yes," he said, " they are coming to­ thousand voices here gabbling trumpet- morrow." tongued " " Oh, then you have heard from them ?" The young man started up. " What! the Doctor said, darting a keen look at It has been told about ?" him. "Tou kept all that to yourself? " Not at all," said the Doctor; " easy My dear lad, do you know I am not sorry. now; nothing of the kind. These things And, now, what do you mean to do ?" wUl leak out: and why shouldn't they ? "Oh, I suppose I shaU go and stay with There's nothing to be ashamed of, or that them at Leadersfort." you wouldn't stand by, eh ? Just speak Again the Doctor looked at him keenly. out plainly—what's in your mind. Out " Ah! but my dear son-in-law-to-be, there's with it." more than that to be thought of. There's There was such a marked change in the business before us both, and a big bull as Doctor's manner, something so defiant, so ever you came across to be griped by the despotic, that the young man cowered horruns. How wUl you go about it ?" under his eye. It seemed to him that the " I am sure I don't know," said the character had changed of a sudden, and young man, pettishly. " We'U see, I sup­ that he himself had suddenly found a pose. You said there was no hurry, and master. The Doctor at once put this im­ that we could ta,ke time." pression to flight by a burst of good spirits, "Take time sir!" cried the Doctor, and an " I'll tell you as good news now

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314 [September 3,1870.] ALL THE YEAR ROUND. [Conducted by as you ever heard in your whole Hfe," feilldw, who was Heartily liked. He stood and left Him. He went op to the Leader by poor Fin; really liked that physician Arms to disseminate the news, wHicH, it and was Heartily glad that the foolish lad must be said, He Had kept very secret. Leader fead picked up so fine a girl as Miss But tHe time Had come now for a com­ Katey. Any little co-operation that he plete " change of front, or back, or both," could give, he was determined sHould not as the Doctor said; and he had resolved to be wai^ng. let the matter ooze out. He would thus At last Here were the Leaders arrived at acquire solid public support. What He Leadersfort: with their carriages, new ser­ called letting it ooze out, was going up to vants, FrencH cook ; and, in a day or two the Leader Arms, announcing that He was a perfect band of distinguished guests was so glad the Leaders were coming back, as expected down. The lifeless body Had now it would bring matters to a Head; and got back its soul: the jewels were once before the night was over everybody in the more in the casket. So Lord A. was kind place Had the news—the most astounding enough to recommend a discarded chef, who news that had been Heard in the town for had been impudent; and Lady B, was good years. "Well, the Doctor beats all, as he enougH to insist that a superannuated Himself would say. How cleverly done ! housekeeper, past Her work, should be What a rise for Her ! There would be no taken in; 6,nd other noble people were in­ standing them now. Some said it was a dulgent enougH to patronise the Leader scandal, taking in a poor sickly lad when family, and force on them grooms, foot­ his family was away from Him: it was a men, dairymaids, clerks, until the es­ disgrace to the town. But to Hear Mr. tablishment was full to bursting. Then Ridley, the Doctor's old enemy, on it, in came the upholsterers, with that valuable a group consisting of Lord Shipton, Mr. countersign, carte blanche ; and a number Ridley, Colonel Bouchier, and some other of genteel, black-coated, and very gentle­ gentlemen, all discussing it in the club-room manly fellows were seen fluttering about at the Leader Arms, was, indeed, somewhat Leadersfort. " Carte blanche, indeed!" as piquant. the Doctor migHt Have said, " No, but it's " A low intriguer and adventurer that the carts that blanched, and weU they ought to be handed over to the police. migHt, from the loads they Had to carry." I declare if I had a cheque for fifty pounds, They fitted up their decorations with an I wouldn't leave it on my desk, witH that indecorous latitude, daubing in gold and man in the next room." gilding, tumbling in furniture, murors, " What, Findlater!" barked the colonel. carpets everywhere. It was presently quite " Nonsense ! as good a fellow as ever ready. walked : so far from that, He's just the man In two days it was known that the would let me Have a fifty to-morrow, if I Countess of Seaman and Her daughters wanted it." had arrived, witH old Dick Lumley, a draw­ " He would, if you didn't want it," said ing-room veteran, whose social campaign Lord Shipton with a laugH. " I'd lend any Had almost begun with Waterloo, and a amount that I Had to spare, which of course useful skirmishing party of young men, I haven't, to any one that didn't want it." who were virtually recommended for these " He'll be exposed yet. That fellow duties by the countess; much as Mr. Gun­ has some dirty History that will be Hunted ter would send down Half a dozen trained up yet. Remember, I prophesy it Here, waiters wHo could be depended upon. standing in this room. You've all taken Of course it was not done in this rude, Him up, and I tell you foolishly and ridi­ calling-a-spade-a-spade fashion; for these culously; you've let yourselves be talked young gentlemen were duly presented, round with His blarney, and soft sawder, and made Mrs. Leader's acquaintance in and His whis.ky." the regular way; but it was all the time " Talked round witH whisky: not so privately understood that a residence at bad," said Lord Shipton. Leadersfort was to follow. The house was " Well, come, Shipton," said the colonel, now full—the stables were also full: the roughly, " I Have seen you admiring that whole festival was in "grand swing:" and whisky pretty well, and, for that matter, a invitations to a baU and supper had gone stone jar or two put into that queer coach forth, in obedience to the wishes of Lady you drive about in. It's not handsome of Seaman, who wished to see what the people you to run down poor Fin in this way." of the district were like. THe colonel was a really Honest good Now the reader will probably wonder Charles Dickens, Jan.] THE DOCTOR'S MIXTURE. [September 3,1870.] 316

what the Doctor and Mrs. Lead^ were me peckish." And He found a place beside about all tkis time. For they seemed like one of the guests, who made room for Him. two opposing armies drawn up, and it was It was rather a trying seeno for the country a nice question who was to make tH« first Doctor: tHose strange faces so cold and advance. It was really a very delicate perfectly at ease, a whole platoon of them, as business for both sides : though Mrs. He said. Their language and allusions were Leader, having a genuine and sincere octe- all foreign to Him. A new dialect. The tempt for such low people, did iDiot think " alderman Herself," so He dubbed the lady them worthy of even formal recognition with the "gable-shaped front, where the as enemies, and would see neither danger swallows might build with comfort," spoke nor importance in the situation. She Had in clear, sharp tones about strange and got her step-son under Her roof, and there wonderful people, dukes and marquises, was Miss Fountain, a good girl, well suited and " dear Lady Fowler," and that " nice to him in every way, and wHo Had almost Lady Mary," while all the time Mrs. taken a liking to Him already. Leader listened in adoration, murmuring, The Doctor, on His side, Had determined "AllI yes to be sure!" "No, Lady Sea­ to wait for a few days; but the step, boldly man?" "Indeed, Lady Seaman." The and defiantly carried out, of transferring young men were so gay, and free, aad the prize to Leadersfort, determined Him. chatty; while Dick Lumley, wearing a pink So purchasing a pair of yellow "kids," he tie and a morning-coat, was telHng a di­ walked up to the House, choosing tHe period verting story, wherein other " dear Lady when He knew they were at lunch; i ;,, Marys," and " Loftus," and such aristo­ Not one bit fluttered, as cool as pos­ cratic najnes, sparkled and glittered. Was sible, He stood a,t tHe door in presence of it ;any wonder tHat our Doctor, looking a supercilious London menial—with Hair aibout him, and listening, felt downhearted as "if you Had dipped Him in plaster-of- in presence of the appalling difficulties that paris"—and asking to see Mrs. Leader with were before Him?'.iTf'xIt 'J' an intimate tone, as if He knew tHe place The grand subject about him seemed to and its ways, was checked HaugHiily. be the projected entertainment — a , ball, " Beg pardon, family at lunch." which was to be preceded by some sort of " To be sure, to be sure," said the Doctor, show, tableaux vivans, as well as the Doctor "As if we couldn't see all their backs could make out. THere was a tall, fair, through these regiments of windows reach­ bilious-looking young iaan, dressed to per­ ing to the ground ! THey'll be glad to see fection, who seemed to be the acknowledged me at it too." Head and mover in these arrangements, " What iiame, then ?" said tHe menial, whose name was the Honourable Albert Peto, haughtily.. ."I'll take it in and see." Lard Tynladie's son. TMs young gentle­ " All right, and I'll foHow it in." man was one of tHe weak souls who flutter "You carn't, you carn't. I must beg " about society, feeble in speeeH, mind, every­ But the Doctor was in the dining-room in thing ; a feebleness and susceptibility com­ a moment, snuliag and beaming on the bined, and yet wHo succeeds. His braim, august company^ as tHe Doctor said, would only fill a, pill- The chicken skin tbat cruel Nature Had box; yet He talked and was Hstened to, furnished to Mrs, Leader,' instead of Human and Had influence. He spoke about " lead­ material, flusHed crimson. Lady Seaman, ing a cotillon," last winter, and^e Doctor a high lean bust, witH lovely bands to Her Heard Him saying: "I was half killed with hair, "regular gable ends," the Doctor said, leading 'em; I was booked for two every tui'ned to Him with ferocious inquiry: many nigHt. The only thing that got one through an eye-glass went up; the Hum and chatter was not getting up tUl four: then taking a ceased. whole bottle of champagiDie, at six precisdy, " How are you, Mrs. Leader ? Welcome and not a drop of any otiH©r wine; only for that I never eould Have got throiiigli back to the castle. Just dropped in it® it." ' . •;->') "irodi: oi on"''' ov/;!i V;M1I look after my patient, whom I think I repaired, and restored, with, some efibct. THe Doctor Had His eyes fixed oa Him in Bh, Mr. Leader ?" admiration. " Indeed, I must say," said that gentle­ " That was a true incHtinct," He said ta ; man, " I never saw any one so improved. His neighbour, " and inchtinet's better than Won't you"— (this witH hesitation)—" sit science sonaetimea. I -oouldn't fcave |ire- down and Have a little luncH?" scribed anything better myself." :: " Thanks, I will: ^e jxioming has mada. . j^ Pieased w^itH this indorsement, tHougk; 8= HH^m VN

^^ 316 [September 3,1870.] ALL THB YEAR ROUND. [Conduoted by it was not addressed to him directly, moment. That was the way Lady Dash- Mr. Peto went on complacently. wood did;" and old Dick Lumley dropped " Oh, I have often told people what was his voice, and proceeded to unfold details. good for them before now," said Mr. Peto. He was, indeed, a cold, hollow, selfish old " There's nothing like a judicious amount forager, with amazing vitality and power of of champagne. The doctors prescribe it. pfushing himself. But it was people of Lady Marystone was kept alive two years title that he loved and relished. Among on it. You know that in your practice." mere plebeians he was uncomfortable, " To be sure," said the Doctor, heartily, wretched even; and some of his friends " perfectly right: at times it is worth the said that if he Could bring his mind to Dublin pharmacopoeia." On this founda^ look towards that low and levelling crea­ tion the Doctor rapidly ran up a structure ture Death, he would take care that he of acquaintanceship. should be laid genteelly as near to dear He was Hstening all the time, and heard Lord Blank as possible, or between the that this young gentleman had also under­ Honourable Dash and Sir Thomas. taken the direction of the forthcoming The Doctor, during this lunch, picked tableaux. Mrs. Leader had given him fall up, as he called it, many details ahoat powers. He was getting down Gray, the what was going on, or about to go on. eminent costumier, who arranged it all at Several young ladies had been engaged to Banffshire, where the duke had tableaux take part in these tableaux, and Mr. Peto last year; also a scenic artist, whose pictorial dwelt with rapture on the two Miss St. gifts were described very much in the same Maurs, the business of whose life such per­ way. Gradually the Doctor made his way, as formances almost seemed to be. He en­ he always contrived to do: one by one he larged on their merits with rapture, to di'ew in the people sitting round him, until which Mrs. Leader listened with an almost he got launched in one of his comic stories, mournful interest. " You see," she said, which, in spite of themselves, convulsed " it would be charming, but—but, you see, some of these genteel folk. Mrs. Leader, we don't know them." at the top of the table, was much disturbed " Oh, if that's all, I could get them for at this forward intimacy. you easily. They are not shy girls, and "Who on earth is this?" said Mr. never stand upon ceremony." Lumley, whom the laughter had inter­ This had been arranged, and Mrs, rupted. " What a strange fellow !" Leader, in a tumult of gratitude always " Oh, that—Doctor," said Mrs. Leader, for any favours that had relation to the in great distress; "a very assumptive fashionable world, could not express all person. You saw how he introduced him­ she felt to her guest. Though full of self here, . presuming on his attending purpose and clearness in other respects, on Cecil." this point she was childishly weak and " One of the boisterous Irish," said Mr. helpless. Lumley, fixing his glass in his eye—a very After the lunch there was a walk, and dim eye—for the old beau was past seventy. Mr. Cecil Leader, made a vast deal of in " Dreadful fellows to have much to do the house by every one—perhaps according with. I was at Dublin Castle, and ought to a mot d'ordre—and never left a moment to know." to himself, was absorbed into a game of "Oh, yes," said the lady, "a terrible croquet on the lawn. It seemed to the scheming person, he and his family—you Doctor that this young man was avoiding can have no idea." him, and became uneasy, always " skulk­ " Ah ! so I heard this morning. Pretty ing off"," as the Doctor called it. But, daughters, and Mr. Cecil hit hard." " easy, Peter, all in good time!" was the Mrs. Leader became confidential, and Doctor's whispered comment to himself. dropped her voice. "Oh, dreadful!" she However, he had this bit of satisfaction. went on; " you can't imagine the lengths When they were all lounging about the they have gone to about Cecil. I assure trim-shaven lawn, looking at the game, you we only just got here in time." and at a short lull in the exciting sport, " Oh, that's the old story; just a flirta­ the Doctor walked boldly up to CecU, and tion, to be forgotten to-morrow. The way said, in a loud, cheerfol voice: " Mind, would be, of course, to ignore the whole we'll expect you to dinner, Mr. Leader." thing; not to be brought to see it by any The young man looked confused, ana manner of means—a thing out of nature, then made excuses. " Oh, to-day, you and too ludicrous to be thought of a know, there's company."

* ==&> Charles Diekens, Jnn.] ERNST MORITZ ARNDT. [September 3,1870.] 317 "Oh, no excuse will be taken. Katey and with which his memory has become told me to give you the message herself." for ever associated. It was on this occa­ Cecil looked at the yoxmg lady destined sion that Amdt wrote the following letter for him, and who was now beside him. to Dr. Robert Keil, who, together with his He was dreadfully confused. Some near brother, was at that time editing a history him had caught the words. Mrs. Leader was of the student-life of Jena: coming across. He cast an imploring look at his master. Bonn, ISth of the Harvest-month, 1858. " I must be off"," said the Doctor, gaily, Jena (so ran the end of the letter) " and mind you are due, or perhaps," still celebrates within the next few days its more gaily, " I may be coming up again to third great anniversary. They have kindly look for you. Good-bye, Mrs. Leader: I invited me, an overaged man, to this festival, was telling Mr. Cecil we're keeping a but my years say to me, " Stay at home. knife and fork for him at six. My two The honour and pleasures of this great girls insist on it." festival might carry you, who are so ven­ " Oh, impossible," said the lady, con­ turesome and so easily excited, away in its temptuously, " quite impossible; he mustn't joyfal rushing tide, and wash down and think of it. He has his duties here." bear you off", you who are but a half- " Oh ! but quite possible, Mrs. Leader," withei'ed pine." I shall therefore bless said the Doctor. " He'll come, never feat*. you from the distance, and cry: " Vivat This is an old engagement. Shall I call Thuringia et omnes Thuringi et Hermun- up for you, Mr. Cecil ? All right, don't duri." forget us at six." And the Doctor bowed to all the company with great grace, and took But, notwithstanding his own compari­ his leave. There was a strange and vexed son, he was no half-withered pine. Past look on Mrs. Leader's face, and she at and firm he still stood planted in that Ger­ once went to take counsel with her hus­ man soil he had loved so truly, and he was band, and the result of the deliberations stiU fresh and strong on the 26th of De­ was made known to the Doctor in a letter cember, 1859, when his ninetieth birthday which reached him that afternoon. was celebrated as a day of rejoicing by the whole nation. He was inundated with ad­ DEAE SIE,—I beg to enclose a draft for dresses, orations, telegrams, and letters, and fifty pounds, which I trust you will con­ it was in answer to one of the letters from sider sufficient remuneration for your at­ Dr. Robert Keil that he wrote this charac­ tendance on my son during his illness. He teristic note : is now quite restored, I am happy to say, Bonn, 12 Winter-month, 1860. so we shall not have occasion for any Thanks, hearty thanks, for all your kind farther visits on your part, previous to his congratulations. I have been almost over­ •departure on a foreign tour. whelmed with good wishes, honours, and I am, sir. pleasures on my entry into my ninety-first Yours sincerely, year, and to-day I am still tired from the THOMAS LEADER. overpowering load. I will see if God in­ tends me to be a German centenarian won­ der, and will continue my pilgrimage ERNST MORITZ ARNDT. bravely.

IN the month of August, 1858, the Uni­ How powerfully do these words affect ua versity of Jena celebrated its hundredth in this year of grace, 1870, when, if he had jubilee, and it was at this festival that two lived, the good Father Arndt, and had be­ names shone out hke stars upon the past come the centenarian he spoke of, he might of the Thuringian alma mater. They were have beheld his beloved hope of seeing the those of Alexander von Humboldt and Germans united on the verge of reahsation. Ernst Moritz Arndt. Of these two, the The saying is trite that events repeat latter was absent from the festivity, to the themselves, that there is nothing new under great regret of aU present, who drank to the sun, that all things move in a cycle. the health and well-being of the great Yet it seems curiously verified just now. German patriot, poet, and historian. In­ Once more the whole German people rise sensibly, while shouting forth their en­ up as one man against the incursions of thusiastic cheers, they fell into singing the a Napoleon, and, as if further to repeat the national song he had given to Germany, similarity, the same songs that were sung

^ *^ ss ^. 318 [September 3,1870.] ALL THE YEAR ROUND. [Condnctedby by the gallant warriors of 1813-15 ring At the same time he began to preach in the once more along the length and breadth of neighboui'hood, and with such good efiect the land. It is, therefore, at this moment, that he might soon have received an ex­ when singing on all occasions his patriotic cellent living. But he turned himself away song. Was ist des Deutschen Vaterland ? from these prospects, and wished to throw (What is the German's Fatherland ?) and up theology. He wanted to see the world • feeling all the pristine intensity of the and at last, by the assistance of his father words. Wo jeder Franzmann heiszet Feind he was enabled to undertake, in 1798, an (Where every Frenchman is called Foe), eighteen months' journey through Hungary, there is surely no man whose name rises Austria, Italy, and France, returning home oftener into the people's minds than Ernst by Brussels, Frankfort, and Berhn. Moritz Amdt. Then, after many considerations as to And who was this man whom the popu­ his future career, he settled as privat lace loved so reverentially that his familiar decent in Greifswald, married a daughter appellation among them was Vater Amdt of one of the professors, and was in 1805 (Father Arndt) ? created professor himself. He was; then Ernst Moritz Amdt was bom December already a widower. 26th, 1769, at Schoritz, in the island of It was at this period of his hfe that Riigen. His father, who was a Swede of Arndt first began to be a poHtical writer. low extraction, was a nobleman's steward, The events of the time roused his hot blood who, by his own exertions, had raised him­ and filled him with anger against the self in life. Owing to the straitened cir­ French, and his first pamphlet, Germanien cumstances of Arndt's parents, and also to und Europa, he himself entitles as "no­ the remote part of the country in which they thing but a wild and fragmentary bubbling hved, he was not sent to school early in life. forth of his opinions on the world's posi­ A very strict, even stem, discipline was, tion in 1802." however, maintained in the family, and in His next literary work, Geschichte der the autumn and winter months, when the Leibeigenschaft in Pomern und Eiigen parents had less to do, they held a kind of (History of Serfdom in Pomerania and school with their children. The fether Riigen), which excited great animosity taught writing and arithmetic, the mother among the German nobility, was destined superintended the reading, which did not, to acquaint him with the pleasures and however, extend beyond the hymn-book woes to which an author was subjected; ift and the Bible. Arndt's mother needed sin­ those times. • i- gularly little sleep—a peculiarity he in­ The work was directed against a tfade herited from her, and gained him the nick­ in human beings then still carried oa in name " lark " among his brothers and these countries, the perpetrators of which sisters ; and so it happened that he would took deep offence at the book. u'i often sit up talking and reading with her " Soiiie of them," says Amdt in hi»- tiU past midnight. In the summer and autobiography, " gave the book into the spring there was httle schooling for the hands of my king, Gustav Adolf the Four­ children, except what they could learn in teenth, and showed him, underlined with the fields and woods; and at the time when red, several places in the same where I had all hands had to assist, the elder boys— made some, as they thought, too free and and Ernst was the eldest of all—had to unseemly remarks about long since de­ lend a helping hand. ceased rulers of Sweden. The gentlemen In 1780, the Arndt family changed their would have liked to involve me in an action dwelling-place for a north-western comer for high treason. The king, in his first of the island, not far from Stralsund, and anger, had sent the book with its danger-r here a master was engaged for the children. ous red pencil-marks to the then Govemot In 1787, Ernst was sent to the Gymnasium of Pomerania, and Chancellor of the at Stralsund, where he was at once placed in University of Greifswald, Freiherr von the second class, which showed that his ac­ Essen, with the command to bring the quirements were rather above than below bold author to account. General von Essen the average. After this he was sent to the invited me to Stralsund; he indicated to University of Greifswald to study theology. me who were my prosecutors, and showed Here he remained for two years, then went me the red danger marks with the question, to Jena to continue his studies there, but ' How I meant to help myself in this ugly after some months returned home to assist business, for the king seemed very angry in the education of his brothers and sisters. and disgusted ?' I begged for the book

''V =&. Charles Dickens, Jan.] ERNST MORITZ ARNDT. [Septeniber 3, IMO.] 319 and a pencil, underlined a good many animate Prussia. Every one was carried nassages in which the injustice and fearfnl- away by the tide of popular enthusiasm; ness of these circumstances were demon­ men tore theni&elves from wife and child, strated, and prayed him if he would not students left their colleges, schoolboys show these also to His Majesty. This he scarcely capable of bearing arms exchanged did, and the king answered: ' If this is j the pen for the sword. All was animation, so, the man is right.' And so I returned excitement. to Greifswald without a hair of my head Amdt, then forty-three years oldj ipei- being touched. Several years later, how­ joiced, and exclaimed, " What the song has ever, the same king- abolished tins efettoof sung has become reality;" and it was then things." • '^ii^'^i';^ ••'•J r.r. n.,, r-r.-,,.. he wrote his ever-memorable poem, Wasj In 1804, German affairs began to interest ist des Deutschen Vaterland ? In April, Arndt more and more, and he issued at 1813, Amdt followed Stein to Dresden, that time the first part of that work, since and here, in the hou«e of Appellations- become so famous, Geist der Zeit (Spirit of Rath Korner—father of Arndt's great rival the Time). As a boy, he had been brought in patriotic song, the youthfal author of up to be enthusiastic for Sweden, and; from Leier und Schwerdt (Lyre and Sword)—he his earliest years he was a monarohist. met Goethe. Goethe had come to Dresden Notwithstanding, however, that his heart en route for his yearly expedition to Carls­ was Tfery Swedish, every victory of the bad and Toplitz. He spoke hopelessly of French over the Germans cut him to the German affiiirs, and once, when old Korner soul. But it was only slowly that the feel­ was speaking of his son, pointing to his ing of how German his sympathies were sword that hung on the wall, he said, " Oh, awoke in him. Not even in the darkest good people, you may shake your chains, days, when Napoleon had trodden down all you cannot break them; the man is too Germany under his relentless iron heel, did great for you." Arndt despair of its ultimate resurrection— After the battle of Leipzig appeared its better future and greatness. It was in Arndt's pamphlet DerRhein, Deutschland's this mood he published his Geist der Zeit, Strom aber nicht Deutechland's Grenae which determined his whole future career. (the Rhine, Gemaany's Stream, but not In it he comforted sorrowing Germany, and Germany's Bloundary). In 1818, he pub­ tried to animate it with hope. After the lished the fourth part of his Geist der Zeit, battle of Jena, he left Trantow, where he which gave umbrage at court, and in 1820 had been Working, for such a French hater he was suspended from his position as pro­ as he could no longer feel himself safe there. fessor of modem history at Bonn, whither And when, in 1809, the house of Wasa fell, he had been called in 1818. He was and the French general^ Bernadotte, was subjected to an examination for high called to the throne, Amdt would no treason, which lasted until the summer of longer stay in Stockholm. He went to 1822; he was, however, acquitted, but Berlin, and lived there, as a master of lan­ compelled to retire into private Hfe. The guages, under the name of Alhnann. In following years he wrote more than ever, 1812 he went to Russia, which at that and his love for his Vaterland remained time was the centre of all the excitement unshaken. for Germany and German life. He went It was happily destined to be rewarded, there by invitation of the Freiherr von for the first great a-ct of justice worthy (rfa Stein, who had been driven into banish­ king, performed by Frederick William the ment by Napoleon, and who knew Arndt Fourth after his accession, was formally to only from his writings. reinstate Amdt in the professorate. It was a curious sign of the times that "At last," he tells us in his autobiogra­ the men of freedom had to seek their asylum phy, "came the year 1840, when King in Russia! • ^'i '-i'l-'—•ccj.Bij-.ii;) rii ^.i/oy/ufa' Frederick Wilham the Fourth reinstated Here Steia', '^ATisftfc,~&nd' Seveipal i^ers, me. Twenty years I had lain stiU, like old worked for the institution of a German iron, and rusted. I was over seventy, too legion; in short, Russia, in the winter of old for a fresh living mouth. In the age 1812, was the hearth on which the enthu­ when all the wisest descend the chair of in­ siasm for German freedom was fanned. struction, I was to ascend it to speak. I Once more Arndt swept his lyre, and heart- hesitated and hesitated, in the feelang that stirring songs, powerfully exciting broad­ my trumpet was blasted long ago, that it sides, were the result. After Napoleon's was an os magna sooans; no longer, that I retreat from Moscow, a new life seemed to oouM b© merely a sounding name for the =P T^mrr^sa y^ "^ X 320 [September 3,1870.] ALL THE YEAR ROUND. [Conducted by university without tone. But my position read his verses without becoming infected was such that refusal of the royal grace by his enthusiasm, and inspired by his would have been looked upon as obstinacy. earnestness. I therefore accepted, and let myself be led once more on to the long barred academic INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITIONS. - chair. Then I obtained, besides other signs of royal grace, the retxuTi of all my IT is unfortunate for the working-men papers, for which I had often begged in that their International Industrial Exhi­ vain." bition at Islington should be contempo­ Arndt's reinstabnent was greeted with raneous with the terrible war which has joyfal acclamations by the town of Bonn, broken out on the Continent. This is one the Rhinelands, aye, of all Germany. He among the minor evUs which spiing from resumed his lectures, which were attended war; the graver national miseries we do by enthusiastic audiences, who listened not touch upon here. There might have with delight to his vigorous and animated been more articles sent from the Con­ discourses. tinent for exhibition if peace and industry His last years were spent quietly among had continued to rule, and thereby more his family ; he lived in a pretty house of facilities afforded for instituting compari­ his own building, with a splendid view over son between English handicraft and that the Rhine towards the Siebengebirge. He of foreign countries. Then, again, a period had married again, and this time his wife of war excitement is not conducive to the was Marie Schleiermacher, sister of the success of an exhibition in a financial sense. famous Schleiermacher, a brave, true wo­ When we are tempted by several editions man, who bore pleasure and pain nobly of the newspapers every day, each ushered with her noble husband. in by startling placards relating to the Quietly, and without pain, Arndt passed scenes of war and the intrigues of diplo­ away on the 29th of January, 1860; he was macy, we are scarcely in the mood to baried under a stately oak in a grave of his ramble quietly among objects of peaceful own choosing. May the earth be light to industry, and to judge dispassionately of the good fighter ! He had seen his people the comparative merits of the various sunk in deepest oppression; he had watched, articles displayed. Nay, the very word aided, and encouraged them in their revi­ international becomes distorted at such a val. Arndt, as we have said before, was a time; seeing that we cannot fail to be in­ monarchist, and he remained so through dignant against some (at least) of the all chances and changes ; he had not even nations which have plunged Europe into an idea of theoretic repubhcanism ; his ideal the horrors of carnage and destruction. was a united Germany, under a king or And yet such an exhibition as that which emperor, with the smaUer powers as vassals, has been on view at the Agricultural HaU is and this ideal he held to the last. He interesting in many points of view. It marks often prayed that the time might at length one stage in a double inquiry—how far can be at hand when the legend should be ful­ industrial exhibitions be made more and filled, and Barbarossa should awake from more international, and how far can they his long sleep under the earth, break his be planned and carried out by working- rocky grave, and call aU Germany together men ? Those who are old enough to have once more. As an indication whence he participated in the gay doings of nineteen looked for this regenerator may serve his years ago, wUl well remember the first broadside, entitled Noch eine kleine Aus- really Great Exhibition of aU Nations, held gieszung in die Siindfluth, in which he in Sir Joseph Paxton's palace of glass in vindicated the Prussian claims to German Hyde Park in 1851. Two years afterwards sovereignty. This, like all his poUtical two others were held, smaller in scale, but tracts, was full of fiery eloquence, and, scat­ analogous in character—one in Dubhn, and tered in himdreds of thousands over the the other at New York. They were not land, did more than aught else to awaken successful commercially, for reasons which the national consciousness of the Germans, need not be traced here; but they fami­ and to inflame popular indignation against liarised Ireland and America with the idea the French yoke. He has also left a goodly of international industrial exhibitions. Then volume of poems, not all of which are poh- came the imperial display at Paris in 1855, tical, though those are his best, possessing still more extensive than that which Prince that wonderfully powerful stir and swing Albert had been instrumental in forming which lyrics must possess to become truly in Hyde Park four years before. This was popular and national. It is impossible to followed by our International Exhibition at /

\^ Charles Dickens, Jmi.] INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITIONS. [September 8,1870.] 321 Bromptonin 1862, the Dublin Exhibition in dom have done something in this way. Some 1865, and the Paris Exhibition in 1867— of the towns of Holland, France, Belgium, the last being the greatest ever held in any Italy, and other foreign countries have, in a country, both in the vastness of the build­ similar wav, had their local exhibitions of ing and the number and valueof the articles industry once, if not more frequently. exhibited. Next came the Amsterdam In­ One of the best of its kind was the Havre ternational Exhibition of 1869, small com­ Maritime Exhibition of 1868, where every­ pared with the others, but creditable to a thing relating to the sea and the river, country having so limited an area as Hol­ the boat and the ship, the fish and the land. And now, if present promises are fish-nursery, the aquarium and the marine to be followed by due folfilment, we are plant, the sailor and the fisherman, the to have a series of annual international ex­ net and the hook, was veiy pleasantly hibitions in a new buUding at South Ken­ illustrated. And another (although our sington, the first to take place in 1871; distance from it shut us out from much each collection to be international in cha­ knowledge of it) was the recent Moscow racter, all foreign and colonial countries Exhibition, peculiarly national or ethnogra­ being invited to take part in it; but each phical in a Slavonic sense. to be Umited in range, by selecting some The workmen, the journeymen, the only among the various branches of in­ operatives, the mechanics, the artisans (call dustry to be illustrated. them which we may), receiving weekly To France seems to be due the credit of wages for their weekly labour, had scarcely having been the first to introduce industrial anything to do with the organisation of the exhibitions on any considerable scale, re­ several exhibitions above noticed. If not lating either to one particular country, or set on foot, supported, and managed by to one city or district in that country. The governments, these industrial displays were first was held at Paris in 1798, just when commenced by town councils or muni­ France was changing from Jacobinism to cipalities ; if not by them, then by the lead­ Napoleonism: it consisted chiefly of articles ing manufacturers of a particular locaUty, of art manufacture, borrowed for the occa­ men who were able to subscribe a fand to sion from wealthy owners, and not contri­ meet preliminary expenses, and who could buted by manufacturers. Another was held lend beautifal specimens of workmanship in 1802; and for the next half-century out of the ample stores in their shops, such exhibitions were held at intervals of warehouses, and showrooms. It is ob­ three years, except during certain periods viously a difficult thing for working-men to of political intorruption. By this means organise and carry out any scheme of this the French, and the Parisians especially, kind. If their time be worth (say) six­ became accustomed to the sight of objects of pence an hour, it becomes a serious matter art manufacture, which (there can be little for them to devote many hours to such doubt) has contributed towards the culti­ a project. If only the hours after work vation of artistic taste among manufac­ be devoted, there must be many helpers turers and workmen. In England the in­ and many evenings before much progress dustrial exhibitions (setting aside those of can be made. A Working-Man's Indus­ an international character already adverted trial Exhibition may be interpreted in two to) have been of two kinds; they have ways; it may either mean an exhibition related either to some particular town or planned and maintained almost whoUy by district, or to some particular trade or working-men; or it may mean an e^ibi- branch of manufacture; indeed, some of tion fostered and guaranteed by persons of them have been limited to one district and ampler means, but for the express purpose to one trade. The Cornish Polytechnic So­ of identifying the actual workman with the ciety for a long period held annual exhibi­ excellence of the work produced, instead of tions of everything relating to the mining allowing the honour to go (as it usually of copper and tin, specimens of the ores does) to the employer or the shopkeeper. and products, and models and drawings of It may be well to glance briefly at what the machinery. Manchester has held more has been done, under both these aspects, in than one exhibition of cotton and ma­ past years. chinery, Leeds of cloth and flax, Birming­ In the spring of 1864 was opened the ham of metal goods and trinkets, Dublin of South London Working Classes Industrial popUns and other Irish produce, Liverpool Exhibition—rather a lengthy designation. of articles of commerce, and so on. Cork It was held at the Lambeth Baths, the had its local exhibition in 1852; and, in­ large swimming-bath being cleaned out, deed, most of the chief towns in the king- and made to do duty as an exhibition- y >r ^ 322 [September 3,1870.] ALL THE YEAR ROUND. [Condacted by room. Several gentlemen connected with in view was not so much to display the Surrey Chapel aided in setting the affair skUl of workmen in theu' own particular afloat, but the working - men themselves trades, as to bring together a collection undertook the greater part of the manage­ Hkely to attract and interest general visitors. ment. With twopence as the admission The committee, in assuming that the greater fee, and one penny for a catalogue, there portion of the articles exhibited would con­ was nothing in the way of cost to frighten sist of amateur contributions, took the fol­ away working-men's families, who were spe- lowing view of the average condition of work­ ciaUy desired as visitors. It was modestly ing-men in relation to such matters: "An stated at the outeet, that " as this exhibi- artisan seldom chooses as a recreation thai , tion can only be considered in the light of branch of industry of which his daUy occu­ an experiment, and is mainly managed by pation consists. If actively or laboriously working-men, it is earnestly hoped that all employed during the day, drawing, painting, who in any way take part in it wiU en­ or model-making is generally practised to deavour to make the experiment a suc­ occupy his leisure hours; while he who cess." There were about one hundred and foUows a sedentary occupation almost in^ fifty exhibitors, mostly working-men re- variably resorts to some more active method , siding on the Surrey side of the water. of utUising his spare time." There wag The articles contributed were, for con­ evidently here a desire to encourage in^ venience of arrangement and inspection, genuity in amateur work, rather than to placed under seven classes, designated use­ develop the skill of each artisan in his own ful, ingenious, scientific, artistic, Hterary, particular trade. The committee adopted a curious, ornamental, and amusing. There mode of classification different to that which was no lack of the curious and amusing, had prevailed at Lambeth; they grouped for some of the men certainly exercised the articles under the headings profes­ their brains in the production of pleasant sional workmanship, amateur productions, conceits. One exhibitor, a tin-plate worker, inventions and novel contrivances, mecha­ displayed a "perfect cure" chimney-top, nical models, architectural and ornamental for smoky chimneys; an all-in-one coal­ models, artistic objects, ladies' work of all scuttle, for twelve daily purposes: a corru­ kinds, and (that most unsatisfactory of gated conical smoky chimney cure; an anti- all groups) miscellaneous. The exhibition hard egg-boiling saucepan, which lifted out was really a curious and attractive one, the egg when properly cooked; and a thief and drew such crowds of visitors that the detector, to strike a light, ring a bell, and proceeds left a handsome surplus after aU pnll a chain across the door if a burglary expenses were defrayed. In the same year be attempted. Another exhibitor made an a small but curious industrial coUection apparatus competent to wake a sleeper, was exhibited by the Painters' Company, strike a mateh, light a lamp, and boU a cup at their hall in one of the small dusl^ of coff"ee. Another displayed a mechanical streets in the City. It was intended " to pump, with a miniature man who pumped stimulate the exertions of those engaged in up a glass of lemonade whenever a visitor the painting trade," and comprised speci­ dropped a halfpenny into a particular box. mens of four kinds of work—decoration, These oddities attracted quite as much at­ graining, marbUng, and writing. It was a tention as the really good specimens of very good attempt within ite prescribed manufactured work. limits. The small affair at South Lambeth having These doings in 1864 led to immense paid ite small expenses, and gratified a con­ activity in 1865, when no less than eight siderable number of visitors, suggested industrial exhibitions were held in the another attempt in another part of the metropoHs, some special, but mostly gene­ metropoHs. This was held at the Agricul­ ral. One was the Coachmakers' Industrial tural Hall, IsHngtoh, in the autumn of the Exhibition, held at Coachmakers' HaU; same year, and was called the North London another, the South London, an improver Working Classes Industrial Exhibition. It ment on the former display in Lambeth; a was a bold step to engage so large a hall; third, the Model Lodging Houses Indus­ but as the applications for space were very trial Exhibition, at St. Martin's Hall, con­ numerous, the managers ventured to do so ; sisting of ingenious articles made by the in­ and the result justified their determination. mates of model dwellings; a fourth, the There were eight hundred and sixty ex­ West London, held at the Floral Hall, hibitors, mostly residing in the northern Co vent Garden; a fifth, the South-Eastem, part of the metropolis. It was frankly held, by official permission, in the Painted admitted from the -outset that the object HaU at Greenwich Hospital 3 a sixth,'the =&> Charles Dickens, Jan.] INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITIONS. [September 3,1870.] 323

North-Eastem, held at the Agricultural man element. If it should meet with only HaU; a seventh, the East London, held at partial success we need not feel much sur­ the Beaumont Institution, MUe-end; and the prised ; for there are ma-ny difficulties at­ eighth held at the Crystal Palace, under the tending such an enterprise. Considering designation of the Anglo-French Working- the expense and trouble of bringing articles Class Exhibition of Skilled Work, intended of exhibition from Italy, the Netherlands, "to celebrate the fiftieth year of peace Germany, Austria, and Bavaria, we may between two powerful nations in a manner rather marvel that the number of foreign at once appropriate and suggestive." Of exhibitors is so high as seven hundred and these several exhibitions each had some­ forty, than that it is no higher. It does thing to say for itself. At Coachmakers' not appear that workmen are the chief ex­ HaU the articles exhibited bore relation to hibitors ; but an endeavour has been made one particular trade. At Lambeth the dis­ to identify the skilled artisan with his work play was an amplified edition of that in by mentioning his name as well as that of the preceding year. At St. Martin's Hall his employer, who is usuaUy the exhibitor. the exhibition was only open a fortnight, As to the classification or grouping, it is a and made no pretension to formal clas­ curious fact that no two exhibitions of the sification of the articles exhibited. At the kind now under description ever agree; as Floral Hall there was rather a strong sure as there is a new exhibition, so sure ia it element of West-end support to the exhibi­ that there wUl be a new classification. The tion; the articles were grouped in eight number and names of the classes at the divisions, and there were upwards of a present Agricultural Hall display need not thousand exhibitors. At Greenwich the be given here; but we will just mention, primary rule was observed, that " no article that MisceUaneous being thrown into the be exhibited which is not the work or de­ same group with Food and Raw Materials, sign of the exhibitor," a real carrying out can hardly be deemed a happy juxtaposi­ of the theory of a working-man's exhibi­ tion. Another matter we may mention is, tion. At the Agricultiiral Hall the ar­ that of three hundred and sixty pictures rangements bore much resemblance to those lent for exhibition as a means of covering of the exhibition at the same place in the vacant spaces of waU, nearly all have the preceding year. At MUe-end the East- names of great masters attached to them in enders contrived to get together a small the catalogue, but with nothing to denote collection of curious industrial miscellanies. whether the pictures are to be understood At the Crystal Palace the commodities ex­ as painted by, or merely copied from, the hibited belonged chiefiy to the rank of art eminent artists named. The catalogue ought manufactures, and were contributed by to tell the truth on this point. shopkeepers rather than by workmen. The mention of artisans' names, just ad­ The year 1866 was less busy. There verted to, has been adopted by many of were only two industrial exhibitions worth the foreign exhibitors. Thus, in connexion noticing, the City of London, and the Me­ with a display of patent skates from Stutt­ tropoHtan and Provincial. The former, gart, eight workmen are named, with a held in GuildhaU by permission of the. Cor­ notification of the kind of labour under­ poration, consisted of about a thousand taken by each. Griillmeyer, a metal-worker exhibits, which the committee elaborated at Vienna, names the workman employed into no fewer than thirty-three distinct on each article. So does Dorner, the piano­ classes. The Metropolitan and Provincial forte maker of Wurtemburg. The Midland was the third of the exhibitions held at the Railway Company adopts a similar plan in Agricultural Hall, and was supplemented regard to locomotives made at Derby, the by contributions from the provinces. The names of no less than thirty-seven artisans years 1867 and 1868 were nearly blank, being named. Several engineering and possibly because working-men were much cutlery fijrms do tiie Hke. A watchmaker in engaged in the discussion of poUtical ques­ Clerkenwell records the names of the men tions at that time. In 1869 was held the who made the movement, dial, escapement, third of the Lambeth exhibitions, with balance, and case of each watch, as weU pretty nearly the same characteristics as as the finisher and examiner. And, not to before. be outdone in this kind of justice, an Thus it wiU be seen that working-men's embroidered petticoat is catalogued with exhibitions, more or less worthy of the the names of seven women or girls who name, have been pretty numerous. But were engaged upon it. One object contem­ the present is the first attempt to combine plated by the committee was to contribute the international element with the work- articles, such as a watch or a piano, " show- y ^ X

324 [September 3,1870.] ALL THE YEAR ROUND. [Conducted by ing in a complete series the various parts in every engagement of magnitude, fought which workmen are severaUy employed and through the length and breadth of states the various steps by which it approaches that, individually, might have compared completion." This has not been carried with many European kingdoms in size and out to any great extent, but something of extent. the kind has been done. As to the " dish It may be interesting, at this time, to the to prevent dishonest bakers from purloin­ reader, before I relate some personal ex­ ing," it is one of the queer conceits sure perience of one of the hardest stricken fields to find entrance into such a coUection; as of the American war, to hear something to the large equatorial telescope made by a of the bearing of a young army, on the baker, it is really a remarkable specimen night preceding its first great battle, that of amateur workmanship; as to the speci­ of Manassas. This passage of arms I wit­ mens lent by the India Department and the nessed from the Northern side, not having South Kensington Museum, they are such yet succeeded in reaching the Southern as we have all seen elsewhere; as to the lines. It must be remembered that the ItaHan sculptures, many of them are very troops composing both armies were mainly beautiful; and as to the bazaar-like trin­ volunteers, who had never heard a shot kets, they call for no notice. Taking the fired in anger, and in the Federal ranks,, display as a whole, however—despite the with the exception of the foreign mer­ disturbing influences of war—it marks an cenaries, none had met the enemy face to interesting stage in the recognition of the face. Through the courtesy of one of the workman element in industrial exhibitions. Northern commanders, I was enabled to accompany the Federal army to the field, and foUow its movements tUl driven back WANING. in a routed condition on Washington. THE autumn days are waning, and the gold is on the leaf, My first bivouac-experiences with an The gold and crimson tint that paints with splendour American army contrasted strangely with bright and brief the finished professional manner of the The grand old oaks. The copper-red is on the bending beech. French and Sardinians, with whom I hai The brown nuts rustle ripe and full above the school­ recently been campaigning, and even with boy's reach. the irregular style of doing business of the The swallows gather 'neath the eaves; the first dull Garibaldini, whose legions I had accom­ cloudy day panied in SicUy and Southern Italy. Shortly Will bear them all, on eager wings, to sunnier climes away: after darkness had shrouded the camp, tho So is it oft, with us, alas! Our brief bright summer whole of our division was disturbed and ends. Comes winter resolute and stern; away troop summer thrown into more or less confusion by a friends. rattling fire of musketry, and it was not The last rose blushes on her stem, in beauty all alone. many seconds before I had shaken off" my Weeps summer gone, and sighs upon her solitary blanket and risen to my feet, with the full throne; conviction, that a night attack was being So is it with us at life's end. What reck, or pomp, or gold. made by the Southerners, whom we knew If hairs grow grey, and we without some light of love, to be scarcely five miles from us. General grow old? Slocum, who had offered me such hospitaHty Pray God, there be not, one of us, whoever he may be, as his commissariat admitted of, and by Without some friend whom he may love, some child upon his knee! whose side I was lying, quietly smoking, True love and friendship ever shine, with lustre all when the alarm rang out, rushed to the their own, skirt of wood in which his men were Since man was never made to live, and work, and die— alone! camped, and from whence the firing came, and found that his pickets had been scared by the pickets from a Maine brigade,, LOST WITH THE DEAD. bivouacked in the clearing beyond, and, neither waiting to challenge, both had in THE recollections that crowd upon my mortal terror blazed away into each other. memory as I watch day by day the atti­ Fortunately little or no harm was done, th© tude of France and Prussia, carry me back shooting being of the wildest description. to the battle-fields of 1859-60 in Europe, Almost immediately following this Hvely but more especially to the lengthened con­ episode, an orderly rode up to General flict between the Northern and Southern Slocum, and handed him an order, which sections of the great American people. soon put the camp in another bustle. The For nearly four years I assisted at almost instructions were for his brigade to be. =XPb Charles DioUens, Jnn.] LOST WITH THE DEAD. [September 8,1870.] 325 under arms by two o'clock on the foUow­ waggon, and the scenes around it bore ing morning, and by half-past to form up strong evidence against the dignity and in the position assigned to it on the main courage of man, and burlesqued the glorious road. Men from each regiment were at circumstance and pomp of war. The once to cook three days' rations, and doctor, lantern in hand, was examining fires were built up and replenished for men who had come forward almost by that purpose. Whilst the commissary ser­ companies to assert their inability to geants were issuing the meat, of which, move with the troops, and their utter perhaps, few would stand in need, detach­ uselessness in the coming fight. The ments were sent to the springs for water. rays of the doctor's Hght, when lifted to Somewhat excited and disincHned for the patients' faces, led one to imagine rest, I strolled among the busy groups, there was some foundation for their state­ glancing at recumbent men who, unable to ments, for never did I gaze on features sleep, were watching, in the red glalre of more pale or eyes more restless. At the the blazing wood, the preparations for their surgeon's request whole brigades of tongues first battle-field. Instead of the usual riotous were protruded for examination, but most conduct of a camp, there was an oppressive of these were discovered to have been solemnity, most of the watchers being busy floured for the occasion. The favourite with their thoughts of distant homes and dodge of all was evidently the "rheu- the chances of the morrow; instead of matiz," which owed its popularity to the laughter and noise, there were dull whisper­ well-known suddenness of its attacks, and ings. Some, more energetic than others, the inability of a medical man, especially were giving utterance to their thoughts on under hurried circumstances, to "bowl paper, seeking, as the flame rose and fell out" the impostor, who, with excruciating from the cooking-fires, to hold their—per­ shrieks at every touch, writhed under the haps—last converse with absent friends. manipulations of the surgeon. I distinctly remember the case of one Patrick Meenig- The faces I saw that night in the flickering han, an Irishman from New York, who glare would have been a study for Lavater. was brought up for examination, having The penmen, with boards across their relays of fits on the way. The wretched knees to serve as desks, would pause at man was foaming fearfuUy at the mouth, intervals, and, peering into the glowing his eyes roUing, and every Hmb quivering embers, seek earnestly for some halting with the spasms of his malady. One glance thought. Others, extended at length, with sufficed to convince the doctor the case was their heads propped up by their elbows, genuine, and he was about to pass the were staring vacantly into the darkness of affiicted wretch to the care of the ambu­ the night. There were some old soldiers, lance sergeant, when, unfortunatoly for Pat, not to be mistaken, whose moustached he gave a sudden gulp, his hands pressed features told of French or German nation­ his collapsing stomach, his stare became ality ; men who had perhaps met with the fixed, whUst the frothing at the mouth Kabyles in the deserts of Africa, or had sensibly diminished, and retching violently marched with the Austrians in the cam­ he exclaimed, with choking voice, " Holy paign against Hungary, or, under Benedek, Vargin! I've swallowed the soap!" Out through the plains of Lombardy. These, of a hundred or so from one regiment with the recklessness of old cartridge- claiming exemption from the coming battle, chewers, shuffled their dirty packs, and some half-dozen genuine cases were handed puff'ed their clouds of smoke, as they over to the hospital orderHes, and the others studied their hands of cards. But, taken driven back vrith taunts and curses to their altogether, there was a depression about places in the ranks. The orders were now the men, as though some grave uncertainty for the men to move silently to the road threatened them with evil, and each feared without beat of drum, so that the move­ it might be his lot to suffer. As I have ment might be hidden as long as possible said before, it was mainly an army of un­ from the vigUance of the enemy. tried volunteers. At two o'clock A.M. the damp drums Crowded together on that road, awaiting croaked the reveUle in the chUl of early instructions to advance as soon as the lead­ morn. The shivering men moved spectre- ing columns should have taken the routes hke in the thick mist that shrouded the assigned to them, paused the army in the camp, and answered to the muster-roU darkness of early mom and the stiU darker in subdued voices. Close by where I had gloom of uncertainty. The order for passed the short night stood the doctor's sUence in the ranks need scarcely have X O^r

326 [September 3,1870.] ALL THB YEAR ROUND. [Conduotedby been given, for no babbUng tongues broke baggage trains in the rear, not a eound in on the depression which seemed to jarred the stUl air as I settled myself to weigh on all alike. One might almost sleep. have fancied the men were stUl asleep, so It appeared to me that I had only just quiet were they with heads bowed on the glided into the unconsciousness of slumbei, hands which clutched their rifies. Even when an unusual sound disturbed me, and the mounted officers sat motionless upon made me restless. I grew uncomfortable, their horses, some with their foreheads and threw my head from side to side, and stooping to the saddle bow; and from at last became thoroughly aroused. There whispering sounds that escaped their Hps was no mistaking what had awakened me, they might have been praying. for I saw it strike the ground some few Some two years later, when these soldiers yards in front of where we were lying. of the people had grown veterans in the It was a three-inch rifled sheU, but fortu­ art of destruction, their bearing prior to a nately for us it did not explode, and only battle had changed considerably. Where thudded into the soft earth. I twitched «t they had no stomachs for fighting before, Goree's blanket, and told him " to wake up, they had now become very gluttons, and for we were being shelled," to which he, ia slept as soundly in their bivouacs, await­ the coolest possible manner, replied: " I ing the reveille that was to awake them know it; they've been at it some time." perhaps to death, as ever they did in their But the missUes were now coming fast own beds in peaceful times. It was not­ and furious, and to think of any further ably so with the Southerners, whom I had rest was out of the question, so we rose in joined shortly after the commencement of anything but a good temper, yawning and hostilities, that this great improvement had shivering to our feet. It was scarcely taken place. A long list of victories— dawn, and a heavy veil of mist clung though mostly barren ones—had given around the hUl, making our plateau aa them confidence in their prowess, and they island in a gauzy sea. It was impossible to cheerfully prepared to meet the fresh discover the battery from which the sheUs armies which the North was for ever came; all we knew was that they were placing in the field. being plentifully supplied at the rate of Some two years later, then, I was hasten­ about half a dozen a minute. WhUst I ing westwards with a detachment of troops was staring through the vapour in the belonging to Longstreet's corps, anxious to direction from whence the firing proceededj reach the general in time to assist at a General McLaws made his appearance great battle which threatened in the neigh­ from his tent, in somewhat scanty costume, bourhood of Chattanooga. The pickets of to inquire into the cause of the hubbub, the rival annies had been engaged daily, but he was speedily satisfied, for one of and a collision between the entire forces these hollow bolts went through the can­ was imminent. Tired and dusty, I came vas, and buried itself in the warm nest up with the head-quarters of the first army of blankets from which he had just corps bivouacked on the summit of a hill emerged. A few seconds sooner and the in a small enclosure that surrounded a general would have been caught napping* planter's house. The paUngs that fenced At the apex of this smaU hill, not mord off" the ground had been torn down, and a than an acre in extent, were massed, as I battery, with the men lying by the guns, have stated, a regiment of infantry in and infantry supports sleeping on their support of a battery of artUlery, and it is arms, now formed the only fence. A wonderfal to me, considering that shot and couple of tents had been pitched on the shell were whizzing in all directions, that^ lawn for the accommodation of Generals not one of the staff" was hurt, and, indeed^ Longstreet and McLaws, and around, that the list of casualties should have com­ covered by blankets, and their heads prised only two killed and a few wounded. pillowed on saddles, lay sleeping the mem­ The family residing in the house had taken bers of the staff". The only person dis­ refuge in the cellar, where they could Hsten turbed by my late arrival was Captain to the merry crashing going on above their Goree, who found me a covering, and I heads as the solid shot tore through the was soon stretched out Hke the rest. Con­ scantling of the wood-constructed budding; sidering that a large army was bivouacked As though undisturbed by the din, in line of battle, we being near the left General Longstreet completed his toUet centre, the sUence was remarkable; for before issuing from his tent, and when he beyond the occasional neighing or stamp­ sauntered up to our circle, he was calmly ing of the horses, and the dull rumbling of filling his morning pipe. With a smUing :&) Charles Dickens, J\in.} LOST WITH THE DEAD. [September 3,1870.] 327 face he glanced at the dodging crowd, who close on to each other. When the field were bowing poHtely to the missiles as they batteries did get a chance of working into passed overhead, and asking what chances position, and shelling the woods in front, there were of a cup of coff"ee, ordered the the autumn dryness of the chaparal caused negroes to mend the fire and prepare some. it to take fire, and the wounded were left Then observing me for the first time, he to be burnt, or rather roasted, where they greeted me heartily, and congratulated me felL The shrieks rising from the licking on the warmth of my reception, for at that flames, that snapped, and crackled, and moment the firing became hotter than roared even above the din of musketry, ever, causing the negro servants, whose were frightful to listen to, and as neither business it was to get breakfast, to scatter side could render help, they went on fight­ in aU directions. A quarter-master from ing across these streams of fire, endea­ the rear now galloped up to General Long- vouring to drown by their shouts and rifles street for instructions, and scarcely had he the piteous yells of agony that rose from reined in his horse than a shell passed the charred and seething mass. Finally, under the animal's belly, and crashed into the vietoay was to remain with the Con­ a shanty close by. Both the brute and the federates, who, in one huge wave, over­ rider were somewhat astonished.at this, the lapping either flank of the retiring columns one leaping into the air and snorting with of the enemy, swept forward and drovfe terror, and the other staring round him the Northern forces peU-meU through the with such a scared expression of comical passes which led down to the vaUey of the wonderment that we all burst out laughing. Tennessee river, on which stood the town "I reckon this is no place for quarter­ of Chattanooga. Now guns were rapidly masters," was all he said, and away he brought to the front, and as the retreating went quicker than he came. Federals got jammed in the narrow open­ And then was fought the battle of Chica- ings of the hUls, jthey were worked with maugha, probably more decisive in its im­ deadly eff'ect. At length the retreat grew mediate results than any other victory into a panic, and entire brigades, herding acliieved by the Confederates, but unfortu­ like frightened sheep through the passes, nately for the South, the general command­ threw aside their arms, and made the best ing-in-chief seemed incapable of appreciat­ of their way into Chattanooga. ing the fuU extent of his success. The Early in the action, a very dear friend of shattered columns of the enemy, instead of mine, a young Englishman who had taken being followed up, were allowed to raUy on service with the South, was wounded, and Chattanooga, where, in a short time, they I saw him made comfortable and carried to made themselves impregnable, and the the rear. At the close of the battle, when war, instead of being nearer, its eaid, was the last gun had been fired, and wha± only prolonged. A] OO'^V/ f-T

^ ^ Charles Dickens, Jun,] FRONTIER TOWNS OF FRANCE. [September 3, i87a] 329 Nancy has been called the prettiest town sui'ed and despised his enterprises. The of France, and it certainly excels its rival king of France had lent the Duke of Lor­ towns in the same province—Metz, Verdun, raine four hundred thousand francs to hire LuneviUe, Chateau SaHns, and Epinal— Swiss soldiers, and had also sent a body of by its cleanliness, and by a certain air of eight hundred lances and Frank archers to distinction becoming the old capital of Barrels to observe matters. The King of the Dukes of Lorraine. The buildings are Portugal, visiting the Duke of Burgundy's regular and harmonious; the streets are camp, the duke pressed him to stay and broad and spacious. The great epoch in defend the pass of Pont a Mousson, but the the history of Lorraine, and therefore of king refused, having only come to France Nancy, was in the reign of that arch hypo­ to obtain help against Ferdinand of CastUle crite Louis the Eleventh. The story is weU (Columbus's Ferdinand). told by Commines. In 1475, the ambitious The Duke of Lorraine now hurried from and restless Charles the Bold, Duke of Bur­ St. Nicholas, and advanced to give battle gundy, longing to open a passage through to Burgundy, and that same day Campo­ Luxembourg into Burgundy to sui'round his basso went over to the enemy with eight territories, and make it all his own riding- score men-at-arms. A draper of Mirecourt ground from Lyons to Holland, invested instantly clambered into Nancy, that was Nancy. What followed is a chapter from near surrender, to entreat them to hold out, Anne of • Geierstein. One of the duke's and the Duke of Lorraine presently threw captains—a rascally ItaHan refugee, called men and provisions into Nancy, for the the Count of Campobasso, who had come Duke of Burgundy had only four thousand from Naples with four hundred lances— men, and only twelve hundred of these had offered the Duke of Lorraine to pro­ were in a condition to fight, and the head­ long the siege by allowing the Burgundian strong Duke of Burgundy was advised to army to run short of ammunition and other retire to Pont a Mousson, and the towns necessary supplies. This scoundrel had round Nancy, Lorraine wquld, it was urged, also promised, through a physician of wanting money, retire, and the duke could Lyons, to betray the duke and hand him recruit his forces with the four hundred over as a prisoner to Louis the Eleventh, and fifty thousand crowns he had ready in who, however, acquainted Charles with the the Castle of Luxembourg; but the madman treason, which he would not believe, know­ resolved to rush like a bull on his enemies, ing how full Louis was of tricks and arti­ and gore them or perish. To the Count de fices. In the mean time, just before Nancy Chimaz, who advised retreat, Charles said surrendered, the duke, cruelly defeated by insultingly: the Swiss at Granson and Morat, and for­ " I deny what you say, but if I were saken by his alHes, sank into a suUen to fight alone, I would fight aU the same. melancholy, from which he never quite re­ You are what you are, and show clearly covered, so much did he take his losses to that you are sprung from the house of heart. While he thus sulked, the Duke of Vaudr^mont." Lorraine took Vaud6mont and Epinal, and The Germans, to their credit, being un­ besieged Nancy, in which town there were willing to receive such a traitor as Campo­ three hundred EngHsh and twelve hundred basso, that rascal retired to the Castle of Burgundians, who, afraid of the towns­ Conde, where he fortified the pass with people, and driven to eat horse-flesh, were carts, hoping to swoop down like a carrion constantly tormented with as many as crow for plunder, if the Duke of Burgundy twenty-one shots a day from two bom­ should be defeated. He had also left men bards, one culverin, and several serpentines, in Charles's ranks who were to desert him which eventually (such was their "remorse­ in the charge, and others who were to fell less fury") broke down a gate and upset a on and murder him in the rout. wall. The Duke of Lorraine and his ten All happened as might have been fore­ thousand Swiss made it an unpleasant time seen. The duke's scared, faint - hearted for Nancy; so the EngHsh, tired of the army broke at the first shock of spears and siege and the Duke of Burgundy's delay, halberds. The duke was knocked off his big surrendered the place just three days before black horse and feU into a ditch, near the their tardy master arrived to reHeve them. marsh of St. John, where a statue now Afterwards, and in the depth of winter, marks the spot. A knight named Claude the Duke of Burgundy besieged Nancy de Bausemont, coming up, gave the fallen with a mutinous, iU-paid, iU-provided army man a lance-thrust, whUe others clove him that, since he had been unfortunate, cen- down with halberds and pierced him with

•V 330 September 3, 1870] ALL THB YEAR ROUND. [Oondaotedljr pikes. A page who saw him killed found Stanislas, however, was too tremendous a the body stripped and lying among the dead. person to be buried among other dukes It was buried by order of Rene, Dnke of and must needs have a place all to him­ Lorraine, with great magnificence in St. self and his wife in the Church of Notre George's Church at Nancy. " I saw," says Dame de Bon Secours, which he rebuUt in Commines, in his minute, chatty way, " a 1738. The original building had been seal-ring of his, after his death, at Milan, reared by Duke Rene, to commemorate the with his arms cut curiously upon sardonyx, defeat and death of that bugbear of his, that I have often seen him wear in a ribbon Charles the Bold. The white marble tomb at his breast. It was sold at Milan for two of the officious Stanislas stUl remains. This ducats, and had been stolen from hina by a benefactor of Nancy was burnt to death by varlet that waited on him in his chamber." his clothes accidentally catching fire as he Commines's moral on the duke's defeat sat by his own fireside. In this church runs thus: are, or were, preserved—a writer about " I cannot conceive what should have Nancy says—the Turkish standards taken provoked God Almighty's displeasure so by Dukes of Lorraine in 1664, 1670, and highly against him, unless it was his self- 1/16, after which time Turkey did not do love and arrogance in attributing aU the much harm in Europe, thanks jto brave success of his enterprises and all the re­ Prince Eugene. A cast bronze statue of nown he ever acquired to his own wisdom the monotonous but worthy Stanislas stands and conduct." between the four fountains of the Place It was during this siege that the angry Royale. It was erected by voluntary suh» citizens, enraged at Charles having put to scription, coUected throughout the duchy^ death Suffron de Bachier, chamberlain of in 1823 ; so there is some gratitude in Lor­ their duke, hung in revenge from the tower raine, and there must have been some good of the church of St. Bpvre one hundred of in this Httle Roi d'Yvetot. v n Charles's Burgundian officers, which, in our Nancy is a busy place, especially in cotton humble opinion, was more than ample re­ and cloth. It employs about twenty thou­ taliation. sand persons, out of a population of thir^ Nancy is fuU of records of the old dukes. eight thousand five hundred and sixty-nine', In the Grande Rue stands a portion of the in embroidery upon cambric, muslin, and ancient palace, a splendid specimen of the jaconets. Nancy is also famous for its shot Flamboyant Gothic of the sixteenth cen­ (it may have painful experience of it soon), tury, with a fine portal and gatehouse. It hosiery, liqueurs, chemical products, taoi* is now a barrack for the gendarmerie, and neries, dyeing houses, and saltpetre re­ part of it a museum for local antiquities, fineries. one of the best purposes for which an his­ With good reason, Nancy boasts of her torical house can be used. In the Place chUdren; of Callot, the artist and etcher, Royale stands a statue of Stanislas, the whose soldiers and beggars of Louis the great benefactor of Nancy. This ex-king Thirteenth's time are admirably pictu­ of Poland and Duke of Lorraine abdicated resque. CaUot, when a runaway lad at Rome, his northern throne in 1735, and resided in attracted the notice of a young prince of Lorraine tUl 1766, when he died, and aU Lorraine, who brought him back to his his. domains feU to the crown of France. father's court. His great picture was the This duke is always coming across you in Siege of La Rochelle; he died in 1636. Nancy. There is a Porte Stanislas, and a Rue Napoleon's general of artillery, Drouot,that Stanislas, and a Place Stanislas, and, more­ faithful, staunch old Puritan, who, amid over, a fine triumphal arch, also erected by all the blasphemy and license of an un­ the indefatigable Stanislas, leading into the hallowed camp, kept his Bible always be­ Place de la Carriere, and to the pubHc pro­ fore him, was born here. A statue to menade. La Pepiniere, beyond. In the the worthy veteran stands in the Cour Church of the Cordeliers is the ducal chapel, d'Orleans, near the University, and close to an octagonal building of much elegance, the Porte de Metz, erected in 1785, to and lined with costly marble; but the ducal celebrate the birth of the Dauphin, the bones are not here, in spite of aU the victories of France, and her alliance with ^andeur, for the red caps, in the revolu­ the United States. Ma,rshal Bassompierre, tionary times, hating even ducal bones, who was Richelieu's ambassador to Eng­ took up all the gUt and velveted coffins, land in Charles the First's reign, and who tumbled them into a common cemetery, left memoirs, was also a native of this town, and turned the church into a warehouse. and so was Isabey, the painter, who, ia a Charles Dickens, Jan.] IN THAT STATE OF LIFE. [September 8,1870.] 331 coarse, vigorous way, recorded so many of she took long walks, and returned home Napoleon's victories. Nancy has mot done laden with wild hyacinths and primroses. 60 Ul for a small place. The secret of this cheerful, untiring temper, The central point of Nancy is the Place I beHeve, was the well-spring of a strong Stanislas, which is really dignified with its hope within her. In vain she set a stone statue and fountains, its Hotel de Ville, upon the mouth of that spring ; it buM)led theatre, and bishop's house. The Place de up aU the same at unexpected times and la Carriere comes next, with its palais de places. She had not heard Lowndes's justice, tribunals, and the palace of the name since the day they parted: she knew ancient governor. The University is in the nothing of him, for good or evil: he was Place de la Greve, and the public library probably back again with his old companions of twenty-three thousand volumes in the old and pursuits, and had forgotten her and University, Rue Stanislas. The churches her preachings. It was only natural; it have one or two points of interest. Some would be contrary to nearly all precedent ancient frescoes in the Chapel of the Con­ if it were otherwise. So she said to herself, ception, St. Epvre, injured by repainting, repeatedly; but she did not believe it. She and a bas-relief of the Lord's Supper, by declared that it would be sentimental foUy Drouin, a local sculptor, deserve notice. to rely upon anything he had said; but she In the Church of the Cordeliers there are did rely upon it. Love is, even now, some­ the tombs of the Vaudremonts, not to be times stronger than prudence and worldly overlooked. The kneeling statues of Antoine wisdom. Then, as regarded Mrs. Cartaret, de Vaudremont and his lady (1447) are by she felt a conviction that, even if Lowndes Drouin; Ligier Richier's statue of Philippa remained constant, his mother would never yield. She knew the old lady's pride and of Gueldres is much admired, and the tomb prejudice so well. After what had passed, of CaUot must not be passed by. Mrs. Cartaret would never open her arms This quaint nook of Lorraine, to which a to receive Maud, and without such open­ terrible interest attaches at the present, ing of arms Maud was still resolute that will be, when the war cloud has rolled she would never become Lowndes's wife. away, well worth the attention of tourists But, in spite of all, Maud was not de­ tired of the old Hons. spondent. ' - ; John Miles did not return to Salisbury for two or three weeks, the account of his U THAT STATE OF LIFE. aunt being better, and his own judgment rti;"i 01 pointing out that it was wiser to leave CHAPTER: XVI, Maud at peace for a time, before renewing MES. HICKS raUied very slowly. Weeks his suit. Then at last he did come, and passed; and her condition was stiU one stayed three days. During that time Maud that required constant watching. Having kept out of his way as much as possible: undertaken this duty, Maud could, not and Mrs. Hicks was always devising inno­ abandon it; and she became daily fonder cent Httle stratagems (whach she regarded of the gentle, unselfish old lady, so that as MachiaveHan in their diplomacy, but her labour grew to be one of love. On the which would not have deceived a child) other hand, as was only natural, Mrs. Hicks in order to throw the young people together. was now strongly attached to her young But Maud's avoidance was not to be mis- companion, i'\:,!^i.. ., .•••v.'r.i-r-) bn.. xmderstood; eager as poor John was to " I do not know^what I should do no^, catch at any straw, there was none held my dear, if I were to lose you. You have out; he must drown—at all events for the spoilt me. We have never had anything present. She was cordial and friendly in young in the house before you came. As her manner until they were tete-a-tete; if Martha says, you do us all good." For this was unavoidable, she froze up, as Maud Maud's energy, which had often flagged had a special faculty for doing, maldng one at Beckworth, and had always been in a feel that any nearer approach would be chronic state of suppressed irritation at sHppery, not to say dangerous. He went away without having said a word. But his Mortlands, had now free play. She read aunt was not so perspicacious. aloud for hours, and answered aU Mrs. Hicks's letters; she visited such poor people " My dear," she said, one day when they as the old lady wished, and dispensed her were alone, " I have been hesitating for a charities; she paid all Mrs. Hicks's bills, long time whether I should say something and attended her benevolent committees; to you. But I may not be here very long,

^ V <^-- 332 [September 3, 1870.] ALL THE YEAR ROUND, [Conducted by and I do so wish to see two people whom and John had the village all to himself I love dearly made happy before I go. and more solitary hours than ever, wherein No, my dear, don't interrupt me. Now I to dwell upon a passion which he knew have begun, I must speak. You see how was hopeless. For Mrs. Hicks, in com­ it is with John, don't you, my dear ? De­ passion for her dear nephew, had not kept pend upon it, the love of such a man ought Maud's secret. not Ughtly to be put aside. I know your papa and mamma were very angry at the CHAPTER XVII. idea, because John is a poor man, but—^but ON Lowndes's return from Sahsbury, —what I wanted to say is this. He will be after his interview with Maud, there had well off at my death. For many years I been some violent scenes between Mrs. have put by more than half my income Cartaret and her son. For the first time iii to accumulate for him. He wiU have, at his Hfe, Lowndes found it impossible, even the least, eighteen hundred a year. And after repeated efforts, to make any impres­ the knowledge of this, though it wiU not sion on his mother. In all their differences, affect you, I am well aware, may influence heretofore, he had ultimately " got round " your papa and mamma: and therefore " her; but now, the original wound in her " Dearest Mrs. Hicks, I must stop you. mind having been kept in a constant state If this marriage were possible, what you of irritation by the judicious appHcation of say would influence Sir Andrew and Lady bUsters from Mrs. Rouse, every word Herriesson; but it is not possible. I have Lowndes dropped only inflamed it more. the greatest regard and respect for your Lowndes was not a patient young man; nephew, but I can never be his wife. Please not used to be thwarted, nor submissive say no more about it." under rebuke. He had departed for Lon­ " Ah, my dear, consider! Where will don at the end of the second day, and had you find such a character as John's again ? not since been down to Beckworth, He He is as nearly perfect as any human being wrote occasionaUy to his mother, inquiring can be, I think. It is not"—and the old briefly after her health, but never naming lady hesitated a moment—"it is not his himself. From others, however, Mrs. Car­ nose ? It is not his personal appearance, is taret had accounts of her son's changed it, my dear ? Beauty is a vain thing— mode of life, which amazed her. She it is as the grass of the field. I hope it could hardly believe her ears when told of isn't that." her dissipated vaurien's working eight " It has nothing to do with personal ap­ hours a day: of his being no longer seen pearance—I know his worth. He is the in the Park, nor in any of the haunts of best man I have ever met; but I'm not men. She inquired anxiously whether he made to be the wife of such a man. If I had any liaison, as a natural solution to ever marry, it will be a far less perfect the mystery. But none of the vultures who character—indeed, a very imperfect one !" feed upon the carrion of society could affirm And then, wishing to set this question at as much. And the idea of Maud's being rest, once and for ever, and driven by one the cause of this revolution never crossed of those sudden impulses, which are some­ Mrs. Cartaret's mind. He had quarreUed times worth a year's deliberation, she con­ with her about the girl, it is true; and fessed that her heart was not free. being the proud, obstinate boy he was, he " I know what you will say—that I am would not come home properly ashamed wasting my Hfe in a delusion. Very likely. and contrite, as he ought. That was his Understand that I have no hope, my dear character. But that he had not forgotten old friend; but for all that, I can't marry the object of their dissension long since, another, nor wUl you urge me to do so, still less that the recollection of her was of now that you know the truth." sufficient force to stimulate him to a new It was thus that she concluded her con­ Hfe, this was a suggestion which Mrs. Car­ fession ; and Mrs. Hicks pressed the girl's taret would have regarded as wUdly impro­ hand, and sighed. She never spoke upon bable. Why, he never even named Maud! the subject again. He never renewed the subject of their John MUes passed all the rest of the quarrel! It was, fortunately, quite clear spring alone at Mortlands. There had been that he had forgotten the cunning Httle a hollow sort of reconcUiation between him aventuriere. and Sir Andrew : a cold shaking of hands When, however, Easter and Whitsuntide at the church-door; and now the family —^hoHday seasons which had never passed at the great house was up in London without Lowndes's running down to Beck- Oharlea Dicltons, Jun.] IN THAT STATE OF LIFE. [September 3,1870.] 333 worth tor a day or two—when these came fear Mrs. Cartaret was at times almost and went, and Mrs. Cartaret was still un- tempted to wish for such another runaway. gladdened by the sight of her son, she Of this particular one she could not, of began to feel very heavy at heart. Not even course, think without some bitterness—she the satisfaction of learning that his life was had wrought so much mischief. "The reformed could compensate for this: the devU himself must have made the girl," as cloud wliich had arisen as a man's hand she wrote to one of her old friends. " Such a was consolidating itself into a compact fascination had she—such a power to im­ mass, tUl it threatened to darken the whole pression you with a sense of straightness ? sky overhead. For a while her pride kept And yet, my friend, she was a liar! . . . I her from asking him to come. At last, she actually cried, old fool that I am, when could stand it no longer, and broke out I had to turn her out of the house, I had thus in one of her letters: " Your favourite got to love the little wretch so, in the hautboys are now ripe, and will be aU course of that month! Ah, my friend, over, if you do not pay them a visit soon." what a world! Was there such deceit, But the hautboys passed; and other fruits such treachery in the old times ? I think succeeded them; and stUl he came not. not." " If you should be Ul, send for me. Other­ The yoke of Rouse and Dapper grew wise I am not coming to Beckworth," he more gaUing every day. Mrs. Cartaret's wrote; and the old lady was furious. She Hfe was as soHtary and cheerless as that of indited a piebald letter, in which French the Pope in the Vatican, without such con­ and English expletives vied for predo­ solations as may belong to supremacy. minance : declaring that a monster of in­ ^The shadow and insignia of royalty were gratitude had been bom tmto her, that she stUl hers; biit the substance had passed had nourished a viper in her bosom, that from her. She grew more inert, and with he was sans coeur, sans entrailles, and that less energy for discussion or command he would come to no good end, that was daUy, for her heart was sorely troubled. clear. After despatching this, she had a Heretofore Lowndes had exercised a cer­ comfortable fit of hysterics, and poured her tain restraint over the arrogant ministry woes into the sympathising breast of Mrs. which no opposition had ever been able to Rouse. put out of office. Now, they did absolutely "It's the undutifuUest thing as ever I as they Hked. And thus the summer wore heerd of!" cries the artful prime-minister; away. " after Mr. Lowndes's conduct, his writing In August an unprecedented thing befel like that, instead of going down on his John Miles: he went to London for a month. bended knees! Can't say much for his A curate friend, who had been ill and re­ reform, if this is the fruits—^he don't place quired country air, asked if he would ex­ much account by the fifth commandment. change duties with him, and he did so. Them as practises law forgets their religion, John's journey up was marked by a smaU it seems to me. I never did hold much by incident. In a corner of the same car­ law. He'U only come here, ma'am, if you're riage with himself sat a rigid-looking man, ill. Wants to see, I suppose, as your wiU whose age it was impossible to teU, but is properly made!" whose creaseless face seemed not quite un­ By which specimen it will be seen that familiar to Miles. The rigid man's memory Mrs. Rouse's ascendancy, and the license was the better of the two. of tongue permitted to her, were increased " Mr. Miles, I believe ?" he said, without rather than diminished. In short, the a smUe, or the derangement of one unne­ episode of Maud's short career at Beck­ cessary muscle: " I think we met at dinner worth had, no doubt, strengthened the at Mortlands. You are the curate ? My housekeeper's position. The vacant post name is Durborough." had been fiUed by a dull girl who could in Then, after the exchange of a few words, no way be a companion to the old lady. he continued: But then she was Mrs. Rouse's devoted " Sir Andrew and Lady Herriesson are slave; and if Mrs. Cartaret complained of at Wiesbaden, are they not ?" the girl's stupidity, she was met by the " Yes: they are gone for Sir Andrew's retort, " Perhaps you'd like to find a young gout." lady again as has run away from her home ? " And where is that unfortunate young A hussy as tries to entrap your son, lady. Miss Pomeroy ?" ma'am?" To which there was no reply; " I am not aware that she is unfortu­ but in the inmost recesses of her heart, I nate," replied John, sternly. " She is at

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334 [September 3, 1870J ALL THE YEAR ROUND. [Conducted by Salisbury, where I hear she is weU and " Yes; Mr. Cartaret sees both him and happy." Lady Herriesson constantly." But Durborough of Durborough was too " Sir Andrew th^ is—is—favourable to dense to take a hint. him?" " I hope she will keep respectable. She " Entirely so." was a fine-grown young woman. I don't Miles blew his nose vehemently, and mind telHng you, Mr. MUes—perhaps you fidgeted on his chair. " Look here, Mr. may have heard it — I was very near Forbes : I don't want you to commit any making her Mrs. Durborough. Wliat an breach of confidence, but teU me one thing. escape !" If Mr. Cartaret is the man you take him to " Whoever is lucky enough to get Miss be, why shouldn't he—what impediment is Pomeroy's hand wins a great prize, sir," there—to—to " cries John, as red as a turkey-cock. After " Mr. Miles, there is no use in beating which Mr. Durborough i-elapsed into silence, about the bush. Let us talk plainly. What and sat up stiffer than ever during the rest impediment is there to his marrying Miss of the journey. But those few words gave Pomeroy at once ? His mother " John food for thought. They influenced " Surely," replied John, with a sigh that him, perhaps, as much as anything towards came from the very bottom of his heart, a decision which he came to, on arriving in "surely Mrs. Cartaret cannot persist in town. misjudging a girl who is exercising such a, Mr. Forbes was alone in his office when saving influence upon her son ? It is hard a card was brought him. He desired the enough, I think, that the world should con­ gentleman to be admitted. tinue to regard that one act of folly as " I am a stranger to you, Mr. Forbes," though it were a deadly crime. A fool in began John Miles, as he entered. the train talked to me of the escape he had " Not at all: I remember you perfectly, had from her—God help him ! Mr. Forbes, sir. I have often wished since for an op­ it is just this brings me here to-day. You portunity of expressing personally to you know how I love her; you heard me avo^ my regret at having been the indirect it to Sir Andrew, and the hopes I then had,. cause of your being so roughly used that Well, they are at an end. I have no more night by our friend Sir Andrew. Under hope now, for I know that her heart is an entire misapprehension, you see, his another's ; but I love her still, Mr. Forbes, temper got the better of him : it does some­ and if I can do anything towards making times. But he knows, now, what an in­ her really happy, I wiU do it, cost me what justice he did you." it may." " I am glad of it," said John, calmly. The lawyer shook his visitor's hand, in " It was not to speak of Sir Andrew, how­ sUence, and John continued: "I own I ever, that I came here." He paused for a feared that Mr. Cartaret could never be moment. " I have always heard your name worthy of her. But if it is true that he is mentioned with great respect, Mr. Forbes, reformed, then," he said, with an effort, as a man of the highest principle, as well " the sooner this marriage can be, the better. as of very clear judgment. I am going to Longer delay is only injurious to her gooo speak on a delicate subject, and must ask you name. My aunt is nearly well; in a few to let what I shall say go no further. You weeks I know that Miss Pomeroy will leave know Mr. Lowndes Cartaret well ? I am her, and seek a Hving elsewhere. For heif told he is studying for the bar, and work­ sake, for every one's sake, this marriage ing hard. This is the result of some in­ must take place as soon as possible." quiries I have made since coining to town. " It is very easy to say that,, my dear sir, Is this true ?" and I cannot sufficiently admire your con­ " It is quite true, Mr. MUes." duct, which, as far as I know, is quite un­ " From your knowledge of his character, precedented, under the circumstances. But have you any idea what has wrought this how about the old lady ?" change, and do you beHeve it will be a John meditated for some minutes. At permanent one ?" last he said, very slowly, and Mr. Forbes " I have a very distinct idea what has saw how much it cost him : wrought this change: indeed, 1 have a cer­ " Would it be any use my going d6wn to tainty, and I believe it will be permanent." speak to her ?" John paused a minute, as if hesitating " I hardly think so. She refuses to listen how he should put his next question. to her own sou, I l)elieve; but you can " Do he and Sir Andrew meet now ?" try." CIiarlcB Dickens, Jan.] IN THAT STATE OF LIFE. [September 3,1870.] 335 " I will," replied John. And he walked by your separating us, of course ; for with- away from the lawyer's office like one in a out your consent she never AviU marry me, dream. r-ft-ft but " " That fellow's of the stuff that heroes "That she never shall have!" burst in are made of, in spite of his face," said the Mrs. Cartaret, punching the pillow violently lawyer, as the door closed behind his visitor. with her Httle fist. " Who ever heard of a man going to plead " So you have already told me. And, his rival's cause with that rival's own therefore, I am better aw^y from Beck­ motherP'-"' '. ' worth." t ij'W" ••"-•:'' -Ifl!- •-.•!•,"'!• "Are yon ndt aebam«d to tell me, sir, The estrangement from her son had that a creature like this is to separate begun to teU upon Mrs. Cartaret's health. mother and son ?" She passed most of her time in bed. It " That is not her fault, She has refused bored her to get up and receive the neigh­ to let me write to her. I shall see her to­ bours, who of course inquired for Lowndes. morrow for the first time in six months." She could not sit to read much ; she wrote "You shall see her? Mon Dieu! You voluminous letters, and answers arrived, shall see her?" ^J'^ J; containing awful pictures of the state of " I wish to tell her that though "we are France. Her thoaghts had no other diver­ separated for a while, nothing wUl ever sion from the one topic which engrossed change me. And I wish to let her know them. And, at last, towards the middle of that I have been trying, by my life, during August, she really fell ill, not as ill as she the last six months, to make myself a Httle herself fancied—not ill enough, perhaps, to less unworthy of her." • •*! ; ii' •• n (| . justify her writing to Lowndes, " Are you " Unworthy of her ! MonDietiJ Listen going to let me die without seeing you to him! Unworthy of her!" again ?" "Yes," said Lowndes, who was by this That evening's train brought him to time roused, in spite of his determination Beckworth. She revived at the very sight to be calm. " The fact is she is so different of him, Hke a drooping flower put into to those miserable samples of humanity water; her black eyes sparkled, and she you regard as correct young ladies, that eat up, talking so briskly, that Lowndes's you can't understand her. She has nothing anxiety was at once relieved. He had been in common with the cut-and-dried bread- caUed from town under false pretences; and-butter that comes out of schools and but he did not regret it, for now that he convents (and turns rancid in one's mouth was here, he made up his mind that he after marriage, ten to one). She is a real, would not go back without seeing Maud. honest girl—^nothing sham about her " He came to this determination whUe he sat " She came here under a sham name!" there by his mother's bed, answering her cries Mrs. Cartaret. questions as to his changed life and pur­ " —and noble, as uncommonly few aris­ suits in a manner so different from the cui tocrats are, or ever were, in the days of bono raillery to which she was accustomed, your favourite 'grand monarque,' " per­ that she asked herself with amazement if sists Lowndes, regardless of his mother's this was her indolent, sarcastic son. interruption." " However, it is no use talk­ Before he left her for the night, he said: ing about it, mother. It only makes us " I shaU go to Salisbury for a few hours both angry. During the short time I am to-morrow, and the following day I must to be here, let there be peace. Only don't return to town," deceive yourself. No power on earth shaU " Why go back so soon ?" cried the old ever make me give the girl up, and I shall lady, in a whining voice. " It is six months never come back to Beckworth, to remain, since you were here. Come, sois ,gentU, until you wUl receive her. And now— mon enfant, .stay a few days with me— good-night/'i'i-^liJV'r 9 ri HR .h MIIII-I;.-. hein?" ' -^ ^ But it was fat- frota^, ^oodmgbt for poor ." I should only be xmhappy, mother. Mrs. Carta-ret. Restless, and dissatisfied When two people don't agree upon the sub­ with herself, with her son, and with aU the ject which is nearest to the heart of one of world, she passed the sleepless hours, toss­ them, they are better apart." ing feverishly among her pillows, and mut­ " Comment! Est-il possible ? Yoii Have tering, like the prince so pitilessly immor- not yet forgotten that miserable girl ?" taHsed by Carlyle, " Est-il possiMe ? Mon "Have not forgotten, and never shaU Dieu ! est-il possible ?" , forget her. My life may be made wretched Maud was crossing the quamt "Kttle f^ A X 336 ALL THE YEAR ROUND. [September 3,1870.] market-place, bringing home some fruit for " Good Heavens! I thought you would Mrs. Hicks, when she started, and nearly let remain with this old lady until—in short her basket fall. In front of her, barring her for the present." road, stood Lowndes; and now he had hold " ' The present' has lasted six months. of both her hands, and was looking into She is the kindest, dearest old soul, but I her eyes. A joy, which it was vain to con­ have no excuse for remaining any longer. ceal, danced there, and hovered round her She is quite well again." lips. She reproached herself afterwards He kicked viciously at a stone that lay for testifying thus her real feeling : it was in his path. " And where do you mean to weak, but she could not help it. go?" " The six months are nearly past," he " To my old nurse in London. There I began, " and I have obeyed you in never can look about me, and see what there is to writing. I shouldn't have been so patient be done." if I hadn't seen Lady Herriesson constantly, He implored her to give up this idea. and learnt two things ; first, that you had He brought forward every argument against not left this, secondly, that—my jealousy it; but in vain. of a certain person was unfounded. And " I had but one excuse to plead for run­ now I'm come just to gladden my eyes by ning away from Mortlands as I did. I a glimpse of you, to tell you that I am un­ would not be dependent on Sir Andrew changed in one thing, though changed, I any longer. Can I now be dependent on hope, in many others. I've not been idle ; Mrs. Hicks ? I have been of service I have reaUy worked hard all this time— during her Ulness and recovery, that I keeping the fear of you before my eyes," know. But the necessity for her having a he added, laughing. companion is over, and with it I must go." " I am so glad to hear it," she repHed. To this resolve she held fast, in spite of " You could not tell me anything that all that Lowndes could urge. The utmost would give me greater pleasure." concession he could gain was that she "And now, will you trust me? Will promised to let him know when her course you be patient yet a little while, Maud? of life was decided. They walked for a My mother is in the hands of those devils long time under the broad-spreading trees of servants. If there were only some un­ of the Close, so long, indeed, that the clock prejudiced person to argue the case with had fully chimed the hour of Mrs. Hicks's her ! However, sooner or later she wiUearl y dinner ere Maud had put her hand in come round, I am confident. She has too his, and bade him godspeed. She had good a heart not to listen to its dictates." promised nothing; she had repeated over Maud shook her head. " She will never and over again that it was folly to Hve on listen to them, in this case. Do not waste such hope as his; she had told him that your Hfe on a chimera." the wisest thing he could do was tog o " I am not wasting my life. I am turn­ away and forget her; but he left Sahsbury, ing it now to some account, with one hope for all that, more resolute than ever to and object in view." conquer the difficulties that lay in the way " It makes me happy," said Maud, gently, of his happiness, though still at a loss how " to think that any words of mine should to attack them. have tended to work this change. I did not expect it. We won't talk about the MR. DICKENS'S NEW WORK. hope, we will put that aside. You wUl Just Published, PBICB OKE SHIILIITG, grow happier, I am sure, every year by PART SIX OP working; you would have grown more THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD. dissatisfied, more miserable, each year by dissipation." BY CHARLES DICKENS. He stopped, as he walked along beside WITH IiiiasTEATious BT S. L. 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