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age don't act Mentor to a pretty girl like 11iss MABEL'S PROGRESS. Thingnmmy from friendly interest. Chc! ehe! BY TDE AUTaOR OP .. AUNT lliBO.AUT'8 TBOtJDLE," I have lived scventy years in this quecr world, Geraldina mia, and I've sccn a good many queer BOOK IV. things in it, but I never saw that yet! Be. sides," added the old Indy, fanning herself via· CHAPTER v, TllE FRINCESS PUTS MORE COTTON lently, as she was wont to do when excited, IN HEll. EARS. " besides, even granting hi s friendly interest, for OLD Lady Popham, never very reticent in her t.he sake of argument, there can be no good speech, was especially confidential with Geral. reason why he should object to his friend's dine O'Brien; and the latter had not been very m~rrying Alfred Trescott. It would be a highly long in Dnblin before ber godmother had lold sUItable match." ber the whole story of Clement Charlewood's Of It seems so, certainly, so far as we know." visit to Cloncoolin, and of his strong disapproval H As far as we know! Why, of course, I of the idea of a marriage between the pretty know all about it. Alfred is a genius-a genius, "Ophelia" and Alfred Trescott. I tell you . And the girl, too, is very clever and "I heard be had been to see you, fairy charming, and likely to do well. Both young, godmother," said Geraldine. both ambitious, both artisls; it is perfect! "Oh, you did P Well now, wasn't it an odd quite perfect!" said Lady Popham, working I'roceeding, child P Not his coming to see me. herself up into one of her accustomed fits of That, under the circumstances, was quite na· enthusiasm. tnral, and I'm sure I was charmed, and all that "Yes," replied Miss O'Brien, thoughtfully; kind of thing. But the edraordinary motive of " Mr. Alfred Trescott is very clever, 110 doubt; his visit-for he told me with refresbing can· but I'm not at all sure that I should like my donr that he had not made the journey to Cion· my sister, for example, lo entrust her happiness coolin on my account! I declare, I thou/?ht at to his keeping." first tbat the man was in love with 'Opbelia' "Your sister!" cried my lady, stopping sbort himself. Bnt he denied it when I asked him, in a quick restless promenade up and down the point blank." long drawing.room. "Your sister! Ab, ce serait It may be remarked, in passin~, tbat this was tout autre cuose!" one of those inaccuracies to WhiCh Lady Popham Geraldinc made no answer, but sbe thought in her impulsiveness was liable. Clement, 10 his within herself that Clement Charlewood would ' conversation with her, had merely asserted that probably refuse to admit I he existence of any he was not engaged to Miss Bell. such wide and necessary distinction between his Miss O'Brien looked up with a bright blush friend Miss Bell and 11iss O'Brien's bypotheti. on her cheek: "Did he, tairy godmother P" cal sister. There had heen, for somc time, a "Yes, indeed he did. So I could only attri· desire growing in Geraldine's mind to makc the bnte his interference to a much less elcllsahle personal acquaintance of this girl, the m~ntion motive-enmity to yoong Trescott. I don't like of whose name had caused such commotIOn at stabbing people in the back. Why should he Bramley Manor; and Carlo Bensa's visit to try to injure the young fellow with me P" Merrion.square furnished her with the link ne· "I'm quite sure that Cle--, that Mr. Charlc· cessary for her purpose. Lady P opham had wood woUld stab no one in the back, my lady," never been accustom cd to put any restraint said Geraldine, indignantly. upon Ihe promptings of her curiosity with reo
(C AndiamoJ andiamo J signorina mia! But I gard to tbe private history of her artistic pro· iell you he did it. Yes; he did it. Told me all te ~es · and Signor Bensa's Italian nature was sorts of bad things about .Alfred. And why ratheJ lIattered thau o\Tended by thc lively should he interfere P If he isn't in love with interest manifested by "miladi" in his family Miss What's.her.name himself, his motive must affairs. He could nnderstand reserve and con· have been hatred to young Trescott, as I said." ecalment upon points which he had an interest "He may have a friendly interest in the in keeping secret; hut the idea of a ret!cenee yonng lady, god mamma." which had for its objcct merely the aVOIdance "Friendly fiddlestick! A young man. of bis of a too easy familianty with persons for whom
TOL. XTIII 433 146 [Augu.tlO,1S07.J ALL T.HE YEAR ROUND. [conducted by he neither fclt nor professed affection, was to herself, and told other )leople, to keep Geral. him, as it would be to IllOSt Italinns, completely dinc's rich godmother III as good humour as inconceivable. 11e t.herefore chattered on with might he. perfect good humour about his wife, and his 011 the morning of the day au which Clemen!; bally, a\ld his pnpils, and his prospects, and his Charlewood had had the conversation With wife's COUSIIl, MISS Dell, who wns so clever and Penelope recorded ill my last chapter, and had so good, and so much beloved by them all. And also visited Mrs. Saxelby at Hazelhurst, Miss after Lady Popham had Aiven hlln all the neees· O'Brien, followed by her old groom, rode quietly snry illstruetions about the arrangement of lbe into Kelly's.square, where Mrs. Walton lived. fort.hcoming conccIi, she proceeded to sound him Carlo Bensa had prepared Mabel for the visit. a litt.le as to his kuowledgc of Alfred Trescott's lt was impossible to decline .to see Miss O'Brien, private ebarneter. Bul hcre she found herself even had tbere been time to do so; but Mabel suddenly baOled . The vivacious lit tic man lost would have given much to avoid receiving no parbele of his vivacity, no sparkle from hi. her. eye, no brightness from IllS smile, but one might Aunt Mary and Uncle J ohn, ~uite uncon· as well have attempted to s-rasp a will·o'·the· scious of this feeling all their niece. part, were wisp as to get at his real opmion of the young much pleased by the kind mes.age that Benst fiddlcr. And yet Carlo Bensa could not be said llad brouliht, and by his report of the interest to be a guileful man. He was !10od hearted Lady Popham and M:i6s O'Brien had shown in and well intentioned. But to IllS mind and Mabel. conscience the case was clear: "miladi H had "I think it ver.v nice, indeed, .of tbe young taken a grent fancy to the handsome Alfredo. lady," said Mrs. Walton, "and a very becoming Benissimo! She was a great lady, and could at tention to so old and intimate a friend of the afford to indu4;e her caprices. Carlo Bensa family that her cousin has married into. I think might inilireeily be benefited by "miladi's" Miss O'Brieu', polite behaviour puts to sballa patronage of this unknown artist. Beuissimo ~{r. Walter Charlewood altogetller. He bas as-ain! He (Carlo) would do his best and earn never taken any notice of you, Mabel deIT, hiS money honestly; but tbat be 'vas to imperil since he bas been in Dublin. And you on .DeIl his place in "miladi's" good graces, and risk intimate terms with his family, almost like OM losin~ a good engagement for tbe sake of ex· of tliemselres!" pressmg his candid opinion that Alfred Trescott For Mrs. Walton had learned much about the was a selfish, idle, dissipated young rascal, in· Charlewoods, and about Mabel's intimacy at complete as an artist, and hateful as a man Bramley Manor, from Alfred Trescott. ·And ehe! ehe! Was he a fool, or an Englishman, though poor Mabel sometimes writhed under that he should do this thing 1 nut about" Miss her aunt's speeches on the subject, she could Bell," there was no such feeling . Of her he uot alfeet to deny the facts of tbe case. All she could talk heartily and frankly; und wben Miss could do was to assure Aunt Mary that her O'Brien, alleging as an excuse I,er family can· going on the stage had put a stop, to all famitior nexion with some very old and intimate friends intercourse between herself and the rich, pros of Miss Bell's at IIammerh.m, proposed to do perous Hammerham magnates. herself the pleasure of calling on that young "I don't see wby it should, at all," said lady, Cnrlo Bensa undcrtook to say that his Aunt Mary, slontly. But then John Earnshs. wife's cousin would feci much pleased and had patted his wife's hand, and reminded her, Oattcrcd by such a visit. smilingly, of the old lady in the Orkney Islands, It was arrmlged betwcen L ady Popham and who had found it necessary to reoounoe her Geraldi ne that the laller shoulll avail herself of third cousin, whom she had never seen, in con· the opportunity of her moruill~O ride-which sequence of his marriage with an actress. she was aeellstomed to take at a qlliet early The clatter of horses' hoofs in the squue hour, attellded ouly by an old servant-to coil brought Janet to the wiudow. upon Miss Bell. To hel' Aunt Dawsou Miss "Here is your visitor, Mabel," she said. O'Brien said vcry little nboutlhe proposed visit. "Jack, ten Catty to show tbe lady into the 'rhnt frigid lady shook her head, and shut her little parlour, there's" good boy. She's a 6ne, lips closely, when Geralliine told her she \VIlS well·made girl, father, in a dark·blue habit, and going to see" Augusta's old friend antl school. riding a very pretty bay horse. The groom is fellow." quitc au old man, and, as far as I can tell, " tihe is no longer a frienn of my d.ugHer.in. better mOllllled than his mistzess." law, Geraldine," sRid ~lrs. Dawson. H I must Mabel rose slowly and reluctantly, lo.yiDg say I hat I thought AllgUSIl1 exprcssed herself dOWll a book from which she was studying. very properly about the young pcrsou that d.y She was dressed with scrupulous neatness, and at Hnmmcrhnm ." her rich dark hair was bound up in a multitude " I did 1I0t I hink so, Aunt Dawson; but that's of shining plaits at the back of her head, but no matter. Lady Popham secs no nbjeetion to her gown was of very cheap and somewhat worn my ~oin!.{ to call on this youllg' lady,') brown stuff. Geraldi ne was ~l1ilc aware tbat Mrs. Dawson "Wh.v didn't you pnt on your black silk, \Youllinot put ire"df ill opou opposition to any Mabel 1" said A.uut Mary, solicitously regarding proceeding that L",]y l'opham might choose to bel'. approve of. It wus her dlli!/, Mrs. Dawson told "It doesn't mattcr, dear auntie." Charle.DlckeDI.] ALL T HE YEAR ROUND. [August 10, 1867.1 H 7
"Doesn't Mabel look nice, then P" asked ju~t now she is so busy and so occupied about Mr. Earnshaw. tillS concert." " She always looks niee," pronounced Janet, "Oh yes; the concert," said Mabel, absently. decisively, as her cousin closed· the door behind She was recalli\l~ the tone of voice in which her. Cleme~~ had "hispcred to her, If I love you, Mabel paused with her hand on the banisters, Mabel, . on that lllght in the Eastfield inn, and feeling her limbs tremble beneath her. "Why wonderlll,g . vaguely whether he had spoken so am I snch a coward P" she asked herself, almost to the bnllmnt, lively girl before her. fiercely; and the next moment she had opened . " It takes place to.night, you kllo\v," Geral the parlour door and stood in the presence of dme t'roceeded: "my lady will have it iu her own her visitor. drawlIlg.rooms at Merrion.square. At first they Geraldine O'Brien, with her bright cheek thought of taking some public hall for the pur. dnshed with exercise, her blue eyes beaming pose, but there wcre so many difficulties, that with health, and the chesnut gloss of her hair, but why am I saying all this to you, who, of heightened by contrast with the black feather course, know all the particulars!" that drooped from her riding.hat, seemed to "I? No, truly. 1 did not know. I am so Mabel's eyes a very lovely creature, as she cons tautly employed myself. But I wish Mr. stood in the full flood of the morning sunshine Alfred Trescott all success : he is very fortunate that poured in from tbe window. Geraldine, on ill having such kind rriends." her part, observed every detail of the slight Geraldine O'llrien opened her blue cy .. widely graceful figure and pale face that remained for for an instant, and starcd at Mabel. This was one instant framed in the open doorway before an odd tone for one whom young Trescott had her, with the rapidity of true womanly percep· spoken of as almost his affianccd bride! "Either tion. n She is not handsome," was the Irish tile lady or the gentleman is a most amazinCJ' girl's first thought; but as slul advanced and humbug, that's all I have to say!" tbou~bt th~ held out her hand, a delicate flush came into f rank.bearted Irish girl; "and l'd lay odds it's Mabel's pale chcek, her lips parted in a faint that handsome, snaky.eyed Alfredo that fairy sweet smile, and the liquid grey eyes were godmother is coilf'ee with at this minute." raised candidly. "Yes, she is, though," was the nut Mabel made it apparent tbat, from what· contrary verdIct formed in the second that suf· ever motive, she did not speak willingly ahout , ficed to Dlake those changes in the face she was Mr. Alfrcd Trescott, and Miss O'Brien was too looking upon. " Tbis is a pleasure I have long well bred to persist in a topic that was evidently been wishing for, Miss-Miss Earnshaw. I distasteful. hope you don't consider it a liberty my not .. There is an old friend of yours here now, caUing you by the name you assume at_present." Miss Earnshaw/' she said, changing the sub U I prefer my own name under all circum ject. stances," said Mabel, "and it was not by my H An old rriend of mine P" own wish that I assumed another." "Yes; Walter Charlewood. You know, of "I hope Signor Bensa was kind enough to course, that he is hair n cousin of mine now." explain to you, Miss Earnshaw, that it was he II I w:\s glad to hear or Augusta's marriage." who, in a measure, gave me leave to call upon ":Malachi Dawson, her husband, is a very yon at this unusual hour P" good sort of fellow, and I think tbey will get "Thank you; Carlo knows tbat my occupa· on very well together. As his cousin, I may be yons are so constant and engrossing that I allowed to say that I look upon it as a very cannot be sure of any but the early morning good match for hi,". They are in Italy for the hours." winter, have you heard?" Struggle as she would to maintain her seJr· H Miss O'Brien, I never hear from any of the possession, Mabel was conscious of an unusual family now. Not that I com/,lain of that in the flutter in her manner, and of a wandering at least," added Mabel, proud y; .. I cbose for tention. She, who was naturally and habitually myself a pat h that naturally carries me further simple and straightforward, could not regard and rurlher away from any cha.ncc of communi Miss O'Brien with unalloyed simplicity and cation with pcople like the Cl",lewoods. And straightforwardness. In trutb, she was not I wanted to say-I searcel.Y know wbether you looking at her or speaking to hcr for herself, will understand me-bllt I wanted to tell JOU but witt.. c01llltant reference to Clement Charle· that, without anger or fault on either side, cir wood. That was the voice, those were the eyes, cumstances bave snndered tbe course of my life the smiles, the ways, the words that bad pleased fl'om theirs completely. I wisbed you to kuow him! this clearly, because- because - you might, "My godmother, Lady Popham, desired me perhaps, suppose that you were showing kind to say for her, that &lIe would have becn so glad ness towards your fricnds at Bramley Manor ill to come with me and to make your acquaint. visiting me, and I should not like to accept ance, but .he is so bnsy at this moment that it your courtesy upon false pretences." was impossible." So slight, so yonng, so tender as she looked, Mabel bowcd silently. with tbe colour fluttering in her face and a "If you knew Lady Popbam, Miss Earnshaw, ncrvous trcmor in the clear sweet voice, and you would understand how wonderfully she gives yet with such an indomitable spirit, so strong a herself up to ~yLhillg that interests her. And resolution arumatiug hcr girlish frame ! US (August 10, 1867.J AI,L THE YEAR ROUND. [Conducted br "MJ dear Miss Earnsbaw!" cried Geraldine, 'fhe two girls were now at the street door, impulsively tnking her by the hand and kissi ng and the old groom, perceiving his mistress, her forehead, "I came to 8ee you to do a kind cantered briskly up from tbe other end of tbe ness to u person that I've a considerable regard square. for, and that's myself. Sure, wby wouldn't we " Well" saiu Geraldine, "perhaps I had liko eneh other on our own account? I never hcller h;ve held my tong-ue; but I hope, at make friends by proxy, and I don't believe you least, I bave dOlle no mischief. Good-bye, Mi.a do eilher!" Earnshaw_ Pray don't remain one moment at "TIHll)ks," said Mabel, smiling; and the the door/' thought in her mind, as she looked at the win Miss O'Brien sprang inf.o her saddle and rode ning face blooming out under the shadow of the 011' waving her hand to Mabel as sbe went. As riding-hat, was, "She is very sweet. It is quite so~n as she had disappeared, the latter ran into natural he should love her_" the parlour again, shut the door, and sst down "Now, I hope you'll let me come and see at tbe I able leaning her head upon her hands_ you npain-may I ?-and make Mrs. Saxelby's Clcment had been to Cloneoolin! Been so near aequamtanee. Signor Bensa told us you were to her, and had made no sign. Was this the expecting your mamma." true, constant friendship he bad promised? "I hope mamma will be here to-morrow or Why, too, did tbis girl speak to her of Alfred the uext day, at latest." Trescott, and sug-ge.t the possibility of ber " Well, good-bye. I mustn't let my idleness Mabel's- interferenee between young 'frescott steal any miuutes from your industry. Oh, nnd and Clement Charlewood? What did it all I had nearly forgot to dehver my message! mean? She longed to sit still and solitary, and Godmamma-Lady Popham-sends you many to think of it all, and 10 fix Geraldine O'Brien's kind compliments, and she bopes you will not words and looks in her memory; and to pieture fail to let her know when your benefit is coming her witb Clement; and-but some one tapped, olf at the theatre, because she means to be pre at the parlour door, nnd Catty put her bead in sent, and to give as many of her friends as she and begged Miss Mabel to go to" the misthress." can musler the great pleasure of seeing you And then Aunt Mary had a great many things_ too." to say about tbe "eek's business, and consulta "She is very good. I will let bcr know if tions about a dress for "Viola" were held, such a thing comes off." and there were two new parts to stndy, and, in Mabel spoke more heartily than she had yet sbort, the old nceessity for sternly reflUing done. The fl'ank recognition of hcr professional lo indulge private and personal feerm.,"., in position was agreeable to her, nnd Miss O'Brien's prtsence of the great dnlies of life and of art. manncr was perfect; equally frce from anyat sbowed itself to Mabel unmistakably under tempt at patronage, and the still more olfcnsive manifold ""peets. She answered a rew ques nlfcclation of condescendiog familiarity_ tions-which I hey all had too much delicacy II> U all, or course it will come off! You're Imke importuuate-put by her aunt and cousin makin ,~ wonderful progress in public favour about her recent visitor, and then set herself here, Miss Earnshaw. I could tell you heaps steadily to her work. 'fhe hill was getting of fine lbings that I hear said about you, only steeper and steeper as she mounted, and tbere I'm a liltle afraid of you, do you know 1" on tbe summit above her head bloomed the " Afraid of me 1" Mabel looked up with such singing-tree, and tnlked the fairy bird, and undisf(uised child-like wonder in her eyes, that fiowed the !r0lden water. "If it were only for Gcraldine burst into a hearty fit of laughter. myself," Said Mabel, " 1 must stop and look H Oh," she said, archly, " you needn't look so back, and listen to the voices. But mamma, astonished, as if nobody ever was afraid of you and Dooley-little Dooley! The sweet, loving, before! You've just a quiet wa.y of icing fatherless little fellow!" And then the yoong yourself at a minute's notice, that is quite head bent itself again resolutely to the task enough to terrify hot-headed Irish folks like me. before it. I'm sorry you can't be at this ramous concert "I sball rest and look back, by-and-Ily," to-night; but I know you'll be aeling, :IIIr. she said. "By-and-by." Alfred Trescott told us so." " Did hePH CHAPTER VI. LADY rOrITAM'S CONCERT_ " Yes: by the way, what has Lady Popham's THE assemblage of persons who filled Lady prot~gc done to olrend Mr. Clemcnt Charle Pophnm's drawing-room in Merrion.square on wood?" that same Tuesday evenillg on which Clement Mabel felt the blood ru sh to hcr face. Charlewood was tram!,ing homeward from Hazle " To olfend MI'. Clement Charlewoou 1" hurst with a heavy tcart, and drawin!; nearer " Yes; I don't mean to I ell tales ont of and nenrer to the angry Oare on the IlIght sky scllool, but the other day, whell Clement was at over Hammerham; was composed of members of Cloneoolin, he spoke very severely of ioung the most brilliant and fashionable society then Trescott to my l.dy. I think, if thcre s any ill Dublin. Silks rustled, jewels sparkled, deli misunderstandln!r betwcen them, you might, cate perfumes filled thc nir_ 'There was a liberal perhaps, put it fight with a word or two." sprinkling of bright uniforms amongst the audi " 1 put it right! Oh, Miss O'Brien, it is out ellce, for Walter Chariewoood bad worked of the question, I don't even undersLand--" zcalously amongst his brother-offiecrs, in obedi- l
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enoe to her ladyship's commands, feeling that one so evidently well-fed and robust as the dis such commands were very glorious to him, and tinguishedcontralto, had rather a comic character. conferred a high distinction. And Arthur Skid· :rhere were also present four g-entIemen b e lon~_ ley was present, and had even whispered a vague 109 to tbe "Calliopcan Choristers," a cel e brat~d hint of the possibility of the concert belllg metropolitan glee and ",ach'i~al societ.v. But honoured by the presence of his exceliency in they kept apart, and indulged in considerable person. To which my Lady Popham had reo hilarity of a private and personal nature, con plied briefly, "Tant mieux if he comes, for sisting chieily of explosive bursts of laughter at Alfred's sake. But the fact is, his excellency certain choice anecdotes relating to various pro is no connoissenr. I wouldn't give anything fessional persons distinguished by nicknames, for his opinion, yon know, Arthur. I used to which anecdotes might have been entertaining know him years ",,"0 when he was quite a young had one possessed the key to them; Lnt, want fellow at Naples; and he never appreciated poor ing that, were (( caviare to the general." _ Pizzicati the least ill the world." The concert began with a 'glee by the jolly Pizzicati had bcen Olle of Lady Popham's (( Cnlliopeans," wliieh was-as indeed was a numerous (( geniuses," who was confidently ex great proportion of the music selected by that pected to eclipse Rossini, but didn't. cheerful choir-of a sent.imental, not to say The rooms filled up rapidly. The company lugubrions, character. And when the alto, a was seate~ chiefly in the large drawing-room very fat short man, declared in a thin piping opposite to the Widely opened folding-doors, but tone that" For CWoe" he was" dy-y-ying," the there were a few scats arranged in the second effect upon several young subalterns pheed apartment of the suite, around a clear space in within range of Lady Popbam's awful eye-glass the centre of which stood a grand plano forte, was extremely trying. 'l'hen came a sccna in and where the performers were to be stationed. Italian, executed by Madame Olga Boschka, ill The third and smallest drawirur-room was nsed a mellifluous smothered voice, that suggested a .as a retiring-room for the artists. Within this nigbtingale singing through a feather-b ed. And third room now stood Signor Bensa and Alfred then-the hero of the e,'euing, the be116Geiaire, Trescott. The latter was dressed with scrupu Mr. Alfred Trescott, appeared, fiddle in hand, ~ous carc and even elegance. Ugly and unbe long - haired, bright - eyed, pale, interesting, coming as a modcrn gentleman's evening everything that the most roman!.ie could desire. costnme is usually considered, it must be owned After him trotted little Carlo Bensa, his quick that the plain black coat and white neckcloth eyes and ugly intelligent face taking in every set off Alfred's clear olive-coloured face to particular of the ':Ppearanee and manner of such 'IIdvantage; and no one could have seen the of the audience as came within range of his 'Young man that evening without being: struck by vision; and glancing hither and thither, whilst the remarkable beauty of his face, ann the lithe his hands were busied with the arranpement o( picturesque grace of bis figure. In one corner his music on the pianoforte, with tlle sort of of the room, seated in an· easy-chair, was a very melancholy and grave vivacity which I have seen stout, florid lady, glistening with ornaments, and ebaracterise a trained monkey on a barrel 1Ittired in very splendid garments, made in so organ. outre and elaborate a manner, as is rarelv seen Alfred had chosen bis first piece cunningly, if llxcept in those highly coloured works of art not witb the soaring ambition of n classical that illustrate the fashion- books. This was musician. He had selected De Beriot's fifth Madame Olga Boschka, a concert-singer of re u air vari~,JJ one of the most graccru l composi cent fam e from London, who had been en~aged, tions of a graceful composer, who thoroughly at Lady Popham's expense, to give additional understood the instrument he wrote for. Alfred "clat to her protege's debut. Madame Boschka had understood his own .tren~th and his OlVn sang in almost all European languages, but weakness in making the selection. The purity 5j>oke none of them, except English, fluently. of tone, general certainty of intonation, and Her nationality was for a long time doubtrul; singular delicate pathos (which was so start but at length- it was announced, on her own lingly at variance with tLe coarse cynicism of 'IIuthority, that Madame Olga Boschka was a his moral nature) that distinguished his playing, native of Wallachia. One ill-natured critic, were all advantageously displayed, whilst no Temarking on her singu1ar pronunciation of the overwhelminfl' demand was made upon his me English lan~uage, averred that he had heard chanical rcsgurccs. Everything concurred to 'Something ~ery like it in Lancashire. But encourage and animate him to excel; and he everybody else overwhelmed him ".jth indignant played with great c!Tcet, and produced a marked asseveratIOns that Madame Boschka's accent un pression. Perhaps some po"tion of the praise was purely and unmistakably Wallach ian. So and applause he received was due to the audience perhaps it was. This magnificent lady was finding him much better thau they had expected; attended by a meagre little woman in shabby for Lady Popham's eccentric pursuit of geniuses attire, whose position appeared to be undefined lVas pretty well known amongst her friends, and - bordering sometimes on the confidentiallady's any aunouneement of a new protege was apt to maid's, and anon partaking of the poor relation's. be received with cold incredulity of his merits. Her chief office appeared to be to solicit Madame Lady Popham was in ecstasies. She led the Olga Boschka to partake of refreshment, which applause and the "bravos," and at the con solicitings, coming from so spare a creatnre to clusion of the beneficia ire's first piece she went 150 [Augus< 10, 1867.) ALL THE YEAR ROUND. [OoDduele 8lc:i~ping about amongst the audience, and ex the deaf dowaaer was an earl's widow, and patiating volubly upon the exquisite per Walter overhe~rd her say to her neigh.bour on formance thev had just listened to. In short, the otber side-as iL is possible she illtended Alfred Treseolt drank deep of the sweet in lie should hcar, for the wealth of Gandry and toxicating dmn~ht of public flattery that night. Charlewood was 1I0t unknown in that part of At the conclusion of the concert, Lady Popham the world, and the two pale daughters bad been retained n select lIumber of her most favoured out fiv e seasons-tLat that young man, Skid f!'it'mIs 10 supper ;alld whcll the main stream of ley's friend, was exceedingly "good style." comp:my had fuund its way uown.stairs, and had Tllen the mysterious packet was opened, and deparled with much shouling of amaleur link found to contain a very fine Guarnerius violin, meD, and clapping' io of carriage steps, and which Lacly Popham, with her own generous rumbling of wheels, the privilcl'l'cd guesis were littlo hand, presented to Alfred Trescott. The shown luto the dinillg-room, iJrilliant wilh a enthusiasm was at its height, when the door was profusion of lights, and gay with hothouse opened hastily, and Diy lady's butler, a staid, re flowers, where a very subst.nutial repast awaited sponsible man, came behind Ifalter Charle them. Alfred Treseolt was there, of course, wood's chair, and whispered in his ear with a and Carlo Bensa, of whose steady unobtrusive disturbed countenance. scniccs as accompanyist and conductor, my " }"'or me? Are you sure P" said Walter) lady made ample aeknolVled~ment. All invita ri.sin~ and turnin~ pale. tion to remain and sup had also been given to u ~uitc sure, SIT. Your servant sent him on Madame Bosehka, but that lady had e"eused here from the harraeks." berself, on the ground that she had to start Young Charlewood lelt the room, muttering early the following moming on a professional some confused alld unintelligible apology to hiJ tour through" Hirelalld H (that bellla', it seems, bostess, and Lady P opham turned 8D.XlOusly to Wallaehian for the Emerald I sle), Rnd'bad majes. the butler, who stilillflgered in the room. tieally departed, wrapped in furs by the hands of " What is it, MiteheU? Anything ~ her assiduous attendant. There remained, be matter ?" sides Alfred and Bensa, Mrs. Dawsou, Geral· "It's a telegraphic message from England, dine O'Briell, a VCI'.V deaf dowager willt iwo pale my lady. Coming so late, and all, I'm afraid daughters, Arthur Skidley, WalLer Charlewood, there's bad news." two or three young officers whom he had pressed The sound of a heary fall in the entranco inlo the serVice, and the colonel commanding haU oulside the dining-room made every one " 'alter's regiment. Colonel Rose was an old start to their feet and hurry to the dOOL Indian officer, tall, dry, and brown, and had been Colonel ltose, prompt and cool, headed the especially invited to join what Lady Popham party, and almost before lhey bad seen whal; delighted to call her" artist's petit louper," on was the matter, he had raioed Walter Char1& the strength of his playing the Uute and being wood in his arms, and laid him on a large settee a great amaleur of music. The supl,er pro that stood in the hall. gressed merrily. As ihe ebampagne began to " He has fainted," said Colonel Rose. " Don't cxhilarate the party, compliments more and crowd round him. One of you boys loosen hiJ 1I10re flattering, and predietlolls of future glory, neckcloth whilst I hold up his head." flew about Alfred TrescoLL's delighted cars. " Where' s my maid? Get some eaM- Great trouble. Come at once." And it WaS They had now nrril'ed .t a street lamp lhe dated 10.50 P.M. that same evening. light from which rell full UJJ.011 Alfred's face. "Poor boy, poor boy! How awfully sud. The It.lian slopped short an looked at him. den," said my lady, wiping the ready tears from U I think you have great success,'l he said . her eyes. "Very great success. To say the truth, I was Geraldine O'Brien had sunk into a chair, and IhmklDg of what you call the wet blanket. I sat silent, covering her face with her hands. am sorry. My wife's cousin knows these n It is a terrible shock for Malachi and people well. She will be grieved. But you Augusta on their wedding tour," observed Mrs. have great success; very great success, Good Dawson, in an aggrieved voice. "I hope and night. This is my way home. Oh yes, with. trust Mr. Charlewood had made all the testn· out doubt, !treat success." And Carlo Bens. mentary arrangements that he explained to me walked rapiilly away. his intention of doing." .. "Little sneak!" sneered Alfred, jerking away Preseutly Colonel Rose returned, and the the end of his cigar, and stopping uuder the other men dropped in one by one, and stood lamp.post to take out and light another. awkwardly' at tbe door. "LIttle sneak! lie's jealous. So my friend, "He will be better directly, Lady Popham," tbe hodman's father, is dropping off the hooks. said the colonel. "Don't alarm yourself. It's Well, the hodlna" '11 have all the bricks and lucky, as things have turned out, that I happened mortar to himself now." Suddenly a thouaht to be here, for Charlewood lells me that his appeared to strike bim, and his handsome f~ee father is dying, and he must start for home at darkened into a black frown. "Yes," he once, and I can give him his leave without muttered, "I was a fool not to th in k of th.t more ado. I'll take him with me in my before. The chances are he won't stick to it carriage, aud sec that he's got r""dy to start by now he eau do as he likes, but still -I'll the first train. I hope he may find things see her to·morrow. Coming witb all this fuss, better than he fears." and praise, and success fresh on me-and The colonel took his leave, and departed wi th Bensa, whether he likes it or not, can't but say Walter Charl.wood, who sent in a message to that I made a great hit-she'll acknowledge, Lady Popham expressing his farewell to her, at all events, that I'm in earnest, and disiu and excuses for not seeing her again. terested, and all that.", Th. deaf dowager rnnae many inquiries of Artbur Skidley, as the latter attended her to her carriage. BOOK ILLUSTRATIONS. "This young man is not lh. eldest son, tben P" said the dowager. TlfE Art of book.illustration is, just now, " No; but he'. his father's favourite, and passing tbrough a curious phase. When George old Charlewood is one of those iniquitously rich Cruikshank, or Hablot Brown, two arlists fellows who'll cut up bandsomely enough for whose names are here associated solely for them all." chronological rcasous, had to make the illus· " And those sort of people can always leave trations to a work of fiction, it would seem to their property lIS they like." have been their practice to select as subjects "Charlewood can leave his just as he likes." all the most dramatic situations, whether of " Poor yonng man! Tell him, Mr. Skid ley, a comic or tragic sort, which were lreated of in bow distre5sed we were about him." the narrative. On the one hand, violent encoun· Alfred Trescott and Carlo Bensa walked part ters, terrible accidents, exciting ad ventures, of the way towards their respective homes crises through wbich lhe cbaracters described together, the , former smoking a cigar, and in the book were compelled to pass; on the other, carrying under one arm the Guamerius, which situations characterised by their exlremc ab o be told Lady Popham, enthusiastically, should surdity, in which the persons represented were never quit bIB side. shown in a ridiculous light, or exhibited nnder "Deuced wet blanket that message coming lau"hable circumstanccs - thcse wcre almost jnst then, when everything was going so well, illv~ri ab ly the themes chosen for illustra· 'II'lISIl't it P" said Alfred. tion. Their ambit ion appears to have heen "Very wet blanket for the poor young man, to put the more remarkable scenes described by the soldier," returned his companion. the author, hefore the reader's eyes, rather than "Oh yes' but of course he'd have had to to display thcir own artistic powers. get it, anyhow. That . couldn't be helped; But this Ill'iuciple has got to be now re whereas, withont my havtng any concem m the garded as antiquated and obsolete. Our mo· matter, I came in for a share in the nuisance, del'll men appear to occupy themselves less don't you see ?" with the thing to bc done than lVil h the manner "I see. Oh yes, I see." of doing it. Thcir ambition seems to bo confined " Well, you ain't over and above enthnsias. to tbe desire of producing It beautiful work of tic, Bensa," resumed Alfred, afler they han art. 'l'he mod ern illustrator, when a book is put walked some yards in silence. "You haven't into his hands, proposes to himself-judging by said II word about the concert or about my results-rather to prodnce a set of drawll>gs playing. One would fancy yon wereu't bcst which shall redound to his ewn credit, t han to pleased at my success !" belp the author whose work he illu.trates, to , .' 152 [Angut 10. 1867.J ALL THE YEAR ROUND. ·[tJond•• ted by make himself und~rstood. The consequence is, of sunrise has been caught here with wonderful that he ordinarily chooses those situations which success; you never doubt about it as yo~ look. are lhe tamest and leallt dramatic, because they The idea of such freshness and coolness lJI con feUer him less, and lend themselves more readily veyed to your senses, and the light is at once to his Imr)'ose of producing a complete aud so brilliant and so faint, that, although the agrcenb e picture, than those more slirring situa. shadows are as long as afternoon shadows tions wl.ich both the author and lhc public would arc and the sun is low behind the far-off havc liked 10 see illustrated. mo~ntains, vet no one could mistake this for a A largc proportion of lhe drawings wilh which sunsct .seene, or sup'po~e that the ~ay 'YaB such works arc embellished represent scenes ending mste.d of begllllllng. The elhilaration wholly dcvoid of act ion or stir. Two or three of the time of day is, mdeed, so great, tbat even pcoplc seal cd round a table, partaking of a Rozinante is getting over the ground at a good meal; a couplc of young fellows challing over pace, wuile Sancho, wilh his face turned up \0- their wine; a lady showing a picture-book 10 wards his master, and at the same time towards her liltlc girl; lovers in pairs, without end; lhe rising sun, listens to the glowing promises single figures, also without end; young ladies of thc knight, with the most rapturous credulity, reading love-leUers, or overwhelmed with some revclling mentally in the prospect oC an islarid piece of ill news just received. 10 govern, and corporeally in the warmth of the It must be acknowledged, at starling, t.hat morning sunbeams. This picture is roughly and the execution of such drawinrrs as arc here even coarsely executed; the mechanical contri sr,oken of is, in many cascs, weIT-nigh faultle ... vances of the engraver are everywhere con The figures arc cvidently drawn elaboratcly from spicuous; yet there is a sentiment about the nature. Thcy are well placed, both all to attitude whole which makes one ready to forgive any and all to their relative positions with regard to thing, and to accept the ruled lines by which each other. Nor arc the accessories neglected. the mountain mists are rendcred, for the opal If the scene rcpresented take place in a room, tin Is of earliest dawn. the Qbjeets about the room are well copied; if Somewhat akin to this design is another a landscape be introduced, tbis also is well illustrating one of those high-flown descrip sludied, and is of len a pretty picture in itself. tions of the joys of knight-errantr,Y with Yet, admilt;,~~ all this, at timcs one gels weary which it Wall the practice of Don Qlll10te to of these weu-cxecuted nothings; Ihcse well enlighten his audience whenever he could get writlen tales without story; these harmonious one. The knight whose imaginary career symphonies destitute of tune. the DOll pleases himself hy describing, has '['he designs of Gustave DOTt~ exhibit qualities passed throu~h a lake of boiling pitch into widely difl'erent from those which arc chiefly the Elysian fields, and rides by the side of conspicuous in the ordinary book-illustrations a bubbling hrook towards a castle, wherein, of our day. Thcy sive scope to tbe wildest doubtless, the lady of his affections is languish. flighls of the illlagillalion, and make larger ing in the power of some wicked giant 01 demands on the fancy of the artist than on malignant dwarf. The scenery througn which his realistic powel's. 1t is indeed in dreaming the knight is riding is "mystic, wonderfuL" of wual is fan ciful, rather than in rcpresenl The flowers in the meadows stand out like in~ what is real, that Gustal'c Dore excels. sparks of light from the grass. The sun bas Selecting the illuslrated edition of Don Quixote risen, but has failed, as yet, to disperse the as the particulnr spccimen of his powers to morning mists, and the leaves of the young bc hcrc considcrcd, it is impossible not to be trees-some in masses, some single and detached struck Ily thc mnrked gencral inferiority of -just catch the golden light upon their ed~, those designs in which the arlist has sought to aud sparkle in relief against distant hill-sJdes represent facts, 10 those in which he has dcall lost in mist, and crowned with the towers of wllh fancies. Whcn occupied with these, he some enchanted palace. scems to bc free and at his calle. He works To be classed with these two studies is unfettercd and achievcs always something, and anotber represenliu!> the Great Hunt, got up by occasionally a sreat deal; while, whenever it be Ihe Duke and DUChess, while Don Quixote is comes a question of realilies, ills numerous in enjoying their doubtful hospitnlity. This also accuracies, and-for a Frenchman-his remark is nn early morning sccne, and the effect, when able defccls iu drnwing, nrc jlainfnlly con· the drnwlllg is seen from a distance, is extraor .. spicuous. Somc of these fnet-il ustralions are dinarily Irue. Thcre is still another of these relicved hy a louch of humour which rcdeems dawn cffects, in which the artist shows Don tUCOl a littlc; but lllany arc simply bad, and Quixote at the head of a little eavalcade coming common-place to an extent which, considering lowards us on the edge of " bill, with his train the slriking originality by which the more of followers. Thc knight scems to stand erect fanciful designs of the artist arc oftcn cha iu his stirrups, his lancc is pointed towards the raclerised, is ren.11y curious. sky, and there is a look of mounting upward Thcrc nrc some spccimens in thc Don Quixote about him wbich gives him so strangely aspiring whicb nrc wOdhy of spceial notice. The large au alIpect, that he seems to be tilting against woodcut, reprcscnl ing thc knight and squire the very heavens. He aud his rctinue have as ridiul) along among lhe hill-tops in lhc early ceuded ulready above the clouds iu their journey D10rlllllg, is onc of thcsc. That most tender light " towards the kingdom of MieonllCOll," but there Oharles Dickens.] ALL THE YEAR ROUND. [August 10, lSG',] 153 are Inore exalted heigbts still above them, in the and it is made to appear much Wier by means sha~ of certain sllow-clothed mountain-tops of his shadow, wbich is thrown upward on the which are altogether detached from earth by the wall above his hcad. The only light comes from low-lying mists about thcir bases, and which the dim taper carried by thc duellua, and one feels seem to hang alort in the clouds, suspended in that her exclamation of "Blcss me i-what is the firmament as by a miracle. this?" is more tban justified. Examples of more obvious and extreme These elfect-studles are good and strik elI'eets which are got by the juxta-positiou of ing. But by far thc larger portion of those violent lights and shadows, are plentirul in this drawings in which the production of a as in every other collection of drawings by strong contrast of light and shadow has M. Dore. Some are good, though it must been aimed at, strike one as being hoth com· be admitted tbut they are always more COIll man and-if the cxpression may bc allowcd mon and less delicate tban those wbich have -dodgy; the artist producing his results been melltioned. In the illustration which by mcans which are entirely conventional and sbows Don Quixote holding forth to tbe goat common-placc, such as the introduclion of great herds on the glories of the golden age, one masses of a dark monotonous lint, whh here of these violent e[ects is ver.v well rendered. aud there a fcw specks of light catching on the It is a night-scene, and the wild fi~ures of the edges or the dilferent ohjects rcprcscnted in the goatherds, grouped in a circle roun~ the knight, design, whether fignres, or arciutectural dctails, are lighted, as are the Don and Sancho, by fire or masses of foliage. 'l'hc mcchanieal naturc of ligbt only. The glare is on the faces of the the engraving has been already alludcd to, and men, on the more salient points of their this, though excusable when the cffcct prodnced costume, and on Don Quixote's armour. It is new aud truthrul J is, in other cases where shines upon the trunks of the trees, and on thc effect is conventional and common-place, the houghs and lcaves which are near enough exceedingly weariso me. The truth is, that to catch its rays. The rest of the picture IS Gustave Dore is rather too much a Illan of as black as Erebus. And this is a very true dodges. ITe hIlS certain. recipes, so to speak, elI'ect; the blackness of landscape and sky at which he uses on particular occasions, and ~ht when contrasted with a small patch of wbich, but that he is really their original brIlliant artificial illumination, being always a inventor, would make one at times a little remarkable tbing. The same contrast IS exhibited impatient.. The use of fignres in the sky, the in another illustration nearer the end of tbe clouels being twisted into all "orls of fautastic hook, which represents the Procession of tbe shapes or men and horscs, auel thc Iikc, is one of Chariot of Death. IIere again the fi .~ llres, aud these. All allowable thing to do once, but once some portion of the surrounding foliage, are only. In one of thc illustrations to Don brilliantl,y lighted up against a distance so dark Quixote, that wbich shows the knight watchillg t1tst no smgle object can be detected in it. his armour ill the court-yard of the inn, the , Bnt perliaps one of the best of these strong moon has been made to do comic duty, the e[ects- so called in contradistinction to the shadows on its surface being distorted into tbe delieate studies of dawn and moruing light dc semblance of a human fnce-an ancient and scribed above- is the drawing illustrative ot' feeble joke, and altogether unworthy to be Altisidora's Mock Serenade. This is one of used by an artist of Monsieur Dore's preten the best illustrations in the book. The moon sions. The idea of turning clouds aud trees light is like moonlight, pale and spectral. It into shape; resembling human fi!i'!res, angels, falls softly on the 'arehitectnral details of the and demons, was a good one Originally, but it duke's castle, repeating the ontline of each little does not bear repeating_ pinnacle and moulding, vaguely-as shadows do 11. Dore is " nothing if not" startling. When -and glitters shar~ly on the glass of the window he chooses subjects in which strong effect is not panes. The building itself seems to be a sort admissiblc-plain day light seencs, wherc cariea of low 'pavilion among trees, aud on its walls the lure has no place, and where there is no opening fantastic shadows of the great boughs and of ror what is cxaggeratcd or rantastic-heis seldom the massed foliage, are till'own witli such true successful. In designs of thc rlainer and less effect that they seem to wave and sway from dramatic sort-just those in wIuch our OWJl ar· side to side. The figure of the sprightly Alti tists excel-there is always strong evidence of sidora is in sbadow, and is thrOlVll ont dark impatience, of dcficient study, of neglect of against the door of the pavilion, on which the nature. His drawi.ng, too, is defective j he is moonlight falls in a blaze of silver. conventional ; and the costumes in which bis Still among the strong effects, there is, in figures are dressed, are common and theatrical. this collecLion, a most ghastly drawing of the Such a drawing as that of Dorothea bathing her scene between Don Quixote and the duenna fcct in the stream, is not only had ill every way when tbe latter visits the knight in his bed iu which a work of pictorial art call be bad, but chamber, and finds him, suspicious that it is the is un-ori~inal. The same may bc said of the love-sick Altisidora who is approaching, alert study or Dorothea struggling in the arDlS of her and vigilant, standing on his bed, and majesti lover; of the scene between the knight and cally draped in the voluminous folds of a yellow the supposed Princess Micomieona; aud of a counterpane. The figure or tbe knight is preter dozen others. naturally taU as he slauds up in ghosLly drapery, It has been remarked that M. Gustave Dare 154 [A.guaI IO, 1887.J ALL THE YEAR ROUND. [ConduetO her hand. The only favoured one among tbem and, living so closeJ and being nlways on most was a Mr. Barton. My wife never liked this friendly terms, I wondered that none of the party Mr. Barton, and made no secret of her feelings load eOllle ill to teU us about the day's pleasure. to her sister, whom she frequently told that I tloo\lght I would just run in and see how they Barton only wanted to be master of the little bnd got all. To my great surprise, the se«ant haberdashery shop in Bognar. He was a man told me they bad not returned. I be!l.n then in poor cirenmstanees, and had no other motive to reel all.'(iety ahout the result. My WIfe, how· in his proposal of marriage, so my wife thought, ever, havin~ seen Harriet in tbe stable, refused than to better himsel(. to believe the servauVs assertioD, and said tijerc On tbe 2ard of August, 1831, Mr.. M. was no doubt of their return, but that they bad arranged to go with Barton to a pie.nie party at probably left word to say they were not come Goodwood Park, the seat of the Duke of RIch· back, in order to offer " plausible excuse for mond, who had kindly thrown open bis grounds taking a further drirc, aud detaining my horse to the public for the day. 11y wife, a little for another hour or so. annoyetl at her going out with this man, told At eleven o'clock Mr. Pinnock, my brother· her she had much better remain at home to look in.law, who hod been one of the party, came in, after her children and attend to the business. apparently much agitated. As soon as she saw Mrs. M., however, bent on going, made ar· him, and before he had time to speak, my wife rangements abont leaving the shop, and ~ot seeme,l to kllow what he had to say. my wife to promise to see to her little gIrls "What is the matter 1" she sald. " Some· while she was away. thing has hapyened to Harriet, I know!" The party set out in a four.wheelyhaeton H Yes/' replied Mr. Pinnock. "If you wish to with a pair of ponies driven by Mrs. M., and a see her alive, YgJl must come with me directly gig for which I lent my horse. to Goodwood." Now we did not expect them to come back From what he said, it appeared tltat one of the pOllies had never becn properly broken in; • See page 614 of \'01. xvii. that the mall from whom ihe turn-out was 156 [Augoat 10, 1007.J ALL THE YEAR ROUND. (Conducted bJ' hired for the day had cautioned Mrs. :l.L almost settled to take them myself, bad as respecting it before thcy started; and that lie trade was with me at the time, and bring them had lent it reluctantly, being the only pony to up with my own famil y, when one day busine~ match he hatl in the stable at the time, and called me to Brighton. 'lbe business was 80 would not have lent it at all had he not known urgent that it necessitated my travelling at Mrs. M. to be a remarkably good wbip. Ou night. reaching Goodwood, it seems, the gentlemen I set out from Bognor in a close-headed gig of the party had got out, leavinl; tbe ladies to on a beautiful moonlight winter's night, when take n drive round the park in tbe phaeton. thc crisp frozen snow lay deep over the earth, One or both of the ponies must then have taken and its fine glistening dust was wbirled abont fright at something in the road, for Mrs. M. in little eddies on the bleak night-wind-driven had scarcely taken the reins when tbe ponies now and then in stinging powder against my shied. Bad therc been plenty of room she tingling cheek, warm and glowing in lhe sharp wonld readilrllUve mastered the difficulty, but air. I had taken my great dog" Bose" (short it was in a narrow rond where a gale obstructed for" Boatswain") for company. He lay, blinl< the way. Some men rushed to open thegate; ing wakefnlly, sprawled out on tile spare seato! too late. The three other ladies jumped out at the gig bcneath a mass of warm ru"s. the beginning of thc accident, but Mrs. M. still Between Little Hampton.and Worthing is a held on to I he reins, seeking to control her lonely piece of road, long and dreary, through ponies, until, finding it was impossible for the bleak and bare open country, where tbe snow men to get lhe gate open "in time, sbe, too, lay knee-deep, sparkling in the moonligbt. It sprang forward; at the ,arne instant tbe ponies was so cheerless lhat I turned round to speal: came smash on to thc gate. She had made to my dog, more for the sake of hearing the her spring too latc, and fell heavily to the sound of a voice than anything else. "Good gl"Ound on her head. The heavy, old-fashioned Bose," I said, patl ing him; "there's a good comb of lhe period, with which her hair was dog!" Then suddenly I noticed he shivered, looped up, was driven int.o her skull by the and slunk underneath the wraps. Then the force of the fall. The Duke of Richmond, a horse required my attention, for he gave a start witness to the accident, ran to her assistance, and was going wrong, and had nearry taken me lifted hcr up, and rested her head upon his into the ditch. knees. The only words Mrs. N . had spoken Then I looked up. Walking at my horse's were ultered at that time-" Good God, my head, dressed in a sweeping robe, so white that children!" By.direction of the duke, she was it shone dazzling against tbe white snow, I saw immediately com-eyed to a neighbouring inll, a lady, her back turned to me, ber head bare, where every assistance, medical and otherwise, her hair dishe"elled and strayed, showing sharp that forethought or kindness could suggest was and black against her whiLe dress. alrorded her. I was at first so much surprised at seeing a At six o'clock in tIle evening, the time at lady, so dressed, exposed to the open night, and which my wife had gone into the stable and such a night as this, that I scarcely knew wbat seen what we both now kncw had beell her to do. Recovenllg myself, I called ont to know spirit, Mrs. M., in her sole interval of returning if I could render assistance-if she wished to consciousness, had made a violent but ul1success· ride,? No answer. I drove faster, the horse ful attempt to speak. From her glance havini( blinking, and shying, and trembling the while, wandered rowld the room, in solemn, awful his ears laid back in abject terror. Still the wistfulness, it had been conjeetnred she wished figure maintained its position close to my to see some relntive or friend not then present. horse's head. Then I thought that what I saw I went to Ooodwood in the gig with 11r. was no woman) but perchance a man disguised Pinnock, and arrived in time to sec my sister· for t he purpose of robbing me, seeking an op in·law die at two o'clock in the morning. ller portnnity to seize the bridle and stop the horse. only conscious moments had been those in Fillcd With this idea, I said, "Good Bose! hi r whIch she laboured unsuccessfully to speak, look at it, boy!" but the dog only shivered, as which hac! occurred at siK o'clock. She wore if in fright. Then we came to a place where. a black silk dress. four cross-roads met. When we came to dispose of hcr business, Determined to know the worst, I pulled up and io wiud up her an'airs, there was scarcely I he horse. I fetched Bose, nnwilling, out by anything left for the two orphan girls. 11rs. the ears. ne was a good dog at anything from ~l.'s faLh cr, however, being well to do, took a rat 10 a man, but be slunk away that night them to bring them up. At his death, which inlo the hedge, and lay there, his head between haPllened SOU IL afterwards, his property went his paws, whiniug and howling. I walked to hIS cldest SOli , who speedily dissipaLed the straight up to the figure, slill standing by tho inhcritu llcc. DUl'llig a space of two vcars the horse's head. As I walked, the figure turned, children were taken us vlsiLOI's by varIous relu and I saw Harriet'sface as I?lninly as I see yon tions in turn, and lived an unhappy life with no now-while and calm-plaCid, as idealised and settled home. beautified by death. I must own that, though For SOllie tillle I had been debaling with my not a ne rvous man, ill that instant I felt siCk self how to help these children, having 1lI00;Y and f.int. Harriet looked me full in the face boys and girls of my own to provide fo r. I had with a long, eager, silent look. I knew then it ~.--- l ALL THE YEAR ROUND. [August 10,1867.] 157 was her spirit, altd. felt a strange calm come way to get rid of both Turks and Arauoul" over me, for I knew it was nothing to harm me. whose quarrels and scumes were the torment of When I could Sfle&k, I asked what troubled her. the quieter citizens, thc horror of the tradcrs it, She looked at me still-never changing that the bazaars, thc detestation of the cook.shop cold fixed sUire. Then I felt in my mind it keepers_ 'l'he dim shaded streets of the city was her children, and I said: now echoed with the Albanian drum, the old " Harriet? Is it for your children you are mosqnes resOllllded with the clash of the war troubled? cymbals. The great squarc of the Uzbeekeyh No answer. was crowded with troops; droves of camels were "Harriet," I oontinued, "if for these you picketed in the plain below the cliU' of the are troubled, be assured they_sball never want citadel and in the desert toward, Suez. The while I have power to help them. Rest in half-naked dervishes shook their bamboo staff" peaceP' and howled their cxhortations in all parts of Still no answer. the city to all true Moslems to march to th. I put up m~ hand to wipe from my forehead redemption of 1Ieeca. the cold perspiration which had gathered there. The leader of the expedition was not to be Ibra When I took my hand away from shading my eyes, him, the. stepson of Mohammed Ali, who had the figure was gone. I was alone on the bleak just driven thc Uamelukes into Nubia, but the snow-covered ground. The breeze, that had pasha's favourite SOll , Tossoon Pasha, a chival· been hushed before, breathed coolly and grate rous, clever lad, only seventeen, who was the fully on my face, and the cold stars glimmered idol of tbe wild soldiery. Tossoon, scarcely yet and sparkled sharply in the far blue heavens. strong enough to bear a coat of mail under a My dog crept up to me and furtively licked my desert sun, had been made governor of the hand, as who should say, " Good master, don't citadel in 1805, a pasha of two tails in lS00, be angry, I have served you in all but this." and, latterl.v, general-in-chief of the Ueeea ex I took the children and brought them up pedition. }-'inati, an Italian, who served in the till they could help themselves. Wahabee caml'aign, and has left an aceouut of it on record, gives a glowing report of the young pasha, as kind, generous, affable, mercirul, aud OLD STORIES RE-TOLD. humane. While the bayonets are musterin~ at IIC\iopolis, and thc camel., c\u.tercd with A1ba TIIE MASSACRE OF TIlE Ml.MELUKES. niaus, are plodding from all parts of i.ho country MOHAMMED ALr, born in Roumelia in 1769, towards thc city of white tcnts, ncwly sprung and raised to the pashalick of Egypt in 1805, up under the palm-groves ronnd Cairo, we must having in 18n driven the Mamelukes, who were peruse a baek-pagc or two of Mohammed Ali'. in rebellion against him, into Nubia, rar beyond history, without which the relationships of the first cataract, prevailed on five thousand of this large-minded and subtle man cannot be the more peaceable of those warlike horsemen to elearly understood. come to Cai ro and settle there under his protec The man who with a strong hand had tion. On the Koran, and by the sacred heads wrested the N ilc and its borders from thc ofthe two martyr brother., Hassan and Hooseyn, hands of the beys, was a native of Cavalea, the favourite saints of the ancient city, the a small town of Roumelia, a district of Albania, great pasha had sworn to maintain Saim Bey the Epirus of the Greeks, and the birth and his chiefs in all the post. of honour or emo place of Pyrrhus. Losing his father in early lument of which they were possessed. The life, he was adopted by the governor of Mamelnke. had wasted their strength and Cavalea, who protected him, and trained him to thinned their numbers by the fiery charges arms. His sagacity, vigilaooe, and daring soon which they had hurled against the dogged bayo led to his being appointed, in a subordinate net. of Mohammed Ali's Turks and Albanians, way, as a collector of taxeS- 110 sinecure in a. from the Pyramids of Dagshoor to the shores mountainous country, covercd with woods of of Nile that look on Philre, and began at last to cedar, oak, and chesnut, ~ood for ambuscades, weary of open conflict. and where every peasant IS a huuLer, a warrior, Wily Mohammed's professed intention was to and a hater of t.~xes . The yOllng soldier had unite all these turbulent men under the green no scruples. lic had to collect the taxes, and standard of the Prophet, and march against the he did it quietly if he could; if not, roughly. Wahabees, a reformmg sect of Arabs tbat, ever As it is not uncommon among the Turks to since 1750, had been the plague and vexation unite the duties of a soldier with the pursuits of Egypt. For two years they had stopped the of a merchant, Mohammed became a dealer i His conduct under the standard .oon at far in Africa to the Mediterranean: its lOCb, tracted tbc attention of Kussouf, the govemor its deserts its tOWDS, its hroad green acres of of Cairo, who appointed the young Epirote to millet and'sugar-cane, its pJramids and temples. thc command of a division of tbe army, under Kourscbid »lISba was endeavouring to rouse Youssof Bcy. The pay of the Albanian troops the :!Ifamelukes against his rival, when the was in arrears, which caused their disaffec~ eapitau plISh ••uddenly arrived at Alexandria, tioll, and Mohammed refused obedience to and sent Roursehid orders to instantly give up the governor unless this wrong was redressed. the citadel to Mobammed and return bimseHfu Tho governor sent orders that he should ap head.quarlers. The Mamelukes were, however, penr hcfore him that night; but Ali, not .un determined to strike another blow at the Alba. acquainted with the object and usual temuna nian. 'fhe new pasha wished nothing better. tion of such private interviews, returned for Hc turned tbe CIty into one VlISt pitfall, and answer (hat he would show himself oaly in lay crouching behind tIre rock-waUs of the broad daylight, and in the midst of his citadel. Every fiat roof, every fountain-court, soldicrs. l'ereciving the danger with which be was an ambusende. Mobammed suggested to the WIIS threatened, Russouf tben admitted into sbeiks, . on whom he had the greatest reliance, Cairo the Albanian guards under Taber PlISha, to encourage tbe beys in their meditated assault, hoping that the intrigues of the one chief would and even to promise them assistance should COllllteraet tbose of (be other. But iu this they resolve to enter the city. The Mamelnkes, expectation be WIIS grievonsly disappointed; reposing implicit faith in thell' pretended friend!, for tbe mountaineers, in whatever pomts they seiZe.d the first opportunity of bursting in at might dill'er, now beeame unanimous in the one of the gates which had been opened for the one point of demauding tbeir pay, and in all purpose of admitting some countl'Jlllen with the measures whicb were suggested for com their camels. Dividing their numher into two pelling Kussonf to advance it. Tbey attacked parties, they advanced along the streets sound. the palace, rcduccd the citadel, drove Kussouf mg their martial instruments, and anticipating and his household from the city, and finally a complete triumph. But they soon discoverea the vice-regal power was deposited in tbe hands their mistake; for, being attacked by the inha of the Pasila Taher. bitants on all sides, driven from post to J?OSi, The tyrantlic.1 measures of this new ruler, and slaughtered witbout mercy, they sustained however, broui(bt his reign to a close at the so severe a loss as from tbat moment to cease end of twenty·two days, and the actual govern (0 be formidable. At the mosque gates, at.the ment of tbe country reverted to the hands fountain foot, in the bazaars, in the squares, of the Mamelukes, under the aged Ibrahim, every'" bere the Mamelukes were struck dOYD, Osmann, Bardissy, and Mohammed Ali. The shot, or had the life cut or beaten out of them. Porte, indced, scnt • pasha of high rank to All tbe prisoners were massacred, and eighty assume tbe direction of affairs at Cairo; but tbree sbaven heads seat to festoon the go" the bcys having once more the upper hand, walls of tbe imperial seraglio on the shores rJ. seized the viceroy soon after landing, and put the Bospborns. him to death. Tlie undisputed ascendancy of The Turks now began again their usual mean the :!Ifamelukes millht, in tbe eud, have proved and cowardly policy. They had used Mohammed fatal to Mohammen Ali; who did not belong to against the Mamelukes, now they wonld sup tilat body. For this reason be contrived to port the beys against Mohammed. They sent • embroil Bardissy, who has been called the capitan pasha to Alexandria with instructioos Hotspur of the beys, with some of his associates, to assist EIIy, well known by his residence in and tin ally, atlacking him with bis own hand, England, in his endeavours to lIS.ume the vice drovc him from the capital, and reinstated the regal mautle, and thereby to depress the r~ exiled plISha, whom he intended to use merely power of Mohammed. This envoy, upon his as a tool for his own pur~oses. The Grand arrival, sent a eapidji basbi to Cairo, summon Signior, suspecting his ambitious views, issued ing Ali to appenr immediately at that port, orders, in the year 1804, that tile Albanians wbere his master was ready to bestow upon should retire iuto their own country, intending, him the government of Salonica. it may he presumed, to garrison the Egyptian The old bird was not caught witb chaff. lIe fortresses with troops less disposed to insubor· was not to be lured by the sbaking of a coloured dination. Mohammed, however, was proclaimed ribbon. Mohammed knew tbat behind the 6n1\ll1l basha by the shouting soldiers. The Porte \VIIS for tbe pasbalick of Satanic. a bowstring was weak in llgypt; tile Mamelukes had tbe power twisted. He told his friends he sbould be a of tbe oM pl'!ctorinn guards-they could raise, fool and coward indeed, after ""inning the pasha's and thcy could depose. It lVas " a far cry" to turban with only /iv. hundred men, to surrender Constantino!,lc. A strong band had seized the now, when he bad fifteen hundred resolute men sceptre at IISI" and turned it into a battIe by his side. mace to brain his opponcnts. Goldsmitb once "Cairo is to be l'ublicly sold !" he exclaimed. said tilat Burke winded into an argument like "Whoever will give most blows of the sabre a serpcllt: like that subtle reptile, Mohammed will win it and remain its master." had twisted towards the throue, alternalely His demeanour towards the pnsha \VIIS, at the crouching und threntcning. It was his at Inst same time" submissive and dutiful; he artfully all lhat fair Inml: the va.t river reachin~ from • 0 regretted that tbe mutinous state of the arm1 O~arlOi DlckonJ.] ALL THE YEAR ROUND. [Augnst 10, 18ol7.J 159 would not permit him to obey the summons of ,\orst of the plagues of Egypt. Now comcs thc his highness, and to ha.ve the ineffable ploosure gISt of the old story we are now telling. of showing how ready he was on all occasions At the end of February, 18n, Mohammed Ali to bow the knee (slave tbat he was) before a invited Saim Bey, tbe chief of the Mamelukcs representative of his imperial lord. At tbis then in Cairo, to an audience to discuss th~ very moment he was plotting with the boys, ~pproaching. campai~ against the Wababees. and sending large sums of money to Constanti I he pasha Wished to havc his llew friends under nople, to secnre friends on both sides of the his standard, and to sbare witb tbem tbc honour Mediterranean. At length the sultan, finding and plunder of the boly war. Hc was frank that Ali could not be deposed, and perceiving and famil iar with the bey, told him his own himself on the eve of a war with Russia, for views, and invited him to disclose his. Saim warded secret orders to the capitan to make ,,:as a man of craft and penctration, but he the best terms he could with the usurper, and yteldcd to tillS frankness and laid open his to leave him in possession of the viceroyalty. heart. He discussed the transport of troops A short time nfter this occurrence the regular past the dangerous coasts of the Red Sea, diploma Call firming him in his office was trans planned· how to seize tbe deme of Jedeed IDItted by the Porte. Bogaz, and arranged how to drive the Wahabees Mohammed accepted with profound gratitude from their hill-breast.works at Cara Lemhi. The the power so generously confided to hnn. He bey was flattered; his pride tbawed; hc forgot did not care to see that the Porte had only his batred for the usurper, tbe slayer of his given what they could not refuse. The two comrades and his kinsmen. IIe begau to boast great enemies of the DelV viceroy-Elfy Bey and of the number of saddles he could fill, of the Bardissy-conveniently dying about this time, sabres at his disposal, of the him-hoshis under Mohammed became at last the master of Egypt. his influence. He spoke in a high and COlID Thinking nought done "while aught remained dent tone, with an inCation not unnot iced hy to do," he was about to march into Upper those keen stealthy eycs sometimes, hut seldom, Egypt and annihilate the residue of the Mame turned full UpOIl him. lIe spokc of tbc union lukes, when news reached him that war had and attachment of bis Aranouts and Circ.,"sian broken out between Great Britain and the horsemcn with an unction and evident belief not Ottoman empire. unnoticed and not forgotten by Mohammed. The The Mamelukes, too, have II history worth interview concluded by Mohammed, with many repeating. They almost exactly resembled the courtcous nods of bis turban of green band cd sultan's Janissaries, three thousand of whom with gold tissue, inviting the Mameluke chief were killed in 1826, during-the revolt at Con and all his adherents capable of bearing arms stantinople, which ended in their suppression. to the citadel on the following Friday, to make The latter were also released slaves or prisoners final arrangements for the part tbe Mamelukes of war from Albania. and the Danubian pro were to take in f he ensuing campaign against vinces, Circassia. and Georgia. The sheik's the Arab schismatics. On his return from this horse-tail standsrd was to the Mamelukes what gracious audience, Saim communicated the !be sacred regimental soup-kettle was to the news to his chieftains, and showed with what Janiasaries. Both were held tOl,;ether by tbe art he had conccaled their plots, and how com freemasonry of regimental tradition and the pletely the crafty Albanian usurper had fallen common desire of oppression and plunder. mto their snare. Both grew in power till they became dan One old greybeard alone was restless and gerons to the sultan. Egypt, after the Arab dissatisfied. Old men, it was thought, often Caliphs passed away, fell into the power of the mistake their present suspicions for tueir past Tnrks, and under their rule the Mamelukes wisdom. He cried out at once: first became known. By dewees their fourteen " We are betrayed !" heys ruled the fourteen provmces of Egypt, the But the rest laughed at him. Saim bent military republic being presided over in divan his brows, and said: by a shaick-el-belled, or chief of the country. "So mucl, thc worse if it be so; if there be Sultan Selim subdued them for a time, but the danger, we shall not want courage to meet it." beys soon regained their power, and turned the Saim then called togetber his c'ptains, lieu viceroys into mere puppets of their own. tenants, sergeants, and standard-hearers, and For yoars Egypt was torn asunder by the ordered them to accompany bim to the lion's factions of these ambitious chieftains, alter den, up on the citadel, In the forenoon of the nately vietorious, deposed, and slain. No Village next Friday. was sa.fe from these marauders. The peasant.., In the mesn time, all Cairo was like a hive at finding industry wasted, no opportunity left swarming-time. The seller of limes stayed his for honest gain, and no security for property, quaint cry of "God makc them easy to sell !" to became robbers and murderers, idle, hopeless, chat to the crier of" Odours of Paradise flowers lying, and dissolute. Wherever tbese savage of the Henna." The man with tbe black Iiorsemen fought, wherever their sabres flashed swollen goat's-skin of water on his back dis or their horses were spurren, the poor man's coursed all all the unwonted bllstlc with plot of millet was sure to be first trampled down the seller of sllcrbct; the itinerant pipe and burned. Greedy as crocodiles and rapa cleanrr with the dancing dervish; the rcd cious as vultnres, these meu were the last and eyed lupin-vendor with the blind beggar at the lGO . [AuguollO, 1887.J ALL THE YEAR ROUND. [Oonducted by fountain corner; the old men who watch the a more gorgeous sight. Young striplings, bean slippers at the doors of the mosque with the tiful as women, were there, proud of youth and camel·driver. from Samanoud; the syeamore·fig courage as Jet untried, re.ining in their white man wrangled over it with the donkey.boys; the Arab stallion. side by side with brown, scarred,. dale.merehaut, eross.legl(ed on the open eounler hearded veterans who had dasbed. their horses on of his store, argued it with the opium and per. the bayonets of Napoleon'. old fire-eating grena· fume·seller oppositc, who had just risen from his diers, and who rode grimly on, careless whether evcnin rr prayer; even the caller to prayer, just it was a levee or a battle, 50 they got their descended, at sunset, from his balcony high up ehihouk and opium at nillht, and their ernst in the minaret, stopped the rose·seller who wos and kibah at the regular hOur. So they rode passing ill the midst of his cry, "Tbe rose was on after tbe drums and banners, those four o thom-from the sweat of the Propbet it hundred and seventy light-hearted, reckless blossomed," to talk over the news of the great hor.cmen. A thunder·eloud hung over their Friday's levee in lhe eiladel. heads. On the face of one of them only un· Everywhere, from Shoobra to Boolak, from heeded feU a slant sunbeam, and that sunbeam the fresh green fields under the shadow of the was an unheeded omen. pyramids 10 lhe great sacred syeamore.tree at With a fanfare of trumpets and a roU o( kettle. lleliopolis, the talk was about lhe Mameluke. drums the Mamelukes' officers entered the and tbe \1' ahabee.. Even the naked shadoof· ancient city, and wound through its devious worker. lifting the yellow Nile waler in their defiles, nnder the high awnings, past the (oun· creaking wbeels strung with red pitchers were tains of the mosques, up, up toward. the citadel. talking politics, and praising either Mohammed They were led by three of tbeir generals, or Saim Bey. There was, indeed, no dim, damp, among wbom Saim Bey was specially con· narrow, winding defile of a lane where neap Ie spieuous. At tbe !(ate they were reeei.ed by were not thiuking a'· talking of the }'riday; no the Turkish and ~ubian infantry with militarJ latticed window with a water.jug to cool in il honours. They passed the gate, passed on where warnell of lhe harem were not prattling t a the palace on the higher ground, between the about the march of the Mamelukes. fortress walls .tudded with cannon. The Before dawn on the eventful Friday the citadel dates back to the days of Saladin, even drum. were rolling and beating all through the to those of Amrou. '!'here was a fortre .. therein I city, in the green Uzbeekeyh, and on through the urnes of the Pharaohs. It is, like other the bazaars, summouLug the pasha's troops to a fortresses, a series of covered ways between granu parade. The notice was sudden, and bastion and bastion, alternatinl( ,vilh open there was a rumour among the soldiers that parade.grounds. The four hundred aud seventy 'I'ossoon ra.ha was that day to be invested men threw themselves from their horses al the with lhe pelisse of eommander.in.ehief. There steps lhat led up to Joseph's granite-colulllllOd was therefore a great seizing of muskets and hall, shook lhe dust from their glittering robes, eartouch·boxes, !l great belting on of sword., adjusted their swords, pistols, and poniards witb and adjuslment of scarfs and s... he.. The warlike confidence, and entered. companies hllrried from their quarters to form Tbe three chief. were instantly summoned ill the squares and open places, and were in· into the Hall of Audience, where Mohammed stantly marched off to the citadel and placed Ali sat with bis favourite Albanian adviser, Has with extreme eare in their rc!:pective stations. san Pasha, " a close contriver of all harms." The Tbe billl·basilis went dowll the ranks, nnd .trieUv pasha was, as nsual, bland, grave, open.hearted, ebarged each man not to quit his post, on any elenr.eyed, and serene of eoun!cnance. He pretext, not even for a moment. Their musket. seemed even to d ,,"eU upon rus guest's words with were examined, and thell carefully loaded. an an..ious curiosity at once unusual and flatier· The Mamcluke procession of four hundred ing. They talked of the Wahabees and the bloW! and scycnty horsemen soon eame winding across that should he struck at them. Many compli. the millet .fields and Iupin.gronnds between the ments and civilities passed. pyramids and t.he Nile-along the raised earthen Presently the pasha, growing graver, clapped eausewnys between the corn· fields and the his hands, and N uhians entered with smok· elOl·e r·fidds. Their banuers of yellow and erim· ing coffee· pots, /laid tray., and little cups sel son flllitered brightly in the morning nir. The in gilt frames III the Turkish mauner. still sun slume on the gold tissue that bnnded theu· they chatted. Then more slaves in flowing tu rhalls, all I hClr sl riped wbite silk robe., on the white entered with the long cherrv stems and goldclI lIowers that studded their uniforms and lhe broad red clay bowl. filled wilh ·that golden· half em ercd their elose·linked cants of mail. lhreaded tobacco of which the pa.ha himselfwas The .• IIIII)('ilI\I5 of March, in Egypt clear and so good a judge; for had he not onee to buy and burulllg, "littered on the embossed gold and sell il? They bring red.hot ehBreool in silver silrer of t'l,,·ir pislol.butts, the hamlles of their cellsers, and throwing themselvcs at the feel of handgars, the hilts of their Dnmaseus yata. the Mameluke chiefs, swing round the pipe.stems ghan.. Their snutUe·elothes were stiff with and present the amber mouthpieces to the lace; their cariollcli.boxes and huge stirrups honoured guests. Just then, however, the pash~ -even the hinding. of their high snddles rose from his divnn, stroked his perfumed bearQ were gilt. A tulip.hed in a breeze, a summer with hi. white jewelled hand, thrust his fael wind ruilling half n mile of poppies, present not into rus red slippers, and withdrew, as if to Oharles Dlckens..] ALL THE YEAR ROUND, [ August lO,lUT.] 161 leave his guests for the present more at tbeir son rode out of the citadel to repress the ease. po~ular fury. Mohammed noted among the But his face blackened as he entered the near slam four hWldred and seventy mounted Mame ante-chamber, where the armed caplain of the lukes, besides their attendants, who usually guard eagerlv waited bis orders. The pasha's served on foot. The nnmber of victims in the hands were feverishly clutching his sword·handle, end did not fall sbort of a thousand. The his eyes dilating, his mustochios alive lo the very heads of the principal officers were embalmed tips, like a tiger's tail before it springs. 'These and sent as an acceptable prescnt lo the sultan. false Mamelukes, he said, have been plotting to Many victims, whose equestrian skill was now seize the citodel, and overturn his power, the mo· of no avail, and who were crowded to"clher ment the army leaves the city. It had even been and encumbered with their dress of cere7110ny, proposed in the Mameluke camp to seize the avoided present deatIl by surrendering them pasha himself on his way to Suez. Name of selves. The wicket of the citadel gale was the Prophet! was this 1.0 be endured longer. then opened, nnd they were dragged out one by On their heads be it. There is but one God, one to the court of the citadel, where they were and Mahomet is his prophet. The captaiu of first stripped and then beheaded, receiving their the guard was instautly to close and bar the fate, it is said, with undaunted resolutioll, and gates of the citadel. 'l'he moment Saim Pasha only indis-oant that they were deprived of the and the two generals took horse, the troops opportumty of excrcisillg t heir valour against were to fire on them nnd upon every Mameluke their executioners. Pent in like sheep in a within reach . The soldiers in the town were to slaughter-house, these brave mell were struck destroy aU fugitives, while the Albanians on dead one after the otber. A few boys alolle the plain below the citadel exterminated the were saved, because they were young and residue. The fiery cross was also to be at beautiful. once sent round to all the proviucial governors, One Mameluke cbief alone escaped, alld he so tbat not one Mameluke should be left. only by some providence so near a miracle t bat The three Mameluke chiefs waiting and wait it will never be forgolten as long as the Nile ing, finding the pasha did not return, and flows through Egypt. This chief, Amim Dey, bemg, moreover, mformed that he had retired a brother of tbe assassinated E1fy, had arrived to h,s harem (which was an elld to all further late for the procession. Saim bad alrcady questions, that being inviolate), began either to passed through the citadel gate; he therefore lie d.istrust[ul or else to think it due eti. took a lower place in the ranks, and probably quette to leave. Scarcely had they thrown was to have taken the same place on the rctul'll. themselves into their saddles than a rain of fire Hearing the gates shut suddenly, and seeiug broke upon them from behind the ramparts. the firing begin, he instantly kllew the treachery The bullets tore throullh their rauks from every that was at work, and spurred his borse up a side; all was confuslOn, dismay, and horror. narrow turn to a lofty terrace close to wbere Tossing up their arms and firing vainly at the the great mosque of Mobammed Ali now stands, walls, tbey were mowed down by hundreds. In and a little to the north of the Room"ylee Gale. vain the maddened men spurred up every pas· The fire might be slacker there, or Amim might '''l1e only to find fresh death bursting on them. have ridden into a corner, be knew not wherc. SIUIlJ Pasba, some said, was taken and led be There was a gap ill the old wall: all the reo fore Ihe pasha, who upbraided him with his pairs having beell given to the bastions and cur· tre.eherl.' and with tbe mllrder of his adopted tains facin& tbe town. Tbe precipice ran forty fatber, Elfi Bey. He was then haled out, and feet down to tbe sandy p1ain below. On his head struck off. Finati, however, who was one side rose the minarets of Cairo aud the present, says that Saim gained his saddle and domes of countless mosque., in the distance dashed down, sword in hand, to the outer gate spread the vaUey of the Nile and the cones of the citadel. It was closed inexorably, like of the great pyramids. One last look, then the rest, and he fell before it pierced with innu· Amirn spurred his noble horse madly at the gap, merable bullets. Some of the Mamelukes, in· and sprang out iato tbe air as from a lonr deed, succeeded in toking refuge in the pasha's pair of stairs' window. It was like leaping harem, and in the house of Toussoon; but tbey from a shot·tower or from a cloud. Tbere were all dragged forth, conducted before the is a Providence for the brave. Some genii Kiaya Bey, and beheaded on the spot. The or peris wafted him through the air. He lifeless body of the brave Saim was exposed Jloated down as if on the enchanled wooden to every infamy. A rope was passed round the horse of the Arabian story. In plain words, neck, and the bloody carease dragged through the long drirt of rubbish from the ruined waU the various parts of the city. Mengin, who was broke bis fall. lIe lifted himself, half stunned, in Cairo at the time, assures bis readcrs tbat from his poor dead horse, and fonnd himself the streets, dnring two whole days, bore the wbole and sound uuder the precipice from al'pearance of a place token by assault. Every which he had leaped. Au Arab (some say kiIid and degree of violence was committed Albanian bffieers) had, luckily for him, pitched under pretence of searching for the devoted his black tent and picketed his horses close Mamelukes; and it was not until five hundred to where he fell. Instontly Amim enlered houses had been s.cked, much valuable property and tbrew himself on the rites of Arab hospi. destroyed, and many live. lost, that Ali and his tality. It was granted. The Arab protected -. -- 1R2 (August 10,1867.] ALL THE YEAR R OUND. (Conducted by him, and kept bim concealed till the soldiers the Mamelnkes, of joining forces and falling had wreaked their fury. When rumours of "pou the viceroy after his army should b~ di Amilll's escape reached Mohammed, the Arab minished by the departure of the troops destm!"i generously gn,'c the fugilive a horse and sped for ArabIa. ThIS treachery \l'as, however, dis him to Syria. }'inati afterwards saw him at the covered to Mohammed Ali by alerson in tbi! palnee of Suleyman Pasha at Acre. confidence of Saim Bey, who ha been bribed 'I'he search for tbe Mamelukes ... as very hot to disclose his masler's scerets; and Mohammed nnu greedy in Cairo, :to Mamcluke's head being resolutely resolved to oppose it by an anticipated now worth eon;iderably more than a melon. Tbe tre,ehery. whole city was full of lamentations. The car· So fell the 1>Iameluke power in El!ypt; and, Dn~e and disorder was taken advantage or by though we may condemn the treachery which malice and plunder. Many innocent person. led to their massacre, we cannot lament the were killed by mistake or in the hurry of the fact. If Mohammed Ali conld have driveD them slnunhter. A few of tbe Mamelukes still lay to opeD battle, he did not want eonrage to bare conc~a l ed or barricadoed in their own houses, met them face to face. Tbey had been tbe cnteI or in tl,e houses of the braver and more faith oppressors of Eo:ypt for generations. They bad fnl of their rriends and dependents. III some well earned their punishment. If men and wO installcc!l, where no desperate resistance was men were merely animals, there would be no go. feared, their houses were burnt down with all vcrnment preferableto an enlightened despotilm. the inmates..and treasures. Five hundred houses Such was t he despotism of Mohammed Ali; bat were eilher sacked or destroyed. In many cases the despotism of the Mamelukes had beenselfislt, the soldiers risked their lives ill regular siege savage, and merciless. Tbey bad fought 0'. rather than lose their plunder. The rapine Egypt as woh'es 6ght over a earcase. Under Mo lasted si.-.: days. ha';lmcd's enre the mummy nation, so long boomd Tbe order I!iven at the same time for the hand and foot, came to life. Some day it """ slaughter of all tbe remaining Mamelukes in gatber strength and grope its way from tlli Egypt, within the eOllrse of a month, brought grnve-cnvern of slavery UpIVardS toward the in seven or ei!1ht bundred more heads from the light and sunshine of freedom. To Egypt and tOlVns and villages up the Nile. These heads to all Dations God send that day, and speedily. were dailv exposed at Cairo, before the gates of the citadel. I twas n more arduous task to effect the destruction of those Mamelukes who, to A GOOD THTh'G. the number of eight or Dine bUDd red sabres, besides ne~roes and Arabs, were still encamped I All asbamed to confess that I have been l in Upper Egypt under the command of l bra!lim thier. It is bumiliating to refleet that, at III Bey. A lar<;e body of troops was sent agamst earlier period of my career, I shoDld at IlIlJ De them, who arc said to bave eventually surprised havo so far forgotten myself as to have _ and slaughtcred them. guilty of the vulgar offence of petty iareeay So little compunction did tbe pasha feel when from the person. It is sad to remember, more reflecting on the occurrence, that, on being in over, that, tbis being my third mistake of IW form!'d tlmt he was reproachcd by all French nature, I was condemned for it t{) five travellcrs iu thcir narratives for this inhuman penal servitude. Donbl. humiliating it ... massacre, he rcplied that ho would have a when, after baving been Ilberated on a ticket.ol picture of it paiuted, together witb one of the leave for good conduct, I discovered how11WlJ m1lrder of tho Due d'ElIghien, nnd leave to professions were open to me of a far more 1. posterity what judgmcnt it might pass on tbe tive character than my former calling, and a1Io t wo events. getber beyond the reach of the law. It is probablc tbnt l10hammed slew onl~ that It occurred to me that, wltb a small capital. hc should not be slain. The following IS the say fifteen pounds, I might be ahle in a sbld version of t he story given by hi, fricnds: lillie to rcalise almost an independence for 0111 J ussouf, Pasha of 'Damascus, h avin~ been in my position, hy very simple moans, and quile unsuccessful in his altempts to repel the at honestly-that is to say, wben viewed in COIl tarks of that formidable sect of Arabs, thc ne:don with some successful bnsiness o~ 'Vahnbcrs, n commission was given to Sulimnn, iu tbe bighest walks of commerce which haft Pa;l", of Acre, to send his head to Constanti come within my notice. nnple; but Jussouf escaped his f.te b .. a timely Accordingly, on my reiease, I went to III flight. to Egypt, where he was hospitably rc acquaintance of mine, a pa)Vllbroker with wh - Obarlel Dicken •. ) ALL THE YEAR ROUND. [Augu,' 10, IS6'-) 163 sian of five per cent. My overtures being ae· able addresses in London, I next purchased ten cepted, I requested my friend to make me out pounds' worlh of postngc stamps, and then scnt pawn.tiekets for all tbe trinkets, priced at their the subjoined advertisement to three daily lIews· full value, thirty pounds. Having done so, he papers, directing it to be inserted every other then entrusted the tickets to my charge, and day: three insertions in each paper only: banded me in advance the commission of thirty THE advertiser, being in the enjoyment of shillings. A GOOD 'flUNG, is willing to impart it to With a portion of this money I paid for the a select number of subscribers. This is bona fide. following advertisement iu a daily paper: Send thirteen poSt3g0 stamps lin 11 It directed en velope to 11M.," Esq., care of u1l. "r.," at ~lcssrs. WANTED for ten days by a professional Danton Ilnd BirCh, Moon·strect, City. £15 gentleman. Eight pounds will be paid for the accommodation, anu property deposited worth double This sort of advertisem,mt h<'ing ralher a the amount. Address, &c. slale artifice iu itself, I depended for its sne· From about twenty replies I seloeted one cess, first, on the unimpeachable respectability with a country post.mark, and in female hand· of the addrcss, mul, nex.t, on the manner in writing. Aner some correspondence with this which I intended to work it. lady- a lodging.house keeper in a sea·side town At the end of a week, my nine advertise· -she was prevailed upon to advance the money ments had brought me one hundred and on my terms, wbich werc, Item, my acceptance eighty.four rel,lies. Each reply eonlained the at ten days for twenty.three pounds. Item the addressed enve ope and thirteen postage stamps. deposit of the pawn.tiekets for thirty po,{"ds' If you think I stole the postage Slamps and worth of valuable jewellery. bolted, you wrong me - you entirely mis· When the acceptance became due, I was un· take the chastening inUuenee of meditatIOn and avoidably called ant of town on important busi. retirement on a just and sensitive mind. What ness, and did not return for some days; in fact I did was this :-111 each of the directed en· not until the estimable matron, finding lh~ velopes, I folded up the thirleen stamps 1 had acceptance dishonoured, had endeavoured to reccivcd, together u;itlt, thirteen more, in a neat recover bel' money by redeeming some of lhe piece of paper eoutaining only these words and pledges. She had taken out goods to the figures: amonnt of ten pounds, but eoru;idering they Sea Genesis xlii. 35. were not worth the money, refused to redeem Imagine t.he surprise and curiosity of my one Rn,V more. The pawnbroker, however, knew as hundred and eighty.four clients, when, on open· ,,:ell as I did that the tickets, being actually in ing tbe letter, each found twenty.six stamps re· Circulation, would be sure to come back a~ain turned for the thirteen he had forwarded, and some day, and to result ill his getting rid otthe had tnrned up the quotation, "And it came to prol'erty at a very good profit. This in course pass as they emptied their sacks, behold every of t.me actually occurred, for lhe worthy lady on man's bundIe of money was in his sack." discovering that the goods were pledged for more I stopped my advertisements for a week. than they were wort h, was quile sharp enough Still a few straggling applieatiuns dropped in, to dispose of the tickets one by one, for a small making tho tOlal number of replies two pt:emium, among her conti!luaJly changing con· hundred and twenty·seven. stituency or lodgers; by this means she partiaUy :1\ow, I knew very well that out of my two recuperated the amount she had lost, and carried hundred aud twenty.seven constituents, each of out my truly fmternal principle of sharing our whom had reeeired a preseut of thirteen post. losses as well as our JOYs and sorrows among our age stamps, there would hardly be one who brethren in the world. Agonising reflection to would not apply to me again. In a general a well balanced mind like mine, it cost her four way, if a fish take your bait and be not pounds fifteen. 1 would have made money by it ! IlOoked, he will come baek' to you. :Illost of During the l,oul"' of my retirement frolll the 1ll.Y fish would reason thus: HI canllot lose ally busy scenes of life (at. the expense of my eoun· thing, for, being thirleen poslage stamps ill try), I had possessed ample opportunities Cor pocket, 1 risk nothing by a second ve~ture." reflecting on the inestimable blessings of a free But 1 depended most of all on seeyl"lllg lU eueh press to an enlightened community. I nolY of my clieuls the vcry best arl\'l'rLI::Hllg medIum proceeded to embody lhc result of those reUee· I could desire; for 1 notice that Irhereas people tions. who get stupidly swindled, arc apt to hold their I first o£ all made friends, at some lrouble tono-ues about it) persons successful in matters and not a little expense for liq uor, with a porter of loubtful issue arc invariably anxious to iu· in the employ of Messrs. Danton and Birch, form their friends how very shrewd they ha\-e the celebrated auctioneer. ill )Ioon.strect, City, been. In a week I resumed my advert.isements; and I ultimately succeeded ill \,re~ailing on tbat three more insertions. porter, for " handsome e0l1Slder.1 ion, to take I had not miscalculated the result. No Cewer charge of some letters that would be addressed than one hundred and ninety.Cour applications to me, but to H his care," at his master~' offices. camc from" original shareholders." At Lhe end I impressed upon his mind the necessity of of ten days the total number oC my subscribers watc~fulness, lest any of these letter. should amounted to seventeen hundred and Corty.eight. miscarry into his employers' bauds. You will guess, perllarS, that I 11010 kept all Having thus secured one of the most respect. the stamps. You Dlisjudge me cruelly, and do 164 [AuguSl 10, 1867.] ALL THE YEAR ROUl\"D. [CODd""lecIbJ injusticc 10 thc s"lutat lcssons of confinement urethren still pursuing the highly reprehensible and contemplation. returncd the stamps of oceupalion of vul"ar robbery, I subjoin my cight huudrcd of Ihe applicants, "'ith Ihirtcen balanee.sheet, whi~h cannot fail to prove an in. more enclosed in rach envelopc, and the same ccntive to the practice of honest labour for daily refrrenee to Genesis: laking care to repl'y to hread. In proof of its having tau~ht me the only half the \clters from eaclt. town. Then 1 in· beauties of rectitude, I wish to eill attention sericII my lasl adverlisement. to one item it contains. I refer to income tax. My retiring and gentle nature could not "11E GOOD TIITNG.-The auvertiser re· brook a" return," to undergo the scrutiny 01 a quests the imluJl-:ence of his corrc!lpondents; 1 curious sun'eyor; but a recent number of the they nrc ISO llUlllcmu~, it j'J ultcrl.v impo'iliilJle to re ply to nil by return. lIe u'SsUre'l them, however, that. Times eont.ains the following notification: "The ~Ilch client 1Shnll rccch"c due at.tclllion in rotation. Chancellor of the Exchequer begs to acho". leui(e the receipt of the second half of a Bank In a forlnight I was inundated with lefters. of Engh~nd nnte for ten eonnds, on account 01 They came frum all parts oflhe kingdom. Man. ineome.tax, from M., Esq." !\ecd I add thai or them were stamped with coronets, errsts, and M. 5tands for Me 1 monograms, t.hat surprised mc, though I had I wish to add a general moral. made 50me proficiency in lhe studv of such To steal in the 1l1mp frOID anyone person is deviccs on spoons, in bygone years. 'My friend disreputable and fool;"b, besides rendering yoa lhe portcr broughtlhe lelters to mv lodgin~s amenable to Ibe law; but so to conduct yoar c"cry morning and evcnin,!J, on a pair of hand. negotiations as to distribute a gi,'eo loS! (,oar trucks, until in all I had reeClved tI'eI vo thousand profit) among tlte largest possible body of COD· four hundred and seventy.oue. Then Messrs. ,lituellls, is the true theory of commercial pros Danton and Birch had their altention dirceted perity. to the fact of their house being used as my THE DALAXCE SREET. addrcss. They surprised their porter in the Dr. act of H runnin!;"" a earg-o of my letters j him To cash received! £ s. cL they discharged; the letters Ihey confiscated. Commission from pawnbroker . . 1 10 0 It grie\'es llIe to reneet on lhe melancholy Capital negotiated ...... 15 0 0 fa le of the porter, likewise on lhe number of Postage stamps received from 12,471 post"ge stamps dh'erted from their proper clieuts . . . 675 10 ~hanncl. It is fair to say, though, that I be li eve Messrs. Danton and Birch religiously £ 692 0 8 returned e,'ery postage stamp that feU into tI,elr Cr. ltancls. This is highly satisfactory to a mind, Dy cn .. 11 paid! £LcL roid advertisements for loan. . . 012 0 &c. I Even could havc done no morc. Paill ad\'ertisements, 1st serie! of You will yery likely think that I now stopped The Good Thing...... 1 17 6 Ute correspondl'llee? Not quite correct, e,'ell Paid stnmps returned, 227 clients . 12 5 11 now. lloncsty is ever the besl policv. J<'irst, I l'ostage or ditto...... o 18 11 took lhe precaution of removin~ my 'Ictters, my Paid ad\"ertisements, 2nd series of valuable ,tamps, and my valuable self, into the The Good Thing . . . . . 1 17 I country . TllcH, from lllV rural retreat I pro Pllid stamps returned, 800 clients 48 6 8 ceeded to impart tn my 'twelvc thousa:td four Postage of ditto . . . . a 6 8 hundreu and seventy.oIle constituents, the Paid last advertisement " . o 16 I Paid postage, 12,4il ietterd . 51 19 I R.r~lld ,?realllllll and mystery of "'1'hc Good lhlllg. n Sutionery . .. 11 5 0 Although at tremendous sacrifice of 10 0 0 stamps, I held myself pledged to reply to each Paid income-tax correspondent., as au honourable and a profes. 138 6 11 sional man. DlllnDce in hand, being nett profit. 658 U ~ \ Thnt my privacy might not be disturbed by disagreeahle inquiries, I took the preeaulton to £692 0 a forward my letters tWice a week to London in it b~\lr, to my clrllr friend th e pawnbroker, fol' OLD IIARVEST.llO){{S. the sake of the London post.l1Iark. He posted th(,111 for me at tbe H General." IT is Ihe fashion of the day to organise and Jt took exactly n 1110nth to complete my ex· rrgulnte every popular meetillf'l', whether secular 1rllSI\"C (,olT{'~pon~el~ee. No post3.f'I'C stamps and social or religious, with ~lilitnTY precision. Wcrl' returlled tlII8 t line; but each letter eOll No church or school can be inau~urated with· taim'd thr following piece of ndriee, neatly in ?nt R programme of pr~eessionsJ °hanner.bear· senhed 011 Ihe best uaronial crcam.l"id note mgs, mUSIC, speech.making, and marching, &0., (and in lily opinion jt is a prrccpt more ,rriecful 110r enn t\\'o or three score ,'iIla~e children eat (.Imll postagr ~tlllllpS , and should be "'flttcu in hrend.nnd·hutter ill company sa~e to the sound lellers of gllld) : . 01 llule Britalln.ia aud See the Conquering To inqui rer.!) for the 000(\ Thing! See Lu1co x. 37. Hero comes. Noone) however who has 11M l:o find do liltewisc. much to do wiLh Yilla ~ers e~peeially with With n \'ie\\: to "ttraet in.to lhe \,l1lh~ of .\'?U~g . villngers, .ean do~bt the advantages 01 hOl1esty and 'lltliC t.h ose of my 1111sgUldcd dtSelpllllc; and 1f system be sometimes mi>- Charles Dickens.] ALL THE YEAR ROUND. [August 10, 1867.] 165 placed and carried too far, we must take the as .gre.at an i~terest, though not w.iih an equally good with the evil, and not grumble. At the agltatmg anxIety, as that with which I awaited same time, it is indisputable that individualities the deb~t of some one of my you~g brothers of character do get lost under this process, and addressmg the guests for the first tunc. With especially at such simple pleasure meetings as what eagerness we used to watch thc glance of hay and harvest festivals. There the amuse the kindly eyes now closed for ever, and treasure ments of the guests are now prescribed for each word frolll the loving li ps, round which them, with their diet, instead of being left to would playa modest nervous smile, wherc smile themselves and their own resources. Thus we will never play again. gradually lose the family character which used Little conversation would prcvail durin". to distinguish such feasts, held in the farmer's supper. Eating is too scrious a matter o~ kitchen, cooked and served by the farmer's wife such occasions to bear divided attcntion; but and daughters, and binding master to man in a as the last helping of pudding was given (half way unknown in these days of monster cut of which was usually packed 1U a basket under and-dried formalities. the table, for the children at home, half eaten at Let us see what we lose by the modern leisure), a buzz of talk: would begin. This was system. Certainly not wit, for the witty ele· prelimmary to settling in to pipes and beer; ment appears to be wholly wanting in the com· the pipes, however, were not lighted until position of the English peasant. His jests are the form harl been gone through of inquiring very sorry, and, like his repartee, broad and per whether the mistress objected to tobacco. A sonal. Aft.er twenty years' association with the deprecating nod having implicd "No," with agricultural poor of a midland county, the more courtesy than truth, we wcrc speedily writer cannot recal more than one or two pea all enveloped in clouds of smoke. Then came sants' jokes which are capable of provoking a the toasts and speeches. The Quccn dis· smile by their intrinsic merit. We need only posed of, the squire and his lady werc toasted. tnrn to George Eliot's inimitable account of Thanks were returned by the former in a specch the harvest-home supper in Adam Bede, and to both grave and gay, winding up with a retrospect that of the conversation at the Rainbow in of the farming operations of the ycar. The clergy· Silas Marner, to have a fair standard of la man's health was then druuk aud acknowledged. bourers' wit, and of the style of humour which We young ones now camc in for Oill' share of commends itself to the agricultural mind. Of honour. The guests drank to the health of the jests, as of favourite games, stories, songs, and squire's daughter and her band of brother~, music, the principal charm appears to consist with special mention of any who might happen in repetition. N of hing that has once earned a to be absent; aud appropriate songs were sung place in the approbation of villagers ever be after the names of the travellers or soldier. comes stale or unprofitable in their opinion. The bailiff and schoolmaster were then toasted, The oftener games are played, and songs sung, and duly returned thanks. Then we all joined the better they are appreciated. Villagers, like in toasting" Speed the Plough;" and then be children listening to a story, love to know gan the real business of the evening. exactly what is coming. They wish the pro Four or five of the guests dimppearcd to pre. gramme of the after - dinner or after- supper r,are for the grand dramatic performance of amusements, like the bill of fare of roast beef rhe Husbandman and Serving.man, sung by and plum.pudding, to be always the same as Mr. Joseph Bird, carter, and Mr. Can'iss, last 'year's. The labourers of to.day prefer the butcher. During this interval we wcre thrown stones told, the dramas acted, and the songs on our own resources, and re.rartee grew rife. sung, by their fathers and grandfathers, to new Woe to the unhappy wight, If any such were fangled compositions which have never taken present, whose banns had been published in firm root in the village mind. They find suffi church on the preceding Sundays! He was cient variety for their tastes in the inevitable badgered from far and near; was particularly ~ifferences and inequalit.ies seen from season to asked how many of his spurs he had assumed; season as new actors arise to take popular parts and his neighbours were wal'llcd against this devolving on them by reason of the death or dangerously equipped knight, &c. &c. We retirement of predecessors. Speculations as to used to fancy that this favourite jokc (of thc whether Ben's mantle bas fallen on Philip, com origin of which the speakers thcmsclves were parisons between Ben and Philip, and retro entirely ignorant) might contain some romantic spective glances at former performers before allusion to the youthful knight watching his Ben and Philip were, furnish their favourite arms and keeping a vigil; but werc somcwhat staple of conversation, while a new song (if an disappointed when Notes and Queries referred old one revived, so much the better) or a virgin us to the Scotch and north-country word for speech given by one of the young gentlemen from "inquire," "speer," which would apply to the house, is highly admired and applauded. "asking banns," and would casily change into The barvest-suppers at myoId home, which spur and SpUTS. Anyhow, thus the t.ime would I will call Sheepfold, are now a thing of the pass until the return of Messrs. Bird and past; but I well remem ber the pl easure with Carriss, bearing t.heir respective insignia of which we used to attend them, and confess to office-spade, rake, and whip, and besom, shovel, having listened year after year to the same and hat with gold band. ta!-es and the same old-world songs with almost This dialogue is spoken of in an article in - 1GG [August 10, 1B87.] ALL THE YEAR ROUND. the ltel'llo des lleux Mondes, vol. xlviii., 1863, 5. Now, kind sir, but we do wear and the writer, ~lr. E. '1'. B. Rathery, considers its moml to be the same ns that ofL. Fontaine's Our clothe! both ricb and 70ft, Our coats with gold lace upon, faLlc, Le Cltil'n et Ie Loup, namely, the proud Our shirts as white as milk, superiority of the husbandman, as synonymous Our Btockings made of siJk wilh yeomall and freeholder, o,er the serdng There's clothing for the serving-mao. man who serves a master for wages. The spirit which some years since animatl'd the in G. uepcndellt elnss of small prolll'ietors breathes in As for your clothe! 50 rare, every line of 1he well·knowlI lallad, The Ycomall Gi,-e me stout shoes to wear, of Suffolk. Tlte lIusbambn"n llIay ha\'c had the Clods for to trample upon i same origin, as indecd ille possessive pronoun Give me a good great-eoat, And in my purse 8 b'Toat in versc eight. would secm to imply j but in There'll clothing for the husbandman. our villa~e it had lost this association, and it s 5iglliacai~('r cOllsis1cd in tIle superiority conccded 7. to agricullurc oYcr domestic sen-ice. The There, now, kiml sir, it is a fine thing palm is "wardccl to agriculture in lhe tenth To ri de out with the queen, verse, which was triumphantly sung in chorus Either lord, duke, or any such one, by ,,1\ the company present. Mr. Chappel, in To hear the hOm! to Llow, See hounds run in a row-- IllS work on Popular English ~Iusie, gives the There's pleasure for the sen'jng_man! air brlonging to Thc llusbandman, t hough also called" 1 am the Duke of Norfolk." The tunc 8. to which our fricnds sang' fhcir rccitativc brars Jfy 1,leasurE:'s more tban tbat sufficicnl resemblance to this air to indicate n To see my oxen fat i commou origin, the princij)al difference consist A brge stack of hay by tbem stand; ing in the time and the m ue of lhe notes. 'My reaping and my mowing, My plowing a.nd m,y !owing THE nt:sDA..... D:\I.A~. There's pleasure for the bus-band-man. As suug by Joseph Dinl, Carter, nod Denjamin a. • enrriss, Dutcher. Kind !ir, I must confess, 1. And grnnt you the request, " 'ell met, well met, my friend, All things must be added to you, Upon the highway ritling, rota me it is most painful, To you it is most gainful- So ~illlple all alone ns YOIl stnnd, AnI.! till in a 1ittIe space I wish I was a hus-band-man_ I will help you to a place 10. Where you may be n sen·in~-man. (bJ cJWI'U$.) So now, good people all, 2. Dotb gre3t and small, Oh no, my brother dear, what makes you to inquire Let us pmy for the gootl of the land i Of any such things at my band? A nd let us all for e.er J hm'e lL thing to show, Do tbe be!;t of our endea.onT '" JH~rehy you !loon sholl know FaT to maintain the hus- band-man. That I am n downright husbandman. While tlte vocalists were resling, the"ea1I" a. was generally passed on to the story-teller of Rind sir, but we do eat the \'illnge, Loasby, the old sexton, who,..nth Our most delicllte fine mt'nt, the most extraordinary gravity aud fault! Our fish, our capon, unci our swan, memory, wonld rclate, word for word, nn old OUI' palates are so fine, allegory called The Pack of Cards, or, " '0 drink Bugar in our wino- Loasby called it, The ]Jerk of Cards. TIns There's diet for n Ben-ing·Ulan. was a highly popular story, owing, no doubt, to its allrgorical ebaraeler, always a favourite form 4. of fiction with poor people and children, whoee No,,.. as for your fish and capon, tastes in literature, for ob"ious reasons, ate Gi\'c me some LJc:ms rulll bacon, much alike. On none of the upturned faces 50111(' butter and some cheese now ::md then, around was a smile to be seeu . and if a ne .. " ..... rc ... always pigs ami SO \\"8 vil:iilOr, ou hearing t.he remarkable memoria Th('re in OUI' fnrmer's ynnl- 'I'h ere's diet for the hu~biindmnn . leehnic., for tho first time, belrayed some :1 amusement. he was immediately shamed into I grnrity by the wondering glances turned on him. • In tl~(' ~idl.nn~ countie!ll the two nuxilinry verbs '1'0 give the telling of this a\legory due e1I'oo~ ll:C used IIHil8Cfllnlllotcly, thus: II "'cn rcnlw8~'sgo t the narratol', as he sat at the head of the lable, plg~ nnd FO\\ S j" "10m going to Loudon to-morrow should spread his 1'"el.: of Cards solemnlJ oul Dell i" II 011, ho\'e YOll, sir? r hope you are not before hlS auruenee ond refer to them. Master got to stny tlll'n'. iUIlg-:' The fourth linD of verse Loosby would proceed as follows: four hus prOllUbly lleen altered into the commOll "l'he litle is eallcd the Soldier's Prayer and lingua of the ,lcoplc singing. IIomily Book of the 30Gth Regiment of Fool- t ======~======~~ Cblo1'KlS Dlckens.] ALL THE YEAR ROUND. [August 10,1867.1 167 "And when the congregation came into B;e destroyed the world, that is, Noah and his church, they all took their seats, and those that Wife, and their three sons (and their wivcs) had books pulled them out; but this poor soldier that is, Shem, Ham, and Japhet. When I se~ had neither Bible nor Prayer-book, nothing only the nine, it puts me ill mind of the nin~ lepers' this here deck of cards, and. he pulled them (or, as Master Loasby invariably pronounced out and laid them before him. He looked first ~nd, I have little doubt, uuderstood it, leopards) upon one and then upon another card as he that wcre cleansed; there were tcn but nine sat, and the sergeant of the company saw him, never returned to give thanks, sav: only this and said, 'Richard, J;lut up those cards, else poor stranger, and he was a Samaritan. 'When after the divine serVlce is over you are my I see the ten, I remember the ten command prisoner:' ments which God gave M?ses on thc mouui,oll " 'What for P' said the soldier. two tables of stone, wntten thereon by the '" For playing a game of cards in the church,' finger of God.' " saia the sergeant. (Here he takes the knave, and laying that " , No,' said the soldier, 'I did not plav a aside, passes on to the king.) game of cards in the church, for I was only " , When I sce the king, it puts me in mind lookina at a deck.' of the great King of Heaven. When I see the '" No matter at all about that, you are my queen, it puts me in mind of the Queen of prisoner.' Sheba, who came from the furthermost parts '" Well,' said the soldier, 'where must I of the ef1rth to hear the wisdom of King go ?' ~olomon. She brought fQrlh a hunch'ed boys "'Before the mayor,' said the scrgeant. and girls, all dressed ill girls' clothing, and '" Well and good,' said the soldier. set before King Solomon for him to tell which "When they came to the mayor, he was at were boys and which girls; but he could not dinner; but when the mayor came out, he said, till he called for water to wash thcm. The 'Well, sergeant, what have you to do with mc boys washed round their Wl'ists, and the girls up to-day P' to their elbows, so Kin$' Solomon, I suppose, " 'Sir, I have brought this man before your told by that. When 1 count how many pips honour for playing a game of cards in the there is in a deck of cards, I find thrce hundred church.' and sixty-five, sir; and there is three hundred '" What, that man ?' said the mayor. and sixty-five days in a year, sir. When I "'Yes, your honour.' count how many cards there is in a deck, I find H' What have you got to say for yourself, fiity-two; and there is fifty-two weeks in a ycar, soldier P' sir. Wheu I count how many tricks therc is, " 'Much, sir.' I find thirteen, sir; and there is thirtccn months '" Good, I hOJ;le,' said the mayor; 'for if not, in a year, sir (lunral, you know, sir). So ,ou sec you shall be pUDlshed the severest that evcr man that this deck of cards is almanack, and ]3ible, was punished.' and Common Church Prayer-book to me, sir.' '" Sir, I have been five weeks on the march, " 'Well, soldier, you have given a good ac- and have got but little money to subsist on-to count of all the cards but one.' buy pipeclay, blacking, washing, and other " , Which be that, sir?' things, which is necessary for a soldier to want. " 'The knave.' I had neither a Bible nor Church Prayer-book, " , Well, sir, I could give your honour as good nothing only this deck of cards; so I pulled an account of that card as of any of the rest, them out, and laid them before me as I sat, first sir, if your honour would not be offended.' looking upon one and upon another. " , Not at all, soldier, except you make me the '" So I began with the ace; that is one pip, you knave.' all know. When I see the ace, the one, it puts " , Well, sir, the greatest that I know is the me in mind that there is but one God over you man that hrought me before your honour.' and me and all the world, sir. When I see the " 'Well, soldier, I do not know whether he is two pips, they put me in mind of the Father and the greatest knave, but I am sure that he is the Son. When I see the three, it puts me in mind greatest fool;' and with that the mayor thanked of the Father, Son, and of the Holy Ghost. him, and ordered him some bread and chccse When I see the four, it puts me in mind of the and beer, gave him a piece of money, and told four Evangelists who appended the Gospels, him to go about his business, saying that the tbatls, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. When soldier was the cleverest man he had cver seen I see the five it puts rue in mind of the five in all his life." virgins; there' were ten, but fiVe were foolish. This Eastern kind of recreation ended, the When I see the six pips, it puts mc in mind sexton, having earned his right to the caU, that in six days God finished all His work, which would appeal to the village mason for one of his He had made and created; and God saw every songs. Smoking Spiritualised was perhaps thing that He had made, and behold it was very the most in favour, but it is not given here as good. And when I see the seven, it puts me in being widely known, from its slightly altered mind that God rested on the seventh day, and burden, "Think of this when you're smoking God bles~ed the seventh day, and hallowed it. tobacco." When I see the eight, it puts me in mind of the Mason Newman, having been duly applauded, eight righteous persons which God saved when would call on some musical neighbour for a , 168 ALL THE YEAR R OUND. [August la, 1867J song; he, in his tum, would caU Cor another of Den dey look. the sexton's stories, or Cor a rude play, called In my box, The Dentist, and acted by some of the company, An' 1 cry Will you buy? who represented the doctor, his horse, the Wid my slippers snd my sticks, patient, and the nurse. 'l'he patient's teeth Dey do play sicb slippery tricks j (broken pieces of tobacco. pipe IIlsertcd in the Dcy tink I've all profit, but Jittle do they know mouth) were drawn with the fire-tongs, and the How ill used and abused ail day iB poor Mo. Cainting sufferer was revived by an energetic Poor little Mo. use of the hellows. now ill used llnd abused aU day is poor Mo. "How I went to the Coronation," and King Through the ciLy I tramps wid my goods of ev'rJkind, Colc, were favourite songs, scarcely less so In my shop round my neck you'll each article find. "Yellin~ton and Blucher. Again the mason's By the Bank an' de 'Change, and St. Paul's too, I really beautiful mellow voice would be put in stand, rcqu'isition Cor hi. great song of The Blackbird; Dut 1 meets my be.,t friends wen I come by tht. and aftcr thiit thc blacksmil h would give us, " 1 Strand. will hall~ my ITarp on a 'Villow Tree," &c. (" All ! dere is all my best customers, dat But the evenin!;\' being now Car advanced, the always gives me de ready money, and neyer time had arrived lor Mr. Carriss's popular ditty, a"uses me. I forget all my troubles ven I gets Poor LiLtie ~ro. Wbile singing it, Mr. Carriss their smiles; an' I says, 'Bless my hearl, vat paraded the room with a baSKet oC IVarcs on his a blrgain you're goot! Vy, you've got it merely arm, and interrupted his song from time to time for an old song.' ") to make impromptu offers of cottons and hooks Den dere smiles to the ladies prescnt, and of knives and boot Pay my toils. laces to the men, taking up the thread of his Wi' vat glee song again very cleverly after concluding a bar Do I see gain or receiving a rebuff. A ventriloquist All my customers' faces, might have envied the pretended Jew pedlar An' all their good graces! his power of chauging his voice as he alternately Den my heart fil1 'd in gratitude, homeward I go. An' dere's DO one 80 bappy as poor little Mo attemptcd by well-turned compliments to insinu Poor little Yo. ate himself into the good ~ces oC the ladies, An' who's den 50 bappy as poor little Mo? and to cajole the men mto becoming pur chasers, now and then assuming the tone or One very pleasing Ceature of these harvest. an injured man, and soliloquising on the suppers was the confidence Celt by oor vill~ stinginess of his audience before resuming the friends that, in joining their Cestivities, we did ballad. so for our owu amusement, and not merely to POOR LtTTLE 110. see them Ceast. Never was a greater or belttr deserved compliment paid to good breeding My name it is Mo Samuel, a poor little Jew; and From the Minoriea I come wi' dis 'ere ting in endurance than an involuntary one received by view, the mistress on one occasion from a labourer; To get an vat I enn, and my customers try, who said with the ntmost complacency as the If 1 runs half a mile, never mind, so they buy. poor smoke-dried lady (wbo specially deWsted the fumes oC tobacco!) left the rbom, "Hatr (" Veil 'ere dey are aU, a ba'penny apicce. the mistress have enjoyed herself, toe he sure I" Yell, tree a peony-take four, five." "Give And so she really had, and so we all did, ill me six." "Give you six? Vat, do lOU tink I spite of the smoky atmosphere. Our onlyregttt stole 'em? Veil, take them wid you. ') was, that space did not admit of the preseaoeof Dey say no, the wives and daughters of the guests. These 00' dey go; Cestivals may not have been of an educational or Dcn 1 runs, South Kensingtonian character, bu& a& least ' Vid my bWlS, they ever served the purposes of innocent Wid my sweetmeats and he~lrt.cllkes, amusement, and of drawing together emplo)1ltS Through tho mud, till my feet aches, and employed. Nor were serious thoughts and Den all de way back I am forced for to go, allusions altogether out of place or impossible An' dey won't spend n rarden with poor little Mo. Poor little Mo. on these occasions. Though drollery aud enjoy An' dey won't spend a Carden with poor little Mo. ment were the rule, slill in the laler part of the evening the speakers would of I en make reCer Dey calls me a deep an I a knowing one too ; ence to thc Giver and Preserver of the kindly All lie harm dE;:y cnn say is to call me a Jew, fruits of the carth; and the tact and fluency of the Dey nrc right-nnd vat den? I am sorry, I says, good squire cnabled him, without the slillhtesl 1 can't call ye Cbdslinns, so go your ways. strain, to direct the thoughts of his worl The Ri!JhI oj" Translali"!J .&rticl.. /rom ALL THE YEAn ROUND i, res.,.v.d by the .J."tluJr,. Publlshcd 0.\ tho amce, No. 20. WelliDgtoI18trce~ Stnwd. Prinied by C. Wall.mo. Beaufort House, Strand.