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 A second night, and the first part of the second day, passed in the same uneasy conjectures. Towards the close of the day, the door of his apartment opened; Heli appeared, followed byJudge the transports of Ferdinand—followed by the Count! Yes, his friend Count M. They flew to embrace each other, regardless of all but the joy of this unexpected meeting; as unlooked for by the Count, as unhoped for by Ferdinand, whose mind, having been wound up to expect some horrid design against him, was so overcome by a rush of sudden joy, that unable to speak, he sunk almost motionless on the sofa.

The effect was momentary; for he soon exclaimed, "My friend! my dear Count.—Dear—generous Heli."

The Count was not less transported, nor less grateful in his expressions to their benefactor. Heli approached them—"I leave you together; an hour hence I shall return, and communicate important news."


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 He withdrew. The friends had a thousand things to say—a thousand questions to ask. It appeared, that after they had been separated, the Count was carefully guarded. He met with no ill treatment, but he obtained no companion like Heli. His days past heavily, without any employment, and his mind oppressed with sorrow and despair; a situation, he observed, which must very shortly have overpowered his constitution.

The preceding day, Heli accompanied his guard into his miserable apartment. He made him a sign to follow Heli; he knew resistance would be in vain, and was indifferent as to consequences. He was placed in a covered carriage; they travelled all night, and for some hours on this morning."When we arrived at this Castle," proceeded the Count, "I supposed I had only changed one prison for another still more dreadful; and when, by signs, I was ordered to accompany Heli to the door of this apartment, I prepared to enter it as the grave of

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"Good Heavens! what a transition from absolute despair to exquisite joy. How little did I hope ever to see my friend again. Yet let me not be too sanguine; perhaps we are prisoners for life; yet if they will permit us to be together, I am careless of future circumstances."

"What is intended by bringing us together," said Ferdinand, "I am as ignorant of as yourself: For when I once questioned Heli as to the place of your confinement, he protested he was ignorant of it. In this, 'tis plain, he practised deception: Therefore I cannot pretend to judge what may be his future views.

"I have experienced civilities from him which call for confidence; and if I am deceived, I would rather suffer for my candor, than wrong him by unjust suspicions."

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 that, from such a man, they had every thing to dread, should his expectations, or demands of a large ransom, by any unforeseen means, be fruitless.

By the time appointed, Heli entered, and carefully shutting the door, seated himself by Ferdinand.—"I am now going to prove my confidence in you," said he.—"Five days ago, I received intelligence, that my kinsman Ismael was imprisoned, by the machinations of his enemies. This event nearly concerned me; yet I hoped his relations and interest at Constantinople would preserve him. The contrary has happened; the last morning that I walked out with you to the grove, I was informed of his death, the confiscation of his effects, and the determined ruin of all his family.

"I debated in my mind, whether I should fly the approaching storm, and leave you to preserve yourself as you could.—Other thoughts suggested themselves: This government, not being very important, might not be immediately thought of. If I left


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 you, you might indeed regain your liberty, but you might run a thousand hazards.—Your friend would have but little chance of an escape for a long time to come, if ever, as he could not give information to his friends, and the persons who had the care of him, were of an inferior order of people.

"Considering all this, I fixed my plan immediately. I set off for the confinement of this gentleman, and demanded him in the Grand Seigneur's name; I was well known; and though I produced no signet, they presumed not to disobey me: By this step I have obliged you both; and if you will solemnly subscribe to the conditions I propose, I will not only give you your liberty, but open to you a way of returning to your own country, without ransom or difficulty. You may possibly entertain some doubts of my sincerity, because I denied the knowledge of your friend's residence, but it was a trust reposed in me, and I think myself entitled to the more credit, for preserving my faith; you may judge as you please."


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 "I assure you," replied Ferdinand, who had listened to him very attentively, that he might perfectly understand him, "I honour you for your integrity; name your conditions, therefore, without reserve; they must be hard ones indeed, if we hesitate a moment to fulfil them."

"This then is my plan," returned Heli. "I now acknowledge to you, that within this last moon, peace has been concluded upon between our great Sultan and your Emperor. All officers remaining in Turkey are declared free, and may return to their homes. Nevertheless, many of them, secured as you have been, will find great difficulties. It must be in every governor's power to retard their freedom, without he is interested to liberate them. You understand me.—And in the next place, the natural aversion the Turks have to you Christians, might subject them to many insults, without they have a proper guard.

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Without delay

I followed where she led the way

With right good will, for strong desire

To join the throng my heart ’gan fire;

Yet scarce therewith to mingle dared

Till thus her welcome speech had bared

My mind of doubt. I then began

The glorious folk around to scan,

Their fashions, manners, style and seeming:

Now list, while forth I tell my deeming.

Erect Sir Mirth stood, straight and tall.

In all points such as one might call

A man well built; a tinge of red

His white cheek lit, no vermeil thread

His mouth, but full and round, his eyes

Steel blue and gracious, whence did rise

Sweet smiles unceasingly, his nose

Was such as Grecian Phidias chose

For great Apollo, blond his hair.

Which fell adown his shoulders bare

In silken curls, his girdlestead

Was slight, yet lithesome lustihead

Its lines betrayed, while arms and knees

Were knit like mighty Hercules.

The glorious masterpiece did he

Of some great painter look to be,

And scarce need fear comparison

For beauty with Jove’s godlike son:

Where beard would be, began to spring

Down, soft as that ’neath cushat’s wing.

His noble limbs were richly clad

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 in your country; I will attend you through the country to the first sea port, as the safest way of going in the habit of a Janissary, and as a guard deputed to see you on your way to the port. The other person I speak of is a woman, once a Christian, but now a true disciple of Mahomet—I cannot leave her behind. She must travel as your wife; but she must be sacred from your touch; for I swear by Allah, if in any one point you disappoint or deceive me, both shall instantly suffer death, though I were sure to die a thousand times."

"I will answer both for my friend and for myself," replied Ferdinand; 'that we will sacredly keep our faith with you; that we will amply provide both for you and the woman, and enable you to spend the remainder of your days in comfort."

"Enough," replied Heli; "in two days we will be on the road; but fear not that I shall be a burden to you; I am not destitute of riches, though hitherto they have been useless to me, because I dared not spend be-


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 yond my income. Subject to so many jealous eyes, we must have the "wisdom of the serpent" to escape our enemies."

Heli departed with a countenance so changed from the gloom and anxiety which had for some time pervaded his features, that even Ferdinand was surprised at the alteration, and the Count viewed him with wonder and curiosity. When he had left the apartment, Ferdinand quickly informed his friend of their agreeable prospects, from the proposals of Heli. The Count was not less pleased than himself, but could not help observing, that they were more indebted to the selfish gratifications of the proposer, than to his generosity.

"This man's conduct," said he, "confirms the opinion I have early been taught to hold of the Turks, that in their dealings with us, they are selfish, deceitful, and avaricious. Was it not Heli's interest to escape from this country, I believe we should owe him no obligations, either for our liberty or lives, if


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 the sacrifice of either, or both, were essential to his own views."

"We must not search too nicely into the motives which influences men's actions," returned Ferdinand.—"There are so many hidden springs, so many latent causes.Sometimes scarcely known to ourselves, from which originate our best purposes, and guide our designs, that I fear few could stand the scrutiny, without the imputation of selfishness."

"I shall not now dispute that point with you," answered the Count, 'though I am inclined to think more favourably of human nature than you do."

"Do not mistake my general observation for an invariable rule," said Ferdinand hastily. "There are minds of a superior mould, doubtless; but they are comparatively few. And as for this Turk, as we could have no right to expect his services, I am willing to accept them upon his own terms."

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 route was settled, and he bid them prepare to set off by the eleventh hour next day, when he and the woman would join them.

"The lady, I suppose," said Ferdinand, "must be silent, otherwise her language will betray her."

"Not so," returned he.—"I told you she had been a Christian; nay, more, she is your countrywoman, a German."

"And you can be contented with one woman?" asked he, smiling.

"I cannot be contented without this woman," replied Heli.—"That's all I can answer for at present."

The friends passed a night of impatience, and not entirely free from apprehension.—Should any discovery of Heli take place, they might, as accomplices, be involved in very disagreeable situations. If they discovered themselves as German officers, entitled to their liberty, he might, in revenge, accuse them of some crimes which would draw on them unpleasant consequences.—And to irritate, displease, or disappoint a


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 Turk, is seldom done with impunity, they are in general so furious and revengeful.

Therefore, after much consultation, and revolving all circumstances together, they thought it best to submit with a good grace, and trust to the ingenuity and diligence of Heli to extricate them from impending difficulties.

The hour at length came, appointed for their departure. Heli appeared in his usual garb alone; their hearts misgave them.—"Follow me," said he, "and fear nothing."

He led them across a court, and through a small postern door, which opened upon a ragged and unfrequented part of the hill;—and it was with some difficulty they kept their feet steady in going down the declivity. At the bottom was a thick underwood, through which they easily penetrated to a small decayed building: Entering a few steps, they perceived a soldier with a drawn scimitar.—They started back, and supposed themselves betrayed, casting a look of reproach on Heli.—He saw their thoughts in


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 that look.—"This is a friend," said he;—and going forward, he returned with a bundle, that contained the dress of a soldier, and in which he quickly arrayed himself, throwing his other clothes under some large stones and rubbish.

"We have now the day before us," said he, "and no time to lose before we reach a place of safety. I have given out in the Castle, that I shall pass the day with you at the hermit's. No suspicion, therefore, will be entertained 'till night, nor any thoughts of a pursuit 'till morning, because no one has a right to command or leave his post, consequently much time will elapse before that is determined upon."

"But the woman," said Ferdinand.

"Will be safe with us," answered Heli, smiling, and pointing to the soldier, who was so perfectly disguised by her dress and mustaches, that they had not the least suspicion of her sex.

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 "No," replied Heli.—"Yesterday she was impertinent—we quarrelled—I ordered her into confinement, and, in a feigned passion, swore she should remain there three days, sending to her room some dried figs and water. I locked the door, and secured the key.

"This morning I pretended to regret my oath, and said, I would go and consult the holy hermit, how far I dared to remit her punishment. Thus you see neither will be sought after, as I had forbidden any one to approach the door of her apartment; and I am so well beloved by the men, and so little suspected of having any cause to absent myself, as they are ignorant of Ismael's fate, which involves his kindred, that unless an order should arrive to arrest me, I dare say they will not think of my flight, or pursue me 'till after tomorrow, if then; and before that, I trust we shall be in safety."

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 further conversation, they pursued their way across the plain to the next town, which was a few miles distance. Here they easily procured a carriage, under the pretence that the Count and Ferdinand were prisoners, whom the soldiers had in custody.

The Turkish soldiers are in general so formidable to the common ignorant people, that few would presume to dispute their commands. The same pretence carried them through several small towns and villages without interruption or accident, tho' not without much fatigue, as they proceeded with great speed.

It is not necessary to trace them through their journey, as they had neither time or inclination to make observations. Therefore I shall only say, that they reached the river Danube in safety, which they crossed, and after several days travelling, arrived at Belgrade. Here they rested, and were enabled to breathe, after their fatigues, both of body and mind.


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 Having stayed two days, they proceeded on to Vienna, and, to the great joy of the whole party, at length entered that Imperial city in perfect safety, just sixteen weeks from the day when the battle took place, and they were carried off by Ismael.

CHAP. IX.

Count and Ferdinand soon made themselves known to some of their acquaintance, and were received with as much surprise as if they had risen from the dead; so firmly was it credited, that they had perished in battle. Proper clothes were soon procured for themselves, Heli and the wo-


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Figures of beauteous birds enwrought

In golden tissue: quaint past thought

The slashings were with which ’twas slit

And puffed in every part of it

For fashion’s sake, and gaily decked

With jewels; nought of cost he recked.

About his shapely legs and feet

Were boots carved curiously. Oh sweet

The roses were that well bested,

For crown, his goodly golden head,

There set by gentle hands of her

Who was his love and worshipper.

And would ye wot who this might be

Whose love enthralled him? soothfastly,

’Twas Gladness who so blithely sang.

When she but seven years knew, Love flang

His net around her, and I ween

Since then Mirth’s sweetheart had she been.

Then straightway did the pair enlace

Their hands, and heart to heart embrace,

Joining in gladsome dance. Most fair

Did Gladness look as stood they there.

Like to a rose but newly blown

Which nought of wind or storm hath known.

So tender was her flesh, that torn

’Twould be by frailest sapful thorn.

Beneath her forehead, void of frown,

Were eyebrows arched, of sunny brown,

And smiles would wreathe her eyes before

Her mouth the rippling laughter bore,

And ever and anon the bliss

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 man both readily conforming to wear the German dress, though both persevered in their own tenets of religion, and the worship of the prophet Mahomet.

Heli now displayed a great many valuable jewels, worth five or six thousand pounds at least. How he had acquired them, he never thought proper to divulge; nor had they any right to inquire. He had sufficient to live on, in a moderate independence, and proposed retiring into the country, to reside free from observation. The gentlemen sent off letters to their friends immediately on their arrival, as they were very doubtful that their former ones had never gone forward from Adrianople. They purposed waiting on the Emperor, and as there was now no occasion for their active services, to obtain his permission for returning into Suabia.

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 ous of seeing a woman whom he had preferred to all others, and who had changed her own form of worship for that of the man she loved.

He quickly returned, leading in a very beautiful woman, whom he no sooner introduced to Ferdinand, than the latter recoiled a few paces back, with all the marks of strong surprise, and even terror, in his countenance. Heli, observing his emotions, was instantly seized with a jealous fit. He changed colour, and pulled down her veil, drawing her on one side, as if to leave the room.

"Be not offended or hurt, my friend," said Ferdinand, recovering himself, "nor leave the room, I beseech you.—To account for my emotions, I must tell you that this lady bears the strongest resemblance to my late dear and honoured father, that ever I beheld in two persons of different ages and sex. Very striking it must be, to have such an effect on my mind. Let me entreat you,


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 Heli, to uncloud that face, and permit me to ask your lady a few questions."

Heli complied, but it was with an ill grace, his looks betraying suspicion and vexation.

"You say, Madam," said Ferdinand, "that you are a German.—Have the goodness to inform me who, and what you are;—for I am strongly persuaded you are somehow connected with my father's family.—Do not hesitate," added he, seeing she appeared in great confusion.—"Whoever you are, in me you will find a friend ready to promote your happiness with Heli, since he is the man of your choice."

Those words he repeated in the Turkish language to him, to quiet a little the turbulence of his agitations. After some little hesitation, Fatima began the following little narrative:—

"I have heard my mother say, that I was born in Baden; that my father was a nobleman, who had an estate near that city, and seduced her, at an early part of her life, under


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 a promise of being faithful to her, and never marrying, as the difference in their rank precluded him from giving his hand to her."

"Did she never mention his name to you?" asked Ferdinand eagerly.

"She did," resumed Fatima; "it was Count Renaud."

Ferdinand struck his breast, greatly agitated, but requested she would proceed without attending to him.

"My mother informed me, that after my birth, he grew fonder of her every hour; but at length his father compelled him to marry a lady of rank and fortune, under the penalty of being disinherited, if he refused. This caused equal grief to both; and it was long before my mother could be reconciled to see him, or receive his visits; but her dependence on him, and affection for me, at length prevailed, and she had every reason to be convinced that all his real love was confined to her. Under this conviction, she submitted to her situation.


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 "After some time, she perceived a coldness in his attentions, and a profound melancholy in his looks, for which he assigned no cause, and pretended it was her fancy only; but being convinced, she said, that his dejection must spring from a new attachment, as he was daily more negligent towards her.—She had him carefully watched, and at length discovered that he was passionately in love with a young lady, on a visit to his wife, who, being of family, and virtuous, repulsed him, though it was believed she was equally attached.

"My mother, made desperate by this discovery, gave his wife information of the attachment, and driven to despair, in a fit of madness and jealousy, she accepted the protection of a German officer, who had long persecuted her with his addresses, and accompanied by me and my nurse, quitted Baden for ever, without deigning to see or to reproach him.

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 loved me most affectionately, and has often said I was a perfect resemblance of her once beloved Count. We lived very happily, until I was about twelve years old, my sister only ten, when my mother's protector died, leaving his property divided between her and his daughter, with a small legacy to me. My sister and her fortune was left in the care of my mother, and the latter always assured me, her share should be mine at her death; which unfortunately happened in less than a twelvemonth after, and so suddenly, that she had not time to make a will; and as she had lived very retired, and her situation had prevented her from having proper acquaintance, whose honour and integrity might have been useful to us, we were left solely in the care of my old nurse, and a man who had been a kind of humble friend and dependant on the Colonel.

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 the last twelvemonth, I had been noticed and followed by a nobleman, who was very amiable, and held high rank in the army.—Want of birth was an invincible obstacle to our marriage, and I had rejected, with disdain, every other overture; but when my nurse explained our situation, I confess, with shame, I no longer kept him at that distance which I ought to have done, and gave him but too much encouragement.

"One morning my nurse came into my room; said she, "we will sell the furniture, turn everything into money, and leave this place. I have been making inquiries; your father still lives; we will go to Baden; I will find some way of making you known to him, without alarming his family, and oblige him to provide for you, which either fear or affection will make him do. Your sister has also an uncle in Suabia—I will find him out; 'tis fit those relations should maintain you."

"This proposal of Dupree's.—"

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 "This proposal," resumed Fatima, "did not please me. I was not willing to run the risk of being rejected as a burden, or treated with contempt, when I had the alternative of independence, pleasure, and an agreeable lover. I therefore accepted the nobleman's proposals, put myself under his protection, and one evening quitted the house to reside in a more elegant one. In a few days, Dupree found me out, and made such an uproar, and behaved so clamorous, that my protector was compelled to give her a handsome sum to hold her tongue, which perfectly contented her.

"My lover was obliged to join the army. I accompanied him. The General was compelled to give battle; he was victorious, and the Turks defeated; but unhappily a party of them, headed by Heli, had, in the mean time, surrounded the tents, where the women and officers" baggage remained, pillaged them, beat off the guards, and carried me and several other women off in triumph.


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 "At first I was in despair, and expected death. We were put into a covered wagon, and carried to Adrianople, where I remained in close confinement upwards of two months, and had well nigh fretted myself to death; but the arrival of Heli saved my life; his generosity and affection won my heart;—'tis true, the recluse life I was compelled to lead suited very little with my inclinations; but there was no remedy; and after giving myself up some time to sorrow and regret, which availed nothing, I got the better of my trouble, and resigned myself to my fate.

"When Heli was appointed to the government of Philippo, I gladly accompanied him.—I have had no reason to repent; and thank Heaven, I am once more unexpectedly restored to my own country. What is become of my sister, Dupree, and Keilheim, her friend, I know not. Thus, Sir, I have related my story, and now you know whether I am any ways related to your family or not."


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 When Fatima ceased speaking, Ferdinand was for a few moments silent, he found but little cause to congratulate himself on the discovery of a relation so nearly connected by blood; whose conduct, even by her own acknowledgment, had been so faulty and reprehensible; but when he viewed that face, whose every look reminded him of his dear and much regretted father, a rush of tenderness sprung to his heart, that obliterated her errors, and rising hastily, he was about to embrace her, forgetful of Heli's presence and uneasy conjectures; he who had needfully observed his emotions during Fatima's relation, and had watched him with an eye of suspicion, furiously rushed between them, darting a look of vengeance at Ferdinand, and muttering curses on her, roughly pulling her from her seat.

"Stop, Heli," cried Ferdinand; "judge not rashly from appearances.Fatima is—my sister!"

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 sudden duplicity, than a serious truth; but Fatima sunk back, evidently shocked and confused repeating the word sister, sister.—"Oh! if that is true, you must despise and hate me."

She burst into tears, and drew down her veil. Heli stood suspended between passion and curiosity. Ferdinand took his hand.

"My friend, compose yourself; I will relate every circumstance to you that indisputably proves your Fatima to be my half sister. Strange, indeed, are the events which have brought us to the knowledge of each other; but her features stamp the credibility of her story; and though the situation in which I find her must be wounding to the feelings of a brother, yet, as I can claim no right to control her inclinations, you have nothing to fear from me; she is free to act as she pleases."

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 life insurance premiums when now his only relatives were on the boat and would die with him.

The captain, looking pretty rocky after his twenty-hour vigil, summoned his chief. "We're in a bad hole, Mr. Brewster," he said when they were alone, "and no mistake. A broken shaft and this weather make a pretty poor combination."

"Is there no chance of making a port for repairs?"

"I don't see it, sir. It looks like a long pull."

"We are way off our course, I suppose?" and Monty's coolness won Captain Perry's admiration.

"I can't tell just how much until I get the sun, but this wind is hell. I suspect we've drifted pretty far."

"Come and get some coffee, captain. While the storm lasts the only thing to do is to cheer up the women and trust to luck."

"You're the nerviest mate I ever shipped with, Mr. Brewster," and the captain's hand gripped Monty's in a way that meant things. It was a tribute he appreciated.

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 tered upon; and at the conclusion, addressing Fatima, he said—"If necessity, and not choice, is now the tie that binds you to Heli, I think it my duty to offer to you a more eligible situation; from preceding circumstances, delicacy, and honour, equally militate against a hope of an honourable connexion with any other man; but I have the power to procure for you either a residence in the country with some worthy retired family, or to place you in a convent, where I will pay for your pension.

"In providing thus for you, I secure to you the liberty of choosing your own destiny. I pretend to no rights over you beyond what you are willing to allow me. If you voluntarily throw yourself on my protection, your interest shall be as dear to me as my own.—Decide, therefore, for yourself."

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 whilst Heli behaves well, gratitude for his preference of me to all my companions, and for the affection he has displayed towards me during our late dangerous undertaking, induces me to declare, that I will partake of his destiny."

"Yes" Heli, added she in the Turkish language, giving him her hand, "with you I will remain, and trust that I shall never repent refusing my brother's offers to live with you."

The Turk appeared to be transported;—his doubts and suspicions were instantly dispelled, and he thanked her with an air of tenderness and gratitude. Ferdinand was concerned, but not surprised; the libertine life in which she had been engaged by her own confession, gave but small hopes that she could be reconciled to a retired and regular mode of conduct; and from several little traits that escaped her unguardedly, he conceived she had much natural levity that would ill brook restraint: What he could not control, therefore, he was resigned to;


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 did it all with a tact that inspired the crowd as a whole with hope, and no one suspected that he himself was not cheerful. For Peggy Gray there was a special tenderness, and he made up his mind that if things should go wrong he would tell her that he loved her.

"It could do no harm," he thought to himself, "and I want her to know."

Toward night the worst was over. The sea had gone down and the hatches were opened for a while to admit air, though it was still too rough to venture out. The next morning was bright and clear. When the company gathered on deck the havoc created by the storm was apparent. Two of the boats had been completely carried away and the launch was rendered useless by a large hole in the stern.

"You don't mean to say that we will drift about until the repairs can be made?" asked Mrs. Dan in alarm.

"We are three hundred miles off the course already," explained Monty, "and it will be pretty slow traveling under sail."

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 but assuming some degree of freedom, from his connexion with Fatima, he asked Heli in what manner he intended to regulate his future conduct.

"I design," answered he, 'to live quietly in the country, not ostentatiously, to avoid observation: To regard Fatima as my wife, and mistress of the other women. I pretend not to have a seraglio here; but as I am unknown, I shall have no visitors, nor will Fatima be exposed to the eyes of men."

Ferdinand accidentally turned his eyes on Fatima at those words, and observed a suppressed smile playing on her lips, and an archness in her looks, that but ill accorded with the plan Heli had designed, nor at all correspondent to the mortified and afflicted air she had assumed, when he first discovered himself to her as a brother. This observation tended to confirm his first suspicions, that she had a light mind, and was capable of much duplicity.

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 power to control her inclinations, nor influence to effect a change in habits she had long since ceased to think vicious or blamable: Therefore, after a long conversation, in which she avowed her partiality for Heli, and a decided preference for his tenets of religion, Ferdinand left them to their own determinations, recommending to both constancy in their attachment, and the practise of good actions towards others. He added a few words of advice to Fatima in German, and concluded with assuring her, that if she should ever want a friend, the daughter of a respected father should always claim his attention and assistance.

When retired to his apartment, he was painfully affected by the recollection of such circumstances in the story of Fatima, as convinced him that his wife Claudina must have been that sister she mentioned, and the daughter of the officer by a woman his father had once been connected with. He shuddered at the idea. Yet surely, he thought, there cannot be that degree of consanguinity


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 between us, which should raise the dead;—to bid me "fly from her arms as I would avoid sin and death." Or why, if our union was sinful, why was the warning so late.

"Ah!" cried he, "if my father knew her, ought he not to have discovered the secret? But no, it was impossible; had he known she was the child of a woman he once fondly loved, surely he would have made inquiries after her and his own child, nor have left even Claudina in indigence; no, he could not have known this painful mystery, and my fatal impetuous passion blindly led me to credit any tale that the wretch Dupree might invent, and to unite myself to the daughter of an infamous woman, who has blighted all my prospects of happiness for ever. Yes, that woman, that mother, if from the grave she can behold the misery that has developed on me, will rejoice, perhaps, that her wrongs from the father are retaliated with bitterness on the son, and that her own offspring has revenged her injuries."


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 tossed about absolutely unable to make headway. The first of August had arrived and Monty himself was beginning to be nervous. With the fatal day not quite two months away, things began to look serious. Over one hundred thousand dollars would remain after he had settled the expenses of the cruise, and he was helplessly drifting in mid-ocean. Even if the necessary repairs could be made promptly, it would take the "Flitter" fourteen days to sail from the Canaries to New York. Figure as hard as he could he saw no way out of the unfortunate situation. Two days more elapsed and still no sign of a breeze. He made sure that September 23d would find him still drifting and still in possession of one hundred thousand superfluous dollars.

At the end of ten days the yacht had progressed but two hundred miles and Monty was beginning to plan the rest of his existence on a capital of $100,000. He had given up all hope of the Sedgwick legacy and was trying to be resigned to his fate, when a tramp steamer was suddenly sighted. Brewster ordered the man on watch to fly a flag of distress. Then he reported to the captain and told what he had done. With a bound the captain rushed on deck and tore the flag from the sailor's hand.


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 This idea led him into a train of unpleasant reflections, that concluded with lamenting his youthful rashness, and an ungovernable passion, of which he was the victim; nor could he help reverting to his father's connexion with the mother of Fatima and Claudina.

Could the libertine, or to speak in the softened term which fashion has established, could the man of gallantry look forward to the consequences of his errors; did he see the unfortunate innocents born of vicious parents; brought into the world under the stigma of criminality; subject to the eye of scorn;—nourished in vice; corrupted by example;—grow up lovely to the eye, but with minds depraved.—Subject to temptations, they have neither fortitude nor inclination to resist;—sink into a vortex of misery, guilty, hardened, despised, forsaken; and to close the climax, see those unfortunate children of guilty parents abandoned by the world; and when youth and beauty is no more, left to die in wretchedness, without relief, without pity,


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 "That was my order," said Monty, nettled at the captain's manner.

"You want them to get a line on us and claim salvage, do you?"

"What do you mean?"

"If they get a line on us in response to that flag they will claim the entire value of the ship as salvage. You want to spend another $200,000 on this boat?"

"I didn't understand," said Monty, sheepishly. "But for God's sake fix it up somehow. Can't they tow us? I'll pay for it."

Communication was slow, but after an apparently endless amount of signaling, the captain finally announced that the freight steamer was bound for Southampton and would tow the "Flitter" to that point for a price.

"Back to Southampton!" groaned Monty. "That means months before we get back to New York."

"He says he can get us to Southampton in ten days," interrupted the captain.

"I can do it, I can do it," he cried, to the consternation of his guests, who wondered if his mind were affected. "If he'll land us in Southampton by the 27th, I'll pay him up to one hundred thousand dollars."


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 and without a friend to close their eyes, or speak one word of consolation in that awful moment, when the retrospection of a misspent life, fills them with unutterable sorrow and despair.

"Surely," thought Ferdinand, on reviewing this melancholy picture, which his misfortunes delineated to his mind's eye in the most gloomy colouring; "surely, if the sins of the fathers are visited upon their children, I am marked out as an object for retribution and vengeance. How far my marriage with Claudina may be criminal, I know not.That union, so rashly entered into, and followed by a father's curses, wants not the aggravation of criminality to add to my wretchedness; and if she is a lost, a guilty creature, the sins of the mother have fallen upon us both."

These, and such like reflections, threw him into a profound reverie, from which he was roused by the entrance of the Count.

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 would wish to recover from the surprise and vexation that visibly affected you during the relation Fatima gave of herself; her subsequent choice of attaching herself to Heli, I think ought not to afflict you; for perhaps had she given him up, you would have found it a very unpleasant task to regulate a young woman like her, accustomed to a gay desultory kind of life."

"Your observation is undoubtedly just," replied he.—"I am convinced she is a stranger to all principles of decorum, and would ill brook that regularity I should naturally have expected. I am mortified, I confess, to find a person who owes her existence to my father, under such reprehensible circumstances; but that is not the only cause of the surprise and concern you remarked; I am still more nearly concerned in her story." He then acquainted the Count with every particular relative to Claudina, and severely condemned his own impetuous passion, which wildly pursued its object, regardless of such information as is generally found es-


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Her nose of delicate form, and white,

As well might show in wax’ despite.

O brilliant was the sun-gold hair

That crowned her head, round which she ware

A fillet fine, its wealth to hold.

O’er which a chaplet worked with gold

Rode royally; two-score and nine

Fair orfreyed chaplets ’neath mine eyne

Have passed erewhile, but none were wrought

Of silk so well as this methought.

Her outer mantle was a rich

Bright robe of silken samite which,

Seeing that Mirth well loved it, she

Arrayed her in delightedly.

ARD by this winsome pair did stand

The God of Love, whose mighty hand

Dealeth to lovers weal or woe

As seemeth good to him; alow

He casteth pride, and oft-time makes

High-minded men for ladies’ sakes

Right humble, and proud dames to bow

With meekness ’neath his yoke, I trow.

The God of Love is dowered with grace

So richly, both in form and face,

That scarce, I deem, of his allure

My pen dare draw the portraiture.

Love’s friends had woven from his bowers,

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 sential to confidence, if not absolutely necessary to happiness, that of knowing the family, character, and connexions of those with whom we form a union for life."

"Unquestionably," said the Count; "a prudent man would consider such knowledge highly requisite: But my dear friend, I fear, whilst all-powerful love had such an absolute dominion in your breast—had you really been informed that Claudina was born of worthless or vicious parents, passion would have suggested a thousand alleviating circumstances in her favour, and under the flattering guise of compassion for an unfortunate and innocent young woman, you would have deemed it a meritorious act to rescue her from ruin."

"Perhaps so," answered Ferdinand;—"for the heart, by its pleadings for a beloved object, is generally too hard for the frigid lessons of prudence; and I have given sufficient proofs of my weakness to warrant the severest conclusions against my understanding."


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 "We will drop the subject, if you please," said the Count, "as it can lead to no pleasurable reflections; and as we propose taking leave of this city in a few days, let us make some visits to diversify our ideas."

Ferdinand very readily consented to a proposal, calculated to draw him from a train of painful retrospections.

In the course of a week, no material incidents happened to the friends. They accompanied Heli in several little excursions round the environs of Vienna, to discover some pleasant retirement that might coincide with his wishes of living unknown and unobserved.

One morning, taking their usual ride, they passed a carriage, which was driving very quick; two gentlemen were in it; and from the transient view they had, Ferdinand thought he had some knowledge of them, but could not ascertain who, or what they were. Presently, however, a servant overtook them, and requested to know if Count M was one of the company? The


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 Count, though surprised, readily announced himself, when the man respectfully presented the compliments of Baron Reiberg and his son, who, he said, were waiting in their carriage, to know if their conjectures were right, and hoped the gentlemen would return, if fortunately he was not mistaken.

The Count and Ferdinand readily accompanied the servant back, and were recognized with great pleasure by the Baron, who congratulated himself upon this desired and little expected meeting.

He, with many others, had heard the report of their deaths; but struck with their appearance, as they passed on the road, had stopped his carriage, and dispatched a servant to know whether the resemblance that surprised him was the illusion of his senses or not.

He told them he had a house at Vienna, to which he hoped they would accompany him and his son, and give them the pleasure of considering it as their own, whilst business or amusement induced them to remain in that city. They made proper acknowledgments


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 for this politeness; told him, their stay would be short, and that they had friends with them.

"If your friends will accept of the same accommodations I can offer you, gentlemen," said the Baron, "they are heartily at their service; and I feel so much interest and curiosity to know by what means you preserved your lives, when your death was generally credited, that I really cannot relinquish my earnest wish to have you inmates of my mansion. Come, come," added he, seeing they hesitated, and looked at each other, you know I am in possession of your promise to pay me a visit, and I now claim the performance of it."

This obliging earnestness was irresistible, and they readily accorded with the request, assuring him, that they would wait of him in the evening. Taking the Baron's address with his invitation to their friends, they parted with him for the present, and returned with speed to Heli. Before they rejoined him, Ferdinand observed, "that he could


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 not think of introducing Fatima to the Baron's house, nor did he suppose it would be at all agreeable to Heli. I hope, therefore, said he, the little estate he is now in view of will answer his wishes."

As he spoke, they saw Heli slowly returning back to meet them.

The Count told him of their meeting with a friend, and took notice the other seemed very thoughtful, which, on demanding the cause, he said he longed for retirement; that the increase of their acquaintance was painful to him, and their self-denial, in giving up so much of their time to his accommodation, was too great a tax upon their kindness.—He had therefore come to a resolution to take the small solitary cottage they had seen the day before; and as it was furnished, he could have immediate possession.

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 which afforded shelter from the sharp air of the north; and on the south was a delightful garden, with grounds attached to it for their cattle, and other necessaries of life, whilst a small but beautiful rivulet run almost round the house, and fertilized the earth.

Heli, having made the purchase, was impatient to take possession; and on their return to Fatima, bid her prepare for her removal the following morning. It was easy to see she received this mandate with dissatisfaction; nor did a description of her future residence at all tend to lessen her chagrin.—The gay multitudes, which she saw from her windows, were far more gratifying to her than woods or gardens, where she was not likely to see the "human face divine."

Ferdinand easily penetrated into the workings of her mind, and saw but little prospect of happiness to Heli, if it was dependant on the constancy of Fatima. For the present she was silent, because the alternative he had offered to her was also retirement; and therefore, of the two evils, she submitted to ac-


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 company Heli, but without ever pretending to a satisfaction she did not feel.

In the evening, the Count and his friend took leave of Heli and his lady. To the latter, Ferdinand ventured a few serious admonitions, but they were heard with a look of careless contempt, and a silent bow.—Heli requested they would sometimes visit him, as themselves would be the only persons he should receive. This they readily promised, and parted with mutual good wishes.

The Baron welcomed them with much cordiality; the young Baron with equal attention; but he had not that pleasant frankness of manners which seemed to characterize his father. On the contrary, it was obvious to both gentlemen, that something oppressive lay upon his spirits, and that tho" he behaved with much complacency and politeness; yet it appeared an effort upon his natural disposition, more inclined to reserve and taciturnity.


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 The father, who was a man of the world, had travelled a good deal, and profited by his observations on men and manners, exerted himself to entertain his guests; and, by his endeavours, they passed a very pleasant evening.

When the Count and Ferdinand met in the morning, the former took notice of the young Baron's want of spirits, and a disposition so entirely opposite to his father's.

"I made the same observation at the time they passed with us in the solitary Castle," replied Ferdinand—"He then spoke little, and rather avoided than courted society.—But as some characters do not open themselves at once, as we were strangers, and every circumstance there unpleasant, and indeed melancholy, I allowed much for his reserve, and supposed it might be rather accidental than habitual; but I was mistaken I see now; for certainly he has a natural tendency towards an unsocial disposition, and 'tis on the father we must draw for our entertainment here."


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 They were soon after joined by the Baron. He introduced them to several of his friends; was sedulous to show his esteem, by every gratification he could procure to them.—Sought every possible mode of entertainment, and delicately avoided any reference to the former unhappy situation of the Count, or his irreparable loss of the lady Eugenia.

Once only that day they saw the young Baron; but they found by the conversation, when he appeared at the dinner table, that he spent his hours chiefly in the library. They remarked his father's extreme solicitude to draw him out, and to amuse him; but the few marks of cheerfulness, which now and then broke off, were evidently forced, and the effects of complaisance only.—After the dinner hour, they saw no more of him.

On the second day of their residence with the Baron, when his son had withdrawn from the table, turning to his guests with a suppressed sigh—"Although you are too polite my friends, to express any curiosity, yet 'tis impossible but that you must observe the pe-


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 culiar disposition of my son; that unsociability, that dejection of spirits so very visible to every eye, is the only thing that disturbs the tranquillity of my life. Poor unfortunate boy, an early and a strong attachment has embittered every hour of his life for upwards of two years past. Hopeless as it is, he cannot drive the fatal passion from his heart.—All my efforts to restore his spirits are fruitless.

"I flattered myself your conversation would tend to lighten the anguish of his mind, and your example animate him to rise superior over unavoidable and irremediable evils; but I see no change, and therefore feel it necessary to apologize to you for his conduct, by explaining the cause of it."

"I feel deeply interested for the unfortunate young gentleman," replied Ferdinand; "and being a fellow-sufferer, can sympathize with him. As I am nearly of his own age, and know his situation, if you will allow me, I shall use all my endeavours to obtain his notice; and if I succeed, I may, by sharing


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All worked about with amorettes,

And tied with dainty bandelets,

Bedecked with lozenges and scutcheons,

Leopards, strange outland beasts, and lions;

While blossoms of all colours were

Besprinkled o’er it, here and there.

’Twere no light task some flower to name

That was not found thereon, each came

To lend its beauty, blue perwinkle

’Twixt rose and yellow broom did twinkle,

With violets, pansies, birdseye blue.

And flowers untold of varied hue.

Sweet scented roses, red and pale,

(Round which flew many a nightingale)

Festooned Love’s head, and every sort

Of bird seemed there to hold high court,

The skylark, blue-tit, merle and dove,

Sang in his ear sweet songs of love,

Fluttering around his head, and he

One of God’s angels looked to be.

Anigh him stood Sweet-Looks, who glanced

With soft regard on those who danced:

A friend right well beloved was he

Of Cupid, and (bent readily

For use) a crook’d Turk’s bow he bore

In either hand the first one wore

Most evil aspect, made of tree

Whose fruit I trow would nowise be

Of grateful savour; gnarled and hoar

It was, and black as sun-scorched moor.

The second pliant, lithe, and white.

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 his confidence, divert the current of his thoughts from dwelling always on one object. That a communication of grief, which hangs heavy on the heart, certainly tends to lighten it, I know by experience."

"You kindly anticipate my wishes," said the Baron.—"If you will condescend to fall in with his humour, and attach yourself to him, 'tis the only chance I can see likely to succeed in drawing him from himself."

This plan being agreed upon, the Baron and Count ordered their horses to ride; and after their departure, Ferdinand ventured to dispatch a servant with his compliments to the young Baron, requesting the honour of his company to take a walk.—Or if that was disagreeable to him, would he permit him to join him in the library. He had waited but a few moments for the return of his message before Reiberg appeared. He politely, tho" distantly, apologized for not making a tender of his services, as he thought his father had taken that office upon himself.


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 "I have indeed a hundred obligations to the Baron for his attentions," replied Ferdinand; "but my spirits are not always calculated to give or receive pleasure from a mixed society: I often prefer a solitary ramble, or the company of a serious rational companion, to mixing with the great world."

"An uncommon turn of mind in so young a man," observed Reiberg, eying him with a more complacent look; "and what is altogether as singular, I am very much of your opinion: Therefore, Sir, I am at your command, either for a walk, or for the library."

"At present," said Ferdinand, "I prefer the former; let us visit some of the gardens in the suburbs."

The other readily complied. They took a long walk, being absent near three hours; and, on coming back, met the Baron and Count just returned.

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 After what seemed an age to Monty, the "Flitter," in tow of the freighter "Glencoe," arrived at Southampton. The captain of the freight boat was a thrifty Scotchman whose ship was traveling with a light cargo, and he was not, therefore, averse to taking on a tow. But the thought of salvage had caused him to ask a high price for the service and Monty, after a futile attempt at bargaining, had agreed. The price was fifty thousand dollars, and the young man believed more than ever that everything was ruled by a wise Providence, which had not deserted him. His guests were heartsick when they heard the figure, but were as happy as Monty at the prospect of reaching land again.

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 "And yet I have my doubts," replied Reiberg, "whether the entertainments of these youths have not been of a much graver cast than what you may have engaged in."

"Not unlikely," answered the Count—"My friend is of a sedentary turn, and the amusements he seeks are generally of that complexion."

Reiberg viewed his companion with an air of graciousness, that seldom had pervaded his features, and, in the course of the evening, attached himself to Ferdinand with evident satisfaction.

From that day, the young friends were much together; and in the course of conversation, had both thrown out hints of mutual unhappiness, but each was too delicate to express a desire of prying into the secrets of the other. One morning it had been agreed upon between the Count and Ferdinand, that they would visit Heli and Fatima. They set off at an early hour, and soon reached the cottage.


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 At the door, reclining on a kind of sofa, lay Heli; the noise of the horses made him start: Discerning who they were, he hastened to meet them.

"Ah!" cried he, "never more wished for, nor more welcome. The prophet has sent you to my wishes, or this night I should have sent for you."

"Have you then particularly wanted us?" asked Ferdinand.

"Yes," replied Heli.—"Strange things have happened; but come into this little room, and I will unfold the whole to you."

As they dismounted and entered, the Count asked for Fatima.

"Ah! the ingrate," cried he; "she is but too well, I believe."

This reply induced them to suppose she had behaved ill, if not deserted him; but they waited a farther explanation from him; and when they were seated, he thus began, addressing Ferdinand, as the Count was not so well acquainted with the language.


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 for a week's shooting trip in Scotland, but Monty vetoed the plan in the most decided manner.

"We sail for New York on the fastest boat," said Monty, and hurried off to learn the sailings and book his party. The first boat was to sail on the 30th and he could only secure accommodations for twelve of his guests. The rest were obliged to follow a week later. This was readily agreed to and Bragdon was left to see to the necessary repairs on the "Flitter" and arrange for her homeward voyage. Monty gave Bragdon fifteen thousand dollars for the purpose and extracted a solemn promise that the entire amount would be used.

"But it won't cost half of this," protested Bragdon.

"You will have to give these people a good time during the week and—well—you have promised that I shall never see another penny of it. Some day you'll know why I do this," and Monty felt easier when his friend agreed to abide by his wishes.

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 "From the first day that we came here, the ungrateful Fatima was sullen and discontented.—I did my best to amuse her; we had only two women slaves, or servants; they attended the business of the house, and to please her, I took no notice of them."

"Two nights ago, at midnight, I was alarmed by a loud knocking at the door; I opened the window, and demanded the cause. I was not understood; but hearing a voice, a woman spoke in a tone of terror and supplication. Without disturbing Fatima in the next room, I took my lamp, and went down, opening the door: A young woman rushed in, and directly swooned at my feet.

"I was then obliged to call for assistance; the women soon came about me; the poor creature was helped, and recovered.—I saw she was very pretty, though pale and thin.—Fatima did her best to revive and console her.

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 tended to murder her. We did not ask many questions; but she was put to bed, and yesterday morning I was told she appeared to be a good deal revived; that she earnestly requested, should any person make inquiry after her, we would deny our knowledge of her. I began to think the prophet had thrown this young woman in my way, to be a solace to me, and a companion for Fatima, so I let them be together.

"About noon, two horsemen, like a gentleman and his servant, appeared at the door.—They asked me had I seen a young woman; I kept her secret.—Whilst they were talking, Fatima came out.—I was very much displeased, and commanded her, pretty roughly, to retire.—She refused, and said some words to the stranger I did not understand.—He smiled, and answered her with great quickness. Highly provoked, I pushed her in, and shut the door.—The traitress opened the window above, and talked again. Enraged to madness, I flew in, dragged her


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 the prodigal, nor could they hide the regret that marked their weather-beaten faces.

Plans to dispose of his household goods and the balance of his cash in the short time that would be left after he arrived in New York occupied Monty's attention, and most men would have given up the scheme as hopeless. But he did not despair. He was still game, and he prepared for the final plunge with grim determination.

"There should have been a clause in Jones's conditions about 'weather permitting,'" he said to himself. "A shipwrecked mariner should not be expected to spend a million dollars."

The division of the party for the two sailings was tactfully arranged by Mrs. DeMille. The Valentines chaperoned the "second table" as "Subway" Smith called those who were to take the later boat, and she herself looked after the first lot. Peggy Gray and Monty Brewster were in the DeMille party. The three days in England were marked by unparalleled extravagance on Monty's part. One of the local hotels was subsidized for a week, although the party only stayed for luncheon, and the Cecil in London was a gainer by several thousand dollars for the brief stop there. It was a


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 from the window, and gave her a little chastisement, though not what she deserved.

"Her cries brought in the men, who, forcing the door, came up, and snatched her from my hands.—She directly run down stairs.—One of the horsemen took her before him, and they galloped off, regardless of my cries or imprecations.—'Twas in vain to pursue them; I had no horse, and was unacquainted with the turnings in the roads, if I had.

"Whilst I was tearing my beard, and cursing the vile ungrateful wretch, one of the servants came in, and said the young woman was in fits; so here was another plague upon me.—However, I had not lost my charity, so I ascended to help her, but she did not recover 'till night, and has continued very ill ever since; hardly speaks at all, but sighs from the bottom of her heart.—It seems 'twas the voices and bustle those vile Christians made, which occasioned her fits.—This is the state of things here; I am almost mad, and your treacherous wicked sister has basely


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 deserted me; me who preserved her life, and gave her liberty at the hazard of my own!"

"I am more concerned than surprised," said Ferdinand; "for I had no dependence upon her constancy, as she evidently wanted principle.—Retirement suited not with her disposition, and I think you have little cause to regret the loss of such a woman. The young person you speak of may want friends and assistance; if we can be of use to her, I am sure the Count will readily join in offering his services."

"You Christians," answered Heli, "are like the knights in romance, in your wishes to serve women.—Was you more discreet, and less complaisant, they would behave better; but women, having no souls, can practise no virtues, and only subjection and confinement can keep them within bounds."

"Why then accuse Fatima of ingratitude or levity?" said Ferdinand.—"If she has no soul, she may give unbounded loose to her inclinations; and where there exists no virtues, vice and folly only can be expected.—-


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 Gratitude is a virtue that flourishes in a noble mind; the produce of the soul, that feels a conscious sense of benefits concerned. If the freedom you procured for Fatima was solely to gratify yourself, she owes you no obligation; nor can you claim any merit from the deed."

Tis well," returned Heli, with a lowering brow; "I see what kindness I may expect from you; I have been a tool to all.—Oh! prophet," cried he, with a furious menacing air——

"Stop, Heli," said Ferdinand.—"Spare your appeal to Mahomet; I am more your friend that you are willing to believe; I despise and detest Fatima; she is a worthless woman; you may rejoice to get rid of one who would have proved a constant source of trouble to you; I vindicate her not; nor do I desire ever to hear of her more, because I am convinced she is incorrigible; but any services we can render you, command us, and you shall see that Christians know how to be grateful and hospitable to strangers."


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 Heli was affected by the earnest tone in which the other addressed him.—He unbent his angry brow, and lowering his voice—

"I believe I may judge too rashly; if so, may our holy prophet, and you, forgive me. I feel that I loved Fatima, but I will try to despise her: If this young woman lives—but I fear she will not; we cannot understand each other.—The few things I know in your language I have said to comfort her; but either she does not, or will not understand me."

"I would ask to see her," said Ferdinand, "and learn who and what she is, if it is agreeable to you."

"Yes," answered Heli, after a little hesitation—"Yes, you shall see her; but remember I already design her to supply the place of Fatima."

"Fear me not," replied Ferdinand; "I will deserve your confidence."

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Of dames and knights of gentle mien.

Moreover in his hands were seen

Ten arrows, five of which were fair

And beauteous; these his right hand bare,

Brilliant the plumes, the notches made

Of gold, the while like-precious blade

Each shaft-end wore; though nought of steel

Or iron knew they, hearts would feel

Their wound-stroke sorely. Save the shaft

And plumes, ’twas well-skilled goldsmiths’ craft

Had wrought these weapons; they were capped

With cruel barbs, and whoso happed

Within their murderous range to fall

Would feel Love’s wound and own his thrall.

Of these five shafts, I trow the best

And speediest, when it knew Love’s best,

(And fairest eke for plumage reckoned)

Had Beauty for its name; the second

Was called Simplicity; the third

Was Franchise, and another word

Bedecked it, sweetest Courtesy:

Companionship I saw to be

The fourth, which if ’twere shot from far

Would do small harm, but greatly mar

If drawn anear: the fifth and last

Fair-Seeming was, which, deftly cast,

Doth sorely maim, but yet the wound

Incurable is rarely found,

But given due time may healèd be

By means of Love’s sweet surgery.

Sweet-Looks five arrows held likewise

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 who lay fronting the door, at his entrance gave a sudden shriek, and fainted. They advanced hastily to assist her, and in the same moment both recognized the unfortunate young woman, notwithstanding the alteration of her person, and the improbability of her being near Vienna, and both exclaimed, "Louisa! Good Heavens! Louisa!"

"How," said Heli, "do you know her too?"

They were too busy in getting water and other things to restore her, immediately to attend to him; but when she began to show signs of returning life, Ferdinand turned to him—"We do indeed know this lady, one of the most unfortunate of her sex. We left her a few months back under the protection of a worthy family, far from hence. How, or by whom she was brought here, is very extraordinary."

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Far different, formed of iron fell

And black as he who rules dark hell.

The first was called unlovely Pride,

And Villainy lay hard beside,

With Felony is he attaint,

Portray the one—and both you paint.

The third was Shame, of downcast air,

The fourth, her fellow, dire Despair,

The while the last one proved to be

New-thought or Infidelity.

These shafts, whose qualities I name,

A close relationship may claim,

And all moreover plainly show

Near kin with that most hideous bow,

All knotted, gnarled, deformed and rough,

Though soothly seemed it good enough

To launch such villain shafts, which strive

In all things ’gainst the fair-made five

Whereof I’ve told: O scarce will you

Their power and force give credence to;

But yet the simple truth shall be

Hereafter plainly told by me;

And have a care lest you forget

The drift and sense of what is set

Before your eyes by this plain tale,

For you shall find no small avail

Therein ere yet the end is sped—

Fair wit with wisdom closely wed.

Now turn I to my tale amain:

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 careworn little band that took Monty's special train for Southampton and embarked two days later. The "rest cure" that followed was welcome to all of them and Brewster was especially glad that his race was almost run.

Swiftly and steadily the liner cut down the leagues that separated her from New York. Fair weather and fair cheer marked her course, and the soft, balmy nights were like seasons of fairyland. Monty was cherishing in his heart the hope inspired by Peggy's action on the night of the storm. Somehow it brought a small ray of light to his clouded understanding and he found joy in keeping the flame alive religiously if somewhat doubtfully. His eyes followed her constantly, searching for the encouragement that the very blindness of love had hidden from him, forever tormenting himself with fears and hopes and fears again. Her happiness and vivacity puzzled him—he was often annoyed, he was now and then seriously mystified.

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 drew new estimates, new calculations, and tried to balance the old ones so that they appeared in the light most favorable to his designs. Going over the statistics carefully, he estimated that the cruise, including the repairs and return of the yacht to New York, would cost him $210,000 in round figures. One hundred and thirty-three days marked the length of the voyage when reckoned by time and, as near as he could get at it, the expense had averaged $1,580 a day. According to the contract, he was to pay for the yacht, exclusive of the cuisine and personal service. And he had found it simple enough to spend the remaining $1,080. There were days, of course, when fully $5,000 disappeared, and there were others on which he spent much less than $1,000, but the average was secure. Taking everything into consideration, Brewster found that his fortune had dwindled to a few paltry thousands in addition to the proceeds which would come to him from the sale of his furniture. On the whole he was satisfied.

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 one who would not have been glad to begin it again the next day.

Immediately after the landing Brewster and Gardner were busy with the details of settlement. After clearing up all of the obligations arising from the cruise, they felt the appropriateness of a season of reflection. It was a difficult moment—a moment when undelivered reproofs were in the air. But Gardner seemed much the more melancholy of the two.

Piles of newspapers lay scattered about the floor of the room In which they sat. Every one of them contained sensational stories of the prodigal's trip, with pictures, incidents and predictions. Monty was pained, humiliated and resentful, but he was honest enough to admit the justification of much that was said of him. He read bits of it here and there and then threw the papers aside hopelessly. In a few weeks they would tell another story, and quite as emphatically.

"The worst of it, Monty, is that you are the next thing to being a poor man," groaned Gardner. "I've done my best to economize for you here at home, as you'll see by these figures, but nothing could possibly balance the extravagances of this voyage. They are simply appalling."


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Declare at full the countenances,

Their joyous sports and graceful dances.

Perceived I that the God of Love

One noble lady sought above

All others gathered there; she hight

Dame Beauty, as that arrow bright

Which bore her name was she, and dowed

With gentle grace, which freely showed

In all her movements. As the moon

Makes candles of the stars, her noon

Paled all her fellows: as the dew

Her flesh was tender, and ne’er new

And blushing bride more simple seemed;

Where’er her skin peeped forth it gleamed

As white as fleur-de-lis; her brow

Was clear and fair as virgin snow,

The while her form was tall and slight.

No need had she her face to dight

With paint or other vain disguise.

As women somewhiles use; despise

And scorn might she such false allure,

In natures decking bright and pure.

So plenteous grew her golden hair,

That near her heels it reached I swear.

Her nose, her mouth, her beaming eyes.

Were such that when their beauties rise

(God help me) in my thought they seem

To wake once more that glorious dream.

Forsooth, so sweet she was and fair,

With perfect rounded limbs, that ne’er

Throughout the world’s broad space, I ween,

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 would by no means have Mr. Allworthy take any Reolution either to the Prejudice of the Child or its Father, before he was atisfied that the latter was guilty: For tho’ he had privately atisfied himelf of this from one of Partridge’s Neighbours, yet he was too generous to give any uch Evidence to Mr. Allworthy.  The Trial of Partridge, the Schoolmater, for Incontinency; The Evidence of his Wife; A hort Reflection on the Widom of our Law; with other grave Matters, which thoe will like bet who undertand them mot.

T may be wondered that a Story o well known, and which had furnihed o much Matter of Converation, hould never have been mentioned to Mr. Allworthy himelf, who was perhaps the only Peron in that Country who had never heard of it.

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 With the condemnation of his friends ringing in his troubled brain, with the sneers of acquaintances to distress his pride, with the jibes of the comic papers to torture him remorselessly, Brewster was fast becoming the most miserable man in New York. Friends of former days gave him the cut direct, clubmen ignored him or scorned him openly, women chilled him with the iciness of unspoken reproof, and all the world was hung with shadows. The doggedness of despair kept him up, but the strain that pulled down on him was so relentless that the struggle was losing its equality. He had not expected such a home-coming.

Compared with his former self, Monty was now almost a physical wreck, haggard, thin and defiant, a shadow of the once debonair young New Yorker, an object of pity and scorn. Ashamed and despairing, he had almost lacked the courage to face Mrs. Gray. The consolation he once gained through her he now denied himself and his suffering, peculiar as it was, was very real. In absolute recklessness he gave dinner after dinner, party after party, all on a most lavish scale, many of his guests laughing at him openly while they enjoyed his hospitality. The real friends remonstrated, pleaded, did everything within their power to


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 cerning the Meaning of the Word Charity, which hath been een in the preceding Chapter, than our good Man. Indeed, he was equally intitled to this Virtue in either Sene: For as no Man was ever more enible of the Wants, or more ready to relieve the Ditrees of others, o none could be more tender of their Characters, or flower to believe any thing to their Diadvantage.

Scandal, therefore, never found any Acces to his Table: For as it hath been long ince oberved that you may know a Man by his Companions; o I will venture to ay, that by attending to the Converation at a great Man’s Table, you may atisfy yourelf of his Religion, his Politics, his Tate, and indeed of his entire Dipoition: For tho’ a few odd Fellows will utter their own Sentiments in all Places, yet much the greater Part of Mankind have enough of the Courtier to accommodate their Converation to the Tate and Inclination of their Superiors.

But to return to Mrs. Wilkins, who having executed her Commiion with great Dipatch, tho’ at fifteen Miles Ditance, brought back uch a Confirmation of the Schoolmater’s Guilt, that Mr. Allwortby


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 determined to end for the Criminal, and examine him viva voce. Mr. Partridge, therefore, was ummoned to attend, in order to his Defence (if he could make any) againt this Accuation.

At the Time appointed, before Mr. Allworthy himelf, at Paradie-Hall, came as well the aid Partridge, with Anne his Wife, as Mrs. Wilkins, his Accuer.

And now Mr. Allworthy being eated in the Chair of Jutice, Mr. Partridge was brought before him. Having heard his Accuation from the Mouth of Mrs. Wilkins, he pleaded, Not guilty, making many vehement Protetations of his Innocence.

Mrs. Partridge was then examined, who, after a modet Apology for being obliged to peak the Truth againt her Huband, related all the Circumtances with which the Reader hath already been acquainted; and at lat concluded with her Huband’s Confeion of his Guilt.

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 ther Reaons would never have been brought to depoe as he did, had not Mrs. Wilkins, with great Art, fihed all out of her, at her own Houe, and had he not indeed made Promies in Mr. Allworthy’s Name, that the Punihment of her Huband hould not be uch as might any wife affect his Family.

Partridge till perited in aerting his Innocence, tho’ he admitted he had made the above mentioned Confeion; which he however endeavoured to account for, by proteting that he was forced into it by the continued Importunity he ued, who vowed, that as he was ure of his Guilt, he would never leave tormenting him till he had owned it, and faithfully promied, that in uch Cae, he would never mention it to him more. Hence, he aid, he had been induced falely to confes himelf guilty, tho’ he was innocent; and that he believed he hould have confet a Murder from the ame Motive.

Mrs. Partridge could not bear this Imputation with Patience; and having no other Remedy, in the preent Place but Tears, he called forth a plentiful Aitance from them, and then addreing herelf to Mr. Allworthy, he aid, (or rather cried) ‘May


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 it pleae your Worhip, there never was any poor Woman o injured as I am by that bae Man: For this is not the only Intance of his Falfhood to me. No, may it pleae your Worhip, he hath injured my Bed many’s the good time and often. I could have put up with his Drunkennes and Neglect of his Buines, if he had not broke one of the acred Commandiments. Beides, if it had been out of Doors I had not mattered it o much; but with my own Servant, in my own Houe, under my own Roof; to defile my own chate Bed, which to be ure he hath with his beatly tinking Whores. Yes, you Villain, you have defiled my own Bed, you have; and then you have charged me with bullocking you into owning the Truth. It is very likely, an’t pleae your Worhip, that I hould bullock him.—I have Marks enow about my Body to hew of his Cruelty to me. If you had been a Man, you Villain, you would have corned to injure a Woman in that Manner, But you an’t half a Man, you know it.—Nor have you been half a Huband to me. You need run after Whores, you need, when I'm ureAnd ince he provokes me, I am ready, an’t pleae your Worhip, to take my bodily Oath, that I found them


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 a-bed together, What, you have forgot, I uppoe, when you beat me into a Fit, and made the Blood run down my Forehead, becaue I only civilly taxed you with your Adultery! but I can prove it by all my Neighbours. You have almot broke my Heart, you have, you have.”

Here Mr. Allworthy interrupted, and begged her to be pacified, promiing her that he hould have Jutice; then turning to Partridge, who tood aghat, one half of his Wits being hurried away by Surprie and the other half by Fear, he aid, he was orry to ee there was o wicked a Man in the World. He aured him, that his prevaricating and lying backward and foreward was a great Aggravation of his Guilt: For which, the only Attonement he could make was by Confeion and Repentance. He exhorted him, therefore, to begin by immediately confeing the Fact, and not to perfit in denying what was o plainly proved againt him, even by his own Wife.

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 ays a certain learned Author, who, I believe, was never quoted before in any but a Law-book, would be the Means of creating an eternal Diention between them. It would, indeed, be the Means of much Perjury, and of much Whipping, Fining, Imprioning, Tranporting, and Hanging.

Partridge tood a while ilent, till being bid to peak, he aid, he had already poken the Truth, and appealed to Heaven for his Innocence, and latly, to the Girl herelf, whom he deired his Worhip immediately to end for; for he was ignorant, or at leat pretended to be o, that he had left that Part of the Country.

Mr. Allworthy, whoe natural Love of Jutice, joined to his Coolnes of Temper, made him always a mot patient Magitrate in hearing all the Witnees which an accued Peron could produce in his Defence, agreed to defer his final Determination of this Matter, till the Arrival of Jenny, for whom he immediately dipatched a Meenger; and then having recommended Peace between Partridge and his Wife (tho’ he addreed himelf chiefly to the wrong Peron) he appointed them to attend again the third


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Connie always had a foreboding of the hopelessness of her affair with Mick, as people called him. Yet other men seemed to mean nothing to her. She was attached to Clifford. He wanted a good deal of her life and she gave it to him. But she wanted a good deal from the life of a man, and this Clifford did not give her; could not. There were occasional spasms of Michaelis. But, as she knew by foreboding, that would come to an end. Mick couldn't keep anything up. It was part of his very being that he must break off any connection, and be loose, isolated, absolutely lone dog again. It was his major necessity, even though he always said: She turned me down!

The world is supposed to be full of possibilities, but they narrow down to pretty few in most personal experience. There's lots of good fish in the sea maybe but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.

Clifford was making strides into fame, and even money. People came to see him. Connie nearly always had somebody at Wragby. But if they weren't mackerel they were herring, with an occasional cat-fish, or conger-eel.

There were a few regular men, constants; men who had been at Cambridge with Clifford. There was Tommy Dukes, who had remained in the army, and was a Brigadier-General. "The army leaves me time to think, and saves me from having to face the battle of life," he said.

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 all believed in the life of the mind. What you did apart from that was your private affair, and didn't much matter. No one thinks of enquiring of another person at what hour he retires to the privy. It isn't interesting to anyone but the person concerned.

And so with most of the matters of ordinary life how you make your money, or whether you love your wife, or if you have "affairs." All these matters concern only the person concerned, and, like going to the privy, have no interest for anyone else.

"The whole point about the sexual problem," said Hammond, who was a tall thin fellow with a wife and two children, but much more closely connected with a typewriter, "is that there is no point to it. Strictly there is no problem. We don't want to follow a man into the W. C., so why should we want to follow him into bed with a woman? And therein lies the problem. If we took no more notice of the one thing than the other, there'd be no problem. It's all utterly senseless and pointless; a matter of misplaced curiosity."

"Quite, Hammond, quite! But if someone starts making love to Julia, you begin to simmer; and if he goes on, you are soon at boiling point." Julia was Hammond's wife.

"Why, exactly! So I should be if he began to urinate in a corner of my drawing-room. There's a place for all these things."

"You mean you wouldn't mind if he made love to Julia in some discreet alcove?"

Charlie May was slightly satirical, for he had flirted a very little with Julia, and Hammond had cut up very roughly.

"Of course I should mind. Sex is a private thing between me and Julia; and of course I should mind anyone else trying to mix in."

"As a matter of fact," said the lean and freckled Tommy Dukes, who looked much more Irish than May, who was pale and rather fat: "As a matter of fact, Hammond, you have a strong property instinct, and a strong will to self-assertion, and you want success. Since I've been in the army definitely, I've got out of the way of the world, and now I see how inordinately strong the craving for self-assertion and success is in men. It is enormously over-developed. All our individuality has run that way. And of course men like you think you'll get through better with a woman's backing. That's why you're so jealous. That's what sex is to you a vital little dynamo between you and Julia, to bring success. If you


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 began to be unsuccessful you'd begin to flirt, like Charlie, who isn't successful. Married people like you and Julia have labels on you, like travellers' trunks. Julia is labelled ''Mrs. Arnold. B. Hammond'' just like a trunk on the railway that belongs to somebody. And you are labelled ''Arnold. B. Hammond, C/o Mrs. Arnold. B. Hammond.'' Oh, you're quite right, you're quite right! The life of the mind needs a comfortable house and decent cooking. You're quite right. It even needs posterity. But it all hinges on the instinct for success. That is the pivot on which all things turn."

Hammond looked rather piqued. He was rather proud of the integrity of his mind, and of his not being a timeserver. None the less, he did want success.

"It's quite true, you can't live without cash," said May. "You've got to have a certain amount of it to be able to live and get along even to be free to think you must have a certain amount of money, or your stomach stops you. But it seems to me you might leave the labels off sex. We're free to talk to anybody; so why shouldn't we be free to make love to any woman who inclines us that way?"

"There speaks the lascivious Celt," said Clifford.

"Lascivious! well, why not? I can't see I do a woman any more harm by sleeping with her than by dancing with her or even talking to her about the weather. It's just an interchange of sensations instead of ideas, so why not?"

"Be as promiscuous as the rabbits!" said Hammond.

"Why not? What's wrong with rabbits? Are they any worse than a neurotic, revolutionary humanity, full of nervous hate?"

"But we're not rabbits, even so," said Hammond.

"Precisely! I have my mind: I have certain calculations to make in certain astronomical matters that concern me almost more than life or death. Sometimes indigestion interferes with me. Hunger would interfere with me disastrously. In the same way starved sex interferes with me. What then?"

"I should have thought sexual indigestion from surfeit would have interfered with you more seriously," said Hammond satirically.

"Not it! I don't over-eat myself, and I don't over-fuck myself. One has a choice about eating too much. But you would absolutely starve me."


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 "Not at all! You can marry."

"How do you know I can? It may not suit the process of my mind. Marriage might and would stultify my mental processes. I’m not properly pivoted that way and so must I be chained in a kennel like a monk? All rot and funk, my boy. I must live and do my calculations. I need women sometimes. I refuse to make a mountain of it, and I refuse anybody’s moral condemnation or prohibition. I'd be ashamed to see a woman walking round with my name-label on her, address and railway station, like a wardrobe trunk."

These two men had not forgiven each other about the Julia flirtation.

"It’s an amusing idea, Charlie," said Dukes, "that sex is just another form of talk, where you act the words instead of saying them. I suppose it’s quite true. I suppose we might exchange as many sensations and emotions with women as we do ideas about the weather, and so on. Sex might be a sort of normal, physical conversation between a man and a woman. You don’t talk to a woman unless you have ideas in common: that is you don’t talk with any interest. And in the same way, unless you had some emotion or sympathy in common with a woman you wouldn’t sleep with her. But if you had"

"If you have the proper sort of emotion or sympathy with a woman, you ought to sleep with her," said May. "It’s the only decent thing, to go to bed with her. Just as, when you are interested talking to someone, the only decent thing is to have the talk out. You don’t prudishly put your tongue between your teeth and bite it. You just say out your say. And the same the other way."

"No," said Hammond. "It’s wrong. You, for example, May, you squander half your force with women. You'll never really do what you should do, with a fine mind such as yours. Too much of you goes the other way."

"Maybe it does and too little of you goes that way, Hammond, my boy, married or not. You can keep the purity and integrity of your mind, but it’s going damned dry. Your pure mind is going as dry as fiddlesticks, from what I see of it. You’re simply talking it down."

Tommy Dukes burst into a laugh.

"Go it you two minds!" he said. "Look at me I don’t do any