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Rh rather increased than diminished volume, and the cattle and the good roan displayed much uneasiness. Leaving the farm buildings he proceeded into the road, where an unusual glow in the sky towards the North-East attracted his attention. The confused sound that came from the same quarter was broken by shrieks, whistles, and hisses of a weird and unaccountable character. Following the road a furlong, he came to a rising ground, whence he could obtain a wide view over the rolling prairie land. Here he stopped, and gazing intently through the darkness discerned a long row of twinkling lights that seemed to extend for miles across the wide plain. As he looked, the line seemed to lengthen and widen, the lights grew brighter and more defined, till at length like a lightning flash there broke upon his mind the meaning of what he saw. It was no mortal foe, but the dreaded host of machines, of which half-credited reports had reached his distant ranche, come out in their thousands against the race of man.

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26 their fate, galloped down to the river, which was crossed by a bridge about a mile below. But alas! a storm had shattered the frail timber structure but a few days previously. There was nothing for it but to ride back to a point some two miles above his farm, where there was a shallow place, dangerous indeed, and fordable only when the water was low, but which he had been used to cross before the bridge was built. As he fled past his farm he could hear the cattle lowing and the horses neighing with anxiety. But he durst not stop for an instant to release the poor beasts. Already the advancing engines were so close that he could distinguish the tall funnels of the nearest against the light of the rising moon. On, on, and towards the danger.

The river now made two large bends, backward and forward like the letter S, the ford being just beyond the further one. There was he knew a hard trackway along the bank, but this would have greatly increased the distance he must traverse. Beyond this trackway was a wide impassable bog, beyond which again came the direct path which he intended to pursue, but which he now observed led almost up to the line of the

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16 Black, and where little clothes are required, or worn. Off the coast we saw what are called rattans, which are a sort of boat of three planks united together, with a thin iron rail round the gunwale, having a lateen sail with which to run close to the wind, sailing quickly, and carrying large loads of fish. We soon started for

This city and port is 380 miles further; and I was astonished and delighted at the sight of the people and the place. The coast the whole way was lined as before with the cocoa-nut and the palm; and on rounding the hill fort at the entrance, we steamed straight up the harbour, which appeared to be about ten miles in length and breadth. The city of Bahia extended along our right side for four miles; and, as it faced the sea, it had a noble appearance. There were large quays and landing-places, lofty merchants' houses mixed with others of reater pre- tensions, continuing up the hill, surmounted with the towers of churches, for 250 feet above the water. We anchored a mile and a-quarter from the market- place; and, landing there, we beheld (a most striking scene) an assemblage of the finest blacks and mulattoes that, it is allowed, can be seen in any part of the world. They were almost entirely in Eden's dress costume. All of them were slaves, and as happy and merry as assible- magnificent specimens of humanity. I stood, and admired a black Hercules, who was loading some heavy iron,for ten minutes, and could hardly leave him. An anatomist would have been lost in admiration of the biceps, triceps, deltoides, latissimus dorsi, and all the rest of the.

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40 Flores the president was much beloved by his soldiers, and respected by the people. The news of his death infuriated the garrison in the fort, who immediately marched out to the cabille to take it, firing up the streets in every direction to clear them of the people. Noticing, from the house where I lived, several persons peeping round the corner of the street, I went out to see what was the matter. The balls were coming up this street from the soldiers who were advancing; and just then a gentleman on the opposite side of the street was shot through the thigh, and taken into a house. A peon crossing the street at this spot was shot dead, picked up, placed on a shutter, and carried away. On this I thought it prudent to retire into the house. When the troops reached the plazza, they fired volleys on the mob, to clear it. The cathedral was on one side and the cabille on the other.. For a whole week the Blanco party in the city were routed out of their houses and abodes, and were hunted down and shot in the streets in every direction, such was the rage of the soldiery, until a public proclamation appeared forbidding the slaughter, and ordaining that the guilty party be fairly and legally tried. Twenty corpses were lying at the prison, and doubtless many innocent persons suffered. A small army of Blancoes were cut to pieces outside the city. All the English merchants shut up their houses, and business was totally closed. Every one armed himself with a revolver. No one was suffered to be in the streets after eight o'clock at night. Nothing was to be seen there but the serenos, or watchmen, - like our "old Charlies," with lanterns and a sword, crying the hour 1

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Rh agreeable to the passengers. These unpleasant varieties prevailed throughout the voyage, though I could detect, as time wore on, that some of these birds had faded from the scene by appearing on the breakfast table.

The vessel itself was a noble one. It was not like going to sea, to be in a ship that could one way or other make up 800 berths. Its tonnage was 1700 register, or about 2500 actual; and capable, if both its sets of engines were used, of extending their power from 850 horse-power to more than double that amount, to meet a hurricane. In case of a cyclone this is a great advantage: for such a vessel, with its head put to the wind, and its greatest power on, would cut through water, wind, and waves alike. This had happened a year before to one of these fine vessels, in the Bay of Biscay, where she pierced through 2 tempest for twelve hours, with her steam power raised from 800 to 1500 horsepower.

We however met with no such unpleasantness, which is at all times- xceptional. ‘The ship was like a large modern hotel, with every comfort ‘and luxury on board: plenty of ice, abundance of fresh distilled water, fruits, and flowers, There was none of the salt junk, hard biscuits, and stale water flavoured with rum, wherewith our old naval herocs, of the past generation, braved the battle and the breeze, and won their victories; but everything was so elegantly decorated and comfortable, that it would satisfy the most fastidious. Within four days we sighted land off Cape St. Vincent, and then kept along the coast of Portugal. The land seemed to he sia rugged, and with prominent rocks; and as we

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 Parr, Bartholomew, of Devon, gent. ., matric. 25 Jan., 1609-10, aged 19; B.A. 30 June, 1612 (incorporated at Cambridge 1614), M.A. 27 April, 1615, re-incorporated at Cambridge 1616, vicar of Bishops Nympton 1618, canon of Exeter 1619, rector of Clyst St. Mary 1620, and of Rewe (all Devon), 1632; father of the next, and of Edward 1643. See Foster's Index Eccl.  Parr, Bartholomew, s. Barthol., of Clist St. Mary, Devon, sacerd. ., matric. 4 Dec., 1640, aged 16; brother of Edward 1643.  Parre, Charles, s. Rob., of Kirkby Mallory, cler. ., matric. 21 March, 1680-1, aged 16, brother of Robert 1685, and of Samuel 1678.  Parr, Christopher, "ser." ., matric. 26 Oct., 1660.  Parr, Edward, s. Bartholomew, of St. Mary Clist, Devon, minister. ., matric. 12 Dec., 1643, aged 15; rector of St. Kew, Cornwall, 1650, and of Rewe, Devon, 1651, until ejected 1662; brother of Bartholomew 1640. See Foster's Index Eccl. & Calamy, ii. 68.  [5]

Parr, Edward, paup. ., matric. 20 March, 1683-4, B.A. 1687, rector of Cadleigh, Devon, 1692. See Foster's Index Eccl.  Parre, Henry; B.A. from (or rather ) 26 Oct., 1615.  Parr, Henry, s. H., of Cork (city), Ireland, cler. ., matric. 11 Dec., 1685, aged 17.

Parr, Richard, of co. Lancaster, pleb. ., matric. 24 Nov., 1609, aged 17; B.A. 17 June, 1613, fellow, M.A. 19 April, 1616, B.D. 10 June, 1624, incorporated at Cambridge 1625, licenced to preach 26 April, 1626, D.D. 1 July, 1634, rector of Ladbroke, co. Warwick, 1626-8, and rector of Eccleston, co. Lancaster, 1629; of St. John Zachary, London, licenced 16 Nov., 1624, to marry Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Raymond, of Guildford, Surrey, clerk; bishop of Isle of Man 1635, until his death in 1643. See London Marriage Licences, ed. Foster; Ath. iii. 344; & Foster's Index Eccl.

Parr, Richard, s. Richard, of Ireland, sacerd. ., matric. 6 Nov., 1635, aged 18; B.A. 13 June, 1639, fellow 1642-9, M.A. 23 April, 1642, D.D. 30 Oct., 1660; born at Fermoy, co. Cork, vicar of Reigate, Surrey, 1647, licenced 10 April, 1649, to marry Elizabeth, relict of Henry Royse, of Reigate (daughter of Sir Roger James); chaplain and biographer of archbishop Ussher, canon of Armagh, refused the deanery and an Irish bishopric, vicar of Camberwell 1653, and rector of Bermondsey, Surrey, 1654; died at Camberwell 2 Nov., 1691. See Ath. iv. 341; Boase, 67; Foster's Index Eccl.; London Marriage Licences, ed. Foster; & Lansdowne MS. 987, f. 139.
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Parr, Richard, "ser." . subscribes 15 June, 1657, B.A. 1660, M.A. 1663, rector of Ipstone, Oxon, 1665. See Foster's Index Eccl.

Parr, Robert, s. Robert, of Exeter, Devon, pleb. ., matric. 12 May, 1626, aged 20; B.A. 21 Feb., 1627-8, M.A. 30 June, 1630, vicar of Poundstock 1635, and rector of Clyst St. George, Devon, 1638. See Foster's Index Eccl.

Par(r), Robert, "ser." ., matric. 9 Dec., 1650, scholar by the parliamentary visitors 1649, B.A. 18 March, 1650-1, M.A. 11 Oct., 1653, vicar of Beoly, co. Worcester, 1654; perhaps vicar of Kirkby Mallory, co. Leicester, 1658, of Hemingford Grey, Hunts, 1661, rector of Great Chishall 1662, and vicar of Chishall Magna, Essex, 1663; father of Charles 1681, and of Samuel 1678, and of the next. See Burrows, 540; & Foster's Index Eccl.

Parre, Robert, s. R., of Kirkby, co. Leicester, cler. , matric. 27 March, 1685, aged 17; B.A. 1688, M.A. 1691, incorporated at Cambridge 1697, rector of Willey, co. Warwick, 1701; brother of Samuel 1678. See Foster's Index Eccl.

Parre, Samuel, of Devon, pleb. ., matric. 15 June, 1610, aged 18.
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Parre, Samuel, s. Rob., of Kirkby Mallory, co. Leicester, cler. ., matric. 12 July, 1678, aged 16; B.A. from. 1682, vicar of Hinckley, co. Leicester, 1704; brother of Charles 1681, and of Robert 1685. See Foster's Index Eccl.

Parr, Thomas, s. Joh., of Aishcombe, Devon, gent. ., matric. 24 March, 1693-4, aged 17; B.A. 1697, M.A. 1700, rector of North Bovey, Devon, 1705. See Foster's Index Eccl.

Par(r), William of co. Warwick, pleb. ., matric. 3 May, 1583, aged 14; B.A. from. 17 Feb., 1583-4.

Parre, William; B.A. from 6 July, 1609; M.A. from  8 July, 1612.

Parran, Philip, s. John, of Fucot, Oxon, gent. ., matric. 17 Oct., 1700, aged 16.

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Parren, Thomas, s. John, of Mossom, parish Manchester, co. Lancaster, pleb., p.p. ., matric. 3 April, 1663, aged 24; B.A. from 21 March, 1666-7.

Parris, Edward (Parys), fellow. 1651, by the parliamentary visitors, M.A. 14 June, 1651, rector of Woolhampton, Berks, 1661. See Burrows, 550; & Foster's Index Eccl.

Paris, John, pleb. ., matric. 19 Feb., 1648-9, B.A. 2 March, 1651-2, fellow from Somerset, M.A. 4 April, 1655, B. and D.Med. 3 July, 1666; account at Oxford 22 May, 1672. See Burrows, 498.

Paris, John, s. Richard, of Marlborough, Wilts, pleb. ., matric. 15 Dec., 1676, aged 18; B.A. 22 Feb., 1680-1; M.A. from ., Cambridge, 1702, vicar of Somerton, Somerset, 1691-4, and of Hougham St. Lawrence, Kent, 1701, rector of St. Mary Bredman and St. Andrew, Canterbury, 1701, vicar of Beaksbourne, Kent, 1704, and master of Eastbridge hospital 1709. See Foster's Index Eccl.
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Parris, Lewes, s. Lewis, of Milverton, Somerset, pleb. ., matric. 9 Dec., 1670, aged 16; B.A. from 1674, M.A. 1677, vicar of North Curry, Somerset, 1686. See Foster's Index Eccl.

Parris, Peter, of Sussex, pleb. ., matric. 8 July, 1586, aged 18.

Parys, Philip; B.A. from, Cambridge, 1579; incorporated as M.A. 14 July, 1584.

Parris, Thomas, of 1553. See.

Paris, Thomas, "ser." ., matric. 22 July, 1658; B.A. from. 1664 (incorporated at Cambridge 1666, as Parrish), M.A. 1667, B.D. 15 March, 1675-6, rector of Childrey, Berks, 1711-22. See Hearne, iii. 184.

Parris, William, of Dorset, pleb. , matric. 20 March, 1589-90, aged 24; for one of these names see Cooper, ii. 529; & Foster's Index Ecclesiasticus.

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Parry, Benjamin, cler. fil. ., matric. 20 March, 1650-1, B.A. 10 Feb., 1651-2; Greek reader and fellow ., M.A. 30 May, 1654, B.D. 12 July, 1662, D.D. 9 July, 1670; admitted to ., Dublin, 5 Dec., 1648 (s. Edward, bishop of Killaloe), canon of York 1664-73, sinecure rector of Hope, Flints, 1666-77, and of Llaniestyn 1667, of Godington, Oxon, 1668, and rector of St. Antholin's, London, 1671-4, chaplain to the earl of Essex, lord lieutenant of Ireland; prebendary of Christ Church, Dublin, 1672, dean of Ossory 1674, and of St. Patrick, Dublin, 1675-7, and precentor 1627-8, bishop of Ossory 1678; died same year; brother of John 1651. See Cotton's ''Fasti Ecc. Hib''. ii. 101; Ath. iii. 1172; Burrows, 504; & Foster's Index Eccl.
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Rh The offal and garbage lying about created an unpleasant smell. The only real business of the people seemed to be stowing away coals as they arrived from England, and loading steamers with them. If this were to cease, the island would doubtless return to its naturally desert state again. I observed that the steam power of the engine was applied for hauling many things, such as cattle and coals, on board, and for hauling up the anchor and sails; which must save much manual labour, compared to a mere sailing vessel. I was struck with the boat-loads of blacks, jabbering like a collection of monkeys--thin, scraggy fellows, in bathing costume, begging for a coin to be thrown into the water to them, when they would wait a while, and then dive after it, easily seeing and catching it at a great depth in the pellucid water. We received here the unpleasant news, from a steamer that arrived the day before, that cholera had broken out in Buenos Ayres, that 200 persons a day were dying of it, and that 120,000 persons had left the city for the camp to escape it.

We pursued our voyage, not expecting to touch land under 1620 miles. This perhaps was the most tedious part of the voyage. ‘The passengers occupied themselves, some with chess, some of them in playing at “ dumps,” which consists in throwing flat round pieces of lead, enclosed in leather, on to a board that is divided into squares, and is marked with figures of different amounts. Those who make their dump rest on squares marked with the highest numbers, win, in a score of 1000. Every one had his seat assigned him at table. If an unfortunate and solitary Frenchman were placed near an

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26 the most distant perspective, convince you what endless beauties of nature there must be in the whole country.

Beautiful bays indented the harbour on both sides, between the mountains, some had rows of houses facing them with avenues of trees, each little bay looking some-thing like an English watering place. On the south, or left side ranges the city of Rio, with its 300,000 inhabitants, on its very irregular site; for it seems intersected almost everywhere with bays. Islands, and promontories stand forward into the harbour, with lofty tropical trees, ancient monastic buildings, nunneries, and mansions, overhanging the water and crowning their summits. I positively came away without sketching any one of the magnificent views that struck me, both from sea and land, from the ship; for while each one was worthy of being had in remembrance, the eye was lost in the multitude of their beauties.

The city extends by the water side about five miles, winding into the different indentations. The harbour is about twenty-five miles long, by from five to seven wide; and it is studded with islands. At its farther end the land rises in broken masses of grassy hills, terminating beyond them in the distant Organ mountains, which raise themselves to the clouds in a long and lofty outline. Some lofty rocky peaks rise in front of them, which are supposed to be like the pipes of an organ, from which the hills take their name. The most notable conical hills on the left, as you enter, are Tichuga, 3600 feet high, the Corcovada, 2400, and others of nearly the same height. The harbour has numerous flag ships stationed there, and vessels of all nations are congregated;

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4 approached the entrance of the Tagus, we coasted along below Cintra, where stands the beautiful palace of the King of Portugal.

Some people extol the beauty of “the Panorama of the Tagus;” but I was greatly disappointed in its aspect. A large sand bank, or bar, in the centre of the entrance of the harbour, compels vessels to pass close to the side of it under an old Moorish tower, and fort. After this you proceed up ‘the centre of the river, with the city rising from the water’s edge up the hill, and ranging along on: the left, for three miles. The ancient city was on the opposite side of the harbour, which was destroyed by the ‘great earthquake of 1755, and was, with its pier thronged with people, engulphed in a vast depth. It is stated that in the place where the mole stood before the earthquake, there was afterwards found 100 fathoms deep of water; but certainly now there are only fifteen fathoms. No perceptible remains of that visitation are now to be seen. The hill, with a few houses on it, slopes down steeply to the water, leaving the imagination to supply the blank of what existed there where the old city, with its 60,000 inhabitants, once stood, and perished.

There are lofty houses of many storeys high in the city, the streets of which had a fishy and warehouse smell, and certainly were not in gay attire. Altogether I was not sorry to embark again; and, I must own, was greatly disappointed in the reported beauty of Lisbon and its Tagus. We could feel a decided change in the weather,

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28 change and to set over to the other side, where with some difficulty they landed a few minutes later, marvelling at their escape. Pausing a moment to recover breath, the farmer looked across the river, which separated him by so narrow a boundary from the most terrible of deaths. Narrow as it was he knew it was impassable to the foe. Not one of those engines, however formidable, could pass through water deep enough to reach its fires and so extinguish its precarious life. Might not this simple fact have been taken advantage of to secure the victory to our fatuous countrymen? I am enraged when I think how they threw away certain victory just for want of a little coolness and courage.

Our messenger, then, having lost all, and lighted by the glare of his own burning homestead, fled along the high road till he arrived, as I have stated, at Jefferson City. There the panic was extreme. A doleful procession commenced to wind its weary course along the Eastward road that leads towards St. Louis, while others, more wary, laid hands on what boats, barges, or rafts they could find and drifted down the river, journeying whither they knew not. The suf-


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38 over the perpendicular precipice of 2400 feet on the upright side of this rock, to the botanic gardens below that I had visited the day before. You could see the different merchants" houses scattered along the roads, looking less than pins' heads;valley beyond valley, and hill on hill surmounting one ano-ther, crowned beyond by the more distant but far higher cones of Tichuga and other peaks, some having flat tops, and terminating the landscape south and westward, in istant succession. Beneath was the harbour with its shipping, and islands in beautiful variety, every part of the landscape differ-ent, and yet ontributing to the whole. You could look down into every bay and fort on the opposite side; and the eye could trace up the several valleys, until lofty hills limited the view. Here you perceived the vast height of the Organ mountains better than from below, 8-10,000 feet high; and yet, though nearly fifty miles off, looking quite near.The forests that clothe the summit of the Corcovada, and the cultivated aspect of everything-its inhabited appear-from the number of houses that are scattered about in every direction, and that line the little bays and crown the promontories,-added greatly, in contrast with the Alpine scene, to the beauty of the prospect. I could hardly tear myself from this matchless spot; but as it was past five o'clock, and I had seven miles descent home, I was forced, though I again and again returned to it, to depart-never to see such again. What a traveller has said is true to the life-"The first effect of tropical scenery on those accus- tomed before to the gloomy leaden colouring of our northern clime is so dazzling, that it appears to us impossible any other place in this world can be so perfectly beautiful, and beyond description, either in prose or verse, as Rio.""

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Rh approaching foe. There was no time for consideration, and with the courage of despair he urged his trembling steed along the latter. The poor beast now became unmanageable through fright, till his master tearing off the sleeve of his shirt bound it over his eyes. On again, till within a few hundred yards of the long line. And now the nearest machines seem to have detected the flying figure; for with renewed shrieks and redoubled speed they bear down upon him as he turns the bend of the road which leads down to the ford. A few moments bring him to the bank, but those moments, during which he seems to feel the hot breath scorching his back, seem like hours. Horse and man plunge into the cold water. For some distance the foothold is indeed rough, but the water shallow, but suddenly the horse loses his feet, and has to swim, while the swift current bears them drifting down and threatens to land them on the side they have quitted, where the machines are now ranged up to welcome them in a terrible embrace. Happily at the moment when the current had borne them within a few yards of the bank, and the rider had given up all hope, a sand bank or bar caused its direction to


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 Situation of Monte Video—Signs of a Disturbance—Frightful Deaths from Cholera—Number in Buenos Ayres—and the Camps—Infatuation of the People—Anecdote—Sudden Revolution—Conspirators—Murder of Flores the President—Defeat of Conspirators—Murders of Blancoes—Dreadful Occurrence in the City from Executions—And Cholera—Death of Twenty-nine Chief Citizens—List of the Proscribed—Periodical Revolutions—Extreme Atrocity—How Flores Gained the Presidency—Impunity of Murderers in Roman Catholic Countries—Readily Leave for Buenos Ayres—The River Plate—Its Shallowness—Buenos Ayres–Curious Mode of Disembarking Goods—Cruelty to Horses—Ceremony of Mass for the Dead in a Church.

T city of Monte Video lies at the north entrance of the estuary of the Plate. The river is called Plate, but pronounced Playte, Plate being Spanish for silver—"the silver river." The city is approached in shallow water, which loses its blue sea colour for many leagues before you get near it. Some sand banks about here are dangerous for shipping. The river is in no place more than nineteen feet deep, although it is 150 miles wide at the mouth, yet, from the vast amount of mud brought down from the great rivers Parana, Negro, Paraguay, and their confluents, it abounds in shallows. It is continually running seaward at about three miles an hour.

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 21 blacks, merely to have ascertained what was the amount of the labour in such heat: but I was satisfied when I saw the two blacks suffering apparently as intensely from the primeval curse, as Englishmen would do; mopping their faces after their exertions. Only, unlike Englishmen in like circumstances, they took a glass of clear water, at the top of the hill; and seemed satisfied. TRAVELS IN ERUGUAY.

On the quay the heat was like a furnace, and I should think 140° in the sun. We slowly ascended the steep street of the city that runs up obliquely, and parallel with the harbour, for three miles to the public gardens, which are on an elevated spot, with terraces from which we looked down on the whole harbour and shipping. The entire slope of the bill was covered with every sort of wild herbage and tropical trees. There were avenues of tamarind trees and bread-fruit trees, widely extending, the bread-fruit of the latter hanging under the branches, as big as a man's head. At the gates, as we went out, the avenue terminated in splendid palm trees, the trunks of which swelled out just above the ground, and then ascended narrower up to the heads, which were flattened out into a fan-like union of the stalks of the leaves, which were two yards long. The flowers that had burst from the pods were hanging in a long white cluster, over which the pods remained expanded, as if to give shelter.

Such trees as these it was clear could not possibly exist, with their gigantic luxuriance, except in uninterrupted heat. There were light scarlet and yellow butterflies that shot, past us with the speed of birds, which were four inches wide across the wings; though there are some moths double that size in this country. Then there .

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Rh though it was equally midwinter in Lisbon as with us in England; and we felt a mild genial tone in the air, such as orange trees rejoice to live in. Although we had gone only 900 miles, it was indispensable to replenish the ship's larder. Bullocks were hoisted on board by their horns, which did not seem to disturb the equilibrium of their minds; for they did not resist the operstion, but took it as a matter of course, merely placing their feet on the deck as they were lowered upon it. Doubtless they trusted to the mens conscia recti of those that performed the operation upon them, as they showed a most philosophic indifference to the whole treatment.

We soon started for the great coaling station of St. Vincent, 1554 miles from Lisbon. After two or three days' further voyage, you get more sociable, and interested in your fellow voyagers. But at times a weariness comes over you, at the repeated sameness of scene and occupation, and from being out of sight of land.

We passed the Canary Islands and Madeira. The weather now began to be more than warm. The awning was spread over the deck every day, after breakfast; and you felt a soft summer air. The tops of the lofty and rocky islands rose above the horizon from vast depths, with a clearly defined and soft outline; and the beautiful sunset reminded you that you had taken leave of English fogs, and were approaching a tropical clime. On rising early the next morning we beheld

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 On a bright morning early in June I was allowed out for the first time since my illness, and I insisted on going alone. As I came out into the warmth of the sun I felt a charm as of a mysterious new birth. I went straight to the woods. The green alleys winding in front of me amid tall old trees, in all the vivid richness of early summer, seemed exquisitely beautiful. It was as if I had never realized before how lovely the world was. I lay down on my back on the warm,dry moss and listened to a skylark singing as it mounted up from the fields near the sea into the dark clear sky. No other music ever gave me the same pleasure as that passionately joyous singing. It was a kind of leaping, exultant ecstasy, a bright, flame-like sound, rejoicing in itself. And then a curious experience befell me. It was as if everything that had seemed to me external and around me were suddenly within me. The whole world seemed to be within me. It was within me that the trees waved their green branches, it was within me that the skylark was singing, it was within me that the hot sun shone, and that the shade was cool. A cloud rose in the sky, and passed in a light shower that pattered on the leaves, and I felt its freshness dropping into my soul, and I felt in all my being the delicious fragrance of the earth and the grass and the plants and the rich brown soil. I could have sobbed with joy, but in the midst of it I heard the sound of footsteps, and looked behind me quickly, to see the figure of one of the two idiots, who lived in a hovel outside the village, approaching. This was the man; there was a woman also, his sister. He was perfectly harmless, and he drew near now with smiles meant to be ingratiating. He held an empty pipe in his hand, and made guttural noises that I knew were asking me for tobacco. I told him I had none, but he would not go away. He stood right over me, a grin on his deformed face. The big, misshapen head, the horrible, slobbering mouth, the stupid persistence, all filled me with a cold rage. He had spoiled


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Rh those that are stationary having awnings spread over their decks, and their port-holes left open, to keep them as cool as possible in the great heat. A great many small steamers were moving to and fro, across the harbour, there being several small towns on the side opposite the city: so that the scene was not wanting in animated as well as still life. Altogether it forms such a combination of everything that can constitute earthly magnificence, that it is considered the ne plus ultra of the world.

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Rh of the night. Twenty-nine of the leading citizen—one being General Flores' brother—remained at the cabille all night to guard it, and in the morning they were all found dead of cholera. Thus, wholesale murder, and cholera raging on every side, made a very unpleasing variety after England.

The troops bivouacked on the grass in the centre of the large plazza; the matrise, or cathedral, being on one side and the cabille on the other. The military band was playing in the evening, and the townspeople sauntering up and down in the walks under the avenues of trees. The black and swarthy savage Paraguayan soldiery had lit fires, and were cooking their meat on upright spits over the fires; and the whole scene, after the butchery of the day, presented a curious aspect, the soldiery being in whitish-coloured regimentals, and giving anything but a sense of security to a beholder.

On the body of one of the conspirators a list was found of sixty-eight persons who were to have been assassinated, including the whole of the senate and two of the principal English residents. The troops returned from the country on the 20th February, after cutting to pieces 150 of the Blanco army; and yet the same evening thirty-one of these troops died from cholera, brought on from fatigue, drink, and heat. The guard ships of the different nations sent their marines ashore to guard the custom house, ambassadors, and merchants' houses. It being impossible to leave the city, I was forced to remain and listen to the fearful accounts of both bloodshed and pestilence that reached me from every quarter. It appeared that two former

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42 TRAVELS IN URUGUAY. a hill on the right of the entrance; with the custom houses and warehouses on the lower parts adjoining the quay. There were about 1000 vessels in the harbour, none of any size. The national guard ships were lying out from five to ten miles off.

As we approached the landing-place there seemed to be a great deal of excitement among the people; while the flags of different European nations were hoisted over the custom houses and chief buildings. It appeared that Edwardo Flores, the son of the president, had seized the fort which lies at the lower part of the city near the water, with some of the troops, and had just before been compelled to evacuate it, by the French and English, who had restored it to Flores again. This it will be seen connects itself with what shortly occurred.

I stayed eighteen days in Monte Video, and saw many things that gave me no prepossessing idea of the place or people, nor of the governments of these South American cities. In the first place the cholera had made, and was still making, most frightful ravages. The accounts also from the city and camp of Buenos Ayres were awful. In that city people were carried off by thousands; 18,400 having been computed to have perished in it. Nearly half the inhabitants of the city had fled into the camp there to avoid it. In that camp it became even worse, in many places no one being left to bury the dead; and pigs were eating the bodies. Sheep, cattle, and horses. were scattered over the whole country, their owners having all perished by cholera. Numbers of children, whose parents had died, were found crowded together, in a starving state, in the sheep corals. A gentleman

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8 Englishman, in spite of his native politeness, he was sure to be joked, and annoyed with personal remarks; the inborn dislike of an Englishman to a Frenchman giving itself vent in such terms.

Two old sea captains, both of them English, had an argament which they resuacitated from day to day, as opportunity offered, about the great sea-serpent; the one considering it a veracity, the other a myth. I had for- gotten the story, from its having occurred so long ago. Suffice it to say that, at the time it happened, an account of it, with a picture of the serpent, speeding along with its head raised out of the water, was thought worthy of being recorded and illustrated in the Penny Magazine of that period. .

In the feud that repeatedly ensued. on the question between these sea captains, I sat quiet, merely putting questions which were home thrusts to each side; appearing to be only a philosophic inquirer after truth, desiring to acquire facts, and to gain the fullest confirmation. The consequence was, that I became an involuntary judge on the occasion, both parties, like barristers, directing their arguments to me, as their common focus; each again and again returning to the charge; and that without requiring constant “refreshers,” to stimulate their zeal. I, of course, was the most edified, if not highly amused, of the party.

The advocate for the truth of the vision of this great serpent thus stated bis case.‘‘As one of Her Majesty's ships was sailing in the South Atlantic an enormous serpent was seen to rise from the surface, It passed close te the vessel, with its head and neck some fifteen feet out of the water, at a rapid pace. Its supposed length was

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146 THE ALLEGED PROOF OF PARALLELISM FROM THE CONSERVATION OF ENERGY.

THE earlier protagonists of the doctrine of psycho-physical parallelism were content to rest their case upon a rather complicated argument from general analogy. The theory pre- sented itself as an hypothesis which seemed to be demanded by the continuity between reflex action and conscious voluntary action, and by the known facts of mental pathology. Its general accord with some of the most vital tendencies of scientific thought, as well as its simplicity and elegance from a philosophic standpoint, were additional reasons for its acceptance. But since its practical adoption as the working hypothesis of modern psy- chology, a more summary method of proof has become fashion- able. Like many scientific points of view originally established by careful induction, it has become an @ priori principle. We are now told that it follows necessarily from the principle of the conservation of energy, and to doubt it is to doubt the “grandest generalization of modern science.” Into this argu- ment it is my purpose to inquire. It will be my endeavor not merely to expose the fallacy of the bare argument as given, but, if possible, to make the discussion more psychological—to get at the real origin of this curious belief. I shall make my best effort to get at, and answer, the real thought that underlies the argu- ment, and not merely the argument itself as it stands. If I do not succeed in doing full justice to the supporters of the view, it will not be from failure to make every effort to see the problem as they see it. I trust then, whatever else I may be accused of, I shall not be accused of wilfully misrepresenting the argument I am attacking.

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TRAVELS IN URUGUAY. 43 who had been there told me that flocks of sheep had been offered him at fourpence per head, so great was the terror that had seized the people living there. A total, with those that died in the city, of 70,000 deaths was reported; though the exact number can never be known.

In Monte Video, where upwards of 4000 died, the heat was very great, and the doctors were called up at night many times to attend persons who were seized with cholera and were dying in every direction. You could see every morning placed at the corners of the streets the clothes of persons who had died in the night, which, having been set on fire, were still smouldering, in lots of three or four, scattered about. Tar barrels were burnt in every street by night, to dissipate the infection. There seemed to be with the natives an extreme reluctance to take the remedies that were prescribed; and by a strange infatuation they prevented medicines being administered to their dying relatives. And this was independent of the great unwillingness to take any means of cure that is so peculiar to persons that are seized with cholera. No vegetables or fruit were permitted to be sold in the market; and no fish was eaten, as it was supposed to have fed on the floating carcases of those that had died of the cholera. I heard afterwards of an Englishman in the camp having been asked to take out of a poesta, or shepherd's hut, the corpse of a person who had died from this complaint, because the natives themselves were afraid to touch the body. They offered him "an ounce" to do this-about £3. 2s. He accordingly got upon his horse, opened the door of the house, and threw in his lasso round the neck of the dead man in bed. The horse

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Rh Slaves Coaling the Ship-Degradation—Landing—See Emperor—Tichuga, and its Falls—Approach to it—The Town Gardens—Peixeboy Fish—Beggars on Horseback—Dangers of Sleeping in Open Air—Botanic Gardens-Fine Palm Avenue—Insects—Humming Birds-Ascend the Corcovada—Incidents by the Way— Wonderful Scenery — Nocturnal Annoyances of Tropical Climates—Misnomer—Accounts of Cholera—Embark in Arno for Monte Video.

We slowly steamed up the harbour for about three miles, and were boarded by the officials of the Customs House, and by officers of the different men of war, for news from Europe, &c., &c. And then we took up our position at the coaling island, as it is called, a mile and a-half from the landing-place in the city.

Here we see what it is to be hoped are the last remains of slavery; and they give any one that witnesses them an idea of what slavery must formerly have been, in its worse forms. A gang of fifty slaves were employed to remove a pile of coals from a platform into our steamer. The men were most scantily dressed with very short canvas drawers, and a shirt of the same material, but more like a waist-coat. Each man had to carry coals of about fifty pounds weight in a basket on his head; and before he passed along the plank into the ship, had to step once on an iron slab, as I suppose to register the proceeding.

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Rh about a quarter of a mile, “more or less,’” as Moore’s Almanac says about rain, on nearly every day of the month, It was distinctly and closely seen by the officers and ship’s company of the vessel; and, what is more, the occurrence was solemnly entered on the log of Her Majesty’s said ship, and waa attested to by all the crew. And this was the clencher to the argument “pro.” How was it possible or likely that a captain of a man-of-war would enter this on the log of his ship, if it was a fancy, and run the risk of being hauled over the coals? A merchant vessel also claimed to have seen it about the same time. Ancient reports of the same sort have existed; though highly embellished. At all events this one was considered worthy of note, by the promoters of the said magazine, whith at that time was considered as one of the early attempts to educate the popular mind.

The reply brought against its truth the other captain was, that he had seen, and taken up out of the sea, great long shaggy pieces of seaweed, 50-—100 feet long, which, when tossed about by the waves, had all the appearance of a great serpent; for which this one might have been mistaken.

Another subject of discussion brought forward was the actual height of waves in a storm. I have heard | it said by old sailors that no wave is ever more than fifteen feet perpendicular—that is to say from a dead level. Allowing fifteen feet for the rise of a wave, and fifteen feet for its fall, would make thirty feet of apparent height from top to bottom of a wave. An obser- vation however was made of a case that far exceeded this, Two midshipmen were in the cross-trees of the mainmasts of

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 At night, and especially from being in the suburbs, we could not escape from the annoyances that are peculiar to a hot climate. The frogs made a continued loud chirping, one appearing to be the chief speaker, while the rest repeated the din, nntil you were wearied out. Doubtless their notes conveyed ideas that were understood by them, but they were so often repeated (as people meeting at home make observations about the weather) that you knew what the last speakers would say as well as the first, uptil in half-sleep the noise seemed like a pulse beating in your ear.

Mosquitoes, of course, find you out and creep in at the smallest opening left in the muslin curtain; and after you have exterminated every one inside, and you think you may be at rest, the same buzz and twinge awaken you. You strike a light, and administer the like destruction to them again and again; till fairly worn out at last, and driven to

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10 two line-of-battle ships, one in each, in a violent storm; and they observed thai when each vessel was at the same time in the trough of the waves, they could neither of them see the other.Allowing that seventy feet is the height of the mainmast of such a ship, 55—60 feet must have been the elevation of the wave between them at the moment referred to.

These discussions,however, as to fact and fiction, served to pass away the time, though at the cost of the re- spective combatants, There was on board the vessel a party of Germans, another of Portuguese and of Spaniards, and a small oné of English, the steamers not being so full of passengers at that time of year. Each party exclusively kept to itself. We took on board two Spanish priests. The one locked sour, sallow, cun- ning and suspicious. He seemed evidently to have practiced seclusion, and perhaps maceration; with a good deal of the gloomy fur aégue sacerdos about him. The other was a perfect contrast—wrinkled and aged, but active and courteous in manner. He wore a small black net cap, instead of a hat, that was continually falling off, and was as often picked up by some one else, and blandly offered to him, at which he seemed highly pleased. There was also a portly Portuguese baroness, and her daughter, who looked more like her sister, and who gave herself great importance, which seemed granted to her by her countrymen. And last, not least, there was a tall mulatto female slave, dressed in white muslin, mixed with light grass-green, that “varie- gated,” as some one said, the group amazingly. In hot countnes the women are never skeletons. They are

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 Grenville, Edward (Greenvile), s. Richard, of Wootton Underwood, Bucks, arm. ., matric. 25 Nov., 1631, aged 16; of Foxcot, Bucks, bar.-at-law, Inner Temple, 1640; born 12 Sept., 1614; died 17 April, 1661; brother of Francis same date, father of George 1666, and of Edward next-named. See Foster's Judges and Barristers.  Grenville, Edward (Greenvile), gent. ., matric. 12 Dec., 1654; a student of Inner Temple, 1657, as of Foscott, Bucks; brother of George 1666. See Foster's Inns of Court Reg.  Grenville, Francis (Greenvile), s. Richard, of Wootton Underwood, Bucks, arm. ., matric. 25 Nov., 1631, aged 17; student of Inner Temple 1632; died unmarried 1636; brother of Edward same date. See Foster's Inns of Court Reg.  Grenville, Francis (Greenvile), s. Richard, of Marlborowe, Wilts, pleb. ., matric. 5 April, 1639, aged 16.  Grenville, George (Granfield or Grainvill), of, B.C.L. 12 July 1568, sup. for D.C.L. 21 July, 1573.  [5]

Grenvill, (Sir) George, of Cornwall. ., matric. 31 Oct., 1600, aged 15 (as arm.); sup. for B.A. 22 Oct., 1602 (s. George), knighted 23 July, 1603.  Grenville, George (Greenvile), s. Edw., of Foscott, Bucks, arm. ., matric. 30 March, 1666, aged 17; student of Inner Temple 1669; died June, 1693; brother of Edward 1654. See Foster's Inns of Court Reg.  Grenville, John (Graynfyld or Grenfild); B.A. (sup. 20 Jan.), 1528-9, M.A. 24 June, 1532.

Grenville, John, earl of Bath, created M.A. from 28 Sept., 1663 (s. Sir Bevill), knighted at Bristol 3 Aug., 1643 (or 8 Dec., 1648), governor of the Scilly Isles 1650-1, groom of the stole, etc., to Charles II. 1660-85, created Baron Granville, etc., and earl of Bath 20 April, 1661, privy councillor 1663; died 22 Aug., 1701; father of John 1706. See ''Dicty. Natl. Biography''.

Grenville, John, born in London, s. John, earl of Bath. , matric. 12 March, 1679-80, aged 15; created D.C.L. 26 April, 1706, M.P. Launceston 1685-7, Plymouth (July), 1689-98, Newport 1698-1700, Fowey 1700-1, Cornwall 1701, until created Baron Granville of Potheridge 10 March, 1702-3, privy councillor 1701, a colonel in the guards, lord warden of the Stannaries; died 3 Dec., 1707. See Foster's Parliamentary Dictionary.
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Grenvill, Richard, of Oxon, gent. , matric. 2 July, 1585, aged 17 (s. Richard, of Wotton, Bucks); born 10 Sept., 1567; buried at Wotton 8 April, 1618; brother of Edward same date, and father of Edward 1631.

Grenvile, Richard, s. Bevill, of Stow, Cornwall, arm. , matric. 13 April, 1638, aged 16; baptised at Tremere in Lanteglos 25 March, 1621; brother of John 1663, etc.

Grenville, William (Greenvill), 1s. Christopher, of Preston, co. Lancaster, equitis. ., matric. 13 July, 1697, aged 15.

Gresbrooke, Richard, of Notts, pleb., ., matric. 15 Oct., 1590, aged 18; B.A. 30 Oct., 1594, M.A. 6 July, 1598 (then in orders), vicar of Bethersden, Kent, 1598. See Foster's Index Eccl.

Gresham, (Sir) Charles, s. Marm., of Titsey, Surrey, equitis & bart. ., matric. 31 May, 1677, aged 17, B.A. 1 Feb., 1680-1; M.A. from 1683; 3rd bart., professor of rhetoric in Gresham College 1686-96, F.R.S. 1688-99, born at New Hall, Limpsfield, 30 May, 1660; died at Titsey 28 March, 1718; brother of Marmaduke 1674.
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Gresham, Edward, of Oxon, gent. ., matric. 2 March, 1591-2, aged 16.

Gresham, (Sir) Edward, born in London, militis fil. ., matric. 6 July, 1604, aged 14; B.A. 12 June, 1607, a student of the Inner Temple 1609, as of Limpsfield, Surrey (2s. Sir Thomas), one of the king's body guard, knighted at Theobalds 12 Nov., 1617, gentleman pensioner 1618; died 2 Jan., 1647-8; father of Thomas 1632. See Foster's Inns of Court Reg.

Gresham, (Sir) John, of Kent, militis fil. nat. max. ., matric. 6 July, 1604, aged 15; student of Inner Temple 1607, as of Limpsfield, Surrey (s. Sir Thomas), knighted at Hampton Court 8 Feb., 1616, sheriff of Surrey 1639; died at Titsey 26 May, 1643; brother of the last-named. See Foster's Inns of Court Reg.

Gresham, Marmaduke, s. M., of Titsey, Surrey, bart. ., matric. 21 May, 1674, aged 16; died in London 1679-80, buried in the Savoy; brother of Charles.

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Gresham, Thomas, of Surrey, militis fil. ., matric. 1 July, 1608, aged 15; 'of the Chart' (s. Sir Thomas, of Titsey, Surrey); brother of John 1604, and Edward 1604, and father of Thomas 1638.

Gresham, Thomas, s. Edward, of Brockham, Surrey, militis. ., matric. 9 Nov., 1632, aged 17; died in the Fleet, and buried at St. Faith's, London, 6 Jan., 1654-5.

Gresham, Thomas, s. Thomas, of Limpsfield, Surrey, gent. ., matric. 15 June, 1638, aged 18.

Gresham, (Sir) William, of in or before 1572, student of Gray's Inn 1577, as of Staple Inn; (s. William, of Titsey, Surrey), knighted at Whitehall 23 July, 1603, M.P. Norfolk 1586-7; died at Croydon, 8 May, 1624, aged 69; brother of Thomas. See Foster's Gray's Inn Reg.

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Gresley, Francis, s. H., of Severn Stoke, co. Worcester, gent. (subs. cler.), matric. 23 March, 1690-91, aged 16; B.A. 1694, M.A. 1697, rector of Strensham, co. Worcester, 1706, until his death in 1773. See Foster's Index Eccl.

Gresley, (Sir) George, of co. Derby. ., matric. Nov., 1594, aged 14, as arm.; student of Inner Temple 1598, as of Drakelow, co. Derby (s. Sir Thomas), said to have been knighted, created a baronet 29 June, 1611, M.P. Newcastle-under-Lyne 1628-9; buried in the Temple church 5 Feb., 1650-1; brother of Henry 1594, and John 1598, and of Walsingham and William. See Foster's Inns of Court Reg.

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Gresley, Henry s. John, of Shrewsbury, Salop, gent. , matric. 1 Sept., 1634, aged 17; student 1634-48, B.A. 11 April, 1638, M.A. 8 July, 1641, incorporated at Cambridge 1651, rector of Severn Stoke, co. Worcester, 1661, and prebendary of Worcester 1672 until his death, 8 June, 1680; father of Francis. See Ath. iii. 1167; Foster's Index Eccl.; Alumni West. 107; Burrows, 486; & D.N.B.
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44 TRAVELS IN URUGUAY. then hauled out the body, and it was dropped into the grave prepared for it. For this disease is contagious, as well as infections.

In the midst of this frightful scourge that existed in the city of Monte Video a revolution suddenly took place.

At two o'clock, on February 19th, as I was returning from a walk through the streets from the westward part of the city, I saw the people evidently communicating something to each other, and others running in an excited mauner, hurrying to close their shop windows. At the same time I heard repeated musket firing in the direction of the fort.

The political parties in the country had been for long divided into two factions, the whites and reds-Blancoes, and Coloradoes. A conspiracy had been formed by the Blanco party, both outside and inside the city, to oust the Coloradoes, and bring in their own representative, it being now the time for a new election to the presidency. Tidings of this had secretly reached the Government about a week before I arrived, and because Flores the president disregarded and disbelieved it, his son Edwardo had taken upon him to seize the fort to protect his father from the adverse party. It is to this that I referred in mentioning the excited appearance of the city on my first landing. The plan of the conspirators outside the city (headed by Berro a former president when the Blancoes were in power) was to assassinate Flores, and seize the Government. Their attempt first commenced by the sending up rockets, as a signal, outside the city, and murdering all the Colorado comandoes in the country round it. The Blanco party

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Berro, the leader of the Blancoes, went with about a dozen of his party to the fort to seize it, expecting the Paraguayan soldiers there immediately to desert to him and join him. He shot two of the soldiers that opposed him, but was soon mastered, with his party, some of whom succeeded in escaping by a boat to some vessel in the harbour. Flores' son, Edwardo, who was quite a youth, came up to Berro in the fort, and without suffering him to excuse himself by saying that "if he had not taken the lead, his own party would have assassinated him," nor permitting him to divulge who his confederates were first embraced Berro, who was a fine old grey headed and mild-looking man, and had been his former friend; then, drawing back, he drew his revolver and shot him dead. So much for style in Spanish tragedy.

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 at her a moment, as if to collect the sense of her words. She repeated them, and only bending his head, as an indication that he understood her, he entered the apartment, the door of which she pointed out to him. It was a small bed-chamber, used, as she informed him, by Lord Evandale when a guest at Fairy-knowe, connecting, on one side, with a little china-cabinet which opened to the garden, and, on the other, with a saloon, from which it was only separated by a thin wainscot partition. Having wished the stranger better health and good rest, Jenny descended as speedily as she could to her own mansion.

"O, Cuddie!" she exclaimed to her helpmate as she entered, "I doubt we're ruined folk!"

"How can that be? What's the matter wi' ye?" returned the imperturbed Cuddie, who was one of those persons who do not easily take alarm at any thing.

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Rh of the group of plane trees where they were to have their meal.

Even in England those trees would have been remarkable, so huge were they, so interlaced, so magnificently clothed in quivering green. And here in Greece they were unique, the one cool spot in that hard brilliant landscape, already scorched by the heat of an April sun. In their midst was hidden a tiny Khan or country inn, a frail mud building with a broad wooden balcony in which sat an old woman spinning, while a small brown pig, eating orange peel, stood beside her. On the wet earth below squatted two children, playing some primaeval game with their fingers; and their mother, none too clean either, was messing with some rice inside. As Mrs. Forman would have said, it was all very Greek, and the fastidious Mr. Lucas felt thankful that they were bringing their own food with them, and should eat it in the open air.

Still, he was glad to be there—the muleteer had helped him off—and glad that Mrs. Forman was not there to forestall his opinions—glad even that he should not see Ethel for quite half an hour. Ethel was his youngest daughter, still unmarried. She was unselfish and affectionate,


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Rh and it was generally understood that she was to devote her life to her father, and be the comfort of his old age. Mrs. Forman always referred to her as Antigone, and Mr. Lucas tried to settle down to the role of Oedipus, which seemed the only one that public opinion allowed him.

He had this in common with Oedipus, that he was growing old. Even to himself it had become obvious. He had lost interest in other people's affairs, and seldom attended when they spoke to him. He was fond of talking himself but often forgot what he was going to say, and even when he succeeded, it seldom seemed worth the effort. His phrases and gestures had become stiff and set, his anecdotes, once so successful, fell flat, his silence was as meaningless as his speech. Yet he had led a healthy, active life, had worked steadily, made money, educated his children. There was nothing and no one to blame: he was simply growing old.

At the present moment, here he was in Greece, and one of the dreams of his life was realized. Forty years ago he had caught the fever of Hellenism, and all his life he had felt that could he but visit that land, he would not have lived in vain. But Athens had been dusty,


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Rh Delphi wet, Thermopylae flat, and he had listened with amazement and cynicism to the rapturous exclamations of his companions. Greece was like England: it was a man who was growing old, and it made no difference whether that man looked at the Thames or the Eurotas. It was his last hope of contradicting that logic of experience, and it was failing.

Yet Greece had done something for him, though he did not know it. It had made him discontented, and there are stirrings of life in discontent. He knew that he was not the victim of continual ill-luck. Something great was wrong, and he was pitted against no mediocre or accidental enemy. For the last month a strange desire had possessed him to die fighting.

"Greece is the land for young people," he said to himself as he stood under the plane trees, "but I will enter into it, I will possess it. Leaves shall be green again, water shall be sweet, the sky shall be blue. They were so forty years ago, and I will win them back. I do mind being old, and I will pretend no longer."

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 O, that ever ye suld hae asked him to light here!" exclaimed Jenny.

"Why, wha the muckle de'il d'ye say he is? There's nae law against harbouring and intercommunicating now," said Caddie; "sae, whig or tory, what need we care what he be?"

"Ay, but it's ahe will ding Lord Evandale's marriage ajee yet, if it's no the better looked to," said Jenny; "it's Miss Edith's first joe, your ain auld master, Cuddie."

"The de'il, woman!" exclaimed Cuddie, starting up, "trow ye that I am blind? I wad hae kein'd Mr Harry Morton amning a hunder."

"Ay, but, Guddie lad," replied Jenny, "though ye are no blind; ye are no sae notice-taking as I am."

"Weel, what for needs ye cast that up to me just now? or what did ye see about the man that was like our Maister Harry?"

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Rh asked himself. "I do not even know that." He remembered that all the hill sides were dry; yet here the road was suddenly covered with flowing streams.

He stopped still in amazement, saying: "Water out of a tree—out of a hollow tree? I never saw nor thought of that before."

For the enormous plane that leant towards the Khan was hollow—it had been burnt out for charcoal—and from its living trunk there gushed an impetuous spring, coating the bark with fern and moss, and flowing over the mule track to create fertile meadows beyond. The simple country folk had paid to beauty and mystery such tribute as they could, for in the rind of the tree a shrine was cut, holding a lamp and a little picture of the Virgin, inheritor of the Naiad's and Dryad's joint abode.

"I never saw anything so marvellous before," said Mr. Lucas. "I could even step inside the trunk and see where the water comes from."

For a moment he hesitated to violate the shrine. Then he remembered with a smile his own thought—"the place shall be mine; I will enter it and possess it"—and leapt almost aggressively on to a stone within.

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Rh from the hollow roots and hidden crevices of the plane, forming a wonderful amber pool ere it spilt over the lip of bark on to the earth outside. Mr. Lucas tasted it and it was sweet, and when he looked up the black funnel of the trunk he saw sky which was blue, and some leaves which were green; and he remembered, without smiling, another of his thoughts.

Others had been before him—indeed he had a curious sense of companionship. Little votive offerings to the presiding Power were fastened on to the bark—tiny arms and legs and eyes in tin, grotesque models of the brain or the heart—all tokens of some recovery of strength or wisdom or love. There was no such thing as the solitude of nature for the sorrows and joys of humanity had pressed even into the bosom of a tree. He spread out his arms and steadied himself against the soft charred wood, and then slowly leant back, till his body was resting on the trunk behind. His eyes closed, and he had the strange feeling of one who is moving, yet at peace—the feeling of the swimmer, who, after long struggling with chopping seas, finds that after all the tide will sweep him to his goal.

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 his keeping his face frae us, and speaking wi' a made-ike voice, sae I e'en tried him wi' some tales & lang syne, and when I spake of the brose, ye ken, he didna just laugh—he's ower grave for that now-a-days,—but he gae a gledge wi' his e'e that I kenn'd he took up what I said. And a his distress is about Miss Edith's marriage, and I ne'er saw a man mair tane down wi' true love in my days—I might say man or woman—only I mind how ill Miss Edith was when she first gat word that him and you (ye muckle graceless loon) were coming against Tillietudlem wi' the rebels.—But what's the matter wi' the man now?"

"What's the matter wi' me, indeed!" said Cuddie, who was again hastily putting on some of the garments he had stripped himself of, am I no gaun up this instant to see my maister?"

"Indeed, Cuddie, ye are gaun nae sic gate," said Jenny, coolly and resolutely.

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Rh stream below his feet, and that all things were a stream, in which he was moving.

He was aroused at last by a shock—the shock of an arrival perhaps, for when he opened his eyes, something unimagined, indefinable, had passed over all things, and made them intelligible and good.

There was meaning in the stoop of the old woman over her work, and in the quick motions of the little pig, and in her diminishing globe of wool. A young man came singing over the streams on a mule, and there was beauty in his pose and sincerity in his greeting. The sun made no accidental patterns upon the spreading roots of the trees, and there was intention in the nodding clumps of asphodel, and in the music of the water. To Mr. Lucas, who, in a brief space of time, had discovered not only Greece, but England and all the world and life, there seemed nothing ludicrous in the desire to hang within the tree another votive offering—a little model of an entire man.

"Why, here's papa, playing at being Merlin."

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 "d'ye think I am to be John Tamson's man, and maistered by women a' the days o' my life?"

"And wha's man wad ye be? And wha wad ye hae to maister ye but me, Cuddie lad?" answered Jenny. "I'll gar ye comprehend in the making of a hay-band. Naebody kens that this young gentleman lives but oursels, and frae that he keeps himsel up sae close, I am judging that he's purposing, if he fand Miss Edith either married, or just gaun to be married, he wad just slide awa' easy and gi'e them nae mair trouble.—But if Miss Edith kenn'd that he was living, and if she were standing before the very minister wi' Lord Evandale when it was tauld to her, she wad say no when she suld say yes."

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Rh familiar, and all that they did seemed strained and coarse.

"Allow me to give you a hand," said Mr. Graham, a young man who was always polite to his elders.

Mr. Lucas felt annoyed. "Thank you, I can manage perfectly well by myself," he replied. His foot slipped as he stepped out of the tree, and went into the spring.

"Oh papa, my papa!" said Ethel, "what are you doing? Thank goodness I have got a change for you on the mule."

She tended him carefully, giving him clean socks and dry boots, and then sat him down on the rug beside the lunch basket, while she went with the others to explore the grove.

They came back in ecstasies, in which Mr. Lucas tried to join. But he found them intolerable. Their enthusiasm was superficial, commonplace, and spasmodic. They had no perception of the coherent beauty was flowering around them. He tried at least to explain his feelings, and what he said was:

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 aye threeps he had a promise frae yoursel."

"Halliday's 'a liar, and ye're a gomeril to hearken till him, Cuddie. And then for this leddy's choice, lack-a-day!—ye may be sure a' the gowd Mr Morton has is on the outside o' his coat, and how can he keep Leddy Margaret and the young leddy?"

"Isna there Milnwood?" said Cuddie. "Nae doubt, the auld laird left his housekeeper the life-rent as he heard nought o' his nephew; but it's but speaking the auld wife fair, and they may a' live brawly thegither, Leddy Margaret and a."

"Hout tout, lad," replied Jenny, "ye ken them little to think leddies o' their rank wad set up house wi' auld Ailie. Wilson, when they're maist ower proud to tak favours frae Lord Evandale himsel. Na, na, they maun follow the camp, if she tak Morton."

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Rh of clear running water. The people too seem kindly and civil. It is decidedly an attractive place."

Mrs. Forman upbraided him for his tepid praise.

"Oh, it is a place in a thousand!" she cried "I could live and die here! I really would stop if I had not to be back at Athens! It reminds me of the Colonus of Sophocles."

"Well, I must stop," said Ethel. "I positively must."

"Yes, do! You and your father! Antigone and Oedipus. Of course you must stop at Colonus!"

Mr. Lucas was almost breathless with excitement. When he stood within the tree, he had believed that his happiness would be independent of locality. But these few minutes' conversation had undeceived him. He no longer trusted himself to journey through the world, for old thoughts, old wearinesses might be waiting to rejoin him as soon as he left the shade of the planes, and the music of the virgin water. To sleep in the Khan with the gracious, kind-eyed country people, to watch the bats flit about within the globe of shade, and see the moon turn the golden patterns into silver—one such night would place him beyond relapse,


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Rh and confirm him for ever in the kingdom he had regained. But all his lips could say was: "I should be willing to put in a night here."

"You mean a week, papa! It would be sacrilege to put in less."

"A week then, a week," said his lips, irritated at being corrected, while his heart was leaping with joy. All through lunch he spoke to them no more, but watched the place he should know so well, and the people who would so soon be his companions and friends. The inmates of the Khan only consisted of an old woman, a middle-aged woman, a young man and two children, and to none of them had he spoken, yet he loved them as he loved everything that moved or breathed or existed beneath the benedictory shade of the planes.

"En route!" said the shrill voice of Mrs. Forman. "Ethel! Mr. Graham! The best of things must end."

"To-night," thought Mr. Lucas, "they will light the little lamp by the shrine. And when we all sit together on the balcony, perhaps they will tell me which offerings they put up."

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Rh Mr. Lucas got up, saying to himself: "Ethel shall go to bed first, and then I will try to tell them about my offering too—for it is a thing I must do. I think they will understand if I am left with them alone."

Ethel touched him on the cheek. "Papa! I've called you three times. All the mules are here."

"Mules? What mules?"

"Our mules. We're all waiting. Oh, Mr. Graham, do help my father on."

"I don't know what you're talking about, Ethel."

"My dearest papa, we must start. You know we have to get to Olympia to-night."

Mr. Lucas in pompous, confident tones replied: "I always did wish, Ethel, that you had a better head for plans. You know perfectly well that we are putting in a week here. It is your own suggestion."

Ethel was startled into impoliteness. "What a perfectly ridiculous idea. You must have known I was joking. Of course I meant I wished we could."

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 ty win ower a lang day in the baggage, wain."

"Then sic a flyting as there wad be between them a' about whig and tory," continued Jenny.

"To be sure," said Couldie, "tho awid leddy's unco kittle in the points."

"And then, Caddie," continued his helpmate, who had reserved her strongest argument to the last, "if tha marriage wi' Lord Evandale is broken off, what comes o' our ain bit free-house, and the kale-yard, and the cow's grass?—I trow that us and thae bonny bairns will be turned on the wide warld."

Here Jenny began to whimper—Cuddie writhed himself this way and that way, the very picture of indecision. At length, "Weel, woman, canna ye tell us what we suld do, without a' this din about it?"

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Rh "Surely," Ethel continued in calmer tones, "you didn't think I meant it."

"Most certainly I did. I have made all my plans on the supposition that we are stopping here, and it will be extremely inconvenient, indeed, impossible for me to start."

He delivered this remark with an air of great conviction, and Mrs. Forman and Mr. Graham had to turn away to hide their smiles.

"I am sorry I spoke so carelessly; it was wrong of me. But, you know, we can't break up our party, and even one night here would make us miss the boat at Patras."

Mrs. Forman, in an aside, called Mr. Graham's attention to the excellent way in which Ethel managed her father.

"I don't mind about the Patras boat. You said that we should stop here, and we are stopping."

It seemed as if the inhabitants of the Khan had divined in some mysterious way that the altercation touched them. The old woman stopped her spinning, while the young man and the two children stood behind Mr. Lucas, as if supporting him.

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Rh aright. What need had he to return to England? Who would miss him? His friends were dead or cold. Ethel loved him in a way, but, as was right, she had other interests. His other children he seldom saw. He had only one other relative, his sister Julia, whom he both feared and hated. It was no effort to struggle. He would be a fool as well as a coward if he stirred from the place which brought him happiness and peace.

At last Ethel, to humour him, and not disinclined to air her modern Greek, went into the Khan with the astonished dragoman to look at the rooms. The woman inside received them with loud welcomes, and the young man, when no one was looking, began to lead Mr. Lucas' mule to the stable.

"Drop it, you brigand!" shouted Graham, who always declared that foreigners could understand English if they chose. He was right, for the man obeyed, and they all stood waiting for Ethel's return.

She emerged at last, with close-gathered skirts, followed by the dragoman bearing the little pig, which he had bought at a bargain.

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Rh "Are there—fleas?" asked Mrs. Forman.

Ethel intimated that "fleas" was not the word.

"Well, I am afraid that settles it," said Mrs. Forman, "I know how particular Mr. Lucas is."

"It does not settle it," said Mr. Lucas. "Ethel, you go on. I do not want you. I don't know why I ever consulted you. I shall stop here alone."

"That is absolute nonsense," said Ethel, losing her temper. "How can you be left alone at your age? How would you get your meals or your bath? All your letters are waiting for you at Patras. You'll miss the boat. That means missing the London operas, and upsetting all your engagements for the month. And as if you could travel by yourself!"

"They might knife you," was Mr. Graham's contribution.

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 that he would have been here or up at the house.—An' I had kenn'd I wad hae gi'en him my ain bed, and sleepit in the byre or he had gave up by, but it canna be helpit sow. The neist thing's to get him cannily awa' the morn, and I judge he'll be in nae harry to come back again."

"My pair maister!" said Cuddie; "and maun I mo speak to him, then?"

"For your life, no,” said Jenny; "ye're no obliged to ken him; and I wadna hae tauld ye, only I feared ye wad ken him in the morning."

"Aweel," said Caddie, sighing heavily, "I'se awa' to pleugh the outfield then; for, if I am no to speak to him, I wud rather be out o' the gate."

"Very right, my dear," replied Jenny; "naebody has better sense than you when ye crack a bit wi' ane ower your affairs, but ya suld ne'er do ony thing aff hand out o' your ain head."

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Rh gigantic proportions, and he believed that he was not merely stopping because he had regained youth or seen beauty or found happiness, but because in, that place and with those people a supreme event was awaiting him which would transfigure the face of the world. The moment was so tremendous that he abandoned words and arguments as useless, and rested on the strength of his mighty unrevealed allies: silent men, murmuring water, and whispering trees. For the whole place called with one voice, articulate to him, and his garrulous opponents became every minute more meaningless and absurd. Soon they would be tired and go chattering away into the sun, leaving him to the cool grove and the moonlight and the destiny he foresaw.

Mrs. Forman and the dragoman had indeed already started, amid the piercing screams of the little pig, and the struggle might have gone on indefinitely if Ethel had not called in Mr. Graham.

"Can you help me?" she whispered. "He is absolutely unmanageable."

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 quean or another, to gar me gang their gate instead o' my ain. There was first my mother," he continued, as he undressed and tumbled himself into bed"—than there was Leddy Margaret didna let me ca my soul my ain-than my mother and her quarrelled, and pu'ed me twa ways at ance; as if ilk ane had an end o' me, like Punch and the Deevil rugging about the Baker: at the fair—and now I hae gotten a wife," he murmured in continuation, as he stowed the blankets around his person, "and she's like to tak the guiding o' me a' thegither."

"And am na I the best guide ye ever had in a' your life?" said Jenny, as she closed the conversation by assuming her place beside her husband, and extinguishing the candle.

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Rh Ethel hesitated. Then she said: "Help me in any way you can. After all, it is for his good that we do it."

"Then have his mule led up behind him."

So when Mr. Lucas thought he had gained the day, he suddenly felt himself lifted off the ground, and sat sideways on the saddle, and at the same time the mule started off at a trot. He said nothing, for he had nothing to say, and even his face showed little emotion as he felt the shade pass and heard the sound of the water cease. Mr. Graham was running at his side, hat in hand, apologizing.

"I know I had no business to do it, and I do beg your pardon awfully. But I do hope that some day you too will feel that I was—damn!"

A stone had caught him in the middle of the back. It was thrown by the little boy, who was pursuing them along the mule track. He was followed by his sister, also throwing stones.

Ethel screamed to the dragoman, who was some way ahead with Mrs. Forman, but before he could rejoin them, another adversary appeared. It was the young Greek, who had cut them off in front, and now dashed down at Mr. Lucas' bridle. Fortunately Graham was an expert boxer, and it did not take him a


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448 1. G. filipes, Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxviii. (1896) 536.—A small annual herb 1–3 in. high; stems slender, erect, simple or branched from the base, sparingly leafy. Leaves mostly cauline, few, small, ⅙–⅓ in. long, oblong- or obovate-spathulate, obtuse or subacute, sessile or the lower ones narrowed into short flat petioles. Flowers solitary, terminating the branches, large for the size of the plant, ⅓. in diam., white. Calyx broad, tube ⅛ in. long; lobes ⅕ in., broadly ovate, acute. Corolla subrotate, divided about ½-way down; lobes ovate, subacute. Stamens more than ½ as long as the corolla; anthers oblong. Ovary linear-obovoid.

2. G. lineata, T. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxvii. (1895) 334, t. 27.—A small densely tufted perennial herb 2–4 in. high, often forming a compact sward; rootstock branched above. Leaves all radical or crowded on very short branches, erect, ½–¾ in. long, $1⁄25$–$1⁄15$ in. broad, linear or narrow linear-spathul ate, acute or obtuse, gradually narrowed into a slender flat petiole, sheathing at the base. Scapes 1–3 in. long, slender, wiry, erect, naked or with 1 or 2 pairs of linear leaves at the very base. Flower solitary, ½–⅔ in. long. Calyx-tube $1⁄10$ in. long; lobes $3⁄10$ in., linear-subulate, tapering to an acute or almost acuminate tip. Corolla narrow-campanuiate, cut down ⅔ of the way to the base into 5 ovate acute lobes. Stamens ⅔ as long as the corolla.

3. G. Griselbachii, ''Hook. f. in Hook. Ic. Plant.'' t. 636.—A slender much or sparingly branched annual herb; root weak, often filiform; stems branching from the base, very slender, decumbent or subei-ect, 3–14 in. long, rarely more. Lower leaves narrowed into slender petioles as long or longer than the blade, ½–1 in. long, spathulate or oblong-spathulate, rather thin and membranous, obtuse; cauline usually smaller, remote, sessile or shortly petiolate, oblong or ovate-oblong, obtuse or subacute. Flowers few or many, terminal and solitary at the tips of the branches, rather small, ⅓–⅔ in. long, white. Calyx divided ¾-way down or more, often somewhat angled at the base; lobes linear or linear-subulate, acuminate, midrib distinct. Corolla narrow-campanuiate, divided more than ½-way down; lobes narrow-ovate or oblong, acute. Stamens about two-thirds the length of the corolla. Ovary linear-oblong, often shortly stipitate.—G. montana, ''Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 178; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 190 (not of Forst.)''.


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Rh moment to beat down the youth's feeble defence, and to send him sprawling with a bleeding mouth into the asphodel. By this time the dragoman had arrived, the children, alarmed at the fate of their brother, had desisted, and the rescue party, if such it is to be considered, retired in disorder to the trees.

"Little devils!" said Graham, laughing; with triumph. "That's the modern Greek all over. Your father meant money if he stopped, and they consider we were taking it out of their pocket."

"Oh, they are terrible—simple savages! I don't know how I shall ever thank you. You've saved my father."

"I only hope you didn't think me brutal."

"No," replied Ethel with a little sigh. "I admire strength."

Meanwhile the cavalcade reformed, and Mr. Lucas, who, as Mrs. Forman said, bore his disappointment wonderfully well, was put comfortably on to his mule. They hurried up the opposite hillside, fearful of another attack, and it was not until they had left the eventful place far behind that Ethel found an opportunity to speak to her father and ask his pardon for the way she had treated him.


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 cognized as Miss Bellenden, and Lady Emily Hamilton, a sister of Lord Evandale.

"Had I no better gang to the house to put things to rights?" said Jenny, confounded with this unexpected apparition.

"We want nothing but the pass-key," said Miss. Bellenden; "Gudyill will open the windows of the little parlour."

"The little parlour's locked, and the lock's spoiled," answered Jenny, who recollected the local sympathy between that apartment and the bed-chamber of her guest.

"In the red parlour, then," said Miss Bellenden, and rode up to the front of the house, but by an approach different from that through which Morton had been conducted.

"All will be out," thought Jenny, "unless I can get him smuggled out of the house the back way."

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Rh "You seemed so different, dear father, and you quite frightened me. Now I feel that you are your old self again."

He did not answer, and she concluded that he was not unnaturally offended at her behaviour.

By one of those curious tricks of mountain scenery, the place they had left an hour before suddenly reappeared far below them. The Khan was hidden under the green dome, but in the open there still stood three figures, and through the pure air rose up a faint cry of defiance or farewell.

Mr. Lucas stopped irresolutely, and let the reins fall from his hand.

"Come, father dear," said Ethel gently.

He obeyed, and in another moment a spur of the hill hid the dangerous scene for ever.

was breakfast time, but the gas was alight, owing to the fog. Mr. Lucas was in the middle of an account of a bad night he had spent, Ethel, who was to be married in a few weeks, had her arms on the table, listening.


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 "I had better hae said at ance there was a stranger there," was her next natural reflection. "But then they wad hae been for asking him to breakfast. O, Lord! what will I do?—And there's Gudyill walking in the garden, too!" she exclaimed internally on approaching the wicket—"and I daurna gang in the back way till he's aff the coast. O, Lord! what will become of us?"

In this state of perplexity she approached the ci devant butler, with the purpose of decoying him out of the garden. But John Gudyill's temper was not improved by his decline in rank and increase in years. Like many peevish people, too, he seemed to have an intuitive perception as to what was most likely to teaze those whom he conversed with; and, upon the present occasion, all Jenny's efforts to remove him from the garden served only to root him in it as fast as if he trad been one of the shrubs. Unluckily, also, he had commenced florist during his residence at


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Rh "First the door bell rang, then you came back from the theatre. Then the dog started, and after the dog the cat. And at three in the morning a young hooligan passed by singing. Oh yes: then there was the water gurgling in the pipe above my head."

"I think that was only the bath water running away," said Ethel, looking rather worn.

"Well, there's nothing I dislike more than running water. It's perfectly impossible to sleep in the house. I shall give it up. I shall give notice next quarter. I shall tell the landlord plainly, 'The reason I am giving up the house is this: it is perfectly impossible to sleep in it.' If he says—says—well, what has he got to say?"

"Some more toast, father?"

"Thank you, my dear." He took it, and there was an interval of peace.

But he soon recommenced. "I'm not going to submit to the practising next door as tamely as they think. I wrote and told them so—didn't I?"

"Yes," said Ethel, who had taken care that the letter should not reach. "I have seen the governess, and she has promised to arrange it differently. And Aunt Julia hates noise. It will sure to be all right."