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RV 120 (BUDDENBROOKS) “Oh, old Diederich Schwarzkopf—he’s not such a bad old chap. Doesn’t speak such atrocious dialect, unless he’s had more than five glasses of grog. Once he was at the office, and we went together to the Ships’ Company. He drank like a tank. His father was born on a Norwegian freighter and grew up to be captain on the very same line. Diederich has had a good education; the pilot command is a responsible office, and pretty well paid. Diederich is an old bear—but very gallant with the ladies. Look out: he’ll flirt with you.”

“Ah—well, and his wife?”

“I don’t know her, myself. She must be nice, I should think. There is a son, too. He was in first or second, in my time at school, and is a student now, I expect. Look, there’s the sea. We shall be there inside a quarter of an hour.”

They drove for a while along the shore on an avenue bordered with young beech-trees. There was the water, blue and peaceful in the sunshine; the round yellow light-house tower came into view, then the bay and the breakwater, the red roofs of the little town, the harbour with its sails, tackle, and shipping. They drove between the first houses, passed the church, and rolled along the front close to the water and up to a pretty little house, the verandah of which was overhung with vines.

Pilot-Captain Schwarzkopf stood before his door and took off his seaman’s cap as the calèche drove up. He was a broad, stocky man with a red face, sea-blue eyes, and a bristling grizzled beard that ran fan-shaped from one ear to the other. His mouth turned down at the corners, in one of which he held a wooden pipe. His smooth-shaven, red upper lip was hard and prominent; he looked thoroughly solid and respectable, with big bones and well-rounded paunch; and he wore a coat decorated with gold braid, underneath which a white piqué waistcoat was visible.

“Servant, Mademoiselle,” he said, as he carefully lifted Tony from the calèche. “We know it’s an honour you do us, coming to stop with us like this. Servant, Herr Buddenbrook.

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 interest; and to think of John Conyers for the farm of Maresfield, now vacant.

"With respect to the former, I can't help thinking Ministers remarkable wrong on the point of the game laws particularly, to say nothing of the duty on felled timber, malt, and brown mustard. 'Tayn't the greatness of the duty that makes the increase of the revenue. That's my maxim.

"As for Maresfield, I certainly had an eye to it for my second son, William, as ray mistress says, he's now getting fittish to look out for himself in the world;—and then there's my nephew at Edgecombe, the son of my sister Mary, who married one of the Wrights at Upton, and I always promised old Mr. Wright to see Tom well done by. That's the ground I stand upon. But, certainly, to oblige your honour, I can't say but what I'll think of it.

"Sir Hanway says, Conyers told him that White footed Moll died on Wednesday. She

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RV 121 (BUDDENBROOKS) Papa well? And the honoured Frau Consul? Come in, come in! My wife has some sort of a bite ready, I suppose. Drive over to Peddersen’s Inn,” he said in his broadest dialect to the coachman, who was carrying in the trunk. “You’ll find they take good care of the horses there.” Then, turning to Thomas, “you’ll stop the night with us, Herr Buddenbrook? Oh, yes, you must. The horses want a bait and a rest, and you wouldn’t get home until after dark.”

“Upon my word, one lives at least as well here as at the Kurhouse,” Tony said a quarter of an hour later, as they sat around the coffee-table in the verandah. “What wonderful air! You can smell the sea-weed from here. How frightfully glad I am to be in Travemünde again!”

Between the vine-clad columns of the verandah one could look out on the broad river-mouths, glittering in the sun; there were the piers and the boats, and the ferry-house on the “Prival” opposite, the projecting peninsula of Mecklenburg.—The clumsy, blue-bordered cups on the table were almost like basins. How different from the delicate old porcelain at home! But there was a bunch of flowers at Tony’s place, the food looked inviting, and the drive had whetted her appetite.

“Yes, Mademoiselle will see, she will pick up here fast enough,” the housewife said. “She looks a little poorly, if I might say so. That is the town air, and the parties.”

Frau Schwarzkopf was the daughter of a Schlutup pastor. She was a head shorter than Tony, rather thin, and looked to be about fifty. Her hair was still black, and neatly dressed in a large-meshed net. She wore a dark brown dress with white crocheted collar and cuffs. She was spotless, gentle, and hospitable, urging upon her guests the currant bread that lay in a boat-shaped basket surrounded by cream, butter, sugar, and honeycomb. This basket had a border of bead-work embroidery, done by little Meta, the eight-year-old daughter, who now sat next her mother, dressed in a plaid frock, her flaxen hair in a thick pigtail. RV 121 (121)


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 was, as your honour always said, a pretty creature. Talking of this, puts me in mind, that if your honour comes in for Mounteney, which they're talking of in these parts, I hope you'll say something about the tax on cart-horses. This is the ground I stand upon—if a gentleman keeps a horse for pleasure, it's only right Government should have the benefit; but when it's to promote the agricultural interest, my maxim is, it's remarkable wrong to tax 'em all promiscuous.

"As for Conyers, I can't help thinking his cottage might be removed: it stands in the midst of one of the finest pieces of corn-land in this country; and I said so the other day to Mr. Stapylton Toad, but he's not a man as'll take advice. That Maresfield Farm is a nice bit for game, as I believe your honour well knows. I took out Snowball, and Negro, the other morning, with young Fletcher of Upton—he's the third cousin of old Mrs. Wright's

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RV 122 (BUDDENBROOKS) Frau Schwarzkopf made excuses for Tony’s room, whither she had already been to make herself tidy after the journey. It was so very simple—

“Oh, all the better,” Tony said. It had a view of the ocean, which was the main thing. And she dipped her fourth piece of currant bread into her coffee. Tom talked with the pilot-captain about the Wullenwewer, now undergoing repairs in the town.

There came suddenly into the verandah a young man of some twenty years. He took off his grey felt hat, blushed, and bowed rather awkwardly.

“Well, my son,” said Herr Schwarzkopf, “you are late.” He presented him to the guests: “This is my son, studying to be a doctor. He is spending his vacation with us.” He had mentioned the young man’s name, but Tony failed to understand it.

“Pleased to meet you,” said Tony, primly. Tom rose and and shook hands. Young Schwarzkopf bowed again, put down his book, and took his place at the table, blushing afresh. He was of medium height, very slender, and as fair as he could possibly be. His youthful moustaches, colourless as the hair which covered his long head, were scarcely visible; and he had a complexion to match, a tint like translucent porcelain, which grew pink on the slightest provocation. His eyes, slightly darker than his father’s, had the same not very animated but good-natured quizzical expression; and his features were regular and rather pleasing. When he began to eat he displayed unusually regular teeth, glistening in close ranks of polished ivory. For the rest, he wore a grey jacket buttoned up, with flaps on the pockets, and an elastic belt at the back.

“Yes, I am sorry I am late,” he said. His speech was somewhat slow and grating. “I was reading on the beach, and did not look soon enough at my watch.” Then he ate silently, looking up now and then to glance at Tom and Tony.

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 sister-in-law's niece—we coursed three hares and killed one just opposite Gunter"s on the hill, who's a bit of a relation again on my wife's side; so I just looked in and took a crust of bread and cheese, for civility costs nothing—that's my maxim.

"The new Beer bill is felt a grievance.—John Sandys says as my men won't be satisfied with less than ten strike to the hogshead; this is remarkable wrong. So you may make your mind easy about John Conyers: I've been talking to my mistress, and the upshot of it is, that I'll take my old horse and ride over to Stapylton Toad, and settle with him about the removal; and if I can give you any more information on this point, or any thing else relating to our part of the world, or the cornlaws in general, I shall be very happy to remain "Your honour's obedient servant, "

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 bell or miniature gong, and a slip of tafroo fell upon the desk. The first words were in that vocal character which I had mastered, and came from Esmo.

"Hysterical folly," he had said. "Mountain air might be fatal; and clear nights are dangerously cold for more than yourselves."

"What does he mean?" I asked, as I read out a formula more studiously occult than those of the Pharmacopoeia.

"That I am unpardonably silly, and that you must not dream of going back to your vessel. The last words, I suppose, warn you how carefully in such a household you need to guard the secrets of the Starlight."

"Well, and what is this in the stylic writing?"

Eveena glanced over it and coloured painfully, the tears gathering in her eyes.

"That," she said, pointing to the first cipher, "is my mother's signature."

"Then," I said, "it is meant for you, not for me."

"Nay," she answered. "Do you think I could take advantage of your not knowing the character?"—and she read words quite as incomprehensible to me as the writing itself.

"Can a star mislead the blind? I should veil myself in crimson if I have trained a bird to snatch sugar from full hands. Must even your womanhood reverse the clasps of your childhood?"

"It chimes midnight twice," I said—a Martial phrase meaning, 'I am as much in the dark as ever.' "Do not translate it, carissima. I can read in your face that it is unjust—reproachful where you deserve no reproach."

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Runo XLV]

Thereupon she grew most envious,

And for evermore reflected

On the death that she might fashion,

How she best might bring destruction

On the people in Väinöla,

And on Kalevala’s whole people.

Then she prayed aloud to Ukko,

And she thus implored the Thunderer:

“Ukko, thou of Gods the highest,

Slay thou Kaleva’s whole people,

Slay them with thy hail of iron,

With thy steely needles slay them,

Or by sickness let them perish,

Let the evil nation perish,

Let the men die in the farmyard,

On the cowshed floor the women.”

Lived in Tuonela a blind maid,

Loviatar, an aged woman,

She the worst of Tuoni’s daughters,

And of Mana’s maids most hideous,

She, the source of every evil,

Origin of woes a thousand,

With a face of perfect blackness,

And a skin of hue most hideous.

Then this daughter black of Tuoni,

Ulappala’s blind-eyed damsel,

Made her bed upon the pathway,

On the straw in evil country,

And her back she turned to windward,

Sideways to the bitter weather,

Backwards to the blast so freezing,

And the chilling winds of morning.

Then a great wind rose in fury,

From the east a mighty tempest,

Blew this wretched creature pregnant,

And she quickened from the tempest,

On a barren waste all treeless,

On the bare and grassless meadows.

And she bore a heavy burden,

Bore a heavy painful burden,

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RV 123 (BUDDENBROOKS) take something, he said, “You can rely on the honey, Fräulein Buddenbrook; it is a pure nature product—one knows what one is eating. You must eat, you know. The air here consumes one—it accelerates the process of metabolism. If you do not eat well, you will get thin.” He had a pleasant, naïve, way of now and then bending forward as he spoke and looking at some other person than the one whom he addressed.

His mother listened to him tenderly and watched Tony’s face to see the impression he made. But old Schwarzkopf said, “Now, now, Herr Doctor. Don’t be blowing off about your metabolism—we don’t know anything about that sort of talk.” Whereupon the young man laughed, blushed again, and looked at Tony’s plate.

The pilot-captain mentioned more than once his son’s Christian name, but Tony could never quite catch what it was. It sounded like Moor—or Mort; but the Father’s broad, flat pronunciation was impossible to understand.

They finished their meal. Herr Diederich sat blinking in the sun, his coat flung wide open over his white waistcoat, and he and his son took out their short pipes. Tom smoked his cigarettes, and the young people began a lively conversation, the subject of which was their old school and all the old school recollections. Tony took part gaily. They quoted Herr Stengel: “What! You were to make a line, and what are you making? A dash!” What a pity Christian was not here! he could imitate him so much better.

Once Tom pointed to the flowers at Tony’s place and said to his sister: “That trims things up uncommonly well, as Herr Grünlich would say!” Whereat Tony, red with anger, gave him a push and darted an embarrassed glance at young Schwarzkopf.

The coffee-hour had been unusually late, and they had prolonged it. It was already half-past six, and twilight was beginning to descend over the Prival, when the captain got up.

“The company will excuse me,” he said; “I’ve some work down at the pilot-house. We’ll have supper at eight o’clock,

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 "P.S. The half pipe of Port wine I told you of is come in, and I think it promises to be as good, sterling, stuff as ever you need wish to taste—some body in it—none of your French vinegary slip-slop. Depend on 't, Port's the wine for Englishmen—there's some stamina in it: that's the ground I stand upon."

Hargrave Grey, Esq., to Vivian Grey, Esq.

" October—, 18—

"You ought not to expect a letter from me. I cannot conceive why you do not occasionally answer your correspondent's letters, if correspondents they may be called. It is really a most unreasonable habit of yours; any one but myself would quarrel with you.

"A letter from Baker met me at this place, and I find that the whole of that most disagreeable, and annoying, business is arranged. From the promptitude skill, and energy, which

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 exactly what she means:—'Can a child of the Star take advantage of one who relies on her to explain the customs of a world unknown to him? I blush to think that my child can abuse the tenderness of one who is too eager to indulge her fancies.'

"You see she is quite right. You do trust me so absolutely, you are so strangely over-kind to me, it is shameful I should vex you by fretting because you are forced to do what you might well have done at your own pleasure."

"My own, I was more than vexed; chiefly perhaps for your sake, but not by you. Where any other woman would have stung the sore by sending fresh sparks along the wire, you thought only to spare me the pain of seeing you pained. But what do the last words mean? No"—for I saw the colour deepen on her half-averted face—"better leave unread what we know to be written in error."

But the less agreeable a supposed duty, the more resolute was Eveena to fulfil it.

"They were meant to recall a saying familiar in every school and household," she said:—

"This"—tightening and relaxing the clasp of her zone—"is the symbol of stricter or more indulgent household rule." Then bending so as to avert her face, she unclasped her embroidered sandal and gave it into my hand;—"and this is what, I suppose, you would call its sanction."

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RV 124 (BUDDENBROOKS) if that suits the young folk. Or even a little later to-night, eh, Meta? And you” (here he used his son’s name again), “don’t be lolling about here. Just go and dig up your bones again. Fräulein Buddenbrook will want to unpack. Or perhaps the guests would like to go down on the beach. Only don’t get in the way.”

“Diederich, for pity’s sake, why shouldn’t he sit still a bit?” Frau Schwarzkopf said, with mild reproach. “And if our guests like to go down on the beach, why shouldn’t he go along? Is he to see nothing at all of our visitors?”

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 are apparent in the whole affair, I suspect I have to thank the very gentleman, whom I was just going to quarrel with. You're a good fellow, Vivian, after all. For want of a brief, I sit down to give you a sketch of my adventures on this, my first, circuit.

"This circuit is a cold, and mercantile adventure, and I'm disappointed in it. Not so either, for I looked for but little to enjoy. Take one day of my life as a specimen; the rest are mostly alike. The sheriff's trumpets are playing,—one, some tune of which I know nothing, and the other no tune at all. I'm obliged to turn out at eight. It is the first day of the Assize, so there is some chance of a brief, being a new place. I push my way into court through files of attorneys, as civil to the rogues as possible, assuring them there is plenty of room, though I am at the very moment gasping for breath, wedged in, in a lane of well-lined waistcoats. I get into court,

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Bore it two months, bore it three months,

And for four and five months bore it,

Bore it seven months, bore it eight months,

For the ninth month also bore it,

As old wives are wont to reckon,

And for half the tenth month likewise.

When the ninth month had passed over,

And the tenth month was beginning,

Then she writhed about in anguish,

And the greatest pain oppressed her,

But as yet she brought forth nothing,

And no brood as yet resulted.

From her lair at length she moved her,

In another place she laid her,

And the wench in childbed laid her,

Sport of winds, in hopes of children.

There betwixt two rocks she laid her,

In the clefts among five mountains,

But as yet she brought forth nothing,

And no brood as yet resulted.

And she sought a place for breeding,

Sought a place for bearing suited,

In the quaking swamps she sought it,

And among the waves she sought it,

But she found no place to suit her,

Where she could relieve her burden.

Then she fain would bring forth children,

And relieve her body’s burden

In the foam of furious cataract,

’Neath where whirl the furious waters,

Where three waterfalls are falling,

Under nine of precipices,

But as yet she brought forth nothing,

Nor the foul one eased her burden.

Then began to weep, the foul one,

And to howl, the wicked monster.

Whither now to go she knew not,

And in what direction wander,

Where she might relieve her burden,

Where to go to cast her offspring.

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 take my place in the quietest corner, and there I sit, and pass other men's fees and briefs like a twopenny postman, only without pay. Well! 'tis six o'clock—dinner-time—at the bottom of the table—carve for all—speak to none—nobody speaks to me—must wait till last to sum up, and pay the bill. Reach home quite devoured by spleen, after having heard every one abused, who happened to be absent.

"You wished me many briefs, but only one of your wishes has come to pass, and that at this place; but I flatter myself I got up the law of the case in a most masterly style; and I am sure you will allow me to be capable of so doing, when I relate the particulars:—

"Indictment states, that prisoner on, &c., at, &c., from out of a certain larder, stole a pork pie.

"2d. count—a meat pie.

"3d. count—a pie in general.

"The great question was, whether the offence

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her neat little room with the flower-covered furniture, Tony woke next morning with the fresh, happy feeling which one has at the beginning of a new chapter. She sat up in bed and, with her hands clasped round her knees and her tousled head flung back, blinked at the stream of light that poured through the closed shutters into the room. She began to sort out the experiences of the previous day.

Her thoughts scarcely touched upon the Grünlich affair. The town, his hateful apparition in the landscape room, the exhortations of her family and Pastor Kölling—all that lay far behind her. Here, every morning, there would be a care-free waking. These Schwarzkopfs were splendid people. Last night there had been pineapple punch, and they had made part of a happy family circle. It had been very jolly. Herr Schwarzkopf had told his best sea tales, and young Schwarzkopf stories about student life at Göttingen. How odd it was, that she still did not know his first name! And she had strained her ear to hear too, but even at dinner she did not succeed, and somehow it did not seem proper to ask. She tried feverishly to think how it sounded—was it Moor—Mord—? Anyhow, she had liked him pretty well, this young Moor or Mord. He had such a sly, good-natured laugh when he asked for the water and called it by letters and numbers, so that his father got quite furious. But it was only the scientific formula for water—that is, for ordinary water, for the Travemünde product was a much more complicated affair, of course. Why, one could find a jelly-fish in it, any time! The authorities, of course, might have what notions they chose about fresh water. For this he only got another scolding

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RV 126 (BUDDENBROOKS) from his father, for speaking slightingly of the authorities. But Frau Schwarzkopf watched Tony all the time, to see how much she admired the young man—and really, it was most interesting, he was so learned and so jolly, all at the same time. He had given her considerable attention. She had complained that her head felt hot, while eating, and that she must have too much blood. What had he replied? He had given her a careful scrutiny, and then said, Yes, the arteries in the temples might be full; but that did not prove that she had too much blood. Perhaps, instead, it meant she had too little—or rather, that there were too few red corpuscles in it. In fact, she was perhaps a little anaemic.

The cuckoo sprang out of his carven house on the wall and cuckooed several times, clear and loud. “Seven, eight, nine,” counted Tony. “Up with you!” She jumped out of bed and opened the blinds. The sky was partly overcast, but the sun was visible. She looked out over the Leuchtenfeld with its tower, to the ruffled sea beyond. On the right it was bounded by the curve of the Mecklenburg coast; but before her it stretched on and on till its blue and green streaks mingled with the misty horizon. “I’ll bathe afterwards,” she thought, “but first I’ll eat a big breakfast, so as not to be consumed by my metabolism.” She washed and dressed with quick, eager movements.

It was shortly after half-past nine when she left her room. The door of the chamber in which Tom had slept stood open; he had risen early and driven back to town. Even up here in the upper story, it smelled of coffee—that seemed to be the characteristic odour of the little house, for it grew stronger as she descended the simple staircase with its plain board baluster and went down the corridor, where lay the living-room, which was also the dining-room and the office of the pilot-captain. She went out into the verandah, looking, in her white piqué frock, perfectly fresh, and in the gayest of tempers. Frau Schwarzkopf sat with her son at the table. It was already partly cleared away, and the housewife wore

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 was complete or not, the felon not having carried it out of the larder, but only conveyed it into his own pocket:—that is, all he could not eat.

"Flea:—he was hungry.

"Per Bolter Baron.—'He must not satisfy his appetite at another person's expense; so let him be whipped, and discharged; and let the treasurer of the county pay the expenses of this prosecution.' Which were accordingly allowed, to the amount of something under fifty pounds.

"Don't turn up the whites of your eyes, Vivian; and, in the fulness of your indignation, threaten us with all the horrors of parliamentary interference. The fact is; on this circuit, to judge of the number of offences tried, such a theft is as enormous as a burglary, with one or two throats cut, in London; for pork pies are the staple of the county; and they export them by canal, to all parts of the world, where-

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 to the canals run, which the natives imagine to be to parts beyond seas at least.

"I travelled to this place with Manners, whom I believe you know, and amused myself by getting from him an account of my fellows, anticipating, at the same time, what in fact happened;—to wit, that I should afterwards get his character from them. It is strange how freely they deal with each other—that is, the person spoken of being away. I would not have had you see our Stanhope for half a hundred pounds; your jealousy would have been so excited. To say the truth, we are a little rough,—our mane wants pulling, and our hoofs trimming, but we jog along without performing either operation: and, by dint of rattling the whip against the splash-board, using all one's persuasion of hand and voice, and jerking the bit in his mouth, we do contrive to get into the circuit town, usually, just about the time that the sheriff and his posse comitatus are starting

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RV 127 (BUDDENBROOKS) a blue checked kitchen apron over her brown frock. A key-basket stood beside her.

“A thousand pardons for not waiting,” she said, as she stood up. “We simple folk rise early. There is so much to be done! Schwarzkopf is in his office. I hope you don’t take it ill?”

Tony excused herself in her turn. “You must not think I always sleep so late as this,” she said. “I feel very guilty. But the punch last night—”

The young man began to laugh. He stood behind the table with his short pipe in his hand and a newspaper before him.

“Good morning,” Tony said. “Yes, it is your fault. You kept urging me. Now I deserve only cold coffee. I ought to have had breakfast and a bathe as well, by this time.”

“Oh, no, that would be rather too early, for a young lady. At seven o’clock the water was rather cold—eleven degrees. That’s pretty sharp, after a warm bed.”

“How do you know I wanted a warm bath, monsieur?” and Tony sat down beside Frau Schwarzkopf. “Oh, you have kept the coffee hot for me, Frau Schwarzkopf! But I will pour it out myself, thank you so much.”

The housewife looked on as her guest began to eat. “Fräulein slept well, the first night? The mattress, dear knows, is only stuffed with sea-weed—we are simple folk! And now, good appetite, and a good morning. You will surely find many friends on the beach. If you like, my son shall bear you company. Pardon me for not sitting longer, but I must look after the dinner. The joint is in the oven. We will feed you as well as we can.”

“I shall stick to the honeycomb,” Tony said when the two were alone. “You know what you are getting.”

Young Schwarzkopf laid his pipe on the verandah rail.

“But please smoke. I don’t mind it at all. At home, when I come down to breakfast, Papa’s cigar-smoke is already in the room. Tell me,” she said suddenly. “Is it true that an egg is as good as a quarter of a pound of meat?” RV 127 (127)


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Runo XLV]

From the clouds then bespoke her Jumala,

The Creator spoke from heaven:

“Stands in swamp a hut three-cornered,

Just upon a lakelet’s margin,

In the gloomy land of Pohja,

Near where Sariola’s bay stretches.

There thou may’st bring forth thy offspring,

There lay down thy heavy burden,

There it is that people need thee,

There do they expect thy offspring.”

Therefore Tuoni’s blackest daughter,

Manala’s most hideous damsel,

Came unto the house of Pohja,

Came to Sariola’s great bathroom,

That she there might bear her children,

And she might bring forth her offspring.

Louhi, Pohjola’s old Mistress,

Old and gap-toothed dame of Pohja,

Secret led her to the bathroom,

Secretly into the bathroom,

But the village did not know it,

Nought was spoken in the village.

Secretly she warmed the bathroom,

Hastily she made it ready,

And with ale the doors smeared over,

And with beer the hinges wetted,

That the doors should make no jarring,

And the hinges make no creaking.

Then she spoke the words which follow,

And expressed herself in thiswise:

“Noble dame, Creation’s daughter,

Noble one, as gold all lustrous,

Thou the oldest of all women,

Thou the first of all the mothers,

Knee-deep in the lake descend thou,

To thy waist among the billows,

From the perch the slime obtain thou,

And the slime from creeping creatures,

Do thou smear with this the gateway,

And upon the sides anoint it,

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 to meet my Lord, the King's Justice:—and that is the worst of it; for their horses are prancing and pawing coursers just out of the stable,—sleek skins, and smart drivers. We begin to be knocked up just then, and our appearance is the least brilliant of any part of the day. Here I had to pass through a, host of these powdered, scented fops; and the multitude who had assembled to gaze on the nobler exhibition, rather scoffed at our humble vehicle. As Manners had just then been set down to find the inn, and lodging, I could not jump out, and leave our equipage to its fate, so I settled my cravat, and seemed not to mind it—only I did.

"Manners has just come in, and insists upon my going to the theatre with him. I shall keep this back another post, to tell you whether I receive another letter from Baker, at d. 19th.

"No letter from Baker, but I find it so

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RV 128 (BUDDENBROOKS) He grew red all over. “Are you making fun of me?” he asked, partly laughing but partly vexed. “I got another wigging from my Father last night for what he calls my silly professional airs.”

“No, really, I was asking because I wanted to know.” Tony stopped eating in consternation. “How could anybody call them airs? I should be so glad to learn something. I’m such a goose, you see. At Sesemi Weichbrodt’s I was always one of the very laziest. I’m sure you know a great deal.” Inwardly her thoughts ran: “Everybody puts his best foot foremost, before strangers. We all take care to say what will be pleasant to hear—that is a commonplace. . . .”

“Well, you see they are the same thing, in a way. The chemical constituents of food-stuffs—” And so on, while Tony breakfasted. Next they talked about Tony’s boarding-school days, and Sesemi Weichbrodt, and Gerda Arnoldsen, who had gone back to Amsterdam, and Armgard von Schelling, whose home, a large white house, could be seen from the beach here, at least in clear weather. Tony finished eating, wiped her mouth, and asked, pointing to the paper, “Is there any news?” Young Schwarzkopf shook his head and laughed cynically.

“Oh, no. What would there be? You know these little provincial news-sheets are wretched affairs.”

“Oh, are they? Papa and Mamma always take it in.”

He reddened again. “Oh, well, you see I always read it, too. Because I can’t get anything else. But it is not very thrilling to hear that So-and-So, the merchant prince, is about to celebrate his silver wedding. Yes, you laugh. But you ought to read other papers—the Königsberg Gazette, for instance, or the Rhenish Gazette. You’d find a different story there, entirely. There it’s what the King of Prussia says.”

“What does he say?”

“Well—er—I really couldn’t repeat it to a lady.” He got red again. “He expressed himself rather strongly on the subject of this same press,” he went on with another cynical

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RV 129 (BUDDENBROOKS) laugh, which, for a moment, made a painful impression on Tony. “The press, you know, doesn’t feel any too friendly toward the government or the nobility or the parsons and junkers. It knows pretty well how to lead the censor by the nose.”

“Well, and you? Aren’t you any too friendly with the nobility, either?”

“I?” he asked, and looked very embarrassed. Tony rose.

“Shall we talk about this again another time?” she suggested. “Suppose I go down to the beach now. Look, the sky is blue nearly all over. It won’t rain any more. I am simply longing to jump into the water. Will you go down with me?”

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 dull sitting in court with nothing to do, that I shall trouble you with a few more lines from myself. The performance last night was rather amusing: Romeo and Juliet turned into a melo-drame, to suit the taste of the vicinity. The nasal tones of Juliet's voice in the love-scenes, must have been peculiarly moving to any Romeo, but to that for whom they were intended they seemed so much in earnest, that he must have been quite enraptured. There were no half meetings. Juliet entered fully into the feeling of the poet; and hung about his neck, and kissed his lips—all like life, to the great edification of the audience assembled; which, as it was assize week, was a very brilliant one. In such a company, there must necessarily be economy used in the actors and actresses. Thus, as Mercutio is killed off in the first act, he afterwards performs the Friar, and the Friar himself figures as the chief dancer in the masquerade: but I was most charmed at

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Free the damsel from her burden,

And the woman from her sufferings,

Free her from this grievous torment,

And release her from her sufferings.

“But if this is not sufficient,

Ukko, thou of Gods the highest,

Hither come where thou art needed,

Come thou at our supplication.

Here there is a girl in childbed,

And a woman suffering greatly,

Here amid the bathroom’s vapour,

Brought into the village bathroom.

“Do thou take thy club all golden,

In thy right hand do thou take it,

Each impediment remove thou,

And the door-posts move asunder,

Bend thou the Creator’s castles,

Break thou all the bars asunder,

Push the large ones and the small ones,

Even to the very smallest.”

Then this foul and wicked creature,

She, the daughter blind of Tuoni,

Presently relieved her burden,

And she brought forth evil children,

’Neath a rug adorned with copper,

Underneath the softest blankets.

Thus became she nine sons’ mother,

In a single night of summer,

With the bath prepared once only,

With the bath but once made ready,

With a single effort only,

From the fulness of her body.

To the boys their names assigned she,

And she nurtured well the children

Just as each one names the children

Whom themselves have brought to being.

One as Pleurisy she destined,

One did she send forth as Colic,

And as Gout she reared another,

One as Scrofula she fashioned,

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 discovering Juliet's nasal tones in her own dirge—a wonderful idea, never before introduced on any stage. I was led to make this discovery, not merely by the fact of her voice being undisguised, but from an unfortunate accident which occurred at the funeral. As the deceased heroine was a chief mourner, her beloved corpse had to be performed by a bundle of rags, or something of the kind, laid upon a sort of school form, and carried by herself and five other ladies in white:—so, as the music was rather quick, and the mourners had to perform pas de zephyr all round the stage, and Juliet did not keep very good time, while the virgins on one side were standing on their left legs towards the audience, as nearly in a horizontal posture as possible; the daughter of Capulet, and her battalion, began performing on the wrong leg, and in the consequent scuffle, the bier overturned! The accident, however, was

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Boil, another designated,

And as Itch proclaimed another,

Thrust another forth as Cancer,

And as Plague she formed another.

One remained, and he was nameless,

In the straw the lowest lying,

Therefore did she send him onward,

As a sorcerer on the waters,

Also to bewitch the lowlands,

Everywhere to practise malice.

Louhi, Pohjola’s old Mistress,

Sent the others forth to journey

To the cloud-encompassed headland,

And the shady island’s summit,

Sent in rage these evil monsters,

These diseases all unheard of,

Forth to Väinöla she sent them,

Kaleva’s great race to slaughter.

Sickened Väinöla’s own people,

Kaleva’s descendants sickened,

With diseases all unheard of,

And whose names were known to no one,

And the floors beneath them rotted,

And the sheet above corrupted.

Then the aged Väinämöinen,

He the great primeval sorcerer,

Went to drive away the evil,

And his people’s lives to succour,

Forth he went to war with Tuoni,

And against disease to struggle.

Thereupon he warmed the bathroom,

And the stones prepared to heat it,

And the finest wood provided,

Faggots, too, he laid in water;

Water brought in covered vessels,

Bath-whisks also, well-protected,

Warmed the bath-whisks to perfection,

And the hundred twigs he softened.

Then he raised a warmth like honey,

Raised a heat as sweet as honey,

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 speedily rectified, and the procession moved on to the music of two fiddles and one bell. Juliet's tomb was a snug little parlour with blue pannels, and Romeo drank gin instead of poison, which Shakspeare must have surely intended, or else it was quite out of nature to make Juliet exclaim, 'What, churl! not left one drop!'

"But I must leave off this nonsense, and attend to his Lordship's charge, which is now about to commence. I have not been able to get you a single good murder, although I have kept a sharp look out as you desired me; but there is a chance of a first-rate one at n.

"I am quite delighted with Mr. Justice St. Prose. He is at this moment in a most entertaining passion, preparatory to a "conscientious" summing up; and in order that his ideas may not be disturbed, he has very liberally

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 ordered the door-keeper to have the door oiled immediately, at his own expence. Now for my Lord, the King's justice,

"'Gentlemen of the Jury!'

"'The noise is insufferable—the heat is intolerable—the door-keepers let the people keep shuffling in—the ducks in the corner are going quack quack, quack—here's a little girl being tried for her life, and the judge can't hear a word that's said. Bring me my black cap, and I'll condemn her to death instantly.'

"'You can't, my Lord,' shrieks the infant sinner; 'it's only for petty larceny!'

"This is agreeable, is it not? but let us see what the next trial will produce:—this was an action of trespass, for breaking off the pump handle, knocking down the back kitchen door, spitting on the parlour carpet, and tumbling the maid's head about.

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 "Plea.—That the defendants, eight in number, entered in aid of the constable, under warrant of a magistrate, to search for stolen goods.

"John Staff, examined by Mr. Shuffleton.

"'Well, Mr. Constable, what have you to say bout this affair?'

"'Why, Sir, I charged them men to assist me in the King's name.'

"'What, eight of you? why, there was only an old woman, and a boy, and the servant girl in the house. You must have been terribly frightened at them, eh?'

"'Can't say for that. Sir, only they was needful.'

"'Why, what could you want so many for?'

"'Why, you see, Sir, I couldn't read the warrant myself, so I charged Abraham Lockit to read it for me; and when he came, he said as it was Squire Jobson's writing, and so he could not; and then I had occasion to charge Simon Lockit, and he read it.'

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 "'Well, that's only two: what were the rest for?'

"'Why, your honour, they was to keep the women quiet.'

"Mr. Justice St. Prose.—'Take care what you're about, witness. I consider it my duty to advise you not to laugh; it is, in my opinion, a contempt of court, and I therefore desire you to restrain yourself.'

"Mr. Shuffleton.—'But you haven't told me why you wanted these other six men?'

"'Why, the women, d 'ye see, Sir, was so very unruly in the kitchen; and so I charged them to keep 'em quiet.'

"'Now, Sir, what do you call keeping the women quiet, pulling the maid's cap off, and—?'

"Mr. Justice St. Prose. (To a person opposite.)—'You'll excuse me. Sir, but I think that those two little gentlemen had better leave the court, till this examination is over.'

"His Lordship 'thought it bis duty' to give

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 a similar warning to two very pretty young ladies in pink bonnets and green pelisses. They were however, so obstinate as to remain in court, until they had heard the whole circumstantial, and improper, evidence, of the destruction of the maid's cap. When it was all over, his Lordship once more fixed his large eyes on the constable, and thus delivered himself:—

"'Now, Mr. Constable, to remove the sting of any remark which may have dropped from me during this trial, I will allow that, very probably, you had reason to laugh.'—Mr. Constable looked quite relieved.

"By way of variety, I will give you a specimen of his Lordship's style of cross-examination.

"Enter a witness, with a flourishing pair of whiskers, approximating to a King Charles.

"Mr. Justice St. Prose.—'Pray, Sir, who are you?'

"Whiskered Witness.—'An architect, my Lord.'

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 "Mr. J. St. Prose.—'An architect! Sir; are you not in the army?'

"W. W. (agitated.)—'No, my Lord.'

"Mr. J. St. Prose.—'Never were?'

"W. W. (much browbeat.)—'No, my Lord.'

"Mr. J. St. Prose.—'Then, Sir, what right have you to wear those whiskers? I consider that you can't be a respectable young man, and I shan't allow you your expenses.'

"I have just got an invite from the Kearneys. Congratulate me. "Dear Vivian, your's faithfully, ""

Lady Scrope to Vivian Grey, Esq.

Ormsby Park, Oct.—, 18—

"

"By desire of Sir Berdmore, (is not this pretty and proper?) I have to request the

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 fulfilment of a promise, upon the hope of which being performed, I have existed through this dull month. Pray, my dear Vivian, come to us immediately. Ormsby has at present little to offer for your entertainment. We have had that unendurable bore, Vivacity Dull, with us for a whole fortnight. A report of the death of the Lord Chancellor, or a rumour of the production of a new tragedy, has carried him up to town; but whether it be to ask for the seals, or to indite an ingenious prologue to a play which will be condemned the first night, I cannot inform you. I am quite sure he is capable of doing either. However, we shall have other deer in a few days.

"I believe you have never met the Mounteneys—no, I'm sure you have not. They have never been at Hallesbrooke, since you have been at Desir. They are coming to us immediately. I am sure you will like them very much. Lord Mounteney is one of those

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 kind, easy-minded, accomplished men, who, after all, are nearly the pleasantest society one ever meets. Rather wild in his youth, but with his estate now unincumbered, and himself perfectly domestic. His lady is an unaffected, agreeable woman. But it is Caroline Mounteney whom I wish you particularly to meet. She is one of those delicious creatures who, in spite of not being married, are actually conversable. Spirited, without any affectation or brusquerie; beautiful, and knowing enough to be quite conscious of it; and perfectly accomplished, and yet never annoying you with tattle about Bochsa, and Ronzi de Begnis, and D'Egville.

"We also expect the Delmonts, the most endurable of the Anglo-Italians that I know. Mrs. Delmont is not always dropping her handkerchief like Lady Gusto, as if she expected a miserable cavalier servente to be constantly upon his knees, or giving those odious expres-

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 sive looks, which quite destroy my nerves whenever I am under the same roof as that horrible Lady Soprano. There is a little too much talk, to be sure, about Roman churches, and newly-discovered Mosaics, and Abbate Mail, but still we cannot expect perfection. There are reports going about that Ernest Clay is either ruined, going to be married, or about to write a novel. Perhaps all are true. Young Premium has nearly lost his character, by driving a square-built, striped green thing, drawn by one horse. Ernest Clay got him through this terrible affair. What can be the reasons of the Sieur Ernest's excessive amiability?

"Both the young Mounteneys are with their regiment, but Aubrey Vere is coming to us, and I've half a promise from ; but I know you never speak to unmarried men, so why do I mention them? Let me, I beseech you, my dear Vivian, have a few days

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 of you to myself, before Ormsby is full, and before you are introduced to Caroline Mounteney. I did not think it was possible that I could exist so long without seeing you; but you really must not try me too much, or I shall quarrel with you. I have received all your letters, which are very, very agreeable; but I think rather, rather impudent. If you don't behave better, I shan't pet you—I shan't indeed; so do not put off coming a single moment. Adieu!

""

Horace Grey, Esq., to Vivian Grey, Esq.

Paris, Oct. 18—

"

"I have received your last letter, and have read it with mixed feelings of astonishment, and sorrow.

"You are now, my dear son, a member of what is called, le grand monde—society formed

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 on anti-social principles. Apparently, you have possessed yourself of the object of your wishes; but the scenes you live in are very moveable; the characters you associate with are all masked; and it will always be doubtful, whether you can retain that long, which has been obtained by some slippery artifice. Vivian, you are a juggler; and the deceptions of your slight-of-hand tricks depend upon instantaneous motions.

"When the selfish combine with the selfish, bethink you how many projects are doomed to disappointment! how many cross interests baffle the parties, at the same time joined together without ever uniting. What a mockery is their love! but how deadly are their hatreds! All this great society, with whom so young an adventurer has trafficked, abate nothing of their price in the slavery of their service, and the sacrifice of violated feelings. What sleepless nights has it cost you to win over the disobliged, to conciliate the discontented, to cajole

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 the contumacious! You may smile at the hollow flatteries, answering to flatteries as hollow, which, like bubbles when they touch, dissolve into nothing: but tell me, Vivian, what has the self-tormentor felt at the laughing treacheries, which force a man down into self-contempt?

"Is it not obvious, my dear Vivian, that true Fame, and true Happiness, must rest upon the imperishable social affections? I do not mean that coterie celebrity, which paltry minds accept as fame, but that which exists independent of the opinions, or the intrigues of individuals; nor do I mean that glittering show of perpetual converse with the world, which some miserable wanderers call Happiness; but that which can only be drawn from the sacred and solitary fountain of your own feelings.

Active as you have now become in the great scenes of human affairs, I would not have you be guided by any fanciful theories of morals, or of human nature. Philosophers have amused

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 themselves by deciding on human actions by systems; but, as these systems are of the most opposite natures, it is evident that each philosopher, in reflecting his own feelings in the system he has so elaborately formed, has only painted his own character.

"Do not, therefore, conclude with Hobbes and Mandeville, that man lives in a state of civil warfare with man; nor with Shaftesbury, adorn with a poetical philosophy our natural feelings. Man is neither the vile, nor the excellent being which he sometimes imagines himself to be.  He does not so much act by system, as by sympathy. If this creature cannot always feel for others, he is doomed to feel for himself; and the vicious are, at least, blessed with the curse of remorse.

"You are now inspecting one of the worst portions of society, in what is called the great world; (St. Giles' is bad, but of another kind;) and it may be useful, on the principle, that the

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 actual sight of brutal ebriety was supposed to have inspired youth with the virtue of temperance; on the same principle, that the Platonist, in the study of deformity, conceived the beautiful. Let me warn you not to fall into the usual error of youth, in fancying that the circle you move in is precisely the world itself. Do not imagine that there are not other beings, whose benevolent principle is governed by finer sympathies; by more generous passions; and by those nobler emotions, which really constitute all our public and private virtues. I give you this hint, lest, in your present society, you might suppose these virtues were merely historical.

"Once more, I must beseech you, not to give loose to any elation of mind. The machinery by which you have attained this unnatural result, must be so complicated, that in the very tenth hour, you will find yourself stopped in some part where you never counted on an im-

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 pediment; and the want of a slight screw, or a little oil, will prevent you from accomplishing your magnificent end.

"We are, and have been, very dull here. There is every probability of Madam de Genlis writing more volumes than ever. I called on the old lady, and was quite amused with the enthusiasm of her imbecility. Chateaubriand is getting what you call a bore; and the whole city is mad about a new opera by Boieldieu.  Your mother sends her love, and desires me to say, that the salmi of woodcocks, à la Lucullus, which you write about, does not differ from the practice here in vogue; but we have been much pleased with ducks, with olive sauce, about which she particularly wishes to consult you.  How does your cousin Hargrave prosper on his circuit? The Delmingtons are here, which makes it very pleasant for your mother, as well as for myself; for it allows me to hunt over the old bookshops at my leisure. There are no

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 is a point in our favor. In the second place, the Princess does not love the Comte. This adventure is nothing to her but a convenient escape from a temporary embarrassment.

. Yes, I believe you are right. The defensive has advantages.

. I see only one danger.

. What is it?

. The delay which it involves, we do not know for how long. The Comte may ruin himself in the meantime. There the danger lies.

. We had better take the offensive.

. It seems wiser to me.

. Do you think we might make use of the Princess's lover? He must already be jealous.

. I place no faith in his jealousy; Herr Rosmer is surely acquainted with the financial operations of the Princess. Besides, a man who loves a woman who is above him socially, or who permits her to love him, is not in a position to be jealous. He offers nothing and accepts everything, either because he loves her so much that he is willing to forget his dignity and his self-respect, as well as the proprieties, or otherwise he does not love her at all, and is merely thinking of what he can get out of her. Whichever it is, whether it is love or self-interest, whatever he sees, he will notice nothing. Love is blind while self-interest shuts its eyes. The result is the same.

. But then?

. The alternative is a scene; let all the world know. Become jealous yourself, attack the Comte and the Princess, drive her out of the house—compel her to avoid appearing where you are. Then Herr Rosmer will be obliged to notice it, as he expects to marry the Princess as soon as she obtains her divorce.


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. Suppose it leads to a duel? An open scandal might drive them together.

. Who? The Comte and Herr Rosmer? Impossible! What has he to do with it? He is only the Princess's lover. If worst comes to worst, before he fought him, they would have to pay back what they owe—which would be clear gain to us, whatever happens.

. There is something in that.

. Five hundred thousand francs, Comtesse, not to speak of small bills. Then

. The scene will be a big one. Fancy trusting a princess with five hundred thousand francs!

. Apparently…

. The offensive! My mind is made up. All for all! Silence! The concert is over and the audience is coming out. Float in the background.

. Superb! Superb! It is an evening I shall never forget.

. Superb! Superb!

. How quiet it seems! Everybody is depressed.

. The caress of sublimity has descended upon our souls.

. The audience is annihilated. It is the customary effect.

. Did you observe the transfiguration of the conductor before his orchestra?

. I am no longer myself upon such occasions. I am he—it, his spirit. Lay your hand upon my heart; be so kind… Place your ear there.

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. I beg your pardon. Madame…

. Baroness, you are next.

. I? With my ear on a man's chest?

. Upon his bosom.

. Physicians have observed curious phenomena in me immediately after the termination of a concert. Ladies and gentlemen, if a magnetic needle were to be approached to my brain…

. Oh, oh! This is too much. A concert and lecture in one!

. This is the first time I recall that the trumpets have not been off the key.

. I took the precaution of suppressing them.

. Evidently a wise measure. I hope they have not overlooked supper.

. I saw an immense salmon carried by on a platter as I was conducting the orchestra, entirely surrounded by little shrimps.

. Mere details.

. As we hope, and many of them. The Comte's reputation is magnificent.

. [To the ] What did I tell you? He does not leave her… I never saw the Comte so excited; he is in earnest. This is the occasion to make a scene.

. I advise against it. The Comte cannot allow the Princess to be insulted in his house; you may find yourself in a most disagreeable position.

. [To ] It was a horrible disappointment when Your Highness declined to sing, as you had promised. The episode of the "Wild Cats" would have been marvellous in your hands. Few artists are capable of interpreting the passage sympathetically.

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 been no strangers present, but Princess Helena has destroyed the charm of the evening, with its informality.

. She walked out of the concert after hearing the first note.

. Her attitude has been sufficiently incorrect.

. It might appear presumptuous in me to say so.

. [To ] Your Highness is the only representative of the family who is present. Exert your influence with the Princess, as she regards you with favor. Explain to her how her conduct only aggravates the situation. Everybody is gossiping. You must have noticed it this evening. Look around… While the guests are all worried, Her Highness spends her time laughing.

. If the guests are so easily shocked in the house of the Comte de Tournerelles, probably my cousin would reply that it was hardly worth her while to come here to waste the evening.

. Do you approve of the conduct of Her Highness?

. No, it is foolish, very foolish indeed. But I see nobody here who is in a position to take exception to it.

. The Comtesse is jealous. I fear that she will make a scene.

. No, never. The Comtesse is a woman of the world. The Comte could never permit a scene in his house. As far as Herr Rosmer is concerned, he takes it quite coolly. I am sorry for poor Helena.

. Now you are sympathizing with her!

. With all my heart. She has made a mistake. The opportunity of living a new life was what attracted her to Herr Rosmer, while he merely saw in her the


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 Princess of Suavia. Neither has found love to be what they thought. Now, how rectify this new mistake? One mistake may be forgiven, one rectification in life. A woman does not look nearly so foolish when she leaves her husband for a lover, as she does afterward when she leaves her lover, even if she goes back to her husband. The only justification for certain mistakes is persevering in them.

. Not another lover! Do you mean it? Oh, that would be horrible!

. But how natural! Why should Helena resign herself to a second mistake, when she refused to resign herself to the first?

. It is not a contingency that I care to contemplate. What will they think in Suavia? Hush! Her Highness may hear…

. I do not believe that our ideas are very different, although the subject has not been discussed between us. Our sentimental history has been very much the same.

. Have you also made a mistake?

. I don't know. My attitude is similar to yours, Baroness, when you close your eyes to what strikes you in the face:—I don't want to know. I am unwilling to believe it, so I do not think of it; I am unwilling to believe it.

. My… my nerves have been on edge for the past half-hour! I cannot control myself any longer… I must let go somehow. Oh, oh!

. What is the matter? What has happened to Mme. Wilf? What is the trouble?

. Nothing, nothing! Don't touch her! The effect of the music.

. Mother, mother!… Of course! She is always taken like this after hearing father's music.


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6 PART 1 PRELIMINARY Short title and commencement

1. This Act is the Online Criminal Harms Act 2023 and comes into operation on a date that the Minister appoints by notification in the Gazette.

Interpretation

2.—(1) In this Act—

“access”, in relation to any online activity, online material, online location or online service, includes—
 * (a) access that is subject to a precondition, such as the use of a password;
 * (b) access by way of push technology;
 * (c) access by way of a standing request; and
 * (d) access for a limited time only;

“access blocking direction” means a direction described in section 10;

“access blocking order” means an order described in section 29;

“account” includes—
 * (a) a free account;
 * (b) a prepaid account; and
 * (c) anything that may reasonably be regarded as the equivalent of an account;

“account restriction direction” means a direction described in section 11;

“app” includes a computer program;

“app distribution service” means an online service that enables the distribution or download of an app;

“app removal direction” means a direction described in section 12;


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. Ah, insupportable! The imposition has reached the limit.

. Oh! Oh!

. Run for a violin! The first bars of the "Hymn of Life" bring her to with a start.

. By all means, as long as she makes it in another room, by yourselves. You can play the violin and she can yell there as much as she wants to.

. M. le Comte, it is the only possible relief. Madame, make a great effort

. It is he; it—his spirit! I see it, and he calls to me!

. Chantel, do what you can for these people… Feed them, and get them out in short order. Under no circumstances are we to hear from them again. It is too much pose to ask us to listen to this music.

. In any event this will be our last concert.

. I must confess it was terrible. My only regret is that I did not hear my new cousin sing.

. I? I did not sing.

. But now that we are en famille perhaps you will oblige us.

. En famille?

. Yes, this seems like a family affair to me. The atmosphere is delightfully familiar. We do not mind what we say, and we are not ashamed to sit here and listen to it either. It would not be easy to shock this company. Elsa, my dear, I should like to ask a favor of you, now that the occasion is propitious.

. Of me?

. I do so want to hear you sing—I mean


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Rh “app removal order” means an order described in section 30;

“authorised officer” means an authorised officer appointed under section 4;

“chosen means of identification”, in relation to the recipient of an access blocking direction or access blocking order, means any electronic means nominated by the recipient as the means by which any relevant material or relevant location, access to which is to be disabled in compliance with that direction or order, may, from time to time, be identified, and the identity thereof transmitted to the recipient, after that direction or order has been served on the recipient;

“code application notice” means a notice given under section 22(1);

“code of practice” or “code” means a code of practice issued under section 21(1), and includes a code of practice varied under section 21(2) or 26(7);

“competent authority” means the competent authority appointed under section 3;

“designated officer” means a designated officer appointed under section 4;

“designated online service” means an online service designated to be a designated online service under section 20(1);

“designated provider” means the provider of a designated online service;

“designated provider’s service” means the designated online service of a designated provider;

“disabling direction” means a direction described in section 9;

“entity” means—
 * (a) a body corporate (including a limited liability partnership);
 * (b) an unincorporated association;
 * (c) a partnership;


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8 :(d) a body politic;
 * (e) a body of individuals who together form a body; or
 * (f) a person other than an individual;

“functionality”, in relation to an online service, includes any features of the online service prescribed by regulations;

“implementation directive” or “directive” means a directive to implement any system, process or measure made under section 24;

“internet access service” means a telecommunication service between a point in Singapore and another point in Singapore or between 2 points, one of which is in Singapore, that enables access to online activity by means of the internet, but excludes any telecommunication service excluded by regulations; Illustrations Service of an Internet Access Service Provider licensed under the Telecommunications Act 1999.

Internet reseller service, localised or non-localised.

“material” means information or material in any form, such as (but not limited to)—
 * (a) oral, written, electronic or digital form; and
 * (b) audio, visual, pictorial or graphic form (for example, an anthropomorphic or humanlike depiction),

and includes information or material in any combination of forms;

“non-compliant online service” means an online service of an online service provider who did not comply with a Part 2 direction, a rectification notice, an implementation directive or a Part 6 order, in relation to that online service or any online activity, online material, online account, app, online service or online location that can be accessed on or through that online service;


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Rh “offence group” means the offences specified in a Part of the Second Schedule;

“online account” means an account on an online service;

“online activity” means any activity conducted by means of the internet, and regulations may clarify the types of activities that are online activities;

“online location” means any internet domain, website, webpage, chatroom, channel, group, forum or any other location, that can be accessed by means of the internet;

“online material” means material (including any computer program, machine code and internet link) that can be accessed at an online location by means of the internet;

“online service” means the whole or any part of any service on or through which online activity can be conducted and which can be accessed by means of the internet, and regulations may clarify the types of services that are online services;

“online service provider” means the provider of an online service;

“originator”, in relation to relevant material, means the person who posted the relevant material, and excludes any other person who reposts identical copies of the relevant material so posted;

“owner”, for an app that is distributed or available for download by means of an app distribution service, means a person that caused the app to be distributed or available for download by means of the app distribution service;

“Part 2 direction” means any of the following directions:
 * (a) an access blocking direction;
 * (b) an account restriction direction;
 * (c) an app removal direction;
 * (d) a disabling direction;
 * (e) a stop communication direction;


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10 “Part 6 order” means any of the following orders:
 * (a) an access blocking order;
 * (b) an app removal order;
 * (c) a service restriction order;

“partnership” includes a limited partnership but not a limited liability partnership;

“person” includes an individual and an entity;

“proprietor”—
 * (a) for an online location, means a person who—
 * (i) develops and maintains the online location;
 * (ii) organises, manages or supervises the use of the online location;
 * (iii) manages or regulates membership of, or access to, the online location; or
 * (iv) has the authority to decide whether any material may be included or excluded on the online location, or where to place the material on the online location or otherwise exercise editorial control over the online location; and
 * (b) for an online account, means a person who has control of the account;

“public authority” means a body established or constituted by or under a public Act to perform or discharge a public function;

“recipient”, in relation to a Part 2 direction, means a person who is given the Part 2 direction in accordance with section 7;

“rectification notice” means a notice to rectify any non-compliance with a code of practice made under section 23;

“regulations” means regulations made under section 60;


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Rh “related offence group”, in relation to a designated online service designated as such in relation to an offence group, means that offence group;

“relevant account”, in relation to a notice, direction or order under this Act, means an online account identified in the notice, direction or order;

“relevant app”, in relation to a notice, direction or order under this Act, means an app identified in the notice, direction or order;

“relevant location”, in relation to a notice, direction or order under this Act, means an online location identified—
 * (a) in the notice, direction or order; or
 * (b) by the chosen means of identification;

“relevant material”, in relation to a notice, direction or order under this Act, means online material identified—
 * (a) in the notice, direction or order; or
 * (b) by the chosen means of identification;

“relevant service”, in relation to a notice, direction or order under this Act, means an online service identified in the notice, direction or order;

“Reviewing Tribunal” means a body established by section 38;

“scam or malicious cyber activity offence” means an offence specified in Part 2 of the First Schedule;

“service restriction order” means an order described in section 31;

“Singapore end-user”, in relation to a designated online service, means a Singapore person who, whether or not in the course of business—
 * (a) has access to any online activity; or
 * (b) can conduct online activity,

on or through the designated online service;


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12 “Singapore person” means—
 * (a) an individual physically present in Singapore; or
 * (b) an entity which—
 * (i) is incorporated under any written law; or
 * (ii) is formed or constituted under a law of a foreign country or territory but registered under any written law;

“specified offence” means an offence specified in Part 1 of the First Schedule;

“stop communication direction” means a direction described in section 8;

“telecommunication service” has the meaning given by section 2 of the Telecommunications Act 1999.

(2) In this Act, a reference to a notice, a direction, a directive or an order under this Act includes a reference to the notice, direction, directive or order (as the case may be) as varied or substituted under this Act.

Competent authority

3.—(1) The Minister may appoint—
 * (a) a public officer from a Ministry or department of the Government; or
 * (b) an employee of a public authority,

under the charge of the Minister to be the competent authority.

(2) Subject to any general or special directions of the Minister, the competent authority is responsible for the administration of this Act, and may perform such duties as are imposed, and may exercise such powers as are conferred, on the competent authority by this Act.

(3) The Minister may from time to time give the competent authority directions of a general character, and not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, as to the exercise of the powers and discretions conferred on the competent authority, and the duties


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 your real songs, the repertoire that you used to sing in the theatre. I have heard so much about you that I am terribly anxious to hear you, although at Court, of course, this sort of thing was impossible.

. Stephen! Is anything wrong with Her Highness?

. Elsa!

. Tell her to respect me. She has no right, you must not allow her to insult me like this.

. What is the matter? What is she crying about?

. Be quiet! Say nothing.—She thinks you are trying to insult her.

. I? I insult her? Why should I? She is crazy.

. Let me alone; don't you talk to me. She has no right to treat me like this. It is all your fault.

. Oh, come, come! What is the use of being silly?

. But, Stephen

. I told you so. They are the ones who cannot forget.

. Does she think that I tried deliberately to insult her? How could she? I ask you, was I wrong? I will be the first to apologize. She promised to sing at the concert this evening. Then why should she be offended because I ask her to sing for us afterward? Everybody knows that she was a comic-opera singer—that is her reputation, her personality, to which she owes her position; but now she attempts to deny it, and is offended because I mention it. She blames it on me—me, who have always admired anybody, man or woman, who has had the courage to make his own way in the world, whatever his social position, and who owes all that he is to his own efforts. [To ]


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Rh imposed on the competent authority, by this Act; and the competent authority must give effect to those directions.

Designated officers and authorised officers

4.—(1) The Minister may appoint any of the following as a designated officer or an authorised officer or both:
 * (a) a public officer from any Ministry or department of the Government;
 * (b) an employee of a public authority.

(2) The appointment under subsection (1) of—
 * (a) a public officer from a Ministry or department of the Government; or
 * (b) an employee of a public authority,

under the charge of another Minister is to be made in consultation with the other Minister.

(3) Every designated officer or authorised officer appointed under subsection (1)(b) is deemed to be a public servant for the purpose of the Penal Code 1871.

(4) A reference in subsection (1) or (2) to a public officer from a Ministry or department of the Government or an employee of a public authority includes a public officer from another Ministry or department or an employee of another public authority performing duties in the firstmentioned Ministry, department or public authority (as the case may be) under a secondment arrangement making available temporarily to that firstmentioned Ministry, department or public authority the services of the public officer or employee.

(5) The powers of a designated officer under this Act are to be exercised subject to any directions given, and any conditions and limitations specified, by the head of the Ministry, department or public authority in which the designated officer is serving, or any other person authorised by the head to give those directions or specify the conditions and limitations.


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From the heated stones he raised it,

From the glowing stones he raised it,

And he spoke the words which follow,

And in words like these expressed him:

“Now the bath approach, O Jumala,

To the warmth, O heavenly Father,

Healthfulness again to grant us,

And our peace again secure us.

Drive away these foul diseases,

From these dread diseases save us,

Calm thou down this heat excessive

Drive away this heat so evil,

That it may not burn thy children,

Neither may destroy thy offspring.

“Therefore will I sprinkle water,

On the glowing stones I cast it,

Let it now be changed to honey,

May it trickle down like honey,

Let it flow a stream like honey,

Flowing to a lake of honey,

As it flows along the hearthstones,

Flowing through the mossy bathroom

“Do not let us guiltless perish,

Nor be overcome by sickness,

’Gainst the great Creator’s mandate,

When sends Jumala our death not.

He who slaughters us, the sinless,

Let his mouth his own words swallow

On his head cast back the evils,

Evil thoughts recoil upon him.

“If myself I am not manly,

Nor is Ukko’s son a hero,

Nor can drive away these evils,

Nor from off my head can lift them,

Ukko is a man and hero,

He it is the clouds who marshals,

And the rainless clouds he governs,

Ruling o’er the clouds so scattered.

“Ukko, thou of Gods the highest,

Thou above the clouds who dwellest,

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Some 400 color samples were obtained from the Munsell Color Company in November, 1934. These samples, backed by a standard white material, were compared spectrophotometrically against a freshly smoked surface of magnesium oxide deposited on magnesium carbonate. The spectrophotometer employed was of a type that records the diffuse reflection factors of the sample relative to those of the magnesium-oxide standard. These spectral reflection factors were converted by integration into tristimulus values, using a selected-ordinate method with thirty ordinates.

In Table I, column 1 indicates the Munsell designation of the color. Columns 2, 3, and 4 give the tristimulus values for the 1931 I.C.I. standard observer and Illuminant C. Columns 5 and 6 list the


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Khutbah is the oration or sermon delivered in the mosque every Friday, and on the chief festivals, after the meridian prayer. After the usual ablutions, the four Sunnat prayers are recited. The Khatíb, or preacher, then seats himself on the Mimbar (pulpit), whilst the Muazzin proclaims the Azán; after which he stands up on the second step, and delivers


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 Rh the sermon, which must be in the Arabic anguage, and include prayers for "Muhammad, the Companions, and the King." There are several books of Khutbahs published for the use of preachers. The most celebrated of these preachers' manuals is the Mujmuaʾ Khitáb, printed by Abdur Rahman of Cawnpore. The sermons are arranged for every Friday in the year, and are the compositions of various Muslim divines. It is remarkable that short sermons are meritorious; for it is related that the "Prophet" remarked that "the length of a man's prayers and the shortness of his sermon are the signs of his sense and understanding; therefore make your prayers long and your Khutbah short."

The following is a translation of the third Khutbah in the book of sermons already mentioned; it is a fair specimen of an average Khutbah, both as to its length and matter:—

"In the name of God, the compassionate, the merciful.

"Praised be God. Praised be that God who hath shown us the way in this religion. If He had not guided us into the path we should not have found it.


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200 "I bear witness that there is no deity but God. He is one. He has no associate. I bear witness that Muhammad is, of a truth, His servant and His Apostle. May God have mercy upon him, and upon his descendants, and upon his companions, and give them peace.

"Fear God, O ye people, and fear that day, the day of judgment, when a father will not be able to answer for his son, nor the son for the father. Of a truth God's promises are true. Let not this present life make you proud. Let not the deceiver (Satan) lead you astray.

"O ye people who have believed, turn ye to God, as Nasuá did turn to God. Verily God doth forgive all sin, verily He is the merciful, the forgiver of sins. Verily He is the most munificent, and bountiful, the King, the Holy One, the Clement, the Most Merciful."

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 Rh up a silent prayer. He then, again, ascends the Mimbar, as before, and proceeds thus:—

"In the name of God, the compassionate, the merciful.

"Praised be God. We praise Him. We seek help from Him. We ask forgiveness of sins. We trust in Him. We seek refuge in Him from evil desires and from former sinful actions. He who has God for his guide is never lost; and whomsoever He leadeth aside none can guide into the right path.

"We bear witness that there is no deity but God. He is one. He hath no partner.

"Verily we bear witness that Muhammad is the servant and apostle of God, and may God have mercy upon him, who is more exalted than any being. May God have mercy upon his descendants, and upon his companions! May God give them peace! Especially upon Amír-ul-Mominín Abu Bakr Sadíq (may God be pleased with him). And upon him who was the most temperate of the "friends" Amír-ul-Mominín Omar Ibn-ul-Khattáb (may God be pleased with him). And upon him whose modesty and faith were perfect, Amír-ul-Mominín Osmán (may God be pleased with


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 202 him). And upon the Lion of the powerful God, Amír-ul-Mominín Ali ibn Abu-Tálib (may God be pleased with him). And upon the two Imáms, the holy ones, the two martyrs, Amír-ul-Mominín Abu Muhammad Hasan and Abu Abdullah Husain (may God be pleased with both of them). And upon the mother of these two persons, the chief of women, Fatimah-uz-Zárah (may God be pleased with her). And upon his (Muhammad's) two uncles, Hamza and ʾAbbás (may God be pleased with them). And upon the rest of the "companions," and upon the "followers" (may God be pleased with all of them). Of Thy mercy, O most merciful of all merciful ones, O God, forgive all Musalmán men and Musalmán women, all male believers, and all female believers. Of a truth thou art He who wilt receive our prayers.

"O God, help those who help the religion of Muhammad. May we also exert ourselves to help those who help Islám. Make those weak, who weaken the religion of Muhammad.

"O God, bless the king of the age, and make him kind and favourable to the people.

"O servants of God, may God have mercy


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 Rh upon you. Verily, God enjoineth justice and the doing of good, and gifts to kindred; and He forbiddeth wickedness, and wrong, and oppression. He warneth you that haply ye may be mindful.

"O ye people, remember the great and exalted God. He will also remember you. He will answer your prayers. The remembrance of God is great, and good, and honourable, and noble, and meritorious, and worthy, and sublime."

The preacher then descends, and taking up his position as Imám, facing the Mihráb, conducts two rakʾat prayers. The Khatíb, however, does not always officiate as Imám.

In the above Khutbah we have inserted the petition usually offered up in behalf of "the king" in India, although it does not occur in the collection of sermons from which we have translated. Until the Mutiny of 1857,


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trichromatic coefficients. The last two columns list the dominant wave-length in millimicrons and the excitation purity in percent. The dominant wave-length in the case of purples is indicated by listing the wave-length of the complementary color.

We wish here to acknowledge our indebtedness to Professor Arthur C. Hardy, who suggested this undertaking and offered much helpful advice during the progress of the work. We are indebted also to for operating the spectrophotometer during the determination of the spectrophotometric data.


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 204 we believe that in the majority of mosques in North India it was recited in the name of the King of Delhi, and even now we are informed that some bigoted Imáms say it in the name of the Sultan of Turkey. The recital of the Khutbah serves to remind every Muhammadan priest, at least once a week, that he is in the land of warfare (Dár-ul-Harb); and the fact that Muhammadans under Christian rule are in an anomalous position, is a source of trouble to many a conscientious Muslim. A few years ago, a celebrated Muhammadan divine sent for a native Christian officer, as he wished to obtain his aid in an important matter. The nature of the good man's difficulty was as follows:—The Friday prayer, or Khutbah, must, according to Muhammadan law, be said in the name and by the permission of the ruler of the land. He had been saying the Friday prayer without permission of the ruler, and he feared that these prayers had, consequently, not been accepted by the Almighty. He, therefore, asked the Christian officer to obtain the necessary permission from the magistrate of the district. The Christian was also a man versed in Muslim law, and he quoted authorities to prove that


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 Rh the permission of an "infidel"? ruler was not what Islám enjoined.

In Turkey and Egypt, and in other countries under Muslim rule, it is the custom for the Khatíb to deliver the Khutbah whilst he holds a wooden sword reversed.

The prayer for the reigning monarch, if he be a Muslim, would be offered up in the following manner:—

"O God, aid Islám, and strengthen its pillars, and make infidelity to tremble, and destroy its might, by the preservation of Thy servant, and the son of Thy servant, the submissive to the might of Thy Majesty and Glory, whom God hath aided, our master Amír Sher ʾAlí Khán, son of Amír Dost Muhammad Khán, may God assist him and prolong his reign. O God, assist him, and assist his armies. O Thou God of the religion and Lord of the world, assist the armies of Muslims; frustrate the armies of infidels and polytheists, thine enemies, the enemies of the religion."


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 188 place for so sacred an office; but either in a mosque, or in some open space near the dwelling of the deceased person, or the graveyard. The owner of the corpse, i. e. the nearest relative, is the proper person to recite the service; but it is usually said by the family Imám, or the village Qází.

The following is the order of the service:—

"Here begin the prayers for the dead."

"I purpose to perform prayers to God, for this dead person, consisting of four Takbírs."

"Holiness to Thee, O God,"

"And to Thee be praise."


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 Boniface VIII., Pope, 127; his ambition and insolence, 127, n. 1.

Bonner, Bishop, 193 and n. 5.

Book of Sports, 32, n. 1.

Booker, John, the astrologer, 226, n. 4; 257 and n. 3.

Boot, on the stocks, 173 and n. 5.

Boots, dissertation upon, 59, n. 4.

Borgia, Alexander, 149, n.3.

Borgia, Lucretia, 151, n. 3.

Bosworth-field, 107, n. 3.

Boutè-feus, 365 and n. 2.

Braggadocio hutfer, 255 and n. 3.

Brand's Antiquities, 223, n. 3; 234, n. 2; 385, n. 1.

Brayed in a mortar, 263 and n. 6.

Brazilians, hardness of their heads, 155, n. 4.

Breeches, large, of Henry VIII., 17, n. 1.

Brentford Fair, 254.

Bretheren, 333 and n. 3.

Bricklayers, 254 and n. 4.

Bridewell, and Houses of Correction, 175 and n. 2.

Bright, Henry, epitaph on, preface, 2.

Broking-trade in love, 281 and n. 3.

Brotherhood, holy, 315 and n. 1.

Brothers and Sisters, marriages between, 151 and n. 2.

Brown-bills, 349 and n. 1.

Bruin, the bear, his birth, parentage, and education, 52; overwhelmed by Hudibras, 75; breaks loose and routs the rabble, 76; is pursued by the dogs, 87; his valiant resistance, 88; rescued by Trulla and Cerdon, 89; laid up in ordinary, 91.

Brutus and Cassius, contest between, 195, n. 3.

Bucephalus, feared his own shadow, 145, n. 3.

Buckingham, Duke of, his patronage of Butler, preface, 11; his character drawn by the poet, 12.

Bull-feasts, at Madrid, 272 and n. 2.

Bulwer's Artificial Changeling, 155, n. 4; 158, n. 6; 162, n. 2; 163, n. 3; 278, n. 3.

Bum-bailiffs, custom of, 19, n. 2.

Burgess, Daniel, and the Cheshire cheese, 126, n. 4.

Burial-office, 440, n. 4.

Burton, Prynne, and Bastwick, severe sentence upon, 361, n. 2; honours paid to, 366, n. 3.

Butcher, his dress described, 72 and n. 2, 3.

Butler, Samuel, some account of his father. Life, i; his birth, i; his education, ii; his school-fellows, ii; becomes clerk to Mr Jefferies, iii: studies painting, iii; his situation with the Countess of Kent, iv; ground-work of his Hudibras, iv; lives in the service of Sir Samuel Luke, v; popularity of his poem, v; various editions of it, vi; injunction forbidding any one to peruse it, i; its high estimation at Court, vii; patronized by Hyde and Dorset, vii; sensation produced by the publication of his poem of Hudibras, viii; appointed Secretary to the Earl of Carberry, viii; his supposed poverty, ix; his residence in France, X; his observations while in that country, x; marries Mrs Herbert, xi; the Duke of Buckingham's high opinion of his merits, xi; his character of the Duke, xii; his death and funeral, xiii; monument to his memory in St Paul's, Covent Garden, xiii; inscription on it, xiv; his monument in Westminster Abbey, xiv; proposition to erect one in Covent Garden Church, xv; marble tablet to, in Strensham Church, xv; work published as his Remains, xvi; his knowledge of law-terms, xvi; Dr Johnson's high sense of his merits, xvii; character of his great poem, xviii; translated into French, xix; his imitators, xix; the Satyre Menippée, xx; great object of his satire, xxi; characters introduced into his poem, xxi; criticisms on it, xxiii.

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Events had crowded so thick and fast upon Viner during the last day or two, that he went to the telephone fully expecting to hear of some new development. But he was scarcely prepared for his solicitor's first words.

"Viner!" said Felpham, whose voice betrayed his excitement. "Is that man Cave still with you?"

"No!" answered Viner. "Why?"

"Listen carefully," responded Felpham. "In spite of all he asserts, and his long tale this morning at the police-court, I believe he's a rank impostor! I've just had another talk with Hyde."

"Well?" demanded Viner.

"Hyde," answered Felpham, "persists that he's not mistaken. He swears that the man is Nugent Starr. He says there's no doubt of it! And he's told me of another actor, a man named George Bellingham, who's now somewhere in London, who can positively identify him as Starr. I'm going to find Bellingham this afternoon—there's some deep-laid plot in all this, and that fellow had been cleverly coached in the event of his being unexpectedly tackled Viner!"

"Well—I'm listening carefully," replied Viner.


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 "Where's this man gone?" demanded Felpham.

"To his hotel, I should think," answered Viner. "He left here just before one."

"Listen!" said Felpham. "Do you think it would be wise to post New Scotland Yard on to him—detectives, you know?"

Viner considered swiftly. In the rush of events he had forgotten that Carless had already given instructions for the watching of the pseudo Mr. Cave.

"Why not find this man Bellingham first?" he suggested. "If he can prove, positively, that the fellow is Nugent Starr, you'd have something definite to work on. Where can Bellingham be found?"

"Hyde's given me the address of a theatrical agent in Bedford Street who's likely to know of his whereabouts," replied Felpham. "I'm going over there at once. Hyde saw Bellingham in town three weeks ago."

"Let me know at once," said Viner. "If you find Bellingham, take him to the Belfield Hotel and contrive to show him the man. Call me up later."

He went away from his telephone and sought Miss Penkridge, whom he found in her room, arraying herself for out of doors.

"Here's a new development!" he exclaimed, shutting the door on them. "Felpham's just telephoned to say that Hyde persists that the man who calls himself Cave is Nugent Starr! In that case, he won't—"

Miss Penkridge interrupted her nephew with a sniff.

"My dear Richard," she said, with a note of contemptuous impatience, "in a case like this, you don't know who's who or who isn't who! It wouldn't sur-


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Rh awaited his presence. I had been guilty of insubordination and insurrection, and was not altogether sure that he would not proceed to flog me. But not so. He spoke to me like a father—as my father had never spoken to me—his words were those of monitorial kindness and regard. He described the evil consequences to his authority if such conduct were tolerated; and contented himself with requiring from me a promise of apology before the assembled school on the ensuing morning. I laughed in his face. He was indignant, as well he might be, and, under the momentary impulse, he gave me a smart blow with his open hand upon my cheek. I was but a boy—some thirteen or fourteen years of age,—but, at that moment, I measured with my eye the entire man before me, and though swelling


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 prise me in the slightest if the man turns out to be Nugent Starr."

"How did he come by such a straight tale, then?" asked Viner doubtfully.

"Carefully prepared—in case of need," declared Miss Penkridge as she tied her bonnet-strings with a decisive tug. "The whole thing's a plant!"

"That's what Felpham says," remarked Viner. "But—where are you going?" he broke off as Miss Penkridge, seizing an umbrella, started for the door. "Lunch is just going in."

"My lunch can wait—I've had a biscuit and a glass of sherry," asserted Miss Penkridge. "I'm going round to Bigglesforth the stationer's, to follow up that clue I suggested just now. I dare say I can do a bit of detective work as well as another, and in my opinion, Richard, there's no time to be lost. I have been blessed and endowed," continued Miss Penkridge, as she laid hold of the door-handle, "with exceedingly acute perceptions, and I saw something when I made that suggestion which I'm quite sure none of you men, with all your brains, saw!"

"What?" demanded Viner.

"I saw that my suggestion wasn't at all pleasing to the man who calls himself Cave!" exclaimed Miss Penkridge. "It was only a flash of his eye, a sudden droop at the corners of his lips—but I saw! And I saw something else, too—that he got away as quickly as ever he could after I'd made that suggestion."

Viner looked at his aunt with amused wonder. He thought she was unduly suspicious, and Miss Penkridge guessed his thoughts.

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 "There are going to be strange revelations, Richard Viner, my boy! You said at the beginning of this that you'd suddenly got plunged into the middle of things—well, in my opinion, we're now coming to the end of things, and I'm going to do my bit to bring it about."

With that Miss Penkridge sailed away, her step determined and her head high, and Viner, pondering many matters, went downstairs to entertain his visitors, the unlucky Hyde's sisters, with stories of the morning's proceedings and hopes of their brother's speedy acquittal. The poor ladies were of that temperament which makes its possessors clutch eagerly at any straw of hope floating on the sea of trouble, and they listened eagerly to all that their host could tell.

"Langton has an excellent memory!" declared the elder Miss Hyde. "Don't you remember, sister, what a quantity of poetical pieces he knew by heart when he was quite a child?"

"Before he was seven years of age!" said the younger sister. "And at ten he could recite the whole of the trial scene from 'The Merchant of Venice.' Oh, yes, he always had a marvellous memory! If Langton says he remembers this man in America, dear Mr. Viner, I am sure Langton will be right, and that this is the man. But what a very dreadful person to utter such terrible falsehoods!"

"And on oath!" said the elder Miss Hyde, solemnly. "On oath, sister!"

"Sad!" murmured the younger lady. "Most sad! We find London life very disturbing, dear Mr. Viner, after our quiet country existence."


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 "There are certainly some disturbing elements in it," admitted Viner.

Just then came another interruption; for the second time since his return from the police-court, he was summoned to the telephone. To his great surprise, the voice that hailed him was Mrs. Killenhall's.

"Is that Mr. Viner?" the voice demanded in its usual brisk, clear tones.

"Yes," answered Viner. "Is that Mrs. Killenhall?"

"Yes!" came the prompt reply. "Mr. Viner, can you be so very kind? Miss Wickham and I have come down to the City on some business connected with Mr. Ashton, and we do so want somebody's help. Can you run down at once and join us? So sorry to trouble you, but we really do want a gentleman here."

"Certainly!" responded Viner. "I'll come to you at once. But where are you?"

"Come to 23 Mirrapore Street, off Whitechapel Road," answered Mrs. Killenhall. "There is some one here who knew Mr. Ashton, and I should like you to see him. Can you come at once? And have you the address right?"

"A moment—repeat it, please," replied Viner, pulling out a memorandum book. He noted the address and spoke again: "I'll be there in half an hour, Mrs. Killenhall," he said. "Sooner, if it's possible."

"Thank you so much," responded Mrs. Killenhall's steady voice. "So good of you—good-bye for the present, then."