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Rh first thing in the morning to get my plans ready for this. But I'm sorry to hear of your trouble, Sandy, I sure am. What caused it; did the crops fail?"

"No, we've always had pretty good crops, or we wouldn't stay here," answered the young farmer. "But I don't reckon we'll be able to stay here much longer. It will be hard for pa and ma, too. They dont' want to leave—it will break 'em all up. They've lived here all their lives, and they counted on dyin' and bein' buried here. But I reckon they won't now."

"Why not? Are you about to be put off the farm?"

"We will be, by fall, unless I can raise four thousand dollars—and I can't do that, nohow," said Sandy, sadly.

"That's too bad," spoke the manager, sympathetically. "How did it all come about? That is, if you don't mind telling me."

"Oh, no. I don't mind," answered the young farmer, in rather hopeless tones. "You see father had a brother—Uncle Isaac he was, and he was quite a business man, in a way. He used to farm it, but he gave that up, and went into other schemes. I never knew rightly what they were, but he used to make money—at least he must have got it somehow, for he didn't work.


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40 "Well, one time, several years ago, he came to pa and borrowed quite a sum—more than five thousand dollars I've heard pa say it was. He and ma had inherited most of it only a short time before from pa's granduncle Nathan and they decided to keep it ready to pay off th' mortgage, but 'fore pa could do that Uncle Isaac come and borrowed it."

"But why did your uncle need to borrow money when he had so much of his own?" asked Mr. Pertell, curiously.

"Wa'al, there was some business deal on. I never understood th' right of it, and I don't believe pa did, either. All I know is that Uncle Isaac got pa's money. I believe he wanted to go into some scheme—Uncle Isaac did—and didn't have quite enough cash. He promised to pay pa back in a few weeks, and give him big interest for the use of the money.

"Pa set quite a store by Uncle Isaac, and so he let him have th' money that ought to have gone to pay off th' mortgage. And then things went wrong. Uncle Isaac died before he could pay pa back th' money, and from then on things went from bad to worse, until now we're goin' to lose th' farm."

"But my dear man!" exclaimed Mr. Pertell, "if your uncle owed your father money, and your

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Rh father had a note, or any paper to prove his claim, he could collect from your uncle's estate."

"That's th' trouble," said Sandy. "There wasn't no estate."

"But he must have left something! What became of the money he got from your father?"

"Nobody knew. You see poor Uncle Isaac went crazy before he died, and was put in th' asylum. In fact, that's where he died. He was clean out of his mind."

"But did you try to find what he had done with the money? I should have thought you could do that."

"We did try, and even got a lawyer to try," replied Sandy. "But it was no use. Uncle Isaac would only laugh at us. Poor fellow, he meant all right, but his head give way. He wouldn't have cheated pa for the world. It was jest an accident—that's all."

"You see he was near our threshing machine one day when there was an accident. Somethin' broke and Uncle Isaac was hit on th' head. Not hard enough to kill him, but it made him forget things, and he died that way."

"But couldn't you tell from the papers he left where he had invested the money—his own, as well as your father's?"

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42 a scrap of paper, nor a dollar, among his things. You see Uncle Isaac was queer, even before he went crazy. He didn't believe in banks, and he used to hide his papers and money in all sorts of out-of-the-way places. He lived all alone—an old bachelor."

"Did you search for his things?" asked Mr. Pertell, who was much impressed by Sandy's story.

"Oh, yes! We searched all over!" exclaimed Sandy. "But we couldn't find a thing. It's too bad, for Uncle Isaac never would have done it for th' world, if he had been in his right mind."

"No, I suppose not," agreed Mr. Pertell. "Have you any papers to show that your father let him have the money?"

"Oh, yes, we've got a note. But it's no good. Uncle Isaac is dead, and he didn't leave nothin'. We've searched all over, and couldn't find a thing. No, I reckon th' only thing to do is to lose the farm. But it will come hard on pa and ma—it surely will."

Mr. Pertell said nothing. There was little he could say to make the sad lot of the Apgar family any easier. The manager wished he could provide the money himself, but, as he had said, he had invested all his surplus cash in the moving picture business. The taking of the rural dramas


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Rh was going to cost considerable, too, and there would be the added expense of burning the barn.

Mr. Pertell was paying a fair price for the use of the farm, and for the board and lodging of his company. This would, in a measure, help the Apgars, but it would not be anywhere near enough to save the place.

"Well, it certainly is too bad," agreed the manager. "When I see Squire Blasdell to ask permission to burn the barn, I'll see if he won't wait a bit about foreclosing. Then perhaps we can think up some other plan—or we may even help you find the money," he added, hopefully.

"There ain't much chance of that," returned Sandy. "We've hunted high and low for that money, or for any papers to tell where it might be. As for Squire Blasdell, he's harder than flint. He wouldn't wait a day after th' money was due. No, we've got to lose the farm."

Truly there seemed no way out, but Mr. Pertell was not one to give up easily. He made up his mind that when he got the chance he would see some of his friends in New York. He might be able to induce one of them to provide the money, and take up the mortgage, holding it until it could be paid off gradually. But he said nothing of this now, for he did not want to raise false hopes.


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44 "Well, I reckon I'll turn in," announced Sandy, after a bit. "I'm not used to staying up late. Is everything all right?"

"Oh, yes, indeed—very nice," replied the manager. "I'm going to start in planning to-morrow."

Sandy arose to go in, and, as he did so he peered out toward the road. The moon had risen and it was quite light. Mr. Pertell saw a dark figure slouching along the highway.

"That you, 'Bige?" called Sandy, evidently thinking he saw some neighbor. But the man in the road did not answer. Instead he broke into a run, as though frightened.

"That's queer!" exclaimed Sandy. "I'm going to see who that is."

"I'm with you!" declared the manager, and they hurried down the gravel path.


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82 She did not doubt the reality of his feelings; but if at a time when they were both young enough to be forgiven a few indiscretions, when moreover her father was actually seeking to promote an alliance between them, she had without a moment’s hesitation refused to yield herself to him—what sense could there be, now that they were both past the age to which such irresponsible gallantries by right belong, what sense (she asked herself) could there be in parleying with him, indeed, in admitting him into her presence at all? He saw that she was absolutely unmoved by his appeal, and was both astonished and hurt. She meanwhile disliked intensely this frigid interchange of messages and notes, but for the moment saw no way of bringing it to a close. It was now getting late, a fierce wind had begun to blow and Genji, feeling a very real disappointment and distress, was about to make his way homeward, flinging out as he did so the parting verse:

‘No penance can your hard heart find save such as you long since have taught me to endure.’ As usual her gentlewomen insisted that she must send a reply, and reluctantly she wrote the verse; ‘Is it for me to change, for me who hear on every wind some tale that proves you, though the years go by, not other than you were?’

He burst into a great rage when he received her note, but a moment afterwards felt that he was behaving very childishly, and said to the gentlewoman who had brought it: ‘I would not for the world have any one know how I have been treated to-night. Promise me, I beg of you, that you will speak of it to no one; stay, you had best even deny that I was here at all….’ He whispered this in a very low voice; but some servants who were hanging about near by noticed the aside, and one of them said to another: ‘Look at that now! Poor gentleman! You can see she has sent him a very stinging reply. Even if she does not

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But brook’d not the thane Hagen to stay for his advance;—

He ran full speed towards him, with blows of sword and lance,

Until he reach’d the stairs’ foot; his wrath was fierce and dread,

And all the strength of Iring stood him in little stead.

They slash’d right through the bucklers, till each of them began

With ruddy fire to sparkle. And ere long Haward’s man

By the broadsword of Hagen was desperately smit

Through shield and armour: never mote he get well of it.

When that the chieftain Iring was of the wound aware,

His shield unto his helm-band he raised, to rest it there.

He thought that with this damage he now had got his fill:

The liegeman of King Gunther had more to give him still.

Before his feet did Hagen a javelin espy;

And with it straight at Iring, the Danish chief, let fly,—

So well, that from his forehead the shaft thereof stuck out.

For him the warrior Hagen a cruel end had wrought.

Iring must needs betake him the Danish folk unto;

But ere they loosed the helmet from off the chief, they drew

Out from his head the lance-shaft; then death to him came nigh.

His kinsfolk all were wailing: well might they, verily.

Then came the queen towards him, and over him she leant,

And for the stalwart Iring gave to her sorrow vent;

She wept, his wounds beholding, and bitter was her grief.

Then spake unto his kinsmen that brave and gallant chief:


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XXXV.]

“I pray thee stint thy weeping, most noble lady mine,

For what avails thy sorrow? I must my life resign

Because of wounds and damage that have been dealt on me.

No more will death allow me Etzel to serve and thee.”

Then unto the Thuringians and to the Danes he spake:

“The gifts that ye were promised no hand of yours shall take

From yonder royal lady,— her ruddy gold so bright!

Death’s visage must ye look on, if ye with Hagen fight.”

All pallid was his colour, the seal of death he bore,—

The ever-valiant Iring,— to them ‘twas sorrow sore.

For Haward’s gallant liegeman there was no hope of life;

And so the men of Denmark must forward go to strife.

Irnfried as well as Haward sprang forth the hall before

With warriors a thousand; a horrible uproar

On every side resounded, mighty and clamouring.

And ah, at the Burgundians what lances sharp they fling!

And then the gallant Irnfried straight for the minstrel made,

At whose right hand redoubted great injury he had.

For lo, the noble fiddler the landgrave sore did smite

Through firmly-fasten’d helmet: he was a grewsome wight!

And thereupon Sir Irnfried the valiant minstrel smote

Till rents perforce were riven across his ring-wrought coat,

And all his breast-plate quiver’d with sparks of fiery red;

Albeit fell the landgrave before the fiddler dead.


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Anon were met together Haward and Hagen bold,

I wot that whoso saw them a marvel might behold!

From hand of either hero the sword-strokes follow’d free;

Foredoom’d to die was Haward by him of Burgundy.

When Danesmen and Thuringians their leaders saw in death,

Then rose a frightful struggle the palace walls beneath,

Or ever they the gateway by might and main had won:

Full many a shield and helmet were shatter’d and fordone.

“Give way!” then shouted Volker, “and let them all come through—

What they would fain accomplish they can in nowise do.

In but a short time after they’re bound to die within,

And what the queen hath promised by dying they can win.”

Now when these haughty chieftains within the chamber went,

Of many a one amongst them the head was lowly bent,

For by their rapid sword-blows to perish he was fain.

Well fought the gallant Gernot, and Giselher the thane.

There got within the palace a thousand men and four;

One saw their flashing falchions as through the air they tore.

Of all who came within it soon every warrior fell.

One might of the Burgundians full many a marvel tell.

Thereafter was a silence, and all the uproar died.

While, out of hole and crevice, blood flow’d on every side

And ran into the gutters from all the corpses there.

Thus had the men of Rhineland wrought by their prowess rare.


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XXXVI.]

Then sat they down to rest them, those men of Burgundy.

Their weapons and their bucklers they presently laid by.

Yet still the gallant fiddler before the palace stay’d,

In case that any other to fight with him essay’d.

The king lamented sorely, as likewise did his wife:

And maids and matrons also aweary were of life.

I ween that Death had taken an oath to do them ill:

Whence, by the guests to perish were many warriors still.

“Now do ye off your helmets,” quoth Hagen, the bold knight,

“For I and my companion will guard ye all aright.

And should the men of Etzel a fresh attack essay,

So will I warn my masters with all the speed I may.”

The head was then uncover’d of many a warrior good;

They sat upon the fallen, who lay there steep’d in blood,

And had to death been smitten so lately by their hand.

By many evil glances the noble guests were scann’d.

Before the fall of evening the king his measures took, —

The queen thereto assenting,— that with some better luck

The Hunnish knights might venture. Full twenty thousand men

Were seen before him standing: to battle must they, then.


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Rh fancy him, she might at least treat him with common civility. For he does not look at all the kind of gentleman who would take advantage of a little kindness….’

As a matter of fact, she had no distaste for him whatever. His beauty delighted her and she was sure that she would have found him a most charming companion. But she was convinced that from the moment she betrayed this liking he would class her among the common ruck of his admirers and imagine that she would put up with such treatment as they were apparently content to endure. A position so humiliating she knew that she could never tolerate. She was resolute, therefore, in her determination never to allow the slightest intimacy to grow up between them. But at the same time she was now careful always to answer his letters fully and courteously, and she allowed him to converse with her at second hand whenever he felt inclined. It was hardly conceivable that, submitted to this treatment, he would not soon grow weary of the whole affair. For her part she wished to devote herself to the expiation of the many offences against her own religion that her residence at Kamo had involved. Ultimately she meant to take orders; but any sudden step of that kind would certainly be attributed to an unfortunate love-affair and so give colour to the rumours which already connected her name with his. Indeed, she had seen enough of the world to know that in few people is discretion stronger than the desire to tell a good story, and she therefore took no one into her confidence, not even the gentlewoman who waited daily upon her. Meanwhile she devoted herself more and more ardently to preparation for the mode of life which she hoped soon to embrace.

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84 Prince Zembo’s first wife and she knew very little of them. Other visitors at the Momozono palace became increasingly rare; but the fact that no less a person than Genji was known to be Princess Asagao’s admirer aroused a widespread curiosity concerning her.

As a matter of fact, he was not very desperately in love with her; but her apparent indifference had piqued him and he was determined to go on till he had gained his point. He had recently gathered from several sources of information, including persons of every rank in society, but all of them in a position to know what they were talking about, that his own reputation now stood very high in the country. He felt indeed that his insight into affairs had very greatly improved since old days, and it would certainly be a pity if a scandal once more deprived him of popular confidence. Nevertheless, if gossip were to concern itself with the matter at all, he could not help feeling he should prefer to figure in the story as having succeeded than as having been ignominiously repulsed.

Meanwhile his frequent absences from the Nijō-in had already convinced Murasaki that the affair was as serious as it could possibly be. She tried to conceal her agitation, but there were times when it was evident that she had been secretly weeping, and Genji said to her one day: ‘What has come over you lately? I cannot imagine any reason why you should be so depressed’; and as he gently stroked the hair back from her forehead they looked such a pair as you might put straight into a picture.

‘Since his mother’s death,’ Genji went on presently, ‘the Emperor Ryōzen has been in very low spirits and I have felt bound to spend a good deal of time at the Palace. But that is not the only thing which takes up my time in these days; you must remember that I have now to attend

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Rh personally to a mass of business which the old Minister of the Left used formerly to take off my hands. I am as sorry as you are that we see so much less of one another; but I do my best, and you must really try henceforward to bear with me more patiently. You are no longer a child; yet you make as little effort to enter into my feelings and see my point of view as if you were still in the nursery.’ And with that, just as though she were indeed a small child, he put back in its place a lock of her hair that had become disordered while she was weeping.

But still she turned away from him and would not speak a word. ‘This is quite new,’ he said; ‘who has been teaching you these pettish airs and graces?’ He spoke lightly; but how long, he wondered, was this going to last, how much time were they going to spend in this dismal fashion, while at any moment one of those countless horrors that life perpetually holds over us might suddenly descend upon them and reconciliation be no longer possible? Determined to bring the matter to a head, he said at last: ‘I think you have perhaps been misled by very foolish rumours concerning my friendship with the former Vestal. As a matter of fact, it is of the most distant kind, as in the end you will yourself probably realize. She has always, since I first got to know her years ago, treated me with an exaggerated coldness. This hurts me, and I have more than once remonstrated with her on the subject. As very little now goes on at the Momozono palace, she has a good deal of time on her hands and it amuses her to keep up a desultory correspondence. This is all that has happened between us; and even you will surely admit that is not worth crying about! If it is really this affair that has been on your mind, I assure you that there is no cause whatever for anxiety….’ He spent the whole day in trying to win back her confidence, and his patience was at last rewarded.

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587-612] Recared's internal policy of appeasing the Spanish-Roman element manifested itself in another direction. According to Isidore of Seville, Leovigild reformed the primitive legislation of the Visigoths, which dated from the time of Euric, by modifying a few laws, suppressing others which were unnecessary, and adding some which had been omitted from Euric's compilation. Since the text of this reform has not come down to us, we know only that it actually existed.

From the tone of approval in which Isidore of Seville tells of the reforms accomplished by Leovigild, it has justly been inferred that they were a decided attempt at conciliation, and that it was intended to proceed with them until the differences between Visigoths and Spanish-Romans had been lessened or suppressed. There is more reason to suppose that Recared worked in this direction, but for this we have no such contemporary evidence as that which refers to Leovigild.

The three monarchs who successively occupied the Visigothic throne after Recared were of no great individual importance, but their history gives proof of the disturbed condition of the country. In fact, Recared's son, Liuwa II, who was elected king on the death of his father and who continued his father's Catholic policy, only reigned for two years. In 603 he was dethroned and slain in an insurrection headed by Count Witteric, who gained the support of the Arian party and attempted to restore the ancient religion of the Gothic people. In 610, in consequence of a reaction on the part of the Catholics, Witteric forfeited his crown and his life. The crown was bestowed on Gundemar, a representative of the nobles. He only reigned for two years, during which time he waged two wars, one with the ever-restless Vascons, and the other with the Byzantines. Both these wars were continued by Sisebut, who succeeded him in 612. He, like Gundemar, was a Catholic and he pursued the militant policy of Leovigild. When he had suppressed the Vascon insurrection, Sisebut marched against the imperial forces, and, in a brief campaign, after defeating their general Asarius in two battles, took possession of all the eastern provinces of the Byzantines, that is to say, of the land between Gibraltar and the Sucro (Jucar). The Emperor Heraclius sued for peace, which Sisebut granted on condition of annexing that province to his kingdom, leaving to the Byzantines only the west, from the Straits to the Algarves.

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86 By this time the snow was lying very deep, and it was still falling, though now very lightly. So far from obliterating the shapes of pine-tree and bamboo, the heavy covering of snow seemed only to accentuate their varying forms, which stood out with strange distinctness in the evening light. ‘We decided the other day,’ said Genji to Murasaki, ‘that Lady Akikonomu’s season is Autumn, and yours Spring. This evening I am more sure than ever that mine is Winter. What could be more lovely than a winter night such as this, when the moon shines out of a cloudless sky upon the glittering, fresh-fallen snow? Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world. At any rate, I find such a scene as this infinitely more lovely and moving than any other in the whole year. How little do I agree with the proverb that calls the moon in winter a dismal sight!’ So saying he raised the window-blind, and they looked out. The moon was now fully risen, covering the whole garden with its steady, even light. The withered flower-beds showed, in these cold rays, with painful clearness the ravages of wind and frost. And look, the river was half-choked with ice, while the pond, frozen all over, was unutterably strange and lonesome under its coat of snow. Near it some children had been allowed to make a monster snow-ball. They looked very pretty as they tripped about in the moonlight. Several of the older girls had taken off their coats and set to in a very business-like way, showing all sorts of strange under-garments; while their brothers, coming straight from their tasks as page-boys and what not, had merely loosened their belts, and there was now a sight of smart coat-tails flapping and long hair falling forwards till its ends brushed the white garden floor—an effect both singular and delightful. Some of the very little ones were quite wild with joy and rushed about dropping all their fans and other belongings in their mad excitement.

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172 Sigisbert was guilty of conspiracy. (2) The public and formal conversion to Catholicism of the king and his family, which, according to John of Biclar, took place in 587, ten months after Recared had ascended the throne.

The conversion was heralded, first, by a decree which put an end to the persecution of the Catholics, secondly, by the adoption of extraordinary measures with regard to the Gothic prelates and nobles in the provinces entrusted to the king's agents (whom Gregory of Tours calls nuntios), and lastly by permission given to the bishops of both religions to hold a meeting, to the end that they might freely discuss their respective dogmas. At the conclusion of this discussion, Recared declared his preference for Catholicism and his conversion thereto, which he ratified with all due formality at the Council held in Toledo (the third of this name) in May 589. There were present at this Council 62 bishops, five metropolitans, the king, his wife, and many nobles, all of whom signed the declaration of faith. Henceforth the Catholic religion became the religion of the Visigothic State. According to John of Biclar, the king exhorted all his subjects to be converted to it.

But the faith of a people cannot be changed at the command of a king, nor could the interests which had grown up in the shadow of the ancient national religion allow themselves to be suddenly swept away. There ensued conspiracies and rebellions on the part of the Arian bishops, the nobles, and the people, who adhered to their traditional faith. Goisvintha herself, the queen-mother, who lived for some time longer, Sunna, bishop of Mérida, Athelocus, bishop of Narbonne, Bishop Uldila, several counts, amongst others Segga and Witteric, Duke Argimund, and other persons of importance, made plots and conspired against the life of the king, took up arms, and sought the help of the Frankish king Guntram, who made two incursions into Septimania. On both occasions he was defeated and forced to withdraw. Moreover, Recared succeeded in suppressing all the rebellions of the Arians, punished the instigators, and caused many of the books dealing with that religion to be burnt. Nevertheless, although John of Biclar affirms the contrary, Arianism did not die out among the Visigothic people. It continued to exist until the fall of the Visigothic kingdom; it was the cause of fresh insurrections, and, as we shall see, it was sufficiently strong to produce a temporary reaction.

Recared had still to struggle with the Byzantines, who had renewed their quarrel with the Visigoths. But through the mediation of Pope Gregory I, he made with the Emperor Maurice the treaty to which we have already alluded, whereby it was agreed that each monarch should respect the territory possessed by the other. Lastly, Recared made war on the Vascons, whom Leovigild had driven back to the further side of the Pyrenees, and who were trying, though without success, to regain the land which they had formerly held.


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Rh The glee imprinted on these small faces was charming to behold. The children made so big a snow-ball that when it came to rolling it along the ground they could not make it budge an inch, and the sight of their frantic endeavours to get it moving provoked much jeering and laughter from another party of children which had just made its appearance at the eastern door.

‘I remember,’ said Genji, ‘that one year Lady Fujitsubo had a snow-mountain built in front of her palace. It is a common enough amusement in winter time; but she had the art of making the most ordinary things striking and interesting. What countless reasons I have to regret her at every moment! I was during the greater part of her life not at all intimate with her and had little opportunity of studying her at close quarters. But during her residence at the Palace, she often allowed me to be of service to her in various small ways, and I frequently had occasion to use her good offices. In this way we were constantly discussing one piece of business or another, and I discovered that though she had no obvious or showy talents, she had the most extraordinary capacity for carrying through even quite unimportant and trivial affairs with a perfection of taste and management that has surely never been equalled. At the same time she was of a rather timid disposition and often took things too much to heart. Though you and she both spring from the same stem and necessarily have much in common, I have noticed that you are a good deal less even in temperament than she.

‘Lady Asagao, now, has a quite different nature. If in an idle moment I address to her some trifling fancy she replies with such spirit that I have hard work not to be left lagging. I know no one else at Court to compare with her in this respect.’

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88 is extremely accomplished and quick-witted. I should have thought, too, from all I know of her that she was very sensible and discreet; and that makes me all the more surprised at certain stories that I have heard repeated….’

‘You are quite right,’ said Genji. ‘Among all the ladies now at Court she is the one I should pick out both for liveliness and beauty. As to the rumours you speak of—I know quite well what you are referring to. I bitterly regret what happened; as indeed I regret much else that belongs to that part of my life. And what quantities of things most people must begin to repent of, as the years go by! For compared with almost any of my friends, I have led a very quiet and decorous life.’ He paused for a moment; the mention of Oborozuki seemed to have moved him deeply. Presently he continued: ‘I have a feeling that you look down upon country people such as the Lady of Akashi. I assure you that, unlike most women in that station of life, she is extremely cultivated and intelligent; though of course people of her class are bound in many ways to be very different from us, and I admit she has certain strained and exaggerated ideas, of which I cannot approve.

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170 Before attacking the city, Leovigild set himself to make the Byzantines withdraw from their alliance with his son, and he ultimately succeeded. According to the chronicle of Gregory of Tours, his success was due partly to motives of political expedience and partly to a gift of 30,000 gold coins. When he had thus secured himself in this direction, Leovigild, in 583, marched on Seville. The first battle was fought before the Castle of Osset (San Juan de Alfarache), which he was not long in taking. Amongst the enemy, he found the Suevic king Miron, whom he compelled to return to Galicia.

The siege of Seville lasted for two years. Hermenegild was not in the city, seeing that he had left it shortly before to go in search of fresh help from the Byzantines. He cannot have been successful, since he took refuge in Cordova, whither Leovigild advanced with the army. Convinced that all resistance was in vain, Hermenegild surrendered and prostrated himself before his father, who stripped him of his royal vestments and banished him to Valencia. Shortly afterwards, for some unknown reason, he caused him to be transferred to Tarragona, and entrusted to Duke Sigisbert, whom he ordered to guard his son closely, for his escape might lead to a fresh civil war. Sigisbert confined the prince in a dungeon, and repeatedly urged him to abjure Catholicism. Hermenegild stubbornly resisted, and was finally killed by Sigisbert (13 April 585). Leovigild is accused of the crime by our earliest authority, the Dialogues of Gregory the Great, but the best opinion acquits him of it. Hermenegild was afterwards canonised by the Catholic Church.

Whilst the ambition of Hermenegild was thus ruthlessly cut short, his father's was realised in the destruction of the kingdom of the Sueves. He did not lack a pretext: a noble called Andeca who, since the death of Miron in 583, had usurped the crown, in the following year proclaimed himself king of that people, disputing the rights of Miron's son Eburic or Eboric, the ally of Leovigild, who at once invaded Suevic territory. As Isidore says, "with the utmost rapidity" he struck fear into the hearts of his enemies, completely vanquishing them at Portucale (Oporto) and Bracara (Braga), the only two battles fought during the campaign. Andeca was taken prisoner, forced to receive the tonsure, and banished to Pax Julia (Bejar). In 585, the Suevic kingdom was converted into a Visigothic province. Thus, it only remained for Leovigild to possess himself of the two districts held by the Byzantines — one in the south of Portugal and west of Andalusia, and the other in the province of Carthagena — and to make the political unity of the Peninsula an accomplished fact. But it was not given to him to effect this. He died in 586, at a time when his army, under the command of Recared, was fighting in Septimania against the Franks who had twice again made the murder of Hermenegild a pretext for invading this remnant of Visigothic land. Even during the lifetime of


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Rh likely to part; I at any rate should be very sorry if she were to leave my house.’ While he thus talked of one thing and another, it grew very late. The moon shone brighter and brighter, and a stillness now reigned that, after the recent wintry storms, was very agreeable. Murasaki recited the verse: ‘The frozen waters are at rest; but now with waves of light the moon-beam ebbs and flows.’ She was looking out at the window, her head a little to one side, and both the expression of her face and the way her hair fell reminded him, as so often before, of her whom he had lost. Suddenly his affections, which for many weeks past had to some small extent been divided, were once more hers, and hers alone.

Just then a love-bird cried, and he recited the verse: ‘Does it not move you strangely, the love-bird’s cry, to-night when, like the drifting snow, memory piles up on memory?’ Long after he and Murasaki had retired to rest, recollections of Lady Fujitsubo continued to crowd into his mind, and when at last he fell asleep, a vision of her at once appeared to him, saying in tones of deep reproach: ‘It may be that you on earth have kept our secret; but in the land of the dead shame cannot be hid, and I am paying dearly for what you made me do….’ He tried to answer, but fear choked his voice, and Murasaki, hearing him suddenly give a strange muffled cry, said rather peevishly: ‘What are you doing that for? You frightened me!’ The sound of her voice roused him. He woke in a terrible state of grief and agitation, his eyes full of tears which he at once made violent efforts to control. But soon he was weeping bitterly, to the bewilderment of Murasaki, who nevertheless lay all the time stock still at his side. He was now too miserable and distracted to think of sleep, and slipping out of bed presently began writing notes to various temples in the district, directing that certain texts

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V.-WALKING -DRESS OF GRAY MOHAIR .-The under- jority of modern out-of-door garments, we see mantelets of skirt is trimined with one deep ruffle , headed by a ruche of different shapes preferred by a certain number of people. the same ; the upper -skirt, body , and sleeves , are trimmed Elderly ladies , all those who do not wish to go out in a to correspond, and the former is very much looped up over tight -fitting casaque , wear the circular mantelet , rounded e large tournure. Black straw hat, with a gray, curled plume. at the back, and continued into long lapels in front. On FIG. VI -CARRIAGE-DRESS OF MAUVE AND WHITE STRIPED the other side, with fancy costumes, we see very pretty SILK.-The bretelle mantilla, or skeleton skirt, as it is some- mantelets forming a pelerine at the back and rounded lapels times called, is made of black silk. This garment has no under this pelerine, as well as in front. The latter models are meant for young married and unmarried ladies ; they ESS OF GREEN SILK .-The under-skirt are trimmed with a narrow fluting, or with a marquise FIG. sin.VII - DINNyER-DR eve sle d me y ck is pla, but ver long, and trim with a heav bla and et al green cord around the bottom. The upper-dress is of rich rucho of the same materi as the mantel. black silk, trimmed with fringe, looped at the sides with CHILDREN'S FASHIONS. eveESs.S OF MAUVE -COLORED FOULARD.ettesVII d has NI noERsleDR , anI -PAN rosFIG. FIG. 1.- DRESS OF VIOLET-COLORED AND WHITE STRIPED One deep ruffle trims the bottom of the under-skirt. The MOHAIR FOR A YOUNG GIRL. -The under -skirt has one deep edge ofthe upper -skirt, body, and sleeves , are trimmed with ruffle ; the upper-skirt , which is also trimmed with a ruffle , has a square apron front, and is looped up and trimmed at IX.-WA FIG. s. ING -DRESS OF BLACK SILK, with the under- the back with violet-colored bows. Wide violet silk sash. ower narr ruffleLK skirt and casaque trimmed with a rich plaiting ofblack silk. The body is cut square in front, and the sleeves are demiGENERAL REMARKS.- It will be seen by our wood-cuts that w hat, wiWth vio let MOum WhiteES stSraOF ., STRIPED WITH there is nothing very new in the shape of bonnets and hats. wide. HAeIR STRA -COLORED pl FIG. II.-DR The former continue to be very stall at the back, very nar- BROWN, FOR A LITTLE GIRL.- The skirt is a good deal gored , row at the sides, and very high in front ; the latter are prin- and trimmed with one rufile. The waist is made open in cipally frames to hold a few flowers and a little lace to front, half-high on the shoulders , and is worn over a white perch over the forehead. The sailor -shaped collar is more under-body. Short, white, puffed sleeves. Brown silk sash , and more popular, especially with those ladies who have ILOnRst COraSTwUM For morning wear, they are edged with anFIG. d hatIII.-SA . E FOR A BOY FROM FIVE TO SEVEN ofbrow oredthr slin s., with a bow of the same, or a white bow, YEARS OLD. -Jacket with a large turned-down collar, open in muoat coltty pre front, and loose, wide trousers of blue cloth , piped with arde to the. make of dresses, we are glad to say white. Black leather belt, edged with a double piping of th th gedthwireg same edWi that no change has taken place, for so numerous have been white kid. Shirt of fine linen, arranged in narrow tucks. the new styles lately, that the fashion would almost change l turned -down collar. Black cravat. between the time a lady took her dress to her dress -maker Smal FIG. IV.-APRON OF BLACK GLACE SILK, with braces joined Short dresses for street wear, for together in front with cross strips of silk. It is trimmied t hongme; .short dresses for the morning for the with narrow satin cross -strips, and satin buttons put on in an senyou botdh got old itand young, long dresses for afternoon, or visiting , seems to be scallops in front. Small, rounded pockets , with a small the rule. But the make of these is so varied, and when not N FO too exaggerated, the looped and puffed skirts are so be- boFIG. ROon R hA. LITTLE GIRL .-Gored apron of black in up w ofsat V.-AP eac alpaca, scalloped out round the bottom, and edged with a ng chi t er m es witOn tha one nev tir the of . g s est h e of the pretti new walkin -dresse whic we have narrow fluting. A gimp button is placed at the point of seen had but one skirt, which was ruled three -fourths of each scallop. Two small, round pockets are trimmed with the way up at the back, and all the way up the front al as the apron. ws made of theN same materi breadth ; the bodice was made tight -fitting, with a postil- boFIG. VI.-APRO FOR A LITTTE GIRL .-Apron of black grosannd- grain silk, with braces and a small plastron. The braces are lion-basque behind ; this is jaunty for a nice figure, Co trimmed round with a ruche of the same material ; this r an pedabo rts.present fashion are the newe thethi loongs -uputskithe The th newest trimming is continued upon the apron, simulating a double fections, as the French call them, that is paletots, basques , skirt open at the side. It also hides the slit pocket on the etc., etc., in black or colored silks , muslin, grenadine , etc. , right side, and is finished off with two loops and lappets. not made to match the dress, only to harmonize with it. FIG. VII.-PINAFORE OF WHITE NAINSOOK ; the front part is We will not say that no more paletots are worn. It is too trimmed with tabs formed of narrow strips of nainsook , convenient a fashion, too necessary even, in the female stitched , edged round with a narrow border in embroidery. toilet, for them to be able to dispense with it. We will The body of the pinafore is gathered on to a band edged with then say only that the paletot transforms itself this year embroidery round the top. The short sleeves are gathered into a tunic -casaque, forming at once a tight -fitting bodice d toRE ponFOdRE D res I .-GO . OF BROWN HOLLAND, edged all cor trim VIIme PINA and a second skirt. Whether this garment be called a andFIG. casaque, or a second dress , it is no less true that it takes the d bra d d ste un th ve redROwaN OF BL wor ACK SI LK id FO.R A YOUNG GIRL.-The IX.-AP place of a paletot, and that , especially when made of black ro FIG. wi silk, it quite answers the same purposes. The tight -fitting skirt and pockets are trimmed with a black silk frill edged casaque is worn either merely upon an under-skirt, to avoid with black guipure lace ; the body is only trimmed with putting on two tight bodices, one over the other, or else FIG. X.-APRON FOR A YOUNG GIRL.-This skirt is made lace. ice.notice the tunic-casaque of th inlsbod on on thwa mo g ss a dre upAm plade , we thewine fuller than the former one, and it, with the body and muech black poult de soie, open and rounded off in front, gathered pockets , is trimmed with diamond -shaped pieces of blue s ped ws th d ck, am th on of bo wi up loo an ba at the se bo up silk, and in the center of each diamond is a black button. black ribbon. The tight -fitting bodice is trimmed in the shape of a low bodice in the Marie Antoinette shape, with a

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Barley-Lemonade.—Put a quarter of a pound of sugar into { Ginger-Beer, No. 3.- White sugar, one pound and a half; a sinall stew-pan, with half a pint of water, which boil about bruised ginger, one ounce ; cream of tartar, three ounces ; ten minutes, or until forming a thickish syrup; then add one lemon, shred ; boiling water, one gallon and a half; the rind of a fresh lemon and the pulp of two ; let it boil two yeast, one ounce. Prepare as No. 1. minutes longer, when add two quarts of barley-water, made Spruce-Beer- White-Spruce. - Sugar, six pounds ; essence without sugar and lemon ; boil five minutes louger, pass it of spruce, six ounces ; boiling water, ten gallons ; yeast, through a hair-sieve into a jug, which cover with paper, eight ounces. Mix together, ferment for a few hours, and making a hole in the center to let the heat through ; when cork tightly down in stone bottles. Spruce-Beer- Brown-Spruce- Is made inthe same manner, cold, it is ready for use ; if put cold into a bottle, and well corked down, it would keep good several days an equal quantity of treacle being used instead of the sugar. Burley-Orangeade.- Barley-orangeade is made in the same Effervescing Fruit Drinks.- By adding a small quantity manner, substituting the rind and juice of oranges ; the of any of the fruit syrups, as lemon, raspberry, pine-apple, apricot, cherry, etc., to the water in which the acid of the juice of a lemon, in addition, is an improvement. Effervescing drinks are much valued by many persons, soda-powders is dissolved, a variety of the most delicious during summer especially. Water impregnated with car- summer beverages may be made. Very Good Black-Currant Wine.-To every three quarts bonic acid may be made in any of the numerous gazogenes sold for that purpose. We shall now, therefore, confine of the currant-juice put the same of unboiled water, and to ourselves to those drinks capable of being made without every quart of this again add one pound of moist sugar. Put it into a cask, and keep out a little to fill up with afterany special apparatus. Soda-Powders.- Blue paper, carbonate of soda, thirty ward. Ifthe cask be placed in a warm, dry room, the liquer grains. White paper, tartaric acid, twenty-five grains. Dis- will ferment of itself. When this has taken place, skim of solve the contents of each paper, separately, in one-third of the refuse, and fill up with the juice set aside for the pura tumbler of water, mix the solutions, and drink. The pose. When the working has ceased, pour in three quarts soda-water produced by these powders is a solution of tar- of brandy to forty of the wine. Stop it up closely for ten trate of soda ; the effervescence is owing to the escape of the months ; then bottle it, and after draining the thick part carbonic acid, previously combined with the soda. The bot- through a jelly-bag, it may also be bottled. The wine should tled soda-water of the shops is a solution of carbonic acid { be kept ten or twelve months before using. in plain water, or in a dilute solution of soda. The sodaPeach and Apricot- Waters.- Both these waters, as well as powders yield a cooling, saline beverage, very slightly laxa- those of other fruits, are readily made by mixing two or tive. three tablespoonfuls of the respective jams with a few Ginger-Beer Powders.-Blne paper, carbonate of soda, blanched and pounded bitter almonds, lemon-juice, and cold thirty grains ; powdered ginger, five grains ; powdered sugar, spring-water, with powdered loaf-sugar to taste. On being one drachm, or one drachm and a half; essence of lemon, run through a lawn-sieve, these waters are immediately t one drop. White paper, tartaric acid, thirty-five grains, to drink. Shrub.-The rind of half a lemon and half an orange, Ginger-beer powders are simply soda-powders flavored with the additional ingredients. pared quite thin ; put it into a pint of rum, and let it remain Seidlitz- Powders.- We give the directions for these pow. three hours, when it should be removed. Add to the rum a ders, though they are rather to be regarded as medicinal small wineglass of strained lemon-juice, and the same of than simply refreshing. Blue paper, tartarized soda, ( Ro- { orange-juice, one ounce of lump-sugar dissolved in a pint chelle salt,) two drachms ; carbonate of soda, two scruples. and a half of water. Mix all together and bottle. Orange-Bitters.- Take a half ounce yolk of fresh eggs, White paper, tartaric acid, half a drachm. Dissolve the contents of a blue paper in water, stir in the acid powder, and carefully separated from the white, half an ounce of gentian root, one drachm and a half of Seville orange-peel, and one drink during effervescence. Real Lemon and Kali.-Finely-ground white sugar, two pint of boiling water. Pour the hot water on the above parts ; dried and powdered citric acid, one part ; powdered ingredients, and let them steep in it for two hours ; then bicarbonate of potash, one part and a quarter ; mix in a strain, and bottle for use. mortar, and keep in a very closely-stopped bottle. One Lemon-Syrup.-Eight pounds of sugar, three quarts of large teaspoonful to be stirred in two thirds of a tumbler of water, one quart of lemon-juice. Mix the sugar and water cold water. As this preparation is expensive, and does not together. As soon as the sugar has dissolved, place it over the fire, and boil and skim it; then add the lemon-juice. keep well, the following is usually substituted for it: Lemon and Kali, or Sherbet of the Shops.-Finely-ground white sugar, half a pound ; powdered tartaric acid and carFASHIONS FOR AUGUST. bonate of soda, of each a quarter of a pound; essence of FIG. 1.- WALKING-DRESS OF GREEN AND PINK CHANGEABLE lemon, thirty to fifty drops ; all the powders should be well dried, add the essence to the sugar, then add the other pow- SILK. The lower-skirt is trimmed with five bands of green ders, and well mix. One teaspoonful in a tumbler of water. silk. The upper-skirt is made without trimming, and is This preparation must be kept very dry in a tightly-stopped looped up at the back by a large how of the silk, fastened bottle.. with a long, pearl buckle. Waist and sleeves plain. Small Ginger-Beer, No 1.-White sugar, five pounds ; lemon- straw hat, trimmed with a long, pink gauze veil. FIG. II.- DRESS FOR A YOUNG LADY.- The under-dress is juice, a quarter of a pint; honey, a quarter of a pound ; ginger, bruised, five ounces ; water, four gallons and a half. short, and is of pink foulard ; the upper-dress, ofwhite musBoil the ginger in three quarts of the water for halfan hour, lin, is looped up each side of the front with bands of pink then add the sugar, lemon-juice, and honey, with the re- foulard, fastened with a black velvet button ; full white mainder of the water, and strain through a cloth; when waist, with long sleeves, and a low, square, black velvet cold, add the quarter of the white of an egg, and a small bodice. Black sailor hat, with a pink ribbon. FIG. III.-SHORT EVENING-DRESS FOR A YOUNG LADY.-The teaspoonful of essence of lemon ; let the whole stand four lower-skirt is of gold-color changeable silk, trimmed with days, and bottle ; this will keep many months. Ginger-Beer, No. 2.-White sugar, three pounds ; bruised three ruchings of blue silk; the white muslin skirt is looped ginger, two ounces ; cream of tartar, one ounce ; four lemons, up with bows and ends of blue ribbon ; the body is cut low shred; boiling water, four gallons; allow the whole to soak and square, and is trimmed like the Marie Antoinette sleeves for two hours, then strain ; add eight ounces of yeast, and with blue ribbon and lace. FIG. IV. EVENING-DRESS OF PINK SILK.-The under-skirt after a few hours, put into tightly-corked stone bottles.

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586] Leovigild, Guntram, king of Orleans, had made an invasion, and had also sent ships to Galicia to instigate an insurrection of the Sueves. The Franks were driven back by Recared and their ships sunk by the naval forces of Leovigild. After this preliminary struggle Leovigild attempted to make an alliance with Guntram, but the Frankish king rejected all his advances, and for the second time invaded Septimania. Recared was engaged in fighting against him when he received the news of his father's last illness, which caused him to return to Spain. No sooner was Leovigild dead, than Recared was unanimously elected king.

His reign was very unlike that of his predecessor. Leovigild had been essentially warlike, striving for the political unification of the Peninsula. Recared fought only in self-defence against the Franks and Vascons; instead of continuing the conquest of Spain, he made peace with the Byzantines, acknowledged their occupation of certain territories, and promised to respect it. Moreover, Leovigild desired uniformity of religion, but on the basis of Arianism, whilst Recared made it his main concern, but on the basis of Catholicism. It is probable that he abandoned the warlike policy of his father, because recent events had convinced him that the greatest danger for the Visigothic kingdom lay in the discord between the Visigothic and the Spanish-Roman elements. He probably realised that the main work before him was to unite these two elements, or at least, to induce them to lay aside their discontent and jealousy. More than one reason has been alleged for the change in the religious point of view. It has been supposed that Leovigild himself turned Catholic shortly before his death, and this view is supported by a passage in Gregory of Tours, but it scarcely suits the nature of the king, as illustrated by the earlier events of his life. There is another statement, connected with the above, which has less documentary evidence to support it. It occurs in the Dialogues of Gregory the Great, and is to the effect that Leovigild charged Leander, bishop of Seville, to convert Recared. Lastly, the conjecture that Recared had secretly turned Catholic in his father's lifetime, is not supported by any contemporary documents. We are, therefore, led to suppose that this change on the part of Recared was due to one of the following causes: — (1) Reflection, which had ripened in the knowledge of the real force which the Catholics represented in the Peninsula, superior as they were in number to the Visigoths, possessed of money and property in the land, and connected with the Byzantines. (2) A change of conviction on the part of Recared himself, after his accession to the throne, which was possibly brought about by the preaching of Leander, and also by the example of Hermenegild. (3) A possible combination of both causes.

The facts are: — (1) The execution of Duke Sigisbert, which might have been either the outcome of Reeared's affection for his brother Hermenegild, or in punishment of Sigisbert's transgression of his orders; but it is noteworthy that Recared accounted for it by stating that


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Lemons are not always to be procured, especially on a journey, and we have, therefore, much pleasure in drawing attention to the following useful directions for making portable lemonade : Excellent Portable-Lemonade.-Rasp with a quarter of a pound of sugar, the rind of a fine, juicy lemon ; reduce the sugar to powder, and pour on it the strained juice of the fruit ; press the mixture into a jar, and when wanted for use, dissolve a tablespoonful of it in a glass of water; it will keep a considerable time. If too sweet for the taste of the drinker, a very small portion of citric acid may be added when it is taken. Mock-Lemonade.-A cheap substitute for lemonade may be made as follows :-Tartaric acid, a quarter of an ounce ; sugar, six ounces ; essence of lemon, dropped on the sugar, about four or five drops ; boiling water, two pints. This, allowed to stand till cold, makes a wholesome, cooling, summer beverage, economical in its cost, but the flavor is not equal to that prepared from lemon-juice. Another Mock-Lemonade.- A mock-lemonade of superior flavor may be made by using the acid prepared from lemons, citric acid, according to the following receipt :-Citric acid, a quarter of an ounce ; essence of lemon, ten to twenty drops ; syrup, half a pint; boiling water, as much as may be required. This preparation is expensive, and is not equal to lemonade from fresh lemons, which should always be preferred when they can be obtained. Plain Orangeade.—Orangeade should be made in precisely a similar manner to lemonade, using China oranges instead of lemons ; but as there is less acid in this fruit, a much larger proportion of juice is required, and however prepared, this beverage is rather insipid, and is inferior to the following: Orange-Lemonade.-Take three China oranges, one large lemon, and two or three ounces of sugar ; rub off some of the peel on to the sugar, squeeze on the juice, and pour on two pints ofboiling water ; mix the whole, and strain. Imperial may be regarded as a sort of a mock-lemonade ; it forms a cheap, wholesome, cooling, summer beverage. Two receipts are added, the first being the better of the two. No. 1. Cream of tartar, half an ounce ; one lemon, cut in slices ; white sugar, half a pound; spring-water, three pints. Mix, and allow them to stand for an hour or two before use, as the cream of tartar dissolves but slowly. No. 2. Cream of tartar, a quarter of an ounce ; lemon-peel and sugar to suit the taste ; boiling water, two pints. Mix, and allow to stand until cold. Lemonade a la Soyer.-Put a quart of water in a stew-pan to boil, into which put two moist dried figs, each split in two; let it boil a quarter of an hour, then have ready the peel of a lemon, taken off rather thickly, and the half of the lemon cut in thin slices ; throw them into the stew-pan, and boil two minutes longer, then pour it into a jug, which cover closely with paper until cold, then pass it through a SUMMER BETERAGES. sieve, add a teaspoonful of honey, and it is ready for use. Lemonades.-Lemons furnish two important products for Orangeade a la Soyer - Proceed as for lemonade, but the formation of beverages, an acid juice, and an aromaticusing the whole of the orange, a little of the peel included, stomachic oil, contained in the rind. Lemon-juice is a sweetening with sugar-candy, and adding a teaspoonful of slightly turbid, very sour liquid, having a pleasant flavor arrow-root, mixed with a little cold water, which pour into when diluted. It contains a considerable quantity of gummy the boiling liquid at the same time you put in the orange. mucilage, which causes it to become mouldy on exposure to The arrow-root makes it very delicate. the air. It is capable of furnishing a large number of aciduSuperior Lemonade a la Soyer.-Take the peel of six lated drinks, which are exceedingly useful in allaying thirst, lemons, free from pith, cut it up in small pieces, and put it and are most valuable for their anti-scorbutic properties. with two cloves into a bottle containing half a pint of hot In making any kind of lemonade, the proportions given water, place the bottle in a stew-pan with boiling water, need not be adhered to, but the quantities ordered may be and let it stand by the side of a fire for one or two hours, increased, or lessened, to suit the taste. For a quart of taking care it does not boil ; then take half a pint of lemonlemonade, take six lemons and a quarter of a pound of juice, half a pint of syrup, if none, use plain syrup, or sugar, sugar; rub off part of the yellow rind of the lemons on to in like proportion, adding a few drops of orange-flower tke sugar, squeeze the juice on to the latter, and pour on water add the infusion of the rind, which has been prethe water boiling hot; mix the whole, and run through a viously made, and allowed to become cold, stir well together, flannel jelly-bag. and add two quarts of cold water.

Fish Rissoles.-Take some fish, either fresh or that has been cooked, shred it, and let it stew with some butter, covering it over until sufficiently done. Soak a French roll in milk, beat up the fish and this together in a mortar, with a little finely-chopped mushroom and three eggs ; season with salt and pepper. Mix all well up, bake in small cups, first buttered, and turn out. Serve with or without anchovy Bauce. Tomato-Omelette.-Six eggs, a wineglass of flour, four ripe tomatoes, pepper and salt to the taste, milk sufficient to mix the flour smoothly. Beat the eggs very light, stir in the mixed milk and flour, peel and chop the tomatoes, and add with the pepper and salt. Have a pan with some hot butter, pour in the mixture, and fry it. When done, it may be lapped half over or not, according to the fancy. Do not turn it. Potato Croquettes-a Sweet Dish.-Take some nicely-baked potatoes, scoop out the mealy part, and mash it thoroughly smooth; press it through a sieve, make it into a stiff paste with some cream, butter, orange-flower water, powdered loaf-sugar, and raw eggs, well beaten ; make it into croquettes by rolling portions in sifted bread-crumbs, and dipping them in white of egg, whipped to a snow; fry them in plenty of lard or fresh butter. Eggs au Beurre.-Well beat up four eggs ; put three tablespoonfuls of cream or milk, a little grated tongue, or beef, pepper and salt, and three ounces of butter into a stew-pan until quite hot, when add the eggs, stirring all the time until quite thick. Have ready a slice of bread toasted and well buttered, spread the mixture over it, and serve very hot. Eggs a la Solferino.-Boil some eggs hard, cut them in two, take out the yolks, and beat these up with a little parsley and salt, and replace into the whites, of which cut previously the under part a little, so as to make them stand in the dish, and serve up with a nice white sauce round them. Let them be quite hot when served. To Keep Pears.-Place the pears in some large earthenware pans, and cover them over, only leaving enough space to allow of the exhalations from the fruit to escape. The pans should be kept in a cool place, and as the pears begin to ripen, they may be brought into a warm room three or four days before they are wanted for dessert. Rancid Butter, boiled in water, with a portion of charcoal, (say a tenth part, ) will be entirely divested of its rancidity, and may be used for cooking purposes, although its fine flavor will not be restored for the table. To Make Good Vinegar.- One pint of strained honey and two gallons of soft water. Let it strain in a moderately warm place. In three weeks it will be excellent vinegar. Burned Sugar.- Put a little sugar on the fire, and a little water, and let it burn. Then add water and bottle it. It keeps any length of time. Used for browning gravy.

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90 and spells should be recited; he did not however dare to state on whose behalf these things were to be done.

Small wonder that in the dream she turned upon him so bitter and reproachful a gaze, feeling (as by her words he judged she did) that this one sin had robbed her of salvation. He remembered her constant devotions; never since that fatal day had she omitted one single prayer, penance or charity that might serve as atonement for her guilt. Yet all had been in vain, and even in the world beyond, this one crime clung to her like a stain that could not be washed away. In the past he had never thought clearly about such things; but now they lived in his mind with a terrible vividness and certainty. Were there but some spell, some magic that could enable him to seek her out in the obscure region where her soul was dwelling, and suffer in her stead the penalties of his own offence! Yet the truth was that he could not so much as have a few poor Masses said for her soul; for, had he named her, the suspicions of the Court would at once have been aroused.

Concerning the Emperor, too, Genji’s conscience was very uneasy; for had Ryōzen indeed discovered the true story of his birth, he must now be living in a state of continual apprehension. It was at about this time that Genji put himself under the especial protection of Amida, Buddha of Boundless Light, beseeching the Blessed One that in due time his soul and that of the lady whom he had undone might spring from the same lotus in His holy Paradise. But of such an issue he had little hope, and often he would disconsolately recite the verse: ‘Fain would I follow her, could I but hope to thread my way among the sunless Rivers of the World Below.’

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