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BITS? AND I ARI: OUT AGIN.
new no yo‘ do,'l[r. hwyer? Yo‘ see I've come
About thiit little hizuoss, In‘ I've brought Ilong
yer ti
I dont liner’ whlt yo- tsx me, in puyjuss whIt
ya’ so
rur rt: duritd ill live with that Ir Bets Inother
. Iy.
WhIt‘s the rip nowr ,;.- heir me; lose look I‘ thst
ye
ThIt‘s the prints 0! Betsy‘: knuckle, Ind howls
lllsl fur hi h
lily nose ll red,l gnrlt you; that Ilong of the
gems clluss,
For the (l:VI.l himself cIu’t stand the weight of
t It Ir wumIn‘s clsws.
I've tolled yo‘ how we in Ind jswned rur yesrs-I
ood round score
An‘ how we nude it up lust week, Ind vowed wa‘d
sw III) DIDIG ' '
An‘ how i burnt thst ‘gresinsnt, more I wu .
II o lg -
To think I row ol twenty yssrs could be nude up
in one nightl
Yo’ see, it hsppcusd this wIy: Llse night ’b<:nt
ten ‘clo -k,
Ivrssrldiu‘ hum lroiu msrket Ind lltl:liIlklll"b0I1t
‘ 00 . .
when r overtuck Jule nehson s peggin' llong
’ I s In
An‘ of courier’ (it rsinad like thunder) I Ired her
to get in. .
An‘ in she out In’ rid wllh me up to my verydoor
when out comes nets, rsnupsgeoue, I.nd hnlreyl
M... s e swore
Au‘son:ehow I disrlvmeuzbsr west hrppoued Irler
I I
But i lcunll in the yard this moru'in‘.1Ine‘s bunnit
In‘ my list. V
80, duw up them papers, Luwyer, In‘ this time
make ‘em strong, .
An’ glvf lieley onlyjlzss enough to keep her Kola‘
s on .
An‘ new l-is telled mrv nizuess I must he . gitrln’
Io
Fur i o'po‘.e, like Ill the rest orthe world, yer're
tired or my clsnk.
A TERRIBLE TEMPTATION.
BY CHARLES ILEADE.
Author of “Foul Play,” "Pu-I Yourself in ms
P1ace,"“ll'el=2r Too Late to llzellll: " crime
0aunl."“1Iarl1 cm," elc., elc.
CIIAPTE3 rs: ros'rr-n>l7lx-rs.-cos-rlnvsn.'
Then sir Chsrlcs, hilnscli much silelion, took
his wife's Irm Ind led her, trembling like an
Iepin lenl, mm the room.
rerhsps the pnyers or nesinsla Ind the tesrs
ol his mother would Ilone huve nulhmd to solisn
Itichsrd Bnssett, but the threat of exposure to his
wife Ind duughter ditl no hlrm. The three loan
In t l
o enns.
llegiu old to be liberated, on condition or going
to London hy the next trnin Ind ncver setting
his loot in (list psrish Izlin. His mother to go
with him, Ind see him ed to Austrelis. She
lolemnly pledged herself not to revenl the boy's
reel purentege to my other soul in the world.
This being settled, Bichnrd Bsssctt cIllcd the
cousluble in, Ind sIid the young gentlemen hnd
lstieded hlin thst it wss I precticsl joke, though
I very Iuzsrous orls, Ind he withdrew the
ehergs or felony.
The collstshlc stid he must hlve Sir Ch.Irles‘s
Iuthority lor Ih .
A mesuge ens sent to slr chlrles. Es cslue.
The prisoner wls rolcured, Ind nrry hleyrick
took his arm shsrply, As much Is to ssy, "Out of
my hnnds you go no more.‘ '
norore they left the room, sir Chnrlss, who wlls
new motor or hiulsolr, slid, with deep ltlcling,
“My poor boy, you can never be I strnnger
me. The Idectmn of yours cs!) not he untied in I
moment. You see now how folly glides Into
crime, Ind crime into punishment. Tnke this to
enrt, and never Iglin stny iron: the pIths of
honor. Land In honorable life; Ind, if you do,
writs to me Is it I wAs still your lsther."
They rctired, but Richuld mssott lingered,
Ind hung his heed.
' Charles wondered whIt this invetents (as
could hsve to sIy now.
Al. lsst izicnerrl said, hull Iullenly, yetwith n
touch of eompunctiou, “Sir hsrles, you have
been more generous thllu Iwls. You hsvelnid
me under In ohli Itiou.
Sir Churles haired lofl.il7-
H You would double lhxt ohligItion ir you
would prevail on may Bsssett to keep that old
lolly or mine secret from my wife Ind dnughtor.
I In: truly ushnusd or it; Ind, whItever my
[nulls lnsy luvs been, they love Ind respect
me.
"Mr. Bennett," srid sir ChIrles, "my son
Compton must ha told thut he is my heir; but no
deislls injurious to you lshsll trlnspire; you ms
1
' count on absolute secrecy lrom Lsdy Bsssett Ind
nlysell."
-‘Sir Charles," nid It-chsrd l3ssssLt,fslten'ng
for I moment. “I In very much obliged to you,
Ind Ibegln to be sorry we Ira enemies. Good-
morning.”
The Igirstion sud terror or this scene neIrly
killed Lndy Basseit on the spot. She hy Ill thIt
day in I stxte ol utter prostretion. ,
ltlesntirne, Sir Chsrlss put Ltus sud thst to-
gether, but nizl nothing. He spoke cheerfully
Ind philoeophicellylo his wire, sIid it hId heen
I issrlul blow, terrible wrench : but it wIs Ill lor
the best; such I son Is thst would hIve hroken
his lleurt before long. 1
"Ah, but your wnstsd Ideehonsl" grinned
nd her tellrs streslzled It the
rs
.
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THE DAYS’
Sir Chules sighed '. but ssid, slter I while, “Is
nsectiou ever entirely wssted? lily love for thst
young lool srllnrged my heart. There wIs s time
he did me I dcIl ol good."
But next dsy. hnviug only hersell to ihinlr or
now, Lndy llsstlctt could Ilve no longer under the
loud of deceit. She told Sir Chsrles, llisry Me!-
riclr hsd deceived him. "need this,” she sold,
“Ind see whnt your nlisonnle wife has <lone,viho
loved you to uisdness Ind cri 3."
Sir Charles looked It her, Ind suit in her wssted
form, Ind or fees, thst, if he did rend it, he
should llill her; so he plnysd the men: he re-
strained hiulseir y n rrlignty edort, Ind esld,
“ y dur, excuse me; but on this rnrtter I hsve
more lsitll in MI.ry Meyrick’s snctncss thsn in
ours. Besides, I know your hem, snd den’t
csre to he told or your errors in judgment, no, not
even hy yourself. Sorry to olrcnd sn llulnerese;
but I decline to rssd your book, Incl, more than
thst, I iorhld you the subject entirely tor the
next thirty yellrs, It ieest. Let hygoues he by-
genes.
That eventful evening, Mr. Butlund culled, Ind
proposed to Ruperts. she declined poliloly, but
tir y. ,
She told Mrs. Bussett; and Mrs. Blssstt told
mchurd in Inervous wey; but his enswer sur-
prised her. He seid he wss very glad or it 1 Eu-
pertI could do better.
Mrs. Bltssett could not resist the plolsure of
telling LIdy Bsssett. silo went over on purpose
with her husbs.nd's consent.
Lsdy Beeeolt Isked to see Ruperln.
“By Ill menus,” slid niollcrd lshsselt, guci.
ously.
On her return to Highmcre, Ruparts Isked
lens to go to the Hull every shy, and nurse
Lsdy Blssett. “ They will let her dis else," said
sh
e. ,
Richsrd Bctssett assented to thut too.
nnpertll, ror wonle weeks, Illnost lived It the
Hull; Ind, in this emergency, xeveslod gm:
qualities. As the nislsvolent Imsll-pox, pIssiug
through the gentle cow, comes out the sovereign
cowrpax, so, in this grnnious nIl.urs, her lstner’s
fives turnsd to their kindred virtues; his obstin-
Icy or purpose shone here u nehie consteucy;
his Iudeclty hecune csndor, Ind his cunning,
wisdom. Her intelligence ssvr It once thIt Lsdy
Bssselt wIs pining to desth, Ind u wesk-minded
urss would be Istsl: she was All smiles and
brightness, Ind neglected no means to encour-
Ige the pltlent.
With this view, she promised to plight her faith
to Compton lbs moment Led] Bassstt should he
restored to helilth: Ind so, with hopes, Ind
smiles, Ind the novelty or. dsughtar‘e love, she
taught with desth for Ledy Bsssett, Ind, It lust,
she won the dsspente bsttls.
This did Richard Bsssett‘s' dlugliter for her
fsther’s lnle enemy.
The 'gi‘Itelul hushuml wrote to Blssett, Incl
now Icknowlodged his obligation.
A civil, mock-modest, rsply trom Itiohurd Bus-
t
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From this things went on, step by stop. till. It
lsst, Compton and izuperul, it eighteen your or
Ige, were farlnslly betrothed.
us the childrenls love wore out the l'Ither's
Its.
> 'l‘hIt love, so troubled It the ontsct,letk,‘hy
degrees, the region or romsnce, Ind ripple
smoothly through green sowery melldnws.
Rupsrta showed her lover one more phuse ol
girlhood ; she who hsd heou s precocious Ind lor.
wsrd child, sud then I ehy end silent girl, csme
out now I bright Ind witty young women, full or
vivscity, modesty, Ind Icnsihility.
Time cured Compton or his one defect. Buperts
stop d growing It diteeu; hut Compton went
slowly On: caught her It seventeen, Illd It nine-
teen hell pssred her by s llesd. He wonIschol.Ir-
ship It oxrerd, he rowed in College rscce, Ind, st
hut, in the University rIl:s on the Themes.
Buporn stood in orlees hesuty, dsrli hlue
rlvnl, ssw it come up with, V d,
Imidst the rosre of the multitude. When she ssw
her lover, with hsre corded Inns Is brown Is I
herry, Ind sst weth, suing hs lorious p rt in
thst msnly slruggle within sight yIrds or her, she
confessed he wss not I 0 now.
But Lldy Bsssstt leosptetl no such evidence ;
being pestered to let them mnrry It twenty years
or Ige, shs clogged her consent with one condi-
‘ n. y must live three you: It Hunter-
oomhe, Is rnllu Ind wire.
“No boy of twenty," ssid she, “em under-
stsnd a. young women or lhst Ige. I must h
the house to prevent e single misunderstanding
between my hcloved children."
The young people, who both edored her, voted
the condition reuonshlo. They were mnrriecl,
Ind I wing of the specious building allotted to
5
sin. .
For their slkel let us hope thst their wedded
life, now hlp ily commenced, will lurnlsh me no
mIterlIll lor Inother tsle; the hsppisst lives are
uneventful.
The loreigu geul. recovered his wound, hul Ic-
quired rhsulnltisln, Ind I dislike for midnight
sxpediticns.
Ileginnld nlloped I your or two over seven
hundred miles of colony, sowing his wild one Is
he dew: but is nows prosperous squstter, very
loud or Ilsspiug in the open sir. ng Ind was
not big snnngh for the hold llohelnislz. He does
very well where he is. ,
Old Meyrick died, Intl left his wife I little
astute in the next county. Dnlre Islred her hand
It the lunenl, Bhs lnsrrisll him in six months,
Ind mlgrnted to the estsle in question; lorslr
Chsrlss relused her I lesss of his form; not
choosing to hIvs her uur hlnl.
DOINGS.
LI llisrsh set hersoll to convert mry, Ind orten
exhorted her lo penitence; shs here this pretty
well lorsorue time, neing overswed by old r
lnlsceuees or sistorly superiority ; but, It lsst,
vuuity rebel ea “Repentl end repuntl” ori
n
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church. ".l‘is Ill very well ror you torspent, ss
lud n isstish lira It sthrtlng: but never don
nothing as I’m ashamed on."
u
ltichnrd Bsssstt ssid one day to Wheeler, “ Old
lollew, there is not I worse poison thsn note. It
liss lnsde nie old Y store my time.‘ And whut does
it all come to? We might just us well have kept
quiet; ror my grundscn will inherit Hurltorlumbo
Ind Bsssett, Iftor sll j"
“Thsnlis to the girl you would not ring the
halls for."
Sir Chnrles and Lsdy Bsssett lard Ipcscelul
life alter Ill their troubles, sud renew their youth
in their children, or whom Ruperlu is one, Ind Is
deer as any.
Yet there is I pensive Ind humhle Ilr shout
Lsdy Bsssett, which shows she still expistss her
lsult, though she knows it will clwuys he ignored
hy him, for whose sake she sinned.
In summing her up, it my be us well to com-
pare this with the unmixed sell-colnphcency of
ltlrs. Drake.
You men Ind women, who Judge this Belle Blu-
sett, he iirm-nnd do not let her smiehls quali-
ties, or her good intentions, hliud you in s plsin
mstler or right Ind wrong; he chsrihble-snd
Isk yourselves now onon in your lives you lleve
uceu youreolves or my other hums.n neiug, resist
Itelrrible tern t c‘ . ,
My erpericnce is, that we resist other people’s
tolnptzltions nohly, Ind succum to our .
0 let me and with I line or Eugl.Iud’s gentlest
t-
sstlris -
“ Heaven he luernlrul to us sll, sinners Is we be.”
THE HOODS.
Bkigl-CS.
Bser-Eoon. This is the most clyinlr time in
one's life. Getting into this wicked world is a
matter in which every bnhy is deeply interested ;
uud the w olo uddir lnust he msusged wit e
utmost dexterity, else the hshy’s more only he
decidedly uuplonssnt in many respec s.
The leper.pcr:od oi onc‘s existence esuuot,
hsppily, is u grnerel thing, he rcmemhercd by
us; Ind olrr silmrings then do not renew us Liter
in life-which is I wise dispensation of Provi-
dence, for which we ought to he duly thsnktul.
ohl the puins sud the pine tilst hssot ns thenl
How the nurse hIngs us uhout when no one is
loakin I And how she does dose us with lIud-
Innm, Godfrey's Cordiul, Ind soothing syrup, to
keep us iroln squulliug ; llud how we would whsle
r, ii‘ we were only ney enough. But there is
Ilwsys su if in the wsy or some things. We
suppose our own case will do on well as my other
re tnlk Ibout, w'tln’t it 2 We'll tuko it for grlllted
It I venture. so here goes.
nr mother isn't the most gsuisl ‘person in the
world, Ior'she never did like hsbiee, and we do
bother her so much. But Is we are on hand,
Ind can't very well he got rid or, in e legitimate
manner, she mulres the best ofs bud bsrgsin, Ind
us us much Is possible on the nurse.
PI 3 pets us the must; end when e m
home It night huhyseelns tobe the only coulpsny
he cares lor. He loudles us, sud Coos to us, Ind
itchas us in the eir, Ind then cstchss us, Ind
we hIve I grand, good time gonerslly.
or c urse, we lrs the prettiest hsby that ever
Wis born; nu um r i we sve got u dough
hes, s pug nose, and sis Ibout Is homely es
Sstlu himse
how Insny stories hshy could tell, it it
could only talk, or whet llsppeus It home during’
pups‘: Ihllence. or how thIt big-whielrorod mIn
comes so often, and how he Ind ulsmsas go into
the psrlor together; end how one day when sllc
h
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m
t
down on the door to play, thst big-whiskersd
lnsn put his erms Iround rurluulvs waist, and
kissed her, oh, so very, ezry much. And how
Betty, the chsmheruluid, when pops and lxlunms
Ire hath out, hss her hell: in the psrlor, Ind
how he does to Bsttyjust es the big-whiskered
lnIn did to nlluuun. And we could tell of msny
other things, thst oulyhhhiss csn see; but then
we can't tzllr, so our discoveries don't heuedt
Inybody.
And then the time eomee iorlong clothes, Ind
how we do detest them; for we cIu‘t kick Ind
mile the mieehier geuorully Is we did before;
Ind we Ire exported to hahIve ourselves with
much more propriety-Iud we Irs thoroughly
disgusted with propriety.
. we get through the sundry disesses to which
hnbies mostly urn liehlenwe eoule nesr dying Ind
don't; though in srtor life we orlen wish we had
-we puss through the osvsrul degrees or hsby-
haod, until It length it is decided to take 03' the
long clothes, Ind we Ire ushered into I new
slsls ol existence, which is nothing more or less
hm
cnn.n-soon.
But now we have I tongue, Ind cIu tslk. And
don't we get folks into Ill sorts of scrspos by the
wugning of tllst nine little tongue of ours?
lhnims llss to he more circumspect in her he-
hsvlor now, for the cfllld has got wondrous shsrp
eyes, Ind very big esrs, Ind nothing ml-Ipos
the No more hesvy-whiskered men In the
[Sl'.rrnn:I so. 1811.
We got I glimpse of them on dry Is they were
wslking together, Ind curred to run Iftsr them,
but thst Ilmminsble nurse-who still slicks to us
Is il we were yet u hshy-crught ns, Ind pre< -
vented us nlIk‘lng those demonstrations ol Ideo-
tion we were Ibout to.
But we hsve our own quiet little fun, Ind we
nulls the most 0! it. We Ilways tell when Nsncy
hes her head in the kitchen (you don't suppose
the: we go to had like other children, do you ll
Ind we weteh it the Iron gate (or thst ieeydr
who comes so renulerly It hsltrprst rave in the
Ilternoou. He tskes out ID Iwlul big hnsket
lull ; Ind we don't wonder that nlsmml complsiul
Ibout the hurter lasting such I short lime, the
door giving out so soon, the eggs dissppssriug so
rspidly, end the ten Ind Iugsr only iesliug s
week now, when it used to lust two.
But marbles is our greet gums. We csn best
Ill the hoys It that, Ind psrticulnrly Tom French.
Au hss such u nice, kind mother. Arior
Tom is broke on the marble question All he hes in
o ie to go into the house, Ind out he comes Igsin
with money to buy some more. And when the
short, stout gsntlsmsu w‘th s hlcnde moustsche,
Ind whom they cell colonel (James, we think, his
nrst nemo is), is there, Tom, besides getting
money ror marbles, hss enough lor aqnles, too.
But we don't like Tom's mother, for she hue red
hsir. But she wesrs diamonds, Ind all thst sort
or thing; and Is Tom seems to he srtisded,vlo
suppose we ought to he, too.
And then sometimes there's u elergymsn visits
Tom's motherwlt lsist he looks like one, for he
wssrs e w its choker, sud, Ippsrentlv, could.
Innihilate the devil himself with one glsncs from
his surlctimunious eyes. But Toni don’t seem to
funny him much. for he doesn't treat to marble-
mouey; and Tom ssys that Ilter thut old hlolie
(his word, ‘pan honor), goes swey, his msmml
cries for It least hslf In hour, then washes her-
scll, puts some red stun on her reee, gives him ten
cents (for more msrbles), Ind then goes out for
am] he is Iwllil nfrsid to sleep
dye sometimes his mulume don't
would for I moment think of letting us go to bed
without I light, vve’d coneoet some terrible scheme
or vengesnce, and blytrsy her to pupa ; for some-
‘ whys seemed to us lh'ut pups
msmms so kindly. too. He gets her everything
she wants, eucl tries to plesse her in every wIy,
Ind yet duy lifter day she goes out to meet the
big-whisilerod nun. We know there issolnetlling
wrong, nhild tllllt we Ire. But we are tired of
heing celled n child, so we make is bound, Ind
Jump into
. nor-soon.
Anrl new they send us to school. These Ire,
indeed, our heppiost drys, only there seems to he
somelhiug wrong It home. A coolness 1iI.s
sprung up hotvleou our plirsnts. They Ire cou-
stsutly qusrreling now, Ind hitter recriminnlivnz
puns between them, even in our end sister's pre.
sauce. Sister Bella is older then we sre, Ind looks
on, with such ll pelnod expression in her rece.
thnt it tells us but too plelnly that she is much
wiser us to the osuse of the trouble between
them than we Ire.
One dty we come hou:le.ll-ol.n school and mother
is not there. There is no dinner may, but we
msnllge to sstisfy our hunger out or whatever
we sud lelt in the pantry, Ind go to our studies.
But she does not return. Father comes home It
dark sud Asks lor her. We tell him of her
absence, Ind he looks troubled Ind Inxioils. He
goes to her room, end shortly Ilusrreturns with
In open letter in his hand. Tho intense look of
bsck Iguiu, bids us do the best we con lbr supper,
Ind then go to bed, lor he is going out, but will
return soon. ‘in no more that night,
but the next morning It breakfilsths lneele us, he
ilnnthing had hsppened; tells us that we too sre
All that he hss to live for now, that he will get
some one to come nnd llcep hollse, Ind that we
must never mention motherfs ullnle in his pre-
sense. This isnot I very hiird Iusk, for she has
never tried to lnnke us love her, Ind we some-
how lost I rt-lie! thst she hns gone. We study
hsrd, puss our exslnillstlons crcdltnbly, Ire out
8 Dill‘
in the world, Ind now begin
HAN-HOOD.
We commsnoe lile in errnest now. As clerk in
s store we begin the real work or our existence.
We toll on from yesr (0 I8". Kfldlltlly bl!‘
surely gsiuing ground in the worry sscent or tllut
ladder which evenlunlly lesds to riches, (or we
hIve determined to be rich.
But one evening, on returning home, we find
thst sister hss compsuy. ills s youngledy two
or three were younger than she is-one of her
old school chums-come to spend I few dllys
held and sun.
but she trilles with us shsmelully. One tiny she
is Ill thut the most ardent lover could wish for;
the next she is Is cold sud distsnt Is if we were
the merest scqusintsnce in the world. But we
Ire determined to Iscertsiu l'hIt her feelings are
towsrds us hnlore she iesves, and the evening
hslore she intends to do so we summon Ill our
cournge, tell her ol our love, propose, Ind Ire-
rejected. She likes us Is I lricud, Ind Il.l thlt
sort (7! thlulz, but she hId never dreamed of love.
We get dospente, lorswesr the sex, Ind hence.
Her new Ihode wu in the next plrish to her
sister's.
rd.
parlor. Ital nol She meets him outside now.
Idrth devote Ill our energies to the Icuulnnlstion
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