lllltovkxh vi x b nec uege nec populo bed utroue saturday october31 1829 extracts from dftvrreux a tale by tbe au thor of pelbam continued gtood old man hie very defects were what we loved best in him vanitwas so mingled with gbbd nature that iube- tame graceful and we reverenced one the mpst while we most smiled at the other que peculiarity had he which the k i i- i j l- j chddish anticipations of the world made age he had lived in and his domestic i r rae love to listen to stones of courts and eminent attachment the fact was that i really liked both the knight and his stories better than my brothers did and the very first time i had seen my uncle i had commented on the beauty of his stocking and envied the consti tution of his leg from such trifles spring affection in truth our attach ment so progressed that we grew to be constantly together and while my history rendered natural enough viz an exceeding distaste to the matrimoni al state early marriages were misery imprudent marriages idiotism and mar riage at the best he was wont to say with a kindling eye and a heightened colour marriage at the best was the devil yet it must not be supposed that sir william devereux was an un- gallant man on the contrary never did the beau sexe have an humbler or more devoted servant as nothing in his estimation was less becoming to a wiseman than matrimony so nothing was more ornamental than flirtation lie had the old mans weakness gar rulity and he iuu the wittiest stories in the world without omitting any thing in them but the point this omission m wvwfifc ifvwm fo 1pma ojawn rf memory or of humour but solely from i a deficiency in the malice natural to all i jesters he could not persuade his lips to repeat a sarcasm hurting even the dead or the ungrateful and when he came to the drop of gall which sliould courtiers my uncle returned the com pliment by declaring of my wit as the angler declared of the river lea that one would find enough in it if one would but angle sufficiently long nor was this all my uncle and my self were exceedingly like the waters of alpheusand arethusa nothing was thrown into the one without being seon very shortly afterward floating upon the other every witticism or legend sir william imparted to me and some to say truth were a little tinged with the licentiousness ofthe times he had lived in i took the first opportunity of re tailing whatever might be the audience and few boys at the age of thirteen can boast of having so often as myself excited the laughter of the men and my mother called to us and we left the room with her the next time we saw my uncle the priests reasonings had prevailed the following week we all three went 10 school my father had been a catholic my mother was of the same creed and consequently we were brought up in that unpopular faith but iny uncle whose religion had been sadly undermined at court was a ter rible caviller at the holy mysteries of catholicism and while his friends termed him a protestant his enemies hinted falsely enough that he was a skeptic when iwontreuil first follow ed us to dcvereux court many and bit ter were the lilttle jests my worthy un cle had provided for his reception and he would shake his head with a notable archness whenever he heard our reve rential description ofthe expected guest but somehow or other no sooner had he seen the priest than all his purposed railleries deserted him not a single witticism came to his assistance and the calm smooth face of the ecclesiastic seemed to operate upon the fierce re solves ofthe facetious kuight in the same manner as the human eye is supposed to awe into impotence the malignant in tentions of the ignobler animals yet t i man did so seem to read me through i tiie blushes 01 vile vonvovi ittftfti nothing could be blander thai the de- nature for a belief iu mysterious visitations felt somehow so odd and yet so pleased- lightened day we look back with some thing hke regret to the imaginative era of darkoe9s when spirits embodied in eafry form that fear or fancy could invent throng ed the paths of human life broke its mono tony and colored its dull surface with the bright haes and deep shadows of magic light we almost envied the twilight of our indian predecessors whose quickening faith like the ancient philosophy infused vitality into external nature imparting a portion ofthe iniiuito spirit to mountain valley stream and flower that faith that gave discourse and reason to trees and stones and running brooks strange that in the progress of light mind shoukj surren der its dominion to matter that the meta physics of nature should yield to the physi cal sciences that the materialism of the mineralogist the botanist the geologist should prevail over the spirituality of the savage but so it is the suggestion of superstition so universal in maus natural state of igoorancc are silenced by the clear cold demonstrations of knowledge who oow ventures to tell a fairy tale beyond the purlieus ofthe nursery who would hope to raise a ghost above the subterrane an region of the kitchen the murdered lie as quietly in their graves as if they had been dismissed to their rest anointed and annealed and even loves martyrs the most persevering of all uightwalkers no more revisit the glimpses ofthe moon and yet there seems to he a deep foundation in are xym im sure i could almost have cut my fin ger off out of vexation when i found ray lost beau only a amateur uncle yoo must knowroakes puirrpsfor ships and other things hi hat line and he took me this nomiugon board such a beauty of a yacht wbifch nets attirr6 i his line he told me agoing it belonged to man of a very noble family who had spet all his fortune and that report said he was near driveu road by unkindness but how ever some ways hes got this yacht and shes like a little fairy but what hes going to do with her bobody can tell uncle says no expense is spared and that she will be the most completest thing in the river when we got on board the steward said no one could go in the cabin as the gentle man had given orders not to be disturbed 11 lord sir says i if you tell thegeotle- mdn its only a young lady 1 dont sup pose hell refuse and sure enough i was right for out he comes and did so sweet ly apologize for his servants conduct who he said ought to have koowu that no orders however positive of not being dis turbed could apply to a young lady like me was not that the genteel way it was doing the thing as it ought to be done- it was a touch above the borough and as for the minories aye right and left with evciy east india warehouse included its my belief they couldnt have found so beautiful an idea in a mouth the gentle- have given zest to the story the milk of human kindness broke its barrier des pite of himself and washed it away he was a fine wreck a little prema turely broken by dissipation but not perhaps the less interesting on that ac count tall and somewhat of the jovial old english girth with a free where good nature and good living mingled their smiles and glow lie wore the garb of twenty years back and was cu riously particular in the choice of his silk he was not a little vain of his ice and a cumstancc while it aggravated my own i vanity delighted my uncles and as i was always getting into scrapes on his account so he was perpetually bound by duty to defend me from the char ges of which he was the cause no man defends another longwithout loving him the better for it and pet haps sir wil liam devereux and his eldest nephew were the only allies in the world who had no jealousy of each other a family conversation a priest and an era in life you are ruining the children my dear sir william said my gentle mo ther one day when i had been parti cularly witty and the abbe mont re u meanour of the abbe montreuil no thing more worldly in their urbanity than his manner and address if is garb was as little clerical as possible his con- in our unknuu o mil jufinjiciknsiiic cou- nexion with spiritual beings the mighty mind of johnson was duped by the ghost of cocklane and seized a ho himself con fesses on everv tale of tho stockings between you anctme7 w3iw if uluulffwly necessary that compliment on that score was always sure of a gracious reception the solitude of my uncles household was broken by an invasion of three bays none ofthe quietest and their mo ther who the genilust and saddest of womankind seemed to follow them the emblem of that primeval silence from which all noise was born these three boys were my two brothers and myself my father who had conceived a strong personal attachment for louis qualorze rever quitted his service and the great king repaid him by orders and favours largo dark speaking eyes upon a pi widiout number he died of wounds re- tw ofldo holy aimly which huu ceived- in battle a count and a mar- they should go to school to school said my uncle who was caressing his right leg as it lay over i his left knee- to school madam spect and patly by an air like that of a t frti- nran i nan nevgr exactly at his ease not that tenance and mien of the most attentive respect what then was the charm by which this singular man never failed to obtain ah ascendancy in some measure allied with fear over all in whose company he was thrown that was a secret my uncle never could solve and which only in later life i myself was able to discover it was partly by the magic of an extraordinary and powerful mind partly by an expression of manner if i may use such a phrase that seemed to sneer most when most it affected to re- strange you are joking what for pray instruction my dear sir william replied my mother ah ah i forgot that true true said my uncle dcspondingly and there was a pause my mother counted her rosary my uncle sunk into a reverie my second brother pinched my leg un der the table to which i replied by a j silent kick and my youngest fixed his pic- g opposite to him uncle broke silence he did lalfull of renown and destitute of mo- my uncle broke silence he did it his first t wlt a starl 41 ods fish mfem wcjr dressed his oaths like himself a little after the example of charles ii ney he hud married twice tffflh who died without lssuu wa i daughter of he noble house of la tre- mouille his second our mother was of a younger branch of the english race of howard brought up in her native country and influenced by a primitive and retired education she never loved that gay land which her husband had a- dopted as his own upon his death she hastened her return to england and refusing with somewhat of honourable pride the magnificent pension which louis wished ti settle upon the widow of his favourite came to throw herself and her children upon those affections which she knew they were entitled to my uhde was unaffectedly rejoiced to receive us to say nothing of his love for my father and his pride at the honours the latter had won to their an cient house the good gentleman was very well pleased with the idea of ob taining four new listeners out of whom he might select an heir and he soon grew as fond of us us we were of him at the time of our new settlement i had attained the age of twelve my se cond brother we were twins was born an hour after me my third was about fifteen mouths younger i had never been the favourite ofthe three in the first place my brothers my youngest especially were uncommonly handsome and at most i was but tolerably good- looking in the second place my mind was considered as much inferior to iheirsas my body i was idle and dull sullen and haughty the only wit i ever displayed was in sneering at my friends and the only spirit in quarrelling with my twin brother so said or so thought all who saw us in our childhood and it follows therefore that i was either very umnniable or very much misunder stood but to tho astonishment of myself and my relations my fate was now to be re versed and i was no sooner settled at devereux court than i became evi dently tho object of sir williams pre- the lady of avcnel ad all the prophecies fulfilled of sir walter scott but that tbe wild and fantastic superstitious of his nativeland tbnt metnmao of a poe tic child gtiu control ids imagination even napoleon who feared no power embodied in flesh and blood bowed like ao oriental slave before the dark myste rious despot destiny we have made this lopg introduction to a ghost story it was once our good fortune to hear well told to persuade our readers that we have drunk deep enough of the spi rit of the age to laugh when we arc in the presence of the honored public at the su perstition and credulity of others though we may still cherish 6oae relic of it in our secret soul somewhere between twenty and thirty years ago there is alas- a period when accurate dates become sort of momento moriwe or rather i for like a late po pular writer we detest at reviewer in the abstract the cold audcritical and pom pous uk i was on a vbit to a friend of my parents who reside in new york mrs reginald tudor she was an en glishwoman by birth but had long been a resident in this country and thoughofa noble family and educated with arisiocra- he was shy or ungraceful or even ta citurn no it was an indescribable em barrassment resembling that of one playing apart familiar to him indeed but somewhat distasteful this embar rassment however was sufficient to be contagious and to confuse that dignity in others which strangely enough ne ver forsook himself he was of low origin but his address and appearauce did not betray his hiith pride suited better with his mien than fa- tic prejudices she was iu all acts of kind- a command miliarity and his couutenauce rigid thoughtful and cold even through smiles in expression was strikingly commanding in person he was slightly above the mid dle standard aud had not the texture of his frame been remarkably hard wirey and muscular the total absence of all su- ness condescension and humanity a chrislian and is not christianity tho i feel assured wi a com life of gauntness of his figure ao appearance of almost spectral emaciatiou- in reality his age did not exceed tweutyeight years but his high broad forehead was already so marked with line and furrow bis air was so staid and quiet his figure so desti tute ofthe roundness and elasticity of youth that his appearance always impressed the beholder with the involuntary idea of a man considerably more advanced in life abstemious to habitual penance aod regular to mechanical exactness inhisfre- queut aod severe devotions he was as little inwardly addicted to tho pleasures and pursuits of youth as he was externally possessed of its freshness and its bloom to be continued the ij v the from ihe token country cousin author of hope leslie oils fish madam i have thought of a per flesh would have given the lean better plan than that they shall have instruction without going lo school for it and how sir william i will instruct them myself madam and sir william slapped the calf of the leg he was caressing jly mother smiled ay madam you may smile but i and mv lord dorset were the best scho lars of the age you shall read my play do mother said i read the play shall i tell her some of the jests in it uncle t my mother shook her head in anlici- pative horror and raised her finger re provingly my uncle said nothing but winked at me i understood the signal and was about to begin when the door opened and the abbe montreuil enter ed my uncle released his riglu leg and my jest was cut off nobody ever inspired a more dim religious awe than the abbe montreuil the priest enter ed with a smile my mother hailed the entrance of an ally father said she rising i have just represented to my good brother the necessity of sending my sons to school he bas proposed an alternative which i will leave you to discuss with him and what is it v said montreuil sliding into a chair and patting ge ralds head with a benignant air to educate them himself answei- ed my mother with a sort of satirical gravity my uncle moved uneasily in his seat as if for the first time he saw something ridiculous in the proposal the smile immediately fading from the thin lips ofthe priest gave way to an expression of respectful approbation an admirable plan said he slowly but liable to some little exceptions which sir william will allow me to in dicate act with the intlueoce of i couldnt speak for tho me but it seemed he knew well enough what was passing in my thoughts foundation the essence of republicanism i foron leading me up the stepshe gently jjor insws wane ualmcauc rtho l pressed my hand lhwkiznhi so how on earth coid be have known be might squeezo my hand i do believe had he given me a kiss i couldnt have been cross so mr age its all settled for the only difficulty aunt made was the ex pense which i said should all bo mine so it should if it was to cost a thousand i did not wear my indian handkerchief in my breast for i look upon that as a strata gem to which men should resort only when the front part of their coat gets threadbare i put my handkerchief it is real iodra ami i nave only one ofthe sort into mvcoai pocket and i allowed o the yellow corners to naop out as if by accident i oc casionally conveyed it from my pocket to mj face but when i replaced it a yellow corner f the sanae accident always huue out j at the corner of castlestreet several porters touched their bats to me and two matdservants who were standing at the topoftneir areastair looked after me till i was out of sight when i came to where the coaches are opposite the assembly rooms three or foor men asked me if i wan ted a coach but though tbe compliment rather pleased me i declined their auers in a dignified aud gentlemanly manner just as i passed gardners shop or between that aod mdiarmids an individual rather shabbily dressed whispered in my ear l any old clothes to sell sir i i answer ed no ratber gruffly forjiny first impres sion was that a kind of sneer was intended at my new coat but on reflection i feel convinced that these oldclothesmen only address persons of gentleraauly appearance and therefore i take this opportunity of pub licly expressing my regret for my severity to the individual in question who i am sorry to repeat was rather shabbily dressed hitherto i had met with little to ruffle me street i rubbed against a white phantom who passed on as if nothing had happened but who left the whole of my right arm and shoulder covered with flour and dust tho daring villain was a baker and with a ruth less barbarity worthy only of alinealdescen- dantof the murderer haggart he had at tempted to destroy for ever my coat and my happiness fortunately an obliging footman who was near me at the time seeing my distress lifted his hand and by a pretty violent application of it to my hack and side succeeded in restoring me to com parative peace of mind i got into princes- strcct tho sun was shining brightly all the world was abroad but i did not meet with one whose coat was so new as my own i felt my superiority i perceived that i was an object of universal attention i dont know how many black eyes glanced sunshine into mine fceauot recollect the number of blue oglers that stole my heart ateverystp oppositeblackwoodsshop a geutleman in a blue surtout and green spectacles stopped me aod addressing mo in french gave me to understand that he was a spanish refugee very poor and very miserable and that as he had been in formed i was celebrated for my charitable- actions he hoped i would afford him a utile assistance i was rather pleased at the strangers address but how he came to be informed that i was celebrated for my charitable actions i confess i cannot very provided this young lady will do rae the ho- well comprehend for with the exceptiou nor of joining tho party for her persuasion of a penny i threw to a little boy who con- tioued scranioe on the fiddle under our ibmii nvuv rrdihjtmviudiv ifiiyt beau hes not near so young nor yet so pretty bnt then his eye is such a piercer hes not imperint or audacious but then somehow he does convince one that he could be both if he liked and he does it in so respectful a waylhat he quite bewitches a body im sure i couldnt refuse him any thing in a proper way he was so agree able and did seem so sorry when uncle got up to go and just before we left the cabin he gave uncle an invitation for any of his family to go to scarborough where his vessel is agoing next week and then he gave a tender soft glance at me which was as much as to say the complimeut is for you 1 felt my face as red as fire but which he didnt pretend to see he has such superior ways a gentlemans agent in all he docs or says there is nothing like a man ofier all your boylovers are such a thoughttess set tlrey never know their own miads two minutes together ive had one boy but ill take better care than to have a second now mr age wont you bo surprised when i tell you uncle answered that could his ward thats me purbuade his dame thats my aunt to take charge of me his son should be under orders to wait upon us what a countenance the geutleman put on not handsome why be looked a heavenborn creature and such expression i never did sco before when he said to uncle 4i then sir i shall consider the invitation accepted he is a man and men have imperfections it behooves me pardon nature then the patient comilcss lhqmrae honore la vcrtu dieu la recompeoso principles of conduct that are so erly in culcated and acted on that they became as impulsive and powerful as instincts but when a deed of kindness was to b done she obeyed the levellioglaw ofthe religion of universal equality as mrs reginald tudor the lady of polite society she was versed and strict in all artificial distinctions aod nice observances hut as a christian friend and benefactress nu fierytevolu- tionist ever so well illustrated the gfoerous doctrine of equality for hers was te per fect standard of reciitude and every one who from fo contempt of republican manners and a lit tle pride in her titled ancestry and noble kuglish relatives like most old people mrs tudor talked always of the past and the friends of her youth her grandfather whose net she had been sixty years since was her favo rite topic her stories began with my dear grandfather lord moreland lord moroland was the invariable sequeuce butthis was an innocent vanity and should not east a shade over my honored friend s memory- the only evil attending this foi ble so ill adapted to our country was that it had infected her grandaughtcr my friend isabel williamson to be continued pounds i dont suppose we shall be long agoing to scarborough and as i have no secrets from you i will write you all the news i pick up amongst tho quality aod what more 1 find out about this strange gentleman ill mark his ways while on scraping on tne naaie tinuer my window one day after dinner when i was falling asleep i do not think ihavegiien away a farthing in charity for the last niuo months th spanish refugee however iqgreenspectaiileahaddooaroeuuqbflo- our to single me out probably iu conse quence of the air of distinction which my new coat gave and it would have been very inhuman iu me not to bavo presented him with half a crown he received it with much gratitude and i wem on tow ards the caltonhill passing tbe waterloo hotel i encounter ed a cloud of dust which i did not at all like bat which i was philosopher enough to submit to in silence several evils wero awaiting me after i had ascended tbe hill the day suddenly overcast big heavy from the london age thg tooley street heiress minories 14th aug mv dear mr age its not all ive heard say im sure glitters gold as the dork empire of superstition has passed away this is the age of facts and evidence experience and demonstration the enlightened age par excellence ghosts apparitions bausbees phocas cluricauues fairies good people all are now de parted spirits the fairies the friends of poets and storvtcllers the patrons chara- pious aud good geniuses of children no longer k their merry revels on the green sward bv the clowworms lamp they are gone exhaled like the dews that glittered on last summers leaves the dainty spirits that knew to swim to dive into the fire fa ride on the curled clouds to put a girdle round about tho earth in forty minutes have no longer a being save in poetry like tho peri of the persian m tbology they forfeit their immortality when they pas the bounds of their paradise iffitcbbs irve ga newbeau quite the gentleman p s uncles not given up the shop in tooleystreetibutno more at present from the edinburgh literary journal my new coat a fragment i never was so miserable in all my life as the day i put on my new coat my mi sery was heightened by the circumstance that i expected to be particularly happy i nut it oo after breakfast it fitted me exceedingly well and 1 have rather a handsome figure at leastso my tailor tells me i had been reading miss landon s jmprovisatrice but tho moment i put on my new coat i found that my thoughts wandered to princesstreet and i could no rer participate in the sorrows of her i buttoned my new coat for the couldnt have thought that there was so much trouble in being a fortune and after all im not to be my own mistress would you believe it pa has put down in his will that uncle in the minories is to be my guar dian i never could like the place its so low why its close to rag fair where all the jews lives but however nsouly for a year and uncle now is as sweet as suar though when pa was alive he was always a scoldiug him for letting me have my own ways but dear mr ate i ve potto tell you such a pure piece of news its quite a new hera in my life os great as when pa died for if 1 dont mistake longer participate heroine i buttol greatest natural philosophers inform us that we should always wear a new coat buttoned that it may get a habit of sitting cose to the body 1 buttoned roy now coat and sallied forth i passed through the western division of georgestree it struck me that there was an unusual num- berofladies at the windows i did not care- i was sure that my new coat had a suable cut so i said to myself they m at it if tbey please i resolved however not to walk as if i were conscious that i wore a new coat 1 assumed an ea sy goodhumoured condescending kind of air and the expression of my countenance seemed benevolently to indicate that i would have addressed a few words to an old friend even although he appeared 10 a coatlbad seen him ia six monthbefore coat the very first day i had ever put it on i turned back i ran i flew but in vain before i could reach tbe nearest place of shelter i was completely drenched i could have wept but i was in too great agony to think of weoping when i got to tbe east end of princesstreet there was not a coach oq the stand i might have gone iuto barrys or mackays butitwould have been of no use i was as wet as i could be i walked straight home through the splashing streets i do not think i was in ray right reason i was to have dined out in my new coat and now it would ne ver look new again i was soaked in wa ter i put my hand in my pocket mecha nically to take out my silk handkerchief i dont know why heaven aud earih it was gone my pocket had been picked i bad lost my new silk handkerchief the horrible conviction flashed upon me that tho spanish refugee in grca spectacles who bad complimented me on roy charitable actions and to whom i had given half- acrown took it from roe i reached home more dead than alive i threw off my coat and sent it to tbe kit chen to be dried my cook is a very good woman but she us- rather fat i sat by myself meditating upon the uncertainty of human life my rievere lasted a long while suddently an odour like that of a singed sheeps head reached me i started up in a moment the fatal truth crossed my roiud 1 rushed into the kitrbon my coot was fast asleep and coy coat was smoking before the fire burnt brown id a dozen dif ferent pinces with here aod there several small holes j seized a carviugknfe l0