their attentions." For his night's lodging in a small portions, that each becomes of little value—I decided delta chamber in the garrets, " the charge was on joining the latter coterie, but was then informed that, precisely, compared with that on ordinary oc- on the last division on the question, when the half-past casions, tenfold.”

one gentry' carried the day, the four o'clock party' had The young Quaker town of Middleborough, retired from the field. the Clarence Railway-the Quaker Railroad- “ Temperance at this meal was the order of the day ; inand the navigation of the Tees, will be new to deed, neither at dinner nor supper did I see a glass of wine most readers. Indeed, many thriving towns de- drank during two days I lived in the house. The party scribed in this volume, have sprung up so re- consisted chiefly of Cumberland yeomen, with their wives cently, and with such rapidity, as not to have and daughters : of these, soine of the ladies drank tumyet found place on the map. A visit to the Dins- blers of milk, others swilled water-gruel, nor, with one or dale Spa, at which the Earl of Durham has lately two exceptions, was any stronger beverage introduced. erected a spacious mansion, introduces the pub- Ginger.beer, I may observe, was now and then called for, lic to one of those new scenes. The tourist re- and bien moussu it really was. A better panegyric as to paired to this resort from Stockton, by a steam- its quality cannot be pronounced, than a simple matter of carriage on the Darlington Railroad. His de- fact, in the means adopted by a gentleman who sat near scription of his sojourn there is inviting. ine to restrain its effervescence. He ihrust his forefinger

“ The mansion is embellished with lawn and pleasure up to the first joint in the neck of the bottle: even then grounds, and situated on an eminence commanding a it continued to hiss, and though, as he drank, he sternly magnificent view over the broad vale of Cleveland, as a fixed his eyes in the direction of the sound, the air was so foreground, and in the distance bounded by the Yorkshire obstreperous that it was with extreme difficulty he sccured mountains. Immediately below, the river Tees, almost the remainder of the liquor. equal in beauty to the Thames at Richmond, forms an “ It would seem that the spare time of the visiters is enample and a graceful bend; and on its hither bank, plan- stirely taken up, either in drinking the waters, or in attations afford a retired and shaded walk, nearly two miles tending to their effects, for, as to the resources of dissipain extent. The hotel, the lawn, and plantations altogether, tion or amusement at the hotel, all may be comprised in a bear the appearance of a good, comfortable gentleman's small jingling piano forte and a bagatelle-board in the residence, rather than of an inn. As to the style of things drawing-room, as well as implements for the game of les within the house, I was induced, after one experiment, to Graces' on the lawn—considerable energies are, however, make a second: on which latter occasion I remained there imparted by the medicinal properties of the spring, which, several days, and was really delighted by the tranquillity of besides, being highly sulphuretted, contains saline particles the spot, and the quiet, comfortable habits of the inmates. in abundance.” Upwards of a dozen people met daily at breakfast and din. While, upon the subject of temperance and ner at the common table, as well as at tea, in the evening water-drinking, we may notice that the tourist in the drawing-rom: the remainder of the day everybody attended a temperance society meeting in Bolmanaged his or her time as if the house belonged to them. ton, where he admired the strong talent, if not The fare was most excellent, and the terms even less than the classic or severe taste of the orators. One might be called reasonable; besides the party at the table man described his own case and held himself d'hote, several people occupied private apartments." out as a beacon to his neighbours.

Another of those watering-places, unknown, " This person, quite an illiterate man, possessed humour save to local fame, was met with in the Cumber- and considerable natural talent; he spoke with great fluland mountains; and, as it is of easy access, and ency for nearly half an hour; in the course of which offers a fair resting-place to pilgrims and way- speech or confession, he described his services as a soldier farers to the lake country, Shap Wells merits to in India, and bore testimony to the strength, courage, and be better known. It is but one mile off the turn-hardihood of the natives, sheer water drinkers : emphati. pike road between Kendal and Penrith. The cally contrasting their constitutional vigour with that of mineral spring is on the estate of the Earl of Europeans. He then proceeded in the following strain :Lonsdale, who has erected a handsome hotel for · A drunkard !' said he, why everybody gets the upper the accommodation of visiters. Sir George gives hand on him! A fool gets the upper hand on him! A warning of the tricks put upon travellers in child gets the upper hand on him! A wife gets the upper reaching the Shap Wells. The hotel is exceed-hand on him! Which latter sentence especially, delivered ingly comfortable, and the charges "unreasona- with great naivetė, set many of his hearers laughing, and bly moderate." It, moreover, affords reception made a powerful impression; neither was it averse to the to the three estates of these realms, in a suitable present purpose thus to enliven the subject as much as scale of expense, we presume, else why the dis- possible by reasonable merriment; all the orators, in fact, tinction? There has, however, been a schism availed themselves of the jeux d'esprit that lay in their between the Lords and Commons about the din- way." ner hour; and now they sit in different cham- From Yorkshire and Durham the tourist transbers.

ferred himself, as often as possible by steam, to When Sir George Head was at Shap Wells the principal coast towns of Northumberland;

“For one set, breakfast was provided at nine, dinner at and thence into Cumberland, by the line of the half-past one, tea at six, and supper at nine: for the other, Newcastle and Carlisle railroad, sixteen miles of the time of breakfast was al libitum, that of dinner four, which were then open. The Carlisle and Annan and tea eight. Conceiving the latter arrangement better Navigation Canal speeded him onward in the suited to rambling excursions on the hills than the former, Arrow, a swift boat, sailing from Carlisle Canal whereby the day is absolutely frittered away in attending Basin to the Solway Firth at Port Carlisle, to eating appointments, and time subdivided into so many where the Liverpool steamers duly arrive, touchVOL. XXIX, AUGUST,

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When nearly eighteen, I was placed as a clerk twentieth year, gliding by unscathed those happy in the firm of Barnaby, Falck, Perez, and Co., periods, though so replete with temptation, so the principal correspondents of my father. I was, often destructive, so often fatal. Sometimes, of course, domesticated with the family of that when the dark mood is upon me, I look back portion of the firm, the Falcks, that resided at upon this state of prim innocence with disdain, Lothbury. The house was certainly rather old, and brand it with the epithet of contemptible; and the situation extremely dark. Indeed, nor can I even now comprehend, how, at that through the winter months, we were necessitat-time, an awkward fold in my neckerchief, or an ed to burn candles all the day on those desks of ill-arranged curl upon my brow, could possibly our counting-house that were not directly under have discomposed my mind, when, in after life, the windows. The Falcks were a thriving race, I could have stood unmoved at, and almost unfor the old gentleman was blessed with five sons conscious of the laceration of my flesh, so stern and five daughters. The sons were, like my- or so apathetical had my nature become. It self, common-place characters-the daughters might be amusing, but it would be foreign to shared among them every description of feme- my purpose, to recount the insignificant littlenine characteristic; but all merely shadowed ness of my counting-house life-the stoical inout, not filled up. difference with which I passed through the five In this place I acquired a tolerable knowledge ordeals of the masked advances of the five of the foreign exchanges, and a perfect initia- Misses Falck, and the still better directed tac tion into the mysteries of book-keeping. Indeed, tics of their good mother, and the magnanimous I was growing punctilious, and a magnifier of self-denial of their father, that more than asked trifles. I prided myself upon the excessive neat- me to woo, in solemnly condemning all such ness of those portions of the ledgers that were manoeuvring as ungentlemanly and mean, and entrusted to me; my red-ink lines were invari- always finishing with, "But take care, my dear ably at mathematical right angles, with the line fellow, for I think that Agatha may become too of perpendicular of the account book; my hand- susceptible of your merits."

writing, though stiff, seemed, from its neatness, Now, respecting Agatha, the eldest daughter, to have proceeded rather from the engraver than who had red hair, but was really handsome the penman; and I had as much horror of a blot withal, though five-and-twenty, down to little upon my pages, as a waning spinster has of one Mira, who was extremely small and pretty, upon her reputation. notwithstanding the obliquity of the glances of Yes, I was growing a solemn trifler. With her bright black eyes, the same language was the principals of the firm I was a good young held forth to me, with the only difference of the man, with my brother clerks a finical fop, with name of the fair, as each, in her turn, was pre the young ladies of my acquaintance, and they sumed to be my favourite. In the nature of were very numerous, a particularly nice young things, I must perforce have fallen to the lot of one man, with a classical and romantic cast of coun- of these dear ladies, for they were really all amiatenance, these terms being used according to ble, and who, I firmly believe, had a true, though the particular reading of my describer. This is not a passion-born, affection for me-which af all very dull: I mean it to be so-I mean fully to fection I returned them all, in a staid and sober convey to the reader the Lethean monotony of manner. Perhaps, in time, I should have been my then creeping stream of life-that he may the enslaved of Mira, for I was beginning to contrast, and shudder when he contrasts it with think it an agreeable occupation, that of endeathat awful period when, leaping over the preci- vouring to catch the fleeting glances of a lady pice, to become, as a fall of roaring and mighty who squinted, when she was otherwise exceed waters-a torrent devastating wherever it ingly pretty-and so innocent too, as it remindrushed, until it was precipitated into the vast ed me of the time when, as a child, I used to abyss that is shrouded by all but the mists of flash the sunbeams from a broken piece of looking-glass upon the wall, and amuse myself During my clerkship I regularly received the with the vain endeavours of my playfellows to paternal and maternal letters; and another cor- catch it.

death.

respondent, about this time, was added to my It wanted but three months to complete the parental ones. It was from my sister Honoria, time when the law benignantly permits us to whom, at that time, I had never seen. The let- write something more manly to our names than ters were written evidently under the surveil-“ infant." But I remember me, that as yet I lance of her preceptors-they were extremely have not made the reader acquainted with the formal in their composition, and execrably bad name I then bore-it was "Ardent Troughin their English. If I had, at this time, any one ton." I know not why the baptismal name of feeling more predominant than another, it was Ardent was given me, excepting it may be ac a curiosity to know what this little lady was counted for by the prevalence among the Spalike. I had not this feeling with respect to my niards of the custom of calling their children by parents, though I had totally forgotten their per- some adjective, such as Pious, Faithful, Blessed, sons. But this curiosity disturbed not the even or any other word denoting some quality that tenor of my life, and its paroxysms lasted no they wish, or that they suppose that their chil longer than two or three days after the receipt dren may possess. Such, however, was the of one of the unintelligible little missives that name that I had received at the font; and, at the caused it. time, when I was, according to law, no more Thus I passed my eighteenth, nineteenth, than the infant, Ardent Troughton, my first

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name, seemed to be in ludicrous opposition to Misses Falck fainted in succession. The respecmy nature. Much small wit was expended upon table lady, the mother, went off incontinently it, such as, I must, if I tried ever so little, be into hysterics, and, when she thought fit to realways an ardent lover, an ardent admirer, &c. cover, she exclaimed, the tears streaming over till at last my persecutions that way terminated her full round cheeks, “that she was undone,” in a quite opposite direction, and I found peace though, in what manner, I was totally at a loss and content in the soubriquet of Quiet Trough- to comprehend. Mr. Falck almost rubbed the ton.

glasses out of the rims of his spectacles, perusAnd I was quiet. There was a calmness and ing and reperusing the important document; but a sustained staidness about me, that Miss Aga- rub as he would, the fatal words were there, tha Falck was pleased to call the dignity of re- and he felt that he had lost a son-in-law. “Such pose. I was in amity with myself, and with alla connexion,” he could not help exclaiming, mankind. I had witnessed bursts of passion, loudly. but I could understand them only upon the sup- This recall caused a great sensation in every position that they were aberrations of the intel- bosom of the family but my own. Even the serlect. Indeed, morally, so torpid was I at that vants had begun to look upon me as the future time, that I found the sublime rhapsodies of Mil- son-in-law, and always called me, much to the ton unnatural, and the gigantic struggles of pas- annoyance of the young gentlemen, the five sion in Shakspeare, disgusting. I was almost Messieurs Falck, juniors, "their young master.” sinking into the insignificance of frivolity and I had so trained myself from habit, to look upon imbecility, for I was beginning to grow genteel, all matters with indifference, that even the and to pride myself upon it.

thoughts of again seeing my father and mother Among my own set I was regarded as a mira- caused scarcely any perturbation in my bosom. cle of accomplishments, and Quiet Troughton The idea of embracing my little sister certainly had but to open his mouth and speak, and his was, I could not tell why, more exciting. I had, opinions were always listened to deferentially. to my imagination, painted very complete picThe Spanish language was my mother tongue, tures of my parents, but I wanted both form and and a Spanish master prevented my forgetting colour wherewith to paint Honoria. I trembled what I had learnt so early, in my native land. 1 lest she should have red hair, like that of Agatha spoke French tolerably well

, á l'Auglaise, and Falck, lest her complexion were swarthy, like had imbibed enough of classical learning, to that of Miss Tabitha, that her eyes were light make it requisite that I should diligently forget, grey, like those of Miss Eudocia, that her figure for some years, in order wholly to deprive my- was loose and dowdy, like that of Miss • leanora; self of the advantage. As to my personal ap- and, not withstanding the pleasure I took in chaspearance, at this time, it was rather advanta- ing the jack o'lanthorn glances of Miss Mira's geous. I had inherited from my mother a suffi- black eyes, I trembled lest she should squint, like ciency of Spanish, perhaps Moorish blood, to that lively and pretty little girl. I think that I taint my complexion with a clear bronze, and have now confessed all the emotions that I expeto crisp up my black hair into very enviable curls, rienced at the thoughts of rejoining my own and enough of the Saxon from the English, to family. At that period I was Quiet Troughton. make my cheek ruddy, and my form large and I prepared every thing for my departure in my athletic. The ladies did me the honour to say usual calm and methodical manner. My worthy of me, that I should have been a dangerous man, host and principal could not understand it or were I not so quiet. Well, this quiet, genteel me. He said I wanted animation, as he fell into young man, was rapidly advancing in gentility- a passion with some little arrangement that I all in a quiet way, however, for he had already was quietly superintending for my voyage. Mrs. made the acquaintance of a second-rate actor, Falck said I wanted taste, as her eye ran down and had ordered one suit of clothes from Stultz. the graduated scale of her five daughters; the For some months past I had all my gloves and sons said with a sneer, that I wanted soul, and hats from Bond Street. These aspirations were the daughters with a sigh, that I wanted heart. all managed in my usual quiet way, and no one 'Tis the eve of my departure. The whole ever augured ill to me either from my new friend thirteen, unlucky number, are seated together at or my new clothes. It appeared like a solecism the last lugubrious supper. Every one appears of ideas to suppose me capable of an excess. dreadfully affected excepting myself. I am like

The mercantile intercourse between his agent Lance's dog, imperturbable. The young ladies' and my father had never been suspended during eyes are red, and their faces pale, and Mrs. Falck the war that Godoy the Prince of Peace had en- does not attempt to conceal her intermittent tailed upon Spain against this country. Neutral sobs, whilst Mr. Falek Jooks excessively grave, and smugglers did that in a more extensive and and eats with a savage vigour, as if he intended circuitous manner, which the fair trader was to wreak the wrath of some unexpressed chagrin soon to do. At length, when the European upon every one of the various dishes on the tapeninsula declared against the aggressive and ble. There was something quite touching in his encroaching policy of Napoleon, Godoy was voracity. But even this way of expressing grief, banished, and Ardent Troughton, commonly grand though it be, must have a termination. named the Quiet, was recalled. The paternal At length, when his heart, and the region of his mandate bidding me to return to the house of animal economy a little below it, were perfectly my father, naturally, as might have been expect. full, he thrust from before hiin, with an oratori€ l, fell among us like a thunderbolt. The five cal fourish, and a deep sigh, his knife, fork, and

plate, and extending his arm he spoke, "My dear) "He very quietly put me down agam," said Ardent, this may be, nay, probably is, the last she, all confusion. supper that we shall ever partake together." It was a hot one, for hot suppers were the fashion in Lothbury.

"Quiet Troughton," said Mr. James Falck, with his usual sneer.

“Oh, oh!" said the mother, "perhaps Ardent

The formal

The young ladies sighed audibly: it was quite may return after all." moving, the more especially as there was an in- Then the good man of the house commenced distinctness in the utterance of the old gentle-giving me a plenitude of that wholesome advice man that seemed not unlike pathos, though it of which age is so lavish a dispenser, youth so actually proceeded from his not having com- sieve-like and so unwilling a recipient. At length, pletely swallowed his last mouthful of hot apple- it was time that we separated. pie. He continued: leave-taking was yet to go through. Perhaps "Mrs. Falck, I'll trouble you for the brandy. old Mr. Falck really had a little affection for Here, my dear Ardent, in the bosom of my fa- me. We all rose and stood, with our heads mily, my affectionate wife, my blooming daugh- hanging down, in a confused circle round the ters, my-my-my industrious sons sitting round fire, the father in the middle. No one liked to my hospitable board, the props and stays of my say first the mournful word, "farewell." At old age; here in the midst, in the very pride of last Mr. Falck spoke. my domestic felicity, I will disburthen my heart,

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of its grief,-I will open the flood-gates of my since you have been domesticated under my My dear Ardent, it is my duty to say, that roof you have been a most exemplary, a most "Now, don'tee, don'tee," sobbed aloud the fat virtuous young man. You have neither blotted Mrs. Falck, whilst Miss Agatha handed the eau de Cologne, according to seniority, to all her sis-my ledgers, nor tried to turn the heads of my daughters."

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Then turning with a severe look to the spot "I will, I will: I'll open my bosom before my where his five sons had huddled themselves tomore than son, and pour out the volume of my gether, acting, perhaps, the proverb of the bunwoe before him—in one word, as I can never dle of sticks, indicative of their strength; he rise before nine in the morning.-I will bid Mr. continued, You, Ardent, have never exceeded Troughton good-bye to-night." your stipend, never stayed out late at night, "Ah," simpered Miss Agatha, "there is some- never smoked, and never, no, never, called me thing indescribably heart-rending in the parting either to my face or behind my back, the "old with an old and dear friend. I am sure papa boy." You have given the servants no trouble, has expressed all our feelings: an expression and me always great satisfaction; you have been that nothing but maidenly reserve prevents from constant in your attendance, with my family, at coming from our own lips. But, believe me, Mr. church; the first to appear every morning in Ardent, as the glorious ancient exclaimed,-all the counting-house, the last to depart. You are that father has said, we feel." a just, an upright character-you never made

I bowed to Miss Agatha, and quietly observed dinner wait:-there are those qualities about that, in all probability, I should soon return. you that indicate the elements of real greatness. "Never," said Mr. Falck, oracularly, "never! You will die worth a plum; and if you continue You are going into the land of all manner of your career as you have commenced it, it may abominations; into a land of trials and tempta- not be presumption in you to hope to see yourtions; a land of papists, a land of courtesans, a self, one day, Lord Mayor of this metropolis. land of assassins. I see it-I see it-a land of You will return to us, Ardent, and again be unto ruin for a quiet, well-behaved, young man like us as a son, and an example to those young men yourself. In one day they will filch your religion who are hardly worthy to be called your brofrom you-in one week your heart-in a fort- thers. Mind you, Ardent, come weal, come woe, night your life. Quiet, and I may say without the doors of my house shall be ever open to you; offence, yielding and weak as you are, you will the smile of welcome ever ready. and the worse rapidly lose, in that detested hot-bed of vice, you may be off, the welcome shall be the warmyour faith, your health, and your life."

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Why?" said the father sternly, for he did not like to be contradicted. Agatha blushed and held down her head, but other answer made she

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I must retire, but I feel that before I go, if did not give you my blessing I should not tonight enjoy the sleep of peace. (Here the old gentleman's eyes glistened.) Be good, be wise, be prudent: adhere to your religion, yet honour your mother. Ardently espouse the interests of your father, as you have done mine: and now good night and farewell. May the blessing of God be always upon you, and don't my dear Ardent, forget to impress upon your father the necessity of allowing our firm a further discount, say three-fourths per cent., upon the last shipment of wine, for you know it did not tally to sample."

Here my guardian was quite overcome; he wrung my hand, and with the tear upon his

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cheek, he left the room. The five sons now shook been struck at the hospital. The only compahands with me, and told themselves off one by nionable animal that I could discover in the ves

The most trying scene of all remained to sel was a large Newfoundland dog; and with be enacted,—the parting with the mother and him, for certain very prudential reasons, his exthe five daughters fair. I wished it hurried over: pertness in swimming not being the least imthey seemed to delight in the misery they averr- portant, I immediately entered into the strictest ed they experienced. Miss Agatha came first; bond of amity. No sooner had we lost sight of she begged me to accept from her a keepsake. the Land's-end, than I began to cogitate upon It was a locket containing a small portion of her my own, for a shattering gale arose, and I found golden hair. I had a purse from Miss Tabitha, that I had nothing to trust to but a crazy vessel, a watch-guard from Eudocia, and a pocket-book a weak crew, a drunken master, the dog Bounfor the next year from Miss Eleanora, but little der, and Providence. Before two hours had Mira held back.

elapsed, notwithstanding the trusts that I have ** And," said I, piqued as much as my staid just mentioned, I heartily wished that I was then feelings would permit me to be, “is my little perched upon the high stool in the countingplayfellow, Mira, the last in her love as well as house of Messrs. Barnaby, Falck, and Co. ruling in her birth ?"

red-ink lines at the bottom of the columns, that “I have nothing to give you, Ardent; but per- showed so plainly in very neatly-turned figures haps you will take this letter for your sister, for the “tottle of the whole." I am sure she is pretty, and quiet, and good, The north-easterly wind had set in with a malike--"

licious perseverance, that could be likened to “ Me,” said I. I caught her up in my arms, nothing more aptly than the oration of a scoldand in virtue of her childishness, gave her ing termagant, gathering strength by the mere twenty kisses and a warm blessing that some-exercise of her capability of blustering. It blew what shamed my sobriquet of Quiet; but I cer-all the livelong day: some sails were taken in, tainly redeemed my character by the decorous and others blown out of the boltropes, and, manner in which I touched, with my lips, the when night came on, we supposed that we ofiered cheeks of the other sisters. The train at should have a lull, upon the strength of which length slowly departed, the weeping mother supposition the master took an extra glass and leading it, the silent and drooping daughters turned in early, and thus between stupidity and following: Mira was the last. She turned sharply rum, found that lull in his cot, that was not to round, and gave me one of her inexplicable be found, either on deck, or in the heavens, or glances with her bright eyes. It certainly was on the face of the waters. exposing me to a cross fire, which all tacticians The brig, as far as such a tub could be said know to be the most galling and subduing. I to be trimmed at all, was in good trim. The made one step forward to seize her white little lightness of her cargo was well rectified by the hand, but my natural or my induced coolness quantity of the ballast, and, so far, she had bestopped me, and the step was only the precursor haved well. I was very sick. If I repaired to to a low bow as she vanished through the door- the deck, I could not keep my footing, and beway. The next morning early I was on board low, the stench and the close air were nearly inthe brig Jane, bound to Barcelona, but then ly- supportable. These certainly are common-place ing in Gravesend reach.

miseries ; but they were, from my previous haI had all my luggage stowed away with the bits, my punctilious cleanliness, and the delicate regularity and neatness that had now become a nurture of my previous life, actual agonies. part of my character, and the bloated, blustering About eight in the evening, my torments below master had already set me down in his estima- became unendurable ; for, in addition to the tion as a finikin milksop, and was, at first, in- nauseous effluvia of the confined cabin, and the clined to treat me contemptuously, though his horrible creaking of the ship's timbers, I had to old and ill-found vessel had been chartered by be irritated with the regular, loud, and stertormy own father. My location on board this craft ous snore of the brutalized Master Tomkins, was the first real annoyance in my life ; how- who was sleeping in a sort of cupboard immeever, it did not overcome my usual placidity. diately adjoining the cabin, of which I was so True it was that the master had given up to me miserable a tenant. To the sleepless, and those what he was pleased to call his state-cabin, but labouring under morbid nervous affections, I all the state that I could perceive that belonged have understood the tick, tick, ticking of the to it was, its state of filthiness, and that was a death-watch, is a sensation that may be likened very decided one truly. By the time that we had to the breaking of a wearied spirit slowly on the reached the chops of the channel, I found that wheel; but which compared with the brutal and Tomkins was nothing better than an ignorant, unintermitting grunting of my tormentor, must brutal, drunken swab, and that the valuable cargo have really appeared music. Almost, for the first under his care, of dry goods, was in imminent time in my life, my irritability was excited-a danger of getting a permanent wetting, and strange feeling of a want and a wish to destroy myself in extreme jeopardy of being drowned. came over me. I contemplated, first with borHis mate was a better sailor, but as sulky and ror, and then with a grim satisfaction, the diamorose as his commander was brutal and bolical pleasure that the braining of the wretch drunken. The seamen were ragged skulking would give me. I shuddered at my own thought, fellows, that appeared to have been hired, as a yet I cherished it, in spite of myself. I wondered cheap lot, by Tomkins, and the bargain to have at my own depravity-I quivered with agitation

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