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Now when I tell you, my dear friend, that the weather-glass hawker I spoke of was the villain Coppelius, you will not blame me for seeing impending mischief in his inauspicious reappearance. He was differently dressed; but Coppelius's figure and features are too deeply impressed upon my mind for me to be capable of making a mistake in the matter. Moreover, he has not even changed his name.
The floor was of slate but strewn with rugs, some of rag-work others of badgers' skins. A tall clock ticked sedately in a corner. On one side of the chimney a weather-glass depended, on the other a warming-pan symbols, as it were, of conjugal interests, male and female, drawing together by the hearth. Doctor Unonius felt an unwonted glow at the sight of this interior.
It is so wearisome to count the changes which pass within us, that we take interest in the changes that pass without. Poyntz still has his weather-glass; I have no longer my Jane." "I cannot linger with you on this spot," said I, impatiently turning back into the path; she followed, treading over fallen leaves. And unheeding my interruption, she thus continued her hard talk,
The indications of the barometer previous to and during this gale deserve to be noticed, because it is only about Cape Farewell that, in coming from the northward down Davis’s Strait, this instrument begins to speak a language which has ever been intelligible to us as a weather-glass.
In the morning the storm was furious; but the Major declared that his weather-glass had turned, which proved that the gale was breaking. The top of the tide would be at one o'clock, and after church we should behold a sight he was rather proud of the impotent wrath of the wind and tide against his patent concrete. "My dear, I scarcely like such talk," Mrs. Hockin gently interposed.
"A storm!" exclaimed the landlord. "Gadzooks! I thought something was coming on; for when I looked at the weather-glass an hour ago, it had sunk lower than I ever remember it." "We shall have a durty night on it, to a sartinty, landlord," observed an old one-eyed sailor, who sat smoking his pipe by the fire-side.
'And it is exactly what Robin made her, said Angela; 'both that and the butterfly; and Felix, the kitten. You didn't borrow of course. How funny! 'But I didn't make her inconstant, said Robin; 'that is not fair. 'Not when you made her a butterfly, and the shepherd's weather-glass too!
It was but an hour or so since Roderick had been buying peaches and grapes, as they lay at the end of the pier at Guernsey, and here were the Needles and the chalky cliffs and undulating downs of the Wight. The Wight! That meant Hampshire and home! "How often those downs have been our weather-glass, Rorie, when we have been riding across the hills between Lyndhurst and Beaulieu," said Vixen.
"The glass is at Set Fair, my darling," he whispered. "Good-night for the last time!" He took her in his arms, and kissed her. At the moment when he released her Blanche slipped a little note into his hand. "Read it," she whispered, "when you are alone at the inn." So they parted on the eve of their wedding day. THE promise of the weather-glass was fulfilled. The sun shone on Blanche's marriage.
I must now tell you it is most certain that the weather-glass hawker Giuseppe Coppola is not the advocate Coppelius. I am attending the lectures of our recently appointed Professor of Physics, who, like the distinguished naturalist, is called Spalanzani, and is of Italian origin. He has known Coppola for many years; and it is also easy to tell from his accent that he really is a Piedmontese.
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