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Of what use is it to dethrone kings and by what right do we jeer at those who die for their masters, if it is only to put tyrannic entities in their places, which we adorn with their tinsel? It is much better, to have a flesh and blood monarch, whom you can control suppress if necessary than these abstractions, these invisible despots, that no one knows now, nor ever has known.

Dale had told him Nora's child was placed "and, hearing that child and mother were alike gone, whom now could I right by acknowledging a bond that I feared would so wring your heart?" Audley again paused a moment, and resumed in short, nervous, impressive sentences.

So speedily directing that a lamp should be lighted, she little concerned herself about avoiding suspicion, shunning the use of names, or any other such things, and set to work and rubbed the ink, soaked the pen, and then wrote the following stanzas on the two old handkerchiefs: Vain in my eyes the tears collect; those tears in vain they flow, Which I in secret shed; they slowly drop; but for whom though?

Then appears Howel Tightbelly, the miser, who in capital verse, with very considerable glee and exultation, gives an account of his manifold rascalities. Then comes his wife, Esther Steady, home from the market, between whom and her husband there is a pithy dialogue.

Indeed, it was only on occasion of Uncle James's soliloquies that she had ever shown any strength of will. "We know very well, James, that your position is a trying one that since the death of poor Julia you have no one whom you can look to. There is no use in telling us this over again; it is mere waste of time.

Just as she is about to be enveloped in the toils which were spread for her, just as she is about to surrender herself to the hated nuptials, and submit to the embrace of one whom she loathed more than she dreaded death, Ravenswood, the man whom Heaven had made for her, presents himself. What followed was quiet, yet intensely dramatic.

Again, of course, in both countries there are differences between individuals, differences between sets and cliques; but I am not mistaken about the tone of the English youth of my own day nor am I mistaken about the tone of the American youths, of the corresponding class, with whom I have come in intimate contact in the United States.

In the shop, when he had to deal with the lower classes, he showed himself acquainted with their modes of expression, and spoke the Billingsgate of the market-women, which he had acquired in the rue Comtesse d'Artois, treating them familiarly, and they generally addressed him as "gossip Denies." By his own account he easily judged the characters of the various people with whom he came in contact.

In spite of the criticism which I had made upon it, I confess I was not a little moved by his description of its advantages to absent-minded men, of whom I am chief.

And so, gradually, by slow degrees, he was led on to talk of the past, of the beautiful Carolina girl who had been his brother's wife, of the quaint babble of Fifine, of Stuart and Demeré, of Corporal O'Flynn, and the big drum-major, and the queer old African cook, and the cat that had been so cherished but he never, never ventured a word of Sandy, to the last day of his life; Sandy! for whom he had had almost a filial veneration blended with the admiring applausive affection of the younger brother for the elder.