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| Ah, no! whatever of joy such changes i wake,

That change above all others my sou | sels,

| doctor had just probed him. | felt the corresponding physical pain when | | Nelaton found the bullet.

| aod said: | . i : eee ae did not as yet take any direct notice of she led bim all over %,

‘him. When the duties of politeness had | went all with them.

‘tant se. passed from one state of lite to another.

Those cruel, superstitious years Long siuce have passed away; | A laicer priestess than of oid _ Blesses thy leaves to-day. Trooping across the snowy flelds The laughing maidens go, To gather tor their fesuvel due Christmas Mistletee.

The hall is bright with Christmas cheer, And youths and maidens fair,

With innocent and Lappy hearts, Have met together there,

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The lover kisses blushing cheeks Under the Mistletoe.

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They float in the pillowy fleeces chaste as |

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Purple beiow the tremulous evening star?

shadowy as the vaguest

Or isles in quiet seas they

Oc yet when beauteous dawn, with rosy

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As stately stairways toimperial halls?

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Of when, vcneath some full-orbed moon, |

they make

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LITERATURE.

LEAL LOL PBL LBL

WENDERHOLME.

CHAPTER XXVI.—Continued,

‘You horrible man.’

‘Why am [ aherrible man?’ Why are you so ungracious tome? The Sultam and the Viceroy of Egypt are like me—they be. lieve in the Koran—and they act upon their beliefas l intend todo. Yet aChrist- iin Qieen was gracious, tothem. She did not tell them they were horrible men. Why should you not be gracious to me in the same way? When | have married my four wives, you will come to visit me in m) palace on tie Bosphorus, won't you ? Coffer -hail be brough to you by olack slaves iv a little jewelled cup,and your lips shal! touch the amber mouthpiece of a diamond chiboque.’

* But then your four vives will be Orient- als, and | shall not be ableto talk to them.

‘And if you believe in the Koran,’ said Miss “tedham, ‘you ought to show it by refusing to drink wine.’

‘ab then [ renounce Mahomet that |. mey have the pieasure of drinking with you.’

This was eaid with perfect grace, and in the little ceremony which followed, the young gentleman contrived to express s0 | much respect «nd admiration for his fair | neighbor that Mrs, Anison took note of it. | ' Mr. Stanburne is in love with Alize,’ she thought te herself,

an

‘Would you renounce your religion fer love?’ said Madge Anison in a very low tone,

Philip felt a sudden sensation. as if *| Garibaldi |

He turned slowly and looked at Madge. | There was a strange expression about he lips, aad the perrenial merriment had left | her face.

‘ Are you speaking seriously, Miss Anison, I wonder?’

The talk was noisy enough all round the | table to drown tueir talk completely. | Even Miss Stedham was listening to her | loud-voiced neighbor, the Lieutenant, Madge Anison looked straight at Philip |

*Yes I am speaking seriously.’ ‘l believe [ should not now. body kno-s what he may do when he is in

love.’

‘You are in love.’

This time the room whirled, and the) voices sounded like the murmur of a diss | Inam instant Philip Stanburne

But no- |

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| drinking brandy.

| dining room, Mr.

| house,

, Anison of the Colonel.

| Philip.

| dine at Sootythorn.

; Mr. Anison, ‘ you must take care that he ; doesn’t inoculate you with his own sort of | | iatemperance, if he cures you of your ows

excesses. He drinks tea enough ina year to floata canal boat. It’s a terribly bad habit. In my opinion it is far worse than The worst of it is that it makes men like gossip as women do. Stick te your brandy hottie Mr. Ogden, like a man, and let Mr. Blunting empty his big teapot!’

dislike to clergymen in general, snd in re. | ligiom rather shared the iatitudinarian view | of his friend Dr. Bardly; bat he wasin a

i

when he’s getting his mother to take care of hima; and there’s more On ye as wants your morther to take care on ye by all ac- counts.’

‘ Mother,’ said the Lieutenant,

shouldn’t talk so to the Colonel.

‘you You

should bear {in mind bow he kept little

| held out prospects of effectual halp. So it. /ended by his accepting an invitation to)

Jacob at Wenderholme Hall.’ Mrs. Ogden was pacified immediately and held out herhand. ‘I thank you for that

| she said, ‘you were very Kind te the child ‘If you take tea with Mr. Bluating,’ said |

Whilst the gentlemen were atill in the |

Blunting saw a horse pass the window—a riderieas yet harnessed

| borse—follewed by another horse in an un

accustomed manner; and then came a lof- ty vehicie, drawn by the latter animil.

} . : .

have descrided tbis equipage as it appear- jed to Mr. Blunting; but the experienced _ reader will percieve that it was a tandom,

and by the association of ideas will expect to see Fyser and the Colonel.

Colonel Stanburne came into the dining- room and soon made himself at home there.

He had never happened to meet Joseph

| Anison or Mr. Stedman. but he knew the incumbent of Sootythorn slightly, and the |

other two men were his own officers, though ne had as yet seen very little of either of them. The Stanburnes of Wenderholme held a position in all that part of the coun- try so far above that te which their mer-

wealth would have entitled them, that | Joseph Anison felt it an honor that the

head of that family sheuld enter his gates He’s only calling on young Stanburne,’

| thought Joseph Anison; ‘ he isn’t calling

upon us.

‘I came to thank you and Mrs. Anison.’ |

said the Celonel, ‘ for having so kindly |

taken care of our young friend here, He

| seems to be getting on uncommonly well ;

and no wonder, when he’s in such good quarters.’

‘ Captain Stanburne is getting strength, |

[ am glad to say,’ replied the master of the ‘He rather alarmed us when he

_ came here, he seemed s0 week; but he bas

come around wonderfully.’

‘lam very much better, certainly said the patient himself.

The commanding officer hoped that he would be fit for duty again at an early date, but, for reasons which the reader may eas- ily divine, the young gentleman did not in- tend to be fit for duty quite sosoon. The duties of a militia officer may be very de- lightful, but they are less delightful than the society of the one particular young lady whom we most ardently admire. So Captain Stanburne declared thet he did not feel stong enough yet to be equal to the march and the drill; that he was subject to frequent sensations of giddiness, which would make him most uncomfortable, if not useless, on the parade greund; and that ina word, he was best for the present where he was. This declarstiom was ac-

companied by due expression of regret for : ; ally the information that you

the way in which he abused the kind hos- pitality of the Anisons—expressions, which of course, drew forth from the good lost a cordial renewal of his lease. They had be- come rather more intimate now, and Joseph said, ‘stop as long as you like, Captain - top as iongas you like; for you eat no more than a mouse, and you drink same as a tomtit.’ ‘ And what have you done with the Irish~ man who nearly killed him? asked Mr. ‘I've heard no-

thing about him. If you'd had him shot,

| we should have heard of it.’

‘It was a perplexing case, If you con-

he did not mean to kill. But we hardly could consider bim a soldier-he had had no military experience—a raw Irish labore: who had literally not worn aunviform more than twenty-four hours. I have been un- willing to bring the man before a court martial, He isin prison still.’

‘He has been punished enough,’ said ‘ Pray consider him simply as hay ing been drunk. Irishmen are always com bative when they are drunk.

| ing a site for their new house, and had pur-

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| so ‘lety of ladies which is not on

and [ have been deing a piece of needle- work for your wife, and it will be finished by Christmas.’

‘Mother, you shoulda’t say —you shoult say ‘her iladyship,’ observed

‘vour wife,’

the Lieutenant in a low voice, ‘My wife will be greatly obliged to you,

Mrs. Ogden. I hope you will make her acquaintance before you leave tha regiment —tfor ( may say that you belong to the regiment now, since you have come to be Lieutenant Ogden’s commanding officer.’

Mrs. Anison had been first an astonished

of this collo.

and then an amused auditor ¥ Mrs.

quy, but she ended it by offer Ogden a cup of tea. The Colonel began to talk to Mrs. Anison. Ue had that hearty and frank enjoyment of

ing n the rs. the y perfectly

compatable with morality, but especially

| bel mge to itasone of its be-t aatributes

‘and privileges. | Colonel and the Colonel | He liked them none the

| tinguished

Good women itked the :

hked yoo! Women less when they Awison was, ani

ly

‘Sul

were handsome, as Mrs.

wher they could talk well and e fs

Vrs. Anison did. Some women are dis- by nature; and though Mrs. Anieon had seen little of the great world, and the Colonel had seen # good deal of it the difference did not seem to place a per- ceptible bariier between them. The time seemed to have passed rapidly with both |

when the visitor took his leave, CHAPTER XXVIII The next morning Philip Stanburne felt str ng enough to waik in the garden with the young ladies. The garden was well liid out; the arrangement of it had been due in s great measure to Mrs, Anison’s | good taste, and the s2ientific or botanical part of it had been Mr. Stedham’s. The

grounds about new houses ganeral'y, is the | the Ani sons had considered this yuestion in choos.

but

absence of full grown trees :

which we e} '

chased an estate some parts of

rich in great oaks and sycarmores, Some

of these had been enclosed in the garden

about the lodge, and gave it an aspect

| very different from the miserable ichoate

|; appearance of the ground | houses generally. | ty asunk fence froma large field which | more pretentious people than the Anisons

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around new

The garden was divided

would have called a park, and the field | contained a few trees as fine as any in the. gardep. These had for the most part for- merly existed as hedgerows, but when Joseph Anison removed the hedgesio make | his park, he had been careful to preserve tiem, and each stood now in solitary gran

deur, protected from the oatile by a cis} cumference of iron railing. Mrs. Anison was rather extravagant in iron raillng— there were miles of it in the vicinity of the | house; and it must be admitted that no kind of fence, not even the lofty well tinished brick wail, conveys more eilectn

are in the

neighborhood ofarich man. Yet neithe:

in this Borin any other variety of ex | penditure did Mr. Anison trouble himse!! much about the elfect upon the minds oi others. He liked to have a good house be cause it was pleasant and healthy to b well lodged ; he liked old trees beciuze ol

' jestic and beautiful objects

_«ider that man a soldier, the punisbment i- | | post severe—ia fact it is death, even if he |

trees because old trees seemed to him m+ ind he liked iron railing because of all kind of fencing it was the neatest,

There was a great sweep of lawn before

the house, sloping ge to the sunk fence, and the house itself was clearly

visible from the little park. It was a piain stone building with a weil finished front and long sash windows; devoid of archite tural beauty, yet at the same time free

" ' trom those glaring soleicism. and failures wuich so often result from preten-ions i! sustained. All thatit pretended to be i

was—naimely, a very neat and comfortabl:

habitation, rather elegant than not, but | with a sort of negative elegince, consisting in the firm rejection of what the vulgar call

| handsome—not in the choice anzd adoption

| of what is beautiful. It was not a | which was about the place was duein a , When I see the confederation of Provinces

The degree of taste |

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The romentic reader may jestifirbly find fault with Philip Stanburne tor giving him, a

under these circumstances, little but pess biome the author for having so repre-~

As ung gentlemen ef the present generation

time for refl ction he cannot in fair-

i him a matter of fact, when the Lin love, or proceed to an open avowal of their att«chments or place themselves in a position which is likely to make such an avowal inevitable at a more or lees distant period, they withdraw into the inner cham, ber of their consciousness, and hold coun- cil with many considerations. Such is their admirable prudence that they will not lis. ten to the alurements of Passion befere Reason has given her opinion upon the point. The enly danger is that reason may be secretely allied with passion, and pro- pounded passion’s arguments in her own colder but more cogent language.

If any rational and wordly minded adviser had said to Philip Stanburnea month be-

| fore, * why don't you look out for some

well-to-do cotton spinner’s daughter | Sootythorn ? You might pick ups goo

fortune that would mend the Stanithburne property, and you might find & pice well- educated girl, who would do you quite as much eredit as if abe belonged to one of the old. families '—:fauy counsel of kind had been offered to Philip Stanburne then, before he saw Alice Stedmin, he would have rejected it at once as being al- together inadmissable, He, the represen- tative of the house of Stanburne, connec

himself with a family of cotton spinners ! He, the dutiful son of the Church, bimseelf with a member of one of those heretical sects who insult her in her aillics Our genera! views of things may be very decided andand admit, never heless.of

tila

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uon!

exceptions in favour of persons who are known tous. To hate Protestants in eral—to despise the commercial Classes a- 4 body —is one thing; but to hate and des. pise a gentle maiden, whose voice sounds sweetly in our ears is another thing.

‘ She's as perfect a lady asany | ever saw, thought, Philip, as she walked before him. \ closer social critic might have answered that although Alice Stedman was 4 very idmirable and good young young wonian, absolutely free froma the least tint of vuls varity, she lacked the style and go of « young lady of the world. Her deticiency in this respect may, however, have gone far to produce the charms which attracted Philip. Alice had not the ‘aplomb’ ofa fine lady, nor the brilliancy of a clever woe man; but nature hai given her a stamp of

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| great defect ina garden, and also in the | genuineness which is sometimes effected by

the attraction of society. Continued on Fourth Page. i a te

BEECHER ON ST, JOAN.

I can say to-night, what I could not say on Saturday night, that I am delighted with what | have seen and experienced in St. John. No man can go through the streets of this city without seeing that only industry and perseverance could have built such a city on so unproductive a soil.

| To have cut through the huge rocks which

covered its site must have been no easy tesk, but to make a soil where none existed was harder stil!, This is the Centennial year ot the United States, andi am reminded by that circumstance that it is not far from the Centennial year of St. John; for it was

_ about this period, the Centennial of which

we are celebrating, that the people came who gave strength and magnitude to the now beautiful city. I am a descendant of

| the Pilgrim fathers and I revere ard honor

their history and respect their memory for

| facing the perils of the sea and the perils | of the lend, the danger from savages, for

the sake of conscience, And [ respect just 1s muuch that other band of pilgrims who give up wealth and comfort and health, and woridly goods, and the soil on which they were born, and came to found tor themselves other homes in this north- ern land for the sake ef conecience and