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LITERATURE.

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WENDERHOLME.

CHAPTER IX.—-Continued.

The doctor found Lady Helena in a draw- ing room; a little woman, who semetimes looked very pretty, and sometimes exceeds ingly plain, according to the condition of her health and temper, the state of the weather, and a hundred things besides. Hence there were the most various and con-~ tradictory opinions about her; the only ap~ proach to unanimity being amongst certain elderly ladies who had formed the project of being mother-in-law to John Stanburne, and failed in that design. The doctor was not much accustomed to ladyships—they did not come often in his way ; indeed, it the truth must be told, Lady Helena was the only specimen of the kind he had ever en- joyed the opportunity of studying, and he had been rather surprized, on one or two preceding visits to Wenderholme, to find that she behaved to nicely. But there are ladyships and ladyships, and the doctor had been fortunate in the example which chance had thrown in his way. For instance if he had known Lady Eleanor Griffin, who lived about ten miles from Wenderhoime, who came there occasionally to spend the day, the doctor would have formed quite a different opinion of ladyship in general, so much do our impressions of whole classes depend npon the individual members of them who are personally known to us, Lady Helena asked the doctor a good many questions about Shayton, which it is quite unnecessary to report here, because the answer to them would convey no infor- mation to the reader which he does not al- ready possess, Her ladyship enquired very minutely about the clergyman there, and whether the doctor liked him. Now the verb ‘to like,’ when applied to aclergyman is used in aspecial sense, Everybody knows that to like a clergyman and to like goose- berry pie are very different things; for no- body in England eats clergyman, though the natives of New Zealand are said to appreci- ate cold roast missionary. But there is yet another distinction—there is a distinction between liking a clergyman and liking a layman. If you say you like a clergyman, it is understood that it gives you a peculiar pleasure to hear him preach, and that you experience feelings of gratification when he reads prayers. And in this sense could Dr. Bardly say that he liked the reverend in- cumbent of his parish? Certainly not; so he seemed +> hesitate a litthe—and if he said yes he said it as if he meant no, ora sort of vague neutral answer, neither nega- tive nor affirmative:

‘IT mean,’ said Lady Helena, ‘do you like him as a preacher ?’

‘Upon my word, it’s so long since I heard him preach that I cannot give an opinion.’ ‘Oh! I thought you attended his church. There are no other churches in Shayton, | suppose.’

‘No, there’s only one,’ said the impru- dent and impolite doct>r.

Lady Helena began to think he was some sort of a dissenter. She had heard of diss senters—she knew that such people existed —butshe had never been brought into contact with one, and it made her feel rather queer. She felt strongly tempted to ask what place of worship this man did attend, since by his own confession he never went to his parish church; but curiosity, and the natural female tendency to be an inquisitor, were kept in check by politeness, and also, perhaps, a little re-~ straint by the perfectly fearless aspect of the doctor’s face. If he had seemed in the least alarmed or apologetic, her ladyship would probably have assumed the functions of the inquisitors at once; but he looked so cool, and so very capable of a prolonged and vigorous resistance, that Lady Helena retired. When she began to talk about Mrs. Prigley the doctor knew that she was already in full retreat,

A little relieved, perhaps (for it is always disagreeable to quarrel with one’s hostess, even though one has no occasion to be afraid of her), the doctor gladly told lady Helena all about Mrs, Prigley, and even narrated the anecdote about the hole in the carpet, and its consequences to Mrs. Ogden, which put Lady Helena into good humour, for nothing is more amusing to rich people than the ludicrous consequences of a certain kind of poverty. The sense of @ pleasant contrast, all in their own favour, is delightful to them; and when the doctor had told this anecdote, Lady Helena be. game agreeably aware that she had carpets, : and that her carpets had no holes in them two facts of which use and custom .had made her wholly unconscious. Her eye wandered with pleasure over the broad soft surface and dark pomegranate colour, with its large white and red flowers and its non, description ornaments of imitated gold, and the ground seemed richer, and the flowers seemed whiter and redder, because poor Mrs, Prigley’s carpets were in a conditien 80 lamentably different.

‘Mrs, Prigley’s a relation of yours, Lady Helena—rather a near relation— perhaps you are not aware of it ?’

Lady Helena looked, and was very much surprised. ‘A relation of mine, Dr. Bardly ! You must be mistaken. I believe I know the names of all my relations !’

‘T mean a relation of your husband—of Colonel Stanburne. Mrs. Prigley was a Miss Stanburne of Bayfield, and her father was brother to Colonel Stanburne’s father, and was born in this house.’

‘ That’s quite a near relationship,indeed,’ said Lady Helels; ‘I wonder I never heard

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of it, John never spoke to me about Mrs. Prigley.’

‘There was a quarrel between Colonel Stanburne’s father and his uncle, and there has been no intercourse between the famis lies since, I daresay the Colonel does not even know how many cousins he had on that side, or what marriages they made.’ On this the Colonel! came in.

‘ John, dear, Dr. Bardly has just told me that we have some cousins at Sbayton that [ know nothingabout. It’s the clergyman and his wife, and their name is Prig— Prigley——’

‘ Prigley,’ suggested the doctor.

‘Yes, Prigley, Isn't it curious, John? Did you know about them ?

‘ Not very accurately. I knewone of my cousins had married a clergyman some- where in that neighbourhood, but was not aware that he was the incumbent of Shay- ton. [ don’t know my cousins at all. There was a lawsuit between their father and mine, and the two branches have never eat- en salt together since. I haven’t the least illxwill to any of them, but there’s an awk< wardness in making a first step—one never can tell how it may be received. . What do you say, Doctor? How would Mrs, Prig— Prigley and her husband receive me if I were to go and call upon them ?”

‘ They’d give you cake and wine.’

‘ Would, they really, now? Then I'll go and call upon them. I like cake and wine —always liked cake and wine.’

The conversation about the Prigleys did notend here. The doctor was well aware that it would be agreeable to Mrs, Prigley to visit at Wenderholme, and be received there as a relation; and he also knew that the goodsnature of the Colonel and Lady Helena might be relied upon tomake such intercourse perfectly safe and pleasant, So he made the most of the opportunity, and that so successfully that by the time dinner was announced both John Stanburne and

day to Shayton from Sootythorn, and lunch with the doctor, and call at the parsonage before leaving.

Colonel Stanburne’s conversation was not always very profound, but his dinners were never dull, for he would talk and make other people talk too, He solemnly warn, ed the Doctor not to allow himself to be entrapped into giving gratuitous medical advice to Lady Helena ‘Shethinks she’s got fifteen diseases, she does, upon my

cause you are the regimental doctor she has a claim on you for gratuitous counsel and: assistance. Now I consider that | have such a claim—if a private has it, sure- ly a colonel has it too—and when we come up for our first training I shall expect you to look at my tongue, and feel my pulse, and physic me as a militiaman, at her Mas, jesty’s expense. But itis by no means so clear to me that my wife has any right to gratuitous doctoring, and mind she doesn’t extort it from you. She’s a regular screw, my wife is; and she loses no opportunity of obtaining benefits for nothing.’ Then he rattled on with a hundred anecdotes about ladies and doctors, in which there was just enough truth to give a pretext for his audacious exaggerations.

When they returned to the drawing room the Colonel made Lady Helena sing ; and she sang well. ‘he doctor, like very many inhabitants of Sbayton, kad a very good ear, and greatly enjoyed music. Lady Helena had seldom found so attentive a listner: he sought old favourites of his in her collection of songs, and begged her to sing them one after another. It seemed as if he never would be tired of listening. Her ladyship felt pleased and flattered, and

The doctor, though in his innocence he thought only of the pure pleasure her music gave him, could have chosen no better means of ingratiating himself ‘n her favour ; and if there had not unhappily, been that dark and dubious question about church attendance, which made her ladyship look upon himas a sort of dissenter, or worse, the doctor would that night have entered into relations of quite frank and cordial

ladies are very kind and forgiving on many points. A man may be notoriously im< moral, or a gambler, or a drinker, yet if he be well off they will kindly ignore and pass over these little defects; but the unpardons able sin is failure in church attendance,and they will not pass over that. Lady Helena

ed this spmptom of heresy, and would have been delighted to find a moral screw of some kind by which the culpable doctor might be driven churchward. Ifthe law had permitted it, I have no doubt that she would have applied material screws, and put the doctor’s thumbs into thumbscrews, or roasted him gently before s‘ow fire, or at least sent him to church between two policemen with staves; but as these means were beyond her power, she must wait un~ til the moral screws could be found, A good practical means which she had resorts ed to in several instances with poor people had been to deprive them of their means of subsistence ; and all men and women whom her ladyship’s little arm could reach knew that they must go to church or leave their situations; so they attended with a regu~ larity which, thoagh exemplary in the eyes of men, could scarcely, one would think (considering the motive), be acceptable to Heaven. But Lady Helena acted in this less from a desire to please God than from the instinct of denomination, which, in her character of spiritual ruler, naturally exer« cised itself on this point. It seldom hap~ pens that the master of a house is the spiri- tual ruler, naturally exercised itself on this point. It seldom happens that the master of a house is the spiritual ruler of it; he is the temporal power, not the spiritual. Col. Stanburne felt and knew that he had no spiritual power.

This matter of the Doctor’s laxness as a churchgoer had been rankling in Lady He- lena’s mind all the time she had been sing- ing, and when she closed the piano she was ready for an attack. If the doctor had been shivering blanketless in a bivouac,and she had had the power of giving him a blanket or withholding it, she would have offered it on condition that he promised to go to church, and she would have withheld it if he had refused compliance. But the doctor had blankets of his own, and so could not be touched through a depravation of a blanket, But she mightdeprive the old woman he had recommended, and at the same time give the doctor a lesson indi~ rectly.

‘I forgot to ask you, Dr. Bardly, whether

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blanket was a Church-woman, and regular in her attendance,’

‘Two questions very easily answered,’ replied the audacious and unhesitating doc« tor; ‘she is a Wesleyan Methodist, and is- regular in her attendance,’

‘Then l’'m—very sorry—Dr. Bardly,but I cannot give her a blanket, as I had promis-~ ed. I can only give them to our—own people you know; and I make it essential that they should be good Church people— I mean very regular Church people.’

‘Very well; I'll give her a blanket my- self.’

‘The opportunity was not to be neglected, and her ladyship fired her gun. She had the less hesitation in doing so that it seem. ed monstrously presumptious for a medical man to give blankets at all, What right had he to usurp the especial prerogative of great ladies at all? And then to give a blanket to this very woman whom, for good

reasons, her ladyship had condemned to blanketlessness !

‘ 1 quite understand,’ she said with much severity of tone, ‘that Doctor Bardly, who never attends worship himself, should have a fellow-feeling with those who are equally negligent.’

It is a hard task to fight a woman in the presence of her husband, who is at the same time one’s friend. The doctor thought, ‘Would the woman have me to offer premiums for hypocricy as she does ?’ but he did not say so, because there was poor John Stanburne at the other end of the hearthrug in a state of much uneasi- ness, So the doctor said nothing at all and the silence became perfectly distress~ ing. John Stanburne, whose good nature and hospitality were both suffering grieyous~ ly, at last bethought him of an outlet.

‘Why, hang it, Helena,he said, ‘of course he gives her blankets; he'll give her a bed too, or half a one—he’sin love with her. Everybody in Sootyhorn says he is going to marry her, You oughtn’t to look so sour at him, Helena—you oughtn’t todo so

the appwoaching nuptials, you ought.’

* Why, she’s an old woman and a pauper, and her name is Nanny Pickering.’ ‘She’s not 4 girl, that’s true; but they say she’s very rich, and her name be Mrs, Bardley in & month or six weeks,’ The doctor vainiy endeayored to defend himself, John Stanburne overwhelmed him with evidence till the victim half te- lieved he was going to marry Nanny Pick- ering. Lady Helena laughed and laid aside the black mask and the black inquisi. torial robes, and,thanks to John Stankurne’s nonsense, went to bed in a more liberal

in part to the fact that she had relieved her conscience by her bitter little speech,

CHAPTER X.

‘I say doctor,’ said John Stanburne when her ladyship was fairly out of hearing and half way in her ascent up the great staircase—‘ | say dector, | hope you don’t mind what Helena says about you not being—you know some women are so—in- deed i believe all women are so. They seem laudably anxious to keep us all in the right path, but perhaps they are a little bit too anxious.’

‘the doctor, who had fully apprecia the kind motive which had cngeroted the Coionei’s badinage about Nanny Pickering said he believed Lady Helena meant to do good but—then he hesitated.

‘But you don’t see the sense of bribing poor people into sham piety with blankets,’ ‘Well, no I don’t.’

‘Neither do I, doctor, There’s 2 Roman Catholic family three miles off, and the lady there gives premiums on going to mass and still higher premiums on confession. Sne has won a great many converts: and there’s a strong antagonism between her and Helena—a most expensiye warfare it is too, Ll assure you, this warfare of souls. However, its an ill wind that blows nobody good, and the poor profit by it, which is a consolation, only it makes them sneaks and hypocrites. Doctor, come into my study, will you, and let’s have a weed ?’

was a cozy little room, with oak wainscoat

sang with wonderful energy and feeling. | that his grandfather had painted white. It

contained a small bookcase, and the book- case contained @ good many novels, some

ing. The novels were very well selected, and so was the poetry, and John Stan- burne read all these books, many of them over and over again.

out of that bookcase; and though he had no claim to erudition,a man’s head might be worse furnished than with such furniture as that. There was a splendid library at

backs of books as the other rooms were lined with paper or wainscoat; and when Stanburne wanted to know something he went there, and disturbed his ponderous histories and encyclopoedias; but he used the little bookcase more than the big library. He could not read either Latin

was very much above the usual average of English French—that is, he spoke fluently, and would no donbt have spoken correctly

peculiar Gallic sounds. He had been taught Frenchin his childhood by a Ger. man governess—for his mother was anxious that he should learn the best pronouncia- tion, and therefore took care to engage a foreigner—so that when Stanburne went to Paris, the people were exceedingly puzzled for he was visibly and unmistakably an Englishman, yet he spoke French with an accent so wonderfully German, that the evidence of the ears contradicted the testi-~ mony of the eyes. But Mrs. Stanburne was perfectly satisfied ; he spoke French as foreigners in general seemed to speak it, and she listened to him w th conscious pride. It was decided that he was to be learnt French first and German afterwards, but when the time for beginning the latter had come, the time for the inevitable Latin had also come, and the German governess was dismissed ; so that the only advantage that John Stanburne had derived from her nationality was a fine Teutonic accent with which bis French was ever afterwards ad- orned,

The society of ladies is always charming, but it must be admitted that there is an hour especially dear to the male sex, and which does not owe its delightfuiness to their presence. It is the hour of retires ment into the smoking room. When the lady of the house has a tendency to make her authority felt (and this will sometimes happen) the male members of her family and the guests feel a schoolboyish relief in escaping from it; but even when she is very genial and pleasant, and when every- body enjoys the light of her countenance, it must also be confessed that the timely withdrawal of that light, like the hour of sunset, has a certain sweetness of its own. There are subjects to be talked about that cannot politely be talked over in her pre- sence. ‘The scholar wants to talk over the subject of his study ; men of business want to discuss the matters which affect their interests; and men who are addicted to field sports, or yachting, or other amuse~ ments not quite so innocent as those, feel the need of that intercommunication which enhances the pleasures of memory or of hope. it is not simply the cigar which is a necessity. It is, the good, a great luxury—perhaps the greatest of luxuries— but itis not a necessity. The necessity which the smoking roora provides for is that of masculine conversation, without which men cease to be truly men, and which, if they cannot have in their own homes, they must seek in the club, or the alehouse, or the cafe,

THE P, FE. ISLAND ELECTIONS.

(From the Watchman.)

It is now some weeks since the Press of P. E. Island gave us the details of an elec- toral struggle in that Province, resulting in a ‘grand triumph’ for the non-sectarian school party. ‘The leaders on the oppos-~ ing sides were Hon. J.C. Pope and Lon. L. H. Davies. Mr. Pope is a veteran poli- tician, but not an intriguer. There is pro« bably not in Canada a public man more open, candid and straightforward in his course, He was the first to advocate rail- ways for the Island, on their merits, and for his large minded views and policy he had to encounter the violent opposition of such men as Hon. David Laird, Mr. L. H. Davies and the leaders of what by a sad misnomer was called the ‘ Liberal Party.’ He also advocated Confederation, in which cause he also encountered the fanatical opposition of Mr. Laird, Mr. Davies and their party. But he lived to see railways connecting all the principal points of the fertile Island and to witness his countrymen prospering under Confederation. As a merchant, a ship-builder, a ship-owner, a farmer, a fish- erman, a steady friend of progress and lib» eral measures,he stands head and shoulders above any other man in Prince Edward Is-~ land,—first in commerce, first in friendship and first in the esteem of his countrymen. Mr. Pope is a strong, convincing, but not an eloquent speaker. Mr, Davies, his op- ponent, is a younger man, of good abilities, with principles modelled on those of Mr. Laird, whose faithful follower he is content tobe. Heisa good speaker and debater, courteous and prudent and wholly unprin- cipled. On the school question Mr. Pope never changed or wavered, but Mr. Davies was found two or three years ago working hand in hand with the Roman Catholic Bishop of the Island and the Bishop’s can- didates, when Mr, Laird, Mr. Davies (father of Hon. Davies) and other ‘Grits’ owed

his wife had promised to drive over some | indeed; you ought to congwatulate him on | their elections mainly to Catholic votes,

while in this year 1876, these same Davies- Laird Grits were working with might and main to defeat every Roman Catholic can- didate that oftered for an Island constitu- ency !

So much for the leaders. As for the question at issue, it is easily stated.

During the last session of the Island Leg- islature, a committee on educational af- fairs was vppointed, and this committee brought out some very startling facts. It

word; and she’s a sort of notion that bey| frame of mind. Perhaps this may be due} was found that the Island schools were

literaily taking care of themselves. Inspec~ tors and Visitors aud the Board of Educa- tion were giving them precious little atten-~ tion. One half the schools were closed for want of teachers, Of those open many were ina wretched condition. Teachers were underpaid and inefficient. Boys, in« stead of men, had the education of the country in charge. Each teacher did what he deemed right in his own eyes. A large number of the schools had been turned inio sectarian institutions. Ina consider- able number the Presbyterian Catechism was taught as part of the school exercises in others the Roman Catholic Catechism was a@ class book. The best schools there were those which were not under Govern~- ment control, private and denominational schools, These revelations led toa gene~ ral demand for an improved system of public schools, and the question was, what shall the system be? Several years before, Mr. Pope had declared himself in favor of ‘ payment for results,’ which meant that in dealing with existing denominational schools, or those which might grow up, the denominational authorities should be paid

ing to attendance, He entered on the recent school campaign on the same text, modifying it, however, so as to make it ap-

to appeal to the religious sentiments of the people, taking as their motto, ‘No aid in

, Such literary educa- | any shape to denominational schools.” A} y cation as he possessed had mainly been got | striking feature of the campaign, as already

suggested, was the position taken by Mr. Laird and his friends, Mr. Laird, as a col- league of Mr. Mackenzie, had at Ottawa

friendship with Lady Helena. English} Wenderholme—a big room lined with the proposed, introduced and forced through

Parliament in extreme haste,a Bill which provided separate schools for the Catholics of the Northwest Territories, extending to all that vast territory, yet to be peopled by many millions of Canadians, denominational

owns and controls in Charlottetown defend< ed the action of Mr, Laird and the Mac.

Bill on its merits, and, no doubt, was the means of encouraging the Roman Catholics of the Island to expect Mr: Laird’s and the Patriot s support when a similar concession would be asked in that quarter. But, to the surprise of all who take an interest in Island politics, ina very few weeks after the Patriot had been denouncing those who could not appreciate the merits of the edu~ cational provisions of the North-west Ter- ritories Act, the same journal, with the same editor and proprietor, the same con- trolling hand, was found leading up an or- ganized and violent attack on the very principle which it had just defended with such vehemence! The two parties went to the polls; a union of sentiment on Domini- on questions did not prevent Conservatives or Liberals from differing among themselves on the school question; the chances seemed about equally balanced for a time, but of course when religious sentiment came fully into play the majority was bound to carry the day. ‘he majority of Pro- testants went one way, the great majority of Catholics the other way, and Protestants having the preponderance, took the lead. Sixteen or seventeén non-sectarians to thirteen sectarians, or ‘pay for results’ men, were elected. It is not improbable, however, that a close analysis cf the vote will show that as many electors voted on the one side as on the other, the popula- tion being nearly one-half Catholics and being supported by a very considerable Protestant minority. Indeed, it is pos-« sible that more voted for Mr, Pope's scheme, including the constituencies where a contest was found to be useless, than voted against it. Of course, whether for good or evil—let us hope for the good—the result of the election is due entirely to the position of Mr. Laird and his paper, which found everything wrong in aiding denom- inational schools in Charlottetown, Sum- merside and Georgetown, but were willing

te see it established and fastened forever on the people of the North-west! The| would have been all sufficient, and far world in geneial, and not the Catholics of | better taste. P. E. Island merely, whatever people may

y NO. 38. na aOR 7S | think of the matter in controvery, will be | slow to appreciate the consistency or the ? justice of such extraordinary attitude. / Meantime, a new Government, composed | of Mr. L. HH. Davies and his friends, will as- | sume the reins in Prince Edward Island. | Their first duty will be to frame a School Act in the spirit of their election platform. They have held out Aigh hopes of an im- proved educational system, and if they carry out their pledges and perfect a mea- sure which at a moderate expense will pro vide schools where no schools were before, give the Island a better class of teachers and the teachers higher pay, provide suit~ able text books, buildings and grounds, a training school for teachers, and high schools or academies for advanced pupils, they will have undertaken and succeeded in a work of nolight magnitude,one indeed, that will task their energies to the utmost, However they may have reached power, however inconsistent and tricky some of the leaders may have been, it is to be hops ed that the new Government will be dealt with in no captious spirit. system is a necessity; there are many .points on which all classes in the island can agree ; and while the Government are engaged in their arduous duties they will deserve and probably receive on this ques tion the support of all moderate and fur minded men, They must calculate, hows ever, on a large increace of local taxation. If the people want good schools they must pay for them. Buildings, teachers, inspece tors, books and other aids to education must all cost more than formerly, and the new law, which, we trust, will work well in the end, will be very unpopular for a time,