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Literature, and

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*RENFREW HOUSE,” = LONDON HOUSE.

THOMAS S OLD STAND, GREAT GEORGE STREET.

DELANY & WILSON, ,VING cowpleted ther FALL IMPORTATIONS, per Priokess trow |

ESTABLISHED 1820. }

FALL & WINTER GOODS! | sersmsssee swe

A LARGE SUPPLY |

or WY the “GAZELLE,” “THERESA, | NEW GOODS,

and Halifax steamers from LIVERPOOL, | Uranus” from Loudon, “ Helen Davies’ from

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| {VERPOOL, Umass from LOND N, and Burbadoes, aud “ C.M. Rich” from Boston, the ** ole trom BOSTON and HALIFAX, beg to subscribers have completed their importations for vail th e aade of the pabtic to their JUST RECEIVED j the season, which, with stock on hand from pre- | veer Extensive Stock of AT THE | vious iaportations, they offer for sale at their usual | sxtemsive ° Tec | Low Pricee. The preseut importations comprise: | : J ay D | » y ( . ( WO 1) x I “ON DON I 1 ( : L Ss Ie e | Whhds Burbudoes Sugar} 5 bales Cloths, L a n~7"9 ce Stund fi ly D i i eat: | WH do Muscovude Mo-} 4 do Eerpate and . oe " 1 Mand formerly Dempsey's, opposite Apethe- | lnases, Woollens, Groce! 1es, u ardware, ft urs, carg’s Hall, Upper Queen Street. 50 chesta prime Congou| 4 do paper haneene*, , " ’ nintownclhdpiiii , | Tea, 4 do Cotton Warp, Boots & Shoe 3, Hats & Caps, i vr I D 300 aacke Coarae Sault, 6 do Printed, Unbleach- | Xe Xe &e _H ASZ A x | 50 sides Sole Leather, ed & White Calivos, | — _ COMPRISING —— f AS RECEIVED, per URANUS from; © come: Keady-made} 2 + aeciped Peieting, } oe ° . . . > stn cielo . gr pee 4% Clothing, 2 do Glazed Linings, | Ladies Dress Materials m all the LUN LM N, G AZEL!I E, and Cut RESA | 9 -. Lediew’ Boots & 2 do Buffalo Skins, | from LIVERPOOL, a large and selected | Shes. ® bhde Paint Oil,

new styles, Coloured and Black Cobourgs, STOCK of - ; ‘ o

4do Rubber de assorted

114 packages 3 do Silks & Ribbuns, i

W incies, Alpacas, French Merines, inte,

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} ae | } os le M Bey wr ne Saati Flowers BRITISH DRY GOODS, | 3 do Millinery, 20 tons asserted Iron, uaAWwis, Mantics, onneta ate, i re rs, . 4 de Haberda hery, 10 bure Muntz Metal, ; Hibbans, Bounet Borders, Gloves, Hosiery, |Faney Goods, Jewellery, Stationery. | . ce eae. o | t Me ald. Woollen Hoods, Sontaga, Skating ¢ ups. Groceries and Hardware. | 1 do Hosiery, ’ Tutt Bo ts, 64, by ;,

7 by - | 20 bnudles Spring, Cast | & Blister Steel, | 6 do Dress Materials, | 50 sete Wilkie & Gray’s | 10 packages Gilasgow/* Plough Metals, Goods, in Gala Plaids,/100 Wrought Iron Plough Shaw Is, Shares, 1 cuse assorted Cutlery,

1 de Gloves, 2 do Shawls & Mantles, 1 do Ladies’ Furs,

Deika and Ga baldi Jachets, die.

Gentlemen's Furnishing Goods, la Clothe, Tweeds, Clotting, Fur Caps in great variety of styles and quality, Mufflers, Lamba’ Woe Under Clothi: es White Shirts, Collars, Ties,

Searfs, Suk Haadkerchiets,

Fancy Tweed & Flannel

All having been caretully selected direet from | the Manutacteries, and purchased on the best | terms, they will be seid at the LOWEST PRICES | |} ror ©asH, @ liberal discount made te whole-| sale customers, comprising a large Stock of | Supertine and

| Winter Cloths & Coatings,

Winseys, Printed Shirting,Flan- nels & Shirts, Com-/100 packagrs Nails and forters, Bays & Bag- Spikes,

alitta Hraces: Rabber in all the latest styles; ging, Osuaburgs, Ca-| 50 de Ironmongery avd ee L ies’ ' licos, Cotton Handker- Hardware. : adies’ Dress Materials, canes SPA PLIES, ee en Grey and White Cotton, Striped Shirting, Prints

SILKS, black and coloured, in dresses avd pieces, Kuickerbocker Cleth, French Merinos, Alexandra Cloth, Baratheas, black and coloured, Cloth of Gold, York Repp, | |

ing Soda, Boils Jamaica Ginger, Crushed Sugar, Currants, Kegs Cud- bear, Powder, Mustard, Boxcs London Soap, Raisins, Lozenges, Extract Logwood, Pepper,Giass, Bags Rice, Pepper, Allspice, Corks, Coffe, Coils Manilla Rope; Dozens Pails, Brooms, Xe.

Ginghaimsy Bed ‘Tick, Canvass, Osnaburg,

Lewellings, Tabie Clotha, White, Red, & Fancy Flannel, &e. &e. Ke. Men's, Wo en's & Children’s

Boots, Shoes & Rubbers,

in endless Variety.

Skeieton Skirts & Cane Hoops, |

Very Cheap

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in great variety and newest fashions; | Caeks Baking Soda, Whiting, Putty, Wasb- '

Popinettes, &e. Ke. Kc. Shawls and Mautles, in great variety aud very cheap;

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LITERATURE,

THE SUPERFLUOUS MAN.

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It is ascertained by inspection of the registers of ; ever hopeless wretchos needed to escape from

many countries, that the uniform proportion of

male to female births is as 21 to 20: Seen and 1, Rachel Holland, was another.

respect to marriage, every 2ist man is natura pertluous.—-[Simith’s Treatise on Population. I long have been puzzled to guess, And so I bave frequently said, What the reason could really be That [ never have happened to wed; But now it is perfectly clear I am under a natural ban ; The girls ave already assigaed— Aud I'w a superfluous man !

Those clever statiatieal chaps Declare the numerical run Of women and men in the world, Is ‘T'wenty to Twenty-and-one ; And hence in the pairing, you see, Since wooing and wedding began, For every connubial score, They've got a superiluous man !

By tweuties and twenties they go, And giddily rush to their fate,

For nove of the number, of course, Can fail of a conjugal mate ;

But while they are yielding in scores To Natare’s iuflexible plan,

There's never a Woman for me— Bor mi a superfluous man !

It isn’t that I am charl, To solitude over-inelined ; It isn't that I am at fault In morals or manners or mind; Then what is the reason, you ask, lam atill with the bachelor-elan? 1 merely was numbered amisa— Aud Tma supertvous mau !

It isn’t that [am in want Of personal beanty or grace,

E?FROoC MRIS, Tes (warranted superior quality), Sogar (very | bright), Molasses, Cobacco, Crushed Sugar, Seap, Candies, Starch, Pepper, Mus-

a large assortment in the latest fashions ; RIBBONS,

Ribbon Velvet, Cotten & Silk, Black and

tard, Baking & Washing Soda; Coloured Silk Velvets, Terry Velvete Raisine, Curranta, Spices, Black German Velvets, &c. &c. &e. de. ke.

French and other FLOWERS, Borders, Cap Fronts, Cambrie Handkerchiefs, Gloves, Steel & Muslin Collars, Hair | Nets, Sleeves, in variety. | , Dress Battons and Trimmings, in great variety, Braids, Tassels and Cord, Laces, Worked Muslin, Insertion and Edg- | ing, Gloves, Hosiery, Veils, Silk Twist, Thread, Reels, &e. &e. } FURS — Sable, Stone Martin, | Mink, Fiteh, Chinchille, Kolenski, Opposun:, Mock Ermine, Musquash Riding Boas | |

FIATLEIPIWARE.

Cet avd Wrought Nails, all sizes, Ploagh Mouut- | ing, Cham Traces, Rope, Weaver's Reeda. Paint, Oil, Putty, Glass, Gunpowder, Shot, &e«., &e ae Homeepum taken th) exchange ior Goods } The highest price paid in Cash for Fur. iv” (Customers notice of the Sign

“ltentrew llouse.” terent George Street, } Dec. 7, 1863

will please take particular |

& Cuffs ; Stone Martin, Monkey, Goat aud Seal Tail Moflk, &e., Fur

NEW. GOODS, |sracce Goods Brown Cot-|

FOR FALL 1865. tons, Blankets, Flannels, White and Srriped

Charlottetown v rw el p h

Ar THE Shirtings, Skirtings, Prints, Furniture Chintz, Sheetings, Ticks, Sacking, BRITISH WAREHOUSE, —s:wivit Carveting, tewtin Beags, i : 5 Mats. Crumb Cleths, Oil Floor QUEEN Ss SQUARE. Cioth, &c. &e. &e i

7 BE SUBSCRIBERS HAVE JUST) 3900 Pieces KECELVED trom LONDON, per Uranus fron LIVE RVOOL, pas Theresa,from (iLAS- GOW, via Vietou, per

frow the States and

Paper - Hangings, | Eughsh make, very cheap and good y READY-MADE CLOTHING, in| Over-Couts, Shooting Coats, Pants, Vests, Shirts, Collars, Drawers, Under Shirts,

Cabot aud viher arrivals Lwlitax,

Their usual extensive Supply of | Water-proof Coats and Sheets, &e. | MBIT ISH & FOREIGN HARDWARE--Iron, Steel, Glass, M IK hR ( j j A NX } ) ] A KK : lutty, Paints, Oils, Turpentine, Nails, Spikes,

Brads, Tacks, Sheet lren, Wire, Gig & Cart

Bonnets, Hats & Caps, |

a choice selection,) — Liverpool House !

FALL & WINTER, 1863-64.

D. G. & 8. DAVIES.

Charlottetown, Dec. 7, 1863.

For many a man with a wife Is uytier far in the face ;

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Indeed, umong elegant men

} 1 funey myself in the van,

| But whut is the value of that, When I'm a supertluous man! |

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Although [ am fond of the girls, For anght I could ever discern,

WILLIAM FULL

AVING completed per “ THERESA” | and “ PRIORSSS,”' his Stoek of j id

BRITISH § FOREIGN | MERCHANDIZE,

Now offers the same to the public at the LUWEST |

The tender emotion I feel Js one that they never return ;

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"Tie idle to quarrel with fate, For struggle as hard as | ean, They're mated already, you know,— Aud I'm a supertiuous man! No wonder I grumble at times,

PRICES FOR CASH. With women sv pretty and plenty,

Lhe GOODS having been purchased on the | To kuow that I never was born

best Terma, are confidently offered to compare |

with any in the market. His Steck inelndes, in Staple Dry Goods,

Cotton Warp, Grey Cotcons, Striped and White

Shirtiugs, Vickings, Denims, Drills, Bleecy Cot. | tous, Printed Cottens. Ginghaumes, Red, W hite and |

To figers as one of the Twenty : But yet, when the average lot, With critical vision { sean, I think it may be for the best That I'm @ sapertluoug man!

Fancy FLANNELS, Towellings, Tabie Lineus, | criselimaiagtii dials ti W ite and Colored Damaske, Blankets, Rags,&e. | MORNIN G + 2 ea a . Dress Materials, se

Sweet morn of Spring, how bright art thoa And nee indeed ! it the forest bough, And yvild the bumblest weed.

{ncluding Wineceva, Plain and Plaid; Cobnrgs, Kuickerbocker, Fouland Lustres, Camilets, Alex indra Cloth. Black and Coloured Lustres. &e:, &e."| with DRESS TRIMMINGS aud LININGS in,

xreul variety

Ladies’ Mantles, Black and Colonred Cloth, Tweed, &c.; Mantle | Clothe & Cloakings. in Black and Coloured Cloths ; Alexandra Cloth, Seal Cloths, in all quantities.

: Coming to lig

Some woudrous power seems gous abroad | On elouds of burning yold ; And every quick and silent thing,

Doth some sweet charm unfold.

New buds on elder sister flowers,

cunprising all the requisite articles in § PAPLI, | Bashes, Chain Traces, Back Chaios, Halter | Ladies’ Shawls, & I ANC Y GOODs, ainvug which will be fouud | Ubaina, Grey & Wilkie’s Ploagh Mount | Including Cloth, Tweed, Cashmere, Paisley? &c: the leuding styles and voveltics of the seasun : ing, Hawes, Bridies, Bits, Whips, rt Pisin & Faacy Dress Cioods, } Koives & Forks, Seissurs, Ke. Furs, nd Furs,

Shawls, Mantles, , A select xssortment of, in Mountain Martin, at all i i ‘ 4 M ’ all | ALSO, | prices; Sea vide Loas, Eriniae and whiie. yt p aeaene VF isda ’ | Fashionable Felt Hats Plain and Fancy Bounets,&e | ! ea, Molasses, Coffee, Ci ushed & | Ladies Garibaldi Jackets, Soutags & Hoods, Winter | Moist Sugar, Rice, Pearl Barley, Mustard, | Vests, Gloves, Collars, Searts, Bonnet RKibbous, all |

Pepper, Nutmegs, Spices (ground and un- | colors and widths.

ground), Raisins, Currants, Citron, Starch | G +.) . hi G d : ; pm ond entlemen’s Furnishing oods, 3lue, Blacking, Baking ashing tS ae ee er saya }In reidy-made CLOTHING, in great variety ;

Boonet Frente, Hats & Caps, Black & Colored Silks, Hiesiery & Haberdashery, Cellars, Ties and Scaris, Piain and Paney Flannels, Slurts, Skirts & Skirting Serges, Oil Cloths & Baize |

soots, Shoes & Rubber Goods | k Suda, Leather, Tubacee, Pipes ; . }Fancy Flannel SHIRTS, Gloves, Ties, Searfs, Clothing, and Gents’ general outfita, Buckets, Broome, Soap, Candles, Indigo, Collars, &e., HATS & CAPS, in Fur, Fur Trimmed, |

Manilla Rope, Piteh, Pitch & Parafine Ou, Cross and Hand Saws, Chiselx, Gouges, Jack, Hand and Bead Planes, Brass Taps, &e. &a& Charlottetown, Nev. 16, 1463.

| Cloth, Felt. &c. | Boots and Shoes, In Ladies’, Gent's, and Children’s, of all kinds. | FAMILY GROCERIES. | A larve and varied assorunent of, comprising prime ;Congoun TEA, Brown and White Sugars, Cuilee, | | Raisins, Currants, Kc, Ke. Ke. : ir y Ta >. 5 ia, | cs “ ow *X ears Grif ts. te” The above Goods are offered at Whole | 77 | sule and Retail, at THOMAS’S OLD STAND, | |GREAT GEORGE STREET. | WILLIAM FULL. |

Cloths, Deeskius, and Trinmings, ' Bardware, Iruuengery & Cutlery, Nails & Horse Nails, Room Paper, Blankefs, Rugs, and Counterpaues, Good Indigo and other Dye Stuffs. GROCERIES, Consisisting of Cheice TEAS and STGARS RAISINS, CURRANTS and FIGS. &e. SPICES, &e. ke. te Personally «elected with care—purehased - on the best tertus—and will be found to compare | Extensive Saie of

favorably with other Stucks in the market, either | CHRISTMAS PRESENTS

lor atyle vt value. i W. & A. BROWN. AND ~|NEW YEAR’S GIFTS,

Queen Square, Nuv. 16, i563, } AT | LAIRD & HARVIE'S ) ENE Subscriber HAS RECELVED, by

PRINCE STREET Bookst ore, | late arrivals from Londou, Liverpool, Glxe-

BOOK AND STATIONERY STORE, and United States, bie usual EXTENSIVE

( Near the | South Side of Queen Square. [SC prLy OF GOODS suitable for

JOHN 8. BREMNER , etd . x bh i o ° H AS constantly for sale, at the lowest | l ee ee = oe Men’s Wear,

prices, a wene cal xasortment of | in part—

Books and Stationery, PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS,

Including all the SCHOOL BOOKS in general uae, } in splendid binding and styles.

ovether wi reat variety of new anc ndard | M guifi t Ass t . . . | an anne Tailor’s Trimmings, Church Services and Prayer’ which he is prepared to make up at the shortest

Atso — Bibles and Testaments, Conunentaries, | Preyer Books, Church Serviee, Weelev's Hymns, | B k notice, und on rensonuble terms. 00 8, — ALSO

Vealm Kooks, &c, in various sizes and styles of | Ready-Made Clothing,

Binding. Enwlish and American BOOKS and PERIOD].| In various styles and bindings, viz: — Moroeco Hata, Fac aud Cloth Caps in great variety. Gloves of every kind; Scarfs, Mutilers, Neck-

CALS unported to order, and supplied ov“avyourable Antigue ; Blue, Green, Purple and Scarlet Reticules, Gentlemen’s | tien, Stocks, Shirta.

Christmas | Presents

Churlottetown, Nov. 16, 1863.

Temperance Hall.)

BROAD CLOTHs, Beaver, Whitney, and Pilot |

aud a general assortment of

+ Lake VARIETY OF

NEW AND POPULAR MUSIC.

PRIZE EXHIBITION (1862)

SCHOOL ROOM MAPS. | ARTISTS’ MATERIALS.

TH” All kinds of JOB PRINTING and! BOOK-BINDING executed with neatness | and on moderate terme.

Charlottetown, Ja y 25, 1864.

terma Velveta, Oak sides, Plain Morocco, } Gilt Rims and Clasps, ete. | Ladies’

| Writing Desks, Gentlemen’s | English and American Collars.

Walking Canes, mounted Socks, Braces, Handkerchiefs, Under-cloth-

a . eo ing, and a choice selection of Fascy FLANNELS, with Iy ory, Silver ine Red, White and Blue, together with other and Gold.

Goods for winter wear, which will be suld PAPER MACHIE GOODS.

cheap for prompt pay. CHARLES BELL, Merchant Tuilor. Charlottetown, Dec. 14, 1803 Sime

bw } Stationery Cuses, ete.

Guita Percha Vases, Gutta Percha |

DAVIES & WEEKS, — Card Trays, Fruit Baskets,

HAVING COMPLETED THEIR i Inkstands, Xe. pu E Subecriber wili receive tenders at

ALL IMPORTATION, au Sete core ie

WANTED, 600 Cords of Hemlock Bark.

An extensive and varied assortment of from persone wishing to cuntract for from FIFTY ESPECTFULLY invite attention to) Giames and "Coys, (rds and upwards of the above quantity required.

sp ; ‘ . W. B. DAWSON | Games of Solitaire, Aunt Sally, Wm. Tell. Popin- | : eae ; jay, Pope Joan, Parlor Bowls, Racing, Cak | City Tannery, West End (Grafton Street.

7 . nw N. B.—One fourth eash will be puid ov the signing culation, Dratts, Chess, &c. &e. Ke. | of the conseath hen 40 qhud"puthene Wl ee we

Toys in every variely suitable Sor! uired as security for the performance of the same. Holiday Presents.

PUZZLES & DISSECTIONS,

their large und varied Stock of STAPLE & FANCY DRY GOoonDs, Ready-made Clothing,

HMARDWARE, GROCERIES. The Store having been recently opened, every

department will be found filled with Fresh & Seasonable Goods, Which are now selling at Extraordinary Low

Prices, at Dunean’s Brick Building, CORNER SHOP.

TANNERY. ' | Ch'town, Feb. 1, 1364. Rin

or eae | QUEBEC PORTER & ALES. in great variety.

HUNDREDS OF DOLLS, EVERY SIZE. (St. Charles-st. Brewery, Quebec. Drawing Hoom Books, Poetical Thomas Lloyd, Proprietor.

Works, Keepsakes, Anunals, &c. | OTTLED ALES & PORTER, of . - i 4 od ’ A splendid lot of New Books, superior brands, from the above Brewery, for suitable for Children, together with Sale in lots to suit purchasers. . ah Bs 4 . . 5 . i G. A. LLOYD. _fesen-sivest; Charletistows, Dee: 28, 194: an abundance of other articles which Peake's Building, Water-street. cannot be enuwerated.

r NOTICE. Ch'town, P. E. 1, Dec. 28, 1863. NE Subseriber will feel obliged to all, oe or ’ Y.

th ‘ , . . + | r DF sn | AE, © BASIS te Wont, Bide | ek Oa He wal oti eaten ueen Square, — . , ,

‘ ? pil , Topas yto4npm. Judsows Pills! Charlottetown, Dec. 21, 1863. eee tattih cbie

December 7th, 1863.

e 4 oT a ae oe” | | Bell Ss Clothing Store, | holiday ; and vuce when in the folly of the !

wade a vital difference.

Clothe, Tweeds, Doeskins, Casimers, Vestings, | fession, or its

Peer with a soft delight ; Aud fill with fragrance all the hours, While Duy flows calm and bright. The wood-birds shuke their dewy wings, And all the land is rife, With sylvan uatnre’s full of sporz, And the rich strength of life.

The gentle stress of orient light Breaks up the dewy haze ;

And reaches us at times from far, With lines of trembling rays. Oh! as the break of Day appears, So shines Life's sunny start; Thro’ all the gloom ot Jater years,

Upon the weary heart.

THE REAL MURDERER. ( Concluded.)

He was married on a Sunday, and came back tv work the next day, not allowing him- selt und his silly young wife even a brief

QUEEN’S STREET. | first mouth of marriage, she made an excuse

to follow him to his workshop, she went home in ters from bis stern chiding. I thought hid marriage would not touch me; yet it Hitherto there had been a subtle hope underlying all my suspi- cion, that the secret was less deadly than |

possibility of lovieg bim again, but its con- discovery, now could never re- unite us, That was over; and only for | Willie's sake, who wrote piteous and heart- | broken letters from his place of banishment, | would persevere to the end. A new form of my lie began, with no hope in it; only a feverish anxiety in its stead. We were toge- ther duy alter day; more together than he and his wite. As I sat at my sewing-press, stitching the sheets that he bound into bouks, there was for both the perpetual conscivus- ness of the other's presence. Almost every ‘word that varied the quiet of that dreary room was spoken by his voice or mine. Few footsteps crossed the fluor save ours. Every movement of the one was beard, seen, felt by the other. 1 bad ouly to glance aside from my press, and my eye canght his face, grim, and swny, yet with flashes of despair under /my scrutiny. It was necessary for him to

| questions about my work, and his voice al- |

, ways fultered as he spuke, but never changed (mm tone as it did ii he were compelled two ut- |ter my name, On my side l was very calm,

_butulways watching. Whenever he mounted | | the corner staircase, his last glance showed |

| bins that I was noticing and listening to every movement.

‘religious life I was with him, at his side ;|—1 went to church with my friend, sitting | Take the panes it;

~~~ he suffered to fall from his lips. Ali the pro-| apart for the aluaswomea.

through dewy Janes in the quiet dusk or|leave to depart, though my face, long set | sleeping moonlight,with low-toned voices,and j into sorrow, was beginning to soften into a

eed one at - — - aa

n the seats set here was a sense | fession required of us was that we were seek- | 0 freedom, @ deliverance from a corroding jing to fee from the wrath to come; and it cone eT of my soul; I could pray ; for

George Denning was not in the same house | coming wrath, he, George Denning, was one, | of prayer. Before me, beneath the fair lu our | white linen cloth which covered the sacra- | weekly meetings, where each in turn gave | mental elements, was the altar-cluth of crim- /an aceount of his inner life during the past/ sen velyet with its sacred initials and the , week, I placed myself opposite to him, where | guiden halo round them, which I had been my gaze could be fixed upon him, in that cir-| working with my own fiagere on that terrible cle where all else sut with closed or downcast doomsday that bad failen upon us. The eyes, while he gave utterence to the few, | “1. H. S.’’ was just beneath the edge of the teeble, common-place, empty words he dared snowy cover, and Ll saw and heard nothing

| noticing, listening, catching up every word beside her in the chancel u

‘tu speak before me, let his heart burn with elee of the solemn service. 1 him agit would. It was the mockery of a| vaguely, but irresistibly, these words laic | soul-refreshing confession, the dead image of | bold of my thoughts, ** Jesus. the Saviour |a living fellowehip. Twice he broke into| of men.”

wild ungovernable lamentations, full of an| A profound peace, ‘* peace on earth, and exceeding bitterness and mystery,whichshook | good will towards all,”’ J mo, +8 | him in every nerve, and Jett him without, left the church with the congregation ; and strength or speech ; while it was in my power, | while the almswoman, in her simple faith, by a chance solemn word bere and there, | remained for the concluding service, I paced sume awful threatening, eome dread sugges- to and fro in tae churchyard, past the graves | tive verse which hinted at an unknown siu, to, of my parents. But with this peace there turn his face pale witn fear, or blank with | mingled a strong yearning for action, for re- conviction, while his strong frame heaved turning once more to my house of tondage, with groans he dure uot utter. and freeing myself at once and for ever from

more his than mine. Alas for the dreary 1 should set George Denning free was plea- dying away of all the hope and bloom of | sant to me, for here, close to the lanes ard womanhood! only seven hours of invocent, | the fields where we had played as children, furgetful sleep, and all the seventeen remain- | and Joitered as lovers, | remember him as he ing burthened with one muddening thought. was before the sear and blight came upon I marvelled to myself, as day after day [jour lives. He, tov, should be freed upcr dradged at my work, at the dull, deadly | this day of accomplished sacrifice. He alsy hatred that possessed me against this man, should be forgiven, if he knew not what he who had been the object of my most tender did.

love. Was it he and 1 who had rambled With reluetance the aged woman gave me

twined hands, and half stolen kiases—was it | shadowy emile. The early night was closing

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he and [, in truth, who had passed through that trance together? Or was it not some dreamy Paradise, some deception of my crazed brain? ‘hen [ scarcely ventured to lift up my eyes to his if he were looking at me; Dow, it was ha whose eyelids fell beture my glance, and who turned aside his head, and shrank away from my nearer approach. Even when, as years rolled on, I saw the strong frame showing tokens of early age and incurable decline from the proluaged avguish of his mind, 1 permitted no re- lenting from my ‘ell purpose. 1 was rather | jealous lest disease should snatch from ime | this wan, wasting map. who still held in his | hidden heart the secret for which I had | sacrificed all my womanliness, and for whic | my brother yet pined in miseradle banish-— ment. [also suffered the agonies of despair | befure this speechless possessur of a@ secret, that had robbed me of all the hopes and joys and love of life.

But it came to pass thas after seven years | of ceaseless watcl.ing, when I had grown old |

_Yehement desire to revisit my mative town, where I bad left po trace of myself, exeept a

and worn down into a passive and sullen } endurance of my condition, there awoke | Within me one Kuastertide a restless and

Vague ruwour that | was soon going to juin | my brother in America. I askedsleave of my

waster to take a holiday from the eve of Good Friday until Easter Monday, and | started forth a grey, nerveless, fearful woman, from the tomblike stillness of the solitary | house, into the nvise and bustle of the world. | Once more, with shaking heart, I trod the | dulorous way along which I had led Wallie quailing beneath the eyes and whispers of our band of witnesses; and once more | stood befure the threshold crossed by m

mother’s feet, and where upon peaceful Sun- day eveninge I had watched Willie and George going away, with many backward glances und gestures or farewell. I had hoped that I siiould find it empty and deserted

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in when I returned to the streets through which { had crept, a bard and desolate wo- wan, the day before; but I had tasted love again, human and diyine; [ had stooped to

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Rachel ; it ie found too late | Chere, ta it is my legacy to you. You have your seeret at last ”’ Hie thrust the paper in my hend, making | a helpless effort tu close my finger: o it, but [ let it @oat away, and fall ing to tho fluor. There was mo thought in my wind but of the days ef old, when be and [ were boy and girl together. This hideous dreaa would be over soon, and I should wake | to his morning call under my wiudow, and my fearful fancies would be half-leughed and hall-caressed away. _ * td no thought to do it,’” he enid, speak- ing painfully ; ** be held a bond of mine for & bundred pounds, and he never let me rest, | 1 wae fittiag up my home for Rachel, and he was threatening me with a prison. The old wiser kept ais hoard in the closet yonder, and when he found that [ bad seen him go to it—it was late, and he believed evory one of us were gone—he flew at we like a madman. | L never meant to murder him.” | The mvon had gone under a cloud; and, | behind us, the caudie in the closet burned ae 80 that hie face was only a blank white. Less, with two buroing eyes in which the | light of life glimmered fitfuliy ; but i could hot turn away my from it, even te

But the suffering wae not all his—scurcely its doleful captivity. Even the thoaght that glance round the attic, where the evening

_wind was fluttering and rustling many « sheet of paper, unt:] the whole place ssemed alive with restless sounds and movements. 1 drew his head down again upon my bysom, a laid my check against his clammy fore-

** I was so strong,”” he murmured, clench- ing his feeble fingers, ‘I did not know that death could be in my grip. Rachel, | wrote 4 confession-—it is there on the floor ; take care of it when [ am gone~and | placed it in &@ ream of paper which would be opened shortly, only g ving me time for a sure es- cape. But Willie had come back to seek me, and had seen all and fled, for my sake and yours. If the lad had been convicted ¢ would have saved him at the price of my

taste it, and in my hiddeo heart [ blessed the groups of happy beings whom passed. The |

own life ; but there was nothing against him, and there would have been every ching against

bells of the churches chimed together oyer-| ave, When we eearched for a érace of the head, making a gladsome music all the way | murderer | hid the paper far back in the along, as I pressed on t» the central street, closet under hundreds of other reams ; think- where the deserted house was waiting fur me, | ing te secure it when « safe time came. But with its tainted attic and empty cham ers. | you bave been ever watebing me.” Under a lamp J met George Denning’s silly; Down in the quiet street berow there came young wile, with a baby in her arms, and | the patcer of children’s feet u the pave-~ talking gaily with some companions; but ment, and the chatter of children’s voices. though my heart stopped iu its rapturous the dying man heard them, and tried to raise throbbing for a moment, | moved gently out) bimeelf, of her path, and did not gradge ber luugh-| ** I have had children,” he sighed, * but ter, for little marth had she with her stricken | they never laughed and clapped their hands husband. She wight have beea coming from | for me. Every mornipg 1 came from their the house, for 4 minute more and it rose before | cradies to leok upoa your face, Rachel ; and me on the opposite side of the street, with its there wae always a cruse in it. Now the steep roof uver-topping all the others; and | sin of the father will be visited epon them. there in the litthe dormer-window, giimmer-}| You bave shut me out from prayer and peni- ing like a feeble glow-worm, there shone the | tence ; you have been a living doom ayainet palest, faintest mote of light from within, me. Yet 1 am dying at laet im your arme.”’ just visible in the gathering darkoess of the; While he whispered, the words failing with night. difficulty and pain from bis faltering toague, 1 underetood the tell-tale beam, and a éud-/} there came tu me once more a sense of imef- den tingling ran through all my veins. At) fable peace and love brooding over us. By the very mowentin wich | bad surrendered | some subtle and finer influence the dying the purpuse of ay lite L was to receive Hs / man shared it, and opened his eyes again to fulfilment. 1 entered the house as silently inect mine looking dow? upon hin with that as death. The smouldering fire upon my | mysterious renewal of afvction. All the hearth, not kiadied by me, gave me light to| long known consolativns, which had been to tind the soundiess list slippers, wath whieh in only as e very pleasant song, or as good coula steal unheard upon the busy labourer,! tidings for others from which we ourselves who was ut work upon this universal boli- | were shut out, entered inty our suuls im the day. Doors that would have creaked under hour of their extrewest need. The bale jess carefui and less steady fingers, turned) evening star, steady but very fur away, noiselessly upou their hinges us they admit- pointed the beginning of the immeasurable - ted me; and the mouldering floors gave no distance that was about to ee us; and warning of my stealthy approach. Only my | from my lips, lying close to his dull ear, heart beat, aod my pulses throbbed clamor- | there fell, almost unconsciously to myself, ously in my ears, until I bad to tarry for a) the words that had dwelt ail dsy in my minute underneath the attic, where there | heart, ** Jesus, the Saviour of men.” was the dull heavy thud of weighty reamsof; I descended into the Easter streete from the

among which will be found the latest styles | feared, so that once known to me with itsex- | *#stement. The poor desvlate old creature i#te BY

in Blaek, Blue, and Brown West of England | tenuating cicumstances, there might stili be a

like the house f came from, and that { might | paper thrown down in haste. I crept partly

have wandered alone through the rooms| YP the winding staire, and stood still in the again; but there was the noi-e of laughter | deep shadows where [ could see him, myself within, and the shadows of flitting figures | unseen, at the furthest end of the crowded upon the lighted curtains, and I turned away Toot. He had been toiling long, for the to seek the only asylum I would enter in my sweat and pallor of exhaustion were upon bative town. his haggard face, and his white lips were

It was one of a row of poor almbouses built | pinebed for breath ; but still he laboured, amid the graves of the charchyard and under | bearing piles of paper, upopd which the dust the shadow of the church tower. A short! of years had gathered, outof the dark closet by-path was trodden down over the little | into @ scanty spice he had cleared, upon the mounds, and [| was guided across it by | very spot where the murdered man had lain. the glimmering from the windows of the | Hach packet he unwrapped and examined small dwellings. Again | tarried on a carefully, laying it down with a growing threshold, listening : for | did not know that pallor and 8 deeper sigh, and retreating my only and aged friend was still living, | #g8!0 behind the thin itien which bie and my heart bounded as the the sound of a| 41m from my sight. At last he stayed so cheery voice, sbrill with years like the bigh long that I stole on warily over the piled-up notes of an old flate, came like musie to my | Papers,to the opened door of the secret closet. | ears. As soon as the twittering song was, He had sunk to his knees, and was holding ended, tapped lightly at the door. There was | t the feeble light of his candle a yeilow the brisk clicking of w stick upon the quarried | Page, with writing almost effaced by time— floor within, dal then the door was opened the one stained paper among thousands of widely, as if the aged woman had done for| blank and empty sheets. — Hie thin and ever with fear or distrust, and was ready to wasted fingers grasped with a desperate welcome the whole world to her poor hearth. clutch, but be trembled throughout his

Charlotte,” 1 said faintly, “1 am| Wtole frame, enti be Se not stendy him-

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wat eet ens you know me? stood beside him, leaning over him, and ina

Sd 9 manent, die ontound “onnd ae ught moment detecting that the time-stained lines

mine, and led me in from the dark night. and) “°T® '? oy chytsee bs coamttiitor aod

seated me in her own chair by the Arenide, ‘“My God!" he gasped, as he felt the with many muttered words of delight and touch of my dress, and looked up straight bending face; but his paintul breath | rejoiced over me as if] had been her daugater, | failed him, and he feil prostrate at my feet, and spread her scanty meal for me with the only drawing under him the paper which be finest edge of hospitable gladness, Fur a| grasped so desperately. 1 stood motionless, little while, as I looked round the tiny room, !0r before me were passing, in dreary pro-

ferward, and |

fatal room, which had been the starting point of both the murdeced man and hie murderer, into the boundless eternity. No one knew that 1 had been there; and with- vot distinet aim or design, only hiding in my bosom the sullied and time-worn paper, { wandered back to the poor ales hated: There, with my face turned to the quiet churchyard, which offered me no refuge, though I longed for it greatly, Llay etill aad silent through weeks of illness, with the trensared paper in his handwriting lying under my pillow, or held for safety in my feverish hands. Afcerwards 1 remember, though vaguely, voyaging over miles uf yi- sionless waters, and finding Willie, not a heart-broken exile,but happy iv a new home, and renouscing the land of his troubles and mine. But L was reatiess there, and must return; and returning found that the old empty houre, with its death-stained attic, had been palled down as an accursed dwell. ing, and not one stoue of it remained upon another, Yet for meat every Eastertide it is erected again, aud the tragedy of my life is acted Gut ence more, batever eise I forget, or whatever eles my miad refuses to receive, there abides with me ever and ever the wemory of my fell remorseless purpuse, and of my cruel batred, derker in its @in thuu George Deoniog's unwedtiated crime.

MARVELLOovs Ixcipent.—In the course of our reading we remember to bave met with a few cases where at the moment of death, vision of thé dead has appearcd to friends at a great distance fiom the place of death, as if to give notice of the event; but these in-

unchanged since the time when as a child | cession, all the weary, weary days I had came here on busy days at home to be out! of my mother’s way, and had play keeping house, compelling the old almswoman