Barrington

f I place him before him on one of these rare occasions. If success would always respond to labor, his would have

d emotion. He felt that such a correspondent was worth a sacrifice, and he made it That my reader may appreciate the cost of the achievement, I would have him imagine how a mason about to build a wall should be obliged to examine each stone before he laid it, test its constituent qualities, its shape and its size,-for it was thus that almost every word occasioned the Major a reference to the dictionary, spelling

t, October

that's the reason why. Besides this the weather is dreadful; cold east winds and rains, sometimes sleet, every day; and

it, which is, I think, enormous; at least, Tim Hacket got over a thrashing-machine from Scotland last spring for twelve and four, and there 's no comparison between the two. Than

niggers was up at Jamaica, we had n't time to take the names of the prisoners, and we always cut one of their ears off to know them again. Old Peter laughed till the tears ran down his face, but Dinah said, 'If I did not suppose, sir, that you were inventing a very graceless joke, I'd insist on your leaving this room and this house on the instant.' It was ten o'clock at night, and raining hard; so you may guess I gave in. Bad as she is, the young one is her equal, and I gave up all thoughts of what you call 'prosecuting my suit' in that quarter. She isn't even commonly civil to me, and when I ask her for, maybe, the mustard at dinner, she turns

efused to obey orders, or that you, as she says, used such language towards him that he wrote to report you? Give it to me in black and white, and maybe I won't try her temper with it. At all events, make out some sort of a ca

the wheat last year, are running me mighty close. I won't finish this till to-morrow, for I 'm going to dine at 'The Home' to-day. It is the granddaughter's birthday, and there was a regular shindy about who was going to be asked. Old Peter was for a grand celebration, and inviti

he pen. It was a grand dinner, to be sure, for ruined people to give. Venison from Carrick Woods, and game of every kind, with all kinds of wine; and my Lord Car-rickmore talking to Miss Dinah, and the Admiral following up with the niece, and Tom Brabazon, and Dean of Deanspark, and the devil

probability of a speedy arrangement of my long-pending suit with the Company, and that my child here will soon have her own again.' Grand applause and huzzas, with a noise that drowned 'Bother!' from myself, and in the middle of the row up jumps the Admiral, and cries out, 'Three cheers more for the Rajah's daughter!' I thought the old roof would come down; and the blackguards in the kitchen took up the cry and shouted like mad, and then we yelled again, and this went on for maybe five minutes. 'What does it all mean,' says I, 'but a cheer for the Court of Bankruptcy, and Hip, hip, hurray! for the Marshalsea Prison!' After that, he had half an hour or more of flatteries and compliments. My Lord was so happy, and Pe

Cormick,' says she, 'the more risk we run o

hen people have known it so long as you an

with it, sir,' said she, fiercely; and so we drew

g new, ma'am?' say

ould seem the needless severity of some of the military commanders has only exa

m,' says I; 'for I

pectful attitude they exhibited, that he hesitated about employing force, and restricted himself to counsels of quietness and submission. He did more,-not perhaps very prudently, as some would say,-he actually emptied his pockets of all the money he had, giving even his watch to

ar, who was one of the factory hands,-having come to England a great many years before with an officer from India. This fellow's evidence was greatly in favor of young Conyers, and was subjected to a very sev

usiness, and I wrote them down the moment I got home, for I thought to myself you 'd maybe write about the matter to old Peter, and you ought to be prepared for the way they look at it; the more because Miss Dinah has a liking for young Conyers,-what she calls a motherly affection; but I don't believe in the motherly part of it! But of course you care very little what the people here say about you

T. M'C

erest regularly, five per cent, I would n't do it if I knew things were going on reasonably we

rt of his letter, a short note arrived at 'The Home' from Mr. Withering, enclosing a letter he had just re

of your interests. If matters go on well, as I have every hope they will, you can make the amende to him more satisfactorily and more gracefully hereafter. Buxton has at length consented to bring the case before the House; of course it will not go

to make his generous sympathy supply the place of military obedience, and the old officer enforcing discipline at the cost of very harsh language. I learn this morning that Conyers has sold out, intending to demand a personal satisfaction. You will see by S.'s

attention, the first two sides of the letter bein

-I forget which,-you have probably heard. In fact, there is nothing too incredible to say of me for the moment; and what is worse, I begin to suspect that the Home Secretary, having rather burned his fingers in the business, will not be very sorry to make an Admiral Byng of a Major of Hussars. For each and all these reasons I mean to exchange, and, if possible, into a regiment in India. This will, of course, take some time; meanwhile, I have asked for and obtained some months' leave. You will be surprised at my troubling you with so much of purely personal matters, but they are the necessary preface to what I now come. You are aware of the letter I wrote some time back to Mr. Barrington, and the request it preferred. If the reply I received was not discouraging, neither was it conclusive. The ordinary commonplaces as to the shortness of our acquaintance, the want of sufficient knowledge of each other's tastes, characters, &c, were duly dwelt upon; but I could not at the end sa

that to be unjustly dealt with is a stronger claim on your heart than that of any other man I ever met with, and the real danger here would be that you should suffer that feeling to predominate over all others. Consult your granddaughter's interests, if

ds, "this is as much to your address as to mine. Read it over

task without a word. She had not proceeded very far, however, when Josep

e, in English, Miss Barrington.

so much amused by that Major Dalgett

imilar I was thinking myself at that moment. Sit down here, child, and le

on earth could have written a l

e, of good blood, and with fair prospects before him, he does not wish to regard his suit as hopeless. Your grandfather was minded to learn how you might feel disposed to accept his addresses by observing your demeanor, by watching what emotion mention of him might occasion, by seeing how far you felt interested in his good or ill repute. I did not agree with him. I am never for the long road when there is a short one, and therefore I mean to let you hear his

irmly clasped together, she sat for a few moments

phine? Would you like to take this letter to your room and pond

nfidante of me, Josephine, I am

I wish to speak, and I will be as candid as yourself. I am not surprised at

ld, that he paid you

dded a

understand that you were not indifferent to h

ter, nod replied

other day you met each other for the first time. How, when, and where you found time for such relations a

antly,

stan

talked a great

, child,

y morning through the wood or in the garden; th

ine. I know you mean to deal openly with me;

lk a great deal of ourselves, and at length we grew to talk of each other,-of our

dee

"We quarrelled very often; and once,-I sh

was it

e was in the wrong, and had to o

han you, child. How came it that you pres

e spoke of his father's position as something the

poke of his father," said

been a dear friend of papa's; that as young men they lived together like

stening to? Of whom are y

Dinah; of Fre

n young Con

ould I mean

t wisdom? Listen to me, child!" said she, turning almost sternly towards Josephine. "We have been at cross-purposes with each other all this time. This letter which I have just re

at the confession she had just made, and trembling with a vague sense of

as she came up, "and a most destructive fellow he is. He looks

you have had warning of peril. Do you remember my telling you, when we were u

he, making what seeme

But of course you cannot. It was an old-maid's apprehensions, and you

the double event has come

what she thought of it. She was very candid and very open, and, I must say, also very collected and composed. Young ladies of the present day possess that inestimable advantage over their predecessors. Their emotions do not overpower them." This was the second time of "blowing off the steam," and she had to wait a moment to rally. "She told

f he dared. As it was, the effort to restrain himself

ton," said she, shaking her finger

ceived her, Dinah,

affections. For the present I mean to limit myself to declaring that this offer is not from Conyers; if she has curiosity to know t