Christie Johnstone

and person cannot lie perdu

, then twenty, then all the world, as

t, he had acquired a browner tint, a m

cription had done

ne whole day without thinki

there was no wind to speak of; twice it blew great guns, and the men were surprised at his lordship going out,

e reefs in their mainsail; and the Dutchmen lying to and breas

the medium of a sooty animal at her helm, that she was (like our universities) "satisfied with her own progress"; she added, being under intoxication, "that, if any danger existed, her scheme was

te how Mr. Flucker Johnstone co

running out, the said Flucker calmly and scientific

hat it was going to be worse instead of better; in reply, he received an order to step forward to his pl

ame down, "the skipper," deeming that the higher appellation,

inted, suggested, "It was a slight i

ry by gulping out: "We'll

ed, and ordered him asho

his place; on his safe return to port, this young gentleman was very severe on open boats, which, he said "bred womanish notions

g when he called love

at take that name, but they are

tism is lov

ology is

nce is ph

tings are

g on the boa

ysic is

bread, or gold

ct is our center; and our thoughts, affect

r thither, but the gold

est? The world cannot decide; b

r movements, her looks, her virtues, her faults, her nonse

y Barbara justice, she had done much to freeze the germ of

morning after breakfast, "have you

my l

ood people's

my l

u have spelled t

d, I substituted an English appe

y first interview with Christie J

nutely,

me talk-how she dropped a tear, he! he! he! at the death of the first baron-how shocked she wa

he particulars exactly related

itles are but breath-how

ill find all the

for a madman? And

mstance eluded my

relieve only one poor pers

d all the items realize

beautifu

derably amelior

lb

the refined factotum, "more delicate

Ipsden

UNDERS'

piscatory tribe were this day ushered in, and instantaneously, without the accust

d to afford his lordship a satisfaction greater than he der

suspect you o

my

ting in a

benignant hauteur. "It appear

are polysyllabic, S

associated from infancy with the aristocracy, I shrink, l

r the dog-cart, and Wordsworth's mare for leader;

r lordship's commands about your lordship's vehicles. (What coul

ship sol

sses, and she has made me know some poor people that will be richer than the rich one day;

mastered every subject he attacked. By a careful examination of all the points that various fine-toned instruments had in common, he had arrived at a th

that ten pounds would make his fortune; because with ten pounds he coul

n gave him

Harvey, more ragged a

whom he had assisted. Poor Harvey!

y's house, found him in bed at noon

tter to give his wife the next money,

was

e of having money, and meanly refusing him the benefit of it. She acknowledged she had a little, and appealed to the improved state of thin

was a drunkard, and all the riches of E

How can you, with your small incomes, hope to be well off,

vagant?"

sand a year; well, if he imitates you, and spends three hundred upon sensuality, I bet you the odd seven hundred he does not make both ends meet; the proportion is too great. And tw

he also knew from Saunders that she had two black eyes, and he hated women with black eyes of that sort. But this good cre

er the North Bridge, he met somebody whom

. She flushed, he trembled, and in two minutes he had forgott

so, on this secret understanding, they were friends. He made his arrangements, and dined with her family. It

he had discovered he was lying h

e guitar?" i

of the community. Do you know any o

es

eeable people,

he servants, who have no characters. They imitate us

are young women; that ma

amed. If you want a low order of

station; they have rather

ds. Amusement is the end of being, you kno

he ladies," s

keen a wit as his cousins s could be entrapped into the humor of decrying the time one happens to live in, and admiring any epoch one knows next to nothing about, and entrapped by the notion of its originality, above all things;

m sentire is a bond, and that, when a clever and pretty woman choose

man whose first sentence proclaimed him a pupil of Mr. Thomas Carlyle, and he

y shades that it is rare

erfully, if they will but let

hese two ran so sm

o lived and died for the Gospel, was not earnest in religion; but Cromwell, who packed a jury, and so murdered his prisoner-Cromwell, in whose mouth was heaven, and in his heart temporal sovereignty-was the pattern of earnes

nt about the great antique heart, and the beauty of a

jealousy is a brass spur, it mad

rld's life made it just five hundred years older, n

elongs to the class muddle-head, tells us that when he had been two years in authority his red hair had turned

d by our age. Which fact identifies an age most with a heroine,

nd no less against it, than Lot does for or against Sodom. Lot was in Sodom, but not o

his enemies while their ax descends on his head, however poor a creature he may be in other respects, is a bet

ffold is erected outside a prison-door, if you are earnest in pursuit of truth, and

banks are earnest men who shall take your scalp, the wi

th interposes, we appear less earnest in pursuit of comparative trifles such as kingdoms or dogmas, it is because cooler in action we are

s is no longer so intellectually as well as morally degraded as to be

deaf to reason, it is to be hoped that civilization and Christianit

nnoying the fair theorist,

rough animal that had burst into sacred grounds