Sword and Gown

me there is more honesty here, and less stage-trick and conventionality, than is to be found in most manifestations of sentiment that take place in polite society. A perfectly plain and unattrac

iumphs of their fellows without envying or grudging them one. What does it matter if Rose has sl

variably kind. It is a popular superstition that men are apt, at certain seasons, to speak rather lightly, if not superciliously, of the beings whom they ought to delight to honor. If so, be sure the medal has its reverse. When you secured that gardenia from Amy's bouquet, or that ribbon from Helen's glove trimming, you went home with a placid sense of self-gratulation, flattering yourself you had done it rather diplomatically, without compromising your

but Amala needed only to look down to see his blood red upon the waters of the ford. Some penalty must attach itself to unauthorized intruders, even in thought, upon the Cerealia. I don't wish to be disagreeable, or to suggest unpleasant misgiv

onopolize it. It is a tolerably fair handicap, on the whole; and even the second horse may land a very satisfactory stake. Never was night when the moon shone so dazzlingly as to blind us to the brilliancy of "a star or two beside." Bot

hen Major Keene would not endorse all her raptures about her favorite. He assented to every thing, certainly; but though his approbation was dec

itself if you only give it time. I have serious thoughts already of adding another to the many little poems that must have been written about Miss Tresilyan. Shall I send it to the

ide those ey

before," Fanny answered, laughing. "She des

the vassalage she has found-better than she will meet with here-if only for the perfection of her costume. That is a triumph. Honor to the artist who built her hat. I drink to him now, and I wish the

t found out how v

adful ex-institutrice. I never knew what makes very nice women cling so to very disagreeable governesses. Perhaps there is a satisfaction in patronizing where you have been rule

but she gazed at the speaker long and more searchingly than was

ing if you could help it," she said. "I am no

s long as your breath would upon polished steel. It was not the first time that one of her rand

ny school to teach us how to turn our talents to the best account, I know which of us two would have most to

to lie on his sofa and assist at a passage-of-arms between his wife and Keene, encouraging either party occasionally with an approving smile, but preserving a cautious and complete neutrality. On t

r of the tobacco? Might not this one old habit still indulged have been the only link that sensibly connected the invalid with those pleasant days, when he enjoyed life so heartily, with so many cheery comrades to keep him in countenance-when he would have laughed at the idea of any thing short of a sabre-cut, a shot-wound, or a rattling fall over an "oxer," bringing him down to that state of helpless dependence, when our conception of womankind resolves itself into the ministering angel? Harry certainly could not have told you if this were so; for an inquiry into the precise nature of his sensations would have posed him at any time

ble geniality in him, it was sure to come out then. Upon this occasion, however, he was remarkably silent, and answered several times at random as if his thoughts were roving elsewhere: they were not unpleasant ones, apparently, for he smiled twice or thrice to himself, much l

r, then?" Mo

each one had been weighed to a grain; and h

iable rose-colored principle, he would not admit any disagreeable surmises, and went to bed under the impression that "