Tales of the Chesapeake

erical dress, and thin, worn, commonplace, freckled face denoted the new member from the Scotch district of Pennsylvania. The gay daughter of the Honorable Perkiomen Trappe, picking him

has the cheer in the room on Ancient Contracts, and your unfortnit father is only a member un

rk goatee, eyes, and hair, were set in a face unusually pale and intense, and his manly and refined worldly bearing suited h

u are pale and nervous, and you have stared down there at

case comes up within five minutes, and I might as

me out with a reckless

"This public life is too exciting for him. Se

y glance of admiration in the direction of the Congressman; "he is more dangero

s had a settled ferocity. The youthfulness and comely moods were gone from it, and the burnt-out countenance of a man of the world looked dead and ashen above the exhausted reservoirs of a diseased mind. Nothing was left but the last chance before despair, and apprehensive of the failure of this hope also, his glo

breast and shoulders, and clear and direct but grave look. No extremity of occasion could make a heroic figu

acts is next in order. The

that such a homely man should have no voice nor gr

is inaudible to the c

from where he sat. He had d

rvices, desires that it do not pass, and the chairman wis

in a coarse whisper, "my br

were about to fall. A page has run to him with a letter. He r

the floor of Congress. The lobby brother had apprehended it all. He cleared the gallery

ive me! I repent of my folly and wicke

ared your fame and my feelings at the expense of his fortune. It has taken the bank of Jabel Blake-t

aper in the lobbyis

e-to keep your brother from disgrace, and to save you both remorse. I have

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