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CHAPTER X.
Continued.
T iras born in England in the year of
Christ, 1600, that year being the fortyA?"*
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Elisabeth, in my brother's house,
"where I et present live?which is to
say, in the manor house of Holdenburst,
by St. Edmund's Bury, in the
County of Suffolk?and am the younger
of the two sons of Christopher
Trueman and Barbara, his wife. The
two manors of Holdenhurst. bestowed
on my family by the eighth Henry,
would hare supported the dignity of
a baronet: but my father, unlike his
predecessors. sought for no public employment.
and viewed with indifference
the acquisition of ihe highest honors
by men of meaner birth, living in
pence and content upon his paternal
acres at a stirring period when the
fate of his country trembled in the balance.
Both my parents having died at
an early age. my brother succeeded to
the estate and treated me with extraordinary
liberality, permitting me to
share with Lira equally in all that be
had?except the anxieties and vexations
which accompany the possession
of property, and those he generously
kept for himself. When he took to
himself a wife my brother abate-1
nothing of his kindness to me. but I
was deprived of much of his coinpauy.
This event took place in 1620. the
twenty-fifth of my brother's life and
?f mine the twentieth.
Kow it so chanced that immediately
or soon after the marriage of my
brother I conceived a very violent and
all absorbing passion for a certain
maid. who. eveu at the time I was so
eized, I could not but acknowledge
possessed nothing uncommon in beauty.
talent or fortune. Nevertheless, for
some reason which remains unknown
to me to this day I loved her with an
Intensity of devotion which might bo
equalled, but could never be exceeded.
My suit was well received, and one
day. in response to my request that
she wofiUl become my wife she sent
roe a missive, couched in loving terms,
wherein she professed herself very
willing to accord with my wish, subscribed.
"Your loving wife that is to
be." The messenger who brought this
un-.t ??..1.1 ?.nw^u.
jjritui,> iu< vpisut- cuuiu uuiui) uuiv
returned to her ere I received auother
letter from the same source. It ran
thus, or nearly thus: "Think of me 110
? more?try to forget me. Do not write
or come to me. I c:ui never be your
wife," and appended was the signature
of she whom I had preferred before
all women. I knew not what to
make of this, so paused, thinking oue
of us must be mad. and endeavoring
to decide who was that one. but I
failed. Then followed the only occasion
in my life when I went where I
.had been definitely told I was not
wanted. I sought mv promised wife,
found her and talked with her. but
he would not acquaint nte v>ith the
cause of her perjury, contenting herself
with the assertion that it must be
*0. I left her. not hating her?I could
mot bring myself to that?but with a
cynical, albeit illogical, contempt for
mil women?contempt which I retained
for many years after the intense feeling
I once had In this matter had died
out. Shafts propelled by the envious
fates against the young and vigorous
do not often probe ueopiy. nui ior rue
most pan fall to-the ground blunted.
Kot many, months had elapsed ere I
Jbegau to consider myself fortunate in
baving escaped an alliance which I
had recently contemplated with so
much satisfaction, perceiving that a
woman who will deceive one man will
t.s readily deceive two or more men:
so that when soon afterward I learned
of her marriage to another my only
emotion was sympathy for the man
who had won her love?that is. supposing
that she had any love in licr nature,
or, having it. suffered it to control
her in her choice of a husband.
But contempt for women had become
ingrained with me. 1 recognized them
as maternal necessities, hut could not
regard as serious anything any woman
might say; at the same time holding
it right and proper to employ any
means for their subjugation to my desires.
I am aware that my conduct
was as illogical as that of the apocryphal
debtor who robbed lVler to pay
Paul, but such it was. and it must be
noted as well as other circumstances
of my career.
With his usual kiiully solicitude for
my welfare my brother adtisod me to
travel, conceiving that familiar intercourse
with strange nations, and the
view of distant cities and wonders of
ni'.iirv. \v -? mwlicim. suited to 1UV
malady (for I had fallen Into a nielnncholy
moodt. and to that ca<l gave mo
a thousand pounds, and took groat
pains to furnish me with letters of
recommendation to prisons of consideration
abroad. The Carl of Arlington,
whose estate lay contiguous to
the Holdenhursts. was our friend, and
being high in the King's counsels it
was in his power to help us much. The
Karl generously lent his aid. and proenred
for me letters to the English
Ambassadors at IV.is and Constantinople.
and to the most considerable
merchants iu the principal cities of
Europe, of which it is only necessary
that I should specify one?that ad
irstYlHalij
rALTER BLQOMFIELD
>BEBT BBS NEB'S SOK?.
(dressed to Signor Pietro SImonn. shipowner.
of Venice. Thus provided I
bade a tender farewell to my brother,
and taking horse set out on my travels
unaccompanied by a servant. In eight
days I reached Dover, having journeyed
by way of London, quite safely
and without adventure.' At Dover i j
sold my horse to an innkeeper, who at :
first offered me a tenth of his value,
and when I refused it threatened to
carry me before a justice of the peace
and accuse me of having stolen the
horse. I told him he was an impudent
rogue, and that if I had the pleasure
of appearing before a justice in his
company I had influence in my pocket
sufficient to hang him on the nearest
gallows for so insolently aspersing the
character of an honorable gentleman,
whereon I pulled out of a satchel
which depended from my girdle a
passport signed by King James, with
Ills Majesty's seal attached. When
he looked on this document the innkeeper
turned pale and trembled, and
without further ado told out from a
long purse as ranch money as I had
asked for the horse, and withal shared
with me a quart of choice canary at
his own expense.
After diligent inquiry I obtained an j
introduction to the captain of a I
barque, who designed to presently j
j proceed to Calais, and he contracted j
j to transport ine to *'ranee tor twenty
I shillings. It was two days before we
j set sail, and the barque was no sooner
at sea than the wind proved contrary,
and we beat about the coast of Thanet
in imminent peril for a day and a
night. I was sore sick from the turbulence
of the sea. and almost starved:
for my inclination for food was but
small, and the only victual aboard
musty biscuit and sour wine. After
two days of dire misery I w.?s carried
ashore, more dead than alive, at Dunkirqu.e,
where I recovered my wonted 1
health very speedily, though I soon !
came near to losing it again by a sur- j
feit of oysters and onions prepared for;
me by a fishwife of that town. My j
clothes wore torn and spoiled by the j
bufferings I had sustained in the
barque, so I bought me others of
French make, which served excellently
for a long time, being exceeding
strong, though such as would denote a
French mariner rather than an Eng- '
lish gentleman making the grand tour.
When I was perfectly recovered from
the ill effects of my voyage I bought a
horse and set out for Taris. spending
my money with great economy 011 the
way. and carefuly avoiding such company
as I judged might be dangerous
for the safety of ray thousand pounds,
into which 1 had dipped but sparingly
as yet. and 1 doub, not my security
j had an additional warrant in the fact
i that I was tall and muscular, at any
time n-.vparcil for combat wl.h the
best man ia France. In this manner
diil I journey across the continent of
Europe, staying many days in the tine
cities of Rouen. Paris. Dijon. Geneva.
Turin. Milan. Verona and Padua, observing
all that is remarkable therein:
and so at last came to Venice, fair city
of the waters. Inasmuch as Venice is
beautiful beyond the power of words
to depict, and I had been traveling
with but brief rests for seven mouths.
I purposed living among the Venetians
one whole summer at least, and so indeed
it fell out, as shall presently appear.
I hail always heard that Venice was
tho most beautiful city of Italy, quite
fascinating the stranger, who reveled
in a constant succession of delightful
. 1- - A otnfatv
surprises ;is uu pawu m.-i imhht...
squares and colonades or luxuriously
gilded over the surface of her wonderful
canals, with sky of uubrokeu
azure abovo and historic palaces
around, and so indeed I found it.
Here, therefore. I resolved to stay until
I had mastered the Italian tongue,
of which at present I knew only iuconsiderable
fragments, picked up
haphazard since I had come to Italy,
and I rightly appreciated my want
when I presented my letters to Signor
Siiuona. who spake no English. French
I could speak tolerably well before I
left England, thanks to Monsieur Felix
Lamoute. who. when I was a pupil
at King Edward's Grammar School.
Bury St. Edmund's, impressed upou
me the irregularities of French verbs
by the regularity of his hoggings,
which were frequent and severe. I
Touching this Monsieur Lamoute. 1 !
retain to this day a vivid recollection '
j of his skill iu tying up birch rods (for i
,.l 1..., 1,? |
| lie "VYUU.U uae UUUV Hill IUU.-1. ii<_ U.41. |
i made hiinselfi. of the graceful curves
described by his right arm when lie
flogged auy of his pupils, and of his
boast that lie could produce by six
strokes a postcrloral agony as exquisite
as an English master could produce
by a ilor.eu. Though in bitterness
of spirit I had often cursed Monsieur
La in on to. I had of late had cause to
think more charitably of him. for be
was a gcod teacher, and I n >v.* expo- |
rienced the convenience of his lessons
1 as much as I formerly did the inconvenience
of liis methods of imparling
them. Ic was a great boon :o me to
be able to converse with Signor Siicoaa.
who was a gcod French scholar,
which would not have been the case
; if t had been ignorant of French,
j When llrst I beheld iii^uor rictro
SImona I was deeply Impressed by his
venerable aspect. His years then numbered
as many as mine do now, which
is to say sevenly-one. but he appeared
much older, his vitality bein.tr sapped
by his intense application to affairs of
commerce in early manhood and middle
age and by stress of recent sorrow,
to say nothing of the natural ravages
of time. Nevertheless he exhibited
traces of a nobility of features and
stature which an attenuated face and
bowed back failed to obliterate. The
moment of my introduction to him
was a painful one. for he had just returned
from celebrating the obsequies
of his son. and his only remaining
child, the young and beautiful Anita,
was administering to her father such
comfort as was possible in the circumstances.
I had entered the presence
of the old man and presented my let
uts ut*iure i was ju'quaiuicu nuu un
unhappy condition, but so soon as I
was informed of it I sought to withdraw
until a more fitting occasion
should offer. The fair Anita, perceiving
that my business might divert her
father's thoughts from the object of
his grief, would not willingly suffer mo
to depart; so I yielded to her solicitation
and remained. My host was a
man of extraordinary intelligence, delightfully
frank and communicative,
notwithstanding a quiet dignity which
usually accompanies a combination of
wealth and intellectual power. Of his
grief he spake not. but I observed all
too many evidences of it. After some
conversation with him on general matters
it was easy for me to understand
how this man had from humble beginnings
risen io be the most opulent
shipowner in Venice. When I asked
his advice in resjiect of a house wherein
to live during my sojourn in Venice
the old man regarded me with mild
surprise. "I know of 110 other than
this." he said: "who comes from England
with credentials such as yours
lilt' n ui'iu. XX15> alU.iliu.^ >?r ,1,V
very marked, and that of his daughter
yet more so. After many weeks of
daily expeditious to examine the wonders
of Venice, in all of which I was
accompanied by the daughter of my
host, the beautiful Anita showed in
many ways that she had fallen in love
with me; and this circumstance occasioned
me much disquiet. If I but
talked with any other woman, or ventured
to express admiration of a costume
worn by one of the Dogaressa's
maids her pearly teeth would clench
and her dark eyes flash. It was a
great difficulty, and hastened my departure
from Venice, with strange consequences
disastrous to herself. I
would not love her in dishonorable
fashion for the sake of her father, my
host: nor would I marry tier, tor 1 nau
previously resolved to measure the
faith of all women by the perfidy of
one. aud my unreasonable distrust was
a yet unabated.
To be continued.
Strange Doinj* of tlje French Army.
A most remarkable feature of the biff
sham battle fought ou the plain around
Fort Yitry by 140.CHX) French soldiers
for the edification of the Czar of Russia
was the repetition of the very
strategy and tactics which the British
armies in South Africa long ago discovered.
at a terrible cost, to be absolutely
fatal in tbe face of modern ritles
and ordnance.
Against Fort Fresnes tbe French
generals directed a "frontal assault"
?the phrase that instantly recalls Buller's
deadly aud disastrous experience
on both sides of tbe Tugela River.
This mimic assault, the cable tells us.
was delivered in "heavy lines" across
an open plain that was swept by tbe
guns of the fort. And. to cap the climax.
"the position was finally carried
n*' tim bavonet." And the
men who did the charging and bayoltering
were clad in uniforms of bright
red. blue and goid coloring, by way of
making the whole thing absolutely absurd.
If the Czar has read M. Bloeh's famous
analysis of the South African
fighting, which demonstrates that the
day of frontal assaults, bayonet
charges across open ground and bright
uniforms is entirely oyer, what must
have been his reflect ions on the preparedness
of his ally for real war??
New York World.
Soandle** Powder Next.
The chances of smokeless powder
seem seriously compromised by the
recent invention of the ltomau General
Gilletta. Thanks to the latter's
"acoustic telemeter" it is cow possible
to ascertain the enact snot whence I
the firing proceeds.? Manchester Guar- j
dian.
LABOR WORLD.
Albany. X. Y., union tailors will sub
mit a new scale of wages.
British India r.ow employs over 1,- J
000.000 people in its cotton industries, i
The Western Flint Glass Workers' i
Union has again joined the American '
Federation of Labor.
The union label has been discarded ,
by thirty wholesale clothing rnanu- j
facturers of Itochestor, N. Y.
English workmen in the engineering
and allied trades are but moderately
employed at the present time.
Copper mines in Michigan have in- j
creased in number from less than 7000
must be my guest." These -words :iffordcd
me great conient. and in Sicrnor
Simoua's house I accordingly took up
my abode.
November IS. ? A thorough mastery
of the Latin and French tongues
helped me greatly in acquiring the
Italian speech: sans such equipment
I doubt not I should have failed, for
ray method of learning differed greatly
from -what is prescribed by the schools.
Signorina Anita Simona was my instructress.
and her lessons occupied
nearly the whole of every day. She
told me the names of things, and corrected
my errors of pronunciation, but
of grammatical rules she spake not: I
fear she had but scant knowledge of
them herself. Though no Catholic, I
* ?I**-.-* momn'nor trt moc<
Weill Willi uei lavu uiuiuiuf, >vr U...C
which pleased her greatly. for she hail
a superstitious horror of Protestantism.
And hero I may remark upon
the convenience of conforming to the
religious prejudices of the people
among whom one may be cast; it is
both easy and politic, and may be
done by most travelers without strain.
My days in Venice passed with great
swiftness, as days of pleasure always
do. Signor Simona was a merchant
prince, and his marble palace was a
storehouse of works of art brought by
his captains from all the countries of
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In 1893 to more than 14.000 in 1903.
In January and February the membership
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of America increased 1220 iu membership.
The engravers of America are organizing
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headquarters of the organization will
probably be iu New York.
The Musicians' Union of Toronto, i
Canada, is aid to he the largest organiztioii
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The membership is about ">00.
February returns of the English boilcrmakers
and the iron shipbuilders
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funds, as against 10,352 iu January.
It is said that the attempt of Sully,
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Returns from the local trade unions
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The grand patriarch of the lobster
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Mass., by the crew of the schooner
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The American missionary board,
1 which was organized at Bradford,
1 Mass., June 29, 1810, did not receive
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5 which its first missionaries sailed for
> India. Since that time it has commisr
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