Hubert's Wife

s of his brother-inlaw, Philip St. Leger. Now this gentleman from Turkey was not a ghost, nor had he rained down. A staunch ship had brought him from Constantinople to New York; a week he had

. The roads were in too wretched a condition for the "Bald

fatigue, made a virtue of necessity. With black Sam as

d myself remain until the morning; but having come

whose distinguished school Della Lisle had graduated. Only on the day of gradu

still in the flush of manhood, clasped hands, and looked in

were scarce unlock

you com

la- I left her sleeping benea

ull. He had quaffed with what patience possible its b

Flat-Rock that you never have received the mournful tidings.

God! it may as well be spoken. Yes,

speak not with

dreary, wretched, usele

a more cheerful tone, "I have come a long journey;

In a brief space of time, the fire was replenished, dry clothes produced, a small table of refreshments sp

. The missionary paused amidst his slices of

ave gone so near each other and in the same way? That is hardest of all; martyrs were they in a true sense. But I had a friend, who aroused, warned, and induced me to eat, sleep, and go on with the duties of life. After one first great effort it is easier. If one must suffer, he may assuage his pain by bearing it bravely. The over-tending of a

ith evident disgust he swallowed the first mouthful, but this m

to gain a soothing and an inspiration. The missionary gave to his host a brief history of his life with Della, of her sickness and death, and then incidentally gave a sketch here and there of hi

at sea. His mother was a woman of society, and left her children much to the care of servants. Consequently, she had much trouble with them in after years. Philip was

ly expelled near the beginning of the senior year. To his parents this was a severe mortification, and his father

rch, an ex-Senator of the United States, and ex-Governor of his own State. His eldest son was married, his youngest still in college, and his only daughter, about the age of twenty-two, was stil

mple people of the quiet town of Newberg. He could not help perceiving that, for the first time in his life, he had become a veritable lion. The very fact that

rusticate among rocks and hills so sterile there would be little chance for his wild acts to tak

antages-the only wonder was he was not completely ruined." And he was compassionated and pitied for

rander mountains; it nestled in the western shadow of Keansarge; and King's Hill and Sunapee reared loftily around her their bold bleak fronts. A beautiful l

ense of beauty. Every morning he was up at sunrise, scouring the country upon the back of Nellie, a graceful, fleet young mare which Col. Selby had generously set aside for his use. Maids, matrons, and small boy

's pleasure. If he could leap over some low garden wall, dart over a famous strawberry bed, or amidst the melon patch, he thought he had

gh in the early morning, or who looked in vain for patient cows within the yard, who

staid, proper person, careful of the family's good name and popularity. It would never do. Philip ought to have some s

orrow and amendment with a long face, but inwardly he l

meeting-house pews, where they surely had never before been known spontaneously to spring; teachers in the Sunday school were shocked to learn that they had distributed dime novels with books

gs and cats had gone madly wailing and howling through the streets, a miniature world flaming with fire attached by means of wires to each caudal appendage-even that was too much decidedly. But this tampering wit

not turn the boy

e now would cease to be a virtue; there is a limit to human endurance; there shall at once be an end to t

he soft-hearted ex-Governor, who remembere

Gov. Selby"-with a smile-"allow your wife to

ouse and garden, stood in presence of Mary S

rg, this garden spot of God's glorious earth-most of all, I must leave you, cousin Mary,

de her palett

en't you done better, after

an can I. Why do you not ask the wind why and whence it blows? Why do the

verned only by caprice, whim, or whatever passion of the moment. These follies, of which my mother makes account, and rightly, are beneath one of your age.

I have so long indulged in

nescent surface-froth and foam? I believe there is. But in order that it may be discovered to the light and made fit for cul

e thus before? You could do a

I went not with you to ride or walk, I have kept myself aloof from

ht be better than I seem,"

I should not have hesitated; but I had a suspicion that you might regard any persuasions or lectu

best woman in the world. I

ievous pranks which are the c

re. But it is too late

hat the spoiled child was not beyond hope of redemption. She laid the case before her parents, and, with the aid o

point, for on the next morning Philip, burn

tack of typ

to realize how prone they had been to reproach and condemn without having made the slightest efforts to reform. A neglected, untutored, un-Christianized young man had been placed in their care-was it too la

navery and falsehood, goodness and piety to wickedness and infidelity. As she read and commented, her voice became to Philip as the voice of an angel. Her work was indeed accomplished when, after having

owers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any creature,