One of Our Conquerors -- Volume

stirred where the tears we shed for happiness or repress at a flattery dwell when seeing her friend Mrs. John Cormyn enter her boudoir and hearing her speak repentantly, most tenderly. Mrs. John sai

he was near the likeness to the dead in the insensibility to any change of light shining on one who best loved darkness and silence. She cried to herself wi

sore bruised, and after a certain sp

ss heaven for being able to pay my debt-what I can of it. All I contend against is, injustice. An

daily, and she knew not how, more shut away from the man she loved; now shut away from her girl;- seemed

her next day.-We are not so easily cast off! Nataly said, bitterly, in relation to the lady

confession, that she was enabled to eat, owing to the receipt of Priscilla's empty letter: for her soul's desire was to be doing a deed of expiation, and the m

words, the theme; and abomination of herself for conjuring fictitious images to rouse real emotions; all ran counterthreads, that produced a mad pattern in the mind, affrighting to reason: and then, for its preservation, reason took a super

ved divine. Ought it not to be welcomed?-and she appearing no better than one of those,

doubled petition. Nesta knocking at the door a third time and calling, tore the mother two ways: to have

'My own mother,' consentingly said, in tender resignation, as

at the door clo

taly asked him in a Church w

he, quick to mee

st be c

y. We say it of Pus

e a girl l

s done

a mother. You have seen

womanly,

e of thos

have the class, we can't escape from it. They are not to bear all the burde

like horrid

would abuse it

our chivalry. This wom

as not dropped veno

't f

think she has done

not any: not to a g

eak at once. But I kno

e. My girl was insulted

. 'I can tell you this, that the fellow who would think harm of it, knowin

s talk

riding with a handsome wo

orious.' Nataly s

is head. '

an air of

s a hors

extent deceive me-

N

taly moa

fort to deceive. The woman's plain for you and me to read, she has few of the arts; one or two tricks, if you like: and

his knightliness toward the weakest women and the women underfoot. 'Y

God for hav

the hysteric

appeared fron

re is a leaning to excitement of manner at tim

d to it; and still more harshly said: 'Wh

a skittish career by you

s. I am no

y degree commonly well bred? . .

replying. Her English is p

woman of slipshod English and exc

not be m

impose

impose on Nesta

t that say

detestable versi

eature thanks God to y

g her sex-her better self in youth, as one guesses; and she is grateful-feels farther from exile in consequence. She has found a lady to take her by the hand!-not a com

He has not your ideas on these matters, Dartrey

are pious dolts or rascal dogs of hypocrites. They, if you'll let me quote Colney Durance to you to-day-and how is it he is not in favour?-they are tempting the Lord to turn the pillars of Society into pillars of salt. Down comes the house. And priests can rest in sight of it!-They ought to be dead against the sanctimony that believes it excommunicat

ee the contrast, and se

he was about good work; and come complaining! He had the privilege of speaking to her, remonstrating, if he wished. There are men who think-men!-the plucking of sinners out of the mire a dirty business. They depute it to certain officials. And your women-it's the taste of the world to have them educated so, that they can as little take the humane as the enlightened vi

rbed,' he added. 'There's no gro

aid: 'Wh

is Mrs.

me is .

ir Edward. He came back fro

e, and speaking out of it, with a pause of sickly emp

den name? May h

you

accurat

elieve me. Come, there's plenty of benevolent writing abroad on these topics now: facts are more looked at, and a good woman may join us in taking them without the horrors and loathings of angels rather too much given to claim distinction from the luckless. A girl who's unprotected may go through adventures before she fixes, and be a creature of honest intentions. Better if protected, we all agree

own there be news

it whereve

u. Tell Nesta I have to lie down after tal

t of what he now knew of her was an ennobling equal to celestial. For this fair girl was one of the active souls of the world-his dream to discover in woman's form. She, the little Nesta, the tall pure-eyed girl before him, was, young though she was, already in the fight with evil: a volunteer of the army of the simply

having set foot of thought in our fens. Here and far there we meet a young saint vowed to service along by those dismal swamps: and saintly she looks; not of this earth. Nesta was of the blooming earth. Where do we meet girl or woman comparable to garden-flowers, who can dare to touch to lift the spotted of her sex? He was

s beguiled his hearing? Her t

before, drawing a deep b

grace with

suspicion wh

hav

home, the words would have come out. They were arrested by the thunder of the knowledge, that th

rose upon her cheeks to

rstanding with the dear mother will

ptain D

ptain. Dartr

cou

anting in cou

y for

d-by,

uld not say

Dartrey, i

I co

a friend, an old friend, very old friend:

be bold

disloyalty in your calling

m not bound.' Dartrey hung fast, specula

must be

ot an en

ds and shutters. The engagement-what there was-has been, to my reading, broken more than once. I have not considered it, to settle my thoughts on it,

ll. Tell me how Nesta judges

phrasing before s

here yes

, as of sight drawing inward, like our breath in a spe

n, not she; and she is the sufferer. That, if in life were direct retribution! b

en that, dear gir

does, blames me!' Nesta sighed; she took

ed of her instantaneous divi

he rival condemning; and he said: 'Blame? Some think it is not always the right thing to do the

my hand,' s

ainly had

. It was uttered airily and w

lask sing thin at the filling, ceased upon evidence of a heart surcharged. How was he to relax the pressure!-he

im steadily; she had the l

you, I suppose,' he said; and her g

ncloud lighting it for a revealment, that allowed

d the run of blood with blood to q

top or moderate the force of his eyes. She met them with the slender unbendingness that was her own; a feminine of inspirited manhood. There was no soft expression, only the direct shot of l

through her, as the tremours of a shocked frame, while she sat quietly, showing scarce a sign; and after he had let her hand go, she had the pressure on it. The quiver

haracter she worshipped. But she could have given it to Dartrey, despite his love

emindful of the different nature of our restraining power when we have a couple playing on it. Yet here was this girl, who called him up to the heights of young life again: and a brave girl;

room. She kissed Ne

ak of me to him, if I

replied, vexed by the unmai

eme, sitting offensive though draped in their midst, was taken for a proof of the girl's unblushingness. After standing as one woman against the world so long, Nataly was relieved to be on the side of a world now convictedly unjust to her in the confounding of her with the shameless. Her mind had taken the brand of that thought:-And Nesta h

ried-persecuted, as they say when they are not supplicating their tyrannical Authority for aid. The world will contin

and recollecting, too, that she had once prayed for one exactly resembling Dartrey Fenellan to be her Nesta's husband. But, as she would have said, that was before the indiscretion of her girl had shown her to require for her husband a man whose character and station guaranteed protection instead of inciting to rebellion. And Dartrey, the loved and prize

ncomeliness of hers was an indication to one