The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)

eyelashes. But had you been so, it would have been no difficult effort for you to comprehend the state of mind in which Captain Martin repai

t against this animating conviction there arose that besetting sin of small minds,-a sense of distrus

y one went half starved and more than half naked. I 'm sure there is no necessity for my going some few hundred and odd miles to refresh my memory on this pleasant fact; and yet this is precisely what I 'm about to do. Is it by way of trying her power over me? By Jove, I 've hit it!" cried he, suddenly, as he stopped arranging a mass of letters which he was reducing to order before his departure. "That's her game; there's no doubt of it! She has said to herself, 'This will prove him. If he do this at my bidding, he'll do more.' Ay, but will he, mademoiselle? that's the question. A young hussar may

be in love with Kate Henderson, or only involve her in an unfortunate attachment for him. While he thus pondered and hesitated, strewing his room with the contents of drawers and cabinets, by way of aiding the labor of preparation, his door was suddenly opened, and Mr. Merl made his appearance

or a journey, Captain?"

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in that d

wards Ital

. I was meditating

d together," said Merl.

the reason of th

in a lower tone. "The Government have been doing the t

e of this?"

d the same stock is now fifty-one and a quarter, and will be forty to-morrow. The day aft

oser, then?" aske

k, and must turn those Irish securities of yours into cash,-some of them at least,-and I want a hint from you as to which I ought to dis

I gave you these same bonds, that they should remain in your own hand

something; you did not make a present o

em," rejoined Martin, "the transac

ir; that, at least, is th

te them. I explained to you how the entail was settled,-that the property mu

time, there was going to be a revolution in Pari

t quite loud enough to be heard; then turning to Merl, he said, "What do you

where I can obtain an advance upon them. I promise you, besides, it shall not be in any quarter by which the transaction

Martin, who had totally forgotten what th

oftness of his usual manner, "as to which of these securi

ou do, or how you do it. I believe I may have given you bonds for something very like double the amount of all you ever advanced to me. I hear of nothing from my father but the immense resources of this, and the g

pounds," said the Jew, reading from a small note-boo

rt of laugh. "Egad, Merl, the fellows were right that would not have you in the 'Cercle.'

-I had not heard

to be particular; and so Jack Massingbred as much as told them. The fact is, Merl, you ought to have waited awhile, and by the time that Harlowe and Spencer Cavendish and a few more s

o reply. He had just torn one of his gloves in pieces in the effort to d

as you 're going away-Besides, after this defeat at the Club, you could n't well com

perhaps," said the Jew, with one of his furtive

e the very opposite to his late bantering one. "It was, that you sho

aptain Martin," sai

u desire to accomplish; besides, there is no member of th

the Jew, with all the zest of a man glad to sa

th suppressed anger, b

," said Merl,-"the great horsewoman, and she that

ost an overmatch for him, and he

e her amazingly, Cap

ave no lien upon her,

his hair with the air of one who deemed su

f disposed to give you a few lines to my cousin; and if you 'll not take the thing as a mauvais plaisanterie on my part, I will do s

wn to a table, and preparing his writing m

you Mr. Herman Merl, who visits your remo

usement," int

nthropy, Merl; and there's nothing so well adapted to cover thos

s,-and at the same time direct his attention to whatever may be matter of interest,-whether mines, quarries, or other property

at do, t

y; nothin

that it will require all your own sharpness not to be taken in by him. A long letter full of detail-a dash of figures in it-as to how many sheep have the rot, or how many people have caught the fever, will improve it,-you know the kind of thing I mean; and-I don't suppose you care about shooting, yourself, but you 'll get some one to tell you-are the birds plenty and in good condition. There's a

sumed the bland expression habitual to him, that the Captain almost forgot the un

to this Mr. Scanlan?" asked Merl,

of one to whom a sudden thought had just crossed the mind, "Wait one second for me here, Merl; I'l

ng; he goes over to Ireland to-night, and he 'll take a run down to Cro' Martin, and send us his report of all he sees. Whatever he tells us may be relied up

rapid utterance he poured forth this plan. "Do

land,-some scheme about flax and the deep-sea fishery. I don't understand it, but I suppose he does. At all events, he has plenty of money, and the head to make it fructify; and if he only take a liking to it, he 's the very fellow to buy up Kilkieran, a

cted that, at whose door all the culpability-where there was such-could be laid and but for whom he had himself performed miracles of energy and devotedness, and endured all the tortures and trials of a martyr. He was, indeed, as are a great many others in this world, an excellent man to his own heart,-kind, charitable, and affe

re they all useless. Their outward bearing at least simulates whatever we revere in good men, and we accept them in the s

as introduced as a great capitalist and speculator, desirous to ascertain all the resources of the land. S

few could sport now-a-days. And if you have a fancy for a day with my Cousin Mary's hounds, he 'll mount you admirably, and show you the way besides." And with this speec

this speech, showed that it was spoken in all the listlessness of