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THE JESUIT A Historical Romance, ILLUSTRATING THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES OF THE << CELEBRATED SOCIETY OF THE JESUITS, DURING THE に ​EARLY PORTION OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. BY C. SPINDLER, AUTHOR OF THE JEW," THE INVALIDE," ETC. ETC. ETC. << NEW YORK: J. WINCHESTER, NEW WORLD PRESS, . XXX ANN STREET. THE JESUIT. CHAPTER I. tered into from motives of ambition, and in compliance with parental avarice and calcu- | THE stately mansion occupied by the Sen-lation. There was no declared hostility-no ator Müssinger, about the year 1720, and situ- actual dissension; but the peace which adorns ated in a leading mercantile town of the and sanctifies the connubial state;-which empire, presented one of those monuments bears, forbears, and conciliates all within the too frequently dedicated to individual pride sphere of a beloved home, found no resting and ambition. A great capitalist, who, in place in that of the anxious-minded Müssin- the early part of the Spanish wars of the suc- ger. cession, had realized immense sums by his contracts with the allied forces, was the first to lay the ground-work of this almost imperial residence; but he never witnessed its com- pletion. His grasping genius proved, at length, too strong for his discretion, and he only avoid- ed the penalty of the law by prematurely ter- minating his existence. The princely edifice of the too daring contractor, with all its costly appurtenances, was left for the luckier sena- tor to embellish, who, having arrived at the pinnacle of wealth and reputation, naturally stept into it-the envy of his fellow-citizens, and the favorite of fortune. Tenacious of his honor, skilful, laborious and enterprising, the merchant-prince found he could no longer continue his extensive connections with the east and the west, within the narrower sphere of his father's transactions: and the fickle goddess, who had first taken her station be- hind the counter of the plodding tradesman, refused not to accompany her zealous votary into his more capacious and imposing estab- lishment. The house of Müssinger now stood at the head of the commercial world; it main- tained its character as high in foreign parts as at home; and year after year the fruits of in- dustry, combined with talent, continued to accumulate, and to open new and wider fields of speculation. But if adinired and honored in the public mart, the senator was no object of envy in the relations of domestic life. His consort, with whom he had, during eighteen years, dragged the matrimonial chain with its "slow length along," brought an increase of riches without affection, and time had done nothing to draw closer those bonds of union first en-land T 1* | An active, warm-hearted man of nearly fifty, of a decidedly choleric temperament, which on the slightest occasion brought the heat into his face, and made his silk stock feel somewhat too tight; he exhibited the most marked contrast in every way to his lady, whose offensive haughtiness, springing from a neglected education, added to a cold- ness and sluggishness of disposition, had no parallel except such as is to be met with in the extreme limits of the northern or southern re- gions, where much the same degree of apathy is found to prevail. Born in the lap of plen- ty, a stranger alike to care, to exertion, and the customary occupations of a domestic character, LADY Jacobina, as she insisted upon being entitled,* spent her days in a succes- sion of vain and frivolous ceremonies. Day after day witnessed the same punctilious ob- servances; not an imaginary want but was to be gratified at all costs-the newest fash- ions, the costliest dresses, the daintiest repasts, and a regular round of female coteries, where- in elderly maids, intriguing matrons, and antique card-loving dowagers, formed the grand elements of a society for whose enter- tainment everything beautiful, good, or gen- erous, afforded unceasing subjects of scanda- lous discussion. Meantime, the senator was more eagerly and assiduously employed, than the busiest drudge in his extensive establishments; the master-spirit on whom depended all the move- ments of his vast concern, from the centre of his office he directed the most trivial as well A sort of titular assumption, more frequent in Ger- many and parts of the Continent than it is in Eng- 383342 4 THE JESUIT. as the weightiest of its details, while the anx- iety springing from the nature of his specula- tions, scarcely permitted him to unbend his mind, or to give the usual hours so necessary to his repose. Still fewer were those he en- joyed in the bosom of his family; there was little in the cold repulsive ceremony attendant upon the breakfast board, with its costly Chi- nese and other foreign rarities, where each and all sat looking as fixed and cheerless as the curiously-wrought figures upon their plate or cups, at all calculated to relax the over-senting the same hard, impenetrable surface of pride, indifference, or aversion, calculated to estrange, not only the most interested and servile members of the coteries, but even the most resolute of toad-eaters. tenderness of her voice, and her caresses, on these occasions, that her nearest friends, and even her domestics, willingly encountered these sudden impulses of her warm but affec. tionate nature, simply to enjoy the sweet re- compense of her propitiatory smiles, and looks and words so full of womanly endear- ment. Her father, though possessing deep sensibility, restrained similar impulses from feelings of pride; her mother resembled her in nothing-she loved nobody-always pre- strung nerves of the man of business. Nor were the dinners, in which an over-strained delicacy and profusion mingled with the love of a full luxurious style of living, an affected state and indolence, at all more agreeable to his simple habits, and studious, economical dispatch. Sometimes irritated by the assumed airs and silly bickerings of the tedious and ill-tempered lady, and at others absorbed in anxious reveries as to the fate of his numerous, pending speculations, all social joy appeared to have been banished by silent compact from his heart and his dwelling. Abroad, his chief resource lay in his club; and there he loved to discourse of anything preferably to matters of business; took his glass or his cigar, and seemed most happy when he could so far for- get himself as to dream away the evening. At home he sought the relief afforded by his library, or his private cabinet, where he would read and write for hours. Juliet was now in her seventeenth year, beautiful as the ideal of a poet's dream-with a person as fully developed as her understand- ing. But, wholly unconscious as yet of her surpassing loveliness, a shade of sorrow too often stole over her fine countenance, as she felt her position between wealthy parents of unsympathizing, alienated hearts; left to her own thoughts, and her own resources, to di- rect her path aright in the midst of conflict- ing feelings and duties. But youth-that bright, clear, morning light of life and hope, which, stretching its views afar, confidently welcomes the glory of coming day, and glan- cing over all painful or unpleasing objects which intervene, fashions its own world of love and beauty-soon resumed its sway over Thus, neither the merchant nor his wife her warm bounding heart, as with renewed derived the slightest happiness, or even miti-zeal she would again mingle in the circle of gation of their sufferings in an ill-assorted the favorite companions of her own age. It marriage, from a source which to other parents was with them only that she appeared truly compensates for a variety of little evils and at home; and, how singular a contrast! more inequalities of temper-their mutual care and like a guest or a stranger under her parental fondness for an only child. They had, in-roof. deed, a daughter, of whom they might justly Recently, however, since the period of her have been proud; a lovely being who com-confirmation, a religious ceremony of more bined in her heart and intellect some of the impressive importance than it is elsewhere most opposite, but at the same time, noblest considered, Juliet had experienced some qualities of her sex, presenting one of those change in her feelings. On no other occasion rare specimens of "the happiest mixture of had she seen her father give expression to so earth's mould," which uniformly arrests the much emotion, as when, on returning from eye of the true painter, and fills his soul with the holy temple, she entered his cabinet, and delight. bending before him, asked a parent's blessing In her, the father's vehemence of temper, on his daughter's head. It was given with a and ardor of pursuit, with his unwearied ac- trembling voice; he folded her to his bosom, tivity, was tempered with a gentleness, and and had even added, in a tone of self-reproach a repose of character and demeanor favorable "Believe me, my dear child, I do love you to greater evenness and equilibrium of mind. from my heart, as a Christian father ought to But, most of all, decision was its leading fea-love his child: yet I must command these ture; she early exercised her own judgment, feelings, or assuredly I could not bear this and knew her own mind and will. She had life at home, were you to leave me. never been little controlled by her parents, but such more to return-leave me without a soul to was the well-poised balance of her character feel for me, and none whom I know in this and temper, that the usual little sallies and wide world to fill the void left in my heart. bursts of passion were speedily followed by a You are of an age, now, my Juliet, to kaow self-recollection and control, an expression of that marriage is the natural destination of sympathy, regret, and instant conciliation, young women; and consequently it is ours. which only the more endeared her to those You are already betrothed; your inled by whom she was surrounded. Indeed, such husband, the young merchant, Birshor, is now was the charm of her inanner, the irresistible at New-York; but, as I am just informed, in • | THE JESUIT. 5 a letter from his father, he will be with us | tion-that of a solitary figure, who, with fold- ed arms and listless look, leaned against the wall near the entrance by which the merchant passed. His eye rested for a moment on this marked contrast to the moiling ants of trade by whom he was surrounded. The active spirit of Müssinger paused for a moment; there was somewhat of the air of the gentle- man about the stranger, (though his dress was of the shabby-genteel, bespeaking either the apprentice or the clerk, yet a degree above both,) which called forth his observation. in a half a year, to convey you to another land. It will be proper, therefore, you should acquire a knowledge of the English tongue, and I shall take care to provide you with a teacher without delay." Juliet left her father with evident marks of emotion, but not of an unpleasing kind. To have been an object of selection among all her fair companions, to visit a new coun- try, the young and fruitful land which Euro- pean imagination clothed in the colors of paradise-inexhaustible in magnificence as in wealth-all rose before her vivid fancy. She stood, in woman's beauty, by the side of her young lord, adorned with wealth and power; the picture was flattering; it gave her all which the religious ceremony had just opened to her view; her mere childish visions disappeared. She beheld in herself, for the first time, the woman and the bride. She now gradually withdrew from the amusement and society of her younger friends, associ- ating only with the few on the eve of enter- ing into a similar engagement, occupying herself, in quiet, with her own reflections, or in active labors, more extensive reading and inquiries into the far foreign land. Disliking the usual class of servile governesses, teach- ers after teachers had been dismissed, and the whimsical pupil had soon exhausted the entire stock of female proficients in the lan- guage it was her father's intention she should so promptly acquire. She fared no better with tutors of the lordlier sex; one was too old to exert his due authority, and another too young and sentimental to discharge his task in a manner that would give satisfaction to her father, eagerly bent, as he was, upon her rapid accomplishment in the English tongue. But accident supplied what no delibe- ration could effect. The active-minded sena- tor was one day directing his superintendents, in the shipping of a number of valuable car- goes, on the eve of being consigned to their respective destinations, and all the hands and heads connected with his extensive establish- ment were emulating their principal, whose example, like that of some able general, seemed to inspire a soul into the movements of the complicated body of subordinates, busied in their several departments. One of his clerks, named Berndt, was engaged in examining the custom-house certificates, bills of lading, etc. while another, Northaft, was busily making out the orders, and taking the number of the bills and cargoes. Throngs of clerks and porters were seen hastening to- ward the quay, and others as quickly coming from it, conveying the produce of the last to arrivals; all, down to the little cabin-boy, appeared to have some interest or other in promoting that grand bustle and activity of the scene, which invariably set their mark on the division of labor appropriated to the service of Mammon. Still, there was one excep- | į it. "Well, my young fellow! why so idle here ?" exclaimed the senator: "these sun- beams will feed nobody; better a good bowl of soup, which you know you have earned by the sweat of your brow. Indolence, in youth, is sure to make a useless tenant, for the workhouse or the hospital. If you have no- thing further to do here, go, return to your desk, instead of idling away your time, and defrauding your master of the bread which he puts into your mouth." At these words, a flush of indignant feel- ing crimsoned the cheek and brow of the stranger, who, on the impulse of the moment, delayed not, in the bitter tone of an injured man, to make reply: if Consider, sir, with whom you speak; there breathes not the being who would more willingly labor, than would he who called forth that ungenerous suspicion, if any per- son would find him work to do." "Need you go farther, then?" inquired Müssinger, in a tone of surprise; "is it not at hand? and pardon me, if, in my haste, I have misinterpreted your character." *C It is already forgotten; but I thought it hard on a stranger," was the reply. "A stranger! from what country?" "I am an Englishman; my name is James White." >> (C "And may I inquire your family, sir? My father was a baronet;-loyal to the He took last, he embraced a losing cause. the field for the Pretender, was captured, and ended his days upon the scaffold. My poor mother sought a refuge with me in Germany, where she died about a year ago, and, I have reason to thank God, before want visited our threshold. It is true, penury drove me into the Orphan-recruiting-house; but the com- passion of an aged man snatched me from the common soldier's lot. I am, at this mo- ment, a dependent upon his bounty-the sense of which often tinges my cheek with shame." "That is right-I like that," was the me.- chant's reply; "it is yet better and nobler not misapply his kindness, and not to require Do you know anything of business, sir?" No; I have studied theology, Latin, rhet- oric, philosophy, a little Spanish, and my own language, of course, perfectly." Are you a clergyman, then? at least I should hope you are a Protestant." .: 6 JESUIT. THE The young man simply bowed in silence. "Can you give instructions in the English language?" "Will you not have done?" continued the bookkeeper, rising; "what mean these low doggrel rhymes in a respectable counting-house like this! Shame on the faithless servant who invites imputation upon the honor and solidity of the firm by which he exists. Another such attempt, and I will look to it, that you shall not have an opportunity of repeating such con- duct. If you value your situation, at least as- sume the character of deserving it. I have heard much of your way of life latterly, and depend upon it, it will not be tolerated by our worthy principal much longer. Your evenings are spent at play; no day are spent at play; no day is sacred from your mad pursuit; you know everything connected with that to a hair; but when I ask you to "What! a book-worm and a lawyer to boot!" muttered the senator: "I am not anx-hand over your accounts, you are all at sea.” ious to make his acquaintance; but I do not think he will object to the plan proposed, when he hears that I am the senator Missin- ger." "I can, and would not be ashamed of the employment." "Come with me, then-I will introduce you to my daughter. You shall have a rea- sonable salary, according to your qualifica- tions; do you agree with me?” "I would gladly do so; but must first con- sult my benefactor," was the reply. (( Right; who is he?" "A doctor of law, named Leupold, who lives upon his income, and is constantly ab- sorbed in his studies." . "And so every merchant of spirit ought to be," retorted the wily clerk, laughing; he must lay bets and wagers with the sea; and for that I too am well cut out, like our prin- cipal, who rose from his little paternal shop to rank as the first merchant upon our ex- change. Give yourself no trouble about me, Mr. Bookholder; the senator knows me too well to think of dismissing a man so useful to him, for merely humming over the snatches of an old song, or beguiling a heavy hour or two at the billiard table on a Sunday evening.” With these words, the high-spirited mer- chant left the unfortunate young Englishman to his own reflections; and soon forgot there was any such being in the world, as the figure of his sententious and taciturn bookkeeper, with heavy look and folded brow, now made ils appearance, regular as a piece of clockwork, in the private cabinet. He held a packet of letters in his hand, which he methodically opened, and presented to his principal. The latter proceeded with his customary task, but had not perused many lines, before he evinced a degree of emotion very unusual on the like occasion. Words of impatience and anger more than once burst from his lips, insomuch as to attract attention from some of the clerks, who cast inquisitive side-looks at the window which commanded a view of the interior offi- Holding a privy council!" whispered ces. At length, after running through the Nothaft to his companion. "That prig of a whole of his correspondence, he rose abruptly perriwig bookkeeper may moralize and grum- from his seat, shut down his desk, and as has-ble as he likes; I maintain that all is not well. tily closing the door behind him, proceeded | Our affairs are bad; downright bad. I have through the offices into the inner part of his taken a peep or two into our worthy princi- mansion. pal's correspondence; and I know how it all The bookkeeper answered not a word, part- ly because he was too hopeless of the other's obduracy, and partly, because the senator at that moment hastily reëntered his cabinet, making a sign for him to follow. The door was closed behind them; and this time the curtains were also drawn across, so as entirely to cut off all communication with the other parts of the office. (C IS "Heaven protect us, and all good saints!" ejaculated Berndt, with pious look and folded hands, for he was a member of a new conven- ticle ; "what evil spirit is going to do business with our house to-day?" His companion at his elbow, a loose young fellow, Nothaft, laughed in his sleeve, at the same time humming, with a roguish chuckle, the words of an old favorite song: To the well may go the pai! Oft times safe enough; Yet at last will come a blast. And give it quantum suff." "Hist there!" muttered the bookkeeper; "have done!" while Berndt also jogged his neighbor in the ribs; but the wilful Nothaft only went on tittering in, a somewhat lower key: "Oh Lord! hold fast; for the protest Comes hard and fast upon : And then with shame, with mock and blame *" The bankrupt's race is run. >> CC A << Oh, shocking!" interrupted Berndt, with an affectation of pious horror, while Nothaft ran on in the same strain. 'Poor, fated house! nothing about thee can escape a sharp-sighted fellow like myself. Thou will go on drawing and paying, and paying and drawing, till thou hast no more to pay. Our Indian affairs, too, are downright naught. We have lost lots of money by that cursed insurance business; while the underwriters of our own vessels seem to have all gone to the dogs, for we have never recovered from them. One mishap comes at the heels of another; and then the style of living in this establishment, it is truly extrav- agant and heathenish in every sense of the word.” "A scandal, a great scandal,” murmured Berndt, casting up his eyes. "It is only 'Heart! what ask you?' and have no sort of housewifery; no fear of the wrath of God THE JESUIT. 7 before their eyes. We clerks must creep away from dinner table like mice, and then come all the delicacies and luxuries of the season. Yes, my good friend and colleague, the house be- gins to shake; I thank you for the hint. I shall have time, God be praised! to think of the future, and turn my attention toward ob- taining another situation." "Between ourselves, my good fellow," was the reply, "don't be in too great a hurry. There are good pickings at times out of these grand break-ups, for shrewd heads at all con- nected with the concern." "Of a truth," replied Berndt, "the house of the ungodly may serve me for a time, till another and a better, with the Lord's blessing, be provided for me." "Well, as to that," returned Nothaft, "I am a man of the world; I claim no reversion in the millenium; no compound interest in the capital of Kingdom-come; and nothing in the way of a mere salary should keep me here, for it is downright galley-slave work." "Yes, work and pray, says the holy scrip- ture ;" rejoined Berndt; " and it is in part the ruling principle of our counting-house; yet I can remember the time when you looked on all with a very different face, and even scru- pled not to raise your sinful eyes to the fair daughter of our honored principal herself. But since she spoiled your sport in that "" ter- express to Amsterdam. The principal handed his trustworthy assistant a carefully sealed packet, and soon after taking leave of hia, went, not accompanied as usual by his chief clerks, into the interior of his house to meet his family at dinner. Berndt affected to hold both his ears, to es- cape the sound of this terrible malediction, while the other ran on in the same vindictive mood:-"Yes, God give her grace to mend her manners, for pride like hers ever comes be- fore a fall. Nay, she took it into her head that she could not dine at the same end of the table with me; I must sit as far off as possible, and, forsooth! her whim must be complied with. But, God willing, we shall change sides again very soon; the laugh will be mine; and I shall bring the scornful beauty to listen to easier terms." CHAPTER II. THE anxious merchant found the LADY Müs- singer already presiding at the head of the costly banquet, fully prepared to do justice to the delicacies that abounded, and casting a com- placent eye upon the profusion of silver dishes, and richly ornamented plate. The rarest wines were placed upon the table, the fair Juliet was summoned from her studies, and the train of domestics, on receiving a wink from the senator, withdrew into the ante-room. In gloomy mood, the senator, instead of inviting to the repast, tapped with his knife on the huge silver tureen before him; with his eye fixed on it in silence for some seconds, as if he were meditating how best to introduce some unpleasant topic. "What would you both think," he began, in a tone of forced merriment," were you to see all this splendid equipage-silver, gold, and quar-porcelain-suddenly fly away through the roof, and a parcel of earthen and pewter dishes tum- ble in and spread themselves over the table in their place?" "Pshaw! Berndt," interrupted the other; "why rake up these old grievances? the little haughty jade! to show her airs to me! me, whose father is a state counsellor as good as hers. Ay, and he has more money too than Master Müssinger could boast when he pur- chased the little shop, through which he stept into this grand mansion of his. Yet I would have married her; would have taken her for better for worse, and the ungrateful little minx presumed, forsooth, to turn up her nose at me! "But suppose I were to find it empty, and A curse light upon her pride! and let the thun-not the purse you dream of, Juliet—what should dering ruin fall on her house, and humble her you do then?" haughty head!" “Idle talk!” muttered the lady mother, as she proceeded leisurely with her dinner; "how can you descend to such silly things!" "That I may prepare you for the possibility of so very unpleasant an occurrence," was the senator's reply. "It is even on the balance at this moment, whether we are to continue the wealthy people it is supposed we are, or to be- come beggars indeed." - t The lady of the house gave a contemptuous shrug of the shoulders at the bare idea, and ridiculed so far-fetched and misplaced a jest. Juliet exclaimed, laughing, that it would be as pretty a witch-feat as she could imagine, for papa must then put his hand a little deeper into Fortunatus's purse, and try the magic of gold again. "Is to-day, then, the first of April, that tempts the senator Müssinger to amuse himself with childish-sallies like these ?" inquired his lady; but Juliet remarked an unusual earnestness and impatience in her father's manner. Berndt here gave the slighted clerk another He went on in a warmer tone; "The folly friendly jog; for the senator and his bookkeep- | is in your question, my dear; a man of business er were coming out of the private room. There never jests unnecessarily with his reputation. was an expression of deep care and serious-Misfortune threatens me; a series of enormous ness, not unmixed with decision in the counte- losses no man can withstand. Firms with nances of both; and a person was instantly which I was intimately connected have failed ; dispatched to secure a relay of horses to travel pirates have surprised my vessels; underwriters 8 THE JESUIT. have proved unsound; the last storm has swept | before strangers; and the sight of the young away a merchantman with an immense amount man had a wonderfully good effect upon him. of specie, on which I had rested my final hopes." So, here you are, my good friend, just in the The last arrival brings me a heap of heavy nick of time. Your benefactor, then, has given bills from Holland. It is all over with me, in you permission to attend." case my excellent and able assistant should not succeed in obtaining accommodation, and a prolongation of credit from my chief creditor in that quarter. And the event is so near at hand, that is better you were prepared for it | now." "He has permitted me," was the reply, "to accept the offer you made me." This was said in a calm and modest manner; it seemed to attract the attention of Julie, who looked at him with surprise mingled with curiosity; and even the lady of the house appeared as if she had forgotten the fainting fit which she had just commenced. Both were not a little astonished to see the youthful figure of the stranger, in his simple and almost threadbare dress, standing erect and fearless before the senator, in a way they had never before witnessed in the objects of his favor or his bounty. | My poor dear father!" exclaimed Juliet, in a tone of deep sympathy; while the brow of her mother grew dark and frowning, as she inuttered; "Rather say, imprudent, cruel father, thus to plunder his own wife and child. What! need you have placed your all on the hazard of the die-adventured everything in a couple of crazy vessels? Out on it! Out on it! you are a spendthrift merchant, a man of no capacity, and were a fit subject, methinks, to fill the walls of a lunatic asylum, did I not yet believe you were trying your hand at a bad joke. it possible you are in earnest, please to recollect that my fortune must forthwith be made good, and paid into the trustees' hands, with interest. I am not one of those who would consent to receive a stipend, like some vile parish pauper, Young White, with an easy air, shook the or to be provided for by the bounty of others. Lady Jacobina cordially by both hands; then I am accustomed to an easy style of life; and approaching Juliet, he would have saluted her might have selected a husband from a hundred cheek, according to the then prevailing eti- noble gentlemen-all wealthier, too, than your-quette of the English court, had not the fair girl self." drawn back, and blushing deeply, declined the The senator became pale with rage, as he offered salute. Her mother turned contempt- listened to this heartless vituperation, and heuously from him, and her father, not a little bent his head over the cloth to disguise his ex- amused, laughed out aloud as he observed, cessive emotion, as he replied in a tone of forced "You see, young sir, we manage these things indifference: “It is well, Lady Jacobina; this in a different way here; you are no longer in is an additional proof of your tried affection for English society, and at an English court. Here But I am sorry I cannot so soon gratify it is honor enough to kiss the lady hostess's you, by opening some process against me in a hand, and the tips of my young lady's little fin- court of law; for I was only desirous of giving gers." you an opportunity of expressing your opinion on an assumed conjuncture, not, it may be, a real case." | ▾ | me. "A young Englishman," continued Müssin- ger, presenting him to his wife, "who has en- gaged to instruct Juliet in the language of his country. I recommend to him the utmost as- besiduity in his task; and to his pupil no less zeal In the pursuit. There, pay your compliments to my lady and your young pupil; and you may then commence your lessons, and show us how good a master you are.” A Shame on you, then, senator; 1 believed it to be only a mere whim. But why try to spoil my appetite? I am in a perfect fever-I declare the idea is enough to rouse one's bile; I must have the elegancies and comforts of life about me; I was born a lady-you know I was-- | and you should never insinuate a doubt of my continuing to be one-and now Juliet, my dear, give me the cordial." Juliet, already acccustomed to similar scenes. as quick as thought presented the desired liqueur, to revive the spirits of the vulgar fine lady. The senator rose hastily from his seat, hummmmed the Marlborough march, and loosened his crava: a little. He was just meditating a retreat, when the door was suddenly opened, and the young Englishnan whom he had engaged for a teacher presented himself at the entrance. This was a lucky diversion in the actual state of domestic parties; the senator, of all men, had an extreme reluctance to evince any symptons of passion Excusing himself for his omission of due cer- emony with the free grace of a true gentleman, White acquited himself of the German fashion in so lively and good-natured a manner, as to conciliate the elder of the ladies; but there was something in the whole demeanor of her new tutor, which, though she could not account for it, produced an unpleasing impression upon Juliet. It was, therefore, not without some reluctance that she led the way to her work- table, pointed out to him the books she had been accustomed to peruse, and by means of which she observed that she had acquired the slight knowledge of the language which she possessed. After asking her a few questions, he added, that he was led to think she was not quite so deficient as she represented herself; a compliment, however, which. instead of plea- sing, threw a cloud over the fair Juliet's brow. She sat down in silence, her father having re- peated his request, to receive a lesson from her new instructor. The senator, after observing the method adopted, and giving it his hearty commendation, returned to his counting-house; THE JESUIT 9 while his lady, wholly uninterested in her daughter's progress, sat by in a reclining pos- ture, and soon began to enjoy her siesta, as usual. << " 66 Juliet, it must be confessed, had paid but little attention to her tutor, her eye being chiefly directed toward her mother; and, the mo- ment she saw her quietly folded in the arms of the drowsy god, she snatched the book out of the hands of her gravely discoursing tutor: closed it as quick as light, with a brief apostro- phe of Pray, sir, let us have done with it- enough, enough !—really I can do no more at present. In obedience to my papa's commands, and because it may be a matter of convenience to yourself, I will resume it as if I were in ear- nest; but I must entreat you don't give your- self any trouble about it; for I assure you I cannot fancy your language in the least, and, of course, shall never learn to speak it. Adieu, my good sir-adieu till to-morrow!" | Young White gazed at his singular and frank-spoken pupil with a look of unfeigned surprise ; and he bit his lip, as he replied: "Really, Miss Müssinger, your manner is a little startling, I will not say unkind. My father was of noble blood, and uniformly recommend- ed to me, as a rule of conduct, never to hurt any one's feelings if I could be of no advantage to them. I would take my departure; but permit me to stay till your lady mother awake, in order that I may not again show my inob- servance of your national customs, or any want of courtesy. May I hope you will suffer my presence so long?" My father," he began "once held a com- mand in the citadel of New-York, and my un- "It was far from my intention, replied cle one in a more remote station, bordering on Juliet, in some confusion, "to hurt your feel- the territories of the Indians. A boy of eight ings, sir; and I sincerely beg your pardon if I years, I had ample opportunities of becoming have so ill selected my words. I often say intimate with American life, as well in town things, I believe, for which I am afterward as in the country. In the former I took little truly concerned. Indeed it is not yourself, it pleasure; its society was prim and monoto- is not your person-it is that hissing, piping nous-no vivacity, no heart, no soul-but one sound of your English, so hard and rough, dull leaden color of puritanical zeal and mili- which falls so very unpleasingly on my ear."tary discipline. Except on sabbaths, there was one eager, incessant competition in the race of lucre, varied only by the beat of the drum and the word of command. The Sunday is held more sacred than even in England itself; there the world's faults and follies walk arrayed in heavy sackcloth and ashes; and the deep dead sounds of the steeple-clocks fall on the ear of the weary and idle citizens, till they are glad to lay down the burden of affected peace and piety on an early pillow, to start again be- "Then I cannot but express my surprise," replied White, perfectly conciliated by the sud- den contrast of her tone," that so kind a father should urge you to study a language which you so much dislike." times." Add Why," began Juliet, half laughing and half blushing, as she raised her brilliant eyes from her reading-desk," you may well be puz- zled: the truth is, papa tells me I am going to be married, and then going to New-York; and he thinks >> speak German, and all my acquaintance shall talk French. English must be confined to the domestics, and such sort of people, you know, by whom it is generally spoken.” There, young lady, permit me to say you are mistaken. At New-York it would be con- sidered a great impropriety to converse in any other language than the English, even in the best society. To be sure, Dutch is spoken in the interior-but— >> "It does not follow," replied Juliet, laugh- ing, "for, perhaps, my intended may learn to CC "Bless me!" interrupted Juliet," you speak as if you had actually been on the spot, and heard what you so warmly assert." "Indeed I have," continued White, in a still more animated tone; "I passed the greatest part of my childhood between New-York and the interior.” "Really?" inquired Juliet, in a gentler and "then do tell me some- more interested tone ; thing encouraging (respecting this my future home. I have heard so many fine things said of it, that I am dying to hear more. But come a little nearer that we may speak in a some- what lower key, in order not to wake poor mamma too soon. And lose no time-for I am all ear, I can assure you." She here rested both her beautiful arms upon her work-table, and with full inquiring looks, that seemed to read through the eyes into the very soul of her tutor, so that his actually fell before their brilliant expression, she paused till he had recovered his speech, and arranged the thread of his narrative. CC "To New-York-to North America!" ex- ! "Oh! sad, sad!" exclaimed Juliet-this claimed the young man, still more astonished. is really a lamentable picture. Why, in our Juliet nodded her assent, and ran her pen over dull, heavy city here, we live pleasanter than the blank paper before her, as if impatient of all that. But, perhaps, the country may make ¡ her self-imposed good behavior. "To New-amends for all; and surely Mr. Birsher will York!" repeated White; and, with folded have the politeness to let me prefer the villa to arms, he gazed on the lovely object before him: the shop if I feel so inclined." "at such a distance from home, you surely then cannot avoid learning English." ** Ah!" continued White," were I to speak of America's wild free land, as I once felt it, a strange enthusiastic sorrow would over- master all my faculties; for I loved it early and UO 10 THE JESUIT. 3 the heavens are his tent-vigilance, and bold inexhaustible address, his faithful guards and messengers. He cleaves the stream with the well; though a young lady like you can form no idea of, and, consequently, feel no sympa- thy with the kind of ties which bound me that youngest, but most wonderful and aspi- ring of the earth's offspring-the future nurse- ry and home of the brave and the free. But it is not near New-York you must look for elegance or beauty; no stately and delightful villas; no palaces and gardens, affording shade or shelter; but rugged patches of ground, with- out a house or a tree, form a sort of suburbs, to supply the garrison and the shop. But this is merely local; cross the river, and penetrate far away into the interior; and, for the noble- hearted traveller, and lover of mighty nature in all her moods, there is pleasure in the path- less woods, and music in the flow of her ever- lasting falls and cataracts. The rivers brought within the social range and limits of man, are here few and far between; but alas! the soil is cultivated by colonists and by slaves, with whole regions of forest speading round them-ease of the finny tribe: he darts upon his prey immemorial woods-lofty trees, the hallowed from his secret ambush; he heeds not the lash- shades of ages, (the very names of things ing of the waves, nor the groaning of the for- strange to us,) and amid which the sound of ests, when the hurricane is up, and the fier- the woodman's axe never broke on the far soli- cest voices of nature in her terrors have roused tary haunts of time. Think what an inspiring the lord of the desert in his lair. The bear delight, to open the first paths beneath those and the wolf shun the fire of his eager eye; the thick embowering shadows, through which the loneliest haunt-deep night-the rolling thun- sun's beams have never passed! Think of the der and vivid lightning's flash-all that have eternal silence far around you! the mighty terrors for the feeble child of cities, are to him solitude, filled only with deep, awe-inspiring a source of exultation; privation even a tri- thought; with a religious glory, how elevating, umph, and death from the hand of his enemy, above every other impulse, to the soul! For a scene in which he glories to the last." hours long have I laid me down, listening to Here White, almost exhausted with the en- the first startling echo of the woodman's axe, thusiasm which he had thrown into his des- mingled with the bay of the wild dog and the cription of a country, the picturesque recol- fox, with the voices of millions of rich-bespan-lections of which had been indelibly impressed gled birds, from the deep recesses of majestic upon his memory, and entwined themselves forests the solitary monuments of nature in with his thoughts and passions from earliest her prime. There, as twilight glooms, and the youth, paused, as if overcome with the emotions savage tenants of the wild start from their lone he had renewed; and, raising his eyes to retreats, the weary wanderer turns from the those of Juliet, full of apprehension lest his immeasurable path, stretching far before him, description should have wearied her, seemed and gladly seeks the shelter of the nearest hut. to solicit her forgiveness. What was his de- On reaching the utmost limits of the forest, be- light, however, to mark only the expression of hold a new spectacle opens on the bewildered the warmest sympathy in her dark, brilliant view. One of the giant streams of this mighty eyes, as, with a smile of approbation, she laid land suddenly arrests his onward way;-his her hand upon his, and, in a more confidential eye scarce embraces its expanse, and proudly tone, observed : sweep the waves of the noble river, till they reach some grand and hoarse-anding fall. Amid the swell of the foaming waters is seen a small dark spock, at the sight of which the adventurous traveller utters an exclama- tion of joy it is the light canoe, the fisher's boat, darting boldly through the waves, to bear him over that golden stream, red with the dy- ing rays of sunset, reflecting from its surface a thousand brilliant hues. A blue undulating line in the distance, betokens other forests be- yond forests in the mighty continent. Bold, dark rocks and precipices, which receive the hissing, thundering waters on their far career, those interminable forests, streams, and plains, break, at intervals, upon the silent monotonous makes me almost tremble, while it delights flow of rivers, through rich savannas and flats, | me. Bear American lesson is at an end *C Į Truly, sir, you are an admirable master of the picturesque, a faithful chronicler of the new world's wonders, its old hereditary woods and streams and wildernesses. It seems as if I actually saw what you so vividly describe. Your picture is complete, and satisfies me. The emotions which I would seek for in such a land, are not, believe me, those of ordinary people-not the mere life of social woman, her duties and her cares, without a soul to appre- ciate the beauties and the glories, which na- ture, in her supreme dominion, opens upon the mind and the eye. Yet, I confess, the idea of where every kind of vegetation, in blade, and stem, and flower, seems to emulate the mag- tonificent exhibition of power, displayed in all the features of this new and mightier world. Then contemplate it in its natural wonders; in its wilder moods of tempest, fire, and flood; in its native tenants, the painted, feathered chiefs, warriors, hunters, wild colonists, wan- dering over far-distant tracts, guided only by the stars, the line of their coast, rivers, and the pinnacles of rocky heights. With the speed of the Arab courser, the son of the desert bounds on his way, or glides, like a mist, which rises at nightfall, over the low, solitary spots-now glooming, now shining, as it oft beguiles the unfriended wayfarer from his track. No roof or steed, no bridge or boat, requires the free-born forester; for the world is his home | THE JESUIT. 11 sir," added the fair speaker, smiling, and check- ing her enthusiasmn; she then moved to him, as if for a signal of departure-"I shall expect you to-morrow morning; for I have taken a great fancy to learn your language, and hope to derive great advantage from your kind in- structions." White, who had some difficulty in believing the evidence of his senses, after the scene which had previously occurred, had no hesitation in giving his ready promise to return; he saluted the lady senator, now awake, with all due so- lemnity; bowed low and formally to the now laughing, heedless Juliet, and took his leave with the ease of a man of the world. CHAPTER III. JULIET, my love," inquired her father when he rejoined his wife and daughter in the even- ing, "why did not poor White stop to take supper with us? I promised him his board, both on his account, and that he might bring you forward in your English conversation. Į should also have liked to converse with him, for one hears nothing on the exchange but the same unvaried subject ringing in one's ears from morning till night-the history and vicis- situdes of money, money, money, in all its pro- cesses, till my head is actually stunned with the sound. I can make nothing out of that saintly Berndt; and master Nothaft is usually engaged at play or at the tavern. My lady here is sufficiently occupied with her visitors; and you, Juliet, are either at your monkey tricks, or deeply immersed in your Arminius and Thusnelda. Now, I could have had a little reasonable chat to-night with the English- man." CC CC Oh, I entreat you," interrupted his wife, rising abruptly from her seat-" do not bring that strange man here: I cannot endure him hanging continually about us. Think of his odd behavior to-day; I am sure I shall never forget it. No good comes of bringing poor de- cayed members of nobility into a respectable citizen's family. Depend upon it, those hun- gry cast-a-ways, without money or means, al- ways give themselves airs; and what with their pride and their great name, there is noth- ing good enough for them; they are content with nobody about them.” "You forget, madam," replied the senator, "that in this very remark you display the most intolerable pride-worse than that which you condemn. I cannot permit any woman should be guilty of this preposterous folly, while I am willing to admit him with the deference and respect to say nothing of humanity-which are due to him. Be silent, therefore." | nor shall I give up my pride at your bidding, Does it become me to do the honors of this house for the sake of every vagabond, because his father was a baronet, and was executed for supporting the Pretender? No: whoever eats at my table, and lives by my bounty, is below me; and so far good!" "When so it pleaseth me!" was the laconic and cool reply. After a pause she continued: "Your boorish arguments are nothing to me, The senator, finding his patience wholly ex- hausted, and passion getting the mastery, hur- ried quickly out of the room, slamming the door with violence behind him. > Kan sir; and my mother seems as if she were about to open her eyes.” “Good heaven deliver us!" exclaimed Ju- | long on the subject of mighty Babylon, my good liet, emphatically; but, when she marked the | serious inquiring glance of her companion, she was ashamed of the expression, and added— am I not a very silly girl? and deserve that you should laugh at me, to think of being frightened at the pope!" ( I am well aware," replied White, in a calm tone, " that in England, as well as in parts of Germany, the nurses make use of the mere name of popery as synonymous with dition, to terrify their naughty children. It is no way surprising to find these absurd preju- dices so prevalent; but how to think they should extend to a mind and intellect like yours! Leave to our English parliament its barbarous The conversation, which had taken so sin- gular a turn, was here broken off, not without producing a disagreeable impression on Juliet's mind. She had heard much of the pomp and grandeur which threw an imposing air over the forms and ceremonies of the Catholic church- the enchanting music-the clouds of incense- per-wreathes and chaplets, with richly sculptured and pictured decorations but all these were objects or fear, or detestation among the relig. ious circles in which she moved. The glowing description of White brought the subject, witn all its impressive characteristics of magnificence THE JESUIT. 13 the good senator's future custom. It was the same with the greatest as with the least; after all the friendly meetings and promises. not a single individual offered to come forward in a way to bear him through his immediate diffi- culties. Still, amid all these unpromising circumstances, he endeavored to preserve an unaltered countenance, awaiting with eager- ness the return of his confidential envoy from Amsterdam, on whose proceedings now de- pended the future color of his lot. At midnight his faithful bookkeeper made his appearance, having travelled express with a rapidity beyond his master's hopes. The senator was called up, and hurried to meet Meantime the affairs of the house continued him in his private room. The interview con- to assume a more strange and threatening as- tinued until far in the morning, when, at the pect. Men of the first respectability in the close of it, quitting the house, Müssinger took city held frequent interviews with the principal: his way through the streets, already beginning many efforts were made to avert the expected to be thronged, toward the merchants' hall. blow, for Müssinger had a name second to There was an expression in his countenance none; yet, spite of all their apparent interest no one had ever before observed in public; it and exertions, it was soon evident that matters was the same it had worn since the arrival of were becoming worse and worse. Visitors of his envoy; his dress betrayed the disorder of less friendly aspect succeeded-some eagerly his mind; his step was quick and uncertain, seeking security, others threatening to adopt and his eye, shunning that of the passer-by, immediate proceedings; and not a few, with wandered from side to side, or seemed to em- words of friendship and sympathy on their lips, brace the distance before him. He hurried yet with heart and hand ready to avail them- past the merchants' hall and the custom-house, selves of the impending calamity to strengthen until he reached the quay, and still pressing or extend their own resources. Contractors forward beyond the remotest buildings it con- and Jews too, were of the number seen hastily tained, he reached the public walk, which entering or quitting the senator's doors. Large stretches through a row of noble chestnuts half sums of money were called in, but still more a mile along the borders of the river. Stone required to be re-issued, to support his tottering banks appeared raised here and there among credit. His reputation once shaken, envy and the trees, and a somewhat lofty breastwork the public eye were fixed upon him, while the presented an iron rampart against the force of serpent tooth of the creditor prepared to spring the stream, which flowed deep and rapid below upon its victim. Whisperings, hints, and sar- the balustrade. It was a place much frequent- casms, first began to circulate; a smile or sha-ed during the heat of summer; chiefly in the king of the head at his absence on change; and, evening, when persons of all ranks sought to at length reports and murmurs from rival houses refresh their spirits after the toils or anxieties surrounded the unfortunate merchant with an of the day. It happened that there was only atmosphere, as it were, of doubt, anxiety, and one other individual present at this hour, seated that nameless feeling of approaching misfor- in such a position as to be completely screened tune, which, while it predicts, seems to paralyze from the merchant's view. He had been read- all the energies necessary to encounter it. Si- Si-ing, and a book lay upon his knees, but his eye lence, gloom, absence of mind, a heavy fixed caught the figure of the senator as he hastened brow battling with the agitation within; sudden toward the fatal goal of his madly excited movements; in short, all in words and actions wishes. When within a few yards of hint, the foreign to the ordinary character, marked the senator, flinging aside his hat and stock, threw demeanor of the high-spirited and yet inde- himself upon the wall, and was plunging into pendent merchant, as he anticipated the hour the river, when the stranger, seizing him pow- that should announce to him the loss of theerfully by the shoulders, almost hurled him treasured jewel of his soul-that for which he back upon the walk. had devoted an existence full of care, extreme anxiety, and caution-the loss of his high credit in the eyes of his fellow-citizens. Even the small tradesman, and claimants of trivial sums -once proud to have his name on their books for any length of time-now began to gather round his house, with a boldness of look and language very unusual, not one of them hesi- tating to assure the others of its speedy fall; and then, on receiving payment, sneaking away in fear and trembling, lest they had lost and beauty, all of which she had heard and read, | fresh to her mind; and she involuntarily con- trasted it with the plain undecorated altar, the uniform Gothic chancel, and the yet more mo- notonous tone of the plain preacher in the church of St. John-a contrast far from flattering to the latter. Her warm generous nature, allied to all that is exalted and impressive, could ill brook the cold, tasteless succession of forms and repetitions peculiar to the service of a church, the doctrines of which by no means won upon her fancy from the additional representations of it in the daily reiterated lessons, still more formally drawled out by the pious Lady Jaco. bina at home. An attempt to commit the dastardly act of self-destruction can endure no witnesses. The man, who to attain some desired end throws away his own life; will, in his excited state, repel the arm streched out for his preservation. The enthusiast, or the maniac, from aiming the dagger at his own breast, will turn wit the rage of a wild-beast against all who won de- prive him of it; the feeble minded, or the wor- shipper of false honor offers himself up a slice to his pride, and loses all courage if devoted - 14 THE JESUIT. in the evil deed. Heartless and fallen, he abandons his design, and a feeling of over- whelming shame succeeds that of a transitory and desperate impulse. The senator lay with closed eyes and high throbbing breast in the arms of his unknown deliverer, and permitted himself, without a struggle, to be conducted to the nearest seat. Here, supporting himself against a tree, the unhappy man covered his face with his hands: and, after a considerable pause, he was addressed in a mild but dignified tone of voice by the stranger: "I know what you would say," interrupted Müssinger;" and it is of no use disguising from you that, which, within a few days, the whole city will be informed of. Sir, I am a broken, ruined man. It is all over with me ; I can no longer pay my way. An unmerciful creditor, brooking no delay, will to-morrow strike a docket against me; he follows hard af. ter my agent, who brought the tidings that ex- tinguish my last hopes. I cannot meet a sixth part of his bills; my books show the desperate condition I am in. No bankrupt can sit in the senate, and my family will be consigned to penury and shame. Now I have told you all de--all which the merchant would conceal to the very last moment of his civil existence. Place yourself in my situation! Go and proclaim it on the exchange, or be silent; it amounts to the same thing; only let me seek fortune else- where." "You would have done a rash deed, my good friend, but God has ordered it otherwise. It was not to be; therefore try to compose yourself; try to forget that you have ever been so evil tempted. Like an honest man, defy the devil and all his works, and resume your usual business and your duties." Though I know not your source trouble, or • the state of your affairs, I tell you with the deepest conviction of the truth, that ruin, shame, and obloquy of every kind will follow thick and threefold upon your steps. I have had some experience of the world. Fate has brought us together in so strange a manner, that I may almost assert I have a right to count upon your confidence; therefore- " The senator gazed wildly round him: "Is it true," he exclaimed, "that we two are the only persons present?-Dared I confide in your silence-but do you know me?" "I might deny it; but it would be to ceive you; and I detest all kind of deception. You are the senator Müssinger and my pro- fession protects you even from the possibility of my speaking indiscreetly." : (C May I inquire," asked Müssinger, ven- turing to raise his eyes to the stanger's face- CC | | My name is Leupold; I am a doctor of laws, and for many years have acted as coun- sel in different suits of law. Surely, then, I know when to be silent; and the more so in this case, as it concerns the reputation of a man whose house has been hospitably opened to my adopted son." “Ah! I understand you,” replied the mer- chant, agreeably surprised to find there existed some bond of union and confidence between his deliverer and himself; "in other circum- stances, I should have rejoiced to make your acquaintance; but you will forgive me, doctor, if I am at a loss what to think, or how to act. "The strange revolutions of mind," return- ed the doctor, "cannot be effected without pain. You are agitated; you want rest; you had better go home;-a composing draught will do you more good than anything I can say. You will recover your presence of mind when at home.' "To hurry to your final destruction-to re- linquish all a man ought to hold dear or sa- cred!" replied the doctor, in an indignant voice; "to fly from your God, your honor, and that very fortune which never frowns long upon the high-minded and the brave of soul. Away with you then!" and he turned abruptly from the unhappy man, who stood as if con- science-stricken, the picture of trouble and despair. The last words of his deliverer had worked their effect, however, and restored him to himself. In these fearful and excited moods, goaded by misfortune, we are like children, who, in proportion to the sympathy or pity ex- pressed, redouble their cries and passion; while, if not regarded, or gently reproached, they summon their little courage, and speedily cease their lamentations. The senator gazed with a look of surprise upon his new friend; he could not stir a step; he laid his hand upon the old man's shoulder; and after a long pause, during which there was evidently a struggle with his feelings, he observed: "Sir, what have you said-in whom shall I confide? in God? I am not one of your fana- tics; my religion is not of to-day. In fortune? why to her I trusted; and when one of her props fail you, the others stand not long at your side. In myself? what should I under- stand, sir, by that?" "Home" exclaimed the senator in a tone of bitterness; "how little do you know?- home! where I can look only for shame and reproach. Sir, you prevented my finding the repose I sought in this river; at all events, do not oppose my flight; I am a ruined man. The scorn of enemies and rivals-the com- passion of friends-and the reproaches of my relatives, will be more than I can bear. I must away, and seek a more propitious soil!" "The power of manly will, which can achieve He rose up in the act of one rousing up his much," was the doctor's reply: "in that dwells faculties, and prepared for the pursuit of some the power of the Highest; it governs fortune ; far-off and long-desired good. It was with life is only a struggle of opposite principles; difficulty the doctor restrained his vehemence: this world, only a stage for the display of com- “A moment, sir! think what you are about. |parative powers, manifested in weaker or * THE JESUIT., 15 stronger wills. The man who rushes boldly | times, not unmingled with grateful and flat- into the strife, the more sure is he of reaching tering pictures for the eye of him you would the object he has in view. False ideas of hon- mould to your purpose, stamp your features, or, and an ill-laid moral groundwork, may dis- and give melody to your speech. Such friend- arm the noblest and bravest, rendering him anliness of manner subdues the most resolute object of scorn in the eyes of his enemies, instead of rising over his ruins." (C hostility, and mars its designs. Every man has his weak point, and every man is vain. I am at a loss to understand you," replied Aim at the heel of Achilles; follow up your the senator, as he took his seat beside the doc-first impression; seize the favorable moment. tor; "I am now near forty; and though I gain time for payment; with hope comes may have felt at times something of what you victory, and the day is won. Do not cease, say, I never heard any one attempt to explain therefore, to confide in fortune-and rest as- such a doctrine." sured of my silence." "Your experience extended only to the commercial world,” replied the doctor, shrug- ging up his shoulders; « but an example will better convince you. Here I have a descrip- tion of the great naval battle of La Hogue, in which Admiral Russel annihilated the French fleet. It is one of the most extraordinary en- gagements upon record, and was fought and won under the most unpromising circumstan- ces. Regarding neither wind nor storm, nor that heavier obstacle-the iron yoke of respon- sibility, he fell, with the tremendous vigor of good-will upon the enemy; and victory sprung, glad and glorious, to crown the faith unto death, of her true disciple, even from the dark and fearfully inauspicious circumstances which surrounded him. Such is the power which re- He pulled his hat over his eyes; and, from sides in the human will; and mark this-in his whole air and manner, no one for a mo- civil life, as well as in moral action, the saying ment would have recognized him for the in- holds equally good- Help thyself, and God is dividual, who, some half-hour before, had with thee.' Like the great admiral, cast over-rushed with distraction in his eye and despe- board, with one vigorous effort, the enemy who ration in his soul, along the same pathway, aims at your own destruction, or yield, with from the city. craven spirit, to the deserved fate which awaits you." With a pressure of the hand, followed by a respectful salutation, the doctor took his leave, directing his steps toward the city, while the other stood with his eye fixed on his receding figure, and his thoughts bent upon mastering the tumult of his feelings within. He saw no means of extricating himself from his dif- ficulties, but he felt more courage to encoun- ter them-more determination and power of acting as circumstances might require. Com- posing his countenance and his dress, he re- traced his steps, occasionally muttering to himself" Well! the doctrine I have heard is, at least, worth a trial; and at the worst, the river will hardly have changed its course within the lapse of the next three days." "Your advice,” replied the senator, "sounds strangely; but how shall I proceed in putting such a theory as yours into practice? I have only a confused idea of your meaning, and that has something in it dark and terrible, which almost makes me tremble." CHAPTER IV.