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(Srantlcy Panov.
BY LADY GEORGIAN A FULLERTON.
[Continued.]
lie taught her tiiatseli- leuial practiced in
secret, an 1 pangs endured in silence for
conscience’ sake, no loss deserve the
palm of martyrdom than the courage that
carries a man to the. scaffold or the stake.
He illustrated his meaning hy various
examples; he called her attention to
those heroic actions which are sometimes
performed by the poor with such sublime
simplicity, such unconscious magnanim
ity. For instance, he made her read and
compare the historical record of the noble
answer of Louis XII of France, when,
in the presence of an applauding court,
he pronounced that sentence which has
been handed down to an admiring pos-.
terity, “ It is not for the King of France
to avenge the* injuries of the Duke of
Orleans with the police reports of an
obscure trial in the newspaper of the day,
in which a poor collier, bruised and dis
figured by a cruel assault, begged off his
brutal enemy all punishment, and refused
all pecuniary compensation, pimply urg
ing that the man had a wife and chil
dren, and could not well spare the money,
and that he would himself take it as a
great favor if the magistrate would pass
if over; and he asked her if the monarch’s
deed was not of those that have indeed
their own reward on earth, and the col
lier’s did not number among those which
are laid up as treasure in Heaven —there,
where the rust of human applause does
not dim, and the moth of human vanity
does not consume their merits, and fore
stall their recompense ? The virtues of
the poor!—Their countless trials! —'Their
patient toil! —Their sublime because un
known and unrequited sacrifices! History
does not record them. Multitudes do
not applaud them. ‘ The doers of such
ddeds travel on their weary journey
through life, and go down to their graves,
unknown, unnoticed, though perchance
not unwept by some obscure sufferers
like themselves; but a crown is laid up
for them, there—where mafly first shall
be last, and many last shall be first!
Wearied creatures who after working all
day with aching heads perhaps, ora low
fever consuming them, creep out at night
to attend on some neighbor more wretch
ed than themselves, and carry to them a
share of their own scanty meal. Mothers
who toil all day, and nurse at night
sickly and peevish children. Men,
who with the racking cough of con
sumption, and the deadly languor of
disease upon them, work on, and strive
and struggle and toil, till life gives way.
Parents whose children cry to them for
food when they have none to give. Be
ings tempted on every side, starved into
guilt, baited into crime ; who still resist,
who do not kill, who do not steal, who
do not take the wages of iniquity, who
do not curse arid slander—and who, if
they do not covet, are indeed of those
of whom “ the world is not worthy.”
And we—we the self-indulgent—we the
very slaves of luxury ami ease —we who
can hardly bear a toothache or a sleep
less night; we go among the poftr, and
(if they are that , to be which must re
quire a higher stretch of virtue than we
have ever contemplated) give them a
nod of approval, or utter a cold expres
sion of approbatiofi. They have done
their duty; and had they not done it,
had they fallen into the thousand snares
which poverty presents, had the pale
mother snatched for the famishing child
a morsel of food, had the sorely tempted
and starving girl pawned for one day the
shirt in her keeping, stern Justice would
have overtaken them, and Mercy closed
her ears to their cries. And if they have
not transgressed the law of the land, but
for a while given over the struggle in
despair, and sat down in their miserable
garrets with fixed eyes and folded arms,,
and resorted to the temporary madness
of gin, or thqdeadly stupor of laudanum,
then we (who into our very homes often
admit men whose whole lives are a course
of idleness and selfish excess) turn from
them in all the severity of qur self-right
eousness ; and on the wretched beings
who, perhaps after years of secret strug
gles, yield at last—not to»passion, not to
vanity, but to hunger , —with despair in
their heart and madness in their brain,—
we direct a glance, which we dare not
cast on guilt and depravity when it meefs
U3 in our crowded drawing-rooms, in all
the pomp and circumstance of guilty
prosperity!
Such were Walter’s thoughts, such
were his sympathies, and though he sel
dom declaimed on the subject, he felt
deeply, and acted accordingly. His in
fluence over Margaret was great, but it
affected her way of thinking more than
her mode of life. He could inspire her
with a love for what was great and good,
but it is only by a course of patient and
diligent training bestowed on a child, or
resolutely practiced in after life by our
selves, that we learn not merely to feel,
but to do; not only to admire, but to
! imitate.
It is not to be imagined that because
• THE PACIFICATOR —A. CATHOLIC JOURNAL.
Margaret’s mind was naturally formed
to admire what was heroic, and had
been trained by Walter to appreciate
the true heroism of patience and self
denial, that at the present time of her
life she was either a heroine or a model
of self-control. His lessons and his
example were so far useful to her, that
they presented to her mind an ideal
standard, which prevented her from
looking upon her own character and
habits with the complacency which she
would otherwise* have indulged ; for it
must be confessed, that whereas at times
her heart beat high at the ideal glories
of Joan of Arc or the Maid of Saragos
sa, at others it beat with a very hurried
pulsation at the least appearance of
danger threatening the pretty Mistress
of Grantley. It must he owned, that
though her eyes would fill with tears at
the account of two Sisters of Charity
setting out on foot.from Paris, in one of
the coldest winters of this century, to go
and nurse the sick at Barcelona, and
never leaving the afflicted town till the
plague had passed away, she was apt to
shut herself up for days together in her
comfortable boudoir, with her little feet
on the tender, and her graceful figure
reclining in the softest and most luxu
rious arm-chair, because it was too cold,
or too wet, to venture out to the cottages
or the school, and that Mrs. Dalton go
ing alone would do just as well, espe
cially as her grandmamma was so afraid
of her catching cold. I wish that it was
not on record that Margaret had been
heard to declare on other occasions, that
there never was such nonsense as her
grandmother's fancies about ber Catch
ing cold.
It is true that she read with enthusi
asm the lives of St. Elizabeth of Hun
gary, and St. Margaret of Scotland—
those loveliest of women, those gentlest
of saints, daughters of a royal race, and
the brides of heroes—who with their
own hands attended upon lepers, and
nursed with a mother's tenderness those
from whom their own mothers turned
with disgust; but it is unfortunately
equally true that she could hardly bring
herself to visit Mrs.. Jones, an old wo
man in the village whom Walter had
particularly recommended to her notice,
because her room was intolerably close,
and that she was apt to show her the
wound in her leg.
It is true, that as she heard the ac
count of Mrs. Fry's first visit to New
gate, when, quietly shutting the door
behind her, she advanced alone, the
Bible in ber hand, among the fierce and
reckless women who at that time were
controlled only by armed men, and ad
dressed them as sisters and as friends, in
those tones and with that expression
which none can conceive who have not
heard her, and which those who have
can never forget—it is true, that, as
she listened,her heart burned within her
and she longed to go and do likewise ;
but at the next opportunity of exercising
courage, of conquering disinclination,
of enduring pain, or overcoming weari
ness, these high resolves and noble pro
jects were apt to vanish into air, or to
swell that amount of “ good intention ”
with which St. Bernard tells us Hell is
paved. The fact must be confessed,
Margaret was a. spoiled child.
Mr. and Mrs. Thornton, who were per
fectly unlike each other in every other
respect, concurred in one line of con
duct, that of indulging and flattering her
to the utmost extent. He was one of
those gentle, kind-hearted persons, who
can see no imperfections in those they
love, and though not himself deficient
in understanding, would praise his wife’s
singular good sense, and Margaret's ex
traordinary docility, in a way which se
verely tried the patience of his old friend,
Mr. Sidney, Walter’s father.
Mrs. Thornton was a good woman—
nobody could deny If tat ; but to her
goodness she joined a profound convic
tion of her own wisdom ; a steady, sim
ple-minded conceit, which carried her
through every circumstance of life with
an amount of seif-gratulation, and
through every conversation with a de
gree of authoritative folly, that was in
expressibly amusing. She was un
boundedly credulous, and had a habit
of adopting opinions put forward by
others as her own, and of maintaining
them dogmatically, in happy uncon
sciousness of their incompatibility with
those she had herself advanced a quar
ter of an hour before. She was never
startled at anything, never surprised,
never puzzled by the grossest inconsis
tencies, or embarrassed by the most
direct evidence. Between her and Mr.
Sydney there was a close alliance, joined
to a little tacit enmity. She kept him
in a state of mingled irritation and
amusement. There never was any oc
casion of meeting, whether at dinner,
luncheon, picnic, or party, that she was
not by his side, pouring into his ear
oracular sayings, political axioms, mys
terious predictions, theological denuncia
tions, and scientific discoveries, to all of
which he responded by a short, and
den laugh, or if she looked for further
i encouragement, by an assenting growl.
On the subject of education, Mrs. Thorn
ton adopted in turn the most contradic
j tory theories, but they succeeded each
other so rapidly that they usually evapo
rated in talk, and as nothing insures
! success so much as fixity of purpose,
Margaret’s very fixed determination not
j to be managed, outlived all the systems
of management which tier grandmother
successively adopted.
Mrs. Dalton, when-she first came into
power, had made an effort to establish
her authority, but the attempt had so
signally failed, owing to the steady re
sistance of her pupil, seconded by ber
grandmother’s unequivocal support, that
poor Mrs. Dalton was forced to strike
j her colors, and abandon the unequal
contest, contenting herself in future with
a display of power, which was rather
agreeable than otherwise to Margaret,
who treated her governess somewhat as
the subjects of a constitutional monar
chy treat their sovereigns, professing
humbly to obey them, as long, and just
as long, as their will is in perfect accor
dance with their own.
Having thus attempted to give some
notion of our heroine’s character, educa
tion and position- in life, we will now
turn to the library whfere, after some
hours of vain expectation, the party as
sembled to welcome Colonel Leslie’s
arrival were about to break up for that
night.
“ Another day of expectation ! another
day of disappointment!’’ exclaimed Mar
garet, as she held out her hand for the
candlestick which Walter was lighting
for her on her way to the door. “Is it
not extraordinary that my father -does
not come or write?”
“It is indeed,” answered Walter.
“ When you left him in town he told you
positively that he would be here yester
day. Did he not?”
“ Yes, to be sure he did, and actually
held out his finger to me at jmrting. Do
not look angry, Walter! You know
how anxious I had been to see my
Hither ; with what joy I heard the news
of his arrival alter his long absence, and
with what impatience, what emotion, 1
hastened to meet him in London.
During the tedious hours of the journey
I had but that one thought. During the
night we stopped at Newbury I never
closed my eyes —listened to the striking
of each hour, and longed for daylight;
and when we reached London, when we
dashed the streets, 1 could
hardly sit still; and when I arrived—(l
shall always hate that hotel) —‘ Colonel
Leslie was out!’ ‘ Gone out for a walk !'
I sal down alone in that square, oifious
drawing-room, and waited—waited two
hours! and then he came in—’J
“ And was not his manner kind
then V”
“Oh dear, yes! very kind. Nobody
is ever unkind to me. Dr. Bartlett, or
Lord Donnington, when they call here,
are very kind. Come, Walter, do not
let us deceive ourselves. I have never
had a thought 1 have not told you, and 1
must e’en out with it. My father does not
care a straw about me, and the sooner 1
make up my mind to it the better. I
shall be a dutiful daughter to him, at
least I’ll try,” she said, quoting the bur
den of an Irish song she had just been
practicing, and smiling, though two big
tears were rolling down her cheek.
“ This is unreasonable, dear Marga
ret,” said Walter. “l r ou had worked
yourself up into a state of romantic ex
citement about your lather’s arrival, and
pictured in your own imagination a
scene that was not realized; and be
cause poor Leslie’s manner is naturally
quiet—”
“Is yours so very vivacious?” inter
rupted Margaret, with rather a saucy
expression.
“ Oh, mine ! Mine is the manner of an
old dog, who cannot help wagging his
tail when he sees those he loves.”
“0 Walter! dearest Old Walter! I
wish you were my father.”
A strange expression passed over
Walter’s face, but he answered—
“ Well, I cannot say I do, for I should
then deprive Leslie of a treasure which
lam sure lie valfres; and you do not
know Margaret how much I love your
father.”
“Not more than me?”
Walter looked as if he could not very
well love anything more than the beau
tiful little creature before him, but be
shook his head and said—
“ Come, come, Margaret, you must be
contented to give way to others. You
are too fond of the first place every
where.”
Mrs. Thornton joined them while
Walter was speaking, and instantly took
up the cudgels for Margaret:
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