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THERE IS A VERY FINE GENTLEMAN, LIVING IN THE APARTMENT. ACROSS –1 WISH,

I WANT, YOU TO MEET HIM

AND COPY, HIS WAYS-

YOU WERE MORE LIKE HIM ·

"THE CHIMES."

(Continued from Fagè 29.)

In her own scanty shawl, she wrapped the baby warm. With her levered hands. she smothered: it limbe, composed its face, arranged its mean attire. In her wasted arins she folded it, as though she never would resign it more. And with her dri lips, kissed it, in a final pang, and last long agony of love.

Putting its tiny hand up to her neck, and bolding it there, within her dress, next to her distracted heart, the set its sleeping face against her closely; steadily. against her and sped onward to the river.

To the rolling river,

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But he caught his feet in the news, paper, which had fallen on the hearth; and somebody came rushing in be tween them.

"No!" cried the voice of this me somebody a generous and jolly voice it was! Not even you. Not even you. The first kiss of Meg in been waiting outside the house, this The new year is mine, Mine. I, I have hour, to hear the bells and claim it. Meg. my precious prize, a happy Year! A life of happy years, my darling wife!"

And Richard smothered her with kisses

You never in all your life saw don't care where you have lived or anything like Trotty after chis. F

what you have seen; you ever in all our life saw anything at all ap swiftproaching him! He sat down in his and did, where winter night chair and best his knees and crier

at brodding like the last dark he sat down in his chair and beat his thoughts of many who had sought a knes and laughed; he sat down in refuge there before her Where his chair and heat his knees and scattered lights upon the banks glean. I uuhed and cried together; he got ed Bull, rd and dull, as torenes out of his chair and hugged Meg; be that were burning there to show the got out of his chair and hugged way to death. Where no abode of Richard; he got out of his chair and Irving people cast its shadow on the bugged them both at once; he kept dern, impenetrable, melancholy shad: running up to Meg, and squeezing To the river! To that portal of her fresh face between his hands ard eternity her desperate footstepa rend kissing it, going from her backwards ed with the swiftness of its rapid not to 1e sight of it, and running up waters running to the sea. He tred again like a figure in a magic lantern; to touch her as shé pissed him, going and down to its dark level!; bat the wild, distempered form, the fierce and terrible love, the desperation that had ett all human check or hold behind, swept by h m like the wind

He follwed her. She paused a moment on the brink, before the dreadful plunge. He fell down on his knees, and in a shriek addressed the figures in the bells now hovering #bose them.

"I have learned it!" cried the old man.

"From the cresture dearest to my heart! Oh, save her, save her 1

He could wind his fingers in her dres"; could hold it! As the words escaped his lips he felt his sense of touch return, and knew that he de Jained her.

The figures looked down steadfast. ly upon him.

"I have learned it," cried the old man "Oh, have mercy on me in this hour. if in my love for her, s young and good. I slandered Nature in the

de

breasts of mothers rendered sperate! Pity my presumption, wicked ness, and ignorance, and save her!" He felt his hold relaxing. They were silent still

"Have mercy on her!" he exclaim. ed, as one in whom this dreadful crime has sprung from love pervert- ed; from the strongest, deepest love we fallen creatures know! Think what her misery must have been, when such seed bears euch fruit! Heaven meant her to be good. There is no loving mother on the earth who might not come to this, if such a lite had gone before. Oh, have mercy on my child, who, even at this pass, means mercy to her own, and dies herself, and perils her immortal soul, to save it!"

now

T

They were ready for a dance in half a second (Meg and Richard at the top); and the drum was on the very brink of leathering away with sil his power; when a combination of, pro». digious sounds was heard outside. and a good humoured, comely woman of some fifty years of age, or there- a man hearing a stone pitcher of abouts, came running in, attended by terrible size, and closely followed by' the marrow-bones and cleavers, and the bells; not the bells, but a port- able collection, on a frame.''

Trotty said, "It's Mrs. Chicken- stalker"; and sat down and beat his knees again.

cried the good woman

"Married, and not tell me, Meg!" "Never! "I couldn't. rest on the last night of the old year without coming to wish you, I couldn't have done it, Meg. Not if I had been bedridden So here I am; and as it's New Year's ve, and the eve of your wedding to, my dear, I had a little flip made, and brought it with me

Mrs. Chickenstalker's notion of a little flin did honour to her charac ter. The pitcher steamed and smoked and reeked like a volcano; and the man who had carried it was faint.

"Mrs. Tugby 1" said Trotty, who' had been going round and round her, in an whatever he did, he was

ecstasy-" I should, say, Bless your heart constantly sitting himself down in his Chickens'alker chair, and never stopping in it for and soul! A Hmpy New Year, and one single moment; being hat's the many of 'em! Mrs. Tugby" sad Trativ when he had saluted her...” I truth-beri'e himself with joy.

"And to-morrow's your wedding-should s v. Chickenstalker-This is

"Your William Fern and Lillian." day, my pet!" cred Tratty real, happy wedding day!"

To-day!" cried Richard, shaking hands with bim... "To-day. The cines are ringing in the new year fear them!"

They WERE ringing! Bless their sturdy hearts,, they WERE ringing! Great bells as they were: melodious, deep-mouthed, noble bells; cast in n common metal; made by no commin frunter; when had they ever chimed like that, before!

"But, today, my pet," said Tratty. You and Richard had some words to day"

.

"Because he's such a bad fellow, father." said Meg. 'Ain't y st Rehari? Such a headstrong, vin'ent man! asking his mind to that great alder. man, and putting him down I don't know where, than he would of———-”

He'd have made no more of

"Kissing Meg," suggested Richard Doing it too!

The worthy dame, to his surprise, turned very pale and very red."

"Not Lilian, Fern whose mother died in Dorsetshire!” said she.

Hr uncle answered "Yes," and meeting hustilý, Chey exchanced some urried works together; of which the pshot was that Mrs. "Chickeristalker shook him by both hands; saluted Trotty on his cheek again of her own free will; and tank the child to her |capaciñue breast.

"Will Ferg 1" said Tratry, pulling n his right-hand muffler, "N» the friend that you was honing to-find?"

Ay!" returned Will, puning ». hand on each of Trotty's should rs. And like to prove a'mner as good a

friend, if that can he, as one I found"

Oh1" said Tratty. Please to play up there. Will you have the goodness?"

To the music of the band, the bells, "No.. Not a bit more," said Meg. the marrow-bones and cleavers, all at But I wouldn't let him. father, once; and while the chimes were Where wauid have been the use ?"

yet in lusty operation out of doors; "Richard, my bay!" cried Trotty.second couple, led off Mrs. Chicken- Trotty, making Meg and Richard "You

were turned up trumps

stallter down the dance, and danced founded on his own peculiar trot, ir in a step unknown before or since;

joys and sorrow, and the actors in Had Trotty dreamed? Or are his

a dream; himself a them, but "I was thinking of the years we've passed together, father. Only than the teller of this tale a And thinking you might miss me, and dreamer, waking but now? If it be be lonely"

originally and trumps you must be, till you die! But you were crying by the fire to-night, my pet, when I came home! Why did you cry by the fire?"

Trotty was backing off to that extraordinary chair again, when the She was in his arms. He held her child, who had been awakened by the

His strength was like a giant's noise, came running in half-dressed. "I see the spirit of the chimes "Why, here she is!" cried. Trotry, among you!" cried the old man, catching her un,Here's little Lilian singling out the child, and speaking H ha, ha! Here we are and her in some inspiration, which their looks we gn! Oh, here we are and here conveyed to him. "I know that our we go again! And here we are and inheritance is held in store for us by here we go! And Uncle Will too!" time. I know there is a sea of time topping in his trot to greet him to rise one day, before which all who, heartily-"Oh, Uncle Will, the vision wrong us or oppress us will be swept that I've had to night, through longing nway like leaves. I see it, on the you! Oh, Uncle Will, the obligations How! I know that we must trust and that you've laid me under, by your hope, and neither doubt ourselves, coming, my good friend!" nor doubt the good in one another. Before Will Fera could make the I have learned it from the creature least reply, a band of music burst into dearest to my heart. I clasp her in the room, attended by a flock of my arms again. O spirits, merciful neighbours, screaming. A. Happy and good, I take your lesson to my New Year, Meg!" "A happy. breast along with her! O spirits, wedding!" "Many of 'em!" and merciful and good, I am grate ul1" other fragmentary good wishes of He might have said more; but the that sort. The drum (who was a belle, the old familiar bells, his own private friend of Trotty's) then stepped dear, constant, steady friends, the forward, and said- chimes, began to ring the joy péals for a new vear-ao lustily, so merrily, so happily, so gaily, that he leaped upon his feet, and broke the spell that bound him.

"And whatever you do, father," said Meg, "don't eat tripe again, with; out asking some doctor whether it's likely to agree with you; for how you have been going on, gond gracious!" She was working with her needle.

Trotty Veck, my boy1 Ir's got about that your daughter is going to There ain't be married to-morrow.

a soul that knows you that don't wish you well, or that knows her and don't wish her well. Or that knows you both, and don't wish you both all the happiness the new year can bring. And here we are, to play it in and dance It in, accordiog y."

at the little table by the fire; dress. Which was received with a general- ing her simple gown with ribbons for shout. The drum was rather drunk, her wedding. So quietly happy, so by the bye; but, never mind." blooming and youthful, so full of What a happiness it is, I'm sure," beautiful promise, that he uttered a said Trotty, to be Bo esteemed? great cry as if it were an angel in his Tow kind and neighbourly, you are! house; then flew to clasp her in his. It's all along of my dear daughter.

She deserves it!”

arms, ...

BRINGING

CHHO THERE'S THE GUY MAGGIE WAS. TALKINS

ABOUT

UP

so, listener, dear to him in all his visions, try to bear in mind the stern realities from which these shadows come; and in your sphere none is too wide, and none too limit ed for such an end-endeavour to correct, improve and soften them. So may the new year he a happy one to you happy to many more, whose happiness depends on you! So may each year be happier than the last, and not the meanest of our brethren or sisterhood debarred their rightful share, in what our great, Creator formed them to enjoy.

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