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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9.

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“WILL NOTHING LOVE ME?”

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tawdry head-gear and dirty blond caps, and

that these little delays, in recrease of energy

the disrespect of clumsy out loaf, and ham

The coach made no stoppages longer than he was alone in a strange town, without a two minutes and a half, or at the most three friend, with very little money, and on a partiminutes, on the road, and these little hin-cularly disagreeable errand. drances were occasioned by the necessity the He entered the inn, and received just that So back again to the sphere of those kind driver found to alight at every tolerable inn on portion of attention and respect which a pasand benignant philanthropists went our hero. the way-side to take some of the water of life, senger and his carpet bag, travelling outside There stood the coach all ready; the aristo- just to keep up the necessary impetus for driv-of the "New Company's coach," had a right cracy of course going inside, and the canaille ing; but as he was very zealous in this need- to expect; but he, poor foolish man! thought on the out, composed, as usual, of the custo- ful duty, and had, besides, acquired such skil- to have had a little more. He ordered tea, mary complement of very respectable, plain, fulness by practice, that it was proved by com- and having been as genteel in his ideas as the substantial ladies, in very respectable old-fash-putation on a stop watch that he could lift his other "outsides," who could not be so vulgar ioned cloaks, and poke straw bonnets, and hand to his head in half a second less than as to dine at one, determined, maugre his ecodouble-soled boots, and some young girls, in any other man on the road, it was presumed nomical arrangements with himself, to luxumore than riate on a rasher of ham. The tea came with tumbled flowers, and faded silk cloaks, made redeemed themselves by the in the newest-but-one fashion, and wearing in the driver, which he contrived to communi- that had done duty before, boiled as a sidethe trophies of many a splash of metropolitan cate to his horses by means of some electric dish at a forgotten dinner somewhere about mud. There was a great fuss to get the sub-communication running from his hand to the three weeks back. The gentleman in black stantial ladies into the inside, and the more extreme end of his whip, and which was in-remembered having caught a glimpse of a fragile nymphs on to the out; but perhaps we stantly understood by animals of even the low-gaunt bone in the tempting larder window as are wrong in marking the line between the est capacity. Saving and excepting these de- he turned up the stairs, but he did not opine select interior and the vulgar exterior, for all lays, or rather, we should say, these accelera- that his rasher, which he could have fitted on the ladies who mounted the roof and got into tions, the coach made no demur till it arrived it, ought to be doubly good, because it was the basket of that particular coach, took care at the Half-way House. Here all was anima- doubly cooked; but as no part of his previous to acquaint every individual in turn that they tion-every body in the coach was out in a education had ever qualified him to scold, he preferred travelling in that manner, that they moment, and every body that was on the coach only sent the whole service away, and, being might see the country, or else that their health was down in a moment, and out came a lady in grievously fatigued, betook himself to an early did not allow them to endure the narrow inter- a moment, and quite a lady too, with specta-bed. nal limits, or that the inside places were all cles and gloves, and so soft, and so sweet! and In the morning our hero rose in renovated taken, &c., &c.; all which assurances, coming she was so very kind as to come to see all the spirits. The beams of a bright sun danced from head-quarters, every body was bound to boxes, and band-boxes, and baskets, and gaily through his chamber window. In all believe. bundles, weighed in a huge pair of scales, and other places the season was autumn; at Bath The gentleman in black took his place on what was much more to take all the half-it was only spring. It was impossible to dethe coach-box, and having paid the required pence and pence that came by way of mulct spair when every thing looked so joyous; so stipend for packing his luggage, though he did over and above the very liberal weight allowed Mr. Meredith yielded to the impulses of his not happen to have any, that of course not by the "New Company's coach" per head; own sanguine nature, and felt as if he had being a fee, and after paying the remainder of and in the mean time some of the passengers completed the most desirable arrangements in his fare, was suffered to turn up his collar and just went in, and looked at a dinner that was the world for his future prosperity; and on button up his coat, and be as cold and as mi- set out for their inspection, and a few had the the strength of these arrangements partook of serable as he pleased, the coachman not hav- temerity to taste, but the greater part had no a breakfast about as sumptuous as his previous ing yet assumed his official duties, but being, appetite so early in the day, and could not tea, and then commenced his hopeful journey in the mean time, at a preparatory school in think of dining at such a vulgar hour; and to Miss Garvan's residence; but as he turned the neighbourhood, learning to keep out the these being chiefly the external passengers, his back on St. Michael's, and his face towards morning air; but at last all the young ladies were all quite ready to take their places again the old cathedral clock, he found it was still and the old ladies, and the young gentlemen the moment the luggage was repacked, and a too early to intrude on a lady's privacy; so, and the old gentlemen, were settled in the in-new coachman on the box; and then the few instead of posting like the mail, he walked side and on the outside to their heart's satis- insides, who had just accomplished a third leisurely on, and looked a little about him as faction, or, whether they were or not, the time mouthful by way of taste, were pushed most he went. was come that they ought to have been, and reluctantly in, grumbling intolerably, and then Now we think that in a work of this grave up the coachman got, having well fortified slash went the whip, and round went the character we ought not to omit a few profound himself, and smack went the whip, and round wheels, and off again. observations, that we are sure would enrich a went the wheels, and off went the company's Gorgeously did that autumn sun sink into county history. First, then, the gentleman in coach and the company's horses in most mag-its rest as that "New Company's coach" ap- black was amazingly struck by the number of nificent style. proached the city, attended by hosts of glit-names on the doors preceded by the title of And the coachman!-ah, the coachman de-tering clouds, robed in cloth of gold, and "Mrs.," which made him conclude that all serves an entire paragraph in his honour-he sparkling with the light of the sapphire and the widows in the neighbouring counties conis worth a whole zoological garden, for he the ruby. The hill-sides clothed in their liv-gregated here; his next observation was, that condenses in himself the surliness of fifty bears ing green, the trees still wrapped in their the people of Bath never clean their doorat the least. O, my dear reader, if you do summer garb, the white stone houses dotted steps, or at least that the use of hearthstone not wish to be turned into stone by the eye-over a hundred gentle eminences, and the fair was unknown; his next, that all the empty light of one of these monsters, never travel city, cradled in the valley, seeming as if made houses had the word "void" printed in the with a coachman who is to have no fees. No a home for the happy-a home for the heart-largest possible type, stuck up in the windows, fees! O pray take warning, for he will cer- if place may be such. Yes; no doubt it is a a most important remark; his next that the tainly turn ogre, and devour you! He is very fine thing to "go to Bath!" people are drawn about the streets in their cheated out of his birthright, swindled out of own easy chairs; his next that the pigs are his time-out-of-mind right, and he looks at all black, and the butchers all women; his you like a muzzled bear, ready to spring upon next two observations proved alike his proyou, and give you a hug. But if your dark foundness, and that he was a domestic manfate should throw you into his moving den, be that cats are unknown in the whole city, and sure, under no impulse of curiosity or exithat the people are remarkably fond of the gence of circumstance, to ask him a question; colour of yellow. if you do, he will certainly burst his muzzle, and bite your head off.

But, as the poor coach came nearer, the sun, with his long train of gorgeous clouds, departed-the sky went into mourning and a thousand lights sparkled up out of the depths of the valley, marking out the dwelling-places of man, which, however, were only gas-lights, and by the time the vehicle stopped in the city, the gentleman in black had lost sight of all the poetry of the place, and knew only that

The gentleman in black made these deep, sage, grave, profound, and erudite remarks,

as he traversed that portion of the town which separated his inn from the point of country where Miss Garvan resided. He began to ascend a hill-side, and then turned to look upon the congregated dwellings he was leaving: again the poetry of the place arose-a city of white stone

The bell rang violently again, and in the man bounced with the dog.

He left the door open, and the gentleman in black could hear and see all that passed.

"Take the little wretch away!" exclaimed Miss Garvan; "let me never see it again!

tassel of her parasol with a beautiful little Italian greyhound, who was jumping and gambolling round her in paroxysms of delight. The lady was neither young nor beautiful, and she was remarkably ill dressed, that is, well dressed in quality, but quite without care and the nor desire to please men; her complexion had midst. The gentleman in black thought the rather a jaundiced shade, and the expression world a very beautiful world, and that it was a of her countenance was evidently one of susvery great pity that any body should be miser-picion and discontent; and yet she was leanable in it. sigam yd li xa ing over her little dog with a face beaming with as much love as though the little animal had forced Mr. Mer been a darling child. to say to himself, "What a pity to see such affection misplaced! I wish she had something better to love."

hills, the flowing ed ahe taste; as women dress who have neither hope Go and drown it in the nearest pond!"

Our pedestrian toiled up the hill, inquiring as he went about all the Wicks and Combes he came near, until at last a scene of quiet beauty opened before him, and the Combe he sought was found. An ivied church-a quiet churchyard-a mansion embosomed in wood, sloping lawns, terrace walks, and blooming gardens. On the one hand orchards of abundant produce; on the other the little smiling village in front, spreading below into a deeper valley, the city of white stone, surrounded by an amphitheatre of hills. 116 stod Our traveller paused with an admiring gaze. Surely it was a spot made for happiness. If this were Miss Garvan's residence, he was sure she must be amiable. No one could live in such a heaven without being an angel. Then came a remembrance of certain recrooked, and cross, and passionate, and avaricious, &c. &c. &c.; but no, he would not believe it he saw that such things were wholly impossible from the very aspect of the place. So then he had only to satisfy himself as to the verity of her residence, and he hailed a rustic looking man who was near him on the road.

you know Miss Garvan ?" "Yes, sur."

Does she live in that house ?" "Yes, sur," or

"And she is-hum-ha-that is, she is a very kind lady ?" sa

She be kind! why, who have been a-telling you that ?" exclaimed the man, in a sort

of startled amazement.

She is, is she not ?" resumed the gentleman in black, startled in his turn; for he had persisted in believing that Miss Garvan was really a lady of profound feeling-" she is, is O yes, sure!" replied the man, with so peculiar a twist of the mouth and expression of the eye, as sufficiently answered the poor gentleman in black.

she not ?"

This little incident greatly disconcerted him What if he had been too sanguine! What if he were now wasting the time which he ought to have been spending at home in concerting some more efficient ways and means! But no; Miss Garvan was a woman; he never knew a woman unkind, he would trust to her nature still.

So the gentleman in black opened a little wicket which led by a winding footpath up the hill side to the house, leaving the broader avenue to the right, pondering as he went how best to propitiate the lady of the mansion, He had not passed under the shadow of a dozen trees before he came in sight of a lady sitting on a rustic garden chair, coquetting the

While these thoughts passed through his mind, the little ungrateful animal became aware of his presence, and, bounding towards him, began to lavish on him all the same marks of passionate attachment that he had before been offering to his mistress, kissing his hands, and bounding up to him with cries of joy, and showing signs of that sudden dotage which dogs as well as wiser animals sometimes so instantaneously contract.

The man stared, looked like an amazed fool, but stood perfectly still.

"Take it away!" again shrieked the lady ; "take the ungrateful little wretch away; go and drown it, as I bid you-go this moment!" The man slank away; for nobody dared to speak in Miss Garvan's house when Miss Garvan was angry; he had scarcely, however, closed the door, and stood for a moment or two rubbing his forehead to see if he could get any sense out of it to guide him in what he was to do, before the bell rang again more violently than before; and on the servant's return to his lady with the little culprit still under his arm, Miss Garvan said in rather relenting accents, "Don't drown the little wretch, but give it to the first person you meet,-any body, so that I never see it again."

Now the first person that the man met on turning from Miss Garvan's presence was un"Mignon, my pet, my pretty one, come doubtedly the gentleman in black, and, therehere!" exclaimed the lady; but Mignon cared fore, in obedience to the orders he had renot; he had taken one of those [sudden lik-ceived, he held out to him the beautiful little tress, now that he had contracted a new pas- will you be for a-having on him, sur ?” ⠀ sion, than any other modern fine gentleman. It was in vain, therefore, that the lady called to him in vain that the gentleman in black sought to evade his caresses, Mignon was as ungrateful as any other wretch in the world.

(To be continued.)

"Certainly I will," replied the gentleman in black, if Miss Garvan will not forgive her little pet; but I must first see your mistress. Take in my card, and say t that I beg the honour of an interview." Önce more the lady cried," Mignon, my The man took in his card, and returned with pet!" and held out her arms to him. Mig-permission for him to enter. Rebroi non, with a sort of angry snap, continued his devotions to his new object. In another moment the expression of the lady's face had quite changed-mortification, sorrow, anger, succeeded each other. An exclamation in low These surprising dancers have astonished the Secret of the Elasticity of the Bayaderes Bayaderes.and bitter accents, yet not low enough to es- Parisians and Londoners by their unparalleled cape Mr. Meredith's ear, fell from her, "Will nothing love me?" and she hurried away. and the Elslers, celebrated as they are, must elasticity of movement. Taglioni, Duvernay, Now that expression had gone straight to the heart of the gentleman in black; he loved rivals. Now, the question is, how is this acin this instance give place to their Indian every thing himself, and almost every thingcomplished? We must det the public into a loved him, and he wished from the bottom of secret. There is an unguent in great repute his soul that the poor lady had half a dozen for an immense variety of external disorders, scarely receive and return her affection. such as gout, rheumatism, glandular com course obliged to do something, the gentle-admirable in giving suppleness to the joints plaints, scrofula, wounds, &c., which is also man in black took up the little offender in his and limbs; and, of course, the Bayaderes, at arms, and walked towards the house. 'He entered the hall, where a couple of livery servants were standing, and heard the interchange of a few words before they became aware of his presence.

children to

Missus be in a precious temper this morn ling," said the one.

"We shall all be a-dead afore night," replied the other; and in a moment more a bell, pulled with prodigious violence, proclaimed the vicinity of the lady of the mansion.

the suggestion of Mr. Yates, were only too
unguent alluded to is Holloway's Ointment;
happy to avail themselves of its use. The
and the Taglionis, Duvernays, &c., would do
render themselves quite unrivalled. 14
well to reflect on this suggestion, and thus

Fame.-Fame is the inheritance not of the
dead, but of the living. It is we who look
back with lofty pride to the great names of
antiquity, who drink of that flood of glory as
of a river, and refresh our wings in i
it for
future flight.
SO

"I suppose," said Mr. Meredith, "that this little dog belongs to your mistress: be good as to take it in to her."

"Yes, sur,” replied one of the men, and she be mighty fond on him. She'd a-been a-breaking her heart to a-lost him."

T „modi quitaisas 10 quiɔnsas) In confessing the greatest offences, a crimi nal gives himself credit for his candour. Youd and he seem to have come to an amicable uneɗ derstanding on his character at last.