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or their prey. Quasimode
to defend, but a genius
all apartment on the roa
all her wants, and waits c
of a slave. Esmeralda,
partisans, of whom Quasie
quarter of Paris was at the
home: it was inhabited
the city. Here Esmera:
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lofty window of a fare
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whitening waters, seemed to him as no longer either exist. The rights of feudality were in
straight or motionless like that of the other quays, but any common protection. There was no
that it undulated to the eye like the waves of a river or The ancient cities were simply a collecti
the heads of a multitude marching onwards. This ies; a thousand different polices existe
struck him as strange. He redoubled his attention. much as to say, none were effective.
The movement appeared to be extending towards the stance, independently of the one hundred
city: it existed but a short time on the quay: it then seigneurs who pretended to manorial rig
subsided by little and little as if it were entering into twenty-five who claimed as well the privi
the interior of the isle, it then suddenly ceased and the ing justice. Of these the bishop of
outlines of the quay became once more straight and mostrects, and the prior of Notre Dame de
tionless.
four. All these justiciars only recognis

"At the moment that Quasimodo had exhausted the king as suzerain nominally. Louis
himself in conjecture, the movement re-appeared in the the demolition of this absurd and incons
Rue du Parvis, which extends perpendicularly into the feudal times, and Mirabeau completed it.
city from the façade of Notre Dame. At last, so intense a vast confusion of watches, under watch
was the obscurity, that no sooner did he see the head of watches, in defiance of which robbery an
a column debouch by this street, than the crowd spread carried on with open violence and by
itself over the precincts, where nothing could be dis- was not unfrequent for a part of the pop
tinguished but that it was a crowd. The sight was a set at a particular palace, hotel, or T
alarming. This singular procession could not approach most frequented quarters of the city.
without some noise or murmur, whatever silence might took care not to interfere in the affair un
be kept: the trampling of the feet alone of so great a extended to their own property; they sh
crowd must necessarily have sounded through the still- the firing, closed their shutters, barrica
ness of the streets. But no sound reached the brain of and let the struggle take its course, with
the deaf Quasimodo, and the vast multitude of which interference of the watch; and the nex
he could only catch glimpses, and which seemed to him talk in Paris would be, Stephen Barbe
noiseless, had the effect of an army of the dead, who open last night, or the Marechal de
had risen from their graves at midnight, mute, impal-seized, &c. So that not only the royal
pable, and ready to vanish into thin air. It seemed to Louvre, the Palace, the Bastile, Les Tou
him as if a mist full of human beings was approaching, mere seignorial residences, the Petit Bou
and that what he saw in motion were the shadows of the de Sens, and the Hotel d'Angoulême, ha
shades.
ments and their walls, their porticullis,
"Then the fears of an attempt against the Egyptian The churches were in general protected
returned to his apprehension. A confused notion pre-tity; some of them, however, were fortifie
sented itself to his mind that a crisis was approaching, Saint Germain des Près was built up like
and he began to reason on the danger of her situation was said that the abbe spent more metal
with more method than might have been expected from
a brain so imperfectly organised. Ought he to wake
the Egyptian? Should he contrive her evasion? Where?
how? the streets were invested: the church was washed
by the river. No boat was to be had, and there was no
outlet. There was but one alternative; he would die
on the threshold of the cathedral, after making every
resistance in his power until succour arrived. He re-
solved not to disturb the repose of his protegée; the un-
happy creature would wake time enough to die. His
resolution being taken, he set himself to examine the
enemy with greater tranquillity.

bells.

We may now resume our extract "As soon as the first arrangements w (and we ought to say, for the honour of discipline, that the orders of Clopin we: silence and with admirable precision,) th of the band mounted on the parapet of t towards Notre Dame, and at the same ti raised his hoarse and husky voice, turn torch, the flames of which were sometime out by the wind, at others nearly drown smoke, now disclosed the reddened façade

and now left it buried in darkness.

"To thee, Louis de Beaumont, bishop “The crowd appeared to increase every instant in the sellor to the court of parliament, I speak, precincts. Quasimodo, however, conjectured that the ille fou, king of Thunes, grand coësre, p noise they made must be very slight, for the windows bishop of jesters! Our sister, falsely c of the street and the place remained closed. All of a magic, has taken shelter in thy church sudden a light shone out, and in an instant seven or her safeguard and asylum. Now the cour eight lighted torches appeared above the heads of the wishes to lay hold of her again, and th mass, brandishing their tufts of flame against the thick thereto, so that she would be taken and h darkness. Then were disclosed to the rambling eye in the place of the Grève, if God and of Quasimodo whole troops of men and women in rags, were not there to stop them. Now we ar armed with sickles, pikes, hedgebills, and halberts with bishop. If thy church is sacred, then is their glancing heads. Here and there black forks stuck if our sister is not sacred, then is not thy over hideous faces like horns. He seemed to have some then we are to summon thee to surrende vague remembrance of this multitude, and fancied that thou wishest to save thy church, or we he had seen the same fashion of heads before (when he girl ourselves and pillage the church. A was elected fools' pope.) A man, who held a torch in well. In testimony I plant here my bann one hand and a weapon in the other, got upon a post thee in his guard, bishop of Paris.' and appeared to be haranguing. At the same time: "These words, which unluckily Quasi this strange army made some evolutions, as if it were hear, were pronounced with a sort of wi being placed in stations round the church. Quasimodo majesty. One of the vagabonds presented picked up his lantern, and went down upon the plat-Clopin, who planted it solemnly betwee form between the towers, in order to be able to see more stones. distinctly and arrange his means of defence.

"Clopin Trouillefou, on his arrival before the lofty portals of Notre Dame, had, in fact, ranged his troops in order of battle. Although he expected no sort of re

It was a pitch-fork, on the teeth

a huge bunch of bleeding carrion.
"The King of Thunes then turned u
forms assembled round him in the guise of
after regarding their savage looks with co

In-brilliant with the sun, and all the splendid solemnities of ings, no birds, n

had been repairing the walls ng the day, had left their masisted of immense beams for A sudden thought occurred to d make admirable means of ich he alone could boast, he

moments of life, w

instant a shower of stones chalices, chandeliers, pyxes, tabernacles, reliquaries, which opened so Hell and the devil!' roared out which embossed the altars with a crust of gold and dia- plation was conc shaking their battlements upon monds. Assuredly, at this moment of bliss, the canters modo turned to a was on them; it was decided and whiners, the limpera and tremblers and tumblers, gipsy; but the Ar d his citadel, and the siege was thought much less of the rescue of the Egyptian, than out of the world; spite of the skulls that were they did of the pillage of Notre Dame. The stones descended one at down pretty thick after each grouping themselves about the engine, holding their invariably fixed on "All of a sudden, while by a last effort, they were under his feet, and ways perceived two at a time, breath and stiffening their muscles as for a final stroke, motionless, and th other on their heads. Already a howling, more hideous than that which followed the something in them d wounded were heaped on the fall of the beam arose in the middle of them all. Those shuddered before, however, were nothing daunt who were not yelling and yet alive, looked round. Two only followed (and ued to be swung against the streams of boiling lead were pouring from the top of the the archdeacon) the Own, and the door to groan." building on the thickest part of the crowd. This stormy manner the eye of -ines the source of this opposi-sea of men had subsided under the boiling metal: on place de la Grève. the two points where it had chiefly fallen, two black and looking upon. The smoking holes were made in the crowd, such as hot gibbet; there was water would cause in a drift of snow. writhing in them, half-calcined and roaring with pain. dragging along the All about these jets of lead, the shower had sprinkled something black w upon the besiegers and entered into their skulls like the foot of the gil The dying were square, and a grea rest beam to be found and ramrods of flame. It was heavy fire, which riddled the Quasimodo could no nall window upon the heads wretches with a thousand hailstones The clamour was had lost its keenne the steps. The enormous horrific. dred and sixty feet acquired beam upon the dead, the bold and the timid together, The vagabonds fled pell-mell, throwing the soldiers that preven , and hitting and bounding and the court was cleared a second time. corner to wall as it fell, and raised to the roof of the church. They beheld a sight -ment among the besiegers, of an extraordinary kind. simodo, like a hideous ser- gallery, above the central rose-window, huge flames, All eyes were On its prey. From the top of the loftiest onds scattered by the fall towers, the fury of which was increased by the wind, crowned with sparkles of fire, mounted between the two the wind. He took ad- which every now and then carried off a tongue of flame this young girl had a vhilst they fixed a super-along with the smoke. Below this fire, below the sombre recognised her; it w llen from the sky as they balustrade, two large spouts fashioned in the shape of top of the ladder, and ork in silence to heap to- monsters' jaws vomited forth without cessation a silver Here the priest, in o and unhewn, even to the shower of burning rain. masons, upon the edge of ment the streams scattered like water poured through abruptly pushed awa they began to batter the the thousand holes of the rose of a watering-pot. Above the Quasimodo, who for As they approached the pave- on his knees, on the toneblocks commenced, flames were the two gigantic towers, the two fronts of a breath, saw the u church was demolishing which visible, the one black the other red, appeared still a rope, two fathoms a y eye could have seen greater when viewed against the sky. The numberless crouching down upo

thing. Besides, at t seemed as if all the such a flood of lig steeples, chimneys, woman on his should Quasimodo then saw "Meanwhile, the

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d have been a sight of sculptures of devils and dragons had an aspect of woe. The cord twisted roun projectiles he had accu- The unsettled brilliancy of the fire gave them the ap-beheld horrible conv heaps of stones on the pearance of life. The serpents seemed to be laughing, body. The priest, on the blocks on the outer the water-spouts to be barking, the salamanders to be and eyes starting from from the heaps. nd rising, dipping and amongst the monsters thus as it were awakened out of fly. At the moment v He puffing the fire, the griffins to sneeze in the smoke. And ful group of the man a er inconceivable. His their slumbers by the noise and confusion, there was one to behold, a demon's nome than of a human in motion who was seen to pass from time to time in coine from one who ha er the balustrade, then front of the fire like a bat before a candle."-p. 83. enormous stone, then would follow a fine during which might be heard the cries of the canons the archdeacon, and s "A silence of terror fell upon the army of Vagabonds, but he saw it. The ri illed well he grunted shut up in their cloister, more uneasy than horses in a him, with his two hug on his livid face. Qua t flinch. The thick of windows, the bustle of the interior of the houses, and stable on fire, together with the stealthy-opened noise abyss over which he wa ght of the battering of the Hotel Dieu, the wind in the flame, the last rattle the carving sprung in the throats of the dying, and the pattering of the lead-peration, he clung to i ow jumped up from rain on the pavement." "The priest cried ou rate, and the timber "The spout beneath claspings and bind-cil of war necessary, at which the vagabonds resolved balustrade above his h This formidable mode of resistance rendered a coun- and avenging figure of Q do there was more upon an escalade-it failed; the prowess of Quasimodo lent. The abyss was bo vever, that the door was again successful, he shook the besiegers off the lad- two hundred feet, and nition declined, he der and hurled them into the depths below. The con- situation the archdeaco - bright idea struck test was thus protracted till the arrival of a very consi-groan; he only writhed we shall describe in derable troop of gendarmerie and archers, acting under efforts to raise himself u remarked a little bonds were utterly routed, and either driven from the without making good the the immediate orders of the king. The unlucky vaga- the granite, his feet scrat rushed the men of field or left upon it. The description of the siege is have ascended the towe disgorged imme-continued at great length; it is utterly impossible for that there is a projectio rior orifice of the us to carry on our report of it on the same scale as the derneath 4 Form. He ran to preceding scenes, the spirit and animati odge, and placing have induced

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body, and he felt it slowly yielding to his weight. The centre of canny Northumberland. Be this as it may, who under cover of a well darkened window, affirmed, unfortunate man could not but be certain that when his on that remarkably windy day did I set forth to the on his honour, that his brown satin was a perfect match hands would be broken with fatigue, his cassock com- good town of B., on the feminine errand called shopping. to my green pattern, and forced the said satin down my pletely torn, and the lead bent down, he must fall, and Every lady who lives far in the country, and seldom throat accordingly. With these helps, my money melted terror chilled him to the heart. Sometimes he cast his eyes visits great towns, will understand the full force of that all too fast: at half past five my purse was entirely wildly upon a sort of platform, made by the sculpture, comprehensive word; and I had not been shopping for a empty; and, as shopping with an empty purse has by about ten feet lower down, and from the depth of his long time: I had a dread of the operation, arising from no means the relish and savour of shopping with a full agonised soul, he demanded of heaven that he might a consciousness of weakness. I am a truc daughter of one, I was quite willing and ready to go home to dinner, be suffered to finish his life, were it to last a hundred Eve, a dear lover of bargains and bright colours; and pleased as a child with my purchases, and wholly unyears, on this space of two feet square. Once he looked knowing this, have generally been wise enough to keep, suspecting the sins of omission, the errands unperdown upon the abyss beneath him; when he raised his as much as I can, out of the way of temptation. At formed, which were the natural result of my unconsulted head, his eyes were closed, and his hair stood bristling last a sort of necessity arose for some slight purchases, memorarda and my treacherous memory. in the shape of two new gowns from London, which Home I returned, a happy and proud woman, wise in "There was something awful in the silence of these cried aloud for making. Trimmings, ribands, sewing my own conceit, a thrifty fashion-monger, laden, like a two men. Quasimodo continued weeping and looking silk, and lining, all were called for. The shopping was pedler, with huge packages in stout brown holland, tied towards la Grève, while a few feet under him, the arch- inevitable, and I undertook the whole concern at once, up with whipcord, and genteel little parcels, papered and deacon was in this frightful state of agony. Finding most heroically resolving to spend just so much, and no packthreaded in shopmanlike style. At last we were that all his efforts did nothing but weaken the frail sup- more; and half comforting myself that I had a full safely stowed in the pony-chaise, which had much ado to port which remained for him, he had made up his mind morning's work of indispensable business, and should hold us, my little black bag lying, as usual, in my lap; to struggle no more. There he was, clinging to the have no time for extraneous extravagance. when, as we ascended the steep hill out of B., a sudden spout, scarcely drawing his breath, not stirring, not moving, but with that mechanical convulsion of the body errands and wants. There was, to be sure, a prodigious accumulation of puff of wind took at once my cottage-bonnet and my The evening before, they had been large cloak, blew the bonnet off my head, so that it hung which we feel in a dream, when we think we are falling; set down in great form, on a slip of paper, headed thus behind me, suspended by the riband, and fairly snapped his fixed eyes opened wide, with a discased, a terrified things wanted."-To how many and various cata-the string of the cloak, which flew away, much in the glare. Little by little, meanwhile, he was losing ground; logues that title would apply, from the red bench of the style of John Gilpin's, renowned in story. My companion his fingers slipped upon the stone; he felt more and more the weakness of his arms and the weight of his body; the peer, to the oaken settle of the cottager-from him who pitying my plight, exerted himself manfully to regain the wants a blue riband, to him who wants bread and fly-away garments, shoved the head into the bonnet, or bending of the lead that supported him inclined every cheese! My list was astounding. It was written in the bonnet over the head (I do not know which phrase moment still further in the direction of the abyss beneath double columns, in an invisible hand; the long intract-best describes the manœuvre,) with one hand, and rehim: he could see, and a fearful sight it was for him, able words were brought into the ranks by the Pro-covered the refractory cloak with the other. This last the roof of Saint Jean le Rond, as small as a card bent crustes mode-abbreviation; and, as we approached the exploit was certainly the most difficult. It is wonderful in two. He looked upon the motionless statues of the bottom, two or three were crammed into one lot, clumped, cloak could be brought round: it was swelled with the what a tug he was forced to give, before that obstinate tower one after the other, all suspended, like him, over as the bean-setters say, and designated by a sort of short wind like a bladder, animated, so to say, like a living the yawning depth, but without fear for themselves or pity for him. Every thing was of stone around him; hand, a hieroglyphic of my own invention. In good thing, and threatened to carry pony and chaise, and before his eyes the gaping monsters, beneath, at the foot open printing, my list would have cut a respectable riders, and packages, backward down the hill, as if it of the cathedral, the pavement; above his head, the gure as a catalogue too; for, as I had a given sum had been a sail, and we a ship. At last the contumacious weeping figure of Quasimodo. In the close, stood a few to carry to market, I amused myself with calculagroups of idlers, who were coolly trying to guess whatting the proper and probable cost of every article; in garment was mastered. We righted; and, by dint of which process I most egregiously cheated the shop-rade, I got home without any farther damage than the sitting sideways, and turning my back on my kind commadman could be amusing himself in so strange a mankeeper and myself. by copying, with the credulity of loss of my bag, which, though not missed before the ner. The priest heard them say, for their voices came up clear and sharp to his ear, "Why, he must break hope, from the puffs in newspapers, and expecting to chaise had been unladen, had undoubtedly gone by the his neck." Foaming in a complete delirium of terror, this way I stretched my money a great deal farther panion, without in the least foreseeing the use it would buy fine solid wearable goods at advertising prices. In board in the gale; and I lamented my old and trusty comhe at length became conscious that all was useless. than it would go, and swelled my catalogue; so that, probably be of to my reputation. Nevertheless, he gathered together whatever strength he was still master of, for a last effort. He stiffened him- at last in spite of compression and shorthand, I had no self upon the spout, pushed against the wall with his room for another word, and was obliged to crowd several small but important articles, such as cotton, laces, two knees, fastened both his hands in a slit of the stone

and was just on the point of getting a hold for one foot pins, needles, shoe-strings, &c. into that very irregular the quantity, when spread out in our little room, being

when the struggle he was making caused the end of the leaden pipe he was supported by, to bend abruptly down,

and disorderly storehouse-that place where most things
deposited are lost-my memory, by courtesy so called.

Immediately after dinner (for in all cases, even when produced my purchases. They were much admired; and one has bargains to show, dinner must be discussed) I altogether dazzling, and the quality satisfactory, the cheapness was never doubted. Every body thought the and with the same motion his cassock was ripped up. The written list was safely consigned, with a well bargains were exactly such as I meant to get-for noFinding, therefore every thing give way under him, and filled purse, to my usual repository, a black velvet bag; body calculated; and the bills being really lost in the lost having no longer a hold but by his two stiffened and fail- and, the next morning, I and my bag, with its nicely bag, and the particular prices just as much lost in my ing hands, the wretched man shut his eyes, and let go balanced contents of wants and money, were safely con-memory (the ninepenny calico was the only article whose the spout. He fell!-Quasimodo looked at him as he veyed in a little open carriage to the good town of B. cost occurred to me,) I passed, without telling any thing was falling. There I dismounted, and began to bargain most vigor- like a fib, merely by a discreet silence, for the best and "A fall from so great a height is seldom perpendicular; ously, visiting the cheapest shops, cheapening the cheap- thriftiest bargainer that ever went shopping. After some he first launched into the air, his head was undermost, est articles, yet wisely buying the strongest and the time spent very pleasantly, in admiration on one side, and his hands were stretched forth; he afterwards, best; a little astonished at first, to find every thing so and display on the other, we were interrupted by the deturned several times round, and, finally, the wind drove much dearer than I had set it down, yet soon reconciled mand for some of the little articles which I had forgotten. him on the roof of a house; here began the fracturing to this misfortune by the magical influence which shop-" The sewing-silk, please ma'am, for my mistress's of the unfortunate priest's body, but he was not dead ping possesses over a woman's fancy-all the sooner gown." "Sewing-silk! I don't know-look about." Ah, when he landed there. The ringer beheld him still try-reconciled, as the monitory list lay unlooked at, and un-she might look long enough! no sewing-silk was there. ing to clutch the coping with his nails, but the plane thought of, in its grave receptacle, the black velvet bag. "Very strange!"-Presently came other enquirieswas too much inclined, and he had no strength left; On I went, with an air of cheerful business, of happy" Where's the tape, Mary?""The tape!"-"Yes, my he slid rapidly along the shelving roof, like a loosened importance, till my money began to wax small. Cer- dear; and the needles, pins, cotton, stay-laces, boot laces;" tile, and fell with a bound upon the pavement. There tain small aberrations had occurred, too, in my economy." the bobbin, the ferret, shirt-buttons, shoc-strings?"he stirred no more."One article that had happened, by rare accident, to be quoth she of the sewing-silk, taking up the cry; and below my calculation, and, indeed, below any calcula-forthwith began a search as bustling, as active, and as tion, calico at ninepence, fine, thick, strong, wide calico, vain, as that of our old spaniel, Brush, after a hare that at nincpence, (did ever man hear of any thing so cheap?) has stolen away from her form. At last she suddenly absolutely enchanted me, and I took the whole piece: desisted from her rummage-" Without doubt, ma'am, Have any of my readers ever found great convenience then after buying for M. a gown, according to order, 1 they are in the reticule, and all lost," said she, in a very in the loss, the real loss, of actual tangiblo property, saw one that I liked better, and bought that too. Then pathetic tone. Really," cried I, a little conscienceand been exceedingly provoked and annoyed when such I fell in love, was actually captivated by a sky blue stricken, "I don't recollect; perhaps I might forget." property was restored to them? If so, they can sympa. sash and handkerchief,-not the poor, thin, greeny co-" Depend on it, my love, that Harriet's right," interrupted thise with a late unfortunate recovery, which has brought lour which usually passes under that dishonoured name, one whose interruptions are always kind; "those are just me to great shame and disgrace. There is no way of but the rich full tint of the noon-day sky and a cap- the little articles that people put in reticules, and you explaining my calamity but by telling the whole story. riband, really pink, that might have vied with the inside never could forget so many things; besides you wrote Last Friday fortnight was one of those anomalies in leaves of a moss-rose. Then, in hunting after cheapness, them down." "I don't know-I am not sure"-But I weather with which we English people are visited for I got into obscure shops, where, not finding what I was not listened to; Harriet's conjecture had been metaour sins; a day of intolerable wind, and insupportable asked for, I was fain to take something that they had, morphosed into a certainty; all my sins of omission were dast; an equinoctial gale out of season; a piece of purely to make a proper compensation for the trouble of stowed in the reticule; and before bed-time, the little March unnaturally foisted into the very heart of May; lugging out drawers, and answering questions. Lastly, black bag held forgotten things enough to fill a sack. in the almost parallel mis-arrangement of the I was fairly coaxed into some articles by the irresisti- Never was reticule so lamented by all but its owner; English counties, one sees (perhaps out of compliment bility of the sellers, by the demure and truth telling a boy was immediately despatched to look for it, and on to this peculiarity of climate, to keep the weather in look of a pretty quaker, who could almost have persuad- his returning empty-handed, there was even a talk of Contenance as it were) a bit of Wiltshire plumpeded the head off one's shoulders, and who did persuade having it cried. My care, on the other hand, was all didown in the very middle of Berkshire, whilst a great me that ell-wide muslin would go as far as yard and a rected to prevent its being found. I had had the good island of the county palatine of Durham figures in the half: and by the fluent impudence of a lying shopman, luck to lose it in a suburb of B. renowned for filching,

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THE BLACK VELVET BAG.

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and I remembered that the street was, at that moment, charm which it derives from her language, which is al- Elizabeth, as she had last seen them at Versailles-the full of people: the bag did actually contain more than ternately the most graceful and purest French, and the only recollection that ever brings tears into her smiling enough to tempt those who were naturally disposed to most diverting and absurd broken English;—a dialect eyes.

MADEMOISELLE THERESE.

steal for stealing's sake; so I went to bed in the com- in which, whilst contriving to make herself perfectly Mademoiselle Therese's loyalty to the Bourbons was fortable assurance that it was gone for ever. But there understood both by gentle and simple, she does also con- in truth a very real feeling. Her family had been about is nothing certain in this world-not even a thief's dis- trive, in the course of an hour, to commit more blunders, the court, and she had imbibed an enthusiasm for the honesty. Two old women who had pounced at once on than all the other foreigners in England make in a royal sufferers natural to a young and a warm heartmy valuable property, quarrelled about the plunder, and month. she loved the Bourbons, and hated Napoleon with like one of them, in a fit of resentment at being cheated in her Her appearance betrays her country almost as much ardour. All her other French feelings had for some share, went to the mayor of B. and informed against her as her speech. She is a French-looking little personage, time been a little modified. She was not quite so sure companion. The mayor, an intelligent and active magis- with a slight, active figure, exceedingly nimble and alert as she had been, that France was the only country, and trate, immediately took the disputed bag, and all its con- in every movement; a round and darkly-complexioned Paris the only city of the world; that Shakspeare was a tents, into his own possession; and as he is also a man of face, somewhat faded and passée, but still striking from barbarian and Milton no poet; that the perfume of great politeness, he restored it as soon as possible to the the laughing eyes, the bland and brillant smile, and the English limes, was nothing compared to French orange right owner. The very first thing that saluted my eyes, great mobility of expression. Her features, pretty as trees; that the sun never shone in England; and that when I awoke in the morning, was a note from Mr. they are, want the repose of an English countenance; sea-coal fires were bad things. She still, indeed, would Mayor, with a sealed packet. The fatal truth was visible; and her air, gesture, and dress, are decidedly foreign, all occasionally make these assertions, especially if dared to 1 had recovered my reticule, and lost my reputation. alike deficient in the English charm of quictness. Ne- make them; but her faith in them was shaken. Her There it lay, that identical black bag, with its name-vertheless, in her youth she must have been pretty; so loyalty to her legitimate king, was, however, as strong tickets, its cambric handkerchief, its empty purse, its un-pretty that some of our young ladies, scandalised at the as ever, and that loyalty had nearly cost us our dear consulted list, its thirteen bills, and its two letters; one idea of finding their favourite an old maid, have invented Mademoiselle. After the restoration, she hastened as from a good sort of lady-farmer, enquiring the character sundry legends to excuse the solecism, and talk of duels fast as a steam-boat and diligence could carry her, to of a cook, with half a sonnet written on the blank pages; fought pour l'amour de ses beaux yeux, and of a betrothed enjoy the delight of seeing once more the Bourbons at the other from a literary friend, containing a critique on lover guillotined in the revolution. And the thing may the Tuilleries; took leave, between smiles and tears, of the plot of a play, advising me not to kill the king too have been so; although one meets every where with old her friends, and of Burley Hatch, carrying with her a soon, with other good counsel, such as might, if our maids who have been pretty, and whose lovers have not branch of the lime tree, then in blossom, and commis mayor had not been a man of sagacity, have sent a poor been guillotined; and although Mademoiselle Therese has sioning her old lover, Mr. Foreclose, to dispose of the authoress, in a Mademoiselle-Scuderi-mistake to the not, to do her justice, the least in the world the air of a cottage: but in less than three months, luckily before Mr. tower. That catastrophe would hardly have been worse heroine crossed in love. The thing may be so; but I Foreclose had found a purchaser, Mademoiselle Therese than the real one. All my omissions have been found doubt it much. I rather suspect our fair demoiselle of came home again. She complained of nobody; but times out. My price list has been compared with the bills. I having been in her youth a little of a flirt. Even during were altered. The house in which she was born was have forfeited my credit for bargaining. I am become a her residence at Burley-Hatch, hath not she indulged in pulled down; her friends were scattered; her kindred by-word for forgetting. Nobody trusts me to purchase a divers very distant, very discreet, very decorous, but still dead; madame did not remember her (she had propaper of pins, or to remember the cost of a penny riband. very evident flirtations? Did not Dr. Abdy, the portly, bably never heard of her in her life;) the king did I am a lost woman. My bag is come back, but my fame ruddy schoolmaster of B., dangle after her for three not know her again (poor man! he had not seen her for is gone. mortal years, holidays excepted? And did she not refuse these thirty years;) Paris was a new city; the French him at last? And Mr. Foreclose, the thin, withered, were a new people; she missed the sea-coal fires; and wrinkled, city solicitor, a man, so to say, smoke-dried, for the stunted orange trees at the Tuilleries, what who comes down every year to Burley for the air, did were they compared with the blossomed limes of Burley not he do suit and service to her during four long vaca- Hatch! One of the prettiest dwellings in our neighbourhood, tions, with the same ill success. Was not Sir Thomas himis the Lime Cottage at Burley-Hatch. It consists of a self a little smitten? Nay, even now, deos not the good small low-browed habitation, so entirely covered with major, a halting veteran of seventy-but really it is too jessamine, honey-suckle, passion-flowers, and china roses, bad to tell tales out of the parish-all that is certain is, that as to resemble a bower, and is placed in the centre of a large Mademoiselle Therese might have changed her name garden, turf and flowers before, vegetables and fruit trees long before now, had she so chosen; and that it is most behind, backed by a superb orchard, and surrounded by probable that she will never change it at all. From the London New Monthly Magazine. a quickset hedge, so thick, and close, and regular, as to Her household consists of her little maid Betsy, a form an impregnable defence to the territory which it cherry-cheeked, blue-eyed country lass, brought up by herOne striking evidence of the rapid progress we are encloses a thorny rampart, a living and growing self, who with a full clumsy figure, and a fair, innocent, making in civilisation is the constant and increasing chevaux-de-frise. On either side of the neat gravel walk, unmeaning countenance, copies, as closely as these ob- demand for travels and voyages. We are no longer which leads from the outer gate to the door of the cot-stacles will permit, the looks and gestures of her alert contented to live within ourselves. The whole world is tage, stand the large and beautiful trees to which it owes and vivacious mistress, and has even caught her broken our theatre. We explore all its regions; nor is there a its name; spreading their strong, broad shadow over the English ;-of a fat lap dog, called Fido, silky, sleepy, and spot visited by the sun that is wholly unknown to s turf beneath, and sending, on a summer afternoon, their sedate;-and of a beautiful white Spanish ass, called Our enterprising countrymen go forth to collect their rich, spicy, fragrance half across the irregular village Donnabella, an animal docile and spirited, far beyond intellectual treasures, and return home to enrich us with green, dappled with wood and water, and gay with the generality of that despised race, who draws her little their stores. Every month adds something valuable to sheep, cattle, and children, which divides them, at the donkey-chaise half the country over, runs to her the the general stock. We enjoy the benefit without endistance of a quarter of a mile, from the little hamlet of moment she sees her, and eats roses, bread and apples countering the peril. We sympathise with danger, Burley, its venerable church and handsome rectory, and from her hand; but who, accustomed to be fed and while we feel that it is past, and luxuriate in pleasurable its short straggling street of cottages and country shops. groomed, harnessed and driven only by females, resists emotions, while our hearts thrill with the interest wh Such is the habitation of Therese de G., an emigrée of and rebels the moment she is approached by the rougher the daring adventurer has thrown round himself. This distinction, whose aunt having married an English officer, sex; has overturned more boys, and kicked more men, species of writing has also a charm for every reader was luckily able to afford her niece an asylum during than any donkey in the kingdom; and has acquired such The man of science and the rustic, the scholar and the the horrors of the revolution, and to secure to her a small a character for restiveness among the grooms in the mechanic, sit down with equal zest to participate in the annuity, and the Lime Cottage after her death. There neighbourhood, that when Mademoiselle Therese goes mental feast; and thus knowledge is widely diffused she has lived for these five-and-thirty years, gradually out to dinner, Betsy is fain to go with her to drive Don- knowledge which invigorates the inward man, enlarging losing sight of her few and distant foreign connections, nabella home again, and to return to fetch her mistress his capacity, and extending the sphere of his enjoyments, and finding all her happiness in her pleasant home and in the evening. and which prepares a whole nation for liberal institutios, her kind neighbours-a standing lesson of cheerfulness If every body is delighted to receive this most welcome which invests them with political and commerciali and contentment. visiter, so is every body delighted to accept her graceful portance, and thus raises them in the scale of natio A very popular person is Mademoiselle Therese-popu- invitations, and meet to eat strawberries at Burley Hatch. The success of works of this description stimulat lar both with high and low; for the prejudice which Oh, how pleasant are those summer afternoons, sitting enterprise, and opens the largest field for the usef the country people almost univereally entertain against under the blossomed limes, with the sun shedding a employment of energics which might otherwise b

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foreigners, vanished directly before the charm of her golden light through the broad branches, the bees mur

LETTERS FROM THE NORTH OF EUROPE
BY CHARLES BOILEAU ELLIOTT, ESQ.

wasted.

manners, the gaiety of her heart, and the sunshine of a muring over head, roses and lilies all about us, and Mr. Elliott justly ranks among the most enlightened temper that never knows a cloud. She is so kind to the choicest fruit served up in wicker baskets of her and intelligent of his class. His unpretending volume dis them too, so liberal of the produce of her orchard and own making-itself a picture! the guests looking so covers an enthusiastic love of nature, and the most liberal garden, so full of resource in their difficulties, and so pleased and happy, and the kind hostess the gayest and views of man in all his diversified conditions. We sure to afford sympathy if she have nothing else to give, happiest of all. Those are pleasant meetings; nor are scarcely ever read a work in which there is so little to that the poor all idolise Mademoiselle. Among the her little winter parties less agreeable, when, two or three censure and so much to approve. Unlike many of his rich, she is equally beloved. No party is complete female friends assembled round their coffee, she will tell brethren, he is a good writer: his style is pure and clas without the pleasant Frenchwoman, whose amenity and thrilling stories of that terrible revolution, so fertile in sical. He is likewise a philosopher and a Christian. We cheerfulness, her perfect gencral politeness, her attention great crimes and great virtues; or gayer anecdotes or first become his willing associates, and our intercourse to the old, the poor, the stupid, and the neglected, are the brilliant days preceding that convulsion, the days soon ripens into friendship. We close the book with refelt to be invaluable in society. Her conversation is not which Madame de Genlis has described so well, when luctance, and take leave of him with a sigh of regret. very powerful either, nor very brilliant; she never says Paris was the capital of pleasure, and amusement the any thing remarkable—but then it is so good-natured, business of life; illustrating her descriptions by a series so genuine, so unpretending, so constantly up and alive, of spirited drawings of costumes and characters done by that one would feel its absence far more than that of a herself, and always finishing by producing a group of number of the "Library." more showy and ambitious talker; to say nothing of the Louis Seize, Marie Antoinette, the Dauphin and Madame

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the restoration, she bes and diligence could carry seeing once more the B Heave, between smiles and Burley Hatch, carrying with y tree, then in blossom, and r, Mr. Foreclose, to des han three months, lea a purchaser, Madem She complained of house in which iends were scattera not remember her u of her in her life (poor man! he had m Paris was a new cit she missed the sea-on ins ange trees at the Tur with the blossomed limes a

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and the rustic, the se with equal zest to parte hus knowledge is widelyvigorates the inward ma ending the sphere of his enes whole nation for liberal inst with political and commeraa aises them in the scale of w rks of this description st as the largest field for the rgies which might otherw ranks among the most enligten class. His unpretending volume love of nature, and the most u Il his diversified conditions F work in which there is so to approve. Unlike many 1 writer: his style is pure a philosopher and a Chris ng associates, and our dship. We close the book ras ive of him with a sigh of

We

BY CHARLES B. ELLIOTT, ESQ.

Of the Bengal Civil Service; of Queen's College, Cambridge; and
Member of the Royal Geographical Society.

From the last London edition.

INTRODUCTION.

condition of the European world historians with those of modern tim

The allusions to India will not be by those who are interested in our Her political importance, the mor people, and the natural features of cured for India the attention of every are occupied with politics, morals, o preparing for publication his privat considered it unnecessary to exp allusions to a land where the first ye manhood were passed. Queen's College, Cambridge.

LETTER I.

We do not remember having perused a volume of personal narrative that afforded more satisfaction than the following tour through the north of Europe, from the pen of Mr. Elliott. His description of Norway, its fiords and fjelds, its magnificent mountain scenery and dashing torrents-the manners of the isolated inhabitAmsterdam ants, many of them almost entirely removed from all contact with civilisation, so graphically depicted, and reached Rotterdam at noon on Th After a passage of twenty-six hou with so much fidelity, are highly entertaining and stant. On Saturday we went to the instructive. We have spoken of the fidelity of the narra-banc, and on Monday evening em tive of this our conviction is produced from the general which conveyed us in three hours to character of the book. The style is vigorous and classi-ing we arrived at Amsterdam. I ha lowing day carried us to Haarlem, cal, the language of a gentleman and scholar-and has all the appearance of having been written, as he says, for the private amusement and information of his friend, then travelling in South America. There is a vraisem blance pervading the whole that will effectually screen it from the too frequently just imputation of being of the spurious brood hatched in the brains of needy authors for the benefit of London booksellers. We believe we hazard little in saying that much of the ground over which the author travels is new to most American readers, and that he presents his scenes in a fresh and satisfactory manner. We should be glad to accompany such a gentleman as Mr. Elliott in other peregrinations. His views of Russian society and manners, &c. are of a late date—in fact it is the most recent work of any value

on the countries he visited.

details that you may follow me on th I intend to make my letters my jour Holland is a natural marsh, tran on its surface, as you will readily means into arable land. Great chang your eye over the Zuider Zee in th mind that in the first century of our by the Batavi. Enormous mounds at full tide rises, in some places, fort as barriers against the encroachmen of the land. The fortification of t the waters was undertaken as early dius Drusus, who constructed the form the bulwark of the Hollander since been the wonder of Europe, a ment of industry and perseverance the foot of one of these artificial m sloping to its summit, where the bre feet, the sea was washing its opp our heads. There was something waves, and the thought of their which inspired a fear that they migh

With more personal adventure, and through countries with which we are less familiar, in its graphic style and candour, it will probably remind many of Carter's popu-struction, by breaking down the "ta lar letters from Europe-a work which still continues to be much read.

AUTHOR'S PREFACE.

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Spreads its long arms against But this fear was momentary, and tion, as we contemplated the strengt of the dyke.

The dykes vary in sizo and ele The following letters, written, with one exception, their situation. Formed of stones from the places whence they are dated, and addressed to they arc planted towards the sca wi private friends, are now submitted to the public. They lect the sand that is thrown up. T comprise little more than a journal, penned at moments nual accession of matter, the origin snatched from the occupations of a traveller passing tected, while its breadth and stabilit quickly through the countries he visited, and anxious to more than usual danger exists, a devote his time to the acquisition of information. The dyke is raised to secure the count desire of the author in publishing this volume is to intro-one should give way. The two are duce to the notice of his countrymen the beauties of the intermediate space serves as a c nature lying within their reach in the almost unexplored by sluices, to carry off an occasion mountains of Norway; a tract of country which offers one occasion, to inundate an hostile to the traveller, not an isolated prospect, but a succession. The plains thus snatched from t of richly-varied landscapes rivalling those of the Alps nion of the sea, are intersected by and the Himala. locks. These, by a happy contrivan Facts submitted to the observation of the author are fluous water to flow into the ocean, recorded with fidelity; but the opinions hazarded re-the intrusive waves only serve to cl garding national character and civil institutions are not barriers. entitled to be received with equal confidence. They The sides of the canals are freq were the result of first impressions; and, as such, require willows; and at this season the w confirmation by further experience or the concurrence of flowers render almost picturesque a other minds. little to boast in the beauties of n phibious natives the canal offers a m at once readier, cheaper, and more

The manuscripts have been revised and enlarged by the author, who, in the additions to his original letters,

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