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but i am troubled much you should make so ill a journey to so little purpose indeed i writ by the first post after my arrival here and cannot imagine how you came to miss of my letters

how welcome you will be but alas

for my life i cannot beat into their heads a passion that must be subject to no decay an even perfect kindness that must last perpetually without the least intermission

they laugh to hear me say that one unkind word would destroy all the satisfaction of my life and that i should expect our kindness should increase every day if it were possible but never lessen

we go abroad all day and play all night and say our prayers when we have time

well in sober earnest now i would not live thus a twelvemonth to gain all that the king has lost unless it were to give it him again

will you be so good natured

he has one son and tis the finest boy that e'er you saw and has a noble spirit but yet stands in that awe of his father that one word from him is as much as twenty whippings

you must give me leave to entertain you thus with discourses of the family for i can tell you nothing else from hence

not to know when you would come home i can assure you nor for any other occasion of my own but with a cousin of mine that had long designed to make herself sport with him and did not miss of her aim

in my life i never heard so ridiculous a discourse as he made us and no old woman who passes for a witch could have been more puzzled to seek what to say to reasonable people than he was

ever since this adventure i have had so great a belief in all things of this nature that i could not forbear laying a peas cod with nine peas in't under my door yesterday and was informed by it that my husband's name should be thomas how do you like that

but i am hugely pleased that you have seen my lady

i knew you could not choose but like her but yet let me tell you you have seen but the worst of her

her conversation has more charms than can be in mere beauty and her humour and disposition would make a deformed person appear lovely

why did you not send me that news and a garland

well the best on't is i have a squire now that is as good as a knight

in earnest we have had such a skirmish and upon so foolish an occasion as i cannot tell which is strangest

all the people that i had ever in my life refused were brought again upon the stage like richard the three s ghosts to reproach me withal and all the kindness his discoveries could make i had for you was laid to my charge

my best qualities if i have any that are good served but for aggravations of my fault and i was allowed to have wit and understanding and discretion in other things that it might appear i had none in this

tis a strange change and i am very sorry for it but i'll swear i know not how to help it

mister fish is the squire of dames and has so many mistresses that anybody may pretend a share in him and be believed but though i have the honour to be his near neighbour to speak freely i cannot brag much that he makes any court to me and i know no young woman in the country that he does not visit often

i think my youngest brother comes down with him

i can no sooner give you some little hints whereabouts they live but you know them presently and i meant you should be beholding to me for your acquaintance

but it seems this gentleman is not so easy access but you may acknowledge something due to me if i incline him to look graciously upon you and therefore there is not much harm done

i have missed four fits and had but five and have recovered so much strength as made me venture to meet your letter on wednesday a mile from home

but besides i can give you others

i am here much more out of people's way than in town where my aunt and such as pretend an interest in me and a power over me do so persecute me with their good nature and take it so ill that they are not accepted as i would live in a hollow tree to avoid them

you will think him altered and if it be possible more melancholy than he was

if marriage agrees no better with other people than it does with him i shall pray that all my friends may scape it

well in earnest if i were a prince that lady should be my mistress but i can give no rule to any one else and perhaps those that are in no danger of losing their hearts to her may be infinitely taken with one i should not value at all for so says the justinian wise providence has ordained it that by their different humours everybody might find something to please themselves withal without envying their neighbours

the matter is not great for i confess i do naturally hate the noise and talk of the world and should be best pleased never to be known in't upon any occasion whatsoever yet since it can never be wholly avoided one must satisfy oneself by doing nothing that one need care who knows

if i had a picture that were fit for you you should have it

how can you talk of defying fortune nobody lives without it and therefore why should you imagine you could

i know not how my brother comes to be so well informed as you say but i am certain he knows the utmost of the injuries you have received from her

we have had another debate but much more calmly

and besides there was a time when we ourselves were indifferent to one another did i do so then or have i learned it since

i have been studying how tom cheeke might come by his intelligence and i verily believe he has it from my cousin peters

how kindly do i take these civilities of your father's in earnest you cannot imagine how his letter pleased me

old mister dinsmore had accepted a pressing invitation from his granddaughter and her husband to join the party and with the addition of servants it was a large one

as they were in no haste and the confinement of a railroad car would be very irksome to the younger children it had been decided to make the journey by water

there were no sad leave takings to mar their pleasure the children were in wild spirits and all seemed cheerful and happy as they sat or stood upon the deck watching the receding shore as the vessel steamed out of the harbor

at length the land had quite disappeared nothing could be seen but the sky overhead and a vast expanse of water all around and the passengers found leisure to turn their attention upon each other

there are some nice looking people on board remarked mister travilla in an undertone to his wife

beside ourselves added cousin ronald laughing

yes she answered that little group yonder a young minister and his wife and child i suppose

and what a dear little fellow he is just about the age of our harold i should judge

do you son was the smiling rejoinder

he certainly looks like a very nice little boy

suppose you and he shake hands frank

i do indeed though probably comparatively few are aware that tobacco is the cause of their ailments

doubtless that is the case remarked mister dinsmore

with all my heart if you will step into the gentlemen's cabin where there's a light

he led the way the others all following and taking out a slip of paper read from it in a distinct tone loud enough to be heard by those about him without disturbing the other passengers

one drop of nicotine extract of tobacco placed on the tongue of a dog will kill him in a minute the hundredth part of a grain picked under the skin of a man's arm will produce nausea and fainting

the half dozen cigars which most smokers use a day contain six or seven grains enough if concentrated and absorbed to kill three men and a pound of tobacco according to its quality contains from one quarter to one and a quarter ounces

is it strange then that smokers and chewers have a thousand ailments

that the french polytechnic institute had to prohibit its use on account of its effects on the mind

notice the multitude of sudden deaths and see how many are smokers and chewers

in a small country town seven of these mysterious providences occurred within the circuit of a mile all directly traceable to tobacco and any physician on a few moments reflection can match this fact by his own observation

and then such powerful acids produce intense irritation and thirst thirst which water does not quench

hence a resort to cider and beer

no sir what know ye not that your body is the temple of the holy ghost which is in you which ye have of god and ye are not your own

for ye are bought with a price therefore glorify god in your body and in your spirit which are god's

we certainly have no right to injure our bodies either by neglect or self indulgence

and again i beseech you therefore brethren by the mercies of god that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice holy acceptable unto god which is your reasonable service

it must require a good deal of resolution for one who has become fond of the indulgence to give it up remarked mister daly

no doubt no doubt returned mister lilburn but if thy right eye offend thee pluck it out and cast it from thee for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell

there was a pause broken by young horace who had been watching a group of men gathered about a table at the further end of the room

they are gambling yonder and i'm afraid that young fellow is being badly fleeced by that middle aged man opposite

the eyes of the whole party were at once turned in that direction

no sir he is not here

and the door was slammed violently to

now the voice came from the skylight overhead apparently and with a fierce imprecation the irate gamester rushed upon deck and ran hither and thither in search of his tormentor

his victim who had been looking on during the little scene and listening to the mysterious voice in silent wide eyed wonder and fear now rose hastily his face deathly pale with trembling hands gathered up the money he had staked and hurrying into his state room locked himself in

what does it mean cried one

a ventriloquist aboard of course returned another let's follow and see the fun

i wonder which of us it is remarked the first looking hard at our party i don't know but come on

that fellow nick ward is a noted blackleg and ruffian had his nose broken in a fight and is sensitive on the subject was cheating of course

who asked the mate i've seen none up here though there are some in the steerage

they heard him in silence with a cool phlegmatic indifference most exasperating to one in his present mood

a man of giant size and herculean strength had laid aside his pipe and slowly rising to his feet seized the scoundrel in his powerful grasp

let me go yelled ward making a desperate effort to free his arms

i dinks no i dinks i deach you von lesson returned his captor not relaxing his grasp in the least

the german released his prisoner and the latter slunk away with muttered threats and imprecations upon the head of his tormentor

mister lilburn and mister daly each at a different time sought out the young man ward's intended victim and tried to influence him for good

yet there was gambling again the second night between ward and several others of his profession

they kept it up till after midnight

then mister lilburn waking from his first sleep in a stateroom near by thought he would break it up once more

an intense voiceless excitement possessed the players for the game was a close one and the stakes were very heavy

they bent eagerly over the board each watching with feverish anxiety his companion's movements each casting now and again a gloating eye upon the heap of gold and greenbacks that lay between them and at times half stretching out his hand to clutch it

a deep groan startled them and they sprang to their feet pale and trembling with sudden terror each holding his breath and straining his ear to catch a repetition of the dread sound

but all was silent and after a moment of anxious waiting they sat down to their game again trying to conceal and shake off their fears with a forced unnatural laugh

it came from under the table gasped ward look what's there look yourself

what can it have been they asked each other

oh nonsense what fools we are

it was the last game of cards for that trip

the captain coming in shortly after the sudden flight of the gamblers took charge of the money and the next day restored it to the owners

to elsie's observant eyes it presently became evident that the dalys were in very straitened circumstances

oh how kind how very kind missus daly said with tears of joy and gratitude we have hardly known how we should meet the most necessary expenses of this trip but have been trying to cast our care upon the lord asking him to provide