Pittston Gazette

              he Wyoming Valley. KUlb.w. ,n l.v k, 18!D2T Twi ESTABLISH EI J 18BO. C you. xiai. no. 4s. t Oldest Newspaper in tl eekiy Local and Family Journal. t l'EH AN M M 1 IN VIJVAM K. a man whose knees are tottering beneath him! I mast die here! There is not the strength or courage left me to venture into the wide, strange, difficult world alone!" What Colnmbai Owes to Chicago. Columbus was a grand old man. Who lived long years ago; And if the sea had other shores He had a mind to know. Sudden smile of heaven, forth burst the sunshine, pouring a very flood into the obscure forest, gladdeniug each green leaf, transmuting the yellow fallen ones to gold and gleaming adowu the gray trunks of the solemn trees. The objects that had made a shadow hitherto embodied the brightness now. The course of the little brook might be traced by its merry gleam afar into the wood's heart of mystery, which had become a mystery of joy. was strange, the way in which Fearl stood, looking so steadfastly at them through the dim medium of the forest gloom; herself, meanwhile, all glorified with a ray uf sunshine that was attra L ed thitherward as by a certain sympathy. In the brook beneath stood another child—another and the same—with likewise its ray of golden light. Hester felt herself, in some indistinct and tantalizing manner, estranged from Pearl: as if the child, in her lonely ramble thronyi the forest, had s D ayed out of the sphere in which she and her mother dwelt to gether, and was now vainly seeking to return to it. usual with her she drew down her mother's head and kissed her brow and both her cheeks. But then—by a kind of necessity that always impelled this child to alloy whatever comfort she might chance to give with a throb of anguish—Pearl put up her mouth, and kissed the scarlet letter too! ne haa toiled over the same ground only two da3'» before. As he drew near the town he took an impression of change from the series of familiar objects that presented themselves. It seemed not yesterday, not one. not two, but many drys, or even years ago, since he had quitted them. There, indeed, was each former trace of the street, as he remembered it. and all the peculiarities of the houses, with the due multitude of gable peaks, and a weathercock at every point where his memory suggested one. HAIR RESTORER NYE. rarae across yonr experience ns a wen digger, and really, Mr. Nye, 1 must confess that 1 laughed with an emigrant's delight when 1 read w here the famous 15iil Nye had gone to work at hard labor, l'oor fellow! 1 certainly feell sorry for you, afterull of your happy days spent in traveling around the world and your pleasant occurences with (he hotel maids and the terable disasters that has happened to you abroad. I surijy can sympathize with you. Your picture of drilling rock is very (lattery, and I would advise yon to keep from dynamite (as you are not like myself, a 2P8 pound person), but a small, dried up gentleman, and if an explosion would take place the air would lie so full of the fragments thereof that no more of you could be seen. Com peiiitu: ion, He sailed the ocean blue, he did: No sailor was so game. And if it had been pink he would Have sailed it just the same. HE POSES AS PRESIDENT OF A BALDHEADED INSURANCE COMPANY. It was the last expression of the despondency of a broken spirit. He lacked energy to grasp the better fortune that seemed within his reach. He repeated the word. "Alone, Hester!" He made an egg stand on its end. As some historians tell. "That was not kind!" said Hester. "When thou hast shown me a little love, thou mockest me!" He Says He Han Never Sighed for Office, bat Tills Is Something Different—A And then he got a daisy mash Ob good Queen Isabel. "Thou shalt not go alone!" answered she in a deep whisper. Then all was spoken! Letter from One Who Has Been in the Goinea Hen Business. **I'm solid now," quoth Christopher, "Why doth the minister sit yonder?" asked Pearl. As high he tossed his cap, "And I will flud America Or bust a britchin strap." 80 off he sailed from Palos town. He tailed by day and night. Until one morn a sailor man Remarked, "There's land in sight!" Coiumbos climbed the quarter deck And looked across the sea. Then whooped a whoop, "You're off, yoang man; . S * It's out of sight," said he. Such was the sympathy of nature— that wild, heathen nature of the forest, never subjugated by human law, nor illumined by higher truth—with the bliss of these two spirits! Love, whether newly born or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create a sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance that it overflows upon the outward world. Had the forest still kept its gloom it would have been bright in Hester's eyes, and bright in Arthur Dimmesdale's! "He waits to welcome thee," replied her mother. "Come, thou, and entreat his blessing! He loves thee, my little Pearl, and loves thy mother too. Wilt thou not love him? Come; he longs to greet theef' From San Diego, Cal., comes the following letter, which is herewith printed because it is of interest to so many of our readers: [Copyright, 1802, by Edgar W. Nye.] CHAPTER XIII. A FLOOD OF SUNSHINE. Not the less, however, came this importunately obtrusive sense of change. The same was true as regarded the acquaintances whom he met, and all the well known shapes of human life about the little town. They looked neither older nor younger now; the beards of the aged were no whiter, nor could the creeping babe of yesterday walk on his feet today; it was impossible to describe in what respect they differed from the individuals on whom he had so recently bestowed a parting glance; and yet the minister's deepest sense seemed to inform them of their mutability. A similar impression struck him most remarkably, as he passed under the walls of his own church. The edifice had so very strange and yet so familiar an aspect that Mr. Dimmcsdale'a. mind, vibrated between two ideas—either that he had teen it only in a dream hitherto, or that he was merely dreaming about it now. Your lot seems as mine—trouble, hard labor, and, like the Bad Boy's Dairy, always into something that you know but little about. I feel for Mrs. Nye, your better half. I know you must yourself, Some one has told me she U such a good Christ ian lady, but your terrible experiences will cause her to go down to the grave sooner. I sure do love to write to the old tar heel state. I was a college girl at Salem, N. C., for four years, while then a resident of Atlanta, and uever enjoyed life any sweeter before or since. But I am living in tliecountry now, surrounded by all the vexations a life can have, but 1 suppose that 1 make my life more miserable than I ought to. I was glad to read in your Litarary Works that you had such good neighbors. That is a great blessing bestowed upon yod after all your trials. You speak of Vanderbilt being near you. Stick to such a noble man as he is, as much may be made by it in his last days. Wish 1 was near kindred to him and would feel like starting a newspaper foundation. 1 only hope by the time I hear from you again that you have taken up a new work, as the weather is to warm to h»d»llling-i«4«»ia hardreek. J see-by rotrr pants and by the patch that yonr coat and vest has had a law suit, and pants went up as witness and has not came back. I asked the question once of a traveler who once came through this country why it was that Bill Nye had no hair on his head and always wore a cap to tide the crown? and his reply was that a Democrat and Radical got into a fight, and Bill went between to part for peace, and they thought his head was a cocoanut shell and palled all the hair out. I then gave him to understand that while the hair pnlling was going on the brain knowledge stilled- remained. Arthur Dimmesdale gazed into Hester's face with a look in which hope and joy shone out indeed, but with fear betwixt them, and a kind of horror at her There was both truth and error in the impression: the child anil mother were estranged. but through Hester's fault, not Pearl's. Since the latter rambled from her side another inmate had been admitted within the circle of the mother's feelings, and so modified the aspect of them all that Pari, the returning wanderer, could not \ind her wonted place, and hardly knew where she was. San Diego, Cal., May 6. Mr. William Nye: "Dogs are more faithful than men!" "But men have bank accounts."- -Life. "Doth be love us?" said Pearl, looking up with acute intelligence into hei mother's face. "Will he go back with us, hand in hand, we three together, into the town?" Deak Km—Inclosed please find circulars which wc wish you would peruse. We are forming the San Miguel Baldheaded Insurance company, and propose to issue policies upon installment plan, namely, quarter inch growth, quarter pay: half inch growth, half pay: threequarter inch growth, three-quarter pay. and full restoration of luxuriant growth, the full premium, which is $3,000. Inspectors are appointed in each city, and receive compensation as premiums are paid. We tender you the presidency upon a compensation that we will make satisfactory, and if you will take charge of affairs, making Chicago or New York your headquarters, we will approve. We address yon in all seriousness, and as directors will have the leading citizens of this city. You may telegraph the Hon. John D. Works, of the firm of Works, Gibson Cfe Titus. These waters i*v«_graKiuXha liait upon tite head of his partner, Mr. Titns. who was "shiny bald" since twenty-flve years of age: also upon the head of our city engineer, who lost his hair fifteen years ago in Java. We have the hair growtog upon about forty beads wbich were bald. In fact we have not missed a bead. We grew the hair upon a man over seventy years of age. boldness, who Lad spoken what he vaguely hinted at, but dared not speak. Bnt Hester Prynne, with a mind of native courage and activity, and for so long a period not merely estranged, but ratlawed, from society, had habituated lerself to such latitude of speculation as to the clergywithout rule wilderness; as shadowy as the " the gloom of lag a collQquy 'ate. Hervate!- . ;•* i* where she vild Indian in Had Kxpcetwl Ilettpr Treatment, He rapped on the door of the flat b*- low his own, and when the door vai opened, said apologetically: Ha mused awhile in thought profound; gtld he: "This beats the DutchI So this is that America I've heard about so much!" "Not now, dear child,' answered Hester. "Bnt in days to come he will walk hand in hand with us. We will have a home and fireside of our own, and thou shalt sit upon his knee and he will teach thee many things and love thee dearly. Thou wilt love him, wilt thou not?" Hester looked at him with the thrill of another joy. "Pardon iny intrusion. This is Mr. Filbert. I believe?" "Yng, sir." "Thou must know Pearl!' said she. "Our little Pearl! Thou hast seen her— yes, I know it—but thou wilt see her now with other eyes. She is a strange "I have a strange fancy," observed the minister, "that this brook is the boundary between two worlds, and thou canst never meet thy Pearl again. Or is she an elfish spirit, who, as the legends of our childhood taught us, is forbidden to cross a running stream? Prov Ha«ton her. for this delay g}- "wady ratp&rted a tremor to my nerves," Columbus later went ashore was altogether foreign And. wttk owfldtng Joy, man. She had wandered " or guidance, in » monJ vast, as intricate and in req"e*t' untamed forest, amid And *oThtej° wt»Cl he wishod which they were now hold. To blow bin back to Spain. that was to daride tlieir ; . —Potroit FreePrtm. fat and taut foad,thoiD msc ■ "WsfS,' insert pi acC' iffiUCMKl mm "My namo is Springer, I occupy tho flat just above yon." "Step in, Mr. Springer. What can « do for you?" cM'- thoa w.m, »«. "apprehend her. Bat "*arly as 1 A~ ly as I do, and "And will he always keep his hand over his heart?" inquisnd Pearl. ."Foolish child, what % ifiiliuu is that!" exclaimed her mother. "Come and ask his blessing!" wilt adviw tbe tiovi to deal with bw." CDo6t thou tlituic the child will b« "Pad U\ iwwr uie." asked the minister somewhat uneasily. "I have long shrunk from children because they often show a distrust—a backwardness to be familiar with me. I have even been afraid of little Pearl." "It's merely a business call,'* explained the occupant of the upper flit. "1 uo- Tice that you* are using but one stove and a small grate now, while you used to keep three stoves going." "Come, dearest child!" said Hester encouragingly, and stretching out both her arms. "How slow thon art! When hast thon been so sluggish before now? Here is a friend of mine, who must be thy friend also. Thon wilt have twice as much love henceforward as thy mother alone conld give thee! Leap across the brook and come to us. Thou canst leap like a young deer!" But whether influenced by the jealousy that seems instinctive with every petted child toward a dangerous rival or from whatever caprice of her freakish nature, Pearl would fuow no favor to the clergyman. It was only by an exertion of force that her mother brought her up to him, hanging back and manifesting her reluctance by odd grimaces; of which, ever since her babyhood, she had possessed a singular variety, and could transform her mobile physiognomy into a series of different aspects, with a new mischief in them, each and all. The minister—painfully embarrassed, but hoping that a kiss might prove a talisman to admit him into the child's kindlier regards—bent forward and impressed one on her brow, This phenomenon, in the various shapes which it assumed, indicated no external change, but so sudden and important a change in the spectator of the familiar scene that the intervening space of a tingle day had operated on his consciousness like the lapse of years. The minister's own will, and Hester'B will, and the fate that grew between them, had wrought this transformation. It was the same town as heretofore, but the same minister returned not from the forest. He might have said to the friends who greeted him: "I am not the man for whom you take me! I left him yonder in the forest, withdrawn into a secret dell by a mossy tree trunk and near a melancholy brook! Go seek your minister and see if his emaciated figure, his thin cheek, his white, heavy, pain wrinkled brow be not flung down there like a cast off garment!" His friends, no doubt, would still have insisted with him, "Thon art thyself the man!'' but the error would have been their own. not his. " Why, yea." returned the man in the first flat. "Times are rather hard and coal is expensive. But might 1 ask what business that is of yours?" For years past she had looked from this estranged point of view at haman institutions, and whatever priests or legislators had established; criticising all with hardly more reverence than the Indian would f«el for the clerical band, the judicial robe, the pillory, the gallows, the fireside or the church. The tendency of her fate and fortunes had been to set her free. The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, despair, solitude! These had been her teachers—stern and wild ones—and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss. Bf VATSAIXEL HAWTHORNE. "Ah, that was sad!" answered the mother. "But she will love thee dearly and thou her. She is not far off. I will call her! Pearl! Pearl!" "Business of mine!" ex'luimed the other in surprise. "Hang it. man! yon're not treating me right! Don't yon think anything is due your neighbors?" (oromxTJED. J And yet they lingered. How dreary looked the forest track that led backward to the settlement, where Hester Prynne most take up again the burden of her ignominy and the minister the hollow mockery of his good name. So they lingered an instant longer. No golden light had ever been so precious M the gloom of this dark forest. Here, ■een only by his eyes, the scarlet letter Jieed not barn into the bosom of th* "I see the child," observed the minister. "Yonder she is, standing in a streak of sunshine, a good way off on the other side of the brook. So thou thinkest the child will love me?" I must take up for Bill Nye, as Saturday's paper would be of no use to me without reading his great renown Litarary Works and looking at the beautiful pictures. Pearl, without responding in any manner to these honey sweet expressions, remained on the other side of the brook, Now she fixed her bright, wild eyes on her mother, now on the minister, and now included them both in the same glance, as if to detect and explain to herself the relation which they bore to one another. For some unaccountable reason, as Arthur Dimmeedale felt the child's eyes upon himself, his hand— with that gesture so habitual as to have become involuntary—stole over his heart. At length, assuming a singular air of authority, Pearl stretched out her hand, with the small forefinger extended and pointing evidently toward her mother's breast. And beneath, in the mirror of the brook, there was the flower girdled and sunny image of little Pearl pointing her small forefinger too. "Neighbors! neighbors! What are yon driving at? Haven't I always been a good tenant?" Will, I suppose you are tired of my foolishness, and 1 will contemplate in bringing the epistle to a clothes after 1 have given you a bright idea of guinia raising. 1 have been in the poultry raising some 4 or 5 years and think a guinia the most beneficial of all fowls, and can give you another good reason why they are so useful and gratuitous, but you know all about it. you just wanted to see who would take the guinia question up. I live in the country, but I am a thinker from quite a ways up the gulch. Thought with me is a mear Baggatell. "No, sir!" roared the man in the second flat. "I was told you were when I moved in or I would have taken the flat across the hall from mine. The man underneath that keeps three stoves going all the time—three, mind you. He's a thoughtful, considerate man, while yon —you"  Hester smiled and again called to Pearl, who was visible at some distance, as the minister had described her, like a bright appareled vision in a sunbeam, which fell down upon her through an arch of boughs. The ray quivered to and fro making her figure dim or distinct—now a real child, now like a child's spirit—as the splendor went and came again. She heard her mother's voice and approached slowly through the forest. fallen woman! Here, seen only by her «yes, Arthur Dimmeedale, false to God and man, might be for one moment true! The minister, on the other hand, had never gone through an experience calculated to lead him beyond the scope of generally received laws; although, in a single instance, he bad so fearfully transgressed one of the most sacred of them. • * • Hereupon Pearl broke away from her mother, and running to the brook stooped over it and bathed her forehead until the unwelcome kiss was qnite washed off and diffused through a long lapse of the gliding water. She then remained apart, silently watching Hester and the clergyman, while they talked together and made such arrangements as were suggested by their new position and the purposes soon to be fulfilled. "Why, hang it all! yotir measly littie fires don't heat the floor* of my flat nt all, and 1 have to burn a ton of coal more a month than the man across the hall from me. I tell you yon're acting in a mighty small, mean way. Yon' re showing a contemptible spirit in the treat* ment of your neighbors!" "Well, what's the matter with raeT* We had a guinia once that stole her nest and we could not find her. At last we give her up, but one day I was setting on the stair steps of the porch and all at once 1 was remiiy'eil of the guinia, and I said I bet she was under the porch. I think quick at such times. I sent my Uttle brother under the porch. He only weighs 810 pounds.He found the guinia there. She was dead, and had been the like of that for 2 weeks. That is what made me think of her. He started at a thought that suddenly oocurred to him. EXAMINING AN APPLICANT'S BEAD. "Heater," cried he, "here is a new horror! Boger Chillingworth knows your purpose to reveal his true character. Win he continue, then, to keep our Be- Thus we seem to see that, as regarded Hester Prynne, the whole seven years of outlaw and ignominy had been little other than a preparation for this very hour. But Arthur Dimmeedale! Were such a man once more to fall, what plea could be urged in extenuation of his crime? None; unless it avail him somewhat, that he was broken down by long and exquisite suffering; that his mind was darkened and confused by the very remorse which harrowed it; that, between fleeing as an avowed criminal and remaining as a hypocrite, conscience might find it hard to strike the balance: that it was human to avoid the peril CDf death and infamy and the inscrutable machinations of an enemy; that, finally, to this poor pilgrim, on his dreary and desert path, faint, sick, miserable, there appeared a glimpse of human affection and sympathy, a new life and a true one, in exchange for the heavy doom which he was now expiating. And be the stern and sad truth spoken, that the breach which guilt has onoe made into the human soul is never in this mortal state repaired. It maybe watched and guarded; so that the enemy shall not fores his way again into the citadel, and might even in his subsequent assaults select some other avenue in preference to that where he had formerly succeeded. But there is still the ruined wall, and near it the stealthy tread of the foe that would win over again his nnforgotten triumph. Pearl had not found the hour pass wearisomely while her mother sat talking with the clergyman. The great black forest—stern as it showed itself to those who brought the guilt and troubles of the world into its bosom—became the playmate of the lonely infant as well as it knew how. Somber as it was it put on the kindest of its moods to welcome her. * * * Mr. Nye, these waters do all that we say, and I refer you to the Studebaker Bros. Mr. P. E. and Mr. J. M. and Mrs. Studebaker visited these water* last week. These waters impart new vigor, extending years—the marvel of the age. We hope to grow a new race of Methuselahft. It may strike you strangely, but nevertheless they are indeed miraculous waters. Kindly oonsider this matter seriously and advise us. We shall await your answer anxiously. Yours, very respectfully, ISBAM'S 8 AH MlOUEL HAIB RESTOHATIV* Before Mr. Dimmesdale reached home his inner man gave him other evidences of a revolution in the sphere of thought and feeling. In truth, nothing short of a total change of dynasty and moral code in that interior kingdom was adequate to account for the impulses new communicated to the unfortunate and startled minister. At every step he was incited to do some strange, wild, wicked thing or other, with a sense that it would be at once involuntary and intentional, in spite of himself, yet growing out of a profounder self than that which opposed the impulse. • * • ere© wnat will now be tne course 01 his revenge?" "There is a strange secrecy in his nature," replied Hester thoughtfully, "and it has gromi upon him by the hidden praetioes of his revenge. I deem it not likely that he will betray the secret. He will doubtless seek other means of They didn't quite come to blows, but the man in the lower flat was so mad that he put out all the fires, opened the windows, and took his family to a hotel for t vo or three days when the nest fold' snap arrived. -Chicago Tribune. "Thou strange child, why dost thou not come to mc:" exclaimed Hester. And now this fateful interview had come to a close. The dell was to be left a solitude among its dark, old trees, which, with their multitudinous tongues, would whisper long of what had passed there, and no mortal be the wiser. And the melancholy brook would add this other tale to the mystery with which its little heart was already overburdened and whereof it still kept up a murmuring babble, with not a whit more cheerfulness of tone than for ages heretofore. CHAPTER XV. Well, I hope you will receive this letter and take nothing but kindness from my part. 1 am always jolly in ray writings. Pearl stil} pointed with her forefinger, and a frown gathered on her brow—the more impressive from the childish, the almost babylike aspect of the features that conveyed it. As her mother still kept beckoning to her, and arraying her face in a holiday suit of unaccustomed smiles, the child stamped her foot with a yet more imperious look and gesture. In the brook again was the fantastic beauty of the image, with its reflected frown, its jDointed finger and imperious gesture, giving emphasis to the aspect of little Pearl. Best respects to Mrs. Nye, and a great deal of sympathy also for her broken hearted circumstances, and a great deal also extend to your self. Very respectfoily. And she was gentler here than in the grassy margined streets of the settlement pr in her mother's cottage. The flowers seemed to know it. and one another whispered as she passed, "Adorn thyself with me, thou beautiful child; adorn thyself with me!" and to please them Pearl gathered the violets and anemones and columbines and some twigs of the freshest green, which the old trees held down before her eyes. With these she decorated her hair and her young waist, and became a nymph child, or an infant dryad, or whatever else war in closest sympathy with the antique wood. In such guise had Pearl adorned herself, when she heard her mother's voice and came slowly back. Per A. H. Isham, Manager. Why I should have been selected to act as president of course I cannot at this moment fully understand, but judge that a pure life and lovely disposi have something to do with it. Of co I have said repeatedly regarding matter that my uame would not be sented for the presidency, but vox pc vox dei, as the feller says, and seema to be a case where a man get out of it. W ATBRS. Mrs. Violet de Peysteii Mudge. P. S.—Please answer if the tone has suited you. Excuse pencil as the rats has went off with pen and ink. V. de P. M. Accounted fur. satiating his dark passion." "And I—how am I to live longer, breathing the same air with this deadly enemy?" exclaimed Arthur Dimmeedale, shrinking within himself and pressing his hand nervously against his heart, a gesture that had grown involuntary with him. "Think for me, Hester: Thou art strong. Resolve for me!" "Thou must dwell no longer with this man," said Hester slowly and firmly. "Thy heart must be no longer under his evil eye!" "It were far worse than death!" replied the minister. "But how to avoid it? What choice remains to me? Shall column—next tO ': tie naa py tins time reached hi& dwelling on the edge of the burial ground, and hastening np the stairs took refuge in his study. The minister was glad to have reached leiis shelter, without first betraying himself to the world by any of those strange and w:cked eccentricities to which he had been continually impelled while passing through the streets. He entered the accustomed room and looked around him on its books, its windows, its fireplace and the tapestried comfort of the walls with the wane perception *Dt strangeness th»t had haunted him throughout his walk from the forest dell into the town and thitherward. Here he had studied and written; here, gone through fast and vigil, and come forth half alive; here, striven to pray; here, borne a hundred thousand agouies! THE MINISTER I* 4 MAZE. An the minister departed in advance pf Hester Prynne and little Pear} he threw a backward glance, half expecting that be should discover only some faintly traced features or outline of the mother and the child slowly fading into the twilight of the woods. Bo great a vicissitude in his life could not at once be received as real, But there was Hester, clad in her gray robe, still standing beside the tree trunk, which some blast "Hasten, Pearl, or I shall be angry with thee!" cried Hester Prynne, who, however inured to such behavior on the elf child's part at other seasons, was naturally anxious for a more seemly deportmeut now. "Leap across the brook, naughty child, and run hither! Else I must come to thee!" The San Miguel Baldheadea company starts ont certainly straight and square plan of doinf, neas. I like also this fractional m of insurance, by which the insured only for what he gets, according length and location. If you get top of column—spinal I be down again on these withered Slowly, for she saw the clergyman. leaves, where I cast myself when thou didst tell me what he was? Must I sink down there and die at once?' "Alas, what a ruin has befallen thee!" aaii Hester with the tears gushing into her eyes. "Wilt thou die for very weakness? There is no other cause!" "The judgment of God is on me," answered the conscience stricken priest. "It is too mighty for me to struggle Bat Pearl, not a whit startled at her mother's threat*, any more than mollified by her entreaties, now suddenly burst into a fit of passion, gesticulating violently and throwing her small figure into the mos). extravagant contortions. She accompanied this wild outbreak with piercing shrieks, which the woods reverberated on all sides: so that, alone as she was in her childish and unreasonable wrath, it seemed as if a hidden multitude were lending her their sympathy and encouragement. Seen in the brook once more was the shadowy wraith of Pearl's image, crowned and girdled with flowers, but stamping its foot, wildly gesticulating, and in the midst of all still pointing jts small forefinger at Hester's bosom 1 "1 see what aiis the child," whispered Hester to the clergyman, and turning pale in spite of a strong effort to conceal . crystal wedding is tomorfle has been married fiftCDen CHAPTER XIV. THE CHILD AT THE PROOFS JDE. .iuul overthrown ft l«g amtiq-nitr age and which had ever since been covering with moss, so that these two fated ones, with earth's heaviest burden on them, might there sit down together ini1 a single nours rest and solace. And there was Pearl, too, lightly dancing from the margin of the brook—now that the intrusive third person was gone— and taking her old place by her mother'* side. So the minister had not taller 'asleep and dreamed. that if grown across the trachea or and the rate should be more. itly opabarrassed)—Ah, yea. "Thou wilt love ber dearly," repeated Hester Prynne, as she and the minister sat watching little Pearl. "Dost thou not think her beautiful? And see with what natural skill she has made those simple flowers adorn her? Had 6he gathered pearls and diamonds and rubies in the wood they could not have become her better. She is a splendid child! But I know whose brow she has!" We should early adopt and insert our policies as many conditions, I think, as possible. No insurance policy looks very able unless it has a good deal of minion reading matter in it. I will, as president of the company, attend to this. For instance, we should have a clause in the policy stating that it is to be void and the premium forfeited if any statement made in the application is untrue. An applicant, for instance, might state that he lost his hair from fright, whereas he may not have had any hair at all in the first place, or it may have been scalded off by some one and the follicles killed. We cannot agree to resuscitate follicles that have been cooked. think bo. She—Hia second wife, yon know.— Harper's Bazar. PRACTICING THE WHOLE ARM MOVEMENT. Many other letters have been received regarding the uses and abases of the gninea hen. but the above, as it touches upon many other points and shows con siderable "brain knowledge," is inserted here. The struggle, if there were one, need not be described. Let it suffice that the clergyman resolved to flee and not alone. Economy. There was the Bible in its rich old Hebrew, with Moses and the prophets speaking to him, and God's voice through all! There on the table, with the inky pen beside it, was an unfinished sermon with a sentence broken in the midst, where his thoughts had ceased to gush out upon the page two days before. He knew that it was himself, the thin and white cheeked minister, who had done and suffered these things and written thus far into the election sermon. But he seemed to stand apart and eye this former self with scornful, pitying, but half envious, curiosity. That self was gone. Another man had returned out of the forest,, a wiser one. with a knowledge of hidden mysteries which the simplicity of the former never could have reached. A bitter kind of knowledge that! W ■'fjf'r ' "Heaven would show mercy," rejoined Hester, "hadst thou but the strength to take advantage of it" "Be thou strong forme!" answered he. -"Advise me what to do." "If, in all these past seven years," thought he, "I could recall one instant of peace or hope, I would yet endure, for the sake of that earnest of heaven's mercy. But now, since I am irrevocably doomed—wherefore should I not snatci the solace allowed to the condemned culprit before his execution? Or, if this be the path to a better life, as Hester would persuade me, I surely give up no fairer prospect by pursuing it! Neither can I any longer live without her companionship; so powerful is she to sustai—so tender to soothe! O thou to whom I dare not lift mine eyes, wilt thou yet pardon me?" In order to free his mind from this in distinctness and duplicity of impression, which vexed it with a strange disquietude, he recalled and more thoroughly defined the plans which Hester and himself had sketched for their departure. It had been determined between them that the Old World, with its crowds and pities, offered them a more eligible shelter and concealment than the wilds of New England or ali America, with its alternatives of an Indian wigwam or the few settlements of Europeans scattered thinly along the seaboard. Not to speak of the clergyman's health, so inadequate to sustain the hardships of a forest life, his native gifts, his culture and his entire development would secure him a home only in the midst of civilization and refinement; the higher the state the more delicately adapted to it the man. Would Violet mind sending to this office the name of her alma mater? Those of ns who have daughters are mostly looking for a college wherein we may place them knowing that their individuality will not be entirely eradicated. Violet seems to have found that college. Even her orthography, syntax and prosody remain unmonkeyed with. "Dost thou know, Hester," said Arthur Dimmesdale with an unquiet smile, "that this dear child, tripping about always at thy side, bath caused me many an alarm? Methought—Ob, Hester, what a thought is that, and how terrible to dread it!—that my own features were partly repeated in her face, and so strikingly that the world might see them! But she is mostly thine!" "Is the world, then, so narrow?" exclaimed Hester Prynne, fixing her deep eyes on the minister's and instinctively exercising a magnetic power over a spirit so shattered and subdued that it could hardly hold itself erect. "Doth the universe lie within the compass of yonder (Hi •j— Second—We cannot afford to replace hair on any applicant who may be doing business in violation of law or who uses ardent spirits, ale, wine or beer. town, which only a little time ago was bat a leaf strewn desert, as lonely as this around us? Whither leads yonder forest track? Backward to the settlement, thou say est! Yes, but onward too. Deeper it goes and deeper into the wilderness less plainly to be seen at every step, until soose few miles hence the yellow leaves will show no vestige of the white man's tread. There thou art free! So brief a journey would bring thee from a a world where thou bast been most wretched to one where thou mayest still be happy! Is there not shade enough in nil this boundless forest to hide thy heart from the gaze of Roger Chillingworth?""Yes, Hester; but only under the fallen leaves!" replied the minister, with • sad mile. "Then there is the broad pathway of the sear continued Hester. "It brought thee hither. If thou so choose, it will bear thee back again. In our native land, whether in some remote rural village or in vast London—or surely in Germany, in France, in pleasant Italy— thou wonldst be beyond his power and knowledge! And what hast thou to do with all these iron men and their opinions? They have kept thy better part in bondage too long already!" "It cannot be!" answered the minister, listening as if he were called upon to realise a dream. "I am powerless to got Wretched and sinful as I am, 1 have had no other thought than to drag on my earthly existence in the sphere where Providence hath placed me. Lost her trouble and annoyance. "Children will not abide any, the slightest, change in tho accustomed aspect of things that are daily before their eyes. Pearl misses something which she has always soon me wear!" "No, no! Not mostly!" answered the mother, with a tender smile. "A little longer and thou needest not to be afraid to trace whose child she is. But how strangely beautiful she looks, with those wild flowers in her hair! It is as if one of the fairies, whom we left in our dear old England, had decked her out to meet us." Third—We could not insure one who might engage in treason or rebellion, for the growth of hair requires absolute quiet. , A Slight Difference. "Thou wilt go!" said Hester calmly, as be met her glance. "I pray you," answered the minister, 'if thou hast any means of pacifying the child, do it forthwith! Save it were the cankered wrath of an old witch, like Mistress Hibbins," added he, attempting to smile, ''I know nothing that I would uot sooner encounter than this passion in a child. In Pearl's young beauty, as in the wrinkled witch, it has a preternatural efTcct. Pacify her, if thou lovest me!" Harveyma?Mamma—! dearie. \Vbere are I imgping yon going, mam- The decision once made, a glow of strange enjoyment threw its flickering brightness over the trouble of his breast, It wan the exhilarating effect—upon a prisoner just escaped from the dungeon of his own heart—of breathing the wild, free atmosphere of an unredeemed, nnchristainized, lawless region. His spirit rose, as it were, with a bound, and attained a nearer prospect of the sky than throughout all the misery which had kept him groveling on the earth. Of a deeply religious temperament, there was inevitably a tinge of the devotional in his mood. Fourth—Our oompany could not insure the polygamous for obvious reasons. company could not insure an applicant, and the policy should be void, if he transgress the limits prescribed for travel as set forth on back of policy or cross the high seas without a permit from the president. to a reception. While occupied with these reflections • * * the minister summoned a servant of the house and requested food, which being set before him he ate with ravenous appetite. Then, flinging the already written pages of the election sermon into the tire, he forthwith began another, which he wrote with such an impulsive flow of thought and emotion that he fancied himself inspired, and only wondered that heaven should see fit to transmit the grand and solemn music of its oracles through so foul au organ pipe as he. However, leaving that mystery to solve itself or go unsolved forever, he drove his task onward with earnest haste and ecstasy. Tims the night fled away as if it were a winged steed and he careering on it; morning came and peeped, blushing, through the curtains, and at last sunrise threw a golden beam into the study and laid it right across the minister's bedazzled eyes. There he was, with the pen still between his fingers, and a va°t. immeasurable tract of written space behind him. "Aw, ine ileah fellah, what is the matt ah with your eye, that you shook) keep it shut?" And half an hour later, Harvey, who was playing out in the yard, said to a lady who was about* to ring the dooriiell, "My mamma isn't at home; she's fine to a deception."—Young People. It was with a feeling which neither of them bad ever before experienced that they sat and watched Pearl's slow advance. In her was visible the tie that united them. She had been offered to the world these seven years past as the living hieroglyphic, in which was revealed the secret they so darkly sought to hide—all written in this symbol—all plainly manifest—had there been a prophet or magician skilled to read the character of flame! And Pearl was the oneness of their being. Be the foregone evil what it might, how could they doubt that their earthly lives and future destinies were conjoined, when they beheld at once the material union and the spiritual idea in whom they met and were to dwell immortally together? Thoughts like these—and perhaps other thoughts, which they did not acknowl ■ edge or define—threw an awe about the thild as she csme onward. "Me doctah Rays me eyes are failing ' very fast and that 1 must take great care of them, so 1 only use one of them at a time."—Life. In furtherance of this choice, it so happened that a ship lay in the harbor; one of those questionable cruisers frequent at that day, which, without being absolutely outlaws of the deep, yet roamed over its surface with a remarkable irresponsibility of character. This vessel had recently arrived from the Spanish Main, and within three days' time would sail for Bristol. Hester Prvnne—whose vocation, as a self enlisted sister of charity, had brought her acquainted with the captain and crew—could take upon herself to secure the passage of two individuals and a child with all the secrecy which circumstances rendered more than desirable. Sixth—Permission should be specially granted to applicants who contemplate travel via the New York Fifth avenue diligence. From the mass of book-* which appeared under the auspices of the church immediately after the condemnation of Galileo, for the purpose of rooting out every vestige of the hated Copernican theory from the inind of the world, two may bo taken as typical. Tbe first of these was a work by Sclpio Chiaramonti, dedicated to Cardinal Barberini. Among his arguments against the double motion of the earth may be cited the following: Catholic Refutations of Galileo. Hester turned again toward Pear}, with a crimson blush upon her cheek, a conscious glance aside at the clergyman, and then B heavy sigh; whilo, even before she had time to speak, the blush yielded to a deadly pallor. He seemed to be proud of himself as he strolled down the street, and when a friend asked him the reason for his elation he said: Proved That He I# a Cenlu*. Seventh—The insured should not be permitted to engage in blasting, mining, submarine agriculture, shark dentistry, taking temperature of yellow fever people or taming lions for the trade. "I've got proof at last." "Proof of what?" asked his friend. "Do I feel joy again?" cried he, wondering at himself. "Methought the germ of it was dead in me! O Hester, thou art my better angel! I seem to have flung myself—sick, sin stained and sorrow blackened—down upon these forest leaves, and to have risen up all made anew, and with new powers to glorify him that hath been merciful! This is already the better life! Why did we not find it Booner?" "Pearl," said she sadly, "look down at -hy feet! There!—before thee!—on the hither side of the brook!" "Proof that I'm a genius. I always thought I was, but 'never was able to demonstrate it before." Eighth—Policies should not be transferable, and hair should be void if detached."Animals which move have limbs and muscles; the jenrth has no limbs or muscles, therefor/ it does not move. It is angels who mblte Saturn, Jupiter, the sun, etc., tucu around. If the earth revolves, it must also have an angel in the center to set it in motion; but only devils live there: it would therefore be a devil who would impart motion to the earth. The child turned her eyes to the point indicated, and there lay the scarlet letter, so close upon the margin of the stream that the gold embroidery was reflected in it. My wife has wired you today in cipher as follows; The friend was inclined to be sarcastic, but the young man persisted in his assertions. Bcck Shoals, JJ. C. San Miguel Saidheadcd Insurance Company, San Diego. Cal.: Pa will accept. "I tell you that's right." he said. "Did you see that last poem of mine? It's the third I've had accepted by different magazines."The minister had inquired of Hester, with no little interest, the precise time at which the vessel might be expected to depart. It would probably be on the fourth day from the present. "That is most fortunate!" he had then said to himself. Now, why the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale considered it so very fortunate, we hesitate to reveal. Nevertheless, to hold nothing back from the reader, it was because on the third day from the present he was to preach the election sermon, and as such an occasion formed an honorable epoch in the life of a New" "Bring it hither!" said Hester. "Come thou and take it up!" answered Pearl. 3D. H. (Signed) Ma. In accepting the presidency, I will say that I have not stood around like a young robin with my mouth open waiting for everything that came along, but, on the contrary, the offer comes -like a clap of thunder from a clear sky. I have never sighed for office, but have during my leisure moments practiced the whole arm movement for several years, till I have a signature which is said by experts to be especially suitable for decorating public documents and policies. "Let us not look back," answered Hester Prynne. "The past is gone! Wherefore should we linger upon it now? See! With this symbol I undo it all, and make it as it bad never been!" "Let her see nothing strange—no pas Hon nor eagerness—in tliy way ot accosting her," whispered Hester. "Our Pearl is a fitful and fantastic little ell sometimes. Especially, she is seldom tolerant of emotion, when she does not fully comprehend the why and wherefore. But the child hath strong affections! She loves me and will love thee!* "The planets, the sun, the fixed stars, all belong to one species—namely, that of stars —they therefore all move or all stand still. It seems therefore to be a grievous wrong to place the earth, which is a sink of impurity, among the heavenly bodies, which are pure and divine things." • "Oh, well, that's no proof of genius. Lots of people"  "Was ever 6uch a child!" observed Hester aside to the minister. "Oh, 1 have much to tell thee about her! But in very truth she is right as regards this hateful token. I must bear its torture yet a little longer—only a few days longer—until we shall have left this region, and look back hither as to a land which we have dreamed of. The forest cannot hide it! The midocean shall take it from my hand and swallow it np forever!" [TO BE CONTINUED. I "Not by itself, of course," interrupted the young man, "but it's a point, it's a point, although it didn't convince m« any more than it has you. But you know how careless I have alwavs been." "Yes." A Strung Reminder. So speaking, she undid the clasp that fastened the scarlet letter, and taking it from her bosom threw it to a distance among the withered leaves. The mystic token alighted on the hither verge of the stream. With a hand's breadth farther flight it would have fallen into the water and have given the little brook another woe to carry onward, besides the unintelligible tale which it still kept murmuring about. But there lay the embroidered letter, glittering like a lost jewel, which some ill fated wanderer might pick up, and thenceforth be haunted by strange phantoms of guilt, sinkings of the heart and unaccountable misfortune. may for other human souls! I dare not quit my post, though an unfaithful sentinel, whose sure reward is death and dishonor, when his drear}* watch nhall come to an end!" "Thou art crushed under this seven years' weight of misery." replied Hester, fervently resolved to buoy him np with her own energy. "But thou shalt leave it all behind thee! It shall not cumher thy steps, as thou treadest along the forest path; neither shalt thou freight the ship with it, if thou prefer to cross the sea. Leave this wreck and ruin here where it hath happened. Meddle no mote with itl Begin all anew! Hast thou exhausted possibility in the failure this one trial? Not so! Th? future is yet fnll of trial and success. There is happiness to be enjoyed! There is good to be done! Exchange this false life of thine for a true one. Be, if the spirit summon thee to such a mission, the teacher and apostle TDf the red men. Or —as is more thy nature—be a scholar and a sage among the wisest and most renowned of the cultivated world. Preach! Write! Act! Do anything, •are to lie down and die! Give up this name of Arthur Dimmesdale and make thyself another, and a high one, such as thou canst wear without fear or shame. Why shouldst thou tarry so much as one other day in the torments that have so gnawed into thy life!—that have made thee feeble to will and to do!—that will leave thee powerless even to repent! Up and away!" "O Hester!" cried Arthur Dimmesdale, In whose eyes a fitful light, kindled by her enthusiasm, flashed up and died •way, "thou tell est of running a race to aa my soul is, I would still do what 1 The next, which I select from similar works, is the Anticopernicus Catholicus o' Polacco. It was intended to deal a finish ing strqjce at Galileo's heresy. In this it is declared "The Scripture always represents the e.arth as at rest, and the sun and moon as in motion, oV, if theso latter bodies are ever represented as at rest, Scripture represents this as the result of a great miracle. "Throw things down anywhere." "Yes." "Thou canst not think," said the minister, glancing aside at Hester Prynne, "how my heart dreads this interview and yearns for it! But in truth, as 1 already told thee, children are not readily Kon to be familiar with me. They will not cumb my knee, nor prattle m my ear, nor answer to my smile; but stand apart and eye me strangely. Even little babes, when I take them in my arms, weep bitterly. Yet Pearl twice in her little lifetime hath been kind to me! The first time—thou knowest it well! The last was when thou ledst hev with thee to the house of yonder stern old governor." England clergyman he could not have chanced upon a more suitable mode and time of terminating his professional career."Scatter my clothes all over the room." "Yes. Hut you don't think that"—- "Not in itself, no: but it's a point. My wife picks them up, you know." In a recent letter the insurance company desires to state that application! are coming in from Vienna, where baldness is almost epidemic. One banker there states that he would not mind $100,000 if he could secure & good growth of hair. We shall take the job, quarter inch, quarter pay; half inch growth, half pay, etc., charging full rates if a tangled mass of Paderewski or alfalfa hair is grown. With these words she advanced to the margin of the brook, took up the scarlet letter and fastened it again into her bosom. Hopefully, but a moment ago, as Hester had spoken of drowning it in the deep sea, there was a sense of inevitable doom upon her, as she thus received back this deadly symbol from the hand of fate. She had flung it into infinite space—she had drawn an hour's free breath—and here again was the scarlet misery, glittering on the old spot! So it ever is, whether thus typified or no, that an evil deed invests itself with the character of doom. Hester next gathered up the heavy tresses of her hair and confined them beneath her cap. As if there were a withering spell in the sad letter, her beauty, the warmth and richness of her womanhood, departed like fading sunshine and a gray shadow seemed to fall across her. "She does?" - "Oh, yes. vised to grumble alxrot it, but now shfr-just says it's one of my eccentricities.'] "She—she picks.up your clothes witiiout any side remarks*" "At least they shall Bay of me,'" thought this exemplary man, "that I leave no public duty unperformed no: ill performed!" Sad, indeed, that an introspection so profound and acute a/ this poor minister's should be so miserably deceived! We have had and may still have worse things to tell of him. bnt none we apprehend so pitiably weak; no evidence, at once so slight and irrefragable, of a subtle disease that had long since begun to eat into the real Bubstance of his character. No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true, "These writings must be prohibited because they teach certain principles about the position and motion of the terrestrial globe repugnant to Holy Scripture and to the Catholic interpretation of it, and not as hypotheses, but as established facts. "Yes, and she never disturbs my desk. That's why 1 say"  "It is possible to work with the hypotheses of Copernicus so as to explain many phenomena. Yet it is not permitted to argue on his premises except to show theii falsity."—Dr. Andrew D. White iu l'opulai Science Mou'Jily. The stigma gone Hester heaved a long, deep sigh, in which the burden of shame and anguish departed from her spirit. Oh, exquisite relief! She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom! By another impulse she took off the formal cap that confined her hair; and down it fell upon her shoulders, dark and rich, with at once a shadow and a light in its abundance, and imparting the charm of Softness to her features. There played around her mouth and beamed out of her eves a radiant and tender smile that seemed gusmng from the very heart of womanhood. A crimson flush was glowing on her cheek that had been long so pale. Her sex, her youth and the whole richness of her beauty came back from what men call the irrevocable past, and clustered themselves with her maiden hope and a happiness before unknown within the magic circle of this hour. Miss Scadds—Do you know, Mr. Goslin, yon remind me of Sir Edwin Arnold? It will be my duty as president to appoint inspectors, whose job it will bo to pass upon the extent of growth and report, receiving a percentage of the premiums for such work. I would be glad to hear from those who would be glad to act in this way and who are willing to stand by me as president. "You're right. You're* genius." Yon have the proof Goslin (highly gratified)—Aw, thanks, awfully. "Thanks," he said gratefully. "In the line of handling vonr wife, anyway," added the friend.—Chicago Tribune. "And thou didst plead so bravely in her behalf and mine!" answered the mother. "I remember it, and so shall Httle Pearl. Fear nothing! Siie may be strange and shy at first, but will soon learn to love thee!" Miss Scadds—He is said to be an absentminded man, and your mind is always absenv, yon know.—Truth. Ballet Proof. A couple of Germans in-the dump? were sitting in a New York restaurant bewailing the state of things in America. Suddenly a stylishly dressed gentleman addressed one of the Germans as follows:Due Notice. The Trlek He IMttyed. A Yorkshire vicar once received the following notice regarding a marriage from a parish house: "This is to give you notis that I and Miss Jemima Arabella Brearly is com in to your churc-b on Saturday afternoon nes. to undergo the operation of matrimony at your hands. Please be promp. as the cab is hired by the hour." The "operation" was performed in due course.—New York Tribune. Weary Wrinkles-Say. mister, gimme a quarter an I'll put ye onto a thing that's got a foot on top of its legs. Museum Manager—Tou're guffln. Weary Wrinkles—No, I ain't. Museum Manager—Well, here's yoni quarter. What's the freak? Of course there will be disappointed applicants, for all cannot be appointed, but I shall do the best I con in the distribution of patronage, knowing that my job depends upon it. My uBalth now is real good. By this time Pearl had reached the margin of the brook, and stood on the farther side, gazing silently at Hester and the clergyman, who still sat together on the mossy tree trunk, waiting to receive her. Just where she had paused the brook chanced to form a pool, so smooth and quiet that it reflected a perfect image of her little figure, with all the brilliant picturesqueness of her beauty, in its adornment of flowers and wreathed foliage, but more refined and spiritualized than the reality.The excitement of Mr. Dimmesdale's feelings as he returned from his interview with Hester lent him unaccuBtomed physical energy and hurried him townward at a rapid pace. The pathway among the woods seemed wilder, more nnconth with its rude natural obstacles, and less trodden by the foot of man, than he remembered it on his ontward journey. But he leaped across the plashy places, thrust himseli through the clinging underbrush, climbed the ascent, plunged into the hollow, and overcame, in short, all the difficulties of the track with an unweariable activity that astonished him. He oould not but recall how feebly, and with what frequent pauses for breath, "Sir, you have just been vilifying my country. I challenge you to fight." When the dreary change was wrought she extended her hand to Pearl. The German was quite taken aback, but accepted the challenge. The duelists and their seconds met at the ap» pointed time and place. The American fired and missed. The German took deliberate aim at the heart of the Yankee, and his shot to«K effect; but instead of dropping to the ground, the American unbuttoned his coat and displayed a white shield with the following inscrip tion in gold letters: "Dost thou know thy mother now, child?" asked she reproachfully, but with a subdued tone, '-Wilt thou come across the brook and own thy mother, now that she has her shame upon her— now that Bhe is sad?" The following letter is jjiven here with a fictitious name to ifT but it is a bona fide letter and shows in a neat and terse way the naive and wholly untrammeled style of rhetoric taught at the college alluded to. One can almost as he reads see old Pegasus with a protruding and grass inflated abdomen snorting athwart the clover enameled fields of fancy with burdock burs in his tail; Weary Wrinkles (edging away)—A bed.—New York Herald. He Wai .111 Right. Papa, jestingly, to little Karl, the lat ter's lady cousin being present: "How old is Cousin Katie, Karl?" "Tweuty-eight." First Counterfeiter—Jimmy, you know that every one of that last 1 iatch of notes has beeu stolen from the garret? Poor fellow*. "Yes; now I will!" answered the child, bounding across the brook, and clasping Hester in her arms. "Now thou art my mother indeed! And I am thy little Pearl!" Second Counterfeiter (bitterly)—And yet they call this * well |Doliced, law. abiding :ity. Oneeonsi.liitiou, the sin of tliethievea kill find 'em Dut. They'll be sure to be Taught passing the stuff. It's the poorest ot we ever turned out.- Exchange. And, as if the gloom of the earth and sky had been but the effluence of these two mortal hearts, it vanished with their sorrow. All at once, as with a This image, so nearly identical with the living Pearl, seemed to communicate somewhat of its own shadowy and intangible oualitv to the child herself. It "Ah, but, Karl, I didn't expect that When the ladies are around yon should always take a year or two off their age ' "I did do that, pajia."-- FliegHml "The firm of Green & Co., H  street, beg to call the attention of duellata to their new patent breast plates," Mr. Bill Nye: Dkah Sir—In perusing a paper recently 1 Tcqalo, Ga., June 38. In a mood of tenderness that was not