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    ( 6 i gave the boots a cuff' for an untimely roar of laughter a * I reached the stair-case , and descended , very much discomfited and embarrassed to Mrs . Thompson * * * * What to do ? * # The coachman began to swear and make demonstrations of leaving us in the street , and it was necessary to decide . " Shove the ba ^ gnge inside the t ouc h , " I said at last / ' and drive on . Don ' t he unhappy Mrs . Thompson ! Jocket , stop crying , you villain J I'll see that you are comfortably disposed for the night where the coach stops , Madam , and to-morrow I'll try a little reason

    with Captain Thompson . " The progress of the story is humourously managed , and the denouement is a broad farce * We pulled up with a noi ^ e like the discharge of a load of paving stones , and I was about saving something both affectionate and consolatory to my weeping charge , when a tall , handsome fellow , with a face as brown as a berry , sprang to the coach door and seized her in his arms ! A shower of kisses and tender epithets left me not a moment in doubt . There was another Captain Thompson /

    " He had not been able to get rooms at the Marl borough , as he had anticipated when he wrote , and presuming' that the mail would come first to the Post Office , he hnd waited for her there . " As I was passing the Muflborough a week or two afterwards , I slopped to enquire about Captain Thompson . I found he was nn old West India Captain , who had lived there between his cruises for twenty years , more or less , and had generally been supposed a bachelor . He had suddenly gone to sea , the landlord told me , smiling * at the same time , as if thereby hung a tale if he chose to tell it . 44 c The fact is , ' said Boniface , when I pushed him a little on the subject , 'he was skeared off ' . ' •* ' What scared him ? ' I asked very innocently . ' A wife and child from some foreign port V he answered , laughing as if he would burst his waistband , and taking me into the back

    parlour to tell me the particulars . "—vol . iii . p . 88 . There are three tales called " Scenes of Fear , " quite in a different style to any we have quoted , but equally well told . An extract from one of them may be taken as a sample . * ' It \ tas , as I was saying , u niujht of wonderful beauty . I was

    watching a corpse . In that part of the United States the dead are never left alone till the earth is thrown upon them , and as a friend of the family , I had been called . upon for this melancholy service on the night preceding the interment . It was a death which har ! left a family of broken hearts ; for , beneath the sheet which sank so appallingly to the outline of a human form , lay a wreck of beauty and sweetness , whose loss ueemed to the survivors to have darkened the

    face of the earth . The etherial and touching loveliness of that dying girl , whom I had known only a hopeless victim of consumption , springs up in my memory even yet , and mingles with every conception of female beauty ** Two ladies , friends of the deceased were to share my vigils . I knew them but slightly , and having read them to sleep an hour after midnig ht , I performed my half-hourly duty of entering thu rooiu

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1836, page 363, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2658/page/35/