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14 i do not know what my lace expressed, but hers flushec 1 paled as from some strong in- ternal emotion; and, as if in spite of herself, a tear gathered in her eye. At this moment, which had become not a lit- tered to announce the arrivalof Mr. English consul, and with another ger rentle pres- | sure of the hand and a ‘good morning, lappa Delamere,’”’ I took my leave, with a feéling so Strangely different from that I had ever ex per- ienced before in parting from any human he- ing, that I began to fancy that I had fallen in love. CH APT E B 1 Y. SURPRISES. a rotaeaed to the Hotel des Etra ngers in. a hot, it was approaching the hour of noon, and I Shadows should be thrown fanto the eastward. lhad a fine, airyr room . commanding a view of the beautil ul pay and the hill of. Posiipo. paired thither, locked myself in, seated miyself by an open wind ow, and gazed out upon an an- nated scene There was enough of the pietur- esque ‘to attract the eye, soi it souglit only external things, in the moving boats, vessels and steamers upon the glassy waters; but. I soon lost Sight of everything in a reverie which re- produced the persons of those from whom J had so recently parted, and the Hubei innocent | * as an angel ° Georgine Delamere was before me - Jignt, beside the dark § in Suddenly I was aroused and half startled by a thundering knocking at my door, ace companied by the words, in English: “Open Sesame!’’ “Whoever you are, ceeds your wisd spirit of Count Sayer- your impude! lom,’’ ‘thought I, aS, in no very amiable mood. I arose and gave my visitor ad- mittance. The next moment 1 found myself inthe em- brace of the last man in the world I expected 4 see—a wild, hare-brained, rattle-headed fellow, who had once been my Class-mate.at Yale, but “Bless your heirs and | soul, “AL iti is you, isn’t if?’ loud voice, first rivin squeeze that nearly took the breath out of. me, and then shaking me by both he would dislocate my arms. ‘‘Glad to see ee ny boy—never more so—though I always _ lik you, you Know. rattled on, without giving “thunder and lightning ! for noise, ‘crowds, filth and be gears! that have blocked up every inch of my way since I landed from the steamer. I sho some coin among the wre | wered etches, and such scram- | bling and fighting you never saw, and I believe 1 Le the rascals worse instead of better. How 1 got here alive is more than I can tell, 0 side now big énough t duniuniain of yours?’ I said to the eovernor ¢ | the hotel; and he point thames op ‘the rep | f broke for you, and ‘here how are you, my dear boy, and what are mS he tle embarrassing to both of us, the a en- | what brought hit ‘know what else to say. somewhere, do somethi ‘Sg you KI I've been roying round. this six months. After | | the old gentleman died friend the L 0 | Soong that he SE out to get rid of him. very peculiar frame of mind, different from any as I had ever -before experienced. The day was | | thought Va steady myself down and resolved not to go out again till the’ mountain fair to Europe not to give her a sp | So I first went to London; but the eternal rain — and fog soon soaked. over to Paris, where I spent the winter and saw some ulled=up > stakes and planted myself in. Madrid, but that. fought a couple of duels, and left the man, rm poe as a bakec dence far ex- | th the man a before. me Noes Aes corenpennrid are thousands of m who had been XE pelled for severe practical ite): | race { and how neéar and | one from our worshiped land. mar a a | as a ‘nel ighbor at home, wi might never have hands till T feared | brother ind Whe-e-w!”? he whistled and |i hi me time to speak; | hi what a place) | ye | been nearly torn to pieces. by the inférnal crew | would have mad } Saw aman who could so Comp selffrom one character to another—losing his ah S'S. @ mob outside zh to | ownidentity for the time and becomin City. ‘Any Americans here, in this | Pan- |t d out three or four ister, yours among them, and I am, Tight side up ; they label glass. And now how doing with yourself here, eh??? I replied to his smuestions, and ‘then asked Welly 0 see the sights, I suppose n't man me rive gO 1 : 7 “Ts your father dead, then oy Pers “Yes,“he’s ee a2 over @ year. out stepped in one day, and stayed Well, as Iwas saying, after he died, and left me the snug dittle sum of a hur sand, be -some- nonths, and then con- “red tho body. Ltried it- for Six J | cluded it wasn’t my style, you know. Pd sowed | : | 4 good many wild oats, but I found I’d quite a_ re- | stock still on hand, and concluded I might. as well get rid of them: and as I had scatte red pretty freely in America, I thought. 1ST’ me.out of there, and I shot fun..- Abot six weeks ago ol pulle place didn’t suit T meatal. Isuw two or ‘three — zhts, made love toca few prett: women. forthe country’s: good—and mime ‘to ed clam; and so lef us have ‘Pon my ” WOR, I’m glad to meet you!””~ I could have echoed’ the words. heartily, had | |} known in my native” Sh ieeAnd nH foreign shore chow; Aly-ant ee rinkling a6: Ah! how strong is the tie of country when we iles from the scenes of youth, among those ofa d ifferent nation said dear to us seems any and to ‘find an. acquaintance there, is | 0 find, a 3 = antattey 1 Larkir mS But. rt wit! I al 1 ihe h llo the way Of mischief, th vas afraid ‘of him— afraid = being drawn into some difficulty when ast expecting it.» I could never tell) when I as zafe. He had talents of a high order, and ea remarkable actor. letely chez 1) £ e him- It was with such tricks elf at colleg: ; ~S.co map d andy o no ae NA aaa eainictian IT never g an en-