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utter abandonment in which they were ut-This, then, is P-ni,' said I. tered, was heart rending. 'Yes,' returned my guide: 'you see the 'Tell the porters not to admit that gen- celebrated juggler. who, having discovtleman again, till further orders,' said the ered that peculiar action of horse hair person he had solicited, to the waiter, ad- upon catgut, which is. necessary to gull ding in a sneering wisper, which will be John Bull out of his guineas-treat him given when his next quarter's salary is to a few scrapes and grimaces, receives due.' his thousands from the dramatic treasury,

'Let us take our seats at the table,' said speeds to the gaming table, and damning my Fides Achates, and while they are any starving beggar who may supplicate sorting the cards for a new deal, I will him for a penny on the road, loses the sketch you the characters of some of the whole amount, returns to his professional players! We seated ourselves according- duties, fiddles, receives, and is again plun ly. dered. The rest of these worthies around That tall cadaverous, middle-aged man us, with the exception of a German baron, opposite,' he continued, indicating by his a Spanish count, and a French valet, are glance, a person with a parchment com- hangers-on of the establishment,'-human plexion, and fixed filmy eyes, whose con- jackals, who cater for the principals, and vulsive movements gave him the appear-are allowed a certain per centage on the ance of a galvanized corpse, is a Scotch-game' they bring in. Now look behind man, who lately sold his commission-a you,' continued my companion, and you captaincy-in the army, under the impres- will see a little more private peculation.' sion that he had discovered a system which Turning my head in the indicated diwould insure him victory at all games of rection, I saw two men seated within a chance. He has already lost two thirds sort of alcove, at the end of the apartof his money, yet, still with trembling ment playing-as I gathered from catchhands and palsied frame, he continues to ing some of the technicalities of the game practice his infallible plan as if mathémati--piquet. The face of one of them was cal calculations could defeat the legerde- much fluhed, and seemed under the conmain of those trained plunderers. That trol of strong nervous excitement.-The fine looking fellow next him, is a young countenace of his antagonist wore the Irishman, who has but just made his de- calm and confident sneer of contemptubut in the sporting world, yet has even ous superiority.

now spent all his ready cash, and mort- 'Go,' said my prompter, pointing to the gaged for half their value, the rich acres latter; 'touch that man on the elbow, tell of his paternal heritage." him, (in a whisper) that the person he is Who is that remarkably tall man, with fleecing is a friend of yours, and that you the hook-nose, and flowing hair?' inquired have observed his tricks, and will expose Į, interrupting my informant: 'I think I him. You will see the result.' have seen him before, and that in the pul- Partly urged by curiosity, and partly pit.' by a mysterious and increasing influence Ha! ha-you mistake him for I-g exercised over my volition by my com. They strongly resemble each other in panion, I rose and did as he desired. The person, nor is their so much difference in fellow instantly nodded, gave me a knowtheir callings as might appear at first sighting leer, and covertly insinuating about a One performs on a stage, in Drury Lane, dozen sovereigns into my hand, smiled the other in Newman street,--and one benevolently, as if he had done some very exhibition is about as theatrical as the oth- meritorious action, and coolly pursued his er. The former opens all hearts and pur-game. ses, by no means of strains which Orphe

'I cannot keep this plunder,' said I resuus would have envied; the latter arrives ming my seat.

at the same end, through the agency of a Why not?' reasoned my Mentor; 'you stern brow, an impressive voice, and have as much right to it as the man who something compounded of impudence and lost it; he pilfered it from his employer.' enthusiasm, which fools mistake for inspi- Then to him it ought, in justice, to be restored.'

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Not at all: he holds an office under its occupants-my cicerone and I being government, and of course filched it from the last lingerers, save the two proprietors the treasury. who remained to divide the spoils. At this "Then it belongs to the administration. period, and just as we were about leaving No, they unjustly taxed the people to obtain it.'

the hall, there was a sound of voices, in loud and peremtory 'altercation, from the 'It is the property of the nation, then.' adjoining saloon. In an instant after, the Why, yes,' sophisticated this member door which com- municated, from it was of the lower house, but as I don't see thrown open, and two athletic young how you could beneficially divide such a men,aparently intoxicated, rushed into the sum amongst a population of twenty mil- play room. lions, I think you may as well act as their representative, and keep it yourself,'

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Make your game, gent'men,'-last deal to-night, only cards for three coups more, vociferatad the groom-porter.

'Hillo! old boy,' exclaimed one of them addressing the eldest of the two Hellites: Hillo !-not going to shut up store yet.

'Finished for this evening, sir,' said the man to whom he had spoken with a bow. Two highly successful ones for the bank "Oh !, replied the former speaker, 'as followed. you've already turned three hours of morn 'Last croup, gent'men,' said the official. ing into evening, I guess it won't make Hoping to recover; or at least to miti- much odds, adding an extra one to the ac gate their losses, many of the players count. Just wake up, commodore, and staked their remaining funds on the com- look here,' he continued, taking from his ing event, and every eye was bent with pocket and shaking a purse, well filled with deep anxiety on the dealer. gold and notes.

Thirty-one,' said he,-thirty-one--- At length, a very heavy stake was apres,' and the stakes were raked into a thrown down by each of the brothers at marked space, where they were to remain the same time, and on the same colorfor the decision of another coup; all 'tren- namely, black.

te un apres,' being as my companion in- 'Look!' said my companion, and I distinctformed me, a clear profit to the proprie ly saw the dealer place part of the cards tors of the Hell; since in such cases, the he had dealt, on the undealt pack in his winnings were paid, but not the losings.-hand, as he pretended to throw the former Cards for a second coup were now taken into the basket, in the centre of the table . promiscuously from those already.dealt, The coup proceeded, and black lost. In and the dealer once more commenced his an instant, a grasp like that of a black operations. smith's vice was on the throat of the deal Thirty-two black-thirty-three-red er. Villain!" shouted the excited Ken loses,' said the functionary; and anon the tuckian, shaking him as a terrier would a long hoe of the croupier was at work weasel, 'I've caught you at lást!' dragging in the heaps of money from The croupier, who was vis-a-vis with rouge, and returning the trifling stakes of his colleague, was immediately seized by the betters on nɔr. the brother of the assailant; in a similar

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'I'm just clean done!' said the Scotch- delicate manner, and thus resistance, of cry for succour, was rendered impos Be gar I'am de smash up!' cried the sible. But they did not attempt either, and Frenchman. seemed as much paralyzed by fear, mer Och! thunder!-what sort of a coup tally as they were bodily, by the unrelax d'ye call that?'-shouted the son of Saint ing clinch of their opponents. Patrick. Scoundrel!' resumed the former speak That, Sir,' said the cashier, with aer, refund to us the money you have rob bow as he carelessly tossed the money in-bed us of, or it will go ill with you. to an open cash-box before him-that sir, will find the amount there," he added, hand is what we call a coup de grab !' iug him a small piece of paper, with his As play had been announced to have left hand,-still keeping his dexter digits concluded for the night, or rather mo. n-firmly twisted in the cravat of his trent ing, the room was soon nearly emtied of bling captive.

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My-dear-sir!' gasped the wretch, de- there stood my venerable landlady, in precatingly, unwilling to part with his her white cap and apron, with my breaksqoils, though shaking like an aspen from fast in her hand: and the bright light of terror, and the chooking,-'my good Sir an unfoggy morning was staring me full -we have lost so-immensely-lately,' in the face.

'Pay it!' said his antagonist, sternly. 'But my'

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And the click produced by cocking pistol filled up the pause more eloquently than words.

"Sorry to disturb you, Sir," said the kind hearted soul, "but I was obliged to draw back your chair to set the table, and you made such funny faces, I couldn't hold from laughing."

'Allow me to go-and fetch it-from Years have elapsed since the dream I my-my-bureau, below,--then,' stam- have related occurred,-yet so vividly are mered the rascal, not forgetting his cun- its incongruous circumstances impressed ning, even in his abject fear. upon my memory, that I had no difficulty 'What! and alarm all your coadjutors! in transcribing them from its records. No, no my friend, it won't suit,' replied That my imagination should thus have the young man: 'Fork up, and that in- run riot through scenes in which I had nestantly, or take the contents of this,' he ver mingled may seem extraordinary; but added fiercely, as he thrust the cold bar- it is easily accounted for. The graphic rel of a pistol against the supplicant's descriptions contained in the magazine archeek. ticle I had been reading, in conjunction

The argument was too cogent to be with the operatic diablerie I had witnessed, trifled with. Notes to be required amount were the elements of my fantastic vision; were counted out, with trembling hands, Should any reader complain of its dullby the baffled swindler, and quietly trans-ness or inconsistency, I can only say he has ferred to the pocket-books of the brothers, it just as I had it, and must refer him for who, after giving the two partners in in-farther satisfaction, to Messrs. Morpheus iquity a brace of hearty shakes, by way and Somnus, the real authors, who are of receipts, wished them a "very good mor- alone amenable to criticism for its de-' ning," and walked off, and left them to fects.

their unsatisfactory meditations.

"I will bid you good bye!" said 1 to my companion as we again stood in the. open air.

THE JEW.

"Ha ha ha!" roared he, in a tone Travelling lately through the western that petrified me with horror: "do you part of Virginia, I was much interested think I part with my acquaintance so eas in hearing an old and highly respectable ily?". clergyman give a short account of a Jew, "But you promised," said I with a quiv. with whom he had lately become acquaintering lip, for I did not at all join in his ed.. He was preaching to a large and atmirth. tentive audience, when his attention was "Promised! Ho! ho! ho!" and seizing arrested by seeing a man enter, having me by the arms, he dragged me forward every mark of a Jew on the lineaments of with such rapidity that I could not even his countenance. He was well dressed, tell the direction we are taking. Sud- his appearance was noble, though it was denly he tsopped. I turned to remon-evident his heart had lately been the habistrate with him on his unamiable conduct. tation of sorrow. He took his seat and As I looked at him, his countenance chan- was all attention, while an unconscious ged, it broadened-reddened-smiled! tear was often seen to wet his manly cheek. "Eh! ah!--what the dev-! I moan After service the clergyman fixed his Mrs. Thoroughgood, is that you? Why eye steadily upon in, and the stranger where's-Oh! I see," continued I, ciprocated his stare ex The good minispanding my optics to their full width: eer goes up to him-Sir, am I correct, been dreaming!" Jam I not addressing one of the children forof Abraham? You are.' 'But, how is it

This fact was now self-evident,
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that I meet a Jew in a christian assem-to me than the whole world beside!' 'But

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father, do you love me?' 'Why, my child will you give me pain so exquisite? Have He was a very respectable man, of a never given you proofs of my love?'. superior education, who had lately come But my father, do you love me? The trom London; and with his books, his father could not answer; the child added, riches, and a lovely daughter of seventeen 'I know, my father, you have ever loved had found a charming retreat on the banks me-you have been the kindest of parents of the Ohio. He had buried the companion and I tenderly, love you. Will you grant of his bosom before he left Europe, and me one request. O, my father, it is the dyhe now knew no pleasure but in the com-jing request of your daughter will you pany of his endeared child. She was in-grant it? My dearest child, ask what deed worthy a parent's love. She was you will, though it take every cent of my surrounded by beauty as a mantle; dis- property, whatever it may be, it shall be position threw around her a charm supe-granted. I will grant it.' My dear farior to any of the tinselled 'decorations of the, I beg you will never again speak the body. No pains had been spared on against JESUS o Nazareth! The father her education. She could read and speak was dumb with astonishment. I know,' with fluency several different languages. continued the dying girl, I know but little and her manners charmed every beholder. about this Jesus, for I was never taught, No wonder, then, that a doating father. But I know that he is a Saviour for he whose hand had how become sprinkled has manifested himself to me since I have with grey, should place his whole affec- been sick, even for the salvation of my tion on this only child of his love, especi- soul. I believe he will save me, although ally as he knew no source of happiness! never before loved him. I feel that I am beyond this world. Being a strict Jew, going to him that I shall ever be with he educated her in the strictest, principles him. And now my father, do not deny of his religion, and he thought he had pre-me: Ie; that you will never again speak sented it with an ornament. against JESUS f Nazareth! I entreat you

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It was not long ago that his daughter to obtain a Testament that te'ls of him; was taken sick. The rose faded from her and I pray you may know him; and when check, her eve lost its fire, her strength I am no more, you may bestow on him decayed, and it was soon apparent that the love that was formerly mine.' . the worm of disease was rioting in the The exertion here overcame the weakcore of her vitals. The father hung over ness of her feeble body. She stopped; aud the bed of his daughter with a heart ready the father's heart was too full, even for to burst with anguish. He often attempted tears. He left the room in great horror to converse with her, but seldom spoke of mind, and ere he could again summon but by the language of tears. He spared sufficient fortitude, the spirit of his accomno trouble or expense in procuring medi- plished daughter had taken its flight, as I cal assistance. but no hunan skill could trust, to that Saviour, whom he loved and extract the arrow of death now fixed in honoured, without seeing or knowing. her heart.-The father was walking in a The first thing the parent did after comsmall grove near his house, wetting his mitting to the earth his last earthly joy, steps with his tears, when he was sent for was to procure a New Testement. This by the dying daughter. With a heavy he read; and taught by the, Spirit from heart he entered the door of the chamber, above, is now numbered among the meek which he feared would soon be the en- and humble followers of the Lord. trance of death. He was now to take a last farewell of his child, and his, religion gave but a feeble hope of meeting her hereafter. The child grasped the hand of her the greatest treasure is contentment; the parent with a death-cold hand. My fa greatest possession is health; the greatest ther do you love me? My child you ease is sieep; the greatest medicine is a know I love you; that you are more dear true friend.

C. H.

The greatest pleasure of life is love;

From Chambers' Edinburgh Journal

Harriet Bruce.

To be beloved is all I need,
And whom I love I love indeed."

COLERIDGE.

how Madame de Stael herself had become its, reluctant victim. On this subject she often philosophised, and always laughed. "Who," said she, scornfully, "who that has felt the gush and the thrill attendant.) upon fame, would be foolish enongh to exchange dominion over many for the despotism of one?" Thus Harriet Bruce My friend Harriet Bruce was a healthy, reasoned, and thus she actually thought; tall, bold-looking girl; somewhat too large but I knew her better than she knew her and vigorous for ge..uine beauty, yet gift self. Her affections were as rich and ed with a generous expression, and a rich, overflowing as her mental energies; and perpetual coloring, that would have made her craving for human sympathy was in any other face stylish and attractive. She direct proportion to that intense love of was no favorite, with the gentlemen; but beauty, which, in her, amounted to an inthere was an indescribable something tellectual passion. That she would love about her appearance and manners which exclusively and extravagantly, I had no always compelled them to inquire who she doubt; and my penetration soon singled was. No person ever talked with her without an object. At a large party, I. first out remembering what she said; and every saw her with George Macdonough, the one criticised what they could not forget. son of a rich southerner, first in his class, Yet it was not intellect that made her un- and in the full flush of manly beauty. I popular; had she chosen to affect reckless knew by the carriage of his neck that he misanthropy, maudlin sensibility, or any was a Virginian; and the hauteur with other foppery whereby to distinguish her- which he received adulation attracted my self, she would have found plenty of ad-attention, as the pawing of a high mettled mirers and imitators; but, in her mind, ge-horse would have done. His conversation nius was checked by manly philosophy; with Harriet seemed at first to be of a soand she could ill conceal her contempt.of ber and learned cast, but on her part it those who knew talent only by its most soon became petulant. Now and then I common diseases. The consciousness of heard some remark which seemed to remental power, that lighted up her eye late to a transmigration of souls, and a with such a burning spark of pride, and continual rise in intellectual existence.the expression of scorn for ever dancing Oh," exclaimed Harriet, "how that idea on her lip corners, ready to embody itself savours of New. England bousc-keeping? in sarcasıp, was unquestionably the true how can a Virginian patronise a theory reason why this splendid creature became so economical!" At that moment, a very the Paria of the ball room. She was a lovely girl entered the room; and the strange sort of Die Vernon-no, she was young man did not answer Miss Bruce's not a Die Von either-and as I now question. "Ah, there is the beautiful Balremember her, I cannot think of a single morean," said he, she whom I told you character, living or imaginary, who she reminded me of that fine engraving of did resemble. She fascinated her ene- yours, La belle Suisse." "She is beau mies, but never pleased her friends. Pow-tiful," said Harriet, with affected warmth. er! power! and, above all, intellectual Her full dark eyes are magnificent-what power! was the constant dream of her a pity it is they are not lighted from with. ambitior.. To have been sure of Madame in; that expression alone is wanting to fill de Stael's reputation, she would have re- the measure of her glory!" The remark nounced human sympathy, and lived un- was made to an inattentive listener, for oving and unbeloved in this.wide world Macdonough's whole interest was absorb. of social happiness-there was such mag-ed by the new comer. A slight shade ificence in the idea of sending one's ge- passed over Harriet's face-but it was too nius abroad, like a spark of electricity, to transient to define the emotion in which it e active and eternal-defying education originated; and she smiled as she said, its form, duration, and power! Some-"You had best go and talk with your pow. mes I talked of love, and reminded her erful beauty-the body should be where

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