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COUSIN PHILLIS

PART I.

From The Cornhill Magazine.

Ir is a great thing for a lad when he is | bring me to Eltham, and accompany me first first turned into the independence of lodg-to the office, to introduce me to my new masings. I do not think I ever was so satisfied [ter (who was under some obligations to my and proud in my life as when, at seventeen, father for a suggestion), and next to take I sat down in a little three-cornered room me to call on the Independent minister of above a pastry-cook's shop in the county- the little congregation at Eltham. And then town of Eltham. My father had left me that he left me; and though sorry to part with afternoon, after delivering himself of a few him, I now began to taste with relish the plain precepts, strongly expressed, for my pleasure of being my own master. I unguidance in the new course of life on which packed the hamper that my mother had proI was entering. I was to be a clerk under vided me with, and smelled the pots of prethe engineer who had undertaken to make serve with all the delight of a possessor who the little branch line from Eltham to Hornby. might break into their contents at any time My father had got me this situation, which he pleased. I handled and weighed in my was in a position rather above his own in fancy the home-cured ham, which seemed to life; or perhaps I should say, above the sta- promise me interminable feasts; and, above tion into which he was born and bred; for all, there was the fine savor of knowing that he was raising himself every year in men's I might eat of these dainties when I liked, consideration and respect. He was a me- at my sole will, not dependent on the pleaschanic by trade, but he had some inventive ure of any one else, however indulgent. I genius, and a great deal of perseverance, and stowed my eatables away in the little corhad devised several valuable improvements ner cupboard-that room was all corners, in railway machinery. He did not do this and everything was placed in a corner, the for profit, though, as was reasonable, what fireplace, the window, the cupboard; I mycame in the natural course of things was ac- self seemed to be the only thing in the midceptable; he worked out his ideas because, dle, and there was hardly room for me. The as he said, "until he could put them into table was made of a folding leaf under the shape, they plagued him by night and by window, and the window looked out upon day." But this is enough about my dear the market-place; so the studies, for the father; it is a good thing for a country prosecution of which my father had brought where there are many like him. He was a himself to pay extra for a sitting-room for sturdy Independent by descent and convic- me, ran a considerable chance of being dition; and this it was, I believe, which made verted from books to men and women. I him place me in the lodgings at the pastry- was to have my meals with the two elderly cook's. The shop was kept by the two sis-Miss Dawsons in the little parlor behind the ters of our minister at home; and this was three-cornered shop down-stairs; my breakconsidered as a sort of safeguard to my mor- fasts and dinners at least, for, as my hours als, when I was turned loose upon the temp-in an evening were likely to be uncertain, tations of the county-town, with a salary of my tea or supper was to be an independent thirty pounds a year. meal.

My father had given up two precious days, and put on his Sunday clothes, in order to

Then, after this pride and satisfaction, came a sense of desolation. I had never