it’s but a little thing to ask, take her along

She walked to my man, got up in his lap, put her arm round his neck, and kissed him right on the mouth

Wait; don’t take any more of that liquid.

and it nearly killed her laughing

plate of sardines and a strawberry,

At present I was only in debt for my first year’s salary.

When the crash should come, he might somehow be able to save me from total destruction;

You could not take up a newspaper, English, Scotch, or Irish, without finding in it one or more references to the “vest-pocket million-pounder” and his latest doings and saying.

Let the minor customers wait

“Well, what’s up?

“They are gone.”

they are in a frantic rage against him instead of quarreling with their own near-sightedness,

hinted to me to put the monster out of sight

“Give me the change, please.”

Five millions of dollars!

My opinion of those people changed, I can tell you

I would have picked up the pear now and eaten it before all the world, but it was gone;

Finally they told me I would answer their purpose.

and then the two brothers sat at the window a whole day watching for the right man to give it to

tossed a luscious big pear – minus one bite – into the gutter

It was a long and stormy voyage, and they made me work my passage without pay, as a common sailor.

I was alone in the world, and had nothing to depend upon but my wits and a clean reputation;

In a moment she was alone, and mumbling to herself.

and fondled them lovingly;

“Nonsense!” she exclaimed.

“Why so much that-is-ing?

Mean as the town is,

a burglar might come at any moment;

gently quivering with excitement

and not let so much as one person escape unhurt. 

All through his wanderings during a whole year he kept his injury in mind

Also, throughout the formative years temptations were kept out of the way of the young people

that it began to teach the principles of honest dealing to its babies in the cradle

Often, awaking suddenly at midnight, he shrank from the bosom of Faith

and almost kissed her husband before the whole village.

“Faith! Faith!” cried the husband. “Look up to Heaven, and resist the Wicked One!”

“But, where is Faith?”

Either the sudden gleams of light, flashing over the obscure field, bedazzled Goodman Brown, or he recognized a score of the church-members of Salem village, famous for their especial sanctity.

On he flew, among the black pines, brandishing his staff with frenzied gestures, now giving vent to an inspiration of horrid blasphemy, and now shouting forth such laughter, as set all the echoes of the forest laughing like demons around him

so that he laughed loud and long, did Goodman Brown grasp his staff and set forth again,

The young man seized it, and beheld a pink ribbon. “My Faith is gone!” cried he, after one stupefied moment. “There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name. Come, devil! for to thee is this world given.”

Whither, then, could these holy men be journeying, so deep into the heathen wilderness

Moreover, there is a goodly young woman to be taken into communion

And what calm sleep would be his, that very night, which was to have been spent so wickedly, but purely and sweetly now, in the arms of Faith!

Goodman Brown sat himself down on the stump of a tree, and refused to go any farther.

“That old woman taught me my catechism!”

there is a nice young man to be taken into communion to-night

my broomstick hath strangely disappeared, stolen, as I suspect

“The devil!” screamed the pious old lady.

that Faith should come to any harm

and a majority of the Great and General Court are firm supporters of my interest.

I have been as well acquainted with your family as with ever a one among the Puritans;

which bore the likeness of a great black snake,

“Faith kept me back awhile,”

“What if the devil himself should be at my very elbow!”

“There may be a devilish Indian behind every tree,”

“Poor little Faith!” thought he, for his heart smote him. “What a wretch am I, to leave her on such an errand!

pink ribbons.

with the pink ribbons of her cap

And Faith

Tremble also at each other! Have men avoided me, and women shown no pity, and children screamed and fled, only for my black veil? What, but the mystery which it obscurely typifies, has made this piece of crape so awful?

kind and loving, though unloved,

Strangers came long distances to attend service at his church, with the mere idle purpose of gazing at his figure

so that love or sympathy could never reach him.

It grieved him, to the very depth of his kind heart, to observe how the children fled from his approach

and that others would make it a point of hardihood to throw themselves in his way.

O! you know not how lonely I am, and how frightened, to be alone behind my black veil. Do not leave me in this miserable obscurity forever!”

“And do you feel it then, at last?” said he mournfully.

“I, perhaps, like most other mortals, have sorrows dark enough to be typified by a black veil.”

“there is nothing terrible in this piece of crape, except that it hides a face which I am always glad to look upon. Come, good sir, let the sun shine from behind the cloud. First lay aside your black veil: then tell me why you put it on.”

she entered upon the subject with a direct simplicity, which made the task easier both for him and her.

pronouncing the matter too weighty to be handled

before it should grow into a scandal.

It was remarkable that of all the busybodies and impertinent people in the parish, not one ventured to put the plain question to Mr. Hooper, wherefore he did this thing

At that instant, catching a glimpse of his figure in the looking-glass, the black veil involved his own spirit in the horror with which it overwhelmed all others. His frame shuddered, his lips grew white, he spilt the untasted wine upon the carpet, and rushed forth into the darkness.

“And so had I, at the same moment,” said the other

A superstitious old woman was the only witness of this prodigy

at the instant when the clergyman’s features were disclosed, the corpse had slightly shuddered,

At its conclusion, the bell tolled for the funeral of a young lady.

“Something must surely be amiss with Mr. Hooper’s intellects,” observed her husband, the physician of the village.

A sad smile gleamed faintly from beneath the black veil, and flickered about his mouth, glimmering as he disappeared.

Strange and bewildered looks repaid him for his courtesy

one or two affirmed that there was no mystery at all, but only that Mr. Hooper’s eyes were so weakened by the midnight lamp, as to require a shade.

the people hurried out with indecorous confusion, eager to communicate their pent-up amazement,

The subject had reference to secret sin, and those sad mysteries which we hide from our nearest and dearest, and would fain conceal from our own consciousness, even forgetting that the Omniscient can detect them.

that more than one woman of delicate nerves was forced to leave the meeting-house

Did he seek to hide it from the dread Being whom he was addressing?

“Our parson has gone mad!”

“He has changed himself into something awful, only by hiding his face.”

stooping somewhat,

as if a careful wife had starched his band, and brushed the weekly dust from his Sunday’s garb

The old people of the village came stooping along the street. Children, with bright faces, tripped merrily beside their parents, or mimicked a graver gait, in the conscious dignity of their Sunday clothes

He makes, in silence, a host of observations and inferences

When I say proficiency, I mean that perfection in the game which includes a comprehension of all the sources whence legitimate advantage may be derived.

but simply prefacing a somewhat peculiar narrative by observations very much at random;

He derives pleasure from even the most trivial occupations bringing his talent into play.

I had walled the monster up within the tomb!

My heart beat calmly as that of one who slumbers in innocence

I looked upon my future felicity as secured.

Once again I breathed as a freeman

firmly resolved to put it to death.

Here at least, then, my labor has not been in vain.”

I knew that I could not remove it from the house, either by day or by night, without the risk of being observed by the neighbors

Evil thoughts became my sole intimates—the darkest and most evil of thoughts

With my aversion to this cat, however, its partiality for myself seemed to increase.

I continued my caresses, and, when I prepared to go home, the animal evinced a disposition to accompany me. I permitted it to do so; occasionally stooping and patting it as I proceeded.

I went so far as to regret the loss of the animal

by some one of whom the animal must have been cut from the tree and thrown, through an open window, into my chamber.

The destruction was complete

I slipped a noose about its neck and hung it to the limb of a tree;—hung it with the tears streaming from my eyes, and with the bitterest remorse at my heart;

to do wrong for the wrong’s sake only

I not only neglected, but ill-used them.

and I mention the matter at all for no better reason than that it happens, just now, to be remembered.

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man

peculiarity

My tenderness of heart was even so conspicuous as to make me the jest of my companions.

Horror

and very surely do I not dream

be thankful for the good, be patient under the evil, and presume not to enquire why the latter predominate

these passing clouds of adversity will serve only to make the sunshine of prosperity more pleasing

“be not anxious on that account; for daily are my prayers offered to heaven that our lives may terminate at the same instant, and one grave receive us both; for why should I live when deprived of my only friend.”

to receive visitors of distinction

I will seek Content; and, if I find her in a cottage, will embrace her with as much cordiality as I should if seated on a throne

a serene stillness reigned;

it can be productive of no good:

vanity led him to wish to see her again.

A BOARDING SCHOOL

Praise is sweet to the soul; we are immediately intoxicated by large draughts of flattery, which being plentifully administered, is to the pride of our hearts, the most acceptable incense. It is expected that with the other sex we should commence immediate war, and that we should triumph over the machinations of the most artful

At length arrived at womanhood, the uncultivated fair one feels a void, which the employments allotted her are by no means capable of filling

Grant that their minds are by nature equal

the one is taught to aspire, and the other is early confined and limitted.

that the very first thought presents us with an apology

the minds of females are so notoriously deficient, or unequal

Yet nature with equality imparts And noble passions, swell e’en female hearts.

To heights surprising some great spirits soar, With inborn strength mysterious depths explore; Their eager gaze surveys the path of light, Confest it stood to Newton’s piercing sight.

how mortifying should this be all, if, upon a more extensive knowledge you should be discovered to possess no one mental charm

address her as a rational being

she should be accustomed to hear the most pleasing truths,

Ambition is a noble principle, which properly directed, may be productive of the most valuable consequences.

Nor the sweet gale of praise was e’er inhal’d; Rous’d by a new stimulus, no kindling glow

One common wreck of all our prospects see!

However oddly the assertion sounds

‘Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land, Taught my benighted soul to understand That there’s a God, that there’s a Saviour too:

Thus we may see my brethren, what a miserable condition it is to be under the slavish fear of men; it is of such a destructive nature to mankind, that the scriptures everywhere from genesis to the revelations warn us against it;

Thus, my brethren, we see what a chequered world we live in

Though we cannot help them, the distance being too great, yet we may sympathize with them in their troubles, and mingle a tear of sorrow with them, and do as we are exhorted to–weep with those that weep.

till death as a friend shall relieve them.

for the hand of the Lord hath touched me.

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having heard nothing of me for almost Thirteen Years

I was taken sick in London of a Fever, and was confin’d about 6 Weeks, where I expended all my Money, and left in very poor Circumstances

and I was Wounded in the Head by a small Shot

on board the Sandwich

        * He is carried (by Way of Respect) in a large Two-arm Chair; the Chair is lin’d with crimson Velvet, and supported by eight Persons.

Accordingly, after Dinner, came to the Prison,

so paid them Ten Dollars for me,

the Indians came after me, and insisted on having me again, as I was their Prisoner;

and soon unbound me

that they intended to roast me alive.

“my Lads we are all dead Men,”

and had kill’d Captain Howland

to be Indians of which there were Sixty

Uneasiness

UNCOMMON SUFFERINGS,

AS my Capacities and Condition of Life are very low

Also, An Account of his being Confined Four Years and Seven Months in a close Dungeon,–

All seditious gathering shall be dissipated immediately, first by way of verbal order and, if necessary, by development of armed force.

Anyone who, without authority of the law to make an arrest, gives, signs, executes or causes to be executed the arrest of a person, shall be guilty of the crime of arbitrary detention.

The salary of the Governor is fixed at the present time at 300.000 Francs.

He shall determine the divisions of the territory in manners most conform to internal relations. He watches and provides, according to the law, for internal and external security of the colony, and given that the state of war is a state of abandonment, malaise and nullity for the colony, the Governor is charged to take in those circumstances measures he deems necessary to ensure the subsistence and the supply of goods of all sorts to the colony.

shall swear obedience to the orders of the new Governors Saint-Domingue.

for the remainder of his glorious life.

The Constitution guarantees freedom and individual security

Laws that will tend to expand and maintain social virtues, and to encourage and cement family bonding shall fix condition and rights of children born in wedlock.

Divorce shall not take place in the colony.

The law is the same for all whether in punishment or in protection.

All men are born, live and die free and French.

This, Sir, is offered as a summary sketch on a subject on which I have not thought much.

These, for a female, are dancing, drawing, and music.

should their fathers be lost, or incapable, or inattentive.

A plan of female education has never been a subject of systematic contemplation with me

But in this country the slaves multiply as fast as the free inhabitants.

Misery is often the parent of the most affecting touches in poetry. — Among the blacks is misery enough, God knows, but no poetry

But never yet could I find that a black had uttered a thought above the level of plain narration; never see even an elementary trait of painting or sculpture

The Indians, with no advantages of this kind, will often carve figures on their pipes not destitute of design and merit.

as I think one could scarcely be found capable of tracing and comprehending the investigations of Euclid; and that in imagination they are dull, tasteless, and anomalous.

When present, they do not go through it with more coolness or steadiness than the whites.

They secrete less by the kidnies, and more by the glands of the skin, which gives them a very strong and disagreeable odour. This greater degree of transpiration renders them more tolerant of heat, and less so of cold, than the whites.

Why not retain and incorporate the blacks into the state, and thus save the expence of supplying, by importation of white settlers, the vacancies they will leave? Deep rooted prejudices entertained by the whites; ten thousand recollections, by the blacks, of the injuries they have sustained; new provocations; the real distinctions which nature has made; and many other circumstances, will divide us into parties, and produce convulsions which will probably never end but in the extermination of the one or the other race

scarf-skin

till the females should be eighteen, and the males twenty-one years of age,

of those which must be present to every nation barbarous or civilised

Yet how many more must elapse before the proofs of their common origin, which exist in their several languages, will disappear?

that the former are the descendants of the latter, or the latter of the former:

The man with them is less strong than with us, but their woman stronger than ours; and both for the same obvious reason; because our man and their woman is habituated to labour, and formed by it

This I believe is the case with every barbarous people.

The Indian of North America being more within our reach, I can speak of him somewhat from my own knowledge

From these sources

I here close the subject.