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Distress and pov» erty, from my father’s long confinement, have brought him to what you see him. He had no asylum, no home, and he came to me. Forgive me. Can a sister turn her back upon a brother ? Never.’ ‘ She’d better not,’ said the Count ; ‘ but this is more like sense; so Dolly, I look towards you, and I’ll be your brother, if you like, Here’s your health, you jolly green ;’ and he took another pull at his liquor, and reeled out of the room, re- marking that he ‘would go and have a little mirth with the parrots.’ Then I had I’m sick of it, and I’m going to split; i am, by gum l’ Carlotta looked finbber- gasted for a moment, and then said to me, ‘ The fatigue of the travel, the ex ci‘tement, the heat; haVe unhinged his poor mind; I must rally him.’ Then, turning to the rufiiau (and I saw her wink at him), and she said, in her then- trical way, ‘ How, my lord ! your Lord- ship strungely forgets yourself! Seek a little repose now, and you will recount the happy tidings afterwards] He has ceine,’ she explained to me, ‘ through the wilds of Russia and in byQWorth of india, riding lilght and day to relieve my mindâ€"was it not good and key‘ind and noble? Go, my lord, and repose a while.’ His lordship, however, declined to go, and repeated he was sick of the the gammon, and would split; and then he started up and began to sing a bit of that extravaganzia song, ‘I’m not the Queen, ha, hat! I’m not the Queen, ha, ha !’ and added, ‘ No,nor the Lord Mayor, nor the Archbishop of Canterbury, nor Count Bubblefrowsky, nor any lord. I’m Bill \Vhytoek, I am; and I’ll fight you for a pint and lick you for a quart, you d d swuggering oliicering noodle l’ and then he took it long pull at his brandy- and-soda, and sat down. ' it out with Carlotta. She said her brother had been in want and distress, and had come out in desperation to look for her, without her sending for him. She feared he had got intowild drinking: ways, but might be reclaimed if I would pay his passage home, and give him a couple of hundred pounds to start him in business. I said I would, provided he went off at once by that day’s mail, and I never saw him again; and she (she was tremendously agitated, but as meek as a lamb) went into another row" discussed the matter with the Count, 1and I after a long wrangle she came back and said he was deeply grateful, and would go at once; and he did go. I made the agent pay his passage and see him on board, and I never set eyes on the ruflian again. A nice little domestic incident, wasn’t it? My health was a good deal smashed up with all the worry and disâ€" tress I had gone throughâ€"and I had a doctor in, who said I must positively go to sea for a month. Accordingly I took a passage in a steamer geing to Rangoon, and sailed two days after. Something went wrong with the screw or the boilers, . and we had to put back, and I was in‘ Calcutta again in a. week. I went to the ‘ house in Garden Reach ; my wife wasn't in 7 she was riding on the Course, so the servants said. I went to my room to change my dress, and requiring a pair of scissors, looked for them in a work-box of my wife’s in the adjoining room, and there, lying open in the box, was a note beginning ‘Angelic Being 1’ This was interesting, so I went on, and found it Was from a fellow saying he loved her, and asking why loving him as she con- fessed she did, she would not consent to be his, and fly from that imbecile hus- band of hers, union with whom was a dis- 1 DOUBLES AND QUI'rs: A COMEDY 0F ERRORSâ€"PART III. CHAPTER VII. BURRIDGE’S STOR? CONTINUED. ‘ The sittingâ€"rooms were to the back of the house, and I gotI in without her hearing, and Walked straight into a morn- ing-room that opened on to’a verandah and garden. There I saw a sight that astonished me. Carlotta was there in a dressingâ€"gown, With her hair down, with bloodshot eyes and a white soddeu face â€"â€"so old and haggard and blackguard looking, just like the horrid figure you see prowling about the gin-palaces in London ; and opposite her-who do you think was sitting opposite her ? with nothing but a flannel shirt and peijamas onâ€"a short pipe in‘ his mouthâ€"unshaven â€"dirt~yâ€":druukâ€"who? who but Count Arnold Doldorouski. I stopped at the door stupefied. Carlotta, who had a a large tumbler of liquor in her hand, threw it down and jumped up with a scream when she saw me. She could still act though, and well, and she reâ€" covered herself in an‘instant, and rushed towards me to embrace me: I couldn’t stand that, and pushed her away. Then she cried out, ‘What! not one fond emâ€" brace iu the moment ofjoy! The Count had just arrived with the happy, happy tidings; my father is delivered from the mine, and resumes his name and place in society l Rejoice with me, my Adolphus! rejoice ! rejoice !‘ and then she threw her eyes up and clasped her hands, All this time the Count had never risen, but sat blinking at me through the tobaccoâ€"smoke. When she had dohe he croaked out, ‘Stow "that gammon ; it’s a cock that won’t fight. yimm. ‘ Then they set to work and abused me. Lord ! how they did pitch into me, and my follies and weakness. I can tell you, Donald, this woman I had married out of pity had no pity upon me. At last the Jew said, in a tragic‘al voice, ‘ If he was here, if I saw him, I could not con- tain would lyr-Ifi rend him limb from limb,’ and lie..i'olled his eyes and gnashed his teeth like an ogre, i ‘ Would you?’ said I, stepping out; _ 9.;Well, here I amâ€"rend aivay l’ ,lVasn't the ow taken aback ! You should have seen his face. Then I took him by the scruff of the neck and kicked him up and down the room, and then I got a cutting whip and led into him till he hollowed out like a mad bull, and I took the butt and crashed into his head and face with it, and bundled him to the window when I was tired and tilted him out into the garden. Carlotta had fainted really, I believe; but she came too quick enough. I hadn’t much to say to her, and I said , it in a few words. She began her theat-l ricais, but I said, ‘Stop; I may be a} noodle and an imbecile and a disgrace to‘ be married to, but I’m not noodle enough to have anything more to do with you. This house will be shut up the day after tomorrow, you con make your own ar- rangements in the mean time. To-morrow send a‘ lawyer to meet mine at the agent’s at twcch o’clock. They will draw up a a deed of' separation; I wish to heaven it was a divorce, but you’re too cunning for that. I shall settle» ,£5OUia-year on you. I am going to Europe next week, if you should happen to be going that way and we meet, be good enough to re- member we’re total strangers; but I sin- cerely hope I may never see your face again.’ Then I got my traps together and went to the hotel, My wife had run up awful tics in Calcutta, and paying them elf realy dipped me, and I had to draw on my grandmother for an extra grant. She was a little astonished at my expenses, and I had to tell her aeock-and- bull story about the fearful morality among my elephantsâ€"â€"as I kept a herd of a few hundred all to myself. The good old soul paid up at once. I believe she imagines ever since that cavalry regi- ments are mounted on elephants in India ; l n ‘ Presently in came my lady and order- ed tea; and as soon as she was settled I got a chink of the door open to see all that went on, and before long Mr. Aaron Lewis was announced. You never saw such a thief to look at, Donald. He was ashort, stout, thick-set fellow, with a neck like a bull, a head of hair like a black haystack, a nose like a pump-ham dle, and a nigger’s blubber lips. He was evidently a Jew, and a very bad dirty sort of a Jew. When he came in he kissed his hand three times, skipped across the room, and went down with a bang On his knees before Carlotta. She‘ gave him her hand like a stage empress, 1 and he kissed it and said, ‘ Relent! relent l and fly with me to love and joy.’ Then she put up her handkerchief to her eyes with one hand, and with the other stroked his filthy hair, and warbled out, ‘Tempt me not, my Aaronâ€"tempt me not; be satisfied that my heart is thine, and wait I wait !’ I suppose she thought I Was seedy and going off the hooks, and she was hedging with this beast, and meant, wait till I was dead. ‘It' it is Worldly prudence,’said the Jew, who was a deuced poetical kind of a Jewâ€"‘ if it is worldly prudence which stifles the emotions of that fond heart, dismiss it. I have wealthâ€"I have goldâ€"I have riches; I shower them atyourfeet !’ and he butted his great bullet-head forward in his ecstasy and upset the teapot all over the place, and I swear it was all that I could do to keep from laughing. > that. was better thankhat she should know all the shame and distress I went through, which would break her heart, I believe. ‘ After a year at the depot, 1 went out to lndia, again to the headquarters of my present regiment7 and I spent three wretched years, there on the Madras side this time, principally at Bangalore. I have never seen Carlotta; all I know is that her money is paid by my agents to some solicitors in London for her every half-year. ‘ We camchome about eighteen months ago, and that brings me down to my acquintance with Mary.’ ‘AWell, Adolphus,’ I said, ‘ I must say you have had uncommonly hard lines. One would almost say that one moral of your story at least is, ‘Never act upon the impulse of kind leelingsf but if you don’t mind telling me, I should like to know what happened the day afterâ€"I mean the day you awoke and remember your declaration to Miss Richmond.’ y ‘ The next day I did not see her at all â€"â€"it was impossible, for some reason or other. I lay in bed all the forenoon, in in a. very unhappy state, you may beâ€" lieve. At one time I thought of this millstone round my neckâ€"this abomina- ble woman ,but for whom I mightbe the grace to a woman of her soul. _ Hehsaid his fond heart would not allow him to believe her decision was final, and that he would come that night at seven o’clock ‘to hear if she would not relent. It was signed ‘ Aaron Lewis,’ and I saw by the: date that the promised visit was to take; place that very evening, and indeed in half an hour. SO I assembled the ser- vants, and told them that if they told their mistress I had come home, I would flay them all aliveâ€"not only the fellows who told, but the entire household. Then I looked myself into an anteroom that opened on to the drawingâ€"room andwaited. “WVhat age was this Smith at the time ofmarriage ?’ I said, ‘Nineteen, or thereby.’ \Vhere did the marriage take place? and ] said, ‘Otaheite, one of the South Sea lslands’â€"why, i don’t know. The Oxford man laughed at this, and asked if John Smith was a. missionary; and T said, ‘No, that he was only cruis- ing about for a lark.’ Then he asked If he had ever gone through a second cere- mony. Isaid, ‘No he hadn’t seen the woman for years.’ Then Tommy Carâ€" leton’s brother folded himself back in his chair ([ can see him now) and said, ‘Tell your friend, tell this Smith that he is no more married than I am, ‘How ?’ I criedâ€"I couldn’t keep down my exciteâ€" ment; ‘How I’ said the Oxford man; ‘yvhy, take my Word for it, I haven’t eaten dinners at an inn for four terms For nothing: It’s beyond the jurisdiction of Doctor’s Commonsâ€"he was a minorâ€" eadant vincula. Smith is a free bachelor, and Jones a free spinster. All he’s got to do is to file a bill, you know; Presto! the thing’s done. What a goose the felâ€" low must have been not to come to meâ€" i mean some lawyerâ€"â€"before, if he want ed to be quit of {his Jones! Ile ought to give me a fee.’ So he will,’ I cried, wild with joy and gratitudeâ€"‘so he will, the biggest you ever gotâ€"name your figure.’ And all the fellows laughed ; they thought 1 was ehafliing the Oxford man. John Smith, I called himâ€"being:r marâ€" ried to a womanâ€"Susan Jonesâ€"When he was quite a lad, and didn’t care for her, and about her being a drunken old scoundrel, and his wanting to get rid of her, and that he (J.S.) had Written to me for my opinion (as a practical man,) whether, if he became a Roman Catholic, the Pope could smash up his marriage by a bull or somethingâ€"thlsidea had occur- ed to me, and I thought it happy” The Oxford man laughed‘j’ery long a'ndflvery loud, and said, ‘ Poor dear John Smith ! his innocence is almost as singular as his name,’ and did I mean to say that I was ignoramus enough to entertain such an idea? Of' course I said ‘No,’ and that I only mentioned it as a. capital joke; adding that I supposed J. S. was reguâ€" larly cooked and dished, and could never get out Of'it. Then Tommy Carletou’s brother looked awfully Wise, and asked some questions. [ happiest fellow in the world ; and then I ) thought of what I had said to Mary, and 3 how on earth it was all to be unsaid ; and then I kept saying to myself, ‘ You seoun- crel, you villian, you blackguard, you’ve been and gone and done it, and you’ll end in the hulks. which is just the place for you.’ And then a thought dame in- to my head, ‘ Was there no means of dis- solving this marriage anyhow? I had thought of this before a score of times, but had dismissed the idea‘ always, be- cause I knew anything I did would re- quire to be public, and I couldn’t bear the thought of everybody knowing what an ass I had been ; and, above all things, I wouldn’t have my old grandmother know about the business. But now I had a reason a very tremendous reason, you seeâ€"â€"and I felt that I didn’t care about the publicity ', and as for my grand- mother, she would get over it, provided ,only I could get rid of Carlotta for ever, jand be able to go to Mary as an honest yman. I thought away as hard as I could, ,but I haven’tgotmany brains, you know, and it all comes to nothing, of course. Tommy Carleton’s brother, an Oxford fellow, was staying with us at the time. No end ofa fellow to talk and lay down the law about everything. I’ll be hanged if he didn’t seem to know everything, and somehow, even when you agreed with him, he contrived to show you that you knew nothing and were wrong. At mess that night my mind was still running on the thought, ‘Can I ever get rid of this woman by any sort of dodge or contri- vanee of the law ?’ and it seemed to me that if anybody could give one a wrinkle on the subject, this devil of a brother of Tommy Carleton’s, who knew everything, ought to be able. I must tell you that my regiment knew nothing about my marriage, only that there had [been a queer story of a woman in Indiaâ€"ages ago. “Tell, I Wanted to draw the Oxford man. and I was very cunning about it. ‘ I told him a storyâ€"my own story, or very like itâ€"â€"about a friend of mineâ€" ‘ ‘ I asked Tommy after dinner if his brother was a certainty, and Tommy said there was no mistake about him; and that he was the cleverest fellow they had ever raised at Oxford, and that he could not take his degree at present for the simple reason that no examiner had the pluck to tackle him, but that the Vice. Chancellor of Cambridge was reading up, and hoped to be ready to have a round with him next term, Then as to law, though he had only eaten dinners for four terms at his inn (l’ll be hanged ifI could see what staying at an hotel had to do with it), the benehers were already afraid of him, and it was supposed he would be let ‘through’ without any more eating. 1 then asked Tommy’s brother what ‘Smith’ should do. ‘Put the case with the facts into his solicitor’s hands in town ; he’ll file the bill, and it willbe all settled in a fortnight,’ he said. I would have have liked to give Tommy’s brother a service of gold plate on the spot. At last, then I was going to be free from my bondage, and marry Mary 1 might be marriéd' as soon a's ever' ‘the bill was filed.’ .1 could never tell you, T need not try go tell y_0u, all I_ felt. _ v‘ By the" you know the locket with A E I on it ?-â€"â€"she was wearing it, you Whole No. 570. ‘ Ofcourse people suspected and talked, but that didn’t matter ; no one interfered with us, and we met every day; I could‘ hardly persuade myself to go away to town on the businessâ€"it was so delight; f'ul down there~â€"it was about the only real happiness I ever had; but at last, Mary urged me to it, saying it was only a little temporary separation, a little nio- mentary grief, to bring about our com-i plete happinessâ€"and at last I went. saw the lawyer as soon as 1 arrived in‘ town. He prickcd up his ears when I told him it was a matrimonial ease ; and" when I told him 1 had plenty of money;. and didn’t care what spent on the matâ€"' ter, provided it was done quickly and ef- fectually, he became quite afleetionate.‘ Then 1 stated the whole ease to him.â€" When '1 had finished he stroked his chin and said, ‘ 1t appears to me that. pou have no actual evidence in support of a divorce alter all.’ . ‘ I don’t want a di- voree,’ 1 saidâ€"J 1 don’t reduire one, l’ni going to annul the marriage altogether? ‘As how ?’ he asked. ‘Why,’ 1 said, ‘ 1'm going to file a bill, of course; the. thing is as plain as a pikestafi'.’ He was rather a grave man, but he laughed and coughed a good deal; and when 1 asked him how much the bill would stand me in, he laughed and coughed more, and begged my pardon. Then 1 had to tell about Tommy Uarleton’s brother and his opinion, whereupon he said that Mr. Car- leton was evidently an impudent preten- der or a practical joker. It was impos- sible to prove the marriage void â€" that .was a certainty, he said; ‘but judging form the style of the woman, it might- probably be easy to obtain evidence that ‘would render a dissolution practicable. 'VVhere was the woman new? 1 told him ,1 didn’t know. She was in India the. ilast time 1 heard of her, but my agents , in the country remitted half-yearly to a London firm on her account, and her ‘whereahouts was therefore diseovcrable.‘ The lawyer said 1 had strangely neglecâ€" ted my interests. ln the first place, she might be dead, and some dishonest rela- tlve might be personating her, and draw: ing her anuuity; in the second place, if I wanted to get rid of her, it was clearly expedient that a surveillance should be established to note the manner of life she was leading. 1f 1 would give him the: address of the agent in London, he would get things in train; and if the woman was still in 1ndia, he would set a sharp correspondent on her trackâ€"â€"a man who would ferret out anything; while, if she were in Europe, he would easily put her under a vigilant observation. All steps of the sort were taken : it transpired that she had been leading a roving restless lifeâ€"at first in 1ndia, then at different places in Europeâ€"~sometimes taking a ‘J didn’t like to Write to the family v.r soli01t01'eiiideed I didn’t wish to write ’k to any one, but to state my cause by :1; word of mouth. So I got the address ofifi a legal firm in good practice, and a week," after went up to see them. In the mean” time 1 saw Mary every day, and hard: 5 such a happy week. We both made up our minds that the bill would be filed: without the slightest delay, and talked‘gi" our marriage and our plans as if every? thing was settled. One thing we didn’t' do, fortunatelyâ€" we didn’t give out our engagement. I believe the first night i spoke to Mary she told her cousin, from whom she had no secrets, that 1 had proâ€" posed and that she had neeeopted me.‘ That, eoiis'in Was this very Lad y Rose O’Sh'eéi now at F ' She was at the ball, of course, but I can’t. remember her â€"indeed what could remember of that‘ night except one person and one thing “I But when Mary ibun'd (out (about the: previous marriag!7 she Won d tell no_9ge,‘_ and wouldn’t hear of he fathu‘ being spoken to, and even refu d to answerhen cousin’s questions about the affair, ~As? 1" she said, ~n would never do till the bill?“ was filed.’ ‘ a villain ; can you guess what I, mean 7’, She said, ‘No,’ and it wasn’t very likely she should, was it? ‘I thought I was married already, Mary ;’ I went on,‘ ‘when I first spoke to you’ (Mary gave a. gasp and turned deadly pale); ‘but I- needn’t say thought, for I thought of nothing but you, and how I loved yod; at the time. I had considered myself a. married manâ€"miserably married to a, bad woman, whom i hadn’t seen for, years, andl was led cway by my feelings, to tell you of my love, which l had no right to do; and I would have been back to-day to confess, and go doWn on my' knees for your forgivenes, but now every- thing is changed. I’m glad i was a vil- lain, because I’m not avillain, and though I was married yesterday morning, I may say J’m a bachelor now, and she’s a spin- ‘ster, for the bill will be filed and the whole thing settled in a fortnight.’ Poor Mary couldn't follow me a bit, and seem- ed li-ightened and anxious to get away it, butl implored her to sit down and I. would be calm, and l told her the whole of my story from the beginningâ€"fins miserable story l’ve been telling you. She was terribly out up, and cried, and was sorry for me, and didn’t blame me a. bit, and ‘said she hoped the bill would be filed all right, but:that if it wasnl’tsh‘e would never" reproach me, but“. remain single all her life for my sake, and‘love’ me all the same, and never look at another" fellow, And then I saw she was an" angel,not only because of her beautiful}; - eyes and golden hair, but because” her' heart was so good and kind and tender J and true, as the angels arc, don’t you" t; know. .7“ i said, the other night. \Vell, that night i I [telegraphed to Emmanuel for the chastost ornament he had, and that locket came back by return post. I met Mary the next night at a dance, and carried her off at once to a quiet cornor to make my confession. I believe I was rathér wild in my talk at first, and I remember see looked startled and surprise’d.‘ l 'I love you, Mary, more than everything? in the World, but I was a villain to tell you so.’ ‘How ?’ said Mary, with 11er' eyes very wide. ‘l‘ll tell you,’ I said; ‘1 was a villain the night before last? when I told you that I loved you, and now I tell you I loved you, and I’m not;