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Show 212 UXCI.E T0)11S CAtliN : OR, Tom drank tho water, and looked earnestly and pitifully into her face. " 0, Missis, I wish you'd go to him that can give you living waters ! " " Go to him ! Where is he? Who is he?" said Cassy. "Him that you read of to me,- the Lord." " I used to sec the picture of him, over the altar, when I was a. girl," said Cassy, her dark eyes fixing themselves in an expression of mournful reverie; ''but, he 'isn't here.' there 's nothing here, but sin and long, long, long despair! 0 ! " She laid her band on her breast and drew in her breath, as if to lift a heavy weight. Tom looked as if he woulcl speak again; but she cut him short, with a decided gesture. "Don't talk, my poor fellow. Try to sleep, if you can." And, placing water in his reach, and making whatever little arrangements for his comfort she could, Cassy left the shed. LIFE AMONG TilE LOWLY. CHAPTER XXXV. TilE TOKENS. "And slight, withal, mo.y be the things that bring Back on the heart the weight which it would fling Aside forever; it may be a. sound, 213 A flower, the wind, the ocean, which shall wound,Striking the elect de chnin wherewith we 're darkly bound." Childe Jiarold's P ilgrinlage, Can. 4. THE sitting-room of Legree's establishment was a. Jarge, long room, with a. wide, ample fireplace. It had once been hung with a showy and expensive paper, which now hung mou1dcring, torn and discolored, from tho damp walls. Tho place had that peculiar sickening, unwholesome smel1, compounded of mingled clamp, dirt and decay, which one often notices in close old houses. The wall-paper was ucfaccd, in spots, by slops of beer and wine ; or garnished with chalk memorandums, and long sums footed up, as if somebody had been practising arithmetic there. In the fireplace stood a. brazier full of burning charcoal ; for, though the weather was not cold, the evenings a.lways seemed damp and chilly in that great room; and Legree, moreover, wanted a place to light his cigars, and heat his water for punch. The ruddy glare of the charcoal displayed the confuscU and unpromising aspect of the room,-sadUlcs, hridles1 several sorts of harness, riding-whips1 overcoats, and various articles of clothing, scattered up and down the room in confusetl v~1ricty; and the |