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Show 3G HlCII AlW 11U1WIS. . , ''liniH" feeL I , aml inc/Tcctually to resist him from h is horse .. ,S!i:. l:n•rth,)aftcr a few struggles, fc~l his coward tcnJciH:J' ltc, .tt o 1 . the feet of my a111- hcaYily upon the ground aml almost u;H ~~ tl c s·tmo moment, 1 mal. His own horse passe(~ away] am ~ :t ldr~·ndful tumultJcnpcJ down from mine. M~ Llooc('t'l~~as);~~ ~vith ilim again, but my fingers twitched nCITOusly ~os~-~-~~ - f hc sudden and rccrc I coulll do so, n. sound.-.. .'. ~rrC'stcd me in my angry pea ted shl'icks of a woman s 'tcr, t •roo wc11 I knew tlwt JHlrposc, and I stood rooted to tIC ~~~ol. :m inst·mt before had voice, a!Hl the tremor of rngc w uc l , Jed by a. t remor far 1 . t .0 was now succcc shaken me to t Je co~~~ the fo rmer it wns cnfccLiing, pa1syillg more powerful. Uu~ lfsh strClwtlt with which the former -it took from met te WO I , , ' , ?, of U irl had given llle seemed to lu.wc ~ndu~cl me. I llk~Je 'Ol~'~]Jrit I g stood, as if fixed k of a o-trl, ant t e a e thed ~ve~e~;e:~ntil m; brotlter had arisen from the g round where aI nh adr othzr ow• n him, a nd 1\.[ ary 1x..-.. as t CI· L y stood between us. l'AI:TI~'G SCE~E~. 0 U A l' 'l' E H V. l'AHTINO SCI::NES. " I t11ought to chide Ll1e1', lmt iL will11oL be; 'l'nw love cnn lmL tnv!,ile look IJittcrly." JI "\'WOOD-Lovc'& .!Jfislr<S6, "You h:n·e led IIHl Irdo n suUllc labyrinth, whct·c I ne\'cl' Slrnll !rave fr·uition of rny fut·mcr• frectlom." 'l'hc Latli/s Privilrge. 37 SuE stood between ns like some jndge suddenly descended from ltea\'C'n, and nnned with power to punish, and I stood be· fore Iter like a criminal conscious of my demerits :111d waiting for tlte doom. .An inst:wt Lcfore she came, nnd I hnd a thou· S:tud nrguments, caclt, to lllY mind, sufijcient to justify me for any violence wltich l mig l•t execute upon J oint llm·dis. Now I had not one. 'l'Jte enormity of tl•e act of wlt ich l lmd been guilty, seemed to expand autl swell ·witlt CYC'ry accumulated thougltt upon it; and my tongue, that had been eloquent with indignation but a. little while before, was uow frozen with si. lcncc, and without even tlte power of entsion or appeal. I did not venture to look her in the face - ! did not venture even to look upon my brother. "'hat wore his feel ings I know not; but if they partook, at tlwt moment, of any of the iutcnse lm. mility which made up the greater JMrt of mine, tl1en wns he almost sufliciently pnnisltcd lOr the injuries wltich lte l1:tcl dono me. I certainly felt tltnt he was almost if not quite avenged in my present humility for the unbrotherly anger of which l1e had Leen tl1e victim. "Olt, Uiclwrd llurdis," siJC exclaimed, "tltis violence, and upon your brother too." ·w hy had sl1e not addressed Iter speech to l1im? VVas I alone |