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Show 1 4: TlTb' ADrE.1.YTURES 01' IIUCJ{LEBERRlr ~FI1Y_Y. I clon't blam 110~t rrentlemen-far fro1n it ; I don't blame any- "' ' b body. I de crve it all. Let the cold world do its wor:t. ; one thing I know- there'· a grave so1newherc for me. The " ·orld 111n.y go on ju:t. as it~ always done, an<.l take everything fron1 1ne - loYed ones, proprrt.y, everythillg-bnt it caE·t ta k tbat. I , _.. I ...__ 'Q.. ,_ J I I I' I ~' II' '\.. J\' ' I 'N .: 1(·" I~Vilt~li~~~ii \ .. ._ ' " nY RIGHTS I AM A D'CKE ~ ., 1 0n1e dny rn lie down in it and forget it all, and Jl1Y pOOl' broken hearL \vill be at rest." If \vent on a-wiping. "Drot your pore broken heart,~' says the baldhead: "wbat are you heaYing your pore broken heart at 'LLS f 'r? lVe hain·t done nothing.'' '~ No, I kno·w you haven't. I ain't blaming you, gentle~ TilL' IJ CJ{L' OF llRIDGL,1V~lTER. 1 :; 1nen. I brought n1y~ l f d )Wn- y .. , I clid it ID)"Clf. lC:-; right l shouhl sutfcr- pcrfec:tly right- ! don·t uutkc any nH an:· "Brought you down fr tn whar? \\rbar Wi.L ' yon brougl1t. clovv·n front '! '' " Ah, you would n ot b 'li Y ' 1ne ; th worl( 1 neYrr be 1 i<.·\ es - 1 tit pa. --'ti no 1natter. The · cr t of 1ny birth-- " Th seer t f your birth? Do you 111 an to ay--·· " G en tl emen, .. :-:ny · t 1l e young 111an, v ry ole1nn, '"I will reveal it to you, fur I fe el I nwy haYe contiden ) iu yon. B.Y righL I a1n a dnk ! ., J itn's ey bug<rcd out wb n h heard that ; and I rl'cknn 1nin did, t oo. 'Jhen t lte Laldheacl say ... : "X o . you ean·t Hl an it '!" " '( cs. l\Iy great-gran(lfathcr, eld .. t .·on of the ])ukv nf Bridg wat r, fi ctl i t hi · oun try about the JHl of the la ~L cc·ntury, to breathe tll pur air of freedom; 1narri 'd here and di d, l aving a .. on, his own fath r dying about the '"'an1 ' tiilH'. Th econd son of the 1at' duke ·cizcd the title :uul '· tate:-. the infanL real duke wn .· ignored. I a1n tho lineal d 'sc nd:1 ut of that infant- I :un the ricrhtful Duke of Bridrrewater · and b b h re a1n 1, forlorn, torn fr 1n 1ny high tate, huutecl of lHL'll, d cspi ed hy the cold worhl, n.1aged worn h art-hrok n :.nH.l b ' ' ' dcgrad cl to the companion ·hip off lon , on a raft! " Jim pitied hin~ e\·er .-o 1nuch, an l o dicl I. ''r(' tri('tl to ·omfort him, but h f-:aid it warn't much u:e, h c ultln·l h ~ 1nu h comforted; aid if \Ye \Va · a mind to aeknowl lac him b that would do hitn 1nor good than 1110. t anything )1 · 7) ; so we said we would, if he would tell us how. l [ saitl w ought to how, when we spok t him, and say "l~ our U race;' or '' )Jy l.ord," or '~ l~onr Lorcl hip ''-and he wonldn·t mind it if we cr~.lled him plain Bridg water,'' which h) aid was a title anyway, and not a n:.nne ; and on of us ouaht to w:1it on bitu at dinner, and do an.v little thing for hitn be \ntnt<.)d done. |
