at Mount Music, it seems to her that the World, and Life, and Time, could hardly hav

hristmas holidays. They used to have drawing competitions, of which Larry was, of course, the promoter, in the old schoolroom, during the long winter evenings. Larry always had a pencil in his hand, and was renowned as an artist of horses and hounds, and Finn's wolf-dog, Bran, besides wielding a biting pen as a caricaturist. Christian could only compete in architectural desig

rgy debated, chewing the end of hi

s, of course!"

tistic efforts were no fit subject for jesting. "You'd

ted-water from Larry's elbow, and poured its contents over Georgy's fair bullet-head; with which, and with a triumphing cry (learnt from a Count

her. Two subjects were marked dangerous among these children, during the combative years of "growing-up," and were therefore specially popular; of thes

a more stimulating subject. It was impossible for them to refrain from speculations as to what Larry said when he went to confession; equally impossible not to propose to the prospective

ospects; and, since the manuals had an indisputable flair for the subjects most likely to seize the attention of the young, Lady Isabel was generally able to divert her offspring's a

uld say, with a slight stagger in grammar, but n

te think the same as we do, but we

appalling prognostications as to the futur

arents and guardians have, at

hard-pressed mother, "when you're grown

sure, and evaded poor Lady Isabel's evasions. Her religious life had been singularly vivacious, and the scope and variety of the petitions that she nightly offe

ly conscience, and even if God cur

uraged, and seeking out in one of the manuals a form of prayer of

is was a year or two later, for no reason that can be assigned, she passed lightly to the Book of Revelation. With it, it may be said, the artistic side of her, that had leaped to sympathy with Larry's emotion over "Dark Rosaleen" and "The Spirit of the Nation," awakened, and her artistic life began. That glittering, prismatic chapter, that tells of the rainbow round about the Throne, in sight like unto an emerald,

happened after the F

orse coming crashing through Dharrig Wood, with Death on his back, and Hell f

" Miss Weyman, the g

s between his teeth: "Chri

chair on to the schoolroom floor, and Miss Weyman (always enviously spoken o

as reading! I wish I could see you learn

, and it is possible that she, and Judith, and the Twins, might all have seen the Pale Horse thundering p

the huntsman! But really a nice little thing, and clever, too, though a most erratic worker! Now, Judith--" Miss Weyman felt there was some satisfaction in teaching Judith. She could concen

ng arithmetic, for example), or too much (as touching Shakespeare and the Book of Revelation), that implied considerable